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Social media sites such as FaceBook & Twitter are buzzing with speculation as to just who Manchester United’s “The CTB” mystery player actually is. Manager Alex Ferguson broke his usual disdain for speaking to the media to say: “I can’t reveal the identity of the CTB. All I can tell you is that Some Say [...]
Before reading this post I encourage you to read this retraction. Particularly if you are a resident of the Channel Islands. The Channel Islands enjoy exemption from UK VAT (sales tax). I’d always wondered why this would be, and unable to find any reason for it I asked a few people. The overwhelming answer that [...]
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New laptop time – this time around it’s a shiny Sony Vaio VGN-FW48E. Sony were kind/vindictive enough to pre-install the machine with Windows Vista which was no good to me as I actually want to do some stuff with the machine, not sit looking at a boot up logo all day or wait 15 minutes [...]
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Been having a problem getting my Sony Vaio to boot up XP this week. On each boot, XP started running the add new hardware wizard claiming it had found “ACPI Uniprocessor PC”. Sometimes it wouldn’t load Windows at all, falling into a never ending loop of reboots. A bit of Googling and it seems lots [...]
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