Small help and recommendations

[Trias]

On 7/14/07, Les Gray <lgray at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:13:48 +0930
> Trias <aussietrias at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ok thanks now i see me how do i keep the show hidden toggle set
> permanently?
>
> It should stay on until you turn it off, even if you close the program. At
> least it does on the file browsers I use - Konqueror and Thunar (xfce4).
> You're using Nautilus, right? It should stay toggled there, too, but have a
> look through the preferences just to make sure there's no setting like
> 'don't keep show hidden files on permanently' or some such.


i found you can't toggle it permanently in the drop down but you can in the
options.

> great i can find it now in terminal and in gnome as well.  i'm getting the
> > feeling i need a commands list or something.
>
> Try this - http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/ . Bear in mind that on
> modern Linux distros nearly everything a home user would want to do can be
> done through a GUI. But improving your knowledge of the command line is a
> useful thing to do nonetheless.


thanks

You may also want to buy a linux intro book if you haven't already. There's
> loads of them out there, designed for people used to Windows and which don't
> assume any knowledge on your part.
>
> The book I started with is called 'Moving to Linux' by Marcel Gagne. It's
> a bit cheesy (like all this kind of books) but I found it to be a pretty
> handy intro to Linux.
>
>
> > ok i did that but in install instructions here
> > http://java.com/en/download/help/5000011400.xml#install
> >
> > 'su' said this.. "su: Authentication failure
> > Sorry.
> > "
> >
> > i only know one password and i used it correctly.
>
> On Ubuntu that should be 'sudo' not 'su'. 'su' ('switch user') is the
> traditional method of switching from your regular user to the root user, for
> admin purposes. Ubuntu (and many other distros) have 'sudo' enabled by
> default ('super user do') instead, which allows you to run commands as root
> while still being logged in as a regular user. It's a generally more
> convenient way of doing things.
>
> The drawback is that for some rare tasks you still need to actually switch
> to root. To do that, run 'sudo -s -H' and you will see that the terminal
> prompt becomes 'root at wherever'. You can then do what you need to do, and
> switch back to regular user with 'su your_username_here'.
>
> In any case, you're better off installing Java from Synaptic or
> Add/Remove, because it's easier. Downloading and installing from Sun is only
> necessary if you need the absolute latest version of their Java.


you're right there i didn't see it in synaptic either but it installed fine
that way.

> > > 6) How do i safely change the partition so the windows one shrinks and
> > > > linux one grows?
> >
> >
> >
> > OK this issue will be delayed.
>
> The message from Lisa looked like a good option??



nope.

HTH
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