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5746 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T20:12:41.320 | 2 | 1216 | <p>After upgrade Ubundu 10.04 to 10.10, remote desktop doesn't work anymore. I've checked the settings (vino-preferences) and everything is Ok, but I still can't access remotely to the machine! Any solution?</p>
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5748 | 1 | 5767 | 2010-10-10T20:14:46.367 | 21 | 131697 | <p>I have been playing with Ubuntu for a few weeks now, and I'd like to revert my computer back to it's original - factory - defaults. </p>
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5749 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T20:16:09.327 | 3 | 1440 | <p>Whenever i connect my monitor to my laptop, it won't display the video at the native resolution in Ubuntu, but my monitor works fine and does both in Windows 7!</p>
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5758 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T20:33:11.127 | -1 | 1479 | <p>I am new to Ubuntu. I have installed Ubuntu 9.04(Jaunty). After installation I found that network card is not wokring. And id doest not list in "System > Preferenes > Network Connections" So , i got another card from my friend and try to search on internat about my problem but still cant find solution.</p>
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5760 | 1 | 7053 | 2010-10-10T20:33:27.053 | 2 | 952 | <p>When I try to login via browser (Chrome, Firefox) to Ubuntu One, I get following error:</p>
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5763 | 1 | 5766 | 2010-10-10T20:39:16.527 | 80 | 174249 | <p>I would like to know how to upgrade from my current version of Ubuntu to the next stable from the Command line interface?</p>
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5776 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T21:36:55.733 | 0 | 886 | <p>i installed CompizConfig and activated Windows Preview, worked fine so far, also the windows previews, now i the window previews are shown anymore, in the menu of CompizConfig they are activated but work no longer. Already tried to reset the Standart-Profile in Profile and Backend. But makes no difference. Anybody h... | 2689 | null | null | 2011-01-05T13:44:08.947 | Problems with Window Previews with CompizConfig | [
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5778 | 1 | 5787 | 2010-10-10T21:43:08.040 | 2 | 3906 | <p>My monitor brightness is reduced because it was causing me headaches. Web pages are displayed fine, but flash videos are too dark. I can control gecko-mediaplayer plugin brightness via mplayer config, but I'm not able to do the same for flash.</p>
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5780 | 1 | 5816 | 2010-10-10T21:49:14.277 | 14 | 9759 | <p>I have used Ubuntu for many years and this has always been a problem for me on every printer I encounter (HP, Lexmark, and Samsung, among others). Whenever I print, the fidelity is fine but instead of printing so that the first page ends up on top of the finished stack, it prints the first page first, then the seco... | 3095 | null | null | 2022-01-04T12:55:44.840 | Printers Always Print Pages In Reverse Order | [
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5786 | 1 | 5788 | 2010-10-10T22:04:54.037 | 2 | 2376 | <p>So I might be getting a new MP3 player and I think that is going to be the Sony Walkman NWZ-S545. I don't want to have the same situation with the last MP3 player, which was the Shuffle and it didn't have good compatibility with Ubuntu so I was wondering if the Sony Walkman NWZ-S545 would work with Ubuntu?</p>
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5790 | 1 | 5821 | 2010-10-10T22:13:25.917 | 4 | 2225 | <p>I know docky can be installed seperately from gnome-do but I like both and don't want to install both app when I can install one only. Is there a way to get docky back in gnome-do?</p>
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5795 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T22:21:00.133 | 5 | 1447 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/86669/how-to-integrate-audacious-in-the-sound-menu">How to integrate Audacious in the sound menu?</a> </p>
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<p>Is there any plug-ins already available? I couldn't find any</p>
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5800 | 1 | 5805 | 2010-10-10T22:34:12.803 | 1 | 1409 | <p>No matter what I do, I can't get the Ubuntu One client to allow me to add my computer to the sync list in my account. I've tried reinstalling, deleting config files, etc... nothing seems to work.</p>
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5807 | 1 | 6941 | 2010-10-10T23:18:45.047 | 6 | 9426 | <p><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/ReleaseNotes#Linux%20kernel%202.6.35">Ubuntu 10.10</a> has dropped support for i586 and lesser processors, along with i686 processors that do not support the CMOV instruction (Conditional MOVe, AFAIK).</p>
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5808 | 1 | null | 2010-10-10T23:22:35.590 | 1 | 311 | <p>I have an old Toshiba Laptop with a very old graphic card <strong>"Trydent CyberAladdin P4 v6.x"</strong></p>
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<p>Can you help me?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
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5809 | 1 | 5843 | 2010-10-10T23:27:52.513 | 4 | 2876 | <p>It's well known that if you push <kbd>Up</kbd> and <kbd>Down</kbd> keys in gnome-terminal, you can move on used commands. It only works for the commands wich are introduced before closing the window, but When I close it, gnome-terminal "forget" all commands.
