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    [ubuntu] My MacBook has Linux now!

    I am a long time Linux user who had been somewhat away for the past year. I had been running Ubuntu on an old PC that I had but the motherboard finally gave up the dust a little over a year ago so I...
  2. [ubuntu] Re: Shutdown and Restart hang on black screen...

    No replys on your post. I was hoping that someone might have an answer as I am having the same problem in 9.10. Never had this on any prior version of Ubuntu...

    Doug in Kentucky
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    Re: Whats the oldest computer you own?

    Somewhere out in my garage is my old Sinclair ZX 51 computer. I bought it as a kit back in 1981. Back then when we said we build a computer ourselves that meant that we actually soldered the parts...
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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    I am retired. Before retirement I have been a U.S. Marine, a Electronics Tech, and a R.N. I hear you young people will have to change careers every ten years. I find that interesting as I did that...
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    Poll: Re: What kind of computer do you use?- Super Thread

    My desktop is an old eMachines (at least it started out as one) 2.7 ghz celeron with Ubuntu. My lappy is a (Intel) Apple MacBook 2ghz with OSX and has Ubuntu running under VMware fusion.
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    Re: How many computers in your home?

    We have 3 set up and running:

    1. My wife has a Windows Vista desktop. She likes it, I hate it because she expects me to administrate it for her.

    2. I have a Ubuntu desktop

    3. I have a Mac...
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    Re: What part of Kentucky are you based in?

    Hello everyone. I am from Bowling Green and I have been using Linux since about 1998. Started with RedHat, moved to Mandrake when they forked off of RedHat and finally transitioned to Ubuntu last...
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    Poll: Re: Mac or Windows?

    After running MS Windows though various versions from Win3 to XP and Linux pretty seriously since about 1998 I needed to replace my old laptop. I almost bought a System 76 laptop, but decided on a...
  9. Re: HOWTO: Install Firefox 1.5 from mozilla.org

    Thank you very much for your clear instructions. It saved me worrying that I might have problems manually installing Firefox 1.5.0.1 although I have manually installed it many times over the years in...
  10. Re: Just discovered themes in Gnome *ashamed*

    Thank you all for sharing this. I had just kept using the brown defaults, but now I have Clearlooks as a theme. Great!
    :D
  11. Poll: Re: Anyone else really dislike Gnome?

    I have Ubuntu 4.10 installed on my laptop and left it there as it was (to date) the most stable, fastest linux I had ever used on that poor tired old machine. I really tried to like Gnome, really I...
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    Re: gender and age

    Male and 53. Kentucky, USA

    Doug
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    Re: marillat repository

    You fix worked just fine. I just got access to the marillat repository. All I needed to do was give it a little time and it resolved itself. I guess they were updating the thing.

    Doug
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    Re: marillat repository

    Thank you azz for the fast answer. I will give it a wait as you said and see what happens.

    Doug
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    marillat repository

    I have been trying to add marillat as a repository on a reinstall of Ubuntu. I get told by synaptic now that marillat is trying to access a directory or a file that doesn't exist on the server. Here...
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