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Hey Guys Just wondered your take on the latest ITS email about the Nyxem worm. It says we would have to reinstall windows if we got infected... Now I searched the internet long and hard to try to find any other person on the planet who thinks that you need to do a clean reinstall of windows if you g...

Sometimes I long for the good ole days... In Ireland you used to get a free pint of the black magic after giving blood. Pint for a pint? Yes Please! And they do check the blood as carefully as they can - its just not possible for any test to be totally accurate (which is why they ask you all those q...

Mon 14 Nov The Younger Hall 13:00-17:00 Tue 15 Nov The Younger Hall 13:00-17:00 No doubt the claim that the rules for giving blood are homophobic will be the next post (looking at the last time this was mentioned on the sinner). Here is the blood transfusion service's response (sorry for being preem...

Too right it is going around - one of my friends is only just recovered now after being confined to her room for the past couple of weeks. Has been driving her mad! There appear to be a whole pile of people who managed to miss out on an MMR booster, and the odd person who didn't have it as a baby ei...

Wednesday(tomorrow) 3pm, screen one of our beloved NPH Its being put on by the CU for £3 - so reduced ticket price on the door... How can you NOT be there! There might be a short talk beforehand but its still more than worth it for my money. So Whoose going? see the pdf files on http://www.saucu.com

The worrying thing is that it is officialy legit because it is all there in their terms and conditions that everyone ignores before signing up. If you google them you come up with pages and pages of people talking about being ripped off my them... Some people seem to have OK experiences with them - ...

Yeah- i looked into this a while ago - hotmail is fine with OE for old accounts but rejects new ones. Interestingly they also blocked sending of emails using OE for a while through hotmail (and emailed me to say so) but it started working again about a week later. Pity - especially when its rivals a...

BT charges you for SARA as an ISP? I use onetel in my house for unlimited non-geographic phone calls and it is more than happy with SARA being one of them

In saying that I have 1Mb/sec broadband in this house so I only use it as a backup...

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/Memos/ustudents/#906 They have put exams in the union (Venue 1 and the salad Bowl) instead of Psycology Old Library and Parliment hall NOT HAPPY! There is no way I'm going to be able to concentrate in V1 (I've 2 exams in there now) since I've too many very different memor...

[s] Thackary wrote on 11:29, 16th Nov 2004: Raisin Sunday is the 22nd. Which is next Sunday. Thanks - thats what I thought. I'm just slightly surprised that the usural notices from the university have not gone out yet telling us what we aren't allowed to do and to be careful (blah blah blah!). I pre...

I've organised a lot of society clothing for my society "CMaD". We use a company in Dundee which doesn't have a great website but they are decent enough. We normally get a small logo on front (size of breast pocket) and large logo on back (covering whole of back of garment) white printed onto dark c...

The barbers pole - between baptist church and Westport

FreeWhiskey!!

The lady said she doesn't get many students though - I'm not sure what that means! It friendly and cheap though.

Ireland has been mentioned a couple of times - did anyone see the documentary a few days ago (I think it was on BBC) that talked about the smoking ban in Ireland? It interviewed bar owners across Ireland that said that their buisness had fallen away. A bar owner on the border had to shut one of his ...

When is it this year? I've heard no details! Rumours place it next weekend but I don't know!
It is probably plastered up in big writing somewhere but I think that I must be blind...

[s] Steveo wrote on 19:31, 4th Oct 2004: I'm told by relaible sources that Telnet will no longer work for the certain services it provides by the end of the month. [hr][s]What a beautiful world this will be .... what a glorious time to be free[/s] There was an email about this a while back. You will...

You are all talking about commercialism and alcohol being the way to enjoy life - fact is, many people enjoy life without the trappings of a "modern" world. If a person has a deep reason to live, and enough resources to live it, then they are, in general, happy. We look at 3rd world countries and pi...

My wee brother has a debit card (Visa Electron) and he is only 14 so I wouldn't take those as proof you are over 18!
I do note that you need to be 18 to have a proper Visa credit card but you can get debit cards as soon as the bank thinks it can trust you!

continuing with the email stuff - if you want to be able to send email through outlook express with your St Andrews account you can use "Virtual Private Networking" to become part of the St Andrews network before you send: you need to VPN into albatross.st-and.ac.uk using ITSUSERNAME@albatross as yo...

I have found that whatever file system the drives use can be corrupted by windows if you don't "safely remove hardware". Lets just say i've had a bad experience... Reformatting let me use it again but of course I lost a bit of stuff. Also happened to a friend's digital camera when he just pulled out...

Almost all Comp Sci lecture notes are online, as are many physics ones (see departmental websites) Mangement ones are almost all in the library on short loan so can be photocopied at great expense (although watch out for some sets which have pages missing :-( )Other than that I guess it depends on t...