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55899 | 1 | 55963 | 2011-08-05T07:17:28.700 | 22 | 14876 | <p>I have to format my entire disk and reinstall Ubuntu.</p>
<p>I have installed a lot of software on my current system. And I will have to reinstall all those updates, drivers and applications too.</p>
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55903 | 1 | 55915 | 2011-08-05T07:41:25.020 | 4 | 1610 | <p>I am on vacation and have a phone (N900) with an Internet connection. I have no Internet connection for my laptop. I'd like to connect the phone and laptop over Bluetooth (second choice: per USB cable) and share the connection with the laptop. I seem to remember that I was offered such a sharing the first time I con... | 5719 | 7035 | 2011-12-07T14:44:38.683 | 2011-12-07T14:44:38.683 | How to share an Internet connection over Bluetooth from the Phone to the PC | [
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55904 | 1 | 55910 | 2011-08-05T07:47:21.830 | 7 | 3426 | <p>So, I wan't to run it when start work on AC and this or better other script when start work from battery</p>
<p>I tried </p>
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<li>/etc/acpi/power.sh</li>
<li>adding symlink to /etc/laptop-mode/battery-start</li>
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<p>It seems to not working</p>
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55909 | 1 | 55980 | 2011-08-05T08:19:52.357 | 2 | 3215 | <p>I have a fileserver in my network, with the storage accessible via NFS.</p>
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55913 | 1 | 55923 | 2011-08-05T08:35:33.163 | 6 | 28285 | <p>I have just installed Kubuntu, and I notice that Dolphin tries to access SMB shares using libsmbclient instead of mounting an SMB location like I am used to in Nautilus. Unfortunately, the performance is horrendous, and for some reason, I am unable to access shares that I could access in Nautilus (it gives me author... | 21982 | 21982 | 2011-08-05T08:41:58.273 | 2020-01-13T15:09:12.557 | Can you mount SMB shares in Kubuntu like in Ubuntu? | [
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55918 | 1 | null | 2011-08-05T09:48:20.033 | 8 | 22096 | <p>I use UFW on my Ubuntu server. Unfortunately there are no rules in UFW to port-forward to another machine. <br>
What you need to do is edit /etc/ufw/before.rules and put routing commands there, for example<br></p>
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55920 | 1 | null | 2011-08-05T10:18:10.953 | 5 | 1978 | <p>After getting Ubuntu setup on my Macbook Pro with Gnome Shell, there is one little thing irritating me:</p>
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55924 | 1 | null | 2011-08-05T11:29:26.150 | 3 | 3710 | <p>Which software is used to setup connection to socks5 proxy from Ubuntu server?</p>
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55925 | 1 | 55931 | 2011-08-05T11:52:36.480 | 4 | 732 | <p>Having just upgraded from 10.04 to 11.04, I'm getting used to the Unity interface.</p>
<p>Back in Gnome, I managed to create a "common" menu accessible from the start button to which I could simply add <code>*.desktop</code> files to get all my common things in there?</p>
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55935 | 1 | null | 2011-08-05T13:42:52.657 | 1 | 2945 | <p>after download and unzip the zip package, I copy the modelsphere.bat file to modelsphere.sh, and change the content to:</p>
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55940 | 1 | 55944 | 2011-08-05T15:03:45.670 | 4 | 184 | <p>I'm in the process of writing a simple C-based daemon mostly for the learning experience. At this point, I've got a working daemon and I'd like to expose some configuration options to users. </p>
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55949 | 1 | 55955 | 2011-08-05T16:24:48.253 | 1 | 242 | <p>I'd like to have a shortcut to the system monitor like it's in Windows with CTRL + Shift + Escape. I read through internet and did it like it's written, but it's not working. Does anybody know why it's not working? Did I use wrong keywords?</p>
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55952 | 1 | null | 2011-08-05T16:40:21.407 | 2 | 514 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13294/how-to-make-clutterflow-show-automatically-in-nautilus">How to make Clutterflow show automatically in Nautilus</a> </p>
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55954 | 1 | 55956 | 2011-08-05T17:06:09.093 | 4 | 263 | <p>I wanted to know how to run the <code>fsck</code> command on a server with write capabilities.
