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Random Q & A Thread - PART 2

 
  

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unheimlich manoeuvre
16:19 / 18.07.05
Who's Sienna?
 
 
Benny the Ball
16:50 / 18.07.05
Thanks Grant - I've managed to get it going now with DivX.
 
 
Spaniel
18:00 / 18.07.05
Thanks Harrison and Haus.

As for t3h ch3ap laptops... first-hand, refurb? Price range? Requirements?

Price range £300-£500. First-hand=best. Second-hand=possibly. Refurb=hmm, dunno, would have to look into it.

So does anyone know the best places to look for any of the above? I had a shoofty at Dell's website earlier - they've got some nice deals for around the £440 mark. The thing is, I don't want to pay for products I don't want like Miscrosoft XP.

Please, one of you computer bods, help!
 
 
James Clarke
18:07 / 18.07.05
I'm searching for the name of shop I visited while in Soho. It was somewhere around Brewer Street although I cannot see it on streetsensation.co.uk.

It sold mainly Japanese pop-culture stuff, like T-shirts and Kubrick toy collectables (both for sale and private collections) but the main thing I loved about it was the Stanley Kubrick stuff they had. They had a copy of the Stanley Kubrick Archives and montages on canvas of his movies.

Does anyone know what this shop is called? and if they have a website?
 
 
Axolotl
18:09 / 18.07.05
I think Dell are worth a shot. All the stuff I've bought from them has been very good and their customer service & helpdesk were excellent. Problem is with them Windows is probably non-negotiable, as will be the case for nearly all "high street" style vendors.
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
21:56 / 18.07.05
JAMES, did it sell clothes as well? I think it could be the MHI shop, they have loads of the Kubrik stuff at the moment and loads of the back catalogue as well. I'm going to be in Soho on Wed so i'll have a butchers for you. I'm after some more Monsterism stuff anyway!
There's a really ace shop just by Carnaby st on Beak St called playlounge. www.playlounge.co.uk . They do loads of ace stuff Kubrick etc etc, they may also have some links that may narrow your search.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
05:16 / 19.07.05
Boboss - at that end of the market... hmm. Savastore and perhaps Misco do probably the cheapest first-hand kit out there, and I think you can get the Aries stuff without XP... Dell Outlet's refurbs are at times noticeably cheaper than their first-hand stock, although you get some weird-ass configurations, but yeah, Dell are paid huge by Microsoft to put WinXP on every machine they send out. On an ideological level, I loathe and despise Dell, but on the other hand the Dell desktop I got in 1999 is still ticking happily away (it killed itself once, but I think that was Win98 rather than the PC itself - now runs Ubuntu Linux quite happily), and I suspect the Win 3.11 machine in the attic may well be as well, ISA card and all.

Dabs and Ebuyer have probably the lowest prices of badged laptops online, but I've heard horror stories about the customer service.

Buying a major brand name also means more confidence of customer service - ever since I dropped a grand on a Multivision laptop (supporting small business!) which then developed a small but annoying fault, by which time the company had gone into liquidation and the warranty was void, I've been slightly conscious of thing.

SLAAAGS.

Ahem.

Refurbs - Morgan do a brisk trade - this should give you a guide.

Generally, beyond a certain point the benefits of extra spending on a laptop multiply in force, and then beyond a certain other point become negligible again.
 
 
Jub
06:25 / 19.07.05
inchoate - thanks for the link, but it still doesn't explain why stop signs are octagonal.. why not just keep them circular like all the other Order signs? Otagonal stop means stop and give way - is it perhaps that you need to do to things not just one?

And why have some warning (ie triangular) signs upside down. Is it a warning that you will have to give way soon - rather than now?
 
 
_Boboss
09:28 / 19.07.05
Ultus ????

