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57611 | 1 | 57625 | 2011-08-18T12:21:58.010 | 11 | 53569 | <p>I want to remove any and all activity logs for SSH remotely. How do I get to it?</p>
<p>My account on the remote server doesn't have admin privilege, and as such I just want to remove user to user connection records.</p>
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57612 | 1 | null | 2011-08-18T12:22:42.433 | 0 | 2856 | <p>I've just received a M6600 and tried to install Ubuntu 11.04 on the machine with some pretty poor results. </p>
<p>By default the Radeon driver is used for the graphics card however it appears to run very poorly (screen re-drawing visible, tearing of dialogs while moving them). </p>
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57614 | 1 | 57616 | 2011-08-18T13:09:15.863 | 1 | 203 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1813/is-gparted-a-good-tool-for-resizing-an-ntfs-partition">Is gparted a good tool for resizing an NTFS partition?</a> </p>
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57620 | 1 | 57622 | 2011-08-18T13:55:06.213 | 106 | 427201 | <p>I am logging in to my Ubuntu Server using my username. Once I am logged in I am typing <code>passwd</code> command. Entering a new password but a second after getting following error messages:</p>
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57621 | 1 | 57624 | 2011-08-18T14:04:27.620 | 3 | 252 | <p>Yesterday I finally got around to upgrading from 10.04 to 11.04 (I'm very forgetful about such things). I did an upgrade through the update manager, first to 10.10, then to 11.04. Unfortunately, I've run into an issue, stemming primarily (I believe) from the fact that my hardware doesn't seem to support Unity.</p>
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57633 | 1 | null | 2011-08-18T15:10:22.233 | 1 | 1390 | <p>I'm new to Linux. I installed Ubuntu 11.04 on a partition and I love it, but Ubuntu One does not work. I created a free account and a directory Ubuntu One appeared automatically, as expected. I copied there some files and a couple of directories, just text files, therefore very light. U1 tries to sync, but fails and... | 23515 | 15811 | 2011-08-18T15:12:54.697 | 2011-12-12T23:46:06.527 | Ubuntu One does not sync: firewall settings? | [
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57654 | 1 | 57658 | 2011-08-18T18:04:11.230 | 2 | 714 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 64bit and am currently using Ubuntu One file sync for all of my files and devices. I just discovered Deja Dup and was wondering if it was a good idea to use it in addition to Ubuntu One?</p>
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57655 | 1 | null | 2011-08-18T18:11:06.717 | 1 | 662 | <p>I was using TB 5.0 then the system requested to upgrade to v 6.0 I tried to installed from the .tar.bz2 file, extracted the files but was not be able to make it run. Then tried to install it through Synaptic Package manager and Ubuntu Software center but I can't find Thunderbird. Is not under "applications" "interne... | 23528 | 23528 | 2011-08-18T18:47:04.250 | 2011-08-18T19:19:03.450 | Can 't find Thunderbird | [
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57656 | 1 | 57718 | 2011-08-18T18:16:23.763 | 1 | 734 | <p>I have an IMG file that I'd like to copy into an empty USB and boot from it, how do I go about doing it?</p>
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57659 | 1 | 57663 | 2011-08-18T19:02:09.387 | 3 | 1297 | <p>I'm planning to turn my old PowerPC G4 into a wordpress website. I'd like to use the server edition of ubuntu 10.04, install a GUI (to set up wordpress) then uninstall the gui.</p>
<p>Would I be able to do that?</p>
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57661 | 1 | 57688 | 2011-08-18T19:17:07.180 | 1 | 2325 | <p>Bumblebee is refusing to work due to unable to finding the nvidia kernel module (I think) but I do have others.</p>
<pre><code>junke@1215N:~$ modprobe nv # tab tab :)
nvidia-current nvidiafb nvram nv_tco
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57676 | 1 | 57683 | 2011-08-18T20:04:36.510 | 2 | 803 | <p>I have a powerpc, 800mhz 832mb of ram. Currently running Mac OSX tiger.</p>
<p>I have tried Ubuntu 10.04 and it's way too slow. Xubuntu is also too slow for regular usage (gui elements lag a lot).</p>
