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2829 | 1 | 2862 | 2010-08-21T21:48:28.207 | 4 | 173 | <p>A member of my family has a moderate disability for dealing with computers. He is largely unable to engage technology in general, and most on-screen GUIs are confusing and upsetting. He is, however, able to use email and browse the Internet to a limited degree, and he wants to progress in that. </p>
<p>Evolution works fairly well for the email. But I want to find a better software -- which in this case means <strong>simpler</strong>, <strong>easier</strong> and <strong>uncluttered</strong>. </p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Simpler</strong> -- doesn't assume a heavy load of messages or super real-time exchange such as for chat. Doesn't present many features beyond the minimum.</li>
<li><strong>Easier</strong> -- has a highly fool-proof GUI. </li>
<li><strong>Uncluttered</strong> -- No sidebar with advertisements. No extraneous pop-ups.</li>
</ul>
<p>I am certain the Gmail interface would not be acceptable (complex, visually cluttered, a bit hard to second-guess if you aren't computer-savvy). Three years ago I tried Thunderbird, but Evolution seemed to have a better GUI. </p>
<p>I guess I'm looking for the email-browser equivalent of a <a href="http://www.jitterbug.com/CustomerService/faq04.aspx" rel="nofollow">Jitterbug</a> phone. Perhaps something designed for assistive technology is available. What would you recommend?</p>
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2835 | 1 | 2849 | 2010-08-21T23:25:41.907 | 4 | 14406 | <p>When accessing a site defined in my local dev environment, I can't seem to get past a 403 Forbidden error.</p>
<p>Under /etc/apache2/sites-available/ I have defined a file fun.local:</p>
<pre><code><VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName fun.local
DocumentRoot /home/noah/work/fun
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/fun-error.log
<Directory /home/noah/work/fun>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
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<p>The the apache error log for the site contains this error:</p>
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</code></pre>
<p>I am running apache2 and ubuntu 10.04.</p>
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2837 | 1 | null | 2010-08-21T23:50:52.193 | 8 | 642 | <p>Are there any instant messengers for Ubuntu that support video and audio chat?</p>
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2839 | 1 | null | 2010-08-22T00:35:13.013 | 8 | 398 | <p>How do I communicate with the Ubuntu kernel team?</p>
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2840 | 1 | 2846 | 2010-08-22T00:51:06.833 | 3 | 2990 | <p>When I run the .deb file I downloaded from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/help/amd.html/ref=sv_dmusic_5" rel="nofollow">here</a>, I get this error:</p>
<p><code>Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libboost-filesystem1.34.1</code></p>
<p>Does anyone know a work around for this?</p>
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2842 | 1 | null | 2010-08-22T00:55:40.227 | 7 | 284 | <p>How do I get involved with the Ubuntu kernel?</p>
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2852 | 1 | null | 2010-08-22T05:57:12.563 | 6 | 3991 | <p>I am trying to pint to a Brother MFC-7420 from my ubuntu 10.04 machine.</p>
<p>The brother is attached to a windows XP machine and is shared.</p>
<p>This is what I have tried:
System->Administration->Printing,
Add,
Expand Network Printer,
Windows Printer via SAMBA,
Browse (I can find the printer no problems here),
Foward,
Choose Driver Dialog,
Brother,</p>
<p>My printer is not in this list</p>
<p>So the next thing I tried was to download the printer driver from here <a href="http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html">http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html</a></p>
<p>The driver installed fine but my printer still does not appear in the list.</p>
<p>I also tried installing the cups wrapper but that gave the following error.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [ OK ]
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/cups/model/MFC7420.ppd': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing cupswrappermfc7420 (--install):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
cupswrappermfc7420</p>
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<p>I tried connecting the printer directly but even though I have installed the driver, when I go to printers and click on the printer (it shows up fine as a USB printer) then it say searching for drivers and then gives me a list, this is the same list as before which doesn't have my printer.</p>
<p>It really shouldn't be this hard. on window you don't have to installing anything it just works and the same is true for my brothers Mac.</p>
<p>How do I print to my printer?</p>
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2855 | 1 | 2867 | 2010-08-22T07:59:45.813 | 6 | 8716 | <p>Due to some strange reason, I've lost some of my <code>locale</code> settings. I've managed to restore most of them using <code>sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales</code>:</p>
<pre><code>perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
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<p>So I'm stuck with one missing value:</p>
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locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
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<p>Any idea how to restore them all?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Adam</p>
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2866 | 1 | 2869 | 2010-08-22T14:10:26.150 | 6 | 1763 | <p>When exploring directories from a symlink (symbolic link) using Nautilus or Gnome Commander, the directory structure is displayed as if the symlink were a regular directory. When I open a document, apps differ in how they treat the path. For an .html document:</p>
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<li>opened w/ Firefox: Shows the real
path as the address</li>
<li>opened w/ NetBeans: ditto</li>
<li>opened w/ Gedit: Shows the <strong>symlink</strong>
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<hr>
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<li>Do I need to pay attention to these
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<li>I feel insecure when the symlink
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that? Can I proceed with
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2872 | 1 | 2924 | 2010-08-22T16:16:41.603 | 27 | 1774 | <p>For those who are not <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU">MOTU</a> (people who maintain the Universe and Multiverse software <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu">repositories</a>) and do not have plans of the "I will apply to MOTU by $date" variety:</p>
<p>What keeps you and others like you from trying to become MOTU? What makes you think you couldn't become one? </p>
<p>I'm referring to both social and technological barriers.</p>
<p><strong>EDIT:</strong>
I'm only saying MOTU because it's a pretty generic group, but "why aren't you packaging / patching and intending to eventually try for upload rights?" is an even more general version.</p>
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2888 | 1 | null | 2010-08-22T19:42:32.733 | 1 | 5036 | <p>I downloaded ubuntu over the weekend replacing Windows Vista and so far everything has been fantastic, except for one thing. I cannot get my webcam to work. I've tried camorama and camera monitor but they can't load an image. Can anyone help with any apps that I can download?</p>
<p>Many thanks</p>
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I have two webcams that I can use - a Microsoft Lifecam VX-3000 and a Trust WB-1400T webcam.
I have downloaded 'Cheese Webcam Booth', 'Camorama Webcam Viewer' and 'Kamoso'. I have read that there are a lot of problems using the MS Lifecam with Linux so any recommendations on webcams which work particularly well with Ubuntu would be very much appreciated.</p>
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2895 | 1 | null | 2010-08-22T22:12:27.073 | 3 | 369 | <p>I run the following at regular intervals in order to sync my laptop with my desktop. When there's nothing to do, and therefore no output from unison, i want it to complete silently; when there's syncing to be done, t want it to pop up in a terminal so I can accept or reject changes as required. </p>
<p>Currently, it always pops up a window regardless and i'm harassed by occasional blank terminals appearing and disappearing. Here's the command that I run automatically every 30 minutes or so: </p>
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<p>Can anyone think of a better way to accomplish this?</p>
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<p>They came with blank hard-drives, so I need to install an OS and I’m thinking Ubuntu might be a great option.</p>
<p>Ideally, I would like to have central user accounts and shared central storage.</p>
<p>Is there something similar to MS-AD for Ubuntu?</p>
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2901 | 1 | 2905 | 2010-08-22T22:41:50.237 | 22 | 55956 | <p>I was having problems connecting to the internet either by wireless or wired connection.
