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7675 | 1 | 7741 | 2010-10-16T03:46:31.880 | 0 | 5256 | <p>I get the following error at early boot stage:</p>
<pre><code>ipconfig: eth0: SIOCGIFINDEX: No such device
ipconfig: no devices to configure
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<p>I have uninstalled/purged dropbear, but I still get the error. As I had the complete tar.bz backup of my system taken soon after the installation, when I restored it, the error didn't show up. But when the system got a kernel update, again the same problem occurred. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 desktop edition on Asus Eeepc 1005px (Atom N450).</p>
<p>Edit 1:
There were no scripts in the <code>/scripts/init-premount/</code> directory.
There was a dropbear directory in the <code>/initramfs-tools/etc/</code> directory. I removed it and did: <code>sudo update-initramfs -u</code> But again that dropbear directory appeared.</p>
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7676 | 1 | 7678 | 2010-10-16T04:47:13.820 | 21 | 33095 | <p>If I create a script and then place it in this folder (/etc/cron.hourly), will my system run this script hourly? Or does my script need to begin with a command as well?</p>
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7686 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T06:23:22.507 | 9 | 7235 | <p>At present I have several machines on the home network which are a mixture of static desktops and laptops. Its getting unmanageable for me and impractical for all of them to have local home directories, settings and security so I am considering using LDAP for common user management and NFS for shared home directories.</p>
<p>What happens when one of the laptops are out on the road? The home network is unreachable so will auth fail and fall back to local storage? Also, when the laptop returns is there a way to resync the home storage to the NFS server?</p>
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7687 | 1 | 7688 | 2010-10-16T06:33:58.703 | 2 | 616 | <p>There are several questions regarding plymouth :</p>
<p>1.Is it safe with Ubuntu Maverick 10.10?</p>
<p>2.Is it reversible?</p>
<p>3.If thing goes wrong , what are the effects?</p>
<p>4.Will it clash with Burg??</p>
<p>Thanks ^^</p>
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7689 | 1 | 7692 | 2010-10-16T06:58:11.940 | 1 | 367 | <p><code>lshw -C network</code> shows</p>
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7697 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T09:11:57.420 | 5 | 2957 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/6135/does-ubuntu-have-an-alternative-to-os-xs-spotlight">Does Ubuntu have an alternative to OS X's Spotlight?</a> </p>
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<p>Wondering what people are using to index and search their file systems. I'm looking for something with low resource usage, but with capability of indexing a large number of files in my /home folder (including documents, music, videos etc) and with a native gui for searching these. A bonus would be if it can index and search based on metadata/document content, as I don't always remember the name of the file I'm looking for (particularly when trying to find documents).</p>
<p>Currently running Ubuntu 10.10. I was previously using gnome-do for quick file access which was fantastic, but it wouldn't let me index my entire /home folder (said there were too many files?). </p>
<p>Any other good indexing options available?</p>
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7700 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T09:32:22.497 | 3 | 3193 | <p>I use the Dell Vostro 3300 und Ubuntu Lucid 10.10. The VGA for the external monitor is flickering. The problem seams to be the Intel Graphics.</p>
<p>lspci / grep “VGA” says: VGA compatible controler: Intel Corporation Core Prozessor Integrated Graphics Controler (rev 18)</p>
<p>Dell told me on the telephone it is the GMA 5700MHD</p>
<p>Has somebody an idea, what i can do?</p>
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7704 | 1 | 11090 | 2010-10-16T09:57:29.333 | 6 | 63845 | <p>My <code>syslog</code> is constantly filled with messages like this:</p>
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<p>The only USB device I use is Microsoft Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 7000. The laptop model is HP dv9500, Ubuntu 10.10, but the same was in the versions before.</p>
<p>How can I fix this?</p>
<h3>Edit:</h3>
<p>Here's the output of <code>sudo lsusb</code>:</p>
<pre><code>Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 045e:071d Microsoft Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
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<p>All USB devices seems to be working fine. I have some problems with DVD-R and sound card, but they are not USB.</p>
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7707 | 1 | 7734 | 2010-10-16T10:52:40.260 | 2 | 5369 | <p>For some reason I have two entries for the same copy of Windows 7 in burg (and before I installed burg, there were two in the grub menu as well). They are on different partitions but they boot into the same Windows. I think one is the recovery partition maybe. But they are both the same. I would just like to remove one of them so I have a clean boot screen with one Ubuntu and one Windows option. I figured out how to take the Ubuntu recovery mode off of the list, but I think the Windows problem is too complicated for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.</p>
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7709 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T11:28:54.783 | 3 | 2440 | <p>I tried a Google search on the subject; however I came up with nothing. Is there a way I can enable this option so I can enable good 3d performance while using Unity?</p>
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7710 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T11:32:50.583 | 4 | 6873 | <p>I'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 netbook edition on my Lenovo S10-3. According to the release notes, there is a bug in the kernel that forces me to add</p>
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<p>Now when I try to boot the machine it just hangs. I have tried booting the machine as-is and I have tried adding the above-mentioned kernel parameters. Same experience.</p>
<p>So, my questions is how do I install 10.10 in this machine and how do I boot it after I've installed the OS?</p>
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7711 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T11:54:44.903 | 3 | 855 | <p>I get very low-volume sound in Ubuntu, and when I raise the volume, it's crackling and noisy. In Windows it works fine. </p>
<p>I've got a Realtek ALC800 soundcard, intel ich6 controller. </p>
<p>I have tried everything, from changing the alsamixer configuration to installing the newest alsa drivers, and changing that <code>alsa modprobe conf</code> thing. </p>
<p>Any ideas?</p>
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7715 | 1 | 7722 | 2010-10-16T12:47:19.577 | 4 | 3243 | <p>Usually in Gnome and KDE it is only possible to define shortcuts with the <kbd>Super</kbd> key in combination with another key. But is it possible to use <em>only</em> the <kbd>Super</kbd> key as a shortcut, and how could I achieve this?</p>
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7716 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T12:57:54.710 | 9 | 16096 | <p>I can't seem to find an inbuilt way to have Rhythmbox fetch album art for tracks -- stock plugins also don't help. Is there any external package that could do that, or am I maybe missing something?</p>
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7717 | 1 | 7720 | 2010-10-16T13:00:12.437 | 2 | 372 | <p>Is there any way to set appliactions sound (separately by application) in the new sound indicator applet like in the "sound preferences" window?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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7723 | 1 | 61613 | 2010-10-16T13:19:44.737 | 3 | 1842 | <p>Just installed a fresh copy of Maverick, and went from my two monitors working perfectly to broken in seconds.</p>
<p>As usual I configured the monitors in the display applet, this worked fine. I also hit Make Default which gave me no problems. I then restarted and the monitors had gone back to Mirror Screen. I changed them back again and hit Make Default which gave me a message about setting the Virtual Desktop resolution. After this any changes I make to the monitors give me the message "Please log out and back in again" - I've tried that and restarting but still cannot configure the monitor resolutions.</p>
<p>Any ideas on how I can revert this? Some searching indicates the problem's with xorg but I've no idea where to go further than this.</p>
<p>Here's the relevant <code>lspci</code> output:</p>
<pre><code>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series]
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<p>I tried extending the desktop using ATI's Catalyst tool but this still mirrored the screens. Does this mean the drivers aren't being used?</p>
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7724 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T13:21:01.220 | 7 | 6327 | <p>I'd like to run the new Unity interface from Ubuntu 10.10 inside of a VirtualBox VM (host is Ubuntu 10.04). Is that possible? Thanks!</p>
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7726 | 1 | 7727 | 2010-10-16T13:29:49.197 | 18 | 32169 | <p>Although there is supposed to be a monospace font in the family, the default package doesn't come with it. I tried getting ttf-ubuntu-monospace but there aren't any packages with that name. How/where can I get the monospace font?</p>
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7737 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T15:45:32.720 | 3 | 1827 | <p>My laptop is ThinkPad Edge, Intel platform. My internal microphone stopped working after I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10.</p>
<p>Internal audio analog stereo is checked in Sound Preferences->Input.
