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Questions and Answers - Part 3

 
  

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Princess
16:22 / 19.07.07
You could always just pick your own. I mean, even in a city you'll probably be able to find mugwort.
 
 
Bear
16:26 / 19.07.07
Hey,

I know this program has been mentioned before on Barbelith (possibly by me) but I can't remember it's name. I'm looking for a program you can download that allows you to change the way Windows looks, you can download various themes and it comes with nice desktop menus.. clocks, calenders etc.. Google isn't helping at the moment. Anyone have any idea?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
19:22 / 19.07.07
I want to test a potentially fuXX0red hard drive off of my PC by plugging it into my laptop. Is this merely a fantasy or is it possible? If so, how?
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
20:34 / 19.07.07
Possible but not with just the HD and the laptop -- you'll need an external drive casing. You put your HD in the casing, plug in the casing, and the external casing will connect to your laptop via a USB cable (most likely). They're not TOO expensive and a tech-savvy friend might have one you can borrow.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
21:03 / 19.07.07
Thanks! The drive seems to have started working again after being formatted about 3 times, but it's good to know that because I'm bound to need to do it in the future...
 
 
Saint Keggers
01:19 / 20.07.07
The colour on my tv is off on some areas due to a magnet which was brought near it. Can I fix it? Will this effect go away with time or do I have to be content with the fact that some of the time people on the tv will look like they have been punched in the face?
 
 
Benny the Ball
03:37 / 20.07.07
You can't fix it, I'm affraid.
 
 
Ron Stoppable
10:18 / 20.07.07
You can't fix it, I'm afraid

Maybe, maybe not. But hey, fun with a drill!
 
 
jamesPD
10:40 / 20.07.07
Venger, I did this years ago with my parents TV and it cleared up after leaving the TV turned off overnight. Mindyou, that was in pre-plasma/LCD days.
 
 
Saint Keggers
19:26 / 20.07.07
Thanks for the answers, fortunatly all was back to normal when I turned the television on this morning. Permanent colour crisis averted!
 
 
Feverfew
19:54 / 20.07.07
Can anyone recommend a good place to go paintballing, either in or within reasonable distance (driving or public transport) of London? I have a few results yielded from web searches, but I'm more looking for recommendations, if possible.
 
 
grant
04:09 / 21.07.07
Oh, man. They have paintball in London?

Do the participants wear Dixie flag bandanas there, too??
 
 
Tsuga
04:50 / 22.07.07
What's the deal with the STMTCG threads, and what happened to them?
 
 
Feverfew
10:29 / 22.07.07
I think I killed them, with Streets of Laredo.
Sorry about that.

grant; Helping, or Hurting? Helping, or Hurting?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
10:44 / 22.07.07
Is Electrowerkz paintball still going? That's held in a big building which also doubles as the Slimelight.

Man I love paintball.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
10:53 / 22.07.07
And is/was in central London.
 
 
Leigh Monster loses its cool
06:24 / 23.07.07
I just got a notice in my inbox that an email I never sent was unable to be delivered:

"Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: irreconcilable vacuum cleaner
Sent: 7/18/2007 11:12 AM

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
[recipient's email contains same unusual first name as my email]"

irreconcilable vacuum cleaner? Is someone using my email account to send spam? How did they do that? How can I make it stop?
 
 
Evil Scientist
07:05 / 23.07.07
Can anyone recommend a good place to go paintballing, either in or within reasonable distance (driving or public transport) of London? I have a few results yielded from web searches, but I'm more looking for recommendations, if possible.

I was trawling the web looking for one for my brother's stag weekend. There is one in Canary Wharf.

Link-etty-link.

In the end we opted for coming back to Surrey which is going to be a real nightmare after a Saturday night club sandwich with jam fur. However the one we're going to is the one seen in a certain episode of Spaced.

Groovy.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
09:35 / 23.07.07
Who was that New Wave man, who sung opera, beloved of Barbelith?
 
