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I found this by chance, then focused the search on the complaint:
LX 6810-01 | 6810 ~predict | random power |dies | shutdown problem
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In my limited experience doing this with windows 98se, it can work if donor and donee have same chipset. (perhaps similar chipset is good enough?)
if this was preinstalled (dell, acer...) windows,...

!cough! virus? !cough, cough! ?
cough?

Limited permissions user. I don't know much about limited permissions, though. There are no pebkac kiddies here.
But if OP's PC dualboots to nix, OP...

(these might repeat some posted earlier.)
I began by searching through bookmarks.


Linux:
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewforum.php?f=16&
http://www.podnutz.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=54&...

aliens, certainly, but you've all overlooked the obvious brown clue. ubuntunians are not from "outer space". they're aliens from the earth's core.
unless you've pressed foil into the inside of the...

(i'm not a pc support person, but..)
how often do you need to find clues in eventvwr or restart with logging, or similar?
windows has a lot of config via gui. i agree that more than two short cl...

1st startup runs a wizard to backup the restore partition to optical discs. (but AFAIK blank discs aren't included).
so the "average Joe" has a *some* chance to know about the partition.
"hidden"?...

onley uss smatr peeplil cann spel puleezz rite.

i think the person you quoted intended this idea:
*NO* average Joe cant run ubuntu, while ONLY smart people can.
and you're also correct that...

*popular* games seems to be the only thing holding back nix from most "consumers", but nix should be fine for office, since games aren't supposed to be critical apps for most office workers (outside...

isn't about >95% of turnkey consumer pcs Windows? I'm also speculating, but I don't think you'd see much difference if windows declined to 5%. macs are more common than any single nix distro, and...

osx was not exactly relevant, but osx is interesting., if your study was reasonably (ulp.) statistically or otherwise usable. I'd like to see the osx comparison. maybe also haiku (some kde & others...

renderfarm? not necessarily ubuntu (or linux?) old pcs use more power, though.