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It has to do with ubuntu's drivers and the specific hardware in your computer. I have no problem with my USB drives, but my SD card reader repeatedly unmounts and remounts, usually mid-file copy.
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You can tell the `sudo' function which user you want it to run as.

This is done by
sudo -u USERNAME COMMAND

I found this out by typing
man sudo. You can find out all about commands by using...

Someone deleted it! Tell that leprechaun to stop it!

I do notice that on some fresh installs the gnome-panel moves around my apps. Not sure why but it eventually goes away.

You're talking about the cell signal inducing current in the speaker wires, which then creates this "noise" you hear. There is no fix.

After just a quick scan...the HP seems like a better starting place. Try to take the RAM and HDD from the dell and add it to the HP.

And I resent the `old system' tag. Either of those make my box...

Sudo is something you affix to the beginning of a command to tell the system to run the command as the "root". Use google to find out exactly who root is.

If your account is an administers account...

Thank you for taking the time to write a coherent FAQ. I fubared my mom's computer with a fresh install, I knew permissions were the issue, but I didn't know off hand how to fix them.

Thanks,

You may want to still add to the bottom the following in your xorg.conf, to see if it does make a difference. Unfortunately, I am not an expert in this field.



Section "Device"
Identifier...

This is what I was afraid of, the xorg.conf file does not contain the information we are looking for. In the most recent version of Ubuntu (8.10) they are making xorg.conf obsolete.

And dont...

Before we start down a rabbit hole that we don't want to go down, you were asked to post the contents of this file because it should contain information about your display settings. You should even...

when you type:


/etc/X11/xorg.conf

at the command line, you are just typing the name of a file. You have to use an application to actually view the file. If you are stuck with just the...

its not /etx, its /etc

bluefrog: thanks for your suggestion, but the destination folders aren't all named the exact same as they are named on the source. I just placed some examples above. And the folders are on my...

So I have a script which is more complex than below, so I dumbed it down, it gets across the idea. I have two variables which are the "source" and "dest" directories and have equal elements. How do...

for future reference you can use



thunderbird --profilemanager


And then you can manage where thunderbird thinks your profile is. For instance you could point thunderbird in Ubuntu to use...

I've been preparing to build my first server this Thanksgiving weekend and I've been reading about the exciting world of servers but I have at least one unanswered question.

1.) By setting up a...

dvdrip is available in the repositories and is easy to use. I have neved had a problem with it.

Just create a project, select the chapter to rip, rip it, then select the output format you want...

I am guessing...but I think the GIMP thumbnails files for nautilus? Did you uninstall the GIMP?

EDIT: The following may not solve your problem, but it's relevant.
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Can someone help me with this?

I noticed menu.lst is not updating the kernel when I install a new update. I have run "sudo update-grub" and the new kernels are found, but menu.lst is not...

I just plugged mine in it worked! I just had to use the network-manager application to browse wireless networks and connect. No install required.

For a more permanent solution you can go to advanced settings of Compiz and under "window decorations" you can change the command line to emerald replace

Under Prefs>>Keyboard shortcuts you can change it. And it doesn't launch a terminal, it opens the panel run dialog. Which is a gnome-panel application. If yours is not mapped, it may have happened...

You can disable that behavior by turning off the negative extension in Compiz (The special effects on your desktop).

To install compiz control panel


sudo apt-get install...

Formats that do not come supported out of the box can be remedied by installing the restricted package above. They are not included out of the box due to some sticky legal issues.

By installing...

I hate to bring this old post up, but I had the same problem with make xconfig. I solved it by



sudo apt-get install libqt3-mv-dev