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13453 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T03:51:42.020 | 3 | 558 | <p>I have this problem:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tNlb6.png" alt="desktop with empty frame"></p>
<p><a href="http://xmages.net/storage/10/1/0/8/1/upload/f7f6b66d.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Larger image</a></p>
<p>Seems like something has frozen. This happens after every reboot now. How do I trac... | 6133 | 8844 | 2011-04-08T16:50:51.080 | 2011-04-08T16:50:51.080 | Frozen window carcass that doesn't want to leave | [
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13455 | 1 | 13618 | 2010-11-16T04:11:11.457 | 5 | 1642 | <p>Good evening all, </p>
<p>I have decided to rip my entire DVD collection to Ogg-Theora video, specifically a few different TV series' that I have so I don't have to keep digging the discs out. To do this, I have been using dvd::rip to pull the individual vob files from the disc and then using ffmpeg2theora to enco... | 5614 | 721 | 2010-11-17T20:40:51.850 | 2017-02-19T08:33:30.970 | Split ogg-theora video files without re-encoding? | [
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13456 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T04:14:29.813 | 0 | 237 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13351/what-horoscope-or-astrology-software-is-available">What Horoscope or Astrology software is available?</a> </p>
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<p>I am looking for horoscope software in ubuntu</p>
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13464 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T05:21:50.523 | 44 | 59890 | <p>Is there a way you can disable or customize the notification bubbles on Lucid?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/HGjE9.png" alt="alt text"></p>
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13469 | 1 | 15282 | 2010-11-16T06:49:29.693 | 1 | 93 | <p>Is it possible to display the current time in Empathy status, and perform simple manipulations, like </p>
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13470 | 1 | 13477 | 2010-11-16T06:58:24.633 | 3 | 75 | <p>I am running BackupPC, which backs up my laptop via rsync to another computer daily. Suppose that I upgrade one or more packages during the backup process. Is it possible that the package will be broken in the backup because some of its files came from the old version and some from the newly-upgraded version? How li... | 880 | null | null | 2010-11-16T08:42:42.860 | Can upgrading packages during an in-progress backup render the backup unusable? | [
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13474 | 1 | 13476 | 2010-11-16T08:04:06.123 | 75 | 171913 | <p>Can someone tell me how can I extract a password protected .7z file in Ubuntu server?</p>
<p>(I know the password, I just need a program to do so and an example of how to use said program...)</p>
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13479 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T09:08:50.680 | 4 | 9699 | <p>I regularly use a http proxy for blocked sites here in China.</p>
<p>However, it slows things down in general even for unblocked sites.</p>
<p>Is there an easy way of switching proxy profiles? I'd prefer not to have to go in to Network Proxy everytime, if there is.</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
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13480 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T09:12:39.653 | 1 | 9663 | <p>I am trying to monitor the USB traffic in Ubuntu 10.0.4. According to many websites, the usbmon is already included in the kernel, but typing modprobe usbmon. It will return "Can't find module".</p>
<p>Do I have to recompile the usbmon module? </p>
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13485 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T09:42:53.523 | 0 | 4716 | <p>How can I change or increase the KDE kickoff slide effect speed?</p>
<p>I don't mean when moving from one tab to another (Favourites to Applications, for instance) - I mean from menu to submenu (so clicking on "Internet" to reveal a list of internet-oriented applications, like a web browser, IM client etc.).</p>
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13487 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T10:08:12.843 | 11 | 48781 | <p>Using GNOME Mplayer everytime I play a video, I get the annoying dialog pop-out in the screenshot below.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/sYlsL.png" alt="alt text"></p>
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13493 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T11:11:47.513 | 0 | 257 | <p>I want to use twidge to connect to my identi.ca-Account. I already successfully authenticated the client against identi.ca. But if I execute <code>twidge lsrecent</code> I get the following error:</p>
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<p>What is wrong and has to be changed?</p>
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13497 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T12:29:42.673 | 2 | 551 | <p>I have a problem with maverick when resuming from hibernate. Here's a screen shot: </p>
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<p>Also I'm getting the following errors before the screen appears:</p>
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*ERROR* render ring head forced to zero ctl 00000...
