Info and forum posts by 'Mrs Dave'

RE: Anyone know anything about Iceland???

Reykjavik is good. There`s a revolving restaurant on top of the geothermal power station with great views over the town (it`s not big enough to really call it a city). Be prepared to take out a second mortgage for alcohol though...

The Blue Lagoon (on the road between Keflavik airport and Reykjavik I think) is worth a visit (outside, open air bathing in Iceland in very warm water) but be prepared to smell of sulphur for weeks.

We also did the Hard Rock Cafe in Reykjavik and then waited up to not see the sun set (but I fell asleep at the window, so I missed it). I confess to feeling very surreal when the inbound flight landed at 11.30 pm in broad daylight though.

Enjoy. It`s expensive but worth the visit.

This item was edited on Tuesday, 20th May 2003, 22:12

E-pilot touch screen remote for £39:99, £30:00 off

A very nice learning remote control, no PC conection, so you have to work with what you get, but it seems good to me.

Despite the disclaimer on Maplins site we programmed in all our NTL Pace digital cable box commands we wanted to use without any problems

go to: http://www.maplin.co.uk and look at the top left item on the home page, csn`t seem to link to it directly

Dave

RE: cloudy and poor technicolour pressings

LOL, don`t call me that :-)

I`m just using my wife`s account while my computer is buried under the new bathroom suite I`m putting in next week,

Just `Dave` is fine

Now look what you`ve started Alan... (I`m half bald and grade 2 shaved on the rest by the way)

RE: NTL limit broadband downloads to 1GB/day!!

We had a nice letter from NTL this morning enticing us to upgrade to a faster broadband connection, boasting that the 1Mb service at 34.99 a month is especially suited to those who want to download video, music, play games online etc. No mention at all that they are capping it.

Grrh

Dave

RE: Easy to use web site editor - recommendations?

When Mrs Dave gets back from her business trip I`ll ask her what she used. Meanwhile the bathroom suite I have to put in during half term next week is propped in front of my computer, which is why I`ve been using her machine/login all week (just in case anyone was wondering) :-)

dave

RE: Petrol prices

Yep, sad spam from a long time ago obviously just resurfaced.

S***, not that I`m that old, but my first GALLON cost 78p ;-)

Any other oldsters want to join in?

Dave

RE: Speed cameras - Justified?

What I heard was that cameras designed to make us good citizens and deliberately placed to generate revenue had their bums painted yellow (wasps anyone?) so if you passed one and didn`t slow down you were fair game.

Ones placed on accident black spots etc, are left grey to actually catch people at fault.

Having got guilty/frustrated/poor driving my enomously thirsty car into work at £3-4 pounds a day to do 12 miles through 30mph traffic, I bought a moped to do the trip, which by default is limited to around 30mph.

It`s a real eyeopener how many times I get overtaken while I`m doing 30 mph.

Dave

RE: Credit card dilemma?

I`d definitely query it, otherwise it could be one of those if you don`t pay the full amount off in the agreed period you default to a credit plan at 38.99% interest, back-dated to the start of the plan scams that a certain well known high street company used to run.

Dave

RE: cloudy and poor technicolour pressings

Given I`m logged in through my wife`s machine/account I need to be careful here :-)

I used "FAIRY EX+TRA HYGIENE with anti-bacterial agents", others may work for you.

I gently rubbed neat detergent over the business end of the disk, then washed it off with warm water under the tap.

Voila, clean disk...

Dave

RE: Home Cinema Projector

We`ve got a Sony, it sits on the coffee table next to the sweet spot for sound, it CAN be a bit distracting, but only if you`re right on top of it, but a small price to pay for the superb visuals and sound we get from home theatre (no-one else`s rowdy kids, no sticky seats/chewing gum, need I go on?). The bulbs are frighteningly expensive but should last years, calculate 50p per movie if you like, but are delicate when hot. Imagine my horror when our one year old kocked the projector off the back of the table, I didn`t know which to grab first ;-)

Seriously, if you can: ceiling mount, It stops the above knock over problem, don`t even think about the horrors of a spilt drink. Also we have to step over the light beam to cross in front, (much easier to duck under a ceiling mounted one I guess), noise will be less, sticky fingers on the controls, lens etc not a problem and these bulbs are powerfully dangerous: little kids will insist on trying to look into them and it`s less dangerous if they`re up and out of reach.

