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How to set the default sound device in Xubuntu Oneiric (11.10).

This assumes you are using PulseAudio, which is normal for Xubuntu.
This should work for any recent Ubuntu flavor, but if it...

I looked at Genie. It is best understood as an alternative, less verbose input syntax for the Vala compiler. It looks a little like Python, sort of the way C# looks a little like Objective-C. It is a...

Hold down SHIFT while computer starts. You should get a "grub menu" screen with instructions for choosing a boot option or editing boot one. Edit the first choice and on the "linux" line, replace...

/boot/grub/grub.cfg is not normally supposed to be edited, because it gets overwritten when you run update-grub, with settings from /etc/grub*. For booting once, I guess it would work to either boot...

On this computer there turned out to be a jumper setting on the hard drive that was making it take a long time to become responsive after a reset. So the "regression" seems to have been that lucid is...

Generally speaking the reasonable "free" solutions start with downloading a CD image from the Internet and burning it to a CD-R or CD-RW disc. If you can't do that (or obtain the burned CD-R some...

I just had a fresh lucid install on an old PC fail twice in a row with this message. Then I installed karmic on the same PC with no changes and it installed and booted successfully.

What this...

A less drastic fix that worked for me was to open a terminal,
cd to the applicable subdirectory of .mozilla/firefox, and "touch localstore.rdf". This just updates the last modified date on that file...