The command should run structurally from one hard disk partition to another without any user interaction.</p>
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55961 | 1 | 55991 | 2011-08-05T19:10:00.220 | 2 | 3281 | <p>I installed Ubuntu Server. It loads just fine to the grub selection screen but after making a selection, for some reason the monitor just goes into power saving mode and never wakes back up. I have to restart. The monitor cables are not loose or anything. Is there a way to fix this?</p>
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55964 | 1 | null | 2011-08-05T19:34:40.060 | 0 | 311 | <p>A friend of mine has a dual-boot system with Ubuntu and Windows 7. He encounters a kernel panic if he wants to boot up Ubuntu after a Windows session.</p>
<p>This sounds pretty strange to me, however I actually witnessed the behavior.</p>
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55968 | 1 | 56862 | 2011-08-05T20:06:08.490 | 6 | 14499 | <p>I have a 320GB hard drive with an LVM2 volume group that was created as part of the default installation. If I put a second 320GB hard drive into the computer, can I make the second drive mirror the first using Linux software RAID1 or something similar? I tried adding a new RAID array in the Gnome Disk Utility, but ... | 8292 | 235 | 2011-12-20T00:30:52.463 | 2016-12-29T17:19:59.293 | Add new hard drive to mirror existing LVM drive with raid1 | [
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55970 | 1 | null | 2011-08-05T20:21:13.123 | 1 | 346 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/55448/i-installed-a-font-and-now-ubuntu-is-using-it-as-the-default-font-in-web-pages">I installed a font and now Ubuntu is using it as the default font in web pages?</a> </p>
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55971 | 1 | null | 2011-08-05T20:28:29.790 | 2 | 553 | <p>I cannot create a new launcher anywhere (either in the normal GNOME desktop or Unity). </p>
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55973 | 1 | 55974 | 2011-08-05T21:03:45.133 | 4 | 182 | <p>I recently noticed this option in PCMANFM, it works the same way as Finder on OSX, you click on the left pane on Applications and then it opens a selection of categories, click again and the application itself will open.</p>
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55982 | 1 | 55998 | 2011-08-05T23:28:52.823 | 3 | 806 | <p>Is the Google Music Manager Beta for Linux considered an open source program?</p>
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55984 | 1 | null | 2011-08-06T00:09:40.223 | 5 | 37072 | <p>Is there a way to full install Ubuntu 11.04 in a 4gb USB drive?
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55989 | 1 | null | 2011-08-06T00:38:54.520 | 1 | 1536 | <p>Im currently using fglrx from AMD and wanna try other driver to see if I can get better performance with compiz (I'm getting flickering). Everything I've tried dont works(Radeon, RadeonHD), I think that 6770 is too new; But wait! 6770 is almost identical to 5770! Any idea? I have ubuntu 11.04.</p>
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55992 | 1 | 56008 | 2011-08-06T01:15:40.730 | 14 | 42358 | <p>Is there a way to get <strong>precise</strong> list of services with "is running"/"is not running" statuses specified.</p>
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55994 | 1 | null | 2011-08-06T02:42:30.530 | 1 | 320 | <p>I am on ubuntu natty unity. I am facing a problem regarding indicator-weather indicator applet. Sometimes, it does not work correctly and turns gray. Please see following image<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ImyPJ.png" alt="Weather indicator turning gray"></p>
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55995 | 1 | 55999 | 2011-08-06T03:02:30.963 | 1 | 1097 | <p>I set Banshee up as the default app to launch when I plug in my Android device, but have changed my mind. I'd prefer that Ubuntu simply mount it as a drive and leave the rest to me.</p>
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56001 | 1 | null | 2011-08-06T05:13:59.903 | 1 | 425 | <p>I'm using a firefox extension called gmail watcher (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gmail-watcher/) </p>
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56003 | 1 | 56005 | 2011-08-06T05:56:21.037 | 15 | 1346 | <p>I just noticed a blue triangle icon on my 'Ubuntu' icon. What could it mean?</p>
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56004 | 1 | 56006 | 2011-08-06T06:12:36.683 | 2 | 354 | <p>CompizConfig Settings Manager in Ubunte versions < 11.04 have the ability to create keyboard shortcuts that will send the currently active window to a specific screen location. e.g. I had my computer set up so that <kbd>Super</kbd> + <kbd>→</kbd> sent the current window to the top-right corner of the current virt... | 22856 | 2732 | 2012-02-10T22:14:11.483 | 2012-02-10T22:14:11.483 | Create a keyboard shortcut to move windows to a specific screen edge | [
