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Mine does this (facelift too). I turn recirc off because it seems to steam up the windscreen. I have found that turning on the A/C seems to re-enable recirc if the temp is set low/cold. I guess it decides it can do a better job of getting cold air if it's recirculating. It's not the Auto button that's doing it. So you turn on A/C, then you turn the A/C off, and five minutes later you notice the windscreen is all misty and the recirc is on.

Thinking about it, even if you hadn't hit the four partition limit, the Ubuntu installer probably still wouldn't have given you the Auto option anyway since there's no free space on the drive. Just delete that unneeded partition and let it do its thing. I've never used the Mandriva CD but downloading another CD for the sake of removing an empty partition sounds unnecessary.

That's basically what I was thinking, yes

You can delete the spare 110gb partition through Vista's Computer Management if you're more comfortable with that. On most laptops it's the D: drive and labeled as Backup so that you can stick your data on that before you use the manufacturers recovery utility which restores/wipes the C: drive.

As a bare minimum you need to create a root partition of type 83 (linux ext), size as much as you can/want, and a swap partition of type 82 (linux swap) at least equal to the amount of RAM you have. Probably worth going for 2x the amount of RAM you have. Not sure if Ubuntu requires a separate boot partition. The boot/root one will most certainly need to be a primary partition. In fact, it's just occurred to me that this might be why you're having problems.. You can only have four primary partitions, further to that you have to create a logical partitions within an extended partition (which would be in place of one of the four primary partitions.) I suggest you remove that spare 110gb partition and restart the installer to see if it gives you the auto option that you're more comfortable with.

It isn't the best I suppose. There's an Excel spreadsheet that you can fill your stuff into on here somewhere, and I think mkiv.co.nz has an online form you can fill in. They both tell you all the stuff about your car, colour, transmission etc.

You didn't look at the PDF properly did you? There's an image on the side and it has circled which digits are being referred to. Apparently you have an RZ with a limited slip diff.

Thing is, if you paid £75 grand for your house 10 years ago, and you've been told it's supposedly worth £200k now due to the absurd boom of the last decade or whatever, well if you want it to sell I think people should perhaps 'get real' and ignore what it's supposedly worth, and accept that any sort of profit is good. If there's no profit - i.e. you just bought, then unlucky/silly you. Something's only worth what somebody will pay for it, and it looks like nobody will pay what's being asked (finally!). IMO, houses at the current prices are just not a valuable proposition whatsoever. They're just not worth what the market is asking, in terms of real value. It's like a loaf of bread costing £10. I'd just stop eating bread, 'cause it ain't worth a tenner a loaf!

Have you left MANU on ?

I do but you'd have to pick it up from Manchester.

I've been taught that when skidding/skid practicing you should look at where you want the car to point, so if the car is sideways and you want it pointing 90 degrees to the left so it's going the proper way down the road, you need to turn your head and make an extra effort to actually look where you want the car to be. It seems weird at first, actually turning your head so much, but it does help.

Don't like 'em, although it is slightly better on fuel & 40nm less torque.

The Type-R looks really good, but I think contract hire prices on those are more like £320/month instead of ~£230/month. The 2.2 Honda can be chipped from 140bhp to ~190, supposedly.

That is a good point, however I only use Super Unleaded in the Supra so the gap between that and diesel isn't so great, although it could make the choice between a petrol or diesel Civic more interesting. Hmm.

Ordered the 2.2Ghz/DVDRW/120gb white 'old version' (new version has 2.1GHz CPU, CDRW/DVD-Reader but bigger HDD for same price) for £595 + vat from cancom. Thanks Mike and everyone else.

You could be right Jamie Current thoughts are that I could keep the Supra for Amanda's use. hmmm. I don't really want her to have those running costs either though as it amounts to the same thing at the end of the day.

but the Civic is so damn smart inside and out (IMO!). And it'd be leased so the warranty would cover it for the length of ownership should anything expensive fall apart. I heard others mention the same about fuel consumption though, but it has to be a hell of a lot better than the Supra, provided it's driven gently.

Firefox does it too. You can right-click in a textbox like the one you type your post in, and tick/untick "spell check this field". It's your browser doing it, nothing to do with the website unfortunately.

Ah I didn't see that second post of yours! Anyway I was there first with post number 2

I'm pondering the idea of having a new shape Civic 2.2 cdti type s 3dr diesel car. I spent ~£60 on fuel on Wednesday and Thursday combined. I could pay off the rest of the finance on the Supra and have a lease car provided to me for the same cost as the Supra's finance is costing. I'm a little bit concerned that I'll become obsessed with the idea of having a Supra again though if I got rid of it. There isn't room for three cars on our driveway, otherwise I'd probably consider keeping it as well. Part of me thinks it's going to become a proper classic sometime in the future, and it's the right colour too, so it'd be a shame to get rid, but it's a lot of money to run a car and although I'm not running out of money or anything - in fact I am clearing debts at quite a decent pace, but I wonder if I'd suddenly feel very financially comfortable if I got rid of the Supra. What would you do?

waht spel check? (just testing). Are you using firefox or something? It's LAGER by the way, just in case my pedantic larger/smaller comment was overlooked

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Yeah I was fairly certain it did, seeing as though it is a PC as far as hardware is concerned.

Comparing this to, say a Dell XPS M1330, makes it not look too expensive, although the Dell still is better value.

Yeah. Macs are definately good value nowadays. The 1gb of RAM will be a problem but I refuse to pay £60 for a 1gb DDR2 so-dimm (apple.com price). Can upgrade that later.