Albert the infopikey

Not that particular one, although having spent time as a trainer I've been exposed to a few. Is this question one of those 'I wish I could remember' things or do you actually need a management style profiler? If the latter, is it important if it is well validated or just a pile of management geek-speak? Anyway, I do recommend this article to all technical managers: http://lwn.net/Articles/105375/ [;-)] [:D]

We'll be moving to France in a year or two, once our house build is completed. At present we are renting unfurnished in the UK, and it is likely that we'll move at least once in the UK before finally heading for la Belle and semi-retirement. Having looked at removal costs I'm wondering if we may as well flog off or give away most of our furniture and white goods, apart from a few items of sentimental value. Some stuff, like wardrobes, will be redundant, anyway, and most of the rest is at least 5 years old. Doing this before our next move would save us a fair bit, probably enough to buy new replacements. We can move some stuff each time we visit the in-laws -- I've already shifted a fair number of books across -- and the remainder would fit in a Transit. We've had estimates of £4-5,000 for moving all our stuff across to France, and we'd probably need £500 - £1,000 to handle the UK move(s). Any comments, especially from recent emigrés, will be welcome.

Can we pantheists have one as well?

Can anyone offer a reason whyFK should not be appointed chief moderator? His pronouncements make a lot more sense than most of the 'Mod hat on' statements we see from time to time. [:-))]

SusanAH wrote <<I didn't get one of those unfortunately. Is it where are my sandals? >> Looks like it, but the answers are even weirder.[8-)]  

  Definitely downhill! [:(]  Questions correct: 5 / 10 You took 184 seconds to complete this quiz. Total score: 316 Has anybody any idea what the question       Clouseau's French Interrogation Session (French)        Ou aire arrhes maille sain dalles? is all about? [blink] I haven't but I got lucky with a guess.[:D]

Looks like I've peaked. Now it's downhill all the way.[geek]

Straight ten!!! Yee-ha!!

Getting back to an earlier posting of yours about resolution, I'd say that after about 6 MP it is a bit academic unless you will be blowing up much bigger than A4 from the whole frame. Back in the days when the only sensible way to put computer graphics on a screen was to put them on 35mm slides the standard resolution was quoted as 2,000 lines. With a 35mm frame being 1:1.5 format that equates to 2,000 (vertical) x 3,000 (horizontal)  = 6,000,000. And I used to project these on screens 20 feet across. The overall quality of the image processing path is actually more important than the raw pixel count, particularly if you will be saving stuff as JPEG's. For initial experiments just strap your 35mm camera on the back of the telescope (see my Blue Peter posting) and have a peer through the viewfinder. No good for dim, deep-space objects, but start with the Moon and work outwards. Another thought: you see a lot of ridiculously cheap 3+ MP cameras nowadays. Essentially they are digital box brownies, but with the lens carefully hacked off you could have a cheap basis for experimentation. With the amount you must have spent on the telescope you'll eventually want to buy decent kit, but no point in wasting a fair bit on something that will be discarded after a few weeks.  

ali@ards wrote As scientific & technical photography is the only thing I'm qualified in, I'll stock in my three cents worth. For some cheap initial experimentation you can make up your own adapter, using loo rolls and sticky-back plastic! If you can rigidly mount the camera to the telescope, say using its tripod screw, then you just need to use a loo roll(or similar cardboard cylinder) big enough to fit snugly inside the camera's lens mount (don't push it in too far!), plus some black polythene to wrap around the telescope eyepiece and the front of the loo roll. For best results paint the inside of the loo roll matt black. To go up a level, use a spare body cap (comes with an SLR body to keep muck out when there's no lens attached) with the centre cut away and mounted (somehow? glue?) to the end of a suitable piece of plastic pipe, with foam rubbber around the inside to give a push fit on the eyepiece. With any of these you'll probably need to experiment with the length of tube so that the camera sensor falls at the prime focus. You could even get a cheapo web-cam and saw the lens off, to experiment with direct-mounted sensors! If you are happy enough with the Blue peter version you can then spend as much as you like on pukka mounts / adaptors. At the other end of the scale, I've got some pictures of a seal colony taken with a disposable 35mm camera clamped to the back of a cheap (2 quid!) child's monocular. Not exhibition quality but it just shows that the principle of mounting a fixed lens camera to telescope is feasible. Things like exposure control etc. are obviously another matter.

Many thanks, All. I'll look into the BF Caen route.

