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17339 | 1 | 17347 | 2010-12-14T13:40:02.443 | 7 | 2108 | <p>I am going to install Ubuntu on a brand new PC, which comes with some OEM installation of Windows 7. I know that Ubuntu can resize an existing Windows NTFS partition, so that it has free space to install. However, I am not sure how safe it is, and I'd like opinions, and tips'n'tricks on what I can do to avoid problems. The PC does not contain any data and I will have the recovery disk. </p>
<p>Merci! </p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/80251/keyring-on-startup-popup">Keyring On Startup popup</a> </p>
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<p>I forgot my password recently, so I had to use Ubuntu's recovery mode to change it to something else. I used this command: <code>passwd username</code> and I was then prompted for the new password. Then I rebooted and logged in. Everything went very smoothly, except that now everytime I log in I see this pop-up 3 times before I can do anything else:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/VOJc6.png" alt="Very Annoying!"></p>
<p>I've tried entering my current password but that doesn't work. How can I get this annoying pop-up to stop showing up? I looked at <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/867/how-can-i-stop-being-prompted-to-unlock-the-default-keyring-on-boot">this question</a> however the checkbox to make this connection available to all users is disabled for me.</p>
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17361 | 1 | 17376 | 2010-12-14T16:33:05.453 | 2 | 674 | <p>I just installed the LaTeX editor Kile from source on my Ubuntu 10.04 with KDE (I know it is also available in the package-manager, however if you install it from there it will install TeXLive 2009 which I don't want).</p>
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<p>This works fine, however it would be much more convenient to have this as a symbol-launcher on my workspace desktop.</p>
<p>How can I create a launcher from this command given above so that I can start Kile with a double-click on an icon?</p>
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"text": "Thank you but unfortunatelly this does not work and exits with the Error: Failes to execute child process \"KDEDIRS=$HOME....\" (no such file or directory)",
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"text": "A work-around that I found is to link to the file in /kile-install/bin/kile but this is some sort of executable and can't be opened with an editor. I would still be interested in a solution with the launcher",
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"text": "Thank you very much. The change to EXEC=sh - c... did it. I haven't tried the appraoch with the sh file, but I can't see why this shouldn't work.",
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"text": "Your welcome. The shell script is essentially the same thing. The \"sh -c\" is basically just passing the command to your shell, as if you were running the command in a terminal but without actually opening a terminal. Very useful for many things!",
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17367 | 1 | null | 2010-12-14T16:51:05.087 | 10 | 1545 | <p>I've been trying for months to upgrade my Ubuntu 8.10 to 10.04 and have been told that I cannot because of my ATI Radeon Xpress M200 card. I finally got tired of not being able to get things from the repository, so I did a clean install from a CD. I have a 64-bit laptop. The clean install went fine and 10.04 seems to have no problems with the ATI card.</p>
<p>Why was the upgrade telling me it couldn't do it? I thought I would have to scrap this laptop and get another. In fact, I did buy another one with 10.04 as a backup for when this one finally quit.</p>
<p>Any ideas?</p>
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17379 | 1 | 17395 | 2010-12-14T17:15:55.383 | 2 | 6746 | <p>Having an Arrandale-based notebook with an on-die Intel GPU, which graphics drivers can and should I use?</p>
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"text": "Small correction: some Intel IGPs based on PowerVR (so non-Intel) cores do require closed source drivers, but those are only used for some Atom CPUs currently, and not for e.g. Arrandale.",
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17381 | 1 | 76951 | 2010-12-14T17:24:19.163 | 565 | 591819 | <p>When I login, nothing happens. </p>
<p>I am presented with my desktop wallpaper.</p>
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<p>No Dash, no Launcher, nothing. </p>
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"text": "I just got the same issue (thanks for the answer). In CCSM I saw that _all_ my plugins had been removed. Any idea why such a thing could have happened?",
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"text": "(But none of the answers here got it back, nevertheless)",
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"text": "Worked perfectly well for me. As a side note, I did not need to enter the TTY terminal, was able to use the terminal shortcut (`ctrl + alt + t`).",
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"text": "In fact this is what I used to get rid of unity and now my desktop is super minimalistic. I installed gnome-do and few keyboard shortcuts and it works awesome without any wastage of screen real estate.",
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"text": "If you get to step 5 and don't see unity on the list, try this: `sudo apt-get -f install && sudo apt-get --reinstall install unity`",
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"text": "For me some parts of the window manager again crashed after I first enabled the unity plugin, during which I was asked to also enable required dependencies such as the plugins 'scale' and 'expo'. It helps to always keep a terminal open. Then one can try to restart the window manager by typing `compiz &` in that terminal and then repeat to enable the unity plugin.",
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"text": "Had this problem myself but I'm unlucky with the solution far, doesn't work for me, still get the same empty screen on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit. Will go over the steps again to check if any thing was missed. Lenovo X201S Thinkpad i7 2.0Ghz 8Gb RAM. Never had this issue with 12.04 LTS",
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"text": "Tip: @Shahbaz For me, I found that the original problem was for one of my accounts. When I logged into another account everything was normal. So my approach to the problem would be to move any valuable personal files from the faulty account to the working account, delete the faulty account and the recreate it and move the files back.",
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"text": "I had this problem and it was because the unity plugin got deactivated somehow. Using ccsm, selecting the unity plugin and putting a check in the box to enable it did the trick for me.",
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"text": "The fact that this is problem so common and long-lasting is, to me, rather disturbing. Does anyone know why this keeps happening, and what's causing it?",
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"text": "This solution doesn't work, I can only log with one of my accounts on atrl-alt-f7, with the others I'm kicked out. My pc has become almost useless. No solution in this page has worked.",
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"text": "This solution does not work for me. This really should have been added to an existing answer in order to improve it! http://askubuntu.com/a/18996 as should many of the other suggestions/answers :)",
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"text": "We just used your answer in class to get back Unity that professor borked after messing with a bunch of things :)",
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"text": "This (partially) worked for me, thanks! What's still messing is the menu bar with the controls for sound, networks, etc.",
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"text": "ccsm hangs on Loading Icons, but if I ctrl-alt-F7 back to the main display, the compiz options ARE there. I've enabled the Unity desktop, switched back to tty1 (ccsm has executed successfully)... but no Unity. Reboot: no Unity. If I reload ccsm, Unity is still selected and \"on\" but no Unity appears.",
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"text": "is this a good solution if we have a NVIDIA linux grafics card driver installed? Thanks for that. I heard, that compiz might conflict with that?",
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"text": "There is no unity setting for me. And is everything in compiz supposed to be disabled? It was by default",
