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2 Days Ago

Dragonbite replied to a thread Lets Get off topic. in Cafe Games

I have one daughter still unwilling to forgive me for changing the computer when I went from 10.04 to 12.04, so be careful if they are visual people....

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5 Days Ago

Dragonbite replied to a thread alternative to dropbox in The Cafe

I have a Copy account, but am not sure how much I trust it at this point. Dropbox has been around for a while and so is likely a fairly stable...

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6 Days Ago

Dragonbite replied to a thread Lets Get off topic. in Cafe Games

Does a USB Thumb drive have a MBR?

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1 Week Ago

Dragonbite replied to a thread Lets Get off topic. in Cafe Games

Tgif

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1 Week Ago

Dragonbite replied to a thread Do you have a Pentium M CPU? in The Cafe

I know, but by that time the computer may be so old it'll be time to get a new one. Or I can switch to another distro until they implement the...

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1 Week Ago

Dragonbite replied to a thread Do you have a Pentium M CPU? in The Cafe

I know I do because my laptop couldn't bootup with the stock-12.04, but was able to with the alternative kernel or with Xubuntu. As annoying as it...

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2 Weeks Ago

Grenage replied to a thread Does KISS Ubuntu Exist? in Absolute Beginners Section

It's pretty simple - as long as your hardware is supported out of the box. To be honest, I think that the best way to learn a new OS is to just...

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2 Weeks Ago

Grenage replied to a thread Ubuntu Server as a Firewall/NAT/more network fun in Server Platforms

You are of course quite correct; it's really a case of horses for courses. We have servers for certain roles; we the cut-down nature of most...

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2 Weeks Ago

Grenage replied to a thread Ubuntu Server as a Firewall/NAT/more network fun in Server Platforms

Massive PFsense fan here (we have tonnes of them), so a +1 on that score.

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2 Weeks Ago

Dragonbite replied to a thread Beginners Team Programming Challenges Index in Programming Talk

The link is messed up (or is that the challenge?). Only the "B" is a valid link, the rest has the text as the URL. Beginners Programming Challenge...

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2 Weeks Ago

Dragonbite replied to a thread Marvellous May Screenshot Thread in The Cafe

That picture is perfect for the Unity desktop. The starship points your eyes away from the menus making it look and feel cleaner. I like it.

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2 Weeks Ago

Dragonbite replied to a thread What is your killer Windows app/ app you simply can't be without in Linux? in The Cafe

Not really. My wife was surviving with Linux and programs but in a few minutes of sitting in front of my work computer (XP) running Publisher 2010...

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3 Weeks Ago

Dragonbite replied to a thread Lets Get off topic. in Cafe Games

Poison Ivy sucks. :(

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3 Weeks Ago

kpholmes replied to a thread Somba trouble in Absolute Beginners Section

if you enabled user accounts in your smb.conf, you still have to set samba specific passwords to those system accouns. I often use the same password...

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3 Weeks Ago

Dragonbite replied to a thread Why do you choose Ubuntu over Windows in Recurring Discussions

I started off in around 2003 because my Windows 8 was aging and I couldn't afford a Mac. Once I got into Linux there was no turning back...

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3 Weeks Ago

Dragonbite replied to a thread Amazing April Screenshots in The Cafe

So is that Gnome on top of an Ubuntu installation, or the full-blown Ubuntu Gnome edition?

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