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22587 | 1 | 23708 | 2011-01-21T13:09:50.077 | 12 | 210 | <p>When changing a string of text as a part of a patch, how should the translation in the <code>.po</code> files be handled? For example, a recent paper cut I've worked on involved changing the string "Reboot Anyway" to "Restart Anyway" when gnome-session detected applications still running during restart. When I grepe... | null | 235 | 2011-01-28T15:11:36.150 | 2011-01-31T12:14:51.013 | Patches and translations | [
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22588 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T13:11:34.397 | 0 | 298 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/21305/desktop-forgets-theme">Desktop forgets theme?</a> </p>
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<p>Suddenly after restart my default theme turned into a theme like this,
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22589 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T13:15:12.103 | 66 | 102955 | <p>I'm using Chrome, and the scroll rate is like 3 lines, and it's painfully slow. My finger gets tired really quickly on long pages. <em>System → Preferences → Mouse</em> lacks any scroll wheel configuration options.</p>
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22592 | 1 | 22615 | 2011-01-21T13:30:08.590 | 29 | 13296 | <p>I'd like to know if it's safe to rename user folders such as <code>Desktop</code>, <code>Documents</code>, <code>Music</code> (I want them to start lowercase).</p>
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22597 | 1 | 22605 | 2011-01-21T14:05:20.620 | 11 | 7118 | <p>Are there any desktop applications for uploading video to youtube?</p>
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22600 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T14:30:08.167 | 8 | 20958 | <p>I have a scanned image, and it's in Corel Draw (.cdr) format (~6mb). Is there a way to open it, or convert it to something that I can manage? I tried <a href="http://filespazz.com/">http://filespazz.com/</a> a few times, but it didn't work due to some timeout error.
Any suggestions?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
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22602 | 1 | 22685 | 2011-01-21T14:40:41.640 | 8 | 1878 | <p>Gedit has two plugins from <a href="http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins" rel="nofollow">Gnome's Gedit Plugins page</a> which I both particularly want... </p>
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22607 | 1 | 22614 | 2011-01-21T15:17:22.517 | 126 | 79577 | <p>Whenever I open the terminal, </p>
<pre><code>To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
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22608 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T15:21:43.347 | 30 | 219438 | <p>I have a .mp4 movie (it's an .mp4 file, and the "video codec" is Xvid, and the "audio codec" is mp3) that I want to play, but when I try to open it in MPlayer, it says "The steam is encrypted and decryption is not supported." I tried to apply the answer from <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/500/how-can-i-pla... | 9150 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:25:14.340 | 2024-01-15T20:31:02.963 | How to play .mp4 movies? | [
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22609 | 1 | 22611 | 2011-01-21T15:23:07.570 | 1 | 2584 | <p>I've just spent about half an hour reading forums and such, so in short of finding a working solution, I ask this here.</p>
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"body": "<p><code>System -> Preferences -> Keyboard</code> -> <code>Layouts</code> -> <code>Add...</code> -> <code>Spain Include dead tilde</code></p>\n\n<p>Works for me. I'm normally using ch_FR. </p>\n\n<p>(You might want to print the keyboard layout.)</p>\n\n<p><strong>Edit: I repost my... | [
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22613 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T15:45:21.197 | 5 | 3852 | <p>I don't need any workspace previews or big workspace switcher widgets. I just want simple workspace switcher like on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpringBoard" rel="nofollow noreferrer">iOS springboard</a>. Any suggestions?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/gp5xB.jpg" alt="alt text"></p>
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22617 | 1 | 23956 | 2011-01-21T16:06:14.217 | 3 | 346 | <p>I have recently added a second monitor to my setup. Instead of one VGA monitor, I now have one VGA and one DVI monitor hooked up to the computer. The displays work just fine. However, ever since this monitor was added Ubuntu (10.10) does not shut down properly. I go to shutdown and it starts shutting down but just h... | null | 456 | 2011-01-21T17:48:33.643 | 2012-09-03T14:52:58.847 | Crash on shutdown when using second monitor | [
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22626 | 1 | 22642 | 2011-01-21T17:19:34.073 | 5 | 1129 | <p>About a week ago I used the windows installer to install Ubuntu to an extra hard drive I had because I've heard so much about it. Since [I guess] Wubi is meant for people with limited disk space who want to dual boot, it only allocates 30G of space to Ubuntu. </p>
