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13112 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T00:14:33.757 | 4 | 2284 | <p>here's the output after trying to run banshee from terminal:</p>
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** (/usr/lib/banshee-1/Banshee.exe:7909): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /usr/lib/banshee-1/Banshee.Services.dll could not be loaded:
Assembly: glib-sharp (assemblyref_index=11)
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13114 | 1 | 13128 | 2010-11-14T01:06:27.540 | 4 | 184 | <p>With Banshee 1.8 you can add radio stations to the dedicated panel. The 'Add a station' button gives the possibility to indicate the stream address, a name, a genre and so on.</p>
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13115 | 1 | 13116 | 2010-11-14T01:29:04.833 | 6 | 582 | <p>I use to write a lot in many different languages, and I frequently use spelling checkers to correct my texts. But switching the settings manually each time is a loss of time.</p>
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13119 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T01:50:54.230 | 0 | 182 | <p>I mainly use my netbook for writing and browsing. So I have set the brightness to a minimum level. Sometimes when I watch videos I increase the brightness using hotkeys. But when increased after few seconds it reverts back to the default level I have set. Is there any way in which the brightness level I have set usi... | 2968 | null | null | 2010-11-14T03:10:14.723 | Cannot do temporary change in brightness | [
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13120 | 1 | 13134 | 2010-11-14T01:55:51.310 | 5 | 2979 | <p>In my video folder I have some music clips in .flv I would have liked to tag with information as artist, song title, album, cover, etc.</p>
<p>Is this operation possible ? Which programs are able to do that graphically (equivalent of EasyTAG)?</p>
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13121 | 1 | 13126 | 2010-11-14T01:57:07.143 | 2 | 101 | <p>I saw something similar in Windows for Ubuntu at <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemRestore" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemRestore</a>.</p>
<p>I was wondering if it has been available now?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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13131 | 1 | 13148 | 2010-11-14T02:57:27.597 | 8 | 380 | <p>When I go to System -> Preferences -> About me, I am able to give all sorts of informations, like my name, my e-mail address, an avatar, <em>et cætera</em>.</p>
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13133 | 1 | 14406 | 2010-11-14T03:18:24.360 | 9 | 4044 | <p>I often use the Gnome Character Map accessory to find characters I didn't know, with a view to surprising friends with exclusive drawings. However the program is not complete and lacks some characters like the Mongol or the Birman ones.</p>
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13135 | 1 | 13138 | 2010-11-14T03:53:15.343 | 2 | 282 | <p>Good evening all, </p>
<p>I am having a problem with RhythmBox on Ubuntu 10.10. I freshly installed Ubuntu almost a week ago and everything was great right off the bat. However, tonight I am having a small issue. In RhythmBox, I went into the Preferences section and went to check the quality level of the the CD ... | 5614 | 34576 | 2013-08-10T05:26:43.170 | 2013-08-10T05:26:43.170 | Missing CD Quality, Lossy profile in Preferred Formats in RhythmBox | [
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13137 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T04:18:38.207 | 8 | 703 | <p>How can I get here using keyboard shortcuts?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/gBMlN.png" alt="screenshot"></p>
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13140 | 1 | 13311 | 2010-11-14T05:15:58.237 | 8 | 30984 | <p>I am using Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. I installed it using the feature 'Install within Windows'. I got a simple though difficult problem.</p>
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<p>The touchpad and external mouse movements are working fine.</p>
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13141 | 1 | 13143 | 2010-11-14T05:26:39.400 | 7 | 10761 | <p>I want Ubuntu to ask for my password when I log in but not lock me every time I am away for 5 minutes.</p>
<p>How can I disable the automatic lock?</p>
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13142 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T05:29:50.893 | 2 | 8119 | <p>The following error shows every time I sign into Gmail. On the contrary, I can open Gmail in Windows.</p>
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13144 | 1 | 13146 | 2010-11-14T05:47:14.490 | 15 | 10292 | <p>I've been looking into using the Ubuntu typeface for a logo. The logo is for a web site unrelated to ubuntu and open source software. I'm wondering whether the license allows this, and if so, whether there are any limitations?</p>
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13150 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T07:10:01.187 | 8 | 19622 | <p>Installed Ubuntu Server 10.04 on an old laptop and I noticed that the system is trying to show the CLI below my screen. This means that if I run a script or a program with a bunch of output, once it is done, I have to press return several times to bring the output to the point where I can actually see it on the scre... | 5456 | 5456 | 2010-11-16T04:31:19.317 | 2013-06-09T08:59:57.077 | adjust resolution on Ubuntu Server 10.04? | [
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13154 | 1 | 13167 | 2010-11-14T07:37:31.570 | 1 | 302 | <p>In System --> Preferences --> Visual Effects it always says None.
