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<p>I want to setup an ubuntu server in which some users are limited to a specific download/upload speed.Is it possible?</p> <p>I know about Wondershaper, Trickle or similar tools but I don't want to limit programs or an interface bandwidth because the machine will have different kind of users.</p> <p>A solution for limiting speed for a group or specific users would be great.</p>
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2017-02-08T07:12:17.393
2017-02-08T07:12:17.393
How to limit download/upload speed for specific users?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p><em>iptables</em> with <em>tc</em>? Then again I think I remember pfSense (yeah it's not Ubuntu :/ ), used for traffic shaping, among its many roles, in a small office I used to work for. Since we were in a LAN, everything passes through pfSense. Each user is considered as 1...
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<p>How to install Java Plugin to these browsers manually ? I downloaded JRE from Oracle Site, run it in terminal. Now, what I should do ?. I want to do it manually because, I want to be up-date with recent Java version.</p>
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2013-05-30T22:20:06.563
2013-11-07T23:09:54.400
How do I manually install the Oracle Java Plugin for Google Chrome and Firefox?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I think this problem is quite common. This <a href=\"http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=3ef7b4f7b08118ed&amp;hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow\">thread</a> may have the answers that you are looking for. Let me know if it helps you out, if not we can discuss further....
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<p>I have a script that I would like to run daily. I set it up in gnome-schedule to run every day at 00:00, and I'm wondering whether it will run on startup if my computer was not turned on at 00:00. If not, is there a way to make it do that?</p>
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Does gnome-schedule run things on startup if the run time is missed?
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2011-02-16T22:46:18.733
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<p>I created an APT repository using deb-scanpackages, and it seemed to go well.</p> <p>When I did a <code>apt-get update</code> on another server, the Packages.gz file was retrieved, and all seemed well - until I went to search for the packages contained in that repository (all packages are created locally).</p> <p>Several recommendations suggested <code>reprepro</code>; I tried that. Same result - except I had to rebuild the packages with the <em>Priority</em> and <em>Section</em> lines in the control file (nothing says this anywhere). The reprepro utility also generates a complicated directory structure which required rewriting the repository entry on the requesting server.</p> <p>I then found that the arch directory referenced i386 and not amd64 (which was requested by the requesting server).</p> <p>Is it possible that the AMD64 system isn't seeing packages compiled for i386? Searching the *Packages files in /var/lib/apt/lists show that the only packages for i386 are those I added (the other files are for the server - Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS).</p> <p>The server the packages were built on is Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS i686; the requesting server is x86_64.</p> <p>I found some discussion at the <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAMD64Faq" rel="nofollow">Debian AMD64FAQ</a> but it claims to be obsolete. It makes mention of an extended syntax for repository listings for APT, and a command dpkg-subarchitecture - neither of which work on the local AMD64 server.</p> <p>Do I have to build two different sets of packages?</p>
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2011-03-08T18:27:09.600
2011-03-08T18:27:09.600
Packages not showing up in created APT repository
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<p>When I import music from an external source, it sorts it into the nice and organized folders by artist - album, but when I import music from Downloads, it just references the file in Downloads and doesn't sort it. How can I force Rhythmbox to sort my downloaded music. Ubuntu 10.10, Rhythmbox 0.13.1</p>
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2013-03-08T10:29:45.490
2013-03-08T10:29:45.490
How do I force a folder sort for my downloaded music on Rhythmbox
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Assuming you mean you want the files to be placed in a directory hierarchy on import I'm afraid it looks like rhythmbox doesn't currently support this feature. There is a bug open in the GNOME bugzilla:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636980\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636980</a></p>\n\n<p>If you are not tied to rhythmbox, banshee (which will be the default media player in future Ubuntu versions) does support this operation.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T00:03:21.737", "id": "29387", "postId": "26708", "score": "0", "text": "What menu option lets you do this in banshee?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "10978" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T00:08:34.743", "id": "29388", "postId": "26708", "score": "0", "text": "In Edit->Preferences, check \"Copy files to media folders when importing\". It will then happen automatically.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "7705" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-16T23:42:49.580", "id": "26708", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-16T23:42:49.580", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "7705", "parentId": "26706", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "0" }
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2011-02-16T23:54:27.883
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<p>I am looking for a music player with a few specific requirements:</p> <ol> <li>Must have a search function that whittles down results as you type, searching the entire library.</li> <li>Must start playing a song when double clicked, and not continue to another song when that song finishes.</li> <li>Must be approachable and immediately usable by people completely unfamiliar with the program. I think this is mostly covered by the first two requirements being met.</li> </ol> <hr> <p>I've tried many players but unfortunately every one has failed to meet at least one of the requirements.</p> <p>Rhythmbox meets 1 and 3, but continues to the next search result after the song which was double clicked ends.</p> <p>Banshee is basically the same as Rhythmbox. While it has an option to "Stop when finished" this cannot (as far as I can tell) be made the default when double clicking a song.</p> <p>Audacious (as far as I can tell) fails at 1.</p> <p>Muine meets requirements 1 and 2, but unfortunately I couldn't make the search dialog always shown like it is with Rhythmbox / Banshee which, despite its very simple interface, made Muine incomprehensible to people trying to use it for the first time.</p> <p>Amarok I could not configure to meet requirement 1, but I think it's likely I was just missing something, and with its configurability I'm confident that I can set it up to meet requirements 2 and 3.</p>
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2011-02-17T16:11:01.590
Music player with a few specific requirements
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Quodlibet whittles down results by search term, and when the order is set to One Song, it plays one song and stops. It's pretty simple on the surface, but it's got a bunch of plugins to extend its capabilities.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/Uz1em.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\"></p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-04-22T23:39:25.030", "id": "40616", "postId": "26719", "score": "0", "text": "@jordan uggla The ubuntu package is ancient. I just installed [quodlibet-2.3](http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/downloads/list) and it's LOADS better. However, did have to manually `rm /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/quodlibet` even after apt-get purging the old one.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8515" }, { "creationDate": "2012-03-24T11:46:46.790", "id": "136776", "postId": "26719", "score": "0", "text": "You can get the latest stable Ubuntu (2.4 at time of writing) from this PPA:\nhttps://launchpad.net/~lazka/+archive/ppa", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "17592" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T01:54:00.753", "id": "26719", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T01:54:00.753", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "8515", "parentId": "26710", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }
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<p>by following the instructions here... but when I do I get following errors. Anyone have any ideas as to why? This is a really neat program that I like a lot and would like to get it going again.</p> <pre><code>W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/pj-assis/ppa/ubuntu/dists/karmic/Release.gpg Could not connect to ppa.launchpad.net:80 (91.189.90.217). - connect (111: Connection refused) W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/pj-assis/ppa/ubuntu/dists/karmic/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Unable to connect to ppa.launchpad.net:http: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/pj-assis/ppa/ubuntu/dists/karmic/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Unable to connect to ppa.launchpad.net:http: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/dockbar-main/ppa/ubuntu/dists/maverick/Release.gpg Unable to connect to ppa.launchpad.net:http: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/dockbar-main/ppa/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Unable to connect to ppa.launchpad.net:http: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/dockbar-main/ppa/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Unable to connect to ppa.launchpad.net:http: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/kevin-mehall/pithos-daily/ubuntu/dists/maverick/Release.gpg Unable to connect to ppa.launchpad.net:http: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/kevin-mehall/pithos-daily/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2 Unable to connect to ppa.launchpad.net:http: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/kevin-mehall/pithos-daily/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Unable to connect to ppa.launchpad.net:http: W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. </code></pre>
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2011-02-17T01:42:10.843
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<p>When I play Flash videos from sites such as YouTube, the videos initially play ok. However when the videos are full screened, a number of problems arise. Usually when the full screen button is first clicked, the video will take up the full screen, but will be frozen (however the video audio can still be heard). </p> <p>It can take several attempts to get the video to play in full screen. The video is also frozen if something triggers notify-osd (changing the volume, getting a new email etc.)</p> <p>Any ideas what might be going wrong?</p>
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2011-02-17T10:16:20.137
2011-05-21T17:05:45.073
Full screen Flash problems
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<p>I was trying to add the installed matlab to the menu of Applications under Ubuntu 10.10.</p> <p>I clicked Gnome-Menu -> Preference -> Main Menu -> Programming -> New Item, where I input the Matlab file .../MatlabR2010b/bin/matlab as the command, and selected the type to be "Application". Then I finished.</p> <p>But when I click the item in the menu of Applications, the Matlab icon shows up for a few seconds and then nothing else happens.</p> <p>If I select the type to be "Application in Terminal", then in the last step of adding Matlab to the Applications Menu, after I click the item in the menu of Applications, there will be firstly a terminal window and then the Matlab command window.</p> <p>So I was wondering how to solve the problem of Matlab not starting when the type has been selected to be "Application"? Also is there a way to eliminate the terminal appearing when the type has been selected to be "Application in Terminal"?</p>
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2013-09-04T15:01:33.413
How do I add Matlab to the main menu?
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2011-02-17T02:23:30.783
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<p>I was wondering what "loop" mean in this usage of mount:</p> <pre><code>mount -t iso9660 -o loop matlab.iso /media/cdrom0 </code></pre> <p>Is it a type of device? What does this device type "loop" mean? Can I choose other device types for the iso file? Thanks!</p>
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2011-02-17T02:33:33.707
Device type "loop" in mount command
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2011-02-17T02:33:05.370
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<p>Is there any specific package for <code>cp</code> command which shows the process of being copied.</p> <p>I'm wondering if there is any package cp which shows additional information that what has been copied and what are left or how many percentage it has been copied...etc. Any body using any?</p>
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2011-04-25T13:04:23.767
2011-04-25T13:04:23.767
cp command process info
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can pipe things into the <code>pv</code> command to add progress indication to programs that might not have their own progress meter. </p>\n\n<pre><code>cp -a source/ dest/ | pv\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>However if I'm doing a copy large enough that I need a progress bar I end up using rsync anyway as Jeremy recommends. He also points out that you'll need to arrange your pipeline so that the data is piped though pv - the example gives only tells you how much data the cp is printing out, not how much is being copied. Something like this will work for single files: <code>pv source &gt; dest</code>. </p>\n\n<p>However, for copying directories, you'll need to get more complex. </p>\n", "commentCount": "5", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T05:44:11.593", "id": "29416", "postId": "26741", "score": "0", "text": "A problem with apt-update `0% [Waiting for headers]`, once installed pv I'll get back here again.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3215" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T10:20:13.677", "id": "29444", "postId": "26741", "score": "2", "text": "If you want to use pv, you'll need to arrange your pipeline so that the data is piped *though* pv - the example Jorge gives only tells you how much data the `cp` is printing out, not how much is being copied. Something like this will work for single files: `pv source > dest`. However, for copying directories, you'll need to get more complex.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "192" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T12:07:56.160", "id": "29468", "postId": "26741", "score": "0", "text": "@Jeremy Kerr: +1 for more information", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3215" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T14:12:01.340", "id": "29494", "postId": "26741", "score": "0", "text": "@Jeremy Thanks for the info, I've added it into my answer, feel free to propose an edit if there's anything else you'd like clarified.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "235" }, { "creationDate": "2013-10-06T21:53:32.890", "id": "454352", "postId": "26741", "score": "0", "text": "Maybe the best solution is to just extend original `cp` command with progress options? https://github.com/goj/coreutils/blob/rm-d/src/cp.c", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "69004" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T05:01:58.573", "id": "26741", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T14:11:25.367", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-17T14:11:25.367", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "235", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "235", "parentId": "26727", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "8" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You can use <code>rsync</code> to do the copy. If you use the <code>-P</code> option (show progress), it does just that.</p>\n\n<p>I tend to use <code>rsync -avP &lt;source&gt; &lt;dest&gt;</code> for most copying.</p>\n", "commentCount": "7", "comments": [ { ...
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2011-02-17T02:43:18.143
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3697/how-do-i-install-fonts"> How do I install fonts?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>to use for various stuff... thanks for the help.</p>
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2017-04-13T12:25:03.423
2011-02-17T16:44:23.993
How do you download a font and then install it?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Most modern font types are really easy to install. If you're using 10.04 or newer, you should be able to open the font viewer by double clicking on the font, and simply clicking the \"install\" button.</p>\n\n<p>However, if you want to do it manually (sometimes it helps with organization), it's not much more difficult. All you have to do is move the font to your font directory and then update your cache.</p>\n\n<p>If you look at the contents of <code>/etc/fonts/fonts.conf</code>, you can see all of the places where your fonts are stored. Personally, I like to put my fonts in <code>/usr/share/fonts/</code>, but that requires an account with sudo privileges (since the fonts are owned by 'root'). If you only need the font for a single user account, you can simply drag-and-drop the font into the <code>~/.fonts/</code> folder. If you can't find a <code>~/.fonts/</code> folder, no problem! Just use <code>mkdir ~/.fonts</code> to create it.</p>\n\n<p>Once you've put your font(s) in the correct folder, open up a terminal and type:</p>\n\n<p><code>sudo fc-cache -f -v</code></p>\n\n<p>This updates your font cache, and now your new fonts should be usable!</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T02:49:16.470", "id": "26731", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T03:02:36.740", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-17T03:02:36.740", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "9554", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "9554", "parentId": "26730", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Most modern font types are really easy to install. If you're using 10.04 or newer, you should be able to open the font viewer by double clicking on the font, and simply clicking the \"install\" button.</p>\n\n<p>However, if you want to do it manually (sometimes it helps with ...
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2011-02-17T18:07:20.383
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2011-02-17T04:07:35.857
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<p>A tutorial or specific directions would be great.</p>
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2013-01-27T16:50:10.627
2013-04-30T01:43:22.890
Is there any way to take my current setup and put it on a live disk, then install it to another machine?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>No, you cannot :)! (just kidding).</p>\n\n<p>There is <a href=\"http://remastersys.sourceforge.net/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">remastersys</a>. It is highly documented, so I won't bother to re-document it here ^^!\nHere is a link: <a href=\"http://www.ubuntugeek.com/creating-custom-ubuntu-live-cd-with-remastersys.html\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">http://www.ubuntugeek.com/creating-custom-ubuntu-live-cd-with-remastersys.html</a></p>\n\n<p>Keep in mind this only keeps the software you have installed plus a few other bits and pieces. To get your home folder etc copied, you will need to manual transfer that data yourself, the instructions for which would be better off in another question/answer couple.</p>\n\n<p>Most of your settings will not be transfered automatically, except for what it stored in the system wide configuration. This is a limitation of the scripts used to create the live environment.</p>\n\n<p>To counter this, you can copy your themes and icons to <code>/usr/share/themes</code> and <code>/usr/share/icons</code> respectively, as well as set the gconf entries for your gtk/icon/metacity themes using gconf-editor to default (sorry I could not capture the menu in my screenshot). <em>(right click the entry, then click set as default)</em></p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/7ILwv.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\"></p>\n\n<p>A more extensive option (sorry I could not find one of the the links I was looking for) is to create/customize a live cd (as according to <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">this</a> guide).</p>\n\n<p>After installing this system, you could \"make it like your existing system\" using a few commands.</p>\n\n<p>The steps to this are described in detail <a href=\"http://www.ubuntugeek.com/clone-your-ubuntu-installation.html\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">here</a>.</p>\n\n<p>No matter what method you choose, always consider carefully, before attempting such an operation, and wherever possible, try to backup your critical data.</p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T04:23:13.113", "id": "29407", "postId": "26737", "score": "1", "text": "So the setting won't go with it? like themes, backgrounds other various changes I may have made?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3889" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T04:28:27.110", "id": "29408", "postId": "26737", "score": "1", "text": "nope. Not unless you set these to be the defaults in gconf, which is a little more complicated. If you like I can add this to my answer.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1992" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T04:33:31.560", "id": "29409", "postId": "26737", "score": "0", "text": "yes please do..", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3889" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T04:18:19.647", "id": "26737", "lastActivityDate": "2013-04-30T01:43:22.890", "lastEditDate": "2013-04-30T01:43:22.890", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "44179", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1992", "parentId": "26735", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "8" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>No, you cannot :)! (just kidding).</p>\n\n<p>There is <a href=\"http://remastersys.sourceforge.net/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">remastersys</a>. It is highly documented, so I won't bother to re-document it here ^^!\nHere is a link: <a href=\"http://www.ubuntugeek.com/creati...
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2011-02-17T04:18:11.417
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<p>should I install something like gufw?</p>
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2011-02-18T03:59:28.447
2011-09-30T03:56:00.283
Is a Firewall really necessary these days?
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T16:17:15.373", "id": "29522", "postId": "26736", "score": "5", "text": "I think this questions is much too broad to get an **objective**, correct answer.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1067" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T18:25:30.757", ...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Yes, more than ever. The internet hasn't changed a lot, since the old days. So a firewall is still a necessity these days. A firewall like gufw, with basic rules works. Use iptables, if you are a CLI geek ;)</p>\n", "commentCount": "9", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T10:33:47.650", "id": "29447", "postId": "26744", "score": "0", "text": "dangit, please comment why you downvoted.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3778" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T13:45:07.753", "id": "29485", "postId": "26744", "score": "0", "text": "I suspect it's because you said *the internet hasn't changed in any way...*. That's quite bold. It's safer to say something like *the internet hasn't changed much...*.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "2591" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T13:59:05.613", "id": "29489", "postId": "26744", "score": "0", "text": "yeah, I thought so too, while answering. Thanks.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3778" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T14:08:24.543", "id": "29492", "postId": "26744", "score": "1", "text": "vote++; `echo \"Use iptables\" - I assume I\\'m a real CLI geek then :p`;", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6969" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T15:18:06.393", "id": "29507", "postId": "26744", "score": "1", "text": "Incorrect answer.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8500" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T15:34:08.610", "id": "29514", "postId": "26744", "score": "0", "text": "Well Kaustubh: If you meant that the threat hasn't reduced all the years when you said \"The internet hasn't changed a lot\", then probably you are right.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "52" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T18:17:43.713", "id": "29532", "postId": "26744", "score": "1", "text": "@psusi Are you saying that this is incorrect because you disagree with the premise that using a host-based firewall is a good idea, or because you disagree with the ufw/iptables assessments?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8844" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T20:40:52.607", "id": "29578", "postId": "26744", "score": "1", "text": "@jgbelacqua it is incorrect because a host based firewall for an Ubuntu desktop system is pointless, not needed more now than ever. The question Manish linked to has very good explanations as to why.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8500" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-20T09:09:47.173", "id": "29993", "postId": "26744", "score": "0", "text": "Bad answer. What, exactly, were the reasons to have a firewall in \"the old days\" if you didn't have any unnecessary ports open? Sounds to me like [cargo cult](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult) system administration.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4303" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T05:48:01.250", "id": "26744", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T13:58:45.320", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-17T13:58:45.320", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "3778", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "3778", "parentId": "26736", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "7" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I would recommend to install a firewall. Something is always better than nothing. isn't it?. Ubuntu , By default comes with a firewall '<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncomplicated_Firewall\" rel=\"nofollow\">ufw</a>'. gufw(Mentioned in the question) is nothing but th...
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<p>It appears to me that Spotify have released a Linux client... however every attempt I've made to get it from the repositries have failed. It would really help me if someone could provide a .deb package.</p>
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2017-12-06T02:18:36.933
Where can I find a Spotify .deb package?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It is available from spotify repo <a href=\"http://repository.spotify.com\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">http://repository.spotify.com</a>. Just follow this article: <a href=\"http://linuxhub.net/2010/07/linux-gets-spotify-love-install-spotify-in-ubuntu/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">http://linuxhub.net/2010/07/linux-gets-spotify-love-install-spotify-in-ubuntu/</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Please note that the first step in the above url is <code>sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list</code> .</p>\n\n<p>If the instructions on above url fails then you can directly download the .deb package from <a href=\"http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/</a></p>\n\n<p>Hope this helps.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T05:03:39.170", "id": "26742", "lastActivityDate": "2017-12-06T00:34:50.153", "lastEditDate": "2017-12-06T00:34:50.153", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "232606", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "4980", "parentId": "26739", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "9" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It is available from spotify repo <a href=\"http://repository.spotify.com\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">http://repository.spotify.com</a>. Just follow this article: <a href=\"http://linuxhub.net/2010/07/linux-gets-spotify-love-install-spotify-in-ubuntu/\" rel=\"nofollow noref...
