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2053 | 1 | 2055 | 2010-08-12T16:19:57.170 | 15 | 1910 | <p>I've just bought a game (Machinarium) which does not come with a deb file neither is it a ./configure, make etc type of application. I can just run it. Where is the best place to put it so i can create a launcher and keep it out of my home directory? </p>
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2054 | 1 | null | 2010-08-12T16:22:28.887 | 2 | 7462 | <p>I'm running a fully updated Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" i686 server. I have an single XFS volume in an LVM group called <code>/dev/mapper/vg0-bigthree</code>.</p>
<p>If I boot to single user mode and ensure that the volume is unmounted, I still get the following every time I try to run xfs_check:</p>
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2057 | 1 | 2068 | 2010-08-12T16:45:00.203 | 6 | 741 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/116/how-do-i-get-and-install-more-themes-icons-and-pointers">How do I get and install more themes, icons, and pointers?</a> </p>
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2058 | 1 | 2059 | 2010-08-12T16:50:48.980 | 0 | 530 | <p>I'm trying to make a launcher for Mechinarium, Its a flash game with a launcher that runs flash files in separate folders in its directory as far as im aware.
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2064 | 1 | null | 2010-08-12T17:12:33.813 | 19 | 8059 | <p>I know I've seen this documented somewhere before, but what's the option to keep update-manager from prompting for updates except for LTS-to-LTS releases?</p>
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2070 | 1 | 2117 | 2010-08-12T18:04:06.733 | 2 | 803 | <p>I am trying to present a full screen slideshow using OOo Impress, but the top panel stays on top of the slideshow. I went to <code>Slideshow->Slideshow Settings...</code> and made sure <code>Always on top</code> was checked.</p>
<p>How can I fix this?</p>
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2071 | 1 | 4973 | 2010-08-12T18:12:21.070 | 2 | 1811 | <p>I am running UNR (but using the regular gnome launcher) and have DropBox installed. Since I use my laptop on the train, there is no network connectivity. However once I reconnect to a network, dropbox seems to be completely unresponsive to the fact that there is a network connection and has to be restarted (which me... | 1151 | 1151 | 2010-08-13T19:26:22.170 | 2011-04-06T00:04:34.923 | Dropbox reconnect on network connection established | [
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2073 | 1 | 2074 | 2010-08-12T18:25:22.183 | 10 | 6312 | <p>I have to say, firefox on ubuntu's performance is attrocious. Very quickly it gets into 100% cpu use (thank god I have multiple cores) and hundreds of megs of ram. Even closing tabs does not help the issue (unless google.com uses supreme amounts of javascript).</p>
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2075 | 1 | 2078 | 2010-08-12T19:12:51.333 | 122 | 133724 | <p>I've been managing server installations both on and off Ubuntu flavor for some time - I've become quite adjusted to <code>/etc/init.d/</code> for restarting servcies. Now I get this message:</p>
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2076 | 1 | 3054 | 2010-08-12T19:15:56.817 | 5 | 202 | <p>I have a couple of VMs running on images instead of lvms. I am not concerned about downtime but just about convenience of the process.</p>
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2081 | 1 | null | 2010-08-12T20:25:46.743 | 1 | 840 | <p>I recently upgraded to 10.04. Before the upgrade, I was using multiple windows, and I was able to drag applications across the windows. But, now the windows are locked. Further, the icon of the maximized window is not showing. Just a generic window icon.</p>
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2093 | 1 | 2096 | 2010-08-12T21:33:31.230 | 42 | 117710 | <p>After installing Ubuntu server how do I install the desktop environment? </p>
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2099 | 1 | 2101 | 2010-08-12T22:16:06.973 | 85 | 120104 | <p>With previous versions of Ubuntu (using Ext3 filesystem) I used to tune it for better performance with noticeable results by setting the <code>noatime</code> parameter in <code>/etc/fstab</code>.</p>
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2103 | 1 | 2104 | 2010-08-12T23:12:39.350 | 0 | 6760 | <p>I am having a dependency problem dpkg installing <a href="http://www.webmin.com/download.html" rel="nofollow">webmin</a> 1.510 (deb) package on Ubuntu 10.04.</p>