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13501 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T13:54:46.093 | 1 | 774 | <p>I have a pair of the Asus HS-1000W-R wireless headphones with microphone that were working just fine with Ubuntu 10.04. But we had to move cubicles last weekend and since setting the computer back up they aren't available for me to select in the Sound Preferences Input or Output tabs. They still appear in the Hardw... | 1754 | 1067 | 2010-12-27T13:54:24.797 | 2012-03-25T08:28:53.973 | Why Audio Device shows up in Hardware but not under Input/Output? | [
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13506 | 1 | 14766 | 2010-11-16T14:48:18.097 | 5 | 1458 | <p>I've had a turbulent relationship with my media centre box. Every upgrade I perform on it seems to bring a brand new set of audio issues (the opposite of my desktop where things seem to get better and better).</p>
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13508 | 1 | 13743 | 2010-11-16T14:52:53.320 | 4 | 4033 | <p>What's the easiest way to run J2ME (Java phone apps) on Ubuntu?</p>
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13511 | 1 | 13563 | 2010-11-16T15:04:06.197 | 4 | 8285 | <p>Ive posted this here because im not sure whether its a windows or linux problem, so feel free to correct me. Ive installed windows 7 on a virtual box vm running on ubuntu, and i have then installed the virtual box guest additions. Everything seems to have worked, except for the audio, windows is reporting it does no... | 2978 | 169736 | 2014-02-25T02:53:29.227 | 2014-03-05T03:59:13.183 | no audio on windows guest after installing vbox guest additions | [
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13521 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T15:55:29.183 | 16 | 9043 | <p>There are some sites that provide books as HTML pages (e.g., legal stuff). </p>
<p>What can I use to create a PDF book from these pages, based on the already-existing structure? </p>
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13528 | 1 | 13532 | 2010-11-16T16:51:37.600 | 3 | 1866 | <p>I have a laptop which has an Intel core 2 duo processor with in-built graphics card. I have some issues with the video drivers. I want to know from where I can get latest sources code for the drivers, and also need suggestions about the best way of compiling and installing the driver.</p>
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13531 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T17:54:22.697 | 4 | 1027 | <p>How can I create a bootable CD to run on an old PC accessing an LTSP server. I have found ample documentation on installing an LTSP server, but no reference on how to create a bootable CD. (PC emulating a thinclient).
My old PC does not support booting from LAN.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
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13536 | 1 | 13544 | 2010-11-16T19:41:47.317 | 7 | 285 | <p>Recently started playing with Ubuntu. I am playing with few shell scripts written for Korn Shell that I want to edit in Ubuntu. What shell does Ubuntu runs on? I guess its Bash? If it is, then is there any way to install or run a particular script under a particular shell?</p>
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13538 | 1 | 14619 | 2010-11-16T19:50:47.967 | 0 | 290 | <p>A month or so ago I updated from 10.04 to 10.10, the problem is that after the update process programs that I had full control of no longer respond to me as a regular user,
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<p>Any idea how to fix that?
