UK Linux

Most reliable USB ADSL modem?
Hello all, does anyone have any good experience using USB ADSL modems? I'm hitting the same problem I had with the last ADSL dedicated router, it falling over on a regular basis. I cured that by getting an ADSL PCI card for my home firewall but now I have a remote site that has a mac mini installed, so need a USB ... 30 Dec 2007 13:12

Startx for live cds
Is there an option to startx with (say) a particular resolution?. Sometimes the simpler live cds don't get the resolution right: sometimes it's too fine so you can't read the text or simply (out of range). I've tried man startx which didn't give much useful information. ... 20 Dec 2007 16:27

Fujitsu Siemens Amilo laptop - any good for Linux?
I've seen one of these with a fairly good spec at reasonable price but don't know if there'd be problems with it running Linux (especially things like the wireless interface: my only previous experience trying to get an external wireless card running on a laptop were that it'd boot and see the card in knoppix but h... 22 Dec 2007 07:57

IPCOP and high speeds
Hi there, A question: I have a 20480/1024 (kbit/sec) ADSL line, but I can't get higher speeds than around 8 mbit, no matter what I try. I'm running IPCOP ver. 1.4.10 and I currently have Traffic Shaping turnd off. I had it turned on to 20480 down and 1024 up, but then I couldn't get speeds higher than around... 21 Dec 2007 09:15

Problems with Evolution, BTYahoo, and openSUSE 10.2
I recently upgraded my copy of Evolution to 2.12.0, under openSUSE 10.2. This does not seem to delete e-mail on the BTYahoo server after 7 days, despite having that option set up and working in previous versions - mail is left on the server for longer than this. Is there a way to trace the commands sent to the... 19 Dec 2007 18:44

Streaming iPlayer available now...
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:45:13 +0000, Ian Rawlings wrote: uknova that would be fine but can never register limits always reached :( -- If its not broke must be Linux ... 18 Dec 2007 18:47

howto mount usb hd at boot automatically
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:23:30 +0000, Tony Houghton wrote: I've never managed to get gparted to do anything i wanted it to do - it rarely seems to actually want to change anything. Some reasons it could fail to do what you want: (a) The partition is mounted - IIRC it displays a little padlock next... 19 Dec 2007 08:32

I've been playing around.
Does any one notice that KDE is less stable than Gnome. I find Gnome crashes less and is a lot more solid. This isn't Gnome Vs KDE debate, just an observation. -- " If you can empty your mind of all thoughts your heart will embrace the tranquility of peace. Watch the workings of all of creation, but ... 10 Dec 2007 02:26

auto-running a script as daemon
I have a perl script to monitor various bits of my server, which I run as root: /usr/local/sbin/monitor.pl & That works fine, but I'd really like to start it automatically on reboot. How would I organise that? -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:news_0711(a)vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England ... 10 Dec 2007 02:26

Help with network please
I posted this on the Mandriva newsgroup, but no replies yet. Can anuone here help please? I have an oddity which I don't understand. I'm running Mandriva 2005LE as my main desktop with a local network behind a smoothwall box. Until now, the network has only been for distributing internet to 2 or 3 machines. ... 28 Dec 2007 12:21