UBUNTU 12.04 LTS UPGRADED TO UBUNTU 13.04

Well everything was working OK for awhile and I enoyed working with it but some odd things have started to happen.

Now I am sure I am being watched closely and that my many blogs on here and the one on Wordpress is being...interfered with in some way is I get impossible numbers.

But lately I have had this version of Ubuntu start having... odd prblems not only with speed but when it comes to CRASHING it is actually beating Windows 2 points to zero, lmao.

Firefx keeps stopping and freezing making posting to these blogs a pain in the arse so I am going to update it to 12.10 and THEN update it to 13.04 of Ubuntu.

I ran the 13.04 version from a USB key and it seemed to run OK and had proper AMD drivers listed in details.

SO hoping that the rumours and things I read about this being faster are true. I also think that little news snippet that came my way, about Canonical going out of business is far from the truth but let us see.Oddly the person that told me of this then said a few days later that he was going to install Ubuntu?!

Anyway right now I am well into the 12.10 version update and hopefully by tonight 13.04?! So I am going from Precise Pangolin, whatever that is, to Raring Ringtail and I will not even know the name of the version that will not be on y laptop for 2 minutes, lmao!!

Woohoo!!

MICROSOFT'S GAME IS UP WITH LINUX

Right here we are!!

I found the 'educational' video and I do think you will enjoy it and hopefully it will help many PC Users out there.

There are just a couple more videos other than this one but its all done now.

I would like to say thanks to Peter for putting Ubuntu in my head in the first place and I really mean that...no sarcasm intended my friend.

Computers always drive me nuts but I DO LIKE the challenge in all honesty, despite spitting fir and moaning about it but that is just down to the fact I always have alot going on (Pain, Hospitals, Doctor, Blogs, Police, Local Council, Bailiffs, Orchids, Bills, Shopping, GPs, Tests, Planning, Corruption, Animals, Astonomy, Cycling, The NEWS and oddly enough not a woman in sight!!! LMAO) as I know you are aware and likely man others are here too.

If not....well you HAVE seen my other blogs...surely?! LMAO!

Anyway without further ado, Microsoft CAUGHT IN THE ACT!!!

Had to link this as Blogger did not update the title so could not find it...TUT-TUT and it is all handled and managed by GOOGLE TOO?! LMAO!

Are you aware Mr Ballmer that you have, single handed, destroyed and are STILL destroying one of the greatest companies to ever come about?! All due to greed, power and EGO!!

Just like the Intel and AMD thing I want many companies to co-exist.. BUT...

1) I hate the way that Microsoft and Intel behave towards others

2) It will only serve to destroy themselves eventually (disagree? well your WRONG! LOL)

3) But more sadly is that whoever usurps them only turns into them in time!!

4) The kinds of people that come in and do that should be banned from being involved in ANY kind of business (it is old hat, out of date and will not serve you anymore! Business models have to evolve too you know?!)

5) I have and am proving all the above and have been doing so for the last 7 months and will continue to do so for about a year. (At anytime between June 2013 and February 2014 I would have proved my point beyond ANY shadow of a doubt. Disagree? Well you can come back in February 2014 and tell me I am an idiot then can you not? If your in hiding then you will realise that I am an up and coming GOOD INFLUENCE on these matters, LMAO)

THE CLOCK IS TICKING EVER LOUDER, AAAAHAHAHAHA!

HEHE. Sorry I cannot resist a bit of humour, lol.

WINDOWS REFUSES PARTY INVITE

Yet again Wimpows... I MEAN WINDOWS refuses to turn up at the party?!

Now I am getting angry and I am planning to kick some Microsoft BUTT!! BIG TIME!!!!

I DO TOO!!

LMAO!!!

UBUNTU GOES WALKABOUT CREEK

Well here is an odd one...

Ubuntu wont boot and nor will is shutdown successfully if you request it to while a USB Memory Stick is in a USB port?!

Anyone says the words 'need' and 'unmount' in the same sentence i will punch them in the kisser! LOL.

WINDOWS & WILL NOT PLAY PART ONE

A video of pre-success attempts that got somewhat .... out of hand and somewhat... confusing lol.

UBUNTU 12.04 LTS & WINDOWS 7 PREVIEW

This is just to notify you that I have a very good, quite revealing and hopefully funny video coming up.