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13157 | 1 | 25017 | 2010-11-14T07:54:06.110 | 2 | 1267 | <p>Having recently moved to Linux/Ubuntu, I'm looking for a good editor, and <strong>GNU Emacs</strong> seems to fit the bill. </p>
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13163 | 1 | 13164 | 2010-11-14T09:15:09.977 | 1 | 203 | <p>I have an old Toshiba laptop with a SMC2632W Wireless PCMCIA Card. Unable to connect to a network under Ubuntu 7.10 (using Wubi as it cannot boot from a CD), however it works in Windows XP.</p>
<p>How can I get this working?</p>
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13166 | 1 | 13185 | 2010-11-14T10:20:01.240 | 3 | 942 | <p>I have eeepc 1005ha, and want to have the ability to enlarge and scroll down/up/left/right with the pad, is it possible?</p>
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13170 | 1 | 13171 | 2010-11-14T10:30:58.287 | 6 | 1149 | <p>In Nautilus by default I have very nice default previews of different file types, for example JPEG, Png, Svg, text or PDF.</p>
<p>Is it possible to make Nautilus show preview thumbnails also of OpenOffice.org documents?</p>
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13172 | 1 | 729971 | 2010-11-14T10:31:53.433 | 6 | 7800 | <p>Is there a proper way to run more than one tomcat instance on an Ubuntu server? </p>
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13177 | 1 | 44906 | 2010-11-14T11:05:14.263 | 13 | 3788 | <p>I opted to encrypt my Home during install, and now I would like to access my data from a LiveCD, unfortunately I'm having trouble following these <a href="http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10050388" rel="noreferrer">instructions</a>. I get the error "mounting eCryptfs: [-2] No such file or directory... | 3332 | null | null | 2017-07-22T20:07:53.913 | How do I recover data from an encrypted Home directory | [
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13179 | 1 | 13189 | 2010-11-14T11:48:36.970 | 6 | 1060 | <p>I'm planning to start a new project. However, I can't find a really simple documentation to getting started with launchpad.net.</p>
<p><strong>What should I do to create a new project?</strong> </p>
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13180 | 1 | 13764 | 2010-11-14T11:53:34.380 | 3 | 930 | <p>Can someone familiar with Ardour 2.8 please make a video / youtube guide showing precisely how to use SC3 Side Chain Compression? I've read every guide online currently and side chain is simply not working, very frustrating. <a href="http://ardour.org/node/1013" rel="nofollow">http://ardour.org/node/1013</a> seems... | 6060 | 6060 | 2010-11-16T20:07:49.693 | 2014-10-12T12:03:52.987 | Side Chain in Ardour | [
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13181 | 1 | 13190 | 2010-11-14T11:55:01.007 | 3 | 2206 | <p>Maybe present some extension?? I have use banshee 1.9.0 </p>
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13184 | 1 | 13376 | 2010-11-14T12:00:12.360 | 1 | 7686 | <p>I installed <strong>Windows server 2008</strong> and <strong>SQL Server 2008</strong> on VirtualBox, now I want to remotely connect to it via php.
