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Ah sweet Hardy Heron.  (Ubuntu 8.04)
You solved my probles with the Creative Zen 4G.  After upgrading my 7.10 install to 8.04, and reinstalling Amarok I not have some pretty decent support for the Zen.
Colour me impressed.
I’m liking Ubuntu so much, I’ve been inspired to go out and pick up a 24″ widescreen monitor for it.  [...]

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In the last week, since I’ve made the full switch to Ubuntu, I’ve started asking myself this question, do I need Windows.
So often when I had that other boot option my though was Yes, I need Windows. “I need this program or that, I need to do that thing that only Windows can do.”
As the [...]

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So I’m still off windows, and for the most part feeling fine.
There are some things I have liked and some things that have been a challenge…but on a whole, I’m still quite happy as a windows free user…
Things I like:

Firefox…A hint of familiarity for all my web browsing needs… Widows or Linux
VLC media player…My person [...]

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So on a sleepless Sunday morning, I did it.
I decided to run my windows updates, which I have not done in some time.
This certainly seemed like a fairly standard and normal thing to do, something I’ve done countless times before. But Sunday, it was different.
Everything ran through fine, downloading, installing, and then….the reboot…Oh you bastard [...]

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That title is a bit of a mouthful, particularly for those who don’t know or care what I am talking about.
But again, for those that do…here goes.
So my scenario is as follows….
I have a newly installed Ubuntu 7.04 installation, and a Blackberry 8700.
As any of you blackberry users know, when you plug your blackberry into [...]

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Many won’t know what I’m talking about, but the odd person might so…
Running “sudo chown -hR matt /” in an Ubuntu install, is not so good for the system.
It’s actually a pretty effective way or borking it up good and proper.
I honestly meant to put something after the /, but my morning fingers just wouldn’t [...]

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So I have spent the last couple of days installing and setting up Ubuntu 6.10 Desktop on my laptop. (It’s been my home sick project)
Pro’s

Installation was easy and quick from the Ubuntu DVD
All of my hardware was detected and drivers were installed with no issues.
The default software packages give me what I need [...]

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