I keep getting an icon in the systray that has a tooltip that says "unmanaged" and when I click on it I get a "Network management disabled". </p>
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<p>Can anyone help me out? I just want to know what is happening and why did I had to go to the command line to enable my network.</p>
<p>I had to put the computer in sleep mode and then it wouldn't wake up, so I rebooted the machine. The network manager problems started again, this time the file mentioned by maco had the value set to true and it still wouldn't work.</p>
<p>Anyone know how I can make this permanently work? I did a </p>
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<p>And when I booted the machine at a later time I had the network manager enabled.
Have no clue why.</p>
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2902 | 1 | 24370 | 2010-08-22T23:00:01.710 | 5 | 13769 | <p>Using a random UMTS USB stick (Huwei 160 or something like this) works an current Ubuntu pretty much out of the box and the setup via network manager (nm-applet) is convenient.</p>
<p>But it does not display the current signal strength or modes of operation (which speed-mode is used etc.).</p>
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2904 | 1 | null | 2010-08-22T23:15:53.493 | 2 | 1158 | <p>I had to reinstall 10.04. It had been working with no problems and then I did something. I decided that reinstalling the OS would be the easiest fix.</p>
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<p>Might I need new drivers?</p>
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2920 | 1 | 2921 | 2010-08-23T05:48:40.067 | 34 | 4182 | <p>Just for curiosity, sometimes while installing software throught <code>apt-get install software_name</code> the terminal prompt me for a confirmation "type Yes or No", but not allways.</p>
<p>I dont mean the sudo password prompt, but the message "Will be downloaded and configrated XXX Kb, continue?" (or something similar)</p>
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2926 | 1 | 2983 | 2010-08-23T09:14:44.833 | 7 | 50097 | <p>I've just done a fresh install of Ubuntu (10.04.1) plus LAMP (via <code>sudo tasksel install lamp-server</code>) and everything is working fine. However, it does so until I need to work on localhost when I do not have an internet connection. For example, as soon as I unplug the ethernet cable from the NIC, localhost and 127.0.0.1 stop working. </p>
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<p>Any idea how to fix this problem? I had this problem before, but can't remember what I did to resolve it.</p>
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2927 | 1 | 2930 | 2010-08-23T09:24:59.727 | 3 | 19810 | <p>Background: I'm looking to put a series of Ubuntu machines into retail locations, they're being used as dumb kiosks to show a series of slides onto large LCD panel TV screens. Once installed, they won't have a keyboard or mouse connected but will have a fixed IP on the local network. Everything is configured to auto-start, no automatic updates, no power saving etc - I think we're pretty-much good to go apart from one thing. <b>I need the retail staff to be able to restart the boxes if a problem arises.</b></p>
<p>We have VNC running (now that we've turned off desktop enhancements!) so that we can remotely get into the machines if we need to, but that's not something we would allow the retail staff to do. <i>The machines are going to be physically 'out of the way' (probably in the ceiling space) so <b>the power button is not easily accessible!</b></i>.</p>
<p>I'd like to have some means of allowing the retail staff to restart the Ubuntu machine, from the desktop of one of their Windows terminals. I don't really want to give them some kind of raw terminal access (the command line will frighten them!) and I don't want them to use VNC (as stated above). Ideally there would be an icon on the Windows desktop, they double-click it, reply to a simple 'are you sure?' prompt, and then the Ubuntu box is told to restart. The Windows side of that won't be a problem, we can write something using Delphi, Python & Qt4, whatever - it's the Ubuntu side of it I'm stuck with.</p>
<p>Out of sight/view, could I have a Windows program open a terminal across the network and tell Ubuntu to restart? Is this what SSH could be used for (I have never set that kind of thing up). The Windows programming side isn't really an issue, it's just that I'm a total Ubuntu noob and don't know where to start from the platform point of view.</p>
<p>The other thing we considered is also having the machine automatically restart itself at a set time each day (obviously out of store hours!). To me, that seems a bit unnecessary (though forcing a restart once a week/month might be worthwhile).</p>
<p>Any thoughts or suggestions? Being able to restart the box on demand across the network is my prime requirement.</p>
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2952 | 1 | 16788 | 2010-08-23T15:07:20.597 | 8 | 944 | <p>A couple of the various Linux photo organizer applications (Shotwell & f-spot, at least) let you upload pictures to Facebook, but as far as I can see, that's limited only to albums on your personal page. Am I just missing something, and it is actually possible to use either Shotwell or f-spot to upload to albums in a page you are an administrator for? If not, is there another Picasa-type program that has this feature?</p>
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2953 | 1 | 2954 | 2010-08-23T15:08:57.833 | 9 | 7172 | <p>What are the options I've got when it comes to RAID and Windows?</p>
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2960 | 1 | null | 2010-08-23T16:19:36.663 | 3 | 490 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/72679/is-there-any-sound-enhancers-equalizer">Is there any Sound enhancers/equalizer?</a> </p>
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<p>The other day, I plugged a poor quality set of speakers into my PC (running Ubuntu 10.04).</p>
<p>I would have liked to have made some adjustments to some sort of equalizer, but couldn't find anything that affected the whole PC.</p>
<p>Is there such a thing?</p>
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2964 | 1 | 2966 | 2010-08-23T16:48:37.120 | 28 | 49574 | <p>I'd like to build my own copy of the Ubuntu kernel. Where can I get the source code?</p>
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2968 | 1 | 2972 | 2010-08-23T17:40:55.477 | 4 | 3277 | <p>I'd like to set up LDAP to act as central authentication of 2 web applications running on the same server.</p>
<p>Whats the simplest step-by-step way to go about this from scratch?</p>
<p>In the long run I'd also like to be able to administer the users on the system as simply as possible (think end users, not devs!)</p>
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2970 | 1 | 2973 | 2010-08-23T18:45:30.273 | 7 | 13211 | <p>I'm using ubuntu in a VM, so, I leave it idle from time to time. When I go back obviously the screen is locked, but I would like to configure the idle time for something around 10 minutes. Where can I do this?</p>
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2977 | 1 | 3035 | 2010-08-23T19:48:45.450 | 3 | 5544 | <p>I used <code>hcitool scan</code> to get the MAC address of my phone.</p>
<p>Then I used <code>sdbtool browse</code> to find the channel of the "Serial Port" service.</p>
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<p><em><b>Note:</b> The MAC address and channel are in there... I just don't want to print them here.</em></p>
<p>I restarted the <code>bluetooth</code> service and went to <code>/dev</code> - but I couldn't see <code>rfcomm0</code> or anything close to it in there.</p>
<p>What am I doing wrong?</p>
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2980 | 1 | 2985 | 2010-08-23T20:10:21.023 | 4 | 1703 | <p>I'm writing a program that uses OpenAL. When I link against it (I'm using CMake), it also links against libpulse - PulseAudio. This results in the binary not working on other systems. Can I somehow <em>not</em> link against PulseAudio and still use OpenAL on Ubuntu?</p>
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I just figured something out: It's not OpenAL that's dragging PulseAudio in, it's SDL. Is there anything I can do about that?</p>
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<p>Any idea where is the TERM variable expected to be set from?</p>
