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 Jan 1 2009, 06:00 PM
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Yesterday I found an old OLD pc desktop in my garage that my fam used to use.
specs: 40Gb hard drive 2.2 ghz proccesor 500mb ram. At the time (3-4 yrs back) none of us were nerds and it started getting slower and slower until we couldnt even open internet explorer. So i set it up only to find I couldnt even open the start menu. So i rebooted it in safe mode and ran a disk cleanup which took 6 hrs and defragmented it which took an entire night. I also gave it the classic theme to speed it up, and got rid of dektop icons and disable alot of prgrams from opening at startup. It was a succes and next I was going to duel boot it with ubuntu(linux operating system) which would be faster. But I started getting so many viruses on xp that I couldnt do anything. So i decided to put ubuntu over xp and let it be only linux. And I had some installing problems but its finnaly working and its pretty fast and pretty handsome:) (I like to think of ubuntu as a man.haha) And I just learnt how to install programs on it. Heres a screenshot of the final product. http://i41.tinypic.com/1z527pz.png (i hate the monitor-its a 15" 1024x768 ughh) This is my first nerdy computer thing ive done besides web design. Everyone should try linux. And I would definitely suggest ubuntu. Never throw away a computer! |
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Jan 1 2009, 06:09 PM
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 Adobe Addict Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 1,237 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 113,043 |
QUOTE(JosephCohen123 @ Jan 1 2009, 06:00 PM)  (I like to think of ubuntu as a man.haha)  That just made my day. Seriously though, good job. |
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Jan 1 2009, 07:25 PM
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 torn Group: Official Designer Posts: 953 Joined: Oct 2004 Member No: 55,718 |
I know nothing about linux, but I just wanted to say that I reeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaally like your desktop wallpaper. :D
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Jan 1 2009, 10:54 PM
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 /人◕‿‿◕人\ Group: Official Member Posts: 8,283 Joined: Dec 2007 Member No: 602,927 |
So we managed to pull you over to our side?
http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=215013 |
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Jan 2 2009, 10:02 AM
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 ^_^ Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 8,141 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 91,466 |
[MrBurns]Eeeeeeeeexcellent[/MrBurns]
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Jan 2 2009, 12:14 PM
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Senior Member Group: Official Designer Posts: 5,880 Joined: Nov 2007 Member No: 593,382 |
Unfortunately...
Because I put this on an old computer with an awful video card I had to remove compiz for it to work. So no cool taskbar, or cube, or other effects. I wanted to try and make it look like a mac... O well. |
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