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7256 | 1 | 7263 | 2010-10-14T19:02:26.293 | 3 | 10104 | <p>I'm an Ubuntu user since Hardy Heron and even in other distros, I've never been through such thing. I can't install Ubuntu 10.10 on my notebook, because I simply can't even start the Live CD... I always get the following message:</p>
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7257 | 1 | null | 2010-10-14T19:03:13.700 | 3 | 1580 | <p>I can't connect my Ubuntu client on a Wi-Fi ad-hoc connection. I tried Windows XP and 7 on server, no success. I can't use Linux on server, only Windows. Thanks.
Realtek RTL8187B.</p>
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7264 | 1 | null | 2010-10-14T19:15:34.000 | 3 | 1349 | <p>Hello first of all and <strong>sorry if my english is hard to understand</strong> hehe</p>
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7269 | 1 | 7272 | 2010-10-14T19:25:35.497 | 19 | 2228 | <p>I'm about to install wine on my new ubuntu 10.10 installation, however I can't determaine if I should install Wine or PlayOnLinux. I've already read over the following page <a href="http://wiki.winehq.org/PlayOnLinux">http://wiki.winehq.org/PlayOnLinux</a>, however the differences are not very clear and I don't unde... | 3931 | 41 | 2010-10-14T19:30:00.527 | 2016-04-13T02:56:27.243 | The connection of Wine and PlayOnLinux | [
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7273 | 1 | 7361 | 2010-10-14T19:44:26.613 | 44 | 7995 | <p>So since I started using askubuntu.com I've spent entirely too much time here answering other people's questions. Now maybe someone could help me with that by answering this one. I'm looking for time management software for Ubuntu.</p>
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7274 | 1 | 7287 | 2010-10-14T19:47:33.013 | 2 | 327 | <p>I'm about to do a fresh install of 10.10 Desktop on my work PC.</p>
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7277 | 1 | 7281 | 2010-10-14T19:57:00.063 | 8 | 466 | <p>I've got a Toshiba a505 laptop and tried the live CD with great results.</p>
<p>However, I haven't found any reports on this PC working 100% OK on Ubuntu 10.10 yet. I do have seen (and tried installing myself) some reports that 10.04 didn't work (without some dirty hacking).</p>
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7278 | 1 | 7336 | 2010-10-14T19:59:37.440 | 2 | 3718 | <p>I have a Compaq Presario CQ60-307EA Laptop which has the Synaptics touchpad. It works fine, but one thing that's never worked is the disable button above it, which should completely turn off the touchpad. But when the disable button is pressed nothing happens, the light changes to orange like it should, but it isn't... | 3253 | 1067 | 2010-12-27T12:59:36.957 | 2010-12-27T12:59:36.957 | Synaptics touch pad disable button not functional | [
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7283 | 1 | 7284 | 2010-10-14T20:10:59.783 | 34 | 13216 | <p>Vim 7.3 is out, but not available in the sources. Where can I get an installation package for the 7.3 version? I don't want to install it manually.</p>
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7285 | 1 | 8047 | 2010-10-14T20:17:00.347 | 3 | 4622 | <p>I was running Xubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron". I configure the vnc by adding vino-server to the autostarted app. I accessing the display only via VNC, so I removed the monitor and ir worked fine.</p>
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7288 | 1 | 7291 | 2010-10-14T20:38:28.713 | 9 | 13049 | <p>How do you modify the default Fluxbox menu?</p>
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7290 | 1 | 7298 | 2010-10-14T20:49:34.180 | 9 | 5061 | <p>I'm looking to get rid of rhythmbox as my primary music player. Preferably something that allows multiple folders for the music library and has support for the new sound indicator.</p>
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7292 | 1 | 10089 | 2010-10-14T21:02:58.447 | 20 | 10877 | <p>I am running Ubuntu on a Dell Latitude with the latest Nvidia drivers. Basically what I want is when I disconnect my external display that everything goes back to the main one without having to change the config every time.</p>
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7295 | 1 | 7299 | 2010-10-14T21:12:15.510 | 30 | 36667 | <p>Is there a way to turn off the display (enter power saving mode) using a command?</p>
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7310 | 1 | 7465 | 2010-10-14T22:03:44.130 | 8 | 5141 | <p>I have a partition to hold my media files and photos. But it does not mount automatically. So for when I open shotwell it lists all my photos as "Missing" until I open the partition in Nautilus and then restart shotwell. Is there a way to have it mount on login?</p>
