On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Tom <1...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Perhaps you need to check that you have an official Cd or downloaded > from the official website and then md5sum or Sha check the Cd or Usb > that you use to install Ubuntu.
I only use images from the official download page and while I installed my main 12.04 laptop (that I use for my work) from the original 12.04 image now I only have the 12.04.1 image left, so I cannot re-check the image as I don't have it any more. And apart from that - I am usually not alone with my problems - e.g. some of the kernel problems I had, I reported them directly to the kernel folks and got confirmed. What is far more probably the case: I have a lot of stuff installed (no games, no Wine but VMware, Virtualbox, Citrix, several VPN clients I need to access customers, 2 different versions of TeamViewer, etc etc). My experience with others where I install and support Ubuntu is that especially for distribution upgrades they tend to fail as soon as you do a little non-standard stuff (add some repositories for particular needs and the like). > 1. Overclocking and underclocking. Doesn't this need to be done from > inside the bios or by physical changes to the hardware? I've not heard > of anyone being able to do this from inside any OS. I agree it would be > good if Ubuntu could lead the way on this. My netbook offers switching from the panel - with the tool I mentioned above. Maybe it's just a fake - I never digged into it. ;-) > 2. If my internet connection drops out i just get a discrete > notification and the icon on the top taskbar changes to show i have no > network connection. None of that grabs focus and i can keep typing > without interference. Yes, you are right, when internet connection just drops that e.g. DNS down or so. But if the WLAN-Router is rebooted then you get those password dialogs. > A good example is that greater numbers of desktop users would NOT > increase security problems. Currently malware and remote attackers > focus on desktop machines despite that only affecting 1 person at a time > and thus being an extremely inefficient method of attacking people. But the attacks mostly done "automatically" from infected servers. Indeed two days ago at a family member I have seen a virus setting DNS servers to a server at Google - so you can be sure that there are even servers at Google that are hijacked! Also have seen even online-banking servers being hijacked and distributing viruses over the browser. Servers do get infected! And yes, even those that are running Linux! I have seen hijacked Linux-servers. However in those cases they always got into the system through PHP issues. Best regard, Martin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs