Oddly enough, when Igot this laptop back from the repairs with the new GPU (NVidia 8600M GT) in it, Windows can't handle it and doesn't want to know, so I am having problems on that side, but Ubuntu is just peachy with it

And I sure as hell didn't put it there.

Will see what the takedown procedure it tonight

That was kind of Tolkien's idea with the bundle of notes that formed what was published as the Silmarillion, but it wasn't true for Lord of the Rings and by the time the Silmarillion was in a state that Tolkien thought he could refine it into a publishable state the English myth idea had been abandoned.

I have the £5 unlimited web use on my T-Mobile G1, but was explicitly told "No using this connected to your PC/Laptop for Internet access"

They want to sell you a dongle for that I suppose

Yup, my wife and I, living in Glagow, watch it.

Ironically it is on a Fox channel, wish it was on More4 like the Daily Show

Now all the mystery of the road signs, American Service personnel, people mentioning it in the media and the submarines sailing up and down the Clyde is solved.

WHO KNEW!!!!!

At present my 701 uses eeeXubuntu. Which is fine save for WPA2 which I am having soem problems with, but you should get better quality adive there than from the bearpit that is Slashdot

I can only assume you are unfamiliar with the Conservative Party.

They brought in a law outlawing anything they saw as "promoting Homosexuality"

And then certain of the MPs in that cabinet were "outed"

It is, as I said, hypocrisy being discussed, not whether or not homosexuality is less equally or more valid a lifestyle than any other

Let's see

The current political editor is a former Tory Party Appartatchik

The mail Politics program his hosted by Andrew Neil, former Murdoch editor of the Times in the Thatcher Glory Days (tm) and has Michael Portillo, former Tory Cabinet Minister and the token leftie is someone wwho fell out with the Labour Party a long time ago

THey employ at least two children of former cabinet ministers (Carol Thatcher, though maybe not for much longer, and Maxine Mawhinney)

I'm guessing that the political news in the BBC gets a Tory friendly treatment

Read the guy again

The Conservatives have usually portrayed themselves as the family of family values, Married, 2.4 kids, stable etc

But in real life enough Tory MPs were seen to be living a life other than they preached. One even died during a bout of erotic asphyxiation

So it is Hypocrisy he is against, not same sex relationships

Microsoft feel happy wnough with Windows Vista SP2

So much that they are not bothering with a second Beta

So what you have in your hands now is pretty much how it may ship

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/02/windows_7_no_second_beta/

Agreed

I was running the KDE desktop on Xandros, Reasonably happy with it, then I decided to upgrade Firefox.

Agh, thumb, borked machine. Possibly actually only a space problem but there I was.

I installed Xubuntu and it is nice as ninepence, only hassle is with WPA2, but I'll get that sorted.

as title

Those "Clinton Staffers trashed the White House" were lies then ands are lies now..

The General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative agency, "had found no damage to the offices of the White House's East or West Wings or EOB" and that Bush's own representatives had reported "there is no record of damage that may have been deliberately caused by the employees of the Clinton administration."