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  1. @venger - thanks for finding those . from the flags in the 4 bed pics, it looks like a current estate . I am surprised at the size of the downstairs rooms , especially the kitchen/dining room.Much larger than I would have expected . However especially noticeable on the 4bed version is the usual lack of storage in the non-master bedrooms . The key aspect on the pricing is that if prices have fallen , then the place they want to move to should also have fallen , so where's the problem? (agree with Blizzard on this).
  2. it may be too soon to say , but it looks like it is working for me at least atm. It wasnt working maybe 30 mins ago but has been for maybe last 20mins. traceroute now shows : traceroute to www.housepricecrash.co.uk (87.124.44.1), 12 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 www.routerlogin.com (192.168.0.1) 1.031 ms 6.462 ms 6.856 ms 2 anchor-hg-1-lo100.router.demon.net (194.159.161.32) 24.729 ms 26.085 ms 28.518 ms 3 anchor-access-4-s2002.router.demon.net (194.217.23.5) 31.482 ms 32.909 ms 35.017 ms 4 gi7-0-0-dar4.lah.uk.cw.net (194.159.161.94) 37.314 ms 37.960 ms 40.146 ms 5 xe-11-1-0-xur1.lns.uk.cw.net (193.195.25.34) 41.948 ms 43.674 ms 45.287 ms 6 linx2.thn.fubra.net (195.66.237.33) 49.307 ms 42.648 ms 44.816 ms 7 neos1.cer2.manor.fubra.net (87.124.32.70) 49.393 ms 26.722 ms 26.620 ms 8 housepricecrash.co.uk (87.124.44.1) 28.517 ms !X 31.243 ms !X 32.840 ms !X this is different to the previous bad ones as the last lines of the 'good' ones were 7 neos1.cer2.manor.fubra.net (87.124.32.70) 47.859 ms 27.179 ms 26.821 ms 8 r1m.c2.catn.com (87.124.43.20) 30.741 ms 31.984 ms 33.940 ms 9 r1m.c2.catn.com ((87.124.43.20) 35.550 ms 37.840 ms 39.219 ms so have lost the strange duplicated 'r1m.c2.catn.com ' and get the housepricecrash.co.uk (87.124.44.1) instead. however it looks still a bit odd as the response is '!X' which the man page says 'communication administratively prohibited' will try later with my fingers crossed that it is still working . rockhopper
  3. first time today I can get on with normal stuff. I have been able to get on using anonymouse but get extra adverts etc so could be a work around for others . but it would be nice for it to be fixed. rockhopper
  4. I am still having severe problems also . Have tried to use anonymouse and can view the site (hpc) ok , and strangely seem to be able to login (had assumed they used cookies which I tht anonymouse blocked ) anyway if can post this then is an alternative way to access but would much rather fubra fixed it . I *think* that the most of the users experiencing problems are using demon , but that may be a red herring . Please can we have a progress report from fubra ? cheers, rockhopper
  5. Is there an update yet ? I am still having bad problems using the site . I notice on teh fubra twitter that the last message was for june 1, and it said that a catn server had gone down and been replaced . This is where the traceroute either works or doesnt ie is that server ok? cheers, rockhopper
  6. a brief interlude where I have access. Thanks for the info ... it seems like I'm not the only one. I am using mozilla as the browser but tried firefox and that hung too. the traceroute runs indicate ok up to and including linx2.thn.fubra.net neos1.cer2.manor.fubra.net but whatever comes after seems extremely flakey. I would like the fubra techies to take a look at the traceroute info and give an opinion . any chance ? cheers, rockhopper
  7. had problems on sat (?) whenever it was reported and there was a msg from doccyboy saying apols for the problems but all fixed now. well they werent for me . I am still having problems but only with hpc anything else is fine . I can occasionally get on but rest of time it just hangs with the browser : Network Timeout The operation timed out when attempting to contact www.housepricecrash.co.uk. so some attempted diagnostic stuff below (didnt do me any good apart from indicating problem in fubra ): dig www.housepricecrash.co.uk. any ; <<>> DiG 9.4.3-P4 <<>> www.housepricecrash.co.uk. any ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 32601 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 7, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.housepricecrash.co.uk. IN ANY ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.housepricecrash.co.uk. 1614 IN CNAME housepricecrash.co.uk. housepricecrash.co.uk. 60 IN SOA ns1.fubra.com. dns.fubra.com. 2011112402 1200 120 1209600 60 housepricecrash.co.uk. 3600 IN A 87.124.44.1 housepricecrash.co.uk. 3600 IN MX 5 abe2.fubra.it. housepricecrash.co.uk. 60 IN NS ns1.fubra.com. housepricecrash.co.uk. 60 IN NS ns2.fubra.com. housepricecrash.co.uk. 3600 IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:87.124.0.0/15 -all" ;; Query time: 29 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1) ;; WHEN: Wed Jun 6 18:26:09 2012 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 229 ie the ip address of hpc is 87.124.44.1 and to state the obvious , the nameservers are ns1.fubra.com , ns2.fubra.com. using traceroute when I am able to access : traceroute www.housepricecrash.co.uk traceroute to www.housepricecrash.co.uk (87.124.44.