I just wish you all to have this year as the best year your have ever had. Filled with happiness, love and peace.

Happy New Year to you all.

In the west women get to murder men without too much hassle all they have to say (no proof required) is that they have been victims of domestic violence. I may just move to Japan after all!!

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A Je To, roughly translated means "Done it" or "Sorted". It is based on two characters who try their best to get through daily life but just do not seem to be able to do so without totally screwing up. 

You can get recent remakes here, but you really want the......

Previously I mentioned the missing MoD Hard disk, well it gets better and better. It now seems that we are looking at 1.7 Million records being on the disk, although they are not too sure about that. The Disk was probably not encrypted, but not sure about that. The drive was probably lost, but not too sure about that.

"EDS assesses that it is unlikely that the device was encrypted because it was stored within a secure site that exceeded the standards necessary......

A survey of 1500 UK consumers discovered that 50% of them got their music legally. Wow, 50% admitted being criminals, and the rest were too scared. According to research the fact that there are so many legitimate download sites makes buying songs far more popular than getting them for free. Who the did this survey?

"Acting on information supplied by music industry groups many ISPs have contacted customers to tell them they are suspected of illegally downloading......

IT was inevitable that all the problems that the banks are having would have a knock on effect. Imagine if you will receiving an email that says something along the lines of this.

"Dear valued customer.

Because of the global recession <Your bank> has ceased trading, for the next 12 hours you may withdraw your money from this temporary site only. Please take advantage of this opportunity to transfer your account to another online bank, or to your......

WEll the EDS a main contractor for the Ministry of Defence in the UK have revealed that they have lost a hard drive. I am guessing it must be an external one as internal hard drives do not get lost, just stolen.

The drive contained information on more than half a million active and potential Armed Forces personnel, including passport details, driveing licenses, bank details and addresses. Everything any bright kid would need to impersonate someone in the military.

Anonymity on the internet is a common problem that most people face at sometime, and all people should face. The simple fact is, not everything we do online is suitable in all cases. I worked for a major ISP and they banned anyone looking at their competitors' sites. Even though such information was useful to us when dealing with our customers. One of my colleagues was caught and dismissed. If he had accessed the forbidden sites anonymously then he would not have been caught......

God damn those Chinese! Infecting the world with their deep red communist ideas, spying on their people's messages, restricting access to the internet, even preventing users from accessing the full google database. What a god awful country that must be to live in... or is it?

Well the American's currently are attempting to infect the world with their red, white and blue capitalistic ideas - although if you get to powerful as a company they will do everything......

Well that's great. Firefox 3.0 was having problems displaying Hotmail's web pages, 3.01 resolved that. The new version 3.1a2 has broken it again! Why fix something that isn't broken... Well this comes under a gigantic software development blunder. Come on guys get it sorted.

Okay, so what is the best download of September 2008... as this is the first of a monthly series of questions regarding the best download, I will actually leave this open to the one indispensible download.

I say VSO, this programme runs almost continually on one of my machines converting my downloaded videos to DVD. Sqeezing two films onto a single DVD in reasonable to brilliant quality. I just love this programme and could not do without it!

Well I just updated Firefox and nearly all my add ons and my theme have been disabled because they are not compatible! It seems to me that surely the theme should not cause compatibility problems but alas it does. So I have to spend an hour or so searching for compatible plugins - if any exist to get my browser to work the way I want it to.

Just out of interest, which is the best browser, in your opinion and why?

Well you have started downloading, now you want to be a real member of the P2P file sharing community and give something back. You have decided to upload something that you think people will want.

The first thing to do is select what you want to upload. This is not as easy as it may sound. You should check to see that no one else has already provided the file. It seems a waste of time uploading a file when it already exists, especially when there are lots of seeds. If......

First off - stay clear if you can of external USB hard drives. I have had two and both of them have been problematic. The first one died after about 5 months, although it was not the hard drive itself that died but the enclosure and USB interface. Well I just stripped the Hard drive out and to my surprise it was a SATAII drive!They put a 3GB per second drive into an enclosure that only handles 480Mbp. I guess the old IDE interface would be slower transfering only 80MB per......

Well my 4th post in a series of 100 top questions asked about BitTorrent and its related activites has been sitting waiting to be audited for almost a week now.

How long does it take to get audited and is there something I need to do such as ask an admin to audit it?

It is very strange, of late I seem to be having problems with the Tags I create for my posts. I will say create a post on downloading torrents and create the tags "downloading, torrents, speed, peers, clients" and insert them, without the quotation marks into the Tags textbox.

Sometimes all is well and I get the individual tags working, only to find a day or two later that they no longer are individual tags, but all been merged into one long tag with......

Well this has been a fun week. I got another 500GB hard drive so I guess I will not be needing the Terabyte drive I was going to buy in December until about February - Eeek... I use way too much storage space.

I also bought 4GB of decent speed memory and my machine is buzzing along quite nicely. So the new computer I was going to buy in February can wait until April.

And the biggest toy I bought was my new keyboard. Yes, I know I am such a sad sack. But......

There are a number of file types and abbreviations that you will encounter, some you will be familiar with others you may not. Here is a list of most of the common ones that you will find used.

.AC3: Is an audio codec often used within .AVI files. If you have a video but no sound then you probably need to download this codec.

.AVI: This is a video file and most multimedia programs will allow you to access them. Although you may need an AVI Codec. Them......

 This question is very common. People often do not realise that BitComet is not where you get your torrents from, well not your primary source. BitComet can be thought of as a torrent download manager. Following is a step by step explanation of the whole download process, from begining to end.

First of all, someone needs to make a file available to the world to download. They do this by creating a special file which has the .torrent extension. Below is information......

This is one that everyone asks about at some point in time. I remember a few years ago asking this very question when I first started using the BitTorrent. Clearly you want to download your data at the quickest speeds you can. Why download at only a few Kb when your download capabilities are in the hundreds of KB if not thousands? Currently I am downloading at 100KB which is far from my max of around 900KB.

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Well this has got to be one of the most common questions to ask and needless to say is often answered in the most simple of terms. I will give a little fuller account and explanation here to ensure that the most people possible have their problem (this problem) resolved without having to go anywhere else for assistance.

If you are running Windows then the first thing I would do is download GSpot from here. There is no GSpot on Linux but there is a nice......

These range from, how to use a particular piece of software, how to install or view a particular download, what does a particular symbol mean within the torrent site or the P2P client; and of course the unbiquitous, how can I get my downloads to be faster and how do I upload.

Well, I have decided to compile,......