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19675 | 1 | 19763 | 2011-01-02T03:09:13.923 | 6 | 439 | <p>I have a seperate data partition with a functioning .Trash directory. </p>
<p>But <code>~/.local/share/Trash</code> is the only directory seen by <code>trash:///</code> in nautilus.</p>
<p>Here's the fstab entry for the partition:</p>
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19676 | 1 | 19688 | 2011-01-02T03:32:25.697 | 1 | 2213 | <p>I'm new to Linux. I've got XAMPP installed on Ubuntu 10.10 in <code>/opt/lampp/</code>. </p>
<p>I'd like to synchronise the files in <code>/opt/lampp/htdocs/</code> with Ubuntu One (and I've bought 20gb in preparation), but there's no option to sync the folder.</p>
<p>Any ideas?</p>
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19677 | 1 | 19684 | 2011-01-02T03:36:53.503 | 6 | 5462 | <p>Well, I Stumbled upon a command that connects your wired connection from the command line by issuing this in the terminal; "sudo dhclient3 eth0". But there is also a command called "dhclient". Are they the same? Could I issue the same command as; "sudo dhclient eth0?" Could someone clear up newbie on this issue?</p>... | 789 | null | null | 2011-01-02T11:09:16.060 | Difference between dhclient & dhclient3? | [
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19680 | 1 | 19758 | 2011-01-02T04:17:53.603 | 3 | 2179 | <p>I ran a search for this, but the answers I saw were referring to something altogether different than what I'm asking for. So let me clarify: I'm not asking how to change key-combo shortcuts. I'm asking--how do you actually change what your computer thinks you did when you press a given key?</p>
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19681 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T04:23:00.700 | 4 | 2599 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/19430/mount-a-virtual-box-drive-image-vdi">Mount a Virtual Box drive image (vdi)?</a> </p>
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<p>I have a VirtualBox harddisk, let's say here:</p>
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19690 | 1 | 35331 | 2011-01-02T05:41:26.500 | 2 | 980 | <p>I have recently installed ubuntu 9.10 desktop edition. I had to do manual shutdown pressing the power & reset button 2-3 times. So when ever I power on the system, the system waits at the boot menu till I hit enter. I think there may be some tricks so that I can skip the boot option and directly boot the system ... | 3215 | 235 | 2011-01-02T05:46:00.513 | 2011-05-16T03:50:57.397 | Skip hitting enter at the boot option and directly boot the system | [
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19691 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T05:54:51.917 | 3 | 1565 | <p>I was at home uploading a WP site and it's maxing at 4.2kb. I did a speed test and im getting ~1MB upload (my home ISP caps it out at that). I uploaded a 5MB file via Chrome, to test, and it uploaded within 2 mins. The file uploaded was a wordpress.xml file through the uploader. Same file in nautilus is taking forev... | 2490 | null | null | 2011-01-02T05:54:51.917 | Extremely slow upload speeds in nautilus with FTP | [
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19692 | 1 | 22511 | 2011-01-02T06:08:52.530 | 7 | 7726 | <p>In my office I've Ubuntu 8.10 desktop installed and it's running for a long time. When ever the system is started, I'll get a <code>file system maintenance error</code> and something it's prompted for the root password or <code>(press ctrl+d to continue)</code>. After pressing Ctrl+D the system normally boots up. I ... | 3215 | 1067 | 2011-01-02T07:11:42.943 | 2011-01-20T22:32:51.007 | System displays "File system maintenance error, press ctrl+d" while booting | [
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19694 | 1 | 19778 | 2011-01-02T06:37:17.300 | 8 | 3287 | <p>I've seen this question: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/11160/home-network-printer-recommendations">Home network printer recommendations</a> but I think I'm asking something more basic. I'm not really familiar with networked printers or how they work or what they do really. What I'd like is to have a print... | 4460 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:44.677 | 2013-12-19T11:48:24.383 | What is needed for a networked home printer? | [
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19697 | 1 | 35439 | 2011-01-02T07:39:37.283 | 5 | 7055 | <p>I wanted to add a path so that the system could find some manually installed executable. However, instead of typing <code>PATH=xxx:$PATH;export PATH</code> at the end of ~/.profile where xxx is the directory in which the executable lies, I wrongly used <code>PATH=xxx;export PATH</code>. </p>
