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49799 | 1 | 49801 | 2011-06-21T07:31:27.553 | 36 | 38124 | <p>I was looking for software which is able to cut audio files into smaller pieces, for example I set seconds and miliseconds for beginning and end of cutting, and then I can save cut content as new file.</p>
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49808 | 1 | null | 2011-06-21T08:41:28.883 | 1 | 1011 | <p>I'm trying to use OpenVPN to connect to a work network. Unfortunately, the work network is behind a NAT, which means I have to use the float option to make it work.</p>
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49812 | 1 | null | 2011-06-21T09:36:25.723 | 1 | 947 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/579/how-do-i-move-the-window-buttons-from-left-to-right">How do I move the Window buttons from left to right?</a> </p>
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<p>How to keep buttons layout when maximize windows on Natty?</p>
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49813 | 1 | 49819 | 2011-06-21T09:39:38.897 | 8 | 13617 | <p>What program or configuration is responsible for making fonts sharp and clear?</p>
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49814 | 1 | 49985 | 2011-06-21T09:40:16.990 | 3 | 2141 | <p>I'm trying to create an ubuntu .deb package for the (pretty awesome) <a href="http://www.iolanguage.com/" rel="nofollow">Io Language</a>. I am not the developer of that language, so I'm not familiar with <a href="https://github.com/stevedekorte/io" rel="nofollow">its sourcecode</a> yet. This is my first attempt at c... | 6445 | 235 | 2011-06-21T13:22:19.533 | 2011-06-22T06:55:27.217 | "io: postinst-must-call-ldconfig" when creating a package | [
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49817 | 1 | 49822 | 2011-06-21T10:20:07.270 | 6 | 4831 | <p>If I go to a web address that doesn't exist such as <a href="http://testestewcsdijncijfkdmkdfkddmkmdmdsexsecsecfvrgtoejwfej.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://testestewcsdijncijfkdmkdfkddmkmdmdsexsecsecfvrgtoejwfej.com/</a> I get landed on a strange Chinese page like this:</p>
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49827 | 1 | null | 2011-06-21T11:21:32.373 | 25 | 37550 | <p>I have never worked with Linux before. I always used Windows. But I'm considering installing Ubuntu on my machine.</p>
<p>I read installing Ubuntu should be very easy.
But is there anything I need to keep in mind during the installation?</p>
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49829 | 1 | null | 2011-06-21T11:27:34.330 | 0 | 222 | <p>I tried to update via the "update manager", but when I click on the update button it gives a low space error. I tried running <code>sudo apt-get clean</code> in a terminal but that also ends in vain.</p>
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49832 | 1 | 77012 | 2011-06-21T11:51:26.090 | 0 | 2414 | <p>I am playing bygfoot football manager game in ubuntu 11.04. i saved the game and it saved my game in "homefolder/.bygfoot/saves" path. Now i want to play the same game on another computer. so how to find my saved game file, so that i can load that game in that computer and play. When i visit my home folder i am not ... | 18851 | 169736 | 2013-12-15T14:11:28.500 | 2013-12-15T14:11:28.500 | Locate saved game file | [
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49836 | 1 | null | 2011-06-21T11:59:39.667 | 3 | 204 | <p>I watched some tv that is in a .avi file yesterday everything worked fine but this morning (and now) the audio stops working after 5 seconds and the video gets jumpy. </p>
<p>Info, 11.04, asus 1201n, both vlc and movie player has the error.</p>
<p>Stefano Palazzo helped with this. <code>sudo gedit /var/log/apt/his... | 10698 | 10698 | 2011-06-21T19:06:06.000 | 2011-09-17T01:50:31.873 | audio stopped working sudden in a .avi file | [
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49839 | 1 | 58652 | 2011-06-21T12:14:36.897 | 4 | 334 | <p>I have auto-login on my 11.04 but when I start up I come to the login screen and it says "choose a language" but my language is already selected (English USA) to login I just press enter, but why does the screen come up? How can I make it go away? </p>
<p>This is how it looks on start-up.</p>
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49841 | 1 | 50798 | 2011-06-21T12:27:06.153 | 12 | 2763 | <p>I want all the AppArmor profiles activated wherever applicable permanently, how can I do that?</p>
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49843 | 1 | 49867 | 2011-06-21T12:34:12.227 | 4 | 3962 | <p>How do I tell aptitude to grab a package specifically from a PPA and ignore the one from official repository?</p>
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49847 | 1 | null | 2011-06-21T13:08:23.913 | 3 | 2440 | <p>How can I, as an Ubuntu beginner, get a daily snapshot of a webpage? The page requires a log in and then displays a bunch of numbers that I'm interested in. </p>
<p>Can I write a script to take care of this?</p>
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49849 | 1 | 49856 | 2011-06-21T13:10:40.593 | 36 | 29665 | <p>I want to create an Ubuntu desktop app, specifically to replace Gwibber.</p>
<p>I can code in Java, Python and a few other technologies. Adobe Flex would have been an option until Adobe decided to suck some more and stopped support for AIR on Linux.</p>
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49852 | 1 | 50323 | 2011-06-21T13:22:00.080 | 2 | 1296 | <p>My internet connection is extremely slow after installing 11.04, It took me over night to download and install firefox flash player pluggin. I have a laptop on the same network which is running windows7 and the speed from that is extremely fast.
