Quote from: Hungry ghost on September 01, 2012, 08:43 pmLovely information as usual pine; I may try this.My laptop is something of an antique: 512RAM and 32GB HD. It does what I need: plays pirated films on VLC and let's me mount my true crypt hidden volume containing TOR bundle and GPG4USB.A while ago I became interested in Linux and and set up a dual boot with Ubuntu; it didn't make it easy as my HD has about 7MB of damage from overheat crashes and so GParted or the default Ubuntu partition manager wouldn't set it up for me, I ended up using EASEUS and manually assigning partition space.All basic stuff to you I'm sure but a learning curve for me ( I consider myself smart but sadly wasted my considerable intellect abusing heroin among the underclass for much of my peak years. Computers were sadly absent from my life until recently)I think you're downplaying your knowledge/computer skills, probably 1 in a 100 people even know what all the slang and acronyms you just used actually mean. It's a learning curve for everybody, no matter what level of expertise they happen to be at. I'm painfully aware of my lack of expertise in certain areas, and even Guru, who is a real Guru (!) says exactly the same thing. So don't beat yourself up, recriminations can be a crutch that prevents you doing more.Not a big fan of the physically addictive drugs like h and meth which is why I don't sell them. To those who might query what 'physically addictive' means, it means after (indeterminable) X uses your body will go into withdrawal if you stop i.e. dope sickness, which is possibly one of the most unfunny things you can experience. The majority of illegal drugs are not actually physically addictive but psychosomatically addictive, that is to say you take them because you enjoy the sensation/feeling/change, but this is in no way comparable to meth or h. I am not sure it's possible to be a functional drug taker and also take opiates, whatever the case it certainly is not easy. I just don't see the 'recreational' aspect, maybe at first, but not after.My lack of enthusiasm for opiates also includes the many legal derivatives of the poppy like morphine and morphine substitutes which I don't think people realize the power of across the board, and that includes doctors. The medical establishment uses those like sledgehammers to crack nuts, I hear that a fair majority of opiate addicts come out of hospitals. Opiates are exceptionally powerful drugs at any level. Mao said religion was the opium of the masses (he was a strict prohibitionist who killed tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people in the Chinese drug trade), but I think you'll find opium is the opium of the masses! All drugs have a place and a purpose, whether medical, recreational or functional e.g. nootropic. That is true, and if people want to use opiates it's their prerogative but I wouldn't go out and recommend them to everybody for recreational use. Just because you support freedom of choice for people to take such things, does not imply you think they should load up on every conceivable drug in existence. I think kmfkewn may have his own opinion on the subject since I think he took/takes h but I may be remembering incorrectly.Powerful drugs have their place in society. LSD for example, I believe should be used by far more non-recreational drug using people with certain doses for functional reasons. There is nothing more effective at preventing alcoholism for example. I'm not a flower power person one little bit, and it drives me mad that the DEA prohibit this useful substance, throw manufacturers of it into the slammer, while in the meantime it could have been used to prevent literally millions of recovering alcoholics from relapsing. It's a sick joke.Quote from: Hungry ghost on September 01, 2012, 08:43 pm  I enjoyed playing with Ubuntu greatly and learnt a little but was unable to overcome issues with my NVIDIA graphics card and eventually decided that solving the problem was taking over my life and possibly awakening a manic episode and so removed it and returned to XP, vowing one day to return and conquer Linux on a computer with a more amenable graphics card.  I trust these issues are less likely to occur with Lubuntu? I understand it's a lightweight version of Ubuntu for the less well endowed computer?Yes, the OS should only use up half of your RAM max, 250 mb ought to be enough. And of course the HD space is much more than sufficient. I don't know about the NVIDIA graphics card issues, those are very specific stuff. Perhaps your motherboard has a inbuilt GPU onboard? I mean you'll only need a few MB of graphics card to make it function at all. I suggest, instead of going to the ends of the earth to make your NVIDIA card compatible (if it's a problem of course, which it might not be), that you shell out $5.00 for a different basic graphics hardware widget for your laptop (I've never even seen a laptop graphics card! Not a laptop person).Quote from: Hungry ghost on September 01, 2012, 08:43 pm   Also, I suggest you invest in a coffee grinder, if you don't have one. You will look down on ground coffee like you used to on instant. It's like that smell when you open a bag of ground coffee.... Every day!I have long wondered how the fuck instant coffee rose to predominance, particularly in the UK. No one drinks inst asnt tea, rightly, BECAUSE IT TASTES NOTHING LIKE REAL TEA. A tea bag is an acceptable substitute but loose leaf tea has the quenching edge. Indeed coffee bags exist and make a drinkable cup but they haven't caught on in the same way. But this freeze dried instant dregs ISN'T FUCKING COFFEE. While I'm on the subject( which is pretty close to my heart as you can tell) why does coffee from chains always taste so bitter? I will tell you: because it's watered down espresso. For me percolated coffee is the real deal. The boiling water drips through the coffee collecting the deliciousness but not long enough to collect the bitterness. Espresso is blasted with steam at too high a temperature and just blasts accords the whole taste range. It's fine if what you want is an espresso but otherwise;I just resent paying three quid for a coffee inferior to what I drink at home. I can buy a bag of beans for that.Ha, I'm way ahead of you there, I have a nice (inexpensive) coffee blender. And I must have had the same (expensive) dreck from a coffee chain as you did. Now I avoid those places completely, they're like the Carnival of Coffee horrors or something.