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  1. joetekubi

    good little speakers

    These little boxes (4 inch woofer, 1 inch tweeter) - 7" x 12" x 8" - have been getting rave reviews from the DIY crowd, who are usually pretty critical of cheap commercial speakers. Something like these would be perfect for surrounds, desktop, or bedroom speakers. Probably much better than...
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    Ubuntu upgrade hosed me again

    When will I ever learn? Many, many times I've had problems with Ubuntu upgrades, and I always figure that it's temporary, and they have really solved it this time. I have a HP i5 laptop that was running 10.04, so I figured it was time to upgrade. Bumped it to 10.10 - wouldn't run X, somehow...
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    small distro

    Periodically, the question of "best small distro for xx flash drive" or a similar question comes up. I recently ran across Tiny Core Linux, and I'm really impressed by how small it is, both in disk and ram requirements. http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/welcome.html regards, y'all
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    desktop environments

    It's funny how your preferences change over time. I've always been a big fan of KDE, and ran Kubuntu for several years, until some serious instability in the Plasma window effects pushed me into Xubuntu with XFCE4 window manager. I just got a new laptop, and loaded stock Ubuntu 10.04 on it...
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    some tips for 4K hard drives

    Some of you may have heard that there are problems with the new 4K (or 4096 byte) sector hard drives in Linux. Just like SSD drives with 4K sectors, performance tanks if your partition and file system is not aligned correctly. As the the proud owner of some new WD15EARS drives, I wanted to...
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    grub - raid1 - drive replacement?

    Hi 'nixers, Several years ago I upgraded to a Raid1 array for my boot / root filesystem and installed grub as usual to the MBR. Works great. Now the time has come to upgrade those drives to something better (WD 1.5TB SATA). I know how, and have done Raid1 drive upgrades many times - slip...