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"text": "Yesterday my Ubuntu 15.10 was working, today it got stuck in a login loop after installing uodates. (I thought only Windoze did this). The compiz config setting manager seems to have worked for me.",
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"text": "@Oli I did what you recommended above and got the unity launcher but I have to drag the cursor there to display it,means It is not continuous displaying Unity launcher how can I fix it.",
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"text": "god bless your soul! @Oli",
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"text": "@Oli Such a really Good Answer i have fixed my issue thank you so much ..",
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"text": "Without GUI how we can connect to internet?? How we can install compiz manager without connect to internet.. Please.. Can anyone explain the process..",
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"text": "I have been stopped in step 3. It is saying \"Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 \"",
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"text": "Should this be possible in Lubuntu 14.04 as well? It doesn't seem to be for me. Have tried all steps, but even after installing Unity and checking it's enabled I don't get anything on desktop. Is there an alternative for Unity for Lubuntu?",
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"text": "@Ingrid No. Lubuntu doesn't use Compiz so unless you've added it, it's unlikely to help.",
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"text": "Unfortunately, this solution is not applicable to Ubuntu 16.04.",
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"text": "I agree with Luis de Soussa. I'm also using 16.04. I cannot get my taskbar or the titlebar/system bar to show at all using this method.",
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"text": "I tried followi g this solution for 16.04 LTS. It doesn't seem to apply the settings when I enable the Unity Plugin. I try a second time, and the checkbox is unchecked! Any ideas why?",
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"text": "Thanks so much for this answer. My main system is running ubuntu and if I had not gotten this up I probably would have lost more than a ubuntu installation",
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"text": "I try this `sudo apt-get -f install && sudo apt-get --reinstall install unity`",
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"text": "Its working only once for me, when I restart, I'm back to the same issue.",
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"text": "@jvriesem how did you solve the problem? I can't enable the Unity plugin as well.",
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"text": "@OleksandrShpota I didn’t fix it. I stopped using Linux for many months in frustration. :-(",
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"text": "I get `ImportError: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Reference_Face`",
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"text": "For everyone with Ubuntu 16.04 or get the \"Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1\" problem like I did, the solution you are looking for is likely way down here: https://askubuntu.com/a/827296/452147",
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17388 | 1 | 17391 | 2010-12-14T18:04:36.180 | 1 | 16113 | <p>How can I split an existing partition (NTFS) to get space for a new partition and create a mountpoint for it?</p>
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"text": "which directory is typically taken for the /path/to/mountpoint. mnt or better ? especially under the aspect that i want to move my home directory to the new partition?",
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"text": "Use `/home` instead of `/path/to/mountpoint`, but make sure you move the contents of `/home` to the new partition first. Use the /etc/fstab method to make it permanent.",
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"text": "one question still, which partitioning algorithms use ubuntu during he installation, are they available as a standalone application or command? is this gparted?",
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"text": "I don't know. As far as I know the installer uses the same method as gparted. Perhaps you could ask this as a separate question.",
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17401 | 1 | null | 2010-12-14T19:45:35.100 | 2 | 2779 | <p>Everytime I switch on my desktop running and start the HP PSC 1410, it will print a test page. I have recently installed the hplip driver (the latest one on the hplip website) and the driver installed correctly.</p>
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17402 | 1 | 17407 | 2010-12-14T19:46:53.230 | 7 | 382 | <p>Which partitioning algorithms use ubuntu during the installation, is it also available as a standalone application or command? Is it gparted?</p>
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17403 | 1 | null | 2010-12-14T19:48:11.090 | 3 | 1000 | <p>I have an Asus G73-JW Laptop and on official drivers, it will blink every time that the Powermizer will change the speed of the card. The only workaround I have found so far is to set it to maximum performance but, this is not a viable workaround as it is always maxed out so, lots of heat...</p>
<p>Any ideas?</p>
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17414 | 1 | null | 2010-12-14T20:17:57.643 | 20 | 49117 | <p>My mouse wheel has stopped working. It doesn't scroll up and down when previously it worked. How can I configure what each button of the mouse does? I use Ubuntu 10.10.</p>
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17419 | 1 | null | 2010-12-14T20:39:23.023 | 3 | 1904 | <p>I have installed Kubuntu 10.10 alongside windows 7. In kubuntu 10.10 i tried to connect to internet using the DSL connection tab in the networkmanger on the taskbar -> manage connection -> DSL. i gave the username, password, ip address(manually) etc. checked the box of "connect automatically". The system connection checkbox was grayed out so i could not do anything to it. Then i clicked apply. But the connection that had just created didn't appear in the available connections. As there was no connection named that i created using DSL tab i could not connect to internet.</p>
<p>I used to connect to internet using the same method in Ubuntu 's networkmanager.</p>
<p>Is this some kind of bug in kde's network manager ?
how can i solve it ?</p>
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17421 | 1 | 17424 | 2010-12-14T20:52:13.917 | 5 | 787 | <p>Application and applets icons are changing their position or even disappears from the gnome-panel (see an example). </p>
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<p>Thank you for support.</p>
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17425 | 1 | 17426 | 2010-12-14T21:27:38.237 | 10 | 2089 | <p>Revenge of the Titans is one of the games from the <a href="http://www.humblebundle.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Humble Indie Bundle</a>. I downloaded the i386 .deb file (I'm on a 32bit installation) and tried to install it using the Software Centre. However, when it was nearly finished I got this error:</p>
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<p>I then tried to install it using <code>dpkg</code> and it failed to install, giving the following error:</p>
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unable to create `/opt/revengeofthetitans/full_length_music/einleitung.mp3.dpkg-new' (while processing
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<p>How can I resolve this?</p>
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17427 | 1 | 35055 | 2010-12-14T21:32:32.847 | 4 | 274 | <p>I want to remove the part in Nautilus that shows free disk space. In theory it may useful but it's so badly designed, every time I select some files my eye gets drawn to "15 GB" instead of the actual size of the files. And with no files selected, it says something like "24 items, Free space 15GB" which at a quick glance looks like the total size of the files.</p>
<p>I've looked through the preferences and don't see anything. I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 with Nautilus 2.32.0.</p>
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17428 | 1 | null | 2010-12-14T21:34:33.033 | 3 | 2474 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/10373/is-scanning-virus-needed-on-linux-distros">Is scanning VIRUS needed on Linux Distros?</a> </p>
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<p>Do I need anti virus / anti malware software?
Which sw do you recomend?
