HoneySuckleDreams

Is that why people are asked to turn them off?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15932846  

[quote user="Clair"]I use FilmOn on my iPad. The app is being rejigged at the moment though. Mr Clair uses iPortal. [/quote] I will be interested in knowing if it works still after the re-jig. Not that I have an iWant though  

Nickp You're right...the voice of reason as always. I have freesat at home, but i'm working in luxembourg, and the house TV is all foreign...who wants to be a miilionaire, in German, is all I can cope with. However, I did notice in the garden that there is a satellite dish (with double LNB) which isn't being used. So, I will dig out my old sky box and hijack the cabling...be cheaper than 14.95 a month. I guess I can plug the box into my laptop.  

[quote user="HoneySuckleDreams"] [quote user="Jazzer"]filmon.com[/quote] what a tip-top tip that is! [/quote] It was tip-top OK for a while, but it now requires me to login , i.e. have a subscription. A bit like a drug dealer...give it away free for a while and then when you're hooked start charging. It's 14.95 a month, so I doubt I will be signing up

http://www.tisseo.fr/sites/default/files/Tisseo_hivAeroportweb.pdf    

[quote user="AnOther"] The more so if you have stuff worth contemplating paying €600 to get back [:-))] [/quote] It doesn't actually cost them €600 euro, (I mean it only takes 10 minutes to change a PCB). They can hold you to ransome for whatever price they think they can get away with. For businesses, then it will be worth it. I've got most of it backed up anyway, it was just the last weeks photos and emails that were missing. Is that worth €600 to me? probably not. I will look into the Internet backup method (as well as external hard drives) now that we have a faster internet connection.

 [quote] HSD I share your concern. I have it on good authority that a Kindle will scramble the brain if used excessivley, just as it will bring down an aircraft if used on takeoff. I have almost 30 years experience in electronics and interferance technology both with companies here and in the UK. The brain in particularly suseptical to the invisible radiation from the Kindle, more particularly if it has the 3G or WiFi enabled. Experiments conducted at the University of Pool suggest that the Kindle is only safe to use at a distance of no less that 1.5326 m (5.02821 feet) from your face. It was also found that by using the skullcap (designed and tested in Tokyo) and connected to a computer running a reverse interferance program can negate the problems with the Kindle. LINK [/quote] Wow, someone finally knows what they're talking about! University of pool no less. It's a good job then I don't own a Kindle as my arms are only 4.94428 ft long and I would be in danger of having my brain melted by invisible radiation!

[quote user="woolybanana"] Well, I had an interesting event this morning which might suggest that interference can occur. I was talking to someone on the fone (an internet one) and switched off the Kindle as we were speaking. The fone was immediately cut off. Now, in the context of a plane, I just wonder what might be let loose. [/quote] if it can turn a phone of when itself  is being turned of, what does it do to people whilst it's turned on? We're constantly being told the human brain is a very delicate thing...does anyone know if there will be long term effects? or is it the same as the WIMAX argument  

I take attention!! The bit about where the emergency exits is the bit where I have a look around and count the number of seats between me and an exit. I always thought that would matter in the unlikely event of the plane going down. Having said that, i'm flying over the next two weekends...so sods law  :(  

[quote user="Pickles"][quote user="HoneySuckleDreams"][quote user="Pickles"]It is possible to get another of the same type of HDD and swap over the controller circuitry and to reanimate it that way.[/quote] I think that is what these recovery companies do. They swap the platters from the non working HDD into a working one. I don't think I would be confident to do it myself, I would have thought you have to do it in a sterile/dust free environment.[/quote] Actually, that is one step on from what I was advocating: you can remove the PCB from the HDD without being in a dust-free environment: you don't get involved with the platters themselves if you just change the PCB that is mounted on the outside of the HDD ... or at least, that was the case for the one I did ... Regards Pickles [/quote]   Thanks Pickles, I've read a lot more about what to do and now taken your advice. I've managed to source a PCB almost identical...it's Ebaying itself to me as I type. I will give it a go, and if that fails I'll try and swap the firmware chip. 27quid so far, a datarecover company quoted me 600euro, so I'm hoping the replacment of the PCB does the trick  

[quote user="Frederick"]A guy who came up the drive and when challenged produced grubby photos of clean roof tiles and asked me if I wanted my immaculately spotless new roof tiles washed [/quote] We had a guy like that as well in a small white van with no markings. He actually went as far to quote me for the roof...which was daylight robbery in itself. We did have one bloke who let himself into our grange and my neighbour chased him of. Apparently he was known around the area for "collecting" metal that he thought people didn't need anymore. We have recently been warned by our neighbours to be careful about leaving things lying around; trailers, cement mixers etc. There have been warnings of white vans being driven around the country lanes looking for potential victims. This is from our French neighbours in more than one village. So, yes... it seems to be on the increase. Wether or not it is the travellers is a hard one to answer. It could be opportune thieves from the local town who jump on the traveller band wagon, knowing that it's the travellers who will be blamed.

