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November 2, 2008 Aaron Nelsen, How-to, Linux, News, Tips

Repairing Your Grub Bootloader

Last week a friend of mind tried to install Windows XP on his system after installing Ubuntu, and of course the result was that he lost his bootloader. Don’t panic though, just boot off your Live CD and open up a Terminal window. Then execute these commands: sudo grub root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) Close out…

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September 14, 2007 Aaron Nelsen, Linux, News, Technology, Video

Walt Mossberg disses on Ubuntu

Walt Mossberg lays the smack down on Ubuntu. I agree that Linux isn’t right for a lot of people, but some of his points are a bit off base. For instance his complaint about having to download codecs just to play an MP3 or a video, he states that these codecs are included in Windows…

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