Where do I get it?</p>
<p>Im new to Ubuntu.</p>
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17432 | 1 | 17485 | 2010-12-14T21:51:57.473 | 17 | 2297 | <p>When the computer starts, GRUB shows a long list of previous kernels in addition to the usual stuff, e.g.</p>
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Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.35-23-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu 10.10, kernel 2.6.35-22-generic
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Dell Utility Partition
Windows Vista (loader)
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<p>Is it safe to delete those extra "Ubuntu 10.10, kernel" lines from <code>/etc/grub/menu.lst</code>? Currently I have commented-out from the third one up to (not including) memtest86. But I wonder if they are ever needed for a particular reason?</p>
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17450 | 1 | null | 2010-12-14T22:20:38.690 | 3 | 5368 | <p>I have a machine located 500 miles away that's running Ubuntu 8.04. I figure it's just about time that I upgrade to the latest LTS. However, there's a software raid (md_raid) in there, and I'm afraid that just a dist-upgrade when I switch over the sources.list will end with catastrophic failure. Like a panic on boot that the raid'd disk can't be read, or something else.</p>
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17467 | 1 | 17652 | 2010-12-14T22:54:46.707 | 25 | 44653 | <p>I have only one disk in my computer, a 80 GB SSD. It is formatted as a single ext4 partition (no swap), and all the usual folders are installed on it (I keep lots of data on external media, but /home and all the rest is on the SSD). </p>
<p>Today I booted it and I got a message that the drive is full. I opened Disk Usage Analyzer to look at what takes up space. It insists that 67.8 GB of the disk are used, and that / is taking up 36.4 GB. Which leads to the question, where are the missing 30 GB, if not on the file system?! </p>
<p>Just to have a comparison, I added up all the sizes of all readable folders listed in Nautilus as subfolders of / (including the hidden ones). I got 20.9 GB. Trash was unreadable, but I know it has 16.2 GB, so the sum is 36.1 GB, around the same as what Disk Usage Analyzer is reporting. There were some system folders which were unreadable, like proc, but I doubt that they add up to 30 GB - else it wouldn't be possible to install Ubuntu on small disks, and I've seen it run on 2.5 GB. I think they must be the 0.3 GB difference between my calculation and the Disk Usage Analyzer's report. </p>
<p>So I'd like to know, what is eating up these 30 GB and how do I get it to free them? </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/YyZBF.jpg" alt="alt text"></p>
<p><strong>Edit with answers to CYREX's questions</strong></p>
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<li><p>Booted from Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit live CD (same as my system).</p>
<p>fsck result: </p>
<pre><code>root@ubuntu:~# fsck /dev/sda1
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
/dev/sda1: clean, 265956/4890624 files, 18073343/19537408 blocks
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<li><p>Booted from the SSD. Emptied the trash, and the 16 GB from there are now free. The 30 GB are still missing. </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/EHzAZ.jpg" alt="alt text"></p></li>
<li><p>I'm not experienced enough to know what counts as weird in a log. Here are my messages log and my syslog since last boot. Maybe you can find something in them: </p>
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<li><p>Here it got really strange. I plugged in an external 500 GB HDD. Disk Usage Analyzer <em>overreported</em> the available space, then showed space missing (76 GB used, but only 24 in folders). </p>
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<p>Booted again from the LiveCD, started the Disk Usage Analyzer from it and got the same results as from the installed Ubuntu, within 1-2 GB. </p>
<p>Edit with answer to CodeMonk:</p>
<p>That would have been a nice solution, but the partition is really 80 GB - I mean 74 GB + marketing "error", anyway the whole disk is formatted. It also shows that over 50 GB are used, so where are the 30 GB if not in files and folders?</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rb5NN.jpg" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rb5NN.jpg" alt="alt text"></a></p>
<p>GParted also reports the correct size of the external HDD. </p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IxMsn.jpg" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IxMsn.jpg" alt="alt text"></a></p>
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17483 | 1 | null | 2010-12-15T00:11:14.587 | 0 | 1390 | <p>Im fairly new to Ubuntu and I decided to try and get arpwatch up and running so I can monitor my network network. After following the directions at <a href="http://aimlinux.com/blog/?p=56" rel="nofollow">http://aimlinux.com/blog/?p=56</a> I am not getting any email notifications. Sorry thats all I have to go off of right now. The service seems to be running and i think it is seeing devices on the network, but i get no notification</p>
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17486 | 1 | 17494 | 2010-12-15T00:28:09.343 | 2 | 782 | <p>I installed unity packages from the software center, and after that some promblems started at the normal desktop session.</p>
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17493 | 1 | 17506 | 2010-12-15T01:30:15.670 | 4 | 34087 | <p>At the beginning I have been Windows 7 on /dev/sda1. After that I have installed Ubuntu in /dev/sda7 and set Grub partition to /dev/sda1. Which broked down Windows 7 boot. Ubuntu have booted normally from Grub Menu, but when I choosed Windows 7, grub disappared and after 1 second appeared, and doesn't load. After that I have searched for some fixes for Windows 7 boot, and I do some "fixings". The result - Grub doesn't load.</p>
<p>At this moment I have broken Windows 7 loader and broken Grub. And sitting with Ubuntu Live CD. How can I fix this with Ubuntu live CD? If possible please give step by step explanation, because I newbie in Ubuntu and Linux.</p>
<p><strong>EDIT:</strong> Grub loader fixed. But anyway... Windows 7 doesn't load from Grub.
