Bluegrass

That was great, and having just come home from Vietnam it was nice to see Ha Noi again

6 months?!?!?

slightly bemused by the pube prank... Decent little video though

Thanks for the replies. Here in Dorset we don't have many rock gardens to race down, which is a shame. I think fully rigid could suit the trails in the south. I must admit I am a big Brant Richards/Ragley/Nuke proof fan. Probably a bit of an unhealthy admiration. At £150, it wont break the bank. Worth a punt. Cheers!

I'm quickly converting my XC riding into the 'purist' mindset, i.e. keep things simple. I've already changed from full suss to hardtail and the difference is amazing. I'm tempted to try rigid carbon forks, often seen on 29er's nowdays, and let the Fox 140mm forks collect dust for a while. I love fluid, intelligent lines when riding and I think running rigid carbon forks will change my trail riding style for the better. Nuke proof carbon forks - £150 on CRC. Bargain! But I cant take the plunge without a little more research. What are your opinions?

Well I stopped riding trials about 4 years ago, but i've still got a lot of the skills from trials and good bike control which puts me in good stead for the XC terrain I ride nowdays. Still love my trials roots though. I've read that a lot of the French guys ride Pass'Portes on dated mtb's with cantilever brakes and still rip it up! Looking forward to seeing that!

I'll be there from Thursday 24th - Monday 28th, registered to ride on the Sunday from Chatel. This is my first Pass'Portes ride, would be good to hear your experiences? I'll be on a Ragley blue pig (orange skwosh) - hardtail in the Alps, jesus christ...

My Kodak M753 digital camera saves videos I take as .mov files, which automatically play using Quicktime on my Windows pc. Stupidly the camera didn't come with cables to link up to a television to watch pictures/videos, but I can slot my SD card into a PS3 to look at. The PS3 will let me view pictures but not videos - so is there some way to allow this? My camera has no options to save videos as a different file type. Is it a case of converting these .mov videos to something like mpeg's everytime I want to view them on a PS3 or burn to a cd?? Thanks

Bump, because i've been searching the net for exactly the same answers!

operating system? yes, XP

ASUS P5N-MX GeForce 7050 Socket 775 onboard VGA 6 channel audio mATX Motherboard Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180 2GHz Socket 775 800MHz FSB L2 1MB Cache Retail Box Processor Extra Value 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 533MHz PC2-4200 240pin Extra Value Ram Sapphire HD 3650 512MB DDR2 Dual DVI TV Out PCI-E Graphics Card £142.06 inc. vat on Ebuyer Did originally have the ATI x1650 card there but this Sapphire was of a similar price and higher in the Ebuyer 'rankings' (if that's anything to go by), but for arguments sake its a ~£35 affordable graphics card.

Sapphire X1650 PRO 512MB DDR2 DVI HDCP TV Out AGP Graphics Card But the above card would 'technically' be suitable for my current motherboard?

Damn me and my crap mobo! I'm really thinking it would be a waste to buy a whole new computer when I could just upgrade those 4 major components, because I have a perfectly fine hard drive, OK case with a fan on the side and top (albeit bloody noisy). Really eager to buy and install myself, still not confident with installing and setting up drivers and various bits though.

Investigating the idea of doing some simple upgrades. My motherboard is a few years old (ASrock, not sure which model etc.) but the RAM installed is only DDR 400MHz 3200, so i'm probably going to spend a few quid on Ebuyer to upgrade to 1Mb or even 2Mb of DDR RAM. The CPU is a Pentium 4 3.00Ghz which im sure is fine to keep. Regarding a new graphics card, at the moment i'm using the onboard shitty graphics. I've just opened my computer up and there's a sticker on the card slot saying "Please do not use a 3.3V AGP card on the AGP slot of this M/B - may cause serious damage" Will this restrict what I can buy?? I was looking at the ATI Gecube X1650 512MB DDR2 64bit PCI-E Graphics Card for £24, but because my RAM is only DDR I'm guessing that buying a DDR2 graphics card will somehow not be compatible? I also have a 400w power supply, which again I want to keep aslong as it's compatible with a mid-ranged graphics card.

Thanks for the comments. Although, my asshole of a brother put a spanner in the works and said "why not just buy a games console, PS3 or 360?" and now thats really got me thinking. My current computer is fine for internet and uni work, but I would upgrade primarily for games. Just buy a console and use a usb keyboard/mouse for the cheaper PC gaming experience???