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Screwing up is part of learning, don't get discouraged ;)

The list of boot options in grub, (and their boot order) is defined in
/boot/grub/grub.cfg This file should not be manually edited...

When you say you can't boot windows, is Windows still present as an option in the boot menu or does your machine boot straight to Ubuntu?

If it is present and you select it, what happens then?
...

dpkg -purge $PACKAGERemoves a package and all configuration it introduced.

the package you are after is the Common Unix Printing System (cups), I'm afraid you'll have to

apt-cache search cups...

How did you set up the network on your wired system. (ie. is external access specific to the computer name of the laptop under Win7)

The output of the following commands should help diagnose the problem


echo $GTK_CONFIG
locate -i gtk-config #If no update since install "sudo updatedb" and repeat the command, will take time to...

Stick in the live cd, boot, follow onscreen instructions

If they are supplied as class files, you don't have the source, as a result you'll either have to run a java decompiler on the class file. As Slakkie said above, it's not perfect, but it will give...

The unix permissions system is quite simple.
Every file/directory has three levels of access


Owner - the owner of the file
Group - other users in the same group of as the file is...

What is missing from Ubuntu's Pysol, (Maintaining two versions of python to keep a second version of Pysol going is quite awkward, involves maintaining the software yourself as it isn't in the...

You may be using an older version of Pysol which is making obsolete calls to the interpreter. You could install an older Pysol and run it in parallel, or possibly you just need to add the cardbacks,...

tightvnc is available in the universe repository, go to System >Administration> Software sources.
Select "Comunity maintained Open Source Software".
Now open System>Administration>Synaptic Package...

Learn the basic commands,

ls, cd, mkdir rm, less, vim, awk, sed, mount, locate, find, head, tail, grepRead the man pages
man $commandMake a directory ~/bin and add it to your path by adding the...

Fair enough, I'm more used to the terminal, and usually find it easier, as the Perl motto goes, "There's more than one way to do it" ;)

From the desktop, right click on the network manager icon in your top panel, click on edit connections, in the Wired tab, select eth0 and click edit, in the ipv4 settings tab, change from DHCP to...

Add the NTFS partition to /etc/fstab ie. add aline like

/dev/sda1 /Windows ntfs none 0 0
to /etc/fstab

Hi Chippy,
a tar.gz file is a Tape ARchive that has been compressed with GZip.

Make a directory and copy the file into it, then, open a terminal and type the following substituting filename as...

I think an increase in user issues is inevitable as the user base expands, not just more/different hardware but also many users who haven't tried any Linux variant before and so need a bit more help...

While I agree with you unreservedly in that the more methods you know the easier it is to choose the appropriate solution for the problem at hand, I have to argue that a CLI allows greater...

Hi, increasing the MTU(Maximum Transfer Unit) is rarely the solution, it determines the packet size, and if the packet size is too large you end up with split packets being reformed by the network...

How can you have Vista on a 430 MB drive?

Ubuntu requires~2G for a base install with Gnome and all the trimmings, with just a server install it needs ~500MB

Could you check your figures and get...

Curious idea, it might be worthwhile to see what similarity score is needed to fit everyone within say 3 groups and to see if we could classify the role of the computer on that basis. Just goes to...

This is the Linux virus, it works on the honour system, please delete a random 10% of your files and send this message to everyone in your addressbook. :lolflag:

Not updated as regularly as I'd like, but worth taking the RSS feed (and submitting articles on your own favourite packages ) is the debian package of the day site, useful for new users to take a...

I use the ctrl-alt-arrow in Gnome and KDE, I tend to have Term, Mail, Browser/research and Editor workspaces. Recently on an XP box I discovered that this changes the orientation of the screen, when...

External hardrive
A tgz of find -mtime 1 daily except Sunday when it does tgz s of /home /etc /var