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08 May 2009, 2:05 am

That explains it. Firefox is always running on my system.

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08 May 2009, 1:14 pm

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I run alot of ham radio software on it, which is mostly Windows, so I'm not sure if Ubuntu would be an option for that.

There are some Amateur/ham radio software for Ubuntu. If you open up the Synaptic Package Manager and select the Sections button off to the bottom left, then select Amateur radio option above . I'll add a screenshot, to show ya.

Maybe it'll will have programs that are of some use to you for Ham Radio stuff.

ps: When I first read your screen name, I thought it said PrisonerSex lol

There is ham radio for Linux available, but there is more ham radio software for Windows. Even FLDIGI, which was originally written for Linux has since been ported to Windows.

I originally wanted to do Linux ham radio, but when I went shopping for a refurbed laptop to do it with, I found I could get one with Windows XP already installed for not much more than I could get one with no OS, so I went that route. It always comes down to money it seems.

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08 May 2009, 8:52 pm

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That is interesting. I wonder how they consider people like me, who run an Ubuntu 9.04/XP Home dual boot. Gives me the best of both worlds. I also found a way to share my Firefox and Thuderbird profiles across OSes, which has actually made me start running Ubuntu more since I can have my favorites, email, etc. the same on both sides.

I triple-boot Vista, OS X, and Ubuntu. How are you sharing your Mozilla profiles among the two OSes? Right now I just have bookmark sharing via XMarks (formerly Foxmarks).

I can't remember where I found the instructions, but it involved using the Firefox and Thunderbird profile managers, and create profiles on the Linux side that look at the profiles on the XP side of your system. I also used the NTFS Configuration Tool available from Synaptic to help in setting up mounting of the NTFS partition. Can't remember all the details, but I'm sure you can find it on the web.

Since I use XP, I don't know if this will work for Vista, and I know absolutely nothing about OS X, so I don't know if it'll work there either.

Good luck.

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08 May 2009, 11:56 pm

^ Yeah, GustavHolst posted some instructions, it looks like it's just something for Windows users to get their profiles migrated over to Ubuntu. Would never work for OS X, since hfs+ is supported by exactly one OS.

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09 May 2009, 12:15 am

Orwell wrote:

I've seen the option to create hfs+ partitions in the gnome partition editor. Cant it read them?

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09 May 2009, 10:14 am

PrisonerSix wrote:

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I triple-boot Vista, OS X, and Ubuntu. How are you sharing your Mozilla profiles among the two OSes? Right now I just have bookmark sharing via XMarks (formerly Foxmarks).

I'm confused. Ubuntu did this for me. I never had to 'tell' it what to look for. If windows was on my computer, then it would import EVERYTHING. Bloody thing made the my docs in windows the new save point for all my downloads. While cool, windows was there as an afterthought, not as the main OS. Some things I just liked doing in windows at the time. Nothing now, but still. It imported all my firefox bookmarks, with the excpetion of my homepage. Never understood why firefox doesn't save that as a bookmark, but I digress.

It never understood how to import my OSX stuff, but it could have a poke in the partition if it so choose. If you're looking for a foolproof way to get something read by any OS though, FAT32 is the way to go. Even with it's annoying file size limit.

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09 May 2009, 1:14 pm

I wonder why someone doesnt make an open source fat64? But I guess windows would have to adopt it too.

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09 May 2009, 1:34 pm

I thought for sure that all the problems with Vista would've helped more people make the switch. What Linux needs is commercial advertisements. I wonder if someone could get away with launching a PSA to tell people that they don't need to buy software to use their computer, since many distros are non-profit.

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09 May 2009, 2:01 pm

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Thats an idea, but isnt it hard to place ads on public broadcast service television? As far as I know, the BBS has no ads, and the American PBS only features advertising about their upcoming shows. Here in Canada, the CBC sells ad space to supplement their grant money.

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09 May 2009, 3:28 pm

Wow, only 1% of the market? I thought that it would have been slightly higher than that.

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09 May 2009, 4:34 pm

Fuzzy wrote:

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I've seen the option to create hfs+ partitions in the gnome partition editor. Cant it read them?

Linux can allegedly read hfs+, but it certainly can't write to it (unless I turn off journaling) and in my experience even reading of hfs+ filesystems has been sketchy at best from within Linux.

FAT32, sadly, is the way to go for something that will work everywhere. Despite its limitations, it's been around long enough and used enough that everyone supports it by now.

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10 May 2009, 9:14 pm

Orwell wrote:

I triple-boot Vista, OS X, and Ubuntu.

On one machine? Why? If I wanted all three OS's, I would get a Mac and two junkers (for windows I would be running XP though...) In fact, across the 5 machines I personally own, two use XP and three use Ubuntu... If you must have only one machine, I would get the mac and run XP and Ubuntu as virtual machines...

Personally, I can't stand multi-boot, mainly because that means I have to reboot to access the other OS'es... and I try to boot as sparingly as possible (I use hibernate/sleep functions instead when I'm not using a machine, but you have to a full reboot to boot to another OS...)

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10 May 2009, 9:57 pm

ToadOfSteel wrote:

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I triple-boot Vista, OS X, and Ubuntu.

Well, I only have one computer. Virtualization is limited. Try running games in virtualbox- it doesn't work. Besides that, the Mac version of Virtualbox is a buggy piece of crap, and I'm not shelling out the money for Parallels. And there would just be no point to running Ubuntu as a virtual machine within Mac OS X. I end up spending most of my time in Ubuntu.

Actually, right now I only have OS X functional after Fuzzy helped me kill Ubuntu and I tried to reformat my Windows partition to get the Windows 7 RC, which wouldn't boot. Some more fun coming up soon...

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10 May 2009, 9:59 pm

ToadOfSteel wrote:

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I triple-boot Vista, OS X, and Ubuntu.

I must admit that as a linux user I am baffled why someone would put the least restrictive environment inside the most restrictive..

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10 May 2009, 10:03 pm

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I must admit that as a linux user I am baffled why someone would put the least restrictive environment inside the most restrictive..

It does seem to negate most, if not all, the benefits of Linux.

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11 May 2009, 2:12 am

Orwell wrote:

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I must admit that as a linux user I am baffled why someone would put the least restrictive environment inside the most restrictive..

It does seem to negate most, if not all, the benefits of Linux.

That it does. If I had my way, I'd buy the mac, install linux, then virtualbox OSX. No windows though. Hubby thinks it's weird, but I avoid it like the plague. Haven't touched it on the personal comp in well over a year now, only messed with it at work and on his machine. And I make sure to laugh sardonically every time he gets malware or worms.

You could always try using JUST linux for a while. You'd be amazed how many of the dependencies we have built on windows or OSX are a non issue with a few skips past a good forum.

And does anyone else think that the 1% share linux now has is maybe just preinstalled units? If so, M$ will never loose much share, they install their crap on everything. It's like VD... but scarier.

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