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Hiya Mychal007, Glad to see you're hanging in there with it...Some people would be turned off enough to dump linux in favor of windows at this point but I'm pretty sure we can get you over this problem. Could you copy and paste your entire /etc/apt/sources.list here, it kinda looks like you made an error when you pasted the new line. One of us can correct it and you should be good to go. Just to make sure realplayer is in the repository and works, I installed it on mine...install went fine...just gotta get your sources.list fixed.

heh, I'm ready to do what Chappy did and wish everyone a pre and post happy birthday...seems that this place has enough members to have a birthday every day of the week and they're easy enough to miss. Happy Belated B-day Sir Siddy!!!

naraku9333 has you covered on what to do and following those instructions will disable the CD as a source and cause apt-get and synaptic (package manager) to retrieve anything needed for an installation from an online repository. I just want to mention the reason for the "warning" to put your mind at ease if it bothered you. The only reason the package cannot be authenticated is that it isn't in the Ubuntu "official" repositories...and believe me, there's alot of useful things not in the "official" repositories. The package is safe to install.

eight ball...banked off three cushions and into the corner pocket...you owe me a beer!

Sorry, I made some assumptions for those directions...So, a couple questions are in order 1) are you on your brothers user account or was one created for you? 2) If you are on your brothers, did he give you a password? 3) What happened when you did "sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list"?....(you should've been prompted for a password) The "sudo" in that command is about permissions....equal to root and given the power to modify system files...(the power you most definitely need to have to make alot of important {needed} changes in Ubuntu and other Debian based distros) The "gedit" in that command

easy way: open a terminal and do this: sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list paste this at the bottom of the text file: deb ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/ubuntu/plf breezy free non-free save and close. in the terminal again do: sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get install realplay This will (should) install realplayer with all firefox plugins Hope it helps

Happy Birthday, H_B!!!!

Did a little reading about that motherboard.... Someone on a forum mentioned a response from DFI that if you have SATA drives on port 1 & 2 and overclock you can end up with drive corruption...possible this was your original problem?...possibly heading for the same problem again? Also alot of mentions that BIOS settings don't get saved or get altered (without user input) that could result in erratic behavior, from not booting to running very slow and unstable. First thing I'd try (based on what I've read) is disconnect the SATA drive's power cable>> start PC and set BIOS to default&g

What happens when it doesn't boot to windows?...any blue screen errors? what were/are the issues you had the drive RMA'ed for?...the same as current issue? What make/model motherboard?...up-to-date SATA drivers loaded during the XP install?

I've never used it but recall reading that it's loaded with spyware. I don't know how true that is or if they've stopped putting spyware in, it's been a long time since I've read that but a simple google search for "DAP, spyware" brought up quite a few forum threads complaining about it. Might want to fire up Ad-aware & spybot to see if you're clean

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Been quite a while since I've used windows but if I'm not mistaken, it's one of the features in TweakUI (microsoft.com) At least that's where I hope I saw it or that means I'm getting old too.

Agreed, a cool app but I have to agree with Carnevil at this point too...If you're going to make a cross-platform web-centric app, it should be cross-browser too. As it stands, I'd consider this bordering on a firefox extension...doubt MS would worry at all about that...Make it IE (et al) compatible and they might take notice.

I can't think of any other distros that send the CDs for free...some can be found that charge a very minimal price (can't think of the site off hand {pretty sure hitest knows the site})...But if you're not willing to "waste another cd-r" which is far more cost effective, you probably wouldn't be interested in the site anyway. As for Ubuntu "boring" you...there isn't much difference from distro to distro. I'm not sure what you're expecting the distro to do but I wouldn't expect dancing girls to leap out of your monitor and sit in your lap using any distro. Gentoo is out of just about anyones

From the post your linux screenshot thread: shanenin's reply to my mention that NFS was very slow to mount: At the time I was running an Ubuntu box (with an NFS share) and Debian Sid on my laptop, I didn't have the need to test that tip but since then have reinstalled Ubuntu breezy on the laptop and when trying the tip was surprised to find portmap wasn't even installed....Did an apt-get install portmap, worked like a charm...it now finds the share as fast as Sid did. The thing I find odd is that I don't recall ever installing portmap on my desktop (yet it is) and I had to manually install

The Stop error when you try booting to safe mode indicates that 1) A device driver that the computer boot controller needs is not configured to start during the startup process. 2) A device driver that the computer boot controller needs is corrupted. or 3) Information in the Windows XP registry (information related to how the device drivers load during startup) is corrupted. I've never used (or even heard of) driver cleaner but I'm guessing it caused #1 or #2. The second error points to the lack of SATA drivers. Which was the reason I asked about whether the HDD is ATA or SATA. Just a hunch bu

What drivers did you remove? What is your BSOD error? (write down the exact error and post it here) What kind of computer, store bought or did you build it? what kind of drives? (ATA or SATA)

Was a huge fan back in the day...wasn't aware they were still around. Both Mindcrime and Empire were awesome albums, I'll have to give the new one a listen...thanks for the heads up.

I have no doubt that XP works with both FAT32 and NTFS as I've seen quite a few win98 to XP upgraded boxes, but the difference after converting a FAT32 to NTFS has been quite noticeable...so, XP working "well" on FAT32 might be a stretch IMHO.

Are ya' sure about that?....getting a "cannot be found"

I've hardly ever been to weather.com but the first thing I noticed was that there was 3 flash objects on the page...might try reinstalling flash before a reinstall of firefox. I didn't notice any flash on ebay but you said it happens from time to time...maybe those times there might be flash on the page. Of course, this is all just guessing...hope it helps though

Should be in file>preferences>audio I/O tab>>recording section>channels: 2(stereo) That should do it.

yep, that's what my answer was gonna be when reading your first post, scrolled down to see that you answered yourself already....good job. heh, you say that like it's a bad thing...you'd be surprised how many computers would be appreciative of switching to linux.

Hmmmmm, odd....it opens with WMP (in FF with the crossover office plugin in linux) and it seems they're mpeg from the page source. http://upload3.putfile.com/videos/b5-8423522983.mpg http://x6.putfile.com/videos/a6-13613494619.mpg I'd check your file associations to nix QT as the default handler of mpegs if that's the case.