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Thanks from me too. Easy and simple, and it works.

Though why BT use Silverlight when the rest of the world is moving away from it, I really don't know! Do M$ still own a big chunk of BT, I...

Magic - thanks!

(OK, not magic - there's no such thing- but you get the idea ;-)

Done that, works a treat.

Thanks!

PS - it's amazing how many things you forget you do after an installation. Might need to start writing things down!

Hi All,

Did a clean install last week (using Xubuntu). LibreOffice spell checker did not work. Thunderbird thought I was American.

Long story short - I cannot find a British spellchecker. ...

Hi All,

At 11.04, fstab worked nicely to automount Windows partition on startup. Here is fstab:



# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc ...

In answer to the Qs and suggestions:

- no, other scripts do not run
- yes, mountpoint ownerships look fine
- chown and chmod suggestions do nothing.

The ownership shows as my username. This...

I move to ~/temp, change permissions and... it works.

I move back to /media/LaCie and... read-only.

weird.

Yes - it was before though.

On my old PC (Ubuntu 10.04), I wrote a nice little script for backups. It worked fine, from a portable hard drive.

Here it is:

#!/bin/sh
mkdir study
cd study
mkdir embryo
cd embryo ...

A perfectly fair point. Something many people overlook in saying "If you can use C++ then Java, which is also OOP should do fine", is that C++ is essentially C on OO-driven steroids. The first C++...

Seconded. Too many patent issues surround C# - see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_%28programming_language%29#Standardization_and_licensing

After the updates, Grub 1.99 appears.

Ubuntu boots by default.
Windows will boot if asked to.

So, problem solved.

Now I'm off to sort out data sharing between the two, but that's well...

Good news:

I ran the following commands. Output id described - though I am having to do this from memory as I forgot to save the file I was noting everything in (duh!)

From oldfred

sudo...

Hi,

YesWeCan's Commands were C&P'ed directly...

Re. BIOS - my mistake. The GUI front-end to the BIOS only shows bootable devices. It lists one hard drive, CD, USB and some 'Generic Device'. ...

Boot from live CD
- works

sudo mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt
- says
Unrecognized option `--root-partition=/mnt'
Usage: grub-install [OPTION] install_device
Install GRUB on your drive.

You went...

I boot as normal - direct to Windows.

So I boot from the USB stick I installed from:

Windows C: mounts as /media/HardDisk1 (HardDisk1 was its volume name under Windows), shows as 500GB
This...

Hi All,

Can someone give me a nudge in the right direction?

Win 7 (64 bit) machine has 500 GB drive C and 500 GB that shows as drive H. C holds the OS and data, H is there waiting for C to...

Problem fixed by following the advice here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1639198

and Solution #2.

In brief - the Ubuntu upgrade process tried to upgrade Grub, which turns out to be...

Forgot to say, when I boot up normally the sequence is:
- BIOS does normal BIOS things
- I get a prompt saying grub rescue>

I don't know what to do next...

Hi All,

Machine specifics: Win Vista with Ubuntu 10.04 installed via Wubi. All was running nicely.

Upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 - killed Grub.

Following other posts, I booted off a 10.04...

PDF Xchange is a great piece of work. If you are happy with it under WINE, stick with it. I haven't found any other piece of PDF software, on any OS, that is as good.

Yes, Ubuntu supports...

One solution, based on advice from: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/new-ppa-makes-installing-libreoffice-on-ubuntu-easy/ is this:

Do a full uninstall.

- Install LibO

Then install...

Does the above problem include spellcheck settings? My dictionary keeps going AWOL and I'm hoping someone has a solution already posted.

Not properly solved, but fixed by reinstalling 10.04.

Plenty of other, unsolved, posts about this one. Seems to be an issue in 10.10 and/or Gnome that has been reported.

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Problem wasn't solved, but I'm closing this as I stopped using Evolution.