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18369 | 1 | 18393 | 2010-12-21T11:04:08.213 | 19 | 17862 | <p>At the moment his is what I do:</p>
<p>Step 1:</p>
<pre><code>locate fooBar
/home/abc/fooBar
/home/abc/Music/fooBar
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<p>Step 2:</p>
<p>Manually perform a removal, by copy-pasting each line.</p>
<p><code>rm /home/abc/fooBar</code><br>
<code>rm /home/abc/Music/fooBar</code></p>
<p>How do I do this in one step? Something like</p>
<p>locate fooBar > rm</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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18372 | 1 | 18375 | 2010-12-21T11:18:45.143 | 48 | 44142 | <p>I'm looking for a way to find out what kind of RAM a system has (clocking speed, DDR-X etc.). Is there a specific command for that? I'm only aware of <code>free</code> or <code>lspci</code> which don't offer those things.</p>
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18373 | 1 | 18483 | 2010-12-21T11:27:24.587 | 1 | 304 | <p>My ubuntu (jaunty) system crashed recently with this trace. What information can I deduce from this trace?
I was logged in via ssh, and was trying to connect to a wifi network. ath_tx_start sounds like a function in madwifi driver.
What locations should I search in to find further traces, and is there some place on the net where I can find help on the crash?</p>
<p>EDIT : I have just found that the processor on the machine is a geode processer and does not support PAE, and I have installed the default kernel that comes with ubuntu server (that uses PAE). Could this be causing the crash?</p>
<pre><code>[ 399.757029] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at d0c1510c
[ 399.760789] IP: [<d0cb5312>] ath_tx_start+0x1022/0x1440 [ath_pci]
[ 399.760789] Oops: 0000 [#1]
[ 399.760789] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/net/ath0/type
[ 399.760789] Dumping ftrace buffer:
[ 399.760789] (ftrace buffer empty)
[ 399.760789] Modules linked in: wlan_scan_sta ath_rate_sample ath_pci wlan ath_hal(P) ipv6 lp parport loop evdev pcspkr scx200 ext3 jbd mbcache ide_gd_modr
[ 399.760789]
[ 399.760789] Pid: 1918, comm: sshd Tainted: P (2.6.28-6-386 #20-Ubuntu)
[ 399.760789] EIP: 0060:[<d0cb5312>] EFLAGS: 00010046 CPU: 0
[ 399.760789] EIP is at ath_tx_start+0x1022/0x1440 [ath_pci]
[ 399.760789] EAX: 00000240 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 0000001c EDX: d0c147e0
[ 399.760789] ESI: 00000001 EDI: ce5b7878 EBP: ce45de54 ESP: ce45dd64
[ 399.760789] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
[ 399.760789] Process sshd (pid: 1918, ti=ce45c000 task=cde7cf80 task.ti=ce45c000)
[ 399.760789] Stack:
[ 399.760789] 00000018 ce45de47 ce45de40 ce45de46 c030caf1 ce45dd94 00000246 c030caf1
[ 399.760789] 00000000 ce9569c0 031884a0 00007d2b cee684a0 00000246 ce45ddb0 c0309aec
[ 399.760789] c0340737 00000000 00003fd0 ce0e05d0 ce424000 ce5b6000 ce5b0600 cee6681e
[ 399.760789] Call Trace:
[ 399.760789] [<c030caf1>] ? __kfree_skb+0x31/0x80
[ 399.760789] [<c030caf1>] ? __kfree_skb+0x31/0x80
[ 399.760789] [<c0309aec>] ? release_sock+0x7c/0x90
[ 399.760789] [<c0340737>] ? tcp_cleanup_rbuf+0xe7/0x110
[ 399.760789] [<c0309333>] ? sock_common_recvmsg+0x43/0x60
[ 399.760789] [<c030d53c>] ? dev_alloc_skb+0x1c/0x30
[ 399.760789] [<d0cb57fd>] ? ath_mgtstart+0xcd/0x1e0 [ath_pci]
[ 399.760789] [<c030d53c>] ? dev_alloc_skb+0x1c/0x30
[ 399.760789] [<d0c75ff5>] ? ieee80211_getmgtframe+0x65/0x90 [wlan]
[ 399.760789] [<d0c67ab5>] ? ieee80211_send_nulldata+0x115/0x170 [wlan]
[ 399.760789] [<c01403f3>] ? getnstimeofday+0x53/0x100
[ 399.760789] [<d0c657a1>] ? ieee80211_node_timeout+0x2b1/0x300 [wlan]
[ 399.760789] [<c012f28d>] ? run_timer_softirq+0x11d/0x1e0
[ 399.760789] [<d0c654f0>] ? ieee80211_node_timeout+0x0/0x300 [wlan]
[ 399.760789] [<d0c654f0>] ? ieee80211_node_timeout+0x0/0x300 [wlan]
[ 399.760789] [<c012b037>] ? __do_softirq+0x67/0x110
[ 399.760789] [<c01068f9>] ? timer_interrupt+0x29/0x60
[ 399.760789] [<c012b12d>] ? do_softirq+0x4d/0x50
[ 399.760789] [<c012b21d>] ? irq_exit+0x2d/0x40
[ 399.760789] [<c0106221>] ? do_IRQ+0x71/0x90
[ 399.760789] [<c019915d>] ? sys_read+0x3d/0x70
[ 399.760789] [<c01050b3>] ? common_interrupt+0x23/0x30
[ 399.760789] [<c0380000>] ? atm_del_addr+0x130/0x150
[ 399.760789] Code: 45 f3 8b 55 b8 8d 04 40 0f b7 44 82 2c 01 c3 eb 9d c7 04 24 2d eb cb d0 e8 ec 92 6d ef 0f 0b eb fe 0f b6 45 f3 8b 55 b8 8d 04 40 <0f> b
[ 399.760789] EIP: [<d0cb5312>] ath_tx_start+0x1022/0x1440 [ath_pci] SS:ESP 0068:ce45dd64
[ 399.760789] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
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<p>To be more clear, I would like to know how does that pop-up comes in my desktop when I plug a USB drive to my system and how does the drive gets mounted. </p>
<p>I would also like to know how it finds out if some images are present in my USB and if "yes" , how it asks me whether I need to open it in GIMP or some other software? </p>
<p>I know its a very big and wide question, but please guide me with some pointers on how to understand the whole idea behind it. </p>
<p>I have not done large code browsings, but I assure you that I have no problem in doing so if I can be guided correctly. </p>
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18385 | 1 | 18392 | 2010-12-21T13:14:59.770 | 5 | 7986 | <p>Often I'm copying and pasting pieces of text. I'd like to streamline the process.</p>
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18387 | 1 | 33599 | 2010-12-21T13:19:33.993 | 7 | 4550 | <p>Evince cannot view my dvi files. Is there any way to enable dvi viewing other than further installing Ubuntu TeX Live packages?</p>
<p>Opening it from the desktop gives <em>document has incorrect format</em>; using the terminal gives </p>
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<p>(If you are using TeX Live installed from TUG, you can just use the provided xdvi to view dvi files.)</p>
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18389 | 1 | 18391 | 2010-12-21T13:40:02.540 | 3 | 862 | <p>Is there a way in Ubuntu to have rake commands (Ruby) available on the command line?</p>
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<p>Have I forgot something?</p>
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18395 | 1 | 18396 | 2010-12-21T15:27:12.417 | 4 | 86 | <p>I am testing Natty and found an issue with the global menu, what is the proper package name to report the bug?</p>
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18399 | 1 | null | 2010-12-21T16:13:21.020 | 3 | 209 | <p>My Nokia phone (5800) works well with Ubuntu after bluetooth pairing.
