Mr Darn

Strange.. i'm having no trouble at all really...

Could it be that your machine is just too new right now?

I'm not sure though, i'm a complete novice when it comes to Linux.

O2:

http://freesim.o2.co.uk/

Having only just started tinkering with Linux Distro's, i have installed one on an old Win ME machine with good results.

As you say, it does install everything reasonably easily, and i have my father using it at the moment. Considering he has never used a computer before this, he's doing quite well on it, and it has everything he needs.

After this glowing recommendation, i think i may try this out, with a view to replace the other distro.

I'll let you know how my experience went.

rauol moat had blue eyes!

I heard after the tazer was deployed, he was left feeling a little "light headed"...

I sometimes wonder where the line is with jokes like this.

Whilst it must be terrible for the family and other people who were close to the incident,i heard a really convincing argument in the pub last week about them being a defence mechanism for some who could not rationally cope with the news coverage, and the possibility of this happening again. Whilst i could see his point, i still think they can go too far...

I feel i have to apologise Malcolm, as you seem to have taken my post in completely the wrong way.

I was not intending to be mocking, degrading, or sarcastic, nor was my intent to berate anyone. I was simply providing feedback in what i thought was a constructive way.

I really do admire your attempt to inform us of this situation, i just get lost in your posts.

Smaller chunks of information are easier for me to digest, it is just the way i'm made.

If the posts were broken up into smaller sections, just like i am doing here, it would give me the chance to read a little, and then re-read it if it confused me at all. I can't do this if the information is contained within a big chunk of text.

Just to further clarify, i'll give an example:

In the best traditions of that late Max Bygraves, 'I wanna tell you a story'.

If anyone is wondering why interest rates are being held at zero percent penalising savers and you still cannot get a loan or sensible mortgage the answer is somewhat shocking. We have to look across the Pond and peer into the murky world of American finance and Government. First up we saw American banks, and some UK ones, begin unqualified lending practices then packaging these debts up into units which took quantum physics mathematicians to value and selling them on. These were made up of, or at least large parts of them were, what became known as toxic debts, so radioactive they could burn through titanium! As more and more banks jumped onto the bandwagon the appetite for these debts started waning and they were now being passed around in something resembling pass the parcel. Bit like the old Lloyd's asbestos insurance scam and where they stopped no one knew! The big players then just stopped all and any activities and in so doing brought the while rotten house of cards down. Did the big boys suffer, not really because they invested in government bonds instead. While the politicos were running around with their heads up their arses the banks sat back, did nothing and made a good return! What an obnoxious relationship! Before anyone is taken in by utterings about bashing the banks just remember who is bankrolling a lot of governments at the moment!

Could our political class not see what was happening? Again looking across the Atlantic let's see what happened to all that $700B Hank Paulson bailout money. It was supposed to buy up these bad debts and save homeowners etc. As soon as Congress authorised it Paulson used it to buy banking equity. Now why should they take this approach? Because it immediately came back as punters for government bonds! The banks cannot foreclose on the government, they would lose everything but they can foreclose on Joe Soap and his overdue mortgage, they can offer punitive loan rates to small businesses and they can load up credit cards and other small loans for us mere mortals! Ah, but that's America, well no the same sort of thing happened here!

Conspiracy theory? I don't think it is……………

whereas i understand what is written above, it would be easier for me to read if it were presented like this:

In the best traditions of that late Max Bygraves, 'I wanna tell you a story'.

If anyone is wondering why interest rates are being held at zero percent penalising savers and you still cannot get a loan or sensible mortgage the answer is somewhat shocking.

We have to look across the Pond and peer into the murky world of American finance and Government. First up we saw American banks, and some UK ones, begin unqualified lending practices then packaging these debts up into units which took quantum physics mathematicians to value and selling them on.

These were made up of, or at least large parts of them were, what became known as toxic debts, so radioactive they could burn through titanium! As more and more banks jumped onto the bandwagon the appetite for these debts started waning and they were now being passed around in something resembling pass the parcel. Bit like the old Lloyd's asbestos insurance scam and where they stopped no one knew!

The big players then just stopped all and any activities and in so doing brought the while rotten house of cards down. Did the big boys suffer, not really because they invested in government bonds instead. While the politicos were running around with their heads up their arses the banks sat back, did nothing and made a good return! What an obnoxious relationship!