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7321 | 1 | 7327 | 2010-10-14T22:57:56.597 | 3 | 2001 | <p>I've been trying out a few different music players recently and noticed that some (a lot) of my music would be missing from the library. It turns out that at some point, a plethora of my music files lost their .mp3/.ogg/.flac file extensions. I'm honestly not sure how this happened, but I'm confident it was somethin... | 693 | null | null | 2012-03-11T18:31:57.450 | Rename Music Files with Missing File Extensions | [
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7324 | 1 | 7329 | 2010-10-14T23:24:18.433 | 0 | 343 | <p>Since the upgrade of my netbook from lucid KNR to maverick KNR, it is not possible anymore to add to the favourites on the search and launch site. The "stars" to add an icon to the favourites is not shown anymore, neither is the "-"-sign on the favourites to remove them.</p>
<p>How can I fix this?</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4428/how-to-create-a-screencast">how to create a screencast?</a> </p>
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<p>What are the best video screen capturing programs for Ubuntu as far as reliability, performance, and ease of use go?</p>
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7340 | 1 | 7350 | 2010-10-15T00:10:11.357 | 7 | 4134 | <p>I was wondering if there was an easy way of replacing pulseaudio with alsa. Pulseaudio is the biggest problem I am currently having with Ubuntu and I really want these problems to end.</p>
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7342 | 1 | 7343 | 2010-10-15T00:17:27.730 | 7 | 585 | <p>I don't necessarily expect a whole tutorial for creating a sound indicator entry here on askubuntu, but I've searched and searched, and I can't seem to find any documentation on creating a sound indicator. Preferably, I'd like to be able to do this in Python. Can someone point me in the right direction??</p>
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7347 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T00:34:56.410 | 3 | 1541 | <p>I have Pinnacle PCTV HD PCI card . I am able to view and hear ATSC/QAM channels with this card using Kaffeine.</p>
<p>I can also view all of the analog channels. The problem is that there is no sound in tvtime.</p>
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7351 | 1 | 7360 | 2010-10-15T00:58:59.153 | 6 | 4613 | <p>I was wondering is there a way to play movies in the desktop,like a background?or is it not possible?</p>
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7352 | 1 | 7371 | 2010-10-15T01:00:45.940 | 5 | 2810 | <p>I am beginning to write some short stories and I am trying to find some software that may aide me in brainstorming.</p>
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7354 | 1 | 7381 | 2010-10-15T01:02:26.763 | 4 | 7913 | <p>I just did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 10.10 64-bits on my notebook. Downloaded the Opera 10.63 .deb package (http://www.opera.com/browser/download/) and installed it.</p>
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7369 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T02:16:21.200 | 2 | 1013 | <p>My video camera records onto a memory card which mounts in Ubuntu with no problem. I see a bunch of .mp4 files, but what software do I use now? I installed PiTiVi and repeatedly tried to import the folder of .mp4 files but it keeps crashing after importing a few of them. I tried running <code>pitivi</code> from t... | 3906 | 252 | 2010-10-15T04:07:55.273 | 2011-04-07T23:26:01.593 | PiTiVi crashes with segmentation fault on importing .mp4 files | [
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7372 | 1 | 7402 | 2010-10-15T02:38:51.193 | 6 | 5393 | <p>I'm using the Ubuntu 10.10 with both VLC player and MPlayer and already installed the ATI drivers. I watched the same videos on Windows 7 and Ubuntu. But on Ubuntu the images have a lot of tearing. I tried some newbish-configs on my ATI config tool, but nothing changed.</p>
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7373 | 1 | 20685 | 2010-10-15T02:39:38.417 | 32 | 13295 | <p>On 10.10 how do I get rid of Openoffice.org, and install LibreOffice without borking my system?</p>
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7377 | 1 | 7379 | 2010-10-15T02:49:10.730 | 38 | 33956 | <p>There are a couple of applications that I find myself marking as "Always on Top" every time I use them, so I wonder if there is a way to automatically set them as so, whatever way I start them (menu, shell, gnome-do)?</p>
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7390 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T03:45:08.023 | 8 | 5105 | <p>Need help in getting the right mouse click to work on a HP mini 210-1015TU when using the touchpad.</p>
