Hard to come up with a shorter or clearer title, sorry.
'Cannot Upgrade my Ubuntu' was closed as a dupe, and it is. The issue is that the wrong duplicate was chosen by mistake (with possibly none of the other close-voters noticing?).
I edited the question after it was closed, so that it now poi...
As far as I see there has been some discussion about the shortening of links. While keeping the complete URL visible in the post can clearly be distracting (especially when used inline), I want to warn against making it too drastic (e.g. "here").
Remember that visually handicapped people often us...
You need to enable the installation of i386 packages on your amd64 system.
To do so, enter the following commands:
dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libmhash2:i386 mit-scheme:i386
For further information see the Debi...
Yesterday a question about Ask Ubuntu was asked (by a user with more than 300 rep) on the main site. It was eventually migrated, but the tag the OP created (bounty) is still around.
Can a moderator please kill this tag?
My kids (4 and 5) yell a lot when playing games on computer. I found an effective cure for this. I ssh into game computer and do:
chvt 3; sleep 15; chvt 7
when I hear loud noises. This will turn off screen for 15 seconds on linux. I've told them that computer don't like loud noises. They to...
