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This is true. The irony is that I was able to buy a normal 4:3 LCD for my desktop this month, but I can't find a laptop with a screen like that. (Though I'd continue to buy 4:3 screens for my desktop...

There are lots of people on Dell's IdeaStorm clamoring for 4:3 to return to laptops. They think there's no market for 4:3 laptops anymore, despite thousands of people requesting it. (At least I can...

Show me any NEW laptop without a widescreen. I have looked for a couple of years and have not seen any since 2006.

Most of my computer use requires vertical space, like web pages, email,...

Seriously, come on. I can't find ANY new laptop without a widescreen anymore. I don't like wide screens. They aren't very useful for the majority of computing tasks. It's suddenly as if all laptops...

Eh, I just think LCDs are more readable. Too bad it's getting harder to find a non-widescreen LCD anymore.

I tried the Java-based prototype that was posted a few weeks ago, and I hated it. I don't like the ribbon, and it looks like they're just trying to copy Microsoft now.

You also need this:

sudo apt-get install poulsbo-driver-3d psb-kernel-source

Worked for me on my Mini 12.

I have come to prefer GNOME after being a KDE fan for years. What happened? KDE 4 happened. Did they not learn from Netscape's mistake of doing a complete rewrite all at once? To make matters worse,...

I don't think so, especially now that with 3.5, it's become as fast as Opera. Speed was my main issue with Firefox before 3.5 came out.

Eh, I used to have problems like that, until I just gave up and removed PulseAudio. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it's the cause of your troubles.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ at 2.2 GHz

The problem is that it likes to stay with the lower clock speeds most of the time and only burst into the highest when I have a LOT going on,...

I used to be able to change the default speed governor in Intrepid by going to /apps/gnome-power-manager/cpufreq and changing the defaults.

This feature seems to be removed from Jaunty.

Is...

For best Linux compatibility, I highly recommend, as stated above, getting a laptop that actually has Linux pre-installed, like one of Dell's offerings ( http://www.dell.com/ubuntu ), or a System 76...

Ah, solved the issue after searching it on nvnews.net!

For anyone else having this trouble on NVidia, add this to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the Device section:

Option "ModeValidation"...

I have the same problem. I can't get xrandr to remove any of the refresh rates for 800x600 either.

It is not recommended to manually download packages from Debian and try to install them. What version of Ubuntu are you on?

Have you tried Audacious? it's basically a port of XMMS to GTK 2 and...

I don't think anything Microsoft puts out will be enough to convince me to switch from Linux, unless they go open-source with Windows (and I mean really open-source, according to the OSI's...

OpenOffice.org also can do HTML, but it's not necessarily anything you'd want to upload. I also tried Quanta, but it's a KDE program.

Where did you get these packages from?

I just bought a Dell E170S monitor. It works great, except that the default refresh rate my NVidia GeForce 6100 chooses for the 800×600 resolution (when a game wants that resolution) is not supported...

Thanks for your input. Most people I know are aware of what web browsers store on their hard drives, but most of them wouldn't check to see if Pidgin is logging all conversations by default.Obviously...

Why was it changed though? Sure, doing anything over the Internet is a privacy risk in itself, but why was the default explicitly changed by Ubuntu?

Yes, it is a very useful feature, but should it...

I have a lot of friends I talk to on-line every day, and those logs have gotten pretty big, especially when they're in HTML format (the default). My ~/.purple/logs directory has grown to 200 MB+ when...

What if you're on a netbook with a 4 GB SSD? Don't people run Ubuntu on those?

I have been curious about this. Why did Ubuntu decide to patch Pidgin so that the default is to save all conversations by default? Isn't this a privacy risk? At the very least, the hard drive can...