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Dear All,
I hope this is not too off-topic. If so, I do not mind if the moderator will (re)move this post.
I am using Opera and I recently discovered opera unite, which can turn your browser into a...

Dear All,
I would like to be able to embed movies in a latex presentation (i.e. to play a movie within a pdf file). This should be doable if I look at
http://electron.mit.edu/~gsteele/ffmpeg/
...

Dear All,
I do not know if this other problem is related: my girlfriend has just pointed me out that this page (online shop of a site)

http://www.freitag.ch/shop/FREITAG/shop.jsf


correctly...

Well, by miracle I found a workaround
http://bit.ly/afYvWH
Indeed running the command
sudo updmap-sys --enable Map=ua1.map
sorted out the problem.

larry

Dear All,
For reasons it would take long to explain, I need to write a document (well, to be honest I need to generate a figure, but that is changed into a latex document) using Arial. It is the...

Hi there,
Now I have fixed the problem: I had to update the bios (new driver available from manufacturer's website).
Now I can drop all the external usb sticks, wireless connectivity just works...

Hello,
And thanks for helping. Below is the output of the commands you requested.
I am not that experienced about networks, but the problem looks to me more about enabling the wireless network than...

Dear All,
I made a fresh xubuntu 9.10 installation on my laptop (amilo pa 3553 fujitsu-siemens,amd64 architecture).
The problem is that the network manager applet does not allow me to enable...

OK, thanks for your suggestions, but it does not work.
I am rather annoyed: my laptop is still up and running, but so many little things ended up broken after this upgrade...
Hope I will be able to...

I am a bit puzzled: skype is failing as well
From the guide
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Karmic#Skype

$ wget -O skype_ubuntu-2.0.0.72-1_amd64.deb...

Dear All,
I have just upgraded to 9.10, but I am experiencing some problems.

I cannot watch youtube videos any longer. Firefox says that either I have javascript turned off or an old version of...

Hi,
This is what I did

$ ecryptfs-wrap-passphrase encryption
Passphrase to wrap:
Wrapping passphrase:
Warning: Using default salt value (undefined in ~/.ecryptfsrc)

and then saved the...

Thanks a lot for your suggestions.
I am a bit ignorant --encryption just sounded good to me-- so: where do I find the my ecryptfs recovery keys?
Cheers

larry

Dear All,
I am currently running Ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop. I would like to upgrade to 9.10 via apt-get and terminal.
I have a few questions
(1) See my source list at the end of this post. Should I...

Dear All,
While googling for Python, I stumbled upon the following presentation
http://www.aleax.it/goo_py4prog.pdf
and fell in love with its layout.
Now, I supposed it was created using a Mac,...

See the link for the fact that you have to be careful when creating the swap file (not any file will do). There they mention holes.
Fundamentally, my problem is that partedmagic or parted itself...

You see, I tried your suggestion , but I cannot resize \home since I am told that the partition has an incompatible feature (is it the fact that it is encrypted?). Otherwise, I would be happy with a...

Dear All,
I am having a bit of a problem here. I installed ubuntu on my laptop (fujitsu-simens amilo pa 3553) from the minimal ubuntu CD. The live CD would not work due to some graphic driver...

Dear All,
My laptop seems rather slow to me when doing number crunching.
If I look at
$ swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda5 ...

Dear All,
When I try to update my system (sudo apt-get update) I usually get these warnings

Fetched 398kB in 3s (102kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error:...

Hello,
To be honest, I am not so interested in the wireless connection. It is usually a pain and I use my laptop mainly as a desktop replacement.
I installed ubuntu 9.04 from the minimal install CD...

Dear All,
This must be a one-liner, but I cannot do this myself.
Say you use subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) to keep some files under version control.
You had your own project directory...

Dear All,
I installed ubuntu 9.04 on my fujitsu-siemens laptop amilo pa 3553.
The hotkeys for adjusting the brightness do not work, but I came across this post
...

Mmmhhhh....so, in other words, could I simply (in case of necessity) backup my data to an external hard disk and then do the part I quote below



so that I can move the data back? Why is it...

Dear All,
I made a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04 on my new laptop.
Only one question (for now ;-): during the installation, I chose to have my /home encrypted. It looks a safe choice...but what if...