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    [ubuntu] Re: Cusor disappears after upgrade to 10.4

    It MAY be related, but as your problem is different, I would also start a new thread. In our case, the cursor is totally invisible. It is quite possible that whatever eventually fixes our problem...
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    [all variants] Re: mouse cursor disappears

    Possibly related? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/552058
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    [ubuntu] Re: Cusor disappears after upgrade to 10.04

    Possibly related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/552058 ???
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    [ubuntu] Re: 8.10 - high load by dd and klogd

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/295781 has been entered. O.P. should follow and/or add comments on this launchpad report.
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    [all variants] Re: reboots every 61 +/- minutes

    Is this machine any kind of a server that might be rebooting if it can't contact (or be contacted by) another machine? (aka a "watchdog" feature).
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    [ubuntu] Re: Flashing wifi light - 8.10

    Didn't work for me. I can see that the script ran, but the LED flashes all the same.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Flashing wifi light - 8.10

    Related link:


    http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1771
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/250211

    Whoever thought this was a good idea must have a...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Internet Monitoring

    If I was having this problem, I would probably turn to an application called Wireshark

    sudo apt-get install wireshark

    experiment a little with it so that you understand how it works, and then...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Can see, but can't access, WinXP network

    Does this mean I'll have to run a WINS server or will it also find servers on a network that relies on Broadcast-style browsing?
  10. [ubuntu] Re: Problem Browsing Network Folders Ubuntu 8.10

    I'm having multiple and competing problems involving Windows Networking.

    The issue I was having that I don't think was involved in this is that my ISP is returning bogus IP addresses when lookups...
  11. [ubuntu] Re: Dual boot - Vista and Ubuntu 8.10 - Separate HDD

    When you installed Ubuntu, did you have the Windows disk disabled in BIOS?
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    Re: People that back into a parking spot.

    Mark me down as "Safer."

    On of my best high-school friends lost a little sister because their dad backed over her in the driveway. Perhaps as a result of this, I have always felt safer backing...
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    Re: how to: automatically umount cifs partitions

    Thank you! This solved the problem I was having in Feisty Fawn 7.04 with long delays on the

    "CIFS VFS: No Response for Cmd (various)"

    Your solution worked immediately (no need to reboot after...
  14. Re: Random accessing hard drive! Grinds system to a halt.

    Sorry, I forgot to answer this. No, your partition combination is no problem. It would not be the cause of this behavior.
  15. Re: Random accessing hard drive! Grinds system to a halt.

    I know that you just tested it, but trust me that this is a failing HDD. Spend its last remaining hours doing a backup, while you can. Then get a replacement -- hard drives have never been cheaper...
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    Poll: Re: Could I administer a computer lab?

    Dude - go for it. You can't sail the ocean until you pull away from the dock.
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    Re: HOWTO: Set up VNC server with resumable sessions

    Because you are using SSH (good for you!), connection attempts over an SSH tunnel appear to be coming from localhost. This needs to be enabled in gdm. It is not enabled by default.

    To enable...
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    Re: HOWTO: Set up VNC server with resumable sessions

    1. You don't need to uncomment this line. The lines with the comment marks are the default settings.

    2. You should not edit gdm.conf, you should edit gdm.conf-custom. When gdm is updated,...
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    Re: HOWTO: Set up VNC server with resumable sessions

    (In reply to the top post in this thread...)

    The contents of the new file in step 4 should be



    service Xvnc
    {
    type = UNLISTED
    disable = no
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    Re: HOWTO: Set up VNC server with resumable sessions

    (In reply to the top post in this thread...)

    The code in Step 5 should be:



    sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd stop ; sudo killall Xvnc ; sudo /etc/init.d/xinetd start
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    Re: HOWTO: Pocket PC Syncing with Evolution

    I ran into this too.

    Edit your Multisync pair, and of the Evolution side, choose options. You'll see that by default, the options are not to sync anything: Calendar, Contacts, nor Tasks. Turn on...
  22. Thread: Speed tests

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    Re: Speed tests

    From the Let's Be Fair department...



    [-( The opposite is true, Jeroen. Each Windows release has held faster boot-up and faster app-loading as a feature, and testing has shown that each...
  23. Thread: Speed tests

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    Re: Speed tests

    Perhaps you already considered this, but in any of these tests, you should throw away the first result. The first time a user logs on, the first time a system shuts down, the first time Firefox is...
  24. Thread: Speed tests

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    Re: Speed tests

    The reason your speed tests were different is because the default TCP/IP parameters in Windows are very conservative.

    For example, the default maximum TCP window size (RWIN) is 17520 in Windows...
  25. Poll: Re: do you think that the xserver crush was a good thing ?

    I checked Google News both last night and tonight -- still silent on the issue.

    I hadn't heard of OSnews.com before (and either has Google News, apparently).
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