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Logging in as a user not as a root.
The given link has only general notes.
Knowing what happens when a user is created - what ubuntu does at the underlying layer will provide me a solution...

No, rebooting does not create it.

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The partition is gone and over written.
I have made changes to /etc/fstab and able to safely boot to level 3 but not to level 5 graphical mode
Now I have created the users home directory...

I am using ubuntu 12.04 on thinkpad t43 .
I had installed ubuntu replacing the original xp.
I needed to reinstall windows xpsp3 and i did that and in the processes deleted the home partition.
I...

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I am using ubuntu 12.04 lts
I created a user and added to sudoers list using
sudo adduser username sudo.

Then in the /etc/sudoers i made the following change
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
to ...

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It is for general home use - home work, internet, may be some videos etc.
No gaming however
May use a vm - kvm to practice linux.
Open to all options- simple rugged reliable and not very costly....

I am using an old dektop (hp compaq dc5000sf) but want to upgrade it to support ubuntu 12.04 LTS / WIn 7 home premium.

It will be a general home desktop with 8 GB RAM and suitable AMD Dual core or...

I want to purcahse a laptop which supports hardeware virtualization (AMD -v / Intel PC -VT) for using KVM virtualization.
Can any body suggest some models available in US

I want to write a script that modifies the kde menu's for all users.
Can anybody help?
I have tried to google it but of little use

I have a IMAP account and use evolution for emails
Of late I have been sending some applications.
I want to write a script to extract the message headers, date sent and toaddress and subject and...

Very long back(may be about 3- 4 years) back I had a similar problem. My NTFS partition was not being recognized by WIndows and perhaps Redhat. It was a dual boot partition.
I could recognize it...

No not outside. It is within the intranet i.e., on the same computer

I have setup a mail server with virtual users following meticulously the instructions as mentioned in...

can we make the os rescan for hardware as for example device manager|scan for hardware in windows?
The idea is sometimes when I connect the reliance usb modem while booting, the os does not...

I was on the look out for a c interpreter on linux. My objective is numeric computation. reading numbers, processing and then putting them back to a file.
I could not find.
Then I considered other...

Well the suggestion works well.
But there is a proble. The usb modem (Huawei EC1262 ) and usb mouse logitech are not detected after waking from hibernation / suspension

I was having problem using Reliance netconnect +broadband using Huawei EC1262 modem
It was being detected as a generic data card. So I reinstalled usbmodeswitch and usbmodeswitch-data from the...

I have ubuntu LTS as the host and propose to test Win Xp as the guest
My mode of accessing the internet is a USB data card. I find that the guest does not access the internet.
How can I remedy

I downloaded and ran the live cd. My observations are
1. The system setting reminded of open suse 11 series
2.Perhaps it is the aim to emulate windows where the computer controls and not the user...

I want to setup an intranet mail server as a project. I tried to go through various forums but could not get a satisfactory model.
My sceme of things is as follows:
The server a virtual machine is...

Virtual box OSE does not support USB access.
You need to use personal use and evaluation version to get that.
It works well

Whenever we try to open a file or document often all files and folders including hidden or starting with .(Dot) are shown. How to disable this feature

I have a problem in using virtual box. The output on the console is as follows

VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/opt/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: VBoxVMM.so: cannot open...