Stevie

I believe the BBC encrypt most of their streams. The only way I can see is capturing it with screen capture software that also captures the sound. But you'd have to listen to the show to capture. Probably breaks their licence agreement though. I know they have a load of podcasts freely downloadable (the Friday Night Comedy on Radio 4 is always good) but his don't appear to be on there.

The Fujitsu is now out the window. Now looking at Lenovo Thinkpad W530 Lenovo have been used on the ISS for years so must be reliable :) The Fujitsu went out the window after reading the review on notebookchat. I like the way they have the images of the laptops open so you can see how easy they are to repair etc. The Lenovo appears to be more a workstation power house laptop, which is what I want. But still looking.

noip.com does look like it will sort out the dynamic IP issue. That's the problem with your IP changing all the time, you're on a dynamic IP setup with your ISP. With some ISPs you can pay a bit extra and get static IPs. Only other way I can think of to stop programs being closed etc is having a locked down setup using local group policies. I don't believe gpedit is included in Windows 7 home though (if that's the version you use). I use LogMeIn over TeamViewer. I've only used TeamViewer on the odd occasion at work with customers. As it's easier to talk them through setting it up to allow me to connect than setting up LogMeIn. LogMeIn works from a locked RDP screen as well (although sometimes on first boot the service will fail to start until you've logged in).

Thanks. I'll keep looking as well but still got my eye on the one I mentioned. I have a small, 12" Core Duo HP running Windows 7, but it runs like a dog now. Does my nut in, hence I wanted to go for power. When I was stuck in a hotel for 3 nights due to Windows 7 training, it was a pain in the arse attempting to run VMs on it in the evening for practice. Ended up giving up and just watching movies on it and a lot of Columbo. Can never go wrong with episodes of Columbo :)

Looking to get a laptop for personal use to compliment my decent lab PC. The lab PC runs ESXi with a few VMs. It's a decent powerful PC but I'd also like a powerful laptop to go with it. The laptop will be mainly used to connect to the ESXi so some might believe doesn't need to be powerful. However, I also want to run VMs on it at times when not on the lab machines, hence laptop needs to be somewhat powerful as well. I've looked at this one so far Fujitsu Lifebook N532 Laptop Can get it for a little over £1k from ebuyer and has a 1.5TB HDD. I'd like to put 16GB in it at some point and finding a review somewhere it showed it was pretty easy to repair this laptop if it ever fails. So another plus point. Anyone got any other suggestions? I don't do Apple :)

Another reason Xerox's (is that right?) are annoying. Ricoh's also have some odd issues like this at times.

We used Marval at the last place I was at 3 years ago and House On The Hill now. Both kinda shit or maybe just not implemented how they should be.

No one can answer unless you post what motherboard it is. If a laptop, what laptop it is.

I know it's PC related the vid but have you tried this? Britec's vids are always useful and good. Best of all, free.

Sorry for delay in reply. As always it stopped again & hasn't happened since. However, I also decided, the lab PC that was on with the domain, wasn't ever used for what I was intending. I was going to maintain the domain and roll out software using it etc. But got bored, so it just stayed on all day doing nothing. It is an ESXi setup so does have other VMs on it that I was using. However, they aren't important. I've not got a new lab PC that is more powerful and only switched on when I'm attempting to learn some stuff or need to setup VMs for testing stuff relating to work. The old one I've now decommissioned and I've removed my PC from the domain and turned the PC. Since leaving the domain and turning the PC off, I haven't had the issue. But again, it's so random it could suddenly appear again. So although at the moment it might point to it being the domain that was the issue, I don't think it ever was due to the various tests I did (as above) with VMs not on the domain yet still suddenly doing it. It does point to it possibly being a Firefox issue as the whole issue appeared to be coming to an end, but when it was doing it in all browsers, it would also do it on clean VMs. VMs that had just been built to test the idea. They were never put on the domain and went straight out to the Internet via the router, but still they started to redirect after a min. However, those VMs were being run in VMWare Workstation from my PC. The same PC that also had the redirect issue & I've read of late that it is possible for a local PC to be infected with crap & then that infection spread to VM's running on the main host (however, I highly doubt that was the issue with the VMs doing the redirect also). So the current state is, the DC has been decommissioned and the PC it was on is off. The Draytek router has been replaced with a slightly newer Draytek. The lab PC for testing shit has been replaced with a more powerful one & all seems clean on it. The netgear unmanaged switch has been replaced for a cheap managed Zyxel 24 port one. After all that, currently the redirect has stopped. I have noticed a laptop that is on the network that I don't own (owned by another member of the house hold) was infected with crap at some point. I was attempting to install some software on it that refused to install because it didn't have permissions to the users temp folder. After trying to fix it for an hour I realised loads of the folder permissions are all a mess & I believe it was from some past infection. I'll have to clean and reload that as well, it's just possible it may have been creating the redirects or if it was an infection, the infection came from there. All in all its been an odd redirect issue with no clear signs that (other than that laptop which I don't think really is the issue) any of the machines are infected with anything.

@Digip : I have my own domain setup at home for testing but instead of it being in a lab I put it on the main network so I could start rolling out software updates and software to PCs on the network. And being an IT Tech it was helping me learn. But I haven't really managed it properly, the DC does do updates whenever they are available and will reboot during the night if its done any updates. I did have a replication server setup but have recently decommisioned that but not made any difference. @Pwnd2Pwnr : ISP is Xilo.net they are a reseller I believe and are using BE on my line (used to be using Cable & Wireless via Xilo but had speed issues and Xilo said C&W were slow at fixing anything and had old kit in the exchange, so I asked for the move to BE). They've said they can't see anything their end. The odd thing is when it happens, if I fire up IE, it doesn't do it. If I also disable the NIC and do the same search in Firefox, instead of attempting to go to hugedomains, it does attempt to go to Google instead. One thing I've notice in the Process Monitor trace I took is when it tries to connect to that address, just before the connection or just after I see an active.adobe.com connection. Don't know if it's related or not. I'll try and get an image of what I'm talking about up. It's really odd.

You could take a look at one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-ANT2412D-Outdoor-Omni-Directional-Antenna/dp/B001VG1QGO/ref=pd_sim_sbs_ce_24 I have one but never properly tested it and still haven't mounted it outside as it should be.

IT'S BACK!!!! New PC, router has been replaced (needed to replace it) so I know the router hasn't been infected or the issue. Now possibly pointing to my Firefox profile as I copied the profile from my old setup. However, I still believe that can't be the issue, as when testing on VMs, fresh VMs, freshly installed, after a few minutes of searching it kicks in and starts to do it on the VM. Only thing I can think of now is it is something on the DC.