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20652 | 1 | null | 2011-01-08T19:22:03.797 | 3 | 71 | <p>I am backing up Ubuntu and went to check out how it was going and noticed it was backing up my Windows too. How do I exclude Windows during backup? It says <code>/host</code>, so would I just do <code>--exclude=/host</code>?</p>
<p><strong>EDIT:</strong><br>
I'm backing up everything in terminal. I don't have a <co... | null | 25798 | 2012-08-21T13:41:44.373 | 2012-08-21T13:41:44.373 | How do I exclude Windows during back up? | [
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20663 | 1 | null | 2011-01-08T20:33:37.433 | 2 | 429 | <p>I've set up MythTV for watching TV. I've configured the back end. I have a TV tuner, and a table of frequencies. </p>
<p>But when you start the front end and make the transition to the item "Watch TV", it shows a window with the message </p>
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20675 | 1 | 32860 | 2011-01-09T00:10:22.643 | 9 | 2613 | <p>In Hungary, the biggest TV channel is <strong>RTL Klub</strong>, they has a video archive site. They use Silverlight instead of Flash :( What is annoying, they use the lastest version of Silverlight, about 4.x. But Moonlight doesn't support it yet.</p>
<p>I've been tried in Google Chrome (last dev version), and in ... | 6341 | 6341 | 2011-01-17T17:13:54.073 | 2011-08-17T02:39:31.413 | How to use Moonlight to play videos on rtlmost.hu? | [
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20680 | 1 | 20681 | 2011-01-09T01:17:18.090 | 45 | 106739 | <p>I hear and read the term all the time, but what does it mean? </p>
<p>I just accidentally mounted a shared folder hosted on a remote computer. The only difference I see is the presence of a desktop shortcut. I was able to access the folder before I mounted it with no problems.</p>
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20688 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T02:42:42.273 | 2 | 8934 | <p>I'm trying to set up printing to a networked LPR printer, but I can't seem to make it work. The connexion information that IT gives is:</p>
<p>Print Spooler: printing.domain.edu</p>
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20689 | 1 | 20691 | 2011-01-09T03:23:40.537 | 24 | 20117 | <p>What does this mean?</p>
<pre><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maco.m/ruby
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sudo apt-get install rubygems
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<p>Hows does it differ from running</p>
<pre><code>sudo apt-get install rubygems
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<p>?</p>
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20690 | 1 | 49213 | 2011-01-09T03:32:29.047 | 7 | 12025 | <p>My LCD monitor won't enter power save mode.</p>
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20693 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T04:09:26.830 | 3 | 16295 | <p>I installed NX server on my desktop and able to run it successfully following this tutorial:</p>
<p><a href="http://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/how-to-install-nx-server-and-client-under-ubuntukubuntu-linux/" rel="nofollow">http://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/how-to-install-nx-server-and... | 6284 | null | null | 2012-08-31T21:37:57.877 | How to setup NX server and client? | [
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20694 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T04:09:28.780 | 2 | 147 | <p>I bought some <a href="http://www.scosche.com/consumer-tech/product/1862" rel="nofollow">headphones</a> and was wondering if I could find any drivers that could support the mic, the volume buttons, and playlist navigation button.</p>
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20698 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T04:52:35.183 | 5 | 3902 | <p>How do I keep the battery status on as to see how much life is left in my battery? I configured this to be on all the time in the power management but it only shows the amount left when I am charging the battery. When I am unplugged, I don't get the battery status. Thanks for any help you can provide. </p>
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20699 | 1 | 20702 | 2011-01-09T04:53:57.443 | 5 | 444 | <p>I need software for equipment maintenance tracking, I am thinking of designing an Openoffice.org base database for this but It would probably save me a lot of time if something already exist to do this that is freely available. I would be happy if someone could point me to something, even if the software was not des... | 4923 | 25863 | 2012-06-20T19:51:22.397 | 2022-03-30T11:41:48.647 | Equipment maintenance tracking software | [
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20705 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T06:53:14.410 | 17 | 3674 | <p>What are the advantages of bfs over cfs and are there any benchmarks to see if there are any real performance gains?</p>
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20707 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T08:01:26.927 | 5 | 4657 | <p>The only fonts that can render Chinese text are: WenQuanYi Micro Hei, WenQuanYi Micro Hei Mono, Droid Sans (I think is unicode), FreeSans (I think is unicode too).</p>
<p>Changing Chinese text to Sans, FreeSans, Droid Sans render the same font).