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5817 | 1 | 11565 | 2010-10-11T00:01:18.070 | 9 | 17863 | <p>That's about it. Whenever I press the eject button on my cd player, nothing happens. CD player is not the cause of the problem because this never happens to me under Windows. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>In addition, running the eject command from a terminal also does nothing.</p>
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5820 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T00:05:58.280 | 5 | 324 | <p>Please excuse my ignorance, I just find it weird. I am on my Win7 box. Also, only this site renders the font in my browser while design.canonical.com does not. I am pretty sure the latter uses Ubuntu font as the default the last time I logged into my Ubuntu box.</p>
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5825 | 1 | 13782 | 2010-10-11T00:29:12.627 | 5 | 1353 | <p>I've only today, started to use Evolution.</p>
<p>What does Evolution's <strong>Flagged</strong> column indicate?<br>
The Flagged column is the third one from the left in the Mail window of the default setup. Its icon is a red exclamation-mark in a red circle. </p>
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5826 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T00:33:35.723 | 1 | 680 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/2194/how-can-i-improve-overall-system-performance">How can I improve overall system performance?</a> </p>
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5828 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T00:50:28.900 | 10 | 4285 | <p>I tend to download lots of articles as PDFs, and I find that when I browse a directory of these Nautilus takes 1 minute to load the directory. I assume that's because it's generating previews of their front pages. That feature is useless to me, alas.</p>
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5831 | 1 | 5841 | 2010-10-11T00:54:59.363 | 2 | 310 | <p>The one that is currently up is pretty outdated; I was just curious if one such as myself could update, package then upload it?</p>
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5840 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T01:36:06.737 | 4 | 160 | <p>Where can I get the source files of this CD label</p>
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5845 | 1 | 210556 | 2010-10-11T02:14:31.473 | 123 | 60969 | <p>When I right-click the desktop icon for my USB drive or SD card I have the choice to "Eject" or "Safely Remove Drive":</p>
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5850 | 1 | 81709 | 2010-10-11T02:33:37.573 | 2 | 540 | <p>If I install Ubuntu on hard drive A and mount (via nautilus) hard drive B that has Windows 7 installed on it with a RAID1, could Ubuntu even remotely screw up the RAID Controller? Or would it look at it like a normal single hard drive not in RAID?</p>
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5855 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T02:45:53.707 | 0 | 103 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5675/i-upgraded-from-10-10-beta-am-i-now-running-the-official-non-development-vers">I upgraded from 10.10 beta - am I now running the official (non development) version?</a> </p>
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5859 | 1 | 5927 | 2010-10-11T03:02:56.477 | 8 | 10273 | <p>I was wondering if it was possible to export anything built in Inkscape to inDesign CS or CS5. If it is possible, how can I get it to work? </p>
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5861 | 1 | 5905 | 2010-10-11T03:19:08.027 | 14 | 25851 | <p>I used the Disk Utility to create an encrypted volume on an external drive. When I click the Unlock Volume button in that program, it mounts the drive for me.</p>
<p>Now, I want to automate this process so that it will happen at boot-up.</p>
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<p>Because we have internal development servers, I connect to them via SSH and use the .gvfs folder in my home directory to access the files through Eclipse.<br>
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5865 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T03:33:28.730 | 0 | 651 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5790/gnome-do-in-doesnt-have-the-docky-appearance-anymore">Gnome-Do in doesn't have the docky appearance anymore.</a> </p>
