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    Glastonbury 2015

    wife and I both made it to the payments page, mine timed out and her's got through, but they'd sold out by then :mad:
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    Glastonbury 2015

    "ran out of stock while processing your payment details" :(
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    Glastonbury 2015

    hey can you paste the URL from your history? Sometimes you can bypass that way
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    Glastonbury 2015

    that awkward moment when you click the banner by accident and thought you made it through
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    Glastonbury 2015

    I'm trying. Please paste the URL if you make it past the barricades :D
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    Freesat PVR question

    Thanks guys, Humax Foxsat-HDR Freesat PVR it is then!
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    Freesat PVR question

    Hi, Am thinking about dumping Sky TV as I can get most of the programs I watch via freeview channels anyway. I'm keen to keep Sky+ type functionality, so want to buy some sort of box that I can hook up to my existing Sky dish, to view and record freeview chanels from the EPG (assuming Sky...
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    Smartphone Advice

    OK the Nexus 4 looks perfect, will I be able to get one by Xmas? Is there a way I can pre-order somewhere, or do I just have to take my chances on the play site, Glastonbury-tickets-style?
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    Smartphone Advice

    Hi, I want to get a smartphone for my mum. She's getting on a bit, but reasonably computer literate and currently has a some rubbish BT version of a Blackberry. She wants one with a good camera, and I think it will need a reasonably large and clear screen, but not too big that it's...
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    Help! screen has started flickering red intermitently

    Excuse my ignorance, but what is a laptop monitor? Any chance you could point me at the component I need for a ASUS G53S laptop, or does that count as promoting competitors? /EDIT - figured it out. OK I'll have a crack at changing the monitor, fairly sure this is the issue, as the output is...
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    Help! screen has started flickering red intermitently

    OK so a twist in the tale, it briefly fixed itself, but then broke again today. I quickly plugged it in to an external screen via HDMI and it works fine on the secondary display. What is my next move? Should I do a clean install of windows, or is there something less drastic I should try first?
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    Help! screen has started flickering red intermitently

    yeah I should be able to HDMI in to my television, will try that the next time it is doing it
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    Help! screen has started flickering red intermitently

    Idle in windows and in fact even during the windows loading screen when the laptop is booting up
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    Help! screen has started flickering red intermitently

    Hi, I've got an ASUS G53S laptop w/ GTX 460M graphics card. The screen has started intermittently flickering red, especially for black backgrounded things like PuTTY. Any advice on how to fix this? Was going to try re-installing windows + drivers, but wondering if there is anything a bit less...
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    Laptop advice needed

    Friend of mine wants a new laptop. Decent budget, doesn't want a mac, doesn't need to be able to play games. Any advice would be much appreciated. Cheers, Fred
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    New Peugeot 206 - where to buy

    Hi, Bit of a random question this, my mother-in-law wants to replace her aging Peugeot 206 with a...Peugeot 206. Apparently she asked in her local Peugeot garage and they said that the 206 had been replaced with the 207. She doesn't like the 207 much, so my missus has tasked me with...
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    Linux / Unix tutorial: Advice needed

    Thanks for the links guys! Our techy guys are in the process of setting up a dev box for me to play around with. Will report back here once I'm up and running...
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    Linux / Unix tutorial: Advice needed

    Hi, I've just started a new job and have been told that it would be a good idea for me to install some sort of unix client on my windows PC and also to learn some basic unix commands in order to be able to browse data on the network and transfer files on to my local computer so I can then...
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    Extending wireless network

    Interesting, thanks for the link!
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