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12021 | 1 | null | 2010-11-08T03:15:31.037 | 15 | 2966 | <p>is there the gdrive in ubuntu? like windows have.
Or similar</p>
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12031 | 1 | 12034 | 2010-11-08T05:21:24.163 | 0 | 4327 | <p>Where can I find the downloaded videos on my hardisk after I've watched it in a web browser?</p>
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12038 | 1 | 12039 | 2010-11-08T06:01:54.077 | 11 | 23264 | <p>I'm quite new to multimedia things, I'm trying to find a way to make nice screencasts, I've already been able to capture my desktop with ffmpeg:</p>
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12041 | 1 | 12152 | 2010-11-08T06:55:20.027 | 5 | 50100 | <p>I want to find the downloaded videos on my hardisk.</p>
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12043 | 1 | null | 2010-11-08T07:01:02.640 | 1 | 2410 | <p>Installing a new system.</p>
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<li>Intel Core i7 870 Socket 1156 2.93Ghz Tray</li>
<li>Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 P55 CHIPSET</li>
<li>8GB Transcend DDR3 1333Mhz (4 x 2GB)</li>
<li>Sapphire ATI Radeon 6870 1GB GDDR5</li>
<li>Ubuntu 10.10 64bit</li>
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12046 | 1 | null | 2010-11-08T08:27:00.507 | 0 | 1513 | <p>I've recently upgraded Firefox. </p>
<p>This is the Error I receive at YouTube: </p>
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12047 | 1 | 12051 | 2010-11-08T08:46:17.257 | 14 | 16707 | <p>I've encountered what I can best describe as "unpredictable" behaviour of the "clipboard". But in its own way, it actually is <strong>"predictable""</strong>, as it is not an <strong>X</strong> bug, as such.</p>
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12053 | 1 | 12072 | 2010-11-08T09:29:05.327 | 0 | 4489 | <p>Sorry for the long title.</p>
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12054 | 1 | 12066 | 2010-11-08T10:21:38.993 | 1 | 509 | <p>I wonder if there's any possibility to make icons in Docky jump when in need of attention.</p>
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12055 | 1 | 12058 | 2010-11-08T10:24:19.973 | 15 | 9563 | <p>In Windows 7 there is a tool that calculates some kind of index of your machine: <a href="http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/1116983.htm" rel="noreferrer">the performance index</a>. I am not sure how it is done, but it is nice to know, to be able to compare machines.</p>
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12061 | 1 | 12074 | 2010-11-08T11:18:49.530 | 0 | 612 | <p>I have ubuntu 10.10 on sda1. Archlinux with its bootloader, Grub1, on sda3. Ubuntu's bootloader grub2 in on sda. How can I create an entry for sda3 Grub1 in ubuntu's sda Grub2. Simply put, On bootup I should see Grub2 first and it should have an entry for Grub1. </p>
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12065 | 1 | 12070 | 2010-11-08T11:57:27.750 | 4 | 1092 | <p>I was using 10.04 going into this weekend and, after a kernel update, I began to observe some unreliable USB behaviour: namely, my USB mouse is extremely late to the party (usually turns on several seconds after login) and my USB card reader pretty much isn't working at all.</p>
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12069 | 1 | 12082 | 2010-11-08T12:22:11.613 | 26 | 54925 | <p>I have a Dell E6510 and after installing Ubuntu and connecting to a wireless network, my Wifi LED keeps blinking all the time, probably in response to traffic. </p>
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12077 | 1 | 12096 | 2010-11-08T12:57:16.950 | 2 | 2834 | <p>I never had any problem with display. This morning Ubuntu gave me an option to install drivers for Wireless Card and Nvidia drivers for display. There were two options for wireless driver and two options for NVidia display.. For NVidia driver one option was marked as Recommended (I remember installing this when I in... | 4627 | 23272 | 2011-08-23T13:51:29.687 | 2017-06-23T17:29:27.030 | Display Lag after installing Driver | [
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12079 | 1 | 23888 | 2010-11-08T13:20:04.997 | 0 | 1608 | <p>I'm using following FTP script on windows xp to download zip files from Ubuntu cloud servers. A zip file is created every day on Ubuntu servers and I will download it to windows via this ftp script. I run this script everyday manually as I have to edit the last line(mget /usr/backup_02-11-2010.zip) of the script to ... | 3215 | 7035 | 2011-06-06T15:09:38.290 | 2011-06-06T15:09:38.290 | Windows FTP script download from Ubuntu | [
