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4395 | 1 | 5628 | 2010-09-19T21:56:46.927 | 7 | 341 | <p>Having just written my perfect screenshot tool, I've been trying to work out how it should set itself up for use by people who are not me. Screenshots are traditionally taken by pressing the PrtSc key. So, I could do the following things:</p>
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4396 | 1 | 4404 | 2010-09-19T22:36:36.403 | 28 | 52962 | <p>I have a QEMU virtual machine that uses a qcow2 disk image.</p>
<p>How can I mount its filesystem without powering on the virtual machine?</p>
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4398 | 1 | 4598 | 2010-09-19T22:49:02.600 | 13 | 45625 | <p>I have a VMDK disk image that exists as multiple files:</p>
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4400 | 1 | null | 2010-09-19T22:51:55.637 | 15 | 48255 | <p>Is it possible to switch into a Windows environment from Ubuntu without rebooting the computer?</p>
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4401 | 1 | null | 2010-09-19T23:04:41.523 | 19 | 7650 | <p>I'm using the <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppleKeyboard" rel="noreferrer">Apple slim aluminum keyboard</a>, which doesn't have the <kbd>SysRq</kbd> key:</p>
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<p>What key(s) should I press for the <a href="http:/... | 1859 | 1859 | 2010-09-20T05:50:08.430 | 2022-08-02T22:36:50.863 | How do I use REISUB with an Apple slim aluminum keyboard? | [
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4402 | 1 | 5109 | 2010-09-19T23:14:13.317 | 2 | 1209 | <p>Hey all, recently I installed the Minecraft .jar and played it. It's a bit of fun, but the coolest thing about it IMO has been the anaglyph 3D option. Yay, a ViewMaster game!
Anyway, I'm looking for other anaglyph 3D games and apps. I understand that there's an anaglyph plugin for Compiz as well, although it apparen... | 2315 | 866 | 2010-12-31T08:39:04.037 | 2011-03-05T15:37:57.203 | Searching for anaglyph 3D games and apps | [
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4405 | 1 | 4417 | 2010-09-20T01:21:45.123 | 6 | 2544 | <p>I'm using System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layout > Options > Ctrl key position > Swap <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> and <kbd>CapsLock</kbd>, which works great for X.</p>
<p>How can I get the same for virtual consoles (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F1</kbd>, etc.)?</p>
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4406 | 1 | 4541 | 2010-09-20T01:24:25.793 | 5 | 3157 | <p>After upgrading to 10.04, Ubuntu takes a long time (1-2 minutes) to login after typing the credentials. The majority of this time the dialog box says "checking credentials". How do I even go about debugging what is going on here? This is a very snappy system, but apparently something is hanging or not responding dur... | 739 | 235 | 2010-09-21T14:04:19.857 | 2010-09-22T01:16:06.707 | Takes forever to login? | [
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4408 | 1 | 4412 | 2010-09-20T02:01:27.663 | 754 | 1019747 | <p>All operating systems freeze sometimes, and Ubuntu is no exception. What should I do to regain control when...</p>
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4410 | 1 | 4440 | 2010-09-20T04:11:44.750 | 7 | 2467 | <p>The only way I've seen how to empty the trash is to use the Empty Trash button that is displayed after choosing Go | Trash in Nautilus. If there are too many items in the trash it can take a long time for the list of files to load, especially when Nautilus defaults to generating thumbnails.</p>
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4415 | 1 | 4416 | 2010-09-20T05:00:32.323 | 6 | 131 | <p>Recently I downloaded and installed the Ubuntu 10.10 beta CD. There was a problem with both my wired and wireless network adaptors during the installation which I'm hoping is resolved in a later beta release.</p>
<p>How can I determine when a later beta release is available?</p>