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2011-02-17T06:21:36.293
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<p>I am using the alarm-clock application and the alarm-clock-applet, and the only frequency I can set, are for days of the week. I want an hourly alarm, is there any way to do that? Googling did not provide any answers, neither did AU, seems like no one has asked this question ever before. ATM, I use crontab to fire a <code>notify-send</code> each hour. Any other application/methods?</p> <p>Thanks.</p>
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2017-02-24T07:40:18.153
How to set an hourly alarm?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Keyboard preferences has a typing break monitor that can be triggered hourly. Doesn't trigger if you have breaks in your work.</p>\n\n<p>If it doesn't fit your needs it may be a good starting point to develop your own alarm.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T15:09:30.253", "id": "26826", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T15:09:30.253", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "2176", "parentId": "26745", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Sounds like an App request to me Kaustubh or at least a feature request for <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/alarm-clock\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">alarm-clock</a>. In the meantime if you don't understand <code>cron</code> you can use the <a href=\"http://packages.ubun...
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2011-02-17T07:50:31.777
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<p><code>apt-get</code> installs Eclipse version 3.5 when I do this:</p> <pre><code>sudo apt-get install eclipse-platform </code></pre> <p>However I would like to install version 3.6.<br> How can I do that?</p>
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2013-07-23T17:03:20.223
2013-07-23T17:03:20.223
How to tell apt-get to install another version of Eclipse?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Eclipse 3.5 is the latest version in repositories.apt-get installs the latest version automatically, so there is nothing to do with apt-get.</p>\n\n<p>Instead you can download eclipse 3.6 (Helios) from <a href=\"http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/\" rel=\"nofollow\">eclipse.org</a> and use it.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T08:00:56.773", "id": "26751", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T08:00:56.773", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "10494", "parentId": "26749", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "2" }
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2011-02-17T08:05:58.270
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<p>I am planning to install Ubuntu on a new laptop soon. I want to put <code>/opt</code> and <code>/usr/local</code> directories separately from the root and home partitions, but I don't need two partitions for them, just one.</p> <p>Is it possible to put these two directories on a single separate partition, preferably without using soft-links? Following a soft-link requires path resolution, so I don't think it's a good idea to soft-link commonly-accessed top-level directories.</p>
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2011-02-17T08:41:48.577
2011-02-17T08:41:48.577
/opt and /usr/local on the same partition but not under root
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I wouldn't say that symlink is a problem. It's already very bad if a symlink lookup affects the performance too much :) Also you may expect that it's cached, in a way that it won't be read from the disk each time, if it's really a \"commonly-accessed\" directory. But I think, /opt and /usr/local is not so much used on a standard Ubuntu install, /usr/local is used more for your own stuffs you compile from source (this is not the correct definition but usually this is the case), while /opt is used for \"optional\" softwares. But not so much softwares are installed there normally on Ubuntu, maybe some Google softwares for example, if I want to find an example. Anyway, even if these directories are heavily used, I wouldn't say that a symlink would mean lots of differencies, I would not worry if I were you.</p>\n\n<p>You have another choice as well. Let's say you have a separated filesystem for /opt and /usr/local, for example /dev/sda6. Mount it as /opt. Create a directory inside /opt, let's say it's usrlocal. Then you can use VFS bind to \"mount a directory\" (not so correct notion technically but never mind ...) this way:</p>\n\n<p><code>mount --bind /opt/usrlocal /usr/local</code></p>\n\n<p>Of course you can put this into your <code>/etc/fstab</code> too, so you don't need to do this manually with a line like this in your <code>/etc/fstab</code>:</p>\n\n<p><code>/opt/usrlocal /usr/local none bind 0 0</code></p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T11:01:17.753", "id": "29457", "postId": "26755", "score": "1", "text": "I find that dynamically linked software following linux standards tend to use /usr/local, while statically linked and self-contained packages tend to use /opt.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8515" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T12:25:13.203", "id": "29475", "postId": "26755", "score": "0", "text": "Well, it's sometime a bit confusing, there are opinions in the \"UNIX world in general\" (I am administrator of Solaris servers too) and on Linux too, also it's not always working this way (even not only on Linux), like google chrome is in /opt, but still it's not statically linked. What I meant with that description in my answer: sometimes people just make a symlink that /opt and /usr/local is the _same_. Maybe it's not the wisest thing to do, that's why then I talked about the bind solution instead.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "10579" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T08:17:33.557", "id": "26755", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T08:34:46.647", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-17T08:34:46.647", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "10579", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "10579", "parentId": "26754", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "2" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I wouldn't say that symlink is a problem. It's already very bad if a symlink lookup affects the performance too much :) Also you may expect that it's cached, in a way that it won't be read from the disk each time, if it's really a \"commonly-accessed\" directory. But I think,...
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2011-02-17T08:51:08.447
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<p>I set up an UbuntuOne account on PC1 (Ubuntu 10.10) and the same account on PC2 (Ubuntu 10.04).</p> <p>I did the following:</p> <ol> <li>Created file named <code>maverick.txt</code> in PC1's <code>~/Ubuntu One/log</code></li> <li>Created file named <code>venus.txt</code> in PC2's <code>~/Ubuntu One/log</code></li> </ol> <p>Bot files appeared in one.ubuntu.com</p> <p>A few hours later, those two files are disappeared from </p> <ul> <li>PC1's <code>Ubuntu One/log</code></li> <li>PC2's <code>Ubuntu One/log</code></li> <li>one.ubuntu.com</li> </ul> <p>So, my files are gone forever.</p> <p>Why did this happen? Is there any way to recover those files?</p>
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2011-02-20T15:41:58.550
2012-03-22T15:02:17.143
My files disappeared from the UbuntuOne synced folder
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T10:26:26.660", "id": "29446", "postId": "26760", "score": "1", "text": "There probably is, but we need to find out more, and this is not the place to do it. Please [file a bug](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client/+filebug?field.title=My+files+are+disappeared...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I cant answer why Ubuntu One is failing.</p>\n\n<p><strong>you must run foremost from live cd otherwise you will lose deleted files</strong> (thanks for that comment!)</p>\n\n<p>I recommend <a href=\"http://www.deftlinux.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\">DEFT Linux LiveCD</a></p>\n\n<p...
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<p>Sir, I am using both Chromium and Firefox on Ubuntu 10.10. While Firefox works fine, Chromium gives Error 105 (net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED) for all sites except Google searches, i.e. if I type anything in the smart-search bar of Chrome, I get the search results. But if I try to open www.google.com or any other site, I get the error. Chrome suddenly started giving this error. It was working fine the previous day. I am not under any proxy. Firefox and Chrome on Windows are also working fine. Please help.</p>
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2011-02-17T10:26:33.133
2011-02-17T10:26:33.133
Chromium Error 105 (net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED)
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>It seems there is some problem with the DNS resolver, as far as I can tell. Check it out what's in your /etc/resolv.conf, is it the correct nameserver you want to use? I am not sure about your problem: on Ubuntu only chromium behaves like this, or other browsers too? It's not...
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26769
2011-02-17T09:42:18.403
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<p>i installed wsgi, python, apache and django on my Ubuntu 10.04 but when i </p> <pre><code>django-admin.py runserver </code></pre> <p>i get this error</p> <pre><code>Error: Settings cannot be imported, because environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined. </code></pre> <p>how to solve this?any replies will be much appreciated.... and a step by step answers will be great,,,</p>
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7035
2011-06-07T16:50:16.263
2013-10-11T11:55:31.837
How to solve the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE error?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE.</p>\n\n<pre><code>function setdsm() {\n # add the current directory and the parent directory to PYTHONPATH\n # sets DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE\n export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$PWD/..\n export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$PWD\n if [ -z \"$1\" ]; then \n x=${PWD/\\/[^\\/]*\\/}\n export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=$x.settings\n else \n export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=$1\n fi\n\n echo \"DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE set to $DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE\"\n}\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>put this in .bash_profile, then a quick setdsm sets the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to the settings.py in the current directory and add the current directory and it’s parent to PYTHONPATH.</p>\n\n<p>Taken from: <a href=\"http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/django_settings_module/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/django_settings_module/</a> <br />\nCheck this also: <a href=\"http://martinjansen.com/2008/10/20/django-settings-files-for-development-and-production/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://martinjansen.com/2008/10/20/django-settings-files-for-development-and-production/</a></p>\n\n<p>Hope this helps.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T10:16:21.977", "id": "29442", "postId": "26769", "score": "0", "text": "export PYTHONPATH=$/home/idarine/neophyte/:$PWD/..\nexport PYTHONPATH=$/home/idarine/:$PWD -----------is this right?i substituted my current django directory and my parent directory.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "10376" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T09:55:26.547", "id": "26769", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T09:55:26.547", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "4980", "parentId": "26766", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE.</p>\n\n<pre><code>function setdsm() {\n # add the current directory and the parent directory to PYTHONPATH\n # sets DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE\n export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$PWD/..\n export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$PWD\n if [ -z \"$1\" ]; t...
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2011-02-17T10:11:00.127
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<p>I have a <a href="http://www.geekalerts.com/u/usb-gamepad.jpg" rel="nofollow">Gamepad</a> which is not working, I say "not working" because I was playing Urban Terror and the game was not responding to the gamepad button presses. How do I get the gamepad to work?</p> <p>I tried it in some other games Torcs, SuperTuxKark, Enemy Territory.... but, Same, there is no response to any of the gamepad button presses.</p> <p>Here is the output of <code>lsusb</code></p> <pre><code>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 0079:0011 DragonRise Inc. 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 </code></pre> <p><em>003 on third line is my Gamepad.</em></p> <p>And here is the output from dmesg: <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/579704" rel="nofollow">http://paste.ubuntu.com/579704</a></p>
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29112
2012-01-17T18:57:12.847
2021-06-01T17:52:21.013
DragonRise USB gamepad not working
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>If your game supports generic gamepads, than its going to work with this one as well.</p>\n\n<p>To calibrate your gamepad use this command:</p>\n\n<p><code>jscal -c DEVICE</code></p>\n\n<p>You have to replace DEVICE with the path to your device (e.g /dev/input/js0 ).</p>\n\n<p>To test your device use <code>jstest DEVICE</code></p>\n\n<p>To realy see on which path your device is use <code>cat /proc/bus/input/devices</code></p>\n\n<p>e.g H: Handlers=event6 js0 = /dev/input/js0</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2013-10-27T23:24:30.253", "id": "469350", "postId": "105472", "score": "0", "text": "All games supporting generic gamepad support _this_ gamepad. What blogger meant is probably the list of games he played that support gamepad in general.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "56635" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2012-02-18T23:57:00.900", "id": "105472", "lastActivityDate": "2013-10-29T05:57:01.717", "lastEditDate": "2013-10-29T05:57:01.717", "lastEditorDisplayName": "user45651", "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": "user45651", "ownerUserId": null, "parentId": "26772", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "5" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>If your game supports generic gamepads, than its going to work with this one as well.</p>\n\n<p>To calibrate your gamepad use this command:</p>\n\n<p><code>jscal -c DEVICE</code></p>\n\n<p>You have to replace DEVICE with the path to your device (e.g /dev/input/js0 ).</p>\n\n...
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2011-02-17T10:32:25.317
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<p>I've plugged an external hdd into my usb port, and it shows up on the desktop and in nautilus. How can i access this mounted hdd via the command line?</p>
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866
2011-03-22T19:49:56.770
2020-10-16T03:07:59.347
Access mounted volumes via the command line
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>automounted drives usually sit on /media/{label of your partition}. You can browse into it by cd command in terminal\nsay if my pendrive is labeled SAGAR </p>\n\n<pre><code>cd /media/SAGAR\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>You can view the path in nautilus with ctrl+l and cd from terminal copying the path as well</p>\n\n<p>EDIT: In Newer version, the username is used for directory: /media/${USER}/{SOME_HASH}</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T10:45:23.950", "id": "26778", "lastActivityDate": "2016-10-05T07:31:48.183", "lastEditDate": "2016-10-05T07:31:48.183", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "1543", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1543", "parentId": "26775", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "16" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>automounted drives usually sit on /media/{label of your partition}. You can browse into it by cd command in terminal\nsay if my pendrive is labeled SAGAR </p>\n\n<pre><code>cd /media/SAGAR\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>You can view the path in nautilus with ctrl+l and cd from termina...
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26789
2011-02-17T10:47:40.483
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<p>What is the best way on Ubuntu to hide my computer from network monitoring tools(network sniffer)?</p>
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2011-02-22T20:05:37.953
2011-02-22T20:05:37.953
The best way to hide my computer on a network
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T10:50:28.657", "id": "29453", "postId": "26779", "score": "0", "text": "Do you mean preventing access, or preventing other machines knowing about the existence of your machine?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "2978" }, { "creationDate": "2011-11...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Obviously the best way is to disconnect it.</p>\n\n<p>When that is not an option, second best is to deny all incoming connections using DROP.</p>\n\n<pre><code>iptables -I INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT \niptables -p INPUT DROP\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>This way all incoming attempts to connect to your computer fails. Connections initiated by your computer works. Some special protocols do not, for example you'll encounter problems with UDP. By dropping all incoming connections, active attacker from another network can't find your computer, except if you specifically open connection to attackers computer.</p>\n\n<p>In LAN your computer is still broadcasting <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Resolution_Protocol\" rel=\"noreferrer\">ARP</a> packets. You can't prevent that, if you want it working connection.</p>\n\n<p>You should also disable for example <a href=\"http://en.kioskea.net/faq/739-disabling-the-avahi-daemon\" rel=\"noreferrer\">avahi-daemon</a>, which is sending <a href=\"http://www.multicastdns.org/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">MDNS</a> broadcasts.</p>\n", "commentCount": "9", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T11:26:57.560", "id": "29462", "postId": "26789", "score": "0", "text": "Olli: :) :) Now it seems as I would have copied my answer from you :)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "10579" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-22T19:39:37.950", "id": "30501", "postId": "26789", "score": "0", "text": "@Olli: I think you mean ARP *packets*, not ARP *packages*.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3256" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-22T19:43:46.607", "id": "30503", "postId": "26789", "score": "0", "text": "@Firefeather: yes, obviously. I fixed it, thanks.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "10581" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-22T20:18:39.793", "id": "30513", "postId": "26789", "score": "0", "text": "Will doing this make my system invisible to other PCs on the same network?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "814" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-22T20:19:44.193", "id": "30515", "postId": "26789", "score": "0", "text": "No, as said in my answer. It'll broadcast ARP packets and respond to ARP requests.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "10581" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-22T20:28:29.387", "id": "30518", "postId": "26789", "score": "0", "text": "Then is there a way to do something like turning off network discovery in Windows?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "814" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-22T20:35:15.157", "id": "30522", "postId": "26789", "score": "0", "text": "No, if you want to use ethernet, you can't hide your computer completely. Also, Windows questions are out-of-topic in here. You can try posting that question on superuser.com, for example.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "10581" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-23T15:24:15.400", "id": "30667", "postId": "26789", "score": "0", "text": "@Olli, I'm speaking in terms of wireless. And I wanted to know if I can switch off network discovery just like Windows - I did not ask for help about Windows.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "814" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-23T15:33:14.053", "id": "30671", "postId": "26789", "score": "0", "text": "@Toki Tahmid: you may want to ask new question, if it's not same as this question, and from my understanding it's not.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "10581" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T11:21:33.060", "id": "26789", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-22T19:43:32.053", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-22T19:43:32.053", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "10581", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "10581", "parentId": "26779", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "9" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Obviously the best way is to disconnect it.</p>\n\n<p>When that is not an option, second best is to deny all incoming connections using DROP.</p>\n\n<pre><code>iptables -I INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT \niptables -p INPUT DROP\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>This ...
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2011-02-17T11:03:13.187
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<p>Where are extensions stored once they've been installed to Chromium?</p>
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2023-05-28T18:21:58.520
Where are chromium extensions located?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Extensions are (<a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/a/445301/8515\">usually</a>) stored at <code>~/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions</code>. Here's an example featuring the amazing <a href=\"https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">adblock</a>:</p>\n<pre><code>jake@daedalus:~$ cd .config/chromium/Default/Extensions/\njake@daedalus:~/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions$ ls\ngighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom/ jggheggpdocamneaacmfoipeehedigia/\njake@daedalus:~/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions$ cd gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom/2.3.1_0/\njake@daedalus:~/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom/2.3.1_0$ ls\nadblock.js background.html blacklisting/ button/ functions.js img/ jquery/ manifest.json pages/ whitelister.js\nadblock_start.js blacklister.js broadcast_channel.js filtering/ Icon.png Info.plist _locales/ options/ port.js\n</code></pre>\n<p>To see it in your file browser, make sure you can see hidden files (View &gt; Show Hidden Files). Or, do like Gaurav says and type in the path after pressing <kbd>ctl</kbd>+<kbd>l</kbd>.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZYMY1.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\" /></p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2023-05-28T04:32:22.703", "id": "2575938", "postId": "26785", "score": "0", "text": "This path answered for me:\n~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1632711" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T11:09:00.180", "id": "26785", "lastActivityDate": "2023-05-28T18:21:58.520", "lastEditDate": "2023-05-28T18:21:58.520", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "8515", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "8515", "parentId": "26782", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "40" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>On the filesystem? In <code>~/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions</code> (a hidden folder inside your home directory).</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T11...
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2011-02-17T12:18:49.560
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<p>I'm using a VPN when I'm online at an unencrypted wifi. Unfortunately, at my university the connection is quite unstable and at every reconnect the VPN connection is terminated and I manually need to reconnect to it using the NetworkManager, which obviously only works if I notice the reconnect. I enabled the option to automatically connect to the VPN in the NM options, but it seems to have no effect.</p> <p>Is there a way to enforce an active VPN connection before any other application can access the network connection so I can be sure not to send private data over unencrypted connections?</p> <p>Cheers, Pascal</p>
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2011-04-13T05:36:32.170
2011-04-13T09:42:59.400
Enforce VPN connection to access the Internet
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Well, I dont know if there is a better way to do what you asked but a crude way would be just to manually delete the default route for your Wifi connection after you connect to VPN. This way when your VPN is disconnected traffic will not be able to leave your system as there ...
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2011-02-17T12:52:20.673
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<p>I installed mozplugger and created the file mozpluggerrc with the following content according to <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/22492/troubles-with-acrobat-reader-within-firefox/22523#22523">this post</a> but when I open a .pdf it opens in a separate evince window. </p> <p>is there a way I can truly embed it in Firefox like the chrome pdf reader?</p> <pre><code>application/pdf: pdf: PDF file application/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file text/pdf: pdf: PDF file text/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file application/x-postscript: ps: PostScript file application/postscript: ps: PostScript file application/x-dvi: dvi: DVI file : evince $file </code></pre>
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-1
2017-04-13T12:23:59.520
2012-07-28T21:58:07.197
How to embed evince in firefox 4?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Evince is a GTK+ PDF and PS viewer to replace gpdf/xpdf/acroread and ggv, and it's open source. Using mozplugger you can embed all sorts of stuff into Mozilla and/or Firefox like media players and openoffice. </p>\n\n<p>First make sure you have Evince and mozplugger installed.</p>\n\n<p>Now open up<code>~/.mozilla/mozpluggerrc</code> in your favorite text editor. Here's how to do it with gedit Press <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>T</kbd> and paste</p>\n\n<p><code>gedit ~/.mozilla/mozpluggerrc</code></p>\n\n<p>Wherever you see this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>application/pdf: pdf: PDF file\napplication/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file\ntext/pdf: pdf: PDF file\ntext/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>and</p>\n\n<pre><code>application/x-postscript: ps: PostScript file\napplication/postscript: ps: PostScript file\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>add this on the next line:</p>\n\n<pre><code>repeat noisy swallow(evince) fill: evince \"$file\"\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Close Firefox and Thats it! </p>\n\n<p>HERE mine :</p>\n\n<pre><code>application/pdf: pdf: PDF file\napplication/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file\ntext/pdf: pdf: PDF file\ntext/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file\napplication/x-postscript: ps: PostScript file\napplication/postscript: ps: PostScript file\n repeat noisy swallow(evince) fill: evince \"$file\"\n\n# Also load the default configuration\nsinclude(/etc/mozpluggerrc)\n</code></pre>\n\n<p><strong>Note : this plug-ins embed MPlayer Totem OpenOffice ... Too</strong></p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-03-14T19:14:01.993", "id": "34006", "postId": "26801", "score": "1", "text": "This not works to me. :-(\nFirefox opens a new tab with PDF url and it opens a dialog to open PDF with evince/save/...", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4870" }, { "creationDate": "2013-04-27T17:48:28.253", "id": "360407", "postId": "26801", "score": "0", "text": "@Simón Try to install mozplugger package.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "126984" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T13:17:35.203", "id": "26801", "lastActivityDate": "2012-03-05T10:51:33.587", "lastEditDate": "2012-03-05T10:51:33.587", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "21987", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "3550", "parentId": "26796", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "13" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Evince is a GTK+ PDF and PS viewer to replace gpdf/xpdf/acroread and ggv, and it's open source. Using mozplugger you can embed all sorts of stuff into Mozilla and/or Firefox like media players and openoffice. </p>\n\n<p>First make sure you have Evince and mozplugger installed...
