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8385 | 1 | 23154 | 2010-10-20T00:26:57.140 | 2 | 1405 | <p>I have a gamepad that works fine in Ubuntu (from a technical point-of-view), but the slider on the gamepad is malfunctioning. I would like to simply disable the slider globally so that all applications don't see that the slider exists.</p>
<p>Is there a configuration file or something I can edit to do this?</p>
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8389 | 1 | 8405 | 2010-10-20T00:56:23.500 | 9 | 418 | <p>I used VMware on ubuntu 10.04 for quite a while. When 10.10 was released I did a clean install. I tried to reinstall VMware, but after installing, I wasn't able to compile the modules. Does anybody know how to fix this?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zz3zL.png" alt="alt text"></p>
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8390 | 1 | 9171 | 2010-10-20T00:57:15.510 | 2 | 301 | <p>I am not sure this belongs here, if not tell me and I will delete this question, but I was wondering could this be a bug with Yahoo not getting the denial from empathy?</p>
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8394 | 1 | 70014 | 2010-10-20T01:30:22.773 | 2 | 6933 | <p>I'm trying to turn on fix show all users in the gnome configuration editor. All the sites I've found say to go to apps -> gnome-system-tools -> users, only I'm not seeing gnome-system-tools anywhere. Any ideas?</p>
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8400 | 1 | 10372 | 2010-10-20T02:45:45.653 | 4 | 1769 | <p><em>Edit: After discovering some more about the problem (namely that it seems to be caused by waking from suspend) I created a <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/10905/why-does-chrome-video-performance-substantially-degrade-after-waking-from-suspend">new question</a>.</em></p>
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8402 | 1 | 8412 | 2010-10-20T03:37:16.410 | 5 | 36633 | <p>Let's say I went to:</p>
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8404 | 1 | 718324 | 2010-10-20T03:58:41.427 | 6 | 4668 | <p>Is there a way to encode/decode prores mov files (mostly decode)? I've been playing around with ffmpeg and mencoder/mplayer from the ubuntu repos, but they both report that it's an unknown codec. Totem as well.</p>
<p>I guess it comes down to getting the right codecs in place. Maybe compiling from source?</p>
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8409 | 1 | 8428 | 2010-10-20T04:20:13.280 | 33 | 30490 | <p>Is there a way to set the Bluetooth in Ubuntu to autoconnect to devices it is paired to when it is turned on. Furthermore, is there a way to automatically change the sound output to a Bluetooth headset on connection?</p>
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8413 | 1 | 8415 | 2010-10-20T04:55:47.893 | 21 | 11013 | <p>When I double-click to select text in GNOME Terminal, the selection stops at spaces but continues over hyphens:</p>
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8414 | 1 | 8418 | 2010-10-20T05:01:19.227 | 12 | 3181 | <p>Normally we use a different file to redirect the output.</p>
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8416 | 1 | 8493 | 2010-10-20T05:05:11.273 | 10 | 328 | <p>A script I am working on is in a folder that is synchronized by Ubuntu One. Every time I edit it from another computer, it looses its executable bit and I must manually reapply <code>chmod +x</code>.</p>
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8425 | 1 | 8427 | 2010-10-20T07:48:09.480 | 57 | 125996 | <p>Just wondering if there a way to temporarily disable PulseAudio as I am trying to run a specific Wine game (Left 4 Dead 2) and it makes the game crash occasionally.</p>
<p>If I kill the process it automatically comes back up. Any suggestions?</p>
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8426 | 1 | 8462 | 2010-10-20T07:55:08.367 | 72 | 61480 | <p>Ok, So I've made my script, I dropped it in <code>/etc/cron.hourly</code> then I <code>chmod 777</code> the file but it won't run (automatically). If I manually run it, it works fine. Do I need to do anything else?</p>
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8434 | 1 | 8439 | 2010-10-20T08:46:42.107 | 10 | 15249 | <p>How can i reestablish a Tunnel if my localhost goes down?</p>
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8435 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T08:49:57.323 | 1 | 3040 | <p>I installed Kubuntu 10.10 on a HP tx2675ee tablet PC (tx2500 series - single touch not multi touch). The touch screen and stylus both work out of the box, however the touch screen is way off calibration wise and the stylus is just a bit out of whack. </p>