Update manager is showing 10.1kb/s. This is really surreal.</p>
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49853 | 1 | 51531 | 2011-06-21T13:24:38.970 | 3 | 5254 | <p>I have a Wacom tablet and a netbook, I would like to use both as a paper replacement for taking notes. Is there some note taking application that runs in full screen and lets you save the images/vector images in a reasonable format?</p>
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49854 | 1 | 49863 | 2011-06-21T13:32:17.187 | 1 | 923 | <p>For a few weeks / months now I keep discovering weird files in my home folder. They are named, for example, like this:
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49858 | 1 | 49864 | 2011-06-21T14:29:20.863 | 8 | 366 | <p>Where can I find the latest news on Ubuntu 11.10? I'm interested in what default applications are going to be present in 11.10.</p>
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49862 | 1 | null | 2011-06-21T14:35:24.353 | 2 | 1895 | <p>I've got in the database several japanese/chinese/korean song that are shown with "random" characters (I think I should install a language package... but I don't know which one).</p>
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49865 | 1 | 49905 | 2011-06-21T14:39:08.863 | 7 | 12947 | <p>I have enabled DAAP plugin in Rhythmbox, ticked the "Share my music" option, but no DAAP server shows up in my other clients (android and another PC). Am I missing something, like firewall configurations, router configurations, etc?</p>
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49866 | 1 | 49875 | 2011-06-21T14:56:45.447 | 61 | 83016 | <p>As a result of a long-running cron job, I have over 1,000 messages in my user's mailbox. What's the easiest way to delete them?</p>
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49869 | 1 | 49872 | 2011-06-21T15:19:38.870 | 165 | 425991 | <p>I just installed a new version of Ubuntu and I want to roll it back to the previous version.</p>
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49876 | 1 | 49887 | 2011-06-21T15:54:15.823 | 1 | 187 | <p>I have to install FFX 3.5 on my 11.04 machine. It's needed because I'm helping a friend of mine in a project involving Server-Side Javascript, and he is using POW webserver, actually avaliable for Linux only as a Firefox AddOn. (I know it's a dumb thing)
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49877 | 1 | 49916 | 2011-06-21T15:56:44.683 | 4 | 3875 | <p>I've installed win 7 and ubuntu 11.04. After a storm killed the power. I'm unable to boot. </p>
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49886 | 1 | 51529 | 2011-06-21T16:55:29.870 | 3 | 742 | <p>I installed the gstremer fluendo codecs. How do I know if I am using them or how do I specify them as an argument for vlc or mplayer?</p>
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49888 | 1 | 49891 | 2011-06-21T16:58:47.023 | 10 | 268 | <p>Firefox 5 has been released today, so I want to know when Firefox 5 will be in the official Natty repositories. I don't want to upgrade using a PPA.</p>
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49890 | 1 | 49897 | 2011-06-21T17:00:58.710 | 18 | 14071 | <p>I did not notice any difference between them. </p>
<p>I was hoping "completely remove" will remove all hidden configuration files in the home directories, but it is not doing that.</p>
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49892 | 1 | 49899 | 2011-06-21T17:03:40.643 | 2 | 1567 | <p>After spending a while figuring out Calibre's news fetching feature, and spending another while slowly editing the recipes as it maxed out the cpu, I was disappointed to find that resulting the ebooks were all 0.0Mb. I disabled my proxy but still no good.</p>
