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25675 | 1 | null | 2011-02-10T17:19:19.407 | 2 | 2968 | <p>Installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a hard drive by itself (no windows). All updates are up to date. Everything`works fine except when I plug in a 320 gig Toshiba external hard drive....it is not recognized. When I plug in an 8 gig flash drive it is recognized no problem.</p>
<p>What do I mean by "not recognized"? I mean: how do you know it was not recognized. You can check the command "cat /proc/partitions" in a terminal with and without the hdd attached. If you see some difference, it's ok. If the difference is something like "sda1" (sd+letter+number) then you have partition on it, maybe it can't be handled in Ubuntu (no filesystem on it or so). If there is only "sda" in the difference for example (sd+letter, but no number after it) then the drive itself is detected, just no partition is created on it. Also you can check out the messages of the kernel, with the "dmesg" command in the terminal. If there is no disk/partition/anything in /proc/partitions, there can be an USB level problem, you can issue command "lsusb" as it was suggested before my answer. It's really matter of what do you mean about "not recognized". </p>
<p>@Marco Ceppi @Oli @Pitto By "not recognized" I meant that when I plug in a 8 gig flash drive an icon immediately appears on the desktop imdicating that there is a flash drive plugged in and I can click on it and view the files on the flash drive. It also shows up on the "Nautilus" default file manager. When I plug in the 320 gig Toshiba external hard drive, I get no indication on the desktop or the file manager (thus "not recogized"). </p>
<p>When I run the command <code>cat/proc/partitions/</code> I get an error message </p>
<pre><code>Could not open location 'file:///home/bob/cat/proc/partitions'
</code></pre>
<p>with or without the external hard drive installed. With the <code>dmeg</code> command I get about 10 pages of info with no mention of disk/partition/anything in /proc/partitions. </p>
<p>When I run <code>lsusb</code> command I get the following: </p>
<pre><code>bob@bob-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 04b3:3003 IBM Corp. Rapid Access III Keyboard
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04b3:3004 IBM Corp. Media Access Pro Keyboard
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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25681 | 1 | 25690 | 2011-02-10T18:27:01.157 | 39 | 55990 | <p>I can seem to run scripts (.sh) with and without them being set as executable. So where exactly this matters?</p>
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"text": "Thanks for explaining in detail. :) If I understood it right, any user access to bash just needs read access to the script to run it because bash will take the script as input and will only need to read it. I can stop this behaviour by taking the read permission of the script for that user. Right? So when does this executable permission is used & exactly matters?",
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"text": "Yes, if you use \"bash myscript\" then user only need read access for \"myscript\" (and of course executable for /bin/bash if bash is there within the path). However, if you make your script executable, things are a bit different. It's true that from the kernel's point of view, it will be \"/bin/bash myscript\" again if the first line is #!/bin/bash, but to reach that point, first you need to present the script as executable for the user or group. However, that's true if for some user the script is not executable but readable, (s)he can still \"run\" the script with \"bash myscript\" ....",
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"text": "@LGB So that's pretty much useless. Good thing is to cut the read permission away from a user for that script. Right?",
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"text": "@Ashfame: I would say useful rather than useless. The execute bit on regular files is not (and never was intended to be) used for limiting access. It seems like you're expecting that from it. If you have a binary executable, you must have execute permission on it to run it. However, if you have read access to it, you can always copy the file to your own home directory, in which case the copy will be owned by you, so you can add execute permission to it ... and run it. For directories though, it has a bit different purpose. See http://mywiki.wooledge.org/Permissions",
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25682 | 1 | null | 2011-02-10T18:35:49.900 | 7 | 271 | <p>How would you go about choosing which graphics card to purchase. In the past I've run into situations with graphics cards whose drivers weren't that solid in Linux. </p>
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25683 | 1 | null | 2011-02-10T18:44:08.160 | 6 | 11179 | <p>I'm using the OCR-utility of <em>OCRFeeder</em>. OCRFeeder is using the <em>tesseract</em>-engine. I have installed the several language-packs needed for tesseract. How can I set the language such that tesseract will use the right language-file for converting the scanned document into text?</p>
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25685 | 1 | null | 2011-02-10T18:48:31.967 | 7 | 3451 | <p>It seems that Nautilus doesn't have the usual headings under 11.04. I'm used to selecting <em>Edit > Preferences > Behavior</em> and then choosing single-click. How do we enable single-click in 11.04?</p>
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25687 | 1 | null | 2011-02-10T18:59:12.203 | 1 | 238 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/370/is-there-an-equivalent-to-windows-remote-assistance-ichat-screen-sharing">Is there an equivalent to Windows Remote Assistance/iChat screen sharing?</a> </p>
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<p>I'm using TeamViewer right now from my Ubuntu system to provide remote support for other Linux and Windows systems. I also have a paid logmein account, but I can't use that in Linux. Are there any other good free remote support utilities like TeamViewer for Ubuntu?</p>
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25692 | 1 | 25698 | 2011-02-10T19:27:14.617 | 18 | 14265 | <p>I <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/02/suspended-sentence-becomes-first-post-release-app-to-land-in-ubuntu/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">keep reading</a> about an <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/8570/what-is-http-extras-ubuntu-com-repository-for">extras repository</a> for Ubuntu with new software that comes out independently of the distro release. How do I enable it?</p>
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25693 | 1 | null | 2011-02-09T21:52:49.397 | 4 | 4229 | <p>When I use apt to get a package, I have been receiving the same error message. Here is an example trying to install wicd (which is already installed):</p>
<pre><code> Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
wicd is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up tex-common (2.06) ...
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend requires a screen at least 13 lines tall and 31 columns wide.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
No packages found matching texlive-base.
dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-binaries:
texlive-binaries depends on tex-common (>= 2.00); however:
Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-binaries (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dvipng:
dvipng depends on texlive-base-bin; however:
Package texlive-base-bin is not installed.
Package texlive-binaries which provides texlive-base-bin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing dvipng (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
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<p>I'm not sure if this is a problem with apt or with dpkg, but it certainly doesn't look good!</p>
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25695 | 1 | null | 2011-02-10T19:34:34.650 | 9 | 46959 | <pre><code>Boot from (hd0,0) ext3 238ac8ca-9576-443d-8e23-8dd836cd2683
Starting up ...
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mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init.
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25701 | 1 | null | 2011-02-10T19:56:03.317 | 3 | 332 | <p>I use two computers, a Linux one for coding and building and a Windows one which has the programming application to load the built program onto the hardware. Both computers have access to a network drive which I use to pass the files from Linux to Windows.</p>
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25702 | 1 | 26445 | 2011-02-10T20:19:10.577 | 2 | 1296 | <p>I have paired my nokia 3110c via bt on my pc, I can receive a file from my pc to the phone, but I can not browse the contents of phone from my computer. Here is the error message</p>
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Please select another viewer and try again.
