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17012 | 1 | 17013 | 2010-12-11T22:41:22.500 | 240 | 226408 | <p>Is it possible to get a list of packages that were most recently installed through apt-get?</p>
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17017 | 1 | 17019 | 2010-12-11T23:14:58.863 | 4 | 4434 | <p>The IPV6 protocol has a feature called "Extended Unique Identifier" or EUI-64 witch in short uses the MAC address of the network card when choosing an IPV6 Adress.</p>
<p>Proof: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30CnqRK0GHE&NR=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30CnqRK0GHE&NR=1</a> at 7:... | 4782 | 3037 | 2011-01-03T21:40:41.003 | 2011-07-08T04:36:49.117 | How to be anonymous on IPV6 protocol by not using MAC address in EUI-64? | [
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17020 | 1 | null | 2010-12-12T00:37:27.077 | 1 | 2973 | <p>I installed ubuntu 10.10 netbook edition on acer aspire one happy. I tried to change the visual effects however it won't let me. It says Mutter is running, can't switch to other effects. I'd like to know how I can switch to other effects. Thank you from now.</p>
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17027 | 1 | 17028 | 2010-12-12T02:10:37.177 | 0 | 111 | <p>I am about to install Ubuntu on VMWare (my host PC is Windows 7). Are there any tutorials (Step - by - Step) that I can look into.</p>
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17030 | 1 | 17032 | 2010-12-12T02:37:20.180 | 3 | 1049 | <p>Any idea why the desktop launcher "gnome-terminal -x byobu" doesn't read my ~/.byobu/windows.ssh_sessions?</p>
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17031 | 1 | 17036 | 2010-12-12T02:55:59.460 | 19 | 30225 | <p>I have a PDF file, and I'd like to comment in adobe style. Is there a way to enable that somehow, or are there any alternatives?</p>
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17035 | 1 | null | 2010-12-12T03:54:25.500 | 3 | 8430 | <p>Due to various reasons, I have my main monitor set as the secondary display in <code>xorg.conf</code>. I would like to have gnome initialize <code>metacity</code>, <code>gnome-panel</code> as running primarily on <code>:0.1</code>, instead of <code>:0.0</code>. Is this possible at all?</p>
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17039 | 1 | null | 2010-12-12T04:07:50.710 | 2 | 294 | <p>I have been looking for a couple of years for a clean, usable On Screen Keyboard for touchscreen interfaces for Ubuntu, and most have fallen short. With the increase interest in tablets and netbooks, is a project for improvement on your radar?</p>
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17042 | 1 | null | 2010-12-12T04:37:37.697 | 2 | 604 | <p>When I go to the Places menu and click on home or any other folder except Network, I get Error File not found popup box.</p>
<p>I can open these folder from short cuts on the desktop and they work fine.</p>
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17043 | 1 | 17368 | 2010-12-12T04:38:27.213 | 4 | 992 | <p>I like Ubuntu (on a server as well as on a client) and Debian and am interested in getting Ubuntu/Debian-related job. So I look forward to get certified to enrich my CV.</p>
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17044 | 1 | null | 2010-12-12T04:44:07.887 | 3 | 2807 | <p>I just recently upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 using the update manager tool.</p>
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17052 | 1 | 17053 | 2010-12-12T07:44:47.330 | 4 | 1587 | <p>What are the pros and cons of </p>
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<p>when used to install, remove and update software?</p>
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17054 | 1 | 17069 | 2010-12-12T08:11:30.760 | 3 | 913 | <p>On Asus EEE PC 1005PX, the mouse buttons are pretty stiff. So, I want to use the <code>windows</code> key and the <code>menu</code> key on the keyboard as <code>left</code> and <code>right</code> mouse buttons respectively. Is it possible to achieve this?</p>
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17056 | 1 | null | 2010-12-12T08:13:58.843 | 3 | 2788 | <p>I use Ubuntu 10.10. I abused sudo and accidentally overwrote my /bin/bash file via a typo, so I booted to the LiveCD and restored my copy with a "good" one from the Ubuntu 10.10 LiveOS. This did not fix the problem. Explanation: bash no longer works in gnome-terminal.</p>