[quote user="woolybanana"]Crime is always worse where thare are loads of Brits.[/quote] thats akin to saying crime increases when the pikeys move in  

Some places offer big-bag type delivery, try Chausson/Gedimat. Our delivery bloke just dumps it so we have to put plastic sheeting down first otherwise a lot of it is wasted as it gets mucky. If you have a trailor I suggest you go and get it yourself.

you should try discussing Harry Potter unless you say   Arrie Pottaire they haven't a clue.

NormanH: Could you get away with no TV or aerial but have an internet connection to watch stuff on your computer ? What does téléviseur actually encompass? Could this argument be used in the UK as well (asking for a friend). Or do you have to pay because you have equipement allowing you to watch it? (I guess I've just answered my own question)   Edit   Actually forget that I've just read the other thread

Red Tops are the best. You can empty them onto the compost bin when they are full. Unfortunately this year one of our new kittens decided to investigate one of the traps and managed to grab hold....briefly...before the contents emptied all over him. Poor thing couldn't understand why we didn't want him anywhere near us. He was banned from the house for few weeks ... even after two baths

[quote user="Anton Redman"]Well if you are daft enough to go North of Watford.[/quote] I was born in Urmston and then lived near blackpool. I only moved south of watford when we moved to france

i've always had a "special "welcome in Liverpool but as a Man Utd fan it was never I nice, warm, generous welcome

[quote user="Jazzer"]filmon.com[/quote] what a tip-top tip that is!  

the ryanair version is just as funny

Airfrance automatically allocate you a seat and give you the opportunity to change it. But they have a hierarchy for their flying blue customers, so if you are a regular you get automatically allocated something close to the front. I don't think you could expect to guarantee any seat irrespective of the time you book, how could you? Someone else would get in before you.  Allocated seats are a good thing if you have kids..you can allocate them seats as far away from you as possible and let someone else listen to them bickering during the flight. I've given up thinking that 5 minutes makes a difference on catching a train. If you have to get across Paris from Orly or CDG to Montparnesse or L'est then getting off the plane is inconsequential. I've had my time sprinting through Paris l'est whilst the boarding gate is closing thinking I would have made it if only I had sat at the front of the plane. There are too many other factors to consider; Metro trains stopping for too long at stations, ticket machine queues, people who walk too slowly or block elevators, pimps at the doors trying to sell you someone etc etc.

[quote user="Pierre ZFP"] It seems that the conventional 'Back rows first'  isn't best and it should be Window seats first then aisles. [/quote] The reverse Pyramid, back rows, window seats first. Although I think they would need to study the euro flights rather than american to build a better study data base [quote user="Pierre ZFP"] Getting your average RA/Easyjet numpty passenger (Forum members excepted of course [;-)] ) to take that in is another matter, might work for allocated seating though. [/quote] If it works for the americans than it will probably work for average euro punter I think the only time being able to get off the plane first is useful, is when you need to get to the car hire bureau. Being first in that queue could save you an hour of your life! I agree with the other comments though, if you fly into the big airports (Gatwick/Heathrow) it makes no difference to how fast you get of as you end up in the passport queue with 25 other flights. Even at Orly, getting of the plane normally means you have to wait for the bus to drive you to the terminal.

What I don't like about priority boarding is that those people who go on first are normally sitting at the front of the plane. When the rest of us get to the stairs we end up standing in the cold and rain as those first-borders spend an age filling up the over head lockers and blocking the way for the rest. They should make them get on last, the plane should fill up from the back and in that way the plane would be ready quicker. Besides, it's just as warm in the departure lounge as it is on the plane. I would rather sit in a large room for as long as possible before getting on a small metal cylinder, with no windows, cramped together with complete strangers.

[quote user="simonh102"]3) Does anyone know an English tree surgeon in the Gers! I[/quote] I know of one in Dept65 just over the border, if you are still interested. I've just pollarded a tree myself. We had a manitou on site for the roof work we are doing which made access easy, but even so, it was still a bit dodgy 40ft up. With so many to do, it might be worth getting in someone who knows what they are doing.