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I love Break.com, much better than other video clip sites, although not that many clips get posted, but damn they are funny. However in Firefox on Linux/Ubuntu is loads bloody slow. Mainly because of Flash issue, but what is Firefox could open more pipeline to a website??

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I like Ubuntu.. much better than XP, Vista and 7… it is much more clean OS. But, lets face it, I need it for everyday use, I do not need some features and I would like it to be a little faster.

So, how do we make this happen? I Google’d and found Ubuntu Hack – How to Make Ubuntu run Super Fast! and the tips are really good. However, I still need some of basic things there, like the network manager. I read the article, did a bit of research and came to the conslusion, that the following would be the best choices for me.

1. Disable Compiz

Yes, it is very nice, but do I really need a fancy cube to switch my desktops and flashy effects. No, not really, if I did, I would run Vista. (NOTE: I decided to keep Compiz anyway, just because it is nice to have some flashy effects)

2. Enable Concurrency

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I needed some data from my other harddrive in my laptop, my work harddrive, but the harddrive is NTFS formatted and this is something that again is not natively supported.

I Google’d and found that NTFS-3G offers the best NTFS support, both for read and write. However, I am not planning to do any writing to my work harddrive, since NTFS has always been an issue in Linux and one write might break the entire partition.

Looking at the NTFS-3G website, there was too many instructions for my taste, so I thought of the easiest way, just using features already available in Ubuntu.

Here is how to get it working….

1. Go to Add/Remove

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