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This should be a trivial matter, but it's got me beat. Some time ago my system (running on a laptop) powered off when the battery power ran out. And since then, whenever I've needed to reboot, I've...

I've got photos from lots of different sources which I'm trying to order in albums, and I need a system which will allow me to order them myself: ordering by file name, or by date, doesn't work well...

This is me feeling really stupid. I run Ubuntu 14.04 server, and apache 2.4 on a VPS. I was using Webmin to set up a new virtual subdomain, but clearly I did something wrong, because now any...

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I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 as a client OS inside an MS Windows VirtualBox host. (This way I have access to my institution's network services, which are all MS Active Directory based. Don't...

I'm running kubuntu 14.04 as a virtual OS in VirtualBox hosted by Windows 7. After a windows crash, and a kubuntu restart, my system fonts are oddly big. Im my settings I have used Droid Sans 9,...

4096Mb RAM, 203 GB disk space - I allocated a fixed disk space before I started. My machine has 8GB RAM and a 500GB HDD. There should be problems actually running Ubuntu - it's just getting it to...

All of these. I have the VirtualBox guest ISO downloaded for the host; I also downloaded it (using apt-get) in the guest, and ran it to configure and install the modules. Just to make sure I ran...

Thanks for that, but in fact I selected none of the options, but simply let Ubuntu install itself onto the drive.

-A.

So I've spent most of the day installing and reinstalling ubuntu 14.04 as a guest OS in VirtualBox 4.3.28, running as a host on Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit. And I've installed the...

I was running kubuntu 14.04 as a guest in VirtualBox, the host being Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit. I decided to upgrade last week (mainly to avoid constant messages telling me that a "security...

Would you believe it - I installed a brand-new Ubuntu, ran 'sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade', installed some of the virtualbox guest additions, and whaddya know? The NEW machine doesn't...

Drat! Yes, all my work is backed up (on DropBox, but I'm about to switch to OwnCloud), and no, I hadn't made any backup snapshots. However - once bitten, twice shy, eh? So what I'll do is start...

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I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 as a client in VirtualBox 4.3.12, the host system being Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit. I've just upgraded Ubuntu, and now it won't boot:


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Thanks folks - it turned out to be the old disk which couldn't be made bootable. I used mkusb and a newer disk, and it worked like a charm. Thanks again!

-A.

Problem: install Lubuntu on HP Mini 210

I'm not sure where the problem is.... I had used "dd if=lubuntu.iso of=/dev/sdb1" to write to the USB disk, and I then attempted to boot from it on the HP...

In order to access my workplace's networked devices (shared drives, printers etc) I need to run Windows: our IT department have pretty much nailed everything down to be Windows only. So I'm going to...

Yes, I'm trying to do that at the moment... we'll see how we go with it! Gosh but this whole DNS business is confusing....

So - I have a brand new VPS running Ubuntu 14.04, and a domain name (registered to another company). I need to set up a DNS server on my VPS, so that my new domain name is happily available to the...

So yesterday I got a new VPS running Ubuntu 14.04 set up; the hosting company provided a "minimal" installation; so I added on apache2 and a couple of other things, including webmin. And yesterday...

Thanks for that, however the KDE settings just give me the font name: "Ubuntu", and size: 9. What I want to find out is the XLFD of this font, so I use it in other applications. But I can't find...

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I have just installed Kubuntu 14.04, 64 bit. Very nice! However, some applications (like GNU Emacs) have different menu fonts than say, Konsole or Firefox. In an effort to coerce Emacs...

I believe this has been asked before, but the solutions I've tried haven't worked. I'm running Kubuntu 12.04 LTS, and using a Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Mouse - which works very well. However, If I...

Oops - got it working! My bad - I just needed to keep pressing the bottom bluetooth button on the mouse to make it discoverable.

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I have never used bluetooth before. My laptop (an old, but perfectly working Thinkpad T500) supports bluetooth; indeed the bluetooth icon light is glowing steadily. However, this appears to be a...

What I did in the end was use Windows to access the usb drive files. Then I set up a shared folder in the virtual machine settings, and mounted it with "mount -t vboxsf". So I ended up with the...