It's not clear to me how a text-only browser is useful in looking at comic strips.
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It's not clear to me how a text-only browser is useful in looking at comic strips.
That makes sense, and is frustrating.
Yeah, I could learn perl. I've used 20+ computer languages, going back to IBM704 assembly. But I'm tired of creating stuff for computers; I retired for a...
Here is the shell script, with some debug snats inserted.
#!/bin/sh
# daily comics display. runs 7:05
# /opt/google/chrome//opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
today=$(date)" comics batch"
"Show us the full cron command you are using"
5 07 * * * /home/jim/cronme/comics
I set it up with crontab.
When Doonesbury started reruns and the Toronto Star dropped it, I created a kalarm command alarm to display it. Now I'm trying to get rid of kalarm, and thought I would transfer this and other things...
This problem exists in several threads. After trying most of the suggestions, I still had the problem on my underpowered Compaq laptop. Finally, after trying to repair ubuntu 5.4, I reinstalled it....
Printing six pages, I asked for 2 copies on my Canon iP4800 series printer. Page one was printed on the back of page one, etc. Not useful.
I'd like to post a bug in launchpad. Because there are...
Same problem. /etc/X11/xorg.conf is not there.
Ubuntu needs a repair installation command; when things refuse to work as they should, hours are wasted.
I tried installing Ub without updating during installation. The program versions on the disk are ROUGH!
Still struggling to update and to get a Unity.
My installation has been hanging for almost 24 hours, repeating every minute how many times it has "Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.Avahi : timed out". I'm using the CD to reinstall after...
I finally got around to doing this. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, Stinkeye from down under.
Thanks!
jim
Did a lightbulb appear over Edison's head just before he invented the lightbulb?~ Mike Lester, 2012
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The last doesn't...
An external drive has 4 partitions, one specified in fstab as
UUID=28cff9d8-2913-46b4-9a39-448efab58796 /media/ububack ext3 defaults 0 2
Every few minutes, the system tells me...
I reinstalled out of ignorance. The keyring application creates the problem, and gnome-do asks for the keyring. Here's a (clumsy) procedure, if I can remember.
- find your live disk and boot.
-...
Please see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1488340
In other messages, there have been problems with a 10.04 update not listening -- it ignores typing and mouse clicks, though it does move the cursor, and things that proceed without help seem to be...
A reboot fixed it. Funny how often that works.
open office java install broke oo
Problems started when I tried a find in calc help, and it told me that java does that, but I have no java. It told me to go to the tools menu, java, and ??
It did find a java on the computer, and...
Thanks!
Re: GNUcash and Finance::quote
I've used Yahoo in the past for Canadian and US stock prices. That has continued with no problems. But now I find I can't get currency quotes -- important in Canada, since the US is our largest...
Why?
A note to document something that drove me crazy the last couple of days, but which had a simple solution. Maybe it will save work for someone else,
I installed Hardy in a new partition. Did not...