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lol this thread made me think of that.

Glad to know it's not just me. I was wondering when switching from windows to linux my battery life dropped significantly.
I have an alienware m17x r3

Here is my output from powertop

PowerTOP...

Ubuntu 11.10
alienware m17x r3
After much searching I've come to the conclusion that I need help lol. I installed gnome 3 and log out and select GNOME not the other 2 which are both gnome classic...

Make sure you check your processing usage. Your fan might be load for a reason. If that's the case you need to see what process/processes are running that is using all your processing power.

My panel fails sometimes. So every once in a while it will load the panel in the pic that i have attached. Can anyone tell me how I can change my default panel to this panel. I know it doesn't look...

Thank you for the "Read on" advice. I have figured it out but now getting a lot of errors.
Apparently I have to delete gtk-gt-engine to stop these errors but when trying to remove I get a weird...

For some reason when trying to remove qtk-qt-engine I get an error message like....


sean@Port-nix-system:~$ sudo apt-get remove gtk-qt-engine
[sudo] password for sean:
Reading package...

So my question is how do you un-confuse gnome?????

Hey guy, sorry I know this is a ubuntu forum but I have always got great responses and very knowledgeable answers from this forum so I wanted to ask here. I am looking to custom build a box for a...

So get this, I tried to cancel a burn and during the cancel it sort of froze on me. So I try ejecting and obviously the eject doesn't work because it was still finishing up the burn. Really I was...

Thank you that help. Didn't solve the problem but solved a small part of it. I just can't figure out why they would make it so hard to use ruby on rails for linux. It appears a lot of people are...

Hello I am currently trying to get my RadRails working. There are certain tasks I cannot complete and I'm guessing that installing mongrel and some other items would get everything going. I run the...

Yeah I did notice that. But if that's a for sure thing than that's what I would go with. I'm tired of buying systems and having to partition or settle with generic drivers that don't do much. I just...

I am looking for a system that was assembled specifically for Linux. That way when I would like to make my system do things I don't have to jump through multiple hoops and do back flips. For example,...

I was curious about new netbook, laptops, and desktops with Ubuntu installed at the default OS. Being that it is the default OS are all of the components drivers open sourced so that there are no...

sorry ubuntu 10.04, Ok quick update:
I have tried scalpel and foremost and now realize that using these two is not going to help because they can only recover certain files. I believe the only file...

Hey guys this might be a very weird post but here goes. I deleted my history from my laptop and my wife feels that I am hiding things and is taking it really bad right now. I need to come up with a...

Wow thanks a lot. I have no idea how I missed that one. Thanks so much.

How would I go by expanding my ubuntu partition over Windows 7 and taking it completely out of the GRUB boot loader? BTW I am running Ubuntu 10.04.

lol i found it as soon as you posted it. thanks

Well this thread is solved just got to figure out how to mark it as solved. Thanks a lot.

How is everyone doing?? I have seen a few posts on this but still haven't seen a conclusion anywhere on google. I would love to log all of my terminal "adventures" in a log file. I have figured I can...

I have two computers one Desktop Compaq SR1720NX
Base processor
Sempron (P) 3500+ 2.0 GHz


1600 MT/s (mega transfers/second)
Socket 939

Just tried this:


ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key -N ""
ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -N ""
ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -N ""


but still no...

Wow same issue... Started off with me not being able to copy files from my laptop to my desktop using scp cause it gives an error like connection refused. Then someone told me I need to be running...