I have delved deeper into ... things and I have managed to achieve thigs I have NOT achieved beforehand. I also had a suspicion prior to attempting this so I decided to film myself doing this and at first I think I guessed wrong and the I am all "Oooh I was right!"

LMAO!

Hopefully this will help a great many as I find out what in the hell was going on, a bit of naivety on one side with some real sinister stuff on the other side, lol.

Also for those with dual HDD bay HP Pavilion and Envy laptops or redundant Optical Drives I may have some help and advice to help you improve your system.

The film is done, or in fact there are TWO, lmao, but I just have to finish a few things and something is downloading right now, ooh that is another hilarious part, and I should have this nailed down tight tonight or tomorrow during the day.

I will upload the, THEN, THREE videos to my YouTube account and then link them into my next post on here.

I was pretty surprised with what I thought up and even more surprised when I took a guess, thought up a way of proving it and then manage to think of filming it before i did it.

See those three dead birds?! Well I only had ONE STONE?!?!

LMAO!

RETURN OF WINDOWS 7 DUAL BOOT PART ONE

Well here is the first half of the story behind Windows returning.... or Elder Scrolls returning and Skyrim in particular, lol.

The 8GB USB Key, someone borrowed by 16GB one and not bought it back yet, lol.

 Only the ISO Image turns out to be a damned Polish one?! Morons!!

 The OLD DVD Drive REMOVED

The HARD DRIVE CADDY with Western Digital Scorpion HDD in place, even has a cool blue LED light?!

 

The 160GB Western Digital Drive seen in GParted!!

This STILL leaves my and HDD Bay EMPTY?!?! LOL!

 

If I had a 6 series graphics chip I would put an SSD in the 2nd bay?!

MICROSOFT AND LINUX

I an afraid to say that as ever the journalists are LATE.

I just spent a couple Weeks trying to dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu and after cursing the Linux OS it became obvious that it was Windows 7 and Microsoft that deliberately went out of outs way not to play fair.

Unfortunately for Microsoft this includes the user and their hardware as will as Linux!!

A fresh overall and no bloody internet a la Windows XP. I have always maintained that Windows is shit and assert initially liking Windows 7 the releases of H8 and this fiasco has changed my mind.

Tossers they really are and now I hope Canonical are not going to turn into them?! Same old..same old..shit!!

Give them twice the fine that the biggest one was....no three times as much and take the same amount from Steve Ballmers personal account. You need to make an example and so far you any done jack!

Wonkers never learn.

UBUNTU & AMD RADEON WORKING IN HARMONY

Well what do you know?! At LONG LAST!!

I have the AMD Radeon Graphics Driver INSTALLED and IN USE for the first time ever in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?!

It seems that I decided to do one last thing because everything got into a bit of a mess partition wise and I decided to wipe the whole laptop put it back to just ONE partition and install Ubuntu onto it alone!

Against my better judgement but knowing I can get it up and running very quickly and easily I attempted to install the AMD Radeon Drivers and, HEY PRESTO, it worked!!

There was something I noted that was different with this install and that is that without me downloading anything at all there were about 5 different choices for AMD Graphics drivers where there were only TWO beforehand and do not know what that was all about. This laptop does have two graphics chips in it so that might be something to do with it.

Oh how weird?!

I just noticed that the fan is not on and the laptop is stone cold?! Well you know what I am going to say next?! I simply have to!!

How COOL is that?!

LMAO! Groan!

Seriously though that IS weird. I am not sure I have ever had it this quiet and this cool before and am rather surprised the screen is lit up and I am typing?!

Anyway so there seems to be a serious issue with the graphics drivers for Ubuntu if you dual boot with Windows 7 using the same hard drive, despite partitioning and certainly on a

HP Pavilion DV7 Laptop
AMD Phenom X3 1.8GHz
Radeon HD5470M & HD4200 Graphics
8GB RAM
Toshiba 320GB Hard Drive (having second added soon)
17 Inch monitor 1600x900

Ohh I can download STEAM now?! LOL!

Hmm I just remembered I was IN THE STORE where I bought this laptop, PC World's store, and a guy was looking at a HP Pavilion lappie and as I passed I said "Don't!" and the guy looked at me as if I was mad and I walked back up to him and said "no I mean it...DON'T!" and has asked why I said that.

