@duncancallum ?

Charlotte Gray should NOT be on this list as it was written by Sebastian Faulks.

However, Between Silk and Cyanide should be on the list as it was written by Leo Marks.

Enemy Coast Ahead was good as I recall. Also The Colditz Story and The Latter Days At Colditz (fascinating place to visit by the way). So many great books about bravery and suffering

CFH, have you finished with my copy of I Flew For The Fuhrer? (Which should also be on the list).

Ps The Tunnels Of Cu Chi is gripping.

Why don’t you sod off, chewkw, you are not adding anything to this conversation.

As usual.

So, so sad.

A country we know well and love but such a mess.

Didn’t recognise the Crete he was visiting at all – lovely place, lovely people. Having spent five weeks in Crete alone in the last decade or so, the last week of which was last year (probably fifteen weeks in Greece as a whole), we have never seen a single gun there. Didn’t agree with the anti Germany dudes though.

Will go there again with no qualms. Lesvos likewise. Lovely place – but very, very full of litter – and that was before the immigration crisis.

Rick Wakeman at the Gaumont in Southampton in about 1982.

Unconverted files are about three times the size of converted films…

I use DVD Decrypter (might still be available somewhere) to rip the DVD. This comes off as a .VOB file, which can be renamed to a .mpg. Ignore the warning.

I then use DVDVideosoft’s free converter to convert to a .mp4 – which is not as good as the .mpg on a decent sized television, but is fine on an iPad. I suggest using the setting for the best quality that your iPad will support.

I should like to point out that I own all the DVDs that I have ripped – this is simply for iTunes and the NAS drive.

Interesting and amusing in equal parts. I don’t even want to think about how you found that…

Mastermind:

So, your occupation?

Pig masturbator.

Next…

tjp1980 – Member
I like Access.

Ah, the good old data virus. Not the fault of Access per se, but again, lack of training. Every manager has their own Access database which is incompatible with every other manager’s database…

Should never have been included in Office

@butcher Fair comment. I originally thought you meant that PHP was an easier language but having reread your post I don’t think you did mean that.

Digital media agencies will very likely be PHP houses, corporates more likely Microsoft stack – agreed.

Having used both PHP and .Net professionally and ended up focussing exclusively on the latter I’m slightly biased!

I think that maybe hyd1 should think about PHP in the light of what he wants to achieve. Certainly free hosting might be easier to find.

And PHP is an easier entry with tons more free resources, tools, and ready built software.

Genuinely interested in why you think that PHP is an easier entry?

Can’t comment on free PHP tools and resources etc as its not my area but the tools and tutorials you need to build ASP.Net websites are also free.

.Net hosting is rarely free in my experience whereas PHP hosting usually seems to be – I’ll grant you that.

Assuming the Microsoft route…

Tools

Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition download (free)
SQL Server 2014 download (free)

Tutorials

HTML tutorial[/url]
CSS tutorial[/url]
JavaScript tutorial
SQL tutorial[/url]
C# tutorials
ASP.Net MVC C# tutorial

I know that not everyone likes W3Schools but it will give you some of the basics.

I haven’t tried this site but at first glance it might give you some pointers for SQL Server (and quite a few other things):Quackit tutorials[/url]

Any time you want a new tutorial just Google {subject} tutorial and you will get loads of options.

Email me (vdub1992[at]hotmail[dot]co[dot]uk) if you want any more info.

Happy coding!

Familiarity with the basics might well help.

There’s a lot of different things involved in being a web developer. There’s the font end, stuff, server side stuff and some database stuff will be extremely useful to know.

HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript would all be a good, start, then some jQuery and AngularJS. That’s some of the front end stuff.

Then for the server side you need to decide whether to go down the Microsoft route or the PHP route – these to my mind are the two main server side technologies.

If the Microsoft route appeals, C# is more prevalent than VB.Net so that’s the better one to concentrate on. It usually pays more, too.

SQL Server for the Mcrosoft route, MySQL for the rest.

This is a massive oversimplification of the subject and there are so many other areas to look into – doubtless others will be along to shoot me down.

The good news is that it’s pretty much all free to learn, the bad news is that you will very likely need a few years experience before you can freelance – unless you can persuade friends and contacts to let you sort their web presence out. Even then you would probably need to do a few freebies to get established.

