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<p>Should I be setting up /home on it's own VG (initially containing a single PV) or is it OK to add all PVs to a single VG and to slice off a LV for /home?</p>
<p>It feels to me like one VG for /home and one VG for everything else is the best answer for keeping /home safe or moving it at a later date, but does that limit my flexibility for resizing things later?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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4743 | 1 | 4746 | 2010-09-25T12:03:53.800 | 19 | 982 | <p>Whilst I like the MeMenu, one thing has always bothered me about it; rather then use my actual name, it uses my username.</p>
<p>So, is there anyway to change this?</p>
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4747 | 1 | 4749 | 2010-09-25T13:57:19.807 | 4 | 1515 | <p>I found on this launchpad bug (<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foo2zjs/+bug/96454" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foo2zjs/+bug/96454</a>) the command:</p>
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<p>I don't know what getweb is, so here is the question.</p>
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4750 | 1 | null | 2010-09-25T15:39:56.433 | 20 | 4960 | <p>How can I find which command is bound to a give keyboard shortcut? I remember playing with my keyboard shortcuts recently in different places: System/Preferences/Keyboard Shortcuts, "gnome-keyboard-properties" and Compiz. Is there a central place where all those shortcuts are kept or do I have to remember all the places where I set a keyboard shortcut?</p>
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4751 | 1 | null | 2010-09-25T16:54:27.823 | 3 | 39222 | <p>I have been trying to get this to work for several days. I have googled until I can't google anymore.....</p>
<p>I have Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit with Virtualbox Ver. 3.2.8 installed. I have a windows xp pro guest. I am running Rosettas stone in the guest. Everything works great except the mic.</p>
<p>The guest audio is:</p>
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<p>This works well in Lucid. In XP it's as if the os doesn't know how to use the mic. I see it in the xp sound app. It doesn't work but it's listed as intel integrated sudio. When I run sound recorder , I click on record and the bar/slider that indicates time recording doesn't move.</p>
<p>Are there any settings in VB that I need to modify to get this to work?</p>
<p>I tried getting rosetta stone to work in wine but had no luck.</p>
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4752 | 1 | 4792 | 2010-09-25T17:25:01.663 | 14 | 2312 | <p>I'm upgrading my laptop to Maverick (10.10) and I noticed btrfs is an option for the filesystem. I read a while ago that the Ubuntu team weren't sure if it was going to be stable for Maverick. Does anyone know (with references) if it was approved for stable use? Any other pros and cons?</p>
<p>For the moment I've made my root partition ext4 and my home partition btrfs, but I could reinstall. My laptop is a secondary computer.</p>
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4753 | 1 | null | 2010-09-25T18:06:41.793 | 5 | 132 | <p>What is the best way to automatically launch a process when the Internet connection goes up/down?</p>
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4755 | 1 | 4756 | 2010-09-25T18:31:23.707 | 5 | 1610 | <p>I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 LAMP server. The only (in addition to all the standard technical users created by installation) user is "administrator" (should I create more?). I doubt it is correct to place public websites to /home/administrator/public_html/. What is the correct place? I am going to use <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html" rel="nofollow">Apache's Name-based Virtual Host Support</a> to host multiple websites.</p>
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4758 | 1 | null | 2010-09-25T19:38:54.620 | 2 | 309 | <p>When I was using Arch Linux with KDE 4.5 and Opera analogue clock widget, it was much less CPU-consuming. Now, on Ubuntu 10.10 (and I use the same proper graphics driver) it consumes mean of 15% of CPU (least of 11%, max of 34%). What may the reason be?</p>
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4759 | 1 | 11643 | 2010-09-25T19:45:35.167 | 3 | 1828 | <p>On Windows overlay-rendered video playback was working correct on all the monitors. On Linux I not only have to place my external monitor below (instead of right to) my laptop's panel to enable its full resolution , but video player displays blue square instead of the video picture if placed on the second display. Can I overcome it other way than by using software video rendering?</p>
<p>I use Intel 82852/855GM graphics and Ubuntu 10.10. I mainly use raw mplayer to play video.</p>
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4760 | 1 | null | 2010-09-25T19:52:27.723 | 5 | 1024 | <p>I have Ubuntu 10.04 running on a Dell laptop/Nvidia video. Everything works fantastic, except for one "nit" that is VERY annoying.. Every so often the graphical interface stops responding, such that the following happens: any gnome-terminals I happen to have open are still working normally, if I have Audacious running, the music continues to play, but all Gnome panels no longer respond, I cannot drag any open windows around, but I can right-click on the desktop and get that Gnome menu, but none of the menu selections respond. The first time this happened, I had to powercycle the laptop, as I didnt have any shell-window open.. It was then I discovered that Ubuntu now disables the ctl-alt-bksp/X restart. I've since re-enabled it, and an X restart restores the gui. This happens often at least once a day, and since I use the laptop daily, it becomes annoying to lose the apps I had running when I have to restart X. I've tried checking dmseg/syslog/messages immediately after this happens, but have not spotted any "smoking-gun" pointing to <em>why</em> this is happening. I first thought it might be Compiz causing it, so I disabled it, still happened. Since the laptop has Nvidia 8400M video, I use the Nvidia closed-source "blob" driver.. I'm posting here to see if 1) anybody else is seeing this, 2) <em>where</em> I should be looking for the cause....</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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4761 | 1 | 4771 | 2010-09-25T23:04:42.483 | 5 | 4306 | <p>I have a spare computer that has Ubuntu server edition (10.04.1) installed on it and was wonder if there was a way to use my server to help processes data on my Ubuntu desktop (same release). I would like to share any heavy-processor functions with my server to ease the load on my desktop. Does anyone know of a good/easy way to do this? They're connected on the same network through a router. I'll list what I think may be relative components for each one below.</p>
<p>Desktop - Intel core 2 quad @ 2.83Ghz</p>
<p>Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller (rev b0)</p>
<p>Server - Pentium 4 @ 2.8Ghz with hyper-threading</p>
<p>Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)</p>
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4762 | 1 | 4764 | 2010-09-25T23:19:03.717 | 1 | 814 | <p>I use raw mplayer to play video, DeaDBeeF to play audio and Skype for VoIP. Heavy CPU-consuming processes (like rendering a website in Firefox, redrawing a Java IDE window or compilation) cause disturbances in multimedia playback processes. How to overcome this? I'd agree to those CPU-consuming processes to be a bit slower if it won't disturb multimedia playback.</p>
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4765 | 1 | 4767 | 2010-09-26T00:42:27.747 | 7 | 6951 | <p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/users/499/axel">Axel</a> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4762/how-to-set-up-video-and-audio-players-to-use-realtime-or-close-priority/4763#4763">wrote</a>: <em>"try using the a realtime kernel, it's more responsive and the apps "seems to hang less""</em>.</p>
<p>How to do this?</p>
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4766 | 1 | 4776 | 2010-09-26T01:12:45.357 | 10 | 847 | <p>I occasionally clobber whatever I had already copied to the clipboard. It would rock to just be able to keep all of my clipboard history right in front of me.</p>
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4769 | 1 | 4770 | 2010-09-26T02:03:17.033 | 3 | 904 | <p>I use, and love, GNOME Do. Sometimes, though, it crashes and I have to re-run it from the menu. Is it possible to set up my GNOME session to automatically try to respawn Do?</p>
<p>I realize there are some caveats contemplating this - if my system gets into a state where Do cannot run at all, this would create an infinite loop of respawning, crashing, and respawning again, but in my experience Do crashes just enough for it to be slightly annoying, and never right after I restart it manually.</p>
<p>If someone can make a case for this being a bad idea, I'd consider that a good answer as well.</p>
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"body": "<p>You should be able to start it with a bash script that's basically \"while(1){gnome-do}\", ensuring that when gnome-do crashes, it gets run again. As long as gnome-do is run synchronously, it should work just fine. even if the system gets into a state where it can't be launched successfully, the impact would be small. If you want to ensure that even that is not a problem, insert a command using zenity. This would notify you that there was a problem, and require you to hit enter to start gnome-do again.</p>\n\n<p>create a script with the following and launch it from the \"Startup Applications\" application found under the System Preferences menu.</p>\n\n<pre><code>while true\ndo\n gnome-do\n zenity --info --text=\"gnome-do crashed ... press enter to restart\"\ndone\n</code></pre>\n",
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"text": "That was a clever idea. I modified your script to the following: \n\n<code>`while true; do\n gnome-do 2>> /home/username/gnome-do.log\n if [ \"$?\" -ne \"0\" ]; then\n notify-send --urgency=low --icon=gnome-do \"GNOME-Do has crashed.\" \"The cause of the crash has been logged to ~/gnome-do.log.\"\n else\n break\n fi\ndone`</code>\n\nAssuming that GNOME-Do exits with a non-zero exit code upon crashing, the script should notify me with a notification bubble and restart GNOME-Do. If I exit Do normally, it won't be restarted (if I ever want to get rid of it temporarily). STDERR goes to a log for debugging.",
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4777 | 1 | null | 2010-09-26T04:26:47.177 | 3 | 2889 | <p><strong>My vim directory:</strong></p>
<pre><code>>:/usr/share/vim$ ls -al
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2010-09-26 00:03 .
drwxr-xr-x 352 root root 12288 2010-09-25 14:35 ..
