What would Alexander Graham Bell say?

This is a nightmare!
It's my old friend Talk Talk, a company I have found very underhand, but fortunately this story isn't about me, it's my Mother In Law's problem.

It's still not resolved, but here are the facts:

My M-I-Law and husband have a full package with Sky. TV, Broadband & Phone. No problem.
Being the 'techy' son in law they ring me with any issues, last week it was the broadband. It had stopped working and an orange light was permanently on the modem. I suggested resetting it and left it at that.

So, it turns out that didn't work, so they rang Sky for assistance.
Only Sky told them they couldn't help because they were no longer with them.

???
Huh?
What did they mean?

It turns out there are unscrupulous ISP providers (you know the ones, who knock at your door all hours to see if you'd like cheap broadband and free calls) who are now no longer bothering to knock, they just fill in your details and send them off.
What is surprising (as I have had this attempted on me...yes, by TalkTalk) is that Sky didn't contact the MILaw, they just switched them.
Because of the switch they also, unbeknownst to them, have a new telephone number, their old one has already been recirculated by BT.

So, they find their new number, Sky though won't tell them who their new ISP is, they seem uncertain. They mention TalkTalk, but do say it may be another company.

???

If you think this is a mess, just wait.

So, they no longer have broadband, they have lost their number (which means the hospital cannot ring them over important issues coming up), but BT have said their new number actually belongs to a completely different person.

???

It belongs to the couple who moved in across the road last week!
So, they go and visit the new couple, and sure enough the number they now have BT have said belong to the new couple, BT were supposed to come and connect them last week but failed to do so. Why, because BT think the line is up and running, which it is, just at the wrong house. So the MILaw's number is temporary at best.
They have also been told that if the number is given to the proper person then they could be without a phone for "quite some time".

Maybe I should mention, they don't live in a town or city, they live in a very rural part of Brecon. There are no Internet Cafe's around, and no pay phone's to nip too. These are pensioners who do their best to understand Google.

It's not yet resolved. Sky have said they are looking at this at the highest level.
Ofcom have said if TalkTalk have been found to have been underhand their will be a huge fine.
I suggested going to the Citizens Advice Bureau as well and to start to use the magic word "compensation" in all their dealings.

What a mess.

What would Colonel Burton say?

How do you get Command & Conquer: Generals: Zero Hour to work on Windows 7 64bit Home Premium?

Well, it took me ages on the weekend to suss it out, but I have a working solution. I tried all the posts about creating and changing ini files, but none of them worked.

This did:

First, you need an installed game. Not the one youv'e installed on Windows 7. If you have a back up copy from an older OS, that is perfect. If not, try downloading a free virtual machine (you will of course need the old OS to load on to it, like XP).

The point is, once you have the game installed correctly and working on an older OS, you can just copy the Programme file (EA Games folder) onto Windows 7, don't forget the Zero Hour folder from My Documents on the old OS too.

OK, so youv'e done that.
Now if you try and play on Windows 7, about 2 mins into the game everything blows up and you get the message Youv'e been defeated.
That's correct. Your one step away now from a working version.
All you need to do now is repair the game using Disc 1 of Zero Hour in Windows 7. It will repair the version youv'e copied.
Now everything will work correctly.

What would Daisy Duke say?

Why has no one ever done this before? This is an M3 Lee Medium tank. Called the Lee after General Lee. the same name the Dukes car has.

It had to be done, didn't it?

What would Tony Hart say?

I dug this out of my bits box and thought I'd post it here. It was an experiment I tried on a few models with different colours, quite a while ago now. I was just trying different things, seeing what effects I could get.
This was a brown model (Swedish tank), and I basically got a bucket of water, sprayed some yellow and green in the water, which automatically stayed on the surface, and then dipped the tank in the water.
The paint sticks to the surface of the tank. It's like marbelling with aerosols.
The paint is a bit stringy, but if you use a toothbrush or similar you can brush the bits into all the grooves, or just leave it dangling for a swampy look.

What would General Patton say?

I've been hunting around for a Military Modelling site to join.
My tastes are simple, I just want some intersting articles to read, a nice gallery and a friendly forum with posts showing pictures of models.
I guess what we'd all say we're after.
I looked at the really big sites, but settled in the end with a relatively small and new site: Model Armour!

There's a great bunch of modellers there at all levels. I've been a member for a couple of weeks and already learned a huge amount.

What would Winston Churchill say?

I've just been resizing a load of propoganda posters to 1/35 scale that will be easy to print and cut out on an A4 sheet.
If you want a set, I've made it a free download at Deviant Art HERE

It's a medium res jpeg. Make sure you print it out at actual size.

What would David Attenborough say?

Recently as a family we went to Bristol Zoo.
It was a lovely sunny day. We drove their following the zoo signs, which is a small elephant with the word zoo written on it.

I was actually quite excited to see some big wild animals and took my camera for some opportunities.

We walked once round the zoo and I started to feel disappointed.
Where were the:
Elephants?
Rhinos?
Tigers?
Giraffes?
Zebras?

They didn't have any! They did have Lions, but let's face it, they are so boring. they sleep all the time and paying a lot of money to see a sleeping lions foot is not a bargain!
And what about the insect house? Next to the big animals, that didn't happen, my fave part of a zoo is seeing the bugs, spiders and scorpions etc. Well, bristol Zoo does have a bug house, but it is kept in very dim lighting. So dim I could hardly see a thing.
A very disappointing visit.