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9450 | 1 | 9453 | 2010-10-25T18:08:56.747 | 11 | 2841 | <p>I have dragged a folder from a Nautilus window to the desktop, holding Ctrl+Shift to create a shortcut (well, a symbolic link). However, when I open it from the desktop, instead of showing <code>/home/scott/Documents/asd/folder</code> it shows <code>/home/scott/Desktop/folder</code>. But sometimes I want to go up a ... | 1507 | 158442 | 2017-10-04T03:06:03.863 | 2020-09-10T02:06:08.330 | Is it possible to create a 'shortcut link' instead of 'symbolic link' to a folder? | [
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9454 | 1 | 28693 | 2010-10-25T18:28:51.303 | 1 | 661 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop x86_64 on a Mac mini 4.1 and it looks like I can only use one CPU core. It looks like the kernel supports SMP. I wish I could tell you whether it worked with Lucid, but I didn't notice. </p>
<p>Anybody know why this isn't working? </p>
<p>Here's some relevant output:</p>
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9458 | 1 | null | 2010-10-25T18:51:47.160 | 3 | 1000 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/22118/can-i-install-extra-drivers-via-the-command-prompt">Can I install extra drivers via the command prompt?</a> </p>
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<p>Due to a major problem with Ubuntu and Nouveau, my machine will end up with te... | 2442 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:25:03.423 | 2010-10-29T08:27:13.073 | How to install the NVIDA drivers through text mode? | [
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9460 | 1 | null | 2010-10-25T18:58:43.087 | 7 | 5505 | <p>I have a Macbook 5,1. That is to say that it is the only 13 inch aluminium Macbook as the later revisions were renamed Macbook Pro.</p>
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9463 | 1 | 9468 | 2010-10-25T19:02:40.180 | 26 | 16109 | <p>On a RedHat/CentOS system, I can verify the installed RPMs on my system using <a href="http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-verify.html">rpm -V</a>.</p>
<p>What is the Ubuntu or <code>apt</code> equivalent of this command?</p>
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9467 | 1 | 9476 | 2010-10-25T19:20:22.370 | 3 | 1467 | <p>I've installed a RAID5 using mdadm yesterday. Since then it has been rebuilding.</p>
<p>I just restarted my computer and it started rebuilding the RAID from scratch. (Had 60% before.) Is this normal or are there any settings missing?</p>
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9470 | 1 | 9472 | 2010-10-25T19:45:45.093 | 18 | 640 | <p>If my laptop ever gets stolen, I want it to make an attempt to "phone home" so that I can track it down.</p>
<p>What can I set up to accomplish this?</p>
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9475 | 1 | null | 2010-10-25T20:14:46.823 | 3 | 243 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/63574/some-programs-are-still-running-is-there-anyway-to-auto-delay-the-shutdown">some programs are still running… is there anyway to auto delay the shutdown?</a> </p>
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9477 | 1 | 21311 | 2010-10-25T20:18:16.733 | 6 | 8164 | <p>Does anyone know how to change Unity icon-theme? For instance I use Faenza in my desktop session, but unity does not use it, both in panel and panel apps (applications and documents). So, anyone?</p>
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9481 | 1 | null | 2010-10-25T20:36:55.060 | 1 | 476 | <p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/9467/is-it-normal-that-mdadm-has-to-start-from-scratch-when-i-restart-my-computer-whil">I've just restarted my computer which was building up a RAID5 for the first time.</a> This of course meant that my computer had to rebuild the whole thing from ground up.</p>
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9486 | 1 | null | 2010-10-25T21:33:03.627 | 2 | 2885 | <p>If I'm not mistaken, the ubuntuone sync service is supposed to start automatically during the boot/login process. But I'm finding that it doesn't on either of my 10.10 computers (one an AMD64 desktop and the other an i386 laptop). I'm using the ubuntuone-indicator, but the problem began before I installed it. In my ... | 2762 | 235 | 2011-01-21T15:20:09.500 | 2011-01-21T15:20:09.500 | Why won't ubuntuone service start automatically at boot? | [
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9487 | 1 | null | 2010-10-25T21:33:57.853 | 40 | 102013 | <p>Here's the output of top:</p>
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9488 | 1 | 9496 | 2010-10-25T21:34:24.140 | 2 | 387 | <p>is there a way to make the Docky Timer Docklet play an alarm sound, after a timer has run out?</p>
<p>At the moment there only seems to be visual feedback, so you need to watch the screen to know, whether time has run out or not.</p>
<p>Thanks
YSN</p>
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9489 | 1 | null | 2010-10-25T21:34:53.597 | 13 | 29124 | <p>I use GMail (and I use labels intensively) and because of having to use a very slow Internet connection now I've came to the idea that I should try using a desktop email client.</p>
<p>What application (Thunderbird, Evolution, Claws, or some another) works best with GMail via IMAP?</p>
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9491 | 1 | 9492 | 2010-10-25T21:48:02.097 | 8 | 2615 | <p>Given that:</p>
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<li>there is no stable 3d acceleration available in open source graphics drivers like Nouveau,</li>
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9498 | 1 | null | 2010-10-25T22:34:14.707 | 3 | 3736 | <p>I also posted this on Ubuntu Forums and apart from a guy who tried to help nothing came of it. So i though i'd try posting here...</p>
<p>So, after a restart yesterday, my computer doesn't boot correctly...
