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19356 | 1 | 19364 | 2010-12-30T02:59:44.603 | 1 | 1191 | <p>So my kern.log and syslog files filled up with tons of the below messages:</p>
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<p>I was curious as to the steps to take, commands to run, places to look to help diagnose this issue (and curious as to what caused it)?</p>
<p>I'm guessing it's something USB elated. I had some issues with my printer earlier today so this might be related.</p>
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19357 | 1 | 43275 | 2010-12-30T03:00:14.853 | 5 | 1404 | <p>Inside Firefox, I try to check the box in <code>Edit</code>-><code>Preferences</code>-><code>Advanced</code>-><code>General</code> which says <code>Submit crash report</code>, but each time I close the browser and open it again it remains unchecked. What could be wrong?</p>
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19359 | 1 | null | 2010-12-30T03:05:29.533 | 0 | 854 | <p>Recently I installed Windows XP on my machine where I had only Ubuntu. The problem is that I had my <code>/boot</code> on a separate, 200 Mb partition at beginning of the hard-disk (the leftmost). Installing windows, it said that it can't write MBR because there's an unknown partition, so I formatted that partition as NTFS, and I could finally get windows installed. Now I want to restore that partition so I can use my Linux keeping both systems.</p>
<p>Now should I install grub2 there, or it's OK by restoring partition data? If the first is the correct answer then provide me a little tutorial on installing it. Keep in mind that there was my <code>/boot</code> folder.</p>
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19361 | 1 | 22393 | 2010-12-30T03:46:49.780 | 24 | 173654 | <p>In Ubuntu Maverick, I've shared some folders using the Nautilus "Sharing Options" GUI. </p>
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<p>I can see them from Windows 7, but when I try to access them (from Windows) it asks for a username and password. No matter what I enter, it won't let me in. How do I configure this to share normally?</p>
<p>Update: I've found that some of the shared folders let me in, but others don't. Of the ones that do, some of their subfolders do, others don't, etc. How can I investigate what's causing this?</p>
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19370 | 1 | 19374 | 2010-12-30T06:29:21.030 | 23 | 14108 | <p>Anyone has any tool, other than a pen and pencil to help me manage more than 5 "copy-pastes"? I heard of Glipper, but anymore, with a small description and pros/cons would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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19371 | 1 | 19375 | 2010-12-30T06:47:41.477 | 0 | 3728 | <p>I just got my Asus EEE PC 1015PEM netbook with Windows 7 starter... obviously, I'd like to install Ubuntu (not sure yet if I'd like to dual boot or completely remove win7).</p>
<p>Anyway, I never had a netbook before. I know about unity but heard some bad stuff about it, so I wonder if I might be better sticking to the desktop edition. What do you think? any recommendations?</p>
<p>Also, should I use the 32 bit or 64 bit version?</p>
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19376 | 1 | 19439 | 2010-12-30T07:21:05.803 | 57 | 188337 | <p>Going to install Ubuntu 10.10 on new intel x25M 80GB SSD. It will be fresh install. I have been googling for past few days and getting overwhelming articles/blogs/Q&As. One particularly very useful being:</p>
<p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1400/optimize-for-ssd">How do I optimize the OS for SSDs?</a> </p>
<p>But with so many suggestions and differences of opinions (on different links) this simple OS install process seems to be daunting task to me and I really want to stick with Ubuntu (although have used for very short period of time).</p>
<p>Can someone help me by answering few questions (yes, they are repeated because I couldn't comprehend the answers elsewhere)</p>
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<li>Which file system (ext2/3/4 or something else)? (consider SSD life)</li>
<li>Can it be changed after installation?</li>
<li>Should I partition the disk? (as we do in traditional HDD) for now, no plan of dual booting. Only Ubuntu will live on scarce space of 80GB SSD.</li>
<li>I have 2 GB RAM, should i still allocate swap space (if I don't allocate swap space, can I still hibernate the machine)? will swap space impact SSD life?</li>
<li>Should I consider putting additional 1GB RAM to avoid swap space?</li>
<li>What is partition aligning? Is it needed to be done before installing the Ubuntu OS or can be done later?</li>
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<p>Intended usage - heavy browsing, programming, regular video/music and some other non-CPU/RAM-intensive programs. Will keep big files in an external hard drive.</p>
<p>laptop config - 3yr old Vaio, Core2 Duo, 2GB RAM</p>
<p>More references:</p>
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<li><a href="http://opentechnow.blogspot.com/2010/02/linux-ssd-optimization-guide.html" rel="noreferrer">http://opentechnow.blogspot.com/2010/02/linux-ssd-optimization-guide.html</a></li>
<li><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/18919/is-a-40gb-ssd-practical-to-use-for">Is a 40GB SSD practical to use for ' / '</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1145332.html" rel="noreferrer">http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1145332.html</a></li>
<li><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq" rel="noreferrer">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1242740" rel="noreferrer">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1242740</a> (resizing/creating does not seem a simple process after look this)</li>
<li><a href="http://en.dogeno.us/2010/01/karmic-with-solid-state-disk-how-to-optimize-ubuntu-for-ssd/" rel="noreferrer">http://en.dogeno.us/2010/01/karmic-with-solid-state-disk-how-to-optimize-ubuntu-for-ssd/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/18903/how-to-enable-trim">How to enable TRIM?</a></li>
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<p><strong>EDIT:</strong>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSXNKO6959s" rel="nofollow noreferrer">YouTube Video demonstrating this issue</a></p>
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19380 | 1 | 19382 | 2010-12-30T07:51:29.807 | 1 | 3369 | <p>I picked up an hp dm3t laptop with intel HD graphics and installed ubuntu 10.10 64 bit on it. It works great -- the only problem is that the brightness controls on the keyboard don't work. The brightness is always at full. When I try to adjust it down, the indicator graphic indicates that it's going down but the actual brightness doesn't change. Is there anything that I can try to make this work? I'd really appreciate any help. </p>
<p>I asked this on <a href="https://superuser.com/">superuser.com</a> and someone commented that I should play around with the intel hd drivers. I'm a total noob -- how do I do that? What else can I try? I really don't want to go back to windows.</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/12576/how-to-create-an-encrypted-partition">How to create an encrypted partition?</a> </p>
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<p>I have a little Netbook on which I want to install Ubuntu 10.10 (32-Bit) on. However, since it is a portable PC I want to completely encrypt the file system (in case of theft).</p>
<p>Currently it runs Windows 7 Starter and I use TrueCrypt which installs a custom boot loader that asks for the password. I remember from the past that Linux can do that as well by putting /boot on it's own, unencrypted partition.</p>
<p>Since it's been ages since I last worked with file system encryption (I remember setting up LVM and a custom patched grub to ask for the password) I wonder how that would work nowadays and if there is a step-by-step how-to for it?</p>
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19389 | 1 | 19390 | 2010-12-30T09:57:57.127 | 30 | 50278 | <p>Last time I installed Ubuntu there was a "-pae" at the end of the kernel version in the boot screen. Now that I've reinstalled Ubuntu from the same disk instead of "-pae" there is a "-generic" at the end of kernel version.</p>
<p>What's the meaning of those terms? Why do they different between two installations?</p>
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19393 | 1 | 19395 | 2010-12-30T10:15:20.193 | 2 | 370 | <p>I want to append the directory <code>/home/bart/bin</code> to my <code>PATH</code>. By my <code>PATH</code>, I mean that it should be available whenever I login, whether it be via the terminal, Gnome, KDE or SSH, but not for other users. What's the recommended way of doing this?</p>
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19396 | 1 | 19427 | 2010-12-30T10:48:36.793 | 1 | 204 | <p>the problem is the following.
I have an old computer that mounts a SATA Dvd Burner. The old MoBo (an AsRock P4VT8+) is not able to recognize the freaking burner when booting.