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20709 | 1 | 20713 | 2011-01-09T08:54:46.707 | 3 | 1729 | <p>I want to use rsnapshot to make backups from my production server to a remote backups server.</p>
<p>Should I install rsnapshot on the remote backup server and not the production one, right ?</p>
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20710 | 1 | 33056 | 2011-01-09T08:58:02.333 | 2 | 2238 | <p>I have used 10.10 and now for testing purposes installed 10.04 to a separate partition. 10.10 is currently on a single partition, while for 10.04 I decided to separate /boot to a third partition. Now my questions:</p>
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20712 | 1 | 20751 | 2011-01-09T09:27:48.717 | 5 | 104 | <p>or what can go wrong regarding config files?</p>
<p>I have an old installation of 10.10 and for testing purposes want 10.04 in parallel, I'd like to use my 10.10 gnome&al configuration there without crashing something</p>
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20716 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T10:14:05.263 | 3 | 217 | <p>Ok, so here's the thing,I installed wingpanel in Ubuntu 10.10, I removed the gnome-panels (yes, both). In the wingpanel itself there's no Network indicator, so I google it and in some forums, some guy wrote that you have to install <code>indicator-network</code>. </p>
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20719 | 1 | 20722 | 2011-01-09T11:02:59.380 | 10 | 2298 | <p>I'm new to these forums so I'll be quick.</p>
<p>When I try to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 from 10.04 I get this error, I have tried upgrading from Terminal and Update Manager as well.</p>
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<p>Could not determine the upgrade <br/>
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20720 | 1 | 21456 | 2011-01-09T11:10:02.487 | 2 | 1266 | <p>After upgrading from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 I am getting this message on boot up:</p>
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20725 | 1 | 20763 | 2011-01-09T12:31:38.100 | 140 | 159126 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13065/how-do-i-fix-the-gpg-error-no-pubkey">How do I fix the GPG error “NO_PUBKEY”?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>after <code>sudo apt-get update</code> I get this error:</p>
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20727 | 1 | 20734 | 2011-01-09T12:38:29.947 | 2 | 1110 | <p>Is there any way in which the width of items on the taskbar (or, rather, the lower panel) of the Gnome (2.32.0) desktop (Ubuntu 10.10) can be adjusted to take a more sensible width? </p>
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"body": "<p>That is not normal behaviour for the task bar. If you are using the standard task bar, you have something blocking it. Right click your panel and click on \"Add To Panel\", then drag the applet/separator that is blocking the taskbar.</p>\n",
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20728 | 1 | 20735 | 2011-01-09T12:39:13.300 | 8 | 15024 | <p>I keep my docky dock on left side of desktop and it overlaps desktop icons and their names when intellihide mode is on. Is there a way to align desktop icons on right side always, mac style?</p>
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20737 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T13:15:19.823 | 10 | 779 | <p>Does anyone have experience with gambling games (roulette, poker and so on) on Ubuntu?</p>
<p>I would like to setup a touchscreen kiosk in my home with Ubuntu...
Anything that works with coin and cash acceptors, reports payouts, lets the administrator set payout rates and so on</p>
<p>Any experiences/hints?
