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Lukes's dad, thanks! That was it.

Trying to set up a new Dell laptop. I've been round & round with this ending up running boot-repair which got me back to booting into Linux at least. But no choice in the grub menu for 8.1. My...

Wow, I never even considered that. I give it a try, thx-

I am running 14.04 on an Intel HD77 mb with an i3-3220T chip (HD2500 on-board graphics). I have two monitors with DVI connections. The MB has one DVI connector and one HDMI so the HDMI connector...

Ubuntu Server 12.04: In the terinal I enter "sudo crontab -l" and I see my cron jobs. But when I try "sudo crontab -e", I get the window explaining how to create a crontab. My jobs aren't there. ...

Nobody? How about sharing with a Windows machine. Maybe the same issue is keeping both from working.

I have a system running Mint 13 that has the internet connection through a USB wireless adapter. I want to share the wired NIC to a card swiper.

I went into Network Connections and selected...

Bringing this one back from the dead. Trying this on 12.04. I got through the first part OK, but logwatch is not creating the file in the tmp directory. Actually, the directory in the script is...

Well back in November when I posted, I wasn't using Mate. Anyway this got me interested again because I've never had a good solution. So I ended up making a script that seems to work well. My...

I'm using mint/mate these days. No mate-session-quit command.

Thanks!

Took me a bit to realize that it needed to be in the root folder instead of mine, but figured that out & it's working.

I'm trying to setup automatic backups for my Postgresql database. I got scripts from the pg wiki & I can run it from the terminal, but it asks for my password a number of times during the process. ...

Can't start Postgres after running pg_resetxlog. Had to change permissions to run it. Changed permissions back but now I get this error:


Expected to find it in the...

Great, thanks for the quick reply

A while ago I was looking at changing teh size of a partition on a 2 TB drive I had on a home server/HTPC. It was going to take days, or did take days, or something I can't remember. But I do...

I would also like to know the answer to this. I am using chromium stable. I was able to do it in the past by making changes to the mozplugger files but that doesn't seem to work now.

I would...

Did you figure this out? Mine shuts down every night at midnight...sometimes while I'm working.

Check your settings in the Configuration tab of the Pulse Audio Volume Control Panel. It needs to be set to Telephony Duplex and not High Fidelity Playback.

My problem is that it keeps dropping...

Surprisingly, there are two obvious things that haven't been said in all these postings:

I don't know if "most" people want to move the launcher but certainly many, many people do. It's for the...

When I follow the link to the zip file I get this:

"The file link that you requested is not valid."

The instructions say to pick a time & date. Is there a way to set it to shut down every day?

I would like to be able to login & start a remote desktop session over SSH. I don't want to take over the existing session, I want a seperate one for the remote session. The client is gnome 2 & the...

I have a small business/home data & LAMP server using Ubuntu 11.04. We also have 3 'buntu & 1 Windows box on the network, behind a D-Ling DIR-655 router & a network switch. I have Remastersys...

I beleive the answer to your last post is yes. The only thing I'm not sure about is the resident browser, but I think it's there. if it's not there when you get to the desktop, just install...

OK, so that's a different script if I want to use it. I just made a shortcut.

Thx-