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14937 | 1 | 14938 | 2010-11-26T02:11:15.027 | 3 | 2594 | <p>I would like to know if the history of urls i browse with my Firefox browser, which i have cleared, will be stored in the file system or not? </p>
<p>To be more clear, will the history be stored in some place in the hard-disk, even if the history is deleted from the browser menu(delete history option)? </p>
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"body": "<p>Unfortunately (I'm guessing you were hoping to recover?) this information is completely deleted when you clear it. The way linux filesystems (most of them, such as ext4) work, the data is actually deleted, though not <strong>wiped</strong>. You would not be able to retrieve this data... | [
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14948 | 1 | 14949 | 2010-11-26T03:40:44.900 | 56 | 21978 | <p>When I've just run <code>sudo</code>, and don't want it to remain active for the normal duration of its time-out, how can I cancel that remaining <strong>active</strong> time-out? </p>
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14950 | 1 | 15599 | 2010-11-26T04:10:32.787 | 7 | 8013 | <p>I've just installed 10.10 from a minimal iso. I've installed gnome-core and the network manager (among a few other things), and I've added the notification area to the panel.</p>
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14954 | 1 | 14959 | 2010-11-26T06:16:19.813 | 0 | 898 | <p>I would like to know about Ubuntu 10.10's new <strong>professional themes</strong>.</p>
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14956 | 1 | 14966 | 2010-11-26T06:59:38.057 | -1 | 5327 | <p>After multiple updates, maverick development, various stuff installed, messing with grub, my Ubuntu is quite broken.</p>
<p>More specifically:</p>
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14961 | 1 | 14963 | 2010-11-26T09:33:41.413 | 14 | 12975 | <p>I would like to know, what is the difference between <code>initrd</code> and <code>initramfs</code>? </p>
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14970 | 1 | 15014 | 2010-11-26T11:10:20.353 | 5 | 17112 | <p>I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my Dell Inspiron 1521 and the LAN/Ethernet card was working perfectly but Ubuntu was displaying a message about not installing the Wireless drivers because it was restricted or something along that line.</p>
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14973 | 1 | 15200 | 2010-11-26T12:33:01.450 | 9 | 9297 | <p>I installed server 10.10 with LAMP+OpenSSH. It is about 1.1GB. Can I reduce the total size of the server?</p>
<p><strong>AFTER SOME EXPERIMENTS</strong></p>
<p>The full LAMP server is under 1.0gb</p>
<pre><code>/dev/sda1 7.5G 914M 6.3G 13% /
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14977 | 1 | null | 2010-11-26T13:43:29.223 | 14 | 8734 | <p>I am trying to restore a function that I had on my last box. It added a tab in the properties menu of any file called "Digests". From there I could choose any/all of the hash formats, click hash and it would generate said checksums right there. </p>
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14978 | 1 | null | 2010-11-26T14:06:48.773 | 16 | 4417 | <p>Whenever I start my computer Ubuntu pops up the following error:</p>
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<p>A friend of mine ran some test and it was found that my hard disk has 74 bad sectors.</p>
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14981 | 1 | null | 2010-11-26T14:12:03.910 | 0 | 1525 | <p>the project itself is located in my home-directory, netbeans and glassfish each installed to opt. when i start IDE and open java project i get following warning five times:</p>
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14982 | 1 | 14985 | 2010-11-26T14:16:24.357 | 1 | 583 | <p>I want to synchronize two folders between two Ubuntu computers but all my web searches come up with ideas to synchronize over the web, but I do not want to do this. The two computers are physically next to each other, so what I want to do is connect them together with a cable and then synchronize. How do I do this, ... | 6570 | null | null | 2010-11-26T19:56:41.847 | Synchronize folders without Internet connection | [
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14988 | 1 | 15004 | 2010-11-26T14:59:02.200 | 6 | 9143 | <p>Apparently this is a recurring problem. I tried <strong>System->Preferences->Mouse</strong> but it didn't help. </p>
<p>There's a lot of info on the web on this, but it is outdated (Ubuntu 7.04 and 8.04).<br>
Any tips on how to fix this?</p>
