ntellectual tour de force of
the first order - an engrossing 80 minutes' viewing.
Thanks again.
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format.)
So - until the developers get this sorted - if we were able to
provide an authoritative, up-to-date guide to setting up embedded media,
we'd be doing a great service. (But it might be a seriously big job!)
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You may already have seen this; but for anyone who hasn't...
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/07/06/20256.aspx
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You do have to hand it to Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen and their
colleagues - the genius evident in GPLv3 just takes your breath away:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/microsoft_the_copyright_infringer
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070709101318827
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Mark Harrison wrote:
> Mac wrote:
>> You do have to hand it to Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen and their
>> colleagues - the genius evident in GPLv3 just takes your breath away:
> I'm no lawyer, but in the UK at least, there are at least two problems
> with the "leg
ctly what GPLv2 had done, in the
by making it's provisions applicable 'under GPLv2 or any future
revisions' or words to that effect.
(BTW, I'll have a look at your blog about why you aren't a member of
FSF. Thanks for the URL, and for your thoughts)
Ma
her form of legal coercion is necessary but a
determination to enforce copyright for the benefit of sharing."
That seems to me not contract, but a beautiful and unexpected
inversion of copyright law.
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e
(See
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_0506000-.html)
Do you (or Matthew) know whether this might actually have any relevance
to Microsoft's liability?
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e laptop I want to do this on is a higrade, 1.4ghz Intel (802.11b only),
> with 512mb ram.
>
>
>
>
Don't know much about all this, but I came across this link. Any
use/relevance?
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Linux-Symbiosis-Not-a-Dream-Anymore-59314.shtml
Regards
dozens of PCMCIA cards in online stores, and I don't think I've found a
single one that actually tells you what the chipset is. Can anyone
advise how exactly they find out what chipset a card has in it?
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g is a bit out of the
question! I'll do some more searches. But if you - or anyone - have
any more suggestions, I'd be grateful.
Is it worth asking about this on Launchpad, or is that not the right
place?
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y have the following properties on the nas:
drwxr-xr-x 2 35000 root0 2007-08-10 09:18 test
I can't see how to resolve this. I'd be grateful for suggestions.
TIA
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Mac wrote:
snip>
> I guess I'm right in
> thinking I should edit the line in /etc/fstab to
>
> //serverIP/public /media/nas cifs
> credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777
>
> 0 0
>
> Sadly, this doesn
James Dalley wrote:
Mac> I saw a similar setup the other
>> day but the fileMode and DirMOde hade no 0 at the start just
>> 777.May help, may not! (1 , 99 % betting)Jay
Yes, that's similar to the format for smbfs: dmask=777,fmask=777. The
use of dmask and fmask is deprecat
Mac wrote:
> James Dalley wrote:
>> I saw a similar setup the other
>> day but the fileMode and DirMOde hade no 0 at the start just
>> 777.May help, may not!
> So 777 worth a try - at least it has powerful magical connotations!
Sadly, magic or no magic, the adjustment ma
sound card
Open a console and type 'alsamixer'. Use the left/right arrow keys to
move between the columns; tap the 'm' key to activate (00) - or mute
(MM), but you don't want them to be muted!! - the selected channel.
Adjust the 'volume' of the selected channel
A couple of further thoughts in addition to my last e-mail.
1) Check the settings in the Volume Applet (the 'speakers' icon on the
panel - right click on it for the pull-down)
2) Check the settings in System/Preferences/Sound
Mac
Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> My Ub
Add your vote to the Lenovo blog:
http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=98
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at’s critical to the economic viability of the offering.
Full article:
http://dailydiy.com/2007/08/30/ubuntu-founder-mark-shuttleworth-on-productivity-and-linux/
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ut it's less less than wonderful for Ubuntu backups. As I
say, if you just want backup storage, I'd recommend sticking to USB drives.
FWIW, that's my two-pen'orth. HTH
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Thanks for the info/advice. I'll do as you suggest. (I guess there
might need to be some chown-ing and chgrp-ing of files and directories
if I ever did need to restore from the FAT32 drive?).
Mac
Robert McWilliam wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:18:17 +0100, "Mac"
> <
I'm not sure what to make of comments about phishing sites I came across
here
http://www.theregister.com/2007/10/03/ebay_paypal_online_banking/
as follows:
"These things are incredibly sophisticated, and when they take over a
computer, most [users] don't know it," he said. "With every single
on't know enough about rootkits to have any idea why
this might be). Or it could be that Linux boxes are more susceptible to
this kind of attack than we assumed (although, again, I don't know
enough to guess why). There may be other explanations.
I hope we can just assume this is FUD. Does anyone more familiar with
server security have anything consoling thoughts?
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ches are due to bad practice by
users regarding updates and patches.
