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  1. Re: HOW TO: Export mail from Evolution to Thunderbird

    I wish I would have seen this last month...I figured it out, but it was not easy. Evolution is not the mail client/PIM for me.

    Thanx for posting this.

    :guitar:

    No Fascination with death,...
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    Re: Howto Set Up and sync a Palm PDA

    I have a Tungsten E and I use Gnome. I still have not gotten the darned thing to sync 100%. It hangs on jpeg something and all the searching I have done says that synching under Gnome with a...
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    Re: HOWTO: Mount NTFS volumes with write support

    Wow, worked like a charm. Followed your great tutorial and rebooted. Fantastic. That has fixed one of my problems dual booting!

    I originally tried Captive, but it takes a very new kernel and...
  4. Re: HOWTO:Nvidia AGP FastWrites and Side Band Addressing

    I found that the only way to tell was to NOT move the mouse. Moving the mouse can skew the results.
  5. Re: HOWTO:Nvidia AGP FastWrites and Side Band Addressing

    That worked...thanx z-vet

    I did not have nvidia-kernel-nkc. First I took the advice of Rizado and added "nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1" to /etc/modules, but that did not work...
  6. Re: HOWTO: Cleaning up all those unnecessary junk files...

    Possibly add "apt-get clean" the list as a partner to autoclean?
  7. Re: HOWTO:Nvidia AGP FastWrites and Side Band Addressing

    I used the Nvidia installer with my GForce 5600 FX
    I have the 2.6.12-10-686 kernel
    I did not have nvidia-kernel-nkc so I took the advice of Rizado and added "nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1...
  8. Re: Automatix: Automated Graphical Installer and Tweaker (look here first!)

    Well Arnieboy, I made the big jump to OO 2.0, FF 1.5.0.1, and T-Bird 1.5 via Automatix and I can saw that it all worked as expected.

    Thanx for helping people like me (trying to dump ******* for...
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    Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers

    OK a working xconf, stable and clean (so far). I have run it with movies and no problems.

    Section "Files"
    FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"...
  10. Re: The Composite Manager Guide: How to Get Vista-ish Effects in (K)(X)Ubuntu.

    Wrong Thread ... reposting :( in the Nvidia thread.
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    Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers

    I have been tweaking it some over the weekend and will post the new xorg.conf when I get home.

    Thanx again for your kindness in helping noobs like myself.
  12. Re: The Composite Manager Guide: How to Get Vista-ish Effects in (K)(X)Ubuntu.

    It is still hanging during shutdown...nice effects, but a tad slow. The shutdown bug sucks as well.

    I am using the latest 32 bit driver from the Nvidia site, installed with the how to from...
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    Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers

    Here is my data .. glx was not working so I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and all is well.

    Out put of my glxgears:

    mark@HB-Linux:~$ glxgears -printfps
    13183 frames in 5.0 seconds =...
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    Re: HOWTO: Latest NVIDIA drivers

    I have gotten the *newest* driver to work with my GeForce 5600 (AGP) card (256 megs RAM), but it was with a lot of trial and error. I had problems with the install (GCC versions) but I got sorted...
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    Poll: Re: Show off your computer!!!!!!

    Apex TU-124 Case
    Abit IS7 Motherboard (Intel 865PE chipset)
    Intel 3 Gigahertz Processor
    512 Megs DDR PC3200 RAM
    Onboard LAN
    Onboard sound card
    Creative 6X DVD/CD-ROM
    Exact 52X Rewriteable...
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    Poll: Re: Where in the world is everyone from?

    Dallas-ish, Texas, USA, Planet Earth.
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    Re: HOWTO: Xubuntu with thunar file manager

    I will start off on a positive note.

    Your instructions were good and easy to follow.
    Thunar is very quick and usable. I just need to get it to work as if it was logged in as root.

    Now...
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    Re: Replace metacity by xfwm4

    Well, I did the XFWM replace (for Metacity) on the laptop and I was very happy. I guess I was in the wrong directory or made a typo since I did not have .one of the files in the right directory, but...
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    Re: Mozilla Firefox - Multiple Homepage Tabs

    Nice to know, but I think it would get on my nerves. I had Multilla installed once that did this and I could never get it to quit. I was hoping this thread was going to answer the riddle :confused:...
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    Re: Replace metacity by xfwm4

    I have not tried this yet, but I wanted to give some input to those newer linux converts (like myself) who are not happy with Gnome/Metacity performance. I recently dumped Gnome completely and...
  21. Poll: Re: Epiphany as default browser?

    I just installed it.
    Wow.
    Nice, small, fast (I am running 400 mhz celeron, 512 RAM).

    I like it.
  22. Thread: No Synaptic?

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    Re: No Synaptic?

    I think I found my answer on another forum. Seems like the Hoary packages are incomplete at the moment.
  23. Thread: No Synaptic?

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    No Synaptic?

    Upgraded from warty to hoary the other day, all the upgrades went smoothly, following the http://ubuntuguide.org/ guide. Only thing I can see that is missing or wrong is that Synaptic is gone. ...
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