I wanted to report the state of my Sony Vaio P series VGN-P788K. I tested with a 12.04 32-bit install with all updates as of 2012-05-28 applied. The kernels used were 3.2.0-24 from precise and...
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I wanted to report the state of my Sony Vaio P series VGN-P788K. I tested with a 12.04 32-bit install with all updates as of 2012-05-28 applied. The kernels used were 3.2.0-24 from precise and...
Can you let us know what changes you made?
Does anyone know if the problems and workarounds for the MacBookPro7,1 running Ubuntu 10.10 documented at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro7-1/Maverick have changed at all for Ubuntu 11.04?
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A community events sponsored by Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts, the Ubuntu Georgia LoCp, and Free IT Athens.
This volunteer event will be taking place on Saturday,
July 18th, 2009 from 10:30am to...
Hi, thanks for all your work on these guides. The one on how to reset your password is missing a step in the latest version of Ubuntu. Instead of dropping you directly to a root prompt, booting...
Post the grub configuration file.
I can't think of any reason to use apt-get instead of aptitude.
For normal updates, do
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
Only VMware Fusion running on an OS X host officially supports an OS X guest.
I believe the proper group is plugdev, not fuse. To restrict the use of USB storage devices, you can edit the authorizations for org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable using...
One possibility would be to overwrite the package's files with the archive from wordpress.org and then pin the package so that it is never updated.
E.G. in /etc/apt/preferences
if 2.3.1-1...
Hi,
I'm working on a system with 4 hard drives mapped as the following by Windows.
Disk 0 - C: & D:
Disk 1 - E:
Disk 2 - F:
Disk 3 - G:
I've tried installing Ubuntu to drive 3 using Wubi...
If you want user-friendly and secure, what you want is webdav over ssl.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/eBox
Duplicity supports S3.
Does anyone else see their last.fm password stored in plain text in the gconf key /apps/lastexit/password ?
Daniel Howard (you may know him from the Georgia Open Source Education Foundation) is starting a computer refurbishing program at UUCA that will install linux and donate the computers to local...
Free IT Athens has done work in Atlanta before. We provided computers to the US Social Forum last summer, for example. Anyone who'd like to volunteer with us or just donate some hardware should send...
Thanks for that tip; it helped on Gutsy.
DisplayConfigGTK doesn't support xrandr. It's a very poor tool to use for multiple monitors with the intel or radeon driver.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/displayconfig-gtk/+bug/144641
Instead of compiling this program, you can use the program tcprobe, which is a part of the transcode package.
a better test is to create a shell script like
#!/bin/sh
echo $PATH
Run that as sudo and you'll see that the path doesn't include the gems. I beleive changing the path is considered a security...
If you're in the Atlanta area and have linux questions that go beyond the desktop usage questions you can get easily answered here, you should join the mailing list at...
Here are most of the 06 materials. The Open CD hadn't been updated in a while, so we rolled out own, but they're making regular releases again now.