Reply #14: I appreciate any tips and need to knows

[quakerboy]

right now my biggest problem is monitors.

I just repatriated my second monitor from my sisters computer. it is smaller and mounted to the left. My main monitor is larger, and mounted to the right. Ubuntu loaded the dual monitor setup with no more difficulty than windows 7 did. But it has the bar and menus on the left hand screen, and I really need them on the right.

I could just tell it that the left screen is on the right, but then my mouse would jump from the far right to the far left, and visa versa, which would be unsettling.


On edit... Yeah. Norton 360 can bite my shiny metal ass. I have never had anything but trouble with them since 1999. Same goes for McCaffey. They cut more into my personal computers ability to function than any virus I have personally ever run across. I dont tend to frequent the more risky sites, here and youtube are about as wild and crazy as I get these days. Back in college, that was a different story. I had all the software I could avoid buying, and I reformatted my hard drives weekly just to make sure nothing ever stuck with me.

For the HP indian tech guy, we had a nice conversation about how it was midnight here and about noon and warm there. I eventually just gave up trying to reason with him and told him that I have the discs for the full version of 360 which I could install if he would just help me get the computer up and running. Which is technically true. I do have them, and I could have installed if it had been working. I wouldnt have, but he stopped trying to sell it to me after that, and stuck to having me run pointless tests that I had already done.