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If your objective is to make a new user interface that everyone will understand and love, take a lesson from Microsoft and do this:


1. Rename things. This fools the stupid user into thinking...

You need to edit your fstab file so that the disks mount automatically. You can google that or find it in the stickies here.

I'm grudgingly figuring things out. I don't understand why you would force an interface on people like this. This is so much like the unexplainable and tedious "improvements" that Microsoft makes...

This is such CRAP. I can't get to any of the software that is installed. I download a program. OK where is it? to me this makes Ubuntu pretty much un usable. Real great job guys. THIS UNITY...

I think it sucks. I'm just sayin.

I have two computers with Ubuntu 11.04 on them. On one I can log in and work remotely. On the other, for video display, I see what was on the screen when I logged on, then when I click icons or...

OK here is what I did. I went and read the support page for Ubuntu GRUB. WOW RTFM huh??? In there I spotted that you hold either ESC or SPACE depending on your GRUB to get the GRUB menu. So I...

I did the update to Ubuntu 11. Now when it boots it lets me log into the command line. Gnome doesn't come up. If I wasn't a clueless newbie I'd know what to do to in Grub, right?

I did see that it was looking for the configuration file. But I had no idea how to write one.

I Googled and looked at an example one there. Wayyyy out of my league!

Thanks for the help...

It must be something with those packages. I installed Wifi Radar and Prismstumbler both with apt-get and with Synaptic Package Manager and they worked fine. You get icons in Nautilus and you can...

That didn't change anything. I really don't think you get out of newbieland until you figure out how to install AND RUN software. :(

I went to usr/bin where the "which swatch" told me to go. I get this when I type swatch:

swatch: cannot find /home/jethro/.swatchrc. Please create it or specify an alternate configuration file....

Here I am back with the same question. I installed swatch using apt-get.

It says the install succeded. Ubuntu software center says it is installed.

Now. There is no icon anywhere. Typing...

I tried the same thing on a Dell laptop that has Ubuntu. It installs Beagle with no errors but there is no start up icon and typing Beagle in the terminal give this:

No command 'beagle' found,...

That doesn't do anything either.

I'm trying to learn how to install applications with apt-get. I read about Beagle and decided to install it.
I did the install and got no errors.
But now I find no icon anywhere to launch it...

Well i found out that if I wait a while, the listing fills up. The folders I had problems with were my girlfriends photo folders. There are a lot of large files. And I mean LOTS of files.

It...

Here is a good one. I have a folder shared on my Ubuntu 9.1. When I look at it from a Windows XP machine, I can list every file in the folder instantly. With two different Macs, with Snow Leopard,...

e2label /dev/hdb1 name worked. Thanks!

I put an additional hard drive in my Ubuntu box. All went well. I'd just like to name it something other than 1000 GB Filesystem. I can't remember how to do this. Any help?

I looked through the install FAQ's etc. I thought I saw someone ask about doing this at one point but, of course, I can't remember where.

I have a computer with a single SATA drive which runs...

Well I tried all permutations I could think of. I got nothing. Not an important problem I was just wondering if it worked.

Thanks guys.

I used the PalmOS devices in System Preferences and got my Palm TX to synch. As far at that app goes everything is fine.

In Synaptic Package Manager I have gnome-pilot installed. But I can't...

Yeah that kind of sucked for it to just quit working. But I put the PCCard wireless in and it picked it right up. What the hell????

So I'll probably keep it that way until I figure something...

That's it on the next to last line, the Atheros. The Realtek is the wired ethernet. The Broadcom is a PC card wireless that is actually working. I plugged it in when the internal one went on...