When I reboot to Windows (seven, in my case), it doesn't — I have to remove it from 'Paired bluetooth devices' and then add again.</p>
<p>The story repeats when I boot to Ubuntu after windows. I have to remove the phone from known devices and pair it again.</p>
<p>Apparently, there are secret keys created after each pairing which are different between my Ubuntu and Windows installations (or something alike).</p>
<p>How do I make my phone recognize both Ubuntu and Windows — or how do I make Ubuntu (or Windows) use the same secret keys as the other OS — or …?</p>
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18403 | 1 | 18410 | 2010-12-21T17:25:00.443 | 5 | 2143 | <p>I have created a live usb from an Ubuntu 11.04 daily cd image using usb disk creator. I have bandwidth constrains so I would like to update the live usb from a current daily cd image without downloading an entire image.</p>
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18406 | 1 | null | 2010-12-21T17:58:02.630 | 3 | 3185 | <p>What's the best way to set up a Java-based program to run an service and start on boot?</p>
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18411 | 1 | 18434 | 2010-12-21T18:21:38.947 | 3 | 961 | <p>I <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/18015/how-do-i-get-a-sb-x-fi-xtreme-audio-ca0110-working">asked a question</a> on how do I get an SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio CA0110 working three days ago. And they told me to install the Alsa driver modules from this website:</p>
<p><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/InstallingLinuxAlsaDriverModules" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/InstallingLinuxAlsaDriverModules</a></p>
<p>This answer did work and my audio driver was working until I updated my kernel...</p>
<p>Now the new kernel is Linux 2.6.32-27 generic. How can I get the Alsa module driver to work on this new kernel?</p>
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18413 | 1 | 18414 | 2010-12-21T18:36:14.333 | 54 | 14922 | <p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/16253/what-gui-toolkit-will-ubuntu-unity-use">This question</a> mentions that Unity will use <a href="http://launchpad.net/nux" rel="nofollow noreferrer">nux</a> as the toolkit. </p>
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18416 | 1 | 18432 | 2010-12-21T18:41:13.443 | 5 | 519 | <p>I am interested in simple managing of audio themes in Ubuntu (10.10). Does anybody know a software for customising/managing/changing Ubuntu audio themes? </p>
<p>Thanks for every suggestion.
Regards,
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18417 | 1 | null | 2010-12-21T18:56:27.583 | 1 | 5043 | <p>I've just upgraded my graphics card to an Asus Geforce 210 and now my system has no sound. </p>
<p>I've ran Update Manager and the Additional Drivers utility which installed the latest Nvida driver. The graphics card is connected to my TV via a DVI-to-HDMI (DVI at the PC end) cable for the visual connection, and an audio jack from my onboard soundcard for my audio connection.</p>
<p>Any ideas on how to resolve this?</p>
<p>I ran this command</p>
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<p>And it outputted this:</p>
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to use the "pci-0000_05_00.1" card,
while you want output from "NFORCE -
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<p>I've tired a bit of messing about with the audio settings but can't get anything to work.</p>
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18418 | 1 | null | 2010-12-21T19:12:42.123 | 31 | 91611 | <p>I have run <code>update-alternatives</code> as well as the GNOME <em>Preferred apps</em> selection thing. And all point to have the Chromium browser as the default. Yet, when I run <code>xdg-open http://askubuntu.com</code>, Firefox is launched! Similarly, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs" rel="noreferrer">Emacs</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazaar_%28software%29" rel="noreferrer">Bazaar</a> (<code>bzr</code>) also launch stuff in Firefox instead of Chromium.</p>
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<p>Something is definitely broken:</p>
<h3>Update</h3>
<p>I have purged Firefox:</p>
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<li>sensible-browser - opens the Chromium browser</li>
<li>xdg-open & gnome-open - opens using google-chrome which kindly tells me "it's not default browser"</li>
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<p>!!!!</p>
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18425 | 1 | 18426 | 2010-12-21T19:37:39.473 | 29 | 185416 | <p>I have an HP laptop with Windows 7 installed.<br>
How can I use Ubuntu in full-screen mode via virtualbox or any other software?</p>
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18428 | 1 | null | 2010-12-21T20:38:06.667 | 2 | 264 | <p>When I compare the icons of Unity in the Ubuntu 10.10 with the icons of Unity in Ubuntu 11.04 the difference is huge. I find the icons in 10.10 more attractive to look at. </p>
<p>Is Unity going to use these icons or stick with the current 11.04 ones (which, in my personal opinion, don't look as good)?</p>
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18429 | 1 | 18436 | 2010-12-21T20:56:13.643 | 3 | 7991 | <p>I'd like to install libpam-ldap to use ldap on a client machine and I was hoping to use</p>
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<p>How do you install a package and make it skip its interactive configuration stage?</p>
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18440 | 1 | null | 2010-12-21T23:30:25.783 | 5 | 164 | <p>I have already successfully installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop and it works fine.</p>
<p>I attempted to get my desktop PC to dual boot Windows and Ubuntu but found that neither the 32 or 64 bit install images will boot/install successfully.</p>
<p>The startup script locks on 'initializing core #2' (or 1 or 3).. once I saw it say 'ok' at the end but it still locks there.</p>
<p>I have tried to change the boot sequence by inserting 'debug' and 'acpi-off' into txt.cfg in both isolinux and syslinux folders but no changes were obvious during the boot.. as far as it got.</p>
<p>The pc is built with an abit IP35 motherboard and nvidia 8600GT gfx card.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any suggestion of what else I can change to get the install working?</p>
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18444 | 1 | 18463 | 2010-12-21T23:50:23.543 | 65 | 178039 | <p>When my computer goes to console mode (booting up, shutting down or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>F1)</kbd>), the text is super big. I can't take a screenshot of it, but it looks like a 640 x 480 resolution. My monitor normally works at 1440 x 900.</p>
<p>I remember that the console text that appeared while installing from the CD was nice and small.</p>
<p>How can I make the console text look like it looked while booting from the CD?</p>
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"text": "This answer is depreciated and did not work for me on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS. Furthermore, it involves editing a file named `00_header` which really should not be edited.",
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18445 | 1 | 18447 | 2010-12-22T00:03:07.610 | 2 | 244 | <p>I have 2 launchers for an application with the same name but that do different things. I'd like to delete one of them so that the one that comes up in GNOME Do is the right one. </p>
<p>The problem is that I don't recall where the launchers are located. </p>
<p>In which directories does GNOME Do look?</p>
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18449 | 1 | 18955 | 2010-12-22T01:56:46.240 | 2 | 591 | <p>I'm running the latest version of the proprietary nVidia driver, and I haven't had any problems enabling Compiz effects until a few days ago after tweaking my theming. When I try to enable effects from the Appearance panel, I get this popup window:</p>
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<p>And, after working for a few seconds it turns to this:</p>
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2010-12-21 11:31:58,162 DEBUG: ... fail!
