Yeah, I tried several different distros before Ubuntu. The community and ease of operation is what sold me. I wanted to do as little command line and text file editing as possible :)
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Yeah, I tried several different distros before Ubuntu. The community and ease of operation is what sold me. I wanted to do as little command line and text file editing as possible :)
There's always Kubuntu I guess. I may switch to KDE myself on the next upgrade.
So it seems different people think of cloud computing different ways. I know there have always been pc/server relationships, but when I hear the term "cloud computing", this is what I think of:
I guess it does look a little out of place, never really thought about it before :)
No, just an exmaple of online security. Cloud computing and online storage is ok I guess as long as you use discression about what you store online.
True. My bank had to send me new credit and debit cards last year because somebody hacked the system and got the visa numbers of quite a few customers.
I'm with ya there. I feel a lot more secure with my os and files stored locally. You never know when a hacker is going to find there way into your online storage and exploit personal data. Not...
I think the point he's trying to make in a roundabout way, is that one of the many attractive things about Ubuntu/Gnome/open-source is that it offers a level of customization that Windows lacks....
No, but I have noticed something funny in the preferences of analyzer. The list of devices to include in the scan has two entries: /dev/sda1 and gvfs-fuse-daemon. Both have a total capacity of...
I have a laptop running Ubuntu 8.04 with a 10GB hdd (at least that's what was advertised when I bought it back in 2001). According to the converter posted above, 10GB = 9.31 GiB, but the Disk Usage...
Well, I spoke too soon. The changes I made earlier didn't stay after a complete shutdown/restart (I had only rebooted before and they had stayed put then). I checked the network interfaces file and...
I'm not sure what the problem is. Somehow my computer was looking for a connection through my ethernet card instead of my um150. I've kept messing with it and everything seems to be working for now...
I was able to get my alltel um150 to work with this thread for the most part. I can get online to surf the web with firefox, but I have to uncheck the work offline button every time. I also can't...