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2419 | 1 | 6668 | 2010-08-16T20:12:26.467 | 12 | 15954 | <p>I've just bought an Asus laptop which is equipped with two graphics cards; one integrated in the intel i3 CPU and a Radeon Mobility HD5145.</p>
<p>Will Ubuntu switch between the cards to balance power/performance? i.e. only use the Radeon when the demands placed on the integrated card are too great?</p>
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2424 | 1 | 2426 | 2010-08-16T20:47:35.400 | 1 | 1036 | <p>I have a work computer. I have a home computer. I want to be able to share files between with scp, both our computers are behind routers, which assign a local ip. <code>198.168.0.*</code></p>
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2428 | 1 | 2429 | 2010-08-16T21:15:05.327 | 5 | 1987 | <p>I am running 10.04 and I am unable to get a tray applet to appear for Ubuntu One. I am sure there was an applet in 9.04 (Jaunty) and 9.10 (Karmic).</p>
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2433 | 1 | 2441 | 2010-08-16T22:05:49.840 | 3 | 1920 | <p>Is there a tool like Hamachi which works on Ubuntu? Bonus points if it can be paired with something running on Windows/Mac.</p>
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2434 | 1 | 2437 | 2010-08-16T22:17:39.040 | 7 | 1047 | <p>I'm not very fluent with bash... what I'd like to do is copy the content of a DVD-R to two different hard drives in the fastest possible way.</p>
<p>(UI-based solutions are welcome too)</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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2436 | 1 | 2439 | 2010-08-16T22:54:20.730 | 20 | 22720 | <p>I have this run.sh file, and I've create a symbolic link into my desktop. </p>
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2443 | 1 | 2445 | 2010-08-17T01:33:57.600 | 4 | 2235 | <p>I have a ruby script I'd like to execute every 5 minutes or so. I have seen mention of cron tasks, but not in the context of executing Ruby. I would like to know the steps necessary to execute the ruby script on a scheduled basis.</p>
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2444 | 1 | 2446 | 2010-08-17T01:44:58.447 | 5 | 897 | <p>How do I keep CD/USB automounting (works fine) BUT without auto-opening in Nautilus?</p>
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2447 | 1 | 2457 | 2010-08-17T03:16:17.837 | 1 | 961 | <p>I've got a NAT box (Ubu 10.04) running ufw with the following <code>sudo ufw status verbose</code>:</p>
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2448 | 1 | null | 2010-08-17T03:46:49.120 | 37 | 24200 | <p>Can anyone suggest a nice eBook reader in Ubuntu? </p>
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2449 | 1 | null | 2010-08-17T03:51:27.197 | 1 | 1935 | <p>It appears that enabling UFW is causing my network connection to drop periodically on a WPA-Enterprise network, according to the network-manager GUI app (and the lack of a server response to web browsing for a minute or so while it is out). Is this because UFW is preventing something needed for WPA or DHCP when con... | 1304 | 7035 | 2011-06-07T05:12:27.183 | 2011-06-07T05:12:27.183 | Ufw causing trouble with DHCP or WPA? | [
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2454 | 1 | 2463 | 2010-08-17T05:58:24.933 | 9 | 5735 | <p>I've used Pidgin, but it hasn't worked 100%, so maybe you know about something better...</p>
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2455 | 1 | null | 2010-08-17T06:07:17.600 | 6 | 1788 | <p>In the power management, I selected the option called "suspend when I close the lid". If I close the lid, the computer is not suspending. It keep itself on. How can I solve this problem?</p>
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2458 | 1 | null | 2010-08-17T06:58:55.657 | 1 | 865 | <p>I wanted to install Ubuntu on my Archos 9, which currently has Windows 7 starter. Is it possible to get onscreen keyboard with d default key on archos??</p>
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2461 | 1 | 2468 | 2010-08-17T07:32:40.550 | 8 | 1019 | <p>Will this chicken-VS-egg problem of not having new top games for linux ever get solved?</p>
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2465 | 1 | null | 2010-08-17T08:36:36.217 | 6 | 3962 | <p>I installed ubuntu 10.04 using wubi. I now wish to allocate more disk space to my ubuntu install. Is this possible?</p>
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2470 | 1 | null | 2010-08-17T09:32:25.427 | 7 | 864 | <p>The clock applet drifts in time.
