Well, if MUSH works, I'm set.

Wish I didn't have school/work tommorow so I could play with this

Grab Wine from Add/Remove programs, if you have it already installed in your windows partition, getting it to run should be easy. Do a google search for Wine and Mushclient, should be able to figure it out.

Also, the one thing Ubuntu doesn't come with is the codecs to play certain things and flash, since it's not open source software, and Ubuntu's whole thing is only having open source stuff in the default install. Anyway so go to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal. Then in the terminal window type

That'll make so mp3's, flash, random video formats, etc, all play and work. It's a quick shortcut way, the terminal is useful for just doing things at times, rather than doing it graphically.

Also to setup all the advanced effects, you'll need Advanced Desktop Effects Settings, again you can find it in Add/Remove programs. For changing themes and setting up effects, there's lots of tutorials online. Also www.gnome-look.org has themes.

I'd do all that after you let Ubuntu update itself. You will notice that it needs to be updated right after you install it by the icon near the top right. Might also want to go to System -> Administration -> Software Sources, and change the download from, the default server tends to go really slow it seems... I recommend the New Zealand server.

I prefer neither Mac nor Vista. I'm still using XP and loving it.

Hmm, having some trouble getting the wireless connection to work.

That's the only problem I have so far.

What kind of wireless card?

The wireless card on my first laptop worked out of the box.

However on the other two laptops, I had to plug the network cable in directly, let Ubuntu update, then it worked fine. It's probably because your wireless card uses a closed source driver, hence why it doesn't work out of the box, since the Ubuntu distro doesn't include any closed source software by default. If you update, then click around, maybe in System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers, you might find the proprietary drivers in there.

If it doesn't start working after the update, you can get something called Ndiswrapper from the Add/Remove programs. It's a tool that simply let's you use the Windows Driver, just either download the windows driver for your card, or find it on your Windows partition, and point Ndiswrapper to it.

I have an Intel pro wireless 3945abg card.

Intel seems to have some sort of driver for it, but as for doing this stuff in Linux... well, I fail. Guess I've been using windows too long. I don't mind the learning curve, though. Seems worth it.

Ahah! I got it working with the wireless jazz. Seems I need to be more patient and let it update before jumping the gun with ndiswrapper or it's GUI counterpart.

Patience is today's word.

Looking forward to this.

After I fix the fonts and the colors. I can barely read websites!

Lol. Yea, I was saying, let it update with an ethernet connection first, heh. Also the main server it updates is usually slow, hence why I recommended the New Zealand server.

As for fonts/colors, that's odd. What do you mean? Is it a firefox problem?

Also they started updating Gnome-mud again... which they are trying to turn into a zMud level mud client. It supports Python scripting, so it seems workable.

Bah, I can't get the scripting to work right, so close, and yet, so far.

The scripting in what? Gnome-mud? Mushclient? Something not related to Mudding at all?

Eh, being specific might help


Mush Client, think it's having XML troubles right now.

Ah well, guess I'll write my own LUA system for a hobby.

Ah but Mushclient works fine for you under Wine? Cool, I'll have to grab it.

Learning Lua will benefit you in the future as well.

Python is included in Ubuntu by default, you can use the interpreter through the terminal or download another IDE. There is one in the Add/Remove called IDLE which works nicely. If you ever feel like learning it. Grab a decent book, it's actually a very versatile language, extremely easy to pick up and learn. It will serve your well in the future to start learning now.

Also, how do you like Ubuntu so far? Did you grab the Advanced Desktop Effect Settings thing through Add/Remove? That'll let you start setting up all the nifty graphical things customized to your liking. Also grab a theme from Gnome-look.org (look at the themes under Gtk 2.x). There's even a theme to make it look identical to Mac OSX.

Also there is GDM themes on that website to change what your login screen looks like. Also Splash screens to change your boot screen (rather than the standard orange Ubuntu with a black background and loading bar) and predefined Compiz settings (if you don't feel like doing them yourself through the Advanced Desktop Effect Settings).

Desklets and Screenlets are the crazy little floating sidebars and dockable things that show like clocks/weather cpu temperatures mem-usage etc. Pretty cool, a lot of people like them, I'm not a fan personally.

This is my login screen:

I have a matching splash screen for booting too.


Though there is tons of other cool ones, I think this one is pretty nifty: