Eliah Kagan

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Apr
13
 comment 12.04 crashes part way through install regardless of whether I try an iso disk or use wubi
@JorgeCastro This question is about a Wubi installation failing with an error message. This is not a freeze, and the error might not even be happening in Ubuntu itself. This is definitely not a duplicate of What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?
Apr
13
 comment How to permanently set environmental variables PATH and M2_HOME in ubuntu for maven3?
Since that's your motivation, you might want to add using /etc/environment as an alternative, considering that the goal of putting all your environment variable assignments in the same place is not necessarily this OP's goal or the goal of most other people who come by this question. Also, you may want to re-examine that goal: Most of the time, environment variables should be added at the user account level, to affect only a single user. (Then they can go in ~/.pam_environment or ~/.profile.) It's true that some environment variable assignments are dynamic and must be in scripts.
Apr
13
 comment How to permanently set environmental variables PATH and M2_HOME in ubuntu for maven3?
Any reason not to just put the JAVA_HOME, M2_HOME, and M2 definitions in /etc/environment, instead?
Apr
13
 comment directly deleted my windows patition directly and now without the bootloader the windows wont boot
@Lucio Since the title and body disagree, we should probably assume the most likely interpretation (unless and until the OP clarifies explicitly), that Ubuntu was deleted and that the system the OP is trying to boot is not deleted. ranendra singh: By the way, Windows-based live environments--especially commercially available Windows PE environments like MS DaRT and its predecessor, ERD Commander--can fail to access your installed Windows system for a wide variety of reasons. Usually a general purpose live CD/DVD/USB (Ubuntu, or otherwise) will be able to access it, and can often fix it.
Apr
13
 comment directly deleted my windows patition directly and now without the bootloader the windows wont boot
Running Boot-Repair from a live CD/DVD/USB, as detailed in this answer to How to remove Ubuntu and put Windows back on?, should fix this.
Apr
13
 comment I have 4 gigs of ram but there seems to be 3 usable
What's the exact text you recommend the user type in? I ask this because typically sysctl.conf will not already have an entry for swappiness. For example, to test that before posting this comment, I searched my own /etc/sysctl.conf file on an Ubuntu 12.10 i386 system; the text swap (even as part of another word) does not appear anywhere in the file. Neither does vm or VM. Also, why would any modification relating to swapping affect the total amount of memory--used plus unused--that is reported to exist?
Apr
13
 revised How to increase performance of booting?
improved formatting
Apr
13
 comment What is “dist-upgrade” and why does it upgrade more than “upgrade”?
This is misleading. dist-upgrade will not upgrade to a new release unless sources.list has been modified accordingly (and even then, that's not a supported way to upgrade in Ubuntu). When a new kernel is installed with dist-upgrade, that's not a new release of Ubuntu. It's just a new package. Furthermore, the claim "or GRUB update is required" is false. sudo apt-get upgrade is perfectly capable of upgrading packages in a situation where GRUB must be updated, so long as no packages are removed and new packages are installed. update-grub is run automatically, as always.
Apr
13
 reviewed Reviewed Cannot format USB drive to ext4
Apr
13
 comment I have 4 gigs of ram but there seems to be 3 usable
What do you mean by "there seems to be 3 usable"? Where/how are you checking? Can you provide any more information about what PAE-related thing you might have changed? When you say you "messed with some PAE stuff about the kernel," do you mean you're using a custom kernel that you compiled yourself with your own configuration, in which you changed something PAE-related, or do you mean something else? In addition to editing your question to clarify all that, please add the output of cat /proc/meminfo, uname -a, and dpkg -l | grep linux- to your question. Thanks.
Apr
13
 reviewed Close How to disable the password showing up when start chrome
Apr
13
 reviewed Close Why does amarok quit instead of close when I click the close button?
Apr
13
 reviewed Close Error installing openstack, is there a beginners guide to installing openstack on ubuntu?
Apr
13
 reviewed No Action Needed Installing Ubuntu from a tablet, what do I do?
Apr
13
 comment How to check a program that currently using connection?
Can you tell us more about your internet connection itself? Ordinarily, downloading updates would not interfere with an Internet connection being used for another purpose. It would likely slow things down considerably on a dial-up connection, but even then, still not to a halt (and downloading updates on a dial-up connection would ordinarily take longer than 4-10 minutes). Also, how do you know that updates are being downloaded? You said, "because some program downloading some updates" but what makes you think that's what's happening? (Please edit your question to provide all this info.)
Apr
13
 revised How I do a system restore?
removed unnecessary blockquotes and reformatted accordingly
Apr
12
 comment can't install/update intel linux graphic driver installer
If you can edit your question to provide specific information about how you're trying to install the graphics driver, including exactly what you've done as well as links to any resources you're using, then it might be possible for this to be answered more specifically, in a way that would address the question of how to install the graphics driver. (Since you haven't told us what you were trying to do or what you did, the best we could do was to close this as a duplicate of that more general question. if you add the necessary details, this can be reopened and probably answered.)
Apr
12
 comment Windows filesystems on Ubuntu
My experience is that NTFS drivers for Linux (including NTFS-3G, which Ubuntu uses) appear less CPU-efficient than the Windows drivers (and probably are). In that sense, they don't perform as well. But that's not the kind of performance most people think of for a filesystem driver. It seems you mean practically speaking, accessing data is actually slower. I recommend clarifying your answer as to what kind of performance you're talking about. (If you have sources to support the claim, you could add them too, but in my opinion even a clarification without sources would improve this answer.)
Apr
12
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Apr
12
 answered How do I find out the model of my graphics card?
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