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21307 | 1 | null | 2011-01-13T02:30:37.407 | 11 | 20443 | <p>I have a dual boot set up with Windows and Ubuntu. When I'm using Windows, web browsing is a lot faster than when I'm using Ubuntu and I don't know why. It's like there's just a big latency rather than the maximum speed is lower, there's a big delay before anything happens when using Ubuntu, it happens with all webs... | 5124 | 169736 | 2014-05-20T18:23:21.360 | 2017-04-04T02:03:37.497 | Slow internet browsing in Ubuntu | [
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21309 | 1 | 21533 | 2011-01-13T02:56:59.663 | 20 | 146788 | <p>I have recently killed xserver on my machine after a regular update. I have uninstalled and reinstalled </p>
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<p>Please and thank you.</p>
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21312 | 1 | 21739 | 2011-01-13T04:50:36.630 | 3 | 986 | <p>For instance floating panels and main window in Gimp are independent windows. If I change focus to a full window (e.g. Firefox by doing Alt-Shift) and go back to the main Gimp window I don't get back the floating panels also (I have to change to them as well in order to see them). It would be great if the 3 windows ... | 8673 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:48.743 | 2011-01-15T20:13:14.553 | Is there a way to group 2 or 3 gui windows so that they don't get lost behind other open windows? | [
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21316 | 1 | null | 2011-01-13T05:34:32.630 | 32 | 20810 | <p>At System <strong>→</strong> Administration <strong>→</strong> Language support <strong>→</strong> Text. I can only choose standard locales, but I would like to fine-tune. For example in Windows I could customise things like time and date format, measure units, decimal separator, currency, etc manually - how can I ... | 2390 | 5691 | 2011-01-13T13:34:52.723 | 2021-01-24T10:41:38.483 | How can I customize a system locale? | [
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21317 | 1 | 21327 | 2011-01-13T05:46:59.863 | 1 | 459 | <p>I'm running KUbuntu 10.04.1 - I click on "System Settings" from the KMenu, click on the advanced tab, and start up "Service Manager". In the lower pane, I see "Free Space Notifier" is running.</p>
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21321 | 1 | 21323 | 2011-01-13T06:51:22.450 | 73 | 217472 | <p>I have 2 HDD drives in my computer. At the moment second drive is mounted as <code>/media/storage</code>.</p>
<p>How can I move my user data from <code>/home</code> to <code>/media/storage/home</code>?</p>
<p>Can I just move the data over there and then simply symlink it back?</p>
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21325 | 1 | 21328 | 2011-01-13T08:05:38.660 | 3 | 2081 | <p>I have recently purchased a 1920 x 1080 screen and the splash screen is all askew at startup and shut down. Is there a way I can fix this to suit my resolution?</p>
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21326 | 1 | 21334 | 2011-01-13T08:05:48.377 | 46 | 22380 | <p>Depending on nature of the text, sometimes line wrapping is convenient, sometimes it is just confusing. And every time I need to switch this (pretty frequently) I have to do to View - Preferences - Enable text wrapping - Close - four clicks, not mentioning all the hand, eye and thought motion. Can this be done a qui... | 2390 | 250300 | 2017-07-26T07:24:32.150 | 2017-07-26T07:24:32.150 | Can I toggle word-wrapping on/off quickly in Gedit? | [
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21329 | 1 | 21341 | 2011-01-13T08:39:51.293 | 7 | 9715 | <p>I tried</p>
<p><code>rm ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/ ~/.cache/rhythmbox/ ~/.gconf/apps/rhythmbox/ -r</code></p>
<p>but that only ended up removing the database. I want to remove some folders in particular. How do I do that? Are there symlinks involved?</p>
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21330 | 1 | null | 2011-01-13T08:43:32.057 | 7 | 3379 | <p>I'd like to disable right-mouse-click pop-up menu in Ubuntu terminal so that mouse right click to be passed to the application (Midnight Commander, to select files with the right mouse button). How to achieve this?</p>
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21342 | 1 | 21361 | 2011-01-13T11:15:08.053 | 11 | 84411 | <p>So I have upgraded Ubuntu with the latest Kernel. But after the upgrade and after I rebooted Ubuntu, all I get is GRUB. How do I load Ubuntu again when all I have is GRUB?</p>
<p>I installed Ubuntu using wubi.</p>
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21343 | 1 | 21349 | 2011-01-13T11:32:33.583 | 7 | 8059 | <p>I guess this should be a simple thing for ubuntu users out there. I have two questions.</p>
