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Hi T.J.,

This is an old IBM ThinkCentre, so traditional BIOS I believe. It does have an option called DVMT that I am not very clear about.

Hi ajgreeny,

Thanks for your response. I have tried this with the existing install and I do not get the Grub menu. Instead, I get a prompt that says boot>

This prompt does not accept any bash...

Hi all,

Hope you're having a great weekend.

I just installed Xubuntu 13.04 on my desktop. During install, the Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard were recognized and usable with no problems....

Well guys, I had a chance to sit down and try some of the solutions I mentioned in my prvious post. Unfortunately, none of them work for me. Does anyone know of any other solutions that I have...

Thanks hydrohog,

I'm away from the desktop for the weekend, but I have found some promising links that may help you too. By the way, it is the text terminals that are unreadable for me :( The only...

Hi dino,

Thanks for your time. Initially, I installed the driver and did not run nvidia-xconfig. I just rebooted and tried nvidia-settings, but it said I wasn't using the driver. So I ran...

Hello everyone,

Hope you're having a great day. I've just installed Ubuntu 13.04 on an older desktop that I have lying around the house. The computer has an older Nvidia card (Quadro FX 3000), and...

Hi Dino,

Thank you for your time. I am using Google's DNS servers. I still have the same problem. There are other sites that are also inaccessible whether you use other DNS servers or the ISP's....

Hello all,

How are you doing?

I have a small request for help. The country where I reside has a blanket block on anything that says "proxy". I was running updates on my laptop (12.04.1 i386)...

Thank you :) Now to find a nice free afternoon to fiddle around with the laptop.

Hello everyone,

I use a Dell Studio laptop that came with Windows 7 and I have set it up to dual boot with Ubuntu 12.04. Microsoft is currently offering Windows 8 Pro upgrades for about 40$ and I...

I'm glad I found this thread. Now that I know this keyboard and mouse combo works on Ubuntu I am going to take the plunge and add it to my cart ;) Type all day. Need to take care of my wrists. I can...

Hi everyone,

Hope you're doing well?

I've looked around for a way to do this, but have found nothing.

I've been using Back in time as a backup tool for over a year now. Ubuntu uses Deja Dup...

I definitely did. I'm trying to upload both version on Vimeo and I'll post links here. I was shooting around sunset so I guess the lighting lends itself to even more flickering than usual ;) Thanks...

Hi CyberAngel,

I was hoping to try your deflickering script but I ran into an error:



Any idea what I'm doing wrong or if there's anything I need to install?

Thanks in advance,
David

20 hours of battery life... almost convinced this laptop is perfect for my needs ;)

That's some nice battery life there :) Do you also have a slice battery for the t530? If yes, do you mind letting me know how long that lasts?

Though I don't have the T530 I have a Dell Studio with a full HD screen. Sometimes text is hard to read from a distance but you can always zoom into a web page. Here's a screenshot to give you a...

Facing the same problem. I don't know what the right qmake options to use are.

However, I did look at the INSTALL file included with the source files and it says to use cmake:



I tried this...

Thanks cruising. I finally upgraded to Precise over the weekend and used this method and it works like a charm.

It's needed for Adobe AIR, which I need for another program.

Thank you :)

Hello all,

I'm trying to install ia32-libs which I need to install Adobe AIR which I need for another program. However, I've come up against a funny problem:

All required dependencies are...

Thanks :)

I've been using ibus to date, but I'll be upgrading next week so I'll give SCIM a shot and follow your advice.

Hi spynappels

I did try this. However, it only allows me to connect with the administrator account on the server.

I tried creating different users and groups with access to different shares,...