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49893 | 1 | 49933 | 2011-06-21T17:06:18.520 | 7 | 8989 | <p>My idea was that (using loopback devices) it works like this</p>
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<li>Create the raid array <code>sudo mkfs.btrfs -m raid1 -d raid1 /dev/loop1 /dev/loop2</code></li>
<li>You mount them <code>sudo mount /dev/loop1 /mnt</code> and mark them <code>touch goodcondition</code></li>
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49900 | 1 | 178031 | 2011-06-21T17:22:53.177 | 5 | 7717 | <p>I ask you guys if anyone knows if there is an open software, similar to <a href="http://instagr.am/" rel="nofollow"><strong>Instagram</strong></a> for Desktop or Phone use? I know that there is Gimp, Inkskape and others, but I want something similar to <strong>Instagram</strong> specifically.</p>
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49901 | 1 | null | 2011-06-21T17:24:37.250 | 5 | 311 | <p>I think this is a bug but will report this here before. There are 4 conditions to reproduce this problem: </p>
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49908 | 1 | null | 2011-06-21T18:14:54.183 | 1 | 3252 | <p>I'm considering a HRT Music Streamer II DAC (digital analog converter) for my HTPC. I run Ubuntu 10.10, but considering a upgrade to 11.04. Will this DAC be P'n'P, or at least easy to set up?</p>
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49909 | 1 | null | 2011-06-21T18:30:53.973 | 0 | 531 | <p>I am not able to hear any sound. Does anyone have a clue how to proceed in fixing this?</p>
<p>Issuing <code>aplay</code> gives this</p>
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49910 | 1 | 50412 | 2011-06-21T18:39:48.087 | 38 | 100362 | <p>I use a number of identical USB-to-serial adapters with my laptop (Ubuntu 9.10). The adapters are manufactured by Sabrent and are built around a Prolific PL2303 IC, as shown by <code>lsusb</code>: </p>
<pre><code>Bus 001 Device 008: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port
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49919 | 1 | null | 2011-06-21T20:05:01.587 | 1 | 262 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/37824/what-is-the-best-way-to-configure-a-thinkpads-trackpoint">What is the best way to configure a Thinkpad's TrackPoint?</a> </p>
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49920 | 1 | null | 2011-06-21T20:31:40.147 | 0 | 160 | <p>When booting I will have to boot maybe 3 or 4 times to get a screen that is not displayed diagonally or is not using the full screen width.</p>
<p><strong>Hardware specification:</strong> HP s7727c with AMD64 and NVIDIA chipsets and Insignia 22" monitor/TV. The Ubuntu version is 9.10 Karmic.</p>
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49921 | 1 | 49948 | 2011-06-21T20:43:37.267 | 5 | 452 | <p>I was wondering if it is possible to create a keyboard shortcut to run application if it is not yet running in Ubuntu?</p>
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49925 | 1 | 115917 | 2011-06-21T20:55:04.917 | 1 | 223 | <p>Yesterday I upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04, everything seemed to go okay until immediately after login: the desktop goes into a "corrupted" looking state (similar to having too high resolution set). I can see some kind of movement by moving the mouse around/right clicking, and can enter text terminals via ctrl + alt ... | 20324 | null | null | 2012-03-25T15:42:15.380 | After 10.10 -> 11.04 upgrade, can only login via Classic (No Effects) | [
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49927 | 1 | 49932 | 2011-06-21T21:34:34.897 | 1 | 856 | <p>I have a workstation that was given to me that is a friggen powerhouse, so I figured I would set it up as my development and demo server. This is my first experience installing Ubuntu onto a RAID array and so far it has not been a fun one. I have been following the <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguid... | 9270 | -1 | 2020-06-12T14:37:07.210 | 2011-06-21T22:26:37.023 | Installing 10.04 server on HP xw9400 Workstation with RAID 5 | [