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13541 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T20:50:51.657 | 3 | 1652 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/7654/how-do-i-set-up-ruby-on-rails">How do I set up Ruby on Rails?</a> </p>
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<p>Can anybody give me a step by step guide to installing ruby on rails 3 with mysql2 on Ubuntu 10.04 (assuming I have a fre... | 696 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:56.577 | 2012-06-13T22:37:32.283 | Step by step guide to install Ruby on Rails? | [
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13545 | 1 | 13546 | 2010-11-16T21:46:42.850 | 6 | 11502 | <p>I have one of those fancy keyboards with the extra media keys. For years, I more or less ignored them. Then my work got my a MacBook, and behold, I got spoiled. Now I want them to work when I'm using my desktop, too. (ubuntu 10.04 using XFCE)</p>
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13547 | 1 | 13550 | 2010-11-16T21:57:51.037 | 11 | 2575 | <p>I'm assisting in a project on Launchpad - however I do not have write access to that branch. How can I create a branch which I can push to and point people on the team for review?</p>
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13551 | 1 | 13559 | 2010-11-16T22:17:43.400 | 1 | 330 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/6424/my-trackpad-doesnt-turn-on-after-i-turn-it-off-before-that-it-works">My trackpad doesn't turn on after I turn it off, before that it works</a> </p>
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<p>further to this issue:</p>
<p><a href="... | 2978 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:11.537 | 2011-03-24T09:16:32.133 | Trackpad has stopped working after pressing off key, how to reenable? | [
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13552 | 1 | 13557 | 2010-11-16T22:19:28.890 | 5 | 8405 | <p>Its a bit of a tease that I can see iTunes shares on the local network in Rhythmbox, but I'm unable to access them. Is there anything I can do to enable access to function?</p>
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13554 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T22:23:51.740 | 2 | 16148 | <p>I'm on a triple boot MacBook (OSX, Ubuntu, Windows). Windows started misbehaving and needed to be re-installed (as it often does). After reinstalling windows, the MBR now points to Windows directly and not GRUB.</p>
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13555 | 1 | 13561 | 2010-11-16T22:24:57.840 | 5 | 9239 | <p>Using tee without the <code>--append</code> flag, I just managed to clear out my <code>/etc/services</code> file.</p>
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<li><p>How to recover from silly mistakes like this on the command line?</p></li>
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13562 | 1 | 13571 | 2010-11-16T23:13:25.027 | 65 | 10690 | <p>I <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2637_video&num=1">read today on Phoronix</a> that there is a <a href="http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128978361700898&w=2">200 line patch</a> to the Linux Kernel which dramatically improves desktop responsiveness. </p>
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13567 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T23:24:01.653 | 8 | 327 | <p>I want to ask if we're gonna see a version of Ubuntu such as Kubuntu for example but with GNOME shell and not with Unity ? A version called something like Gubuntu.
Thanks in advance for your answers :)</p>
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13572 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T23:41:44.640 | 1 | 428 | <p>I have ubuntu 10.04 on my mac, and i have realized that when i pluged in an USB keyboard (PC) and turn on the numeric keypad if then i removed the keyboard, the keyboard on the mac (this sounds odd, not english spoken person sorry) is completely lost. </p>
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13575 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T23:52:34.093 | 19 | 9252 | <p>Is there a way to have Google Calendar notifications through the message indicator applet <em>without</em> using Evolution? Something similar perhaps to "Gmailwatcher"?
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13576 | 1 | null | 2010-11-16T23:54:50.837 | 1 | 312 | <p>Is there a way that I can customize the Window List Panel Applet so that middle clicking closes a program or group of programs?</p>