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 www.routerlogin.com (192.168.0.1) 0.927 ms 6.100 ms 6.494 ms 2 anchor-hg-1-lo100.router.demon.net (194.159.161.32) 24.531 ms 25.985 ms 28.719 ms 3 anchor-access-4-s2002.router.demon.net (194.217.23.5) 31.038 ms 32.198 ms 34.407 ms 4 gi7-0-0-dar4.lah.uk.cw.net (194.159.161.94) 36.854 ms 38.639 ms 40.265 ms 5 xe-11-1-0-xur1.lns.uk.cw.net (193.195.25.34) 41.980 ms 44.673 ms 46.873 ms 6 linx2.thn.fubra.net (195.66.237.33) 49.176 ms 43.819 ms 45.748 ms 7 neos1.cer2.manor.fubra.net (87.124.32.70) 48.677 ms 26.857 ms 28.114 ms 8 r1s.c2.catn.com (87.124.43.21) 29.565 ms 30.767 ms 32.464 ms 9 r1s.c2.catn.com (87.124.43.21) 35.117 ms 36.538 ms 38.767 ms puzzled why the last one is repeated and is not hpc ? and at a bad time : traceroute www.housepricecrash.co.uk traceroute to www.housepricecrash.co.uk (87.124.44.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 www.routerlogin.com (192.168.0.1) 1.019 ms 6.237 ms 6.634 ms 2 anchor-hg-1-lo100.router.demon.net (194.159.161.32) 24.143 ms 25.231 ms 28.844 ms 3 anchor-access-4-s2002.router.demon.net (194.217.23.5) 31.421 ms 33.500 ms 34.449 ms 4 gi7-0-0-dar4.lah.uk.cw.net (194.159.161.94) 36.996 ms 38.715 ms 40.080 ms 5 xe-11-1-0-xur1.lns.uk.cw.net (193.195.25.34) 43.368 ms 44.997 ms 47.185 ms 6 linx2.thn.fubra.net (195.66.237.33) 48.010 ms 45.106 ms 45.457 ms 7 neos1.cer2.manor.fubra.net (87.124.32.70) 48.726 ms 26.619 ms 26.138 ms 8 * * * I saw on the bbc site that have started the new internet ie ip6 in the last week ... (thought it had been there for ages ?) anyway - could that have something to do with it ? any thoughts ? cheers, rockhopper
  8. there is something odd about that article ... although it says "2012 budget briefing" the link has ' 2010/apr/25' in it and the comments are dated from then!?
  9. just a thank you to M21er for taking the time and effort to post the auction stuff. (dont know why it doesnt just stay in the main forum - but whatever). thanks rockhopper
  10. fwiw, a safehaven article from june 2011 that has a link to the original pdf quoted http://www.safehaven.com/article/21228/financial-repression-a-sheep-shearing-instruction-manual this is titled "Financial Repression: A Sheep Shearing Instruction Manual" cheers, rockhopper
  11. there is a page with comments on the grauniad on this : http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/12/high-street-tesco-retail-slump "Bleak day for high street as Tesco slump spooks retail sector" which talks about this. The 6th comment is by 'Akinface' and had 879 recs so far . cheers, rockhopper
  12. maybe 15 years back I took out a tracker pep ... looked at the charges and went with L&G at 1% (?) . The pep was structured to use L&G tracker fund units . I came to realise that altho the visible charge was maybe 1% for admin of the pep, they were probably indirectly charging for the L&G tracker fund . So who knows what the actual charges were - but almost certainly a lot higher than the headline figure . (I closed it when the market started to nose dive.) cheers, rockhopper
  13. (it = OECD) . Real question: is this code for the BoE will have to buy 125B of govt debt or is there some other meaning for this ? (maybe we dont have enough inflation?) cheers, rockhopper
  14. I was taking a look at landlordzone this morning and came across a Q about blacklisting tenants : http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/FAQ/index.php?action=artikel&cat=1&id=39&artlang=en from reading that , it appears that there is no such thing for various reasons . cheers rockhopper
  15. torygraph article on immigration referring to the epetition by Frank Fields and Nicholas Soames http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/8877212/Why-not-listen-to-the-voters-on-immigration.html rockhopper
  16. Sorry about this ... the thread title made me think : Theresa May : the Mrs Slocombe of the Tory Party . I'll get my coat
  17. just a reminder that sun coined the phrase "the network is the computer" tho dont know if they are still going ... so an early version of the cloud concept . cheers, rockhopper
  18. It seems to me to be one of the many stupidities in life that they have a threshold eg 250k and if it is threshold+1, then you pay the rate on the whole lot not just the delta of 1gbp . This has been the way for a long time otherwise I would have assumed it was a Gordon invented system... it has his style of a lack of commonsense . they really should make it that it starts at some threshold and is taxed at the rate on the amount *above* that , they could adjust the threshold and put up with a small loss for a sensible understandable system ... but its politicos we're talking about here , so it wont happen. . cheers, rockhopper
  19. to state the obvious, I guess that is mangled from the leonard cohen song , first we take manhattan (then we take berlin) ... on the "I'm your man" album/cd . It is a good album . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnCR8kSSmqw cheers, rockhopper
  20. family I know had set up to buy a house (about may ) from a bloke whose daughter worked in the EA that was selling it . The couple are not english and and did not understand the subtleties of the house buying mechanism , and they had arranged for exchange of contracts and completion on same day (iiuic) and the buyer just said no on the day (maybe the day before) . It must have cost them several hundreds if not thousands in surveyors reports and mortgage arrangements etc. (I did not want to interrogate them on quite what happened.) They now have another house lined up, but I hope they are going to separate the exchange and completion. My understanding of the system, is that the purchaser pays a deposit (at exchange of contracts) which would be lost if they (purchasers) dodnt complete . I would guess that they could ask the vendor to do the same ... and that could cure that problem or at least compensate . I thought the idea of the home purchase pack was good in that the vendor paid for the surveys and searches and so would minimise the buyers losses if the plug was pulled. Think if they changed the rules , to make it mandatory when an offer is made it could help to cure some of the problems. cheers rockhopper