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8437 | 1 | 8711 | 2010-10-20T09:08:45.587 | 12 | 3553 | <p>All the terminal fonts I have tried result in inaccurate rendering of the Devanagari sript (and/or Roman script) in the Terminal</p>
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8441 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T09:47:47.000 | 8 | 11142 | <p>I never install 3G mobile broadband inside ubuntu since I'm using lucid and till now, maverick</p>
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<p>its only blinking but my ubuntu does detect nothing.</p>
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8442 | 1 | 8562 | 2010-10-20T10:04:05.490 | 1 | 258 | <p>I noticed an oddity in Rhythmbox Last.fm integration. Namely, when I load a radio station "similar to artist XX.YY" the player loads a list of ten songs, but from #6 to #10 they are a repetition of #1 to #5 in inversed order. Is it a problem with Rhythmbox?</p>
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8444 | 1 | 8450 | 2010-10-20T10:07:55.847 | 24 | 7535 | <p>Here's what I want: I have a folder with MP3 files. I would like to play all the files in the folder, alphabetically. And I need a way to pause, skip to next file, and that's pretty much it.</p>
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8445 | 1 | 8876 | 2010-10-20T10:08:10.543 | 0 | 1720 | <p>I have a computer that once I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 the splash screen hangs. I had this issue on another machine that I simply boot into recovery mode and reinstalled the nvidia drivers (both have nvidia cards).</p>
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8447 | 1 | 9738 | 2010-10-20T10:09:54.897 | 6 | 5415 | <p>I get the following error during boot up. But this error doesn't get written to boot.log, as it happens in early boot stages.</p>
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8452 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T10:42:40.123 | 47 | 39572 | <p>I have a huge font collection and would like to be able to view them
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<p>What would be the best font viewer aside from <code>fontypython</code>, which unfortunately
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8454 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T10:59:35.743 | 3 | 529 | <p>I installed 10.04 a couple of weeks ago. My primary OS is Windows and i could not install Linux up until very recently because of lack of hardware support for my notebook. </p>
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8456 | 1 | 8465 | 2010-10-20T11:12:48.317 | 9 | 10772 | <p>My collection of music files has grown organically over the years, and
it has no consistent tags nor file names. Especially, older files may
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8458 | 1 | 8551 | 2010-10-20T11:17:58.427 | 8 | 113820 | <p>How to update Ubuntu terminal?</p>
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8467 | 1 | 8479 | 2010-10-20T12:16:01.993 | 5 | 11774 | <p>I'm setting up a PC for a very specific purpose. It's going to do some stuff deep underwater... round about 3km. We don't fear fish hijacking the box locally ;).</p>
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8469 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T12:16:52.720 | 5 | 2169 | <p>I recently upgraded to Maverick and X stopped working. I used to run NVIDIA-96, but now when I <code>modprobe nvidia</code> I'm getting the following error:</p>
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8470 | 1 | 8921 | 2010-10-20T12:31:23.247 | 6 | 1301 | <p>Since upgrading to 10.10 none of evince, okular or xpdf recognise up/down, pageup/pagedown keys when working as a pdf reader embedded in firefox.</p>
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8471 | 1 | 8476 | 2010-10-20T12:37:33.307 | 13 | 2805 | <p>I want to transfer Ubuntu from a VirtualBox Guest 'appliance' to a <strong>real</strong> (metal and chips) computer? </p>
<p>Can this be done, and what steps are involved? </p>
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8475 | 1 | 8488 | 2010-10-20T13:00:05.590 | 7 | 325 | <p>I'm using 10.04 and have installed Virtualbox 3.2.10 (not the ose one, but the .deb file from Oracle). It has a dependency on libqt4-opengl which depends on qt version 4.6, but the update manager wants to update to qt 4.7 and remove Virtualbox. </p>
