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As an ex PC Tech, I basically get frustrated with the same old questions about installing a new os, breaking a previously installed windows os, blah, blah, blah...

I help on some basic things and...

I tried 10.10 and had lots of problems with external display working properly. It works just fine with my 10.04 xorg.conf but the same xorg.conf wouldn't work in 10.10. Using only laptops in our...

looks like someone updated the maverick version but not the lucid version yet
you can check it out on the launchpad site

https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=

They will be powered by turbo-hamsters right? :)

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/5923/cutehamster.jpg

Happy Friday! Hee hee.

Thanks tommcd.

The Sansa Fuze is pretty cool though right? The only reason I got involved was because, it froze up, with an error: "free 90Mb for db or something".

We couldn't delete files...

Hi all,

So my son uses Rhythmbox (RB) with his 8GB Sansa Fuze. Got the Fuze USB set to MSC. Mounts fine, and RB sees it fine too. Both MTP and iPOD plugins activated in RB (default don't know...

could be spelling? python-software-properties, not python-softwear-properties

oops someone already posted about sp?

Hi,
I don't have that camera but google came up with this thread on the forums and it's pretty recent. Good luck.
brook

Hi there,
I did a dual boot, linux first and xp later, and used this post to do it and recover grub. Read the whole post. The grub part comes last. It all worked out but I no longer dual boot, and...

Hi,
I was experimenting using the linux mint menu on a few of our machines, and decided that we like the default gnome panels instead. I found this site that showed me how to reset to default gnome...

I got your beans! :)

Hope you can get it all sorted but just an fyi, this site helped me out much when I did some dual boots, linux first then xp.
cheers,
brook
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Okay, I see. Thought you meant actual ntfs hard drives, like usb drives. I have changed labels on external usb drives and such.
So, sda5 and sda6 are ntfs partitions (not actual drives) and...

moved the whole family over to ubuntu about 2008, hardy, jaunty, karmic, and now lucid.

i wanted to play movies. windows media player always pixelated, not clear, needed codec packs, and our old...

+1 for this:


gparted can do all this and it should be installed by default in 10.04. if not, install gparted
start gparted (system>administration>gparted, or applications>system tools>gparted
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Brother printers are the way to go. They have Linux support and I have had no problems installing various models with their linux drivers.

Here is their linux driver site:
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I've been playing this game on 'fish in a barrel' setting and still can't beat the first boss. Check this guy out! He does it on 'impossible' setting. Dang. :o

Tigrinya. Bwat! :p

+1 for this ...with one exception.

You need to get the latest version of Thunderbird (now 3.1.6) for the addons to be compatible. Regular ubuntu repos don't offer the latest versions of TB in a...

linux programs usually have a config file in your home directory. hit ctrl + h in your home dir to see hidden files. delete all the banshee stuff. also do a search for banshee to find other left over...

System>Administration>Log File Viewer, File>Open>boot.log
done
sweet! ;)

Okay, I got to the bottom of this. :P

I'm running Lucid updated from Karmic. When I was in Karmic I had added the webupd8 ppa to use light themes in Karmic.

Well, after upgrading to Lucid and...

Any of you guys and gals know why this looks borked on two of my machines?

See attached png. Does it affect anything? Probably not.

Does it look borked? Yes. Can I fix it?

Hello,

Does anybody know why the Ambiance and Radiance "menu radio button" looks broken when I select System>Prefrences>Appearance?

The themes work fine, but the radio button displays broken...

hey marquinos,

don't know if you figured this one out yet but after enabling bootlogd, i had the same problem, until i looked and found /var/log/boot.log.

so, all the bootup messages are being...