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25995 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T16:48:45.783 | 4 | 1663 | <p>How can I automatically create a list of files and folders in a given folder in LibreOffice Calc ?
I'd like it to have as much info as possible (size, name, folder hierarchy...) sorted in nice little cells.
I'd rather not dump it to a file using ls and then trying to sort it manually: it creates an awful output.</p>... | 5159 | 667 | 2011-02-12T17:40:34.147 | 2016-02-01T12:01:07.247 | How can I automatically create a list of files and folders in a given folder in LibreOffice Calc? | [
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25996 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T16:49:23.583 | 4 | 4333 | <p>I'm looking to try out Natty with a liveUSB stick, but I've and internet access problem. I've only wireless internet access (Mifi dongle) and my laptop has a broadcom wireless adapter (BC4312) which needs a proprietary driver.</p>
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26001 | 1 | 26126 | 2011-02-12T17:33:43.827 | 4 | 482 | <p>Given the path to an executable (say <code>/usr/bin/gvim</code>), how can I find the Gnome .desktop file for that application? </p>
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26005 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T18:20:53.660 | 3 | 10047 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
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26008 | 1 | 26010 | 2011-02-12T18:24:07.793 | 3 | 1243 | <p>Why the packages in the directory </p>
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In fact, if I download it manually from the firefox the package has the name "normal".</p>
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26011 | 1 | 26325 | 2011-02-12T18:56:59.853 | 6 | 174 | <p>In the last few month and maybe even years, Ubuntu and Canonical often were criticised for developing software and desktop components without talking to other groups in the free software community. I don't want to comment on this topic, but I see problems arising with creating a "proprietary" solution for displaying... | 10708 | 10708 | 2011-02-12T19:23:30.930 | 2011-02-14T13:24:18.217 | Are there any plans to create a standard based on libunity? | [
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26016 | 1 | 26035 | 2011-02-12T19:48:25.167 | 0 | 2848 | <p>Using Ubuntu 10.04.
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26017 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T19:49:52.700 | 19 | 22009 | <p>Is there a way to put an active website, such as Gmail, as your Desktop background in Gnome, running Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit? MS Win calls it "Active Desktop".</p>
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26018 | 1 | 26077 | 2011-02-12T19:57:26.943 | 3 | 8399 | <p>Whenever I boot my laptop, I see this message and it makes the boot process very slow as my screen stays black for a long time before this message appears.
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26019 | 1 | 26079 | 2011-02-12T20:07:46.013 | 2 | 5984 | <p>I have an Acer Aspire 5740 laptop and it has a hardware button for enabling and disabling bluetooth next to the button for toggling wifi. But when I go to System->Preferences->Bluetooth it says "No Bluetooth adapters present".</p>
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26030 | 1 | 43098 | 2011-02-12T21:08:44.680 | 2 | 2101 | <p>I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a computer that was previously running 10.04 (that worked fine).</p>
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26033 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T21:32:56.260 | 6 | 6232 | <p>I would like to use some KDE Plasma Widgets but don't want to install KDE and don't want to lose my current Gnome setup.</p>
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26038 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T21:51:04.043 | 2 | 1423 | <p>I am using Ubuntu 10.10, and I have an IBM ThinkPad T43 that the touchpad buttons don't work. For example I don't have a right click and the left click is on the right. button. Can someone help me to correct this problem. Thanks,</p>
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26040 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T22:01:35.357 | 2 | 689 | <p>On my Ubuntu, Gnu screen is very slow when scrolling in a vertically split region (the one you create with CTRL-A |.</p>
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26042 | 1 | 26250 | 2011-02-12T22:34:24.030 | 14 | 3023 | <p>When I fist start Nautilus I invariably open five favourite tabs.. </p>
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26043 | 1 | 26854 | 2011-02-12T22:44:28.767 | 12 | 251 | <p>Some relatively small text files on my netbook that I use every day 8 hours/day are a week out of sync. <code>u1sdtool --waiting-content</code> shows a huge number of photos on the list to be uploaded before one of the text file to be downloaded.</p>
