bigrovar:

the ironic in ur statement is striking. first of all its the person who has internet that would need flash, why would you need flash is u don't have an interrnet connection, and between adobe just announce the first flash palyer that support 64bit os even on windows both xp and vista 64 bit lack a native flash player, http://www.google.com/search?q=flash+player+for+vista+64+bit
so ubuntu is not to blame, you should have knen what u were getting into before using a 64 bit OS like i said i my earlier post , there lack supports compared to 32bit.

and ur statement about uubuntu without internet, well same goes for windows, infact its worse with windows, in case u installed a laptop something u got second hand without driver cd , good luck to u, were u you find the drivers from, were do u find codecs for dvd,avi, mp4 etc, who do u get pdf reader from, say u want to burn an iso on a fresh windows, were would u download it from, ? ubuntu a freshly installed ubuntu is more functional than a freshly installed windows xp or vista, because with ubuntu, basic tools like office,cd burner,photo editor, a chat client that support most protocols,pdf reader, come out of the box, sure u would need to download and install codecs to play mp3 just as i need to download a codec to play my ogg or aac files in windows, dude ubuntu is about a community , we all come together to make ubuntu, if its not working for u , then use what does, and stop spreading FUD

Guy why all this vitriol? All i did was to share what i was going through and you ve started yarning like this. Na wa o. So much for the community o. Well if thats how you run a community MIsta then you aint doing a great job at it

You are trying but try to encourage the newbies and don't push us away

Well it can be frustrating when you don't get things done as easily as you envisaged.

I'm here with ubuntu and i will use it till i'm tired and move to something new.

bigrovar:

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First to make one point clear ,  am not running or forming or building any community,  am already part of the FOSS community. so get that clear ,  most of what i do here is just to bring the idea of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) to people make them know that there is an alternative, 
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talk about helping newbies i have paid my dues ,  i have written lots and lots of pages on FOSS and i have personally installed it on more than 500 people FOC ,  but you see i can't spoon feed you u have got to make your own effort. we have google, ubuntuforums, and thousands of documentation about linux,  all you have to do is try and do a little research ,  that was what i did,  so i know and have an idea of what am getting into. you installed a 64bit ubuntu so naturally u should have known that it get lesser support compared to the 32bit,  ,  if you didnt and got beaten then put the blame where it belongs.

  again never said it was going to be easy ,   the problem many people is that there expect linux to be like windows,  its not, linux is not windows is not windows is not windows. it doesnt means its harder than windows ,  its just different from what you used too ,  so if you have have done you home work then the transition would be easy,   good all you now need is the right attitude ,  know that me and thousand of other people involved in FOSS do it for the love and fun we get from it ,  not for the money,  we need you to if there is a problem ,  file a bug at launchpad ,  or ask that is what makes FOSS unique its free and participatory ,   

Well nuff said matey, just don't be to confrontational.

I never laid a blame on anyone

using a pc aint supposes to be like rocket science you know.

Myself and a million out there having little snags here and there can't all be inept you dig

Well i'm getting the hang and one day will be weaned off you or is it "your spoon"

Enjoy weekend

and don't think i'm letting you off, any wahala i run into i must ask you for solution since you ve installed for over 500 peeps.

mufasa:

bigbrova ooooo, you sha must always yarn, nice one.

ok lets get back to business, please with the sudo gedit thingy for setting up dial up accts can i have multiple accounts? like if i have starcomms and mtn modems now. I noticed that i have to edit that text document (to change username and password) all the time. Kppp doesnt want to work. When i click on new account it just hangs and does nothing from that spot.

bigrovar:

did you try installing it on windows using wubi installer? or did you try a dualboot

esquire:

Howdy everybody, i will advise everybody to be patient and the noobs should not expect the geeks to perform miracles for them. Truely speaking if you're online count your self lucky and get down with google and lots of communities outthere. don't fold your hand and expect people to help you help your selfs.
When i started with redhat 9 i have no regular internet even now buti tried to solve my proplems before turning to online resouces.

Got dv6700 sometimes last year AMD64, ATHEROS WIFI, NVIDIA GPU and i saw hell but today am smiling because windows is not an issue for me.

Bottom line theres always a ready solution with you waiting for ever for service packs

NOTE: for those you installed or wanting to install ubuntu with the kernel 2.6.27 on HP or COMPAQ if you're dual booting with vista don't restart shutdown propely from vista then on it then proceed to boot fro live cd live cd if you did not press any key the progress bar will not move, just do it like that till you boot to windows and install normally then boot ubuntu for the first time and repeat the pressing of any key on the keyboard then edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and look for quite slash and append acpi=noirq at the front to look like this quiet splash acpi=noirq. Sorryam not good in writing and i hope it helps anybody with that problem. Cheerio

The guy that has Atheros wifi and uses linux mint the atheros wifi is included check /usr/lib/mintwifi/wifidriver or so i can't remember but i will check and post it and if youcan locate it yourself just navigate from the windows wireless driver application and you'll see one textfile that ends with inf and click install but i will check and see cause am browsing from my school cafe. Cheerio

esquire:

Thats a very beautiful plasma theme there i tried kubuntu and discovered that kde now have its own compositing/effect manager which has some of the effects of compiz and as you know i currently have mint on my laptop and am enjoying every bit of it.

Plus i saw windows 7 screen shots it copied kde4 taskbar and that plasmodium clock and feel and many people agreed to it.

I installed (full) the OS directly from the CD. And after installation it did not load

when I attempted to remove it from the drive I was unable to locate the drive in My Computer in Win XP.

flyuche:

this is suppose to be easy. i like the idea that i can install ubuntu like any windows app. now after the installation process , i restarted my system, i was hoping to get the option to boot into ubuntu, but nothing happen, just like i didn't  install at all. i tried the option of booting from the cd, still couldn't get ubuntu to run on my system.

esquire:

The guys thats wanting to install linux should do so on a sepate and dedicated partition because thats how it you can enjoy it best not on some virtual machine. Plus post the names of your hardware like your motherboard, processor, vga etc. In the min time try this boot from live cd after choosing your language then scroll to try without installing and press F6 on your keyboard and you'll see where you can type in then type this noapic nolapic and press enter and lets know how it goes. Cheerio

@Bigbrovar
Linux mint felicia is highly unstable on my laptop so i resolve to using the ordinary intrepid and am enjoying for the main time i can get fast internet to update cos you know kernel 2.6.27 is experimental at the time of intrepid release. Peace out. Am currently browsing.

bigrovar:

the best way i can help you is hat you give me the detail specs of your system including the name , some systems have bios that have been tweaked so that nothing except windows boots on them. i have had experiences like that especially some compaq, and samsung systems.

flyuche: