h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Got the USB DVB-S today; no email to say they sent it, the instructions are crap but that's normal. Got to wait for a dish then I can borrow a drill buy a 1 foot long masonry bit some sealant and off we go.

Astra 1E is at 26.7 degrees elevation Azimuth 158.2 degrees magnetic and 8.1 degrees polarization.

Which is straight through the middle of some flats 150 ft away, but with this elevation the signal should be around 300 ft above ground over the flats.

Interestingly all the sky dishes around here are pointing east south east, but a bigger dish on the flats is pointing more southerly possibly at Astra.

I don't know what is on Astra.

Sorry did that calculation in my head and I'm getting everything wrong at the moment. Sin 30 degrees is 1/2, so I got it the wrong way round and that should be the signal is 75 ft approx above ground over the 50 ft high flats.

So I should be ok.

It works and the rather large hard-drive is now of use giving me 1600 hrs of tv or films.

It is almost impossible to get help here but eventually my brother helped to point the dish at the wrong satellite.

However some of these foreign girls look nice but if I was 30 years younger I would still be too old for them.

They have done it again; my computer actually switches off when not being used. Not shut down, but stops all the fans and all applications.

I don't mean sleep, I mean have to press the power button to fire it up where the previous state is returned with applications stopped.

It's unnerving, it's too much.

Check the "Power" settings in the BIOS - I think there's an option for what it does when it gets a "Sleep" command.

I'll have a look later on my next startup; but I haven't touched bios at all since I got it back. The strange thing is all the fans stop and most are wired directly to the power supply; according to the chap who fitted the cpu fan because they are 5 volt.

I think it is another critical fix from M$, the last one was 200MB.

I didn't think I would ever manage it.A X browser javascript program using timing; IE was the problem. But when I was looking to include timing in the main object found it had potential to work in IE, and by accident by sucking and seeing plus some theory on closures it worked. I'm right chuffed.

http://72.167.226.26/PreloaderTwo.htm

javascript at:

http://downloads.arismetique.com/FaderGecko.txt



It uses less than 370 microseconds of cpu in possibly 240,000 microseconds so it isn't too demanding.

It's interesting, but the main body of text was missing off the bottom of my screen and some of the images looked misplaced... I think you made some unwarranted assumptions about the shape of the viewer's monitor.

(Mine is 1200 px wide by 1960 px high, portrait... )

Can't do everything. cheers

well, I have updated my security from Kasperspki 7 to Kasperski 2009 and after hours trying to install it it stated I've got 75 vulnerabilities and two keyloggers.

How come the old version didn't see this lot.

It's tiring My dvd suite has been shut down, OCCT is considered too dangerous to run even if placed in the allowed list, same with cpuz and pretty much everything that requires access to the system.

I've got a long list of dangerous objects I don't know what to do with.

These include objects in every browser or the actual browsers.

But with sun java I noticed that it noticed files in an older version and this could be true in all the critical highly dangerous objects.

I was told Kasperski 2009 was best yet, and anyway I got it for only £12.48 from amazon where version 7 renewal cost around £30.

Sorry, can't help. That's part of the reason I gave up using Windows.

I think I've tamed it now anyway. My satellite doesn't use the internet so it is no longer watched. I've put a password in Xampp so now it is in the moderate list, my DVD is working because it is in the trusted zone, I don't even use OCCT so I can always disable the security when I need to.

My new security found some sort of rootkit, killed it, rebooted but now I can't find any evidence of what it was.

I put fileZilla in quarantine for safe keeping, since it said it was dangerous, and now that's gone as well.

I was bored and noticed a load of driver updates; I've installed the nVidia one but in settings it now has HDTV settings where you click to state your television type. But it gives a disclaimer about potential damage.

Has this got anything to do with my monitor for watching satellite since mine is only 720p.

Also there are updates for all bios, chipsets processor everything ROM. But it is working ok now, so would you install bios updates.

If everything's working I wouldn't bother installing them, but I would probably download them and burn them onto a CD/DVD in case a day comes when you can't connect to the web (say. because you just upgraded your processor) without updating the BIOS first.