<p>Which Ubuntu desktop flavor should I use? </p>
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57682 | 1 | 59144 | 2011-08-18T20:18:10.943 | 46 | 57301 | <p>I usually prefer to fix a Linux system than to reinstall from scratch. My computers have seen many distribution upgrades and a list of PPAs or third-party repositories. APT usually makes sure that everything works in the end. However, the fact that the package manager thinks that all required packages are 'installed... | 23530 | 24621 | 2014-04-08T12:46:27.017 | 2023-11-13T04:37:46.133 | Find (and reinstall) packages with corrupted files (without breaking anything) | [
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57689 | 1 | null | 2011-08-18T20:21:27.290 | 0 | 199 | <p>I tried to install Ubuntu 11.04 side-by-side with my Windows on my HP Pavillion g6, but it caused me a lot of different troubles.<br />
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57692 | 1 | null | 2011-08-18T20:22:52.330 | 1 | 211 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5031/what-if-i-run-a-virus-trojan-windows-exe-on-ubuntu-with-wine">What if I run a virus/trojan Windows EXE on Ubuntu with Wine?</a> </p>
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57704 | 1 | 57728 | 2011-08-18T20:37:45.327 | 32 | 35380 | <p>Is there a standard procedure to 'unit test' an Ubuntu system against the deb packages?</p>
<p>Assume, a system has ubuntu-desktop installed according to the package manager. Can I find out, whether the file system has all the files in ubuntu-desktop and dependencies? </p>
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57725 | 1 | 57742 | 2011-08-18T20:53:59.837 | 7 | 8481 | <p>Assume, I have a system with all the packages installed, which I want, and all configuration files set up as desired. However, the files on the file system could have become corrupted or missing due to some mistake in the past or hardware error. The corrupted files would be replace if the package in question was rei... | 23530 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:25:03.983 | 2011-08-21T23:39:35.723 | Is there a safe way to reinstall via the package manager? | [
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57735 | 1 | null | 2011-08-18T22:41:37.013 | 14 | 16175 | <p>I tried remove the installer itself, but the fonts are still there..Is there away to <strong>COMPLETELY REMOVE</strong> the fonts?</p>
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57736 | 1 | 57741 | 2009-02-03T03:55:30.480 | 24 | 1433 | <p>Trying out Ubuntu Intrepid, I have discovered that <kbd>RightAlt</kbd>+<kbd>F1</kbd> doesn't take me to tty13. </p>
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57747 | 1 | 57787 | 2011-08-19T00:59:40.067 | 6 | 614 | <p>I'm absolutely new to packaging, so forgive me if I am asking something obvious for an experienced packager...</p>
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57752 | 1 | null | 2011-08-19T03:13:09.563 | 4 | 727 | <p>It seems that Compiz support forum is used for spam, and as I noticed similar questions answered here, I thought it'd be best for me to ask here</p>
<p>I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 and window manager uses Compiz</p>
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57753 | 1 | 57758 | 2011-08-19T03:19:54.480 | 12 | 10255 | <p>I've been having enough problems with Unity that I've actually installed Xubuntu fresh on my laptops.</p>
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57756 | 1 | 57757 | 2011-08-19T03:38:39.677 | 3 | 1898 | <p>I'm planning to make an ubuntu server (with load balancing to a few offstage computers) and have thin clients connect to it. Unfortunately, I don't know how to make a thin client, or the setup involved. I really like virtualization and servers and stuff like that.</p>
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57761 | 1 | 57762 | 2011-08-19T05:01:50.057 | 0 | 270 | <p>I log in and now my Dropbox and network indicators are on the bottom panel just right of center. Instead of the top panel just left of the time. I do not know why they moved or how to put them back. Even if I wanted them on the lower panel, I would not want them nearly centered. Clicking or right clicking or att... | 20456 | null | null | 2011-08-19T05:26:03.783 | My dropbox and network indicators moved to the bottom panel | [
