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15944 | 1 | 16438 | 2010-12-02T20:47:13.163 | 7 | 1198 | <p>I have a mysql server, ubuntu server 10.04.
It works great and we're really happy about it.</p>
<p>Time for updates has come and I am sincerely scared: can I do a <code>sudo apt-get dist-upgrade</code> with light heart?
I thought that maybe using just security updates would be safer or I'm just preoccupied about nothing?</p>
<p>In one single question: can I cause problems to production by updating my ubuntu server?</p>
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15948 | 1 | 15951 | 2010-12-02T21:06:34.220 | 6 | 140 | <p>I think it would be beneficial to have the <a href="http://scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html" rel="nofollow">Cardo</a> font included in Ubuntu's official repositories.</p>
<p>Where can I make this kind of request?</p>
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15957 | 1 | 16350 | 2010-12-02T21:56:10.167 | 4 | 18533 | <p>I set up a dhcpd on my ubuntu server with this configuration:
please note that the ubuntu server which runs the dhcpd has a static ip
of 192.168.1.50</p>
<pre><code>default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
option routers 192.168.1.50;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.50;
option netbios-name-servers 192.168.1.50;
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<p>Now when I try to get an ip from the dhcpd server from my ubuntu client computer the server offers an ip from the pool of 192.168.1.150 but the client doesn't seem to pick it up, instead it fires new requests until a timeout occurs:</p>
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Sending on LPF/eth0/00:24:8c:1d:fb:40
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on eth0 to 195.130.132.102 port 67
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:24:8c:1d:fb:40
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:24:8c:1d:fb:40
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.150 from 192.168.1.50
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.150 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.150 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.150 from 192.168.1.50
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.150 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.150 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.150 from 192.168.1.50
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.150 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.150 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
...
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<p>tcpdump information:</p>
<pre><code>tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
19:04:18.431422 IP 94.227.60.1.67 > 255.255.255.255.68: BOOTP/DHCP, Reply, length 300
19:05:10.316903 IP 94.224.188.1.67 > 255.255.255.255.68: BOOTP/DHCP, Reply, length 300
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<p>iptables information is the same for both server and client:</p>
<pre><code>Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
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<p>Any ideas??</p>
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15960 | 1 | 15974 | 2010-12-02T22:41:40.993 | 8 | 2772 | <p>I saw in default gnome theme icons when I clicked right the mouse. The icons are very useful for orientation in the menu.<br>
See the picture below. How can I add some icons to standard ubuntu theme?</p>
<p>If there no icon pack how can I add my own icons?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5pOKT.png" alt="alt text"></p>
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<p>What am I doing wrong?</p>
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15967 | 1 | 16487 | 2010-12-02T23:43:06.747 | 5 | 575 | <p>When I view an audiobook in the Internet Archive 'store' in Banshee, there is no option to add it to my library, or even to download the files. I can still stream these files but because I can't view them in my library, I can't get them onto my mp3 player. I am however able to download the files if I do so directly from archive.org.</p>
<p>Is this just a missing feature, or is there actually a reason for this?</p>
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15968 | 1 | null | 2010-12-03T00:19:37.750 | 9 | 10962 | <p>with what software i can split the screen of a video? putting like 3 videos at the same time in one video....here is an example of what i want to do
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JynWHMAQrHQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JynWHMAQrHQ</a></p>
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<p>This command would list all the appointments in google calendar on the 2nd of december if entered in the terminal. However I do not know how to make python gtk do the same thing. Any help would be appreciated.</p>
<p><em>Googlecl is a command line tool released by google to facilate easy management of common tasks like google calendar, google blogger, google docs etc. You can find more info on <strong>code.google.com/p/googlecl/</strong></em></p>
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15971 | 1 | null | 2010-12-03T00:30:22.433 | 9 | 17326 | <p>Not sure if this is an appropriate question for this site, since it's not really specific to Ubuntu. Those who feel it isn't should probably respond to my <a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4500/getting-visual-feedback-of-workspace-switch-in-xfce">crosspost on the Unix and Linux stackexchange site</a>. Sorry for any confusion, I'm still negotiating the borderlines between these sites (and superuser.com, where I <a href="https://superuser.com/questions/217636/getting-visual-feedback-of-workspace-switch-in-xfce">also crossposted</a>). I guess we all are.</p>
<p>I make heavy use of workspaces, and have a lot of them (a 6x4 grid). I usually run openbox, but am currently using a machine that doesn't have openbox set up, so I'm using xfce because it's already mostly configured to my liking. I've gotten used to getting visual feedback when I switch workspaces, showing me which one I've just moved to, and am finding myself a bit disoriented in xfce. In openbox this is a big heads-up display, which is pretty much ideal. I'm aware that the workspace switcher panel applet will highlight the active workspace, but this only seems to work for workspaces which have some desktop space showing; since I generally have all my windows maximized, this isn't super helpful.</p>
<p>Is there a way to enable visual feedback showing the new workspace when switching workspaces in xfce?</p>
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15979 | 1 | 233738 | 2010-12-03T03:06:54.953 | 7 | 4172 | <p>I need a GUI application that shows the binary representation of text, using binary numbers, not hexadecimal numbers. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>For example, the program should convert the text <code>Hi</code> to <code>1001000 1101001</code>.</p>
<p>I would prefer a graphical application to a command-line utility.</p>
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15981 | 1 | 15983 | 2010-12-03T04:07:58.180 | 8 | 394 | <p>I know in a lot of source control tracking systems (Redmine, Trac, Jira) you can add magic words like <code>resolves #1234</code> in your commit message to have the bug updated to a certain status. Is there a feature like this with Launchpad - if so where, or what, is the list of magic keywords?</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.redmine.org/issues/6987" rel="nofollow">http://www.redmine.org/issues/6987</a> has two "Associated Revisions"</p>
<p>They're associated because the commit message has <strong>Fixed: Wiki#find_page should not be case sensitive because page title uniqueness is not (#6987).</strong> The combination of <em>Fixed</em> as a keyword and <em>#6987</em>, bug's unique ID, automatically updated the associated ticked to fixed.</p>
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15982 | 1 | null | 2010-12-03T04:09:07.913 | 9 | 821 | <p>Is it possible to use Easystroke (or other program) without an initiate key?</p>
<p>Because there is no key for it on the tablet (JooJoo). </p>
<p>I hope you know what i try to explain. --> mouse gestures in Black&White (the game) - style :-D</p>
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15986 | 1 | null | 2010-12-03T05:26:24.460 | 4 | 10717 | <p>In an effort to clean up from a software bug in md, I marked half of a RAID (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 in RAID1) as faulty using:</p>
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<p>But now I want to use the "failed" half instead. i.e. instead of using <code>/dev/sda1</code>, I want to use <code>/dev/sdb1</code>, but mdadm refuses to bring it online:</p>
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<p>This fails, as it considers <code>/dev/sdb1</code> a "spare" and not an actual member of the array any more.</p>
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"text": "@Gilles I taught my edit make the post easier to read. ` w3m-el Install w3m-el` is not good IMO and ` w3m-el (Install w3m-el)` is better. and is this sentence OK? `Its interface is nothing do write home about.`. If you think they are unnecessary then alright. Thanks god we have history in stack.",
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"text": "@sajjadG The format `[NAME](http://packages.ubuntu.com/NAME) [](http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/NAME)` is one that we standardize on on the site, see [How to post links that integrate with the Software Center?](http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/548/how-to-post-links-that-integrate-with-the-software-center/). I just noticed the typo in “nothing to write home about”. This is a common English idiom, if you're not familiar with it please look it up instead of replacing it by clumsy English.",
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15994 | 1 | 16003 | 2010-12-03T08:08:35.570 | 0 | 115 | <p>I use GRASS GIS 6.4.1 SVN version for my work. I keep the code in a directory inside my home directory. Today I updated it with svn up command and configured using the following command.</p>
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<p>However I got one error in the make process in one d.rast module. Therefore, as instructed I changed to that directory and ran 'make' command. Now I get the following bunch of errors.</p>
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gcc -I/home/chethan/Applications/grass64_release/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include -g -O2 -DPACKAGE=\""grassmods"\" -I/home/chethan/Applications/grass64_release/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include -o OBJ.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/main.o -c main.c
main.c: In function ‘main’:
main.c:89: error: ‘flag_n’ undeclared (first use in this function)
main.c:89: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
main.c:89: error: for each function it appears in.)
