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14200 | 1 | 14201 | 2010-11-20T18:45:03.013 | 15 | 5353 | <p>I would like to bind <kbd>F1</kbd> to play/pause and <kbd>F2</kbd> to next song globally
how to do it?</p>
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14202 | 1 | 14204 | 2010-11-20T19:05:51.913 | 5 | 2585 | <ul>
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<li>I can't write <code>ç</code>, by pressing <kbd>´</kbd>+<kbd>c</kbd>. When I try to do so it outputs <code>ć</code></li>
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14203 | 1 | null | 2010-11-20T19:08:17.907 | 1 | 2635 | <p>How to connect to TV with USB to AV cable?
I tried to connect, but nothing happened!
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14208 | 1 | null | 2010-11-20T19:47:53.363 | 8 | 1123 | <p>When I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop from the CD, I choose for encrypting my home folder. Just after, I copied a lot of files to ~, but that copying might not have worked.</p>
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14210 | 1 | null | 2010-11-20T20:05:51.983 | 5 | 4740 | <p>Most of the windows does not fit on my hp-mini-210(1024*600)</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/WfkBT.png" alt="alt text"></p>
<p>the apply and close buttons are not fit on scrren and conky too !!</p>
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14218 | 1 | 14225 | 2010-11-20T21:10:27.080 | 3 | 1197 | <p>I start normally my notebook lenovo 3000 N200 my version is 10.04. After many hours working on computer with mouse my keyboard gets locked.<br>
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14219 | 1 | 14220 | 2010-11-20T21:10:55.083 | 9 | 16294 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1345/simplest-debian-packaging-guide">Simplest Debian Packaging Guide?</a> </p>
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<p>There are several tarballs (e.g. Firefox, Eclipse, Zend Studio and ...) that have executable files in them, that we c... | 5034 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:57.930 | 2017-03-12T10:19:56.557 | How to create deb installer from tarballs? | [
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14222 | 1 | 14223 | 2010-11-20T21:49:21.400 | 17 | 60693 | <p>Sometimes I have friends in my house that want use my computer. How can they use a guest account without typing a password?</p>
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14226 | 1 | null | 2010-11-20T22:39:34.453 | 1 | 694 | <p>I gained an old machine, what's config is:</p>
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<li>147 MB SDRAM (recently extended)</li>
<li>3 GB IDE HDD - primary master</li>
<li>10 GB IDE HDD - primary slave (recently added)</li>
<li>52x CD-ROM - secondary master floppy drive</li>
<li>2x USB</li>
<li>2x PS/2</li>
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14228 | 1 | 14232 | 2010-11-20T22:58:17.093 | 3 | 1845 | <p>I am used to changing often my keyboard layout. Therefore I can easily use the indicator in the notification area.</p>
<p>However it does not look very nice, because of its colors. Is there a mean to replace it by a 'mono-colored' indicator, for the Ambiance and for the Radiance themes ?</p>
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14234 | 1 | 14235 | 2010-11-21T00:33:22.680 | 1 | 1640 | <p>I am using <em>WiFi Radar</em> to connect to Wireless Networks, but it never connects me. I can see all the available networks, when I pick one and try to connect, the connection screen never goes away and it never connects.</p>
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14236 | 1 | null | 2010-11-21T01:00:21.800 | 5 | 1395 | <p>Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit</p>
<p>I can't get the keyboard to connect at ALL. I've tried both the default Bluetooth install via the graphical interface and installed bluez-gnome as well.</p>
<pre><code>sudo hidd --connect
sudo hidd --search hcitool scan
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14238 | 1 | 14245 | 2010-11-21T01:08:07.030 | 4 | 8254 | <p>In a PC where I need to install Ubuntu, I have the following disk partitions from the left side of partition table as of now:</p>
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<li>Extended - 3 Nos. all NTFS - middle one contains data</li>
<li>Unallocated space</li>
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14243 | 1 | null | 2010-11-21T02:06:00.087 | 2 | 736 | <p>I am running Ubuntu server 10.04.1 on an x86 box, and all seems ok, however, I have also installed apache2 and proftpd, and configured them as per documentation. </p>
