While there is no absolute answer regarding capacity, the best we can do is give approximations of how much data can be stored. Although its advertised as a 1GB memory stick, only 949 MB of it is usable from the start, due to system overhead.

Sandisk 1Gb review

Very many thanks SC.

Careful kernow, because sometimes (particularly in the hard disk world) a MB is made to mean 1,000,000 bytes rather than 1024x1024, same for a GB. Makes the specs look bigger! Just bought a 150GB disk for instance that is 150,000,000,000 bytes or not quite 140 proper GBs.

Thanks Guys. Hindsight is wonderful. Unfortunately I'd already bought this card and have had to be selctive in the maps to download so as to fit them on. At 0.99p plus a free usb card reader, the card was a bargain but other readers should note the latest Tom Tom maps will not all fit. Mind you I rarely visit Scandanavia and Spain in the same day lol.

I'm looking for somewhere to host our non-complicated business website. Does anyone have any experiences positive or negative?

I've looked at Microsoft Office Live basic which is free. Can't use html with it, and once you go beyond this it starts getting expensive (from 11.95 a month!). I think it may well prove better to have someone host it here in blighty.

How good are the cheap hosts?

Please Help.
I put Vista onto my new Dell laptop yesterday. The laptop was Vista compatible.
Every web site is working fine except one. It is a competitor to this site so don't wish to name it.
This site will not fully load, and takes over 15 mins even to partially load it. It then comes to a grinding halt.
Can't understand why it is only this one site that has problems.
I know it is not the site itself as I can open it OK on my desk top PC with XP.
Thanks in advance Greek.

SC,
I built a site and had it hosted by webeden.com
I am the most computer illiterate person I know and it was simple and cheap. I have had no issues with hosting or reliability and can recommend it, though if you want traffic generating by the host, you could probably do a lot better. This was never an issue for us though cos its primary function was for staff to use to submit business.
Have a look if you like by clicking on the house symbol next to my name.
Alan

Thanks Alan, will look.

Edit, just looked. Nice clean, fast site.

SC

For website hosting, check Myhosting.com

For free site building software try NVU

Thanks Optimist.

Also giving the staff access to t'internet, so want to know how we can log the usage without them being able to delete the history.

Any ideas?

SC

Set your system up with a proxy server that controls all internet access.

One way is to convert an old PC into a firewall with Smoothwall Express. A standard installation will give you a good firewall and a basic proxy server, but this can easily be expanded to give enhanced logging, content control and timed access etc.

If you decide to take that route I could give you some pointers as to what addons to use.

I'll have a google about poxy servers - have just had the internet connections and new kit installed.

For those who have a DELL computer and have or are upgrading to Vista.

A site I belong to (see previous post) wont load on my system DELL/Vista upgrade.
It appears if your system comes with the latest version of McAFEE, McAFEE has a bug which either stops some sites loading and/or slows many sites down.
The tech boys at this site have had several reports re this.
I have informed DELL and await their reply.
Will update this if anyone asks.

some help needed here folks...my company auto-updates my software on my machines and they chnged my firewall today to the integrated symantec offering, now when i have to sign into any kind of secure server, it blocks it...anyone got any ideas, i have allowed all IE traffic and have tried to change the security level but it is set by the company.....i cant be bothered caling some guy in India who has no idea what I am on about

Treblewide

Do you have Java on your PC I have seen a number of comments recently on the Internet about companies stopping Java being loaded onto corporate PCs.

haystack yes I do however I work for a technology company...if they have stopped Java being loaded the place would grind to a halt.....but hey that would not surprise me

looks like long painful phone call to India then!

Now here's a funny thing:
Switched on my PC this morning - everything seemed fine. Clicked on my icon's to connect t'internet & was presented with 'My Documents' folder instead. I've got separate icons for IE and BT/Yahoo & it happened on both.
I thought o-oh and tried a System Restore (panic? moi?) to load in yesterday's settings. I managed to get the Start page up and MS page asking to restore to an earlier date but then nothing, I couldn't click on the proceed button.
I then turned off the PC. The only difference I noticed on the Start - Turn Off Computer pop-up was that 'Hibernate' was showing instead of 'Stand By'.
To cut a boring story short, everything worked fine on the second attempt.
Am now running a deep virus scan. Nothing so far.
Is this just 'one of those things' ?

Bolshi

I've not heard of that before, but could it have been caused by an automatic MS update?

O. I'm on auto update so not sure when updates are done, but this happened before connection to the web or any other chores.
All seems OK and virus deep scan gave a clean bill of health.
Fingers crossed I guess.

Edit: Friend of mine yesterday had Norton warn her about an automatic MS update & it told her NOT to download the update.

Bolshi,

Are you on Vista, as the problem you are describing was one mentioned in yesterdays papers (I think it was the Telegraph). As for your mention, "The only difference I noticed on the Start - Turn Off Computer pop-up was that 'Hibernate' was showing instead of 'Stand by". That has happened to me several times after loading Vista from XP. It is a fault that many have complained about. It appears that if you have Vista and Mcaffe, they are not working well together.They have sent me a fix to do, so if it works I will post it here.
Cheers Greek.