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49930 | 1 | null | 2011-06-21T21:53:48.063 | 5 | 33418 | <p>How do you figure out where are user's passwords stored, for users that can login? I know the system is using LDAP for users (username, home path, etc.), but it doesn't contain any kind of passwords. I have access to a configured machine, so how do I figure out where are passwords? (which config file?)</p>
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49938 | 1 | null | 2011-06-21T22:50:40.620 | 2 | 3687 | <p>I want to connect to a free open wifi, like Starbucks, but I don't want a full-fledged desktop gui like Unity or GNOME. How can I do this via command-line (pretending my install base is Ubuntu Server + drivers for my wifi card)?</p>
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49940 | 1 | null | 2011-06-21T23:02:36.617 | 2 | 1129 | <p>I deleted the apparmor profile for firefox when I was tinkering with it... And now I can't get it back. </p>
<p>I uninstalled (complete) the apparmor program, profiles, etc. And when it reinstalled, I still don't get the profile back (ie. <code>/etc/apparmor.d./usr.bin.firefox*</code> )</p>
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49942 | 1 | null | 2011-06-21T23:24:37.003 | 2 | 705 | <p>as I'm still a new Linux user, I still discover some behaviours and I'm unable to tell if they are "normals" or not. I searched the Internet but as I can't really find an answer I guess it's time to ask here.</p>
<p>Few weeks ago I installed a small game called "Machinarium" and I played it... but few days later wh... | 18539 | 18539 | 2011-06-21T23:31:25.157 | 2011-06-24T00:28:14.343 | Executable execution path. Does it depends of the place the executable is called from? | [
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49946 | 1 | 49952 | 2011-06-21T23:40:02.543 | 0 | 4507 | <p>I initially installed Ubuntu 11.04 with an encrypted file system (from the alternate install CD: Guided Partitioning, LVM encrypted). Now I wanted to change this setup to have my root file system on an <strong>unencrypted</strong> partition.</p>
<p>I had the following setup before:</p>
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49949 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T00:07:32.080 | 6 | 1394 | <p>Back when Ubuntu first sported home folder encryption (what, around the time of <em>Jaunty Jackalope</em>?), I opted in. That caused me some grief when I decided to change my login password. I found that I couldn't decrypt my home anymore! In trying to fix this, I eventually muddled things to the point that using my... | 20358 | 235 | 2012-07-04T00:20:37.590 | 2012-07-04T00:20:37.590 | How does home folder encryption work? | [
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49951 | 1 | 49954 | 2011-06-22T00:18:23.320 | 14 | 86393 | <p>I setup a LAMP server on my desktop Ubuntu install for testing web applications. How do I set it to only run when I tell it to rather than at startup? It is not used as a production web server but instead for testing PHP scripts I write before pushing them to my public web server.</p>
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49958 | 1 | 49984 | 2011-06-22T03:11:42.047 | 37 | 24304 | <p>I'm working on some system admin automation using fabric and I'd like to be able to monitor the number of packages that need upgrading on a given machine. This is the same information that I can see when I first log in to a machine, i.e. this part:</p>
<pre><code>35 packages can be updated.
