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    [SOLVED] Re: Font rendering issue in printed output

    Closing this thread: It took more analysis than I'd care to admit before I found that the culprit was a manufacturing error in the tricolor cartridge. Now it prints well, on all my systems, including...
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    [SOLVED] Font rendering issue in printed output

    When printing from Ubuntu 20.04 to my HP J4680 printer, fonts are rendered with a sort of shadow effect (see pic; left printed with Mac, right Ubuntu). Printing the same documents from my Mac show...
  3. [lubuntu] Re: Lubuntu: no network after upgrading to 18.04

    LOL :)

    Replacing it isn't the hard part; I have a new one ready to go.

    I was just hoping to keep another electronic device out of a landfill a little while longer. But 32-bit systems are...
  4. [lubuntu] Re: Lubuntu: no network after upgrading to 18.04

    D'oh! I so rarely use that machine that I'd totally forgotten about the shorter EOL for flavors. Thank you for the reminder. VERY helpful.

    I could convert it to use Ubuntu Server, but is there...
  5. [lubuntu] Re: Lubuntu: no network after upgrading to 18.04

    Thank you for chiming in. Yes, I have tried setting up new settings in NM for both static (preferred) and DHCP (usually easiest). NM has no problem even recognizing the NIC's MAC, but no go on...
  6. [lubuntu] Lubuntu: no network after upgrading to 18.04

    One of my machines here is an old Lenovo Q100 nettop, and after an in-place upgrade from Lubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 the Ethernet networking no longer works.

    I've done quite a few web searches, but the...
  7. [SOLVED] Re: Error "JRE not installed/Java is disabled." after recent Firefox update

    Good thought. I'll keep an eye on that. Thanks!
  8. [SOLVED] Re: Error "JRE not installed/Java is disabled." after recent Firefox update

    Thanks to both of you for the quick replies. Halogen2, I'd not heard of Firefox ESR before but tried it and it was a quick and easy solution - thank you! Marking "solved"....
  9. [SOLVED] Error "JRE not installed/Java is disabled." after recent Firefox update

    Setup:
    Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit)
    Firefox 52.0 (32-bit)

    I have a client that uses Juniper Connect for their VPN, and after much trial-and-error a couple years ago I finally got it set up well with...
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    [SOLVED] Re: 15.10 Server hangs on reboot

    After applying the fix I noted above and then waiting a couple days, both servers now reboot normally. Given that this was an intermittent problem I can't be sure there's not some bug lying in wait...
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    [SOLVED] Re: 15.10 Server hangs on reboot

    Update after 24 hours of server idle: yesterday I had applied the fix to the Grub file as described in my OP here, and waiting overnight before trying a reboot. Worked, on both machines.

    Given...
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    [SOLVED] Re: 15.10 Server hangs on reboot

    Since these are experimental systems I decided to got for it and follow the advice outlined in the URL I linked to above, adding "acpi=force reboot=acpi" to /etc/default/grub.

    So far the system...
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    [SOLVED] Re: 15.10 Server hangs on reboot

    Thanks for the reply, Darko. I fully agree about LTS, and would have preferred to use 14.04 but I found the installer wasn't recognizing my keyboard on those two machines, and 15.10 was the only...
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    [SOLVED] 15.10 Server hangs on reboot

    I have an issue with two servers: sometimes they will reboot, but sometimes they hang during the shutdown phase of reboot.

    I've tried using the following:
    sudo reboot
    sudo shutdown -r now
    sudo...
  15. [ubuntu] Re: Global menu + certain applications menu bars show duplicate entries. (i.e. kdenli

    It may be an easy-to-fix bug in the app. My (admittedly limited) understanding of how the global menu bar works is that when an app defines its menus using the standard Qt or GTK methods, Unity will...
  16. Thread: Mozilla Firefox

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    Re: Mozilla Firefox

    Firefox has been super stable for me. I'd use it exclusively if I could run Netflix with it.
  17. Re: How 'well' does Ubuntu work for most of you guys?

    I've had periods of many years using mostly Mac, then mostly Windows, and in recent years mostly Ubuntu. For the last year I've been using Ubuntu almost exclusively. With the clean simplicity of...
  18. Re: How much time do you dedicate to learning to code (or anything)?

    Malcolm Gladwell suggests the distance between noobie and master in any field is about 10,000 hours. In some areas it's okay to be merely competent, so just a few hundred hours may suffice. But to...
  19. Thread: Create my own OS

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    Re: Create my own OS

    As entire OS is a lot of work. Perhaps you might start with one corner of it and see how that goes. A file manager would be relatively easy to do, and you could use high-level tools like Python,...
  20. Re: Troubles With Low Quality VPS...Any Suggestions?

    Ive been very pleased with InterServer, and their scalable pricing for VPS slices.
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    Re: Ubuntu Server instead of Debian?

    A little company called Dreamhost switched over the summer - with some 20,000 servers:

    http://www.linuxandlife.com/2013/06/dreamhost-now-uses-ubuntu-instead-of.html

    And I switched the...
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    Re: What does it mean?!!

    I don't know anything about the comic, but I believe the symbol is a Gankyil:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gankyil
  23. Re: disappointed that the world of linux remains so clunky

    Respectfully, I see nothing wrong in raising the bar with reasonable expectations. There's a place for WYSIWYG HTML editors, and the fact is that there isn't a single one in the Ubuntu Software...
  24. Re: Looking for members of a game changing Linux distro

    If you want a game changer, write apps. Any OS is ultimately just an app launcher; app define the scope of what we can do with an OS.

    There are many apps that are Win-only, and often a reason...
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    Re: Is Canonical trying to do too much too soon?

    The original question here was stated as: "Is Canonical trying to do too much too soon?"

    Perhaps a more relevant question might be: "Are other OS vendors trying to do too little too late?"

    The...
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