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Bob T

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  1. Have to say that I agree with Wooly
  2. Buy a small wine box. They have a bag in them that contracts as you take wine out so never letting any air in. They last for months.
  3. Will have to be early January Sweets as Bergerac is closing for a few months in January.
  4. What a vague post. With biking you normally start outside your own house and end up there again at the end of the ride.
  5. If you do not know how to set up a French bank account, how are you ever going to manage the paperwork for setting up a business?
  6. Not that old rubbish again. It has been doing the rounds for years, so let us dispel one of the myths. Fuel is in underground tanks that are huge. The ground is at a fairly constant temperature, and so is the fuel. If the daytime temperature was 10C warmer than the night time temperature, then that might change the temperature of the fuel in 12 hours by about 0.01%. If you filled the underground tank in August and then did not touch it till December, you may find the fuel in it is half a degree cooler. If you pump 50 litres out of the nozzle in a few minutes to fill your car, then the fuel coming out of the nozzle will be at the same temperature as the fuel in the underground tank.
  7. My wife has a Linux PC and she is just a user. She does photo editing writes books and blogs and much more. We did not need to get anyone in to set anything up as it just works. She can adjust the screen print size as much as she wants. When she want to print something she presses the PRINT button and it happens, what could be easier than that? When she wanted some software for video editing she just downloaded it for free and did not have to pay MS or Apple hundreds of pounds.
  8. As Norman says, PC with no OS at all - saving about £80 by not having to buy Windows. Install Linux which is free and so are just about all the programs for it. You then have a computer that costs 25% of a Mac and is just as good.
  9. Some systems these days just use water, mine does. The controller measures the temperature in the manifold on the roof and just circulates the water if it falls below a certain level.
  10. Nice to see that French schools still have punishments for badly behaved children. Shame that they all get away with it in some countries, no wonder they grow up and start riots.
  11. I think that the UK should be brought down a peg too. I have to pay UK tax on my RAF pension even when I live in France! It is easy to forget how many people from Belgium and Holland willingly worked with, as well as for, the Germans during WW2.
  12. Your biggest problem is going to be getting hold of a European Certificate of Conformity. If the car was built for the Jap market then it just will not have one.
  13. Even if it were free it would still be cheaper to buy it here than hire a van, pay the fuel, pay the ferry, pay overnight costs etc.
  14. [quote user="Quillan"]Whilst looking around the other night for Linux viruses there is one called "Waterfall" which specifically targets machine running Gnome and creates a back door to the root.[/quote] I believe that was a couple of years ago. It would have taken the user to put in the root password for it to take hold and I suspect that it was disabled very quickly by one of the regular updates.
  15. I thought this thread was a sensible one about trying Linux. I knew that it would not be long before an upset windows user would be along.
  16. [quote user="NormanH"]I am chuffed with myself (no BIGHEAD smiley) Thanks to BobT's enthusiasm I decided to fully install Linux, not just use the Wubi option, and I managed to partition the disk and move my existing version (11.10) into the new second partition. Just as BobT said, now I can access all my files and drives (windows, external hard drives , USB, CD etc) from within Linux without having to change between Linux and Windows.. For a numpty non-tecchy I reckon that shows that the modern versions of Linux are pretty user-friendly [:D] [/quote] I would not call you a numpty as you have made the decision to try something new - just as I did many years ago. What you will find is that it becomes a pastime, and you will have great fun making it work just the way you want. The real satisfaction is finding that you use windows less and less and find that you have something that you have control over rather than Microsoft.
  17. [quote user="NormanH"][quote user="Chezstevens"]NormanH's suggestion is a bloody good idea - however, sometimes being able to easily remove an OS prevents you persevering - unless you are also bloody-minded(like me). Thanks for info, I'll have another look at VPN Tunnel on my return. As discussed, if you are feeling brave (read thread and Wiki) and have a spare machine then: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/11/ubuntu-12-04-daily-builds-available/ Common feeling is not much change from 11.10 (some folks commented more stable than 11.04). As I mentioned, will play with it on return to "work". Alpha version of LTS supposedly available in December. I am not a programmer just somebody that enjoys learning new things when separated from family.[/quote] Now have the 12.10 on CD, and have tried it. Running it from disk is not a fair test of performance, but it works well, and I like the new layout where the windows partition(if you still have one) is clearly visible I would install it, but my heart sinks at a clean install losing all my 'tweaks' so I will wait probably until I can just upgrade my 11.10 On the other hand....[:)] [/quote] Can't be Ubuntu 12.10 as that will not be released till October 2012!
