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Malicious facebook message
someone sent me and my partner a malicious message on facebook and I have reported this to them however what information will they give me? Am I entitled to obtain information such as IP address or the e-mail address used to register the account. I feel strong enough to take the matter to the police but I would like to…
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Is it safe to go back to Internet Explorer now?
With the recent IE security flaw i changed over to Firefox. But does anyone know if it's safe for me to go back to Internet Explorer now?
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Friends new monitor
Panic phone call this morning. Friend had bought a new HP monitor. Plugged in, worked fine. Later in the day he booted up and the machine went into safe mode. he was prompted to go into monitor set up as the comp had recognised a new monitor. Went through the oprocedure as prompted yet it wouldn`t complete. When he boots…
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Mobile broadband contract
Hi I temporarily rented a flat with no phone line installed so set up mobile broadband (dongle) with 3 mobile. The download speed was terrible but was enough to let me check emails and download the odd tune. I signed up for an 18 month contract (currently about 5 months in) but now want to get out of it. The download speed…
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Transfer to MP player using SonicStage
I've got a sony NW-e005 MP3 player and it came with sonic stage. Everything was fine on the first install. I've had to reinstall the whole system due to a virus and now I can't get it to transfer from my library onto the MP3. Every time I attempt it I get the following: Cannot convert the specified track. Possible reasons…
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Problem pinging server but CAN connect fine
Hi all, Well its the last day of work before the new year and boy am I looking forward to the end of the day LOL Basically i've got a bit of a problem that i'm hoping some of you techies can help with. I am an IT apprentice for a company looking after their internal computer system. Normally I have my manager to ask for…
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Panasonic TH-37PX8
Hi I have seen this TV at £339 and as I have been after a TV for a while, am looking at getting it. Does anyone have one as I know it is not full 1080p and is 720p and I am told that this makes a big difference. I will be using it for watching programmes, prob normal terrestrial and Freeview and DVDs. It seems a bargain…
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TV or Not TV
Hi everyone, First off, I apologise if this is the wrong forum, I'm new! :A The reason I'm writing is to get the opinion of some money saving experts like yourselves. I'm in the market for a new TV (something about 40" of either the LCD or Plasma persuasion) and am wondering about when to buy. Now, being a 28 year old…
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Fitting the TV picture onto the TV screen
Please help!! We bought a lovely new Sony 40'' TV over a year ago. We set the thing up ourselves (first mistake!) rather than pay the man from JL. Anyway, I have put up with the picture being 'too big' for the screen since then, but have finally had enough!! The problem is that the picture is cut off by the screen from all…
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Why does my computer keep re-starting?
If i leave it a while and go back to it it has re-started:confused:
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Elonex Laptop...arrives in an Acer box...help!
See later post for what actually arrived..... Hi, Just ordered an Elonex Laptop from Next for my Mum, who's tasked me with getting one for her. I must admit, it was a bit of a rush decision - as the laptop was in the VIP sale at £349 down from supposedly £699 and I was on a half hour VIP slot, so I didn't have time to do…
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Techwood DVD Recorder not working
Hi, I bought a DVD Recorder and after a month all it says on the LCD front panel is "preparing". It does this for hours then the time comes on. I think great it might work. It then says "Preparing" again. It doesnt let me do anything. Turn it off, press play, eject. Nothing :confused: Can some1 plz help :beer:
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o2 email account
i have just set up my broadband with o2, and i would like to try and set up an email account. do i do this through o2 or through windows vista mail? if its vista mail, could someone please advise me on how to do this.
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PS3 Media Streaming Help needed.
Hi All, I'm really new to the PS3 scene, so go easy with me. I'm trying to connect my PS3 to my laptop to stream media. I'm using a Vista Laptop, connected wirelessly to a Net Gear WRG614 v9 router. The laptop also has Kaspersky IS 2009 on it. The PS3 also connects to the router through wireless. Anyway I have followed the…
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Firewalls - are they really needed?
Hi, I wanted to start a healthy debate on firewalls, specifically outbound firewalls and are they really required? I've personally gone from ZA, to Comodo to Online Armour. I'm currently sitting behind a NAT'd router with an inbound hardware firewall and Windows XP SP3 Firewall turned on. Nothing more. No outbound…
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Going Down the Squeezebox route - What Now.....
Ok, so I have decided to stream my music and am going down the SqueezeBox Duet route but currently do not have any hi-fi capabilities so................. What should I do to complete my Squeezebox Duet purchase........ * Buy the SqueezeBox Boom * Buy an amplifier and speakers * Buy powered speakers Thoughts / comments…
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Windows Mail
Can anyone help with this trivial but annoying feature ? Every time I open Windows Mail (on Vista Home Premium) I get the following message* in a box. I then have to click on YES each time and am then able to Receive and Send emails as normal. If I click on NO, obviously no service is obtained. I have Googled this and…
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BBC iPlayer now on Mac and Linux
I haven't seen this mentioned, and I thought some here would be interested. The BBC have announced a new BBC iPlayer Desktop application which uses Adobe AIR and is compatible with both Mac OS X and Linux. Full story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7787335.stm BBC iPlayer Labs here:…
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Lycos Ceasing Webhosting
Lycos will be ceasing their domain registration and webhosting business in the first quarter of next year. I currently have 3 domains registered through them, though the hosting is elsewhere. Lycos have done a deal with Strato to semi-automate the transfer of domains currently with Lycos to Strato. However, I don't want to…
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Query About Processors?
Say about 3-4 years ago, you got Celerons at say 2.6Ghz and Pentiums at 3.0GHZ, Last week I bought a new laptop with a Celeron M at 2GHZ and also had a dualcore at 1.6Ghz, So how come processor speeds are going down? Or am I missing something?
