Hi Mr PC Doctor, can I book an appointment ?


The last week or so I find my connection slowing down a lot. A couple of times it has cut out. Sometimes if I pull out the wifi dongle and put it back in it starts working again.

Now today, I used my speed checker and it was like dial up, less than 1M.

So I connected it via a cable...had to reboot PC. Then it was up to the usual 14M again.

Put in the dongle, pulled out the cable and back to 14M on wireless again.

So my self diagnosis is the dongle is nearly kaput - how long do these things last anyway ? I have had it a good few years, probably 5 years now.

What is your diagnosis please ?

Kept meaning to add this, thought some of you might find it interesting too...

http://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_one_trillion_frames_per_second.html

YouTube link was dead so I linked direct to TED (Snowcrash)

I thought I would start this topic in an effort to see just how boring a website can be.

I put forward this little gem for your appreciation...be sure to check out the gallery and drool...

The Pylon Appreciation Society

Who remembers this ?

You can find out more at the Zabaware Web site.
http://www.ultrahal.com/community/index.php?topic=9457.0

OK...calling Legion, Morti and other brave souls who wish to possibly win the $1500.00 prize money!

Put 'em up! It's all about the competition and the fun of the challenge as it costs you nothing as in
an entry fee so why not!?

I was looking at this alternative (I have bought from them before) to Amazon who seem to be capable of competing well with Amazon's prices. They have free worldwide delivery and for some things I have my eye on they beat Amazon. Anyway, before I drone on, here's another nice bonus, lots of free eBooks.

I searched for Lovecraft and got a couple of pages of books, all ready for me when I hit the hospital. They come in PDF format and the version of Kindle on my phone will open them and I can read quite comfortably - in fact the text is around the size of printed books anyway.

You might find it a bit easier to locate them by renaming the files, as so far they seem to be a random file name. Other than that you are good to go.

I'm sure you may find something of interest, so take a gander : http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/free

I read today that Ceefax is to stop.



I guess the Inter Web popularity has sounded the death knell for this service.

Many happy hours were spent scouring this service when I got my first Ceefax enabled TV, it was a revelation. One thing I could never understand though, no matter what page number was entered, you had just missed it and had to wait for the page count.

Happy Days.