Normally, when we travel to Brittany we go BF Portsmouth - St Malo, which usually means a night crossing outwards and a day crossing back. We are likely to do a lot of weekend trips in the next few months and I'd like to find a way of travelling back Monday night. BF have a Tuesday night Roscoff crossing, but that means losing an extra day's earnings. Can anyone suggest a night crossing within a reasonable distance (2-4 hours) of Rennes?

My guess is Delphi the programming language. Bit of a niche market nowadays. (REAL programmers use Z80 Assembler!)

I'm sure there's a Pissy-Poville near Calais.

Gyn_Paul wrote: <<I have also been known to drain my glass, then absent-mindedly pick up my neighbour's. I always blame it on being a lefty and the position of the glasses being predicated on the belief that the whole world is right-handed, but actually I'm just an opportunist! And it's NOT true that we don't live as long, either ! <g> >> Carry on like that and you won't live as long!

Owens88 wrote:

Named Miki???

Tony F Dordogne wrote : "It's gall Katie, not gaul " I expect she's trying to stay on topic about France. :-)

KatieKopyKat wrote: "I have never run to my boss pointing fingers and making things worse but smoothed things out myself face to face in an adult manner and then shook hands." All well & good in the real world. However, here in the forum I don't even know what your face looks like! Just because you are prepared to act like an adult it doesn't mean that others are. I agree that reporting people for trivial matters is petty, but within the structure of a forum like this having moderators, etc. can help immensely. I've spent years on unmoderated usenet newsgroups and one or two of them got totally hijacked by people whose only aim appeared to be the disruption of normal traffic. I will admit that when you came along with your trampoline and all the other things you looked a bit too invasive, but I just ignored the threads you started until I began to notice you taking a sensible interest in other people's threads. That said, I'm not totally surprised that someone may have reported you, given the atmosphere at the end of Le B's membership.  

KatieKopyKat wrote: "I must admit that I have been pm'd by a mod on one occassion and I found this absolutely stomach churning that someone could run to teacher and not have the guts to pm me." I've been chipping in to this forum for a few months now and have *once* reported a post. It was for blatant (although probably unthinking) racism. I did not PM the person but I did respond directly within the thread before firing off a report. The outcome was that the offending post was edited and my response, which had lost its context, was deleted. I still react negatively when I see that member's posts but I just ignore them unless I have another reason to chip in. I agree that some reports seem from anecdotal evidence to be a bit silly ("too chatty"...) and maybe the mods/admin should be a bit more dismissive of these than they appear to be. I certainly agree with the people who would like less infighting over what people may or may not have said/meant.      

missyesbut wrote:  "But then why do I have an 'email' button ?     Do  I  want to Email myself!.... " I often do! I read the forum during lunchbreak at work and if there's a useful thread (like the one about SIM cards) I copy the thread URL and email it home. That way I can refer back to it when I want to.  

Tony F Dordogne wrote: Lots of questions here, similar style to another poster Tony, surely you don't mean...? I can see at least 2 capital letters in the post.

Afy, Sounds like you're going up in the world. Congratulations. If you'll be working for one of the big consultancies I'd expect their HR people to know what's what. On my latest contract the main implementation partner was Deloitte and there were consultants from at least 4 different countries, including a frenchwoman. My guess is that all the time your family home is in France you'll be considered "French" for tax purposes. If most of your time is spent working outside France and your employer treats you as UK-based then you'll need to declare your UK earnings in France, including telling them about tax, etc. paid in the UK system. The other complicating factor could be National Insurance / Social Security. I'd guess that you would be covered in France via your UK NI payments (Lord knows which form!). How this would affect your wife .... ? I've got a strong suspicion that you'll be better off paying UK tax & NI then declaring in France than the alternative of taking your salary gross and being liable to French tax & cotisations. However, treat all this answer as a set of questions to ask an expert. I ain't one! Cheers

zeb wrote ".....and it really isn't compatable with my pretty little iMac!" I've noticed these comments quite often from Mac drivers. I don't find any difference between my Mac Mini, with Safari, and Windows, with IE, when it comes to using this forum. Is the problem to do with the vintage of the OS or the browser? Maybe you need to download a later version of your browser -- I know IE for the Mac has now been discontinued by MS, but there are other options. Try looking at http://darrel.knutson.com/mac/www/browsers.html

My English cocker spaniel is a bit bilingual. He understands 'tiens' as an alternative to 'sit' because Fred usually says 'tiens' when she gives him a biscuit.