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I just received my Wild Dog Performance desktop (wilp9), and wanted to say that everything looks great.

A few very slight issues, nothing of any real concern:

* The computer case is a bit...

About to by my first Ratel Desktop, as my HP is starting to show it's years.

I'm buying the whole system from System76, including the monitor.

Was wondering how the desktop connected to the...

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Using Ubuntu on the desktop for almost 7 (!!!) years now, so I know my way around the keyboard. ;-)

My laptop has been an Apple Macbook5,1 and I would like to upgrade. Preferably to...

Okay. I'm getting somewhere now. :-)

Using the "startup Applications" application, I am able to get XBMC started up...

BUT it starts up in a window. It will eventually go into full screen...

Not running lucid. Have to change that in my profile. :-)

I tried adding the startup application, and the system just hung the next time I rebooted.

I'll try again when I get home.

Anyone...

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Seriously, no one else has this problem?

Can't believe I'm asking this since I've been using Ubuntu for >5 years now, but...

How can I add an application to start automatically upon login?

I installed xbmc (team-xbmc maverick...

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I would hate to reinstall for no particular reason.

Other than the really long time to shutdown or restart, the system is working perfectly. (Plus, "reinstall to see if that helps" seems like the...

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Anyone with ideas? Surely there must be a way to read the shutdown logs, so at least I can figure out where the problem is...

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Anyone with any ideas?

Actually, if anyone could tell me how to find the log of the shutdown process, that would be useful.

Google actually doesn't work, as I can't seem to search...

Actually, the system takes a really long time to shutdown or end the shutdown portion of the reboot cycle. After about 2-3 minutes, the system completes the shutdown or starts rebooting like normal....

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My Acer Aspire Revo 3700 installed fine. I did the commands on this page to prevent the system from hanging on shutdown and reboot, and it went fine.

Against my better judgement, I...

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How do you guys lay out the hardware? What do you have between the cable modem and the computers, and in which order? Does it matter?

Thanks.

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I'm in the process of building a house, and getting near the end stage. Soon I'll have to set up my home network. (Yeah!)

I was smart and had most of the rooms hard wired with cat6...

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I'm trying to change the time stamps on a bunch of pictures in the same directory, because several cameras were used, some of them with the wrong time zone.
exiftool seems to be the correct...

I have squeezeboxserver running to control my Logitech Squeezebox. I am now trying to install mythtv backend on the same system.

When I install mythtv backend and run the setup application...

Warning: This is a potentially very risky thing to do. Moving partitions is risky under any OS, at any time. Back up all information from the computer, accordingly.

You'll have to boot off a...

Is there a good playlist editor application available?

Features I am looking for include:
1. Import/export itunes playlists, m3u playlists
2. Change the root directory of the music folder (ie:...

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gedit ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals


[KDE]
SingleClick=false

From what I understand, rhythbox is no longer in active development. :-(

Songbird is a great music player. Unfortunately, while it is based on Mozilla, it uses customized source and therefore...

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Surely there must be away to change mouse properties for KDE apps in Ubuntu?

This script is to create High Dynamic Range (HDR) images on the cheap. It is a slight modification of the excellent script I found on a blog about Linux and HDR imaging. It's been modified to take...

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Basically, I just want single click to select a image in Digikam, instead of opening it. How can I do this on Ubuntu?

I'm running Ubuntu 9.04, and use a few KDE apps. In particular, I'm using Digikam.

The default mouse settings on KDE apparently have single click opening an item, instead of selecting it (which...