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26045 | 1 | 26660 | 2011-02-12T22:57:07.407 | 4 | 1622 | <p>I have most of my music in FLAC on my large storage device, and would like to automatically re-encode it in Ogg Vorbis when copying it to my portable audio player (Sansa Fuze v2). I have set my Fuze to MTP mode and told Banshee to encode to Ogg Vorbis with quality 4 in the Device Properties dialog for the Fuze (I w... | 5050 | null | null | 2011-02-16T16:47:55.410 | How can I make Banshee re-encode FLAC to Ogg Vorbis when copying to my player? | [
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26046 | 1 | 26084 | 2011-02-12T23:12:10.833 | 2 | 363 | <p>I just installed some application called wmgtemp that shows live CPU temperatures via Synaptic Package Manager in Ubuntu 10.10. But I cannot find it in Application menu or Add to Panel. How can I find it to run? Thanks!</p>
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26047 | 1 | 26048 | 2011-02-12T23:13:26.090 | 7 | 8181 | <p>Broken software dependencies are often caused by incompatible third party repositories.</p>
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26049 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T23:15:06.993 | 4 | 2910 | <p>There are two very quick screens of errors shown after I choose Ubuntu in the screen of Grub and before the scrren of Ubuntu icon. I was wondering where to find the log file of the start information/errors?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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26050 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T23:18:53.230 | 3 | 792 | <p>In Ubuntu 10.10, is it possible to vertically or horizontally tile several open windows, just like in Windows? Thanks!</p>
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26053 | 1 | 26055 | 2011-02-12T23:45:07.540 | 1 | 2510 | <p>So, I do Arduino development on my system to program arduinos using the FTDI USB programming interface (if you have no idea what this means don't worry).</p>
<p>The issue arises because the FTDI interface uses tty to communicate and it conflicts with one of the default ubuntu services.</p>
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26054 | 1 | null | 2011-02-12T23:46:33.747 | 25 | 46515 | <p>I boot into ubuntu and it connects to the Wifi network fine. After about 10-15min the DNS stop resolving any website and a couple of minutes later network-managers tells me that I'm disconnected and tries to reconnect constantly to my router and fails to do it. Upon Ubuntu restart everything works fine for the first... | 72 | null | null | 2018-05-09T03:19:14.607 | How to restart WiFi interface without rebooting (it drops connection)? | [
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26056 | 1 | 217310 | 2011-02-13T00:07:23.480 | 77 | 49994 | <p>I usually load a new version for every release to keep my OS fresh while preserving the last version on another partition as backup. I also employ a lot of custom key mappings.</p>
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26060 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T00:54:20.537 | 2 | 153 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/18928/wubi-doenst-work-anymore-shows-no-wubildr-error">Wubi doens't work anymore - shows 'No wubildr' error</a> </p>
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26062 | 1 | 26066 | 2011-02-13T01:48:09.573 | 3 | 583 | <ol>
<li>I was wondering if the kernel choice
during startup is equivalent to
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26063 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T01:54:24.683 | 7 | 3333 | <p>On Lenovo T400 and Ubuntu 10.10, I am using CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor 2.30.0 on the panel to show and control CPU frequency. </p>
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26068 | 1 | 26069 | 2011-02-13T02:44:26.207 | 116 | 97167 | <p>How do you mute the sound system from the command line?</p>
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26072 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T03:36:23.870 | 0 | 1187 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5996/unable-to-mount-dev-loop0-during-install">Unable to mount /dev/loop0 during install</a> </p>
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26078 | 1 | 27336 | 2011-02-13T05:25:05.030 | 2 | 1199 | <p>My umask is 0022, but when I download a file (using Firefox 40b11) it is created with umask 0026 (-rw-r-----). No clue where the issue is, if I'm even asking in the right forum. I'm on Mint 10 (sorry, there is no "AskMint"), Gnome desktop. I'd like downloaded files to be -rw-r--r-- so they are shareable without havi... | 10741 | 252 | 2011-02-13T05:43:50.443 | 2013-10-22T20:45:52.503 | Firefox downloaded files permissions | [
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26080 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T06:39:22.730 | 1 | 1253 | <p>I Love the unity interface... so I installed the interface in my desktop pc and I installed the Ati Official Drivers, I recently Bought an Ati HD 4350, and the interface starts but very Sluggish and when I open an app, it just frezees constanly, even the title bars from the windows look distorsionated.</p>
