A dead relative, his investment manager writing to me regarding his estate. So far so normal. Only this one came through the actual post, somebody paid Royal Mail 62p to send it to me :o . Sounds so much like a scam! However, there is a real Solicitor's firm that does nothing but trace and contact ...

You're welcome! I'm glad to hear things are working properly now - and that you got good service. :) PCs do become more noisy as they age. Every time you move it the case flexes and components start to rattle against each other slightly, adding resonances to the fan noise. The more expensive the cas...

fiksal wrote:what's a / who is "lady wrangler"?

The person who gathers together the 3% of the studio audience who are female and forces them to stand at the front to make everything look less blokey.

Static safe? Nonono... yesyesyes you are definitly right, 1 minute to late! :D Had to learn it from the hard side of life now :/ *snip* Well crap. That was unlucky! It may have been static, or it may be a residual charge from the capacitors in the power supply unit. Either way, some damage has been...

Open it up and clean it out, especially the CPU heatsink and the inlet filters. Use some canned air - NOT a vacuum - to blow dust off everything. (Vacuums tend to create static which is bad for PCs - I wrecked a mobo with just 1 spark from the end of the hose attachment. Expensive. You can use the v...

Many thanks for all your efforts pjknibbs, and the almost inexhaustible good-humour with which you dealt with the nuisances and annoyances!

Fare well, and I hope RL reasons are good ones!

The photo tells us nothing about the quality of the writing or voice-acting, and it is those that are most important. My fear is that they will write it as a fast-moving action-adventure wheree the Tracy boys are always having to *fight* to rescue people, and that would be all wrong. As far as the a...

It could go very well. She can certainly write - her video-game journalism was very readable, and she has produced or contributed to the scripts of many well-know game franchises. Whether readers will be able to adapt to her "voice" is another matter. She isn't her father, and she has her own outloo...

"Does that mean Dame Esther Rantzen can now lead troops in battle?" Nah, no such luck! (Good or bad luck I will not say!) These titles are all honorary, meaning that there are no powers or duties attached to them, just a few trivial privileges. It all goes back to the crusades. At various times wann...

Though even safe sides can be infected. Often trusted computers and systems get attacked specifically which then start to infect other computers as well. A year ago or so attackers managed to hack a for years very popular and trusted weather website in my country and installed background scripts in...

An old-wive's-tale I heard is that lighting candles can help get rid of the smell. I suspect it is a case of camouflage rather than cleaning, but it may appeal better than buying cans of the usual sorts of smellies.

Indeed.

*sigh* Why does the world seem full of people who have no sense of proportion and no faculty for self-restraint? Yes - he cause to be pissed off. No - it wasn't bad enough to be even worth (t)wittering on about, and most definitely NOT worth making death threats. Oh well. This guy ain't the first to...

As of time of posting, not so far as I can see.

Always worth looking to see if there are any other similar groups who have done the same thing, and get in touch with them to ask their experiences.

There was a comment that the Spaceplane Plus parts had to be tweaked to make them more generally useful - previously they didn't work well with all combinations of stock parts, now they work better. And there is No Way that an in-dev game can be developed in such a way as to prevent this sort of thi...

As Matthew said! The only people who need the faster RAM speeds are people who have already clocked the guts out of their CPU (to the point of using cryogenic cooling on the CPU) and are running very RAM-intensive applications; even most games don't use RAM that hard. For everybody else, CPUs have s...

A good trick is to make a list of games you have played and enjoyed, and then read a lot of reviews of those games. Make note of the reviewers who agree with your opinion of those games - not the site, the individual! Then, when you want to know about a new game, wait for peoepl your list of reviewe...

softweir wrote:Yes, that was a good, fun adventure. The Doc's scepticism was well portrayed!

But, apparently, my father disliked it intensely. "Too silly."

I suspect the dungeon scene was too much for him.

Yes, that was a good, fun adventure. The Doc's scepticism was well portrayed!