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12383 | 1 | 1075860 | 2010-11-10T00:39:20.547 | 76 | 45371 | <p>Is it possible to make Ubuntu go into Hibernate state from Suspend, aka "Suspend Sedation"?</p>
<p>What I am looking for is this:<br>
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12385 | 1 | 13244 | 2010-11-10T00:58:58.730 | 4 | 1711 | <p>About a week ago, I upgraded my Dell Optiplex GX520 from 10.04 Lucid Lynx to 10.10. Unfortunately, I excitedly ignored all the warnings about how it was a beta release and I'm now stuck with a big problem: the screen resolution is way too small.</p>
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12388 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T01:29:06.523 | 0 | 1817 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/11399/how-to-use-compiz-as-the-window-manager-for-unity">How to use Compiz as the window manager for Unity.</a> </p>
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<p>Hello. I am using Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition with classic desktop interface (N... | 5867 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:56.577 | 2010-11-10T01:41:17.363 | How to use compiz with Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition? | [
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12393 | 1 | 12407 | 2010-11-10T02:38:27.597 | 1 | 264 | <p>Previous research suggests that I need an LVM. However, I can't find anything for what to do about data being on <em>both</em> drives. I took the hard drive of an existing, running 10.04 computer and put it into another existing, running, machine. I want to be able to access the files like they were on the local(... | 5179 | null | null | 2010-11-10T05:46:00.333 | How to "mash together" the contents of 2 hard drives? | [
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12394 | 1 | 12422 | 2010-11-10T03:07:48.303 | 41 | 32121 | <p>I am a Gnome user. Just out of curiosity, I installed the package kubuntu-desktop to check out the latest KDE. The package has hijacked and replaced the nice ubuntu boot splash with the blue KDE one. How can I get the original boot splash back ? Which package should I re-install ? </p>
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12397 | 1 | 12403 | 2010-11-10T03:26:12.640 | 2 | 828 | <p>I have a Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H motherboard and Phenom II X6 in my desktop computer, and it's all working well, except that Ubuntu 10.10 doesn't seem to detect any ACPI support at all: it can't suspend, and it can't measure its internal temperatures. I would have thought a new device like this ought to have pretty... | 1116 | 1116 | 2010-11-10T20:35:24.600 | 2010-11-10T20:35:24.600 | How to get ACPI health data on a Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H? | [
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12401 | 1 | 220424 | 2010-11-10T03:36:55.003 | 14 | 12596 | <p>On Windows, I have found <a href="http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Foxit Reader</a> to be quite handy when I need to highlight texts in PDF document, make annotations, etc. etc. Unfortunately, I have not yet found product as user friendly (which also does not corrupt PDF files...) ... | 2345 | 16023 | 2017-07-14T08:01:28.177 | 2017-07-14T08:01:28.177 | What is a good Foxit Reader equivalent? | [
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12402 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T03:38:19.867 | 1 | 2517 | <p>I have two GNU/Linux distors installed on my laptop: ubuntu and archlinux. I have symlinked some diectories from archlinux's home directory to directories in the ubuntu home directoy. Those symlinked directories have write and read access on ubuntu CLI and GUI. But they cannot be browsed or opened if the ubuntu home... | 2968 | 721 | 2010-11-10T06:22:55.610 | 2010-11-10T06:22:55.610 | How to fix Samba read and write permissions for directories in an ext4 partition? | [
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12409 | 1 | 12410 | 2010-11-10T04:02:38.323 | 18 | 1951 | <p>For example, de-fragmenting, disc cleanup, or stuff like that?</p>
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12414 | 1 | 12715 | 2010-11-10T04:51:52.617 | 5 | 1917 | <p>The <em>indicator applet</em> and the <em>indicator applet session</em> are not showing anything for some reason. Last time I was on ubuntu they were working fine.</p>
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<p>Does anyone know why this might happen?</p>