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26089 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T09:15:14.093 | 1 | 3382 | <p>Is it possible to move a window that was opened on screen "A" (not workspace, but separate X screen) to screen "B" (with or without additional tools which aren't provided by Ubuntu)?</p>
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26092 | 1 | 26600 | 2011-02-13T09:31:45.467 | 9 | 6024 | <p>Does anyone know about software that can detect or monitor host / url are being accessed by ubuntu? I want to see what host/url are beeing accessed by installed software or by my internet browser.</p>
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26093 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T09:34:19.223 | 1 | 986 | <p>I am trying to set up mod_fcgid on my server. Part of the requirement is that Apache needs to create a socket file for mod_fcgid.</p>
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26094 | 1 | 27363 | 2011-02-13T09:47:21.807 | 13 | 4347 | <p>What is the difference between <em>default</em> and <em>login</em>?<br>
And what does <strong>Default Keyring</strong> mean?</p>
<p>When I run some applications(Emphaty etc), <strong>Unlock Keyring window</strong> launched first, then it requires me password. Why?</p>
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26101 | 1 | 28773 | 2011-02-13T10:24:21.797 | 4 | 1512 | <p>How do I setup and use the <code>vim-rails</code> plugin?</p>
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26102 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T10:28:59.577 | 4 | 1034 | <p>If <em>"One of the design goals of Unity is to reduce the clutter of the desktop, another is to use space more efficiently."</em> Then why not hide the multi-color launcher when your windows are maximized on a small laptop? So i can see it just when I'm going to use it.</p>
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26104 | 1 | 26995 | 2011-02-13T10:37:25.363 | 27 | 5169 | <p>Since 10.10 we have the wonderful new <a href="http://design.canonical.com/category/design/font-design/">Ubuntu sans serif font</a>. If everything goes well 11.04 will bring a great looking new <a href="http://design.canonical.com/2010/11/the-monospace-is-coming/">monospace font</a>. </p>
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26106 | 1 | 26119 | 2011-02-13T10:48:20.693 | 9 | 14242 | <p>Just got my netbook edition of Ubuntu working with my tablets touch screen about 3 seconds ago... but straight away, I've noticed something - is it possible to make the right click menu show up when I <strong>press and hold</strong> left click, like on my Win 7 partition?</p>
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26114 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T11:39:45.520 | 52 | 26125 | <p>Is it possible to change the order of icons shown in the indicator applet? With Tomboy indicator, Weather indicator, Clipboard-manager indicator, Ubuntu One and Dropbox indicators and a Battery Status indicator in addition to the classic Messages indicator and Sound Menu indicator my Indicator Applet becomes a littl... | 10753 | 235 | 2012-02-28T18:42:12.197 | 2015-02-19T21:44:32.263 | Is it possible to change the order of icons in the indicator applet? | [
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26115 | 1 | 47398 | 2011-02-13T12:15:36.993 | 6 | 12725 | <p>I wanna use <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+package/i3-wm" rel="noreferrer">I3</a> as WM with a gnome-panel on the bottom. But when i try to start the gnome-panel, I3 crashes. So how is it possible to run both?</p>
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26117 | 1 | 83935 | 2011-02-13T12:22:59.303 | 5 | 979 | <p>I tried to change via dragging from the Backgrounds and Emblems window, but the icon just goes back to that window rather than changing the folder background.However, I can change the task bar by this drag-n-drop. </p>
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26120 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T12:49:28.037 | 1 | 108 | <p>In <code>System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications</code> I have <code>nm-applet --sm-disable</code> Ticked.</p>
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26125 | 1 | 26127 | 2011-02-13T13:27:31.453 | 0 | 9066 | <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DddWT.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>I want to know the solution to this and resume my downloading.
I am running Ubuntu 10.10.</p>
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26129 | 1 | 26131 | 2011-02-13T14:04:49.550 | 23 | 2897 | <p>I'm trying to upload packages to <a href="https://launchpad.net/~lorinh/+archive/ppa/">my PPA</a> for the first time. </p>
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26130 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T14:10:50.250 | 12 | 25026 | <p>How can I set up Ubuntu to share my printer so that I can use it with Airprint ?
