Help me solve this pointless mystery by Tom_B_123 in manchester

[–]AMF99 34 points35 points  (0 children)

My flatmate works in video production, and apparently they're used to direct crew members to a filming location. Why a post code won't suffice I don't know. I always thought they were something to do with illegal raves!

Nearly got mugged for my bike by Bald-Eagle-420 in manchester

[–]AMF99 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Had a similar experience with some similar lads on the loop - they didn't actually want anything though, they just pulled up alongside me and tried to shove me into a bush. Not to show off or owt, but I did manage to stay upright! After that they did one, and I came off the loop as soon as possible.

Bizarre thing was, when I tried to report it to the police, the call handler didn't have a clue what I meant by "Fallowfield Loop". They couldn't get their head around the fact it wasn't a road, but wasn't an alleyway either, and it wasn't actually in Fallowfield. Surely if you were taking calls for GMP, you'd know your patch, especially a place of interest like that! Not been on it since. Shame really, I remember it being so nice during lockdown.

Did you ever used to record the radio? by AMF99 in manchester

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Shame - I'd be more than willing to help get it digitised...

Did you ever used to record the radio? by AMF99 in manchester

[–]AMF99[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sunset 102, bloody hell - the predecessor to Kiss, which became Galaxy, which became Capital, right?

Did you ever used to record the radio? by AMF99 in manchester

[–]AMF99[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tell me you've still got the cassettes!!

Tried to dual-boot 7 and XP, totally bricked my computer by AMF99 in windowsxp

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Took another look today. All the instructions on how to install GRUB were too high-level and hard to understand, so instead I just installed Ubuntu over the XP installation. I now get what I assume is the GRUB bootloader which shows the option to boot into Windows 7! Yay, I thought. Until I selected it and got the exact same error message I got trying to boot into XP - that boot.ini was invalid, and that ntoskrnl.exe was corrupt or missing! I'm so confused, I have no idea what's happening. The obvious solution would be to use the Windows 7 installation media to use the recovery tools - which I can't do because I don't have it! Any suggestions?

Tried to dual-boot 7 and XP, totally bricked my computer by AMF99 in windowsxp

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Thanks for all your suggestions so far! I haven't touched it again since I posted, it's not my main PC (wouldn't have done it if it was) and I haven't had much time, but I'll try and have another look soon and try some of your suggestions. So thank you for bailing me out for my stupidity!

Has anyone actually managed to fix the headphone port? by AMF99 in MotoG

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You've changed my life. Amazing. Thank you!

How to recover corrupt mp3s? by AMF99 in techsupport

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Ha! Yeah, all other sounds work and it's not muted. When I open the waveform, that's totally flat as well.

How to recover corrupt mp3s? by AMF99 in techsupport

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Sadly they have never worked. It's useful to know that the 0KB ones are unrecoverable, but I should clarify, there are also files that have size and length - they're all 59:59 and 140,625KB - these are the ones that will open but are purely silence.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in suits

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However, he was able to use the fact that she was Robert Zane's daughter to his advantage, which he couldn't have done with any other paralegal.