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49963 | 1 | 50002 | 2011-06-22T03:41:42.040 | 1 | 2817 | <p>I recently upgraded an ubuntu server with many users to a recent version from a version from 2008. The server used to use md5 password hashes (e.g., the shadow passwords began with $1$) and now is configured to use sha512. </p>
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49964 | 1 | 49965 | 2011-06-22T04:09:11.200 | 5 | 362 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/6339/how-do-i-install-the-latest-stable-version-of-firefox">How do I install the latest stable version of Firefox?</a> </p>
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<p>I've seen Firefox 5 has been released. How can I install it for Ubuntu 11... | 17702 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:29.360 | 2011-06-22T04:55:36.117 | how can I install firefox 5 on Ubuntu 11.04? | [
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49966 | 1 | 50385 | 2011-06-22T04:27:43.587 | 10 | 8784 | <p>I just upgraded to Firefox 5 to find out that <a href="http://www.google.com.ph/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=capybara+firefox+5" rel="nofollow">Selenium does not work on it</a>. I'd like to downgrade to Firefox 4 but haven't found a way to do this.</p>
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49971 | 1 | 50565 | 2011-06-22T04:42:30.683 | 3 | 1921 | <p>I installed Aptana 3 in ubuntu 11.04, unity and found the global menu integration is not proper. How can I have global menu support for Aptana ?</p>
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49972 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T05:02:24.550 | 2 | 2996 | <p>I tried to search for an answer, except that, uhhh there is no search.</p>
<p>I want to share a Ubuntu One folder with people who do not have a Ubuntu One account. Is that possible? </p>
<p>I found this answer in the faq, "Yes! Since Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu One supports sharing files publicly. Right click on a ... | 20426 | 12469 | 2011-06-22T05:49:09.023 | 2012-01-18T00:46:43.240 | How do I share files with someone who does not have a ubuntu one account | [
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49974 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T05:11:35.010 | 0 | 194 | <p>I have a machine running 10.04 and am using BTRFS with lzo compression. I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.38 to enable this (using a PPA). I have my /home folder on a separate (4 TB) BTRFS drive. / is on ext4. My only complaint with this setup is that it uses the old BTRFS tools.</p>
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49975 | 1 | 49977 | 2011-06-22T05:12:25.197 | 6 | 601 | <p>So short story is that I am wanting to grab my ubuntu install, back up to an external disk, delete everything from my hdd, repartition my hdd, put my ubuntu install back.</p>
<p>Long story is.</p>
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49978 | 1 | 50014 | 2011-06-22T05:48:46.763 | 1 | 1502 | <p>I have two Servers, Server X (IP 192.168.1.1) and Server Y (IP 192.168.1.2), both of them are ubuntu 9.1<br>
i have created varnish load balancer on them for my drupal website (pressflow 6.22)
I have mounted a directory of imagecache from server X to Y as below</p>
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49991 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T07:35:41.177 | 1 | 250 | <p>the firefox update fails because the cairo-dock package and five other cairo-dock-packages have an incorrect hash sum and thus cannot be downloaded. I cannot find any way to report such a problem since "ubuntu-bug cairo-dock" tells me that such a package does not exist. Very frustrating.</p>
<p>Bernhard</p>
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49998 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T08:58:56.473 | 7 | 2772 | <p>When I run powertop on my laptop I get following suggestion:</p>
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50003 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T09:41:02.647 | 5 | 310 | <p>We have an XLS file that has been corrupted (we use LibreOffice and it appears that some sort of corruption has taken place). The corrupted file then synced to U1. Is it possible to rollback or restore earlier versions of a synced file?</p>
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50004 | 1 | 50005 | 2011-06-22T09:41:31.990 | 4 | 8169 | <p>If I mount a Windows share using the "Places>Connect to Server..." option where is it mounted and is it always mounted at the same place?</p>
<p>I need to know the path so I can access it from the Terminal.</p>
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50006 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T10:18:49.493 | 5 | 12518 | <p>I'm new to Linux, and am trying to get my Capture Card working on 11.04.</p>
<p>The only command that I know to run to find out any information is <code>lspci</code>, which tells me that I have </p>
<pre><code>02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI Video and Audio Decoder (rev 04)
