Search:

Thanks to all. I am of the opinion that it is a typical programmer portmanteau symbol. I was as guilty as the next guy when I was coding. Frankly, too much of this stuff leaks over into the public...

I've been running tests on 10.10 and receiving the updates via the normal channels. They always seem to update initramfs, which I assume is key to boot loading the system.

My old computer smarts...

Very useful. Helped organize me, and made things much clearer. Thanks.

I just tried to make a master document, and it created a blank one, all right, but when I tried to insert a document that would be part of my collection, nothing happened at all.

Maybe I misread...

I have two internal and two external hard disks. Of the two internal, I use one for production, and it is loaded with 10.04.1 LTS. I use the other disk as a test bed, and it currently has 10.10...

Well, I'm an older people, and I don't find it necessary to adjust my sound level. The idea that anyone would think of discriminating a person's hearing by age is rather off-putting. So I am...

My machine is starting to show its age. It is an NVIDIA-based HP box with an AMD 2400+ processor and a GeForce2 mobo base. 32-bit, of course.

I have looked through the (now closed) 64-bit...

I am not sure Narwhals are at all natty. They live in the Arctic Ocean, and the Narwhal run in the spring attacts lots of Innu hunters.

Well, maybe its my wonky hearing, but it sounds like a bucket to me. I think a drum roll would have been more appropriate for clarity. Doesn't have to be more than a couple of bars.

When UBUNTU starts gdm, the login screen comes on with the sound of a bucket being kicked. I am just curious enough to ask, what bucket this is?

Is it Apple's apple cart?

Microsoft's bit...

Yelp has nothing and suggests that the manual needs to be translated. I have no other languages than English but only a casual acquaintance with French and Italian. If the manual is available in...

I had occasion to extract a CD using this product, but the maker of the CD had been most punctilious in including French accents in the titles of some of the pieces. Sound juicer shows these as a...

Nautilus would be slightly improved if you could sort bookmarks. I use many bookmarks to keep track of my file system as I have the 'lots of little files' disease.

This would make a nice add for...

Just a note for anyone who hasn't tried winetricks.

1. Be careful. I clobbered my whole wine installation by not thinking through what I was doing with this.

2. For a list of all the...

I need a program that can do small bit maps to produce a .bmp file on a pixel by pixel basis. So I looked in synaptic with a key of bitmaps and found grafx2, standing alone with no supporting links....

Where there was a discernable bug, yes.

Latest adventure: I pulled necessary data onto my copy of 9.10 from mail inadvertently received during testing then re-installed from the disk. After a...

I had need of a new CD to I went to the main site. I found that 10.04 beta 2 was on offer and make the following comments:


I have an nvidia geforce2 card and couldn't the nvidia-96 driver to...

72: Internet, e-mail, time wasting.

I did it, and I am glad. I have no other operating software now on this machine. The last unrecoverable crash in XP did it.

I am convinced that Microsoft, after some thirty years of trying, have...

How many times have we been put on hold by an automated attendant and held until we give up? How many times have we had to navigate through some inept programmers idea of a menu scheme? Maybe it is...

Where there is a will there is a way. For some time now due to the blank screen problem, I have been looking for some way to get terminal access from my screen to the system. Today, I stumbled upon...

9.10

I added a new swap file, put it in the fstab table with its UUID, executed the swapon command and did not get the improvement I expected.

Yes, I made sure the space was formatted the same...

If you don't like the one that comes with the system, try Mozilla Thunderbird. You can have several accounts open at once, but I am not sure about the concurrent windows

I need an "executive overview" of the operating system (9.10) which in one or two documents explains the way the system runs. I am particularly interested in the memory management system.

I hope...

I was pretty angry when I wrote that, but if there is anything I can do other than send you screenshots of blank frames, please let me know.

This happens in so many popups and application screens...