My daughter reads a lovely ebook on her iPhone. I wonder if it is possible to transfer this ebook to my laptop so I can read the ebook as well.
I am using Ubuntu 12.04
I reinstalled windows on the laptop of my daughter. Before doing this we made a copy of her music, pictures and so on on an external drive which was formatted in NTFS. Unfortunately, the folder we created for the backup was empty (I checked after I reinstalled windows). Today a miracle happened, as suddenly the data were back but when I tried to copy them to another place they disappeared again. Checking the external drive with disk utility I got the message "filesystem is not clean". Is there a way to recover the data? Preferred solution would be a tool with a gui. The drive I need to repair is formatted in NTFS and is connected via usb to laptop.
I am working on a kernel panic issue.
As Ubuntu is very reliant on internet, I am currently investigating how to connect to internet when choosing recovery mode. Even in my healthy 11.10 system it doesnt work (nor wireless, nor wired). I ticked for both cases available for all users.
Normally, in recovery mode the netroot option should give you access to the internet, but no joy. Any idea?
I have a starter which I would like to add to the launcher. When I move the starter from the dash to the launcher, it will be added but you cant see anything as the symbol of the starter is lost. The empty space that represents the launcher can be used to start the script. Any ideas how to keep the symbol?
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 Unity and I am getting more and more convinced by the concept of unity. My launcher is set to hide when covered by a window and to show up when the mouse pointer hid the left.
However, once in a while when my mouse pointer hits the left nothing happens. Tipping two times the super button (unfortunately) displaying a windows logo the launcher is back to work. Any way to solve the problem or to hunt down the issue? I tried all possible settings in dconf editor, compiz config manager and whatsoever.
I like to play around with themes and icons to make my desktop looking more lovely. Can I use the themes and icons also for Unity 3D/2D, or what do I have to look for to know when and how I have to use them?
I had problems with my HP deskjet d1360 in Ubuntu 11.10. To resolve the issue I downloaded the hplip from the HP website. By this a new printer entry was created, which works. Unfortunately the broken entry is still there and is selected as default everytime I print. How to remove the broken entry?
When pressing the super button the dash opens. It will always open in the home format. On the bottom you can choose between different lenses, the second one being the application lens with filter functionality. Is there a possibility to set the application lens as the default when opening the dash?
Depending on the application that is running when I open the dash it is sometimes nearly impossible to read the icons due to the transparency of the dash background. Is there a way to change the transparency?
When waking up from sleep my laptop immediately connects to the wlan after I run the command iwlist eth1 scanning in the terminal.
I tried to add the command to
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.de/55NetworkManager
and to
/etc/pm/sleep.d/10_Grub-common
but no joy.
Is there a command that will give you a feedback that the script was initiated, so I can be sure that the script is running but not working as it should?
After upgrading to ubuntu 11.10 my screen locks after resuming from suspend. Unticking autolock in gconfig doesnt work anymore. Any ideas?
Jupiter is a powersaving applet, which can switch between maximum power, high power and save power. Definitely it does more than just setting the CPU speed, as the recommendations of powertop change at least when in High Power mode or Save Power mode. The main page of Jupiter claims that kernel settings are tweaked for powersaving. Does anybody know which tweaks are applied by Jupiter?
My wifes computer is running ubuntu 10.04. Since several days the running programs are not displayed on the panel. With alt tab you can still switch between open programs. Any idea what happened?
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Playing VCDs on Ubuntu
For playing vcd in UBUNTU somebody proposed to use gxine. However gxine doesn't start. When trying to start it from terminal, the response is:
/usr/bin/gxine.real: error while loading shared libraries:
libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
VLC doesnt work for me as when I choose the cd it cant read the MRL.
Any idea?
Webupd8 reported this power management fix for the 2.6.38 Linux kernel regression:
Add the following to the boot grub line "pcie_aspm=force"
My question - how does this suggested fix differ from this hint from powertop:
Suggestion: Enable Device Power Management by pressing the P key, which execute the following action:
find /sys/devices/pci* -path "*power/control" -exec bash -c "echo auto > '{}'" \;
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sudo & redirect output
These are suggestions given by powertop to save energy:
echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
echo 1 > /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save
However, I cannot execute them from terminal even as sudo. Ideas?
I have an external hd, which is not really healthy (several sectors not readable). I guess thats the reason I have some corrupt
files
I want to delete these files and found Icant delete any file on this even the properties show that I am entitled to do so.
any advice? I opened natilus as sudo, no change.
Can somebody explain me what is the advantage to build something like unity from source?
I installed the sensor applet in Ubuntu 11.04 to check the temperature. Everything works fine; however, changes I make to the preferences are lost after every restart. How can I save my setup?
I installed Grub customizer. Unfortunetly I unticked search for other OS. This action worked and gub-update shows only the current ubuntu 11.04 (I have also Windows and another ubuntu installed). Afterwards I ticked the "search for other OS" again, but still grub-update shows only my ubuntu 11.04. Does anybody know how to "teach" grub to look again for other OS?