But I also now appreciate the distinction between compromised machines
that generate the spam and compromised web servers. As Tony points out,
the article conflates the two types (though whether the conflation is
modules on x86/x86_64
linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.20 modules on x86/x86_64
linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.20 modules helper script
linux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels
but it didn't find Skype!!!
Long way to go yet, eh?
Ma
ix due in Gutsy, I think)
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What do you reckon to this:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/09/rm_asus_launches_minibook/
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; version of Xandros).
But how functional is 4Gb flash drive? (I suppose with 3 USB 2.0 ports,
you could always cart round a 100Gb Seagate portable drive to run
seriously big apps! ;-) )
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Sean Miller wrote:
> Ah, nostalgia... I still remember the RML 380-Z that we had at school...
Oh, yes! Cutting edge stuff, that. And at the time brilliant - a
revelation!
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Neil Greenwood wrote:
> I can report that the laptop (Acer TravelMate) worked perfectly out of
> the box with Feisty
Neil >>> Which TravelMate model?
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Neil Greenwood wrote:
> On 11/10/2007, Mac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Neil >>> Which TravelMate model?
>
> It's a TM2701LC, if that makes sense.
Google only turns up Eastern European / Greek sources for that model -
no UK ones at all. Is i
This is up this morning:
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-7.10rc
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I can't see how to do it.
TIA
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Alec Wright wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 18:48 +0100, Mac wrote:
>> I've got a mixture of .flac and .m4a files of the same music scattered
>> through the multiple sub directories in ~/music. I want to delete all
>> the .m4a files from which ever subdirectory they ha
Tom Bamford wrote:
> Try this:
>
> find /path/to/music -name "*.m4a" -exec rm {} \;
Perfect! Cheers, Tom - that's great.
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Matthew Wild wrote:
> On 10/16/07, Mac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> (It would be nice
>> to delete any directories that have become empty because they only had
>> .m4a files in them - but that would be a bonus!)
>
>
> Going for the bonus!
>
>
y
do work would be very welcome :-)
TIA
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Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi Mac,
>
> On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 08:16 +0100, Mac wrote:
>> # can do WPA encryption
>> # you actually have seen working out of the box with Gutsy (!)
>> # I can buy currently from a UK vendor.
>>
>
> http://linuxemporium.co.uk/prod
Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi Mac,
>
> On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 09:56 +0100, Mac wrote:
>> For example, linuxemporium recommends Edimax. I bought one some time
>> ago, but it didn't work 'out of the box' with Feisty. It doesn't work
>> 'out of the bo
d, but
I wasn't sure whether the drivers were already available in Gutsy or
had to be manually installed. Sounds like your saying 'already in Gutsy
- it just works'?
Perhaps I'll have this as a fall back should Al's suggestion turn out
not to work - heave
SP 100 headset. It's usb -
just plug it in and it works (though you may of course have to select it
in the options settings of the app).
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Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi Mac,
>
> On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 09:56 +0100, Mac wrote:
>> For example, linuxemporium recommends Edimax. I bought one some time
>> ago, but it didn't work 'out of the box' with Feisty. It doesn't work
>> 'out of the bo
t tone.
One small point - speaking as one who has had contact with Tesco, the
correct name for the company is 'Tesco' rather than 'Tescos' (though the
possessive would, of course, be "Tesco's").
HTH
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hink not, having set up a
second user without admin rights on another system, and noticing that a
number of 'administrative' menu options did not then appear in the menus.)
(Not a big issue - just interested in learning more about GNU/linux from
you guys who know!)
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mean that you had to log on as root to do any admin, with the inherent
risk of leaving the system exposed should you forget to log out (or not
care to).
I'll go and check this
s) to make the connection to the wireless
network; but I don't know what.
You're advice would be most welcome!
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Mac wrote:
> You're advice would be most welcome!
Ooops! Or 'your advice' even!
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gt; Regards,
> Tony.
I wonder if Al's reading this. I'll remind him what he told me.
;-)
Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi Mac,
>
> On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 09:56 +0100, Mac wrote:
>> For example, linuxemporium recommends Edimax. I bought one some time
>> ago, but it
Gutsy already?
>> (And thanks for the timely warning about RAlink!)
>
> You are welcome. See my comment above though! If you do try the Edimax
> card, can you post your experience here?
I'm going to have to bite the bullet and have a go. I'll let you know
how I get on.
Matthew Larsen wrote:
>> In addition, it will also allow the data to go to open source software
>> developers.
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7056288.stm
The text is a bit non-specific. Does it just mean Novell, possibly? :-(
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sing
for the country's largest web hosting service; but they dealt with it
fast, honestly, and openly, contacting customers directly with detailed
advice and information.)
