"Mike M" wrote in message
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Noel Paton wrote:

LOL!
we just about managed to make 3 inches yesterday.... and it all
melted today

Still lying pretty thickly (for London) here.

Thanks for thinking of Season 9 - I was wondering when it would start.

9x01 aired 9 Oct and 9x12 (12 filling a disk) aired 29 Jan hence the burn
yesterday. g

I have a mate who downloads a fair amount... I'll have to access his
machines for the Windows 7 Beta downloads via FTM (have you played
with it yet?), I'm registered, but haven't downloaded anyuthing yet
apart from one of the 'client' builds, which I haven't installed
anywhere.
The deal with 3 is not too bad - £15 for 1 month/3GB or £25 for 7GB.
The dongle came preloaded with 12GB-worth of credit.

Seems expensive _until_ one remembers that you don't have to pay BT
monthly line rental that then makes the deal quite attractive provided one
keeps to reasonable limits.

I've been playing with w7 on and off and whilst I find it addresses many
of the problems that people find with Vista

99% of those problems with Vista are selfinflicted, Mike, if not all of
them.
During my five-week tenure with this system I have found it is
'self-healing'.
Should something go wrong, it can easily fix itself with a little help from
the user.
WinME was good for it's time period, but Vista is a 'ton' better.
H.


I haven't spent over much time with it. I had a bad initial experience
with beta 1 (I also had the earlier alpha M3) which took 9 hours or so to
install on one box here. Long story and part of the problem seems to have
been due to the presence in the system of a PlusCom sata caddy containing
a drive although not being used as a target for the install. After
numerous abortive starts due to the caddy, removing it solved that
particular problem, I then found the faffing around had initiated a bios
controlled RAID verify (again not the target of the install) which, since
the raid is 2.1TB, took a good few hours to complete.
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Mike