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2011-02-17T13:04:55.123
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<p>Is there a web front-end for <a href="http://irclogs.ubuntu.com">http://irclogs.ubuntu.com</a> that allows me to search through all the IRC chat logs?</p> <p>I tried to google for <code>site:irclogs.ubuntu.com +search-term</code> but that doesn't seem to work reliably.</p> <p>I'm <strong>not</strong> looking for a solution that fetches any of those files. :-)</p>
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2011-09-05T18:31:13.520
Is it possible to search through http://irclogs.ubuntu.com?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Currently, this is not possible.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2011-09-05T18:31:13.520", "id": "60137", "lastActivityDate": "2011-09-05T18:31:13.520", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1992", "parentId": "26798", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>IRSeek.com might help you find what you are looking for it logs the ubuntu IRC channels</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-07-04T10:18:14.583", "id": "57788", "postId": "26805", "score": "3", ...
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2011-02-17T13:20:12.517
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<p>First of all, the audio used to play from the speaker but whenever I connected a headphone or speaker in the I, the sound didn't came. So I installed a realtek sound driver to fix this (actually I didn't find any relevant driver for my sound card so I installed it hoping it would show some light)</p> <p>When I rebooted the system, my sound is completely gone and now ubuntu does not detect any sound devices in my system. I clearly installed wrong driver, now I need to remove and go to previous stage and find a correct driver.</p> <p>I downloaded the latest package from realtek website, extracted the tar.gz file and ran the install file inside the extracted directory from the terminal using command <code>sudo ./install</code></p> <p>My laptop is: Dell Studio 1747, uses a speaker Creative Labs Sound X-Fi MB Sound Blaster and the chipset is INTEL PM55.</p> <p>How can I fix this?</p>
9434
235
2011-02-19T22:57:04.743
2012-02-07T08:03:28.427
Sound Problem due to wrong driver installation
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6
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Finally, with lots of trouble.... with no sound, wrong-driver problem. I got the sound system working on mine.</p>\n\n<p>It was all about correct alsa option of hda-intel</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Follow Steps from <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto\" rel=\"nofollow\">this</a> to get started on what you need</li>\n<li>For my laptop specific, configuration as per <a href=\"http://www.linlap.com/wiki/dell+studio+17\" rel=\"nofollow\">this</a> page worked.</li>\n</ol>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2012-02-05T19:23:20.460", "id": "101687", "lastActivityDate": "2012-02-07T08:03:28.427", "lastEditDate": "2012-02-07T08:03:28.427", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "9434", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "9434", "parentId": "26802", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I am new to Ubuntu latest version 64 bit clean install. I had no sound for headphones. This is how I fixed it.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>left single click system settings (the icon looks like crescent-wrench in front of a gear)</p></li>\n<li><p>left single click sound.</p></li>\n<l...
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26803
1
26808
2011-02-17T13:27:48.413
4
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<p>I have installed MS Office 2007 via wine, which all works remarkably well.</p> <p>However, MS Office has now laid claim to any 'office' files on my computer. </p> <p>Is there a way to change the default application for a file type?</p>
2978
67346
2012-06-21T07:58:29.100
2012-08-30T15:18:13.010
Change default application for a File type
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3
0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Can't you just right click the file, properties > Open with, and move the mark to the program you wish to be default?</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-12-07T12:20:25.103", "id": "98402", "postId": "26808", "score": "1", "text": "On Oneiric the Proprierties doesn't allow to set a custom app to open the file.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "36987" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T13:45:32.213", "id": "26808", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T13:45:32.213", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "11006", "parentId": "26803", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Ubuntu-Tweak has a file type manager however to install it you will have to google for it and if you want to use it in natty you will need a ppa.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "cr...
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26804
1
26810
2011-02-17T13:31:27.957
0
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<p>Ive installed Microsoft office via wine. </p> <p>Office now believes that some non-office files (my .pub public key file for example) are office files. This understandable, i know .pub is the is the file type for Microsoft publisher files. </p> <p>In the case of my public key i can easily remove the file ending without any problems, but is this issue likely to cause problems anywhere else on my system?</p>
2978
null
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2011-02-17T13:52:10.670
Microsoft office incorrectly claims non office files
[ "microsoft-office" ]
2
1
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T13:36:43.877", "id": "29483", "postId": "26804", "score": "0", "text": "Why is Microsoft thinking your public key is a Publisher file bad? What negative behaviour is there?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8515" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>To be exact, Microsoft Office is claiming some Office file format extensions (like .doc, .docx, .pub etc.).</p>\n\n<p>That really shouldn't cause any problems, except for your user experience in graphical UI.</p>\n\n<p>To my knowledge, .pub is only problematic format. And that extension is not used by (any?) software. Certificates are .csr's, typically openssh files are not handled in Nautilus. Internally OpenSSH do not care about mimetypes or file extension associations.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T13:52:10.670", "id": "26810", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T13:52:10.670", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "10581", "parentId": "26804", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I think this will only affect files you open from nautilus (or other file managers), since the system opens files with given programs, like you would do from a terminal. </p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedD...
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26814
1
26815
2011-02-17T14:14:02.943
2
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<p>Is there a way to view IO stats based on process in Ubuntu. I have an ubuntu server 10.10 that every once and while will grind on the hdd's for 30 seconds, I'm trying to figure out what is causing that. Thanks in advance. All I'm running on it is mysql however it happens even when mysql is not under any load (no connections just idle).</p>
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2017-02-24T14:04:08.467
Display IO statistics for a process
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I use <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/iotop\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><code>iotop</code></a> (command line tool).</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install iotop\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T14:19:05.873", "id": "26815", "lastActivityDate": "2017-02-24T14:04:08.467", "lastEditDate": "2017-02-24T14:04:08.467", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "527764", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "6475", "parentId": "26814", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }
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26817
1
51536
2011-02-17T14:30:30.353
3
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<p>I just downloaded the ISO for Ubuntu 10.10 and burned it to CD. When I click Try Ubuntu, it starts up and then asks for Login info. I couldn't find anything on the website (though I didn't search very hard). Does anyone know what it is.</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> If I must ask the obvious question, then what is the username and password?</p>
11012
11012
2011-02-17T15:00:48.113
2013-06-07T23:16:17.447
Asks me to Login when I run from CD
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Yes, in some strange cases it may ask you for the login (which is a bug). </p>\n\n<p>But if it does, try using:</p>\n\n<p><strong>user</strong>: ubuntu, <strong>password</strong>: ubuntu</p>\n\n<p>or</p>\n\n<p><strong>user</strong>: ubuntu, <strong>password</strong>: (blank password)</p>\n\n<p>(note that both the login and password are case-sensitive). </p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2011-07-02T16:53:35.773", "id": "51536", "lastActivityDate": "2011-07-02T17:00:30.687", "lastEditDate": "2011-07-02T17:00:30.687", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "2647", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "705", "parentId": "26817", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>The liveCD have only account Ubuntu</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T20:52:09.833", "id": "29584", "postId": "26819", "score": "4", "text": "And it has no password and is set to auto...
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26818
1
26821
2011-02-17T14:39:37.753
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<p>I have this bash script;</p> <pre><code>for (( i = 1 ; i &lt;= 160 ; i++ )); do qsub myccomputations"${i}".pbs done </code></pre> <p>Basically, I would prefer if there was a 1 second delay between each iteration. The reason is that at each iterations, it sends the program file <code>mycomputation"${i}$.pbs</code> to a core node for solving. The motivation is that solving in this instance involves the use of pseudo random numbers and the RNG I use (R's) uses CPU time as seed.</p> <p>So how to you ask bash to </p> <pre><code>for (( i = 1 ; i &lt;= 160 ; i++ )); do wait 1 sec qsub myccomputations"${i}".pbs done </code></pre>
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2018-02-15T11:56:28.377
2018-02-15T11:56:28.377
How to make bash script run with a latency (i.e. wait 1 sec at each iterations)?
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Simply use <code>sleep 1</code> in Bash.</p>\n\n<pre><code>for (( i = 1 ; i &lt;= 160 ; i++ )); do\n sleep 1\n qsub myccomputations\"${i}\".pbs\ndone\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T14:49:07.000", "id": "29504", "postId": "26821", "score": "0", "text": "you can use floating point number if you want to sleep less than 1 second", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6475" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T14:46:02.853", "id": "26821", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T14:46:02.853", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "6475", "parentId": "26818", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "55" }
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26825
1
26837
2011-02-17T15:09:08.153
3
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<p>I was wondering what is the difference between the two item type in menu of Applications: "Application" and "Application in Terminal"?</p> <p>What kinds of applications are specified as "Application" and what kinds for "Application in Terminal"? </p> <p>This question is motivated from <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/26720/add-matlab-to-main-menu">my previous one</a>.</p> <p>Thanks!</p>
1471
-1
2017-04-13T12:24:13.310
2011-02-26T21:56:07.963
Item type in menu of Applications: "Application" or "Application in Terminal"?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Application is something with separate UI, for example calculator or GIMP.</p>\n\n<p>Application in Terminal is command line software, that should run inside of terminal emulator. Otherwise you can't interact with it. </p>\n\n<p>Basically, select Applucation for software with graphical user interface and Application in Terminal for command line utilities and scripts.</p>\n\n<p>You can test this with 'top', for example, create shortcut with and without terminal, and you can see the difference.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T16:41:29.333", "id": "29524", "postId": "26837", "score": "0", "text": "Thanks! But why I cannot specify Application type for the GUI version of my Matlab, but have to choose Application in Terminal for it? See my linked post http://askubuntu.com/questions/26720/add-matlab-to-main-menu .", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1471" }, { "creationDate": "2011-04-10T14:08:07.977", "id": "38319", "postId": "26837", "score": "0", "text": "What is the difference exactly? If I run `smplayer %U` in a terminal I get the same thing as the launcher only the theme is different. If I run `gedit %U` all the preferences are borked. Put another way, is it possible to replicate \"Application\" in the terminal? Looking at a .desktop file it says `#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open` at the beginning, but placing that before a command just opens the argument with a default application. Honestly I find this launcher business the most confusing aspect of running Ubuntu.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "10837" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T16:27:30.220", "id": "26837", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T16:27:30.220", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "10581", "parentId": "26825", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "2" }
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26829
1
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2011-02-17T15:27:41.750
2
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<p>I got <strong>WordPress</strong> up and running fine on <strong>Ubuntu 10.04</strong> by using <a href="http://www.ubuntugeek.com/installing-wordpress-3-0-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx.html/comment-page-3#comment-92106" rel="nofollow">this source</a> except that when I try to update and install themes/plugins I get this following error message in wp-admin page:</p> <blockquote> <p>Installing Plugin: WordPress.com Stats 1.8.1 Downloading install package from <a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/stats.1.8.1.zip" rel="nofollow">http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/stats.1.8.1.zip</a>…</p> <p>Unpacking the package…</p> <p>Could not create directory. /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/upgrade/stats.tmp/stats</p> <p>Actions: Return to Plugin Installer</p> </blockquote> <p>At first I thought I had to setup an FTP account but searched more and I found some information that says that I need to change the permissions of the wp-content folder which is located in the directory:</p> <pre><code>/var/www/wordpress/wp-content </code></pre> <p>I tried changing it by doing:</p> <pre><code>sudo chmod -R 777 wp-content/ </code></pre> <p>but when I tried installing a plugin I got the same error message. I also tried passing it <strong>755</strong> as a permission but still got the same thing. I settled on <strong>755</strong> because it is more secure I have read.</p> <p><strong>How can I solve this problem safely and securely?</strong></p>
11029
235
2011-02-17T19:02:25.007
2011-06-21T22:05:40.020
How come I can not install plugins on my local Wordpress install?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Did you read the README file into the .zip file :</p>\n\n<p><strong>== Installation ==</strong></p>\n\n<p>The automatic plugin installer should work for most people. Manual installation is easy and takes fewer than five minutes.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>Create a <code>stats</code>...
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26831
1
26832
2011-02-17T16:05:31.593
3
463
<p>Is there a way to print out my Tomboy notes?</p>
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2011-02-17T16:27:27.417
Is there a way to print notes from Tomboy?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>With a note open, click the tools (cog) icon and select <strong>Print</strong>.\n<img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/pueda.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\"></p>\n\n<p>If the option is not there, ensure printing support is enabled (it is by default):</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Edit > Preferences</li>\n<li>Add-ins tab</li>\n<li>Expand <strong>Desktop Integration</strong></li>\n<li>Select <strong>Printing Support</strong> and click <strong>Enable</strong>.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/cGIv0.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\"></p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T16:12:20.307", "id": "26832", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T16:27:27.417", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-17T16:27:27.417", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "3251", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "3251", "parentId": "26831", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "7" }
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26835
1
26883
2011-02-17T16:16:51.100
1
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<p>The "Put" functionality of CompizConfig Settings Manager is great. I'd like to be able to move windows to the desktop corners by using Super+Down/Up+Left/Right for this; is that possible? Whenever I try to set something like that it is just reset to "Disabled".</p> <p>A workaround is of course to use the numeric pad, but I'd like to be able to do this on my EEE laptop as well without enabling and disabling NumLock all the time.</p>
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2014-04-23T18:42:40.423
Compiz shortcut with two arrow keys
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>By design, it is not possible to create a keyboard shortcut that uses multiple non-<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifier_key\" rel=\"nofollow\">modifier keys</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Imagine you've created shortcuts for both <kbd>Super</kbd>+<kbd>Up</kbd> and <kbd>Super</kbd>+<kbd>Up</kbd>+<kbd>Left</kbd>. When you press <kbd>Super</kbd>+<kbd>Up</kbd>, how will the computer know whether to execute the shortcut or keep waiting for more keys?</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T20:17:43.140", "id": "26883", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T20:17:43.140", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1859", "parentId": "26835", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "2" }
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26839
1
82692
2011-02-17T17:00:03.413
0
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<p>How do I get the newest version of freewins compiz plugin working?</p> <p>It comes in a folder, but it has no Makefile?</p> <p>I am trying to get a nice multitouch compiz working, and to do so, I need this plugin.</p>
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2011-11-25T18:42:18.843
2012-03-23T02:02:46.027
How to get freewins plugin working in compiz?
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3
CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>This plugin is not longer supported, and when was being developed was very very buggy, and would cause a total system freeze. It also does not support input redirection, so if you rotate a window, the window becomes useless for anything but looking at it.</p>\n\n<p>I would suggest you not use it. Unity has grab handles now, and Ubuntu 11.04 and up supports multitouch, so if you use multitouch, rely on Unity in 11.04+ instead.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2011-11-25T18:48:12.733", "id": "82692", "lastActivityDate": "2011-11-25T18:48:12.733", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1992", "parentId": "26839", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
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26840
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2011-02-17T17:43:40.113
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<p><strong>Thanks to @Taylor and @Olli I fully revised my question.</strong></p> <p>Hi,</p> <p>I'm developing a windows application in ubuntu. Everything is fine. The only problem is that every web call I perform with <code>wininet.dll</code> is sent to localhost instead of target server.</p> <p>I have no idea what's the problem and how to force wininet.dll to resolve domain name correctly.</p> <p>I also created the hosts file in <code>~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts</code> and set domains and IPs manually; but did not help.</p> <p>Any idea?</p>
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1792
2011-02-17T18:28:22.757
2011-02-17T18:44:13.843
Wine: wininet.dll sends request for any domain to 127.0.0.1
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You can use <code>/etc/hosts</code> to do same thing. Format is at least almost the same, and there is examples in that file already in place.</p>\n", "commentCount": "4", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T18:05:23.817", "id": "29528", ...
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26842
1
26843
2011-02-17T17:54:00.937
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<p>I'm looking for minimal/alternate ISO image files of current unstable releases. Where can I find them?</p> <p>Furthermore, are the core packages in the command line installs stable enough for daily use?</p>
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2011-02-17T18:00:54.070
2011-02-17T18:00:54.070
Alternate ISO image for current unstable (alpha/beta) releases
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Milestone builds (Alphas and such) are always linked from:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.ubuntu.com/testing\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ubuntu.com/testing</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Daily builds of ISOs are available here:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>How usable they are isn't really answerable, it really depends on what's going in the archive that day, see this question for more info:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/871/when-are-questions-about-ubuntu1-appropriate\">When are questions about \"ubuntu+1\" appropriate?</a></li>\n</ul>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T18:17:08.203", "id": "29531", "postId": "26843", "score": "0", "text": "Thank you! I got what I was looking for - and if it's not too much of a bother, can you link me to the Natty Alpha 2's Unity meta-package as well? Googling never helps when looking for them.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "814" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T18:18:01.770", "id": "29533", "postId": "26843", "score": "0", "text": "it's just \"unity\"", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "235" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T18:00:33.633", "id": "26843", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T18:00:33.633", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "235", "parentId": "26842", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "5" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Milestone builds (Alphas and such) are always linked from:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.ubuntu.com/testing\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ubuntu.com/testing</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Daily builds of ISOs are available here:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://cdimage.ubuntu...
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1
26856
2011-02-17T18:15:48.907
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<p>I know file permissions have been covered on here before, but im struggling to get my head around the concept for my scenario. </p> <ul> <li>I created the files on an old ubuntu installation.</li> <li>Ive copied the files into my new ubuntu installation and put them in my webroot.</li> <li>When i attempt to run the files (theyre PHP files) i get an error relating to permissions</li> </ul> <p>in an attempt to fix this, i assumed that they must still be owned by the previous owner, so i ran <code>chown -R</code> on the directory, with my username as an argument, in order to take ownership of all of the files in the directory. It should be noted that the usernames between new and old ubuntu installations were the same. </p> <p>When i attempt to run the files again, same problem: 500 error due to permissions problems. Can anyone tell me what other steps i should take?</p> <p>The webroot for my apache installation is inside my home folder. If i create new files in my webroot, they also work as expected, its only the old files that are causing the problem.</p>
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6969
2011-02-19T11:31:19.080
2015-12-17T16:13:20.607
Permissions issue: how can Apache access files in my Home directory?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T18:47:08.130", "id": "29545", "postId": "26848", "score": "0", "text": "Ok, i have solved my problem of the files not executing, but i did it by simply running `chmod -R 777 dir` on the directory in question. I cant help thinking theres a better way of doing it thou...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The directories above your webroot should have the execute bit set to allow Apache descend into the directories.</p>\n\n<p>If you have your webroot located at <code>/home/user/htdocs</code>, the <code>/</code>, <code>/home</code>, <code>/home/user</code> and <code>/home/user/htdocs</code> should have the execute bit set.</p>\n\n<hr>\n\n<p>The above solution \"works\", but it's not ideal. If you've created a folder, Apache cannot write to it. The reverse happens too.</p>\n\n<p>This can be \"fixed\" by setting umask 0007 and adding yourself to the Apache group (www-data if I'm not mistaken), so that newly created files and folders are writeable by the group.</p>\n\n<p>Alternatively, you can install an alternative Apache MPM: <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/apache2-mpm-itk\">Apache2 MPM ITK</a> (<a href=\"http://mpm-itk.sesse.net/\">info on configuring</a>) and adjust the configuration so Apache runs under your user.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2012-08-16T21:46:44.563", "id": "218720", "postId": "26856", "score": "1", "text": "For explicit instructions on how to accmplish this see Marco's answer [below](http://askubuntu.com/a/64894/31658)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "31658" }, { "creationDate": "2012-08-16T22:04:27.347", "id": "218723", "postId": "26856", "score": "3", "text": "@hobs Even better, http://askubuntu.com/a/46371/6969", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6969" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T18:35:50.703", "id": "26856", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T18:42:13.020", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-17T18:42:13.020", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "6969", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "6969", "parentId": "26848", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "15" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The directories above your webroot should have the execute bit set to allow Apache descend into the directories.</p>\n\n<p>If you have your webroot located at <code>/home/user/htdocs</code>, the <code>/</code>, <code>/home</code>, <code>/home/user</code> and <code>/home/user/...