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56012 | 1 | 56026 | 2011-08-06T08:45:30.263 | 6 | 6925 | <p>I've installed all lua5.1 development packages from Synaptic and the g++ linker can not find <code>-llua</code>. I've read on some other question that it is possible that <code>-llua</code> has some other name and that I should fix it. But the problem is that I can't seem to find the <code>lua.o</code> or whatever i... | 22859 | 6969 | 2011-08-06T15:29:26.287 | 2017-03-02T13:17:51.017 | What package provides -llua for g++? | [
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56015 | 1 | 56016 | 2011-08-06T09:33:18.647 | 3 | 322 | <p>First, I must say that I do not have PPA or any experimental packages enabled.</p>
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56017 | 1 | 56049 | 2011-08-06T09:45:47.247 | 11 | 2735 | <p>There are a few dictionaries on my system, </p>
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<p>How are these files licensed to me? Which project / package provides them?</p>
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56018 | 1 | null | 2011-08-06T10:05:30.987 | 1 | 274 | <p>After removal of gnome-3, I am not able to install any gnome applications like gedit, gnome-control-center, I am getting following error. How to solve this?</p>
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56020 | 1 | null | 2011-08-06T10:50:22.043 | 8 | 849 | <p>First off, this not a whinging moaning message: I'm interested to see if other people have similar problems to the ones I've had, and I'm trying to be constructive.</p>
<p>I am comparing U1 with DropBox.
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56022 | 1 | 56044 | 2011-08-06T10:55:20.717 | 240 | 291452 | <p>If just need to crop Audio/Video from a longer track, what can I use? I tried OpenShot, but I find the export video slow, perhaps its compling all the "layers" into a new movie? Perhaps I just need a simple "crop" tool for audio/video will surfice? </p>
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56025 | 1 | 56043 | 2011-08-06T11:26:07.380 | 4 | 5365 | <p>is there any alternate for yakuake for the unity desktop, when i log in unless i'm in KDE, i cant open yakuake.</p>
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<p>returns nothing on unity, while on KDE it installed perfectly.</p>
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56027 | 1 | 56195 | 2011-08-06T11:32:34.417 | 2 | 2964 | <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge%27ez_language" rel="nofollow">Ge'ez</a> is an East-African alphabet. </p>
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56029 | 1 | null | 2011-08-06T12:20:51.553 | 2 | 376 | <p>Suppose I have a meta-package "m" that installs a, b, and c. After doing an apt-get install m, I encounter an error during the install of b. In our example b does some compilation stuff.
Now I want to clean out m, a, b, and c and re-install. What I want is for b to do its compilation stuff as well.
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56031 | 1 | 56199 | 2011-08-06T12:35:57.107 | 10 | 5452 | <h2>The Problem</h2>
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56035 | 1 | 56041 | 2011-08-06T13:49:27.873 | 4 | 2521 | <p>Many external hard drives have a backup-button with a OTB function for backing up stuff. An example is the "Sharkoon Quickstore Portable".</p>
<p>So how does this button works?</p>
<p>Is there a vendor neutral standard?</p>
<p>Does it need a special driver?</p>
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56036 | 1 | 56040 | 2011-08-06T13:50:49.023 | 14 | 6029 | <p>I know what the <code>/etc/group</code> file is for, but I'm also seeing a <code>/etc/group-</code> file. What's the difference between the two?</p>
<p>The same group names and ids appear in both files. Only the last column (users) is different.</p>
<p>I'm running ubuntu 11.04</p>
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56037 | 1 | 60306 | 2011-08-06T13:52:49.913 | 13 | 17909 | <p>I have a laptop with an HDMI port. While we're homeless and staying with friends I've been plugging it into their surround sound receiver with an HDMI cable. To get sound working I have to open up the sound settings jobby and switch the hardware profile from "Analogue Stereo Output" to "Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output"... | 449 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:53.673 | 2012-05-02T06:36:39.087 | Auto-switch audio to HDMI when HDMI monitor/receiver plugged into laptop | [