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8478 | 1 | 8491 | 2010-10-20T13:42:51.083 | 7 | 8598 | <p>A couple of times a day, I'll be typing something and realise I can't type spaces. Usually the cursor will flicker instead when I press the spacebar, and I can type all other letters as far as I can tell. If I'm in a terminal the cursor turns from a solid square to an empty square until I release the spacebar.</p>
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8485 | 1 | 16741 | 2010-10-20T14:04:23.013 | 2 | 762 | <p>Just installed Kubuntu and corrupted application icons appear randomly on my task bar. Does it happen to anyone else?</p>
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8494 | 1 | 8497 | 2010-10-20T14:51:15.360 | 31 | 13513 | <p>I'm using Maverick with Compiz enabled.</p>
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8501 | 1 | 8502 | 2010-10-20T15:12:45.903 | 1 | 1353 | <p>I have a friend who recently installed Wubi and he mentioned that <a href="http://www.hulu.com" rel="nofollow">hulu.com</a> videos are choppy (to the point of being unwatchable) whereas <a href="http://www.youtube.com" rel="nofollow">youtube</a> is fine for him. I also have the same version of Ubuntu (10.4) (althou... | 3906 | 78407 | 2012-08-19T06:16:23.637 | 2012-08-19T06:16:23.637 | Why hulu.com videos are choppy but youtube's are okay? | [
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8505 | 1 | 8520 | 2010-10-20T15:41:36.427 | 3 | 1620 | <p>I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 on an <strong>hp dv4</strong> and my wifi was working just fine(except the wifi led blinking) till yesterday. Now when I touch the wifi button it just won't switch ON!!! :o I didn't make any changes yesterday but updated my system today.</p>
<p>I have no idea what happened. Any clue???</p>
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8508 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T15:53:43.353 | 8 | 5969 | <p>In Windows I used an RSS feed to download a tv series, but Deluge doesnt have that option. Is there a plugin to add that fuction? How do I install and configure it? </p>
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8516 | 1 | 8531 | 2010-10-20T16:14:04.543 | 2 | 464 | <p>I've been listening to some of my older music today and I've just come across an album that I ripped back in my 'mp3pro days'... Needless to say it doesn't sound very good, which I'm guessing is because Rhythmbox falling back to normal mp3 (at only 96kbps) instead of playing the mp3pro 'extras' so it sounds tolerabl... | 317 | 235 | 2010-10-24T00:57:19.383 | 2010-10-24T00:57:19.383 | How do I install mp3pro support? | [
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8517 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T16:18:45.020 | 0 | 271 | <p>I'm about to do a re-install of Maverick on a laptop with an existing installation that's in an encrypted (LUKS) partition. (I'm re-installing because it's currently an xfs filesystem in there, and I'm trying to determine if xfs is the reason disk performance is so incredibly bad.)</p>
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8523 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T16:41:00.643 | 27 | 48079 | <p>What's the best & easiest GUI software that can join a video that I have downloaded in several parts?</p>
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8536 | 1 | 8537 | 2010-10-20T18:39:41.010 | 2 | 408 | <p>any ideas that might help me?</p>
<p>When I go to create a new account I select Exchange under the server type. I am not sure which plugin this is using, I do know what it has worked in the past though... So as far as I know the server should be set up to work.</p>
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8545 | 1 | 8555 | 2010-10-20T19:36:24.873 | 2 | 1855 | <p>I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 6 months ago and then I've added a lot of packages. Now i upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 and i want to remove all the packages in order to revert to the original ubuntu 10.10 fresh install package-set.How to do that???</p>
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<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/146425/how-can-i-install-and-download-drivers-without-internet">How can I install and download drivers without internet?</a> </p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3678/make-my-own-dropbox-ubuntu-one-server-at-home">Make my own Dropbox / Ubuntu One server at home</a> </p>
