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Excellent! Thanks, much obliged!

I've installed Crucial P2 NVME in my Dell laptop, Ubuntu now booting off it, very quick!

Any tools for monitoring the hardware - temperature etc? Under ******* there' Crucial's "Storage Execuitve"...

(Belated) thanks Fred!. My father, born 1903, was a Freddie: A PoW during WW2, (captured after Dunkirk - along with 50000 others) spent the rest of the war in what is now Poland. Eventually...

Weird grub (?) failing problem.

I’ve used Ubuntu since 2007. Never particularly had really difficult issues. My 5-yr old Dell 15 was creaking and started getting unreliable so bought a new one,...

Just to confirm the above, Win 10 update worked fine, no grub or Ubu problems....

Wow! Never realised they could get things right....

Fresh installed 11.10.. (finally...) thanks guys..

I run a dual-boot, *******/Ubu Dell inspiron 1525 laptop with Intel Pro 3945ABG wireless thingy...

It works fine over wireless under *******: And did with 11.04. Installed fresh 11.10, 64bit:...

Thanks wolfen, worked for me too!!! (& I'm only 64 yrs old...)

Guys:

I'd like to backup my data to multiple DVDs: My data is held on a separate partition and is in total about 130Gb (Dual boot with *******,Data usuable from both ..). I copy it to an...

Thanks very much Mörgæs, Dino99, what a great service!

Many thanks morgaes , apologies for the delay, been otherwise engaged.

1st 2 commands ran clean...

3rd on gave loads of error messages, couldn't get all of them but here's those I did get -...

Been running 11.04 fine for a couple of months. About(?) 2 weeks ago started getting slow-downs.

Been having problems with “Update” & Natty, 11.04.

At some point to try & fix I'd done...

Thanks all of you for your advice & pointers, especially Colin.P. Running with old folders on V3 thanks!! Yippee!!


Ah, winzip: Yup, I musta bought a licence sometime also.,. Sad end to the guy...

Greetings:

Recently moved to 11.04, Natty (fresh install), all seems OK, Libre Office usable etc...

Had been on 9.10 so was out-of-maintenance, been using Thunderbird for years, migrated from...

Greetings:

I've allowed my Ubuntu Laptop to go out-of-support & want to quick 'n dirty upgrade to 10.04 by clicking on the Update Manager "Upgrade" button to 10.04.02..(so I'm supported again &...

Same prob, not found a solution

Just bought a Panasonic FZ38 camera that also does video, test-shot a bit and then wondered how the h**l I'd convert/view it...

Then I tried my favourite editor, Handbrake (think it comes in MOC...

Thanks Fred Nemo...

Your advice worked for me with 9.10 on a Dell 1525... also UK, also "3" network (PAYG if that matters). Much obliged....

However (albeit it worked ..) after your Step 7...

Thanks... I know how to disable IPv6 in firefox but not for all of the system - any easy/simple instructions anyone knows of for doing this??

Regards & Thanks in advance..

2912pwil

Thanks...re..


Having finally upgraded to 9.10 using my "GURU" router, all worked fine, then reverting to the "D-Link" Router no internet access: Can (still) get Firefox running if I disable IPv6...

Just a re-confirmation: Tried an old "GURU" ADSL router on the 9.10 32b live CD: Internet access straight-away, on problems, whereas I did have problems getting out using my normal D-Link router:
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Further to my earlier...

Been playing around with a new router (3g, Edimax as it happens) and having got that up 'n running thought I'd try the LiveCd again (64bit 9.10)..

Booted:
Start...

Further to my earlier...

Been playing around with a new router (3g, Edimax as it happens) and having got that up 'n running thought I'd try the LiveCd again (64bit 9.10)..

Booted:
Start...

Really really weird....

Had gotten the E1550 working - out-of-the-box- in *******,,, just plugged it in & off I went.. Couldn't get her going in 9.04... hmmmnnnn...

Went re-reading everything,...

Wow! I helped someone in UbuntuForums!!! (And this being only 36.5 years since I started working in IT....)

Cheers!