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14989 | 1 | 14996 | 2010-11-26T15:03:24.860 | 2 | 885 | <p>I'm wanting to get some of the new features in Rhythmbox 0.13.2 on my aging Ubuntu laptop w/out having to upgrade to the latest version of Ubuntu. I'm currently at 9.10.</p>
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14991 | 1 | null | 2010-11-26T15:40:10.490 | 8 | 10308 | <p>I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed in my Host Machine and it has VirtualBox. I have Guest Machine wich runs Ubuntu 10.10. </p>
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14997 | 1 | 15018 | 2010-11-26T16:36:05.063 | 5 | 3472 | <p>When I boot into Ubuntu from my USB pendrive, my laptop fan becomes abnormally loud and the fan temperature also increases (I can feel the heat by putting my hand under the laptop). This doesn't happen with Windows. I've done my research, and found out that it may be a problem with the graphics card - I've got an AT... | 6574 | 6574 | 2010-11-26T18:55:30.923 | 2011-08-26T16:26:56.370 | Abnormal increase in laptop temperature | [
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14998 | 1 | 15006 | 2010-11-26T16:38:02.940 | 9 | 1849 | <p>I have a SATA hard-drive, formatted as ext4, which is detected by Nautilus each time I boot the computer. </p>
<p>I do need to click on it, in <strong>Places</strong>, to actually mount it. That's okay, I'm happy with that. </p>
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14999 | 1 | null | 2010-11-26T16:42:55.080 | 6 | 322 | <p>When I launch Rhythmbox I always have to go to the panel indicator and choose to show rhythmbox. I have looked at the preferences and see no option to make it show as default. Can this be done?</p>
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15000 | 1 | 45244 | 2010-11-26T16:50:57.790 | 4 | 3358 | <p>I'm having problems restarting or turning of ubuntu 10.10 on a samsung r560. I had no problems with previous ubuntu versions.</p>
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15010 | 1 | 15015 | 2010-11-26T17:40:12.937 | 9 | 3411 | <p>I used KDE System Settings to configure my KDE appearance settings (I wanted to make KolourPaint look native), even though I use GNOME. I changed some font settings through it, and now all of my fonts are really choppy. Is there any way to revert these changes?</p>
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15012 | 1 | 15013 | 2010-11-26T17:52:18.950 | 6 | 986 | <p>I am currently creating a presentation (like power point). I have tried multiple applications to create this presentation but there are some problems.</p>
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15017 | 1 | 15057 | 2010-11-26T18:52:24.030 | 2 | 1020 | <p>I want to install the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/jmonkeyengine/" rel="nofollow">jMonkey Engine</a> system-wide so that all users can use it.</p>
<p>Where do I put these files?</p>
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15020 | 1 | 31893 | 2010-11-26T19:46:22.163 | 16 | 6990 | <p>For some unknown reason all thumbnails are lost in my Shotwell, instead all icons are grey. The images themselves are all okay and I can open them all in Shotwell.</p>
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15022 | 1 | 18358 | 2010-11-26T19:54:40.897 | 4 | 851 | <p>My laptop battery ran down and died while using Ubuntu 10.04 with Wubi. Upon recharge (and restart) selecting Ubuntu from the Windows Boot menu brings me to the typical prompt which says (and I paraphrase): </p>
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15023 | 1 | 15041 | 2010-11-26T19:56:05.373 | 3 | 132 | <p>I'm looking to submit a patch to a project who's panel icon is larger than the other icons, specifically it is the full height of the panel, whereas the others have a few pixels of space above and below, and I'd like to shrink the icon so that it's consistent with the others. Does Canonical have any guidelines on th... | null | null | null | 2010-11-26T21:06:26.073 | Are there guidelines for creating panel icons? | [
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15025 | 1 | null | 2010-11-26T19:57:49.433 | 0 | 1652 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/14168/live-cd-installer-gets-stuck-with-a-grayed-out-forward-button">Live CD installer gets stuck with a grayed out forward button.</a> </p>
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15028 | 1 | null | 2010-11-26T20:05:43.747 | 3 | 535 | <p>I am using the <a href="https://github.com/gmate/gmate" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gmate/gmate</a> setup, but it lacks a ruby syntax validation plugin.</p>
<p>Where can I find one?</p>
<p>Tnx!</p>