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2010-09-25 14:35 addons
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2010-09-25 14:35 gvimrc -> /etc/vim/gvimrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-09-25 14:35 registry
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2010-09-25 14:35 vim72
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2010-09-25 14:35 vimcurrent -> vim72
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2010-09-25 14:35 vimfiles -> /etc/vim
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2010-09-25 14:35 vimrc -> /etc/vim/vimrc
>:/usr/share/vim$ ls vim72/colors
ron.vim ir_black.vim morning.vim pablo.vim
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<p>I have the following line in <code>/etc/vim/vimrc</code></p>
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<p><strong>Problem:</strong> </p>
<p>As you can see above, I have <code>ir_black.vim</code> in the <code>/usr/share/vim/vim72/colors</code> directory. Even then, I get the below error when launching gvim and screen is just white (no color):</p>
<pre><code>Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vimrc:
line 100:
E185: Cannot find color scheme ir_black
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<p><strong>What I've done:</strong></p>
<pre><code>>:/usr/share/vim$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/vim/colors &&
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<p>This got the colorscheme to work but my screen started looking very weird with gaps between each character.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/M3mG7.png" alt=""></p>
<p>How can I fix this?</p>
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4784 | 1 | 4787 | 2010-09-26T15:25:43.450 | 4 | 774 | <p>I decided to try out Ubuntu One for the first time. I added my computer via System -> Preferences -> Ubuntu One, and then I right-clicked on a folder and clicked "Synchronize on Ubuntu One". There was no immediate feedback that anything had happened, but now the folder's only sub-folder has some kind of Ubuntu One emblem on it:</p>
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<p>What does this mean?</p>
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4788 | 1 | 14529 | 2010-09-26T18:22:11.457 | 65 | 23997 | <p>Is there any equivalent to TortoiseSVN but for Ubuntu / Git? I'd like to integrate Git commands to Nautilus.</p>
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4796 | 1 | 4835 | 2010-09-26T23:35:33.720 | 63 | 41507 | <p>Is there any simple (IE: right click in Nautilus) way to password protect a particular folder/file in Ubuntu? I've got a few files containing sensitive info and I'd much prefer that if/when I leave my computer alone, they aren't accidentally accessed by someone else.</p>
<p>The secruty does not have to be extremely tight. My only concern is that when family/friends come over, I don't really like the idea of them looking at my bank details, accounts or, you guessed it, porn collection.</p>
<p>A simple, effective way to let me put my machine in the hands of someone else knowing that said machine can not cause me embarresment is the sole reason why I'd like to see this in Ubuntu.</p>
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4801 | 1 | null | 2010-09-27T03:36:39.793 | 3 | 891 | <p>I'm about to do a fresh install of my ubuntu desktop system. When I originally put the system together it took me a week or so to figure out how to get wireless working. And I can't find my notes on how I did this.</p>
<p>How do I back-up and then re-install the existing wireless settings, drivers, etc? I'm not sure how to locate the driver and the various config files. Mainly looking for a logical plan to go about this. I can provide additional info if this is not enough to go on.</p>
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4814 | 1 | 4816 | 2010-09-27T13:10:01.730 | 5 | 394 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/442/is-there-a-way-to-add-mozilla-thunderbird-to-the-messaging-menu">Is there a way to add Mozilla Thunderbird to the messaging menu?</a> </p>
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<p>I've installed the Netbook edition 10.04, and I've setted Thunderbid as default mail program, but when I click on the mail icon in the tray bar, it always calls Evolution...</p>
<p>What I'm missing?</p>
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4819 | 1 | 4822 | 2010-09-27T15:50:28.693 | 12 | 6303 | <p>I tried adding <code>tomboy</code> in System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications, but this causes the "Search All Notes" window to appear every time I log in. I just want it to run in the notification area so that I can use it later via hotkeys or its notification area icon popup menu.</p>
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4820 | 1 | 4824 | 2010-09-27T15:57:35.413 | 5 | 5175 | <p>Whenever I open more than one file at the same time with emacs, as in: </p>
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<p>The window that opens will be split between the two files (a buffer for each file). I would like to avoid that. Is there a line I can place in my <code>.emacs</code> file to keep that from happening? I would like emacs to only open one buffer in the window, no matter how many files I'm loading. </p>
<p>I'm using version 23.1.1.</p>
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4823 | 1 | 4828 | 2010-09-27T19:02:33.737 | 1 | 271 | <p>The question says it all. Did Cannonical make any changes to the basic GNU/Linux OS before building Ubuntu on top of it, or is the full GNU/Linux still under there somewhere?</p>
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4826 | 1 | null | 2010-09-27T19:23:23.413 | 14 | 10558 | <p>I am running an Ubuntu 10.04 server installation and I recently had to switch it from DHCP to static ip. I edited <code>/etc/network/interfaces</code> file and switched</p>
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<p>The problem is that, seemingly randomly, the machine will lose the ability to talk to the outside world. I know the machine is still up, but it acts like it has no networking at all. I think part of the issue is that there is no DHCP running to this subnet (nor will there be) and the dhclient seems to still be running on occasion which causes some sort of conflict (no idea what) which causes networking to die. I cannot, however, remove the dhcp3-client package as it also causes the ubuntu-minimal package to be removed and that would be bad.</p>
<p>So, any ideas? What might be calling the dhclient and what can I do to stop it from running?</p>
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4827 | 1 | 4854 | 2010-09-27T19:59:56.520 | 2 | 1124 | <p>I have (portable) Virtualbox installed on a USB key running on a 64-bit Windows 7 host. I installed 32 bit Ubuntu 10.04 as a guest OS. </p>
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4834 | 1 | 23958 | 2010-09-27T21:08:59.243 | 29 | 86270 | <p>Whenever I type <code>sudo apt-get remove</code> and then press the <kbd>Tab</kbd> key for auto-completion I get the following message:</p>
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<p>Is there some way to rebuild the status file?</p>
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"text": "Glad you found a solution, Oli and thanks for sharing. In my case, in addition to the problematic Lexmark deb, a Webmin deb also had its description malformed but in that case it did not cause any parsing issues when doing an autocomplete. Weird.",
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"text": "This is true, good that I read your post. I had a `missing package name` and I found out that, for some weird reason I better not waste my time finding out, I had a line `Packaga: landscape-common` which was fixed ortographically and bam, problem solved. The thing is, I have never touched this file, nor has anybody else. How can a computer mess up with a spelling mistake?",
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4841 | 1 | 4842 | 2010-09-27T23:44:45.057 | 3 | 772 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/15408/flashplugin-installer-vs-flashplugin-nonfree-vs-adobe-flashplugin">flashplugin-installer vs. flashplugin-nonfree vs. adobe-flashplugin</a> </p>
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<p>As you know in Ubuntu Software Center is 2 times Adobe Flash Plugin. One is called Adobe Flash Plugin and other Adobe Flash Plugin 10. Which of the two to install? Or rather it is the recommended installation methods? If we think well, we can install the Adobe Flash plugin for Firefox from the notification date (Install missing plugin) or walking on the Adobe website and downloading the package .deb. After all, how to properly install Flash Player on Linux Ubuntu? (But my biggg question is why are 2 Adobe Flash Plugin on USC? ...for what? If you click on "More Info", the description are the same for both)</p>
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4843 | 1 | 4847 | 2010-09-28T00:18:24.947 | 6 | 3714 | <p>I'm trying to sync a Hotmail/Windows Live/MSN email account to Evolution - however I'm unable to do so with both POP and IMAP. If I understand correctly this is because Microsoft blocks all email clients other than Outlook. Is there a way around this?</p>
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4848 | 1 | 12119 | 2010-09-28T01:18:23.220 | 5 | 3845 | <p>I have two sets of speakers: one is set of stereo loudspeakers with a subwoofer (not 2.1, just a sub with a low-pass filter) and the other is a set of stereo speakers with a headphone jack, used solely as an inline amplifier and volume control for my headphones.