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17062 | 1 | 17066 | 2010-12-12T10:00:43.467 | 28 | 254398 | <p>I can navigate my files quite fast through terminal. Faster than double clicking... open... look, double click... etc.</p>
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{some cmd} client_project
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17070 | 1 | null | 2010-12-12T10:55:53.713 | 4 | 419 | <p>I thought the daily build on <a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/" rel="nofollow">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/</a> would be updated daily, but the current build is 6 days old. I would love to try out Natty and Compiz Unity on a live USB-drive, but it's not much use if it's not upda... | 839 | null | null | 2010-12-12T23:02:45.923 | Why is Natty's daily live build not updated daily anymore? | [
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17071 | 1 | null | 2010-12-12T10:56:19.227 | 14 | 16301 | <p>Do we know when Adobe release X reader for Ubuntu? It has some good features!</p>
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17072 | 1 | 17073 | 2010-12-12T11:06:15.567 | 7 | 3068 | <p>I have several Ubuntu servers. Two of them are working as DNS servers. One of my name servers (let's call it DNS1) went down for maintenance.
I sill had another DNS server running (DNS2).</p>
<p>All other servers are configured to use the nameservers as follows </p>
<p><code>/etc/resolv.conf</code> :</p>
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17074 | 1 | 17176 | 2010-12-12T12:25:07.560 | 5 | 3319 | <p>Is this a specific unity configuration or a dual monitor configuration problems ?</p>
<p><em>In NVIDIA X Server Settings. Make this the primary display for the X screen, is my choice the middle display. But the launcher is on the left display.</em></p>
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17075 | 1 | 17076 | 2010-12-12T12:38:14.817 | 12 | 18821 | <p>So a friend of mine wants to set up a database for managing his investigation data. But he does not know any programming. So i offered a little help but also want to make sure that he could manage his stuff for when I am not around. </p>
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17077 | 1 | null | 2010-12-12T12:50:29.603 | 4 | 4673 | <p>When I try to put my Ubuntu 10.10 box to sleep or into hibernation, it appears to wake up right away (couple of seconds at most). I am trying to figure out what's going on, and would appreciate any suggestions.</p>
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17079 | 1 | null | 2010-12-12T13:10:04.617 | 1 | 2444 | <p>I have, like many, problems with suspending/hibernating in Ubuntu. When I resume from suspend the fans start, the HDD led glows steadily, but the screen is off. The only thing I do is hard reboot.</p>
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17080 | 1 | 17082 | 2010-12-12T13:52:20.060 | 2 | 6780 | <p>I just got myself an Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop CD. I pop it into my DVD drive (on my laptop which has Windows 7), run VMWare, install Ubuntu using Easy Install. So far, so good. </p>
<p>But, now, internet does not work in Ubuntu desktop.</p>
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17084 | 1 | 17095 | 2010-12-12T15:05:30.583 | 60 | 46331 | <p>In the world of Ubuntu, it seems you either <em>always</em> run an FTP server or you <em>never</em> do. Perhaps I'm the first network analyst who's needed to flash a Cisco, Checkpoint or Nokia image using Ubuntu... I need an FTP server for maybe 5 minutes, no more than that.</p>
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17087 | 1 | 107632 | 2010-12-12T15:21:40.420 | 8 | 443 | <p>Here's an odd problem I've had for a while. Every so often, I find that I have several jpeg images sitting in my home directory that I didn't put there. I'm fairly sure this isn't a security breach but rather, there's something writing these files in there that I've forgotten about.</p>
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17094 | 1 | 32503 | 2010-12-12T16:12:43.520 | 3 | 4177 | <p>I have a NAS box that I automount several shares on my laptop. The shares are mounted to <code>/mnt/nas/music</code>, <code>/mnt/nas/photos</code>, etc.</p>
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17097 | 1 | 17103 | 2010-12-12T16:39:57.350 | 10 | 10292 | <p>I have a ssh server, and some clients have login it via key login. So the host identity of server has been stored in the known_host of clients.</p>
