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Comment on Downgrade Grub 2 to Grub Legacy (Ubuntu 9.10) by Happeh

Happeh — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:51:54 +0000

Trying the tutorial right now. Making a live usb right now since my computer is in lack of a CD drive, thanks anyway, Brett.

Comment on Downgrade Grub 2 to Grub Legacy (Ubuntu 9.10) by brett

brett — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:06:36 +0000

Sorry it didn’t work for you. As all internet tutorials go, proceed at your own risk
Try this tutorial, see if you can get yourself back into ubuntu!
Link.

Comment on Downgrade Grub 2 to Grub Legacy (Ubuntu 9.10) by Happeh

Happeh — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:03:42 +0000

I followed the tutorial, when I rebooted it loaded GRUB Legacy, I chose Ubuntu 9.10, and guess what? My computer restarted again, not booting into ubuntu. I tried recovery mode and memtest, same results.

Comment on How To: PHP Sendmail and XAMPP on Windows by Judd Rogers Watts

Judd Rogers Watts — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:53:57 +0000

Hi:
I have XAMPP running on my IBM Netvista (P4); it works well and I am very pleased with it. I have a PERL program that uses SENDMAIL which works on my Network Solutions hosting service. I’m importing it to XAMPP.

The program opens SENDMAIL with the following code:

my $sendmail = “/usr/sbin/sendmail -t”;
open(SENDMAIL, “|$sendmail”) or die “Cannot open $sendmail: $!”;

and prints the email document with lines like:

print SENDMAIL $from;
print SENDMAIL $send_to; #etc.

I believe I need to modify the PERL open statement. I have tried:

$sendmail = “C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail”;
open(SENDMAIL, “|$sendmail”) or die “Cannot open $sendmail: $!”;

but had no luck. Also, I think I need an .ini file. I tried the following file:

C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini

with this as the file contents:

c:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail
smtp_server=smtp.bankmanasseh.com
smtp_port=30
default_domain=bankmanasseh.com
error_logfile=error.log
auth_username=manasseh@bankmanasseh.com
auth_password=qA10aPg25r

(bankmanasseh.com is my Network Solutions hosetd URL.) It still doesn’t work. I got no errors, no error log, and no email was sent. Can you help me?

Signed: Judd Rogers Watts
Owner of Manasseh

Comment on Fix the Tick Sound in Ubuntu 9.10 by Glenn

Glenn — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:03:05 +0000

Yes indeed! it works, thanks mob…i advice ubuntu maniacs to include this solution to their next update session…

Comment on Fix Ubuntu / Kubuntu 9.10 Screen Brightness Problem by Luis G

Luis G — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:46:29 +0000

Got it working, thank you =)

Comment on How To: PHP Sendmail and XAMPP on Windows by J

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:48:33 +0000

I’m getting the following error when I try to launch a php file that performs an email:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 530 SMTP authentication is required. in C:\xampp\htdocs\contact_parse.php on line 35
return_msg=Thanks , your message has been sent.

No email has been received btw.

Comment on Fix Ubuntu / Kubuntu 9.10 Screen Brightness Problem by brett

brett — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:07:19 +0000

Control+X then Y to save.
Control+O to save.

Comment on Fix Ubuntu / Kubuntu 9.10 Screen Brightness Problem by brett

brett — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:54:09 +0000

The following command will open a window to edit the config file:

In terminal,
gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub

..then try following the instructions above.
If that command doesn’t work, you can also edit it in the terminal by:
sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Comment on Fix Ubuntu / Kubuntu 9.10 Screen Brightness Problem by Luis G

Luis G — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:51:07 +0000

how do i get out of /etc/default/grub without killing the process