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26849
1
26857
2011-02-17T18:19:10.293
3
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<p>I know the title is confusing, because honestly it is hard to find the correct title. What I am asking is basically, in light of unity, ubuntu-one and other such projects, is Canonical/The Ubuntu Development team (correct me about the proper title :P) planning on more original software?</p> <p>For instance, Ubuntu is quickly becoming a strong ecosystem of it's own, but has to rely on a lot 3rd party software in various areas, which is fine (I love that), but sometimes this software has major shortcomings that Ubuntu inherits. Programs like Skype, (sorry I can find any other off hand examples) miss out in major areas, such as proper desktop integration. If Ubuntu has it's own client side software, then it could be better integrated and more appealing.</p> <p>Another example is backup. Ubuntu One is great for that, and getting better, but for example, Deja Dup is not installed be default, and even if it was, misses some integration features on Ubuntu (and will in the future as the ecosystem becomes more unique). This could be used as the basis for built in backup software of course, just with better integration with Ubuntu.</p> <p>In a nutshell then,</p> <ul> <li>Is there some kind of roadmap/blueprint governing the direction Ubuntu will take in the future regarding such software?</li> <li>How is Canonical planning to engage the community in the process of developing Ubuntu's wider software identity?</li> </ul> <p>(Sorry if my question seems confusing/like_a_rant/mixed_up)</p>
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2012-06-20T19:50:34.503
2012-06-20T19:50:34.503
What are the (possible) future plans for Ubuntu-izing 3rd party software (please read details)?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It's possible that your best bet for a heads up on this stuff is to follow the Ayatana mailing list here :\n<a href=\"https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/</a></p>\n\n<p>However that list focusses mostly on design, rather than straight software development roadmap.</p>\n\n<p>Given how UbuntuOne and UbuntuFont was developed offline then introduced into betas with little to no prior announcement, I'm guessing that some things are still decided behind closed doors at the Canonical offices (they are a company out to make money after all and their developers are paid to do a job).</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T18:47:12.437", "id": "29546", "postId": "26857", "score": "0", "text": "Well put answer :)! I agree that the developers need to do some things in private, so maybe it's best kept as is in some ways ^^. Thanks! (put my thinking in the right gear)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1992" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T18:50:23.123", "id": "29547", "postId": "26857", "score": "0", "text": "The Ayatana list is a real eye-opener really. They're a smart bunch of cookies, even if they overthink some stuff a little...", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "861" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T18:36:48.920", "id": "26857", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T18:36:48.920", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "861", "parentId": "26849", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>It's possible that your best bet for a heads up on this stuff is to follow the Ayatana mailing list here :\n<a href=\"https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/</a></p>\n\n<p>However that list focusses mostly on design, rather...
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26877
2011-02-17T18:24:35.750
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<p>I've just got my first 64-bit-capable laptop (previously I've only dealt with 64-bit on servers). Of course the first thing I am going to do is to format the hard drive and install Ubuntu instead of Vista, and the question is should I install 32-bit or 64-bit Ubuntu?</p> <p>Here are the details which can matter:</p> <p>CPU: Core 2 Duo 2 GHz, RAM: 3.45 GB. I am going to intensively use multitasking, virtualization (VirtualBox) and run memory-heavy Java, C# and native applications.</p> <p>I ask because my experience shows that 32-bit desktop systems usually work faster and consume less memory. And as far as I know (have read somewhere, never tried myself) 64-bit Java is known to be extremely RAM-wasting compared to 32-bit JRE.</p>
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2011-02-17T19:07:00.533
2013-04-26T18:52:13.583
Should I install 64-bit Ubuntu if my hardware supports it?
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T19:17:16.810", "id": "29550", "postId": "26851", "score": "0", "text": "I cannot answer why 32-bit system worked faster in your case, however 64-bit systems consuming more memory is probably because it processes more than 32-bit systems simply due to it's capability...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Points to consider:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>Because address space is larger, applications do consume more RAM. It's ralatively tiny but can be a deciding factor if RAM is the deciding factor (eg in a rented server). Desktop and even laptop RAM is cheap though.</p></li>\n<li><p>Native programmes do run faster but it's not always a tangible difference. For big things however (as you suggest you'll be doing) it can make a real difference.</p></li>\n<li><p>Compatibility is larely irrelevant these days. Flash is available and Sun Java works (there's even a native JRE that's fairly complete). You can run most pure 32bit binaries just fine, it's just a case of installing its dependencies.</p></li>\n<li><p>Security is not really a factor. 32bit kernels support NX bits and most of the touted features.</p></li>\n<li><p>Neither is the total memory limit unless you have processes that require more than 4GB of RAM. The PAE kernel works.</p></li>\n<li><p>You shoud also look to the future. I don't like to reinstall when I can help it. The future is 64 bit and its performance gains will only increase s GCC gets further extended register optimisations.</p></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>In balance, unless this was a very RAM-tight system with no scope for upgrade, I'd go 64 bit.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T06:31:51.743", "id": "29636", "postId": "26877", "score": "0", "text": "Some BIOSes can make the memory limit as low at 2GB of RAM on the 32bit kernels. In a pinch, though, you can always install the `-generic-pae` kernel to gain that memory and the hardware NX bit while still staying 32bit. I would agree with the overall answer: go 64bit. :)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "721" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T19:53:08.683", "id": "26877", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T19:53:08.683", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "449", "parentId": "26851", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "8" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I highly recommend 64 bit operating systems wherever possible. One of the biggest benefits is security, though you also get an increase in speed, the maximum supported memory, and a few other areas. For running Virtual systems, 64 bit systems tend to be a better fit :)!</p>\n...
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2011-01-01T18:23:12.660
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<p>Because it's almost obvious that either Thunderbird or Firefox freeze my whole system after some time, I'd like to not use FF at the moment and let Thunderbird run only for a short time as long as I check e-mails. Thunderbird web links should be opened with opera from now. For that I went in Thunderbird to Preferences->Advanced->General->Config Editor and set the following: </p> <pre><code>network.protocol-handler.app.http -&gt; /usr/bin/opera network.protocol-handler.app.https -&gt; /usr/bin/opera network.protocol-handler.warn-external.ftp -&gt; true network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http -&gt; true network.protocol-handler.warn-external.https -&gt; true </code></pre> <p>Moreover I changed in Gnome in System->Preferences->Preferred Applications Opera as web browser and I checked in FF that it should warn if FF is not the default browser (obviously it isn't anymore).<br> Unfortunately all of these settings doesn't work. Thunderbird still opens web links with FF.<br> Any explanations why? (I already restarted Thunderbird although I don't have to, but no effect)</p>
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2011-02-17T19:49:04.903
2011-12-08T07:42:34.437
How do I set Thunderbird to open links in Opera?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T21:21:13.457", "id": "29589", "postId": "26865", "score": "0", "text": "What is the output of these two commands? `update-alternatives --display gnome-www-browser`, `sh -x /usr/bin/sensible-browser www.google.com`?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "9340"...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>To always launch opera instead of firefox you can do the following:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>and choose the entry with opera.<br>\nIf the command says something like <code>There is only one alternative in link ...
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26868
1
26876
2011-02-17T19:26:16.350
3
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<p>I've just got a laptop with Intel GMA X4500HD card (which is said to be DirectX10-compliant, while my previous laptop had Intel 82852/855GM and no chance to play modern 3D games at all). It would be nice if I could play some games (like HalfLife 2, StarCraft 2, Fallout 3) from time to time (while I am ok using lo-fi settings and having low performance) but as I strongly prefer Ubuntu environment and don't need Windows usually I'd like to install Windows inside VirtualBox instead of using a dedicated partition and dual-boot. So the question is if VirtualBox can use 3D acceleration of Intel GMA X4500HD if run on Ubuntu.</p>
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2012-04-12T21:58:15.247
Will 3D games run in a VirtualBox4-hosted Windows system under Ubuntu with Intel GMA X4500HD card?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T20:10:51.353", "id": "29570", "postId": "26868", "score": "0", "text": "Just for information: you will have better performance with [Wine](http://www.winehq.org/), but this is not the point of your question.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6475" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>No you can't the 3D Driver that Virtualbox Uses it's not even capable of running the Aero interface in the virtual machines, the 3D it's just basic, and it can't directly access your GPU to provide full 3D support</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T19:47:49.403", "id": "26876", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T19:47:49.403", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "4203", "parentId": "26868", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>As far as I know it's not possible.Virtualbox emulated a graphic processor for your VM and you can not use your actual device.</p>\n\n<p>Read more here: 3D Acceleration Support - <a href=\"http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&amp;t=16&amp;start=0\" rel=\"nofollow\">...
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27735
2011-02-17T19:30:04.817
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<p>When I connect to a VPN, all my network traffic is automatically routed through it. Is there a way to add exemptions to that? I don't know if adding exceptions has anything to do with the VPN protocol, but the VPN I'm using is of the OpenVPN protocol.</p> <p>Speaking of OpenVPN, why is it not installed by default on Ubuntu installs, unlike PPTP?</p> <p>I could not get the list of IRCHighWay's servers, and this is the result I get trying to connect on XChat with running the bash script running:</p> <pre><code>* Looking up irc.irchighway.net * Connecting to irc.irchighway.net (65.23.153.98) port 6667... * Connected. Now logging in... * You have been K-Lined. * *** You are not welcome on this network. * *** K-Lined for Open proxies are not allowed. (2011/02/26 01.21) * *** Your IP is 173.0.14.9 * *** For assistance, please email banned@irchighway.net and include everything shown here. * Closing Link: 0.0.0.0 (Open proxies are not allowed. (2011/02/26 01.21)) * Disconnected (Remote host closed socket). </code></pre> <p>The IP 173.0.14.9 is the one due to my VPN. I had forgotten to check <code>ip route list</code> before running the script, and this is the one after running it:</p> <pre><code>~$ ip route list 99.192.193.241 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 173.0.14.9 173.0.14.2 via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 proto static 173.0.14.2 via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 src 192.168.1.3 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.3 metric 2 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth1 scope link metric 1000 default dev ppp0 proto static </code></pre> <p>Oh and running the script returned this output:</p> <pre><code>~$ sudo bash irc_route.sh Usage: inet_route [-vF] del {-host|-net} Target[/prefix] [gw Gw] [metric M] [[dev] If] inet_route [-vF] add {-host|-net} Target[/prefix] [gw Gw] [metric M] [netmask N] [mss Mss] [window W] [irtt I] [mod] [dyn] [reinstate] [[dev] If] inet_route [-vF] add {-host|-net} Target[/prefix] [metric M] reject inet_route [-FC] flush NOT supported </code></pre> <p>I ran the script after connecting to the VPN.</p>
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2019-12-01T15:44:19.750
2019-12-01T15:44:19.750
Exempt programs or domain from VPN connection
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CC BY-SA 4.0
[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-28T01:00:21.997", "id": "31484", "postId": "26870", "score": "1", "text": "The command that should be run is: `route add -host irc.irchighway.net gw 192.168.1.1`", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "10540" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-28T01:01:37.877"...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Create a file, irc_route.sh, that contains:</p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/bin/bash\n# script to make connections to irc.irchighway.net go via DEV.\nDEV=eth0 \nGW=$(ip route list | sed \"s/.* via \\([0-9.]*\\) dev $DEV.*/\\1/;t;d\"|head -1)\nroute add -host irc.irchighway.net gw $GW $DEV\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Change DEV to be the interface that you get your internet connection from (might be any of wlan0, eth1, eth0, ppp0). Then run the script with <code>sudo bash irc_route.sh</code>, you can check the results by running <code>ip route list</code> before and after.</p>\n\n<p>The IP of the default gateway for internet traffic on the DEV device is stored in the variable GW, which is then use to route all traffic going to the irc.irchighway.net server through your default GW instead of the OpenVPN connection you have.</p>\n\n<p>To make this work for all IRCHighWay servers you would have to get a list of all the servers.</p>\n\n<p>server_list.txt:</p>\n\n<pre><code> irc.irchighway.net\n caliburn.pa.us.irchighway.net\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Script:</p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/bin/bash\n# script to make connections to irchighway go via DEV.\nDEV=eth0 \nGW=$(ip route list | sed \"s/.* via \\([0-9.]*\\) dev $DEV.*/\\1/;t;d\"|head -1)\ncat server_list.txt| xargs -iSERVER route add -host SERVER gw $GW $DEV\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>There is an \"easier\" solution, you can mark ports and route based on that, see <a href=\"http://linux.wxs.ro/2008/02/19/iproute2/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">iproute2 tutorial</a> but I haven't used that. And there are some problems with that kind of routing if you don't know what you are doing.</p>\n", "commentCount": "4", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-25T10:35:50.930", "id": "31042", "postId": "27735", "score": "0", "text": "Isn't it possible to let IRC client deal with the servers? I mean when I connect normally it takes care of which server to connect to.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "814" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-25T11:15:58.633", "id": "31044", "postId": "27735", "score": "0", "text": "When do I run the script? Before activating VPN or after? And same goes to `ip route list`.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "814" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-26T08:32:48.283", "id": "31174", "postId": "27735", "score": "0", "text": "I updated my question with the result of trying out your script.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "814" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-28T00:57:07.427", "id": "31483", "postId": "27735", "score": "0", "text": "yes you can let irc client deal with the servers-", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "10540" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-23T13:46:30.770", "id": "27735", "lastActivityDate": "2011-03-13T18:24:13.897", "lastEditDate": "2011-03-13T18:24:13.897", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "814", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "10540", "parentId": "26870", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "8" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You can not hinder specific programs to make connections through the VPN, but if they want to reach a specific host or port number then it's possible. I'm going to assume worst case, that you want certain apps to bypass the firewall. </p>\n\n<p>This should be possible to do b...
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2011-02-17T19:38:01.053
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<p>I'm looking at different Nvidia cards and would like to know which are supported by the nouveau driver - is there a list of these available and the levels of support offered?</p>
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2011-02-17T19:44:37.257
2011-02-18T06:30:01.410
How can I find out which cards are supported by the nouveau driver?
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T19:45:32.370", "id": "29564", "postId": "26873", "score": "0", "text": "Supported in what way? By default Ubuntu uses the open-source driver, so basically it supports all the basic function of Nvidia cards.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "814" }, {...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Here is a list of Nvidia chipsets and supported features by the nouveau driver: <a href=\"http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix</a> </p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/m89zI.png\" alt=\"FeatureMatrix\"></p>\n\n<p>You can see the specific devices by clicking on the chipset name.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T01:11:03.280", "id": "29605", "postId": "26875", "score": "0", "text": "Looks like my card is actually pretty well supported.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "5" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T06:35:16.103", "id": "29637", "postId": "26875", "score": "0", "text": "Good for you.I installed Nvidia driver because of CUDA.I don't know if nouveau is better.Maybe I should test it!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "10494" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T19:45:20.217", "id": "26875", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-18T06:30:01.410", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-18T06:30:01.410", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "10494", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "10494", "parentId": "26873", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "8" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Here is a list of Nvidia chipsets and supported features by the nouveau driver: <a href=\"http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix</a> </p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/m89z...
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2011-02-17T19:38:55.233
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<p>I have 4 PCs running 10.10 and they all are configured with the same time servers. However, one of them was 6 minutes wrong and it obviously wasn't getting its time synchronized via the defined servers. I tried changing a few of those, but nothing short of a reboot would get its clock set properly. Any ideas what the problem may be?</p>
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2011-02-17T20:02:54.887
2011-06-29T07:18:54.663
Time server not being used
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T22:51:01.973", "id": "29738", "postId": "26874", "score": "0", "text": "What happens if you use ntpdate manually on the problem system?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8844" } ]
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Is there firewall preventing UDP traffic?</p>\n\n<p>Also, NTP typically corrects time very slowly. You can try stopping your ntpd and run something like</p>\n\n<pre><code>ntpdate pool.ntp.org\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>And see what it outputs. If it's something like</p>\n\n<blockqu...
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2011-02-17T19:55:46.340
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<p>I often connect to a network, that is open, but requires a key-pass authentication before used in a webpage. Is it possible to automate the authentication with a script?</p>
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2011-02-17T22:33:50.400
How to programatically sign into a hotspot-type network?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>What a fun problem.</p>\n\n<p>While I'm sure ændrük's answer would probably work, I'm slightly adverse to letting something dependant on desktop software manage the network availability.</p>\n\n<p>I would suggest you play around with <a href=\"http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Python's Mechanize library</a>. You can install it from the repositories via:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install python-mechanize\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Then get scripting. You need to start by finding out the stucture of the page you're submitting to. You need to find where you form comes and what fields need to be entered to submit. Once you know that, it's really as simple as just writing a quick little form parser and submitter. Mechanize does all the heavy lifting. Here's a quick example adapted from <a href=\"http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/forms.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">their docs on forms</a>:</p>\n\n<pre><code>import sys\nfrom mechanize import ParseResponse, urlopen, urljoin\n\n# replace this with the actual login page\n# you'll need to do some research\nuri = \"http://theloginpage.com/\"\n\nresponse = urlopen(uri)\nforms = ParseResponse(response, backwards_compat=False)\nform = forms[0]\nprint form\nform[\"username\"] = \"your username\"\nform[\"username\"] = \"password\"\n\n# form.click() returns a mechanize.Request object\n# (see HTMLForm.click.__doc__ if you want to use only the forms support, and\n# not the rest of mechanize)\nprint urlopen(form.click()).read()\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Depending on how their system works, this might be enough. You might have to tie in some cookie jarring to keep a session alive while they turn the connection on, but technically speaking, there's no argument why they should require that.</p>\n\n<p>Then you just need to tie this into the networking system so it gets called. Loading it from <code>/etc/network/if-up.d</code> should work but I suggest you prefix your code with a check to make sure you're really on the hotspot that your login works for.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T22:41:25.183", "id": "29596", "postId": "26904", "score": "0", "text": "Wonderful, I didn't know about mechanize. I'm excited to try it out.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1859" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T22:33:50.400", "id": "26904", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T22:33:50.400", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "449", "parentId": "26878", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "5" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Depending on the type of captive portal in place, you might be able to authenticate via a POST request sent using Wget (use <a href=\"https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tamper-data/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tamper Data</a> to learn what data needs to be sent) or by usin...
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/20280/ubuntu-one-sync-for-multiple-folders-in-windows-not-just-the-ubuntu-one-folder">Ubuntu One Sync for multiple folders in Windows, not just the Ubuntu One folder</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>Ubuntu one on windows beta, how can I set the synchronized folders? </p>
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2017-04-13T12:24:32.903
2011-06-21T07:50:57.840
Ubuntu One Windows beta: how can I set the synchronized folders?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I think you can't. It synchronizes <code>My Documents\\Ubuntu One</code>, but there is no settings for changing this or adding multiple locations.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "c...
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2012-09-01T05:10:25.430
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<p>I have ATI Graphics on my machine. </p> <p>I was trying to fix plymouth logo which was bad looking because of my graphics by following an <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-the-Big-and-Ugly-Plymouth-Logo-in-Ubuntu-10-04-140810.shtml" rel="nofollow">article on Softpedia</a>. Now I cannot login, because I have a blank blue screen.</p> <p>The drivers had installed flawlessly, once they were detected.</p>
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2011-02-17T21:08:50.653
2015-10-01T13:34:17.843
Blank blue screen after trying to fix plymouth logo
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T20:34:47.650", "id": "29575", "postId": "26884", "score": "0", "text": "Which one of these two solutions you used?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "52" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T20:47:23.957", "id": "29582", "postId": "26884", ...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>In this situation I would boot using a live cd and go through each step of the article to make sure it matches what you have done on your own machine if everything matches then remove the changes you have made to get back to a working installation.</p>\n\n<p>Hope this helps</...
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2011-02-17T20:33:33.990
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<p>I just did an installation from the 10.10 Desktop LiveCD, making the root volume an LVM LV.</p> <p>Apparently this is not supported; I managed it by taking these steps before starting the GUI installer app:</p> <ul> <li>installing the <code>lvm2</code> package on the running system</li> <li>creating an LVM-type partition on the system hard drive</li> <li>creating a physical volume, a volume group and a root LV using the LVM tools. I also created a second LV for <code>/var</code>; this I don't think is relevant.</li> <li>creating a filesystem (ext4) on each of the two LVs.</li> </ul> <p>After taking these steps, the GUI installer offered the two LVs as installation targets; I gladly accepted, also putting <code>/boot</code> on a primary partition separate from the LVM partition.</p> <p>Installation seemed to go smoothly, and I've verified that both the root and var volumes do contain acceptable-looking directory structures.</p> <p>However, booting fails; if I understood correctly what happened, I was dropped into a busybox running in the initrd filesystem.</p> <p>Although I haven't worked through the entirety of the grub2 docs yet, it looks like the entry that tries to boot my new system is correct:</p> <pre><code>menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.35-22-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { recordfail insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos3)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set $UUID_OF_BOOT_FILESYSTEM linux /vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=/dev/mapper/$LVM_VOLUME_GROUP-root ro quiet splash initrd /initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic } </code></pre> <p><em>Note</em> that $VARS are replaced in the actual <code>grub.cfg</code> with their corresponding values.</p> <p>I rebooted back into the livecd and have unpacked the initrd image into a temp directory. It looks like the initrd image lacks LVM functionality. For example, if I'm reading <code>/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/lvm2</code> (installed with <code>lvm2</code> on the livecd-booted system, not present on the installed one) correctly, an <code>lvm</code> executable should be situated in <code>/sbin</code>; that is not the case.</p> <p>What's the best way to remedy this situation? I realize that it would be easier to just use the alternate install CD, which apparently supports LVM, but I don't want to wait for it to download and then have to reinstall.</p>
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2022-10-25T16:17:08.103
Fixing unbootable installation on LVM root from Desktop LiveCD
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[ { "creationDate": "2022-10-25T16:17:08.103", "id": "2506253", "postId": "26886", "score": "0", "text": "I've fixed the issue and written the solution on my [blog](https://blog.isweluiz.com.br/2022/10/bug-cannot-unlock-encrypted-root-after.html), have a look you have the same issue. https://blog....
