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hman is perfectly correct. One thing I have learned (re-learned?) is that the staff at IC know absolutely jack about how things work. I had to explain the problem to them and they still didnt understand the concept of tattoo-ing or fingerprint matching between motherboard and HDD. *sigh* Its really ...

Thanks man - I'll keep you posted as to how things pan out. What? I'm shocked! Microsoft's biggest fan working with Linux professionally? Amazing! How times have changed. I think I've been away from the forums for too long. (belated) Welcome to the *nix world - we have been expecting you ;-) ...and ...

Hey Jamin - howzit going? ;-) Thanks for confirming my suspicions. Yes, the person who sold me the laptop (salesman at Incredible Deception) told me the recovery cd's are in the box. My ignorance had a part to play with it (first brand new laptop I've bought) and I wasn't aware of the "tatoo&qu...

Hi, I recently bought a Packard Bell notebook with a Win7 Home Premium licence. I told the salesman I want to use Linux on the laptop and he said it would not invalidate my warranty. He also told me that the recovery cd's are in the box. So, I formatted the disk and installed Mint....which has been ...

Any of you running 11.04 on a Sandy Bridge CPU? I have a strange problem where the machine will freeze just after the splash screen appears. If I am persistent enough and try again and again....it will eventually boot into the GUI. This is the problem with both Ubuntu and Kubuntu. The Live CD works ...

Does your BCD3000 have an onboard sound card or do you need to use an external sound card? A friend recently imported a Hercules e2 with which he needs to use an external USB sound card. He had the same problem and brought his system over for me to have a look. I changed a setting in device manager ...

I'm planning to run Xubuntu 10.04 as the hardware I intend to use is pretty old. Xubuntu was not available last night. It was available for download when I woke up earlier. Busy downloading...... Will install tonight. Anybody knows when Lubuntu will be released? I still the the Beta version availabl...

ryanrich wrote:Release date is today no? Eagerly awaiting the download links...

yah - been checking the homepage all day - still nothing available for download....was hoping to install it tonight.

EDIT : Its here

DAE_JA_VOO wrote:It's annoying for me that the Minimize, Maximiza, and Close buttons are on the left now. I'll never get used to that.

I read in a review (cant remember which one though) that you can change this.

Thanks for trying to help MadFrog. I brought the machine home, and tested with my wife's PSU (also a Codegen 400W) and everything is fine. Machine POSTed first time and eveything works fine. Turns out the 500W ProCase we had at the office was faulty as well! The PSU is still under warranty (bought i...

Thanks for the response.
I checked the caps on the board. No obvious damage, no funny smell, and no swelling.

Hi, Someone at work brought a "dead" PC in for me to have a look at. Specs as follows Intel E5200 Intel motherboard- DP43TF 1X 2GB DDR2-800 Some entry level Nvidia card (with HDMI) SATA HDD + SATA DVD/RW Codegen 400W PSU The PC is about 4 months old. Anyway, the machine was unplugged over ...

Picked up an Altec Lansing PT6021 set this morning..... http://www.alteclansing.com/images/product_image_large/pt6021.jpg The sound is phenomenal. Might be a bit bright for some people - but I like a lot of highs in my music. More than enough bass, and the frequencies are nice and low. I think the s...

Thanks man - will try to pop in this weekend.

Prime - thanks for the response. I thought about that - the bonus of going that route is that I will have an FM tuner as well. I dont believe though, that a minii hi-fi for < R2000 would sound the same as an entry level set of professional monitors. I might be wrong though. Problem is, the monitors ...

Hi, Looking for a pair of active 2.0 speakers for use in my living room. I dont want any big, booming sound or anything with subwoofers. I have a HT setup in my TV room and a pair of floor-standing speakers in my study which I use to mix music. I just need something for background music in the livin...

screeper - thats a good price for a 24" LCD. Whats the difference between it and the 2494HS? Is it physically bigger? The resolution seems the same, but the response time seems a bit better. I prefer the matte look of the 2494HS - but this 24" seems like a better buy (especially for the pr...

My money is on the board as well.

Hope you get it sorted out at no cost to yourself.

For those using Karmic - an updated walkthrough

I'll download this today - been storming too often over the past two nights. But, like rustypup, I wont upgrade until 10.04 is released.

EDIT : installed it on the wife's PC. Havent played around with it yet.

Found a more flexible one

http://www.easyvmx.com/easyvmx.shtml

Thanks - I should actually give Xubuntu a shot. I used to run it on an old Duron 800 (in the days or version 6xx) and it ran fine.

Will give it shot on the eee pc when I get a chance.

Ouch. Can't you rig a bigger SSD? Nope - the SSD is soldered onto the mobo. Its cool though, I primarily use the eee pc to stream mp3 and divx from my main PC to my HT system in my loung. XP does a good enough job for that. I just wanted to mess around with Netbook remix to see what its all about. ...

I think thats my main problem...I donly have 2GB SSD so I have to run Netbook remix on the SD Card

1% - that makes me feel so special.