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4419 | 1 | 4618 | 2010-09-20T07:35:05.037 | 3 | 3682 | <p>when I closed the empathy messenger client, a little icon used to show up as a notification. When I got incoming chats, the icon used to start flashing. I reorganized content on my panel and now that functionality is gone! I tried adding "Indicator-Applet" to the panel but all this does is show up an envelope which ... | 2321 | null | null | 2010-09-23T10:50:21.867 | Empathy icon not displayed in gnome panel | [
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4420 | 1 | 4421 | 2010-09-20T07:50:40.260 | 14 | 13639 | <p>I was wondering if there was a standard location for storing user level application data. What I mean by that is stuff like Firefox bookmarks, Skype message history/password, etc. I'm asking because I am not sure if I should go with home directory encryption vs full disk encryption.</p>
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4422 | 1 | 4603 | 2010-09-20T08:46:06.407 | 3 | 698 | <p>I run conky in its own window of type "panel". My conkyrc (configuration #1) is pasted below - this was created with the help of the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/conkywizard/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ConkyWizard</a> application and then tweaked to add a few additional information I needed.</p>
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4428 | 1 | 4430 | 2010-09-20T11:59:15.137 | 642 | 550289 | <p>How can I record my screen on Ubuntu? </p>
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4434 | 1 | 22756 | 2010-09-20T15:29:44.663 | 35 | 39246 | <p>I've got several Ubuntu machines on my network at home, but the DNS is provided by a windows server (2K). When I ssh to them from another , if I ssh to them as "machine" I can't connect, but if I connect as "machine.local" I can connect.</p>
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4443 | 1 | 4488 | 2010-09-20T16:42:09.030 | 9 | 16082 | <p>I have ffmpeg install from apt (version <code>4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1</code>). I have a video that is up-side-down, so I want to flip it vertically. The <a href="http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC61">ffmpeg documentation says to use the <code>-vf</code> option</a> (which I see was recently renamed from <code>-vfilte... | 139 | null | null | 2013-03-24T16:15:54.497 | How do I use ffmpeg's "-vf" / "-vfilters" option without recompiling ffmpeg myself? | [
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4447 | 1 | null | 2010-09-20T17:42:22.477 | 1 | 1224 | <p>My ThinkPad X60 doesn't have a floppy drive. What is this "floppy0" icon for?</p>
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4448 | 1 | 4449 | 2010-09-20T17:44:53.157 | 5 | 500 | <p>I read about the 64 bit kernel vulnerability in the linux kernel today (9/20) <a href="http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=9574" rel="nofollow">Link to article</a><br /><br>
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4452 | 1 | 4453 | 2010-09-20T18:57:47.907 | 1 | 1666 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3205/higher-screen-resolution-in-virtualbox">Higher screen resolution in VirtualBox?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
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4454 | 1 | 4570 | 2010-09-20T19:51:43.833 | 9 | 22362 | <p>Following up on <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4405/swap-capslock-and-control-in-virtual-consoles">modifying virtual consoles' keymaps</a>, how can I edit /etc/default/console-setup?</p>
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4467 | 1 | 4472 | 2010-09-21T01:12:09.513 | 19 | 31156 | <p>Poll on best VNC / remote desktop software for assisting others on Windows/Mac machines from Ubuntu? </p>
<p>I've heard good things about TeamViewer and Fog Creek Copilot, but I'm wondering if the included GNOME Vinaigre VNC client is good enough for this.</p>
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4473 | 1 | 4480 | 2010-09-21T03:16:54.170 | 29 | 61347 | <p>I am running Ubuntu 10.04, fully updated, from an external USB hard drive.
Everything works really well, except the keyboard. The numeric keypad is not working. The keys don't do anything, with or without <kbd>NumLock</kbd> on.</p>
<p>The Keyboard Preferences are set for Generic 105-Key (Intl) PC.
