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Update!What is the EASIEST distro to learn Linux with?Also, where can I find some Linux tutorials? I'm looking for tutorials written in layman's terms, not a bunch of command line junk ;]......Yeah, I know... we have too many computers...So basically, I rounded up all our old PCs to see what's worth keeping. So far, I've completely restored 2 of them back to day one. One of them was already running XP, the other was running 98, so I installed XP on it. The one that came with XP I decided to "Vista-ize" using CharredPC's WinXP Overhaul Guide. Check out my pics, and then make sure you check out his I'ble, I definately reccomend it.Anyway, down to business. Okay, so 1 machine is running XP in the guise of Vista. I like it so far. But what about the other four? Well, let's not get too carried away. I know that at least one other works, so let's get started with that...I want to make the other working PC to run some sort of Linux. Probably Ubuntu, based on research thus far. But, what better way to get feedback then from the Instructables community?So what do you guys think? Which version of Linux do you like best? Which ones can I make look like Vista, XP, or Mac OS X?As for the other three PCs... one of them I want to gut and salvage parts to make a NES PC for my brother (okay, I might use it too...) I'll probably get a version of Linux for that, too; maybe DSL.

If I decide to build a computer should I put my primary OS on a Solid State Drive? Would this make it more stable/improve performance any? Or should I just stick with a regular hard drive. Thanks for any help.

Just wanna ask.... can i change my os in my samsung netbook???? for windows is bugging a damn sh** in my head... i thought that this os is easy to use and user friendly... but there are programs that i can't use and run and customize in this os... pls help me.... looking forward for your help...

Hi guys, I recently salvaged a decent PC runing on a Pentium 4. I got a LCD monitor with it too, and was in hope of making a DEDICATED jukebox. I was wondering if ther is some OS for  a pc thats sole purpose is to store music and replay it, with some customizations available of course. If not, I see that there are plenty of jukebox software out there to install on linux or XP, but I was wondering if there was any program that executes itslef when windows start. Please and than you for any help!

I have just been given an old computer. I have installed 450mb of ram. The computer has an intel pentinum 3 clocked at 550mhz and I was wondering what OS would suit it.  some tips on how to increase the clock speed may help as well. Thanks in advance

After seeing www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/487585, I learned that they used iStopMotion for the graphics. Also, I was able to play on a Mac, and I have to say, I kinda dig it. Is there anyway possible for me to install the Apple OS on my computer and still keep my current OS (Windows XP)?

I have an old xp machine with -440mb ram -550mhz intel pentinum 3 -usb 1.1 ports -only a cd drive (not dvd) -10gb built in hdd -8gb usb for extra storage -xp service pack 3 installed -SSE (NOT SSE2 or SSE3) I want to install any version of osx on the machine (I don't care what happens to xp). Which version do u recomend and how. Thanks in Advance

Hello, my os sometimes has trouble booting, it mostly occurs before starting work in the morning. any advice?

What operating system are you running right now? Im running mac 10.4.9 and Ubuntu linux.

Hello! Can some experienced guy can say me do I can instal win7 on server? I have an old HP ProLiant DL580 G2 .. what actually runs with winserver 2000. 4 years didn't done anything, just yesterday figured out to turn it on! First I had problems : Parity check 2 memory Dimm problems but they are solved now! I just though What can I instal on this server? It is clean and there is no os in hard drive. It asks to boot from cd... so I'm wondering what can I instal on it!! Please any suggestions? Thanks!

After playing in the world of arduino for a while I have become curious if it is possible to use a common cpu, motherboard ect. To do the same thing as with a small microprocessor. Could one for example load the arduino bootloader to a cpu or just write to it with serial in order to use it for purposes similar to arduino and picaxe.  I know its a weird and wasteful idea but im just curious if it is even possible with modern electronics. I dont think it would be hard to find a junked old desktop and even if it was 1 mhz (much more likely to be 1 ghz) it would be extremely fast. Could you imagine an arduino with that clock speed! You could measure the length of pulses much smaller and you would be able to potentially handle 32 bit and maybe even 64 bit operations. Just a curious thought I had, could it be done and what would you do with such a system

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I have a PC that I need to get operational again after an accident with some overclocking software (either ClockGen or setFSB). The actual hardware seems to be working, and will install several different versions of XP as far as the first reboot, on which it will BSOD and restart the install in a loop. I have also tried installing Ubuntu from a USB drive, which I know works, and the computer does not accept it as bootable. The system has been unplugged with the BIOS battery out for a couple of months, so the BIOS is not causing it. It is running with minimal hardware, as follows: Intel Celeron D @ about 2.5GHz Replacement 20Gb IDE HDD, or original 150Gb (both do the same thing) on IDE1 CD/DVD drive on master of IDE2 I know it's pretty much obsolete, that's why I need it. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

I want to upload either a better looking OS or The OS apple uses for they're iPod Nanos I just don't know how. Reason for want to do this is it look a little weird and iTunes doesn't detect it.