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12418 | 1 | 12499 | 2010-11-10T05:57:34.853 | 3 | 236 | <p>I want to upgrade a PC from Intrepd to Lucid, but I can only go as far as 9.10, even though I have "Show only LTS" enabled in Sources. I have a 10.04 CD, is it possible to upgrade to Lucid, after I pop it in and run some command?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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12420 | 1 | 12432 | 2010-11-10T06:05:07.173 | 2 | 8564 | <p>Squid is good one, also webmin. I am still new to this, can someone helping how to see the Squid progress in terminal or in webmin? I mean when we open some site its going also on squid and showing the logs that site have being hit, miss, or have in cache? Also any idea to using Squid or webmin to block the ads, web... | 5840 | 235 | 2010-11-10T23:03:58.100 | 2012-10-09T20:35:36.523 | Any idea how to use tail -f in Squid to see logging and processing on localhost? | [
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12426 | 1 | 12428 | 2010-11-10T06:42:44.360 | 8 | 1248 | <p>I tend to use <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd> for my customized system-wide keybindings. </p>
<p>When I tried <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>U</kbd> it printed an <strong>underscored u</strong> and waited for <strong>more</strong> keyboard input!...<br>
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12430 | 1 | 12444 | 2010-11-10T07:11:44.843 | 3 | 1738 | <p>I am running ubuntu 10.10 on a Lenovo ideapad z560. The speakers run fine but the headphones are not recognized when i plug them in. Audio comes out of the speakers only. I tried all alsa and pulseaudio settings but to no avail. I came to know that this is a known bug and many people are having this problem. I was w... | 5845 | 235 | 2010-11-10T14:12:12.030 | 2010-11-10T14:12:12.030 | Headphone is not working | [
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12433 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T07:26:41.190 | 1 | 595 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5571/how-can-i-install-unity-after-installing-desktop-edition">How can I install Unity after installing Desktop Edition?</a> </p>
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<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I've recently decided to give my old <a href="http:... | 5875 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:44.677 | 2010-11-10T20:42:04.933 | Install netbook remix on maverick meerkat | [
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12434 | 1 | 12459 | 2010-11-10T07:38:08.510 | 9 | 19695 | <p>I need a good vulnerability auditing tool for Ubuntu so I decided to try nmap I also recalled that there was a product that can do this kind of work called Nessus it is no longer available in the repository and the packages for Ubuntu at its site <a href="http://nessus.org/nessus/">http://nessus.org/nessus/</a> are... | 4923 | 11932 | 2013-01-24T06:27:04.613 | 2013-10-24T22:32:14.120 | Vulnerability Scanner, nmap vs Nessus | [
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12435 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T07:46:48.677 | 23 | 24580 | <p>it used to be that tapping two fingers on the touchpad send a middle mouse click. Now it does a right click and three fingers now are the middle click. I really can't understand the change and think it is a bug or badly copied from Apple or something. The reasoning escapes me totally.
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12437 | 1 | 12441 | 2010-11-10T07:53:48.270 | 13 | 22021 | <p>I want to write batch or something, that will write output of <code>top</code> into a file on login.</p>
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<p>Can somebody give a simple tutorial about how to write batch file in Linux?</p>
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12446 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T09:32:01.750 | 0 | 690 | <p>I've upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 and subversion checkout from http:// just refuses to work anymore. Always timeouts.</p>
<p>I tried a 10.10 Live version and that <em>works</em> and all my packages are upto date.</p>
<p>The symptom is:</p>
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12449 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T09:40:55.297 | 3 | 2748 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1529/how-can-i-highlight-pdfs">How can I highlight PDFs?</a> </p>
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<p>Is there a software like Mac's default viewer, that allows you to annotate and highlight PDF documents?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,
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12453 | 1 | 12455 | 2010-11-10T09:59:28.410 | 0 | 118 | <p>my needs is to copy all files and folders of a "master" folder into all the usb keys mounted.</p>
<p>So, i wrote this code:</p>
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12457 | 1 | 16353 | 2010-11-10T10:10:32.930 | 2 | 456 | <p>I recently upgraded ubuntu from 9.04 to 9.10. well some of the keys of my keyboard don't work properly so i always hit up terminal an use on screen keyboard 'onboard'
