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Politics | What you've spotted on expenses... Parliament has published all MPs expenses dating back four years, albeit with many bits blacked out for "security" or "privacy" reasons. Here are some of the eye-catching new details you have spotted and emailed us about, and which we have put to MPs: A huge number of you have been in touch to question your local MP's claims of up to £400 a month for food - which they were allowed until recently to do without submitting a receipt - and the claims for £250 a month in "petty cash" from the Incidental Expenses allowance. Many of you also ask why MPs can claim back TV licence or Sky subscription costs. Ben from London says Jaffa Cakes feature on nearly every claim from David Lammy. Meurig from Aberystwyth points out and questions a claim by the MP for Ceredigion of £100 for the cost of a locksmith to open his front door. One e-mail correspondent wrote in to question why Lynda Waltho, MP for Stourbridge, had submitted four identical invoices for her annual report totalling over £4,000.

Launch your own satellite for only eight grand The Importance of Reputation Interorbital Systems is offering your own orbiting satellite for only $8,000, including launch, though evil geniuses might balk at the expected 2-week lifespan before a fiery re-entry. The plan is to launch 32 of the diminutive TubeSats into low earth orbit, around 310Km up, using a single Neptune 30 launcher (under development by Interorbital). The Neptune 30 will time release the TubeSats into orbits that decay within a few weeks, after which they'll burn up re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. The cost of each one is $8,000, though you'll have to pay up front to guarantee a launch slot, and put the satellite together yourself from the supplied kit. Doomsday weapon in position: artist's impression Fitting a doomsday machine into the 13.5cm long TubeSat, which is only 8.7cm wide, will challenge plans for world domination, but that will be where the "genius" comes into play. Interorbital Systems has some form in space operations. The Importance of Reputation

No choice for broadband in Hull, Kingston Communications or nothing Everybody in the country has a reasonable choice of broadband providers except us in Hull. Kingston Communications has a monopoly here and I have to say that I havent been too impressed so far. Why can't the regulator force them to open up to the competition in this area? We should be able to choose a different broadband provider if we are not happy with the service. Apparently its not even illegal that we dont have a choice of land line or ISP and personally I reckon that it should be! The current situation and in particular the lack of choice cant be good for Hull or potential customers. For example not so long ago we were told that all prices for domestic phone lines where coming down, well my bill went from 20 per quarter to 40 per quarter! I suspect that Im not the only one thats fed up. Ive actually heard of people moving out of Hull purely because they're not happy with the broadband here. By: HullGhost & Panyan Sort:

Restaurant & Bistro in Whitby, North Yorkshire UK - White Horse and Griffin ODude Profile I have bought and installed version 2.0.1 Overall I have to say that I decided for it because I didn't find any other extension with the same features. I give it 3 and a half stars in features because even though it is good there still many things that I would implement on it if it was my own software. Also, unfortunately there is no compensation by the developer to those who contribute with ideas, so I keep them to myself lol. The extension is easy to use and install so even a joomla novice can do it, however expect little flexibility is customisation. Documentation for my version is very poor or non existent. I would give it 4 stars if there was a more attractive pricing model. Overall not bad but unfortunate to those (like me) who like to have always the latest releases installed!

Linux Kiosk PC : a Fluxbox Custom Desktop This is part of an experiment to use Linux as a kiosk system. 'Kiosk System' can mean a couple of things, but here we assume that it's a computer that runs just one application , a web browser, or a limited, well defined number of applications. That way, the computer can be left unattended, e.g. in public places (public libraries, ... ) or be used as a thin client to a (web) Application server or a Remote Desktop / Terminal Services server. Although you can run GUI apps without a Window manager or a Desktop environment, I usually add Fluxbox window manager to provide some window management, menus, etc. which sometimes comes in handy for troubleshooting, and to keep the user away from the shell (both for userfriendliness and as a security measure). Fluxbox is pretty lightweight and easily configurable. Install a windowing system On a minimal Debian or Ubuntu system : ## install window system ### requires ubuntu 'universe' repo for fluxbox ! configuring the software fluxbox configuration init

Ch21 : Configuring Linux Mail Servers Email is an important part of any Web site you create. In a home environment, a free web based email service may be sufficient, but if you are running a business, then a dedicated mail server will probably be required. This chapter will show you how to use sendmail to create a mail server that will relay your mail to a remote user's mailbox or incoming mail to a local mail box. You'll also learn how to retrieve and send mail via your mail server using a with mail client such as Outlook Express or Evolution. This chapter focuses on Fedora / CentOS / RedHat for simplicity of explanation. The universal difference is that the commands shown are done by the Fedora / CentOS / RedHat root user. Here is an example of how to permanently become root: user@ubuntu:~$ sudo su - [sudo] password for peter: root@ubuntu:~# Here is an example of how to temporarily become root to run a specific command. Now that you have got this straight, let’s continue with the discussion. How Sendmail Works Incoming Mail

216990 in pam (Ubuntu): “error in auth.log when switch user -- pam_smbpass.so” I am working on a kubuntu hardy (8.04) beta installed from scratch. Everything work well but when I switch user (su) I see this error in /var/log/auth.log file: : PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_smbpass.so) : PAM [error: /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] : PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so The user switch is successfully done . The file pam_smbpass.so is not present on my systema and i have solved the problem installing the package: libpam-smbpass. Maybe a missed package ? Best Regards TEST CASE: monitor /var/log/auth.log. Regression potential: minimal.

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