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I am a Windows7 user who know next to nothing about Linux.
Every "once in a while" I try out some Linux Live-CDs to get a glimpse of the kind of onscreen environment other people are using every day.
And I have kept wondering:
If Kubuntu is based on Ubuntu, then why can't I have both? (and toggle between the two?)
Is it technically totally impossible? Or is it more of a: "The Kubuntu people dislikes the Ubuntu interface and therefore block it"? --
89.9.197.179 (
talk)
03:45, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
~/.xinitrc
and run startx -- :1
and a number of other approaches. ¦
Reisio (
talk)
12:37, 20 August 2012 (UTC)#ubuntu
' in a tab at the top, you're in the right place. I'm guessing you can either click on your user name somewhere in the panel (top right?) to switch users, or you might have to run gconftool-2 -type bool -set /apps/gnome-screensave/user_switch_enabled true
from a terminal (CTRL+ALT+t) and then switch from the screensaver after locking (sorry GNOME changed this recently and I haven't kept track, you can probably lock from one of those menus somewhere). The KDE package is called kubuntu-desktop
, you can install it from your package manager as usual. ¦
Reisio (
talk)
00:10, 21 August 2012 (UTC)I'm looking for a reference architectural model for a typical home Wi-Fi router. It may be in the form of a functional block diagram with sufficient granularity/details. I need something that will help me reason about the workings (and limitations) of home routers. In my mental model, a home router implements a wired LAN and a wireless LAN, and the two are connected by a bridge; I'm not sure if a real device actually behaves like that. There are a few other things I want to figure out. Having a good and correct model goes a long way. Thanks in advance for your help. -- 98.114.98.196 ( talk) 04:14, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, My OST File damage due to virus attack, so i am not open this OST file in proper way. So i want convert OST file to PST file, please help me...... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krisdonaldo ( talk • contribs) 10:11, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Did microsoft pay people working at netscape to sabotage their own product? Thanks. Rich ( talk) 15:35, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
I need to know which is the actual video recording bitrate of the 650d Someone know if there is magic lantern support for it in this moment? Thank you Iskánder Vigoa Pérez 15:51, 20 August 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iskander HFC ( talk • contribs)
and what about the video bitrate recording?? thank you for answer — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iskander HFC ( talk • contribs) 16:11, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
The National Nuclear Security Administration posts PDF files online as a response to Freedom of Information Act requests. Almost all of them have at least one page that triggers an error in any program I use to view them. Acrobat specifically says "Insufficient data for an image."
Here is an example of a file which triggers this: http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/sites/default/files/nnsa/foiareadingroom/RR00507.pdf
Page 1 of that file always gives me the above error. I've tried using pdftk to extract the page and uncompress it — it seems to have lots of binary data in it. But nothing can process it — not Acrobat, not Preview, not ImageMagick. The best any of them do is silently throw an error and load a blank page. It shouldn't be blank; it probably ought to look like this, more or less. (Note that page 2 of that second file throws the error, as does page 4, 6, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23, and 26. These are rampant errors — nearly a third of the pages in that PDF are unreadable.)
Can anyone take a look at the page and/or file to figure out what's likely wrong with it? It's something systemic to the NNSA's PDFs, and I'd be curious (heck, maybe even they'd be curious) as to what it's origin is. There would be something deliciously disturbing about the idea of them (the guardians of the nuclear secrets) having some kind of virus or corrupt hard drive or something. -- Mr.98 ( talk) 21:38, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Could anyone suggest as to why an (apparently) brand new unscratched/unmarked factory-pressed audio CD might play through absolutely fine in my regular stereo, yet have one track on it that glitches and skips in the same place every time when played in my PC's (Windows XP) DVD-RAM drive? I've tried different audio player software but it does it on all of them. Also, if I try to rip the track to mp3 using iTunes (with error correction enabled) the resultant file has mess in exactly the same places. Is there anything you can think of that I could try, without installing another CD drive (because I don't have one handy at present) that might fix this issue? -- Kurt Shaped Box ( talk) 22:09, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Track 25
Filename F:\Downloads\25 Track25.wav
Suspicious position 0:02:20 Suspicious position 0:02:34 Suspicious position 0:02:47 Suspicious position 0:03:13 Suspicious position 0:03:33 Suspicious position 0:03:52 Suspicious position 0:04:05 Suspicious position 0:04:08 - 0:04:11 Suspicious position 0:04:13 - 0:04:18 Suspicious position 0:04:20 Suspicious position 0:04:22
Peak level 99.4 % Extraction speed 0.1 X Track quality 94.6 % Copy CRC 9B604574 Copy finished
There were errors
End of status report
The top is unscratched as well as the bottom? ¦ Reisio ( talk) 00:21, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
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I am a Windows7 user who know next to nothing about Linux.
