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post #83381 of 90973
1/5/10 at 1:32am
Well I wish you both all the best - from your posts here you both seem to be a match made in Heaven
post #83382 of 90973
1/5/10 at 1:34am
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Well I wish you both all the best - from your posts here you both seem to be a match made in Heaven
Thanks, she is a gift from god.
post #83383 of 90973
1/5/10 at 1:54am
Larry all does sound good! Dave your avatar is too small?
post #83384 of 90973
1/5/10 at 6:24am
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All Settled in the Hotel in NJ
Worse to keep track of you than Santa Claus ...
post #83385 of 90973
1/5/10 at 6:24am
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Thanks, she is a gift from god.
The man is totally in love ... I love it!
post #83386 of 90973
1/5/10 at 6:25am
Good morning and good rest to all good Aliens ...
post #83387 of 90973
1/5/10 at 11:32am
morning aliens. I'd recommend everyone to check out Wiley's review of Eyefinity

It's an absolutely incredible write up.
post #83388 of 90973
1/5/10 at 12:13pm
Good morning, all. Getting ready to do a cardio workout.
Too cold to walk the puppy.
post #83389 of 90973
1/5/10 at 12:17pm
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Good morning, all. Getting ready to do a cardio workout.
Too cold to walk the puppy.
I'm waiting for my Advil to kick in before I go running. I'm so sore
post #83390 of 90973
1/5/10 at 12:33pm
Morning AW.

Since I'm able to still use the integrated gpu on my m5500, I loaded Ubuntu on it and it's running very well indeed.
post #83391 of 90973
1/5/10 at 12:40pm
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Morning AW.

Since I'm able to still use the integrated gpu on my m5500, I loaded Ubuntu on it and it's running very well indeed.
I want to do this with my 5750
post #83392 of 90973
1/5/10 at 12:51pm
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I want to do this with my 5750
I upped the RAM on it to 2GB (Max) a long time ago, and I just checked the system resources after loading Ubuntu- I am only using 10% of that 2GB while running Firefox with multiple tabs. It's cool to the touch, which is pretty hard to believe.
post #83393 of 90973
1/5/10 at 12:55pm
Open platform and community drivers always work best on any systems, regardless of their specs
post #83394 of 90973
1/5/10 at 12:58pm
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I upped the RAM on it to 2GB (Max) a long time ago, and I just checked the system resources after loading Ubuntu- I am only using 10% of that 2GB while running Firefox with multiple tabs. It's cool to the touch, which is pretty hard to believe.
my only concern would be drivers.
post #83395 of 90973
1/5/10 at 1:04pm
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Open platform and community drivers always work best on any systems, regardless of their specs
I have to say though that when I had Win 7 loaded on there (for just a short while) the RAM usage fell from the 42% at idle with Vista, to a reasonable 25%. I just couldn't get the sound to work for nothing, and then the dedicated gpu crapped out, which prompted me to load Ubuntu and use the integrated gpu. I wasn't able to get thermal paste so my baking experiment will have to wait.
post #83396 of 90973
1/5/10 at 1:08pm
Vista and W7 had learned a lot from Linux (or the same sort) regarding memory and paging handling.

@Steve: open source community will give you all the drivers you need
post #83397 of 90973
1/5/10 at 1:12pm
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my only concern would be drivers.
I ran Ubuntu on my Dell M140 and now it's running Mint. The only problems I had with Ubuntu were that I couldn't have sound from two programs at once, the first program took priority. Mint doesn't have that problem, whether from program updates or what. The only problem I'm noticing on it is that Flash is horrid on it, but that's an Adobe program issue, not a Linux issue.

I did have to look for a few programs and I think a couple drivers on Ubuntu, but I don't think I did anything special for Mint, it just found everything itself.
post #83398 of 90973
1/5/10 at 1:19pm
I almost went with Mint. I decided on Ubuntu just because of the huge amount of support the community has.
post #83399 of 90973
1/5/10 at 2:07pm
I just wanted to try something different. It's not too different from Ubuntu, same base, so the commands all work the same. I'm pondering putting something different on there now.
post #83400 of 90973
1/5/10 at 2:40pm
Before I left for work this morning I downloaded a flash video (.flv) and tried to play it back. Since this was a fresh install of Ubuntu the media player opened just fine however the proper plugins weren't yet installed. Instead of my trying to compile everything Ubuntu gave me a popup asking if I'd like to install the missing plugins and codecs. After they installed it played just as well as it would have on VLC in Windows. I was rather impressed with that.
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