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2997 | 1 | 3040 | 2010-08-24T00:18:47.063 | 5 | 628 | <p>I recently installed 9.10 64-bit on a system that had 10.04 already installed. I thought I performed this installation correctly, but when I came to grub2 and chose the option I wanted, I got some errors.</p>
<p>First, I got the following message before the log in screen appeared:</p>
<p><code>The disk drive for /home is not ready yet or not present.</code></p>
<p><code>Continue to wait; or press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery.</code></p>
<p>I rebooted and logged into the freshly installed 9.10 boot and this worked fine. I found the partition that 10.04 is on and created a user directory in <code>/home</code> that is a copy of the 9.10 <code>/home</code>. I named the user directory the same as it was previously, so there was no difference.</p>
<p>I then changed ownership and group of this newly created directory and then rebooted. I got the same error:</p>
<p><code>The disk drive for /home is not ready yet or not present.</code></p>
<p><code>Continue to wait; or press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery.</code></p>
<p>but this time when I press S to skip, I was able to log in and see my desktop. The actions I did seemed to allow for log in but still the mounting of <code>/home</code> is not working as it should.</p>
<p>One thing I should mention. When installing 9.10 64-bit, I had some extra hard disk space available and I chose to format this to ext4 and then mount it to <code>/home</code>. This may be causing problems, but I thought when doing this it would mount to the <code>/home</code> for the new installation. It seemed to try to mount it on the old installation, though (the 10.04 one).</p>
<p>I hope this wasn't too confusing. Any help is much appreciated. </p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p><strong>EDIT - For the 9.10 installation</strong> <code>/etc/fstab</code>:</p>
<pre><code># /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=10270f21-1c42-494b-bd3f-813c23f6d518 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=fc128610-a6d5-4d23-9898-064580419da0 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=d3644f61-b65c-4f30-9eb5-cda163f9fce5 none swap sw 0 0
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#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
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proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
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UUID=28fd6eb0-38a2-4c22-86d8-f7dce7508ac4 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=97f82eca-0fdd-49e1-a12b-b4e1f6adbcbb /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
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<p><code>fdisk -l</code> <strong>output:</strong></p>
<pre><code>Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcbcbcbcb
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6231 50049483+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 6232 30401 194145525 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 12158 12773 4939776 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 6232 12157 47600532 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 12774 30401 141596878+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
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<p><code>blkid /dev/sda*</code> <strong>output:</strong></p>
<pre><code>/dev/sda1: UUID="10270f21-1c42-494b-bd3f-813c23f6d518" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="d3644f61-b65c-4f30-9eb5-cda163f9fce5" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda6: UUID="28fd6eb0-38a2-4c22-86d8-f7dce7508ac4" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda7: UUID="97f82eca-0fdd-49e1-a12b-b4e1f6adbcbb" TYPE="ext4"
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3005 | 1 | 3018 | 2010-08-24T01:50:55.240 | 1 | 3270 | <p>A new laptop issued to me is now running a product called "Safeguard Enterprise 5.35 <a href="http://go.utimaco.com/" rel="nofollow">Utimaco</a> Software". Has anyone had success installing Ubuntu in this situation?</p>
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3006 | 1 | 3012 | 2010-08-24T01:58:33.447 | 4 | 3822 | <p>I used uupdate to update a source package from 0.7.0 to 0.7.3. It does this update with patches and I had a few patch rejects. I am unsure what to do next. Do I:</p>
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<li>edit the new source package (0.7.3) and then re-run uupdate?</li>
<li>edit the .rej files directly?</li>
<li>use a tool such as kdiff3?</li>
<li>try something else?</li>
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<p>At this point, I'm thinking that the answer is to use a tool which is more along the lines of what I'm familiar with (coming from a Tortoise Merge and clearcase merge background).</p>
<p><em>I have searched high and low for how people manage patch rejects and I've had no luck, so I will gladly RTFM if you can provide a link to a FM if one exists</em>.</p>
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3008 | 1 | null | 2010-08-24T02:28:07.677 | 0 | 2678 | <p>Im gonna need some help restoring my ssh settings as i screwed everything up by calling this command:</p>
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<p>P.S. I am able to run ssh commands on a browser based AJAX console that my hosting company (linode) provides.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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<p>I tried turning off compiz and removing all the dotfiles but it didn't help. </p>
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3024 | 1 | 3025 | 2010-08-24T09:23:55.720 | 12 | 13750 | <p>With the latest 3 distribution versions of Ubuntu I've always had problems with NVidia GPUs. Even when I installed the official commercial drivers (which are not in the repositories and are shown as proprietary) I also had problems with the display.</p>
<p>The specific version of the GPU I'm using now is GeForce GT 330M on a VAIO laptop. Can you guys recommend a driver that is stable and works well, supporting most (if not all) GPU features for NVidia GPUs? Have you had the same problems and how did you solve them?</p>
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3030 | 1 | 3077 | 2010-08-24T11:44:29.633 | 1 | 1249 | <p>So, I've got radeon 3850 agp card. It seems that all videos and graphics are handled by CPU, according to cpu usage. All effects are enabled and working(like compiz), but videos and 3d are extremely slow and low-fps, though I use proprietary ati drivers. What do I need to do to get normal fps? Ready to answer additional questions.</p>
<p>So, I think 10.7 finally installed, but nothing new happend. Hi-res video still 0.3 fps.(video is 1280x720, screen is 1920x1080).</p>
<p>Decided to show my xorg.conf:</p>
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Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
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Section "Module"
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<p>Thanks everyone, I also wanted to ask: everybody tell me, that this parameter:</p>
<pre><code>creitve@localhost:~$ glxinfo|grep render
direct rendering: No (LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT set)
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 3850
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<p>must be "yes", but I didn't manage to enable it. What do I need to get it running? Im sure, it's 100% related to my problem, right?</p>
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"body": "<p>90% of the time this type of problem is resolved by doing a purge and reinstall of the driver stack, because either the mesa GLX driver or the kernel driver is messed up. <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/FglrxInteferesWithRadeonDriver\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/FglrxInteferesWithRadeonDriver</a></p>\n\n<p>As far as open source drivers, xserver-xorg-video-ati in Lucid supports 2D but not 3D acceleration for this hardware, so depending on your definition of 'good' it likely isn't going to suffice for you.</p>\n\n<p>3D support is coming in Maverick, although there's still a lot that's incomplete. See <a href=\"http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature</a> for a detailed breakdown of the 3D support with this driver. (Your card fits under the R600 column.)</p>\n\n<p>Note that with the open driver and AGP hardware, sometimes you have to tweak AGPMode either in BIOS or (for -ati) in the xorg.conf. (See 'man xorg.conf' or 'man radeon').</p>\n",
