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    Re: What Football club do you support?

    Football?!? HA! I'd rather watch, better yet play, a game of lacrosse.
  2. Poll: Re: What *buntu do you use? Why?

    I use SimplyMEPIS. While not officially a *buntu version, it does use the Ubuntu repositories. I use it because it simply works out of the box without having to download and install a lot extra...
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    Re: Top 5 Programs You Couldn't Live Without...

    My Top 10 Picks:

    Amarok - Great audio player, very nice handling with large number of music files (as good, if not better in some ways than iTunes)
    Firefox - 'nuff said
    KTorrent - built-in...
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    Re: kplayer or kmplayer?

    I have to agree with KPlayer. I use because: 1) it's more fault tolerant (If the video and audio aren't properly synced, KPlayer will drop frames as needed. very good for downloaded .avi files.);...
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    Re: Do We Really Need Linux in the Desktop?

    [Cranky Old Man Voice]
    Why, you young pups think you know so much. Why, in my day, we didn't have all these fancy computers. We used an abacus. http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040309 ...
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    Re: The High Cost of Linux...

    Buy a desktop?!? Not me. I want to build my own system from the case up. However, if you're interested, check out http://pricewatch.com and check out Desktops and Notebooks with No OS installed.
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    Re: Why do you Ubuntu?

    I came to Ubuntu and Kubuntu by way of MEPIS, which I came by way of Debian. I love Debian for its social contract, wide platform support, and package manager; not so good for a desktop environment...
  8. Re: If you are not running (K/X/Ed)Ubuntu, then what are you running?

    MEPIS, but trying out Ubuntu. I still like the KDE desktop, so I may switch to Kubuntu.

    I use MEPIS because I found the default package base to be the most practical for day-to-day use (KPlayer,...
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    Re: What would be your epitaph?

    Bsod
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    Re: Bye Bye. I cant stand humiliation

    If what I'm about to ask is a dumb question, please tell me and I'll go off to my corner and be quiet.

    Why not just turn off the smileys from your control panel? (I.e. User CP > Edit Options >...
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    Re: .-:= What are you Drinking right now=:-.

    Ice cold filtered water from my one liter Nalgene bottle.
  12. Poll: Re: In your opinion what is the biggest setback that is preventing Linux to widesprea

    For years, the main sticking point preventing computers to use the television as a monitor has been resolution. Now, with the rising popularity (nay, now nearly required, thanks to the FCC) of HD...
  13. Poll: Re: In your opinion what is the biggest setback that is preventing Linux to widesprea

    Actually, I can think of a few:


    Limited (albeit growing) selection of games (and I ain't talking 72 versions of Tetris :wink: ); believe it, computer games are what's driving the computer...
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    Re: "Welcome, introduce yourself" Sticky Thread

    Hi, my name is Eric and I live, well, just say the nadir of the technology universe. I work as a system admin for a small university library (I'm really a librarian by profession). I have using...
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