Every "once in a while" I try out some Linux Live-CDs to get a glimpse of the kind of onscreen environment other people are using every day.
And I have kept wondering:
If Kubuntu is based on Ubuntu, then why can't I have both? (and toggle between the two?)
Is it technically totally impossible? Or is it more of a: "The Kubuntu people dislikes the Ubuntu interface and therefore block it"? --
89.9.197.179 (
talk)
03:45, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
~/.xinitrc
and run startx -- :1
and a number of other approaches. ¦
Reisio (
talk)
12:37, 20 August 2012 (UTC)#ubuntu
' in a tab at the top, you're in the right place. I'm guessing you can either click on your user name somewhere in the panel (top right?) to switch users, or you might have to run gconftool-2 -type bool -set /apps/gnome-screensave/user_switch_enabled true
from a terminal (CTRL+ALT+t) and then switch from the screensaver after locking (sorry GNOME changed this recently and I haven't kept track, you can probably lock from one of those menus somewhere). The KDE package is called kubuntu-desktop
, you can install it from your package manager as usual. ¦
Reisio (
talk)
00:10, 21 August 2012 (UTC)I'm looking for a reference architectural model for a typical home Wi-Fi router. It may be in the form of a functional block diagram with sufficient granularity/details. I need something that will help me reason about the workings (and limitations) of home routers. In my mental model, a home router implements a wired LAN and a wireless LAN, and the two are connected by a bridge; I'm not sure if a real device actually behaves like that. There are a few other things I want to figure out. Having a good and correct model goes a long way. Thanks in advance for your help. -- 98.114.98.196 ( talk) 04:14, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, My OST File damage due to virus attack, so i am not open this OST file in proper way. So i want convert OST file to PST file, please help me...... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krisdonaldo ( talk • contribs) 10:11, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Did microsoft pay people working at netscape to sabotage their own product? Thanks. Rich ( talk) 15:35, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
I need to know which is the actual video recording bitrate of the 650d Someone know if there is magic lantern support for it in this moment? Thank you Iskánder Vigoa Pérez 15:51, 20 August 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iskander HFC ( talk • contribs)
and what about the video bitrate recording?? thank you for answer — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iskander HFC ( talk • contribs) 16:11, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
The National Nuclear Security Administration posts PDF files online as a response to Freedom of Information Act requests. Almost all of them have at least one page that triggers an error in any program I use to view them. Acrobat specifically says "Insufficient data for an image."
Here is an example of a file which triggers this: http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/sites/default/files/nnsa/foiareadingroom/RR00507.pdf
Page 1 of that file always gives me the above error. I've tried using pdftk to extract the page and uncompress it — it seems to have lots of binary data in it. But nothing can process it — not Acrobat, not Preview, not ImageMagick. The best any of them do is silently throw an error and load a blank page. It shouldn't be blank; it probably ought to look like this, more or less. (Note that page 2 of that second file throws the error, as does page 4, 6, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23, and 26. These are rampant errors — nearly a third of the pages in that PDF are unreadable.)
Can anyone take a look at the page and/or file to figure out what's likely wrong with it? It's something systemic to the NNSA's PDFs, and I'd be curious (heck, maybe even they'd be curious) as to what it's origin is. There would be something deliciously disturbing about the idea of them (the guardians of the nuclear secrets) having some kind of virus or corrupt hard drive or something. -- Mr.98 ( talk) 21:38, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Could anyone suggest as to why an (apparently) brand new unscratched/unmarked factory-pressed audio CD might play through absolutely fine in my regular stereo, yet have one track on it that glitches and skips in the same place every time when played in my PC's (Windows XP) DVD-RAM drive? I've tried different audio player software but it does it on all of them. Also, if I try to rip the track to mp3 using iTunes (with error correction enabled) the resultant file has mess in exactly the same places. Is there anything you can think of that I could try, without installing another CD drive (because I don't have one handy at present) that might fix this issue? -- Kurt Shaped Box ( talk) 22:09, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Track 25
Filename F:\Downloads\25 Track25.wav
Suspicious position 0:02:20 Suspicious position 0:02:34 Suspicious position 0:02:47 Suspicious position 0:03:13 Suspicious position 0:03:33 Suspicious position 0:03:52 Suspicious position 0:04:05 Suspicious position 0:04:08 - 0:04:11 Suspicious position 0:04:13 - 0:04:18 Suspicious position 0:04:20 Suspicious position 0:04:22
Peak level 99.4 % Extraction speed 0.1 X Track quality 94.6 % Copy CRC 9B604574 Copy finished
There were errors
End of status report
The top is unscratched as well as the bottom? ¦ Reisio ( talk) 00:21, 21 August 2012 (UTC)