I'm creating a webpage right now and am wondering if it is possible to input a command in HTML that will open an installed Ubuntu app like Chromium, or a terminal window, or Nautilus.
Is something like this possible? Thanks!
I am having serious problems with my computer right now. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Here is the story :)
Looking for speed I decided to install Ubuntu 10.04 LTS about two months ago. It was working great for a month. Absolutely no problems. It was fast while using and it booted up and shut down incredibly fast too. After realizing some PPAs just dont support 10.04 anymore and wont ever again, I decided to upgrade to 12.04 LTS. Everything went smooth. Upgrade was fine. Then I noticed boot problems a few days later. Lots of error messages. Sometimes the hard drive would "decide" on its own to go into read only mode while I was using the computer throughout the day. I couldnt save files any longer, I couldnt save open tabs in browsers, I couldnt copy files, I could not open programs, etc. In short, the computer or the hard drive went "read only" on me. I noticed more problems on boot. For example, sometimes It would just never boot up. It might go to a grub> prompt or not even get that far.
One of the errors I always see on boot is this... an ata4 error message...
ata4.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
This became crippling for me. I could no longer get things done if I could get the computer to boot up at all.
Originally wanting Ubuntu 10.04 for its speed and stability, I played around with a few other OSes like Xubuntu, Lubuntu & Mint, but settled on the new Elementary OS Luna still in beta. Install went great. Used it for a couple days, then the dreaded read only hard drive problem started up again. Now I can barely boot up into my system. (Im using it now and trying to type fast in case it goes into read only mode!). Here is a reoccurring error grouping that happens on just about every boot. Essentially I see if the computer can get passed the errors it will boot, if it cant it goes to grub or locks up.
http://paste.ubuntu.com/5576745/
In short:
- 10.04 worked flawlessly
- 12.04 had all sorts of problems
- Elementary OS Luna (newest beta) same problems
Not sure where to go from here on this. Ive read so many forums and pages and comments about this type of error message. From changing the hard drive cable, to changing the hard drive, to running all sorts of terminal commands.
Any ideas would be so helpful. Thank you so much!
PS... if I cant figure this out, Im considering re-installing Ubuntu 10.04 and see if it runs stable again. That would be very interesting indeed.
PPS... Disk Utility shows SMART Status of my hard drive as HEALTHY
I was having problems reading all files on an extra hard drive so I attempted to "fix" this with these commands as root:
chown dave:dave /media/250GB
chmod 644 * /media/250GB
I'm now unable to see the drive and mount it in my Nautilus shortcuts and I need to go into Nautilus → File System → media → 250GB to see my files. I had two folders in the drive both with backed up data, but both folder now show as files which Nautilus doesn't know what to do with them (it doesn't treat them as folders).
ls -l reports:
...:/media/250GB$ ls -l
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2013-01-23 19:24 2013-HOME-BACKUP
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2013-01-23 19:22 2013-WORK-BACKUP
The title sums it up. Right now I know I can sync my Android memos with a Gmail account. It puts them in a Notes folder (aka a label) on Gmail. But now Im unsure how to go from gmail to Evolution.
Evolution gives me two options in the Memo list creation. I can either do "CalDAV" and input a server, user, path or do "On The Web" with a URL and a username.
Any easy way to do this? Im thinking to find a static URL to my notes folder in gmail as something I can use for creating a Memo list in Evolution.
Thanks for any help!
This looks like a nice printer I came across at a local store. Its the "Kodak 7.1 Hero". I cannot seem to find if this will work on Ubuntu and if drivers are easily obtainable? The official site only says "windows & mac", but I have seen a YouTube video showing the google cloud printing feature working in Ubuntu. The video was in German so I couldnt make sense of it. Ive also check the open printers website and no info there.
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
Several years now I have been unable to get my Canon 8600F scanner working in Ubuntu. Does anyone know of a way to make this work?
There is another very similar scanner that is fully supported (the 8800F). Is there any way to hack that particular driver to use with my 8600?
Thanks for any tips or tricks!
Please help! Ive transferred a few songs to my iPhone 3G 8GB phone using a variety of apps. Rhythmbox and also gtkpod. Both transfer the songs to my cell just fine, but when I try to view them on the phone... they don't show. They must be there, because if I plug the phone into another computer I can see the songs and transfer them to the computer using Rhythmbox.
My drive time to work just went from 15 minutes one way to an hour and half and talk radio is killing me :) Id really appreciate any tips I could do to get my songs showing on the phone. I have the iPhone software update 5.0 so its fairly new.
I have done a few tips from other questions like installing libimobiledevice, but to no avail.
Recently, the games on Pogo.com stopped working with Sun Java in Ubuntu 10.10. I have my dad running 64bit Ubuntu 10.10 because it works fine for him and he has had no reason for an upgrade (and didnt like Unity).
He loves Pogo and plays the slots games on there regularly. Ive had Sun Java 6 installed and all worked fine until recently. I attempted an upgrade to the new Oracle Java but Pogo games still dont work.
