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It is always very difficult to save stupid people from themselves.

oscar799 wrote:Once I'd got rid of the "brownness" Ubuntu was a huge improvement on Vista.
The only problem was that getting all the required media codecs was cumbersome,and not always successful.

"sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras" is not exactly cumbersome.

Sorry, misunderstood your question. Read this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=236093

5.Do we have these kind of software for Mint? i)Internet Download Manager ii)Everything iii)CCleaner iv)Sandboxie etc i) flashgot, dx3, wxdownloadfat - many others ii) many, many search facilities for Linux - I'll let you choose one iii) Computer Janitor - already on the system iv) chroot: already ...

There is a way to sync, but it looks sort of involved - a good project? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Porta ... ces/iPhone

Show us your output to "mc --version" run in a terminal. You should see this: GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.2-pre1 Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish With builtin Editor Using system-installed S-Lang library with terminfo database With subshell support as default With supp...

1) I want to change the font and font size. Edit, Preferences 2) I want to remove the terminal startup funny message http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=845 3) I want to change the contents of the prompt on each line. 4) I want to change the colors in the prompt. http://www.cyberci...

This question has now been asked at least 50 times on this forum:

viewtopic.php?f=42&t=845

Does Ctrl-Alt-Esc work? In many distros that brings up "xkill" the facility you want. If that combo does not work just go to Settings, Keyboard Shortcuts and create a keyboard shortcut combo (preferably Ctrl-ALt-Esc) and attach it to the command "xkill".

double click "Computer" icon, Edit, Preferences, Media and make your choices on that screen.

jhk30: suggest you read this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuEyeCandy
and this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=324119

As I said above you need to run that command BEFORE you insert the floppy disk, then insert the floppy disk, then open the file manager ("Computer" icon), then access the floppy drive and THEN post the messages that will have been written to the terminal.

When I put the quotes around those commands I mean to highlight them - not for you to put the quotes!!!

That really is quite strange - you are correct, nautilus should be showing the partition sizes as do df -h and fdisk -l. Very strange. The only thing I can suggest is go to the Nautilus/Gnome website and their forum/mailing list and see if there is a solution there.

.eml files are Windows Outlook Express email files. You can import and read them with Thunderbird and I think any good email client. You can also just open the .eml with a text editor (gedit) and look at it - it is just a silly MS format text file....

Show us a screenshot of what you mean and also the output to the following commands run from a terminal:

That information is not enough for us to help you because memory usage is quite complex and depends on whether that memory has been cached or buffered or not. My suggestion is to learn to read and understand the "free" command in a terminal ("man free" for more details). This wil...

sszindian wrote:-desktop ~ $ "tail -f/var/log/messages"

You missed the space between the f and the / . See my command above.

Menu, System, Administration, mintUpdate, Edit, Preferences ....uncheck those you do not yet want to update. Or set the check updates to longer intervals (weeks??) and only click the icon when you have time to wait for the updates to complete. Remember, with Linux you can be in control (only if you ...

OK - one last try. Open a terminal, type "tail -f /var/log/messages". Insert a known valid floppy diskette with data on it into the floppy drive. Then open nautilus and try to access the drive. Post to this thread the messages you see in the terminal. Also, with the diskette still loaded s...