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Ubuntu 12.04 x64
ATI Radeon HD 4290 video card using the proprietary FLGRX driver

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I have a computer I'm using as a media and web server. It's connected to my tv using...

After giving it a try for the last month, I decided to ditch Unity and switch to the EFL version of the old netbook launcher. To gain the ability to modify the panel, I followed the steps on this...

PS3 = PlayStation 3
media server = UPnP media server

As I said, though, it could have just been coincidence that I lost the VNC connection and the PS3's connection to the media server at the same...

Hrm... except that the PS3 lost connection to the media server at the same time as I lost the VNC connection, I'd say that this might be the problem. I had a similar issue previously in which...

I'm using my netbook to connect to my headless media server using VNC over ssh, using the following in a script.
ssh -f -L 5900:localhost:5900 matt@$xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx x11vnc -safer -localhost -nopw \...

Ok... I seems like I've solved the problem. Unity apparently requires desktop files to have a Category parameter in order to show up on the Applications screen. It doesn't seem to matter what the...

Yep. I had to do that to get it to show up on the Unity launcher bar. But the same program isn't showing up on the Unity Applications screen. For this particular program, it doesn't matter since I...

So I'm trying out the new netbook edition, and it has potential, but I've run into one major snag. I have a few scripts and 3rd-party apps that I normally add to the applications menu using Alacarte...

Memory isn't the same as storage. If you're actually getting a memory error, then you have insufficient memory/swap. OTOH, if the error says something about insufficient space, then that pertains...

It won't actually take any processing cycles at all except when you quit the program. Unless you specifically tell it otherwise, a script will wait for a command to finish before moving along to the...

If you removed the indicator applet (the one with the envelope icon, where the volume icon is located as of 10.04), then you'll need to add /usr/bin/gnome-volume-control-applet to your startup...

You need to install the unrar package from the multiverse repository. While I'd also suggest installing the p7zip-rar package, I'm not sure it integrates into File Roller. Once you've installed...

I usually use separate / and /home partitions, for basically the same reasons as stated by the OP. *nix systems were designed to be spread across numerous physical and logical drives, and as long as...

"Lightweight" is a relative term... Ubuntu is certainly lighter than Windows 7/Vista, though. and can be run with no graphical desktop environment, which can further free up system resources.
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I had this problem recently in setting up a headless media server which I wanted to be able to connect to using VNC through ssh.

The problem is due to KMS (kernel-mode-setting), which detects the...

Well, the simplest (but not necessarily best) way to do it would be to write a simple script that runs the program from within a while loop, similar to the following.
#! /bin/sh

while [ true ];...

If they aren't in your trash, then not really.

Avidemux can work with the mp4 container and aac audio just fine, but it tends to crash a lot when working with h.264 video. Also, even if it doesn't crash, it uses a "safe" mode that causes you to...

So you can get the newest versions of various apps?

While I can't see your attachment -- the forum says it's invalid for some reason -- nothing you mention in your post seems like it would be...

Yeah... asking "Why does my CPU/memory keep pegging 100%?" is like telling the doctor "Why do I have a fever?". Without more information, it's impossible to diagnose. I don't think anyone doubts...

Not to dampen your spirits, but have you tried the many, many other media players available for linux other than Totem (Ubuntu's default multimedia player) or Rhythmbox (Ubuntu's default music...

While I normally suggest using a 64-bit OS if your architecture is capable of running it (which yours is, as I have the same CPU and am running the x64 versions of both Ubuntu and Windows 7), if you...

The standard locations for locally installed software are /usr/local/bin, /opt, and a bin directory in a user's home directory (though the latter is generally for personal scripts, not full...

The smallest official variant of Ubuntu is Xubuntu, using the xfce desktop environment. I don't know how big the final installation size is, but you need 192MB of memory to run the LiveCD, so I'd...

If the mobo is doing the RAIDing, then by the time you get to the point of installing the OSes, all you'll see is one "drive" (or rather two, if you're also using the IDE drive) rather than the...