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I have a desktop with Ubuntu on it that will be used by children for internet access and the parents of those who will be using it would like that some sort of basic child protection software was...

I'm helping someone put together a website and it involves preparing a whole bunch of printed articles he has written before that he no longer has digital copies of, just printed copies.

If...

Yup, I've seen that happen.

I also saw the following when working as a PC repair tech:

...a computer in which the user somehow managed to force a VGA video cable into the video socket upside...

Some of their stuff seems half baked, like Wave and Buzz, but when the reason I switched over to Gmail and Google Search and then Google Chrome was because I felt they were simply superior than the...

In your opinion, you know it's true? That doesn't make any sense.

Anyway, I think that one of the reasons people are coming down on you is that you seem to genuinely believe that most people are...

None of my day-to-day computer usage actually requires Windows - web browsing, email, listening to music, basic word processing, managing my photographs, etc.

And because I built my PC myself, I'd...

If you're using 9.10, then go to Applications>Ubuntu Software Centre and search for restricted extras. Install that and you will be able to play lots of different formats for media including Flash.

Sounds like a hardware problem. Could be either a faulty keyboard or it's plugged into a faulty or failing USB port. Try it in a different USB port and try getting a loan of another keyboard if...

Duh! That should have been obvious to me.

Thanks.

I did something to my system tray at the top right of the screen and I can't figure out how to get it back.

The system tray that shows the network icon, sound volume icon, logout icon etc. has...

Thanks for the suggestions, but I've just realised what I did wrong. Looking back at the instructions I used, I obviously screwed up when selecting the drive to install Chrome onto and actually...

I downloaded a Google Chrome OS image and followed instructions I found online to install it to a 4Gb USB memory stick just to check it out.

So I did that, shutdown my laptop, started it up and...

I disabled and uninstalled all of my unused themes and add-ons and the problem seems to have gone away, so it looks like there was some installed extension that was causing the problem.

Thanks for...

Interesting, I might try that.

Some further information, when I start Firefox 3.5 for the second time after it's done it's update routine, it takes me immediately to the LANGUAGES tab of the...

Sorry if this has been posted already but a quick search doesn't reveal anything relevant.

I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 yesterday and I'm having a minor but very annoying issue with Firefox.
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And the idea that drinking a bottle of whiskey a day can damage your liver is nonsense because I know people who have been drinking heavily for years and haven't got liver failure or cirrhosis yet,...

That's like someone saying that they smoked 20 cigarettes a day for 30 years and never got cancer, therefore smoking doesn't cause cancer. It doesn't have to harm everyone or even a majority to be a...

I remember reading an article a while back which said that research had shown that CRTs could have temporary effects like tired and sore eyes and headaches from prolonged used, but that no long term...

I tried originally updating to 3.5 via Synaptic but it didn't actually do anything. When I ran Firefox it was still 3.0.10 or whatever version I was using perviously, so when I did a Google search...

Once I know I can upgrade it via the command line, I'm good.

Thanks for the help.

Thanks for that. The command line worked, but for some reason the "check for updates" was and still is grey out and can't be clicked on.

I wanted to upgrade to Firefox 3.5 but heard that it wouldn't be officially supported in Ubuntu till 9.10 comes out.

So I did a search and was able to install it via a utility called Ubuntuzilla. ...

I'm having the exact same problem with ISOs of Windows software or games. My DVD drive is bust so I'm trying to see if I can bypass it temporarily by mounting or using ISOs, but the filenames are...

I'm having issues with an Asus Eee PC 904HD where the UME is painfully slow but applications themselves run fine once they're launched (Firefox is perfectly fine for example) and I'd like to try this...

Okay, some quick experiment shows that it will only work on files that don't have any spaces in their filenames. I tried it on a few random folders and it only renamed the files that had no spaces...