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7391 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T03:49:41.837 | 10 | 2907 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/59632/basic-web-development-ide-editor-like-dreamweaver">Basic Web Development IDE/Editor like Dreamweaver?</a> </p>
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<p>I used Adobe's Dreamweaver for working on web pages and various text editors. I ... | 4034 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:31.777 | 2010-11-10T14:09:58.677 | Is there a Dreamweaver HTML editor replacement? | [
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7403 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T04:26:01.703 | 2 | 2106 | <p>I installed gstreamer-vaapi from this PPA :</p>
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<p>but, if I run totem movie player (via terminal) it's show this error :</p>
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7404 | 1 | 7407 | 2010-10-15T04:26:16.323 | 38 | 71890 | <p>Can I run a command within another command for example:</p>
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7409 | 1 | 7414 | 2010-10-15T04:50:44.737 | 10 | 17118 | <p>Ok, so when I run the command:</p>
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7418 | 1 | 7420 | 2010-10-15T06:13:43.070 | 8 | 2077 | <p>I am currently using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and when I run the update manager it doesn't show the new release.</p>
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7426 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T07:29:57.977 | 1 | 3863 | <p>I need to install another kernel(2.6.34) into my fedora/ubuntu machine(x86) and I need to show the old and new boot up options in the boot menu(both new and old kernel)</p>
<p>I have downloaded the new kernel and I need to compile it and need to build it.</p>
<p>How can I complete this from start to finish?</p>
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7427 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T07:31:40.580 | 12 | 7860 | <p>Gnome and KDE seem to be pretty straightforward and certainly seem to be the most user friendly in terms of getting setup and running quickly with anything the average user would want to do.</p>
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7429 | 1 | 8305 | 2010-10-15T07:58:08.967 | 9 | 7815 | <p>I created a Live Ubuntu 10.10 with persistent storage on a USB drive. On every boot the Welcome screen appears where you can select the language and choose to try Ubuntu Live or to install Ubuntu. </p>
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7430 | 1 | 7922 | 2010-10-15T08:01:29.487 | 7 | 33747 | <p>My video card is working fine, I have no screen problem.<br>
I am trying to generate an xorg.conf so I did:</p>
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7433 | 1 | 7447 | 2010-10-15T08:14:07.870 | 2 | 223 | <p>When browsing the Unity menu, I get strange entries. Such as if I search "Monitor" for system monitor, I get entries for Camera Monitor and Battery Monitor, things I know are not installed. Is that normal?</p>
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7436 | 1 | 8347 | 2010-10-15T08:26:15.280 | 7 | 10563 | <p>When I mount the Truecrypt file on my USB drive it shows up as truecrypt1. </p>
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7443 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T08:57:54.017 | 4 | 1281 | <p>I need to preseed a dual boot installation of Ubuntu 10.04. I want partman to use all already existing Linux partitions and all free space (like the option when installing Fedora 13).</p>
<p>What would that recipe look like?</p>
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7444 | 1 | 16722 | 2010-10-15T09:03:52.193 | 6 | 1288 | <p>Thanks for taking the time. </p>
<p>I have a problem I've never had after an upgrade. One of my hard drive, a 1TB NTFS drive connected with the marvell SATA connector (88sx or smth like that ) to my Asus P5Q-E motherboard is not seen, and therefore unmountable in Ubuntu.</p>
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7445 | 1 | 7499 | 2010-10-15T09:07:53.977 | 4 | 370 | <p>Please post articles or blog posts that detail the relationship between Debian and Ubuntu (negative/positive) that you find insightful/useful/excellent... and please don't limit this to just the OS, but also the rest of their respective eco-systems.</p>
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7446 | 1 | 7824 | 2010-10-15T09:13:13.780 | 11 | 8623 | <p>I have some user accounts in my Ubuntu 10.04 and I want them to login from all over the world and access their data using Internet and of course I want any of my users to be able to access only their own user and to be able to change data.</p>