Currently I have my PulseAudio output set to "Analog Surround 4.0 Output." My motherboard has output jacks for front, side, rear, and "Ctr Bass" which I assume is meant to be a subwoofer channel, for 6.1 surround capability. I have one set of speakers plugged into "front" and one set plugged into "rear". This gives me approximately what I want: I can listen to the headphones or the loudspeakers just by turning on the appropriate amplifier. </p>
<p>However, I'm not sure that this is quite what I want. I'm assuming that the output of front left and right channels is the same as the rear channels, but I don't know that for sure and I'm seeking reassurance. Just in case I play a game or use some other surround-sound source, I'd like to ensure that these outputs act as two stereo outputs rather than one surround output.</p>
<p>Also, I'd like to be able to send audio from a particular client to an output of my choosing. paprefs does not seem to offer this level of fine-grained control. Does anyone know how I can achieve these things?</p>
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4850 | 1 | null | 2010-09-28T03:12:42.710 | 6 | 6802 | <p>I am planning to use <a href="http://bb.xnull.de/projects/inosync/" rel="nofollow">inosync</a> to sync data from master server to several client servers.
I have created a user called rsyncuser in both master and slaves with access permissions and passwordless ssh access from master to slave servers.</p>
<p>Inosync is working when I use it from the command line as rsyncuser.</p>
<p>Next I want this to start automatically when server is turned on. I figured upstart is the way to get this working.</p>
<p>I am unable to find the right upstart command to get this working.</p>
<p>Here is my upstart conf file. The problem seems to be around running "inosync -d -c /etc/inosync/inosync_rsyncuser.py" as a given user.</p>
<p>As you can see I have tried a number of various options!</p>
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description "start inosync to sync data to other CDN Servers as rsyncuser"
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#start on startup
#stop on shutdown
start on (net-device-up and local-filesystems)
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4851 | 1 | null | 2010-09-28T03:33:05.940 | 8 | 2655 | <p>Since I have switched from Win 7 to Ubuntu, it seems my laptop is much hotter and the fan is much louder. Is it normal behavior or maybe can I fix this by tweaking some settings? If so, what would be the steps to troubleshoot the problem?</p>
<p>Here is the output for "sensors" in the command line:</p>
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<p><strong>Update:</strong> I got a Dell Studio XPS 16 which is known for overheating, but after 1 year on Windows 7, it was never as bad as it is on Ubuntu.</p>
<pre><code>-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz
Memory : 4024MB (764MB used)
Operating System : Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
User Name : olalonde (Oli)
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Power Button
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AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
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HDA Intel Mic at Ext Left Jack
HDA Intel HP Out at Ext Left Jack
HDA Intel HP Out at Ext Left Jack
HP-LaserJet-P2015-Series : <i>Default</i>
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ATA ST9500420ASG
HL-DT-ST DVDRWBD CA10N
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4855 | 1 | null | 2010-09-28T08:31:27.723 | 4 | 344 | <p>I am new to setting up routers and networks, so I am unsure. I still have everything to the factory settings. My net connection is quite slow, and seems unreasonably so even when connected with wired. Though on wireless I get ping results like this:</p>
<pre><code>PING google.com (72.14.204.147) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from iad04s01-in-f147.1e100.net (72.14.204.147): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=921 ms
64 bytes from iad04s01-in-f147.1e100.net (72.14.204.147): icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=1024 ms
64 bytes from iad04s01-in-f147.1e100.net (72.14.204.147): icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=1038 ms
--- google.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 3 received, 25% packet loss, time 4047ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 921.235/994.828/1038.661/52.354 ms, pipe 2
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<p>I have Verizon DSL if that matters. Thanks for any help in advance! ^_^</p>
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4858 | 1 | 4863 | 2010-09-28T09:57:12.123 | 8 | 3500 | <p>Behavior: </p>
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<p>I noticed that the symlink in foo folder still point the <code>ba/file.txt</code> path.</p>
<p>There is a way to create symlinks that auto-update the paths when the source file is moved?</p>
<p>Or symlinks that being deleted when i delete the source file?</p>
<p>Will be great.</p>
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"text": "symlinks are the new kid on the block, and I think other operating systems that only allowed symlinks have caused people to never know that `ln` has been known to work without `-s` ;)",
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4868 | 1 | 4869 | 2010-09-28T20:02:29.150 | 66 | 24891 | <p>What is the difference between <strong>upstream</strong> and <strong>downstream</strong> when referring to who (or where) to go to as a developer or packager?</p>
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"body": "<p>Think of it as a great river, with the people who write the software as the source of the river. They would be the upstream, futher downstream would be your distribution, and at the end of the river would be the user. Ubuntu is in the middle of the river.</p>\n\n<p><em>Upstream</em> would be the software that Ubuntu packages and ships to users. Things like GNOME, Firefox, X.org, the Linux kernel, and many more applications. This is the bulk of the things that are in the archive, as they represent a collection of upstream projects. </p>\n\n<p>Ubuntu has one special upstream, Debian, which Ubuntu derives from. So, they are Ubuntu's upstream for many packages, though for some packages, like the kernel, Ubuntu packages directly from the upstream project, though for the majority of packages Debian is the upstream to Ubuntu, and the project that is packaged is upstream to Debian.</p>\n\n<p><em>Downstreams</em> of Ubuntu would be Ubuntu derived distributions, like Linux Mint.</p>\n\n<p>Examples of usage of this term depends on the context. So for example if you have a bug with Firefox that Ubuntu didn't introduce then you might hear the term \"Make sure you're reporting that bug upstream\". The person means reporting the bug directly to Firefox in this case.</p>\n\n<p>In the case of Ubuntu, getting the right feedback from users to the upstream developers is an important thing we do. Here are some links of what we do:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Upstream\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Upstream</a> information for application developers. I maintain this namespace as a landing page for upstream application developers who want to understand how to work with Ubuntu.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Reporting bugs upstream</a>, see <a href=\"https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+upstreamreport\" rel=\"noreferrer\">the report</a>.</li>\n<li>Ensuring patches from users <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OperationCleansweep\" rel=\"noreferrer\">get back upstream</a> so they can be integrated. Remember that every patch carried in a distro has an engineering cost AND improving the software for everyone is a goal.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Debian\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Our work</a> with Debian.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>To better answer your question here are some examples of how someone would tell you to talk to an upstream:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>\"I want to make a multimedia application for Ubuntu\" - You would use the upstream gstreamer framework.</li>\n<li>\"I want my app to talk to other apps over the internet\" - You would use the upstream telepathy framework.</li>\n<li>\"I want to add a feature to Firefox.\" - You would go talk to Firefox directly and do all that work upstream.</li>\n<li>\"I want to add an Ubuntu specific feature to Firefox\" - You would talk to Ubuntu as it's likely upstream wouldn't want or care about the feature. A maintainer will let you know.</li>\n<li>Likewise, if you were to report a bug to an upstream app (like Firefox) that was caused by something in Ubuntu, not Firefox, they would refer you to report the bug downstream. (thanks <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/users/1090/tj111\">tj111</a>)</li>\n</ul>\n",
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4872 | 1 | 4890 | 2010-09-28T22:00:27.090 | 43 | 39385 | <p>I have two different network interfaces, connected to 2 networks. One is an eth0 and the other one a wlan0. How can I tell a software to use only a specific interface? </p>
<p>Basically I want Firefox to use eth0 because it is the university lan network and I have to go to intranet sites, the other one is a wifi network open to the internet and I want to bind it to Chrome.</p>
<p>I'm working and I need to use intranet. So eth0 is my choice but eth0 is an intranet without internet access (obviously).
