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    Re: Ubuntu Studio is out.

    Yeah... appears temporily deceased, chaps.
    I have a funny feeling that Ubustu is a LITTLE more popular than people thought it would be... which means that people have been looking for a really slick...
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    Re: FPS/Action games performance in Ubuntu

    How odd!

    I am using Half-life through WINE with no probs (in fact better than it was on WinXP!)

    Also, I use LXDoom without any probs.

    Tremolous works fine too...
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    Re: Contest idea. Crash your PC

    Instantaneously:
    Installed Arch Linux, but the install failed for no obvious reason. Fortunately, I was multi-booting Mint and Ubuntu at the same time.

    That partition still won't boot up....
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    Re: Ubuntu on mothers pc...

    How odd...
    I use Linux Mint as my backup distro (cuz I just updated to Feisty from Edgy and keep getting X crashes and Kernel Panics (((!!!!)))). and I have no probs at all with Mint. The menu...
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    Re: Hey! Guitar players, let's chat.

    Hello all!

    A thread with no point whatsoever! I love it!

    Anyhoo:
    My toybox contains a Line 6 II 75w 1x12 combo which has perhaps the best DI recording output of any amp on the market for less...
  6. Re: (A MUST READ!!!!!) The Ultimately Fastest Ubuntu Desktop/Server You Can Have!

    Going through all this (and it's slightly out-of-date now, admittedly...) shows that jfs is the fastest, technically. But ReiserFS looks more stable if somewhat slower. ext3 is the most stable, but...
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    Re: Windows XP EULA in Plain English

    I "third" it.
    What exactly is wrong with this article then?
    I am reading the EULA verbatim, side-by-side with the 'translation' and it looks alarmingly accurate once the REAL BS is stripped out......
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    Re: Senator To AT&T: You Don't Own The Net

    <yawn>....

    Put up a new DNS system and registration (after duplicating the non-US addresses) and Bob's your Uncle...

    Fiat accompli.
    There are an awful lot of internet nodes in Europe in .nl...
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    Re: Senator To AT&T: You Don't Own The Net

    Not to mention - and I sometimes have to spell it out for my American friends - AMERICA DOES NOT OWN THE INTERNET!

    America may have a lot of users, but the vast majority of European (and China is...
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    Re: is this unethical or a good thing?

    Ahhh... I only wish...

    It's perfectly legal to be paid for your time and expertise. It's NOT legal to sell it as far as I know, but it is easily on the right side of the law and morality to lend...
  11. Re: How many versions of Linux have YOU tried before settling down with Ubuntu?

    Fedora Core 3 - Started out ok, until I started using Yum - and tried to compile code <shudder!>
    Mandrake 9.1 (free v.) - Started out ok, but LOUSY community to sort probs. No support unless you...
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    Re: Favorite legacy OS?

    Amiga OS 4.1 - on an A1200 with a REALLY good accellerator board. Say, a 800Mhz+ PPC chip and a good 32Meg of memory...

    VERY spiffy... UAE just isn't the same, really.
    BTW - AMOS the Creator was...
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    Re: A non-traditional question to women ...

    Blue!

    LOL
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    Re: My poor harddrive

    Used to use an Amiga 2000 (!!!!) with a very small harddrive - with great success I might add.
    Four words:
    FOURTY MEG SYQUEST REMOVABLE

    I seriously used to boot up on a 40 mB cartridge drive and...
  15. Thread: GUI vs. CLI

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    Poll: Re: Command Line and Ubuntu

    You are correct. Command Line is by FAR the best way to learn Linux and to do things on Ubuntu. Errors are MUCH clearer and it generally just runs better when doing 'big' things. People are less...
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    Re: Net firms criticised over China

    Precisely!
    Not to mention they may not have liked the idea of toppling another government for political or economic gain...

    Also - who wants to strengthen a rival nation?

    Empire builders of...
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    Re: Net firms criticised over China

    Hello!

    Ah! An astute political debater... exxxxcellent! :-)

    You must bear in mind that a supply of oil is not just about the physical volume but 2 other factors as well:
    1) Percieved market...
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    Re: Net firms criticised over China

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4523825.stm

    Have a look at America "not" torturing its political prisoners...

    'Nuff sed.

    In a related story on the BBC, apparently the treatment of...
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    Re: Net firms criticised over China

    I think you'll find the Supreme Court ruled that burning a flag is in fact not illegal. It'll still get you a proper butt-kicking in Dallas, Texas though I betcha.

    You'd be much better off just...
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    Re: Net firms criticised over China

    Unless they are turned over to the American military by paid bounty hunters as radical Islamic terrorists and members of Al Quaeda. THEN they jail and torture (no - sorry - interrogate them), and...
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    Re: Net firms criticised over China

    Unfortunately, not true. There is no legal authority to control how other countries conduct their buisiness, or to dictate the conditions of how companies in YOUR country can work in another...
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    Re: anyone use windowmaker?

    WMaker all the way, baby...

    I use Gnome sometimes when I need to do USB things (MP3 player songs need changing, etc). I know I could mount it using the command line, etc but just takes too much...
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    Re: Do we have any metalheads here? \m/

    Hello!

    METALLLLLLLL!


    My faves:

    Metallica (pre-Black Albumn...)
    Morbid Angel
    Akercocke
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    Re: So close and yet...

    Well, MS does not have the patent on Address Books - true.
    They DO however have the patent on THEIR format of address book, and their PST files they use to store email.
    So basically, the only way...
  25. Poll: Re: In your opinion what is the biggest setback that is preventing Linux to widespread?

    I think it is the fact that so few manufacturers have it installed from purchase, like Windows usually is.
    If PCs just arrived with Ubuntu/Mandriva/FC4 installed we wouldn't HAVE this discussion...
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