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1 Hour Ago

HermanAB replied to a thread Setting Swap Size in Absolute Beginners Section

Hmm, it is a laptop, so you probably want to use Suspend when you snap the lid shut. Therefore you should set the swap size to at least 2x RAM size....

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1 Hour Ago

coffeecat replied to a thread RTL8191SEvB not working on 13.04 in Networking & Wireless

Moved to own thread. (Different kernel from original thread.)

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3 Hours Ago

r-senior replied to a thread Beginning to program in Programming Talk

It's the standard GUI toolkit for Java. Cross-platform, quite nicely designed but can be ugly, especially on Linux desktops. It used to be really...

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3 Hours Ago

varunendra replied to a thread RTL8191SEvB not working on 13.04 in Networking & Wireless

Thanks for pointing that out, I really missed it earlier :) Although it shouldn't affect the patch since basic build process is same. However,...

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5 Hours Ago

varunendra replied to a thread Cant connect to wired network (ARGH!!!); 12.04 in Networking & Wireless

Are you sure the IP address is both correct and is not in conflict with another machine on the network? Can you verify the router/gateway's IP on...

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5 Hours Ago

sandyd replied to a thread Virtualizing FreeNas on Ubuntu 12.04LTS in Server Platforms

Proxmox works with freenas as well you could just install virt-manager and use KVM as well for a non-web gui-feel

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6 Hours Ago

ranger1021994 started a thread AppArmor trouble in Security Discussions

When i run aa-status / apparmor_status , I get this : I have installed apparmor-profiles and apparmor-utils I have pf kernel 3.9.2 installed. ...

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7 Hours Ago

varunendra replied to a thread Ethernet and wifi not working in Networking & Wireless

LocoMotor101, First of all, please use 'Code' tags (that we are using to post commands) to post command outputs. It preserves their formatting and...

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7 Hours Ago

andrew.46 replied to a thread HOWTO: Install and use the latest FFmpeg and x264 in Tutorials

I see ftp support is in place for FFmpeg, has anybody got it working? I have tried and failed several times :(

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8 Hours Ago

andrew.46 replied to a thread FFmpeg Mplayer VLC - News & Howtos in Multimedia & Video

For those who do not follow the svn MPlayer there is an MPlayer release earlier this month: 1.1.1. A few details here: ...

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8 Hours Ago

cortman replied to a thread Broadcom BCM4312 in Networking & Wireless

I'm looking to see what modules are loaded and what hardware is detected. Go ahead and post it in Spanish. It shouldn't make much difference.

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8 Hours Ago

varunendra replied to a thread RTL8191SEvB not working on 13.04 in Networking & Wireless

Hi adrdown, welcome to the forums ! :) Let's do some routine checks first to make sure you are trying the correct driver for correct device....

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8 Hours Ago

cortman replied to a thread Cannot access Wired settings in Networking & Wireless

Not to interrupt praseodym's line of inquiry, but I'm interested in what would be listed from the command ifconfig

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8 Hours Ago

cortman replied to a thread lubuntu-rc.xml - stickykeys, brightness, keymaping, voice-command in Absolute Beginners Section

Edit the autostart file for #1. Either Openbox's autostart, or else follow the instructions for LXDE here. On #2, this may be of help. Here is some...

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8 Hours Ago

cortman replied to a thread Connect Ubuntu 8.04 to VGA projector in Hardware

Actually 10.04 is EOL as well. Use 12.04 for an LTS. On a laptop that old installing regular Ubuntu is going to be agonizingly slow. Do give Lubuntu...

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8 Hours Ago

cortman replied to a thread Best programming language to learn next? in Programming Talk

Perl. Python. If you know C I would say work with it the most.

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8 Hours Ago

cortman replied to a thread Setting Swap Size in Absolute Beginners Section

AMD64 is what the architecture is often referred to. I don't think it's incorrectly saying you have an AMD processor.

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8 Hours Ago

cortman replied to a thread bash shell - problem assigning expression to variable in Programming Talk

One problem you have is with using the variable $USER. That it is a system reserved variable, for printing the name of the current (you guessed it)...

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8 Hours Ago

cortman replied to a thread Installing Ubuntu onto SD card in Absolute Beginners Section

To be honest it's probably easiest to do this in Windows. Download LinuxLiveUSB Creator (Lili) and install the ISO image to the SDCard with it....

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8 Hours Ago

cortman replied to a thread Broadcom BCM4312 in Networking & Wireless

Please post the output of lspci and lsmod

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8 Hours Ago

cortman replied to a thread Can't play midi files in General Help

You probably didn't check the box to install third-party media plugins at installation. Depending what media player you're using it will give you the...

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9 Hours Ago

andrew.46 replied to a thread How to convert to .mp4 (for streaming)? in General Help

I would be the wrong person to advise on PPAs as, against current thinking in Ubuntu, I don't believe they are such a good thing. IMHO your best bet...

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