Since I want internet access I'm connected to wlan0 (university wifi for students).</p>
<p>The problem is if I have both connected sometimes the browser looks for www.stackoverflow.com using eth0. So I wanted to assign a browser to use only a specific interface. </p>
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"text": "Just out of curiosity: what if I want to bound dns (to include subdomains) rather than IP addresses?",
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"text": "@dierre In short: you can't, routing is based on IP addresses. The long story begins by telling that routing is a network layer 3 thing, so it won't even know about DNS names, whose resolution happens further up the networking protocol stack...",
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"text": "yeah yeah, I didn't mean with routing. I mean in general. Can it be done? Binding DNS to network interfaces?",
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"text": "@dierre What exactly do you want to do? Making a DNS server answer only on a specific network interface? Or having a DNS client (i.e., DNS resolution) use only a selected interface?",
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"text": "The second one. Because I was thinking of a different scenario. Let's say I have both interfaces connected to internet but I can use only one to download things (and throw away bandwith from it :P) from rapidshare or megaupload.",
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"text": "@dierre Sounds interesting. Maybe it's worth to make a new question out of it? :-)",
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4873 | 1 | 4874 | 2010-09-28T22:30:54.513 | 1 | 1037 | <p>I would like to set a few of my folders with a specified zoom level and set to icon view (e.g. my ebook folder) Is there anyway to do this?</p>
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4875 | 1 | 4939 | 2010-09-29T02:28:26.517 | 56 | 183430 | <p>I have Ubuntu running in VirtualBox on a Windows 7 host machine. How can I make my built-in laptop camera work with it?</p>
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"text": "Please note that this also requires the package from virtualbox.org, if I remember correctly. Here are the packages: [i386](http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.2.8/virtualbox-3.2_3.2.8-64453~Ubuntu~lucid_i386.deb) | [x64](http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.2.8/virtualbox-3.2_3.2.8-64453~Ubuntu~lucid_amd64.deb)",
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"text": "@shub: Then you need to ask another question to figure out why Ubuntu isn't detecting it - that's the root of your problem.",
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"text": "@George Nope. This is the the whole point of this question too.",
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"text": "@GeorgeEdison, Shubh is using Windows as a host system and Ubuntu as a guest. As long as Windows can recognize the webcam (can it @Shubh?) than the question is just fine.",
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4876 | 1 | 224150 | 2010-09-29T03:16:45.243 | 49 | 63610 | <p>I would like to be able to choose any already-open window and minimize it from the command line. Is this possible?</p>
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"text": "wmctrl -r \"windowname\" -b toggle,hidden Can work with wmctrl! https://askubuntu.com/questions/4876/can-i-minimize-a-window-from-the-command-line#comment1356798_4892 The answer below!",
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4879 | 1 | 4885 | 2010-09-29T04:14:27.807 | 13 | 1691 | <p>I really miss the graphical "Services" tool from older versions of Ubuntu, but I understand why it had to go. I always have terminals open anyway, so I use (because I have to now, I guess) <code>service --status-all</code> to see what services are running. This would be ok except that the command produces output like the following:</p>
<pre><code> [ + ] winbind
[ ? ] wpa-ifupdown
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<p>I'm guessing that those symbols mean something like listening, blocked, or stopped, but which is which? More importantly, why doesn't the man page say?</p>
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4883 | 1 | null | 2010-09-29T05:47:42.377 | 1 | 315 | <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IbqAv.png" alt="alt text"></p>
<p>Last 14 days I am having problem in upgrading. Each time when I attempt to upgrade, I get a message (See attached image).
Please help me in solving this issue</p>
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4888 | 1 | 4893 | 2010-09-29T06:34:56.557 | 1 | 467 | <p>So when I tried installing Burg it came to a screen to select which device to install burg on. I highlighted SDA and hit enter and it just continued without installing it on that device. Is there another key I need to select to mark that option?</p>
<p>btw, I'm using the burg-manager to install it and when I try to emulate the burg menu it comes to this...</p>
<pre><code> BURG version 1.98+20100623-1
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4898 | 1 | 4907 | 2010-09-29T12:45:47.757 | 5 | 1264 | <p>As somebody who runs multiple webservers each running a set of Django sites, keeping on top of my Python stack is very important. Out of (probably bad) habit, I rely on Ubuntu for a number of my Python packages, including <code>python-django</code> and a lot of <code>python-django-*</code> extras. The websites require these to run but as long as the package still exists, this isn't an issue. I do this rather than using VirtualEnv (et al) because I <em>want</em> Ubuntu to install security updates.</p>
<p>However the Ubuntu repos don't cater for everybody. There are cases where I'll use <code>pip</code> or <code>easy_install</code> to suck in the latest version of a Python package. When you update Python (as occasionally happens in Ubuntu), you lose all your <code>pip</code>-installed packages.</p>
<p>What terrifies me is the deeper I get, the more servers I administer, there's going to be an OS update one day that requires hours and hours of my time running around, testing sites, reinstalling python packages through <code>pip</code>. The worst bit of this is potential downtime for client sites though I do test on my development machine (always at Ubuntu-latest) so this should offset some of that worry.</p>
<p><strong>Is there anything I can do to make sure updates to Python mean the existing, non-dpgk'd Python packages are brought forward?</strong></p>
<p>That would make sure I always had access to the same packages. I'd still have to test for incompatibilities but it would be a good start.</p>
<p>There's perhaps one better solution: an application that behaved like <code>apt</code> and <code>dpkg</code> but for interacting with <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/">PyPi</a> (where <code>pip</code> and <code>easy_install</code> get most of their mojo). Something that stored a local list of installed packages, checked for updates like <code>apt</code>, managed installing, etc. <strong>Does such a thing exist?</strong> Or is it a rubbish idea?</p>
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4899 | 1 | 4909 | 2010-09-29T13:57:56.077 | 11 | 673 | <p>I have two related questions, both probably (but not necessarily preferentially) accepting the same answer :</p>
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<p>I use Universe with kubuntu but have Debian Lenny running with gnome installed separately, so anything on kde or gnome would work</p>
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4901 | 1 | 4974 | 2010-09-29T14:35:45.957 | 20 | 96658 | <p>Basically my network won't start. Can't use wired connections.</p>
<p>To make it a further brain-scratcher, when booting into recovery, and using the network console, the network comes up and works. Outside of recovery nothing.</p>
<p>As far as I can tell no settings changed between powering off and on since last time it worked, except for an automatic kernel upgrade. Using an older kernel does not seem to help.</p>
<p>Also this hardware configuration worked perfectly fine for over a year with kernel upgrades and all. Network was always automatic.</p>
<p>Information for follow up questions...</p>
<p>Network manager is running.</p>
<p>Strangely enough, my network interface was never started, nor was DHCP. Where in the configuration can I find this?</p>
<p>To manually resolve the problem:</p>
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sudo /etc/dhclient
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<p>What could have happened in my config to not make this work automatically.</p>
<p>Info gathered:</p>
<pre><code>> lspci | grep net
> 6:00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
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<p>Contents of /etc/network/interfaces</p>
<pre><code>auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
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<p>After adding </p>
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iface eth0 inet dhcp
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<p>the eth0 interface comes up, but the <code>dhclient</code> does not.</p>
<p>--</p>
<p>The problem re-occurred when waking up from sleep.</p>
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4902 | 1 | 4904 | 2010-09-29T14:46:40.190 | 13 | 1314 | <p>Can someone describe the difference between the codecs in the Medibuntu Repository versus buying the Fluendo codecs?</p>
<p>Are they the same? Does one have better quality etc?</p>
