I found that enabling "Fanboy's Anti-Facebook" which I had previously not enabled (all others per gorhill's screenshot were enabled), solved the...
I have disabled the pattern filters in HttpSwitchboard and have enabled those µBlock filters as per gorhill's screenshot (which includes Fanboy's...
I don't know for sure, but perhaps Nirsoft has a utility to recover the product key.
Mint 17 has this pointer in their release notes:- "EFI support If your system is using secureBoot, turn it off. Note: Linux Mint 17 places its...
Only for UEFI and only if one dual boots Ubuntu and one of its derivatives. (U)(Ku)(Xu)buntu with say Fedora will be OK according to the article....
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I think dual booters will face a problem if they install ubuntu and one of its derivatives like Xubuntu or Kubuntu or Linux Mint, because the...
In terminal:- last -nX where X is a number (eg. last -n6)
I wish for an easy peasy way to create a workable bootable rescue cd for use with our first UEFI based laptop. Not boot repair disc(k) In the...
Yes, well presented. Note "The Linux department of CERN has set up a public mirror of the LinuxTECH EL6 repos."...
Just use it as an ad blocker as descibed here. Additional presets can also be added.
Thanks for that info, tlu. I will use Chrome for sites that do not support the Linux version of the flash player, eg. tax efiling site in ZA....
Does that imply Firefox for Linux will get PPAPI supporting flash ? I wonder when.
Yup, thanks for the review. Although I have set up Xubuntu 14.04 on the new Dell Latitude E5530 for my wife, I love using it at as well. I don't...
Out of the top drawer guide there Mrk! emailing it post haste to my neighbour who has asked me to set up a dual boot on a desktop still running...
Hello keithpeter, In Chrome and Opera browsers it's easily 'fixed' by changing the default zoom for web pages from 100% to 125% in the settings....
The touchpad (Alps) was too sensitive, and being a desktop and mouse user, I had no idea how to correct this until I googled. All that needs to be...
Ah, thank you Baserk for the link. Have made do with the high resolution, as setting it to a lower one in Display, shrinks the usable area with...
Hello Baserk, yes it has a SIM card slot, which I suppose is for a 3G card, i.e. one could take it out of the cell/smart phone and insert it...
Thanks for the advice keithpeter, however I don't think it will be necessary as the laptop came with two discs. One for reinstalling the OS, and...
It was the WAP, 10 years old and the new wireless card had issues. Forked out for a new access point (was not expensive at all). Now I can finally...
I have no idea. The SSID is shown with full signal strength, but both Windows 8 Pro and in the live dvd, are unable to establish a connection. As...
Just unpacked the aforementioned Dell E5530. Had no trouble booting a live dvd of Xubuntu 14.04 in UEFI mode with secure boot enabled. All I did...
Besides having the issue with Firefox not starting and having to kill the process, now fixed thanks to reading this thread, I have noticed that...
After a bit of back and forth, I have decided to go for this one:- Price is 18% less than the E5440 Laptop #2 in my original post. Thank you for...
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