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16680 | 1 | 16681 | 2010-12-08T21:25:09.670 | 13 | 21067 | <p>I have a problem while using transmission. I don't know where it comes from because it doesn't occur every time.</p>
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16688 | 1 | 17613 | 2010-12-08T22:27:14.943 | 3 | 3724 | <p>How can I add specific folders to places in mintMenu?</p>
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16695 | 1 | 19794 | 2010-12-08T23:26:03.317 | 39 | 27301 | <p>There was recently another release of <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/">LibreOffice</a>, but it is a pain to have to manually go to their website and download the packages every time there is a new release. Is there a PPA that always has the latest version of LibreOffice?</p>
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16700 | 1 | 16822 | 2010-12-09T00:34:50.160 | 79 | 169355 | <p>There is only one user on my system. How can I change its user ID from the default of 1000?</p>
<p>If there are additional steps that would be required in order to avoid breaking the login process on a typical desktop installation, those should be included as part of the answer.</p>
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16705 | 1 | null | 2010-12-09T02:00:41.020 | 1 | 7340 | <p>My myTouch Slide wasn't mounting, so I decided to open Disk Utility. My phone shows up but when I click "Mount" it gives me this error:</p>
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16707 | 1 | null | 2010-12-09T02:45:18.893 | 1 | 554 | <p>What exactly does Ubuntu share with other Debian based distributions? What do all Debian based distributions share in common that other distributions don't?</p>
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16708 | 1 | 16709 | 2010-12-09T02:45:44.910 | 4 | 418 | <p>How can I profile what programs are making use of the HD to load after I type in my login credentials?</p>
<p>It's taking a bit too much time lately.</p>
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16717 | 1 | 16721 | 2010-12-09T04:25:59.813 | 3 | 784 | <p>How do I retrieve movies and audio files from my Canon PowerShot S5 IS camera?</p>
<p>Shotwell only sees the pictures. Mounting the camera via <em>"Places > Canon Digital Camera"</em> and then clicking twice on the resulting desktop icon yields this error:</p>
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16724 | 1 | 16727 | 2010-12-09T08:24:58.013 | 2 | 155 | <p>What's the reason why we cannot download <code>Ubuntu+1 Alpha 1</code> once <code>Ubuntu+1 Alpha 2</code> has been released?</p>
<p>It would be helpful to roughly find out when regressions started to show up (sometimes it's not as easy as simply downgrading one package).</p>
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16726 | 1 | null | 2010-12-09T09:14:09.707 | 3 | 1191 | <p>When I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.4 (Maverick), the upgrade process got stuck on the post-installation of the CUPS package. I had to kill processes and run several forced updates before I could finally get regular updated. Ever since I can't print - The printed file gets messed up and crashes the printer. I also can't... | 7101 | null | null | 2011-09-10T17:49:01.343 | Can't print, CUPS package corrupted and hangs on re-install | [
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16728 | 1 | 16729 | 2010-12-09T09:16:46.630 | 164 | 164001 | <p>As a default, the terminal prompt shows something like:</p>
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<p>the deeper you go into the filesystem, the less space is left for typing in commands. Can I change this to only show something like:</p>
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16730 | 1 | null | 2010-12-09T09:35:07.727 | 9 | 7112 | <p>I use auto-mounting of external USB devices, and it works as expected, except that NTFS partitions are mounted with executability flag on. For example:</p>
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16732 | 1 | 16744 | 2010-12-09T09:50:33.220 | 6 | 15479 | <p>For some reason when I try to upload photos to facebook from the website, it tells me I need to upgrade my flash player:</p>
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16733 | 1 | 16761 | 2010-12-09T10:12:31.803 | 26 | 80678 | <p>How can I specify the resolution of a program to 800*600, and for other programs to full screen or other specific resolutions?</p>
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16736 | 1 | null | 2010-12-09T10:53:29.130 | 10 | 4313 | <p>I installed lotus notes 8.5.2 on 10.10 netbook using unity desktop. At first lotus notes showed its menu. Suddenly (not sure if I did something) the menu disappeared. When I start up using gnome desktop, the menu still is there. Unity shows only the file menu for notes with the only entry for closing notes.</p>
