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bumping this up - still need help with this if anyone can offer any assistance that would be awesome :-)

I have been testing a VPN and it suggests locking down a user so you don't have to run the VPN with sudo. (link here.) I used the 'useradd' command to create a new user. How can I make sure that the...

Thanks I appreciate the replies. I'm not familiar with snap so I'll have to go away and read up on it. Hope to see Ubuntu mobile make a comeback.

I've wanted a Ubuntu phone for a long time now. I haven't got a device capable of flashing, so I wanted to buy a phone pre-loaded with the OS. Unfortunately, that seems like an impossibility. Every...

Hi all,

I have a 10gb dd file which I tried mounting as read only. I used the following command:


sudo mount -o loop,noexec,ro file.dd /mnt/file

and it didn't work. I ran '
dmesg | tail'...

I'm using a HP Envy - when I use the touchpad to click on a part of the screen, the mouse sometimes jumps to another part of the screen. I've ran xinput , xinput --test 13 and then xinput...

Added source of software. Thanks Vasa1

Hi all, can anyone give me a helping hand. I'm trying to install fatrat download manager. It uses 'cmake' to install the software.

Source of software: https://github.com/LubosD/fatrat

I get the...

I've purchased and downloaded a debian file to install the software EncryptStick but unfortunately, it will not install on 16.04.



So I then try:


But unfortunately, this doesn't work...

Can confirm this works. Thanks! Was a very frustrating issue.

Can anyone help me to get my HP laptop's brightness working? I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but the brightness is EXTREMELY bright. I cannot change it using fn keys.

Perfect thanks! Just what the Dr ordered

I've got a raspberry pi 2 and I've got a script that I want to run everyday using a cron job. But can I make the pi suspend itself after it has run the script, then start up at a certain time to run...

I'm using Chromium v34.0.1847.116 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Amazon Prime's Instant Video isn't working. I've tried installing hal and libhal 1 as suggested in this thread.
Can anyone help me to fix it?...

I can create a blank document with: cd ~/Documents/iron64; ./iron

But when I double click it, it just opens in gedit. I want it to be a launcher without using the terminal. I've made the file...

So I use 'SRWare Iron' browser. In order to run it, you have to use the terminal to CD into the iron64 folder and run the following command: ./iron

What I want to do, is create a shortcut on my...

basgoossen - I've had the same issue. It was faster, but still VERY unstable. My most recent 'fix' is to change the channel setting on your router. Mine was set to 'auto' - I've now changed it to '2...

I've got the same issue with a HP laptop using the Realtek RTL8188EE chip. Internet is SLOW...I'm on a 60mb/s line and on Speedtest.net, i'm getting 4mb/s. When I boot into my Windows 8.1 partition...

I dual-boot my laptop with Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. My problem is that my wi-fi is very slow on Ubuntu 14.04 compared to when I am logged into Windows.

My wifi card is a Realtek...

I'm using a wubi install of ubuntu 11.04 in classic mode with a linux mint theme :)

I'll mess around some more, i'm sure it's something simple i'm not doing. thanks for the help :)

P.S

what...

thanks for that coffee but i've still got the same problem.. Here's a pic to show you where i want the shortcut to be:

http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/6898/screenshot1lp.png

I want it to be...

I understand that, but i want /host to appear in 'Places'

Yes it's a wubi install. (Windows + Ubuntu dual boot)

Here is how i see my Windows files:

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/652/directoryk.jpg



But as i say, i want the Windows partition...

Here are the outputs:


si@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device;...

This is how my laptop looks. I can see my 96gb Ubuntu partition but i cannot see my Windows partition.

How do i permanently mount it?

can someone post step-by-step instructions on how to do...