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Re: Article on browser CPU resources...
« Reply #30 on: September 10, 2008, 03:22:44 PM »
No. You can put it in the CDROM, bot it and it will have an option to run without installing.

Basically as a Live Disk

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Re: Article on browser CPU resources...
« Reply #31 on: September 10, 2008, 04:17:01 PM »
Somethings wonky. The whole install process should only take about 5-10 mins.

Which version of the ISO did you download?
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Re: Article on browser CPU resources...
« Reply #32 on: September 10, 2008, 04:56:36 PM »
Did you run the integrity test on the CDs?

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Re: Article on browser CPU resources...
« Reply #33 on: September 10, 2008, 05:16:23 PM »
No. You can put it in the CDROM, bot it and it will have an option to run without installing.

Basically as a Live Disk

It shows "Test Ubuntu without changing your system" and install, but neither worked.

Somethings wonky. The whole install process should only take about 5-10 mins.

Which version of the ISO did you download?

ubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-amd64

Did you run the integrity test on the CDs?

Yes, it had the same result (see few posts back)
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Re: Article on browser CPU resources...
« Reply #34 on: September 10, 2008, 05:25:31 PM »
Stupid question but is this PC actually an AMD64 PC (or Intel 64 bit)? Maybe try the regular ISO and see what that does.
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Re: Article on browser CPU resources...
« Reply #35 on: September 10, 2008, 05:27:36 PM »
AMD Turion 64Bit X2 2.0GHZ

Damn i was excited to finally have a 64bit system.....i guess ill try the other iso
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Re: Article on browser CPU resources...
« Reply #36 on: September 10, 2008, 08:05:43 PM »
I never have 40-50 tabs open, but recently Firefox has been crap on my computer. 

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Luckily, there's a small add-on program for Firefox that lets the user prevent Flash files from running automatically when a page loads, and it turns Firefox into a stable, efficient browser.

Where do I get this?

edit: wow, Jen, way to read the other two pages of this thread.
« Last Edit: September 10, 2008, 08:13:18 PM by jkim »

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Re: Article on browser CPU resources...
« Reply #37 on: September 10, 2008, 09:41:44 PM »
I never have 40-50 tabs open, but recently Firefox has been crap on my computer. 

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Luckily, there's a small add-on program for Firefox that lets the user prevent Flash files from running automatically when a page loads, and it turns Firefox into a stable, efficient browser.

Where do I get this?
Well, NoScript does that--don't know if that's what he's referring to.

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Re: Article on browser CPU resources...
« Reply #38 on: September 11, 2008, 11:48:17 AM »
ok im in Ubuntu (exclusively, no windows) and so far i feel right at home lol. I'm not sure if it was the standard version that made it work or the fact i used a different program to burn the iso but it worked.

Question #1: All my files are on a desktop on the network running Vista, yet in the network i cant see it. How do i make it show up?
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Re: Article on browser CPU resources...
« Reply #39 on: September 11, 2008, 12:00:53 PM »
omg im loving this. FF on here is even kinda sorta maybe cool
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Re: Article on browser CPU resources...
« Reply #40 on: September 11, 2008, 12:02:25 PM »
You should have samba on it

Copy the command below

Open a terminal. Paste it in. Run it
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sudo apt-get install samba smbfs samba-common

That should allow you to read a Windows share

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Re: Article on browser CPU resources...
« Reply #41 on: September 11, 2008, 12:17:03 PM »
sweet ill try it. im trying to figure out how to install xmms. i see its not a package so i have the tar.gz in firefox but not sure where to go from there. i tried sudo apt-get install linktofilehere but that didnt work either.
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Re: Article on browser CPU resources...
« Reply #42 on: September 11, 2008, 12:20:44 PM »
ok ran the command, went to places -> network -> windows network still blank. There were some errors, though:

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steve@CM-Laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install samba smbfs samba-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  smbclient
Suggested packages:
  openbsd-inetd inet-superserver smbldap-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  samba smbfs
The following packages will be upgraded:
  samba-common smbclient
2 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 113 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.6MB of archives.
After this operation, 9626kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main smbclient 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5 [4863kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main samba-common 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5 [2840kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main samba 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5 [3840kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main smbfs 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5 [94.2kB]
Fetched 11.6MB in 32s (359kB/s)                                               
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 95860 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace smbclient 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.4 (using .../smbclient_3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement smbclient ...
Preparing to replace samba-common 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.4 (using .../samba-common_3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement samba-common ...
Selecting previously deselected package samba.
Unpacking samba (from .../samba_3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package smbfs.
Unpacking smbfs (from .../smbfs_3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5_i386.deb) ...
Setting up samba-common (3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5) ...

Setting up smbclient (3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5) ...
Setting up samba (3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5) ...
Generating /etc/default/samba...
tdbsam_open: Converting version 0 database to version 3.
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 1 (min password length), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 2 (password history), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 3 (user must logon to change password), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 4 (maximum password age), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 5 (minimum password age), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 6 (lockout duration), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 7 (reset count minutes), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 8 (bad lockout attempt), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 9 (disconnect time), returning 0
account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32 failed for field 10 (refuse machine password change), returning 0
Importing account for nobody...ok
Importing account for steve...ok
Adding group `sambashare' (GID 124) ...
Done.
Adding user `steve' to group `sambashare' ...
Adding user steve to group sambashare
Done.
 * Starting Samba daemons                                                [ OK ]

Setting up smbfs (3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5) ...
steve@CM-Laptop:~$
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Re: Article on browser CPU resources...
« Reply #43 on: September 11, 2008, 12:27:15 PM »
Can you ping the other pcs on the network? It might be Vista not wanting to play along. Does the Vista machine have a firewall on it? Does it show if you disable the firewall for a second?

oh...xmms:
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sudo apt-get install xmms2

If you want a graphical installer: System->Administration->Synaptic Package manager

If you want an app, try using the repository first via apt-get or synaptic. If it's not there, try to get a deb file. Then go for whatetver else is available

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Re: Article on browser CPU resources...
« Reply #44 on: September 11, 2008, 12:30:19 PM »
yea i googled a bit and went with sudeo apt-get install audacious instead b/c i read xmms2 has no gui :)

Let me check the vista machine but im 99% sure it has no firewall. I know i used to have to dbl click it then type in my user info to login but i assumed it would still show here.
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