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17098 | 1 | 17115 | 2010-12-12T16:48:14.233 | 6 | 2391 | <p>I would like to install Evince 2.32 in Lucid (10.04)</p>
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<li>Download the source and start install all the required dependences is this approach dangerous for the stability of my system ? </li>
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17099 | 1 | null | 2010-12-12T16:49:59.650 | 9 | 490 | <p>I've found Unity's new Intellihide mode extremely useful, and would like to know if it's planned to be set by default or, by the contrary, the panel will be shown unless you set it manually.</p>
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17101 | 1 | 17243 | 2010-12-12T16:57:21.257 | 4 | 5959 | <p>I encountered an audio bug and <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/689106" rel="nofollow">reported</a> it on Launchpad. There I was asked to reinstall PulseAudio. </p>
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17108 | 1 | 17110 | 2010-12-12T17:20:10.373 | 5 | 1318 | <p>I have a problem when i try to download the maverick iso. after download i always get the wrong iso checksum with gtkhash? I already tried from several locations provided via the ubuntu page but not succeeded.</p>
<p>The hash should be</p>
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17111 | 1 | 17148 | 2010-12-12T17:29:20.690 | 6 | 451 | <p>I opened the Ubuntu Once Preference box to see if everything was "up to date" come to find that it's still "Synchronizing" after leaving the window open for three hours.</p>
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<p>When I execute <code>u1sdtool --status</code></p>
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17112 | 1 | 17975 | 2010-12-12T17:33:45.617 | 7 | 3970 | <p>Is there a way to add SOCKS 5 authentication to the Network Proxy Preferences dialog ? </p>
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17113 | 1 | null | 2010-12-12T17:53:28.320 | 9 | 449 | <p>I am running Banshee 1.8.0 on a more-or-less vanilla Meerkat installation. I was most pleased when I plugged in an old iPod Nano and it Just Worked.</p>
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17114 | 1 | 17121 | 2010-12-12T18:42:50.193 | 7 | 181 | <p>Ubuntu provides <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/" rel="nofollow">Official</a> and <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community" rel="nofollow">Community</a> documentation. </p>
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<li>Why create the two streams? </li>
<li>Is the official documentation more trustworthy? </li>
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17117 | 1 | 17120 | 2010-12-12T18:50:45.923 | 5 | 654 | <p>I'm curious why <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/" rel="nofollow">Ubuntu Team Wiki</a> uses a different web interface to <a href="http://help.ubuntu.com" rel="nofollow">Ubuntu documentaion</a>.</p>
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17123 | 1 | 17127 | 2010-12-12T19:39:13.247 | 1 | 3077 | <p>Suppose I am using Ubuntu version X now. My USB port and optical disk drive are not working properly and I want to do a fresh install of Ubuntu version Y using the downloaded ISO image. Since I cannot install using CD-ROM or thumbdrive, is there any way to wipe out version X completely with version Y?</p>
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17125 | 1 | 112089 | 2010-12-12T20:04:15.117 | 3 | 479 | <p>Every now and then I'd like to play with a fresh minimal install of Ubuntu (to test sysadminish scripts, application install instructions, package dependency lists etc.).</p>
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17131 | 1 | 19802 | 2010-12-12T20:24:44.787 | 1 | 10593 | <p>I use the smbfs tools package to mount my SMB shares. I wrote a quick script to mount the share:</p>
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17132 | 1 | 17139 | 2010-12-12T20:31:17.173 | 0 | 604 | <p>I'd like to upgrade my distribution (10.04 to 10.10) and since I have customized Ubuntu quite a bit, I was wondering what is likely to "break".</p>
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17134 | 1 | 17135 | 2010-12-12T20:40:02.190 | 46 | 31865 | <p>Is there anyway to get Rhythmbox to stop playing the current track when it closes without first pausing/stopping the song manually? </p>
