Keith CHANNING

Just a thought - we had ours done in the officially marked booth at Auchun in Montluçon. The result was the most disgusting photographs I have ever seen - bad background, over-exposed and too full face for words. Vhen the CVs arrived, the resultant images were still disgusting, but a few shades darker. Perhaps they need to be overexposed and washed out to work in the process The photograph is not stuck onto the card, it is printed onto it during production and that may render a decent image too dark. As I said, just a thought.

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[quote user="cooperlola"][quote user="lorna"]We received our Carte Vitales last December and my photo was taken with my glasses on so this must be a new ruling![/quote]Probably has more to do with its being a different CPAM.[Www][/quote] Don't think so - our photographs were requested by and had to be sent to the CV centre, not the the local CPAM

I don't think that seven European Buzzards soaring together in a thermal is unusual. Here in the Combrailles I rarely see more than three or four in one thermal, even though we have a lot of buzzards in the area. Seven together on the Hampshire/Wiltshire borders was quite commonplace. On one occasion we watched six European Buzzards and one Honey Buzzard soaring together in a thermal. One of our greatest thrills was a few years ago near the Cévennes, where we estimated a flock of Black Kites we were watching to contain over fifty individuals

[quote user="water rat"] I've also seen them flying off with quite large snakes in their talons. W Rat [/quote] Unlikely to be a buzzard, more likely a Short-Toed Snake eagle  - Circaëte Jean Le-Blanc. Similar looking to a buzzard and as variable in colour, although slightly larger

I have just received a card and it says Happy father's day so I guess that's correct?

... and French mobile numbers start with 06 not 07

I took up Leclerc's offer and paid one euro for a basic 'phone. It makes and received telephone calls and sends and receives text. That's all I need.

There you go - we agree. My current Linux box works less than was the case when I had fixed IP addresses. However, it has two network connections, one to the modem/router and one to a GigaBit switch for internal stuff. All boxes are behind NAT and a firewall on the modem/router, PCs all have AV and firewall, Linux box (web and mail server more than desktop) uses SELinux. I have been accessing the internet since 1995 and X25, X400 and bulletin boards before then. Apart from a copy of Form picked up from an infected floppy disk in 1990, I have yet to have any problem and, with continued vigilance, I hope to remain clean.

Bob - I have been using Linux (Red Hat then Fedora Core) for about ten years and administering Unix systems before that. I remember the 1988 Morris worm. Not being registry based, such vulnerabilities as Linux has are more at individual component software level - web servers, telnet servers etc. That there are frequent and regular patches available for most distros confirms that vulnerabilities are found and patched (a darn site more quickly and openly than in proprietory systems) but that vulnerabilities do exist, and it is important to keep the systems patched up to date. That is why I queried the statement that nothing can attack Linux. I should hate to see someone set up a system, believing it to be bombproof, only to find their web server compromised because a known exploit had not been patched.

"there is nothing that can attack linux" ? Admittedly, it is currently a stonger and more secure platform than Windoze (partly because there is a great deal less of it, partly because its structure is less vulnerable, and partly because more malware authors hate Micro$oft than hate that nice Mr Torvalds), but let's not get carried away. Take a look at http://www.linux.com/feature/128450

I have had this problem about four times. Twice it resolved itself by going through the unplug etc. procedure described, once the dish had been moved marginally by freakishly high winds (it happens sometimes in this region) and once the SCART plug on the Sky box had been disturbed by our cat trying to catch a mouse! The dish we use for Sky has a quad LNB and gives good signals in four rooms. There are no joints between the LNB and the decoder boxes. The other dish feeds into a "system" built into the house which involves two distribution boxes and a total of five joints between LNB and decoder box. Drops out in drizzle!

This becomes more bizarre by the minute! As I understand that reference, it is officially proposed that an emigré will be driving on a licence with a false address - further, that if (as we all may on occasions) we return to UK for a short period, we should knowingly drive in the UK using a UK driving licence bearing a false UK address. Incroyable! I wonder how plod would cope with that situation?

Can't help, I'm afraid, but having just today swapped out my single LNB for a quad with a view to feeding Sky to four rooms, I shall be watching this thread quite closely.

This just shows up the insular, idiotic system that tells you it is a legal necessity to notify a change of addess to DVLA only to find, when you do, that they will only accept an address with a valid UK postcode. How is one supposed to comply with such idiocy?