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21344 | 1 | 21354 | 2011-01-13T11:33:30.073 | 6 | 607 | <p>To setup a laptop owned by a complete PC novice any settings that may become hard to tackle remotely need to be avoided. The laptop will be administrated via SSH. One thing in my list are problems arising from improper wake-ups from suspend or hibernate as they may also affect network accessibility.</p>
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21347 | 1 | 21356 | 2011-01-13T11:48:42.290 | 20 | 7327 | <p>as enthusiastic, advanced Linux learner, I'd love to get an overview about Linux' architecure/structure in general. You know, like "the big picture".</p>
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21348 | 1 | 21353 | 2011-01-13T12:22:19.300 | 11 | 1792 | <p>I recently replaced the indicators in the gnome panel with the <strong>Indicator Applet Complete</strong>, as can be seen in the screenshot below.</p>
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21351 | 1 | 21397 | 2011-01-13T13:05:45.673 | 9 | 4224 | <p>First of all, I am not sure the title of this question is the most appropriate however this is what I meant to say,</p>
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21355 | 1 | 21358 | 2011-01-13T13:43:53.890 | 3 | 333 | <p>Possible cases:</p>
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<p>2) I plan to use Evolution and a Internet provider mail account.</p>
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21359 | 1 | 58493 | 2011-01-13T14:13:46.183 | 7 | 1267 | <p>I'm an artist specifically focussing on glitches and errors and I'm currently trying to find a way to create images like <a href="http://www.beflix.com/bx10.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> that were made by taking screenshots of what is currently in vram. Is it possible to do this in Linux/Ubuntu? If so, how?</p>
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21367 | 1 | null | 2011-01-13T14:59:10.840 | 4 | 4323 | <p>How can I prevent my (WiFi) connection to automatically disconnect when I lock my screen? Note that this problem does not occur on my home LAN for some reason.</p>
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21370 | 1 | null | 2011-01-13T15:38:27.640 | 4 | 1629 | <p>I have a desktop PC at work, and a laptop at home.... or elsewhere.</p>
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21373 | 1 | null | 2011-01-13T16:14:37.847 | 17 | 5547 | <p>I've been following the progress of getting Firefox (and Thunderbird) working with the global application menu, how can I test and follow along it's progress?</p>
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21375 | 1 | 26373 | 2011-01-13T16:19:18.827 | 6 | 13006 | <p>I have my eclipse telling about every 10 minutes that "eclipse Could not save master table to file".</p>
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21376 | 1 | 21544 | 2011-01-13T16:28:13.270 | 3 | 1385 | <p>I followed the instructions for installing LibreOffice found <a href="http://drupal.txwikinger.me.uk/content/libreoffice-now-available-ppa-ubuntu-1010-and-1004" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>, which are basically the same instructions found all over askubuntu and the web in general. </p>
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21378 | 1 | 30990 | 2011-01-13T16:43:10.583 | 33 | 34864 | <p>This is a general Upstart question, but let me use a specific case:</p>
<p>Centrify is a NIS to ActiveDirectory gateway. It needs to load before any service that will depend the authentication service that it provides, e.g. autofs, cron, nis, et al.</p>
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21379 | 1 | 21394 | 2011-01-13T16:48:46.570 | 57 | 46936 | <p>I'd like to find out which packages</p>
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21381 | 1 | 21386 | 2011-01-13T16:52:31.587 | 3 | 5875 | <p><code>lm-sensors</code> is reporting weird temps for me:</p>
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21382 | 1 | null | 2011-01-13T17:00:23.703 | 4 | 1068 | <p>I'm reading my boot logs, at <code>/var/log</code> trying to understand why the boot process is taking so long.</p>
<p>I found that the system can't access many usb devices, but can't understand why.</p>
<p>Is there a way to stop Ubuntu from trying to access them?</p>
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21383 | 1 | null | 2011-01-13T17:09:36.243 | 7 | 13287 | <p>I have a few external hard drives (SSDs and Platters (SATA), is this possible that I can install Kubuntu 10.10 x64 or Ubuntu 10.10 x64 onto one of these external hard drives? My System supports booting off a usb, it will just give me a learning playground without spoiling my existing operating environment. I know I ... | 3553 | null | null | 2011-07-11T16:17:02.717 | Install Ubuntu or Kubuntu on a External USB Drive | [
