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Broithe

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  1. Should I get rid of AGV after I install MSE.They could clash I persume.
    Don't imagine that I actually know anything. I vaguely remember that there was a clashing issue that prompted his tests of the various free systems available, but, apart from the MSE MWB combination being the best result, I can't remember much else.

     

    This is from a couple of years ago, but his opinions are unchanged today. http://www.staffordforum.com/xf/index.php?threads/which-anti-virus-my-findings.4314/

  2. It showed up trogan horse.I use the AVG free antivirus.
    It's those bloody Greeks again.

     

    My tame geek used to recommend AVG, but now says MSE + Malwarebytes is still the tops of the free ones..

  3. I run Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes (free version) in Vista as a result of advice from a highly-experienced geek friend. He did copious testing with various virus samples and decided that they were the best - and they don't conflict with each other, so you can run both. I've had no real trouble since. With the free Malwarebytes you do have to remember to update it now and then and it needs to start the internal scan manually as well, to get an auto-scan requires the payed version.

     

    I would point out that my geek is generally anti-Microsoft and was almost annoyed when it did so well in his tests.

  4. If you're going to deface something, at least do it legibly.

     

    Like what is it supposed to be?

    I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thinks that.

     

    I once repainted an isolated urban bird-hide which was covered in graffiti, most of which was similar rubbish, but there was one very good bit that I painted round. I was heavily criticised for not obliterating that bit as well, but there was no new graffiti for most of a year afterwards. I'm sure that if I'd painted it all out, then it would have restarted straight away. I like to feel that I was in tune with Banksy before I'd even heard of him..

  5. If two equal bids arrive, and they are both for the winning value, then the first one takes precedence - hence the suggestion about bidding a little over round figures.

     

    Otherwise, to take an extreme example, somebody could have bid €15 two weeks ago and would be out-bid by somebody bidding the same amount today.

  6. jesus Broithe, i knew that section of the line was bad -but not that bad!!! i thought that line was upgraded?:confused: board na mona bog railways are more even than that!!!
    That's a few years ago, but I don't think it's had much done to it since. they've replaced the track in the station itself and removed the points into the unused siding to the goods shed. It's a very low angle shot and it probably makes it look worse than it is, but there'll be no TGVs through there for a while...
  7. broithe, have heard that if you held a flouresent bulb close to a ht cable that it lights up..true of an old wifes tale? (not that i have any intention of doing it!!)
    It will glow, dimly, due to the fact the ends of the tube are quite far apart and so they are at different potentials in the electrical field. It only really works where the phases are widely separated in space, such as the field of a high-voltage overhead transmission line. In a cable where live and neutral, or all three phases are present close together, there will be a lot of field cancellation which greatly reduces the effect. It would need to be a fairly high-voltage source, I doubt that it would work at 25kV, which most railway systems are - and, if it did, then you would probably have to be dangerously close for the effect to occur - with a high voltage field the gradient is sufficient at a much larger distance from the live conductor.

     

    Standing under a transmission line and waving a long, pointed conductor at it is not something that should be recommended. I am not aware of anybody ever being zapped when doing this, but if it did happen then you would not get away with it..

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