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17136 | 1 | 17138 | 2010-12-12T21:01:10.837 | 24 | 7166 | <p>Both gnome terminal and terminator (which I am using on my laptop these days) can be customised to look very pretty. By using full screen and keeping desktop clutter down to a minimum it's possible to get a good-sized area to work in, even on my little EeePC.</p>
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17144 | 1 | 17146 | 2010-12-12T22:41:08.243 | 9 | 3656 | <p>I have a file from another pc with ubuntu, the owner of the file is my user account from this pc. How do I change the owner to my useraccount on another pc so that I can use it?</p>
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17151 | 1 | 17156 | 2010-12-12T23:08:28.910 | 2 | 451 | <p>During Ubuntu installation I chose to encrypt my home folder. Accidently after installation I skipped the dialog in ubuntu where I was asked to setup encryption (choose key and so on ...)</p>
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17153 | 1 | 17198 | 2010-12-12T23:16:52.257 | 4 | 1075 | <p>My Maverick freezes constantly, no matter what I'm doing. Browsing with chromium or firefox, using cmus to play music, or copying 24 gb files from partition to partition while burning a CD, it will freeze, and only thing I can do is unplug it from the grid, no button will work.</p>
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17157 | 1 | 70295 | 2010-12-13T01:06:45.823 | 38 | 38383 | <p>On GNOME the screen locks when I suspend, and I find that a bit annoying (no one else in the house uses ubuntu anyway haha). What can I do to stop this?</p>
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17166 | 1 | 17167 | 2010-12-13T03:19:11.183 | 6 | 4325 | <p>I created a shell script <code>/usr/local/bin/suspend</code> with the following content:</p>
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17169 | 1 | 17205 | 2010-12-13T03:56:43.437 | 0 | 2092 | <p>First, I used Ubuntu Tweak's clean up feature, so I may have accidentally removed something important through that...</p>
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17172 | 1 | 17174 | 2010-12-13T05:07:33.633 | 5 | 768 | <p>I'm trying to install and run a program a called <em>Remotedroid</em>, which lets you use your phone as a wireless keyboard and mouse. I'm used to windows automatically starting setup upon download and can't figure out how to initiate the install in Ubuntu.</p>
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17177 | 1 | 17200 | 2010-12-13T07:06:56.383 | 1 | 497 | <p>I use 5.8.5 version of notepad++. The .tex file that I have edited on notepad++ could not be opened on gedit. The error I get is "character set could not be recognized"</p>
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17186 | 1 | null | 2010-12-13T08:44:35.917 | 5 | 3929 | <p>I installed <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/oljmaangfgmmokjpnojhfblppgeijikp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this extension</a>
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17187 | 1 | 17201 | 2010-12-13T09:08:37.137 | 13 | 14844 | <p>I would like to disable the <code>shutdown</code> command for all users, even root, on an Ubuntu Server installation.</p>
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17190 | 1 | null | 2010-12-13T10:22:54.877 | 1 | 4487 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4473/numeric-keypad-not-working">Numeric keypad not working</a> </p>
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17193 | 1 | 17194 | 2010-12-13T11:22:32.790 | 3 | 1911 | <p>I'm using Ubuntu One to synchronize a directory which I use to create and compile latex files. But, always, when a new file is generated, the files, instead of having the file-type extension like file1.pdf, they gain an extra suffix like <code>file1.pdf.u1conflict</code>, <code>file1.pdf.u1conflict.1</code> so on. A... | 2968 | null | null | 2011-10-21T17:01:07.930 | .u1conflict suffix gets apended to files while using ubuntu one | [
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17199 | 1 | 17265 | 2010-12-13T13:18:21.190 | 5 | 2569 | <p>My machine is always showing an hour ahead of the actual time. I am in Texas currently but the time never picks Day light savings. Any time I click on Set Time(Top Right Corner), my system just hangs right there. I have to turn off the machine each time. how do I fix this issue?
