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For the wireless laptop there should be a small white 'dongle' about the size of a cigarette lighter that plugs into the USB port of the laptop. From the CD choose the WiFi section of the installation and follow the instructions plugging in the dongle when prompted.

The Livebox is your 'ADSL modem' and 'router' and 'firewall' and 'WiFi' all in one. The Livebox plugs into the phone socket and you piggyback the telephone into the same socket. Wait for it.... Insert CD into main PC (the one to be directly connected via USB/Ethernet to the Livebox) and follow the instructions - click on 'USB connection', taking note of the order. Once working, grab dongle and laptop, insert CD and click on 'additional PC/WiFI option' and follow instructions. I found that unless you do everything in the order it says it can go pearshaped, so don't be tempted to plug things in willy nilly. Voila. Any problems with the language and you may be able to download the English instructions from the UK Wanadoo site. Good luck.

You might wish to consider a combination of flickr (upload photos, create alumbs etc.) and blogger (online diary, publishing tool). Both are free and from flickr you can post entries onto blogger with links to your photos. You don't need any HTML skills etc. very easy.

Generally I believe a wall like this would be rendered (enduit) or faced with stone. Enduit is a coloured render, choose the colour from a series of swatches, that is applied then is fairly maintenance free. Painting may only be a short term solution.

I am not a builder but my first reaction was to locate the source of the unpleasant fluid and possibly put in a drain or something to stop the problem at source.

We have got a couple of wood burners with metal flexible ducting to pipe the hot air around the house. The ducting and grills etc are easily available. See fireplace renovation for an example. Scroll down a little to view the pipework. On the plus side the fire does distribute lots of hot air around the house, ofen we need to close the vent in the target room because it can get too hot. On the down side, the noise travels down the pipe. One wood burner is near the TV on the ground floor and feeds hot air to the third floor bedroom, BUT, you can hear the TV in the bedroom! The tubes also carry dust along with the hot air. Overall I would say it is a good system especially if distant rooms need heating.

I tried that but the mail bounced and the contact page is non existant. Maybe I'm paranoid but it seems a little fishy, mind you the site was only registered on the 10th May, but contact details on WHOIS are unavailable. Goats are all doing well and very happy. Regards,

Maybe I'm being a bit daft, but how do you list out the properties ?

My original understanding is that GdF required a payphone on site, however the rental costs and the fact that most people have a mobile makes them an expensive requirement. It looks like the requirement has been 'relaxed' just requiring a phone. If you like on site and have your own phone then this should satisy the requirement. Let a guest use it with permission and charge them nothing or a nominal euro. In the last three years we've only had guests make two phone calls and not bothered to charge them. For resturant bookings etc. one of us usually phones on the guests behalf.

I've just received the folling email, but it looks very suspicious to me. The from address and link to free.fr, along with the informal salutations don't seem right somehow for a Wanadoo/France Telecom email. Anyone else received this, know anything ? I'm going to phone Wanadoo later but wondered if anyone else knew anything. Regards, ian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: jeudi 5 mai 2005 14:47 To: [email protected] Subject: Nouveau FIRMWARE SAGEM Bonjour @ tous, Les utilisateurs des LIVEBOX Sagem apprendront qu'un nouveau firmware pour leur LIVEBOX est disponible sur ce lien : http://greta65.servinfo.free.fr/livebox_sagem/ Toutefois, la Team du forum vous engage à patienter le temps que votre LIVEBOX se mette à jour toute seule ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cet email vous a été envoyé par un administrateur de "forum sur la livebox de wanadoo". Si ce message est du spam, contient des commentaires abusifs ou autre chose que vous trouvez offensif, veuillez contacter le webmestre de ce forum à l'adresse suivante: [email protected] Incluez cet email en entier (plus particulièrement les en-têtes).

Re the blocks with large voids, our macons put steel rods vertically down through the holes and into the floor then filled them with concrete. At 2,5M high they also put a row of extra dense blocks with a U channel running along the length of the block. In this U channel they put chainage and again filled with concrete. Example here http://radio.weblogs.com/0136203/2004/11/04.html#a210

