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This PC is runnung 14.04 LTS, ,ot 16.04 LTS. I reverted io 14.04 LTS on this PC months ago when I was cross-checking how each version handled hard...

I tried to join the LSB discussion at LinuxFoundation.org to get some answers, and me email bot blocked at the other end. I think that pretty much says that LSB is a dead topic now. Pity. It was a...

I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on several PCs. But I am not using Unity/Dash as my primary Interface/file manager. Instead, I installed gnome-session-flashback, and that adds 2 more interfaces and...

I am also trying to get a multi-function unit working under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I refer to it as a "unit" or "device", while most people refer to it as a "printer", as that is its primary function. ...

I'm having a host of problems, but lets deal with 1 per post. According to other tools suggested, my internal drive is good, but 401 days 7 hours ago it apparently got shut off or lost power when it...

My old EA3500 router died a lingering death on me, but when it completely went, I learned you cannot install Ubuntu unless yjere is something wiithout some tie to the network, even if it is an...

I have as simular problem. I'm on a HP K073ca Laptop with an Intel cpu and chipset in it. The sound was working through the built-in speaker in earlier releases in Ubuntu, but now no devices are...

Lost ability to attach to and Sound Output on Laptop. Decided to try and fix that if I could find a way. Then decided to update/upgrade all packages first. So ran series of sudo apt-get commands: ...

If only this much survives a a cut and chop, it will have to do: Get file 001.txt at https://my.pcloud.com/#page=filemanager&folder=63120803 and you can go from there. Now here is the cut line:...

To keep long story short, I want 14.04 on a DVD with the Classic Gnome and several added apps invluding Slimjet, which just works better for me. The reason I want it on a liveCD is that it is going...

The problem was first detected in Ubuntu 13.04, as I discovered in a google search. It is easily corrected, and this thread explains how:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2308978
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Solved. <problem first reported in <ubuntu 13.04. Here are the links:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/300972/places-opens-in-disk-usage-analyzer-in-ubuntu-13-04
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Using 14,04, and have a new problem: Click on Places (Classic Gnome), and suddenly Disk Usage Analyser come up, not Nautilus. D.U.A. does not give me access to contents of partitions, runs...

I was working properly before, and still is under my other installs of Ubuntu, so obviously it is something I did that has suddenly caused this problem. I accept the blame.

But what I did and/or...

The repeat problem of the screen being too bright when I start up or reboot really got to me. So I wrote my first bash script(s) to deal with the problem by clicking on it or them and having them do...

I've been using computers since 1965. Taught by the Navy to do so, and have been in the support game all of my career. To me. the addition of graphics, sound, video, and joysticks have really just...

Yes. under install, you are limited to choices of how to proceed. So you do the Try method to do everything else. Click on any drives that you want opened first. Type a few letters in "terminal",...

In the current versions, Slimjet will close unexpectedly for no apparent reason beyond having multiple tabs open. The more tabs, or adding Incognito window with multiple tabs, the more likely it...

Thanks for the quick response and the info on Cream. I followed your lead, and there Cream looks nothing like what I have on my screen, which is a white background. There it is black, but that is...

I did better than that. I went and looked at where it was reported that the duplicate was found. There is no way a simple user like myself can cope with the guts of a file like that. I learned by...

Aside from the included gedit and nano text editors, I located and installed three more: Leafpad, Cream, and GVim. These were based on an online article of the 15 best text editors for Linux. I...

After LiveCD went too far by trying to impose LVM on my existing ext4 hard drive, and did not back down enough. when the error was recognized from its end, I was apparently left with a corrupted...

This is maybe a case of an answer before the question, I had a LiveCD install of 15.04 blow up in my face. It did things wrong, and it caught me flat-footed. To recover, I had to try everything...

I used the LiveCD of Ubuntu 15.04 and had it install on my internal drive behind 14.04. This meant it split a single partition in two, and I could use a slider to decide how much space to give to...

I do "sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade; sudo apt-get autoremove" in a terminal window daily to keep my Ubuntu 14.04 install up to date. Actually you can do it with any Debian distro,...