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Ah I see, so you're saying what I was thinking then? It's just the way you said 'not much point' had me confused a bit

If you used the LC's autobox, you could make a 4wd Supra

Do you mean without one? I think I disagree though. I have no EBC on my car, and for this reason the car doesn't see above 14psi until high revs in top-ish gear. You have to set the upper boost limit with your restrictor ring/exhaust system. This is the absolute max the car can make and you need to make sure the car doesn't go above that. Unfortunately this max boost is always going to be in high gear, which will leave you with less boost in lower gears. An EBC would allow the wastegate to be blocked off in those lower gears to attain closer to your target boost (say 17-18psi) in all gears. Wouldn't it? It's on my list of things to do. If it makes no difference I'll come and tell you all

Fair enough

I don't get it. It's a Scottish team playing against a Russian team or something, so what's Manchester got to do with it?

I'm eager to upgrade mine too, but it can wait. I have downloaded it now though

I would have thought this is simply because Minix was the only free (as in beer) unix-alike out there.

LOL but that mp3 is very important. You would be amazed how many people say Lie-nux and are adamant that it's 'correct' that way.

You should see my little 8gb 'stick'. I had an OCZ Mini-Kart which was only 2gb and broke, this one is miles cooler. It's just a little bit bigger than a fingertip.

I noticed that too. Nice feature and it uses upstart instead of init, which is something I was talking about earlier in the thread. I suppose that highlights another thing I mentioned - the sharing of good technologies between distributions. Latest Ubuntu got virt-manager from RedHat/Fedora Latest Fedora got upstart from Ubuntu

Oooh. Thanks for the reminder I'll wait 'til I've got a quiet day to upgrade my Fedora 8.

It's just that with virt-manager being such a publicised new feature/addition in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, I would think that a lot of the stuff in that howto is already done, i.e. kvm is probably already installed, the scripts are already there, and you just use the new Virtual Machine Manager or whatever Ubuntu have labelled it as.

A lot of that will not be relevant to Hardy Heron, because Hardy introduced virt-manager from RedHat (Virtual Machine Manager) which is a gui and command-line interface to it all.

If your computer has hardware virtualization support (Intel's iVT or AMD's AMD-V) then it'll be close to native speed, but you need to be aware that you won't have hardware graphics acceleration, so no Vista aero or graphical games. I think all Core 2 has iVT. Regarding how to do it.. you already have KVM there, as Virtual Machine Manager. Create a new VM from within there, make an 8gb or whatever file to use as the disk, select non-paravirtualised (i.e. not Xen), but tick hardware acceleration and you'll have a system ready to install Vista onto. You have to map the virtual Cd drive to /dev/scd0 or whatever your cd drive might be. With regard to just booting up your existing Vista installation within a VM, that's not going to happen unless you do something like image the drive with Acronis TrueImage and then restore that image to the VM with Acronis' optional Universal Restore feature. Might as well just not bother because it's a bit too involved and likely to go wrong. I would think there are loads of "how to install Vista virtual machine on Hardy Heron" howtos out there!

Who's sweet, me?

Well his signature has his full name, but he works for a very large corporation so familiarity probably isn't allowed in signatures.. I should just ask next time we speak, but I do most over email and I might feel uncomfortable if he says "I don't like Abhi" or something

I deal with somebody called Abhisek over email quite frequently (and sometimes phone). Is it offensive for me to call him Abhi ? I mean, is that like him calling me Ca instead of Carl? It's just I'm sure he's rung me and said "Hi it's Abhi", so from then on I've just called him Abhi, but now I'm wondering if it's offensive or just wrong. Anybody know?

I'm pretty sure the answer is none. I replaced Windows XP with Linux, but Linux is not a derivative of Windows.

Cheeky eh! You'd have to ring them to find out I suppose.

For PCH you just add the VAT. It's the same price but PCH is quoted as VAT inclusive and BCH is quoted as VAT exclusive.

That's my friends in Leeds. They're all really good people. I'm not sure if the price is £269 or £295 though. The site is due to be replaced with a new one but it's taking a longer than it should.

http://www.amtcars.co.uk/vehicle-lease-lexus-is220d-4dr_1189.html

Lexus IS220d ?

There are plenty of other cars in budget. I could have an Alfa Brera 2.2 or Alfa Spider. I'm sure there are loads of others (needs to be under £300/month + vat business contract hire), but those Alfas aren't diesel. The diesel Alfas are too expensive and the petrol ones pretty poor on fuel. I'm thinking like this at the moment: Civic Type-R, minimum fuel consumption ~40mpg (56mph motorway). Civic Diesel, minimum fuel consumption ~60mpg. Diesel is 10% dearer, so I'm pretending the Type-R could achieve 44mpg for comparative purposes. I'm sure that maths doesn't work that way, but it's close enough. The problem is I am starting to think about cars for the sake of a new car, whereas the point was supposed to be low fuel costs..