Clock is set to "synchronize with internet ..." so it is correct at startup, but then if I stay inactive for some time, may be 5 min as well as 1 hour, the clock stops ticking.
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2471 | 1 | 2475 | 2010-08-17T10:25:33.437 | 80 | 98388 | <p>I have recently added several new users, that I need for qmail. Now they appear in the box in the login screen and clutter it, and I have to scroll to find my user. How can I hide those users from the login box?</p>
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2473 | 1 | 2481 | 2010-08-17T11:12:42.050 | 5 | 556 | <p>As I'd seen it recommended in <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/974/how-can-i-install-software-offline">How can I install software or packages without Internet (offline)?</a> tried to install <a href="http://keryxproject.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Keryx</a> but I am not able to open it. When I run it in ... | 161 | 527764 | 2017-09-08T20:47:48.993 | 2017-09-08T20:50:37.233 | How can I troubleshoot keryx 'UnicodeEncodeError' error? | [
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2484 | 1 | 2485 | 2010-08-17T14:12:01.307 | 51 | 46407 | <p>What's the point of the <code>examples.desktop</code> file?</p>
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2493 | 1 | 2496 | 2010-08-17T15:52:40.800 | 46 | 70828 | <p>Is there an equivalent to the yum "whatprovides" option in apt-get? </p>
<p>For example on CentOS</p>
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<p>Tells me </p>
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2495 | 1 | 2498 | 2010-08-17T15:58:39.223 | 18 | 13249 | <p>I am using dolphin as my file manager and when I download something via firefox, I right click the download dialog and choose "open folder", I always get nautilus. </p>
<p>Why doesn't firefox open the folder with dolphin?
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2501 | 1 | 2555 | 2010-08-17T17:07:49.787 | 4 | 1663 | <p>I'm going to connecting two LAN's in some way, I imagine some form of VPN tunnel between the gateway/router on each side. Both routers have Ubuntu-server 10.04 installed, but the only vpn-like experience I have is setting on-demand TCP-port forwarding with ssh, but I want this to work for windows clients as well.</p... | 455 | 4 | 2010-08-17T17:43:46.373 | 2010-08-18T06:50:13.103 | How to seamlessly connect two LAN's? | [
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2502 | 1 | 2515 | 2010-08-17T17:14:49.213 | 24 | 4162 | <p>Apart from those themes in the repository and Gnome-look.org, are there other places to get themes for my Ubuntu Desktop?</p>
<p>Also, are there any 3rd party repositories of themes and other eye-candy?</p>
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2507 | 1 | 2512 | 2010-08-17T18:45:59.197 | 6 | 1542 | <p>I've seen <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/852/why-are-flash-applications-so-sluggish-in-ubuntu">complaints</a> about flash performance. Would it be possible to use WINE as a plugin to firefox in order to get better performance out of flash? (Hopefully WINE would utilize some sort of hardware optimizations) ... | 1380 | -1 | 2017-04-12T07:23:19.023 | 2013-12-18T11:11:37.470 | Is there a WINE version of Flash as a plugin to Firefox or Chrome? | [
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2508 | 1 | null | 2010-08-17T19:00:18.687 | 5 | 1827 | <p>I like to watch flv videos during downtimes using my ipad. Whats a good tool for converting video files and then tossing them onto the ipad. Primarily I've grabbed a few flv tutorials off you tube. I know ffmpeg can do the transform, but it's got one of those "needs a phd in video" to sort out...</p>
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2517 | 1 | null | 2010-08-17T20:04:39.363 | 4 | 3163 | <p>I want my Ubuntu box to boot directly into a tty login screen and after it does that I want it to automatically run <code>startx</code> how would I go about doing this?</p>
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2522 | 1 | 2745 | 2010-08-17T21:18:10.283 | 14 | 5118 | <p>There are no video chat plugins supplied by Google for Ubuntu. They are availabe just for PC and Mac. Are there any alternatives?</p>
