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You can also get a 30 day free trial to test out crossover. Codeweavers is a great company that contributes back to the wine project.

What specific MS Office applications do you need? I have had good success running Office 2003 and Office 2007 [excel and word] in wine (no need to set up a VM).

If you want a quick and simple way...

Version updates can get borked. I'm working on fixing a bad update right now. Is there any reason why you can't just download and install from the 12.04 image?

I highly recommend using Crossover. It has a really nice interface and is dead simple to get MS office running under it. They also put a lot of work into the Wine project. You can think of the...

Install wine. See if it works in wine.

Thanks for the tips. Once I get the project going I'll come back here with some stories.

Hey all,

I live iin Central Asia and am helping out a local reform school for orphans and delinquent youth. I'm working on getting a computer education program started at the school for the...

I have called ATT before about other issues regarding the 2wire gateway. They have the ability to remotely administer the router (so that they can do things like help people log into their wireless...

Honestly, if you want something durable and lower priced you may want to look at used IBM / Lenovo thinkpads rather PPC apple computers.

Is this a fresh install? Did you install the firmware for your wireless card? Have you looked through the community documentation for your apple product here:...

I think you will need a full remote desktop session (i.e. VNC / Screenshare) to run the native mac apps. You should be able to tunnel GUI apps that you install through macports (because they use X11).

OSX Server supports headless installs via SSH, but I don't think it works for the Desktop version. You can test it by connecting the computer via ethernet cable to your router and booting from your...

Don't use VNC. Administer the server via ssh. Use x11 forwarding if you need a GUI. Consider setting up a dedicated box as your game / http server. That way if the server is compromised it presumably...

In order to write to a HFS+ partition you need to disable journaling on said partition. I believe this can be done from ubuntu. see here

This is entirely conjecture, but the macbook pro is probably using the discreet graphics card 100% of the time under Ubuntu causing a shorter battery life.

There may be some useful information...

~2 minutes of google-fu yields the following articles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/technology/business-computing/06virus.html?_r=1...

We'll need some more information.

Did you install Ubuntu inside Windows (WUBI), did you replace Windows with Ubuntu, or did you install them side by side (dual-boot)?

Why do you want to remove...

There is a compatibility list for webcams here: http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/

I personally use a Microsoft HD-3000 webcam. It is inexpensive and works well.

Follow the link in Post #2 above.

Check out the help page for a MacBook Pro 8.1 here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro8-1/Natty MacBooks are good if you want to use / dual-boot OS-X. If you are just going to use Linux...

libdvdcss2 I think it is in the medibuntu repository but I could be wrong. http://medibuntu.org/

I purchased stickers with the Cyrillic alphabet for my laptop's keyboard. It works well and does not cover up the English keyboard (the stickers are transparent). The only problem, which is a minor...

Have you installed macfancontrold from here: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support/+archive/ppa

If you run the command below does your fan speed drop?


sudo echo 3000" >...

Are you using the 'Disk Utility' app in the OS X Partition to change its size? What installation guide are you using (include link)?

There is a different procedure for installing ubuntu on a mac. See the following guide:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleIntelInstallation#Dual-Boot: Mac OSX and Ubuntu