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It may simply be that the driver is not enabled. Go to Software and Updates/Additional Drivers. See if the driver is listed. If it is, select it. It won't be initially selected because it isn't an...

I'm now finding that if the server suspends and then restarts there is a problem with maintaining the mounts, and the client fstab needs to be re-invoked (reboot or mount -a). At least, that is my...

I struggled for ages getting nfs working between a number of laptops and my main desktop on my home network. My lack of ability was compounded by the many complicated and in some cases outdated...

I realise that this is a very late post, but for the benefit of anyone still searching to make this card work, this is the current state as of July 2011:

To make the MA521 Netgear WiFi card work...

I used TB for several years, then switched to Evolution because of problems with TB, for example difficulty in transferring folders to another machine, and I felt from the hype that Evolution might...

Why not install Virtualbox under your stable Ubuntu, and inside VB install any number of virtual machines with whatever you need on each? No messing with GRUB and no risk to your main setup. And you...

I think the main reasons people don't use Linux are: a) it isn't advertised, b) it isn't pre-installed, c) the idea of something for nothing is weird to many.

My wife, who is a technophobe, has...

I just installed 11.04 as an upgrade. I have been using Ubuntu for several years and before that Suse. I am probably an advanced user.

Unity looks nice. But it failed the first test - no obvious...

My suggestion would be to install Oracle Virtualbox (free) to create a virtual machine and install XP inside that. I use it everyday on my desktop and it works very well and is rock solid. That way...

And even when you do pay the chances are that some of your paid software contains pirated open-source. Check out all the paid apps that have ffmpeg inside them:

http://www.ffmpeg.org/shame.html

I can recommend virtualbox. I run real xp inside VB3.2.10 under Ubuntu 10.04 for an app that won't behave under Wine and it is very easy to set up and use. You can share USB, printers etc quite...

Despite looking I can't find how to do this:

I want to widen the frame that I grab when resizing a window. On a high-res screen, frames are so slim it is hard to grab them without having to...

to find the keycodes, run xev (in X11-utils) in a terminal. To map, well I'm looking for that answer too!

I'm not using 1394 storage but I am trying to get a dv camcorder to be read by dvgrab (or indeed any program). I have tried everything mentioned in the forums to get it to work and can control the...

Whatever you do, I suggest you create a separate partition for all of your data. That way, if you need to reinstall windows or ubuntu you don't risk your data. If you use ntfs as a format it can be...

Thanks for that. I use ffmpeg a lot and I think I have all the codecs! I was thinking it might be a permissions issue myself, tho I cannot figure out where it might be. Weird. I have another...

Not quite. I have been playing with Linux since Suse 6.0 and only now do I think that it is ready for prime time (in the shape of Ubuntu 9.10). So it has been gradual. I just converted my home file...

Unfortunately the blacklist idea didn't work for me. But maybe I can pin down the problem a little more.

My symptom is that kino can see and control the camera via firewire, but no video is seen...

I'm trying to build a MythTV box and tripping up at every stage. The current problem is that Jaunty hangs randomly when the DVB card is installed. The hangs can occur in MythTV but also when say...

Why not have both? Install Ubuntu native, then VMware server (free) then XP under that. You can have the best of both worlds. I did that and now almost never use XP. And I won't have to pay for an...

I had a perfectly good java installation under 7.10 and when I installed 8.04 it broke (thanks guys!).

The fix, which took me sometime to figure was the following:

1) install the sun-java6-jre...

Mine was in 1968, learning Fortran in the sixth form at school with punch forms. A five-line quadratic solver took two weeks turnaround. One week to be punched onto cards at the council offices and...

Apple are doing a lot to encourage the use of Windows, by not producing an iTunes for Linux. That and MSN are probably the most used apps by my 'kids' (15, 18, 22) anyway.

Apple know what they...

Plus, it's free, and still will be when XP is history and everyone else has paid quite a lot for Vista.