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20 Hours Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread Reinstalling Ubuntu on my system after a couple years without beiing on Ubuntu in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

There is no question that 13.04 will run slower on the same hardware than 8.04. A lot happens in five years, and there is a completely new desktop...

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1 Day Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread Anyone use etoile desktop? in The Cafe

In some ways I was kind of disappointed that this project never came to fruition; it might have moved GNUstep forward and made portability between...

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1 Day Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread In preparation to write my CompTIA A+ Certification.... in The Cafe

You are never going to have a subnet mask like 0.0.46.1. The point of a subnet mask is to tell you how many bits starting on the left define the...

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4 Days Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread In preparation to write my CompTIA A+ Certification.... in The Cafe

Not really. The subnet mask is the key that deciphers which part of the IP is network address and which part is host address. So I can have an...

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5 Days Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread In preparation to write my CompTIA A+ Certification.... in The Cafe

Yeah, I won't disagree with that. But it at least demonstrates an ability to grasp and process basic technical concepts, so it's not entirely...

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5 Days Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread In preparation to write my CompTIA A+ Certification.... in The Cafe

That's kind of the point of a certification, is it not?

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5 Days Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread Imaging Computers with Ubuntu/Ubuntu Server in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

Naw, they're smart guys; they just don't get warm fuzzies from Linux like I do. That, and I think using WDS or whatever it is let them do some...

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5 Days Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread How does Richard Stallman browse the internet? in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

RMS is an idealist, the leader of an ideologicial movement. He has an obligation to stick to his ideals as much as possible. It's easy to argue...

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5 Days Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread Imaging Computers with Ubuntu/Ubuntu Server in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

I've used G4L in the past; I think the techs that took over imaging after me quit using it because whole-disk imaging created problems with duplicate...

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2 Weeks Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread File Sharing between Ubuntu 12.04 on an HP laptop and an OS X iMac in Absolute Beginners Section

Do you copy the files over to the laptop before opening, or try to open them from an smb:// location in the file browser? I think libreoffice wants...

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2 Weeks Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread Integrate ubuntu in Active directory in General Help

I don't think so. AD integration is pretty much for login authentication. Group policy is a very windows-specific thing.

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2 Weeks Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread Computer crashes in General Help

Your graphics problem sounds like a driver issue. Do you know what kind of graphics hardware is in your system? If not, this command entered into...

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2 Weeks Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread Bug #1 has been closed by Mark Shuttleworth. in The Cafe

This seems like kind of a missed opportunity. I would have liked to see this bug closed with some fanfare, maybe in conjunction with the...

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2 Weeks Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread Pirated Music and Intellectual Property in The Cafe

Your average "band-signed-to-a-label" rarely recoups and makes royalties from an album. That is only one segment of the larger "art industry" (which...

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2 Weeks Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread More efficient window management. in Desktop Environments

I switched to a tiling window manager (awesome wm) a few years back. It takes some adjustment, but once you get past that it's really nice. I never...

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2 Weeks Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread System wide stereo spacing like in Win XP/Win7 (Stereo Widener)?? in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

If you can locate a LADSPA plugin that does stereo widening, you can apply this method to insert it into your pulseaudio sink: ...

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2 Weeks Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread How to maintain a LAN link to information on an old, semi-retired family PC? in The Cafe

OK, there should be *no terminal use required* for someone to browse the computer over ssh. If the clients are using Nautilus or Thunar or PCManFM,...

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2 Weeks Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread How to maintain a LAN link to information on an old, semi-retired family PC? in The Cafe

Depending on which desktops you are using, you should be able to set up network locations in the file managers of the other computers to easily...

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2 Weeks Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread Hearing the Win 8 sirens - save me from the rocks! in Recurring Discussions

Take a deep breath and say to yourself: "It's my computer". It's your computer. You can run any dadblamed OS you want to run and you don't...

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