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    [SOLVED] Re: I've managed to lock up the terminal

    Thank you, everyone. I have the terminal back and synaptic made installing the MS fonts a breeze, so it looks as if I'm good to go. I appreciate all the help -- and trust me, I need all the help I...
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    [SOLVED] Re: I've managed to lock up the terminal

    And to manually remove it?
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    [SOLVED] Re: I've managed to lock up the terminal

    I have no clue which of the hundred processes the system monitor is showing me is the culprit. I was downloading and installing the Ubuntu extras when the process was interrupted. Here is another...
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    [SOLVED] Re: I've managed to lock up the terminal

    unattended-upgrades is not installed.
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    [SOLVED] I've managed to lock up the terminal

    My terminal is being held by an apt-get command and is doing nothing. All I was doing was installing the restricted extras on my new system. I'm using 20.04.3. How do I kill the process? BTW I am...
  6. Re: 5 Things We (Secretly All) Miss About Ubuntu

    I just installed 16.04 on a Thinkpad 11 that was running Win8.01. Yawn! It was a no-brainer. Everything works as advertised. I hardly noticed that I had changed my OS. What a far cry from 9 years ago...
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    [ubuntu] Re: I can't play a DVD film in Ubuntu

    Thanks. Had the same problem. Downloaded the restricted extras, but did not realize I also had to run an install. Anyway, I'm good to go now.
  8. [ubuntu] Re: Problem upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04 (stops)

    A simple search on *generating locales* would have shown you many threads on this topic. Here's one: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=865679&highlight=generating+locales
  9. [ubuntu] Re: Hardy 8.04 update freezes on generating locales

    Well, I got bit by this too. The upgrade from Fiesty to Hardy on my Dell E1505n (Dell-installed Ubuntu) went flawlessly a while back. So I waited three months for all the bugs to get worked out,...
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    [ubuntu] Hardy upgrade using update manager

    After any updates I have the box to check if I want to upgrade from Gutsy to Hardy automatically. The text says this is 8.04 LTS. Question: will I be downloading the base Hardy released in April,...
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    [ubuntu] Re: blank DVD's not recognized

    Sorry about my hasty/sloppy writing. Reads and writes (burns) CDs fine. Reads, but does not write (burn) DVDs.
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    [ubuntu] Re: blank DVD's not recognized

    Well, this issue has now been resolved for me after posting to the Dell Linux forums, and it was a d'oh moment!!!

    PhillyFloyd over at Dell had me type this command in a terminal window:

    sudo...
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    [ubuntu] Re: My Mouse Randomly Goes Berserk!

    Well, Kamitsukai, it may not be your mouse. My cursor has seizures periodically such as you describe, and I use a new US$40 Logitech. Not as drastic a problem, though; mostly just wandering off to...
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    [ubuntu] Re: need a website builder, have a domain

    For a regular website Kompozer rules. It's the OSS equivalent of Dreamweaver -- easy to use, yet very powerful.
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    [ubuntu] Re: blank DVD's not recognized

    So if this is a hardware issue, how can I test it within Ubuntu since I don't have dual boot capability with Windows? I'm using a Dell E1505n laptop preloaded with Ubuntu. Hardware is warranted,...
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    [ubuntu] Re: blank DVD's not recognized

    I have the same problem in Gutsy, and was hoping it would be fixed in Hardy. No problems with CDs, but DVDs of any flavor aren't recognized. Here's the tread:...
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    Poll: Re: What is your age and what do you use ubuntu for?

    64 - I was missing DOS!
  18. Poll: Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    Flawless upgrade from fiesty to gutsy on a Dell E1505n -- thanks Ubuntu! There was a minor problem with fuzzy fonts in Firefox, but a quick forum search told me to change the font rendering from...
  19. Thread: Short Survey

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    Re: Short Survey

    Took the survey thinking it was a marketing student project. Then why, at the end, was I dumped here: www.openbluelab.org/ instead of being returned to the forum? Almost seems as if openbluelab is...
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