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16738 | 1 | 30944 | 2010-12-09T11:31:37.430 | 5 | 688 | <p>I installed JACK and <b>DJPlay</b> on Ubuntu 10.10, they seem to launch and connect fine.<br>
Then I open audio files in DJPlay, and start playing them, the oscilloscopes start moving.</p>
<p>But <b>no sound comes out</b>.</p>
<p>I am a newbie so I left everything configured as default.<br>
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16746 | 1 | 16751 | 2010-12-09T12:45:31.877 | 3 | 619 | <p>I would like to package my java web application <a href="http://kunagi.org/" rel="nofollow">http://kunagi.org/</a> for Ubuntu (and Debian).</p>
<p>Should the package create a user <code>kunagi</code>, provide an init script and configuration files for the existing <code>tomcat6</code>, so that my application runs i... | 7002 | null | null | 2011-05-23T21:54:41.160 | Packaging a Java web application: Reuse tomcat6 or separate process? | [
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16747 | 1 | 16748 | 2010-12-09T13:11:57.273 | 3 | 1871 | <p>Whenever I try to download mail using POP3 in Evolution I get the following message</p>
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<p><strong>Error while Fetching Mail.</strong></p>
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16753 | 1 | 16895 | 2010-12-09T14:39:55.150 | 2 | 1856 | <p>I would like to package my java web application <a href="http://kunagi.org/" rel="nofollow">http://kunagi.org/</a> for Ubuntu (and Debian).</p>
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16755 | 1 | null | 2010-12-09T14:54:31.857 | 2 | 14284 | <p>Fortunately, I have an old PCI ethernet card that works fine. But unfortunately my LAN card embedded in my Asus (P7H55-M/USB3) motherboard doesn't work.</p>
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16758 | 1 | 16763 | 2010-12-09T15:52:52.740 | 84 | 494960 | <p>I have been using Firefox for a long time in Ubuntu, I downloaded some add-ons but it made firefox extremely slow, even if I remove them nothing will change.</p>
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16766 | 1 | null | 2010-12-09T16:38:33.073 | 2 | 804 | <p>I use Windows Vista 32bit and have a Wubi install of the 10.10 RC. It worked great, until one day when I upgraded the kernel and rebooted.</p>
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16768 | 1 | 16799 | 2010-12-09T16:44:30.670 | 4 | 738 | <p>A fresh install of 10.10 on my Asus 1000HE has caused some wireless issues.</p>
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<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13790/does-ubuntu-one-mobile-support-ogg-vorbis">Does 'Ubuntu One Mobile' support Ogg Vorbis?</a> </p>
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16770 | 1 | 16775 | 2010-12-09T16:51:56.103 | 2 | 1311 | <p>Using Maverick 64bit</p>
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16776 | 1 | 16782 | 2010-12-09T17:49:25.403 | 67 | 185740 | <p>Using ubuntu 10.10 the editor in mc (midnight commander) is nano. How can i switch to the internal mc editor (mcedit)?</p>
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16777 | 1 | null | 2010-12-09T17:50:10.233 | 6 | 62832 | <p>I have a machine that I just installed Ubuntu Server on. The only problem is that I do not know how to connect it to a wireless network, and I cannot use a network cable to connect it to my router.</p>
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16780 | 1 | 16785 | 2010-12-09T18:02:23.063 | 14 | 932 | <p>I have an Acer Timeline 1830T. When I install 10.10 and 11.04 it needs to have the <code>acer-wmi</code> module <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Aspire1830T" rel="nofollow">blacklisted for wireless to work</a>.</p>
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16789 | 1 | 16793 | 2010-12-09T19:55:19.303 | 4 | 699 | <p>Last, time several month ago, I installed Unity to test it in maverick. I had the problem that it didn't work as expected.</p>
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16795 | 1 | 18054 | 2010-12-09T20:22:41.893 | 3 | 2551 | <p>I have two buttons on my mouse to go forwards and back:</p>
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16796 | 1 | null | 2010-12-09T20:43:26.137 | 6 | 618 | <p>Some people say that Unity is touch friendly and I even saw a video of an Ubuntu developer showing it off on a Dell touch screen.</p>
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16808 | 1 | 16819 | 2010-12-09T23:33:38.447 | 12 | 343 | <p>Is there a way to set a default "About Me" photo so that all users created in the future start off with the same user image on the login screen?</p>
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16810 | 1 | 17085 | 2010-12-10T00:11:32.260 | 2 | 600 | <p>I just figured out today that as long as the battery is in my laptop, it doesn't matter if it's fully charged while plugged in, Ubuntu always spins down my hard drive. I noticed this because there was a huge difference in speed when I removed the batteries. </p>
