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<p>Removing the package from cache, and disabling Recommended Updates in Software Sources gives me an error saying I need to install this package.</p> <p>I've tried to update several times, but it keeps hanging on unpacking the ubuntu-sso-client package. Which forces me to hard-reset to unlock the package manager.</p>...
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2011-01-13T17:06:40.797
2011-01-17T14:10:05.947
Update gets stuck unpacking bad package, won't continue without it
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2011-01-11T04:14:45.987
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<p>I've isnstalled phpMyAdmin with <code>apt-get install phpmyadmin</code>. When I open "http://localhost/phpmyadmin/", enter "root" as the user name and my MySQL root password and press go, then if I use Firefox, I get offered to download index.php file (and if I agree to download, the file is empty), if I use Opera 1...
2390
2390
2011-01-11T05:08:48.470
2015-07-26T09:03:51.173
How to fix phpMyadmin login?
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2011-01-11T04:29:56.120
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<p>What is the "desktop couch scratch" folder, and what do I do with it, if anything?</p>
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2011-01-11T04:51:58.867
2011-01-11T04:51:58.867
What is the "desktop couch scratch" folder?
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2011-01-11T04:35:01.877
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<p>I have two computers.</p> <ul> <li>C1: Windows with Internet connection.</li> <li>C2: Ubuntu connected with C1 but not connected with Internet.</li> </ul> <p>I'd like to access apt repositories to update or install some packages on Ubuntu.</p> <p>I heard, apt-cacher is one of solutions, but I couldn't find apt-ca...
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2012-03-13T23:13:35.850
2012-07-21T09:45:22.703
Is there apt-cacher for Windows?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>There is no apt-cacher for windows, although you could just as easily proxy the internet connection from the windows machine to your ubuntu machine. This assumes you have admin access to the windows machine... wich you would have needed for an apt-cacher service install anyway.</p>\n...
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2011-01-11T05:24:20.057
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<p>I am on 10.10 and have been able to get connected to a VPN server. But the problem is I can't open any other sites when I am connected to VPN.</p> <p>It's working in Win though, where I was able to browse any sites and the VPN site at the same time without issues. </p> <p>Must be I am missing something here. Pleas...
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2011-04-12T05:40:13.367
Getting connected to VPN but other sites not opening
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It's working now. </p>\n\n<p>I had not entered the Domain info. </p>\n", "commentCount": "7", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-05-04T12:04:50.047", "id": "43867", "postId": "21160", "score": "0", "text": "@Arindom: Press the [v] on the left ...
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2011-01-11T05:50:01.327
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<p>After attempting to install quickly with:</p> <pre><code>sudo apt-get install quickly python-quickly-widgets </code></pre> <p>I got a postfix (mail daemon) configuration screen. Why do I need it to use quickly and how should I configure it? I read/write mail on my browser (gmail...).</p>
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2011-01-11T09:43:49.367
2011-01-11T10:30:34.380
Postfix after insalling quickly?
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2011-01-11T06:14:22.607
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<p>Will Ubuntu have something like Google App Inventor to easily develop applications for the Ubuntu platform? Is Quickly intended to do that? I heard Ubuntu is planing to make easy and fun to develop for Ubuntu platform. How is it going to be accomplished?</p>
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9781
2011-10-10T15:20:59.420
2017-03-13T02:12:46.400
App Inventor for the Ubuntu platform?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<h1><a href=\"http://radicalbreeze.com/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Illumination Software Creator</a> <img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/yOkRZ.png\" alt=\"commercial\" /></h1>\n<p>This is a proprietary commercial application that costs $39.85 US (available from Ubuntu Software Centr...
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2011-01-11T08:29:23.567
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<p>I'm using the Docky ppa, and since the latest update it won't start. If I run it from the terminal, this is what I get:</p> <pre><code>[Info 09:21:19.005] Docky version: 2.1.0 bzr docky r1761 ppa [Info 09:21:19.024] Kernel version: 2.6.35.24 [Info 09:21:19.026] CLR version: 2.0.50727.1433 [Debug 09:21:19.493] [U...
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2011-01-11T20:08:08.307
2011-01-11T20:08:08.307
Docky have stopped working since update
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2011-01-11T09:27:22.663
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<p>I am trying to learn image processing and obviously opencv is one of the best options. Usually synaptic does all my installing work for me so I just checked the repos. But in the repos there is only on libcv1 and it is listed as 1.0.0-6.2ubuntu1. Does that mean it is version 1.0 of opencv? Also I found this page in ...
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2011-01-11T14:54:40.237
2014-06-17T20:59:45.213
How to install opencv?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>In your case you have indeed version 1.0.0 of the library.</p>\n\n<p>In general when you want to develop using a library, you have to get the corresponding -dev package which contains the header files. In this case libcv-dev. It will also install the library itself, which may...
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2011-01-11T09:31:35.663
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<p>I am considering buying "Ubuntu Desktop Support" from Canonical for 2 reasons:</p> <ol> <li>I have a couple of issues that I would like professional help with. (Specifically a recurring kernel panic, and a slow wireless connection.)</li> <li>I would like to lend a helping hand toward supporting Ubuntu financially.<...
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2014-02-06T13:13:06.237
2014-02-06T13:13:06.237
What has been your experience with paid support from Canonical?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>So, I did end up buying desktop support from Canonical. After I placed my order, I was able to log into Canonical's support system ( which they call \"Landscape\" ) within a couple of days ( they sent me an email once my account had been activated ). I am able to log into Landscape...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I've no experience with canonical support. But the <a href=\"http://www.canonical.com/support/services/support-features\" rel=\"nofollow\">features</a> look promising and the one year package has a fair price, so i guess you couldn't do something wrong by subscribing.</p>\n\n...
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2012-02-06T16:22:58.820
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1
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2011-01-11T09:44:42.547
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<p>I'm a student of chemistry and I'd like a piece of software to visualise molecules. I've heard of 'jmol', but I can't get it installed. </p> <p>I've downloaded <code>Jmol-12.1.16-full.tar.gz</code>, what do I need to do with it?</p> <p>Thank you,</p> <p>Philippe</p>
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2011-01-11T09:54:00.073
2011-01-24T20:18:29.847
How to install jmol?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Jmol requires Java 1.4+, so make sure you have an Java Runtime.</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install default-jre\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Now we need to extract the Jmol archive you downloaded. </p>\n\n<p>The instructions are, (go to the folder you downloaded):</p>\n\n<pre><cod...
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2011-01-11T10:02:24.197
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<p>A while ago, my Search Toolbar bar went missing in dolphin.</p> <p>I'm referring to the Search Toolbar found under Settings>Toolbars Shown>Search Toolbar. I used to sit at the very top right corner of the window.</p> <p>If the search toolbar is checked for view/unhide, the toolbar looks to activate something, as t...
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2011-01-12T03:50:04.793
2011-01-17T03:42:54.813
Dolphin Search Toolbar is missing its text field. How can I get it back?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>other people seem to have the same problem.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=202&amp;t=91646\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=202&amp;t=91646</a>.</p>\n\n<p>issue #8 on the first post</p>\n\n<p>UPDATE:\nthey did remove the search toolbar...
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21024
1
21057
2011-01-11T10:15:32.037
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<p>we have a collection of old home videos that were saved in AVI format a long time ago. I want to convert these files to a more modern format because the Totem Movie Player that comes with Ubuntu 10.4 seems to be the only program capable of playing them. </p> <p>The files seem to be encoded with a MJPEG codec, and p...
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2017-03-14T13:15:06.483
Convert old AVI files to a modern format
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>For easy transcoding <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/arista\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">arista</a> <a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/arista\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-large\" alt=\"Install arista\"></a> can be used.</p>\n\n<p>Like tote...
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2011-01-11T10:18:49.320
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<p>I have installed an Ubuntu machine with two <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedFilesystemHowto3">encrypted LUKS partitions</a>: one for <code>/</code> and one for <code>/home</code>.</p> <p>I've reinstalled the machine to upgrade to 10.04. Again, the <code>/</code> is installed using LUKS, and I'm ...
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2011-11-10T23:01:36.280
Mount a LUKS partition at boot
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2011-01-11T10:19:27.913
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<p>I've been using Elementary Desktop for a while, but after the last update, Docky have broken. I've tried using the Docky stable ppa, but it is overridden by the Elementary ppa, as they provide a newer version of Docky.</p> <p>I would like to keep receiving updates to the Elementary theme, but I would also like to u...
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2011-01-11T13:09:28.160
Ignore certain packages from ppa
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2011-01-11T10:36:16.277
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<p>As noted in the Ubuntu <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RubyOnRails">wiki page on Rails</a> it is recommended that gems manages your Rails/Ruby dependencies.</p> <p>What is the best practise with Python packages like Django? Should I install them through apt-get or should I let easy_install/pip fetch them...
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2018-03-22T16:50:55.387
easy_install/pip or apt-get
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2011-01-11T11:19:06.223
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<p>A picture is worth a thousand words... so does anyone know how to fix this font blurriness in Firefox?</p> <p>(You'll need to right-click the picture below go to View Image to view it full-size; it's too small to see anything here.)</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kzrf5.png" alt="1"></p> <p>Note: My ot...
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2011-01-11T22:01:04.557
2022-12-24T00:28:51.147
Font rendering in Firefox is blurry
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21033
1
21040
2011-01-11T11:52:51.873
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<p>Is there any difference between the behavior of <code>gksu foo</code> and <code>gksudo foo</code>? <br/> Can they be used interchangeably? <br/></p>
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2018-03-21T10:30:09.337
2018-03-21T10:30:09.337
What is the difference between gksudo and gksu?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Both files point to the same place:</p>\n\n<pre><code>$ ls -l /usr/bin/gksudo \nlrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2010-09-27 18:23 /usr/bin/gksudo -&gt; gksu\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>... <code>gksudo</code> is symlinked to <code>gksu</code>. But this doesn't mean they <em>do</em> the same things,...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>In Ubuntu (!), there is no difference.</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><code>gksu</code> would normally <strong>log in the root user</strong> and run an app on this session. However, on Ubuntu, it defaults to using the \"sudo mode\", which is equivalent of running <code>gksudo</code>. Th...
