Spotted this:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/run-windows-apps-in-ubuntu-with-crossover-for-linux-free-for-today-only
Thought people may be interested.
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It is really easy to get basic hardware info for a Windows PC, IIRC right
click my computer, then properities and it is in one of the tabs. Will
reboot into WIn7 an check/confirm.
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Bump left side of screen (bottom) location config is at the top.
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Press alt-f2 gnome-sessions-daemon or in terminal gnome-sessions-daemon
(no quotes).
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Hi
Have posted about this on the main forum and been pointed towards a BCD
stores problem.
I have a Dell Inspiron N5010 with:
/dev/sda12048 206847 102400 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 2068482068684710247 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda320686848
This is what I did from a live cd:
su
mount /dev/sda6 /mnt
grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
reboot
then sudo update-grub
replace sda6 with your partition
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If your netbook has a CD drive try this:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
Can put it on a flash drive, but you will need an external CD drive or
access to a laptop/desktop.
Sounds to me like it is more likely to be virus related (windows opening by
themselves...)
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Also download an antivirus rescue live USB/CD e.g.
http://www.avg.com/gb-en/avg-rescue-cd-download
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I hate bottom posting, I don't want to scan/re-read a thread I have been
following over and over. I always delete the original email I reply to and
quote it where ever necessary. This is particularly bad if someone replies
to a digest, I just give up!
Some of the guys on my local LUG are
Coming out of standby is a major issue on a lot of machines. Usually a
problem with the video drivers (but not always). What video card do you
have? My machine will not come out of standby 90% of the time running
FGLRX radeon drivers, but does on the open source drivers, works as good as
gold
For hardware info, I use the inxi script e.g (from my debian install):
$ inxi -F
System:Host: n5010 Kernel: 3.0.0-1-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop Gnome
2.30.2 Distro: Linux Mint Debian Edition
Machine: Mobo: Dell model: 03C6YH version: A15 Bios: Dell version: A15
date: 07/19/2011
CPU:
On 19 October 2011 12:02, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
On 19/10/11 09:29, ** wrote:
I admit it I was stupid. I was doing an unattended upgrade of my
laptop to 11.10 and then stupidly turned off the mains power.
Needless to say the upgrade failed about an hour later and I can no
I think they were too slow out of the blocks. A couple of days ago I
offered my FB friends an invite, take up rate - zero.
I think if Diaspora was used correctly, we could turn it into an ad hoc
forum.
Any test # post worked.
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I wish for the release cycle to slow down and attempt to fix all of the
problems before the next release, instead of ploughing forward inexorably.
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Or should I have said +1 Simon ;)
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Search synaptic for locales and remove the ones you do not need.
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Sent.
On 3 September 2011 23:41, Andres andre...@gmail.com wrote:
**
After some time on google+ and even more time on facebook i have found i am
more interested in diaspora*
some time ago someone had gotten in: could I have an invite and/or join the
ubuntu-uk node?
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Just a heads-up, thought you may be interested.
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I just accidentally clicked on the link (damned trackpad!) and it
downloaded, so no problem here :)
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So have I (deluge of invites) :)
On 10 July 2011 11:51, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10 July 2011 11:32, Steve Flynn anothermindb...@gmail.com wrote:
You're going to get a flood of people asking for invites now. ;)
(me included! :D )
Done. Email
So the important question is how can we use Google+ in a constructive way to
improve the Group/Our Lives/whatever. Diaspora contunues to be a bit of a
damp squib :(
Google+ is very underwhelming at the moment, all I have managed to do so far
is spam people in my address book (only one mail, but
Yes, a couple of times. Take this scenario:
My sister bought me a CD (Free/Bad Co Greatest Hits), I stuck it in my
laptop, ripped it and left in the drive. Boom, unusable system, log files
fill up with errors from the CD drive and I have to boot from a live CD to
delete them, still don't know
Windows pops up a Disk clean up box with a couple of gig to spare (IIRC).
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I have an Acer laptop with bluetooth on keyboard, but no bluetooth
installed. On my other laptop bluetooth only shows up in lsusb, not lspci.
HTH
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The new hardware may not be compatible with XP, as long as the shop
authenticated the Vista install, I wouldn't make a big issue about it. Just
be prepared for lots of questions from your Dad, everything moved or was
given a different name in Vista and the UAC is a royal PITA :)
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What about:
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/06/stable-sparkleshare-02-released-with.html
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Will have a look, was clearing the attic yesterday and I saw some old ram,
but I think they were only 256mb (2 off). Whats in it and does it have to be
matched pairs?
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How about a work-around, don't run Unity so don't know if possible and can't
test. Can you attach a script to a button on the Unity bar? If so, install
xdotool and put this script on the bar:
#!/bin/bash
xdotool search --class gimp windowactivate
Definitely works from a terminal though and
On 28 May 2011 19:26, Andres andre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Maybe not directly ubuntu related but I guess most of you use smartphones
and are aware of what is plain bad..