2010-12-21 11:32:15,345 DEBUG: updating <jockey.detection.LocalKernelModulesDriverDB instance at 0x7f13ea279050>
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2010-12-21 11:32:15,506 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/bcmwl
2010-12-21 11:32:15,513 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/disable-upstream-nvidia
2010-12-21 11:32:15,571 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/fglrx-modules.alias.override
2010-12-21 11:32:15,579 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/nvidia-173
2010-12-21 11:32:15,590 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/nvidia-96
2010-12-21 11:32:15,593 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/nvidia-current
2010-12-21 11:32:15,967 WARNING: _detect_handlers(): No package repositories available, skipping check
2010-12-21 11:56:02,015 DEBUG: Updating repository indexes...
2010-12-21 11:56:05,044 DEBUG: ... fail!
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2010-12-21 11:56:22,999 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/disable-upstream-nvidia
2010-12-21 11:56:23,054 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/fglrx-modules.alias.override
2010-12-21 11:56:23,055 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/nvidia-173
2010-12-21 11:56:23,057 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/nvidia-96
2010-12-21 11:56:23,059 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/nvidia-current
2010-12-21 11:56:23,402 WARNING: _detect_handlers(): No package repositories available, skipping check
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2010-12-21 12:34:01,545 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/disable-upstream-nvidia
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2010-12-21 12:34:01,605 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/nvidia-173
2010-12-21 12:34:01,607 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/nvidia-96
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2010-12-21 12:37:23,362 DEBUG: ... fail!
2010-12-21 12:37:23,367 DEBUG: Shutting down
2010-12-21 14:44:08,534 DEBUG: Updating repository indexes...
2010-12-21 14:44:14,607 DEBUG: ... fail!
2010-12-21 15:56:17,036 DEBUG: Updating repository indexes...
2010-12-21 15:56:21,282 DEBUG: ... fail!
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2010-12-21 15:56:40,154 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/bcmwl
2010-12-21 15:56:40,154 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/disable-upstream-nvidia
2010-12-21 15:56:40,213 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/fglrx-modules.alias.override
2010-12-21 15:56:40,214 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/nvidia-173
2010-12-21 15:56:40,217 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/nvidia-96
2010-12-21 15:56:40,219 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/nvidia-current
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2010-12-21 18:44:24,984 DEBUG: Updating repository indexes...
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2010-12-21 18:44:49,866 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/disable-upstream-nvidia
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2010-12-21 18:44:49,919 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/nvidia-173
2010-12-21 18:44:49,922 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/nvidia-96
2010-12-21 18:44:49,923 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/nvidia-current
2010-12-21 18:44:50,224 WARNING: _detect_handlers(): No package repositories available, skipping check
2010-12-21 18:46:19,366 DEBUG: Updating repository indexes...
2010-12-21 18:46:24,865 DEBUG: ... fail!
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<p>Does anyone know of a way to fix this? I miss my effects.</p>
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18450 | 1 | 18481 | 2010-12-22T01:58:15.263 | 4 | 2117 | <p>In Karmic, shutter used to have a commandline option called <code>--selection</code>, which I've used in a hack to replace <code>gnome-screenshot</code> with the funcionality of shutter.</p>
<p>However, this option doesn't not exist anymore, but instead <code>--select</code> exists... the problem being, that <code>--select</code> will immediately open the shutter mainwindow, without allowing me to select anything. The contextmenu of shutter still has the 'Selection' option, which makes me wonder why the commandline option had been removed.</p>
<p>Is there a different way to toggle the Selection option in shutter from the commandline?</p>
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18451 | 1 | 18452 | 2010-12-22T02:18:33.200 | 15 | 6155 | <p>Usually Linux programs store user's settings in ~/.* directories. But unfortunately some developers (of some applications I need) do not follow this rule and don't start their settings storage folders names with a dot. This results in never-user-used folders cluttering (not the right word perhaps, as there are not many, but they annoy anyway) a home directory. Renaming them is not an option, as the applications won't find them in this case (and will create them again).</p>
<p>Is there a way to hide a folder having no dot starting its name from being displayed in common file system browsers (I actually use Thunar of XFCE, alongside with Midnight Commander and Krusader, but wouldn't mind to know about Nautilus too).</p>
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<p>So, is there a way to submit a bug I've experienced without complications, for better-qualified specialists to review it and put into corresponding issue trackers themselves if they aren't there yet?</p>
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18454 | 1 | 18521 | 2010-12-22T02:44:04.137 | 4 | 7690 | <p>I want to convert a lot of *.flac and some high bitrate *.mp3 files to *.m4a files.
I want to use a fixed bitrate of 192kb (stereo) and want to keep the audiotags (except of, obviously, the tag "bitrate" - this sshould nbe set to the correct 192kb.). </p>
<p>I'm using 64-bit Maverick.</p>
<p>I tried about every program I could find. </p>
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<li><p>Sound Converter </p></li>
<li><p>soundKonverter (KDE) </p></li>
<li><p>WinFF </p></li>
<li><p>Arista Transcoder, Handbrake, Transmageddon (fails, seems only video works)</p></li>
<li><p>ffmpeg (tried "-acodec libfaac -ab 192k -map_meta_data outfile.m4a:infile.mp3")</p></li>
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<p>But either they don't transfer the tags
or they don't offer any way to set the bitrate to fixed 192kb
or the resulting file doesn't show the new bitrate in any audio program
(for example: nautilus saying "bitrate" n.a.")! </p>
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"text": "hi Oli! thx for your line here. If you're struggling with cleaning up - you can use winff and add your line (well parts of your line) as custom profile, winFF is a gui for ffmpeg I guess. Funny thing still, all my *.m4a (aac) files from different sources show a bitrate whith every program reading the tags. The ones I convert myself don't, it seems like ffmpeg doesn't write the tag \"bitrate\" and the music library managment programs don't compute and add them. Cause I share my music with my girlfriends ipod, apple desktop and ps3 over lan streaming I'd rather have the bitrate info in correct.",
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"text": "Checking once more I found that nautilus shows the bitrate on different songs encoded with 192k *.m4a on other devices NOT by reading the \"bitrate\" tag - there is none set! So the gstreamer backend seems to be able to compute the bitrate showing values like \"188k\", \"192k\", \"189k\" - all around the 192k that programs claimed they encoded with.",
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"text": "hi Oli! If I open the encoded files (your line or my line) doesn't matter! with the program \"mediainfo\" it computes a bitrate of 152k! So by telling ffmpeg to encode with 192k it seems to result in 152k bitrate ... wtf is going on?",
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"text": "for multicore systems, try `find . -name \"*.flac\" -print0 |xargs -r0I {} -P 6 ffmpeg -ab 192k -i \"{}\" -map_meta_data \"{}.m4a\":\"{}\" \"{}.m4a\"`: the `-P` argument is the number of concurrent jobs to run.",
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"text": "@piedro: what is the bitrate if you calculate by hand? take a long-ish track, divide the filesize by the length in seconds, convert from bytes to bits... the longer the better, as there will be some error due to the headers (especially if you have a lot of metadata)",