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22629 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T17:26:19.500 | 6 | 70884 | <pre><code> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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22635 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T18:07:29.733 | 1 | 313 | <p>I guess one should not run the software update when running off of a pendrive. Each time I have, not only does the update crash, but the usb drive becomes unbootable? Should the ablitiy to run a software update be disabled for pendrive instances?</p>
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22636 | 1 | 22638 | 2011-01-21T18:23:54.197 | 6 | 2894 | <p>I heard something of a filesystem change. Is it gonna happen in 11.04?</p>
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22644 | 1 | 36570 | 2011-01-21T19:02:14.013 | 3 | 4111 | <p>Sometimes hdd might drop out of my RAID, but after I fix HW problem - I have to manually find out which is device name of dropped HDD and manually re-add it.</p>
<p>Is there a way to let mdadm scan all HDDs and auto-read ones which belong to array?</p>
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22649 | 1 | 22801 | 2011-01-21T19:15:22.483 | 4 | 2723 | <p>I'm using Ubuntu 10.10.
The software center was asking me for password when I wanted to install/remove any application. Since last week, it doesn't prompt for password. Also, I have the same problem with <code>update-manager</code>. However, Synaptic and <code>sudo apt-get</code> ask for password. <br/>
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22651 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T19:41:26.710 | 2 | 244 | <p>I just created my Ubuntu One account on the machine running Ubuntu
and it works flawless. Then I tried to access the same account from my XP machine.
I can access account, and see all files, but when I try to access or download, it
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22652 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T19:46:26.173 | 3 | 429 | <p>I import a video into PiTiVi, drag it to the timeline, split the grouped A/V tracks at the start of where I want to delete and the end, then delete the middle. The audio track does what I expect, but all the video that used to be there stays there, just playing at double speed or something. I even tried just delet... | 9342 | null | null | 2011-10-09T21:46:44.693 | Using PiTiVi to delete the middle of a video? | [
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22661 | 1 | 22664 | 2011-01-21T21:31:41.220 | 18 | 241 | <p>I know what an Ubuntu Team is and <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/10334/how-do-i-find-ubuntu-users-in-my-country-state">where to find them</a>, but what can users do if their area doesn't have a LoCo team?</p>
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22662 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T21:32:18.840 | 2 | 1090 | <p>I downloaded the truecrypt 64 bit .tar.gz, but it could not be opened. The archiv manager says: Does not look like a tar archiv. Does anybody no, how to solve this error?
OS :Ubuntu Maverick.
On Lucid I had no problems to install TrueCrypt.</p>
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22663 | 1 | 22777 | 2011-01-21T21:41:50.383 | 31 | 170627 | <p>I decided to get rid of <code>network-manager</code> for some reason, and now in order to get on the network, I have to run <code>sudo ifup eth0</code>. Here's what <code>cat /etc/network/interfaces</code> gives:</p>
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22665 | 1 | 22733 | 2011-01-21T21:49:24.817 | 2 | 2319 | <p>My husband has converted the entire household to Ubuntu, so far things are going fine, except for this small issue, I have a ps/2 Genius keyboard model, KB-06X attached to a desktop computer and on rare occasions when I am typing in any application, Word processor, text editor or forms and I activate capslock what I... | 9346 | null | null | 2015-11-29T01:00:37.760 | Keyboard capslock does not work as expected sometimes | [
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22667 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T21:53:33.843 | 79 | 73242 | <p>Why is ufw firewall included in Ubuntu, when it is not enabled and pre-configured by default? Most users don't even know it is there, because no GUI frontend is provided.</p>
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22670 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T22:23:21.223 | 3 | 558 | <p>I'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 from Live CD.<br>
I can access the partitions already created ( two NTFS and one ext3 prepared ), but when I'm trying to install, at the step where I should select the partition, I don't have from where to choose.<br>
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22675 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T23:08:10.477 | 5 | 2112 | <p>Sometimes when I try to shut-down or restart, I get an error saying:</p>
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<p>It gives three choices</p>
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22676 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T23:08:18.597 | 2 | 4122 | <p>I have a relatively new Powerspec computer (i5 quad core processor, about a year or two old) and just grabbed a new relatively inexpensive ($40?) graphics card. It has 1 DVI, one VGA, and one HDMI output. </p>
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22682 | 1 | null | 2011-01-21T23:44:05.100 | 2 | 742 | <p>I am windows user and using windows 7 on my laptop.
