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I hope this is the correct category to post in about this...I am wondering what is the cheapest/most effective laptop i can find that will smoothly edit hd video? do you possibly...

Someone in my office actually knew how to do this. I just had to go into places> connect to server and make it a windows shared server. Thanks for the help!

Just wondering how I would go about mapping to a network drive in ubuntu? Our office has a backup server that we need to map to.

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I'm just wondering how far ubuntu is from being able to support top of the line games? I know games are primarily developed for windows but is there a way ubuntu developers could make up...

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I'm just curious what exactly are the benefits of kernel programming besides personal tweaking?

Nick

thank you for the quick responses, i have figured it out, the windows files were in the host folder :)

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I'm just wondering if it's possible to view documents such as word docs, videos, etc. in ubuntu if i have them saved under windows. I'm running a dual boot ubuntu 10.10 and windows...

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I'm just wondering if you could tell me from your experience what the most useful commands (up to 10 of them) you have discovered to be and what do they do? basically, what do you...

Thank you for the detailed reply, It is a very useful bit of info!

Thank you, I am beginning to put the pieces together...And thank you haqking once again! I am loving the infinite knoledge i am finding on these forums :)

Thank you for all the informative posts! Responding to all your definitions of sudo, are there set commands that require using sudo? for example, to install some tar files i ran sudo make. If i did...

What do you mean by the root of the file system? when i hear "the start of the file system" i think home directory as that is where i branch from to find other files

Also, what exactly is sudo?...

thank you thank you. i shall use my head next time :P

Thanks for all the info guys and thanks paddy for the linux wisdom :)

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Just wondering what exactly a root user or root is? I have been able to collect that it is a user that has access to system files possibly? What exactly is it used for and so on? Same...

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So i'm a novice programmer coming from windows and i am having trouble getting a java developent environment to run the way i want in linux. I dont like how eclipse has appeared to be so...

haqking thanks for giving me the big picture on tar files and paddy you are right, i did not read that close enough but luckily i got a a good and broad response to it this time to use for future...

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so i was wondering if anyone could write out (IN THE MOST BASIC LANGUAGE POSSIBLE!) the process in which you install a tar.gz file? I have run ./configure on one tar i have and it had an...

thanks! went ahead and put it in the /usr/local/src folder which worked perfectly

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I just downloaded drivers for a printer and they came in the tar.gz file type. I tried extracting the file from the archive manager into the /usr/src file but it says i do not have...

This worked perfectly! thanks a lot! and thank you all for the other posts you put up

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I am just now learning the ropes in linux, trying to figure out even the simplest of tasks, and in this case i am trying to install drivers for the broadcom wirless card detected with...