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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>
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/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>
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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.
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18374 | 1 | 18678 | 2010-12-21T11:27:45.093 | 14 | 3185 | <p>I would like to understand the flow of the USB events form the Kernel space to the User space (just out of my curiosity, in knowing how things are implemented). </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>
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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>
<p>I solved adding the following line to bashrc, but I think there should be a better way.</p>
<pre><code>export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin
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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>
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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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<li>plain old SysV init? (<code>start-stop-daemon</code> ?)</li>
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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>
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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>
<p>What exactly is nux?</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,
Vincenzo </p>
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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>
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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="noreferre... | 72 | 10883 | 2020-10-09T13:00:14.290 | 2021-05-05T00:34:35.797 | How can I set which application is launched by 'xdg-open'? | [
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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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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>
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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>
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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.
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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 lef... | 333 | null | null | 2012-08-28T15:07:17.527 | Expanding your home directory size | [
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18466 | 1 | null | 2010-12-22T06:34:06.013 | 2 | 9436 | <p>While booting Ubuntu and mounting my casper-rw file for persistent storage, Ubuntu recommends me to check for errors using fsck. However, when I boot into my system, since the casper-rw is automatially mounted and cannot be unmounted, it refuses to repair errors in my casper file system.</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 option... | 7768 | null | null | 2016-06-23T07:10:27.780 | How to add music to an image with mencoder | [
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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... | 49 | 235 | 2010-12-22T14:27:34.720 | 2010-12-22T15:18:56.000 | Where should I start in tracking down Firefox malware | [
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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>
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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>
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18502 | 1 | 25910 | 2010-12-22T13:22:35.760 | 3 | 2145 | <p>I use Opera and have a setup with two monitors. If I want to open a new URL <code>opera -newwindow URL</code>. The outcome differs, if I execute this command in a program on the same screen where Opera is, or on the other.</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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18517 | 1 | 19362 | 2010-12-14T22:37:24.667 | 8 | 3886 | <p>Whenever I plug my iPod Touch (2nd gen) into my MacBook running Ubuntu 10.10 I get the following error:</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>
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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 to... | 2664 | null | null | 2010-12-27T19:12:49.113 | can I turn off window grouping with dockbarx? | [
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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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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>... | 4546 | 1067 | 2011-02-03T20:38:06.543 | 2011-02-18T09:21:30.657 | How to make Google SketchUp work with Intel graphics in Wine? | [
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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. ... | 7333 | null | null | 2010-12-22T18:24:06.623 | When will Natty Narwhal 11.04 be stable to use? | [
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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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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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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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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 th... | null | 10966 | 2011-03-14T17:10:51.857 | 2014-06-29T14:24:09.727 | What will be the default set of package management tools in future versions of Ubuntu? | [
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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>
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18566 | 1 | null | 2010-12-22T22:44:36.410 | 5 | 24071 | <blockquote>
<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>
</blockquote>
<p>So I had a dual boot, with Windows, a... | 3889 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:25:12.207 | 2011-11-12T21:05:48.170 | How do I restore Grub after Windows has deleted it | [
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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>
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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... | 1900 | 235 | 2010-12-23T15:03:06.610 | 2010-12-30T01:07:48.250 | Is there any known problems with PCI-E based SSD disks? | [
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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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18593 | 1 | 18657 | 2010-12-23T09:32:11.890 | 11 | 5712 | <p>We run several ubuntu virtual machines on ESX server. </p>
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<p>Which one is the best choise for a virtual machine running on ESX?</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>
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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>
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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 suspe... | 5304 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:48.743 | 2011-01-03T07:21:55.370 | Malware scanner for Ubuntu | [
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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 i... | 3037 | null | null | 2017-08-14T00:29:40.613 | How to stop gnome-power-manager from changing the global backlight setting? | [
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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 Spac... | 7796 | 8844 | 2011-10-28T05:53:56.930 | 2011-10-28T05:53:56.930 | Ubuntu Netbook installation fails on Allocate Drive Space screen, No Root File System is Defined | [
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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>
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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>
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<p>I cannot understand why,please give me a hand to solve it!
