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Coincidentally, I just came across MediaTomb in my searches. It looks like a good way to stream the media to computers, XBMC, or other devices on the network.

I was really looking for an...

Thanks. Vortexbox sounds closest to what I need, but it looks like it's designed to handle music only?

Just to clarify, the purpose of this server is to allow other network computers to download...

Hey guys,

I want to set up a kind of "Media Library" on a server. The goal is to be able to share my music, movies, etc. with a few people on a local network. Ideally, this could support both...

GParted should be able to do that with no problems. Just delete the Ubuntu and swap partions and extend/grow the NTFS partition to fill the free space. It may take a while, but it should work.

You...

You should just be able to cd to the directory and run it by typing "myfile.cpp".

Thanks. That seems logical. I know how to make a shell script and such, but I'm not familiar with anything aside from running a simple command.

Looks like this is just what I needed.

Thanks.

My Dad's got an iPod Touch and I'd like to rip some DVDs to it. I know you can use Windows by using DVD Decrypter, Handbrake, Videora, and the whole shebang. That's what he has installed on his...

I'm trying to resize a Windows XP NTFS partition on my brother's laptop; I eagerly started up the Ubuntu LiveCD and ran GParted. However, I was discouraged to find out that GParted simply would not...

I just recently installed wicd on recommendation from another user here because I was having problems with NetworkManager. Wicd worked spectacularly for a week or so, but now I'm running into...

I've never tried installing on an external hard drive, but there's a few guides that can help.

http://ubuntukids.org/blog/?p=69
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Alright, I was just confused because the "wpa driver" isn't the driver I'm using for the network, right? Just for WPA? Because that was my issue with Network Manager and ndiswrapper; wpa wouldn't...

The reason why Vista won't let you do more than a small percentage is because there are those immovable files. I would strongly suggest defragging first; when I first tried to install ubuntu on an...

What you're going to do is boot from the live cd, and assuming you can connect to the internet, go to the page I linked you to, and follow the instructions to reinstall grub. I can't think of any...

Vista's partitoner is fine. I used it the first time I installed Ubuntu, but I like GParted better. XP's partitioner is crap, though.

I had that issue when I installed, and all I had to do was...

Did you make sure that GRUB installed okay? It should ask you which thing you want to boot into. If somehow the grub installation got messed up, then you can try reinstalling it from the cd.
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Thanks! I had been considering getting wicd, but I wasn't sure how it would interface with ubuntu, and I wasn't ready to risk losing my internet.

It seems to be working like a charm, although I'm...

Alright, I forgot to remove ndiswrapper, but I did now. And putting iwl4965 in the /etc/modules should work like a charm. I've just got one more question: before I did a clean install of 8.10,...

I recently tried installing ndiswrapper to improve wireless speeds, and that went awry. So I've tried going back to the default driver, which is "iwl4965." I can get it to work by going into the...

I just did a clean install of Intrepid after using Feisty, Gusty, and Hardy for quite some time. I got a Sansa Fuze this summer, and I learned all about using it with linux (.is_audio_player, etc) to...

Hello. I have been an Ubuntu user for over a year now, and I have to say the experience is great. The best thing about Linux is that if a problem occurs, there IS a way to fix it. I just reinstalled...

If the TouchPad is a usb device, try running "lsusb" to make sure that Ubuntu is seeing the mouse at the hardware level. Then try looking for drivers and such.

Yes; I noticed that the "Dust theme" wasn't a complete "theme," in the traditional sense. It's a control and window border theme; I tried selecting both but firefox and other apps don't turn dark...

I found the "Dust" theme on Digg; it looked amazing. The screenshots really made me want to use it, especially because I could finally use a decent-looking theme without desktop effects (up until now...

I followed directions in the forum to make a separate XBMC user account which runs only XBMC and nothing else to make it run efficiently; now I would like to make it so I can share my music on my...

Alright, you mean XBMC, right? Xbox Media Center? There are two options here. The first and simplest would be to make a user account and go to System->Preferences->Sessions and remove the check mark...