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 came back was that the Channel Islands were granted exemption from VAT after World War II as a means of recompense [...]
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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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