Ive been using ubuntu for day to day activities and i jus wanted to know what would be the best Linux distro for downloading torrents!! Im looking for a quick setup that will be run through web ui. im still pretty new to the linux scene been on and off for about 2years!  So all help appreciated! PS iburst sux for south african users dont subscribe to them bad customer care and billing department.

I tried to post a comment to this page: https://www.instructables.com/id/Ghettoblaster-MP3-player-installation/step11/Going-Crazy-future-projects/CR9RJNZHIDCP2GZ Using Safari 6.0.2 on OS X 10.8.2 but no Captcha appears at all and clicking "Post" just reloads the page. I then switched to Firefox (18.0.2, same OS) and was able to post. Later I tried to reply to a post but this time the Captcha for the reply box doesn't appear (although it does still appear for the new comment box). Clicking "Post" on the reply box prompts me to complete the Captcha that never appears. I do have ad-block active on Safari, but not on Firefox. Bummer- I'd like to contribute to the thread!

I have a copy of Windows Xp, but it is the CD that you can only use like 3 times or it is not supposed to work or install the OS. I would like to know how to get the data off the CD without using one of those times it can install the OS. I am Using a Mac and want to run bootcamp. I saw this for PCs  and I wonder if it helps you answer my question? http://www.poweriso.com/tutorials/iso-maker.htm

Annoyed with droid. Cut n paste feature...   when pasting, a long press will cause a " paste" icon to pop up... SOMETIMES... but icon will disappear if you press longer than 0.72 second, or thereabout.  Is there a more reliable paste option with android?  It often takes 5 or 6 tries to get that 0.7  plus or minus 0.02 second sweet spot.

We were recently cleaning through a storage unit. I came across what appears to be an old half-built (desktop) server. It is not completely built so I am looking to finish building it. It is custom built, so there are no stickers or modal numbers that I can see. It has 4x 1gb ram chips. Two hard drives (with room for three more), fans, processor, and dvd drive. I knew how to insert the ram chips but I don't know how to connect all the power cables inside. I'm hoping to find instructions some place. I could use some help. I have done some computer programming, so I know what the parts look like and function to some degree but not enough to put this together. I don't want to risk damaging it since it may be worth a lot more than a 10+year old pc. I don't think there is an operating system loaded, and I'm not sure how to go about that either. Any suggestions?  Although I can't find any stickers, there may be some other label located somewhere, but it wouldn't be too obvious. Any suggestions on where it might be located?

Hi! I dual boot XP and Ubuntu 10.10 on a laptop. XP runs really really slowly. I want to move some programs from the XP partition to the Ubuntu partition and run them with wine. However, when I try to do this, it runs, but I get an error telling me that I need to reinstall because there has been a problem. No more details than that. Has anyone done this before and can give me some advice? Also, yes I have marked them as executables and they are large programs... like Photoshop and Dreamweaver, so not just a simple exe to transfer. Thanks!

How do I make a back up copy, CD or DVD, of the OS of this new laptop? It's an ACER brand and came with Windows Vista insalled on it. I just want it just in case something happens. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide in this matter.

I have an old Mac that I took apart, and I am planning to use it in a project. What programs should I get? I'm pretty bored with the stuff that came on it... Games? Other fun things to do?

The title says it all -- this is for a diy project and i need a really small (and cheap) laptop.. i just need to know if i can reinstall an os on there using an external dvd drive, since it probably wont have an internal one

 I want to have a folder on my desktop that i can save files to then when i plug in my 100 gig external HD have it automatically sync with that folder in the background

I want to try and put 10.5 on my something-year-old powermac G4. The problem is, it only recognizes 350 mhz of processor power, when I really have 1.250 Ghz. The extra 900MHZ is from a Motorola one, and 10.5 doesn't seem to work with it. Anyone have any idea how I can fix this?

I'm looking at making an linux based arcade cabinet. The box I'm using has a Pentium 3 coppermine processor and 512MB ram. The game I want to try and run will be Geometry Wars running in VMware or similar. Does anyone have any suggestions for an OS? also, the computer doesn't have access to the internet, so that my make installing packages hard.