After GRUB, it prints</p>
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9499 | 1 | null | 2010-10-25T22:56:59.833 | 4 | 15797 | <p>How do you format a usb stick through the terminal?</p>
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9504 | 1 | 13719 | 2010-10-26T00:11:10.433 | 5 | 5219 | <p>When I was using Lucid I noticed they had a backport ppa for kernels but they don't have one for Maverick. I am currently using Maverick in Generic-PAE mode and was wondering what is the easiest way to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.36 with generic-pae?</p>
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9510 | 1 | 9871 | 2010-10-26T01:09:19.423 | 2 | 1610 | <p>I have an old machine with a max. resolution of 1024x768 and I have a problem setting screen resolution from current (640x480 too big icons and words) to max .</p>
<p>I tried the following :</p>
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<li><p>Installing nvidia driver (nothing happens)</p></li>
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9511 | 1 | 9514 | 2010-10-26T01:09:51.643 | 11 | 8194 | <pre><code>$ sudo apt-get update
W: A error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://extras.ubuntu.com maverick Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 16126D3A... | 114 | 169736 | 2014-09-11T02:26:08.233 | 2014-12-17T22:18:23.017 | "The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 16126D3A3E5C1192" | [
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9512 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T01:17:19.767 | 1 | 207 | <p>Every time I restart the computer, or resume from standby the MeMenu goes offline and won't let me change my status. The only way to make it work again is to disable Google talk and then re enable it. </p>
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9515 | 1 | 71222 | 2010-10-26T01:26:42.143 | 12 | 11147 | <p>I have a quite tunned up gnome desktop and I would like for the guest session to share most of the user settings, this includes:</p>
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9516 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T01:50:10.813 | 3 | 1791 | <p>Some of the Fn key combinations don't work on my EeePc 1005HAB. </p>
They control important functions such as:
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<li>sleep</li>
<li>launch task manager</li>
<li>external monitor toggle</li>
<li>WiFi on/off</li>
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9518 | 1 | 10579 | 2010-10-26T02:12:10.317 | 7 | 5513 | <p>I fresh installed Ubuntu 10.10 back when it came out, and my laptop was suspending fine. All of a sudden, I can't get my laptop to suspend anymore. It's an HP Pavilion dv2-1110, but I don't think it's a hardware issue, here's why:</p>
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"body": "<p>Open the Software center and type 'acpi-support' in the search bar. Make sure, that the package is installed. \nReboot, and voilà: suspend and hibernate are back and working again for me. Maybe this will fix it for you, too.</p>\n",
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9519 | 1 | 153087 | 2010-10-26T02:15:20.637 | 3 | 1363 | <p>I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 from the alternate CD.</p>
<p>It has an encrypted root and swap partition.</p>
<p>The root partition is visible in Nautilus as 'File Syste' icon.</p>
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9525 | 1 | 9526 | 2010-10-26T03:20:10.077 | 2 | 1465 | <p>I recently upgraded from Lucid Lynx to Maverick. And then there was a kernel update which I installed. Right now when the computer boots up, on the grub boot loader I get 2 options to boot into </p>
