Re: Ubuntu take-up in Australia

2015-03-23 Thread Robert Parker
Rhys, If the worst comes to the worst you could install your Ubuntu is a Virtual Box running under Windows. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/downloads/index.html I went in the opposite direction, running WinXP in a VB under Linux for the one Windows program that I once

Re: Updating Ubuntu

2014-12-02 Thread Robert Parker
cd /boot ls You'll get something that looks like this: abi-3.13.0-32-generic lost+found abi-3.13.0-39-generic memtest86+.bin abi-3.13.0-40-generic memtest86+.elf config-3.13.0-32-generic memtest86+_multiboot.bin config-3.13.0-39-generic

Re: Rob's Project: Getting Ubuntu Doing What He Needs

2010-08-13 Thread Robert Parker
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Rob Farquhar imagi...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi, everybody. Sorry for not posting in a while. FWIW Rob, I installed Win 7 after being Microsoft free for 10 years, so as to run just 2 pieces of software; 1. an English-Thai_English dictionary with sound: