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My company uses nothing but Dell laptops and I haven't had a single Dell touchpad fail. I personally am using a D830 just now, we have about 20 of them in the company.. again, no failures. Only thing we have had is one dodgy DVD/CD drive that doesnt always recognise a blank CD-R

I use nagios. Monitors Server status, Services, Disk usage/free space, CPU Load etc. if there is a problem it sends me a txt message :)

Have to do this about once a month on the GF's Iphone. They do seem a bit buggy..

Compiz having problems with your graphics card maybe ? If your still wanting to give it a go, try one of the other distro's.

If you know you prefer KDE you can save time and just download Kubuntu ;)

You already know my thoughts. Dell or HP and at a push a Sony VIAO but you pay more for same spec. Personally I will be looking to swap from my D830 to a M1330 soon.

If you were asking a serious question, then ye.. Garmin is good, I use it quite a lot on my N95.

Fair enough. It did you a favor anyway ;)

add/remove programs to uninstall them, if not remove them from the startup in msconfig as already mentioned.

Erm, if it did that its because you told it to lol.. it asks you what you want to do, then warns you if you select the option to use the whole hard drive. PEBKAC TBH !

or you could just use free software like virtualdub or you might be able to get away with just combining them together.

QOS.

I like and use Gnome on my desktop systems, although i'm equally at home using KDE, XFCE, Fluxbox etc.

Had a quick look at a Google and a Fedora install I have on a remote VM. edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf and add the following.. make sure you change username to the user you want to auto log on. [daemon] TimedLoginEnable=true TimedLoginDelay=5 AutomaticLoginEnable=true AutomaticLogin=username...

Thats great.. and if they use firefox ? ;)

If you want an industry standard WYSIWYG editor then ye... Dreamweaver.. otherwise learn like the pro's and use notepad/emacs etc. ;)

Ye you can set auto-login. In ubuntu its under System/Administration/Login Window then click the security tab. I'm not sure for Fedora. You can either set the user to login straight away, or wait a few seconds incase you want to log on as somebody else.

Hey thats great to hear. I haven't used Fedora since version 6 seems to have come on leaps and bounds ! Glad you got it working, Linux will teach you loads about computers and how they work. If you muck about with the system then you WILL break it.. but thats half the fun ;)

Yes, just setup a different OU for the desktop and laptop computers then apply the screensaver GPO to the Desktop OU and set the scope to authenticated users.

I actually found Ubuntu quite slow for booting as standard.. (about 30 seconds) I spent a few hours optimizing it to exactly what I needed and got it down to 8 seconds to Gui desktop (not including bios time etc). Apparantly the next version of Ubuntu they have put a lot of effort into making...

You don't have to buy a mac to run OSX, and yes Ubuntu is plug n play for most things. The only thing I had trouble with in the past was a wireless pci card, check which one you have before the upgrade.

As said, yes you can. You can even write to NTFS partitions now.

'stall linux.

If it was me... £0 I would write it myself.. have done similar in the past.

There's a jumper on the motherboard, close the contacts for a few seconds, open the contacts and switch it back on.. viola... no password.

also.. avi is not a format, its a container.

Yep, gotta agree although the desktop systems I maintain are 32bit it is very annoying that they dont seem to have a 64bit capable vpn client. Especially with the money they must rake in !

I use nagios to monitor my servers, if any of them fall over, run low on disk space, have too high a load etc then I get a SMS txt sent to my phone. http://www.nagios.org/

great in theory.. bad in practice..

Speaking from experience and benchmarking multiple servers before deployment. I'm sure if I googled I would find plenty of articles for and against it. You can't just enable software raid and expect miracles, hardware based RAID isnt enough either, you need to tweak it to suit your usage for...