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2528 | 1 | 2529 | 2010-08-17T23:21:18.983 | 12 | 8755 | <p>Playing around with Terminal, I noticed that there are many ways to create <strong>permanent</strong> aliases.</p>
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2536 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T01:45:36.053 | 6 | 8030 | <p>My Toshiba Satellite m505-s4940's fans do not turn on automatically, so it was overheating before I learned how to do it manually by using this keyboard-shortcut:<kbd>fn</kbd>+<kbd>F3</kbd> </p>
<p>I have to do this every time I use my computer!</p>
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2538 | 1 | 2541 | 2010-08-18T02:14:55.033 | 11 | 6388 | <p>I'm going through some programming tutorials and for every session, I have to start up at least 3 terminal windows (one for a log file tail, one for testing output, one for running various shell commands in, etc.)</p>
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2540 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T03:24:16.480 | 4 | 1993 | <p>I wish to be able to see and stream music to my Ubuntu 10.04 installation through Rhythmbox. I have enabled media streaming in Windows 7 and I can see Rhythmbox as an allowed device.</p>
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2544 | 1 | 2545 | 2010-08-18T05:07:13.827 | 12 | 16244 | <p>I installed Google Chrome. This is the first thing I did after installing Ubuntu. I went into firefox, and went to chrome.google.com, and hit the button. I don't like package managers, and avoid the command line like the pox.</p>
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2547 | 1 | 2550 | 2010-08-18T06:17:25.587 | 4 | 706 | <p>When I click a link to a PDF in Chrome instead of displaying the PDF in the browser I see a blank page with "Missing plugin" written over it. Is it possible to get this plugin somewhere or am I condemned to downloading the PDF first and then displaying it using standard PDF viewing software?</p>
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2554 | 1 | 3072 | 2010-08-18T06:40:11.173 | 5 | 2004 | <p>Is this currently possible in either Lucid or Maverick?</p>
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2557 | 1 | 2565 | 2010-08-18T07:19:07.903 | 24 | 19630 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu on my Thinkpad T60. Is there a way to get the middle button to act like a scroll like it would when it runs Windows?</p>
<p>I'd like to be able to hold the middle button down and scroll down a webpage using the red button.</p>
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2558 | 1 | 2559 | 2010-08-18T07:38:29.073 | 4 | 24541 | <p>First of all, I'm a linux noob (I've been using linux for a about four-five years, but only fixed problems as I got them though usually I just reinstalled everything).</p>
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2567 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T08:52:10.223 | 10 | 915 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/67758/deactivate-bluetooth-on-startup">Deactivate Bluetooth on startup</a> </p>
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<p>After every boot Bluetooth is on by default. I only very occasionally use Bluetooth so I would really like this to b... | null | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:30.463 | 2011-10-16T23:56:24.650 | Can I default Bluetooth to off on my laptop Lenovo T61 | [
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2573 | 1 | 109533 | 2010-08-18T10:48:32.760 | 47 | 105527 | <p>First, the problem: I'm using a Cowon MP3 player as my main music player with basic earplugs.</p>
<p>It offers A2DP & I'd like to have my netbook (running UNE 10.04) act as receiver. </p>
<p>Some resources on the web about a2dp, but most are out of date:</p>
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2578 | 1 | 2585 | 2010-08-18T13:13:52.650 | 0 | 1755 | <p>On my Acer Aspire One netbook, I have noticed that acpid starts /etc/acpi/lid.sh multiple times a minute. This script should only be started when the lid is closed or opened. How can I stop theses unnecessary starts from happening without switching off acpi or disabling the lid event?</p>