  18. [quote user="Rabbie"]Just tried loading Ubuntu on to my laptop. Then I found there was a published bug which causes it to hang when loading so I will wait till the next release comes along.[/quote] Rabbie, try downloading the 10.04 version. It is known as the "Long Term Support" (LTS) version and is still updated all the time for at least another year.
  19. Yes you are correct on the Unity side, I cannot run it on my graphics card, I run Gnome instead. It is very simple to take the manager back to gnome, I have just done it over the phone for a friend about an hour ago. I would suggest that nubies try Gnome at first by downloading the 10.04 version of Ubuntu. The reason is that it is more like Windows than the Unity manager. If anyone is considering trying Ubuntu and wants to see what it looks like then do a search for Ubuntu in youtube. There are loads of videos, even one that tells you how to change to Gnome in 11.10.
  20. [quote user="Chezstevens"]Now Ubuntu 12.04 - flabby 750mb so download to thumbdrive for install. Will check out when I get back to my dual boot laptop ... totally unnecessary 8GB RAM (£19 per 4GB 204 pin 1333), dual-core 2.36 and 120GB SSD (use original 500GB HD as external drive for storage, mirror and torrent) ..... but shocks folks with startup (even Slowdoze 7 is circa 20 secs). Hardware has become so affordable online that you can easily give your laptop a lift for a reasonable cost. Easy to fit hardware just don't forget to earth yourself before taking computer apart (or wear earthing wristband to computer).[/quote] !2.04 will not be released till April 2012.
  21. [quote user="Quillan"]Whats the optimum amount of memory to get good results?[/quote] Depends what you call good. I helped a friend out who had an XP machine with 512Mb of memory and was, in his opinion, ready for the bin. I completely wiped the 20Gb hard disk and installed Ubuntu 10.04 (the latest at the time), and he still thinks that I must have upgraded the PC! It is still running fine for what he wants. My wife runs 2Gb on her machine and she spends loads of time using GIMP (similar to Photoshop, but free) to make animations and do photo editing, she has no problems at all with that. I have 4Gb in mine and the only thing that seems to slow it is rendering videos. I would think that a faster CPU would help me rather than more memory. If you use a PC for web browsing and office applications then 1Gb would be plenty, but 512Mb would be loads faster than running XP.
  22. If you download the latest CD, for free, from http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download, then it will be 11.10. It is a live CD and if your PC can boot from the CD drive then you can run Ubuntu without affecting your hard drive. There will be an option on the desktop when it is running to install. In Ubuntu, you go to places and look for the other partition or drive, in my case it reads "165 GB file system". That is the Windows partition (in my case Windows 7 64 bit). You will need to enter your Ubuntu password and then you can see the contents of that windows drive. You can't do it the other way around and see the Ubuntu drive contents from windows as Ubuntu is far too secure. I am using 11.04 as I see no need at the moment to upgrade to 11.10. The offer to upgrade is there in the "update manager", but I am very happy with what I have. My wifes PC is running 10.04 with no windows at all and she is very happy with that. She writes books, plays with photography, writes blogs and uses the graphics tablet and the printers/scanners without problem. If anyone here wants to try Ubuntu, either running from a CD, or installing a dual boot, then PM me with a landline number and I'll happily hold your hand over the phone, no cost as I do not have any sort of business, just happy to help out.
  23. There is little point in running virtual machines and making things complicated for users. I have just installed Ubuntu Linux on a number of machines for people who just use PCs, and if installed from the downloaded CD, will create a dual boot with any windows that is on the machine. Once you boot into Linux you can look at the windows partition to open any documents/pictures/videos etc. I have windows 7 dual boot on my PC, but never need to boot into windows as I can do everything that I want in Ubuntu Linux. I have no firewall or anti virus, but only use Linux for internet banking. Your question about Mozilla Thunderbird on Linux is interesting as I believe it started as a Linux program well before a windows version was ever released. I have found that older PCs that used to run windows XP very slowly seem to be suddenly turbocharged when Linux is installed.
  24. Not sure that you can compare the UK market with the French market so easily. A UK agent would probably sell 20 houses against the French agents 1. You have a choice - sell the house yourself.
  25. I would say that you should have paid the loan off when you sold the French property. Your options seem to be that you should pay what you owe. Try a second loan in the UK against your house to pay off the loan in France.
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