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16811 | 1 | 16814 | 2010-12-10T00:11:46.200 | 11 | 18853 | <p>How well does Ubuntu support HFS+ (i.e. Mac formatted) filesystems? Can it read and write to them, and are there any potential problems to watch out for?</p>
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16813 | 1 | null | 2010-12-10T00:54:57.590 | 4 | 2956 | <p>When I first ran Ubuntu from CD on this Dell Inspiron 2650, it worked for about ten to fifteen minutes, then it hung (I was probably trying to do too much at once from a Live CD). The next time, my mouse and keyboard didn't work. I rebooted three times and finally got them working. I then installed Ubuntu alongside ... | 1277 | -1 | 2020-06-12T14:37:07.210 | 2011-01-11T02:17:56.720 | Sometimes keyboard & touchpad work... sometimes not | [
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16820 | 1 | 29090 | 2010-12-10T02:26:30.553 | 1 | 766 | <p>I lost compiz zoom due to some incompatibility that I am not sure about. I read about a fix before, but I forgot what it is. When I try to zoom with the super key and mouse it just vibrates the cursor.</p>
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16823 | 1 | 16841 | 2010-12-10T03:13:37.127 | 2 | 847 | <p>A while ago I put Ubuntu on my Windows computer. It was awesome, for a while. One day I restart my computer and it boots with an error message.</p>
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16825 | 1 | 16830 | 2010-12-10T04:01:50.360 | 26 | 31283 | <p>Occasionally I would like to either remove/disable menu entries or add launchers for programs to my Applications list- how can I do this?</p>
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16827 | 1 | null | 2010-12-10T04:27:13.150 | 3 | 228 | <p>Hope you can help.</p>
<p>My dashboard on ubuntu one shows that I have 14.5mb in the files tab, but under the files section, it is saying the "Lets get started with syncing your files." I have synced and stopped syncing folders with files just to test out how it worked., but I don't think it was 14.5mb worth of fi... | null | null | null | 2010-12-13T08:04:27.343 | Ubuntu One, Dashboard shows 14.5mb used and files folder shows nothing | [
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16829 | 1 | 16834 | 2010-12-10T04:35:07.427 | 17 | 4690 | <p>Are there plans for Shotwell to have face recognition and to categorize photos according to faces?</p>
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16837 | 1 | 16838 | 2010-12-10T06:39:09.120 | 27 | 71359 | <p>I have tried <strong>figlet</strong> but it's not much good. Are there any other ASCII editors?
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16840 | 1 | null | 2010-12-10T07:39:04.153 | 2 | 802 | <p>I've apache2 and tomcat6 running on port 80 on ubuntu server 9.10. I've a registered domain name and I'll access the jsp index page navigating to <a href="http://abc.mydomain.com" rel="nofollow">http://abc.mydomain.com</a>.
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16845 | 1 | null | 2010-12-10T09:56:38.593 | 9 | 2807 | <p>I have seen that plymouth themes in different distros are the same they just put a logo or a word..so if I want to put whatever I want...can somebody tell me with what program or editing what file?</p>
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16847 | 1 | 16853 | 2010-12-10T10:04:36.283 | 6 | 2641 | <p>I use Chromium. Many times, I am following links, from one page to another, and I am done with the current tab and don't want to open a link that might possibly open in a new tab. I tried some combination of Ctrl, Shift, Alt and mouse click, but the link still opens in a new tab. Can it be done, if at all? </p>
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16850 | 1 | 16858 | 2010-12-10T10:38:41.427 | 2 | 372 | <p>I have chmsee 1.0.7 installed on Ubuntu 10.04. It opens a small chm files (1Mb or 2Mb files) but when I try to open php manual chm file which weights about 10Mb it doesn't open it and doesn't show any error message.</p>
<p>Where is the problem? Has anybody met this problem ever?</p>
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16863 | 1 | null | 2010-12-10T15:09:21.403 | 9 | 1021 | <p>I delete the gbas.so file from my home directory but it keeps coming back. Where does it come from?</p>
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16866 | 1 | 16868 | 2010-12-10T15:43:25.183 | 5 | 620 | <p>I've recently been required to migrate to Fedora 14 for work, but am not willing to give up the awesomeness of Ubuntu. As a result, I'm now dual-booting Fedora 14 and Ubuntu Maverick with a shared home directory.</p>
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16867 | 1 | 22894 | 2010-12-10T15:43:49.283 | 6 | 2276 | <p>Before I upgraded to Maverick, .swf files used to have a thumbnail in Nautilus.
