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Found the problem, Akondi was consuming nearly 100% of my CPU after startup. So I disabled it and no more problems since. I used the following to do it from a remote terminal:



akonadictl...

I'm having the same problem with KDE 4.7, it runs for a few minutes then hard locks the system. Ever enabling Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't help, I'll have to pull my logs in a bit

I downloaded and extracted the new Firefox 4 beta, but when I execute ./firefox from the directory, my installed copy of Swiftfox launches. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

After trying Gnome Shell I've found it to be very usable and a desired upgrade. While I wish the Compiz worked with it, it should still be the forward looking interface for Gnome

I'd go find a copy of OS/2 Warp 4 and break it in!

I found what solved my problem, as I'm on a laptop the Gnome mirrored my main screen against my laptop screen and created the limit that way, once I un-mirrored the screen I was allowed to set my...

Same problem, in fact to make it worse under Kubuntu I have resolutions up to 1680x1050 (60Hz) but under Ubuntu I'm limited to 1024x768, on the same hardware.

Same problem with Kickoff here

I've run into the same problem with Maxima only that adding in the fonts and telling (wx)Maxima to use Green fonts has worked. Any other ideas?

Over a very slow connection I've been able to download from the local Ubuntu mirrors, except for ppa.launchpad.net. Does anyone have a listing of mirrors for that site?



Err...

I'm using Juanty and working over a cellular modem connection, as a result downloading the indexes from ppa.launchpad.net constantly times out. Does anyone know an alternate method of downloading and...

Is there a way to add these option under the mouse's right click menu?

Irqbalance made a major improvement in the responsiveness of my Quad-core system. Thanks!

This worked!

If you're using an ATI card, try the newest (9.2) drivers from their site.

I noticed a root process running with the name " -:0 " does anyone know what this is?


What a ps -ef shows


root 9639 9427 0 Jan21 ? 00:00:00 -:0

I'm having an odd problem with ATI's fglrx driver 8.12 the first time I boot the machine up, the system goes into Low Graphics Mode, but when I select the option to run it in low graphics, everything...

To me it sounds like your firewall settings are blocking port 80.

Fire up Firestarter and see what is says.

Try


file <filename>


and see what it says.

I'm running into a similar problem in my case I discovered that the old fglrx driver was still running even though I'd removed the package (I'd forgotten to reboot). After rebooting I discovered that...

I upgraded from Hardy Heron to Intrepid Ibex and started experiencing problems with fglrx 8.10 and now 8.11. Apparently I have an older dri driver which is killing X's ability to launch. Anyone know...

I have a new IBM blade server with two blades installed, my idea is to cluster the blades together in such a way as they share resources. Is this possible?

I think I ran into similar problems with the upgrade. What I noticed was that the upgrade switched out the fglrx driver with the new opensource radeon driver which works surprisingly well... once...

Is there a way to roll back an preserve your home directory in place? Or do you have to save it off and completely reformat?

Is this upgrade possible? Are there any typical errors to look out for? Thanks!