When I run Sound Recorder - Input Level in Sound Preferences is not changing.</p>
<p>What should I do to fix this?</p>
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7740 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T16:26:29.870 | 2 | 1762 | <p>In my home , I am have 3 machines and all are in LAN. Out of 3 , one machine is windows loaded and i need to get the shared folders from windows from my Ubuntu 9.10.</p>
<p>Previously i had accessed the windows shared files(through smbclient) from my Ubuntu 8.10, but in newer version i can't able to do that.</p>
<p>How can view the shared files in GUI/shell from Ubuntu (samba client or any other mechanisms?)</p>
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7742 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T16:58:18.877 | 2 | 2022 | <p>I have dual screen setup for my Ubuntu 10.10 machine,</p>
<p>But whenever I try to move an application to another screen by dragging it, it moves to another workspace in my primary monitor instead of second screen.</p>
<p>Am I missing something here? Is there any way to drag my application to another screen instead of another workspace?</p>
<p>I'm using Gnome and Nvidia graphics card.</p>
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7749 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T17:17:57.660 | 25 | 50276 | <p>I would like to boost the Core frequency, shader clock, and memory clock on an eVGA GTX 480 I have in my development box running 10.04. <em>Is it possible to overclock a recent graphics card from within Ubuntu?</em> I tried the <a href="http://linuxgamingtoday.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/how-to-overclock-nvidia-video-cards-in-linux/" rel="noreferrer">Coolbits approach</a>, but I couldn't get this to work. I also tried <a href="http://www.linuxhardware.org/nvclock/" rel="noreferrer">nvclock</a>, but as it has't been updated since January, 4th, 2009, it doesn't work with my card.</p>
<p>In windows, the driver itself ships with the ability to overclock the cards, but nvidia <em>appears</em> to have left this out of the linux drivers. Has anyone discovered a solution? Or would it be possible to stage the windows drivers within Ubuntu? (<strong>ick</strong>)</p>
<p>If there is a more appropriate forum to ask this question in, I'd be happy to do so -- but I'm hoping for a solution within Ubuntu. Thanks!</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> It appears that I may need to have "Coolbit" "5" as <a href="http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s=cfac626f1c9f948db9d106a33789cbff&showtopic=182896&pid=1131119&st=0&#entry1131119" rel="noreferrer">discussed here</a>. Hmm. Nope.</p>
<p>Here is the relevant section of my xorg.conf file:</p>
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Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 460"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
Option "Coolbits" "5"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 480"
BusID "PCI:3:0:0"
Option "Coolbits" "5"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
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<p>When I restart with Coolbits set to 5, I can enable fan control on GTX 460. I can also set it to maximum performance mode. I cannot change the clock frequencies. I am about to try different levels. But here is what I see (with Coolbits = 5):</p>
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<p><strong>Update 2:</strong> I've tried driver version - 260.24(beta - nvdeveloper) & 260.19.12 (released today). I am not able to see the "Clock Frequencies" tab for any of the 4xx cards. I can however alter the fan speed for the card with a display attached. I'm going to ask <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/7768/2696/">a second question</a> and wait for better drivers to be released.</p>
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7752 | 1 | 7910 | 2010-10-16T17:22:04.207 | 0 | 1161 | <p>I switched my wife's notebook from Ubuntu 10.10 to Kubuntu 10.10 (by installing kubuntu-desktop), but sometimes (not always) after filling in username and password, Kububtu hangs in the post-login splash screen (as if it would take forever to bring up the desktop).</p>
<p>CPU usage is not high. I have no idea why it happens.</p>
<p>I saw reports of some problems with login, but not specifically like this (hanging on that splash screen after loggin in). Did this happen to anyone else? Is there any fix or workaround that I could try?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
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7757 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T18:01:49.407 | 11 | 2621 | <p>Maybe a non-geek that knows of the existence of a firewall is already some kind of a nerd. If you have been a windows-user then it was rather easy to set up a firewall (I don't know if it was a good one!): enable a firewall with maximum protection. Then for each program that tried to make an internet-connection a notification was shown (allow or not allow). In this way without any prior knowledge of protocols and ports a user could set up a firewall that was suited to his needs. Is there any equivalent program in Ubuntu so that any user can set up a proper firewall?</p>
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7760 | 1 | 7785 | 2010-10-16T18:13:53.843 | 6 | 601 | <p>Background: I have never used Rhythmbox on this computer.</p>
<p>I just accidentally opened Rhythmbox while my MP3 player was plugged in. Without asking me or explaining what it was doing it started "Importing..." with high disk IO activity in my home folder. I exited the program to stop it, but not before it reached about 30% completion.</p>
<p>What did it just do?</p>
<p>I cannot find any documentation of this behavior on the <a href="http://www.rhythmbox.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Rhythmbox website</a> or the <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Rhythmbox" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ubuntu Community Documentation</a>.</p>
<hr>
<p>Update: It occurred to me that the IO activity I saw on my home folder might just be coincidental, if Rhythmbox defaults to scanning my home folder when it is first run. I found this in its Preferences screen:</p>
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<p>Does this help explain what Rhythmbox was doing? If it's relevant, <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5203/what-happens-if-i-delete-the-default-folders-in-my-home-folder">I do not have Music folder in my home folder</a>.</p>