Is there any way i can run practically run and use ubuntu from flash drive or it is necessary to install it on my hard drive.</p>
<p>Please suggest... </p>
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22686 | 1 | 22738 | 2011-01-22T00:00:21.343 | 7 | 786 | <p><em>Please do not mistake this for another post resembling installing Firefox 4.0 beta..I have no intention of that.</em></p>
<p>What I meant to ask was in Febrary or possibly march Firefox 4.0 will be officially released. Would the official repositories update to the latest version or should I install add the mozi... | 5855 | 235 | 2011-01-22T01:27:54.840 | 2011-03-17T19:11:10.453 | Will the official repositories update to Firefox 4.0 when it's released? | [
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22696 | 1 | 22699 | 2011-01-22T02:23:54.447 | 28 | 7709 | <p>Anyone knows where I can get a keyboard to buy with the Ubuntu logo on the super key?
If not where can I get some durable small plastic Ubuntu logos about 8 to 9 mm in diameter that I can use to glue on my keyboard?</p>
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22698 | 1 | null | 2011-01-22T02:32:55.603 | 2 | 11179 | <p>I have Ubuntu10.10 x64 and after installing Windows 7 grub dissapear I log on with my usb to reinstall grub and now grub only shows Ubuntu...
Then when I try to do update-grub2 I get this:</p>
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Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic
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22702 | 1 | null | 2011-01-22T03:29:53.640 | 3 | 12506 | <p>I need xorg-server version <code>2:1.9.0.902-1ubuntu3</code> installed because it contains a fix:</p>
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* Add 207_dga_master_device.patch: Cherrypick from upstream xserver git
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22704 | 1 | 27370 | 2011-01-22T04:16:45.070 | 1 | 472 | <p>I hear some squeaking noises sometimes when I use my computer so I ran smartctl. This is the results:</p>
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22716 | 1 | 22721 | 2011-01-22T05:19:54.063 | 1 | 1233 | <p>Instead of totem, what application that can play .m4v format?</p>
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22726 | 1 | 22776 | 2011-01-22T08:55:01.380 | 5 | 2042 | <p>Thanks to this <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/9189/upgrade-while-keeping-home-partition">thread</a> I know now that I should've done this during the installation part. But I didn't. </p>
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22735 | 1 | 22737 | 2011-01-22T10:39:35.927 | 10 | 23716 | <p>One thing I like for MacBooks is that they are usable within a second after opening their lid when they were on stand by.</p>
<p>Ubuntu always requires me to enter my password when I resume from suspend, which can be very annoying.<br>
How can I disable this?</p>
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22743 | 1 | 22745 | 2011-01-22T12:19:10.000 | 575 | 2545250 | <p>I've recently installed Ubuntu on Oracle's Virtualbox. Now I want to install the guest additions.</p>
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<p>How can I make this work?</p>
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22747 | 1 | 22748 | 2011-01-22T13:16:45.260 | 7 | 55091 | <p>I want to upgrade from ubuntu 10.10 to ubuntu 11.04. </p>
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22750 | 1 | 22757 | 2011-01-22T13:34:16.013 | 30 | 59828 | <p>In order to speed up DNS lookups, I want to install a DNS cache or proxy.</p>
<p>I can see at least three programs I think will do the job: bind9, pdnsd, or dnsmasq.</p>
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22754 | 1 | 24614 | 2011-01-22T14:00:38.430 | 1 | 924 | <p>My home is encrypted, which breaks the login. Gnome and other services try to find all sorts of <code>.files</code>, write to them, read from them and so on. E.g. <code>.ICEauthority</code>. They are not found (yet) because at that moment the home is still encrypted. I do not have automatic login set, since that has... | 9070 | null | 2017-01-31T14:14:35.413 | 2017-01-31T14:14:35.413 | Encrypted home breaks on login | [
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22755 | 1 | 23255 | 2011-01-22T14:06:54.253 | 2 | 2721 | <p>My Time zone is GMT and the time is set to 5 hours before this every time I reboot (American time?) </p>
