Bother and confusicate macs. Apparently you have to be using the computer the entire time if you want to download anything very large on a 70 kb/s connection. Bother it all. /me is never going to get this ISO downloaded...
Just upgraded my Ubuntu system w. extra 2 Gigs of RAM :D Nice and snappy so far!
I am wondering how to erase my hard drive completely, Grub and all, because my hard drive is messed up.
This is what I would like to do when it's wiped clean:
Install Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit from system image. (first and primary)
Install Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. (desktop) (going to ...
I'm currently experimenting with working with Outlook.com for an email server, and have MX records set up to point there and the like. How can I configure systems like postfix to use external servers for mail? When I try to use functions like PHP's mail() for example, the server logs return this ...
Is there any command or any way to know what file system is there on a medium like hard disk or CD/DVD or flash drive etc. From GUI gparted one can know the type on hard disks/pen drive but not of CD/DVD.
I ran the below command to mount my DVD.
ravbholua@ravbholua-Aspire-5315:~/Documents/Other...
So, I have a server that I have RDC (Remote Desktop Connection) set up on, and I am looking at making it globally available on the internet so that I can access it from anywhere. I am currently in the process of changing the password so that it's more secure now that it's going to be visible on t...
I was browsing askubuntu for a bit and I found that there are a lot of sreen-resolution related questions who are badly asked/answered or not answered at all.
A lot of the questions are very specific while a lot of the answers are the same.
Some examples:
Low resolution for nvidia quadro 600 ...
In the Why are answers no longer being accepted from my account? section of the Answering in the Help Center, it is told that accounts can be banned on the basis of having large amount of zero voted answers.
Here it is also mentioned "The exact formula for the bans is not disclosed".
Zero vote...
So I think the voting about the silverlight tag is over here. So can a moderator/high-rep user de-synonimize the moonlight and the silverlight tag, as this option is the highest voted? Then we can retag the present questions correctly with silverlight or moonlight or both.
You need more rep than I have for that. Just wait. A mod will see it.
bear in mind though, two votes is... small. it doesn't really count as a viable reason to make a change imo. anything i did that style answer on in meta where i expected a difference has 6-10+ votes. two is you and your friend(i'm not accusing, i'm just trying to give some idea of scale).
Okay. But I guess they didn't do it simply because the vote was still going on or they just missed the whole story. Now I accepted an answer after 2 weeks, and came here to find a mod/high-rep user to draw some attention to an obvious problem. I don't think that any mod would think that keeping those 2 tag synonyms is a viable option.
It is like a bug. The real question wasn't whether to de-synonimize them, because that is obvious that it should be done, but to what to do after the 2 tags are separate.
i guess. i don't think the whole moonlight-silverlight thing is really that major. if you're in the know, you know issues with 1 == issues with the other on the linux side of the house. i mean does someone have a silverlight authoring tool for ubuntu that i am unaware of? no? it's all how to get silverlight to play on linux? that's moonlight. that's the reasoning for the opposition on your proposal i think. again, it's not relevant to me at all. just trying to help you understand
Moonlight was the answer for silverlight 1 or 2 years ago. If someone asks you how to get silverlight on linux you would advise him to use moonlight? A software of which development is ended 2 years ago, it is likely full of bugs and security-holes, it is not working on most of the sites which use silverlight, and it is not installable without modifying the plugin by hand.
i see what you mean though. it would be easier to steer specific tags to inspecific tags. i'm not in it though. i don't want silverlight to sort of work on my box.
Yes. I don't like silver too. Unfortunately these crappy video sites which my family use like it, so it is a must. I hope silverlight dies soon. :D (In reality it is already dead for webbased apps, just some DRM guys refuse to accept this fact.)
@falconer remember that the option says "Revise all the questions with moonlight", which is a manual action taken by people. Mods only will take action when things are clear.
Yes, I know. I wrote we will have to do it. (Or I will, if no-one else wants) There isn't that much questions with the moonlight tag, it's under 50. But first the de-synonymiziation (or what is the word for that) have to take place, because we/I can't retag until that.
does anyone know if there's a preferred path in mainline for using avconv or gst? it seems like gst is trying to catch up, but avconv means less feature hunting.
I started looking at the flag queue again the other day, and there seems to be a lot of this going on. Is there a way to implement a custom flag for this so we can call it how it is without violating the don't flag NAA as custom thing since it's a vastly more specific thing?
A post of mine just got edited. Most of the edit was great. Just one thing was not true. Is there a way to partially accept an edit. I just accepted and then edited the edit, is there a better way?
I'm a computer engineering student.
I'm a windows user and I would now like to try Linux.
My problem is which one to try.
I found a lot - Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint, OpenSUSE, Fedora etc.
My preferences is fast, fluidic and possibly light on system resources OS.
I would prefer the one wi...
To be honest, easiest way would be to backup the 2 files and each time Ubuntu updates, you run a script as root ofc:
#!/bin/sh
rm /boot/grub/grub && /boot/grub/grub.cfg
cp /directory/grub /boot/grub/
cp /directory/grub.cfg /boot/grub/
One thing, change /directory/ to your directory to the file...
I install and remove and upgrade the world in my system and only when I'm dealing with horrible maintained PPA's I get dependency problems. Why don't you ask about that issue instead of trying to fix something that isn't broke ;). — Braiam17 secs ago
I am wondering how to erase my hard drive completely, Grub and all, because my hard drive is messed up.
This is what I would like to do when it's wiped clean:
Install Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit from system image. (first and primary)
Install Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. (desktop) (going to ...
Is there any command or any way to know what file system is there on a medium like hard disk or CD/DVD or flash drive etc. From GUI gparted one can know the type on hard disks/pen drive but not of CD/DVD.
I ran the below command to mount my DVD.
ravbholua@ravbholua-Aspire-5315:~/Documents/Other...
I was browsing askubuntu for a bit and I found that there are a lot of sreen-resolution related questions who are badly asked/answered or not answered at all.
A lot of the questions are very specific while a lot of the answers are the same.
Some examples:
Low resolution for nvidia quadro 600 ...
In the Why are answers no longer being accepted from my account? section of the Answering in the Help Center, it is told that accounts can be banned on the basis of having large amount of zero voted answers.
Here it is also mentioned "The exact formula for the bans is not disclosed".
Zero vote...
I started looking at the flag queue again the other day, and there seems to be a lot of this going on. Is there a way to implement a custom flag for this so we can call it how it is without violating the don't flag NAA as custom thing since it's a vastly more specific thing?
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A post of mine just got edited. Most of the edit was great. Just one thing was not true. Is there a way to partially accept an edit. I just accepted and then edited the edit, is there a better way?
I'm a computer engineering student.
I'm a windows user and I would now like to try Linux.
My problem is which one to try.
I found a lot - Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint, OpenSUSE, Fedora etc.
My preferences is fast, fluidic and possibly light on system resources OS.
I would prefer the one wi...
To be honest, easiest way would be to backup the 2 files and each time Ubuntu updates, you run a script as root ofc:
#!/bin/sh
rm /boot/grub/grub && /boot/grub/grub.cfg
cp /directory/grub /boot/grub/
cp /directory/grub.cfg /boot/grub/
One thing, change /directory/ to your directory to the file...