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18462 | 1 | 18479 | 2010-12-22T04:31:30.320 | 2 | 2122 | <p>I would like to copy or expand my /home directory ... All tutorials talks about moving the home directory from a partition to another but the problem that I only have one partition that was more than 300 gigs (before I resize it and create a new partition) although I see 30 Gigs only on my home directory (4 Gigs left :( )</p>
<p>I resized it and created a new partition as you can see in the next image</p>
<p>I've tried booting from Ubuntu live CD and from a USB and what I can see in Gparted is exactly as in the picture below</p>
<p>I would like to move my home directory to the new partition of expand it.</p>
<p>This is a snapshot of what I can see on my Gparted (note: the new partition is never used I just created it)</p>
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<p>This is from Disk Utilities</p>
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<p>Thanks in Advance</p>
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18468 | 1 | null | 2010-12-22T07:04:35.077 | 2 | 2421 | <p>I'm trying to use mencoder to make a video that has music playing over a single image. I'm using mf to add the image and I always get a video with about one second of audio with a reported length of 0:00. I've tried with a variety of mp3's and images from different sources and I tried using various codecs and options but I can't seem to get past this problem. Here's the basic command:</p>
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<p>Does anyone know how to do this or why mencoder cuts the music to one second?</p>
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18482 | 1 | 18924 | 2010-12-22T10:34:21.073 | 13 | 16619 | <p>I want to increase the scroll area by moving the so-called RightEdge a bit towards the middle. Right now I'm doing this via a one-liner that's called at session start (added via gnome-session-properties):</p>
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<p>This works fine, but feels like a hack. What's the recommended way to edit/set touchpad device properties like this one? Few years ago I'd have put that into the xorg.conf, but this seems to be discouraged nowadays.</p>
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18484 | 1 | 18687 | 2010-12-22T10:42:27.350 | 6 | 1060 | <p>I love fish. I have a nice Ubuntu 8.04 Server running some services. So I edited the /etc/passwd file, as I did in the past, to change my default shell from bash to fish. And ,yes, I made I typo (BTW: I know about chsh, I'm just that stupid and overconfident). Please, stop laughing.</p>
<p>As expected, now I can't login. Is it possible log in without restarting the server?. I know that I can restart the server in safe mode and solve the mess, but I'd like to avoid it.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I have no other user with sudo rights in that server. Stop laughing again.</p>
<p>BTW, I made the mess using ssh, but I have easy physical access to the server, it's just a couple of rooms away.</p>
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<p>The only thing I was able to find was a post on a google group from Sept 30th saying artwork wasn't supported yet, but I'm wondering if that's still the case and noticed subsonic for android displays artwork correctly in its screenshots.</p>
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<p>I tried to remove and re-install it without success. After googling, it seems that no one has a solution for this. I don't want to install it from source unless it is really the last hope.</p>
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18493 | 1 | 18515 | 2010-12-22T12:53:20.737 | 6 | 1589 | <p>Switched my sister to Ubuntu because I got tired of re-installing the other OS every 6 months. Now she managed to get some malware in her Firefox on Ubuntu. Without access to the computer (or when I get it next week), where should I look, what questions can I ask, what could I tell a computer novice to try over the phone?</p>
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While surfing some recipe site she had an ad-window pop up with no window controls. She rebooted the computer and when she re-started Firefox it came back, full screen, no controls, on top. </p>
<p>I told her to just use -F2 and xkill to get rid of it, which it did but stopped Firefox completely. On re-start it was back, I told her to hit F11 which did take it back to a large screen, but not full-screen, so she could see that there was a normal browser window running underneath. She topped the normal window but the only other thing I had time to check was plug-ins, which there wasn't anything that sounded suspicious. I'm looking for ideas of what to try over the phone, or where to start next week. </p>
<p>I'm comfortable with the command line, and using about:config if that makes any difference in the answer.</p>
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18495 | 1 | 18524 | 2010-12-22T13:06:00.120 | 265 | 523882 | <p>Every second e-mail I get suggests to download Adobe Acrobat reader, but <a href="https://get.adobe.com/de/reader/otherversions/" rel="noreferrer">adobe.com doesn’t provide a Linux version</a>.</p>
<p>Which PDF Viewer are there available for Ubuntu?<br>
I’m fine with partial solutions, a perfect match however would not only display PDF files, but also be able to:</p>
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<li>stageless zoom (not just predefined steps) </li>
<li>open files in tabs</li>
<li>display comments added with other PDF software</li>
<li>add and save comments</li>
<li>display forms filled in with other PDF software</li>
<li>fill in and save PDF forms</li>
<li>create and save bookmarks</li>
<li>have a presentation mode</li>
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18498 | 1 | 18500 | 2010-12-22T13:10:38.600 | 10 | 2298 | <p>While using <a href="http://gramps-project.org/">an open source genealogy program</a> I encountered an error. I submitted <a href="http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=4476">a bug report</a> and the author quickly fixed the problem (Yay for open source!).</p>
<p>Now I want off course to try the latest release (3.2.5) of this program (which includes the bugfix for my problem). Apt-get tells me that the version I have installed (3.2.3-1) is already the newest version. </p>
<p>So what is the best way to upgrade to a newer version of a package then is available in the repositories? </p>
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<li>Should I do the above, but with a program like <a href="http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/index.php">checkinstall</a>, and remove the manually compiled version once the version can be installed via the package manager?</li>
<li>Should I make a request for the package to be <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#How%20to%20request%20new%20packages">backported</a>? I think my request will make little chance because the rules read:
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<p>Or is there another way to do this correctly?</p>
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<p>On the same screen everything is fine. I get the message <code>opera: Activated running instance</code> and the new window with the URL is opened.</p>
<p>On the other screen, I get a dialog with the following message: <code>It appears another opera instance is using the same configuration directory because its lock file is active: /home/(my name)/.opera/lock</code> and the URL is not shown.</p>
<p>That's not only from console, also if I click a link in E-Mail or so. How can I fix this?</p>
<p>Window-manager is awesome, if it does make a difference.</p>
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18509 | 1 | 18510 | 2010-12-22T13:42:41.337 | 8 | 376 | <p>How can I make another pdf viewer standard for pdf files in Ubuntu?</p>
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<p><strong>EDIT</strong>: I thought that this might be because I had it plugged into a dock, but I tried plugging it in directly to the MacBook with the USB Cable and it still does not work, same error message.</p>
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18520 | 1 | 18530 | 2010-12-22T16:08:47.227 | 15 | 22477 | <p>I have files in .kml format. In windows 7 I opened them with Google Earth, but Google earth for Linux wrongly determines the place of workout on map. </p>
<p>What application can I use to work with these files? </p>
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18523 | 1 | null | 2010-12-22T16:23:11.027 | 17 | 13864 | <p>I've got Ubuntu 10.10 installed to use my whole hard-disk, but would like to use the 130GB of free space I've got to create a new partition and do some development on Unity and Natty.</p>
<p>Can I use gparted to do this? If so how?</p>
