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Almost certainly the heater matrix (or pipe to the matrix, but that's less likely) has sprung a leak. Check your coolant level to confirm this.

Indeed. I was thinking of asking Tannhauser too.

Does anyone on here have the Daily Mail on Saturday? There was a Cliff Richard CD that my *cough* mum would quite like.

The speed converter can be anywhere. They're often floating behind the dash somewhere between the speedo and the odo.

Did he find the offender amongst the mourners? I'd also recommend trying the police again, stressing that your wife's car is blocked in. If they don't want to do anything I'd get it dragged along a bit, taking care not to damage it. It's tempting to go medieval on it, but it wouldn't take Sherlock Holmes to deduce who did it. With no damage, I wouldn't have thought you could be charged with anything if the owner decided to go crying to the police. Unless you have no neighbours, there'll always be witnesses (even at 3am), so keep it above-board and non-criminal.

CJ, if you let me know the make and model of card (if it is an expansion card) then I can download the driver for you and send it to you on a CD. If it's integrated into the mobo then let me know the make/model of PC.

What Heyrick said. In addition, you *might* need to install a driver for the network adapter. If it's built-in to the motherboard, look at the PC manufacturer's website. If it's an expansion card look at the card manufacturer's website.

^^ That.

It's the 2000s Josh. You could at least go Dutch with him.

I don't that'll be a problem. In tower PCs the motherboard is mounted vertically against one of the large sides, so by laying it on its side you're laying the motherboard down flat. As long as the motherboard's not upside down it'll be fine; Pixelfill's suggestion about the ports being on the bottom will ensure this. Edit: re-reading your post I think that's what you meant anyway.

1) You're seriously considering not declaring major modifications in order to get the car you want. That's quite chavvy. Don't do it/justify it just because other people do it. Are you a sheep? 2) You seem to have no concept of the consequences of your actions; it's all Me Me Me. You say committing insurance fraud doesn't have an affect on the rest of us, and that you're a careful driver so you won't need to make a claim. There are some real idiots out there, so being a careful driver yourself isn't sufficient to stay out of accidents. And you can't hide behind not having a fault accident either; many accidents are settled 50:50 if the insurance companies can't agree on whose fault it was.

Try Ash: he's based in Hampshire so dropping a car off at SRD is in the right part of the country.

Good by.

A quick reply to this point in particular. I'm not sure if I got it across in my first reply, but I don't mean that the silence is about being seen by others to care (whether you actually do or not). I mean that part of the silence's function is to keep these conflicts in people's minds (even if it's just for 2 minutes per year), and that can be achieved by a public display of unity (whether it's 2 minutes' silence, or 2 minutes of wearing a top-hat to use your example; the silence was the one that happened to be chosen, maybe arbitrarily). I'll try to find examples for my other points, but that will involve trawling around on the internet so may take some time, if I find any credible ones at all.

Because AFAIK they can refuse to pay out if you have an accident..... and then pursue a conviction for fraud which then needs to be declared whenever you apply for insurance.

I can only assume your binmen don't play the game of "leave the bins in random locations along the street" every week then. Or maybe you don't mind which bin you end up with: I didn't used to mind, but I always seemed to end up with the one with soiled nappies at the bottom, trying to weld themselves to the plastic. A bin like that doesn't add to the ambience in the garden in a positive way. Some smell so bad they could probably find their own way home under their own steam.

Why? Well, when all the homes in your neighbourhood start off with identical bins, it looks nicer than painting on your house number with 10" numerals. I do like the cat one.

I've only got a bit of time to reply to Tannhauser's points, but reply I will. Point 1: I accept that the Armed Forces' charities that help the injured and widowed need all the money they can get, but I don't think we should underestimate the value of 2 minutes' reflection on the grim realities of warfare. Closely tied in with the 2 minutes' silence is of course the Poppy Appeal, which is a direct way that members of the public contribute to the charities involved. If the silence isn't observed, I fear that the poppies will just become another lapel badge that most people don't bother with. Observing 2 minutes' silence and being more pro-active in helping out are not mutually exclusive. Point 2: A significant number of people don't think about the events in question, I'm certain that's true. That's up to them, and unless they choose to discuss what they were thinking about then no-one else would ever know. For everyone who takes part in the silence, it must cross their mind even just for a half a second what's going on, and that's better than nothing. Without it as a reminder, recent past conflicts might become sterile and only lived through history books, a grisly historical curiosity for schoolchildren to learn about. Point 3: Any collective action would suffice as a mark of respect, or at least anything that most people don't do whilst going about their daily business. I think it needs to be collective to elevate it as a show of unity, otherwise it will be lots of people doing their own thing and it will just appear as random noise. Appearing to show respect is an important part I think, to keep it in the public conscience. Texting on one's Blackberry, for example, wouldn't really work because no-one would know if you're paying respects or doing some work. I make no apology in claiming that the act of showing respect is a public exercise, performed such that those around you know you are doing it. Point 4: I think others have already made the following point but I think some level of conformity is good for society. There's too many people in the world to have a lack of rules. I don't think 2 minutes' silence is an arbitrary act though; it's designed to promote reflection about conflicts past and present, to think about how those who suffered (injured or widowed) can be helped (the Poppy Appeal goes some way to achieving this), and in the small hope that similar conflicts might be avoided in the future. I also think that the verbally active trackday participants wouldn't have shown respect in their own way or done anything else to help the cause. We'd need to ask them to be sure of that though, and as that's highly unlikely to happen we'll just have to speculate. My main thinking for this is that being quiet for 2 minutes doesn't preclude other ways of showing grief, whereas not being quiet does show a certain contempt for what others are trying to achieve. Maybe they are afraid to be left alone to their own thoughts for longer than 5 seconds, or however long it takes them to shuffle to a different track on their iPods.

Pixelfill, 5+5+5-5+5+5-5+5 x 0 BODMAS says you do the multiplication before the addition or subtraction. So the expression becomes: 5+5+5-5+5+5-5+(5 x 0) = 5+5+5-5+5+5-5 It's then a case of applying the addition and subtraction left to right, keeping a running tally as you go: 5+5+5-5+5+5-5 Operation ........ Running total 5 .....................5 +5 ................. 10 +5 ................... 15 -5 .................... 10 +5 ................... 15 +5 .................. 20 -5 .................... 15 Hence the answer is 15

Hope it all goes well Charlotte, I was at the birth of my first child only 3 weeks ago so I know a bit about what the waiting's like!

What's one of those? You're showing your age caseys!

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MS are probably emulating real-life calculators. Basic desk ones don't usually follow BODMAS either, or at least they didn't when I was a nipper.

The Windows XP calculator in basic mode doesn't follow BODMAS; it just implements a left-to-right precedence. Perhaps the Vista/Win7 incarnation of it does.