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57766 | 1 | 57767 | 2011-08-19T06:15:11.857 | 0 | 211 | <p>I get normally pissed off when chrome automatically renders google search results of addresses before I even finish typing. How do I turn this off in Chrome 13?</p>
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57770 | 1 | null | 2011-08-19T06:41:20.037 | 0 | 1242 | <p>There are similar issues to this raised before, and in general many about multiple monitors since Unity, but not this precise one, and no complete answers. I have a couple of Dell Precision laptops (most recently M4600 - with nvidia quadro 2000M gpu), which have <kbd>Fn</kbd>+<kbd>F8</kbd> as the dynamic display swi... | 23547 | 19490 | 2011-08-19T09:56:27.760 | 2011-11-09T05:25:54.323 | Dynamic display output switching | [
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57773 | 1 | null | 2011-08-19T07:21:32.393 | 2 | 130 | <p>When I open my computer and want to use Ubuntu 10.04 I find Update Manager every week displayed on my computer asking for installation.</p>
<p>Do I need to install whenever it is being asked, or I can ignore it? How many times in a month do I need to install it?</p>
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57778 | 1 | 57780 | 2011-08-19T07:35:38.667 | 2 | 8000 | <p>by default the xorg.conf doesn't exist in /etc/</p>
<p>I could generate it by Xorg -configure. However in order to do this. I need to stop xserver. I can't do it at the moment.</p>
<p>So is it possible to get xorg's content or at least on option which is</p>
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57788 | 1 | 57826 | 2011-08-19T10:36:10.770 | 3 | 307 | <p>The gtk3 theme in Oneiric has seen some improvements: dark toolbars and those awesome scrollbars I just discovered (when not using the overlay scrollbars). Are these improvements also coming to the gtk2 theme so we have consistency between gtk2 and gtk3 applications?</p>
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57789 | 1 | 57796 | 2011-08-19T10:43:58.910 | 105 | 176400 | <p>I tried to use <code>sudo cd name_of_dir</code> but am getting the error message: </p>
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<p>Is there any other way to enter a directory owned by another user which has 700 permission?</p>
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57793 | 1 | 57794 | 2011-08-19T11:02:26.250 | 2 | 2128 | <p>I need one really important package from oneiric to be installed (upgraded) on natty.</p>
<p>How can I extract just single deb file? (64 bit).</p>
<p>Should I use backports? if yes, can you please tell me how to set the backports from oneiric?</p>
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57797 | 1 | 57798 | 2011-08-19T11:44:29.227 | 12 | 335 | <p>Way back when Ubuntu 10.04 was released Canonical changed the branding of Ubuntu to the orange/purple combination which I kind of like so why more than one year later the <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ubuntu Forums</a> still look like this:</p>
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57801 | 1 | null | 2011-08-19T12:32:28.427 | 1 | 1622 | <p>The Unity interface never appeared on my laptop (Natty - Intel 945GME).</p>
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57808 | 1 | 57811 | 2011-08-19T13:30:15.490 | 60 | 52838 | <p>I'm installing ubuntu server at the moment, and noticed it in the configuration phase.</p>
<p>What does this package do, what is it for?</p>
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57810 | 1 | null | 2011-08-19T13:32:19.153 | 24 | 91281 | <p>I was trying to get IEC958/SPDIF optical out working on my ASUS P8P67PRO V3 motherboard running Natty and I seem to have wiped out a crucial part of my sound setup. </p>
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57813 | 1 | 57822 | 2011-08-19T13:42:23.857 | 3 | 487 | <p>I know it is simple to download and install but so are many other applications such as phpmyadmin, drupal and Zend Framework and they are all just an apt-get away.</p>
<p>Why is there no package for magento in the repositories or apparently from anywhere else?</p>
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57815 | 1 | null | 2011-08-19T13:46:32.640 | 1 | 521 | <p>I'm trying to use skype in ubuntu 11.
But it fails.
It seems something is wrong with my speak driver, how can i fix it?