<p>My Dell Mini originally came with Fluendo installed, but I have since upgraded several times and just used Medibuntu - but I am wondering if I am missing something.</p>
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4905 | 1 | null | 2010-09-29T15:22:29.443 | 7 | 6071 | <p>After every kernel update I have to run <code>update-burg</code> manually. How do I make it automatic?</p>
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4910 | 1 | 4911 | 2010-09-29T17:07:41.960 | 4 | 1946 | <p>I've recently started administrating more Ubuntu machines - as such I've had to recompile/create packages for our configuration. On my Redhat machines I was able to create a server that served as a Yum Repository - ensuring all my updates would be installed on the machines accordingly.</p>
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4913 | 1 | null | 2010-09-29T17:39:07.123 | 1 | 266 | <p>I started scanning personal documents recently and storing them in a folder in my account, now I'm adding text, related to each document, on the <strong>Notes</strong> tab of each document's <strong>Properties</strong> window.</p>
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4917 | 1 | null | 2010-09-29T19:33:56.000 | 5 | 1573 | <p>I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 on a Gateway TA1 convertable tablet PC. After I suspend by closing the lid, and resume by reopening the lid, I cannot use my trackpad mouse anymore. How can I fix this?</p>
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xinput --list output</p>
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4919 | 1 | 4929 | 2010-09-29T20:02:08.597 | 4 | 1292 | <p>I'm running 10.04, with FireFox 3.6.x. I have NoScript and AdBlock installed, as well as Firebug and the GWT toolkit. The problem I'm having is that sometimes URLS open in new tabs even just with a normal click. I use my laptop's built-in trackpad as a pointing device with 'tap to click' enabled. This seems to happen between 10 and 25% of the time. It's quite annoying. Anyone have any idea what causes this?</p>
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4921 | 1 | 4927 | 2010-09-29T20:28:42.157 | 5 | 1001 | <p>I'd like to keep my bookmarks synced between different browsers, computers, and operating systems. What's the best browser plugin or other solution to keep my bookmarks synced between all of these?</p>
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4922 | 1 | null | 2010-09-29T20:31:46.247 | 21 | 2828 | <p>What GUI Twitter clients are there for Ubuntu?</p>
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4923 | 1 | 4943 | 2010-09-29T20:43:41.240 | 5 | 1426 | <p>There is a file in your home folder that allows you to configure some settings for Hulu Desktop: <code>~/.huludesktop</code>. It has an option for scripts to run to dis/en-able the screensaver.</p>
<p>I would like to write a script to be called by Hulu while watching video. It seems that in Ubuntu 10.04 the gconftool settings <code>idle_activation_enabled</code> & <code>idle_activation_enabled</code> no longer inhibit the gnome-screensaver or monitor sleep.</p>
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<p>I would prefer not to use Caffine as this is under Ubuntu NBR and top panel space is valuable.</p>
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4926 | 1 | null | 2010-09-29T20:56:08.247 | 4 | 345 | <p>When I open a folder in the tree pane, I want to display the sub-folders, and am likely to want to see all of them. I often then want to open a sub-folder and view the folders within that.</p>
<p>What often happens is that part of the list of sub-folders is displayed. I scroll so I can see them all, select one, and then have to scroll to see all of them...</p>
<p>Is there a way to configure nautilus so that the folder display is scrolled when I open a sub-folder, to enable me to see all the sub-folders - or at least, the first screen of them?</p>
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4933 | 1 | 4938 | 2010-09-29T23:12:19.070 | 6 | 967 | <p>I'm looking for a tool that will convert the pages of a PDF file to HTML files. I just need the text and formatting - I don't care about images and other media.</p>
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4934 | 1 | null | 2010-09-29T23:48:57.653 | 12 | 26314 | <p>When I want to print something, I don't get the option to print on both sides of a paper although my printer supports this feature. How can I fix this? Do I have to download a proprietary driver? </p>
<p>My printer is a HP LaserJet p2015n.</p>
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4935 | 1 | null | 2010-09-29T23:53:40.343 | 5 | 6713 | <p>Here's the situation: Since I upgraded to 10.4 LTS, my gnome session unexpectedly ends: it logs off.
This does not happen every time, but rather randomly. I've tried to force this event, suspecting it was some kind of unfortunate key-mapping thing: alt-enter, shift-enter, enter-end, etc. But no, I cant reproduce it.</p>
<p>Does this happen to anyone? I've googled around, but haven't found any solution.</p>
<p>Update: Here's the last part of my .xsession-errors file</p>
<pre><code>error 0 (Success) on X server :1.0.
error 0 (Success) on X server :1.0.> MADPlug-Message: Rejecting
> file:///media/KINGSTON/somesong.mp3:
> out of data.
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> gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error
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> on X server :1.0.
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> Window manager warning: Fatal IO error
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> gnome-screensaver: Fatal IO error 11
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> X server :1.0.
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> polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:
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> :1.0.
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> evolution-alarm-notify: Fatal IO error
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> tilda: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource
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> audacious2: Fatal IO error 11
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> XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource
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> gnome-terminal: Fatal IO error 11
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> X server :1.0.
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> update-notifier: Fatal IO error 11
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> X server :1.0. nm-applet: Fatal IO
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<p>Thanks in advance.error 0 (Success) on X server :1.0.</p>
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4940 | 1 | 5024 | 2010-09-30T01:34:54.647 | 3 | 1385 | <p>I just got a new server that has a brand new Areca 1880 Raid controller which the built in arcmsr module does not support. Areca has updated module source code available on the cd that came with the controller and their website. Using this I was able to install Ubuntu Server on the hardware by using my laptop to build the kernel module and loading it off a USB stick. </p>
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<p>One weird hurdle that I ran across is that the server install cd uses the desktop kernel rather than the server kernel so you need to build the module twice.</p>
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4942 | 1 | 4972 | 2010-09-30T03:07:27.050 | 13 | 27920 | <p>Can I remove the Anchor icon from my Docky dock?</p>
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4945 | 1 | null | 2010-09-30T05:36:03.003 | 3 | 732 | <p>After booting into the ubuntu login screen and clicking on my user name and entering the password, I get a dialog stating that <code>gnome-power-manager</code> is still running. The dialog presents 2 buttons, 1 to <code>Cancel</code> and other to <code>Logout Anyway</code>.</p>
<p>This issue happens about 50% of the time and I don't remember doing anything related to power management recently. Also, even if I don't choose any option in the dialog it goes away after about 30s.</p>
<p>This is happening on a desktop machine as well as a laptop. On the laptop I have configured power management for myself (not for gdm) whereas in desktop I have not configured power management for any user.</p>
<p>This is only an annoyance but still I would like to fix it, especially on my desktop where I am interested in getting it auto-login ASAP into my userid.</p>
<p>Any ideas why this could be happenning?</p>
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4947 | 1 | null | 2010-09-30T07:02:35.450 | 4 | 23023 | <p>I have a logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 connected to my ubuntu desktop and it works fine with Skype.</p>
<p>However, Skype inputs and sends my video at the native (for the webcam I think) resolution of 1600 x 1200. I can confirm that the camera supports a wide variety of resolutions starting from 160 x 120 upto 1600 x 1200 (including e.g., 320 x 240, 352 x 288) using cheese. I can select these resolutions and see the output is appropriately scaled.</p>
<p>Also, I don't see any improvements in smoothness of motion in the captured video so I suspect the original 1600 x 1200 is scaled down in the path somewhere.</p>
<p>Is it possible to somehow to enable this scaling capability towards Skype?</p>
