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I use the Mozilla Team PPA.


sudo add-apt-respository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Could you post what do you see when executing:

dmesg | grep -i smp

I have this problem before when using the stock Firefox on my Lucid (not sure what version are you using).

Should be the flash player, cuz I had tried uninstalling it and the problem was gone. ...

The stats will be printed on the terminal window that you executed the dd command.

Not unless you omit the -USR1 option. ;) You can do a man on dd.

There is a way to ask dd to print current I/O stats to stderr by sending a USR1 signal to it.

kill -USR1 pid-of-dd

Just saying you encounter an error instead of telling what exactly the error message is doesn't give too much information for people here trying to help.

What version of VMware are you using? ...

@pstein: for your "other question", the other software listed in Software Center but not found in /etc/apt/sources.list. You can find them under /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory.

Have you installed the VMware Tools on the guest OS?

Install Virtualbox Guest Additions on the guest OS


$ mkdir mnt
$ sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=`id -u`,gid=`id -g` <sharename> mnt



For details refers to the steps provided in the Help on...

You may download the packages and install them offline.

There is a How-to in the following link:
http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2010/06/howto-installing-ubuntu-packages.html

Hope this helps.

I don't understand exactly what you mean by "the .ecryptfs folder is too big for your needs". It IS your encrypted data since you've chosen to encrypt your entire home, and therefore it MUST be as...

Did you select to encrypt your entire $HOME? In such case, /home/.ecryptfs stores the actual encrypted data of your $HOME. And that's why it is as large as your $HOME.

After Vidalia is run successfully, did it fire up a browser automatically? Or were you using your preferred browser?

I took a different approach and didn't go through the installation steps. I...

Well, you do not have /var or /usr separated, they all go to root (/). So any addition packages you add will take up root. And IMHO, 8 GB is a bit too small for root, unless you don't add any...

As for the above question, no, you don't need two swap partitions (you only boot into one distro at a time) though it's no harm at all (just taking up your disk space). But you need to get in one of...

Have you tried changing:
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=/dev/sda7

to:
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=616aeaad-da42-417a-aaa4-17bdee5c4ec7

Kernel after 2.6.37 needs an update Nvidia module. I used the ubuntu-x-swat PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

A Live CD will be a good start, give you a feel on how it works and also see if your hardware got detected by the system.

That 'diskutil' is the command on Mac OS X in this context.

1) some notebook computers have BIOS startup password, together with BIOS supervisor password.
2) disable USB booting from BIOS.
3) GRUB password.
4) disable auto login.
5) encrypt the...

Sorry, a little confused.

When you booted to Ubuntu on USB after the GRUB rescue screen, how many partitions did you see? Did you see the Windows partition?

Have you chosen "Use entire disk"...

真幸福，想當年讀書的時候都沒有任何的中文輸入法學，都是後來自己慢慢學。

對於上咗年紀的如我媽六十歲以上的一輩，要他們學一套輸入法是蠻難的，也是因為這個原因，我不能不買個 Windows 給我媽的電腦，所以才有感。



大概是因為連老師本身也只會用 Windows 吧。而且老師用教育價，是比較便宜吧。畢竟香港中學教育所能教的比外國的少很多。最近看過 OMG!Ubuntu...

Looks like the OS doesn't see the hard drive at all.

Have you checked the BIOS setting of the machine and the setting of the SATA controller card if anything was revoked to factory default (say,...

Thanks srs5694, that's a very informative and helpful article you wrote.

I've double-checked that drive and its partition does start from sector 2048. So now ruling out the possibility of being...