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Hi folks,

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10. I installed my usual stack of Python data science tools -- Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib, Scikit-learn, and Pandas. Canonical's repository includes optional...

I loved Ubuntu from 6.06 through 16.10. Starting with 17.04, the desktop experience has been going downhill, and in 19.04 it became especially acute. I don't exactly know what changed, because I...

In 13 years, I have never left Ubuntu, but I upgrade pretty regularly. My scientific computing stack has always been pretty cutting-edge, and the easiest way for me to get new releases of packages...

Hi 1fallen,

Thanks for trying to help me, sorry for the slow reply. I have not solved this problem. In fact, it has now appeared on a second computer in our laboratory! The symptoms are...

Just tried this:


sudo adduser foo (the account I already tried to add using the GUI)

And Linux replied:


adduser: The user 'foo' already exists.

Hi there,

The subject line says most of what I need to say. I have a desktop machine with multiple user accounts which I upgraded from 17.10 to 18.04. I have only been able to connect my primary...

Thank you monkeybrain20122, that was the reminder that I needed. Only I ended up doing something a little more fundamental.

I needed TensorFlow applications to work from both the CLI and the...

Hi there,

I'm not yet sure whether this problem I'm having is specific to TensorFlow. Any of you who are using it probably know that TensorFlow is not (and may never be?) in the Canonical...

OK, I had a busy week.

I ran the wireless script twice. I started tethered through my phone, because earlier this evening my wireless-N adapter dropped my connection again: ...

Hi wildmanne39, thanks for your reply.

Following the first few instructions in your post, I've executed sudo apt update and sudo apt dist-upgrade. As of now, my WiFi is working fine over Linux......

Whoops. Overlooked the MB vs GB.
Currently investigating rdiff-backup.

Oh, how I miss living in a house with a Cat5e wall jack.

In my current residence, I have to connect my desktop PC using WiFi. I purchased an ASUS PCE-N15 Wireless-N card based on a list of...

Thanks everyone for your replies, I am reading and considering my options. It looks like starting over again might be required to do everything that I want to do!

Some clarifications: I am using...

Over the years, I've used rsync, grsync, or Deja Dup for making backups of /home. I have an internal and an external HDD, and I make backups to each. If my apartment catches on fire, I can grab the...

Hello everyone.

I posted this article in the Installation and Upgrades forum 24 hours ago. As of now, no one has read it, so I'm copying it here. This forum appears to be more active, and there...

Hello everyone.

I upgraded my home computer to 17.10 about a week ago, and it has been pretty good so far. I have a fairly recent Gigabyte motherboard and an NVidia GPU. I am using the...

Following up: PuTTY is working 100% on Windows 10. Two or three retries are generally needed to establish a PuTTY connection from Linux. I am taking care to use the exact same physical USB port on...

Thanks for your reply, vocx. I will investigate other possibilities as you suggest, and place greater confidence in the kernel for now.

It looks like putty is available on Linux too. I dislike...

Hello everyone,

I am reviving this thread that I started a few months back.

As I reported before, my devices connect intermittently using Ubuntu 16.04. I have another computer running Ubuntu...

Oh, I just discovered iwlist for wireless channel scanning... cool. That might help me choose a fixed channel for my computer.

OK, I'm not exactly a network guru, but I think that you want me to modify the settings in some network config file as follows (and I will have to find out how to do that):



As for changing my...

OK, I eventually started getting problems again. Here's my Pastebin link. I won't change any parameters yet.

Thanks for you continued assistance.

Hi wildmanne,

I've only gotten as far as "sudo apt update", "sudo apt dist-upgrade", and a reboot. I am testing out my connection now, it has been running for close to an hour without problems. ...

Hi there,

I've got a fairly new, dual-boot system running Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 and Win10. My system is equipped with an ASUS PCE-N15 PCI Express Wireless Adapter. I purchased this particular...

Here's a follow-up. I believe that I had a mechanical problem after all. I purchased a different computer case, slightly larger. I moved my hardware into the new enclosure. Everything has been...