Jonathon is correct - big business here - "unlocking" phones. However, there are ways to trace YOUR phone, but very costly indeed.
Also, many stolen phones get fenced for a bag of shertbert,, and are then cannibalised to provide spares for the fix-it shops.
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Jonathon is correct - big business here - "unlocking" phones.
Ian. I know of the "modification" available to cars, locally to you, that warms peoples legs if they request the keys. Any sight of a similar device for a mobile phone?
A new form of GBH of the ear?
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Unless the 'thief' gets the IMEI number changed
An article which I have read says:
"The IMEI number can only be changed with specialist equipment which (as you say) is illegal in the UK. Reprogramming the IMEI number is punishable with up to five years in jail"!!
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Get it changed at any car boot sale, sunday market or computer fair.
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In the Philippines any guy in a hole in the wall shop will unlock your cellphone, convert it to another network, anything you want for about fourpence.
What I would like to know is if I download from WinMx a very long CD which is too big to burn on to a regular disc, how do I split that file so I can transfer it to 2 discs? Apologies if this has already been covered.
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A long time ago I found a little program to edit MP3s. It was very rudimentary but let me clip them short (at start or end) and re-fade. You chose clip point by frame or time I recall.
Hvae a search through zdnet.com for MP3 editors, there's probably a whole range there now. Any of those should do the trick. If you have no success I will look later when I'm not supposed to be working!
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Is there any advantage to continuing to charge a mobile phone battery beyond the point at which the phone says "Charging Complete"? I seem to recall reading somewhere that the battery should preferably be charged for 18 houurs.
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L'escargot by name, but not by nature.
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My phone always says it is fully charged after about an hour, but if I unplug it the battery never seems to last as long as if I leave it charging for a long time, such as overnight. No doubt someone more technically minded will be along shortly to explain this or tell me I'm just being silly...
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Depends n the type of battery and charger. I've no science to offer this post, only experience, but new Ni-Cd batteries or ones that have been discharged over time seem to benefit from a 12-18 hour charge. Then they should be charged when nearly exhausted, never "topped-up". Li-ion batteries and Li-polymer batteries can just be charged when the battery is low, or on a regular weekly schedule, whichever suits.
Remember that Ni-Cd batteries have a finite life and can be replaced cheaply buy buying from Ebay.
Hawkeye
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Stranger in a strange land
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Old type batteries used to suffer from "memory effect", which, according to urban-legends, can be wiped back to zero by placing the battery in a frezer overnight. Search Google for an explanation, and make up your own mind whether this is worth a try, and if so how to do it.
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My IT man when he presents me with my new phone every year or so tells me it must be charged for 18 hours. After that I am told I should let the battery go flat before recharging to avoid the memory effect. It does seem to work and that way I get a good 2 days' use out of the thing before the next recharge whereas if I top it up I get less battery life. I think the 18 hours (the same figure I am always told) relates to the new unused battery and not to a battery already in service.
My Acer lap-top seems to conform to the same principles, i.e. I get more life if I charge it from a dead state. Likewise the Philips trimmer I use to shave my whiskers.
I remember being told this way back in about 1982 when I bought a Sony Betamax video camera so it does have some historical support.
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I have just bought Dido's new album but when I tried to play it through my computer so that I can save it to hard disk, along with all my other cds that are on it, I discover that it has some sort of technology built into it to prevent your normal player (in my case Musicmatch Jukebox) from recognizing it.
It "pops" up its own media player that plays the CD but I am unable to copy it to disk. I realise that this is to prevent pirating through the net but, as with all these technological advances, there must surely be a way round it?
Anyone know? I run Windows 98 and Jukebox, although I do also have WinOn CD.
Anyone able to assist?
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\'s not anti-pirating software, tiz the taste police.
In all serious, have you tried right-clicking and \"exploring\" the cd rather than playing it? This may allow you to copy the files as if they were data, but unlikely.
I\'ve found Nero 5 combined with XP allows most cds to be backed up, including a number that were supposedly protected against piracy, for use in the car (those single play head-units eat cds for breakfast, so I\'m darned if I\'m going to use originals in the car)
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From ukcdr.org/issues/cd/bad/
"Life for Rent" by Dido: Reported corrupt in Ireland, and in the UK as supplied by CD-WOW, Amazon UK and 101CD. Amazon carry a warning, but CD-WOW don't. However, we have a report that one copy bought from PLAY.com is clean. The BMG labelling on the packaging of this disc is reportedly not entirely clear. The disc refuses to play on a Philips 779 twin CD player and an Alpine car CD multichanger. A reference quality CD player just about manages to play the disc, but the output is full of clicks, pops and jumps, and 'sounds awful'. There are also playback problems on a JVC DVD player. The disc also refuses to play in one tested Windows machine, and a Mac user reported that the disc was unrecognised on a couple of drives. However, several people have reported success extracting the audio on both DVD-ROM and CD-ROM drives.
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>>(those single play head-units eatcds for breakfast, so I\'m darned if I\'m going to use originals in the car)
No Dosh
Have you experienced this? I ask since I have used several single CD head units and have never lost an original CD, some CDRW refuse to play however. What is the difference to a multi-CD unit in this regard?
cheers
Ian L.
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Ian,
I've had a number of cd's scratched by the loading mechanism on a Kenwood, Pioneer and now a Blaupunkt head unit. I'm toying with the idea of getting a mult-player but have no experience of them up to now.
