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The Sun on TV

When the Sun is shown on TV, why does it always look like a six pointed star, rather than say five pointed or no points at all?

jess82

First pro camera... which one???

I am interested in photography and I am trying to decide which digital SLR camera to buy. It will be my first professional camera so I want it to be good quality with potential to buy new lenses etc....

evanso

hackers and crackers

explain the differences between a hacker and a cracker.

4getmenot

Keyboard

On a normal computer keyboard why do the letters J & F have a raised bit on them?

camioneur

Memory Stick Format

Is there a way to format a 1Gb memory stick (pen drive). I've managed to get some files on it that won't delete or rename. The PC doesn't recognise the program that created them and they are all...

mkjuk

furthermore how do i find out the speed of my dvd rw?

if i right click properties on the dvd drive it allows me to select upto x18 but this is only a ?499 packard bell easy note laptop

Nohbidy

Netropa crashes

I've got a keyboard that uses the Netropa Hotkey software, but said software throws a General Protection Fault as soon as my system boots. Sadly, without said software, the hotkeys on my keyboard...

bazza26

cant renew my ip

i have just moved my computor a few feet and repair the connection and although i can connect to the internet it came up saying could not renew my ip address so i have limited connectivity

hewo

Food taste vs nutritional value

Why is it that we tend to prefer the taste and experience of eating food that is considered 'bad' for us? Although many people enjoy eating fruit and vegetables, it's really high-fat foods like...

theregularme

After 1980 there is a lack of information on computing...

...available online, can anybody tell me why this is and point out some websites with information on computing post-1980?

bazza26

why is the network speed is slow?

i am living with my friend who is in the top room i am on the first floor and the router is on the ground floor. my friend is connected at almost twice the speed i am and i was wondering if there is...

Slooow_Jo

Music on dvds?

Music on dvd discs? Can you burn music onto a dvd disc? If so is it done the same way you would burn music onto a cd disc & will it still play on my stereo?

sten102

strange characters when typing Word doc

When I type in one particular document (Word 2002) instead of normal letters I get those weird characters. How do I change it back to normal?! Thanks.

Munster

broadband

how can I check my broadband speed? With dialup there was an icon I could double click

catherine_s

how do i make them smaller?

ive put all my digital camera pics onto my computer, but for some reason theyre all over 1MB each even though theyre in jpg format, this means i cant upload them easily onto anything because theyre...

lightoftruth

Genuine microsoft

HI all my microsoft is telling me that my copy of windows is counterfeit. I know its counterfeit and im not going to cough up 92 quid just to make it all official. Does anyone know how to block all...

Zevon

Gravity- Weird or what?

Does anyopne else find gravity starnge, a force rthat only depends on mass and doesn't require any energy or work to be done, never runs out or diminishes for a given object and has an infinite range....