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56038 | 1 | null | 2011-08-06T14:08:36.030 | 1 | 488 | <p>I take alot of photos, on windows I have used <a href="http://picasa.google.com/linux/" rel="nofollow">picasa</a> - and sure, it is a wine-based version available for linux. What alternatives are available on Ubuntu that can at least handle RAW Support, Organization, Editing and Uploading to the web?</p>
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56039 | 1 | null | 2011-08-06T14:11:18.337 | 0 | 3947 | <p>How do I get Network-admin to restrict connection to GSM (Edge) instead of flipping between 3G and Edge and lose connection. Usually it works out-of-the box, but at my current location there are a lot of radio shadows, so the recommendation from my ISP is that I should lock to Edge - which can be done using their ow... | 631 | 40955 | 2012-05-08T08:35:53.633 | 2014-10-14T07:54:32.013 | How can I force a USB modem to only connect via EDGE and not 3G? | [
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56042 | 1 | null | 2011-08-06T14:49:04.577 | 12 | 24724 | <p>I am looking for PSD files viewer. Gimp is too fat for this job. I need something fast and light.</p>
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56045 | 1 | 56052 | 2011-08-06T15:29:11.033 | 5 | 17665 | <p>Network manager shows the message "wireless is disabled by hardware switch" while three is no switch on the laptop to disable wireless.</p>
<p>below is the lshw output which might help to get to the solution</p>
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56046 | 1 | null | 2011-08-06T15:29:17.463 | 3 | 993 | <p>I hear noise in my speakers and headphones after waking up my PC. To fix this, I have to reload ALSA. Is there a way to fix, or at least to reload ALSA automatic after suspend ? </p>
<p>Oh I forgot, I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 and my soundcard is Creative X-Fi ExtremeGamer.</p>
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56051 | 1 | null | 2011-08-06T15:58:28.447 | 28 | 22580 | <p>I have <code>/home</code> on a separate partition. I want to reinstall Ubuntu.</p>
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56055 | 1 | null | 2011-08-06T17:17:22.530 | 1 | 701 | <p>I have two W2252TQ Flatron screens, both were working in windows 7 prior to installing Ubuntu 10.04. The active monitor is connected via DVI with the VGA one dark. If I disconnect the DVI one then the VGA monitor becomes the active one. I would like both of them to work.</p>
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56056 | 1 | 56060 | 2011-08-06T17:19:15.880 | 2 | 1862 | <p>I'd like to get some of the functional of xmonad in gnome. Is it possible to write a shell script that will resize and position the windows that are open on the Gnome desktop?</p>
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56063 | 1 | null | 2011-08-06T18:51:08.907 | 0 | 1024 | <p>Since I installed my graphics card - a AMD Radeon HD 6850 - I couldn't get Ubuntu to work. I've just installed Ubuntu again but still no success to run it properly. I've installed using updates and MP3 codecs.</p>
<p>When I start Ubuntu, I see the monitor is slipped right. How can I solve this issue?</p>
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56064 | 1 | null | 2011-08-06T18:54:04.180 | 0 | 455 | <p>I have a big problem with Ubuntu Server 11.04. When I log into the server with ssh or ftp the files in my Home folder is encrypted. This happened yesterday too, but a reboot fixed it.</p>
<p>I just reinstalled the OS on my desktop computer and had a backup on the server, so I need to get hold of the files.</p>
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56067 | 1 | null | 2011-08-06T21:29:00.100 | 1 | 195 | <p>I messed around with my partition table a few weeks ago, now I can't start up Ubuntu, except recovery mode.</p>
<p>It gives me an error message in the beginning like /device/sda1 is not ready or not present then it FREEZES.</p>
<p>Is there a way to restore it?</p>
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56069 | 1 | 56628 | 2011-08-06T22:03:39.837 | 5 | 4761 | <p>Trying to dual-boot UBuntu and Windows 7 on the same 1TB Sata hard drive, but the Ubuntu installer won't recognize the drive- the live CD will, though, and can see it under GParted, etc.</p>
<p>Already tried going into BIOS and changing away from IDE. No luck.</p>
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56083 | 1 | 56093 | 2011-08-07T02:09:29.440 | 10 | 45324 | <p>I have a MTS MBlaze USB dongle, with which I can connect to the internet. The question is, how do I set up a ssh connection accessible over the internet so that any one can connect to my PC through that (using valid username/password provided by me of course) ? If not possible, what do I need to make this possible ?... | 12708 | null | null | 2016-04-11T15:08:10.353 | How to set up ssh connection (acessible over internet, not LAN) using MTS MBLaze modem? | [