<p>Ubuntu 11.04 64b
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22760 | 1 | 22766 | 2011-01-22T14:45:11.567 | 3 | 5642 | <p>I have several folders of video files that need to be renamed to something uniform, eg: <code>foldername.videotypexvideonumber.avi</code>. I have looked at creating a shell script to make this easier. The <code>mv</code> command seems to be the best way to do this.</p>
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22763 | 1 | 23882 | 2011-01-22T15:06:13.420 | 5 | 15917 | <p>I use an atheros card that requires ath9k driver. Are there any tools that can be used to increase the signal power of the wi-fi card?</p>
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22764 | 1 | 23235 | 2011-01-22T15:07:46.417 | 10 | 1483 | <p>I'm using ubuntu in virtualbox and cannot scroll. What can I do?</p>
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22770 | 1 | 23178 | 2011-01-22T15:43:23.750 | 12 | 5470 | <p>I have Ubuntu 10.10 server on EC2. I installed Python 3.1, and now I want to install NumPy on it. How do I do it? I tried <code>easy_install-3.1 numpy</code> but got this error:</p>
<pre><code>RefactoringTool: Refactored /tmp/easy_install-MiUli2/numpy-1.5.1/build/py3k/numpy/core/defchararray.py
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22774 | 1 | null | 2011-01-22T16:01:25.403 | 8 | 3309 | <p>I can't seem to get a straight answer on this. I would like to add a 3rd display onto my laptop + external monitor setup. While my current setup (Thinkpad X201) has an open VGA port (am using the laptop's display + displayport with external monitor) it appears that I can't drive 3 monitors natively. </p>
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22778 | 1 | 22795 | 2011-01-22T16:43:08.803 | 17 | 28333 | <p>A textbook I'm using came with a CD containing a few supplementary applications. To my pleasant surprise, it appears to include an installer for Linux.</p>
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22786 | 1 | 22790 | 2011-01-22T18:45:05.347 | 1 | 1071 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/9933/how-to-read-ext4-and-btrfs-partitions-in-windows">How to read ext4 and btrfs partitions in Windows?</a> </p>
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<p>It's pretty easy to access all my Windows files in Ubuntu,<br>
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22793 | 1 | 25460 | 2011-01-22T19:02:41.723 | 3 | 145 | <p>When I try to read a specific file by running</p>
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<p>I plan to run a badblocks ckeck but that will take ages to complete. Is there anything else I can do?</p>
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22798 | 1 | null | 2011-01-22T19:22:51.477 | 1 | 156 | <p>Maybe I'm wrong but more than once it happened to me that some problems suddenly got fixed after a number of turn-on/turn-off cycles. </p>
<p>I also read somewhere that this was even recommended in some other OS's (Windows).</p>
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22811 | 1 | null | 2011-01-22T21:22:46.273 | 3 | 1296 | <p>I just chose to have the visualization in separate window once, now it looks like this:</p>
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<p>I can't find a way to get it back in Rhythmbox. There are no buttons and no menu entries to move it back.</p>
<p>Any Ideas? Thanks.</p>
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22812 | 1 | 22818 | 2011-01-22T21:23:28.910 | 2 | 6416 | <p><strong>Question</strong>: I see <code>[ 20.473125] composite sync not supported</code> and several such entries when I run <code>dmesg</code>. What do they mean?</p>
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22816 | 1 | null | 2011-01-22T22:06:07.140 | 2 | 2330 | <p>I want to setup my home server to use ssh keys but when I follow the tutorial on <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/openssh-server.html" rel="nofollow">https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/openssh-server.html</a>
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22820 | 1 | null | 2011-01-22T22:50:28.007 | 1 | 568 | <p>I'm looking for a Indicator Menu, that replaces the notification area. Any Systray Icon should be in a Identicator Menu, because on Netbooks the Application Menus and the Systray Icons overlap sometimes</p>