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16869 | 1 | 16885 | 2010-12-10T16:05:37.053 | 2 | 457 | <p>After Downloading AWN Lucido Build the packages containing the AWN Applets won't install resulting in broken packages, is there a way to fix this mess?</p>
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16871 | 1 | 16872 | 2010-12-10T16:29:17.720 | 13 | 756 | <p>I was a bit curious to know what a distribution (i.e. 10.04 to 10.10) upgrade really means. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems the update manager is constantly upgrading every piece of software on my computer and as I understand it, Ubuntu is a "collection" of open source software. With that in mind, I would be c... | 2331 | null | null | 2010-12-10T19:40:50.787 | With the update manager constantly updating software, what does it really mean to upgrade Ubuntu? | [
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16874 | 1 | 16899 | 2010-12-10T17:24:14.353 | 20 | 8380 | <p>My ubuntu boot screen shows up in a strange low resolution, almost text mode, instead the usual and sleek white "ubuntu" over dark background. It's not a big issue because when GDM loads everything becomes ok, but If there's an easy way to fix it I would like to give it a try.</p>
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16876 | 1 | 16882 | 2010-12-10T17:54:53.017 | 3 | 1543 | <p>In compizconfig-settings-manager there's an option to enable/disable shadow of windows i.e. gnome-panel.</p>
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16879 | 1 | null | 2010-12-10T18:09:54.060 | 0 | 1473 | <p>I am using Firefox 3.6.12 on ubuntu 10.10 amd64 with Openjdk JRE. Firefox seems to hang for a long time when loading applets from websites using java. Things seem to work smoothly on Windows. I have the same problem with Firefox 4.0 b8. is this a bug with openjdk,firefox or ubuntu? Is there any way to solve the prob... | 5845 | 1067 | 2010-12-27T13:58:45.730 | 2010-12-27T16:24:36.860 | Firefox Hangs on ubuntu when loading java applets | [
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16884 | 1 | null | 2010-12-10T19:13:32.417 | 2 | 361 | <p>I currently have an old PC (AMD althon 3200+, 1.5GB RAM, Geforce 6500 256MB) running Ubuntu 10.10 that I use as a media centre using VLC player. It plays standard definition videos fine, but high def videos are 'jerky', I am assume this is because my hardware can't handle it.</p>
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16886 | 1 | 17104 | 2010-12-10T19:34:46.237 | 13 | 13028 | <p>I have a computer running SSH that I would like to give my friends access to, but I do not want them to use my internet connection through SSH tunnelling (although I'd like to do so myself). Is there a way to have a log of when SSH tunnels are created and by which (local) users, or, if that's not possible, only allo... | 1697 | null | null | 2011-10-14T21:50:30.090 | SSH tunnel logging? | [
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16888 | 1 | 16900 | 2010-12-10T19:38:33.403 | 11 | 2028 | <p>By good podcast support I mean:</p>
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16891 | 1 | 16911 | 2010-12-10T19:42:27.130 | 7 | 1184 | <p>I recently installed <code>ssmtp</code> on my server to enable e-mail notifications for a <code>redmine</code> install. While I was verifying everything was setup correctly I got an e-mail notification about a failed cron job. This turned out to be really helpful and I never would have noticed it had I not set thi... | 2527 | 236 | 2013-02-05T14:06:58.513 | 2013-02-05T14:06:58.513 | By default, what system messages get mailed to root? | [
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16902 | 1 | null | 2010-12-10T22:03:19.510 | 14 | 4144 | <p>I have a Dell Inspiron 2650 (with NVidia graphics, using nouveau drivers) that I'm using to try out Ubuntu. It's all great, except that Hibernate and Suspend aren't usable.</p>