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26134 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T14:42:37.133 | 2 | 9279 | <p>I was using Lenovo T410 with Windows. Last week I wiped off Windows and installed Ubuntu 10.10 as my primary OS. Now, I am not sure how to install/enable the default camera in ubuntu. I searched lenovo site for ubuntu drivers but they are all for Windows only.</p>
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26135 | 1 | 26144 | 2011-02-13T14:51:11.693 | 7 | 7215 | <p>What would be the best place to save jar files of libraries I want to use in a project, that are not in any repositories, and how should I set permissions?</p>
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26139 | 1 | 26140 | 2011-02-13T15:21:14.210 | 0 | 478 | <p>I just installed 10.10 on my girlfriends Toshiba Satellite a300 and for about two days it has been working just fine for two days but today it started acting pretty wonky.</p>
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26141 | 1 | 26149 | 2011-02-13T15:37:04.910 | 26 | 37037 | <p>Is there a way to find out if a filesystem check is scheduled for the next boot?</p>
<p>Maybe it's similar to a forced check, which gets triggered by the existence of the file <code>/forcefsck</code>?</p>
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26142 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T15:39:03.950 | 0 | 5693 | <p>I am trying to use OpenShot for movie making. My ideal situation is to encode for the web HD, 30 Frames Per Second, to YouTube. This works out great as OpenShot has a setting for this. The problem is when i go to use it I get:</p>
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26147 | 1 | 26151 | 2011-02-13T16:09:59.643 | 0 | 1326 | <p>I would like to understand <code>format of extended partition (EBR)</code> meaning exact bit positions and locations of data blocks describing meta info about the following and (probably) the next partition. </p>
<p>Does anybody know the document that describes the format?</p>
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26150 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T16:13:50.287 | 10 | 19769 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/keyboard-shortcuts-in-unity">Keyboard shortcuts in Unity?</a> </p>
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26154 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T16:19:29.517 | 4 | 6125 | <p>I have configured my Ubuntu VirtualBox install to have a base memory setting of 512MB. When running this install, its fairly sluggish in a way that feels like its thrashing memory. In other words, it will be fine for a little while and then suddenly run like a pig for a minute or two. This happens when running a ... | 10765 | 235 | 2011-06-23T19:52:19.677 | 2013-04-07T17:17:41.413 | Which is correct for VirtualBox memory usage: Windows Task Manager or System Monitor? | [
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26160 | 1 | 26162 | 2011-02-13T17:46:02.123 | 5 | 3779 | <p>My job wants me to install the following utilities on our Ubuntu server:</p>
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<li><code>lp</code></li>
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<li><code>cancel</code></li>
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<p>I have no idea how to do it.</p>
<p>Thank you very much in advance for your time.</p>
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26163 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T18:02:42.027 | 5 | 246 | <p>I would like to have a better selection of free software in the Software Centre and have newer versions of the packages. How can I achieve this?</p>
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26169 | 1 | 26171 | 2011-02-13T18:48:50.517 | 2 | 6815 | <p>well, just typing ffmpeg on command line gives me lots of spam. I'm perfectly comfortable with that till it does not break my files, but...
Is there any way to troubleshoot/fix that?</p>
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26172 | 1 | 26196 | 2011-02-13T19:17:28.677 | 4 | 1712 | <p>I have <em>yet another</em> question about <em>"where is my Linux memory"</em></p>
<p>Question goes: <strong>can I use cache for application data?</strong></p>
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26176 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T19:42:49.533 | 9 | 27925 | <p>I would like to turn off mouse acceleration to begin training my hand for better accuracy and precision in my mouse movements. How can I do this in Ubuntu 10.10?</p>
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26177 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T19:43:42.087 | 4 | 179 | <p>I am using netbeans in ubuntu 10.04. After Updation of Netbeans from version 6.8 to version 6.9, Netbeans refuses to close. When I exit Netbeans, it immediately restarts again. </p>
<p>It will constantly do it until I reboot the machine. How can I solve this issue?</p>