<p>What should I do? Are there any remote desktop apps?</p>
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7454 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T09:49:26.763 | 8 | 5240 | <p>I've recently acquired a second screen for my laptop. The external one is, of course, way bigger than the integrated one.</p>
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7464 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T10:38:16.820 | 3 | 422 | <p>I would like to test the new Sabayon 5.4 on my PC.Since i love the new ubuntu-font installed by default on Maverick i wonder how can i install it on Sabayon or any other distro.Thank you in advance!</p>
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7470 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T11:07:48.283 | 113 | 294936 | <p>In my office i want to update and download through (wget) and here they are using proxy?</p>
<p>How can i do this by commandline?</p>
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7475 | 1 | 7487 | 2010-10-15T11:51:32.403 | 0 | 1209 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5320/tab-completion-for-commands">Tab completion for commands</a> </p>
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7477 | 1 | 7484 | 2010-10-15T12:02:45.507 | 972 | 3352984 | <p>After I add a user using <code>adduser</code>, I can't see it via <strong>System > Administration > Users and Groups</strong> unless I log out and then log in again. Is that normal?</p>
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7479 | 1 | 149827 | 2010-10-15T12:13:00.873 | 27 | 13238 | <p>As I use the Docky Skype indicator, and the green Skype icon doesn't look good next to all the grey ones -- it would be nice to remove the icon from the system tray. </p>
<p>Is this possible? How can I do it in Ubuntu 12.04 -- or other earlier versions?</p>
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7480 | 1 | 7501 | 2010-10-15T12:18:47.467 | 3 | 221 | <p>I'd like to know how to change some entries makes in 'second button list', that list of programs associated with a file icon.</p>
<p>Some I would like to remove and others I would like to put in.</p>
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7483 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T12:34:55.373 | 13 | 6930 | <p>I'm a student right now, and later in life I'd like to get really involved in the Linux ecosystem. However I recognize the need to put bread on the table, so my question is:</p>
<p>How can I make money from Ubuntu/Linux?</p>
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7485 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T12:37:23.553 | 7 | 18686 | <p>As the title say my laptop battery is not detected in maverick.
I'm using ubuntu since ever and I've never come across this problem.
I have a msi ms-171f vr705 series and everything is working fine except for the battery.</p>
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7489 | 1 | 7494 | 2010-10-15T12:47:52.503 | 24 | 14352 | <p>A while ago Spotify (the streaming music service) came out with a preview for Linux of their client.</p>
<p>So what should I do?</p>
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7498 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T13:18:52.447 | 140 | 230180 | <p>I want to install Skype, but I can't locate it in Software Center or by using Synaptic Package Manager. Can anyone help me?</p>
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7502 | 1 | 7507 | 2010-10-15T13:29:20.777 | 4 | 1454 | <p>When a GUI program malfunctions in some way (crashes, etc.) I often use the trick of running it from the command line (instead of from the menu). That way I see the messages it outputs to <code>stdout</code> and <code>stderr</code> which sometimes gives me a clue as to what went wrong (or at least a message I can G... | 3906 | 5768 | 2012-07-09T13:58:51.137 | 2012-07-09T13:58:51.137 | capture stdout and stderr of all GUI programs? | [
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7509 | 1 | 7525 | 2010-10-15T13:50:17.973 | 4 | 1694 | <p>I'm using Gedit to write C++ code, and have applied my custom syntax colour scheme which works (and looks) great with the exception of the <code>string</code> type, which, for both my custom style and the various bundled styles, is the same colour as the rest of the text. I am able to access the xml files that conta... | null | null | null | 2010-10-15T16:08:57.740 | Changing the colour of 'string' in Gedit when typing C++ | [
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7510 | 1 | 7514 | 2010-10-15T13:52:43.600 | 7 | 2353 | <p>I use Gnome. I want to change the appearance of KDE applications such as Amarok.
