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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>
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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>
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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>
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<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>
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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>
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2857 | 1 | 2868 | 2010-08-22T09:30:10.573 | 3 | 523 | <p>I have Ubuntu as main OS. I have created virtual Ubuntu in Sun VirtualBox and I get this error: <code>can not connect(ssh)/ping computers in local network</code>. If I configure network manually I even can not access to Internet. If I choose DHSP then I can access to Internet. Do you have some solution how to conne... | 101 | 59676 | 2012-08-14T09:02:33.060 | 2012-08-14T09:02:33.060 | Virtual Ubuntu Network Configuration | [
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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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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>
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2877 | 1 | 2879 | 2010-08-22T18:02:11.557 | 19 | 12343 | <p>I am building a new .deb and want to fix lintian errors in the packaging. However, every time I rebuild, the rules file does a 'make clean' and thus starts compiling again.</p>
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2884 | 1 | null | 2010-08-22T19:35:29.347 | 84 | 93814 | <p>How can I determine the version of the running kernel?</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>
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2890 | 1 | 3416 | 2010-08-22T20:51:57.430 | 4 | 603 | <p>Chrome removes itself from the Internet menu every time I reboot. How can I fix this? The only way to get it back is to reinstall Chrome. Is this a Dev issue or a general error?</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>
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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>
<p>I googled and found the command:</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>
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<p>Might I need new drivers?</p>
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2919 | 1 | 2922 | 2010-08-23T05:45:25.393 | 0 | 150 | <p>I installed indicator-network on maverick and it shows only Ethernet with no option to add a DSL connection.I am using pppoeconf currently(could be the problem).</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>
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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... | 1646 | 74578 | 2012-09-10T12:32:07.047 | 2012-09-10T12:32:07.047 | http://localhost/ not working | [
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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... | 424 | null | null | 2012-08-31T14:46:05.850 | Best way to remote restart Ubuntu from Windows machine | [
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2936 | 1 | null | 2010-08-23T13:05:04.790 | 20 | 57390 | <p>I am looking for software programs to use my TV Tuner card in Ubuntu. I have mythTV installed and use it quite a bit. But I am looking for a program that can tune my tuner card in just a window, not only a full-screen. </p>
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2938 | 1 | null | 2010-08-23T13:12:23.700 | 5 | 676 | <p>I found <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1066964">a thread on the Ubuntu forums</a>, but it requires me to change the source of <code>gnome-panel</code> and recompile. Is that really the only option if I want to see more than 5 bookmarks in the "Places" menu? I have a huge monitor -- it seems funn... | 1528 | null | null | 2010-08-23T19:25:51.753 | How do I display more than 5 bookmarks in gnome-panel "Places" menu? | [
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2943 | 1 | 2945 | 2010-08-23T13:33:18.930 | 59 | 12240 | <p>At our university we can get almost any ubuntu package installed we want, but we are not superusers ourselves (we need to request packages being installed).</p>
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2951 | 1 | 2963 | 2010-08-23T14:50:11.757 | 3 | 3989 | <p>I have the following pieces of hardware I would like to network mostly for file sharing (media primarily): 1 gaming laptop, 1 i7 (2.3Tb storage) desktop, 1 P4 desktop (500g storage), and 1 250gig PS3.</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... | 1199 | 866 | 2012-06-28T21:02:31.763 | 2022-08-08T07:02:22.973 | Upload photos to Facebook page (not personal profile) | [
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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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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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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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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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2988 | 1 | 2990 | 2010-08-23T21:46:16.547 | 105 | 235796 | <p>I have a burning desire to install RPMs onto my Ubuntu installation - is this possible? Can I use Yum - or another RPM Package Management tool?</p>
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2995 | 1 | 3004 | 2010-08-23T22:54:34.627 | 13 | 29004 | <p>After upgrading to Maverick I have my TERM variable set to 'dumb', this does not happen with the same home dir running from Lucid and I didn't manually changed anything related to TERM.</p>
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3002 | 1 | 3003 | 2010-08-24T01:26:30.907 | 1 | 609 | <p>I try to change my nickname for my AIM account in Empathy. And the change doesn't seem to take. Whatever I do, it just kind of stays the same. It works fine for my Google talk account... Iunno.</p>
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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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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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3022 | 1 | 3149 | 2010-08-24T08:33:08.053 | 7 | 1607 | <p>I'm facing a weird problem. My mouse automatically focuses on menu items. </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>
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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 additi... | 1682 | 1682 | 2010-08-26T09:30:49.243 | 2010-08-26T09:30:49.243 | How to set up good video support on radeon 3850 | [
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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>
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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>
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3045 | 1 | 3104 | 2010-08-24T19:46:33.357 | 24 | 79800 | <p>I want to disable GNOME keyring globally on my machine. So I deleted the lines</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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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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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... | 1684 | 1684 | 2010-08-25T14:11:05.463 | 2017-11-15T23:31:28.110 | How do I use a second HDMI-connected monitor? | [
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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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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".
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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>
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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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3089 | 1 | 3092 | 2010-08-25T13:15:04.093 | 4 | 122 | <p>Our <a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam" rel="nofollow">global jam</a> is coming up this weekend, and I wonder what we can do to increase participation and also collaboration between the different events. Maybe we still have time to implement some of the suggestions.</p>
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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 actu... | 449 | 453 | 2010-08-25T19:42:50.863 | 2010-08-27T07:18:15.737 | Overriding a executable to add a default flag | [
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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>
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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>
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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 Medi... | 41 | 395065 | 2015-04-05T08:57:51.600 | 2023-01-10T07:44:58.410 | MediaWiki export in OpenOffice.org 3 | [
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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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#
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stop on runlevel [!2345]
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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>
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3165 | 1 | 3193 | 2010-08-26T21:52:02.967 | 21 | 31166 | <p>I'd like to do something like</p>
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<p>and hear the midi file played without opening up a graphical program. Is there a package for Ubuntu that can do this?</p>
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3167 | 1 | 3169 | 2010-08-26T23:01:03.623 | 223 | 266209 | <p><code>apt-get</code> has a few options which looks the same to me: <code>autoclean</code>, <code>autoremove</code> and <code>clean</code>. What do each of them do?</p>
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3170 | 1 | null | 2010-08-27T00:16:47.280 | 3 | 1982 | <p>Example of a failure:</p>
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Copying folder structure from Gmail to MappedIMAP
Establishing connection to imap.gmail.com:993.
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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>
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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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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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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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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>
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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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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>
<p>Does Xubuntu (or more specifically, the XFCE panel) support AppIndicators?</p>
<p>I'm porting an application to use them and I am curious to know if my app will work there.</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>
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"body": "<p>64bit is recommended because most (probably all) systems sold today as servers are 64bit and have much more than 4GB of RAM, making 64bit necessary. If you're talking about normal 5 year old PC hardware though, I really doubt it's 64bit with 8GB of RAM, so go for 32bit.</p>\n\n<p>I... | [
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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>
<p>Here is what I did: </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 connectio... | 270 | 66 | 2010-08-31T00:19:58.137 | 2013-01-16T16:29:59.603 | Setting http proxy in Awesome WM | [
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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>
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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)
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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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