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<p>How can I transfer contents from my phone to my computer?</p>
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25707 | 1 | 25718 | 2011-02-10T20:47:29.440 | 1 | 495 | <p>I reinstalled my desktop machine with Ubuntu 10.10., coming from Gentoo where I used XFCE. My home is usually NFS-mounted from a server. During the install I let the installer set up my user, but of course my NFS-home wasn't mounted then; I have a regular /home/user now.</p>
<p>If I <code>mv /home /home.old</code> and mount my NFS-home to /home instead, I cannot login because Gnome complains about some config-files (sorry, no exact error message as there is no way to copy&paste this). </p>
<p>Which of my /home.old/user directories do I have to copy over to my NFS-home so that Gnome is happy again?</p>
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25713 | 1 | 25715 | 2011-02-10T21:17:22.720 | 27 | 33933 | <p>I have postgresql 8.4 installed on my desktop. It keeps starting on bootup because I think I used default settings. </p>
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25714 | 1 | 25721 | 2011-02-10T21:20:49.143 | 1 | 239 | <p>How to add a contextual menu item to .psd files in Nautilus? The menu item would execute a script and pass it the path of the file.</p>
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25717 | 1 | 25722 | 2011-02-10T21:31:52.990 | 48 | 96881 | <p>How to enable the backports repository so I can get newer versions of software?</p>
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25723 | 1 | 25744 | 2011-02-10T21:51:39.833 | 4 | 6439 | <p>This is similar to <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/18222/how-to-prevent-system-applications-like-the-software-center-from-asking-for-pas">How to prevent system applications (like the Software Center) from asking for password?</a> However that solution does not work for Synaptic Package Manager in 10.04.</p>
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25724 | 1 | 25726 | 2011-02-10T21:51:57.117 | 12 | 8918 | <p>I am transferring from 8.10 to 10.10. I was wondering what is the difference between Ubuntu Software Centre and Synaptic Package Manager in 10.10? For what kinds of things do I need to go which? </p>
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25725 | 1 | 41263 | 2011-02-10T21:55:14.863 | 3 | 3038 | <p>My laptop's battery performance is awful. I can get about an hour and a half out of it, so I've been looking for some ways to boost the power efficiency of my laptop.</p>
<p>I saw the tip to enable this:</p>
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25727 | 1 | 25741 | 2011-02-10T22:02:33.660 | 2 | 26342 | <p>I'm trying build the Android source using these packages. ButI am getting this error:</p>
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[sudo] password for asdf:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libc6-dev-i386
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<p>(My OS: 32-bit Ubuntu 10.10 (updated), Processor: AMD phenom II 64-bit.)</p>
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"text": "I am afraid, It even doesn't work. My OS is 10.10 32 bit (processor 64bit arch). for the first command it is unable to locate: ib32z1-dev lib32ncurses5-dev also it can't locate ia32-libs.",
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"text": "@newcomer See if you can get these: `sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf libsdl-dev libesd0-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev build-essential zip curl libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev openjdk-6-jdk ant git-core gnupg flex bison gperf libsdl-dev libesd0-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev build-essential zip curl libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev`",
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"text": "@jgbelacqua: liblz-dev install was successful and it says libncurses5-dev was installed before. So I need three more packages lib32readline5-dev libc6-dev-i386 ia32-libs (fyi I have jdk installed in my machine and I can run android app in emulator using eclipse)",
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"text": "Try `libc6-dev` and `libreadline5-dev` . You won't need ia32-libs with your 32-bit OS.",
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"text": "Ok, everything installed. but when I try to initialize a repo client using: $ repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git it shows error **Traceback (most recent call last):\n File \"/home/mashruf/bin/repo\", line 91, in <module>\n import readline\nImportError: No module named readline\n**",
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"text": "Try running repo as `/usr/local/bin/repo` ? Otherwise `sudo curl http://android.git.kernel.org/repo -o /usr/local/bin/repo` and then `sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/repo` and retry.",
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25732 | 1 | null | 2011-02-10T22:39:58.263 | 5 | 32286 | <p>I notice when I do:</p>
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<p>How can I resolve this problem?</p>
<p><em><strong>Dean Thomson Feb 14 at 4:11 wrote:</em></strong></p>
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<p>Unfortunately, the linux-firmware package isn't for <strong>Maverick</strong>.</p>
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25739 | 1 | null | 2011-02-10T23:43:30.377 | 1 | 1449 | <p>Is there a way to force DVDs to be auto-mounted using the "unhide" option by default? Currently, in order to see hidden files on a DVD that Ubuntu has auto-mounted, I have to unmount it and then re-mount manually like this:</p>
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25742 | 1 | null | 2011-02-10T23:58:00.727 | 3 | 144 | <p>Some of the items in the Wine menu are given a prefix that is their entire path.</p>
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<p>The items that don't have the long prefix seem to work fine, but those that do, don't respond to the Properties button or double-click in the menu editor. They take a lot of space, and look ugly, but I can't rename them. </p>
<p>I've tried editing their associated files, there doesn't appear to be anything different about them to the ones that are working fine. They weren't always like that - it just happened after an upgrade one day and it's been like that ever since.</p>
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25745 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T00:35:15.713 | 19 | 24988 | <p>Recently VLC has been having issues displaying video in fullscreen mode. AFAIK, nothing has changed with the video card drivers and it's certainly the same version of VLC. (/me shakes a fist at the repository maintainers)</p>
<p>This has worked without issue in the past. In fact, I've had as many as 6 instances of VLC running, each playing a video. One was always fullscreen on my second monitor, while the others were tiled on my primary monitor. I was able to toggle any of the other 5 into fullscreen mode and the video displayed without issue.</p>
<p>Lately, I've been having trouble running 2 instances in fullscreen mode. (Sometimes, even a single instance will not display the video in fullscreen.) VLC will continue to play the video, but in fullscreen mode I see nothing but a black screen. Sometimes, the video will display if I maximize the VLC window. Other times, I have to settle for a smaller sized window.</p>
<p>I don't know if this is pertinent, but sometimes changing the min/max state of a Firefox window (Minefield, specifically) seemed to allow the troublesome instance to display the video in fullscreen mode. However, that did not prove to be a consistent workaround. Sometimes, it seemed that closing a Firefox window did the trick, though that isn't consistently successful either. (I futzed with Firefox, because with the crazy number of windows and tabs that I normally have open, it regularly hogs about 1 GB of RAM.)</p>
<p>Another bit of funkiness that comes to mind is the fact that my secondary monitor is considered the primary on boot-up. I use xrandr to designate the real 1st monitor as primary after boot-up, as suggested by someone in a <a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5263/is-it-possible-to-control-which-monitor-is-considered-the-primary-monitor">question I asked on the Unix & Linux SE site</a>.</p>
<p>Specs: </p>
<ul>
<li>Ubuntu 10.10 w/ Gnome and Compiz </li>
<li>8GB RAM </li>
<li>AMD Phenom II 965 Black Edition </li>
<li>Asus M4A79 Deluxe mobo </li>
<li>XFX ATI Radeon HD 5750 w/ 1GB RAM </li>
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<p>VLC is configured to use the hardware overlay for video (as per the default setting)</p>
<p>Does anyone have an idea what may cause this issue or how I may go about troubleshooting it? Right now I have 2 instances of VLC playing, each in fullscreen mode on a separate monitor. </p>
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25746 | 1 | 25749 | 2011-02-11T01:12:04.350 | 10 | 48743 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4662/where-is-the-x-org-config-file-how-do-i-configure-x-there">Where is the X.org config file? How do I configure X there?</a> </p>
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<p>I'm trying to get my video card properly setup to handle 3D acceleration. After searching a bit, I've come across a few howtos that tell me I need to edit my xorg.conf file. That file doesn't exist. X.org is installed by default, I'm sure, and I figured this video card would be widely supported.</p>
<p>00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)</p>
<p>Any ideas on how I can get this to work properly and play Starcraft II? Or any game for that matter? No resolution problems or anything, just no 3D rendering.</p>
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25747 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T01:17:00.840 | 11 | 1497 | <p>I have both KDE and GNOME desktop environments installed on Ubuntu 10.10. When I add the entry <code>OnlyShowIn=GNOME;</code> in a .desktop file, the application doesn't appear in the KDE menu.</p>
