Hi there 
Hi kirrus,
Welcome to the ānewā Linux community Forum.
If there is anything we can do for you free to ask, if you require Documentation (including some VERY useful user guides), News, Articles, an Introduction to Linux, or just general Linux Information including the old forums back catalogue of questions/answers
May I point you towards the āParentā site:
http://www.linux.co.uk/
Please note - The old forum (there) is now closed to new questions, but we hope you will like the new one.
Hi Mark
I was the guy who installed the old forum over at linux.co.uk 
My real name is Johnathon
Iām a debian/ubuntu linux sysadmin / tech support engineer, so Iāll probably keep half an eye on the forums to see if thereās anything I can help with.
More than happy for any help you can provide, the more the merrierā¦ I donāt suppose you will be needing the āuser guidesā or āintroduction to linuxā then ;D
Thanks kirrus
Probably not :). Blame The Mad Penguin, I was a happy uninformed windoze user till he came along
I had a quick look at (some of) your blog last night, I found a few useful things there (and so far Iāve only got to page 6 ) in particular, the āfailā article on page 3 was funny (I even tried to access the page in the pic for a laugh, but its gone now >:( Iāve seen plenty of similar sites in windoze or their effects, but can never find one in linux) and the āfirefox awesomebar search trickā will come in handyā¦ wish google chrome had something similar, but then again it would probably slow it down someā¦ maybe a case of right tool, right job.
What camera do you use?.. some very nice detailed pics thereā¦ did you ever get f-spot working?.. and if so, is it any good?
I also liked the google earth pic that looks like the ubuntu logoā¦
Booksā¦ Slowly making my way through some of the āMicheal Moorcockā stuff I missed first time round.
Quickly, as Iām at work, and using the last few minutes of my lunchbreak to type this, I use a Canon Digital IXUS 60ā¦
No, never got fspot working properly. In the end I just dump my photos in a folder, named by the date I moved them all off my memory card. I need to try again at some point. Picasa requires you use their site, not flickr 
Right now, Iām reading āThe Smoke Ringā by Larry Niven
Iāve loaded f-spot on Mint 8, and canāt see any problems so far, maybe the problem was fixed in intrepid/karmicā¦ there seemed to be a lot of bug reports concerning the via unichrome driver (in particular, but others too) and f-spot causing system freezesā¦ so it may be driver related. For most, switching to the vesa driver or disabling the DRI module solved the problem (not an ideal work-around though).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/f-spot/+bug/89467
amongst others
Maybeā¦ Iāll probably try again, once I put my computer back together. Just finishing a move, itās still in pieces !
I want to finish dragon age at some point, so Iāll have to rebuild it. Joy of joys, managed to catch a nasty cold so been out of it since Sunday
Have you heard of Bookmooch? I have some spare points I can gift you if you want to try it outā¦
I get āmostā of mine through a friend who owns a local bookshopā¦ I look after his systemā¦ he lends/gives me stuff Iām interested in.
Occasionally Iām after something in particular though, so Bookmooch might be handy. Iāll have a better look around the site and let you know if the points would be useful.
Thanks for the offer, and Iām glad youāre feeling better (ish).
Is Dragon Age (origins) any good?.. I might get it for the 360 if it is.
BTW, I fall somewhere between you and āMad Penguinā on the 360 or PC for games āthingā. PCs are better for games as long as you (spend enough) have the hardwareā¦ certainly for graphics and controlā¦ but itās hard to deny the ābang-for-your-buckā the 360 offers. I tend to keep games off my āworkingā systems, because the moment I install a game the kids start messing with them (most are Linux now anyway), even though they have PCs of their ownā¦ I might look into building a ādedicatedā games machine again though, or I might wait and see what next gen consoles come up withā¦ I wonder how long till the Xbox ā720ā (?) and PS4, and what will Nintendo do next?
Aye, dragon age is good, though Iāve heard that it can be a bit of a pain on console, rather than PCā¦ Iād recommend if you get it trying to get your head around the leveling system early on, because otherwise you can end up with a really weak character, by not specializing enough in one weapon-styleā¦