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What should I do?
I currently have a semi-old PC which I'm looking to just experiment with. It is an old eMachines, ya know, the retail, overpriced piece of crap you buy from Best Buy. It still uses the pre-installe...
install open office 2.4
Hey folks, I've seen there's a new version of open office and i wanted to install it as it has a few functions that i'm needing. Does anybody know how to do this? I've downloaded the package but ...
white screen ??
ok not a big problem,but when logging off from a user the machine will go to white screen,and i can not get back to the log on screen,i have too re-boot the puter. any idea's???
networking Win xp and ubuntu
Hi. I have a desktop running Gutsy Gibbon that is wired to a linksys router. I have a laptop running winXP connected wirelessly. Using windows shared folders utility, I can access files on the...
ubuntu and Xubuntu wont install on my machine
ok i have an old crappy dell 256 ram 40 gig HDD S3 Trio32/64
mount external usb ntfs drive?
I've try reading about this problem in other threads, but they are not exactly the same problem? I have recently install Ubuntu 7.1 on a 1000Mhz old laptop with 1GRAM it's a dual boot system, run...
initial install issue
Well my windows xp decided it was going to reboot itself constantly so I''m going with ubuntu. I downloaded the file, made a boot disk and it came up perfectly. checked for errors on disk, no probl...
Is there a command to exit sudo?
Is there any command that will make you reenter your password besides waiting for the time to run out once you've already entered it with sudo ? I know how to use visudo to edit the timestamp but I...
USB harddisk mounted as CDROM
I have an external USB harddisk that Ubuntu 7.10 attempts to mount as CDROM. How can I tell Ubuntu to auto mount this harddisk as harddisk. (btw sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/TREKSTOR works f...