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21396 | 1 | null | 2011-01-13T19:24:36.763 | 2 | 2971 | <p>So i have a touchscreen now, Ubuntu 10.10, made the gesturetest which works with up to two fingers - but now i have one simple question: how do i enable multitouch so that GNOME understands the gestures - at least two finger scrolling should be possible now - right?</p>
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21398 | 1 | null | 2011-01-13T19:48:58.133 | 4 | 1826 | <p>I'm Brazilian. I have a problem with my indicator-applet-session. One day the user-name simply disappeared. so I don't know what i do to back a normal state.</p>
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21400 | 1 | null | 2011-01-13T19:54:24.647 | 6 | 4614 | <p>Its annoying that the default ffmpeg in ubuntu's repositories is outdated and hobbled for legal reasons, however, there's a great page on the forums that walks you through building it from scratch: <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095</a>
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21403 | 1 | 21416 | 2011-01-13T20:11:22.823 | 1 | 3084 | <p>I cannot categorize this question under ubuntu since it has nothing to do with it. But I know people here can definitely answer this. I login to one of my deployment boxes using SSH (no ubuntu here). </p>
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21406 | 1 | 21408 | 2011-01-13T20:34:34.180 | 3 | 10978 | <p>I recently bought <a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B000Q3VECE" rel="nofollow">this</a> webcam. I stupidly assumed Ubuntu would automatically recognize it as it has done with everything else so far, can anyone help me to get it to work? At the moment, when I plug it in, nothing happens and doesn't ap... | 5846 | 235 | 2011-01-13T20:38:29.820 | 2016-06-07T08:43:41.457 | How do I get a TeckNet New Webcam Camera to work? | [
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21412 | 1 | 21415 | 2011-01-13T20:55:02.737 | 1 | 183 | <p>I'm testing Natty and theres a hefty list of updates that are "kept back"</p>
<p>now to the question</p>
<p>are these packages that are most likely held back due to Ubuntu (and will be made available once dependencies and whatnot are added/updated.)</p>
<p><strong>OR</strong></p>
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21417 | 1 | 21448 | 2011-01-13T21:07:39.413 | 13 | 5838 | <p>Is there a way to temporarily stop Zeitgeist / the Zeitgeist daemon?</p>
<p>I've tried killing the daemon but it just restarts. I've tried stopping it, but it still seems to add entries to the Activity Journal...</p>
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21418 | 1 | 30754 | 2011-01-13T21:07:52.167 | 12 | 6639 | <p>Freedom:
<a href="http://macfreedom.com/" rel="noreferrer">http://macfreedom.com/</a></p>
<p>Anti-Social:
<a href="http://anti-social.cc/" rel="noreferrer">http://anti-social.cc/</a></p>
<p>Simply put: Where can I find an alternative software to either-or/both these apps?</p>
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21427 | 1 | 21428 | 2011-01-13T21:54:45.997 | 22 | 7443 | <p>I understood that the Unity desktop in Natty uses Compiz and therefore requires a graphics card driver that support composition effects. Does this mean if I have an ATI or NVIDIA card I'm forced to install a proprietory driver because the open source drivers for those cards do not support Compiz?</p>
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21429 | 1 | null | 2011-01-13T22:24:32.067 | 4 | 1890 | <p>I'd like to move from windows with my current workstation. The only thing holding me back is that I have <strong>3</strong> monitors connected to the system and I really take advantage of the real estate when working.</p>
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21439 | 1 | null | 2011-01-14T00:34:40.023 | 4 | 1471 | <p>I initially formatted my Windows Vista Machine because it was given me problems and installed ubuntu 10.10 as the primary OS and no secondary installed all I have now is Ubuntu 10.10 running smoothly but now I want to install windows 7 as a secondary OS so that I can dual boot , Any Help?</p>
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21447 | 1 | 21731 | 2011-01-14T02:11:32.907 | 1 | 252 | <p>After by battery died on my laptop I started my computer after plugging it to the ac adapter, for no reason that I know I cant use the visual effects any more as if my graphic card is not installed (my graphic card is GeForce 300m and nvidia x-settings is working)</p>
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21449 | 1 | null | 2011-01-14T03:20:55.640 | 1 | 537 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/14168/installer-gets-stuck-with-a-grayed-out-forward-button">Installer gets stuck with a grayed out forward button.</a> </p>
