JT!

No options on the boot menu, no options on 'recovery' from the start menu apart from one that won't let me do anything without the cd, no options to make CDs.

Didn't come with any cds, it just told me to make the recovery cds as I usually do with a new laptop. However I can't because it's being a bitch. Returning to facotry settings using the recovery partition would be fine but there doesn't seem to be an option to do it.

I'm trying for a fresh install of w7, but I have no means of making recovery cd's.

Wife's DELL M101z is a mess. Needs reformatting. I go to make the recovery discs but there seems to be no option to do so, try googling and eventually read about guy talking about the same issue, he called a dell rep and the rep said because the laptop doesn't have a cd drive the recovery data is on a hidden partition on the harddrive. How can I check that is true, and if it is how would i go about wiping and re installing windows 7 from that hidden partition?

You'd die on the spot. But you'd have the million dollars which would be given to your next of kin.

How do you figure that if you didn't die instantly you would be guaranteed to live for 5 years? You could potentially be going to die in 6 years, and if you take the deal, you'd be dead in 1.

Topic title: "criminal record and hopelessness" Member title: "Lucky criminal" Quick spec: "Street-crimes" Signature: "I'm a criminal".

...5 years were taken off your life*. Would you do it? (If you were going to die 5 years from now or less you would instantly die upon agreeing if you chose to). *If you were to die at 90, you would then die at 85. If you were to die at 30 in an accident, you would now die at 25 etc.

Canadian?

Spy camera time!

Is there seriously a piece of tar inside tartybikes HQ?! Never would have thought I'd see the day.

Any SCII players?

Wow, if you're not mistaken then Aus must really have some lax immigration laws. It's probably because of the spiders.

Well that took an embarrassingly long time. "m471b5273dh0". Samsung apparently.

Yeah just got it a month or so ago. I might just go with a matching 4GB one then, only reason I was going to go with an 8GB is because it was only a few dollars more than a 4GB. But if non matching ram's gonna be an issue I won't bother. I could put two 8's in there JD but honestly even if it was a dollar more it'd be a dollar wasted. Getting another 4 is going to be less than $20, but two 8's is going to be 3 times that. Going to open up the laptop now and see what's in there.

I need more ram. I've haven't cracked open the laptop yet, but I know it has a 4gb DDR3 1333MHz in there with one slot available. I spoke to a guy at work about it and he gave me some advice but I'd thought it'd run it by the TF brain trust. 1. Should I get another 4GB, or an 8GB? I was told that having mismatching RAM can kind of mess up them running well together, but that's irrelevant because having a total of 12GB is better than having a total of 8GB and would out preform any issues caused by it being mismatched. 2. I was also told if I get RAM faster than the one I already have, it'll be limited by the slowest ram. So it's pointless spending money on RAM that's faster. Is that true? 3. I'm using a site that tells me all the RAM that's compatible, and it pretty much all looks the same to me, anything I should look out for, or go with or don't go with any particular brand name? Any more advice that people want to throw at me would be appreciated as always.

Yeah but his GF is Australian, and I assume he wasn't just able to live in the country because he had a GF who was a citizen, he'd have got in on his own merit?

I emigrated to the USA after marrying a US citizen and that was pretty painful process. First thing's first, as far as I know Canada's immigration laws are much like the USA's, you can't just decide to move to either country, there's got to be a reason for you being there. To get into a country like Canada or the USA because of your profession, it must be something that is in very much needed in the country that isn't being fulfilled by it's citizens already. So I think if you went down the path of applying to become a citizen because of your profession you're going to struggle and not really stand much of a chance. There was literally no other way of me being able to live in the USA without getting married. But even if your missus's job does mean you can move out there, you guys will most certainly have to be married if you aren't already, and that probably goes for Australia too. So that would be the first step before even applying for anything.

If you have 4 questions, and you have no idea on all 4, and you guess on all 4, chances are you're going to get 1 right and the other 3 wrong. That's 1 point for getting one right, and 1 point taken away for getting three wrong. So it doesn't matter statistically whether you guess or don't guess. However, if you can eliminate one of the wrong answers, or think you know the right answer (even by a tiny margin), you're better off going with it as worst case scenario probability wise, you're no better off.

I'll be interesting to see if the UK get's hit had like it was the last (3?) winters. Was unusually very tame last winter here.

Biggest mistake a lot of people make is sleeping with a light, tv, or phone on etc. Really stops you from going from REM sleep to your deep sleep.

Mo-ment.

I thought the Vibram Five Fingers was a vibrator shaped like a hand.