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8554 | 1 | 9693 | 2010-10-20T20:21:11.117 | 3 | 576 | <p>Ubuntu 10.10 does not allow double-click execution of files such as binaries or Python scripts if they are on a flash drive, even when the file is marked as executable.</p>
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8556 | 1 | 8597 | 2010-10-20T20:30:43.807 | 3 | 4520 | <p>I have a lenovo thinkpad and the center scrolling button isn't working with the trackpoint anymore... it worked in prior versions of Ubuntu with GPointing Device Settings, but not with 10.10.</p>
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8560 | 1 | 8567 | 2010-10-20T20:43:30.547 | 295 | 247761 | <p>Is there a method or command which can tell from which repository a package is coming from?</p>
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8566 | 1 | null | 2010-10-20T21:44:03.960 | 4 | 13620 | <p>I'm booting in recovery mode
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8568 | 1 | 8569 | 2010-10-20T21:55:57.863 | 8 | 13251 | <p>I'm planning to maybe install Ubuntu server on an old machine. But my question is: can I install Ubuntu server on a machine and have it connect to my home network - wirelessly? I can't use a cable in this case.</p>
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8570 | 1 | 8579 | 2010-10-20T22:15:38.607 | 15 | 2237 | <p>What will this repository hold? What is policy for it?</p>
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8571 | 1 | 8574 | 2010-10-20T22:16:07.060 | 8 | 696 | <p>I want to remove the MeMenu, without removing the logout/shutdown/restart/etc. button next to it. I never use social networks, so I have no use for this function. Any tips?</p>
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8572 | 1 | 8575 | 2010-10-20T22:17:23.843 | 9 | 1135 | <p>I would like to use sites like <a href="http://www.last.fm/" rel="nofollow">last.fm</a>, but because I'm often moving from OS to OS, and mostly listen to music on an mp3 player, most of my listening data gets lost.</p>
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8580 | 1 | 8583 | 2010-10-20T23:14:42.880 | 183 | 401888 | <p>What's the command to open the file browser? I want it so that I can assign a keyboard shortcut to open a specific folder.</p>
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8586 | 1 | 8587 | 2010-10-20T23:38:32.340 | 5 | 3370 | <p>I used to go to "System >> Preferences >> Appearance >> Interface", but I can't find that tab on Lucid or Maverick.</p>
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8590 | 1 | null | 2010-10-21T00:05:18.823 | 9 | 7427 | <p>I'm sick of accidentally deleting files and directories as <kbd>DEL</kbd> button is badly located on my keyboard. I would really like it if ubuntu asked me to confirm before deleting anything. Is there a way to do this?</p>
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8592 | 1 | 8596 | 2010-10-21T00:18:12.287 | 20 | 66781 | <p>I am in the process of building my first RAID5 array. I've used mdadm to create the following set up:</p>
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8594 | 1 | null | 2010-10-21T00:39:28.033 | 7 | 24299 | <p>I am looking for instruction on how to configure my Ubuntu 10.04 box to allow samba shares access through Active Directory users and groups. I have joined the Ubuntu machine to my AD domain using Likewise-open, however when I enable 'security = ads' in my smb.conf I am getting access denied errors when trying to vie... | 4513 | 8844 | 2011-03-31T03:33:33.483 | 2011-03-31T03:33:33.483 | Authenticating samba shares with active directory users and groups | [
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8598 | 1 | 8673 | 2010-10-21T01:31:44.997 | 12 | 1572 | <p>I am using Ubuntu several years, but want to really study about how Linux works, and was wondering what books you recommend. Thanks!!</p>
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8600 | 1 | 8615 | 2010-10-21T01:45:20.180 | 2 | 208 | <p>I'm hoping I'm not imagining things, but I'm fairly sure that I saw a clean 10.04 install with a key icon displayed in the menu bar. I believe it appeared when sudo was active for updating, etc. I don't seem to have this icon anymore, and I was wondering if it was something I removed inadvertently, or a problem beca... | 1217 | 866 | 2010-10-21T07:09:43.930 | 2010-10-21T07:09:43.930 | "Key" Panel Indicator Missing | [
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<p>I know only 2 games... quake 4 and Doom 3
Have any others you know ?