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21451 | 1 | 21525 | 2011-01-14T04:23:32.163 | 2 | 4021 | <p>After running GSmartControl, I received three checksum errors on my storage hard disk.</p>
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21455 | 1 | 21552 | 2011-01-14T06:10:54.543 | 8 | 19342 | <p>I have a laptop with two video cards. One ATI and on integrated Intel.</p>
<p>On Windows, I can choose which video card I want to use.</p>
<p>For example, I use the Intel card for normal use and for gaming, I switch to my ATI card for better performance, but a shorter battery life.</p>
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21457 | 1 | 21518 | 2011-01-14T06:31:32.820 | 2 | 1429 | <p>I have installed and downloaded and built mongodb, and just one works.</p>
<p><code>$ mongo</code></p>
<pre><code>mongo: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
</code></pre>
<p><code>$ /opt/mongo/bin/mongo</code></p>
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21460 | 1 | 22094 | 2011-01-14T07:17:04.717 | 3 | 1339 | <p>I started using the firefox nightlies a while ago. I would get updates for both versions 4 (Minefield) and 3.7 (Namoroka). Now I want to keep version 4 nightly, but replace the 3.7 nightly with 3.6 stable. I've already removed the 3.7 nightly, but can't figure how to install 3.6 stable (systemwide). Trying to instal... | 4152 | 4152 | 2011-01-14T17:02:44.497 | 2011-01-18T10:16:15.977 | How can I install Firefox 4 nightlies and Firefox 3.6 stable on the same system | [
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21463 | 1 | 23560 | 2011-01-14T07:43:59.030 | 0 | 4240 | <p>Anyone installed zend-framework plugin? I installed it, but cannot create any php-zend-framework projects. Here is a screenshot:</p>
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<p>In this project I am not able to check the checkbox (neither zend nor symfony). Any ideas?</p>
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21469 | 1 | 21488 | 2011-01-14T08:04:55.563 | 1 | 401 | <p>When I run this command:</p>
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21472 | 1 | 22772 | 2011-01-14T08:28:17.777 | 9 | 4421 | <p>Whenever I plugged in my old audio jack headset, sound was immediately diverted from my speakers to the headset speakers, and the microphone was immediately available.</p>
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21474 | 1 | 21626 | 2011-01-14T08:36:02.093 | 7 | 5594 | <p>I wanted to recompile 'xxd' (written in C), so I installed CodeBlocks as the IDE. </p>
<p>All seemed to go well unil I discovered that I couldn't write past the 2.0 GB barrier...</p>
<p>I've read that 'gcc' needs to be recompiled... (That sounds a bit dramatic..)<br>
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21475 | 1 | 27720 | 2011-01-14T08:39:37.157 | 14 | 26789 | <p>I installed awstats on my new Ubuntu Lucid server, but when cron tries to run it as user <code>www-data</code>, it complains that <code>cannot access /var/log/apache2/access.log: Permission denied</code>.</p>
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21477 | 1 | null | 2011-01-14T08:52:13.317 | 8 | 4326 | <p>My HDD is partitioned into two equal sized partitions. First is being used for Windows and Second for Ubuntu. Everything is working fine. But now I want to remove Windows and use the disk completely for Ubuntu. I can easily boot from live cd and use GParted to delete Windows partition and then expand Ubuntu partitio... | 6713 | 3550 | 2011-02-21T13:23:24.220 | 2011-05-24T18:52:12.540 | Is it safe to resize root partition? | [
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21478 | 1 | 21520 | 2011-01-14T08:59:12.590 | 4 | 1824 | <p>Has anyone managed to use Spyder2 to calibrate a monitor in Maverick? I have seen some tutorials about argyll, but it seems complicated, and I'm not sure Spyder2 will work (and the tutos were oldish)...</p>
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21482 | 1 | 21492 | 2011-01-14T09:22:23.047 | 10 | 4861 | <p>I am looking for some guide, examples, books
to do simple things (automation) with Ubuntu. Like </p>
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<li>turning on / off the electricity </li>
<li>open doors</li>
<li>etc</li>
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<p>Any idea would be appreciated,</p>
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21486 | 1 | 21487 | 2011-01-14T09:46:20.177 | 6 | 1038 | <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wgAk6.jpg" alt="10.04 default gnome menu applet"></p>
<p>Is it possible to use icons instead of text for the menus in the top pannel (shown above)?