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22824 | 1 | null | 2011-01-22T23:09:56.290 | 13 | 17356 | <p>I'm using virtual-box. The guest is Ubuntu. The host is Windows 7. I have a shared folder (shared by the host and the guest).</p>
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22829 | 1 | null | 2011-01-22T23:39:49.963 | 4 | 908 | <p>I have installed a couple of indicators from the <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/the-omg-guide-to-must-have-indicator-applets/" rel="nofollow">The OMG! Ubuntu! Guide to the best indicator applets around</a>.</p>
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22835 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T00:51:13.253 | 105 | 296740 | <p>How can I network two Ubuntu computers, so that they can "see" each other at an IP address?</p>
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22840 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T01:29:06.147 | 4 | 12276 | <p>We can change breadcrumbs and the sidepane color, but what else can be edited with <code>gtkrc-2.0</code>?</p>
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22843 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T01:59:01.303 | 6 | 4301 | <p>I just installed a new SSD in my system, and I'm having numerous problems trying to boot from it.</p>
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22845 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T02:17:01.253 | 1 | 250 | <blockquote>
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<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/2596/comparison-of-backup-tools">Comparison of backup tools</a> </p>
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22846 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T02:29:26.850 | 4 | 3053 | <p>In the top panel of Unity there's the Title of the window, and when it's moused over, a global menu pops up. Is there a similar indicator for 10.10?</p>
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22848 | 1 | 22865 | 2011-01-23T02:51:52.917 | 1 | 504 | <p>I have installed Mint LXDE 10.04 on my netbook, but would prefer the standard Ubuntu. Would it be easy (one or a few commands) to get the computer to the same state as it would have if I did a fresh install of Ubuntu, or should I just do the fresh install?</p>
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22849 | 1 | 59849 | 2011-01-23T03:18:18.423 | 4 | 5117 | <p>I am having problem hibernating and suspending my Dell Laptop while virtualbox is running( XP Guest). I have tried default kernel method, uswsusp and tuxonice and none of them works. But if I close virtualbox, then hibernation and suspend works fine. Following are system specs.
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22850 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T03:18:21.693 | 5 | 23298 | <p>I am trying to install tasksel in order to install LAMP but for some reason it always gives me this error:</p>
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22851 | 1 | 22872 | 2011-01-23T03:24:00.287 | 1 | 719 | <p>Whenever you want to open a file with a program that's not in the right-click shortlist, you click 'use a custom command.' However, the way that's worded led me to believe that it may be possible to treat the file as if it were <code>$@</code>, command line input.</p>
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22852 | 1 | 22859 | 2011-01-23T03:31:08.277 | 3 | 1466 | <p>Since yesterday, the title bars of windows are missing. I haven't changed any configuration.</p>
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22863 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T06:34:27.787 | 1 | 2560 | <p>I do not know the root password. I am only in group root. How do I add myself to other groups?</p>
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22866 | 1 | 22885 | 2011-01-23T08:11:11.033 | 2 | 1206 | <p>I am trying to create a dual boot of Ubuntu 10.10 with Windows 7. My hard disk allocation were as follows:</p>
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22871 | 1 | 22899 | 2011-01-23T09:02:05.100 | 132 | 167087 | <p>I saw a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code" rel="noreferrer">QR code</a> reading a book, but I don't have a smart phone to decode it.</p>