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"text": "Well, the both links are about how to remove fglrx and instal opensource drivers. But how to \"purge and reinstall the driver stack\"? Thats what I did:\nsudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh\nsudo apt-get purge fglrx*\nsudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-ati\n*reboot*\nsudo sh ./ati-driver-installer-10-7-x86.x86_64.run --buildandinstallpkg\nfinally i got it working, but perfomance is still poor. Or all I need is to surrender and use opensource, while waiting for normal drivers for my card?",
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3031 | 1 | null | 2010-08-24T15:25:31.430 | 2 | 1293 | <p>I'm trying to connect my Toshiba Satellite running Ubuntu 10.04 to my Eris running Android 2.1 through a Bluetooth connection and establish a dial-up connection (DUN) with the modem. I can connect my phone to my laptop, and I can detect my modem (after installing drivers), which is located at <code>/dev/ttySL0</code>. But when I launch <code>gnome-ppp</code> and enter my phone number (<a href="http://www.junefabrics.com/android/bluetooth.php" rel="nofollow">123 for PDA-Net</a>) I get a dialog that says "Connecting... Sending Password" with Log and Cancel buttons. The log shows this:</p>
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<code>--> Modem initialized.</code><br>
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<code>--> Configuration does not specify a valid login name.</code><br></p>
<p>The PDA-Net DUN protocol is running and shows no error. Any ideas?</p>
<p>Any help is much appreciated.</p>
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3032 | 1 | 3047 | 2010-08-24T16:11:31.530 | 2 | 1107 | <p>(I thought I posted this earlier, but it's not here, so I guess I didn't.)</p>
<p>So, Gwibber isn't working. It as kind of almost working when I installed Ubuntu (10.4, 64-bit)--the "broadcast accounts" option under my name was doing what it does, but I still haven't seen the program actually function--and now, it's not opening, and "broadcast accounts" is not opening, but system->prefrences->broadcast preferences is opening.</p>
<p>I had a problem at the beginning where my facebook account wouldn't register properly in "broadcast accounts". Then, I installed some basic update to gwibber, and then that worked fine. But just a little while later, nothing was working at all.</p>
<p>In case this is a clue: the top-right notification boxes seem to show up a whole box-area lower than they should. This is another annoyance, but I feel like it might possibly be solved if I get gwibber working.</p>
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3036 | 1 | 3042 | 2010-08-24T17:36:47.680 | 8 | 3748 | <pre><code>dpkg -L <package>
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<p>This command gives me a list of all the installed files, what's apt-get's equivalent option for it? I read the man page but couldn't figure out.</p>
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3037 | 1 | 3041 | 2010-08-24T17:39:26.697 | 9 | 10589 | <p>I have two monitors that I use for development. I would like to use sloppy focus for switching between windows. sloppy focus -- whatever you mouse is hovering over is in focus.</p>
<p>I know it's available in ubuntu 10.04. How do you enable it?</p>
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3043 | 1 | 3049 | 2010-08-24T19:31:28.607 | 6 | 379 | <p>A while ago there was talk of moving all (or at least some?) of the packaging effort to bzr branches on launchpad. I seem to remember there were a number of benefits mentioned, such as making it easier for new developers/packagers to contribute.</p>
<p>Can anyone update me on whether this happened and what the benefits would be? (I might have got completely the wrong end of the stick on this, so feel free to correct me...)</p>
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<p>and another user sees a menu window where he hs to enter his credentials. So what is the correct way to disable keyring for every user on that machine?</p>
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3050 | 1 | 3654 | 2010-08-24T20:12:10.493 | 8 | 4299 | <p>I want to run pulseaudio from startup to deal with system sounds etc and be able to run jack from qjackctl for use with audio applications (LMMS, ardour, rosegarden etc) I'm having issues when i start up, the sound applet does not allow me to control the volume. When I click sound preferences it says "waiting for sound system to respond" yet the sound still plays in rhythmbox etc. </p>
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3051 | 1 | 3059 | 2010-08-24T20:34:30.513 | 9 | 5559 | <p>We're trying to debug a kernel panic/oops on Ubuntu 10.04. The stacktrace isn't quite enough for us. How can we configure the system to spit out a core dump and where can we find it after the crash?</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Linux-Crash-HOWTO.html">LKCD</a> exists, but looks as though it hasn't been updated since 2002.</p>
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3055 | 1 | 3065 | 2010-08-24T22:02:11.623 | 2 | 690 | <p>I'm running Lucid on a few laptops, with xfce as the desktop environment.</p>
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<p>Part of what makes this a real pain is that the tray widget (sometimes) seems to not show itself at all when there's no current connection and no known access points. I have to kill NetworkManager (which is a pain, because <code>init</code> really wants to re-launch it), run <code>iwlist</code> to find an SSID, go to the (now showing) tray widget and add the SSID, and then re-start NetworkManager.</p>
<p>I realize that the widget is just messing with a config file or two, and I'm happy to fool with those manually, but what I'd <em>really</em> like is for it to work the way it used to and just do the scan for me. Note that once I've got a connection up, <em>then</em> it shows me all the APs it can see, as before.</p>
<p>I acknowledge that it's possible I screwed up some setup file, but I've really tried scrubbing everything back to "as new" state and that hasn't helped. Am I crazy or did that stuff really change?</p>
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3056 | 1 | 3196 | 2010-08-24T22:48:18.560 | 4 | 47661 | <p>I've looked around for answers to this, but nothing I've found has been relevant, which seems a little weird but there you go. All I'd like to do is drive a second monitor via HDMI from a laptop. From Windows 7 on this laptop that works fine, of course; it's actually surprisingly nice. Thus I know the hardware is OK.</p>
<p>From another laptop I've got, one with an NVidia card, the NVidia settings app seems to do the trick (though it's clunky). However, this laptop I'm using has an Intel GPU, and I can't find any information about how to get it to recognize that a second display is available. Is it even possible to do this dynamically, or do I need to statically alter my "xorg.conf" to make the second screen available?</p>
<p><em>edit</em> — sorry I should have noted that I run xfce. </p>
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3057 | 1 | 3060 | 2010-08-24T23:03:36.827 | 2 | 2340 | <p>At home, I have Ubuntu server with the UFW firewall. What command do I type to turn on local intranet access to my web server, but keep the outside world out from my DSL modem?</p>
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3063 | 1 | 3117 | 2010-08-25T01:31:55.417 | 48 | 80357 | <p>That's pretty much it. If I connect to the Internet on wlan0, how can I share this connection with a device plugged into my wired Ethernet port eth0?</p>
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3070 | 1 | 3074 | 2010-08-25T05:14:15.873 | 2 | 1886 | <p>I tried looking online for all possible solutions and even installing evtouch package, but nothing seems to work. I know that the tx1000 series laptops are notoriously linux unfriendly. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the touchscreen to work on them?</p>
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3071 | 1 | 3103 | 2010-08-25T06:13:56.327 | 2 | 176 | <p>Is there a way to remove the File, Edit, View... toolbar from Firefox (so that I will have only the address toolbar visible)?
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I don't have Firefox installed, i use Swiftfox...</p>
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3076 | 1 | 3078 | 2010-08-25T07:34:59.373 | 2 | 849 | <p>i installed a bunch of time many linux distro and never got this "bug".