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4474 | 1 | 12195 | 2010-09-21T03:29:16.650 | 82 | 384356 | <p>I have one computer running Ubuntu 10.04, and is running <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VNC/Servers#vino">Vino</a>, the default VNC server.</p>
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4476 | 1 | 4754 | 2010-09-21T05:42:46.687 | 1 | 591 | <p>I am setting up an Ubuntu server with nginx, php and mysql.</p>
<p>I have found two options for fast-cgi php. Firstly I can use the spawn-fcgi package and make some startup scripts, similar as done <a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/nginx_php5_fast_cgi_xcache_ubuntu7.04" rel="nofollow">here</a></p>
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4477 | 1 | 4478 | 2010-09-21T06:02:38.927 | 96 | 287016 | <p>After doing a <code>man apt-get</code> and cursory Google search it's not clear how I find new programs to install (from the internet) using <code>apt-get</code> (which is amazingly powerful and simple coming from another Linux distro).</p>
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4485 | 1 | null | 2010-09-21T08:23:52.963 | 9 | 546 | <p>I've got a bunch of desktops set up for specific purposes. I'd really like to be able to tell an app what desktop it should launch in. </p>
<p>I can't find any options for that, is there any way to do it?</p>
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4486 | 1 | null | 2010-09-21T08:35:19.050 | 2 | 3034 | <p>I can't seem to select the two different inputs (4 channels) and two outputs (4 Channels) on this soundcard. Ubuntu/Mixxx only seems to recognize one input (2 channels) and every time I select the one available Mixxx says it can't connect. Any help would be greatly appreciated I feel this is a problem with either pu... | null | null | null | 2012-01-08T22:32:48.423 | Mixxx will not recognize all inputs and outputs on NI Audio 4DJ soundcard | [
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4487 | 1 | null | 2010-09-21T09:23:06.967 | 7 | 11486 | <p>My Lucid (10.04) installation recently started warning me that the updated packages were unauthenticated. For instance, if I open Update Manager and click the "Install Updates" button, it warns me that <em>You are about to install software that <strong>can't be authenticated</strong>! Doing this could allow a malici... | 2412 | 156684 | 2013-09-07T14:31:15.243 | 2013-09-07T14:31:15.243 | Unauthenticated software sources | [
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4489 | 1 | 4493 | 2010-09-21T09:55:53.653 | 37 | 9723 | <p>Ubuntu seems expensive to develop and maintain. Bandwidth, development, marketing, and maintenance all cost money, and since Ubuntu is free to download and use, I don't see who pays for it all.</p>
<p>I ask because I'm a happy Ubuntu user since 2006 and wonder how sustainable the project is.</p>
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4497 | 1 | null | 2010-09-21T11:14:24.217 | 21 | 2069 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/75998/is-it-possible-to-have-a-different-background-for-each-workspace">Is it possible to have a different background for each workspace?</a> </p>
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4498 | 1 | 4505 | 2010-09-21T11:41:50.190 | 22 | 14736 | <p>Beagle was my favorite. But it is not maintained anymore, afaik. And it does not work reasonably; it stops working spontaneously and does not return any result. How can I correct this problem and if it is not possible what alternatives are available?
