elag wrote:
>
> Paul Heslop wrote:
> >
> > elag wrote:
> >
> > > > You've probably heard of our national lottery and its poor performance
> > > > re sales,
> > >
> > > No, Merkin news is myopic in terms of the world... a story usually has
> > > to be BIG! in order to be worth jamming in between the sport and
> > > entertainment "news".
> > >
> > It has raised controversy over here as it's run by a profit making
> > company, where Richard Branson offered to run it for cost, which he has
> > tried to do twice and failed.
>
> Oh, that guy... I wonder why it's so difficult... could P.T. Barnum have
> been wrong?... nah...
:O) Richard seems to think with his feet, or his beard.
>
> ....
>
> > > > And then there's the none chewing factor. The one sickening thing about
> > > > vhs is its habit of self destructing.
> > >
> > > Yes, it's ugly... the library toon tapes I love so much have very dodgy
> > > tracking problems. Once, I had to manually force the source tape into a
> > > better position so I could dub it onto another tape... well, beggars
> > > can't be choosy.
> > >
> > I have a six head triple speed nicam video with a one minute rewind and
> > sometimes it can take half an hour to rewind a tape! It is a
> > temperamental beast.
>
> That's an awful lot of firepower... maybe it's just a touch of
> arthritis... few raps with a hammer might cure it.
It sounds heavy but nowadays VHS can be dirt cheap. It's made by sharp
really don't build stuff like they used to.
> > :O) I have spyware finders etc on my machine, but my son doesn't think
> > we should bother, so he does things like switching Zone alarm off, and I
> > had to spend about thirty minutes cleaning his own pc of stuff like
> > Gator!
>
> I hear about that one a lot. What does it try to do?
Far as I know it is simple spyware. The problem is that it is a popup
and looks quite official (has one of those windows boxes) and they now
make it sound useful by saying it is some sort of time correction gadget
for your pc. I know at least one person who accepted it thinking how
handy that would be. In my son's case he had tried numerous cleaners but
had it and other stuff (autodillers etc) all over his drive. I found
that even cleaning it off by hand it still came back. It had cunningly
hidden components which would simply auto install it every time he
switched off the machine. What a pain.
There was something attached to Kazaa at one time, not only was it
spyware but it would allow a certain company to actually use your
machine as part of a vast network when they chose (I'm not exaggerating
this!) and which everyone had signed up to because nobody can be
bothered to read all that rubbish when they sign up for stuff. It was
also very very hard to get rid of and led to the invention of 'lite'
versions of kazaa, without the evil bit of kit.
--
Paul. (I've never had to knock on wood)
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