If so, How can we do that?<br/></p>
<p>I've tryed gconf-editor setting the Key:<br/>
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21489 | 1 | null | 2011-01-14T10:22:14.220 | 3 | 1545 | <p>I'm trying to get Xen 4.0.1 run as dom0 on a fresh/clean install of 10.10 desktop (x64).</p>
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21490 | 1 | null | 2011-01-14T10:31:24.237 | 6 | 17963 | <p>When connecting any usb stick to my thinkpad ubuntu 10.10 does not recognize them. I don't see anything on the desktop.</p>
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21493 | 1 | 22116 | 2011-01-14T10:44:04.870 | 2 | 1227 | <p>Few days ago I started having some problems with nautilus.</p>
<p>Basically when I'm trying to get into a folder it crashes. It's not happening all the time, but in 85% it does... Sometimes, after the crash all my desktop icons are also gone.</p>
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21494 | 1 | 21668 | 2011-01-14T10:50:30.180 | 1 | 2778 | <p>A few days ago I had asked this <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/14844/listening-to-and-changing-tracks-on-another-pc-on-a-lan">question</a>, and according to one suggestion, used rhythmote. It is a web-interface to change songs on a rhythmbox playing on some PC. However, its not what I had thought of, and I... | 3778 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:28.223 | 2011-09-06T03:52:17.753 | How to use rhythmbox-client on LAN? | [
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21497 | 1 | null | 2011-01-14T11:09:27.557 | 14 | 2504 | <p>I once advised someone to remove a package that depends on <strong>ubuntu-desktop</strong> meta-package, if she didn't need it (EG: if one uses a different editor than <strong>gedit</strong>). Someone else said that doing so (removing <strong>gedit</strong> which will in turn remove <strong>ubuntu-desktop</strong>) ... | 2591 | 6969 | 2011-03-09T10:09:57.753 | 2011-03-09T10:09:57.753 | What are the downsides of removing ubuntu-desktop metapackage? | [
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21501 | 1 | 21511 | 2011-01-14T11:55:42.497 | 17 | 36923 | <p>I have "zero filled" (complete wiped) an external hard disk using dd, and from what I have heard: people said you should at least "zero fill" 3 times to be sure that the data are really wiped and no one can recover anything.</p>
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21504 | 1 | null | 2011-01-14T12:16:10.333 | 0 | 588 | <p>can i use linux as a substitute of windows? i mean Can i use MS Office, Photoshop and other softwares which i usually use in windows?</p>
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21521 | 1 | 21522 | 2011-01-14T13:52:14.420 | 12 | 15857 | <p>What is the command to know my PulseAudio version?</p>
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21523 | 1 | null | 2011-01-14T14:23:09.680 | 5 | 8337 | <p>Screen brightness is not changing on my ACER 5742 notebook. I have Ubuntu 10.10 installed inside Windows 7 OS. Hotkeys are used for changing brightness. Though, a bar displaying brightness level appears on screen but there is no actual change in brightness of screen.</p>
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21527 | 1 | 21543 | 2011-01-14T14:55:05.830 | 4 | 3251 | <p>I just upgraded to 10.10 and installed Acrobat via Adobe's website. I can't seem to get the Firefox plugin. I updated my software sources to include mediabuntu, but when I enter <code>sudo apt-get install mozilla-acroread</code> I get "Unable to locate package mozilla-acroread"</p>
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21531 | 1 | null | 2011-01-14T15:02:50.540 | 4 | 656 | <p>I have an Ubuntu 7.10 Server running and finally there is time to upgrade it... ;-)</p>
<p>The updating mechanism does not work anymore. Is it actually possible to upgrade, or should I rather install a fresh Ubuntu Server 10.04? If an upgrade is possible, do you have any recommendations?</p>
<p>Thanks, Philip</p>
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21537 | 1 | 29878 | 2011-01-14T15:46:07.067 | 3 | 1602 | <p>I'm trying to find a debian installer for Thunderbird 3.3 (in development) or a ppa. I couldn't find any ppas, but I'm guessing someone must have created one by now :D. Anyone know where I can get one?</p>
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21540 | 1 | null | 2011-01-14T17:01:52.157 | 1 | 1071 | <p>I was running Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) with no problems. I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 10 (Lucid Lynx) and cannot use it normally. After I log in, the screen scrambles (a purple/green mess)--impossible to see anything, although I can get out by marking the spot on the screen to click for a restart, so Linux is w... | null | 235 | 2011-02-10T22:57:51.447 | 2011-02-10T23:00:21.833 | Garbled display after Ubuntu upgrade to 2.6.32-2* kernel | [