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7762 | 1 | 8678 | 2010-10-16T18:18:16.953 | 1 | 404 | <p>I'm securing my ssh server with <a href="http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/index.html" rel="nofollow">DenyHosts</a>, and decided to dig into DenyHosts' configuration to make sure things looked good. There's an option called SERVER_SYNC, that makes an xmlrpc call and seems to crowdsource securing an SSH server by using denyhosts' central server to collect statistics about bad hosts. </p>
<p>I'm intrigued by the idea, but before making such a drastic change I wanted to know, are other people using this? If so, please write a little about your experience with the SYNC_SERVER option in DenyHosts and any issues I should watch for. Thanks.</p>
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7766 | 1 | 7772 | 2010-10-16T18:31:40.570 | 2 | 1859 | <p>This might be a rubbish question for AskUbuntu but I'm getting a hardware itch and I think the cheapest way to alleviate it is by chucking another Nvidia GTX 260 in my box and strapping it to my existing one...</p>
<p>But I use Twinview (that is two monitors coming out my one card) showing a single screen. I also use Compiz and I also play games, and watch video using VDPAU.</p>
<p>So before I spend £100 on another card, I'd like to know what I'm getting myself in for. Does twinview work with SLI? Does 3D performance increase as much as it does in Windows? Where's Wally? Should I just forget it for now and buy a mid-range 5xx in a year or so?</p>
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<p>Is it possible to tie this directly to a specific card as if a display was attached??</p>
<p>Specifically, I'd like to <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/7749/2696/">overclock my gpus</a>, but short of that (since the Clock Frequencies tab won't make an appearance), I'd like to at least crank up the fan so that my CUDA kernels can run on a cooler gpu. To do so within the driver framework, a display must be attached to the card. <em>But if I do that, then I can't set the card to <a href="http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/alt-nvidia-current-smi.1.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">"Compute Exclusive" mode</a>.</em></p>
<p>Basically, does anyone know of a way to attach a fake (software based) display to a specific gpu in Ubuntu?</p>
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7769 | 1 | 7807 | 2010-10-16T18:39:42.143 | 48 | 14489 | <p>Is there a standard or conventional keyboard shortcut for pasting the primary selection?</p>
<p>I'd like to select some text and go to another app to paste <em>without</em> trashing my clipboard contents. I'd rather keep my fingers on the keyboard than move to the mouse, find the pointer, position it where I want, and middle-click.</p>
<p>If there's nothing conventional, or if it's application-specific and unsupported by many, is there a workaround to get this working globally? (Or at least in more applications.)</p>
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7776 | 1 | 7780 | 2010-10-16T19:04:07.397 | 92 | 121673 | <p>How can I lock my desktop screen from the command line?</p>
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7788 | 1 | 7814 | 2010-10-16T19:39:23.780 | 3 | 2254 | <p>I use docky and GLX cairo dock, I really love dock but one thing that really keeps me from using dock is the fact that none of these give you the option to completely hide them while you an option to hide them completely while you are working on a maximized window, so it gets annoying when you want to click somwhere and your mouse hovers over the dock area and dock pops up.</p>
<p>Is there any way I can completely hide these docks while working on a maximized window.I remember rocket dock on windows can do this by default.
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7797 | 1 | 10109 | 2010-10-16T20:22:37.223 | 3 | 421 | <p>I feel like hacking into Unity and spent a couple of minutes looking for development documentation, source code, components, the stack of aplications used, etc. It all seems to be buried in the results. Can't find anything related. </p>
<p>Can anyone point me a good direction?</p>
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7798 | 1 | null | 2010-10-16T20:25:51.753 | 31 | 50650 | <p>Is there some equivalent of Windows' "Tile Windows" in Ubuntu?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QgDg3.jpg" alt="alt text"></p>
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7809 | 1 | 7811 | 2010-10-16T21:58:06.030 | 175 | 369247 | <p>If I want to make a backup of my entire OS (including but not just my home directory), how do I go about this? </p>
<p>Is it as simple as backing up everything in <code>/</code> and then when if I suffer a crash, just copying the files back over?<br>
Will this cover grub, and how do I actually do this when the system is inoperable?</p>
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"text": "How big is the tar file usually? For example I have 90GB of data in \"/\". But the backing up process (making the backup.tar.gz) stopped because of lack of space..\nIs there a way to create the backup.tar.gz file in an external drive?",
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7816 | 1 | 7820 | 2010-10-16T22:54:43.967 | 3 | 1503 | <p>I'm not here to criticize pulseaudio, but I find it immature and unnecessary. It eats system resources, causes confusions, and complicates the system by adding an extra layer
without seemingly clear benefits, and I'm not the only one who thinks this
way. (In fact, for more "real" complaints, refer to this link:
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<p>Why does Ubuntu come with Pulseaudio as its sound server in the first place?
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7825 | 1 | 7826 | 2010-10-16T23:54:10.447 | 15 | 580 | <p>I want to purchase the Fluendo DVD player using the Ubuntu Software Centre. If I reinstalled Ubuntu, would I have to purchase the software again? </p>
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7834 | 1 | null | 2010-10-17T01:34:12.313 | 4 | 4372 | <p>Ever since I installed 10.10, the network applet stays with a red exclamation point for about 10 seconds. I don't know why this is happening. Please help me, this is very annoying! I didn't have this problem when I was with 10.04.