It's ok in Windows.</p>
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57816 | 1 | 58025 | 2011-08-19T13:47:28.170 | 2 | 806 | <p>Every time I start an application that is using fullscreen mode in KDE my gnome desktop background is loaded before starting the program. This is aesthetically diturbing and I suspect there is a waste of ressources when the gnome system is somehow started in the background. </p>
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57824 | 1 | null | 2011-08-19T14:44:04.683 | 0 | 584 | <p>I'm using encrypted home directories, and in my day to day activities, I have two user accounts I switch between, one for personal stuff, one for work stuff. However, it's fairly common that I need to access personal files for work stuff, or vice versa.</p>
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57825 | 1 | 57827 | 2011-08-19T14:44:39.567 | 3 | 961 | <p>I had VirtualBox running just fine but on the update to 11.04 it choked. I am running:</p>
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57832 | 1 | 57835 | 2011-08-19T15:11:05.077 | 2 | 123 | <p>I have a new Laptop on which I installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (dual boot with preinstalled Windows 7) since about a month. However there are three consistent problems that I have not been able to get rid of, no matter where I look on the internet. The primary reason is that it is difficult to explain and diagnose such p... | 17663 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:49.590 | 2012-06-20T19:49:13.270 | Repair and consulting service for home-users? | [
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57833 | 1 | 1270049 | 2011-08-19T15:13:40.017 | 28 | 18160 | <p>I have two monitors. The left monitor is set as primary, but the Unity Launcher appears on the right monitor.</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZjDSY.jpg" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZjDSY.jpg" alt="dual screen issue"></a></p>
<p>How can I move it to the other monitor?</p>
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57840 | 1 | null | 2011-08-19T15:50:38.023 | 0 | 462 | <p>I want to extract the ip addresses and the hostnames from the dns server list (100 ips) and put it in a file. What would be the best command to use?
I tried using <code>cut</code> but due to varying lengths of hostnames, the ips and hostnames do not come out together.</p>
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57851 | 1 | null | 2011-08-19T16:13:35.330 | 2 | 1286 | <p>I bought Neuro-Programmer 3. Can anyone tell me how to run it on Ubuntu 11.04?
I installed wine and it said to:</p>
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<p>Please set registry key HKLM\software\microsoft.NETFramework\installroot to point to the .Net Framework install location </p>
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57855 | 1 | 57864 | 2011-08-19T16:49:43.173 | 13 | 7590 | <p>I have two computers and both have exactly the same behavior. I have the option "load last used session" selected, but every time, Kate starts a new session. What could be causing this?</p>
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57857 | 1 | 57859 | 2011-08-19T16:52:46.430 | 7 | 503 | <p>I have 97 processing running, that's what top reports. I only have the base install + apache2 and php5. Could it really add that much stuff? Or does the ubuntu-desktop have like 300 processes?</p>
<p>I am running it on an old G4 powerpc.</p>
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57869 | 1 | 57873 | 2011-08-19T18:42:14.293 | 7 | 876 | <p>When I try to install updates <sup>(via either <em>Update Manager</em> or <code>apt-get upgrade</code>)</sup> the usual apt upgrade process is stopped as it shows me some changelogs, for example:</p>
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57872 | 1 | null | 2011-08-19T18:57:24.573 | 2 | 944 | <p>I'm trying to remove libavcodec52 package but it won't work. If I try through Software Central it just tells me it didn't work and to check my internet conection. </p>
<p>If I try it at the terminal, this is what I get</p>
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57874 | 1 | null | 2011-08-19T19:04:30.117 | 3 | 1065 | <p>This question is cross posted from Stack Overflow: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7113768/stripping-ubuntu-10-04-server-down-to-jeos-like-setup">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7113768/stripping-ubuntu-10-04-server-down-to-jeos-like-setup</a></p>
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57875 | 1 | null | 2011-08-19T19:07:07.020 | 2 | 1784 | <p>I've set up a server with Ubuntu 11.04 and Nginx + PHP-FPM + Varnish + APC + MySQL + Memcached + WordPress. Everything runs pretty nice, but there is a tiny problem with the PHP-FPM service. Install goes OK after the usual</p>
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57879 | 1 | 57880 | 2011-08-19T19:37:35.020 | 6 | 323 | <p>I'm setting up a Linode server, and connecting to it via SSH with PuTTY.</p>
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57881 | 1 | null | 2011-08-19T20:08:43.453 | 5 | 19769 | <p>I have a 8gb memory stick pro duo that is refusing to format or be read correctly.