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21547 | 1 | 21551 | 2011-01-14T18:14:02.237 | 49 | 38981 | <p>Once in a while I need to install a new Ubuntu (I used it both for desktop and servers) and I always forget a couple of libraries I should have installed before compiling, meaning I have to recompile, and it's getting annoying.</p>
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21548 | 1 | 21554 | 2011-01-14T18:20:11.577 | 5 | 5120 | <p>since last week I am having a problem using tor. It says bootstrapped 10% finishing handshake with directory server and then it just stops. It might help to say that I am in Iran. Any idea how to solve it? Thanks.</p>
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21553 | 1 | 21560 | 2011-01-14T18:58:13.910 | 12 | 46877 | <p>Since <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/19361/cant-access-ubuntus-shared-folders-from-windows-7">no one can help me with sharing files from Samba</a>, how can I reset it to the defaults and delete any residual configurations from previous releases? Then, presumably, the GUI sharing would work after I reinsta... | 5032 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:24:40.850 | 2016-11-06T17:28:50.157 | How do I completely reset Samba to the shipped defaults? | [
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21555 | 1 | 21559 | 2011-01-14T19:00:59.740 | 197 | 524216 | <p>Assuming i have a line that i want to add to a file without opening an editor.</p>
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21556 | 1 | 21558 | 2011-01-14T19:03:10.470 | 241 | 934280 | <p>How can I create an empty file from the command line?</p>
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21561 | 1 | 21846 | 2011-01-14T19:32:23.073 | 4 | 23396 | <p>I have downloaded a .bin file for JDK and am trying to install it. I have used these commands:</p>
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21563 | 1 | null | 2011-01-14T19:38:05.410 | 2 | 768 | <p>Using Ubuntu 10.10, I am having some issues with enabling the visual effects on my system. It doesn't allow me to use the normal & the extra options. It checks for the drivers then it says that the driver is not found.</p>
<p>My laptop model is Compaq PresarioV2000.</p>
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21568 | 1 | null | 2011-01-14T20:00:34.180 | 4 | 1742 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/16811/how-well-is-the-hfs-filesystem-supported">How well is the HFS+ filesystem supported?</a> </p>
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<p>How to read/write files to hfs+ (journaling) partition?</p>
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21571 | 1 | null | 2011-01-14T20:23:48.663 | 10 | 6377 | <p>Is it any way to import/export Radio Station list of Rhythmbox?</p>
<p>If not, could you please suggest me any good music player which has similar functionality like Rhythmbox?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
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21572 | 1 | 21579 | 2011-01-14T20:30:19.940 | 8 | 6846 | <p>Samba gives me 24 MB/s read and 44 MB/s write, while ftp gives 97 and 112 MB/s under the same circumstances.</p>
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21578 | 1 | 22175 | 2011-01-14T20:45:08.517 | 7 | 8230 | <p>I have google Chrome 8.0.552.237 on Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit and flash is not working, I have tried a variety of methods to install flash, including Firefox flash-aid and the flash-installer package and nothing is working for me. I have even uninstalled and reinstalled chrome to no avail.</p>
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21584 | 1 | 21591 | 2011-01-14T21:35:43.170 | 3 | 562 | <p>I have a triple boot system with Windows,and Ubuntu 10.10, installed in that order, plus a "Data" Partition that has all my data, what I want to do is remove the 10.10, and replace 11.04</p>
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21585 | 1 | null | 2011-01-14T21:36:15.273 | 3 | 191 | <p>I had Windows XP installed without partitioned hard drive, and partitioned and installed Ubuntu with the Ubuntu live cd. There is no menu at startup for which operating system; it just boots up Ubuntu. Suggestions?</p>
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21586 | 1 | 79927 | 2011-01-14T21:42:08.650 | 9 | 10570 | <p>I try to suspend my server using dbus and UPower. The server runs Ubuntu LucidLynx 64bit. </p>
<p>While everything works fine if I am sitting directly at the machine, it won't work via ssh.