Some friends have been giving me some buzz with http://www.whatsapp.com/seems
like a mix of sms and IM. Do any of you
I have written a little program, scgui, a gui frontend to synclient
(required obviously!). It is written in Pascal/Lazarus.
It enables/disables Two finger scrolling (Horizontal and Vertical), Circular
scrolling, Tap to Click and Touch pad on/off.
The program does not read the current settings,
On 24 March 2011 19:23, Michael Daniels michae...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
Downloaded all Linux files from Samsung, but printer returns, internal
error - please use the proper driver The driver CD is written for MS
Windows, so no use. Any suggestions appreciated, other than the always
online
I run Spideroak and dropbox together they work well. I use spideroak
for specific folders and dropbox for selected files and transferring
to my cheapo tablet
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On 26 January 2011 21:06, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
On the subject of crapware, my boss decided to try ubuntu on his new dell
latitude laptop running win7, he installed it by himself, and came to me the
next day when it was broken. Turns out dell wrote a dock-like application
for win7,
On 19 January 2011 23:31, Barry Titterton
barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com wrote:
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 23:11 +, Bill Cumming wrote:
I've a Netgear DG834gt Router with custom firmware,
It does the same! With me It's a problem with the way the router
handles ports,
It only
On 20 January 2011 21:23, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 21:15 +, Craig Peden wrote:
Linux Mint releases with a number are ubuntu based. i.e Mint 10 Julia.
LMDE is debian.
Tomorrow I'll try Mint DE and see what I think.
Regards,Barry.
On 18 January 2011 17:27, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 17:23 +, George Tripp wrote:
It was pcspecialists themselves who alerted me that there was a
problem!
Just been put in touch with: https://www.linuxlaptops2go.co.uk/home
LinuxLaptops2Go. See how
I tried Arch in a virtual machine a while ago, it is a little bit daunting,
I was just left with a command prompt, really cannot be bothered to build
everything from the ground up, tinkering yes, building no :)
Sabayon sounds interesting, may give it a whirl in a vm later in the week.
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On 8 January 2011 23:56, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
On 08/01/11 21:22, Steve Fisher wrote:
My laptop is running hot so I have spent the last couple of weeks
distro-hopping on my new Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop to have a look at
the competition:
Mandriva - I am a refugee from
When did they start coming out? I signed up, but haven't seen anything
(unless it got spam binned in error). I wouldn't mind an invite if there is
one going :)
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Thanks Vinothan, I now have 5 invites on a first come basis, email me on
xirco...@gmail.com
Cheers
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Ronnie
Sent.
Cheers
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I like the way you can set up groups, very neat!
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Pretty much as per title, I use compiz so require it to work, when I
upgraded last time it didn't.
Cheers
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Cheers for that, will give it a blast over Christmas
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Have deleted to original mail but just spotted:
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/12/do-you-have-limited-internet-plan-use.html
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On 6 November 2010 20:18, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.comwrote:
On 5 November 2010 18:43, Steve Fisher xirco...@gmail.com wrote:
Just tried Adeskbar 0.4.2 - launch it (alt-f2) and I get a the bar and a
flashing black box in the middle of the screen and lose control
Just tried Adeskbar 0.4.2 - launch it (alt-f2) and I get a the bar and a
flashing black box in the middle of the screen and lose control of the
laptop and have to power down :(
Launching from a terminal, I get no errors and can eventually ctrl+c out of
it. Tried killing AWN Xcompmgr and
On 4 November 2010 19:39, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 14:19 +, pmgazz wrote:
Agree, try it out half an hour before the audience arrives
Good advice - I played for a bit, and got various configurations - my
laptop on the overhead and overhead on my
On 3 November 2010 19:40, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi guys,
I have several issues with my gnome-panel at the moment; things not showing
up, swapping places etc.
Before I bother trying to fix them, I was wondering if there is a decent
replacement for it?
I have used AWN in the past
On 30 October 2010 22:18, Grant Sewell dcg...@thymox.co.uk wrote:
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:42:20 +0100 (BST)
dianne reuby wrote:
I've got an Open Office slide show on my laptop (running Ubuntu
10.10) and I want to use it with a digital projector. I've looked at
grandr, but I can't find a
On 23 October 2010 12:15, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/10/2010 21:42, Yorvyk wrote:
because their book-keeper had developed a pathological hatred of Sage
for some reason.
I understand that. Sage is AWFUL!
They were very happy with it and when they merged with
On 19 October 2010 18:18, Hakan Koseoglu ha...@koseoglu.org wrote:
On 19/10/10 16:54, Cornelius Mostert wrote:
The scenario is as follow:
1. You have permission to work as Admin on a Lan
2. You do NOT have any documentation from the previous Admin
3. You find a router / WiFi Router that
On a bus on my phone. Check the contents of a file I think it is:
/var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state
Should have 3 or 4 lines ending in the word true. If not edit, change and
reboot. Usual cause of this is a failed suspend. Will confirm file name
when I get home
Sent from my
On 16 October 2010 10:01, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:
I am attempting to make the desktop background in gnome change
automatically to a random image from a set folder. I know the command I need
is
gconftool-2 --type=string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
Thinking out of the box, why not write a script to generate the xml file?
