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Pretty much I'm afraid.

I need to start looking for a new ISP for The Company as our current one is, well I just don't have polite enough words for them at the moment. I need recommendations. Requirements: Minimum speed: 4Mbit Up / 4Mbit Down Fail-over backup Max cost £1000/mo IPv6 native routing and address provision Anyone have any thoughts?

WTF BBC? Last week you spoil the race replay by telling me who won when I try to change commentary, this week you're not even gonna let me watch the practices? Screw you BBC!

It might just be me, but I can't find a replay of either of these practice sessions, just a highlight reel and two driver-specific reports... Where are the full replays?

Ok, so I had to update the firmware on my E90 because I was sick of it sorting the entire inbox even when just opening a compose window meaning that with 500+ messages, I had to wait 10s just to compose a message and therefore was constantly clearing out the inbox. That aside, in combintion with the new firmware I had to re-install Google Maps. The problem is now google maps won't override the backlight power saver and so after 90s (the maximum time you can set the power saver to) i can't see a damn thing and have to press a key, which is reall damned useful when you're trying to find your way through bloody Manchester(!!). So, either the new firmware has stopped the loophole of telling Nokia Maps to leave the backlight on when GPS is in use which then works for Google maps, or the latest version of Google maps has killed its ability to lock the backlight on. Does anyone know anything about this or can anyone suggest a plausible solution?

The question was stupid. The answer was stupid. If you don't want non-perfect responses, pay someone to help you. Otherwise, get what you are given.

the same as the best provider for Chesham, Birmingham, Basingstoke and Scunthorpe.

a) The Linux install will take care of it. In Slackware it has you install LILO (the LInux LOader) and allows you to add your windows partition to the boot options. b) Slackware Linux using fluxbox as your window manager.

Buh? That's no reason to prevent a mount.. just force it.

Unless you have manually configured a ridiculously low setting for your virtual memory, or unless your hard disk has barely any space left on it at all, then increasing the allocation will not help. By default Windows manages your VM for you and assigns it dynamically. What this means in practice is that either there's not enough disk space for more VM to be assigned, or the game you are playing is causing some kind of memory leak (presumably in Adobe Flash) which is causing it to spiral out of control in its memory usage. To resolve.. make sure you have a fair bit of free disk space (never run under a gig free in my opinion) and make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Flash installed.

Seconded. And I'm still sick of the minimum message length!

Seriously? Is there some reason you can't go to the facebook help page and type "change network" in the search yourself? One of the eleven results is "How can I change my primary network?". Unsurprisingly. I'm not usually so condescending in my responses, but extreme lack of effort and asking other people to do things for you really gets my back up.

They do. Granted, I would like to see them ship OEM Install Discs for the operating system. But most, if not all, provide a recovery CD that will put it back in the state it was in when you bought it.

My simple point was, regardless of what you think of people who do or have provided said support, it gives you a perspective of what causes the greatest number of problems and why. When I was doing it (some time ago I grant you) ZoneAlarm caused SO much hassle, even in non connection-related ways.

I tnhink it's pretty clear why I called troll. The OP asked about whether a pop-up was related to his anti-virus and without any attempt to respond to the question, moron face up there just posted a big I Hate AVG. It's like someone asking for help connecting through an N85 as a modem, and having someone post the reply: Nokias suck, get an iPhone. Hence troll & moron. Fail. You've obviously never worked ISP tech support. Nothing has ever been as fail-prone and disruptive... So often the solution to random problem X that seems almost completely unrelated is "uninstall ZoneAlarm and try again".

ZoneAlarm lives with Norton. In the bin.