I told him that before my one which I bought out the same store had been back in for TWO repairs, several letters had rubbed of, 'a' 's' 'n' 'l', the hard drive failed, the case came apart and they were supposed to fix it and it is STILL coming apart?!

His eyes went wide and he said "are you SERIOUS?!" and I replied, yes.

Right next to the Pavilion was a HP Envy, albeit a little one I had never seen. I said that the Envy would be OK as the keys are not printed and it is their top of the line range.

Oddly enough I never had any problems with my old Pavilion DV5000 and I had that for 7 years and sold it to a friend who is STILL using it?! Yes OK I did have to change the keyboard for a new one but that was because of missing keys that came off due to its age!!

Now I would NEVER buy anything with the PAVILION name on it and I now realise why they were going to gove up PC manufacturing as they were making stuff like crap! I love it when companies do this and then throw their toys out the pram because people will not put up with it?!

well if I was anyone else I would be kicking up more of a stink but luckily for HP I know where all the keys on a keyboard are. I DO look down but I do not know why as I know where they are and have now deliberately stared at the screen for the last 30 seconds!! Hoho....OOOPS!

God I am not going to have to buy ANOTHER bloody Sony product am I before long? Well if the blogging and other online activities pay off I would like to be able to work online while out and about and even on holiday or abroad?!

This being a 17 inch laptop it is too much really. I will get a 15 inch in future provided I have two desktop machines first of course. If I am out and about and need a bigger monitor there is always the HDMI port I can use on a TV wherever it is I am staying.

Then there is the question of what to do with this one...I would probably donate it or give it to someone.

Annoyingly I will probably be wasting my money then soon when I buy another dive to place inside this machine so I can get Windows 7 back on?!

The obvious thig to do now would be to build a gaming PC but not feasable for awhile and not sure how long before it is feasable. But with Ubuntu on here and working it would be the sensible course until I build a Small Form Form Factor Ubuntu Rig. Building another Ubuntu RIG now would just be a waste of time and money. The gaming RIG is too expensive! So the only sensible option is to get Windows back on here, lol.

Yes STUPID I know!!

UBUNTU BATTLES IT OUT

Some more attempts at dual boot and beginning to get what MIGHT have been wrong now and not making sense.

Also i put Windows 7 on to see my files and they are not there?! NOWHERE so Ubuntu managed to wipe them while leaving the Windows folders there?! Mad.

Anyway once I realised this and that the game was up I then rebooted into Ubuntu...well that WAS the plan!!

I got it going again and it dual booted but in typical Microsoft fashion nothing in the Windows 7 installation disk bloody worked?!

Could not get on the internet at all but could with Ubuntu??

Also Ubuntu is very easy to get going again when the boot sector is lost and I really DO wish I could say the same for Windows 7 but NOOOOO!!! LMAO!!

UBUNTU AND WINDOWS FINAL ROUND

Right the time is almost upon us...or just me, lol.

I have had some really bad days being two things...

Very ill and in a great deal of pain and even spent an entire day in a useless hospital that has nothing but the stench of death for me, having many friends and family die there it is becoming stupid.

Anyway I am recovering slowly and hopefully tomorrow I will be indoors all, or at least most, of the day.

I am going to try a couple of things to see if I can get the current installation of Windows 7 up and booting again?!

I have two methods to be able to do this by way of a Recovery Disk I have acquired and a Windows 7 Full DVD of Home Premium, I will TEACH them for not providing a hard copy?! LMAO!

Anyway failing these two methods I will at least get in and send all my Windows files off to an external 2 Terabyte Hard Drive and then will do the same with the Ubuntu files.

Then and very early next week I have something arriving and it is a caddy that turns my Optical Drive bay into a HDD/SSD Drive bay.

Now I have two options with that in the I DO have a 160GB Western Digital Scorpio Drive here which I could USE to install Ubuntu to or I could get something else.

An SSD would be a bit if a stretch at this point in time and I would want to load Windows 7 onto an SSD anyway as it would need it more than Ubuntu! LOL. Poor Windows!

SO that is what is coming up shortly, the last post or two where I get everything back and NOT to the way it was before but BETTER!

I will obviously do the odd video, albeit shorter and minus the cussing this time, lol.

Ooh yeah and that Ubuntu book should arrive too?!