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9532 | 1 | 9537 | 2010-10-26T05:57:59.610 | 2 | 3613 | <p>I am using Ubuntu 9.04, and I installed gnome-do, and changed the theme to Docky. So far so good. Now, i want to get rid of the top panel too, and for that I need to add the menu bar to Docky. I tried creating a new menu bar and dragging it, but it doesn't seem to add widgets, only shortcuts. How do I add other widg... | 3778 | 282488 | 2017-09-05T23:28:19.200 | 2017-09-05T23:28:19.200 | How to add Main Menu and other widgets to gnome-do | [
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9534 | 1 | 9550 | 2010-10-26T06:54:52.530 | 7 | 1000 | <p>This upcoming Ubuntu move to <code>Unity</code> as its Desktop Manager, got me wondering where the modular line lies between a <strong>Desktop Manager</strong> and <strong>X</strong>. </p>
<p>My understanding is that <strong>X</strong> is a window manager, and <em>window</em> = <em>GUI</em>. </p>
<p>Is the <str... | 2670 | null | null | 2010-10-26T08:40:00.630 | KDE, GNOME, XFCE, Unity, ad-nauseum... Can a GUI app run in X without any of these? | [
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9540 | 1 | 9614 | 2010-10-26T08:00:59.033 | 386 | 817040 | <p>When I connect to my server (ubuntu server 10.10), I get this:</p>
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<p>How can I remove ".belkin"?</p>
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9541 | 1 | 10063 | 2010-10-26T08:01:38.430 | 1 | 5047 | <p>I keep getting <code>mcp power or thermal limit exceeded</code> every five seconds while my computer is on, regardless of what it's doing. I found some Intel patches but I don't really know exactly what they do or how to apply them and I also don't want to patch my kernel with these random bits of code from some new... | 4755 | 527764 | 2017-10-29T15:53:25.760 | 2017-10-29T15:53:25.760 | "mcp power or thermal limit exceeded" excessive in messages.log | [
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9542 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T08:12:01.337 | 7 | 15298 | <p>I think a community wiki on problems (and solutions) when installing Ubuntu (10.10) on a Thinkpad Edge 11 would be nice (because I just got one ;)). I'll contribute with my own problems and solutions, and hope others will join too.</p>
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9543 | 1 | 9832 | 2010-10-26T08:14:48.980 | 11 | 12167 | <p>What is the keyboard shortcut for run application in unity, or how do I get to the applications screen quickly?</p>
<p>I've still got the gnome application for setting keyboard shortcuts, and it has <kbd>alt</kbd> +<kbd> f2</kbd> set for "Show the run command prompt", but that doesn't actually do anything.</p>
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9553 | 1 | 9558 | 2010-10-26T08:55:34.947 | 2 | 366 | <p>I want to run a script automatically when an application start. How would I do this without making the script run at start-up?</p>
<p>My current approach is writing a script with an infinite loop and made it run at start-up. Then let it check if a certain app is running.</p>
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9560 | 1 | 10604 | 2010-10-26T09:44:01.650 | 14 | 9955 | <p>How do I configure <strong>Wake-On-USB</strong> properly on a 10.04 or 10.10 Ubuntu (2.6.36 and higher if needed)?
(Wake-on-USB is when the computer is asleep and for example a USB Keyboard event wakes up the machine!)
