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Before the reinstall, everything worked just fine. Something, obviously, is not right now, but I can't figure out what.

I had to reinstall 12.04 because my hard drive died suddenly. After getting a new drive and installing 12.04, I enabled the nvidia driver. Since then the GPU runs full bore constantly (there is...

That is indeed similar, though the phrase "calamitously complicated configuration" comes to mind. My idea was to have all this below X. An X session on vs1 should not even know that the hardware...

You've got the gist of what I would like to do. Instead of a dummy terminal with a command line, this would be a dummy workstation with a GUI.

I am an early middle-aged, novice C programmer and I had an idea for a program which I believe would be of potential use to a number of people. The functionality of this not yet written software is...

Desktop: Quad Core Q6600 2GB Ram some nVidia card or other. Ubuntu 8.10
Laptop: Tadpole Sparcle: 650Mhz UltraSparc IIe 1GB Ram. OpenBSD 4.4

People are more likely to abandon something quickly when they receive it for free than if they paid for it. Magazine advertisers pay less money to free publications, not due to fewer people reading...

That is true only because of the infrequency of Microsoft upgrades and people having to go to a store to buy it. Ubuntu pops up an invitation to download and install the new version. This is...

So installing Listen, Compiz and XGL is a massive change which will completely destroy an upgrade? That is ALL that was done and the system was completely borked. No X. No command line login.
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Like most people here, I'm very happy to see that Dell picked Ubuntu for its Linux offering. With a hardware vendor, the glitches due to drivers should not be a problem as it will, presumably, be...

Workplace switcher: I initially thought of putting it in the sidebar, but decided to keep it there 1) I'm lazy 2) I thought of a GL way of using it. mouse over explodes it so it can be used to move...

The time bit was actually something I thought of after I had pasted it there... but I really am lazy so I just left it :)

Hadn't thought of the possibility of accidental click on the logout...

On occasion, I have complained about how most, if not all, user interface elements in Linux (and the BSDs too) are primarily clones of Windows or Mac OS stuff.

So here is my mock up of something...

Insofar as IDEs are concerned, there is still Dr Python and Boa Constructor. I kind of like Dr Python when I'm doing tutorials since it pretty much just has a text editor and a python interpreter. ...

Interestingly that is *exactly* the same little program I was using.

cwaldbieser: Those two lines were the only difference in the entire program. No where else were they referenced or mentioned...

I was working through Byte of Python and started doing the exercise teaching Class and Object variables. While typing I only changed the names used for the variables at the very end.

I used my...

Thanks for the link to Byte of Python. I have Learning Python (though I think it leaves something to be desired) and wanted some sites which I could check out so as to give me some exercise.
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I opened this thread looking for some Python stuff. I'm old, but I want to learn to do stuff.

Anyhow, while I do understand the mod's point about sticking to topic, I have to say that language...

Misha, I don't know if this will help but this is something which was said to be important for ATI cards.

Check your /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom file and look for a line that looks like this:...

I really liked Amarok, but the KDE thing required KDE libs to load so that was somewhat annoying. Now that I have Listen, I don't have to wait. Not having to wait means a lessened likelihood of me...

I used to use this forever and a half ago, but I had forgotten all about it. Thanks.