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Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

Msg: 34 (view)

Is our language becoming racist? Posted: 11/22/2009 8:00:16 AM
language itself can not be racist, it is people who use the words that others deem to be not acceptable

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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I FINALLY have a new computer.....BUT... Posted: 11/22/2009 7:57:59 AM
the software cd is software that the vendor has installed and you have a copy for backup, the documentation will be a bunch of pdf files that are cheaper than printing out a manual dialup is great if you live in the countryside, a friend has very slow broadband, just about 1.1 mb, as he lives about 10 miles from the exchange set the internet browser temporary files to 50 mb, there will be a slowdown otherwise get a book called pc's for dummies - the series takes complex subjects and makes them simple to understand

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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POF is slow Posted: 11/16/2009 11:40:13 AM
goto www.speedtest.net run the test using the recommended server post back here with your results and the speed that your connection is supposed to be http://www.speedtest.net/result/624473088.png bit slower than usual, but it is the peak evening time

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Stopping spam on your computer Posted: 11/16/2009 11:37:23 AM
norton is pretty poor at most things, but excellent at grabbing too much memory that the PC needs to work plenty of better choices to consider when thinking about renewal :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Dyslexic not stupid. Posted: 11/9/2009 11:31:49 AM
took a look at the op's profile picture and it looks like a girl - so a face shot is a great idea :) spellcheckers help a lot try the corrected bits, with some spaces --- I am looking for someone who I can spend time with sitting on the sofa, chatting or watching a film with a beer at the end of the day; but don't live my life for the tv guide. I love going for walks and generally having a laugh with the people around me. You must not mind having to re read my emails and text to work out what I meant to say I am dyslexic and find getting things in the right order a problem . One of the things that makes me smile about someone is that they can stand on there two feet. ----

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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What's With This Horoscope Stuff? Posted: 11/9/2009 11:26:36 AM
have to admit laughing a lot when pluto was deemed to be too small for a planet and was declassified, then the horoscope people had to change all their charts.... about as believable as some guy getting killed and then getting up the next day, plenty seem to fall for that one as well :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Why is it that apparently any type of music is deemed as acceptable apart from metal Posted: 11/9/2009 11:23:43 AM
prefer most music other than gangsta rap metal is fine, it is what got me into psytrance after hearing an iron maiden acid house track and sounded a lot better than I thought it might :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Going naked In Public Posted: 11/9/2009 11:22:20 AM
got no issues with it, but would prefer to do it in a nudist club or nudist beach where everyone else is naked and no hangups, guess everyone is equal when naked :) mind you, there are some websites dedicated to public nudity, so far they seem to be women, looks strange seeing a naked lady walking down the street, full of shoppers :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Is antivirus neccessay with firewall? Posted: 10/16/2009 2:24:54 PM
www.pcflank.com is a nice site, useful info dumped avg after it missed some trojans in a keygen years ago

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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So, what's 'wrong' with The Daily Mail and those who read it? Posted: 10/13/2009 4:08:33 PM
tend to read a range of papers, mostly via their online sites, gives a balanced view

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Paedophiles...Should We Be Publicising Their Whereabouts? Posted: 10/13/2009 4:07:14 PM
recall a bunch of chavs outing some guy who had served his sentence, the police had him under surveillance, but thanks to the chavs scaring him so much, he ran away, out of contact with the police and un-monitored..... same sort of guys who attacked a paediatrician who had his profession on his house door and being chavs they gave up after paed...almost right :) CC seems a good idea, if there is no sexual urge, then I guess no sexual thoughts or actions, getting them to take it all the time is the challenge

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Airport body scanner optional, whats the point? Posted: 10/13/2009 4:02:39 PM
after the terrorist who tried to kill some prince by having explosives up his bum, can see the authorities are keen on a mass scanner that shows people and other objects. the person viewing will be in another room, so wont be able to see the person to whom the grey outline refers to, no doubt with hand on buzzer to check out suspects with a closer look guess the people banging on about naked kids will object to their doctor taking a look just in case....

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Hosting? Posted: 10/10/2009 5:00:42 PM
got my own website and domain name, hosted with my isp, £22 for 2 years, unlimited webspace and bandwidth, think it is around 10 GB space, mostly pictures so far :) ten pages is not a lot, but if the site is poorly made, then having it for free is not much use $120 per year for hosting seems steep, got a company that was recommended to me, register1.net. if you check their prices, it can give you ideas for prices tend to use notepad and netscape composer to make sites, both free and easy to use, plus filezilla, a free ftp client :) if the company is offering work from the website, google their name +review see what happens

steve_sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Logging into Plenty of Fish Posted: 10/7/2009 12:45:20 PM
just changed browser from chrome and back to firefox, ie fresh install and seems to work well clear cache and cookies ccleaner.com seems a good site to clear cache and cookies