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18526 | 1 | 18533 | 2010-12-22T16:27:24.540 | 3 | 849 | <p>I have an issue, we are moving to a production build server now. I need a virtual machine up and running on my Ubuntu 10.10 server edition. I have to setup and install various tool and plugins, on this windows 7 virtual machine as well</p>
<p>The problem I am facing is how do I install windows 7 on this machine ( ubuntu 10.10 server) also, how am i supposed to gain access to it in order to install tools that are required on it. </p>
<p>I would prefer virtual box as my tool of choice. </p>
<p>Please and thank you. </p>
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"text": "Oh, yes. You will need to use the alternative installer as the deb depends on qt. It's a pity, as adding the official repo is quite a better solution. Install DKMS before, or you are going to have fun after a kernel update.",
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"text": "@Javier, can I get the instructions for that or least a link for them stuff :) I would like to not break the production server.",
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"text": "Be careful with the online manual, looks like some parts are updated for the version 4, for example, they talk about expansion packs. VBox 4 is right now in beta, and I'm expecting more restrictive licensing from oracle. If you doubt download the pdf version, I hope that it isn't autogenerated from the html.",
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18528 | 1 | null | 2010-12-22T16:39:06.553 | 2 | 826 | <p>Is there any way to turn off window grouping with dockbarx? I use the Prism app to create standalone windows for gmail, my corporate webmail, and a few other sites. Because they all use Prism, instead of displaying as separate shortcuts with the custom icons I assigned to each when creating them, they all display together under a single Prism button, using the Prism icon.</p>
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18531 | 1 | null | 2010-12-22T16:53:37.020 | 3 | 25139 | <p>I installed Ubuntu via usb with no problems, but when I restart, I get an error message: </p>
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<p>How can I fix this?</p>
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18532 | 1 | 24653 | 2010-12-22T16:55:06.463 | 6 | 5147 | <p>My pc has an Intel DH57JG mainboard, I've installed wine, launching sketchup I receive error that I don't have OpenGL installed, is there a way to configure/install it? On my previous pc with an NVidia video card installing official NVidia driver resolved it. Is there is a way to do the same with the Intel card?</p>
<p>Running <code>locate libgl</code> on a terminal returns no results.</p>
<p>thanks in advance.</p>
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18537 | 1 | 18589 | 2010-12-22T17:51:29.070 | 4 | 12671 | <p>When i try to login it takes about 2 to 4 minutes and after that it shows an error that says:</p>
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<p>Note that Skype was working with me yesterday.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>
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18538 | 1 | null | 2010-12-22T17:54:23.543 | 1 | 1993 | <p>I have been wanting to try Natty Narwhal really bad. So about a week ago I tried it, and it was not at all stable. I know it's still in development but I desperately want Unity, I even reorganized my gnome panel with dockbarx and gnome window applets to try to emulate Unity. I tried Maverick early and it was great. :D (getting a little off topic here....) But anyways ;) When is Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.04 going to be ready for stable testing?</p>
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18543 | 1 | 18674 | 2010-12-22T18:37:04.237 | 1 | 292 | <p>Is there a way to have the start up sound wait like I did in conky like this?</p>
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sleep 30
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<p>Not that its a big deal but my comp boots so fast it does not have time to play the small ogg file i have as the start up sound.
Or any other ideas on what i can do to get it to play?? Also shutdown goes so fast it does not finish that sound either?
And as allways TYAVMIA :-) </p>
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18545 | 1 | 18553 | 2010-12-22T19:12:06.207 | 54 | 106319 | <p>I ran the following code and got this package needs these packages, now it also says these packages are suggested, and theses are recommended. How do I get those up to install as well.</p>
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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Recommended packages:
pdf-viewer
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0 upgraded, 34 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
Need to get 168MB of archives.
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<p>Please and thank you</p>
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18546 | 1 | null | 2010-12-22T19:13:35.223 | 1 | 417 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/17606/how-to-fix-gpg-error-badsig-while-running-apt-get-update">How to fix GPG error/BADSIG while running apt-get update?</a> </p>
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<p>I'm most frustrated at not being able to get rid of the BADSIG/GPG errors I get while running apt-get update. This is what I get when running the command:
<a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/546690/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://paste.ubuntu.com/546690/</a></p>
<p>I tried cleaning the cache, changing the server to Main Server, and even tried the following command:</p>
<pre><code>sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys <key>
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<p>None of that seems to solve my problem though.</p>
<p>Help on this would be highly appreciated.</p>
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18547 | 1 | null | 2010-12-22T19:15:50.117 | 9 | 15532 | <p>My built-in microphone doesn't seem to be detected, because I cannot use it to record my voice in Audacity and it's also not working in Skype.</p>
<p>Any solution for my problem?</p>
<p>Laptop: Axioo MNC</p>
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18557 | 1 | 18559 | 2010-12-22T21:18:22.070 | 4 | 329 | <p>With the introduction of Ubuntu Software Centre, I remember reading, though I can't find any reliable source right now, that the various package managers were going to eventually be deprecated. Indeed, Gdebi is no longer a part of the default installation, and I heard that Synaptic was scheduled to the removed in the near future.</p>
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18560 | 1 | 18562 | 2010-12-22T21:50:40.373 | 9 | 3418 | <p>I want to try out Ubuntu (and hopefully choose it as my primary OS). After looking at many versions of it in VirtualBox and from Live CD, I've finally decided to install it.</p>
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<p>The Internet (including AskUbuntu) is full of scary stories about Windows not loading after installation of Ubuntu, something about installing GRUB to a wrong partition, etc.<br>
As I am a newbie to Linux and Ubuntu, it is very easy for me to do something wrong. Please mention the problems that may appear and explain how to avoid them.</p>
<p>Ubuntu version that will be installed: 10.10 Desktop amd64 </p>
<p>Please note that I have installed Windows 7 about a year ago, so I have much to lose if something goes wrong. I want to be very careful because there is no way for me to backup all the data.</p>
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18564 | 1 | 18565 | 2010-12-22T22:31:41.213 | 8 | 1983 | <p>OK, so for the past 2 days my Ubuntu Install (10.10) has been acting in a very strange manner.</p>
<p>Just after the login process is done, and the desktop is loading everything seems to be fine, it is fast and smooth like always, but then some 5 mins. later, it gets all choppy and slow, the mouse pointer it's slow,the apps won't respond to anything,and every aspect of the system is slow,even turning it off it's slow.</p>
<p>Some 2 days ago, <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/18313/i-cant-boot-into-ubuntu-strange-error">i asked a question here</a>, about Ubuntu giving me an error, the person who answer my question, said that the filesystem might be corrupt and told me to do a check with a live cd,and so i did, i ran the fsck command and it actually fixed something.</p>
<p>However, this Problem, the sluggish performance just won't go away, i don't have any idea as to why this happened, but i'd like to know if there is a permanent fix, or if im gonna have to install Ubuntu all over again.</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/88384/how-can-i-repair-grub-how-to-get-ubuntu-back-after-installing-windows">How can I repair grub? (How to get Ubuntu back after installing Windows?)</a> </p>
