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3237 | 1 | null | 2010-08-28T15:18:28.257 | 2 | 111 | <p>The workspace between the top and bottom Gnome panels occasionally dims about 25% and holds there for an unpredictable period of time. Sometimes it never recovers to full brightness. The cursor moves but buttons are non-responsive. Most often this happens in Firefox but is not restricted to this one program. The... | 290 | 169736 | 2014-03-05T01:32:14.663 | 2014-03-16T11:01:54.940 | Why does my workspace intermittantly hold at partial dimness? | [
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3239 | 1 | 3323 | 2010-08-28T16:05:09.557 | 2 | 318 | <p>I am recently setup a server to host my "data" movies and music and such. </p>
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3241 | 1 | null | 2010-08-28T16:21:38.747 | 7 | 1421 | <p>I installed the latest <strong>Lubuntu</strong> image on a pen drive(2GB), using <strong>Ubuntu's Startup Disk Creator</strong>.
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<p>What software should I install for this? Whether it is already in the Ubuntu repository or not.</p>
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3248 | 1 | 3272 | 2010-08-28T17:22:47.403 | 8 | 22689 | <p>I don't myself know how deep this question actually goes (for example, for all I know there could be several, depending on my task).</p>
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3249 | 1 | 3252 | 2010-08-28T17:24:20.553 | 23 | 41643 | <p>I'm attempting to block myself from time-wasting websites but changes I make to /etc/hosts. For example:</p>
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3257 | 1 | 3258 | 2010-08-28T22:16:12.257 | 4 | 28322 | <p>My friend installed Ubuntu on a separate partition on a PC with Windows 7 using Wubi. But by mistake he reformatted the drive containing Ubuntu. He is still getting Ubuntu option in the boot menu. How can it be completely removed?</p>
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3265 | 1 | 3268 | 2010-08-29T06:55:38.777 | 3 | 3148 | <p>I have a <a href="http://boinc.berkeley.edu/" rel="nofollow">BOINC</a> Manager installed contributing to <a href="http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/" rel="nofollow">World Community Grid</a>. </p>
<p>Is there a way to set this to run as a screensaver visually in Ubuntu?</p>
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3270 | 1 | 3276 | 2010-08-29T12:55:47.553 | 4 | 1226 | <p>I'm looking for updated VLC builds for Lucid.</p>
<p>I was using c-korn, but it's gone.</p>
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3277 | 1 | 3279 | 2010-08-29T15:16:17.890 | 2 | 238 | <p>I would like to convert videos I download to the iPhone format on my server and be able to access and play them on my iPhone. </p>
<p>I looked into Handbrake, but I wasn't sure if it would work on the server. </p>
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3278 | 1 | 3281 | 2010-08-29T15:33:04.677 | 2 | 858 | <p>It looks like my fan in my laptop is not turning on when appropriate. I already removed granola (maybe it disables it far too long?)</p>
<p>When I put the computer in sleep mode and resume it immediately turns on the fan (the cpu was waaaaay overheated). So the question is: why does it not turn on when needed.</p>
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3284 | 1 | 3314 | 2010-08-29T16:33:08.593 | 2 | 1640 | <p>I don't use Wine much, but saw this about running the BBC Doctor Who games</p>
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3287 | 1 | 3289 | 2010-08-29T17:28:29.440 | 10 | 38192 | <p>I have some mkv files, and while Totem plays them perfectly, when i use Devede to burn them to dvd it all gets messed up: the video is ok, but the audio is out of sync.</p>
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3294 | 1 | 3310 | 2010-08-29T20:26:46.600 | 3 | 2663 | <p>On current Ubuntu (10.04) suspend-on-lid/<kbd>FN</kbd> + <kbd>F4</kbd> only works if some powermanagement-applet of KDE/gnome is running.</p>
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3315 | 1 | 3734 | 2010-08-30T10:52:40.740 | 3 | 1639 | <p>I used Tunnlier in windows and it was perfect. After migrating to Linux I, surprisingly, can't find anything that does the following:</p>
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3326 | 1 | 3332 | 2010-08-30T18:31:50.340 | 13 | 905 | <p>Whenever notifications show up, they are much lower than I would expect. In most screenshots I see, they are directly under the top panel, but for me, there's a large gap:</p>
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<p>Is there any way to change the position?</p>
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3327 | 1 | 3344 | 2010-08-30T18:37:34.933 | 3 | 2476 | <p>I've changed this from the original VHost but it should still work in my mind:</p>
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3335 | 1 | 3339 | 2010-08-30T20:37:31.987 | 19 | 2183 | <p>I recently saw <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2010/08/best-linux-clipboard-manager.html">this poll</a> asking for the "Best Linux Clipboard Manager". What actually is a clipboard manager and in what situations would a clipboard manager be useful?</p>
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3340 | 1 | 3349 | 2010-08-30T21:47:53.393 | 3 | 2004 | <p>I have a low-powered networked Ubuntu pc next to my tv. I also have a Humax PVR. The PVR has an option to record to a USB drive instead of its internal disk. </p>