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2109 | 1 | 2111 | 2010-08-13T00:22:45.837 | 1 | 1677 | <p>I'm new to Ubuntu in general (using 10.04) and from the default Ubuntu desktop after a default Ubuntu desktop install, cannot find the file system explorer program in the top application menu. </p>
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2110 | 1 | 2113 | 2010-08-13T00:28:15.717 | 4 | 3303 | <p>I've got Samba installed on Ubuntu 10.04 and am about to configure it using webmin, but I just realized I don't know the best place to create a file share on a Linux system. </p>
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2115 | 1 | 2116 | 2010-08-13T01:17:51.793 | 33 | 19645 | <p>I reformatted a hard drive to ext4, planning to use it as a backup drive. After mounting the freshly-formatted drive, I discovered a single empty directory inside it: lost+found. What's the purpose of this mysterious directory?</p>
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2118 | 1 | null | 2010-08-13T01:43:00.953 | 4 | 12550 | <p>I've been given some RPM files on CD and want to install them in Ubuntu (10.04) Desktop using a GUI app. Is there a way for me to do this without resorting to the command line? </p>
<p>I'd like to know what GUI app to use, and also <strong>how</strong> to install an RPM with it.</p>
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2126 | 1 | 6272 | 2010-08-13T03:00:06.323 | 9 | 3034 | <p>When I plug in an external USB drive, it automatically mounts and it's accesible in /media/disk/</p>
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2127 | 1 | 2128 | 2010-08-13T03:16:36.017 | 1 | 314 | <p>I'd like to change the web browser shown on the application launcher, from Firefox to Chrome. </p>
<p>This setting obviously differs from the default web browser known to the system because I already set Chrome as the default and it launches links instead of Firefox.</p>
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2130 | 1 | 2133 | 2010-08-13T04:01:15.947 | 11 | 935 | <p>Not Ubuntu,I heard it on Planet Ubuntu but google doesn't tell me anything.</p>
<p>It is something related to Debian.</p>
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2134 | 1 | 2136 | 2010-08-13T04:17:10.923 | 2 | 2896 | <p>Anything including games and obscure software</p>
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2140 | 1 | 2143 | 2010-08-13T05:34:22.553 | 20 | 15564 | <p>Is there a way to turn gvim into fullscreen mode? I know that this is possible on OS X through MacVim, but wasn't able to find a way to do it on Ubuntu.</p>
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2145 | 1 | null | 2010-08-13T07:00:16.267 | 16 | 8106 | <p>I'd like to listen to music on my home server from work. Both are Ubuntu boxes running pulseaudio. It seems from researching that applications communicate to the PA server via TCP on port 4317, so I figured it should be as easy as:</p>
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2146 | 1 | 2149 | 2010-08-13T07:55:37.973 | 5 | 6933 | <p>I need to boot Ubuntu in a computer (computer A) with no CD. I have a 16 Gb pendrive with a live Ubuntu version. The pendrive works in at least two newer computers. Computer A boots from a 2Gb pendrive right. So it's likely a BIOS issue.</p>
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2147 | 1 | null | 2010-08-13T07:55:49.877 | 4 | 5023 | <p>Some files/inodes are deleted during filesystem check if corrupted in a way after a system crash. fsck only reports "some inodes were deleted". Is it possible to know exactly what files were deleted and how to recover them?</p>
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2150 | 1 | 2176 | 2010-08-13T08:44:00.683 | 7 | 342 | <p>The system is a spare Dell 2400 I wiped clean, with Ubuntu 10.4 installed. Update manager has everything current, and I haven't been mucking with drivers or tricky system settings. In fact, it has been a stable and friendly system to install and use.</p>
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2151 | 1 | 2174 | 2010-08-13T08:56:13.930 | 13 | 2676 | <p><strong>Evernote</strong> is a cool site for capturing note, tagging it and retrieving it from everywhere. The Web application is nice but I was wondering if anyone knows about a standalone version such as for Windows, Android,... but for Ubuntu ?</p>
<p>Thanks !</p>
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2153 | 1 | 2156 | 2010-08-13T09:58:20.300 | 2 | 6531 | <p>I was wondering does anyone know a way to make some kind of shortcut under Ubuntu that when I click on it, it will open up multiple SSH sessions (or execute other actions) in a tabbed gnome-terminal?</p>