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14249 | 1 | 14251 | 2010-11-21T03:46:22.223 | 8 | 7210 | <p>I need to do a few thousands whois requests, I am pretty sure I will reach a limit at one point but I can't find exactly where that limit is, "man whois" shows me "No manual entry for whois". </p>
<p>Does someone knows how many whois requests I can do before reaching the limit?</p>
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14252 | 1 | 14254 | 2010-11-21T04:39:01.030 | 23 | 57741 | <p>I'm very new to bash scripting, so I might be barking up the wrong tree, but here is my current situation: </p>
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14257 | 1 | 37100 | 2010-11-21T06:40:23.180 | 29 | 28190 | <p>I'm looking for a simple countdown timer application, something similar to <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=timer-applet&suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names" rel="nofollow noreferrer">timer-applet</a>, which appears to be deprecated. (It's in the repositories but when... | 4460 | 527764 | 2017-03-12T10:55:01.613 | 2023-12-08T09:08:55.147 | A simple timer app, similar to timer-applet | [
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14259 | 1 | null | 2010-11-21T06:53:08.380 | 4 | 2810 | <p>Wanting to listen to <a href="http://www.pandora.com" rel="nofollow">Pandora</a> from outside the US, I followed the instructions <a href="http://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en" rel="nofollow">here</a> and changed my <code>/etc/tor/torrc</code> file according to the instructions <a href="http://openpandora.b... | 588 | 866 | 2010-11-21T08:33:51.107 | 2011-05-14T10:28:19.863 | How to get pianobar working with tor and polipo | [
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14261 | 1 | null | 2010-11-21T07:14:49.983 | 3 | 2216 | <p>I am trying to follow <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">these instructions</a></p>
<p>They give these commands to install VLC 1.1 on Ubuntu 10.04:</p>
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14265 | 1 | 14344 | 2010-11-21T08:03:06.730 | 2 | 389 | <p>Suppose i have a situation where i need to install a software, which is not available in repositories or Synaptic package manager...And i have the <strong>.bin</strong> file.</p>
<p>where should i install this file? I mean in which path?</p>
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14275 | 1 | 14283 | 2010-11-21T10:11:06.137 | 2 | 1050 | <p>I have a 9.10 machine used for development by one of my colleagues. A new team member has joined us, and he wants to have the same development environment on his 10.04 machine as the one used on the 9.10 one.</p>
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14278 | 1 | null | 2010-11-21T11:09:12.023 | 2 | 6146 | <p>After having made an upgrade and rebooted as requested, my computer fails to start properly. It indicates: "error: the symbol 'grub_xputs' not found", and underneath I have a "grub rescue" prompt.</p>
<p>What should I do?</p>
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14284 | 1 | 14294 | 2010-11-21T11:34:19.623 | 202 | 55568 | <p>I hope the question is self-explanatory.</p>
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14286 | 1 | 14368 | 2010-11-21T11:44:51.897 | 2 | 2764 | <p>Can't use my biult-in webcam with Skype.</p>
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<p>I've ran:</p>
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14289 | 1 | 15101 | 2010-11-21T12:23:15.047 | 2 | 11397 | <p>Today afternoon i wanted to download websphere, so i started download and closed the lid and came back after 2 hrs and opened the lid..</p>
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14290 | 1 | 14296 | 2010-11-21T12:45:50.330 | 2 | 793 | <p>On my Ubuntu 10.10, whenever I want to copy some files/folders over some other files/folders, or when I try to empty the trash, nautilus crashes!<br>
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14298 | 1 | 14327 | 2010-11-21T15:08:44.467 | 4 | 320 | <p>Playing with hardinfo I noticed that I have more language files on my system that I use.<br>
I use only english and german language. </p>
<p>Hardinfo report shows me these languages for example:<br>
de_BE.utf8 German locale for Belgium<br>
en_AG English language locale for Antigua and Barbuda </p>
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14299 | 1 | 33007 | 2010-11-21T15:19:23.100 | 5 | 8618 | <p>This problem started when I was on 10.04(September-October) and continued after a fresh install of 10.10. </p>
<p>My problem is that my screen goes black for seconds and comes back with 1024x768 and an "Unknown Monitor" when I try to change it back.</p>
<p>-The kernel is the 2.6.37 RC2.
