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Totally OT but hilarious Hi: A neighbour of mine popped a note through my door this morning clearly typed on her computer. At the bottom was a hand-written note: "I can't think why the margin is printed a bit crooked: it was straight on the screen!" Hugh -- Hugh Newbury Running Linux Suse 10.1 in deepest Dorset ... 20 Sep 2007 09:46
FT's attack on Windoze Hi: There's an unusually direct attack on Microsoft and its Windoze by John Gapper in an op-ed article in today's FT: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aa31eea2-6711-11dc-a218-0000779fd2ac.html Enjoy! Hugh -- Hugh Newbury Running Linux Suse 10.1 in deepest Dorset ... 23 Sep 2007 09:11
TalkTalk and Linux I'm considering going with TalkTalk for phone and broadband as they've currently got a stunningly cheap offer on, but I'm wondering whether their freebie modem is workable with Linux. Their current model is the Huawei Smart AX MT882 which has USB and ethernet ports and the recommended method for connection in ... 21 Sep 2007 06:08
Bad superblock I'm working on virtualizing an old Red Hat 7.3 box. I replicated the contents of the physical machine to the virtual disk, built a kernel with the right drivers, and can boot the virtual machine. But I get: (Repair filesystem) 1 # fsck /dev/sda1 fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) fsck.ext3: No su... 18 Sep 2007 18:07
USB network servers Are there any kernel modules or utilities that would let standard Linux distros access devices (scanners, printers, external HD, etc.) connected to a USB network server? -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | ... 25 Sep 2007 06:06
Distrowatch down? I've not been able to connect to Distrowatch for the past couple of days. Anyone else having that problem? http://distrowatch.com/ Chris -- Remove prejudice to reply. ... 17 Sep 2007 09:39
USB key with encryption and fingerprint reading? Wotcher all, anyone know of a USB key that does fingerprint recognition and data encryption in hardware? I've seen some that do fingerprint recognition in hardware and need a fingerprint to gain access, but not that actually encrypt as well. Given the relative ease of getting inside a key and removing the memory ... 16 Sep 2007 06:13
changing Arabic font under Konqueror (Sarge-->Etch) I recently made the step to Debian Etch. Unfortunately the font used in Konqueror to display Arabic is not as good (according to my taste) as it was under Sarge. I have put screendumps on my website so you can see the difference: http://www.coolens.net/download/etch.gif http://www.coolens.net/download/sarge.gif ... 10 Sep 2007 15:37
Anyone using UK Free Software Network Ltd ISP for broadband? On 2007-09-09, Billy <george(a)dragonsheed.ac.uk> wrote: Anyone any comments to make regarding quality and reliability of the sevices provided? Thanks, Billy I've been using them for more than a year, and the service seems to be pretty good. They actually 're-sell' Entanet ADSL, who handle the t... 12 Sep 2007 18:32
mailfilter sometimes doesn't filter I've used mailfilter (http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/) for some time but recently have seen it identifying stuff I don't want to download but then apparently not deleting it I have a line DENY="^To:.*fsf(a)chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk" (oh the delights of stupid spammer progs that think they see ... 9 Sep 2007 10:20 |