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<p>So I had a dual boot, with Windows, and Ubuntu, but I had to re-install windows for various reasons...</p>
<p>Now that I have re-installed windows, windows wrote over grub, which I knew was going to happen, but I didn't think about how to fix the problem, or if it was even possible... so here is my question, how do I restore grub to allow me to boot into windows and my already installed ubuntu?</p>
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18575 | 1 | 21491 | 2010-12-23T04:15:04.060 | 2 | 551 | <p>I have an Ubuntu laptop that stops responding when booting up. It will change between consoles with ctrl-alt-FN but pressing enter in the console would not even enter a blank line. The last printed line when booting up in recovery mode was "Skipping EDID probe due to cached edid". Any ideas what might be wrong?</p>
<p>Pressing ctrl-alt-del successfully rebooted it when in that mode. Another symptom is that GRUB stopped booting automatically, not sure if related (I doubt it).</p>
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18576 | 1 | 18600 | 2010-12-23T04:41:21.187 | 2 | 3101 | <p>I recently bought a dell vostro 3400 i3 with 4 gb ram. Everything works smooth as silk and I am using maverick but I can't get two finger scrolling and multiple gestures such as zoom etc which it says it supports. Can anyone help ? I have installed gsynaptics and enabled scrolling yet it doesnot work.</p>
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18587 | 1 | 19349 | 2010-12-23T07:54:45.290 | 4 | 1707 | <p>I'm going to add SSD disk to my Ubuntu computer. Is there any known problems with PCI-E based SSD disks in Ubuntu (<a href="http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/solid-state-drives/pci-express/revodrive/ocz-revodrive-pci-express-ssd-.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>, for instance)? Or should I prefer SSD disk with SATA interface to achieve maximum compatibility with Ubuntu OS? I use Ubuntu Server 8.04 now, but I'm ready to upgrade to 10.10 if necessary.</p>
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18592 | 1 | 18610 | 2010-12-23T09:25:50.683 | 7 | 3343 | <p>I use "Connect to server" option to sftp to remote computers, as a user which has sudoer privileges. But then, I cannot get root privileges to modify system files. How can I do this?</p>
<p>(I know i can use ssh and then use sudo, but I was wondering if there's a quicker method.)</p>
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18594 | 1 | 18597 | 2010-12-23T09:34:27.973 | 5 | 4469 | <p>It doesn't matter if utility is for Ubuntu or for Windows XP/7, just need to see what pc is using the most traffic in local network.</p>
<p>Probably some spammer etc on that pc.</p>
<p>Need to get rid of that, before calling to my ISP.</p>
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18596 | 1 | 23155 | 2010-12-23T10:12:18.533 | 4 | 631 | <p>I have two monitors and I want my wacom to only work on one monitor.</p>
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18599 | 1 | null | 2010-12-23T10:52:52.150 | 3 | 2963 | <p>I have multiple 3G USB based Modems. I would like them to keep connected simultaneously, NOT necessarily aggregating their bandwidth; a separate intelligent application would manage their utilization effectively.</p>
<p>However I am running into problem of setting up proper routes for the ppp0,ppp1 interfaces: when one of them connects, other's entries in the routing table get updated so it is no more usable. If I reconnect the second one, it would override the first one's routing entries. If I do it over and over, sometimes both of them's entries disappear while in rare cases the two work well.</p>
<p>I have tried it both using NetworkManager as well as WVDial but issue pops up in both of these. Perhaps both of them use same PPP dialer at the backend and thats why this issue appears. </p>
<p>What is the proper solution to make them work together? In the long run, I'd also like them to automatically dial in once USB gets connected.</p>
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18601 | 1 | 18613 | 2010-12-23T11:23:14.247 | 3 | 1116 | <p>This has been bugging me for a while, and I can't find any preference settings that are affecting it, but:</p>
<p>On one install of Ubuntu/Gnome I've been able to drag applications in the bottom panel across to one of the virtual desktops and it would move there.</p>
<p>However, with the install I'm using on a different computer, it is refusing to do this, and all I can do is right-click and select the desktop. </p>
<p>This has happened on a number of versions of Gnome (from 9.04 through to 10.10) with one computer having this function, and the other computer not. I've also done a couple of complete rebuilds - so it doesn't appear to be a preference/option being stuck somewhere.</p>
<p>Anyone have any clue how to get this functionality enabled?</p>
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18602 | 1 | 18604 | 2010-12-23T11:47:29.183 | 1 | 4715 | <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>What's a good malware scanner for Ubuntu?</p>
<p><strong>--update</strong></p>
<p>I just suspect something strange on my system, so I wondered if is there a malware scanner.</p>
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18603 | 1 | 18605 | 2010-12-23T11:53:49.453 | 8 | 11549 | <p>After installing Ubuntu on my ThinkPad T510, the GDM screen and GNOME session would always start at 100% brightness.</p>
<p>I quickly found out, that this can be controlled via <code>gnome-power-preferences</code>, but I'd like to have GDM and the GNOME session follow the global backlight setting (ie., when I set it during POST, GRUB, GDM, a GNOME session, or on a TTY, I expect it not to automatically change).</p>
<p>So, how can I make gnome-power-manager stop automatically changing my backlight level?</p>
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18606 | 1 | null | 2010-12-23T12:01:09.487 | 1 | 2149 | <p>I'm trying to install Ubuntu Netbook on my mum's Windows XP Atom notebook.</p>
<p>The notebook doesn't have an optical drive, nor do we currently have a usb drive in the house. So I decided to use Unetbootin to create the "frugal" hard disk loader.</p>
<p>The only thing is, now I'm stuck on the Allocate Drive Space screen during Ubuntu install.</p>
<p>The screen I'm stuck on looks like this:</p>
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<p>Sorry it's so blurry. Anyway, the two entries in the table start with "/dev/".</p>
<p>Regardless of which one I choose I get an error saying:</p>
<p><code>> No Root File System is Defined</code></p>
<p>Bear with me, because I don't know anything about partitions or stuff like that. I chose Ubuntu because it's user-friendly and because Windows is a pile of crap, particularly XP on a netbook.</p>
<p>Having said that, what's gone wrong, can you help?</p>
<p>Also, after choosing Unebootin from the boot options and it starts to load Ubuntu, it gives the option to press "esc" to load options. The screen that comes up looks like this:</p>
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<p>Now, out of those options, I've tried the first one, which says Unetbootin again, and the straight up "Install Ubuntu Netbook" options, but have come up against exactly the same issue both times.</p>
<p>Any ideas anyone?</p>
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18615 | 1 | null | 2010-12-23T13:05:45.217 | 6 | 249 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/23562/why-cant-i-see-the-menubar-in-some-applications">Why can't I see the menubar in some applications?</a> </p>
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<p>My problem is as follows:</p>
<p>The program menu, the one that has file edit view all that does not display in some programs like </p>
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<li>Audicity</li>
<li>Play on linux</li>
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<p>when i change the theme in the appearance it appears again
i really do not know what is wrong with that or why.</p>
<p>i have ubuntu 10.10 and running compiz have ubuntu tweak</p>
<p>thanks for all that will answer and all that can not</p>
<p>really thanks dudes.</p>
<p>ubuntu is sure fun</p>
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18618 | 1 | null | 2010-12-23T13:23:56.267 | 4 | 31678 | <p>I want to compile the program using these command:gcc -o test test.c,then it displays these:</p>
<pre>yangbin@yangbin-desktop:~/桌面$ gcc -o test test.c
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file test: Is a directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
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<p>I cannot understand why,please give me a hand to solve it!