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25748 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T01:17:16.227 | 2 | 404 | <p>Yesterday my WUBI/Vista installation was working fine. I shut it down at the train station, all good then when I attempted to boot Ubuntu at home I got a message saying the UUID for root could not be found. By booting with the Ubuntu live CD I found that the <code>C:\ubuntu\disks</code> folder stat structure was broken, reported as <code>"??? ??? ??"</code> kinda thing. I booted into Windows, scheduled a CHKDSK, ran that on boot which found some errors and rebooted. Still no dice.</p>
<p>I am not stressed because it appears my home directory is still there with all my content so I don't mind re-installing the OS (probably will clean it up some). </p>
<p>What is the best path from here to repair the WUBI installation? Is there anything else I should do to repair it? I'm looking at whether the drive is dying now to work out why this occured. Possibly I moved the laptop before shutdown had completed.</p>
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25750 | 1 | 74723 | 2011-02-11T01:53:42.347 | 2 | 98 | <p>I just tried out using the Ubuntu One Contacts app for Android. First I imported all the contacts from my phone, SIM-card and Google mail account, then I spent quite a while removing duplicates which got imported. Then I tried to sync it for the first time.</p>
<p>The strange thing is that I also got all the contacts which I removed from my contacts list on the website. So I have to set "show only contacts with phone numbers" to get all the email addresses I imported from Google earlier to not show up, even though I deleted them from the contacts list and have only Ubuntu One contacts showing.</p>
<p>Why is that?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
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25753 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T03:43:21.747 | 4 | 1474 | <p>My Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop Lenovo T400 is not able to suspend or hibernate. </p>
<p>Whenever I click Suspend or Hibernate, </p>
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<li>the moon LED on the bottom of the lid
flashes a few seconds, the screen
quickly shows something like "some
devices fail to suspend, error 5",</li>
<li>and then the moon LED goes off and
the display still has ambient light
illumination. I suppose in suspend or
hibernation state, the display should
have no illumination, just like when
the laptop is turned off, right?</li>
<li>If I press any key, the unlock screen
dialogue will pop out.</li>
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<p>I searched a little on the internet, and installed 'acpi-support' according to some advice but it does not help. Any suggestions to solve this problem? Thanks and regards!</p>
<hr>
<p>ADDED:</p>
<p>Laptop specifications:</p>
<pre><code>CPU
Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo P8800 @ 2.66GHz
Penryn 45nm Technology
RAM
1.9GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 532MHz (7-7-7-20)
Motherboard
LENOVO 2764CTO (None)
Graphics
ThinkPad Display 1440x900 @ 1440x900
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series (Lenovo)
Hard Drives
244GB Western Digital WDC WD2500BEVS-08VAT2 (SATA)
Optical Drives
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-U20N
AZCDW EFCPUZ452 SCSI CdRom Device
AZCDW EFCPUZ452 SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Conexant 20561 SmartAudio HD
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25754 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T03:44:22.307 | 0 | 399 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/24187/support-trendnet-tew-643pi-wireless-n-network-card">Support TrendNet TEW-643PI Wireless N network card</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I've unstalled Ubuntu, but I can't connect to my wireless network.</p>
<p>I have a Trendnet TEW-643pi card, and many post say it will not work. Should I connect my ethernet and try to update the drivers?</p>
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25759 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T05:54:47.897 | 5 | 10262 | <p>Currently, whenever I insert a CD or DVD into my DVD drive, it mounts to a location such as <code>/media/<LABEL></code>, where <code><LABEL></code> is the arbitrary label assigned to the optical disc.</p>
<p>I remember, once upon a time, CD and DVD media being reliably located at /media/cdrom0 or something similar. Why was this changed? And how do I get this old behavior back for this drive?</p>
<p>I can understand this behavior for USB sticks. It makes sense for those. But not for CD/DVD media, in my opinion. For example, because of this, I have no way to configure Wine to point to my DVD drive, as the mount point changes with every single CD I insert.</p>
<p><strong>TL;DR: How do I make CD/DVD media always mount to <code>/media/cdrom0</code>?</strong></p>
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25761 | 1 | 25835 | 2011-02-11T06:38:04.793 | 2 | 2344 | <p>I updated my system using the Update Manager and now I am getting a "Broken Package" error.</p>
<p>I went into Synaptic Package Manager and clicked on <em>Fix Broken Packages</em> but then I got this error:</p>
<pre><code>E: /var/cache/apt/archives/dockmanager_0.1.0~bzr80-0ubuntu1~10.10~dockers1_i386.deb:
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/dockmanager/data/skype_away.svg', which is also in package faenza-icon-theme 0.8
</code></pre>
<p>I cannot install or remove anything until the broken package is fixed. What should I do now?</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong></p>
<p>As suggested in the answers, I ran the commands</p>
<pre><code>sudo apt-get purge faenza-icon-theme
sudo apt-get -f install
</code></pre>
<p>But still get the same error, here is what I get:</p>
<p><a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/565877/" rel="nofollow">http://paste.ubuntu.com/565877/</a></p>
<p><strong>UPDATE 2:</strong></p>
<p>Fixed using <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/02/fix-dpkg-error-trying-to-overwrite-x.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.webupd8.org/2011/02/fix-dpkg-error-trying-to-overwrite-x.html</a></p>
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25764 | 1 | null | 2010-09-13T20:00:49.100 | 7 | 16781 | <p>I'm dual booting W7 and Ubuntu (installed from Wubi). I've had it up and running a few times but today I'm getting a message from Windows Boot Manager when I select Ubuntu that wubildr.mbr is missing or corrupt. Any help would be greatly appreciated. </p>
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25767 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T08:11:06.557 | 2 | 471 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/9922/how-do-i-disable-the-home-encryption-offered-during-install">How do I disable the Home encryption offered during install?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I have installed Ubuntu as a virtual machine on my Windows machine. During installation I selected to use home directory data encryption. Now I have a problem that I am running out of disk space on my virtual machine. <em>Disk Usage Analyzer</em> tool shows that <em>.ecryptfs</em> folder occupies the same amount of disk space as my home directory. What do I have to do to get rid of this directory and would it be safe?</p>
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25768 | 1 | 25803 | 2011-02-11T08:14:29.370 | 13 | 19660 | <p>I know it's the compose key, and I set it to right <kbd>Alt</kbd> and I set the "3rd level" option to the <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>Alt</kbd>, but I can't figure out for the life of me for example how to do the copyright symbol, or the registered mark, or trademark symbol, etc. I try alt then c but I get č.</p>
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"text": "I remember hearing about an alternative US layout that includes a bunch of third level chars (emulating AltGr). Does that exist?",
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"text": "+1 good and accurate answer. Adding the setting for the Compose key would make it even better: System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layout > Options... > Compose Key Position (in a basement disused lavatory with a sign on the door \"beware of tiger\" could they hide it better?)",
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"text": "Thanks so much! Is there a place i can learn all of these?",
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25769 | 1 | 25773 | 2011-02-11T08:25:24.673 | 18 | 844 | <p>The <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu">Ubuntu wiki</a> describes the "sections" of the official Ubuntu repositories as follows:</p>
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<p>I thought that software in the Ubuntu repositories had to be open source, however doesn't the description of the <em>Multiverse</em> directly contradicts this?</p>
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"text": "Great info, but as far as I can see this doesn't answer the question. It talks about what is the situation, but not why. I believe that you can expand a little bit the answer with that info.",
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"text": "very good point. But I'm very hesitant to explain why, because there isn't really a well documented, factual answer. It's going to be subjective. I don't want to get into a holy-war argument. But I'll think about it, and see if I can't find a few documented reasons. Maybe @MarkShuttleworth should answer the question. (he is [around](http://askubuntu.com/users/5287/mark-shuttleworth)) ;-)",
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25772 | 1 | 25776 | 2011-02-11T08:43:45.767 | 0 | 1189 | <p>Not long ago, <a href="http://www.canonical.com/content/canonical-releases-world%E2%80%99s-most-comprehensive-date-component-catalog-linux" rel="nofollow">Canonical published a database of supported components for Ubuntu</a>, and I noticed, that my video card Manhattan [Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series] have full support only at Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, but I have installed 10.10, and want to know, does it have support on this version too?</p>
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25775 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T08:58:14.697 | 0 | 1068 | <p>3 vertical dots appears instead of Network Manager applet in Panel. I can connect to ethernet but I'm not able to connect to my wireless network. I tried to add/remove the Notification area from the Panel, but nothing helps.</p>
