David

the guy in john lewis mentioned a local place that may be able to help fix it, just it has completely slipped my mind, any ideas? David

yup, first thing i tried... now i own two pairs of headphones (admittedly handy when these do eventually go south) but the problem happened the same with both pairs David

i tried some air cleaner at work the other day , which didnt really help i need to get hold of some deoxit or something and clean it properly David

sony NW HD1 ipodish basically the headphones jack is either dirty or have come a bit loose on the pcb, if i move the headphones jack about (ie move the player) i get a crackley sound and it the sound can fade in/out a little i will try cleaning it if i can get my hands on any suitable cleaner, but i dont want to go opening the player up - my soldering skills are fine building a pedal or something, but i dont trust myself not to fry something like a walkman trying to resolder it... David

the jack on my walkman has started going crackley which is rather annoying, i asked in john lewis (where i got it) and they mentioned somewhere that may be able to fix it (i dont think it shoudl be a hard job, just i dont want to go opening it up myself), but i completely forgot the name, any ideas what it could have been? David

if he dosent want it, i do David

to plug the record player into your pc, the easiest way would be to get a line level signal, usually decks dont have the preamp on board though, so you may want to take a line out from the poweramp (i know my hifi's poweramp has a preamp for record decks, and you can select the recording out - usually for tapes/cdr/minidisk decks but connecting it to pc will work fine) most likely using a 2xRCA phono -> 3.5mm (stereo) jack plug that into your pc, get some recording software (goldwave and audacity seemed to work for me - both free online) and record away you will then probably need to split up the huge file you will have recorded into tracks it might be worthwhile recording it as a wav, then burning it to cd too, so you have a backup/cd version, rather than straight to mp3 David

B52 Dinosaur Junior Led Zeppellin Scissor sisters queen matchbox 20 the eels the eagles guns n roses smashing pumpkins rolling stones blues brothers garbage whitesnake death rob zombie the black crowes the beach boys black flag the postal service 50 cent u2 the pet shop boys radiohead nine inch nails hole blue greenday ratt the lemonheads pavement theres some for now David

i see no problem with what happened there yes you shouldnt touch a girl and all that, and i would never try to hurt someone or start any fights, but if you get attacked you deserve a right to defend yourself, whatever sex, generally ending up breaking someones wrist is extreme whatever the circumstances, and it would be preferrable to find some other way out, but that goes for either sex. the act of defending yourself is perfectly fine to me, it seems bloody stupid to just take a beating and not try to defend yourself equal rights and all that, handy when some female wants a job, but its still completely unacceptable to defend youself if attacked by a female? bullshit its bloody stupid that there is a notion that a female can attack someone physically and get off with it, purely because they are female David

dBpoweramp should be able to help you, download that (and maybe an extra codec for running it with aac) then convert away David

Guitars - Fender Jerry Donahue tele (modified with a jb humbucker in the bridge) BC Rich Assassin (nj neck thru) Marshall strat copy Effects - ZVex Fuzz Factory MonkeyFX MonkeyFuzzle3 ProCo RatII Boss FZ-2 (hyper fuzz) Marshall BB-2 Bluesbreaker Dunlop Trem/vol Jen Crybaby Dunlop Crybaby MXR 6 band eq Digitech DSP128+ (rack unit) Amp Marshall JCM200 DSL401 David

dropping from e to drop c on a guitar will adjust the tension on the neck, so you will retune it, then the neck will settle and will knock it out again - just because there will be such a change in tension the neck will actually move (the trusstrod will be adding enough tension to hold it in e, when you lower the tuning it will move the neck a bit) you have to just let it settle, if you were going to be playing only in drop c it would be a good idea to either adjust the truss rod (remove a little tension in it) or use a thicker set of strings (so they are back into a 'normal' tension when you are downtuned) David

pretty pointless kids who want to smoke when they are under 16 seem to manage easily enough, i cant see raising the age two years will make the slightest different... David

www.b3ta.co.uk that one and lots more like it David

i would probably go for the overly sarcastic reply (also with the hope they actually print it as said ) David

there is no firewall option on the control panel... (sp2 should have been installed ages ago though) i tried downloading avg antivirus software, ran it and found nothing, but the software needs the virus database updated, problem being when i go to update it, it wont connect (same as msn) anyone know if i can download the update patch seperately, then update avg? David

msn tells me my default gateway seems to be offline? anyone know what this actually means? its not just msn though, trying to access university email does the same thing (aim works though) David

all systems stable and running according to msn plus the fact that it let me on fine at uni, and nobody else seems to be having bother kinda leads me to it being something with my computer... David

update: no luck on firefox either, still getting an error message (connection refused) any ideas? David

i quite like the colder weather, at least when its cold you can always wear more clothes snow is awesome too, just nice to look at and nice to be out in faffing about, plus, how awesome is sledging? David