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While the (eternally) ongoing effort is to make things just work, it is always helpful to familiarize yourself with the basic workings of Linux/Unix.

There are plenty of primers to choose from,...

Has anyone managed to figure out what (flag) icon names to use in case of keyboard variants?

I often need to use accents on US international keyboards and while toggling with the GNOME keyboard...

simonjo, the 1001PX is actually internally different model from the 1001P/1005P and shares BIOS version with 1001PX/R101/1005PX/R105. Considering that the R10x models came earlier the name of the...

IIRC the advice in Asus forum (second link in my previous post) ought to work just fine.

Here's what I'd do:

1) First restart system, press F2 to go into BIOS Setup and make sure that Boot...

Just a brief public service message.

There is another BIOS update available for 1001P/1005P:

BIOS 1202
Update EC firmware
File Size 418.78 (KBytes)
2010/08/04 update

I don't know what it...

As mentioned elsewhere, the Big G has finally released a plugin (.deb) for in-browser Google/Gmail video chat.

It's h.264 and for x86 (intel/amd) only so no open-source and multiplatform (*) VP8...

Here I first booted Lucid-Netbook image from SD-card, started Gparted and wiped off XP and its default partitions and recreated new partition layout:

sda1=16MB (as EFI for BootBooster)
sda2=20GB...

Scenario: User #1 (admin) powers up netbook, logs in and out of wired and wireless networks using the network icon (applet) in the awfully locked-down netbook top panel.

System changes hands and...

Another success story:

Got a 1001P-MU17 (I reckon) the other day, booted from SD-based Lucid UNE (after changing boot priority in BIOS), wiped the whole disk before I'd seen a single MS logo,...

Just adding the relevant quote from the 10.04 LTS release announcement here in case there are others who were slightly mystified by this hardy piece of upgrade advice...

I had a working configuration of Sopcast and VLC ( 0.9.8 ) on Hardy 8.04 LTS, but seeing that you had put updated versions of both on your PPA I thought I'd give it a go.

Unfortunately the Hardy...

I suppose the permanent solution to this problem would be for Dell et al to offer their software offerings separately with clear and consistent pricing for the options Linux / MS-Windows / No OS.
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So now we have a Canonical™ Tax too!? :P

Most of the observations in this thread are spot on, including the rather humorous "refresh reflex". ;-)

The average computer users who, like most of their counterparts elsewhere, have little...

Tied to a daemon monitoring the source of power this sounds like a useful option. Heat and warranty issues should be noted though.

Nah. I'd like to have this enriched text format specifically for better editing and cross-application exchange. :-)

As it happens Apple took PostScript/PDF and tailored it (royalty-free) for their...

There's another thread about installing VLC 0.9.8 (for Hardy and Intrepid).

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6435444

Excellent! This RFC for text/enriched MIME Content-type specification is very much what I was after.

The authors were thinking about enhanced email text (without the relative bloat of HTML and...

Geoken, you're right. A subset of HTML would behave very much like RTF or stripped-down .odt OpenDocument Text format.

Perhaps my personal aversion to HTML stems from its abuse in email...? But...

A tiny subset of .odt tags would certainly do the trick.

It'd even be neat to be able to open .odt documents in Gedit or Leafpad etc. and have *some* basic formatting retained. Or alternatively I...

Most of the text documents I create (or save from the web) are in plain text format and the ones needing proper formatting or printing are formatted with OpenOffice.

Yet I often find myself hoping...

On 22 Dec Christoph Korn added the VLC 0.9.8 build to his PPA (Personal Package Archive) here:

https://launchpad.net/~c-korn/+archive/

(sorry fancy titled URL linking doesn't work since...

It does look like none of the Gnome-based audio players use the CD Text data, although some burning apps allow that data to be entered either manually or by accessing the online databases (which only...

I'd like to know what CD player was able to display CD-Text in the first place?

All the pre-installed (Gnome) media apps seem to only check online databases instead of reading the CD-Text data on...

There is a guide to installing the original version from mozilla.org.

A backports version would of course be nice and easier to install, but keeping it up-to-date might also involve more work than...