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A website, in some ways, is like a house. You need to have a door to get in. If you can get in, then other unwanted intruders can get in, too. The trick is to make the door hard to find and the key...

You can try loading up Gnome applets and Gnome desklets. There are some sytem monitors in the packages. The one which I am using has bubbling water graphics to illustrate the ram usage. I am also...

I use GIMP. Recently I came across Xara Xtreme. It has been ported to Linux. When I tried it, I am reminded of CorelDraw. Has anyone tried Xara Xtreme?

Thank you, Bill. That sounds like a plan. I think I may try that after I have finalized exactly what I want to use. At the moment, I am still in the process of trying out various desktop environments...

Just thought of something. Run Grub4Dos again and see whether Windows is detected as a bootable partition. By default, the Windows option always shows in the menu even if Windows is not detected.

I see. So you are not new to Linux then. In which case, I would suggest narrowing down your choice of Linux distro. The different distros are similar yet different. If you intend to do a lot of work...

You are right. There are many new things to learn about Linux.

You can make the learning process easier by keeping to a defined path. Myself, I have used Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Puppy. Then I...

I am afraid I can't help you much on this because I have no idea what the job function of a Linux administrator is.

However, if you are new to Linux, then this is what I suggest to get you up to...

The trick to dual booting Windows and Linux is always to install the Windows first, then the Linux. And put your Windows in the primary partition. Wipe out everything and start again. I know it can...

No, I have not thought of creating my own distro yet. That's mainly because of two things.

One is that I can see how the distros available have covered most of the bases pretty well. I don't see...

If you want something lightweight that works out of the box then I recommend Puppy Linux.

It's very small. Just a bit less than 120Mb. The latest version, Slacko Puppy, is based on Slackware and...

How come you make it sound like I have recommended something bad when I suggested Slacko? Just kidding.

The reason why I am using Puppy Linux was because that's the smallest distro that I could...

Update.

I am now on Debian. Stopped using Ubuntu quite a while ago when I found out that I could install my own desktop environments. Now I have LXDE.

Well, half of it was guesswork and half of it was from my experience with literally thousands of hard drives.

I first noticed that my hard drive was failing when my Windows installation became...

I am using LXDE. It seems to have better controls for dual monitors. You can install LXDE on to your current os.

I have tried Mint. It's good but I don't like the way the Mint developers try to dictate what search engine is best for me. Then I installed Debian and found that I could pick my choice of desktop...

I don't use Linux for games. I have a Windows 8 partition which I dual boot into when I want to play games. As for graphics, I use GIMP and Xara Xtreme. Both work fine without any tweaking. So what...

Not necessarily. I have some bad sectors on my hard drive. What I did was to make a partition on the part which has the bad sectors. Then I just do not use that particular partition. It's been two...

Try Slacko Puppy 5.3.3. It has the latest drivers for networking, both wired and wireless, even 3G modems. The GUI is very close to Windows so the learning curve is very short and smooth.

Just two hours? That's fantastic! In just two hours, I haven't even finished reading all the latest news online. I presume you don't use your computer to make a living.

Why do we need to go this far just to convert a youtube video? If I remember rightly, we can do the same thing just as easily with a plugin.

Dear Admin,
Can we have this thread nuked or moved or whatever? I know this section is about general computing but to start a discussion about movies on a Linux forum is stretching the definition of...

I prefer to run Puppy Linux from a pendrive. Reason being that I can save the session on a pendrive. Then when I start again, I don't have to configure everything all over again.

True, only partly. With proprietary drivers, Linux will run into a small problem. That's mainly because producers of proprietary drivers are not that much into Linux. They just make the drivers to...

Alternatively, you can use Debian and Webmin. Anything that can run Windows can run Debian and Webmin.