So I had to convert my IDE HD to USB HD and mount it on my laptop and install Ubuntu from there. The problem now is that I'm obviously getting kernel panic every now and then so I was wondering if it is possibile to rerun only the system and the hardware configuration.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: I'm getting kernel panics once I moved the IDE HD back.</p>
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19400 | 1 | 19404 | 2010-12-30T11:08:02.510 | 4 | 849 | <p>I booted up my laptop this morning to find my name no longer appears beside the power off button in the top right hand corner of the top gnome panel:</p>
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<p>I tried deleting and re-adding the indicator applet session to the panel but it still doesn't display my name.</p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
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19410 | 1 | 19653 | 2010-12-30T12:39:05.983 | 2 | 507 | <p>I am in the process of uploading my music library as a backup to U1, but I figured, why not also enjoy Ubuntu 1 music on my iPhone?</p>
<p>With a few difficulties to start, the upload is now in progress, but I've noticed that there is a huge percentage of files in the unknown artist folder, and I believe it is all of my m4a files. They play fine, but without any information.</p>
<p>Coming from an iTunes background, and having bought the majority of my music on the iTunes store, I wonder how I could make this work, easily?</p>
<p>I am on Maverick (afaik), but About Ubuntu shows 11.04. I use Banshee as my music manager, and I monitor my sync using Ubuntu one preferences, ubuntuone-indicator and magicicada.</p>
<p>The total file size of my music folder is 38.9GB.</p>
<p>Thank you for your help!! And apologies if I couldn't find a thread where this was already covered...</p>
<p>EDIT:</p>
<p>The Maverick/11.04 issue is a known bug, and I've seen it here: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/19639/why-does-documentation-tell-me-i-am-running-11-04-when-it-is-10-10">Why documentation says release is 11.04 instead of 10.10</a></p>
<p>If you'd rather not want to wait for the m4a support, you can help yourself out using soundconverter. I followed the instructions here: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/11116/how-do-i-convert-music-between-formats-and-keep-its-metadata">How do I convert music between formats and keep its metadata?</a>
It has taken AGES, but so far I am happy with the results... Note that you will need to install mp3 support in Soundcoverter, I stumbled accross it and install was very straighforward! Oh, and it does only convert m4a's that are not password protected, which I'm guessing will be mostly m4p anyway.</p>
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"body": "<p>I found the answer myself... <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/FAQ/UnknownArtistWithSongs\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/FAQ/UnknownArtistWithSongs</a></p>\n\n<p>Not all too easy to find before subscribing.</p>\n",
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19413 | 1 | 19428 | 2010-12-30T13:11:45.387 | 14 | 18203 | <p>My dual-boot machine has partitions as follows:</p>
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<p>I would like to allocate the unused space on sda2 to my Ubuntu partition on sda4, hopefully leaving the other two partitions untouched, leaving this configuration: </p>
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<p>Is this possible? If so, how can it be done, preferably using GParted?</p>
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19420 | 1 | null | 2010-12-30T13:50:58.613 | 4 | 2412 | <p>I have an mp3 playlist in Rhythmbox. When I drag and drop it in a Brasero data project the order of songs is lost. In fact their sorted in alhpabetical order. As you can imagine this is awful for a list of songs you want to listen to a particular order. This does not happen when I burn a list as audio and not data project.</p>
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19422 | 1 | 85984 | 2010-12-30T14:09:23.027 | 6 | 1071 | <p>I have a netbook with included 3G mobile broadband card (Huawei E620). I have configured the broadband network connection in the Network Manager and it works perfectly.</p>
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<p>Is there a way to prevent this request or, at least, to have the system rember the PIN and stop ansking for it?</p>
<p>If it may be useful, the broadband network connection is configured as not being available for other users. Also, I would like to keep the <em>SIMcard</em> asking for the PIN; only I do not want to insert it manually at login.</p>
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"body": "<p>I don't know if this will work or not but try adding the word \"auto\" in front of the name of your 3G network. I had a similar problem with my WPA wireless connection on autoconnect. Changing my network name, \"Vidnet\", to \"auto Vidnet\" fixed the issue with me.</p>\n",
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19425 | 1 | 20433 | 2010-12-30T14:15:06.297 | 5 | 4251 | <p>How can i mount a NTFS partition, which has german umlaute (ä, ö, ü) in the filenames.
I'm using the following mount command:</p>
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19430 | 1 | 19431 | 2010-12-30T14:44:17.887 | 129 | 234179 | <p>Is it possible to mount a VirtualBox drive image (.vdi) so the contents can be viewed in Nautilus etc.?</p>
<p>I have a windows 2000 .vdi which won't boot ("inaccessible boot device") after upgrading from VirtualBox 2.x to 3.1.6. I believe the IDE drive details have changed and that all I need to do is access the internal drive image and edit the Windows <code>boot.ini</code> to point to the new location.</p>
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"text": "-1, [stwissel](http://askubuntu.com/a/132999/7264) and [Maxime R.](http://askubuntu.com/a/50290/7264)'s answers provide solutions--this is a fair workaround, but not the best answer to the question",
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"text": "You can put the image on loop: `losetup -P /dev/loopX ubuntu.img` (where X is index of the first unused loop device) then `mount /dev/loopXpY /mnt` (where Y is the index of the partition you want to mount).",
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/18023/how-do-i-upgrade-mysql-to-5-5-am-i-best-off-waiting-for-it-to-be-available-throu">How do I upgrade MySQL to 5.5, am I best off waiting for it to be available through apt-get?</a> </p>
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<p>How do i build MySql server? i was hoping for <code>./configure;make;make install</code> but it doesnt seem to be that easy. Basically i want the default settings (as you would get on the distro or even in windows) and doing this to get a newer version (5.0 to 5.5).</p>
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<p>Are there more packages like rar? How can I find the licence of programs in repositories?</p>
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19442 | 1 | 20816 | 2010-12-30T16:46:54.177 | 37 | 43356 | <p>In the GNOME System Monitor's Processes tab there is a "Waiting Channel" column. By far the most common values I see here is <i>poll_schedule_timeout</i> , but I also see other values: <i>0</i>, <i>do_exit</i>, <i>do_wait</i>, <i>futex_wait_queue_me</i>, <i>pipe_wait</i>, <i>__skb_recv_datagram</i> and <i>unix_stream_data_wait</i>.</p>
<p>So what does this "Waiting Channel" column mean? And perhaps what do some of those values in it mean?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/lo3U5.png" alt="Screenshot"></p>
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19445 | 1 | null | 2010-12-30T16:51:50.937 | 3 | 1471 | <p>Some Ubuntu-versions ago, there was a Popup that showed up while changing the brightness on my Asus V6V with FN+Key. It has been gone since (I guess) 9.04. When changing the Audio-Volume, I still have such a thing.</p>
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<p>How can I get this back/working again?</p>
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19448 | 1 | 19452 | 2010-12-30T17:11:00.693 | 2 | 2119 | <p>My Ubuntu machine is on the network accessible at <code>\\linux-server</code> I have Apache2 installed and if I go to <code>http://linux-server</code> it takes me to <code>/var/www</code> as the root directory.</p>
<p>Is it possible on the same machine to set it up so that <code>http://jisaacks</code> points to <code>/var/www-jisaacks</code></p>
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19454 | 1 | null | 2010-12-30T18:38:32.257 | 1 | 1420 | <p>I got a new Asus EEE PC 1015PEM with 2GB RAM and a 250GB HD.</p>
<p>After playing with the netbook edition a little, I would like to install the desktop edition I'm used to. In addition to Ubuntu partition(s), I would like to have one separate partition for data (documents, music, etc.), so I could try other OSs in the future without losing the data.</p>
<p>What partition scheme would you recommend? I usually like to let the installation do it by itself, but when I try to that I can only use the entire disk, so I don't get the desired data partition.</p>
<p>I wish there was a way to see the recommended default partitioning scheme, then just tweak it a bit to fit your needs (instead of building one from scratch).</p>
<p>So, how would you recommend I partition my HD? Please be specific since I never manually partitioned before.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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19455 | 1 | 19460 | 2010-12-30T18:41:12.780 | 7 | 13054 | <p>During installation of Ubuntu 10.04 I was not allowed to use capitals in my Username. Is there any way I could change this?</p>
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19457 | 1 | 20425 | 2010-12-30T18:46:44.210 | 3 | 3845 | <p>I've just installed 10.04 LTS using the Windows installer. The system hangs during boot; the splash screen is frozen and it accepts neither Ctrl+Alt+F2 nor Ctrl+Alt+Del, only a hard reset. (I'm a linux noob.)</p>
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<p>and there it stays. </p>
<p>I can only get to the desktop using the Grub recovery boot option, of course with a lower resolution (800x600) but everything else seems to work fine.</p>
<p>As I said, this is a new install. The only thing I've done is to use the Update Manager to get everything up to date, and activate the newest Nvidia driver using the "Hardware drivers" window.</p>
<p>I had a similar problem when I installed 9.04 a year ago, and at that time <a href="https://superuser.com/questions/60290">posted this question</a> with an answer that worked - this doesn't work with 10.04. Running nvidia-xconfig to create a new xorg.conf didn't fix it either (while in Recovery boot).</p>
<p>The "Hardware Drivers" window just states NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current) [Recommended]. I tried Jonathon's tip about uninstalling the driver and removing the conf file, to see if it can reboot in the normal mode but it just came back into recovery mode. <code>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</code> doesn't exist.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong><br>