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4950 | 1 | 4960 | 2010-09-30T08:12:12.210 | 119 | 72794 | <p>I have a new Ubuntu 10.04 installation with encrypted home directory (using the built-in encryption offered by Ubuntu installer). </p>
<p><strong>What's the easiest way to stop using encryption?</strong> (I.e., to decrypt my home directory permanently.) </p>
<p>(It's giving me problems with kernel updates, and I'd just like to cut down on all the hassle I'm having with this installation.)</p>
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"text": "+1 This is easier to do over SSH, no GRUB to deal with or trying to avoid any mounting. Just be careful deleting /home/.ecryptfs. Apparently it has a symlink pointing to /home/username. I lost all my data.",
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4954 | 1 | 4962 | 2010-09-30T09:04:08.967 | 4 | 22408 | <p>I have a workstation with NVIDIA GeForce GT 210 graphics card & Ubuntu 10.4, and am having rather annoying problems trying to get them working together. (On other machines and earlier Ubuntu versions I've been a pretty happy NVIDIA user though.)</p>
<p>First of all, simply using the NVIDIA driver automatically suggested by "Adminstration -> Hardware drivers" didn't work at all. Based on <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3024/good-nvidia-drivers-for-ubuntu/3027#3027"><strong>this answer</strong></a>, I tried with drivers straight from NVIDIA, and got it working for a while. But now (perhaps due to reboot, or <code>apt-get upgrade</code>) I'm out of luck again. </p>
<p>There now seems to be a conflict with the Nouveau driver. I've tried removing it:</p>
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<li><p><code>apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau</code> (as suggested <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>) and reboot</p></li>
<li><p>I've also tried <code>modprobe -r nouveau</code> but it gives <code>FATAL: Module nouveau is in use.</code></p></li>
</ul>
<p>But when trying to (re-)execute NVidia's installer (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-256.53.run)
it keeps complaining about Nouveau. I'm starting to run out of ideas, so any help would be welcome!</p>
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4958 | 1 | null | 2010-09-30T09:29:20.753 | 1 | 676 | <p>I need to know if the ESI ESU 1808 soundcard will work on my ubuntu, before I buy it. I've tried to google some answer, but could not find anything relevant.</p>
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4959 | 1 | 4966 | 2010-09-30T09:56:38.990 | 6 | 17753 | <p>I want to install the Apple Safari browser on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine in order to test the latest HTML5 and CSS3 features of the browser. </p>
<p>I believe it is possible to use WINE for this but I want to know which version WINE should be used and which version of Windows I should emulate. Will Wine be able to support all the CSS3 animations or should I install Winetricks ?</p>
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<pre><code>[Dialer Defaults]
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
stupid Mode = 1
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<p>and here some info from /var/log/messages<br/></p>
<pre><code>Sep 30 15:45:27 owais-laptop kernel: [ 3130.499111] usb 6-1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2
Sep 30 15:45:27 owais-laptop kernel: [ 3130.509143] scsi44 : usb-storage 6-1:1.3
Sep 30 15:45:28 owais-laptop kernel: [ 3131.517057] scsi 44:0:0:0: CD-ROM HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Sep 30 15:45:28 owais-laptop kernel: [ 3131.519980] scsi 44:0:0:1: Direct-Access HUAWEI SD Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Sep 30 15:45:28 owais-laptop usb_modeswitch: switched to 12d1:140b (HUAÿWEI TECHNOLOGIES: HUAWEI Mobile)
Sep 30 15:45:28 owais-laptop kernel: [ 3131.548883] sr1: scsi-1 drive
Sep 30 15:45:28 owais-laptop kernel: [ 3131.549148] sr 44:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
Sep 30 15:45:28 owais-laptop kernel: [ 3131.550627] sd 44:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
Sep 30 15:45:28 owais-laptop kernel: [ 3131.591897] sd 44:0:0:1: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
Sep 30 15:47:31 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
Sep 30 15:47:31 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: Using interface ppp0
Sep 30 15:47:31 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyUSB0
Sep 30 15:48:01 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Sep 30 15:48:01 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: Connection terminated.
Sep 30 15:48:01 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
Sep 30 15:48:01 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
Sep 30 15:48:01 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: Modem hangup
Sep 30 15:48:01 owais-laptop pppd[22151]: Exit.
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<p>Is this a network problem or device problem?</p>
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4967 | 1 | 4984 | 2010-09-30T13:26:39.237 | 27 | 15143 | <p>Ubuntu 10.04 has only two supported Python versions 2.6 and 3.1. Developers often need more, to test that their Python code works on 2.7, 2.5 (and maybe even 2.4 and older ones). What's the best way to install those Python versions side-by-side on a lucid system?</p>
<p>Is it <a href="https://launchpad.net/~fkrull/+archive/deadsnakes">Felix Krull's PPA</a>, which I'm currently using?</p>
<p>Incidentally, some important packages aren't available in those non-standard Pythons from the deadsnakes PPA:</p>
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4977 | 1 | null | 2010-09-30T17:14:44.830 | 4 | 723 | <p>I use three different keyboard layouts, USA, Can and Rus. My default layout is USA.</p>
<p>I have set the keyboard layout to be system-wide instead of application specific because it allows me to keep track of only one status. However, whenever I open a new application, the system-wide layout is always reset to the default layout. For example, if my layout was set to Can and I opened vlc, the layout would then switch back to USA for the whole system. I don't quite understand how or why this could be a desirable behavior... </p>
<p>Do you have any idea as how to get rid of this?</p>
<p>If not, where can I open up a feature request?</p>
<p>EDIT: I did some more testing and in fact, the behavior seems inconsistent. Sometimes the layout will switch, sometimes it won't. I can't pinpoint what is the exact source of the issue.</p>
<p>EDIT2: I think some applications do it, some don't. Ex: VLC does it, gedit doesn't.</p>
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4978 | 1 | null | 2010-09-30T17:28:02.663 | 6 | 3078 | <p>My wife and I both like to listen to the same online audio stream. That means we end up with multiple computers connecting to the same online stream at the same time. It would be helpful if I could save on internet bandwidth by connecting to the internet stream on one computer/server and "rebroadcasting" it so that it's available to other computers in my house.</p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
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4980 | 1 | null | 2010-09-30T18:09:16.990 | 2 | 991 | <p>I'm using 10.04 behind a KVM switch. The KVM is old and doesn't pass DDC through, so when the box boots up it just assumes I can't handle anything beyond 800x600. Apparently the xorg.conf is ignored, so I can't just hack monitor data directly into that. Is there a way to tell the box what my monitor is that will persist across reboots?</p>
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4983 | 1 | 40351 | 2010-09-30T19:16:57.833 | 549 | 732194 | <p>I keep reading about <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas" rel="noreferrer">Personal Package Archives</a> ('PPAs') and people answer questions with a link to a PPA. What's the best way to use these? </p>
<hr>
<p>There are multiple valid answers for this question spanning over several versions of Ubuntu. For your convenience, an index of each is below.</p>
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<li><a href="https://askubuntu.com/a/40351">Ubuntu 11.04 and newer</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://askubuntu.com/a/5102">Ubuntu 10.10</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://askubuntu.com/a/5139">Ubuntu 10.04</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://askubuntu.com/a/4987">Command Line</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://askubuntu.com/a/4990">What is a PPA?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://askubuntu.com/a/91660">Removing a PPA</a></li>
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4985 | 1 | null | 2010-09-30T19:20:50.003 | 2 | 1583 | <p>Hey all. I've suffered a major problem with my laptop over the last release or so; which is solved by appending xforcevesa to the boot options.</p>
<p>However, in 10.10, instead of putting me onto low graphics mode, it instead puts me onto the command line. Help! </p>
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4988 | 1 | 4994 | 2010-09-30T19:48:17.450 | 6 | 2557 | <p>Question inspired from <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4872/bind-software-to-different-network-interfaces">here</a></p>
<p><strong><em>Scenario</em></strong></p>
<p>I live in a house near my university. That said, students wifi can reach my home so I usually use that even from home. The problem is, being a wifi managed by university sysadmins, it's not possible to connect to some dns (e.g. file uploading domains like rapidshare or megaupload).
