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look at it this way: what percentage of computers have access to the internet compared to what percentage of mobile phones have access to the internet

and yes security essentials will fix that recycler virus issue

normally i'm not a proponent of anything microsoft but i've found that microsoft security essentials is quite good as far as free antiviruses go - more effective than the avg i used to use before

@jeffiejay

have you tried testdisk?

what about cosby show?

anyhow sha we'll see how everything turns out. I suspect that at least for now ubuntu might see a dip in popularity
but would be mighty disappointed if by next release it doesn't regain its position

what is the model of the laptop?
it's possible that while the laptop vendor doesn't have supply graphics drivers for winxp there might still be some site
where one can find winxp drivers that will work

But as to why, it's oga Microsoft's fault; they want everyone to move away from xp to win7 and they will soon stop support for it anyway

@filibust,
whay don;t you ask your enginer friend to recommend someone or if he can maybe he can fix it for you

@kasiem
buy a new branded pc with win7? that way you get a legal version

don't mind me o, i'm a winxp user myself

@jeffiekay
i'm not really into disk recovery but perhaps you can try testdisk:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

it's free, i usually use it when i mess up my partition table

@4ller but then again one could argue that kde lost it when they moved to 4.x. You have to remember that while lots of people like the new facy graphics with polished interfaces a lot of the people that founded linux are hardcore techies who prefer functionality to performance and a lot of the non - ubuntu, mint, redhat people fall into this category. Also not everyon's crazy about having the latest hardware (or at least for some people refurbishing old hardware is a fulfilling hobby - no i'm not one); in such a case you find that you'd rather have a not particularly pretty interface that responds immediately to a fancy one that takes hours to do anything. I remember when i first started using winxp i really disliked the lunar interface and always disabled it till i upgraded my hardware enough that it wasn't any significant drain on my hardware. Also the mere fact that a wm exists means that it has a reasonable following; and you have to remember that kde, xfce and gnome are actually desktop environments - not just window managers (ok maybe lxde is a DE but i have a feeling it didn't start out that way). Anyway recently i was reading through an article about top window managers and the person mentioned fvwm! If you think lxde, icewm or fluxbox is bad you should just try fvwm and you'll see what i mean. Besids i'm not sure ubuntu is the way to go if you want to try out these wms; puppy or some other relatively barebones distro would be better

Bayo igbekele:
pls somebody should help me solve dis 1. can i use pentuim RAM for celeron? 2. wat are the ranges of RAM we have n there price?

Ram depends on the motherboard not cpu, if both the celeron and pentium cpu will fit into the same motherboard then they will work with the same ram

you can check online prices at gafunk: gafunk.com, chukspee: chukspee.com, mojoy computers: mojoyicl.com though i must warn you that the prices listed may be out of date but that should give you an idea of the price of things

@Emzybrown time for you to get another hard disk before it finally stops working; i believe it's a warning that your hard disk will soon become unusable

technically i'm not a microsoft fan but like Ababu100 i've discovered that microsoft security essentials is quite good, probably one of the best free antiviruses you'll find

if your motherboard is old enough you may be lucky to have an option in bios to disable sata mode; perhaps if you tell us the model of the pc we can help you find out

trying out the new fedora; graphics card not much to write home about so i guess i can only use the fallback mode

@all4naija kopete is a chat tool isn't it? i usually just install pidgin instead. Another thing i find annoying is that kpackagekit thingy why would a distro that uses synaptic by default even use that annoying thing?

still i prefer kde sha, but that's me. i feel some distros do better with kde and some with gnome

