Questions about Ubuntu, a free and open source operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
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I'm pretty sure ext3 is the default, but I've used ext4 for years with no troubles at all. ext4 is made to increase storage size and increase performance of the filesystem. Overall, I've has really go …
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Like it was said in the comments above, the only sure way of making sure that none of your private info is on the disk is to simply reinstall Ubuntu. It will take a whole 20ish minutes but it's well w …
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You can always use VNC or a remote desktop viewer to log into your computer from afar.
As for power consumption you don't need your screen, and you can remove your GPU once everything is set up. Als …
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I'm not 100% sure on this one and don't have time to test it in a VM, however my educated guess would be that no, there are no fixes in the image.
Integrating fixes into the .iso would require nightl …
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The only way I can currently think of is:
Getting a good hotkey editor (I think Ubuntu has this built in)
Write small scripts that will be run by each command. For instance set F1 in the hotkey prog …
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VisualBoyAdvance on Ubuntu (CLI) — stuck at 85% speed
I've installed VisualBoyAdvanced from the Ubuntu repos and loaded my ROM into the game. However, when I play I can't get it to go at regular speed, it's stuck at 85% throttle. I've tried manually sett …
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I ran into this a while back and this article helped me out alot:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=383505
A user suggests to use SCP
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According to this the kernel doesn't like itself. Based on what you've said, I feel like your hard drive might be to blame. Is it old? Do you have a spare to test on?
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What browser are you using? Chrome?
I've seen issues like this before and it's always to do with Facebook and not an end user. Just look at this: http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id= …
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Alright I finally figured out how to fix this, however I still don't know WHY is was so slow. The ROM has to be called with VisualBoyAdvance like this:
VisualBoyAdvance --flash-128k --throttle=100 -- …
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You could always hit Alt+F2 and type killall <name>
Where <name> is the name of the application and can use wildcards. For example, to kill chrome:
killall google*
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Try burning a live cd of another linux distro and booting from that. Then you could check your disk for errors and maybe even repair/reinstall GRUB.
I would do this before thinking hardware, as that …
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When all else fails, use the terminal.
Try asking for some info on the file
$ file tw.pol
Open it in vi (emacs if you must)
$ vim tw.pol
A quick google search tells me that .pol is a file exten …
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The root password (sudo) is the password you set when you installed Ubuntu or whatever else if you changed it. Open a terminal in Ubuntu and type su. That will ask you for a password which you can kee …
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If you're trying to restore back to factory settings (ie, back to a clean Ubuntu), your best bet is to boot in recovery mode and save your data on another disk/partition and reinstall Ubuntu. The proc …