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21039
1
21087
2011-01-11T12:19:11.310
6
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<p>In my Ubuntu 9.10 installation, I notice that the process gvfs-afc-volume-monitor causes my CPU core to go to 100% (that means for my dual-core machine to 50%).</p> <p>Killing this process helps, but I see it repeating later on (not sure if this happens after restart/relogin or not).</p> <p>What can I do to preven...
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2011-03-12T23:32:38.317
gvfs-afc-volume-monitor uses a lot of CPU
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It sounds like you are suffering from this bug or something similar</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usbmuxd/+bug/656009\" rel=\"nofollow\">/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-afc-volume-monitor kills polar bears</a></p>\n\n<p>Not sure about the title of the bug but the m...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It sounds like you are suffering from this bug or something similar</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usbmuxd/+bug/656009\" rel=\"nofollow\">/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-afc-volume-monitor kills polar bears</a></p>\n\n<p>Not sure about the title of the bug b...
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21044
1
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2011-01-11T12:52:49.713
3
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/32499/migrate-from-a-virtual-box-vm-to-a-physical-system">Migrate from a virtual box vm to a physical system.</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>how to install VMware image on a hard drive partition? </p>
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-1
2017-04-13T12:23:07.557
2011-07-04T23:21:59.273
how to install VMware image on a hard drive partition
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-11T13:04:47.600", "id": "22606", "postId": "21044", "score": "1", "text": "Please add some more information to your question, do you want to transfer the OS from a VM image to a physical partition ? Does the image contains an Ubuntu VM ?", "userDisplayName": null, ...
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2011-07-05T09:42:23.587
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21046
1
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2011-01-11T13:02:22.130
5
3285
<p>I am looking for a good publishing tool to write articles. I saw the book <a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449382674/?CMP=ILC-hf1st" rel="noreferrer">"Head First Python" from O'Reily Media</a> and found it really interesting, the way they present things in the book. </p> <p>I am looking to organize my artic...
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2011-01-11T14:38:44.430
Good Publishing Tool
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p><a href=\"http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus\">Scribus</a> is the most popular open source desktop publishing application, it is available from the software center.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-11T18:54:14.033"...
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Kiran
21050
1
null
2011-01-11T13:13:37.140
7
904
<p>I am working on a project that is based on Urdu language in Ubuntu platform. I'm using Python language and have almost achieved my task.</p> <p>The problem is that, the Urdu text is rendered in reverse order.</p> <p>For example, consider the word <code>کام</code> (<em>which means work</em>) consisting of the three...
8705
26246
2014-03-22T18:12:00.767
2014-03-22T18:12:00.767
Reverse rendering of Urdu fonts
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-11T14:31:09.103", "id": "22619", "postId": "21050", "score": "1", "text": "Surely this depnds on what kind of program you're working on - Web application, console application, GUI application (which toolkit?).", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "627" } ]
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>As a simple solution try reversing the string and then display it. Also look at localization options in Python. I dont know if Python supports Right-to-Left languages. You would get better answer to this question if you ask it at <a href=\"http://stackoverflow.com\">StackOver...
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21051
1
21534
2011-01-11T13:20:42.047
1
903
<p>I'd like to use my mobile phone (Nokia E71) as a handset for incoming calls in Skype/Empathy.</p> <p>I know this basically means that I have to configure it as a PulseAudio device, but I wasn't able to do that.</p> <p>Following <a href="http://discoverylinux.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/bluetooth-audio-con-pulseaudio-...
8707
8707
2011-01-14T09:35:18.163
2013-02-07T23:19:17.413
Is it possible to use a bluetooth-enabled phone as handset?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It is unlikely that the phone is configured to be used as Bluetooth handset. Typical cellphone profiles include storage devices (access to directories on the cellphone), smartphone, and data links (Tethered internet). It is unlikely to provide a headset over Bluetooth. </p>\n\n<p>...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Have you tried padevchooser</p>\n\n<p><strong>Pulseaudio Device Chooser</strong></p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1301788.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">An Ubuntu Forum post about audio device not recognised by pulseaudio</a>\nthe relevant post is by d...
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21052
1
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2011-01-11T13:22:59.203
7
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<p>I have made Ubuntu my primary OS since 10.04, and I have converted many of my friends and neighbors into Ubuntu users since then. I am the fix-it guy they approach when they encounter problems. The most frantic calls I get are when they encounter an "update-induced kernel panic." (<em>Many human beings are allergic ...
4776
4776
2011-01-12T17:24:43.810
2011-01-12T17:24:43.810
Kernel Panic Troubleshooting For Dummies
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>My ideas:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>Make sure you always <strong>keep at least one older and stable kernel version installed</strong>.<br>\nThat way, if a new kernel update causes the panic, you will still be able to restart your system with the old one.</p></li>\n<li><p><strong>W...
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21056
1
21061
2011-01-11T13:50:19.310
21
16148
<p>Is there a way to stop ClamScan eating my server CPU?</p>
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2017-02-23T08:08:07.587
2017-04-08T22:02:05.190
Can I limit the CPU usage of a single application?
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Just as an alternative to cpulimit:</p>\n\n<p>You could start clamscan with the nice-command, e.g.</p>\n\n<p><code>nice -n 19 clamscan</code>.</p>\n\n<p>See <code>man nice</code> for details.</p>\n\n<p>It does <strong>NOT</strong> limit the CPU, but it does <strong>lower the priority...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Install <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/cpulimit\" rel=\"noreferrer\">cpulimit</a></p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install cpulimit\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>It provides different methods of limiting the CPU usage of a process <code>foo</code> to say, 20%</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>B...
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21059
1
23514
2011-01-11T13:59:55.027
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3357
<p>Was anyone able to install packetfence on Ubuntu 10.10? I tried a <a href="http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/386610%3ainstall-packetfence-for-powerful-network-access-control" rel="nofollow">tutorial</a>, but didn't have any luck. Some of the services installed and are working apache with php, snort, pfdetect, and...
7145
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2011-01-22T21:05:23.637
2011-01-27T13:30:10.767
How do you install packetfence?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Disclaimer: I work on the PacketFence project</p>\n\n<p>It's complicated because of the interaction between PacketFence and the system components (apache, snmptrapd, named, dhcpd). As soon as the configuration files are not located in the same locations (<code>/etc/httpd/</code> vs <...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>It looks like packetfence and it's related modules, needs to be packages for Debian. This isn't a hard job, since a lot of the modules are available with standard perl installers. But it would require each module to be built.</p>\n\n<p>Once you've got a nice package of packet...
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21062
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21064
2011-01-11T14:13:38.483
10
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<p>I'd like to be able to edit my files offline and it would automatically send the changes to Google Docs and vice versa. Is that even possible? If so, how to do it?</p>
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2017-02-23T08:08:59.993
How to sync Google Docs with a folder in my filesystem?
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1
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2012-05-09T10:15:08.210", "id": "159751", "postId": "21062", "score": "0", "text": "When google release google drive for linux, then you can use that! I have it for my workspace for eclipse. :)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "10698" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Try <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/google-docs-fs\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">google-docs-fs</a></p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install google-docs-fs\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "c...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Try <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/google-docs-fs\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">google-docs-fs</a></p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install google-docs-fs\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC ...
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21066
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2011-01-11T14:39:55.550
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4351
<p>I have a rather long spreadsheet with historical information of issues solved by some user on a collaborative environment. </p> <p>The spreadsheet have the following (relevant) columns</p> <p>date, week no., project, author id, etc...</p> <p>The week no. is calculated from the date, is basically the year concaten...
8710
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2017-03-20T10:18:09.720
2012-01-15T21:35:38.740
OpenOffice Calc: How can I count the number of different items with data pilot?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Use <strong>Ctrl-Shift-Enter</strong> when entering it. </p>\n\n<p><strong>Example</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>=SUM(IF(FREQUENCY(IF(LEN(A1:A10)>0;MATCH(A1:A10;A1:A10;0);\"\"); IF(LEN(A1:A10)>0;MATCH(A1:A10;A1:A10;0);\"\"))>0;1))</strong> </p>\n\n<p>where A1:A10 is the range be...
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21068
1
21069
2011-01-11T15:19:40.900
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<p>How can I get the current disk usage (in %) of my hard drive from the command line?</p>
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2019-01-28T20:58:00.993
How to get disk usage from command line?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>By using the <code>df</code> command.</p>\n\n<p>Here's an example output:</p>\n\n<pre><code>$ df\nFilesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on\n/dev/sda1 303537496 27537816 260580948 10% /\nnone 950788 252 950536 1% /de...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>By using the <code>df</code> command.</p>\n\n<p>Here's an example output:</p>\n\n<pre><code>$ df\nFilesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on\n/dev/sda1 303537496 27537816 260580948 10% /\nnone 950788 252 950536 ...
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21070
1
21113
2011-01-11T15:22:56.973
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<p>I want to insert an item to System menu:</p> <ul> <li>Help and Support</li> <li>About Gnome</li> <li>About Ubuntu </li> </ul> <p>More specifically, I want to insert a new item under "About Ubuntu".</p> <p>Trying with alacarte doesn't work. Cloning "ubuntu-about.desktop" file and changing his attributes doesn't wo...