</blockquote>
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5866 | 1 | 5869 | 2010-10-11T03:36:02.370 | 15 | 5976 | <p>I can output a single key-value, as per the following example: </p>
<pre><code>gconftool-2 --get /apps/panel/applets/clock_screen0/object_type
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<p>How can I dump the entire gconf database? ... Key-names <strong>and</strong> Values</p>
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5868 | 1 | 5874 | 2010-10-11T03:40:07.133 | 19 | 3930 | <p>There are many logs in <code>/var/log/</code> For a standard home installation, which ones should I be checking regularly?</p>
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5870 | 1 | 5878 | 2010-10-11T03:47:00.920 | 3 | 6070 | <p>I was using Ubuntu 9.10 version and today I want to upgrade to 10.10. </p>
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5873 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T04:05:56.393 | 4 | 1587 | <p>My system used to display the Full HD resolution - the native, very well on the Karmic.</p>
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5876 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T04:36:12.950 | 1 | 414 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/131/which-computers-are-guaranteed-to-work-with-ubuntu">Which computers are guaranteed to work with Ubuntu?</a> </p>
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<p>I'm thinking about buying a Dell Inspiron 13z - I basically want a small, light ... | 171 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:25:03.423 | 2010-10-11T04:36:12.950 | Is a Dell Inspiron 13z compatible with Ubuntu 10.10? | [
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5881 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T04:41:50.030 | 6 | 2924 | <p>I have an Acer Aspire 1551-5448 Netbook that is running Ubuntu 10.10 64bit Desktop. </p>
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5882 | 1 | 5925 | 2010-10-11T04:44:50.713 | 34 | 2669 | <p>When I click on a link to an email address in Firefox or Google Chrome a "Welcome to Evolution" screen appears. Can I make Gmail open instead, or at the very least disable Evolution from running?</p>
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5884 | 1 | 10098 | 2010-10-11T04:46:52.537 | 4 | 5561 | <p>I'm use Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2.8 (PUEL) on my Windows 7 as host.</p>
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5887 | 1 | 5892 | 2010-10-11T04:54:51.690 | 5 | 1042 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5571/how-can-i-install-unity-after-installing-desktop-edition">How can I install Unity after installing Desktop Edition?</a> </p>
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5889 | 1 | 6312 | 2010-10-11T04:57:13.510 | 3 | 693 | <p>I don't have a lot of memory and sometimes, when I play video games, its get full and my computer start freezing, anything I do take more than 1 minutes before getting done that include mouse move and mouse click.</p>
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5901 | 1 | 5961 | 2010-10-11T07:05:52.077 | 0 | 724 | <p>I don't get it. Why does the options for cities under Philippines not include Cebu City when it is the 2nd largest city next to Manila? How do we get this included in the weather applet options?</p>
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5907 | 1 | 5987 | 2010-10-11T07:33:39.070 | 7 | 6165 | <p>Today I installed the Ubuntu 10.10 release on my Desktop PC. I was running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with an Apple Magic Trackpad and everything was working fine. After today's <em>fresh</em> installation of Ubuntu 10.10, I don't see my Apple Magic Trackpad's multitouch working. Two-finger scrolling and three-finger third mo... | 3170 | 1304 | 2011-02-14T03:48:28.020 | 2011-05-26T15:19:38.353 | Apple Magic Trackpad multitouch configuration | [
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5909 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T07:45:14.273 | 3 | 1287 | <p>I'm having problems setting my correct monitor resolution as the correct one isn't available from Preferences -> Monitor. </p>
<p>I'm running a Geforce 440 MX, and there doesn't appear to be any correct driver for it. Jockey cannot find anything and the 96 driver doesn't work.</p>