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26179 | 1 | 26221 | 2011-02-13T19:59:23.773 | 14 | 17851 | <p>I know that some define permissions on the file system (such as www-data). But I don't understand why <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/22993/why-do-i-have-low-fps-unless-root">this question was answered successfully</a> by adding a user to the "Video" group.</p>
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26182 | 1 | 26262 | 2011-02-13T20:06:29.727 | 17 | 662 | <p>I notice that many of the user privileges in "Users and Groups" are not ticked on my user, but I still have access to the items they specify. For example, I'm constantly using VirtualBox for virtualisation, I can connect to wireless and wired networks and I can plug in and use any audio device.</p>
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26185 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T20:27:33.473 | 5 | 3066 | <p>I need a cross platform screen sharing solution for a presentation. Users might have Windows, Mac or Linux... I've successfully hosted before with Yugma, but after upgrading to 10.10 I can't get it to work on my main box. I would potentially use TeamViewer, but the "Presentation" mode doesn't work with Ubuntu as the... | 2692 | 25863 | 2012-11-21T22:06:53.633 | 2012-11-21T22:06:53.633 | Share Screen with Multiple Viewers? | [
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26186 | 1 | 26193 | 2011-02-13T20:29:39.130 | 0 | 1188 | <p>I would like to install a package but don't find it in Synaptic Package Manager.</p>
<p>I was wondering how to find out the repository of the package and add it to Synaptic package manager so that I can find it and install it from there?</p>
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26190 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T20:35:36.133 | 1 | 107 | <pre><code>sudo apt-get install clamcour
Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias
Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho
E: No se ha podido localizar el paquete clamcour
ricardo@laboratorio:~$
</code></pre>
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26197 | 1 | 26208 | 2011-02-13T21:11:06.370 | 3 | 3460 | <p>I am trying to install a build of Chromium OS on my PC. I do not have any spare disks or flash drives. I want to find a way from installing the .iso from Ubuntu Live CD. How would I go about doing this? My friend suggested mounting the .iso, but I don't know what he's talking about.</p>
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26199 | 1 | 26206 | 2011-02-13T21:13:30.267 | 9 | 15738 | <p>I have installed ubuntu 10.04 on a laptop. Wifi is switched on by default on startup. I can disable it rightclicking the network manager icon in the gnome bar.</p>
<p>How can I set it to have wifi switched off as default?</p>
<p>Alternatively, how can I switch off wifi on the console?</p>
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26200 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T21:34:23.530 | 18 | 5818 | <p>I like <a href="http://notepad-plus-plus.org/release/5.8.7" rel="nofollow">Notepad++</a> under Windows. I was wondering if there are some similar ones for Ubuntu? Or just the powerful and convenient one in your opinion.</p>
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26204 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T22:00:31.650 | 3 | 335 | <p>I'm having a problem with an Acer Aspire One netbook after the latest kernel upgrade. Basically, doing anything relating to an external monitor locks the trackpad, and in some cases, the keyboard as well. This lock will continue in Gnome even after reboots, and requires battery removal to fix. It does work in the gr... | 1217 | null | null | 2011-08-10T23:22:08.953 | Acer Aspire One and Kernel 2.6.35-25 Freeze | [
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26205 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T22:07:22.813 | 2 | 3757 | <p>If I use Windows XP the drive is seen in the network it is not seen in ubuntu's network.
I do know and can use Connect to a Server but the question is really not about that. I would like to know if the windows functionality can be obtained in ubuntu?</p>
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26209 | 1 | 26213 | 2011-02-13T22:17:36.453 | 2 | 470 | <p>If I change my home from ext3 to ext4 when installing will my data be lost?</p>
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26214 | 1 | 26597 | 2011-02-13T22:43:39.547 | 8 | 1128 | <p>When I generate and upload source packages to my PPA, what's the best way to pass DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS that Launchpad will use when building binary versions of the package? </p>
<p>In particular, I want to pass in the "nodocs" option so that the documentation isn't built. </p>
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26217 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T23:13:34.817 | 0 | 847 | <p>My MacBook Pro runs slower the longer it's on. I am getting kernel warnings.</p>
<p>Some, but not all, resets correlate with AC power connects and disconnects. I don't think the warnings do. (How do I tell?)</p>
