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Hi, my AR928X wireless card on a Toshiba Satellite M800 is working erratically since I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10. It will often randomly stop working for no apparent reason, often after only a few...

One thing that could really hurt Microsoft: WINE. It is getting better and better, and sooner or later it will be basically 100% compatible with Windows XP, which is what most Windows apps are...

Hire programmers to write free software.

Depends on what you call a "rolling release". No way should Ubuntu upgrade to new major versions of core packages like the kernel, X, GNOME, KDE, etc. during a release cycle because that would result...

Because it feels stupid to delete Windows Vista which came with my laptop. I hardly ever use it, but I will likely need it at some point for some proprietary app.

1. Buggy/absent drivers, especially wireless drivers.
2. Non-free software, e.g. Flash, non-free drivers, multimedia codecs.
3. Lack of games and other applications for Linux.
4. Outdated versions...

A few minor problems on my Toshiba Portege M800:

- Wireless does not resume after suspend/resume. See workaround.
- Bluetooth does not work.

Go to College & Spadina, there's about two dozen computer stores there so you should be able to find what you are looking for.

You don't even have to do that - you can set alarm-clock to play a sound file directly.

I got a new Toshiba Portege M800 laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium on it. I would like to set up a Vista/Ubuntu dual boot.

However, the partitioning is very weird. There are 4 partitions, as...

No. Look at the Mac. It has very few commercial games (though this is improving somewhat), but its market share is steadily increasing.

Don't like Mac very much, had a MacBook Pro bought in early 2007 for a while but sold it. It is an OK choice for newbies, but I found that for power users it is severely limited. The bundled software...

I originally used KDE back in the days of Gnome 1 because KDE was vastly superior back then. However, Gnome has caught up rapidly to KDE and I prefer it to KDE 3 or 4.

Some decent games. Like World of Warcraft or Halo 3.

What about Appl€?

Schools, universities and libraries need to start installing Linux on their computers and teach students how to use it. Not only would this save them a lot of money on software, but it would allow...

I would like to see more mid-range and high-end Linux computers. Linux should not be confined to low-end computers; that simply cheapens it and makes people forget that Linux is better than other...

How long will it be until IcedTea is ready? Surely we should start looking at replacing proprietary Sun Java with free Sun Java.

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 16437332 3614920 11987436 24% /
varrun 1037812 100 1037712 1% /var/run...

The spacebar. Because it's the biggest key (and the most useful).

My dad uses Ubuntu. (He was resistant to switch from Debian, but I convinced him to do so. He's used Debian for years. He was the one who introduced me to Linux.) Other than that, everyone else I...

Netscape = Firefox + added junk so I haven't used it for years. I remember having to convince my mom though (who uses Windows, and who is practically computer illiterate) that Firefox is better than...

Linux is not one operating system. There are many competing distributions (like Ubuntu) and many competing programs that perform the same task, like GNOME and KDE. Therefore, if Linux takes over the...

If, and only if, some big computer manufacturer offers Linux on all its computers (not just a few models like Dell), makes the Linux option significantly cheaper than the Windows option, and promotes...

I stopped using Windows several months ago because my Windows XP installation has gotten slow, even with 2GB of RAM. Before then, I used Windows, Ubuntu and various other Linux distributions off and...