Ubuntu :: Re Purposing 8-year Old PC?
Feb 7, 2011
Re purposing 8-year old PC, recommendations on what desktop environment. Bit of a newbie to the scene, but I've been tinkering for a while with Ubuntu/linux.
The machine is an AMD AthlonXP 2700+ with 1.5GB of memory and an nvidia 6600GT. I have Ubuntu 10.04 on it right now with the standard gnome environment that came with it, but it is slow and terribly laggy. I was looking at XFCE and LXDE. I know either would work, was looking for pros/cons, ect.
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Feb 14, 2010
searching broadcom ubuntu in google results in a thread that is five years old. has there been any changes? i still cannot set up my 4 year old laptop's wireless to run and i have just about given up. why should i spend my valuable time getting something that is suppose to work when i could just run windows 7 and be done with it. now this is coming from a 4 year old laptop, has anything changed? i want to hear yes but i know that wireless support in linux is absolutely atrocious and sickening, even more than 4 years ago since wireless is now the norm and linux refuses to give proper attention to wireless drivers.
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Nov 15, 2010
Does anybody know where the "pay-per-year-instead-of-per-month-botton" is located. I can't find it
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Jan 27, 2011
I want to have the year displayed in my ubuntu calendar next to the clock on the upper right corner of the gnome desktop (see screenshot). [URL]. The context menu of the gnome calendar does only allow to set the additional display of seconds, but not the YEAR!
Here is a related pots that raised this issue for me:
HOWTO: Set Gnome Calendar First Day of Week [URL]
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May 13, 2010
I use an email program that shows the date as, 10-4-26.....which means the year 2010 (10) April (4) 26th day.
How do I change the date format so that it's- Month-Day-Year?
I want this changed system wide so all dates are shown in the format I want.
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Apr 16, 2011
I want to start some C++ development on my 3 year old, un-updated 8.04 ubuntu desktop machine. I tried,sudo apt-get install build-essentialand got,
Code:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
[code].....
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Dec 5, 2010
I updated my Ubuntu Desktop systems (2x 10.10 and 1x 10.04) within the last 2 days. After the update, the "clock" applet in the panel has stopped showing the year! Here is how it appears now:
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Feb 3, 2011
I just migrated to Ubuntu 10.04 from windows and I could not be more satisfied, except for one minor, nitpicky detail. In iTunes I was able to sort my music by "album by year". That is, my music was sorted primarily by artist, then by album year. So each artist had their albums listed in chronological order. My library is meticulously tagged, so every track on every album is tagged with the same YEAR value. Is this possible in Rhythmbox? Is there a plugin or will i have to edit a .conf file (or similar) somewhere? I'm new to Ubuntu, but not afraid of getting my hands a bit dirty, so to speak.
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Sep 24, 2010
Possible Duplicate:How do I delete files greater than a certain date on linux How to delete all files in current directory and it`s sub directories older than one year ?
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Feb 24, 2011
I have a script: Code: #!/bin/bash
THEYEAR=2011
LASTYEAR=$(($THEYEAR - 1))
echo $THEYEAR
echo $LASTYEAR I get:
[Code]...
THEYEAR is correct but then I get a line space and then a -1 for LASTYEAR. I can't figure out why.
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Apr 16, 2010
i just need to make copy files have 2 year old to another directory i know how to use cp command but i am not able to do that
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Oct 22, 2010
How to find files which is modifed 01 year before, with size detail
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Sep 21, 2010
I am running ubuntu on several computers. One in particular runs mythbuntu and is a mythtv server and frontend.
I do the ubuntu upgrade every 6 months so that I can gain the new features and enhancements included in mythtv.
My issue is that with each upgrade seems to come more issues. For instance, this time I upgraded to the latest and greatest and now mythtv crashes every day or two. Also, since vdpau was added to the new nvidia drivers, i am unable to get it to work.
So my question is: Is it normal for you guys to do a complete reinstall when you want to go to a new version of your linux flavor of choice.
It seems that the new ubuntu (really mythbuntu) is very stable and never crashes, but it just seems to me that once you start running a few programs, they just don't upgrade well.
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May 21, 2010
on the mac there is a piece of software to change the system clock so it shows the stardate instead of the month, day and year. Is there something like that for Ubuntu? I think it would be pretty cool to have a star trek themed desktop
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Feb 20, 2010
I am trying to install Fedora 12 on a 3 year old Dell Demension 1100. It only has a CD reader so I bought a 5 CD set and proceeded to install. Everything works fine until the end of the initial part of the installation where it asks to reboot the computer, the program says it has installed correctly. On rebooting the command line appears and asks for localhost log in. Problem is during the installation the program didn't ask for a user name only a root password. I am unable to access this and there are still another 4 CD's to go.
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Jan 31, 2011
How to find and list files and directories present the current directory which were created in, say, years 2005, 2006, and 2009 and then move them to some other location, for example, /backup. Yes, I need to list them and move simultaneously. We can use:
Code:
find . -mtime n {};
but that n is troublesome for me to figure out files/directories created in years 2005, 2006, and 2009, for instance. Is there any way to match exactly by Year Value rather than calulating the "n" (days * 24 Hours)?
