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I have just installed 14.04 64 bit and want to partition my disk. I think the easiest way may be to reinstall and choose the "something else" option and partition prior to installing. I want to...

Thankyou all.

Thanks. I put in a CD-R with some audio podcasts and I was able to listen to it.
The laptop is a Dell Vostro 1000, 7 years old. It has a DVD/CDRW Combo Drive 24X
The DVD-RW which wasn't...

It's a blank dvd straight out of the pack.

I use Ubuntu 14.04.
I have inserted a brand new DVD-RW and I get a couple of minutes of clicks and whirrs but no pop-up.
I found this question asked before and the reply was to open the terminal...

1) I can't log in without enabling cookies. My preferred way of managing cookies (I use Firefox mainly) is to untick "accept cookies from sites" and then add excetions for sites i use. Adding...

My current ageing pc would be fine but the integrated graphics mean sound and vision are out of sync on youtube. I want something that will be as future proof as possible. Some questions.

1) How...

Having trouble with unwanted whistle and hiss on my speakers. I want to

1 find which driver I have installed
2 what alternives there are
3 how to uninstall the existing driver
4 how to install...

The applications menu and the places menu apppear top left in the place where previously there were the close/maximise/minimise buttons. Windows whic are open are now listed on the bottom bar - right...

What is this all about?

These two appeared in the top bar after an update. I think it is some Gnomish thing. It has already conficted with Unity and that took half a day to solve. Who decides what...

I opened the terminal and typed alsamixer then pressed enter, (some fannying about to no avail) then pressed F4 and reduced the capture to 0<>0
This has reduced the problem by 90%. It looks as...

Getting clicks and whirs theough the speakers (laptop with small speakers plugged in). it sounds as though they are amplifying the noise made by the hard disc Any cure? Also I'd be interested to know...

Firefox is warning me that I shouldn't use Flash Player. The updater gives me the following alternatives
YUM for linux
.tar,gz
.rpm
APT for ubuntu 10.4+

or should I install pepper flash?
It...

Any messaging aps or anything else that use Flash Player? My single core laptop struggles with youtube in 32 bit 14.04. Planning to install 64 bit version, I understand that one possible problem is...

Many thanks

Thanks for your time Dreamer and such a sraight forward reply.
I will take your tip sudodus thanks.

I will give the thread 48 hours before I mark as solved in case anyone has something to add....

I've tried to check this out but found conflicting advice.

Current state: laptop was XP I installed 12.04, 32 bit from a CD as the sole OS (ie never had dual boot). Updated to 14.04, 32 bit.
...

Bravo, thanks a bundle.
Clickety boo, ten second job.

In system settings > appearance I changed the theme and now I am stuck with the default icons - I can't get my sphere 1.2 icons back.

I installed some updates to 12.04 yesterday. Now I have some changes for the worse:
The icons in the launcher have become larger
The icons in dash have become smaller
Workspaces doesn't work...

Many thanks

My list of available updates includes python-lockfile. when I try to install the updates I get the message
The action would require the installation of packages from unauthenticated sources
When i...

Is this correct?

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card...

I still needed modprobe b44 to connect

Iran the first commands again and got

rob@rob-Vostro-1000:~$
cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by...

Thanks here is the output


rob@rob-Vostro-1000:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem:...