Hmm but now remembered I am hearing about 13.04 now so i might look that up on the Internet so what people are saying about it?! I am thinking that the 13.04 will be like the 12.04 and be a Long Term Support OS and the 13.10 will be like the 12.10?!

Still got a great deal to get my head round with this and the two Linux Magazines could use a little work too?! Blimey guys you are supposed to make the OS appeal to a wider audience and I wanted to yawn in places! Got annoyed with myself when I was tempted to flick on past whole sections so have to keep picking them up and going through it.

Not even my Linux Pocket Guide book by O'Reilly has been that bad?! Lol.

Now I am sure there is something else I have ordered and do not know if it is related to this blog or another....ooh I know it is another harness but for my bird watching binoculars!! LOL!

LINUX & WINDOWS SITTING IN A TREE

OPPOSING TREES THAT IS!!

Well it would seem that after 15 years of absence the LINUX and WINDOWS operating systems have gone backwards and that is a fact I am very sorry to say.

I am not sure what the issue is down to right now but it could not surprise me if a large part of it was down to Steve Bullmer at Microsoft and more ANT-COMPETETIVE behaviour.

Oddly if my suspicions are ever proved correct I can tell you this much and the Mr Bullmer would have single handedly either destroyed Microsoft or reduced to no more than a squeaking mouse.

After not quite understanding WHY I could not get WUBI to work correctly I DITCHED IT!!

Only things then went from bad to WORSE and I do mean LITERALLY

After starting what was portrayed as an easy peasey thing to do by Computer Active Magazine, a magazine that is aimed at beginners you understand, I can tell you that nothing could be further from the truth and not a single person i the building at their offices tested this in anyway shape or form!

Bad!

Why? Well if you want something other than the obvious the only reason a journliast would misinform about something and encurage you to download and install something is down to one reason and one reason only...

...MONEY!

It has been over 7 days since I started their easy-peasy suggestion and I will now tell you what is going on now.

I SPLIT my hard disk into TWO separate partitions. This is what I should have done in the beginning really and this would now only make it much easier, as was the way I was used to doing it, but that the finished article would be alot swifter and likley graphics drivers would install correctly.

Everything worked flawlessly and set up without a hiccup and I was surprised to see a PURPLE screen come up with the BOOT OPTIONS?!

I thought, how weird?! Doing this the Wubi Way and I had a boot option screen like I remember years ago, black screen and white letters. Then I remembered seeing people stating that you should install Windows first and I thought that this was odd as I remembered it being the other way round.

Of course this time Ubuntu WAS the default OS of choice....

Got in and things worked a great deal better and a bit more snappy.....except that damned AMD Graphics driver STILL REFUSED TO INSTALL?!?!

I simply could NOT believe it!

Then after messing around I decided to reboot into Windows 7 and guess what?

Refused point blank to do it!!

Now I have messed around and tried to add an entry to the BCD but it refuses to do that...

I then wondered if Ubuntu had wiped the main C: drive when using it for a swap drive?!

But no the files were still there.

I looked up as to why I could not alter the BCDBoot file and then realised that it might not be this file at all, though why I could not write it it was still an oddity.

Maybe it was the Boot Loader in Ubuntu?!

Downloaded this program everynone raved about, Grub Customizer, but what i see looks nothing like the screen shots of it running. tried Boot Repair but Windows boot selection was greyed out.

It looked as if the partition had been wiped but it had not and I had seen it and within the file. But it seems that every single possible way to correct this problem just failed to work MISERABLY?!

It has been more than 7 days since I started this and i cannot quite believe just how incredibly frustrating and laborious it is and dual booting Red Hat with NT 4.0 or Win 2000 was a bloody walk in the park compared to this?! That took me TWO days and that included attending University for my Computer Science Degree?!?!

While I was at this is seemed some things were this way purely out of incompetence and no forethought. Then after awhile it amost seemed that I was being LED down the garden path to nowheresville and then it occurred to me.

This seemed almost deliberate! I cannot believe there are that many possible solutions that do not work?!

I am a victim on all fronts of people with, and I mean AT BEST, people with half the knowledge. Or in the case of civil servants and public offices people with NO KNOWDLEGE whatsoever, lol.


In fact I found a page where one guy lets off steam about it to make me blush and I make him right when he said that he had been on loads and loads of sights and forums ne people chat SHIT. Like me he had been through loads and loads of things that had not worked.

what makes me laugh is that these people who are quick to help then start getting arsey with you when they help does not work!

