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Don't hold your breath. Mine didn't start to go down by much at all until i'd got 3 years no claims, and 24 years old. Insurance companies are the devil.

They're not that bad for mileage, they're only 1.8 litre engines. Plus, I have a healthy no claims bonus now

Because they're cool

Yes, thats true. There are instructions on the fedora site on how to install XMMS seperately (It's a bit like winamp) with MP3 support.

Thats what I want. I'll have one within the next year, too. A nice shiny Lotus Elise

Horse?

Bicycles?

Yep. I've been playing the CounterStrike:Source beta the last week or so. It's based on the new HL2 engine and the physics system is cool. Player models behave properly, instead of being static animations. Throw a grenade and players will fly through the air like rag dolls. Just about everything in the scenery can be moved and used to your advantage. You can move barrels about and hide behind them, for example. Word is Half Life 2 will start pre-loading through Steam in the next week or so. It'll be available soon after.

Get a sounblaster audigy with one of the front panels for audio in/out, volume and firewire on it. Just about got the network straight again now, and it's got some new bits too! 1xP120 that sits there handing out internet connectivity and running remote backups/DHCP/internal DNS and such. 1xF5 BigIP load balancer. I'm not sure what i'm going to do with this yet, but it can do some pretty funky stuff including link aggregation which i'm going to give a try. It also has a cool F5 logo on the front that lights up. 1xSun Netra T1 with 2x36GB SCSI disks that runs NIS and NFS services 1xiBook G4 3xMisc desktop x86 machines, the best of which is an Athlon 64 3000 (mine, heh) 1xP3 600 Freevo that plays video from other machines on the network on the living room TV 1xMP3/NFS server 2xWireless access points and finally 2 switches, one 24-port 100MB and one 5 port 100MB.

There was NT Workstation, which really did suck huge amounts of ass.

You don't need an actual virus to test it's working, you can use the standard EICAR test virus. See http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm

No it wasn't, Windows NT was. Which sucked big time.

Firstly no, you can't just dream up your own TLD's (.com, .net, .org, etc). They're decided on by ICANN. DNS works sort of like this. When your computer tries to look up a domain name, we'll say http://www.google.com for example - it will ask your ISP's DNS server what the IP for that name is. The ISP's server will look at the .com bit, and ask something called a "root server" about it. It's these root servers where the whole thing begins. They know about all the TLD's and think "Oooh, I know who to ask about that. Thats Verisign!", so it tells the ISP's server to and go off and ask Verisign's DNS server "who's Google"? Verisigns DNS server will reply with the IP's of Google's very own DNS servers which are then asked by the ISP's server "Whats the IP address for www.google.com?", and it'll get a reply. So you see the problem with inveting your own TLD's is that the root servers won't have a clue whats going on. Thats a simplified version of whats going on, because DNS really is complicated and terribly dull. If you'd like to know more there is a book called "DNS & Bind" by O'Reiley that explains it all in excruciating detail. Second, the IP you get from your ISP will probably change each time you reboot. It can even change when you haven't rebooted for a while. You can dynamically change DNS records based on your current IP easily and there are a few services that will do it. Some for free, some cost. I use http://www.dyndns.org myself. There are lots more. Try a Google search for "Dynamic DNS". Hope that helps.

http://www.enterprisemission.com/

I'd say it's a little easier. There's no XF86Config to muck about with for a start, so if I plug in a 3 button mouse i've got 3 buttons without the "Why isn't this bloody thing working! Argh ffs" bit. Having said that, if someone goes to the trouble of downloading X apps on OS X they probably already know how to make XFree (Or Xorg, i'm not keeping up with which X server distributions are deciding to use this week) behave.

Heh, there's a utility for the Mac called 'Audio Hijack' that'll attach itself to the audio output on the machine and re-record it into WAV's as you play it, from then it's pretty easy to go to any other format you like. I'd assume there must be a similar utility for Windows somewhere.

OS X itself is a bit of both. The kernel is called "Darwin", which is an open source project. It's developed by both Apple and OS programmers - see http://developer.apple.com/darwin. The graphical bits on top of it are mostly proprietory. There's the OS X desktop - "Aqua" which is all done by Apple. The programming API's (Which is where the Mac really shines) are half and half. The Cocoa foundation API is "sort of" open. It has it's roots in the original NeXTStep, and there is a project called OpenStep that tries to mirror the official Apple API. Cocoa AppKit (Which does all the fancy graphics bits) is proprietory. As far as application software goes, on a bog standard 10.3 install you get both. Apple supply Mail.app, Calendar, iPhoto, iMovie, Safari, iTunes and a few other bits and they're all Apple closed source software. You also get lots of standard GPL'ed utilities, such as tar, gzip, perl, apache et all, and it's very easy to get other Linux software working as Apple supply a nice opengl accelerated X server for you to use.

Write a driver. Or fine one on the manufacturers website if you're very, very lucky.

Yes, and a cheap one will set you back around £20.

That doesn't even make sense. What are you asking?

Which bit was that? It's very easy for a Mac to run X apps - just start the X server exactly as you do in Linux. Hello again btw.

Don't you think you should take this to a mods forum or PM?

FYI YT, here's a pic of my 'guns': - http://www.phiji.com/images/guns.jpg

Did you miss the "If that is the case" bit at the start of the sentance?