  21. there are several things that bug/trouble me atm - the failure of the govt for so long to acknowledge peak oil ... and it seemed to be a banned phrase on the beeb (remember one of them saying well you know its a finite resource ... as if they were not allowed to say 'peak oil' .. and especially to do nowt about it . aided I guess by the govts chief scientific adviser saying no problem till 2030 (or was it 2050) even tho it was obvious at the time ... (dont worry the people.?) - the suppression of free speech and attacks on *peaceful* demonstrators inc kettling - the amount of immigration has indeed changed the face of britain and not for the better . lack of integration, and the rest . Massive extra demand for housing ... 3M or is it 7M extra people in the last 13 years ... and the tories for all their fine words in opposition are doing nothing now.. water meters are being installed thru our area as they are unable to meet the increased demand - the privatisation of the NHS started by nulab and obviously continued by the tories ...and supported by the libdems . I will just give the link that I have given before "the plot against the nhs" http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/colin-leys/plot-against-nhs - there is the Tullet prebon report for just before the election which states the bleeding obvious (If they were a party I would have voted for them). so the link and some extracts that particularly chime with me . http://www.tullettprebon.com/Documents/strategyinsights/tp04-10_TPSI_report_004final_LR.pdf just to repeat this was published before the last general election. - the outright lies (by any 'court of the people?) and deliberate saying one thing and doing something else by the party that gets elected , many possible examples but esp Dave saying no more top down re-organisations of the nhs ... well its a bottom up one innit. - the running of the country not for the benefit of the people but the elites . There is a report from Democratic Audit by David Beetham http://www.democraticaudit.com/corporate-and-financial-dominance-in-britains-democracy 24pages pdf , that I have read and need to re-read . - letting house prices get out of control ... fkd up many lives thru this I think there are other things that bother me , that I have forgotten about at the moment (probably just as well ) To reply to the original thought from bulltraderpt : Yes, I know I should let it wash over me , it is easier said than done ... maybe I should stop looking on here as it is a series of shocks , just get over one item and then read another one. . rockhopper
  22. sorry if this has been posted before but a search on 'mode 4' turned up nowt recent . came across a reference to this in the comments on a grauniad article .this is dated sept 1st. http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2011/09/01/comment-the-secret-immigration-policy-they-tr seems to be related to saint vince ... not quite such a saint these days. Maybe the eu will collapse and save us from this .... I am currently quite depressed about the state of britain and this did nowt to cheer me and if it is to be believed, neither the greens nor ukip are against it . clearly with all these indians coming into britain , more natives will be out of work which will force house prices down and rents up ... just to keep it on topic. I would suggest a letter to your mp might help ... or then again ... edited to add ... just found what appears to be a related article http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/25/dead-end-globalisation-youth-rage rockhopper
  23. you're right in that it doesnt say anything more useful than the pdf , and doesnt give any useful advice , but it does provide a readable intro , rather than a 66page pdf , which for me requires a download and then to use a pdf reader on it . @billybong ... I expect your right rockhopper
  24. sorry if this has been posted before , but I searched on "financial repression" and this didnt come up. Found a reference to it in a comment by "Alex Eames" on Shaun Richards (formerly notayesman economics) blog . (this is just for reference ... the actual link is the next one) http://www.mindfulmoney.co.uk/wp/shaun-richards/the-us-unemployment-sitution-continues-to-worsen-and-why-did-the-iea-release-some-oil-reserves/ It is a safehaven article but references a pdf on financial repression hosted by the Imf (!). http://www.safehaven.com/article/21228/financial-repression-a-sheep-shearing-instruction-manual and the imf article http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2011/res2/pdf/crbs.pdf had seen the phrase but not realised it had a specific meaning . Hope its of interest to others ... explains the high inflation and low interest rates etc. rockhopper
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