I don't know the exact version of the Nvidia driver. The "Hardware Drivers" window just states <code>NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current) [Recommended]</code>. Also, There is no <code>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</code>, but there is a xorg.conf.failsafe which <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/548920/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">doesn't say much</a>.<br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5909">This question</a> mentions nvidia-96. Would that be relevant in my case? </p>
<p><strong>Update 2:</strong><br>
As per Jorge's answer, I've now installed <code>nvidia-glx-185</code> but afterward <code>nvidia-xconfig</code> doesn't exist (<code>sudo: nvidia-xconfig: command not found</code>). There is still no <code>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</code> file. However, I rebooted anyway and the normal mode (not failsafe) works! Now I got the desktop in 1024x768, which is a huge improvement already. I looked for the xorg.conf after reboot and it still doesn't exist.</p>
<p><strong>Added:</strong> <a href="http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/linux-display-amd64-260.19.29-driver-uk.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Would this</a> be a useful driver? I tried downloading it but instead of a save-as dialog I got a looong page full of php or similar...</p>
<p><strong>Update 3:</strong><br>
I tried Jorge's suggestion of nvidia-glx-185 but didn't manage to get it into 1280x1024. I then tried the version 260.19.29 linked above, but that quickly became very complicated and I ended up somehow breaking my installation (and my Windows boot as well, but I realize it's my own fault). I've now gone away from a Wubi installation and I'm writing this on a brand-new 10.10 installation on a real partition.<br>
So, let's start over: Should I install the nvidia-glx-185 again, and then what?</p>
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19459 | 1 | 19464 | 2010-12-30T19:04:04.110 | 23 | 13985 | <p>I'm searching for a good filemanager in style of the classic norton commander 2 panel design? Since i had my best experiences with Total Commander in Windows, which one would you recommend for use in Ubuntu?</p>
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19478 | 1 | null | 2010-12-30T21:44:51.483 | 1 | 1433 | <p>I have a hp pavilion dm3t with intel HD graphics running ubuntu 10.10 64 bit. I'm trying to compile and install a patched kernel according to this,<br>
<a href="https://launchpad.net/~kamalmostafa/+archive/linux-kamal-mjgbacklight" rel="nofollow">https://launchpad.net/~kamalmostafa/+archive/linux-kamal-mjgbacklight</a></p>
<p>So I downloaded the tarball from here (linked to from the page above):
<a href="http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=kamal/ubuntu-maverick.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/mjg-backlight" rel="nofollow">http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=kamal/ubuntu-maverick.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/mjg-backlight</a></p>
<p>I untar'd it to a directory, entered the directory and did:</p>
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<p>I'm not sure if that's what I should have done but it was successful, so I did:</p>
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ubuntu/ndiswrapper/iw_ndis.c:1966: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
ubuntu/ndiswrapper/iw_ndis.c:1967: error: unknown field ‘num_private_args’ specified in initializer
ubuntu/ndiswrapper/iw_ndis.c:1967: warning: excess elements in struct initializer
ubuntu/ndiswrapper/iw_ndis.c:1967: warning: (near initialization for ‘ndis_handler_def’)
ubuntu/ndiswrapper/iw_ndis.c:1970: error: unknown field ‘private’ specified in initializer
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ubuntu/ndiswrapper/iw_ndis.c:1970: error: initializer element is not computable at load time
ubuntu/ndiswrapper/iw_ndis.c:1970: error: (near initialization for ‘ndis_handler_def.num_standard’)
ubuntu/ndiswrapper/iw_ndis.c:1971: error: unknown field ‘private_args’ specified in initializer
ubuntu/ndiswrapper/iw_ndis.c:1971: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[2]: *** [ubuntu/ndiswrapper/iw_ndis.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [ubuntu/ndiswrapper] Error 2
make: *** [ubuntu] Error 2
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<p>How can I compile and install this kernel successfully? I'm new to this and would appreciate any help.</p>
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19479 | 1 | 19488 | 2010-12-30T22:15:20.750 | 27 | 40429 | <p>What are some GUI applications that will let me view and edit binary files (executables, images, etc.).</p>
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19483 | 1 | 19485 | 2010-12-30T22:24:44.510 | 2 | 1680 | <p>I've never had problems installing and configuring mysql server in kubuntu but now it's just being stubborn, here's my issue:</p>
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<p>Please, is there a way to do a fresh start on this and do it right this time? I don't know if I'm missing something but the <code>/var/lib/mysql is not empty</code> but there is no .pid, now the mysql service won't start, there is no <code>mysql.sock</code> either</p>
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19497 | 1 | 19498 | 2010-12-31T01:10:55.660 | 5 | 8126 | <p>I used <code>sudo apt-get install mercurial</code> to install Hg.. where did it put the executable? I need to specify the location in Netbeans.</p>
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19502 | 1 | 19553 | 2010-12-31T03:12:44.197 | 3 | 1352 | <p>I'm using Ubuntu on a new Compaq Presario CQ56. The webcam was working fine for the first two days, in both Skype and Cheese, but simply turned black with thin vertical lines in the middle of a Skype call and now refuses to work in any program, including gstreamer-properties, Cheese, and VLC. It gives a black screen when rebooted into a live CD and tested. When tested, it either shows a plain black screen or black with <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MweBj.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">thin vertical lines</a>. Attached is an image of the video shown (it is static, there is no noise or static, and no response to variance in light).
Also, when I play music or sounds, it makes a garbled noise related to the sound being played, which may or may not be connected to the webcam issue.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CEExm.png" alt="alt text"></p>
<p>If anyone has any ideas on what caused this, or whether it's a hardware or software issue, or how to fix it, I would appreciate them very much,</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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19503 | 1 | 19507 | 2010-12-31T03:37:17.613 | 2 | 2359 | <p>Some <strong>.conf</strong> files have a lot of comments and parameters in them like so,</p>
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# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both
; wins server = w.x.y.z
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.....
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<p>It gets difficult to look for only the parameters among the plethora of comments, so is there some text editor that can highlight the comments in dark grey so that the real parameters stand out?</p>
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"body": "<p><strong>Emacs</strong> does automatic syntax highlighting for .conf files. It's possible you won't like (I don't!) its colors for .conf files, so check <a href=\"https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1076503/change-emacs-syntax-highlighting-colors\">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1076503/change-emacs-syntax-highlighting-colors</a> and you'll be able to change it to your tastes. And it can do it the same way with a GUI <strong>or</strong> in console mode.</p>\n\n<p><strong>GEdit</strong> also does it, but not automatically. Manually set the highlighter (click on \"Plain Text\" on the status bar, or through <em>View > Highlighter</em>) to <strong>awk</strong> or <strong>sh</strong>, and you'll have a similar effect.</p>\n\n<p>I'm just suggesting these two. There are many other editors that will do what you want.</p>\n",
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19504 | 1 | 19524 | 2010-12-31T03:45:25.977 | 24 | 20807 | <p>When creating a file system ( <code>mkfs ...</code>) the file system reserves 5% of the space for its own use because, according to <code>man tune2fs</code>:</p>
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is done to avoid filesystem
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daemons, such as syslogd(8), to
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<p>But with large drives 5% is quite a lot of space. </p>
<p>I have 4x1.5 TB drives for data storage (the OS runs on a separate disk), so the default setting would reserve 300 GB, which is an order of magnitude more than the the entire OS drive.</p>
<p>The reserved space can be tweaked, but what is a reasonable size for a data disk? Can I set it to zero, or could that lead to issues with fragmentation?</p>
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19509 | 1 | 19517 | 2010-12-31T05:10:59.290 | 1 | 240 | <p>when I put mongo command on terminal it gives me error like </p>
<p>mongo: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</p>
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19510 | 1 | 19516 | 2010-12-31T05:37:39.323 | 38 | 25785 | <p>When I run:</p>
<p><code>ls -n</code></p>
<p>I get something like:</p>
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-rwxrwxrwx 1 1000 1000 765528 2009-10-15 18:41 file1
drwxr-xr-x 10 1000 1000 4096 2010-12-07 20:50 dir1
drwxr-xr-x 3 1000 1000 4096 2010-10-24 16:57 dir2
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<p>What does the second column (the number) mean?</p>
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19518 | 1 | 19527 | 2010-12-31T06:28:27.903 | 7 | 5305 | <p>I'm trying to find the best Log File monitoring tool for Ubuntu 9.10 server?</p>
<p>Is there any web-based gui tool which could be operated by anyone, that monitor any log files?</p>
<p>I already tried splunk and felt it's a bit hard to operate and it's not a completely free tool</p>
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19520 | 1 | 19525 | 2010-12-31T07:05:39.320 | 4 | 3868 | <p>I have a pendrive with FAT32 filesystem. it is infected with virus dont know which but has autorun.inf and create exe file within folder. I tried to format it with various filesystems and even try to delete it with GParted but couldn't because it says it is write protected i can't even delete files. How to format it?</p>
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Disk identifier: 0xbd04bd04
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Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
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Partition table entries are not in disk order
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Disk identifier: 0xc13bc13b
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Disk /dev/sdb: 4194 MB, 4194304000 bytes
112 heads, 47 sectors/track, 1556 cylinders
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Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
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<p>user@explorerx:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb</p>
<pre><code>WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to
switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to
sectors (command 'u').