I am a freshman.</p>
<pre>
/*****test.c*********/
#include
int main(void)
{
int input=0;
printf("enter an integer:");
scanf("%d",&input);
printf("Twice the number you supplied is %d\n",2*input);
return 0;
}
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18622 | 1 | 18625 | 2010-12-23T14:18:07.730 | 1 | 304 | <p>I was succesfully using Xubuntu 11.04 for some days, but after today update (I haven't updated during the last 2 days) lots of things stopped working: Adobe Flash Firefox plugin, clipboard, notification area panel applet, keyboard layout switcher panel applet, sound volume panel applet, cpu meter panel applet.</p>
<p>Lack of clipboard really annoys.</p>
<p>What could be the reason? Is there a a way to fix this?</p>
| 2390 | 2390 | 2010-12-23T14:39:00.990 | 2010-12-23T14:42:50.490 | What piece of the last update could break keyboard switcher, systray, clipboard and Adobe Flash in Xubuntu 11.04? | [
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18626 | 1 | 18627 | 2010-12-23T14:46:02.013 | 5 | 740 | <p>My top gnome-panel is set to not expand and sits on the top-right of my screen. I just realized I wouldn't mind if maximized windows were able to get behind it (it wouldn't actually cover up anything). Is it possible to achieve that with the gnome-panel?</p>
<p>Here's what it looks like now:<br>
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/GwGie.jpg" alt="Panel"><br>
Ideally, the window's titlebar would be behind the panel (partially obscured by it). I know that different dock softwares like AWN are able to do that, but I'm running a weak netbook, and I would rather do that with the gnome-panel.</p>
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18629 | 1 | null | 2010-12-23T15:46:36.213 | 4 | 1161 | <p>Recently my Gnome interface theme has occasionally changed itself on every few logins. On the times it does change as soon as I login I get a completely different theme set on my menu bar, icons, font, everything. It sets the grey accessibility one (I think) but then after a few moments it changes itself back to the correct theme set in the Appearance menu.</p>
<p>However one after effect of this issue is that Nautilus become messed up. (Screenshot attached below:) This is the theme that gets randomly applied before changing back to my normal theme, but it sticks with Nautilus, unless I kill it and restart it.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MojhT.png" alt="theme issue"></p>
<p>I don't know what I could of done to make this happen and it only started happening a few days ago.</p>
<p>Any help on this issue would be great! It's got me baffled!</p>
<p>Useful Info about my theme setup:</p>
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<li>Using Nautilus Elementary</li>
<li>Faenza icon set</li>
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18631 | 1 | 18635 | 2010-12-23T16:07:14.817 | 4 | 2251 | <p>As it seems that I've been hit by <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/693758" rel="nofollow">the bug #693758</a> I am willing to downgrade <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0" rel="nofollow">gtk+.2.0</a> from 2.23.3 to 2.23.2. But it seems that I have no package with such a name in my system :-( how do I downgrade it then?</p>
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18632 | 1 | null | 2010-12-23T16:16:32.463 | 8 | 12016 | <p>The update manager is still stuck in updating the linux kernel (linux-image-2.6.35-24-generic) in the process of updating the grub entries. I think the problem is that the update manager doesn't have root privileges to continue (the app indicator with the key icon disappeared) and I want to know if it's safe to kill the update manager and start the process over.</p>
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18637 | 1 | null | 2010-12-23T16:36:36.410 | 6 | 1232 | <p>I have an extra ext4 formatted partition which I would like to ecrypt with ecryptfs. I have chosen not to go for home directory ecryption and having a encrypted private directory also hasn't helped me. </p>
<p>So, the remaining option for me is to encrypt the extra partition. So, I want to know what is the best way to achieve this. The drive should get mounted when I log in. And I should be able to move my Documents and other important folders in the home directory to the encrypted drive, and symlink them back to the home directory. As I save some passwords in firefox, should I move the hidden firefox folder in the home directory to the encrypted drive? </p>
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18640 | 1 | 18642 | 2010-12-23T16:50:55.313 | 3 | 495 | <p>Perhaps someone can help me to get rid of this slight red border in the progress-GUI? See the attached screenshot.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/gI2nn.png" alt="alt text"></p>
<p>I'm using the <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Finery+(improved+Radiance+theme)?content=124694" rel="nofollow noreferrer">finery theme</a>, I found the gtkrc file in my themes folder but doesn't find where to change the color of this border or an possibility to change the borderwidth to zero?</p>
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"text": "thanks for your effort. change the border shades value to 0 did the trick: style \"progressbar\" \n{\n xthickness = 1\n ythickness = 1\n \n engine \"murrine\"\n {\n border_shades = { 0, 0} # draw a gradient on the border.",
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18654 | 1 | 18656 | 2010-12-23T17:29:20.537 | 559 | 515810 | <p>Because of <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/693758">bug #693758</a> I'd like to prevent <code>apt-get upgrade</code> and Update Manager from updating the "libgtk2.0-0" package. </p>
<p>How can this be achieved?</p>
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"text": "I can confirm that `sudo apt-mark hold/unhold` currently works in Ubuntu **16.04** (Xenial Xerus). I held some obsolete packages and then executed `sudo apt-get dist-upgrade` in order to see if they would be upgraded, but the held packages were not upgraded. By the way, you can hold/unhold several packages at once. Example: `sudo apt-mark hold thunar thunar-dbg thunar-data libthunarx-2-0 libthunarx-2-dev`. Nice!",
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18665 | 1 | 57152 | 2010-12-23T19:57:23.523 | 5 | 10784 | <p>Developer in me woke up this morning and asked me to fix this before Christmas. (As his Christmas gift).</p>
<p>So, if I power on the laptop after docking it, everything works fine. But if I am working on it standalone and then try to dock it, I cannot get the display. Same way, if I undock it while working, I loose the display. </p>
<p>Basically, I need to reboot for any docking/undocking dance to work. </p>
<p>Questions:
1) What kind of information should I be looking for to understand the problem?
2) Where to find that information. </p>
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18668 | 1 | 18669 | 2010-12-23T20:36:36.163 | 1 | 1312 | <p>anyidea how to install its on its ? in google chrome / opera / midori ? </p>
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18673 | 1 | 18679 | 2010-12-23T21:44:30.060 | 3 | 829 | <p>I was running low in disk space on my Linux box, Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop, (specifically on my /home partition) so I added another disk to it and I am trying to move the home partition into it.</p>
<p>I am trying to follow the steps on this guide here: <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving" rel="nofollow">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving</a></p>
<p>However, when copying the files over to the new mounted partition rsync seems to fail silently. When I compare the folders, the new one is still empty.</p>
<p>This is the command that I am executing: </p>
<pre><code>sudo rsync -axS --exclude='/*/.gvfs' /home/. /media/home/.
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<p>Has it anything to do with the encryption on my home folder?</p>
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18675 | 1 | null | 2010-12-23T21:56:07.297 | 1 | 1024 | <p>I installed nvidia driver, rebooted, and got no graphics, only console.