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13577 | 1 | 13581 | 2010-11-17T00:03:33.700 | 0 | 801 | <p>Compiz doesn't work correctly with my graphics card (Intel 82852/855GM), so I use Metacity composite mode, which works fine. Sometimes I'd like to make a particular window of my choice semi-transparent (setting up a transparency ratio for all active windows and another for all inactive ones is not enough). Is there ... | 2390 | null | null | 2010-11-17T00:13:14.857 | Can I manually adjust a particular window's transparency using Metacity composite mode? | [
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13582 | 1 | 13603 | 2010-11-17T00:21:49.470 | 7 | 6417 | <p>I want to be able to have a keyboard short-cut to either start or bring to the front a program. (sqldeveloper if it matters)</p>
<p>I know how to run it, that leaves:</p>
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<p>2) how do I bring the program the other top of other open windows?</p>
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13589 | 1 | 13617 | 2010-11-17T01:12:52.297 | 5 | 798 | <p>I want to make use of all the icons which are installed on my computer to make art, posters and designs, what is the best way of making them all easily browsable from inkscape?</p>
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13590 | 1 | 13615 | 2010-11-17T01:14:50.627 | 20 | 11109 | <p>I have hunch that a certain <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4075/why-is-ubuntu-sometimes-ugly-when-i-log-in">intermittent bug</a> might only manifest itself when there is a slow disk read rate. Troubleshooting is difficult because I can't reliably reproduce it.</p>
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13613 | 1 | 13614 | 2010-11-17T03:49:56.657 | 21 | 5046 | <p>I develop most of my code in Git repos, now that I've become slightly more active on Launchpad I've started picking up Bazaar which has two "small" difference from Git's workflow that ride against how I usually develop code. While I don't mind using Bazaar I've noticed that Launchpad has options to use multiple VSC ... | 41 | null | null | 2015-05-19T07:20:25.863 | Git on Launchpad | [
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13619 | 1 | 13627 | 2010-11-17T04:52:58.110 | 5 | 3031 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13562/how-do-we-get-this-magic-performance-boosting-200-line-patch">How do we get this magic performance-boosting 200 line patch?</a> </p>
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13620 | 1 | null | 2010-11-17T05:04:34.047 | 4 | 1235 | <p>I am searching a command-line tagging tool that supports ogg- and mp3-tagging and allows to add a picture to the tags.</p>
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13622 | 1 | 13624 | 2010-11-17T05:26:07.003 | 6 | 653 | <p>If I understand Wayland correctly, this isn't something that's built into the kernel. If so, then that means that, even when Wayland becomes the default display manager, we can do a commandline install and install X.org instead of Wayland.</p>
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13629 | 1 | 13631 | 2010-11-17T06:32:50.033 | 6 | 11414 | <p>I'm currently playing with virtualbox and just installed ubuntu-minimal.</p>
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13636 | 1 | 13757 | 2010-11-17T08:16:37.043 | 22 | 1258 | <p>Ever since I've been asking this question, the predominant answer has been something to the effect of "well one day we'll have free drivers so we can just ignore the problem"</p>
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13639 | 1 | 13675 | 2010-11-17T08:40:14.073 | 7 | 5574 | <p>I want to buy a Mecer LUCID Slate tablet and install unity on the tablet. Thus no keyboard.</p>
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13643 | 1 | 13644 | 2010-11-17T09:16:14.137 | 1 | 4263 | <p>what should I do if I want that my USB key is auto-mounted after reboot?</p>
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13645 | 1 | null | 2010-11-17T10:42:32.177 | 28 | 10406 | <p>Is there a way to change file picker dialog path input? I would like to type the path myself instead of clicking buttons to specify the destination path. In Nautilus I can hit <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>L</kbd>, to show the path text box. In <strong>Save page as</strong> dialog the same shortcut takes me to name text box.... | 3782 | 147044 | 2013-09-05T06:41:48.850 | 2013-09-05T06:41:48.850 | Typing location path instead of clicking directory buttons in the file picker dialog? | [
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13646 | 1 | 13701 | 2010-11-17T11:04:55.103 | 0 | 2101 | <p>I watch a lot of foreign language films and it really annoys me to not be able to use my PS3 for them without hard coded subs. Is there a piece of software that will let me add the subtitles into the video file (without re-encoding) in a way that will allow the PS3 to recognise them?</p>