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50008 | 1 | 50009 | 2011-06-22T10:34:00.303 | 4 | 285 | <p>Before upgrading from Firefox 4 to Firefox 5, my interface was Dutch. After the upgrade, it suddenly became English.</p>
<p>Is this a bug in Firefox 5 or am I missing something?</p>
<p>Output of <code>apt-cache policy firefox</code>:</p>
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50017 | 1 | 50021 | 2011-06-22T11:57:24.613 | 2 | 482 | <p>I added a sound from the gallery and now I cannot close the integrated media player. I guess it's a bug but how can I close it anyway? The small window doesnt have window decorators.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MUsml.png" alt="Screenshot"></p>
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50019 | 1 | 50020 | 2011-06-22T12:11:49.110 | 11 | 7162 | <p>How can I change my desktop background from command line?</p>
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50022 | 1 | 115911 | 2011-06-22T12:20:55.500 | 3 | 2475 | <p>I have the latest VirtualBox 4.0.8 (from the VirtualBox website), including the extension pack, running on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. My user is a member of <code>vboxusers</code>.</p>
<p>The guest OS is Windows XP (32-bit).</p>
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"body": "<p>A bit of Googling told me to look in Control Panel > System > Hardware. I found the USB with a yellow question mark. Right-click > install driver did the job. Thank you. I hope this helps someone with the same problem. </p>\n\n<p>OP solved issue\nComment to answer</p>\n",
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50023 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T12:26:50.343 | 0 | 129 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/18654/how-to-forbid-updating-of-a-specific-package">How to forbid updating of a specific package?</a> </p>
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<p>How to force an application to stay on the same current version?</p>
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50026 | 1 | 50028 | 2011-06-22T12:49:08.023 | 4 | 1844 | <p>Is it possible to engage an addon using an external command?</p>
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50030 | 1 | 50031 | 2011-06-22T13:12:49.113 | 3 | 3825 | <p>I've installed Flash Player 10.1 to do some tests, now I can't go back to the lastest version (10.3).</p>
<p>I've gone to the <a href="http://www.playerversion.com/" rel="nofollow">Flash download page</a>, downloaded and installed "APT for Ubuntu 10.04+", but it's still showing "10.1" at <a href="http://www.playerv... | 5304 | 3037 | 2011-06-23T08:13:35.780 | 2011-06-23T08:13:35.780 | How to update the Flash Player? | [
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50033 | 1 | 50299 | 2011-06-22T13:41:11.823 | 2 | 3425 | <p>I've just got my new Lenovo ThinkPad X220 with Intel HD graphics (I'm not sure what the chip is) and I've installed Natty. Everything works great out of the box, except there are short pauses/freezes in the UI that randomly occur, they last less than 2 seconds, actions are still taking place in the background (like ... | 20448 | 235 | 2011-06-22T15:50:23.990 | 2017-08-07T09:28:59.137 | Unity GUI pauses/freezes for less than a few seconds | [
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50035 | 1 | 50038 | 2011-06-22T13:57:05.450 | 7 | 572 | <p>I am quite new to Ubuntu. (I started to use Ubuntu about a year ago, but I don't know how to use things like terminal well. All I used by console was easy things like <code>ls</code> or <code>cd</code>, to use gcc.)</p>
<p>Today, I found 'profile' property of the terminal, and I created a new profile. Then, I chang... | 17850 | null | null | 2011-06-22T15:45:05.287 | How to open the terminal? (Mis-configured the profile) | [
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50043 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T14:42:02.297 | 2 | 856 | <p>I have a backup script (rsync via ssh) which is run by cron (configured in /etc/crontab)</p>
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<p>If I run it as logged in root like following it runs prefectly fine.</p>
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50045 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T14:53:03.863 | 2 | 4594 | <p>Yesterday i browse on synaptic and found this extension</p>
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<p>i found this extension very helpful for me in my presentation in front of my class</p>
<p>so i installed it, but i don't know how to enable this feature it is there anyone know ?</p>
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50047 | 1 | 50124 | 2011-06-22T15:05:31.153 | 0 | 168 | <p>I enabled the proposed repository in a fresh install with the proprietary <code>nvidia-173</code> driver. After the reboot, I noticed that minimizing and maximizing, there were none of the expected effect (using Ubuntu Classic, even with proprietary driver, Unity does not work - another issue). Furthermore I confirm... | 814 | null | null | 2011-06-22T22:14:53.367 | Metacity used with proprietary driver and proposed repository | [