Command (m for help): d
Selected partition 1
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at
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19538 | 1 | 19554 | 2010-12-31T14:04:01.510 | 7 | 5358 | <p>My recent installation 10.10 on my laptop keeps freezing/crashing on start-up after working perfectly for one day.</p>
<p>The system just freezes, like a screnshot, and a restart is required. It happens directly after login or just as any application is selected. </p>
<p>Nothing new has been installed. I have just moved from XP so I would be very grateful if some one could please explain to me, as simply as possible, how to do the following...</p>
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<li>How to diagnose the problem so it can be fixed, remember it may have to be before the log in.</li>
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<p>all help is greatly appreciated.</p>
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"text": "I have checked the logs, i cannot find a thing. Whats strange is that when I log in through the text console the crash seems to give me extended time. Instead of crashing after start up it crashes about 1 or 2 hours in. Is there really no easy way to diagnose a problem on ubuntu. I'm really, really disappointed.",
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"text": "@P102 - It actually depends on the problem. For example if you have a hardware failure that is not related to ubuntu or any other OS because it is a hardware failure (Like you CPU burned or something). You could verify if it crashes 2 or 3 more times at the same time (every 1 or 2 hours). If the time is less everytime you might have a cooling problem. If they time is the same you might have a service that is making the problem (using cron every hour or 2 hours). This are just some examples.",
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"text": "I must admit I'm kinda stuck, I really do not want to crawl back to using XP, but at least I wont receive random crashes. The thing is when my laptop works ubuntu is wonderful, fast, looks beautiful and ultra responsive. The more I use it the more repulsive going back to XP seems to be. I have had cooling issues on this laptop before, and the logs say something about overheating plus the laptop is pretty old. right now its working perfectly and I'm confident that I will find a solution based on what you have said so thanks.",
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19540 | 1 | null | 2010-12-31T14:08:03.770 | 7 | 25385 | <p>I am looking to install <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki" rel="nofollow">MediaWiki</a> on a production server (after doing a test on a development one). I could not really understand why the default location for the MediaWiki files is <code>/var/lib/mediawiki</code>. I would have thought <code>/var/www</code> would've made more sense.</p>
<p>I did some research and in <em><a href="http://people.canonical.com/~cjwatson/ubuntu-policy/policy.html/ch-customized-programs.html#s-web-appl" rel="nofollow">Ubuntu Policy Manual, Chapter 11 - Customized programs, 11.5 Web servers and applications</a></em> it says the following.</p>
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19546 | 1 | 19547 | 2010-12-31T15:23:32.473 | 7 | 2828 | <p>I set up Gnome to use 2 monitors in extended mode - and it works great as expected. Now I'm wondering wether it is possible to use this setup in the console mode. </p>
<p>Currently I see the same command line window on both monitors (Clone view)</p>
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19549 | 1 | 19551 | 2010-12-31T15:54:31.053 | 1 | 454 | <p>My recent installation 10.10 on my laptop keeps freezing/crashing on start-up after working perfectly for one day.</p>
<p>The system just freezes, like a screenshot, and a restart is required. It happens directly after login or just as any application is selected. </p>
<p>Nothing new has been installed. I have just moved from XP.</p>
<p>Will a system restore fix this like in windows? like i said, nothing new has been installed. </p>
<p>help is greatly appreciated</p>
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19555 | 1 | 19651 | 2010-12-31T17:09:34.673 | 4 | 3147 | <p>I am able to play such a disc using VLC, but I am wondering if any music player supports the DVD-A format.</p>
<p><strong>Links:</strong></p>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Audio" rel="nofollow">DVD-Audio</a> - Wikipedia</li>
<li><a href="http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/22415" rel="nofollow">Idea #22415: Please add full support for DVD-Audio and LPCM</a> - Ubuntu Brainstorm</li>
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<p><strong>Example DVD-A releases:</strong></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.burningshed.com/store/porcupinetree/product/169/639/" rel="nofollow">Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.burningshed.com/store/stevenwilson/product/65/1391/" rel="nofollow">Steven Wilson - Insurgentes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.burningshed.com/store/kingcrimson/multiproduct/313/1658/" rel="nofollow">King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (40th anniversary edition)</a></li>
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<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong></p>
<p>I checked Rhythmbox and Banshee - I found no option like <em>Play Disc</em> or <em>Open Disc</em>, so I have no idea how I could even try to start playing a DVD-A disc.<br>
This has also nothing to do with missing plug-ins or codecs - the packages <code>gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly</code>, <code>gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad</code> and <code>ubuntu-restricted-extras</code> were installed on my machine before.</p>
<p>I guess I am stuck with VLC (Totem shows a DVD menu, but then hangs). However, <strong>I am missing the regular music player experience</strong> - ability to change order of tracks, adding tracks to a playlist, listening only to selected tracks, etc.</p>
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19556 | 1 | 19904 | 2010-12-31T17:29:21.133 | 15 | 28061 | <p>The Windows key seems to not have any use in Ubuntu, but since I'm just coming from Windows I'm used to this key having some function.<br>
<strong>How can I make good use of the Windows key in Ubuntu?</strong></p>
<p>I've seen that I can remap keys in System>Preferences>Keyboard>Layout>Options><kbd>Alt</kbd>/<kbd>Super</kbd> key behavior, but I have no idea what the choices <em>meta, super, hyper</em> mean. The <em>help</em> button in this dialog doesn't give any specifics about them.</p>
<p>I've experimented a little and found that <em>meta</em> seems to have some use, like <kbd>Super</kbd>+<kbd>M</kbd> = Me menu, or <kbd>Super</kbd>+<kbd>S</kbd> is the shutdown menu, but for some keys (B, I) it's more like <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> (bold, italic). Haven't found any further.</p>
<p>What would a useful setting be for a Linux newbie? </p>
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19558 | 1 | 19565 | 2010-12-31T17:46:17.327 | 245 | 289395 | <p>In System → <em>Preferences</em> → <em>Keyboard</em> → <em>Layout</em> → <em>Options</em> → <em>Alt/Win key behavior</em> in older Ubuntu versions or in GNOME Tweaks → <em>Keyboard & Mouse</em> → <em>Additional Layout Options</em> → <em>Alt and Win behavior</em> for Ubuntu 17.10 and later, there is a menu similar to the one in the following screenshot:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ovfp3.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ovfp3.png" alt="Keyboard Layout Options Dialog Box" /></a></p>
<p>What do <em>Meta</em>, <em>Super</em>, <em>Hyper</em> mean?</p>
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In addition:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sun keyboards have a meta key (<kbd>◆</kbd>) as well</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Emacs</a> calls <kbd>Esc</kbd> the Meta key</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><p><strong>Super</strong></p>\n<p>The Super key is equivalent to <kbd><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/CIWKh.png\" alt=\"the Windows logo key\" /></kbd> or the <kbd>⌘</kbd> (command) key. In Ubuntu, it's just another name for <kbd><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/CIWKh.png\" alt=\"the Windows logo key\" /></kbd>.</p>\n</li>\n<li><p><strong>Hyper</strong></p>\n<p>Hyper is the fourth (counting <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>) and last modifier on the Space cadet keyboard. In Ubuntu, its function is undefined (I <em>think</em>), but it can be mapped, as in the screen shot above, to <kbd><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/CIWKh.png\" alt=\"the windows logo key\" /></kbd>, should it be needed.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Compose_key_on_Sun_Type_5c_keyboard.jpg\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Compose_key_on_Sun_Type_5c_keyboard.jpg/400px-Compose_key_on_Sun_Type_5c_keyboard.jpg\" alt=\"Sun Microsystems Keyboard\" /></a><br><em>Sun's keyboard had different modifiers.</em></p>\n<p>Note that GNOME and X.org implement many modifiers. Meta, Super and Hyper are not Linux's way of dealing with any modifier keys, but merely three of them specific to the Space Cadet keyboard. 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Each key on the keyboard has, potentially, four characters on it. The first level is the lowercase, then it goes uppercase, <kbd>Alt</kbd> + something, and <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>Shift</kbd> + something. For example, the four glyphs on my <kbd>A</kbd> key are a, A, æ and Æ.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>It's all a mess :-)</p>\n<hr />\n<p>As they've been addressed in the comments:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><p>The <kbd>Fn</kbd> is not <em>really</em> comparable. It's a hardware key that's not directly interfaceable by the operating systems. Pressing <kbd>Fn</kbd> and another key causes an entirely different code to be sent to the operating system. Examples for this include XF86AudioMute, XF86Eject and so on. The Operating system can't detect whether <em>fn</em> is pressed or not.</p>\n</li>\n<li><p>The <kbd>SysRq</kbd> key is traditionally a label on the <kbd>Print Screen</kbd> key indicating its function if used with the modifier <kbd>Alt</kbd>. 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"text": "\"Wikipedia claims the Windows key is sometimes called Meta, I didn't find any other reference for this.\" From Ubuntu11.04's help, it says:\n\"What is the \"meta\" key?\nThe the meta key is key between the Ctrl and Alt keys on your keyboard. It may sometimes be called the windows key, logo key, system key, or even the Ubuntu key. If you have an Apple keyboard, there will not be a meta key on your keyboard. The Command (Cmd) key can be used instead.\nThe meta key serves a special function in Unity. If you press the meta key, the Dash is displayed. If you press and hold the meta key, the Launcher will",
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"text": "I have Ubuntu with both Unity and KDE, while Unity calls it Super (hold it down in 12.04 to see a quick command reference), KDE calls it Meta... >.<",
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"text": "@badp I don't have it on my kbd, just seems like an interesting key to talk about :) I'd like to have one of that super-old keyboard at home...",
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"text": "It looks like nobody quite remembers what these keys were for. (: http://home.comcast.net/~mmcm/kbd/SpaceCadet.html",
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"text": "I use KDE Plasma and the Super key is called \"Meta key\" here. Plasma's official documentation uses \"Meta\" as well: [Common Keyboard Shortcuts](https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/applications/fundamentals/kbd.html); [Shortcuts](https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/plasma-desktop/shortcuts.html).",
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"text": "As put in the comments above, under KDE (Fedora in my case), the \"meta\" Key is the Windows key. And it is assigned to certain shortcuts by default (meta + tab for switching activities, for example). Someone with enough rep could edit the answer to include this information, since it is mostly complete, but lacking this essential bit.",
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"text": "I can detect Fn on my ThinkPad X390. I don't recall which keycode it sends, but some machines do actually send a code when pressing it. I have thought about binding shortcuts to it but haven't gotten that far yet.",
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"text": "Wayback machine link about the space cadet keyboard from @StefanoPalazzo: https://web.archive.org/web/20151029162733/http://home.comcast.net/~mmcm/kbd/SpaceCadet.html",
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19559 | 1 | null | 2010-12-31T17:46:40.833 | 2 | 1974 | <p>My printer was working under 9.x. It is a an HP Photosmart C3100 series. When I open Admin->Printing no local printers are found. </p>
<p>I try to add via <em>Other</em> (My local choices are Serial and other). I have tried many url's - <code>ipp://localhost:631/ipp</code>, <code>http://localhost/ipp</code>, <code>localhost</code>, <code>127.0.0.1</code>, etc... None have worked. Under the networked I have tried JetDirect, using localhost and 127.0.0.1 and port 631. </p>
<p>I have tried many options under IPP with different variants in the host trying to verify a printer. No luck .I tried LPD/LPR with localhost and tried the probe. no luck.
