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Another question here. I installed Ubuntu (12.04 I thing, the ones with the LT support?), was previously using Windows 7. Now when I boot, I get the option to use Windows 7 or Ubuntu, but when I select Ubuntu nothing happens - just a black screen. I then have to …

Hi all, I'm using crontab on Ubuntu 10.04 and I have had 7 tasks running smoothly for about 6 months. I've now created a new script but for some frustrating reason it will be execute. It's a small task that needs to run every two minutes. The issue doesn't reside …

hello i have this problem with vmware ...it removes my Ubuntu iso file all the time ..i downloaded it (ubuntu iso) in vmware ...and worked on ubuntu normally this week , the same thing exactly last week happened with mint iso ...my whole work is gone !!! thank god i …

I have a desktop with windows 7 and ubuntu 12.04 and a laptop with same ubuntu. My desktop is connected to wired network through ethernet cable through a switch. Is it possible to connect and share The internet of my desktop with my laptop? can I use the switch any …

Hello ALL! I believe this has been posted/discussed in one way or another, but, again: I use Linux now quite long back. Started in late 90s with some ancient SuSE, breaking for couple of years, and then, again, probably with Ubuntu 5.10. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS was so good to me. …

I would like to install some version of Ubuntu or Xbuntu on an old Gateway 466C desktop. New hard drive with intel celeron, 466mhz, 512mb ram, cd-Rom. Forget burning to a DVD. What is the best version that will install on this computer an work? Is this computer too old …

hi Actually I'm a web developer.I intersted to learn android.i want to know how to install complete Android setup in ubuntu.Can u please suggest the best tutorials for Android Development

Hi there, i asked my classmate to install ubuntu in my laptop and it was good, my processor is intel i3 2gb ram and i was dual booted i have also windows starter, the reason why i want ubuntu installed in my laptop is that i feel windows starter is …

Hi everyone, I've just installed ubuntu 10.10 LTS and it is giving me an error that it can't update packages because this version isn't supported anymore. Is there a way of fixing that? If not, I think I'm downgrading to ubuntu 10.4 which will be supported until April 2013. It …

I have a strange problem, I have written a for loop to check a list of words for a match and it is not checking all of the words: I am using two files to check for matched words (Enwords.txt - a list of English words and Encontract.txt - a …

How could I add a external library to the native c++ lirary path at Ubuntu to be found by #include from source code? I have some couple of sources that I try to include them by all the codes written on my machine thus instead of coping all the library …

l recently installed Ubuntu 12 and on first start on Firefox everytime l type google.com on the address bar l am redireted to some funny websites. The websites seem random and this only happens when l type google.com if l type for example daniweb.com it works fine. l am new …

where to download the driver for dell inspiron 4030 ubuntu wireless? ethernet is not also not working :( any help please ...

Hi, I am a new user of Linux, i wanted to learn linux, so i started Ubuntu 12.04 setup. Its setup formatted my hard disk accidentally and I lost all my data and also windows and all partitions. Now I installed ubuntu on same hard disk as i lost my …

Help instaling linux fedore 17 from usb? I have a laptop that came out with windows 7 basic, i installed backtrack 5R2 over it but now i want to install Fedora 17 over backtrack. My laptop doesnt have a CD rom so i use usb. Now when i try to …

**My academic assignmentt ** **Please help me in coding for this assignment** In Linux Ubuntu flavor, write a program in C language to do the following tasks. 1) Use fork ( ) system call to create a child process. 2) Child process should first take student name as input and …

hi. i have a html form that allows user to browse and upload the code using the upload button ( which runs php). the files gets uploaded. now i need to either change that existing php file or add a new button in html file and compile and run the …

Hi, I wanted to get into driver dev. While reading a book on driver dev it was mentioned that it is better to work of a mainline branch from kernel.org instead of a linux patch as they usually change the kernel api? Has anyone had problems do general linux driver …

My crontab states: PATH=/var/www 00 00 * * * php -q /tasks/script1.php */5 * * * * php -q /cycle/script2.php */1 * * * * php -q /tasks/script3.php script 1 doesnt run, but I need to to run every midnight script 2 doesnt run but works fine when executed manually. …

I am trying to put a Western Digital 500 GB HDD into my Dell Inspiron 1011 (which has a 120 GB HDD with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). I was able to exchange the hard drives, and my laptop was able to recognize the HDD, but there was another problem. After the …

I am on dual Boot pc with Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows XP SP3. Hardware Specs: HDD 250GB, RAM 2GB, AMD Athlon X2 How to upgrade Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) to ubuntu-12.10-beta2-desktop-i386?

I cant use a cron for this task as the script should always be running. I have a loop that does the following: 1) Gets a SQL row 2) Runs the values through some functions 3) stores new values 4) gets the next row and repeats This script has to …

Hello all, first time poster here. I've tried searching for a thread which deals with my current problem both here and in Google, but few people seem to need help with PyFluidSynth as compared to Jack, so I am starting a new thread. If anyone knows of another thread where …

Hi, everyone! This is my first post ever here in Daniweb. I experienced a problem in printing the sorted array of 5 numbers, as the following code only prints the first iteration of the loop, and it does not print the array input. Here's the code: section .data i db …

I quit using Windows last year, except occassionally (XP). My hobbies and love is music (playing jazz guitar and using editing software, my favorite programs being Ardour and Audacity) and photography (favorite programs are Darktable, Gimp and Shotwell), using the Linux distros, Ubuntu and Lubuntu, which I am happy with. …

Hello! So I just installed Ubuntu Server 12.04 on my machine. I have the web server and SSH server working, you can acces both from the internet. However, every time I attempt to run update or upgrade commands from SSH, it fails to do so, resulting in a similar error …

If you cannot ping any websites and cannot get updartes or upgrades, you might have a nameserver issue. GI just installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu Server 12.04 and this has been an issue since I installed it. I did not know what to do, but I check the /etc/resolv.conf …

Hey guys. (not sure if I'm posting in the right part of the forum but didn't know where to do it) I have a windows operationg system runing VMware Workstation and on it I have a Ubuntu virtual instance. Is there a way to to install that virtual instance as …

can any body give me the correct syntax of for loop to be used in vi editor in ubuntu..... i know like this....:- for (( initialisation;condition;increment )) do "statements for do" done

My Ubuntu version is 12.04. I'm simply trying to include GL/glu.h in my program, but I get the error: `fatal error: GL/glu.h: No such file or directory` I include it like this: `#include <GL/glu.h>` I have libgl1-mesa-glx-dbg, libgl1-mesa-dev, mesa-common-dev all installed.