make: *** [OBJ.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/main.o] Error 1
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<p>I have no clue as to why these errors arise. What should I do now?</p>
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16001 | 1 | 16012 | 2010-12-03T08:53:02.617 | 37 | 34619 | <p>Are there any interface mockup design applications for Ubuntu? I need one in order to design programs or interfaces (internet sites and more).</p>
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16004 | 1 | 16045 | 2010-12-03T09:19:24.133 | 1 | 466 | <p>I have uploaded some music folders from my computer to my Ubuntu One storage. I want to know if there is a way to have those folders moved into another folder I created or have them sync to that folder in Ubuntu One. Thanks.</p>
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16007 | 1 | 18503 | 2010-12-03T10:20:49.517 | 5 | 5260 | <p>During the Ubuntu Server setup, I was given a choice to install a 'targeted' initrd with only the modules my computer needs. I chose the other option, 'generic'. How can I install a 'targeted' initrd now that I've already installed my system?</p>
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16011 | 1 | 16030 | 2010-12-03T11:10:03.993 | 3 | 470 | <p>Why is the hibernation performance (i.e the time taken to hibernate and wake up) on my laptop so poor with Ubuntu? This isn't a criticism <em>per se</em> but I'd be interested to know if there was a particular reason why it was so slow. </p>
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16014 | 1 | null | 2010-12-03T11:39:19.600 | 1 | 1250 | <p>Something strange happening to me is that some sites see firefox as a mobile browser on ubuntu and force usage of their mobile interface with no option to switch to full view. They work well with chrome on ubuntu and firfox on windows. </p>
<p>So how can i solve this problem ? </p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> </p>
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<li><p>Example site:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shorouknews.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.shorouknews.com</a> (It's an Arabic news website) </p></li>
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<p>Please note that the site works well on Chrome in ubuntu and Firfox on windows.</p>
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16015 | 1 | null | 2010-12-03T11:54:57.950 | 15 | 5617 | <p>I have two questions... </p>
<p>Firstly, is the communication between my Ubuntu desktop and the Ubuntu One cloud encrypted? </p>
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16017 | 1 | 16025 | 2010-12-03T12:09:55.483 | 2 | 1234 | <p>I was installing ubuntu 10.10 to my friend laptop, but when trying to set up effects, I got an error. Then I tried to install proprietary drivers, but this card is too old and no longer supported. :( Please help.</p>
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16021 | 1 | 16028 | 2010-12-03T12:31:24.627 | 3 | 329 | <p>I'm a webdeveloper and using ubuntu 10.10 maverick. I want to track down a bug that appears in firefox 3.0, but not 3.5/3.6. Is there an easy way to install firefox 3.0 without it overwriting/clobbering my main install of firefox? i.e. I want to install both 3.0 and 3.6 at the same time</p>
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16022 | 1 | 16023 | 2010-12-03T12:35:35.147 | 5 | 574 | <p>I've just noticed that I have 342 MB of log files in <code>/var/log</code> </p>
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<p>As I'm only running a home desktop environment, I can't see how I need this amount of "history", and perhaps don't need <strong>bootchart</strong> at all. </p>
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16031 | 1 | 16034 | 2010-12-03T13:29:56.027 | 16 | 528 | <p>Whenever I boot into Ubuntu, <em>something</em> (frankly, I'm not sure which program does that) creates a bunch of directories, namely <strong><em>~/Music</em></strong>, <strong><em>~/Videos</em></strong>, <strong><em>~/Documents</em></strong>, and <strong><em>~/Audiobooks</em></strong>. </p>
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16032 | 1 | 16033 | 2010-12-03T13:30:45.713 | 1 | 809 | <p>i want to know how can i possibly keep me secured from forgery sites. i am currently using mozilla 3.7 </p>
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16036 | 1 | 16037 | 2010-12-03T13:51:31.717 | 37 | 60567 | <p>I need to tag my MP3 library, and have tried kid3 (which was manual tagging), when I used Kubuntu 9.10 (I now use <strong>Ubuntu Meerkat</strong>) Here are the features I am hoping for:</p>
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<li>Tagging should be automatic, like Winamp's autotag feature, which rocks, btw!</li>
<li>It should also embed the cover-art in the mp3, not copy a jpeg file in the folder, because now-a-days all players support displaying cover art. But acceptable if not possible.</li>
<li>Rename the files as per some regular expression like %TrackNo - %Artist - %Title. </li>
<li>Should be accurate, and more importantly smart. I want to start tagging at night, and hopefully my collection should be done by the morning, w/o it being stuck at a user prompt at 1%.</li>
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<p>If one app cant do all, I am willing to use 3, wouldn't mind exposure to a few more apps ;)</p>
<p>I have used picard or someting, and I didnt like it quite a lot. But wouldn't mind using it, if there is no other alternative. </p>
<p>Thanks for your time!</p>
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<p>So I use ntfs-config to manage the disk partition, it's mounted when system is startup. And the permission of all files and directories are 777.</p>
<p>Then I modified the /etc/passwd to set the home folder to the folder on the ntfs partition. I can successfully login the account, however it looks like the .bashrc and .profile are not loaded correctly. I can't use the input method(even can't configure ibus), no sound device. However everything works well after changing the home folder back to /home/.</p>
<p>Could anybody give me a hint to make it work? Thanks.</p>
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16042 | 1 | 16049 | 2010-12-03T15:04:21.913 | 448 | 1425198 | <p>My system is <strong>not</strong> dual-boot, I run a standard Ubuntu desktop system "on the metal" (I think running it in a VM is the same).</p>
<p>Pressing <kbd>c</kbd> while booting does not cause the GRUB menu to appear (which I believe it does for a dual-boot system).</p>
