Following on from my previsous comments on this subject
Dont get me wrong, I think the smoking ban is a great idea, but like most things this government does, it is a? poorly implimented, Draconian approach. I think there is room for a small number of “licenced” venues which allow smoking. By licenced I do not mean a PUB, but a Smoking licence.? A local council could then control the number of venues to a agreed percentage. ?
At the age of 38, I am getting married on the Friday the 26th May 2006 to Theresa Hampton
and just because i could a countdown is here http://theresahampton.com
A Small? Wedding List is at Debenhams
List number 52900?
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Well? I have been running my supercharged sky plus box for almost two weeks now without a hitch. During which time? she who must be obayed, and the one who originally said 20 hours is more than enough, has been quite happy to record LOTS of stuff. Add to that all my Sci Fi stuff and we are already at just over 21 hours of recorded material, more than the original box would take, and? the system is still showing 87% free, so by my reckoning that is closer to 150 hours than 137….
YEEeee? HAAaaaaaa !!!!
For any one how has read my first Skype V SIP? rant.
According to an article on lightreading.com, it would seem that eBay, who aquired Skype for $2.6 Billion late 2005, have differeant ideas and may start looking at interoperability,
I have just spotted this article on the ban on smoking vote which on the surface seems like a? excellent plan, but what most people seem to have missed is the income the Government get from TAX on Cigerettes will probably drop significantly and need to be? replaced. Which will result in increased TAX somewhere else.
Where is all the money for the NHS to deal smoking related illness going to come from?
Dont get me wrong? I am not pro smoking, in fact? I have never smoked
but such a sweeping decision will only come back an bite us? ALL in pocket
Over recent months i have been suffering a small dilemma, Lots of NEW TV series starting and not enough SKY+ time to keep up.
24, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Lost, CSI LV, CSI NY, Invasion, Threshold, Battlestar Gallactica to name a few. So I set about looking at upgrade the SKY+ box from the paltry 20 hours to something a bit more useful. Remembering the Google is my friend, I found lots of places selling kits and lots of forums discussing the matter.
As you would expect it is not a simple mater of out with the old and in with the new, different boxes have different hardware features, and different firmware will support different max disk sizes.
According to most places my V1 Pace box would only take a 160G disk but the V2 would take a 250G but not a 300G, then the disk must spin up and be fully ready in under 8 seconds (apparently). There was also lost of chatter about Maxtor disks being the most suitable.?
HMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm, I have a 300G Maxtor in a USB2 chassis is built, got to be worth a try, not outlay, so no loss???..
MORE research required.
Bingo, another forum, says use maxblast software from Maxtor to tweak the LBA value of the HD, and even suggested 274G was the MAX a SKY+ would support, got to be worth a shot.
Add ??3.99 for a set of security TORX driver from maplin, and Bob???s your aunty???s lover. One HD reporting to be 274G (250G in Real Computer Gigibaytes) installed in my SKY+ box,
Now for a Full RESET,
Services, 4,01,select, Full reset, select, confirm, and get a coffee as it is suppose to take 45 minutes on disk this big!!!
5 minutes later the BOX rebooted, my heart sank ???..
Wait for it to start up and check the menu,
SKY+ menu said 100% free, so it seems to be OK
Lets try and record some stuff, So I set it to record two programs at the same time (3 hours worth in total) and went out
Now it is crunch time,
First has it recorded both programs ??? ? ? YES !!!!
Second how much space did it use??? ? ? ? ? 2%.
YEEEE HAA, I have a working 137Hr Sky plus box
After Many months of using windows (IIS) based blogware and never really being happy with the look and feel I thought it was time to look at alternatives.? A few of my friends and collegues rave about open source and LAMP? and having just built my first LAMP Wiki, HTTP://how-to-build-an-intranet.com, I thought? i would look at LAMP blogware
The Piglet blog uses wordpress, so i figured that would be a good place to start.
So i downloaded it, read the install docs, and here we are. This blog is now running on a Debian based LAMP platform
What more can i say !!!!!!!!!!!
Why is it Skype is the most well know internet VOIP outfit, when their propriarty protocols and technology mean it will not interwork with the 100’s of SIP complient provider around the world, When SIP, and IAX for that matter, is capable of providing FREE calls between different vendors, technophobe friendly integration with an PSTN device
Some SIP Vendors
SIPGATE
Gossiptel
Free World Dial up
Earthlink
Vonage
VoipTalk
Gradwell
I have managed to break the charging adaptor for my XDAii1 (Xda IIi DC converter – AHTA22JN), so i can only charge it via PC at the moment
So I goto local O2 shop who suggest I call customer services
so I look on the web, the O2 xda mini site says they are ??9.99
so I click on the buy now link which takes me to the O2 shop which does not list them.
But there a hotline phone number so i call it 08702257879, Press 1, press3,
only to get told they dont do accessories and? I? should to call 08007810202
only to get told they dont do accessories and I should call 08003894516
only to get told they dont do accessories and? I should call expansys on 01618680868
only to get told they want to charge me ??16 for somthing which O2 advertise for ??10
so i call O2 cust serv, 08702402020
And get told they cant help and have i tried a O2 shop
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH !
An update
Hmmm
Go back to shop to order adaptor and get served by different person
She says “I think we have some of those”
and then pops out to the back of the shop and returns, before the stockroom door finished closing, with one in her hand
Go figure
Having registered my interest in SKY by broadband on the sky.com site I was dispointed to find out it had gone live on the BBC and not by en email from sky. So just installed Sky by Broadband, after having to down load the client at work becasue it refused to download from home.
That is hickup No.2
Two microsoft downloads and a SKY client update Later i am up and running, ISH…..
I had a nose around my system, to see what was going on and where the data was coming from, only to discover several TCP connections to Random broadband address’s in the UK my first thought was i had a virus, further investigation showed the culprit to be something called KSERVICE.EXE, which appear to be a P2P program used by SKY, over which i now have no control
After a bit of googleing I found this article which only goes to confirm my concerns What a complete pile of CRAP, not only do SKY have a legal monopoly on the delivery of a decent channel line up to my house, but now they are “stealing” my bandwidth and computer resources. That SUCKS !!