 
All Acting Regiment
09:44 / 23.07.07
Ah yes, another thing. Have they started playing canned applause and squeals, and other audience reactions, at cinemas in the UK? As in, made to sound as if the whole theatre is clapping? I'm sure I heard some at the Transformers movie, and other people were looking round suprised to see no-one clapping at all.
 
 
Saturn's nod
09:44 / 23.07.07
Is someone using my email account to send spam?

No, they've just spoofed your address onto the 'from' field because their relay is blacklisted.

Mail protocols have this fundamental level of brokenness: there's no check that the 'from' field has any link to the actual sender. Spam gets sent out with randomly-collected addresses in the 'from' field - this is so the bounce messages when people's spam filters refuse the email get targetted to you, j. random user, rather than back to the spam relay, which might take it out of service by the bounce volume.

If you get to choose how your system handles spam, drop it don't bounce it: the bounce will not get back to the spammer, it will merely inconvenience some other j. random user and add to the junk traffic in the pipes.
 
 
Jack Fear
09:55 / 23.07.07
Who was that New Wave man, who sung opera, beloved of Barbelith?

Klaus Nomi, perhaps?
 
 
Ilhuicamina
10:09 / 23.07.07
Bear: I know this program has been mentioned before on Barbelith (possibly by me) but I can't remember it's name. I'm looking for a program you can download that allows you to change the way Windows looks, you can download various themes and it comes with nice desktop menus.. clocks, calenders etc.. Google isn't helping at the moment. Anyone have any idea?

That would be Talisman, Aston or StyleXP.
 
 
Feverfew
16:18 / 23.07.07
Thanks, TTS and, well, ES - have passed on the links to The Right People. Will post photos if I go along.
 
 
Bear
16:53 / 23.07.07
Thanks Ilhuicamina that was them... gives me something to play around with at work.
 
 
Ticker
17:51 / 23.07.07
I believe Klaus Nomi was the other heavy with Iggy Pop in the Venture Brothers' big show down...

just sayin'.
 
 
Ticker
18:20 / 23.07.07
sorry for the double post but...

I wants a coracle now that I live on the river but I can't find anyone in the US that makes them (online). Does anyone know of an American coracle maker?

I suppose I can go bug my local ship makers and have them laugh at me...

and has anyway piloted a coracle?
 
 
grant
18:56 / 23.07.07
DIY, you nautical ninny!


Stitch and glue = BOATS FOR THE PEOPLE!
 
 
Ticker
19:02 / 23.07.07
yeah I found the link too!
I'm going to check to see if any of my wood working friends would babysit me while I made it.

The ideal option but the shipping of the kit would probably kill me
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
09:16 / 24.07.07
Can you cash a Canadian money order (drawn up at a post office) in the United States if you don't have a bank account?
 
 
Ticker
12:10 / 24.07.07
I'm pretty sure you can but it is a special international money order. At least when I do it in reverse that's how it works. I can always go ask if you like I have to go to the post office later anyway.


I'm still debating ordering a coracle kit from the UK. I suspect the cost of shipping will make me burst into tears.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
14:02 / 24.07.07
For kit + shipping-from-UK, XK, I'm pretty sure you could do plans + labour + materials at a local wood shop.
 
 
Ticker
14:20 / 24.07.07
you maybe right but the local ship builders are hellya pricey here.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:42 / 24.07.07
Oh - actually, that brings up a question for me. Not about coracles, sadly, but bank accounts. I know that lots of Americans don't have bank accounts, and seem to do OK without, but how do you pay for things? Do you take a paycheck, and then go to a cheque convertor, and then pay in cash? Or are checking accounts not considered proper bank accounts? Over here, most (legal) jobs are paid by bank transfer directly into accounts, to avoid charges, and current accounts are not themselves generally charged for - the paper cheque is becoming obsolete very quickly; I never know where my chequebook is, and cannot remember when I last used it.
 
 
Mistoffelees
14:57 / 24.07.07
I had many clients without bank accounts. Many of them used the bank accounts of relatives.
 
  

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