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17207 | 1 | 17224 | 2010-12-13T14:34:13.933 | 6 | 5211 | <p>I have a desktop running ubuntu 10.04 I want numlock to be turned on initially. What do I have to change to accomplish this?</p>
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17209 | 1 | 17210 | 2010-12-13T15:08:16.197 | 7 | 962 | <p>I'm getting maybe 20 friend requests from Yahoo IM everytime I start empathy (or my Internet goes up). Is there any way I can deal with the contact spam that doesn't involve me individually clicking on all the contact requests and dismissing them one by one?</p>
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17211 | 1 | 17215 | 2010-12-13T15:19:23.990 | 10 | 21239 | <p>Is it possible to:</p>
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17216 | 1 | 17242 | 2010-12-13T16:12:44.657 | 12 | 3886 | <p>How can i determine if just the .private folder is encrypted or the whole home directory?</p>
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17218 | 1 | 17219 | 2010-12-13T16:17:44.573 | 5 | 832 | <p>At the moment it uses just a few seconds of inactivity after that ubuntu reduces the brightness of my screen. Where do i find the option to increase this value?</p>
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17220 | 1 | 17262 | 2010-12-13T16:28:15.747 | 14 | 2777 | <p>The ability of a .desktop file to display a "human-readable" alias rather than its (perhaps) clinical <strong>real</strong> name, has merit... and as the <em>.desktop</em> filetype suggests, I assume that this ability is intended for the <strong>Desktop</strong> (which is (co-?)managed by Nautilus). </p>
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17223 | 1 | null | 2010-12-13T16:35:05.447 | 3 | 17521 | <p>I am running springsource framework in ubuntu 10.01. In my home folder, I have installed springsource IDE. I have my tomcat6 appserver in the <code>/usr/share/tomcat6</code>. While executing a sample project springapp, I have created the springapp dir in <code>/users/share/tomcat6/webapps</code>/ folder using sudo a... | null | 235 | 2010-12-13T17:28:21.927 | 2011-03-19T23:15:25.730 | Permissions problem when copying files to /usr/share/tomcat6 | [
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17226 | 1 | null | 2010-12-13T17:01:22.600 | 20 | 887 | <p>There is no GUI way to show the date or the day (or adjust the time format) in Unity's indicator-datetime application in Natty.</p>
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17249 | 1 | 17278 | 2010-12-13T21:30:28.747 | 57 | 120222 | <p>I see some answers where people post to set a key in the gconf-editor, however there is no entry for gconf-editor in my menu.</p>
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17251 | 1 | null | 2010-12-13T22:34:52.320 | 35 | 97932 | <p>I have Fedora installed on my desktop and I want to make a live USB stick with Ubuntu to install it on a laptop. What's the easiest way to do it?</p>
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17252 | 1 | 42760 | 2010-12-13T22:48:22.730 | 11 | 3483 | <p>When I try to play any audio CD in Ubuntu 10.10 the following message appears.
