what about update-grub
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what about update-grub
is my english that bad? i am talking about hard drives not drivers.
and yes it should not matter having two partitions on one hard drive
only i have never succeeded in dual booting like this.
i have never suceeded in creating a dual boot system with windows and linux on a drive with 2 partitions.
and as for wubi i see that it is no longer available. it was unreliable.
i have always had...
Thunderbird>Edit>Preferences>Attachments>Incoming
says: http Use Firefox Web Browser (default)
and the same for https
only of course it does not!
Change to http Use other...
then browse...
thank you cooaj86 for attempting to write this at all.
it did not go as easily for me as for you.
first time i tried it i got some horrible error messages.
in file included from...
I don't see why not.
I would love to try it.
titanus computers on their website offer ubuntu as an operating system,
so it looks like they have tried it out.
I think that most operating...
Thank you for this very helpful thread.
I diagnosed that my laptop had dirt or condensation under the right shift key.
So I wanted to disable this key. It was permanently ON.
xmodmap -e 'keycode...
Hello sikander3786,
Thank you for your informative post. It saved me.
I run multiple disks in convoluted ways.
I have a 1TB internal drive with Ubuntu 11.04
and a 100GB external USB drive with...
I too have the same problem.
I have a Compaq Pressario M2000 laptop which includes Intel graphics.
No sound control and frequent crashes when watching a video on youtube.
I don't recall it...
Thank you all:-
sudo apt-get install lsb-core
It is so easy when you know how.
Now what about sendmail - postfix - dovecot -
certificate signing?
That no doubt would be easy too if you...
Much as I love Ubuntu I too am glad that I have Windows as well.
Most of these problems, and there are many of them, seem to be concerned with WUBI (the UBUNTU Windows bootloader).
The intention is...
Thank you for your excellent post.
That worked for me to.
I was messing with remote desktop, I think, when the accident happened.
The only difference was that the shutdown icon did not reappear....
Sorry to be a wet blanket but I am not solved.
I am running Ubuntu 9.10 in a Sun Virtual Box Version 3.1.4 r57640
under Windows XP,
which may be a little different.
I have tried all of this...
do you have at least 4 desktops?
right click bottom right hand corner - preferences - columns 4.
This is the kind of thing I do all of the time.
If I understand you correctly you are running
Ubuntu with an Apache web server
and a Sun virtual box in which you have installed Windows XP.
You...
mick55 you are great.
I have been stuck for a long time on this one.
Your solution System>Adminstration>Software Sources
uncheck "Installable from CD ROM/DVD"
seems so obvious when you know...
Hello All,
Thank you to the powers that be for fixing a very big bug in Ubuntu.
Since the latest upgrade of Ubuntu from 8.04 to 9.04 wifi cards ceased working. They all worked great with Ubuntu...
I will give you 3 advantages in using Windows XP
and not Ubuntu 8.10.
1) Skype does not work on Ubuntu - yet.
2) My favourite game Soldier of fortune II runs only on Windows XP
- or does it?...