<strong>EDIT:</strong> I should maybe mention the indicator appears, but it says that there are no network available. Only after the aforementioned 10-15 seconds does it detect all the networks.</p>
<p><strong>EDIT 2:</strong> This question is <strong>not answered</strong>! I have tried with another computer, and the network manager is already loaded upon login, so I know it's a bug. Please help!</p>
<p><strong>EDIT 3:</strong> I have the same problem with my power indicator, actually...</p>
<p><strong>EDIT 4:</strong> The problem is back once again. I have counted: it takes a full 15 seconds to load after my desktop.</p>
<p><strong>EDIT 5:</strong> I have filed a bug report in Launchpad <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/672207" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. Can ANYONE help me?</p>
<p><strong>EDIT 6:</strong> Still nobody?</p>
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7836 | 1 | null | 2010-10-17T01:41:58.740 | 3 | 1399 | <p>I have had <a href="http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxgames" rel="nofollow">Crossover Games</a> (also called CX Games) recommended to me as a time-saver for installing Windows-native games on Linux. I have also come across another package called Cedega. These apps make it easier to run games by supplying the correct Wine settings, and in the case of Cedega, actually making changes to the compatibility layer (I.e. it does not simply use Wine as a back-end).</p>
<p>Cedega charges an <strong>ongoing subscription fee</strong>, which really rubs me up the wrong way, whereas CX Games is a one-off payment which entitles you to any future upgrades (please correct me if I'm wrong on that point).</p>
<p>If you have used these packages, did they save you time / headaches getting games running, could you run games which were impossible / very hard to run straight through wine?</p>
<p><strong>EDIT</strong>: As pointed out by JanC PlayOnLinux is also available, a free front-end for Wine which includes some profiles for games. I was <em>unfairly</em> mentally lumping this in with Wine.</p>
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7839 | 1 | 7842 | 2010-10-17T01:50:26.480 | 4 | 2204 | <p>System information:</p>
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<p>Virtual Marchine:</p>
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<p>I wanna to install a virtual system with x86-64 in Virtual Box,But it seemed that it is impossible to do this.</p>
<p>The virtual machine tips me it only detected an i686 CPU.</p>
<p>Is there any link between the architecture of host and that of the client virtual OS?</p>
<p><code>kvm-ok</code>result:</p>
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INFO: /dev/kvm does not exist
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KVM acceleration can NOT be used
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<p><code>kvm-ok</code>again:</p>
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INFO: KVM is disabled by your BIOS
HINT: Enter your BIOS setup and enable Virtualization Technology (VT), and then hard poweroff/poweron your system
KVM acceleration can NOT be used
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<p>But another problem happened,the VirtualBox displayed an error windows.:</p>
<pre><code>VT-x/AMD-V hardware-acceleration has been enabled,but it is in the ineffective status. So the VirtualBox won't detect the CPU of 64bit,and fail to start.Please confirm the support has been enabled.
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<p>How to check the CPU whether support the <code>VT-x/AMD-V</code>technology?And start it in BIOS?But another Virtual OS (<strong>32bit</strong>)also enable this technology,and works well.</p>
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"text": "Jan, is there a setting which needs to be changed in order to get 64-bit guests to work? I can confirm this issue and I've been using VBox for ages.",
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"text": "@kit.yang sudo modprobe kvm_amd in a terminal and again kvm-ok",
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"text": "@hhlp The result has been added to the question.It seemed that the able Virtualization Technology is disabled,So is it mean I have to enable it in the BIOS?",
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7848 | 1 | null | 2010-10-17T03:12:27.153 | 3 | 1104 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/7225/sort-music-by-metadata">Sort music by metadata</a> </p>
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<p>Is there any way I can automatically organize my Music folder? Banshee (at least I think it was banshee) moved tons of stuff out of their band/album folders and into the root Music folder and it will drive me crazy until I can fix this.</p>
<p>I'd prefer it to be something that works automatically according to parameters I specified (based on music meta-data). Also, it might need to skip symlinks although this is required.</p>
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7850 | 1 | 7851 | 2010-10-17T03:53:01.250 | 25 | 6705 | <p>Is there any other way of removing the "Set Up Mail" and other entries from the message indicator short of uninstalling Evolution? I prefer to use GMail directly through the browser. It's beginning to annoy me since I keep on clicking it by accident then that window pops out.</p>
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"text": "Excellent it worked! But I had to load into a Guest session to see that it did work. Killing the panel didn't seem to do the trick. I guess on my next login it should be gone. Thanks Marco! :) or Murat, sorry. ;)",
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"text": "This works, but I don't think it's good to encourage people to change/delete files that are under package management. It can cause errors on upgrade or the files will get replaced.",
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7856 | 1 | 7857 | 2010-10-17T04:44:38.517 | 1 | 732 | <p>I used to have a perfectly good working DropBox account on my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS computer. Somewhere along the chain of "sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade" over the past year, my DropBox suddenly stopped working. Instead, I see Ubuntu One stuff on the menus in Nautilus instead of DropBox.</p>
<p>So, I did "apt-get --purge remove nautilus-dropbox", and then went to DropBox.com to download the deb file and reinstall it again.</p>
<p>But no dice. I get the DropBox icon in my "systray", and clicking it opens ~/Dropbox folder, but it does not sync with DropBox and rightclicking Nautilus does not show me menu items for Dropbox. Instead, I see items for Ubuntu One sharing.</p>
<p>I like Ubuntu One really only for the music purchasing because I am guessing that it helps Canonical.com pay Ubuntu's light bills. But I'm not interested in anything else with Ubuntu One besides that -- not interested in Ubuntu One offsite file storage. I really just want my Dropbox sync with Nautilus to start working again.</p>
<p>How do I fix this back so that Dropbox syncs with Nautilus again?</p>
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7859 | 1 | 7883 | 2010-10-17T05:00:04.137 | 6 | 496 | <p>I'm not looking for recommendations on what music player I should use. I would simply like to know which Music players use Ubuntu's new sound menu. The only two I know of for sure are Banshee and Rhythmbox. Maybe Amarok does too? Are there any outside of these?</p>
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7862 | 1 | null | 2010-10-17T05:22:36.447 | 1 | 2391 | <p>I just customised Ubuntu 10.10 using Remastersys using 'dist' option. But, when I booted the custom iso image to pendrive & booted using it, the live desktop is showing up. But, how can I install it? There is no installer in the desktop. Can anyone help?</p>
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7863 | 1 | 7869 | 2010-10-17T05:33:29.020 | 2 | 2072 | <p>I would like to install a 32-bit deb package on AMD64. It is not anything system critical, would it cause problems? Is there a better way to install?</p>
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<p>How can I resolve this?</p>
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7874 | 1 | null | 2010-10-17T06:55:38.390 | 22 | 28197 | <p>I have installed Ubuntu Server 10.04 as a guest operating system under VirtualBox 3.2.10. My host system is Ubuntu 9.04</p>
<p>I have configured two network adapters for the guess (a NAT one and a host-only one)</p>
<p>The NAT one is recognized without problems by the guest, but in order to recognize the host-only adapter I have to run <code>sudo dhclient</code>, thus making it impossible to run the guest
in headless mode.</p>
<p>I'm sure I am forgetting something.</p>
<p>When i run <code>ifconfig</code> right after login I see two interfaces (<strong>eth0</strong> and <strong>lo</strong>), then after running <code>sudo dhclient</code> I see three interfaces (<strong>eth0</strong>, <strong>eth1</strong> and <strong>lo</strong>)</p>
<p>So the question is: How can I make ubuntu to get the IP from the second adapter at boot time in order to be capable of running headless and accessing it via ssh?</p>
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7875 | 1 | 11401 | 2010-10-17T06:57:11.663 | 15 | 316 | <p>I want to use DropBox instead of Ubuntu One. But I like the idea of buying MP3s for 88 cents from Ubuntu One because it can help contribute cash to the Ubuntu project.</p>
<p>I have disabled and uninstalled Ubuntu One client on my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS workstation. Is there a way that I can still purchase and download MP3s from Ubuntu One without installing the Ubuntu One client?</p>
| 1698 | null | null | 2010-11-04T19:28:11.610 | How Do I Purchase Ubuntu One Songs Without Using Ubuntu One File Sharing? | [
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7881 | 1 | 7885 | 2010-10-17T07:18:24.843 | 63 | 122877 | <p>I have been using Ubuntu for quite some time but, I have no idea what the X server is?