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15029 | 1 | null | 2010-11-26T20:14:19.960 | 2 | 12983 | <p>I have an HP dv4 2080br with a fingerprint reader that works fine on Windows 7. <code>lsusb</code> lists it as </p>
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15031 | 1 | 15049 | 2010-11-26T20:27:09.273 | 2 | 302 | <p>Whenever I try to sync my Tomboy notes with Ubuntu One, I get the following window:</p>
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15033 | 1 | null | 2010-11-26T20:38:42.440 | 4 | 330 | <p>when booting i have the option to select Ubuntu or windows but when selecting ubuntu instead of going to Ubuntu boot screen it goes to the Ubuntu boot menu where you can select, kernel or another version of Ubuntu. why is this? can this be fixed by wubi? </p>
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15035 | 1 | 15038 | 2010-11-26T20:48:40.280 | 3 | 12900 | <p>Which package contains the C standard library? </p>
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15043 | 1 | 15052 | 2010-11-26T21:07:49.303 | 13 | 412 | <p>I've heard from many people, Jono Bacon included, that it's impossible to say how many computers are running Ubuntu since there is nothing in the OS that phones home, and the Ubuntu Census package is only installed on OEM machines sold with Ubuntu. This 'phone home' count is important since the marketshare of an OS ... | null | 235 | 2010-11-26T21:19:10.737 | 2012-03-06T01:09:58.920 | Why doesn't Canonical use pings from the Update Manager to gauge the size of the Ubuntu installbase? | [
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15050 | 1 | 15051 | 2010-11-26T21:43:28.380 | 13 | 16453 | <p>Just wondering; how do I bind .sh files to run when I press a particular key combination? (like <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>S</kbd>) </p>
<p>Thanks, </p>
<p>Dante</p>
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15053 | 1 | null | 2010-11-26T22:00:52.200 | 2 | 3016 | <p>I need to enable the 3D effects in the graphics card under Ubuntu 10.10 OS</p>
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15055 | 1 | 15056 | 2010-11-26T22:20:57.757 | 10 | 26798 | <p>I have been looking for the GRUB configuration file, and I haven't had much luck. According to the sites I found, it should be at '/boot/grub/menu.lst'. But, I went to that file path, and could not find menu.lst. Can anyone tell me why it isn't there, and where I might locate it? I would like to change the default s... | 6579 | 4776 | 2010-11-26T22:27:59.260 | 2010-11-26T22:46:43.153 | Cannot find GRUB configuration file | [
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15058 | 1 | 66917 | 2010-11-26T22:42:17.290 | 8 | 15860 | <p>On work, I am using fedora, where a right click on desktop opens a menu, which allows opening a terminal.</p>
<p>Home, I have kubuntu installed. Is it possible to have the same behavior?</p>
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15066 | 1 | null | 2010-11-26T23:55:54.223 | 0 | 568 | <p>I have a root user with password and an ordinary user with a seperate password. When trying to configure fire wall ufw, it will not accept my root password. Is it to do with advanced bin/bash etc on setting up passwords and users?</p>
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15069 | 1 | 15386 | 2010-11-27T00:09:03.707 | 15 | 14479 | <p>I've had a mildly annoying problem with my sound for quite awhile now, and I've finally decided it's time to do something about it.</p>
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15072 | 1 | 96761 | 2010-11-27T00:25:12.857 | 3 | 1980 | <p>Installed Ubuntu using WUBI, when I reboot, I'm able to login as "Failsafe GNOME" and xterm, but NOT as just GNOME. What is the likely source of the issue? Hardware, bad install, etc.?</p>
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15074 | 1 | null | 2010-11-27T01:06:43.693 | 1 | 806 | <p>Hey! I have ubuntu server 10.10. I am trying to install gui. I have installed these packages: xserver-xorg xinit</p>
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15076 | 1 | 15078 | 2010-11-27T01:26:46.637 | 5 | 4846 | <p>I recently downloaded an Ubuntu 9.10 virtual appliance for VMWare and want to install a LAMP server on it. Normally, I would just <code>sudo tasksel install lamp-server</code> but that seems to just return without doing anything. So I tried <code>sudo tasksel</code> to bring up the list of packages. But this list on... | 5103 | 3037 | 2011-10-10T08:13:04.750 | 2011-10-10T08:13:04.750 | Why does tasksel not include an option for LAMP server? | [
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15077 | 1 | 15080 | 2010-11-27T01:30:31.720 | 6 | 273 | <p>Since the website and wiki have been redesigned, the text is not always readable. The footer text overwrites other text, the links are not uniform colors, and the colors use blend and blur the text. </p>