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5911 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T07:51:09.487 | 97 | 140469 | <p>What video editing software would you recommend on Ubuntu (or Linux in general)
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5917 | 1 | 5918 | 2010-10-11T08:16:02.817 | 5 | 26556 | <p>How do i add the pgp key from a terminal?</p>
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5929 | 1 | 5933 | 2010-10-11T09:12:54.160 | 23 | 35429 | <p>I'm (re)installing Ubuntu on my Toshiba NB100 netbook (Intel Atom, 120GB HD, 2GB RAM). Already have a partition I call "Stuff" with all my media and docs. Will be deleting the one I had Win7 on (making it the swap), and then there is a recovery one.</p>
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5930 | 1 | 5935 | 2010-10-11T09:21:51.627 | 67 | 31281 | <p>Why there is a <code>git</code> package and a <code>git-core</code> package? Is there any difference?</p>
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5932 | 1 | 5967 | 2010-10-11T09:26:59.290 | 0 | 896 | <p>im having some issues when trying to upgrade Mono</p>
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5938 | 1 | 5945 | 2010-10-11T10:23:26.180 | 7 | 4695 | <p>I had promissed my 120 students that I will install ubuntu 10.10 on their laptops but failed to do it.The laptops were dell vostro 4014. All have same hardware. I took one laptop and installed ubuntu and all the necessary packages, and also wine to run some windows software. I selected the default ext4 file system.... | 2968 | 2968 | 2010-10-12T01:03:30.047 | 2010-10-12T02:23:21.930 | How can I do mass installs on multiple computers? | [
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5942 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T10:52:00.667 | 30 | 2510 | <p>Over the past few years I've been dipping in and out of Ubuntu every so often because I believe in the idea. However, there have always been factors that have made me give up and return to either Windows or OS X, intending to come back when Ubuntu has had a bit more time to 'bake'.</p>
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5947 | 1 | 7405 | 2010-10-11T11:27:17.467 | 1 | 1918 | <p>How do I install the empathy smilies (from maverick) in Pidgin? I really like the look of them.</p>
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5949 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T11:55:51.587 | 4 | 1469 | <p>I'm trying to make the Update Manager work through the proxy on my ubuntu 9.10. I've tried what was suggested <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3807/how-to-check-network-proxy-is-really-applied">in this question</a>, but the Update Manager still reports 409 conflict. Would really appreciate if anybody could h... | 3204 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:07.557 | 2010-10-18T21:34:46.037 | Network proxy is not applied | [
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5951 | 1 | 5957 | 2010-10-11T12:12:31.393 | 7 | 5953 | <p>Anyone knows how to install globalmenu on Ubuntu 10.10?</p>
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5953 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T12:16:33.350 | 6 | 11333 | <p>I have a mp4 file which I wish to compress, resize and stream via RTSP.</p>
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5956 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T12:20:36.553 | 8 | 29524 | <p>The login screen shows and i choose myself. Then the screen goes black, and the login screen shows again.</p>
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5958 | 1 | 5965 | 2010-10-11T12:25:45.903 | 11 | 3515 | <p>Why is the default background image still named <code>/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png</code>?</p>
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5960 | 1 | 6034 | 2010-10-11T12:32:20.557 | 2 | 922 | <p>The product I develop for work is a customised Ubuntu 8.04 LTS system with a number of back ported packages and a number of our own for the application specific stuff.</p>
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5970 | 1 | 5971 | 2010-10-11T12:58:40.860 | 5 | 271 | <p>If I want, for example, <code>/usr/share/doc/nvidia-96/README.txt.gz</code> from <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/i386/nvidia-96/filelist">nvidia-96</a>, is there a way for me to download just this file?</p>
