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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: What OS do you use? |
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Posted: 24 Nov 2010, 7:38 am
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Replies: 102
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| Someone asked me once: "Are you more of a Mac, or PC person?" I responded with "I'm more of a dual partition kind of guy." His reply: "Is... Is that some sort of Linux?" :lol: He was half-right. I'm currently using Win 7, and Ubuntu. Hahaha, me too. I want to try Linux Mint 10. Mint is quite nice. ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: What OS do you use? |
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Posted: 16 Nov 2010, 7:42 am
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| Fedora 14 at the moment. Tried Arch Linux for a while but it didn't seem happy on my hardware. I was using Fedora 13 like that and I was very happy with it, even moreso with 14. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: I hate Flash. |
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Posted: 16 Nov 2010, 7:40 am
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| Yeah, I hate Flash too. It doesn't seem to bog my machine down much though, it's just annoying. I tolerate it for sites like YouTube etc but for ads it's just unnecessary. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Why do people say that Linux is not user-friendly? |
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Posted: 03 Aug 2010, 7:59 am
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| For me, it's pretty straightforward. On my distro you can use a desktop that looks like either Windows or Mac, and most everything is already configured. I didn't have to configure the wireless internet access; it was already there when I started it. I also had no problem downloading Firefox onto m... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: What OS do you use? |
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Posted: 03 Aug 2010, 7:53 am
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| I use Windows 7 and Linux Mint. Most of the software I need for work and university is Windows only, some of it does work with WINE, but I just find it's easier to use it under Windows. I keep Linux around because I like learning about it and getting my hands dirty (I use Mint specifically at the mo... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: windows 7 |
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Posted: 20 Jun 2009, 4:10 am
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| hmmm, I just see windows 7 as vista with bits taken out and bits added and bits moved Same here, it feels pretty much the same. I don't think it's any faster. By the benchmarks, 7 is actually slower than Vista. Link or it didn't happen. :) From Gizmodo. The two are close on benchmarks, but 7 has so... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: windows 7 |
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Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 8:41 am
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| hmmm, I just see windows 7 as vista with bits taken out and bits added and bits moved Same here, it feels pretty much the same. I don't think it's any faster. By the benchmarks, 7 is actually slower than Vista. What's that you say? Windows 7 slower than Vista? I call shenanigans. http://blogs.zdnet... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: windows 7 |
| Ashton |
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Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 8:27 am
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Orwell wrote: steeviebops wrote: Pikachu wrote: hmmm, I just see windows 7 as vista with bits taken out and bits added and bits moved Same here, it feels pretty much the same. I don't think it's any faster. By the benchmarks, 7 is actually slower than Vista.
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Any engineer majors? |
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Posted: 04 May 2009, 4:13 am
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| I too am early undergraduate. I'm doing Computer Systems Engineering. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: VMWare Workstation |
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Posted: 09 Apr 2009, 2:28 am
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Replies: 27
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| I can't seem to get Windows98 running in my VirtualBox, it installs, but I have trouble when trying to install the drivers from the image for it. Nothing happens. I use Vista, but some programs don't like XP or Vista to run on. I might try installing on one of my Linux Dstro's at some point. But I ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Countdown to Ubuntu 9.04 |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2009, 11:29 pm
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Replies: 68
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| Actually, I just discovered this awesome new thing called a Release Schedule.....Hmm, April 23rd. Looks like Arch it is then. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Countdown to Ubuntu 9.04 |
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Posted: 30 Mar 2009, 11:25 pm
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Replies: 68
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| When's the actual release date? Like, yeah, April, but when in April? I'm setting up a Linux server at home. Trying to debate either going with Ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu 8.04LTS or Arch...... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: FireFox extensions you can't live without |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2009, 10:58 pm
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Replies: 55
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| Let's see.... Adblock Plus (well that's a given) Foxmarks Firebug IsAdmin (I use DropMyRights to kill Firefox's Admin user rights) iMacros (sometimes fun to play with) Skype Add-on that Skype installs by default (I've disabled it, it's annoying). I had NoScript for a while but I found it quite obnox... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: IE8 hacked |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2009, 10:18 pm
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Replies: 26
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| Still, I don't understand why people b***h and moan about how bad of a browser IE is (and on this board, usually by Linux fanboys who think MS is the spawn of satan himself) without getting their facts straight on Firefox and Safari. It *really* annoys me. No OS and no browser is perfectly secure. ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Uptime |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2009, 10:11 pm
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| Hey guys, Uptime thread. Post how long your computer has been without a reboot. Also, inlcude your OS. Laptop: Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64 bit - 4 days, 17 hours, 10 mins, 2 seconds (with some sleeping from when I take it to class) Desktop: Currently Off (it's 80 kilometres away currently) Server... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: IE8 hacked |
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Posted: 24 Mar 2009, 7:55 am
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Replies: 26
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| Have a cry, people. Firefox, Opera and Safari got hacked at the same contest as well. Geez. *grumbles at bigotry* (Also, I'm a Firefox user. Thought I'd point that out before ya'll get up on a soapbox calling me a fanboy). I don't remember the article mentioning any Opera vulnerabilities. It said t... |
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