@4ller
can you really blame the 7 month old linux users? they're coming from a windows background; how on earth do you expect them to adapt to a unity based interface? besides (at least for me) there's something annoying about installing a distro then having to install the packages for another window manager and (at least in my own experience) the other wm usually isn't so tightly integrated with the os (maybe it's something i'm not doing well sha). For instance when i installed Oneiric i also installed kde since i was finding the interface awkward. To cut a story short, playing music with amarok gave me choppy sound after logging in with kde. Logging in with unity the sound was fine. Maybe it's something i did wrong, maybe i didn't install some package i should but i've generally had not so good results installing another wm on ubuntu/mint. (come to tink of it i generally have issues playing vlc with ubuntu/mint too). By the way i get the feeling they're not the only ones "in love" with the traditional menu
For me no big deal, ubuntu is a distro i use only once in a while, i have fedora (aargh had to install xfce to get any decent work done), opensuse (been using kde version but i feel it crawls on my hardware; maybe it's time to switch to gnome; pclinuxos (kde version nice - most of the time anyway though it sometimes doesn't power down my laptop completely which can be annoying when they take light), slackware (ever dependable, i can get a package from source, compile and install without fear of breakage; good response time too ) )
Anyway what are you using now that you're not into gnome shell?

@4ller

Wow, this unity thing is not paying ubuntu at all; just been at distrowatch .com and for the first time in a long time, mint has more hits per day than ubuntu for the last 3 months, 30 days, and 7 days and mint 12 is not out yet!; people must really be mad at ubuntu. In fact in the last 7 days mint, fedora and opensuse have better hits per day. I don't think i've ever seen ubuntu drop to no 4 before. And I for one can't wait for mint12 to come out. Yes they'll be using gnome 3 but you'll still be able to get familiar menus; check: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1851

@henry, if you think Ubuntu is slow you should try opensuse - annoyance galore; generally i feel .deb -based distros install packages faster than .rpm - based. On thing you can try if you're not sure is to use the command - line based installer: apt-get . If that's much faster the problem may be something to do with your synaptic

i'm surprised the guy's even waiting till 2014;
sorry i can't help you with the tweeting (actually i'm not); i DON'T do twitter

GbengaOGA:
@blackweaver: tanx, I aactuaally got some old pictures but not the ones (recent)I am seeing on d camera, still somewhere on d memory card but hidding, any help will be appreciated.

ok there's something else you can do though it's potentially dangerous; in your windows, go to tools -> folder options, on the view tab
make sure "show hidden files and folders" is selected, also uncheck "hide protected operating system files" and click ok; this will make ALL
your files. If you are using vista/win7 you may have to press the "alt" key before you see the "tools" menu

@GbengaOGA
you must have tried checking the disk for errors before; anyway try renaming those files to .jpg instead of .chk, maybe they are actually pictures

to corroborate my last statement you can check out this link:
http://www.osnews.com/story/25022

I remember, Linus Torvalds used to complain about gnome (2.x) that it made it so hard to do some types of
customisation that were quite easy in kde; i wonder what he would say about gnome3x and unity

Edit: apparently Torvalds didn't like kde4 and switched to gnome (while it was still 2.x); now with this gnome3 thingy
he's apparently switched to xfce

Interesting, i checked distrowatch.com and it seems ubuntu's page hits are on the decline; agreed they're still no1 but if you check hits per day for the last 7 days mint is actually on top. This is the first time i've seen that happen so soon after an ubuntu release; people must really be annoyed at the unity/gnome3 interface thingy. one thing they could do to make things less annoying is to make the sidebar moveable

like koseepaaro said, when you totally delete a file from the computer, what happens is that the os marks the location of that file free - which means that another file can be copied to that location. This also means that the more files you copy on your computer the lesser the chances of retrieve\ing a file you deleted earlier. Of course there are tools that can be used to retrieve files at almost any level of deletion - but i'm not sure you'd have access to such tools (or indeed you'd be able to use some of those tools even if you had them)

@ekpriobong
if you ever find, pls let me know where you got it; i'm also interested in getting one (come to think of it, if you know someone who's coming into the country from abroad you could ask the person to help you get one; i don't think they cost that much)

GbengaOGA:
my pictures are not showing on my system but still somewhere in d memory card hidden. it displays on d digital camera when d memory card is inserted but not on d system. plsssss help out,

try this in command prompt
1. type: <drive>: (e.g. if your memory card is drive e then type "e:" without the quotes )
2. type: attrib -s -h -r /d /s
exit command prompt, the data in your memory card should be visible now