I will have a go, but have to nip out for a couple of hours.
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God, this was hard work! But I think it runs, needs testing and all the
paths are hardcoded and need changing.
So I am assembling a directory of jpegs and will report back, but going out
(again) for a while.
#!/bin/bash
rm background-1.xml
echo background background-1.xml
echo starttime
OK script finished tested and working:
#!/bin/bash
rm background-2.xml
echo background background-2.xml
echo starttime background-2.xml
echo year2009/year background-2.xml
echo month08/month background-2.xml
echo day04/day background-2.xml
echo hour00/hour background-2.xml
Instructions:
1. Dump a load of jpegs in a directory, I used /usr/backgrounds/testdir
2. Copy the script into the same directory and make it executable. Edit and
change path and name of output xml to suite.
3. Open terminal change directory and run script
4. Drag and drop output xml to
Ha Ha Ha http://darkrule.freewebhostx.com/hello/xmlmaker.php
http://darkrule.freewebhostx.com/hello/xmlmaker.phpIf only I had read
further down the link I originally gave you.
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Not so sunny Sheffield, member of the local LUG (not that I get to many
meetings!). Long time Linux user and Mandriva refugee, so Debian based
systems are not my forte :)
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On 10 October 2010 23:13, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi Guys
I'm running Xubuntu 10.4. A couple of days ago I downloaded a routine
update which required a reboot to complete. After that I had no wireless
connectivity and no Network Manager applet (nm-applet) icon in the
Yes sorry still full of cold! Doctor has signed me off for the week
with bronchitis.
Steve bronc
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Renders in Google Chrome stable, but not in the current Chromium unstable,
so you could try installing Chrome.
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On 6 October 2010 09:26, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
Thanks for all the suggestions on this thread.
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 21:58 +0100, Byte Soup wrote:
Im assuming the delay was due to some lead in silence on the track?
No. The CD player that the guy was using insisted on
Sorry wrong link (full of cold - I am the snot monster!)
http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=37236
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Something like this?
http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/Soundboard-Maker-Download-13664.html
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Apparently you cannot get to the BIOS to make it boot from USB, so you are
stuck with Win CE, read it on the main Ubuntu forum a while back.
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Don't understand, Lucid64 install, flash works (10.1.82.76) and BBC iPlayer
works (Air not installed) what am I missing?
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Well that answers part of it, but not why mine still works, 64bit browser
(Chromium) and iPlayer works fine.
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On 16 September 2010 18:21, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:
flash doesn't work properly at all on mine, how did you get it to work?
On 16 September 2010 18:19, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.ukwrote:
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 18:13 +0100, Steve Fisher wrote:
Well
This may be of interest:
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/adobe-flash-player-square-102-64bit.html
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On 3 September 2010 09:50, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Once again I lost my shutdown function; not only did shutdown vanish
from my main menu, but when I added the Session Indicator Applet to the
panel, the shutdown option on this did not work either; only the user
I am a Mandriva refugee! I know rpm inside out, but not apt. When I issue
the above, sometimes I see e.g.:
26 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and *132 not upgraded*. (KDE
updates coming down).
If I use the gui or synaptic, it will let me update fully. Why won't it do
it from a
Thanks everybody, will give aptitude a blast.
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OK, tried this once last week and crashed and burned with an ATI flgrx
problem. As it was a new install I just chickened out and reinstalled.
So, what is the best way to go about this, any recommendations? I have a
spare partition, currently formatted to fat32 and was wondering if
remastersys
On 3 September 2010 19:24, Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.comwrote:
On 3 September 2010 19:21, Steve Fisher xirco...@gmail.com wrote:
OK, tried this once last week and crashed and burned with an ATI flgrx
problem. As it was a new install I just chickened out and reinstalled.
So
On 3 September 2010 19:50, Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.comwrote:
On 3 September 2010 19:37, Steve Fisher xirco...@gmail.com wrote:
Kubuntu Lucid64 (re)install. Is xorg the problem? Running cairo-dock
and
Compiz on Gnome (KDE person normally but am trying to like Gnome
On 3 September 2010 21:09, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
On 03/09/10 19:21, Steve Fisher wrote:
OK, tried this once last week and crashed and burned with an ATI flgrx
problem. As it was a new install I just chickened out and reinstalled.
So, what is the best way to go about
On 2 September 2010 11:26, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
Dual booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04.
Every time there's a kernel update I get a new entry in the grub 2 boot
screen
I am very confused on how to edit this new version of Grub - in the old
days I just edited
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