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9562 | 1 | 9569 | 2010-10-26T09:50:57.330 | 3 | 1109 | <p>I installed unity from the software center then decided to eventually remove it.</p>
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9568 | 1 | 9570 | 2010-10-26T10:22:06.217 | 2 | 412 | <p>I've noticed that with some fonts show some fringing (that is coloured usually red/bluey lines) surrounding the text.</p>
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9571 | 1 | 9589 | 2010-10-26T11:18:59.960 | 21 | 306831 | <p>How can I list folders from within the terminal, which command should I use?</p>
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9575 | 1 | 9590 | 2010-10-26T11:33:27.293 | 13 | 31760 | <p>I have to present an assessment for my Uni course in the form of a DVD movie (so it can be played on a DVD player) but so far, Brasero doesn't seem to be doing it. For example, I left it for over an hour today (as it said it was burning) and the DVD came out empty.</p>
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9576 | 1 | 9577 | 2010-10-26T11:42:29.280 | 17 | 22493 | <p>I have <strong>8 workspaces</strong> in use throughout the day arranged as <strong>2 rows x 4 columns</strong>. </p>
<p>Workspaces are numbered logically from 1-4 for the top row left-right, then 5-8 for the next row. </p>
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9578 | 1 | 9580 | 2010-10-26T11:48:59.990 | 6 | 310 | <p>Where can i get hold of the experimental versions of Dropbox for Ubuntu? </p>
<p>Im looking for a version that allows the tray icons to be modified, and as far as im aware this functionality is only available in the latest versions.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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9579 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T11:49:36.557 | 6 | 83 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/11573/what-does-fix-committed-mean">What does “Fix Committed” mean?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I am affected by <a href="https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/635258" rel="nofollow nor... | 702 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:56.577 | 2012-06-13T14:42:23.907 | How long before a bug fix makes it through to the package manager? | [
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9581 | 1 | 9588 | 2010-10-26T11:55:58.687 | 4 | 3618 | <p>I've used mIRC (Windows) for years, and have some custom scripts, written in mIRC's own scripting language. </p>
<p>Is there an Ubuntu/Linux IRC Client which will allow me to use my scripts <em>as-is</em>? </p>
<p>Failing that, is there a "<em>functions a lot like mIRC</em>" Client available?</p>
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9591 | 1 | 9651 | 2010-10-26T12:58:05.837 | 10 | 4255 | <p>I am getting a file with a faroese name and trying to save it in a PHP script:</p>
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<p>In Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is saving it as:</p>
<pre><code>2010_08_�tflutningur.xls (invalid encoding)
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9592 | 1 | 9597 | 2010-10-26T13:22:44.460 | 3 | 25080 | <p>How is burg different from Grub.
I have installed burg and would like to know if at some point I want to go back to grub, how can I wipe burg and install grub back.</p>
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9596 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T13:52:53.547 | 1 | 383 | <p>I really like Elementary themes and I now want to install the Elementary theme on my new re-installation of Ubuntu. So when I typed this in</p>
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9599 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T14:13:50.277 | 12 | 5600 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/46588/how-to-automount-ntfs-partitions">How to automount NTFS partitions?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
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9602 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T14:22:03.697 | 5 | 758 | <p>I have an Ubuntu server installation set up as a media server with Subsonic in a medium sized office environment. I allow uploads from all employees to the media folder on the server. </p>
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9606 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T14:26:12.293 | 12 | 11853 | <p>My Ubuntu has been acting weird lately. Yesterday, it wouldn't boot normally, so I had to do a 'recovery mode' boot. It said I had to do an <code>fsck</code> manually, which I did using a live CD. After this, I was already able to boot to the desktop but everything is so sluggish. Apps would turn gray for seconds. S... | 4216 | 5768 | 2012-07-09T13:07:29.047 | 2012-07-09T13:07:29.047 | how to interpret these errors from syslog | [
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9607 | 1 | 9615 | 2010-10-26T14:26:12.650 | 7 | 4537 | <p>Having installed an experimental version of dropbox and installed in manually, i dont want the deb in synaptic to download any updates (as theyll over write the changes ive done manually i assume).</p>
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9616 | 1 | 13690 | 2010-10-26T14:40:46.277 | 1 | 10947 | <p>YouTube videos play fine in Firefox and Chrome. However, Vimeo videos are always choppy. What can I do to get them to play normally?</p>
<p>I'm running a Tecra A4 with a VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M24 1P [Radeon Mobility X600]</p>