Now if you have no small kids and you can put it somewhere not immediately next to your seat, wiring and installation will be easier if you don`t ceiling mount so it`s up to you...

Dave
(masquerading as Mrs Dave)

This item was edited on Monday, 10th February 2003, 23:32

Terminator: I can see clearly now the fog is gone.

Well we watched the trailer on Sky One for Robocop 2 last night and Mrs Dave (yes, I`m logged onto her account) commented how cheesy Kane looked. Don`t forget how cheesy the original Terminator looked in stop frame animation I riposted. So we got out our unwatched Ultimate Edition, settled down in bed and hit a pixellation nightmare a third of the way in. Fearing the worst I pulled the disk and it was as cloudy as anything. Today I spent a while tracking down the return address, and all the problems people have had getting them back in one piece, so tonight I got out the fairy liquid and Woila! it cleaned up good as new. So what gives? are there two problems here, cloudiness either on the outside or cloudiness between the layers?

dave

RE: Mail order is a pain when..............

Have to agree, never have we lost anything to the postman/woman. In fact if it`s early morning and it`s obvious we`re in, our current one rings the doorbell and leaves it on the doorstep. This might have been a problem at our last house but in rural-nice-place where we are now it`s not.

Omega/Securicor are brilliant, one of their depot senior staff is married to a colleague, if anything comes in for me he rings his wife and as it`s on my way home anyway, picking it up is a doddle :-)

Mrs Dave

RE: Yamaha receiver to subwoofer query

Sorry Clayts, I didn`t make myself clear, I have an active Yamaha 205 sub which I want to handle the bass all by itself. The Wharfedale passive sub is integral to the main front speakers, and I want it to do as little work as possible. So presumably I set BASS OUT to the subwoofer setting then?

I`m not sure what size room these Yamaha subs are meant to be run in, but in our 32 by 19 foot living/dining room setting it anything above 1 or 2 rattles glasses in the kitchen, and that`s after doing a 6db cut of the digital LFE setting, can`t help but think I`m doing something wrong here.

Dave (not Mrs)

Yamaha receiver to subwoofer query

I`ve gone through this loop a few times and got myself confused over this.

When playing DVDs I get too much bass coming through my main speakers even though they are set on small. They`re Wharfedale loud panels and the passive subwoofer can`t cope, it just sounds wooly. What do I set the bass out option to in the speaker setup to ensure all bass ie normal bass and LFE goes to the subwoofer. The manual is ambiguous, BOTH could mean LFE goes to both the subwoofer and main speakers or that both bass and LFE go to the sub only. Similarly subwoofer could mean that bass and LFE go only to the sub, or that LFE goes to the sub only.

If it`s above 90Hz sound that is upsetting the loudpanel sub, the above becomes somewhat less important, and I need to down tune it. Would sticking a pair of socks in the port quieten it or make it even more. muffled?

Thanks,

Dave

EDIT: Oops, I logged on from my wife`s machine so have accidentally posted from her i.e. Mrs Dave`s account.

This item was edited on Sunday, 19th January 2003, 15:06

RE: OH CRAP- just when you thought episode III was the end of the sorry assed trilogy

Poo...I don`t know that I`ll be able to focus on the screen when I`m 111.

My understanding was that there were always going to be 9 installments. Personally, I look forward to see what the last 3 will be like.

RE: Wave to MP3- little help please

Goldwave is what you want. Bought it about 7 years ago and use it for ripping CD to MP3 (copyright permitting...) and converting formats, including .WAV to MP3

www.goldwave.com

Enjoy