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20739 | 1 | 20745 | 2011-01-09T13:42:33.533 | 14 | 7085 | <p>Does an elegant way exist to save the output of a command to a file after the command has been run, while the terminal window is open i.e. once the command has been executed in the terminal?</p>
<p>The output is still present in terminal. Now I could copy & paste all the lines and save it to a file.</p>
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20743 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T14:59:16.173 | 5 | 366 | <p>Is it possible to automatically launch gksudo whenever I open a text file without write permissions in Nautilus? I often need to edit my /etc/hosts file and sometimes I forget to right click and select "Open as administrator".</p>
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20746 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T15:10:29.097 | 2 | 457 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/14259/how-to-get-pianobar-working-with-tor-and-polipo">How to get pianobar working with tor and polipo</a> </p>
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20748 | 1 | 20756 | 2011-01-09T15:44:51.550 | 12 | 2737 | <p>I'm so used to emacs that sometimes, when I'm typing something in a textbox in firefox, I sometimes try and do C-p to move up a line. It is <em>seriously</em> annoying to have to cancel a print dialog box every time I try and move about my text. If it's not horrendously complicated, I'd like to have keybindings that... | 702 | 70389 | 2012-06-14T19:44:23.270 | 2012-09-26T05:29:26.593 | Emacs keybindings for textboxes in firefox? | [
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20750 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T15:54:08.690 | 18 | 22495 | <p>Is it possible to automatically mount a sshfs filesystem whenever the connection goes up?</p>
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20752 | 1 | 20753 | 2011-01-09T16:01:47.650 | 173 | 145771 | <p>Is there a option to search within manpages?</p>
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20754 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T16:20:43.947 | 4 | 1017 | <p>My Ubuntu (10.10, netbook remix, unity) almost freezes from time to time. As far as I've investigated, the problem is with <code>mutter</code>. Then I run</p>
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20759 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T16:42:09.003 | 7 | 4642 | <pre><code>[.../~]$ mount
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20760 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T17:03:02.603 | 3 | 12131 | <p>I have researched this problem extensively and I can't seem to find an answer. In Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I want to connect to my VPN through the NetworkManager applet. I installed all the network manager packages, including the gnome client.</p>
<p>I understand I need to add the "Notification Area" to the panel, which I... | null | 46312 | 2012-03-13T22:47:15.963 | 2012-03-13T22:47:15.963 | Can't add NetworkManager applet to gnome panel | [
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20765 | 1 | 20781 | 2011-01-09T17:36:54.257 | 1 | 1010 | <p>I installed Lucida Grande but now I want to remove it.</p>
<p>I checked usr/share/font folder but I still can't find the font.</p>
<p>Any suggestion to remove the font? </p>
<p>(I searched for the file: <code>Lucida Grande.ttf</code> but still can't find anything)</p>
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20766 | 1 | 20770 | 2011-01-09T17:50:06.160 | 2 | 4835 | <p>I am burning an audio CD in Brasero, and so I've clicked Burn and a window comes up with one of the options asking if I want to "Burn the image directly without saving it to disc". What does this mean?</p>
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20767 | 1 | 20771 | 2011-01-09T17:51:50.087 | 1 | 8142 | <p>I am using external usb keyboard. I want to disable laptop's internal keyboard using software.</p>
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20773 | 1 | 20779 | 2011-01-09T18:15:13.990 | 2 | 919 | <p>I have been using Evolution for a quite long and it has downloaded around 1.6GBs of mails from gmail. I want to try thunderbird but I dont want to re download everything again. Is that possible to have both clients sharing same data? I'll make sure I don't use both at the same time if that matters. I'll move to thun... | 8600 | null | null | 2011-01-09T19:16:37.907 | Evolution and thunderbird sharing same mail data? | [
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20774 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T18:22:50.973 | 8 | 9594 | <p>I have chosen to write in 3 languages. I change them with the command <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>Alt</kbd> and it changes, but I cannot see in what language I write in the language indicator in my panel.</p>
<p>Can you help?</p>