I have an old Treo 680, Palm TX, and Blackberry Curve 8310 that I'm trying to figure out what to do with. I wanted to turn the TX into a portable FTP/WebDAV/Samba/Whatever server, but there don't appear to be any good programs available for that, and I don't think it can connect to my school's WPA2-Enterprise network anyway. Does anyone have any ideas for what I could do with them?

HELP i need to reinstall windows and ALL my files back on my computer!!! I installed Linux but that is the only OS i can run... while rebooting, it wont give me the choice of running windows vista! i didn't back up anything as i was lazy and didn't want to get a secondary hard-drive. can i at least recover all my files? how do i recover windows without a CD?

---The Problem---- I've searched high and low for something that will allow me to connect my normal landline (see links at bottom of post) to my MacBook Pro (2.16GHz core 2 duo, on OS X Snow Leopard).  The landline is my work landline, so I can't change it. I really just want to connect it to my Mac through its "To TEL" port, which according to the manual is for connecting phones in parallel. The minimum I want to be able to do is get audio from the landline to my computer's speakers and audio to it from my computer's speakers. My goal is to be able to work handsfree on my computer while I type. I'm not keen on a headset for the landline because I hate cables and get tangled up while I type. If I get my voice routed through to the phone through the Mac's microphone and sound to come out through my speakers from the caller's voice I'd be jumping for joy. I'd be rocketing for joy if through some way I managed to use an AppleScript I found (see links at bottom of post) to dial out of AddressBook to the landline. That would be tres cool, but that'd be me getting greedy. ----What I've been able to find out (I'm pretty clueless)------ PCs can do this with an RJ11 to USB adapter. There are rumors that the DLink DPH-50U works with OS X with a driver no one can seem to find. Apple stopped making their USB external modems, which didn't cater for voice anyway. I'm willing to buy stuff to make something if I need, although if it comes to writing drivers I'd need a lot of direction. ----The question----- Does anyone have any clever ideas on how to solve the problem? ----Links------ My landline manual: https://support.panasonic.co.nz/docstore/KXT7425_T7433_T7436_T7450%20book.pdf AppleScript to dial from AddressBook: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showpost.php?p=317719&postcount;=10 Most thankful in advance for any ideas!

I'm going back to collage and at this point i feel stuck with my laptop. I currently have window 7 running on it since all the driver issues are not a problem, but the boot is incredibly slow, it was that way for xp too. I used linux on the laptop before but I had issues with my video card driver not working and not being able to nativly run office 2007 or somthing that can open docx and pptx files without problems. I'm also able to play mine craft on windows 7 but not on linux becouse of the video driver problem. In short, do I stick with linux because it's faster and lighter with less abilities or sick with slower windows that from time to time will freeze. Just to mention I have an thinkpad t42. (please no comments saying get a new laptop i can't afford it).

Although this is a little dated already (Feb. 2010),  I thought this was rather interesting in how it took the IBM "table" computer,  and freed it from the confines of the table, as it were. Here, at this link, is the video showing this interface, ce / OS being demonstrated. 

Hello, I have been trying to install c++ on windows 95 with 2 versions of Bloodshed Dev.cpp software, When I installed it things were fine, but when I try to run the app I get an error that says "A required .DLL file, SHFOLDER.DLL was not found." Another version of Devcpp also meant for windows 95 gave me an error about a missing .DLL. I believe these are vital to the OS files and since they are missing it is a bad sign.What should I do to make it work without messing up my computer? Thanks for your help.

EDIT: Thanks to Jay Silver and the Joylabz team for coming up with http://makeymakey.com/remap/ This can be used in beta/v1.2 MaKey MaKeys, but older MaKey MaKeys still need to be reprogrammed using Arduino IDE. On that note, any help here is appreciated but this may not be as high a priority since Joylabz is switching how they do things. Hey, all. With the upcoming MaKey MaKey Build Night in January, I wanted to post an open invite for more reprogramming tutorials. Mac is officially supported by Joylabz, and there is already a general Windows and Mac reprogramming tutorial out in the wild. There is also a tutorial each for one version of Ubuntu, Windows 8, and iPad. Looking for a better Windows 8 tutorial, Windows 8.1, RaspberryPi, Android devices, and anything else. Here's a P2PU course with more info: https://p2pu.org/es/courses/2119/content/4041/ Thanks for any help out there!