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16043 | 1 | 16047 | 2010-12-03T15:11:19.183 | 1 | 902 | <p>I had installed and loved AWN, and had removed my last panel using <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/8912/how-do-i-delete-my-last-panel">these instructions</a>. Everything was wonderful. However, apparently I was using an AWN package for Lucid - I'm on Maverick. After a recent run of the update manager, AWN was removed, and I now have no access to anything - can't get at any of my applications or folders. The only reason I'm able to even write this message is because I had installed the unity netbook packages to play with, so I restarted and booted into a netbook edition session.</p>
<p>Can someone help me get my desktop edition back? Is there a keyboard shortcut I don't know about to run a terminal window? I assume if I could get into terminal, I could reverse the instructions about hiding the last panel, and once I have a panel I could add the applications menu back, and then from there try to find a version of AWN that works on Maverick.</p>
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Javier's answer below did get me back into the GUI with a panel that I was able to add the applications menu to. However, here's what I found. When I go into the software center to install AWN, it turns out I had previously installed it using a PPA that I found on launchpad, called PPA for AWN Testing Team (that's what shows up in the software center.) When I try to install AWN directly through the software center, it tells me I need to remove several packages that apparently got left behind (libawn1-trunk, python-awn-extras-trunk, and python-awn-trunk.) When I go into the PPA in the software center, I do see those packages, but clicking Remove doesn't actually do anything. It's like they're stuck. I tried to get into Synaptic to remove the packages from there, but when I try to run it from the applications menu, I get this error:</p>
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<p>An example for clarity:<br>
I want to write a script here (<em>foo.sh</em>) that takes an argument. If I run <code>./foo.sh 0</code> it should somehow send a shutdown signal to the server machine, but if I run <code>./foo.sh 1</code> it should send a restart signal.</p>
<p>I know how to manually login via ssh, and I've already set ssh-keys to skip passwords, but I don't know how to automate the procedure with a script.</p>
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16058 | 1 | 16059 | 2010-12-03T16:28:51.867 | 10 | 2241 | <p>Hello
I was wondering if it's possible to make Dropbox sync my ~/Documents folder? I'm on Ubuntu 10.10 netbook remix (Not that NBR should matter that much). I've read how to do this on Windows, and I was wondering if it's possible to do it on Ubuntu as well. Thanks in advance.</p>
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16060 | 1 | null | 2010-12-03T16:49:53.380 | 0 | 2060 | <p>How can I create an image (.iso) that contains:
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16061 | 1 | 16176 | 2010-12-03T16:51:18.513 | 1 | 188 | <p>I noticed the time is about 7 hours off, If I fix it, restart the time will be off again, anyway to permanently fix the time on the USB Flash Drive?</p>
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16066 | 1 | 16067 | 2010-12-03T17:16:38.233 | 4 | 687 | <p>I am facing a weird problem that my system clocks resets to jan 1 2007 to 0:00. Can anybody help me to rectify it? </p>
<p>The bios show the same time. What should I do?</p>
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16073 | 1 | null | 2010-12-03T17:38:57.067 | 2 | 1072 | <p>I am currently using code blocks 10.05 as a C++ compiler but I am facing a problem during building of source code (compiling) . </p>
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16077 | 1 | 16080 | 2010-12-03T17:47:16.407 | 4 | 4194 | <p>I just purchased a Dell Inspiron 15R and use Ubuntu as my primary operating system. Well I tried to install all of the following without any success:</p>
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16085 | 1 | 16087 | 2010-12-03T19:07:18.977 | 8 | 121 | <p>I think the question is clear enough. One thing though, I'm interested in the programming part not something else. </p>
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16086 | 1 | 16090 | 2010-12-03T19:17:07.207 | 11 | 16659 | <p>Could you please suggest me a good anonymous internet browsing application for Ubuntu?</p>
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"text": "@karthick87: Tor is no longer in Ubuntu repositories -- it's necessary to add repository from torproject.org as mentioned here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tor",
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"text": "@t3ch Privoxy is an HTTP proxy that sits in front of Tor and strips out a lot of potentially-identifying information. Polipo is another alternative that may be preferred these days. Tor is preferred for pretty much any platform; everyone using Tor helps Tor's ability to anonymize. You might also consider installing Vidalia, a GUI for starting and controlling Tor.",
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<p>I remember using a website that graphed this, but I don't know if it still exist. </p>
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16101 | 1 | 16103 | 2010-12-03T21:52:53.183 | 1 | 942 | <p>When I start computer; or resume from standby; for few minutes firefox address bar does not offer autocomplete. After few minutes, every works normally. </p>
<p>ubuntu maverick<br>
firefox 3.6.12 that came with ubuntu, updated through apt-get<br>
laptop thinkpad t60p</p>
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16104 | 1 | 16126 | 2010-12-03T22:29:00.467 | 17 | 21436 | <p>I'm sure it might be a very easy way to do this, but I haven't found how...
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<p>Is it required to do something else when sharing the folder through Nautilus?</p>
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16105 | 1 | 252103 | 2010-12-03T23:05:17.580 | 117 | 252578 | <p>Is there anyway to get an error log for a failed VPN connection attempt? All I get is this notification and I have no idea where to go from there.</p>
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16106 | 1 | 16110 | 2010-12-03T23:06:12.587 | 36 | 44537 | <p>I frequently run the <code>ls</code> command after running the <code>cd</code> command. How can I create an alias (like <code>cs</code>) for this operation?</p>
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16112 | 1 | 16200 | 2010-12-03T23:44:29.217 | 10 | 3938 | <p>I try to test natty alpha with usb. (my system is 10.04) But when I run disk creator I can not choose the option for persistent creation. Here on screenshots I saw that this is possible. Choosing the second option "Burn your CD or create a USB drive"</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download</a><br>
When I create live usb without persistent options I can not activate my nvidia drivers and 3D support for unity because after restart settings are lost.