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21587 | 1 | 21595 | 2011-01-14T21:45:25.917 | 11 | 15219 | <p>Not to long ago I was using only 35% of my HD. Just recently it shot up to 54% and my diskspace is 16gb so that's more then 3gigs that have been taken.</p>
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21596 | 1 | 21597 | 2011-01-14T22:32:50.283 | 7 | 3476 | <p>I know bash has a <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/21555/command-to-append-line-to-a-text-file-without-opening-an-editor/21559#21559"><code>>></code></a> operator, to append output to files, but what is the use of the <code><<</code> operator?</p>
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21598 | 1 | null | 2011-01-14T22:43:21.187 | 5 | 1833 | <p><a href="http://www.avforums.com/forums/6583863-post2.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This forum comment</a> and this <a href="https://superuser.com/questions/205306/bluetooth-a2dp-profile-and-poor-sound-quality/205362#205362">superuser</a> answer suggest that the audio compression contributes to loss of quality. I'... | 2296 | -1 | 2017-03-20T10:18:10.167 | 2012-01-18T03:37:18.800 | How can I determine what codec is being used? | [
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21600 | 1 | 22781 | 2011-01-14T23:27:43.397 | 10 | 2853 | <p>I use to use always-on-top windows frequently and make them such by setting the option in windows' right click menu. Can I get this option closer, right in windows' titlebar alongside with minimize/maximize/close buttons? </p>
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21603 | 1 | 21636 | 2011-01-14T23:58:09.293 | 3 | 285 | <p>The latest version of the Scribes text editor lets us select some text, hit <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>X</kbd>, and then run an arbitrary command. For example, I can run the sort command and the selected text is replaced appropriately.</p>
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21604 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T00:44:56.423 | 1 | 597 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/18641/theres-an-issue-with-an-alpha-release-of-ubuntu-what-should-i-do">There's an issue with an Alpha Release of Ubuntu, what should I do?</a> </p>
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21605 | 1 | 21612 | 2011-01-15T00:57:40.590 | 27 | 22542 | <p>I would like to know the total size of Ubuntu repository with individual repository-component (Main, Universe, Multiverse, Restricted) sizes for:</p>
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21606 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T01:02:37.380 | 5 | 252 | <p>I purchased Ubuntu One and was wondering if there was a way to share the 20GB storage with another user on the same computer. Something like a family plan, with shared storage but separate files, synced to different <code>/home</code> directories. It seems to me if I don't need all 20GB it would be wasteful to pay... | null | 235 | 2012-03-12T14:18:40.143 | 2012-03-12T17:11:32.387 | Is there a way to setup two users with one account? | [
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21608 | 1 | 21640 | 2011-01-15T01:27:33.237 | 10 | 19396 | <p>I want to make my video to be a screensaver.</p>
<p>Is there any software to make it?</p>
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21613 | 1 | 21616 | 2011-01-15T02:34:59.120 | 6 | 1211 | <p>When installing an extension in Firefox, the confirmation dialog makes you wait 5 seconds before you can install the extension. I find it annoying and unnecessary, is there a way to shorten or remove the countdown so I can install extensions without waiting? </p>
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"text": "a quick google search turned up nothing... and we really don't know why it is there... but it looks like it is going to get removed in Firefox 4 eventually.",
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"body": "<p>I found this:</p>\n\n<p>You can easily disable the installation wait by a simple <strong><em>\"about:config\"</em></strong> modification.</p>\n\n<p><strong>1.</strong> Type <strong>about:config</strong> into the Firefox address bar and hit enter.</p>\n\n<p><strong>2.</strong> Click o... | [
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"body": "<p>Yes, you can. I've done this once. Unfortunately right now I can't remember how.</p>\n\n<p><b>UPDATE:</b> Got it: <a href=\"https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mr-tech-toolkit/developers\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mr-tech-tool... | null | null | null | null | null |