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16904 | 1 | 17604 | 2010-12-10T22:23:00.063 | 9 | 1965 | <p>I originally started an Ubuntu forums post about this but I never received any responses. Anyways, I've got my Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos folders pointing to Samba shares on my server via CIFS volumes mounted in my fstab file. The problem is I end up with duplicate entries in the Places menu.</p>
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16905 | 1 | 16908 | 2010-12-10T22:30:41.277 | 0 | 580 | <p>Trying to make a very speedy Ubuntu install for my network, I installed the command-line version of Natty Narwhal and the following packages: xorg, gnome-base, unity</p>
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16907 | 1 | 16909 | 2010-12-10T22:40:59.573 | 13 | 39626 | <p>I am trying to learn how to tweak my shell in the file but can't seems to find the file in my home directory or in <code>/etc/profile</code>.</p>
<p>Is there any other file I need to search for, or am I expected to create one from scratch?</p>
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16912 | 1 | null | 2010-12-10T23:47:49.680 | 13 | 16905 | <p>Byobu looks very broken in PuTTY. I've already fixed the key mapping issue, but this issue isn't specified in the man page or even Google:</p>
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16913 | 1 | 20558 | 2010-12-11T00:12:49.920 | 5 | 1232 | <p>I would like to boot a testing Ubuntu release from a directory (which contains a debootstrap based install).</p>
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16915 | 1 | null | 2010-12-11T00:44:50.653 | 4 | 407 | <p>Ever since the upgrade to Maverick, I've noticed that window title bars (or at least the names listed in them) take forever to refresh. I sometimes see them cut in half horizontally. Also, the hover-over window names I get when I'm using the Compiz scale plugin are often messed up.</p>
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16917 | 1 | 18231 | 2010-12-11T01:02:52.740 | 2 | 487 | <p>Whenever I install, update or remove something, it fails and I get a message similar to what is below. After I restart, everything appears to work fine.</p>
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16918 | 1 | 16921 | 2010-12-11T01:31:40.117 | 68 | 63897 | <p>Does anyone know of any software or solution I can use to listen to <a href="http://www.audible.com/">Audible</a> audiobook files in Ubuntu? I'd rather not have to use Wine but I'm just wondering what other people have come up with.</p>
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16919 | 1 | null | 2010-12-11T01:43:50.380 | 3 | 200 | <p>I have a bunch of files in the Documents folder. When I update most of them they are alright, However there is an xhb file (used by HomeBank) which creates some sort of other file *.xhb~.
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16932 | 1 | null | 2010-12-11T07:55:31.507 | 20 | 49085 | <p>Has anybody tried <a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/">E17</a> on Ubuntu, as an alternative to Gnome/KDE? How does one install it?</p>
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16935 | 1 | null | 2010-12-11T09:36:30.393 | 6 | 99814 | <p>I have a new MTS MBlaze Broadband modem USB and it is not getting detected in my Ubuntu 10. 04. It is getting detected as an USB but not as MODEM as result I am not able to create a MOBILE BROADBAND connection </p>
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16937 | 1 | 17102 | 2010-12-11T10:08:01.890 | 8 | 4948 | <p>When I had installed the rar application the archive manager was using that one which had problems with non-english characters. I uninstalled it and the archive manager used p7zip. The question is how can I make the archive manage (and extract here) to use the p7zip instead of rar but have both installed at the sam... | 7187 | 235 | 2011-12-31T19:36:53.973 | 2011-12-31T19:36:53.973 | How can I change the default application that archive manager uses? | [