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9620 | 1 | 9623 | 2010-10-26T14:52:59.837 | 2 | 236 | <p>I was downloading an IRC Client called <strong>irssi</strong> via the Synaptic Packet Manager but it listed <code>wine</code> and <code>wine1.2</code> in the <code>Unchanged</code> list (of dependencies). I do have <code>wine</code> installed.</p>
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9622 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T14:58:06.653 | 4 | 1777 | <p>I have an external USB HDD IDE enclosure that I use to back up and then wipe old hard drives.</p>
<p>My questions is:</p>
<p>How do I prevent Ubuntu Server from auto mounting these drives?</p>
<p>Most of the instructions I've seen online refer to turning off auto mounting for Desktop installs.</p>
<p>EDIT:</p>
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9630 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T15:37:52.983 | 5 | 5291 | <p>I am having trouble with Ubuntu recognizing/finding/mounting one of my hard drives. I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7. I had Ubuntu 10.04 and all drives showed up under "Places" I could click on any of my Windows/NTFS drives and they would mount as they should. I have since updated to Ubuntu 10.10. One of my dri... | null | 235 | 2010-10-27T13:31:27.843 | 2011-03-24T23:15:52.353 | Not mounting/finding 1TB NTFS drive | [
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9632 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T16:17:15.040 | 2 | 550 | <p>I've been using "Elementary Theme" for a while now and i have noticed, that there is a missing arrow at the end of the folder path.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fQm3p.png" alt="screenshot"></p>
<p>Does anyone know why this is happening????</p>
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9633 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T16:20:17.827 | 7 | 4097 | <p>If I have to two repositories listed in my sources.list or sources.list.d is there a way to tell apt which is preferred?</p>
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9634 | 1 | 9638 | 2010-10-26T16:21:20.113 | 0 | 498 | <p>I switched to Exaile a while back, and the only thing I find lacking is the Empathy integration, if I may call it that. I wish to be able to set my IM status as the currently playing music track. Rhythmbox did that out of the box. Exaile doesn't. Any ideas?</p>
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9639 | 1 | 9643 | 2010-10-26T16:46:25.453 | 6 | 1693 | <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2RBBI.png" alt="alt text"></p>
<p>In the picture above see the icon of magnifying glass.
I didn't have this icon before, It is indexing my files. Any idea what is it, I have maverick installed on 2 machines and both of them now have this icon.</p>
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9641 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T16:49:12.343 | 0 | 349 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/2280/selective-mounted-volumes-for-the-gnome-desktop-and-nautilus-sidebar">Selective mounted volumes for the GNOME Desktop and Nautilus Sidebar</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Under Places menu in gnome-panel and in the ... | 3727 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:31.777 | 2010-10-29T08:19:48.897 | How to toggle display of filesystems in "Places" menu? | [
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9642 | 1 | 9655 | 2010-10-26T16:50:19.170 | 346 | 768364 | <p>I have used <code>top</code> to see the memory usage at the moment. But I would like to monitor the memory usage over a period of time. E.g start monitoring and then execute a few commands, and final stop the monitoring and see how much memory that have been used during the period.</p>
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9646 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T17:04:49.460 | 3 | 2922 | <p>I need to install git on a server that will be shared and accessed by multiple users.</p>
<p>I assume I will use git+ssh, so each user will have a system account, but how do I go about install git and a repository so that each user can push/pull over a local IP?</p>
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9659 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T18:29:31.090 | 7 | 71243 | <p>I just installed some packages and after restart GUI won't show. I can login in terminal but I need command to start Gnome or better let it start automatically.</p>
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9663 | 1 | 9924 | 2010-10-26T18:43:09.050 | 5 | 3068 | <p>It really puzzles me that any Google search counts far more "results" in Firefox or Chrome than in Chromium. Google says "About 1.460.000 results" for "natty narwhal" in Firefox or Chrome but only 914.000 results in Chromium. Does anybody know why that is so? Which results are better?</p>
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9665 | 1 | 9676 | 2010-10-26T18:45:05.103 | 3 | 256 | <p>I didn't manage to boot from SD-card reader in my netbook, so I just used Wubi to install Ubuntu Netbook Edition (10.10). The system works smoothly and I'm glad with it, but there are certain perfomance problems: with Eclipse and also when there are lots of tabs in Chrome opened.</p>
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9681 | 1 | 9686 | 2010-10-26T19:48:02.423 | 3 | 560 | <p>Is there a command to see who owns a specific Internet domain address?</p>
<p>I have tried with <code>whois example.com</code> and I get some information. But for "holder" there is just a "user ID". Is there any way to see who the actual user is?</p>
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9682 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T19:48:18.760 | 3 | 522 | <p>I installed Kubuntu-desktop via apt for testing purposes in Gnome.