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25778 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T09:26:38.417 | 22 | 11013 | <p>I've two interfaces: eth0 and wlan0 on a notebook.</p>
<p>Possible use cases:</p>
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<li>eth0 grants me Internet access, and wlan0 is currently connected to a router which does not have Internet-connectivity. For development purposes, I need to connect to the wlan0 by default, but use eth0 for surfing</li>
<li>eth0 and wlan0 are both connected to the Internet. For a torrent application, eth0 should be used for speed, but for portability of the notebook, SSH should have a connection over wlan0</li>
<li>eth0 is a wire connection, wlan0 is a wireless one. Sensible data should be transferred over eth0, but other traffic can go over wlan0 as well.</li>
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<p>Is there a way to force applications (like <code>nc.traditional</code> or <code>firefox</code>) to use a certain network interface? A wrapper like <code>example-wrapper eth0 program</code> is fine too if such program exist. It would be nice if it could configured within Firefox (in runtime). I'd like to avoid IPTables solutions if possible.</p>
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25779 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T09:32:36.827 | 3 | 4689 | <p>I'm sshing into my friends machine and I'm wondering how would i launch a GNOME session over SSH? I need to open a web browser on his machine to view something which can only be done from his hostname. What's the easiest way to achieve this via SSH?</p>
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25785 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T09:53:52.823 | 84 | 35914 | <p>Will there be a way to disable auto-hide behavior of global application menu in Unity. While I would prefer to have this behavior disabled by default (as it is bad UX), it looks like it's here to stay, so I'm wondering if, as a user, I will be able to turn it off.</p>
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25786 | 1 | 27210 | 2011-02-11T10:04:52.937 | 6 | 3525 | <p><strong>I would like to deactivate the amplification feature on my sound volume slider.</strong> Using any amplification makes the sound really bad with clipping sounds taking over.</p>
<p>It's really annoying to have to worry about where the amplification starts/stops when adjusting the slider from my keyboard or through the Gnome panel (sound thingy). I have to open the "Sound preferences" after each time adjusting the volume and ensure that the level is set to 100% unamplified.</p>
<p><strong>So can I do this someway easy in Ubuntu 10.10?</strong></p>
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"text": "@toki, maybe your issue is realted to speakers quality. My laptop also gives bad sound even if its not amplified (like 90% already sounds bad). But the original questioner has a different issue: he was worried about beyond-100% values, the amplification that Sound Preferences allows. He said that 100% works fine. And I answered that the applet icon respect that limit, and dont go above 100%, and amplified values can only be achieved in Sound Preferences.",
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"text": "Pardon me, but you are mistaken on both points. First, it's not something to do with my hardware because on Windows I don't detect any distortion in sound with full volume unlike on Ubuntu, and I've experienced the same thing with the laptop I bought recently. Secondly, as you can read in the comments under the question, the questioner clearly mentions that he keeps the sound level at two bars to avoid distortion in reply to my suggestion to do so - I fail to see where he mentioned that it works 100% fine.",
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25788 | 1 | 25801 | 2011-02-11T10:17:03.040 | 0 | 93 | <p>I have a Samsung Galaxy 5, but the <a href="https://one.ubuntu.com/phones/" rel="nofollow">Ubuntu One phone page</a> reports it as "Other/Unspecified"? How do I add my phone's information?</p>
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25789 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T10:19:54.813 | 5 | 1969 | <p>Cramming window controls and window title into the top panel, doesn't really appeal to me, since it looks like it's a permanent fixture, I'm wondering if there is a way to disable this behavior.</p>
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25790 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T10:29:09.547 | 4 | 7120 | <p>I just got known that GTK+ 3.0.0 <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2011-February/msg00031.html" rel="nofollow">has been released</a>.</p>
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<li><p>Will Ubuntu 10.10/11.04 come with runtime libraries for GTK+ 3.0?
Are these installed by default?</p></li>
<li><p>Will Ubuntu have development libraries and header files for compilation of GTK+ 3.0 programs?</p></li>
<li><p>When will Ubuntu (as whole) move to GTK 3?</p></li>
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<p>I'm mostly concerned about moving <a href="https://launchpad.net/audio-recorder" rel="nofollow">audio-recorder app</a> from GTK+ 2.x to 3.0.</p>
<p>References:</p>
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<li><a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk3/3.0/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html" rel="nofollow">Migrating from GTK+ 2 to GTK+ 3</a> guide</li>
<li>GTK+ 3 <a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk3/3.0/index.html" rel="nofollow">Reference Manual</a>:</li>
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25793 | 1 | 25810 | 2011-02-11T10:40:07.603 | 3 | 341 | <p>Since Opera now support extensions and I use it for my daily use (great integration of Torrent downloader, browser and mail application), will there be an extension or is there any instructions on how to sync clients with Opera and Ubuntu One?</p>
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"body": "<p>We don't currently have plans to bring contacts sync to Opera, but if someone is interested in building an extension to do that I am happy to provide all the Ubuntu One information that would be needed to do so! If you, or someone you find, wants to make Opera a better citizen on the Ubuntu desktop, that'd be really cool.</p>\n",
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"text": "I've been interested in creating an extension for a while and it would be great to find a reason to start a project so I can learn more! I would love to have the information needed to create an extension but I cannot promise that it will be done in the near future. But if you would like to give me the information needed, I would be honored :)",
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25794 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T10:41:49.800 | -1 | 538 | <p>I am in server 1. I need to remotely login to server 2 from server 1. Now from server 2 I will run a script that will scp some file to server3.</p>
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<p>Without using expect or ssh-keygen</p>
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25799 | 1 | 25804 | 2011-02-11T11:26:52.353 | 6 | 933 | <p>I was just at a lecture, where I noticed the lecturer using a command (probably aliased) to jump to a specific folder.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
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</code></pre>
<p>This looked quite slick, so I started wondering:</p>
<p>Is this a standard utility, and if so, what is the name?</p>
<p>I have two theories as to how it works:</p>
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<li><p>It can both create, delete and jump to aliases directly from the command-line in the style of the example, without having to set up aliases in a configuration file or script or whatnot manually.</p></li>
<li><p>It searches the home directory for a folder matching the name and jumps to it.</p></li>
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<p>The second option seems a bit slow, however, so the first would be preferred.</p>
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25800 | 1 | 25807 | 2011-02-11T11:46:00.883 | 0 | 864 | <p>i have a pc with dual boot - "windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10". is it possible to run my windows 7 through Ubuntu login? if possible what app should i have and please give my instructions to install and use it. thank you.</p>
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"text": "I wouldn't recommend that for Windows 7. Windows Activation is much stricter than it was for Windows XP. An OEM (vendor installed) version of Windows 7 will almost certainly refuse to run as a VM as it's different \"hardware\", and it would probably involve a call to Microsoft to get it working again when booting normally.",
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25811 | 1 | 25812 | 2011-02-11T13:28:28.767 | 24 | 4825 | <p>Is there a way to make Chrome/Chromium's notifications use notify-osd instead of the ugly boxes it uses by default?</p>
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"text": "Hm, it does not appear to work. I've installed it, restarted Chromium for good measure, and went to http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/notifications/quick/ to test. I get ugly white boxes in the lower-right screen corner instead of pretty black OSD bubbles in the upper-right corner.",
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"text": "Oh, silly me TL;DRed on the description in the web store. \"This is a first release which does not support HTML5 notifications (but will in next release, view LaunchPad project page)\". What *other* Chromium notifications are there?",
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25813 | 1 | 25816 | 2011-02-11T13:49:42.850 | 29 | 87644 | <p>When i use the cp or move command in a terminal window,
i'm currently with bash in a certain folder like this.</p>
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<p>does a shortcut string exist to refer to the current chosen directory?
