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  1. Re: Printer won't print and shows "Idle - Filter failed"

    Hi Enjay

    Unfortunately not.

    My fix is good enough for me to live with the bug.

    When I go to print, I now have three installations/instances of the same printer.
    When one fails with the...
  2. [all variants] Evolution email -- "Leave messages on server" option missing...?

    I'm using Evolution version 3.6.2
    There is no "Leave messages on server" option.
    In fact, it's simply not optional.

    When I used Evolution some years ago, I had it set to leave messages on the...
  3. Printer won't print and shows "Idle - Filter failed"

    I've just had this problem in Mint14 (which is basically Ubuntu something with extra bits).

    Description of problem:

    Printer doesn't print.

    System > Administration > Printers

    Double click...
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    [ubuntu] Re: I need help!..Ubuntu and Windows Problems

    You'll need a Windows forum now...
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    [ubuntu] Re: I need help!..Ubuntu and Windows Problems

    Most BIOS are set up by default to boot from the CD/DVD drive before the first hard disk.

    Can you burn Windows to a CD/DVD and try to boot from that?

    If that doesn't work the you'll need help...
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    [ubuntu] Re: I need help!..Ubuntu and Windows Problems

    :) I know the feeling.



    Hmm...
    Try pressing <F2> repeatedly from the moment you start up the computer.
    If that doesn't do it, do the same with <Esc> and <Delete> -- just in case the message...
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    [ubuntu] Re: I need help!..Ubuntu and Windows Problems

    Glorygamer, did you take a breath at any point in all that? :)



    Are you sure you're pressing the right key to get into your BIOS?
    In my experience its usually either <Delete>, <Esc> or <F2>....
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    [SOLVED] [SOLVED] Re: Rhythmbox and Last.fm -- What happened!?

    I take it all back.
    Apart from the lack of love/hate buttons -- which as I understand it, isn't the fault of Rhythmbox.
    The interface (and backend) is simply new and, as I've discovered, better.
    ...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Rhythmbox and Last.fm -- What happened!?

    Thank you, Frogs Hair



    Hopefull not every time, though ;)



    Ah. maybe I had to do that before and I'd forgotten. Thanks.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Desktop Launchers For GNOME3

    Not sure I quite understand what you're trying to do but maybe this page will help:
    Make GNOME Shell Your Own: 10 GNOME Shell Extensions to Install
    I'm just about to follow its recommendations...
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    [SOLVED] Rhythmbox and Last.fm -- What happened!?

    Dear All

    Listening to Last.fm on Rhythmbox under Gnome2 on Ubuntu 10.04 was a delight.
    Many thanks to the developers.

    I've just 'upgraded' to Ubuntu 12.04 and Gnome3.

    Now, maybe I'm missing...
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    [all variants] Re: USB2 runs slow at USB1 speed

    Thank you, Epodx64

    I've now upgraded to 12.04, and I am getting full speed on USB2.

    No USB3 hardware yet...
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    [all variants] USB2 runs slow at USB1 speed

    On those rare occasions when I have to transfer large files via USB, I have noticed that the transfer rate is slow.

    I didn't notice it until a bunch of images which took me an hour to transfer...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Update Manager sudo trojan

    Even better :)
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    [ubuntu] Re: Update Manager sudo trojan

    Thanks again, wilee-nilee



    That's good to know.



    Ah, yes. I hadn't thought of that. They'd have to crack both the package server and the signature server.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Update Manager sudo trojan

    Thank you, wilee-nilee



    But what about the duplication? Why did I have two sudo with slightly different descriptions?



    So what would happen if the Ubuntu repositories were cracked and a...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Update Manager sudo trojan

    My dpkg.log for sudo last night is:


    alan@cube:/var/log$ cat dpkg.log | grep sudo
    2012-05-17 01:52:20 upgrade sudo 1.7.2p1-1ubuntu5.3 1.7.2p1-1ubuntu5.4
    2012-05-17 01:52:20 status...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Update Manager sudo trojan

    Thank you, Delfairen

    Your link contains a link to a link to here
    Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1442-1

    That would explain a sudo update last night.

    And it's a step towards a positive resolution...
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    [ubuntu] Update Manager sudo trojan

    sudo TWICE in Update Manager?

    Last night ~00:00UTC 2012-05-17 I had one item on Update Manager.

    I clicked 'Check' just in case there were others. There were. I then absent mindedly clicked...
  20. [ubuntu] Re: Please help me to enable clean URLs in Drupal (AllowOveride)

    For anyone still struggling with this one, see http://drupal.org/node/1572984
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    [ubuntu] Re: How to edit a PDF

    Mark this thread as solved then please.
    Just prefix the Title with [SOLVED]
    Thanks
  22. [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu desktop host can't talk to Ubuntu server guest in Virtualbox

    Thank you, CharlesA, that works!

    Indeed, host-only is perhaps even better for my purposes. If I can get it to work just right...
    [I'll hold off marking this thread SOLVED until then]

    My...
  23. Re: modern American Black Scholes JavaScript or Python

    Can you access the website using a text-based browser...?

    NB when testing this with say w3m, as it's a complex URL remember to put the URL in quotes.
  24. [ubuntu] [SOLVED] Ubuntu desktop host can't talk to Ubuntu server guest in Virtualbox

    Vitualbox 4.1.12
    Host: Ubuntu 10.04LTS 64bit desktop
    Guest: Ubuntu 10.04LTS 64bit server

    ifconfig on each system shows
    host as 192.168.0.2 on eth1
    vboxnet0 is 10.0.2.1
    guest is 10.0.2.15 on...
  25. [ubuntu] Can't connect Ubuntu desktop to Ubuntu server in Virtualbox

    I'm trying to ping and SSH
    from
    an Ubuntu desktop (10.04 64bit)
    to
    an Ubuntu server (10.04 64bit) running in Virtualbox (4.1.8) on the desktop

    Ultimately I wish to use the server for web site...
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