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16941 | 1 | 16946 | 2010-12-11T10:46:13.620 | 4 | 331 | <p>I'm missing both the Me Menu and the Log Out/Shutdown/Restart, etc applet from my panel and I can't find them in the 'Add to Panel' list. The screenshot below shows the current state of my panel. How can I get them both back?</p>
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16948 | 1 | 16958 | 2010-12-11T14:22:21.930 | 4 | 410 | <p>I experienced some weird stuff:</p>
<pre><code>berni@zero:~$ touch wiki
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16951 | 1 | 16954 | 2010-12-11T14:36:48.880 | 2 | 3992 | <p>I am trying to fresh install a box to 10.04 (it was previously 9.10), but during the install process mounting the swap partition fails giving the error:</p>
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16952 | 1 | null | 2010-12-11T14:37:17.320 | 2 | 266 | <p>I upgraded Ubuntu on my laptop and I have to use the old boot link for it to work. How can I make my laptop automatically use the working boot-up? When I use the new GRUB entry the screen goes blank and the computer seems to hang.</p>
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16953 | 1 | 16961 | 2010-12-11T14:39:50.267 | 0 | 15890 | <p>I have bought a new Dell Inspiron N4010 laptop with Windows 7 installed. I have installed Ubuntu via Wubi. I am using a BSNL Broadband connection with a ZXDSL 831A11 modem.</p>
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16956 | 1 | 16957 | 2010-12-11T14:55:44.410 | 3 | 152 | <p>After I installed Banshee, apt-get is stuck (neither installed, or uninstalled) on the libubuntuone1.0-cil package:</p>
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16962 | 1 | 17016 | 2010-12-11T15:55:42.537 | 1 | 13217 | <p>I mean to remove the Sendmail Mail Server on webmin, any idea how to remove it? Thanks.</p>
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16966 | 1 | 16973 | 2010-12-11T16:35:41.833 | 28 | 8971 | <p>In htop, I kill Nautilus, and within one second, it's back, with a new PID! </p>
<p>The restarted Nautilus shows in the Processes list, but has no GUI until I manually launch Nautilus... I've heard mention of Nautilus works in lockstep with the desktop... maybe that is the reason(?). </p>
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16972 | 1 | null | 2010-12-11T16:59:50.963 | 1 | 1765 | <p>Is there an easy way to have a samba user automatically created whenever a unix user is created? Currently I'm using LDAP. But it is not that easy, and also very difficult to setup. I'm looking for a simpler way.</p>
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16976 | 1 | 21338 | 2010-12-11T17:45:28.603 | 8 | 4950 | <p>Whenever I want to print a PDF document in evince, I'm always slowed down with the "Getting printer information" process. I was wondering if there was anyway to save the "printer information" locally somehow so I'm not slowed down by the network lookup.</p>
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16978 | 1 | null | 2010-12-11T18:04:50.910 | 5 | 562 | <p>I'm using MythTV to watch TV on my ubuntu computer and I'm having a problem with the resolution. </p>
<p>It seems that the GUI resolution is matched with the channel resolution, so If I'm watching a HD channel, I get a nice GUI but If I'm watching a SD channel, then it's crap. </p>
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16980 | 1 | null | 2010-12-11T18:41:20.823 | 3 | 2918 | <p>The Internal Microphone on my Eee 1005HAB does not work in 10.10. In 10.04 it didn't work very well (lot of static), but now it dosn't work at all. </p>
This is weird because it seemed to work fine when I used a liveCD of 10.10.