So that in this example i don't have to provide the full path to the target dir, but
the command knows it should use the current chosen directory in bash?
i.e. as ~ stands for the home directory?</p>
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"text": "You can also always brute force it by using something like this: `cp something/else \"\\`pwd\\`\"`. But that's silly.",
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"text": "@jgbelacqua I think you are right on the standard convention. Occasionally I fall into my original (wrong) imagining of `/` as the root of a tree, with many branches of directories growing upwards. Of course the root metaphor really refers to the base stem and its many downward veins. Oops.",
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"text": "@djeikyb And yet the root to leaf metaphor does make sense, and is used in other settings. But 'sub'-directory is certainly used in English as convention. And I see that this appears normal in French, Spanish, German, Danish at least (going on cognates). Maybe super- or sur-directory just didn't work in English. I need someone to point me to a filesystem history link. :P",
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"text": "so then: ----> cp textfile.txt ./newDir ----> will copy the textfile which exists in the current directory into the newDir subdirectory?",
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25822 | 1 | 25831 | 2011-02-11T14:25:33.913 | 1 | 8712 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/6200/how-do-i-open-visio-files">How do I open Visio files?</a> </p>
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<p>Can anyone suggest a program which can open MS Visio .vsd files for editing in Ubuntu?</p>
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25823 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T14:29:21.117 | 6 | 4124 | <p>i.e. i have a file called Porträt.pdf.</p>
<p>But the filename was created with a charsets which isn't properly shown in ubuntu like the following example.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PvLOc.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>What would be the best practice to rename such chars in filenames, when you have several filenames and you can't use this special char because of it's coding in terminal commands?</p>
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25826 | 1 | 25827 | 2011-02-11T14:55:05.483 | 1 | 1963 | <p>I run a command from my computer:</p>
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<p>the problem is that i get 3 more rows:</p>
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<p>What should I do, to not get this 3 rows?</p>
<p>Br, Wolfy</p>
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25828 | 1 | 25836 | 2011-02-11T15:05:19.120 | 2 | 303 | <p>I am still fairly new to linux hosting and am currently working on some policies for our production ubuntu servers. The servers are public facing webservers with ssh access from the public network and database servers with ssh access from the internal private network. We are a small hosting company so in the past with windows servers we used one user account and one password that each of us used internally. Anyone outside of the company who needed to access the server for FTP or anything else had their own user account. Is that okay to do in the linux world, or would most people recommend using individual accounts for each person who needs to access the server?</p>
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"text": "Thanks for the answer. I know it is more of a general discussion topic, but I am still new to Linux OSes, especially Ubuntu and would like to try to find out what other Ubuntu people do.",
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25829 | 1 | 25832 | 2011-02-11T15:07:56.367 | 1 | 796 | <p>I have a user who's home directory is a Mercurial repository.</p>
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<p>I assume bash_history is the history of bash commands for my user. I have no idea what the other is.</p>
<p>I don't want these files to be versioned by Mercurial, are they safe to just delete, or will they come back, or mess something up? Can they be moved to somewhere else? Or do I have to add them to my .hgignore file?</p>
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"text": "Not sure, the reason why this is, is because it is a website, and the website is under version control, and the users home directory is set to this for FTP.",
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"text": "I see, the question if you want/can modify FTP to access that separated directory inside the user's home as the \"ftp root\" (and/or the website too?), I think it's a more clean solution to start with the basis, than using workarounds like putting .bash_history in .hgignore or so. As an internet system engineer since 10 years, I can tell that every time I want only a workaround (and not rethinking the concept) will make me pay later quite badly ... Anyway for sure you can do whatever you want, I only wanted to share my own experiences and opinion about the topic now.",
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"text": "Thanks, that makes sense and is really why I posted this question rather than just adding them to .hgignore, can you point me someone that explains how to make the users home directory, and the users ftp root, separate? Thanks.",
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"text": "I haven't ever used vsftpd. It would be the best to set up a virtual user (as far as I know it supports that) with the home directory set to the directory inside the \"real UNIX user\", which holds your repo. Then you can have even different username/passwd for that FTP, and also for the UNIX shell access (login, via ssh, or whatever). I like this solution more, then you have separated control over the FTP \"part\" and the shell level access.",
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25833 | 1 | 25846 | 2011-02-11T15:12:30.140 | 15 | 26828 | <p>I have a desktop install of ubuntu, not server. But I am running a localhost LAMP stack for development. Is there a simple mail server I can install so that PHP's sendmail works? </p>
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<p>EDIT to add - do I use the Local Only configuration to test php mail()?
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"text": "I know it was easily configured, and I installed it for the auth and security features, as you mentioned. I've installed it and it works, whereas I have not installed just postfix by itself on an Ubuntu system, so I can't personally vouch for that.",
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"text": "@jgbelacqua, so I decided to give your version a shot. Since this is strictly a dev environment, and all I want to do is test php mail() functionality, would I use the Local configuration? (I've added a screenshot of the config screen to my original post.)",
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"text": "We use postfix at our ISP where I work, but of course it's not the scale of \"simple mail server for PHP mail() only\" :)",
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25838 | 1 | 25841 | 2011-02-11T15:41:42.343 | 2 | 2877 | <p>I just learned there are several ways to transfer files between Windows on two computers from <a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/File-sharing-essentials" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I was wondering </p>
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<li>what are the possible ways to
transfer files between Ubuntus on
two computers? And between a Ubuntu
8.10 computer and a Windows-7 computer, or between a Ubuntu 10.10
and a Windows-xp?</li>
<li>Which way requires minimum extra
hardwares and which way can achieve
the highest transfer speed?</li>
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<p>Thanks and regards!</p>
<p>PS: I have a rounter.</p>
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"text": "Yes, but using sshfs it's much \"deeper\" thing. Using gvfs you only have that file system available for programs using gvfs. With sshfs it will work with every single softwares which uses file system. I more like universal solutions than others which only work in \"special cases\". For sure, if you need only nautilus for file browsing, it's quite OK (and maybe even simplier) to do that. However personally, I like to mount my home on the remote machine at boot time, so I can access it every time, with every softwares. [gfvs can be mounted with fuse btw, but it's another story :)]",
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25849 | 1 | 25895 | 2011-02-11T16:33:05.193 | 4 | 1185 | <p>So I'm sure you've heard the song before, but after trying to sync my notes with Ubuntu One(on 10.10 AMD64) I get "Could not synchronize notes. Check the details below and try again." Of course the problem is that there are no details and trying again doesn't help. So I ran <code>tomboy -debug</code> and compared my error to any thing I could find about similar problems (such as the post <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomboy/+bug/575937" rel="nofollow">here</a>) but found nothing useful.</p>
<p>Any way here's my first error, I got this using preferences>synchronization>Ubuntu_one</p>
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at System.DateTime.Parse (System.String s, IFormatProvider provider, DateTimeStyles styles) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.DateTime.Parse (System.String s, IFormatProvider provider) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.DateTime.Parse (System.String s) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Tomboy.WebSync.Api.NoteInfo.ParseJson (Hyena.Json.JsonObject jsonObj) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Tomboy.WebSync.Api.UserInfo.ParseJsonNoteArray (Hyena.Json.JsonArray jsonArray) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
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at Tomboy.WebSync.WebSyncServer.GetNoteUpdatesSince (Int32 revision) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
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<p>The next thing I tried was using preferences>synchronization>tomboy_web with the default 'http://one.ubuntu.com/notes/' and got the same error plus one more.</p>
<pre><code>[ERROR 21:12:31.949] System.ObjectDisposedException: The object was used after being disposed.