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12462 | 1 | 39855 | 2010-11-10T10:59:06.720 | 3 | 423 | <p>I quite Unity but it seems like odd behaviour that clicking on the icon "focusses" the application instead of minimising it when it's already focussed.</p>
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12463 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T10:59:22.057 | 0 | 653 | <p>My 64bits desktop (intel core i7) was able to boot with Windows XP 64 installed, but it's not more possible after installing Ubuntu amd64: the computer says the HD is not bootable. The only way of booting the computer now, is using the Live CD and choosing boot from the hard disk. Besides, if I put this HD in a 32bi... | null | null | 2010-11-10T14:40:17.720 | 2011-12-14T18:23:49.383 | 64bits desktop does not boot | [
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12464 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T11:02:47.490 | 14 | 94811 | <p>How can we set Windows clients to authenticate against an LDAP Server running on Ubuntu?</p>
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12470 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T12:02:06.667 | 13 | 2455 | <p>I have Ubuntu cloud servers running which I don't have direct access to but with ssh. I'm using 'tar' to clone or to have high availability of this server. I followed the tutorial from the link [link text][1]. I tried this installing a new server of same version. When I extracted the tar (tar -xvpzf ~/clone.tgz -C /... | 3215 | 169736 | 2014-03-29T22:15:59.353 | 2014-03-29T22:15:59.353 | Using tar and rsync for high availability | [
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12473 | 1 | 12477 | 2010-11-10T12:15:48.473 | 158 | 203683 | <p>I'm looking for something that will compare directories and files like Beyond Compare does for windows.</p>
<p>Its mainly for use of source control, but I need to use it for deployment as well.</p>
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12483 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T13:02:43.587 | 0 | 694 | <p>I used Startup Manager to edit Startup settings and when I restarted, I got a black screen and couldn't log on. Please help.</p>
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12486 | 1 | 12489 | 2010-11-10T13:12:19.813 | 1 | 662 | <p>I tried to find Mozilla NSPR through synaptic without luck. Does anyone know what is it package name?</p>
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12493 | 1 | 12494 | 2010-11-10T13:48:27.523 | 245 | 202090 | <p>I installed some version of Ubuntu on my VMware, but I don't know what version exactly it is. How can I find it out?</p>
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12502 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T14:27:49.707 | 7 | 35119 | <p>So I've gone and bought a Magic Mouse and Apple Wireless Non-Numeric Keyboard.
The magic mouse worked out-of-the-box almost perfectly, except for the forward/back gesture which still isn't functioning, whereas the keyboard didn't.</p>
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12503 | 1 | 12806 | 2010-11-10T14:42:41.973 | 2 | 3833 | <p>Are there any applications available that can be used to safely synchronize a Blackberry smart phone directly with Evolution? </p>
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12504 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T14:47:00.187 | 3 | 6117 | <p>This often happens to me. I go to install a program and it says I am missing certain dependencies. Then I run apt-get build-dep and get an error message like the following:</p>
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12512 | 1 | 12673 | 2010-11-10T15:53:05.060 | 2 | 1649 | <p>My problem is the following: Every time I try to delete a file from my auto-mounted drive Nautilus freezes up. First I get the prompt-screen saying ‘<em>Cannot move file to trash, do you want to delete immediately?</em>’. No matter what option I choose, Nautilus will freeze and stay frozen until I force it to quit. ... | 5673 | null | null | 2010-11-11T13:41:44.677 | Nautilus freezes every time I try to delete a file from my mounted disc | [
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12516 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T16:14:36.657 | 16 | 6782 | <p>I'd love to test the latest Ubuntu alpha/beta (otherwise known as "Ubuntu+1"), but I can't find it. </p>
<p>Where can I find download for the pre-releases of Ubuntu?</p>
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12523 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T17:11:38.230 | 2 | 1255 | <p>Greetings! I was able to make my Quanta touchscreen (built into a Gateway ZX4800) using <a href="http://www.bytetips.com/touchscreen-support-ubuntu/" rel="nofollow">these instructions</a> but it badly needs to be calibrated. I'd like to use <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xinput_calibrator" rel="no... | 5901 | 235 | 2010-11-10T19:05:55.957 | 2011-10-05T00:40:19.853 | How calibrate Quanta touchscreen? | [
