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Wow love it. Gorgeous animal and the last picture is great!

Argh sorry to see that matey! Always heartbreaking when it happens to personal property esp. the supra, even if the damage is minor.

Hey All I have been playing around with my new compressor and HVLP gun today, just painting a few odd bits of metal. No real idea of what I'm doing though! My gun has a 0.8mm tip would this work OK for small bits of metal etc? Any good hints and tips? Guides for getting started?

Try to keep up (read the news )

Fancy a holiday abroad then Chris?

Wuff wuff!

I haven't been on here much recently and it feels like I haven't driven the Supra for about 6 months! Been starting a new business and planning for a wedding and every time I want to have a drive, something comes up. Anyway, got a penalty notice from the DVLA regarding the tax on the supra, it lapsed at the end of september and I didn't even notice - so it's now SORNed for a couple more months. Hopefully 2010 will involve a lot more driving - 2009 saw Llandow and my IoM trip but pretty much nothing else. Anyway hope you are all enjoying your Supras

Nope that means that no local wired network links are up. Suspect you are using a wireless router, so that might not be an issue. Usually the WAN or Internet light indicates if the router has connectivity on the phone line.

Hey all, sorry for the spam again however I have quite an interesting project going on that's taking up quite a lot of my time! Does anyone here have any experience of John Guest Speedfit systems used with compressed air? Is it any good? I need a ring main around my workshop with lots of T off points for tools etc.

it's just a song, come on, get the tin foil hat off

Cheers guys have found a few people but might PM JamieP too

Anyone on here in the trades? Need an industrial unit fitting out with 4 rooms made of studding / plasterboard with electrics (some 3 phase) and a little plumbing. I'd rather go with personal recommendations that some random guy from the yellow pages!

I have one! About 7 or 8 years ago, when I used to work for Logica installing mobile phone stuff, I was assigned a 10 day job in Zambia. Myself and the project manager flew business class from Heathrow but we had to change planes in Johannesburg. So, I was sitting the in the business class lounge in Jo'burg feeling quite addled from my 12 hour flight and a girl comes up to me and says 'James?' and I look up and it's my cousin Vanessa who I had not seen for 6 years when she was over in the UK. It turns out this was her first day working at the airport! So, the ONLY time that I'd flown anywhere near africa I happen to bump into my cousin, who has just started working at the airport, in the exact place I was waiting for the 60 minute layover. I still think that's amazing to this day.

Yep all plans going well, hope yours are too! I'd definately start with Ubuntu, trouble is it does make things too easy so you don't really get much of an idea of what's happening under the hood. I cut my teeth on Slackware many years ago. If you REALLY want to go technical then try "linux from scratch"

If you download Ubuntu which is the distro of choice these days for Newbies, then you can boot into live mode or install from the same CD - yey flexibility! Once the CD is booted you can drop to a terminal, and format your external drive using the mke2fs command: sudo mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1 but MAKE SURE that /dev/sdb1 is your external drive and not the wrong drive! Use the dmesg command to look through the kernel messages and it will tell you which drive is which.

Don't go installing linux all over that lovely powerbook now :*)

Just requested my MAC code from Demon. After 12 years(!!) as a customer it's time to say good-bye Probably going to try Zen, about £22 plus VAT with a 25Gb limit. Am taking a bit of a chance that my usage won't exceed that and it's only a one month contract anyway.

Hmmmmm http://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/products/543.html

That does look more reasonable. Not heard of entanet - any good?

I've also hear good things about A&A however I really want to avoid bandwidth limits / caps etc. 4GB/month seems awfully low for a business service that will be used during the day quite a lot

Very annoyed with the service I get when I phone up Demon customer support, outsourced call centres and not very knowledgeable staff. I hardly ever have to phone them though. Anyway, had an outage at the weekend that may or may not have been Demon at fault (may have been BT) so I wanted to leave. I am currently paying £40 + VAT per month for a totally unrestricted service and a /29 block of IPs. I was about to jump ship to Zen internet however they want £45 + VAT for a similar service but I'd lose my fax to email service and backup mail relay that they provide. I didn't mind too much about this and paying the extra fiver for a company that doesn't outsource. Now, I've just found that Demon are actually offering my current service at £21.50/month plus VAT so almost half the cost and I have the option of switching to this. So... now it would cost me over £25/month to switch which I really can't justifty! Argh! I hate outsourcing but... £25 every month! Argh!

you almost had a very long hex string with no letters in it there, that would have thrown me!

well done! I'm really glad someone got it in the end. Was thinking I was going to have to start dropping hints! It's actually malmesbury abbey and quite an imposing building. I think it's one of the oldest if not the oldest church in the country.

Main screen turn ON!!

VVTI's are DBW aren't they? Sounds like you have a dodgy TPS. I am sure someone more technical than me will say how it can be tested. It's probably in the service manual somewhere.