She uses my external firewire interface now untill she gets a new internal soundcard. No popping out of it, and the speakers are fine. It went within a day which was the worrying thing, NO MORE NOISIA!
My mums speakers do it exactly like you said - her soundcard is naffed. When on mute it does nothing, but with it un muted and nothing being played it pops. New internal/external soundcard for her, might be the same for you?
Seeing as it's a VERY slightly more advanced version of the common cold, I'm going to say generally people will survive it. Just remember the only people who have died so far (I think) have only been in Mexico, which has a very very poor health system.
Apart from, go and see Glen - share the love and all... Stay in bed, make sure other people in your house have masks when they come near you, and drink loads of water and get lots of sleep. I think that's the general advise?
"I'm sorry sir, we have been overly busy with the amount of people looking to book for our summer enduros and we lost your request form" I'm going to ditch a lecture tomorrow and just ring around - from scratch, again. Jesus these places are un organized!
Bands/Musicians, like Prodigy and Pendulum have wanted to make stuff that everyone can relate to because of the following reason: Their older stuff was a lot more "hardcore" in a way than it is now, but to make their music appeal to a larger audience, the record companies made them mix & write in a different way. The VIP mix's you see with Pendulum are the non mainstream mix's - which I enjoy a lot more! Effects wise: it's just all mix'd for radio 1 - which is crazy compression.
Sav doesn't rip people off, ever. He's not the type to do it for £15 either, hell I'm not even that cheap skate. Two weeks is far too long, wait til Tuesday - it gives him time to find the receipt, if he's not able to, then it's his own fault.