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I've just installed Evolution as a replacement for Sylpheed in Lubuntu. Sylpheed had the built-in option to minimize to tray. Evolution doesn't have this function, but there is a plugin called...

I'm trying to use Evolution 3.16.0 (in Ubuntu GNOME 15.04) to access two Outlook.com email addresses. One account works flawlessly. The other will only load a portion of my emails and errors out. I...

I'm trying to use Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 on a tablet in touch mode, but having issues with the onscreen keyboard.

The onscreen keyboard only reveals when typing in certain places, and can be brought...

I attempted to rename several files using KRename. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but the files still show their old filename.

If I search for the new filename in either Nautilus or Nemo, the old...

Hi Jessie_James_A._At, this would have probably been the best solution, unfortunately the solution I found and tried was much more complicated and left my system unbootable.

Rather than trying to...

Additional Drivers wouldn't open, so I installed the NVIDIA driver from their website, and my computer became unbootable.

Further reading suggested that installing from the Nvidia website isn't...

Software Update informed me of a hardware update, which I installed. On reboot, my computer is now sluggish, my GNOME 3 desktop looks like GNOME 2 (and Unity has lost all tweaks), my NVIDIA settings...

Thank you everyone for your answers. When I install 14.04, I'll be creating just the initial user account, and I'll read the links posted to try and get a better grasp on Linux security.

Thanks...

In Windows, it is standard practice to create a user account without administrative privileges for security reasons. I'm not sure what the standard is for Macintosh, I never created an account in OS9...

Success! (Well, sort of...)


I managed to get Lubuntu 12.04 to install on a USB key using the alternate install ISO on a second USB key (I could have used a CD but I hate to burn one every time.)...

Tonight I checked the RAM, and it's the standard 64MB (although I truly remember being offered and accepting a RAM upgrade.) So I swapped in a 128MB module from my white dual-USB iBook and voila-...

This is mine, a bit older than yours:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ibook/specs/ibook_se.html

The current HD had OS9 on it, but I get a ? on startup, so probably it's dead, and I'm...

Yes they are all PowerPC iso's:

lubuntu-14.04-desktop-powerpc.iso
lubuntu-12.04-desktop-powerpc.iso
ubuntu-12.04-desktop-powerpc.iso
ubuntu-10.04-desktop-powerpc.iso...

Hi again,

I hope I'm not being too much trouble? I really appreciate all your advice.

I did check the md5sum against the following page and it matches in each instance:...

After a bit of trial and error, I figured out that even though the terminal reports that the transfer to USB is complete, it really isn't and I needed to wait a few minutes longer. However, I'm still...

EDIT: Never mind, I seemed to have fixed it!


I'm stuck on this bit... clearly I'm doing something wrong. It took me a while to figure out how to become su. Here's what I've got so far:


su...

Wow, thank you so much for the detailed response! I'm excited to try this out, but wondering if I need to buy a new/old USB key? I really missed this machine, so nice to have it out of the box again!...

I have an iBook G3 Special Edition, and I'm pretty sure the hard drive is dead (on startup, it flashes a question mark.) I thought I might try the 12.04 PowerPC Live CD to see if I can recover...

So sorry I never came back to this! Since the problem seemed to be Windows-related instead of caused by Ubuntu, I posted over at Bleeping Computer, solved the problem with EasyBCD and it slipped my...

Jonathan-

Sorry I never revisited this, it was never really 'solved' and I forgot about it. I ended up temporarily installing Fedora as a dual-boot and used it for maybe a year. Ultimately I came...

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 in a two-monitor setup; a laptop and a monitor. (The monitor is always plugged in but only occasionally used.)

When I empty the trash, a confirmation dialogue appears on the...

I dual boot Ubuntu 12.04 with Windows on my laptop. Originally the laptop came with Vista, but I've since installed Windows 7 over it. Both versions of Windows had the same issue.

I can shutdown...

If it happens again, I'll try that. Hopefully this is a rare occurrence, however!

Thanks for the links, coffeecat. I never really found a solution, and didn't have time to mess with it. Hopefully it's some sort of glitch in WordPress that will get ironed out. It sounds like a lot...

Hi Mastablasta-

The site is on 1&1 Linux hosting, and isn't on our home server.

Michael