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Hi Daryl, That looks like your actual system preferences, not Safari's preferences page. Have a lok at this link - where they select "netscape.com" in step 6, you should select anything with "350z-uk.com" in the first column. Hope this helps http://support.verio.com/documents/view ... oc_id=4069

Sounds like just some random sicko doing it for their own twisted kicks. If it wasnt something that the cat was doing that the offender didnt like, and was just some grudge they had with that person, then a brick through the window or a keyed car is just about the effort level that some idiot would go to. Taking the time to catch and do that to the owners pet doesnt sound like the actions of a correctly wired up human being.

Scam. you can't put a plate on a car unless both documents (retention certificate and v5) have matching names. Once a plate is assigned to a car it becomes the property of whomever owns the car. (thats why the names must match for them to allow you to put the plate on a car). Also, it costs just £25 to have a nominee added to a retention certificate. This can be done at any time, or at the time of adding the plate to a vehicle. The form just neds to be signed by the grantee with the nominees details added. In the above your grandad is the grantee, and the buyer is the nominee. So - what happens is, your grandad gets the money for the plate, along with the details of the buyer. He then adds this buyers name to the retention certificate in the nominee section, signs it and hands it over to the dvla when the chap wants to assign it to his car. The buyer can then have this added to his own car for the £25 fee.

Tbh he sounds like a tosser off the highest order. If he went to the effort of luring the cat in, he could have taken the time to drive it off somewhere and let it free. If the animal is to be put down, then it takes some sick person to hang it.

Daily driver: hardest choice. probably Full Fat 2010 Range Rover. Weekend: 458 Italia Classic: RR Phantom Supercar: Zonda roadster Shits and giggles: Mclaren mp12-4c

If this happened to one of ours, I would make it my lifes work to hunt down the culprit and I would gladly hang them from the flagpole. I hope they find whoever did this and they somehow find themselves impaled on a rusty fence.

The rest of the world imports a lot of goods from Japan, so they want it back up and running asap. As for say Lybia for example - Russia doesn't want to see any international involvement. Oh, I wonder why. Lybia stops producing oil - yes its only about 2% of global, but its good quality stuff. Oil prices rise rapidly. And Russian billionaires (inlcuidng Putin) made a lot of their money from what again? When it kicked off between Russia and the Ukraine, nobody wanted to know, because if Russia threw the toys out of the pram, then that little pipeline supplying half of europe with Gas and oil would have had some "maintenance" needed I'm sure. Oil prices well over $100 a barrel and everythings working fine. If it goes back down to $60 or thereabouts, several refineries will suddenly need upgrading and pipelines will be "broken". You can set your watch by it.

Yep - as above, its an MOT failure and £30 fine if stopped by the police (can be up to £1000). DVLA can confiscate the plate too. Ive recently bought one that I will not need to space differently to spell what I want perfectly, so in the future I shouldnt have the problem - it just means I need to get an 11 plate car! I have the plate on the Zed spaced slightly off, but it is perfectly readable by ANPR, so I think the police turn a blind eye in most occasions. The plate on the fezza is perfectly legal, but I could space it slightly differently to make it look better - however, with both the Zed and the fezza, an incorrectly spaced plate on cars like that just screams "pull me and fine me". So I dont think Ill bother changing the fezza one, and if I get pulled by the police for the Zed one at any point Ill just stick a legal one on it now, I cant be bothered with the fines and the factit makes my blood boil that they try to justify such petty crap by saying "criminals and terrorists alter number plates to avoid detection". Whilst thats true, I think they may use false number plates or ones altered to have digits read incorrectly on ANPR - I am fairly sure they wont be driving such cars as 350/370Z's to remain incognito and having their number plates try and spell their actual name on the back. The police use trivial crap like this to push up the "crime detection and crime resolved" stats. Fact.

Its awful seeing the videos of cars driving down the road, turning round when confronted with a wall of water, only to meet another one coming the other way and trying to out run it. Now there is a cooling system failure at a nuclear plant too God be with them.

bit of a bumpy ride at present on RRL and CRND. Though looking at markets in general, its not a great period for anything. iii has links to reports suggesting target price of £1 for Baobab (BAO). Though they too have had a bump in the last few days. I think the last couple of days for me has been a case of "hold em".