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3341 | 1 | 3343 | 2010-08-30T22:05:39.260 | 24 | 8938 | <p>Is there currently any GUI based application to show currently running services, with buttons to start and stop services?</p>
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3348 | 1 | 3384 | 2010-08-31T02:45:26.653 | 11 | 6891 | <p>Okay, I just got a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120904104215/http://www.thinkgeek.com:80/computing/usb-gadgets/c609" rel="noreferrer">Lilliput 7" USB Monitor</a>:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bJMj0.jpg" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bJMj0.jpg" alt="" /></a><br />
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3353 | 1 | null | 2010-08-31T08:38:32.170 | 4 | 1623 | <p>Right-click in the main panel allows to change icons associated to files of directories, and this is cool for content organization and so on.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, right click on small directories on the side pane does not allow to change its properties (such as icon).</p>
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3355 | 1 | 3366 | 2010-08-31T09:43:27.523 | 6 | 1561 | <p>So, I installed Ubuntu (Using Gnome) with keyboard layout US International with Dead Keys enabled. Now I've set this to US International with <kbd>Alt-Gr</kbd> Dead Keys enabled. I added the latter and deleted the first. I then clicked "Apply to entire system" and closed the keyboard manager.</p>
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3359 | 1 | 3360 | 2010-08-31T12:19:52.473 | 27 | 37533 | <p>I have a terminal command I run from an application launcher. This works great, however sometimes the command fails, so I'd like for the terminal to stay open so I can see the results. How can I do this?</p>
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3362 | 1 | 3367 | 2010-08-31T16:04:23.420 | 4 | 3026 | <p>I have a laptop with an internal wifi G adapter, and I have an external USB wifi adapter that is compatible with N. the internal wifi can be disabled using a little switch on the side of the laptop. However, when I disable it using the switch, it disables <strong>ALL</strong> Wifi adapters, internal or external.</p>... | 1464 | null | null | 2010-08-31T16:54:23.273 | How enable/disable WiFi adapters individually under 10.04 | [
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3363 | 1 | 82717 | 2010-08-31T16:28:51.223 | 7 | 8236 | <p>I know how to open directory, but I do not know how to select a file from the command line.</p>
<p><strong>Edit:</strong></p>
<p>I do not know how it works, but when I move any file to a directory and then open the directory that this file is selected.</p>
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3369 | 1 | 3370 | 2010-08-31T17:22:48.987 | 154 | 189873 | <p>Logout, Restart and Shutdown are all self explanatory to me. </p>
<p>What are the differences between Suspend and Hibernate on the shutdown menu?</p>
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3372 | 1 | 3374 | 2010-08-31T17:47:06.550 | 4 | 1213 | <p>My Blue Eyeball Webcam works for the application cheese out-of-the-box in Ubuntu. Now I would like to use it for Skype for which it does not work. What can I do?</p>
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I had limited time to return the webcam, so I returned it and bought one that was on the list of webcams supported in Skype.</p>
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3375 | 1 | 594186 | 2010-08-31T18:19:26.443 | 287 | 455449 | <p>I have a virtual machine that is set to <strong>PST</strong> that a couple of colleagues have in different time-zones.</p>
<p>If I wanted to change the time-zone to <strong>EST</strong> and <strong>GMT</strong>, what do I need to do?</p>
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3377 | 1 | 3393 | 2010-08-31T18:46:01.467 | 3 | 246 | <p>I am trying to solve <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3348/how-to-get-lilliput-usb-monitor-running-in-ubuntu">this</a> problem. In the process, I messed up the kernel configuration and some of the modules aren't loading.</p>
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3378 | 1 | 3399 | 2010-08-31T19:22:30.930 | 87 | 140646 | <p>My processor is an Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 (2.40GHz). As far as I know that's a 64-bit processor - I'm a bit confused as the architecture is called <strong>AMD</strong> 64, is this a generic name given to 64-bit architectures? I've heard of x64 but can't see a release labelled with this.</p>
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3379 | 1 | 3386 | 2010-08-31T19:28:04.880 | 16 | 14536 | <p>I run a more recent kernel (2.6.34) than the ones supplied with the Update Manager. I am tired of updates asking me to reboot every week or so and screwing my grub.cfg (this probably deserves it's own question).</p>
<p>How can I disable those updates painlessly?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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3382 | 1 | null | 2010-08-31T19:46:10.787 | 20 | 16648 | <p>I've got a PDF of a scanned document that's around 20MB and I need to drastically reduce the filesize to be able to email it. I've tried</p>
