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Thanks all for your feedback; going to spend some time looking at different ideas with this project of mine, and will take on board the advice given.

Hi all, this may seem like an odd request.... I want to change a plastic/resin object I have at home, so that LED lights are embedded within and become a light feature in the lounge. I won't need lots of lights, so am wondering if it's simple enough to take some bog-standard mains powered...

First you need the specs of the Macs you'll be using in your exam. Seeing as Macs are generally faster, especially when it comes to Photoshop, photo editing, video editing, chances are it could be faster than your home set up. you don't say what you're running at home either..

Go by the rule of remembering that unless you're on a website that has run a scan of your PC, a website that warns of a virus/trojan/nasty is generally telling fibs. Especially if it's a site offering free games - they have to make their money somehow. If you are worried, make sure that...

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don't be cheap, just buy the games :) Game development costs a lot of money and time.

Or something outside breaching the DPC? If you've bought the house, didn't the survey pick this up? if it didn't, and it's a problem that's existed for a while, you need to take it up with the surveyor. If you're renting the property, then it's the landlords problem to fix.

If you're not using the fireplace, get yourself a chimney balloon - we have one in our bathroom, and the difference it makes is great. If you don't want to spend money on a chimney balloon, you can always stuff the flue with newspaper and rags - just make sure you remember they're up there...

Cheers Burnerman - plumbing's not really my area (actually, IT is my area) so appreciate the non-technical explanation :)

I had a similar problem with a kitchen tap recently. A few people here suggested that it may be a problem with the washer or a sticking jumper (I think!), so I took the tap apart, washer was fine, but after re-assembly, the tap works a treat now.

Good to hear that you got there in the end :) Weird that PC decided to suddenly 'see' your camera.

I pay Sky £15 a month for Unlimited bandwidth, up to 16Mb (in reality I average 13Mb due to my distance from the exchange). Sky installed LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) at my local exchange, so if I go with them I get the fast connection. If I looked at another provider, I'd only get 8mb - same...

Connect your camera to the PC, and then when it says 'driver not found', open up windows explporer (Winkey + E) and you should see a 'removable drive' -that's your camera. open this, and you can access your photos you're 100% correct in saying that you shouldn't have to work in this way, but...

Was one a game developer forum where this was being discussed, and the general consensus is that it's a good deal. One poster bought a stack of Medions (not these ones) for his dev studio, and was pleased with them.

What do you need the camera drivers for? If it's simply to download the photos from camera to hard drive, you can just connect via USB, and Windows will give you options, one of which is something like 'copy pictures'. If you cannot connect camera via USB, use a card reader, and do the same...

Or you set up a proxy filter (eg Toonel) and visit every site that you think you're adult enough to visit at work, whilst not impacting on the job you're being paid to do.

Thanks for all your assistance, I'll work out exactly which projects I want to start first, and buy according to that. Will now consider the cutters that I get too Thanks again

thanks for the info, I'll remember that for next time.

Hi all I've been toying with the idea of buying a router for some small home projects. The choice is bewildering, and tbh, I don't really know what I want/need. Should I buy a router, I'll be using it for shelving, maybe making a chopping board out of some spare thick wooden worktop, and...

I use cotton buds and cotton pads with a few drops of acetone (or Mrs Tapir's nail polish remover). I use the pads to remove the bulk of the paste, and then the cotton buds to work on the finer bits. word of warning - be very careful not to drop bits of old paste onto your motherboard, or...