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I just picked up a Hauppauge HVR 1600 off of ebay and found that it would not allow my nvidia drivers to load properly. I am running Ubuntu 11.04 (natty narwhal) and an Nvidia 9500 GT graphics card...

I'm currently running natty but I think this is a compiz thing. If you middle-click (scrollwheel click) on maximize your program will maximize itself vertically only. If you right-click on maximize...

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

I use the above site for comparing CPUs. It boils everything down to one number...I'm sure there are flaws with it, but it's the best thing I've found. I...

I ended up going with this one:...

I'm actually looking to buy a laptop for a similar reason in the same price range.

Bestbuy actually had a pretty good selection of laptops in the ~$400 range. They were either the amd...

I would suggest windows 98 with the most recent version of internet explorer it will support :)

I am only sort of kidding...I've installed many a "light" distro in my day and never found any as...

http://www.cinemassacre.com/category/avgn/

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I'm running ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx.

The mute all --> unmute thing works for me as well. Thanks for the tip!

Now if I could just figure out how to automate that.

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In my opinion, if you want to setup a linux media server/pvr you should think of it more as a hobby rather than a way to get a cheap appliance. I've been messing with this stuff for several years...

Can you just redefine the shortcut key in System --> preferences --> keyboard shortcuts?

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I would just use regular old ubuntu and install things from there. I prefer gnome to xfce and many benchmarks have shown that using xfce doesn't really save any memory. For configuring the samba...

I did the steps outlined in this post: http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8284273&postcount=4
and everything is working like I want it now.

My major issue with pulse audio is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8vxgjdCtQU

:P

By the way, Intrepid reaches end of life on April 30th!

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I would agree. I think ubuntu is great for the 2 extremes: people who know very little about computers and very advanced (non gaming) users. Assuming that it came preinstalled (or at least...

I've seen this site before but I guess I never looked around. My theory is that the owner has a schizophrenic son 'Sean' who is into web design and wanted to help out by making a website. This is...

Wow thanks prince_sabin! This worked perfectly for me on lucid. I could have poked around in the compiz settings for weeks before stumbling across this.

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AVGN is awesome. "Board James" and "You know whats bullsh!t" are also great. In fact, pretty much anything that James does is entertaining.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843569

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Bad idea. The computers would be too expensive.

Dell/HP can get away with it because they can reuse the same machines and just slap ubuntu on them instead of windows.

Don't get me wrong, it...

pianobar -- allows you to play music from pandora without any need for flash or a browser

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I still use my 8+ year old laptop everyday. Over the years I've added 256 mb of ram, replaced the battery, replaced a bad hdd, replaced the lcd power inverter and backlight (was a real pain in the...

Wow thanks, this worked great.

I too drag my bookmark toolbar up to the menubar (to save a little vertical screen real estate). Unfortunately, most themes aren't designed for this and it makes it...

This all-in-one is supposed to work out of the box in Ubuntu 9.10 but the scanner didn't work when I plugged it in. In fact, scanimage -L didn't even list it.

Karmic comes with hplip 3.9.8 which...

I've pretty much ditched thunderbird for the gmail web interface.

I have 3 email accounts. My 10 year old hotmail account for when I have to sign up for stuff on somewhat sketchy website, a...

Unfortunately they may not be a whole heck of a lot different. My friend bought her laptop ~3.5 years ago. It is a core duo ~1.8 ghz, 1 gb ram, ATI graphics and I believe cost in the 800-900 dollar...

I was pretty disappointed the last time I checked the dell ubuntu site. They didn't have very many laptops to choose from and you couldn't customize them very much. If I'm shelling out $700-1200 on...