I tried the cups admin via localhost:631 and that didn't work. On the old version its simply found the local printer, I might have picked the driver, I can't remember but it was the photosmart c3100 series that was working.I just can't get 10.04 to print.</p>
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19560 | 1 | 19568 | 2010-12-31T17:51:05.040 | 0 | 2121 | <p>I managed to install 10.04 on a system that already has 8.04 (separate partitions, of course). It also installed GRUB2 onto the MBR.</p>
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<p>GRUB2 displays the menu with those entries but when I select any of them, it refuses to load them, saying "No such partition".</p>
<p>I know the partitions are there, as 10.04's "Disk Utility" sees them without any problem.</p>
<p>How do I get GRUB2 to recognize them?</p>
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19561 | 1 | null | 2010-12-31T17:56:48.153 | 7 | 664 | <p>I'm watching The Bold and the beautiful on the site:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tvp.pl/seriale/obyczajowe/moda-na-sukces/wideo" rel="nofollow">http://www.tvp.pl/seriale/obyczajowe/moda-na-sukces/wideo</a></p>
<p>Yesterday I wanted to view next episode, however it didn't work. I checked various episodes from other points in time and none works. The "dots" that appear when a Silverlight video is loading are present, but after them there is only black screen (of death).
I'm using Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 32 bit with GNOME2 and firefox 3.6. I have all updates done.
Could somebody check if any video is working for them and tell me their setup, please?</p>
<p>I'm using Moonlight 3. Two days ago everything was fine but later this problem appeared.</p>
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19562 | 1 | null | 2010-12-31T18:22:50.510 | 7 | 2814 | <p>I use Ubuntu as a file server, is there a virus scanner on Ubuntu for scanning Windows files? Since most of the files are saved on the server, this would greatly help minimize the spread of viruses.</p>
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19569 | 1 | 19595 | 2010-12-31T18:45:55.013 | 36 | 62505 | <p>I have a mouse with lots of buttons, but it's not a mainstream make like Logitech. For Windows, I have a driver that lets me assign actions like close-window (Ctrl+W) or next-tab (Ctrl+Tab), but I don't have a Linux driver. Since Linux is so flexible, I thought perhaps there is a general way to do this, regardless of brand?</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Based on input from Cyrex, I installed and ran <code>sudo apt-get install btnx</code> which found several but not all mouse buttons.<br>
Found: left, right, wheel, wheelclick, thumb fwd, thumb back.<br>
<strong>Not found:</strong> wheel left, wheel right, thumb middle button.<br>
Vendor ID is 0x04d9, Model ID is 0xa015.</p>
<p><strong>Update 2:</strong> In System>Prefs>Mouse there's a lightbulb icon for testing double-click speed. Every working button can turn the bulb on&off, but the missing buttons can't. <strong>It would seem that Ubuntu isn't aware of these buttons and thus doesn't register their clicks.</strong> I guess I need to hunt for a driver, though a mainstream mouse is probably the easier way. </p>
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"text": "Am guessing between. Maybe the mouse module is not detecting the mouse correctly so btnx does not either. Can you actually click all the buttons and see if a programa recognizes them, like the click test in the mouse settings.",
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19578 | 1 | 19588 | 2010-12-31T19:32:43.107 | 3 | 6710 | <p>I've recently built a new system, after a rather large physical injury was sustained by my previous system (a precarious balance, and gravity, were not a happy mix). Surprisingly the <code>/home</code> drive of that system appears to have more-or-less survived the trauma. However...</p>
<p>I decided to use a fresh drive for <code>/</code> (and <code>swap</code>) partition(s), and another fresh drive for the new <code>/home</code>. Now that's working, I decided to install the old <code>/home</code> drive (that I had assumed until now would be entirely dead and without capacity for use) into the new system to recover the files and data (so far as is possible).</p>
<p>At this point I've run into a snag: I have no idea how to go about this (with Windows it was relatively easy, the new drive would be the latest character of the alphabet, and go from there).</p>
<p>With 'disk utility' (System -> Administration -> Disk Utitlity) I've worked out which drive it is (<code>/dev/sda</code>) but clicking on 'mount' produces an error:</p>
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<p>1: helper failed with:</p>
<p>mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdb1 is already mounted on /</p>
<p>mount failed</p>
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<p>...if it <em>is</em> mounted on <code>/</code> I can't see it. I'm also moderately confused by the disk (device <code>/dev/sda</code>) being referred to as <code>/dev/sdb1</code>.</p>
<p>Any and all insights would be incredibly welcome (I've already voted for: <a href="http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9063/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Idea #9063: New internal hard drives default automount</a> at <a href="http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Brainstorm</a>).</p>
<p><hr />
<strong>Edited</strong> in response to Roland's request for a screenshot of disk utility:
<a href="http://davidrhysthomas.co.uk/linked/diskUtil.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/uuSIy.png" /></a></p>
<p>Details (so far as I know them):</p>
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<li>40GB disk is <code>/</code> and <code>swap</code>,</li>
<li>1.0 TB Samsung is <code>/home</code></li>
<li>1.0 TB Hitachi is from the old system (and <em>was</em> the old <code>/home</code> drive).</li>
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<p>Output from <code>sudo fdisk -l</code> pasted below:</p>
<pre><code>Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000bef00
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 121601 976760001 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40018599936 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00037652
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 4742 38084608 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 4742 4866 993281 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 4742 4866 993280 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e8d46
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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<p><strong>Edited</strong> in response to @Danny Staple's answer:</p>
<p>I ran the following:</p>
<pre><code>udo mkdir /mnt/oldhome
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/oldhome
</code></pre>
<p>The first part works as expected, and creates the directory, the second part runs for some time and errors out with the following:</p>
<pre><code>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
</code></pre>
<p>I must confess that I'm beginning to believe that the SMART report, that suggests the disk is healthy with a 'few' bad sectors, may be a little inaccurate.</p>
<hr />
<p><strong>Edited</strong>, as requested by @Danny Staple (below), with the output from <code>dmesg | tail</code>:</p>
<pre><code>david@morpheus:~$ dmesg | tail
[ 192.008425] 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 192.008444] 3a 34 18 97
[ 192.008452] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
[ 192.008464] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 3a 34 18 97 00 01 00 00
[ 192.008482] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 976492695
[ 192.008511] JBD: Failed to read block at offset 264
[ 192.008529] JBD: recovery failed
[ 192.008536] EXT3-fs (sda1):
[ 192.008541] ata1: EH complete
[ 192.008547] error loading journal
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<strong>Final edit:</strong></p>
<p>It's my sad duty to share the news of the untimely death of one 1.0 TB Hitachi hard drive, due, I'm assuming from the heart-stopping clicks in its last moments of life, mechanical damage sustained in a fall. It, and its many contents, will be sorely missed.</p>
<p>Unfortunately the data was not recoverable by any of the suggestions raised in this question, which leaves me in a slightly awkward position: I don't want to have a non-answered question, so I'll side with the community votes and accept @Danny Staple's answer, since it seemed the most promising suggestion (and, again, was the most community-rewarded answer), but I will note for late-comers in future that this question was not (really) resolved, so the solution offered by @Danny may, or may not, work for others.</p>
<p>Thank you all for your help, and suggestions.</p>
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19587 | 1 | null | 2010-12-31T20:45:16.653 | 1 | 822 | <p>I would like to know if it's better to enable the BIOS cpuid speed limit on a netbook or leave it disabled ? Is it setting the optimal cpu speed ?</p>
<p>Thanks for your help</p>
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19589 | 1 | 19614 | 2010-12-31T21:13:43.213 | 10 | 48058 | <p>Here is a simple scenario I have:</p>
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<li>Windows 7 is sharing a folder (D:\Projects).</li>
<li>Full Control permissions have been given to the folder.</li>
<li>In Ubuntu 10.10, I can see the Windows shares from Places -> Network menu.</li>
<li>I can create a folder in the shared Projects folder from Nautilus</li>
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<p>How do I <code>ls</code> those same folders (displayed in Nautilus) from the terminal?