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You hit the problem right on the head: the initramfs does not have LVM support. Here's how to fix it:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Boot the LiveCD again</li>\n<li>Install <code>lvm2</code> again in the Live environment</li>\n<li><p>Bring up the Volume Group (if -a y does not work try -a yes)</p>\n\n<pre><code>vgchange -a y\n</code></pre></li>\n<li><p>Get the root LV, /boot, and /dev mounted under the separate tree</p>\n\n<pre><code>mkdir /newroot\nmount /dev/yourVG/rootLV /newroot\nmount /dev/yourbootpartition /newroot/boot\nmount -o bind /dev /newroot/dev\n</code></pre></li>\n<li><p>Copy the needed packages into the /newroot tree</p>\n\n<pre><code>cp /var/cache/apt/archives/*deb /newroot/tmp/\n</code></pre></li>\n<li><p>Chroot into the new tree and install the packages</p>\n\n<pre><code>chroot /newroot\ncd /tmp\ndpkg -i *.deb\n</code></pre></li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>At this point, things should be back to normal (since the initramfs will be regenerated when lvm2 is installed). If not, you can play with running <code>update-initramfs -u</code> inside the chroot.</p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T15:58:45.570", "id": "29702", "postId": "26936", "score": "0", "text": "What's the reason for bind-mounting /dev?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3865" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T01:49:40.600", "id": "29763", "postId": "26936", "score": "0", "text": "I added /dev in case grub got re-run and wanted to figure out where boot drives were located. I used dpkg in the case that networking is not up or otherwise weird inside the chroot. If networking does work, I recommend \"apt-get\" over \"aptitude\" since it does better dep resolution these days.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "721" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T13:48:08.293", "id": "29857", "postId": "26936", "score": "0", "text": "Thanks for the tip about `apt-get`, it's hard to keep track of what's what. Do you have a link to more info on that?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3865" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T06:28:53.540", "id": "26936", "lastActivityDate": "2016-05-17T10:11:21.593", "lastEditDate": "2016-05-17T10:11:21.593", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "472215", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "721", "parentId": "26886", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "10" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>After installing the system to the hard disk, you need to install lvm2 into that system before it can boot. If you installed lvm2 on the livecd, then the packages will still be in /var/cache/apt/archives. Change to that directory, mount the hard disk, and install the packag...
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2011-02-17T20:33:46.620
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<p>I have used a tool that calculates the minimal set of packages you can install to get the current set of packages you have. This is different than telling you what your selections are. It literally finds the shortest list of packages that will, through dependencies, give you what you currently have.</p> <p>I forgot where to find this tool. What is it called?</p>
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2012-04-19T16:43:32.100
Find minimal equivalent of packages currently installed
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p><code>aptitude</code> can get you most of the way with its search feature. Here's how you find everything installed that wasn't only an automatic dependency:</p>\n\n<pre><code>aptitude search -F \"%p\" \"?installed ?not(?automatic)\"\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>This wont be optimal some of these may be able to be removed but I don't know a simple way to work that out. Perhaps the answer lies in <code>man aptitude</code>.</p>\n\n<p>On second thought, with that list you could loop through it and find the dependant packages (not dependencies) for each one. If one of those is in the master list, remove the current package from the list... but only after you've parsed the whole list or you'll miss intermediates in a 3+ level dep tree.</p>\n\n<p>You find dependants with a query like this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>aptitude search '~i~Dpackage'\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>I'd try and write the script but I'm typing this on a tiny phone keyboard. Even I have limits.</p>\n\n<p>Edit: After five minute of trying to sleep, I started hacking away on this. something like this should do the job:</p>\n\n<pre><code>orig=$(aptitude search -F \"%p\" \"?installed ?not(?automatic)\")\nnewlist=\"\";\nfor p in $orig; do\n depended=0;\n for dependant in `aptitude search -F \"%p\" \"~i~D$p\"`; do\n if [[ $orig == \"* $dependant *\" ]]; then\n depended=1;\n fi;\n done;\n if [[ $depended == 0 ]]; then\n newlist=\"$newlist $p\";\n fi;\ndone;\necho $newlist\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Note this takes a <em>really</em> long time to run and it might be over-keen (eg it will remove thing that you manually installed, that you want to be manually installed, if they are depended on by something else in the $orig list that you perhaps installed afterwards).</p>\n", "commentCount": "4", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-20T14:46:15.677", "id": "30052", "postId": "26907", "score": "0", "text": "Wait, what? Running this will remove all the packages I installed?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "814" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-20T15:32:32.533", "id": "30058", "postId": "26907", "score": "0", "text": "No. The second route will remove non-auto things from the outputted list if something else in the list depends on it. So it might not be accurate. It doesn't actually remove anything from the system.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "449" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-21T14:44:05.500", "id": "30233", "postId": "26907", "score": "0", "text": "Oh, I see. I want to find out the least package I need to install for all the packages I got for minimal Ubuntu. Will there be any auto packages listed? And I don't want the recommended dependencies of my packages either.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "814" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-21T15:12:13.677", "id": "30235", "postId": "26907", "score": "0", "text": "@Toki That's the aim of the second part script... It aims to hide anything that is depended on by anything else in the list. But as I say, it's very slow (because it hammers aptitude for every dependency). If in doubt, the first one will do the job and do it quickly.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "449" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T23:30:11.367", "id": "26907", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-18T00:12:38.273", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-18T00:12:38.273", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "449", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "449", "parentId": "26887", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }
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2011-02-17T20:47:00.710
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<p>How can I find a list of every file that is modified or added outside the debian package management system?</p> <p>Cruft is unmaintained and doesn't know about the way today's debian package management tools, etc work. For instance, it misses postinst created files and logs that are actually listed as handled by a package and have not been modified since installation date/time.</p>
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2011-02-17T21:58:35.240
How to find and back up only files not part of a package
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Cannot understand why you want to backup such files, but you can have such a list with a command like this:</p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/bin/bash\nexport LC_COLLATE=C\njoin -v1 &lt;(find / -mount | sort) &lt;(cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | sort -u)\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCou...
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2011-02-17T20:59:05.877
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<p>I ave been told that for RAID configurations you don't what to use standard desktop drives because they when/if they enter a error recovery mode they might time out and get dropped from the raid.</p> <p>Is this true for LVM software RAID or this this a hardware RAID issue primarily?. We are running this server primarily as a backup server and would like to take advantage of the lower price of the desktop drives.</p>
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2012-07-09T13:12:22.893
2012-07-09T13:12:22.893
Is Error Recovery Control or TLER necessary for software RAID5 using LVM
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>No. The whole TLER thing is for stupid hardware raid cards that drop the drive if it does not respond quickly. Software raid does not suffer from such foolishness.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T02:07:39.490", "id": "26919", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-18T02:07:39.490", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "8500", "parentId": "26891", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "0" }
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2011-02-17T21:02:28.447
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<p>I'm having a problem with the clock drifting on my PC. I'M running</p> <ul> <li><p>Ubuntu 10.10 on an somewhat crusty IBM e-server (1.5GB RAM, 2.4GHz CPU)</p></li> <li><p>ntpd is running (started at run level 2)</p></li> <li><p>servers are defined:</p> <pre><code>server 1.us.pool.ntp.org server 2.us.pool.ntp.org server 3.us.pool.ntp.org server time.nrc.ca server ntp1.cmc.ec.gc.ca server ntp2.cmc.ec.gc.ca server wuarchive.wustl.edu server clock.psu.edu </code></pre></li> </ul> <p>Looking at the log file, it would seem that the ntp daemon is running, but the system clock never seems to be set, however. </p> <p>If I manually set the time from a Casio "atomic" watch, the date/time displayed by the Clock applet drifts out of sync over time.</p> <p>Looking at the log file (below) it would seem the ntp daemon started ok and is running.</p> <p>So I am totally flummoxed right now :-(</p> <p>Here's <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/568449/">a copy of my <code>ntp.log</code> file</a>.</p>
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2011-02-17T22:41:27.747
2019-07-29T15:18:43.300
Clock drift even though NTPD running
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-17T22:46:47.177", "id": "29597", "postId": "26892", "score": "0", "text": "Can you post your whole ntp.conf file? What do you get if you run the \"ntpq\" command and type \"peers\"?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "11040" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>NTP daemons don't want to do a sudden massive jump in system time. For one, it borks the chronology of entries in your log files, system daemons might freak out, etc. What it does instead is \"drift\" your system clock into place. If you want to check how far off from \"the actual time\" you are you can query an ntp server:</p>\n\n<pre><code>ntpdate -q pool.ntp.org\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>NTP works by adjusting the length of a second on your system by a slight bit so that you slowly get the correct time. It can take a while for the drift to happen if your offset is high. What you can do though is force a hard sync once:</p>\n\n<pre><code>service ntp stop\nntpdate pool.ntp.org\nservice ntp start\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Edit: in response to the comments below.</p>\n\n<p>Set this line up in /etc/default/ntpdate</p>\n\n<pre><code>NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=yes\n</code></pre>\n\n<hr>\n", "commentCount": "5", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T14:25:34.560", "id": "29692", "postId": "26940", "score": "0", "text": "I tried the ntpdate -q and got an interesting message `18 Feb 08:24:30 ntpdate[13940]: no server suitable for synchronization found`. So now I'm wondering if there is something blocking my ability to sync the clock; corporate firewall rules perhaps?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "11032" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T14:30:12.293", "id": "29693", "postId": "26940", "score": "0", "text": "Hmm - I tried the same on my _Asus eee 900 netbook_ (also with Ubuntu 10.10) and I get the same message while connected to the corp network. I'll try again later from a Starbucks or home and see if I get the same results.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "11032" }, { "creationDate": "2013-01-02T00:25:19.160", "id": "291992", "postId": "26940", "score": "2", "text": "**Correction.** Should be: **/etc/default/ntpdate**", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "34576" }, { "creationDate": "2013-01-02T02:30:32.613", "id": "292018", "postId": "26940", "score": "0", "text": "NTPDATE does not appear to honour the setting: **NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=yes** in the config file (/etc/default/ntpdate).", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "34576" }, { "creationDate": "2017-05-16T14:33:47.277", "id": "1443307", "postId": "26940", "score": "0", "text": "@tim-bielawa That's very interesting, I hadn't thought of it that way. Could you point to a definitive resource where I could find out more about how NTPD corrects system time? Thanks in advance.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "111294" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T06:42:42.913", "id": "26940", "lastActivityDate": "2019-07-29T15:18:43.300", "lastEditDate": "2019-07-29T15:18:43.300", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "951581", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "2263", "parentId": "26892", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "7" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>NTP daemons don't want to do a sudden massive jump in system time. For one, it borks the chronology of entries in your log files, system daemons might freak out, etc. What it does instead is \"drift\" your system clock into place. If you want to check how far off from \"the a...
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26894
1
26899
2011-02-17T21:23:03.130
5
3831
<p>In Windows XP, I right click on <em>my computer</em>, select <em>manage → Disk management</em>, right click on the Ubuntu partition and choose <em>Delete logical drive</em>.</p> <p>Can I remove Ubuntu like this? If not please suggest a way.</p> <p>Note: I want to remove ubuntu 10.10 and setup Suse 11.3 instead.</p>
11034
18612
2012-03-06T07:31:18.937
2012-03-06T07:31:18.937
How can I remove Ubuntu from my dual-boot and replace it with another distribution?
[ "uninstall" ]
2
0
CC BY-SA 3.0
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>There is no need to remove Ubuntu before you install openSUSE; Its installer will offer you to use the old Ubuntu partition on the hard drive.</p>\n\n<p>If you want to check which hard drive and partition this is, in Ubuntu, go to <em>System → Administration → Disk Utility</em>. Find your hard disk and parition and look for the \"device\" field. The openSUSE installer will let you install there, and wipe out all of the data that was there before. It will also install a new boot-loader and detect all of the operating systems on your computer. </p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-17T21:45:30.787", "id": "26899", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-17T21:45:30.787", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1067", "parentId": "26894", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>This way, your bootloader will be erased and you can not boot window$ anymore.If you want to do this you must repair your window$ installation after deleting the partition.</p>\n\n<p>The easiest way for you is formatting the ubuntu partition in suse installation process.So yo...
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26896
1
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2011-02-17T21:27:42.423
4
5595
<p>I bought a KVM switch and I'm trying to use it to have it connected to my main PC (win7) and my new machine I just installed ubuntu on. I hooked it up properly, and tried using it. It worked when switching from the win7 machine to the ubuntu one, but after the (1st and only) successful switch, ubuntu just didn't seem to recognize my mouse or keyboard.</p> <p>Basically when I tried it the easiest was to explain what happened was it only worked with Win7. When I switched over to ubuntu by doing a [scroll-lock] [scroll-lock], my keyboard and mouse were not recognized. However, the lights on the keyboard and mouse did work when on ubuntu, but they didn't function, and since keyboard wouldn't function, I couldn't do a [scroll-lock] [scroll-lock] to switch back to the win7 machine. So I was basically locked in to ubuntu with no mouse or keyboard, and I had to unplug the keyboard/mouse USB's and d-sub to plug the monitor d-sub back into win7 computer to type up this thread and google the issue. Seems some people have had this issue before but I couldn't find a fix... </p> <p>I am 80% sure it has to do with drivers... <em>but there isn't any for KVM switches, at least not this one</em> also I never was unable to find ubuntu drivers/firmware for my mouse and keyboard (Logitech G15 and Razer Deathadder 3500). I don't know how to fix this, perhaps someone super-savvy could write/code a script or work-around or something? I really need to get this thing working, my back is getting sore from bending over and plugging in / unplugging USB/monitor/USB/monitor/USB/USB over and over again lol... And I really would be sad if the constant plugging unplugging of the USB's or the d-sub port would over time damage the ports... I don't want that... </p> <p>There has to be some way to get this working... Can anyone help?</p> <p>The KVM is an IOGEAR GCS632U</p> <p>Win7 x64 Ubuntu 10.10</p>
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23382
2011-10-18T18:04:08.597
2012-02-25T00:46:51.333
How can I get my IOGear GCS632U KVM switch to work?
[ "10.10", "kvm-switch" ]
1
2
CC BY-SA 3.0
[ { "creationDate": "2012-02-25T03:07:59.070", "id": "125501", "postId": "26896", "score": "0", "text": "Has the OP abandoned the question", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "46312" }, { "creationDate": "2012-02-25T09:45:05.393", "id": "125577", "postId": "26896", "sc...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I would check with IOGEAR. Product Info:\nPre-Sales product questions / product information: support@iogear.com</p>\n\n<p>According to them:\nThe mouse and keyboard console ports on the GCS632U are hardwired for their particular device. These ports emulate the generic connect...
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2012-02-25T09:45:12.227
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user11036
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2011-02-17T22:18:45.703
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<p>I have a 10.04 server and I have installed gnome-desktop on it so that I can do some of work in a nicer way. I connect to gdm remotely via XDMCP (Hummingbird Exceed) but at the same time I want the console to remain in text mode. Is there a way to do this? Thanks!</p>
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2011-09-21T18:28:17.267
Make GDM accessible only remotely via XDMCP, while console remains in text mode
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1
CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-09-11T00:20:13.983", "id": "69626", "postId": "26902", "score": "0", "text": "Do you mean a local console, a console via a VM control center, etc.? Are you looking for speed, stability, etc. with the text-only console?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8844" ...
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I don't believe there is currently, the XDMCP protocol is there for remote logins for thin client machines and that's how the functionality is implemented.</p>\n\n<p>What is it you need gdm to do? I just wrote a gdm greeter.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": []...
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user11039
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1
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2011-02-17T22:58:28.693
4
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<p>I have a phone (an HTC Hero) and when I plug it into my computer, Shotwell shows me my photos and some other files that are on some applications folders that I don't want to import.</p> <p>Everytime I unselect these photos, but a better solution would be to exclude these folders from being scanned by shotwell.</p> <p>Any suggestions on how to do this please?</p>
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6450
2011-02-18T11:26:08.677
2011-02-21T20:30:38.960
Exclude folders from being scanned by shotwell
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CC BY-SA 2.5
[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T10:48:18.403", "id": "29664", "postId": "26906", "score": "0", "text": "Does making the folder Hidden stop it from being scanned eg adding a period to the beginning of the folder name", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6450" } ]
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>This is actually an issue with gphoto2, the library Shotwell relies on to work with digital cameras. I've reported this <a href=\"https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&amp;aid=3000202&amp;group_id=8874&amp;atid=108874\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug here</a>. </p>\n\n<p>Our ow...
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26908
1
26951
2011-02-17T23:52:09.697
10
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<p>I'm adding menu items to an appindicator in pygtk. I don't want them to behave like ordinary menu items: I want them to have normal appearance, but not to respond to mouse hovers and mouse clicks. The way I imagine <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/some-natty-sound-menu-updates/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the new sound menu will behave</a>.</p> <p>In other words, I want to prevent the MenuItem selection that's going on below:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DUMrT.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>How do I go about doing that? What events should I swallow, or is there a better way?</p>
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9781
2011-10-10T19:30:04.757
2011-10-10T19:30:04.757
How do I make a rich menu for an appindicator?
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Unfortunately, appindicator doesn't allow adding custom widget, as it requires GObject introspection. This will be available when <code>ido</code> package will have GObject instrospection.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ido/+bug/582985\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bug report</a> </p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T16:57:32.453", "id": "29705", "postId": "26951", "score": "3", "text": "I've been able to add alignments, labels, and images; as well as listen for (some) signals on those items.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "252" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T07:28:09.107", "id": "26951", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-18T07:28:09.107", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "9693", "parentId": "26908", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }
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2011-02-17T23:54:15.003
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<p>I am just wondering..... Why is there no battery icon? It's hard to work without any battery status around.</p> <p>I am using Maverick, and the GNOME3 files came from git.</p>
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2011-02-18T22:53:48.387
2011-11-12T01:27:40.243
GNOME Shell Battery Icon missing
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Try going to \"Power Management\" and over to the \"General\" tab, and make sure something other than \"Never display an icon\" is chosen.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/ct0QM.png\" alt=\"Power Management Window\"></p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comment...
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2011-12-05T16:53:17.767
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26911
1
26924
2011-02-18T00:22:31.120
4
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<p><em>Background</em></p> <p>I have a Squeezebox, and am running the Server on my (Natty) machine. This server scans my music directory and adds all files found therein to the server's library, to be streamed over the network to the devices.</p> <p><em>Problem</em></p> <p>There's a problem though — not all of my files are recognised due to the server's tag parser being buggy. I've filed a bug upstream about this.</p> <p><em>Question</em></p> <p>To fix this problem, I'd like to erase and rewrite the ID3 tags on my MP3s. Ideally I don't want any of the tags to change. Do you know of a program or script which can do this? Somehow iterate over all of my files and save their metadata, then erase it from the file leaving just the audio before writing it back. I'm trying to avoid writing a script to do this myself (although I will do if nobody knows a program/can come up with one). Hopefully this clean rewrite will then be accepted by the server. If not, well, at least we tried.</p>
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2016-09-07T02:41:47.937
2016-09-07T02:41:47.937
Erase and rewrite MP3 ID3 tags
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Picard is an amazing program, highly recommend it. +1 to ssweeny's rec.</p>\n\n<p>However, if you just want to rewrite all existing tags, I think <a href=\"http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Ex Falso</a> (<a href=\"http://appnr.com/install/exfalso\" rel=\"noreferrer\">apt link</a>) and <a href=\"http://appnr.com/install/libid3\" rel=\"noreferrer\">id3convert (apt)</a> will better suit your needs. You might be able to do this all in Ex Falso, but I like <em>knowing</em> the original tags were removed.</p>\n\n<p>Incidentally, Ex Falso has a plugin to tag via MusicBrainz just like Picard.</p>\n\n<h2>Process</h2>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Use Ex Falso to rename all your files using the fields you want to keep (tip: hit \"Preview\", then \"Save\").</li>\n<li>Delete all your tags: <code>find . -type f -iname '*.mp3' -exec id3convert -s {} \\;</code></li>\n<li>Check to see tags are really gone: <code>id3info example.mp3</code></li>\n<li>Use Ex Falso to retag based on the file names or MusicBrainz.</li>\n</ol>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/r1qXM.png\" alt=\"Ex Falso renaming files\"></p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-21T13:57:20.647", "id": "30229", "postId": "26924", "score": "0", "text": "Cheers, I'm going to mark this as the answer — it did what I asked for, but unfortunately that didn't fix the problem :( Silly Squeezebox", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6683" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-21T22:15:57.890", "id": "30316", "postId": "26924", "score": "0", "text": "Maybe it's a problem with tags written at the end vs beginning of the file? I don't know if ExFalso lets you choose, but I know Foobar2k does. You could install fb2k in wine, strip the tags again, and experiment with the order.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8515" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-28T13:24:07.910", "id": "31553", "postId": "26924", "score": "0", "text": "I just used mp3gain to normalise the mp3s (and thereby rewrite the data), and now they work. Oh well.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6683" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T02:50:21.450", "id": "26924", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-18T03:34:25.780", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-18T03:34:25.780", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "8515", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "8515", "parentId": "26911", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "7" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>For a task like this I recommend <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/picard\" rel=\"nofollow\">MusicBrainz Picard</a> (<a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/picard\" rel=\"nofollow\">apt link</a>)</p>\n\n<p>It allows easy manipulation of MP3 tags, and will even query the MusicBr...