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2154 | 1 | 2181 | 2010-08-13T09:58:40.470 | 2 | 1500 | <p>Having done a fresh install I need to set this up again. We could do with an up to date guide. This might encourage more people to use encryption and signing.</p>
<p>I already have a keyring, but others need to know how to do that. That should probably be a separate question. I use KGPG to manage my keys.</p>
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2160 | 1 | 2165 | 2010-08-13T12:29:40.807 | 7 | 2635 | <p>I'd like to make an account for my daughter in which:</p>
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<li>The <strong>Applications</strong> menu only shows the applications I choose for her (games, education, etc.)</li>
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2163 | 1 | 2172 | 2010-08-13T12:45:17.203 | 2 | 3429 | <p>Has anyone got (or can point in the direction of) a nanorc file that contains syntax highlighting for C# and/or ASP.Net?</p>
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2167 | 1 | 2169 | 2010-08-13T13:02:26.870 | 19 | 31235 | <p>What do I need to setup on a Ubuntu 9.10 server so that a user can build applications of there choice (i.e. ./configure , make && make install) with out the need for sudo/admin privileges.</p>
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2177 | 1 | null | 2010-08-13T14:22:22.160 | 0 | 1140 | <p>A while ago I looked at the ext3cow file system. I am interested in getting it running under lucid. I was wondering whether anyone had successfully set it up on their system and could offer any tips? I have had a quick google around but not found any mentions of getting it working under Ubuntu.</p>
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2182 | 1 | 2185 | 2010-08-13T15:02:18.367 | 7 | 5245 | <p>Currently whenever I connect an MTP device (my creative zen, or blackberry) rythmbox automatically tries to mount it as a music device and opens up. I just want to be able to connect my device to the usb for charging without having windows popup every time I do.</p>
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2186 | 1 | 2193 | 2010-08-13T15:41:24.647 | 20 | 15543 | <p>Because I'm lazy.... any time I want to use grep, I want it to be grep -n --colour. Is there a way to permanantly map this?</p>
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2194 | 1 | null | 2010-08-13T16:57:18.827 | 357 | 430641 | <p>What are your tips for improving overall system performance on ubuntu? Inspired by this <a href="https://askubuntu.com/q/2099">question</a> I realized that some default settings may be rather conservative on Ubuntu and that it's possible to tweak it with little or no risk if you wish to make it faster.</p>
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2198 | 1 | 2204 | 2010-08-13T17:21:29.787 | 6 | 2026 | <p>When I use gnome-terminal the background is annoyingly slightly-transparent. Here you can read the ubuntu.stackexchange.com site through the background.</p>
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2199 | 1 | 2207 | 2010-08-13T17:24:58.237 | 0 | 500 | <p>I love the software updater in Ubuntu Desktop and want to configure underlying package managers with other sources of software. Sometimes I run into a new software project that isn't delivered through the updater. I install the software outside the updater but I know there's some way to tell the updater to monitor... | 1046 | 455 | 2010-08-13T22:11:59.140 | 2010-08-13T22:11:59.140 | Customize software sources for Ubuntu Desktop updater to manage? | [
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2206 | 1 | 2208 | 2010-08-13T18:21:48.037 | 4 | 518 | <p>I have to install Ubuntu on a two-screen setup. How should I do that and what are some specific things that I should keep in mind while doing it. Will it break anything?</p>
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2209 | 1 | 2210 | 2010-08-13T19:11:16.027 | 1 | 1349 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/852/why-are-flash-applications-so-sluggish-in-ubuntu">Why are Flash applications so sluggish in Ubuntu?</a> </p>
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2212 | 1 | 2232 | 2010-08-13T20:51:15.243 | 5 | 8785 | <p>I used <code>mplayer -options url://to/radiostation</code> to listen to internet radio for some time. However I'd like to use another software for this. What do you use and what do you consider the advantages of this software?</p>
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2214 | 1 | 2224 | 2010-08-13T21:09:09.660 | 242 | 752884 | <p>In <code>/etc/sudoers</code> I see this:</p>
