Duplicate comments are not made intentionally. Its very good to know that now you are keeping check on this problem because sometimes a commenter...
"the very significant number of users" and "many (most) of us" - you have no evidence for these statements. It is a fact that most users are saying...
Another grammar faux pas is the improper use of "you". When sitting down down in a restaurant, for example, I get cringe when the waitress...
And NOW, folks, for Canonical's next trick...
Kubuntu is late.
Here's a pencil. Draw your own conclusions.
cf.:...
@kevinmchapman. The discussion here reflects the very significant number of users who really do like the traditional menu system and who wish to...
Er, no... It is an efficient means of finding the application/file/setting you need in one place. The icons are a simply a fallback for when you...
Isn't the provision of a text based search an admission by the developers that the mass of icons approach does not work? I don't need to use a...
"Unity and GNOME 3 both abandon the old text-based cascading menus in favour of a graphical icon-driven system."
Point truly missed. Both use a...
whs001 - Thank you, I'm glad you liked the article.
I absolutely agree with you on your first point. I should perhaps have made it clearer that...
If we allow corporate interest to dictate the way our government circumvents due process against foreign entities then we should accept the same...
I totally dislike pirating of works, I fear that artists will be deterred from creating works if they think that they are going to get ripped off....
How dare film makers, artists or anybody that invests in creativity stop us pirating their works for free. I want to be able to walk into my local...
@GrueMaster. I prefer horses for courses rather than one size fits all. I, and I suspect most other computer users, do not really wish to have...
The product that scares me every time I have to use it is the Office 2007 version of Excel.
The first bug that I found was applying the median...
Nice review and very informative. One thing I'd like to add (in reply to whs001's 1st question), the main reason to have the same interface from...
I'be been using Mint 12 since the RC came out, and I am far more happy with the Cinnamon, the Mate, and, yes (with extensions), theGnome 3...
Excellent article. One small correction, though--although a fresh installation of Linux Mint 12 will, indeed, provide the user with a version of...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
For Gnome 2 die-hards, it is possible to add icons to the bottom panel (or top top panel, if you prefer) which provide the exact Gnome 2...
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I just installed Ubuntu on a machine that the user installed SP3 on. His machine would not complete the boot process after installing SP3. To tell the truth, I think that his Windows version was pirated but I'm not sure. I installed Ubuntu 8.04, and didn't even tell him it's not Windows. It's been a full day now, and so far no complaints. He was already using Firefox but I was expecting to hear complaints about Open Office. No complaints yet, but it is still early.
I'm surprised not to see an news item or feedback about the difficulies some people are having with XP SP3 failing to install satisfactorily, or at all.
On balance, it seems that this might be linked to having originally used OEM installation disks specific to Intel computers on AMD computers.
Hope this is helpful!
A point of interest. I have installed Ubuntu on my XP SP3 computer using Wubi (installs in the Windows partion without needing to partition the disk) and it runs very nicely. If you don't like it just uninstall/delete it through the control panel in seconds. My problem is that, as with many people I think, I still can't do everything I need in Linux and my expensive Colour Laser Printer is a paperweight.
How quick and easy it is to install Linux compared to XP or Vista, and how quick it is to boot up each time. Updates are quickly and easily installed. Upgrades are easily done, but take a little longer, longer than a clean install, but all data and settings are retained.
What is it that you can do in Windows that you cannot do in Ubuntu? Let me know, and I'll file a bug. Also, you should probably ask on the Ubuntu mailing list about your printer. The driver disk that came with your printer won't work in Ubuntu, but you should be able to download a package that supports it. What model printer?
It's an Epson C900 colour laser printer. I've tried various solutions from the Internet with no success. If you have some constructive (detailed) advice, it would be appreciated, but the concensus on the internet is that the Epsom C900 is, unfortunately, just a paper weight under Linux.
According to this page:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-AcuLaser_C900
These drivers work:
http://avasys.jp/hp/menu000000500/hpg000000442.htm
What distro have you tried? I have a friend with a supposedly unsupported Lexmark that works perfectly under Ubuntu. I could not get it to work with Fedora.