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56084 | 1 | null | 2011-08-07T02:22:25.797 | 2 | 15581 | <p>how do I need to install mySQL server 4.1 on Ubuntu 11.04 server for a legacy app to run (it breaks on mySQL 5).</p>
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56088 | 1 | 65405 | 2011-08-07T03:36:33.383 | 1 | 5494 | <ul>
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56091 | 1 | null | 2011-08-07T04:14:13.723 | 3 | 1785 | <p>I have this file that I got from a friend who says that its the disk image of an android mobile. Doing a <code>file</code> on the image I get the following:-</p>
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t.bin: Linux rev 0.0 ext2 filesystem data (mounted or unclean), UUID=badcafee-dead-beef-0000-000000000000
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56092 | 1 | 56106 | 2011-08-07T04:16:13.443 | 4 | 10502 | <p>I installed <code>lm-sensors hddtemp sensors-applet</code>. I am able to get output from <code>sensors</code>. But cant find how I can start <code>sensors-applet</code>. I didnt find Hardware Sensors (or anything that looks like <code>sensors-applet</code>) under <code>Right Click Panel > Add to Panel</code></p>
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56094 | 1 | null | 2011-08-07T04:46:02.290 | 2 | 976 | <p>I just upgraded my GUI from Unity to GNOME3.
There's one problem I'm having, though. Pointing Devices apparently loses functionality in GNOME3, but I need to be able to use my trackpoint.</p>
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56095 | 1 | 56111 | 2011-08-07T04:17:54.713 | 17 | 176809 | <h3>Problem I Faced</h3>
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<li>I installed something that crashed my Wifi drivers that I compiled earlier.</li>
<li>Un-installing the same package doesn't helped.</li>
<li>Finally, I re-compiled my wifi drivers and things are good.</li>
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<h3>My Question</h3>
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56104 | 1 | null | 2011-08-07T08:04:12.577 | 577 | 922422 | <p>I want to install <strong>Oracle's JRE</strong> and to update to the latest version with the Software Updater when they released. Is there a Ubuntu package that is provided by Canonical or Oracle?</p>
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56107 | 1 | 56113 | 2011-08-07T08:32:47.743 | 5 | 1300 | <p>I rarely use Trash. (I use <kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>Delete</kbd>) But recently, I found I often remove some important files by mistake. So I want to use Trash now.</p>
<p>But as we all know, my limited disk space will be filled with files in Trash if I don't clear the Trash by myself.</p>
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56116 | 1 | 56308 | 2011-08-07T10:28:04.807 | 3 | 9340 | <p>I've got a fairly fresh install (a month old) of Kubuntu without much modification done to it and I'm having massive issues connecting to any wireless network. The computer can see the networks available and on trying to connect to my home network it will get to Setting Network Address before waiting for a while an... | 15207 | 15207 | 2011-08-08T14:32:28.603 | 2011-11-14T10:14:43.500 | Wireless network not connecting in Kubuntu 11.04 | [
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56120 | 1 | 56173 | 2011-08-07T11:44:35.947 | 1 | 659 | <p>I am using the latest Ubuntu 11.04. My computer is <a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B001JIG0QK" rel="nofollow">Lenovo Thinkcenter M series</a>. I am now using dual monitors. I am wondering whether I could use three monitors on my system?</p>
<p>Thanks
Anand</p>
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56122 | 1 | 56133 | 2011-08-07T12:21:25.073 | 0 | 1160 | <p>I have this keyboard, and I installed Ubuntu 11.04 without configure my keyboard correctly. Now, every time I turn on my computer I have to change it the layout from "USA" to "Brazil":</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rDdwX.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
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56125 | 1 | 56200 | 2011-08-07T12:38:12.397 | 0 | 1045 | <p>I did an X.org update on Ubuntu, and that landed me with some graphics problem and ultimately into shell.</p>
<p><strong>Is there something like SANDBOX on which you could try out something and rollback if not liked ?</strong></p>
<p>Please help.. !</p>
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56126 | 1 | 56129 | 2011-08-07T13:07:02.103 | 1 | 190 | <p>I was wondering if wine-based and mono-based programs are started differently?</p>
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<li>For wine-based, I go through Gnome GUI, clicking Applications ->
Wine -> Programs -> . How can I call it from terminal?</li>
<li>For mono-based, I use terminal, where I type <code>mono path-to-program</code>.
