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Hi,

I've installed a couple of new 12.04.2 VMs recently and I'm having a strange problem accessing my NAS.

The new installs use CIFS instead of SMBFS to access the share, and the problem...

Hi,

I'm trying to get one of the machines on my home network to forward root's mail to my gmail.

I have set a .forward in /root and an alias in /etc/aliases to point to my gmail address.
I get...

I've been having trouble with Rhythmbox for a while.

I recently persuaded my girlfriend to install Ubuntu 12.04 on her PC. When she tries to play an album, she really wants to just drag the file...

Thanks jerrrys - using your link I found the following page;

http://www.upubuntu.com/2011/11/how-to-remove-unused-old-kernels-on.html

I used the sudo aptitude purge command to remove kernels...

Hi all,

I have a problem with my Ubuntu server. It's not a big deal, I could blow the OS away - this is really just a play box.

When I try and run apt-get upgrade I get errors which indicate...

Thanks very much for your help - that's working great!

(A little bit ashamed that I didn't find that 1st link myself :)

Thanks for the response. I had a good dig through the putty options. I'm running v0.60 and I can't find anything the specifically lists ncurses.....

Hi,

I have a Ubuntu 12.04 server that I SSH into from various different boxes. Any other Ubuntu box is fine, I just run ssh [hostname] and all the terminal emulation stuff is taken care of.
...

No, the clocks didn't change. But the timestamps on all the files on the NTFS volumes did - in relation to system time.

I haven't really figured it out, but I know that NTFS timestamps are stored...

Hi,

Does anybody know of an easy way to increment the timestamp of a bunch of files & directories by one hour?

My backups are stored on NTFS volumes, and somehow since the clocks changed the...

Spoke too soon :(

The connection drops out every 10mins or so, leaving the following in /var/log/syslog;


Jul 12 14:03:45 wingnut pppd[4144]: Modem hangup
Jul 12 14:03:45 wingnut pppd[4144]:...

Now working.

I used the firmware from region/option 6 under the windows HP connection manager and the card sprung into life.

I had to do a reboot after getting the firmware in the correct dir...

Hi Andrew,



I gave up and re-installed Win7 from scratch (the plan is to dual boot) - the default HP Win7 install it came with was horrible, but it's not too bad when most of the bloatware is...

Thanks for the reply Andrew.

I've been restarting network manager by issuing the following command;


sudo service restart network-manager

This seems to restart ok. After a doing so I'd then...

Thanks - that seems to have done it!

Hi all,

I've had a HP Mini 5102 with a un2420 in it for a while, and started hacking around to get the 3G module working today. My old eeePC 1000HG is starting to show it's age :)

I've managed...

Yes - Firefox preferences are set to "When firefox starts: show a blank page". Is that what you meant?

Hi all,

I've been beating my head against this one for a few months.

I have FF set to start show a blank page at startup - yet it remembers all my previous sessions instead. I've been through...

I used KIMNZLs process to get mine working too - albeit as a generic PCL6 printer. At least it works....

EDIT: 11.04 64bit......

Thanks!

Then I found the search by user option in advanced search - after much grouching and swearing. Dunno how to mark this thread resolved tho.

Why is this forum GUI difficult? I can list my "private...

Hi,

I'm trying to find a list of my previous posts. Can anybody help me out? I forgot to subscribe to a thread I started an hour or so ago, it's already dropped off the first page of threads and I...

Hi,

Since the recent firefox upgrade, my back button is greyed out.
Anybody else having this problem?

Cheers!

Hi,

I have a Drobo series 1, connected to a Droboshare. This device connects to the network as an SMB share, and I mount it at boot on my Ubuntu 11.04 boxes.

Normally it works fine, except...

Hi,

I'm looking to build a packet capture box to capture from a 10Gbps feed with tcpdump or wireshark. Would anybody have any recommendations for a 10Gbps NIC? The box would have a separate NIC...