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20782 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T19:22:28.537 | 1 | 571 | <p>I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 from 10.04 and ran into a problem. If I right click on my Desktop, select Change background it takes me to the Appearance Preferences and then I go to the Visual Effects tab to change my effects from None to Normal, now this all works fine, as soon as I restart my computer it chan... | 1731 | 169736 | 2013-10-19T13:44:09.083 | 2013-10-19T13:44:09.083 | Losing Visual Effects settings after reboot | [
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20783 | 1 | 20831 | 2011-01-09T19:26:19.057 | 392 | 528057 | <p>How is the <code>/tmp</code> directory cleaned up? Is it automatic? If so, how frequently is it cleaned up? </p>
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20784 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T19:31:39.197 | 3 | 8293 | <p>When I try to stream youtube videos on my ubuntu 11.04, they don't stream smoothly. They buffer well and are choppy.</p>
<p>Here's my Config:</p>
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<li>Laptop: Gateway NV58</li>
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20788 | 1 | 20826 | 2011-01-09T19:37:22.187 | 2 | 217 | <p>The GNOME project aims to provide the user with a desktop environment, and it does consist of many pieces of software. There indeed is a foundation called the GNOME foundation, and there is a desktop environment called GNOME, but well, can GNOME itself be called <strong>software</strong>?</p>
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20790 | 1 | 20795 | 2011-01-09T19:44:24.787 | 8 | 8786 | <p>I have a small screen (1280x800) and don't like to waste space.
Is there a way to remove a title bar and the frames of the windows themselves?
The buttons on the title bare are easily replaced by keyboard shortcuts.</p>
<p>I used to be able to do it in lxde and really liked it.</p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
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20791 | 1 | 20798 | 2011-01-09T19:48:41.330 | 4 | 3399 | <p>I'm having issues trying to update my packages. I haven't used this server since last September and now I'm getting 404 errors on all the intrepid repos. How do I fix this?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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20799 | 1 | 20802 | 2011-01-09T20:17:05.837 | 7 | 1516 | <p>Where could I find some documentation?</p>
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20804 | 1 | 20820 | 2011-01-09T21:07:51.110 | 7 | 3242 | <p>How to configure <code>locate</code> so that it indexes all files including hidden ones?
Or what does <code>locate</code> exclude in its search?</p>
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20805 | 1 | 21888 | 2011-01-09T21:15:08.863 | 3 | 1121 | <p>After I updated ubuntu (I believe it was most likely a kernel update) and restarted I selected ubuntu from the windows boot loader (I am using wubi). At this point I would usually land on the grub loader; however, I see something about NTFS file not found and a couple other screens flash then the computer restarts. ... | 7668 | null | null | 2011-01-22T01:17:33.187 | Grub Doesn't Load after Update | [
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20806 | 1 | 20850 | 2011-01-09T21:19:24.710 | 2 | 1309 | <p>The 'printf' I refer to is the standard-issue "program" (not the built-in): <strong><code>/usr/bin/printf</code></strong> </p>
<p>I was testing printf out as a viable method of convert a Unicode Codepoint Hex-literal into its Unicoder character representation, </p>
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20808 | 1 | 361223 | 2011-01-09T21:27:29.453 | 4 | 3611 | <p>Is it possible to give sftp access to a user without giving him ssh access?</p>
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20809 | 1 | 20815 | 2011-01-09T21:28:08.673 | 2 | 407 | <p>How do i connect to the ubuntuone couch on the ubuntu server side (the one my local desktopcouch replicates with)</p>
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20814 | 1 | 20825 | 2011-01-09T22:19:16.897 | 2 | 435 | <p>What software can convert all video formats to iPod nano mp4 format?</p>
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20821 | 1 | 93477 | 2011-01-09T23:00:37.380 | 27 | 4881 | <p>I selected /home/ to be encrypted when I was installing Ubuntu. Now, is it possible to make <code>locate</code> work with an encrypted partition like this?</p>
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20822 | 1 | 20846 | 2011-01-09T23:10:47.630 | 1 | 1320 | <p><strong>Problem</strong></p>
<p>I have a Dell mini 9, and the wireless has worked without trouble in Ubuntu and Xubuntu versions 8.04 and 10.04. </p>
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20824 | 1 | null | 2011-01-09T23:20:51.107 | 1 | 808 | <p>I tried to install the new kernel but something went wrong and I'm trying to remove it now.