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7512 | 1 | 7513 | 2010-10-15T13:54:58.217 | 0 | 770 | <p>I have used 10.04 for a while using the wubi installation with Windows XP.</p>
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7515 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T14:06:57.857 | 14 | 13282 | <p>I want to use a different dns server for some specific domains that are blocked by the default dns server. And i dont wanna change my default dns server for some reason.</p>
<p>Is there any way of doing this without installing my very own dns server?</p>
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7516 | 1 | 7531 | 2010-10-15T14:09:35.297 | 9 | 822 | <p>I guess it's also a matter of personal taste, but since I'm starting with a fresh 10.10 install I thought maybe this time I'll keep my system more organized.</p>
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7517 | 1 | 7524 | 2010-10-15T14:11:29.503 | 22 | 22742 | <p>I may have the wrong idea here, but I thought that: </p>
<p><strong>MIME types</strong> are identifying codes, embedded <strong>inside</strong> a file.<br>
<strong>File .extensions</strong> are idenifying codes, suffixed to the file's <strong>name</strong>. </p>
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7519 | 1 | 7527 | 2010-10-15T14:20:18.900 | 3 | 353 | <p>I have a Google Apps acount where I work at, and we use Google Talk to communicate.</p>
<p>Any help or ideas would be appreciated.</p>
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7529 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T14:42:38.037 | 2 | 7921 | <p>I've recently bought a Toshiba Satellite C655. It came with Windows 7 preinstalled. I've never had a notebook before, but as a desktop user, I was a Ubuntu user since 2 years, and I've never had a problem with drivers, wifi, etc.</p>
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7533 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T14:59:36.640 | 3 | 194 | <p>Is there software, or a utility, available on Ubuntu that I could use to benchmark (performance test) traffic and throughput on networking equipment (specifically Cisco switches or routers)?</p>
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7543 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T15:42:38.073 | 31 | 56042 | <p>Are there any Nero Burning Softwares for Ubuntu ? The most important is to able burn Mp3 or songs files into the CD/DVD =)</p>
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7545 | 1 | 7599 | 2010-10-15T15:45:54.107 | 0 | 868 | <p>I see the following on-screen for a brief moment when entering or leaving suspension:</p>
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7558 | 1 | 7564 | 2010-10-15T16:31:17.173 | 0 | 1131 | <p>I recently upgraded to 10.10 from 10.04. I got the Netbook version. I like the new interface but it is a bit slower that the older version. Is there anyway to revert the current looks back to the another layout that does not consume as much resources? How do I change the layout so that I get rid of the launcher, bri... | 3607 | null | null | 2010-10-15T16:40:07.293 | Change layout & appearance on 10.10 | [
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7561 | 1 | 7581 | 2010-10-15T16:37:43.500 | 3 | 5580 | <p>I managed to change the selection color from orange to light gray which is very nice.</p>
<p>Now I'd like to change the text color of inactive/disabled menu items which are in black as you can see "Available" "Away" and "Busy", the text is black. I'd like it to be gray for example.</p>
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7569 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T17:12:55.980 | 2 | 15577 | <p>I have BURG installed with GRUB2 to provide nice GRUB themes on my GRUB loader. I have it all setup right but I want to know if it's possible to change the order of my menu icons. As of now, I currently have the Ubuntu Icon first and then Windows. I would like to switch them around, so Windows is first and then the ... | 3253 | null | null | 2013-08-14T08:38:51.840 | How to change the menu order of BURG | [
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7575 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T17:46:16.157 | 2 | 2353 | <p>What is the hard disk drive partition naming convention in Linux (for example : [hd0,0] etc...)? What does it actually mean?</p>
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7576 | 1 | 7582 | 2010-10-15T17:52:26.460 | 13 | 1490 | <p>Not sure what Linux software I would use for this. I'm looking for something like Acronis True Image for Windows, but for Linux. The rule is that we are keeping Windows out of the equation, I want to be able to rely solely on Ubuntu to handle the management and restoration of backup images.</p>
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7578 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T17:58:59.930 | 12 | 3658 | <p>When I have "automatic login" activated, the "Unlock the Gnome Keyring" box asks for my password. But this happens three times. There are three boxes asking me for my password. In 10.04 the box appeared one time.</p>
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7585 | 1 | 7650 | 2010-10-15T18:04:06.580 | 10 | 30155 | <p>Will setting up dual monitors on a decent-but-not-too-powerful machine significantly slow down my system?</p>
<p>For specifics to my system, this is a 2GHz Intel Dual-core laptop with 4GB RAM and a decent integrated video card, has no problems running multiple applications with Compiz and effects. </p>
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7587 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T18:17:25.500 | 1 | 12571 | <p>On my Dell Studio XPS 16, I sometimes accidentally hit this key. Wireless becomes disabled, and hitting it again does not re-enable wireless. I have to hit it an odd number of times, then restart my computer to re-enable wireless.</p>