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14301 | 1 | 14364 | 2010-11-21T15:43:10.160 | 16 | 30956 | <p>im having a few problems symlinking my <code>/var/www/</code> to a new <code>Webroot</code> directory inside my home folder. I think these stem from my lack of understanding of linux permissions.</p>
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14302 | 1 | 14311 | 2010-11-21T15:48:17.520 | 4 | 33321 | <p>Before I installed Ubuntu on my old computer, I took backups of both partitions with dd. Long story short: I now want to restore these two files, <code>XP.dd</code> and <code>Storage.dd</code>, to the computer again. How do I do this?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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14303 | 1 | 14588 | 2010-11-21T15:49:17.223 | 20 | 51179 | <p>What tools can I use to check that my memory and hard drive are still working correctly?</p>
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14306 | 1 | 18563 | 2010-11-21T16:28:28.563 | 9 | 562 | <p>I would have liked to buy some software, but the 'For Purchase' category in the Software Center remains desperately empty.</p>
<p>How do I activate the availability of such apps?</p>
<p>Is it possible that I am unable to connect to Ubuntu One because of my proxy ?</p>
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14310 | 1 | null | 2010-11-21T16:48:07.810 | 2 | 309 | <p>I want to install Ubuntu on my computer. I don't know much about Linux, but I know my way around a terminal and whatnot. My computer, a ThinkPad W700ds, refuses to read from my CD when booting. The md5sum is correct and the same CD boots fine from another computer. </p>
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14312 | 1 | 14316 | 2010-11-21T16:51:19.353 | 10 | 37836 | <p>I just installed logkeys from Software center. I am finding it hard to run it. Its documentation page doesnt help much either.
1. How do I run it?
2. Can I bind the start up with a key combination?
3. How to see the logs?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>
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14320 | 1 | 14383 | 2010-11-21T17:42:43.223 | 13 | 3071 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/17937/how-can-i-run-unity-in-a-virtual-machine">How can I run Unity in a virtual machine?</a> </p>
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14324 | 1 | null | 2010-11-21T18:04:53.380 | 10 | 465 | <p>Intermittently, when I left-click on the Applications/Places/System menus, the first click does nothing, and it takes a second click to drop the menu. I've also noticed that hiarchial menus sometimes don't show their expanded menus unless I move the mouse pointer away to another menu item, and then come back into th... | 4272 | 556376 | 2016-07-10T05:15:54.490 | 2016-07-10T05:15:54.490 | Menus intermittently take two clicks | [
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14328 | 1 | 116067 | 2010-11-21T19:10:33.917 | 205 | 233910 | <p>Is there a place where I can look what updates I've installed?</p>
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14334 | 1 | 14347 | 2010-11-21T19:59:12.587 | 1 | 1022 | <p>I have a usb cellular modem and a Home LAN connection on my Ubuntu 10.10 box. </p>
<p>Both work independently.</p>
<p>I want to know how to have both connected at the same time, and be able to specify which application uses which device to connect to the internet.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how to do this?</p>
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14335 | 1 | 14337 | 2010-11-21T20:04:50.523 | 6 | 294 | <p>There's some thing's I'd like to do with the devices on my system, such as stopping, starting and rebooting and I was wondering if there's a tool, either in Ubuntu or the software centre, that can replicate the functionality of the Windows Device Manager.</p>
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14345 | 1 | 14414 | 2010-11-21T22:17:01.097 | 2 | 4763 | <p>I want to setup samba and have a folder share that is not protected by passwords, but open for anyone, read-only. what do i need to write on smb.conf?</p>
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14351 | 1 | 14399 | 2010-11-22T00:57:12.430 | 16 | 703 | <p>Why is (was) there so much fuss about it?</p>
