Trying out my new iPad with BBC iPlayer I was happily watching live programmes but when I tried to view a programme from last week I was told "You have insufficient bandwidth to view this programme."...
I am the lucky recipient of an iPad as a present and am trying to set up links with my PC internet and email functions. I am being asked for details of my internet links. Once upon a time I could find...
Oh dear, the last one went off before I pressed SUBMIT , which means I wasn't able to do the mutatis mutandis bit. It was for friends in R&S, repeated in S&C....
A very merry Christmas to all my friends (and .er..others) in AB S&C. Have a wonderful, tuneful, loving time. And may you be happy, fulfilled, prosperous .. and articulate in 2013. (Repeated in R&S)...
I couldn't understand why even a few Americans could even consider the plainly potty Mitt as a potential President when you look into the breathtakingly stupid things that Mormons believe. But then I...
The Nobel Prize for Peace has been awarded to the European Union on the grounds that the EU has kept the peace in Europe for yonks. The only serious threat to European peace after WWII came from the...
Our illustrious Editor has suggested that I ask the clever people here about a problem which puzzles both of us: I want to set up an AB avatar and have chosen one. I have registered with Gravatar but...
MY hard drive (120MB) is almost full, though I can't think why. Two questions: 1.How can I see the full content of my hard drive so as to see what I can clear out? The list of programs in the...
I may have asked this before. If so, it was some years ago and we have fresh posters now. So here goes: A central tenet of Christianity is that ‘they that believeth in him [Jesus] shall be...
Most TV programmes that I record on my PVR (from BBC1, ITV1 etc) are faultless, but others -from, say, ITV3 - have irritating drop-out. Since there is no reason to fault my PVR can I assume that the...
I’m not talking just about the 72 virgins (actually white raisins) promised to suicide bombers as a reward for their murderous atrocities. I gather that ordinary law-abiding Muslim men require...
The CD deck on my Sony hi-fi stack has gone kaput and its feed into the amplifier is optical, which means that I can't use CD decks or players with normal outputs. Is there an adaptor I could use?
Some are homophobic entirely because of prejudice and bigotry but those who follow the Abramic religions quote the bible in support. The relevant passage is in Leviticus which says that when a man...
My TV (fed from a PVR) has suddenly started producing a hum - sounds like a mains hum - behind the sound. This hum is dependent on the picture: a bright screen produces the loudest hum; with a darker...
Chris Grayling, MP and his team, having flown from London to Edinburgh by domestic airline, were asked for their passports or other ID “with photograph” at Edinburgh airport. He naturally...
As one who never downloads high-capacity programs and who has always had masses of space on his hard drive I was astonished to discover today that with over 100,000 Mb used I have only 15 Mb left....
On the front page of The Times last Thursday there was a picture of the Queen and Kate hugely enjoying some joke. To my astonishment I noticed that the Queen's left glove was all chewed up and...