The good news is I also have an USB internet key that I can use, but, basically that's a scam like all internet mobile plans in Italy because after 20GB they'll cut off my bandwith.</p>
<p><strong><em>Finally...the question</em></strong></p>
<p>To optimize my bandwith usage I want to say to my Ubuntu: if I connect to *.domain.com use this interface, otherwise use the other one. For the sake of this question let's call wifi <code>wlan0</code> and usb internet key <code>ppp0</code>.</p>
<p><strong><em>P.S.:</em></strong> it's a really specific question. Do not suggest things like "use Tor, dude". I do not want to abuse the university wifi. I actually don't know if that is even possibile with Tor...but still... :)</p>
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4989 | 1 | 5004 | 2010-09-30T20:14:25.017 | 28 | 54953 | <p>How do I reset the font settings - actual font and size - to their default? </p>
<p>(I changed some values in System->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts)</p>
<p>This is particularly important with the new Ubuntu font in Maverick - for instance I'm interested to see what the default settings are.</p>
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5007 | 1 | 5016 | 2010-10-01T08:14:21.307 | 9 | 54983 | <p>From the SMART Data, it shows that I have 3 pending sector counts. (Running Ubuntu Maverick.)</p>
<p>I tried following <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8981588&postcount=17" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a forums link regarding how to solve that</a>, but I'm not able to identify the exact sector count to write to that sector. I've run the full self test from the Disk Utility, but the disk Utility does not show the exact sector number in Maverick, not sure about earlier versions though. Has this changed in Maverick?</p>
<p>How do I identify the sector and fix that pending count? Is that tip in the forums safe?</p>
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I do have other issues with "Reallocated Sector Count" , from what I've googled, it's not fixable.. Is there any way to prevent it from rising?</p>
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"text": "Thanks for the detailed answer. Those three pending sectors existed for a very long time, nearly more than 6months, thats the reason I wanted to fix those pending sectors. And those sectors are in my main /home partition, how do i do this online? You mentioned unmounting all partitions, should i do this from a live cd?",
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5013 | 1 | 5489 | 2010-10-01T12:42:57.897 | 24 | 32912 | <p>I use Thunderbird with Lighting calendar addon, which stores calendar data in <code>iCalendar</code> format. </p>
<p>How can I synchronize this calendar and Thunderbird contacts with Android based smartphone (HTC Wildfire).</p>
<p>I know I can use Google Account, but I'd prefer to use bluetooth or even better, local access via wi-fi (no internet connection available).</p>
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5017 | 1 | 5019 | 2010-10-01T15:00:20.417 | 42 | 50177 | <p>I am trying to figure out if it's possible to do the following(or rather bind this action to a hot key):
If on a workspace I have 2 windows, I want to maximize each one vertically and resize them horizontally to be half of the screen each and position them next to each other. Basically after this operation there should 2 equally sized windows, taking up all space.</p>
<p>If that's not possible with default Gnome, how can I write up a python script to do that(i.e. where can I start? Never did UI scripting with Python before...)</p>
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"text": "@petermolnar Is there not even a Fn-overlay one? Lots of laptops (ThinkPads inclusive) have overlays for keypad keys so you press `Fn+j` for KP1, for example. Give it a go.",
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5018 | 1 | 5020 | 2010-10-01T15:56:13.787 | 111 | 197326 | <p>As per title, I wish to know if I can, after a successful 32bit setup and consequent software installations, update to a 64bit version.</p>
<p>I know how to partition (actually one of the solutions is to set <code>/</code>, <code>/etc</code>, <code>/home</code>, <code>/var/www</code>, and <code>/opt</code> as separate partitions) and I know that a clean install is way better than a dirty one, yet I would like to know if/how it's possible to do that.</p>
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"body": "<p>You will find a clean install a lot less hassle than any other unusual, obscure, unsupported method.</p>\n\n<p>Your suggest of partitioning the config files, home directories, etc is probably the best idea, and it is possible to <a href=\"http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1057608\">install the same packages on a clean install as on another install</a>.</p>\n\n<p>On the other hand, what you requested is possible, there is a little guide for <a href=\"http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/debian_arch_up/index.html\">Debian based systems</a> but remember \"this really is for professional-level sysadmins\" and \"this procedure is, in every possible respect, a bad idea. If it eats your firstborn, please don't come crying to me\"... (so good luck)</p>\n",
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"text": "What if I have no firstborn, does this mean the procedure is safer for me than others? ..... i kid, the question is: If you just got 32 bit working right, why do you want to go through hell just to save yourself backup/restore of data time + reinstallation time, in the end this method is not faster. Faster = backup, reinstall. Also less problems in the long run.",
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"text": "Thanks a lot: eventually I backed up all my data, partitioned my disk and reinstalled. Now some hassle to restore DBs, webserver and some service is required, though.",
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"text": "@dag729: Trust me, its a hassle to backup/restore, but less than the alternative. You only do 32 -> 64 in dire cases. Even the sysadmins here at work won't do that, they backup, wipe, install, much cleaner/safer.",
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5027 | 1 | null | 2010-10-01T18:56:09.427 | 7 | 1088 | <p>I would like to replace the non-open lpcxpresso IDE with a free IDE. Any pointers how to do it best? How can I point one of the existing IDEs to use the arm gcc compiler?</p>
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5030 | 1 | null | 2010-10-01T19:46:29.597 | 2 | 1410 | <p>My disk is very slow after I installed ubuntu 10.04 over my old 9.04. Doing some tinkering helped a little:</p>
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Timing cached reads: 3668 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1834.11 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 292 MB in 3.02 seconds = 96.83 MB/sec
sudo hdparm -c1 -d1 -X 66 /dev/sda1
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setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1
HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
setting xfermode to 66 (UltraDMA mode2)
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setxfermode) failed: Invalid exchange
IO_support = 0 (default)
HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
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Timing cached reads: 4006 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2003.29 MB/sec
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<p>But it is still far too slow. On the other version, I had a custom partition setup, with the home partition with 100GB, and ext3 (and other partitions for swap, boot, root folder and space for a windows partition I never cared to install ).</p>
<p>This time I am using a standard Lynx setup (2 partitions, the swap and the main one with almost 250Gb, using ext4).</p>
<p>Some applications I develop, that use disk for some unit tests, are now very slow to work with. Is there a way to making it faster? Going back to 9.04? Waiting for 10,10? Gparting and making partitions smaller on ext3? I don't know if any of these will work....</p>
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5031 | 1 | 5062 | 2010-10-01T20:16:34.673 | 40 | 15792 | <p>I've got a file said to contain information I was looking for. Unfortunately it is an executable instead of DOC (as it was meant to be) and the site I've download it from looks suspicious for me. If I was not using Linux, I'd run it on a VM or a separate PC. But running Linux, do I need to worry, or can I just run it with Wine? Can Wine system be infected?</p>
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5032 | 1 | 6310 | 2010-10-01T21:07:24.710 | 2 | 558 | <p>I have a laptop that someone gave me and it came with a PCMCIA card for the wireless connection. It is a D-Link Wireless WNA-1330 PCMCIA Card. When I installed Ubuntu 8.04, the wireless connectivity worked just fine without issue to my DSL router (that has a DHCP server on it). I was able to connect to the DSL router and surf the web.</p>
<p>I then ran the upgrade process to 10.04 in the Package/Update Manager. After the upgrade, the wireless card ceased to work. It would light up like it should, and it would see the network of wireless DSL routers in my neighborhood, but not let me connect with the WEP key.</p>
<p>When I checked the logs, I found it was timing out in trying to get an IP address for some reason. So, I read that I should set it to a static IP.</p>
<p>I set it to a static IP address and then it connected properly to the wireless router. The DSL router's network page also showed the connection. But then when I tried to surf the web, it wouldn't work. I tried pinging multiple hosts and all I could do was ping the DSL router 192.168.1.1. I also had packet loss when pinging that router.</p>
<p>So, I changed the config to use Google's Public DNS (8.8.8.8) and reconnected the wireless. This time, I could ping multiple sites on the web (with some packet loss) but could not browse them with the web browser. As well, I still cannot browse my router's management page on 192.168.1.1.</p>
<p>What do you think is going on?</p>
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5033 | 1 | 5060 | 2010-10-01T21:09:33.523 | 14 | 1125 | <p>I pretty much believe (am I wrong?) that over 90% (if not over 99.9%) of Ubuntu 10.x i386 installations are run on i686 computers. So why is Ubuntu still not i686-optimized?</p>
<p>The only case I can imagine, when one's install modern Ubuntu on i386 machine is a low-end netbook on something like Geode CPU. So, if Canonical guys would like to support those, then why not to leave "Netbook Remix" i386 and make mainstream desktop Ubuntu i686?</p>