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13648 | 1 | 13657 | 2010-11-17T11:09:49.653 | 4 | 980 | <p>I just noticed that HTML files with CSS transforms on elements show <em>with</em> the CSS transforms within the thumbnails on Nautilus. So what rendering engine does Nautilus use to generate the thumbnails for HTML files?</p>
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13652 | 1 | 13653 | 2010-11-17T12:02:43.143 | 5 | 1007 | <p>There is not much more to say. I'd like to be able to see my gmail contacts in the contacts section of Evolution. I'm going to change them only from gmail, so a read-only solution will work.</p>
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13655 | 1 | 13656 | 2010-11-17T12:17:07.453 | 3 | 5622 | <p>There was a folder on my desktop, and I dragged and dropped it onto the trash icon on the bottom right of the screen to see if the folder would be deleted.</p>
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13658 | 1 | 13660 | 2010-11-17T12:42:56.173 | 8 | 1483 | <p>How do I change my password for Ubuntu?</p>
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13663 | 1 | 13668 | 2010-11-17T13:02:21.990 | 6 | 266 | <p>I've noticed that I can actually Shift-Delete (ie. doesn't go to Trash) a video which is currently playing, and it still keeps on playing, even though there is no named reference to it in <code>nautilus</code> or <code>ls</code> (terminal). </p>
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<p>So I would like to get rid of the password and connect automatically at startup.</p>
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13677 | 1 | null | 2010-11-17T14:27:39.890 | 3 | 2721 | <p>I am in the process of automating the backups from various servers to a central point then pushing those config changes into a git repo so I can track any changes over time. The rest of the scripts are working well, I can copy/rsync the files across the network to a central point. The last script is to get the con... | 2189 | 41 | 2011-08-30T14:34:32.630 | 2022-04-21T21:10:11.757 | How to use crontab, .netrc, and git push? | [
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13679 | 1 | 35318 | 2010-11-17T14:37:16.390 | 12 | 5941 | <p>The Xorg server/client architecture allows for network transparency which means it is possible to start x-clients on a remote machine and display the GUI on the local machine (i.e. via x-forwarding by using ssh).</p>
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13689 | 1 | null | 2010-11-17T15:38:33.490 | 4 | 170 | <p>All I can describe is that the result will be that the entire title bar will always be placed at the bottom of the window.</p>
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13691 | 1 | null | 2010-11-17T15:57:53.517 | 5 | 1533 | <p>Is it possible to configure the unity application launcher's width, so it will be smaller ?
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13695 | 1 | null | 2010-11-17T16:30:59.317 | 6 | 447 | <p>I'm planning to make a complete install of Ubuntu on an external hard drive in order to use Ubuntu without touching my internal hard drive. Does it have limitations? Will it perform slower than a "real" install or something?</p>
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13705 | 1 | 21340 | 2010-11-17T17:12:13.407 | 24 | 13926 | <p>Is there a way to automatically apply a terminal profile when connected to a remote machine via SSH?</p>
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13706 | 1 | 13712 | 2010-11-17T17:21:23.630 | 13 | 4051 | <p>Can somebody explain the logic behind Ubuntu's cdrom folder in root? (/cdrom)</p>
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<p>thanks.</p>
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13708 | 1 | 16714 | 2010-11-17T17:34:59.893 | 7 | 4977 | <p>The Arabic language in the new Ubuntu font is missing, so it has to fallback to the standard font, but the problem is that the standard font isn't good, and I want to replace it with Tahoma.</p>
<p>Is there a way to do that or it is built into the font itself?</p>
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13709 | 1 | 13716 | 2010-11-17T17:37:28.457 | 17 | 28094 | <p>I know about the show desktop keybind (default <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>D</kbd>), which I use often enough. However, I'm looking for a way to minimize all windows <strong>without activating "show desktop"</strong>.</p>
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13726 | 1 | 17522 | 2010-11-17T20:21:06.553 | 8 | 1476 | <p>Hello I had some freezes with my desktop. It is Lucid 10.04 on a Lenovo 3000 N200. System freezes completely.</p>
<p>How can I locate the problem?</p>
