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And fixed my problem with an external hdd that gave me rights errors also
jaap@PhenomX2:~$ /dev/sdd1
bash: /dev/sdd1: Permission denied
Now i have a working 2nd back-drive as planned

Thanks...

And then reinstalling it via the HPLIP toolbox does the trick, i can print again.
What is confusing is that the HPLIP fax utility is under the Applications->Office menu, while the HPLIP toolbox is...

Similar issue here: my HP OfficeJet suddenly refuses to print. It did for some time after the upgrade to 12.04 but since yesterday evening it's no longer printing.
So next step was remove printer...

"Also tell me more about Sub-pixel hinting..I have an LCD screen"

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=Sub-pixel+hinting&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Take the 4th entry called "subpixel...

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Your post is very visible, the fact that you get answers is proof of that.
"otherwise i have to install Win7" - you are always free to do that.
- How bad is the problem: do you see...

How to turn off wireless on your router: specifics depend on the exact router you have, but you should have an option somewhere to login to the router itself.
It's typically started with typing...

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Are you using a standard install? If yes, have you already tried the alternate install? That can help.
I recall similar issues in the past, standard install didn't work, used that alternate and then...

If you just want to display the contents of a file (especially text files, system logs etc) then open a terminal and type "sudo less /dir/subdir/.../filename+extension" to show that.
The comment in...

Various options come to mind:

did he go to other sites while using your pc,
have you gone back through your browser history to see which other sites were open /opened at the same time,
did he...

And there are tools available from VMWare that can convert a physical system to a virtual machine that you can then easily import to the virtual machine manager.
Running Ubuntu 11.10 on this...

If you only have to share between to Ubuntu machines then NFS should be good enough to get the job done. Samba must be used when you also have Windows machines on your network.
Set up NFS:...

From my experiences (11.10 and 12.10) and based on what you describe:

- I have a workstation at home with 11.10 on it, 8GB of ram, AMD Phenom quadcore. When traveling i use a Dell Latitude with...

I don't know who said it, but i will answer with "yes, Ubuntu is user friendly" when asked. If you have an average computer Ubuntu will work right of the box. Only with very old or extremely...

And to make things even simpler: convert the 2nd hdd with XP-Pro on it to a VMWare-image (there are tools for that), install VirtualBox and import the image there. Then the whole "oh, i have to...

As far as i know you have to install Samba to do file-sharing from a Linux-system to a Windows machine. On the machine that has to read from another you need the samba client (that's the easy part),...

Based on previous experiences i would say that a direct distribution upgrade doesn't require to do the update first.
So all you need to do is to start "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade".

And if you run...

Good, so what type of laptop do you have? Usually you should be able to find maximum ram for it in the documentation. Coming back to the Dell D830 i have: i've put in 2x2GB ram, it only reports 3.2...

Usually there are special keys you need to press before/during/after pressing the "On" key on laptops.. Did you try that?
As an example: i have a Dell D830 and to go into bios for that you have to...

Yep, it did. Never noticed that "Removable Media" icon until you pointed it out to me. Thanks for struggling on and fixing my identical problem in 3 min's.

Question is unclear to me. Do you mean you want to sell it to him with a fresh installation?

Seems you are trying to connect to your server from the machine to which the backup-drive is connected.
I'm making a backup of the complete home-dir of a sever on a regular basis to a removable hd...

And that fixed it for me too. Thanks

After being forced to change internal network numbering (192.168.1 changed to 192.168.2) because i got a new router from the ISP: "sudo apt-get update" didn't work.
The pointer to /etc/resolv.conf...