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17256 | 1 | 20556 | 2010-12-14T00:56:43.197 | 4 | 2369 | <p>After a two year hiatus to Linux, I try it again out again. And then I run into to driver issues...</p>
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17260 | 1 | null | 2010-12-14T01:17:01.350 | 5 | 257 | <p>When I go to the Desktop and click on a media icon (for my flash drive, a CD, whatever it is), the following problems occur, in this approximate sequence:</p>
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17261 | 1 | 17984 | 2010-12-14T01:21:21.083 | 8 | 11359 | <p>I have a 32" Vizio HDTV. It's a few years old, but running well. I just connected a new nettop to it using HDMI out. It's the Intel 3x00 graphics chipset.</p>
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17263 | 1 | null | 2010-12-14T01:28:34.307 | 3 | 751 | <p>I am using Ubuntu 10.10 with all upgrades. Ubuntu One will sync files very good but it will not sync the contacts or bookmarks. I have done the troubleshooting steps of removing all mention of couchdb from the passwords list, installed the bindwood add-on in Firefox, and even reinstalled couchdb. It still will only ... | null | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:09.107 | 2011-01-22T11:33:02.620 | Synchronizing Contacts and Bookmarks in Ubuntu One Failure | [
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17268 | 1 | 23980 | 2010-12-14T02:47:27.650 | 7 | 3279 | <p>I have a small living room PC (Bohica, running fully-updated Ubuntu 10.10/Maverick) connected to my HDTV that I use for web browsing and media streaming. It connects via WiFi (wlan0) to my Fedora server (Snafu) that in turn connects to the internet. I use static addressing, and everything has been working fine.</p... | null | 1067 | 2010-12-14T06:48:46.643 | 2017-02-23T14:09:33.733 | Sharing an internet connection through the Ethernet port | [
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17270 | 1 | 17285 | 2010-12-14T03:22:12.023 | 0 | 1000 | <p>It seems every Linux machine I've ever worked on, when the router was restarted, the computer required a reboot too. All the Windows machines rejoined the network just fine. Why won't my Linux computers recognize a restarted router without a reboot themselves?</p>
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17271 | 1 | null | 2010-12-14T03:42:59.967 | 0 | 646 | <p>I decided to move from Lucid to Maverick in my office computer and I wanted to make a backup of some files on DVD. </p>
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17274 | 1 | null | 2010-12-14T04:37:44.943 | 26 | 18201 | <p>I recently had to copy about 20 GB of data split between about 20 files from my laptop to an external hard drive. Since this operation takes quite a while (at ~560kb/s), I was wondering if there was any way to pause the transfer and resume it later (in case, I need to interrupt the transfer). As a side question, is ... | 2331 | 1067 | 2010-12-30T03:12:31.407 | 2021-07-04T18:06:09.240 | How to pause/resume transfer of large files? | [
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17281 | 1 | null | 2010-12-14T05:23:17.420 | 2 | 10402 | <p>While executing <code>apt-get install python-setuptools</code> or <code>apt-get upgrade</code>, there are about a dozen of dependency errors, the top three are: </p>
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17290 | 1 | 17291 | 2010-12-14T06:14:46.410 | 2 | 5083 | <p>I have installed dockbarx using an article at omgubuntu. <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/12/new-look-dockbarx-hits-ppa/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/12/new-look-dockbarx-hits-ppa/</a>. The problem is that the window preview feature is not working. </p>
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17294 | 1 | 17982 | 2010-12-14T07:04:35.200 | 12 | 3088 | <p>Since I rarely use <kbd>caps-lock</kbd>, I'd like to map the key to a middle mouse click instead. I would also like to map <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>Caps Lock</kbd> to the original function of the caps lock key, should I ever need it.</p>
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17295 | 1 | 17397 | 2010-12-14T07:10:02.153 | 2 | 3024 | <p>I'm trying to install a package from a PPA I've added. (Yes, I'm the author of the package if that helps in any way.)</p>
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17299 | 1 | 17300 | 2010-12-14T08:15:44.293 | 487 | 1048606 | <p>What do the different colours in Ubuntu's <code>ls</code> command mean? For example, when I type the <code>ls</code> command in one of my folders, I get one of the files in light green, the other (which is a folder) in blue with green highlighting. </p>