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19699 | 1 | 19747 | 2011-01-02T07:59:45.153 | 21 | 74387 | <p>I scanned pen drive using clamscan and I closed the terminal after scanning without reading the result. </p>
<p>Now one of my folders on the pen drive is missing. I wanted to know if clamav deleted it. </p>
<p>So I want to view the last scan result.</p>
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19700 | 1 | 19701 | 2011-01-02T08:13:07.227 | 4 | 12749 | <p>I need to install php-apc on Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 9.04</p>
<p>First of all, can I just install this package to make it work with php 5.2 + lighttpd on these Ubuntu versions ?</p>
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19704 | 1 | 19705 | 2011-01-02T08:43:34.327 | 6 | 3781 | <p>Tried sudo grub-install on sda1 but it complained about being a BAD IDEA.</p>
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19710 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T11:06:20.900 | 6 | 10279 | <p>I have an android phone which doesn't connect to ad-hoc networks. I use ad-hoc network to share internet among my pcs. I want to setup my ubuntu laptop as a wireless access point. But I don't want my ubuntu laptop to be a <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1385/how-to-set-up-ubuntu-as-wireless-accesspoint">rou... | 2968 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:25:03.423 | 2011-05-17T15:51:11.180 | Setting up ubuntu as a wireless accesspoint | [
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19711 | 1 | 19713 | 2011-01-02T11:17:53.563 | 2 | 488 | <p>I want to listen to the key press of lets say <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>W</kbd> in Rhythmbox, and call a functions if that happens. How can I do that in Python ?</p>
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19716 | 1 | 19743 | 2011-01-02T13:08:37.903 | 2 | 2640 | <p>I need to install svn on Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 9.04. On both servers I use lighttpd.</p>
<p>I found some tutorials on internet explaining which packages to install with Apache, but i actually need lighttpd.</p>
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19718 | 1 | 19722 | 2011-01-02T13:25:01.727 | 43 | 68562 | <p>What is the equivalent option for the <code>ls</code> command to activate pagination as in DOS the <code>dir /p</code> does?</p>
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19720 | 1 | 19723 | 2011-01-02T13:29:16.607 | 3 | 1944 | <p>I'd like to tweak my Conky so it automatically displays the days of the week correctly. So for example, if TODAY were Tuesday, it would look like this:</p>
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19724 | 1 | 19952 | 2011-01-02T14:00:19.143 | 3 | 7106 | <p>How do I configure Xchat to send files?</p>
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19726 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T14:48:33.247 | 2 | 1161 | <p>I'm using a laptop and a monitor (wall mounted) over my laptop. I would like to reflect this physical hardware setup in my software screen setup. So that I can move my mouse upward, out of my laptop screen and use the monitor on the wall. I have been searching for a solution for a while, and I hope somone can help m... | 8224 | 235 | 2011-01-02T16:10:02.507 | 2011-01-02T16:13:20.950 | How do I get one monitor on top of the other? | [
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19727 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T15:12:02.033 | 3 | 247 | <p>In U1 preferences, setting "limit bandwidth" option is ignored by sync service, ie. although the preferences show a limit of 30 kbps, U1 is uploading up to 350 kbps, although all files appear to be already synced. This causes massive slowdowns among the home network, rendering it nigh unusable.</p>
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19728 | 1 | 19730 | 2011-01-02T15:12:57.070 | 7 | 6909 | <p>From the answers to my other question <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/19718/how-to-activate-pagination-for-ls-command">here</a> i learned about the possibility to pass commandline arguments to a alias function in Bash.</p>
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19731 | 1 | 19734 | 2011-01-02T15:36:23.930 | 20 | 19269 | <p>Occasionally I want to <code>cd</code> into a directory where my user does not have permission, so I resort to <code>sudo</code>.</p>
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19732 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T15:42:01.650 | 6 | 9813 | <p>Is there an alternative to rEFIt as a bootloader where you can choose between OS X and Ubuntu? I already installed Ubuntu on my Mac with rEFIt, so if there's a better option, I can remove it now.</p>
