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| bio | website | scaine.net |
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| location | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | |
| age | 42 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 9 months |
| seen | 1 hour ago | |
| stats | profile views | 239 |
I'm Neil Broadley, a network specialist generally (firewalls, IPS, and so on), but I've been using Ubuntu since early 2006.
I'm generally command-line averse. It's a critical aspect of linux, but I believe that people learn best through experimentation and therefore believe that GUI tools are essential. To that end, I'm (slowly) learning Python in order to scratch a few GUI itches.
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answered | Why is rc.local in /etc, should it be owned by root, and when is it run? |
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answered | Remotely turning on computer? |
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Can Ubuntu be used with vmware view agent? Vmware are extremely unlikely to make a linux-based agent with PCoIP integration due to the licensing issues around that protocol. Look into the HTML5 wrapper that VMware are launching shortly which will allow you to run a View session in a web browser. As for hosting linux desktops instead of windows desktops, I have no experience of that, but I can't see why not. |
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answered | Can Ubuntu be used with vmware view agent? |
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Can Ubuntu be used with vmware view agent? Can you be clearer on what you want here? Do you want "A linux-based View agent" or do you want "A way to use VMware View to share linux desktops"? I'll answer based on the first. |
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May 18 |
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How do I get AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics drivers to work? Works a treat. Nice one! |
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May 14 |
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What is the equivalent to the Windows “Program Files” folder? (Where do things go when I install them?) Seems to be going that way, with the advent of the Ubuntu Software Centre delivering its games there, certainly. But even then, hardly a direct comparison, really, is it? Might the closest thing these days though. |
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May 12 |
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How do I get AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics drivers to work? Every update is breaking my install because of newer versions of xserver-xorg-video-intel. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Some kind of force-package perhaps? I have to keep uninstalling the update, then re-installing the downloaded version. |
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May 9 |
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How do I get my Sony Cybershot W510 to connect? I'll have a check tonight (busy at the mo) at how I got my MTP working again - was sure it was that article though, and if it was I'm not sure how I can help. |
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May 9 |
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How do I get my Sony Cybershot W510 to connect? Good luck! My Nexus 7 works perfectly after following that guide. |
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May 9 |
answered | How to Install AMD ATI Radeon Graphics HD 6770M on Ubuntu 13.04 64bit |
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May 9 |
answered | why does my dell latitude e6520 have internet in install but not after |
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May 9 |
answered | How do I get my Sony Cybershot W510 to connect? |
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May 9 |
answered | ubuntu 13.04 any way to restore connect to windows share as a different user? |
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May 9 |
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How do I get AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics drivers to work? @Glutanimate - well, this just confirms my hatred for ATI/AMD cards. The HD5xxx series isn't even particularly "old" and they're not supporting it anymore? Very poor. |
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May 7 |
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How do I get AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics drivers to work? @Glutanimate, you've probably already tried this yourself, but just a quick update that I followed this guide to the letter, and it worked. 64-bit Ubuntu 13.04, with a Hybrid Intel/AMD chip. I should say that I got my AMD chip wrong though - it's a 6750M, not a 5750. I'd also add that after I got it working two days ago, the xserver-xorg-video-intel update yesterday broke it again, so I had remove that, then re-install the downloaded version in this guide. So I'll have to "force" that version from now on I think to avoid future breakage. |
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May 3 |
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How do I get AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics drivers to work? It was a 12.04 install, kernel 3.2. Things broke when 3.5 was made available to it. So I tried 12.10 and 13.04, but couldn't get it to work. I'll be rebuilding that laptop this weekend and will try to catalogue what I do so that if I get it working again, I can share the results. Tell you one thing though... I'll never buy another ATI/AMD card in my life. |
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Apr 29 |
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How do I get AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics drivers to work? I'm in the same boat on a Samsung Chronos 700za which uses Intel/ATI 5750 hybrid. 12.04 works, but 12.10 and 13.04 fail. In 12.10, the card is recognised but Unity fails to start. In 13.04 the card isn't recognised at all. I've tried pretty much everything I know, so will track this question closely. |
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Mar 12 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Feb 23 |
awarded | Self-Learner |