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26912
1
26930
2011-02-18T00:33:27.587
2
2361
<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/994/can-i-sync-with-my-iphone-4-and-ipad">Can I sync with my iPhone 4 and iPad?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I am mainly curious about my Music and Contacts...</p>
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-1
2017-04-13T12:23:27.200
2012-02-21T09:43:50.407
How can I sync an iPad?
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1
CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can use <a href=\"http://banshee.fm/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Banshee</a>. It will be default in 11.04, but for now you can see <a href=\"http://banshee.fm/download/\" rel=\"nofollow\">how to install</a> it from their website.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T05:18:02.690", "id": "26930", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-18T05:18:02.690", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "4695", "parentId": "26912", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
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2012-02-21T09:33:10.607
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2011-02-18T00:45:02.317
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<p>below is the error and corresponding script lines:</p> <pre><code>spec@Lucifer:~/Documents/seagull.svn.LINUX$ ./build.ksh ./build.ksh: 36: typeset: not found ./build.ksh: 39: typeset: not found ./build.ksh: 44: function: not found Command line syntax of - options -exec &lt;RELEASE|DEBUG&gt; : mode used for compilation (default RELEASE) -target &lt;all|clean|force|dist&gt; : target used for compilation (default all) -help : display the command line syntax ./build.ksh: 52: function: not found ERROR: spec@Lucifer:~/Documents/seagull.svn.LINUX$ </code></pre> <p><strong>Script</strong></p> <pre><code># Init of variables BUILD_TARGET=${BUILD_DEFAULT_TARGET} BUILD_EXEC=${BUILD_DEFAULT_EXEC} typeset -u BUILD_OS=`uname -s | tr '-' '_' | tr '.' '_' | tr '/' '_' ` BUILD_CODE_DIRECTORY=code BUILD_DIRECTORY=`pwd` typeset -u BUILD_ARCH=`uname -m | tr '-' '_' | tr '.' '_' | tr '/' '_' ` BUILD_VERSION_FILE=build.conf BUILD_DIST_MODE=0 BUILD_FORCE_MODE=0 </code></pre>
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2011-02-20T12:41:44.987
2011-07-13T03:09:20.380
typeset: not found error when executing shell script. Am I missing a package or something?
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3
CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>As far as I can see, you are using the ksh (Korn SHell) shell (at least I have that suspect because of filename \"build.ksh\"). Note, that different shells have different syntaxes, I am not sure ksh does know \"typeset\" at all, I am not sure about this one, since I am not us...
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user11045
26916
1
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2011-02-18T01:14:05.183
0
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<p>So there are a lot of AVI files who have 2 audio files embedded. I want to remove the 6 channels and only keep 2 channels because i want it to play on my XBOX360. On windows this task is very easy as there are specific apps for this. Does Linux Ubuntu have these apps? If not, what can I do to make sure this happens and I get the result I want. </p>
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2012-02-25T03:49:48.800
2013-04-08T02:40:23.300
Edit Audio: Delete a 6+2 channel audio to 2 Channel only
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0
CC BY-SA 2.5
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Even when this question seems to be related to audio, you are referring to an AVI, which is indeed a video file.</p>\n\n<p>However, transcodification can be done by several applications which features GUI and command line.</p>\n\n<p>I prefer -of course- those which feature a ...
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1
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2011-02-18T04:40:47.350
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/7578/unlock-keyring-promts-three-times-instead-one-time">Unlock keyring promts three times instead one time</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>Whenever I turn on my computer, I would expect the keyring to ask for my password once. But it asks it 3 different times and for the same Default key ring. It really annoys me. How can I stop this from happening?</p>
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-1
2017-04-13T12:25:03.423
2011-03-29T18:49:41.363
How to disable Multiple Keyring Popups?
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3
CC BY-SA 2.5
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2011-03-30T16:31:01.850
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1
26933
2011-02-18T05:42:06.477
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/22265/updating-ubuntu-server-from-8-10-to-10-04">Updating Ubuntu server from 8.10 to 10.04</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I'm in a plan to upgrade ubuntu 8.10 vbox vm servers to LTS(obviously 10.04) as 8.10 has no support. As far as I know I'll be executing the following to upgrade:</p> <pre><code>apt-get install update-manager-core do-release-upgrade </code></pre> <p>anybody could tell me how could I upgrade a ubuntu server from alternate iso image(Is the alternate iso image used for desktop editons the same used for servers?)?</p> <p>I heard it's possible to upgrade an LTS directly to another LTS and how could I do this after upgrading 8.10 to 9.04 then directly to 10.04 skipping 9.10?</p> <p>8.10 servers are hosting many services/applications/databases like apache2, tomcat6, ldap, mysql, cvs... and I'm not sure that all of them work as ever after the upgrade. If there is any precautions that I've to following before upgrading, please anyone let me know(ofcourse backup and I'm not going to take backup as I will be trying this on a copy of vdi/vmdk vms)</p> <p>Thanks!</p>
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2017-04-13T12:23:44.677
2011-02-18T06:17:54.890
Upgrading 8.10 server to LTS
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>LTS to LTS upgrades are supported, so you could go from 8.04 to 10.04 directly. However, since you're on 8.10, you would need to upgrade to 9.04, then 9.10, then to 10.04. The primary problem, however, is that 8.10 is extremely out of date. 9.04 is already end-of-life, and 9.10 will be end-of-life in April. This means it will not be easy to upgrade normally.</p>\n\n<p>This was asked here, too:\n<a href=\"https://askubuntu.com/questions/22265/updating-ubuntu-server-from-8-10-to-10-04\">Updating Ubuntu server from 8.10 to 10.04</a></p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T06:25:47.717", "id": "29634", "postId": "26933", "score": "0", "text": "Oh... so it's not sure that I could upgrade. I'm out of idea what to do!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3215" }, { "creationDate": "2011-03-29T16:02:30.390", "id": "36529", "postId": "26933", "score": "0", "text": "Of course not solved as it's not possible, just wanted to close this post", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3215" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T06:17:54.890", "id": "26933", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-18T06:17:54.890", "lastEditDate": "2017-04-13T12:24:13.310", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "-1", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "721", "parentId": "26931", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
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<p>I have installed lucid on my Lenevo Laptop (Y 410 series , x86 platform) and it is working fine. Now I have compiled kernel 2.6.37 downloaded from the kernel tree. I followed usual procedure of compiling kernel (<code>make menuconfig</code>, <code>make</code>, <code>make modules</code> etc). Then I created the initrd image using <code>mkinitramfs</code> and updated my grub using <code>update-grub</code> command.</p> <p><code>update-grub</code> detects the initrd image of the compiled kernel. However when I boot from this kernel it gives me following error:</p> <pre><code>Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?) - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?) - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) ALERT! root=UUID=/... does not exist. Dropping to a shell! BusyBox v1.19.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.10.3-7ubuntu1.1) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a lost of built-in commands. (initramfs) </code></pre> <p>and then it falls onto initramfs prompt.</p> <p>I have tried following solutions discussed in different Ubuntu forums:</p> <ol> <li>disable uuid and point root=/dev/sda8 (sda8 is where my kernel image resides (both default kernel and compiled one) from /etc/default/grub</li> <li>compile kernel using CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1435968" rel="nofollow" title="suggested here">suggested here</a> Still I am unable to boot from the compile kernel.</li> </ol> <p>Could someone please suggest me the solution?</p>
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2014-02-18T14:04:42.617
2015-08-11T05:06:21.527
Boot error for custom compiled kernel - gave up waiting for root device
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<p>Besides a number of other issues, I still cannot enable Compiz or any effects with Maverick on a Thinkpad X201. I understand this laptop is supported by Ubuntu, yet I have found a good number of posts reporting problems. I would like to know if they have been solved by now.</p> <blockquote> <p>Processor: 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 540 @ 2.53GHz</p> <p>Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)</p> <p>OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Mobile GEM 20100330 DEVELOPMENT</p> <p>2.6.35-27-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP</p> </blockquote> <p>Here are further details on some of the failures after another clean install:</p> <blockquote> <p>[...] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: failed to get i915 symbols, graphics turbo disabled</p> <p>[...] pulseaudio[1550]: module.c: Failed to load module &quot;module-alsa-card&quot; (argument: &quot;device_id=&quot;29&quot; name=&quot;platform-thinkpad_acpi&quot; card_name=&quot;alsa_card.platform-thinkpad_acpi&quot; tsched=yes ignore_dB=no card_properties=&quot;module-udev-detect.discovered=1&quot;&quot;): initialization failed.</p> <p>[...] gdm-session-worker[1542]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed</p> <p>[...] No AGP bridge found</p> <p>[...] NetworkManager[1089]: supplicant_interface_acquire: assertion `mgr_state == NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_STATE_IDLE' failed</p> <p>[...] 1.065116] PM: Resume from disk failed.</p> </blockquote>
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2020-06-12T14:37:07.210
2011-09-13T05:52:22.773
Is it already possible to enable Compiz on an i5 Thinkpad laptop?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I feel your pain as the proud owner of a T510 with i915. I had way too many freezes to be\nproductive, and this was 10.04. I ended up disabling compiz completely, and eventually installed Enlightenment which was much more stable and faster.</p>\n\n<p>So how does this help you...
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2011-02-18T07:34:20.107
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<p>Just that. By good I mean something at the level of SolidWorks, AutoCAD, or similar. This is a complete limitation for me (and many others) to use Ubuntu.</p>
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2011-02-18T19:06:30.423
2022-01-05T12:16:08.007
What good CAD programs are available?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>See for example</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.linuxlinks.com/CAD/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">6 of the Best Free Linux CAD Software</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.tech-edv.co.at/05_LUnIx/80_CAD~2f3d/10_CAD~20Links/index.php\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">The LUnIx Linux CAD Links</a>: Extensive list of more than 50 alternatives with their licence type.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Not exactly the same as Solidworks or Autocad, but it really depends on what you are going to do. Reviews says that many free software do have good quality, but unfortunately that's really subjective.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2016-05-11T15:36:03.577", "id": "1151652", "postId": "26964", "score": "0", "text": "Can you quote the contents of the links to prevent link-rotÉ", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "334823" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T08:37:22.207", "id": "26964", "lastActivityDate": "2019-01-15T04:50:53.083", "lastEditDate": "2019-01-15T04:50:53.083", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "349837", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "10581", "parentId": "26954", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "5" }
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/7648/many-directories-have-a-d-suffix-extension-what-does-it-mean">Many directories have a &ldquo;.d&rdquo; suffix/extension. What does it mean?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>Why do most of the folders in /etc/* end with *.d </p> <p>I am just curious to know, why folders would have this ( extension? ).</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9nPWs.png" alt="enter image description here"> </p>
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2017-04-13T12:23:55.357
2013-08-14T10:08:31.813
Why do configuration folders have *.d in their name
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<p>Today I set up an ecryptfs directory, which is automatically mounted at login via pam. To do so i followed the guide in the ecryptfs readme</p> <p><a href="http://ecryptfs.sourceforge.net/README" rel="nofollow">ecryptfs-readme</a></p> <p>To sum up, I now have a key stored in the usser session keyring. The first thing I do not understand is why this key is only showing up via <code>keyctl show</code> and not with the gnome-gui "Passwords and encryption keys".</p> <p>The second thing I am curious about is the security. I assume that my passphrase is somehow stored on the harddisk. But how exactly and how secure is this?</p> <p>Thanks in advance</p>
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2011-02-18T22:29:12.010
Security of keyctl
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The <code>gnome-keyring</code> session is separate from the \"in kernel\" session keys. The Gnome Keyring Manager is used to hold direct passwords and hand them out when applications need them (like when checking your email or logging into remote systems). The kernel keyring is used for in-kernel operations that need encryption, like eCryptfs.</p>\n\n<p>Neither eCryptfs nor the Gnome Keyring Manager store your passphrases in the clear. Gnome Keyring Manager stores an encrypted database to disk and keeps passphrases in memory only. The eCryptfs tools do a similar thing: your mount passphrase (a large random bit string) is encrypted on disk with your login passphrase. This is what is used internally by eCryptfs and again, does not hit the disk in the clear.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T22:29:12.010", "id": "27047", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-18T22:29:12.010", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "721", "parentId": "26968", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "3" }
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<p>Hi am Computer Science student currently in college and very interested in developing open source software especially ubuntu.Is there a one stop go-to place for reading about developing ubuntu.</p> <p>For example I scoured through the official tutorial and documentation of Python and I was good to go.I could write useful applications. Is there any equivalent for Ubuntu or unity? I tried downloading the alpha 2,put kept crashing every 5 minute. I was told in IRC,it was due to some Xorg stack change.</p> <p>Now I cant even look at new Unity,let alone help develop it. </p> <p>Any help or guidance appreciated.</p>
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2012-05-17T15:56:40.497
2012-05-17T15:56:40.497
Where to start studying for developing ubuntu?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p><strong>Developing for Ubuntu</strong></p>\n\n<p>Thanks for taking interest. Just some few clarifications. There is nothing such as an Ubuntu software (I know you didn't mean it). All the Ubuntu specific changes can be made available in other distros too. Their packagers have to package it.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Alpha 2 crashing</strong></p>\n\n<p>Natty is still under development and there is still a Xorg transistion under progress. I would recommend you to start working on stable releases. Use <code>Maverick (10.10)</code> for your development work. This way you will spend more time developing applications rather than encountering alpha bugs.</p>\n\n<p>If you want to contribute to <code>Natty</code> or <code>Unity</code>, then surely you need to run Natty Alphas.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Unity Development</strong></p>\n\n<p>If you want to develop for Unity, then you need to get Natty and checkout the source code. </p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>bzr branch lp:unity</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>There is a file in the checkout branch for explaining what it's dependencies are and how you can get it to build.</p>\n\n<p>If you want to get your code into unity maintree, you need to sign <a href=\"http://www.canonical.com/contributors\"><code>Canonical Contributer Agreement</code></a> You don't need to sign it everytime you submit your code. Once it enough</p>\n\n<p><strong>Unity Bitesize bugs</strong></p>\n\n<p>The best way to get involved is to fix small bugs in Unity. Jorge Castro keeps posting a list of Bitesize rockstars regularly. Here is a <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bugs?field.searchtext=&amp;orderby=-importance&amp;field.status%3alist=NEW&amp;field.status%3alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&amp;field.status%3alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&amp;field.status%3alist=CONFIRMED&amp;field.status%3alist=TRIAGED&amp;assignee_option=any&amp;field.assignee=&amp;field.bug_reporter=&amp;field.bug_supervisor=&amp;field.bug_commenter=&amp;field.subscriber=&amp;field.tag=bitesize&amp;field.tags_combinator=ALL&amp;field.has_cve.used=&amp;field.omit_dupes.used=&amp;field.omit_dupes=on&amp;field.affects_me.used=&amp;field.has_patch.used=&amp;field.has_branches.used=&amp;field.has_branches=on&amp;field.has_no_branches.used=&amp;field.has_no_branches=on&amp;search=Search\">list of bitesize bugs</a> , you might want to talk to <code>Jorge Castro</code> (jcastro on IRC on channels #omg!ubuntu! etc - he also hangs out in <a href=\"http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/201\">Ask Ubuntu chat</a>) before starting if you need extra help.</p>\n\n<p>Here is a <a href=\"http://unity.ubuntu.com/getinvolved/\">documentation for Getting Involved in Unity Development</a></p>\n\n<p><strong>Development on Ubuntu</strong></p>\n\n<p>As Burli pointed out, <code>Quickly</code> is a great tool for developing. It takes care of many things. Using it on Ubuntu is very easy as it integrates with ubuntu development platforms like Launchpad, PPA etc</p>\n\n<p>QUickly handles the boilerplate code and provides you with templates. Like one is for packaging. As <a href=\"http://lwn.net/Articles/351522/\">per LWN article</a> </p>\n\n<pre><code>Released template is ubuntu-project, which automates working \nwith Ubuntu-compatible code (using Bazaar for version control, \nDebian packaging, and Launchpad.net Personal Package Archives (PPA) \nfor releases).\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>You can also read about it on <a href=\"http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/08/quickly-new-rails-like-rapid-development-tools-for-ubuntu.ars\">this Ars Technica article</a> from Ryan Paul</p>\n\n<p><strong>Language of Choice</strong></p>\n\n<p>Python is the most famous choice of development as I can see. I might be wrong since many also like to develop on Gtk/C or Boost/C++. </p>\n\n<p>There are also other languages like Vala using which you can have native applications but have a higher level language.</p>\n\n<p>If you know <code>C#</code>, you can use it for creating applications using Gtk# for UI.</p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T13:01:51.547", "id": "29675", "postId": "26982", "score": "2", "text": "Not be forgotten http://developer.ubuntu.com/ .", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "2910" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T14:45:47.037", "id": "29694", "postId": "26982", "score": "1", "text": "@Gaurav: It is under development. Might take time", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "52" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T17:01:10.343", "id": "29706", "postId": "26982", "score": "1", "text": "I've found that the best way to learn is to start doing. Get involved a project that you find interesting (or start your own) and get your feet wet. You'll run into lots of problems, but you'll learn just as much. Good luck!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "252" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T12:30:34.113", "id": "26982", "lastActivityDate": "2011-03-13T10:36:02.293", "lastEditDate": "2011-03-13T10:36:02.293", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "52", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "52", "parentId": "26969", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "12" }
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<p>First Unity was developed for Netbooks. But the Netbook Market is shrinking. Unity is not specialized for tablet pcs like Android 3, but it may work well with some specialized Apps for those devices.</p> <p>Unity is still nice for Notebooks with small displays, but there is no big advantage on the desktop compared with other desktop environments like Gnome 2/3 or KDE.</p> <p>So what's the point? </p> <p>My first suggenstion was a hybrid between tablet pc and a desktop, for example for a manager. He can plug the tablet in a docking station in his office and he can work at a normal desktop, whats not possible with iOS or Android. </p> <p>If he is in a meeting he can use it as a tablet to make notes, for example. Or if he is somewhere else outside the office or the company. </p> <p>Same for normal users. They can dock the tablet and use it like a normal desktop pc or they can lie on the couch and browse in the web, read a book or chat with friend.</p> <p>So, thats my suggestion. But what is the real plan for Unity or Ubuntu in general? I'm curious ;)</p>
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2012-11-21T22:03:12.570
2013-03-27T22:21:14.270
What is the target of Unity?
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2011-02-18T11:29:28.417
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/6490/is-a-boot-partition-necessary-anymore">Is a /boot partition necessary anymore?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>Well, the question title says it all. Are there any benefits of creating a separate directory for /boot. Is there any kind of grub/any-other-bootloader crash that can corrupt the partition it is installed on? or any dual-boot scenarios where having separate /boot partition can save me?</p>
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2017-04-13T12:24:49.530
2011-02-18T18:48:35.507
is it better to have a separate partition for /boot?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Exactly what you said. For example, i once had (am talking about 9.04 or 9.10 here) a problem where the root partition got all weird on me. Since i had the boot partition in the same place as everything else i could not boot and try to fix anything. After that i learned that ...
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<p>I own a Line6 UX1 soundcard and I would like to make it work for Ubuntu.<br> I have followed the instructions <a href="http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-a-line6-guitarport-or-toneport-ux1-or-gx.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and it worked. </p> <p>But at some point I upgraded my kernel version (not sure what <code>uname -a</code> prints but it's related) and it stopped working.</p> <p>Here's what <code>uname -a</code> prints: </p> <blockquote> <p>Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-29-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 11 20:52:10 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux</p> </blockquote> <p>I figured out that maybe it's installed per version so I used <code>svn update</code> and hit <code>make</code> again. My guess was right as it copied the relevant files to the new version's folder. I restarted and still nothing.<br> Should I revert to an older version? Or is there a solution here?</p>
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2011-02-18T18:49:08.550
2011-02-22T05:38:09.540
How do I get a Line6 UX1 soundcard to work?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Install dkms package. After that all your drivers will be rebuilt every time you update your kernel.</p>\n", "commentCount": "7", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T03:25:24.450", "id": "29770", "postId": "27025", "score"...