The error massege is:</p>
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Building dependency tree
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20829 | 1 | 20834 | 2011-01-09T23:49:54.023 | 22 | 44148 | <p>I'd like to change the background color of the purple plymouth boot splash to another color, how can I do this?</p>
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20830 | 1 | 20845 | 2011-01-10T00:03:30.183 | 12 | 793 | <p>What reasons are there for applications in Ubuntu not being the most up-to-date, and why are some applications not available, in its repositories?</p>
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20835 | 1 | 20843 | 2011-01-10T00:30:46.367 | 7 | 1486 | <p>I keep getting weird errors from launchpad when I try and copy the Maverick packages to Natty for the PPA. I select the wine1.3 package (not in Ubuntu), select "copy to this PPA", and then select "rebuild the resulting binaries". This error emerges:</p>
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20838 | 1 | 20842 | 2011-01-10T01:57:56.103 | 3 | 3249 | <p>I'd like to transfer data to and from my TI-89 Titanium that connects via a USB cable.</p>
<p>How can I do this in Ubuntu?</p>
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20844 | 1 | null | 2011-01-10T02:14:58.227 | 4 | 587 | <p>I just updated from Lucid to Natty (thought it was going to be Maverick, but my About Ubuntu menu shows that it is Natty, which "was released in April 2011" - who knew the developers had mastered time travel?!)</p>
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20852 | 1 | 29045 | 2011-01-10T03:10:17.183 | 17 | 14355 | <p>I did</p>
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<p>But I still can't figure out how to make it permanent.</p>
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20853 | 1 | 20855 | 2011-01-10T03:24:09.623 | 12 | 15282 | <p>Is it possible to mount Ubuntu 10.10's partition on Windows 7?</p>
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20854 | 1 | null | 2011-01-10T03:35:10.110 | 23 | 29870 | <p>I have this entry in <strong>.xsession-errors</strong> log</p>
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20856 | 1 | null | 2011-01-10T03:42:52.210 | 4 | 1884 | <p>For some mysterious reason the virtual desktop icon from the kubuntu 10.10 panel has disappeared. How could I added it back to the panel?</p>
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20857 | 1 | 21912 | 2011-01-10T03:52:00.817 | 7 | 8179 | <p>This is so damn frustrating :-|
I've spent like 20 hours on this nice error, and seems like dozens of people over Internet too, and no clear solution yet.</p>
<p>I have non-system RAID-5 of 5 disks, and it's fine. But during boot up it says that
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20859 | 1 | null | 2011-01-10T04:03:06.023 | 2 | 3010 | <p>I can delete, rename and reorganize songs by clicking on the Ubuntu desktop icon for my Walkman. However, the changes are not evident on the player itself. Help?</p>
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20863 | 1 | 20921 | 2011-01-10T05:33:08.777 | 46 | 100799 | <p>I need to run <code>ssh-add <key></code> everytime I need to ssh into a webserver. Is there a way to add the ID permanently, so I dont have to keep adding the identities on each login?</p>
<p>EDIT: The key is a pem file, that I have downloaded from a cloud service.</p>
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20864 | 1 | null | 2011-01-10T05:44:37.410 | 3 | 2410 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on my MacBook Air 11" (late 2010 model 3,1). Compiz runs fine, as well as most of GNOME Shell's animations. </p>
<p>The animation for switching to and from GNOME Shell overview is just very slow. Unfortunately, it's the most common animation on Shell.</p>
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20865 | 1 | 20869 | 2011-01-10T05:56:22.893 | 394 | 673267 | <p>Is it possible to remove a particular host key from SSH's known_hosts file?</p>
<p>I usually end up deleting the entire <code>known_hosts</code> file, which I have no problems with doing, but just out of curiosity, is it possible to remove just a single entry? </p>
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20871 | 1 | 20873 | 2011-01-10T08:41:07.467 | 7 | 1987 | <p>I know there is something different about the environment of the Terminal command-line and the environment in a bash script, but I don't know what that difference is... </p>