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/SX66s.jpg" alt="alt text"></p>
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"body": "<p>Maybe you are experiencing this <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/557775\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">bug</a>? See if the workaround described in <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/557775/comments/4\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">comment #4</a> works for you:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I came up with a workaround:</p>\n<p>Copy your ISO image to /tmp or\nsomewhere else not automatically\ndestected by usb-creator.</p>\n<p>Choose 'Other' and select that ISO</p>\n<p>Select that image from the listing</p>\n<p>Now it's not greyed out anymore and\nyou can also go back to select your\noriginal image and it will be good.</p>\n<p>Voilá!</p>\n</blockquote>\n",
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16117 | 1 | 16134 | 2010-12-04T03:53:23.200 | 4 | 565 | <p>First, read <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-12/03/wwf-file-format" rel="nofollow">this</a> article. Second, are there plans to build support for this format into Ubuntu? For example, print to file support, support from Evince, etc.</p>
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16118 | 1 | null | 2010-12-04T03:54:30.357 | 1 | 181 | <p>I want to use one of these on a video:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8jZyQ.png" alt="screenshot"></p>
<p>I can't even find <em>linear</em> adjustments in the video editor that is included with Ubuntu.</p>
<p>This should be trivial. What have I missed?</p>
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16125 | 1 | null | 2010-12-04T05:18:00.653 | 0 | 547 | <p>The Me Menu on the top panel does not let me type a status to post to Gwibber or Pidgin. It simply is a grayed-out box that says "Post message..." I cannot type into it. Also, the status selector only works (not grayed out) when Pidgin is logged in; I cannot go from offline to available. </p>
<p>I already tried re-installing indicator-session, indicator-applet-session, indicator-me, gwibber, and gwibber-service, and removing and re-adding the applet.</p>
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** (gwibber:7611): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowActions' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags'
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<p>It doesn't seem very helpful that I'm the only one with permission to read the report. Do I need to now track down someone else to look through it?</p>
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16137 | 1 | 16138 | 2010-12-04T08:12:02.647 | -2 | 8351 | <p>I installed debian 5 + LXDE and I was surprised that without an application running it used less than 50 MB of RAM and with Firefox and OpenOffice running it still used less than 100 MB of RAM. Ubuntu + LXDE with Firefox and OpenOffice running uses much more RAM. Why is that?</p>
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16143 | 1 | 16148 | 2010-12-04T10:32:02.543 | 2 | 4702 | <p>i want to start a bash script in ubuntu after boot. But the script should run first after wlan0 device is connected to my wifi.</p>
<p>How can i achieve this?</p>
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16145 | 1 | 16146 | 2010-12-04T10:42:25.257 | 13 | 5043 | <p>I've got a friend that I trust enough to give ssh access to one of my servers. To this end, I've created a user account for him.</p>
<p>The box is accessible by key authentication only, not passwords. I've created a private key for that account, but if I send it to him over email, we kinda lose the point of the strong(er) security</p>
<p>What's the best way of giving him access to this account without having to resort back to password authentication?</p>
<p>Additional difficulties : he's on a Windows box, but easy enough to install PuTTY</p>
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16149 | 1 | 16151 | 2010-12-04T11:43:08.490 | 30 | 52679 | <p>For a bash timer i use this code:</p>
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<p>That gives me something like that </p>
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<p>Is there a possibility to replace the last value of second by the most recent so that the output doesn't generate a large trail but the seconds countdown like a real time at one position? (Hope you understand what i mean :))</p>
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16159 | 1 | null | 2010-12-04T13:28:47.300 | 2 | 537 | <p>I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10. When Firefox or my photo album is open the sound in Rhythmbox cracks and cuts like someone scratching a disc with a needle. On its own or with Evolution open the sound is fluid and entirely undisturbed. How can I fix this?</p>
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<p>The problem is the script should be only executed once a day.
So when the script recognizes that it already has been executed today it should stop itself. How can i do this?</p>
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16162 | 1 | 16163 | 2010-12-04T14:01:38.930 | 1 | 6705 | <p>In a file i have a string like this which is the date of today</p>
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<p>now i wanna use a if condition to check if the date of today exists in this file and if that's the case i want stop the bash script. if the date is not in this file. the script should run.
How can i do this?</p>
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16164 | 1 | 16171 | 2010-12-04T14:33:08.517 | 4 | 7410 | <p>I use the daily ppa build of Chromium. The daily build uses a <a href="http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=59825" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PNG I believe instead of an SVG</a>, so it looks rather horrid on my dock.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1yQAe.png" alt="Blurry Chromium Icon "></p>
<p>And zoomed in:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/OmvgK.png" alt="alt text"></p>
<p>(Not too sure why the icon is getting clipped in this screenshot, I did a select area method which perhaps has made it funky. Anyway, you get the idea!)</p>
<p>So after every update, I have to manually go into /usr/share/applications and manually select an SVG Chromium icon for the Chromium launcher to use. Since Chromium uses the daily build, this is rather tedious to do following every update.</p>
<p>Is there a means / scripting method that can be put into place that will automatically change Chromium's icon following an update of Chromium?</p>
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"text": "Strangely, this didn't work for me: when I copied chromium-browser.desktop to my desktop, it turned into a generic \".desktop\" icon and wouldn't let me change it. Anyway, I managed to successfully achieve the correct icon by copying chromium-browser.svg to /usr/share/icons and ~/.icons. Thanks for the detailed answer though! (I probably just did something wrong I suppose)",
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"text": "Yes I think DoR's answer is a lot better than mine and usually there is more than One way to fry a fish when it comes to Ubuntu. One of the reasons I like it. And the more options you have the better when it comes to solving a problem. Plus I now know of 4 ways to change Icons in Ubuntu bonus!",
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"text": "Ah there we go! Though by the way, I did get the following error when attempting to copy: $ cp ~/Desktop/chromium-browser.desktop ~/local/share/applications\ncp: cannot create regular file `/home/peter/local/share/applications': No such file or directory\nbut manually copying worked! Thanks both of you! Edit Number 2: Unfortunately now there is a working launcher of Chromium, but it launches a separate Chromium icon (fuzzy)! Clearly this is an issue with Docky I suppose...",
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"text": "@Magic My bad, there was a missing `.` in that command. When you manually copied the launcher, did you copy it to ~/.local/share...(with the `.`)\nor ~/local/share... (no `.`)?",
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16167 | 1 | 16412 | 2010-12-04T15:16:18.723 | 6 | 9453 | <p>Recently I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 and selected a wrong option while installing it. </p>
<p>Now the problem is that my machine directly boots Ubuntu and even does not show me grub menu.</p>
<p>How do I install grub menu ?</p>
<p>And how do I add Windows Vista to the grub menu?</p>
<p>This is what I have tried.</p>
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> setup (hd0)
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<p>I don't know what's going wrong here and I am sure that I have not wiped out my windows partition.</p>
<p><strong>Edit :</strong> </p>
<pre><code>sudo update-grub
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
ls: cannot access /media/BC54B2C654B282A6/boot
Boot: No such file or directory
done
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<pre><code>sudo os-prober
ls: cannot access /media/BC54B2C654B282A6/boot
Boot: No such file or directory
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<p>Thanks.</p>
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16172 | 1 | 16283 | 2010-12-04T15:59:14.570 | 14 | 10691 | <p>I'm using 32 bit ubuntu 10.10 and the latest version of the NVidia drivers for an ION GPU and have downloaded the new 10.2 flash beta.</p>
<p>I can confirm that in firefox I am using the beta of flash but no hardware acceleration is used for flash videos.</p>
<p>Do I need to install some more libraries?