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2011-02-18T12:49:50.757
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<p>I'm attempting to use the LyZ plugin for Zotero and LyX and it requires the LyX server to be present.</p> <p>I've looked on the <a href="http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXServer" rel="nofollow">LyX wiki</a> for information and it makes reference to .lyxpipe.in and .lyxpipe.out but these are not present when I install LyX from the Ubuntu repository.</p> <p>What are these files and how can they be created?</p>
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2013-04-11T01:52:55.940
How can I set up the lyxserver
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CC BY-SA 2.5
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The English version of the <a href=\"http://www.klubko.net/wp/?page_id=945&amp;lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">LyZ</a> page has some instructions for this, which I assume are the requirements. Here's how to set the path you need :</p>\n<p>Go to Tools &gt; Preferences &gt; Paths<br />\nIn the <strong>LyXServer pipe</strong> field, enter <code>~/.lyx/lyxpipe</code> and save.</p>\n<p>Here's the preferences screen. You'll want to edit the field highlighted in orange.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/hOBmj.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\" /></p>\n<p>After this, restart LyX.</p>\n<p>EDIT: Just to state what may not be the obvious - make sure that this path is the same as in the Zotero pane, Lyx dropbown box &gt; Settings... &gt; Lyx Server.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-04-01T00:02:29.680", "id": "36905", "postId": "28280", "score": "0", "text": "Thanks! I think the problem I was having was that I thought the LyXServer pipe had to point to a specific file or folder. I didn't know that you could point it to any folder", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6689" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 3.0", "creationDate": "2011-02-27T06:27:47.273", "id": "28280", "lastActivityDate": "2013-04-11T01:52:55.940", "lastEditDate": "2020-06-12T14:37:07.210", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "-1", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "8844", "parentId": "26984", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The English version of the <a href=\"http://www.klubko.net/wp/?page_id=945&amp;lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">LyZ</a> page has some instructions for this, which I assume are the requirements. Here's how to set the path you need :</p>\n<p>Go to Tools &gt; Preferences ...
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2011-02-18T12:50:43.230
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<p>This is the output of <code>ulimit -a</code></p> <pre><code>core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 16382 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) unlimited virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited </code></pre> <p>This is a 64bit install, and I would like to increase the max-open files from 1024 to a more heady limit such as 5000. Will that be any problem? Will it cause instability?</p> <p>Thanks.</p>
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2013-02-05T13:05:12.090
2013-02-05T13:05:12.090
What is a safe ulimit ceiling?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>max-open is number of files one user can keep open in <strong>single session</strong> simultaneously.</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Also, please note that all limit settings are set per login. They are not global, nor are they permanent; existing only for the duration of the session.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>(from man limits.conf(5))</p>\n\n<p>Safe value for maximum number of really depends on your usage. Point with default values is to prevent trivial (accidental) denial of services. There is also global limit for number of open files:</p>\n\n<pre><code>cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>You can change that number by running for example</p>\n\n<pre><code>echo 100000 &gt; /proc/sys/fs/file-max\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>(with user root, obviously). Even better is to also add line <code>fs.file-max = 10000</code> to <code>/etc/sysctl.conf</code> to load same setting after reboot.</p>\n\n<hr>\n\n<p>As of ulimit: it's safe to increase that number. However, number of open files should not exceed global file-max, because then opening new files is not possible anymore (and for example logging in requires opening files).</p>\n\n<p>If there is multiple users, remember that if you change the default, everyone can open more files. For example 30 users * 5000 files = 150 000 open files (assuming that everyone opens maximum number of files, and uses only single session). If you have some really resource hungry (as in opens really many files) software used by multiple users, it might be a problem.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2020-10-16T19:03:20.407", "id": "2179303", "postId": "27268", "score": "0", "text": "What `ulimit` and `file-max` value would you advise for a single WebSocket server running on a single server? The default is 1024 on Linux, but I really feel that it is a very low value. Could you safely increase it to e.g. `200000` without experiencing any bottlenecks? Thank you!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "308679" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-20T15:35:14.310", "id": "27268", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-20T15:35:14.310", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "10581", "parentId": "26985", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }
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2011-02-18T13:52:22.550
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<p>I know questions like this have been asked before, but this is a bit different. I told it to install Ubuntu on the Partition that had Windows on it. After that, I couldn't start windows anymore. Can anyone help me?</p>
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2012-06-14T04:52:43.953
Can't find Windows after installing Ubuntu
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[ { "creationDate": "2012-06-14T04:52:43.953", "id": "182473", "postId": "26992", "score": "0", "text": "I have answered it here: http://askubuntu.com/a/150644/68508", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "68508" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Indeed your question is different. If you <strong>really</strong> installed Ubuntu over your Windows partition then your Windows has been overwritten and is deleted.</p>\n\n<p>In case you had non-backuped data on this partition you may be able to restore them (at least partly) with <a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery\" rel=\"nofollow\">data recovery tools</a>.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T15:47:18.610", "id": "29700", "postId": "26993", "score": "2", "text": "If there is data you want off the former Windows install, STOP USING THE COMPUTER NOW and find another one (at a friends or a library, etc.) The more you use the computer, the more chance of overwriting stuff.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4435" }, { "creationDate": "2012-06-16T17:31:55.463", "id": "183938", "postId": "26993", "score": "0", "text": "If I remember right, this was the problem. Again, if I remember right, I did do a scan and rescue, but it didn't have any of the folder structure what-so-ever, and I don't think I will ever use any of the data (thankfully it was one of those cases).", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "11012" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T14:00:58.517", "id": "26993", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-18T14:00:58.517", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "3940", "parentId": "26992", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Indeed your question is different. If you <strong>really</strong> installed Ubuntu over your Windows partition then your Windows has been overwritten and is deleted.</p>\n\n<p>In case you had non-backuped data on this partition you may be able to restore them (at least partly...
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2011-02-18T14:57:10.247
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<p>My friend and i would like to translate Ubuntu. where should we start? where to find translation tools? </p>
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9701
2011-06-10T09:35:59.210
2011-06-10T09:35:59.210
How do I get started with Translations?
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T00:31:49.217", "id": "29755", "postId": "26999", "score": "0", "text": "Also, see the answer here : http://askubuntu.com/questions/25089/how-can-i-read-manpages-in-my-mother-tongue/25109#25109", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8844" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations\" rel=\"nofollow\">Translations</a> page in the Ubuntu Wiki explains the process very well. </p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2012-08-24T03:50:49.900", "id": "223294", "postId": "27001", "score": "2", "text": "While that page is an excellent resource and no answer would be complete without recommending it, [it would be preferable](http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/8259) to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "22949" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T15:12:53.633", "id": "27001", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-19T01:18:51.843", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-19T01:18:51.843", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "1067", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "3550", "parentId": "26999", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Go to <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\">launchpad.net</a>, and get an account (there's a <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/+login\" rel=\"nofollow\">Creating an account</a> link in the \"Get started\" section). </p>\n\n<p>Then go to the <a href=\"https://trans...
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2011-02-18T16:08:41.037
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<p>I have a <code>.mov</code> file that I am trying to run using VLC and totem movie player.</p> <p>When I try running it with VLC I get audio but no video, and when I try running it using totem I get the following error message:</p> <pre><code>Internal GStreamer error: negotiation problem. Please file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer. </code></pre> <p>When I go to the properties in totem movie player it mentions that the video codec for my video is Sorensen video v.3.</p>
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2017-03-14T20:06:10.213
.mov file, video not playing just audio
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2011-02-18T17:55:55.783
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<p>When I'm running Gnome, ssh-agent will run ssh-add upon slogin/ssh if the identity is not loaded. I want to mimic this behavior on remote shells, but everything I find suggests to run ssh-add upon login. I only want to run ssh-add if I subsequently run slogin/ssh on the remote shell, not every time I login.</p>
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2019-04-15T11:21:49.840
Doing an ssh-add upon ssh/slogin if key is not in ssh-agent?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>I worked out a solution for this via the bash shell.</p>\n\n<p>Add to .bashrc:</p>\n\n<pre><code>check-ssh-add() {\nif [ \"$DESKTOP_SESSION\" == \"\" ]; then\n if [[ `ssh-add -l` != *id_?sa* ]]; then \n ssh-add -t 5h ## 5 hour ssh-agent expiration\n fi\nfi\n}\n\nslogin() {\ncheck-ssh-add\n/usr/bin/slogin $@\n}\n\nssh() {\ncheck-ssh-add\n/usr/bin/ssh $@\n}\n\nscp() {\ncheck-ssh-add\n/usr/bin/scp $@\n}\n\nsftp() {\ncheck-ssh-add\n/usr/bin/sftp $@\n}\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-20T19:46:57.480", "id": "27298", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-20T19:46:57.480", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "7443", "parentId": "27014", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "9" }
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2011-02-18T18:19:39.230
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<p>I have a python script that I would like to run daily using anacron, but I haven't been able to get it to work.</p> <p>The script is in my home directory, and I have put a symlink to it in /etc/cron.daily/. I saw somewhere that things here can't have dots in the filename, so the symlink has the .py extension removed (the original file still has it).</p> <p>The python file does have #!/usr/bin/python on the first line.</p> <p>This is my first experience with cron / anacron, and so I'm sure I'm making a dumb mistake - I just don't know what it is. Is a symlink a problem? Do I need the actual file there? Is the python script the problem? Do I need to run a bash script that will open the python script? Is there something else I'm not thinking of?</p>
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2011-02-18T19:05:22.110
How to make a python script run in Anacron
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Dumb question, but is your script executable? Right click on file and then Properties. In Permissions tab ther should be checkbox to set script as executable.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T19:48:48.137", "id": "29723", "postId": "27022", "score": "1", "text": "Thanks very much! I knew it was something dumb. I checked the permissions on the symlink, and I assumed that the permissions represented the permissions on the original file.\n\nChanging the permissions on the original file looks to have done the trick!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6887" }, { "creationDate": "2015-07-10T20:44:53.433", "id": "927966", "postId": "27022", "score": "1", "text": "For the benefit of future readers: Symlinks do not have permissions. `ls` will show them as having all permissions enabled, but this is (basically) a lie. The kernel only cares about the permissions of the target, and will never use the symlink's permissions.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "16628" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T19:05:22.110", "id": "27022", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-18T19:05:22.110", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "10748", "parentId": "27016", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "5" }
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2011-02-18T18:31:10.510
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<p>It is possible to demonstrate .PPT with audio under Ubuntu? <a href="https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B-Lf32QN-yXBM2Y3M2RiOTEtNTQ0Yi00ZWE3LWI1M2QtNjZlZjYzMjE1Yjhi&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">example such of .ppt - it is short tales for kids</a></p>
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2011-02-18T18:38:08.043
2013-09-08T01:17:23.053
Can I present a powerpoint presentation with sound?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>It should* work, since Ubuntu's Open Office (and the new libre office) have multimedia support. If you have problems with the audio you should add the details to your question.</p>\n\n<p>After trying to playback this file I found a number of problems. Firstly the slide transi...
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2011-02-18T18:31:34.930
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<p>So I'm noticing some severely incorrect behavior from calls to standard library functions inside GDB. I have the following program to illustrate:</p> <pre><code>#include &lt;stdio.h&gt; #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt; #include &lt;string.h&gt; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { char *s1 = "test"; char *s2 = calloc(strlen("test")+1,sizeof(char)); snprintf(s2,strlen("test")+1,"test"); printf("string constant: %lu\n", strlen(s1)); printf("allocated string: %lu\n", strlen(s2)); free(s2); return 0; } </code></pre> <p>When run from the command-line, this program outputs just what you'd expect:</p> <pre><code>string constant: 4 allocated string: 4 </code></pre> <p>However, in GDB, I get the following, incorrect output from calls to strlen():</p> <pre><code>(gdb) p strlen(s1) $1 = -938856896 (gdb) p strlen(s2) $2 = -938856896 </code></pre> <p>I'm pretty sure this is a problem with glibc shipped with Ubuntu (I'm using 10.10), but this is a serious problem for those of us who spend lots of time in GDB. </p> <ol> <li><p>Is anyone else experiencing this kind of error?</p></li> <li><p>What's the best way to fix it? Build glibc from source? (I'm already running a version of GDB built from source)</p></li> </ol>
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2020-12-03T07:21:40.260
strlen returns incorrect value when called in gdb
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The library is working just fine. The program reports the correct value even when run under gdb. The bug seems to be in the way that gdb is evaluating the expression and forcing the target program to call the function. I'm seeing this same behavior on 10.04 as well. Strangely p printf(\"foo\\n\") correctly prints 4.</p>\n\n<p>It seems that gdb is confused because strlen is a builtin. If you do this:</p>\n\n<p>int (*len)(char *) = strlen;</p>\n\n<p>And then have gdb print len(\"foo\") you get the correct result.</p>\n", "commentCount": "9", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T22:39:50.767", "id": "29737", "postId": "27030", "score": "0", "text": "When did strlen become a builtin in gdb? And why does it only fail on Debian/Ubuntu systems?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8467" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T03:34:37.393", "id": "29773", "postId": "27030", "score": "0", "text": "@alesplin it is a built in in gcc, not gdb.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8500" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T05:00:08.460", "id": "29777", "postId": "27030", "score": "0", "text": "Right. Had me worried there for a minute. The problem is other library functions (or \"builtins\") work when called directly from GDB. I rely on this quite heavily, but since I got a new work computer running Ubuntu, I can't use strlen, strcmp, etc because they are broken. Your proposal of declaring a function pointer to strlen did work, but is not really feasible for our environment.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8467" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-20T00:12:12.133", "id": "29950", "postId": "27030", "score": "0", "text": "@alesplin builtin means it is built into the compiler, not a library function. Only certain library functions are built in. This means that the compiler directly generates the code to implement them in the place where they are used, rather than calling an actual library function.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8500" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-20T05:56:31.087", "id": "29975", "postId": "27030", "score": "0", "text": "This is even more problematic then, as other functions declared by the gcc documentation to be builtins (atoi,isdigit,isupper) work as expected. So if it's not libc, and all builtins aren't broken, does that mean Ubuntu ships a wonky gcc? I've tried this with Ubuntu's gdb (7.2), and my own (6.7.1 built from source).", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8467" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-20T15:52:47.797", "id": "30063", "postId": "27030", "score": "0", "text": "@alesplin interesting. Maybe it doesn't have anything to do with being a builtin then. You didn't mention if the other version of gdb you tried worked or not. When I check the symbols of libc with nm, I do notice that most functions are T type but strlen is i type. Not sure what that means, but maybe that is what is confusing gdb.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8500" }, { "creationDate": "2011-03-31T23:49:56.473", "id": "36901", "postId": "27030", "score": "0", "text": "From this `int (*len)(char *) = strlen;`, GDB screams `Ambiguous command \"int (*len)(char *) = strlen;\": internals, interpreter-exec, interrupt.` What can I do?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "7784" }, { "creationDate": "2011-04-01T20:16:25.037", "id": "37003", "postId": "27030", "score": "0", "text": "@karlphillip you can't ask gdb to define a variable; that code needs to be compiled.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "8500" }, { "creationDate": "2011-04-01T20:47:42.347", "id": "37006", "postId": "27030", "score": "0", "text": "Indeed. This post is related to this very same issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5507255/gdb-if-statement-return-values/5507637#5507637", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "7784" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T19:40:02.577", "id": "27030", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-18T19:46:54.177", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-18T19:46:54.177", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "8500", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "8500", "parentId": "27019", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "6" }
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2011-02-18T18:56:16.713
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<p>I have a USB mic I keep plugging into my laptop dock. When I drop into the dock I'd like the mic setup as my current audio input automatically. I do have a "I'm docked" script I run which sets xrandr/etc items, I'd just need some method perform the action of:</p> <p>gnome-volume-control, input tab, choose mic</p> <p>but from the cmd line/script.</p> <p>Any hints on how I can automate/script this?</p>
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2014-06-11T12:25:39.687
2021-05-31T11:04:22.150
Setting microphone input volume using the command line?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>If you are using ALSA, amixer can be helpful for your script programming.</p>\n\n<p>When dropping the <code>amixer --help</code> command in a terminal you will see something like this:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/vWLVy.png\" alt=\"enter image description he...
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27064
2011-02-18T19:06:45.073
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<p>Is it possible to have multiple lines for any type of field in a dpkg control file? This is not about line continuation, but e.g. Depends interspersed with Recommends like so:</p> <p>Depends: git, etckeeper, apt-file<br> Recommends: equivs<br> Depends: mplayer, pidgin, dlocate, pwsafe, ciso<br> Recommends: aria2 </p> <p>And so on. Is this allowed, is it unspecified (and some tool is going to cough on it) or is it explicitly forbidden? (Couldn't find anything in debian-policy, either)</p>
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2022-09-05T17:04:30.083
Multiple Depends/Recommends/[…] in a control file?
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T20:51:15.883", "id": "29726", "postId": "27023", "score": "1", "text": "For sure it's nicer if it's avoided. Can I ask why do you need to know?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "705" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T12:24:05.970", "id": "2983...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>No you can't do this. It had never occurred to me to try such a thing, but I took a stab at it. I tried building a package with the following in the <code>debian/control</code> file:</p>\n\n<pre><code>Package: bzr-explorer\nArchitecture: all\nXB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}\nDepends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}\nRecommends: tango-icon-theme\nSuggests: bzr-gtk\nDepends: bzr (&gt;= 1.14), qbzr (&gt;= 0.19)\nRecommends: bzr-svn\nSuggests: bzr-git\n</code></pre>\n\n<p><code>dpkg</code> did not like it one bit:</p>\n\n<pre><code>dpkg-source: error: syntax error in bzr-explorer-1.1.2/debian/control at line 24: duplicate field Depends found\ndpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source --before-build bzr-explorer-1.1.2 gave error exit status 9\ndebuild: fatal error at line 1337:\ndpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S failed\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>In fact, now that I go looking for it, this is explicitly forbidden in <a href=\"http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-controlsyntax\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Debian Policy, 5.1 Syntax of control files</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>A paragraph must not contain more than\n one instance of a particular field\n name.</p>\n</blockquote>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T12:26:18.480", "id": "29841", "postId": "27064", "score": "1", "text": "Aw, shucks. Of course, a control file can describe more than one package, and they are delimited as _paragraphs_. I misread that…\n\nExtra credit for \"at line 1337\".", "userDisplayName": "user11080", "userId": null } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-19T01:30:18.623", "id": "27064", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-19T01:36:12.300", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-19T01:36:12.300", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "570", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "570", "parentId": "27023", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "5" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>No you can't do this. It had never occurred to me to try such a thing, but I took a stab at it. I tried building a package with the following in the <code>debian/control</code> file:</p>\n\n<pre><code>Package: bzr-explorer\nArchitecture: all\nXB-Python-Version: ${python:Versi...
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2011-02-18T19:45:31.027
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<p>What does the <code>/apps/indicator-sound/volume_mute</code> GConf key do?</p>
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2011-07-07T00:13:23.557
2011-07-07T00:13:23.557
What does the /apps/indicator-sound/volume_mute GConf key do?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>When checked, the volume is muted by default when you log in. </p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/InR8t.png\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/InR8t.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\"></a></p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-26T11:33:04.457", "id": "31192", "postId": "27033", "score": "1", "text": "DoR, this does not appear to work on my system. I'm running 10.04. I set volume to halfway with volume_mute off and reboot: after login, volume is set to halfway and unmuted. I leave the volume at halfway and set volume_mute on and reboot: after login, volume is still set to halfway and unmuted. Does this work for you?", "userDisplayName": "user8979", "userId": null }, { "creationDate": "2011-07-07T03:06:04.767", "id": "58223", "postId": "27033", "score": "0", "text": "@skyblue he's on 11.04, so your system may work a bit differently.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1992" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T20:00:43.103", "id": "27033", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-18T20:06:38.403", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-18T20:06:38.403", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "114", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "114", "parentId": "27031", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "2" }
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2011-02-18T20:31:54.217
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<p>Have been using my drive since 6.04 often just updating, if I want to clean my drive and start again,which is best method to carry this out.</p>
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2011-02-19T05:30:48.580
How to clean a hard drive before reinstall
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>if you do a fresh install, and you select \"Use the entire disk\" (the most common, and most used option) assuming that you are not needing to dual boot. The installer will automatically delete all the previous partitions, and repartition it as needed. If you are using the latest stable version of Ubuntu, it will format it to Ext4.</p>\n\n<p>You really don't have to dig into any disk utilities unless you really want to, as they will just complicate things or make more work for you. Just let the installer do what it needs to do and it will be fine.</p>\n", "commentCount": "1", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T09:46:21.453", "id": "29810", "postId": "27043", "score": "0", "text": "Thanks, am perhaps getting confused by the need to clean a drive if dumping, will just do a clean install in May/June with 11.04. B", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "11086" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T21:40:47.323", "id": "27043", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-18T21:40:47.323", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "3889", "parentId": "27034", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "4" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>If you refer to a fresh reinstall, when reinstalling you will find several options for the usage of your hard disk drive, which includes but not limits to: </p>\n\n<p>\"Side by Side\" install, which will install your new OS sharing the hard disk drive but without losing your ...
