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4737 | 1 | 4741 | 2010-09-25T07:08:58.903 | 5 | 2804 | <p>I'm setting up Lucid on a new laptop and I'd like to use LVM - partly for flexibility and partly to make it easy to move /home to a new distro if needed. </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 pl... | 2331 | 4 | 2010-09-25T16:42:01.293 | 2010-09-28T03:47:04.820 | How can I find which command is bound to a given keyboard shortcut? | [
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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>
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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>
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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:/... | 2390 | 2390 | 2010-09-25T22:20:18.807 | 2010-09-27T23:01:10.580 | I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 LAMP server. Where do I best create folders to put my websites? | [
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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. C... | 2390 | 2390 | 2010-10-02T22:10:44.613 | 2010-11-05T21:23:35.127 | How to enable video playing on a second monitor using Intel graphics? | [
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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 runni... | 2497 | null | null | 2010-09-27T02:35:05.847 | Ubuntu 10.04 Gnome/X hang | [
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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... | 541 | null | null | 2017-02-11T17:04:46.127 | How can I divide processes amongst multiple computers | [
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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... | 2390 | null | null | 2015-10-06T04:04:18.327 | How to set up video and audio players to use realtime (or close) priority? | [
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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>
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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>
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4777 | 1 | null | 2010-09-26T04:26:47.177 | 3 | 2889 | <p><strong>My vim directory:</strong></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>
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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>
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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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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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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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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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4830 | 1 | 4833 | 2010-09-27T20:24:37.230 | 465 | 945988 | <p>I am lazy at home and use password authentication for my home machines. I am ready to move to key based authentication. There are many options on the web on how to do this, including catting then sshing the key over, scping the key over directly, etc.</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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4836 | 1 | 4837 | 2010-09-27T21:16:40.170 | 5 | 15738 | <p>I have multiple torrent programs installed and when I download a <code>.torrent</code> file (in this case an Ubuntu ISO) using google chrome and open it, it doesn't open in my preferred program. How can I change this?</p>
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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 time... | 2528 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:49.590 | 2011-01-03T15:07:24.997 | Why are 2 Adobe Flash Plugin on USC (Ubuntu Software Center)? | [
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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.
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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.
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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>
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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>
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4858 | 1 | 4863 | 2010-09-28T09:57:12.123 | 8 | 3500 | <p>Behavior: </p>
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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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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>
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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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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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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 lik... | 2315 | 1859 | 2013-08-24T16:04:46.740 | 2015-01-02T17:17:41.477 | What do the symbols in service --status-all mean? | [
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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>
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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 requi... | 449 | null | null | 2010-09-29T17:25:09.170 | Drag forward installed Python packages when upgrading | [
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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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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>
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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>
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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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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 happe... | 1217 | null | null | 2011-05-13T10:55:01.910 | Clicking URLS opens a new tab in FireFox | [
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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>
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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>
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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.
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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 b... | 1909 | 235 | 2010-10-01T17:24:05.100 | 2018-04-11T19:25:02.567 | Installing server on unsupported Areca RAID Controller | [
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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4964 | 1 | 5006 | 2010-09-30T12:28:34.340 | 3 | 1850 | <p>I have a TATA Photon+ (Huawei EC1260) mobile broadband device and am unable to establish a connection either using wvdial or the network manager.</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/~fkrul... | 136 | 169736 | 2014-05-03T16:28:10.540 | 2014-05-03T16:28:10.540 | What's the best way to get Python 2.5 and 2.7 | [
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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>
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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 tha... | 2170 | null | null | 2010-10-14T10:20:10.347 | How can I rebroadcast an audio stream? | [
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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 per... | 2581 | 23382 | 2011-10-18T17:54:26.840 | 2011-10-18T17:54:26.840 | How do I change my monitor's resolution when using a KVM? | [
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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>
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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>
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<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 ... | 2550 | -1 | 2017-04-12T07:23:19.023 | 2011-06-22T18:55:00.033 | 2 network interfaces connected to internet. Choose the one to use according to the domain name | [
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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>
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<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>
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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>
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5015 | 1 | null | 2010-10-01T13:57:02.987 | 3 | 536 | <p>Once I use an external CRT display (explicitly disabling it before shutting down does not help) with my laptop, then when I next start my laptop without any external display attached, mouse cursor is invisible (but works, i still can click buttons, but can't track where the cursor is now). How to fix this?</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):
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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>
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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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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 i... | 2390 | null | null | 2014-05-25T11:05:16.437 | What if I run a virus/trojan Windows EXE on Ubuntu with Wine? | [
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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 route... | 1698 | 235 | 2010-10-02T18:27:36.150 | 2013-01-06T02:33:03.093 | Wireless Card Worked on 8.04, Failed on 10.04, Only Works Slightly on Static IP | [
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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>
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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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5039 | 1 | 5042 | 2010-10-01T22:59:18.513 | 255 | 203102 | <p>What is the difference between <code>/etc/init/</code> and <code>/etc/init.d/</code>? </p>
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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>
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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 w... | 1940 | null | null | 2019-12-18T14:52:10.317 | Ubuntu VPN Using Sonicwall | [
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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 d... | 4 | null | null | 2020-10-29T07:45:59.547 | How to switch off caching for usb device when writing to it? | [
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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>
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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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"body": "<p>It is unfortunately not possible to do this in either 12.04 or 12.10, because of the changes to <code>Nautilus</code> and the removal of <code>/usr/share/nautilus/ui/nautilus-directory-view-ui.xml</code>. It has been asked very recently (June 2012) in the <a href=\"https://mail.gnome... | [
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"body": "<h3>For 11.10 and earlier</h3>\n<p>Yes, edit the file:</p>\n<pre><code>/usr/share/nautilus/ui/nautilus-directory-view-ui.xml\n</code></pre>\n<p>and find the <strong>last</strong> instance of this:</p>\n<pre><code> <menu action="CopyToMenu">\n <menuit... | null | null | null | null | null |
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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"text": "blame Microsoft for getting it wrong 5-10 years before the Right Way was defined ;) Oh wait it was only following IBM-CUA which was influenced by Apple, so it's probably Steve Jobs fault. I just s... | {
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"body": "<p>You can't change that (without changing the program). It's the order recommended by the <a href=\"http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/\" rel=\"nofollow\">GNOME Human Interface Guidelines</a> and therefore The Right Way To Do It in Ubuntu.</p>\n",
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"body": "<p>You can't change that (without changing the program). It's the order recommended by the <a href=\"http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/\" rel=\"nofollow\">GNOME Human Interface Guidelines</a> and therefore The Right Way To Do It in Ubuntu.</p>\n",
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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>
<p><code>E: The package brmfc7340lpr needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.</code></p>
<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>
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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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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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