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Seems I figured it out. This is my laptop and I put it in a docking station at home. I have a 2nd monitor connected when it's dicked that has a different screen resolution than the laptop screen, and...

For some strange reason, my media mounted in /media is not showing on my desktop on Lucid (10.04).
I've been through gconf-editor to make sure the box is checked to show the mounted media in...

Anyone know of a desktop app that allows me to quickly plug in kb, gb, bytes, etc. and have them converted? I know there's lots of web apps, but was fishing to see if there was a desktop app to...

I have a laptop running 8.04 that used to print just fine to my Broher MFC 465CN printer via the network. I remember cups updates a little while back and today when I tried to print (I don't print to...

No problem. Glad it helped! :D

Is there a way to monitor the postfix logs and block IPs that are consistently sending to bad email addresses? I see these popping up in my logs all the time, and am wondering if there isn't a way to...

I just went through this and now have it working, so I'd like to post how I got it working before closing all my tabs ;)

For those who have tried to sync their Tomboy notes over WebDAV, you'll see...

Well, I whacked something out in Zenity for now, but it's not ideal.
In checking on the bugs for the package, it seems that it is linked to a sound package for some reason (there's a thread in...

This script works perfectly on my 8.04 machine, but I got a new computer and installed 9.04 on it and it doesn't work the way I want. I created a launcher for this, and exactly the same as the one on...

Thanks for the information. I'll definitely sit down after dinner and read through the links you gave me.
Be well!

I currently use ffmpeg to convert an mpeg4 avi file to a quicktime/mov file (h264 and aac).
I'm not all that familiar with ffmpeg, so I would like to know if there was a way to add an audio track to...

I know it's been a week, but I hope to answer a couple of your questions:


Depends on how you set your config up (no, I didn't look at yours in depth). If you create a view that matches...

I'm thinking of running a mirror here at my house. I have two 1TB drives and would like to save on power if at all possible. Here is what I would like to do:
Use 1 drive as my shares. Have it online...

Thanks for the answer!
I'll give that a shot later today.

Why Quicktime? I'm making some videos targeted for a combination of Windows and Mac users and Quicktime (or mpeg) seems like the most...

Hey all - I have a video conversion question if anyone would like to answer it for me.
I recorded some video using gtk-recordmydesktop and want to convert the video to Quicktime. I have both ffmpeg...

I had thought of this (and am using CSS for text/block formatting anyway) but am not sure how to tie this in with Javascript.

I'm trying to show some iframes on my page, and have them collapsable. This works now. What I'm looking to do is have some of the frames start collapsed, and some start expanded. I'm not a javascript...

There are some awkward ways to sync your BB with Linux in general. You can sync it with Evolution (see here: http://www.linewbie.com/2007/12/syncing-your-blackberry-on-linux.html). You can also look...

I would like to find something as well. My grandfather loves to solve these and he would love something on the computer.

So I had to reinstall my mythtv server. I used to connect to it with my desktop and had the share bookmarked under Places. Now when I try and connect I get an error saying
Could not open location...

Yep. But I can close the window on my laptop and open it again later and still get the up-arrow history. The desktop seems to lose the history whenever I close the window.

Here's an odd one for you... Running 8.04 LTS on both my laptop and my desktop.
Laptop works great. My desktop, when I open a gnome-terminal and type some commands, when I close the window and then...

Dragging this back up.....
I have a Dell E1505 (I bought it before Dell offered Ubuntu).
I only have a left window key, no right key.
I tried the suggestion in the post and am trying to map the...

I have a server running here that is my DNS and DHCP server. We can browse the Internet fine.
What I would like to do is have every computer that gets a DHCP address from the server be able to...

I ended up disabling X11 and gdm (which was causing it to lock up when trying to boot normal) and got it to boot into the full system with the new NIC showing. I never could get either the onboard...