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9683 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T19:53:54.420 | 7 | 5807 | <p>I'm installing Ubuntu Server 10.04 on a Pentium 3 with 256 MB RAM,
I select install, continue with the process and when I see the "configuring apt sources" progress bar then I got the error:
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9687 | 1 | null | 2010-10-26T20:03:19.327 | 4 | 945 | <p>I love <strong>GNOME Screensaver</strong> application and all the themes that can use be used with it -the defaults and additionals from the repositories. So I would like to prefer the "Random" theme selection. </p>
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9694 | 1 | 22895 | 2010-10-26T20:30:54.353 | 27 | 30348 | <p>I would like to run two X server instances at the same time.</p>
<p>One would be an interactive session using the mouse and keyboard attached to the computer. The other would be a 'virtual' session that I could then connect to and use over a network.</p>
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<p>Using the "NVidia X Server Setting", nvidia-settings, I can turn the second monitor (TV) on or off.
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9706 | 1 | 9769 | 2010-10-26T21:58:01.720 | 6 | 484 | <p>Sometimes I start typing a message to someone then stop, rethink it and change it or not send it at all. I don't want them to see "User is typing" messages. I see no option to disable this in Empathy.</p>
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9714 | 1 | 9715 | 2010-10-27T00:53:10.710 | 11 | 17736 | <p>Is there a tool which can achieve high picture compression while preserving (as much as possible) the image quality and can compress images in batches, in order to make optimal images for websites?</p>
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9720 | 1 | 9722 | 2010-10-27T02:01:20.230 | 3 | 3576 | <p>I use ubuntu desktop 10.10 on a netbook. Quite often I use it as a proxy server (squid3) and file server (samba) for my network. So when I am using it as a network server, is it possible to boot into only command prompt and there by I can bring down power usage and have a longer battery backup.</p>
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9726 | 1 | 9759 | 2010-10-27T02:51:42.370 | 2 | 731 | <p>How can I add an <strong>unlisted</strong> repository to my <strong>Software Sources</strong> via its (http/ftp)://... URL? </p>
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9731 | 1 | 9732 | 2010-10-27T03:55:05.440 | 4 | 510 | <p>I've set up a passwordless login to a friend's computer and everything works very well. </p>
<p>I've even edited my <code>~/.ssh/config</code> to add his hostname and my username.</p>
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9733 | 1 | 9740 | 2010-10-27T04:11:37.877 | 15 | 6640 | <p>I am using System Monitor 2.28.0. When I look in the Resources tab, I see a nice graph with for memory and swap. Memory is about 60% 2.3 GiB of 3.8. When I type the command free, I got :</p>
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9734 | 1 | 9742 | 2010-10-27T04:39:25.263 | 4 | 343 | <p>I would like everyone's to have a folder in the home directory to accessible over the internet w/ password protected. I would also like to limit how much everyone can have in the home folder. </p>
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9735 | 1 | null | 2010-10-27T05:30:31.553 | 5 | 655 | <p>Have the ATI Drivers improved any? Are they any better than the default open source driver? Are they worth enabling? </p>
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9739 | 1 | 9745 | 2010-10-27T06:29:21.423 | 1 | 215 | <p>When installing Ubuntu, there is a slide for checking met conditions.</p>
<p>I observed that if you have for example only 384 MB of memory, the installer could crash.</p>
<p>See <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/658615" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/658615</a> for details.</p>
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9741 | 1 | 15174 | 2010-10-27T07:32:49.770 | 7 | 10043 | <p>cheese records at painful fps. video recording is really slow in cheese almost unusable.
How can I increase the fps for cheese.</p>
<p>I have HCL laptop with built in 1.3 MP camera 2.47 GHz i3 processor with 2 GB RAM.
running maverick 32 bit. </p>
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9743 | 1 | 9830 | 2010-10-27T07:50:31.073 | 8 | 7527 | <p>I have a legacy Java program that outputs an SQL script. I then use Apache Derby to run that SQL on the target database (which is not on the same server as CRON).</p>
<p>When run via putty, this works fine. When run in windows this works fine.