Can I call it f... | 1471 | null | null | 2011-08-07T13:46:46.080 | Are wine-based and mono-based programs started differently? | [
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56128 | 1 | null | 2011-08-07T13:45:47.017 | 6 | 45840 | <p>I go into settings -> Power Management, trying to change the "Put display to sleep when inactive for:" and "Dim display when idle" settings.
The changed settings are saved -- if I come back to the same menu, they appear as I left them. </p>
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56137 | 1 | 56146 | 2011-08-07T14:59:59.660 | 3 | 219 | <p>I have a folder in my <code>/home/me/</code> directory called "podcast", and when I click on Unity's left menu "Files & Folders" and type "podcast" in the search, it shows nothing. Also, if I select to search "Folders" instead of "All Files" it still finds nothing.</p>
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56138 | 1 | 56140 | 2011-08-07T15:06:18.693 | 13 | 4311 | <p>In the terminal, I want to use ffmpeg2theora to convert all the .MOV files in a certain directory to .ogv files. However, the following does not work:</p>
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<p>Is there a good way to repeat a command multiple times on different files?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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56141 | 1 | null | 2011-08-07T15:14:22.633 | 1 | 1676 | <p>I am having a problem where some programs, including Software Center, Update Manager, and Synaptic all close down immediately after opening. The window comes up, but disappears before i have a chance to do anything. People with similar problems have submitted bug reports with similar errors, but none seem to apply d... | 21617 | 14356 | 2011-08-07T15:16:12.660 | 2014-03-09T16:25:02.130 | Programs shut down immediately after opening | [
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56144 | 1 | 56162 | 2011-08-07T15:46:28.990 | 4 | 4303 | <p>My themes have gotten pretty messed up (installed different icon sets and controls etc, made custom themes combining different elements)
Is there an easy way to just remove all the custom themes and return to the original set of themes (and icons, controls etc) ? It would really help!</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
| 22806 | null | null | 2011-08-08T03:15:51.703 | How to reset all themes | [
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56145 | 1 | 56152 | 2011-08-07T16:00:15.467 | 3 | 19770 | <p>I'm having trouble with the remote desktop server that comes with Ubuntu.</p>
<p>I've changed to settings to "allow other users to view" and "allow other users to control" and I set "require users to enter this password: <strong>**</strong>". And I've turned off the confirmation for each access.</p>
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56155 | 1 | 56168 | 2011-08-07T16:33:06.967 | 35 | 93763 | <p>Now I can change it by <code>Fn</code>+ <code>arrow right</code> but now I need to do it via my shell script</p>
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56159 | 1 | null | 2011-08-07T16:50:34.173 | 2 | 2642 | <p>each time I try to install phpmyadmin, I get an error </p>
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56167 | 1 | 56730 | 2011-08-07T17:06:27.440 | 17 | 27482 | <p>I've just installed 64-bit Ubuntu 11.04 and after I updated it, the clock stopped displaying the right time. It's now 8 hours behind my normal time. I've checked the Time and Date settings and the Location field is correct. What's even weirder is that the time displayed in Time and Date Settings adjusts itself after... | 22910 | 235 | 2011-08-08T13:48:27.363 | 2016-05-27T20:37:13.537 | Clock displays incorrect time | [
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56169 | 1 | 56185 | 2011-08-07T17:10:47.390 | 1 | 2909 | <p>I have a bit of a problem. I have a Win 7 partition encrypted with Mcafee Endpoint Encryption. I used to boot with MEE, but GRUB replaced that bootloader. I made the huge mistake of not making a backup of the mbr :(. Now I can load Ubuntu, but when I try to load the Win7 partition the following message is shown: "Mi... | 22911 | 22330 | 2011-08-07T19:15:06.500 | 2015-07-29T08:40:57.263 | How can I recover Endpoint Encryption bootloader? | [
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"body": "<p>I have done some checking for you in relation to this and it looks like bad news to be honest. \nWithout access to the Wintech CD (The MEE recovery software) or the Safetech FD (Pre version 5) it is almost and I say almost impossible to recover the files.</p>\n\n<p>I don't know if yo... | [
