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Thanks for the correction, CharlesA. I shouldn't have responded without knowing a lot more about routers and drives than I do!

+1 to classic menu indicator.


sudo apt-add-repository ppa:diesch/testing
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install classicmenu-indicator

I also use Cairo-Dock, which includes an...

The BBC doesn't really say anything about the OS. Now, I can pretty much guarantee if you find a way to connect a bare hard drive to a router you're not going to have any joy. So the Beeb is glossing...

All good suggestions.

A utility for checking and repairing problem drives: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

I used the Linux version to repair a balky Passport USB external HDD.

I suppose the look was clean, and it may be kind of retro-cool -- think of it on a steampunk-themed machine, for instance.

I remember crashing it regularly just running a word processor, too.
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As far as I can tell -- as a short-term user of Zorin, not having delved into the system in any deep way -- Zorin has a customized desktop environment and application set, but it shares binary...

Yes, learn enough to know what is the right tool for a task. Don't immerse too deeply, but know where to find the knowledge you need for a task. If you end up in a position where you program in one...

...and, if you like the idea of having a Gnome 2-style menuing app as well, you can install ClassicMenu:


sudo apt-add-repository ppa:diesch/testing

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install...

OK, I'm not on my Ubuntu machine right now. However, if you open your flac file in Audacity and then use the "Export File" menu you should be able to choose "flac" as the export type. Then in the...

Yes indeed. Irfan Skiljan is, in my book, maximum good.

Do you have Audacity installed?

I believe you've got a single-core CPU, maybe 1.6 GHz? And 3 GB of RAM?

I think -- and others will correct me I hope, 'cos I'm no expert -- I think that you'll be good on RAM with whatever distro...

Nice overview, SeijiSensei! As a noob, I appreciate the clarity.

Geez....I have an old Toshiba Satellite L305 that's run every distro I've tested, with wireless and other hardware detected automatically. I think a ton of these were sold a few years ago, and...

I'm using Zorin right now on an old laptop on the kitchen table. I've never tracked battery life on this machine (pointless, really, as the battery is mostly dead weight after all these years), but...

Not specifically Ubuntu or Linux, but something to be aware of.

"Self-replicating malware has struck some older Linksys routers and Linksys has acknowledged awareness of the malware, called...

There is a good set of answers (it's a question with several possibilities) on http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1729/does-installing-and-using-wine-open-up-your-linux-platform-to-windows-virus...

You list "nursing" so you may be a people-person. However, I'll give a small shout out for automation engineering. Nearly everything uses computer automation in one way or another. From micro-surgery...

I looked into RP, and BeagleBone and Cubieboard, and pretty much decided that a reconditioned laptop would be as cheap, and usually faster. Plus you get the flexibility of installing many kinds of OS...

Yeah, as one poster mentioned there are a LOT of ads on that page -- I counted about 6. In Chrome with no ad-block the page basically never stops loading, even over the T1 connection at work. Could...

Oh dear. One who uses Linux to study insects might use Ento-untu. And to model the bone structure of immense ancient fossils one may need Bronto-untu.

Yes, I think the difficulty with "run as administrator" versus "sudo" is a conceptual difficulty, with some things -- like the Samsung driver mentioned -- being more problematic than others.

Of...

I don't know how Gnome Classic compares. I'm no expert... :confused: I have noticed that XFCE is snappier than Gnome 3 or Unity on the same machine, though.

Here's a table. Note that these...

Mmmm, coffee. My wife and I put a little cayenne pepper in it. Mmmm, capsaicin.

Desktop, dual-boot Win 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. Old laptop, multi-boot various distros, currently Zorin, Sabayon, Salix,...

What desktop? If your installation runs KDE, then you might try switching to XCFE or LXDE. I dunno about the exact stats on Wheezy, but with some distros you might free a couple of hundred MB of RAM...