Search:

Ahead of Lockdown my company sent us details of the company vpn and RDP and I set them up without any problems on my win10 machine.

The problem is that while I'm connected to the vpn and RDP I...

Just doing some googling.

Turns out it's related to Cairo-Dock auto-starting. I've disabled CD from auto-starting and the problem stops.

So I can't turn my computer off!

The only way I know how is to got to the "Power Cog", then select "shutdown" from the drop-down menu.

But, when I select "shutdown", nothing happens. The menu...

Bashing-Om, thanks a lot. That seems to have fixed it.

Trying to find out more myself, and I've found this thread, which points to this bug which seems to fit my details, in that I opted for an encrypted install.Still not sure how to fix it though.

Thanks for helping, Yancek.

In terms of the installation, as far as I am aware, I did everything as recommended by the installation process - nothing unusual.

The output of fdisk -l:
...

Hi there. I've recently installed Ubuntu on a new laptop, and everything seemed okay. But then it tried to update a week or so later and an error message popped up saying there was no space on "boot"...

I've got a new Win8 laptop on the way and want to set it up for dual, or triple boot.

I would like to have a decent looking boot options screen but it looks like grub2 hasn't moved on much...

Hi there,

I have a work laptop with Win7 that I use at home to remote-login to my PC at work.

I'd like to install Ubuntu alongside so that I can choose at boot whether to boot into Win7 or...

Errr. Made a bit of an error. Forgot I'd shoved a few extra bits in the old machine.

It has 4gb of RAM and a cheap 512MB PALIT 8400GS PCI-E graphics card.

It's running Mint fine.

Hi Chilli, thanks for the reply.

I can get online wired fine with the LiveCD, but I could not find ping or traceroute and a quick google led me to beleive they are not on the LiveCD but need to be...

Hi there,

I'm having some problems with my network connection. My ISP is being as helpful as possible but they're pretty keen to try and exhaust every possible cause that might not be their...

On the basis you're going to close my thread, I am trying to rephrase the q about distros and I need assistance.

I want to explain that the machine is for my inlaws who used to have a mac, and who...

Started typing a long reply in the hope of showing why this is rather ridiculous, but whatever...

In summary then, to make sure I understand:

Off topic info in an OP - Not allowed
Questions...

Overdrank, if you agree with the merger then I don't object to the infraction and nobody needs to waste their time reviewing it - I was upset because I genuinely could not (and still cannot) see why...

Sorry, this is what I don't understand. I used the same text to surmise the background (because I thought it was more considerate to provide background rather than not) but I would genuinely like...

It's got a Gb of RAM and a ATI RADEON X300 SE graphics processor.

I'm between Ubuntu and Mint at the moment.

I posted two separate threads about two separate questions I had (there's a clue in the two different thread titles) and because I included the same background info, mörgæs wrongly assumed the...

My in-law's Mac has just given up the ghost and they are computer-less so I was hoping I could use an old unused Dell Dimension 5100 Intel P4 3.2ghz, install some variant of Ubuntu and buy them a big...

My in-law's Mac has just given up the ghost and they are computer-less so I was hoping I could use an old unused Dell Dimension 5100 Intel P4 3.2ghz, install some variant of Ubuntu and buy them a big...

Pictures worth a thouand words and all...

Mine looks like this:

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/2563/screenshot015g.png

Instead of these:
...

I've just started trying to use XBMC and it seems to be running fine.

I have the iPlayer and other catch-up TV add-ons working fine.

But

They display the available programs in a long list,...

That looks exactly what I was after - thanks.

Does anyone have experience of the above?

My Xbox automatically identifies my Windows 7 laptop and allows me to stream videos from it to my TV.

Can you do the same with Ubuntu?

I would love...

I want to be able to run an ubuntu machine (- ideally without a monitor or controls, but that's by-the-by) that I can feed either a DVD or a music CD and it will, without further instruction, rip the...