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2011-01-11T15:31:16.330
2011-01-11T21:09:22.423
How to add menu items in System menu
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-11T15:45:31.137", "id": "22630", "postId": "21070", "score": "0", "text": "I managed to do this a LONG time ago, but I cannot remember how, all remember is something deep down inside some /etc or /usr/share folder", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1992" }...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can add items to the first section of the <em>System</em> menu using Alacarte <em>(System -> Preferences -> Main Menu)</em>.</p>\n\n<p>The menu items below that are <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_coding\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> hard-coded </a> in the gnome-panel <a href...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Have you tried navigating to System - Preferences - Main Menu - System - + New Item? I can add a new menu item this way in Ubuntu 8.04. However, the problem may be that it doesn't seem to be possible to access the About Ubuntu sub-menu this way. </p>\n", "commentCount":...
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21075
1
21076
2011-01-11T16:34:28.303
4
1014
<p>My hard disk partitioning scheme is like this: </p> <ol> <li>30 GB root partition (extended) (/)</li> <li>1.0 GB swap space (extended) </li> <li>289 GB home partition (extended) (/home)</li> </ol> <p>I had made such a partitioning scheme assuming that I could perform a full re-install without disturbing my data. N...
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2011-01-11T17:07:34.810
Reinstalling Ubuntu
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Choose manual partitioning, assign the partitions as you stated above, and don't tick the format box on /home.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-01-11T16:39:49.183", "id": "2107...
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21079
1
21693
2011-01-11T16:57:08.080
3
1661
<pre><code>#!/bin/bash # # list of synaptics device properties http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man4/synaptics.4.html#sect4 # list current synaptics device properties: xinput list-props '"SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"' # sleep 5 #added delay... xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Device Enabled" 8 ...
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2011-01-15T16:45:55.610
Multitouch script (using xinput) no longer working
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2
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It took me AGES but I'm really glad to share the solution.</p>\n\n<p>On this page: <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/308191/+index?comments=all\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/308191/+index?comments=all</a></p>\n\n<...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It took me AGES but I'm really glad to share the solution.</p>\n\n<p>On this page: <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/308191/+index?comments=all\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/308191/+index?comments=all</a><...
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21082
1
21206
2011-01-11T17:05:05.240
6
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<p>I run a few Ubuntu servers that have a load of django sites running on them. The sites and the httpd start at boot and after that (apart from me SSHing in to update it or using bzr to update websites) nothing else gets run on it.</p> <p>At the moment over half the ram is allocated as cache. This isn't a problem bec...
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2011-11-24T16:19:07.790
How can I disable the prefetch cache?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-11T18:03:40.300", "id": "22649", "postId": "21082", "score": "0", "text": "I don't think you _can_ disable it but you can flush it with `sync && echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches`", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5691" }, { "creationDate": "2011-01...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p><a href=\"http://arighi.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-bypass-buffer-cache-in-linux.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">This blog post</a> by Andrea Righi suggests that there isn't a config option in the kernel, but it also sketches out a little <code>glibc</code> wrapper library to just set the <c...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>No, and you don't want to. The cache only uses memory that otherwise would be sitting idle. As soon as it is needed, it will be freed and given to the process that wants it, so you can consider cache memory to be free, which is why the free command prints a line with the ca...
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21088
1
32794
2011-01-11T17:22:42.123
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<p>I have setup u VPN connection to our Windows 2008 server at the office and it seems to work fine.</p> <p>For some reason, however, I still am not able to access the network shares over a VPN connection using my standard fstab entries. When I am physically connected to the network, it works fine, but now when trying...
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235
2011-01-21T00:30:22.843
2011-03-31T07:53:58.260
Cannot mount a CIFS network share over VPN
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-13T17:30:35.533", "id": "23018", "postId": "21088", "score": "0", "text": "Once you enter the realm of VPN all traditional sentiments of what should be sufficient go out the window.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "41" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I was finally able to solve this problem; I believe it was caused by an IP conflict.</p>\n\n<p>Both my home network range as my office range used the <code>192.168.1.0</code> range; I changed my home range to <code>10.0.0.0</code> and voila!</p>\n\n<p>Additionally, I added <code>192....
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You need a way to resolve the server name. When you are connected locally this can be done with the cifs broadcast name resolution service, but this does not work over a vpn or other routed connection. If the host name can not be resolved by your DNS server then you either ...
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21093
1
21102
2011-01-11T18:09:24.117
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<p>When I click on the Help Center Icon in the 'System' menu, it takes more than a minute to launch the program. More than a minute, for a text only program seeming like a website!</p> <p>All my other programs work fine, and I saw this problem also on other computers.</p> <p>Is there a reason for this? Will it be fix...
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6005
2011-12-14T02:03:55.030
2011-12-14T02:03:55.030
Why is it taking so long to open the Ubuntu Help Center?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-11T20:10:33.997", "id": "22698", "postId": "21093", "score": "0", "text": "My bad - I'm confused as to which \"center\" you were running. Your output failed (I think) because it was already running btw.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "861" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You're probably running into <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+bug/294182\" rel=\"nofollow\">this bug</a>.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-12-22T15:02:29.310", "id": "102632", "postId": "21102", ...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You're probably running into <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+bug/294182\" rel=\"nofollow\">this bug</a>.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-12-22T15:02:29.310", "id": "102632", "po...
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21097
1
41067
2011-01-11T18:12:42.467
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<p>I have the Microsoft C-Fonts installed, and they're wonderful. However, Calibri appears as a bitmap font in a lot of the sizes that it appears. How do I tell fontconfig to forbid Calibri (and Cambria,etc.) from being rendered from the embedded bitmaps? I already have <code>70-no-bitmaps.conf</code> in my <code>/etc...
2180
2180
2011-01-29T07:20:28.197
2021-12-06T01:47:57.913
Configure fontconfig to ignore bitmaps in scalable fonts
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2
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-11T19:33:01.083", "id": "22690", "postId": "21097", "score": "0", "text": "AFAIK those fonts aren't freely distributable? (So I can't test them.) But are you sure they use bitmaps, and don't just disable antialiassing?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "93...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p><code>/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf</code> only rejects bitmap fonts, they don't disable embedded bitmaps, which is the case here. I don't know why they didn't put the setting to disable embedded bitmaps in the same conf file. Anyways, put the following in your <code>~/.config...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p><code>/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf</code> only rejects bitmap fonts, they don't disable embedded bitmaps, which is the case here. I don't know why they didn't put the setting to disable embedded bitmaps in the same conf file. Anyways, put the following in your <code>~...
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21098
1
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2011-01-11T18:14:54.520
2
799
<p>After installing a wireless keyboard and mouse I cannot shutdown my pc.</p> <p>I have tried to shut down from the console as well, but the result doesn't change. How can resolve my problem? thanks in advance</p> <p>ciao h.</p>
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1067
2011-02-03T19:01:09.073
2012-01-08T18:30:47.807
Unable to shut down
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9
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-11T18:19:36.860", "id": "22651", "postId": "21098", "score": "1", "text": "More information please, especially what is happening if you try to shut down the PC.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1029" }, { "creationDate": "2011-01-11T18:20:43.953", ...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I don't get it, but just to answer the shut-down part: press the power button on the computer. Sixty seconds later, it will start a shutdown.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-12T13:42:04.597", "id": "22844", ...
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0
2012-02-03T01:27:12.250
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21100
1
21103
2011-01-11T18:37:06.183
1
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<p>I'm new to Linux so this probably should be an easy fix, but I cannot see it.</p> <p>I have a script downloaded from official sources that is used to install additional tools for fsharp but it gives me a syntax error when running it.</p> <p>I tried to replace ( and ) by { and } but eventually it lead me to another...
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2011-01-11T18:55:23.080
Problem with script substitution when running script
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Change the first line from</p>\n\n<pre><code>#! /bin/sh -e\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>to</p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/bin/bash -e\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "4", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-11T18:59:19.927", "id": "22666", "postId": "21103", "sc...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Change the first line from</p>\n\n<pre><code>#! /bin/sh -e\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>to</p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/bin/bash -e\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "4", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-11T18:59:19.927", "id": "22666", "postId"...
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21101
1
22929
2011-01-11T18:48:42.413
6
33119
<p>When I tried to move one of my partitions, I got some error messages. Here are some extracts:</p> <pre><code>Move /dev/sda7 to the left 00:05:09 ( ERROR ) </code></pre> <p>(...)</p> <pre><code>check file system on /dev/sda7 for errors and (if possible) fix them 00:00:10 ( SUCCESS ) e2fsck -f -y -v...
5592
17722
2012-07-09T13:09:14.327
2012-07-09T13:09:14.327
How do I fix the Gparted message : Error while reading block at sector xxx?
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3
1
CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>This is what actually made me solve my problem. The response of <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/users/8500/psusi\">psusi</a> really helped, however it was really too rough for me and I spent something like three hours to get it all and to extract what would be interesting for me from...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You have bad sectors on your hard disk. Back up any important data NOW. Then run the disk utility and click the SMART diagnostics. Run the long self test, and when that finishes, look at the values of the following attributes:</p>\n\n<p>Offline_Uncorrectable\nCurrent_Pendi...
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21104
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21105
2011-01-11T18:55:29.073
3
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<p>I have XAMPP installed, and need to edit my <code>httpd.conf</code> file to add a virtual host block. If I right-click on the file in Nautilus and open with <em>gedit</em>, I can see all the content, but it's read-only. </p> <p>If I try to open it via terminal, like this:</p> <pre><code>esther@estherLinuxSony:~$ s...
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62483
2013-07-08T00:09:22.313
2013-07-08T00:09:22.313
How can I edit my httpd.conf file?
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You are missing the slash before 'opt', the following should work:</p>\n\n<pre><code>gksudo gedit /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-11T18:59:49.613", "id": "22667", "postId...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You are missing the slash before 'opt', the following should work:</p>\n\n<pre><code>gksudo gedit /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-11T18:59:49.613", "id": "226...
