anzo

When you don't come on for a weekend, start reading a thread where someone gets ripped to bits - you go to post and low and behold....

No f**king way! Gnarly dude!

Gawd knows. I'd concentrate on the parts before the clothing - we see this all the time on here were people say they'd buy clothing, but when it comes to it they just end up backing out...it's not a great market, if it were then everyone would be doing it. Most people have tried with a generic 'upload your image on print it on a mug/shirt/hoodie/watch/banner' and it never kicked off so they dropped it. I'm unsure of your money situation but I'd invest in something more profitable than clothing ranges - perhaps try and find out whats missing from the trials market and cash in on that?

Sorry, but I don't agree...why would someone pay for a teeshirt to advertise your shop? Surely these should work in the same way as Tarty with a free shirt for £X spent on parts? At a guess, Tarty had to buy a LOT of teeshirts to get them at such rock bottom prices, and I bet on their sales the profit margin isn't fantastic - but at the end of the day, they're a bike shop, not a clothes shop. Trials branding is all well and good, but there are a million and one trials type teeshirt shops out there, credit due that you are selling parts and maybe this will become a recognised brand and then I guess you could get away with it - however I understand this is marketing but I don't know of many people on here who'd purchase a teeshirt with another shop on it. Perhaps look at the stickers that Tartybikes do - quick, easy and cheap marketing! People generally do stick things on their bikes and its a great way to get the hits - but again, maybe you want to wait until you have a website until you do that. Although, if you're really wanting to go down the clothing line I'd suggest something a little more discreet; wearing something that says 'ACE BIKES' and 'MATT' on the back of it just makes me look like I work in a store. I'd hold out on the self brand for a bit until you get fully on the market (website, recognition, respect as a retailer). Just my two pennies Best of luck.

Can you post up a screenshot of your Device Manager list and also the make/model of your laptop? I'm assuming this card came with the laptop and isnt an aftermarket fit? (PS. You're IP Address will be obtained from your router, so you shouldn't have to alter any of that. If you cannot get anywhere near connecting in the first place then the IP settings won't make much of a difference. But for now, I'd concentrate on the drivers).

They are the network connections - however there is no wireless connection in there so I can only assume you haven't installed the drivers. Have you tried connecting the laptop directly into the back of the router via ethernet cable? That should work and allow you internet access so you can download on it. After that, go to the laptop manufactures website and search for your model of laptop, then into the appropriate category (networking) and download the required wireless drivers. Keep in mind that sometimes all driver packages do is unzip themselves (C:/DRIVERS) and will then need to be opened in there and run the .exe setup file (if its there). If not, go to device manager (Control Panel>System>Device Manager) and find your wireless card within there (perhaps with a yellow ? symbol). Right click it, click 'Install' and direct the driver installation search to the C:/DRIVERS specific location - should install without an issue then. Keep in mind that successful connections don't show themselves in the bottom right corner by default on XP - once everything is installed you'll have to right click the Wireless Connection in Network Connections and go to Properties, make sure the box at the bottom is ticked to show active connections in the toolbar.

Awww nice, could you get hold of a photo? I sold it to Josh Greenan, think he lived around Nottingham way...which I had it back now.

Looking back I started out in Motorcycle Trials - buying a 315R when I was about 13. Previous to this was a Yamaha TY which I had since I was about 7. I sold up when I was about 19, after around 12 years in the sport. Of course I never got anywhere in those 12 years, I did compete but never ranked the top. I would say I was a good rider and could tackle most things without any issue, but I never took it too seriously, perhaps if I took it seriously at the time I could pull in some respectable results, but the fun of it was getting out, learning something new and being a bit of a show off. I was never 'academically' committed so I spent my time on motorbikes, trials bike and computers when I should have been studying. I purchased an Onza T-Pro when I was about 16 which then turned in to a Koxx Monsterboy which I worked f**king hard for - beatiful frame (some may disagree), pink CK hubs, hope breaks all round...it rode like a dream and I sold it for £1000 to get hold of another car I urgently needed; I guess sometimes you have to give up something you love for more 'important' issues in life...no car meant no job, no job meant no money. I've never even touched a trials bike since then. However funnily enough it all came flooding back when I drove through Derby city centre last night and saw a bunch of trials riders (at a guess Neil Tunnicliffe, Andy, Matt?) and I remember riding in the darkness, in winter wearing jeans, a tee shirt and a helmet and still being warm. Hell, I even miss the smackheads in Derby asking for 'a go on my bike'. I have also met a couple of great guys on here, Tom Booth, Inur (fantastic weekend getting pissed and then trying riding to the hotel!), Andy (I can never remember his surname) to name a few. All great lads! However I do keep glancing over the Tartybikes website and thinking I'll give it another go...hopefully I will, before I'm too old.

True that. However; This post has been edited by anzo: 10 December 2009 - 10:49 PM I'm assuming this would disappear if I were to edit it. Lastly, am I really that untrustworthy!?

Just to let you know I bought myself some chocolate...