Before anyone is taken in by utterings about bashing the banks just remember who is bankrolling a lot of governments at the moment!

Could our political class not see what was happening? Again looking across the Atlantic let's see what happened to all that $700B Hank Paulson bailout money. It was supposed to buy up these bad debts and save homeowners etc. As soon as Congress authorised it Paulson used it to buy banking equity.

Now why should they take this approach? Because it immediately came back as punters for government bonds! The banks cannot foreclose on the government, they would lose everything but they can foreclose on Joe Soap and his overdue mortgage, they can offer punitive loan rates to small businesses and they can load up credit cards and other small loans for us mere mortals!

Ah, but that's America, well no the same sort of thing happened here!

Conspiracy theory? I don't think it is……………

See where i'm coming from?

I apologise, i know i have no right to comment like this. How you create and post your replies is your own business.

I just wanted to provide a bit of positive, constructive advice, and it seems to have gone horribly wrong.

I'm sure your posts on this subject are helping others, even if they, like me, just read and do not reply, so please do not stop just because of my rantings.

I just wish i could understand it all!

Whilst i love the enthusiasm your putting into keeping us updated, i for one lost track ages ago.

Perhaps if you were to use shorter sentences, and terminology us common folk could keep track of, i might have taken an interest, but put simply... i just don't understand enough to have an opinion. its just too big a block of text to take in in my case.

Sorry!

By the way what's this got to do with buses?

The point is, busses are now getting more custom because of the ripping prices insurance company's are quoting.

They are pricing themselves out of the market.

They worse!

I wasn't complaining about the price, i was complaining about the £250 hike since last year, even though i now have more no-claims! how can they justify that?

But as a car user and abuser I do not have a clue as to the buses.

I also abuse the car, but since my insurance has gone up by £250+ this year, without any claims and with another years no claims, even confused dot com can't change my mind. Its time to dust the bike off, and sell the car.

For those wet days, i thank god for the bus!

"I LOVE Scalextric Me!"

That wasn't even Raulmoately funny 4G

Me being round has nothing to do with it!!!

Cue a post from Merlin regarding the impalement of another male....

Yes, A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question posed for its persuasive effect without the expectation of a reply.

Was that post another pointless question to which you did not want, nor expect an answer too?

Because the mathematics always leaves you with a number divisible by 9

if you check all the numbers on that chart, that are multiples of 9, then you will see they are all the same picture: 9, 18, 27, 36, 45 etc...

Noooo, that was me dropping a penny.

You know what they say... look after the pennies...

i second that. i know some think it would be detrimental, but me being a non-bedders resident now, i need an incentive to have a night out there, and a cheep start would be just that for me.

Wetherspoons in ashington is my starting point there, as is the wetherspoons at Whitley Bay.

Of course, i could go to the club, and pay a fee every year for membership (or be hassled at the door... my choice) to get a cheep drink.

My point is, thats just a starting point for me and many others. We dont mind the odd overpriced pint if it evens out over the night a bit!

It is a recession after all! Who can afford 2 and a half quid + for a pint, even if it is a bit more decent than whats at wetherspoons?

And just what do we do with the nuclear waste from these stations?

I don't remember any caves! Can you still see the entrances?

Burst Eardrums galore!

Must be, because post 10000is Cympil's!

This was the real 30,000th post!

Get yourself a Mug 4G

you got the 20,000th one 3G

I bet i removed quite a few too!

I wasn't saying there was anything wrong with the link.

Example:

I was researching a computer problem not long ago, and found the answer i was looking for.

The posts went like this:

User1: I have X problem, does anyone know how to fix it?

User2: Yeah, i've seen this before, check this link out: link to website

User1: Great, that did it! Thanks!

Guess what... the link no longer works!

The answer turned out to be a simple 3 step process. Easily copied and pasted.

Now, i know thats totally unrelated RE: content, but i think its only common manners to at least post a brief description of what the link is about. Even making the link text something like this would have helped!

A security flaw in AT&T's network exposed the e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 owners of Apple's 3G iPad, according to a report published by Gawker today.

or

Hackers: Data Breach Exposed iPad Owners' Personal Info

Anyway, back to the topic....