It's kind of weird, the system run really fine , but when there is operation like update manager or download via any browser , etc. It goes well until a moment (never the same delay) and radically slow down or even stop , the pc doesn't freeze but the operation is paused , and when i touch the touchpad it continue .</p>
<p>i suspected hard drive issue , so i changed it , a bios issue , except AHCI i can't modify anything..., also suspected that ACPI stop the drive so i unchecked the box but still the same bug.</p>
<p>if anyone has already got this... it's not a deadly bug but a big annoyance.</p>
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3084 | 1 | null | 2010-08-25T11:48:26.180 | 6 | 2715 | <p>Since at least Jaunty, I've tried to get my wife's 3G USB modem to work on Ubuntu, always with the same result - instant, complete system freeze.</p>
<p>I've tried installing`wvdial and usb-modeswitch, I've read tons of documentation but it gets quite disjointed from one release to the next, nothing works. I can't run lsusb because the system hangs immediately.</p>
<p>I'm using Lucid and it's a Rogers "Rocket Stick" (in Canada)</p>
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3085 | 1 | null | 2010-08-25T11:56:06.947 | 2 | 4022 | <p>Hello everyone I really am new to this Ubuntu thing. I am now running the latest Ubuntu and windows on the same PC. Wireless connections work fine on windows but connects and disconnects on Ubuntu.</p>
<p>I am on ADSL with wireless router (Belkin and Belkin wireless network adaptor).</p>
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[ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 80000000 (gap: 80000000:50000000)
[ 0.000000] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[ 0.000000] virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 0.004287] mce: CPU supports 4 MCE banks
[ 0.035629] ftrace: converting mcount calls to 0f 1f 44 00 00
[ 0.185268] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
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[ 0.194048] pci 0000:00:1d.0: reg 20 io port: [0xbc00-0xbc1f]
[ 0.194117] pci 0000:00:1d.1: reg 20 io port: [0xb000-0xb01f]
[ 0.194189] pci 0000:00:1d.2: reg 20 io port: [0xb400-0xb41f]
[ 0.194257] pci 0000:00:1d.3: reg 20 io port: [0xb800-0xb81f]
[ 0.194485] pci 0000:00:1e.2: reg 10 io port: [0xc000-0xc0ff]
[ 0.194495] pci 0000:00:1e.2: reg 14 io port: [0xc400-0xc43f]
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[ 0.193969] pci 0000:00:1c.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
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[ 0.194554] pci 0000:00:1e.2: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
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[ 0.194724] pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 14 io port: [0x00-0x03]
[ 0.194735] pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 18 io port: [0x00-0x07]
[ 0.194746] pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 1c io port: [0x00-0x03]
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[ 0.194819] pci 0000:00:1f.2: reg 10 io port: [0xd000-0xd007]
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[ 0.194829] pci 0000:00:1f.2: reg 14 io port: [0xd400-0xd403]
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[ 0.194848] pci 0000:00:1f.2: reg 1c io port: [0xdc00-0xdc03]
[ 0.194858] pci 0000:00:1f.2: reg 20 io port: [0xe000-0xe00f]
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[ 0.195097] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 24 io port: [0x9000-0x907f]
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[ 0.194848] pci 0000:00:1f.2: reg 1c io port: [0xdc00-0xdc03]
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[ 0.195287] pci 0000:02:05.0: reg 10 io port: [0xa000-0xa0ff]
[ 0.195360] pci 0000:02:05.0: supports D1 D2
[ 0.195367] pci 0000:02:05.0: PME# supported from D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
[ 0.195437] pci 0000:00:1e.0: bridge io port: [0xa000-0xafff]
[ 0.224801] system 00:01: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
[ 0.224807] system 00:01: ioport range 0x290-0x29f has been reserved
[ 0.224813] system 00:01: ioport range 0x800-0x87f has been reserved
[ 0.224819] system 00:01: ioport range 0x880-0x88f has been reserved
[ 0.224836] system 00:0b: ioport range 0x400-0x4bf could not be reserved
[ 0.279897] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: irq 24 for MSI/MSI-X – Raven Aug 27 at 0:42 edit
[ 0.195367] pci 0000:02:05.0: PME# supported from D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
[ 0.195437] pci 0000:00:1e.0: bridge io port: [0xa000-0xafff]
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[ 0.224807] system 00:01: ioport range 0x290-0x29f has been reserved
[ 0.224813] system 00:01: ioport range 0x800-0x87f has been reserved
[ 0.224819] system 00:01: ioport range 0x880-0x88f has been reserved
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[ 0.279897] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: irq 24 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 0.279910] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 0.287215] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 0.291459] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input2
[ 0.299338] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: cache line size of 128 is not supported
[ 0.346769] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 0.347042] hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected [ 0.347617] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.348036] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected [ 0.348459] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.348891] hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detecte – Raven Aug 27 at 0:43 edit
[ 0.279910] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 0.287215] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 0.291459] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input2
[ 0.299338] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: cache line size of 128 is not supported
[ 0.346769] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
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[ 0.347617] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.348036] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.348459] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.348891] hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.349073] PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please boot with i8042.nopnp
[ 0.349998] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 0.350404] rtc_cmos 00:03: RTC can wake from S4 [ 0.350475] rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
[ 0.350506] rtc0: alarms up to one month, 242 bytes nvram, hpet irqs – Raven Aug 27 at 0:43 edit
[ 0.349073] PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please boot with i8042.nopnp
[ 0.349998] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [ 0.350404] rtc_cmos 00:03: RTC can wake from S4
[ 0.350475] rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
[ 0.350506] rtc0: alarms up to one month, 242 bytes nvram, hpet irqs
[ 0.355364] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[ 0.356078] rtc_cmos 00:03: setting system clock to 2010-08-27 10:13:42 UTC (1282904022) [ 0.763804] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 0.763811] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 0.826587] udev: starting version 151
[ 0.860561] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 1.116873] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 2.734937] hub 3-2:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 13.477205] udev: starting version 151 – Raven Aug 27 at 0:43 edit
[ 0.355364] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[ 0.356078] rtc_cmos 00:03: setting system clock to 2010-08-27 10:13:42 UTC (1282904022)
[ 0.763804] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 0.763811] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
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[ 1.116873] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 2.734937] hub 3-2:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 13.477205] udev: starting version 151
[ 13.686799] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[ 13.953260] USB Serial support registered for generic
[ 13.958045] USB Serial support registered for GSM modem (1-port)
[ 13.973144] option 3-2.4:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 13.973594] usb 3-2.4: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 13.973643] option 3-2.4:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 13.973747] usb 3-2.4: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
[ 13.686799] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
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[ 13.958045] USB Serial support registered for GSM modem (1-port)
[ 13.973144] option 3-2.4:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 13.973594] usb 3-2.4: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 13.973643] option 3-2.4:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 13.973747] usb 3-2.4: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
