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Hi all,
I have a Windows PC (not my personal machine so don't think any less of me!) that as a fake RAID on it set up to RAID 5. It's been a bit temperamental throughout it's life, but the other day...

Just been to see the film and wondered what my fellow geeks thought. I think I saw some Vista in there too, but all the cool stuff was definitely meant to be *nix. Forward slashes for file locations...

Hi guys,

I'm currently looking at the possibility of buying a new laptop. I need to run a lot of Adobe applications, so unfortunately I'm going to have to use a proprietary OS. My initial thought...

My parents have been using Ubuntu for several months now, and they're both virtually computer illiterate. Of course they didn't have much choice in the matter. I think all they do is use Firefox and...

Until a minute ago, I thought that Feisty Fawn Herd referred to a GNU/HURD release (obviously I didn't know how to spell HURD). But of course a herd is just a collection of fawns, isn't it? I thought...

Hi,
I need to create some Java GUIs for my course, and I was wondering if anyone could point me towards any good online resources that would help me with this. Any general Java guides would be...

I got pretty excited about this when I first saw it. A lot of people who might switch to Linux are put off by unfarmiliar media players, so to have a cross platform open-source project like this is...

Rugrats

I found this the other day, after much searching on Google.
First thing you need to do is make sure you have lsdvd and transcode installed:

sudo apt-get install lsdvd transcode
Then do
lsdvd...

I sponsor a child in India through Compassion. I know it's only one kid I'm helping, but it's an awesome thought that what I do can have a huge affect on his life. Plus, it's great to be able to...

It appears that beans aren't being added on for posts at the moment. I was on 195 about 5 posts ago.

Actually it's more like 5 or 6 years. According to Wikipedia, "Microsoft started work on their plans for "Longhorn" in May 2001". To be fair, they did have a lot of work to do in taking a Windows...

Is that on the Wii or the GameCube? I take it it's good then?
Whoops, that's very off-topic. I'm looking forward to Thunderbird 2 (will it be big and green and fly to people's rescue do you think?)....

I've heard about this from LugRadio. I think it would be a good idea to support it, as you say, to help new users, until they discover the joys of apt. I'm all for making things easy; it's the only...

I tested out Vista for a bit, and this was probably the most annoying thing. The screen completely blacks, it plays a little sound effect, makes sure you really really want to continue, you have to...

What about different 'bins' with different names depending on how big the file is? You could have wastebasket for small documents, wheelie for slightly larger items, and massive files could go in the...

I can't believe no-one's said Beryl. It's just me who's that shallow then? What I really love about it, though, is that most people assume Linux is ugly and out-dated and to see their faces when you...

I love the way Microsoft try to copy the great security features of distros like Ubuntu, but manage to make it so insanely annoying that people are just going to disable it. Nice one.

That's a shame, but I'll keep my hopes up. As I understand it, standards compliance is quite high on the to-do list.
When do you think, realistically, it will be out? The Mozilla site says May...

How's the standards compliance? That's the only thing that really annoys me at the moment (more from a web-developers point of view; I've already got IE6 and 7 to contend with, without having to deal...

There are many advantages to the open-source way of doing things. For one, you have a whole load of people doing bug fixes and feature improvements for you. As 23meg said, it can still be your...

I've been playing about with VoIP a bit today. I came across Wengo, which seems pretty good; it's got nearly all the features of Skype on Windows, but for Linux e.g. video calling is supported. SIP...

Hi thanks for your suggestions. I didn't realise I didn't need the file extension for the graphics file, as we've only been taught to do things like \includegraphics{fig1.jpg}. The \newline lines are...

Thanks for that. All works well. The graphic seems to be of a lower quliaty in the pdf, but I guess that's something to do with it no longer being a PostScript file. Thanks again for all you help.
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Thanks for replying. When I run the second line of code, it creates a PostScript file, not a pdf. Do you know why this is? How can I change to to a pdf? Thanks again.

Luke