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15079 | 1 | 15081 | 2010-11-27T01:36:48.223 | 0 | 1901 | <p>I recently updated my netbook (Asus 1005px) running ubuntu 10.10. The update came with a newer kernel. And it causes the system to freeze. Randomly the screen goes off, and I have to do a force shutdown. I tried selecting older kernel in the grub menu and it works fine. Now I want to set the older kernel as default,... | 2968 | null | null | 2011-02-23T19:58:55.140 | The new kernel causes system freeze | [
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15082 | 1 | null | 2010-11-27T01:59:36.090 | 2 | 268 | <p>You know... to compete with Mac OS X. Or will we have to install 'gloobus' manually?</p>
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15088 | 1 | null | 2010-11-27T03:49:28.987 | 2 | 905 | <p>I was watching video on youtube and suddely system crashed and then i tried to restart the machine but it just gets to the dual boot menu and after that shuts down again..</p>
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15090 | 1 | 15309 | 2010-11-27T05:18:47.003 | 35 | 82044 | <p>I just downloaded a DVD which is for a movie. After uncompressing the DVD file I see .VOB, .IFO and .BUP files. If I open the first .VOB file it shows me the DVD menu but I can't interact with it. So, my question is... is Totem able to play those kind of files? If so, how can I achieve that? What other app could I u... | 53 | 53 | 2010-11-29T13:39:26.773 | 2022-07-20T09:01:04.800 | How to play VOB files that were inside a DVD disc? | [
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15093 | 1 | null | 2010-11-27T05:33:36.280 | 139 | 564080 | <p>I want to update Acrobat Reader for Firefox, but the download has the <code>.bin</code> extension. How can I install it?</p>
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15096 | 1 | null | 2010-11-27T05:44:54.550 | 4 | 1645 | <p>I am using Kubuntu with KDE 4.5.3. When I run KDE applications with root privilage the Theme/UI does not look same/unify with my theme. How to fix it?</p>
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15099 | 1 | null | 2010-11-27T06:56:31.193 | 4 | 2309 | <p>As the Title above asks, Why can't I install any packages? I tried installing emesene (Other applications wont install either, just using emesene as an example) but It wont download due to "Untrusted Packages" and gives me "emesene python-libmimic" when I click Details. </p>
<p>What's wrong? Before this I have inst... | 6591 | 235 | 2010-11-27T14:22:00.897 | 2010-11-27T14:22:00.897 | Why does it always say "Requires Installation of Untrusted Packages" and not let me download? | [
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15102 | 1 | null | 2010-11-27T07:31:20.247 | 1 | 1074 | <p>I installed eclipse on ubuntu 10.04 by <code>copying eclipse folder to /opt folder</code>.</p>
<p>Now i would like to launch eclipse from gmrun dialog box by typing <code>eclipse</code></p>
<p>How do i do that?</p>
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15108 | 1 | null | 2010-11-27T09:46:45.917 | 5 | 544 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 with Nautilus-Elementary installed. When I open the embedded terminal in Nautilus (F7) and run <code>echo $PATH</code>, I get:</p>
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15115 | 1 | 15116 | 2010-11-27T13:11:45.197 | 2 | 2545 | <p>I get my Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch apparently working (By using <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/11815/how-to-install-wacom-bamboo-pen/11822#11822">Martin Owens' PPA</a>), but whenever I try to click and drag something -- for example to move a window -- it will only register as a click. In other words: Th... | 3523 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:44.677 | 2011-01-29T05:42:14.467 | I can't get click and drag to work with my Wacom Bamboo P&T | [
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15117 | 1 | 15161 | 2010-11-27T13:18:43.163 | 1 | 2435 | <p>I have setup vnc4server on the main PC using <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_5089245_install-vnc-server-ubuntu.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> and I only see this:</p>
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<p>What is the problem? Does it matter if the client I'm connecting from uses different DE than the main PC?</p>
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15119 | 1 | 15122 | 2010-11-27T13:36:51.453 | 5 | 739 | <p>Got this message after logging in:</p>
<pre><code>A hard disk may be failing
One or more hard disk report health problems.
