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Looks like they sell new as well as refurb. They have the 2.0GHz/80gb for £599 incl vat. Might go for that one as it's £100 less spend although 40gb less HDD and 100MHz slower CPU than the current cheapest on apple.com. Should be good enough. thanks again
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Thanks guys. Will look into those options. Needs to be new really. The chap is away for a couple of weeks and it's for his daughter. I couldn't get hold of him for his card details so haven't been able to order yet anyway so will look at what you've said over the weekend. thanks again.
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No better deals at Dabs than Apple either.
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Somebody wants a MacBook. Insight appear to have the same price as the Apple store, and zero stock. Any recommended cheap suppliers? Or is this going to be one of those things where nobody sells them for under RRP? thanks.
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I thought it might be Two each side on the rear and one each side on the front!
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Rails come out with seat. There might be a plug plugged into the seat that you need to disconnect. Think it's a seatbelt indicator plug or something. Like Markymark says, it's just four (or is it eight?) 8mm-ish bolts under the plastic covers, which pull off. Easy.
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I like Boris. I know he is a serious politician, but I really like his non serious side. He was good on HIGNFY I hope he becomes mayor of London. I don't think I like Ken. Give Boris a chance
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Stock cams will be cheap as chips (second hand). People can't give them away - there was talk of using them for table legs not long ago.
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£30k a year.. Many people have to manage on ~£16k!
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It's meant to pop up and give you the option to install the proprietry nvidia driver.
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I remember there being talk of a proper replacement for init which would put an end to the inittab and initscripts and give proper advanced service control. Can't remember much else though. edit: it's upstart .. an Ubuntu thing: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/
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Ubuntu wiki says: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats You might still need to add libdvdcss2 yourself though.. that's the thing that decrypts encrypted commercial DVDs. I don't know if that's included in the ubuntu restricted extras package.
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I see what you mean. It sounds better your way. I can't script/code to save my life though unfortunatley so I'm stuck with how it comes out of the box There are so many languages, and between learning to fly my model helicopter, learning to play the guitar, and keeping abreast of and learning new general computer stuff, I just don't think I have the time (or talent for learning languages?). If I did though, I think I'd maybe think about learning Perl.
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I think most (all?) distributions process the init scripts alphabetically, that's why the symlinks are called S20whatever, S30whatever, so that S20 starts before S30, and correspondingly the shutdown symlinks are called K20whatever and K30whatever as well. I'm glad you've got it going. I wonder if the end result will be as polished as something like Ubuntu or Fedora where a lot of work has gone into tieing things in together. That's why I was wondering if the end result was equivilant to a package of sorts, but I suppose it is.
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I think you need decss intalled. try: sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2
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I don't think it looks any more Italian than a DB9 or Vantage or XK8/R does..
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I think most (all?) distributions process the init scripts alphabetically, that's why the symlinks are called S20whatever, S30whatever, so that S20 starts before S30, and correspondingly the shutdown symlinks are called K20whatever and K30whatever as well. I'm glad you've got it going. I wonder if the end result will be as polished as something like Ubuntu or Fedora where a lot of work has gone into tieing things in together. That's why I was wondering if the end result was equivilant to a package of sorts, and I suppose it is.
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Groovy. You're doing pretty well then Do you have to build your own init scripts and corresponding config files with Gentoo, or is the end result still a sort of packaged delivery, IYSWIM?
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Yep, that's what I had to do on Fedora. I added "compiz-manager" to startup items. That might or might not be the same for you.. whatever you're firing up now is what you'll want to add under sessions -> startup items.
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That would be avant-window-navigator or awn, I think.
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This is a bit of a round-the-houses method, but go into System -> Preferences -> Look & Feel -> Main Menu. Find the item in there and right-click and choose Properties. The command will be in the command box. Or you could right-click in the menu and 'Add launcher to desktop', then look at the properties for the shortcut on the desktop. They really need to allow you to just right-click in the menu and choose properties or something.
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you got it all happening now then? Awesome
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sudo is an extension of "su". su means "switch user". If given without any parameters e.g. a username to switch to, it will switch you to the root user for running administrative things. You would normally run "su -" so that su sets you up a proper root login environment as if you had logged in as root, e.g. you will have root's PATH environment variable set for finding programs etc. sudo just runs a command as root, i.e. it does "su root", then runs the command, then exits the su back to your normal login. You can liken sudo to Vista's "run as administrator".
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It does generally result in many many late nights in the early stages. I'm definitely 100% happy now though.
