Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Editing User Account Environment Variables

Don't use control panel for this as it will only allow you to edit the Administrator or System environment variables. To change a user environment variable, search for 'Edit environment variables for your acount' in the start menu search box:

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Investment Advice

Index Trackers Advice
ETFs advice
ETFs advice part 2
Fund enquiries

BlackRock Qualified Investor Schemes 1 - BlackRock Cont European Eq Trk
BlackRock Qualified Investor Schemes 1 - BlackRock Pacific ex Japan Eq Trk


Recommended funds:
Top equity Isas for 2008
Invesco Perpetual High Income - Neil Woodford
Gartmore Cautious Managed
Jupiter Merlin Balanced - fund of funds


Funds for income seekers
Updated: February 2009
Mark Dampier at Hargreaves Lansdown recommends Invesco Perpetual Income.
Gavin Haynes of Whitechurch Securities recommends Invesco Monthly Income Plus
Peter Chadborn of CBK Colchester recommends Threadneedle UK Monthly Income
Darius McDermott of Chelsea Financial Services recommends Schroder Income Maximiser
Peter McGahan of Worldwide Financial Planning recommends Invesco Perpetual High Income


Funds for experienced investors
Updated: February 2009
Mark Dampier of Hargreaves Lansdown recommends Axa Framlington UK Select Opportunities
Gavin Haynes of Whitechurch Securities recommends Jupiter Financial Opportunities
Peter Chadborn of CBK Colchester recommends BlackRock Gold & General
Darius MCDermott of Chelsea Financial Services recommends Martin Currie Asia-Pacific
Peter McGahan of Worldwide Financial Planning recommends BlackRock UK Smaller Companies Inc

Martin Currie Asia-Pacific
Invesco Perpetual Income
Jupiter Merlin Balanced

Look for TER - Total Expenses Ratio

Friday, November 14, 2008

New PC Ideas

£100 Processor - Phenom Tri/Quad core
£ 60 Motherboard - AM+, 1*PCI Express 16x, Gigabit LAN, 4 RAM slots
£ 25 Cooling fan - Nexus
£ 85 Graphics Card
£ 40 3GB RAM
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£325

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H (rev. 1.0) AMD Athlon 64 FX Socket AM2 AMD 690G Micro ATX Gigabit Ethernet

£ 64 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3
£ 91 AMD Phenom X3 Tri Core 8650
£ 93 Zotac GeForce 8800GT (play.com)
£ 27 Corsair XMS6400 2GB DDR2

Graphics Card 8800GT
or
ATI 3870
£ 76 Asus EAH3870 (cclonline.com)

Monitor/TV 26" £355 T260HD - Ebuyer

Friday, October 31, 2008

Fixing Nissan Central Locking Problem


  1. Turn the ignition switch from Position 0 to ON 6 times within 10 seconds.

  2. Then turn ignition switch to OFF position.

  3. After 2 seconds, the system will enter programming mode and will flash the warning
    lights twice.

  4. Press and HOLD the unlock button on the Car key.

  5. While pressing the unlock button, press the lock button 3 times.

  6. Release the unlock button.

  7. The warning lights will flash once to indicate successful programming.

  8. Repeat procedure 4 to 7 for up to 4 car key’s.

  9. When completed turn ignition ON, and the warning lights will flash 2 times.

  10. Remove key, and check all car key’s for operation.


NOTE : The programming mode will stop when either the ignition is switch ON, 4 plip keyshave been programmed or no input signal either from the switch or plip keys has been received
for 120 seconds.