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i need help installing themes on Ubuntu 10.10 i got to this link [url]http://www.techiesouls.com/2008/11/27/collection-of-50-best-looking-linux-gnomeubuntu-themes-to-download/[/url] after i download the themes files i don't know how to install it.... please someone help me...

Like Linux has GRUB and LILO as bootloaders what is the analogous thing in Windows? Can Any one help how Bootloader works and how is MBR different from GRUB or LILO? and what is its(MBR) Role?

I am going to install Red Hat Fedora Core 2. Any advice?

hi , I have ubuntu 10.4 on cd and I tried to install it the following error occured at the begining : (process:257):GLib-Warning**:getpwuid_r():failed due to unknown user id(0) stdin:error0 plz tell me what to do

hi, i've installed Ubuntu Linux Horay hedghog edition on my computer. it runs perfictally except the sound doesn't work. i've looked all over the forums and found some stuff but none of it worked. anyway, heres my delema, i can't get the sound driver to work, i've tryed ALSA and …

I've been using Mint 8 for a while on my Sony Vaio laptop without any problems. My laptop was recently stolen and I got a new Sony Vaio laptop, model VPCF127FX. I went ahead and installed the newest version of Mint, which is Mint9. Now the touchpad doesn't work and …

I am an it support technician and we recently purchased a dozen Acer vm480g's. When i used my Acronis 9 to image the drive it was successful but when i reboot after completion it errors that it can not find the linux boot kernel. Our image is built on xp …

RedHat5 enterprise when i plugged in an USB thumb drive, redhat automatically mounted to /media i did a "umount /media/driveName" and it went away. i tried to mount it again "mount /dev/sda /mnt/usb" i got """mount: /dev/sda already mounted or /mnt/usb busy"""" i am actually not sure if /dev/sda is …

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Hello everyone, I was trying to install ndiswrapper and the drivers needed to get my laptop working with wireless properly. I never got around to finish installing the drivers although I did install ndiswrapper. I lost my wifi completely and my system doesn't even pick up my card now. It …

Hi all, I hope you are well. I am very new to Ubuntu and I am experiencing occasional screen flickers (the monitor will go black for a split second, then resume as normal). Now, I have tried googling for a solution but I have not found one yet that satisfies …

What is your own experience in installing Fedora Linux Core 2? Is the progress fast?

Hi I will be getting into some linux kernel programming and network internal. Please tell me which is the best Linux distribution to install on my computers for making drastic changes to the TCP/IP stack and making new features, and possibly distributed computing? Drastic changes includes adding new protocols but …

Hello people, I would like to add an extra monitor to my productivity box. But back then I chose a motherboard without built-in graphics, so I only got the two ports provided by my graphics card. I hope you could advice me how I could upgrade my PC to support …

What is the difference between supervisor call and system call?

What do you guys think? I have a ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 in my Laptop. I know in the newer versions of Ubuntu and such, you can no longer use the proprietary driver, which I remember to be fairly good, when it worked at all. However, I know you can …

Hi all, I am new to Ubuntu and if anyone could give me some advice on how I may acquire wireless internet connection on my laptop it would be greatly appreciated. I went to the terminal and typed in "lspci" and my network controller popped up as "Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 …

Hi Friends, I am so tried ti dual boot in my system . i m using windows xp but i m installed new opreating system linux. but i m not installed linux in my system. mu pc configuration. intel chipset dual core. 1gb ram 320 gb hdd pls give me …

I am not an advanced user, but I changed something somewhere and can not see anything after log-in screen for hardy heron. Screen goes blue after enter of password. I did not create a sudo password. can anyone help with this?

I am new to kernel recompilation and building kernels.. Can anyone explain difference between the kernel types smp, non-smp, huge, generic.. How can we identify the type of kernel.. How they are categorize? I am using below kernels and recompiled and loading externel modules also.. but it wasnt successful.. kernel-source-2.6.24.5_smp-noarch-2 …

Two headlines grabbed my attention today. The first proclaiming that Linux sucks while the second announced it was possible to boot into a full Linux OS in less than a single solitary second. Paul Rako [URL="http://www.edn.com/article/CA6720353.html"]reports[/URL] that one company, an embedded-Linux specialist called MontaVista Software, has gone step further than …

Hi frenz , I came across get_user_pages() function . I found that this function is used when the there is no need of kernel buffering (buffer cache ) so the data from the device is directly placed in the userspace . But still i dnt know when and how to …

During runtime when a program asks for a memory block (say, by malloc()), its provided with a block of virtual addresses, say 0x10000000 to 0x1000A00 (for 32 bit). During the execution, other processes are incorporated into the main memory and pages 0x10000000-0x100000A0 are paged out. After some time, the program …

folks, this one has me stuffed!! admittedly I am no techie legend, but I can hold my own... I have beside me a HP pavilion DV5000 that has an XP pro install. the error is is in that during boot it will go all the way to the desktop, show …

Recently I just try to scan using the above model. I use Xsane scanner sofware, it didn't work and than I try simple scan same thing. Nothing come out. But it could tell that this is a printer but not a scanner. So I need help to over come some …

Hi all. Is there a way that I can change the font color of the boot up messages? if so how? (I checked the vidcontrol man page and that only changes the font color after FreeBSD done with boot up) Thanks Mark

Can someone help. I need to find the sco openserver licence version on our server. I tried going into "scoadmin" .... it only gives the licence number... not the version number. I know we are on Openserver 5 but Ima not sure whether it is version 5.2 or 5.4..... :confused:

Ubuntu on win 7 network.( 32 /64) Dell A810 all in one printer on win 7 machine. Ubuntu 10 can see network printer but no driver found (not surprising!) tried generic postscript PCL but wont print....it says its printing job 5 etc but no result! Any suggestions? Ta M

when I install XAMPP on linux fedora 8 appear this message "XAMPP is currently only availably as 64bit application please use a 32bit compatibility library for your system " so what's the solve

Hello, I think it was yesterday, that I turned on my computer and my mouse wasn't working. First, [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread276352.html"]Mozilla Firefox doesn't start [/URL] and then I cannot move the pointer on my screen, I don't think both problems are related, but I might have deleted some file(s) or while removing …