Click the icon to get more information.
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<p>On WUBI and 10.04, there was no icon to click, and clicking on made the message go away.</p>
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15123 | 1 | 15351 | 2010-11-27T14:05:48.137 | 13 | 2463 | <p>Some months ago, on the road to Ubuntu Maverick, a new system indicator, network (with connman as a backend), started to be developed. The plan was to get it into UNE and release it with no notifcation area. Unfortunately it didn't make it into the final version. However, continued efforts are still being made to im... | 356 | null | null | 2011-01-05T23:18:16.180 | Why are two indicator-network versions being worked on? | [
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15125 | 1 | null | 2010-11-27T14:10:17.930 | 5 | 4860 | <p>I am using ubuntu 10.10 64bit. The problem is that no VCD's can be played. I tried Totem, mplayer,vlc etc etc. None of the players can render the file and show either show I/O error or parse error. I even tried copying the .dat files but it shows me a permission denied error ( even in root mode file browser). Vcd's ... | 5845 | 6005 | 2012-07-09T13:05:50.687 | 2012-07-09T13:05:50.687 | Cannot Play VCD | [
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15127 | 1 | 19265 | 2010-11-27T14:19:57.827 | 7 | 2906 | <p>I am using ubuntu 10.10 64bit. I am in need of a service or a reader that can synchronise my feeds across computers and platforms, something like feeddemon has for windows. RSSOwl is by far the best reader i have come across, but it lacks this feature. I dont want to use online readers like google reader. Any sugges... | 5845 | 12 | 2011-01-27T03:41:24.173 | 2012-08-23T16:19:00.137 | RSS reader that can sync across computers? | [
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15128 | 1 | null | 2010-11-27T14:24:52.620 | 14 | 1362 | <p>I need to have a personal ssh key such that:</p>
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15132 | 1 | null | 2010-11-27T14:44:21.063 | 1 | 8025 | <p>I have installed pure-ftpd in the Guest machine. I tried to connect to FTP server of Guest Machine from Guest Machine with the port number 21 and I could connect to it successfully.</p>
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15137 | 1 | null | 2010-11-27T15:04:00.427 | 3 | 1848 | <p>I have a Reliance netconnect Huwaei Ec1260 modem . How can I use this to connect to the internet?</p>
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15141 | 1 | 15149 | 2010-11-27T15:22:33.107 | 1 | 559 | <p>I recently performed a routine update, which included a new kernel rev among other things, and now my Ubuntu 10.04 system boots into a blank screen.</p>
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15143 | 1 | 15148 | 2010-11-27T15:37:27.480 | 4 | 5514 | <p>I know about ndiswrapper for Windows network drivers. Is there anything like that for Windows printer related drivers? (Or a "universal" driver for Ubuntu by HP?)</p>
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15146 | 1 | 15147 | 2010-11-27T15:53:26.180 | 7 | 4246 | <p>I have installed Back In Time Backup Application and configured to backup one important folder every day into another folder.</p>
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15150 | 1 | 15151 | 2010-11-27T16:24:55.883 | 10 | 18410 | <p>I have copied this bunch of code from one funny video clip about <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uweJGm7l1Nc">How does a programmer swing his baby</a>. The code is following:</p>
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15160 | 1 | 15165 | 2010-11-27T17:51:58.597 | 6 | 2349 | <p>While running alpha/beta Ubuntu, I have often had problems where X freezes and I would have to restart X.</p>
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15164 | 1 | null | 2010-11-27T18:31:58.043 | 1 | 299 | <p>I have installed 10.04 in june 2010 and last time while updating I messed up with my graphics driver.</p>
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15169 | 1 | null | 2010-11-27T19:07:17.053 | 2 | 3753 | <p>I have recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my Dell Inspiron n5010 but screen brightness is not working, there is no effect of pressing fn+brightness keys.</p>
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15175 | 1 | 15956 | 2010-11-27T20:52:48.267 | 0 | 512 | <p>I Cannot record sound - so neither empathy nor any SIP software works.</p>
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15177 | 1 | 15233 | 2010-11-27T21:11:06.363 | 0 | 973 | <p>Just <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/15138/how-do-i-get-my-buffalo-wli-u2-g300n-to-work">installed a wireless USB driver using ndiswrapper</a>. The icon and menu options "says" I'm connected; meaning that I'm able to disconnect, connect, etc., but Firefox is not connecting to the internet. One thing I did c... | 3411 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:44.677 | 2010-11-28T09:08:41.737 | Trouble shooting internet connection problems? | [
