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When I was in the army, we were on night patrol in the bush a million miles from civilisation when we had to set off a few 1000ft flares. The first couple went off fine, when a flare I was holding exploded in my hands. Luckily the flare itself managed to eject, but the resulting fireball nearly...

Gary Teichmann (ex Springbok Rugby Captain) is my cousin and was at high school with him. Funnily enough, I come from a very sporting family back home in SA (somehow I missed those genes) - at one stage the entire Springbok Polo Team (all 4 of them were my cousins!! - ahh the beauty of living on...

Take a look at Wordpress http://wordpress.org/ - easy peasy :) To be honest though - Joomla rocks if you have the time to learn it ;)

I use Symantecs GHOST and then I use incremental backups every night. Works well for me:)

Hi All I honestly dont want to rain on anyones parade, but I thought I would warn you on the amount of fake cards out there. I am not saying that these are fake, but the old saying if its too good to be true usually is. Have a look here...

Signed, sealed and delivered - Now lets see if my elected Labour MP (whom I didnt vote for) will do something. I actually wonder if they reply top all their e-mails?? :)

Ahh.. farming - I miss it terribly!! I grew up in South Africa in Zululand (very close to a lot of English/Zulu/Boer battelfields) where we were farming sugar cane and tomatoes. (Which by the way - the tomatoes ,Dad was able to send me to a very good school!!) I'm not sure what the price of...

Hi Ian With this erratic behaviour its usually the fault of the carrier and can be a number of causes, from line card malfunction in the DSLAM to routing problems on the ISP's backbone due to link failure or "flapping" of the routing protocols going from an up to down state causing traffic to...

They started off as Mambo until all the developers (every single one of them) quit and started Joomla on their own. This came about over a disagreement with the developers and the company who they worked off - Miro. Anyway Joomla, IMHO, is the better CMS. Mambo is good and works very well...

I have worked for a couple of ISP for the last 6 years and ADSL connection speed is the number 1 issue that end users complain about the most. I thought I would give my 2p worth from their prespective and hopefully shed a bit of light on the dark world of SPEED :) ADSL (which is what 99% of...

I run all my websites on Joomla and Mambo ( actually migrated from Mambo to Joomla and its honestly is the Mutts nuts!!) You can add quite a bit of opensource add ons which is really cool like ecommerce (Virtual Mart) etc. I have found this book by Barrie North invaluable. Check it out - its...

Many thanks guys - your advice was much appreciated. I will try all three suggestions and see which suits me best:) I'm sure I'll be back with some more questions as I try each method. Thanks again Cheers

HI Flash If I remember correctly this was what the camera automatically choose it to be. I have ISO for the time being set to auto. HTH

Hello All Apologies if this is not in the correct section - mods please move if this is the case. I have just started photography and have a problem that has me stumped. I have a Canon 40D with a 430EXII flash - I am in a relativley dim room I set the camera at AV and choose an aperture...

This is an excellent book for portraiture as it also tells you how they set up the lighting and include the picture of the where the lights were and what they used. http://www.rotovision.com/description.asp?isbn=2-940378-07-X HTH