Satnavs are like buses

I've been umming and arring about buying a satnav for ages. This morning a
competition prize arrived in the post - a Packard Bell Compasseo GPS, and at
lunchtime I got a call from the Carphone Warehouse telling me I'd won a
Garmin Nuvi!

As I'm notorious for getting lost and missing turnings I may well need both.

 

How much for the Nuvi, depending on which model?

 

Fit the Garmin GPS to your bike. the Packard Bell can serve a useful
purpose as a backup only if you grind it into small pieces and throw
them behind you at intervals as a sort of breadcrumb trail.

 

Wife has a car, daughter has a car, I have a car and a bike. We may need one
more, not one less

 

Heh! Although the Garmin's the one to have the PB doesn't seem bad at all,
surprisingly, despite some poor reviews. I'm highly chuffed anyway, what
with them both being free an' all.

I predict the winning of a Mazda MX-5 next, at the end of June.

<Story mode>

I once entered a (Virgin, I think) radio competition to win one of a load of
'sporty' MGs they were punting out. It was a phone-in thing and I got
through eventually, into the list of possibles, and then found myself being
asked questions live on air because the person in front of me got one of
their questions wrong. Eek.

There were several catagories of questions, one of which was football.
'Please, FFS, don't let me get football!' I fervently hoped. I got football.
How droll, oh fate gremlins.

In case my superior knowledge of general shit let me down I had three
seperate Google windows open, side by side, for manic, but quiet, answer
finding. The first question was something along the lines of 'Which team did
Sven Goran Erricson come from to become England's manager?'. **** knows.
Mild panic set in. They then even gave me a choice of just *two* teams:
Lazio and some other dago bunch of hand-ballers. I frantically Googled for
'Sven Latzio" and got... absolutely no results at all. Even now, years
later, it's a fucking Googlewhack.

How did I know it was spelled Lazio? I hate football and have no interest
whatsoever in English teams, let alone furrin ones. Getting no results at
all threw me so badly that I guessed at the other team and that was that.
Tata!

I hate football.

 

But you might want one less temporarily....

Having 2 GPS units is fine up until the point that you want/need to
update the maps. Map updates are expensive, and the Garmin will need one
and the PB will need another.

However, Garmin, bless 'em allow you to share one map between 2 GPS
units, as long as the they take the same mapping software [1].

So, [2] I'd be tempted to out the PB and put the money that brings in
towards another Nuvi (or other Garmin that takes your fancy). Spend to
save and all that.

It is for this very reason that I sold my father's TomTom One (£132 on
ebay) and bought him a Garmin C510 (£99 in Sainsbury's), so map updates
are sharable between that and T's i3

[1] The Nuvi and most of the modern Garmin units use Mapsource NT
[2] Unless the PB map updates are very cheap and my argument is negated

 

Foiled again.

 

http://www.aldi.co.uk/sunday_special_buys/sunday_special_buys_pid_53561.html

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"Not Supported Method"

Anybody else ever get this from any Aldi site? It's been like this for
me, at least, for the past month. No other site is affected. Browser FF
2.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

No problemo here using Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Win2k with or without Java and
Javascript enabled.

 

Thank you.

Must be my setup then; I don't know wtf is causing it and googling for
"Not Supported Method" re Aldi shows up others with the same problem,
but no solutions. I also get it with Opera and IE on my internet access
box (and this one), so it might be my ISP, or a common access point
that's kicking it.

Weird; it was working fine before.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

Proxies abound (1), but nothing's changed in the setup - although there
was one bit of weirdness a few months ago; some sites would load and
some not, it turned out to be PeerGuardian blocking some html
unprompted.

Time to poke and prod around.

(1) The internet access pc is running the wireless ISP card ( i suspect
the ISP of NATing, but they say not) and ICS (2) - there's freeproxy on
there to serve the internal network and this machine has Proxomitron.

(2) I know ICS is the spawn of the devil, but it works most of the time.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.