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19740 | 1 | 19742 | 2011-01-02T16:30:50.100 | 17 | 16564 | <p>I have a pretty picture set as my desktop background, but I've lost the original file. However, my desktop is still set to this picture. How can I get back my picture?</p>
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19745 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T16:59:15.877 | 0 | 423 | <p>I am unable to install programs for the Ubuntu 10.10 system. The download is ok, but when attempting to install them, the following message is displayed,</p>
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19750 | 1 | null | 2011-01-02T17:39:14.297 | 4 | 4137 | <p>I have a dm3t laptop and when im using the keyboard I frequently accidentally touch it and cause some mouse event. How can I make a shortcut key that toggles the mousepad on and off?</p>
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19757 | 1 | 19766 | 2011-01-02T18:36:56.427 | 8 | 5057 | <p>I'm searching for a good Audioplayer in Ubuntu which is able to remember the position it stopped last playing, to resume play even after you closed the application. Which one would you recommend?</p>
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19760 | 1 | 19775 | 2011-01-02T19:04:49.120 | 3 | 1374 | <p>I'm looking for a fast file manager for Ubuntu.</p>
<p>I need to copy a lot of files to Windows machine via Samba. Nautilus is so slow, that when I click on the directory I need to copy the screen just dims and takes forever to list the files.</p>
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19764 | 1 | 19768 | 2011-01-02T19:44:04.477 | 19 | 23516 | <p>I would like to set up my keyboard via my midi-sport 2x2, I've plugged everything in and even installed the midisport-firmware package which was not automatically installed for some reason.</p>
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19767 | 1 | 19769 | 2011-01-02T21:36:44.587 | 3 | 14583 | <p>When I try to open Synaptic from the AWN Cardapio applet menu it gives me the 'starting without administrative privileges' message and then I can't install anything.</p>
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19770 | 1 | 59920 | 2011-01-02T21:49:09.290 | 198 | 454171 | <p>I've been finding fonts on the internet and <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3697/how-do-i-install-fonts">installing them</a> on my system. </p>
<p>What's the easiest way to change my fonts? I would prefer an easy to use graphical way, but answers with command line recommendations are also welcome.</p>
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19772 | 1 | 19773 | 2011-01-02T22:01:19.667 | 96 | 247313 | <p>When I make some changes to the shell/bash behavior, such as setting up an alias, is there a quick command to reinitialize the terminal window instead of closing and opening a new window?</p>
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19774 | 1 | 19777 | 2011-01-02T22:33:04.070 | 59 | 92529 | <p>How can I automatically shutdown the system after a certain customizable time?</p>
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19781 | 1 | 19784 | 2011-01-02T23:42:22.403 | 1 | 1917 | <p>Are there any services after a fresh ubuntu install, that are probably by most of the standard users not needed, so that you could recommend to disable them?</p>
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19783 | 1 | 19785 | 2011-01-02T23:47:11.507 | 9 | 5306 | <p>Is there a way to automatically close a certain application after custom time? </p>
<p>Update: i.e. stop the Audioplayer after a certain time.</p>
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19787 | 1 | 19934 | 2011-01-03T02:04:27.453 | 2 | 3777 | <p>I have recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 64bit and it seems to work flawlessly. But today I tried to check some CDs and I was surprised that Ubuntu doesn't automatically refresh the CD/DVDs inserted in my media drive.</p>
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19789 | 1 | 19867 | 2011-01-03T03:19:02.090 | 4 | 11391 | <p>I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my system. However, I need to install Windows 7 back, and I expect that it would alter GRUB and it did.</p>
<p>Right now, my partition on my <strong>Software RAID 0</strong> looks like this:</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/19792/duplicated-entries-in-ubuntu-one">Duplicated entries in Ubuntu One</a><br>
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19792 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T03:27:17.220 | 2 | 469 | <p>I recently started using Ubuntu One. Somehow, when I look at Ubuntu One Preferences->Devices, one of my laptop computers is listed twice. When I visit my Ubuntu One account via web, "Computers on your account" also lists that particular laptop twice.
