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flyuche:
@bigbrovar.  i installed virtualbox, (i have no problem running it in my vista) this is the error meeasge i got when i wanted to  run jaunty jackalope. how do i resolve this?

lynxnoon:
na wah oh and dose guys didnt send mine wen i requested for faisty fawn

why does using linux breed such arrogance ? Undecided Smiley or is it the admin in you talking

we are talking about the whole nine yards. what good is the most stable ,protected , hardened OS if i cannot get my work done with it?

s stationary car in a garage is much safer , and more stable than a moving car on an expressway, but it is serving absolutely no purpose and no one is getting anything done with it. what good is that.

hey, our computers rae the most stable, they are hack proof, crash proof . . .
great! so i can make movies using maya and 3ds max, play fear 2 and not have to worry about system crashes
er. . .no. . .they don't run on linux. . .
okay, so what runs on linux? . . .

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personally i'm a linux guy -at least at home but the truth is windows still
rules the roost.
Recently i downloaded and installed windows 7; now that's a worthy
successor to XP i must confess that of recent i've been using it more than
my favorite linux oses (but i'll return soon - it's just the new os excitement)
However the hardware requirements are still relatively high -
16gb harddisk for installation (before anybody makes noise about the fact that
16gb is not much i'll have you know that i have up to 8 linux distos, freebsd and opensolaris
on my pc so you have and i likekeeping backups f installation files on my hard disk too)
with 1.5gb ram memory isn't much of an issue; my biggest problem is probably
my 1.8ghz CELERON processor (at this time a processor upgrade will mean a
motherboard upgrade and a change in ram) all in all it's ok
by the way for those of you still harping about vista, i say stop harping about
a dead os (ok an os not going anywhere) everybody agrees that vista is MS greatest
flop since WinME and i hear that win7 offiicial release will come out thiis year
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oyb:
@ esquire,

who do cyber criminals target these days? corporations , or users like you and me? do users like you and me have servers, or personal pcs?

yes, linux is good for the server room, but will it ever make it into the office proper?

we've had this debate before anway. when it is financially viable to code games and killer productivity applications for linux, y'all can bring on the noise

lynxnoon:
@bigbros
tnx for always helping out[i](am chking d site now )[/i]
once i get dis woking well, men am finally switching to linux
by d way my recent mint update included open office3.0

lynxnoon:
thx alot @bigrovar, am cheking out d link now
Guys pls wat download manager do u guys use? IMHO IDM seem IS d best on windows cos i can integrate my rapidshare username & pasword but deres no version for linux and am yet to find an app close to it
Wat do u guys tink?
As per netwok manager & bluman, dere's an option in bluman where u can integrate it wit netwok manager but i dont tink its fully functional; even my DUN connects but wen i try to use it it fails ^{(stil working on it sha)}

tosh_acer:
As usual - the same people that complains nothing is done are the same people now complaining, what the hell is wrong with Nigerians?

esquire:
Having read many good thingsabout mint 7 Gloria and am wondering if theres anybody that have in the house . Well as a distro LovePeddler that i used to be resurface while i was a the computer village theres this very place ised to buy linux dvds from i kinda lay my hand on open suse 10.3 or something an di must confess its quite kool but the only downside is that it does not have a live environment. So guys anybody have mint 7 or ubuntu 9.10 which i can customize to be very fine to my liking it will be good if that person is living in ogun state or lagos. Cheerio

Using your personal computer, the internet, computer networking, etc. hardware, software.

lynxnoon:
thx alot @bigrovar, am cheking out d link now
Guys pls wat download manager do u guys use? IMHO IDM seem IS d best on windows cos i can integrate my rapidshare username & pasword but deres no version for linux and am yet to find an app close to it
Wat do u guys tink?
As per netwok manager & bluman, dere's an option in bluman where u can integrate it wit netwok manager but i dont tink its fully functional; even my DUN connects but wen i try to use it it fails ^{(stil working on it sha)}

bigrovar:
Hunn the wonders of network manager 7, FYI you can also share the internet connection from the card wirelessly to other wireless computers or device around you. btw how fast is the speed of your starcoms?

@bigbrovar

The misrepresentation of history in 300 is a major issue. However what happened there was that the original writer modified the history for entertainment effect, and the director stayed faithful to that vision.

