MaiDong

This weekend I've watched Free Practice 1,2 & 3(from the BBC's interactive coverage) from beginning to end(approx, 90 minutes per program), this is excellent coverage with a cycle of presenters including Anthony Davidson who is whitty, insightful & experienced and who has also worked with Jenson Button quite closely so he knows what's going on in the BrawnGP team.

I watched a 2 hour program of qualifying(also from the BBC's coverage)

I then watched a 3 hour program of the actual race plus build-up and apart from Eddie Jordan being a bit of a <deleted>(he'll be removed soon I think) the rest of the BBC team is spot on,

Are you in Thailand? As i understand it, BBC video on the internet is not available to those of us here. Or am i wrong?

Murray's depth of knowledge was amazing, no matter which motor sport he was talking about. He never sat down during a race, doing all the commentating on his feet.

Murray Walker now hosts a 5 minute program on BBCi just rounding up his views on the race, another reason to ditch ESPNStars coverage in favour of soemthing professional

I didn't sync with my friends Mac, we just plugged it in to see if it was recognised because it wasn't being recognised by my old dinosaur of a laptop but it just wiped the iPod clean, if we'd sync'd it then it would have been full of his music, as a result of plugging it into his Mac it was later recognised my my laptop so not a problem in the end

Thanks anyway

You need to untick the sync box that says sync with computer before connecting your ipod so that it doesn't happen again

Happened to a friend of mine and its one of the reasons I don't bother with Itunes.

Thanks SBK but I'm being misunderstood again

I wanted to sync but didn't want to lose the DATA stored on the HD section of my iPod - not bothered about the itunes music as it was all about to be transferred to the iPod once again...

I assume most people who commented here don't use their iPod as storage - only as music players - so perhaps didn't understand my issue.

But problem solved so thanks to all for your suggestions

So ESPN Slater at his best again - Raikkonen changes to wets on a dry track, Slater -this is a brilliant strategy by Ferrari ,Chandhok this is crazy he will lose more time in 2 laps than a pitstop, 30 seconds later Slater -this is a brillint strategy by Ferrari . Then later Slater- Webber is dicing with Button, in a McLaren at which time the director decided on a commercial break obviously to facilatate a battery change or a slap!.

Again, there's no need to watch the unbearable coverage on ESPNStar, you have internet, I can point you in the right direction...

This weekend I've watched Free Practice 1,2 & 3(from the BBC's interactive coverage) from beginning to end(approx, 90 minutes per program), this is excellent coverage with a cycle of presenters including Anthony Davidson who is whitty, insightful & experienced and who has also worked with Jenson Button quite closely so he knows what's going on in the BrawnGP team.

I watched a 2 hour program of qualifying(also from the BBC's coverage)

I then watched a 3 hour program of the actual race plus build-up and apart from Eddie Jordan being a bit of a <deleted>(he'll be removed soon I think) the rest of the BBC team is spot on, David Coulthard is pretty well suited to commentary for his experience & technical knowledge, Jake Humphreys appears to have been doing this job for years despite only doing it for 2 races!, Martin Brundle is class, totally enjoyable to listen to with his dry Suffolk tones, the rest of the team is pretty good too(Tabloid Ted Kravitz is a bit of a dirt digger but still better than anything on ESPNStar!)

Following the race in Australia there was a BBC forum on BBC Interactive which I thought was going to be a fan based program with lots of silly questions(a la ESPNStar) but it wasn't at all, it was another hour of quality questions & explanations actually showing us everything we wanted to see after the race has finished, as opposed to ESPNStar coverage(and ITV's old coverage too!) where the program is ended moments after the podium ceremony.

So in a nutshell, there's no need to watch that shameful amateur coverage, it's all available elsewhere...

10 hours and 30 mins of proper coverage, if you want that much, if you ignore the news then all of that coverage can last a good few days viewing - if you've got nothing better to do...

P.S. Mosha, Murray Walker getting confused is funny, a bit like your grandfather saying the wrong thing, which is sweet. BUT Slater making a mistake is like a geeky 2nd uncle who has no friends saying something innapropriate Possibly the most irritating person on TV.

Thanks for all your suggestions, even though I dont think my problem was fully understood

iPods are used as Hard drive storage as well as being music players, I had been using my iPod as storage but my itunes-uploaded music had been wiped(after being plugged into a freinds iBook!) so I wanted to upload all of my music via itunes back onto my iPod without deleting the data stored on the HD section of my iPod...

I bit the bullet and went for it, my iPod updated/sync'd after hours of 'syncing' and all of my data on the HD was still there at the end.