I hear it quite often.</p>
<p>I would like to know what the X Server is and what it does. How <code>~/.xinitrc</code> file is used and knowing what the x.org does in the realm of X Server?</p>
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7882 | 1 | 7918 | 2010-10-17T07:23:25.907 | 5 | 1695 | <p>In Nautilus, the Properties of a <strong>single</strong> item shows the size as:<br>
a value <strong>rounded to one decimal place</strong>... nn.n KB, MB, GB...<br>
followed by an <strong>exact byte count</strong> </p>
<p>For <strong>non-single</strong> items, Nautilus onlys show a <strong>rounded</strong> size.</p>
<pre><code>(Single item) Size: 1.4 GB (1501773824 bytes)
(Multi items) Size: 5 items, totalling 1.4 GB
(directory) Size: 5 items, totalling 1.4 GB
</code></pre>
<p>Is there some way to make Nautilus display the exact byte count in <strong>all</strong> situations? </p>
<p>I like the way the Properties dialog allows me to copy this size data, but I usually want to work with the <strong>exact</strong> size (not an approximation). </p>
<p>Konqueror shows the real size total, but It doesn't allow me to copy the value to to clipboard.</p>
<p><strong>NB:</strong> The soluton <strong>zerwas</strong> provided (<strong>below</strong>) works nicely, except it reaches an integer maximum of 4,294967,296 bytes (4 GB)...<br>
So for anyone reading this and interested to use this method, here is the ammended code, which caters for a "long long" integer... 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 bytes (8 EB.. E xaBytes).<br>
The first line (/* new */) is at line-number 2337</p>
<pre><code>/* new */ long long ll_total_size = total_size;
/* MOD */ size_str = g_format_size_for_display (ll_total_size);
/* MOD */ text = g_strdup_printf (ngettext("%'d item, with size %s (%lld bytes",
/* MOD */ "%'d items, totalling %s (%lld bytes)",
/* ASIS */ total_count),
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<p>New displayed info: </p>
<pre><code>(Single item) Size: 1.4 GB (1501773824 bytes)
(Multi items) Size: 5 items, totalling 1.4 GB (1502027641 bytes)
(directory) Size: 5 items, totalling 1.4 GB (1502027641 bytes)
--
(directory) Size: 188,120 items, totalling 766.8 GB (823295045767 bytes)
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7884 | 1 | null | 2010-10-17T08:06:16.880 | 4 | 403 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4103/panel-items-look-weird">panel items look weird</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>How do I fix this error? I know this can be done by restarting the panel, but this is not convenient because every time you boot you need to do it.</p>
<p><img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4271271/error.jpg" alt="Screenshot of panel artefacts"></p>
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7886 | 1 | 12243 | 2010-10-17T08:17:13.987 | 5 | 3654 | <p>Hopefully an easy one, I have just installed docky on my media center and it refuses to display the correct icon for nautilus when I have it open. Instead I get an ugly grey box. Anyone know how to fix this?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/yr37E.png" alt="alt text"></p>
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7887 | 1 | null | 2010-10-17T08:34:48.200 | 1 | 3552 | <p>I have 2 monitors (laptop + monitor). One of them 1280*800, second - 1366*768. Now i have 3 problems:</p>
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<li>How can i do that all ubuntu panels be only on laptop (first) display?</li>
<li>On notebook resolution is 800, on display 768. Of course i have "blind" zone, where i cant see cursor. Nvidia settings show that resolution is 768, but i already can move cursor to this zone. How can i fix this?</li>
<li>How can i install different wallpapers on each display?</li>
</ol>
<p>My nvidia-setting screen:
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fag1d.png" alt="Nvidia-settings"></p>
<p>Please help me and sorry for my english, i am from Russia :)</p>
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7890 | 1 | 7896 | 2010-10-17T09:07:59.263 | 2 | 2770 | <p>I installed the Adobe Flash plugin from the software center. Installation took a long and never finished.</p>
<p>After a reboot the package is marked as installed but Firefox still says its missing this plugin. I tried uninstalling it from the software center but it just says 'removing" for ever.</p>
<p>What can I do?</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p>
<pre><code>$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
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<p>I guess it's because it's still being "removed" (although the software center window is closed).</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE 2</strong></p>
<p>After a reboot:</p>
<pre><code>$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
</code></pre>
<p><strong>UPDATE 3</strong></p>
<pre><code>$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.1.85.3ubuntu1) ...
Downloading...
--2010-10-17 11:18:31-- http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.1.85.3.orig.tar.gz
Resolving archive.canonical.com... 91.189.88.33
Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers.
Retrying.
--2010-10-17 11:21:41-- (try: 2) http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.1.85.3.orig.tar.gz
Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers.
Retrying.
--2010-10-17 11:22:04-- (try: 3) http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.1.85.3.orig.tar.gz
Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers.
Retrying.
--2010-10-17 11:22:52-- (try: 4) http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.1.85.3.orig.tar.gz
Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
</code></pre>
<p>And I guess it will keep on...</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE 4</strong></p>
<p>Seems like this is related: <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/661979?comments=all" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/661979?comments=all</a></p>
<p><strong>UPDATE 5</strong>
I tried removing it first then install again using <code>apt-get</code>:</p>
<pre><code>$ sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
flashplugin-installer
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 188kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 120250 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing flashplugin-installer ...
$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
xulrunner-1.9 firefox-3.0 konqueror-nsplugins msttcorefonts
ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
flashplugin-installer
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/20.0kB of archives.
After this operation, 188kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package flashplugin-installer.
(Reading database ... 120229 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-installer (from .../flashplugin-installer_10.1.85.3ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.1.85.3ubuntu1) ...
Downloading...
--2010-10-17 11:26:48-- http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.1.85.3.orig.tar.gz
Resolving archive.canonical.com... 91.189.88.33
Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers.
Retrying.
