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I may be travelling to the UK in the near future and want to replace my aging and half broken laptop. Would it be cheaper to pick on up in the UK than in India? So far I've heard conflicting stories, some people claim that while the US is a good place to buy laptops the UK is slightly...

I'm not much of a bike/car guy. Would anyone of you suggest how much this could sell for? A friend wants to buy it but I don't know what price to quote. I picked it up for around 62k I think. Bajaj discover 135 cc with electric start, with 16500 kilometers done so far, replaced rear tire with...

A quick and dirty way to create user shares with Samba on Linux. I've tested this with Lucid (10.04), YMMV. Samba has this nice concept of usershares i.e. instead of editing smb.conf to add shares etc you can create a file in: /var/lib/samba/usershares/ using your normal user privileges...

I'm looking to purchase a laptop in the near future to actually use away from a power outlet :ohyeah: . Macs probably give the best backup but I'm not sure if I'm cool enough to afford one. I've heard about the CULV line and how it boosts battery life. I don't play computer games (Well except...

For those of you with unlimited download limits and a taste for indie music, I would highly recommend that you get this torrent. Around 5 gigs of music from lots of indie bands for free. 2010 Torrents (Home of the (UNOFFICIAL) SXSW Torrents) If you have more bandwidth and storage, get the...

I have the misfortune of owning one of those el cheapo UPSes (500VA) which don't allow for a USB/serial connection. I run a small home server that stores my data and allows me to tunnel out of restrictive networks (thanks SSH). My problem is that when the power goes out, the UPS lasts about 40...

Decided to finally give Archlinux a try on my old laptop. Safe to say I was amazed by how intuitive and easy it was to setup. I'm currently running a lean setup with Awesome3 as my default DE, but I also have KDE 4 installed for kicks. rc.conf is probably the easiest way to change system...

Hello Mac users of TE. I am tired of the PC/Linux/Windows scene owing to some frightful experiences. I have never used a Mac before (well, except in a VM) and based on a Yammer poll at work, a Mac is perhaps the best thing to get. I'm seriously considering it, but I don't think I can splurge...

I have recently begun to rely a lot on my phone for various tasks like email, browsing etc. I wanted to know what applications you guys would recommend as a must have for Nokia E71? Games I don't care much about, but puzzle like games are nice. Here are some of the apps I use as of now 1. Opera...

This should hopefully put to rest the vicious rumors about EXT4 being an unstable filesystem and causing random data loss. :bleh: linux-ext4 - Re: [Jfs-discussion] benchmark results

I picked up quite an ancient computer for about 10k from a friend (the HDD (2x500GB WDs) and memory modules(2G)) are spanking new though. For the life of me I can't figure out what the make/model of the motherboard is :huh: . I stared for many hours at the insides but couldn't tell. The only...

I recently picked up an iPod from the TE member's market (iPod Nano Black 4G :ohyeah: ). As I only have linux at home, I started running into issues while attempting to sync it with any of the available AV applications. Tried Amarok, banshee, rhythmbox. While some of them do allow you to put...

I'm looking for a new/used HDD for my (slightly ancient) laptop. It has a 915 chipset and a PATA HDD interface. Local delivery would be awesome. Any recommendations for local sellers in Bangalore are also welcome!

This is to hopefully generate some interest in tiling window managers and for a small respite from GNOME vs KDE wars. "A tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of...

What would be a good asking price for a year old barely used Xbox with one wireless controller? The said Xbox also features a 20GB HDD. All other accessories are intact.

Although I'm not a huge fan of "Desktopized" web applications, I fell in love with one or two AIR apps that I use on a regular basis. The latest release for Linux is 1.5 and it can be had here Adobe - Adobe AIR The applications you should give a spin Doomi. A to do list application. twhirl |...

[Phoronix] HD Video Playback With A $20 CPU & $30 GPU On Linux

My college friends and I were planning a trip around christmas to goa. Been trying the usual channels looking for accomodation etc. Googled and mailed some person from goahotelbooking.com. Would you guys mind sharing a few numbers/email addresses of people I could contact for decent hotels (I...

Was checking the site all day. The final version was released at 10 am EST. Get your copies while they're hot. Torrent Server for the Fedora Project Plymouth looks promising.

I remember the last time this topic was brought up and there were lots of inputs from health conscious and well informed TE members (Monsieur pixelpusher's i remember distinctly). Looking forward to hearing some more of your inputs. I've been going to a gym regularly for the past few days and...