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21115
1
null
2011-01-11T20:06:32.747
1
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<p>I don't like the way of working with the 10.10 netbook and want to use desktop. I'm using Wubi and I'm new to ubuntu! Is there a way, simple switch between those two?</p>
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41
2011-01-26T14:39:06.830
2011-01-26T16:14:05.533
Moving from Ubuntu Netbook to Ubuntu Desktop
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Ubuntu Desktop might already be installed, so start the application \"Login Screen\" (should be located under \"System\"), press unlock, enter password and choose \"GNOME\" (or Ubuntu Desktop) as default session.</p>\n\n<p>If GNOME/Ubuntu Desktop is not available then you can...
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Martijn
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1
21158
2011-01-11T20:27:09.357
5
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<p>I don't even know how those tools are called together, but i think they make linux a very powerful OS. Do you know any good tutorials to learn those?</p>
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2014-01-29T01:00:14.987
2014-01-29T01:00:14.987
Good tutorial on grep, sort, unique and tools like that
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>An old Unix spell book called,Unix Text Processing that is still useful today, even on Ubuntu,\nis available here; <a href=\"http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/\">http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/</a> download PDF, open with Evince, read and enjoy!</p>\n\n<p>grep on page 301, uniq on pag...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>An old Unix spell book called,Unix Text Processing that is still useful today, even on Ubuntu,\nis available here; <a href=\"http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/\">http://oreilly.com/openbook/utp/</a> download PDF, open with Evince, read and enjoy!</p>\n\n<p>grep on page 301, uni...
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21119
1
22660
2011-01-11T20:40:28.230
3
991
<p>Has anyone been able to use any M-Audio midi devices successfully? (the box says Mac only). I am using an M-Audio KeyStudio 25.</p>
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2011-01-22T02:34:17.140
2011-01-22T02:34:17.140
How do I get an M-Audio KeyStudio 25 to work?
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1
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can usually check compatibility with devices on the alsa-project's main site:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://alsa-project.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://alsa-project.org/</a></p>\n\n<p>I couldn't find the keystudio on there. If this keyboard does not work then you could use the MIDI ...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can usually check compatibility with devices on the alsa-project's main site:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://alsa-project.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://alsa-project.org/</a></p>\n\n<p>I couldn't find the keystudio on there. If this keyboard does not work then you could use t...
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21120
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21167
2011-01-11T20:45:15.943
5
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<p>I just installed the current build for Ubuntu on a partition for my work computer. I am a novice when it comes to Linux/Ubuntu, which is why I installed it along side windows. I want to learn how to operate and use Ubuntu much more than I do now, so I figured installing it and trying to do day to day functions here ...
8731
8844
2011-03-31T03:35:16.150
2011-05-10T18:34:41.060
How to join a Windows Domain and Map Network Drives?
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Here goes!</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Windows Domain</strong> - A popular solution for adding an Ubuntu machine to a Windows domain is Likewise-Open, found here: <a href=\"http://www.likewise.com/products/likewise_open/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.likewise.com/products/likewise_open/...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Here goes!</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Windows Domain</strong> - A popular solution for adding an Ubuntu machine to a Windows domain is Likewise-Open, found here: <a href=\"http://www.likewise.com/products/likewise_open/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.likewise.com/products/likewi...
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21122
1
null
2011-01-11T21:04:42.173
1
364
<p>I have the following problem with tomboy notes. There are some notes that I cannot delete. The delete button is greyed out. If I look on Ubuntu One, under notes, these notes do not show in the left pane but show under recent activity. eg "# (Untitled 10) was updated"</p> <p>How can I delete these notes and clean up...
8733
866
2011-01-11T21:07:42.637
2011-05-19T19:52:03.780
Notes showing in Tomboy but not on Ubuntu One - can't delete
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2
0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Your notes should be located at:</p>\n\n<pre><code>~/.local/share/tomboy/\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>or (older versions)</p>\n\n<pre><code>~/.tomboy/\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Other way could be to purge \"tomboy\" and install it again.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [...
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21125
1
21129
2011-01-11T21:12:44.913
2
372
<p>Currently I have way to many indicators/icons on my system tray. Is it possible that auto hide will be added in future Ubuntu versions?</p>
1992
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null
2012-07-29T03:21:52.720
Will it be possible to autohide indicators in some way in the future?
[ "unity", "indicator" ]
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2
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>If you have too many indicators then some of your indicators probably shouldn't be indicators. Perhaps take a look at the <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CustomStatusMenuDesignGuidelines\">Design guidelines</a> to work out which ones these are.</p>\n\n<p>(This is my personal view, ...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>If you have too many indicators then some of your indicators probably shouldn't be indicators. Perhaps take a look at the <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CustomStatusMenuDesignGuidelines\">Design guidelines</a> to work out which ones these are.</p>\n\n<p>(This is my persona...
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21131
1
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2011-01-11T21:46:54.717
49
201223
<p>Ubuntu seems to favour OpenJDK/JRE very much over Sun JDK/JRE. Even after I installed Sun JRE, JDK and plugin and spent some time plucking out OpenJDK-related packages, apt-get has installed them back with some packages as a dependency. Can this behaviour be corrected in favour of Sun Java packages? I'd like to have...
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7035
2013-06-11T15:58:13.137
2013-06-11T16:01:47.900
How to correctly remove OpenJDK/OpenJRE and set SunJDK/SunJRE as Default
[ "java" ]
10
1
CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2016-08-10T10:03:51.523", "id": "1225051", "postId": "21131", "score": "0", "text": "please any one update the answer with oracle jdk..", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "428738" } ]
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<h2>Installing Sun Java on Older Versions of Ubuntu (9.10 and below)</h2>\n\n<p>I had the same problem once about three years ago with Ubuntu 8.04 I think. There was a weird problem when using openjre and the problem was solved by using the sun jre version. Here are the steps in...
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21136
1
21140
2011-01-11T22:18:29.443
38
29979
<p>Is there any way to debug bash script without using echo and logging?</p> <p>I'm talking about using breakpoints and stuff like that.</p>
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546798
2016-06-20T10:17:01.970
2019-10-15T03:58:27.923
How to debug bash script?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Yes, there is <a href=\"http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Bash Debugger Project</a>.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/5xhXq.png\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/5xhXq.png\" alt=\"\"></a></p>\n\n<p>You can also ...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>There several different ways, i.e.:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>Run your script with the -x option</p>\n\n<pre><code>bash -x yourscript.sh\n</code></pre></li>\n<li><p>Add <code>set -x</code> in a new line at the beginning of your scriptfile after the Shebang <code>#!/bin/bash</code> ...
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21142
1
21149
2011-01-11T22:55:29.473
7
4824
<p>Is there any defragmenter out there for ext3?</p>
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2013-04-12T13:32:55.413
2017-04-18T07:18:36.160
Is there a ext3 defragmenter?
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p><a href=\"http://launchpad.net/e2defrag\" rel=\"noreferrer\">http://launchpad.net/e2defrag</a>.</p>\n", "commentCount": "6", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2017-04-15T11:43:03.293", "id": "1420663", "postId": "21149", "score": "0", "text": "How...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p><a href=\"http://vleu.net/shake/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shake</a></p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-11T23:23:17.653", "id": "22731", "postId": "21143", "score": "0", "text": "+1, interesting...
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21144
1
21153
2011-01-11T23:24:55.573
25
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<p>My workstation has two Geforce 7300GTs and three monitors, and I'd like to put them to good use. Dual monitors works out of the box, but triple doesn't. How can I get the third monitor up and going when the Monitor Prefs dialog only shows two?</p>
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2015-08-19T19:46:10.490
2015-08-19T19:46:10.490
How do I get three monitors working with Nvidia?
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1
4
CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I think that you should be able to do that with installing official nvidia drivers and running nvidia-config</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo nvidia-config\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "4", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-12T05:07:41.950", "id": "22767", ...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I think that you should be able to do that with installing official nvidia drivers and running nvidia-config</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo nvidia-config\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "4", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-12T05:07:41.950", "...
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21145
1
21162
2011-01-11T23:35:30.780
2
311
<p>I have a postinstall script that runs after my preseed install that checks /proc/cpuinfo for vmx or svm flags and if the server has them, it installs kvm packages. The only problem is due to the install running in a chroot /target directory, there is no /proc/cpuinfo to look at. The "lshw" command doesn't have the ...
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186134
2015-10-26T23:30:40.820
2015-10-26T23:30:40.820
How can I check processor flags inside a preseed install?
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The problem with not having access to /proc is that you don't have any script access to the sysfs calls required to do the check. What you need to do is to make sure your chroot has access to proc.</p>\n\n<p>You can do this by mounting /proc before your chroot using the late pressed ...
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21146
1
null
2011-01-11T23:37:37.220
10
5034
<p>I would like to</p> <ul> <li>have the latest stable (2.8) Mono stack (Mono, Moonlight with Firefox plugin, Monodevelop, Monodoc, etc) on Ubuntu 10.10</li> <li>not have any remains of old Mono 2.6 which is available in Ubuntu repos,</li> <li>get all the mono-depending packages satisfied (I am afraid they will compla...
2390
null
null
2011-01-14T16:31:44.140
How to correctly install the latest Mono, Moonlight and Monodevelop instead of the version in Ubuntu repository?
[ "mono" ]
2
0
CC BY-SA 2.5
[]
null
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>This is a somewhat vague answer, I know, but I hope it helps:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Download the appropriate tarballs from <a href=\"http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources-stable/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ftp.novell.com/pub/mono/sources-stable/</a></li>\n<li>Follow the instructio...