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2216 | 1 | 4083 | 2010-08-13T21:11:02.620 | 4 | 2394 | <p>I've been using Eclipse for quite a while. I just switched from OpenJDK to SunJDK. I went back to using Eclipse, it opened just fine. I added some libraries to my build path of a project, but the error checker was still saying I didn't have it. So I decided to restart Eclipse. After than I can't start eclipse. It do... | 1193 | 66 | 2010-08-19T15:02:52.060 | 2010-09-12T23:32:35.603 | Can't launch Eclipse | [
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2219 | 1 | 2234 | 2010-08-13T21:23:53.830 | 323 | 609146 | <p>I just updated the DNS record (<code>ns1</code>, <code>ns2</code>, <code>ns3.myhostingcompany.com</code>) for a site I've got hosted, but I still get the domain registrar parking page.</p>
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2226 | 1 | 2230 | 2010-08-13T22:14:47.233 | 19 | 13378 | <p>I'm also interested in its variants, like kubuntu-desktop. It appears to include GNOME (or KDE) and a bunch of other things. But it's quite large - is there a breakdown of what is included in ubuntu-desktop and exactly what those items are/do?</p>
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2235 | 1 | null | 2010-08-14T00:19:31.550 | 5 | 2235 | <p>I have an Asus r1f laptop. For some reason, hibernate/sleep isn't working properly at all. Are there any other packages I can use or tweaks I can implement to get this working?</p>
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2236 | 1 | 2253 | 2010-08-14T00:25:44.580 | 1 | 1366 | <p>When i right click to bring up a menu, for example on the desktop, i have 'open terminal here' which i know should have a terminal icon next to this however it doesn't. Any ideas? I had a poke around in gconf-editor but didn't have much luck (though i didn't try very hard ;)</p>
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2238 | 1 | 2241 | 2010-08-14T00:54:25.880 | 18 | 859 | <p>I'm an avid developer but I never actually gotten around to setting up my own PPA - how would someone go about this? Common issues encountered? How do I get my source code to be compiled into packages on the PPA?</p>
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2243 | 1 | 2257 | 2010-08-14T02:52:13.187 | 18 | 73794 | <p>I frequently use ccleaner to (<em>cover my tracks</em>), clean up unused data stored on my computer from web traffic and hotfixes on my windows system.</p>
<p>I was wondering if there is a piece of software that does the same thing for ubuntu that ccleaner does for windows?</p>
<p>Please and thank you.</p>
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2246 | 1 | null | 2010-08-14T03:44:51.737 | 19 | 31700 | <p>Is there a feature (or aptitude package) in Ubuntu 10.04 that will wake my computer up from standby when it gets an ssh (or other webrequest).</p>
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<p>How can I get the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/downloads/list" rel="noreferrer">latest Version 3.3</a>?</p>
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2256 | 1 | null | 2010-08-14T09:44:02.143 | 1 | 4000 | <p>I have some insurance files that I need to be able to view, but they are in the MDI format I can't get them to work at all in Ubuntu.
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2261 | 1 | 209877 | 2010-08-14T11:43:20.460 | 65 | 85091 | <p>What is the Ubuntu way for system administrators to receive system notifications, which typically take the form of e-mail sent to the root account?</p>
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2263 | 1 | 2265 | 2010-08-14T12:24:52.217 | 150 | 320652 | <p>I've become very accustomed to managing service startups on Redhat/RHEL platforms using <code>chkconfig</code> though that doesn't appear to be the Debian/Ubuntu way - How do I update runlevel information for system services on Ubuntu?</p>
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2266 | 1 | 2269 | 2010-08-14T12:53:11.287 | 8 | 10009 | <p>I am about to install 10.04 (from bare metal to replace 9.04) and I want to set it up so that I can shh into the machine, but only from other machines on my local network. (I.e., I want to reject all ssh attempts from other than 192.168.1 set of IPs.) How do I do that correctly on 10.04?</p>
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2271 | 1 | 2272 | 2010-08-14T13:43:19.100 | 134 | 155627 | <p>What measures can/should I take to make sure that security around my SSH server is absolutely impermeable?</p>
<p>This will be community wiki from the start, so lets see what people do to secure their servers.</p>
