I'm thinking of selling a low end netbook that I got a few years ago. It has a 1.66 GHz processor, 2 GB of RAM, a 10 inch screen, and a 250 GB hard drive. Also, it has Ubuntu instead of Windows, and...
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I'm thinking of selling a low end netbook that I got a few years ago. It has a 1.66 GHz processor, 2 GB of RAM, a 10 inch screen, and a 250 GB hard drive. Also, it has Ubuntu instead of Windows, and...
I set up Bonjour in KDE Telepathy, and it won't detect other Bonjour contacts on my network. On my other computer, Pidgin detects Telepathy and is able to send messages, so Bonjour is working on this...
Gwibber isn't working on my Ubuntu install. When I open it, it just shows icons at the top and a grey area under them. I've seen other threads and Ask Ubuntu posts about this, and there seem to be 2...
I have a printer on my Windows workgroup that I want to be able to print from. I went in the printers section, but there are only options for local printers. I have SAMBA configured and working, so...
I just installed Ubuntu, and one thing I noticed was that the social menu/Me Menu was missing. I looked at this question on Ask Ubuntu and tried the commands, but it didn't help. How do I get this...
I know it won't happen, but I hope Google manages to nuke Apple out of existence. Instead of inovating, Apple is trying to sue every competitor it has. I think it's grown into a worse company than...
I ran an fsck, and it seems like it fixed the problems. What types of things could corrupt my disk?
I was just doing normal web browsing, and I suddenly started getting error messages because I didn't have permission to write to my disk. I booted into recovery mode and tried typing
chown -R me:me...
I'm helping some people switch from Windows to Linux, and I want to know what the best distro is. I'm a Kubuntu user, but KDE seems too complicated for someone who doesn't need all those...
I just tried dd'ing an ISO to my flash drive, but someone closed the terminal while this was happening and stopped the dd. Now, when I opened the KDE Partition Manager and tried to format my drive,...
I installed libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3, and activated it in Apache. Now, when I go to localhost, it gives me a 404 not found error. This page worked when I was using CGI, but I get a 404 error with...
How do I install Simon Listens speech recognition on Precise? I can't find any instructions.
I tried compiling a simple hello world program with GCCGO, and I got this error:
$ gccgo hello.go
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
All the other...
Unfortunately, the poll oly lets me have 10 options, so I can only go back to Hardy, but what has been your favorite Ubuntu release so far?
I need IE to test websites, since it's still the third most used browser. Is there any way to install IE in Linux?
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For example, if I want to make the command foo launch /usr/local/foo, how would I make this work? I'm pretty sure I have to modify my .bashrc, but how do I do it?
How do I create a PGP key in Kubuntu? Most guides are for Ubuntu, which does this differently. I'm trying to create one for my Launchpad account.
Hold down shift when booting to access the recovery mode. Next, reset your password from there.
I personally prefer Okteta for this.
I personally use FileLight. I don't remember if you need to install it or if it comes with Kubuntu, but it is a good QT-based one.
Unless you're going to be sharing files, you don't need a server.
If you do need one, you don't need to download Ubuntu Server. Anything you can do on it you can do on a normal install. Look into...
I personally like the Plasma Active Phone more than the tablet, and I'm going to try to port it to Kubuntu 11.10, which won't be officially happening since the Plasma Active phone interface was...
I just upgraded to KDE 4.8, and when I opened Kontact I got a message saying Akonadi had had a fatal error. The log said that Akonadi is not registered as a Dbus. How do I fix this?
I looked for...