While deleting a file off of it from my Playstation Portable, the battery got accidentally knocked out.
Now, nothing is able to read it.
I get this message when i try to format it:</p>
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57891 | 1 | 57898 | 2011-08-19T21:33:16.800 | 1 | 109 | <p>Is there a place to poll Ubuntu users other than www.ubuntuforums.org? </p>
<p>Suppose for instance one wants to ask subjective questions like: <em>Which media player do you use?</em> or <em>Are you satisfied with Ubuntu on the latest Dell notebook?</em> etc. etc.</p>
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57899 | 1 | 57901 | 2011-08-19T22:35:31.813 | 3 | 227 | <p>When there are multiple instances of the same application running, each with its own window, the Unity launcher shows one icon for all of them. Then you have to click on that icon to go the "first" of those windows and click again to choose any other. So far so good.</p>
<p>What is annoying to me is that this "fi... | 23582 | null | null | 2012-04-25T08:08:13.337 | How can I change the order of cycling windows in Unity launcher? | [
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57908 | 1 | 57922 | 2011-08-20T00:20:34.080 | 97 | 178060 | <p>On a non GPT partition table I can do</p>
<p><code>sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb</code>.</p>
<p>But <code>sfdisk</code> doesn't support GPT partition tables. What can I use instead?</p>
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57909 | 1 | 57910 | 2011-08-20T00:32:48.360 | 154 | 357447 | <p>I know about the <code>update-rc.d SERVICE OPTIONS</code> command to add and remove services from startup, but how do I use it to get a list of all the services that are currently configured to start at startup? </p>
<p>Is there some other way to get this list?</p>
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57914 | 1 | 57916 | 2011-08-20T01:02:02.450 | 7 | 1940 | <p>At first I apologize if the subject was in the wrong place
The reason is that I do not speak English
And enlisted Google to translate can I register and add this topic</p>
<p>I have a question:</p>
<p>I use Ubuntu 11.04 and I want to put lock screen icon in launcher:</p>
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57915 | 1 | 57938 | 2011-08-20T01:12:24.890 | 64 | 143345 | <p>As example to my question, my <code>~/.bashrc</code> file contains this lines:</p>
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57919 | 1 | null | 2011-08-20T01:26:48.043 | 3 | 1797 | <p>I'm using VLC, which can open all kinds of files without problem, but how can I associate all video files (avi, mpg, wmv, flv, etc.) to be opened with VLC by default?</p>
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57926 | 1 | 57927 | 2011-08-20T02:43:58.067 | 6 | 313 | <p>I've been wondering why canonical releases a *.04 release (ubuntu), advertises that it is supported for three years, and then a *.10 release comes out and isn't supported for three years.</p>
<p>My question: what's different about the *.10 release?</p>
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57929 | 1 | null | 2011-08-20T03:31:41.190 | 2 | 155 | <p>Ubuntu detects a DVI monitor even if I don't have any. I only have a VGA monitor plugged. This is a problem because the game I play crashes when I have two monitors. But I only have one monitor plugged in. This only applies to Ubuntu 11.04, and Linux Distros with the latest Linux Kernel for some reason. The graphics... | 23591 | null | null | 2011-08-20T13:27:03.047 | Ubuntu detects another monitor when I don't have any other monitor | [
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57930 | 1 | null | 2011-08-20T03:31:41.517 | 0 | 1483 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/16256/how-can-i-load-the-vsftpd-daemon-at-system-boot-but-have-it-start-in-a-sto">How can I load the <code>vsftpd</code> daemon at system-boot, but have it “start” in a “stopped” state?</a> </p... | null | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:29.360 | 2011-08-20T12:00:40.910 | How to make the vsftpd not to start automatically? | [
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57936 | 1 | 57939 | 2011-08-20T08:05:31.287 | 2 | 2578 | <p>First the situation:</p>
<p>I have a server that I want to shutdown automatically at night (00:00), but I need to make sure no one is logged via ssh in still. If they are, then I will allow up to another hour for a second shutdown attempt (01:00) at which time the server goes down no matter what.</p>