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2276 | 1 | 2277 | 2010-08-14T14:09:09.863 | 10 | 5499 | <p>I have been playing around with my blog, alot. I have couple of old computers laying around i want to put to use. </p>
<p>I was wondering if there is a way to setup a server, then will be linked to a url that i buy and server pages and maybe even install wordpress.</p>
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2280 | 1 | 2581 | 2010-08-14T16:33:45.290 | 10 | 6890 | <p>By default 'mounted volumes' are shown on the Ubuntu desktop. I usually disable this (gconf-editor or Ubuntu Tweak) because I don't want, for instance, my Windows partition on the Desktop.</p>
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2281 | 1 | 2286 | 2010-08-14T17:20:32.040 | 7 | 2421 | <p>I want to take a stab at creating my own layouts for conky, but I'm having trouble finding any recent guides. </p>
<p>If you know of any, I would be grateful if you could post some links. </p>
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2283 | 1 | 2313 | 2010-08-14T17:41:58.887 | 16 | 24573 | <p>It's great that the indicator applet tells me I have 2 hours and 12 minutes of battery left, or that it will be charged in 1 hour 8 minutes, but I might well change my pattern of usage during that time and am frankly not confused by percentages.</p>
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2290 | 1 | 2298 | 2010-08-14T20:11:19.623 | 1 | 1631 | <p>This network (wired) printer works great using the latest HPLIP drivers. However when I plug in an SD card, it just blinks and never shows up mounted anywhere. Has anyone come up with a way to mount these? I'm using Lucid, 10.04.<br>
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2294 | 1 | 2297 | 2010-08-14T21:54:28.820 | 0 | 4038 | <p>I just installed 10.04, and used manual partitioning to preserve my '/home' from a 9.04 install. (To be clear: I did not upgraded 9.04 to 10.04, but installed 10.04 off a of CD, keeping only my '/home'.) After the sucessful 10.04 install, I used synaptic to apply all updates, rebooted, removed some packages (mostly ... | 179 | 6005 | 2012-07-09T13:09:48.717 | 2012-07-09T13:09:48.717 | How to fix a Package Manager Error in notification area after upgrading a fresh install of lucid with a '/home' from Jaunty? | [
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2299 | 1 | 2305 | 2010-08-14T23:27:50.553 | 1 | 240 | <p>This is a bit of a weird question, and I don't even know if it belongs here or not.</p>
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2300 | 1 | 2312 | 2010-08-14T23:52:00.683 | 2 | 2474 | <p>I'm having trouble with vlc, when i try and adjust the volume with my scroll wheel it doesn't change the volume, in settings x-axis control is set to volume control so i can't understand why it wont work</p>
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2301 | 1 | null | 2010-08-15T02:33:30.933 | 14 | 5872 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4408/what-should-i-do-when-ubuntu-freezes">What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?</a> </p>
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2314 | 1 | null | 2010-08-15T13:01:53.903 | 5 | 6058 | <h2>Background</h2>
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2316 | 1 | null | 2010-08-15T13:56:29.730 | 26 | 15188 | <p>I'm a bit of a fan of the <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Interrobang">interrobang</a> (‽), but it obviously is not on my keyboard. How can I map that character to a key combination?</p>
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2317 | 1 | 2347 | 2010-08-15T14:02:17.003 | 5 | 4287 | <p>I had a look at my <code>bootchart</code>s and something seems to be wrong with them. The <code>ureadahead</code> process does what it's supposed to do (disk utilisation is 100% most of the time), but it also blocks any other action.</p>
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2321 | 1 | 2325 | 2010-08-15T14:46:51.000 | 77 | 248040 | <p>I suspect that the name server provided by my ADSL modem/router is buggy. Whenever I browse to a website for the first time in ubuntu, resolving the domain name takes at least 15 seconds.</p>
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2323 | 1 | 2556 | 2010-08-15T14:58:24.590 | 1 | 227 | <p>I'm running HDMI video and audio from the on-board ATI graphics output of a <a href="http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=2951" rel="nofollow">GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM-S2HP motherboard</a> to an <a href="http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/dcbint/cpindex.pl?tmplt=Funai&scy=US&am... | 1188 | 1188 | 2010-12-02T05:29:18.763 | 2010-12-02T05:29:18.763 | How do I troubleshoot sporadic HDMI failures? | [