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8610 | 1 | 8636 | 2010-10-21T04:32:55.423 | 4 | 6664 | <p>I'm trying to use Thunderbird again, but I can't make it use Firefox to open links. I'm using KDE and Firefox is my default browser. I tried the network.protocol-handler method but it doesn't work.</p>
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8611 | 1 | 8613 | 2010-10-21T04:36:19.730 | 25 | 41290 | <p>I don't mean the flash player here, I'm talking about the flash program that I can make animations with. Like Adobe Flash CS (formerly known as Macromedia flash). Is there a program on linux that I can make animations? I want to make a movie like animator vs animation. I used easy gif animator on windows lol it was ... | 2975 | 44179 | 2014-02-06T23:41:00.610 | 2016-08-28T14:36:21.397 | What's a good 2D animation program (an alternative for e.g. Flash CS)? | [
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8618 | 1 | 8670 | 2010-10-21T07:14:34.847 | 1 | 2023 | <p>I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 on Atom D410 desktop (I am new to Ubuntu).</p>
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8620 | 1 | 8639 | 2010-10-21T07:25:50.440 | 16 | 4462 | <p>Is it at all possible to have a forwarded X11 session be styled with something other than the default X button styles? It doesn't even appear to use my server's actual styles seeing as both computers are running Ubuntu 10.10. However, the window on the left is from the local machine, and window on the right is forwa... | 3168 | null | null | 2016-10-25T18:05:16.467 | Use local button styles during forwarded X11 session over SSH | [
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8624 | 1 | 8692 | 2010-10-21T08:24:44.943 | 1 | 2431 | <p>I'm writing a post about how the software updates Apple sent out have been on Ubuntu (and other Linux distros) for ages (like the app store and the new "Mission Control" feature) from here: <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/</a></p>
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8626 | 1 | 8671 | 2010-10-21T09:36:59.747 | 11 | 5109 | <p>I have an existing installation with a swap partition, and I want to boot a Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop LiveCD without using the swap partition. I want to avoid using the swap partition so that I can resize it and other partitions.</p>
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8632 | 1 | null | 2010-10-21T10:02:33.787 | 12 | 31972 | <p>Are there any GUI tools for configuring and monitoring Apache?</p>
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8635 | 1 | null | 2010-10-21T10:27:57.820 | 1 | 895 | <p>How to set Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop to take advantage of
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8637 | 1 | 8646 | 2010-10-21T10:50:00.490 | 2 | 2547 | <p>I've started playing around with remote X sessions and really like it so far as it allows me to use GUI tools to configure my server (sometimes, I just don't feel like editing text files).</p>
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8642 | 1 | 9893 | 2010-10-21T11:10:40.153 | 10 | 8312 | <p>My PC has 3 NTFS partitions (main and backups) plus Ubuntu on dual boot. I want to keep the NTFS partitions available, but mounted as read-only by default, so that other users (and accidentally even me) do not modify them in a harmful way. I see that I can't change permissions for the NTFS partitions, which is under... | 4477 | 527764 | 2017-03-10T14:57:53.333 | 2017-03-10T14:57:53.333 | Mounting NTFS as read-only | [
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8644 | 1 | null | 2010-10-21T11:28:24.890 | 4 | 584 | <p>I need to get a scientific software running but it requires older libs and I don't want to screw my current system.
