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My wife uses Evolution e-mail on her machine. Tonight she tried to e-mail me a file but was unsuccessful. She was repeatedly asked for her SMTP...

Two questions, but I think they have much in common.

1) What is the purpose of the "Public" folder under my
/home/{username} directory?

2) How do I share a folder and its contents between two...

How do I change permissions for my USB thumb drive?

I have an 8-gig drive I'm using to assemble a photo gallery for my mother-in-law. Last night I went to make some adjustments and was informed...

I put my 8 Gb USB drive in the slot tonight to rearrange some pictures (jpg and gif). When I attempted to cut and paste the cut function was not available. I checked the file properties and the files...

That does seem to work. Thank you very much!

After more (all night) poking around I have determined that CUPS is not "disappearing" but is not restarting after rebooting. I can restart Cups with the terminal command
"sudo /etc/init.d/cups...

Further information:

I am running CUPS 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.1 .

Browsing through my startup logs I found that the cups server was not found, but the printer was recognized by the USB system.

I...

Firefox says it cannot connect to http://localhost:631

Firefox cannot connect to http://localhost:631

leoquant: Yes, this is after updating to 9.10

First, I've been gone for the holiday so I apologize for taking so long to reply.
I edited .../cupsd.conf as suggested. Then I tried to print a few...

Following a blank error_log file I have six .tar.gz files that appear to represent the error logs for the last six installs of cups. Here's the latest one. The others are similar.

I recently upgraded to 9.10 form 9.4. I have a simple HP LaserJet 5p on USB. This printer has worked reliably, and works now -- sometimes.

It appears that CUPS disappears regularly after printing....

I recently added my grandson to the user accounts on my home computer and switched to a face browser log in screen to make it easier for him to log in.

My wife and I both have accounts on this...

have you tried simply taking a screenshot?

If you have the 'gnome-utils' package installed (through synaptic) you can go to 'Applications -> Accessories -> Take Screenshot' and open a nifty...

I was updating my system this evening when I received the following error messages:

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the...

What software would you recommend to backup a single 2-user computer?
i will be backing up to a USB thumb drive. I am using 9.04 on a Dell AMD64 .

Thanks.

Honeywell 6000 mainframe in the basement of the School of Business at the University of Kansas in 1974. ((This machine replaced the one that was destroyed by a bomb set by anti-war terrorists during...

I feel like I'm a candidate for "Dumb and Dumber".

I misspelled my computer name. How can I fix this?

Thanks!

http://www.getdeb.net/ has Ubuntu software

This is the result of my "aptitude search flash" command:

p flashblock - mozilla extension that replaces flash elem
i flashplugin-installer - Adobe Flash Player...

How do I share files between users on a multi-user machine?

Will someone please tell me where I can find gstreamer0.10-pitfdll
for the AMD64.

Can anyone recommend a graphics viewer similar to IrfanView that i used in windows?
http://www.irfanview.com/
I need the ability to rotate, resize and CROP in a simple viewer. I find that the crop...

Thanks

I was confusing Sabayon, the distro, with Sabayon the user manager.
Ive got it working now

how do I get Sabayon to work in 9.04?

I've tried the PPA, etc but nothing seems to work.