Salty Sam
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AnOther, you can stop wondering as I'm am all male.
You say, "A rather sweeping assumption, I'd leave it at different, not necessarily implying better or worse." By reason of that statement are you hinting that you consider yourself perhaps, to be a better driver ?
I am not talking about budding Paris - Dakar entrants. The women I have instructed have included personnel from the armed forces, consular officials, law enforcement, and NGO's to name but a few. Periods spent off-road were not designed as "lets go play at ploughing across a field with all wheels spinning" episodes.
"Women probably listened better because for the most part it would be totally new experience for them about which, beyond knowing how to drive on the road, they may not have much of a clue so would need to be taught pretty well from scratch." Another sweeping statement! Are you then implying that men have more of "a clue", and don't need to be "taught pretty well from scratch" ? If this is the case, believe me you are very much mistaken. There are a couple of things blokes dislike, one of them is being criticised on their driving, second is being criticised for their lack of understanding of the vehicle to terrain. Just to add, all drivers irrespective of gender, experience or organisation were all treated the same throughout the training periods. There wasn't specific teaching methods for males, nor were there specific teaching methods for females. All started at a basic level.
"....... how many other women do you know who would have the nerve, or desire come to that, to even venture past a farmers gate in a 4x4 ?" Well there are a few on here who have already answered that question, and there are quite a few more out there whose profession demands a little more than venturing beyond the farm gate, in fact their lives may depend on it.
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[quote user="AnOther"]She is an excellent driver and I've told her so, [/quote]
Yes, she probably is a better driver.
When I use to teach the art of off-road driving, women were by far the best pupils for the simple reason - they listened to what was said, and there was no arrogant macho ego to deflate!
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I'm on the basic subscription so that explains why there isn't a problem with swapping the card between boxes.
I don't think this has always been the case though. I can recall trying to get a card to work in a different box some years ago, but to no avail. I'm pretty sure that was also only a basic subscription too.
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I purchased the new £20.00 card last month, which duly arrived at my England address. Upon returning home, I replaced the SkyBox with the Pace SkyBox from my French house as it is a far better receiver, inserted the new card and it was recognised immediately.
24 hours later I removed the £20.00 card and inserted the Sky subscription card from the box I use in England. Lo & behold, it works perfectly receiving all the 'paid' for channels so it looks very much like there is no pairing of card to machine anymore.
Fearing it may suddenly stop working has proved to be unneccesary as the card has now been in place for 3 weeks without problem.
Just to add, there was no need to activate the £20.00 card other than by placing it in the SkyBox.
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Hi Wendy,
Changing the subject to TV channels, I've noticed when I return to our residence secondaire and plug everything back in, it takes anything from 2 - 5 days before 5 and a few of the other channels come back.
I can guarantee though that one channel I receive this month will not be available on my next visit, but will be available on a later visit.
Very strange, gremlins at work perhaps[:D]
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Thank you all.
From the replies it would appear the salesgirl probably was a bit uncertain.
On our next trip over it looks like I'll be revisiting the store and opting for their sim. Thanks once again.
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As we were returning to England within 48 hours, the idea was to buy the sim and register it in store to save time carrying out the registration by post in case of any difficulty arising such as you experienced.
As I understand, irrespective of the price of the sim, one must register it in store or by post within 10 days of purchase. If registering by post, do you have use of the phone during this time or do you need to await confirmation of the registration before being able to use the sim/phone?
As the phone has been unlocked for quite a while, and has worked with Orange UK, Orange France, and SFR sim cards plus several others, I just found it rather odd that my wife should be told LeClerc's sim wouldn't work.
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Chez Tinns & Judith,
It sounds very much as I suspected. The salesgirl was probably after making the bigger sale.
It'll be back to the store but this time, the phone will be kept out of sight.
Thank you very much for your assistance.
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Thank you. I've passed this on to my wife.
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While in France, we use Orange France PAYG. Having read about the advantages of using E.Leclerc PAYG, we decided to purchase one of their cards. At the check out, the girl asked what phone it was to be used in and my wife produced our Orange branded phone which we only use in France.
The sales girl was adamant that Leclerc's card would not function in this phone even though my wife said the phone was unlocked and not tied to Orange. To me it would appear the salesgirl was just trying to boost the sale by trying to sell a complete phone package.
Anyone else had a similar problem? Is anyone using a Leclerc sim in an unlocked phone previously in use to a British service provider?
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Hi folks,
Hopefully someone can help out here.
I'm doing a friend a favour by taking a horsebox over to France. Once we have dropped this off, we've got a wedding to attend quite close to Vire. Now the problem is, my wife isn't bothered about roughing it a bit while we're taking the box over, but is insistant that she wants a proper hair do prior to attending the wedding.
Can anyone recommend a decent hairdresser in the region of Vire (Dept. 14), and even better, one that speaks English!
Many thanks
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[quote user="f1steveuk"]I have a six month old Acer running Vista, I daily run,
CCleaner, Advance System care, Ultimate DeFrag and the disc clean up, took Norton and another Symantics programme off the day I got it .......
[/quote]May sound a silly question, but did you only use the uninstall option to remove Norton & Symantics?
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[quote user="ErnieY"] Thank you for the lesson ......... [/quote] There is no need to appear condescending!
[quote user="ErnieY"] For a comparison of before and after HD performance THIS site is interesting, particularly post#4, where the following results are recorded. [/quote]
I'm sorry but I don't see the point of a link to a discussion group on the pros & cons of a piece of commercial software, and which is still in its beta version stage!
It doesn't take a great deal of savvy to google a result which suits your argument.