Some head units have problems with CDRW and to a lesser extent CDR but I've not had a problem to date.
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I've had a number of cd's scratched by the loading mechanism on a Kenwood, Pioneer and now a Blaupunkt head unit. I'm toying with the idea of getting a mult-player but have no experience of them up to now.
Thanks ND,
Not sure what make my CD players were/are (standard fit in Subaru, Vauxhall and Volvo). I would guess that the multi-play might help since the CDs are getting loaded less frequently. (Showing my ignorance here....is the loading mechanism similar?)
My daughter's nursery rhyme and mary poppins CD's which are the most often played show no problems so far.
cheers
Ian L.
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Try holding down the shift key as you put the cd in, so as to stop the autorun program from running.
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I've had this anti-piracy problem with a couple of CDs. In both cases I've managed to unpack most of the tracks to .WAV files, which of course can then be saved any which way you like. But in both cases there is at least one track that cannot be unpacked--and believe me I've tried every one of about twenty hacker special CD Rippers available for Linux. The answer is to get software that will record the soundcard's output in real time: I've managed to figure out how to do this in Linux now and while back someone pointed us to some commercial programs to do this in Windows but I can't remember what they were.
The original CDs are just inconvenient as they play perfectly on one CD player, a bit on others and not at all in the car. Weirdly the one that works perfectly is almost three years old, but it is the most expensive of the lot by a margin of several hundred pounds. The stupid thing is if the CDs played properly on all my CD players I wouldn't be trying to hack them. Duh. Apple's iTunes may well be getting my business in future.
With regards Dido, this is a bit like that old Duckhams advert: If a CD player could choose its own playlist...
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I know this protection is a sore point for many (me included) but I'm not sure that this site is the best place for discussing how to hack it...
Anyway - to my question...
I have an HP All in One on a JetDirect box. To use the scanning function I enter the IP address of the device, and it then loads Java applets to build me a menu. My computer trashed itself a few weeks back, and since rebuilding (XP Pro, IE6) all I get is placeholder where the menu items should be. In fact a website I use won't display Java applets either.
I've browsed through various options in IE but can't find where to allow whatever is disabled. I get pictures fine on (most) web sites, and everything else seems OK.
Any ideas?
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Do you definitely have a Java runtime environment installed?
If you have, you should be able to find the setting under the 'Advanced' tab in your IE settings. Microsoft has been engaged in legal battles over the use of Java for years. The consequence of this is that Java support has and has not been included in Windows and IE at various times.
You could try downloading the latest Java runtime environment from Sun Microsystems at java.com/en/index.jsp .
Alternatively, get the Microsoft Virtual Machine. This is no longer available from Microsoft but see java-virtual-machine.net/download.html for info.
If you install both, you should be able to toggle between the two using the advanced settings in IE.
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Thanks Wellie. I have XP SP1 and IE 6 SP1. I downloaded the Sun one you suggested and now get coffee cups instead of red crosses, but the Java website now works.
I reckon it's a security policy issue so when I have some time I will tweak some settings to see if I can get it to work. (It also couldn't find the JetDirect box since I put a Proxy Server in, because I hadn't told it to bypass the proxy for local addresses...)
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I stopped buying off the shelf CD's long ago because of their obscene pricing. Now I download what I want from the Net or buy local pirated versions. Legality, morality I don't give a toss. Those companies make plenty of money without my help.
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Anyone know of a site that will help with French translation (English to French). My spoken French is passable for the basics, but I need to drop a line to a small family-run hotel confirming a reservation we made on their website. They emailed back to ask for written confirmation and I would like to make the effort!
On a related matter, anyone able to recommend any CDs or CDroms for learning / improving French?
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Not sure how good it is, but www.freetranslation.com translated your post above as:
N'importe qui sait d'un site qui aidera avec la traduction française (anglais à Français). Mes Français parlés sont passable pour les principes fondamentaux, mais j'ai besoin de tomber une ligne à un petit hôtel de famille-course confirmant une réservation que nous avons faits sur leur site web. Ils ont envoyé un e-mail à postérieur pour demander la confirmation écrite et j'aimerais faire l'effort!
I think tomber une ligne is a bit dodgy, but then dropping a line is somewhat colloquial...
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And Altavista Babelfish did it like this
N'importe qui savent d'un emplacement qui aidera avec la traduction française (anglais-français). Mon Français parlé est passable pour les fondations, mais je dois laisser tomber une ligne à un petit hôtel de famille confirmant une réservation que nous avons faite sur leur website. Elles emailed de nouveau à demandent la confirmation écrite et je voudrais faire l'effort!
babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/
Take your pick (Prenez votre sélection)
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Anyone know of a site that will help with French translation (English to French).
Altavista's Babel Fish.
world.altavista.com/
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hi bobby g,
i too have just got my hands on dido's cd, the easiest way i found to copy it to h/drive, as computer wouldn't recognise it as an audio cd was:
select your sound cards recorder program,(mine was creative recorder)
select: record from wave/mp3
set EAX: concert hall 90% (optional,but great sound effect)
use the player that came on the dido cd, play the track(s) you want individually (so that you can edit title etc)and as track starts, press the record button.
this saves the tracks as .wav files, but you can convert them to mp3 later.
hope this is some help,
billy.
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Guys, thanks for all your replies and ideas, will try and give some of them a go,
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