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  1. ok..so its not a fish... http://66.203.95.13/mpeg/regis_fait_du_kayak1.mpeg i wanna go home now.
  2. i'm no geologist, but this would seem to tie in with the "quake storm" theory that one quake can set off another as it was on the indo-pacific plate. i suppose its no concellation that these are very rare events...12k dead estimated at the moment.
  3. As recent developments have caused some controversy, many groups seem to be offering e-letters as a form of protest and a tool for indication of public feeling. Being involved in IT, I was curious how these identical emails would be handled by the ministries considering the apparent ease of which they could be filtered and replied to, so I asked a ministry friend of mine how correspondence like this is handled...it was as i feared. Emails and written letters are handled under the same rules (a good thing), where the ministry is expected to reply within a certain time limit. However, because of the huge amount of correspondance a ministry receives, there are "methods" to reduce the workload and work as efficiently as possible. And this is what i was unofficially told... 1) identical emails will likely receive identical automated replies. Because of this "automated" situation the amount of emails received is also unlikely to be raised further than the office handling them and so the magnitude of the amount of emails is unlikely to ever be passed onto anyone of interest to the cause. Even if the system isn't automated, identical emails receive identical replies as its more efficient for the office to reply this way. The amount of identical emails received will therefore make little or no difference. Its also worth noting that automated replies won't be sent by a person, however personalise replies will and they will have the email address of the person replying, not just a machines email address. 2) if a reply to a personalised response is received and the sender then replies almost immediately with another question opening dialogue, the reply sent back is likely to be delayed in order to disuade an email discussion, to avoid email getting priority over another. So email may be faster in theory, but practice may make that redundant. 3) Correspondance from people believed to be nuttcases or perceived as being abusive is ignored. However, all is not lost... i did get some handy hints how to make correspondance more effective. 1) if you wish to make email more effective, but wish to use an e-letter, make it just a basis and add a paragraph yourself to make it different. If you ask a question you should get an answer. If you ask a question that is different from the rest, it means someone has to go off and research that reply, and the reply will come from a person, therefore you will have that person's email address for future correspondance and referall. 2) correspondance methods are reflected in the reply, so if you send an email it will be replied to in an email. The efficiency of you clattering out a quick edit to an e-letter will be reflected by their efficiency in replying. Again, if there is no load at the ministry, its unlikely anyone will even be notfified of the traffic. So if you want someone to take time to write a letter, then a posted letter is the way forward. 3) Ask a question. If you just pass on your views, there is less work if any for a ministry to do. Just informing them of your views or opinion may not even stimulate a response. A question has to be answered in some manner. If you start creating more work for a ministry someone may start taking more notice. From the conversation I had, its my personal view that e-letters will have little to no impact as compared to a campaign using personal mailed and targetted questions. Hope this helps.
  4. when you say "it slows down"...are you talking about speed or response time? a speedtest to guage any drop is at http://adslguide.org/tools/speedtest.asp if its response time, this may point to a number of things... 1) AV can slow your machine down depending on its scanning setup 2) if your hard drive is stuffed full, temp files and swap space can get tight 3) your computer may be doing things in the backgound like compressing emails (if outlook is open) or indexing the hard drive (if you have that still switched on) 4) explorer may be running a large cache and norton is scanning it...i keep mine to about 20mb and that is fine 5) your dns cache may be large or nortons may have substituted your lmhosts file (but this last point would make most page accesses slower) to help it ctrl alt del and look at the "processes" in the task manager and see if anything is chewing up your machines processor %.
  5. just out of interest, have you tried another browser such as firefox? http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ i'm wondering if its something in explorer stopping .swf files from playing.
  6. cool...thanks...it would be interesting to see if they are aware of how these mass mails are handled as emails and wether they follow up their impact on the recipient. I know the ministries have rulings on written letters, but with emails its all too easy to develop automated systems and answers which kind of defeat the point or waste energy and enthusiasm.
  7. just out of interest, how are the e-letters presented/sent? I just ask, because if they contain identical content or are deemed a nusiance, then they could be blocked/diverted by the intended recipient. Or do civil service guidelines apply to email as much as they do traditional mail?
  8. why not just start a new identity in outlook?
  9. if you cant see flash pages goto www.macromedia.com and download the latest flash plugin for explorer if its other pics, then something is blocking animated gifs...windows firewall?
  10. well done... how can Diana seriously intimate illegal commercial fishing is part of the recreational sport's problem? and how does recreational bass fishing affect the consumer market when all the bass i've seen is from foreign countries bred under the legal catch size here because the market demands smaller fish? devils advocate or not, it seems we need to dangle a carrot into a closed mouth. Although the point about people wanting to know what a liscense would bring them before they were happy about buying one was true, it probably isn't a political sweetner. "oh so you want your cake and eat it"..."yes because its got that bad now".
  11. Davy...so you've got a modem feeding a router? Is DCHP setup on the router or are u using fixed assigned interal IPs? Also try just turning the firwall off. Also are you running NAT on the router?
  12. hiya...its not seasonal...its just linked to what i want to do...ie someone obviously heard me say "i want 2 weeks off at xmas" and that means i'll have about 4 days... your pics...something is wrong...can you right click one and see how big it is in k or bytes in properties...cos the ones on the web are 0k in size, so i'm wondering if your uploading an alias (a shortcut) or something.
  13. judging by the first 2 lines, im taking it as read that yakity has a couple of letters the wrong way around
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