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14352 | 1 | 14532 | 2010-11-22T00:58:08.233 | 9 | 2330 | <p>I know that my touchpad is capable of it. I can enable glitch-free two-finger scrolling by running this script:</p>
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14354 | 1 | 14361 | 2010-11-22T02:33:35.397 | 42 | 7882 | <p>Is it possible to get a close button on the OSD? </p>
<p>It stays for a long time, and sometimes I have colleagues over on my PC, and I dont want them seeing who is online, or what song I am listening to. No, I can't disable it.</p>
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14355 | 1 | 20374 | 2010-11-22T03:44:29.747 | 14 | 3856 | <p>I would like to try out LibreOffice, but I'm worried about messing up my existing OpenOffice.org install. Can LibreOffice be safely installed alongside OpenOffice.org?</p>
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14357 | 1 | null | 2010-11-22T03:45:37.787 | 5 | 460 | <p>I've just upgraded from 10.04 and I have Exaile as my main player.</p>
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14365 | 1 | 233911 | 2010-11-22T06:12:20.987 | 123 | 168783 | <p>I've got an entry for an external harddrive in my fstab:</p>
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14371 | 1 | 14372 | 2010-11-22T07:22:27.550 | 29 | 91618 | <p>I have installed wordpress on my ubuntu 10.10 desktop edition and I am trying to install plugin from the browser (I know I can drop it to the wp-content/plugin but I want to do it via the web browser using FTP) I get this screen when I am trying to set auto update or install a plugin from web browser.</p>
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14375 | 1 | 14390 | 2010-11-22T08:51:30.987 | 9 | 2635 | <p>My company has some remote Ubuntu servers. The access to these servers is controlled by ssh keys. Managing these keys is quite a pain, especially when an employee leaves or joins the company.</p>
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14395 | 1 | 14400 | 2010-11-22T11:57:47.517 | 1 | 1343 | <p>Is there a way to change the icon that a wine application (in this instance, spotify) uses. I can change the menu and dock icons easily enough, the one i want to change is the one that appears when the application runs, and appears in the notification area. </p>
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14397 | 1 | 14398 | 2010-11-22T12:10:13.963 | 14 | 4596 | <p>Every so often my laptop locks up with some rogue process taking up all the i/o or processor. I then spend ages fighting with the mouse to open up the Applications menu so I can open a terminal so I can diagnose the problem and kill the process.</p>
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14404 | 1 | 14410 | 2010-11-22T13:16:05.630 | 9 | 9337 | <p>I sometimes use <code>ssh</code> to connect to a remote machine. Once I enter the passphrase once, I can use <code>ssh</code> again without the passphrase, but even if I come back a long time later, it still doesn't ask me, because the key is cached. I can do <code>ssh-add -D</code> to remove the key from the cach... | 3906 | null | null | 2014-07-30T18:16:32.027 | make my ssh key expire automatically | [
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14407 | 1 | null | 2010-11-22T13:38:27.143 | 0 | 976 | <p>My Aspire One netbook is now a <i>not</i>book. </p>
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14409 | 1 | 14411 | 2010-11-22T14:00:11.427 | 35 | 60325 | <p>When I try to use scp over IPv6 addresses I get this:</p>
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14416 | 1 | null | 2010-11-22T16:02:28.183 | 13 | 4041 | <p>After shutdown I notice that both the USB hub and the external USB drive remain active (lights on): the next time I try to boot the system hang after grub and I have to do a hard reboot. After that the system boots fine, until the next shutdown/boot cycle.</p>
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14417 | 1 | 14432 | 2010-11-22T16:14:52.197 | 0 | 4671 | <p>Gnome 2.x always messes up my icons in the notification area and stuff when using dual monitor. I was wondering if the new unity will work better?</p>
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14418 | 1 | 14421 | 2010-11-22T16:16:56.823 | 19 | 22038 | <p>Can I configure MySQL to store a specific database in a separate place on disk?</p>
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14426 | 1 | 14429 | 2010-11-22T17:15:29.287 | 2 | 1942 | <p>Which driver is better ?
