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Found it wasn't actually downloading anything! Olive softwear user info is more Spartan than the Spartans - to say the least - no messages to tell you what is happening, how to do stuff. Nothing in manual, nothing online. How come other electronic products nearly smother you with pdf manuals, etc. online? The modern world is crazy. Anyway, I restarted download, this time got a progress graph and it did the download "successfully", it said, in about 10 hours. This is a music server at the bottom of the Olive range (03HD). If you want to see how many complaints you can get about "state-of-the-art" servers bigger than that and costing ££several thousands, check out the avs forum. Glad mine from hifi store in Harrow (ex-dem)is claimed to be trouble free, and more importantly, warrantied for a year. Brilliant when it is working. Nuff said. People knocked the Brennan, too. I have had mine for several years now, playing faultlessly, but it had to go back to them 3 times before bugs ironed out. Hi-tec can be very unimpressive, due to the race to get stuff on the shelves. Possibly not as bad as that in the car industry now?

This is car over 20 years old? My wife's from-new Austin 1100 (BMC Leyland) developed rotten sills that collapsed on jacking the car up - I kid you not - when it was 3 years old. (1966-69) Multiply this experience by untold thousands = British car industry down the pan.

Thanks, guys. "Supports USB2.0/1.1" on Buffalo box. Desktop is quite recent Dell Inspiron 530, I guess it will be USB 2.0? Days then, anyway?

This music is on Olive 03HD - about 730 albums. It has been running for about 30 hours! Hard drive is Buffalo 500Gb FAT32. (And I used to think making music tapes and cassettes was time-consuming.)

Should read "Today Sunday 25th" (stupid old git!)

https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/sunday-specialbuys-25th-august/product-detail/ps/p/wrecking-bars/

see here - http://www.southernwater.co.uk/at-home/your-water/water-resources/where-our-water-comes-from/groundwater.asp Also, we used to hear this, years ago - "Anything that's passed through so many kidneys has to be very pure indeed." (A reference to the saying that London tap-water is allegedly filtered by seven sets of kidneys).

The driest parts of the UK in the southeast are the most densely populated. I believe water comes to many by artesian wells underground.

Nancy Ajram

Hi, Jim, your post explains, so well, too, why so many do not trust science and scientists today. I was educated in a golden age of science - it seemed to many of us to be the best and most fascinating field to work in at that time. No doubt we were deluded to some degree, and there will have been vested interests (probably almost entirely in the US then) but scientists in the UK and Europe seemed to be trusted and respected, with no charlatans and crooks among them - only the truth and the science (good science) mattered. Anyway, for many of my school pals, it made science well respected and attractive to be involved in. Typically, as in many other fields in these idealistic times (1960s), science seemed to hold the potential to address and solve so many problems for the human race. However, I can assure you, the word "environment" was probably never used in my hearing in those days. The earth was treated as a useful dustbin - so big as to be able to dilute or disperse any nasties or waste our lifestyles may create. Now we know that was an extremely dangerous belief. The general public have to scrabble around looking for who to believe. Unfortunately this means many are fooled into following the views of scientists who are plugging unsound/unproven theories. Don't get me started on the £ tens of billions railway across a swathe of prime England for getting some business people from London to Birmingham a bit faster!

A documentary I saw showed fizzy water from the drinking supply. This was due to methane. It was in the US. Not sure if the water was always like that, but the local hillbillys said it wasn't until fracking happened. Yesterday, or day before, I heard Germany are not going ahead with it - they are concerned about gases being forced into the groundwater on which their huge beer industry depends. No one else hear that? The thought of almost unlimited energy in the UK and not having to depend on precarious suppliers like Russia, etc is very tempting. We need to know more, as our crowded country is too small for its inhabitants not to be affected by any negative effects the laws of physics will impose - probably irreversibly.

Heck! - I hope our little Stuie won't be doing that!

Our youngest lad who works for a paper paid us a quick visit - this time he was in an Audi R8 Spyder - I think that's right. Obscene power and luxury - no cassette player unfortunately. Missed him last week when he had some Mercedes monster that the military use. He just bought a flat in Edinburgh this year, so he and his girl friend run a 10-year old Suzuki Ignis of the yello variety.

dr_mat I bought this one in Sept 2012. Never used it as autoelectrician established problem was ecu, which I replaced. I am sure my man said they were reasonable brand. I can send it to you for nowt - you can try it - if it works send a beer voucher - if not, keep it. No use to me now. regards Iain http://stores.ebay.co.uk/All-Cars-All-Parts-Ltd/All-Cars-Shop.html_?_nkw=290653615231&submit=Search

Yes - interesting documentary, but I felt some one-sidedness too. Are there no slovenly Germans? Maybe they can blame the Turks or some other nationality for that trait?

