Where's the best place to buy a reliable gallows from these days? Do Amazon sell them? You'd want to make sure you got a remote control version if it was for yourself.
Chris
You'll need a blank CD or memory stick
Follow the simple instructions at
Check your hardware will work at
Well, actually you did.
The range on Amazon isn't that great (and the sellers don't offer any options) and I have a very limited budget. I did think about installing Linux, but presume that I would have to at least boot the thing up once to be able to install it, given that I don't have it on disc. I'm going to try now though!
Ok thanks.
I was just having a massive argument with my (socialist) other half, trying to explain, using this as an example, why a monopoly is a bad thing, whether it is private or state run. He just doesn't get it (still thinks that privatising the steel and motor industry was the right thing to do...). Time for some new years resolutions I think!
Excellent. Someones already posted some instructions on getting Ubuntu, which I would whole-heartedly recommend. Indeed, I'm using it right now.
Like getting another other half?
He thinks it was right? Or wrong?
On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:33:43 +0000, Ronald Raygun boggled us with:
A socialist who believes in privatisation? Am I missing something here?
I don't think it matter a jot to the motor industry whatever happened. They made s**te cars. If you make s**te and people don't buy it, then you go under..
Get yourself some clone software first. Acronis or Clonezilla. Though the latter is a bit iffy to use it has the advantage of being free. Clone your current HD and stick the image file somewhere safe like on another hard drive.
Download the appropriate linux ubuntu distribution (desktop or netbook) and burn it to a cd. Stick the cd in the drive and reboot your laptop. Follow the instructions and write down any passwords you enter
Beware there is a fair bit of hardware that doesn't work under linux
Maria...You Are Not Allowed To Kill Him!!!!!
No need to go so far.
You can run a Linux install from a USB stick, it doesn't touch your existing Windows setup.
Just shove it on a stick and boot from that, job done.
Except if you're State owned, you consume vast quantities of taxpayers money first.
Beware that there is a lot of crap advice on Usenet about Linux. (And everything else.)
Sorry...I meant nationalising. Brain is fried (not from alcohol unfortunately).
Yes - my brain is fried from trying to make a windows recovery disc. Twice now it's got up to disc three (which takes an hour or so) and then windows just crashes and I have to start all over again. I don't know if it's the laptop (which seems well made etc. but who can tell?) or my copy of Windows 7 which is rubbish.
Anyway I meant nationalised...
Some of them were very desirable - TR, MG etc. And ok the Jap imports might have had better engines, but the metal was awful. Thin metal, thin paint, rotted inside 18 months.
I would try it but thought I'd better make a Windows Recovery disc first since I don't have one. It's crashed twice now while in the process of doing it. I really didn't want to spend new year's day sitting here loading blank DVD's into this machine and waiting for hours on end...
Try a clone program
It always ticks me off when Clarkson and the other two idjits slam British cars of the 70s. Many were as good or better than anything being turned out in other countries. Their slamming of the Marina is ridiculous when put to anyone who had experience of trying to get spares for a Ford Cortina or who had a French or Italian car of the period. Someone on that show once asked what was the worst car ever made. I couldn't say what the exact car was but it was probably French built. I've had two French cars and a Nissan with a French engine, Never again. The Marinas, Maxis and 1800s I drove were paragons compared to a Renault 16 or 5 or the banana. Or the Peugeot I had that cost almost £150 for a pair of front wheel bearings. Ten quid for my vauxhall wheel bearings and it only took an hour to fit them not all bloody day:(
I agree.
Longbridge Austins were probably as good as the Skodas or Ladas of the day. They had a completely different set of faults. Skodas used to rot. Ladas fell to pieces. Austins just refused to start.
It's a great shame that Trabants weren't imported in any numbers. Austin owners would have had additional fellow motorists to look down on.
The Marina was probably the least bad of the BL cars of the period.
Impossible. Not unless he forgot about the Skoda, the Lada and the Austin Ambassador.
You don't buy new cars with the expectation of having to pay to have new wheel bearings fitted. When cars are in danger of such things, they are usually a long way down the food chain and no longer the concern of the first purchaser.
Come off it - BLMC/Leyland/BL/Austim/Morris cars of the 1970s were *crap*.
Even the Mini of the day (a model I made the mistake of buying new during that decade and got rid of after 18 months) was terrible - refusing to start for reasons of its own, so little care was taken of its assembly and quality.
The Basil Fawlty episode with the "damn good thrashing" sequence was actually being truthful, if perhaps a little too subtle.
And it was all a disaster. *I* was a patriotic buyer at that time. I would never have bought a foreign car. But rather like Basil's red car, BL and its "work" force tried it on just once too often...
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