--2010-10-17 11:27:34-- (try: 2) http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_10.1.85.3.orig.tar.gz
Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... connected.
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<p>2) What is the safest way to do this?</p>
<p>I have enough space on the HDD to create another partition of equal size to the root partition and copy over the data, but will I have to make any changes in <code>/etc</code> or anywhere else?</p>
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I am very happy with the audio settings in puredyne. Is there a way to compare audio settings in puredyne with the settings in ubuntu? which configuration files should I look into?
Any help is greatly appreciated.</p>
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7895 | 1 | 7913 | 2010-10-17T09:17:48.377 | 4 | 43213 | <p>Well, the title is pretty much it.</p>
<p>When I start my system I always get the same user on the login screen (this is the original user created when the system was first installed). How can I change that so I won't have to type in the actual username I use everyday each time?</p>
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7907 | 1 | 7917 | 2010-10-17T10:44:05.453 | 2 | 1179 | <p>Here is my issue:</p>
<p>I have an old 1.6 GB hard drive that has been sitting in the basement for a while. It actually booted up with Windows 95/98 and the when I explored the hard drive it looked like data was still there.</p>
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<p>Any thoughts suggestions on how to get the drive to mount correctly? All I really need is to get some files off of the drive.</p>
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<p>So I'm trying out TestDisk. It appears that there is a read error on just about every cylinder that it's testing though.</p>
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7924 | 1 | 7987 | 2010-10-17T12:09:28.280 | 6 | 1349 | <p>Is it possible to assign <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>Tab</kbd> to the control key on the right?</p>
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"text": "Thanks so much for your help. I did follow the instructions, but strangely it only worked once, then stopped altogether. Control_R is definitely stripped of its modifier status, so I'm at a bit of a loss. (Could this have something to do with having Autokey installed?)",
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"text": "@begtognen I do not know much about Autokey, so I cannot help there. However, the `xmodmap` line that I pasted will only last until next reboot/logout. To make it persistent, you would have to either put that line into the `~/.gnomerc` file, or add `remove control = Control_R` to the `~/.Xmodmap` file.",
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"text": "Oops! Sorry, I wasn't very clear - I meant that it literally worked one time, then never worked again. Not that I restarted the computer, but that it worked once, then I immediately tried it again, and no luck.",
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"text": "I tried binding it to a few different non-modifier keys. While I couldn't get it to even work once, oddly I did see that *something* was happening: the field I was in would flash whenever I hit the keyboard shortcut.",
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"text": "@begtognen: I've double-checked: the steps outlined in the answer work fine on my computers (Lucid & Maverick)... What do you get if you run `xev` and hit your intended-Shift-Tab key in the `xev` window? (Consider using http://paste.ubuntu.com to list output.)",
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7928 | 1 | null | 2010-10-17T12:26:09.170 | 4 | 2806 | <p>My laptop's hard drive heats up quite badly. The regular operating range hovers around 42-44 Centigrade. It gets even worse when the screen is locked with temperatures shooting up to 50C. The casing next to the track pad gets ridiculously hot and at this point I am really worried that continuous high temperatures is a hard drive failure waiting to happen.</p>
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<p>I am using a SATA 7200 rpm drive. Ubuntu version: Lucid Lynx.</p>
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7930 | 1 | null | 2010-10-17T12:39:52.727 | 1 | 4707 | <p>I was following the <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeNX" rel="nofollow">instructions</a> but got this:</p>
<pre><code>$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freenx-team
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv F3A662B57D580D3A2E98E5152A8E3034D018A4CE
gpg: requesting key D018A4CE from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
?: keyserver.ubuntu.com: Connection timed out
gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect: Connection timed out
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: Total number processed: 0
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<p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p>
<p>Apparntley this was a proxy issue. See <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/443404" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/443404</a>. I solved it by:</p>
<pre><code>$ sudo http_proxy=http://myproxy:8080 add-apt-repository ppa:freenx-team
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<p>and continued following the instructions. Now I have another problem:</p>
<pre><code>$ sudo /usr/lib/nx/nxsetup --install
------> It is recommended that you use the NoMachine key for
easier setup. If you answer "y", FreeNX creates a custom
KeyPair and expects you to setup your clients manually.
"N" is default and uses the NoMachine key for installation.
Do you want to use your own custom KeyPair? [y/N]
/usr/lib/nx/nxsetup: line 140: .: filename argument required
.: usage: . filename [arguments]
Setting up ...mkdir: missing operand
Try `mkdir --help' for more information.
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7931 | 1 | 7961 | 2010-10-17T12:50:53.877 | 5 | 4324 | <p>Given the fact <code>shred</code> will not be effective on ext3, I wonder what are the available alternatives right now.</p>
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...
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7933 | 1 | 7934 | 2010-10-17T13:19:20.730 | 5 | 1061 | <p>I had to do a hard reboot on my computer while installing mysql-admin and now I get an error when trying to install it.</p>
<p>Here is the error message:
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<p>How can I "repair this" ?</p>
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7936 | 1 | 7938 | 2010-10-17T13:31:58.167 | 0 | 940 | <p>I can mount my remote server home using:</p>
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<p>but this only lasts until reboot.</p>
<p>I added the following the the end of <code>/etc/fstab</code>:</p>
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<p>but I get an error while restarting saying mount failed. I opened the (recovery?) console as suggested by the error message, there I could see the server is not recognized. I also tried pinging its IP but it was unreachable. Perhaps this is because we're using a proxy?</p>
<p>So, what can I do to mount this location permanently?</p>
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7937 | 1 | 7940 | 2010-10-17T13:39:54.027 | 2 | 374 | <p>In maverick, I get the login sound when my computer starts up and I auto-login.</p>
<p>The happens despite the fact that I've turned off the "play login sound" on the administration > login screen dialog.</p>
<p>How can I turn off the login sound playing?</p>
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7944 | 1 | 7945 | 2010-10-17T13:58:44.527 | 6 | 3779 | <p>I guess some of the screensavers in Ubuntu are nice. But I'd really like more. Is there a website with screensavers for Ubuntu? </p>
<p>Also, I am particularly looking for a screensaver that looks a bit like Mac's ribbon ribbons of light thing.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/dHnAz.jpg" alt="alt text"></p>
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7949 | 1 | 7953 | 2010-10-17T14:32:02.560 | 66 | 56390 | <p>I have a local server running Ubuntu 10.04 headlessly.