Change Desktop manager?</p>
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"body": "<p>After a bit of research I can answer my own question. The full way to get flash using the an nvidia ion gpu on ubuntu 10.10:</p>\n\n<p>Install the new flash 10.2 beta:</p>\n\n<pre><code>wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_2_p2_32bit_linux_111710.tar.gz\ntar zxvf flashplayer10_2_p2_32bit_linux_111710.tar.gz\nsudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>You may need to also replace flash in other locations if you have installed in multiple places (try using 'locate libflashplayer.so' for a complete list)</p>\n\n<p>Then for gpu support you also need (this was the bit I was missing):</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install libvdpau1\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>If you also want it working in chrome try:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/15819/can-you-use-the-new-beta-adobe-flash-10-2-in-google-chrome\">Can you use the new beta Adobe Flash 10.2 in Google Chrome</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"http://lifehacker.com/5705588/how-to-get-the-flash-102-beta-working-in-google-chrome\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">http://lifehacker.com/5705588/how-to-get-the-flash-102-beta-working-in-google-chrome</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>To verify it is working go to a high-def you-tube video and play it. While it is playing right click and select - video info. You should see \"Accelerated Video Rendering\" if it has worked.</p>\n\n<p>These instructions worked on my acer revo with a nvidia ion gpu.</p>\n\n<p>Also on my blog with more links: <a href=\"http://decodify.blogspot.com/2010/12/getting-flash-102-beta-gpu-acceleration.html\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">http://decodify.blogspot.com/2010/12/getting-flash-102-beta-gpu-acceleration.html</a></p>\n",
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16173 | 1 | 16262 | 2010-12-04T16:01:41.127 | 4 | 821 | <p>I'm using <code>notify-send</code> to get notifications. Since yesterday, it stopped working.
After a reboot, I could get a few messages through, but a minute later I can't any more. I have spammed it with a few hundred messages and killed it, but as I said - I've rebooted since.</p>
<p>Killing and restarting the Process at <code>/usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd</code> gives me a warning, "Another instance has already registered org.freedesktop.Notifications", and subsequently "Could not register instance".</p>
<p>Note that the notifications from Banshee come through no problem. It's - as far as I can tell - only <code>notify-send</code> that doesn't work properly; There isn't any output from it about what could be wrong either.</p>
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Hello
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by 'The Beatles' from 'Abbey Road (2009 Stereo Remaster)'
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<p>Only the first one didn't appear on the screen; The command I ran was <code>notify-send Test Hello</code>.</p>
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<p>The problem seems to be related to Totem, or at least any application - as DoR suggested - that inhibits the screen saver from being started.</p>
<p>Here's how to replicate the problem:</p>
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<li>Start Totem, make sure "disable screen saver while playing [all]" is enabled</li>
<li>Let it play something for as long as the idle time-out for the screen saver</li>
<li>Try to <code>notify-send</code></li>
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<p>I can now reproduce the problem consistently, so I should really file a bug.</p>
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16177 | 1 | 16933 | 2010-12-04T16:57:40.740 | 3 | 14000 | <p>Recently I was faced with a weird problem on my samba server (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS am64) when all shares were "suddenly" inaccessible to the clients. Tracking down the error revealed that <code>smbd</code> was not started on boot-up. From the syslog:</p>
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Dec 4 12:28:45 takkat-home dhclient:
Dec 4 12:28:45 takkat-home NetworkManager: <info> DHCP: device eth0 state changed (null) -> preinit
Dec 4 12:28:45 takkat-home init: smbd main process (1027) terminated with status 255
Dec 4 12:28:45 takkat-home init: smbd main process ended, respawning
Dec 4 12:28:45 takkat-home dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:24:1d:25:40:e4
Dec 4 12:28:45 takkat-home dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:24:1d:25:40:e4
Dec 4 12:28:45 takkat-home dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback
Dec 4 12:28:45 takkat-home avahi-daemon[917]: No service file found in /etc/avahi/services.
Dec 4 12:28:45 takkat-home init: smbd main process (1045) terminated with status 255
Dec 4 12:28:45 takkat-home init: smbd main process ended, respawning
Dec 4 12:28:45 takkat-home init: smbd main process (1050) terminated with status 255
Dec 4 12:28:45 takkat-home init: smbd main process ended, respawning
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<p>and smbd.log:</p>
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[2010/12/04 12:28:45, 0] smbd/server.c:1069(main)
smbd version 3.4.7 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009
[2010/12/04 12:28:45, 0] printing/print_cups.c:103(cups_connect)
Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost:631 - Connection refused
[2010/12/04 12:28:45, 0] printing/print_cups.c:103(cups_connect)
Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost:631 - Connection refused
[2010/12/04 12:28:45, 0] smbd/server.c:1115(main)
standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
[2010/12/04 12:28:45, 0] passdb/pdb_interface.c:253(guest_user_info)
guest_user_info: Unable to locate guest account [guest]!
[2010/12/04 12:28:45, 0] smbd/server.c:1201(main)
ERROR: failed to setup guest info.
