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    Re: Take a look at THIS 3D desktop

    I agree it's awesome as a proof of concept might even show some usefulness in some areas (educational software maybe? professional artist that might like a more traditional feel do their desktop?)...
  2. Re: Dad wants to try Linux.. but has a few questions.

    fyi both quicken and turbotax have online versions that are accessible from linux.

    however, I tend to agree with the above if he is happy with what he has and it works for him, it's probably best...
  3. Re: An open letter from a consumer, to the distributions.

    Instead of starting a flame war by explaining my full opinion of the letter I will just say at least it's good you speak your mind.
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    Re: Have I turned my sister into a computer Geek?

    Nope she chose the path herself.
    But I have to say good on ya for supporting her decision.

    Cheers!
  5. Thread: GUI vs. CLI

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    Poll: Re: Command Line and Ubuntu

    Sorry I have to agree with you too. I consider myself an intermediate computer user in general and honestly I started out with far less user friendly distros and was not at all intimidated by the CLI...
  6. Re: Cool applications you use that others might not know of

    Ksynaptics - gui synaptics touchpad config utility best used in edgy or newer. There is also a Gsynaptics for Gnome but I haven't tried it yet.

    KQ - old school rpg similar to Final Fantasy back in...
  7. Poll: Re: How many times a day does firefox crash on you?

    Believe it or not I've never had Firefox crash on me not even in windows I do have java and flash and a couple other addons but I keep addons to a minimum generally.
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    Re: Which Firefox theme do you use?

    I use Noia for both Firefox and Thunderbird
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    Poll: Re: Not a WinXP replacement yet?

    Actually you are asking it to work like windows. My wife was much like your wife, actually she was a little less skilled since she relied on me heavily to help maintain her windows system. However...
  10. Re: A few questions about starting a career in IT.

    Sorry didn't mean to leave those out, in general certs can net you higher pay if you have ones that are really important to whatever particular job and in some less common cases may also be required...
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    Re: A True Frontpage Competitor?

    Yes I agree my wife picked up XHTML just by using my codes as examples then writing her own and asking me questions whenever she ran into a problem. It took a lot of encouragement to get her to try...
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    Re: A True Frontpage Competitor?

    Anyone given Amaya a try? The description in the repo says its a WYSIWYG Editor/Browser made by the W3C. I haven't looked at it yet, don't feel like downloading something that big on dialup.
  13. Re: A few questions about starting a career in IT.

    1) Yes most jobs require you to have a degree.
    2) 2nd only to the degree in importance is experience, you can technically argue exp. is more, less, or equal to the degree however many larger corps...
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    Re: A True Frontpage Competitor?

    I HATED Frontpage the code it spat out was pure garbage and my wife drove me nuts every time she asked me to fix stuff it wasn't doing right. I highly recommend learning to write HTML or better yet...
  15. Re: Anybody know of a program that makes an animated Gif work as wallpaper?

    I did some research on this a while back its possible to do in gnome but not in kde easily yet but kde is supposed to pick it up in kde4. For gnome you just need a program that sets an animated gif...
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    Re: Best laptop for use with Ubuntu

    I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a nvidia card been running Ubuntu for 2 years w/o any problems only minor complaint is the payola drivers needed for the winmodem but if you don't need dialup then...
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    Re: It's about proprietary software..

    Completely agree, more over I bought ALL of my DVDs LEGALLY and I don't give a s**t that some two faced politician made it technically illegal to decrypt them to watch on the OS of my choosing...
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    Re: Okay, I've exhausted myself with Themes...

    currently my kdesktop is set to cycle through my 200some collection of wallpapers every 5 minutes and when I get bored of that (roughly once a week) I fire up Gimp and make a new one to add to the...
  19. Poll: Re: How did you find out about Linux? Who introduced you?

    Started with a shell account on a server when I first became an IRC admin back around '98 first distro I played with was FreeBSD never had a problem dual booting since it offered the option to...
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    Re: Browser Based RPG's

    Stendhal is pretty good I'm looking forward to playing it more soon as I get a stable Internet connection.
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    Re: KDE's BasKet 1.0 is out!

    Just gave it a spin a couple hours ago. GREAT program, fully looking forward to putting it to daily use.
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    Re: I installed Ubuntu with a hate for Windows. You?

    I think for me the most accurate word would be tired. I was just so tired of f'ing with windows all the time, tired of my wife bothering me to fix stuff all the time, tired of spending too much of...
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    Re: To wipe or not to wipe Vista?

    From what I have heard about Vista's EULA giving M$ rights to the contents of your computer including Grandma's secret recipe for buffalo wings, I would say torch it before accepting anything.
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    Re: your five biggest hobbies

    in random order:

    Mountain Biking
    Video Games
    Web Design
    Digital & Traditional Art
    helping others with technology issues
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    Re: Do We Really Need Linux in the Desktop?

    I could care less if Linux takes over half of the desktop market or not, so long as it continues to remain reliable/stable, does what I want and stays free.
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