Why is zeitgeist datahub still being installed on the system?

Today Yahoo Tech Column is promoting Windows 7 and Mac as "better" replacements for Windows XP.  Rafe Needleman at [email protected] wrote that Win8, Chromebook, staying with XP and Linux are all "bad ideas".  He wrote that Linux is "for nerds", implying that Linux is for nerds only.  My wife is very definitely not a nerd and she has been using Ubuntu for years and now uses Linux Lite.  Learning Linux is no more difficult than learning XP.  Set up for the first time user is the only problem, just as it would be for Win 7 and Mac.  Win7 is too slow and Mac is too expensive.  In my opinion there are several lightweight Linux distributions that qualify as excellent replacements for XP.

I got hit with this one recently and thought I'd pass it along.

If you are downloading large media files and the target download folder is open in Thunar you may experience high CPU usage and high system temperature due to the tumblerd process becoming stuck. Closing the target download folder seems to stop the problem.

This is not a new bug, for more information go here:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=110&t=97079
http://askubuntu.com/questions/89826/what-is-tumblerd
http://www.google.com/#q=tumblerd+high+cpu+usage

#!/bin/bash


echo -n "What is the issue number of the first Full Circle Magazine to download?"
read number

echo "Number is $number"





for  number in $number
    do
      wget  "http://dl.fullcirclemagazine.org/issue"$number"_en.pdf" --directory-prefix=/home/user/Downloads
    done

echo ""
echo "Complete!"
#Remeber to change user to your own username and make the file executable. name it for example fullcircle.sh in your favorite editor.

I'm trying out Linux Lite from a live DVD on a Dell Dimension 2350 that previously ran XP.  Only onboard video display.    I see the desktop, and I can see the desktop menus but they are unreadable because most of the letters are missing. Not only in the menus, but also file names in the file manager. But Firefox runs fine.

I suspect the problem is that I didn't see any menus during boot, so I didn't get to choose a language.  Is that plausible? 

What I saw during boot:
Feather, auto boot in 8 secs
A few flashes.
Black screen w patterned rectangle top L, stayed on screen 2-3 secs.
Grey screen with Buddha profile and progress bar.
Black screen for 50 secs.
Cursor appeared on black screen, 3 secs.
Desktop, with feather , 3 icons at top L with garbled labels,and toolbar at bottom.

I have a little experience with Linux: I run Ubuntu Studio on my (much newer) laptop. But this font problem is new to me. Any suggestions? LX terminal is working, so can I fix language with some commands (if that's the problem)? Would I have the same problem if I were to install Linux Lite as dual-boot? (not sure how, since I can't understand the menus).

I am trying to install Linux Lite on an Acer Aspire One netbook.
The installation hangs up a the 'Create user' point and never gets past it.
This is my second attempt.  The first one went on for over 24 hours before
I shut down the netbook.

The netbook does boot the LiveOS off of a USB stick perfectly well.
Linux Lite seems to run well on this little machine.

I am trying to install a dual boot configuration in order to preserve
the user files still in the XP partition.
If that is a real source of problems I could just do a full wipe and install.

Tia.

M. Kamerick

Hi all,

I have so many questions my head is about to burst ... I really want to help some elderly friends with a basic computer so they can e-mail and internet surf and was hoping i could turn my old laptop (currently sloooowly supports xp) into something that will meet their needs ... of course they are on a fixed income ... so i was hoping to donate to Linux and find some help installing it ... CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF THIS IS A GOOD IDEA OR NOT?

Thanks all,
Sam

After updating Linux Lite 1.0.8 last night, found Help Manual wanted to be opened by Thunderbird as e-mail attachment instead of Firefox. Had manual bookmarked in Firefox so was able to find in file manager. Changed properties to open with Firefox instead of Thunderbird.

Just a heads up.

Hello All,

Having partitioned and installed, which all appeared to go O.K,
I'm now at a point where I don't want to break things.
I'm trying to figure out, how to mount the partitions I created.
I'm trying to follow: https://www.868212.xyz/manual/install.html

In Thunar file manager, system files(/ root .?)
I see folders that correspond to the partitions/names I created:
/linwin
/myfiles
/myvms
does this mean they are mounted, just not in the right place.?
In my Linux naivety I thought they would show up as Drives.?

(First a confession, jumping the gun, I used the Menu > System > "NTFS Configuration Tool" to make the NTFS partition /linwin writable?)

if I do $ sudo blkid  I have 2 disks sdb4 is the [extended] partition

Hi.  I had trouble with VLC so have replaced it with mplayer2 which works great for me.
I have removed all VLC associated bits with Synaptic but the vlc is still showing in the multimedia button.
How do I remove it from here?  Would have thought right click and remove but no.

Thanks in advance.