21614 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T02:46:17.207 | 4 | 1361 | <p>I am attempting to install and use <a href="http://hem.bredband.net/gmogmo/fbgrab/" rel="nofollow">fbgrab</a>, but it requires <code>/dev/fb0</code> to exist. How can I create this file?</p>
<p>My computer specs:
Dell Studio 1555, ATI Radeon 4500, proprietary graphics driver</p>
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"body": "<p>This may be down to X not using a framebuffer system, however the application you are trying to use is to take screenshots? Ubuntu already has a screnshot taking application, which you can launch from Applications > Accessories > Take Screenshot</p>\n",
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21617 | 1 | 21625 | 2011-01-15T03:22:05.443 | 10 | 1144 | <p>In "Preferences - Preferred Applications" there is a choice of Totem and Rhythmbox (actually it was, before I've uninsulated both of them favouring DeadBeeF for audio, raw mplayer for video and VLC for occasions) and Custom. Can I add a player (VLC for example) to appear in that list, officially recognised as a play... | 2390 | 169736 | 2014-02-17T04:55:36.380 | 2014-02-17T04:55:36.380 | How to register VLC as a multimedia player in Ubuntu system? | [
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21618 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T03:27:48.717 | 3 | 1385 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/18724/unable-to-mount-audio-disc">Unable to mount Audio Disc</a> </p>
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<p>I've lost use of my cdrom player in Ubuntu 10.10. The message is "Unable to mount Audio Disc Location is unmountable". How can... | null | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:25:03.423 | 2011-05-25T14:01:49.930 | "Unable to mount Audio Disc Location is unmountable" error | [
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"body": "<p>You usually don't mount audio discs. If you want to play one, use a media player. You should also be able to use whatever default ripping program you have. Pure audio discs don't have a file system that the standard linux drivers can mount. Instead, linux has drivers that all... | null | null | 2011-05-25T16:05:04.053 | null | user8927 |
21619 | 1 | null | 2011-01-15T03:32:44.223 | 2 | 706 | <p>Trying to install any of ubuntustudio- (ubuntustudio-audio, ubuntustudio-font-meta, etc.) "tasks" with tasksel always fails, saying "tasksel: aptitude failed (100)" (while other options, like lamp-server, for example, work ok). Why?</p>
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"body": "<p>Just trying this I get the same problem. There is a <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tasksel/+bug/219653\" rel=\"nofollow\">similar but ever so slightly different bug report</a> open, that I suggest you mark as affecting you.</p>\n",
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21621 | 1 | 21623 | 2011-01-15T04:04:31.913 | 5 | 757 | <p>When I try to sync <code>/home/tyler/Pictures</code> I get <code>could not enable /home/tyler/Pictures for syncing to Ubuntu One</code></p>
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21628 | 1 | 21629 | 2011-01-15T05:19:30.777 | 2 | 607 | <p>I have been using Rhythmbox for a long time to transfer music to my 3.1 Ipod Touch 3rd Gen, however after recently transferring an album my music app refuses to load. Sometimes it instantly crashes, sometimes I get a song list and then a freeze, sometimes only the basic GUI comes up, and other times I get a "Updatin... | null | null | null | 2011-01-15T05:53:35.080 | Ipod crashes after transfering music from Rhythmbox | [
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"body": "<p>I had the same issue with my iPod touch. The only fix I could find was to connect it to iTunes. The database schema the Touch uses is somewhat obscure; it's possible that Rhythmbox's developers haven't gotten it down pat yet.</p>\n",
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21632 | 1 | 21643 | 2011-01-15T07:45:06.040 | 17 | 27047 | <p>Recently my computer has been responding slowly. It was fine few days ago, but now it always lags.
I need to find the cause. Thanks.</p>
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"body": "<p>Some troubleshooting ideas :</p>\n\n<p>First, run this command :</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install htop iotop\n</code></pre>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Start a terminal, in it run <code>htop</code></li>\n<li>Start another terminal, in it run <code>iotop</code></li>\n<li>Start another terminal... | [
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