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lived in Crete for 6 months last year and though i enjoyed it i am not sure if i would really want to live there for ever. also lived in turku, finland briefly, and though it's a lovely place to stay again i don't think i'd want to live there forever. i have lived in Vancouver for 6 months now and absolutely love it, it's not without its downsides but it has so much going for it that i am not sure why i would want to leave now. plenty of work, close to the US, whistler < 2 hrs away, vancouver island, BC interior on the doorstep. it is a very multi cultural place and there are so many blends of style and food, it's great. i don't really miss much about aberdeen, except friends and family. i could see myself retiring in scotland (if i could afford it!) one day, maybe in deeside where i grew up. who knows though, you never know what is around the corner. i can't really think of anywhere i'd really like to stay, as my experiences of living somewhere are really different from visiting the same places. i haven't really outgrown my city-dweller stage yet. Would maybe like to stay somewhere like Sydney.

can you start windows in safe mode? see if you can get a copy of a program called HijackThis on a removable drive or something and run that on your computer when it is running in safe mode.

yeah that's not bad actually, agree that the singer is good and the vocals sit nicely on top of the music, for a change. some different styles in there, parts of it remind me of scarling a bit, except the guitar solo. would be interested to hear some more chewns

Yep! worth finding out for sure though. Did anyone hear the essential mix on pete tong's show he did in july?? 2 hours of hot mau5 action!! loving it.

how much ram do you have in the laptop? if you exceed your physical ram windows will start using a swapfile on the hard disk for copying pages out of memory. that is really slow and rubbish, and could be causing your performance bottlenecks.

looks good, you are getting an ip address. try a couple of ping tests from the command line: ping 66.218.71.63 and ping uk.yahoo.com the first will test your net connection and the second will be the same but also testing DNS if neither work, try posting the output of route -n

can anyone give me a copy of the track babypuzzles? i used to love that track so much.

thanks to everyone that answered this thread and to all the nice people that sent me pms - i am sorry i cannot get back to you all personally - i didn't expect such a rush! the car has now gone to a very good home and may now be set for the most ultimate retirement vacation ever. god bless her chassis and all that sail(ed) aboard her!

You would have had it. But you wouldn't have.

it's a 1400cc unfortunately i don't have any pictures because i haven't been out there yet. i drove it to where it is now stored and i think my stepdad started it about 6 months ago. it has alloy wheels too. it is actually a golf 'match'. it has a cd player too.

Hi, my old car is sitting in a garage in Banchory gathering dust. It has been there since I left the UK in March 2007, same time the MOT and tax ran out. I think it has around 85k miles and the last time I ran it, it sounded like part of the exhaust was on the way out, but it was still drivable. I can't store the vehicle anymore so I need to get rid of it. I was going to take it to Overton's but thought I would check here and freecycle to see if anyone wanted it first. Essentially it is a good car though has some rust, given the age. Would anyone be interested in taking my car? No money is required but I do need you to sign the V5 obviously and would like some proof of address for my own comfort. If you are keen send a PM. Cheers p.s. feel free to ask any questions

oops, forgot i was back for two weeks! this unit is still available if anyone wants it for a cracking price! i am away on friday so if you do want it, please be quick!

are you using kde or gnome? on a console you could always try running dhcp manually i.e. dhcpcd wlan0 or something like that. just type dhcp on a command line and then press tab for autocomplete to see what dhcp programs are installed

re the mac issue, i was just commenting on the similarity between macs and linux at the kernel level. i recently had to use one for a job after never using one before and couldn't help but appreciate a lot about it. just opinion. i guess another option is to downgrade ubuntu. hardy heron was notoriously bad for a lot of things, i think it may even have broken my wifi at the application level, so i simply went back to xfce and editing the wpa_supplicant configuration by hand. not pretty but meh.

my honest advice if you want to try linux: buy an imac or powerbook and a copy of Vmware. I ran that combo at my last job and had 64bit ubuntu installed no problem. ok so if you don't want an imac that may be a bit of an expensive solution. but on the upside you get a mac and osx. if you really want to learn about linux then just buy a VPS from someone like vpslink. anything useful you'd want to learn from linux you do from the command line.