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12085 | 1 | 12095 | 2010-11-08T13:42:43.327 | 1 | 2131 | <p>Everytime I try to make a rescan, Banshee keeps crashing. The songs it was able to discover are added to library list on the next start up of Banshee. Then, it crashes again if I am to try rescan.</p>
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12098 | 1 | 12099 | 2010-11-08T14:20:21.487 | 166 | 211235 | <p>Oftentimes I run into small bash scripts that use this sort of syntax in if statements:</p>
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12100 | 1 | 13364 | 2010-11-08T14:31:27.053 | 49 | 109680 | <p>During voice / video conversations I would like to mute/unmute the microphone without having to go through all these steps each time:</p>
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12106 | 1 | 12108 | 2010-11-08T14:43:15.203 | 2 | 374 | <p>I have Ubuntu Netbook with Unity installed, and I do not see the program that allows you to connect to Windows Via RDP, I would like to be able to install this functionality, anyone know what the name of the package is?</p>
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12113 | 1 | 12120 | 2010-11-08T15:06:20.350 | 2 | 1469 | <p>The .screenrc file allows the user to specify that they want multiple windows open when screen is first run. Eg.</p>
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12118 | 1 | null | 2010-11-08T15:31:09.010 | 2 | 1981 | <p>How can i set my laptop with ubuntu 10.04 to autoconnect to Wi-Fi (with pass, WPA2-Personal), when i on my laptop without asking password on wi-fi?
I wont on my laptop and start surfing without enter pass of my wi-fi.</p>
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12129 | 1 | null | 2010-11-08T16:48:19.400 | 4 | 69551 | <p>I need to install Windows XP on my machine that currently runs Ubuntu 10.10. I have a slipstreamed ISO for XP and only a USB to boot from. I do not have access to another Windows machine, and my Windows virtual machine does not recognise my USB drive. The solution needs to be purely linux-based.</p>
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12131 | 1 | null | 2010-11-08T17:04:12.733 | -4 | 277 | <p>Just the title - are they really going to do that?</p>
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12133 | 1 | 12149 | 2010-11-08T17:28:07.220 | 2 | 210 | <p>Like in windows xp you use to be able to create a new hard profile and then you select which one you want before windows boots.</p>
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12135 | 1 | 12155 | 2010-11-08T18:00:32.003 | 3 | 4317 | <p>I have to admit I didn't "Safetly Eject", but I have done this a million times... what gives, and how do I get my data back??</p>
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12138 | 1 | 12153 | 2010-11-08T18:24:01.400 | 1 | 1337 | <p>I'm trying to a build a custom package of PostgreSQL with some configuration tweaks suitable for our application. Part of that configuration involves a pg_hba.conf using "trust" instead of the defaults.</p>
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12139 | 1 | 12141 | 2010-11-08T18:25:36.317 | 60 | 87480 | <p>I have a Western Digital My Book 3.0 - 1 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive, and I wanted to know if it would work on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.</p>
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12154 | 1 | 12468 | 2010-11-08T19:11:23.987 | 35 | 28378 | <p>Is there any way I can get the word count of a PDF document that I'm viewing in Evince, Ubuntu's default pdf viewer? I'm able to convert the documents to text files and get the word count from the terminal, but I'd quite like to be able to quickly get at them without having to use the terminal. Is there any plugin t... | null | null | null | 2015-04-04T02:48:06.603 | Getting the word count of a pdf document in Evince | [
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12160 | 1 | 12167 | 2010-11-08T19:43:31.783 | 6 | 4653 | <p>Currently it looks like:
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12161 | 1 | 12165 | 2010-11-08T19:47:49.807 | 1 | 897 | <p>Does anyone has a "good" xorg.conf example for the Radeon X1300 on Ubuntu 9.10 ?
Mine works a little slow...
