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FHFC

First visit to FSA from my nice new Laptop!

Windows 8 makes me feel very old indeed......ugghh.

dahat

FHFC wrote: »

First visit to FSA from my nice new Laptop!

Windows 8 makes me feel very old indeed......ugghh.

Have a total hatred for Windows 8, rotten altogether.

tom_k

FHFC wrote: »

First visit to FSA from my nice new Laptop!

Windows 8 makes me feel very old indeed......ugghh.

dahat wrote: »

Have a total hatred for Windows 8, rotten altogether.

Windows 10 will be available for free to all users of Windows 7 and 8 upon it's release. The only problem is it won't be released until late 2015.

Lemlin

For any GAA fans, the mighty Cavan are on BBC One NI against Tyrone in the McKenna Cup at half 7. Just press the red button.

Swiper the fox

Lemlin wrote: »

For any GAA fans, the mighty Cavan are on BBC One NI against Tyrone in the McKenna Cup at half 7. Just press the red button.

If people are GAA fans it's probably best to leave it off to be honest:pac:

Lemlin

Swiper the fox wrote: »

If people are GAA fans it's probably best to leave it off to be honest:pac:

A Limerick man is in no position to start slagging related to GAA...

finnharpsboy

Lemlin wrote: »

Just press the red button.

the off button is it? :pac:

KevIRL

Lemlin wrote: »

A Limerick man is in no position to start slagging related to GAA...

Tbf Limerick have had more gaa success in recent times than Cavan

Swiper the fox

Lemlin wrote: »

A Limerick man is in no position to start slagging related to GAA...

Limerick is only where I live.
Cork born and bred:D

Even if I was from Limerick 1973 seems like only yesterday compared to 1952:P

KevIRL

Speaking of gaa success. Waterford about to win the McGrath Cup. Gaelic football success is a rare thing in these parts

Lemlin

KevIRL wrote: »

Tbf Limerick have had more gaa success in recent times than Cavan

Compare the population of Limerick to Cavan though. We're working off a small base.

zarquon

dahat wrote: »

Have a total hatred for Windows 8, rotten altogether.

Windows 8.1 with classic shell is fine

Steven81

Lemlin wrote: »

Compare the population of Limerick to Cavan though. We're working off a small base.

Every time Offaly get up to Croker not so much now but most weeks in the 90s i think that if every person in the county goes it still wouldnt make it a full house.

I didnt realise that Leitrim/Longford had that small a population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_counties_by_population

Lemlin

Steven81 wrote: »

Every time Offaly get up to Croker not so much now but most weeks in the 90s i think that if every person in the county goes it still wouldnt make it a full house.

I didnt realise that Leitrim/Longford had that small a population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_counties_by_population

Yep and Cavan up 14% because of the invasion of commuters we had in the East of the county.

That'll probably restart now with the way housing is going in the capital again.

Scorpion Sting

Type in 'lackadaisical' into Google and see what they give as an example to the definition.

iroced

Have a question for you folks.

One of my neighbour is planning to spend a year in Ireland (based in Dublin) and she'd like to know a school or institute (public or private) where she could be registered to learn English (she's French). She needs this registration certificate to benefit from a study leave. She's an adult.

Would there be some kind of equivalent to the Alliance Francaise for learning English?

greedygoblin

iroced wrote: »

Have a question for you folks.

One of my neighbour is planning to spend a year in Ireland (based in Dublin) and she'd like to know a school or institute (public or private) where she could be registered to learn English (she's French). She needs this registration certificate to benefit from a study leave. She's an adult.

Would there be some kind of equivalent to the Alliance Francaise for learning English?

I wrote a long post in reply to your question but boards inexplicably logged me out and deleted everything I had to say. :mad::(

So here it is again in a nutshell. :pac:

Tell your friend to be careful what English school she chooses. Lots of schools have closed over the last year. Due to lack of regulation many of these continued to enrole new students and take registration fees right up until they closed their doors.