[ 13.973783] option 3-2.4:1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 13.973908] usb 3-2.4: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2
[ 14.068472] parport_pc 00:09: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[ 14.068526] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[ 14.172348] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 16.456225] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
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3094 | 1 | 3102 | 2010-08-25T14:29:04.527 | 4 | 1206 | <p>Here's my boggle. I use <code>gmplayer</code> to play all my videos. 99.9% of the time everything works fine but in that 1-in-1000 case, a video might be corrupted. <code>gmplayer</code> plays the video but it cries like an angry, hungry baby, popping up windows left, right and centre. In really bad videos this actually slows down the whole system as it spawns hundreds of error windows (compiz applies effects, etc). It also steals focus and occasionally cancels Christmas.</p>
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3105 | 1 | 3106 | 2010-08-25T16:08:05.080 | 11 | 710 | <p>If you use skype with the default 10.04 theme you can't read any menu because the font and background colours are too similar.</p>
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3108 | 1 | null | 2010-08-25T18:07:23.217 | 6 | 1021 | <p>Can anyone point me towards monochrome Pidgin tray icons, and tell me how to install them?</p>
<p>(I know I should be using the Messaging Menu indicator applet or whatever it's called, but at the moment I prefer not to, and use the standard Pidgin tray applet)</p>
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3109 | 1 | 3110 | 2010-08-25T18:21:25.343 | 15 | 24356 | <p>A couple of years ago when I first began using Ubuntu I had issues with Network Manager and so I switched to wicd which works perfectly. (I forget the exact issues, but wicd solved the problems)</p>
<p>I am about to do a fresh install and curious as to whether I should continue with wicd? Or is Network Manager up to the job now?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p><strong><em>Addendum</em></strong> I ask because a friend recently switched his laptop over to Ubuntu and had wireless troubles until switching over to wicd. My situation is with a desktop using wireless.</p>
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3113 | 1 | 3114 | 2010-08-25T19:22:01.680 | 6 | 1112 | <p>I've just recently found an article that describes some default functionality in OpenOffice.org 3 that isn't present in my install on 10.04 - <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Odt2Wiki#OpenOffice.org_2.4.2B" rel="nofollow">This entry</a> details that the Export functionality post 2.4 should have MediaWiki listed - but I only see XML,HTML, and PDF in the export options. Was this removed by the maintainers of this package in Ubuntu - or is there a package I haven't downloaded.</p>
<p>How do I restore this functionality?</p>
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3115 | 1 | 3120 | 2010-08-25T19:28:44.303 | 6 | 14363 | <p>Every hour I get an email with error like this,</p>
<pre><code>Subject: Cron <root@supa> root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
/bin/sh: root: not found
</code></pre>
<p>Contents of /etc/crontab is as follows, either I remove user "root" or not (6th column), I get the same error.</p>
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PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# m h dom mon dow user command
11 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6 * * * test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6 * * 7 test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
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#
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<p>There are two files in my cron.hourly directory,</p>
<pre><code>$ ll /etc/cron.hourly/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2009-10-29 09:24 ntpsync -> /home/<user>/bin/ntpsync
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2009-10-23 10:33 foo -> /home/<user>/bin/foo
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<p>First script reads as follows,</p>
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "user: $USER"
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ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com
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<p>Even I remove both scripts in my /etc/cron.hourly/ directory, I still get the same error email every hour. I tried to restart cron and I still get the same error email. The next idea I have is to reboot but I'd avoid that.</p>
<pre><code>$ sudo /etc/init.d/cron restart
</code></pre>
<p>My Ubuntu version is as follows,</p>
<pre><code>$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.1"
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<p><strong>Update:</strong> I removed the 6th columns "root" from my /etc/crontab file earlier because when I searched online someone mentioned that could fix the problem. Now I think the problem was that I was messing around with the system crontab config instead of that of the root's.</p>
<pre><code>$ sudo crontab -l
# m h dom mon dow command
17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
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3116 | 1 | 100511 | 2010-08-25T20:02:44.343 | 8 | 2697 | <p>Is it possible to sync UbuntuOne contacts with Thunderbird's address book?</p>
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3126 | 1 | 4413 | 2010-08-25T23:49:22.740 | 16 | 10123 | <p>I want to run apache on Ubuntu 10.04, and use the nice supervision stuff in upstart (I'm not just talking about the apache init script, but proper service supervision a la daemontools - which is to say, restarting apache when it dies, things like that).</p>
<p>Does anyone have a running upstart config for supervising apache on ubuntu 10.04?</p>
<p>The Googles have been no help to me, but it could be that my google-fu is weak.</p>
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3127 | 1 | 3128 | 2010-08-26T00:31:44.560 | 1 | 5007 | <p>I have customers who upload large amounts of data to my FTP server (an Ubuntu 9.10 machine). Once the files are uploaded, I am faced with transferring them to a local Droboshare network drive so our technical support staff can retrieve them and analyze the issue.</p>
<p>After I mount the network share at <code>/media/<sharename></code> I run this command manually to get these files:</p>
<p><code>sudo mv /home/ftp/<data_dir>/<file_name> /media/<network_share>/<ftp_user_data></code></p>
<p>but this takes forever and if there are tens or hundreds of files, I can't realistically do this over and over again. I thought it would be nice to have a script that I could run periodaclly to transfer a group of these files to the network share. I can sort them as the technical support staff uses them.</p>
<p>I am still new to Linux and writing shell scripts. Anyway to do this easily? Just to add to the description here, the files could be <strong>ZIP files</strong>, <strong>FASTA files</strong>, <strong>TAR.GZ files</strong>, and/or <strong>TXT files</strong>. Also, if the ZIP files are large, certain zipping programs convert these to <strong>ZIP.001</strong>, <strong>ZIP.002</strong>, <strong>ZIP.003</strong>, etc... So the file type in this FTP directory could be quite varied.</p>
<p>I was thinking the way I can identify these files is by simply transferring ALL files in the directory (although this may take a while) or to somewhat designate a subset of these, according to time completed or something like this.</p>
<p>I'm open to ideas. Thanks in advance.</p>
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"text": "This is a great answer... Almost done making it work. One thing. In your blog, you used `-fstype=cifs` and this worked for me too. But when I manually mount these shares, I use `smbfs` yet when I tried to add this method to the auto.nfs file it didn't work. Any idea why?",
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"text": "I thought I had it working... But now I can't seem to create that symlink. Getting error: \"hard link not allowed for directory.\" Could you provide some more details exactly how this is setup?",
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"text": "@Marco Ceppi: I also was able to mount the network share to the local linux directory `/home/ftp/<data_dir>` but when I tried to transfer a file to it using FTP, my FTP client threw an error and the operation failed. I may be confused on how to set these permissions. Do I set them on `/home/ftp/<data_dir>` or on `//server/<network_share>/ftp_user_data`?",
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3130 | 1 | 3133 | 2010-08-26T01:27:28.467 | 2 | 247 | <p>Has anyone seen problems with <code>git-svn</code> not installing properly from synaptic in 10.04? Anyone know how to fix this?</p>
