Thanks Mod.
First two unlikely I think, as I have a strong wifi signal and it's been happening consistently for several days now. Prior to that, no problem whatsoever. Third is possible, however, as I'm supposed to be on 60Mb (Virgin Superhub thing) I really shouldn't be having problems streaming iPlayer stuff, even if speedtest isn't an accurate measure of my actual speed.
I have no idea what the last one means, sorry.

Yes, but if a speedtest is showing 50Mb+ is it really likely that I'm actually only getting less than 1/10 of that speed?

igorgetmeabrain wrote:

Yes, but if a speedtest is showing 50Mb+ is it really likely that I'm actually only getting less than 1/10 of that speed?

Have you tried a wired connection to rule out shitty Wi-Fi?

Mod74 wrote:

hunk wrote:

Ok, can somenone here help me with Outlook2013 and oab? I'm trying to retrieve an adress list from an old oab save but somehow Outlook refuses to import it. I'm a clueless thicko so I'm probably doing something horribly wrong. Help?

They're not designed to be imported are they? You probably want to try opening it in a text editor or oab specific editor to get the address you want.

Yes and yes.
How would I go on about doing that?

I was kindof hoping I could just open it in Outlook but that's not going to work I guess.

No way, It can't be that simple.....
Can it?

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Saw some posts about that on a tech forum so might try that.
Now I just have to locate where outlook stores its oab files......

Fantastic Mod, Luv ya!
Will let you know whether this trick works or not.

Little Franklin wrote:

Should I be worried that my machine keeps making beeping noises while I'm playing RAGE?

Problem solved. I just play with headphones so I won't hear the beeping any more.

Hopefully one of you will be help me out with a slight problem I'm having.  I need to create a word template for people at work to use, that contains an image. Once the document is completed it gets converted to pdf prior to printing. When it is converted the image looses quality. I have tried jpg, PNG and tiff. Tiff works best but isn't perfect, is there anyway of ensuring a lossless conversion?

Hadn't even thought of xps, will report back tomorrow.  Thanks mod.

GooberTheHat wrote:

Hopefully one of you will be help me out with a slight problem I'm having.  I need to create a word template for people at work to use, that contains an image. Once the document is completed it gets converted to pdf prior to printing. When it is converted the image looses quality. I have tried jpg, PNG and tiff. Tiff works best but isn't perfect, is there anyway of ensuring a lossless conversion?

When you save as PDF in Word does it give you PDF settings options?
If it does, a pound to a penny bet that the image compression is set to high.
Set it to 300dpi if you are printing it out.

Outlook.com/Hotmail has been borderline unusable performance wise for a couple of days. 

Anyone else having this prob?

three1ne wrote:

Outlook.com/Hotmail has been borderline unusable performance wise for a couple of days.  Anyone else having this prob?

A colleague at work told me she was having the same problem and yes same for me too (when accessed through IE anyhow). At home my mail's delivered via Windows Live Mail, which is still working fine.

I need some RAM advice/knowledge if someone would be kind.
I have a 2x 2.66GHz Dual Core Intel Xeon Mac Pro at home, with 2GB of 667 Mhz DDR2 RAM installed.
I use it for a bit of design work and general tinkering.
I have just looked at some DIMMs on ebay and I can get 
4GB (2 x 2GB) PC2-6400U DDR2 RAM 800MHz Non-ECC 240Pin PC DIMM
 for £35.
or
UM142 4GB 2x2GB PC2-5300F FB Server ECC RAM DDR2 667MHz 2Rx4 240 Pin
for £25.

The question is this, is the Mhz of the RAM a issue? Faster is better? Faster is always better isnt it?
And whats this Non-ECC thing? Does it matter?

Thanks in advance swarmis.

Thanks mod.
I checked it out, 4 times the prices I found I won't be going for that!
It's probably soopa ram, but I don't need soopa ram.