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5976 | 1 | 6011 | 2010-10-11T13:15:53.710 | 67 | 25533 | <p>How can I list all packages I've installed from a particular repository?</p>
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5980 | 1 | 5981 | 2010-10-11T13:25:24.910 | 246 | 592541 | <p>My Ubuntu cloud server has left only 900MB of disk space. </p>
<p>I'll just empty the directory /tmp and wondering if there is any other location to clean up.</p>
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5985 | 1 | 6041 | 2010-10-11T13:36:47.887 | 11 | 9323 | <p>How can I replace Docky's standard anchor icon in the dock by Ubuntu's? It would look quite nice I think. This is how it looks right now:</p>
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5989 | 1 | 5999 | 2010-10-11T13:45:27.983 | 1 | 8974 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu Server and I'm looking for an efficient way of performing nightly backups of particular directories using cron. However, since the computer isn't always on, I'd like it to just run when the computer is on and to keep the last 5 backups. Would I need to use a bash script of some kind to achieve t... | 1449 | null | null | 2019-09-07T03:20:08.493 | How can I setup nightly backups via the command line? | [
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5990 | 1 | 6030 | 2010-10-11T13:47:14.160 | 7 | 15752 | <p>How do I install ubuntu packages from the ubuntu cd. I have ubuntu-desktop 10.04 running and I have to install wvdial package but no internet connection for installing from apt repository.</p>
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5996 | 1 | 6019 | 2010-10-11T14:03:08.537 | 17 | 79987 | <p>I was installing 32-bit Ubuntu(ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso) on VMWare workstation 7.1. During installation an error came up with the following text.</p>
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5998 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T14:15:39.927 | 13 | 5467 | <p>yesterday everything was fine and today when i logged on to my ubuntu 10.10 I noticed that the icons in the top of each menu dissapeared(I mean the the bar where the close mini maize etc..)
this problem is not new for me in ubuntu 10.10 but it also happened in ubuntu 10.04
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6001 | 1 | 8859 | 2010-10-11T14:19:15.003 | 6 | 14410 | <p>I'm running ubuntu 10.04. I have a newly purchased TATA Photon+ Internet connection which supports Windows and Mac. On the Internet I found a article saying that it could be configured on Linux. I followed the steps to install it on Ubuntu from this <a href="http://digitizor.com/2010/06/28/how-to-use-tata-photon-plu... | 3215 | 34576 | 2012-06-14T12:54:20.223 | 2013-06-17T15:49:36.907 | How to configure TATA Photon+ EC1261 HUAWEI | [
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6004 | 1 | 6065 | 2010-10-11T14:41:02.873 | 1 | 2066 | <p>The following are my iptable rules on a ubuntu cloud server:</p>
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6009 | 1 | 6010 | 2010-10-11T15:00:00.607 | 116 | 243573 | <p>I want to change an icon of a specific theme. Where do themes save their icons?</p>
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6016 | 1 | 6457 | 2010-10-11T15:37:40.317 | 122 | 94048 | <p>What is the recommended way to change the first day of the week to Monday (instead of Sunday, as in the screenshot below)? </p>
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6017 | 1 | 6077 | 2010-10-11T15:38:39.287 | 4 | 2504 | <p>Is there a way to get Docky ton act like Gnome-Do? I installed just the docky package. I would like it to be able to search for other things that are not in the dock. Is this possible or would it just be easier to install Gnome-Do separate.</p>
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6021 | 1 | 6054 | 2010-10-11T15:48:26.703 | 6 | 683 | <p>I like <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1400/optimize-ubuntu-for-ssd/1675#1675">this suggestion</a> of mounting a tmpfs at <code>/var/log</code> in order to reduce disk writes.</p>
<p>Is there any way to do something similar for just a single file such as <code>~/.xsession-errors</code>?</p>