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9746 | 1 | 9754 | 2010-10-27T08:18:34.320 | 2 | 8607 | <p>I have these <strong>pdf</strong> files of c++code and they are colored which would be cool, except that the network printer here is b&w and the printed out codes come in various shades of pale grey which makes them essentially unreadable (specially the comments).</p>
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9747 | 1 | 10795 | 2010-10-27T08:33:33.647 | 3 | 2417 | <p>I'm a Linux newbie. I'm doing a project that uses the gosmore routing engine. In one of my email to the developer about a certain problem, he replied to me that to solve the problem:</p>
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9750 | 1 | 9753 | 2010-10-27T09:22:53.520 | 1 | 667 | <p>What does each of the packages do? I was installing libmozjs-dev, and it said that the following packages need to be removed:</p>
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9752 | 1 | null | 2010-10-27T09:38:14.913 | 0 | 399 | <p>Could you please give any basic example of a kernel timer (start_ktimer) implementation in Ubuntu?</p>
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9757 | 1 | null | 2010-10-27T10:38:27.717 | 6 | 1864 | <p>Which is the most up to date and modern RSS feed reader for my Ubuntu desktop?</p>
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9761 | 1 | null | 2010-10-27T10:54:41.233 | 1 | 802 | <p>how can i connect to internet using CSL USB Modem U1-TF ? I have no problems with Huawei E550 but i can't connect using CSL U1-TF .</p>
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9763 | 1 | 9767 | 2010-10-27T12:28:53.337 | 3 | 66469 | <p>I Have this init.d script which I am trying to get to startup with ubuntu however it wont run at startup. It does work when i type "sudo /etc/init.d/couchpotato start" though. Any ideas on how to get it starting at boot?</p>
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9764 | 1 | 9771 | 2010-10-27T12:45:17.857 | 2 | 4346 | <p>I cant install anything from software centre, I get this error every time I click on install, "Require installation packages"</p>
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9766 | 1 | null | 2010-10-27T12:59:24.193 | 2 | 824 | <p>Since I switched from 10.04 i386 to 10.10 x64 Compiz window animation duration settings are having no effect. What I mean is if I set it from the default of 80 to 160 or 220, the speed does not change it's always just default full speed. However it worked fine on 10.04. Any idea what would be causing this? Perhaps s... | 2230 | null | null | 2010-11-12T07:08:39.010 | What would cause Compiz window animation durations to not have any effect? | [
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9770 | 1 | 9773 | 2010-10-27T13:58:29.340 | 1 | 2640 | <p>Can anyone recommend a specific brand and model of wireless card that I can buy to replace the (completely worthless) BCM4311 that came with my Latitude D830? I've given up on trying to get the existing DW1390 card up and running, and I'm ready to buy a new card -- as long as it will work with Meerkat RIGHT OUT OF ... | 4808 | null | null | 2014-03-03T05:05:34.150 | Recommended Wireless Card for Dell Latitude D830? | [
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9774 | 1 | null | 2010-10-27T14:25:58.880 | 2 | 1597 | <p>I am trying to get multitouch to work on my touchpad. I am currently trying to run a script to get it to work. It is set to start on boot, saved as .run and has been made executable.</p>
<p>here is the code:</p>
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9775 | 1 | 9779 | 2010-10-27T14:36:48.763 | 23 | 19283 | <p>What software options are there for taking videos and or pictures within Ubuntu (Much like Apple's Photobooth)?</p>
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"text": "I would take a look at the bug list for 10.10",
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"body": "<p>I encountered this problem. It happen less time if I install skype using the <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu#Third-Party\" rel=\"nofollow\">Canonical partner repository</a> Software Tab. </p>\n\n<p>Else, to kill skype, you can go to system => A... | null | null | null | null | null |
9780 | 1 | 9784 | 2010-10-27T15:04:00.863 | 0 | 1166 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/2053/installing-applications-where-to-put-folders">'Installing' Applications, where to put folders?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Where shall I put applications which do not require install (extr... | 2509 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:27.937 | 2011-02-26T22:18:51.637 | Best place to put application files | [