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50049 | 1 | 50059 | 2011-06-22T15:10:04.300 | 19 | 5613 | <p>My Firefox spellchecker was complaining this morning that I spelled 'neighbor' in the American English style, not the British English style ('neighbour'). Same is true for color (colour), analyze (analyse), etc. I've checked in the edit->preferences->content->language tab, and en-us is selected. I also found this... | 20155 | null | null | 2015-09-07T12:36:19.483 | How to use American English spelling dictionary in Firefox? | [
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50052 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T15:20:02.617 | 1 | 4252 | <p>I'm a big fan of Ubuntu. I've installed it on every computer I had. But they were always 32-bit computers. And I've never had an experience with 64-bit computers. </p>
<p>I've made a live USB and CD but with both I get the same error:</p>
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50061 | 1 | 50062 | 2011-06-22T16:32:38.540 | 9 | 289 | <p>I tried the support sites in Mozilla and couldn't find any info about whats new in Firefox 5, so I thought I would see if you guys could point me in the right direction. My system was upgraded to fx5 last night (6/21) and I have been able to find any info on it? </p>
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50064 | 1 | 50075 | 2011-06-22T16:46:20.097 | 70 | 77343 | <p>I need to show somebody a website running on my local machine tomorrow. Normally I'd accomplish this by port forwarding on my local router but thanks to failing hardware and its replacement being awful, my current router doesn't let me do port forwarding.</p>
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50066 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T16:46:33.170 | 5 | 1473 | <p>I would like to setup GRUB on a USB where it detects automatically the available OS installations on the machine that it is plugged into...</p>
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50067 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T16:50:05.273 | 101 | 241851 | <p>Hello I have tryed out the programm "EarCandy", now I had/have a lot of problems.
At first I did not get any sound and now it is very low volume. PS Earcandy is now deleted from my harddisk.</p>
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50070 | 1 | 50071 | 2011-06-22T17:02:28.307 | 23 | 49548 | <p>I would like to know the various tools available in Ubuntu similar to Google Sketchup.</p>
<p>I dont like to install Sketchup using wine in Ubuntu.</p>
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50077 | 1 | 50127 | 2011-06-22T17:40:47.913 | 24 | 6942 | <p>And I'd like to get this list <strong>directly</strong> and if possible from an external source (maybe repositories?).</p>
<p>Almost all one-liners I have found didn't work for me. So I hope there is an indicator somewhere that denotes packages as "preinstalled".</p>
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50081 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T17:54:36.863 | 0 | 1014 | <p>I've installed Ubuntu 11.4 on my dell xps m2010 using wubi. Then booted up and could not connect to the Internet using <code>3three huawei e122 usb mobile broadband</code> (I would like this to work also). </p>
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50084 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T18:05:32.267 | 0 | 204 | <p>I managed to setup gitosis on Ubuntu, authorization done using SSH keys. Now I want to make some folders on this Ubuntu server Git Initialized and available thrue gitosis. For example <code>/var/www/x1 folder</code>. It is web page I'm working on, and would like to see changes made available public (this is <code>/v... | 20460 | 32886 | 2012-01-05T09:39:47.903 | 2012-01-05T09:39:47.903 | Ubuntu Gitosis init web folder | [
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50085 | 1 | 183667 | 2011-06-22T18:15:20.120 | 13 | 18854 | <p>I want to create a quick launch icon for MATLAB, but it won't start if the working directory is not the same as the directory where the executable is. Can I specify the working directory in the 'Custom Application Launcher'?</p>
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50087 | 1 | 50097 | 2011-06-22T18:20:23.030 | 20 | 37810 | <p>I wonder why there isn't any equivalent of Wine for running Mac software on Ubuntu. Thoughts?</p>
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50092 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T18:39:13.287 | 0 | 89 | <p>Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 11.04 with 8.10 already installed and since then my Dell VOSTRO laptop gets shuts down automatically every half an hour. Although I am using the latest version (currently 11.04) I did not uninstall 8.10 while (as per the guiding option of Ubuntu). Since this installation I am facing the ... | 20464 | 667 | 2011-06-22T19:06:29.603 | 2011-06-22T19:47:58.443 | How to uninstall 8.10 while keeping 11.04? | [