[2010/12/04 12:28:45, 0] smbd/server.c:1069(main)
smbd version 3.4.7 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2009
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<p>it was clear that smbd crashed. </p>
<p>Before that I did not change anything to the samba configuration, did not install anything but security updates and did not create or delete any new users. Today, I got everything repaired and running smooth as usual by simply running</p>
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<p>The crashes on boot are gone and shares are available to clients again.</p>
<p>Still, I have no clue what process was responsible for this behaviour and I am worried on how to avoid this in the future. Any ideas of what process could be made responsible for smbd crashing would be much appreciated. Also I'd be interested to hear what restarting smbd could possibly have repaired and if this was a good idea to do at all.</p>
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"text": "...and it protects you from transforming trivial errors in disasters. I am an Unix user/adm since 1990, but still I can surely slip a space in the exact wrong place doing a `rm -rf tmp/tests/*`...",
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"text": "1.) Most people will consider their home directory as more important than root dirs, for the former cannot be re-installed. So I don't see your point. 2.) In terms of security, you are right. But coming from windows (where there is WAY more malware around), where I've used the admin account since ever (as many do), I have a hard time considering this a real danger. I am just too lazy to type `sudo` and my password for every second command in Linux. Aren't Linux users supposed to be lazy?????",
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"text": "@LazyPower thanks for editing your answer, but now I dont understand it anymore. For modifying my private Ubuntu ~ folder, programs dont need sudo rights. Rhythmbox **CAN** wipe out my entire $HOME/Music directory! And that is all I care about! How is this related to root permissions?",
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"text": "That's a good call out @Blauhirn. I just sent in a follow-up edit to reflect we don't want it deleting the entirety of /usr. In terms of protecting your $HOME folders, nothing like a good backup can help you. I don't think this particular scenario would be related to security as much as good practice. Thanks again for the callout.",
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"text": "@Blauhirn And you think that a compromised system can't pose a risk to your personal data? Think again. And no user of any system should be lazy; any one who is lazy when working at a computer is asking for trouble. And that incidentally includes not backing up your file systems (esp your /home and specific other *directories* which hopefully /home is on a different volume than your system...).",
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"text": "@Pryftan after your logic, youd also need backups of /usr, /bin etc. All I say is that sudo protects the wrong stuff. I feel that for a desktop computer, `~` is more important than `/etc`. I can get keyloggers in gnome autostart or have my data modified or read without sudo protecting anything. Once a malicious program has access to my home folder, I dont care if it also has access to the admin content (I think you didnt see my second comment).",
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"text": "@Pryftan ...Yes, we can encrypt /home, put it on different volumes, blabla. This is not about individual steps, it is about the obligatory need to protect admin data but ignore snoops on home data. Finally, no, `any one who is lazy when working at a computer is asking for trouble` I disagree. Yes, you need to make backups. You should also deeply care for your security. But laziness can lead to great innovation. I automize many things in bash scripts because Im too lazy to type them in 10 times in a row. Is that a bad thing?",
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"text": "@Blauhirn Making scripts and programs to do things doesn't equate to laziness; it equates to efficiency. That's the beauty of do one thing well: you can do things that the designers didn't even imagine. And I wouldn't say you'd need a backup of /bin but definitely parts of /usr. 'Unwilling to work or use energy.' 'Characterized by lack of effort or activity.' Automatic: '(of a device or process) working by itself with little or no direct human control.' Even OED disagrees with you.",
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"text": "@Blauhirn And you missed the point I was making, anyway, since given you say the home directory is more important than *`/etc`*. Problem is I wasn't saying home directory isn't important. I was saying that the rest of it has a risk too if you don't really care about it. False sense of security is one point but not the only. For that matter /var also has some things you might want to backup as does /root as does... But that's really besides the point I was making. To clarify a point: sudo is for something else, yes, but being privileged always could also be a risk to /home.",
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<p>Thanks!</p>
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16205 | 1 | null | 2010-12-04T19:36:52.123 | 8 | 4036 | <p>Is there any way i can connect to my account via FTP (gFTP)? wget would help?</p>
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16211 | 1 | null | 2010-12-04T20:36:30.207 | 9 | 47890 | <p>I want to install ppa packages in a <code>sudo apt-get install <program></code> style. I don't want to google for the ppa name and I don't want to execute <code>add-apt-repository</code> before executing apt-get. I just want to install a ppa package with one command like <code>ppa install vim</code> to get the newest vim ppa version.</p>
<p>Can you recommend me a tool?</p>
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16223 | 1 | null | 2010-12-04T22:26:24.543 | 3 | 481 | <p>Running 10.04 and 10.10 (maybe before these) I've noticed that for some dialogs to accept input the mouse cursor must be in the parent window. This is the case even though from the window highlighting the dialog box is in focus.</p>
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16224 | 1 | 16226 | 2010-12-04T22:37:10.513 | 3 | 289 | <p>Not sure if there is a specific, objective answer to this question but I get the same everything I want to buy a piece of hardware and try to check if it's Ubuntu / Linux compatible:</p>
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<p>Thing is, the product usually does work flawlessly with Ubuntu. Why don't these people even mention that in the product specifications? Why do they always make it harder for the (admittedly small) Linux-using part of the population who want to buy their products?</p>
<p>It's not like including that information somewhere would cost them money, would it?</p>
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16225 | 1 | 16228 | 2010-12-04T22:40:12.373 | 404 | 342417 | <p>After a recent update, <code>ttf-mscorefonts-installer</code> prompted me to accept its license agreement.</p>
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│ END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR MICROSOFT SOFTWARE
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<p>For some reason my terminal will not allow me to accept, or for some reason I am pressing the wrong hotkey... I've tried every letter on the keyboard and <kbd>Enter</kbd> among others... I'm sure there is a very simple and obvious solution to this.</p>
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16230 | 1 | null | 2010-12-04T23:29:44.383 | 0 | 2593 | <p>Why won't it run on my Thinkpad T42?</p>
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16236 | 1 | 16237 | 2010-12-05T00:58:02.407 | 6 | 3390 | <p>Why doesn't the "% CPU" in System Monitor add up to 100? (% CPU is the third column on the following screenshot)</p>
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16239 | 1 | null | 2010-12-05T01:06:39.870 | 30 | 8039 | <p>I've been using Ubuntu for about five years now, and I still can't make it suspend when I want to. It's quite irritating that I can program up a storm, hack the machine in numerous other ways, and yet, and yet when I try to make it suspend or debug suspend, I fail miserably.</p>
<p>I need help. </p>
<p>Where do I begin to find the problem? What do I do to fix it? I'm placing a bounty on this, because I've literally lost hours of my life to this problem, and leaving my computer on ALL the time is terrible.</p>
<p>The symptoms:</p>