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14428 | 1 | null | 2010-11-22T17:32:55.280 | 2 | 2155 | <p>How to add a hyper-link to an action button in Open Office.org Presentation? </p>
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14430 | 1 | 14434 | 2010-11-22T17:35:29.347 | 9 | 460 | <p>I wonder if it is possible to make Nautilus grouping files and folders as Windows do. This is the only thing I don't like in Ubuntu interface. In Windows in every folder my files are always separated to last edited groups: today, yesterday, this week etc. In Ubuntu, say, in Downloads, I hardly able to find what was ... | 1682 | 235 | 2010-11-22T17:38:19.190 | 2017-02-19T23:26:57.073 | Grouping folders in Gnome | [
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14437 | 1 | 14502 | 2010-11-22T18:42:05.887 | 7 | 361 | <p>Since the Compiz version of Unity does not have a dash at the moment, I was wondering if the Unity team is planning to port the current version of the dash "as it is" (eight huge icons to open Firefox / categorized apps / Software Center), as seen here...</p>
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14440 | 1 | 14448 | 2010-11-22T19:48:33.117 | 4 | 21591 | <p>I recently inherited a cheap EzBook PC and decided it might be fun to throw Ubuntu on it. I have a USB all setup but for the life of me can't get it to boot from USB! I've looked online and can't seem to find the motherboard details anywhere to access the BIOS and more applications won't work on Windows CE so I'm st... | 6412 | 186134 | 2015-05-31T17:51:03.773 | 2015-05-31T17:51:03.773 | Installing Ubuntu on a Windows CE 6.0 EzBook PC (ez-72a) | [
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14442 | 1 | 14445 | 2010-11-22T20:13:01.673 | 26 | 27727 | <p>Is there anyway to create (C++ or C#) windows console applications inside Ubuntu's IDE (e.g Anjuta) and compile it for Windows?</p>
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14451 | 1 | null | 2010-11-22T20:45:22.770 | 5 | 5435 | <p>I am running winamp using wine. When I am choosing music to open in winamp I can only browse inside wine's C drive but I have all my music on a separate partition. I want to be able to play the music from that partition instead of having to copy it into a folder in wine's virtual C drive.</p>
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14457 | 1 | 14951 | 2010-11-22T21:29:52.410 | 9 | 18094 | <p>Since Halloween, I have been really enjoying <a href="http://www.frictionalgames.com/site/games">Frictional Games'</a> Amnesia on Ubuntu. My next goal is to get the other offerings they have.</p>
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14468 | 1 | 14604 | 2010-11-22T23:20:38.687 | 2 | 402 | <p>When I set up my sync preferences for my Android phone, everything works fine and my media is successfully transferred, but when I unplug the phone (after pressing the eject button and being told it is now safe to remove the device) and plug it back in again, the sync settings have been reset and I need to reselect ... | null | null | null | 2010-11-23T20:42:24.503 | My 'Sync Preferences' are not being saved when I disconnect my Android smartphone from Banshee | [
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14469 | 1 | 15061 | 2010-11-22T23:48:28.597 | 3 | 415 | <p>After doing an in-place upgrade from Lucid to Maverick, my screen savers no longer work. I get a background that the panel/title-bar image, but no screen saver. I see no messages in dmesg, and don't really know where to start looking for causes for this problem. </p>
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14470 | 1 | 14583 | 2010-11-23T00:05:35.687 | 5 | 1358 | <p>There seems to be no option available for changing the tooltip duration. Is there any way to do so?</p>
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14471 | 1 | 14512 | 2010-11-23T00:19:33.193 | 3 | 965 | <p>I use the Purisa Medium font in various appearance settings, it's wonderful. However, whenever I type the characters T and M next to each other, they mysteriously change into a face-like character that I have never seen elsewhere. Sadly, askubuntu doesn't allow me to post an image, but the same issue was reported he... | 6423 | null | null | 2010-11-23T12:29:06.373 | Purisa font renders strange symbol instead of TM | [
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14475 | 1 | 14489 | 2010-11-23T02:50:14.687 | 0 | 15235 | <p>I have installed phpMyAdmin from the repositories, but I get 403 forbidden when I access <a href="http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php</a></p>
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14478 | 1 | null | 2010-11-23T04:07:27.130 | 2 | 331 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/974/how-can-i-install-software-offline">How can I install software offline?</a> </p>
