home is user data and you may move it wherever you'd like. PATH is stored in /etc/profile, it should work if you move it over but you may get a weird error or two.
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home is user data and you may move it wherever you'd like. PATH is stored in /etc/profile, it should work if you move it over but you may get a weird error or two.
foremost works rather well for recovering filesystems. But that's assuming you still have the original filesystem, and it hasn't become additionally corrupted since recovery began. If all you have...
My first guess would actually be compiz / unity unless you installed gnome on the persistent file. While it seems worse with 12.10 than 12.04 I can tell you at least anecdotally that I've noticed a...
Welcome to the forums, 12.04 is the long term support edition, in theory it's a little more stable than 12.10. but really it doesn't make much of a difference. The good news, is that it sounds like...
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He found it in the forum
due to a popular quorum
And declared "Thank you,
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Burn a proper install cd, you can use XP for this purpose, then install from that. The partitioning process will ask you about disk structure during the install process, but...
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Have a look here for info on tar
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo
For root you can do su - at the command line or sudo to execute individual...
If you bought a dvd and burned several then I don't think it would be corrupted disks. Have you checked the bios to make sure the external drive is a bootable device? Perhaps make USB the default...
With chmod
In a terminal type
sudo chmod -R a+r /home/richard/musicdirectory/goodstuff
flashblock is a very useful add-on and does just what you're asking for. You can still watch videos but you'll have to click on them to start.
Use gparted to format the drive, it's better suited to the task. In Startup disk creator you'll need to erase the drive before formatting.
Unlikely, and even if you could find them they're probably far from your legal jurisdiction. Best to change your passwords and apologize to your contacts.
They moved it, it's now the three horizontal lines in the upper right hand corner
Go to your Network Connections page Then click Wired connection 1 -> Edit -> IPv4 Settings -> Method: Shared to other computers
That will tell ubuntu to stop looking for an internet connection...
Unfortunately no, Quickbooks is really the only reason I keep an XP box around. If you find something I'd be interested as well, intuiut seems to be lowering the bar, not raising it, but when I went...
-s can be used to define a user's shell, usually /bin/bash
sudo useradd celery -s /bin/bash
No, this is common throughout the *nix universe including all versions of linux.
Some other ways are to use sudo nautilus /usr/local/src to enable write permissions in a gui, or sudo mv...
These numbers are excessively high, and point to a connectivity issue with your router.
I know the b43 is the default driver for broadcom, but how was it installed? Did you extract it from the...
Fair enough, I'll break it down for you
It's a terminal command, a terminal is kind of like dos, but more powerful, flexible, and well just better.
Open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T or terminal...
sudo chown -R yourdrivenamehere
For future reference it's better to start a new thread than try to resurrect one that's weeks old and marked solved.
Anyway one inelegant but sure to work solution not mentioned is to use a cli...
With ndiswrapper / ndisgtk extract the .inf file from the windows .exe file with archive manager than install it in ndiswrapper.
Compiz in 12.10 has been a little intense on legacy hardware. Disabling 3D hasn't helped in my experience but you can change the desktop environment by clicking on the little ubuntu icon in the login...
Sure, it points to a cheap and/or poor and/or overloaded router. That's fairly common nowadays, but there isn't much anyone can do about it. I would guess that one of two things is going on, First...