I'm using Grub2.</p>
<p><strong>EDIT2</strong> As I understand I need to run bootrec.exe /fixboot to fix Windows 7 bootloader. But I don't have Win7 DVD at this moment. Any way to do same from Ubuntu?</p>
<p><strong>EDIT3</strong> Boot Info Script RESULTS.txt is here: <a href="http://pastebin.com/Z70fKQHJ" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/Z70fKQHJ</a></p>
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17504 | 1 | null | 2010-12-15T03:07:08.117 | 12 | 52414 | <p>I have a bluetooth keyboard for my HTPC. I pair it with my computer via bluetooth, and it works fine. However, when I turn off the keyboard or my computer, it has to connect again (which requires me entering a passcode on the computer and keyboard) when I turn them back on. I've looked through many forums and through that I have found that I'm missing some seemingly vital bluetooth files:</p>
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<p>Am I missing a dependency or something? I've also tried installing Blueman but that didn't help at all.</p>
<p>I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick).</p>
<p>Original post: <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1643386&highlight=bluetooth">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1643386&highlight=bluetooth</a></p>
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17513 | 1 | null | 2010-12-15T03:34:33.147 | 0 | 238 | <p>When I minimize folders and mozilla, it is not visible in the panel. I do not where it is stored. </p>
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17518 | 1 | null | 2010-12-15T04:08:51.923 | 2 | 803 | <p>Some months back I used wubi to install ubuntu on an hp laptop with vista. After not using it for a month or so, I loaded ubuntu and installed many updates (including kernel update). Windows boot manager loads without any problems, and I can boot to vista without problems. However, if I choose ubuntu, the screen briefly flashes</p>
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17527 | 1 | null | 2010-12-15T06:54:14.430 | 0 | 376 | <p>It appears I cannot right click on the menus to change their appearance etc, nothing happens. I am completely new to Linux so might be doing something wrong. Installed Utweakgi, but it tells me system or administrator cannot use the software and might not load. </p>
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17530 | 1 | 17535 | 2010-12-15T07:19:23.293 | 6 | 7783 | <p>I have a need to maintain different versions of a certain product written in java, and uses sun's jdk to build. Some older versions of the product need an older jdk (1.5) and the newer ones need jdk 1.6. So, my question is how can I install (and maintain) multiple versions of sun's jdk. I don't want openjdk, icedtea or whatever else, but different versions of sun's jdk itself.</p>
<p>I ask this as I've seen I have the commands <code>python</code>, <code>python2.6</code> accessible. If I install another python version, I get it as <code>python2.7</code> although the <code>python</code> command doesn't point to it. This is exactly the kind of setup I need with java. But anything close also works.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
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17532 | 1 | null | 2010-12-15T07:30:02.890 | 15 | 168936 | <p>How to install a program with the.tgz extention?</p>
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17536 | 1 | 17538 | 2010-12-15T07:54:39.290 | 528 | 1125912 | <p>I would like to create an alias to <code>rm</code> command in order to have a confirmation message after executing this command. So I am creating an alias like this <code>alias rm='rm -i'</code>. But as far as I know this is a temporary alias and it lives until you close the terminal.</p>
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<p>What is the actual problem and how can I solve it?</p>
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17539 | 1 | null | 2010-12-15T08:26:12.373 | 1 | 177 | <p>I manage several ubuntu servers remotely, and occasionally, there will be a need to run fsck on the root partition.</p>
<p>From what I've read, the best way to achieve this without physical access to the machine is to have another OS installed, and tweak grub to boot into that OS after reboot. I have done that on some of the servers, and it did prove useful once or twice.</p>
<p>However, installing the two OSes was a pain, since I couldn't use simple "Guided - use entire disk" options, and had to manually craft the partition sizes and define the boot/swap/root etc, which made the installation less pleasant.</p>
<p>So my question is: is there a simple way that I'm missing to just install a second ubuntu server on the same machine, where I can just tell it "use 5 GB of the hard drive, and don't bother me with questions"?</p>
<p>Alternatively, is there a better way to enable fsck-ing of the root partition without physical access?</p>
<p>Update: after looking around some more, it seems that it might make more sense to <a href="http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Easy_install_SystemRescueCd_on_harddisk" rel="nofollow">install SystemRescueCD on the hard drive</a>, rather than a full-fledged ubuntu. As long as I'm behind a firewall this might be acceptable. Still not an easy solution.</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/20857/mdadm-breaks-boot-due-to-is-not-ready-yet-or-not-present-error">mdadm: breaks boot due to “is not ready yet or not present” error</a> </p>
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<p>I've got a RAID 5 setup for my <code>/home</code> partition. Every two to three boots my hdisks don't seem to be ready in time and my PC hangs saying that <code>/home</code> isn't ready yet.</p>
<p>I then have to manually activate it by pressing <kbd>M</kbd> and typing <strong>dmraid -ay</strong>.<br>
This <em>always</em> activates the <code>/home</code> partition.</p>
<p>How can I tell Ubuntu to wait longer if my home-dir couldn't be mounted yet?</p>
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<p>Thanks, Jamie</p>
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17558 | 1 | 17567 | 2010-12-15T10:55:07.723 | 7 | 13223 | <p>I have a <code>.mdb</code> database file which originated from a MS Access Jet database. </p>
<p>Is the some way to view this database, and even better, a way to edit and export it?</p>
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<p>Recently I have my whole home folder deleted by a script. Maybe there's something with this.. But I just downloaded a brand new Eclipse installation and put it in my /home/eclipse/ folder.</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/152184/how-do-i-fix-malformed-line-errors-in-sources-list">How do I fix “malformed line” errors in sources.list?</a> </p>
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<p>I seem to be running into some difficulties with the acquisition of the latest libreoffice deb pkg.</p>
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<p>I don't understand of that means that I did something wrong or if there is a problem at tuxfamily.</p>
<p>Any help is, as always, greatly appreciated.</p>
<p><a href="http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/544110" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Full contents of /etc/apt/sources.list.</a></p>
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17571 | 1 | 17575 | 2010-12-15T13:10:57.507 | 7 | 827 | <p>Since this question as addition in another question i created got lost, here is it as a separate question.</p>
<p>Is there a possibility to choose another partition for /home directory during installation of Ubuntu</p>
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17572 | 1 | 17573 | 2010-12-15T13:20:58.170 | 4 | 5435 | <p>I would like to know different stages of the Bootloading process happening in ubuntu.<br>
Specifically the different stages in GRUB and GRUB2. </p>
<p>Please guide me on this topic.</p>
<p>Thanks,<br>
Sen</p>
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17576 | 1 | 17580 | 2010-12-15T13:35:56.507 | 7 | 45397 | <p>I use Netscan softwar to search the available computers with the shared items in microsoft windows. I could give it an IP address range and it retured the available IP address. </p>
<p>In ubuntu is there such a way to scan the network ?</p>
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17578 | 1 | null | 2010-12-15T13:40:20.577 | 2 | 4027 | <p>I have lenovo g460 with VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 310M] (rev a2) grapics card </p>
<p>I have install the driver using <code>gksudo jockey-gtk</code> command, but when I change the visual effects to extra its give me 'Desktop effects could not be enabled'. I am new to Ubuntu.</p>
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17579 | 1 | 22182 | 2010-12-15T13:45:59.317 | 7 | 10438 | <p>I installed wolf:et, and i cant get sound to work.
Everything that i have installed is in default paths, i had 10.4 and then upgraded to 10.10 via software update gui.
