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| location | Portland, OR | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 9 months |
| seen | Apr 28 '12 at 19:26 | |
| stats | profile views | 82 |
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Sep 29 |
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With Xmarks closing down, what is a good alternative? The main thing is to figure out a tag and tag bundling strategy that works for you. |
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Sep 24 |
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Using sudo su for commands? Thank you. I'll have some fun teeing off. ;~) |
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Sep 24 |
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logical partition or primary partition Thanks. Appreciated. |
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Sep 17 |
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Getting screen resolution correct with nvidia drivers @ændrük - I installed the restricted drivers through: 1. System ---> Hardware Drivers-------2. Select the recommended driver, install and reboot. |
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Sep 17 |
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Getting screen resolution correct with nvidia drivers @Jorge - added the xorg.conf file above |
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Sep 17 |
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Getting screen resolution correct with nvidia drivers Yes the nvidia x server settings are there. The desired resolution is not listed. |
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Sep 16 |
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Getting screen resolution correct with nvidia drivers @aendruk - Installed the nvidia-current on the last attempt. Before that the default -173 rec'd by ubuntu. |
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Sep 16 |
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Setting up a new machine with 2 HD Ok. I got my original recommendation from a 2008 linux.com article. But, after taking a look at the ubuntu community 'swap faq' dated this month, I saw this, "...ancient Unix/Linux myths like this "recommendation" tend to survive well past their "use by" dates". So thanks for the tip. |
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Sep 15 |
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Setting up a new machine with 2 HD @Axel - I read somewhere that 2x RAM is a good rule of thumb. Is that obsolete info? |
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Sep 15 |
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Setting up a new machine with 2 HD Thanks. This is what I did. |
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Sep 15 |
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Setting up a new machine with 2 HD Thanks for the answer. What I'm doing is kludging together a system from 2 others and don't know when I'll get around to replacing one of the drives. So for now I'm going with /home on the second drive. |
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Sep 15 |
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Setting up a new machine with 2 HD If this was an essential computer I would probably go with a RAID1 plan. As it is I have other backup options that will suffice for now. Thanks though. |
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Sep 15 |
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Setting up a new machine with 2 HD After the answers from Source Lab and Javier, and a little more research, this is what I decided to do. Since, you provided the details of what the eventual drive transition would be, I chose your answer. - Thanks. |
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Sep 14 |
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Setting up a new machine with 2 HD I'm not sure I understand why to create the space under /media. I read that /media is a mount point for removable media. So, why not just have movies, etc in a public directory in /home/me? Or just copy them off to another drive or computer when needed? |
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Aug 17 |
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Ebook Reader Software +1 for Calibre! When I saw the question this is exactly what I was going to recommend. |
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Aug 7 |
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WINE users configuration Thanks. That looks pretty straightforward. |
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Aug 7 |
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Which flavor of ubuntu? You're quite right. My memory failed me. With that in mind I wonder if there's any reason to go that way as opposed to adding the things I want to standard Ubuntu? I corrected and italicized in the original post. |
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Aug 7 |
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Which flavor of ubuntu? You and Source Lab gave basically the same answer, but I wasn't able to attribute the answer to both of you. What I'll do is install is install Ubuntu Desktop. But if I want to play around with KDE, is there a switch between that and Gnome? |
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Aug 6 |
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A fresh install and clean up? Doh! I actually just noticed this from jbowtie's answer. "7. Upgrade your home partition to ext4 (optional, see the Ubuntu wiki for details). |
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Aug 6 |
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A fresh install and clean up? This looks like a pain free way to go. Odd-rationale above mentioned the issue between the ext3 and ext4 filesyestems. Will I be able to do this? Or is it a big concern? |