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22875 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T09:40:47.463 | 4 | 7740 | <p>Will the wobbly windows effect be available in Ubuntu 11.04?</p>
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22876 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T09:51:53.810 | 2 | 308 | <p>My secondary monitor stopped updating the desktop background on my Maverick after an update I ran on January 10th. My desktop looks like this:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PbBxh.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PbBxh.jpg" alt="alt text"></a></p>
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22886 | 1 | 22888 | 2011-01-23T11:03:57.497 | 3 | 2337 | <p>As it is explained <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/10223/display-current-layout-language-code-country-flag-in-keyboard-indicator/10268#10268">here</a> I wanted to show current country flag in a keyboard indicator. The problem is where to find those country flags.</p>
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22890 | 1 | 22893 | 2011-01-23T11:52:20.773 | 2 | 236 | <p>I am using both Arabic and English as input languages and set the switching key combination to <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>Shift</kbd>. Sometimes i find the languages keep switching spontaneously too fast that I type a letter in Arabic and another in English. No key combination work at this case and the keyboard indicator i... | null | 17739 | 2011-11-02T20:30:15.347 | 2011-11-02T20:30:15.347 | Input languages switch spontaneously too fast | [
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22896 | 1 | 22901 | 2011-01-23T13:32:09.130 | 28 | 36865 | <p>Other than for Windows in Ubuntu there are no fancy utilities provided from printer manufacturers to print photos. I am aware of <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/gnome-photo-printer" rel="noreferrer">Gnome Photo Printer</a> and of <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/photoprint" rel="noreferrer">... | 3940 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:20.177 | 2018-08-09T06:35:04.860 | How Do I Print Photos? | [
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"body": "<p>F-Spot can make some of the things you are asking for (though not all)</p>\n\n<p>On the other hand, and though this is not an answer to your question, but eventually, and hopefully, it will be. There's a project called DarkTable, which is being developed as a substitute of Lightroom.... | [
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22907 | 1 | 22922 | 2011-01-23T14:51:21.450 | 2 | 104 | <p>I would like to have info (time, filename, and user when having shared folders) about file changes, uploads, downloads...</p>
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"body": "<p>The syncdaemon.log (in ~/.cache/ubuntuone/log) provides that info too. If you want to have access to server side logs, you should contact U1 team at <a href=\"https://one.ubuntu.com/support/contact/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://one.ubuntu.com/support/contact/</a></p>\n",
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22909 | 1 | 22992 | 2011-01-23T15:01:05.937 | 8 | 1509 | <p>I accidentally ran <code>rm -rf /*</code> on my Ubuntu 10.10 and cancelled the command quickly. I was not root and didn't use <code>sudo</code> but a lot of my files were deleted. The system has become less responsive and I am not sure how to fix it. For instance, I reinstalled firefox and it solved many firefox iss... | 8238 | 527764 | 2018-02-18T17:47:14.753 | 2018-02-18T17:53:32.350 | Repairing after running rm -rf /* | [
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"body": "<p>I fixed the issues by doing a fresh install.</p>\n\n<p>As <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/a/22916/527764\">@d4n13l suggested</a>, my system had taken a hit in responsiveness and more than just my files were gone.</p>\n\n<p>I feel like <a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/a/22920/527764\">... | [
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22910 | 1 | 22912 | 2011-01-23T15:16:11.143 | 82 | 61404 | <p>I have written a simple script.