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21148
1
null
2011-01-12T00:27:30.840
1
3413
<p>The sheet tabs in Open Office Calc appear very pixelated to me. Also the buttons to change tabs are very tiny.</p> <p><strong>Screenshot:</strong><br> <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/92nhQ.png" alt="alt text"></p> <p>Is there a way to fix this appearance? All the functionality is there, but it's bugging me....
8742
7035
2011-06-07T02:53:06.940
2015-04-06T20:15:02.577
OpenOffice Calc - Sheet Tabs and Buttons
[ "openoffice.org" ]
3
0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Try to install / use other themes like explained here:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>You need to download themes or styles\n for OpenOffice via Synaptic. There are\n several themes (styles) available,\n such as: default, crystal, human,\n tango, industrial. In Synaptic, searc...
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21151
1
null
2011-01-12T01:52:36.057
16
45947
<p>I've seen the documentation on Blu-Ray Restricted formats <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD" rel="noreferrer">here</a> but I'm looking to see if anyone has come up with an easy solution yet? Also it would be awesome if someone knows of any type of program that provides mkv ...
6544
6544
2011-05-24T21:00:14.967
2020-10-14T18:06:36.253
Any way to easily rip blu-ray disks?
[ "blu-ray", "transcode", "disk-ripping", "restricted-formats" ]
4
0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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null
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p><a href=\"http://www.makemkv.com/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">MakeMKV</a> claims it can make mkv files from Blu-Ray.</p>\n\n<p>You'll need to <a href=\"http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;t=224\" rel=\"noreferrer\">follow the guide on the MakeMKV forum</a> to obtain ...
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21154
1
21156
2011-01-12T03:22:03.330
16
8467
<p>I recently bought my first Android phone (HTC Legend). Now I want to develop for it!! :) Is it possible under Ubuntu and what is the best tool? Eclipse or IntelliJ or maybe something else? </p> <p>UPD: It takes about a year for me (sorry my lazyness ;) But this is my first Android app - <a href="https://market.andr...
2026
2026
2012-02-18T05:11:48.497
2013-01-09T23:40:26.080
What IDEs are there for Android development?
[ "software-recommendation", "development", "android", "ide", "application-development" ]
4
0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Probably the easiest to use, and officially supported, is <strong>Eclipse</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>The Eclipse <strong>Android Developer Tools (ADT) plugin</strong> allows for basic project creation and management, as well as step debugging and ability to easily export your app for deploy...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Probably the easiest to use, and officially supported, is <strong>Eclipse</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>The Eclipse <strong>Android Developer Tools (ADT) plugin</strong> allows for basic project creation and management, as well as step debugging and ability to easily export your app fo...
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21161
1
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2011-01-12T04:25:43.590
5
6329
<p>Hi i have a newly installed version of ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop. When i run windows, the fan is working properly and is not making sound. but when i run ubuntu, its making sound and is runnning more faster. what could be the problem. Is there any way of rectifying it.</p>
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449
2011-01-18T09:58:05.000
2011-01-18T09:58:05.000
Fan making noise while running ubuntu
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3
0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p><strong>Update:</strong></p>\n\n<p>@Chandru1: Based on your model, I found this tutorial that is to enable Frequency Scaling on Celeron:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=582069\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=582069</a><...
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user5929
21163
1
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2011-01-12T04:30:23.250
4
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<p>what is the best input format for Cinelerra? I have tried various combinations of video and audio formats, but none has worked so far. Advance thanks!</p>
8717
null
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2011-02-23T23:03:07.157
Best format for Cinelerra video editor
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1
0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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null
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Cinelerra handles uncompressed and lightly compressed videos best.\nDV from professional camcorders and mjpeg from some digital cameras, these are usually in the .avi container. Be careful with very long highly compressed videos.</p>\n\n<p>Reading this document may be helpful...
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21170
1
null
2011-01-12T05:32:24.017
4
518
<p>I have more than 100 contacts on my iphone. When i sync with Ubuntu One App, only 44 contacts appears in Ubuntu One ... What is the problem ? What can I do to have all my contacts sync ?</p>
8752
866
2011-01-12T08:14:02.690
2011-01-16T16:45:18.337
Why all my iphone contacts aren't synced with Ubuntu One Contacts?
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1
1
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-16T19:11:21.187", "id": "23595", "postId": "21170", "score": "0", "text": "Ubuntu is trying to tell you 56 of those contacts are bad influences :P", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "41" } ]
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>We've been seeing problems with contact syncing on iphone and nokias for a while now, and have been chasing these cases individually. The problem is, with our current infrastructure, it's usually hard to reproduce and fix.\nWhile we continue trying to resolve each case indivi...
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21171
1
21219
2011-01-12T05:36:35.720
7
4711
<p>My new server got hacked (sigh).</p> <p>I have physical access to my machine. It seems like the only changes made was a new user account created and a broken <code>/etc/sudoers</code> file.</p> <p>It seems as though the password was discovered by dictionary attack. </p> <p>After I fix these problems (or do a fu...
8753
106495
2013-03-04T00:45:35.303
2013-03-04T00:45:35.303
How to ban an IP temporarily after several incorrect password attempts?
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1
CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2018-10-24T16:44:50.423", "id": "1787918", "postId": "21171", "score": "0", "text": "assuming that logins were attempted using SSH I strongly suggest to look into public key auth, and if possible enforce its use (and disallow password login). from my experience this is easily ...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I recommend looking at fail2ban to do this for you:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fail2ban\">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fail2ban</a></p>\n\n<p>(Also, yes, I would just do a fresh install, especially if they got root access.)</p>\n", "comment...
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21173
1
null
2011-01-12T05:54:30.503
2
3648
<p>Inside the Virtual Machine ,running Ubuntu, I can ping outside machines and can even connect to the internet, but outside machines can not ping me except my host Windows machine,</p> <p>The VMware Image use bridge mode and The IP of the Ubuntu is get from DHCP.</p> <p>What could be catchy here and how to diagnose ...
8754
5691
2011-01-12T06:00:30.373
2011-01-12T07:02:49.967
can ping other machines but other machines can not ping me
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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null
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Assuming you can access your machine through other ways. Ubuntu has ping switched off sometimes, try and switch it back on using this:</p>\n\n<p>In Ubuntu ping can be enabled by adding following line to your /etc/init.d/networking script.</p>\n\n<pre><code>echo 0 &gt; /proc/s...
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21175
1
null
2011-01-12T06:03:19.837
7
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<p>I would like to know if the i915 driver supports all the features of DirectFB. I don't know whether this is the right way to ask what I have in my mind. When I look at the code, I find that it support just 'fill rectangle' and 'image blitting'. Is that all or does it support more? Please guide me.</p>
6521
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2017-09-08T01:24:30.127
2017-09-08T01:24:30.127
What are the Graphics capabilities of i915 driver?
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1
4
CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>If you're looking at the code, and finding support only for 'fill rectangle' and 'image blitting', then that's probably all that's supported. If you need help analysing the code, try asking one of the <a href=\"http://www.directfb.org/index.php?path=Development%2FMailing+List...
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21177
1
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2011-01-12T06:40:34.237
2
385
<p>I have installed nautilus elementary as per this <strong><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/ubuntu-1010-nautilus-elementary-ppa.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">instruction</a></strong>.Installation went fine. But some of icons are missing.</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tPWm7.png" alt="alt text"></...
4980
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2011-01-12T16:12:53.390
2011-01-31T02:02:04.300
Missing icons and functions
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It sounds like the package is not installed correctly. Your best option is to go to the PPA maintainer and ask them to see if they will help you with the issue directly.</p>\n\n<p>Consider that this is an experiment, and what you're doing is testing. There are bound to be problems an...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It sounds like the package is not installed correctly. Your best option is to go to the PPA maintainer and ask them to see if they will help you with the issue directly.</p>\n\n<p>Consider that this is an experiment, and what you're doing is testing. There are bound to be pro...
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21182
1
null
2011-01-12T07:06:05.267
1
14902
<p>I have an AIR 2.0 application which makes a request to the server which can take more than 1 minute. Sadly due to this <a href="https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-4934" rel="nofollow">bug</a> the request timeouts after 30 seconds. There is a workaround, but is only available for Windows. Could you tell me how to ...
8756
null
null
2011-01-12T08:09:33.473
How to change the default timeout of internet connection?
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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null
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>If I understand it correctly this command will make the same thing on linux that this registry tweak in windows:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout=100\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Where 100 is the timeout in seconds to forcibly close a socket. Note that:</p>\n\n<...
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21183
1
null
2011-01-12T07:11:13.827
2
575
<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/10008/how-to-make-keyboard-work-like-osx-system-wide">How to make keyboard work like OSX System Wide?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 on my MacBookPro6.2, and I'd like to remap the following keys:<...
8757
-1
2017-04-13T12:24:13.310
2011-04-09T19:12:49.437
Remap MacbookPro Alt and Command keys?
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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null
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null
0
2011-06-21T15:45:49.803
null
null
21186
1
null
2011-01-12T07:50:42.700
2
829
<p>I've bought a vps server a few days ago, with Ubuntu on it, but I have a problem now. By nearly all the commands I put in I get this error: : command not found. I am logging in as root. I think this is the Ubuntu version I have: ubuntu-8.04-i386-minimal. (Maybe it has to do with 'minimal'? I really don't know.)</p>...
null
5691
2011-01-12T09:40:48.640
2011-01-12T09:40:48.640
Most commands won't do anything if I use the console at my Ubuntu server. Why?
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1
CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Servers can be used for multiple purposes. Some just need a proxy and are fine with ssh. Others want to run a webserver and require related binaries. To install <code>screen</code>, run:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install screen\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>If you're interested w...