steve_sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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can i put microsoft office 07 on a mini acer 2gb Posted: 10/7/2009 12:43:50 PM
failing that, put open office onto it, it is cheaper and smaller :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Was it fair to give man ASBO for playing Status Quo 24/7? Posted: 9/20/2009 9:23:49 AM
playing any music 24/7 sucks, especially for neighbours trying to sleep asbo seems a nice reward :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Single mothers... does a woman with a child hold a red flag? Posted: 9/20/2009 9:14:03 AM
considering the OP already has a bloke in her house that gave her a baby, not a chance that would be interested profile history is interesting :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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How often do you purchase new underwear? Posted: 9/20/2009 9:09:07 AM
most of my underwear is black, might go thru the drawer soon and dump some, but generally only buy as and when I need them, dropping weight from 16.5 stone to 15.5 and from 38 inch waist to 36... when it gets to 34 inches, will need some new briefs :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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free music web sites? Posted: 9/20/2009 9:03:51 AM
frostwire is a peer to peer file transfer software and when you download, you upload at the same time, some people who own the music have been known to take people to court for uploading to the net frostwire is something would never use :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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free music web sites? Posted: 9/20/2009 9:02:23 AM
currently listening to music from jamendo.com music released under creative commons licences, you can sign up to favourite artists who will mail you when they release new stuff and donate money if you like them no spyware, trojans or similair all sorts of music on there, could suggest others, but they are mostly trance :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Plagiarism and Copyright infringement on internet forums Posted: 9/19/2009 8:13:11 AM
http://www.who.is/whois/plentyoffish.com/ seems to be hosted in the UsA :) it is the technical contact who is in canada and they are privacy guard contacts, so the real owner can be anywhere....

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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facebook whats the deal? Posted: 9/19/2009 8:10:04 AM
got myspace and facebook, have moved around a fair bit and so have some old friends, managed to catch up with a lot of them, directory enquires is ok if you know their town, one of them was in japan on a course.... got a few overseas friends from mutual interest, most friends on fb are not in what could be called walking distance for sure :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Reporting Profile Images Posted: 9/17/2009 1:13:34 PM
didi66 nice profile and photos, can't see anything wrong with it this is more tech help rather than admin

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Wheel Clamping........... More Fines !! Posted: 9/13/2009 5:37:53 AM
not been clamped yet, but would sooner go to a hardware store and buy bolt cutters or battery grinder than pay the bill and you can always use it again :) knew a bloke who had some guy parking in his drive and ignoring his plea to not park there, so he parked behind the guy and went out to town for some food, came back several hours later to find the guy crying about not being able to get to his car :) since he was over the limit, he said words to the effect that he will move it in the morning never had a repeat :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Old people driving. Posted: 9/12/2009 3:01:18 PM
recall being side swiped by some old guy, got out to have a chat and he had to use 2 crutches to walk.... went to see him to sort out insurance stuff and his son claimed he was the driver, cheaper insurance hit I guess ?

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Reporting Profile Images Posted: 9/12/2009 2:56:52 PM
checked the profile and no photos try no glasses, hats or pets ? want pictures of pets, do it for photo 2 ? as for the profile text, utterly naff even a really dim dweeb would do better than repeat a sentence 20-30 times

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Is antivirus neccessay with firewall? Posted: 9/12/2009 2:53:15 PM
to the OP, yes, get an AV using nod32, friend had avg, removed it and installed the trial, it picked up several avg missed tend to use nod32 and malwarebytes.org - run that on a weekly basis not use VM, but have a good idea what not to look at and sometimes make a mistake, good to have a backup :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Bleeping Some of my Email Content Posted: 9/10/2009 11:15:13 AM
not met any spammers here got an account with myspace, had several "women" who lived in LA, london and lagos, the last being their real city googled their name and details, comes up with some scam site the forum is tech support, the owner might look here if bored, but probably not

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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IE 5.5 Posted: 9/10/2009 11:12:05 AM
OP uses windows ME ie the one MS dumped as it was not much use

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Congratulations you have won.......! Posted: 9/6/2009 6:01:55 AM
google chrome and privoxy do the same sort of thing :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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questions regarding frostwire, downloading true blood? Posted: 9/6/2009 6:00:31 AM
looks like the OP was ripped off, afaik the only way to watch true blood legally is to be living in the area that it is shown on TV frostwire is free and a poor choice of p2p client prefer utorrent, google for it :) get yourself a decent AV www.eset.com - nod32 - 30 day trial malwarebytes.org - free trojan remover never understood why people fall for paying for p2p when it is freely available, albeit with the risk of the copyright owner tracing you

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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I need the EX out of the picture Posted: 9/2/2009 3:00:08 PM
to the OP, looks like he is having you both, what is the OP one weekend and the "ex" the next weekend nice time if you can get it ?

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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advertizements Posted: 9/1/2009 11:21:33 AM
saw the advert the OP mentions when toggled the addblocker off, looked like a bit like someone on crystal meth might look, so turned the blocker back on again as to the OP, the owner wants the adverts as it is income source....

