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Thank you both for you answers. I'm greatly encouarged and will give it a go. I'll report back once I do.

Thanks again for sharing your experiences.

I am in the process of setting up an Ubuntu server that will act as a file server/SSO/DNS/etc. for a small business with 3 client machines (more coming in the near future) and about 6 regular users. ...

While not a perfect solution (and when I'm too lazy to open up adb) I just change the usb mode to PTP (plug in your phone and touch the little usb symbol in your phone's notification bar and select...

I was given a link to this patch (http://gphoto.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gphoto/branches/libgphoto2-2_4/libgphoto2/camlibs/ptp2/library.c?r1=14007&r2=14020&pathrev=14020) for gphoto2 to fix an...

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Thank you all for the opinions and info. It is greatly appreciated. In case anyone is terribly interested, the business will be a family run micro brewery. You all have given me a lot to think about...

My wife, her family and I are in the final planning stages of a new business. I've been appointed the 'techie' and I'm thinking about the business website. I've seen some sites (goolge included) do...

I'd look into diesel. Seriously, Check out the VW Jetta TDI. I know 2 people who have one and both report 50+ MPG on the highway. Plus the diesel engines are basically bulletproof and will lost...

I just can't quite figure this out. Can any one help?

I have an "inconvenience" whereby I have a streaming music server (tied to hi-fi equipment) called Squeezebox Server installed on my 11.04 machine. The way the porgram operates is to run as it's own...

both of these things work fine for me....

Super intrigued by this project! Thanks for sharing!

Unity should have nothing to do with slow downloads. It's still Gnome underneath the hood. It's like switching form metacity to compiz as your window manager (in fact Unity basically functions as a...

I have a feeling anyone who used Unity in 10.10 (especially the Netbook Edition), will say that Unity has come A LONG way in a very short time. People who are using/seeing it for the 1st time maybe...

I would highly recommend Swype as a replacement to the software keyboard. It's pretty revolutionary for touch screen phones. Makes my texting and typing speed on that small screen insanely faster...

I have a video I recorded on my cell phone in portrait instead of landscape. I've googled and figured out how to rotate the video using mencoder, but I can't seem to get the audio track to record...

Question 1:

Do you donate to any open source projects?


Question 2:

How do you decide which projects to donate to?

@3Miro and @NovaAesa Thank you both for the straight forward feedback. I was really hoping that this wouldn't turn into a "Intel is better than amd. ATI rocks Nvidia sucks. Intel integrated all...

My current desktop is a 2002 or 2003 emachine. It only supports up to 516 MB ram, PCI-e slots are all full (only 2). The mobo listed is less than $100 and has good reviews on newegg.
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This will be a first time computer build for me. I want it to to be somewhat "future proof" hence the mobo that supports usb3. I'm not really a gamer, but do some GIMPing and other photo rendering...

Thanks for the input! I figured encryption was the way to go.

Now the question is which encryption tool to use. Several people have recommended ccrypt. Has anyone tried gnupg? How about...

It's slightly different, very little lyrics, but check out the Yoshida Brothers.
they're are Japanese brothers who play a traditional Japanese instrument called tht shamisen. It's pretty...

My sister's house recently got broken into and her laptop was stolen. She's not the most tech savvy person in the world. Her account (Windows 7) wasn't password protected, which made it all that...

I've gotta second the exercise ball. It helps minimize static loading as well!

Everything on my mainmachine is backed-up weekly to an external hard drive at my house (double redundancy). I also remotely back-up to a NAS (D-Link 323 Raid 1) located at my in-laws' house..so I...