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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>
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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>
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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 th... | 3253 | 3253 | 2010-12-23T15:54:15.393 | 2010-12-23T15:54:44.607 | My Appearance theme briefly changes itself | [
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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... | 5749 | null | null | 2016-07-22T14:31:49.423 | Update manager stuck in update | [
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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>
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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>
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18641 | 1 | null | 2010-12-23T16:57:06.043 | 116 | 42380 | <p>I've been running Alpha releases of Ubuntu for some time now. I keep running into issues - how can I get these resolved? What should I do when I encounter these problems? And where can I find other Ubuntu+1 users to ask questions?</p>
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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>
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18658 | 1 | null | 2010-12-23T18:37:00.263 | 0 | 688 | <p>i m a less that 10 hours user of ubuntu 10.10. i have installed skype.the first time i installed it there was a green icon on the panel with my status but i closed it by wrong.any idea how to return it?thanks</p>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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18684 | 1 | null | 2010-12-23T23:06:53.937 | 6 | 957 | <p>Fresh install 10.10 all my bookmarks mainly ftp and ssh bookmarks open firefox and show a web based file browser instead of spawning a nautilus window. have no idea what caused this never seen this before. This kills me on this machine to not be able to transfer/edit remote files right from my places menu.</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>
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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>
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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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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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"body": "<p>You can use <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/snmpd\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><strong>snmpd</strong></a> <a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/snmpd\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-large\" alt=\"Install snmpd\"></a> and \n <a href=\"htt... | null | null | null | null | null |
18713 | 1 | 18715 | 2010-12-24T10:03:32.247 | 14 | 12439 | <p>Which methods exist to keep a command that was started from shell on running after logging out from from shell?</p>
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"body": "<ul>\n<li><p>To put the application into the background, use <code>&</code>:</p>\n\n<pre><code>command &\n</code></pre></li>\n<li><p>If you wish to close the terminal, and keep the application running, you can use several options: <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/screen\" re... | [
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"body": "<p>Use the nohup command like this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>nohup gedit /home/user/file.txt &\n</code></pre>\n",
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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 $(<code>ls -Q /tmp</code>... | 2670 | null | null | 2011-01-20T20:18:31.073 | How to load a `zenity` List Dialog with space-embedded data from `ls`? | [
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"body": "<p>The problem is <code>ls</code>. It was never designed to be used in scripts. Besides, it's also pointless to use <code>ls</code> in scripts, because the shell can do the job much better, by simply using a glob, see <a href=\"http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide/Patterns\">http://mywi... | [
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"body": "<p>You can pipe the list content into zenity, like</p>\n\n<pre><code>(echo \"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck,\" ; \\\n echo \"if a wooodchuck could chuck wood?\" ; \\\n ls -Q -1 \"$zenlist\"* |sed 's/$/ \\\\/') \\\n| zenity --list --title='A single-column List' --width=600... | null | null | null | null | null |
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 graphic... | 1878 | null | null | 2010-12-24T13:09:50.037 | eee900 Keyboard Issues | [
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"text": "Did the keybord work correctly whilst Ubuntu was installed?",
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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... | [
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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://ubuntu... | null | 4776 | 2010-12-24T12:45:25.823 | 2011-01-23T19:21:25.917 | Hindi Keyboard layout is missing combined characters | [
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"body": "<p>I'm not sure if this will help, but as far as I know Ubuntu's handling of Devanagari script (and a few others) is not fully implemented yet... </p>\n\n<p>Have a look at this Askubuntu question... <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/8437/is-there-a-good-mono-spaced-font-... | null | null | null | null | Jeff Rollins |
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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"text": "Do subtitles work with the official repository version of VLC? I have never had any problems with subtitles in VLC.",
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"body": "<p>The problem might be with the encoding of the subtitle file. Try opening the file and see if you can see the text in the text editor(you definitely should), if you don't, then get a different subtitle file.</p>\n\n<p>If you are able to see, copy all text to clipboard, and sav... | null | null | null | null | Babu |
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