When I run<code>sh <myscriptname.sh></code>, i got the correct output, but when I run <code>./<myscriptname.sh></code>, I got an error.</p>
<p>What is difference between when I do <code>sh</code> and <code>./</code>?</p>
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22913 | 1 | 22923 | 2011-01-23T15:34:47.703 | 1 | 2350 | <p><strong>Question</strong>: What does this dmesg mean? Is it bad? There is a <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/221437" rel="nofollow noreferrer">two year old post</a> about how this could imply degraded I/O performance, could this be/is this still true??</p>
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22915 | 1 | 22917 | 2011-01-23T15:47:49.710 | 0 | 811 | <p>I have a small Hard Drive (20 gb) so I need to keep an eye on my Disk Usage Analyzer, I can't afford to upgrade my Hard Drive yet so I'm looking for a safe and effective system cleaner that won't compromise system stability.</p>
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"body": "<p><a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/bleachbit\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><strong>BleachBit</strong> <img src=\"https://hostmar.co/software-large\" alt=\"Install bleachbit\" /></a></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">Read more about it he... | [
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22918 | 1 | 22921 | 2011-01-23T16:02:15.440 | 0 | 2690 | <p>Hallo all,</p>
<p>i'm trying to use easytag to tag my music collection that is shared on a NAS in my home network. But my problem is, that i cannot access the NAS in the open file dialog (can only access everything on my computer but nothing in the network).</p>
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22919 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T16:05:36.760 | 5 | 4201 | <p>I don't know how to reproduce this problem, because I don't regularly play music or sound. All I know is that, sometimes, I'll load a video (from youtube or from a local file) and there will be no sound.</p>
<p>Everything looks fine software wise:</p>
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<li>Rebooting <em>always</em> fixes.</li>
<li><code>aplay<... | 1938 | null | null | 2011-06-08T12:59:36.313 | Why does sound stop working after a while? | [
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22927 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T17:11:09.257 | 3 | 2344 | <p>Whenever I am typing in Arabic, the cursor skips to the beginning of the line because if it were written from left to right, that would be where I last typed.</p>
<p>How can I fix that?</p>
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22931 | 1 | 22932 | 2011-01-23T17:31:36.900 | 3 | 104 | <p>I am trying to buy more storage to my Ubuntu One account. I live in UK and the purchase form detects that. However, the form allows me to choose between euros and dollars. Why is pounds not in the list? How can I make my purchase in pounds?</p>
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22934 | 1 | 22938 | 2011-01-23T18:40:13.823 | 0 | 2845 | <p>I am running Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 on MediaTemple (ve) servers.</p>
<p>On both of them, the <strong>anacron</strong> setup is broken, ... and they have been broken since I first installed Ubuntu. It has only come to my attention recently, when I realize my log files were not rotating.</p>
<p>I am hoping someone w... | 9460 | null | null | 2011-01-23T19:42:05.767 | What is proper setup for "anacron"? | [
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22935 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T18:56:06.263 | 5 | 7956 | <p>Previously, I need to clear documents history, so I Googled and found this:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.watchingthenet.com/ubuntu-tip-clear-disable-recent-documents.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.watchingthenet.com/ubuntu-tip-clear-disable-recent-documents.html</a></p>
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22936 | 1 | 23159 | 2011-01-23T19:29:17.460 | 13 | 14343 | <p>I have seen a question here about reading .epub but I would like to create my own easily from a GUI, what is available for Ubuntu? Even if I have to download something outside the repository, as long as it installs easily and works well, I would also like the software to be able to support the use of .svg images an... | 9346 | 8844 | 2011-01-25T08:07:23.830 | 2023-06-08T19:05:01.603 | What's a good tool for creating .epub format e-books? | [
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22943 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T20:41:14.633 | 1 | 1349 | <p>I have a htpc running 10.10.</p>
<p>It has no keyboard or mouse attached, so I connect over vnc for administration and manual tasks. This usually works fine but every so often an app running in fullscreen mode crashes.</p>
<p>All I want to be able to do is kill this app from VNC. Is there a keyboard shortcut to do... | 6911 | 47151 | 2012-03-13T13:33:53.443 | 2012-03-13T13:33:53.443 | How can I recover from a frozen app when connecting over VNC | [
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22944 | 1 | null | 2011-01-23T20:45:05.050 | 3 | 1577 | <p>I run Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop on my machine and have installed Ubuntu Server 10.10 in a Virtualbox VM. I'm running Virtualbox 4.0.2. It is not virtualbox-ose.</p>