I've thought about moving to a cheaper ISP; but the rock-solid
reliability of the Fasthosts service compared wit
Interesting referral to OFT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7063716.stm
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Tony Arnold wrote:
> Mac,
>
> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:49 +0100, Mac wrote:
>
>> I wonder if Al's reading this. I'll remind him what he told me.
>> ;-)
>>
>> Alan Pope wrote:
>> > Hi Mac,
>> >
>> > On Sat, 2007-10-2
Given that it worked fine before the upgrade, I'm a bit at a loss. Any
ideas about what I need to do about this?
TIA
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I've had to reinstall dapper on an old laptop, and tried to get the
w32codecs from
deb http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ dapper free non-free
but I get a 'Not Found' error. Forgive me if I'm being stupid, but have
I missed something here? Are the packaged / repo no lo
Dave Walker wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 17:33 +0000, Mac wrote:
>> I've had to reinstall dapper on an old laptop, and tried to get the
>> w32codecs from
>>
>> deb http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ dapper free non-free
>>
>> but I get a 'Not F
t about this, Al. The distinction you've
highlighted makes me realise I have never read the Ubuntu Team wiki
(wiki.ubuntu.com); but I do look things up on
, which the 'HowToGetHelp'
page describes as the 'Ubuntu community documentation wiki', though
'wiki' does n
get a
terminal screen, reinstate the original xorg.conf file with
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and restart.
(Sorry if this is teaching grandma to suck eggs - it's just that I'm
relatively new to GNU/Linux, and like full details myself!)
HTH
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ng WPA, 'cos
it won't connect to the router when I set the router to 'WPA2 only',
rather than 'mixed WPA/WPA2'.)
I look forward to the sort of enlightenment you've variously provided
about dead hard stuff in the past!
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Martyn wrote:
> with the SSID hidden?
> it's not worth bothering with, its kind
> of like tipexing over the YALE name on your front door lock, and
> hoping it'll make it more difficult to pick...
Martyn >>> What a wonderful image!
Thanks for your
ryption / WEP / WPA / WPA2
with ESSID broadcast / hidden?
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Gaurav Patel wrote:
> To all the Hindu, Sikh and Jain subscribers of the Ubuntu-UK mailing list!
Gaurav >>> Happy Diwali! (Everyone loves the light on these dark winter
nights! - hope you have fun!)
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of action for a while if
something goes wrong, or you're upgrading for some specific reason
(fixing a problem is a good reason), then go for it!
HTH
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ops). And most people have their wifi encrypted - either WEP or WPA
- with pretty much everyone broadcasting the ESSID.
Twenty five. What proportion of the whole membership is that, Al?
About 20% (guessing)?
Anyway, thanks again, everyone, for bothering to reply!
Cheers
Mac
Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi Mac,
>
> On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 14:04 +, Mac wrote:
>> Twenty five. What proportion of the whole membership is that, Al?
>> About 20% (guessing)?
>>
>
> We have about 450 members right now.
>
> 5% response rate.
>
>
his is Eben Moglen!)
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail1897.html
(And he discusses Google - among other giants - specifically)
Enjoy!
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Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi Mac,
>
> On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 08:01 +, Mac wrote:
>> feels more
>> like the relative level of laptop wifi use generally, if the content of
>> the forums is any guide to a guestimate (not that my track record with
>> guestimates is v
Alan Pope wrote:
> So the line in sources.list would be:-
>
> deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
Al >>> The 7.10 Release Notes say
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ gutsy partner
Which is right? Or are they both right, so it doesn't matter?
.
> direct rendering: No (LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT set)
Taufan >>> Can't help with sound, but to get the cube and other fancy
effects you need compizconfig-settings-manager:
http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/10/04/compiz-fusion-on-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbin/
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click
the log out button again, I just get returned to a fresh log on screen.
The only way I can quit is via the System menu, or the options menu on
the log on screen.
I'd be glad of suggestions about how to repair.
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try to log out? I guess it's
Gnome? So can I disable it via preferences (where?) or a .conf file
(how?). Perhaps if I could stop the session save, the log out might
work properly. :-(
Mac
Pete Stean wrote:
> I'd also add that laptop support is reported to be much better in
> Guts
tdown 0 command to
get to a point where I can turn the computer off.
I think a reinstall may be the only solution. :-(
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need to do a to get them
up. But mostly they do come up when the wireless network becomes available.
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Tom Bamford wrote:
> Mac wrote:
>> Daniel >>> Thanks for your reassuring advice. I've now tried the
>> reconfig. Sad to say, I still get the 'Your session has been saved'
>> message when I click the log out button; the proper log out screen does
&
buffer - say
10-15 sec). The film should then play.
If this sequence fails, can you post to tell us at what point it fails.
Mac
PS you don't need 'sudo realplay' in properties; just realplay
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realplay is not installed properly, so I think your idea of uninstalling
all the RealPlayer stuff and starting again may be a good idea.
