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@Septuagenarian  i take it the version of windows you were trying to
install is xp; on some earlier pcs with sata support (like the hp530) you could
get round this by disabling sata native mode in the bios; however i'm not
sure you can do that on the dv5
as to installing ubuntu, i dont know what version you are using but from v7
sata should be enabled by default; you shouldn't have any problem installing it
at all; basically any linux distro released within the last 2 years should have sata support by default

@4llerbe how far now? i never hear from you or u no need d cds anymore?

oyb:
windows 7 rc and firefox are freeware

firefox yes; win 7 till sometime next year, then
the thing stops working; after giving adequate warning

abeg no mind d guy e dey enjoy himself abi u no see
as d woman chest press against im back?

bush man, you've made your bed and now you're complaining 'cos you have to lie in it
the onus is on you to make it work
pay attention to your wife and for God's sake stop complaining that you don't love your wife
make up your mind that you are going to love her regardless of whatever it is that turns you
off; especially since she seems to be crazy about you and of course pray about it
'cos it seems to me that you have a problem

@c.wolf, forget story; MS will still take over 85% of the market share; most of the people who
will try out thee google os are adventurous guys like the linux users, not the average joe
who doesn't even know what an operating system is

@bigrovar
how's the performance of kde 4.x? i used to hear that it was buggy (am sure by now it's much better)
the only os i have that uses kde 4.x is opensuse 11 i think, but men that thing drags - ok it's MUCH better than vista
but it still drags; i stil use kde3.5 on most of my kde-based distros

nah i don't think bigrovar is pure linux, i think he's just into open source
which means he'll take google's side against windows

but then isn't google a "beta" software company? i mean their products
are almost always released as better and seldom become stable
(even though their released betas tend to be stable)

@ 4llerbe
you said: ok lets see, you buy a car, the engine doesnt work well, it doesnt have tires and u need the mechanc every other day, but u tell urself i bought a fine car!!!!!!

i don't think that's a fair analogy, how many people actually complain of tthe system not working? i think a better analogy is
you along live in a place like mushin where there's lots of traffic anfd the roads are not particularly wide;
hitherto you've used a small japanese car; now you buy some large american car that comes with lots of bells and
whistles llke you have to press some key combination everytime you want to open the door of the car and you have to
enter some security code everytime you want to start the car ,
Now the american car is still better than the japanese car, but unless you are driving on a highway, you'll probably find driving
the american car annoying; and while all those security features on the car may seem nice they could also be very annoying;

personally i believe MS had to bring out something else 'cos people were already biased against vista - myself included.
win 7 i like a smaller car that has all the bells and whistles but also has the option of toning down or totally disabling
some of the the security requirements
besides if 7 was released as is without vista being released previously i'm very sure most people would have complained about it
too. Fact is 7 is more like vista than either vista or 7 is like XP, just that now we're already resigned to the fact that the vista
features are here to stay

@4llerbe as per the cds, i clled you once; you never contacted me back - so it's not my fault; i did decide to stay off the web for a month but now am back

no fair Ex, you're supposed to be in the ring not on the couch

which do i prefer between xp and vista? xp by a long mile
which do i believe is better?
let's be objective, vista is SIGNIFICANTLY better, however
vista also requires SIGNIFICANTLY better hardware to actually perform up to spec

i think xp users should stop being sentimental about this thing, lets face facts; barring compatibility
issues and driver issues and hardware requirements, what thing does xp have on vista?
and before anybody calls me a hypocrite i truly HATE vista and i hope to NEVER use that os
at least on my personal hardware anyway but the fact still remains that it's a better software,
for instance compare task managers in XP and Vista; also with vista i can actually
reduce the size of my partition(s) without any third party software.

I have however tried windows 7 and , at least it's not so hardware greedy as vista
7's the future of windows and am ready to fight anyone who disagrees with me

slight modification, windows logo+m is actually "explore" my computer

the difference is that you will see the side bar with a folder tree-view

on a web browser
F5 reload/refresh page
CTRL+N new window
CTRL+T new tab (for browsers that support tabbed browsing)
ALT+F4 Close window
CTRL+F4 Close Tab

F11 - full screen (not restricted to browsers)
CTRL+G go to line no (in documents)
CTRL+O will also bring up the open dialog in documents

sad but true; at least for now

another browser i could mention is dillo; or links, there's a graphical version of links too
sometimes use a command line text editor called joe; nano too's ok
but always gets me lost; don't know the keystrokes

@bigrovar, flyuche i know you guys like getting the best graphics out of your pcs you probably have
state of the art hardware; unfortunately my graphics card is onboard and not
particularly impressive. Anyway i'm more on the performance stuff;
i like to get as much speed out of my hardware as possible. 'cos of this
i generally prefer to use "barebone" oses like slackware and arch to ubuntu and co and on those
oses i ALWAYS use runlevel 3 i.e always start in command line (don't really like gdm, xdm or kdm).
of course i still go into X but i prefer starting from command line; i believe it's faster
Now my question is this do you ever decide to use a distro that's not as graphically enhanced as
those images that you've been oppressing us with and if so, which window managers do you like using?
for instance i use icewm on slackware (even though i have all the other window managers too but i
dislike the delay) also on arch linux(where i don't have kde or gnome or xfce) and for my file manager i use
pcmanfm (but sometimes use konqueror too) i've used rox as my file manager but i don't like the fact that it doesn't
have an address bar which is something i dislike aboutt gnome's file manager too (i can't even remember the name)

