I called my mate, he did have a spare video card. I said I would be there shortly.

I rode up there, wandered in, they were watching another episode of The Sopranos.

I sat down, my mate grabbed the video card for me, and I started watching the Sopranos.

About 15 minutes later, the woman who lives downstairs knocked on the window.

My mate went over to speak to her. I couldn't hear the conversation.

My other mate, about a minute later, paused the DVD, and went to join in the conversation.

The woman that lives below them was complaining that the woman who lives next door couldn't sleep because of the noise they make, and something about her having to move into the back bedroom of her house to get away from the noise.

my mates' main argument was that if her house had no insulation, then that was her problem, and that on the weekend, and public holidays, they would make as much noise as they liked.

The woman from downstairs then complained about the noise in her area (I believe this was the ulterior motive for this conversation, and the stuff about the woman next door was just nonsense, because the woman downstairs didn't want to complain directly), my mates said that that was why they kept all the equipment in the front section of the house, and not in the loungeroom (since the loungeroom is directly above the downstairs area of the house, and the front section has nothing under it).

She went away after that, claiming that she didn't want to be nasty about it.

It was very surprising that is has been this long before the woman complained of the noise, I would have thought she would have been up there the first week, and they've been in there about 2 months now.

Oh well, my opinion on the matter: call the police, let them sort it out.

As I've said before, the police don't care. So many times they came out to shut down parties I went to, I just spoke to them, apologised for the noise, said I would take control, and sort it out, and immediately they were happy, and went away, because they didn't really care, and just wanted to get out of there.

The same thing will apply here. Call the police, by the time they turn up, everyone will have gone to bed, and there is no issue.

I watched until the end of the episode, and then I came home again.

I put the video card in the machine, booted it up. Seemed to work.

I installed windows again, to work on this machine, installed all the drivers.

It seems like a pretty quick machine.

I went through, setup the video software, and started DVD archiving again.

I started web browsing, looking for new stuff on the sat tv forums, since I haven't looked on there for a few weeks.

There was a new card sharing software, I grabbed it down, and started reading the docs, looks like a cool bit of software, it might even get that mongrel UEC700 working that I tried 6 different interfaces in.

I was going to put it in, but my parents are probably watching, and will complain, so I'll wait til a bit later.

My mate I got to dinner with called me. He's putting his car in for a service tomorrow, and wanted to know if I could pick him up, take him to the club, where we play a few games of snooker, and then take him back over to get his car, yeah, that should be fine.

A few hours later, after I got through doing a bunch of videos from the tivo, I decided to have a look at the new card software.

I put it on the card sharing machine, killed the other stuff, started this one up, jiggled the card in my decoder, and away it went, first go.

I put the software on my parents' machine, and configured it so it should work, all they need to do is jiggle the card, and it should kick in. I'll have a look at it in the morning.

When I vnced into my parents' machine to put the software on, it complained that drive c was full. It had 38mb free. There was 370mb in the \windows\temp directory. I cleaned all that out.

I left my new machine rerendering all the mpgs into dvd format when I went to bed.