I had sound working in 10.04 with method under 2.</p>
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<li><p><code>killall esd; et; esd</code> </p>
<p>with that i get </p>
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------- sound initialization -------<br>
/dev/adsp: No such file or directory<br>
Could not open /dev/adsp<br>
------------------------------------</code></p></li>
<li><p><code>sudo -i<br>
echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss<br>
echo "et.x86 0 0 disable" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss<br>
exit</code></p>
<p>with that i get </p>
<p><code>bash: /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss: No such file or directory
</code><br>
and indeed i do not have that, i have only sub0 and sub1 in pcm0p</p></li>
<li><p>I have tried running et with et-sdl-sound script, but with that i get this output in console<br>
<a href="http://pastebin.com/J7gRU1uh">http://pastebin.com/J7gRU1uh</a><br>
I have probably messed up sdl libraries, could not get sound to work, so downloaded new from debian package site and installed them.</p></li>
<li><p>Tried setting <code>SDL_AUDIODRIVER="pulse"</code> in <code>et-sdl-sound</code>, looks like i am getting same error as in method 3.</p></li>
<li><p><code>pasuspender -- et +set s_alsa_pcm plughw:0</code> </p>
<p>gives me</p>
<p><code>------- sound initialization -------<br>
/dev/adsp: No such file or directory<br>
Could not open /dev/adsp<br>
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<p>Misc:
@Oli: i do not know if i am running pulse or esd, how can i check that?</p>
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17582 | 1 | 17585 | 2010-12-15T13:59:31.130 | 0 | 1408 | <p>I used to have a Windows 7 partition on my primary hard drive. But I recently moved the partition to the secondary partition, thus a change from sda1 to sdb1.</p>
<p>I know that I'm not supposed to edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg, which is still configured to sda1.</p>
<p>Which file should I edit?</p>
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17584 | 1 | 17587 | 2010-12-15T14:11:44.463 | 1 | 1460 | <p>I am trying to convert a numbering system in an old dbase file. I have manage to open it in calc and, before I use it as a table in a new database created with base, there is a field (column) I would like to modify. </p>
<p>The actual format is ex : 100-1234-56 I would like to: </p>
<p>add a 1 in front of it, keep the first 3 numbers, remove the dash, keep the next four numbers and remove the dash with the last 2 numbers like this: </p>
<p>100-1234-56 would be 11001234 </p>
<p>What are my options ?</p>
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17586 | 1 | 39895 | 2010-12-15T14:23:04.717 | 3 | 1217 | <p>Recently empathy has switched it's behavior for open links. </p>
<p>At some point it was that links pasted in the IM window where open with whatever program was associated to the mime type of the link's content type, so, for example if the link was pointing to a image it was open in eog, if the link was a webpage it was open in gedit (my default setting).</p>
<p>Now it opens everything in chrome even though it's not my default browser, I've checked everywhere and chrome is not set as default.</p>
<p>I'm thinking that it's a bug but wanted to ask before going to launchpad. It's happening the same to you?</p>
<p>Is there a way to force empathy to open everything in firefox as a workaround?</p>
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17590 | 1 | 31581 | 2010-12-15T15:15:22.327 | 6 | 1469 | <p>i got my touchpad stop working after several hours being disabled (using Fn+F7 in my Acer 4530). i've tried many times to turn it on using the same key-combination (Fn+F7), although the touchpad indicator says it works, but the touchpad still not working</p>
<p>i wonder if anybody know how to fix this problem?</p>
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17594 | 1 | null | 2010-12-15T15:59:16.723 | 2 | 1292 | <p>Docky doesn't start, neither in the system startup (i have it as a startup application) nor when I start it manually. It stopped working yesterday.</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1877/what-is-the-easiest-way-to-resolve-apt-get-badsig-gpg-errors">What is the easiest way to resolve apt-get BADSIG GPG errors?</a> </p>
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<p>The errors are here: <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/544093/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://paste.ubuntu.com/544093/</a></p>
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17609 | 1 | 17629 | 2010-12-15T17:37:50.973 | 5 | 528 | <p>Recently my <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>F2</kbd> keyboard shortcut switches my Linux machine to a virtual terminal rather than displaying the run window. I haven't made any specific keyboard changes that could of caused this strange issue.</p>
<p>Rather than having to press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Alt</kbd>, suddenly all of the virtual terminal commands have suddenly binded to the just the <kbd>Alt</kbd> key.</p>
<p>What can I do to get them back to their default values?</p>
<p>I'm using Gnome with Compiz enabled</p>
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17610 | 1 | 17614 | 2010-12-15T17:51:46.840 | 184 | 228297 | <p>I've been messing around with Unity and broke something, how do I "start over"?</p>
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17611 | 1 | null | 2010-12-15T17:52:46.023 | 4 | 1619 | <p>What do these commands do?</p>
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17615 | 1 | 17724 | 2010-12-15T18:09:25.023 | 5 | 870 | <p>Can some one suggest a software for a small home network to monitor the amount uploaded / download from the internet but not the local traffic on the LAN. I know there are similar questions like these</p>
<p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1459/how-can-you-monitor-internet-download-usage">How can you monitor internet data usage?</a></p>
<p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13029/monitoring-inbound-and-outbound-internet-traffic">Monitoring inbound and outbound internet traffic</a></p>
<p>but the suggested softwares in these questions like vnstat dont consider if the traffic is for local network or internet which means that I can not know if I am reaching my ISPs monthly cap on bandwidth. I have googled for this and found only one software i.e ipac-ng but it is not straight forward. I need something that I a normal user can use easily i.e without changing iptables rules or adding routes.</p>
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17617 | 1 | 18647 | 2010-12-15T18:13:43.790 | 2 | 1124 | <p>Ok I have a problem every 2 times out of 3 I login (I cant be specific it fairly random) I get a Stuttering GDM warning (not the login sound just the Bell sound to wake you up) the only way to stop it is to login</p>
<p>I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo 1718 with a 2gig of memory (only hardware mod) using 10.10 Maverick and I have disabled KMS as my system was freezing as per the release notes.</p>
<p>The only time this has happened before on the same machine was when I gave Kubuntu a try when 10.04 came out then it happened at the login screen and at random times while listening to music in any program. By the way audio is fine as is almost everything else once I have logged in.</p>
<p>I would like an answer to this as I am an advocate of Ubuntu and its kind of embarrassing when the first thing that happens is <strong>*<em>bing</em>*</strong>.</p>
<p>as requested Daniel</p>
<p><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6025171/alsa-info.txt.RwVHpoIC10" rel="nofollow">alsa-info</a> </p>
<p><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6025171/pulseverbose.log" rel="nofollow">Pulse verbose log</a></p>
<p>Not sure how useful the pulse log will be as I cant replicate the bug with a terminal open but I wouldnt be asking the question if I knew the answer so..... </p>
<p>Edit 24/12/2010 ......been living on cocktail sausages and pickled onions for five days now made a make shift splint with cocktail sticks..... oops so updated the alsa drivers but I still get the same message in the dmesg </p>
<p><code>No response from codec, disabling MSI: last cmd=0x10a90000</code></p>
<p>googleing it brings up a <a href="http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/multimedia/443069-opensuse-11-3-sound-works-but-stutters-while-moving-window.html" rel="nofollow">forum post</a> from some other distro with a green logo<br>
the only common denominator seems to be graphics ie ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M which is why I have had to turn of kms as the chip is so old that small mice try to eat the "kernel" ;) funnily enough following the bug link at the end of the post, I found a comment about "Ubuntu Black Magic" so mabey I am coming at this from the wrong angle...... Bad Joo Joo any one. I will try the second part of Daniels Fix and Update with the result. </p>
<p>The final Edit: (Plays air guitar) In the end neither of these solved the problem as such However I have given Roland a tick for reminding me of the solution and I gave Daniel the Bounty for the effort in trying to solve the problem.</p>
<p>The answer for future readers was the enable the correct HD Audio Model I found the answer back when using Karmic Koala 9.10 in this forum post <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1222634" rel="nofollow">Amilo Li1718 Skype - Can't get it working... </a> the model is <code>options snd-hda-intel model=3stack position_fix=1 enable=yes</code> which can be added to the end of alsa-base.conf thanks all for helping and hope anyone with a similar problem will find the answer here. </p>
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<p>When listening to music I get frequent breaks whilst the music is buffering, even with full signal. Every other music streaming service such as "Last FM" and "BBC iPlayer" are fine. </p>
<p>What is going wrong? mp3s should not have trouble buffering over a good 3g signal.