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13197 | 1 | 13385 | 2010-11-14T12:56:37.220 | 23 | 5575 | <p>The application in question does some action (here connecting audio to network streams) and runs minimized if these actions were successful. Therefore a status icon is needed to display the state of the connection (e.g. CONNECTED/DISCONNECTED). Only when clicking the icon the application window will open to give acc... | 3940 | 235 | 2012-04-28T01:32:58.230 | 2013-10-16T21:30:32.703 | How to program a status icon that will display in Ubuntu as well as in other distributions? | [
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13200 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T13:19:29.860 | 2 | 644 | <p>I have four drives. I want that whenever user tries to mount drive it should ask for password. I know password protecting ALL drives is possible through user previlages but I dont want it for all drives. I want it for single drive.</p>
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13201 | 1 | 13529 | 2010-11-14T13:24:58.720 | 0 | 1255 | <p>I have heard and read many rumors about Skype but very few tangible informations. Skype is said to be engaged in censorship in China according to the <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SkypeEthics" rel="nofollow">official Ubuntu Wiki</a>, and to have very serious security threats according to <a href="http://www.01net... | 5592 | 866 | 2010-11-16T16:55:57.877 | 2010-11-16T17:05:12.723 | What is the 'Dark Side' of Skype? | [
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13204 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T13:57:42.900 | 3 | 577 | <p>I installed ubuntu server 10.04 on a PC with two HD drives 500 GB each. I used raid1 to provide data protection. The <code>/boot</code> partition is installed also on a mirrored device <code>/dev/md0</code>.</p>
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13205 | 1 | 25589 | 2010-11-14T14:05:20.400 | 6 | 10500 | <p>I am attempting to debug a SIGSEGV on PHP on my Ubuntu 9.10.</p>
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13211 | 1 | 13237 | 2010-11-14T15:07:13.223 | 4 | 2998 | <p>My 10.04 machine uses three partitions: 5 GB for <code>/boot</code>, 25 GB for <code>/</code> and 120 GB for <code>/home</code>. <code>/</code> and <code>/home</code> are encrypted with LUKS passphrase.</p>
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13212 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T15:17:02.163 | 4 | 3266 | <p>I have deleted a partition which had an incomplete ubuntu install using Windows 7 partition manager.</p>
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13216 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T15:36:56.667 | 6 | 14541 | <p>openSUSE is known by it's YaST control center, a powerful tool that centralizes all the system configurations. It makes it a lot simpler to configure the system, why doesn't Ubuntu make use of such a thing?</p>
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13220 | 1 | 13421 | 2010-11-14T15:50:06.353 | 5 | 1746 | <p>I've seen many topics on the subjects but they are too complicated for me. I'm not confident in compiling stuff.
Is there some headache-free way to make it work under Ubuntu?
Where do I start?</p>
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It doesn't seem to work.</p>
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13224 | 1 | 13226 | 2010-11-14T16:17:04.053 | 26 | 22900 | <p>When I create a new document aimed at containing only plain text, I am not obliged by Ubuntu to add a .txt extension to its name. It works indeed very well: gedit opens it without problem, understanding very well that it is only text.</p>
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13227 | 1 | 13262 | 2010-11-14T17:02:09.553 | 4 | 751 | <p>After updating to Ubuntu 10.10 (Gnome), KMyMoney now opens in fullscreen mode by default, and I can't find any option to get out of fullscreen. I've tried pressing F11, and I've taken a pretty good look through the view options, but I can't find any way to turn off fullscreen mode. After a little looking, it seems... | 2079 | 2079 | 2011-05-23T19:15:21.100 | 2011-05-23T19:15:21.100 | How do I un-fullscreen KMyMoney? | [
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13232 | 1 | 13934 | 2010-11-14T17:14:34.267 | 7 | 7312 | <p>My evil plan is to serve rdp from an AWS ubuntu instance so I can have a permanent xubuntu desktop as I roam from windows computer to windows computer (or any computer really). It is as easy as running mstsc -v {aws.public.url}.</p>
<p>How, through, ssh, can I have the instance serve a remote desktop?</p>
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13235 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T17:21:40.217 | 2 | 1486 | <p>I'm using Maverick "10.10" Meercat on a HP Pavilion tx2110. This machine has an NVidia Go6150 graphics card, and sports a 1280x800 display. I have an external monitor which can do 1280x1024 resolution. FWIW I'm using openbox as my window manager; as I understand it this shouldn't be a factor.</p>
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13238 | 1 | 13247 | 2010-11-14T17:52:04.157 | 11 | 5867 | <p>When I am watching videos on youtube and toggle the screen to full screen or switch back from full screen to normal mode, the video stops and sometimes stops loading or starts loading from the start again.