(<code>mount</code> and <code>ls /mnt</code> do not list those Windows shares)</p>
<p>Ps. Details on what I am doing:</p>
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<li>Using Ubuntu as a "headless" VM using VirtualBox.</li>
<li>Accessing Ubuntu via PuTTY</li>
<li>Ability to give complete access to the Ubuntu VM for the Windows shared folder</li>
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19590 | 1 | 19834 | 2010-12-31T21:18:24.753 | 2 | 9346 | <p>I would like to advertise my NFS shares via Avahi so that I can just browse from multiple machines without having to set it all up, especially when guests come over and I want something automagic.</p>
<p>I am aware most clients will need extra packages (Like <code>nfs-common</code>) installed for it to work. The ideal solution will include instructions for clients as well (if any). </p>
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19593 | 1 | null | 2010-12-31T22:15:44.007 | 17 | 4290 | <p>When I want to adjust the volume of anything I'm doing, I find that using the volume controls built into Ubuntu is little but confusion. When the volume is around 100%, dropping it several increments has almost no effect on apparent volume, but when it's around 0%, the effect of one click of my mouse wheel is probably a good 3 decibels. I have observed this behavior on tens of different UC's, since I convert about one Ubuntu user a month (NE team contact).</p>
<p>This has proven so frustrating to me that I tend to use the volume knob on my guitar amp ( mono audio :| ) instead of the volume indicator. What can I do to make my volume indicator behave properly until this is fixed? I want each volume increment to be one half or one third decibel.</p>
<p>Is there a different piece of software I should use for system volume configuration perhaps?</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/16874/boot-screen-in-low-graphics-text-mode">Boot screen in low graphics/text mode</a> </p>
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<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I have installed the latest ATI Drivers from AMD's website and everything's working fine. It's just that with these drivers I get a very simple looking boot screen. It's just a purple screen with "Ubuntu 10.10" written in the center and 3 dots below it.</p>
<p>Is there anyway I can get the default boot screen that everyone see's in Ubuntu 10.10</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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19598 | 1 | null | 2011-01-01T03:31:58.827 | 3 | 839 | <p>There are many different Print dialogs but one is very common and is used by Gimp, Shutter, Evloution and Simple Scan. In all these apps the "Page Size" and "Orientation" are disabled.
The same dialog in Firefox, Thunderbird and GEdit works OK.
I program in Gambas3 which uses this dialog in conjunction with the GTK+ library and it also has these options disabled. If I use the QT4 library then a different print dialog is displayed with no problems.
Anybody else notice this problem and found a solution?</p>
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19600 | 1 | 19601 | 2011-01-01T05:04:13.020 | 10 | 7366 | <p>Got a MacBook Air 3,1 11" w/ 128GB SSD. Configuring for dual boot. I intend to have a shared drive where I'll store my media. What filesystem is best? </p>
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19603 | 1 | null | 2011-01-01T07:17:19.217 | 2 | 1004 | <p>I have installed Kubuntu 10.10. when i click leave-> logout the system turns into a black screen just like a dos screen rather than a graphical screen. Once there keyboard does not work. I have logged out but i have no idea how to login. I have to press the power button to turn the PC off and start again.</p>
<p>Why on earth is this happening ?</p>
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19605 | 1 | 19606 | 2011-01-01T07:44:47.930 | 25 | 40826 | <p>I know GRUB, GRUB2 and BURG are boot loaders. </p>
<p>What is the differences between the three?</p>
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19607 | 1 | 37128 | 2011-01-01T08:46:53.523 | 13 | 35125 | <p>I have a Dell Mini 1012 which has an Intel N450 processor and GMA 3150 integrated graphics card running Ubuntu 10.10. According to Intel's website the graphics card supports OpenGL 2.0. </p>
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<p>I have installed the latest drivers but it didn't work. So, how can I enable OpenGL 2.0 on this card?</p>
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19610 | 1 | null | 2011-01-01T10:15:50.270 | 0 | 723 | <p>The microphone is not working on UBUNTU, I checked ALSA mixer and i don't seem to have any channel muted.</p>
<p>I believe its a driver issue, since i already faced a lot of problems regarding driver support for this audio card.</p>
<p>Its ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit, and the kernal is Linux 2.6.32-27-generic</p>
<p>thanks for help.</p>
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19611 | 1 | 19612 | 2011-01-01T10:36:11.793 | 4 | 4169 | <p>I have Ubuntu and Windows Vista installed on the same disk, different partitions.</p>
<p>I can access the Windows data, but each (first) time I access the NTFS partition, the system asks me for root password.</p>
<p>Can I somehow allow my user to mount/access those partitions automatically?</p>
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19613 | 1 | 19624 | 2011-01-01T11:10:07.180 | 12 | 6843 | <p>I'd like to set a single directory inside Dropbox in which files are encrypted on a file-by-file basis.</p>
<p>At the moment, I use a 2Mb Truecrypt container inside my Dropbox which I then have to mount manually, access/change the files within, then unmount manually. At that point, the entire 2Mb uploads to Dropbox. This is a pain for a number of reasons :</p>
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<li>A single byte change to one file inside that container results in the whole 2Mb being uploaded again.</li>
<li>It doesn't scale - I was originally using a 10Mb container, but obviously the bigger the container, the longer it takes to sync when it's unmounted.</li>
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<p>I was wondering if I can somehow use LUKS to implement file-by-file encryption to get round the "container" issues.</p>
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"text": "The first solution doesn't really let me share that data across two PCs easily though does it? I'll take a look at CryptKeeper. Thanks!",
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"text": "It does if they're both running Ubuntu! I probably have a slightly odd setup, though, in that I copied my whole /home from one laptop to the other so I had an exact duplicate, with Dropbox syncing my (encrypted) documents and things like .ssh back and forth.",
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"text": "CryptKeeper is perfect. I'm going to post additional instructions on how to use it - please copy my answer to yours, then I'll accept your answer. Thanks Jonathon.",
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19615 | 1 | null | 2011-01-01T11:20:36.323 | 3 | 204 | <p>I have a Genius G-Shot P7545 camera. In Windows I had just to plug in the camera to the usb and acces it like a usb stick. I tried to do that in Ubuntu 10.10 with no result. How can I acces the photots?<br>
With these comands I get:</p>
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<p>lsusb </p>
<p>Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub<br>
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub<br>
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub<br>
Bus 002 Device 015: ID 0784:1692 Vivitar, Inc.<br>
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub<br>
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub </p>
<p>sudo fdisk -l </p>
<p>Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes<br>
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders<br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
Disk identifier: 0xcf5acf5a </p>
<p>Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>
/dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20478976 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sda3 2550 19458 135810048 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)<br>
/dev/sda5 2550 19458 135809024 83 Linux </p>
<p>Unable to read /dev/sdb </p>
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19618 | 1 | null | 2011-01-01T12:35:30.273 | 0 | 542 | <p>I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 in lenovo 4152...After the installtion the touch pad doesnot work...I am not able to find any drivers for this. Can anyone please suggest how to get the driver working..thanks</p>
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19620 | 1 | null | 2011-01-01T13:22:33.693 | 3 | 339 | <p>I have uploaded some files to my Ubuntu One account and it seems to work great most of the time. I usually upload them directly from Nautilus by right clicking the folder, using the ”Synchronize this folder” option, and then I make sure that the file I want to upload is published.</p>
<p>Then I usually test the whole thing by trying to download it. I right click the file again to get its URL and I paste it into my Web browser. This usually works fine.</p>
<p>But yesterday I uploaded two compressed files – ”.tar.bz2”. When I tried to open them after downloading them with my Web browser (Opera), it failed. I found that the file was bigger than the original file (2358 B instead af 2335 B – 15 B added at the beginning of the file and 8 B added to the end), and someone at the Opera channel (IRC) at OperaNet (Europe) figured out that the reason for this is that the server compress the file again, ”without telling Opera”.</p>
<p>So to be able to extract the file I need to add ”.gz” to the file name and then extract it twice.</p>
<p>If I downloaded it with Firefox however, I didn't need to do that, so maybe Firefox figured this out somehow in a way that Opera does not.</p>
<p>Someone also tried to download the file with wget and some other browser and he also got the same result as I did with Opera, that is the file is compressed a second time by the server.</p>
<p>I guess ”the server” is the Ubuntu One server, right?</p>
<p>So why is this? Could it be done better somehow? Or did I do something wrong when uploading the files?</p>
<p>It also seems like this extra compressing thing does not always happen, because when I tried again a few minutes ago, the file came down with its right size (2335 B), without an extra compression. But the other file (114 MiB) was still compressed twice.</p>
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19621 | 1 | null | 2011-01-01T13:22:34.463 | 1 | 482 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4246/what-are-some-good-php-editors">What are some good PHP editors?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>i have seen through other questions on the topic but most are a bit old. I looking for a good editor for developing on PHP in Linux(ubuntu). Here is my requirements</p>
<ol>
<li>Basic editor features</li>
<li>Free</li>
<li>Light-Weight</li>
<li>Syntax highlighting</li>
<li>Code Folding (class,function,if/else/while/foreach block)</li>
<li>Code completion</li>
<li>Invalid Syntax/Error highlighting as you type</li>
<li>Auto code intending</li>
<li>Snippet support(pieces of custom or language specific codes that i can insert)</li>
<li>Extendable support</li>
</ol>
<p>It would be great if it had the following</p>
<ol>
<li>Debugging support</li>
<li>WYSIWYG</li>
<li>Code formatting</li>
<li>Framework support(cakephp/yii/zend/smarty)</li>
<li>Testing support</li>
<li>Todo</li>
<li>Native look and feel(Gnome)</li>
<li>Flex/ROR support is welcome but not a requirement</li>
<li>Mysql support</li>
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<p>I have tried the following editors</p>
<ol>
<li>Netbeans - it bloated, resource hogging and doesnt not have a native look and feel.</li>
<li>Eclipse is okay but i cant fold if/while blocks and slow.</li>
<li>Gedit can be extended and i have tried it but still i could not fold code or show error.</li>
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<p>I currently use Geany but it doesn't inform me of syntax errors as i type. If you have ways to solve the problems with above editors they too are also welcome</p>
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19623 | 1 | 19637 | 2011-01-01T14:01:21.360 | 2 | 1798 | <p>I do a lot of file manipulation on my system and in one particular batch job I end up with around 16 Gb file. I need to prepare this data into smaller chunks for another process.</p>
<p>I split it into 10k lines per file and numeric index, padded to 5 digits</p>
<pre><code>split -a 5 -d -l 10000 large_input_file /out_path/out.
