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Just made the switch form unity and I am mighty impressed. Best netbook interface, a perfect mix of eyecandy and usefulness.

1 great reason for all beginners to go with ubuntu is the terrific forums and irc support which cannot be matched by any other distro..

@slooksterpsv double thumbs up for your signature..

Go to synaptic>settings>repositories>other software tab, here you will see a list of all your extra repositories including the wrong ppa, you could remove it...

Check out TEAMVIEWER, it's free for home use and is available for all platforms windows, linux and mac

Coming from a non-technical background, I am trying to understand the reason behind the move! How much money and resources will be saved by doing this?

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/

This is useful..

Lubuntu 10.10 would be best for this rig.

Why not use a terminal screenlet?

Navigate to the following in openoffice
tools>options>openoffice.org writer>formatting aids and check the box which says "direct curzor"
Restart openoffice and you should be able to direct your...

If you're into gaming, dual boot windows and Ubuntu, that's the only trouble free solution.
There are a whole host of torrent clients for Ubuntu, check out Transmission, deluge or ktorrent

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization

May be this what you need. Customize Ubuntu to your needs!!
You could also try reconstructor.org

Hell yeah!! That works perfectly. Thanks!

I added the lyrics to the ID3v2 tags of my mp3s using songbird and exaile now displays those lyrics. Looks like exaile doesn't allow us to add the lyrics to the songs and only displays lyrics which...

Does the other computer have internet access? If yes, you will have to install aptonCD. Open aptponCD,,,,,click restore, navigate to the ISO on your pen drive and that's pretty much it.

You can add the mozilla daily builds ppa.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox-4.0

There are instructions in the link that...

Search for it in synaptic package manager and install it. Go to system>admi nistration and start aptoncd. You will be able to create discs/ISOs with all the updated packages. Use this CD on other...

aptonCD is just what you're looking for!

Get rid off all the add-on bloat and Firefox should get better!! Why not try Opera. According to me it is probably the best browser around, the only thing that it lacks are extensions. If you just...

That looks awesome! How have you integrated the terminal to the desktop? Am googling it right away!

Love everything other than the purple boot splash!

search for the ubuntu-restricted-extras package in synaptic, install them, restart your computer and try playing it or wait for someone else to help you out!

have you installed all the restricted extras?

Once you start using vlc and mplayer, you'll find them to be as good, if not better than MPC.

Partitions get mounted by default in read only mode. Use ntfs-3g or pysdm to configure the partitions to mount with read and write permissions.