Agreed. People sat in the middle lane really wind me up. They just cause bottlenecks, and when they are doing just under 70, people can legally undertake at 70 - which makes it ridiculously dangerous. Some people overtake them on the outside, while someone else overtakes them on the inside - the one on the inside then goes to pull into the middle lane to overtake the next vehicle, just as the one in the outside lane is making their way back to the middle - its a nightmare. I really do have to try hard not to go right behind them in the inside lane - swing right out to the outside, overtake and swing right back to the inside again. Sometimes I cave and actually do it if its clear enough, yet the morons still dont get the point. If they enforced people using the motorway properly and keeping left, there would be no need to widen the things in the first place. Also -does anyone know which lanes HGV's can use on a 4 lane motorway? If its any more than the first two, then excatly whats the point - we will just them be treated to 3 horse 15 mile drag races while those morons overtake one another at the busiest times, uphill, at night.

very 458 esque front end, but its a bit too drawn out on the front for my liking... Sounds like it would be impressive in terms of performance, but I dont think the looks cut it tbh. http://www.autoblog.com/photos/ferrari- ... 1/#3928289

Indeed. While the rest of the country fights recession, the insurance companies live in a lovely bubble of a world where customers are legally required to have a product from a private firm. Isn't it interesting that by law you must have car insurance, and by law the government has no jurisdiction over how much profit a private company is allowed to make. That is the sole reason why insurance costs go up every single year, and nothing else.

I opened a spread bet account with TD waterhouse. I usually use CMC for spreadbet, but they pulled out of AIM (which I had forgotten until after I'd shoved £5k over ready to set up positions ) moved money into TD waterhouse spreadbet instead so I can make tax free returns. They offer monthly spreads on CRND but no daily rolling like on RRL. So will have to suffer the capital gains tax on those and have a standard buy in. TD Waterhouse seem a decent enough outfit, their spreadbetting rolling daily spreads works in a different manner to the CMC in that it closes and opens each day rather than just going into suspension overnight, but once I figured out what was happeneing it was fine.

The only people this new legislation will affect are the people who presently abide by the law anyway. It simply by its very design will have ZERO effect on those currently flouting the law anyway. It beggars beleif that the people behind such decisions cannot actually see how their ideas will work in practice. Law abiding person: Has two cars. One is used every day, it is taxed, and insured. New laws - No change, No problem. One is not used every day, its taxed but not insured as they are not wanting to drive it through the winter, they dont want to Sorn it and go through the process of getting a couple of months tax back, then re tax it when they want to use it (which may be at a higher rate with the tax increases based on emissions etc). All they want to do is leave it in the garage and as soon as the weather gets better, call up the insurance, get it insured and go out for a drive. New laws means they have to sorn it or keep the insurance in play while its sat there in the garage. Depending on the value of the car this may not be worth it. So they are penalised with extra costs. Pikey non law abiding person: Car is already on sorn and being driven on the road. New laws - No change, pikey is still driving on the road paying no tax and no insurance. or Car is currently taxed and insured, renewal for insurance comes round and its expensive. Car is sorned, insurance cancelled, and pikey still uses car - see above. New laws, no change, pikey pays nothing. These new laws do not change anything for those who already flout the law. What they should do with ALL uninsured and/or untaxed vehicles found on the public highway is confiscate them on the spot and make the fines for returning them over £1000, payable within 1 week or the vehicle is crushed. No ifs, no buts. At present all pikey needs to do is cough up the £100, show that the car is taxed (6 months will do) and insured - take out a monthly policy. A couple of hundred quid gets the car back. Get home - cancel insurance, declare car sorn and get money for tax back. Out of pocket just the £100 for the return of the car and we are back to square one. Then we develop new legislation that targets nobody but the people who are already abiding by the law. Simply brilliant. Exactly how many amoeba need to be swimming around inside a persons head before they can qualify to be part of a government think tank coming up with these ideas?

Yup, it seems the way of the world at present, everyone seems to have totaly forgone any form of customer service in favour of smash and grab on customers wallets. Ill not be buying new again as I may as well have bought from Freds Fair Deal Motors such was the service I received. Slightly OT, but Does anyone else get annoyed when in supermarkets at the tills, the operators are busy having a chat with each other rather than paying attention to the customer. In some cases sticking their hand out for the money while still chatting with their mate about last nights drinking session. Ive come close to dumping the shopping and walking off if they cant be arsed to serve me as a customer properly. Maybe Im just turning into Victor Meldrew. I reckon the evoque will however wipe the floor with the small 4x4 market if priced correctly. People who want the brand name and footballers wife image will lap this up, regardless of whether the dealer is a cowboy or not. It appears that manufacturers know this, so they dont bother investing time in ensuring that their dealers give a quality service. Afterall, what should the manufacturer care if the products are flying off the shelves. The aftercare isn't their issue.

