Newcomer

[Frank Golden]

Hi all,
I am a newcomer to your forum and a newbie to Linux. I am a contract Valve Tech in the U.S. Commercial Nuclear industry. I've been playing around with computer tech for three years now, primarily with M$ Windows XP. My computer is a HP zt3010us pavilion notebook. It is a 1.5 GHz (centrino) machine. I have 1 GB DDR ram, an external USB sound card (SoundBlaster Audigy 2) and a Seagate Momentus 100 GB / 7200 rpm Hard drive. This drive has Win XP Pro-SP2 installed on it. I have an extra 60 GB HD installed in a drive caddy for my notebook which has Breezy Badger 5.10 on it. Whenever I need a lesson in frustration all I need do is swap out the Ubuntu drive for the XP drive. LOL. Seriously though I am a pretty advanced Windows user but a real novice when It comes to Linux. I m learning though. The reason I subscribed to this forum is to talk to others who may share my interests and learn from them.
Hopefully I can contribute in some way also. Anyway,again Hi all. Looking forward to a great learning experience and maybe ditching M$ for good.

[aysiu]

Welcome!

[KiwiNZ]

Welcome aboard

[ubuntu_demon]

welcome :)

[sapo]

Welcome to the show.... and.. welcome to dying! by Hansi kursch :)

The good thing about linux is, there is aways something new to learn.. and while you learn you realize more and more how stupid windows is :)

[Frank Golden]

Thanks all for the words of encouragement and the great links this will help me a lot, for instance thanks to one of your posts I was able to turn on DMA for my optical drive. This made CD playback much better. I had this problem with my Windows XP install a while back where my CD player somehow got reset to PIO mode and after talking on phone to Offshore tech support for a while I finally figured out what the problem was and reset my CD player to DMA. I kinda figured out that that was the problem in Ubuntu but didn't know how to fix. Thanks to you folks I do now. This issue is one that I think future updates to Ubuntu should address (perhaps a GUI utility in preferences). Anyway thanks.