When I ssh to the server I get some core information about the system, such as </p>
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Usage of /: 2.5% of 452.69GB Users logged in: 0
Memory usage: 10% IP address for lo: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Swap usage: 0% IP address for eth0: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Temperature: 40 C
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<p>What is the command to get this information to print again? I tried looking in the rc.local and the bash.bashrc file to see how this was run, but I could not find anything.</p>
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7950 | 1 | null | 2010-10-17T14:44:40.643 | 3 | 14088 | <p>I recently installed Ubuntu Server on an old machine, to set up a website with family photos etc. It is connected to the Internet via my home router (WRT160Nv2). I set the connection up with a static IP address (192.168.1.200), set forwarding rules on the router (for port 80). Apache2 is set up to listen on port 80 (and it does).</p>
<p>I can view the website from within the local network (just typing in 192.168.1.200 in the browser on any computer behind the router), but it's invisible from the outside. Ports are forwarded correctly, when I forwarded them to another machine within the network, it's visible from the outside. It has to be some problem with this server, it blocks all connections from external addresses. Why? This is not just a problem with port 80, all ports seem closed from the outside. The built-in firewall (UFW) is active, but set to allow all connections (I tried disabling it, no change). No help from netstat either.</p>
<pre>root@czarny:~# netstat -an | grep "LISTEN "
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:110 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:993 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:995 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 :::8080 :::* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 127.0.0.1:8005 :::* LISTEN</pre>
<pre>root@czarny:~# ufw status
Status: active
To Action From
-- ------ ----
Apache ALLOW Anywhere
Postfix ALLOW Anywhere
Dovecot POP3 ALLOW Anywhere
Dovecot IMAP ALLOW Anywhere
Dovecot Secure IMAP ALLOW Anywhere
Dovecot Secure POP3 ALLOW Anywhere
Postfix Submission ALLOW Anywhere
OpenSSH ALLOW Anywhere
Apache Full ALLOW Anywhere</pre>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1308/unity-launcher-is-it-available-as-a-separate-package">Unity launcher — is it available as a separate package?</a> </p>
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<p>Is it possible just to get the unity launcher - JUST be the unity <strong>launcher</strong> - in desktop edition? As an alternative to Avant, Docky or Gnome Do?</p>
<p><em>Update: I would just to point out that we now know the 11.04 desktop edition with have the Unity interface by default!</em></p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/6784/is-it-possible-to-make-indicator-appmenu-ignore-a-specific-application">Is it possible to make indicator-appmenu ignore a specific application?</a> </p>
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<p>I recently installed the Indicator Applet Application Menu but unfortunately it does not work with Eclipse.
So I was wondering if it is possible to disable by using a command line parameter for example.</p>
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7968 | 1 | 7970 | 2010-10-17T16:30:54.480 | 7 | 7978 | <p>I'm having trouble installing <code>libunrar.so</code>.
It's required for <a href="http://calibre-ebook.com/">Calibre</a> to convert CBR files.</p>
<p>Anyone an idea on where to get it (package or source)?</p>
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"text": "Put `libunrar.so` in `/usr/local/lib`, not in `/usr/lib`. Never touch anything under `/usr` outside `/usr/local` without going through the package manager. Also, run `sudo ldconfig` after you've installed a `.so` manually.",
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7975 | 1 | 10083 | 2010-10-17T17:00:39.560 | 2 | 491 | <p>I have around a 150gb hard drive that I had fully allocated to Ubuntu 10.10. I fired up the gparted live cd and reduced it by 47gb for a small ntfs partition for Windows. </p>
<p>When it was completed, I rebooted and Ubuntu seemed to load up fine, however, I get the following error at the gdm login screen:</p>
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<p>I also have noticed that it says I am using 103gb of 103gb on my Ubuntu partition. Before the resize, I was using about 40gb of space. </p>
<p>Why does it suddenly think I'm using 103gb? </p>
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7976 | 1 | 7977 | 2010-10-17T17:04:13.280 | 240 | 330254 | <p>I have a gigabit network set up in my house and a few Ubuntu based boxes. Out of complete curiosity I would like to check the speed between the two boxes.</p>
<p>I am not having any problems with speed or anything, it really is just the geek in me that is curious. Plus maybe the results will let me know if there is room for improvement, or that I have something configured wrongly.</p>
<p>So how does one properly test the network speed between Ubuntu boxes?</p>
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"text": "Man you have all the answers to my questions! My network apparently is not set up as well as yours only transfer at 714 MBytes and bandwith of 598 Mbits/sec. Dunno may look into that in the future. Thanks.",
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"text": "Try -P 10. My result with single connection is similar to jschoens, but with 3+ parallel connections, it consistently pushes 920Mbps.",
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"text": "If you're using TCP, `iperf` might be faster than `nc` because of the way they use TCP. See: http://serverfault.com/questions/296539/netcat-throughput-low-but-iperf-high",
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"text": "`iperf` shows 27Mbit speed on gigabit connection, I tried to increased Windows size but it doesn't work.",
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"text": "this is a nice solution, bunt unfortunately, is NOT GOOD, both solutions give fake answers, iperf is REALLY BAD, I get even 75mbps, netcat is better, but also fluctuate ... both solutions aren't good be cause they are about client/server not advanced enough for *squeezing* every bit of speed, I'll post my solution as an answer",
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"text": "@jonney ncat might be viable substitute for an option for acting as one side of the `nc` command above, otherwise I'd suggest [WSL](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10). If all else fails, a LiveUSB stick with Ubuntu on.",
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"text": "@Oli Please do not use WSL. It's a disgusting abomination against the freesoftware movement. It's okay for hooking and grabbing people into Linux who would otherwise refuse to try it, but developers should avoid it at all costs. Stick to the real actual good Linux, not the flimsy WSL Linux pasted on top of all the evil proprietary Microsoft crap.",
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<p>What do I have to do to make Rhythmbox think it's never been run before?</p>
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7980 | 1 | 8576 | 2010-10-17T17:24:31.997 | 0 | 658 | <p>Just found something strange after updating from 10.04 to 10.10. I've set up my screensaver to lock the account when activated.</p>
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<p>Where do I look for a way to switch off one of those (supposing that's the problem)? I did not find anything in my startup applications.</p>
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7990 | 1 | 33752 | 2010-10-17T19:34:21.017 | 4 | 3746 | <p>I'm trying to compile an application (peekabot) from source on a clean install of 10.10 (this is under VirtualBox on OS X, but I don't think that this is a problem). When it performs a linking step it fails because of a missing static library:</p>