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2580 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T13:39:33.163 | 2 | 377 | <p>I am using an Asus 1005P netbook. What happens is when I wake up the machine from hibernate state, a while later x crashes and goes to low graphics mode.</p>
<p>I stumbled on solutions in ubuntuforums but none of them seem to work:
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2582 | 1 | 2584 | 2010-08-18T14:35:56.570 | 1 | 266 | <p>This question has been spun off from my question about <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/2408/where-do-i-even-start-if-hibernate-un-hibernate-is-slow">hibernate being slow</a>.</p>
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2586 | 1 | 2594 | 2010-08-18T15:25:14.887 | 5 | 2394 | <p>At one point I switched from GDM to slim and now I can't seem to get past the splash screen. After pressing <code>Esc</code> I can see that it is stuck on <code>Starting X Display Manager: Slim</code>. I need to get back to GDM or just figure out what it is doing.</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
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2587 | 1 | 2589 | 2010-08-18T16:40:39.703 | 38 | 19779 | <p>I write code. I use terminal a lot. I ofter use many terminal windows. I hate how tabs look.</p>
<p>Are there any applications that allow me to keep multiple terminal windows in focus to streamline my development?</p>
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2593 | 1 | 2599 | 2010-08-18T17:26:02.273 | 5 | 9887 | <p>I know how to check hard disk integrity, and how to check RAM integrity (with live cd), but is there a way to check if others hardware is working well or is broken?</p>
<p>For example graphic card, audio card, etc.. ?</p>
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2596 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T17:30:40.393 | 343 | 304445 | <blockquote>
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2597 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T17:33:10.373 | 1 | 902 | <p>I installed codeblocks but the gui is not displaying well. There is no File, Edit, View, Search, Project etc but everything else is there. I am running 9.10.</p>
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2601 | 1 | 2909 | 2010-08-18T18:23:33.817 | 4 | 3071 | <p>I am trying to make <code>gnome-mplayer</code> play a video in fullscreen on my second screen. I am using a Nvidia card with xineramascreen. Below is my ~/.mplayer/config file.</p>
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2605 | 1 | 2607 | 2010-08-18T19:50:27.747 | 2 | 646 | <p>After Reboot no Windows Partition is found and installation cannot start. How can we solve this, in order to try Ubuntu ?</p>
<p>It says I only have free space available, but that isn't true. I'm on the demo now. </p>
<p>If I try to install from the demo, I do get:</p>
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2606 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T20:11:40.987 | 7 | 2887 | <p>byobu cannot connect to ssh-agent socket well. actually I can make just one connection via ssh-agent but if I try to establish another ssh connection using the agent, it doesn't work.
I've tried </p>
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2608 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T20:43:56.793 | 13 | 14936 | <p>I've removed totem and installed VLC instead. Now video files thumbnails are gone. Is there any way to get thumbnails back without reinstalling totem?</p>
<p>I know I can have both totem and VLC, but I really don't want to have more soft than I need :)</p>
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2613 | 1 | null | 2010-08-18T21:21:40.977 | 4 | 5896 | <p>I am running 10.04 LTS on a desktop PC with a Belkin G-Plus MIMO Wireless network card.</p>
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2616 | 1 | 2620 | 2010-08-18T22:17:21.893 | 2 | 222 | <p>Let's say we install ubuntu side by side with a windows installation.