at System.Net.HttpListener.CheckDisposed () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Net.HttpListener.EndGetContext (IAsyncResult asyncResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Tomboy.WebSync.WebSyncPreferencesWidget.<OnAuthButtonClicked>m__1 (IAsyncResult localResult) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
[ERROR 21:13:19.245] Synchronization failed with the following exception: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
at System.DateTime.Parse (System.String s, IFormatProvider provider, DateTimeStyles styles) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.DateTime.Parse (System.String s, IFormatProvider provider) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.DateTime.Parse (System.String s) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Tomboy.WebSync.Api.NoteInfo.ParseJson (Hyena.Json.JsonObject jsonObj) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Tomboy.WebSync.Api.UserInfo.ParseJsonNoteArray (Hyena.Json.JsonArray jsonArray) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Tomboy.WebSync.Api.UserInfo.ParseJsonNotes (System.String jsonString, System.Nullable`1& latestSyncRevision) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Tomboy.WebSync.Api.UserInfo.GetNotes (Boolean includeContent, Int32 sinceRevision, System.Nullable`1& latestSyncRevision) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Tomboy.WebSync.WebSyncServer.GetNoteUpdatesSince (Int32 revision) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
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<p>I Have also tried removing then re-adding My computer from my Ubuntu One account, but that did not help either. The only other Thing I have noticed is that under system>preferences>ubuntu one >services, "Notes" is not listed as a service. I don't know if this is normal or not. Thanks for any help and please let me know if anything is confusing. </p>
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25856 | 1 | 25858 | 2011-02-11T17:15:16.867 | 4 | 4941 | <p>Under Windows one of my favorite software packages was <a href="http://cFosSpeed" rel="nofollow">cFosSpeed</a>, a traffic shaping tool. It yields major performance improvements when, for example, having a video conversation while downloading a torrent in the background.</p>
<p>Is there an alternative for this under Ubuntu?</p>
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25861 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T17:48:11.207 | 3 | 207 | <p>I rebooted the hard way after my system jammed again because FF eats all the ram. (that's a different problem)</p>
<p>I've always gotten away with it, but not this time.</p>
<p>The system came up ok BUT it absolutely refuses to log onto the local house wifi net. I know the net is ok as the Windows box I'm writing this on is on it right now.</p>
<p>I deleted the connection and rentered the password but it will not go on. <code>/var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state</code> says everything is turned on.</p>
<p>I know this is my fault but I'd really like to get back on the net. The machine is a Toshiba Satellite. </p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
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25862 | 1 | 26387 | 2011-02-11T17:55:53.117 | 19 | 43102 | <p>I can listen to view the video with built-in audio (ac3) and listen to the audio track as regular sound file, but how to do these same time? </p>
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<p>Also I can't find how to do this using mplayer, though I may be lost in its huge man file.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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25864 | 1 | 25869 | 2011-02-11T18:37:09.917 | 0 | 2189 | <p>for some reason the Google Chrome I installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre is not working. Version number: 9.0.597.94-r73967 (google-chrome-stable). What can be wrong?</p>
<p>Also, what exactly is Chromium web browser? What's the difference between the two. Firefox is working fine, but I prefer Google Chrome.</p>
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25865 | 1 | 25866 | 2011-02-11T18:44:32.043 | 2 | 3110 | <p>I recently started to use ubuntu to program - University standards. I was checking out different text editors and tried to install VIM through Ubuntu Software Centre. Everything went fine and I got it installed, but I couldn't find the launcher (not sure if that is the right term). Any reason why this might be the case?</p>
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25872 | 1 | 25875 | 2011-02-11T19:21:47.137 | 1 | 642 | <p>First of all, I don't use indicator applet, but I suppose that the icon/process managing Tomboy is the same for both indicator applet and system tray.</p>
<p>I want only notificaitons in my system tray (apps have a different dwelling!). How do I, if at all possible, force Tomboy to always start in the "search all notes" mode WITHOUT showing a system tray icon?</p>
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25877 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T20:33:47.580 | 3 | 1838 | <p>Is the <a href="http://www.logitech.com/en-us/keyboards/keyboard/devices/k750-keyboard?wt.mc_id=global_pr-k750_redirect_112010" rel="nofollow">Logitech K750</a> working in Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat?</p>
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25880 | 1 | 25881 | 2011-02-11T20:51:58.427 | 23 | 1429 | <p>I <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/426395/" rel="noreferrer">read recently</a> that someone demonstrated a security attack on a PC via the use of automount and a USB stick.</p>
<p>How vulnerable am I to this attack and what steps are developers doing to be proactive against this sort of thing?</p>
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25884 | 1 | 25892 | 2011-02-11T21:50:40.167 | 3 | 252 | <p>This is an important question for me. I have to decide to whether to use DesktopCouch or pure CouchDB.</p>
<p>Will DesktopCouch be stable in Natty?</p>
<p>Up to this point, I've had too many problems with DesktopCouch. DC does not start, DC does not sync, and so on.</p>
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25885 | 1 | null | 2011-02-11T21:52:41.617 | 3 | 2903 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu in a virtual machine via VirtualBox. I have the seamless mode turned on, which is pretty cool. However, if I move an Ubuntu window around quickly, I can see the redraw of the ubuntu background quickly before it's hidden by VirtualBox again. This isn't a huge deal, but I'd like to fix it, if possible.</p>
<p>I see two possible options that don't involve changing VirtualBox code:</p>
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<li>Make the Ubuntu desktop hidden entirely</li>
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<p>Is it possible to do either?</p>
<p>I know that Compiz Fusion has/had a feature to do this for their cube effects, but I don't think that I can run this on the VM. And, even if I could, I don't want to run those services for this one small feature.</p>
<p>My host OS is Windows Server 2008 R2.</p>
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25898 | 1 | 25902 | 2011-02-12T00:09:51.153 | 1 | 6858 | <p>I know that if I wrote in <code>crontab -e</code> following command <code>01 04 * * * somecommand</code> then it will run <code>somecommand</code> at 4:01am on every day of every month. </p>
<p>What happens if I wrote <code>* * * * * somecommand</code>? Will it run <code>somecommand</code> every single minute? Will this syntax work also?</p>
<p>And it is possible to use special strings like <code>@reboot</code>, <code>@daily</code>, etc as it is explained <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto" rel="nofollow">here</a>. At what time of the day <code>somecommand</code> will be executed if I write <code>@daily somecommand</code> command?</p>
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25899 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T00:25:53.167 | 1 | 299 | <p>I have a problem I on my device HP dv4 with i3 processor </p>
<p>After getting back from suspend the flash player on youtube or any other website lags on full screen ... audio goes perfect but video is lagging I tried some solutions from google nothing worked ... So am seeking the experts help here </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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25901 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T00:43:00.423 | 6 | 18440 | <p>How do I move the minimuze/maximise/close buttons to the right hand under Unity, for maximised windows?</p>
<p>I've used <code>gconf-editor</code> to change <em>/apps/metacity/general/button_layout</em> to move them to the right hand side for windows which aren't maximised, but once maximised it moves back to the left hand side.</p>
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25905 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T00:57:50.080 | 9 | 1117 | <p>Is it possible to execute an action (a command or a Bash Script) by double clicking on the Desktop?</p>
<p>I want to emulate the function that Fences does in Windows systems: By double clicking the desktop, you show/hide the icons/folders you have in the Desktop.</p>
<p>The script is not the problem, what I want to know is how to execute it when double clicking on an unused area of my desktop.</p>
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25908 | 1 | 25920 | 2011-02-12T02:03:23.490 | 2 | 6502 | <p>When I plug in my 32GB iPod Touch 4G, it mounts a 1GB drive. Rhythmbox does not react, neither does Banshee.</p>
<p>Any ideas how to copy my music?</p>
<p>The output of <code>df</code> with ipod plugged is:</p>
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udev 1026788 288 1026500 1% /dev
none 1026788 1496 1025292 1% /dev/shm
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<p>and for <code>sudo fdisk -l</code> also with ipod plugged:</p>
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255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
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Disk identifier: 0x0009b4b0
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/dev/sda1 * 1 3647 29294496 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 3648 15927 98639100 5 Extended
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25917 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T05:49:07.177 | 2 | 1313 | <p>The left mouse button stops working after 5 or 10 minutes of running Ubuntu 10.10.