'The British Fantomas' is as much as I can get about him on this thing we call web. A few silent movies pre1920. Revenge-driven antihero with a dogged 'tec on his tail. Anyone know anything about it, find a picture? If tis anything like Fantomas, pictures of the lead character will be the most enduring and interesting thing about the whole enterprise, yet seem utterly scarce. Anyone seen, heard, show me? Please?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:42 / 19.07.05
Ultus is a minor work by George Pearson (but you probably already knew that). The star, Aurele Sydney, looked like this:



No pics of the film itself on the Interweb - I don't think a complete print exists.
 
 
_Boboss
09:46 / 19.07.05
should I be interested in pearson's name for anything else?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:03 / 19.07.05
Not that I can think of, depending on how into silent film you are - he discovered Betty Balfour, was head of Gaumont films... biog here.
 
 
_Boboss
10:15 / 19.07.05
thank you.
 
 
Spaniel
12:12 / 19.07.05
Cheers Haus. Now I must think
 
 
unheimlich manoeuvre
23:59 / 19.07.05
Jub - And why have some warning (ie triangular) signs upside down. Is it a warning that you will have to give way soon - rather than now?

Hmmm... it's not either/or, octagonal and upside down triangular signs are a warning and an order, yet they're still immediate being at the junction?
Bloody counterintuitive is what it is.
 
 
Alphonse commands you!
09:55 / 20.07.05
Hi there! Longtime lurker, first-time caller seeks enlightenment.

I have bought a pewter tankard for my Dad's birthday because, well, he likes that sort of stuff. I want to get it engraved with a well-known phrase or saying involving Happy Birthday but it seems to be to be insanely and prohibitively expensive to have it done at one of those key cut/engraving places. It's £8 for the first five letters (letters, mind!) and an extra £2 for every five letters thereafter.

My short phrase will cost £14 if I do it this way. What if his favourite poem was "If" and I wanted that put on there? It would cost about four times as much as the tankard itself! Is there an alternative that doesn't involve me, a long evening, and a screwdriver? Acid etching, cheap dodgy engravers, specialist shops ... whatever.
 
 
Olulabelle
10:58 / 20.07.05
Well you've basically just closed off all the other alternatives! But I would have said that a specialist engravers might a/do a much better job and b/be cheaper.
 
 
Sax
11:19 / 20.07.05
Or take it into Thornton's and ask them to write it on in sugar icing.
 
 
Spaniel
18:28 / 20.07.05
Okay, my latest question:

Where can I find pro-bono copywriting work? The book I'm reading (recommended by Just Some Guy - a fully-fledged, let's get paid, freelance copywriter) suggests local charities, start-up businesses, and non-profit organisations. Bu-u-ut, I don't know where to start. How do I find start-up businesses, where can I get a list of all the charities and non-profit organisations in my area (Brighton, England)?

What am I for?

Please, I must know.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
18:37 / 20.07.05
Is there any possible negative side effect of eating a pretty much exclusively pasta based diet? This is fresh pasta mind.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
18:49 / 20.07.05
Massive weight gain? Scurvy?
 
 
Benny the Ball
19:27 / 20.07.05
Pasta diet - you'll need fruit and veg, but the weight gain thing isn't entirely true - unless you're eating pots of the stuff. It's an okay diet, you'll have excess energy to burn, but any exclusive diet isn't healthy in the long term.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
20:29 / 20.07.05
Mr. Livedog - try these guys for engraving.
 
 
Perfect Tommy
20:38 / 20.07.05
I am taking capoeira, and it is awesome. My strength and endurance are going up rapidly, and I am noticing a visible change in my leg and arm muscles.

But for god's sake, how the hell many calories do I have to burn to get rid of my freaking love handles? Some sort of obliques exercise? Eliminate wheat from my diet because my blood type is B+? Remove my kidneys and stuff the fat into the open space? WHAT IS THE SECRET????
 
 
Loomis
20:47 / 20.07.05
Is there any possible negative side effect of eating a pretty much exclusively pasta based diet? This is fresh pasta mind.