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2332 | 1 | 2358 | 2010-08-15T17:56:11.807 | 1 | 2266 | <p>I have used cowbuilder to set-up a chainroot with ubuntu+1 (essentially minimal ubuntu installation in a sub-folder, which you can "change" into, for example for building packages in a clean environment).</p>
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2336 | 1 | 41945 | 2010-08-15T20:25:42.210 | 1 | 1277 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) on my Lenovo Thinkpad T60. I randomly get screen flickerings on my screen. Once it happens, it doesn't go away (unless I reboot my computer). I would describe the flickering as horizontal color lines appearing throughout the screen where the text is difficult to read ever... | 394 | null | null | 2011-05-11T03:13:32.193 | Thinkpad T60 flickering screen | [
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2337 | 1 | 3665 | 2010-08-15T21:03:28.080 | 3 | 480 | <p>I'm having problems installing the drivers for internet connectivity from service provider. My computer recognizes the files when I insert the stick but does not want to install the drivers when I click on the .exe files.</p>
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2340 | 1 | 2343 | 2010-08-15T22:14:17.820 | 2 | 899 | <p>When Kubuntu needs to be upgraded between versions (e.g. 9.10 to 10.04), there's a notifier icon that shows up in the system tray,</p>
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2341 | 1 | 2342 | 2010-08-15T22:38:46.467 | 1 | 2106 | <p>I have a very fresh install of Lucid 10.04 64bit, fully upgraded, and with a raft of additional packages added. Amongst them is <code>emacs</code> (23.1+1-4ubuntu7). I habitually launch <code>emacs</code> from a terminal. </p>
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2344 | 1 | null | 2010-08-15T23:44:10.620 | 2 | 3530 | <p>The audio configuration must have changed from 9.10 to 10.04, because audio no longer seems to work with DOOM 3. This was the suggested way to run DOOM 3 before, and it worked fine:</p>
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2345 | 1 | null | 2010-08-16T00:35:59.143 | 5 | 443 | <p>I guess the question explains it all...</p>
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2348 | 1 | 2357 | 2010-08-16T01:38:43.447 | 2 | 657 | <p>Is there a network-synchronized multi-user IDE available in the Ubuntu repositories?</p>
<p>If so, how did you find out about it? This is not the sort of thing that has an easy-to-search-for name...</p>
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2351 | 1 | 2384 | 2010-08-16T02:50:38.360 | 3 | 926 | <p>Where is a good (working, no dependency issues) PPA for qemu-kqemu and the kqemu module builder for Ubuntu 10.04?</p>
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2352 | 1 | 2359 | 2010-08-16T02:51:00.277 | 9 | 4365 | <p>I was wondering if anyone has a workaround for VNC remote not working with Ubuntu running compiz. From what I can tell it works if I disable compiz effects, but who's not a fan of eye candy? Anyway, it's not a huge deal if there's no work around anyone knows because I've been using nx server instead to remote connec... | 541 | null | null | 2010-08-17T13:21:37.603 | VNC remote doesn't work with Ubuntu? | [
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2353 | 1 | 2355 | 2010-08-16T03:31:09.180 | 10 | 2702 | <p>I want to experiment with virtualization in Ubuntu 10.04 and have found the following list of hopefully relevant names:
Xen, OpenVZ, KVM, Vservers, EC2 and Solaris Zones, although this is just a sample list and the question is not exclusive to these.</p>
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2354 | 1 | null | 2010-08-16T03:34:32.770 | 2 | 382 | <p>How does one prevent the power-save load-cycling of a laptop hard drive in 10.04 in desktop and laptop machines? These desktop and laptop machines with laptop hard drives have thousands of load cycles, already according to smartctl, and we don't want them to die of kerchunking.</p>
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2363 | 1 | null | 2010-08-16T06:52:52.070 | 4 | 1493 | <p>I alternate between a Unicomp <a href="http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/en104bl.html" rel="nofollow">clicky keyboard</a> by day, and the Apple bluetooth keyboard by night.</p>
<p>The Apple keyboard physically swaps the <kbd>Alt</kbd> and <kbd>Windows</kbd> keys. How do I counteract this?</p>
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2366 | 1 | 2367 | 2010-08-16T07:40:40.977 | 3 | 44540 | <p>How do i add a new user to my FTP server running ProFTPD.