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12525 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T17:22:14.183 | 1 | 202 | <p>I'd quite like to use Snippits, but after I carefully followed these directions:</p>
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12529 | 1 | 12530 | 2010-11-10T17:59:57.913 | 5 | 3392 | <p>My Mac mini doesn't boot without a monitor connected to it. As I've read in various forums on the internet, Mac OS X lets the Mac Mini boot without an attached monitor if SSH is turned on. Obviously, there's a setting in the EFI somewhere.</p>
<p>Is it possible to apply this setting in Linux as well?</p>
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12531 | 1 | 12595 | 2010-11-10T18:16:16.347 | 4 | 986 | <p>I've installed Maverick on a Sony Vaio VPCEA24FM. I have no sound. I've gone through the guide at <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting</a> up to the section titled, "Is the system recognizing your sound card?... | 2664 | null | null | 2010-11-11T01:53:47.273 | Maverick not recognizing my sound card | [
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12532 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T18:24:48.973 | 1 | 2621 | <p>I am trying to use Mts mblaze on ubuntu 10.10. I am getting downloading speed of more than 100kb/sec but browsing is too slow as its taking too much time for dns look up. Google.com is working perfectly fine, but when i am trying to click on any search result i am getting same issue, too slow..</p>
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12535 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T18:32:01.733 | 3 | 11850 | <p>I've this SmartCard reader:</p>
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12539 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T19:04:47.240 | 2 | 1868 | <p>Quick question: how do you set xorg options with a command?</p>
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12542 | 1 | 12548 | 2010-11-10T19:17:44.087 | 2 | 473 | <p>I am doing more network device management at work, (mainly cisco and juniper) and need tools to telnet/ssh and SCP to manage the devices. I am comfortable with the gnome terminal, but wouldn't mind having a tool that makes it easy to "bookmark" hosts, and even drag and drop scp copying would be helpful. I use Putty... | 1917 | null | null | 2010-11-10T19:49:16.123 | Cross Platform Terminal/SCP app | [
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12543 | 1 | 20907 | 2010-11-10T19:20:47.253 | 2 | 1616 | <p>Is there a way to get the colors of a gnome custom theme to KDE without matching every single setting manually? (Theres tons of different color settings in the KDE color schemes, most of which I even don't know where they are applied ... </p>
<p>I use KDE with compiz to run emerald as windows decorator.
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12545 | 1 | 12554 | 2010-11-10T19:27:42.053 | 8 | 31741 | <p>I have Ubuntu 10.04 as <strong>host</strong> machine and Ubuntu 10.10 as <strong>guest</strong> machine installed in VirtualBox. </p>
<p>I had success on port forwarding to connect to Apache of guest machine, so that now I can open in host machine web sites published in Web Server(Apache) of guest machine. </p>
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12546 | 1 | 12556 | 2010-11-10T19:33:44.693 | 6 | 13393 | <p>Why VLC (in my case ver. 1.1.4) cannot open/play mounted Video DVD images /in Ubuntu 10.10 as well? </p>
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12558 | 1 | 19801 | 2010-11-10T20:34:30.700 | 1 | 1010 | <p>Following on from <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/12397/how-to-get-acpi-working-on-a-gigabyte-ga-890gpa-ud3h">question 12397</a>, I'd still like to get suspend working on my Phenom II X6 / GA-890GPA desktop machine running current Maverick.</p>
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12560 | 1 | 12569 | 2010-11-10T20:39:44.687 | 1 | 644 | <p>Having recently installed Ubuntu on my iBook G4 (yup, power PC style), I click on all available buttons to see what happens (as Ubuntu is full of nice buttons, really).</p>
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12562 | 1 | 12571 | 2010-11-10T20:45:02.560 | 54 | 155446 | <p>I have a shared hosting. I have access to shell. The OS is Ubuntu, and I want to check whether it is the server version or desktop version.</p>
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12573 | 1 | 13746 | 2010-11-10T22:32:56.763 | 1 | 454 | <p>I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 with an Ati Radeon X1300 pro, resolution 1600x1050.
The problem is about slow speed when I use java apps.
