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I need to clone an hard drive Is clone the right word - you know, make an exact image of a current hard drive so that in the event of the original hard drive crashing It's a case of just swapping out the broken one for the new one with the image of the first already on it. What software would do this accurately? I intend to clone it then fit the new hard drive into the pc to check all is correct and working

I read that stuff too. They cover themselves by saying you are not buying the game - but a copy of it or a license. They will catch a big cold with this one. An attempt to beat the pirates will result in less sales than if there was no protection. And people will just go to another platform for their game playing. A million real sales of a game with 2 million pirate versions is better than a few thousand real sales with no pirate copies.

Well a bit of simple maths will show that this woman who alleges the rape will now be a pensioner. And it was supposed to have happened to her when she was 15. But, I tend to hold back a bit on judgement these days after the Jimmy Saville case. When that first came out - I too thought some woman is trying to earn a few bob from the media etc - and look what came out of the closet after that. One thing I will say (and it's quite controversial) It was a different time back in the sixties. Sex between two people did not have all the laws that there are now. A woman could not charge her husband with rape - If hubby wanted a little bit - she could not legally stop him. Homosexuality was still illegal - or at least sex between two men was. A lot of this sounds barbaric by today's standards - but it wasn't then. There was a point where the boundaries of 'rape' and normal sexual intercourse were very blurry. ie did the woman say 'no' and if she did, at what point did she say no. If she said no during the act, it was not even generally taken to court. In fact if the woman said no during heavy petting - she was considered to be leading a man on beyond his own control. Men these days know that no means no and wouldn't dare go beyond that point. But back then - not so much. Yet they are being judged 50 years later

I get the rivher sounds emails but the only blu ray player - in this case 3D too was this one [url="http://www.richersounds.com/product/blu-ray/toshiba/bdx4350/tosh-bdx4350"]http://www.richersounds.com/product/blu-ray/toshiba/bdx4350/tosh-bdx4350[/url]

Actually Ogre, the part 'P' advice was done as a 'just so you know' comment. Part P boils my ######. Here's how it is supposed to work! It was decreed a few years back that all electricians who do domestic work must have this certificate. It's intentions were to stop cowboy builders etc doing dodgy electrical work. All good so far. They even changed the colours of the wires in the 'twin & Earth' to brown and blue to prove it had been installed after the law came into place. To be part P registered, you have to pay for a short course and also pay an annual fee to stay registered. This cost has to be paid by your customers by way of a higher hourly rate. The unqualified and cowboy electricians don't go on this course and can easily undercut the part P men. The government also run 4 week courses where anybody in any job can come out a fully qualified electrician with part P too and wade straight into your house. So here's the irony. I have been a fully qualified (many city & guilds and technical qualifications) electrical technician for 40 years. 40 years experience in every electrical aspect there is. But, I don't do any domestic work and so don't need the part P certificate. But, if I wanted to wire an extra socket in my own kitchen, after I had finished and to keep within the law, I would have to call someone with part P to test and inspect my work and tell me I had done it correctly. This could be a bricky or forklift truck driver that went on the short course. True electricians that keep up with all the legislation are now struggling for work - whilst the cowboys are mown out.

And don't forget - because it's outside, you have to get a qualified electrician to test it and issue a part 'P' certificate of conformity.

Grease. It's old, it's corny and yet still great. Plus Olivia neutron bomb is a babe in it. Goodfellas. Watched it at least 20 times - if it was on tonight I'd watch it again. The long good Friday. Great story, great acting and Helen Mirren was gorgeous in her youth. (I mean I'd drag my knackers over burning coals to get to her) Layer Cake. I am sure they picked Daniel Craig to be James Bond on the strength of his part in this. A gripping and vicious drugs story.

If I had the choice, I would throw my fax machine in the bin. Only trouble is it's part of a brilliant colour laser printer. I run my own business and fax's were popular once upon a time now all I get is advertisements or spam. And it's my toner and paper they are using. I would turn it off but once a blue flood someone wants to send a genuine fax. Nearly £200 it costs for new toner cartridges too.