And change your rather annoying signature

Channel 4 did a documentary on it - a couple of common senarios; Shop robbery whilst you were at the checkout - would you comply or be a hero? A gang of people fighting with a younger person on the bus, the bus stops, victim runs and the gang chase after him Viewing a mugging A random attack in the street Two of the situations were real life experiences from the point of view of the victims and witnesses (the random attack and the mugging - I think the mugging one the victim was stabbed for the sake of £4) but nobody stepped in. Quite an interesting topic you've picked! (I'll try and find the documentary for you later)

People still use fax for order confirmations and anything that needs to be signature authorized. What would be the point in printing something, signing it, scanning it and then emailing it in a PDF? It's not about being closed minded at all and it's still a technology that is still very much used to this day. Regards to printing in business terms - policies, contracts, invoices, despatch notes, credit notes, job sheets, notices, SOPs, BOMs, forms....? If course in an ideal world we would like everything to be electronically based, but additional to this a lot of companies don't have the budget for this - its not really a case of 'buy this and stick it there, it'll work'. Paper format is definately a way of saving money - a small business may have medical information on employees and no IT budget; 1. Stick it in a locked cabinet in a locked room - £100 2. Stick it on an unsecured network - £XX,000 fine IF that information were leaked for a breach of the Data Protection Act. 3. Stick it on a secure network - £25,000 (IP Room, Servers, security, policies...) If all the documentation used in a business was electronically stored - they'd need a pretty beefy server which a lot of small businesses cannot afford (on top of service contracts, licenses, equipment such as UPS, back up drives). Paper frees up this resource and still allows you to continue your business if the network availablity is compromised. Of course a downside is that if you have a paper copy, if it's lost or damaged then you have no backup - but unfortunately that's the price you pay. Nope, fax is in no way secure.

Buy Cheap, Buy Twice. Unfortunately it seems that home printing is a technology that has never really been developed because there is no market for quality printers. There are quality printers available on the good half of £1000, but home users tend to pay about £40 - there isn't much room for technological advancement at a £40 a pop level. We use nothing but HP printers and I can honestly say they're absolutely bullet proof . These things are marketed to make it look like you're bagging a bargin - but always consider the price of the cartridges. Also remember that now days printers don't come with a USB cable - so the poor unaware sod who buys a PC World printer usually ends up forking out £15 for some gold plated, anti-static, sheilded, 9-million year warranty USB cable when all he needed was a £4 cable from a decent computer shop.

Is it set to start Automatically? Have you set the failure options to restart the service? It could be that some third party software is interferring with this - never known an audio service to stop like that. What I would do is note when the service stops, go to the Event Viewer and check out the logs for what occurs at the time - most likely you'll be able to find the fault in there.

From my perspective it's just fraud prevention, any accounting documents send outbound via PDF. Possibly not so much fraud prevention with invoices, but its good practice for other documents you may need to send out.

What's wrong with virtualization? I'd much rather do that than trying to run a business with OpenOffice... Sure you can stop people editing Word/Excel files, but in reality its going to be a pain in the arse to protect the sheet everytime you want to send it out. Where you could just set up a template, hit print and save it as a PDF in a dedicated file. All organised, tidy and professional

Don't send invoices in Word! Always use PDF format for documents such as this as they cannot be edited (of course you can get PDF converts...another story). PDF is universal and so should print on any printer, in any OS environment. I've never known a company email invoices in Word documents - personally, If I got a .doc for an invoice I'd see it as a little unprofessional... Just my 2 pence, if you want it

Are you certain it's Windows 7 and not Linux?! Nothing wrong with Maplins, well....good for small bits and bobs, but everything else is shit.

Interesting job, funnily enough I was thinking the other day how I'd never heard of anyone doing that job. I saw a think on the news a while back with some guy who kept calling 999 and then rapping down the phone - apparently you have to stay on the line for X amount of seconds before you can dismiss it as a prank/accidental call? Do you get a lot of hoax calls and can you tell they're hoax?

It sounds like you have obtained some rather clever Malware there...At the end of the day, a scan can only pick up what it's told to look for, by no means does an unsuccessful scan mean that your computer is clean. For sakes sake, I'd clear out the Temporary Internet Files, Clean Up the downloads in Firefox and try it. Failing that, perhaps reinstall FireFox and try again, Failing that you're probably looking at reinstalling XP for a quick answer to this - you could spend many weeks trying to find the cause, or simply get rid of it all in a couple of hours.

I hope thats a discreet typo or I have no idea what the hell you're on about... Christ, I'm getting old?

30,000 servers is the rumour - however they will be future proofing too for expected growth. Of course any figure out there will change on a daily basis. Never say never - everything dies at some point and Facebook will follow trend, it just takes time...the sooner the better.

Exactly. I'd be suprised if Facebook actually owned the servers - most likely held in a data centre somewhere in USA under rental, a dual system so the secondary server kicks in if the first goes down...however, I'd have thought they'd develop the site on a different server and then retract it if there are bugs on it. Facebook seems quite poorly managed in my opinion, its basically a money maker and will only die when the next craze comes along and then the advertising shifts over to that... I have a facebook account but very rarely use it.

You moaning old git Hope this helps. Cheers, Anzo.