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15179 | 1 | 15192 | 2010-11-27T21:22:19.247 | 1 | 758 | <p>I currently have Ubuntu and windows 7 on identical but separate hard drives. I wanted to use a NTFS partition on Ubuntu drive to allow file sharing between to two OS's but when I formatted that partition, I accidentally shot my self in the foot by deleting my boot info. So I now must reformat and reinstall my wind... | 6612 | 235 | 2010-11-28T01:14:55.160 | 2010-12-14T16:37:05.463 | Dual Boot on dual hard drive set up | [
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15180 | 1 | null | 2010-11-27T21:25:37.013 | 2 | 436 | <p>When i click on any link an error message pops up saying "The specified location is not supported".</p>
<p>I'm using Lubuntu and hotot version 0.9.5.</p>
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15184 | 1 | 15188 | 2010-11-27T21:49:53.297 | 22 | 75993 | <p>I use <em>locate</em> all the time to find files that I know the name of, <em>locate</em> is very fast and I love that. For recently created files <em>find</em> is great, normally with recently created files I know where basically they were created so I don't have to search my entire file system. </p>
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15187 | 1 | 15194 | 2010-11-27T22:05:48.060 | 11 | 3668 | <p>I have 2 "data" drives. One is <strong>ntfs</strong>, the other is <strong>ext4</strong>. </p>
<p>The Trash works for both drives when I allow Nautilus to handle the mount. </p>
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15190 | 1 | 15191 | 2010-11-27T22:43:01.553 | 1 | 1146 | <p>I recently turned on compositing in my laptop using the following command:</p>
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15198 | 1 | 15218 | 2010-11-28T00:27:22.977 | 4 | 2262 | <p>I've been happily using Compiz with the Grid plugin on Ubuntu 10.04 on my Mini Inspiron netbook. However, due to battery life issues, I'm considering downgrading to a lighter Ubuntu derivative, and would like to try Lubuntu, which uses the Openbox window manager. I'm wondering, is there any way to make Openbox behav... | 4895 | null | null | 2019-09-11T18:50:05.493 | Is there a way to make Openbox behave like the Compiz Grid plugin? | [
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15203 | 1 | null | 2010-11-28T01:25:50.153 | 0 | 905 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13758/how-can-i-edit-create-new-launcher-items-in-unity">How can I edit/create new launcher items in Unity?</a> </p>
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15206 | 1 | 15216 | 2010-11-28T02:30:20.437 | 5 | 6608 | <p>I'm trying to learn UNIX programming and came across a question regarding <code>fork()</code>. I understand that <code>fork()</code> creates an identical process of the currently running process, but where does it start? For example, if I have code</p>
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15209 | 1 | null | 2010-11-28T03:58:36.537 | 5 | 254 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/8241/paid-apps-in-the-ubuntu-software-center">Paid apps in the Ubuntu Software Center</a> </p>
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<p>On every post on Ubuntu Gamer, the first reaction of people is always </p>
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<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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15212 | 1 | 15239 | 2010-11-28T04:17:21.157 | 18 | 50854 | <p>I use synergy. I would like to synergy to start as soon as I turn on my computer. How do I do that?</p>
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15217 | 1 | null | 2010-11-28T05:43:52.733 | 2 | 2555 | <p>I am using Maverick Meercat on an Acer Aspire 5100 with 2GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 graphics card.</p>
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15220 | 1 | 15396 | 2010-11-28T06:19:59.593 | 6 | 446 | <p>I can already create duplicate repos with the same versions of debs and deb-src packages. </p>
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15222 | 1 | 15454 | 2010-11-28T06:43:59.740 | 5 | 7328 | <p>For some reason the Upstart script for the MySQL server isn't working when I boot my server, however it does work once the server has booted and I execute <code>sudo start mysql</code> manually.</p>
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15223 | 1 | null | 2010-11-28T06:45:13.717 | 255 | 591555 | <p>Sometimes the pulseaudio service stops and it doesn't restart itself when I open an audio file with banshee or totem.</p>
<p>How I can make pulseaudio start again without having to logout?</p>
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15225 | 1 | null | 2010-11-28T07:33:55.563 | 3 | 16308 | <p>Using firefox and chrome on an Acer Aspire 5100 with an AMD Turion 64 MK36 processor with 2GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon Xpress 110 Graphics card.</p>
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15227 | 1 | null | 2010-11-28T07:40:10.063 | 3 | 542 | <p>Ubuntu is showing the following screen when i turned on my computer.