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6023 | 1 | 6028 | 2010-10-11T15:56:56.717 | 30 | 21586 | <p>Was asked by a new Ubuntu user - who also wants to learn about programming - what he could use to run BASIC code. He was working through a BASIC book before trying out Ubuntu, and he'd like to continue without having to switch back to Windows.</p>
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6025 | 1 | 6924 | 2010-10-11T16:04:23.960 | 1 | 18699 | <p>Tried to install 10.10 yesterday and eventually got an error that Grub had failed to install. Asked me to select another partition, cancel install or continue without a bootloader.</p>
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6033 | 1 | 6040 | 2010-10-11T16:26:36.750 | 56 | 78363 | <p>When you boot from live CD, or doing the first boot after installing Ubuntu, splash screen looks awesome. But as soon as you enable nvidia-current driver, installed with apt-get, splash screen goes all crazy.</p>
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6035 | 1 | 21601 | 2010-10-11T16:32:25.900 | 14 | 9114 | <p>I'm looking for a good code snippet manager, with syntax highlighting and search capabilities. Another important feature is the capability of changing the code area background color. I have tested some Adobe Air apps that had white background everywhere, which hurts my eyes.</p>
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6037 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T16:40:51.157 | 3 | 322 | <p>Is burg compatible with Ubuntu 10.10? And if yes, are there any kind of errors that will appear if install it improperly?</p>
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6042 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T17:01:18.393 | 4 | 505 | <p>How to bind in-game actions to hardware keys not to layout variables? Keys stops working when I randomly change them in game (Quake Live or Quake III) by <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>.</p>
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6045 | 1 | 6046 | 2010-10-11T17:32:12.333 | 2 | 573 | <p>So my homepage look weird I don't know why but since i start using ubuntu 10.10 the weird symbols appear any idea?</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wl8df.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wl8df.jpg</a></p>
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6048 | 1 | 45792 | 2010-10-11T17:41:51.823 | 0 | 1169 | <p>I have an Asus u30jc laptop, which comes with the Optimus prime graphics card switching technology that is now supported under 2.6.35, so I decided to give it a try. First I made sure the discrete graphics card was activated and then I installed the drivers proposed by the ubuntu software repository (nvidia-current)... | 119 | 1067 | 2010-12-27T13:56:02.813 | 2011-05-29T16:31:08.717 | Installing nvidia drivers causes computer to boot to command prompt | [
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6051 | 1 | 6420 | 2010-10-11T17:46:44.593 | 5 | 29067 | <p>There is a website that streams local TV and it requires windows media player plugin. I have LUbuntu freshly installed, but it simply says "Missing Plug-in". It doesn't say anything about what packages I need to install. What's the right package/s to install?</p>
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6055 | 1 | 6062 | 2010-10-11T18:06:34.777 | 9 | 1089 | <p>In both <strong>Synaptic Package Manager</strong> and <strong>Ubuntu Software Center</strong>, I sometimes see the following footnote. </p>
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6059 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T18:10:28.467 | 1 | 724 | <p>I've just switched to Ubuntu 10.10 from Jolicloud 1.0 and I'm very impressed so far! Only thing I'm not too sure about is Oneconf. I've installed it from the Software Centre and under File / Inventory on Ubuntu One both boxes are checked and I'm signed in. But how do I know it's working? And how would I resync my in... | null | 570 | 2010-10-11T18:40:48.893 | 2010-10-11T18:40:48.893 | How do I know if Oneconf is working? | [
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6061 | 1 | 6064 | 2010-10-11T18:11:20.200 | 1 | 243 | <p>I would like to make Gwibber use the Messaging Menu in Ubuntu 10.10. Gwibber is running, there is an arrow near 'Broadcast' item, but i don't see recent tweets on the list, I just see Notify OSD notifications...</p>