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17302 | 1 | null | 2010-12-14T08:44:10.673 | 1 | 460 | <p>I tried to update to Natty Narwhal with <code>update-manager -d</code> and then I followed through everything and then when I restarted everything broke. Told me to put in some code or something but then after I restarted I couldn't find where to put the code in.</p>
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17305 | 1 | null | 2010-12-14T08:57:14.927 | 2 | 1211 | <p>I'm using Netbook Remix 10.04 now. I'm having the 10.10 alternate iso with me. If I use that iso to upgrade, will I lose my netbook version? I've seen in some forums that the upgrade resulted in a change from netbook version to desktop version.</p>
<p><strong>Updated on 15/12/2010</strong></p>
<p>I upgraded the OS f... | 7334 | -1 | 2020-06-12T14:37:07.210 | 2011-03-16T06:33:33.220 | Netbook Remix 10.04 to 10.10 upgrade using alternate iso | [
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17309 | 1 | 17341 | 2010-12-14T09:35:27.257 | 13 | 27165 | <p>I've been using recordMyDesktop to record stuff. A little slow to compile but it records fine. However, when I try to convert from ogv to avi (I've used Devede and an mencoder script) the audio and video go out of sync.</p>
<p>Here's the script for reference:</p>
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17315 | 1 | 17377 | 2010-12-14T10:32:36.810 | 5 | 4692 | <p>Compiz and Gnome have many keyboard shortcuts. Examples are <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>L</kbd> for locking the session or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>Arrows</kbd> for switching workspaces. Often they overwrite shortcuts in applications. It would be nice to have a way to temporarily disable these sys... | 7341 | 17739 | 2011-10-31T20:51:25.180 | 2011-10-31T20:51:39.937 | Quick way to temporarily disable compiz and gnome shortcuts | [
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17316 | 1 | null | 2010-12-14T10:35:18.897 | 23 | 1946 | <p>I remember a longer time ago there was an anouncement that some Ubuntu developers were planing to bring the possibility to Ubuntu to run Android Apps on an Ubuntu and planned to write an environment for this purpose.</p>
<p>Since this announcement i havn't heard again anything about this plans. And via Google nothi... | 7155 | 158442 | 2016-01-01T00:09:10.703 | 2016-01-01T00:09:10.703 | Plans to make Android Apps run on Ubuntu abandoned? | [
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17322 | 1 | 17385 | 2010-12-14T11:27:01.063 | 2 | 3852 | <p>Since Firestarter GUI needs Admin rights to start, does it make sense to autostart firestarter on boot and how can i do it?</p>
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"body": "<p>Addition:</p>\n\n<p>With the following steps firestarter can be autostarted</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>Start a terminal with this command to edit the file /etc/sudoers</p>\n\n<p><code>sudo visudo -s</code></p></li>\n<li><p>Add the following line at the end of the code (where username should... | [
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17327 | 1 | 18608 | 2010-12-14T11:56:14.193 | 3 | 1072 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu Lucid which contains the Gnome 2.30. The thing is that, I'm really interested on using empathy 2.32, since it fixes a lot of bugs. However I don't want to upgrade the entire system but I really want the new version of empathy :3. I tried using ppa or other methods but no luck. Any idea?</p>
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17332 | 1 | 17364 | 2010-12-14T12:47:16.580 | 10 | 14663 | <p>How can i move a enrypted home directory to another partition?
Are there differences between moving an unencrypted home directory to another partition and an encrypted home directory?</p>
<p>Perhaps does Ubuntu installer offer an option to place your home directory on an other partition?</p>
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17333 | 1 | 17350 | 2010-12-14T12:50:13.113 | 9 | 16286 | <p>How do I boot from USB on a Mac? Mac OS X crashed on that PC and I want to make the owner switch to Ubuntu.</p>
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17338 | 1 | 106798 | 2010-12-14T13:37:49.347 | 3 | 1593 | <p>I already saw in the past some presentations made with a 'cube effect' transition, similar to the 3D-multiple desktop of Compiz. I heard 'Keynotes' on Mac OSX could do that.</p>
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