Im using ubuntu 10.04.Just can't get any further.</p>
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15228 | 1 | null | 2010-11-28T07:49:43.313 | 10 | 7165 | <p>I'm not an expert at Linux--I'd say 6 on a scale of 1-10</p>
<p>I just set up Samba on my linux ubuntu server (no GUI, cli only). I created the smb account and connected from my mac and mounted my home directory for the most part it works fine.</p>
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15234 | 1 | 15236 | 2010-11-28T09:16:15.313 | 7 | 2271 | <p>I want to uninstall Kubuntu and install Ubuntu, but I want to completely clear former installation first. How do I do it most unharmfully?</p>
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15240 | 1 | 15824 | 2010-11-28T10:42:51.313 | 9 | 8994 | <p>I want to change my network monitor applet to this <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/3xoNF.png" alt="alt text"> icon.Currently my network monitor applet has this icon <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/gRSDb.png" alt="alt text">.I am using ubuntu 10.04,how to do this?</p>
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15243 | 1 | null | 2010-11-28T11:56:28.420 | 7 | 520 | <p>I have an amazon micro instance which runs one or two things for me. The config is minimal, it mainly acts as a host for a java application and couchdb.</p>
<p>I tried to install curl today and got this message:</p>
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15244 | 1 | null | 2010-11-28T12:21:10.500 | 5 | 5173 | <p>I have created a screen, but can I now somehow execute a command that will run commands in the detached screen?</p>
<p>I do not even know if this is possible, but if it is, it will probably be something simple and easy for you.</p>
<p>Thank you for your effort.</p>
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15245 | 1 | null | 2010-11-28T12:34:00.867 | 5 | 858 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/how-to-get-broadcom-bcm-43xx-wireless-card-working">How to get Broadcom BCM 43XX Wireless card working</a> </p>
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15250 | 1 | 15253 | 2010-11-28T13:12:10.553 | 4 | 414 | <p>As it is well known, it is recommended that the system administrator login to the system using a normal user (non-root). When the admin needs to do privileged tasks, <code>sudo</code> can be used to become superuser. Before gaining the requested privileges, the admin will be prompted to enter the <strong>SAME</stro... | 5927 | null | null | 2010-11-28T14:14:47.137 | Securing system admin account | [
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15254 | 1 | null | 2010-11-28T14:01:50.717 | 1 | 8057 | <p>I have installed <strong>vmware toolbox</strong> in Ubuntu (guest OS). I tried to share a location from the settings of the virtual machine. But when I click Ok, the following error in thrown in the host (Win 7) OS.</p>
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15255 | 1 | 15257 | 2010-11-28T14:04:08.157 | 3 | 12154 | <p>I have configured Back In Time and MySQL Administrator to make a backup every day at 15:00. In order to be sure I have installed Gnome Scheduler to see whether these two applications are registered there. They are registered in gnome scheduler but they don't perform back up operation.</p>
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15260 | 1 | 15261 | 2010-11-28T15:37:33.477 | 4 | 635 | <p>I am trying to figure out what is going on with pulseaudio on my computer because almost every 20 seconds of listening to a song it freezes.</p>
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15262 | 1 | 15438 | 2010-11-28T16:10:26.913 | 67 | 73183 | <p>Is there an equivalent to gconf-editor for GSettings/dconf?</p>
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15263 | 1 | 15303 | 2010-11-28T16:38:36.790 | 7 | 612 | <p>When Banshee downloads podcasts to the 'Podcasts' folder, it marks that folder as read only. This is a problem when I want to sync them to my Android smartphone and I am unable to listen to them because of this permission setting. I am able to change the permissions of the folder manually, but when it updates the fe... | null | null | null | 2010-12-13T18:41:04.787 | How can I stop banshee from downloading podcasts as 'read only' | [
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