4. use your finger to light a fire

5. throw on the jacket potatos

But if you are going on a long haul trip the sensible thing to do is to keep checking your flight details incase any change especially if you have booked a few months in advance, as happened to me once going to Australia, I had booked 10 months in advance, one of my flights totally vanished off the airline’s schedule 2 weeks before departure, I noticed it on the web and then phoned & rebooked my seat, if you are that worried about obtaining the right seat etc then keeping up to speed is a small & fun price to pay

As for getting middle seats: it is not helpful to just suggest to prebook seats or turn up early. If it helped, everyone else would do it first, so chances are the only seats left are the middle ones.

Rubbish
Of course it’s helpful, I’ve flown long haul on widebodies more times than I can count and it works every time, to suggest otherwise is a little short sighted

Dean

The one’s with the best safety record, 744, 777, A340, there’s no point crossing the atlantic with a nice seat pitch if you won’t make it.
But on the other hand I am going to contradict myself here and say I don’t really care, I will choose the carrier on the basis of which one I like best, also I always try and support English carriers so BA & Virgin would be my choice even if i HAD to pay a little extra.

Certainly get the latest drivers from nvidia, my system was very slow after I had installed my 6600 but the new drivers sorted it out instantly, also make sure your motherboard drivers & bios etc are up to date, what make of motherboard do you have?

The 6600 has it’s own processor so is not so “processor” dependant, I can’t imagine your system would run slower after installing a new card due to an inefficient processor due to the card’s independant processor, at worst I would have thought you would see no improvement, this is why it sounds like a driver issue.

Dean

It has now been announced that the remaining men in the mine are dead.

Very sad