PDF vs Printers
Ioannis Vranos
ivranos at freemail.gr
Sun Apr 20 12:25:57 UTC 2008
[Removed some redundant text, added some advice]
Jeffrey Tooker wrote:
Bart:
First my mail program is MS Outlook, not Outlook Express. When I hit the
reply or reply to all I get no quote carrots along the side of the quoted
portion. To this time it has not been a problem. However now it seems to
need fixing. Do you have any ideas?
Typical hard re boot today. Was trying to get resolution changed on
monitor. When I executed the chages on the change screen the screen went
black. I waited about 10 minutes and nothing changed. I cut power and
rebooted, the system came back up. On the third try the change held and I
did not have to reboot. I have Ubuntu on a seperate drive and no personal
files. I have "The Official Ubuntu Book" by Benjamin Mako Hill. On some
topics it is a bit lacking. How does one get out of a situation like the
above black screen without cutting power? Is there an Ubuntu equivalent of
Windows "Control, Alt, Delete"?
I have set up a "No Real Work" computer to be my sand box. I will connect
it online soon. The machine I am writing from is a dual boot with Ubuntu on
a seperate HD. Once the sand box machine is setup I will probably not boot
this one in Ubuntu untill I get a lot more competent with it. The sand box
machine is a PIII 600MC CPU with a 40GB HD and no online or printer. I can
reload it from the CD with a disk if I have to, and any data that I put into
it with a disk can be reloaded. So it is my learning machine.
However your statement about the hard reboot interests me. I think the hard
reboots have probably made the Ubuntu on the dual boot machine a bit
glitchy. The operation of the OS is what I need to know about. I will
never do anything very complicated with Ubuntu. Most of what I do is email,
online searching, word processing and a few spreadsheets. Please explain
about the sand box. I thank you for your concern.
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You can also try using Mozilla Thunderbird as your email client under
Windows. It is free and a very good one.
If you get a blank screen under X.org or X.org is locked up, you have
two options:
1. Use Ctrl-Alt-F1/F2/F3 to switch to another console, log in, and type
shutdown -r now
This will do a software reboot.
shutdown -P now
performs a shutdown and powers-off the system.
2. Use Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, to kill X.org. X.org is restarted
automatically. If it doesn't and you come to a console prompt, type
startx to start it.
My advice is, forget about sand boxes. Experiment with Linux and you
will be learning things.
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