Comments for Ubuntu Tutorials

Comment on Relaying Postfix SMTP via smtp.gmail.com by papukaija

papukaija — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:44:48 +0000

Thanks John for the info about Gmail’s new certificate.

Comment on Compiz-Fusion On Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbin” by CULEBRA

CULEBRA — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:26:48 +0000

thanks, this is great

Comment on Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid” Blank Screen at Startup : Workaround by Stefano

Stefano — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:50:53 +0000

Thanks, it works! Acer Travelmate 250

Comment on Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid” Blank Screen at Startup : Workaround by Kevin McAdams

Kevin McAdams — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:05:00 +0000

Yes, thanks — “i915.modeset=1″ worked on my Toshiba a45 s150, as well. Adding the parameter was the easy part. Finally discovering that hitting the Shift key right after BIOS boot was the only way to get a Grub boot menu in order to add the parameter, now that was the tedious part…

Comment on Install Dropbox on Kubuntu KDE (Without Nautilus) by Christer Edwards

Christer Edwards — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:20:40 +0000

Kdropbox either didn’t exist, or I wasn’t aware of it when I published this article.

Comment on Install Dropbox on Kubuntu KDE (Without Nautilus) by gnazio

gnazio — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:15:09 +0000

but why not use Kdropbox?

Comment on Clearing or Resetting the Gnome-Keyring by Ami

Ami — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:47:52 +0000

There is a way. Check out this URL:
http://www.greenhughes.com/content/how-change-default-keyring-password-ubuntu-netbook-remix-904

Comment on Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid” Blank Screen at Startup : Workaround by Chris Boyd

Chris Boyd — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:15:11 +0000

Thanks– “i915.modeset=1″ fixed the problem on my Toshiba a45 s120

Comment on How To Set Evolution E-Mail To NON-HTML by Mike

Mike — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:22:22 +0000

I like reading comments like

1 – “[HTML mail allows them to] call back? So what?” –hellothere
2 – “[HTML email allows you] to express yourself superiorly.” –hellothere
3 – “Its the 21st century and its about time we moved on from ASCII.” –infodroid

These quotes reveal a severe lack of knowledge and/or consideration of security. To address 1, maybe you don’t mind having your computer used for hidden unwarranted communication, but I do. Not only do I, but I don’t understand why you wouldn’t. To address 2, if your message necessitates HTML, either you have not developed your skills of communication well enough or what you want to send is not a message at all, and thus, isn’t meant for email. As for HTML allowing you to express yourself in a superior way, well, let all the professional writers in the world know that there is now a better way for them to express themselves using markup instead of language, colors instead of words, alignment instead of punctuation. Let them know what they’ve been missing.

As for 3, well, I don’t know where to start. I guess I would ask for an example of a computer that in some way or another does not use ASCII. Even the most modern processors and operating systems have use for ASCII. I would even say in response that “It’s the 21st century and ASCII has not gone anywhere.”

I think people have an aversion to ASCII because they associate it with antiquity for some reason. ASCII is nothing but a mathematical bijection among a subset of the integers and characters. This allows plain English messages to be exchanged by computers. Isn’t that the purpose of email?

Comment on My Ubuntu Look and Feel by romeo

romeo — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:06:49 +0000

Hello guys.

Please ignore my question. I finally figure it out. All I had to do is right click on a xterm window and I saw the profile preferences. Wow! It took me a while though to figure it out.

Thanks anyways.

: )