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Thanks for the suggestion jeremy31, I just tried the suggestions there. Turning off the power management seemed to make my connection time worse rather than better. I could connect for maybe 1 to 2...

I have recently installed 16.04 on a Lenovo T460 which has an Intel 8260 chipset. With the original ucode firmware (21), I can get something like 1-2 minutes of connectivity before the wifi drops...

Found the problem which I'd like to document here for future reference.
Since I could not scp or rsync the .ssh directory from the client to the server using the root account, I did it using a user...

I'm trying to manage an array of Ubuntu 12.04 (for legacy reasons) machines and I want to perform the same setup on each one. For this I want to ssh to each machine as root, copy some...

Hi aeiah,

Would what you are suggesting preserve the ownerships of each file? Or would each file be owned by backupuser in your example crontab entry?

Hi Thanks for the reply. I do already sort of know how to use cron. My question is more pertaining to the rsync portion. I want to backup home directories from server A to server B using rsync. Do I...

Hi, I want to backup accounts using rsync and cron. I need to do this as root to be able to access all the files in other peoples accounts. I'm not sure what is the way that this kind of command is...

Anyone have some experience with ntfsundelete?

I'm trying to understand how to use ntfsundelete and hope that somebody in this forum can help provide some guide.

I have an NTFS partition, mounted on my machine along with ubuntu. When I delete...

Thanks all for the responses, esp coffeecat for the detailed info!

At the moment I don't have the time to track this down and get it working. I'm just living with the old interface. I guess I...

Hi, thanks for the help. Below is the outputs from lshw:


vaio-6477
description: Notebook
version: J002YG06
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 smp-1.4 smp
...

Anybody else encountered a similar problem?

Thanks

I've been using 11.04 for a few weeks now on my laptop. All of a sudden this morning, when I boot, it tells me that my laptop doesn't have enough resources to run Unity, although I've been using it...

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any material on connecting external monitors at that page.

Here's something I find a bit strange, perhaps someone here can explain it....

Thanks! It's a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ583N:
http://www.sony-asia.com/product/vgn-sz583n

The monitor is HP L1950g.

I searched for "additional drivers" from the dash, with the external monitor plugged in, it is showing no proprietary drivers, and nothing appears in the box below for me to install.

My external...

Hi all,

I'm connecting my laptop, a Sony Vaio that has WXGA:1280x800 resolution, to an external monitor that has 1280x1024 resolution. The information for the monitor's resolution came from...

Many thanks! This works, with the addendum that I typed "login" rather than "log in"

Hi Banita,

First you should check that the iso is ok, cause if it isn't we can't help you. I'm not sure where you stored the .iso. Is it on an external HDD? The method I'm going to outline uses...

When I installed ubuntu, I initially chose "require login". Post-install, I changed my mind and I want to login automatically to save some time during boot. How can I do that?

Thanks.

If you think that the heat might be coming from your HDD, you can set it to spin-down more aggressively to conserve power and reduced heat:



sudo hdparm -S 4 /dev/sda


If /dev/sda is your...

Hi all,

Thanks for your replies. I didn't know about the ctrl-L shortcut

Hi Frank,

Thanks for your reply. But it isn't mounting a local drive that I'm trying to do. I want to access a windows share on somebody else's computer on the LAN, akin to using smbclient. The...

Previously, I could go to places and find windows shares, but this new unity interface is different. I can't seem to find documentation for it either.

I want to be able to access a share like...

Hi DRS,

Thanks for the tips. I also thought it might be a video problem when it happened. However, I listened for the ubuntu start-up sound and did not hear it. Incidentally, I'm using Natty.
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