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Spamming/Scamming Posted: 8/31/2009 3:52:44 PM
might need a new email address, depends if getting the messages from here or direct to email

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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how to sent a movie from camera to an e-mail? Posted: 8/31/2009 3:51:33 PM
find it easier to upload to youtube, think it is upto 1 gb in size and if wanted u can list it as private, eg friends only

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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can one remove pics from the View Me menu? Posted: 8/27/2009 8:29:55 AM
the admin guy rarely reads this forum, it is users who know stuff :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Windows at 64 GB memory vesus 4 GB - licensing ???? Posted: 8/27/2009 8:29:06 AM
next gaming pc will be 64 bit like this one and have at least 8 GB ram, have found 4 GB ram does not work well enough with 2 eve online clients :(

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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I HATE Explorer 8! Posted: 8/23/2009 9:13:07 AM
running IE8 using http://www.sportingbears.org.uk/SBMC_Search.htm as the homepage think I had bing, but did not like it, so changed it the search engine options can be altered by going to internet options, then general, then search settings although only live! seems to be able to work, not that worried about it as for redirects,reboot, press f8 repeatedly to get safe mode with networking log into admin account, goto malwarebytes.org, download and install the latest client, run a full scan and let it remove what it finds

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

Msg: 20 (view)

I pod and I diots Posted: 8/21/2009 11:01:21 AM
not got mp3 player, but looking to get one for the car, probably a sandisk variant as not need the hassle of itunes :) will be used only in the car aux socket to go into the car music system, am unlikely to be using it myself with ear plugs

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Fire doors Posted: 8/21/2009 10:58:48 AM
great sort of place to take a few photos of the doors and then never return to the place pick any mass deaths in fire report and the key thing will be single small exit and locked fire doors

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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POLL: How many of you have DISABLED Microsoft Updates? Posted: 8/21/2009 10:54:19 AM
got the pc's on auto update, but the variant to ask me first before downloading it, eg no interest in junk email filters as I use webmail :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Wht is the website so slow? Posted: 8/19/2009 11:42:25 AM
google for ccleaner download, install and run, save the cookies for the sites you like and run the ccleaner it wipes the cache in the browser, which if allowed to get too big slows the pc down inernet explorer might be the browser (thing u look at this site with) internet options, general settings set to 50 mb C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files is where they are found for IE

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Help! Low disk space Posted: 8/19/2009 11:38:49 AM
maybe the OP should burn spare photos and documents to DVD and then dump the old documents, but the idea of getting a bigger hard drive is better if not sure about re-installing, just format the new drive and move all documents and photos to the new drive, put the swap partition on the new drive and uninstall the current office program and re-install to the new data drive :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Realtek HD Audio Manager HELP! Posted: 8/17/2009 4:11:19 PM
why would anyone want to reformat over onboard sound ? got the same sort of thing, but a friend's self build right clicked on the icon in the task bar shows speakers ticked and found I have an issue with a speaker not working :( differnt tabs show what is working and what is not bit like finding the car has run out of petrol and going off to buy a new car :) googled for realtek hd audio manager got this site http://www.user-guides.co.uk/download/user/userguide/user-guide-acer-aspire-am1100-e1304a.html bunch of install CD's to fix problems for newbs supposing the OP buys a new pc in bits, puts it together and it does not worl ?

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Must not have messaged users looking for intimate encounters or sex. Posted: 8/17/2009 3:58:57 PM
if they intimate girl started the chat, then no issues if the OP repeatedly started chats, then suspect blocked for a while guess it stops girls seeing guys who only want to know them for several hours maybe wipe profile and start again, possibly wiser

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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All you old ravers... Posted: 8/17/2009 3:56:04 PM
still into psytrance, guess it never leaves you, new stuff here and there, but still like a wide range of music :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Would you do any job rather than be unemployed? Posted: 8/16/2009 8:35:10 AM
spent a good year after leaving uni doing any job that came along, when was chatting with the interviewer for the current job, they liked the fact that spent the time working even if it was non relevent work instead of sitting at home and not doing much :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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do you drink tap water? Posted: 8/13/2009 9:17:52 AM
got bottled water for the car, otherwise it is tap water into a 3 litre tub in the fridge not filtered either :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Should i pay £1.90? Or leave it? Posted: 8/10/2009 3:45:50 PM
have posted stuff with no stamps to a company junk mailing me, A4 padded and stuffed with shredded junk mail is £10 an envelope if was told that had to pay to receive mail would ignore it :)

Steve_Sandy

Joined: 3/19/2006

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Should Ronnie biggs be a free man now? Posted: 8/6/2009 12:42:50 PM
not a hero in my thoughts, if he can not be bothered to show compassion,then hope he dies in the same way as the guy who got attacked in the robbery in the first place, would be poetic justice.....

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