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2 Hours Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread can some one suggest me any Dictionary software? in The Cafe

This is kind of old-school, but I just install dictd on my system along with a selection of dict modules available in the repositories. Then you can...

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23 Hours Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread Too Many Distros? in Recurring Discussions

In my city, there is a Mexican restaurant on just about every other block. Most of them serve pretty much the same food, which they probably buy...

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1 Day Ago

HermanAB replied to a thread PDF editing in General Help

Howdy, Yes you can edit one or two of those using the Gimp, but it will take forever to do hundreds.

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1 Day Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread Which Ubuntu Laptop Should I Get for College? in The Cafe

Dell dabbles in supporting Linux. System76 has built its business around supporting Linux. If I had money to spend I'd spend mine with...

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1 Day Ago

lykwydchykyn replied to a thread parental control in Absolute Beginners Section

Offhand I don't know of a way to limit the *amount* of time the child can be logged in -- there used to be a program called timekpr that could do...

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1 Day Ago

Roasted replied to a thread New Cloud Sync service Copy.com in The Cafe

Yeah - it totally depends on your situation. In my case, I already had a server running at home for various tasks with 3TB of RAID'd storage. In the...

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1 Day Ago

Roasted replied to a thread Which Ubuntu Laptop Should I Get for College? in The Cafe

Having bounced around through a few different sized laptops, I can say that bigger is better. At least, for me. At work I had a 13" ultrabook and I...

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1 Day Ago

Roasted replied to a thread RaspPi, OpenELEC, XBMC... a full distro possible? in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

I kind of thought that might be the case. It's truly remarkable how terrific it runs with OpenELEC (XBMC)... I'm continuously surprised by it. That...

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1 Day Ago

HermanAB replied to a thread is there autofix tool ? in General Help

Hmm, why do you think that you have problems that need fixing? You need to be a leeeetle more specific.

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1 Day Ago

HermanAB replied to a thread samba sharing in Absolute Beginners Section

Howdy, The best way to debug Samba is with a program called 'smbclient'. Read the man page. The advantage is that it will give error messages,...

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1 Day Ago

HermanAB replied to a thread I want access to my files but forgot Linux login password & partition is encrypted in Absolute Beginners Section

Howdy, The purpose of encryption is to protect your data. Linux encryption is very good at that and is used for military systems too. You need...

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1 Day Ago

lisati replied to a thread most facebook photos dont show up in General Help

The reason I asked this earlier is that I have seen a similar effect on a machine at work running Windows and a flaky WiFi connection. Sometimes it...

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1 Day Ago

lisati replied to a thread How to change Prefix to Solved? in Forum Feedback & Help

Thread moved to Forum Feedback & Help. Glad to see that a solution has been found!

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1 Day Ago

t0p replied to a thread What is a Raspberry Pi? in The Cafe

I live in the UK, and have been comparing Raspberry PIs on ebay.com and ebay.co.uk. The prices on the .com (USA a presume) are generally better than...

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1 Day Ago

t0p replied to a thread HP 255 Laptop Lists Ubuntu As OS Option ! in The Cafe

It's nice to see Ubuntu or Linux mentioned by manufacturers, but sadly it doesn't mean that much. For instance, go to a site like www.maplin.co.uk...

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1 Day Ago

lykwydchykyn started a thread X11 crash on thin clients in General Help

I'm running LTSP on Ubuntu 12.04. My clients keep having X11 crashes at random moments which leave them at a black screen. I grabbed an Xorg log...

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