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:clap2: Fantastic news, and best wishes for your continuing recovery.

I would consider betting on the NZ$ as fairly risky because its rate is heavily influenced by cross-rates out of its control; it could be volatile. But don't listen to me, because I am in the process of making a fairly similar investment move myself (really)

Wear it well - it looks fantastic!

As Pugwash pointed out, often these kinds of PM's are spammed out to a dozen people - everyone ends up running around answering the same question. They annoy me when they're exactly the kind of question that can be asked on the forum.

Wow - deeply jealous of that one. Absolutely fantastic.

OWNED! Best signature of 08 - classic work. EDIT: This link may come in handy On a more serious note - awesome watches, another vote here to see the full collection!!

Could it be something to do with being set to beep if it goes in and out of standby / hibernation / or upon some kind of battery power event? If there's nothing wrong other than the beep, it could be that it's just set up to beep at that time and that you can change the setting. Looking in the BIOS settings might be a start.

Or get yourself a "Jungle Master" Perhaps I could 'reverse engineer' a GMT out of it, point it North and it tells me the time in Paris...

I think given the circumstances, that can be arranged....

No worries! (Upon discovering you had fixed it, I had to hurriedly amend my post telling you to give up, pour lighter fluid over the laptop and burn it ) I was also going to say, Avast is a good choice so keep with that one.

Step one is 'Safe Mode', which means as you reboot you press the F8 key, and in theory it gives you some options to start in safe mode and so on. In that list may be: Last Known Good Configuration If you can boot it in safe mode you may be able to access system restore, not sure. Failing that if you boot from the original CD there should be a repair option. That's not a solution in of itself necessarily, but it's a decent place to start. Your problem may be too much anti-malware/virus protection - some of them are too aggressive, as if the whole system exists just to stop viruses. Norton was taken out to the back of barn and shot years ago - caused ten times the grief that any virus ever did.

Thread cleaned up of some of the personal abuse. TeeJay and Hambone, please take a few chill pills. All future posts in this thread are to remain ON-TOPIC; this is not a general 'The Complete Business History of Trusty' thread.

Check out this story on Franken Ferraris being found in Italy: News story: Fake Ferraris Busted in Italy I liked this bit: "None of the engines was made by Ferrari, but the gang used internet hobbyists' sites to accumulate visible parts that were genuine. These included dashboards, steering wheels and, of course, the Big Red's distinctive black and yellow badge. What most impressed investigators was the quality of the workmanship that went into shaping the fibreglass bodywork so that the cars looked authentic. One said it was evidence of extraordinary ability." I guess the fake car forum have their own Ziggy !! Hey, speaking of which, has anyone seen Dependable-Bayerische-Motoren-Werke-Person around here lately

This week we had a guy knock at our door trying to sell us security upgrades for our house - he flashed me his brochure and got one sentence into his sales spiel when I opened the screen door and released the dog.... I took it from the way he backed away and left down the driveway that he rated our existing security system quite highly. [it's vet day today for our poor dog though - a check-up. UPDATE: He's back and he lives to attack another mailman ]

Wow that looks a lot of fun. 81 kph with your arse on the floor would be, shall we say, brown trouser time!

Sorry to hear that - what a nuisance for you. By the way - please never start an article called "Be always alert!" with the word "drag" - you had me scared for a minute there!!! :lol: I thought you'd had a "ladyboy" moment

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Welcome! Looking forward to seeing this Seamaster of yours

GREAT shots - definitely enjoyed these!! Fantastic collection you have there too.

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goddamit dutchy - we all know you passed your exams. When you said good news we thought you'd got laid Congratulations mate

Great shots! Are you any good at golf? Actually come to think of, when you're good with the ladies, who cares?! Here's to summer for you! (raises a glass)

Amen to that. It's a wonderful gesture, but it also sounds like that kind of loyalty deserves it a dozen times over. Best wishes to all concerned @Ken - I like this idea of watches for staff, I'm going to suggest it for key guys - starting with me

And just to think, it was only one crusty booger from being a 1980!

As Offshore said, I've got my plate full until mid-April (damned parole board! ), but that perhaps gives plenty of time to plan the thing. Here are some more thoughts to throw around: - I'm feeling increasingly encouraged that we could actually pull this off. - I really feel that there needs to be an extra special incentive for any interstate visitors; that in fact they deserve it for making the extra effort. And no, I don't think the Manly ferry counts! - Like the EU GTG maybe it could take place over more than one day, but focussed on a single event - as in, interstate visitors and anyone else who is up for it might meet up for a couple of other things while they are in town. I reckon this could be awesome.