What do you mean by "pasta based"? Do you mean using pasta as your main carb and energy source, but still eating plenty of fruits and vegetables? If so then you should be fine as long as you don't react badly to wheat. I would recommend sticking to wholewheat pasta though as too much white bread or pasta is like eating lots of sugar. You need the slower release energy of complex carbs rather than the simple ones.

There are more nutritious grains than wheat however (such as oats), and better still there are other carbs which are far more nutritious than grains, such as legumes which are full of protein, iron, calcium and lots of other nutrients. Lentils, chick peas, soya beans, kidney beans, etc. are all excellent food sources and a better all round choice on which to base your diet.
 
 
Spaniel
09:46 / 21.07.05
I'm bumping this because I'm really anxious to get answers to my questions.
 
 
grant
15:09 / 21.07.05
Perfect Tommy: as far as I know, it's just persistence. A lot of that "targeting" stuff has a minimal effect, and what you need to do is just lower overall body fat content. Capoeira is pretty cool -- I like how it's a martial art that goes with music (I've played one of them bao things, although I can't do the flips).
 
 
All Acting Regiment
13:38 / 22.07.05
Thanks for the pasta tips chaps.

If you're making a webpage, how can you make an image into a link, so that clicking on it takes you somewher else? How can you make it so it changes when you hold your mouse over it? How can you specify exactly where different images go?
 
 
grant
14:55 / 22.07.05
Simply replace the text bit in a normal link with an image link.

[a href="http://www.linkylinklink.com" target="_blank"] [img src="http://www.pitcha.com/whatyousee.jpg"] [/a]
 
 
Char Aina
15:44 / 22.07.05
you should check out webmonkey for all the HTML cheatsheet action you could need.

i have one.
if someone phones you trying to sell you upgrades on your phone, telling you he works with orange but for AEC(i think he said) telecom, and is stupid enough not to block his number, what should i do?
he went all surly when i asked him what he meant by "we basically work with orange", saying "WE-EE, WO-RK, WI-TH, OH-RANGE", and then demonstrated in no uncertain terms that this was bollocks.
he said he would phone me back monday when he had had a chance to access the system for my account, the details of which he didnt know.

07980772354 was the number.

i cant phone it for free on my contract.
its ten and twenty five pence a minute, apparently.
god knows why you would need to know that, this just being a question about practical ways to proceed.
 
 
Essential Dazzler
21:05 / 24.07.05
Is it true that:-

"Thanks to UNICEF and [me], no children died of preventable disease after the Tsunami"

Because that is one hell of a grandiose statement for banner ads to be making to me
 
 
Jub
11:36 / 25.07.05
inchoate et al.

In answer to the road signs question. The reason that stop signs are octagonal and give way signs are upside down triangles is so that in the eventuality of snow, you can still see what they are by their shape.
 
 
Katherine
12:03 / 25.07.05
i cant phone it for free on my contract.
its ten and twenty five pence a minute, apparently.
god knows why you would need to know that, this just being a question about practical ways to proceed.


Phone Orange for a starters and complain to them about this company. Even if they are definately nothing to do with Orange they will usually want to find out what's going on and then possible press charges against that company.
My sister had this problem with a company called Party Mobile a couple of years back and being daft enough to sign up with their 'authorised' offer from Orange, cost her a lot of money.
I'm not sure if Oftel can help but may be worth a try.
 
 
Char Aina
12:14 / 25.07.05
yeah.
orange seemed uninterested, and said that OFCOM would be interested only if it happened again.
i put it to them that if someone was pretending to represent me, i would liek to be told, but there wasnt much indication that they were going to do anything about it.
having left a message on the above number, it has become clear that it is in fact an orange account.
anyone know of any good toilet doors?
 
 
Jub
17:02 / 25.07.05
toksik

I just rang him. Seemed nice enough, but a bit dodge - answered with "hullo?". Company is called AC and they essentially call people who's contract is about to run out and advise them the best one to get, in return for a small percentage form the provider.
 
  

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