Definitely not worth it. The components used in higher specced psu's are of a much higher quality and thus allow a more stable voltage to the cpu and graphics card as demand goes up. This is the main...
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Definitely not worth it. The components used in higher specced psu's are of a much higher quality and thus allow a more stable voltage to the cpu and graphics card as demand goes up. This is the main...
I believe applications continuing to run in memory after they close is a design feature of Linux. The memory will be flushed as and when it is needed to offer more memory to the system as required....
I was just about to suggest checking your bios.... you beat me to it :D Don't worry about wasting peoples time as your tread may solve someone else's problem in the future; so in some way you have...
Maybe if you post more details of your problems and the hardware you are installing to we could be of more help? I hope you will persevere. Learning a new operating system is always a little...
That lack of RAM is your main problem. Is it possible to increase this amount. You'd need to research the maximum it can take and see if it is still available though. You should also make sure you...
That is a little odd as I guess you must have originally installed from a live dvd / thumb drive. Try going into the machines bios and see what drives it is able to detect (can you do this on your...
What are the permissions of the files you are trying to copy? It maybe that they aren't owned by you. Just a thought, as the permissions of my usb stick are the same as yours and yet I can copy and...
Use your live Ubuntu disc to use gparted to look at your partitions on your hard-drive. I think gparted is installed by default but if not just install it from the software centre. Open this app and...
I can verify bab1's post in that my unity desktop can read and write to usb thumb drive as user. It is also formatted to fat32. Are the permissions set to root? as this would obviously cause your...
Flash_Gordon thanks for your input on this and I will try this solution as it looks promising.
As an update I have contacted Channel4 regarding this issue and they seem vaguely interested in...
Does your laptop work using the live disc? This could rule out hardware issues. The mbr issues are strange.... How old is your hard drive? It may be failing. Also can you run memtest from grub? let...
I like this!! I wonder if you're on to something for the uber geek? I can only imagine the looks of astonishment when you set up on the train or at work :) This really is building a pc!
It may be a dust problem. You can buy a can of compressed air from your local pc supplier and use it to blow out the dust especially from the fan intake and outlets. I did this to my daughters laptop...
Thanks for the heads up on that :)
Not sure how to help as I'm using Unity. But have you tried right clicking on you work space as this usually brings up the menu?
Actually this worked for me:http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/10/fixing-amazon-prime-streaming-drm-protected-flash-13-10Hope this helps.
For information a bug has been raised on launchpad hal :Bug #1221254
Sounds more like an issue with the usb3 interface. I dual boot into win8 and Ubuntu and this has never happened to me. Has she got the usb3 drivers installed properly it's possible they are...
If you are willing to get your hands dirty and do some research the the forensic route suggested above may help.
Download System rescue at: http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage
You...
Have you checked your pc for dust? This can seriously affect performance over time. In fact over the Christmas holidays my daughter brought her laptop over complaining of the slowness and how hot it...
A good light distro that includes gparted is SystemRescue. http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage .
Before you repartition make sure you backup all your important files as partitioning...
Sounds like a hardware issue then. Have you tried a second pair of headphones as it maybe a miss-match with the output from the sound card and your headphones. Also do your headphones have volume...
Out of interest have you tried using the latest Ubuntu 13.10?? I only ask as if this is a newly introduced laptop then you may have bug fixes that will correct this. The next long term support 14.04...
I do agree in general with the beans. However if, like myself, the respondent has few beans because they are a new "returner" to Ubuntu, but with years of Linux experience then this isn't necessarily...
What is your budget? Most amd products are much cheaper than there intel/nvidia equivalents. You rightly surmise that the latest amd apu's have good on-board grphics as long as you're not a video...