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Below are excerpts from hoax slayer:

"The message contains inaccurate and misleading information. The protest originated from an incident at a Northern Ireland Poundland store in which a staff member was asked to remove a poppy to comply with company policy. However, Poundland has since changed its policy to allow staff to wear poppies at their discretion. Moreover, the claim that BodyShop has banned the wearing of poppies is totally false."

"The Body Shop is NOT banning employees from wearing poppies. Nor has it ever done so. The Body Shop has publicly denied the claim, noting on its Facebook Page.."

"It seems that the false claim about The Body Shop is the result of mistaken identity. Back in November 2009, a chain with the similar sounding name "Bodycare" did ban its staff from wearing poppies. The policy caused considerable protest and discontent and Bodycare later revoked its ban and changed its policy to allow staff to wear poppies if they chose."

Full report:
Inaccurate Protest Message - Poundland and Bodyshop Banning Staff From Wearing Poppies

Afraid sometimes we are all a bit quick to judge

Hi Linda

Try starting XP in safemode.

Last known Good config is only good for a one time try, you should always try this one first. After it tries a normal boot, this will be overwritten.

One option should be safemode, with various options, networking etc. Just see if it boots up in basic safemode (just loads your essential bits and bobs).

If it does, then try rebooting and see if it comes up normally. If it's the same problem, load back in safemode, and uninstall your Norton stuff, reboot and see if it comes again.

Personally, I'd steer clear of 2000, and stick with XP. Worse case, doing a format and just reinstalling XP wouldn't take too long if your just using the PC as a print server.

We just got cold called this morning from a firm calling themselves Energy Solutions (no association with any real firm or website of the same name).

Full on hard sales pitch, reduce energy costs blah blah, but no website that you can visit "we don't have a website"

Very aggressive and full on, and trying to get financial information. When our man Clive started interrogating him, he slammed the phone down.

Number we were called from was 0208 150 6550

Nothing on Google for this number... until now But be warned.

Going to name and shame every monkey that tries to scam us with crap advertising, dubious SEO firms or Utility cons.

Just google it, loads of stuff out there. But reckon you will open a can of worms.

Maybe a different work atmosphere is required? Guess it depends on the role and if the employee needs to be a self starter or is target driven. If its for example operators in a call centre, then they will have a call centre scheduler program and be very closely monitored.

If its your admin staff, and they are sat all day on Facebook, instead of working, give them a warning, if they continue to flout your companys rules, sack them

But if you have a mutual respect in place, ie will let them surf in breaks, but crack on and work during work time, then prob no need to be draconian. You can normally get a good idea if you have a bad apple by good management, 121's, work targets etc,

lol, page 1 you must go my young padowan...

lol I've told you a thousand times before.....

I reckon it's context. In every networking meeting I've been to in the last 5 years, whenever you ask the standard "hows business going" question, not once has someone and come back "terrible, things aren't going well at all". It's always, "great, marvelous, couldn't be better".

That includes the businesses that didn't turn up at the next meeting because they had gone bust

Sorry Dreamraven, prob steered your thread off at a tangent

Old Tomsk is feisty these days

A classic cut and paste intro, was going to delete, but its in the rant forum, so quite apt. May even get a reply!

I was actually quite impressed with how many times you can get the word law into one sentence

Moved this to a new thread as its newsworthy.

So the way I understand it, the tariff is getting cut by 50% because the whole policy was ill thought out, and the gold rush of "free solar" installers has now brought the scheme to its knees?

Another superb UK government blunder! As heat my home says, at least moving forward this should now be a sustainable model for professional firms, assuming no one moves the gold posts again!

Obviously have a serious lack of mechanical engineers on board!

Glad you cracked it

Can see where you're coming from, layout wise. Would prob work quite well on a mobile as well.

But agree with the previous comments. Maybe approach an established board and offer this as a bolt on service, so their site is reformatted for tablets?