Wideband amp required

On 9 Apr 2005 10:01:24 -0700, "
wrote:

Thanks Bill! What about the 'one for all' ones? There's a new one
going cheap on ebay at the mo. Any good?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayI?API.d...y=149?8&item=5...


Sorry, no knowledge.

Bill

It ends today, currently 99p. Think I'll just go for it, not much to
lose.

Marky P.

wrote:
Slight problem :-(
What do we do with the existing users/programs etc. :-(


There doesn't seem to be any problem when some bossy company wants me
have some new software. They just download it, sometimes without so
much as a by your leave. For instance bloody Adobe automatically goes
on line and does I know not what every time I use Photoshop Elements.


Bill, Install a copy of (free) Zone Alarm from www.zonelabs.com
You can then set it to block programs and stop them going out and
speaking to their masters.

I don't know which is the biggest intrusion in our lives, the damn
government or the damn software companies. I give a false name and
address now every time I'm asked, and if they ask what gender I am I
put hermaphrodite. I bought something on line the other day and they
wanted to know my date of birth! What the **** has that got to do with
them? Can you imagine going into a high street ironmongers to buy a
pair of hinges and being asked when you were born?

Bill

In article .com,
wrote:
I bought something on line the other day and they
wanted to know my date of birth! What the **** has that got to do with
them? Can you imagine going into a high street ironmongers to buy a
pair of hinges and being asked when you were born?

Perhaps it's to see if you were born yesterday so they can rip you off?

Rod.

On 9 Apr 2005 12:06:15 -0700, "
wrote:

It did, but as Usenet was only ever designed to transport printable
ASCII
characters, then it is only to be expected.

About time we got rid of it then and got something up to date.

Well Google does say *not* to use control characters when posting to
newsgroups. (That to me means don't paste stuff from word (office
type or similar documents. It probably means more to other posters). =20

I notice, yet again, that in the offending post
your character
set is utf-8 (In Lotus this character set is used with Rich Text,
whereby bold and underlining etc. etc. are used in a document. What
the set is used for in other Office packages I do not know).

I have just set up a google account, default settings using local
language, and posted to uk.test the special characters on my
keyboard. they all come out OK. See


So I conclude that nothing needs to be "got rid of" but something in
your set up or the way you construct your posts *may* not be quite
right..

I appreciate your input and consider it valuable and worth reading ,
but this ongoing problem with unreadable characters / data makes for a
difficult time for your readers. In fact your post
was rendered
completely useless due to this problem. Surely if you have gone to
such considerable effort to post it is worth taking that little bit
of extra time, trouble and understanding to ensure that the widest
audience can read, appreciate and learn from what you have to say.

Now what was that saying about workmen and tools? I am absolutely
certain it could never be said of you. But think of your PC as a tool
used to post to newsgroups and why do we, your avid readers, suffer
so?

[Now off to don my fireproof kit 8-) ].=20

--=20
anton

wrote in message
oups.com...
Slight problem :-(
What do we do with the existing users/programs etc. :-(

There doesn't seem to be any problem when some bossy company wants me
have some new software. They just download it, sometimes without so
much as a by your leave. For instance bloody Adobe automatically goes
on line and does I know not what every time I use Photoshop Elements.

It spies on you: http://www.pdfzone.com/article2/0,1759,1778001,00.asp

--
Max Demian

wrote:
Slight problem :-(
What do we do with the existing users/programs etc. :-(

There doesn't seem to be any problem when some bossy company wants me
have some new software. They just download it, sometimes without so
much as a by your leave. For instance bloody Adobe automatically goes
on line and does I know not what every time I use Photoshop Elements.
(snip)

Bill

My first rule after installing any new software is to turn off any
autoupdate. Sometimes that is easier said than done, as it is often buried
below umpteen submenus - what makes you think they are trying to make it
difficult to find?

But for a lot of users autoupdating is essential (antivirus, spyware
programs, etc) as after installing for the first time they never check for
updates (and then wonder why their computers are so slow and forever calling
overseas premium 0900 numbers - which they don't find out about until the
phone bill arrives).

--
Jeff
(cut "thetape" to reply)

It spies on you: http://www.pdfzone.com/article2/0,1759,1778001,00.asp

Are Your PDFs Spying on You?
By Don Fluckinger

I be his time at High School was a riot!



--
Graham.



%Profound_observation%

Should we get rid of shovels and spades just because we have
mechanical
diggers like JCBs?
Yes, for applications where the JCB is more effective.

Horses for courses.... if you want flashy, then go and join a web
forum.
I don't want flashy. I just want something utilitatarian. That means
"something that works".

Bill

The point is, the majority of people know very little about how
computers work. What you're saying is analagous to suggesting that
everyone should get the bonnet up and adjust the carburettor from time
to time. The whole computer thing is user-unfriendly to an extent that
no-one would tolerate with any other consumer item.

I use three different computers to access the newsgroups and I have the
same problems with all of them. To me that suggests fundamental system
shortcomings, not maladjustments at this end. I just can't see why I
can't import from Word without the message getting messed up. It can't
be so difficult for the experts to alter something so that any text
imported can be transmitted properly. Some sort of import filter or
conversion routine perhaps?

Bill

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:57:02 +0100, Alan Pemberton wrote:

Dave Fawthrop wrote:

On 9 Apr 2005 07:58:07 -0700, "
wrote:

| To find out
| would mean lifting my arse from the chair, which alas is out of the
| question.

I use Google to prevent the disaster of having to lift my arse out of the
chair. If you *know* something exists Google will find it.

So where's the remote for my JVC telly gone?

It's over there ---


B.
--
No man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and
tie them together, they make a pretty good raft.