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Why ubuntu does not unify the prefixes for multiples of a Byte, when in respect of stored data. As far as I know, since 1998 there is a IEC standard that established KiB for representing 2^10 = 1024...

A very good one and readly available in all Ubuntus is Libre Office Draw. You can edit text, images, and so on.

Please, I have the same problema as Adriaan1, and the problem isn`t with the network card but, rather, with System Monitor, which does not show the corresponding traffic. If you`re on a WLan it is...

I've did an update/upgrade, changed repository to "main server", did an update/upgrade again, but I'm still getting



both in my desktop and server. In time, I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on both...

I have generated and installed a self-signed ssl certificate for my Apache-2 server, which serves, together with ZoneMinder, to monitor some security cameras. I am running Uvbuntu 12.04.3 server and...

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and when watching videos from Yutube I get the colors rendering, what seems to me, in negative. Stills render Ok, even in Yutube page, and videos from other sources look...

Have a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI.

I would suggest you to read this post https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI.
I have recently made a similar installation, on a 500 GB disk. My partition scheme was

It is running nicely, with...

SOLVED!
It was my mistake :(. After having tried everithing else, I decided to start all over, repartitionning the disk and so on. When repartionning the disk I found that the partition "/boot" had...

I've been trying to install Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS i386 from a CD-ROM on a Pentium IV 3GHz machine, always with the same problem - it doesn't manage to install linux-image-3.8.0-29-generic.
I...

Thank you bogan. Now I received a precise instruction. I was going thrugh "System Settins/Keyboard", and, obviously could not find the option. Now things are back to normal.
I just can't imagine how...

How can I stop the arrow keys in the keypad moving the mouse pointer? I just can't find, in 12.04 (precise), any option in the keyboard configuration, about this problem. The only key in the keypad...

I believe that your problem is that you do not have a CD drive on your netbook. Try then any of the alternatives presented here:
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I'm not used to VMware, I use VBox, but I would suggest you to check the configuration of your virtual machine. If possible, select a standard VGA display driver to start with. It should solve your...

Finaly! I've wiped out nvidia from my system


~ sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia*

I had to clean up some directories by hand and repeat the "remove". Then I installed a fresh new driver...

Ok Bab1, that's just how I'm working now. I need network-manager because sometimes I have to switch to other networks (contingency or testing purposes).
Anyway, I feel confortable now. Thank you.

Hello Critin,

I did that but I'm using "nvidia-current", which doesn'say much. I've tried other drivers available to synaptic, compatibles with my GEFORCE 8400 GS, without success. I really don't...

This is my case. I am going to remove resolvconf. I like to have full control over my network :)
But I believe that when using DHCP this same protocol cares for configuring everything, including DNS...

Sorry, I thought that the concatenation of my first and second posts in this thread were obvious. What I meant in the second is that all that I was complainning in the first post disapeared when in...

Well, for your knowledge, I have tried to login into the option "Ubuntu 2D" and all came back into control, terminal shows up, and everything else. All that is missing is the "3D decorations". Is it...

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 for a month or so. Probabbly due to the last system update, I am having the following problems:

1. I have lost control over all apps windows. I had configured them to show...

Thank you for your information steel driver. As my desktop is not part of any VPN, just a simple member of a home network with access to the Internet through an ADSL router, can we do things the old...

After upgrading my desktop to Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin I observed that, though I have configured my network connection (cable Ethernet) including a primary DNS server address, which hapens to be...

I have a Dell Vostro 1510 which I upgraded recently with Ubuntu 12.04. Since then, WiFi connections are only enabled if I boot the machine with the hardware switch in the "on" position. If I boot...

Thank you. It did helped and solved my problem.