Thank you.</p>
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4499 | 1 | null | 2010-09-21T13:02:56.407 | 45 | 48779 | <p>I'm hitting a problem whereby X prevents processes from creating windows, uttering something like the following into <code>~/.xsession-errors</code>:</p>
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4502 | 1 | null | 2010-09-21T13:19:44.423 | 21 | 1132 | <p>How can I find out why a particular package was installed?</p>
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<li>Was it specified manually, or was it chosen automatically to meet dependencies?</li>
<li>Which packages are dependent on it?</li>
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4507 | 1 | 61882 | 2010-09-21T15:26:23.397 | 234 | 182832 | <p>Is there a way to disable the middle mouse button paste behavior that is here by default on gnome?</p>
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4508 | 1 | 4514 | 2010-09-21T15:28:52.140 | 18 | 15746 | <p>I have an USB drive which I know is virus infected (an anti-virus on my friend's machine detected it). Unfortunately neither of us know the virus name and I don't want to take the risk of plugging it to my Windows box again.</p>
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4526 | 1 | 4557 | 2010-09-21T20:20:50.913 | 4 | 425 | <p>Somehow, I managed to break my ATI drivers by trying to install a new driver from AMD's website. I tried uninstalling (amdcccle,fglrx and pretty much everything that seemed related to ATI in Synaptic) / reinstalling many times but I keep getting crashes and my Hardware Drivers utility doesn't even detect the presenc... | 2331 | 41 | 2010-09-21T21:58:07.527 | 2010-09-22T11:01:23.057 | I managed to break my ATI drivers, what should I do? | [
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4527 | 1 | 4533 | 2010-09-21T20:25:57.210 | 5 | 4346 | <p>I want something that runs on my computer that somehow interrogates X and tells me <em>exactly</em> the font, not a guess.</p>
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4535 | 1 | 4542 | 2010-09-21T22:52:08.103 | 1 | 1214 | <p>Is there a way to disable compiz effects for just one window type or application?</p>
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4538 | 1 | null | 2010-09-22T00:20:05.307 | 2 | 423 | <p>I've tried Evolution 2.30.3 from Jacob's ppa on Lucid and the version of 2.30.3 in Maverick beta, they differ and both have significant shortcomings. You can't right click on an email and create a meeting, event or task, for example. Some settings don't work in the Maverick version -- (un)compress weekends in month ... | null | 235 | 2010-09-22T00:25:56.240 | 2010-09-22T00:30:06.440 | What version of Evolution will be in Maverick? | [
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4546 | 1 | null | 2010-09-22T04:22:23.180 | 15 | 62744 | <p>With the purchase of an Intel SSD and 85WHr Li-ion battery and the linking of wifi and bluetooth to my laptop's wireless switch, extensive Intel PowerTop usage, switching from compiz to metacity, stopping of the desktop-couch daemon, removal of Ubuntu One and several other services from my startup, disabling of ever... | 2142 | 169736 | 2014-06-06T03:11:00.780 | 2016-05-21T20:42:55.490 | How do I turn off PCI devices? | [
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4550 | 1 | null | 2010-09-22T08:56:50.823 | 2 | 2316 | <p>I'm trying to use a Java-based application that requires sound in Ubuntu 10.04 using sun-java from partner repos . However, the sound is way too fast. It seems like a chipmunk got into my speakers. :)</p>
<p>Is this happening to anyone else? Any ideas on how to fix it?</p>
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4552 | 1 | 4573 | 2010-09-22T09:14:08.337 | 2 | 598 | <p>Installed Ubuntu on my friends laptop. Notifications are showing in the old style, the stock gnome support. notify-osd is installed. </p>
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4555 | 1 | null | 2010-09-22T10:20:54.380 | 10 | 2852 | <p>I've recently enabled Ubuntu's encrypted /home/ directory features and I was asked to remember a passphrase in case I would need to recover the data manually. </p>
<p>What is the best way to store this passphrase without compromising security?</p>
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4559 | 1 | null | 2010-09-22T11:39:06.900 | 2 | 3223 | <p>How can I run a VPN connection on a non-standard port? I have set up a VPN on my router running DD-WRT which I connected to my main router. I have forwarded the port to port 90 and can not connect to the VPN with the Network Manager. If I change the port back to 1723 (the default port) I can connect just fine. Does ... | null | 34576 | 2011-12-12T05:51:59.370 | 2011-12-12T05:51:59.370 | PPTP VPN on Non-Standard Port | [
