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I refer the gentleman to post number 6.

Well, if you have nothing to say, it's best to just give a condiment rather than a criticism.

I hope you get it sautéed out.

Indeed. Best to get it re-plaice-ed.

You had to chip in, didn't you.

I'm a big fan of LMMS music software (it's been ported very successfully to Windows). For building tunes there's nothing quicker or easier. LMMS - Linux MultiMedia Studio Also Audacity, the best audio app http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

For those (brave) people with Android phones, this might be of interest. GUI CyanogenMod Compiler Tool for Ubuntu

I violently agree. When I first used Unity I didn't like it, I didn't understand it, I wanted my old menus back. I persevered and flicked between Gnome shell and Unity, getting more comfortable with the idea of 'no menus', and settled it by timing myself to do common tasks. Unity was faster, slicker and more efficient. Hats off to Mark Shuttleworth for his vision.

See if Bill does requests.... got to be worth a go.... http://youtu.be/5hARDXYz2io Oh no! No embedding - never mind, just click it...

Time for a classic clip. WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC AND GORY VIOLENCE **** YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

Set faces to 'stunned'.... I'm partial to a spot of TNG now and again, but the first series was too cheesy and never really got into the later ones.

Harsh, but you're right - it is a fail. If you're developing for the web, everything should be browser-agnostic.

I don't remember reading that particular report; it must have been a newspaper's digest of it. Disturbing nonetheless.

Agreed, another vote for White Knight dryer. The dryer has its own water tank so it doesn't need any plumbing, so that's able to live in the small bedroom. My mum has a washer/dryer combo and the dryer function is fairly useless.

I deleted my post as it didn't match up to my normally incandescently brilliant prose, but for the curious it went along the lines of "some people are only alive because it's illegal to kill them." I seem to remember reading that animal abusers are quite likely to grow into psychopaths.

You could try a symbolic link (hardlink) to replace the normal machine desktop file with a wallpaper file based on the server. Word is that Windows has managed to implement symbolic links correctly in the last couple of years. Even so, they've made a dog's dinner of the implementation: hard links, junctions and symbolic links. Hard Links and Junctions Give it a go, it might even work.

Not too good.....

This is ideal for writing and testing scripts; just paste your code into the box and run it to see if it works. WriteCodeOnline.com/JavaScript: Test run javascript code online, right here.

That's very interesting. I sometimes wake bright and breezy, but just a bit too early, and decide to snooze (mistake). But when it's really time to get up, I'm like Han Solo in Carbonite.

Times change. They used to sell computers in the '80s. They've still got an humongous range of magazines, though. That reminds me, I must pick up this month's copy of "Rings, Wings, Bings, Mings, Stings, Kings & Tings" magazine. It's my favourite.

You couldn't buy this publicity. British Ban Spikes Pirate Bay Traffic - Slashdot

The Ubuntu server guide is excellent: https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/index.html

I think we all agree you're hampering yourself with an old 32 bit OS.

Specs aren't everything, it's best to take time and configure the server according to best practices. In the first instance though, check out Activity Monitor from SQL Manager (Right-click the server>Activity Monitor). This is an excellent place to start. If your lucky, something will jump out. Key things to check are Processes, also check if you can see anything under 'Block by'. Look at 'Recent Expensive Queries', this might shed some light on what's making your server busy.

Building strings using concatentation is slow and inefficient, especially in VBS. Unfortunately, VBS doesn't have the nice string builder classes which you'll find in the .net framework. If you wrote it in VB.net, it would be much easier and neater. Improving .NET performance using the StringBuilder Class Stepping back from the problem, it looks like you want to get a user list from your tables. Why not make a paramaterised view or query on the server and call this from one line of VBS, writing the result to a file. This would keep the complexity of the SQL on the server side.