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does it have to be ubuntu? do you mean terminal commands?
anyway i like apt-get (i may be wrong but it feels faster than synaptic), also wvdial if ilm using a usb modem (sometimes i just get irritated with network manager), locate is very useful for searching files i can't remember where i put, grep
ok let me stop here for now, PHCN just struck again

@jeffiejay
glad to see you were able to recover most of your files, congrats

you see now, now that we've stopped complaining about unity/gnome3 the posts have become less frequent. Oya someone give us something to gist about

when you plug in the drive does it still make the normal sound that it used to make before it stopped working? - the sound of the disk spinning (or is it a solid state hard drive?)

you could try replacing the hard disk case too or better still if you have a friend with the same type of external harddrive (3.5"/2.5", sata/ide) you could borrow his case

don't mind sedulus, your problem might just be hardware related which means his solution will just be a waste of time and money

@mba
you know that's a sexist thing to say, programming, maths, engineering aren't particularly harder for women; i believe it's more of a society issue; most women that go into such fields are viewed as weird, sometimes even discriminated against. Besides for you personally, which do you find easier? writing some code or going to persuade someone to part with his/her money (aka marketing)

N20/day? hah! it depends on the meter you use, on some other meters it can be as much as N700 per month or even more, i don't know how much exactly i'm paying on mine but it's not small

abeg if oil companies are given a deadline of one year to have refineries that are working at full capacity and six months after that importation is banned this useless argument of deregulation will stop joo

what is your output when you type /sbin/ifconfig (as root)? can you post it here so we can see?

i'll like to offer s different opinion; try both and decide which you prefer

can you give us a step by step flow of how you try to play your videos and what happens afterwards?

so now what happens?
your computer comes on but when you try to play the program nothing happens or what?

microsoft security essentials is free, you can get it from the microsoft site (else you can search for it on google)

@Seun-T
Have you tried putting on your laptop with the battery removed (obviously you will need the power cable connected)

on a different note, i sometimes feel like saying something cheeky when i see some thread titles like for instance: "How Can I Completely Uninstall Norton 360 From My Sysem" i'm tempted to say "fast and pray" but i suspect some people won't see the funny side of that

never doubted your intellect, perhaps i used the wrong words to pass across my message. Anyway i believe there's already a version of mint based on debian unstable, which by the way i suspect ubuntu. On the other hand you may have soething with that pinguy; will download and try it out soon

ah! so you get why mint is so popular: mint IS ubuntu, only with mint you get to have some of the things ubuntu has excluded and skip some other things ubuntu has added ,

@jeffiejay
ok then, good luck

@maleeq,
actually my last post was directed at the poster

personally i won't buy an ipad

i may be wrong, haven't used either after all but this is what i believe :- ipad is better at what it does, however galaxy does more

yeah, do you get any error message when you try to play?

God forbid bad thing

@lynx
on a brighter note, this issue has made this thread a more popular place

@lynx
well you have to remember that the title of this thread IS ubuntu linux

@all4naija
well you have to remember that since mint is like ubuntu (and most tips, fixes and tricks that work for ubuntu work for mint) a lot of the mint ecosystem are similar to the ubuntu ecosystem; people that have issues with unity now try out mint as a way to enjoy the benefits of ubuntu without its "drawbacks" (notice i put quotes since unity is a matter of opinion).
In reference to 4llerbe's link - the one about some user complaining that mint has too many applications doing the same thing - i actually see it as something preferable; everytime i start to use a distro, one of the first software i install is vlc, now not having to install it 'cos it comes bundled in is to my liking; truth is if mint came with just one of those software people would still complain. Ok as a windows user i NEVER use windows media player, instead i install winamp for my audio and vlc for my video; now if windows came with those two by default i would like it better (even though some people would still call it bloatware). On another note, for someone without an internet connection which would you recommend? I think more choices is better - especially if the user is still new.  I remember the frustration of trying to get mp3s on to play my first ubuntu (5-6 years ago i think) and i didn't have internet connection at home; imagine trying to install some plugin and having to manually download the dependencies. A nightmare by any count and it was so annoying since i'd used slackware and puppy and had mp3 support out of the box.

Now i understand that this is more of a policy thing and shouldn't be such a big deal; the point is while for some people the things that mint brings to the table are unnecessary and virtually bloatware, for some others they are a refreshing welcome change from the annoyances of some otherwise great distros. Agreed not everyone feels this way, that's what choice is about, besides i only use ubuntu, mint only once in a while - i tend to get undesirable results sometimes when using vlc or audacious (like i might have mentioned, i don't like the default media players that come with ubuntu)

By the way how do you run your programs normally 'cos for me gnome3's method is annoying, to me it DOES affect my working environment, why should i have to press alt when selecting user just because i want to shutdown? i don't like the way programs are accessed (which is why i use the fallback mode), till today i still don't like the search feature in vista/win7 (for now i still stick with xp)
ok these are some of my rantings ans some would find them unreasonable but i'd be surprised if i was the only one that felt that way

i could go on and on but you've heard so many of these arguments before and you probably know them better than i do, i've already wasted your time on this post (sorry!). ok let me just stop here (and yes i have beef for gnome3 and unity - call me an enemy of "progress" or maye i' just old fashioned)

going by those pictures, looks to me that she did plastic surgery so she can look older

blogs can't? since when?

@4llerbe
hmm i noticed your last post was blocked; you sounded very angry there, nevertheless it might have been better if you used milder words; personally i don't go to most of these forums unless i'm particularly looking for something; hey there are too many linux distros out there for me to be fuming over how unintelligent the users of some other distro sound (no matter how popular)

by the way is bigrovar or any other archlinux user in the house? if so can anyone recommend a decent a front-end for pacman? it feels so painful to use sometimes. Because of this i've made up my mind that if i ever change harddisks again or format the one i'm using, i'm not installing it gain

@all4naija
you know 4llerb has beef for mint especially from the time they decided they won't be based exclusively on ubuntu, but seriously this gnome3 thingy is really depressing; i just downloaded opensuse12.1 and what i've seen seems to be almost the same as what was in fedora 16; where's the variety in that? Originally i'd made up my mind to go kde with this version of mint but i've decided i will see how gnome turns out with this one

@jeffiejay just downloaded it and was able to extract the file (it should be 3.3mb)

or you could try downloading it from cnet :
http://download.cnet.com/TestDisk-and-PhotoRec/3000-2248_4-10511775.html?tag=mncol;1

@lukkie
Thank you joo, it's such a shame, they've used sotltd.com, slotsystems.biz and slotlimited.com; i sort of suspect that they are looking for free hosting or something of the sort; besides their site isn't that pretty, navigating it is such a headache. One would expect that a company with that kind of reputation would have something better

just as a matter of curiousity, how does that translate to bad news?