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piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---
Surely I can disable some of these services:
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If you don't use a printer you can disable cupsd. You'll need to change which init scripts are run at boot. I dunno if Ubuntu has a tool for doing this, if you can't find one try installing ksysv (KDE app) or removing the symlinks from the runlevel directories in /etc/init.d/ manually.

You can disable some other init scripts (AKA services) e.g. Gamin (that's the gam_server process), but I'd only do that if I had a problem with performance.

cymon:
You could also use a lighter desktop, fluxbox, xfce.

worker201:
There was a lot of Gnome stuff in there, are you using Gnome?  Ubuntu probably loads all that stuff so you can run a certain number of gnome products and kde products.

mobrien_12:

--- Quote from: worker201 ---You should have been using ethernet the whole time - much faster and more efficient than USB.

Go ahead and get the cable.

In Windows, navigate your way to the tcp/ip properties and write everything down exactly as you see it there.  Then you can set Linux to use the exact same settings.  Not sure about Ubuntu, but in Fedora, they call the gateway a 'router'.
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Oh good gravy YES, listen to the man, use ethernet for both operating systems!!!

Hell, Linux will probably autodetect the network parameters via DHCP then.

One word of advice... a few crappy cable modems (like mine) need to be turned off and then back on when a new ethernet card is plugged into them.  This is no big deal... just boot up first in Windoze and if it can't see the network, switch the modem off or unplug it, count to 5, then put it back on.

Aloone_Jonez:
You are correct, Linux did detect the network settings through DHCP. :thumbup:  :)

Now all I need to do is upgrade all the software. :(

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