<p>I figure I... | 23599 | null | null | 2011-08-20T10:27:45.687 | Check If Users are Logged In, Check Condition, Shutdown Automatically at Set Time | [
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57937 | 1 | null | 2011-08-20T09:06:19.347 | 9 | 31023 | <p>An update for Ubuntu was available today and it installed the generic kernel 2.6.38.11.26.</p>
<p>After doing so networking is no longer functioning correctly. My Acer Aspire 4520 has an Nvidia Network card and an Atheros wireless chipset which was functioning properly before the update.</p>
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57943 | 1 | 118635 | 2011-08-20T11:35:46.160 | 6 | 348 | <p>In cleaning up <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/57926/why-are-the-04-releases-supported-for-three-years-and-the-10-releases-arent/57927#57927">an answer</a> today, I noted the following:</p>
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57949 | 1 | 57951 | 2011-08-20T12:18:48.433 | 3 | 57 | <p>I have a branch to be merged here:</p>
<p><a href="https://code.launchpad.net/~headbangerkenny/ubuntuone-android-music/branch/+merge/71364" rel="nofollow">https://code.launchpad.net/~headbangerkenny/ubuntuone-android-music/branch/+merge/71364</a></p>
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57956 | 1 | 57959 | 2011-08-20T13:24:10.423 | 1 | 1207 | <p>Currently I am personalizing my Ubuntu installation and i want to write a small applet to add it in the top left corner of the screen. This should be a "main menu" like in Mac OS X where i have a menu that opens when i click the (Apple/"Tux") logo and offers me to run the updater, the software center, etc. With this... | 23607 | 235 | 2011-08-20T15:38:08.687 | 2011-08-20T15:38:08.687 | How do I get started writing an applet for the panel? | [
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57960 | 1 | 108288 | 2011-08-20T14:09:43.663 | 1 | 190 | <p>I'm writing some applications and tools that are meant to make use of Ubuntu One, but since the CouchDB sync service has been down for months, I haven't been able to test it or demonstrate how it will work in practice. This is very limiting to me, so I would like to setup a temporary CouchDB service to replace Ubunt... | 19779 | 19779 | 2011-08-20T14:22:14.203 | 2012-02-27T19:36:39.933 | How can I replace the CouchDB server for Ubuntu One? | [
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57962 | 1 | 57965 | 2011-08-20T14:25:16.867 | 1 | 1599 | <p>As the title says, after I reboot I need to restart smbd to get printers to show up over smb. My thought was that maybe smbd is set to start before cups and gets messed up? This is with 11.04, how I do I check the startup order of startup dependencies?
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57963 | 1 | null | 2011-08-20T14:27:19.410 | 2 | 295 | <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jj6Gv.jpg" alt="http://www.box.net/shared/static/uu1g1bexf2ovkn36smnv.jpg"></p>
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57966 | 1 | null | 2011-08-20T14:40:20.040 | 4 | 1385 | <p>Do we have any Aqua like borderless themes for GNOME 3 ?? </p>
<p>When I say Aqua like i don't mean the whole traffic light buttons and stuff like Mac4Linux, rather a theme with 0px borders and larger window shadows.</p>
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57967 | 1 | 58217 | 2011-08-20T14:40:44.653 | 5 | 8288 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/27305/fonts-totally-unreadable">Fonts totally unreadable</a> </p>
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I see rectangles in the places where should be text. This happens, for example in <code>Code::Blocks</code> in... | 23608 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:25:10.143 | 2011-08-22T15:16:11.543 | Rectangles instead of text | [
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"body": "<p>Solved!\nI reinstalled the Ubuntu fonts with this command:<br>\n<code>apt-get install --reinstall ttf-ubuntu-font-family</code> </p>\n\n<p>Then I rebuilt the font information files with this command:<br>\n<code>fc-cache -f -v</code> </p>\n\n<p>And Solved the problem! :)\nI found th... | [
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57977 | 1 | 57980 | 2011-08-20T16:10:03.563 | 5 | 1088 | <p>As Ubuntu and Gnome gets modernized, Xfce begins to look like a natural replacement for the "conservative Gnome" that many are used to. And even if the modern desktops are nice, some people will prefer the old ways. But can you simply switch from Gnome 2 to Xfce4 or are there things to consider? I am asking this as ... | 19779 | 25863 | 2012-11-21T22:21:55.913 | 2012-11-27T19:27:32.550 | What should I consider when moving from Gnome to Xfce? | [
