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Re: Enhanced web experience with Ubiquity

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Re: Enhanced web experience with Ubiquity

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Re: Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat – “The Perfect 10″ Released

Gary Saxton — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:44:44 -0000

I might just take your advice on the torrent. Thanks for the information!

Re: Howto: Use Ubuntu One to Sync Tomboy Notes Cross-platform

Jonathan — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:10:58 -0000

Sorry not sure what the problem is when I wrote this I was using an older version of Ubuntu. If you figure out how to fix it please post back here, you might help someone else.

Re: Howto: Fix ttf-mscorefonts-installer problems in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Jonathan — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:08:53 -0000

I created the script ages ago, but I'm glad it partially helped you out.

Re: Howto: Use Ubuntu One to Sync Tomboy Notes Cross-platform

Online contest — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:59:48 -0000

Really Ubuntu is useful tool. It's very helpful and love it the great software. Thanks!

Re: Howto: Fix ttf-mscorefonts-installer problems in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

yakattack — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:53:06 -0000

had to modify it slightly to work for me - had to change the addresses that wget was using to use the kent mirror (even though I'm in South Africa - our one was just failing).. then it worked fine..

Also, if the script gets stuck at trying to connect over and over, you can always manually download all the files listed in the wget part of the above script from a mirror - like:http://sourceforge.net/proj... getting 'webdin32.exe'then put them all in the /tmp/mscorefonts directory that the script created, comment out the 'wget' parts in the script and run it and it should work.

This is what worked for me anyway.. peace

Re: Howto: Use Ubuntu One to Sync Tomboy Notes Cross-platform

Joomla Development — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:15:42 -0000

Yes I love ubuntu! Great softare!

Re: Howto: Fix ttf-mscorefonts-installer problems in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

tango32601 — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:03:26 -0000

Funny, it worked for all of those people, but not for me. Your script did not return any *.exe files but a bunch of download.* where * is a number files. I changed your script to
#Extract all .tff filescabextract * -F*.ttf -L
and it correctly extracted all of the font files.
Then some problem with locks came up which I am now trying to solve. Incidentally, I have
Ubuntu 11.10.

Re: Howto: Use Ubuntu One to Sync Tomboy Notes Cross-platform

Juan — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:02:33 -0000

It doesn't work at all. The save button never highlights, or the connection is never done even after the browser shows the aforementioned message. This at least in ubuntu 11.10

Re: Howto: Compile Dropbox from Source on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Jonathan — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:49:44 -0000

I'm pretty sure you can just uninstall it like any other program, try this:

sudo apt-get remove dropbox

Re: Howto: Compile Dropbox from Source on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Armando Calderón — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:25:30 -0000

How to uninstall it ?

Re: Howto: Fix ttf-mscorefonts-installer problems in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Ankush_pict — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:35:40 -0000

thanks a lot..

Re: Howto: Install Skype on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

arif mukti wibowo — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:11:57 -0000

thanks for your tips ... it's great & helpful

Re: Howto: Install Skype on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

disqus_1fFmz5Bhz7 — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:11:14 -0000

I switched back to Debian Squeeze but that didn't resolve the problem.

If your webcam is not recognized by Skype you can try starting Skype with the previous version of the uvc driver (here is the Debian script-you may need to modify for Ubuntu):
#!/bin/shLD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so skypeOr, go to the Skype website and download the current version for your OS. Works great for me. I can even hot-plug the cam after Skype is running and the cam is recognized.

I had to buy a usb headset for Skype though because I wasn't able to get Squeeze to work with my old fashioned sony plug headset mic. What I found is that if the headset is plugged in before I open Skype, Skype will recognize it. But if I try to plug the headset in after Skype is running Skype doesn't see it.

Hopefully some clues that will help you.

Re: Howto: Install Skype on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Jonathan — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:02:46 -0000

Inside the Skype client, if you go into your options and look under "Video Devices" you should be able to pick your webcam from a drop down box and then press a test button to check if it's working properly.

If that doesn't work, open up a terminal and enter the following command:

gstreamer-properties

Open up the Video tab and under "Default Input" pick your webcam and try the above step again, hopefully that fixes your issue.

Best of luck,
Friendly Tech Ninja

Re: Howto: Install Skype on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

F Florin — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:28:45 -0000

My video doesn't work correctly: I can see the person I called, but he cannot se me. I have a Logtech webcam. It works on Cheese.

Re: Howto: Use Symbolic Links to Sync Folders with Dropbox on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Jonathan — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:24:35 -0000

So I'm assuming your Dropbox folder is installed in your home directory, so in your case it's "/home/dat/Dropbox/"

I think the following command will fix your problem:

ln -s /home/dat/Documents/Bible\ Study\ Resources/Ministry/Tanilba /home/Dropbox

Note: I've used "\" to make sure the command knows that Bible Study
Resources is a single folder name, the "\" makes the use of spaces
between words work.

Hope that helps.

Re: Howto: Use Symbolic Links to Sync Folders with Dropbox on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Guest — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:01:45 -0000

I entered this: "dat@Lucy:~$ ln -s dat/Documents/Bible Study Resources/Ministry/Tanilba dat/Dropbox"

But I am getting the following error when using your command: "ln: target `/dat/Dropbox' is not a directory"

(dat is my user name.)

Can you offer any suggestion? I am using Ubuntu 10.04

David

Re: Howto: Use Ubuntu One to Sync Tomboy Notes Cross-platform

CharlesD — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:16:32 -0000

Thanks. Excellent article, simple and it works. For anyone without a Ubuntu One account, its easier if you establish that first.

Re: Howto: Install Skype on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Epernox — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:54:21 -0000

Thanks. Helpful.

Re: Howto: Install Dropbox on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Web Hosting Provider — Mon, 02 May 2011 06:44:53 -0000

I am also using Ubantu, so this information is really helpful for me. I will definitely use this.

Re: Howto: Install Dropbox on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Vincent — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:56:11 -0000

Sorry, please mark the last post as solved - I followed the posts on the dropbox forum and removed the files left from the incomplete install.
The installation completed in a minute or two.
Thanks for very useful posts here and to dropbox.com for a superb product.

Re: Howto: Install Dropbox on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Jonathan — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:21:54 -0000

You might want to use:

sudo apt-get purge dropbox

Which will delete any previous setting before trying to install it again. The dropbox install guide is pretty good, see the link bellow:

https://www.dropbox.com/dow...

Re: Howto: Install Dropbox on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Vincent — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:35:07 -0000

I have installed Ubuntu Lucid 10.04.2 using wubi. Installation of dropbox fails during the download of the proprietary daemon, at 89% (and CPU utilization around 45-50% but no other application running.
I've tried this now 7 or 8 times. Maybe I should terminate nautilus?