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Soz Dino, the problem still appears to exist.

I tried to install 12.10 64-bit into a brand new PC (i7, 8Gb RAM, 1Tb HDD) from an ISO I downloaded on December 17th. Firefox won't connect to the...

FWIW I configured the BIOS on my Dell XPS 430 to look for an external SATA drive as the first stop in the boot chain, then the internal drive.

I have Ubuntu installed as the only O/S on the...

Following suggestions in Firefox help I modified my Firefox startup command to preload libGL.so.1 and then disabled video acceleration.

Now everything works a treat.

Thanks to all contributors...

Disabling video acceleration worked a treat.

Thanks Rawlins02

I have a similar problem. I'm running a clean install of Ubuntu 10.4 32 bit with Firefox 3.6.8 and flash plugin 10.1.82.76ubuntu0.10.04.2.

Viewing a Youtube video works fine until I go to full...

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Have you tried using VirtualBox?

I'd guess you're trying to install from an upgrade CD and what you need is a full install CD.

XP in VirtualBox works absolutely fine for me.

:map G g. This will last until you exit your current vim session or give the command :map G G. You can map pretty well any key to anything this way. One command I use a lot when I'm searching for a...

The usual use of "at" is to execute scripts or programmes.

If you created a script with your commands in, then gave the instruction (assuming your script is called 'testit.sh')

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I'm running Lucid Lynx on a Dell XPS430. This was an update from Karmic Koala which was an upgrade from an earlier version.....

Recently the computer has been stalling on the splash screen and now...

O'Reilly have a good book - "MySQL & mSQL". Also there is a SAMS publication called "Teach yourself SQL in 10 minutes" The title is a bit optimistic but it's a handy pocket-sized reference.

I...

2.6.28-14-generic

I've got a very similar situation on my Dell quad 4 with Jaunty.

I'm getting sick of these "updates" which only serve to slow your system down. That's the reason why I left Bill Gates in the first...

I've been using rsync to backup my entire installation onto an eSata drive each day.

Recently I allowed the Update Manager to install some bug & security fixes which resulted in my PC (Dell XPS...

I have a Tomtom XL 30 and have been having similar problems. Even though Ubuntu/Wine/VirtualBox won't recognise the GPS as a USB device, Ubuntu will recognise it as a mountable external drive. Once...

You could try something like this.

In my system, I added my external eSata to /etc/fstab with
/dev/sdb1 ext3 relatime,error

The next step is to mount this to a mount point. Because I may not...

Tell 'em they're dreamin'

If your external HDD is eSata, you can install virtualbox on that. All your VMs will also be installed on it too.

The way I do it (I switched from MS Windows to Linux after my new computer from...

Hi again

I've sorted the problem out by using Synaptic to reinstall gimp 2.6.

For some strange reason neither apt-get nor the Gnome Add/Remove tool would do the decent.

Many thanks for your...

I'd strongly suggest you take a look at Sun's Virtualbox. You would load the app itself on your main HDD and the Virtual Machine(s) on your external. Vista would not be affected in the slightest and...

Hi taurus

I installed 2.2 and then uninstalled it and reinstalled GIMP 2.6.

The result from the command line is

fred@fred-desktop:~$ gimp
bash: /usr/local/bin/gimp: No such file or...

Thanks for jumping on this so quickly.

If I type gimp on the command line, it tries to install version 2.2 which I remember downloading a couple of weeks ago when I wanted to install Gimpshop. The...

Depending on what you want to do with the Ubuntu distro, you may like to have a look at Sun's Virtualbox. They distribute it free for home use and it allows you to set up fully functioning virtual...

Have you confirmed that the CD drive actually appears in your device table?

It should look something like

root@fred-desktop:/dev# l scd*
brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2009-05-19 09:40 scd0...