I installed ubuntu-restricted-extras so I have flash installed.</p>
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13246 | 1 | 13256 | 2010-11-14T18:38:40.757 | 7 | 604 | <p>I have a laptop with 4GB RAM, but when I first set it up, I had no plans to hibernate so I gave it 2GB swap. I don't want to use a swap file, so is it safe to resize the swap partition (and of course the main ext4 partition)?</p>
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13248 | 1 | 13569 | 2010-11-14T18:44:46.383 | 7 | 1059 | <p>My laptop has a broken screen (for a while now) and unfortunately I won't be able to fix/replace it for a little while longer than I hoped. Is there some way that I can get VT's to show on the external monitor? (I can't ssh into it, I don't have another computer to do that with).</p>
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13249 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T18:45:25.280 | 3 | 603 | <p>I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 tablet multitouch computer with a docking station to use DVD player. Can Ubuntu 10.10 or other versions recognize my docking station and DVD player without any special configuration? --This is very important when I install the OS through DVD or CDs.</p>
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13250 | 1 | 13252 | 2010-11-14T18:47:54.890 | 4 | 1685 | <p>I'm talking about resizing my root partition (/), while the system is on (I know that's usually impossible, but I'm just hoping there is some way to do it). I want to know if there is some way I can boot the system up in read-only mode (without a live cd, just in case), and resize /.</p>
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13251 | 1 | 13289 | 2010-11-14T18:51:43.773 | 1 | 321 | <p>I want to enable Hybrid suspend on my system. Can someone point me to the right info? Plus, I read something about it not working, but is that really true? Or just a system by system issue? Thanks for any information.</p>
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13253 | 1 | 13258 | 2010-11-14T19:05:00.417 | 5 | 131 | <p>I just started my new project right now, however I can't find any documentation on how I should proceed to accept translations on it.</p>
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13254 | 1 | 15026 | 2010-11-14T19:21:31.327 | 18 | 76236 | <p>So I do a vanilla install of 10.04 Lucid Lynx, and login. The display resolution is clearly smaller than it should be.</p>
<p>I did a quick Google search, and then run <code>xrandr</code>:<br>
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13255 | 1 | 13261 | 2010-11-14T19:23:37.113 | 27 | 4905 | <p>I have a new project hosted at launchpad.net. My project can be useful for both: Ubuntu and Debian. However, I can't find a documentation to start host my project at launchpad.net and get my package mirrored back to Debian.</p>
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13259 | 1 | 13282 | 2010-11-14T20:15:27.337 | 2 | 2847 | <p>Today when booting my computer (10.04 32-bit, System76 lemur) Ubuntu ran the hard drive scan -- as it was finishing the screen went black with this message:</p>
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13265 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T20:42:30.500 | 16 | 32939 | <p>I recently (re)stumbled upon this: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2010/06/linux-trojan-goes-unnoticed-for-year.html">Linux Trojan Goes Unnoticed For Almost A Year</a> (Unreal IRCd) </p>
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13266 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T20:53:12.600 | 6 | 1830 | <p>Maby my question is not related to this forum, but I want to ask. I want to change my OS from Windows XP to Ubuntu 10.6. But I like some programs in Windows, so is there a GOOD programs in Linux(Ubuntu) to change this list of programs? And I'll be apprishiated for some links where I can download GOOD software for Li... | null | null | null | 2010-11-15T22:30:56.140 | Moving from Windows to Ubuntu. What programs to use? | [
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13270 | 1 | null | 2010-11-14T21:27:36.990 | 3 | 862 | <p>Does anybody knows why Ubuntu's NM does'n use native implementations for networking ? </p>
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13271 | 1 | 13276 | 2010-11-14T21:30:29.820 | 2 | 907 | <p>I heard that we can now run Evernote with Wine. May I know what is the configuration to do so ?</p>
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Wine Configuration (Win XP, Win 7) :
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<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
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13278 | 1 | 13280 | 2010-11-14T22:07:49.077 | 20 | 70335 | <p>Is there any easy and open source backup/restore solution for installed (after clear install) Ubuntu system, like Acronis Home backup ? </p>
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13285 | 1 | 13295 | 2010-11-15T00:08:43.733 | 1 | 1446 | <p>I am running the latest version of Ubuntu. Going back at least 3 versions and across updates and re-installations I have never and can still not get open office's spell check to work. This renders the package almost unusable.</p>
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13287 | 1 | 13291 | 2010-11-15T00:12:01.807 | 2 | 1085 | <p>I am not sure if its only me or someone else has experienced this as well. I moved to Ubuntu from windows and everything is rocking except the touchpad mouse sensitivity. I have tried keeping it to a low level but its still super quick. How do I make is move across the screen just like windows.</p>