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16981 | 1 | null | 2010-12-11T18:43:41.430 | 5 | 2384 | <p>From where can I download Mobile Media converter for Ubuntu?</p>
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16982 | 1 | 17003 | 2010-12-11T18:44:42.500 | 5 | 1105 | <p>Today I had to force-shutdown my machine after it froze during resume from suspend. Since the reboot, I've found that the <kbd>p</kbd> key doesn't work normally in X. It does work normally in the console.</p>
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16983 | 1 | null | 2010-12-11T18:49:25.223 | 2 | 304 | <p>I am signed up for the Ubuntu One service, and have my computer added. </p>
<p>Under System → Preferences → Ubuntu One, I have enabled all synchronizations, including for music. </p>
<p>System → Prefereneces → Ubuntu One, it shows this message: "Synchronization Complete". </p>
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16987 | 1 | 16989 | 2010-12-11T19:17:28.240 | 7 | 1485 | <p>I can I produce those nice images on the back of my dvd (lightscribe)?</p>
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16988 | 1 | 17018 | 2010-12-11T19:20:00.067 | 189 | 309438 | <blockquote>
<p>If you are hurrying to reply, System → Administration → <strong>StartUp Disk Creator</strong> -- no, that's not what I'm talking about.</p>
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<p>I want to try Ubuntu 11.04's Unity without touching my existing Ubuntu install.</p>
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"body": "<p>The only way I have been able to do it, is </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>to burn the CD iso, </li>\n<li>disconnect my hard drive (physically remove cable(s)) and </li>\n<li>install to the USB. </li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Not very elegant, but it works.</p>\n",
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16992 | 1 | null | 2010-12-11T19:32:22.300 | 4 | 2257 | <p>I want to create myself very tiny app, which will play a sound every time I press a key on my keyboard. I don't need to know which key on the keyboard was pressed, I just need to somehow know that it happened.</p>
<p>Are there any global system hooks for pressed key on the keyboard?</p>
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"body": "<p>Here's a method that in theory should work.</p>\n\n<p>If you visit the \"Accessibility\" tab in System>Preferences>Keyboard then you can enable the \"Slow Keys\" \"Only accept long keypresses\" option. Turn the delay all the way down and you basically null the effects of this... | null | null | null | null | null |
16995 | 1 | 17015 | 2010-12-11T19:57:28.133 | 1 | 634 | <p>In Windows I never turn my NumLock on. I navigate through the page line with Home and End, and when I want to mark a line I use them in a combination with the Shift key. Pretty basic stuff right? Well I don't know how to do it in Ubuntu 10.04. The Home and End keys work but if I hold the Shift key it inputs respecti... | 7203 | 235 | 2010-12-11T20:26:02.123 | 2013-01-07T21:07:51.853 | How do I configure keyboard commands? | [
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"body": "<p>Go to <strong>System</strong> > <strong>Preferences</strong> > <strong>Keyboard</strong>, tab <strong>Layout</strong>, click on <strong>Options</strong>, go to <strong>Miscellanous compatibility options</strong> and then click on <strong>Shift with numeric keypad keys works as in MS ... | [
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16998 | 1 | 17068 | 2010-12-11T20:09:58.570 | 28 | 27357 | <p>Is it possible to switch between Nvidia's BLOB and Nouveau video drivers on-the-fly?</p>
<p>I think I need to be able to:</p>
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<li>[✓] Unload nvidia</li>
<li>[✓] Unload nouveau</li>
<li>[✕] Restore the console after unloading nouveau*</li>
<li>[✓] Swap xorg.conf files</li>
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"text": "sounds like a really risky deal O.o, you sure you want to do that?",
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"body": "<p>I now have two scripts that switch drivers, xorg.conf, take care of blacklisting and the libglx, so the answer is: yes, it is possible.</p>\n\n<p>Blacklisting works with one file in <code>/etc/modprobe.d/</code> containing either <code>blacklist nvidia</code> or <code>blacklist nouve... | [
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16999 | 1 | 17000 | 2010-12-11T20:16:19.170 | 17 | 2065 | <p>I have accidentally typed my password in SSH's interactive username prompt. Are there any log files that I should clear?</p>
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17001 | 1 | 17002 | 2010-12-11T20:32:15.123 | 24 | 46419 | <p>After a clean Ubuntu Server install, I get the following error when running 'perl'. </p>
<pre><code>perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_CA.utf8"
are supported and installed on your system.
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"body": "<p>Type the following in terminal to get rid of that error,</p>\n\n<p><code>sudo apt-get install language-pack-en-base</code></p>\n\n<p><code>sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales</code></p>\n",
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17006 | 1 | null | 2010-12-11T21:45:09.970 | 2 | 540 | <p>This has been going on for a while now. When there are new updates for Firefox add-ons and I start Firefox it's trying to download them but it fails. E.g. the first extension is Firebug. After a while I get a dialog:</p>
<pre><code>Firefox could not install the file at
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"body": "<p>Disable ipv6.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Type about:config in the addressbar, press Enter. </li>\n<li>Find <strong>network.dns.disableIPv6</strong> in the list.</li>\n<li>Right-click -> Toggle. </li>\n<li>Restart Firefox and try again.</li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>That should fix your problem.</p... | null | null | null | null | null |
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