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19796 | 1 | 19799 | 2011-01-03T05:05:09.880 | 7 | 56014 | <p>I am going to dual-boot install Ubuntu1 10.04 on my laptop with Windows 7. I was wondering </p>
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19798 | 1 | 20371 | 2011-01-03T05:40:52.970 | 13 | 25629 | <p>I'm setting up a Maverick server on a spare PC. The install completes fine and the system boots up into the shell. However, when I try to do a <code>apt-get update</code> , apt hangs on almost every entry with the message <code>99% [Waiting for headers]</code> sometimes a message of <code>96 b/s</code> appears o... | 5042 | 169736 | 2014-05-14T03:46:31.010 | 2017-11-07T11:47:32.563 | apt-get update stuck on "Waiting for Headers" when using Windows XP ICS | [
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19803 | 1 | 19806 | 2011-01-03T06:31:52.673 | 12 | 22799 | <p>I don't know much about 32 bit and 64 bit. I had been using 32 bit and it's crashed (not working properly and i don't know how to recover) <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/19717/cant-access-any-functions-after-chown-command">question here</a>..... and i don't have backup and i run on 3.2 dual core intel proc... | 8144 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:44.677 | 2014-04-19T21:37:49.597 | For better performance should I install 32-bit or 64-bit? | [
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19808 | 1 | 19810 | 2011-01-03T07:04:09.590 | 9 | 11813 | <p>I want to reinstall Ubuntu keeping my data intact. I have 160 GB hardrive (sata or pata I don't know but it's slim and made in China) with a 40 GB ext3 partition, a 4GB swap memory and 3 other partition with a FAT32 file system. I have around 4GB space on my drive where Linux is installed.</p>
<p>I'd like to keep t... | 8144 | 169736 | 2014-06-07T14:18:41.987 | 2014-06-07T14:47:35.143 | How to reinstall Ubuntu keeping my data intact? | [
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"body": "<p>Just copy the directories that you want to save i.e Downloads, <code>/var/www</code> and Desktop to another partition, install Ubuntu to that 40 GB ext3 partition and after installation copy the directories back. </p>\n",
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19812 | 1 | 20841 | 2011-01-03T08:05:04.557 | 2 | 572 | <p>I bought music from the Ubuntu One music store, and the status of the downloads are stuck at "Transferring to your Ubuntu One storage" under the "My Downloads" section of Ubuntu One Music Store. I can see the music bought from the web interface, but I'm unable to synchronize it onto my machine. </p>
<p>I've tried <... | 8261 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:44.677 | 2011-01-10T02:10:16.493 | Music bought from ubuntu one music store stuck on "Transferring to your Ubuntu One storage" | [
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19813 | 1 | 20261 | 2011-01-03T08:09:55.243 | 1 | 1618 | <p>I have a screensaver configured to activate after 5 minutes. When the time elapses, instead of activating the screensaver, my monitor turns off.</p>
<p>I tried playing with settings, and searching the internet, but I couldn't find anything and couldn't figure out how to solve this issue.</p>
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19817 | 1 | 19822 | 2011-01-03T09:08:34.043 | 5 | 107 | <p>I've heard it thrown around on a lot of blogs that Ubuntu Brainstorm is the "graveyard of good ideas". I have a bit of a passion for average end-users suggesting the kinds of software they want and they way they think their applications and computers could work. I'm interested in joining the Ubuntu Brainstorm team, ... | 4460 | null | null | 2012-04-22T23:27:21.330 | How can one get involved in the Ubuntu Brainstorm team? | [
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19819 | 1 | 20151 | 2011-01-03T09:13:30.093 | 2 | 1172 | <p>I have never used a Linux system in an AD environment before and am trying to join my laptop running Ubuntu to join our Active Directory (DC is a Windows Server 2008 machine) using Likewise-open.</p>
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<li>Using the GUI wizard, I have joined the domain. </li>
<li>I can mount network shares using CIFS </li>
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19823 | 1 | 19824 | 2011-01-03T09:53:37.780 | 2 | 707 | <p>In Empathy, I can use the default image in google talk. But, with msn, the picture didn't show. How can I config it to make it right.</p>
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19826 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T10:40:30.113 | 3 | 2846 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/7283/where-can-i-find-vim-7-3">Where can I find Vim 7.3?</a> </p>
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<p>Vim 7.3 is out, and there's a PPA for Ubuntu 10.10.</p>
<p>Is there a PPA for Ubuntu 10.04?</p>
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19828 | 1 | 19831 | 2011-01-03T10:47:38.890 | 5 | 10516 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3378/my-processor-is-64-bit-does-that-mean-i-need-the-amd64-image">My processor is 64-bit - does that mean I need the amd64 image?</a> </p>
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19830 | 1 | 26454 | 2011-01-03T10:53:38.713 | 1 | 476 | <p>Every time I new kernel update is installed to my system, it adds itself again to the boot menu. Right now my boot menu has 3 linux option, one for each kernel version.</p>
<p>how can I avoid that new options to be added?</p>
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19836 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T11:47:56.233 | 1 | 196 | <p>When I installed the ubuntu 10.04 amd 64bit, the screen is shifted to left and cannot be fully showed on the monitor. I cannot even seclect the list on the top pannel. How should I adjust it?</p>
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19837 | 1 | 19843 | 2011-01-03T11:48:01.330 | 2 | 3613 | <p>I want to automatize the backup of my databases and files with cron.