Indeed I got one guy so desperate to find a solution to work that he then told me to force these drivers in place and someone else piped up 'Nooo' and i had already done it and Ubuntu REFUSED TO BOOT!

The world seems full of people that WANT to be experts and yet they have only learned one or two tricks. I am NOT an idiot and when I come along everyone thinks oh easy and I get the IT Crowd treatment ... "Have you turned it OFF and ON AGAIN?!" LMAO!

So at the moment I am not sure if the boot section of Windows does not, or REFUSES to accept that Windows is now on the X: Drive and before you ask no I bloody did not make it that?! I made the Ubuntu partition the Z: drive to ensure no feck ups and on installing Z disappears and Windows ends up as X:?!

Baring in mind everyone says Windows does NOT like it unless it is the C: drive so how did Ubuntu end up changing it to X when their wasnt one, sticks Windows 7 it and then instead of going onto Z as I had instructed places itself onto the C: drive?!

I mean COME OOONNNNNNNNNN!!!!

Not only are you supposed to know the file structure used of two completely different OS's, know the command line ... COMMANDS of two completely different OS's but when you gibve them SPECIFIC instructions they go and do things entirely differently to what you instructed and then throw all their toys out of the pram becaus ethey do not want to play anymore?!?!

Jesus Christ, did I slip through a worm hole back into the early seventies?!

This should not be happening!!!

If the next model cars worked the same way the world would be full of motionless cars going nowhere?! You het the next and newer model because it is faster, easier, quieter, more luxurious and any other benefits.

What gives here?

Well I do not know if I will ever recover window, before anyone says it will not recover either!!

I swore years ago that when Microsoft stopped handing over hard copies of Windows with laptops and using these fecking partitions to stick it on I said first and foremost that this was wrong and a recipe for disaster?!

Well I just spent the last eight days COOKING?!

CHASED & WORE DOWN UBUNTU 12.04 LTS

Got serious...

WHIPPED UBUNTU's ARSE! (the OS not DEVS lol)

BACK ON (my own doing no email help other than standard automated replies)

BLOODY WELL STAYING ON AND WORKING!

Just brief. Up and fully loaded. DID NOT download install ATI stuff but now updater giving ATI Drivers as option?!

Also Ubuntu did a whole load of installing it did not do before so I left it and after that it was offering the ATI Drivers as mentioned above...

... I AM NOT INSTALLING THEM!!

Now maybe next week or next MONTH I will buy a PC case, mini one, and start building a rig specific to Ubuntu and Linux.

I MAY get a 64GD Sandisk Ultra SD Card and Install Ubuntu onto that instead, though I will check it the pros and cons of doing that first, to use on this laptop.

Dual Boot like the other times using that Wubi installer.

Ordered book on Linux Commands, as I only remember 'ls' lol.

Also will order OFFICIAL UBUNTU BOOK next week. Though wondering now if the Ubuntu 12.10 might have been better, the magazine said only use 12.04 LTS and not 12.10!

Anyway, it is BACK it is fully loaded with few dozen software packages and it will damn well stay there this time!

I am nothing if NOT persistent!

MUST BE (UBUNTU 12.04 LTS) BLOODY MAD?!

Right that was very odd. Turned out it needed a reboot to register that the partition, yep wrong Wubi bit, was gone and I realised when it showed I had 280 GB of space.

Only on reboot the dual boot partition is still there, but no big deal as you could, if you have this problem too, go into the BIOS and set time to '0' seconds. Or there is the fixboot option too.

There are a great many descriptions and answers given by people in the forums that seem to go 'right around the houses' to fix this problem and will be baffling and unnecessary to many.

I need my head examined as I have now decided to REINSTALL UBUNTU and have this really stupid idea that I did things in the WRONG order when I was first logged on the first time and...

...well my damned curiosity to get to the truth, it is another bloody puzzle Martin, and see if I am right has led me to go through it all AGAIN?!

LMAO!

Only THIS TIME I am going to do things VERY differently to what I did last time and think I made a mistake in treating it like a Windows install and should have been more...AWARE.

Did not help that I was unfamiliar with many Linux OS's either and I have had a play about and know what everything does and where it all is, well enough anyway, and now want to put my theory to the test.

So in case it goes wrong you might want to ignore the screaming and shouting in the next couple of posts as it is my own fault for having to do things right and refusing to be beaten by anyone or indeed ANYTHING!

LMFAO!

Hopefully I will get it right and then I can put on here the correct sequence to a nice Ubuntu 12.04 LTS install on iffy hardware, eh Hewlett Packard?!?!

LOL.

DO you all have ear plugs?! Hehehe.

COMING TO UBUNTU 2

Three more videos of my attempting to work with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....

COMING TO UBUNTU 1

Well here are the FIRST three of the videos...

I left the laptop and phone on all not and not a single byte of data uploaded all night, plus I got up two hours late?!

Well I was shattered yesterday, lol...

BU-BYE UBUNTU IT WAS NOT NICE KNOWING YOU

Oh my god ... that was the most excruciating 24 hours of my life I can EVER recall?!

Madness! Well I gave up filming and it turned out I had lost track of how many videos I did and I have also MISLAID some of the parts as they are in the UBUNTU section of my hard drive and I cut and past videos to free up the memory on the SD Card.

I have used and always did for years all the betas of Windows from Windows 95 up until Windows 2000 and possibly beyond that but since XP I have not bothered.

Now up until now, save to odd blue screens of death which were rare for me I have to admit the most infuriating the a new OS did was actually Windows XP and I DID NOT EVEN OWN THE DAMN THING?! LOL.

You may realise that from that statement I was referring to the official full release version where Microsoft made, what is no matter WHAT you or they say, an terrible school boy blunder as on release I think everyone I know that had it with a new computer it turned out they could NOT GET ON THE INTERNET. It refused to talk to the supplied MODEM?!

It was, it turned out, to be something really stupid and i even dated a woman when her friend at a works do said to me "This is Susan she has a problem with her new computer and i wondered if you could help?" and this was at Land Rover!

"Let me guess..." I said before she could speak "...you cannot get on the Internet?" Wide eyed and open mouthed she said "how the hell did you know that?! Tony did you tell him?" whereas he replied "No, I told yo he was good?!" when the reality was I had heard it so many times and from EVERYONE I knew or even did not know that had just bought a computer with Windows XP installed on it. I am amazed at how many PC suppliers failed to realise there was a problem before shipping them out?!

I went round with a floppy disk and Sue, looking like a blond Susan Sarandon that made my eyes water in desire, went off to put the kettle on. On her return to my seated position at her computer desk she continued to tell me the problem when she suddenly stopped and said "Wait a minute! YOU HAVE A WEBPAGE UP?!?!" to which I said "I KNOW" and she said "but you did that in the time I went and put the kettle on?!" and it turned out that my work colleague Tony had a mate who was supposed to be a computer nerd and he had spent 5 whole nights round there and gave up?!

We ended up dating, albeit very briefly and it was a little odd for me in all honesty and that was that.

I am afraid to say Ubuntu 12.04, the one NOT referred to as a CATASTROPHE, was a CATASTROPHE!

Now you either need one of two things here...

1) Another 5 years... and /or

2) A FAIR REDUCTION IN CHEFS?!?!

UBUNTU 12.04 - SEVERE ISSUES REPORTED

Well what do you know?!

I switched on the laptop and then the kettle. I had completely forgotten that despite Computer Active's report on installing a hassle free Ubuntu onto my laptop they also flalsely stated that Ubuntu would be the default OS in the Dual Boot menu and when I returned from my kitchen it had booted into Windows 7!

Well it was LATE last night.... I FORGOT ALL RIGHT ALREADY! LMAO!

Anyway I thought as I was now in windows instead of tinkering around with Ubuntu 10.04 I would have a little look on-line and what do you know?!

Well I found something that makes them people at Computer Active look very....SOMETHING!!

Hassle free is it? Ubuntu is the default choice in the Dual Boot Menu? Digging at bad reporting on Computer Active here really, lol.

Well then can you explain how apparently it has very SEVERE ISSUES with AMD Graphics chips? I will go and find out it has issues with AMD CPUS next?!

I am sorry but that is bad! REALLY BAD! The funny thing is, is that this chap who does an extremely impressive and THOROUGH report on using it on his HP DV7 says that 12.04 is NOT AS BAD as a couple of previous versions and refers to them as TRAGEDIES?! My word!! LMAO!