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56170 | 1 | 144653 | 2011-08-07T17:24:13.080 | 54 | 60817 | <p>What are the hotkeys for switching the current window between maximized, normal, and minimized states? If some of these don't exist, can I set them somewhere?</p>
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56174 | 1 | 56178 | 2010-12-09T21:07:45.587 | 7 | 10543 | <p>I have had no problem installing Ubuntu desktop when I boot off a live USB, but the server version has given me some trouble. I think it has to do with the way GRUB handles drivers. When the server install tries to look from the CD it can't find it.</p>
<p>I use the following to load it:</p>
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56181 | 1 | 56189 | 2011-08-07T18:02:48.810 | 2 | 5602 | <p>I'm currently in the process of setting up an Ubuntu Desktop setup for a combination of technical writing, heavy statistics/mathematical analysis, and also server-side development and I wanted to know whether I should just download and install Apache, MySQL, and all my other technologies as the native packages, or i... | 21568 | null | null | 2011-08-07T20:19:13.247 | XAMPP vs. Native LAMP Packages | [
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56183 | 1 | null | 2011-08-07T19:03:02.060 | 2 | 484 | <p>I am having a problem with one of my desktop computers not connecting to the wired network when I first turn it on in the morning. After a restart, the wired network works fine. Any suggestions I could try to get this working?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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56184 | 1 | 56213 | 2011-08-07T19:16:27.473 | 0 | 510 | <p>I have a Mac Mini (OS X Lion) and a Thinkpad running Ubuntu 11.04. When I log into the same server from both computer via ssh, the connection the Thinkpad is extremely slow compared to the ssh connection on my Mac Mini. it even hangs and freezes, while the Mini does not. They are both on the same WiFi local network.... | 8986 | 8986 | 2011-08-08T04:35:24.693 | 2011-08-16T00:34:31.743 | wifi networking freezes then unfreezes | [
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56187 | 1 | 56871 | 2011-08-07T19:55:23.850 | 3 | 2076 | <p>I have installed remsatersys back-up from the interwebs, so i could have a custom ISO. Per the instructions on many how to i chose the option <code>Backup</code> on the menu.</p>
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56191 | 1 | 58943 | 2011-08-07T20:24:09.960 | 2 | 141 | <p>I have an external monitor on my laptop, with multi screen setup. Often I put custom application launchers on the external monitor panel, only then to need them, when the monitor is not connected. Where can I find them?</p>
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56194 | 1 | null | 2011-08-07T21:06:23.653 | 1 | 461 | <p>On a single user machine with full disk encryption, is there a security advantage to using Thunderbird's Master Password, or is it safe to leave it disabled?</p>
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56197 | 1 | 56274 | 2011-08-07T21:38:28.293 | 2 | 929 | <p>I've recently started to use Amarok, it went smoothly for a while but now for some reason the collection's completely messed up. It seems that Various Artists albums are ignored or partly shown. Tags are OK and consistent as far as i can tell. I tried to import from file and move to collection but Amarok split my al... | 15710 | 15710 | 2011-08-09T07:54:36.107 | 2011-08-09T07:54:36.107 | How to add Various Artists media to Amarok music collection? | [
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56202 | 1 | 56207 | 2011-08-07T22:59:21.307 | 1 | 1272 | <p>Compiz visual was working perfectly just days ago after a restart (no update nothing) it stopped working at startup, i have to run "compiz --replace" for it to work again and get recognized</p>
<p>I would like to have my compiz visual affects to work spontaneously on startup</p>
<p>Running ubuntu 11.04 </p>
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56205 | 1 | 56252 | 2011-08-07T23:21:40.517 | 1 | 225 | <p>I already have a natty-desktop-amd64.iso downloaded and on my system. How can I tell vmbuilder to use it?</p>
<p>vmbuilder seems to be using wget to download debs itself. is there a way to get it to use debs out of an iso? maybe a loopback mounted iso?</p>
<p>update: I'm running natty.</p>
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56206 | 1 | 56285 | 2011-08-07T23:42:39.517 | 4 | 225 | <p>I want to connect a desktop pc to my laptop and use the wireless ability of my laptop to give my desktop internet.</p>
