It seems to be a Windows malware/scareware app, sort of like Antivirus Pro 2010. If you'd been running on Windows at the time, it could have been a threat if you'd downloaded and installed it(getting...
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It seems to be a Windows malware/scareware app, sort of like Antivirus Pro 2010. If you'd been running on Windows at the time, it could have been a threat if you'd downloaded and installed it(getting...
OK
Good to know it helped.
Have fun :D
Ubuntu Tweak lets you change the icon via a simple GUI(in the 'GNOME Settings' section).
Install with the downloadable .deb file...
The problem is mainly due to the fact that the beta you downloaded is the x86-32 bit version of FF4(which is what you usually get from the default getfirefox beta download page).
It's to do with FF...
try right clicking on the file> properties> permissions tab> make sure that the option 'allow executing file as a program' is enabled.
The executable you're looking for should be
~/Desktop/fox4/firefox/firefox
assuming you've extracted the archive(which should contain a folder named firefox with some folders and a bunch of...
1) try installing the firefox GNOME integration package
sudo apt-get install firefox-gnome-support
2) You can try resetting Firefox configuration with a terminal command
sudo dpkg...
WARNING: very long post :D
File trees in UNIX- so called because of the tree like structure- '/' root is the tree trunk, and subfolders '/home' '/usr' '/etc' '/boot' are all branches, which again have sub-branches...
The file tree is the way filesystems are arranged- on Windows as A:\, C:\, D:\ and on UNIX-like systems as root(/), /usr, /home, /media, /media/sda1 and so on. Linus based his new OS on MINIX, a...
About the Lucid-Maverick kernel upgrade stuff, that's not exactly how it works. I'll try my best to explain
The kernel is the basic foundation of an OS, upon which you have a layer of tools(GNU...
I'll try to answer your questions one by one
1) No, it won't. dist-upgrade will tell APT(the package(software) management tool) to use 'smart' settings, where if any conflicts exist between the...
For Lucid Lynx
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/apt
For Maverick Meerkat
http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/apt
If downloading and running the deb package doesn't work, maybe you could get...
Ahhh... Caesar 3. Now that was such a great game(countless hours wasted playing the game as well as poor grades because I was planning city layouts and defensive startegies in class). Takes you from...
I agree with you that it's just plain dumb to use pirated copies of Windows, but down here it's surprising just how many people use cracked copies. Most people simply have no clue what an OS actually...
Seconded.
Pros:
It's low on system resources even though it has real time protection turned on, doesn't prolong system start up noticeably, pretty un-intrusive, easy to use and update. It also has...
This might be applicable to you
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/debian/2010-08-28-windows-applications-making-grub2-unbootable.html
Maybe you should contact the...
From the second link I posted above, you could try these steps to check if you're really infected.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-326062-highlight-suckit.html
- The SucKIT rootkit allows an...
Try DeVeDe(available in Ubuntu Software Centre)
http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html
It's likely a false positive.
There's a known bug in chkrootkit
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chkrootkit/+bug/454566
Further reading and instructions to figure out if you're really...
To remove bitdefender completely including configuration files use the purge command
sudo apt-get purge bitdefender-scanner bitdefender-scanner-gui
AWN is pretty great(it's what I use), but I don't think it has an option to use multi-window previews.
With DockbarX, you can get multi-window previews, but I think you may have to enable some...
The icons and preview thingy can be achieved by installing DockbarX or Talika.
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/DockbarX?content=101604...
I second that. Devede is probably the best app on Ubuntu for what you described.
I second that.
testdisk has helped me save quite a few friends' data after their hdds failed(and of course, they hadn't made any backups).
Installing Ubuntu should help if it still recognizes your Windows install. It'll create a new MBR(Master Boot Record) and you should be able to boot from it.
If Ubuntu doesn't detect your Windows...