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3389 | 1 | 3391 | 2010-08-31T20:31:57.913 | 4 | 743 | <p>I bound the command "terminator" to <kbd>Super</kbd> + <kbd>T</kbd> in the shortcut keys configuration.</p>
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3394 | 1 | 3401 | 2010-08-31T22:55:55.703 | 4 | 3826 | <p>I've <em>almost</em> got <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3348/how-to-get-lilliput-usb-monitor-running-in-ubuntu">this</a> problem solved... I've got both displays working now. The secondary display is displaying a purple background. Unfortunately, I can't use it. (I can't move the mouse into it, etc.)</p>
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3395 | 1 | 3397 | 2010-08-31T23:36:46.327 | 84 | 101346 | <p>I'm trying to get the mime type of a file from the command line as a printed string (eg. <code>application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet</code>).</p>
<p>I looked up how to do this and found the <code>xdg-mime</code> command.</p>
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3396 | 1 | null | 2010-08-31T23:43:57.247 | 0 | 313 | <p>I have "automatically remember running applications when logging out" enabled in "Startup Application Preferences". However, some programs don't work with this setting: namely Chromium TweetDeck and Geany; none of these programs are restored whenever I restart the machine. Other programs such as Firefox, Gedit, Ter... | 1011 | 235 | 2011-10-20T15:25:04.993 | 2011-10-20T15:25:04.993 | Chromium, Tweetdeck, and Geany don't work when set to run at login | [
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3402 | 1 | 3579 | 2010-09-01T00:56:12.353 | 39 | 95474 | <p>I have two drives on my computer that have the following configuration:</p>
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3403 | 1 | 3429 | 2010-09-01T00:59:06.693 | 6 | 2723 | <p>I'd like to be able to determine what emblem a file has from the command line. Is there a way to determine this? Also, is there a way to apply emblems from the command line?</p>
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3404 | 1 | null | 2010-09-01T01:08:46.847 | 3 | 5374 | <p>I'm running ubuntu 9.10 x64, with the stock tightvncserver (1.3.9).</p>
<p>When I start tightvncserver, I can connect with the windows tightvnc client and get the empty desktop with a single terminal. When I then try to start gnome-session it promptly crashes.</p>
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3407 | 1 | null | 2010-09-01T03:30:44.447 | 4 | 829 | <p>I'm using postfix smtp and adding always_bcc.</p>
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3408 | 1 | null | 2010-09-01T06:00:41.240 | 4 | 5821 | <p>I need links to some documentation which states how Ubuntu handles <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadlock" rel="nofollow">deadlock</a>, which method does it apply?</p>
<p>Please note am asking this question as am a new user regarding the os and therefore really confused google is not helpful</p>
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3411 | 1 | 3415 | 2010-09-01T08:19:38.110 | 4 | 193 | <p>For my work I need to stay close to 2.8 version of llvm (not yet released). I found out that Maverick will have it installed and already have some prepackaged version. </p>
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3418 | 1 | null | 2010-09-01T10:12:12.893 | 2 | 7189 | <p>On my laptop the wireless seems to be detected but it fails to connect. Even turning the switch on and off seems to have no effect. This is the output of lspci command:</p>
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3424 | 1 | 3517 | 2010-09-01T13:03:09.230 | 4 | 10578 | <p>My chromium browser doesn't work for some reason. What I mean by that is that it doesn't even start up when I click on chromium icon or choose chromium from applications menu. What might be the problem?</p>
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3431 | 1 | 3433 | 2010-09-01T14:50:13.720 | 4 | 14618 | <p>If I boot ubuntu from the live cd without any special options I get the following message:</p>
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3432 | 1 | 3436 | 2010-09-01T14:55:19.213 | 19 | 35329 | <p>I need to view a .pub file. How can I view the file or convert it to a more mainstream format (such as a PDF?)</p>
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3446 | 1 | 3454 | 2010-09-01T17:10:11.287 | 16 | 2144 | <p>I have a program that needs to be recompiled for every ubuntu version.</p>
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<p>Eventually, I have to provide packages for the previous ubuntu version.</p>
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3447 | 1 | 3448 | 2010-09-01T18:09:04.373 | 8 | 3423 | <p>Is there a nice, possibly GUI way to add mount points to partitions in Ubuntu?</p>
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3450 | 1 | null | 2010-09-01T19:10:23.893 | 2 | 930 | <p>I have a HP Compaq nx9020 notebook with Intel graphics 855MG. When I installed Ubuntu 10.04 in text mode everything worked fine, but after a reboot the notebook is freezing after the loading screen with Ubuntu.</p>
<p>Windows works fine so I guess the hardware is ok.</p>
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3457 | 1 | 3458 | 2010-09-01T21:26:59.373 | 7 | 4023 | <p>The write-protect switch on an SD card doesn't connect to any internal electronics, so it must just be respected by the software controlling the card reader.</p>