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2011-02-18T20:38:23.027
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<p>Does anybody know of some documentation that would show me the best way to create a scripted install of Ubuntu Server (10.04)?</p>
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2011-02-18T20:49:26.800
2011-02-18T20:49:26.800
How do I script an install?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>You want to do a kickstart or debian-installer preseed:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/installation-guide/i386/automatic-install.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/installation-guide/i386/automatic-install.html</a></li>\n</ul>\n", ...
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2011-02-18T20:47:50.973
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<p>Using Maverick, I am not able to get the <kbd>CapsLock</kbd> behaviour I want: I would like it to affect essentially the alphabetical, numerical, and punctuation keys, i.e. <strong>all</strong> the keys that <em>print</em> something (as opposed to, say, the arrow keys), but <strong>only</strong> them. </p> <p>To illuminate this with an example: when writing code that uses % as the symbol for a comment, I want to be able to position the cursor at the start of a range of lines I want to comment out, then hit <kbd>CapsLock</kbd>, then iteratively hit the <kbd>5</kbd> key (using QWERTZ, <kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>5</kbd> gives %) and the arrow down key, so that I can quickly place a % at the start of the lines. </p> <p>Ubuntu in default configuration takes CapsLock literally, so that it affects only alphabetic keys. Under Preferences/Keyboard/Layout/Options I can make it act as a pressed <kbd>Shift</kbd>, but then the action of the arrow keys is to select text. All the other options available are equivalent to one of these two in my case.</p> <p>Is it possible to somehow get this behaviour? This is standard in Windows.</p> <p>Edit: @Mikel: I use English language with German keyboard layout. Yes, by googling I found out about this Belgian problem and the fix, but I hoped that there was an easier way, as I just want the Windows behaviour. Let's see whether I get it to work.</p>
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2018-08-07T08:35:16.230
2018-08-07T08:35:16.230
How to specify which keys CapsLock affects?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>Answers in the comment lead to the impression that there is no easy GNOME setting to toggle. Vote up mikel's answer in the comments, not mine: <a href=\"http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29195040/mswindows-capslock.patch\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29195040/m...
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2011-02-18T20:56:48.547
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<p>Is there a place where I could check what are the differences between kernel in version 10.04 and 10.10 ? The reason is that from time to time I have total system freezes with 10.10 on Dell Inspiron 1501 which was no the case on 10.04.</p>
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2011-02-18T21:48:11.543
2011-02-18T22:35:20.457
What are the changes between kernel in 10.04 and 10.10?
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T00:29:05.177", "id": "29754", "postId": "27038", "score": "1", "text": "As the first question states, there's been a **lot** of changes, any of which that maybe the cause of your problems. I suggest you change your question ask for help in debugging this matter. Or ...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Ubuntu 10.04 used Kernel version 2.6.32 with the DRM from 2.6.33<sup><a href=\"https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2010-March/009214.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">[src]</a></sup>. Ubuntu 10.10 used 2.6.35. </p>\n\n<p>The change logs are at <a href=\"http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/</a>, but they are <em>big</em>. The changes in .35 are in <a href=\"http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35\" rel=\"nofollow\">this 6.3MB text file</a>. You may be better off searching <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bugs in Ubuntu</a> to find more about your particular problem. There are <a href=\"https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=%22Inspiron+1501+%22&amp;orderby=-importance&amp;search=Search&amp;field.status%3Alist=NEW&amp;field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&amp;field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&amp;field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&amp;field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&amp;field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&amp;field.status%3Alist=FIXCOMMITTED&amp;field.assignee=&amp;field.bug_reporter=&amp;field.omit_dupes=on&amp;field.has_patch=&amp;field.has_no_package=\" rel=\"nofollow\">34 results for \"Inspiron 1501\"</a>.</p>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T10:16:27.740", "id": "29814", "postId": "27048", "score": "0", "text": "I checked bugs reported in a launchpad and it seems that there exist bug entry quite similar to my problem : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/226784", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "9025" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T12:42:21.790", "id": "29846", "postId": "27048", "score": "0", "text": "@tommyk You can [Subscribe to the bug](http://askubuntu.com/questions/20119/how-do-i-subscribe-to-a-bug) in launchpad , to keep up with its status, if you want. Make sure to click \"Does this bug affect you?\" in the top left.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1067" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T22:35:20.457", "id": "27048", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-18T22:35:20.457", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1067", "parentId": "27038", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
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2011-02-18T21:26:27.583
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<p>What's the easiest way to get a <strong>debug</strong> Flash Player (the one you can <a href="http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html">download from here</a>, though I don't care if it's downloaded automatically) working in Firefox?</p> <ul> <li>64 bit system, default Firefox from repository</li> <li>If possible, I don't want the flash player to be replaced by a newer but non-debug version automatically (updating to a new debug version is ok)</li> <li>Want the most recent version (10.2 at the moment)</li> </ul>
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2012-01-19T22:55:23.700
What's the ultimate way to install debug Flash Player in Firefox?
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[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>If you follow the links from the site you provided, download \"For Other Linux (.tar.gz). Once you download it, untar it, <code>tar xvf install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz</code> (or whatever version you downloaded, then copy the .so into the right directory <code>sudo...
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2011-02-18T22:09:06.237
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<p>Does anyone know what changes are coming?</p>
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2011-02-18T22:44:06.410
2011-03-06T07:16:24.060
What's going to change in the kernel in Natty?
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{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The short answer is: <em>Lots</em>.</p>\n\n<h2>Official:</h2>\n\n<p>As a kernel is released, though not before, all of the changes are written up in the Changelog: <a href=\"http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/</a> </p>\n\n<p>You'll notice they are published for each minor release. They contain absolutely everything, and are almost impossible to read, if you're not into all things kernel. :-)</p>\n\n<h2>Not official:</h2>\n\n<p>I usually read <a href=\"http://www.h-online.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">The H</a>'s summary of changes to the kernel. They've summarised all of the changes that you'll see in Natty quite well. Be warned, there are multiple pages behind each of the links:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>2.6.36</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-36-Part-1-Graphics-1075471.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coming in 2.6.36 (Part 1) - Graphics</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-36-Part-2-File-systems-networking-and-storage-1081745.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coming in 2.6.36 (Part 2)</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-36-Part-3-Architecture-Infrastructure-1100492.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coming in 2.6.36 (Part 3) - Architecture &amp; Infrastructure</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-36-Part-4-Drivers-1100878.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coming in 2.6.36 (Part 4) - Drivers</a></p></li>\n</ul></li>\n<li><p>2.6.37</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-37-Part-1-Graphics-1144218.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coming in 2.6.37 (Part 1) - Graphics</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-37-Part-2-File-systems-1148305.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coming in 2.6.37 (Part 2) - File systems</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-37-Part-3-Network-and-storage-hardware-1153025.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coming in 2.6.37 (Part 3) - Network and storage hardware</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-37-Part-4-Architecture-and-infrastructure-code-1156965.html?anchor=power\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coming in 2.6.37 (Part 4) – Architecture and infrastructure code</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-37-Part-5-Drivers-1158991.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coming in 2.6.37 (Part 5) - Drivers</a></p></li>\n</ul></li>\n<li><p>2.6.38</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-38-Part-1-Graphics-1176900.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coming in 2.6.38 (Part 1) – Graphics</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-38-Part-2-File-systems-1192694.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coming in 2.6.38 (Part 2) – File systems</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-38-Part-3-Network-drivers-and-infrastructure-1197480.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coming in 2.6.38 (Part 3) – Network drivers and infrastructure</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-2-6-38-Part-4-Storage-1199926.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Coming in 2.6.38 (Part 4) - Storage</a></p></li>\n</ul></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>and <a href=\"http://www.h-online.com/search/?rm=search;perpage=5999;filter_t1=1;q=kernel-log\" rel=\"nofollow\">everything else</a> as it's published</p>\n\n<hr>\n\n<p>A (comparatively minimalistic) summary of the changes regarding <em>Ubuntu in particular</em> can be found on the Wiki pages for the pre-releases:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/alpha1\" rel=\"nofollow\">Natty Narwhal Alpha 1</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/alpha2\" rel=\"nofollow\">Natty Narwhal Alpha 2</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/alpha3\" rel=\"nofollow\">Natty Narwhal Alpha 3</a></p></li>\n</ul>\n", "commentCount": "2", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T23:14:09.130", "id": "29740", "postId": "27045", "score": "1", "text": "Almost exactly what I was going to write tomorrow morning if nobody else had. I love the H-Online digests. +1", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "449" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-20T00:58:43.967", "id": "29961", "postId": "27045", "score": "0", "text": "Your two Alpha links are going to the same page (alpha2).", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "11138" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T22:10:50.073", "id": "27045", "lastActivityDate": "2011-03-06T07:16:24.060", "lastEditDate": "2011-03-06T07:16:24.060", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "1067", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "1067", "parentId": "27044", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "19" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The short answer is: <em>Lots</em>.</p>\n\n<h2>Official:</h2>\n\n<p>As a kernel is released, though not before, all of the changes are written up in the Changelog: <a href=\"http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel...
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2011-02-18T22:55:04.340
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<p>I have a txt-file one of my user's homedir which is regularly updated there by a script. I now want to be able to access (read) this file from the web.</p> <pre><code>/home/user/folder/file.txt </code></pre> <p>So what I tried now is to log in as root, go into my webservers httpdocs folder</p> <pre><code>/var/www/path/to/domain/httpdocs </code></pre> <p>and there I tried to create a symbolic link with</p> <pre><code>ln -s /home/user/foler/file.txt /var/www/path/to/domain/httpdocs/file.txt </code></pre> <p>But this didn't work... I already tried changing the chmod of the symlink (which changes the ones from the original file of course) and also a chown to the user from webserver, but no matter what I tried I cannot open the file from the web or from a php-script (which is what I want to do)</p> <p>Can anybody help me and tell me what I need to do? What rights do I need to give? Or is there another way of achieving this?</p>
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Making file in user's homedir accessible from web/webserver
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-18T23:40:04.457", "id": "29741", "postId": "27050", "score": "0", "text": "can you try `chmod o+r /home/user/folder/file.txt\n`", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3226" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T09:42:24.083", "id": "29808", "postId": ...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>The symbolic link will always have these permissions: lrwxrwxrwx. The \"<strong>l</strong>\" indicates that it is a link. Therefor, all users can follow the link because the effective permissions are those of the file to which the link points. It is never useful to try changing the permissions of a symbolic link.</p>\n\n<p>The whole path from the root to the file in question must be readable by the Apache user. So... take a look the permissions of the home folder:</p>\n\n<pre><code>ls -la /\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>The home directory should be owned by root, group owned by root, with 0755 permission mask by default: <code>drwxr-xr-x</code>. If not, change it:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo chown root:root /home; sudo chmod 0755 /home\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Now take a look at your user's directory:</p>\n\n<pre><code>ls -la /home\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>If the username in question is <em>sambo</em>, the user's home directory should be owned by sambo, group owned by sambo, with 0755 permission mask by default: <code>drwxr-xr-x</code>. If not, change it:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo chown sambo:sambo /home/sambo; sudo chmod 0755 /home/sambo\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Repeat this as many times as needed, for however many directories exist until you reach the directory that contains the file. Then, don't forget about the file itself.</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo chown sambo:sambo /home/sambo/path/to/file/file.txt; sudo chmod 0644 /home/sambo/path/to/file/file.txt\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Then use PHP to open it:</p>\n\n<pre><code>&lt;?php\n $file = '/home/sambo/path/to/file/file.txt';\n $fp = fopen($file, 'r');\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>You could use the symbolic link at this point, too.</p>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T11:36:28.280", "id": "29834", "postId": "27058", "score": "0", "text": "Well I've tried that... I set the whole path from home to the directory of the file to chmod 0755 and the file itself too. But still the script cannot read the file nor can I directly open it yet...", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "11093" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T14:59:01.200", "id": "29872", "postId": "27058", "score": "0", "text": "Are you running PHP in safe_mode? (You would have to to chown your file to www-data. 'chown www-data file.txt'). Any errors in Apache log file?", "userDisplayName": "user8290", "userId": null }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T16:37:17.837", "id": "29891", "postId": "27058", "score": "0", "text": "I went the other way now which worked for me... I had teh script write it directly into the /var/www/... path, but I needed your chmod changes here to have it writable there... thank you!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "11093" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-19T00:49:55.300", "id": "27058", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-19T00:49:55.300", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": "user8290", "ownerUserId": null, "parentId": "27050", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "2" }
[ { "accepted": null, "body": "<p>I was able to access files from my system with <a href=\"http://packages.ubuntu.com/mediatomb\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">mediatomb</a> (see <a href=\"http://mediatomb.cc/pages/documentation\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">the documentation</a>) as it has a web UI. I would re...
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2011-02-18T23:15:25.170
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<p>I did a clean install of Ubuntu 10.10, and I have no audio. My Windows partition has no problem with the audio card and an 10.04 32 bit version recognised the audio card after the install. This one apparently does too, but I don't know what should I tweak. What should I look into? </p> <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8wtWL.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8wtWL.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
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2011-02-19T01:54:58.163
2011-02-19T01:54:58.163
No audio after clean installation
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T02:13:56.450", "id": "29764", "postId": "27052", "score": "0", "text": "check the output tab as well and see what it is using (if it is set to headphones only, or speakers, etc).", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1992" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Run <code>alsamixer</code> in a terminal and check that all channels are not muted. You'll know because they have an <code>M</code> at the bottom of a slider. Press m on your keyboard to toggle the channel mute status.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-18T23:58:09.833", "id": "27056", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-18T23:58:09.833", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "449", "parentId": "27052", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "1" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>Run <code>alsamixer</code> in a terminal and check that all channels are not muted. You'll know because they have an <code>M</code> at the bottom of a slider. Press m on your keyboard to toggle the channel mute status.</p>\n", "commentCount": "0", "comments": [], ...
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<p>I'm aware there's already been <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/22118/can-i-install-my-graphics-drivers-via-the-command-prompt">a question and answer</a> regarding Nvidia drivers, but my case is a little different. My wireless adapter's driver is proprietary, and for a minimal install, I need a command to install it. A general command for any other restricted driver that I may come across in the future would also be extremely helpful.</p>
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2017-04-13T12:24:29.360
2012-10-17T19:16:10.163
Install restricted drivers in command line
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T01:28:29.590", "id": "29762", "postId": "27061", "score": "0", "text": "Do the instruction in the other answer work for you? (`--list` in particular)", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "1067" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T05:56:55.563", "id"...
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can run <code>jockey-text</code>, which is the command line equivalent of the \"Additional Drivers\" GUI tool.</p>\n\n<p><code>jockey-text -h</code> will show you the options available.</p>\n", "commentCount": "9", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T19:49:43.350", "id": "29908", "postId": "27062", "score": "0", "text": "Do I need to install anything to use it? And is it necessary to have jockey* installed for restricted drivers?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "814" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T23:04:16.313", "id": "29932", "postId": "27062", "score": "0", "text": "It's installed by default, and unless you plan to manually hunt down individual drivers then you need it installed to fetch the right ones.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "235" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-21T18:01:49.017", "id": "30251", "postId": "27062", "score": "0", "text": "Thou art mistaken, for executing the above code asketh me to installeth `jockey-common`.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "814" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-21T18:05:36.847", "id": "30252", "postId": "27062", "score": "0", "text": "what code? Did it ask you to install jockey-common after you ran jockey-text for the first time?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "235" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-21T18:10:23.493", "id": "30253", "postId": "27062", "score": "0", "text": "Anyway, it'd be great if I could simply locate and download only the necessary driver package for my model since `jockey` seems to be an one-time use application.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "814" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-21T18:11:05.223", "id": "30255", "postId": "27062", "score": "0", "text": "It's exaclty as you say, after I ran the command (sorry not code) it asked to me install `jockey-common`. By the way, it's actually the second time, the first time was before I installed any GUI.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "814" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-21T18:22:31.617", "id": "30257", "postId": "27062", "score": "0", "text": "ok, then what happened? Did it find the driver you needed?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "235" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-21T18:29:47.347", "id": "30260", "postId": "27062", "score": "0", "text": "Can't answer that right now. Like I commented on the question, I've got only one active system, so I can't try it out outright. What I've updated you on are just the results on a VM I'm running.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "814" }, { "creationDate": "2011-02-22T15:03:58.670", "id": "30433", "postId": "27062", "score": "0", "text": "I've confirmed in a live run of Ubuntu.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "814" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-19T01:09:08.417", "id": "27062", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-19T01:09:08.417", "lastEditDate": null, "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": null, "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "235", "parentId": "27061", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "7" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>You can run <code>jockey-text</code>, which is the command line equivalent of the \"Additional Drivers\" GUI tool.</p>\n\n<p><code>jockey-text -h</code> will show you the options available.</p>\n", "commentCount": "9", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "20...
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<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/18654/how-to-forbid-a-specific-package-to-be-updated">How to forbid a specific package to be updated?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I don't want my kernel or grub updated until I do it manually. Is this possible in Ubuntu (10.04, I suppose)?</p>
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2017-04-13T12:25:03.423
2011-02-19T14:16:56.743
How to hold a package back from being upgraded?
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[ { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T17:25:32.867", "id": "29894", "postId": "27063", "score": "0", "text": "posible duplicate http://askubuntu.com/questions/18654/how-to-forbid-a-specific-package-to-be-updated", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "3550" } ]
{ "accepted": true, "body": "<p>As your question is tagged synaptic, I'll assume that this you package manager of choice. In order to hold a package back with synaptic, you simply need to \"lock the version.\" </p>\n\n<p>Find and select the package you wish to hold back. Then go to <code>Package &gt; Lock Version</code> in the menu bar.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/u3aXb.png\" alt=\"synaptic\"></p>\n\n<p>When you are ready to upgrade that package, simply highlight the package and un-check \"Lock Version.\" It can now be upgraded normally.</p>\n\n<p>If you like to do this from the command line, you can use <code>dpkg --set-selections</code></p>\n\n<pre><code>echo package_name hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>To remove the hold, run:</p>\n\n<pre><code>echo package_name install | sudo dpkg --set-selections\n</code></pre>\n", "commentCount": "3", "comments": [ { "creationDate": "2011-02-19T13:32:22.973", "id": "29852", "postId": "27068", "score": "0", "text": "what if I dont have synaptic, I mean I want to learn if there are some-other way to do it?", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "4970" }, { "creationDate": "2012-06-07T11:17:52.830", "id": "178288", "postId": "27068", "score": "2", "text": "The worst thing about this is that locking the package in `synaptic` has absolutely **no** influence on `apt-get` - even if you lock in synaptic, apt-get will still want to upgrade the packages (check with `dpkg --get-selections packagename` afterwards); so the `package_name hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections` is required for `apt-get`, independently of `synaptic`. Cheers!", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "6808" }, { "creationDate": "2015-03-15T13:43:45.197", "id": "831703", "postId": "27068", "score": "0", "text": "The dpkg commands in this answer did not work me in Ubuntu 14; I got a message that `package_name` not found in database. I used `apt-mark hold package_name` which did the trick.", "userDisplayName": null, "userId": "150020" } ], "communityOwnedDate": null, "contentLicense": "CC BY-SA 2.5", "creationDate": "2011-02-19T02:41:40.610", "id": "27068", "lastActivityDate": "2011-02-19T14:16:56.743", "lastEditDate": "2011-02-19T14:16:56.743", "lastEditorDisplayName": null, "lastEditorUserId": "570", "ownerDisplayName": null, "ownerUserId": "570", "parentId": "27063", "postTypeId": "2", "score": "10" }
[ { "accepted": true, "body": "<p>As your question is tagged synaptic, I'll assume that this you package manager of choice. In order to hold a package back with synaptic, you simply need to \"lock the version.\" </p>\n\n<p>Find and select the package you wish to hold back. Then go to <code>Package &gt; Lock V...
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