http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_via_USB

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/Troubleshooting

Other problems I have encountered are nVidia drivers badly autodetecting TV-out settings, and resetting themselves at the earliest opportunity, and the nvidia-settings tool playing some nasty games to avoid needing to be run as root. Then it says it can’t overwrite a backup file, it means it did nothing, and needs running as sudo nvidia-settings. Even then, nvidia-xconfig -A is the only easy way to change the settings easily. Plus the 8600GT doesn’t seem to do overscan, and can be killed by shorting out the composite output.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gigabyte.com.tw%2FProducts%2FMotherboard%2FProducts_Overview.aspx%3FProductID%3D2758&ei=CP4QSM6DOKbowwHH2Z3KCQ&usg=AFQjCNGJZ7Rt_445CfKpYlGr6m91GmJ8pA&sig2=vtnZGzV7p2r3WI7ER6izgA seems to be an ideal replacement though,  single board with a  quality integrated video device. Just need to  find  an  as small as possible  HTPC case  with external  PSU.

All of the major out of town sites have been included, the Science parks and Tesco’s. It seems that residents will be charged for leaving Cambridge, even if there is no congestion associated with their journey. My guess is that the planners have some built-in contingency so they can shrink the zone without having too much impact on their revenue.

• Spice UK £173 (2 days)
• SymphonySailing £275 (3 days (£180 pro-rata))
• SpeedBreaks £290 (3 days)

Symphony’s boats are of a higher spec than the one I have done spice trips on, although the quality of the skipper is comparable, I’d sail again with both.

Walking Weekend

• Spice UK £110 (2 days)
• SpeedBreaks £220 (3 days)

Holiday park weekend

• Spice Uk £110
• Warmwell Party Weekender £90

Warmwell offers about 8 hours of dance classes, 6 live bands and a decent sized quality dance floor.

Diving Red Sea

• SpiceUK £ 640
• SpeedBreaks £600

Spice annual membership £144. This is equivalent to 6 times the annual membership of the Rambler’s Association, who will usually organise pub trips, films, sports etc. on their local forums. That would leave a bit left over to join a couple of other clubs. My local dive club membership is only £70, and that includes free events and use of their pool.

An interesting development, there is now a SpiceUK group on Facebook

Rudges

Dear me - innept or what? They claim to be a B2B/B2C marketing company, send out spam emails posing as an agent for a company with a genuine web presence, and can’t even be bothered to set up a proper online store thing. I am awaiting a response from The Folio Society to see if they actually insitgated this or not.

They ask for you to email foliooffer@rudges.co.uk or forfoliosociety@rudges.co.uk or fax to 01453 752637

I went sailing with sailingholidays.com in 2006, for the first week of their season. Will be going again this year so here’s a post for people to attach their comments and links to photos to.

My photos from last year are here.

ZBS 703 Built in Oven.

Controls are numbered 1-10 for the buttons, left to right.

Clock Set: 5,6 together, then set time using 9 or 10.

Auto: Set program, 5 then 9/10 to select duration. Optional, 6 then 9/10 to set end time.

Child lock, 1+3 for 5 sec. Then hold 1 with 8 to allow use.

Hold down ‘cook time’ and ’stop time’ together to enter clock setting mode (the colon in the clock flashes). Use the +/- buttons to set the current time.

After spending 2 hours on the phone to carphone warehouse data support, here is the info I was looking for. It’s still a bit unclear what the distinction is between the different settings.

(and some mobile gprs settings for o2 )
Internet - (02 WAP GPRS)
address: wap.o2.co.uk
username: o2wap
password: password
Proxy : 193.113.200.195
port : 8080

Email - (o2 mobile web)
address : mobile.o2.co.uk
username : o2web
password : password
proxy : 193.113.200.195
port : 8080

MMS centre address:

http://mmsc.mms.o2.co.uk:8002

According to Lisa@CPS, it’s unlikely that apps like MagicProfiles will be possible on UIQ3, because of SE security paranoia. We’ve already seen that start-on-boot has been taken away from us, and CPS have to do some clever trickery to make Tweak Peaks give us something people have been demanding for many months.

Profiles being missing from the base platform makes me pretty mad. It’s one of the features I thought I was buying when I bought the phone. 9:00-5:30, I’m in the office. I don’t want my phone to ring. I don’t need 6 clicks every morning, and 5 every evening. Why take away a feature which is obviously valuable? Why again make it difficult for someone to write this functionality? All it achieves is more people having an incentive to crack the security.

Most of the included apps on the phone (not free, I paid good money for everything in the box) are fairly shocking anyway - conversion tool being the best example of how not to use a tabbed dialogue I’ve ever seen. Shortcuts for common actions are missing, and the ‘back’ button is rather unpredictable (RSS it’s up, web it’s ‘background’, others it’s ‘close’.

I’m starting to think my next mobile is going to be a real open platform, and I’ll be checking much harder to ensure it is open before I commit to owning it!