http://searchforbalance.com/Bitz-And-Bytz Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:12:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While Ubuntu is Powerful and free, the Internet will just not work well enough for the heavy duty high bandwidth things we need to do. I finally set it all aside and installed Microsoft Windows XP on the machine. I'll try Ubuntu again in a few months. http://searchforbalance.com/Bitz-And-Bytz/?p=11 My broadband is better than I thought it was. My downloads are at anywhere from 18.KBps to 33KBps and I thought that was pretty horrible until I realized that it was KBps Not kbps. :-) There is a huge difference. While it is not nearly as good as I expect ... http://searchforbalance.com/Bitz-And-Bytz/?p=10 So far I haven't been able to find out exactly why downloads and streaming videos are slow in Ubuntu on this machine while Windows on other computers is so fast. I tried shutting down my two Windows laptops and then trying a video and it didn't help. I'll keep searching ... http://searchforbalance.com/Bitz-And-Bytz/?p=9 I am blown away by this beautiful FREE Operating System! I can't wait to see what the next release has to offer! I improved my Internet on 7.10 by disabling ipv6 (followed tutorials from the ubuntu Forums) and things improved. I am thinking that perhaps my problems are more that ... http://searchforbalance.com/Bitz-And-Bytz/?p=8 Today I was able to gather all the components together that I needed to get things to work the way I wanted. Wow Ubuntu Linux is SWEET!!! I got the spinning desktop to work. Tomorrow or Sunday I will work on tweaking my WIFI internet drivers because there is some ... http://searchforbalance.com/Bitz-And-Bytz/?p=7 Screenshot from the Ubuntu machine I downloaded the photo of New York City from the Internet and saved it as my desktop background. Cool! I had to purchase a new WIFI PCI card but i got the Linux box online today! :-D woo hoo! I wish I could have got Xandros to work ... http://searchforbalance.com/Bitz-And-Bytz/?p=4 I just built a very basic yet up to date system. I will be able to add to it if I want or need to. Here are my system specs: Motherboard: Biostar 945GC mATX Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor E2180 - 2.0GHz 1MB L2 cache 800 MB bus 1024MB DDR2-667 RAM Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 ... http://searchforbalance.com/Bitz-And-Bytz/?p=3