For instance, NetBeans is unusable cause of lack of speed.</p>
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12576 | 1 | 12577 | 2010-11-10T22:53:03.573 | 31 | 50542 | <p>I am trying to create an encrypted partition, and while I format it I get the option
to choose the partition type (fat/ext2/ext3/ext4/xfs/reiserfs/minix/ntfs). Is there any benefit of choosing one filesystem over the others if I want my partition to have strong encryption?</p>
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12578 | 1 | null | 2010-11-10T22:58:59.190 | 11 | 57181 | <p>Running 11.04 beta in a Parallels 5.0 virtual machine, but this question will apply to any virtualization software.</p>
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12579 | 1 | 46796 | 2010-11-10T23:05:47.840 | 7 | 6869 | <p>I've accidentally added 'itterative' to Kile's dictionary (right click on the wrong button). Now I'd like to remove 'itterative' from the list of correct words but I can't locate the dictionary anymore (the old link in settings->configure kile ) does not link to where it used to...</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,</p>
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12581 | 1 | 12592 | 2010-11-10T23:27:24.347 | 2 | 2479 | <p>I want to run a game client on my windows machine, but route the traffic through an Ubuntu server located in another country. I know this will likely hurt latency, but that's not the main concern here.</p>
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12584 | 1 | 12585 | 2010-11-11T00:08:00.910 | 43 | 43731 | <p>The Chrome build from Google has a <strong>Chrome PDF Viewer</strong> plugin which is really nice. But, the Chromium builds don't seem to have it (nothing shows up in <code>about:plugins</code>).</p>
<p>How do I get the plugin in Chromium on Ubuntu?</p>
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12589 | 1 | 12590 | 2010-11-11T00:42:20.327 | 14 | 3526 | <p>I just browsed a site a while ago that was flagged as an "attack site" or has malware, but Firefox didn't warn before I went into it. Only when I opened a new tab with another page from the site did it block the page. </p>
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12597 | 1 | 12617 | 2010-11-11T02:15:18.087 | 2 | 1019 | <p>I have recently been trying to setup a wireless access point on a small ubuntu server, but the wifi card doesn't seem to be compatible. Its a Dlink DWA-552, which I was hoping would work, but the chipset doesn't seem to support what I'm trying to do.</p>
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12600 | 1 | 12605 | 2010-11-11T02:56:01.953 | 4 | 4891 | <p>I selected security updates and other updates in update manager and I clicked 'install updates'. It showed up an error like so 'Requires to install untrusted updates' and I clicked 'close', and it was the only button visible. The update manager started to build the list of updates again and it showed up 'install upd... | 2968 | 235 | 2013-06-30T13:33:33.147 | 2013-10-18T18:38:28.967 | "Requires to install untrusted updates" Error in Update Manager | [
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12601 | 1 | null | 2010-11-11T03:01:53.910 | 1 | 1704 | <p>I have multifunction printer (Epson Stylus TX101), I can print but can't scan .... any solution for my problem ? (I already try using wine and install scan program from Epson CD - not work, using simple scan and Xsane - not detected.)</p>
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12602 | 1 | null | 2010-11-11T03:10:45.803 | 13 | 9900 | <p>I have a music folder that contains about 15 other folders, each only a single level deep. Is there any way, via keyboard or other, to open the music folder in list view and expand all of the contained folders as well? I know about using * to open a nested folder, but that only opens the immediate children of of the... | 2664 | 721 | 2010-11-11T06:37:37.650 | 2012-08-12T18:22:57.697 | How can I expand all folders while in the list view? | [
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12607 | 1 | 12609 | 2010-11-11T05:05:54.653 | 4 | 3065 | <p>While experimenting with sending virtual keystrokes, things got seriously hung up! I powered off, When the system restarted all window decoration was missing, and all fancy compiz graphics was missing.</p>
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12611 | 1 | null | 2010-11-11T05:37:34.857 | 10 | 1074 | <p>I'm using PiTiVi to edit a long lecture, and I'd like to split it into manageable chunks, then rearrange the pieces. However, I don't see a good way to do that in PiTiVi; apparently, I would have to cut a clip out, discard everything else, and save the clip for each clip I want to extract. Is there an Ubuntu applica... | 108 | null | null | 2014-03-01T19:56:51.340 | Application for slicing video | [
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12619 | 1 | 12622 | 2010-11-11T08:48:44.710 | 3 | 2539 | <p>How can I install <code>ghc</code> in Ubuntu 10.10? </p>
