@ St. Andrew: Well, even though I can't mount NTFS drives, compiz is working great though and I'm loving the 3d-desktop. Having multiple desktops with compiz is just sick, not only does it look bad ass, but it really adds to the functionality of the gui . Here's some screenshots... click on the thumbnails to view the whole thing.

Pulling a maximized window to check the rest of my desktop:


Desktop cube:





Desktop cube with 3d windows:



^^^ Those glitches only came in the screen shot the thing works perfectly though.

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Originally posted by Krypton I have already transferred. But I'm going to UTEP, University of Texas - El Paso... Sorry dude.. How is the Austin campus anyways. I lived in Austin back in 1994.. How much is room & board??

The campus is great it is all the douchebags, hipsters, greeks, trust fund babies, and uber nerds that make it blow ass.

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Originally posted by Zild The campus is great it is all the douchebags, hipsters, greeks, trust fund babies, and uber nerds that make it blow ass.

Get rid of the frat boys and sorority chicks, UT's actually pretty neat .

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

Skip ahead to 1:40

I really really really want to be able to do this crazy stuff, but have no idea how, lol

Once you install Ubuntu, let me know and I can help you install and set up with compiz.

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

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Originally posted by Capitalizt Skip ahead to 1:40 I really really really want to be able to do this crazy stuff, but have no idea how, lol

install beryl/compiz, not too hard


edit: sorry, I'm a dick. I didn't even watch the video

just browsin the forums i used to be on all the time and making comments

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Originally posted by shaolin_Z I just ended up backing everything up on my ext3 drive, fixing my master boot record, and then reinstalling ubuntu like a good old fashioned n00b . The NTFS auto mount is driving me nuts though. Here's what my FSTAB looks like: But when I type "sudo mount -a", I get: Which is kind of weird cuz I remember my NTFS drive being sda1, so I tried that in my FSTAB instead and got this: AAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

I think you make things too complicated here, it's probably already auto mounted and hence your errors? Sorry for late reply, but haven't been on for a while

Nothing in /media/ ?

Windows XP for me all the way. Less hardware intensive, more stable, and much more simple. I don't need all those extra features. I just want a simple, practical, stable, OS to use without all the fancy stuff I will never bother to use..

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Originally posted by Krypton Windows XP for me all the way. Less hardware intensive, more stable, and much more simple. I don't need all those extra features. I just want a simple, practical, stable, OS to use without all the fancy stuff I will never bother to use..

LOL, that's exactly why I stopped using Windows.

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

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Originally posted by shaolin_Z LOL, that's exactly why I stopped using Windows.

I like Linux, but when I used Ubuntu, I couldn't stand the fact I couldn't install new programs because I had to type in command codes. That's so MS-DOS...

It would be nice if Linux could run games liek Supreme Commander, and install games like Windows does, without having to type in damned commands. I know about WINE, but i have no idea how to use it, how to install or anything. I like Windows XP anyways, so I see no reason why to switch to Linux anyways.

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Originally posted by Krypton I like Linux, but when I used Ubuntu, I couldn't stand the fact I couldn't install new programs because I had to type in command codes. That's so MS-DOS...

Synaptic comes standard with Ubuntu, its perfectly easy.

Screenshots here: http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/action.html

So much easier than Windows actually.

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Originally posted by Krypton Less hardware intensive, more stable,

not exactly

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Dont just do something, sit there.