I thought about using an old ubuntu version in a VM. But which would I need?</p>
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8645 | 1 | 8648 | 2010-10-21T11:39:40.587 | 37 | 68858 | <p>Where are executables for programs stored in Ubuntu?</p>
<p>An application (Komodo Edit) is asking me to identify an application to be used as a web browser. I've become used to just entering the application name as a command for situations such as these, but this scenario got me thinking. </p>
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8653 | 1 | 220880 | 2010-10-21T12:09:13.250 | 999 | 1277201 | <p>Let's say I launch a bunch of processes from a ssh session. Is it possible to terminate the ssh session while keeping those processes running on the remote machine?</p>
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8659 | 1 | 8963 | 2010-10-21T12:24:39.140 | 3 | 4312 | <p>I seem to remember hearing about a special version of Wine that was optimized for games. What is this Wine called and where can I get it?</p>
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8664 | 1 | 8667 | 2010-10-21T12:29:20.597 | 10 | 17788 | <p>My numeric keypad has somehow got into a "mouse emulation" mode where the number keys just move the mouse pointer around (2 = down; 8 = up, 6 = right, etc). Anyone know how to make it work normally again?</p>
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8669 | 1 | 37110 | 2010-10-21T13:03:52.027 | 6 | 2205 | <p>Is there any end user documentation for the Unity launcher?</p>
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8677 | 1 | 8679 | 2010-10-21T13:35:31.197 | 1 | 392 | <p>I've just switched to Ubuntu 10.10 from OS X, and the one thing I'm really missing is that I previously had set up a bunch of custom keyboard shortcuts to launch applications. For example, apple-ctrl-f would launch / switch to Firefox.</p>
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8680 | 1 | null | 2010-10-21T13:42:56.970 | 2 | 10439 | <p>How can I set my eth card to 100 Mb/s?</p>
<p><strong>sudo ethtool eth0</strong></p>
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8681 | 1 | 8684 | 2010-10-21T13:43:59.013 | 4 | 135 | <p>Let's say I installed regular Ubuntu Desktop edition using the liveCD. The I installed both Kubuntu and UNR on the same partition as Ubuntu desktop, by doing:</p>
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8691 | 1 | null | 2010-10-21T14:16:39.110 | 1 | 1441 | <p>What images/styles do you use for your terminal profile? I'm looking for a visual upgrade from the stock style.</p>
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<p>Does anyone know how to install Ubuntu on it? Also does anyone know if Ubuntu would work on it? Would it recognize the webcam, the microphone, etc?</p>
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8695 | 1 | 8857 | 2010-10-21T14:37:21.960 | 3 | 326 | <p>Whenever I boot into Ubuntu, as soon as I login, I get a dialogue window pop up that says <em>Couldn't find "/media/[long string here]". Please check the spelling and try again."</em></p>
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8696 | 1 | 9170 | 2010-10-21T14:38:16.240 | 3 | 5038 | <p>I can't seem to be able to connect to google talk using either pidgin or empathy after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 (fresh install). </p>
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"body": "<p>I see you have made changes to the \"Sweden - psvorak\" layout. Are you sure that is the selected layout in your keyboard settings?\nIf you go to System > Preferences > Keyboard under the Layouts tab:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yif8S.png\" alt=\"Keyboard P... | null | null | null | null | null |
8698 | 1 | 13860 | 2010-10-21T14:41:53.103 | 12 | 2788 | <p>I occasionally use Ubuntu One for purchase music; I would like to find a way to import my music from the cloud to my MacBook (which of course is not running Ubuntu). I wonder if, for this purpouse, I must download each track individually, or if there is a way to download a whole folder (tipically, the album).</p>
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"text": "Duplicate of this bug report on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-servers/+bug/819246",
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"body": "<p>This is something we want to do, but have not yet managed to squeeze into our schedule.\nThe next 5 months have been decided, but we'll try and squeeze it in after the 11.04 release.</p>\n",
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"body": "<p>Why is your MacBook \"of course\" not running Ubuntu? It's perfectly possible to run Ubuntu on it, either natively or in a virtual machine. :)</p>\n\n<p>Anyway, currently the only way to download your music from the web interface in one go is by making an archive (.tar.gz o... | null | null | null | null | null |
8700 | 1 | null | 2010-10-21T14:45:57.667 | 0 | 3859 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3934/is-it-possible-to-use-remote-desktop-from-windows-7-to-ubuntu">Is it possible to use remote desktop from Windows 7 to Ubuntu?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Hi,
I have just finish installation of desktop Ubuntu ... | null | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:17.760 | 2010-10-21T16:14:29.517 | Remote connection on Ubuntu from windows 7 | [
