"My journey with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) was a combination of fascination, pragmatism, – and conviction. Today, there are still many computer users who are not familiar with the term...
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I love Linux: She’s Smart, Sleek & Teaching Your Kids
"My journey with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) was a combination of fascination, pragmatism, – and conviction. Today, there are still many computer users who are not familiar with the term...
I think that Linux can fill over 90% of the needs of my family and friends without blinking, but there are a couple of gaps:
* iTunes - my partner has an iPhone, sometimes gets music from itunes...
I like many different types of games. Intuitiveness is important to me - I'm not a fan of long tutorials - give me a game I can pick up and play (ala many Wii games).
I'm not a big fan of heavy...
It's a recognised bug:
Widget layer disappears when interacting with applications within the widget layer:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz-fusion-plugins-extra/+bug/356374
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I've been having the same problem. I have unclicked the 'end on click' option but it still persists.
The widget layer itself looks lovely and is great for checking the calendar etc. - Oddly I can...
Ok- in each screenlet's settings there is an option called "treat as widget" - click that and switch it on.
This moves the screenlets to the widget layer - meaning it won't be visible all the...
Re: Turned my screen off
I did a similar thing (thinking it would be cute to see my screen all warped I chose a resolution that I knew was incorrect) - screen went black and I freaked out!
Still I was able to fix it with...
I left Windows when they were dropping support for '98. I had seen the problems that my father and brother (he's now a computer programmer!) had on windows xp and swore that I was never using it.
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I have only just started getting into the whole - make scrapbooks and pretty collages thing, but I thought I'd just add that Picasa3 has a very nice "make photo collage" option.
It also has some...
I am very very in love with Jamendo - I think that the website is gorgeous, but the rhythmbox plugin is very handy.
Just a note that this time when I installed ubuntu the jamendo catalogue...
Just 'thirding' the above posts.
I installed wine and the msttcore fonts, then downloaded E-tax from the site and right clicked on the .exe and opened in wine.
No problems, it installed and ran...
I am now running Neverwinter Nights Gold and Hordes of the Underdark. I followed the instructions here:
http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html
They're long, but they work. :)
This...