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    RegEx headaches :)

    Don't worry - think I have it sorted......(\d+)(,\d+)+ did the trick :)
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    RegEx headaches :)

    Hey all. I have some text along the lines of: "There are 12,345,678 people in the country of.......(0.3% of which blah blah blah)", and what I am trying to do is grab the number of people in the country only. The number can be any where from 0 to <insert biggest number you can think of :))...
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    Making homes energy efficient homes

    In a poured concrete house, cavity wall insulation is out of the window but I have: - Added a thick covering of loft insulation - Thick curtains across the conservatory / patio / front & back doors - Ripped out my gas fire (with gas man to do gas bits) and built a nice open fire Not much...
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    PC keeps switching off

    Cheers chaps - will get the box out and give it a general clean out whilst I am there. @Tealc: - yes I did clean the original stuff off...appeared to be more of a pad originally used. - beeps are after a random amount of time after the kids have started playing on it As for the specs - not...
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    PC keeps switching off

    Morning all. Over the last few days the kids PC has been switching itself off or freezing up. Thought it was heat related but all fans are fine and the CPU has had an extra dollop of arctic silver stuff on it. Occasionally it beeps and switches off (3 long beeps I think it was) or just...
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    Reverse engineering tools on Ubuntu

    Thanks for that - I have been playing with ghex2 so at least I was in the right ball park! Will go and have a look at the tools you mention, see if I can blow the dust off what little I can remember!
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    Reverse engineering tools on Ubuntu

    Many moons ago, I used to be into reverse engineering using a multitude of Windows based tools which, alas, don't work on Linux. I now have a bit of spare time and would like to have a play again but after switching from Windows to Linux a few months ago I have hit a wall in finding apps to...
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    Son excluded from school!

    We had the same trouble with my lad - we went to talk things through with the head and teacher involved. When we asked why my lad was getting into trouble after the other kid stabbed him in the arm with a pencil, we were told the bully was having a problematic time after his parents had split...
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    BLOODY Orange!!

    Have this happen on my Blackberry and like everyone else, I now turn the phone off once a day and haven't had it happen for a while!
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    R.I.P. Sir Norman Wisdom

    RIP Norman, a Great British legend - one of a kind never to be forgotten.
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    Overspeeding...consequences?

    That explains a few points then ..... literally!
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    Overspeeding...consequences?

    Has the 'limit' changed over the years then - for some reason I thought you were allowed 10% + 3mph.
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    Ramsay's Best Restaurant...

    Yu and You I think the name was - glad to see them win as well :)
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    free web space

    v70.org is a free cpanel provider with no ads, well it didn't last time I used it :)
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    Ubuntu. no ctrl-alt-esc

    Drop into terminal, ps x and then kill the PID (or whatever the number is :))
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    Do you watch Jeremy Kyle?

    Against the arguments of many here I am not a *****, unemployed or a chav living on a council estate in Liverpool but I still watch it. I think the man is down to earth and says to the scum (and not everyone on there is scum, think I have seen one show that was helping to find their dad ;))...
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    Cancellation of contracts etc - general question

    Ooo good answer Mr Jack, can see that one being used by companies.....didn't think for one minute that it would be a get out clause of any contracts but like I said, 5 minutes rest for my brain usually results in stupid questions :)
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    Cancellation of contracts etc - general question

    Afternoon all - just a quick question whilst thinking about the VAT rise next January. For example, if I took out a 2 year phone contract for £30.00 a month and the provider adds the extra 2.5% on next January, is that a change in the contract - I took out a 2 year contract for £30.00, not...
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    Help installing XP Pro on 50 Computers...

    I have it set up as I am always messing my machines up so this is a quick way of blowing an image back to them. All I have to do is change the serial to the one that came with the machine and everything is happy - this is handy for people who come round with broken machines that need a...
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    Help installing XP Pro on 50 Computers...

    Sorry for jumping in on this thread - cokecan72, thanks for mentioning FOG. Never heard of it before so had a look at it works a treat!!
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