System Info:
SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
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Jul 24, 2010
Today I tried to compress some folders containing backup files from last year. I right-clicked on the folders and selected compress as tar.gz. I let it work, and found that hours later, the folders were still compressing. How long is it supposed to take, anyway? I was trying to compress the two sets of backups simultaneously; together they're around 1.5 GB. They have many subdirectories.
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Jan 25, 2010
I have a script that moves files from one directory to another, based on the numeric date of the file name (i.e., 20091212 would go to the December directory). Now, since this script will be ran at the beginning of the following month (December's files to be tarred and gzipped will be performed the first day of January, and January's in February, etc.), it appears to me that the script will be tricky when it comes time to do the December files in January.
Here's part of the script:
Code:
# Define working directory and target directory.
DIR=/var/log
target=$DIR/month
hostname='uname -n' .....
I can't seem to figure out a way to carry the output of the date command to the next command, and the year for the December files will always be wrong.
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Apr 13, 2010
I don't use office apps often and I'm using Open Office to put donations entries into a yearly statement for a non profit organization, and I can't figure out how to do a year-to-date column that will sum each line to the lines before it.How would I accomplish the year-to-date column using a formula, to add the previous year to date and the amount.
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Jul 1, 2011
In the MySQL database for one of my programming projects, I used a "YEAR(4)", because I wanted the column to contain four-digit year values. I discovered, though, that this type only allows values from 1901 to 2155, which is not workable as some year values are previous to the twentieth century. But I do not want a "DATE" type because the month and day are of no interest to me. What type should I convert to that would be the least radical change in data type, while giving more range?
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Jan 21, 2011
The copyright year in the newest Fedora download shows still 2010. A screenshot has been attached along with this note. Just thought I would bring the same to Fedora Installation Support team.
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Apr 20, 2010
This is on an old machine that is running Solaris 7. I know that I can run the command script 'last' to get a list of who has logged in. When I do that I get a very long list of lines like:
username pts/4 100.32.11.123 Wed Dec 6 18:30 - 18:40 (00:09)
I see that the year is not posted. I have about 11 years worth of logins where users have logged in multiple times over several years.
So, here is what I need: I only need the date of the very last time a person logged in. I also need the year of that last login.
script that will do this? Something with output like
username1 pts/4 100.32.11.123 Wed Dec 6 2005 18:30 - 18:40 (00:09)
username2 pts/4 110.33.11.18 Tue Apr 20 2009 8:30 - 9:30 (01:00)
username3 pts/4 10.32.11.18 Mon Jun 12 2008 1:30 - 2:40 (01:10)
username4 pts/4 110.33.12.19 Sat Oct 10 2001 00:12 - 00:13 (00:01)
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Jan 31, 2011
I have a folder of 2 many files that the old ls just hangs.
I am trying to write some log files such as;
I don't mind doing one at a time, but I am just playing and even getting the listing I am not getting the date stamp, I have the following;
That does create the file, but all the files look like this;
So basically it's just sticking that ls inside the log file and not actually running the ls, so how can I use the above type to get files just created per year?
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Jan 26, 2011
Thunderbird is becoming quite slow. Startup, response to actions and especially the address lookup as I'm typing an email address.
It gets so slow sometimes on my Ubuntu 10.04 laptop that the screen goes dark.
Can anyone know how I can start diagnosing this to figure out what's wrong?
This is TB 3.1.7 on Ubuntu 10.04. Not sure what else to post.
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Mar 20, 2009
My work reponsibilities now include a new server running Centos 5.2 on a Dual Xeon Dell server machine with Raid 1 on 2 160Gb disks, but I have no experience of Linux, let alone Centos.I figured I'd download an image and load it on a spare machine just so I could get used to the OS and try things out without risking my live server. My only available spare at present is a Toshiba laptop from 2000 (it was top of the range at the time, but probably looks bad compared to my pocket smartphone now).My questions are:
a) Is it feasible to load Centos on this old donkey of a laptop? Would I struggle to find the right drivers, etc., or is it all contained in the distribution?
b) Assuming it runs, would the differences between the two implementations significantly affect my learning experience?
c) Assuming the two are similar enough to make the laptop a useful reference/staging/learning tool, where do I start? I've already downloaded an ISO image for LiveCD (i386) and burned it to a CD but the CD doesn't seem to have anything I recognise. Windows (both Vista and XP) treats it like any data CD and shows no autorun behaviour with it.
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Jan 17, 2010
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Feb 10, 2011
Interesting uh? For example, 2 days ago's date is 2011 Feb 8th. This is not a homework...
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Apr 4, 2011
i want in the website they ask to enter some input.Code:echo -e "<p>Please Enter Year : c</p> "read Yearif i use this command it will ask the user to enter year in command. but what i want is they ask the user to enter year in web browser.
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Jun 29, 2010
I'm new to Linux, so I decided to try using Wubi to get started. THe problem is, when it finished installing 10.04, I got this message: OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'C:\ubuntu\install\ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso' Is there any way around this? It might just be that overly restrictive thing called Vista (which I have the bad luck to be using). I was considering getting a USB drive for Ubuntu anyway..
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Apr 11, 2011
I recently got interested with with OS.. So I downloaded wubi in Ubuntu website. I opted for the Ubuntu Netbook Edition as am using a lappy. However, halfway through finishing download I got an error. The log shows:
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'C:\ubuntu\install\ubuntu-10.10-netbook-i386.iso'
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