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<p>This way I end up with files named<br>
out.00000<br>
out.00001<br>
...</p>
<p>The problem is that this way indexing always starts with 0.<br>
Is there a way to set it to arbitrary starting index? man reveals nothing ...</p>
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19626 | 1 | null | 2011-01-01T14:57:10.157 | 6 | 269 | <p>Is there any way to set an application, in this case Gwibber, in the background of the desktop?</p>
<p>This means basically having it in the background showing tweets and if I don't click it, like, I don't know, twice, then I'm not "interacting" with it and it is not enabled.</p>
<p>If the question is not clear comment it and I will correct what's unclear.</p>
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19627 | 1 | 27201 | 2011-01-01T15:03:14.557 | 3 | 986 | <p>I've found this <a href="http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/socialinguatribe/Integrating_APC_Into_PHP5_And_Lighttpd" rel="nofollow">tutorial</a> to install APC on servers with lighttpd + php 5.2 on Ubuntu 10.</p>
<p>However, when I run <code>sudo pecl install apc</code> the package is just downloaded and is not installed. (i.e. I'm not asked the next question" and apc.ini file is not created at all.</p>
<p>If I run only <code>pecl install apc</code> I get a warning (no permissions to write some files). </p>
<p>(I need instructions for both 9.04 and 10.04)</p>
<p>thanks</p>
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19629 | 1 | 19638 | 2011-01-01T15:05:47.420 | 5 | 692 | <p>Hello everybody and Prosperous and Productive Year 2011 !!!</p>
<p>I have Ubuntu 10.10 (32bit) installed on my laptop. I would like to install PCLinuxOS (KDE or LXDE version, I don't know yet) on the same computer across with Ubuntu 10.10. I would like to test 'in real conditions' a new PCLinuxOS as well as to resolve my question regarding Audio CD playback issue (mounting DBus timeout error).
I would be grateful if somebody can advise me how to perform the installation of another Linux flavour without breakdown :) of existing Ubuntu system ? </p>
<p>Thank you in advance for advices and recommendations.</p>
<p>Here is my current partitioning:<br>
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CU2Bz.png" alt="500Gb HDD"> </p>
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19633 | 1 | 19634 | 2011-01-01T16:25:34.790 | 2 | 4073 | <p>I have setup <code>wake on lan</code> service on my server. Everything works fine on local area network:</p>
<pre><code>root@server$: poweroff
user@local$ wakeonlan AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF
</code></pre>
<p>and the server wakes up.</p>
<p><code>AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF</code> is a MAC address of my <code>server</code>, which has IP <code>192.168.1.2</code> and hostname: <code>example.com</code>. It is connected to the router, which has IP 192.168.1.1 (public: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)</p>
<p>When the server is up, I can ping:</p>
<pre><code>ping example.com
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<p>or login via ssh:</p>
<pre><code>ssh user@example.com
</code></pre>
<p>So far, so good. Now I'm able to wake the server up from local area, but how to wake the server from the remote location?</p>
<p>I tried: <code>user@local$ wakeonlan -i xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF</code>, but it does not work (nothing happens;).</p>
<p>Do I have to configure my router somehow to forward magic packets? How?</p>
<h2>The solution</h2>
<p>After <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/19633/wakeonlan-from-remote-host/19634#19634">Ragnar's answer</a> the solution looked very easy.</p>
<p>But actually, it was a bit tricky.</p>
<p>My router is <code>Linksys WAG200g</code>, which does not support Wake on LAN by default. Furthermore, it does not allow to forward to triplets above <code>254</code> (my broadcast address was <code>192.168.1.255</code>).</p>
<p>The solution was to forward UDP port <code>7</code> to the address of the server, which was <code>192.169.1.2</code>, then call:</p>
<pre><code>wakeonlan -i example.com -p 7 AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF
</code></pre>
<p>Also I installed new firmware:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/?q=wag200g" rel="nofollow noreferrer">OpenWag200</a></li>
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<p>which is a great router options upgrade (e.g. adds Wake on LAN option).</p>
<p>I also changed my netmask from <code>255.255.255.0</code> to <code>255.255.255.128</code>, so my broadcast is now <code>192.168.1.127</code> and passes the router validation rules.</p>
<p>Here is the script I use to connect to the machine, and wake it up if needed:</p>
<pre><code>#!/bin/bash
## This sends magic packets to Wake on Lan
## please note, you must formard port 7 to the target machine on your router
## host to wake up
host="example.com"
## mac address of the machive to wake up
mac="AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF"
## user to login
user="administrator"
echo "Looking for $host..."
wget -q --tries=2 --wait=1 --waitretry=5 http://$host/
if [ $? -ne 0 ];
then
echo "$host is not available."
echo "Waking up $host."
wakeonlan -p 7 -i $host $mac
echo "$host is booting up. Please wait..."
sleep 30
wget -q --waitretry=5 --wait=5 http://$host/
echo ^G
echo $host is up! Lucky you!
