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Just had a strangely unresponsive banshee not allowing me to click on other songs while one was already playing. (In my case banshee was downloading album art at the same time I was trying to switch tracks). Did the sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade...

Currently at the Apple store in Charlestown Square on a Mac.... nice cable-less computer... my wife would love one (less mess). My wife is buying an iPhone (sigh).... We are going to be a split smartphone household as I have an Android (HTC Desire). Oh well. Anything...

Just had a learning experience. Virtualbox-ose (4.04) on Ubuntu 11.04 will not allow the Fedora 15 Guest Additions to Install successfully. I had to download Virtualbox-4.0 (4.08) from from the http://www.virtualbox.org site and the guest additions installed and...

So I have managed to put together my new computer and install Ubuntu 11.04. Some things that I have found. My Samsung SyncMaster 910T monitor does not work with the new computer. I can't see the BIOS boot screen when booting up. I get a floating incorrect...

OK so finally after 6 years of having a P4. I am getting a new Desktop Computer for home. The dream: Is to have a reasonably fast CPU capable of running Virtual Machines (VT-x) which will let the VM's talk more directly to the hardware (VT-d) with enough RAM to load...

Just used http://speedtest.net/ to do a speed test. I usually use ozspeedtest.com but for some reason it's giving inaccurate results. This is probably because I have dansguardian doing virus scanning of the download and then it sends it in a hurry after it has...