<p>What are these errors? What causes them?</p>
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26219 | 1 | null | 2011-02-13T23:18:47.867 | 1 | 279 | <p>when i try to install clamcour from terminal, it gives me this error, somebody can help me?</p>
<pre><code>calmcourdir# ./configure
checking for libraries containing socket functions... -lc
checking for socket... yes
checking for bind... yes
checking for listen... yes
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26227 | 1 | null | 2011-02-14T01:16:31.617 | 1 | 287 | <p>when i install clamcoure and run this command</p>
<pre><code>clamcourdir# sudo ./configure
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<p>It gives me this error :</p>
<p><code>configure: error: Cannot find sendmail Courier binary</code></p>
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26228 | 1 | 26247 | 2011-02-14T01:26:19.140 | 43 | 119793 | <p>I recently was messing around with my Apache config and wanted to reinstall so I could start from fresh. I followed some forum posts about reinstalling the <code>apache2</code> package and this ended up deleting my <code>/etc/apache2</code> folder.</p>
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26235 | 1 | 26236 | 2011-02-14T03:16:44.723 | 2 | 212 | <p>How can I temporarily prevent Ubuntu from hibernating? Is there a binary available that makes use of an API similar to the one preventing screen savers from activating for hibernation? I'm utilizing a network service provided by my netbook without physically making use of the netbook, so it hibernates after the time... | 4560 | null | null | 2011-02-14T03:26:36.717 | Temporarily prevent hibernation | [
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26237 | 1 | 26253 | 2011-02-14T03:39:30.773 | 105 | 213773 | <p>For the purposes of kernel logging, why do I have three different, non-inclusive levels of logging amongst <code>/var/log/messages</code>, <code>/var/log/syslog</code>, and <code>/var/log/kern.log</code>?</p>
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26239 | 1 | null | 2011-02-14T04:25:07.533 | 3 | 7755 | <p>Is there a good card creating application? Haven't had one in over ten years but used to have one that had all types of easy to use templates designs etc for ton of occasions. Looking for something that can fill this void and do everything from Christmas cards to greeting cards and get well cards. I know this is pos... | 4538 | 8844 | 2011-02-26T21:55:06.063 | 2015-12-16T06:57:53.887 | What is a good card creating application? | [
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26248 | 1 | 26249 | 2011-02-14T06:15:11.290 | 4 | 22759 | <p>I've got a Macbook Pro with Keyboard Light brightness keys. How to I make them work?</p>
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26251 | 1 | 26357 | 2011-02-14T06:33:35.697 | 4 | 671 | <p>Dropbox works well, but often the tray icon starts spinning forever with the tooltip message "Saving 1 file..."<br>
I usually don't worry about it, and I never had any loss, despite switching computers often.
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26258 | 1 | 26309 | 2011-02-14T07:29:38.637 | 2 | 632 | <p>The thing on the left is called a launcher right?</p>
<p>Anyway, I want to apply a few applications with custom arguments, namely</p>
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"body": "<p>Go to <code>System=>Preferences=>Main Menu</code> and select the category (internet) and then your app (Google Chrome), click on the <code>properties</code> button and add extra options to the <em>command</em></p>\n",
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26259 | 1 | null | 2011-02-14T07:32:52.577 | 2 | 12039 | <p>I installed Ubuntu and I'm teaching my mother to use it. Everything is going fine except that her new <a href="http://www.pqi.com.tw/product2.asp?oid=19&catE1=19&PROID=385" rel="nofollow">USB pen drive</a> (8GB - fat32) is not working in Linux (but it works in Windows and Mac). </p>
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26263 | 1 | 26358 | 2011-02-14T08:00:09.043 | 2 | 3609 | <p>My gut says disabling write cache on soft RAID5 is the smart move, but I'm not certain.</p>
<p>Possible Considerations:</p>
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<li>The drives a WD20EARS with 64Mb cache.</li>
<li>The server hasn't gone down due to a power outage in the last 4-5 years. (even without a UPS)</li>
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26264 | 1 | null | 2011-02-14T08:12:13.657 | 2 | 690 | <p>Currently I do have Win-XP (C: partition) which is the system & primary partition. Win7 is the boot partition and the logical drive. </p>
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26269 | 1 | 26270 | 2011-02-14T09:03:03.747 | 19 | 29066 | <p>I tried to use the <code>usb-creator.exe</code> from Ubuntu 10.10 desktop i386 ISO image and it does create an USB stick that doesn't boot. When I try to boot from it I get:</p>