It has been widely covered in the media here that many students have had extreme difficulty in recovering money paid to these schools.

A useful website may be the accreditation body thats been set up to oversee these English colleges:
http://acels.ie/Search.aspx?location=Dublin

A word of caution however; the first college on that list closed it's doors today!
http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0126/675752-english-school/

I'd imagine just from a quick glance at that list that either school associated with either DCU or Dublin Business School should be reliable enough.

Maybe somebody a bit more "in the know" can provide some more info.

There are only five countries whose names end in L, name them.

tom_k

Israel, Portugal, Brazil.

Not gonna cheat on this, racking my brain for the other two...

OneColdHand

Nepal.

FHFC

Been meaning to ask the gamers this. My time playing consoles predates the whole X Box Live type connectivity of thing, so have no experience of it.

Santa landed with an xbox 360 for my son, he's only 8, minecraft is his big thing, only thing in fact. He's looking to get onto the XBox Live to be able to download worlds etc, not looking to be playing remote games nor do I want him to. I'm just wondering is it a straightforward enough thing to only use it minimally and leave things he's not interested in, or will i be tortured with him wanting to download something else for €1.89 every bloody week like with the Ipad? I'm assuming if I don't want him interacting with people on it that's easy enough to block.

I don't mind getting it for him if he'll get more out of the Minecraft thing but I don't want it to take over and become a pain in the ass.

Any advice.

Mr.Prodston

A clue for country number 5:

Stoke may see a player from this country return at the weekend

greedygoblin

Senegal

Copper_pipe

Dentist waiting room is no fun

Lemlin

FHFC wrote: »

Been meaning to ask the gamers this. My time playing consoles predates the whole X Box Live type connectivity of thing, so have no experience of it.

Santa landed with an xbox 360 for my son, he's only 8, minecraft is his big thing, only thing in fact. He's looking to get onto the XBox Live to be able to download worlds etc, not looking to be playing remote games nor do I want him to. I'm just wondering is it a straightforward enough thing to only use it minimally and leave things he's not interested in, or will i be tortured with him wanting to download something else for €1.89 every bloody week like with the Ipad? I'm assuming if I don't want him interacting with people on it that's easy enough to block.

I don't mind getting it for him if he'll get more out of the Minecraft thing but I don't want it to take over and become a pain in the ass.

Any advice.

I used to have Xbox Live a few years back when I had a 360 and never had any issues with it. It's fairly basic to use and would be good in that there is alot of free demo content put up on it to download.

I didn't see much of that craic you get on the Ipad with apps e.g. here's Sonic free but every two seconds prompts come up asking you to buy 100 rings for €4.99!

Yeah, you pay the annual fee, and thats it. No in-game purchases, though I don't know about minecraft.

For extra security, don't buy the subscription off Microsoft. There are plenty of people selling them cheaper on eBay etc. You pay through PayPal, and MS don't have your cc details, so the little fella can't accidentally spend your cash.

I'm on the phone, so can't give you a link but the xbox forum on boards should have a thread solely for this type of thing.

13 months for €40 quid:
http://cardscodes.com/Xbox_Live_121_month_GOLD_Subs_WORLDWIDE-82.html

FHFC

Lemlin wrote: »

I didn't see much of that craic you get on the Ipad with apps e.g. here's Sonic free but every two seconds prompts come up asking you to buy 100 rings for €4.99!

Cheers. The above is exactly what I mean. Don't want there being some new thing or other he'll be looking to download for 1.99 every other week.

KevIRL

https://android.paddypower.mobi/#!paddypower_publication_event_iphone.t?classId=301&typeId=13610&eventId=8291261

Pp enhanced email special. Liverpool, utd, spurs to win 16/1. Less than 5/1 normally. Spurs defo the weak link but that's a serious enhancement. Max bet 13 yoyo

KevIRL

Lol poor fecker