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when i sold my flat, it was half empty. there was no sofa in the living room, but there was a piano and a lot of plants. everything was shifted to highlight the pretty gas fireplace i put in. i borrowed a mirror to hang above the fireplace from my mum. my mum came round and totally changed my flat, practically moved me out before it went on the market, in any case she had been verbally deconstructing my lifestyle for years and i was comfortable with the fact that i wasn't houseproud yet. she fixed all that. she didn't make it look as if no-one lived there, she just made it look as if nice people lived there. another thing was that i did all the viewings myself. my girlfriend at the time later commented that she was surprised how well i managed to keep churning out the same bullshit night after night. and that was before i put the flat on the market, hohoho! but seriously, get your patter sorted and know what people want to hear. work out early on if they are buy to let or first time buyers and adjust accordingly. for homeowners you sell the lifestyle story, location, sell the dream etc... for buy to letters it is about how you can cram 2 people in the bedroom, turn the living room into another bedroom, charge more money, grow drugs in the cellar, etc. etc. oh no wait maybe it's the other way around. it is definitely more difficult to keep a flat tidy when two people live there, which is why i made a conscious effort to get my girlfriend out of there and into her own flat. not everyone has that luxury though. i'd definitely recommend the idea of putting extraneous stuff in boxes and storing it temporarily at a friends/parents house etc. after all, your moving soon, right?

i feel your pain. on the upside, your flat looks pretty nice. good luck

who is your solicitor? i sold my flat at the end of 2006 and had 29 viewings in 9 days before going to a closing - that was for a one bedroom though. hard to believe the market has slowed that much, but i'm not living in town anymore. here in canada they often have open houses on the weekend, i.e. you advertise that from 12-4pm on a saturday or sunday or both, people can just come by and visit without making an appointment. of course, you will get some people that are just having a nosey, but you may also attract people that originally thought your flat was out of their price bracket and didn't want to commit to a viewing, or people that thought they didn't want to live in your area but may really like your flat. they should be able to append that kind of info to your ASPC listing, but it would also go well in the EE or P&J. i used plenderleith runcie for selling my place, can't recommend them enough but i guess you are already past that stage. i interviewed about 5 estate agents for the selling the flat, i would have gone with A&C because of their clout but they were pricey and in the end i preferred word of mouth recommendation over 'hype'! can you post the link to your aspc page? i am just being nosey now

when picking flat letters i think it is all to do with the stairs, after the ground floor. assuming only two flats per floor: - on the ground floor, left is A and B is right, unless the right door is closer in which case it might be A. - thereafter, the rule of the stairs applies. which ever flat door is consecutively next by the stairs takes the next letter. therefore, first floor, with stairs by the right, the Right door is C and the Left door is by D. by contrast with stairs on the left, Left door is C and Right door is D. of course you can bypass all this guff for most people and make up your own address. i always registered my address beginning "First Floor Right, etc. etc". It is irrelevant in any case as most tenements have a single mailbox. when i lived in edinburgh it was much better. each flat was named by the floor and then the order of door on the floor, i.e. 1F2 was second floor on the first floor. and each tenement had a services button, meaning you could sleep in someone else's tenements if you lost your keys/couldn't find your way home/other excuse required by drunkenness.

might also be something to do with this AVG scanner blasts internet with fake traffic | The Register though i doubt it would 'slow' your computer. i recently installed avg after uninstalling corporate norton (twas out of date by about 15 months) and pretty damn quickly uninstalled it again after my laptop turned into digital porridge with extra molasses. i am now going commando but haven't noticed anything untoward except speed increases. infact that is rather untoward for windows.

quite dull really. i just got up for work. and i feel like going back to bed now.

if i were in aberdeen, i'd go see this. but instead i'm going to see deadmau5 on friday! w oohoo!

i must admit i do tire of them these days but they are far from awful for me. the downward spiral, the further down the spiral remixes and the fragile are definitely "ones for the coffin" for me. great stuff.

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