Archive for September, 2008

Guild Wars On Ubuntu

So I spent all day trying to get Guild Wars working with wine and then cedega . I installed and uninstalled it a whole bunch of times, tried tweaking the settings in both wine and cedega and nothing. I just kept getting a black screen, then my mouse would be trapped and the only way [...]

September 27, 2008 · Angel · No Comments
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Wiped Out Windows

Well My Windows Partition Went corrupt on me, and I had neither the patience nor the want to try and fix it, so Instead I backed all my goodies up and then wiped the computer and clean and installed Ubuntu only. So now my computer is Windows Free! I’m still trying to figure out why [...]

September 25, 2008 · Angel · No Comments
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Playing With Gimp

So today I figured out a bit about Gimp, I knew it would be a bit painful for me to transition when it came to photo editing as I always used Paint Shop Pro on windows, and I never liked photo shop. PSP just worked for me, and no matter what I couldn’t get it [...]

September 20, 2008 · Angel · No Comments
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My Ubuntu Install List

Here is the list of things I do when setting up a fresh install of both Ubuntu & Kubuntu 1. Enable Hardware restricted drivers For Ubuntu: go to System -> Administration ->Hardware drivers install any available drivers you might need. For Kubuntu: Open the Menu and go to Applications -> System -> Hardware drivers install any [...]

September 6, 2008 · Angel · No Comments
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Dual-Booting Vista and Ubuntu

So I spent the Past 2 days, formatting both my and Marks computers so I could make partitions and then install Ubuntu along-side our vista installations. It was actually quite simple, though a pain the ass when it came to having to uninstall the unnecessary OEM programs and such on vista and then installing the [...]

September 6, 2008 · Angel · No Comments
Posted in: Computers, Ubuntu, Windows

Dual booting With Windows

So I spent the Past 2 days, formatting both my and My Husbands computers so I could make partitions and then install Ubuntu along-side our vista installations. It was actually quite simple, though a big pain the rear when it came to having to uninstall the unnecessary OEM programs and such on vista and then [...]

September 6, 2008 · Angel · No Comments
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Ubuntu Saves the Day

So ubuntu saved My sons computer from vista….lol. The computer orginally came with XP Media center, then we upgraded to vista only to find he couldn’t play some of his games on it due to the tremndous lag by vista. So (since I only had a vista upgrade disk) I inserted the ubuntu live CD [...]

September 3, 2008 · Angel · No Comments
Posted in: Computers, Ubuntu