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4561 | 1 | null | 2010-09-22T13:31:42.813 | 4 | 271 | <p>i was installing an application using ubuntu software center and screen went blank i waited a while but nothing appearing no desktop so pretty much expected result is that i rebooted manually please correct this or tell me what should i do,iam not running any screensavers nor
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4564 | 1 | 4566 | 2010-09-22T14:33:21.923 | 16 | 40665 | <p>My microphone doesn't work in Ubuntu. I have a Dell Studio XPS 16 laptop. </p>
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4571 | 1 | 4607 | 2010-09-22T16:34:06.867 | 22 | 8585 | <p>I've recently started to systematically hibernate my laptop instead of shutting it down. </p>
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4572 | 1 | 4578 | 2010-09-22T17:01:08.233 | 41 | 42533 | <p>I use NFS to share media to computers around my house. Unfortunately one of the machines is on a slow wireless link, is there a way to cache network shares on the local disk for performance?</p>
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4575 | 1 | 4580 | 2010-09-22T17:12:30.990 | 6 | 6502 | <p>My terminal is all black and white. :P
No colours. Terminal output is highlighted by different colours to represent data. Like if we do ls, folder and files have separate colour but my terminal shows only one colour.</p>
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4577 | 1 | 4593 | 2010-09-22T17:32:32.293 | 6 | 1871 | <p>I am setting up an ubuntu server to be used for experimentation, testing and learning. Basically with LAMP and then setting up WordPress and most likely Drupal. I also plan to experiment with setting up a home intranet. This system will not be serving over the Internet.</p>
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4586 | 1 | 23947 | 2010-09-22T20:04:30.110 | 31 | 23901 | <p>I am interested in trying out the Blender 2.54 beta, but don't have the time or patience to download and install all of the dependencies for it and compile it myself.</p>
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4590 | 1 | 4594 | 2010-09-22T20:43:01.280 | 6 | 717 | <p>I have the hard disk icon for each of my partitions on my Gnome desktop.</p>
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4606 | 1 | 6268 | 2010-09-23T08:14:02.707 | 1 | 3261 | <p>I want to use the newest version of nginx, so I wanted to add the nginx/stable ppa</p>
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4609 | 1 | 4656 | 2010-09-23T08:56:09.333 | 3 | 352 | <p>I just noticed that ubuntu one is available for Windows if you subscribe.</p>
<p><a href="https://one.ubuntu.com/plans/" rel="nofollow">https://one.ubuntu.com/plans/</a></p>
<p>Why is it limited? </p>
<p>It would be great advertising, and help the migration.</p>
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4612 | 1 | null | 2010-09-23T09:30:21.123 | 5 | 14823 | <p>I've installed the latest ubuntu release (10.4) on my HP mini 110, the installation went smoothly but I don't have any wireless connection. (it says wireless disabled)</p>
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4614 | 1 | null | 2010-09-23T09:37:18.477 | 4 | 194 | <p>A couple of days ago, when I came back to my computer after a couple of hours, the following window was on my desktop:</p>
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<p>What software could I install on my laptop to play the same content from my PC?</p>
<p>Totem does not appear to have a browse option.</p>
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4620 | 1 | 4629 | 2010-09-23T11:58:49.140 | 8 | 2870 | <p>How do I share a folder with a friend with Ubuntu One?</p>
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4621 | 1 | 4742 | 2010-09-23T12:13:59.210 | 6 | 438 | <p>I have an upstairs and downstairs computer; I'd love to know how to create a shared folder between the two (through a wireless network)</p>
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4625 | 1 | 4627 | 2010-09-23T12:54:12.823 | 19 | 22235 | <p>Is there a GUI utility to mount remote filesystems over SSH (SSHFS)?</p>
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4628 | 1 | null | 2010-09-23T14:29:34.977 | 3 | 1281 | <p>After one or two times I use Gnome Do, it stops working. Yet it does not give out an error message. I currently have it configured to pop up when with then <kbd>Super</kbd> + <kbd>Space</kbd> key combination. I have to constantly go to the menu and activate it again.</p>
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4635 | 1 | 4807 | 2010-09-23T17:24:10.670 | 7 | 4853 | <p>I am having difficulties loading multiple photos directly from SD card onto facebook. It works fine when I select one photo at a time. When I select more than one it does not upload the photos into my facebook photo album. I tried loading multiple photos from F-Spot onto facebook but have a similar experience. In bo... | 794 | 866 | 2010-12-22T08:35:28.107 | 2010-12-22T08:35:28.107 | Uploading multiple photos onto facebook | [