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13290 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T00:22:52.047 | 0 | 432 | <p>I am preparing to make a significant investment into a new desktop computer. It will be used for work and play. I would like to see if any embers of the community have used any of the components and if anyone can let me know if these will work ok with Ubuntu.</p>
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13294 | 1 | 43812 | 2010-11-15T00:47:34.687 | 7 | 1376 | <p>I'd like to know if Clutterflow can be enabled by default every time I open the Nautilus file manager. It's a really good looking plug-in.</p>
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13296 | 1 | 13297 | 2010-11-15T00:57:58.513 | 131 | 106600 | <p>I was wondering if it was possible to check what package another package is a dependency of.</p>
<p>For example, jetty is mysteriously installed and running on my system and I'd like to check whether it is a dependency of something else.</p>
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13298 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T01:07:20.840 | 9 | 3800 | <p>Please post your less-known, but useful apt commands involving apt-*, dpkg, or aptitude.</p>
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13300 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T01:24:50.547 | 0 | 171 | <p>The short of it: what version of libfreetype does Maverick use? I'm currently using Lucid and it has libfreetype6 2.3.11. </p>
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13301 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T01:38:36.427 | 1 | 1228 | <p>Can't the developers finally in 2011 move away from the flawed concepts of selections and private clipboards in applications and create a working clipboard service under X window system? </p>
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13309 | 1 | 13310 | 2010-11-15T02:15:23.953 | 1 | 252 | <p>is it Unity already preinstalled inside ubuntu netbook edition?</p>
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13312 | 1 | 13314 | 2010-11-15T02:43:27.357 | 3 | 1352 | <p>preferably no Java or Mono</p>
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13313 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T03:27:05.353 | 7 | 23200 | <p>I browsed through the default set of screensavers and the most are ugly, a couple are decent and the only quality ones are Flurry, GLSlideshow, MetaBalls are PopSquares. Where does one find more nice screensavers for Xubuntu? APT repository or xfce-look.org doesn't seem to have it. Or would you recommend running gno... | null | 235 | 2010-11-15T03:41:57.230 | 2017-02-18T21:22:00.813 | Where does one get pretty screensavers for Xubuntu (xfce, xscreensaver)? | [
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13317 | 1 | 13324 | 2010-11-15T04:21:40.797 | 59 | 39583 | <p>Sometimes I want the last line of a text file to be a simple string of text with <strong>no newline</strong> character appended: ...eg. to concatenate another file to it. </p>
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13318 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T04:38:37.953 | 2 | 3842 | <p>A simple Microsoft Optical mouse 1000 (USB) that runs perfectly on Windows, freezes up under Ubuntu 10.x and Fedora 1x after about 10 minutes of using the OS.<br><br>Rebooting, the same problem comes up again in a few minutes.</p>
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13327 | 1 | 13342 | 2010-11-15T06:09:22.177 | 8 | 3845 | <p>I have read a lot of talk about how OpenSUSE is using a "Desktop" kernel. This kernel utilizes a 1000hz timer and full preemption among other things. The feature request here goes into more detail about the subject.
<a href="https://features.opensuse.org/305694">Open Fate OpenSUSE Desktop Kernel</a></p>
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13334 | 1 | 13338 | 2010-11-15T07:19:47.943 | 1 | 673 | <p>I have three mails boxes. While downloading mails with large attachments, thunderbirds freeze (going gray). anything is fine when downloading is finished but by the way i can't read my mails in this time.</p>
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13335 | 1 | 13422 | 2010-11-15T07:47:14.543 | 0 | 3432 | <p>I run Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit desktop edition and I have Panasonic networked printer KX - MX2000 printer. </p>
<p>There are no 64 bit drivers available from Panasonic for Ubuntu/debian. They only have 32 bit drivers for RHEL :( So - there is no way I can print from my computer to that networked printer directly.</p>
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13337 | 1 | 13343 | 2010-11-15T08:48:23.887 | 18 | 17873 | <p>Is there a command, or package that can be used to calculate how much power my server is drawing? I am interested in knowing how much my server is costing me to run. I know the calculations of how much it would cost if drawing the full 300 Watts from the PSU, but I believe that this is unlikely to be the reality of ... | 4241 | 169736 | 2014-02-17T23:42:17.977 | 2021-01-10T07:18:30.397 | How do I measure server power consumption? | [
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13347 | 1 | 13373 | 2010-11-15T10:39:48.243 | 1 | 3608 | <p>Just installed fresh ubuntu 10.10 on my eee pc 1215n and found that multitouch doesn't work properly?
