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My car (2007 Golf MK1) is way past due for a service. Can anyone recommend some places in Cape Town, or maybe just share your experiences, good or bad, with various dealers? I must confess to my lack of general vehicular knowledge, so I just need to find a place that won't take advantage of that. Yo...

I have to import DBF files into a SQL Server 2005 db. I'm using a linked server to query the files directly, however certain files keep throwing errors at me. I've since discovered that the problematic files are Dbase7. The others are all Dbase3/5. The problem: 1. Using Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 Drive...

Ok, but what is the default setting? What is yours set to?

My games are suddenly taking extremely long to install and copying files also takes quite longer than it used to. When I enable write caching the transfer rate doubles, but there's a warning about possible data corruption blah blah. I have never changed that setting before, so I assume that it had b...

Nope. It's not that.

I remember seeing a game trailer earlier this year but I can't for the life of me remember the title. It went a little something like this: It's night There's a police car A boy/man is pursued by a zombie policeman (asian-looking, if I remember correctly) into a house. Boy/man hides in closet. Zombi...

The sentence is irrelevant. You see, my Afrikaans-speaking buddy laughed at me when i used the term "asem ingehaal". He said that the correct term is "ingeasem" (which sounded wrong to me, but what do I know?). I asked a bunch of English speaking ppl yesterday and they all said &...

Ok, despite the lack of info and stuff I took the risk and bought it for PC. It runs just peachy on my low-end rig (E7200, 2 gigs ddr 667, 9500gt top), although i have to lower some settings for some stages. You can play guitar, bass or drums with your keyboard but you cannot change the key settings...

Can someone please help with this. How do you say "Then I inhaled" or "Then I took a breath" in Afrikaans?

I'm looking for extra info to find out if there are any bugs/performance/peripheral probs, etc. I really want the game and my PC exceeds the minimum requirements but doesn't quite meet the recommended specs. Therefore I need some user-experience advice. The fact that it has been released but has no ...

Why can I not find any information for this game?
I had it in my hands yesterday at Look&Listen but I thought I'd check out some reviews first; however, nowhere on the web does it state that it's even been released. No reviews, just previews. What's up with that?

Have any one of you bought it?

I bought Homeworld 2 from them early this year. It came without a CD key - had to search the net. Installed. Launch - Please Insert CD. Hmmmm... - found "patch" on the CD (AVG detected trojan, but I thought what the hell) - Installed. Launch - Please Insert CD. You leave me no choice - dow...

A friend suggested there might be some kind of play on words with "time flies"...

Microsoft Word 2003 lists "ciao", "hi", "goodbye", "so long" and "see you later" as synonyms of "hello".
Have I been missing something for these past 21 years? Do people actually use "hello" as a parting-greeting?

Oh yes tribble, too many green day songs to paste here. The Sawtooth Grin - Meathook Marty and the Pajama Party Severed heads dont roll quite as well as expected A perfect body bag prom queen waiting for her close up Like a declawed ***** cat bleeding on my new rug that Tied the room together so wel...

This kind of stuff always, ahem... chokes me up.

Nope, it was one of those steel-container-carrier trucks.

"Too many flies, so little time"

I saw this on a sticker pasted at the back of a truck and it's been keeping me awake for days. WTH is it supposed to mean?

First you like chicken?, now this. My threads are cursed.

RuadRauFlessa wrote:

Stuart wrote:

UrBaN wrote: who renamed the thread

I'm guessing Ruad, but possibly maxxis. However, maxxis would have been something along the lines of "A Ding-Dong Fairies Ethical Dilemma."

I actually changed it back.

You have my blessing to remove the offensive "n".

Gee, thanks mods.

RuadRauFlessa wrote:

Stuart wrote:AN moral dilemma?

Oops. Was originally gonna be "An ethical dilemma". I forgot the an was there when I replaced "ethical" with "moral"

It's now making me cringe. Can a mod please rename it?

You are in a shop. You crave some juice. You go to the vending machine, insert the money, press the button for a can of juice and out comes... two!

What do you do next?

All I need to know is if the database is being used at all (for every database on a server).
I just need the most efficient way of determining this.

Ok, so I've started playing around with the profiler. What would be the best event to trace to monitor db activity? I was thinking perhaps SQL:BatchCompleted, because it records all queries made to all db's on a server; but letting it run for a week or two could result in a very big saved file/table...