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I don't have any answers, but thought I'd point you to this post, which refers to yours:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7399158#post7399158

I've been considering upgrading my laptop,...

Why not? Because there are some other sellers out there that are hack-proof? Please let me know which ones are.

Good advice about the updates and drivers. One thought: Why upgrade?

One of the things I love about this (linux in general, ubuntu in particular) is that it stays stable and operating for a long...

Hey, it all depends on what applications she uses/needs. I had my wife on ubuntu for about a year and a half (XP has since re-found a spot in our home, but that's another story). She already used...

Irregardless.

People say it, even though they mean regardless. It wasn't a word, until so many folks used it, and it snuck into the dictionary.

Sigh.

Or maybe your waiter copied the number down while he had your credit card. It could be as simple as that.

There are many ways to loose your credit card number. It's inherently unsafe and...

The other window managers (KDE, XFCE) will install right in the root ubuntu partition. I always make mine 10 gb for ubuntu root, but it never expands to more than 5gb. Closer to just over 3gb.
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Don't confuse where you put your programs with where you put your files.

XP goes in one partition
/ (root) is the Ubuntu OS, which goes in another.
/home is often made as a separate partition. ...

I made the jump, and went without Windows for nearly 2 years. I'm back now to a mix of machines (1 XP, 2 ubuntu), but I'd have to say this:

With disk space being cheap, why be in a rush to ax...

Look at the store at www.damnsmalllinux.com.

Oh, and when you say overseas, we don't know where you're at! Overseas from where? ;)

Also, I don't know what you've read about sizes. I always make that separate /home partition (that your link recommended), and I tend to need more space in there than in my root partition. I've got...

Warpnow, I think I disagree. Here's why.

This isn't software we're talking about. It's hardware, and the management of it. It's also about organizations, and structure. The larger you get,...

As you scale up, you'll have to pay for the things that break, too. That'll cost. The costs don't go down on a massive scale today. Plus you'll have to charge a small profit, as payment for the...

You know, the problem is, I don't think I can run a server that cheaply.

I mean, if I just buy an external HD to do backup, that's going to be $100-150, and I'm probably going to need a new one...

Over 70 gigs, with over 17,000 files in my pictures folder. That includes some videos, though.

Ah, they're in beta testing on the Linux version. The Windows version is actually quite slick. Plus, you can't beat the pricing for online backup. $49/year for 150gb.

The Linux version isn't...

Ah, couldn't say. I've never done that, "install from within Windows" thing.

I will say this, and maybe I'm getting too far ahead of myself. You've got Windows installed in the partition you're...

Pasta, pasta, pasta.

Bunch of Angel hair pasta, cooked al denta, bit of olive oil, spices (garlic powder, oregano, pepper, hot pepper), and fresh ground cheese, like a good locatelli. The cheese...

Someone said it best already, you get used to the context. Even now when you type a command you don't know, you've got the basic format down.

For someone who has only known windows, /etc/apt...

I'd like to echo another poster's thoughts. You mentioned a handful of US schools that are famous, but there are thousands that are really quite good that you might not have heard of. If you are...

No, I'd have to disagree with that statement. In my experience, the GIMP has taken off more than Linux. I've turned 5 people I know into serious GIMP users. I haven't turned as many into switching...

Yes, I just ran into the same problem. I don't know how often the indexing happens -- the post I'm thinking of happened about an hour ago.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=683160
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I just started the ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso torrent, and while it briefly hit 400 kB/s, it seems to be settling in around 100-150. Of course, as soon as I wrote that, it dropped down to 70!
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Hi. I'm new to scripting in bash, so pardon the general nature of this programming question.

I'm trying to write a script to automate the backup of a large collection of digital photos. I'd like...

Help! I thought this was the answer, but it isn't repeatable for me.

I have two ubuntu PCs on my network, both running 5.10. I made these changes to the first PC (updated /etc/nsswitch.conf,...