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12621 | 1 | null | 2010-11-11T09:18:35.110 | 1 | 2078 | <p>So I have this script:</p>
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12623 | 1 | null | 2010-11-11T09:20:23.367 | 3 | 2171 | <p>Coming from Windows, so that is what my expectations are based on. I have a Ubuntu desktop edition instance running as a virtual machine on a server. I would like to use it as my primary open source dev environment but the VNC tools I have used don't seem to be as rich as "Remote Desktop Connection" in Windows.</p... | 5013 | 527764 | 2017-03-11T20:20:25.723 | 2017-03-11T20:20:25.723 | Remote Desktop client advice | [
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12630 | 1 | 12655 | 2010-11-11T10:02:04.820 | 1 | 545 | <p>This seems a very simple problem but it's driving me nuts. I'm trying to mount two ext4 partitions at boot time with /etc/fstab.(They are written differently because I read in a forum that there were some problems mounting by uuid)</p>
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12632 | 1 | null | 2010-11-11T10:12:59.787 | 5 | 1094 | <p>How I can deploy Edubuntu from one machine to many machines in the same domain and authenticate to Windows Active Directory?</p>
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12633 | 1 | null | 2010-11-11T10:15:49.690 | 2 | 2226 | <p>When I unmount usb in nautilus elementary(using unmount button) sidebar it restarts rather than unmounting !</p>
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12634 | 1 | null | 2010-11-11T10:19:20.153 | 2 | 3109 | <p>How to change screen/backlight brightness on Samsung N140 Plus? I tried xbacklight, but is says it can't see a backlighted out. The install is out-of-box Ubuntu 10.10 desktop. So how do I change the brightness?</p>
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12646 | 1 | 12649 | 2010-11-11T11:27:01.970 | 0 | 150 | <p>Will Ubuntu 10.04/10.10 work on a <a href="http://www.toshiba-india.com/laptop/satellite-L640D.html" rel="nofollow">Toshiba L640D</a>? I mean, I am going to install it on Sunday, but just wanted to know before hand if I will encounter any problems (read ATi). I looked up the <a href="http://webapps.ubuntu.com/certif... | 3778 | null | null | 2010-11-11T12:06:18.537 | Is Ubuntu 10.04 compatible with Toshiba L640D | [
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12647 | 1 | 12739 | 2010-11-11T11:42:15.513 | 57 | 131820 | <p>I've recently set up ubuntu-server on Amazon EC2. I would like to use it as my git server, so I could store my repos there. </p>
<p>So, where can I find some detailed instructions of how to setup git on ubuntu server? All these SSH keys and stuff like that, multiple users, etc.</p>
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12651 | 1 | 13059 | 2010-11-11T12:10:25.367 | 0 | 841 | <p>Well I had some problems with update so I'll post solution. </p>
<p>I use Dell Studio 1555. </p>
<p>My symptoms were that after reboot screen flickered and then I got console login prompt.
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12654 | 1 | 12657 | 2010-11-11T12:21:43.950 | 10 | 8780 | <p>Let's say I'm away from home, ssh-ing on my home computer. For any reason, I need it rebooted.</p>
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12659 | 1 | null | 2010-11-11T12:39:37.963 | 2 | 1018 | <p>Since I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my PC, I have eclipse crashing every hour or more without apparent action.
In the logs, I see that the cause is related to JAVA :</p>
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12661 | 1 | null | 2010-11-11T12:42:49.533 | 0 | 990 | <p>If I attach an USB keyboard (I usually do it before turning the computer on), then detach the keyboard and attach an USB HDD, it takes very long for the HDD to be detected and mounted and after all it works only as USB 1.1. Is there a way to make it work as a correct USB 2.0 port again without rebooting?</p>
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12674 | 1 | 12934 | 2010-11-11T13:43:41.583 | 0 | 1009 | <p>I have an apache web server running PHP. I am trying to make a connection from apache server to a database server running mysql server. Heres a run down of the settings in place. </p>
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12682 | 1 | 12706 | 2010-11-11T14:55:17.577 | 5 | 8758 | <p>The following applies to Lucid 10.04<br>
It happens on my "real" computer and <strong>also</strong> in a VirtualBox VM... </p>
<p>(UPDATE) I just now installed Maverick 10.10 to a VM... and almost the same thing happens!<br>
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12683 | 1 | 12688 | 2010-11-11T15:09:44.077 | 5 | 4202 | <p>I currently have a Synaptics touchpad with only few classic multitouch features (2 finger scroll, right click). By installing the respective testing suite, I saw that it doesn't accept my touchpad as input device. I want to buy a newer notebook and would like to benefit of touch-related features (window management, ... | null | 83107 | 2012-08-13T17:03:46.547 | 2012-08-13T17:17:57.623 | How to use touch-gesture-recognition-stack on multitouch-enabled touchpads? | [