I have set cache size to 200mb but I cant find a buffer size.
Is it my mp3s? they are usually in the order of 320kb/s</p>
<p>This is a breaker for me if there is no solution which is a massive shame as I like the principal of the software. <strong>Cheers</strong> </p>
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17620 | 1 | null | 2010-12-15T18:22:48.907 | 1 | 2454 | <p>I have a Kyocera FS-2020D. I followed the manufacturer instructions to install the printer, but it does not work.</p>
<p>Manufacturer's PPD for the printer: <a href="http://usa.kyoceramita.com/americas/jsp/upload/resource/19915/0/Kyocera_FS-2020D.PPD" rel="nofollow">http://usa.kyoceramita.com/americas/jsp/upload/resource/19915/0/Kyocera_FS-2020D.PPD</a></p>
<p>Cups always says processing and than nothing happens. I use PCL 6 emulation in the printer but tried the KPDL also.</p>
<p>I contacted the Kyocera support, and they provided me a Mac OSX driver and they told me that will work because linux and mac are unix based systems...</p>
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<p>Thank you in advance all help.</p>
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17621 | 1 | 17649 | 2010-12-15T18:30:28.380 | 1 | 1388 | <p>Is there a way to download every file I have uploaded to ubuntu one in one single download? </p>
<p>I have recently had a major hard drive crash and I would like to restore all my synchronized files on Ubuntu One on my new hard drive. The only way I found to do so is to download each files individually. Since I have many files (100s), I was wondering if there was a way to download every files/folders in my ubuntu one directory (on the server) in one single download.</p>
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"text": "Thank you for the quick answer.\n\nIs there any possibility that the synchronizing process will delete the files on the Ubuntu One server because it can not find the original files on my hard drive?",
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"text": "Thanks again for the quick answer. I did so and I get an error saying:\n\n\"ROOT_MISMATCH: local and server roots are different\"\n\nIs it because local directories, especially the subfolders, are not the same as on the remote directories? Or is it something else I did wrong?",
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"text": "Nervermind, I have solved this issue by un/re-installing Unbuntu One by following these simple steps:\n\nhttps://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client/+faq/778",
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17626 | 1 | 315226 | 2010-12-15T18:54:34.177 | 50 | 62924 | <p>I have customized some of the shortcuts in System ▸ Preferences ▸ Keyboard Shortcuts.</p>
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17627 | 1 | 17631 | 2010-12-15T18:58:22.287 | 22 | 43659 | <p>I want to use new functools that provides with the lrucache, I am currently using python 2.6, which doesn't support this, </p>
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"text": "This answer is great, I upvoted, but I'd like more depth. I can invoke the new Python as 'python3.2', which is fine, but can I set things up so that my personal programs will use this version by default (e.g. get python3.2 as the first 'python' on the PATH) while the system keeps safely using python2.6? I ask not because I don't like typing 'python3.2', but because some",
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"text": "(oops, thanks.) ...but because some tools have e.g. bash scripts, which invoke their Python components using 'python xxx.py', and they only run under Python 3.2. So I want to create an environment (indeed, I want it to be my personal default environment) in which Python 3.2 (and all its scripts, tools, etc) is first on the path, while leaving the system Python 2.6 for the system to use (indeed, by preference, I'd like to strip this from my personal path just to ensure no confusion about which Python I am running)",
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17628 | 1 | 17661 | 2010-12-15T19:00:04.663 | 6 | 788 | <p>I have been using various tool that depend on the adobe air platform on ubuntu, like tweetdeck and grooveshark. </p>
<p>I have always hated, how the notification icons look, but I need them there for ease of use. Has anyone managed to change how the icons bleed into the taskbar, or even tell me where I could replace the notification icons with ones that look better. As you can see below the notication icons for skype and xchat look fine. </p>
<p>Please and thank you!</p>
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"body": "<p>There are two different ways to fix this problem:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p><strong>Change the program icons:</strong> </p>\n\n<p>TweetDeck uses the icon <code>/opt/TweetDeck/share/icons/TweetDeck_128.png</code> for the notification area, even though there are smaller TweetDeck icons in <code>/opt/TweetDeck/share/icons/</code>.</p>\n\n<p>So as <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/users/132/\">In Protest</a> says, just change the background of the<br>\nicon <em>(<code>/opt/TweetDeck/share/icons/TweetDeck_128.png</code>)</em> so it matches your panel background. </p>\n\n<p>I made a TweetDeck icon for the Ambiance theme:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://ubuntuone.com/p/TyK/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">TweetDeck_128.png</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>To use it, run the following commands in a terminal (assuming you downloaded it to your Desktop):</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>Back up the existing icon:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo cp /opt/TweetDeck/share/icons/TweetDeck_128.png /opt/TweetDeck/share/icons/TweetDeck_128.png.bak \n</code></pre></li>\n<li><p>Now replace it with the new icon:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo cp ~/Desktop/TweetDeck_128.png /opt/TweetDeck/share/icons/\n</code></pre></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Result: </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/BPGtZ.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></li>\n</ul></li>\n<li><p><strong>Use alternate version of gnome-panel:</strong></p>\n\n<p>The reason the background of the icons are not transparent is because of bug <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/403135\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">#403135 <img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fk0yX.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></a>. </p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://launchpad.net/~cyfex\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Konstantinos Natsakis <img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fk0yX.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></a> has provided this <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/403135/comments/187\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">solution <img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fk0yX.png\" alt=\"alt text\"> </a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>I believe this bug is somehow related to a change in gnome-panel_1:2.29.5.1-0ubuntu1 when the building of applets as shared libraries was deactivated (they are now build as standalone executables)</p>\n \n <p>Changelog: <a href=\"http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnome-panel/gnome-panel_2.30.0-0ubuntu1/changelog\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnome-panel/gnome-panel_2.30.0-0ubuntu1/changelog</a></p>\n \n <ul>\n <li>debian/rules:</li>\n <li>don't build in process applets during the unstable cycle so crash issues\n should be easier to debug and reported on the corresponding binary</li>\n </ul>\n \n <p>It seems to me that due to this change, the notification area icons get the background of the program's main window instead of the panel's background.</p>\n \n <p>Compiling gnome-panel with '--with-in-process-applets=notification-area' in debian/rules (and no other changes), fixes this bug for me.</p>\n \n <p>I have uploaded modified gnome-panel packages to my PPA: <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/~cyfex/+archive/ppa\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">https://launchpad.net/~cyfex/+archive/ppa</a> in case others want to try this (you need gnome-panel and gnome-panel-data; <code>killall bonobo-activation-server</code> and <code>gnome-panel</code> after installation)</p>\n</blockquote></li>\n</ol>\n",
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"text": "@DoR i dont suppose you could provide something like that for grooveshark as well?",
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"text": "@garbagecollector Grooveshark icons aren't accessible, so I can't change them. See http://forums.grooveshark.com/discussion/1164/Transparent-Background-for-Grooveshark-Logo-on-Desktop-App\n\nI have updated my answer with an alternative fix that will work for grooveshark.",
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17630 | 1 | null | 2010-12-15T19:01:54.473 | 1 | 1385 | <p>There is a tool in ubuntu system -> administration -> Network Tools.</p>
<p>What is the KDE equivalent for this?</p>
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17633 | 1 | null | 2010-12-15T19:34:12.287 | 2 | 646 | <p>I recently had to opt for cleaning my cache through <code>apt-get clean</code> after getting lots of <strong>GPG errors</strong> during update. But it's created another problem for me since I want to create an "APTonCD" for backup. </p>
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17636 | 1 | null | 2010-12-15T20:13:18.167 | 1 | 107 | <p>Whenever I want to play games on face book I have to use windows. I cannot get the applet to initialize on Ubuntu. I have my drive partitioned to use both. Any ideas will be most helpful. Thanks.</p>
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"text": "Best practice here: disconnect all of your hard drives, plug in the external drive and then do the above off of a live CD to prevent even the possibility of fragging anything that matters.",
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"text": "Just a question: You wrote \"`shred` would then overwrite all the data on the device with random data three times.\" - does it do anything for empty space? Btw, Ubuntu has it own manpage repository at manpages.ubuntu.com",
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"text": "Note that this answer has been deprecated by the SECURE ERASE method of requesting the drive to erase itself. This should take care of all possible data, and won't unnecessarily tax your system. You can perform a secure erase, where the drive erases itself, using the `hdparm` utility. This method tries to erase the entire drive, including bad sectors. Furthermore it is much faster than overwriting the normal way. It is also the recommended methods for SSD drives, where `shred` is an extremely bad idea.",
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"text": "In my case I just wanted to shred a partition so `shred /dev/sdc4` seems to be working.",
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"text": "@owlstead: Could you elaborate? What is SECURE ERASE, and how does one use it? It's appreciated if you make a separate answer if you have a better one.",
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"text": "The comment about using ATA Secure Erase command is misleading. There are serious problems with using SE (regarding the lack of consistent support from vendors and the lack of transparency on the process). Related: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/62253/",
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"text": "Just a note, if you use a RAID controller on a HP proliant server, then if you add the HDD you want to wipe, then you must use hpacucli to create a new logical drive, before it shows up in Linux. at which point the above works fine.",
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"text": "@Frxstrem Why do you say \"nearly\" impossible to recover? Wouldn't the `shred` command make it *absolutely* impossible to recover the data?",
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"text": "@Fiksdal I don't know, it's been five years since I wrote this answer and I don't remember my motivations for phrasing it that way. That said, I think I meant it along the lines of \"practically impossible today but plausably possible in the future with enough technological improvement\".",
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17641 | 1 | 17643 | 2010-12-15T20:37:10.343 | 209 | 322433 | <p>How do I create an encrypted (password protected) zip file?</p>
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"body": "<p>This will prompt for a password:</p>\n<pre><code>zip --encrypt file.zip files\n</code></pre>\n<hr />\n<p>This is more insecure, as the password is entered/shown as plain text:</p>\n<pre><code>zip --password (password) file.zip files\n</code></pre>\n<hr />\n<p>Warning, the standard zip encryption is very weak and is easily cracked.<br />\nNote, Use <code>-r</code> to zip directory and subdirectory recursively.</p>\n",
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"text": "@Black If you're trying to compress a folder, then you need to use `-r` switch. So it'll be `zip --encrypt file.zip -r your_folder`",
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"text": "is it compatible with windows, if recipient is wondows user ?",
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"text": "It requires password when I call unzip in Linux Mint, but you can open the archive and see files list without opening them.",
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17646 | 1 | null | 2010-12-15T20:51:26.947 | 0 | 994 | <p>I am having a problem setting up a wireless connection on my linux laptop, does anyone know the shortcut to turn the wireless on, the <kbd>Fn</kbd> + <kbd>F3</kbd> on my acer laptop would obviously only apply to the original windows operating system.</p>
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<p>It was fine for a few days, then today login etc seemed slow. Likewise it couldn't even render the restart/shutdown menus.</p>
<p>Hoping it was some botched update, I ran the update manager; it tried to install but failed (the UI didn't make it obvious <em>what</em> had failed).</p>
<p>Fine, ok. Shut it down (press enter on the blank shut-down dialog).</p>
<p>Fire it up hoping... And... #fail.</p>
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<p>Is it now a brick? </p>
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Xpadder only works on Windows, however I'm not sure if it would work on Ubuntu too, I'm using a XBOX360 Wireless Controller with Xpadder on Windows.</p>
<p>Could Xpadder Work on Ubuntu too?</p>
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17654 | 1 | 17707 | 2010-12-15T22:03:49.333 | 4 | 8762 | <p>I can't sync a Rhythmbox playlist onto my mp3 player, how can I do this?</p>
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17655 | 1 | null | 2010-12-15T22:09:31.217 | 3 | 2547 | <p>I have a 1 TB external harddisk where I recently installed Ubuntu onto. Before I had some backups there which I didn't want to lose. Therefore I created a new partition for Ubuntu. During this process I somehow must have changed the type of the backup partition from ext4 to swap (although I can't remember in doing so, but this is what gparted shows me). This new swap partition has never been used by the newly installed Ubuntu which has its own swap partition.
