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  1. Re: About partitions & What makes a partition "bootable", or not?

    I looked at firmware options for booting the usb stick I installed 20.04 from, and it offers bios or uefi - I must have chosen one when doing the install without paying too much attention, and ended...
  2. Re: About partitions & What makes a partition "bootable", or not?

    Install on sda would likely be BIOS, as it was originally installed on older hardware which afaik did not have UEFI. Fstab says `# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda2 during installation` though...

    I...
  3. About partitions & What makes a partition "bootable", or not?

    When 20.04 came out I bought a new ssd and installed the OS on that without touching the partitioning settings during install, while I kept my old ssd with it's home/user folders in the machine and...
  4. Re: Chromium disabled support for setting search engine other than google.com

    I just tried on Chrome Version 81.0.4044.122 (Official Build) (64-bit), it allows choosing the search engine as before.
  5. Re: Ubuntu 20.04 Doesn't Allow Dragging URL to Desktop from Browsers

    In a nutshell, using the desktop space for anything but looking at your wallpaper is no longer supported in current versions of gnome / nautilus.

    There is an extension that attempts to re-create...
  6. Re: How many of you have ever had to educate your ISP?

    I must wonder how that ISP feels about a smart tv or a smartphone...
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    Re: "Being open source is killing Android"

    Huh? Android is very explicitly an open source project - which means that OEMs are free to modify and use it in their products.
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    Re: nvidia performance?

    An observation: increasing the resolution from what the game auto-selected to native 1920x1080 had no detrimental effect to the frame rate, if anything it increased slightly. Turning the detail...
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    Re: nvidia performance?

    nvidia-138?? Surely that is not the latest driver? Current long-lasting branch being 375, afaik. Anyhow, I obviously have the proprietary driver installed, as I said so in the first post.
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    Re: nvidia performance?

    I found this: http://support.feralinteractive.com/docs/en/alienisolation/latest/linux/faqs/#i_linux_graphics_drivers

    Since I have the gtx560, which I believe is "5xx series", that might be the...
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    nvidia performance?

    I'm trying to figure out what would cause poor performance in the game Alien: isolation, I'm seeing only 30-50 fps in the game - with lowered resolution and all graphics settings either 'low' or...
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    Re: Teach kids how to create games

    How about https://scratch.mit.edu/? I understand this is used in some schools that offer programming for the smaller kids.
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    Re: "Best" laptop for ubuntu / studying

    Excuse my ignorance but what do you mean by "USB keys"?
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    [SOLVED] Re: Printer install problem in Mint

    Samsung's web site isn't too clear on what drivers to download, and I found two different versions there - 1.00.29 and 1.00.37_00.99, and with the latter version everything "just worked". Marking as...
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    [SOLVED] Printer install problem in Mint

    Hello,

    I connected a Linux Mint laptop to a new Samsung M2070W printer, it shows as expected with lsusb, launched the Printers app to add/configure it, and it seems to be recognized OK, but adding...
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    Re: Recommendations for Drawing Tablet

    I have a Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch, it's maybe a little small and not for serious / professional use, for me it's been just what I wanted, does what it says on the tin and not expensive either.
    ...
  17. Re: Files created using a software written in a specific programming language

    If you write a program that generates a file called something.txt and writes "abc" in it, it will become a file containing the characters abc in it. It's just that and not in any "language".

    What...
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    Re: Data Via line-in/out? possable?

    If you have ye olde tape recorder at hand, there are ham/sstv packages for ubuntu that you might have success with, such as http://users.telenet.be/on4qz/qsstv/manual/_t_x_s_s_t_v.html ?
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    [photography] Re: Darktable Scrolling ?

    Old post but unanswered so I'll have a go.

    I'm assuming you're talking about the lighttable mode, where you're looking at the thumbnails. Scrolling the mouse wheel changes the zoom, about 200...
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    Re: Is command line usage really better than GUI? Terminal vs GUI megathread

    One example of a "basic operation" requiring CLI I've encountered is configuring the buttons on a wacom stylus & tablet and doing that through the terminal really isn't trivial. You're on KDE, afaik...
  21. Re: [How-To] Connect an Android device using MTP in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

    worked here. I got confused by the screen lock at first.... :D
  22. Re: What was the oldest computer that you have ever used?

    I work with industrial process control systems and hardware from decades ago is still around, early versions of Damatic systems that I still see here and there are from early 80's.

    I saw 286 / 386...
  23. Thread: On old computers

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    Re: On old computers

    Here, your graphical desktop session is a 'user', and each terminal window is also a 'user'.
  24. Thread: On old computers

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    Re: On old computers

    Maybe there's just something (!?) running that's eating up your cpu time. Do you see anything with high cpu% in
    top? What does
    uptime this return?
  25. [lubuntu] Re: Do we need Samba if networking ONLY Linux machines?

    It is a nuisance that smb is what is available without the user installing any other software and through nautilus - and it doesn't seem to work so great for anyone.
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