[quote user="ErnieY"]Incidentally if Mr Gates products were so wonderful they wouldn't be scattering file fragments all over the HD like a mad womans ***** in the first place [;-)][/quote]
I see jyvais has offered comment. Perhaps you need to do a bit more googling to enhance your own computer knowledge! [geek]
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[quote user="ErnieY"]Whilst defragging may be useful it is a very overrated process and in the majority of cases will make not 1 iota of measurable difference to a PC's performance. By all means do it but don't expect it to be a cure for a slow browser.
[/quote]If you note, I did say - try a defrag for starters! This coupled with a reg cleaner as suggested by Teapot will often make a big difference to performance, including solving some of the problems often attributed (wrongly) to Mr Gates products.
If it is such an overrated process, pray tell how one gets those misplaced files back where they belong?
A defrag takes those misplaced files and puts them where they belong, therefore if a program hasn't a need to search for files scattered about, performance will be increased.
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[quote user="f1steveuk"]You may have hit the nail on the head!! With Firefox my laptop is pretty fast, with IE8, it becomes very slow. One word
VISTA!!!!!
[/quote]Well I would suggest you look elsewhere!
A combination of Vista & IE8 on 2 laptops and 1 PC and I don't have any issues with speed or performance, if anything the PC has speeded up! If you're having trouble with this combination, I would suggest looking elsewhere like a de-frag for starters.
Get rid of Norton and / or Symantec as both of these can cause real problems. I'm afraid it's all too easy to blame MS for all the computer worlds problems.
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[quote user="tel"] I am surprised that the majority of windows users haven’t responded, never mind.[/quote]
Tel,
When you've got such 'experts' as ErnieY contributing, you'll never be right. [Www]
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[quote user="Bob T"]If you look at the paralever arm and the shaft housing they are almost underneath the exhaust, when they should be on the right hand side of the bike. I look for this sort of thing as I have been involved in many crashed aircraft recoveries in the past.
[/quote]Ah right, so what you're saying then is - this bike was hit by a low flying aircraft?
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I wonder if those kind souls who make donations to PETA realise it isn't a charity, but a limited company!
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A friend of mine has given up with Teleconnect and gone with Orange. Touch wood, he's so far had no problem which is a good thing thing as I recommended he give Orange a try!
Like him, I can't see the point in paying for a service which you don't receive. OK, a blip now and again is acceptable but having to reboot routers on a regular basis, I certainly don't call part of an acceptable paid for service.
But there again each to their own!
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Sorry for the error, it should indeed have read as SIRF (or even SiRF).
It's very complicated to explain to the uninitiated but basically, SiRF technology where fitted, makes the GPS unit more sensitive. This in turn will increase accuracy as more satellite signals are received and analysed.
The increase in sensitivity also allows signals to be better interpreted under poor conditions.Now couple SiRF with WAAS (or more correctly for Northern Europe - EGNOS) technology and you have a much more accurate system.
100 metres: Accuracy of the original GPS system, which was subject to accuracy degradation under the US government-imposed Selective Availability (SA) program - (Affectionately known as the 'Wobble Factor'!)
15 metres: Typical GPS position accuracy once Selective Availability was switched off.
3-5 metres: Typical differential GPS (DGPS) position accuracy.
However, a WAAS / EGNOS capable receiver can give you a position accuracy of better than 3 metres, 95% of the time, which will be fine tuned further if the receiver is SiRF capable. This combination also allows for a more accurate reading of velocity and altitude.
The accuracy of a device is also governed somewhat by the mapping software installed. With street mapping found in vehicle mounted receivers, the accuracy is around 95% due to a factor known as GPS shift otherwise every time you changed lane or meandered from side to side, the direction indicator would resemble a drunken cursor. Whereas topographic software where the prime use is for foot navigation, the accuracy will be greater as the two legged user is likely to change position quickly and frequently.
However if you wish for centimetre accuracy, you are going to need to dig deep as such receivers will cost quite a bit more than your average TomTom or Navman!
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[quote user="pachapapa"]
The other consideration is that GPS tools available to the general public only establish position relatively inaccurately due to only using 3/4 satellites. I doubt that you will get better than 5 metres or so; the USA only permits accurate positioning for its own military purposes.[/quote]
Not quite correct pachapapa. Modern GPS instruments obtain fixes from more than 3 or 4 satellites, coupled with WAAS capability can produce a fix within 1 metre.
The US control the GPS satellite network but they had the decency to switch off the 'wobble factor' some years ago. This was responsible for the inability to obtain accurate fixes within a 3 to 5 metre range. Today, even the most basic GPS receiver with SERF technology will recieve and compute the information from at least 5 satellites.
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An interesting thread guys. A friend of mine has experienced a similar problem which, following the observations made here, has also been rectified at no additional cost to himself.
So a big thank you from him!
One additional point though. It does strike me as rather disturbing to read the 'holier than thou' comments made by one contributor who, on another forum, considers it OK to 'borrow' someone elses CofC in order to register a British trailer!
Very strange.
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Having gone through the trauma of investments with the Icelandic Banks, plus the slowing down of the property market, we've taken the decision to invest in the only thing which appears to be holding its price well - agricultural land and forestry.
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My company used the first link without problem, as far as I'm aware. There was another service used but I can't remember the name of the company. If I can find it, I'll let you know.
Anti condensation Paint.
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Condensation depends largely on the surface of the object, a mirror will have condensation before a matte surface.
In the Atacama desert on the coast sheets of shiny black plastic are hung in order to harvest the dew from the sea mist ( camanchaca) during the night.
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What has the Atacama Desert got to do with it ?
We followed a similar path to Chancer using a bitumen paint. More recently we've insulated the metal roof of an outbuilding by fixing sheets of PU foam to the inner surface and so far, it is working fine.