From Matt: Thought i’d share this screen shot with y’all *nix peeps. gave me a chuckle. You know its bad when your browser cant even render your own site correctly.

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1. Okay the first thing we want to do, if not done so all ready is to install the “ubuntu-restricted-extras” using the synaptic package manager. (System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manger) 2. Once that is done, go to terminal mode and type: (this is so we can download from the experimental amarok site) sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver [...]

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Holy! What the Hell? Why does the new version of Pidgin, have popup window for new instant messages? Here’s now to kill them! Go into Tools/Plugins Find the Libnotify Popups Uncheck New Messages Hit Close Re-start the client! No more annoying popups! They should NOT do this as a default, but they do. Wayno

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I couldn’t remember how to do this: From Joe Sloan: go to a terminal window and type: (note # is a comment you need not type that or anything that follows:) cd /Desktop # change to the Desktop directory ln -s ~ [username] # create a symlink to your directory…

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ubuntu2go Putting Ubuntu on a flash drive, can seem a daunting task. But if you follow these steps, you’ will have a portable secure operating system. Here’s what you”ll need: A computer with: USB Ports 256 meg of ram cdrom USB flash drive (at least 4 G) 32 bit Ubuntu 9.04 Install CD (desktop) (download [...]

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