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14482 | 1 | null | 2010-11-23T04:32:20.710 | 11 | 965 | <p>So, I've given up trying to configure my system (ubuntu 10.10, open source ATI drivers) to shutdown/logout/restart gracefully. Whenever I do any of the three, all I get is an ugly ubuntu logo with console text running over it. It does shutdown quickly, and I love that. It just looks awful while it does it.</p>
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14484 | 1 | 14507 | 2010-11-23T05:42:15.130 | 10 | 6021 | <p>I am trying to use the <em>Remote Desktop Viewer</em> on my laptop to connect to my desktop, which I have configured with <em>Remote Desktop</em> preferences. But it fails to update the screen shot image, making it useless.</p>
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14497 | 1 | null | 2010-11-23T09:33:34.933 | 7 | 385 | <p>If I want to make use of Ubuntu One's mobile streaming service, how do I add (my own) music to Ubuntu One? </p>
<p>I mean, if I purchase music through the music store, the music automatically get synced. But how (or rather where) do I add my own collection for synchronization?</p>
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14503 | 1 | 14510 | 2010-11-23T10:09:10.393 | 26 | 25917 | <p>I have the following problem, I've installed a bunch of Ubuntu packages ever since I used Ubuntu, now I've removed these packages using the Synaptic Package Manager but somehow it still left hidden folders in my home directory for the specific applications I uninstalled, taking up unnessesary diskspace. eg. .Netbean... | 1731 | 3739 | 2010-11-25T02:44:09.147 | 2021-04-27T09:48:35.350 | Cleaning up my Home Directory | [
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14511 | 1 | 14533 | 2010-11-23T11:29:10.730 | 27 | 15913 | <p>I have a Core i7 laptop with 4gb ram. In windows, the disadvantage of using the 32bit OS would be that a single app could not use more than 2gb of ram (+ the 2gb shared kernel-space memory) except when setting a boot switch which reduces the amount of shared kernel memory, then it's 3GB max per app.</p>
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14518 | 1 | null | 2010-11-23T11:59:10.877 | 4 | 2755 | <p>I use the annotations feature of YouTube a lot, but I want to get away from flash and start hosting my videos using html5. So I need to create those bubbles and embed them in the video using an editor. Is there an easy way to do that or a video editor that has such feature?</p>
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14519 | 1 | null | 2010-11-23T11:59:19.430 | 4 | 621 | <p>I'm facing a very weird problem with my wireless network card in ubuntu 10.10 !</p>
<p>Recently I have installed ubuntu 10.10 beside my windows XP on my Dell XPS 1330 laptop.
Everything worked fine except my wireless network. I tried to activate the wireless driver recommended in "Ubuntu Additional Drivers" utiltit... | 1728 | 235 | 2012-01-25T23:37:35.360 | 2012-01-25T23:37:35.360 | Wireless card only starts to work if I boot into Windows | [
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"body": "<p>Is there an on/off button for your wireless? If so, try pressing that in Ubuntu. It might be off by default when it boots into Ubuntu.</p>\n",
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14535 | 1 | 14536 | 2010-11-23T13:35:39.417 | 205 | 224141 | <p>What is the <code>~/.local</code> folder good for and is it safe to remove the content within this folder?</p>
| 1731 | 2369 | 2014-06-24T22:07:09.363 | 2023-11-11T11:44:13.717 | Whats the .local folder for in my Home Directory | [
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14537 | 1 | 18847 | 2010-11-23T13:56:54.650 | 8 | 4519 | <p>I use a commercial Asterisk-based SIP provider for my business. I'm going through the process of acquiring hearing aids, and it may be smartest for me to stream telephone audio from my provider directly to my aids via bluetooth and a softphone (I spent a lot of time on the phone). I could conceivably use my Android ... | 2692 | 2692 | 2014-08-18T12:16:45.743 | 2023-12-07T11:37:19.947 | Looking for a Commercial Grade SIP Softphone | [
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"body": "<p>I like <a href=\"https://ring.cx/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ring</a> and find it very \"professional\" and linux friendly (they got accepted on Debian repository)</p>\n",
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"body": "<p>There are lots of software you can use, but firstly you need to know if your commercial Asterisk-based SIP provider is adopting an open protocol. </p>\n\n<p>Some options are:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ekiga\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ekiga</a></li>\... | null | null | null | null | null |