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13737 | 1 | 13740 | 2010-11-17T21:58:24.473 | 29 | 60968 | <p>On my desktop Ubuntu 10.4 I use ffmpeg to convert videos to a format my dvd-player understands. On my laptop running 10.10 I can't get the same command to work, what package(s) are missing?</p>
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13738 | 1 | null | 2010-11-17T21:59:48.793 | 6 | 2744 | <p>A nice feature in evince is that when you close the program and later reopen the same pdf, it automatically jumps to the page you were reading. The problem I have is that I often read ebooks on several computers and I have to find were I was on the last computer I was reading the pdf. I think syncing these bookmarks... | 6217 | 47151 | 2012-03-10T17:06:12.890 | 2012-03-10T17:06:12.890 | How do I query the gvfs metadata for a specific attribute? | [
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13739 | 1 | 13750 | 2010-11-17T22:10:12.743 | 2 | 1049 | <p>I have Ubuntu Desktop Edition 10.10 installed on my laptop, and Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 on my partners netbook and I would like to install Ubuntu on my dads old and failing desktop but the only thing that is stopping me is the fact that his current USB Wireless Dongle doesn't work with Ubuntu (It's a Belkin Wir... | null | null | 2010-11-17T23:09:11.150 | 2010-11-17T23:19:42.757 | What make and model wireless USB dongle works with no issues? | [
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13745 | 1 | 13748 | 2010-11-17T22:31:37.507 | 10 | 145 | <p>I'm looking for some guidance on how to keep track of the contributions I make to the project so I can present them as evidence when I eventually apply for <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership" rel="noreferrer">Ubuntu membership</a>. When I was listening to <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-... | null | null | 2010-11-18T11:13:47.780 | 2014-01-15T12:00:20.030 | Guidelines for documenting your contributions to the Ubuntu project | [
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13747 | 1 | null | 2010-11-17T23:00:08.007 | 0 | 365 | <p>I have an IR controller that uses the kernel module lirc_ene0100. I can load it with kernel 2.6.35 but it doesn't exist in 2.6.36 and 2.6.37-rc1.</p>
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13755 | 1 | null | 2010-11-17T23:55:30.273 | 1 | 435 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13562/how-do-we-get-this-magic-performance-boosting-200-line-patch">How do we get this magic performance-boosting 200 line patch?</a> </p>
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13758 | 1 | 13821 | 2010-11-18T00:07:44.470 | 464 | 511709 | <p>Will Unity allow making custom launcher icons from <code>.desktop</code> files or via menu editing system? (Right now the launcher doesn't give the option to "keep in launcher" on all programs.</p>
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13759 | 1 | 13808 | 2010-11-18T00:08:48.180 | 7 | 2705 | <p>I want to disable my touchpad's "tap to click" feature. Searching for this on the internet comes up with suggestions to shut it off in the "Mouse" preferences, however I am missing the touchpad tab that people keep talking about:</p>
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13767 | 1 | 13770 | 2010-11-18T02:22:07.567 | 2 | 1784 | <p>How does one go about doing this?</p>
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13768 | 1 | 13772 | 2010-11-18T02:25:37.437 | 2 | 338 | <p>Currently I have installed desktop edition on my netbook. But it feels a little slower for me. So I want to try out netbook edition by having it along with the desktop edition. So are there any problems if both appear together in the grub2 menu, or is there anything else which might cause issues.</p>
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13774 | 1 | 13775 | 2010-11-18T03:23:54.953 | 2 | 636 | <p>When do you plan to add Evolution contact sync on Ubuntu 10.04?</p>
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13776 | 1 | null | 2010-11-18T04:53:41.763 | 4 | 4845 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/7391/is-there-a-dreamweaver-html-editor-replacement">Is there a Dreamweaver HTML editor replacement?</a> </p>
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13779 | 1 | 13781 | 2010-11-18T05:37:13.873 | 23 | 2285 | <p>I remember the nice <code>mv somefile ~/.Trash</code> command but that folder does not exist on newer Ubuntus. Does anyone know why?</p>