It is a Logitech MX 1000 wireless USB mouse.
Also is there a way to emulate the left mouse click on the keyboard?
Mouse pointer move fine, right button works, wheel works.</p>
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25919 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T06:12:02.413 | 6 | 372 | <p>The "touch sensitive keys", that control volume and media worked great out of the box when I was running Ubuntu on a LiveCD, but they are totally unresponsive after installation. </p>
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<li>HP Pavilion dv9740us with dual-boot Vista Ultimate and Ubuntu 10.10</li>
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25921 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T06:49:23.647 | 6 | 1435 | <p>Using Ubuntu 10.10. I have an external screen and frequently move my computer in and out of the room. </p>
<p>Is there a way of avoiding manually configuring via <code>nvidia-settings</code> every time I need to take my laptop out of my room?</p>
<p>Would like to be able to press <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>1</kbd> and have only the laptop screen active, <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>2</kbd> for the external only, and <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>3</kbd> for TwinView.</p>
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25923 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T07:38:57.437 | 1 | 12559 | <p>I have an external USB-based fingerprint scanner. On MS Windows it is used to save fingerprints as images. Are there any drivers and softwares to get it working on Ubuntu?</p>
<p>Edit:
The device I use is "Digital Persona U are U 4500"</p>
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25926 | 1 | 25950 | 2011-02-12T07:51:40.380 | 1 | 346 | <p>is there a shared location for all python interpreters? I want to install a module so it becomes avaiable to all interpreters (2.6, 2.7, 3.1). </p>
<p>Thanks you in advance,<br>
rubik</p>
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25927 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T08:04:53.353 | 2 | 2503 | <p><strong>Till yesterday</strong>, my Ubuntu 9.10 was working fine. I had watched a movie using vlc. I had also charged my ipod using the laptop. </p>
<p>Today, when I started it, I automatically booted into command line. There seems to be no filesystem corruption etc as I can view/open (text) files. Before the CLI appeared, the screen blinked with a cursor, then the white Ubuntu logo flashed, and then I got the CLI login prompt.</p>
<p>After logging in, if I try startx, to start gnome, I get the following error after a few seconds:</p>
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<p>The same error comes up, even if I use sudo, or if I change my directory to '/' before using startx, and also when, from the grub, using the recovery mode option to load into CLI, and then trying startx.</p>
<p>On trying command 'xinit', I get
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<p>Also, on trying GDM, I get 2 errors.</p>
<p>I cannot connect to the internet in this state.</p>
<p>Thanks for any help.</p>
<p><strong>I am using Dell Inspiron 1440, no special graphics card.</strong></p>
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25928 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T08:24:18.527 | 3 | 505 | <p>I have been using Ubuntu since 9.10. Now Maverick crashed and my MBR is wrecked. I have run <code>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1</code> on advice from another Ubuntu user but now I can only install any Windows release and no Ubuntu. How do I completely erase the MBR and then use an Ubuntu live CD or another HDD with Ubuntu on to install a Linux-only MBR please. </p>
<p>I am rather new at the technical side of Linux and have bandwidth shortage problems so I can't download large amounts of data. Thanks in advance!</p>
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25930 | 1 | 26645 | 2011-02-12T08:27:25.487 | 3 | 8818 | <p>I am trying to install some applications but some of them fail to install. The three applications I tried are Vim, Emacs and GNOME-Do. I am using Ubuntu 10.10 installed as a guest OS in VirtualBox. The kernel version installed is 2.6.35-26.</p>
<p>The error I got is :</p>
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
emacs : Depends: emacs23 or emacs23-lucid but it is not going to be installed
emacs23-nox but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages
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<p>What is wrong and how do I fix this?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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25934 | 1 | 25936 | 2011-02-12T08:51:44.767 | 7 | 2807 | <p>So, here's my setup. I have one partition with the newest version installed, a second partition with an older version installed (as a backup just in case), a swap partition that both share, and a boot partition so the bootloader doesn't need to be setup after each upgrade.</p>
<p>Partitions:</p>
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<li>sda2 ext4 / (current version)</li>
<li>sda3 ext4 / (old version)</li>
<li>sda4 swap /swap</li>
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<p>So far it has been a very good setup. I can modify the boot loaders for new installs without messing with the MBR. Adding my personal files (from the /home partition) is as easy as creating some symlinks in my home folder (even on a Windows install).</p>
<p>Here's the issue. I'd like to be able to deploy an installation in the 'current version' partition to overwrite the 'old version' partition effectively making it the new 'current version'.</p>
<p>The goal here is to do the install with no USB drives, external hard drives, or CD copies.</p>
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25941 | 1 | 25948 | 2011-02-12T09:38:59.623 | 0 | 1119 | <p>this is a very special question. Currently I'm starting to develop a new online shop using Python (Flask). I want to use CouchDB to store (and sync) new orders. But CouchDB does not encrypt the replication as far as I know.</p>
<p>Is it possible to use Python to get authentication with OAuth an start a replication via <a href="https://couchdb.one.ubuntu.com" rel="nofollow">https://couchdb.one.ubuntu.com</a> between CouchDB and the UbuntuOne Server?</p>
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25951 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T09:45:56.870 | 5 | 2715 | <p>Hi I am trying to get Tor working with Irssi.</p>
<p>The directions at the bottom of this page <a href="http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml#tor" rel="noreferrer">Freenode Install Link</a>
say to </p>
<pre><code>:~/.irssi$ tor MapAddress 10.40.40.40 p4fsi4ockecnea7l.onion
Feb 12 04:26:51.101 [notice] Tor v0.2.1.29 (r318f470bc5f2ad43). This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux x86_64)
Feb 12 04:26:51.101 [warn] Command-line option 'p4fsi4ockecnea7l.onion' with no value. Failing.