It’s all doable – I used to work in sales of varying kinds before I made the transition to IT. In this country you would find a lot of people who say ‘But you are a civil engineer, what do you know about web development’ but your mileage may vary.

Just my thoughts – other views are available.

Good luck.

I think it happened to me after updating to Windows 10 or a Windows update.

Let us know how you get on!

Try this page:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204095

Particularly the section entitled ‘Verify that the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver is installed’

Hope this helps – it worked for me.

Essentially this seems like a series of complaints about the selfish tossers who live in this craphole we call Britain. What a dump this place is.

MrOvershoot – Member
My wife laughing or smiling, she has faced up to MS destroying her body & life with so much more courage than I will ever have.

Struggling to imagine how you cope but trust that you find the strength to continue. Meant in earnest.

Missed your replies Jules and Jim – thanks and glad to hear your thoughts and experiences. I think that he is an incredibly under-appreciated person in these days of (pseudo-)heroes.

Nice video – very atmospheric.

Er, yes! Test pilots don’t generally have a long life span – apparently even l less so ME163 test pilots!

allthegear – Member
In the last three years as a freelancer, I’ve never been asked to do a coding test.

Rachel

Lucky you!

My last test was Christmas Eve and the one before that was a .Net 1.1 test which I aced. Horrible company and role, though.

@grum Fair enough…

grum – Member
I drove a nearly new Audi A4 estate on holiday recently. It was fine but I’d genuinely rather have my tatty P reg Berlingo.

Why?

Schweet, love it! Loads of room, nicely presented, cheap as (to those of us who live dahn saaf).

Move it to Hampshire and we’ll have it – but the price will quadruple!

Probably needs sorting out – a rogue advert, perhaps?

Mods, could you take a look maybe?

I’ve always drive Japanese cars. People lease/PCP new Audi’s because it helps them appear to be doing well.

Actually, people drive Audis because they are well made, are great to drive and give little or no trouble.

FTFY

A great shame – another one gone too young. My favourite band of all time.

I could not live without internet access as I rely on it for job hunting and teleworking, banking, holiday research and bookings, research on cars and wasting time on here!

I would not buy a house without internet access – there would need to be some way of accessing the internet or no deal.

Cougar – Moderator
Dude, I’m Northern, I don’t pronounce anything correctly. I have one of the most unintelligible dialects known to man.

FTFY (smiley no workee in edit mode!)

Went for a programming job. Everything they wanted me to do was very straightforward so I was confident I could do the job and then some.

‘Too confident’ was the reason for the rejection.

Someone I know* proposed on the ground floor of Peter Jones. Successfully

I know Peter Jones is tall, but even so…!

Interesting story and pics – thanks.

Sounds like a job well done (bit of an understatement!). Good on you and all the others folks who do this kind of thing. Thanks!

If you have access to the Enterprise versions for free then go for it and just use what you need to use.

The community edition is pretty useful though.

We have a couple of TPLink devices. No problems – just plugged them in and switched them on.

What is bugging me about them is that when I copy a file to the NAS drive from my laptop the initial transfer speed goes up as high as 60 MB/s then settles down at about 4MB/s – 6MB/s.

I know that the copy is being done over the wired network as a) the speed goes so high to start with and b) the wireless is not connected but I can’t figure out why the transfer speed drops to about the same speed as the wireless managed.

Any ideas? Suggestions appreciated!

Tried walking up that flipping mountain once. Much too much like hard work.

loddrik – Member
Tdi Touran. 42. 11 years ncb. 3 points. £700.

That’s Liverpool for ya…

Ouch! Move house… Mind you, house prices are probably 4x what yours are – £350k for a two bed bungalow in a dire state anyone?

Really really pissed off when we moved house – MrsJulianA’s premium went up by 38p, classic car insurance didn’t change and my premium went up by ~£200. Classic car insurance and my insurance underwritten by the same company!

Much shopping around reduced my premium by ~£160 with the same company.

Asshats.

Don’t know about bottoming out – £360 odd quid here with max NCD at the age of 50. Clean license as well.

Frankly couldn’t give a damn. Have far more sympathy for the thousands of uninsured folk South of the Border.

Why are people uninsured?

@bruneep – read the article. So not a nice guy. Fair enough – thanks for the heads up. Still not going to hope that a listed building falls down, though.