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<li>Pressing suspend brings my computer to a state where it has a blinking cursor, the fans are running, it seems that the HD has turned off (I think), and I can't do anything to bring it back from this state (short of a hard reboot).</li>
<li>Possibly related: My fans stay on even after a shutdown, and even then, I have to press the power button for five seconds before I can start it up again.</li>
<li>I don't know what logs to look at to debug the problem, and I imagine they'd get nuked on reboot anyway.</li>
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<p>Please, please help. This drives me completely nuts, and I've been living with it for over a year.</p>
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16241 | 1 | 16444 | 2010-12-05T01:47:04.987 | 4 | 3124 | <p>I already used a lot of Ubuntu versions, I started with 5.10. But eversince I had issues with the audio subsystem. No matter what hardware, currently I have two computers and both have issues. On my laptop I need to trigger the Speaker channel to get sound, on my Desktop, also Ubuntu 10.04/32 bit it took me also a lot of fiddling to get the sound working. Actually it just worked by accident. Although the input sound quality is still really bad. </p>
<p>Now I installed on another partition Ubuntu 10.04/64bit and sound is not working though the high level software stack seems to be fine. Pavucontrol registers sounds and shows the correct hardware but I can't hear a thing. (Except on the other output jacks, front panel and the other channel, I hear strange sounds.)</p>
<p>My question is: How can I learn to understand Ubuntu's soundsystem and be able to debug such problems myself?</p>
<p>And another question: Why is audio on Ubuntu so complicated? There must be tens of thousands of threads in online forums about these problems and I have already seen dozens of threads indicating no succesful solution. On the other hand there must be hundreds of problem solving guides but none of these is able to cover it all...</p>
<p>Thanks, Philip</p>
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16244 | 1 | null | 2010-12-05T03:02:39.987 | 0 | 942 | <p>I happily used 10.4 for abouit six months. When I upgraded to 10.10 my Update Manager stopped working and at last count there were about 250 updates lined up and waiting. Also my sound configurations misfired (It won't accept my Logitech headset.)</p>
<p>I tried to follow advice from some other forums which didn't work. I also tried all sorts of nonsense myself. I think that now the best thing to do would be to either erase or overwrite whatever is there and start over with 10.10 anew. I can either do without or save whatever might be lost. Most of my important stuff is in the Google cloud. What might the best way for me to get back to work? </p>
<p>Please help, I have had to go back to XP and it is driving me nuts.</p>
<p>Mike</p>
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16246 | 1 | 16247 | 2010-12-05T03:16:40.713 | 2 | 322 | <p>I am planning on getting rid of all my wired connections in the house and switching everything over to wifi. My question pertains specifically to desktop computers, <em>not</em> laptops! </p>
<p>So my questions are</p>
<p>1) What wifi cards are proven to work, out of the box, with the latest version of ubuntu without needing to install additional software? </p>
<p>2) What are the known issues with each one (range issues, configuration issues etc</p>
<p>3) And if there isn't a solid out of the box choice, what are good alternatives that may require drives be installed but have minimal fuss to do so?</p>
<p>4) All other considerations aside, what would be recommended as best choice if convenience and ease of installation was not an issue.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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16251 | 1 | null | 2010-12-05T03:58:14.700 | 3 | 1102 | <p>I'm getting this error when trying to use <code>xmodmap</code> to get rid of caps lock:</p>
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X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 118 (X_SetModifierMapping)
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<p>I'm running xfce on Maverick "10.10" Meercat. This problem did not occur before I added the Keyboard Layouts applet to a panel; before doing that, I was able to run my xmodmap script to swap Esc and CapsLock:</p>
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<p>It may be relevant that I chose alt-capslock as the keyboard switch combo in the Keyboard Layouts preferences.</p>
<p>I've had a similar problem before, on a different machine, running openbox. On that machine, this problem started when I upgraded to Lucid, and has persisted in Maverick (release 10.10). I reported a <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31436" rel="nofollow">bug</a> in xorg. However, it remains unclear whether it's really a problem with xorg, or if I'm just doing something wrong with my configuration.</p>
<p>Have other people experienced this problem? Can someone shed some light on what's going on here? It seems there are quite a few layers involved, and I don't understand any of them particularly well, so any information would be helpful.</p>
<p><strong>update</strong></p>
<p>I've discovered that the problem is specifically triggered by adding the Canada layout variant "Multilingual" (ca-multix). If I instead add the variant "Multilingual (first part)", the problem does not occur. I think this will probably end up being a usable workaround, but I don't yet know what the difference between these variants is.</p>
<p>I've filed a <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org//show_bug.cgi?id=31436" rel="nofollow">freedesktop issue</a>, and am commenting on a related <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/524774" rel="nofollow">ubuntu issue</a>.</p>
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16253 | 1 | null | 2010-12-05T04:23:35.607 | 15 | 7138 | <p>I develop some apps for GTK+ and so I use GNOME heavily.</p>
<p>But what will be Unity's GUI toolkit?</p>
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16254 | 1 | 16510 | 2010-12-05T04:45:44.923 | 4 | 878 | <p>I have a laptop with a broadcom BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n wireless adapter and its using the proprietary STA drivers (perfectly), however I thought broadcom released open source drivers and that they would be included in Maverick (as according to <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3929/will-the-new-open-source-broadcom-drivers-be-available-in-the-current-lts-release" title="here">here</a>). How do I activate these?</p>
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16256 | 1 | 16258 | 2010-12-05T04:59:28.807 | 3 | 9910 | <p>Because I only occasionally need to run an ftp server (<em>vsftpd</em>, in my case), I would prefer to just have it <em>fully active</em> only when the need arises. </p>
<p>This suggests two possibilities to me, but I don't know if both (or either) are possible..</p>
<p><em>Option 1</em>: Do not start the daemon as the system boots up,<br>
but instead, start it manually as the need arises... but I don't know the command(s) for this... Maybe it is just "vsftpd" and it will find its own config file(s)... but would this clash with disabling <em>load-on-boot</em>?</p>
<p><em>Option 2</em>:. Start the daemon as the system boots up,<br>
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<p>I would prefer Option 1, because I <strong>rarely</strong> need an ftp server. </p>
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16259 | 1 | 16265 | 2010-12-05T07:49:43.117 | 2 | 136 | <p>I'm attempting to do everything I can in terms of trying to make sure my team's wiki page looks good, but sadly, I cannot seem to activate the new theme (I'm stuck using the old one, for some odd reason)</p>
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<p>Whenever I try and change theme (or other settings) How do I correct this?</p>
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16268 | 1 | 16269 | 2010-12-05T10:32:07.147 | 101 | 140307 | <p>I'd like to scan a good amount of papers I have lying around, with the least possible hassle. I would like to convert them to images using Simple Scan, then convert them to text using OCR. Is there a good OCR app with a GUI that will give me good results at the push of a button?</p>
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"text": "@Vassilis: OCR systems are language independent because they recognise characters, not words. However if your alphabet has not-Latin1 characters ( like cyrillic ) then it may miss those.",
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"text": "Some times I need to convert images with none English text (Greek), is any extensions to read the Greek letters, with this programs?",
