Hey all, I just found my old ubuntu laptop and upgraded it to 9.10, and I like it so far. However, it's been a year or so since I've used this box, and I have a bunch of junk and weird settings...
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Hey all, I just found my old ubuntu laptop and upgraded it to 9.10, and I like it so far. However, it's been a year or so since I've used this box, and I have a bunch of junk and weird settings...
Not as long as you don't purposefully screw up your system, which is unlikely. Firefox is much more secure than IE.
(As a moot point since you'll be running ubuntu, real-life "hackers" as it...
Hi. I'm considering buying a new 15" macbook pro in a university package deal that supposedly comes shipped with Vista. I assume this is done with bootcamp, but I'm not sure.
I already found...
backup the files somewhere else first.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/gedit
I'm willing to bet gedit does javascript, but i'm not sure.
There are a lot of ways to make gedit more like an ide, line numbers etc, just google around.
This simply means that you are installing software that does not come directly from the official ubuntu servers. Whether that means you should do something depends on what you did to get there.
Bwack - you should edit the OP so people don't mess with stuff needlessly.
http://linux.about.com/od/ubuntu_doc/a/ubudg10t10.htm
the problem is that your framebuffer doesn't support the resolution you want. You need to find the vga code for 1280x1024 or one of the resolutions in that output and put that in your menu.list entry
My bad, i meant go to right click, PREFERENCES, and change what it defaul opens with.
Right click your menu, edit menu, go to your OOo shortcut, right click and edit (or it might be a button on...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6590746&postcount=10
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FrameBuffer
Skip down to "Setting different framebuffer resolutions in GRUB"
There's a command you can use to determine the maximum bootup resolution your system...
At that screen, login (enter your username and then pw. the pw will not show up on the screen).
Then, try the following:
startx
Right click a pdf file, open with, and choose to open with evince (document viewer).
Also, what is the output of
whereis soffice
If you're talking about updates, you can choose to have the program stop notifying you of available updates for that program:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=747470
However, it is...
Is find recursive?
Edit: cp has a recursive option (-R) so i'm not sure the usefulness of using this command over
cp -R *.mp3 /destination/folder
It means you should install that package from system-admin-synaptic package manager instead of downloading the deb.
system - preferences - appearence - click your theme - customize - pointer.
Sorry i couldn't be more help
try seahorse
sudo apt-get install seahorse
Go to the top of the first page, under thread tools
Right click the ubuntu symbol and edit menus
Suddenly, evolution has stopped downloading my webmail, even when i refresh. One is POP/SMTP the other is IMAP/SMTP. I've looked through the settings but i have literally no idea what i'm looking...
run
sudo apt-get update
sudo aptitude install openoffice.org
You can also get OO.o 3 manually from http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US but i would wait until the package is...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=982652
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