UK Linux

OS Free Laptops?
Is there anyone in the UK who sells laptops without an OS or one with a Linux installation? Chris -- Chris Eilbeck MARS Flight Crew http://www.mars.org.uk/ UKRA #1108 Level 2 UYB Tripoli UK Member #9527 ... 26 Sep 2005 19:48

Canon Pixma ip1500 printer and SUSE 9.1
Hi, Does anyone know how to get the canon pixma ip1500 printer working in SUS linux 9.1? Any help would be much appreciated. Regards Steve ... 9 Sep 2005 07:39

Scottish Power website
SuSE 8.2 Browserhawk seems to have gone away. Opera 6.03 Can log in but my personal account page as displayed is unusable. Text on top of text etc. Konqueror 3.1.1 Email & password boxes on homepage have zero height so cannot login. Firefox 1.0 Can login, see my personal account page, click to go to pag... 7 Sep 2005 17:36

AddOn GWK140
Hi Folks, Has anyone had any luck with these cards? I am having some problems configuring an AddOn ADD-GWK140 Wireless card with SuSE 9.3 (And Ubuntu), the symptoms are however always the same, The card initialises fine, And it can be activated however no data is ever recieved. It sends with no toubles and a... 17 Aug 2005 15:10

Windows Media 9 Video Codecs?
Hi all I've noticed an increasing number of downloadable videos are in this format. Xine gives me the message that the video codec Windows Media Video 9 (WMV3) is unsupported. The audio stream plays fine. I'm using the codecs from the mplayer site (all-20050412.tar.bz2), and compiled xine rpms from the lates... 17 Aug 2005 18:17

Wanadoo
Sorry if this has been asked before but does any one know if Wanadoo adsl modems work with any of the distro's? I'm thinking of signing up. I am using Fedora core 2 atm but have Mandrake 10.1 also. Or should I get a different adsl modem? Ian. ... 16 Aug 2005 16:56

hosts.deny not working
Does anyone know how to get hosts.deny to work? I can put ALL : ALL in there and it does nothing. I've tried restarting network, rebooting etc. I'm using Fedora Core 4. ... 4 Sep 2005 15:22

Recording BBC radio
Paul Sherwin <paulSPAM(a)paulsherwin.co.uk> wrote: Why on earth did they not go for streaming MP3? It's to do with copyright issues. They went for RealAudio because it makes it difficult for people to store the output as a file for later listening, burning onto a CD etc. I agree it's a pain in the bum ... 23 Jul 2005 11:39

question about top
Here's the third line of top on my system: Cpu(s): 1.3% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 98.3% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si I can work out us, sy, ni and id (user, system, nice, idle), but what are wa, hi and si? The answer does not seem to be in man top. SuSE 9.2, "entirely new and enhanced" top. -- David Cowie ... 24 Feb 2005 10:40

Genesys GL816E USB2 card reader
Anyone managed to get the above working in linux? Genesys website says use usb-storage module. http://www.genesyslogic.com/econtents/product02.asp?minicidx=2&lastcidx=8&SN=38 Have loaded the usb-storage module, and this is what I get when I plug it in: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 14 scsi8... 24 Feb 2005 10:40