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12162 | 1 | null | 2010-11-08T19:47:57.230 | 4 | 2481 | <p>I use my laptop with a second display. Sometimes I should take my laptop with me, but I can't take my second display with me. How can I setup my ubuntu 10.04 so that it changes the resolution automatically when I disable the second display?</p>
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12172 | 1 | 12175 | 2010-11-08T21:12:47.457 | 39 | 44925 | <p>How do I split a 7GB (movie) file into smaller files of (say) 1GB, and then (in another Ubuntu computer) integrate them to get the original file (using just bash commands)?</p>
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12196 | 1 | null | 2010-11-08T23:03:39.540 | 3 | 268 | <p>When I watch a DVD in vlc, the typing break will kick in even though I haven't touched the keyboard or mouse for over half an hour. This is a bit annoying ... Does anyone know how to stop this happening?</p>
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12197 | 1 | null | 2010-11-08T23:04:03.117 | 1 | 1213 | <p>I have a new Lenovo Z360 laptop. About 1 in 5 times, instead of suspending when I close the laptop lid, the screen goes blank and the machine freezes and stays on, with the fan running. I have to hard-boot at that point, which sucks. I haven't been able to narrow down the scenario, exactly. This laptop doesn't have ... | 90 | 90 | 2011-10-21T00:14:16.523 | 2011-10-21T00:14:16.523 | Lenovo Z360 sometimes doesn't suspend, freezing up completely | [
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12198 | 1 | null | 2010-11-08T23:05:24.080 | 6 | 923 | <p>When I enable the wacom tablet in the Gimp extended input devices (setting it to 'screen'), to use the pressure sensitivity, it starts to behave strangely. I cannot pick guides from the rulers and the selection tool (the marching ants) become invisible. Has anyone had the same problem? Is there any workaround?</p>
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12199 | 1 | 13854 | 2010-11-08T23:06:08.540 | 1 | 1559 | <p>My server keeps timing out when I attempt to download a handful of files at once.</p>
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12204 | 1 | null | 2010-11-08T23:17:23.857 | 3 | 27201 | <p>I have added these lines in my 000-default virtual host file:</p>
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12206 | 1 | 12207 | 2010-11-08T23:20:50.963 | 28 | 138144 | <p>How can start the VNC server to make my desktop accessible?</p>
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12208 | 1 | 12210 | 2010-11-08T23:39:14.317 | 23 | 4577 | <p>Is there a way for me to take a screenshot in a virtual console?</p>
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12209 | 1 | 20711 | 2010-11-08T23:43:04.250 | 2 | 463 | <p>I am using a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 with GMA500 video drivers. GMA500 fixes resolution issues and enables video acceleration. The only problem with the GMA500 drivers I am having is that I can not find a fix for the webcam program called cheese, and I can't find a way to enable the vaapi (Video Acceleration API) back... | 2935 | 38763 | 2012-09-04T10:59:19.267 | 2012-09-04T10:59:19.267 | Cheese with vaapi | [
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12213 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T00:10:43.850 | 3 | 151 | <p>I've been running 9.10 on an old Toshiba Satellite laptop for a few months and recently went to upgrade it to 10.04 LTS, using the Update Manager. After the update, the computer will not boot. There is an Ubuntu splash screen and then nothing. Are there any good things to do to troubleshoot? I've reinstalled 9.1... | 5816 | 5816 | 2010-11-09T00:50:12.487 | 2010-11-09T04:30:00.687 | Upgraded to 10.04 LTS and cannot startup | [
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12215 | 1 | 12779 | 2010-11-09T01:00:48.997 | 13 | 4429 | <p>I'm looking for a tool that will take diff / debdiff output (<em>and</em> more specifically, the output of <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/8363/diffing-different-versions-of-the-same-debian-package/8995#8995">this script</a>) and display the result of the comparison in a highly readable, graphical way. Any ... | 2181 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:07.557 | 2012-07-31T16:23:01.650 | Making diff output more readable | [
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12217 | 1 | 12219 | 2010-11-09T01:53:14.127 | 1 | 212 | <p>Mainly it's the menu and monodoc-base triggers that cause the problem. Recently monodoc base has become a major pain. It keeps saying there are a bunch of errors, and uses up 100+ CPU% and makes it impossible to do a thing. I've had to force it to stop so many times now.</p>
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12227 | 1 | 12236 | 2010-11-09T03:11:14.623 | 2 | 156 | <p>The wallpapers managing tool,Drapes, crashed after I add too many wallpapers.Drapes can't be started. I want to modify or clean the file recording the path of added wallpapers,but I can't find the configure file of drapes using <code>locate drapes</code>.</p>
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<p>To my surprise, the multiplot methods (multiplot, mplot, etc.) are not present (in either octave-3.0 nor octave-3.2 packages).</p>
<p>Which package should I install to have these?</p>
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12237 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T05:08:10.970 | 4 | 1451 | <p>I m a newbie to Linux and have installed Kubuntu 10.04 LTS.
