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There aren't any messages.. it's just a very slow abnormal boot up... The tool bar comes up, then the thing takes about a minute, sometimes two, to load the desktop...
It happens after I've...

Something that I'm installing in 910 is really messing up boot-up.. slowing it down a lot... Today's install I didn't install Clam, and it boots-up fast... Which softwares slow-down Ubuntu?.. And...

It sounds like the trouble one has in copying a SeaMonkey document, then clicking SeaMonkey off, and being unable to paste the save into a blank word file.. Probably somewhere somehow your saves...

"What services are you running ? By default there are no open ports, so why would these messages concern you ?"

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"Services": I thinks you mean: Firefox with 5 security add-ons.. ...

Firestarter's log this morning...


Time:Sep 21 07:02:15 Direction: Unknown In:eth0 Out: Port:445 Source:94.53.75.92 Destination:24.76.90.19 Length:48 TOS:0x00 Protocol:TCP Service:Microsoft-ds
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Am running Ubuntu 910.. When I am spellchecking notes, and I save a new word spelling, Gedit doesn't save it... What's the corrective code to make Gedit save my "custom word-spell saves"?..

In...

It happened on three pix I downloaded from a uplevel nudie art website, to practice my pix editing hobby, making the model's pix look even better, to mail quality edited pix to the models, and/or to...

I'm editing a nature scene pix, downloaded off the Net.. All over the pix are these little pixel sized blocks of white dots.. When I scroll the pix, the dots vanish and appear, and sometimes...

Here's an example of a tiny part of the problem...
I just finished installing Ubuntu-1004...
I tried to get Firefox's no-script...
I get this pop-up: "Firefox could not install the file at
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Is Ubuntu vulnerable to script-attacks when installing the OS?..
My hd's are a target for a few crazies.. They've destroyed the OS's about 50 times this past 6-months, usually seconds after I've...

What is a better composer than SeaMonkey's composer?..

Can you install SeaMonkey's composer without the browser?..

I got that silly little box again.. Me thinks it happened because I clicked the browser icon while Ubuntu was loading..?
Maybe if you click a new command while Ubuntu is loading, at a specific...

In U-910 when I move Rythmbox's window half off the screen to the left, while it's playing a tune, the OS freezes..?

Is there code or upgrade to correct this glitch?..

It may be that I'm...

WoW!.. that's a lot of wicked data on computer speed...

Which faster hd's will work in an old Compaq Presario?..

This problem sounds some like a loose connector, or dirty ground, inside the unit...

What happens when you gently tap the case while it's booting?..

Was this unit ever dropped, or hardware...

Now it's clear that my obsolete slow machines and hd's are the fault...

Is there anything one can do to speed-up existing Ubuntu and hardware in an old tower?..

When I repeated "saved as" the edited post, from SeaMonkey compose to flash window, it saved a second note.. I had to erase the first one on each saved edit...

Is there code to alleviate this...

I had that little black box glitch from a new Ubuntu-910 image download...
I installed twice, and it was still on the screen.. so I trashed that CD, and downloaded from a different site, and the...

If you plugged a card in with the machine powered up, you killed the card, or the logic board...

If the card is loose, or out of sink with the connectors, it's probably nuked...

It's likely...

This Seagate hd, 40-gigs, boots up fast... The desktop shows, then in a couple seconds it's ready.. but these other brand hd's get to the desktop, and take about half a minute to a minute to...

I saw a cartoon about a writer lining up all the letters in his post.. All the A's, a's, B's, b's... to Z's.. then the ..'s, ,,'s, !!'s... all set out in a line like a para...

In the next...

Screensaver background "pix folder" picks all the pix files in Home.. even the nasty ones that I don't want splashed on the screen, like the construction pix that I need on the hd, but don't want on...

Just fer the heck of it, when I ran Windows OS's I tried to shave the OS down to only what programs I wanted. Has any one minimized Ubuntu 910 down to bare-bones OS..? How many bytes did you get it...

Hilarious!..

So do tell.. How did you do it? oh great one...

I had that same problem, "the multi colored screen"...
I solved it by formating the hd with a W98 install CD, then pulled the battery for ten minutes.. Seems there were some Linux viruses, and...