Course you would grumpy - and the others would sing a different song if they were disabled. I have a big car and I am going to park in a disabled bay = nothing but a selfish ignorant knob head

That's a dodgy wicket your are on there 'The Fonz' What do you want to see? Only people that crawl from their cars or have visible signs they are disabled. There are bound to be some that abuse the system (as in all things) but the attitude of 'f*** em I'm able bodied' does you no credit

Playing devils advocate here, I would say if you have a large vehicle and you are not disabled; then the onus is on you to park correctly. Your big car is your problem - not everyone else's. You get plenty pluses by having a big car, suck up the minus's too.

So you have decided to shake hands with me...

Of course no one likes the idea that your medical details might be shown to all and sundry and that is the point of the piece in the paper. They like to make you think that some dodgy person is browsing through your papers. But, there are 60 million people in Britain - 60 Million records. Who the hell is going to sort through that lot. Computers can number crunch and give statistics like the worst areas for cancer etc but no one or no organisation is going to sift through 60 million records for juicy bits. Anyway - medical records are already digitized. You go to the hospital and give your doctors name - they have your records immediately. Their are bigger things to worry about sparks er I mean alloneword .

I was skeptical from the start. The only good I can see from all of this global warming nonsense is that pollution has been cut down. Well not in Japan or China because the government doesn't give a monkeys chuff about it's people there. They are getting what used to be called 'The London Smog' years ago. People say 'look at all the flooding we are getting because of the climate warming' Look at the records - there are pictures of towns flooded worse than now 100 years ago - was it warming then too. And I agree with the post that we should not still be paying a levy on our fuel bills for something that does not exist and isn't true.

As I say to most of these things; If the police or whoever want to read emails - they already do, just not officially. It would be niave to think otherwise. But say there are 10 billion emails a day, who is going to trawl through them - even if they use a bot looking for trigger words. There is not or never will be the man-power to read every email. The authorities will target certain people only now, officially so the source can be used in court. At the moment, they can't use 'we read his emails' they have to act on what they have read but not make it obvious.

Well blow me down. He's back and going to be a totally free man again. So we are stumping up for his house/food/expenses etc while he can plan how to mass murder us infidels. And nobody has the bollocks to say he isn't allowed back in

Too late for that advice for me heavy1 - I have tried all 3 of those (the latest being a galaxy phone which she hates) They all ended in disaster. :)

Abu is finally extradited and Gary McKinnon stays. How long before the racist card is raised. Irrespective that one was 'terror' based and the other 'hacking' I can see it now. I am glad that Theresa May had the guts to stop the extradition, whatever her reasons. Throughout this case though, I have never heard any common sense. What I mean is; If I had an impenatrable computer system and some bedroom hacker got in I would thank him and ask him how he did it - even reward him and ask him to test the new system. Next time it might be a real terrorist organization that gets in. What do the Yanks do? They want to jail him for 60 years. The inner me wants somebody to get in again and really f*** em up. The British government should have said f*** off 10 years ago to the USA. I'm sure we havn't eard the last of this.

The all new Jimmy Saville special. An 80 year old matured pork sausage nestling between 12 year old baps I'm loving it.

Me neither, but I'm intruiged now.

So, he is finally in the USA and in court. It will be interesting to see how they handle it. I hope they will not be as soft as us - and I suspect they wont be. They have even confiscated his hook hand and wont give it back. I'd like to think that he is ###### his pants now he is in the hands of his victims.

ShhhHHhhh

Ah well, my clever wife showed me how to block numbers to our house phone. I had no idea it could be done - so that's the end of those cheeky twats

Funny you should mention them Today I checked their website for a home insurance quotation I didn't take any offers but they have not stopped calling me since. I checked the number on the net and thousands are complaining that even though they asked to be removed from their calling lists They are still called several times a day. They are becoming a pain in the arse and it's only day 1 You cant get a quote if you don't leave a tel number - wish I'd given a fake one now.