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  1. Thread: More RAM?

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    [ubuntu] Re: More RAM?

    I have, although only twice in about 16 years.
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    [SOLVED] Re: Back up question

    No need to give yourself full permissions, you could just give yourself read permissions, but you couldn't do much damage with write permissions as well. Or change the group to admin (which I assume...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Fresh install Karmic, problem reading DVD

    Check out http://www.medibuntu.org/
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    [SOLVED] Re: Back up question

    You should be running something like

    cp -r /var/backup /media/usblabel
    Just have a look in /media when you have your usb drive inserted to see exactly what it's called. Also no need to run as...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Firefox Not Starting Up

    Firefox should create an extensions folder when it creates the ".mozilla" folder. I've created a new one on my system and installed that missing extension 1clickweather. Give it a go...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Freezes up after disk check

    Faulty ram can cause all types of problems. One of those problems is if data is stored to ram before being written to disk the data can be corrupted. I wouldn't use your computer until you have...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Freezes up after disk check

    Maybe it hasn't frozen, maybe your graphics card isn't being detected properly. Try hitting CTRL+ALT+F5 when it happens, should take you to a console. If it doesn't leave it for a minute to make sure...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Freezes up after disk check

    "jiggly colours"? try running the memtest option from the grub screen
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    [ubuntu] Re: Firefox Not Starting Up

    Also try "firefox -profilemanager" and create a new profile that way, make sure the new one is selected and hit start firefox
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    [ubuntu] Re: Firefox Not Starting Up

    Ok, try downloading http://www.dwyerfamily.org/{DCBD1271-D228-4082-9FBC-36D9B7660B03}.zip

    unzip and copy the {DCBD1271-D228-4082-9FBC-36D9B7660B03} folder to your .mozilla/firefox/<profile...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Firefox Not Starting Up

    lol
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    [ubuntu] Re: Firefox Not Starting Up

    Yes, I believe you have...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Firefox Not Starting Up

    Try running "firefox -safe-mode" from a terminal
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    [ubuntu] Re: Firefox Not Starting Up

    When you say deleted, did you purge them or remove them?
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    [ubuntu] Re: Firefox Not Starting Up

    When you uninstalled firefox did you purge the configuration? "sudo aptitude purge firefox-3.5" Should output a bunch of stuff but look for where it says something like...

    Remove the following...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Firefox Not Starting Up

    Try renaming the ".mozilla" folder in your home directory to something else. You will have to hit CTRL+H to enable viewing of hidden files. This will cause Firefox to recreate all it's per-user...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Where is xorg.conf?

    My understanding is that now your display settings are automatically detected at startup so no need for a config file unless the auto detection doesn't work.
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    Re: TES construction set (morrowind) problem

    To save your mods you need to enable the "autosave" feature (under File->Preferences). This bypasses where the crash is caused and will save your mod as "AutoSave.bak", simply rename to something...
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    Re: Oblivion under Ubuntu with Wine

    The command is on the wiki page but it is not on the first post of this thread. I guess they missed the part about the wiki page being the upto date version to refer to.
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    Re: Oblivion under Ubuntu with Wine

    Hi hugstrees, I think I know what you have done. Check out the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Linux wiki page. This thread leaves out the command to actually copy the file d3dx9_27.dll to your...
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    Re: Low FPS and threading

    Thanks for still answering questions on this thread Mongoose.

    I'd already disabled the refraction and water shaders and set texture size to small.

    Is it normal that Oblivion won't use both...
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    Low FPS and threading

    Ok, I've read the Oblivion:Linux UESPWiki and followed the directions there. I've also read every single post here... all 37 pages.

    I uninstalled my wine and deleted my .wine directory (I had the...
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