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Is there anyone who can lend me a digital camera, please? It'll need to include means for getting pictures form camera to PC. I probably only need it for a week or so.
( I can't find some bits of mine, but they may yet turn up. )

Flights from Toulouse and nearby are still grounded. I think I'm booked onto a flight on Tuesday, but I'm not expecting it to actually fly to London. Meanwhile, apparently there's a strike on the French trains! And Eurostar has been a no-go zone for days - let's hope that those extra trains materialise ( Read more... )

Does anyone know how I best get Windows 7 onto a laptop that's primarily sulking, and not recognising its own hardware ( Read more... )

I've a technical query: for some reason, my Re:Automation podcasts have become sorted by release date. Which would be a fine thing, except a bunch of the recent ones don't have one, nor do one or two older ones, and they're all muddled at the bottom (or top) of the list. I can't sort by any other field, however. And I can't edit the release date ( Read more... )

Well, if we're counting software as "toys"...

• DropBox, which lets you store files online - so you can access them from your various computers, and indeed share them with others.
  If you use this link to sign up, then I'll get some extra space, and if you use this one instead, then jfs does, to whom also thanks for mentioning it all in the first ( Read more... )

First off, I really must learn one day that coffee + no food = sore tummy, esp first thing in the morning. Bleh. Have had tasty porridge and feel better now ( Read more... )

This is on behalf of my dad, papillon_france, because I don't know the answer off the top of my head, and don't have time to research it:

"I'm having terrible trouble with internet response times. I think it may be something to do with my new neighbour getting our lines changed to accomodate his narrow band land line phone.

Anyway, he is also using my wireless ( Read more... )

... I will send a handmade gift to the first 3 (or possibly more if the mood takes) people who leave a comment here on my LJ. (idea nicked from sarah_mumI'm not altogether sure what it'll be - a lot of my knitting projects seem to take me forever, but if you don't mind waiting, then that's an option, e.g. socks. I can do basic crochet, I've got some ( Read more... )

I have an incredibly old Sony Vaio with power cable problems, which I haven't used in some years.

It turns out that I've set a BIOS password. Can anyone think how I might get around that if I've forgotten what it was?