There are problems regarding the web browsers (google-chrome and mozilla) and also in vlc player...no sound could be heard.
But the dragon player works well.</p>
<p>What could be the problem and possible solutions for it?</p>
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12238 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T05:10:31.267 | 4 | 660 | <p>I check my start up applications, disable them, but login take a long time and <strong>System Load</strong> is very high <em>(about 9)</em>.
<br>this only happens on default user account, and I have this problem since <strong>10.10 upgrading</strong>.<br>
what should be wrong? :-/</p>
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<h3>edit:</h3>
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12241 | 1 | 12292 | 2010-11-09T05:19:11.800 | 7 | 279 | <p>According to the Ubuntu One Music Store help page, the following stores are currently available:</p>
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12249 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T06:14:34.957 | 2 | 9273 | <p>I'm running an internal network LAMP server on ubuntu 10.10. I have another ubuntu running on an older ppc g5 with a 640gb drive in it. I'd like to run some software on that G5 that does some snapshot and archiving over the network of the data running on my lamp server.</p>
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12250 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T06:19:28.387 | 1 | 2171 | <p>hey everyone for some reason my gnome-panel keeps crashing and restarting and keeps shifting windows that I have open up and down as they reaccomodate for the crashing/respwaning gnome-panel. Prior to this I had the indicator global menu applet enabled and I opened a java program(freemind) and then this problem star... | null | null | null | 2010-11-09T10:52:12.933 | What is causing gnome-panel to crash and respawn constantly? | [
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12257 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T07:19:53.270 | 4 | 282 | <p>Since I have upgraded my working Lucid PC to Maverick I am unable to log in as a normal user. I can only login as root. If I log in as a normal user the log in screen disappears and reappears with the sound effects. If I type the wrong password then I get authorization failure and back to the log in screen as normal... | 5829 | 721 | 2010-11-10T06:31:11.033 | 2010-11-10T06:39:36.133 | What went wrong with my upgrade to Maverick 10.10? | [
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12269 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T09:45:22.180 | 2 | 2959 | <p>I just did fresh install from Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop CD and I can't use my wiresless card. </p>
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12279 | 1 | 12280 | 2010-11-09T11:37:42.113 | 12 | 903 | <p>I just installed Maverick and was surprised that almost all packages are marked as manually installed (linux-headers and wireless-crda aren't). Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the differentiation between automatically and manually installed packages?</p>
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12281 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T12:13:39.330 | 1 | 216 | <p>Rage will come in 2011 and it would be nice to have it in the Ubuntu Software Centre Shop! It is based on idTech 5 and uses OpenGL. There is just a need of coorparating with id Software.</p>
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12282 | 1 | 12296 | 2010-11-09T12:16:34.010 | 4 | 179 | <p>I notice that sometimes after installing something from the Software Center, the software gets added to a menu and I get a nice message telling me how to launch it. Other times I get none of these and I have no idea how to launch the application. </p>
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12284 | 1 | 12335 | 2010-11-09T12:24:25.187 | 18 | 72082 | <p>I have a blank USB flash drive I want to put a new filesystem on. If I try adding a new partition it complains "No partition table found on device /dev/sdc". Creating a msdos partition table seems to work correctly, except that when I go to add a new partition it complains with the same error. What am I missing? </p... | 1968 | null | null | 2019-11-24T11:39:33.690 | Why can't I create a partition table on my USB flash drive using GParted? | [
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12286 | 1 | 12291 | 2010-11-09T12:35:25.550 | 9 | 16192 | <p>Every certain amount of time, Ubuntu checks my filesystems and it creates several empty "<em>lost+found</em>" folders.</p>
<p>Can I disable this feature? Is there any way that Ubuntu deletes automatically these folders if they are empty?</p>
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<p>Is there any manner to hide this folder on NFS?</p>
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12289 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T12:40:11.987 | 4 | 2456 | <p>is there a way of customizing the icons shown in Docky for wine applications (including starter and running applications)?</p>
<p>Most Windows programs have icons with too low resolution by default, so I'd like to assign better icons to them. </p>
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12294 | 1 | 12333 | 2010-11-09T13:22:13.857 | 10 | 6812 | <p>What's the easiest way to produce an invoice? It seems to be part of larger apps, but what if I just want the invoice capability without a lot of overhead?</p>
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12300 | 1 | 12310 | 2010-11-09T13:48:23.557 | 0 | 710 | <p>Is there a gnome applet that will let me configure a list of URLs to be verified and report when some is unavailable ?