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Tijs
21188
1
null
2011-01-12T07:54:14.997
7
2129
<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/43621/what-if-i-accidently-run-command-chmod">What if I accidently run command chmod</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I changed file permissions recursively on the root directory '/' with <code>sudo chmod / 777 -R</code> ...
null
-1
2017-04-13T12:23:28.223
2011-03-24T09:27:03.050
How to repair/restore after 'sudo chmod / 777'?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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2011-05-23T14:58:34.800
null
Marcin
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21200
2011-01-12T08:50:27.900
2
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<p>Is there any magical or non-magical way to increase screen resolution for my monitor that officially does 1366 x 768? With my graphics card, I could do 1920, and when I actually do that, the image is very "unclean" on the screen...</p> <p>I run Ubuntu 10.10, on an HP Pavilion with a GeForce 315. My monitor is a HD ...
7983
null
null
2020-06-19T03:19:52.227
Screen resolution higher than monitor specs
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You've already said you can change the resolution to one higher than your monitor supports (I'm guessing it's a feature of the display). Another way to do it would be the <a href=\"http://linux-apps.com/content/show.php/newrez+-+Screen+resolution+with+scaling?content=134686\" rel=\"n...
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21207
1
null
2011-01-12T11:44:02.113
7
1967
<p>I'm having some issues when connecting to my house's wifi from my Ubuntu 10.10 laptop.</p> <p>If the connection doesn't exists, when selecting the network (and after entering the WPA2 password) I'm able to connect. Once the connection is saved, when trying to reconnect, Network Manager works for a minute or so and ...
339
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2011-01-12T12:25:16.193
2023-06-08T06:36:56.250
Network Manager troubleshooting
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You can look at <strong>System --> Administrator --> Log File Viewer</strong>, Under \"dmseg\" file to see if something with the authentication process is wrong</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/TptUT.jpg\" alt=\"window showing syslog\"> </p>\n\n<p>Some more exp...
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21208
1
21210
2011-01-12T12:13:59.403
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<p>I am currently using Ubuntu 10.04 installed on my desktop box. I have got a new laptop and I will be using it from now on. But I will have to do the setup all over again (setting up applications/updates). Plus many of my preferences and tweaks I've had in my desktop will be lost and those too I will have to all over...
2011
235
2011-06-16T13:17:56.170
2011-06-16T13:41:41.867
How do I port my settings from my Desktop to Laptop
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Most of your display and application preferences are in your home directory (<code>/home/&lt;yourlogin&gt;</code>).</p>\n\n<p>Coping this directory between your desktop and laptop computer should give you 80% of what you want. Just tar your home on the desktop, copy the archive and u...
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21211
1
21212
2011-01-12T12:52:41.790
4
2724
<p>I've installed Dropbox on Ubuntu Server 9.10 using <a href="http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-dropbox-in-ubuntu-9-10karmic9-04jaunty8-10intrepid8-04hardy.html" rel="nofollow">these instructions</a>, however I am struggling to find out what to do next. Other help pages are related to those with a GUI.</p> <p>R...
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2011-01-12T15:44:07.283
2015-12-13T21:24:28.483
How to set up Dropbox on Ubuntu Server?
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1
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Dropbox has instructions for a text-based Linux install <a href=\"http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/TextBasedLinuxInstall\" rel=\"nofollow\">here</a>.</p>\n\n<p>The short version is that the first time you run the dropboxd daemon, it will warn that it's not linked to an account a...
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null
null
null
null
21216
1
null
2011-01-12T13:30:34.643
2
128
<p>All 22 show up in the download queue within Rhythmbox. The queuing feature never really works there anyway though, so I usually go to the web site, click on Files/Purchased Music/band/track to get what I purchased.</p> <p>This has worked well for other albums, but 'Greatest Hit ... (and 21 other pretty cool songs) ...
null
null
null
2011-01-12T15:33:33.847
I bought an album yesterday with 22 tracks on it, but only 10 show up for download
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2
0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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null
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I had the same issues with Rythmbox, It has to do something with the \"tags\" of the tracks. To make my mp3's shown under the corresponding Album and not scattered around, I had to fix those files with a program called EasyTags.\nUltimately, I had to switch to Banshee Media P...
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null
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schtarbux
21217
1
21218
2011-01-12T13:37:57.630
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13942
<p>How can I create in Network Manager, multiple wired lan connection configuration for the same wired card? I use to move between a lot of offices where I need to change my network config (IP, Mask, ecc) is it possible to create or save different configurations for the same network card and activate the right one time...
8770
null
null
2013-06-05T13:28:32.027
Network Manager, create multiple lan connection configuration for the same wired card
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Right click on the NetworkManager icon. In the \"wired\" tab, open up your existing connection (\"Auto eth0\") and copy the Device MAC address so you can put it in the new configuration profile. Then select \"Add\" to create a new connection profile for your wired connection.</p>\n\...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Right click on the NetworkManager icon. In the \"wired\" tab, open up your existing connection (\"Auto eth0\") and copy the Device MAC address so you can put it in the new configuration profile. Then select \"Add\" to create a new connection profile for your wired connection...
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null
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21221
1
21226
2011-01-12T14:07:43.397
3
300
<p>I found that if I build any binary on Ubuntu 10.10, then it doesn't execute on some older Linuxes. It is because Ubuntu uses a very new C library, called EGLIBC. Most of the desktop Linux systems use GLIBC. </p> <p>I would like to know whether there is any standard method how to redistribute binary programs built o...
8772
null
null
2011-01-12T14:22:01.260
How to redistribute binary programs built on modern Ubuntu so that they can be executed on any older Linux system?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>If you insist on doing that, then you can not use any shared libraries; you must link with -static.</p>\n\n<p>To find out what it links to from the source, look at the linker command for -lfoo switches. To inspect a binary, run ldd on it.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments":...
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null
null
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null
21223
1
null
2011-01-12T14:11:14.493
7
1056
<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/24006/how-do-i-reset-a-lost-administrativeroot-password">How do I reset a lost Administrative(root) password?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I inherited a machine with Ubuntu desktop installed. It has a password in pla...
null
-1
2017-04-13T12:25:03.423
2012-11-21T21:40:33.687
How do I reset my password?
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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null
2011-12-02T16:02:09.367
doug
doug
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1
21233
2011-01-12T14:21:23.657
3
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<p>I have a patch named "incator.patch". How can I apply that to the application "indicator applet" and get it running? The bug will solve a bug with key-binding caused by "indicator applet". </p> <p>Patch is here : launchpadlibrarian.net/52193166/hotkey.patch .</p>
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null
2011-01-12T14:29:21.530
2015-10-16T18:09:42.677
How to apply a patch to indicator applet?
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4
CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>To quickly generate new packages with your patch applied, run the following in a gnome-terminal:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get build-dep indicator-applet\nsudo apt-get install devscripts\napt-get source indicator-applet\ncd indicator-applet-&lt;version-string&gt;\ncp /path/t...
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user8260
user8260
21231
1
null
2011-01-12T15:10:51.510
2
1359
<p>I try to install mysql-server on my Ubuntu vps server, and it's able to install, but not to configure. If it tries to configure I get this: </p> <pre><code>&gt; ...fail! invoke-rc.d: initscript mysql, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.0 (--configure): subprocess post-installation scri...
null
235
2011-01-12T16:01:50.217
2011-03-15T15:07:38.150
Why is mysql unable to configure?
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3
CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You probably aborted the mysql root password prompt dialog. From the terminal, run the following command:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.0\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Let us know the results, please update your question or use the Add Comments feature.</p>\n"...
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Tijs
21234
1
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2011-01-12T15:29:58.117
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<p>I need to write a manual to the software I made. If it possible to use gettext when writing a manual, or other documents?</p>
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65926
2015-01-04T17:20:33.407
2015-01-04T17:20:33.407
How to write an internationalized manual using gettext?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Check out <a href=\"http://sphinx.pocoo.org/\">Sphinx</a> to write your documents in reStructuredText and make them translatable in gettext format.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-10-10T18:30:05.487", "id": "74863", "postId...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>afaik gettext is useful when you have a programming language which contains strings, that is when strings are intermixed with code.</p>\n\n<pre>\nalert(_(\"Hello\"));\n</pre>\n\n<p>Then a preprocessor finds all occurrences of _(\"..\") and generates a .po template and then yo...
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21237
1
21576
2011-01-12T15:35:00.803
8
10968
<p>I'm having a problem with my subversion in Ubuntu, and it's happening only on my computer, my colleagues are working fine. It asks for password for user "(null)":</p> <blockquote> <p>Password for '(null)' GNOME keyring: </p> </blockquote> <p>entering the password it shows:</p> <blockquote> <p>svn: OPTIONS of ...
5304
null
null
2012-08-24T15:15:45.083
Problems with subversion (in gnome keyring, maybe), user=null
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I found the bug <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/subversion/+bug/473139\">here</a>.</p>\n\n<p>The following should solve the issue:</p>\n\n<pre><code>rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/login.keyring\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creation...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I found the bug <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/subversion/+bug/473139\">here</a>.</p>\n\n<p>The following should solve the issue:</p>\n\n<pre><code>rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/login.keyring\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { ...
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21238
1
21241
2011-01-12T16:01:55.110
2
12350
<p>TP-LINK TL-WN722N is a usb antenna for wireless network.</p> <p>The antenna cames with a cd for windows (and works just fine), but how can I install it on Ubuntu? It's not recognizing alone.</p>
5304
235
2011-01-12T16:08:24.580
2011-02-16T23:46:49.000
How to install wireless antenna TP-LINK TL-WN722N?
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1
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-11T18:13:45.160", "id": "28333", "postId": "21238", "score": "2", "text": "execute `lsusb` in a terminal and udpate your post with this information of this command", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3550" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Ok good news and bad news the good news is in most cases you dont actually need to install drivers for things in Ubuntu because the Linux kernel has a lot of drivers built in, the only cases where you may need to install drivers are for graphics cards and network cards(not so much). ...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Ok good news and bad news the good news is in most cases you dont actually need to install drivers for things in Ubuntu because the Linux kernel has a lot of drivers built in, the only cases where you may need to install drivers are for graphics cards and network cards(not so...