Feb 12 04:26:51.101 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
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<p>Or add it to the torrc file and reload irssi</p>
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mapaddress 10.40.40.40 p4fsi4ockecnea7l.onion
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<p>This is a paste from within irssi after running <code>$torify irssi</code></p>
<pre><code>[04:33] Math::BigInt: couldn't load specified math lib(s), fallback to Math::BigInt::FastCalc at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/Crypt/DH.pm line 6
[04:33]
[04:33] *** Irssi: Loaded script cap_sasl
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<p>So I thought it was a CPAN module issue.</p>
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<p>This was also done for FastCalc and retried with force install.</p>
<p>What am I doing wrong?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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<p>If so, which graphics cards are known to work for example with three monitors in Ubuntu?</p>
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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/14228/how-do-i-install-a-nice-notification-indicator-for-the-keyboard-layout">How do I install a nice notification indicator for the keyboard layout?</a> </p>
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<p>how can I see my keyboard layout in the panel in ubuntu 10.10</p>
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25961 | 1 | 1030 | 2011-02-12T13:01:39.990 | 686 | 5355164 | <p>I have downloaded tar.gz files. But I don't know how to install it. How do I install this kind of file?</p>
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"text": "@invert Yeah, my Windows desktop has all kinds of stuff on it: files, programs, several old, empty folders, but when I boot into Ubuntu, my desktop is *sparkling*. I have all my projects in `~/sandbox/PackageName/package-x.x-y/`",
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"text": "these are instructions for a specific case... a more common case I run into does not require compiling, the important information to know is where in my filesystem I should move it and how to make .desktop icon file",
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25966 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T13:56:48.880 | 7 | 4908 | <p>How can I switch between fglrx and ati (open source) drivers without uninstalling fglrx?
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25967 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T13:58:28.440 | 3 | 2304 | <p>I recently installed <a href="https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi2/" rel="nofollow">hamachi²</a> and haguichi on my 10.10 machine.
It works, but it loses its connection every few minutes and I have to reconnect. </p>
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I checked the obvious place: <code>/home/username/.hamachi</code> ... but this directory doesn't exist. (Yes, I did enable hidden files.)</p>
<p>After doing a file search for hamachi, it returned nothing either. I'm in the dark here, what am I missing?</p>
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25968 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T13:59:02.060 | 1 | 253 | <p>After I log into unity-2d i see gnome panel and some other services working along side with unity services and I cannot get rid of these services.</p>
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25970 | 1 | 25982 | 2011-02-12T14:07:11.557 | 0 | 77 | <p>I run into wireless router and networking issues very often. I'd like to finally just read a book on how to trouble and diagnose problems, using tools like ifconfig, editing files like /etc/network/interfaces, and whatever. Any recommendations?</p>
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25974 | 1 | 26000 | 2011-02-12T14:39:04.490 | 6 | 119589 | <p>here's my problem. When I log in I'm beeing asked for a password connecting to the internet which is strange because I'm the only user and the admin. I have auto log in and it never asks for passwords, (except when i do administrative tasks.)
I have looked in the menu (System --> preferences, but i can't find any topic that say's passwords or similar. the only place where I have found a way to change my password is my user ((System --> preferences --> user and groups).
I did try to take screenshots but nothing happened, which also is strange.</p>
<p>I'm running ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop on my Asus 1201n (12").</p>
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25976 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T14:50:18.200 | 3 | 3800 | <p>I proposed to implement this feature in <a href="http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27164/" rel="nofollow">http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27164/</a>, but it was marked as already implemented. Could someone shed light on how i can do it? I would like a shortcut to a specific connection (vpn or broadband) on my panel (one click connect).</p>
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25979 | 1 | 26175 | 2011-02-12T15:39:08.277 | 6 | 13997 | <p>In GNOME panel we could add a notification indicator by doing "Add to Panel".
How to do the same in Unity 2D?</p>
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25981 | 1 | 26012 | 2011-02-12T15:44:43.903 | 4 | 4140 | <p>I have run <code>sudo fdisk -l</code> and have got the following information:</p>
<pre><code>Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
</code></pre>
<p>This utility shows the whole size of the hard disk (<code>120034123776 bytes</code>) and its number of heads (<code>255 heads</code>), sectors per track (<code>63 sectors/track</code>) and number of cylinders (<code>14593 cylinders</code>). </p>
<p>Multiplying heads X sectors per track X number of cylinders we must have number of sectors in the disk. </p>
<pre><code>255 X 63 X 14593 = 234436545
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<p>Having in mind that every sector is of size 512 bytes, we have </p>
<pre><code>234436545 X 512 = 120031511040
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<p>In fact, <code>120031511040 != 120034123776</code>, therefore, the question is: does <em>fdisk</em> shows incorrect information or there is something that I have missed in my calculations?</p>
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25983 | 1 | null | 2010-12-07T07:06:13.043 | 0 | 141 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/16508/hardware-drivers-item-missing-from-menu">“Hardware Drivers” item missing from menu</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>I just installed the newest version of Ubuntu (10.10) and I am trying to get the appropriate drivers installed for the nvidia ion.</p>
<p>However there is no system > administration > hardware drivers option in the toolbar. Does this not exist in this version of ubuntu?</p>
<p>Do you know of any good links to installing the right drivers for the nvidia ion on ubuntu?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
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25987 | 1 | 25992 | 2011-02-12T16:11:49.700 | 11 | 5992 | <p>I want to see the content of the sector 0 (mbr) of my hard drive. It is possible?</p>
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"text": "@ulidtko: +1, good answer, I have done another way around: sudo cat /dev/sda > mydump, ctrl+c, sudo ghex mydump. Do you think makes sense?",
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"text": "@ulidtko: I prefer dd, but cat is also fine, although not as clean solution as dd. By not clean I mean there is no way to say: please copy only 512 bytes, in this case ctrl+c is used. Thanks for the tips,I find them helpful.",
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"text": "@ulidtko: Hmm it's a bit odd to say that \"don't use sudo ... regular user's account is sufficient\". I guess this is already a BIG security hole if a user can read the disk content via the /dev/ entry then (s)he can read any files, etc, what would be not possible via the filesystem because of permission issues. If it works for you in your system as regular user: too bad ... On my system /dev/sda is cannot be even read by regular user, unless (s)he belongs to the \"disk\" group ... But not by \"regular user\" that is _really_ dangerous, again!",
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"text": "@LGB: he says don't abuse sudo :-)",
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"text": "@LGB, I do belong to `disk` group, so it works for me. You are right, this is kind of dangerous to give such privilege to *any* user. I just insisted on not *abusing* sudo, by means of not ignoring useful messages which could stop you from doing a Bad Thing.",
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"text": "@Tim: yeah, but the main point is \"regular user's account is sufficient for reading blocks\". It's not true. if it is, a very big security problem. User may part of the `disk` group, but then it's not so a \"regular\" user but a one who have quite serious extra privileges in the system which can be used to bypass virtually any protection which is provided by the file unix ACL mechanism (let it be std unix acl, or extended acl/attr scheme).",
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"text": "@ulidtko: ok, fine, though I even removed myself from the disk group, it can be dangerous, if someone somehow break in with _my_ user, full access can be done for the disk ... And about \"not abusing sudo\": ok, my English is far from being perfect, it happens time to time that I miss something to realize from a sentence, sorry about that!",
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