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So recently I wanted to reinstall windows, something I like to do a couple times a year.

After cleaning up unused partitions using gparted, leaving only my ubuntu partition and home partition...

It looks like I got this working now. I tried the alternate install disk, but that failed to detect the packages on the usb.
So then I tried the mini install, which appears to be working so far,...

to install 64bit java for minecraft, it doesn't run so good with 32bit

try downloading via torrent as it does extra checking to verify file integrity

I recently noticed that my ubuntu install on my htpc was 32bit instead of 64bit.

So I wanted to fix this and get 64bit on there, so after I boot up from my usb stick, the (kernel?) initialization...

though it would help if you actually gave the output of ''startx', instead of "a bunch of text flew"

But I also recently tried updating my X11 to the dev version which caused X not to start...

After just deciding to deal with this problem for the last couple months, I finally found the solution well trying to solve a different problem with youtube.

I just needed to remove...

Whenever I try to fullscreen a youtube video the video freezes and after a few seconds I get a message saying "Compiz has closed unexpectedly"

this only happens with videos from youtube, videos...

YES!! we are back.. Gratz UbuntuForums Team
however Im still having this firefox issue.. So, I hope someone can help :)

I just reinstalled ubuntu yesterday,
shortly after the reinstall I was using a seperate program as root then after opening the help menu in this program it tried to open a web page and browser also...

Im not sure about windows 8, but in windows 7 I could fix the missing windows boot files by booting the windows install disk/usb then going to a command prompt and running "bootsect /nt60 C:", then...

click "edit" post, then click "Go Advanced", then you should be able to pick 'Solved' from the prefix at the top

Thanks, just what I needed.
I got the following to work as I wanted

cmd=`echo "/usr/bin/java $tmp" | sudo nice -n -10 bash -c 'su -lm demon'`




Thanks, I think I might have to use...

I have a process (java) that I want to run at a lower niceness, currently I run 'sudo renice' on the process, but I want a way to automate it.
I tried making a script which would run 'sudo nice',...

I already have rtmpdump installed from apt-get, but that version of rtmpdump doesn't seem to work properly, rtmpsrv works fine.

So I tried compiling the newest version from...

heya,
Im trying to setup a virtual lab with VirtualBox, using 2 Ubuntu guests and 1 XP.
Each of the guests are attached to the VirtualBox internal network.

I have one of the Ubuntu Guests...

thanks, dash was the problem.
Im now getting familiar compile messages.

Hi all, I bought a external wifi dongle a few months back but I cant seem to get the driver to compile.

I got the driver from...

cpan is perls module manager, you could install this module by typing from a terminal


cpan Tk

open a terminal windows,
cd to the directory you copied files too
type


sudo chmod -R 777 /home/user/filesfolder

replace '/home/user/filesfolder' with the path where your files are located....

You need to set the boot priority to boot from usb before the harddrive, but this is where you need to do a little investigative work, because the USB stick could be detected as anything, on my pc my...

Yes account settings work in chromium,
In 10.10 I was using google chrome, had it setup with addons, bookmarks, history, games, apps... etc
then when I installed chromium on 12.04 it was all there,...

Have you tried the latest chromium?
I was a google-chrome fan, but since it hasnt been included in the repos in 12.04 I gave chromium a try, and its pretty much identical to google-chrome.
All my...

so will it even boot the live cd/usb?

Did your usb have multiple partitions?
I install win 7 via USB all the time. But once I was trying to make a multi-partition/multi-boot usb, and whenever I tried booting win7 setup from a non 1st...