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Also, how do I get code to show up in my posts here?! I used to be able to wrap the code in code tags, or quote tags, or *something*, but none of that works anymore, apparently. It just shows blank...

In the configuration window for the paned browser view, I can specify tags, but is there any way for me to display playlists in the paned browser as well? I know I can switch to the playlists view,...

I upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10 (I think) and my system seemed to break in a lot of places and never really worked the same from then on. To be fair, I was already moving away from Ubuntu in spirit,...

I had a similar experience with LMDE when I first tried it (around Update Pack 4, I believe). Somewhere along the pipeline before Update Pack 5/6, though, a lot of the kinks got worked out for my...

I've been looking at the Ubuntu tablets (http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/tablet) but I'm wondering how upgrading is going to work. I assume that the tablet will run a LTS support release, but...

I'll second Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). I've found that it offers a good mix of stability and rolling updates because they push out a frozen, tested copy of Debian Testing's repositories on a...

I'm considering moving my main laptop from Ubuntu 12.04 to one of the community versions of Red Hat Linux, most likely Scientific Linux 6.3. These are the changes I'm expecting initially:

1....

I download Vega Strike 0.5.1.r1 from this link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vegastrike/files/vegastrike/0.5.1/vegastrike-data-0.5.1.r1.tar.bz2/download

I extracted the archive and ran


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How embarrassing. My edit (adding public_html after server in the .htaccess file) fixed the problem. Apparently I was much too hasty in posting my original question.

I'm trying to use a .htaccess file to redirect URL's to a front controller on my server, but I'm having trouble enabling .htaccess files. I searched around for a while and found information stating...

Is there software for Ubuntu (ideally, Linux in general) that allows for mouse navigation using a mouse grid? On Windows, the speech recognition software has this feature, where a grid displays (see...

I created a new profile and re-installed the extensions I previously had, one by one, and everything is working now. This is strange to me because I had only installed three extensions (NoScript,...

I get this set of errors:



(firefox:18706): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(firefox:18706): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in...

I'm running ubuntu 11.10 x86, and I just installed firefox 8 through the standard update channel (no PPAs) and it crashes immediately upon start. I removed the global menu addon and tried to run it...

Thanks for the help; that's a great link that you posted, and it's been quite helpful. The script is working great now. No .sh extension, just executing the script, plain and simply. The $0 was my...

Thanks for the help; I realised that I needed a different package than gretl, so I didn't need to trouble myself with all of it anyway.

What kind of computer do you have and what network controller(s) are you using? Could you post the results of



lspci


for us, within code tags? (Click on the number/hash sign when you post...

How do I add packages.debian.org to my sources.list so I can install the latest version of gretl for Ubuntu 11.04 (since the default version is broken). The gretl site says that this is the...

I'm trying to write a bash script that calls ffmpeg to convert an avi file to an mp4 file. This is the code:



ffmpeg -i "$0" -acodec libfaac -ab 128k -vcodec libx264 -vpre baseline -s 320x240...

Maybe look at this entire thread too: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11163026#post11163026

The Lenovo Thinkpad's, specifically the Realtek wireless chips they're often using now, have...

I'm trying to set up my ubuntu system to use TOR globally, in all applications, but I can't seem to find any instructions for the newer releases, so everything I find it years out of date. Right now,...

I installed TOR by following the documentation on their website, as follows:
I added this to my /etc/apt/sources.list file
deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org natty mainI added the gpg...

I changed AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All, and it's working. Thank you for the help!

My default file has this as its DocumentRoot entries that pertains to /var/www:


DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
...

I'm not entirely sure how to check what the DocumentRoot is set to, but I haven't changed it, and the files are in /var/www/project/. If I browse to http://localhost/project/ or...