Financial commentators and treasury ministers forever harp on about the importance of economic growth. Nobody ever mentions a downside, but surely the unrestricted pursuit of economic growth must use...
I have just been upgrading my PC and so purchased Windows XP (now installed) and Norton Personal Firewall (not yet opened packet). It would appear from the blurb with Windows XP that it comes with a...
It is recommended not to televisions in 'standby' mode overnight, due to the high energy consumption. Why should there be such a high energy consumption in this state? Surely the cathode ray tube must...
When I print directly from web pages, the right side of the page is always missing from the printout, no matter whether I am using my home pc or the pc at work. Is there a way of avoiding this?
I want to buy a colour inkjet printer to use alongside my mono laser printer. Is it possible to connect them both to one single port? Is there some kind of 'splitter' device that one can use? At the...
A 32" flatscreen digital TV seems to cost ?1000+, whereas a similar analogue TV costs ?600 - ?800. What are the benefits of buying a digital TV? Will analogue TVs be obsolete in five years time?
What was Steely Dan's biggest hit? Was it Ricky, Don't Lose That Number or was it Haitian Divorce, or is there another possibility that's slipped my mind?
Where did the idea come from that Bohemian Rhapsody spawned the first music video, when Benny Hill's Ernie was years earlier? Answer me that one, Andy Hughes.
Mark Lawrenson on radio 5live made a reference to a quote by Sid Vicious about 'the man in the street'. But he didn't say what the quote was. Does anybody know?
I used the air conditioning in my Peugeot 405 for the first time this year the other day and it smells like there's a dead rat in the engine (well something that doesn't smell too good anyway). Any...
I am going to New York for a few days. If I buy CD ROMs and DVDs over there, will they work in my PC when I come back to England, or do they use an incompatible system, as is the case for videotapes.
Is there a way of backing up my 'favourite websites' list? (AOL and Explorer 5) If my computer crashed I'd hate to have to dig them all out again. Besides, I'd like to keep them on a floppy for when...
I'm having a problem running Scandisk - it keeps restarting, with the message 'Drive's contents changed - restarting'. I presume there is a program running in the background that is causing the...