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Comment on Playing Warcraft III and DOTA in Linux by sdhihrhdwuhewherw

sdhihrhdwuhewherw — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:23:21 +0000

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Comment on AOC LCD Monitor With PIP TV by Danny A.

Danny A. — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:24:45 +0000

Hi,

I also got one of this and am very happy with it. Asides from using it with my laptop, cable tv and dvd, I was also avail to connect my son’s psp. Only frustrating thing is that it’s not that popular in the internet. I’ve tried searching for it no dice unless you go to the aoc website. Anyway it’s still a great buy.

Comment on Setup for the Modern Virtual Workspace by Recent Links Tagged With "workspace" - JabberTags

Recent Links Tagged With "workspace" - JabberTags — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:34:05 +0000

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Comment on Ubuntu OEM Install by ordaide

ordaide — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:17:40 +0000

None of the settings are carried over from oem.
Just the installed software and packages that are available.

Comment on Setup for the Modern Virtual Workspace by tukmol

tukmol — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:03:34 +0000

wow that was definitely cool dude, i heard a lot of VM wares and im still thinking if im gonna try it..

Comment on Playing Warcraft III and DOTA in Linux by punongbisyonaryo

punongbisyonaryo — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:41:23 +0000

Seems like a permission problem. If you had installed Wine via the repositories or via a .deb package as a normal unprivileged user (which you should have been using), you should be able to run it just fine. You could ad ’sudo’ before wine, but I’d rather you reinstall wine as a normal user, for safety.

Comment on Playing Warcraft III and DOTA in Linux by unknown

unknown — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:26:21 +0000

/.wine is not owned by you.

i just try to running DOTA, how can i solve this wine problem

Comment on Ubuntu OEM Install by punongbisyonaryo

punongbisyonaryo — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:25:31 +0000

Chrys, thanks for the warning, and sorry for the confusion. I’ll update the post with your advice.

As far as I know, the OEM user is just that, it’s only used for preconfguring the system. As to how much configuration is not carried over, that I don’t know. I’ll try to look it up.

Comment on Ubuntu OEM Install by Chrys

Chrys — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:21:07 +0000

You say “From here, you can configure your system as you please; install all available updates, configure the repositories, install multimedia codecs, and if you’re a computer company, set the desktop background to your company logo.”

But this has caused me some problems. I got an Ubuntu Box from a company that refurbishes old computers. They didn’t run oem-config-prepare so I got a machine that I had to login using “oem” and a password they gave me. That’s all the info I got. Being new to Linux/Ubuntu, I used the computer for 6 mos. before realizing the issue and the potential security risk of operating with a uname and pwd that hundreds of computers share.

But I had a desk-top all made and even some files on it that I just got and hadn’t backed up. I read your instructions assuming that the admin user’s desktop etc. would remain in place after running oem-config-prepare, but alas no. It seems the desktop, the home folder, is just gone from the now non-existent oem user – deleted. It would be good to warn folks of this possibility. Not all configuring is saved. In fact, it seems a lot of configuring is reset to defaults in the oem-config-prepare process.

Comment on Visualizing Drive Space by lani78

lani78 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:47:07 +0000

Very nice list you’ve put together here! I agree that Filelight was indeed very nice. To bad that it’s KDE as I’m using Gnome. So I’m using Baobab now, which also is nice and is included in Ubuntu