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56209 | 1 | null | 2011-08-07T23:45:43.780 | 4 | 1279 | <p>to keep up on my backups I want to run a specific rsync command when I insert a specific sata hard drive(s) into any or all of my hotswap bays. Would this be done using uuids somehow to keep track of the drives? whenever I search I find udev for usb drives, can this work here as well?</p>
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56210 | 1 | null | 2011-08-07T23:51:27.480 | 4 | 1783 | <p>Generally, I much prefer Unity 3D over the 2D version, which is a bit broken on my machine. However, I frequently give presentations, and Compiz doesn't support multiple screens. I've been forced to log out of 3D and into 2D every time I give a presentation, then back to 3D afterwards to get a more usable desktop.</... | 13398 | 13398 | 2011-08-08T08:19:35.497 | 2011-10-04T13:47:11.963 | Toggling between Unity 3D and unity 2D | [
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56220 | 1 | 56264 | 2011-08-08T01:34:25.527 | 8 | 13607 | <p>To put it simply, I do not want LibreOffice.</p>
<p>How can I remove LibreOffice and install OpenOffice. I have tried installing the .deb packages from the OpenOffice download but nothing visibly happens.</p>
<p>The menus aren't updated and I can't browse for openoffice in the search.</p>
<p>Any help please?</p>
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56225 | 1 | null | 2011-08-08T03:23:19.620 | 111 | 154870 | <p>Is there a GUI IDE for programming Python just like Java has NetBeans?</p>
<p>I wanted one where we could drag & drop test boxes & labels just as we do with Swing components using NetBeans or Eclipse.</p>
<p>Or is there an add-on present in either NetBeans or Eclipse itself?</p>
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56226 | 1 | null | 2011-08-08T03:32:43.490 | 3 | 2032 | <p>I apologize if this has been asked before. I could not find the relevant post. </p>
<p>I want to see a popup every time a mail comes through, right now, when I get a mail, I see a change in the color of the applet. Previously when I was using 10.04 and 9.04, I used to get a pop-up that would let me know that I had ... | 13969 | 235 | 2011-08-08T17:11:09.543 | 2011-08-08T17:49:19.813 | How do I get a notification bubble when I get new mail in Evolution? | [
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56228 | 1 | null | 2011-08-08T03:13:42.367 | 0 | 5956 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/23009/reasons-why-crontab-does-not-work">Reasons why crontab does not work</a> </p>
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<p>I have setup a crontab to run a shell script every minute. Here's my crontab file:</p>
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"body": "<p>It could be a permissions issue?</p>\n\n<p>Also - try adding in a email address to the script so that any output (errors etc.) is emailed to you.</p>\n\n<p>You can do this by adding:\nMAILTO=someone@somewhere.com</p>\n\n<p>EDIT: I see you are running as root, missed that befo... | null | null | 2012-02-27T21:21:19.803 | null | kjakeb |
56231 | 1 | 56294 | 2011-08-08T03:42:01.967 | 4 | 4201 | <p>I have a few pdf files (e.g., <code>small1.pdf</code>, <code>small2.pdf</code>, <code>small3.pdf</code>) that I'd like to be able to join together to form one larger pdf (e.g., <code>large.pdf</code>).</p>
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"body": "<p>I used pdftk for that:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install pdftk\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>then:</p>\n\n<pre><code>pdftk small1.pdf small2.pdf small3.pdf cat output large.pdf\n</code></pre>\n",
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56233 | 1 | null | 2011-08-08T04:12:17.397 | 1 | 1022 | <p>I'm using 11.04 and an nVidia video card with an HDMI out. I've got my TV hooked up to the HDMI out and have it set up to display a separate x screen. So far so good, I've got my separate x screen over there. However, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get a program to open up over there, and not on the m... | 22940 | null | null | 2011-08-08T06:45:35.617 | How do I open programs on a separate X screen? | [
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56235 | 1 | 56241 | 2011-08-08T04:53:06.357 | 1 | 262 | <p>I am running the latest version of Ubuntu and I ran almost all the new updates. My screen and icons went blank since last upgrade. My Wifi is also not working. I have installed Gnome 3. The login screen also appears without any graphics. It's looking like classic theme. I tried to login to both default Ubuntu deskto... | 17797 | 1067 | 2011-08-08T05:23:24.227 | 2011-08-08T05:27:59.490 | Broken icons, Wifi, and login screen after upgrade | [
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