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Just realised the other day that my wifi is also running at g and not n. I have the HP Probook 4720s. On top of that my notebook doesn't shut down half the time. I suspect could be something to do...

That was quick and easy. Thanks a lot DaithiF.

Hi there,

I'm on Ubuntu Maverick and just installed vim(7.2.330) via the repos.
I've also installed cream via the repos.

Launching vim via terminal I opened an html file.
I put in ESCgg=G....

Hi I did the altinstall but don't see any benefit because everything is still just running through python 2.6. Should I remove 2.6 in my Synaptic Package Manager?

For interest how do I uninstall...

To change ownership of my NTFS partition I edited the following line in fstab.


#Entry for /dev/sdd5 :...

I just read this here


The problem here was that the folder I wanted to change ownership of was where a NTFS partition was mounted - and I discovered eventually that NTFS doesnt have the same...

I've realised that the Video folder I'm trying to share belongs to 'root' and not 'darren'.
I've tried

sudo chown -R darren /media/Multimedia/Video/
but I can't seem to take ownership of my...

Here is my updated

testparm -s

Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing...

net usershare info -list
[videos]
path=/home/darren/Videos
comment=Videos
usershare_acl=Everyone:F,
guest_ok=y

[shared-10.10]
path=/home/darren/Shared-10.10
comment=Shared folder on Ubuntu...

Hi,

----What I have done---
I'm on Ubuntu 10.10.

I installed Samba and went Administration > Samba.
Added a folder[Videos] to share(this folder is on an ext partition).
I then went to...

I installed Ubuntu x64 10.10 and installed Skype from the repos. Since then I've had no problem with Skype :>

I have got a webcam.
My skype used to work perfectly until I did the kernel upgrade. Then I started getting the white blank screen when trying to receive a webcam feed from another person.

My...

I have the same problem.

My webcam used to work with skype then I upgraded to kernel 2.6.32-22. Since then I have not been able to view webcam from other people. Just white square.

If you ever...

sorry DJ_Peng I understand. I love the theme by the way so it is great work that you do. As for sorting out the splash screens I used this guide which sorted me out quite nicely.

Hi there,

I've been using this theme for a while now and love it. I followed this guide to install it.

Turn Your Ubuntu Lucid to Mac OS X

However now I've tried to uninstall it and the...

Alrighty, it's good to know that this seems to be reasonably common. As Rev said though it's not bad practice to backup just in case :D

Hi Rev,

The hard drive is quite old (4years). It doesn't seem to be causing any issues so I'll just keep using it as is.

Oh and when I scanned the drive originally it was NTFS. I only formatted...

hi there,

I'm getting this message constantly about the hard drive that Ubuntu is installed on. Message: 'Disk has many bad sectors'. I've screenshot to make it clearer.



I'd like to mark...

Heya

Hope this helps someone.
I fixed my issue by going to
Administration -> Hardware Drivers -> And here I disabled some proprietary drivers that my internal modem was using.
I fixed the...

thanks optimusmedia for your reply. I figured I might have to reinstall because originally I did have the sound working. Bothers me though that every time I run into some kind of issue I need to...

Hi,

I have a laptop with onboard speakers and a headphone jack.
If you use the headphone jack the onboard speakers stop.

This is good because my onboard speakers are broken so i plug my...

I solved it!

I removed lampp and I installed apache2, php and mysql all seperately. So far so good :)

Ok so I have php 5.3.1 installed on my machine.
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 now with the same issues as before with 8.04.
I tried to run wordpress install but once i've configured the wp-config.php it...

I followed this guide to get everything up and running.

hey there..

I'm running desktop 8.04. I have don't know off hand I'll have to check when I get home but I have the most updated PHP that was avaliable in the Synaptic Package Manager.

I was...