So, to answer my own question: NO, SYNCING YOUR IPOD WITH A PC DOES NOT DELETE THE DATA STORED ON THE HD SECTION OF YOUR IPOD(but does obviously overwright all existing itunes-uploaded music from previous sync/pc)

Problem solved

Thanks for your reply too!

However, it's not just a simple file trasfer, I want to be sure that my stored data on the ipod won't be erased along with the syncing of the ipod - only the playable songs in the ipod 'CONTROL' folders...

Thanks for your reply but I think you've misunerstood me

I've got music on my ipod in storage, not as playable music directly from the iPod, it's this I'm worried about deleting if I choose to sync, hope that better explains it...

I'd like to know this so I don't have to transfer my music stored within the iPods HD over to my PC, this is because of a lack of space

So will I lose the lot or just the 'control' folders?

Thanks!

...but if you're new, it's just about getting your foot in the door and ruining it for the rest of us by undercutting prices across the board...

That's competition for you I would have imagined it was because of the way you look more than the pay you take(within reason, obviously)...

To start with I am not a bot

Join this community if you feel the coverage is sub par. It is annoying when presenters digress or display limited knowledge and skills to present a sport which does not have the same following as in Europe (or US for that matter)

Community on Facebook:

"Star Sports Formula 1 coverage: A shamble"

Please be vocal and get in as many members to join this as you can. I am trying to get at least a thousand in the community to make them aware how bad they are. Unfortunately not a lot in India watch the sport, (those who do watch it more as a social phenomenon rather than the love for motorsports)

Hopefully, I'll reach out to people in other parts of Asia to gather speed.

I am very very angry and mails sent to the channel do not seem to work. I guess this is valid enough!

Regards

Totally agreed!

The coverage is amateur to say the least, the ad breaks unbearable and the presenters are dull and clueless - especially old cackle-arse... He's like a little boy isn't he!?

There are too many pointless and boring segments of the coverage, especially the emails from 'viewers' like 'so-and-so from India asks "what is the big thing that looks like an airoplane in front of the front wheels" or similar, it's like watching childrens TV!

For this reason I chose to not watch the race live but obtain it from another source - making sure I avoid any news in the meantime - and watch it at my own leisure a few hours later.

PM ME FOR MORE INFO!

My old 6 year old laptop, used mainly for downloading and watching movies died today, I took it to the local fixer and they told me windows was 'sia'(sad/dead/unfortunate etc), they reinstalled XP again and saved all of my data but when I got home I couldn't connect it to the internet

I have had this problem before, I moved my laptop from one house to another and the same thing happened, luckily I had the cash to buy a new laptop but I still wanted the old one for the tasks I mentioned before, unfortunately I couldn't get it working then so I just left it a few months until one day I plugged in the USB cable from the modem and the internet came back!

I've got no idea how this happened but was grateful to the gods for letting me download onto the old dog again!

This time I don't have the time to wait for it to decide it wats to work again so I really need help!

It's an old Novatech custom build from the UK but all of the components are Fujitsu, Sony etc, it's running on XP and I'm using TOT 1mb with a Speedtouch modem and an SMC wireless router, the router is used by my new laptop with wireless but before today the old laptop was connected to the Speedtouch modem via USB and I've tried the same connection plus a few others that may have worked but I STILL can't connect!

Please please please someone help me

EDIT/ I should have mentioned that I've called TOT and they are baffled, I should also mention that I can get internet but it's as slow as an old goat and most of the time the pages don't load in time before they've timed out, I have checked the 'Local Area Connection Status' and the activity shows that a total of 38 bytes( suppose that's what they're called) have been sent and a grand total of 2 have been received, it's normally in the tens of thousands...

I have turned off all firewall processes and anything else that may have been slowing it down...

I want to send a large number of small items from here to the UK and I've been told by someone that I can use REGISTERED airmail and once the item arrives in the UK it will be trackable using the parcelforce website, is this correct?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Ok thanks for your time

The troll.

He's mixed race Thai/US so I presume he's in no need of a work permit etc...

To be honest, I don't really know uch about the job or anything, he's just curious and wanted me to find out what the regular time was to wait

You think too much!

I, in turn, sense a resident troll!

No idea what the drink was, didn't ask him, I'm not interested, he just asked my advice because he knew I read this forum a lot and could possibly find an altruist with experience, satisfied?

Thanks for your reply

It was a drink company and apparently the product will go on sale in april and there was only the agency and the drinks company involved I believe, I understand that they told him 2 months because the payments need to be signed off by the drink company and this is what takes time, fingers crossed for him anyway

My pal recently done a job for an agency, it was a photo shoot and once it was finished he was told he'd have to wait 2 months for payment, is this right? Surely it doesn't take that long to process payment??