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Your profile says you are running 8.10, so you should be able to go to System > Administration > USB Startup Disk Creator. Point this to the Ubuntu ISO and the USB drive. This will let you boot...

The i686 result you are getting shows that you are running the 32bit version of Ubuntu. This will only support around 3-3.5GB of RAM. For the OS to utilize your full 8GB, you will have to reinstall...

The PSU you were looking at runs 52A on the +12V rail. The 9800GT GPU requires only 26A. You have plenty left over for multiple HDs, fans, or overclocking.

Sorry I can't give you specific instructions, but in order to get my headphone output working I had to right click the volume icon and select open volume control. One of the tabs had a headphone box...

I've use a logitech webcam, and it has worked well. I started looking here:

http://www.quickcamteam.net/devices

I don't think any of the logitechs will fit your price range, but you may need...

Not sure where the instructions for installing it are so:

-remove current flash player:
>sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree

-extract the TAR.GZ you downloaded

-copy the extracted...

Fixed. Sorry about that. Bad habit of mine.

Some people say that they notice performance differences when changing the "swappiness" in Ubuntu. This can reduce the amount of data the system pages and allow it to use your RAM instead.

>sudo...

From within linux, open a the terminal. applications > accesories > terminal
Then you will wan to edit the grub menu file. Type:

>gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

At the bottom of this file...

Are you running the 32, or 64 bit version of Ubuntu? I'm running 64 bit and have been running the alpha version of flash player 10 from adobe for a while now. It has worked much better than the...

Are you talking about playing saved .flv files, or playing flash video on websites? There are quite a few tutorials for installing flash players for firefox around, and vlc will play saved .flv...

Well if you are looking to going with an Nvidia card, you won't find anything else in the $100 range other than the 9800gt. If you do go this route; the dual slot cooler version of the 9800gt is on...

It may be that the computer came with the 2 320gb drives in a software raid setup. Does your drive appear as one large (~640gb) drive in windows?

In that relative price range, you would probably look at the ATI HD 4850. Or the HD 4870 or Nvidia GTX 260 in the $200 range. The 9800gt is a great value. Are you looking at running SLI/Crossfire...

In order to restore the windows boot loader; boot from your windows cd and enter the recovery counsel. Type the command:

fdisk /mbr

This will get rid of the grub boot loader. I am not sure...

It sounds like you manually installed your drivers. There is an option that I believe is called 'Hardware Drivers' in system administration (sorry I'm in windows right now). Select the 177 driver...

The tag files are stored as a part of the individual music file. The tags will not be lost unless you remove them or erase the song.

For future reference, there are programs that make tagging a...

You should be able to embed the album art with the tagging information using a program like Easy TAG or Picard with the proper plugin. I have never used embedded album art on an ipod, so I can't...

You will want to install the unrar package.
From terminal:

>sudo apt-get install unrar

Afterward, archive manager will be able to decompress .rar files.

Most 32 bit OS's will support a maximum of 4gb of RAM. Due to physical address space being allocated to other devices such as video cards, a 32 bit OS will show some amount less that 4gb. Usually...

I use FLAC for my music in case I ever decided to buy something other than an Ipod, and the fact that the ALAC gstreamer plugins caused my Rhythmbox to randomly crash.

I have Rockbox installed on...

I've had this problem since I began using 8.04. At what seems to be arbitrary times, Rhythmbox shuts down. Looking at dmesg, I get the following:

rhythmbox[7513]: segfault at 968 rip...

What you really pay for when buying windows is your license. The license will work for any install of that same version of windows (ie. home premium, ultimate). So if you obtained an install cd of...

I installed xp in virtualbox with an hp recovery cd without any issues. As long as it is bootable media it should work. As long as you are not booting the computer from the drive, and only mount it...

Yeah admittedly the ring spin got a little old.



I would say these days you aren't missing much. I only watch them online, I'm not paying for cable just for Colbert, Stewart, and South Park.