Do they paint them and screw them together properly and have them sold by dealers that actually give a toss about the customer receiving the level of service they state in their advertising material? If so, I may look at one in the future, second hand, from an independent.

Surely they must be replicas. I spy a P90 and SPAS12 over on the left, what appears to be a barret 50 cal up top and is that an M60 over on the far right! Amazing what you can learn from the Call of duty franchise.

Thats a cracking drive, but it doesnt have any redundancy capability. i.e. if the hard drive inside that box dies, you lose all your data with it. In time, if you are building a project as you go along, I'd look at upgrading the store so you can grow that along with the project. RAID was usually reserved for corporate server environments, but is now much cheaper. Depending on the level of the solution you want it can be relatively cheap. Electronic billing, Electronic accounts, family and holiday photos, music collection, the list goes on. If you suddenly lost all that, it could be heartbreaking. Still have that digital photo of your sons first birthday, or the last christmas you had with grandad etc. how would you feel if the hard drive they are stored on broke? Thats what went through my mind when considering what I was going to do when it came to storing data. A cheap raid1 box can be as low as £120, and two 1TB drives for a raid1 solution would be about £40 each, so all in £200 and you have a 1TB store with protection against a dead drive. Have a read about raid here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

Nah, the dodgy stuff is stored on the 16TB archive under lock and key, all backed up onto DVD with an accompanying excel spreadsheet detailing date and time acquired with a star rating. In all seriousness though if you are going for a large screen and projector, I would highly recommend going for 1080p model. With a screen that size you will need all the quality you can get. Also, make sure that if you do have NAS you get the fastest drives you can, and look at size second. Faster drives will mean when you stream any media you wont get any stuttering. To be fair the slowest drives will probably support up to 3 1080p streams at once, but check the data transfer of the NAS when in RAID setup. (you will want raid to ensure you dont lose anything should a drive fail). CAT5e or CAT6 cables to any rooms will suffice, but if you run multiple cables to each room, you may in the future wish to transmit hdmi over ethernet. You can now transmit HDMI over coax with certain devices too. You'll have fun building a cinema project - go for it!

Very sad news - my sincere condolences go out to the families and friends of these incredibly brave people.

Ive been with PN since dialup, so getting on for a decade now I think. Though yes, you are correct, our exchanges round here apart from Chesterfield itself are mainly ADSLMax. Most dont even have ADSL2 yet, never mind infinity. Ours has offerings from carphone warehouse and Orange. Other than that its BT and ADSLMax only. No dates on ADSL2, and as for infinity its about as likely to be rolled out here as me taking a pee in the queens handbag. BT constantly roll out the new technology to the main exchanges, and before they get to the smaller ones, they start with the next new technology. Heres how our exchange lags behind the Main Chesterfield one: ADSL enabled: Chesterfield - March 2000 Ours - October 2003 (3.5 years later) ADSL Max - same time (though that wasnt really a change). 21 CN: Chesterfield - May 2009 Ours - no date yet. FTTC: Chesterfield - enabled in some areas already Ours - no date yet. As the dates are set out to around 2015 already, and we havent even got one for 21CN, then I doubt very much if we will ever get anything better than Max here.

Thats a ****ing joke. Ive been with plusnet for about a decade, couldn't take part in the trial as I dare to live in one of the 99% of places BT deem unfit to roll out anything but copper wires and pay Plusnet £23 a month for 6mb and 20GB limit.

Got some updated pics of mine now. Firstly - heres how it started when we bought the house... And after some work by Tracy and myself, here it is today: One set of glass shelves house the DVD's, Blu-rays and X-box games. The other houses the Call of duty trinkets, Xbox, Blu Ray player, Home Theatre PC and AV amp. Front floor standers Rear bipole surrounds *cough* small *cough* Subwoofer. All kit connected to the projector (JVC DLA HD750) Screen is a nice 92" diagonal, heres some images of the blu-ray, htpc and xbox in all their 1080p glory. I also have a bit of cheese factor with a nice little lava lamp, plasma sphere and neon bar sign, but thats downstairs with the man cave fridge that I put in the garage for the summer The media pc and all other tv's in the house have cabled gigabit access to an 8TB NAS store for films, music and recorded tv series etc. Will be adding further media access devices for garden and other rooms as a planned extension comes along

have added an additional note to the first post now.