<p>Here is the example which finally led me to ask this quesiton; it may flush out some of the differences. </p>
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20872 | 1 | 20874 | 2011-01-10T08:53:00.873 | 75 | 61896 | <p>I am getting complaints that I consume lots of internet bandwidth.</p>
<p>Is there any software that can limit internet bandwidth on my computer from my own computer? I use Firefox as browser and use bittorrent and download software from software center.</p>
<p>(Is there also a way to monitor it?)</p>
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20879 | 1 | 20899 | 2011-01-10T11:39:24.207 | 14 | 7985 | <p>Is there a Gedit plugin for highlighting HTML matching tag? If so then please suggest me.</p>
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20880 | 1 | 20890 | 2011-01-10T11:43:29.107 | 14 | 16387 | <p>I installed the <strong>postgresql-8.4</strong> package with default options. Everything worked fine, however I can't seem to manage to create unicode databases:</p>
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20887 | 1 | 20888 | 2011-01-10T13:20:58.723 | 9 | 1017 | <p>There are <a href="http://www.rozickas.com/2010/10/17/computers-without-bios-faster-start/#more-13" rel="nofollow">plans</a> to remove bios from new computers. Is Natty prepared for this? Will it work when I buy a newer hardware or should I buy older pc?</p>
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20889 | 1 | 20898 | 2011-01-10T13:42:32.900 | 2 | 201 | <p>Is there a app / command that will hunt for specified files ( thumbs.db, .m3u and similar ) files across my home dir and delete them?</p>
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20896 | 1 | null | 2011-01-10T13:53:38.627 | 4 | 15301 | <p>I installed Ubuntu 10.10 to my Lenovo s10-3 a couple of weeks ago. At first there was no problem but yesterday when I tried to connect to internet, I realized that my "wireless" seemed as disabled. I googled about this issue and tried some codes however nothing changed.</p>
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20897 | 1 | 20902 | 2011-01-10T13:55:10.503 | 4 | 598 | <p>About every 3 days on my desktop (always on), X crashes, gdm restarts and it dumps me at a login screen. When I log in Gnome appears to have lost a lot of its settings: it plays sounds in weird places, UI elements look like they're from the 90s (GTK+ defaults) and it's generally pretty hideous.</p>
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20909 | 1 | null | 2011-01-10T15:24:50.127 | 4 | 8453 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/6009/where-are-icons-stored">Where are icons stored?</a> </p>
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<p>Where do I find the Icons folder (file?)? Then how do I change an apps icon to one of my choosing?</p>
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20910 | 1 | 20914 | 2011-01-10T15:26:45.260 | 9 | 1503 | <p>Why is Evolution the default mail/calendar package that comes with Ubuntu?</p>
<p>Why not Thunderbird + Lightning?</p>
<p>Are there any features in Evolution that are not available in Thunderbird + Lightning? </p>
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20913 | 1 | 20936 | 2011-01-10T15:58:32.200 | 10 | 10523 | <p>i used to use ietester in windows for testing site. but i found that it has no downloads for linux. is there any alternative for ietester in ubuntu.</p>
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20916 | 1 | 20926 | 2011-01-10T16:16:15.607 | 13 | 8153 | <p>Is there a way to synchronize my installations (and removals) between multiple PCs?</p>
<p>Preferably with dropbox - since I'm already using that to keep my files in sync.</p>
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20919 | 1 | 20928 | 2011-01-10T16:22:34.780 | 6 | 9028 | <p>I have to get nine 46" LCD monitors (running Windows) to suspend/sleep at 8pm and wake at 8am every morning. It's been a bit of a mess trying to get the commands working, including the privileges. Since I'm an Ubuntu user first and foremost, I'm wondering how easy this would be in Ubuntu/Linux.</p>
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20925 | 1 | 20932 | 2011-01-10T16:44:21.570 | 2 | 6381 | <p>This is the current state of my partition table. As can be seen, the boot is very small, and I can't upgrade the kernel, because the update-manager tells me there isnt enough space on /boot :( Which effectively means that I can't update my kernel. Can I change the size of my boot, without necessitating a reinstall o... | 3778 | 3778 | 2011-05-05T13:49:07.817 | 2015-04-30T05:49:20.787 | Can I expand my /boot without upsetting the system? | [