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57981 | 1 | 57988 | 2011-08-20T16:52:32.917 | 19 | 29466 | <p>I keep forgetting all the corresponding extract commands for every compression format.</p>
<p>So I was thinking about writing a script that merely maps file extensions to the appropriate extract command. But I guess something like this already exists, I just can't find it.</p>
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57989 | 1 | 60477 | 2011-08-20T17:37:52.763 | 3 | 439 | <p>My laptop was running 8.04 LTS (hardy), using network manager I believe, and the wireless worked fine. I do not believe I was using ndiswrapper, as the original version of Ubuntu I installed (edgy) just auto-detected everything. I did an upgrade to 10.04.3 LTS (lucid) and when I rebooted wireless networking stopped ... | 23538 | 23538 | 2011-09-07T22:24:57.443 | 2011-09-07T22:24:57.443 | Upgrading to 10.04 broke my TrueMobile 1150 wireless | [
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57990 | 1 | 59008 | 2011-08-20T17:52:51.103 | 10 | 12779 | <p>I would like the the applications I launch as root to look differently from the application launched as a normal user.</p>
<p>This can be done by using a theme that does not come from <code>usr/share/themes</code> but I haven't found a way to modify the default theme the root applications use.</p>
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57991 | 1 | null | 2011-08-20T17:57:02.400 | 1 | 3064 | <p>Offical source says it's not possible and also couldn't find anything more about setting it up apart from OS X or Windows manuals.</p>
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57994 | 1 | null | 2011-08-20T18:33:27.727 | 74 | 358944 | <p>I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 and I want to free up some space in my root directory, which is overloaded. I especially want to change the path used for installing applications (they are getting installed directly to the root drive).</p>
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57995 | 1 | 220800 | 2011-08-20T18:45:11.017 | 3 | 3682 | <p>@enzotib mentioned the following command</p>
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57997 | 1 | null | 2011-08-20T18:53:24.000 | 4 | 2424 | <p>Edit: it fixed itself, but I have no idea how...</p>
<p>I have a new laptop running Ubuntu 11.04. If I have certain USB devices (a wireless mouse, or my camera, but not a USB flash drive) plugged in to any of the computer's USB ports, Ubuntu won't boot. (They work fine as long as I plug them in once I can see an ... | 23614 | 23614 | 2011-09-14T04:10:40.043 | 2011-09-14T04:10:40.043 | Won't boot if USB stuff is plugged in? | [
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57998 | 1 | null | 2011-08-20T18:55:10.983 | 4 | 386 | <p>On my ThinkPad W520 laptop, after a short period of inactivity (eg. no mouse movement) on battery, the screen dims for power saving. When I move the mouse (ie. , the screen lights back up, but not at the same level (darker) than it was before.</p>
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58001 | 1 | null | 2011-08-20T19:07:23.130 | 3 | 3895 | <p>The Archive Mounter feature in recent Ubuntu editions is great: you just use it on any *.iso file and it mounts it as if you'd put a CD in the drive ... well, almost.</p>
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58002 | 1 | 59953 | 2011-08-20T19:09:28.243 | 4 | 21167 | <p>I would like to use Compiz in Xubuntu (under xfce obviously).</p>
<p>I have seen this tutorial: <a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2010/07/11/run-compiz-with-xfce4/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ghacks.net/2010/07/11/run-compiz-with-xfce4/</a></p>
<p>Firstly, this didn't work well for me, because when trying <code>compiz... | 21982 | 14356 | 2011-09-04T09:01:03.247 | 2011-12-03T03:00:54.980 | How do I enable Compiz in xubuntu? | [
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58007 | 1 | 58043 | 2011-08-20T19:37:03.480 | 8 | 3818 | <p>How can I make the Image viewer fit all images to width?</p>
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58009 | 1 | null | 2011-08-20T19:53:42.840 | 20 | 17257 | <p>I am looking for an easy to use <strong>light</strong> presentation software.</p>