Pogo games have historically not worked with OpenJDK and IcedTea , but I notice they (the pogo games) work GREAT (and fast) on Ubuntu 11.10 with the newest versions of OpenJDK/IcedTea.
Ive attempted to install an OpenJDK PPA for 10.10 but it does not make use of the newest versions that are available in 11.10.
I am looking for any tips on what I can do next. Any help completely appreciated!
My options I see available to me right now are:
- force install of newest OpenJDK somehow on 10.10
- try installing Firefox & Sun Java in WINE and see if Pogo games work there.
- upgrade his computer to 11.10
Im finally using Unity in Ubuntu 11.10. (yay!) I notice when I have some apps open, be it a PDF file, a doc file, a not commonly used app program, etc they are at the bottom of my Unity bar. Is there any way i can have all open apps appear at the top of my Unity bar? TIA.
I was previously running 10.10 on my Acer Aspire laptop. It has Intel GMA 4500M integrated graphics and worked just fine. Great display, sharp, crisp, etc.
I decided to do a fresh install of 11.10 Oneiric and now am having problems. Originally I was getting the dreaded blank screen where the brightness was turned almost completely off. Some searching pulled up several easy fixes (editing GRUB).
Right now I am still having one issue. The screen resolution is stuck at a max of 1024x768 giving me a distorted screen.
Is there any way to fix this issue? I've Googled, searched Ask Ubuntu and also spent time on the forums looking for a solution. Thus far, nothing. Apparently, was and still is a concern in Natty?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My sister is looking for any linux slot machine games. She has pretty much tapped out all of the Chrome Apps slot games. Any other suggestions that are maybe installable with a DEB perhaps? Thanks!
I am having a problem with one of my desktop computers not connecting to the wired network when I first turn it on in the morning. After a restart, the wired network works fine. Any suggestions I could try to get this working?
Thanks!
I am looking for some easy to install text to speech software for Ubuntu that sounds natural. I've installed Festival, Gespeaker, etc., but nothing sounds very natural. All very synthetic and hard to understand.
Any recommendations out there?
I am trying to help a friend get set up with Ubuntu and want to recommend Wubi for his install (he is not very computer savvy). I had recently tried the Wubi download from Ubuntu.com and the only option it gave me was to install Natty.
Is there any way I can get Wubi to install 10.10 Maverick? Preferably just the EXE file, not having to download an entire disc image as the friend has no idea how to burn discs.
Thanks much!
Im running the Ubuntu One nightlies PPA on my 10.10 Meerkat installation. It works great on my home desktop and on my laptop, but at work I did an update the other day that updated the Ubuntu One packages and now U1 no longer works on my work computer. Any way to downgrade, roll back, or fix this?
Here are the files that my home system is trying to update (if it helps any)...
Im not updating these since U1 works fine at home! :)
Does anyone have an experience with Ubuntu that is no longer reading discs in the DVD drive? This is my first time Ubuntu does not see the disc :| The disc is fine and works on my other Ubuntu computers.
The drive is there and powered. I can even type in eject in a terminal and the drive will open. Using the command: sudo lshw -C disk I am able to see info about my drive too. Actually BOTH of my internal DVD drives cannot read discs anymore. If the output is not readable below, here is the info in pastebin.
*-cdrom:0
description: DVD writer
product: DVD_RW ND-3500AG
vendor: _NEC
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom1
logical name: /dev/cdrw1
logical name: /dev/dvd1
logical name: /dev/dvdrw1
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
version: 2.1B
serial: [_NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG2.1B06022300BT-LIGGY
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
*-cdrom:1
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: CDDVDW SH-S222A
vendor: TSSTcorp
physical id: 0.1.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.1.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/scd1
logical name: /dev/sr1
version: SB01
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
I have several MIDI files on my computer. They ALL play fine on 10.10 or earlier, but in 11.04 Natty maybe only about 50% of them play. Totem will recognize all the files in Natty and even show track time and show the song playing, but no audio. Anyone care to venture why some MIDI files work and some dont in Natty? The same files work fine on 10.10 and a 10.04 system.
I'm noticing all of my computers with Natty cannot read DVDs that I have burned using Natty. Does anyone else have this problem? I can put the DVD or CD into a Maverick system and it will read the disc. But Natty systems I have cannot read anything I've burned using Natty.
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Is there a Unity-like global menu applet for gnome-panel?
I know this is an odd question. I like the top and bottom panels of Ubuntu Classic, but I also like the Natty app bar as well. Is there a way to blend the two? I know... why do I need the bottom bar if I have the app bar? Old ways die hard, thats why :) I also like the old top panel feature of "Applications | Places | System" ... yet all that said, Id like to have the new dock (ok, not dock, but Natty app bar).
I would think this blending of old and new would be a great way to transition long time users who are, uhhhh, nervous of change :)
Any tips or ideas? Thanks!