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7605 | 1 | 7613 | 2010-10-15T19:42:51.220 | 47 | 32177 | <p>I spend a lot of time at the command-line during the workday and at home too since I run Ubuntu exclusively.</p>
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7617 | 1 | 7621 | 2010-10-15T20:13:46.127 | 1 | 499 | <p>I try to install cardapio but i saw tha is unstable. Is any stable release and if not when wil be stable. In cardapio launchpad theres is not any schedule. </p>
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7624 | 1 | 7626 | 2010-10-15T21:16:59.737 | 10 | 2030 | <p>To install programs from launchpad, you can add a repository to the software sources list...</p>
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7629 | 1 | 7630 | 2010-10-15T21:44:21.860 | 6 | 269 | <p>I have two versions of ubuntu installed on my laptop 10.04 and 9.10. They are installed on separate partitions (let's say /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 respectively), but I forgot which is which. I'm now booting through liveCD (I'm troubleshooting a grub issue), but I need to know which partition contains the lucid instal... | 1012 | 235 | 2013-04-14T18:07:56.997 | 2013-04-14T18:07:56.997 | How can I identify what version of ubuntu is installed in a specific partition? | [
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7636 | 1 | 7670 | 2010-10-15T22:01:05.973 | 5 | 902 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 with the 2.6.35-22.34-generic kernel and have the latest Vmware player installed, but each time I run Vmware Player it says it needs to load some modules into the running kernel. It does this every time I run Vmware player. It seems to install the modules OK as Vmware player runs after it's ... | 3253 | 235 | 2010-10-15T22:07:50.367 | 2012-08-25T22:08:17.430 | Vmware Player modules not saved into Ubuntu Kernel | [
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7643 | 1 | 7646 | 2010-10-15T23:14:52.973 | 1 | 374 | <p>I know downloading softwares from ubuntu tweak usually installs the latest stable, but does it also adds the ppa of the respective software?</p>
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7644 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T23:29:04.357 | 12 | 1124 | <p>Even though aptitude and synaptic are both front-end to the APT (and I myself
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7645 | 1 | null | 2010-10-15T23:38:42.480 | 3 | 4402 | <p>So far, suspending to ram and waking up from it works. My laptop's external display (connected via HDMI) works, too.</p>
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7648 | 1 | 7651 | 2010-10-15T23:54:36.767 | 44 | 7519 | <p>My system has 132 directories whose names end in <code>.d</code><br />
There are also two scripts whose names end in <code>.d</code></p>
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7653 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T00:37:01.430 | 1 | 414 | <p>OK. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 a week or so ago over an old Ubuntu partition - no problem. Grub went on fine (it had previously been overwritten by windows).</p>
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7654 | 1 | 7657 | 2010-10-16T00:44:10.987 | 14 | 3591 | <p>I am interested in setting up a Ruby on Rails environment on my 10.10 laptop. </p>
<p>Is there anything special I need to keep in mind for installation (i.e. that could be new or unique to 10.10)? </p>
<p>Are there any suggested walkthroughs that I could follow along with?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
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7659 | 1 | 7669 | 2010-10-16T01:19:35.283 | 16 | 8373 | <p>Though its nearly a year since I started using Ubuntu, I have not attempted installing software from source. I didn't actually find the need to do so. But now I am working on a software which is at the release candidate stage in the repositories but the latest stable version's source code is available at the softwar... | 4157 | 935 | 2010-10-16T01:23:44.643 | 2013-02-26T02:08:34.023 | Can I update software installed from source code directly | [
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"body": "<p>It is best to note that a software's dependencies rarely change. If you have successfully compiled the software once, any subsequent versions <strong>should</strong> be easy to compile - all dependencies <strong>should</strong> be satisfied already.</p>\n\n<p>If you compiled from sou... | [
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7662 | 1 | 7667 | 2010-10-16T01:47:33.897 | 52 | 3364 | <p>As Linux continues to grow and develop, and the more we use Linux, the greater the threat from viruses.</p>
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7663 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T02:06:14.773 | 0 | 228 | <p>I've read about a bug in the first versions of kernel 2.6.35 that causes the temperature to increase above the normal. Does anyone knows if it is already corrected?</p>
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7664 | 1 | 7668 | 2010-10-16T02:14:40.447 | 1 | 152 | <p>I have a partition <code>/data</code> which supposed to store data and its format is ext4. Since it not in home folder and I forget to format it as FAT at the beginning, I cannot copy any file into here unless I use root access. Eventually I decide to umount it.</p>
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7674 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T03:46:25.670 | 2 | 2227 | <p>I do not have data on my phone, and I was wondering if anyone out there knew how I would go about sharing my laptop's internet connection with my Symbian s60v5fp3 phone. How can I do such a thing?</p>
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"body": "<p>Try GnuBox on phone (works via bluetooth).\nBut if your phone supports Wifi, buy cheap router (like DIR-300), it will be much faster.</p>\n",
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