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You can create a Unity launcher with gedit and placing the desktop file in ~/.local/shared/applications. This is great. However, I find that if I have to make changes such as the Icon image or...

If you're more conformable with Windows and less inclined to work with tweaking the environment for Linux, Windows might be your best best.

As far as service, I'm certain you can find someone in...

Netfix works well under Linux (wine). So Well, it appears to be Linux native.

http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/ehoover_compholio_netflix

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Hi, RyeMan. I don't know what Electrical Estimator does, but would be surprised that if I didn't know all the details, I couldn't find something under Linux that actually functioned better.

As...

Actually I believe most people use the computer for mostly the same thing. So if a person was using Linux for that purpose, they could be very satisfied. Reading your post, I believe that has more...

Hi, Mike. I often use Libreoffice for preparing my message. To avoid the posting problem that you may experience, I always paste the text in to a text editor (gedit), then copy it from there to...

It's of plenty use. I don't know exactly how the encryption work, but it appears from your output that your files are actually stored in that private folder. If you delete that folder your files...

You didn't have to create a userID for that purpose. All was necessary was to use the proper combination of "uid=" and "cid=" for the access. The resolution is easy if you decide to access another...

Hi, Dannyboy. I work with windows domains often. The commands I gave him works flawless.

I hope the user will come back after typing the commands and mark this topic as solved.

I'm sure the...

What error are you getting? The solution would depend on the error.

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I don't recall him specifying a "true active directory". He just wants to mount a windows share.

He has already mounted the share. It was mounded under root. He could use "sudo" to write to the...

If you only want your scripts to be executed from teh cgi-bin file then you're in business.

Glad for your success.

As a contribution back to the forum, please take the time to mark the thread...

Hi, Dannyboy. I can't decipher the answer from the links you provided. I'm pretty experienced. The user is very novice. If I can't, I can imagine how cryptic it appears to him.

I don't believe...

You can use the option to specific group and user id for the files in the mount command. Unmount the volume and use something similar to this:



$ sudo mount -o username=[user id],uid=[uid]...

Install the following then run the mount command:



$ sudo apt-get install samba cifs-utils


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First make a directory for the mounted volume.



$ sudo mkdir /mnt/microsoftshare


(Of course the directory and name is a matter of your choosing.)

Eneter the following command to mount...

There are 3 possible problems you may have had.

Problem #1 (the file extension):
You'll have to specify the mime extension type in the Apache configure files. By default cgi is already...

Can someone tell me how to disable auto resizing of windows. When resizing a window if I make touch the top or the bottom of the screen it'll resize both top and bottom of the window.

I would...

In conjunction with Papibe's tip with works great, you can also click on "Quick Links" then click on "Subscribed threads". This will have functionality if you have elected to have the threads you...

Newuser. I'm wondering what would be the results of copying/downloading files from a fresh try Ubuntu (with the OS run from the DVD)?

Boot to the DVD, then run the same scp, cp, and cmp commands...

When you reply to a message you have quote tags. These are tags like:

[ quote ]
Your message here
[ /quote ]


It's the tags you see above without the spaces. They are not performing above...

You may have to verify that the firewalls on both the client and server isn't blocking the connection, and the client's IP address isn't being blocked by /etc/hosts.deny .

Most host machines...

If you think it's the ssh client itself, try uninstalling and reinstalling the client:



$ sudo apt-get remove openssh-client
$ sudo apt-get install openssh-client


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You might have a problem drive. I've experienced similar and found the changing the drive cured it. You might consider investing in a new drive and see if this cures your problem. It might not...

Can someone tell me how to change the title bar color of windows? By default there isn't enough difference between the active window and the inactive window for me to tell which one I'm clicking on...