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Determine what the problem or requirements are first, then find the tool for the job. Don't buy the tool first then try to figure out what to do with it.

If you have a spare £55,000 this might be of interest. Watch it to the end, you'll be quite impressed.

Tremendous job, sir. I approve. I like the idea of a modern engine in the classic. Did you use a side-mounted radiator?

Absolutely. Once the van is lined and kitted out, rust can work its magic invisibly until it's too late.

Like Pyroman, I used to own a VW T25. The chassis on these are normally good, it's basically a body bolted onto girders. The seams are the weak spots, though. Some sound advice - assume the bottom two inches of any van is rotten, and if it's not is a bonus. Look into every nook, then look into every cranny. Twice. Look on the pipework and tyres for any recent paint spraying. A bit of filler and paint can make a rust bucket look good for a short while. I owned my camper for about 4 years, then the engine blew up. I changed the engine and tons of parts, cost me about £2,500. I sold it for more than I paid for it, but the guy who bought it had a good buy with all those new parts. I have a Kangoo mini-van at the mo, and I have actually camped in it by reversing it into an awning. Really. Observe: http://www.edugeek.net/members/jinnantonnixx-albums-stuff-picture14305-dscf1435.JPG http://www.edugeek.net/members/jinnantonnixx-albums-stuff-picture14306-dscf1436.JPG I'm toying with the idea of a new van, but it won't be a camper. You can get side windows fitted for £150 a side, and I'm going to make a basic kitchen unit with a gas cooker which can be slid in when needed. Maybe a Renault Traffic or Toyata Hiace.

It's not open source, but this is still free. Magix Music Maker Basic Edition 12.1.0.3 - CNET Download.com

Who fancies a nice bit of Soylent Green?

I stand corrected. But I'm still a veggie

It's only through technology (cooking) that humans can safely digest meat. Our digestive tracts are much longer than that of a true carnivore. The meat would putrefy and make us ill. Neither are we true vegetarians; we're not ruminants and have to cook vegetables to break down the cellulose.

Nothing beyond Tuxcart. I suspect this is why our findings differ.

A mixed bag indeed. It's working very well for me on my i3 laptop with integrated Intel (Ironlake). I'd go further and say - for me - it's the best Ubuntu release, even this early into the release. Of course, I may have to eat my words, but fingers crossed.

Hmmm. While they're re-doing the labelling for the monkey nuts, they might want to add 'Does not contain monkeys' just for completeness. You never know...

That's not a bad idea. http://linux-sound.org/distro.html

Ah. Windows. Well, if you don't need MIDI, Traverso might be worth a look, but it seems development has withered on the vine a little. Home — Traverso DAW LMMS is great fun - I had a blast with this. It's a bit like FruityLoops. Despite it's name, there's a port for Windows. You'll be kocking out wIcKeD BeeTZ in no time with this. Watch out for the Windows installer, I think it tries to sneak in a sponsored toolbar to IE, but apart from that it's clean. LMMS - Linux MultiMedia Studio

My favourite is MusE for these reasons: It's a full system -you can mix down to a finished audio file without using a separate Jack recorder. It has proper audio sends. Rosegarden has a group bus, but this isn't the same. Sends in Qtractor are awkward. It has a drum pattern editor It has an integrated audio editor It has excellent automation It's virtually unlimited in what you can do with routing. Built-in soundfont player. Don't overlook soundfonts, they can still rock. However, it's interface will have you scratching your head until to realise how it works. i.e. drop in a synth, then link a midi track to the synth. Drop in an audio input, then link a wav track to the input, and so on. It's logical, but it isn't immediately intuitive. But trust me, it's worth persevering with as it's a high performing, flexible and very capable sequencer. No LV2, though, only LADSPA and DSSI (and VST) so you're still spoilt for choice for plugins. I think there are a couple of tutorials on Youtube.

13.04 feels much slicker that 12.04. There are definitely some noticeable performance improvements. 12.10 was terrible, I had wireless failures after a kernel upgrade, random crashes, and so on, so I stuck with 12.04 which was very stable and fairly bug-free until I upgraded to 13.04. I don't like the Amazon lens thing, I switch this off from the Privacy toggle switch. I realise Ubuntu is heavily funded by Canonical, but I think this is the wrong approach to an income stream. My favourite distos, in order: 1. Ubuntu - Unity simply works for me, I like it 2. LMDE - slick Cinnamon interface on Debian testing. 3. Sabayon - Brilliant distro with pre-compiled Gentoo packages 4. SolusOS - very slick disto based on Debian stable (6/Squeeze) but with non-free binaries and codecs so it works out of the box. (Debian Stable with wireless - hooray!). The maintainers have upgraded a few packages, including Firefox, so it's not as stale as Debian Stable. If you are setting up an install-and-forget system for somebody, this is worth a look, and has a very nice, traditional interface.

12.10, for me at least, was the worst Ubuntu release. It was very buggy. I'd recommend you go to 13.04 unless you have a very good reason not to! I found that 12.04 was very stable, though.

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A retro mash-up from the '90s. A lot of us will enjoy this, the rest will be scratching their heads...

I've just installed it on my laptop and I am well impressed. It's much faster than 12.04. I upgraded to 12.10 twice and both times were a catastrophe; I had problems with just about everything. I used LMDE until I had an ISO of Ubuntu 13.04. Everything looked good from the live boot, so I took the plunge and installed. Considering this release is so new, it's looking very good.

I use a Huawaei Blaze (£40). I bought it as a stop-gap phone as I keep wrecking them, but it's now 6 months old and going strong. So far it's been a surprisingly tough little phone.

Download comparison chart from here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23365 Features Supported by the Editions of SQL Server 2008 Most of the differences won't affect the average installation. SIMS will run fine on a standard version. You'll need the advanced version if your site needs certain features that are only available on the advanced version, such as DB snapshots and witness-less mirroring.

Long story, but I ruined my laptop with an unwise upgrade, so I started looking around for a distro to try just for a change. Tried a couple, then tried Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) which is based on Wheezy (now frozen) but with the extraordinarily good Mint interface. I must say I'm most impressed. It's nice when your Broadcom wireless works on a Debian base without faffing with binaries or compiling. LMDE is well worth a look.

Good news for Debian fans - Wheezy is set to go stable on 4 May. The new Debian testing will be called 'Jessie'. Debian 7.0 ('Wheezy') Release Planned For 1st Weekend in May - Slashdot But look!

PCLinuxOS is now available as a 64 bit release. I haven't checked out the current release (yet) but PCLOS has always been a very polished distro with excellent hardware support. PCLinuxOS 64bit KDE Desktop – First Release » PCLinuxOS