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4652 | 1 | null | 2010-09-23T21:37:17.213 | 4 | 3895 | <p>I'm using ubuntu 10.10 64 bit. It started to revert the refresh rate of my monitor to 60hz, each and every time I log on. I change it back in nvidia panel, save it to X config file, but it just doesn't last. Oh, I set every time to 85hz. As noted below, this is the part in my x config file</p>
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4661 | 1 | 4664 | 2010-09-24T00:51:44.863 | 6 | 2779 | <p>Today I was setting up an ubuntu server and while partitioning for RAID0 I wound up setting /home as a logical partition. Basically the partitioner defaulted to that option and I hit return and the system was off on the installation.</p>
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4662 | 1 | 4663 | 2010-09-24T00:59:24.473 | 125 | 709308 | <p>As Ubuntu 10.10 seems to neither detect my graphics card (Intel 82852/855GM) automatically nor use the corresponding Intel driver even after manually installing it, I am looking into manually configuring X (shouldn't I?). Where can I find the configuration files I need to edit?</p>
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4665 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T02:06:31.350 | 5 | 447 | <p>I recently upgraded my VMWare Fusion from 2.x to 3.1 and was running Ubuntu 10.04. I had not problems until the upgrade at which point the sound is not working at all. It was fine in VMWare 2.x. I installed the VMWare Tools but it did not fix it. I would appreciate if someone could throw light on the issue.</p>
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4667 | 1 | 4668 | 2010-09-24T03:39:43.073 | 69 | 145344 | <p>What are correct places for:</p>
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<li>User-specific environment variables?</li>
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4672 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T04:45:00.807 | 2 | 3012 | <p>I was messing with by profile and ended up deleting <code>/usr/share/vim</code> folder and everything in it. How can I get this folder back?</p>
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<p>did not help</p>
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4675 | 1 | 4698 | 2010-09-24T08:00:09.963 | 13 | 13451 | <p>Is there a GUI for selecting which folders are shared via NFS?</p>
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4677 | 1 | 4684 | 2010-09-24T08:45:19.943 | 7 | 4365 | <p>When I try and upgrade I get packages that are kept back, when I use dist-upgrade they will be upgraded however I get this warning:</p>
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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4678 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T08:51:44.803 | 4 | 697 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4743/how-do-i-replace-the-memenu-username-with-my-actual-name">How do I replace the MeMenu username with my actual name?</a> </p>
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4679 | 1 | 19537 | 2010-09-24T08:57:27.807 | 10 | 9916 | <p>I'd like to remove a keyboard icon, so replacing "[###] USA" as keyboard layout indicator to just "En", an English or American flag, or "USA" at least. How can I achieve this?</p>
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4680 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T09:00:31.640 | 2 | 1111 | <p>Is there a dock, that works as a gnome panel applet, so I can put it into a panel alongside with other applets and indicators in one line?</p>
<p>I use Ubuntu 10.10</p>
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4681 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T09:02:56.427 | 2 | 1614 | <p>How do I enable a mac-style global application menu in classic desktop edition of Ubuntu 10.10?</p>
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4683 | 1 | 4686 | 2010-09-24T09:06:32.147 | 13 | 29883 | <p>Does gnome support desktop widgets? Any analogue to KDE plasmoids, Vista/Win7 sidebar/desktop widgets, Mac OS X dashboard widgets, etc.</p>
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4690 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T10:55:45.200 | 1 | 1488 | <p>I've setup a simple Ubuntu 10.04 file server and want to have a handful of users attach from windows machine to a Shared drive and to private Home directories on a per machine basis.</p>
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4691 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T12:15:48.620 | 6 | 1987 | <p>i'm going to create a Catalog for one of our proposals... as i've recently migrated to Ubuntu, i don't know tools to do such a job. In windows i might do this with <strong>MS PowerPoint</strong> or <strong>Adobe InDesign</strong>. here i just know <strong>OpenOffice Presentation</strong>.</p>
