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sorry people. first time registering the 406...

they are in road user charges tho arn't they? ahh thats what she was talking about: RUC fees increased on 1 October 2009: New RUC rates (PDF, 40 KB)

figured out why mine was 100... it's because it was non-petrol... what a crock of sh*t... why is it more expensive to licence a non-petrol vs a petrol!

womens wet dream?

dry compressed air can from tricky dicky or jaycar is golden for that job... wouldn't hurt to get a can of circuit board cleaner and giving it a good spray also..

cough google search = http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&r...ual&spell=1 cough http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/syst...en/SM/index.htm http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/syst...10/en/index.htm

what model xps? you can download the service manual to tell you step by step how to pull it apart properly

laptop motherboards are common failures... it's due to the heat they are exposed to... Simple things to try... 1) complete power down, unplug from mains, remove battery, wait 30 seconds try again... 2) boot with no hdd - any errors (check power light on laptop - sometime the bios beeps are actually power light flashes on some laptop) 3) download a prog called memtest (http://www.memtest.org/) it will test your ram out for you 4) you should have a cmos battery otherwise you would loose all your bios settings pull that and power down system as in 1 5) is the system fans running? Very common for the fans to die and cook the system. Espically if you use it on a soft surface as it blocks the intake vents... (stupid designers)

it was something like 340 - 360 or something close to that...

yup that is correct...

you know reg costs when up on October 1st? it's now 100 for 3 months rego... was 58... ohhh it's $10 for licencing and the rest is basically acc levies...

Can you try anouther hdd in the machine? Could be the hdd controller on you motherboard. Probably the drive but it could be other things... If you leave the case of the HDD cover and put a finger on the drive can you feel the drive spin-up? Know anyone with the same HDD as you? you could try swapping over the circuit board to see if it's just the circuit board thats gone, anouther common problem... Had to do that a few times at work...

You don't need 24hours... 30+ min is usually enough to get it running well enough to get some data off it... 2hours is gold, you do have to becareful of condensation on the circuit board when your running it... Also DON'T run it as the main drive... plug it in as a second drive. Also turn off your anti-virus so it doesn't auto-scan the hard drive this will help with keeping the heat down to start with. Perry, it's kinda funny the minute people remove the harddrive from their pc, espically laptops people treat them with kids gloves, but look at the abuse a laptop gets being thrown around, the drives are hard mounted into the laptop so they still get the shock in them... Most drives have to survive a i think it's something like 90 or 120g impact.

There is a fantastic program called R-Studio that you can use. Whats happened to the drive? Is it making any sounds? Depending whats wrong with it i can walk you through how to do a couple things...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-me-jobs/Mar....htm?key=112622 http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-me-jobs/Oth....htm?key=113607 http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-me-jobs/Cus....htm?key=113607 <--- would be a good one as a foot in the door

where are you going to uni?

I was working a porter when i was at school and later as a concierge i could easily clear $80 - $150 a night in tips worked 2 nights a week and it was good money.

Have you thought about hitting up design company? How about print shops, sign writers? A lot of those places use in house designers as a service for clients, have a look at some of the smaller companies - make up a portfolio of varied work from business cards, flyers, photo touch-ups, etc... and go in... some places might be interested... it also gives you work experience in the industry your wanting to eventually get into. Other things, hit your local newspapers classified sections for services for photo touch-ups, simple design work, etc... You would be suprised about the number of people that run their own companies that would need help with document layouts, letterhead creation, etc...

sex in the meet or fish chillier was a common cause of being fired at one supermarket i worked at...

depending on how the splitter is design it can be functional. And i know the 205 is a brick... never brought that up... Just the above M3 is ugly as hell - to me it looks unfinished, it's little things like the height of the start of the side skirt is lower than the rear of the front bumper which creates a bad optical image.... If it was truely fuctional then they would have used something to differ air from the front of the tyre to decrease the drag created. I.E Production cars are not a case of function or form... it's a comprise of everything, cost, target market opinion, company image considerations, performance, safety, pedestrian safety, reliability, fuel economy, etc...

you'd rather have the white rav 4 in the pic?

^^^^ doesn't look right still... wheels are poo... bumpers look crap... In my opinion...

I'll see if i can find the tunnel pics of you and apex...

Hehe i won't tell you what my work pc is then... well one of them...

yup yup at home...