14539 | 1 | 14541 | 2010-11-23T14:04:47.910 | 4 | 19482 | <p>I am trying to unzip a 7zip file from the command line like this, but I get an error with using e or x parameters. The file has only 1 .dat file inside. I get the following error.</p>
<pre><code>valugi@valugi-desktop:/$ 7z x /var/www/site/data/7zip/eu/
Processing archive: /var/www/site/data/7zip/eu/file.7z
can not ... | 3935 | 449 | 2011-01-18T10:06:36.720 | 2011-01-18T10:06:36.720 | 7zip error - can not open output file | [
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"body": "<p>The key is here:</p>\n\n<pre><code>valugi-desktop:/$\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>You are on the root directory, you will need superuser privileges to write to var.</p>\n\n<p>Just try:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo 7z x /var/www/site/data/7zip/eu/\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Or,if the script is going to b... | [
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14542 | 1 | 14549 | 2010-11-23T14:15:32.957 | 5 | 1803 | <p>With Ubuntu as the Host, I want to run two similar/identical(?) instances of a VirtualBox Guest on the same Host, or perhaps on another Host which is on the same LAN... </p>
<p>I have set up a Guest as a "base" for the two clones. I have exported it as an <strong>ovf</strong> appliance. </p>
<p>I've imported this... | 2670 | null | null | 2010-12-29T20:16:20.077 | Are there any "traps" in cloning a VirtualBox VM for concurrent use on the same Host/LAN? | [
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"body": "<p>I am not sure with VirtualBox, but with VMWare there are no such problems. Multiple VMs can share a vmnic, and cloned guests get a new MAC address and what not. </p>\n\n<p>My guess would be that you are fine (I do it all the time on VMWare workstation) and from what I have seen of Vi... | [
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14544 | 1 | null | 2010-11-23T15:05:09.627 | 2 | 568 | <p>I installed gcompris on ubuntu 10.10 and when i tired to run it, it exited immediately. i ran it from shell giving the command gcompris and got the folowing message.</p>
<pre><code>akn@ubuntu:~$ gcompris
** Message: Binary relocation disabled
** (process:20588): WARNING **: exec_prefix NONE
package_data_dir ... | null | 235 | 2010-11-23T16:27:59.453 | 2010-11-23T16:53:56.580 | Cannot run Gcompris | [
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"body": "<p>I guess you found a bug due to the <em>failed Segmentation fault</em> message. But first try to erase the datas from <code>$HOME/.config/gcompris</code> and <code>$HOME/My GCompris</code> in your home folder, and try Gcompris again.</p>\n\n<p>If you still see the error messag... | null | null | null | null | S.Arulamudhu |
14548 | 1 | null | 2010-11-23T15:37:00.360 | 3 | 8737 | <p>I've got a problem with Ubuntu 10.10 suspend / hibernation. When I try to do one of these actions, computer prepares but in the end a blank screen comes up with just a single underscore blinking. Computer becomes unresponsive to mouse/keyboard and only pressing power button on chasis restores it. Disks and coolers a... | 4134 | 235 | 2011-01-21T05:26:09.343 | 2011-01-21T05:26:09.343 | Why suspend / hibernate does not work? (blank screen problem) | [
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"body": "<p>I don't know which graphics card you use, but I partially solved a similar problem after changing from the repository ATI drivers to the proprietary, binary Catalyst drivers from the ATI page.\nTo be clear, my problem was that suspension and hibernation did \"suspend\" and tu... | null | null | 2011-03-04T08:41:13.733 | null | null |
14550 | 1 | 14552 | 2010-11-23T15:54:15.190 | 4 | 4658 | <p>I installed ubuntu server 10.04 and booted as normal.</p>
<p>Some time later, I booted the server and tried to install a new package/upgrade the existing packages using:</p>
<pre><code>sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
sudo apt-get install ntp
Reading package lists... Done
Segmentation faulty tree...... | 5927 | 235 | 2010-11-23T16:26:34.570 | 2015-10-07T08:20:49.753 | apt-get upgrade segfault! | [
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14551 | 1 | 14553 | 2010-11-23T16:01:12.623 | 10 | 11783 | <p>I'm trying to install Zend on a machine running xampp. Zend's help file says that in order to set up the command-line tools, I need to make sure that the contents of the /library directory are placed inside my php include_path specified directory.</p>
<p>When I look at my php.ini, include_path is commented out, but... | 2664 | 169736 | 2014-04-25T14:35:22.237 | 2014-04-25T14:35:22.237 | What does .: mean in php include_path? | [
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