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20929 | 1 | null | 2011-01-10T17:11:24.780 | 7 | 22606 | <p>I've been tinkering with <code>fingerprint-gui</code> as well as <code>X</code>/<code>xrandr</code> resolution settings.</p>
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20931 | 1 | null | 2011-01-10T18:02:43.157 | 5 | 736 | <p>OK. So I usually save my files online and not on my computer. I am hoping to be able to set up my Ubuntu One cloud to recognize changes made to documents and add new documents when synchronizing. But not delete from the cloud, files I have deleted from my computer. Does anyone know if this is possible? I have search... | null | 1992 | 2011-03-15T13:38:23.187 | 2013-07-16T17:21:33.100 | Will deleting files on my computer delete them them in Ubuntu one? | [
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20937 | 1 | 20938 | 2011-01-10T19:08:44.977 | 7 | 7315 | <p>I have some html files that I'd like to retab that look like this:</p>
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<div class="welcome">Welcome Andy!</div>
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20951 | 1 | 20963 | 2011-01-10T22:21:02.290 | 4 | 4424 | <p>I made a link on my Desktop to the launcher file "Compiz" in /usr/share/applications/. When I try to execute it I get:</p>
<p>"The application launcher "Link to compiz.desktop" has not been marked as trusted. If you do not know the source of this file, launching it may be unsafe."</p>
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20953 | 1 | 20955 | 2011-01-10T22:25:35.317 | 88 | 282386 | <p>I've been updating some of the default profile for bash, and saw from the tutorials I was following that I could reload the new profile with the new environment settings by using:</p>
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20961 | 1 | 21737 | 2011-01-10T23:02:28.933 | 6 | 5005 | <p>(Before anyone asks -- I've installed the Guest Additions correctly. :] )
When I turn on on Seamless Mode for VirtualBox, it seems to work, but my windows no longer have any borders, and so I can't move them, maximize them, etc.</p>
<p>Why is this? Is there a fix?</p>
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20971 | 1 | 20974 | 2011-01-10T23:39:35.733 | 1 | 1056 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/193/how-can-i-change-the-login-screen-theme">How can I change the login screen theme?</a> </p>
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<p>Is there any way to change the appearance of the login window (specifically including the font hinting... | 8678 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:07.557 | 2011-02-10T02:24:07.243 | Change Login Window Appearance | [
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20975 | 1 | 79768 | 2011-01-11T00:05:56.350 | 2 | 3580 | <p>Environment: Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit), Eclipse Helios 3.6 (64-bit), Android 2.3 SDK + ADT.</p>
<p>All works great, but I can only select a workspace that's on the local system. Eclipse won't let me select shared folder on a Samba server.</p>
<p>Ubuntu's URI for this share is of the form:</p>
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20978 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T00:19:37.510 | 1 | 238 | <p>I'm using a Dell Inspiron 1520 and Ubuntu 10.10. I've read a lot of questions about graphics problems after resuming from suspend, but most of them are much more serious than mine. I can boot, login and use Ubuntu fine. The problem is that my theme for my top bar and bottom bar changes to gray and blocky (not rounde... | 381 | 235 | 2011-01-11T04:15:20.223 | 2011-01-11T04:15:20.223 | Theme changes after resuming from suspend | [
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20979 | 1 | 20999 | 2011-01-11T00:22:27.960 | 2 | 326 | <p>I was wondering if anyone had had the chance to compare performance between Ubuntu One upload speeds on Natty Narwhal and any other version of Ubuntu? Also, any difference on how well it connects? [don't shoot me for asking ;)]</p>
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20982 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T00:45:32.493 | 20 | 21175 | <p>I am trying to install another language support (in addition to the default US). Checking that language checkbox in "Install / Remove Languages..." wasn't too difficult. :)</p>