<br>Suggestions?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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18685 | 1 | 18691 | 2010-12-23T23:08:02.187 | 67 | 54261 | <p>I have a PDF document with over 300 pages. I need to add 15 pages in between - after page 180. How can I do it?</p>
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18688 | 1 | 18692 | 2010-12-23T23:33:06.947 | 8 | 583 | <p>The first time a user enters <code>sudo foo</code>, <strong>sudo_root</strong> prompts for the password. For a certain duration after that, <strong>sudo_root</strong> doesn't prompt for a password for any subsequent <code>sudo foo</code>'s in that terminal session. <br/></p>
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18690 | 1 | 18693 | 2010-12-23T23:38:13.667 | 1 | 7776 | <p>I'm trying to run a shell script inside some python code, but I keep getting an error message.</p>
<p><strong>Python script (test.py):</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Shell script (record.sh):</strong></p>
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<p><strong>When I run:</strong></p>
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<p>This is the error message that I get:
<strong>FAIL sox: `-' error writing output file: Broken pipe</strong></p>
<p>Running the shell script alone works fine (i.e. ./record.sh).</p>
<p>What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.</p>
<p><strong>EDIT BELOW: I have changed the shell script, so it looks like this (there is no longer any piping):</strong></p>
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rec -r 16k -b 16 -c 1 output.wav silence 1 0.5 0.1% 1 1.0 0.1%
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<p>With Stefano's help I have the following Python script:</p>
<pre><code>#!/usr/bin/python
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
output = Popen(["sh", "/home/test/Downloads/data/recorder.sh", ], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0]
</code></pre>
<p>Do I still need the PIPE and communicate bits?</p>
<p>What do I need to change, so that the python script doesn't wait for recorder.sh to finish before moving on?</p>
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"text": "what's the exact line? \nit should be `Popen([\"sh\", \"script.sh\", ], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0]` - note that the command you run is \"sh\", with \"script.sh\" as an argument. the command and its arguments are given as a List, that's `[\"ls\", \"-l\", ]` for example",
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18697 | 1 | null | 2010-12-24T02:21:17.747 | 2 | 391 | <p>Ok so I guess last few days there was a kernel upgrade in apt, cause I had to reboot. And since then, X shows up in htop eating 50% or more of my ram! </p>
<p>And the swap is totally eaten too. I haven't seen that happen in years.</p>
<p>Using 10.10 w/ compiz and an nvidia 6150 with the official nvidia drivers.</p>
<p>This has made my computer unusable. I disable AWN and changed my theme and no effect on X ram usage. </p>
<p>I tried looking with the 'tree' mode in htop for anything that stood out but didn't see anything. </p>
<p>Help, cause now I have to boot up into Vista.</p>
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18698 | 1 | 18701 | 2010-12-24T04:14:56.393 | 37 | 27621 | <p>I have a poster I would like to print. It is far larger than a single sheet of paper that can fit in my printer. What is a program that I can use to print it out on separate sheets of paper (to assemble later)?</p>
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18702 | 1 | null | 2010-12-24T06:13:17.997 | 2 | 4387 | <p>I'm using mencoder and ffmpeg to make videos with music playing over a single image. The videos play fine but I can't seek at all. I've tried generating them with -idx and even -forceidx and keyint with mencoder but I couldn't get it to work. The only option I saw for this with ffmpeg was force_key_frames but it seems I'd have to set each time explicitly.</p>
<p>I'd specifically like this to work with Totem. When I do try to seek with Totem it restarts the video. I can seek with other videos processed with mencoder/ffmpeg where I started with a video from another source. I'm only having trouble with these videos that I'm creating from images.</p>
<p>The basic encoding commands I'm using are:</p>
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<p>and</p>
<pre><code>ffmpeg -i image.jpg -i music.mp3 -acodec copy ffmpeg_out.avi
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<p>With mencoder I've also tried using a separate pass to add the key frames:</p>
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<li>note: with mencoder I usually add other lavcopts like vbitrate and mbd but none of those have had any effect on this problem as far as I can tell</li>
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18704 | 1 | 18712 | 2010-12-24T06:38:07.473 | 7 | 5518 | <p>When I install a software using apt-get it installs to default locations i.e to /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/share and etc. For example when I install "Meld Diff Viewer" using</p>
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18716 | 1 | 22488 | 2010-12-24T10:38:09.463 | 7 | 8262 | <p>I'm having problems loading a <code>zenity</code> List Dialog when the data contains spaces. </p>
<p>It is straight-forward when there are no spaces in the listed data,<br>
but I don't know of a simple/standard method for space-embedded file names. </p>
<p>For some reason, the output of $(<code>ls -Q /tmp</code>) (Quoted output) still<br>
splits the file-names at every space. The quotes and back-slashes in the<br>
<code>ls | sed</code> output seem to be treated as a "finalized string" rather than<br>
as "readable data lines" (like the first two data lines)... </p>
<p>I've managed to "work around the issue", but Self-Modifying code probably<br>
isn't the best way to go! (even though it is fun! :) </p>
<hr>
<p>Here is the method which does NOT work </p>
<pre><code>zenlist="/tmp/zen list"; touch "$zenlist"
zenity --list --title='A single-column List' --width=600 --height=450 \
--column='Spaces are allowed within "q u o t e s"' \
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck," \
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<p>This method works, but there must be a "conventional" (better) way!? </p>
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echo "zenity --list --title='A single-column List' --width=600 --height=450 \\" >"$zenlist"
echo "--column='Spaces are allowed within \"q u o t e s\"' \\" >>"$zenlist"
echo "\"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck,\" \\" >>"$zenlist"
echo "\"if a wooodchuck could chuck wood?\" \\" >>"$zenlist"
(ls -Q "$zenlist"* |sed 's/$/ \\/') >>"$zenlist"
echo "" >>"$zenlist"
source "$zenlist"
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18717 | 1 | 18720 | 2010-12-24T11:05:55.813 | 0 | 368 | <p>My girlfriend has an ASUS eee900 (the version with the 2 SSDs). Although it ships with Xandros, one of the first things I did for her was remove it and install Ubuntu. She's had Ubuntu Netbook Remix on there for a while, but once Unity was enforced on everyone, the poor little netbook can't cope with it (the graphics performance is pretty hopeless).</p>
<p>After swapping and changing a few times to get something she likes, I've installed Linux Mint 9. Unfortunately, the keyboard isn't mapped correctly and I can't find the correct driver to use for it. This means that some of the keys only work with the left shift key, some others only with the right shift key, and some others work with neither. In particular, she can't type an @ sign - which makes emailing people difficult!</p>
<p>Any advice on how I can get the keyboard operating again would be very much appreciated by both of us!</p>
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"body": "<p>You should be able to switch to the regular graphic interface on the netbook remixed edition of Ubuntu, by selecting the proper environment at the login time. If you are setup for an automatic login, you can still logout and re-login with the proper credentials. The selection is done through some of the icons on the bottom of the desktop BEFORE logging in. This is how I got rid of the Unity environment, which is also giving me hard time on my Eee900 netbook. </p>\n\n<p>Because of performance, I now use Jolicloud on my netbook. It is much faster, although the environment is not what I would personally prefer. But id does a better job than Ubuntu. </p>\n\n<p>I realize it might not answer your original question, but it may solve the keyboard issue you had with Ubuntu. </p>\n",
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"text": "I tried my girlfriend on Jolicloud - she hated it! I think the best plan is for me to downgrade to 10.04 or earlier, to see if that fixes it. Thank you anyway!",
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18718 | 1 | null | 2010-12-24T11:11:54.507 | 6 | 1182 | <p>I am trying to set up a school computer lab with Hindi typing capabilities and am having trouble getting Ubuntu 10.04 to type all of the Hindi combined characters. <br/> I'm using "Bolnagri" since it is very intuitive for people who know the English keyboard. There is a layout document in the <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1502429" rel="nofollow">link</a>
which shows many combined characters but there are a few characters like <code>ऋ</code> which do not have any Third Level Key code mentioned. <br/>
I found <code>ॠ</code> with Character map at <code>U0960</code> in the Hindi font but when I type in <code>ऋ</code> I get <code>ॠ</code>.
Another problem is that <code>श्र</code> (zxr) does not work. It does not combine into the character shown but is a half <code>श</code> + <code>र</code>. <br/>
I must be doing something wrong so am hoping someone can help.</p>
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18721 | 1 | null | 2010-12-24T13:12:09.793 | 6 | 7597 | <p>I had installed VLC 1.1.4 in ubuntu 10.04 via a PPA. After I installed it, I have not been able to view subtitles after loading it. It appears as a rectangle in place of text.</p>
<p>How can I fix this?</p>
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