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13348 | 1 | 13349 | 2010-11-15T11:00:15.853 | 300 | 423577 | <p>There's got to be some simple way I'm missing, but for the life of me I can't find it. How do I check my version of GNOME-Shell?</p>
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13350 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T11:27:46.480 | 3 | 1524 | <p>I'm looking for a color duplex printer for Ubuntu. My favourites are Epson B-310N and Brother HL 4050CDN. The latter should be work with linux, but I'd prefer the first one, because printing costs are cheaper. </p>
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13351 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T11:35:32.493 | 0 | 2975 | <p>I am looking for Horoscope or Astrology software in ubuntu especially for 9.04 or 10.04 version.</p>
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13352 | 1 | 13355 | 2010-11-15T11:36:00.890 | 0 | 815 | <p>There is no deb package. How can I install it anyway?
<a href="http://www.steel-storm.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.steel-storm.com/</a></p>
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13359 | 1 | 13600 | 2010-11-15T12:38:47.383 | 6 | 9385 | <p>I'm running 2 ubuntu 9.10 servers. I have to synchronize the changes between these two machines. The following are the directories I've to synchronize:</p>
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13362 | 1 | 13367 | 2010-11-15T12:59:02.600 | 7 | 3717 | <p>I'd like to have my own Ubuntu-based home network. That means, that I can access all my multimedia files from each computer.</p>
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13363 | 1 | 13366 | 2010-11-15T12:59:50.957 | 66 | 163773 | <p>I am working on my project using network simulator2. I installed it and everything is fine. I attempted to create a symbolic link between this installation and <code>/usr/bin</code>, so I could invoke the software by running <code>ns</code> from the command-line. Namely, I ran:</p>
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13370 | 1 | 13371 | 2010-11-15T13:49:50.720 | 3 | 3405 | <p>Pretty new to Ubuntu, I tried to change some keyboard shortcut.</p>
<p>So I assigned under the System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>T</kbd> to an operation.</p>
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13382 | 1 | 13586 | 2010-11-15T14:59:00.310 | 103 | 129904 | <p>I want to download a file from an active SSH session. In many cases I probably <em>could</em> just use SFTP, <code>scp</code>, <code>rsync</code> et al but there are times where I have elevated permissions on the remote server in a way I cannot use these methods.</p>
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13384 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T15:23:16.767 | 3 | 192 | <p>I logon to my server successfully and can transfer files off the server to my desktop. But I can't put any files back. I get a "permission denied" error. I know I have full access to the network server because on a mac after I mount the server, I can do whatever I want. How do I change permissions?</p>
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13389 | 1 | 21847 | 2010-11-15T16:52:19.257 | 1 | 488 | <p>I have this script (or rather a set of commands which has permission to execute) to enable <strong>two finger scrolling</strong> and <strong>two finger tap = right click</strong>
The script is located in <strong>/home/gaurav/Multigesture/multigesture</strong>.</p>
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13390 | 1 | 13392 | 2010-11-15T16:55:30.660 | 6 | 12518 | <p>Ive decided to switch from my existing dual boot solution, to just running ubuntu and having windows 7 in a virtual machine for those times that it absolutely has to be windows.</p>
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13398 | 1 | 13406 | 2010-11-15T17:49:42.420 | 6 | 308 | <p>I want my screen to flash red so that it looks similar to getting hit by a rocket in Doom II, preferably using cli tools. I've seen that <a href="http://jonls.dk/redshift/" rel="nofollow" title="redshift">redshift</a> does something similar just way too slow so I tried using xrandr but couldn't figure out how to do ... | 4670 | 4670 | 2010-11-22T19:55:02.843 | 2010-11-30T02:48:14.153 | Doom-II-like red flashing screen | [
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13401 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T18:03:19.613 | 5 | 1442 | <p>I want to try Ubuntu Natty with the Unity Desktop and the Compiz Support from the PPA in qemu. But I can't get the Graphic Support to run Unity. </p>
<p>Is it possible to get compositing running with qemu?</p>
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13403 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T18:32:40.480 | 3 | 2343 | <p>I have a dual-screen setup with mu laptop screen as primary and my LCD screen as secondary placed over the laptop screen.