At that time, we will NOT have much space to play with so:</p>
<p>/ - 5gb
/swap - 1gb
/home - 5gb</p>
<p>After that, we decide to remove windows. And we have much more space to play with.</p>
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2622 | 1 | null | 2010-08-19T00:36:50.540 | 35 | 231476 | <p>Occasionally my Ubuntu 10.04 PC won't boot properly. It gets past Grub and then stops at a blank screen and blinking cursor. From what I've read, this blinking cursor screen is presented by Ubuntu itself and not Grub, so I assume the boot process gets halted for some reason. Has anyone any guidance on how to diag... | 1449 | 527764 | 2021-12-15T14:52:03.720 | 2023-04-13T07:18:00.267 | Blank screen, blinking cursor on boot | [
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2624 | 1 | 2625 | 2010-08-19T02:57:37.783 | 24 | 61128 | <p>Sometimes it happen that some application crash without give no output error (<strong>conky</strong> in my case, probably is one of my configuration that is incorrect).</p>
<p>Is there somewhere a error log that I can check to understand why it is crashed?</p>
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2628 | 1 | 2746 | 2010-08-19T03:55:35.047 | 2 | 1719 | <p>I know the easy ways to remap caps lock, etc, but I haven't found out how to change my <kbd>Menu</kbd> key to be an additional <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> key. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks.</p>
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2635 | 1 | 2668 | 2010-08-19T06:38:15.510 | 3 | 743 | <p>I'm ahving a Dell Inspiron 1525.</p>
<p>I installed there a stock Ubuntu 10. However I can see no "hibernate" item in the shutdown menu.</p>
<p>Is <code>ACPI</code> supported on <code>1525</code>? If it is, how can I make hibernate work there?</p>
<p><strong>Solved:</strong> my bad, swap wasn't on.</p>
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2637 | 1 | 2645 | 2010-08-19T08:38:24.417 | 2 | 1800 | <p>Is it possible set the size of a navigator or web browser window to exact pixel dimensions in Ubuntu?</p>
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2647 | 1 | 2650 | 2010-08-19T11:55:46.113 | 7 | 875 | <p>When adding several keyboard layouts to Ubuntu (lucid), I experienced that any control key combination refers to the "default" keyboard layout. </p>
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2652 | 1 | 84988 | 2010-08-19T14:28:31.110 | 13 | 8078 | <p>Where can I get XBMC for Ubuntu?</p>
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2655 | 1 | 2656 | 2010-08-19T14:42:13.123 | 2 | 428 | <p>I am starting emacs remotely over an ssh connection. </p>
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2659 | 1 | 2662 | 2010-08-19T17:56:55.133 | 3 | 3092 | <p>I'm having a 250gb disk and 4gb ram.
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<p>My question is, for root and home, what file system should we choose. I see to many options... should I go for FAT32?</p>
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2674 | 1 | null | 2010-08-19T22:31:52.480 | 6 | 838 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/16988/how-do-i-install-ubuntu-to-a-usb-key">How do I install Ubuntu to a USB key?</a> </p>
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2677 | 1 | null | 2010-08-20T00:17:53.303 | 5 | 19624 | <p>Good Evening All,</p>
<p>I just got my HP Laptop Back from the factory and then I tried to install Ubuntu.</p>
<p>It got through the whole installation, however, when I restarted and chose Ubuntu a quick screen flashes that says:</p>
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2678 | 1 | null | 2010-08-20T00:20:13.080 | 3 | 1108 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/14686/kindle-for-pc-via-wine">Kindle for PC via Wine</a> </p>
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2684 | 1 | 2706 | 2010-08-20T02:22:43.137 | 6 | 482 | <p>I'm running an older Dell GX280, with a new 500GB drive and 2GB RAM. Fresh install with my <code>~</code> directory copied from an older HD I got the 500GB to replace. I think I'm running ext4 on both my <code>/</code> and <code>/home</code> partitions. </p>
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2685 | 1 | null | 2010-08-20T02:24:03.087 | 6 | 1047 | <p>Tips and advice on how to clone <a href="http://macromates.com" rel="noreferrer">Textmate</a>'s functionality in Ubuntu. I've done some research on this in the past and I know this information is valuable to the community.</p>
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2687 | 1 | 2688 | 2010-08-20T03:13:30.330 | 1 | 750 | <p>I'm looking for the gnome equivalent program to kControl.</p>
<p>I'm reading some online stuff and it says now run kControl, but I'm on gnome, so what is the program for gnome that serves the same purpose.</p>