Since I was thinking about Postfix I did a little bit of clicking around and thought this might be of interest too. From a while back, and not very detailed.. but a good view of the guy who wrote postfix and why he did even though qmail and sendmail both already existed. http://www.postfix.org/linuxsecurity-200407.html

Here, have 6 pages worth: http://www.howtoforge.com/howtos/email/postfix On a basic level, installation of postfix is VERY simple (ESPECIALLY when doing a from-source using a SlackBuild). Configuring it so it works for your organisation and works well is a matter of, what, 10 config lines? Then anything you want to add in to your configuration is always simple because just about EVERYTHING has instructions (and in some cases pre-configured setups or functions) for Postfix. Adding Greylisting using postgrey takes all of 30 seconds. Adding SPF checking takes just as long. Adding lines to make calls to amavisd or spamassassin or clamav or whatever else are equally simple, it's the configuration of those external tools that isn't as simple. Postfix was designed from the ground up to be stable and secure, much in the same way Slackware was, starting life as a project named "Secure Mailer". More info: http://www.postfix.org/security.html Anyway, I don't mean to hijack the thread, or go on a postfix evangelism mission, but I have investigated the hell out of every single major MTA and I have used most of them in at least semi-production environments and NOTHING ticks all the boxes for me like Postfix does. Secure. Easy to configure. Easy to manage and maintain.

ImageMagick is THE tool. Resize a million JPGs of all sizes and shapes so that they will all fit in boxes of 200x200 pixels: mogrify -resize 200x200\> *.jpg Then sit back and wait. What could be simpler?

I guess my opinion slowly changed after stopping supporting people like that. I've gone from recommending "that which could not possibly break" to "that which is most efficient and will last so long as you take care of things yourself".

Isn't that a "Don't buy a car, cause it will be broken when someone crashes into you" argument?

I'm seriously disappointed that no-one else has said this (I certainly would have expected it from Orbrey): If you want to extend a phone line that is to be used for ADSL, you will be fine so long as your extension is made from copper and not aluminium and runs directly to your master socket. The main reason extensions cause problems is because they are cheap extensions made of aluminium designed for telephone call quality only. This is the reason that BT uses copper to connect you to your local telephone exchange. If they can run a copper cable two miles and still give you a perfect ADSL signal, adding another 20M will made no difference at all. But if you make that signal jump between copper and aluminium and THEN make it run a long a length of aluminium you will barely have signal left at the end of it.

Let me put one thing in perspective for you. No-one cares which degree you did or where you did it as long as you did one, it was vaguely computer related and it was from a vaguely reputable institution. If you want a career in real IT, then there are two pre-requisites: 1. A degree (of some relation to computing, from somewhere). 2. Experience. Proof that someone gave you money for your IT work. That's it. Experience without a degree is fine for lower-range work that might one day lead to something bigger, hopefully before you die, but chances are you will end up being treated like a leper by some big ISP who will promise you a career path out of their call centre, but will never give it to you. A degree without experience has the same problem, but it is only short-lived. Once you have a degree, you will still be treated by a leper for a year or so, but if you can get some good points to stand out on your CV during those first couple of years, you will find yourself in a position to hired for a real job by a real company. They won't pay you much to start off with, because they're the ones who did YOU a favour, getting you out of the awful starting jobs.. but once you're in the door, that's it - your career is underway. Suffice it to say that if you try to go straight into a job with no experience and no degree, you will be lucky if you can even find a leper-job before you start to bio-degrade. Also be aware then even by the age of 40, regardless of the experience you have, you will lose jobs to people half your age who have degrees. I have relatives with this exact problem. To summarise: If you really want a career in real IT work, get a computer related degree from somewhere people have heard of and get a good result (2:1 or better preferably so make sure it's a course you can handle) and then spend a couple of years doing first line tech-support for an outsourcing company or an ISP or something. While you're there, make yourself heard, make yourself known and find a way to get experience that other people are not getting. Then just hand your CV out to everyone walking past until you find a low-paid, but good job. The rest is up to you. If that sounds like too much work, a career in IT is not for you. (P.S. I am assuming from your OP that you are in no position to get A. N. Other degree in a scientific discipline which would be your other route in, re: rarebit. So I ignored the possibility from the above discussion).

Way to troll.. moron. Of course it's fake. Anything that pops up and tells you something, but isn't obviously part of your own programs that you chose to install on your machine is trying to do nasties.

I am absolutely ecstatic! I have confirmed with a LiveCD that the linux drivers for my hardware are definitely available and definitely work perfectly! I have been waiting for this moment for years! I can FINALLY install Slackware on my main desktop! Wohooooo!!!!! Screw Winamp Screw Windows SLACKWARE!!! YAAAY!!! :partyhat: