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What desktop setup do you recommend for my totally newbie parents? [duplicate]
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How do you setup your parent’s computer ?
My parents have never used a computer. Not many left of them in the rich part of the world...
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What's the quickest distro to get up and running with? [closed]
For my work laptop, I think I'm going to make the switch to linux from Windows XP. There are a couple of things I need:
Good multi-monitor support. I'm constantly changing setups (ie laptop monitor ...
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Incremental copy from linux to windows share
Using a cronjob I'm daily backing up a linux system (ubuntu) onto a windows network share so it gets picked up by our organisation's backup system.
Currently I'm copying using cp -au. Although this ...
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Can I synchronise files and folders from a Linux server to my Vista laptop for offline use?
For a few versions now Windows has had the ability to synchronise files and folders for offline use. In the past I've always been using Windows servers however in my new place all our file and print ...
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Hardware RAID 10 for dual-boot system
I'm considering setting up a dual boot configuration with a RAID 10 setup , provided by the motherboard - Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4.
Will there be any issues with set up considering that I plan on dual-...
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Is there a way to bind a wireless network to a proxy setting?
Is there an existing program to set an specific wireless network to a certain fixed proxy configuration?
If there isn't, do you know if the necessary API exists to change it with a script or small ...
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How to dual boot home PC with Linux and Windows 7?
I am a pure windows person. I have only used Macs at work and never had to use linux. However I want to branch out.
What Linux operating system is the best for somebody that has never used it ...
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