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    Re: Banshee not updating RSS feeds...

    I found the following entry in the banshee log file. I don't know if it';s really relevant, but it seems to concern podcasting and server connections:
    [Warn 14:50:01.503] Caught an exception -...
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    Banshee not updating RSS feeds...

    Banshee (2.6.2) does not seem to be able to read and update RSS feeds. When I attempt to add an RSS feed, All I get is a "Network Error updating feed" message, and the feed does not download.

    I...
  3. [ubuntu] Re: Upgrade to 16.04, youtube videos do not play

    Very helpful in the upgrade forum. Thanks!
  4. [ubuntu] Re: Upgrade to 16.04, youtube videos do not play

    No, I haven't. I'd have to track down a DVD burner/sufficiently large USB stick, neither of which I own.

    Do you have any suggestions about how I might troubleshoot this issue before I start...
  5. [ubuntu] Re: Bluetooth interfering with streaming video?

    BUMP

    Anyone? I found and implemented this fix:
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/1438510

    But it didn't work. In fact, following these instructions made my situation worse....
  6. [ubuntu] Bluetooth interfering with streaming video?

    Last night, I upgraded my System 76 laptop from 14.04 to 16.04. The upgrade has gone mostly smoothly, but I am having some problems with my wireless headphones. I recently purchase a pair of...
  7. [ubuntu] Upgrade to 16.04, youtube videos do not play

    I have a System76 laptop, and upgraded to 16.04 last night. Most of the upgrade went perfectly, but there are a few lingering issues that I'm discovering. Two are related to video playback, which I...
  8. [SOLVED] Re: 12.10 to 14.04 upgrade, laptop completely non-functional

    Thanks for all the advice. Following Vladlenin5000's advice, I figured it was easiest to just to a fresh install, and it went perfectly.

    Cheers,
    Dave
  9. [SOLVED] Re: 12.10 to 14.04 upgrade, laptop completely non-functional

    Thank you very much for your reply. I'll give those a shot tonight, when I'm back home.

    I went straight to 14.04 because that's what my update manager offered me. At the top of the window was...
  10. [SOLVED] 12.10 to 14.04 upgrade, laptop completely non-functional

    Hi everyone,

    In the wake of shell shock, I decided to get around to upgrading my System 76 laptop to 14.04 (512 GB SSD harddrive, 8 GB RAM, quad-core ~2.7 GHz CPU). I installed 14.04 on my office...
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    [ubuntu] Re: video playback too fast

    Hmmm, well, that did fix the "play too fast" problem, thanks! Unfortunately, now streamed videos play in a halting, "strobe-like" manner (in both Firefox and Chromium).

    Maybe a restart will clear...
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    [ubuntu] video playback too fast

    I have a new Gazelle professional, running Ubuntu 12.04, i7 processor, standard system graphics.

    Often, when I stream a video online (youtube), the video plays back at ~2-3 times normal speed,...
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    [ubuntu] Autostart Bluetooth?

    From looking around online, I seem to be the only person who would *like* bluetooth to start automatically on boot. ~90% of the time, I use my laptop as a pseudo-desktop, connected to an external...
  14. Thread: Dell XPS 15z

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    [ubuntu] Dell XPS 15z

    I'm in need of a new laptop, and I've been looking at the Dell XPS 15z. I plan to set it up to dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu (same setup I'm running now on my aging Dell XPS).

    Does anyone have...
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    [SOLVED] Re: backslash in sed

    SOLVED: Not exactly sure why, but the magic combo here is single quotes around the whole command and a double backslash

    sed 's:E:\\times 10^{:' old >new
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    [SOLVED] backslash in sed

    I am trying to edit some numbers in scientific notation to be used in a LaTeX document. The numbers them selves are printed out:

    1.23E-4

    And I would like this to be pretty in my pdf, so I...
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    [other] Java Shared Libraries

    I'm looking to construct and interface so that one program (the Aladin image server) can be controlled by a scripting language (IDL). Fortunately, all the hard work has been done for me and I have a...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Gmail contacts in evolution

    Got it.

    Evolution cached my online contact list in:

    /home/[user]/.evolution/cache/addressbook/[e-mail address]/cache.xml

    And was using this file, not the online contact list, to generate the...
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    [SOLVED] Gmail contacts in evolution

    Hi, I'm in the process of bringing my various addressbooks (phone, e-mail) into the 21st century and merging them together into one cloud based contact list, maintained on Google and synced to by...
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    [SOLVED] Re: VPN Service Failed to start

    In exact contrast to crio's statement above ;) I just fixed this issue by making sure "Available to all users" IS checked under VPN configuration. That's all I changed, VPN works perfectly.
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    [SOLVED] Re: .xsession-errors file

    Brilliant. Thanks!
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    [SOLVED] .xsession-errors file

    For the last few days, I've been attempting (so far without success) to get a python program to launch from a desktop icon instead of the command line.

    Today, I discovered that my entire Ubuntu...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Broken Packages in synaptic

    I might get messier. I found this, where some reports the exact same error message for a different package:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=813809

    I'm very close to trying it...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Broken Packages in synaptic

    To get the plugin working, I used the 64bit GUI installer written by carlee. The link is in her signature file, visible in this thread:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1475441
    ...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Bluetooth in 10.04

    Based on the "flickering" of the connection, I tried a solution I had tried and discarded earlier. I went into /etc/init.d/bluetooth and commented out the lines

    $0 stop
    $0 start

    I'm not sure...
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