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21243
1
21251
2011-01-12T17:29:51.477
6
1293
<p>I work on a team with several other developers. We all have similar hardware and we all run at least the same base development software. We are wishing to upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10 doing a clean install. </p> <p>I am looking for a way to do a base install of Ubuntu, including all our common applications, then ...
1849
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null
2011-01-12T18:24:09.767
Creating an install of Ubuntu to clone
[ "customization", "installation", "clone" ]
2
1
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-17T16:14:50.380", "id": "23744", "postId": "21243", "score": "0", "text": "As a side note, I found installing using the OEM install path works very well. When booting Ubuntu, press F4, once at the install menu, press F4 again and select 'OEM install (for manufacturer)...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can use Remastersys to create a bootable ISO of your current install and then install Ubuntu from that ISO on all other machines. All your installed apps will be available by default.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/ubuntu.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">htt...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I did this a couple years ago, for 70K+ laptops, on 8.04 I think it was. I set up <a href=\"http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-SE.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">Clonezilla SE</a> server to create the ability to unicast or multicast images. Then, after the Ubuntu installation was perfec...
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21249
1
21336
2011-01-12T18:08:04.520
3
801
<p>Where can I see a list of supported bluetooth drivers?</p>
5304
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2011-01-13T09:14:43.427
Where can I see a list of supported bluetooth drivers?
[ "10.04", "drivers", "bluetooth" ]
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Bluetooth is a bit special, all devices basically speak the same language. There are a few versions of the Bluetooth protocol, which is all that's needed for your Bluetooth device to work, so long as it's connected through an open protocol connector such as USB or PCI(e).</p>\n\n<p>B...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Bluetooth is a bit special, all devices basically speak the same language. There are a few versions of the Bluetooth protocol, which is all that's needed for your Bluetooth device to work, so long as it's connected through an open protocol connector such as USB or PCI(e).</p>...
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21252
1
21294
2011-01-12T18:43:06.803
4
517
<p>The anti-aliasing of my system (of GTK?) has gone weird after I did one of two things - do a system update, and install gimp 2.7 beta. See images:</p> <pre>Before: After:</pre> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Iggae.png" alt="alt text"> <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/w2jXR.png" alt="alt text"></p...
4152
4152
2011-01-13T00:00:24.493
2011-01-13T00:19:59.580
Anti-aliasing changed after update (or something...)
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1
5
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-12T18:44:31.633", "id": "22872", "postId": "21252", "score": "0", "text": "Have you tried the different options in System->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "866" }, { "creationDate": "2011-01-12T18:54:16.333", "id...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I went through the descriptions of the listed packages in Synaptic, and figured what was causing it. It was libcairo2. And this (and -dev) was the only package from an unofficial ppa. So I downgraded the two packages like so:</p>\n\n<pre>sudo apt-get install libcairo2=1.8.10-2ubuntu1...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I went through the descriptions of the listed packages in Synaptic, and figured what was causing it. It was libcairo2. And this (and -dev) was the only package from an unofficial ppa. So I downgraded the two packages like so:</p>\n\n<pre>sudo apt-get install libcairo2=1.8.10-...
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21254
1
21255
2011-01-12T18:54:14.383
2
1664
<p>Every time I login into my desktop, pidgin start behind, and sometimes it's annoying me - <em>e.g. when I'm not connected to Internet or when I don't want to be on-line</em> - I check startup application list and there's no pidgin listed.<br><br> another thing that is very annoying is <strong>hiding window feature</...
5034
null
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2011-01-12T20:34:17.590
How to stop running pidgin at logins and disable window hiding feature?
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Try this,</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Close all running applications then go to System <strong>→</strong> Preferences <strong>→</strong> Startup Applications.</li>\n<li>Click on the Options tab, check <strong>Automatically remember running applications when logging out</strong>.<br>\n<img src=\...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Try this,</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Close all running applications then go to System <strong>→</strong> Preferences <strong>→</strong> Startup Applications.</li>\n<li>Click on the Options tab, check <strong>Automatically remember running applications when logging out</strong>.<br>\n<i...
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21256
1
21269
2011-01-12T19:04:39.227
2
563
<p>My understanding is that upstart is installed on 8.04, but it's different than 10.04. I'm having trouble finding documentation on how to start/stop/check services from the command line for 8.04.</p> <p>I'm seeing some scripts in /etc/event.d (e.g.: rcS, which AFAIK starts the old init.d scripts), but I don't have...
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2011-01-13T00:09:10.110
upstart on 8.04
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Do you have <code>initctl</code>? <code>stop</code> (et al) are just symlinks on it.</p>\n\n<pre><code>oli@bert:~$ /sbin/initctl --help\nUsage: initctl [OPTION]... COMMAND [OPTION]... [ARG]...\n\nOptions:\n --system use D-Bus system bus to connect to init daemon\n...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Do you have <code>initctl</code>? <code>stop</code> (et al) are just symlinks on it.</p>\n\n<pre><code>oli@bert:~$ /sbin/initctl --help\nUsage: initctl [OPTION]... COMMAND [OPTION]... [ARG]...\n\nOptions:\n --system use D-Bus system bus to connect to init ...
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21257
1
21259
2011-01-12T19:17:54.337
5
7110
<p>In a bash script that execute 2 commands like this</p> <pre><code>#!/bin/bash gedit nautilus </code></pre> <p>Nautilus starts not before gedit is closed? How can i avoid this?</p>
7155
null
null
2011-01-12T19:21:41.270
Bash script: How to execute commands consecutively without waiting for the previous one?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Simply put <code>gedit</code> in the background</p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/bin/bash\ngedit &amp;\nnautilus\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-01-12T19:21:41.270", "id": "212...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Simply put <code>gedit</code> in the background</p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/bin/bash\ngedit &amp;\nnautilus\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-01-12T19:21:41....
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21261
1
21268
2011-01-12T19:24:33.053
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<p>In the "Desktop Couch Scratch" folder, do I have to manually add the bookmarks I want saved, or does the system do it automatically?</p>
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2011-02-11T21:01:21.160
Desktop Couch Scratch Folder
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<ul>\n<li>The system does it automatically.</li>\n<li>Adding things to that folder will accomplish nothing.</li>\n</ul>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-01-12T19:57:20.100", "id": "21...
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21262
1
21274
2011-01-12T19:30:45.687
14
22797
<p>Does a shell command exist to bring a already started program in gnome in the front of another.</p> <p>i.e.: </p> <p>Gedit and Nautilus are started. Nautilus is in the background and Gedit in the foreground.</p> <p>How to i bring Nautilus in the front with a shell command?</p>
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2019-12-30T12:59:37.627
Shell command to bring a program window in front of another?
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3
2
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<ul>\n<li><p>Install <a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/wmctrl\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>wmctrl</strong> <img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-large\" alt=\"Install wmctrl\" /></a></p>\n<p><code>wmctrl -a &lt;name&gt;</code></p>\n</li>\n<li><p>You can also use <a href=\"http://apt.ub...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<ul>\n<li><p>Install <a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/wmctrl\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>wmctrl</strong> <img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-large\" alt=\"Install wmctrl\" /></a></p>\n<p><code>wmctrl -a &lt;name&gt;</code></p>\n</li>\n<li><p>You can also use <a href=\"http:...
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21263
1
21266
2011-01-12T19:39:23.430
1
437
<p>When i have an executable script and i runs it by double-clicking it in Gnome.</p> <p>It opens a dialoguebox that asks, what is intended to do:</p> <ul> <li>execute in terminal</li> <li>view</li> <li>cancel</li> <li>execute</li> </ul> <p>Is there a way to avoid this question in for certain selected scripts?</p> ...
7155
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null
2011-01-12T19:49:44.507
Avoid dialogue by opening a shell script?
[ "command-line", "scripts" ]
2
0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<ul>\n<li>In nautilus goto Edit <strong>→</strong> Preferences and then select Behavior tab.</li>\n<li><p>Under <strong>Executable Text files</strong> select \"View executable text files when they are opened\" or select \"Run executable text files when they are opened\".</p>\n\n<p><img ...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>In Nautilus... <code>Edit-&gt;Preferences-&gt;Behavior</code> and look under <strong>Executable Text Files</strong>.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-01-12T19:4...
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21264
1
21271
2011-01-12T19:40:48.583
7
23159
<p>Wubi has created one big file with whole ubuntu installation <strong>root.disk</strong> - there are some files I have left on my linux partition that I would like to access from windows partition,</p> <p>Is there any way to mount/open this file under windows?</p> <p>P.S. I think its <strong>ubuntu question</strong...
8436
6969
2011-07-20T08:25:03.960
2016-02-01T15:28:51.793
How to open wubi's .disk files under windows?
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs\" rel=\"nofollow\">Explore2fs</a></strong> is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems.</li>\n<li>It runs under all versions of Windows and can read almost any ext2 and ext3 filesystem. </li>\n<li>For mo...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs\" rel=\"nofollow\">Explore2fs</a></strong> is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 filesystems.</li>\n<li>It runs under all versions of Windows and can read almost any ext2 and ext3 filesystem. </li>\n<l...
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21267
1
22323
2011-01-12T19:56:21.133
6
9774
<p>I'm trying to setup a dual boot system with Windows Vista 64 (already installed) and Ubuntu 10.10. I added a new drive which is identical to the one Vista is installed on. When I boot into the LiveCD I can see and mount the second drive and edit it in Gparted. However, when I use the installer it will only bring up ...
