Do not re-format except as a last dititch option!!!!!
There are easyer ways, if you have a real XP disk, not a manufactures "restore" which basically formats, partitions, and then re-installs the pc to the state it was at when you brought it.
New PC's now dont even have the bloody disks except as a pay option, they have a partition on the HD that contains the "restore" which is a bloody good con as you either pay for real disks, or if you decide you dont want the OS and software you cant get a re-fund as even tho the cost is factored into the machine cost there is nothing to return for a re-fund from good old MS, but i digress....
If you have a real "OS" disk, then when it asks you what you want to do, select "new OS" instead of "upgrade" or "repair" then install the new version into a different directory and once you are happy that it all works ok, delete the original OS directory....
This means that you get a clean/new OS install, all your data is still there, and if the new version is missing anything you can re-boot to the old version to get web access to download the drivers you require...
You will need to re-install all your other software and stuff.
Its a good idea for anyone buying a new pc to re-install everything as soon as you get it booted, this means you know it can be done and how.. before you end up with 5 years of data you just cant be without and find its not possible to get it saved or backed up when the OS needs re-instaltion.
I always re-install the OS every 6-12 months on any pc I have to clear out the dross and install the newest drivers and software instead of "upgrading" as the old versions are often left lying about or little bits of them are.
Another good idea is to format/partition your HD into at least 2 "drives" so you have "C" which is about 10gig and "D" which is what ever is left... only put programs on C and put all your data, pictures, files, etc on the D drive... then you can back that up and know that at the worst you format C and re-install the software and then you're up and running as all your data still exists on D
The "Fuck me..." compliment line is ment to be good ;-)
"Fuck me, you have wonderfull tits..."
"Fuck me, what amazng eyes you have..."
"Fuck me, what a body you have..."
IFuck me, what a beautifull face you have...."
but dont be to honest...
"Fuck me, you're fat..." or
"Fuck me, you're ugly..."
is unlikely to have the same response as the previous sugestions, hehehe!
A couple of things, but i'm working from guess work here....
Simplify the problem so that it just reads one record and then writes the result to a file that can be checked with a sutable viewer, or possibly to a canvas capable of displaying the graphic..
Check that the format the data is in is valid by checking with the sender... one querk I can think of would be little endian over big endian (mac/unix/pc inconsistancy perhaps?) The other thing is to get the publisher to de-code their own data as proof they havnt made a mistake in the encodement, perhaps theyve put a wrapper around the data so it needs to be unwrapped first?
As I say, im working on guess work and a little reading years ago on mime and c# programing. Also a couple of years writing data to de-code marc bibliograpic data from non IBM machines, boy was that fun... NOT, lol.
Some years back I knew a NSA couple where the lady got pregnant in a smart car... Took me 6 months before someone pointed out that it wasnt "smart" as in "posh/good/expensive" but was actually a "Smart car.." now how the fuck they managed to shag in that thing is beyond me!
It was a cool ad, got the message across and probably apealed to the guys that were to matcho to bother... but seriosuly... did she have to bite the plum at the end... brought tears to me eyes :shock:
With the step mum from hell my chat up line was "Sorry, but you have the biggest and most amazing pair of tits I have ever seen so please forgive me if I dont look you in the eyes very often" She was a 34 E so they were quite imressive, lol, and I was pissed as a fart!
With laddos mum it was "I know you're going with my mate... but if it dont work out I have some heavy metal records that you can come and listen to"
God... just remembered what my chat up line with my first girlfriend was and the lass I lost my verginity to... "Come sit on my lap and we'll talk about the first thing that comes up" at a local disco... I was 17 and she was 15... arrr sweet youth!
Now adays I dont tend to use chat up lines, but do tend to be honest if n when things just happen... I always find "Fuck you are so sexy" works well... for some reason "I'm a photographer and I'd love you naked in my studio" doesnt work very well, hehehe
The main problem with notts and derby areas is the fact that the council are a bunch of anal retentive prats who aer more worried about imposing their moral judgment than actually doing something progressive that may infact help and do some good, such as "tolerated zones." now found in other cities.
They only passed a licence for a true "adult" shop by accident, then had to go to court and were told that they were not there to stand in moral judgment, only practical, so couldnt revoke the licence, had they turned down the application at the begining then the shop probably wouldnt have bothered to go to court but by that time money had been invested in the property, ferbishments, etc.
Most "swingers" clubs are actually "health clubs" but the police and council turn a blind eye... im not sure if la-chambras claim to be the only licenced swingers club is strictly true in the way people think, ie its listed as a swingers club, but rather the fact that it has a drinks licence... Swingers clubs dont usually have drinks licences because they can then be closed under the disordlery house (i believe) rules. Potentially an owner could be done for living of imoral earnings (it doesnt just apply to pimping, renting a flat knowing the person was using it for imoral gain could get you done!) All that said, I believe that the recient criminal justice act and amendments allows a lot more freedom and trys to stear away from using words such as "moral," and instead clarify what and what is not concidered to be acceptable in defined law.
I watched it with mell, and blody enjoied it, lol.
Levines song was ok, but just sounded like a chorus repeated and infinitum....
I wanted the Glam rock country to win, lol, or the one with the granny, hehehe
The thing I most noted was not the scoring, although there was some definate "bias" going on in the eastern block's(1) but more the fact that all these other countries that used to only play "local" music have now broken into the rock and pop era... and a hell of a lot of them sung in english, that would never have happend a few years ago!
If the uk/england (and via association the USofA) is so hated then why sing in english and have such a bias towards the UK pop and rock sounds of the 80's.
With the advent of population voting, as apposed to panel judges, is was very obvious that the bias was more towards a sound and style... and not location and "mutual friendly countries" in most cases... Had 90% of the songs charted in the UK then they would not have been overly thought of as "foreign," although perhaps a little bit dated in the UK music scene... a good few of the songs had ideas sampled from a lot of the pop/rock of the 80's uk scene as I spent a heck of a lot of the time saying "i know this from somewhere" and trying to decide what original song it sounded like... the ballard from the bigger lass had serious celion-deon undertones... the all girl rock group were a mix of freddy M when he did his ballard with the opera singer and also "Europe" (as were a lot of the 'rock' sounds) and clasical music that has been "rockified" (does anyone own a 'clasic rock' album where they took the originals and re-worked with a rock slant?)
A lot of the songs also had a huge "bollywood" sound and also irish "riverdance" feel to them and one would not have been out of place had it been a song in Chicargo! Even the rushian entry (I believe) was very much in the style of the US sound and made references to the US in a good way... my fave apart from the granny (muldavior?) and the glam rock was the "rapping" about the strugles and then freedom of one of the oppressed post soviet states.... talk about a shift in style and a total turn around in a post opressive (as we in the west saw it) country!
Its a shame that even with teliphone voting people cant vote, or not, for their own country... I wonder what the votes where for real.... I know I, mel, and a few others would not have voted for our entry in comparison to the other songs in the competition.
I do think however that every country eligible shoud be allowed to present their songs, and also that all eligible should be allowed to vote... not a sub section of songs as were shown, or only thoes presented should be allowed to vote.
It may be that i'm getting old and I cant remember things well, but I'm sure a few years back that each country would vote on every other country, not just a 1-12 with 11 missing, lol, as im sure I remember the points coming in and some countries being voted "niul powa" so every entry was scored? or is that just my failing memory?
(1) that said... is that because of the original asociation or because they all like the same styles? "rock and pop and punk" have always been the underground sound of disasociated "yoof!"
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