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13783 | 1 | 13784 | 2010-11-18T06:09:24.733 | 7 | 7971 | <p>I am trying to use a 24" external monitor as the primary monitor for my Asus EEE netbook. When I connect it, it works properly, except the max resolution available is 1024x768. Usually, I'd go into the xorg.conf and add it, but 10.10 doesn't seem to have an xorg.conf. I read on another question here that I could sim... | 6225 | 235 | 2010-11-18T14:17:07.730 | 2016-01-16T13:37:29.877 | External Monitor Resolution doesn't go above 1024x768 | [
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13790 | 1 | null | 2010-11-18T08:58:01.927 | 18 | 882 | <p>The standard audio-format for music in Rhythmbox is Ogg. For some reason none of my music encoded as OggVorbis shows up in the Ubuntu One Mobile Music application on my Android phone. The MP3s do show up. It looks like the Ubuntu One servers are not indexing Ogg-files, although it is THE open format for music with s... | 6232 | 5149 | 2011-03-24T08:10:44.207 | 2011-05-03T00:21:43.230 | Does 'Ubuntu One Mobile' support Ogg Vorbis? | [
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13791 | 1 | 13802 | 2010-11-18T09:01:48.983 | 4 | 6981 | <p>I have finally managed to find a solution to make my wifi stable in ubuntu 10.10. I have had problems with my ASUS ul30vt and the Atheros AR9285 but by installing the latest compat-wireless from yesterday my internet is finally stable. </p>
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13792 | 1 | 13794 | 2010-11-18T09:03:18.950 | 49 | 40600 | <p>Is there a generalised way to find out what package caused the installation of a command?</p>
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13807 | 1 | null | 2010-11-18T10:02:01.000 | 2 | 1288 | <p>I checked the btrfs command and didn't find anything related to thiese features.</p>
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13809 | 1 | 17502 | 2010-11-18T10:11:50.390 | 4 | 2311 | <p>I can't install anything on my Ubuntu.. I googled it, found the same problem, but none of the proposed solutions solved my issue.. All the time, it keeps giving me</p>
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13816 | 1 | 13826 | 2010-11-18T11:45:08.317 | 4 | 1204 | <p>A black-on-white cross-hair/I-bar mouse-pointer is sometimes hard foe me to spot in amongst black-on-white text. </p>
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13824 | 1 | 13849 | 2010-11-18T12:54:30.780 | 4 | 1199 | <p>I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on an external drive, Grub too. Now I cannot boot my laptop without that external device. Could there be a way to choose between Windows 7 bootloader and grub at the same time? I want to be able to boot my laptop without the external driver. </p>
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"body": "<p>I think that <a href=\"http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1\" rel=\"nofollow\">EasyBCD</a> is your solution. You can enjoy your Windows Bootloader while keeping GRUB.</p>\n",
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13827 | 1 | 13830 | 2010-11-18T13:03:51.740 | 10 | 7859 | <p>I have multiple 3G data Cards as well as a wired connection to the Internet. I can connect each of them separately and access the internet. Is there any way i can aggregate the bandwidth of these cards to enjoy the combined speed? What i mean is simultaneously plugging in all the cards and getting the sum total of t... | 5845 | 235 | 2010-11-18T14:14:42.460 | 2020-02-19T13:33:31.817 | Bandwidth Aggregation with multiple 3G cards? | [
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"body": "<p>You could do this. Network Manager can do one connection per device just fine. But even with network-manager connected to multiple things, outbound traffic will only chose one gateway. You need to bridge these gateways into a virtual tunnel and use that as the gateway.</p>\n\n<p>The ... | [
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13835 | 1 | 13861 | 2010-11-18T13:58:50.030 | 2 | 656 | <p>Syncing Thunderbird contacts with UbuntuOne previously relied on the Funambol sync client, which used UbuntuOne's beta phone sync feature to basically treat Thunderbird as a phone. With the introduction of paid syncing for phones, it doesn't seem like there is anyway to sync Thunderbird contacts with UbuntuOne witho... | 4460 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:23.910 | 2010-11-18T17:30:19.767 | UbuntuOne contact syncing for Thunderbird with new phone plans? | [
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"body": "<p>A member of our web team is working on something on his free time (which is not much, because he is a member of our web team), <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/hedera\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://launchpad.net/hedera</a>. Quoting the description over there:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Hed... | [
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