Should I add the following lines to crontab ?</p>
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svn commit -m "Committing the working copy containing the database dump"
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19840 | 1 | 19845 | 2011-01-03T12:10:43.827 | 2 | 997 | <p>This seems like a silly question, but I'd like to add a widget to my panel. Normally one would right click on the panel and choose the correct option in the menu, but...my panel is full and there's no empty space to click on :p.
How can I access the panel menu?</p>
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19844 | 1 | 19852 | 2011-01-03T12:25:18.400 | 2 | 353 | <p>I just installed an ubuntu on my pc(Dell Inspiration I560SR-358, with CPU E5700 3GHz, 4G memory, and NVIDIA GeForce G310). </p>
<p>The pc becomes noisy before that it's quiet with a windows 7 on it.
How come? How to set it to be quiet again in Ubuntu 10.04.
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19846 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T12:47:13.597 | 5 | 10866 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13197/how-to-program-a-status-icon-that-will-display-in-ubuntu-11-04-as-well-as-in-othe">How to program a status icon that will display in Ubuntu 11.04 as well as in other distributions?</a> </p>
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19848 | 1 | 19856 | 2011-01-03T13:06:00.237 | 8 | 336 | <p>I own a <a href="http://www.dell.com/us/p/studio-xps-1647/pd">Dell Studio XPS 16</a>.</p>
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19849 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T13:18:18.987 | 2 | 24077 | <p>I have a TV card that I have not managed to install with Ubuntu 10.10 i386. I have tried various topics in various forums and I could not install it.</p>
<p>I hope you can help me to install it thank you.</p>
<h1>lspci</h1>
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19855 | 1 | 19885 | 2011-01-03T14:20:24.837 | 8 | 15431 | <p>I'm using awesome-wm on Kubuntu 10.10. I like some of the KDE tools... like choqok. Thing is, that within awesome wm it seems to be impossible to set a default browser, because KDE4 settings overwrite the generally desired settings:</p>
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19858 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T14:40:06.333 | 2 | 543 | <p>I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with a dead internal hard drive controller. It boots perfectly from CD or USB. I therefore removed the internal hard drive and installed Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick onto an external USB hard drive. </p>
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19861 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T14:46:59.203 | 2 | 248 | <p>OS: Windows XP SP3
Hardware: Dell Precision M4400 (Laptop)
CPU: Core2Duo T9600
Mem: 4 GB</p>
<p>Installer- setup, first start and account- setup of UbuntuONE Windows client passed with no problems.</p>
<p>After restart of UbuntuONE, the CPU- usage shows 50% (100% core usage).</p>
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19866 | 1 | 19874 | 2011-01-03T15:34:15.290 | 2 | 1801 | <p>I have found that there is an "Ubuntu Support Team" at <a href="https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-helpteam" rel="nofollow">https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-helpteam</a> but I am not sure it's official or active.<br>
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19869 | 1 | 19873 | 2011-01-03T16:26:44.133 | 25 | 100503 | <p>Recently when I tried to open a video with VLC, my system slowed down, the open applications webbrowser, VLC and filemanager and others didn't react any longer. The mouse just reacted still very slowly.</p>
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19878 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T17:36:41.977 | 4 | 1993 | <p>I have an external HD that I saved all my data on from my old windows setups. I now want to access that info on my ubuntu machine and the drive isn't mounting. I've floated around the help files and I am not finding anything that works.</p>
<p>the drive is firewire LaCie</p>
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19880 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T17:49:28.767 | 8 | 4514 | <p>I have successfully managed to load subtitles in totem and it says that the subtitles are run but,the problem is that I can't see them.