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3132 | 1 | 3172 | 2010-08-26T01:43:42.087 | 6 | 1459 | <p>I have an old receiver (USB) and remove control that i am trying to get working on Ubuntu with Boxee. </p>
<p>Any suggestions for setting this up? software I need. </p>
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3135 | 1 | 3141 | 2010-08-26T07:06:53.470 | 8 | 7868 | <p>I've been messing around with various ways to do this in bash, and I've found <code>pgrep program > /dev/null || program</code> to be the shortest/most elegant way of doing this. Is there a better method than this?</p>
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3136 | 1 | 3142 | 2010-08-26T07:26:37.907 | 5 | 8384 | <p>I am searching for a tool, that extracts meta data out of raw images produced by a digital SLR (in my case Canon EOS 550D).</p>
<p>The photos can be converted by a recent version of ufraw (<a href="https://launchpad.net/~pmjdebruijn/+archive/ppa" rel="noreferrer">here</a> is the PPA for that).</p>
<p>With my compact camera I simply use exif, which only works on jpg and does not work with raw images.</p>
<p>Any hints?</p>
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3137 | 1 | 3140 | 2010-08-26T07:28:20.250 | 4 | 4552 | <p>Complete story:</p>
<p>When I installed Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection via Ubuntu software center, I noticed some of the newest puzzles were missing. So I decided to get the source files and compile them myself. I uninstalled the collection and downloaded the appropriate tar.gz file from the creator's <a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/" rel="nofollow">website</a>.</p>
<p>When I tried <code>make</code>, I got many error messages and I found out I was missing some libraries. I went on installing lib-gtk-2.0 (I think) and my first compilation ever on linux was a success.</p>
<p>I didn't have any decent shortcuts on the appropriate subfolder on the gnome menu (I'm using UNE), so I used <code>alacarte</code> to attach the correct images to the shortcuts.</p>
<p>The first thing I noticed was that the other user accounts didn't have the shortcuts as well. Also, all games suffered from the same problem. Whenever the user opened the system menu in any game, that menu remained drawn forever on the window.</p>
<p>I didn't like that at all, so I decided to only keep the puzzles that were missing form the original collection and reinstall the rest from Ubuntu software center. I though I would at least have most of the games behaving correctly. Therefore, I used <code>alacarte</code> again to delete the "common" shortcuts. After the installation though, I wasn't getting any of the shortcuts on the gnome menu (other user accounts had them correctly), so I decided to delete alacarte's configuration files found inside <code>~/.config/?</code> (I'm not in front of an Ubuntu-running computer at the moment, so I can't tell for sure).</p>
<p>Now my user account profile is broken. When I log on, the top (and only) bar is not loading at all. I don't want to mess up the profile further so I decided to stop here and ask for help. How to restore the top gnome bar missing and have my shortcuts working correctly from now on? Deleting and recreating the user account is not an option.</p>
<p>Sorry for the long story (I believe it was necessary to explain the steps I took in order to help others help me). Kudos to the guy who can also tell me why the system menus didn't work correctly when I compiled the games myself.</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>:</p>
<p>I'm also missing the windows title bars and borders around. Also the z-order of the windows cannot be changed (Gnome is not bringing the active window in front). Finally, under "Files & Folders" no shortcuts are not working (I'm getting the message "No application is registered as handling this file").</p>
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3146 | 1 | 5926 | 2010-08-26T09:28:15.970 | 1 | 409 | <p>Because my ubuntu partion was to small, I have enlarged it with the Ubuntu LiveCD + GParted.</p>
<p>All went fairly well (it said there were 2 warnings, but nothing severly), but afterwards, after I have logged in, the touchpad stops working.</p>
<p>Strange thing is, in the login screen, it still works perfectly, and an external USB mouse also works.</p>
<p>I have a HP DV6 2030sd laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 installed.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what steps I can take to solve this problem?</p>
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3155 | 1 | 3164 | 2010-08-26T14:44:18.387 | 1 | 2578 | <p>I am using <code>syslog-ng</code> on a Ubuntu Lucid machine with the following <code>upstart</code> script:</p>
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#
description "Syslog-ng daemon"
start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo)
stop on runlevel [!2345]
expect fork
respawn
pre-start script
test -x /usr/sbin/syslog-ng || { stop; exit 0; }
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<p>When the <code>syslog-ng</code> configuration file is wrong, <code>syslog-ng</code> outputs an error message on stderr. Unfortunately, this error is caught by upstart and doesn't get to the console when starting the service, so there is no way to know why the service start failed.</p>
<p>Is it normal that upstart would catch stderr? Can it be set?</p>
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3159 | 1 | null | 2010-08-26T16:28:03.567 | 9 | 47963 | <p>Hello this is the response I get from ifconfig. Now I have two eth0 things being showed up. I need to delete the second one which says eth0:avahi. I posted my ifconfig's response on a site as I has problem using wired internet, and they suggested to remove the eth0 avahi, to get internet.</p>
<p>But I am a newbie to linux networking and have no idea how to delete this.</p>
<p>response for ifconfig</p>
<pre><code>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 18:a9:05:22:cd:f9
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
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collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
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eth0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 18:a9:05:22:cd:f9
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UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
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RX packets:796 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:796 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:64016 (64.0 KB) TX bytes:64016 (64.0 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:82:3c:ac:27
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UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
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TX packets:30404 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:60816983 (60.8 MB) TX bytes:4160159 (4.1 MB)
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Copying folder structure from Gmail to MappedIMAP
Establishing connection to imap.gmail.com:993.
WARNING: Error occured attempting to sync account GMail: [Errno 8] _ssl.c:490: E
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3176 | 1 | 3194 | 2010-08-27T10:19:41.637 | 1 | 326 | <p>I would like to install <a href="https://stackapps.com/questions/83/stackapplet-stackoverflow-meets-the-gnome-desktop-v1-2-released">stackapplet</a>, but I don't have superuser privileges to install the deb file and the admins will not install it for me.</p>
<p>I'm confident that I must be able to install this applet without privileges, but I can't seem to find a really good guide.</p>
<p>What are the steps I need to take to install this applet?</p>
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3178 | 1 | 3195 | 2010-08-27T11:16:50.490 | 0 | 259 | <p>I use wvdial in order to connect to the internet using a cdma usb modem that isn't detected by the nm-applet. </p>
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<p>The desired effect is: I connect via wvdial and gnome detects this and enables everything appropriately. </p>
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3179 | 1 | 33428 | 2010-08-27T11:38:30.600 | 7 | 4090 | <p>Closing the lid on my Dell Studio 15 which is running Ubuntu 10.04 freezes the screen. This is a new problem in Ubuntu 10.04 which did not exist in 9.10</p>
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<p>I don't need hibernate or suspend. I just want to be able to close the lid, and then open it and still have a working laptop.</p>
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3180 | 1 | 3181 | 2010-08-27T11:41:56.883 | 10 | 10715 | <p>I want to find a text editor capable of running and mainly storing regular expressions for later re-use. It should also be able to run them across multiple files.</p>
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<p>There is EditPad Pro for Windows (runs on wine) but native is always better :)</p>
