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lol, not likely!

Well, the reason your trick works is because you are multiplying by "vat amount over gross amount" of an example figure, i.e. £47 gross is £40 + £7 vat. So to do the same on the 15% vat you could do "multiply by 6 over 46", which can then be shortened to "3/23", because with the new 15% VAT rate £40 + vat equals £46, so the VAT element in this example is £6, giving 6/46 or 3/23. Also if you wanted to see how a price might change with the new VAT rate, just multiple the gross figure by (1.15/1.175). E.g something costing £376 including VAT at the moment will cost £368 at 15% VAT.

aww. look at this little cutey: http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/vr91/oagassi1.jpg

Interesting stuff. I found more of similar species here: http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/vetal01/vetal01.html It's amazing to think that long after we're gone all these things will still be there miles under water.

How many lines have you put on?

You just picked the wrong flavour of Linux that's all. Linux is just one tiny program (the kernel) of the operating system (the distribution), and you picked a slightly oddball/atypical distribution. At least you had a go anyway. I think you'd need to already be a Linux user to then want to have it on your Playstation and be able to appreciate it.

That's a good idea. Looks like it'll do subtitles too which might be necessary with karaoke stuff.

It can be complicated. Totem can use various back-ends for dealing with the actual coding/decoding. In Fedora Totem uses the gstreamer backend, as that's part of Gnome, and Totem is a gnome thing. I suspect this is generally how Totem works by default full-stop. So you really need gstreamer codecs for whatever format you're dealing with if you want to use Totem. Mplayer often uses the xine backend, which has many codecs available, so you would want mplayer-xine (that's mplayer built to work with xine as a backend), and then the xine version of the codecs. Something like that anyway. Other distributions make this much easier and there are many walk-throughs out there, e.g. Fedora and Ubuntu. Just try googling divx yellowdog and see how other people do it. You might not need DivX installed at all, xvid might decode divx stuff. I'm not sure. Best bet is to get onto IRC (irc.freenode.net via xchat), and join #ydl or #yellowdog or something.

I agree it's not the best introduction to Linux. Apparently it uses Enlightenment, which although impressive in its day, isn't a full integrated desktop environment like Gnome or KDE. Regarding codecs.. unless you're using Ubuntu, it's traditional for proprietary non-free codecs not to be available from the distribution's own repositories (package download system/places), so yum won't find all those codecs until you add the repository that supplies them, which in the case of Fedora is livna.org. I don't know what the score is with YDL. AVI is just a container format. The codecs used for both video and audio inside the AVI could be anything.

I don't think Jamie was terribly impressed, but maybe that was just down to the pads he used?

Apparently it does use yum and it's based around Fedora or CentOS (RedHat-ish). So useful commands would be "yum update" to get all available updates to existing installed packages, and "yum search something" to find stuff, maybe "yum search something|more" and then "yum install something" to install what you found.

Yeah. Or just find the package management GUI, which could be "Add/Remove Software" or "Synaptic" or "PackageKit" or something like that. Try yum from the terminal though to see if yum is there (as root, so do "su -" first. That's su minus, followed by enter and the root password).

Actually, I guess it wouldn't be yum would it. Maybe it's "yu" as in just "yellowdog updater" ? I'll google it.

Re: MPlayer, well, you should probably be using the package management system rather than building from source. That's the point about distributions, they have package management and pre-compiled packages for downloading. As I said, I've never used Yellowdog linux, but since Fedora's package management system is called "yum" (Yellowdog Updater Modified), I'm guessing that Yellowdog uses yum too. So you would do something a bit like: yum install mplayer and yum install codecs-ugly (or whatever the package name for the dirty non-free codecs is. You should probably do "yum search codec" and see what codecs are out there).

Never used yellow dog but you can probably either use smbmount from a terminal or in Gnome go Places -> Connect to Server.

I have gone out, but it should be downloaded when I get back :)The vexs.net mirror is fast, ukms one isn't. http://mirrors.vexs.net/pub/fedora/linux

Fedora 10 was released about 10 minutes ago.

That's not a standard UK colour is it? Do you think the fact that it appears to be riding much higher on the left than the right is an issue?

I think it is a compliment really

I tend to think that all Antivirus packages are not great at preventing viruses. Most do a mostly good enough job, but really they all miss stuff. Whatever somebody uses (NOD32 for most of my customers, AVG for a lot of home users, Avast for other home users, Norton for people who I haven't deal with in the past) they all get stung by Antivirus XP 2009 et cetera, Fed Ex "You have a consignment waiting" emails. I tend to look at how bloated and configurable the software is. e.g. with AVG Free you can't tell it not to scan network drives, so you have noticeable delays when browsing to network shares with large archives (zip or exe self extractors) in them. Norton is extremely bloated and I cure many problems by simply removing it. I probably would leave AVG on there, although I've never used Symantec Endpoint, I have a poor opinion of most software that's cursed by Symantec. Usually extremely bloated and suffering from absurd bugs and other annoyances.

Mind saying roughly what price? I am in a position where I'd like a cheap 6spd TT to play around with too. Something with 150,000 miles for £4k.

They do a 1440x900 screen on that model, which I could cope with. I'm used to 1400x1050 on my T43p. I just ordered a 15.something" Vostro 1510 for someone with a lovely 1920x1200 screen I get about 1hr25 out of my Thinkpad's battery, and it was only ever about 2:20 when it was new. I'd just like something that can do hardware virtualisation, run a 64 bit O/S, and have more power than my single core 2.13GHz Pentium-M. Thanks for the mini review. Still tempted Does it look/feel "professional" and sexy in a business suit sort of way, or is it more boring? The LED screen on the XPS M1330 is amazingly bright, so if the screens in the Latitude E6400 are anything like then I think I'd be impressed.

That's cool! I'm gonna get some hard tires and see if I can make a handbrake for my R/C Savage truck and have a go myself