512 ram? ok however there are other lightweight distros that will fly
with that much (or that little depending on how you look at it) ram
nd some of them also have noce guis too
where do you live perhaps we can meet and i could give you some
tips or some cds; i live in Ogba, work in Ikeja.
unfortunately i don't have xfce but i could give you some other stuff
that may run even faster

@4llerbe
which area n Ogba do you stay? i stay there too
unfortunately i don't have kde on my debian-based distros (i.e debian, ubuntu, mint)
however i do have kde on opensuse if you're interested

yeah you'l only see commercial brands n otigba which is strange since all you have
to do to get ubuntu is go to shipit.ubuntu.com, register for free and order your cd (for free too)
of course tthere may be some delay in the cd getting to you
but i've been ordering ubuntu at least once a year since 2005

just wondering, why do you want Xubuntu anyway?

but at least if you get cholera from drinking bottled water you can sue them

Agbalanze:
Generally, water cannot be 100% pure and "pure" means being free from impurities which implies that water is never pure.

i beg to disagree, distilled water CAN be 100% pure; however doctors say that it's not good to drink; perhaps you mean no
NATURALLY 100% pure water; that i won't argue with

emmydee:
@ Agbalanze
The purest water is Spring ,not rain water. Rain water is one of the impurest types of water. as it comes down, it gets mixed up with a lot of particles.

and where does the spring get it's water from? at least the particles that pollute rain water are strictly in the air; spring water is
from the ground which collects it from rain that has fallen somewhere; of course if you talked about lagos rain water i have no
argument with that; truth is, there are some places where rain water is purer than any other source of water and there are places
where the air is so impure it can even be harmful
however i'm almost sure you won't find many purer sources of rain than the one that falls in your village

like all those cities where you have acid rain

depend, most of the things in the 4cd redhat are things
you'll probably never use
you could try downloading some lightweight linux brands
like slax or puppy linux (i know i make a lot of noise about these distro
but those are the lightweight ones i've used) or damnsmalllinux (DSL) - though
that's not as featured as the oother ones i mentioned;
DSL's about 50-60mb, puppy about 90mb or you can get some of the older ones
which aren't much larger than DSL, Slax is closer 200mb;
all should work on a p3 especially if you have up to 512 mb ram
and can be quite fast too yeah by the way they're all live cds
which means you can use them without installing on your hard disk

about Mac i know there's a project to bring the mac os to the x86
i.e your intel/amd processor pcs i.e. your pentuim/celeron/amd athlon/centrino etc
however i don't know if it can actually be obtained and if so if it's free.
Traditionally the mac os has been tied to hardware released by apple

one other thing, in folder options, i usually uncheck "hide extensions for known file types" do i can
see the full file extension. that way i'm less likely to click on a virus posing as a word document or
picture

funny thing trying to remove a stubborn virus in normal mode
there should be some antivirus that can run in safe mode; you're more
likely to clean your pc of viruses if you try to remove them in safe mode.
for the person who talked about disabling autoplay i totally agree with
you; in fact on my windows system one of the first things i do is to disable
autoplay on all drives - find it annoying, slows down my system.
i also make all files visible (pls if you don't know what you are doing don't try the last part
and i won't tell you how to do that either) but for those who are familiar, i find out that
it makes identifying viruses easier for me. My pc seldom gets infected

never used vista (not really anyway) never want to (any time someone asks me to help fix a problem my
statement is the same - i HATE vista) just 'cos hardware is improving doesn't mean you must use it all up
i like to have 10, 15 applications running including an oracle database and a programming ide and still have
up to 500mb free ram instead of having 500mb free ram after just starting the os
(ok am exaggerating but vista is still a memory hog)
pity MS is bent on killing xp thank God for win 7 (i hear it will be released officially this year) at least is not
as much a memory hog as vista though recommended disk space for installation is 16gb

bust vista get 7 instead (especially while it's still free - warning, not on your production server; for that use xp or vista instead)

@Da-babe
thanks for starting this thread; 'cos of you  i remembered to download
the latest version (candidate release); i'm definitely going to
wait for it to come out before i bother buying a laptop; don't intend to
have that annoying vista on any hardware of mine
my only grouse is that i can't have my classic start menu

@bigrovar picked up my ubuntu 9 a few days ago; havent' yet installed it wubi didn't work; am thinking of which os to do away with so i can; maybe ubuntu 7.10

t least for ubuntu you could have used the wubi installer; then if you want to
get rid of it uninstall from windows; but is virtual box fast enough?
i can't stand the delay that occurs when am running an os in a virtual machine

flyuche, why are you using a virtual machine anyway? why not just create a partition for the os?

i guess it gets to Abuja before coming to lagos (does that make sense?) i always order at least one cd a year myself

that means mine is on the way; goody

init4dmoni:
i've downloaded well over 1gig since yesterday(i don't know how i'll break it to my friend)

just renew his subscription, all will be forgiven

@flyuche also having to update antivirus every other day;
also annoying that there are so many things i can't do without using the mouse;
now vista has made it even worse; before with XP i could shutdown with keyboard,
just press 'Win' then 'u' then 'u' again, now you have to use the mouse; in linux all it takes is
the halt command (provided you have root access)