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"body": "<p>I keep a growing collection of my own programs (nearly all self-contained shell and Python scripts) in <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/q/9848/1273\">~/bin</a>. (Some are actually symlinks to scripts located elsewhere.)</p>\n\n<p>I similarly use ~/site for programs installed in my $H... | [
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"body": "<p>I keep a growing collection of my own programs (nearly all self-contained shell and Python scripts) in <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/q/9848/1273\">~/bin</a>. (Some are actually symlinks to scripts located elsewhere.)</p>\n\n<p>I similarly use ~/site for programs installed ... | null | null | 2010-10-28T00:12:51.377 | null | null |
9781 | 1 | null | 2010-10-27T15:16:10.567 | 2 | 1078 | <p>Win98 is on partition 1, 2000 is on 2, Ubuntu is to be downloaded on 1 = instal on C: W98 is history [no more updates], I've striped it down to just be a backup save for D:
my 2000 is soooo updated that to re-install everything is not an option, I'm sure my install disc is soooo dated that I won't be able to re-upd... | null | 4 | 2010-10-27T17:30:40.373 | 2011-07-10T06:29:58.910 | Dual-booting Windows 2000 and Ubuntu | [
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"text": "Is it a pre-release of windows '98? Windows 2098 perhaps?",
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"body": "<p>I am not sure if I understand you right. If you want to install Ubuntu into the win98 partition and leaving it a win98 partition as it is at the moment. </p>\n\n<p>If that is correct, you can use <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide\" rel=\"nofollow\">wubi.exe</a> to i... | null | null | null | null | Newton |
9785 | 1 | 9802 | 2010-10-27T15:59:02.747 | 0 | 137 | <p>Hi
I added my IMAP mailbox in kmail, but I see that it show me all the files on the remote home directory where the IMAP server is stored.
Is it possible to show only folders cointaing mails? I tried to play with namespaces but didn't get what I want.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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"body": "<p>I use dimap and I'm therefore not sure whether this works with imap as well: </p>\n\n<p>In your folder list you right-click on an email-account and you can subsribe to the serverside folders you want by simply ticking them. This can be done within the options for each account via you... | [
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"body": "<p>You might want to use dimap (distributed imap) instead of imap in the account configuration. I believe you can do what you ask for in dimap.</p>\n",
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9793 | 1 | 9805 | 2010-10-27T17:56:54.673 | 3 | 509 | <p>I have 2 packages swami-2.0.0 and libinstpatch-1.0.0 in my PPA where the first one depends on the latter. The swami-2.0.0 control file contains libinstpatch-dev (>= 1.0.0) but it seems this is not satisfied even after installing that package, with this error in the buildlog:</p>
<pre>
After installing, the followi... | 4820 | 4 | 2010-10-27T18:02:42.950 | 2010-10-27T18:48:36.357 | PPA build failed because of unmet dependencies of another package in the same PPA | [
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"body": "<p>Yes, there is something \"wrong\" with your version number. Using a <code>~</code> postfix means that your version is <em>lower</em> than the version without the <code>~</code> suffix.</p>\n\n<p>So: <strong>A~B</strong> < <strong>A</strong></p>\n\n<p>You can test that with the co... | [
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"body": "<p>You can use apt-get policy to see which candidates are available from the different sources for installation.</p>\n\n<p>Secondly, you can use dpkg to check on naming conditions:</p>\n\n<pre><code>dpkg --compare-versions 1.0.0-0~lucid1~ppa1 gt 1.0.0\necho $?\n</code></pre>\n\... | null | null | null | null | null |
9800 | 1 | 9804 | 2010-10-27T18:36:00.673 | 31 | 44936 | <p>I got this message today when trying to log into my server. What should I do? Whats going on?</p>
<pre><code>$ ssh 10.10.10.69
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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"text": "As an aside, you may wish to avoid logging in locally and remotely as root, and instead use non-privileged users combined with sudo.",
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"body": "<p>Did you recently reinstall the OS on your server or anything like that? That would cause this. </p>\n\n<p>To fix this: <a href=\"http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/warning-remote-host-identification-has-changed-error-and-solution/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/warning-r... | [
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