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12302 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T14:06:15.023 | 2 | 420 | <p>I've recently switched from Emacs to Vim, so this may just be me completely misunderstanding how Vim works.</p>
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12308 | 1 | 12340 | 2010-11-09T15:27:53.113 | 0 | 955 | <p>any thoughts or suggestions?</p>
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12309 | 1 | 12319 | 2010-11-09T15:31:02.483 | 2 | 457 | <p>In a website maintenance job, my client has an FTP server with the website on. Fairly standard (albeit outdated) stuff.</p>
<p>I need to do a find-and-replace over most of the HTML files to change the navigation. To do that effectively, I'd need to do that locally.</p>
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12312 | 1 | 12315 | 2010-11-09T16:12:35.077 | 8 | 20316 | <p>Anyone know how to see the space on squid? I mean the cache space on the squid that is being used, like the available space and used space of the cache itself, thanks!</p>
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12314 | 1 | 12318 | 2010-11-09T16:35:52.273 | 13 | 4683 | <p>If I need Sun Java, Adobe Flash Plugin or anything else that comes from Canonical Partners the package downloads are painfully slow even small sized packages like the Flash plugin, to speed things up I have to go here: <a href="http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/pool/partner/">http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/po... | 4923 | 3037 | 2011-01-05T20:56:01.443 | 2011-01-05T20:56:01.443 | Why are downloads from Canonical Partners repository so slow? | [
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12316 | 1 | 12406 | 2010-11-09T16:40:53.717 | 5 | 981 | <p>I'm using Gnome-Do with the "Files and Folders v2.5" plugin. I set it to read my <em>.scripts</em> folder, so that I might run my personal scripts from Gnome-Do. The only problem is that Gnome-Do's standard action for shell scripts is to open them instead of running them. That forces me to Tab and scroll-down every ... | 1012 | 1012 | 2010-11-09T19:10:37.213 | 2010-11-10T03:59:01.497 | Customize Gnome-Do's default action order | [
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12322 | 1 | 12392 | 2010-11-09T17:14:30.570 | 5 | 1178 | <p>I'm planning to install Ubuntu Server on a netbook to minimize power consumption.</p>
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12323 | 1 | 12334 | 2010-11-09T17:19:00.157 | 0 | 318 | <p>Does anyone have these plugins installed? Sorry, but I'm worried, because my past attempts to update compiz have failed, and when I try to install these plugins they ask to me to update these files: </p>
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12324 | 1 | 12352 | 2010-11-09T17:21:52.530 | 4 | 562 | <p>I'm in the market for a new cell phone soon, and I'd like for it to work well with Ubuntu. I don't use my phone for much--just calls, texts, and the occasional photo. It would be nice if it could also do these things (highest priority first):</p>
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12325 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T17:22:57.283 | 0 | 174 | <p>I have Axioo laptop using SIS Mirage 3 (SIS M672+SIS968 Chipset)
When I turn on my laptop, BIOS no problem, when booting ubuntu, problem with display like old TV (broken) but when log in back to normal .... and my next problem my resolution can't 1280x800
Any solution for my problem ?</p>
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12330 | 1 | 12343 | 2010-11-09T17:55:18.493 | 3 | 1665 | <p>My brother has Windows xp on his laptop and I have Ubuntu 10.10 installed and samba is also installed on mine and when I connect my laptop with a desktop running Ubuntu, I am able to see and access the shared files. So sharing works fine between two Ubuntu computers.</p>
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12331 | 1 | 12332 | 2010-11-09T17:58:34.510 | 3 | 4559 | <p>My friend (on windows xp) recently compressed his entire C:/ drive and consequently, his laptop won't boot, he gets "BOOTMGR is compressed Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". This happens every time! I can boot ubuntu from the usb so I was wondering if it was possible to fix this issue? Thanks in advance, ell.</p>
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12336 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T19:11:24.680 | 83 | 44659 | <p>I just found out about the <strong>free the fish</strong> easter egg available in Ubuntu:</p>