I would make a rough but good estimation that AMD Graphics Chips exist in a little over HALF OF ALL PCs. One because they are always a little cheaper and TWO and because AMD is a budget brand people who go AMD CPU mostly also go AMD GPU too.

CLICK HERE TO READ HIS FINDINGS:   http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1971842

I should add that the post above is bloody old and has shocked me even further that a year on I can still have problems installing this version?! Mad!

If you have not then take a quick look at how he lays it out and I have not even read it all yet...

Still do not want to read it?! LOL.

Still though after all that I AM GLAD I read it and will look to see if there is a solution.

Now I know nothing, oh OK next to nothing, about how Linux work currently. I know nothing about updates, what software works with it, how to use it in anyway really.

I have used MACS when I worked for a solicitor and it does look remarkably similar to that.

I also did use KDE for a time too but that was EONS ago now, LOL. It is funny as I have seen terms that I recall from being used for Linux but in a context where they seem to mean something else other than I remember?! 

I think I am going to order a BOOK?!?!

LMAO!

SO I will leave Ubuntu there. I have been eyeing up Hybrid Drives too, to go larger then my 320GB which is nowhere near large enough BEFORE I installed Ubuntu?! 

I think with the hybrid I could go 500GB but would be wiser to go 750GB. I think I read that the OCZ Revo Drive was being discontinued though I do not know why this is!

A DANCE OF CHANCE WITH LINUX & UBUNTU

Well it has been a long time since I last used Linux and dual booted it alongside Windows errr Windows NT 4.0 if I recall. Or possibly Windows 200, or 98...ohh I cannot recall which one.

Come to think of it I cannot recall which Linux version or more specifically which Red Hat version it was?! Does Red Hat still exist?!

Anyway after someone, HI PETER LOL, put this thought in my head and it wwas being talked about an that Computer Active special edition...thingy of software I thought I would mosey on over to the Ubuntu website and have a look see?!

Well it seems interesting enough for me to want to investigate further and it does not seem anything like the pain in the posterior that Red Hat was?! INdeed several lecturers at Middlesex University at the time were amazed that I not only attempted to dual boot Windows and Linux but that I succeeded and did not ask any of them to help solve issues getting it set up!

"EASY PEASEY!!" I said all cocky to them while the all raised eyebrows in turn before I then said "nahh your joking it took me a full 48 hours to work out how to do it?!" to which they laughed. Still they were surprised I did it all the same which surprised me that they were surprised. I got that a great deal in my four years of studying!

Anyway I have not considered Linux since those days long past but cannot deny I have not wondered how things have changed. I have long admired the Linux OS and Linus Torvalds as well as Unix and Solaris. Apple cottoned on to this very early on and really recreated Unix in their own image. Groan!

Anyway I was pretty impressed with things I have read about and I should have picked up some time ago when I started seeing Magazines for Linux Users alongside the usual PC Format and MAC Format fair and wares?!

Should have trusted my instincts there and taken the plunge and bought a copy!!

Anyway UBUNTU 10.04 the Long Term Support version is currently downloading, not too slow for once but has been at it 30 minutes or so. Once done I will burn the ISO Image and then make a USB KEY with it and give it a look see.

I am actually looking forward to this!!

Hell if I am THAT impressed I may EVEN INSTALL IT, using WUBI?!?!

But before I decide to do that I will check out and research much about it and see what the lay of the land is. The trouble with Operating Systems, or more specifically SWITCHING THEM, is that as many find out there is always something you want or need to do that you have to used Windows for and I have always found that infuriating!! Hence why I and others always ended up dual booting, well I just did it in the beginning purely because it could be done in theory and I wanted to test that!! LMAO!

Well it has just tipped over 600MB of the 695MB download and it has just occurred to me that this does not seem very big, lol.

Once I have full tested and researched it I will let you know on here what I think but you must remember that on a computer there is nothing that I do not end up either doing or need to do. Some things become more mainstream while others are minimal but this can switch around....

Photos

Videos & Editing

Games

Encryption

Compressing (ZIPPING)

Music

Encoding Sound Files

File Conversions

BLOGGING LMFAO!!

Office Suites (Spreadsheets, Databases (not of late but will again I bet))

and probably a dozen others I cannot think of, off the top of my head?!

Right its done to to go and PLAY!!