UK Linux

Last barrier to ditching MS
The last barrier I have to ditching MS completely is this: I remotely administer two Windows XP machines for two members of my family, one for my Mother-in-Law who is 85(and while she can USE the machine reasonably well, cannot deal with ANY sort of technical problem) and one for my Brother-in-Law who is menta... 21 Jan 2008 19:04

Diagnosing infrequent X server crashes
I'm running Ubuntu 7.1 on a dual processor Athlon with a Radeon 9200 Pro graphics card. I'm running the xorg X server: ii xserver-xorg 1:7.2-5ubuntu1 the X.Org X server I'm getting infrequent crashes which lock up the X server completely. I can get in underneath by secure shell from other machines, and almos... 18 Jan 2008 15:02

Xen, ext3 and sparse files
Hi, I'm putting together a test system that will need to store (though not run simultaneously) many Xen images. I intend to make new images by copying a "template" image, which I'm currently creating, and then installing the specific software needed for that particular image's purpose (they will differ). The... 16 Jan 2008 05:24

EXPOSED: RSPB caught in bed with pro hunt partners when it's supposed to be protecting wildlife! CCVS
CCVX For many years Animal Rights advocates have tried to expose the truth that CONservation hooligans were coining it in at the taxpayers expense in grants and public donations supposedly to protect wildlife, but were in fact killing animals and often partnered by pro hunt groups. Well now the truth is out. ... 24 Jan 2008 17:41

Installing an iso to a laptop (no floppy no cd rom)
I've got an old laptop without a cd drive or a floppy. I can take the drive out and partition it and copy a linux iso to one of the partitions, is there some way of putting grub or lilo somewhere so I can start and install the iso to the hard disk. Is anything like this possible? ... 15 Jan 2008 16:54

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SMB mounting at command line (probably very basic question!)
On 12/01/2008 19:01, Gordon Henderson wrote: what I'd do is open up an xterm, and type: mount after you've accessed it via the GUI to see how it's mounted and where... Likely to be under /media but problem if accesing from a script is that such automounts can "wander" especially for USB dev... 12 Jan 2008 14:14

install grub to an external usb floppy
Hi, Can someone please explain how to install grub to an external usb floppy drive rather than to the hard disk (overwriting the mbr) when installing a fresh copy of ubuntu? Many thanks. ... 12 Jan 2008 17:03

Linux with good wireless support
What do people here recommend as a linux version with good wireless support (out of the 'box') I'm looking for a live cd ideally and I've resigned myself top getting yet another wireless pcmcia card as the four I've got don't work. (Fedora cds don't work with me) ... 24 Jan 2008 16:21

Debian on a stick
oh yes - and if you want to (en)|(de)crypt files then there's a thread on this group from a few days ago. -- Geoff ... 10 Jan 2008 13:39