Questions and answers - what do you think? Paul Hudson - 11:46am on Tuesday February 10th 2009 I'm thinking of creating a Q&A database on the TuxRadar site, to help people find answers to Linux problems that are archived away in our old magazines - because, let's face it, problems such as compiling the kernel, fixing Grub, etc, are just as important today as they were last year or even longer ago. The problem is, all our Answers stuff exists in PDF form, and to get it into a database requires some conversion - conversion we don't have time to do. So I'm asking you, rather than trashing this idea because it's unworkable, do you think it's worth us releasing the PDFs and asking the community to help convert them to some simple XML? The actual conversion we're looking for is fairly simple. Here's an example answer, taken straight from a PDF: 5 Automated virtualisation QOn start up I want Ubuntu to start without the need for me to input a username and password and then open VMware and start a virtual machine. I know how to do all of these things manually, but is it possible for me to write a small batch file (if that's the right expression) to do it for me automatically? Ffilc7373, from the forums A There are two steps here: logging in to your user's desktop automatically, and running a program after logging in. The first is achieved in Ubuntu 8.10 by selecting the