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"text": "Such questions/answers really mess up askubuntu. The person asked for \"What's the best, simplest OCR solution\" not \"what are all the OCR apps available for Linux\". This solution shouldn't have been accepted! Really confusing and not helpful.",
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"text": "For Greek, and plenty other languages, you can use tesseract with the correct language pack. To have a GUI you can use gscan2pdf which can use the different ocr systems you've installed. I recommend adding their ppa or downloading the latest version since ubuntu is way behind on this program.",
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"text": "@Vassilis http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/tesseract.1.html ←It lists a lot of languages after the `OPTIONS` section.",
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"text": "Current Ubuntu `tesseract` (3.04.00 on Ubuntu 15.10) has no problems with `PNG` input files. it accepts `JPG` files, but gives worse result for them, as one would expect from additional artifacts of compression.",
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"text": "It would be great to get separation of the programs by fileformats. Tesseract cannot handle PDF `Image file %PDF-1.6 cannot be read!`.",
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16271 | 1 | 16897 | 2010-12-05T11:15:19.377 | 6 | 2676 | <p>It is necessary to use 3D drivers with Unity Desktop 11.04. How can I create my own iso disk to burn it on usb drive for testing Unity. I have some problems to test unity in Virtual box also default Ubuntu Disk Creator doesn't work for me to make usable installation on usb.</p>
<p>I am searching the internet without success for how to add files, or - for example - the nvidia-current driver, to an iso. Only topics like "create you own custom distribution" but those topics don't fit the content :) :(</p>
<p>I can not report bugs without possibility to test natty with unity. </p>
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16274 | 1 | null | 2010-12-05T11:47:31.253 | 5 | 1576 | <p>I've installed Ubuntu 10.10 i386 on an old laptop (Compaz Evo N1015V: 1.2GHz CPU, 256M RAM!). When attempting to log into Desktop Edition, nothing is drawn apart from the mouse pointer - the background remains as with GDM, the panel/nautilus do not appear, keyboard shortcuts (<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>F2</kbd> for example) do not work, etc. "Safe mode", however, works fine.</p>
<p>I managed to solve this problem by removing compiz, which was a bit of a brute-force solution but did the job for this machine.</p>
<p>So one thing that is different between safe mode and normal: compiz isn't started.</p>
<p>But what else? I can't find any documentation about "safe mode" anywhere. What else does it do differently?</p>
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16275 | 1 | 16279 | 2010-12-05T12:00:37.297 | 35 | 4633 | <p>I have basic C and C++ programming skills as well as a little bit experience with gtkmm and Linux-programming in general (not to forget I have lots of spare time). I want to participate in an Ubuntu project which is small and not too complex in order to improve my programming sills and of course support Ubuntu. </p>
<p>Can you give me pointers in the right direction and do you know of a project where I could start?</p>
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16277 | 1 | null | 2010-12-05T12:11:28.680 | 27 | 290708 | <p>I am trying to create a bootable USB stick from a .iso image (it isn't a linux distro or anything of the sort) intended for use with a CD. I've tried <code>UNetbootin</code> and <code>dd</code> but they don't boot.</p>
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16286 | 1 | null | 2010-12-05T13:17:44.607 | 4 | 1463 | <p>I am on 10.10 and u1sdtool seems to be completely broken. I reinstalled it, no change. I can add my PC to the account, but it is added twice(!) every time I tried. So I have my netbook and two times my PC in the account. The netbook with 10.04 has no problems.</p>
<p>Below is the error msg I get when attempting to startup Ubuntu One on the command line.</p>
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<p>Oops, an error ocurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
Failure: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
desktop:~$ </p>
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<p>Starting it from the Me Menu has the same effect, the HDD will get really busy for a minute and then nothing happens, the client will not start.</p>
<p>Nothing in the syslog or anywhere.</p>
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16288 | 1 | 16297 | 2010-12-05T13:56:57.880 | 1 | 5497 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/65387/is-there-bittorrent-software-that-runs-in-a-terminal">Is there bittorrent software that runs in a terminal?</a> </p>
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<p>I tried btdownloadcurses and while it works fine for most of the torrents, it seems to trip over ones where UDP is employed to track the sources.</p>
<p>The messages I am getting are:</p>
<pre><code>Problem connecting to tracker - ('url error', 'unknown url type', 'udp', 'udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
</code></pre>
<p>So are there any other command line clients with UDP support?</p>
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16290 | 1 | 16292 | 2010-12-05T13:58:28.100 | 1 | 753 | <p>When I right-click on my Lucid desktop, the context menu does not appear. I mean the menu with options to create a launcher, change desktop background etc. How can I get it to work?</p>
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16293 | 1 | 16294 | 2010-12-05T14:13:01.113 | 6 | 752 | <p>When I was using Gnome Do, it could remember all applications I use much more frequently, and then it could make a correct suggestion. Example:
I have applications Cheese(web-cam app, I don't this much) and Chromium (browser, I launch new window every 5-10 minutes).
With Gnome-do, when I type "c" and then "h", it suggested "Cheese" only once. Later it was suggesting only Chromium, even on letter "c", because I'm using this much more.
With Synapse I still need to type the whole "chr" every time.
How do I fix that?</p>
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16299 | 1 | 16302 | 2010-12-05T15:24:21.660 | 7 | 1417 | <p>Some folders in my Home directory have special icons.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IeqRC.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>I would like to do something like this with a custom icon for a folder.</p>
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16305 | 1 | 16420 | 2010-12-05T16:06:56.250 | 12 | 14826 | <p>I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed as a desktop OS and a Symbian-based smartphone (Nokia N79). How can I use my desktop system with a headset to make and receive usual mobile phone calls using a connected (via cable or Bluetooth) smartphone?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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"body": "<p>You can try this:\n<a href=\"http://nohands.sourceforge.net/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">http://nohands.sourceforge.net/</a></p>\n\n<p>From the website description:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>HFP for Linux is a Bluetooth\n Hands-Free Profile server.</p>\n \n <p><strong>It allows your Linux system to act as a speakerphone for your mobile phone.</strong>\n It aims to be a compliant Bluetooth\n HFP 1.5 Hands Free implementation,\n supporting all required commands and\n notifications, as well as streaming\n audio.</p>\n \n <p>HFP for Linux was designed\n specifically for automotive computing\n applications, but it can be used just\n as well in a desktop environment.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p><em>You should try it to discover if it's compatible with your device</em>.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/OBx0x.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p>\n",
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16306 | 1 | null | 2010-12-05T16:09:54.617 | 2 | 2215 | <p>Does anyone knows a good software which will allow me to import the video I took from my digital camera Panasonic TZ7?</p>
<p>Shotwell imports photos perfectly from this device. However I couldn't find any software which imports the video (I tried several, among others Rapid Video Downloader). The only I could import videos is from nautilus by looking directly for the MTS files and then I have to rename the file into something which make sense.</p>
<p>If the software could also convert the file into some other format it is a plus, but that I can do that with VLC.</p>
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