I've found many of the web directories very similar and quite often frustrating to use, rarely giving good results. The problem seems to me they all use, and prehaps over-use, the 'category' approach. Internet users are comfortable using search engines and I think by placing more emphasis on the search side the directory would be easier to use. I'll try and explain why I dislike categories. If you have too few categories then the number of results returned for a category are large. Conversely too many and there are overlaps between categories. One persons 'Rural' is another persons 'Village location', or gite, cottage, appartment, condo are synonomous, for example. By utilising search engine type technology I could enter a query such as, 'gite pool beams stone children farm fishing brittany' may well find me exactly the accomodation I want quickly, but using the category approach I would need to 'translate' my world view into the the web site designers world view. If English is the users second language this is doubly difficult. Without a category of 'beams' for example I may have to plough through lots of properties without beams, but having a category of beams is too specific. As a gite owner I would like a Google search page where the only sites stored in the database are genuine owners sites, not porn sites where someone can't spell britney spears, or irrelavent results. I.e. a 'quality' subset of Google. By gite owners supplying your site with their URL (and possibly a photo + intoductory parargraph) you have all the information you need. Just index/scan/upload the site into your database. If I provide fishing locally then a customer could find that information without any specific need for a sports, lesiure,fishing category. I'm not saying remove categories, but emphasise search. With some guidance on the index page, search is much more flexible and I believe faster and more friendly than ticking boxes or drilling down through menus.

I bought 84 sheets of LaFarge placo at 2.50 per m2 HT, thats approx 9 euro per sheet TTC. The Hydrofuge is about 20 euro TTC per sheet. You might get it cheaper at Brico Depot but the last lot I bought there was quite poor quality hence this time the LaFarge stuff.

I usually use the 'Posts since my last visit' option to read the Forums. It's a really handy feature but it often lists posts/replies that I've already seen. For example this morning I visited, used PSMLV, read some topics that interested me and closed my browser. This evening I used PSMLV and it listed quite a few > 15 topics 'unread'. However I had already read them and the last updated date showed a time of Yesterday xxxx. Is there a way/workaround to trigger or signal to PSMLV to make it work as expected ? Thanks,

Didn't the orginal poster 'solicit' a website designer ? Or am I being pedantic ?

Just to continue being geeky, select Tools/Extensions from the menu, right click and select 'visit home page...' and there is a download/install link there.

Have you tried upgrading FlashBlock ? I've got V1.3.0.1 and it works as expected on this site, as on others. You may also be interested in PIE, the next generation of cookies, if you concerned about privacy.

You should be able to get all the referral information from the company hosting your website without the need for extra pages. If your hosting provider gives access to the web server log files then you can run them though a 'free' report generator to show if the vistor came direct, via google, altavista, etc. of via a click through on VF of VC. Whatever. They may supply reports for you as part of your hosting package. Lots of 'useful' info about entry pages, exit pages, length of visit, visitors geographic location, search keywords... However the one REALLY useful bit of information you can't get is the people that searched and never found you.

Oh you mean like this, up and down etc. with italics I didn't even know those controls existed :-)  They don' show up in Firefox. I had to use IE to do the stuff above. Couldn't see any option, even in IE, to make coloured text. Looks like it must be some sort of incompatability/bug with Microsoft and Mozilla. I know there are some Javascript issues with IE/Firefox, it might be one of those. Maybe the LF IT guys can shed more light ?  

Miki, Not sure what you mean ? If I can't see it I don't know if I'm missing it :-) I use Firefox and press CTRL and use the scrolling wheel mouse button to change text size, is that one of the features ? Colour icons and italics ? Got an example post to demonstrate and I'll view in FF and IE 4 U Regards,

I have a single 3-phase supply coming into the house that then spurs to each outbuilding, one via a 10G5 cable and the other a 16G5 cable. The earths are all connected together and each of the three spikes (house, + 2 outbuildings) connect to the common earth, so it sound like I'm OK. Thanks everybody.

I'm fairly sure the current earth is OK, but was concerned that adding a spike might 'upset' the 'resistive balance'

Are there any potential (pun intended) problems using multiple earth spikes within a single installation ? I ask because I have a barn separate from the house supplied by an overhead cable into a local fuse box that carries phase, neutral and earth. An extra earth spike has been added for the barn to augment the earth supplieed from the house. Is this prudent or could it cause problems with potential differences/resistances etc. I'd like to run a supply to another outbuilding, should I add a third earth spike ?

Bonjour is usually the best thing to say first. It's polite, identifies you as English, and gives both parties time to get into foreign language mode. After the intial contact I used to use the equivalent of 'This is difficult for me because my French is not very good, but ....' then 'I would like...' or 'do you have...' or 'I have a little problem, maybe...' etc. etc. As other people have said, have a go and you will be rewarded. Contrary to popular belief the French like to help and display thier knowledge to foreigners. Be a little meek and 'little boy lost'. Launching in with English does tend to put peoples backs up a little.