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by Joste
01 Nov 2012, 19:11
Forum: Help
Topic: What are these? Why are they there?
Replies: 3
Views: 3326

Re: What are these? Why are they there?

According to this it is lightdm https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/984785
They are created on shutdown and one workaround is to log off then shut down.
by Joste
22 May 2012, 22:24
Forum: Help
Topic: Need guinea pigs!!! Topic is solved
Replies: 11
Views: 10574

Re: Need guinea pigs!!! Topic is solved

Works for me.
Well it does in Opera but not in Firefox but I seem to have no sound in Firefox anyway.
by Joste
30 Apr 2012, 20:34
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Birthdays!
Replies: 2
Views: 2221

Re: Birthdays!

Thank you.
by Joste
22 Apr 2012, 22:18
Forum: Help
Topic: Windows is still on my netbook!
Replies: 4
Views: 3145

Re: Windows is still on my netbook!

It looks like you still have the restore partition, it will fail trying to read whatever filesystem you have mint on.
by Joste
17 Mar 2012, 23:48
Forum: General News
Topic: US: ISP to start policing by the 12 of July
Replies: 7
Views: 4843

Re: US: ISP to start policing by the 12 of July

http://www.cablelabs.com/specifications ... 110224.pdf

That document is relevant for people on Cable connections. Interception of data is built into the spec.
by Joste
22 Feb 2012, 16:48
Forum: Help
Topic: How to kill the daily cron process?
Replies: 6
Views: 3790

Re: How to kill the daily cron process?

# /etc/init.d/crond stop

Try that.
by Joste
13 Jun 2011, 22:54
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Video capture from DirecTV HR24; device, software?
Replies: 11
Views: 8328

Re: Video capture from DirecTV HR24; device, software?

Not that up on TV/video capture cards but one of the live CDs from http://freevo.sourceforge.net/ might be worth a go.
by Joste
28 May 2011, 19:16
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Looking for wireless adapter
Replies: 20
Views: 10489

Re: Looking for wireless adapter

5GHz is advisable if there are a lot of networks on 2.4GHz, there are likely to be fewer on 5GHz and there are more channels to choose from as well.

It is also advisable if there is interference from other wireless devices such as cordless phones, video senders, baby monitors and the like.
by Joste
28 May 2011, 17:33
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Looking for wireless adapter
Replies: 20
Views: 10489

Re: Looking for wireless adapter

If you can get a laptop there (or a smartphone even) and check for other networks and there are a lot, more than 5 say then you will likely have problems especially if they have strong signals. Though if router and adapter will both do 5GHz that would probably solve that issue. I would still prefer ...

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