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2700 | 1 | 2701 | 2010-08-20T08:22:47.997 | 26 | 15183 | <p>I have over 60 processes of <code>console-kit-daemon</code> that won't stop reappearing after I've used <code>sudo killall console-kit-daemon</code>. I have no idea what the daemon is for. </p>
<p>I'm running ubuntu 10.04. What's going on?</p>
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2708 | 1 | 2718 | 2010-08-20T11:59:47.587 | 4 | 1723 | <p>Hopefully the title sums it up, but I'm looking for a way of being able to switch the Appearance Preferences' Visual Effects option to 'None', from a terminal/script (and optionally later to be able to switch back to 'Normal', though that's not such a big deal).</p>
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2710 | 1 | 2796 | 2010-08-20T12:13:15.713 | 15 | 4836 | <p>I am using 10.04 and I use the 'Print to File' feature a lot but it's annoying to have to change the output option to to PDF each time. Is there a way to make it the default? </p>
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2719 | 1 | 2812 | 2010-08-20T13:22:19.467 | 20 | 29067 | <p>A few iterations ago, I think this was Jaunty but could've been before, I would plug a 1/8" audio cable from the line-out of a Windows netbook to the line-in of my Ubuntu machine, so I would have all the sound from both machines without having to plug both into a mixer which I don't have. I didn't do this much, as I... | 1491 | null | null | 2014-01-29T15:09:52.683 | How do I output my audio input? | [
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2728 | 1 | 2731 | 2010-08-20T14:31:51.443 | 12 | 2872 | <p>I know I could use VirtualBox or VMWare, but does anyone know of a way to run iTunes without having to run Windows virtually on Ubuntu? </p>
<p>Will iTunes run using Wine? Is there a better more native way to run iTunes?</p>
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2751 | 1 | null | 2010-08-20T17:05:49.377 | 1 | 2548 | <p>I have a laptop (HP Pavilion tx2500) with touchscreen functionality, it works fine but isn't calibrated, what is the best way to do it?</p>
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2755 | 1 | 2804 | 2010-08-20T17:24:49.313 | 6 | 2025 | <p>I know this will be an odd question, but I was wondering if anyone knew how to install the Ubuntu Installer package in an Ubuntu installation. To clarify, when you boot up to an Ubuntu LiveCD, it's got the installer program available so that you can install Ubuntu to a drive. Naturally, this program is not present... | 1557 | 67335 | 2014-08-05T03:41:41.887 | 2014-08-05T03:41:41.887 | Install installer package on an installed system? | [
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2759 | 1 | 2762 | 2010-08-20T17:35:18.470 | 3 | 4388 | <p>Each time my 3G Vodafone k4505 Pen get's mounted by the system, I get a icon on my desktop.
I would like to NOT have that icon each time I connect this 3g usb pen.</p>
<p>How can we accomplish this?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,
MEM</p>
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2766 | 1 | 2769 | 2010-08-20T19:36:41.123 | 3 | 5733 | <p>Is there a way to set the screen brightness on a Samsung R519 with Ubuntu 9.10 and the nvidia drivers?</p>
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2772 | 1 | null | 2010-08-20T21:47:05.983 | 5 | 1578 | <p>In Windows XP, you can find out how often an installed application was used by going to the <strong>Add/Remove Programs</strong> section. You can also get an estimate of how often the application was used.</p>
<p>Is there a way to do this in Ubuntu?</p>
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2773 | 1 | null | 2010-08-20T21:51:22.940 | 11 | 2845 | <p>I've got an old computer that I put Ubuntu on for my kids (11, 9, and 7). They're always fighting for who can get on the computer and I'm sick of trying to figure out who has had enough time.</p>
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2779 | 1 | 2780 | 2010-08-21T00:39:13.693 | 9 | 893 | <p>What is the best way to get the latest version of mono on ubuntu?</p>
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2781 | 1 | 10713 | 2010-08-21T00:49:50.317 | 4 | 852 | <p>In what Ubuntu release will gnomeshell become the default interface.</p>
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2784 | 1 | 2789 | 2010-08-21T02:22:05.250 | 3 | 168 | <p>While trying to install openJDK to start installing <strong>netbeans 6.9</strong> - I'm getting this: </p>
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2786 | 1 | 2791 | 2010-08-21T02:40:11.577 | 9 | 1430 | <p>Canonical operates at least two OpenID based login services within the Ubuntu online world: <a href="https://login.ubuntu.com" rel="nofollow">Ubuntu Single Sign On</a> and the <a href="https://login.launchpad.net/" rel="nofollow">Launchpad Login Service</a>. According to the information in the footer of both sites t... | 453 | 866 | 2012-05-10T10:24:41.280 | 2012-05-10T10:24:41.280 | What is the relationship between Ubuntu Single Sign On and Launchpad Login Service? | [