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12689 | 1 | null | 2010-11-11T16:09:01.693 | 0 | 2235 | <p>So, I recently purchased a new 23" monitor for my PC. However, I can't use it with the PC currently as I am waiting on a replacement heatsink. In the mean time, I wanted to use it with my Dell laptop. I hooked it up to the VGA port, and it seems to be working properly.</p>
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12690 | 1 | null | 2010-11-11T16:12:42.587 | 6 | 4850 | <p>I have one of those underpowered netbooks with Lubuntu. I also have an iPod Touch. I'd like the best of both worlds. So I would like to create an active html wallpaper with beautiful little squared icons to launch my webapps through Chromium/Firefox.</p>
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12697 | 1 | 159699 | 2010-11-11T16:45:44.917 | 16 | 13253 | <p>I want to disable a bunch of upstart jobs here. I know how to make a upstart job. And also I know how to stop manually a job. However, I can't find a sample where I turn a automatically job into a manually job. That is, I want the job to be started only when the user activate, for instance running this command (as r... | 5950 | 5950 | 2013-04-03T20:36:26.257 | 2015-12-13T13:13:28.057 | How to set a Upstart job to start manually? | [
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12699 | 1 | 817725 | 2010-11-11T16:55:36.113 | 26 | 16070 | <p>I want to revert a file in <code>/etc/</code> back to its originally-installed form. I have edited the file since it was installed. How can I revert this config file? Apt is smart enough <em>not</em> to overwrite edited config files, so how do I tell it that I <em>want</em> it to do so?</p>
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12703 | 1 | 12704 | 2010-11-11T17:23:55.617 | 5 | 803 | <p>I have been trying to install MySQL on Ubuntu 10.10 and just can't get it to work. I installed it by running <code>sudo apt-get install mysql-server</code> and once that was done, when I try <code>mysql</code> I get the message:</p>
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12709 | 1 | 14770 | 2010-11-11T18:31:59.150 | 2 | 806 | <p>Using maverick ubuntu with added kubuntu-desktop:</p>
<p>I look at KDE systemsettings in the multimedia section. Under phonon backend it says I use xine. No option to add or change anything here. </p>
<p>Now gnome uses gstreamer and pulseaudio ... </p>
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12710 | 1 | null | 2010-11-11T18:33:07.310 | 5 | 16768 | <p>I'm looking for a How-to for installing JBoss on Ubuntu 10.10.</p>
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12716 | 1 | 12804 | 2010-11-11T19:04:18.873 | 3 | 2796 | <p>Is there any application to change the complete look of KDE like a theme in gnome?
Without changing the colors, icons, styles, backgrounds, decorators and so forth individually but in one process instead? </p>
<p>Something like a theme manager? </p>
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12717 | 1 | null | 2010-11-11T19:16:10.220 | 2 | 386 | <p>Let's assume that I have a portable storage device that I use on multiple machines (running GNOME and otherwise, but let's focus on GNOME + Nautilus). Is there any way to set an icon for a folder in such a way that the icon will be stored (hidden) within the folder and displayed automatically on multiple machines?</... | 4661 | 4661 | 2010-11-24T12:43:03.997 | 2010-11-24T12:43:03.997 | How can I set portable icons in Nautilus? | [
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12718 | 1 | 12790 | 2010-11-11T19:25:47.960 | 7 | 28435 | <p>How to fix upside-down picture produced by web camera in Asus K52F (1.3 Mpix, don't know the model) laptop (Intel i3 M350, Intel video, Ubuntu 10.10) ?</p>
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12720 | 1 | null | 2010-11-11T19:43:47.090 | 1 | 1523 | <p>My laptop PC is a HP G5055EA and I tried some scripts and applications to disable its touchpad, but no one works permanently: some of this software disables touchpad only for a few minutes and others does nothing at all!</p>
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12734 | 1 | 12736 | 2010-11-11T21:08:24.220 | 17 | 7874 | <p>I would like to manage my bank accounts in a secure manner on Ubuntu.</p>
<p>I saw several applications in the <em>Software Centre</em>, but I don't know which one to choose. I don't need fancy features like stock options. I just have regular accounts which I want to follow, I don't want complicated stuff.</p>
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12735 | 1 | 12738 | 2010-11-11T21:12:12.523 | 2 | 437 | <p>I have a notebook display and vga connected display to expand my desktopview.</p>
