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    Re: What's your Favorite IDE?

    For beginners, who really want to learn how things work, I'm glad I was steered away from IDE's--as the professor had his favorite--and towards just using a text editor...I found that once I got used...
  2. Thread: Bleachbit

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    [ubuntu] Re: Bleachbit

    I like it, and use it for different reasons, and just got thru coming back to linux--after my RC copy of win7 expired--and I like bleachbit...some don't approve, but it's just a hand way of getting...
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    [SOLVED] Re: How To Set VIM as Default Text Editor?

    Yeah, I should have been clearer: I know I can right-click, 'open with' and gvim...but I used command line vim for creating files--for java--and some other stuff, and wanted to just use vim as my...
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    [SOLVED] How To Set VIM as Default Text Editor?

    I know it's in here somewhere, but I'm having trouble finding it...I've got vim installed, but it still defaults to gedit, when I want to default to vim...isn't there a command I can run, that brings...
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    [ubuntu] Re: GVIM gives error screen

    I had done a search, and hadn't really found a fix, thought maybe someone on here knew of one, but after reading your link, I just went back to vim, and I'm used to it anyway, so no...
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    [ubuntu] GVIM gives error screen

    I just loaded Ubuntu 9.10, and everything seems to be working right, with this one minor glitch: I use gvim as my text editor. (I'm learning Java, and I use it regularly), and I was used to vi in...
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    [ubuntu] Re: 9.10 Freezing at install

    Hang in there: I'm kind of in the same boat: started getting the Win7 RC notices yesterday, that we have to either purchase and reinstall new Win7, or do something else...so I too am trying to...
  8. [ubuntu] Re: Am I crazy to consider ubuntu for a new Notebook ?

    Have you looked at the Dell Latitude 2100--in the small business--section of Dell? it's a beauty and comes w/more options for ubuntu than it does for Windows...the colors are nice, and ubuntu ...
  9. Thread: Netbooks

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    Re: Netbooks

    I just got a Dell mini-9 about a month ago, "jade green, 2gb ram" and I was pretty enthusiastic about getting it, and have had good experiences w/Dell since getting my first laptop, way back in 1995,...
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    [all variants] Re: Why is it netbooks boot so fast?

    Bummer: After this thread, I know some of us are now looking at our little netbooks when they boot up, and muttering: "Come on slowpoke, yer 5 seconds are *up*! All the other netbooks would be...
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    [xubuntu] Re: best web browser for xubuntu

    Main reason I stick w/Firefox is that most of the websites I go to, and some I use for school, have started to recognize Firefox, but didn't always recognize Opera, which is my favorite too...I know...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Dell Mini9 Wireless fails after update

    Yep, only real problem I've had w/Dell mini9,(that wasn't of my own making), has been w/wireless...I had the exact wpa pswd, and kept typing it in, over and over and over, trying everything, and it...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Synaptic Package Manager Question

    At least one of the apps--touchpad--wouldn't show until I *rebooted* Its probably not the problem, here, but since it took me forever to figure this little tidbit out, I figured I'd mention it..
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    [ubuntu] Re: wireless problem

    I had been following your thread, and I'm glad somebody stepped in. Somebody always does, but I went thru the exact same thing about a year ago w/my Dell wireless,and I was very frustrated, as I had...
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    [ubuntu] Re: linux system optimizer

    I like Bleachbit myself: reminds me of ccleaner, and it sure found plenty to remove on my dell-mini, I need the space, and I just like seeing things disappear, anyway...
  16. [ubuntu] Re: Security recommendations for a new ubuntu user

    It's a good, reasonable, question, and usually lots of different answers: after I went thru all that, I figured I wanted a firewall I kind of understood, and so I installed "firestarter", and unless...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Can't get Network Manager to Run

    Yes, generally, shows the root, then the NetworkManager, then the NetworkManagerDispatcher...so yeah...but no icon....and yes, I can get the Network Monitor...but I have a totally different applet,...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Can't get Network Manager to Run

    Typed sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ and it came back with "If you really want to create an icon cache here, use --ignore-theme-index."

    Thanks again, I'll keep looking...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Can't get Network Manager to Run

    Actually, when I type in 'nm-applet', *nothing* happens...my cursor just sort of bounces away, like it's searching, but not finding, or something, and yes, even tho they were already installed, I...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Can't get Network Manager to Run

    Yep, what puzzles me, i--like other rookies, it took a lot of loading, and reloading before the wireless Netgear wg111v3 actually worked, but for some reason, at the same time, the little...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Can't get Network Manager to Run

    says: nm 'a.out'" No such file
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    [ubuntu] Can't get Network Manager to Run

    Running Ubuntu 8.04...after a 3day struggle, was able to connect wireless on my Dell Inspiron laptop, USB Netgear WG111v3 ... a little slow, compared to wired, but I'll get to that later: my biggest...
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    Re: DebianDay 2008

    Ah, it's just an invite to Debian Day down in Buenos Aires, on the 18th of August...

    friendly fellow, just letting us know about the event...I used to live down there in Mendoza../

    best wishes...
  24. Thread: WiFi

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    [ubuntu] Re: WiFi

    ...and of course, if none of this works, *then* you get to do the interesting stuff some of us had to do, trying to get these wirless doodads to work...sleepless nights, and a fast and severe...
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    Re: Use Iceweasel not Firefox

    Another "program" I really like, has what they call "Rule 62:"

    Don't Take Yourself So Damn Seriously!

    As in life, as in Operating Systems...
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