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3182 | 1 | 5168 | 2010-08-27T12:18:51.220 | 7 | 7986 | <p>Very odd issue today. I was going to post a thread about another issue and wanted to take a screenshot of a terminal window. I got it all prepped, hit <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>Printscreen</kbd> and nothing happened.</p>
<p>I went into Keyboard Shortcuts to see if redefining the shortcut worked. It did. I tried to set it back to <kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>Printscreen</kbd> but the window just sat there listening for a keypress. It's as if I never pushed a key. </p>
<p>Both the <kbd>Alt</kbd> and <kbd>Printscreen</kbd> keys work independently just fine... I've also tried looking at the output of <code>xev</code> as I press the keys. It hears the Alt press but doesn't hear the Printscreen afterwards.</p>
<p>I've tried this from both within Compiz and plain metacity. I also have a spare keyboard and that shows identical behaviour (one keyboard is PS/2, the spare is USB - so not a port issue).</p>
<p>It's like there's something sitting in the event chain spitting on the event so that nothing else can hear it. My question is basically: how can you find the processes responding to certain events?</p>
<p>As requested:</p>
<pre><code>oli@bert:~$ xmodmap -pke | grep -i mode
keycode 82 = KP_Subtract XF86_Prev_VMode KP_Subtract XF86_Prev_VMode
keycode 86 = KP_Add XF86_Next_VMode KP_Add XF86_Next_VMode
keycode 100 = Henkan_Mode NoSymbol Henkan_Mode
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<p>And </p>
<pre><code>oli@bert:~$ xmodmap -pke | grep -i print
keycode 107 = Print Sys_Req Print Sys_Req
keycode 218 = Print NoSymbol Print
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<p><strong>Edit:</strong> When I posted this I was on Lucid with a home-built 2.6.35 kernel. It turns out my issue is related to the kernel and not X.</p>
<p>Somebody somewhere has decided that alt-printscreen should render a SysRq event. Technically speaking, perhaps it should but this breaks what-must-be over a decade of Linux and Windows "known behaviour".</p>
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3189 | 1 | 3199 | 2010-08-27T16:49:26.707 | 5 | 2112 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1385/how-to-set-up-ubuntu-as-wireless-accesspoint">How to set up ubuntu as wireless accesspoint?</a> </p>
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<p>Is there an easy, simple way to setup a wireless network so my laptop (which is connected by a wired connection) can share that connection with my mobile phone and other devices?</p>
<p>Thank you for any answers in advance!</p>
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3197 | 1 | 3198 | 2010-08-27T19:20:25.840 | 8 | 2697 | <p>I don't have access to an Xubuntu install right now so I thought I'd just ask this here.</p>
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3201 | 1 | 3202 | 2010-08-28T00:47:15.103 | 1 | 618 | <p>I was recently downloading Ubuntu server to put on an old machine to serve media around my house. </p>
<p>I was wondering why they recommend the 64-bit version of there server? Does this affect anything if I am putting it on a 5 year old computer? What about 32 bit?</p>
<p>Also if you could recommend some best practices for a home server. I would like to share files stream. Also host some webpages as well as use it as my git repository.</p>
<p>A tutorial links would be appreciated or very explicit advice :)</p>
<p>Please and thank you.</p>
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3203 | 1 | 3224 | 2010-08-28T01:32:05.127 | 4 | 12490 | <p>It's been a few days that I'm trying to set up fastcgi with apache on a Kubuntu server. Despite searching everywhere, I cannot make it to work. If I try to run the site with the cgi application, apache hangs and after the timeout returns a 500 error. </p>
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<li>I compiled it. It works fine from the command line.</li>
<li>I placed it within a folder visible from the web server: <a href="http://127.0.0.1/fcgitest/run.fcgi" rel="nofollow">http://127.0.0.1/fcgitest/run.fcgi</a> </li>
<li>At first I get: "Forbidden. You don't have permission to access /fcgitest/run.fcgi on this server.".</li>
<li><p>I add a <code>.htaccess</code> file in the folder:</p>
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<li>And now, when I try to access the script address from my web browser, I get the symptom I described at the beggining: the browser first hangs, and after the timeout, I get a 500 Internal Server Error.</li>
<li><p>The apache error.log say:</p>
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Hello World!
[Sat Aug 28 09:08:23 2010] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server
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<p>It seems the output is written to the error logs!! Is there a missing socket configuration, somewhere??</p>
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3204 | 1 | 3207 | 2010-08-28T01:36:26.753 | 4 | 1847 | <p>I have installed <strong>awesome</strong> on top of Ubuntu <code>10.04</code> and switch between Gnome and Awesome sessions (partly because I am still learning awesome and partly because I use a few apps that require Gnome desktop). Further I need to use a proxy server @ work whereas @ home I have a direct connection.</p>
<p>Under GNOME, I have defined 2 locations with <code>gnome-network-properties</code> (hereafter, g-n-p) and switch between these as needed.</p>
<p>However, when I login to awesome, I am left with the settings as set in my last GNOME session. I can't invoke g-n-p because it needs <code>gnome-settings-daemon</code> to be running which is of course not the case. If I need to change I need to logout and in twice (once into GNOME to switch location and then back into awesome). Since I use many apps within awesome that use system proxy settings (Synaptic, Firefox) I'd like to be able to centrally switch the proxy configuration without leaving the awesome desktop.</p>
<p>I understand running gnome-network-properties sets some gconf-editor keys and also updates *_proxy environment vars in <code>/etc/environment</code> (and probably elsewhere also). Is there a way to achieve the same effect via a script or some replacement tool for g-n-p that doesn't use <code>gnome-settings-daemon</code> ?</p>
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3205 | 1 | null | 2010-08-28T02:18:32.360 | 187 | 910531 | <p>I've just installed Ubuntu 10.04 into VirtualBox on Windows 7. </p>
<p>Unfortunately the only options showing for screen resolution are 640x480 and 800x600 and the monitor is showing as 'Unknown'.</p>
<p>How would I go about upping the resolution to 1280x1024 (I'm on a 1600x1200 monitor)? </p>
<p><em>Update</em><br>
I tried mounting the VirtualBox 'Guest Additions' ISO (from the VBox 'Devices' menu) and doing <code>sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run</code>
from the mounted drive, which gave 2 new listed resolutions after a reboot (1024x768 and the 16:9 version of that resolution). These worked when I selected them but disappeared when I switched back to another resolution. I tried rebooting and running <code>VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run</code> again but onlu the 2 low res options listed this time.<br>
I think I'm going to reinstall... </p>
<p>Seems to be a VBox problem rather than an Ubuntu problem as after reinstalling 10.4 overwriting the original virtual partition, <code>sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run</code> now has no affect at all. </p>
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3209 | 1 | null | 2010-08-28T05:19:23.907 | 10 | 26060 | <p>I want to know if there are any other spreadsheet programs besides OpenOffice.org Calc.</p>
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3216 | 1 | 3220 | 2010-08-28T08:19:30.230 | 8 | 8776 | <p>Amazingly enough, circumstances have left me without a single USB flash drive, or a working CD-R drive. Also, because I moved about six months ago, I got rid of all my extra Ubuntu CDs that I used to get by mail. (cleanup win, hindsight fail)
And yet, I need to get a live Ubuntu going to boot up a wonky desktop computer.</p>
<p>I tried using unetbootin to put a live CD install onto a portable USB hard-drive, but it won't boot from it (NTLDR missing error).</p>
<p>Is this because the disk is NTFS (which it is)? or for some other reason? Is there a difference between booting from a portable USB thumbdrive and a portable USB hard drive, other than potential performance?</p>
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"text": "Actually, GRUB2 can read & boot from NTFS (I would have to check to be sure about legacy GRUB; I'm sure it can boot from it but maybe not read, and in that case it requires manual fiddling to specify the sectors to read). Or is this an Unetbootin limitation?",
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3227 | 1 | 3238 | 2010-08-28T14:32:53.860 | 4 | 1503 | <p>I'm a Canadian, but often get American spelling suggestions from the spell checker in Ubuntu. How do I switch to a Canadian dictionary?</p>
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