<p>Virtual desktops on linux are very well and easy to switch, but I need at least two displays.</p>
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12743 | 1 | 12746 | 2010-11-11T22:17:18.043 | 6 | 574 | <p>The icons on the Unity launcher are square and contain the icon image and have a coloured background. The icons have different colours as their backgrounds (see screenshot). How does Unity decide what colour this should be?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pogak.png" alt="Unity Launcher"></p>
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"body": "<p>Looks like it's using the average (RGB) of the colors of the icon.</p>\n\n<p>Take a look at the <a href=\"http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~unity-team/unity/trunk/annotate/head%3A/unity/icon-postprocessor.vala#L196\" rel=\"nofollow\">upstream code</a> for details.</p>\n",
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12744 | 1 | 12747 | 2010-11-11T22:17:19.263 | 0 | 1120 | <p>Am struggling to install vmtools on a ubuntu 10.04 server guest on my esxi server. I have tried the "Install VM Tools" option but that does nothing. I have tried running the apt-get install vmware-tools but get the message that there are no packages. Has anyone managed to do this as it is driving me nuts?</p>
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"body": "<p>When you use the \"Install VM Tools\" action a virtual media should be available from the cdrom from the guest OS (the cdrom is attached to the vmware tools iso).\nBecause you are using a server install (no cdrom auto mount magic) you will need to manually mount the cdrom:</p>\n\n<pr... | [
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12745 | 1 | 54933 | 2010-11-11T22:21:34.897 | 15 | 2783 | <p>I've ended up with two password keyrings - one from old laptop and one from current installation.</p>
<p>How do I merge the two password keyrings into one so that I don't have to unlock both of them at login?</p>
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"text": "If you use the same password for your keyrings as for your login, you shouldn't have to unlock them.",
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"body": "<p>When you remove the password from your keyrings, gnome keyring manager will save the files as clear text. You can edit those files with a text editor and copy the keys around. Set a password to have the keyring files encrypted again.</p>\n\n<p>I suggest you backup your keyring files ... | [
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"body": "<p>What format do you have these keyrings in? If you are managing them both in the Passwords and Encryption Keys dialog, can you not select all the keys in the \"old laptop\" keyring, right-click and choose Copy, and then Paste them into the other keyring?</p>\n\n<p>A document d... | null | null | null | null | null |
12748 | 1 | 12754 | 2010-11-11T22:37:26.973 | 3 | 2791 | <p>I sometimes disconect my harddisks for the weeks while only using the internet and I use the Ubuntu Live CD. But every time it needs something while in live desktop it accelerates and makes a lot of noise, also the acceleration takes too long. I want lower drive speed than acceleration lags, because acceleration lag... | 4782 | 3037 | 2011-01-06T06:38:27.253 | 2015-12-29T15:34:31.560 | How can I limit CD drive speed while on the live CD to avoid drive noise? | [
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"text": "why don't you use Ubuntu installed on pendrive?",
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"body": "<p>well, if you don't want to buy a pendrive, do the following lines:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install setcd\nsetcd -x 1\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Change <code>-x 1</code> to <code>-x [number]</code>. Higher the number, faster the drive.</p>\n\n<p>But you should remember, that CD works... | [
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12750 | 1 | null | 2010-11-11T22:48:08.023 | 2 | 2254 | <p>A contact sheet is a image containing the name and a the small version of a group of images, like this:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZGnNP.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZGnNP.png" alt="example of a contact sheet" /></a></p>
<p>Which is the best program to do it from ... | 3999 | 1037999 | 2021-09-08T07:00:54.760 | 2021-09-08T07:00:54.760 | Which contact sheet generator can be scripted? | [
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"body": "<p><code>montage</code> (part of the <code>imagemagick</code> package) can do this.</p>\n\n<p>The options are exhastive so i thoroughly recommend running <code>man montage</code> but here's an example <a href=\"http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/is-there-an-e... | null | null | null | null | null |
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