Re: Memory leaks in Ubuntu?

2009-08-06 Thread nadimhoque
When you say nvidia proprietary drivers do you mean the one ubuntu gives or the one on the website. If you used the ubuntu given one uninstall that and install the one straight from the website. If you don't mind me asking what video cards do you have? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Or

Re: OT - Web browsing issue

2009-08-09 Thread nadimhoque
What is the brand os etc of the computer Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Eric Cope Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 15:27:09 To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: OT - Web browsing issue --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - P

Re: OT - Web browsing issue

2009-08-09 Thread nadimhoque
Try looking at the dns server settings in winblows. It should be the same as the dns in ur router Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Eric Cope Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 16:13:17 To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT - Web browsing issue ---

Re: How to unpack a "torrent" download?

2009-08-15 Thread nadimhoque
The .torrent file is a file that contains links to get that particular file. To use it u must use a bit torrent client. The one I use is called transmission and another is literally bittorrent, or just google bittorrent clients and just follow the instructions --Original Message-- From:

Re: Looking for Laptop Suggestions

2009-05-12 Thread nadimhoque
On my mac I use openoffice (soon switching to latex) and it is much better in some ways than office (there are things office can do (as far as I know) such as mail merge and excel uses multiple cores/threads). Doing physics reports were done so much faster using oo equation editor. So for basic

Re: Resolved: Home directory as Desktop

2009-05-15 Thread nadimhoque
The funny thing is that it did happen to me once. I don't know the specific file that determines the folder to use as the desktop but I fixed it by viewing hidden files/folders and deleting the ones that start out with a period and it worked after that Nadim Hoque Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mob

Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread nadimhoque
Hey As a current comp sci student they should get really used to uml design and pseudo code more simply because there is more to a language than coding. Java and c++ are similar but what took me the longest going to java from c++ was designing classes and seeing their relationship. But as other