I think most people really don't care what their operating system is, they usually just want internet and email, if the Laptop or PC can do that out of the box, what is the compelling reason to go to...
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I think most people really don't care what their operating system is, they usually just want internet and email, if the Laptop or PC can do that out of the box, what is the compelling reason to go to...
Evolution brings us better IMAP support, supporting the IMAP IDLE feature which allows for realtime notifications - commonly known as push notifications.
If your email provider supports IMAP IDLE...
If your interested in such a method, there is a script called pyfragtools: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=169551
I have never used it, so can't comment on effectiveness.
Running ...
You could try installing the Januty package from http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libstdc+, there are i386 and AMD64 packages.
Cheers, Nick
Would make sense as its asking for libC++5. Ubuntu version is built against libC++6.
Cheers, Nick.
IMHO lack of advertising and marketing (no brand awareness to the general public (not to other geeks) like with Apple and Microsoft) and Distro-confusion (people complain about having half a dozen...
One machine, my main laptop has an 8 out of 10 out of the box satisfaction rating (one bug that I've fixed myself and a few tweaks to bad defaults).
Other machine, a netbook is a 3 out of 10 out of...
Don't forget Ubuntu's own help is useful:
https://help.ubuntu.com/
Cheers, Nick
The System Monitor allows you to view free space.
Its located off the System Menu within the Administration sub menu.
There is a tab called file systems.
Cheers, Nick.
I would suggest reinstalling Thunderbird, this should install the correct librarys, which is what the error you are getting is pointing at. It may not be Thunderbird itself, could be an Add-on that...
You can tune how much swap is favoured by altering the swappiness setting.
Ubuntu default is 60 (out of 100).
A value of zero means when runnable memory gets low, the Kernel will only page out to...
The reason it does it is that it is faster to page out unused virtual memory and allow the system to use spare memory for the file system cache - editing of large media files is where this is...
I still not have had any luck getting hdparm.conf to work, which would be my preference.
But I have got Laptop-mode working. Having looking through the pm-utils scripts there are checks in there...
In Intrepid this was done with laptop-mode.
I've been told that pm-utils now handles this, but I can't work out where to adjust hdd spindown times in particular.
I've also tried adding settings...
Kubuntu is officially supported by Canonical according to the above link.
Cheers, Nick
Hi,
I Jaunnty and Intrepid I followed the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerManagement to allow my Laptop HDD to spindown and it worked great.
In Karmic gnome power settings do not...
I'm on Virgin's 10 meg setting and found that doing pure downloading of torrents at max speed (Ubuntu's iso torrents for example), is creating around 40KB of traffic out... now subtract that from the...
Interesting, I know LVM does not support write barriers (correctly) which is required for safer unclean shutdowns and the inability to disable the write cache sure does not help.
Cheers, Nick
A bit late with the answer, but the reason is because its not finished yet !
Read the rest: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/321528
Cheers, Nick
EXT4 suffers from the exact same issues from power cuts as XFS (infact it was worse until patched around April IRC).
The issue is that a combination of delayed allocation and data in the write cache...
After another round of googling I actuall found a post on this forum, http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6217100&postcount=4.
I added
-J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd
to my...
6.7 RC1 is out and looking good.
Java Swing Font Anti Alaising (Netbeans)
Hi
I am trying to get Netbeans to render fonts with Anti Alaising.
Searching the internet says that it SHOULD work with Java 6.
Further searching suggests settings such as...
Hi
From the "Tools" Menu there is a "Plugin" item. Click this and then you can select php from the Available Updates tab.
I personally prefer to use Netbeans downloaded from the Netbeans...
From a terminal opened from your desktop:
Cd to the directory you downloaded the installer.
run "sudo sh netbeans-6.7rc1-ml-javase-linux.sh" (or whatver version of netbeans you downloaded).
I...