Hello all.  I have been having a really fun time going through the forums lately.  I started in the tech section or whatever it is called.  I have no idea what page I am on but I know I am looking at posts that are about 3 years old.  Not looking at every single post of course but about 5-7 posts per page.  But that is all besides the point, let me get to my question. The other day just because I happened to have an s-video cable around I hooked one of our laptops to the TV.  I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the image on the TV.  So I have decided to make an audio cable for it and start to use the computer on the TV for some stuff.  Money is tight around here (that is why I am making the audio cable and not buying one) and we do not have cable TV.  All we have is a converter box and ever since a really bad storm about 1 1/2 months ago we barely get any channels.  I am still trying to get management of my building to look at the antenna on the roof.  But after I saw what kind of quality the laptop had on the TV we are starting to look at getting netflix.  Figure it is only $7.99 per month and you get your first month free so I think it is worth checking out.  Since it looks like we will be using a computer with the TV quite often I have decided to make a media computer out of one of the towers sitting around here.  I am not worried about the power of the computer since the tower I have in mind is not all that old.  But I am trying to decide what OS to put on it.  I know there is a "Windows media" edition but I do not know much about it other then I think it is getting quite old.  I am leaning towards putting either XP or Windows 7 on it since I have those disks.  But I thought I would ask on here for peoples input on the matter.  I plan on networking the computer to my windows 7 desktop in order to access my 1tb hard drive for stuff I download.  My wife will be using this computer too so that is part of the reason I am leaning towards windows xp or 7 so she will not feel lost in some OS she does not know.  So now you have all the details.  Should I just go with XP or 7, or is there something else I should look at?

. I had two HDDs fail at the same time on an old computer that the neighborhood kids use to surf the web. I went ahead and retired the old P3/550MHz machine and replaced it with a P4/1.8GHz unit I had laying around. Instead of using Win XP Pro, I decided this would be a good time to start switching my computers to Linux. Downloaded Ubuntu 8.10 and once I figured out that a 2.5GB HDD was too small (Ubuntu would install OK, but run out of disk space when updating) and upgraded to a 20, the install went without a hitch. . Looking for suggestions on "edutainment" apps to install for kids from ~5yo to ~16yo. Computer is a 1.8GHz P4 with 256MB RAM, so the apps can't be resource hogs. TIA.

I've been considering the switch to linux. I have currently loaded SimplyMEPIS onto an old laptop to give it a try, I was impressed. I think I like the Ubuntu Distro a little better but I'm teetering on the edge of a complete switch. I need a push over the edge. My issues at the moment is that the old crapy laptop is just kinda, what I call, my beater book. its the laptop I don't worry about to much and use for word proccesing on the run and simple Internet tasks. SimplyMEPIS works excellent for these purposes. My concern is compatibility with my everyday computer needs....... and my not so ordinary endevors. I would consider myself an Expert when it comes to Windows XP......... a step above Expert if there is such a thing...... I know it inside and out and I can manipulate it like a dirty 5 dollar crack whore. I realize there will be a learning curve but will it be compatible with everything I use in windows? ........ I do a lot of media editing and music recording....... is this a possibility in linux? (I realize Mac pro tools is my overall best option) somebody please convince me to switch beyond a shadow of a doubt. or talk me down from the ledge.

Can someone hit me up with some links to websites with windows server 2008 tutorials or how to's? (even better instructables) Thanks in advance!

Will My Dell Dimention 4550 run OS X Leopard with any hackintosh distro Tech Specs: CPU: Intel Pentium 4 CPU, 2.53 GHZ RAM: 1 GIG Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce FX 5500 WHICH IS NOT THE STOCK ONE THAT THIS COMPUTER CAME WITH, I DO HOWEVER HAVE THE STOCK ONE! Sound Card: Creative SB Live Series (WDM)

I have a FUJITSU STYLISTIC 3400 TABLET PC. But the Hard Drive died and I want to Update to a bigger HDD anyways. The problem is the tablet doesn't have a CD Drive. I tried using a USB CD Drive, but the tablet doesn't recognize it. Can anybody give me some input? All and any help will be appreciated. Mr. Lunna Xiii

I'm wondering what is the superior OS. Mac or Windows?

Hello! I want to make my own Linux OS, but I want to build my own UI/DE from scratch, I have a dashboard I made, but I don't know how to implement it as a DE/UI, Please Help!  (I am making a game console type of OS)

Hey guys. I want to make my own operating system. I need a NOOB-FRIENDLY guide, as I dont have very much programming skills. PLEASE HELP ME! I REALLY WANT TO MAKE MY OWN OS! Thanks!