fi
ssh "$user@$host"
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<p>Don't forget to install: <a href="http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/wakeonlan" rel="nofollow noreferrer">wakeonlan</a></p>
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19635 | 1 | 19780 | 2011-01-01T16:39:30.547 | 7 | 3357 | <p>After a recent update, I get multiple entries for same linux kernel version in the boot menu. I have tried running <code>update-grub2</code> but it also lists the same linux-image version twice i.e</p>
<pre><code>adnan@adnan-laptop:/boot$ sudo update-grub2
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-26-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-26-generic
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-26-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-26-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
done
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<p>As you can see vmlinuz and initrd are found multiple times. But there is only one vmlinuz and initrd file in /boot</p>
<pre><code>adnan@adnan-laptop:/boot$ ls -l
total 15120
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 646144 2010-11-24 15:58 abi-2.6.32-26-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110601 2010-11-24 15:58 config-2.6.32-26-generic
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-01-01 18:59 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8335528 2010-12-20 23:36 initrd.img-2.6.32-26-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 160280 2010-03-23 14:40 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2156100 2010-11-24 15:58 System.map-2.6.32-26-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1336 2010-11-24 16:00 vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-26-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4050080 2010-11-24 15:58 vmlinuz-2.6.32-26-generic
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<p>Can some one tell me why does update-grub2 finds vmlinuz and initrd twice? and how to stop this from happening.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Find grub.cfg <a href="http://pastebin.com/Dkk5vN7q" rel="noreferrer">here</a></p>
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19639 | 1 | 19642 | 2011-01-01T17:34:25.827 | 11 | 406 | <p>I went to the desktop menu and opened <code>System</code>-><code>About Ubuntu</code> to read more. It says <em>You are using Ubuntu 11.04</em> when I am using 10.10. Why is that so?</p>
<p>Update: This has been fixed!</p>
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19640 | 1 | null | 2011-01-01T17:40:49.270 | 6 | 2032 | <p>I created a iso image using aptoncd & burned it to a dvd. Now when i tried to restore, the program does not detect the dvd in the drive. It shows "Please insert a disc in the drive." and if we click "ok" it shows <code>E: Failed to mount the cdrom</code>. The dvd is in the drive itself.</p>
<p>I tried <code>sudo lshw -C disk</code> and the output is:</p>
<pre><code>*-cdrom
description: DVD-RAM writer
product: DVDRAM GH22NS50
vendor: HL-DT-ST
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/cdrw
logical name: /dev/dvd
logical name: /dev/dvdrw
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0
logical name: /media/APTonCD
logical name: /media/apt
version: TN02
capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
configuration: ansiversion=5 mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,mode=0400,dmode=0500 state=mounted status=ready
*-medium
physical id: 0
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /media/APTonCD
logical name: /media/apt
configuration: mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,mode=0400,dmode=0500 state=mounted
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<p>Then i checked in disk utility application. in that dvd rom is shown as <code>/dvd/sr0</code></p>
<p>My ubuntu version is 10.10. </p>
<p>Please help me to solve the problem.</p>
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19643 | 1 | null | 2011-01-01T18:03:22.330 | 2 | 400 | <p>In Ubuntu, my Ubuntu One account shows up in the file manager as a place like any other accessible directory. How do I get it to show up in Windows 7 the same way using the Ubuntu One beta? Do I need to map it in Windows Explorer as a network drive, or... ?</p>
<p>A pointer to the right How-To or manual would be fine. I don't mind rreading the manual if I can find it.</p>
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19649 | 1 | 19650 | 2011-01-01T18:42:57.053 | 5 | 177 | <p>When unity for Natty is finished, will there be a feature to drag and drop unwanted files into the trash that is docked on the launcher?</p>
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19655 | 1 | null | 2011-01-01T19:34:14.390 | 2 | 290 | <p>I installed the Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop. 1st time Ubuntu user ever. After successful installation only panel on top with small ubuntu logo on left and system/connections, time, keyboard, volume icons/ on right. No menu and not able to create menu. </p>
<p>Right click on the panel - no options. I tried everything, but it could be the most basic think as i have no experience with ubuntu. </p>
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19659 | 1 | 19670 | 2011-01-01T19:58:33.390 | 4 | 6037 | <p>I have successfully installed ruby1.9.1 but after downloading the .tgz archive offered <a href="http://rubygems.org/pages/download" rel="nofollow">here</a> and doing</p>
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</code></pre>
<p>I get this:</p>
<pre><code>/home/elliot/Downloads/rubygems-1.4.1 (2)/lib/rubygems/source_index.rb:62:in `installed_spec_directories': undefined method `path' for Gem:Module (NoMethodError)
from /home/elliot/Downloads/rubygems-1.4.1 (2)/lib/rubygems/source_index.rb:52:in `from_installed_gems'
from /home/elliot/Downloads/rubygems-1.4.1 (2)/lib/rubygems.rb:914:in `source_index'
from /home/elliot/Downloads/rubygems-1.4.1 (2)/lib/rubygems/gem_path_searcher.rb:98:in `init_gemspecs'
from /home/elliot/Downloads/rubygems-1.4.1 (2)/lib/rubygems/gem_path_searcher.rb:13:in `initialize'
from /home/elliot/Downloads/rubygems-1.4.1 (2)/lib/rubygems.rb:873:in `new'
from /home/elliot/Downloads/rubygems-1.4.1 (2)/lib/rubygems.rb:873:in `searcher'
from /home/elliot/Downloads/rubygems-1.4.1 (2)/lib/rubygems.rb:495:in `find_files'
from /home/elliot/Downloads/rubygems-1.4.1 (2)/lib/rubygems.rb:1034:in `load_plugins'
from /home/elliot/Downloads/rubygems-1.4.1 (2)/lib/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:84:in `<top (required)>'
from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
from setup.rb:25:in `<main>'
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<p>Why is installing RubyGems with Ruby1.9.1 so painful? How can I install it correctly? Thanks in advance, ell.</p>
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19660 | 1 | 19663 | 2011-01-01T20:24:41.447 | 6 | 5215 | <p>Is it possible to add more separators to Docky? If so, how? I've checked through the preferences window but I didn't see anything about adding separators there.</p>
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19662 | 1 | null | 2011-01-01T21:24:17.863 | 3 | 2375 | <p>When I resume from hibernation in Ubuntu 10.10 the screen shows static, very similar to what you see on an analogue TV that hasn't been tuned properly. This also occurs on boot from shut down, but only for a moment after the Plymouth boot screen.</p>
<p>The static lasts for at least 5 minutes. An odd thing that happens is that the mouse pointer, as a lighter square of static, becomes visible and you can move it around. Attempting to change into a terminal (i.e. <kbd>ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>alt</kbd>+<kbd>F1</kbd>) doesn't seem to work (and I'm not sure if that can be done from the login screen).</p>
<p>Resuming from suspend has different issues - vertical lines appearing for a second before appearing to be in terminal mode (blinking cursor) and then going to the lock screen.</p>
<p>I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on a Dell Studio 15 with ATI graphics, however I'm not using the proprietary drivers as I had issues with dual-screen support, so it's the generic X.org drivers being used.</p>
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19664 | 1 | 19665 | 2011-01-01T21:31:02.373 | 4 | 213 | <p>What questions are asked during the update or upgrade process? It would be good to know beforehand in case we choose the wrong option when asked and there is no turning back.</p>
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"body": "<p>I don't know if you're talking about a normal upgrade, which you do about once a week - perhaps more often, or an upgrade from one major version to another, but the answer is the same for both:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Normally, no questions at all are asked</strong></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>There are some, rare, cases (in both upgrades and release-upgrades), where a service or a post-install script will ask something, examples for this are</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>msttcorefonts asking you to accept the microsoft license agreement</p></li>\n<li><p>mysql asking you to set up a root password</p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>There also can be cases where you need to decide whether to keep an old configuration file or replace it with a new one. You will be asked to either <em>replace</em>, <em>keep</em> or <em>compare</em>, in any case - if you didn't change a configuration file manually, it's normally safe to replace it with the new one.</p>\n\n<p>If a question is asked of you, and you really don't know what to do, <strong>just hit enter</strong> (or <code>Y</code>).<br>The <em>default option</em> will almost certainly be sensible.</p>\n",
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19666 | 1 | 19667 | 2011-01-01T21:59:46.373 | 2 | 576 | <p>I know <code>convert</code> changes from one image format to another. <code>mogrify</code> can resize and scale multiple images also. But how can I modify all images inside a directory, including the sub-directories. Like for example change every image inside a folder and its sub-folders from one format png to another format jpg, or resize all pictures in a folder and its sub-folders to a desire one?</p>
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"text": "`s/$(find|grep png)/$(find -iname '*.png')/` and you're OK.",
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"text": "Done that, thank you very much @Elazar. As I said, it's good to play around with `find`, you can have much more granular control over what files are modified, for example, excluding all that contain \"-thumbnail\" or something like that.",
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19669 | 1 | null | 2011-01-01T22:55:15.097 | 1 | 574 | <p>Issue is quite the same like <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5881/acer-aspire-1551-will-not-wake-after-suspend">here</a>, I've tried everything I found and nothing happens. If I use uswsusp, suspending works good, but graphics doesn't wake up, when I want to hibernate system, it tells me "Looking for splash system... none s2disk:snapshotting system" and nothing happens. </p>
<p>I'm using ATI drivers, i've tried to disable kms, unload usb3 and network drivers, still nothing. Please help me, I don't want to come back to Windows after my 2-year-relationship with Linux. I can share all files I have with you, just help me.</p>
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19671 | 1 | 19673 | 2011-01-02T01:05:32.860 | 62 | 136189 | <p>Is there a command that will show which file system (ext3, ext4, FAT32, ...) the various partitions and disks are using? </p>
<p>Similar to how <code>sudo fdisk -l</code> lists information about disks and partitions?</p>
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"text": "Except that the disks aren't mounted - I'm trying to figure out which FS to put in /etc/fstab for a USB external disk",
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19672 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T01:37:30.347 | 2 | 821 | <p><em>Related: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/15520/how-can-i-tell-ubuntu-to-do-nothing-when-i-close-my-laptop-lid">How can I tell Ubuntu to do nothing when I close my laptop lid?</a></em></p>
<p>I have my laptop set to activate standby when I close the lid. I want to keep this as the default for both battery and AC power.</p>
<p>But occasionally I want to close the lid without triggering standby (eg. while just listening to audio).</p>
<p>Is there someway I can tell Ubuntu, "I'm going to close the lid now. Don't stand by this time", without altering the defaults (because I almost always forget to change them back).</p>
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19674 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T01:45:30.530 | 0 | 755 | <p>I can watch video on Youtube with the flash-plugin, but I cannot watch video on a training website that charges monthly for access. I was able to watch video on that site before I switched to Ubuntu last week. Hope someone has the answer for me... many thanks.</p>
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