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I wonder
how many of us use it, and whether there are any issues with it (though
can't say I've experienced any).
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lAudio, RealVideo 10, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and
Theora, H263, AAC and more. Get ready for accelerated video, full
screen playback, and a lot more to play."
That's why I assumed it was basically GNU/GPL.
The version I'm using is in Feisty-Commercial.
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called Ubuntu Linux For Non-Geeks
>
> This also comes from some websites about RealPlayer10GOLD.bin
> TIA,
>
>
AFIK RealPlayer10 uses the GNU/Linux module 'realplay'. So you need to
have that installed. In a terminal, type :
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitud
Mac wrote:
> ...Aptitude seems to keep track of
> dependencies better than synaptic, so you can 'packagename'>, and, better yet, when things get bad purge 'packagename'>, ...
By 'packagename' I mean, of course, the name that you find listed in,
st works for me with a similar Firefox set-up running
in Feisty (though the connection at this time of the morning is not
wonderful, and the stream takes a while to buffer and get the sound and
video in sync properly.)
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t served?
Norman >>> IIRC it's not first come first served: they are an ordered
sequence, and the first one will be the master. At least, that's my
recollection from last time I installed a couple of SATAs in a Dell box.
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I'm a bit of an old-timer (/pace/, Norman!),
and was used to setting jumpers on IDE drives for masters and slaves;
so I guess I just transferred this habit to SATA, and assumed it was a
hardware thing there, too. Never thought of checking for BIOS settings
when the drives were insta
nd dropping between any two locations.
>
> You can do that in Nautilus too. Just choose "Tree" on the left hand pane.
Or just open two instances of Nautilus, and drag-and-drop between them
to your hearts content!
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with your perseverance!
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Andrew Jenkins wrote:
> ...if I wanted to
> have an application run at startup which file should
> I edit and add the command to?
Could you add it to System/Preferences/Sessions/Startup Programs?
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eagates in the past. I may
need to think again. What do you reckon? How about Maxtor instead?
(Yes, I know, Seagate owns them, too; but I don't think the redesign
has included Maxtors - yet???)
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'. Configuring WiFi is a system administration task.
>
> Tony.
But once it's configured on the system, shouldn't it be available to
other users, whether they're admins or not? (Otherwise, it feels a bit
like everyone having to bring their own router when they w
nervous because at least network manager at last got my wifi connected
(after much hassle and frustration), and I don't want to make matters
worse! Would it be wise to uninstall n-m first, before installing Wifi
Radar, or could I just add Radar and use it without removing n-m first?
Mac wrote:
> Tony Travis wrote:
>
>> Yes, In principle, but network manager configures the network on a
>> per-user basis and this requires admin authority. Personally, I use
>> "WiFi Radar", which is brilliant!
>
>
> Tony >>> I&#x
alan c wrote:
> The power saving system is the problem and although it can be
> disabled, (using something like
> sdparm --clear STANDBY -6 /dev/sd[Your device] ) I believe seagate do
> not accept it as covered by warranty. It is not simply a matter of
> fomatting the (NTFS) drive. I certainly
essed with the simple GUI and it's features I haven't
>> really had the desire to change it.
>>
>
> I was impressed too, but KDE apps started to annoy me so I wiped it and put
> Ubuntu on because that's what I'm used to.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
&g
s / NAS drives; but I've been very pleased with the
little WD800UE I put in my laptop - silent and reliable.
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Alan Pope wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:23:50AM +0000, Mac wrote:
>> alan c wrote:
>>
>> > The power saving system is the problem and although it can be
>> > disabled, (using something like
>> > sdparm --clear STANDBY -6 /dev/sd[Your device] ) I
Alan Pope wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:29:50PM +0000, Mac wrote:
>> Did you install from a USB CD ROM drive, or with this method:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/266w9u
>>
>
> http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu
>
> I used the method of putting a minimal inst
Stuart Bird wrote:
> Another factor is (I could probably get this from Google but may as
> well ask now I am here) will the ogg files play on my iPod?
You'd have to convert the ogg's again (more losses!!). (Yep - lots on
Google.)
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MailGroups wrote:
>...I'd guess that if 10% of them go back, Tesco
> won't be stocking any more of them in the future...
I see from the TESCO site that they are 'temporarily' out of stock.
Place your bets?
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Michael Holloway wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 12:01 +0000, Mac wrote:
>> Yeah, Eddie! Let's hear it for us seriously ancient, technologically
>> decrepit listees! (BTW, I wonder what the average age of the list
>> actually is???)
>
> We should set up a poll
Kirrus wrote:
> - "Mac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Michael Holloway wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 12:01 +, Mac wrote:
>> >> Yeah, Eddie! Let's hear it for us seriously ancient,
>> technologically
>> >&g
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