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13407 | 1 | 13409 | 2010-11-15T19:47:13.360 | 18 | 8663 | <p>In Nautilus, I would like to add columns displaying metadatas contained in files.</p>
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13412 | 1 | null | 2010-11-15T20:53:14.993 | 6 | 2600 | <p>I have installed XBMC (team-xbmc PPA) on my laptop (Kubuntu 10.10) and the sound from 5.1 movies isn’t downmixed correctly to stereo, even though the option is enabled. I have already tried <a href="http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=587582&postcount=286" rel="nofollow">http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=587... | 6124 | null | null | 2011-10-09T13:46:01.913 | XBMC doesn’t downmix sound from 5.1 to stereo | [
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13413 | 1 | 13414 | 2010-11-15T20:57:39.380 | 0 | 461 | <p>I recently lost all my Windows data. I tried running <strong>Photorec</strong> and I was able to recover some 18 GB of data back. Photorec threw an error after recovering 18 GB stating <strong>"Segmentation Fault"</strong>. Was it because my windows drive was hardly ever defragged? If so, what routines/precautions I... | 4627 | 5768 | 2012-07-09T13:58:26.707 | 2014-11-06T09:55:15.743 | Data recovery and defragmentation | [
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13415 | 1 | 13416 | 2010-11-15T21:20:22.940 | 21 | 35813 | <p>What exactly are <code>.run</code> files and what are they used for? I've seen a couple of those lately and I'm simply wondering what file format it is used for.</p>
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13418 | 1 | 13423 | 2010-11-15T21:38:48.870 | 6 | 747 | <p>What Windows Home Server equivalents are available for Ubuntu? I am specifically looking for file sharing, backups, media streaming etc...</p>
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13420 | 1 | 13664 | 2010-11-15T21:51:15.920 | 2 | 3717 | <p>There is new firmware available on the HP site for my printer, a HP Color LaserJet CP2025dn, but seems to be only available as a Windows executable.</p>
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13429 | 1 | 13430 | 2010-11-16T00:14:08.597 | 3 | 2897 | <p>I have a network attached storage (NAS) at home where I store pretty much all my media stuff (songs, videos, etc). I would like to mount it to a local directory in my notebook automatically every time I login at home so before mounting it I need to do a ping to see if it is answering (which means I'm home).</p>
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"body": "<p>No need for grep or anything like that, just do this:</p>\n\n<p><code>ping -c 4 foo && sudo mount ...</code></p>\n\n<p>This basically uses the fact that ping returns true if the ping works, the -c limits it to 4 pings before returning. You can also do something if pin... | null | null | null | null | null |
13433 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T01:16:36.150 | 17 | 13888 | <p>I use xset to turn off my screens like this:</p>
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<p>Is there any way to turn off a single screen when you have more than one associated with the same X display?</p>
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13439 | 1 | 13451 | 2010-11-16T02:01:14.110 | 5 | 11901 | <p>I'm running a web server and the <code>public_html</code> folder is in a windows network drive shared by samba on Ubuntu Server 10.04.</p>
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13441 | 1 | 13442 | 2010-11-16T02:43:01.750 | 84 | 309405 | <p>I have been playing around with Ubuntu installing new themes and and docks. Sometimes during the installation, whole screen just hangs. What is the best way in Ubuntu to Kill a process/application? Anything similar to Ctrl + Alt + Del of windows?</p>
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13447 | 1 | 181564 | 2010-11-16T03:11:49.233 | 123 | 184303 | <p>How can I change my default text editor from gedit to Emacs?</p>
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"body": "<p>Here is what worked in my case:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Right click on a text file.</li>\n<li>Choose "Properties" (not "Open With...")</li>\n<li>Click on the "Open With" tab.</li>\n<li>Choose your new text editor.</li>\n<li>Mark chosen text editor using a button ... | [
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