UK Linux

vista
Does any one know what it costs to have a vista system up and running? I ask in order to dissuade some one who thinks it might be a good idea. I was thinking of a Dell or similar system. -- Nemo "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole" ... 24 Mar 2007 11:07

Dell Linux Survey of your needs
Dell have a Survey until March 23rd asking for your needs of them for Linux http://www.dell.com/linuxsurvey -- ac ... 15 Mar 2007 11:05

Mail filtering by date
There is a lot of spam about that is date headers either very old or well into the future. I was wondering if anyone has found a procmail filter that can spot and deal with these? Alternatively, what about a spamassassin filter or something in Exim4 ? Justin. -- Justin C, by the sea. ... 14 Mar 2007 17:35

gotmail
is there, anywhere, please a STEP by STEP instruction on how to set up gotmail? So far my google search has not turned up a step-by-step instruction on how to set it up and configure it. If I type "gotmail" into a terminal, it gives me a list of options, but NOT how to use them! ... 23 Mar 2007 11:29

Google Earth limited zoom, going purple.
Wotcher all, I recently decided to play with Google Earth on linux, but on one of my machines, when zooming in, as soon as you get to a zoom level at which the width of the UK's south fills the screen, the image fades to purple and I can't see anything else. I'd imagine it should be fading to a new set of maps but... 10 Mar 2007 18:56

Asus Laptop recovery partition and multiboot.
I have an Asus laptop. This comes with a 4gb recovery partition on the beginning of the hard disk. The recovery partition contains a recovery version of XP, presumably like the recovery DVD that came with the machine. There are two other partitions on the hard disk, the first of these contains the working ve... 11 Mar 2007 09:12

SCSI tape problem?
Tonight my Sony DDS4 drive doesn't want to play. Amanda couldn't read the next dump tape's label, and then got stuck in a loop labeling a replacement. I couldn't eject the tape either manually from the Eject button or with the amtape command. After a power cycle the Eject button on the drive worked and, after ... 14 Mar 2007 01:00

Why is khelper repeatedly calling modprobe ? (solved)
In article <esru9j$k9b$1(a)hub.home>, Nick Leverton <nick(a)leverton.org> wrote: I've a problem on my Kubuntu Edgy laptop at work. The taskbar CPU meter shows something soaking up CPU, briefly but several times per second. This is a real pain as it is giving me very jerky response. For the record, I've found the ... 9 Mar 2007 12:21

Why is khelper repeatedly calling modprobe ?
I've a problem on my Kubuntu Edgy laptop at work. The taskbar CPU meter shows something soaking up CPU, briefly but several times per second. This is a real pain as it is giving me very jerky response. Whatever is being called doesn't show up in ps, even if I leave it being called from a hard 'while' loop, so it... 9 Mar 2007 10:45

Nautilus and autofs problems
Wotcher all, I've just been setting up a new laptop and have decided to try out gnome again, while it seems much better than it was I'm having problems with nautilus. I could change to rox, which I use on my other boxes, but I'd prefer to stick with nautilus until it hurts. The issue basically is with autofs's "... 8 Mar 2007 15:40