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26271 | 1 | 26272 | 2011-02-14T09:16:50.347 | 1 | 2415 | <p>I have shared a samba folder on ubuntu desktop. Is there a way to disable ubuntu shared folder password prompt when accessed from windows?.</p>
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26273 | 1 | 26371 | 2011-02-14T09:47:31.760 | 3 | 762 | <p>I have some photos taken with a digital camera. Which software under Ubuntu can I use to make a photo CD out of it, which can be read on standard CD/DVD players for TV sets?</p>
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26285 | 1 | 26312 | 2011-02-14T10:42:03.980 | 7 | 13228 | <p>I want play a Blu Ray Video from my hard drive with Boxee, but it chokes all the time. I've tried to play it with others video players but it is the same. </p>
<p>I think that is a 10gb .mkv file with 10Gb. Stuttering video with VLC , mplayer, and the default video player on ubuntu.</p>
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26286 | 1 | null | 2011-02-14T10:50:45.897 | 28 | 82362 | <p>I want to generate a public-private key on Sever 1 and store it in a location which is not the default location.</p>
<p>Thereafter, save the public key on Server 2; once again NOT at the default location.</p>
<p>Then make this key an authorized key.</p>
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26290 | 1 | null | 2011-02-14T11:04:04.793 | 26 | 55657 | <p>How does Ubuntu come up with the default synaptics settings? I've got Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 installed on an Eeepc 900. Out of the box TapButton2 was set to 3, and TapButton3 was set to 2.</p>
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26297 | 1 | null | 2011-02-14T11:30:09.683 | 0 | 1968 | <p>I tried to install Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 through Wubi in Windows 7.</p>
<p>Even after I disable the firewall and antivirus I get this error again and again.</p>
<pre><code>Invalid Tag data . check len(D=1,(ord(d) & 128)==128. recvd -> (<>
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26298 | 1 | 26303 | 2011-02-14T11:32:09.073 | 2 | 1063 | <p>Is there a way I can restrict the Internet connection and application use of another user account?</p>
<p>What I'd like to do is let that account connect for the use of Dropbox, but otherwise have no Internet access. Also, have a list of applications that the user can use, or better, a list that they cannot.</p>
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26299 | 1 | 26893 | 2011-02-14T11:35:30.457 | 5 | 15942 | <p>I always have a pause at boot saying my filesystems are being checked (with a "press C to cancel" note, too). Actually (seeing <code>boot.log</code>) I think it's the <code>/</code> fs, which is located at <code>/dev/sdb5</code></p>
<p>Several questions altoghether, here (hope this does not break any rule):</p>
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26300 | 1 | 26330 | 2011-02-14T11:37:47.510 | 1 | 5676 | <p>I have an brand new installation of Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic version) where everything is fine except the video resolution. In Ubuntu 9.10, the file xorg.conf is empty by default.</p>
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26301 | 1 | 27376 | 2011-02-14T11:41:18.173 | 5 | 16242 | <p>I've tried to change resolution, colors and background image for my grub menu, but I get no background (well, just a black one, no image).... What am I doing wrong?</p>
<p>This is my <code>grub.cfg</code> (omitting the OS's part):</p>
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26302 | 1 | null | 2011-02-14T11:42:54.963 | 2 | 5281 | <p>I want to run a sript that is present in local machine, but it should perform operations on remote machine.
I have already generated public-private keys, so no password authentiaction is required</p>
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26308 | 1 | null | 2011-02-14T12:33:19.853 | 12 | 18273 | <p>When I type <code>mail</code> command, I get a "No mail for USER" answer, but there's indeed mail (it's in <code>/home/USER/Maildir/new</code>)</p>
<p>I guess it has something to do with the mailbox being in Maildir format, instead of mbox, but I don't know how to tell mailutils (specifically the mail command) whic... | 8851 | 8851 | 2011-02-14T13:36:35.250 | 2018-02-20T03:12:15.780 | How to configure mail (mailutils) to use Maildir schema by default? | [
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26310 | 1 | null | 2011-02-14T12:39:13.093 | 2 | 6204 | <p>I created a kickstart file <code>ks.cfg</code> and then I have put that in the bootable disk (Ubuntu 10.04), and then added the following line to the <code>isolinux.cfg</code> </p>
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26318 | 1 | 26326 | 2011-02-14T13:08:52.687 | 79 | 106186 | <p>Somebody told me that:</p>
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<p>BASH isn't an environment variable,
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<p>What's the difference?</p>
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