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2792 | 1 | null | 2010-08-21T03:26:33.503 | 15 | 3136 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/34572/how-can-i-reduce-or-increase-the-number-of-workspaces-in-unity">How can I reduce or increase the number of workspaces in Unity?</a> </p>
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2793 | 1 | 100953 | 2010-08-21T03:37:01.843 | 768 | 1254818 | <p>Every time I install a new Linux kernel, it gets left in the grub_config, making the boot menu longer each time. </p>
<p>I know I can manually search through the installed packages and remove them.</p>
<p>Does Ubuntu provide any easier way to clean them up or keep them from showing in the boot list?</p>
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2799 | 1 | 2805 | 2010-08-21T06:11:28.963 | 590 | 701291 | <p>There are a lot of software in Windows to merge PDF files but how can we do the same in Ubuntu?</p>
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2806 | 1 | 2811 | 2010-08-21T10:23:23.467 | 1 | 1501 | <p>A recent update to Ubuntu changed the way the workspace chooser panel applet worked. It used to highlight the choosen workspace as orange, and other workspaces would be not colored. Now it is the reverse. Is there a way to change this to set it back to the way it used to be?</p>
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2807 | 1 | 2821 | 2010-08-21T10:26:03.697 | 4 | 1039 | <p>The old workspace chooser allowed you to move application windows between workspaces by dragging them around in the workspace chooser. I much prefer that to the new workspace chooser's method of dragging them off the side of the screen. For one thing, in order to drag a window from a different workspace into the on... | 526 | null | null | 2013-09-01T05:34:03.623 | Moving application windows from one workspace to another by dragging in the workspace chooser? | [
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2815 | 1 | null | 2010-08-21T12:56:39.293 | 6 | 622 | <p>I see entries in /etc/apt/sources.list that say:</p>
<pre><code>deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
</code></pre>
<p>I am using Ubuntu 8.04, and I don't know what "hardy" means, though I suspect it has something to do with version?</p>
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2817 | 1 | null | 2010-08-21T14:40:02.110 | 4 | 853 | <p>I'm a packager, so I often need to use <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/cowbuilder" rel="nofollow"><code>cowbuilder</code></a> or <a href="http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/pbuilder.html.en" rel="nofollow"><code>pbuilder</code></a> to build packages either for my own use or when I'm sponsoring somebody elses'... | 66 | 41 | 2010-08-21T21:15:16.833 | 2012-11-26T15:13:00.757 | tmpfs for cowbuilder builds? | [
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"text": "How much RAM do you have in your machine?",
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"body": "<p>Keep in mind that hardlinks can't work across filesystems. I think using tmpfs would be bad.</p>\n",
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2822 | 1 | 2865 | 2010-08-21T18:21:20.160 | 5 | 194 | <p>I've only been a member of Launchpad for about 3 months and I still am having trouble figuring out the terminology.</p>
<p>I have created a project with one branch - trunk. I have committed a few times to this branch.</p>
<p>I created a series called '0.1' and I want to provide a download. Last time I did that, I ... | 5 | 66 | 2010-08-22T18:58:00.217 | 2010-08-22T18:58:00.217 | Proper way to set up releases in Launchpad? | [
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"text": "lfaraone♦ said: LaunchPadIsNotCamelCase.",
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2825 | 1 | 2854 | 2010-08-21T20:06:44.783 | 13 | 15946 | <p>I am using various KVM domains on a Ubuntu server. Both the host and guests run 10.04.1, 2.6.32-24 kernel, virsh reports version 0.7.5, KVM 0.12.3. The guests boot automatically when the host boots and they have <code><features><acpi/><features></code> in their configuration.</p>
<p>I could never ... | 1597 | 1597 | 2010-08-22T13:35:30.933 | 2019-05-08T16:14:22.557 | How do I use "virsh shutdown" on KVM domains to shut down Ubuntu guests? | [
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2826 | 1 | 2828 | 2010-08-21T20:34:27.050 | 3 | 420 | <p>I'd like to be able to either make my own sound theme or perhaps find one that's completely customizable i.e. how windows sound is customizable from the get go.</p>
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