I haven't, but I know people who have. It's a fairly strong muscle relaxer and anti inflammatory agent, so you have you to use it in moderation and make sure not to combine it with alcohol otherwise you may develop kidney or liver complications.

Crap Matt

I'm a big wuss when I'm sick but pain is usually ok. This time its not that way. The exercising is the only thing dragging my ass out of bed and able to move.

My mom had bad fibromyalgia. Crippling gets shingles occasionally bad from over stress.

That's my big fear along with my psoriasis getting into my joints.

Yeeesh...a kid I went elementary and middle school got real bad shingles, inside and out a few years back; pain got so bad he just got fed up with it and ate a gun

It scares me big. The pain is nerve related so mild pain meds don't help usually.

I don't take narcotics as things like vicoden wakes me up. It actually makes me sharper and energized sometimes to the point I can't sleep.

Have you tried Chinese/Korean ginseng and/or kava-kava?

I don't think I'm symptomatic yet. At least not daily. If anything it is SAD and/or regular depression related.

Ginseng perks me up if I take a lot. GABA powder helps with sleep. It helps a lot in fact. I take a large dose but its cheep and makes my sleep awesome and I will often dream. Gabapentin is ok..... But makes me more high/lucid awake dream trippy than calm.

Why would I take something that means I have to drink less?

I never said drink less...you just have to schedule your drinking around taking the kava

I didnt know it was safe to swallow pills without rum, vodka or whiskey.

Found out why ubuntu gui sucks so much, autostarts in a new shell called "unity", time to find gnome!

did you use the wubi installer? it gives you options on which gui to use..

Ubuntu is trying to be the most user friendly of all OS's more appealing to the newer people to linux.

I just installed gnome, but may try xfce, or an entirely different distro, I don't like the direction ubuntu has gone in the last few years, not saying it's bad, just not what I'm looking for.

I'm using Xubuntu with xfce at work, can't say too much about it though since I spend most of my time on the terminal

Of course I may just install bt5 as that's why I'm buying a laptop, and just use osx for the daily stuff in classes.

IMO its a good direction, it gets people famirialized with linux, most would have never tried it if it weren't for UBUNTU's usability

Oh I think Debian would be a better route.

Ive tried many distros throughout the years and never liked them more than I did Ubuntu.

Nothing compares except for Apple which is a good thing.

get something as powerful and usefull as an apple for no way near the price.

I wouldn't call Apple a linux distro, it's far from it.

I don't need anything powerful in terms of processing, I may use it for taking notes, and the rest will be low processing tasks. Cheap pc laptops feel "cheap" and I dont like it, I'm just getting an older used macbook, ~500 isn't bad.

I never said it was.. But it is unix based

Was merely saying the look and feel is starting to resemble an apple feel.

I would love to own a Mac but the price per powerfulness is insane.

I'm about to make an insanly powerful Linux box

Found out why ubuntu gui sucks so much, autostarts in a new shell called "unity", time to find gnome!

did you use the wubi installer? it gives you options on which gui to use..

Ubuntu is trying to be the most user friendly of all OS's more appealing to the newer people to linux.

I just installed gnome, but may try xfce, or an entirely different distro, I don't like the direction ubuntu has gone in the last few years, not saying it's bad, just not what I'm looking for.

I'm using Xubuntu with xfce at work, can't say too much about it though since I spend most of my time on the terminal

I just like the feel of gnome for when I need to move around basic files and apps in the menu bar, but 99% of the programs I'm running are all scripts in the terminal, hence I don't need a lot of processing power for a fancy gui or photo/video editing, etc.

Of course I may just install bt5 as that's why I'm buying a laptop, and just use osx for the daily stuff in classes.

IMO its a good direction, it gets people famirialized with linux, most would have never tried it if it weren't for UBUNTU's usability

Oh I think Debian would be a better route.

Ive tried many distros throughout the years and never liked them more than I did Ubuntu.

Nothing compares except for Apple which is a good thing.

get something as powerful and usefull as an apple for no way near the price.

I wouldn't call Apple a linux distro, it's far from it.

I don't need anything powerful in terms of processing, I may use it for taking notes, and the rest will be low processing tasks. Cheap pc laptops feel "cheap" and I dont like it, I'm just getting an older used macbook, ~500 isn't bad.

I never said it was.. But it is unix based

Was merely saying the look and feel is starting to resemble an apple feel.

I would love to own a Mac but the price per powerfulness is insane.

I'm about to make an insanly powerful Linux box

OSX was built on the original unix kernel.

Ubuntu is based on a gnu/linux stack, gnu being "unix like."

I have discovered one really good thing about Korea.............Cheap electronics.

J

Huh? Not compared to the rest of Asia.

Compared to the US I believe they are. Maybe I am wrong as hell.

J

Not so sure that is the case either. Not sure what their currency has done recently though.

Pretty cheap high quality electronics is what I associate japan/ Korea with

Hentai and StarCraft

^

What do you guys use for backing up data? I have 20+ Gigs of work data that i would like to be able to back up without deleting my old backup and spending 20 minutes waiting to copy the new file over to the backup HD.

My main source of the data is on an external HD that I move often so i really want a good backup because of the possibility of dropping it.

do you run a desktop or laptop? Personally I'd run RAID.

I use 2 different computers and keep all the data on an external HD. I use my office computer to store the backup on the main HD.

