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I would ideally have a Civic Type-R with the diesel engine. They don't make that one though So basically I want the Type-R for the interior and exterior styling. Whole point of this exercise is to minimize fuel costs so I can spend more/most of my time on the road and show my face a little bit more. I figure that'll be better for business. Can't do that in the Supra.

Well, you said Linux was derived from Minix which I believe to be totally incorrect. That Linux is closer to Minix than a "full unix" is a bit of a mind boggler too! (not that I've ever used Minix.)

Hmm. Went to my leasing friends in Leeds today and they had a few Civics in stock. Two 5dr (1 diesel and 1 petrol) and a red Type-R. The Type-R is cheaper to lease than a 5dr diesel at the moment. I think I might be having a red Type-R. It's a seriously cool car. That would almost half my fuel bills, whereas the diesel would one-third them. Right decision?

I think Mr Torvalds would take exception to that suggestion.

With a 10mm socket The one that popped off here was only really accessible from underneath with the undertray removed though. It was where the n/s rubber elbow joins the plastic part that's mounted to the frame below the battery.

You're right I'm happy with that

I was just on my way to Leeds, gave it WOT on the sliproad when BAM! lost lots of power. I thought I'd driven over my undertray or something. No smoke anywhere, but the no1 turbo isn't doing much. The car drives perfectly smoothly and cleanly, but the no1 turbo isn't doing much. It's still making its spooly noise but much quieter. What do you think? I replaced my fan shroud sometime around Wednesday and had some of the IC pipes off then so I am hoping it's just one of those that's popped off. Haven't really driven the car much since then as I was away over the weekend. How do the symptoms sound (no smoke? still slightly spooly but very faint ?) cheers guys!

I am near Allora in Spain and I need to find out where the Vodafone HSDPA mast is. I am actually up on a hill some way away from Allora or any other towns, but we think the mast might be in Allora. Anybody know where to find out this information? thanks

We've shown this not to be true. I video'd it again if you want evidence?

It used to be like Ian says = halfway through the letter E. But then I altered all my dials and now the car dies just touching the letter E

Makes sense to me It's no good though. Recirc = steamy windows for me, if the A/C is off

I tried this morning, and if the Temp dial is left below about 25, the car starts up on recirc, even with A/C off I suppose there's no solution other than to leave the temp above about 25.

I could've sworn it only did it when the A/C was on! I'll have to remember to flick the A/C switch next time too

I think it could be because he's leaving the Temp dial all the way down & A/C left on. I'm pretty certain it only happens with A/C on, so it's a case of either not leaving the A/C on all the time, or if you want A/C on all the time then leave the temp turned up a touch. I'd have thought you'd still get icy cold air. I think the Temp point at which it switches varies depending on either outside or cabin temperature. It was a hot day yesterday. I tried it the day before after starting the car and it wasn't doing it like this.

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Unless my Auto LED is dead (pretty sure it isn't).

I shot a video of this on my phone whilst stuck in traffic yesterday. It's not the Auto button, it's like I said earlier.

I wonder if they're going to point the finger at 'fakes', and whether any fakes actually do exist?

Many of these channels are already FTA on Astra 1/2/whatever. I receive them no problem. They are included in Sky's package but are free-to-air anyway so not actually Sky channels. Unfortunately Channel 4, 5, and Dave all have contracts with Sky which means they are encrypted channels. Still, I'm hoping Freesat (from ITV/BBC, as opposed to "Freesat from Sky") will bring something new.

KVM is 'already there' - it's part of the kernel. (hence "kernel-based virtual machine"). Virt-manager (the GUI and console config tools) is a Red Hat thing, and was there in Fedora 8 and obviously Fedora 9 too, but the latest Ubuntu now has virt-manager too. As it's part of the kernel, there's not really anything to install. It's actually a sort of qemu fork, or at least what you use is a modified qemu which ties in with kvm. I remember qemu from the days of experimenting with bochs, and wouldn't have thought of qemu as a 'proper' thing, but kvm is very good. So really, the solution is known as "qemu-kvm". If you don't turn on "hardware acceleration" in the virt-manager stuff, you just get plain qemu which is obviously slower than qemu-kvm ("hardware accelerated virtualisation"). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine

I couldn't really say. Most obvious difference is a different package manager - yum instead of apt-get, although there's an apt interface to rpm or yum (?) if for some reason you really wanted apt. Same idea though - "yum install ardour" to install ardour, etc. Different configuration file layouts and configuration tools, but even some of these get shared in the end if they're any good/one of a kind - e.g. Ubuntu now has virt-manager that I was talking about above, even though that's written by Red Hat.. Fedora it totally open-source as it comes - no flash player (although there is an open source flash player now.. not sure of status.. probably good), no proprietary mp3/wma/wireless/graphics drivers, but that's what http://www.fedorafaq.org is all about showing you.

kvm - the linux kernel vm stuff. The GUI to it is virt-manager (http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/) which comes with Fedora and also now the latest Ubuntu. Virt-manager manages Xen and KVM. I tried Xen but KVM is well suited to my needs and easy, whereas Xen required a modified host (dom 0 as they call it) operating system, i.e. I need to use a Xen'd Linux kernel as well.

XP's fine, I use it on my lappy and as a virtual machine ontop of Linux here. Linux is like "hey. I'm here. Gimme something to do. Come on.. I can do loads. What do you want me to do?" Vista's like "Bugger off - I'm busy! Go away. Not now. I'm indexing. Oh, you wanna do something? In a minute. Are you sure?"

If you're happy with the overhead of every bit of audio and video being encrypted and decrypted as it passes through the system, and the inability to have fullscreen dos boxes, no video overlay, no decent TV-Out performance (i.e no ATI clone mode/nVidia theatre mode), and generally to have a system that's constantly busy, then go for it!

That could be it. I don't know if I've noticed if the A/C has been turning on the Auto duct thingy. It's annoying anyway!