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Thank you for responding. My problem steamed from the fact that Windows10 employs a new Samba protocol that breaks Linux compatibility. Here is my fix.

I have 3 machines on the network, 2 Windows 10 and an Ubuntu 14.04 server. I can access my home folder on the server from one Windows 10 machine but not the other. 'The account is not authorized to...

Here is what I did.

typed 'sensible-browser http://localhost:631' into the server. This opened CUPS admin panel. I selected 'allow remote administration', now I can access CUPS remotely via...

My home network is 2 Windows PC's and an Ubuntu server (14.04). I have connected a printer USB to the server and I want the Windows PC's to be able to print.

Installing Ubuntu Server I selected...

Thank you, fixing GRUB is exactly what I was looking for.

I want to be able to manually start a GUI when I hook peripherals to a headless machine but otherwise have it continue to boot and function as a server.

I have found a solution for this problem.

Appearantly, ALSA did not like the USB sound device that I was using. It is one of the cheap $2 ones that look like a USB stick w/headphone jack. ...

Yes, it sees the device. aplay -l produces:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 1: Set [USB Headphone Set], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0:...

I am trying to setup a minimal system from the Ubuntu 14.04 netboot iso. I installed the system using defaults only (exept partitioning). After the install was finished I restarted, edited...

I am installing Ubuntu 13.04 with the minimal installer. When I get to the software selection stage of the installation, there is a choice labeled "Ubuntu Desktop" and another labeled "Ubuntu...

Bad cable connection....

Ubuntu 12.04, cli only, on an old machine

I swear, it was working. But now, on boot I get "waiting for network configuration" for a while, then it says "waiting an additional 60 seconds for...

system needed to reboot...

I have followed all of the steps laid out in the excellent tutorial located here. Everything seems to work fine, except that it just doesn't work.

It seems to connect. Here is what I see.
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If I install 256MB RAM (128x2) conky shows 244MB. I can believe that this is due to the video using some.

What I am wondering is if the board only supports 256 then why do I get more then that...

I have an ancient Compaq Presario 5020 with a 320756-001 motherboard. I have read in several places that this board is capable of supporting up to 256MB of RAM. So I gave it 512 (256x2) to see.
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I am setting up Lubuntu on an ancient Compaq desktop. It has a 300MHz processor and 256Mb of RAM.

When it boots, the picture is all jacked up. The blue screen that you normally see with the...

I installed the same version and it is working now. Thank you again for your assistance.

Awesome. Thank you. I will check that out.

I have read that Chrome uses it's own flash. When I initially installed though, I would see a message on various pages that said "Get Adobe Flash" with a link to the site.

Once I install...

I have a machine dual-booting WinXP and a fresh install of lubuntu 12.04. I have installed lubuntu-restricted-extras.

The machine has a P-III 930MHz and 512 RAM. I understand that this is well...

Still not sure what the problem was, but purging and reinstalling seems to have fixed it.

For several versions of Ubuntu now, I have kept gwibber running in the background and giving me updates on my desktop via libnotify. It worked beautifully, even in 12.04 beta.

The other day...

Ok, yeah I do have hyper-threading and now that you pointed that out, and I've gone and read about what that actually means, I get it. Thanks.

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