This Lagos thing was just sloppy- they simply failed to do research. They didnt intentionally misrepresent the setting, they just pulled it out of their arses. If they needed diamonds in the script, for example, some research would have had them choosing a diamond-producing region like south africa.

flyuche:
@blackweaver. the openOffice. org that came pre-installed in linuxmint felicia is version 2.4. i need to update to ver 3.1. to me this is the most important app in linux. i do alot of work using excel(calc) and powerpoint(impress). you can call me  a power user of officesuite.
i use starcomms evdo data card(sierra aircard 580). the thing just  worked right out of the box.!

flyuche:
@bigrovar.linuxmint  does not have SOFTWARE SOURcES under admin., no simple way to uninstall apps not needed. about the openoffice. org 3.1, i have already downloaded the package, just can't get it installed yet.
@esquire. i still like the awn just can't get network manager applet on the dock.

echo ' deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list ; sudo aptitude update ; sudo aptitude full-upgrade 

lynxnoon:
@bigrovar & esquire
pls hw do u guys use does 3D icons/docks?
I currently use linuxmint6 & hv enabled d graphics card but i cant seem to be able to manipulate d d appearance features and dont seem to hv compiz on my system
Pls guys any help wit this?
Thx

esquire:
My linux mint desktop with cairo-dock which i kinda like more than awn after using awn off and on for so many years now,
Got blueman just yersterday and i discoveered some things while using it
Usingg the dun for about four hours my phone battery was still the way it was and the phonee does not get hot compared to the same process in wwindows of the same machine and the same phone. i could hardly get two hours battery life with my phone under vista/Xp, bluetooth file sharing (obex ) has been brought back which has been removed and some newbie asking me that their phone cannot discover theri system but the other way round alone in the standard ubuntu and mint.
I hope cannonical can adopt and integrate blueman into ther later release instead of gnome-bluez with is not improving. cheerio

baani:
ok am actually in lagos, so if u can hook me up with the you talked about that will be very swell for me

flyuche:
@bigrovar. i want to install openoffice 3.1.(i renamed the file o3.tar.gz) i have downloaded the .tar.gz software package to my desktop. i tried unzipping using the command tar xvzf o3.tar.gz as a first step in installation but i get this error message. pls help. i use linuxmint felicia

krazynaija:
I sent him an email and im yet to hear from him, my netbook blanked out again, the screen just went blank not displaying anything.

I took it to smartbuy at surulere and i was asked to come back on monday.

abunwanne:
We (Netbook Computers Nigeria Ltd) can fix it for you in 15 minutes and save you time and worry through the Acer Warranty Center.

It will cost you just N2500 for the fix.

Contact us at techsupport@netbooknigeria.com

We can only provide support to those in Lagos megacity area

Posted by: el_nino
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big guy,
im uduak in uyo u sent me an ubuntu ultimate dvd once(though it was later messed up). the thing is that i requested for intrepid ibex and got it. but now the problem with it is that it doesnt have a lotta programs and i had disposed of my former system. i want to get some regular software that could play mp3, dvd, a java compiler, c++ compiler and the works. but i dnt have an internet connection yet, i still use a cafe so its hard mto connect to the repo and download i was wondering if yu could assist in manner of guiding on how i can download and install them online thanks.
07034558810

baani:
hey sorry i meant bigrovar and not bigbrova

baani:
pls, culd anyone esp bigbrova help wit ubuntu operating system, my I.P isnt fast enough to download the software from the net and if i had to request for the O.S could anyone who has done that before tell me how long it will take for me to get it

lynxnoon:
About freedom stuff, i've sorted dat it out, tnx

About Blueman:
i ran d command on terminal n dis was d message i got

sudo aptitude update;sudo aptitude install blueman

blackweaver:
mint uses upstart? how come i missed that?

but i do understand what you mean by the bsd style scripts; easier to monitor
and modify; have looked at arch; nice distro; can be as lightweight as you want it to
be; however am not yet used to using package managers - i find them a little annoying
yeah i guess i could  disable the dependency check on installing but it's not quite the same;
maybe 'cos i started with slack; but then again each to his own opinion

one other thing about ubuntu; if you don't have a woring internet connection at home you
could always order; they always send a free cd; of course it would be nicer if it was a free
mint cd since you can play your multimedia out of the box while with ubuntu you still have
to download the codecs - either manually (a painful process) or using an internet connection