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I'm sure... :lol: But your answer helped me establish that I am asking the wrong question. In my mind, I had already decided the cable supplied was wrong, which in turn led to me questioning the rest of it, including the crimped connectors. I think I might have been a bit hasty - rubber...

This was a surprisingly useful answer. I have both sorts of cable, and both have 'heat resistance to 85C' printed on them. I came to the conclusion (erroneously?) that the rubber cable was more likely to be problematic in future. The store regularly gets up to 80C (it's designed for 95C), and is...

I just knew this would get complicated... :lol: Bit of background: I have a 300L thermal store fed by a solar panel coil, wood burner and two immersions - a low one on a timer, for heating up the entire store overnight on E7, and a high one on a timed button, which was originally meant for...

How do you tell the difference between ring and spade-type connectors suitable for 240V, and those suitable for 12V? They seem to come in the same colours - red, blue, yellow, which reflect the wire size. Surely they are not the same? Or are they? How would I know if someone has used the...

In fairness though, that cuts both ways. The bankers have vandalised the economy, and, not content putting some people's windows in, they've gone and stolen the entire house and the livelihood of the people living in it, and swapped it for a fat pension for themselves. Now I'm damn sure none of...

I'm pretty sure the connectors are identical - backwards compatibility and all that. There may be a jumper you have to move to tell your new drive that it is connected to a 150mb rather than a 300mb interface... I only know this because google is my friend...

Yes, you're right. There's no doubt it is a bit of a game and ends up costing the rest of us. And it's a wasted effort - no-one in government is listening. I don't know the answer. This is what happens when we only get one chance every five years to tell 'em what we want. For what it's worth...

I'm in almost complete agreement with the list you have so far. I'd put Simply Red at the top, and Annie Lennox second. Jamiroquai really annoy me too - or at least Jay Kay does.

What single piece of music is top of your play list today? Here's mine. It's a bit old, and I have no excuses... Cardiacs - Is This The Life? I've been on holiday this week, and I've wasted hours trying to track down more music by this band. I think it's (appropriately enough) the DIY...

How come you're not pi**ed off that the bankers put the livelihood of you and your family at risk with their macho gambling and pass-the-bad-debt-for-a-fat-commission games? You've surely got to have some sympathy for the protesters? Or are you happy enough that 50 year-old Sir Fred gets to...

is any part of your broadband connection wireless? It could be RF interference. Even if not wireless, I have heard of connections going down due to insufficient shielding of the patch cables. You might need to invest in some Cat 5e shielded cable, or maybe find some way of reducing the RF...

I am reasonably sure that wild-life take a different approach to dining out than the one we might take. Obviously, you would complain bitterly if McDonalds served your burger in stages from several different places throughout the neighbourhood. But your average thrush, or hedgehog doesn't give a...

The fact that you have re-installed from scratch and still have the problem suggests that it isn't a software problem (doesn't guarantee it, though). The problems you sometimes encounter getting re-started sort of backs this up - if it was a program causing you grief after a period of good...

It's lunch-time.

Check to see if you have a CD in the CD drive, or a USB key drive plugged in somewhere, or possibly an SD (camera) card. The warning suggests you have a 512MB external drive plugged in, and that is what is full... In Vista, the disc management screen is at: Start>Right-click...

Maybe the low disc space message is referring to a partition other than the one your operating system is installed on - possibly a small backup partition used by a security suite like Norton 180? I have seen this on a laptop, where the backup partition was 8GB, and Norton was completely filling...

Under the circumstances you describe, it shouldn't need a password, and hitting 'enter' without filling the password field should do it. There's no easy solution... There are a couple of options. You could try and remove the password (whatever it is) using this...

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0700/snails.asp I didn't know about the new ferric phosphate snail killer - I'll give that a go. Most of the cheaper stuff will be the sort that contains Metaldehyde, and that's the one that is worth avoiding. Even if the birds and hedgehogs don't eat the...

What does the screen you are looking at look like? Is it black with white writing? Or is it a blue login screen? What happens immediately before you reach whatever screen you are at where the password is asked for? Do you see the Windows XP loading screen (with the animated blue bars)? Or...

Relax! It's 99.99% certain you had the earlier adobe reader (9.0) and you have replaced it with a later one (9.1). I'd be extremely surprised if you ever had the full version of the software installed - it's £300 to buy, and you'd only need it if you were a commercial enterprise needing to...