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<p>I have libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev installed, hence the worry.</p>
<p>The reference to the library appears to have been added as a dependency of libgtkglextmm and libgdkglextmm:</p>
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<p>But the referenced static library is missing from my system. So, is there a way to get this library that I'm missing, or is there some other workaround I can use?</p>
<p>thanks, Nick</p>
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"body": "<p>Are you building a 32-bit application on 64-bit by chance? This question reminds me of <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdk-pixbuf/+bug/641056\" rel=\"nofollow\">this bug</a> which I'm not 100% sure we fixed this cycle.</p>\n",
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7993 | 1 | 8010 | 2010-10-17T19:48:19.933 | 19 | 34847 | <p>I intend to use <code>mutt</code> to send automated emails via <code>cron</code> or <code>at</code> with attachments to my gmail address when particular events happen on my Ubuntu server. Currently, <code>mutt</code> cannot send email to external email addresses, I believe this is because I need to setup a Mail Transfer Agent. How do I go about selecting a suitable MTA and how do I set it up to perform what I need it to do?</p>
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"text": "OK, so lets say I setup an email address like myserver@gmail.com and enable smtp on the gmail account. I could configure a client program on the server to send mail using this gmail account via SMTP and therefore avoid the complexity of a fully fledged mail server setup?",
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7994 | 1 | 8073 | 2010-10-17T19:48:54.880 | 4 | 839 | <p>Basically, I want the new user to have only a few permissions -- can't read the normal users' home directories, can only read or write files to one directory (can only read or write <code>/home/user/</code>... can not read or write <code>/home/me/</code> or read or write <code>/home/someoneelse/</code>. That's a common setup for schools and universities which run Windows networks. It seems like it should be simple in Ubuntu.</p>
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7995 | 1 | 8171 | 2010-10-17T19:49:52.890 | 0 | 128 | <p>When I plug in my digital audio player two prompts to run programs appear simultaneously:</p>
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7996 | 1 | null | 2010-10-17T19:51:53.727 | 2 | 1359 | <p>I recently upgraded to 10.04, then to an ATI graphics card (I used the internal graphics port before) and now noticed that blender is behaving very strange. Menus don't work or very slowly, fragments on the screen and so on. I didn't try anything else because it's impossible to use.</p>
<p>The card is an ATI Radeon HD 4650.</p>
<p>Did anyone experience similar problems ? </p>
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7999 | 1 | 12572 | 2010-10-17T19:58:00.150 | 6 | 402 | <p>I have Ubuntu 10.10 and I have two users registered on it. Once User1 enters to the system and doesn't close his session and User2 enters to the system, User2 can't see Network Manager in his panel. So, he can not see list of available WiFi, etc. </p>
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8000 | 1 | 8296 | 2010-10-17T20:03:06.447 | 2 | 2776 | <p>is there a tool that enables you to scroll by dragging the mouse with the right button pressed. I was using an app called "MouseImp" on Windows many years ago. The tool was quite handy, since you were able to scroll much faster than with the mouse-wheel e.g. on large pages. Moreover you were able to scroll horizontally as well.</p>
<p>This all was possible by just keeping the right mouse-button pressed anywhere on a window and dragging the pointer up, down etc.</p>
<p>The software became open-source a few years ago but AFAIK there has not been a linux port.</p>
<p>Best,
YSN</p>
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8001 | 1 | null | 2010-10-17T20:06:39.550 | 2 | 1397 | <p>I have Ubuntu 10.10 installed inside of Windows using <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/windows-installer" rel="nofollow">Wubi</a>. I am running out of space on my Ubuntu disk (currently 405.1 MB free). I have a 180 GB hard drive and when I installed Ubuntu I only allocated 10 GB to it. </p>
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8002 | 1 | 8005 | 2010-10-17T20:18:35.530 | 18 | 1120 | <p>Is <code>sudo aptitude purge ubuntuone?</code> sufficient to remove everything Ubuntu One-related from my system?</p>
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8006 | 1 | 8009 | 2010-10-17T20:36:21.110 | 4 | 2757 | <p>After connecting to a local ftp server, how can I access the files through the terminal?</p>
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8008 | 1 | null | 2010-10-17T20:48:24.420 | 1 | 537 | <p>At the moment,the main tool-bar is on the middle of the screen and there is no space on the tool-bar click-able to get it back to the stretched position </p>
<p>thank you </p>
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8015 | 1 | 8017 | 2010-10-17T21:08:24.010 | 75 | 61636 | <p>What programs can be used for IRC (=Internet Relay Chat)?</p>
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8016 | 1 | 9051 | 2010-10-17T21:16:11.653 | 3 | 687 | <p>Looking for a MySQL data modeling toll, that will actually fit on my netbook screen.</p>
<p>The official Workbench needs a higher resolution, so the bottom bit is cut off. Really annoying.</p>
<p>Is there an alternative out there? Or some 'trick' to make the workbench fit on my screen?</p>
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8019 | 1 | 8020 | 2010-10-17T21:35:15.167 | 7 | 13361 | <p>I have a ATI Radeon 3600 and I am kind of new to Ubuntu and Linux. I have read that proprietary ATI drivers aren't good enough and that open source drivers do work very well.</p>
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8021 | 1 | 8025 | 2010-10-17T21:41:21.280 | 6 | 2358 | <p>I want to convert a large number of video files in various formats into <code>.mp4</code> files (container MPEG-4, codec H.264). I want to do this on an Ubuntu machine, using only command-line tools and I'm willing to install packages from <code>main</code>, <code>restricted</code>, <code>universe</code> and <code>multiverse</code>.</p>
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<p>... and have all my video files in <code>.mp4</code> format with container MPEG-4 and codec H.264.</p>
<p>How would you tackle this problem on an Ubuntu machine? What packages do I need to install?</p>
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8031 | 1 | 8032 | 2010-10-17T23:27:56.027 | 2 | 2090 | <p>Hey! I am having this really strange problem. I can't convert a file to utf8 it's always in us-ascii.</p>
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The file contains some html and php. I really don't understand this. I have tried using notepad++ (I am sharing this folder to a win7 pc). I set the encoding to utf8 without bom, the file seems to change (the icon turns red) but when I save and check it continues to do be us-ascii.</p>
<p>I have checked the $LANG and it outputs en_US.UTF-8 (should I change something in the locales? I would prefer this not to anything country specific)</p>
<p>I have also tried recode which also didn't work.</p>
<p>Note: Some files are being created in utf8 (I am using eclipse and have set the project properties to encode in utf8) but for some strange reason some are not being correctly encoded. Again their contents are html and php.</p>
<p>Please someone help me out. I am trying to show my site in utf8 and some parts are getting messed up because of this!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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8039 | 1 | 8109 | 2010-10-18T01:03:25.633 | 4 | 1076 | <p>I have played around with PiTiVi a bit, but I could still use some help.</p>
<p>Are there any good sites explaining how to use PiTiVi?</p>
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