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22945 | 1 | 22956 | 2011-01-23T20:54:21.483 | 1 | 150 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/6724/how-to-highlight-just-the-name-not-the-extension-for-renaming">How to highlight just the name (not the extension) for renaming?</a> </p>
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<p>I remember kind of one year ago that when I was renamin... | 9422 | -1 | 2017-04-13T12:23:59.520 | 2011-01-23T22:38:51.980 | Rename selection default was just for the name and now it's even for the extension | [
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"text": "It works fine for me. When I rename it either using F2 or right-click, the extension is preserved. However I recall a couple of occasions when the extension disappeared, it's weird.",
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"body": "<p>F2 hightlights only the name when you are not on list view mode. So that, in icon view and compact list, it must work.</p>\n",
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22946 | 1 | 28392 | 2011-01-23T21:16:18.003 | 168 | 372479 | <p>I followed the instructions for compiling GNOME Shell and it did compile with a few errors here and there but it didn't run. I installed GNOME Shell using <code>sudo apt-get install gnome-shell</code> but I got version 2.31.x, while the latest is 2.91.5 or something. So is there a way for me to install the latest bu... | 2975 | 44179 | 2014-06-27T14:10:55.413 | 2015-11-19T14:15:40.400 | How do I install and use the latest version of GNOME? | [
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"body": "<p>Be more especific with your Ubuntu version I suppose you use Maverick and for Maverick don´t know any repository at this time but if you want to try and compile again look at this first:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/install-gnome-shell-from-git-in-ubuntu... | null | null | null | null | null |
22949 | 1 | 22957 | 2011-01-23T22:17:22.880 | 2 | 4690 | <p>I have a Windows PC (don't worry, I almost never use it) that sometimes gets used for playing games and audio/video.</p>
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"body": "<p><a href=\"http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/windows/\" rel=\"nofollow\">AirFoil</a> would probably be the best option. <strike>It's essentially a plugin for iTunes</strike> It's a whole-system audio redirector that'll let you stream any audio to a whole host of destinations <em>in... | [
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22952 | 1 | 22953 | 2011-01-23T22:27:00.420 | 3 | 996 | <p>I tend to run newer kernels than most people, partially for fun, partially for bug testing, partially for masochistic fulfilment. A couple of days ago I installed <code>2.6.38-rc1</code> and VirtualBox's DKMS module would no longer compile.</p>
<p>I'm not new to VirtualBox throwing spanners in my kernel experiments... | 449 | null | null | 2011-07-20T21:06:04.537 | How do I run VirtualBox on 2.6.38? | [
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22961 | 1 | 22964 | 2011-01-23T23:03:19.993 | 1 | 815 | <p>Is it possible to select which folders (outside the ubuntu one folder) are being synced to each machine ?
For instance i'd like to sync a data-heavy folder with most of my PC's but not with my netbook.</p>
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22967 | 1 | null | 2011-01-24T00:03:52.513 | 1 | 2473 | <p>I'm trying to install Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client on Maverick 64-bit. I'm getting the following errors:</p>
<pre><code>Installing Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client ...
Removing previous installation...
/opt/cisco/vpn/bin/manifesttool: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No ... | 9481 | 24694 | 2012-09-03T18:42:30.283 | 2012-09-23T22:17:23.180 | How to resolve "error loading libxml2.so.2" when installing Cisco AnyConnect VPN? | [
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22973 | 1 | null | 2011-01-24T01:55:13.697 | 13 | 19991 | <p>I am trying to share a folder on VirtualBox with a guest OS X, I tried to share the folder through VirtualBox but it doesn't show up in OS X. I also tried sharing a folder on OS X and access it from Ubuntu also failed.</p>
<p>So I need someone who did this before with success to tell me how to correctly do this. </... | 7765 | 175814 | 2017-05-09T20:21:18.790 | 2018-11-02T10:42:45.147 | Share folder with mac guest on a linux ubuntu host | [
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"body": "<p>Mount manually your folder, open a terminal and type:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo mkdir /media/vbox\nsudo mount -t vboxsf \"yoursharedfolder\" /media/vbox\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>If you want it mounted automatically every start, run:</p>\n\n<pre><code>gksu gedit /etc/rc.local\n</code... | null | null | null | null | null |
22976 | 1 | 22986 | 2011-01-24T02:41:50.677 | 1 | 281 | <p>The login process to my Ubuntu box takes a long time, maybe a minute or longer. </p>
<p>Unlike the bootstrap which prints a lot of messages to the console, there is nothing displayed when GUI started. </p>
<p>I've checked <code>/var/log/Xorg.0.log</code> and <code>/var/log/Xorg.1.log</code>, most of them are a bit... | 1119 | null | null | 2011-01-24T04:28:43.363 | Is there a way to check logs about user login? | [
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