If you need to copy/delete a file or folder but you need roots rights to do so,
use nautilus
sudo nautilus
then you can use the mouse to browse and copy/delete what you need.
If you just installed Ubuntu 8.10 and started to realize that your display is not configured right, just like I just did, you will need to configure your system to use the correct display settings. Guess what I could not do it in Ubuntu 8.10, but I can in 8.04. using "sudo displayconfig-gtk" follow this process, I did it after a lot of experimenting... First: Get your old Ubuntu 8.04 Live CD ready ......
These are some of my favorite searches that I find them useful: Educational KDE software Free Spice software Electronics Scientific Software Electronics Software Applications Arduino Home More to come ......
Check this site, http://pikdev.free.fr/ for PIC development in Linux and then check this one Piklab on your Linux Package install manager Well, I am trying to find an IDE for PIC Microchip on Linux. Specially for PIC18. It is nice to be able not to depend on MS Windows anymore and just use my Linux OS full time. Now, Piklab seams to contain all the parts/options I am looking for except that it needs a compiler to use! What? so it is just an Editor that I can write my code in and then I need to send ......
So, I started to see if I can write programs in Linux. Found this very nice IDE. Mono. it seams to be very close to .NET development IDE in windows. I started to write some of my programs over again and design the GUI. But, what is going on? it crashes on me without a beep. No warnings, no backup. So I loose every single change I made in the last hour that I did not save!!! Am I doing something wrong? This is running on Linux Mint, on P4, 2.5GB ram, a lot of resources. Now, after sometime trying ......