I have the server running, i added a system user but i get Login incorrect.</p>
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2368 | 1 | 2369 | 2010-08-16T08:25:04.800 | 642 | 1298460 | <p>I want to schedule a task to run on a regular basis and have heard that Cron is the way to do this.</p>
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2374 | 1 | null | 2010-08-16T09:41:17.237 | 1 | 2009 | <p>I have an application that is latency sensitive. Although I care about throughput, extreme low latency is more important to me.</p>
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2379 | 1 | 2380 | 2010-08-16T13:49:53.480 | 23 | 23034 | <p>From outside of my house, whenever I login to my Ubuntu server using SSH, it takes about 6 seconds for me to get the prompt for password, however when I login to my web hosting server it takes about 1 second. What can I do to speed this up?</p>
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2386 | 1 | 2421 | 2010-08-16T16:26:19.680 | 1 | 265 | <p>Im using <a href="http://tilda.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">tilda</a> on 2 computer, a desktop and a notebook, both with ubuntu LL 10.04 and Compiz.</p>
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"body": "<p>I would try re-installing; also maybe checking to see if the key binding you use launches another process in the background that you may be unaware of. </p>\n\n<p>Open <code>top</code> and then run tilda, maybe that will help you troubleshoot better.</p>\n",
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2388 | 1 | null | 2010-08-16T16:46:38.483 | 3 | 374 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/144621/how-do-i-stop-the-screensaver-from-turning-on-when-i-watching-online-videos">How do I stop the screensaver from turning on when I watching online videos?</a> </p>
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<p>Is there a way to configure... | 175 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:44.677 | 2010-09-29T19:58:05.183 | Screen/Power management during media use | [
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2389 | 1 | 492343 | 2010-08-16T17:07:01.653 | 330 | 257555 | <p>I'd like to get a list of packages installed manually by <code>apt</code> or <code>aptitude</code> and be able to find out whether a <code>foobar</code> package was installed manually or automatically.</p>
<p>How can we do that from the command line?</p>
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"body": "<p>You can use either of these two one-liners. Both yield the exact same output on my machine and are more precise than all solutions proposed up until now (July 6, 2014) in this question.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Using <code>apt-mark</code>:</strong></p>\n\n<pre><code>comm -23 <(apt-mark s... | [
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2392 | 1 | null | 2010-08-16T17:26:12.103 | 11 | 13505 | <p>I am using a keyboard with the <kbd>Fn</kbd> key. This is on a laptop.</p>
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"body": "<p>The <kbd>Fn</kbd> key combinations is not defined in software and can therefor not be redefined, so you need a <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldering_iron\" rel=\"nofollow\">soldering iron</a> and some electronics knowhow!</p>\n",
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2399 | 1 | 2410 | 2010-08-16T18:13:23.210 | 8 | 4133 | <p>I am playing ADOM right now and under F1 button there is very aggressive tactic, which is extremaly useful when you are fighting on distance. Right now I can't use it, because help dialog pops up. How can I turn it off?</p>
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2401 | 1 | null | 2010-08-16T18:18:23.997 | 2 | 1408 | <p>A fresh install gives me full native resolution but it's still pretty unusable. Scrolling a browser or page of text is so slow it's forced me back to windows (!). Youtube video is out of the question.</p>
<p>I've also tried netbook edition but same problems (unsurprisingly).</p>
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2405 | 1 | 2486 | 2010-08-16T18:43:23.947 | 1 | 531 | <p>Something's wrong with nautilus. When I boot my computer and it logs in, Gnome shows, things are running, I can run programs and everything, but my desktop has no icons. I have to open a terminal and run <code>killall nautilus</code> and then suddenly everything works fine.</p>
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2408 | 1 | 2694 | 2010-08-16T19:03:48.103 | 6 | 2922 | <p>I've been using Ubuntu for about 8 months now, and the time it takes to un-hibernate seems to vary by minutes sometimes. I haven't been able to see a correlation between what's open when it's hibernated and how long it takes. I'm wondering how to go about diagnosing this?</p>
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2411 | 1 | 2537 | 2010-08-16T19:22:44.867 | 301 | 236305 | <p>I think I'm being the victim of a bug here. Sometimes while I'm working (I still don't know why), my network traffic goes up to 200 KB/s and stays that way, even tough I'm not doing anything internet-related. </p>
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"body": "<p>I've had a lot of success with <a href=\"https://github.com/raboof/nethogs\" rel=\"noreferrer\">nethogs</a>. It has to run as root but there are different ways you can sort the statistics (like KB/s or total bandwidth monitored since nethogs started).</p>\n<p>Also, if you use wireles... | [
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