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So recently, whenever I try to play a game with lots of mouse movement, my mouse dies under Windows XP and a second later the familiar "da-doop" sound chimes in telling me that it found new hardware. It doesn't do this at all when I boot into Linux. Could this be a hardware issue? It's a really old logitech mouse (6 maybe 7 years old). Any ideas why it would do this?

I would try here: http://ubuntuforums.org/ most people read the forums and not many people go on launchpad.

IMO, Linux is easier to install Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc. It's much more difficult to install and configure these under Windows. Seriously, if you need help installing Ubuntu, let me know.

That's really odd. You might try posting on the official ubuntu forums. People there are usually very helpful. Do you have any specific error message?

Yeah definitely, lemme know if you have more questions.

I've found this to be an extremely useful website for learning things to do in Ubuntu. They always update with the latest release (the current release is Feisty). http://ubuntuguide.org

In feisty, if you go to System -> Preferences -> Desktop Effects, you can turn them on. This is a new feature in feisty and this option is not there in Edgy. They only included a couple features like wobbly windows and some other small things in feisty because it's still considered beta software. But at least you can play with them a little bit. I think the next version of Ubuntu should have more graphical features available. So here's the deal with the desktop effects. It all started with Compiz, but some people who worked on Compiz wanted to add even crazier effects and some of

Not sure, I've never used it. I've setup MythTV before which is Linux software. http://mythtv.org/ But, it's really a tinkering project and probably won't work "out of the box" so to speak. Hauppauge makes excellent cards though, you'll be happy with that one.

What kind of media center software are you going to use?

Yeah really, it seems like a very small market to pitch to. Power users would probably just use Linux.

I think you can also go into System -> Administration -> Restricted Drivers and if it autodetects you have an Nvidia card you can install the propriety drivers right there. But.. sudo apt-get install works too. Played with the desktop effects yet?

Sweet. I loved the original. The gun battles were awesome!

I thought newer operating systems were supposed to be faster than the old ones?

Cool. I'm waiting for some screenshots though. Just got the Kingdoms expansion pack, lots of fun. Playing as the Apache right now.

Cool! Thanks for the link.

Definitely.

I probably won't be touching them after the setup so I doubt that would be a big problem for me. Time to try again, hope Paypal is working... Thanks for the help all. edit: Well, the order is in. I should have it up and running by next weekend. Woot!

OK, here's what I have. I just tried paying with Paypal but it doesn't seem to be working at the moment. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16827106057 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822144701 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814130072 I went with an Antec TPQ-850 ATX12V / EPS12V 850W Power Supply. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16817371009 OCZ Platinum Revision 2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820227139 And the Asus motherboar

With multi-core systems becoming more popular, is physics acceleration really necessary?

Yeah, good point. I'm looking at these two right now: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813136035 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813130080 DFI versus MSI. These were the two that I found in my price range and have the 680i chipset. I'm leaning towards the DFI because the last system I built had a DFI motherboard and I love it.

There's a great preview in PC Gamer for those of you that get it.

Hmm, dunno, I guess I didn't notice that one in my searches. So, it basically allows for a faster clock cycle on the memory? Going through the specs, that's the only major difference I can find. Do you have any experience with EVGA motherboards? I guess I didn't even know they made motherboards until today. I thought they just did video cards...

Ok, here's what I have so far: Antec 900 case (already bought it, sitting right next to me) LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write Black SATA Model LH-20A1S - Retail Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (this will be upgraded with another better hard drive later) EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800GTX 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80562Q6600 - Retail I'm almost certain these are the component

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I used to label all my power cables for my monitor and computers and only use the ones that came in the packaging, but is that really necessary? I looked more closely at them the other day and they seem exactly the same in terms of the power they provide.