Although I think chances are bad: Is there any way to get my data back from my backup (now swap) partition?</p>
<p>To clarify the situation, here's the current partition table of the device:</p>
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17664 | 1 | 17685 | 2010-12-15T23:09:49.970 | 3 | 77 | <p>Where would I find the source files that pertain to the package listing in the software centre? I'm guessing the SC is just a window through which these listings are viewed, rather than being a part of the SC itself, so are these customised files found only in the Ubuntu variant of the package, or is it part of the upstream project?</p>
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17665 | 1 | 17666 | 2010-12-15T23:11:15.740 | 1 | 1010 | <p>As far as I can tell, Mail Merge (as well as data sources) is broken in OpenOffice on 10.04. There is no <code>View | Data Sources</code> menu option, and the shortcut for <code>Data Sources</code> <kbd>F4</kbd> does nothing.</p>
<p>In addition the Mail Merge Wizard doesn't allow any 'Address Book' to actually be added (the <code>OK</code> button is never enabled).</p>
<p>Also, <code>Add Database File...</code> on the <code>Database</code> tab of <code>Insert | Fields | Other</code> (<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>F2</kbd>) is not working.</p>
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17672 | 1 | null | 2010-12-16T00:58:23.787 | -1 | 2853 | <p>I was recently trying to partition a new laptop with windows 7, but once I created a new partition that space I had created for Ubuntu is labeled unusable. What should I do? I need ubuntu on my laptop.</p>
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17679 | 1 | 17688 | 2010-12-16T01:46:05.103 | 8 | 1967 | <p>When I invoke the "Lock Screen" action, is there a way to have the monitor go to sleep instantly? I'm aware of the power management setting to turn off the display after a set amount of time, but I want this to happen immediately.</p>
<p>I'm hoping there is a bash script that will lock the screen and put the display to sleep, and that I can have this invoked when a screen lock operation occurs.</p>
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17680 | 1 | null | 2010-12-16T02:06:00.570 | 10 | 755 | <p>I love doing the New York Times crosswords, and have had a subscription to the online site for over a decade. On Windows and Mac, they use the AcrossLite program from LitSoft, but their Linux version hasn't been maintained, and I don't even know if it's still available. I know there's XWord, but it doesn't support all the newer features of AcrossLite, like allowing more than one letter per square (a frequent trick in the Sunday puzzles).</p>
<p>I've tried the Windows version of AcrossLite under wine, but it's surprisingly bad.</p>
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<p>Yes, Across Lite for Linux will be available again sometime in 1Q2011. We are currently working on a v1.2 re-compile for newer Unix distros as a first-step and will later evolve it to 2.0 version. We tried an Adobe Air version for all platforms other than Windows and Mac but the user experience was terrible partly because of Adobe Air issues so we went back to the native version. Hence the delay.</p>
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17689 | 1 | null | 2010-12-16T03:11:14.123 | 4 | 827 | <p>I need to create minimalistic server appliance for running on amazon ec2 (ami). I tried debootstrap. its coming upto 200+ MB , its same with vmbuilder also. Are there any ways of getting it down to 100MB or less.</p>
<p>I just need it with bare minimum linux os + JRE. The smaller the size the better.</p>
<p>Any Suggestion</p>
<p>Regards </p>
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17690 | 1 | null | 2010-12-16T03:15:51.427 | 16 | 558 | <p>I wrote a little <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world_program" rel="nofollow">Hello world program</a>. When I tried to run <code>a.out</code>, I got "command not found". When I ran <code>./a.out</code>, it worked fine.</p>
<p>Where can I learn about why that was?</p>
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17695 | 1 | 17794 | 2010-12-16T04:04:35.753 | 1 | 305 | <p>I've just started using DockBarX in place of AWN, and I'm liking the simplicity of it. The one thing I've found that irritates me is the visible drag handles in the panel. (My awn setup had no panels.) Is there any setting that will hide them? </p>
<p>Here's what I'm talking about; outlined in red:</p>
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17697 | 1 | 17700 | 2010-12-16T04:52:08.897 | 6 | 3109 | <p>When is it appropriate to use <code>dump</code> vs <code>rsync</code> for backups?</p>
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17702 | 1 | null | 2010-12-16T07:03:02.233 | 15 | 1150 | <p>I am new user for ubuntu. I want to use ubuntu for my python development.
I used windows7 for .net development.</p>
<p>Is there any guide which help me in migration from Windows to Ubuntu?</p>
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17708 | 1 | 17848 | 2010-12-16T08:48:51.183 | 0 | 1161 | <p>My laptop has three extra keys, For Opening Mail client, Web browser and one other.
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<p>I looked into the 'keyboard shortcuts' and saw that <code>XF86WWW</code> was written as shortcut next to <code>Launch Web Browser</code>.</p>
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17713 | 1 | 17820 | 2010-12-16T10:08:32.527 | 2 | 675 | <p>I have a computer running Ubuntu that is used by multiple people. It spends a lot of time powered off. On occasion, I would like to start it up using Wake-On-Lan, connect via ssh and start a job in the background. I do not want the PC to shutdown while this job is running.</p>
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<p>Is there a way to prevent this from happening? It doesn't have to make it completely impossible: just making the computer pop up a window saying "Are you really sure (jobs are running in the background)?" would do perfectly well. However, it must work both from the Gnome menu after log-in and from the GDM screen.</p>
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17715 | 1 | 17718 | 2010-12-16T11:04:28.483 | 19 | 19636 | <p>Im trying to make people on my school use Ubuntu, so the school gave me 4 computers, now i've set them up and the computers work great... however, nobody seem to be able to use them, because of their disability to make a simple \</p>
<p>so i have to tell them on a poster, because probably everyone will forget if i just tell them...</p>
<p>so what programs are good for designing a 2D poster to print out?</p>
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17722 | 1 | null | 2010-12-16T11:44:50.293 | 2 | 222 | <p>I feel my panel is pretty redundant. I use gnome-do as a launcher and I use exposé to check what windows I have open. The only thing in there that I need a panel for is Network Manager/Notifications. Is there a way of managing notifications without having any visible "bar"? </p>
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17723 | 1 | 17738 | 2010-12-16T11:46:58.807 | 44 | 51537 | <p>When using the terminal in a deep folder structure sometimes the prompt can take up most of the line. Is there any way in which I can trim the working directory? I know I can do</p>
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17730 | 1 | 18791 | 2010-12-16T12:07:14.637 | 1 | 8604 | <p>I have sun-java6-plugin installed on my 10.10 AMD64, and I tested on the Java website that it works with applets.</p>
<p>However it doesn't work with web start - I have to download the jnlp file and double click to open. </p>
<p>Is there a way to integrate web start to my browsers?</p>
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17734 | 1 | 17744 | 2010-12-16T12:33:17.327 | 14 | 9162 | <p>Is it possible to setup a shortcut for enable/disable wifi?</p>
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