Does anybody know a fix for it?</p>
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19881 | 1 | 19889 | 2011-01-03T17:55:57.100 | 22 | 38402 | <p>I've got almost 20 processes for google chrome (whilst only having 4 tabs open, all with barebones HTML) , all hogging memory and either saying futex_wait_queue_me or poll_schedule_timeout. </p>
<p>My fan is going wild by all this and one of the processess is eating up my entire CPU, what is happening?</p>
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19882 | 1 | 19884 | 2011-01-03T17:56:35.170 | 4 | 13852 | <p>Normally, I installed Ubuntu for people with little experience with computer. These people's tasks are simply email, office work, and some more chit chat online. If I am with them, I can troubleshoot their troubles. However, if I am abroad, this can be a little bit of trouble.</p>
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19886 | 1 | 19891 | 2011-01-03T18:17:49.160 | 3 | 11847 | <p>On Windows 7, there is this Sticky Note app that will always start itself up and show itself in the same place with all the text you have written when you boot Windows up. You can also have multiple instances of the Sticky Note.</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/140246/how-do-i-resolve-unmet-dependencies">How do I resolve unmet dependencies?</a> </p>
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<p>I did try <code>apt-get -f install</code> but that didn't work either.</p>
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19894 | 1 | 20366 | 2011-01-03T18:56:04.867 | 8 | 11536 | <p>I have a USB turntable which when plugged in to my Ubuntu 10.10 machine appears in the audio settings as an input device (USB PnP Audio Device Analog Stereo) like a microphone.</p>
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19898 | 1 | null | 2011-01-03T19:49:30.143 | 166 | 332059 | <p>Having installed the web server is there a simple way to set a user able to use the graphic interface to copy files and directories to the local web server /var/www</p>
<p>I gave myself administrative privileges in Ubuntu but it still doesn't allow copies.</p>
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19900 | 1 | 24872 | 2011-01-03T19:56:23.897 | 8 | 11695 | <p>I want to use Ubuntu 10.10 Server in a classroom, a computer lab whose bandwidth is provided by a local cable ISP. That's no problem, though the school network has an IP printer that I want to use. I cannot reach the printer through the cable Internet. But, I have two network cards.</p>
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19906 | 1 | 19909 | 2011-01-03T20:37:50.083 | 107 | 151675 | <p>I'd like to use a beep sound in a shell script. Unfortunately none of the methods I found via Google work for me.</p>
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<p>What could be the reason?</p>
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<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bXodl.png" alt="alt text"></p>
<p>How can I make gnome-terminal show the menubar again?</p>
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19919 | 1 | 19920 | 2011-01-03T21:31:28.207 | 55 | 141968 | <p>Is there a command I can use in Bash that will open a specific URL in the default browser?</p>
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19922 | 1 | 21072 | 2011-01-03T21:41:34.287 | 6 | 34159 | <p>For my iphone I was using <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1351548" rel="nofollow">this</a> with pdanet to tether via usb. Now I have an android phone, also with pdanet. I'd appreciate any help.</p>
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19923 | 1 | 19928 | 2011-01-03T21:58:08.740 | 7 | 24250 | <p>I am doing some marking that requires me to open .docx file created using Microsoft Office 2007+. OpenOffice doesn't seem to be doing a good job for it, so far, hid all the images in the documents. Any idea if there is a program that is guaranteed to open .docx file correctly? Please pay attention to the word "guara... | 7280 | 939648 | 2020-09-20T11:03:44.133 | 2023-08-14T21:05:52.370 | Opening DocX Files | [
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<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5882/can-i-make-links-to-email-addresses-open-gmail-instead-of-evolution">Can I make links to email addresses open Gmail instead of Evolution?</a> </p>
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19940 | 1 | 19947 | 2011-01-04T00:08:04.590 | 2 | 196 | <p>I added some files into my <code>Ubuntu One/My Files</code> folder on my desktop machine. I can see them in the U1 web ui. My laptop is connected to the same U1 account, and in the Ubuntu One preference pane I can see it's connected to the account.</p>
<p>However, my new files never download.</p>