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50095 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T19:04:24.287 | 1 | 183 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/34214/how-do-i-disable-overlay-scrollbars">How do I disable overlay scrollbars?</a> </p>
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<p>Sorry not sure if this is the right place to post this. I'm trying to get rid of these annoying transparent ... | 20414 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:09.107 | 2011-06-22T19:12:40.673 | revert back to old style slidebars to get rid of the transparent slidebars | [
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50101 | 1 | 50102 | 2011-06-22T19:54:56.977 | 38 | 237580 | <p>I'd like to start over with my webserver and I'd like to reinstall all the LAMP packages, how do I do that?</p>
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50104 | 1 | 50107 | 2011-06-22T20:01:22.360 | 6 | 53048 | <p>I've got one desktop computer Ubuntu 11.04 with an external USB drive mounted on it on the home WRT54L Linux network (192.168.0.2), and when I arrive at home with my laptop, I want to be able to mount the external USB drive from my Ubuntu 11.04 laptop (192.168.0.3) to the desktop, without having to unplug it from th... | 17702 | 17702 | 2011-06-25T07:38:23.707 | 2017-03-01T10:08:34.000 | How do I access an external drive mounted on a machine on my own network? | [
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50108 | 1 | 50111 | 2011-06-22T20:20:37.123 | 4 | 18698 | <p>Flash is not working on Kubuntu 11.04, 64bit on any browser. Even after a purge and reinstall, any flash application gives either says the plugin is missing or not up to date (depends on browser).</p>
<p>This problem is just with Kubuntu, not with Ubuntu. How can I get flash working again?</p>
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50112 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T20:27:52.510 | 7 | 5225 | <p>How can I delete duplicate emails from Evolution 2.32.2?</p>
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50126 | 1 | 50130 | 2011-06-22T22:37:43.523 | 3 | 920 | <p>I got Blender 2.58 (stable) from blender.org (downloaded the package, extracted it). Everything works fine, but the only thing that bugs me is that the icon in the launcher (when I open it) is really fuzzy. I guess that's no big deal, but when I select "Keep in Launcher" and close Blender, the icon doesn't work when... | 19265 | null | null | 2012-10-22T14:05:07.660 | Blender has weird fuzzy misbehaving icon in launcher | [
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50128 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T23:02:14.497 | 1 | 4362 | <p>How to setup an IPSec connection from my ubuntu laptop to Amazon EC2 instance? I tried setting it up using elastic IP and VPC with the following openswan configuration but it is not working. </p>
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50129 | 1 | null | 2011-06-22T23:25:24.580 | 3 | 866 | <p>I'm trying to install <a href="http://msgpack.org/" rel="nofollow">MSGPACK</a> to be used with PHP, by following the <a href="http://wiki.msgpack.org/display/MSGPACK/QuickStart+for+PHP" rel="nofollow">wiki guide</a>.</p>
<p>But when I run <code>sudo ./configure</code> I get this error:</p>
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50132 | 1 | null | 2011-06-23T00:08:41.103 | 1 | 364 | <p>When my CPU load rises the battery stop working I don't know why </p>
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50133 | 1 | 50142 | 2011-06-23T00:20:32.510 | 1 | 733 | <p>I'm setting up a cron job to update my nmzmail database periodically, but I'd like the cron job to execute only if my laptop is plugged in. Is there a way to do this? If there's not a built in cron command, then is there a way to check via the command line that I could use in a simple script?</p>
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"body": "<p>What you could do is to check if /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state contains the word on-line.\nYou could put the following in at the beginning of your cron job :</p>\n\n<pre>\n# Do nothing when no AC power is available\ngrep -q on-line /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state || exit 0\n<... | null | null | null | null | null |
50136 | 1 | null | 2011-06-23T00:51:29.093 | 2 | 136 | <p>I move my home directory to it's own partition but I end with what it seems to be a duplicated home folders (there are 2 accounts admin and everyones account) I have "admin and everyones" folders and then I have in hide ".ecryptfs" inside I had again "admin and everyones" folder inside there is .encryptfs and .priva... | 20481 | 4733 | 2012-02-18T23:38:40.727 | 2012-02-18T23:41:41.517 | Is it possible to have duplicated folders on /home folder new partition as an error? | [
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50140 | 1 | null | 2011-06-23T02:41:23.440 | 2 | 151 | <p>The title speaks to only half of the issue: the other half are the settings in Ubuntu and the sequences therein.</p>
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