Interesting. I may give this a try. In my testing of 12.04b2, gnome shell uses a much more RAM than previous versions of the DE.
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Interesting. I may give this a try. In my testing of 12.04b2, gnome shell uses a much more RAM than previous versions of the DE.
I have Firestarter installed, great for using a network that you don't trust.
What I am looking for is an application that will monitor all traffic in and out of the computer, give me details as...
Be sure to look at the encryption laws of your country to make sure it is legal to encrypt files where you are. Some countries are very strict on this, and do not allow anyone to use any form of data...
My experience is that Upgrading (ie, not doing a clean install) is a buggy process. They claim that it is better now than it used to be, but I haven't tried it.
Want to check if it was your...
You may want to remove the [SOLVED] tag to your title, the people who can help won't come, and those who are interested in the solution but have no idea how to solve it (like me), will be...
There is a simple troubleshooting solution to your problem, OP.
Create a liveCD/USB of Ubuntu, boot from it, and use Ubuntu's Disk Utility to analyze the HDD. The SMART Data will specifically tell...
Thank you for the reply. I am actually Live Booted onto 11.10 right now. I must say that Unity now as opposed to 11.04 is much improved. Though having to go through endless menus or typing the name...
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I'm thinking of installing 11.10 on my Latitude E6400 to give gnome shell a try. I have been running 10.04 LTS 64 bit since it came out.
My few questions are:
-Is 11.10 as solidly built as...
I'm running into the same problem. My lspci output is as following:
...
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller:...
I just recently ran into the same problem. Both PC running 10.04. Controlling machine would nor refresh.
Disabling desktop effects did it. Not too much of a hassle since it is a media server.
To...
I have a kindle 3. I must say that I really like the thing.
Caibre is OK. I have tried to use it to convert from HTML into mobi and epub, but I get horrible results. (I'm an author. I write in...
OK, I'm back. Sorry, I had forgotten about this thread...
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Also, if you could, open up a terminal and type:
sudo...
Hope everything works fine. Let us know how it went.
~pizza
You can, if you are referring to the digg.com digg.... Bottom left of the page. :lolflag:
Andrew,
No problem.
Office 2010 might be too new for Wine. But you can definitely try. I actually started using Open Office before I even knew about Ubuntu, mainly because I couldn't afford an...
No problem.
Simple backup never worked for me either. I use luckyBackup in Ubuntu. It is very easy to use.
~pizza
I don't know what is causing the problem, but I just want to warn you to not do anything that says 'flashing the bios'. Flashing is not updating, it is completely erasing. And that is bad. Without a...
Yes, Ubuntu has its own partition.
Go to Windows. Defrag.
Then boot live CD. Open GParted (System>>Administration>>GParted).
Click on your windows partition. Resize it to whatever you want....
Well, welcome to the forums!
As far as your question goes. Is it worth it? Yes. There is a learning curve, but you seem like a techy person, so I think you would have fun learning Ubuntu.
Now,...
Well, I'm not sure you can mount a USB to /cdrom. USB devices usually mount to /media. But, keep reading...
Is your USB /dev/sdb ?
You can find out by typing
sudo fdisk -l in your terminal. I...
Strange. What version of Ubuntu?
From your post, I assume that this was working before you rebooted, correct? Did you reboot for a particular reason (updates or such) or had you done any changes to...
I think you mean Google Earth...
IF that is what you meant. Does the file you downloaded end with .exe? If so, you have the file for windows, which does not work in Ubuntu. No need to worry...
The super shiny trophy is mine!!!!!
I used to dig a hole, so it is no longer shiny. In fact, it is really scratched, dull and full of dirt now. Who wants it??
That was my problem. Still is BTW. Money is everything. Be sure to fill out your FAFSA. It is useless, but you still need it....