Posts by ellement

Frankly, they should have had 512 standard from the get-go, considering their operating system's requirements. An upgraded GPU would have been nice, though the current one may be able to handle Tiger. I really don't know.

Does this undervolting method work only for dothans, or can I try it with older processors--say, a pentium 3?

Courtesy of the Online Etymology Dictionary: "1895, Amer.Eng. (in a Montgomery Ward catalogue), from "Fédora," a popular play by Victorien Sardou (1831-1908) that opened 1882, in which the heroine, a Rus. princess named...

Maybe I'll give it another shot, then. No, I didn't edit that thingamajigger for the apt-get, but I did update everything. Can I actually go to websites for software, or is apt-get my only option? Maybe once I figure it out pretty...

Could just be an imac attatched to a 29" lcd, couldn't it? Unless it's a G5 imac, in which case that's a horrible waste of an lcd.

The biggest problem I had was getting apt-get to work all the way. It would get most of a program, but say it skipped a part, or in the gui mode, it ignored portions. Also, I couldn't just go to a website, find what I wanted and download...

I dunno if I'm just not giving it enough of a chance, but I'm going back to WIndows. I can't seem to get anything to work: like DVDs, downloading and installing things, audio, and my battery life is reported to be a huge 1 hour and 40...

Kubuntu installed easily, and headache free. It takes a lot longer than windows to start up and shut down. Also, I have no sound. I also can't use kynaptics to install stuff because I can't get on the root user account. I set a password...

minimal pain in the ass, you say? Kubuntu here I come! just as soon as I get these files transferred.

I've decided to solve the partition problem by not doing that at all, and formatting my whole drive. However, I'd like to backup some files on my desktop. Does Linux play well with Windows machines over a network?