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5036 | 1 | 5038 | 2010-10-01T22:07:23.020 | 7 | 670 | <p>What are the differences between regular processes (like firefox, gimp, skype, etc.) and services (httpd, mysqld, etc.)? Obviously, services are different in their function, but I'm really wondering what's going on under the hood at the OS level? Are they treated in any different way?</p>
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5037 | 1 | null | 2010-10-01T22:15:35.923 | 2 | 293 | <p>The whole day I struggled hard for a presentation of a video that I need it for tomorrow. When I am trying to export that project to AVI format, its throwing me an error message stating:</p>
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<p>How can I overcome this?</p>
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<p>More generally, what meaning does the <code>.d</code> suffix convey to a directory?</p>
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"text": "@AsheeshR Check whether there is a package called `upstart` or `sysvinit`. And in recent versions, it could be `systemd` as well (which didn't exist for Ubuntu back when I wrote my answer). It's whichever package provides `/sbin/init` (`dpkg -S /sbin/init`).",
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"text": "On the AWS Ubuntu instance I am using (from Bitnami), it's the `upstart` package that provides /sbin/init (ran `dpkg -S /sbin/init`). But Bitnami has placed its script in the /etc/init.d directory. Isn't this conflicting w/ your answer to @AsheeshR above? Thank you.",
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"text": "@Gilles so that was an example, but normally /etc/init.d/* are not used by systemd or upstart, are they? (just to be sure). I mean even if links in /etc/rc?.d/* exist, right?",
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5041 | 1 | 5056 | 2010-10-01T23:25:17.893 | 1 | 1824 | <p>My long-term media player (for various reasons) has been gmplayer. A simple floating UI that remembered its fullscreen layout and just worked for me. I'm not trying to convert anybody but please respect that I'm not looking for alternatives.</p>
<p>It used to live in a package called <code>mplayer-gui</code>. Since upgrading to Maverick, I can't find it anywhere.</p>
<p>Apparently an Ubuntu-sent changelog says I should use SMplayer instead but as anybody who has used both will tell you immediately, they're completely different styles of media player.</p>
<p>I'm not against progress but I can't see anything but regression here.</p>
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5048 | 1 | null | 2010-10-02T03:26:28.660 | 14 | 44225 | <p>The <strong>only</strong> thing keeping me from blowing away the crappy Vista install on my Toshiba laptop and going pure Ubuntu is the fact that I need to VPN to work and they use Sonicwall. Due to some proprietary voodoo used by that particular firewall setup on my work's end, I have to use the Sonicwall client which only runs on Windows.</p>
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5051 | 1 | 5053 | 2010-10-02T04:13:49.937 | 13 | 35347 | <p>I have problems transferring binary programs to a micro-controller prototype board when using ubuntu/kubuntu to mount the board via usb. With MacOS and Windows there are no problems. I have found the writing from Ubuntu definitely changes the written file. I suspect that the write caching is the problem. How can I disable it, or what else might be the problem.</p>
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5052 | 1 | 5199 | 2010-10-02T04:48:02.277 | 2 | 2797 | <p>During the week I did a update through the update manager and since then my desktop graphics have stopped working properly.</p>
<p>I usually just quickly glance through the list of packages to be updated before pressing install and this time I notice that a component called fglrx was going to be updated. I can only speculate that this has anything to do with it. I chose to update...</p>
<p>After the update I did a reboot and that's when the trouble began. My system was unable to boot into high resolution mode and gave me the option to boot into low graphics mode or reconfigure. I tried the reconfigure option but it didn't do anything and after I fiddled around a bit I was able to get back to a low-res desktop.</p>
<p>The first thing I tried was <code>sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg</code> but this seem to do nothing. It just dropped me back to the command-line without a message.</p>
<p>Then I checked if my hardware drivers where still enabled so I opened System / Administration / Hardware Drivers panel and after searching for available drivers it came up with an empty list. I decided to downloaded the latest ATI x86_64 drivers and did an install of those. Installation was successful and I did a reboot.</p>
<p>I'm currently in high-res mode but I don't seem to have any hardware acceleration. Dragging a window around the desktop is a painful process to watch. There is an <code>aticonfig</code> command line utility that outputs about 50 zillion options. I'm pretty sure there used to be a graphical UI version of it but I can't seem to find it anywhere in my Applications menu.</p>
<p>When I issue the following command: <code>fglrxinfo</code> I get the following output:</p>
<pre><code>X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 136 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 15
Current serial number in output stream: 15
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<p>I'm on Ubuntu 9.10 and I have an ATI Radeon 5450 video card.</p>
<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
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5055 | 1 | 218446 | 2010-10-02T10:20:10.127 | 13 | 1436 | <p>I've just read <a href="https://askubuntu.com/q/5054/1231">this question</a> and realized that I had never used either the "Copy To" or "Move To" context menu - is it possible to hide them?</p>
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5057 | 1 | 5061 | 2010-10-02T11:03:58.010 | 7 | 2272 | <p>I'm new in Ubuntu. So far, I used only Windows. In Ubuntu irritates me order of dialog buttons: OK / Cancel. In Windows OK button is first and Cancel is second button. In Ubuntu it is vice versa. How can I change it? What should I do to change it and set sequence to OK / Cancel in all dialogs?</p>
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5058 | 1 | 5059 | 2010-10-02T12:06:55.430 | 9 | 4411 | <p>I'm getting an apt-get error that says</p>
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<p>The brmfc7340lpr is a printer driver -- it's a local deb file. Doing a dpkg or apt-get purge doesn't work, neither does <code>apt-get install -f</code> .</p>
<p>How do I reinstall a package from a local deb file?</p>
<p>Output:</p>
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[sudo] password for username:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: The package brmfc7340lpr needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
box-name% sudo apt-get purge brmfc7340lpr
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: The package brmfc7340lpr needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
box-name% sudo dpkg --purge brmfc7340lpr
dpkg: error processing brmfc7340lpr (--purge):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
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Errors were encountered while processing:
brmfc7340lpr
box-name% sudo dpkg --install brmfc7340lpr-2.0.2-1.i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package brmfc7340lpr.
(Reading database ... 725204 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace brmfc7340lpr 2.0.2-1 (using .../brmfc7340lpr-2.0.2-1.i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement brmfc7340lpr ...
start: Unknown job: lpd
dpkg: warning: subprocess old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
start: Unknown job: lpd
dpkg: error processing brmfc7340lpr-2.0.2-1.i386.deb (--install):
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
start: Unknown job: lpd
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
brmfc7340lpr-2.0.2-1.i386.deb
box-name% sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: The package brmfc7340lpr needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
box-name%
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| 669 | 8844 | 2014-02-18T00:02:39.710 | 2014-02-18T00:02:39.710 | How to fix a dpkg broken by the Brother MFC-7340 deb driver | [
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"text": "You might want to rename your question. It makes your problem sound a bit too generic. You're real question isn't how to reinstall just any local deb, but how to handle a very specific problem.",
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"text": "@Roman updated with some specific instructions that might help. I agree with andrewsomething's comment that this no longer looks a generic question and should be renamed.",
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5065 | 1 | 5068 | 2010-10-02T14:21:31.977 | 28 | 21029 | <p>How can I disable the purple "Ubuntu" splash screen that displays at boot before the login screen has loaded? I'd prefer to just see plain text scroll by.</p>
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"text": "Thanks, I never would have guessed it was called \"plymouth\". The second method worked great for me.",
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"text": "I've removed both quite and splash from my GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and I still get a blank, plain, purple screen while the kernel is loading. Once the kernel is loaded and system services are starting then the splash goes away.",
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"text": "there is no /etc/default/grub on my system, I think because of the move to grub2, so where can I set GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT when using grub2 ?",
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"text": "@Jay_silly_evarlast_Wren After editing `/etc/default/grub` you need to run `sudo update-grub` to apply the changes to the boot loader. See [the ubnutu grub help wiki](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2). `/etc/default/grub` exists on my ubuntu 12.10 installation.",
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"text": "\"You can do this per-boot...\" Do you know how? A quick google doesn't turn up anything useful.",
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"text": "@TheGuywithTheHat \"per-boot\" = edit the GRUB command-line by pressing `e` at the GRUB menu.",
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