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I've noticed price creep, too. I think I'll try my luck as you did. Are they only available on an 0845 number? I don't have a landline and these numbers cost a fortune from a mobile. Just checked, and 0845 from my SIP provider is 4.7p/min, which isn't too bad.

Are you OK with SQL queries? If so, this will do the job. use [your_sims_database_name] select patch_id, date_applied, description from sims.db_update_log order by patch_id If you want to look for a particular patch, you can try this: use [your_sims_database_name] select patch_id, date_applied, description from sims.db_update_log where patch_id='patch_number_to_check_for' order by date_applied desc

Where's the engine casing? Presumably that's fallen off somewhere, or is it open and the bottom cover out of view?

How dare you correct me with your logical reasoning. Do you have any comprehension of how crushed I feel right now?

Absolutely. Especially as the acronym stands for Graphics Interchange Format. You don't say 'Jraphics Interchange Format' do you?

I've listened to and watched a lot of debates on religion as it's something I was very interested in a while ago. I have less interest in the debates these days as the matter is fairly settled for me. If you're interested, may I suggest watching the debates involving William Lane Craig, Sam Harris, Arif Ahmed, Peter Millican, Christopher Hitchens. William Lane Craig is a master debater and one of the strongest debaters amongst the Christian apologists. If you're not familiar with the Lincoln-Douglass (LD) debating style, he's poetry in motion. I've heard his arguments many times, and in my opinion they are all dismantled by John Allen Paulos. He does blow a lot of smoke about the problems of infinities in several of his debates, which instead of illustrating his points, wastes a lot of his debating time on something that Cantor figured out centuries ago. Watch William L Craig, he doesn't forgive any 'drops' in the LD debating style. All of these debates are available on Youtube or Reasonable Faith site.

No trolling at all - people of a particular religion have dismissed all other religions with as much ease as a believer of another religion, or indeed an atheist, dismisses theirs. Sam Harris makes this point far more eloquently that I can.

At this point I'd recommend Irrelegion by John Allen Paulos. Every single argument thus far has been discussed in detail by this book.

I recently finished Double Cross by Ben Macintyre, it tells the story of some of the spies turned by British secret service during WW2. Their stories veer from audacious to farcical in equal measure. It's a very good read. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre

Ubuntu (with Unity) for home machines. Pretty much perfect for laptops. Going to experiment with OpenSuse at work, with a virtual Windows 7 for all the things I can't get working in Linux, whatever they turn out to be. Not sure how that will pan out, but we'll see what happens. This will be handy as we use quite a few Linux servers at work and I use Cygwyn for SCP and SSH at the moment.

Excellent. I approve of this development.

Just guessing, but it's perhaps so that they could be rebuilt quickly and relatively cheaply? The area is known as Tornado Alley so it's 'when' rather than 'if'. Did any brick buildings survive the tornado?

Hmmm. I remember watching this first time around. It was certainly a product of its age. Exhibit A: At 4:12, did she really say 'the invisible plane is waiting?'. That sounds a nightmare for the ground crew.

You think that's true? This is even truer than that...

@Rawns, that was a first attempt. A better script to see who's using the system is this: use master; select upper (sysprocesses.loginame) [sIMS User], sysprocesses.hostname [Machine], sysprocesses.dbid, -- sysdatabases.dbid, sysdatabases.name [Database] from sysprocesses join sysdatabases on sysprocesses.dbid = sysdatabases.dbid where sysdatabases.name like 'sims%' --change this to your database name order by sysdatabases.name -- works for multihosting systems Note that the connections are transient, so they come and go as and when needed by the client application. This means that you can't rely on it to use see who's got SIMS running on their desktop; it only shows if they're doing something with SIMS at the time you run the script. But it's better than nothing. It would be easy for SIMS to put a flag into the database to indicate when a user is logged on.

The xrdp package looks about the best bet. Linux + GNU = Humans Enabled: How to install xrdp on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

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Very true. Also, cheap suspension forks will become ineffective when they age. For urban or light trail riding, you just don't need them.

Good advice. I normally would suggest a local independent bike shop, but don't overlook the current promotion at Halfords on their Subway bikes, currently at £279.99. Halfords | Carrera Subway Hybrid Bike 2011/2012 - Medium 18"

Ooo not sure about that. Soft saddles are comfortable at first, and for short rides they're fine. But during a long ride a lot of heat and friction builds up as there is so much deformation inherent in a soft saddle. I do 2,500 - 3,000 miles a year on a hard saddle, but that takes some getting used to. In the long run a hard saddle is best, but that's just my advice.

Have you tried the "Plex Remote" Android app? I used a similar thing for an XBMC server I had and it worked OK.

I'm no economist, but doesn't it suit the government to keep prices high? After all, more VAT is collected from a higher price than a lower price.

That dash is straight out of Start Trek TNG. It's fabulous.

It was one of those things you didn't notice until you had the Big Yellow Triangle, and your desktop went south. Then you disabled it and that was 99% of people's involvement with Active Desktop.

I've used this: PacketFence: Open Source NAC (Network Access Control)