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20983 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T00:49:33.147 | 1 | 540 | <p>I have a collection of visio stencils, and I need a tool that can create a gif/jpeg,etc index of the stencils within it.</p>
<p>If not available, is there a tool that can create a thumbnail of each object within a given stencil?</p>
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20984 | 1 | 55189 | 2011-01-11T01:09:02.257 | 21 | 65309 | <p>I've searched for this, and the answer is probably in a million places on the 'net, but I can't find it...</p>
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20985 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T01:11:00.040 | 2 | 468 | <p>This is related to question <a href="https://askubuntu.com/q/19245/8065">Why is this bypassing the SUDO password?</a>. In that one of the responders answered the question in an awesome way, and very, <em>very</em> clear to any newbie. Now here is a question that I can't seem to figure. </p>
<p>I wrote a script for ... | 8065 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:27.937 | 2015-04-29T17:49:19.063 | What other bash variables are available during execution such as $USER that can assist on my script? | [
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"body": "<p>1) No, since that would give away your password to anyone on your system</p>\n\n<p>2) The return value from gksudo is an integer indicating whether it had an error or not. The -p switch has it PRINT the password to its stdout.</p>\n\n<p>3) Why are you even trying to get the ... | null | null | null | null | null |
20987 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T01:18:58.097 | 4 | 2449 | <p>I have tried everything from <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/9040/no-audio-with-headphones-but-audio-works-with-integrated-speakers">this question</a> and <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/100/sound-comes-out-of-my-speakers-even-when-headphones-are-plugged-in">this question</a> and I have nothing. I ... | 8685 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:25:03.423 | 2012-09-09T00:59:13.307 | Dual sound from headphones and speakers | [
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"text": "Can you clarify what you mean by \"working solo\"? Thanks.",
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"body": "<p>I have the same problem and I use a \"simple hack\" to solve this issue:</p>\n\n<p>To listen to your headphones only, go to Sound Preferences --> Output and from the \"Connector\" dropdown Choose \"Analog Headphones\". When you want the sound back to your speaker go back and ... | null | null | null | null | null |
20988 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T01:21:34.257 | 1 | 9053 | <p>how to run firefox inside wine with windows compatible plugins..i am a newbie..i have to complete a online training program and need adobe flashplayer plugin.</p>
<p>it seems it is not available for linux..so what should i do here ? how can wine help?
please tell me in baby steps..thanks</p>
<p>amith</p>
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"text": "you don't need wine to install flash on firefox.",
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"body": "<p>Flash player is available for Linux.\nHonestly I'm a bit confused by your question, but, here is a link to help you out:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/Flash\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/Flash<... | null | null | null | null | amith |
20989 | 1 | null | 2011-01-11T01:31:20.770 | 21 | 58193 | <p>Here is a quesion that has been bugging me. You know how you can set up a program to run on start up right? Well, how can i tell it to start minimized, like you would do in windows? </p>
<p>TeamViewer starts open, but I need it minimized, and Tray-it just doesn't seem as elegant of a way to do it.</p>
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"text": "have a look here http://www.webupd8.org/2011/02/how-to-start-applications-minimized.html and here http://www.johndscomputers.com/2013/linux/autostarting-applications-minimized-in-ubuntu/",
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"body": "<p>Minimizing a program depends on the program if it supports that or not. It also depends if the program has an option in the gui or via command line. For example vlc has an option in preferences that gives the chance to start it minimized. But it also has an option in command ... | null | null | null | null | null |
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