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  1. Re: Do you think Ubuntu releases have too short a life span

    When you pick a fruit from its tree, or a leaf from its plant, it starts dying and decaying immediately and loses value and attraction progressively with every passing minute.

    The words you wrote...
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    [ubuntu] Re: How do I install windows and get rid of Ubuntu?

    Dude use google yourself. there are sites with instructions how to put sata drivers onto XP install disk (involves taking a disk image of the XP install disks, downloading the sata drivers, putting...
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    [ubuntu] Re: How do I install windows and get rid of Ubuntu?

    Well you can use one of the proposed solutions... VM

    It will depend on your needs what is the best choice:
    - XP will install in a VM easily, even on that HDD that the XP boot CD cannot...
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    [ubuntu] Re: How do I install windows and get rid of Ubuntu?

    If you booted from WinXP CD and it cannot see your HDD at all (?? is this the case?) then there is a problem with WinXP (perhaps you have newer sata HDD and XP cannot see them unless patched?).
    ...
  5. Re: Every personal copy of Ubuntu gives the recording industry 29 cents

    I have bought hundreds or thousands of recordable DVD/CD's and at most used maybe 2 to store music (ripping tunes from legally bought cds to MP3 then burning the MP3's back to CD so that I can carry...
  6. [ubuntu] Re: flight tomarow, still need video on my ipod!

    No need to fill up your VM virtual HDD by copying your files to the VM.

    Just share the folder (SMB) where the files are on your linux box (password the share if needed to restrict access). Then...
  7. [ubuntu] Re: flight tomarow, still need video on my ipod!

    Yep ... am using vmware server on my ubuntu laptop to get linked up to my iPhone via the windows version of iTunes. Its free also.

    I see you have already progressed nicely with virtualbox. I...
  8. [ubuntu] Re: flight tomarow, still need video on my ipod!

    I have an iPhone 3G and it plays video files and it doesn't matter if the files are with media usage rights or ripped (from legally bought media) and transcoded to the correct formats (and thus...
  9. [ubuntu] Re: How to migrate a working VPN profile from 8.04 to 8.10

    For some PPTP (microsoft) VPN connections you need to be able to set the "refuse EAP" setting and this is missing from the networkmanager in intrepid.

    If this is your problem below is an excerpt...
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    [ubuntu] Re: iPhone 3G 2.1 Syncing?

    ..and as I just found out - you cannot do restores or install software updates when using iTunes in a VM.

    Part way through the process of installing the v2.2 software update the installation...
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    [ubuntu] Re: iPhone 3G 2.1 Syncing?

    I have my iPhone 3G sync'ing to the latest itunes installed on WinXP Pro that is installed in a VM created and run under VMWare Server 2.0

    The latest VMWare Server 2.0 supports the needed USB 2.0...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Encrypt entire drive after install?

    Seconding what Dave_Connor wrote. It can be done. Just like rowing a boat across the atlantic can be done. :) But it would require you to really KNOW what you are doing, take considerable...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Tarballs are killing me! What to do??

    ...now as to where the tarballs you download disappear to? Who knows! hehehe. Hey if you are using firefox it defaults to saving downloads to the desktop, but can be configured to save elsewhere. ...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Tarballs are killing me! What to do??

    Ok you are a beginner... here is the good oil in non code language.

    You can get, install, and use software in a variety of ways:
    - the simplest and easiest click on Applications>Add/Remove......
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    [gnome] Re: Evolution GAL Problem

    I realise this reply comes many months after the OP posted. But recently I was looking for the same kind of help (thats how I found this thread) and found that there is not a lot of good experienced...
  16. [ubuntu] Re: Lightest, best alternative to Deluge torrent client?

    if lightweight doesn't mean CLI only, permitting/desiring a GUI... have a look at qBittorrent. Thats my current tool.

    Cheers
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    [all variants] Re: [SOLVED] HDD error is gparted wrong?

    every HDD has bad sectors, they are just marked as such so they are not used by the operating system (or should be if you run a disk checker over the drive). so you got bad sectors? no biggie. :)
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    [all variants] Re: HDD error is gparted wrong?

    be more specific about the error. post a screenshot for example.

    Is the HDD in question formatted NTFS? If a NTFS partition is not shut down properly, cleanly, it leaves a "dirty" flag set and...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Vmware Server refuses to start

    if you open a terminal window and type "vmware" you will get to see an error message (something like no vmware modules for your running kernel) and advice to run the vmware config again. The...
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    [all variants] Re: LinuxMCE. Any thoughts?

    I am at a very early stage of research into this kind of thing. For a while now I wanted to start a project to do with home automation, entertainment, and so on.... went looking and turned up...
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    [ubuntu] Re: can't edit menu.lst, help!

    Be careful editing menu.lst. Mistakes could leave you with a non-bootable system. Back up first. (sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst.20080828)

    There are also parts of menu.lst...
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    [ubuntu] Re: can't edit menu.lst, help!

    I would presume that you are on a non-GUI terminal login - correct? Meaning you have used ctrl-alt-F1 (etc) to get to a fullscreen non-gui terminal or you are booting up in a recovery terminal...
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    Re: How To: SIMP server - encrypt IM chat

    As cool as this seems, installing a server, etc... isn't it much easier just to enable the OTR plugin for pidgin? I have private/encrypted conversations with my colleagues all the time using that...
  24. [ubuntu] Re: UUID of sda1 differs for fstab & blkid outputs?

    If /dev/sda1 is your boot drive i guess you cannot even boot the system. Is that correct?

    If thats the case you need to change /etc/fstab to the correct UUID as reported by blkid. You will also...
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    [ubuntu] Re: totem losing audio sync.

    I have been noticing totem losing audio sync when watching movies on my laptop the past few weeks. I thought it was crappy encoding until it bothered me so much tonight I tried watching the same...
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