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I was foolish enough not to take your advice some years ago Chris and opted for a Carbonactive. Big mistake! I subsequently bought a Gti (mine has a screw up reel seat though) and have loved using it every time. Superb piece of kit. I was told though that Harrisons had stopped supplying the blanks and John Gilpin then at Lathkill's in Halifax had to call in a favour to get one. I'm not sure how true the tale is though as you say you've recently purchased another.
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Doubt very much that if there are 2lbers in the water that they are just the preserve of fly anglers - over estimates would be my conjecture - a 2lb grayling IS a big fish! Try sweetcorn next time - grayling love it - and it can sometimes pick out the bigger fish.
C.
Sounds like the same story at my local fly fishing club where members claim to regularly take 5lb+ chub - yeah right!
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Skimmers.........!
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Vista looks nice but in my experience it is much less stable than XP. I'm finding that many programmes crash unless they are started as an administrator. I might well be going back to XP myself.
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I've solved the problem!
We could devise 'humane' methods of capturing animals. Take them out of their natural environment for a while (maybe dunk them in a bowl of water for instance), weigh them, photograph them for our records, admire them for a bit, (in some cases we could keep them caged until the end of the session), and then release them back into their natural environment totally unharmed.
We could have National Records for different animals to compare sizes.
We could import different species, and densely pack them into fenced off areas, just to add variety and to make the catching of them easier.
We could even have competitions in these areas. Where a group could get together and the one that trapped the highest weight of creatures wins a prize.
We would have to think of a name for it, because it wouldn't be 'hunting' would it?
John.
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At the end of the day, the Gurkha's are mercenary soldiers recruited by the British army from another nation state in the full knowledge of their pay, conditions and pension rights and with no expectation of being granted a right of abode in Britain.
I'm sorry but I think that this decision is plain wrong.
I'm sure that people will argue that they put their lives on the line for this country but that's what mercenaries are paid to do. Strange that nobody feels that same need to invite in every Iraqi who put their lives on the line by working for BP to produce oil in support of the British economy but in essence, the two jobs are entirely comparable.
I thought Mercenary soldiers were those that fought for a bounty and not a regular (and taxable) payment from a, supposedly, legitimate government.
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I've downloaded it - Thanks! When I run it from the Icon McAffee tells me it has removed a 'Backdoor-CEP' trojan, the program then appears to run normally.
Cheers
Paul
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Hi Ant,
Many thanks for that. I had actually stumbled across this on the HP help site. I actually do not have the upper and lower filters listed on my machine so cannot delete them. Hence I think that it is the drive itself that has failed. I have not been able to swap it out yet though to prove it.
I actually continued on to step 4b in the link below and my machine didn't like this at all. It failed to install the drivers. I'll get it sorted though.
Thanks again
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But nero's nice ! remove the offending drive then re-boot up the pc ,shut it down again ,refit the [empty] drive (prefably on a different connector/cable ,making sure the master/slave option is set currectly ! on the drive unit ! ) boot up pc (it should recogise the drive ! )
if the said drive fails too show in the my computer [with drive letter] then goto control panel > admin tools >computer mgnt > disk mgnt (in left hand pane) > see if its listed there ,if not buy a new drive !
Cheers Steve,
Planning something along those lines tomorrow. I'll be reclaiming my old PC and taking the Lightscribe DVD drive out and fitting it to the new one and find out what the score is. As to buying a new one, it's less than a month old and a (supposedly) all singing and dancing HD and BlueRay jobbie. PC World will be put to task.
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All I can say Paul is I have had this one MANY times before on XP and it is usually something to do with trying to install NERO!! But as I don't use Vista I am afraid that is it as far as I can help??
You don't say however what you was trying to install? And do you have all your codecs for Vista? Installed? Also had that last week after unloading NERO again!!!
Hi Chris,
I was trying to install a game but had noticed that I also couldn't create a system boot disk just beforehand. Vista is fully updated as far as I know - I've tried all that. I was impressed with the simplicity of Vista at first but am seriously reconsidering. The only thing I've recently installed (from the internet) are two Anti-Malware programmes. One on subscription and one freebie. P.S. I gave up on Nero ages ago.
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forget ebays "professional" detectors they are just rubbish!!
Yep, I'll second that as one of the numpties who believed the sales pitch.
I've always fancied one myself since being a youngster. One day I'll take the plunge too and buy myself a decent one.
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I hope someone may be able to help this computer simpleton.
We purchased a new PC fairly recently which runs Vista Home Premium. All was fine until recently when I tried to install a new programme. I can see the blue LED flashing as if trying to run a disk but 'my computer' doesn't show anything as being in the DVD drawer. Device manager shows the drive to be working correctly although I cannot 'populate' the drive under one of the tabs. Running the optical drive analyser tells me that there is no DVD drive present...???? I've tried uninstalling the device driver and rebooting the PC. Vista recognises the 'new' hardware and installs a driver but it still doesn't work.
Surfing Google it seems I'm not the only one with this problem but the guru's talk about editing registries - way over my head!
Any ideas anyone?
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Why did it take 8 days to march them a piddling 118 Miles? I bet they insisted on an Irn' Bru break every hour.............
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As an all-round fly my choice would be a simple CDC Emerger. For a river I'd agree with Vagabond with the Adams.
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Spend about £400ish on a pair of Leica Ultravid 10x25's. Small (foldable). Brilliant (in all light conditions) and they'll last you a lifetime. The perfect fishing binoculars to slip into your rucksack side pocket as far as I'm concerned.
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Yes, brilliant......
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Yes, cracking display wasn't it? Good shot yours. I had a brain fail and forgot to take my 300mm zoom lens so was limited to my 80mm.
Very wet AM on Saturday too but at 13:00 the sun came through beautifully. The Vulcan was good but the Chinook was the most impressive for me.
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Old v's new....
Typhoon doing its best not to stall following a flat-out mk19 Spitfire at Waddington Air Show yesterday.
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You've come up trumps here. Nice picture, happy wife and you get to go fishing. Result!
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I'd be careful with those 'pontoon' boats Sportsman.
I've heard if you catch more than 21 fish, they 'bust'.
John.
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There are plenty of good, high-spec Toyota Surf's around too. Good off-road with the right tyres.
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There's probably every chance of the USA winning the (proper) football world cup before England does again Jan. I dearly hope not though, after all we've an Italian showing us how it's got to be done nowadays......
Just a few shots I took at Arlington National Cemetery
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It's a place I would also like to visit as well as the WW1 graves in Europe.
On a similar vein I once visited Bergen Belsen which was a very disturbing experience. Glad I did though.