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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

one thing i should say about speedtest; i don't know exactly how they
conduct their test but i'm sure the speed you see isn't always the speed
you get when downloading; i've had instances where i'm downloading
at some particular speed but when i run speed test i see a download speed
up to 2 or 3 times what i'm downloading with; even though i may be
using a download manager

sameolg616:
it aint slower, just that it has to be original flash and to get desired results,make sure thats the only thing u want to use it for and make sure its nothing less than 1gig

believe me when i say this; it IS slower; the usb bus is even slower than your ide bus talkless of the ram which is the
second fastest kind of memory tyou have on a typical pc (after the cache memory). Yes technically flash storage is faster than your
normal magnetic disks - as long as they are on the same kind of bus but when it is usb,
but then again you say you use it on vista; i knew there was a reason why i didn't like that OS but then again
i don't really use it

this is a link where they did some analysis on performance:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/analysis-vista-ready-boost,1891.html

ok you got me with the last question but with the second, even you were not quite right

I f you overtake the last person, then you are, ?

in a multilap race you can be anything from first to second-to-the-last so there

it will still be signiificantly slower than conventional ram; besides i hope you are not
talking about usb flash 'cos i've booted an os from usb flash i can confidently assure
you that booting from conventional hard disk is faster. My point, if you want more memory
and don't want to buy more ram, you are better off increasing the size of your virtual
memory instead - unless you are short on hard disk space too

you probably have to get a new flash then

try formatting and then copying files again; if you still can't use the files copied
the flash is probably bad

@flyuche
what kind of internet connection do you use to connect with mint?
the network wizard doesn't seem to support normal dialup so i use wvdial

@flyuche
i think one of the problems with openoffice.org - at least the one you download from the
website is the fact that it's rpm based ( the installer) anyway after extracting on the
cd to the folder and type java -jar <jarfile> (in the version of ooo that i have the <jar file> is
javasetup.jar) that might work

by the way in the menu under administration you'll find mintinstall - though i don't know if you'll
find openoffice there ok my mistake i think it's the synaptic package manager you want to go to
(that's if you want to download openoffice again - which i think you may have to seeing that
mint does not use rpm)

one other thing; you never did tell us what the error you got was

but then again i thought mint came with openoffice in the first place; why do you want to install again?

i agree unless you are prepared to wait till the beginning of next week
i generally renew on weekends and unless i go to one of their offices (which i did this weekend)
i take it for granted that i won't be able to browse till monday or tuesday

what's a virtual hard drive or rather what do you mean by a virtual hard drive?

no problem as long as he doesn't mention names

idm's good i don't know how it compares with flashget though (i use flashget)

lynxnoon:
i jst recently noticed somtin wit IDM: Not sure but i noticed dat weneva am dwnldn d speed rates r slightly higher dan d rate displayd on d ISPs software or Bandwith monitor app am using
Am using a fone nw, wil try 2 get scrnshts wen am on pc

)

could be for any no of reasons; compression time frame in fact i'm almost sure you rarely get the same speed with your download manager
and your bandwidth monitor; one of the reasons's ids that neither is displaying exactly real-time values i.e. one might be giving u average every 5 secs
another every 10 secs and as i said before, the download manager may be compressing from some site to incearase the size downloaded at a burst
am not sayig that's what happens but these are possible reasons

why do you want to be a presenter? for how long have you wanted to be a presenter?
what have you done so far to bring you towards that goal of being a presenter?
these are some questions you may want to answer for yourself (and for us too so
that we can help)

there's doh reh miiiiiiiiii; there's doh doh doh many types of sounds

go 4 24 days prayer and fasting; one for each year that you've lived

internet booster my foot; they don't work for linux!!!

i don't feel threatened however if the womans to aggressive i define my boundaries
and don't step beyond them; if the woman does, she's looking for trouble;
fortunately i'm good at staying under radar (i.e. not attracting undue attention)

i'm ot sure it will be serious over here anyway
if nobody dis of a sickness in this country the sickness is not considered
serious; besides how many people go to the hospital just because the have flu (cold)
unless it becomes very serious i doubt there'll be any report of the infection over here

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=267100.msg3813787#msg3813787 date=1241305966]Don't u watch EPL teams?? Don't u get erections for EPL teams??[/quote]what kind of statement is that? how can someone get erections for EPL teams or for any team for
that matter? i can understand heart attack (don't we all almost do when we watch the super chickens playing)
but not erections; there's nothing sexually stimulating about some guys playing football no matter what's
at stake

and just  for  the record i seldom watch matches (not that i deny ever watching) am more interested in knowing the score
(i know the comment was not directed at me ut i just thot to clear matters before you decide to use some
foul language on me)

mtn? so u are the one who has been using all the gprs bandwidth;
i was trying to check the champions league scores on wednesday on
my phone 'cos there was no light; i tried in vain - it didn't go

my advice; if you can get a usb modem like the novatel ovation or the epivalley for instance it's better
that way you don't have to worry about whether it will work on your pc laptop or desktop
as long as you're not using win98 it will
on the down side they cost more than the pcmcia cards i bought my ovation 4 20k

connection man, connection

i don't have any probs with linux; it was piece of cake getting info
about what driver to use; unfortunately i haven't been able to
do the same with freebsd

tell me something bigrovar, have u used freebsd beforeif so have you use a dialup modem to connect to the internet?
i've been trying out some oses but until i can at least get a working internet connection i don't consider myself
to have finished setting it up and i uses dialup (ok evdo but it's still dialup)

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

lynxnoon:
wel for now i tink its just d same as ubuntu(unless som1 can say odawise )

even though mint is based on ubuntu i have to disagree with you; for one thing the
default ubuntu installation doesn't invlude propriety media codecs like mp3 support;
besides mint is supposed to be easier to use another difference is the fact that ubuntu
no longer uses /etc/inittab; instead it uses something called upstart in starting up
(and i'm not talking about the bootloader) i don't know if any other distro has also adopted upstart
and then ubuntu has wubi -- the windows installer which mint does not have;

personally i prefer ubuntu, i like the colors better and because ubuntu has a wider customer and
support base you are more likely to get support for it than mint

yep definitely virus infection; however just cleaning out the virus won't fix your problem, you might have
to google for more help

actually with vista you can resize your partition and then create a new one

go to device manager then insert your usb device; i believe you should see a yellow question mark
indicating that the driver for the device is not installed or if the drivers are already on installed you should
see some other device; if not then select action -> scan for hardware changes

let me know if you want to go about that method so that i can give you more info; if so there should be a folder in your cd called isolinux
if you copy and paste conents of isoinux.cfg i could help you configure grub4dos so that you can boot (this is configuration in windows)

blackweaver:
('cos if your partitons are ntfs and your kernel is 2.4.x or less you might have issues with that method (am not sure))

in retropect i realise that since you'll probably be running the os as a liveos you shouldn't have any problem even witrh ntfs filesystems

@Azanor another alternative you could have taken was to install linux mint which is an
ubuntu based distro and is rated 3rd after ubuntu and opensuse in distrowatch (distrowatch.com)
with it you don't need to download all those codecs either but no wahala, it's all good