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  1. Re: Nvidia Gforce FX5500 right drivers to work with Svideo output

    Sorry to be the one to give you the bad news, but the FX5500 is a very ancient card. The last Nvidia driver to support it was 173.1439 released in almost 2 years ago. Are you trying to use the Nvidia...
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    Re: 14.10 bug: rc.local is not executed

    How do you know it's not running? Where would 'echo' send output during the boot process? Try sending it to a file.

    Also, stuff executed from rc.local does not live in your user account. The...
  3. [ubuntu] Re: Cant upgrade Virtualbox on Ubuntu 14.04.1

    Your virtual machines live in a folder called "VirtualBox VMs" in your home folder. Removing the VirtualBox programs does not delete that folder and, of course, you've got that folder adequately...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Clean hdd/ssd Ubuntu install

    Actually, TRIM has nothing to do with the HDD or caching. TRIM is a way for the OS to tell the SSD what parts of the drive are unused (freed from previous use). That way the SSD can efficiently...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Clean hdd/ssd Ubuntu install

    You might want ask Microsoft that question. Was it backing up your data too?
    I have a tons of stuff installed on my Ubuntu / paritition and it's about 7.1 GB


    One problem (there are many others)...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Clean hdd/ssd Ubuntu install

    With ANY OS, you should be putting the system on the SSD. The vast majority of OS activity is reading executable files from disk and that where the SSD rocks. The old days of being overly concerned...
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    [SOLVED] Re: SED Question, please.

    sed is a line oriented program. You need something like awk. Personally, I'd write a quick ruby program.
  8. Re: visudo

    The EDITOR variable is used by many, many programs and they will all run: "nano visudo" + their arguments (usually another file name to edit) instead of just "nano" + their own arguments. You do NOT...
  9. Re: Open Nautilus with SUDO abilities via script

    Don't put "visudo" in your EDITOR variable, just the name of the editor. visudo uses EDITOR to select your desired editor.
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    Re: I Have Really Slow Boot Times 13.10 (includes Bootchart)

    That bootchart is too small to read in any detail.....

    I agree with oldfred, look at the boot log to see if anything unusual stands out.
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    Re: How to Reduce Size on Disk

    Actually, for stuff like this you want the 'du' command. Disk Usage.
  12. Re: g++ and CPU processors problem (Ubuntu 12.04)

    Any decent hardware design takes these things into account. If you use some cheap stuff (like the ones that share CPU cache), then performance will be impacted.
  13. Re: g++ and CPU processors problem (Ubuntu 12.04)

    There are always potential bottlenecks in parallel processing, like disk I/O.

    Is there some resource that your parallel processes must share?
  14. Re: g++ and CPU processors problem (Ubuntu 12.04)

    Also, for monitoring CPU and Memory usage: htop
  15. Re: g++ and CPU processors problem (Ubuntu 12.04)

    Take a look at GNU Parallel. It works like magic.

    https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
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    Re: What can Windows do that Linux can't?

    Is this thread about what the two operating systems are capable of or about what software is available for each?

    Many people here can't seem to tell the difference between these two.
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    Re: Things that cannot be done in Linux distros

    There is no technical reason that CADD software cannot be made to run under Linux.
    Open Source is NOT a requirement to run under Linux.
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    [xubuntu] Re: Xubuntu 13.04 installing grub on raid.

    /boot should NOT be on a RAID array. The mdadm module will not be ready at kernel load time.
    Create a separate normal partition for /boot
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    [xubuntu] Re: Xubuntu 13.04 installing grub on raid.

    Those are good points Darkod, I never bothered with fakeraid. I've always use mdadm, which works great once you get it set up properly.
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    [xubuntu] Re: Xubuntu 13.04 installing grub on raid.

    As far as I know, there is no way to have /boot on a RAID0 partition. The /boot directory contains the kernel and has to available before the RAID drivers can be loaded. On my system in the past, I...
  21. Re: So I enabled UEFI in my BIOS; Reaction = O.O

    I don't see why not... hibernation copys RAM to permanent disk.
  22. Re: So I enabled UEFI in my BIOS; Reaction = O.O

    For the laptop, I use hibernation. Therefore, no reboot to bring the machine up and no power drain.
  23. Re: So I enabled UEFI in my BIOS; Reaction = O.O

    Sure, but how often to you need to reboot a Linux machine?
  24. Re: very stupid software center !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG ,

    Look in the install history log in /var/log/apt/
  25. Re: So I enabled UEFI in my BIOS; Reaction = O.O

    It must be horrible having to wait for that extra 2-3 seconds to get a log in prompt.
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