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12349 | 1 | 12357 | 2010-11-09T20:15:34.043 | 34 | 19446 | <p>I want to view threaded email conversations in Evolution. Is there a menu option for this? By threaded conversations I mean something like what Google's GMail does.</p>
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12355 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T20:30:33.857 | 9 | 24067 | <p>I've installed ubuntu on a Asus 1015 netbook. Everything worked out of the box except for the Wireless adapter, which i had to install with the Additional Drivers application.</p>
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12358 | 1 | 12363 | 2010-11-09T20:52:03.890 | 5 | 1606 | <p>I can run (and have run) the install fine with a monitor attached the machine, but what I wish to do is setup Ubuntu server remotely (within my home network).</p>
<p>I have a USB drive pre-loaded and ready to go. Where do I go from here?</p>
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12360 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T21:02:49.930 | 9 | 5945 | <p>I remember I saw a apt mirror somewhere containing older distributions but I cannot find it anymore. Does anybody know where to find it?</p>
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12364 | 1 | 12366 | 2010-11-09T21:19:11.653 | 5 | 333 | <p>I have written an application, and I'm now interested in creating a Debian package and setting up a PPA. The application is written primarily in XSLT, and includes a very thin front-end that can be written in any language that can access an XSLT processor. I currently have front-ends written in JavaScript (able to r... | 4895 | 158442 | 2016-04-24T16:42:41.860 | 2016-04-24T16:42:41.860 | How do I create a Debian package with disjoint/alternate dependencies? | [
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12367 | 1 | 12461 | 2010-11-09T21:43:46.103 | 4 | 427 | <p>I know a very fast repository I often use to install packages, I would dearly like to use this when I am setting up Ubuntu, the mirror used by setup when the region is choosen is usually very slow, this results in apt configuration taking a long time.</p>
<p>I usually have to remove network connectivity from the m... | 4923 | 235 | 2010-11-09T21:47:48.463 | 2010-11-10T10:53:41.337 | Can one choose a specific repository for the Ubuntu setup process to use when installing from the live CD? | [
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12368 | 1 | 12382 | 2010-11-09T21:54:57.023 | 27 | 3651 | <p>For those of you who don't do python programming on ubuntu, ipython is a python shell on steroids, but it has this amazing feature that it not only autcompletes based on known names (i.e. the same way bash does when you press tab), but if you start typing a command and press up, it doesn't scroll through the entire ... | 5042 | 114 | 2010-11-09T22:04:32.723 | 2019-11-15T22:34:31.693 | iPython Like Command History For Shell | [
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12372 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T22:37:17.503 | 5 | 1324 | <p>Since the install of Ubuntu Desktop 10.10, any launched programs shows up without a windowborder. </p>
<p>I update daily, but the problem remains. Until now I found only one "remedy" that fixes the problem (until the next reboot). This "remedy" is not logical to me and is something I just stumbled upon.</p>
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12373 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T22:42:05.430 | 0 | 761 | <p>I am looking for a nicely priced touchscreen laptop (not netbook) that works great with Ubuntu. can you help me out?
-Thanks!!-</p>
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12375 | 1 | null | 2010-11-09T23:00:37.427 | 3 | 1644 | <p>I Just yesterday took the plunge into Linux and Ubuntu. I loaded up 10.10 on my computer and managed to "make" the programs I needed but find an issue with the AC97 sound card. All day and most of the night and day today I tried all the tips and nothing. It seems 10.10 isn't playing nicely with this program :( The p... | 5858 | 235 | 2010-12-26T16:26:37.753 | 2011-05-21T17:34:54.880 | Sound doesn't work with DSD | [
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12376 | 1 | 12379 | 2010-11-09T23:04:13.600 | 3 | 555 | <p>I've used <code>xbindkeys</code> to associate a hot-key with <code>/usr/bin/test.sh</code> </p>
<p>I can run the script two ways now! (well, not always! hence this question.)</p>
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