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58010 | 1 | 58021 | 2011-08-20T19:58:22.110 | 2 | 835 | <p>Where is the bookmarks icon file located for Firefox 9.0a1 in Ubuntu 10.04? I want to change it to the default Humanity bookmarks icon. Doing <code>locate bookmarks</code> and <code>locate bookmarks.png</code> has turned up no useful results.</p>
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58015 | 1 | null | 2011-08-20T21:00:32.150 | 1 | 849 | <p>I have windows 7 installed. The Hard disk is composed of C: for windows 7, D: recovery; E: HP tools. I want to install Ubuntu on a different partition to be safe in case I need to remove either windows or Ubuntu without any problems. </p>
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58016 | 1 | null | 2011-08-20T21:19:58.293 | 1 | 455 | <h3>Problem</h3>
<p>No picture appears on the second, externally, connected monitor.</p>
<p>All used to work perfectly until a week ago or so. I always used nvidia-settings + TwinView/Clone to clone my laptops view, but now nothing happens and Ubuntu freezes, gets garbled and unresponsive when I try to clone it.</p>
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58023 | 1 | 58024 | 2011-08-20T22:25:52.300 | 43 | 73509 | <p>I have LightDM installed and can start it with <code>sudo start lightdm</code>. But at boot, GDM is still the default. How can change this so LightDM is loaded automatically at boot instead of GDM?</p>
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58027 | 1 | 60135 | 2011-08-20T22:55:46.193 | 5 | 5941 | <p>I built my Banshee DB from scratch and am now facing the issue, that none of my albums shows cover art unless I start playing one of its songs. All the album folders contain a cover file <em>cover.jpg</em> and I don't want anything to be downloaded from the internet.</p>
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58030 | 1 | null | 2011-08-20T23:11:32.490 | 2 | 1192 | <p>How can I add a hibernate option to the GDM 3 menu? I only have suspend there but I need hibernation as it does not eat the battery. (Just to make sure - I am talking about the menu in the greeter, not in the gnome-shell itself - the system is multi-user and every user is supposed to switch to greeter and hibernate ... | 23635 | 235 | 2011-08-21T20:33:38.300 | 2012-09-30T12:33:00.613 | Hibernate option in login screen menu? | [
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58032 | 1 | 60927 | 2011-08-20T23:42:13.157 | 6 | 29241 | <p>Apparently the isc-dhcp-server is started too early in the boot sequence, it states that it has nothing to do. If I just log directly in as root and start it using the init.d-script, it starts normally.</p>
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58034 | 1 | null | 2011-08-21T00:06:21.610 | 4 | 2742 | <p>I installed Ubuntu alongside Windows but GRUB doesn't show up during boot and Windows starts instead.</p>
<p>I used a liveCD and followed <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair" rel="nofollow noreferrer">these instructions on the Ubuntu help wiki</a>, but they didn't help.</p>
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58035 | 1 | null | 2011-08-21T00:06:43.570 | 0 | 785 | <p>I removed all gnome panels and have created a beautiful desktop using "Docky" and "Slingshot" only. It sounds stupid but I'm a neat freak and panels in classic and Unity just didn't do it for me. I do not have access to my system settings, however. Is there a way I can add a real quick shortcut to the desktop so I c... | 13505 | null | null | 2011-08-21T07:24:41.510 | How do I add a system preferences shortcut to desktop? | [
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58038 | 1 | 58040 | 2011-08-21T01:14:00.230 | 4 | 169 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/982/how-are-release-codenames-chosen">How are release codenames chosen?</a> </p>
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58041 | 1 | 58079 | 2011-08-21T02:45:14.327 | 2 | 2415 | <p>Suppose I want to associate PPT files to be opened with a bash script that converts it to PDF then opens it with the approperiate PDF editor. How do I do that? </p>
<p>Conversion will be done with uniconv as I learnt from <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/11130/how-can-i-convert-a-ppt-to-a-pdf-from-the-comma... | 14782 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:25:03.983 | 2013-10-29T21:01:06.843 | Bash Script: How to get file name/path | [
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