8748
169736
2014-02-07T06:11:52.670
2018-05-24T18:08:23.780
Why doesn't the installer see all of my hard drives?
[ "system-installation", "ubiquity" ]
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2
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-12T20:39:17.137", "id": "22883", "postId": "21267", "score": "0", "text": "Did you choose manual partitioning?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8500" }, { "creationDate": "2011-01-12T21:07:18.043", "id": "22887", "postId": "21267", "sco...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Try to boot a live session and start a terminal session (or to switch to the console with CTRL-ALT-F1) and issue:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo os-prober\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>You'll probably see a probing error which could be the reason why your drive is not taken in consideration. It's qui...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<ul>\n<li><p>check with </p>\n\n<pre><code>cat /proc/partitions\n</code></pre></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>to see which partition is the new one (the size can give you a clue)</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>Create some dir to mount the disk </p></li>\n<li><p>Add a line in /etc/fstab accordingly</p><...
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21279
1
23239
2011-01-12T21:37:14.337
2
1014
<p>I have two monitors, which I have set up with nvidia-settings in Twinview. The result: When I want to do something in xRandR, it does not function. It doesn't report one output per video card head, but a single output mapped to the combined area of both monitors: </p> <pre> rumtscho@bradbury:~$ xrandr xrandr: Faile...
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2011-01-25T16:59:26.967
Is it possible to get xRandR to see two separate outputs with the nvidia driver?
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The proprietary driver isn't compatible with xrandr and it likely never will be. Nvidia have refused to create a compatible driver and instead have decided to copy their windows based settings and controls.</p>\n\n<p>Over time, the nvidia driver is likely to fall further and further ...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The proprietary driver isn't compatible with xrandr and it likely never will be. Nvidia have refused to create a compatible driver and instead have decided to copy their windows based settings and controls.</p>\n\n<p>Over time, the nvidia driver is likely to fall further and ...
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21281
1
null
2011-01-12T22:05:18.927
2
1113
<p>I am following <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=960841" rel="nofollow">these steps</a> in order to build <a href="https://awesome.naquadah.org/download/" rel="nofollow">Awesome window manager</a> on 10.04</p> <p>I am building 3.4 while the tutorial is for 3.1</p> <p>I installed all of the specifie...
8786
334172
2014-12-03T12:40:09.937
2014-12-03T12:40:09.937
Building Awesome WM
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1
1
CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I think you need -dev versions of libs for compiling.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-01-12T22:12:52.067", "id": "21282", "lastActivityDate": "2011-01-...
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21284
1
null
2011-01-12T22:42:51.177
2
223
<p>I can use suspend without any problem if I do it manually. It resumes OK as well.</p> <p>However, for some reason it has stopped doing this automatically. Right now it is set to suspend after 30 minutes but it can be idle for hours without suspending.</p>
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null
2011-01-12T23:26:45.163
How do I troubleshoot my computer not suspending automatically?
[ "suspend" ]
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I would check for any USB devices such as mouses, keyboards, or WLAN adapters... or even a NIC card might be causing it not to sleep... what you could do is set your suspend to 5 mins or something, and eliminate each one, till it works... if it works then you know that device...
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2012-08-31T21:32:42.283
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21286
1
null
2011-01-12T23:07:00.597
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3214
<p>I'm running on UPS power and would like to prevent the laptop's battery from charging, to increase the amount of power available to other devices. Is there a way to do this?</p> <h3>update</h3> <p>The machine is a Dell Latitude D400. If people want more details, just ask.</p> <p>Also, I'm gathering that I need to ...
3865
-1
2020-06-12T14:37:07.210
2011-12-13T01:46:07.373
How to prevent battery from charging while on UPS
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7
CC BY-SA 3.0
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>At least some Dell laptops have a key that you can hit to disable battery charging. I think it was Fn-F2 or so. The key has a little blue battery icon on it.</p>\n", "commentCount": "5", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-01-13T08:12:52.350", ...
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21287
1
null
2011-01-12T23:16:10.260
2
1527
<p>I have Ubuntu 10.10 (upgraded from 10.04)<br> I was browsing in Firefox yesterday, then the PC suddenly did a reset</p> <p>Once it restarted, everything went normal until gdm begun showing. Then everything froze and locked when userlist showed. <strong>I can't move mouse pointer nor do anything with keyboard at thi...
5933
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null
2015-03-22T03:34:14.243
Ubuntu freezes when gdm starts
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3
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-25T12:57:35.280", "id": "31057", "postId": "21287", "score": "0", "text": "Same problem with kernel 2.6.38-4-generic on natty. All was working fine before this upgrade.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "11455" }, { "creationDate": "2011-01-17T19:30:...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Similar things started happening to me after I upgraded to the 2.6.35-25 kernel. That may not be the cause of your problem, but try when you boot selecting the previous kernel version instead (2.6.35-24) and see if the problems go away.</p>\n\n<p>Here's a related bug report:...
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2012-05-16T19:08:41.613
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21290
1
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2011-01-12T23:35:12.233
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<p>Since first becoming an Ubuntu user I have developed a growing list of aliases, and there are some that I cannot imagine being without. This makes me think that there are probably still tons of aliases that I haven't thought to use which could make the lives of me and fellow ubuntu users easier. </p> <p>What aliase...
4049
3037
2011-02-11T16:25:23.573
2016-12-21T18:51:49.590
Which aliases do you find most useful or helpful to your Ubuntu experience?
[ "command-line", "alias" ]
10
3
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-12T23:35:48.003", "id": "22898", "postId": "21290", "score": "0", "text": "Apologies in advance if this is considered too subjective. I think it could become a good resource so I figured its worth trying.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4049" }, { ...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Here are some that I like:</p>\n\n<pre><code>#Opens current directory in a file explorer\nalias explore='nautilus .'\n\n#Opens current directory in a file explorer with super user privileges\nalias suexplore='sudo nautilus .'\n\n#Opens current directory in Ubuntu's Disk Usage...
2011-01-12T23:52:18.307
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21295
1
22817
2011-01-13T00:31:56.447
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<p>i have last ubuntu installed (10.10), but from an year and thousand updates, video drivers updates, an hundreds of tricks, the mouse pointer is showed like an UGLY square... </p> <p>These are the screenshots:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qOFaZ.jpg" alt="alt text"><br> <img src="https://i.stack.imgur...
8802
29112
2011-12-04T21:32:35.890
2011-12-04T23:39:05.533
Mouse pointer strange problem
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2
6
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-13T00:55:01.117", "id": "22906", "postId": "21295", "score": "0", "text": "Do you have ATI graphics? This is a problem with ATI graphics drivers that is known, and if I remember correctly there is a fix for it.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1992" }, ...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You have a VIA graphics card, it's one of the worst supported graphics chipsets.</p>\n\n<p>What is happening is that the hardware cursor (that's a special part of the graphic card capability that produces a nice smooth cursor) has been corrupted. Normally this is because all of your ...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You have a VIA graphics card, it's one of the worst supported graphics chipsets.</p>\n\n<p>What is happening is that the hardware cursor (that's a special part of the graphic card capability that produces a nice smooth cursor) has been corrupted. Normally this is because all ...
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<p>The ubuntu-desktop in synaptic is removed on my system. And when I start the machine, I cannot login ,the mouse and keyboard cannot be used also. How to fix it? How to enter the text mode of ubuntu? </p>
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2011-01-18T09:57:31.570
2011-01-18T09:57:31.570
How do I install ubuntu-desktop?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Select the recovery mode in the grub screen (if it doesn't show up, keep pressed the shift key during boot). Then if you can login as root, try to install again ubuntu-desktop (this may install missing packages). If only \"ubuntu-desktop\" package was removed, then it should be other...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Select the recovery mode in the grub screen (if it doesn't show up, keep pressed the shift key during boot). Then if you can login as root, try to install again ubuntu-desktop (this may install missing packages). If only \"ubuntu-desktop\" package was removed, then it should ...
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2011-01-13T01:10:27.817
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<p>How to remove duplicate tracks from Banshee?</p>
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2011-01-13T01:14:15.320
2019-09-21T09:33:48.887
How to remove duplicate tracks from Banshee?
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-28T18:48:56.377", "id": "25739", "postId": "21301", "score": "0", "text": "Also please see this thread: http://askubuntu.com/questions/4323/how-can-i-find-duplicate-songs", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8844" }, { "creationDate": "2012-01-25T00:53...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It is <a href=\"https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632465\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">a known bug</a> that has been fixed in the newer versions of Banshee.</p>\n\n<p>You can use the latest version of Banshee from the <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive/pp...
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It is <a href=\"https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632465\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">a known bug</a> that has been fixed in the newer versions of Banshee.</p>\n\n<p>You can use the latest version of Banshee from the <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+ar...
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<p>I'm trying to create a bootable USB image to install Ubuntu on a new computer.</p> <p>I have done this before following the "<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/server/get-ubuntu/download" rel="nofollow noreferrer">create USB drive</a>" instructions for Ubuntu desktop, but I don't have an Ubuntu desktop available.</p> ...
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Create USB installer to install Ubuntu from the command line?
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-01-13T01:33:27.620", "id": "22910", "postId": "21303", "score": "0", "text": "try unetbootin.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1992" }, { "creationDate": "2011-01-13T02:02:50.413", "id": "22912", "postId": "21303", "score": "0", "text"...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<blockquote>\n <p>When booting from USB, this would give me the Grub boot menu and start the installer, but the installer gave up after a couple of screens complaining that it couldn't find the CD-ROM drive.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>This is a known bug with ubuntu server iso (desktop i...
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You can install a command line (CLI) Ubuntu using the Alternate Install or Mini iso (which should fit on your 512mb stick)</p>\n\n<p>Then install Crunchbang using the alternate method: <a href=\"http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/26/crunchbang-linux-81001-alternative-ins...
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