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6068 | 1 | 6069 | 2010-10-11T18:22:45.980 | 8 | 3089 | <p>After my fresh install of Ubuntu 10.10, I noticed that the terminal's font is smashed together and altogether awful-looking. </p>
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6071 | 1 | 6120 | 2010-10-11T18:35:32.553 | 0 | 646 | <p>I've recently switched from Empathy to Pidgin as my IM client, but I've noticed the notification sounds Pidgin plays on events like a contact signing in crackle. I've never had such problems with any other sound on Ubuntu, but Pidgin seems to have a problem with my audio setup.</p>
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6075 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T18:55:47.523 | 0 | 1016 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/7700/gma-5700-mhd-dell-vostro-3300-externel-vga-monitor-is-flickering">GMA 5700 MHD Dell Vostro 3300 externel vga monitor is flickering</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I use the Dell Vostro 3300 und Ubuntu Lucid 10.10. T... | 3257 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:25:03.423 | 2010-10-11T20:08:00.660 | VGA for external monitor is flickering | [
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6076 | 1 | 6081 | 2010-10-11T18:59:21.053 | 9 | 32100 | <p>I upgraded to the RC some time ago and the sources.list is sort of screwed up, meaning I'm getting a lot of 404's when updating. Could someone please post an original sources.list for Maverick?</p>
| 3260 | 235 | 2010-10-11T19:06:10.323 | 2014-05-13T09:22:43.827 | I need a copy of the default /etc/apt/sources.list | [
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"text": "Keep in mind that the `XX.archive.ubuntu.com` part should vary by geographic location.",
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"body": "<p>Here you have ;)</p>\n\n<pre><code># deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)]/ maverick main restricted\n# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to\n# newer versions of the distribution.\n\ndeb http://es.archive.ubuntu.com/u... | [
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6078 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T19:04:40.313 | 7 | 11032 | <p>Ralink Technology publishes their drivers in source code form on their website <a href="http://www.ralinktech.com/en/04_support/support.php?sn=501" rel="nofollow">here</a>.
When complied with make and make install in 10.04, the drivers worked well in 32 and 64 bit versions of Lucid. However, when compiled for the 64... | 3259 | 47291 | 2012-08-14T00:12:14.383 | 2012-08-14T00:12:14.383 | Are the Ralink RT3090 drivers incompatible with Ubuntu 10.10? | [
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6090 | 1 | 14618 | 2010-10-11T19:38:48.557 | 4 | 2018 | <p>I'm trying to setup netconsole to debug a hard lock up, and I am running into a problem. I have the following config for netconsole:</p>
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</code></pre>
<p>During bootup I get the following spew:</p>
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6091 | 1 | 6194 | 2010-10-11T19:46:40.460 | 1 | 859 | <p>Does anyone know how to get a built-in media card reader to work in Ubuntu 10.10? My laptop is a Gateway NV52.</p>
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6092 | 1 | 6095 | 2010-10-11T19:46:45.797 | 4 | 1058 | <p>What is the simplest method to completely upgrade your existing 10.04 install to get the updates and packages from the 10.10 distribution? Disregarding the fact that you get the latest packages, I would like to see the package paths change to the newer version.</p>
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6097 | 1 | null | 2010-10-11T19:52:37.937 | 4 | 2167 | <p>How can I enable multi touch in Ubuntu 10.10 for my Acer Aspire 4740 notebook ?</p>
<pre><code>Screen 14.1-inch glossy LED-backlit
1366x768 res
CPU Intel Core i5-430m 2.26GHz
RAM 1GB DDR3
HDD 320GB
Graphics Onboard Intel GMA HD
USB Ports 3
DVD Writer Yes
Gigabit Ethernet Yes
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
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"body": "<p>If your laptop built with Synaptics touchpad you need to install the synaptics drivers for your environment. To configure, you need gsynaptics configuration tool as well. With tose you can enjoy moultitouch features.</p>\n",
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