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10 Hours Ago

oldos2er replied to a thread Hyjacked by Firefox in Absolute Beginners Section

gabmuks, which version of Ubuntu are you running?

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11 Hours Ago

QIII replied to a thread Installing Java in Absolute Beginners Section

webupd8.org is highly trusted. Do you have any better insight into what happens when you install something from the official repos? All the webupd8...

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14 Hours Ago

oldos2er replied to a thread Problem with update in terminal mode in General Help

Post moved to its own thread.

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1 Day Ago

QIII replied to a thread Suggest A linux Project in General Help

A VM is a great thing for learning. You can break things, figure out how you broke them and figure out how to fix them all without having to worry. ...

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1 Day Ago

QIII replied to a thread What is a Raspberry Pi? in The Cafe

They are inexpensive and they are a fully functional computer.

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1 Day Ago

QIII replied to a thread What is a Raspberry Pi? in The Cafe

As an inexpensive platform for studying computer science, actually. But it is a computer and a lot of people use them for a lot of purposes. ...

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1 Day Ago

QIII replied to a thread What is a Raspberry Pi? in The Cafe

It's a full fledged (if not very powerful) computer. It even outputs HD video.

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1 Day Ago

QIII replied to a thread مرحبا بكم في رابطة اوبونتو قطر in Qatar Team

;) Not bad for an old cowboy from Montana, eh?

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1 Day Ago

oldos2er replied to a thread Several issues after upgradeing kubuntu 12.10 to 13.04 in Installation & Upgrades

Can you post the output from the following command? cat /etc/default/grub

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1 Day Ago

QIII replied to a thread مرحبا بكم في رابطة اوبونتو قطر in Qatar Team

This is posted in a Loco Team area where Arabic is likely the spoken language.

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1 Day Ago

oldos2er replied to a thread Paging Dr.Konqi in General Help

You're welcome.

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1 Day Ago

oldos2er replied to a thread low on hard disk space? in General Help

ozanne, since memory (RAM) and hard disk space are two very different things, I've changed the thread title. You could install Ubuntu on your...

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1 Day Ago

oldos2er replied to a thread Start in command line, LILO in Absolute Beginners Section

In terminal, run cd /etc/default/ sudo cp grub grub.backup sudo nano grub Change the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash quiet" to...

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1 Day Ago

oldos2er replied to a thread partial build command in General Help

Closed, please don't create more than one thread for the same or similar questions; it's confusing and it dilutes community effort.

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1 Day Ago

oldos2er replied to a thread Paging Dr.Konqi in General Help

I believe you're looking for the package kubuntu-debug-installer.

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1 Day Ago

oldos2er replied to a thread problem using ld to link 64 bit executable in Programming Talk

Moved to Programming Talk.

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2 Days Ago

QIII replied to a thread Tug of war - Community vs Mods - to 200 (or -200) in Cafe Games

110

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2 Days Ago

oldos2er replied to a thread Error Message in Absolute Beginners Section

You don't know if you're using RAID on Windows or not? I'm afraid I can't help you there; hopefully someone else who can help will give you answer.

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2 Days Ago

QIII replied to a thread Upgrade to Firefox 21 in Ubuntu 13.04 in Absolute Beginners Section

I think the word you are looking for is "repository", not "respiratory". Did you check your download source as suggested? Are you using a mirror?...

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2 Days Ago

QIII replied to a thread Tug of war - Community vs Mods - to 200 (or -200) in Cafe Games

109 2/3 of my IQ! :D

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2 Days Ago

QIII replied to a thread Scratch disk error, need help please in Absolute Beginners Section

Hello and welcome to the Forums. Please use the default font and size. While it is certainly acceptable to use italics or bold to emphasize...

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2 Days Ago

QIII replied to a thread COMPLETELY Remove Java From System in Ubuntu Christian Edition

I don't think it's necessary to remove Java completely. The recent exploits you have read about, which are terrible and Oracle probably needs to...

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2 Days Ago

QIII replied to a thread Radeon proprietary Drivers in Multimedia & Video

My apologies! Yes, .bak

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2 Days Ago

QIII replied to a thread Upgrade to Firefox 21 in Ubuntu 13.04 in Absolute Beginners Section

Hello and welcome to the forums! When was the last time you did an update and upgrade/dist-upgrade? Thanks.

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2 Days Ago

QIII replied to a thread Volume controls not working on linux mint 14/15 in Other OS/Distro Support

Moved to Other OS/Distro Support

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2 Days Ago

oldos2er replied to a thread Installing/Unistalling Programs in Installation & Upgrades

Packages aren't "in" Synaptic, which is just a graphical front-end to APT (same as Software Center); they're in the repositories which are listed in...

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2 Days Ago

oldos2er replied to a thread running shells at startup in General Help

Once you've booted and logged in, you're in bash. You can change shells with the chsh command.

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2 Days Ago

QIII replied to a thread Ban The User Above You. in Cafe Games

Thread closed for staff review. Some seem to be finding great sport in flaunting the profanity rules.

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