At least they give you the criteria upfront. What I really hate is those sites that ask you to submit a password with no indication on the restrictions that they've established.

So you submit "pretty password", which it rejects because you don't have a combination of upper and lower case letters.

So you submit "Pretty Password", which it rejects because you don't have a combination of letters and numbers.

So you submit "Pr3tty P4ssw0rd", which it rejects because you don't have any non-alphanumerics.

So you submit "SHOVE IT UP YOUR ARSE YOU FUCKING RETARDS" and go elsewhere.

True, but I had to search for that.

Stop your whinging, thy sent you a smiley face in their response, what more do you want?

To be fair, I've been with Virgin for nearly 6 years at two addresses and apart from some confusion over our moving date they've been great. The last three times I've had to ring them I've had a tivo box, a new router and a reduction in price. S'all subjective, o'course, if I hadn't have spoken to them they'd have continued to happily take my monthly subscription at a higher price and no give me shiny boxes.

How many points are you planning on having fitted?

I didn't want to pay the installation cost so rang up, got it half price which wasn't too bad.

I'm only getting the broadband.

Unfortunately I might have to pipe it round the house using HomePlugs and WiFi because I think my carpet is glued down so can't really get under the floorboards to run the box of CAT6 I've bought without destroying the brand new carpet :@

Could you take the skirting off and run it behind that? Would be a big pain in the arse to do, but at least it'd be done for good.

It's definitely an option.

I've never personally seen domestic carpet glued down but my attempts to lift in the corners of a few rooms hasn't been successful. It could just be very bloody tight and well fitted, I hope that's the case.

Half price? They Saw you coming!

If pulling the skirting off isn't on the cards, could you run the cables between the skirting and the carpet strip (assuming there is one and they're not used glue there as well!) - that's what the workmen did when running the cables for our alarm.

Cables are beautiful, and should be proudly displayed snaking hither and thither around and across the room in great coils that capture dust bunnies hippos and old newspapers.

Mrs.D says our living room looks like a warehouse.

 :-{)

I've had to take up floorboards a couple of times where an alarm or telephone cake has been run around the edge of the carpet. It was a pain and had to be very careful not to damage the cakes.

I would say you really really need to sort out your autocorrect, but it's become endearing now.

Carpet only looks to be glued to the gripper rods, hopefully not a complete disaster.

Thinking steam or a solvent as long as it doesn't ruin the carpet.

Hahaha. I do make a lot of mistakes when I do the swiping on the keyboard. And the plaster on my thumb isn't helping things today. But telephone cake. I want one :D

Never seen that before. How old is the carpet? I'd have thought steam would be ok as I believe (from what Sian said) the person who cleaned our carpet recently used a big steam machine.

It is brand new, which is why I don't want to damage it.

Success.

liquid networking?

Where did you get the acetone?

If only!

Kos: From work. You can get Acetone on eBay though if you want.

Damn chemists.