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"text": "The duped question is for 10.04 but it shouldn't be different. Let me know if it is and we'll split it into version-specific questions, thanks!",
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"body": "<p>Yes you can easily do that using VNC, what you have to do is set up the VNC server on Ubuntu, I think it just requires enabling it, and then use a VNC client on the windows machine, Perhaps someone with more experience can expand a bit as I don't remember how to enable it, a... | null | null | 2010-10-22T14:58:59.383 | mahesh | mahesh |
8701 | 1 | null | 2010-10-21T14:50:41.383 | 5 | 5534 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/25409/how-to-emulate-winkeyarrow-windows-7s-maximise-shortcut-keys">How to emulate winkey+arrow Windows 7's maximise shortcut keys?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Is there anything that provides functionality in gno... | 3542 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:32.903 | 2010-10-21T22:49:48.493 | windows 7-like snap window maximize and vertical feature | [
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"body": "<p>Great tutorial to accomplish the things you want, or at least most of them <a href=\"http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/11/aero-snap-ubuntu-linux.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">here.</a></p>\n",
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8704 | 1 | 8714 | 2010-10-21T14:57:01.167 | 10 | 10932 | <p>After a clean install of 10.10 I'm finding DNS resolution takes quite a long time. Hitting any url takes a good few seconds (10 - 30) before the site is displayed. I'm thinking this is a DNS resolution issue due to the 'waiting' or 'looking up' text being displayed in Firefox and Chrome.</p>
<p>I do not get this is... | null | 235 | 2010-10-21T16:00:54.317 | 2013-01-05T15:29:58.380 | Slow DNS Resolution | [
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"text": "Do you have this with all domains (e.g. both domains with & without IPv6 addresses? And do you also have it when you use `dig` or `host`?",
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"body": "<p>Try setting your dns-Server manually. Ubuntu sometimes has problems with Routers that provide this kind of service (like DNS-Server=192.168.1.1).<br>\n<br></p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Rightclick Network-Manager -> Edit connections -> eth0 (or create a new Connection if you use multiple... | [
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"body": "<p>The most common cause of page loading slowdown in browsers is due to ipv6, which comes enabled by default in Ubuntu. When it is enabled, it needs to timeout before ipv4 kicks in, which causes the delay when ipv6 is not supported by your network. There is a simple test that yo... | null | null | null | null | user4541 |
8706 | 1 | 10799 | 2010-10-21T15:01:20.297 | 3 | 208 | <p>I've experiences some configuration "resets" after ubuntu crashes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Display configuration changed (I'd changing through <code>/usr/bin/nvidia-settings</code>)</li>
<li>Hibernation/Suspension turned on again (I'd disabled it)</li>
</ul>
<p>In order to prevent those, I would like to know <strong>how exac... | 2679 | 5768 | 2012-07-09T13:58:43.647 | 2012-07-09T13:58:43.647 | What exactly happens when ubuntu recovers from crash? | [
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"text": "You might wanna track down the problem which crashes the system instead of finding away around recovering methods. If the system is constantly crashing every few hours, I'd suspect a hardware prob... | {
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8709 | 1 | 8723 | 2010-10-21T15:22:04.063 | 6 | 522 | <p>I want to use the Dictionary app (<strong>Applications>Office>Dictionary</strong>) bundled with Ubuntu in my own language, Portuguese (Portugal). </p>
<p>In the application preferences I've the option to add alternative dictionaries, but I've to get trough all sort of complicated and not user-friendly at all defini... | 356 | 5592 | 2010-11-21T20:20:50.223 | 2010-11-21T20:20:50.223 | How can I use the dictionary application in my language? | [
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"text": "I would like that, too. But I'm in for brasilian portuguese",
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"body": "<p>I found a similar question <a href=\"https://answers.launchpad.net/gnome-utils/+question/706\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://answers.launchpad.net/gnome-utils/+question/706</a>.<br>\nUnfortunately, I don't see a Portuguese <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICT\" rel=\"nofollow\">DIC... | [
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"body": "<p>I found a similar question <a href=\"https://answers.launchpad.net/gnome-utils/+question/706\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://answers.launchpad.net/gnome-utils/+question/706</a>.<br>\nUnfortunately, I don't see a Portuguese <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICT\" rel=\"nofoll... | null | null | null | null | null |
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