I’m a new user to Ubuntu, but I really want to try something new, different, from Windows and I’ve been downloading the various versions as they’ve been released to see the progression of the Operating System.

The progression of Ubuntu has been really good over the past few years and when DELL said they were going to start passing out Ubuntu with your PC’s and laptops, I thought that was great.

The thing is Ubuntu doesn’t seem to get any respect from software and hardware makers.

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One of the first things your going to need with Ubuntu 9.10 is FLASH player. I’m still not real happy with Ubuntu and Adobe on this mess; it’s just stupid.

How in the world is a new person to Ubuntu to understand half the gibberish crap about terminal commands, the tweaks to get the FLASH player installed?

While the Ubuntu forums are swarmed with them… this is what I did, it worked and it was painless in comparison to going to Adobe’s website to install the latest .DEB.

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When you’re working with as many different pieces of software automated basis as I am, you don’t really want to inundate your system with a bunch of orphaned registry entries and ghost software folders that have been tried and partially removed.

What you want to be able to do is load software in a test environment. You want to have the software load onto a temporary system that if any changes are made to the environment they’re not carried over to your personal PC.

The repercussions of testing software on your personal PC can be severe. You never know when someone’s going to create a malicious piece of software or if the software is going to perform in an adverse way.

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With great anticipation, the new version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking has been released. It’s not a 64-bit application, but it’ll install- and that’s what’s important.

The 64-bit version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking can be downloaded from here. Hopefully, you’re not limited by 5gb cap and can spare some bandwidth, the download is 1.5gb.

Nuance is going to allow you to download the MSI installer for free, but if you want a DVD with the installer, you pay $10. So download the file and burn it your self.

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If you are dual booting Windows Vista and Windows 7, you’d have noticed that once you install Windows 7 beta, you would have noticed that Windows 7 is now your default operating system.

Right now Windows 7 is still in beta, so utilizing it as a default operating system is probably not your best choice; you want to test it, but it’s not your default operating system.

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One of the most irritating things that I run into on a regular basis is auto update programs or services.

Companies like Google install services or applications to run in the background to check for updates for program that they provide.

I view this as a major problem, and it’s a problem that’s stemmed from Microsoft.  Microsoft’s Windows operating system does not provide an architecture for applications to be installed and then automatically check for new versions of themselves.  Instead, Microsoft relies almost software makers to configure or produce some sort of solution ancillary to the operating system.

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Nuance has officially announced that they will now support Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 on on a 64-bit operating system, but I have successfully installed Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 on Windows this to 64-bit and Windows 7 64-bit.

Installation process for this versus Windows 7 for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 is virtually identical.

There’s nothing dangerous about this process.

The installation files from Dragon NaturallySpeaking are copied to the local hard drive, the installation MSI file is modified to root remove the launch conditions that prohibit installation onto a 64-bit operating system.

The rest of the installation is pretty much stock from Nuance.

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The process of getting new devices and toys to play with on your computer are always so fun. You get a neat little device with a driver disc; you load the driver disc, install the drivers and then plug in your new toy and wha-la!

But alas, what’s to become of your driver disc? I mean the device is loaded, what do you do with the disc? Will you need it again? Probably. Will you be able to find it? Probably not. Or can you find it and it was used a dogs chew toy because you didn’t put it back in it’s case and take care of it…

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