However, I will have my own computer soon and won't have to move the external around.

What exactly is a RAID?

What do you guys use for backing up data? I have 20+ Gigs of work data that i would like to be able to back up without deleting my old backup and spending 20 minutes waiting to copy the new file over to the backup HD.

My main source of the data is on an external HD that I move often so i really want a good backup because of the possibility of dropping it.

If its work data, why not just keep it on the work network?

The stupid guys at work always up my storage level and I get new data in and don't have quite enough. It hapenned 2x and i gave up after that because there original limit is 2gb. Maybe I will just contact them again.

What do you guys use for backing up data? I have 20+ Gigs of work data that i would like to be able to back up without deleting my old backup and spending 20 minutes waiting to copy the new file over to the backup HD.

My main source of the data is on an external HD that I move often so i really want a good backup because of the possibility of dropping it.

do you run a desktop or laptop? Personally I'd run RAID.

I use 2 different computers and keep all the data on an external HD. I use my office computer to store the backup on the main HD.

However, I will have my own computer soon and won't have to move the external around.

What exactly is a RAID?

"redundant array of independent disks"

It is for servers to spray the files out across different hard drives so there is physical back ups and on some cases, faster access too.

What do you guys use for backing up data? I have 20+ Gigs of work data that i would like to be able to back up without deleting my old backup and spending 20 minutes waiting to copy the new file over to the backup HD.

My main source of the data is on an external HD that I move often so i really want a good backup because of the possibility of dropping it.

do you run a desktop or laptop? Personally I'd run RAID.

I use 2 different computers and keep all the data on an external HD. I use my office computer to store the backup on the main HD.

However, I will have my own computer soon and won't have to move the external around.

What exactly is a RAID?

"redundant array of independent disks"

It is for servers to spray the files out across different hard drives so there is physical back ups and on some cases, faster access too.

You can use it in most desktops as well.

Disk A

Disk B

Anything you change on Disk A, changes automatically on Disk B, an exact copy. There are a bunch of different configurations though.

Pretty cheap high quality electronics is what I associate japan/ Korea with

Japan cheap? Roflcopter.

What exactly is a RAID?

Nothing you need for 20gb

What do you guys use for backing up data? I have 20+ Gigs of work data that i would like to be able to back up without deleting my old backup and spending 20 minutes waiting to copy the new file over to the backup HD.

My main source of the data is on an external HD that I move often so i really want a good backup because of the possibility of dropping it.

do you run a desktop or laptop? Personally I'd run RAID.

I use 2 different computers and keep all the data on an external HD. I use my office computer to store the backup on the main HD.

However, I will have my own computer soon and won't have to move the external around.

What exactly is a RAID?

"redundant array of independent disks"

It is for servers to spray the files out across different hard drives so there is physical back ups and on some cases, faster access too.

You can use it in most desktops as well.

Disk A

Disk B

Anything you change on Disk A, changes automatically on Disk B, an exact copy. There are a bunch of different configurations though.

Which means when A gets fucked B gets fucked. I prefer regular manual backups

What do you guys use for backing up data? I have 20+ Gigs of work data that i would like to be able to back up without deleting my old backup and spending 20 minutes waiting to copy the new file over to the backup HD.

My main source of the data is on an external HD that I move often so i really want a good backup because of the possibility of dropping it.

do you run a desktop or laptop? Personally I'd run RAID.

I use 2 different computers and keep all the data on an external HD. I use my office computer to store the backup on the main HD.

However, I will have my own computer soon and won't have to move the external around.

What exactly is a RAID?

"redundant array of independent disks"

It is for servers to spray the files out across different hard drives so there is physical back ups and on some cases, faster access too.

I run raid on my laptop, just for back up. Most computers come with multiple hdds anyways and is simple to setup.

And it's fairly cheap too.

Allways Sync - free software and it rocks

This is a pretty broad question, but what are the limitations of Linux? I've read around a bit and it seems like most PC operations can be performed on a machine running Linux through Wine etc, correct? Just curious.

What do you guys use for backing up data? I have 20+ Gigs of work data that i would like to be able to back up without deleting my old backup and spending 20 minutes waiting to copy the new file over to the backup HD.

My main source of the data is on an external HD that I move often so i really want a good backup because of the possibility of dropping it.

do you run a desktop or laptop? Personally I'd run RAID.

I use 2 different computers and keep all the data on an external HD. I use my office computer to store the backup on the main HD.

However, I will have my own computer soon and won't have to move the external around.

What exactly is a RAID?

"redundant array of independent disks"

It is for servers to spray the files out across different hard drives so there is physical back ups and on some cases, faster access too.

You can use it in most desktops as well.

Disk A

Disk B

Anything you change on Disk A, changes automatically on Disk B, an exact copy. There are a bunch of different configurations though.

Which means when A gets fucked B gets fucked. I prefer regular manual backups

Depends what fucked means. A virus or mishap causing deletion then yes. A failed hdd, no.

This is a pretty broad question, but what are the limitations of Linux? I've read around a bit and it seems like most PC operations can be performed on a machine running Linux through Wine etc, correct? Just curious.

9 times out of 10 if you can do it in Windows there's typically a Linux program that will do it too; no emulation needed. If Valve ever ports Steam to Linux I'm sure I would run Linux in a heartbeat.