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19943 | 1 | 19944 | 2011-01-04T02:19:37.420 | 17 | 30016 | <p>I currently have xubuntu installed on my netbook, and I'm considering converting it to the standard vanilla Ubuntu. Is this possible? If so, how do I start?</p>
| 3647 | null | null | 2018-10-24T17:27:33.380 | Can my xubuntu installation be converted to standard Ubuntu? | [
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19949 | 1 | 19950 | 2011-01-04T03:49:23.897 | 5 | 1976 | <p>After installing Emerald theme manager, double clicking title makes the window roll up and down.</p>
<p>How can I restore the normal behavior of maximize/restore?</p>
| 8310 | 2732 | 2012-02-10T19:41:56.353 | 2012-02-10T19:44:13.790 | How to have double click on title bar maximize/restore behavior? | [
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19951 | 1 | 19959 | 2011-01-04T03:58:02.143 | 1 | 319 | <p>My 10.04 system (OS-1) got into a tangle the other day, so I installed a second, dual-boot 10.04 (OS-2), so that I could trouble-shoot the hung system... </p>
<p>In case it is relevant to my question, I'll mention that since I got OS-1 working again, it has shown a few battle wounds from its ordeal (.. actually the... | 2670 | null | null | 2011-01-04T06:11:10.213 | I cannot change the grub Default item from OS-1, but I can from OS-2 (dual-boot 10.04 on both) | [
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19954 | 1 | 19956 | 2011-01-04T04:24:28.610 | 48 | 57619 | <p>After installing Ubuntu 10.04 with my Samsung SyncMaster B2030, native resolution (1600X900) is not found in the list of resolutions.</p>
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19957 | 1 | null | 2011-01-04T05:48:12.400 | 1 | 700 | <p>I have 10.10 installed on my netbook, but the Unity interface that came with it does not seem to work. The top and side bar are missing and several graphical menus don't work. I have tried updating my graphics card but have had no luck. Any suggestions?</p>
| null | 63111 | 2012-07-09T13:12:55.773 | 2012-07-09T13:12:55.773 | How can I get the Unity interface to work on my netbook? | [
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19958 | 1 | 19993 | 2011-01-04T06:09:15.253 | 3 | 888 | <p>I often get stalled by the long timeout while typing the first few letters of a file name in Nautilus... </p>
<p>The current timeout seems to be 5 seconds. I'd prefer 1 second ...(as per item 2 on this page about <a href="http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html" rel="nofollow">Response Times</a>)</p>
<p>I d... | 2670 | 5691 | 2011-01-04T09:32:06.193 | 2011-01-04T16:50:57.760 | How can I change the "timeout" duration for Nautilus "find the filename as you type" feature? | [
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19962 | 1 | 19966 | 2011-01-04T06:35:21.277 | 1 | 813 | <p>After I paste these scripts into terminal, my wallpaper became white.</p>
<pre><code>sudo ln -s /etc/xdg/xdg-une/autostart/maximus-autostart.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/
sudo ln -s /etc/xdg/xdg-une/autostart/netbook-launcher.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/
sudo ln -s /usr/share/gconf/une/default/20_une-gconf-default /us... | 8318 | 54298 | 2012-07-09T13:07:17.717 | 2012-07-09T13:07:17.717 | Error with missing Wallpaper after remove unity from sudo command | [
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19964 | 1 | null | 2011-01-04T07:01:05.280 | 0 | 596 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/14978/do-i-need-to-replace-my-hard-disk">Do I need to replace my hard disk?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I got the same problem - installing ubuntu. My hard disk is also emitting certain weird noise. What other option... | null | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:44.677 | 2011-01-04T11:04:33.923 | Hard disk makes weird noises during installation | [
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19969 | 1 | 19972 | 2011-01-04T09:16:39.203 | 4 | 9368 | <p>Will <code>sudo apt-get upgrade</code> also upgrade PHP from 5.2 to 5.3 on my Ubuntu 9.04?</p>
| 5136 | 235 | 2012-03-13T19:00:00.327 | 2012-03-13T19:17:39.433 | Will "apt-get upgrade" also upgrade my PHP version? | [
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19970 | 1 | 19974 | 2011-01-04T09:20:40.023 | 14 | 5261 | <p>In order to speed up Android development, I've edited my <code>~/.bashrc</code> to add some paths to <code>PATH</code>:</p>
<pre><code>export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/android-sdk/tools:/opt/android-sdk/platform-tools
</code></pre>
<p>This works just fine from the command line (I can just type <code>android</code> and, no... | 1398 | 449 | 2011-01-18T09:59:52.453 | 2016-07-12T14:30:44.167 | Alt+F2 (Run Application) doesn't work for custom commands | [
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