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4694 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T12:54:43.067 | 53 | 183380 | <p>I have all images of Debian, Ubuntu and Ubuntustudio as <code>.iso</code>. How can I use them as repository to install my desired packages with <code>sudo apt-get install package-name</code>?</p>
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4697 | 1 | 4716 | 2010-09-24T15:27:01.903 | 3 | 6414 | <p>I do my coding work on an Ubuntu machine at work, but I keep a laptop running windows with outlook for the corporate email. I don't really want to fight with Evolution and get it to work with the corporate setup, but I'd like something that could let me know on the Ubuntu machine if I got a new email in outlook/exc... | 1754 | null | null | 2016-07-16T07:11:11.707 | Exchange email notifier? | [
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4699 | 1 | 4701 | 2010-09-24T15:45:13.423 | 14 | 2700 | <p>There is a specific wireless network I connect to that requires me to use vpnc to access the internet. If I make a script to do this, is there a way to set it up so every time I connect to this network, the script is run? To be clear, I don't want this script run with most wireless connections, just one specific one... | 1809 | null | null | 2010-11-20T09:20:23.633 | Is there a way to run a script every time I connect to a specifc wireless network? | [
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4702 | 1 | 4715 | 2010-09-24T16:48:52.390 | 5 | 855 | <p>Whenever I log out from a Gnome session (by clicking on the "power" button in the top panel and choosing "Log out...", I have to answer the "Are you sure..." question. How can I configure my system to avoid this question?</p>
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4710 | 1 | 4713 | 2010-09-24T19:16:44.710 | 15 | 1641 | <p>I was working on developing my command line skills last night and ran into an issue where when I used sudo, I got an error message that said 'permission denied'. However when I used 'sudo su' and became root the command worked. </p>
<p>Why didn't sudo work in the first instance?</p>
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<p>I am considering doing a reinstall to get something more recent.</p>
<p>What can I expect, perfomance-wise?</p>
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4719 | 1 | 4720 | 2010-09-24T20:46:24.280 | 2 | 1040 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1743/is-aptitude-really-better-than-apt-get">Is aptitude really better than apt-get?</a> </p>
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<p>To install a package I can "apt-get install" or "aptitude install", to search - "apt-cache search" or "... | 2390 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:44.677 | 2010-09-24T21:00:31.917 | What are benefits of aptitude compared to apt-get? | [
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"body": "<p>It has a more advanced dependency handling feature and a graphical front-end. On the whole it does not matter and lately I have been using apt-get instead. I believe it also tries to roll the apt-* features into one program.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptitude_%... | [
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4727 | 1 | null | 2010-09-24T23:41:36.217 | 2 | 3496 | <p>The only thing really missing from this install is this issue with the sound. I've searched all over the forums and i found one thing where you get the model and codecs and write them to a file, however, I can't seem to find what my "model" is because none of the postings have anything about Lenovo laptops. Here is ... | 2490 | 235 | 2010-09-25T01:45:28.287 | 2013-01-23T21:24:03.810 | Sound plays on headphones and speakers at the same time with Lenovo ThinkPad | [
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4729 | 1 | 4730 | 2010-09-25T01:09:20.007 | 3 | 208 | <p>As the title suggests, I want to use the About Me section under System>Preferences without using evolution. (I don't have evolution installed on my computer as I handle email/calendering etc via google apps)</p>
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4731 | 1 | 4739 | 2010-09-25T04:20:42.580 | 11 | 1340 | <p>Is there a way I can use Thunderbird to access and modify my desktop calendar (Or anything other than evolution for that matter)?</p>
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4732 | 1 | 4745 | 2010-09-25T04:40:47.900 | 6 | 10666 | <p>I imported my Google calendar into Evolution and now I can't find a way to delete the calendar. How can I delete it?</p>
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4733 | 1 | null | 2010-09-25T05:59:07.273 | 1 | 357 | <p>My Acer Aspire Laptop is unbootable.</p>
<p>I'm trying to reinstall Ubuntu 10.04.1. Boot options accessible OK via F2.</p>
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