Sure - I got that message from the documentary. My wife is an Irish/English farmer's daughter and is a gem. She is a free spirit and I and our 3 adult children would not swap her for a teutonic automaton even if she looked like Heidi Klum - nor would scores of people who know her. I admire many things German - but only so far! Her parents on the farm had German POWs working for them. They said they had never experienced such forgiving friendliness and were given Christmas presents and included in the family festivities. We still get a Christmas card here from Karl in his 80s. He was captured as a 16-year old horseman at the end of the war. Willi (from the U-boat pens) never went back to Germany, taught my wife - as a child - to play tennis and attended our wedding. As my mother in law said - "they were only boys - how could you not treat them as such". Oops! - I mentioned the war.

I haven't plucked up the courage to tell my wife she should be doing over 4 hours of housework a day! Yes, the class system (them/us) has riven the UK's industries for so long. Seeing how others like the Germans were forging(!) ahead because of their different philosophy in the workplace could have saved so many industries here. Too late now.

I thought this program was excellent - probably because many of the ideas conveyed were identical to the ones I had formed watching our and other car industries since about 1965 when I was 20. My next door neighbour is a retired electrician who grew up in Govan (at school with Sir Alex) and started in the shipyards. He agrees that the class war and smug complacency played a huge part in the decline of our industries. The shipyard owners would not invest in new technology - they were still using early 1900s technologies and everyone was involved in frequent demarcation disputes, e.g. arguing about the 3 trades who would install the porthole whilst the Germans had got one man to do the job and were rapidly pinching our customers, as were nations in the far east. I gave up on British cars in 1972 when we bought a 2nd-generation Opel (early ones were primitive). The quality of the Manta and the Ascona was excellent in comparison to British cars we could afford, and stalled Vauxhalls slump for a good few years. My school pal, who qualified as an engineer, firstly worked at MOD Birtley then went into teaching. Strangely, the only new car he ever bought was an Allegro in 1974! I think he was blinded by the hype that emerged in the British press at the time. Didn't it win some car of the year award? About 5 or 6 years later, his wife put her foot through the rusted floor (permanent water leak into glove box)and the thing became a modern sculpture beside his garage as a clematis grew around it, up it, through it, emerging from a rust hole in the top of one of the front wheel arches. He got a tenner from a guy who took it away for scrap. "Oh how we laughed." His last four cars have been a used Cavalier and three Toyotas. 'Nuff said.

Nice job, Andi - we are all most grateful for your efforts. Yes, I am a grovelling smartass.

I feel honoured to have become Corradoless in the same month as a true leg end among us serfs. Oops! Seriously though, I wish you all the best for the future bb, and I will be looking in on here from time to time, too. Tough withdrawing from all things Corrado, it would appear!

I had to put something else as my avatar to replace the Corrado gorgeousness, Philstrm250. The lady is Nancy Ajram - a superstar in Arab entertainment, but unknown to me until I was browsing youtube music one day. See her in this superb music video. Sorry - no black guys rappin' 'n' grabbin' their crotches to the beat, but we need a bit of well-executed romance back now and again, lol.

I can say that this item has worked flawlessly since day 1 when my local autoelectrician installed it. (He fitted lots of gear into top footballer's SUVs - e.g. Henrik Larsson, Jackie McNamara) A great unit - no problems ever with a mixture of original CDs, home-made Cds and cassettes.

Thanks so much for kind words, Ben & bristolbaron. So many gents (and great ladies) on this forum - but we know that! Looks like I will be small fry if I go for a mere 2nd Corrado in this company! (Won't happen, but never say never about something else some day like a second Mk 2 GTi.) PS - My wife is getting twitchy - I "mention the Corrado" from time to time and I am not getting away with it.

She must be speshul, then, ken?

http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/www_lidl_uk/hs.xsl/our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=4011&ar=11 "Today, I will be mainly wearing my Health & Safety hat." (despite the heat!) As I have said before, these are great value. Always worth getting another at this price. You may be glad you did, some day.