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Thanks for the heads-up

It's always a bit of an excercize in frustration when new versions of Ubuntu come out. They loving adding features.. ..but never fixing bugs. And even if they fix a bug,...

I just solved my own problem.

After setting custom shortcuts, you have to logout of Ubuntu and Log back in, then they work. That wasn't the case in previous versions; they used to just work right...

Weird problem. I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 and I can't seem to set any working "Custom Shortcuts".

In the Keyboard settings I go to the Shortcuts tab like I always have and try to create some new...

ahh geez I think I see what my problem might be.

The guide that I use to setup Ubuntu everytime I reinstall it has a bad mistake. I usually use this guide everytime I have to install a new...

even if you get the .deb file directly from the virtulbox servers, it still wants to remove all those programs in order to fix some sort of dependancy issue. Very strange. I've narrowed it down a...

When I want to install "Virtualbox" under 11.10 I get a bunch of warnings that it's going to remove a ton of stuff on my Ubuntu box and that I won't be able to get future updates for these things. ...

I'm glad I'm not the only one that has this annoying "Hold the mouse button down" problem with the top menu bars.

You're right, sometimes it happens other times it doesn't. When it does, I've...

Thank you so much. I've been having this problem for what seems like FOREVER!

This completely fixed it. Perfect tear-free desktop, silky smooth video in mplayer, no tears.

Awesome!

I just picked up this printer today at Staples for $50.

Works perfect with this driver:

http://www.openprinting.org/driver/epson-nx420/
download the 1.0.0 (DEB for LSB 3.2) off that page
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I had this same problem when upgrading to 10.10 with my 5th generation iPod touch. Worked perfect in 10.04, but wouldn't recognize in 10.10. I figured it out and now have it working.

You need to...

Thank you, Thank you, that did it. It fixed my problem. I was having this problem too for the past few months and finally put 1+1 together and thought it might have something to do with upgrading...

I have an ASUS P5QL Pro motherboard with the ALC1200 HD Audio chipset too.

However I managed to fix this with another method.

RealTek has a Linux driver which works perfectly in Ubuntu even...

The shared folder will be mounted as a local folder on each of the client machines depending on the mount point you selected for each. You'd just open whatever file manager you have and go to that...

I really love XFCE, the only thing I don't like is how Xubuntu in particular configures it by default.

I don't like how Xubuntu tries to set the default look/behavior of XFCE to work like Gnome. ...

Is there anyway to make all applications opened with Wine share the same GTK+ look and feel of applications running in XFCE or Gnome? I don't like how the Windows apps fonts and colors are slightly...

I love XFCE but I don't like how Xubuntu has auto-configured the desktop to look and work similar to Gnome rather than the default XFCE config which is more like the old CDE (Common Desktop...

Electricity is included free with my condo (I pay a flat fee for condo fees which include electricity regardless of usage), so I leave everything running 24/7

AMD Sempron 2500+
1GB RAM
250 GB Seagate HD + 80 GB Western Digital HD, 330 GB Total Storage
Nvidia GeForce 6200 256MB Video RAM AGP 8x
Sound Blaster Live connected via TOSLINK to Pioneer Dolby...

I'd like to start using mp4 containers for my video files with x264 video and aac audio. I know I can encode x264 with mencoder (I've done it a lot of times) and I can encode aac audio with faac,...

I've used this guide and it works perfectly on my GeForce 6200 with S-Video out. Thank you.

I now have it setup exactly the way I want.

I setup a custom background wallpaper to display on...

AMD Sempron 2500+
1GB RAM
GeForce 6200
80GB HD
Toshiba DVD-Recorder

I got almost everything working except overscan.

The image on my TV is a little underscanned so I followed the instructions according to the nvidia site



So I put the line
Option...

What's with all these complex instructions here. Stadsport's instructions work perfectly.. just downloaded the nvidia driver from Synaptec and typed the command above "sudo nvidia-glx-config enable...

has anyone been able to get mplayer plugin working? I got Flash and Java working thanks to the advice here.

So far I love Opera, much faster than Firefox

has anyone been able to get mplayer plugin working? I got Flash and Java working thanks to the advice here.

So far I love Opera, much faster than Firefox