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3460 | 1 | 3461 | 2010-09-02T01:45:09.947 | 5 | 659 | <p>My Gwibber app in 10.04 seems to have fallen victim to the OAuthcalypse. I understand that the latest version of Gwibber has this corrected. What is the easiest way to install a version of Gwibber that will work once again with twitter?</p>
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3463 | 1 | 3505 | 2010-09-02T02:32:09.160 | 2 | 2405 | <p>I recently installed <code>mpd-gnome</code> which among other things adds a nautilus extension <code>nautilus-mpd.py</code>. This extension does not seem to be working so I decided to run nautilus from the command line to see if it threw up some kind of error regarding the extension. Unfortunately as soon as I attem... | 1644 | 41 | 2010-09-02T02:38:35.333 | 2023-09-24T05:39:05.203 | How to debug Nautilus extension? | [
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3468 | 1 | 3607 | 2010-09-02T06:44:44.057 | 3 | 347 | <p>My mouse was working fine up until this morning. Since then my mouse has stopped working. However the red led bottom is still on and it works in Windows on same machine. The keyboard is unaffected. There is not error messages fired at boot time. What can be the possible reason and how can this be solved.</p>
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3469 | 1 | 3473 | 2010-09-02T12:06:20.897 | 5 | 643 | <p>Recently (I don't don't know when, might have been after an update) the sound indicator disappeared from my panel, and I haven't been getting any sound either. I tried installing the <code>indicator-sound</code> package, but all I got was this error message:</p>
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3470 | 1 | 3471 | 2010-09-02T13:40:43.980 | 5 | 2505 | <p>Gnome is a reasonable desktop manager, but it doesn't seem to match Mac OSX or Windows 7. Are there any alternatives for Ubuntu that focus more on usability? </p>
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3475 | 1 | 3487 | 2010-09-02T16:19:29.167 | 5 | 518 | <p>I've purchased several System76 desktops and have been pleased with them. They can only be configured with nVidia cards. That's why I was surprised to see that their Pangolin Performance laptop can only be configured with "ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 Graphics with 512MB GDDR2 Memory." I'm a little concerned given AT... | 1877 | 235 | 2010-09-02T23:29:09.450 | 2013-03-27T16:16:02.210 | System76 using ATI cards in their laptops -- good or bad? | [
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3476 | 1 | 3534 | 2010-09-02T16:30:57.980 | 2 | 5092 | <p>Some weeks ago I configured a dual boot laptop to run Xubuntu 10.4 on the third partition of my disk (i.e. I had to set the installation location manually). Everything was fine until I had installed the bunch of automatic updates (including a new kernel), which were discovered after Wifi was finally working. After r... | 277 | 277 | 2010-09-05T12:08:10.240 | 2013-03-26T19:33:28.727 | Grub no longer boots after kernel update (second time now) | [
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3481 | 1 | 3491 | 2010-09-02T17:26:05.057 | 8 | 7535 | <p>People always say that Linux is more secure than Windows. The main reason seems to be the general system design philosophy and the fact that users are users and not root.</p>
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3484 | 1 | null | 2010-09-02T18:21:03.217 | 0 | 399 | <p>I hate to have the Windows PC just for the sake of running my Magick Jack on, Have long since left Windows for Ubuntu for all my home PC's. </p>
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3489 | 1 | 10027 | 2010-09-02T19:05:34.810 | 5 | 4947 | <p>Will the Unity launcher in 10.10 UNE have gnome-do style keyboard shortcuts?</p>
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3497 | 1 | 3499 | 2010-09-02T20:21:45.750 | 2 | 8513 | <p>I am using an IMAP email account. I created a filter in Evolution to move email from a specific high-volume source into a particular folder, to keep the Inbox uncluttered. I noticed that incoming emails are coming straight into the Inbox. If I select Messages->Apply Filters, then they are moved into the folder. Is t... | 90 | null | null | 2010-09-02T21:15:57.737 | How do I get Evolution to apply filters automatically? | [
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3498 | 1 | 3500 | 2010-09-02T21:12:25.820 | 2 | 881 | <p>I'm going to try and set up wifi on a computer with Ubuntu installed where it doesn't work out of the box. The computer is an Acer Veriton L460 with a AR5001 wifi card. There are two options as far as I know:</p>
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3502 | 1 | 3527 | 2010-09-02T22:32:35.723 | 4 | 2182 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 (can't upgrade due to some applications being incompatible with later versions), with all updates installed.</p>
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3503 | 1 | 3507 | 2010-09-02T23:34:22.493 | 163 | 50153 | <p>I have multiple Ubuntu machines at home and a pretty slow internet connection, and sometimes multiple machines need to be updated at once (especially during new Ubuntu releases.)</p>
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3508 | 1 | null | 2010-09-03T00:02:54.227 | 1 | 382 | <p>I'm in a bit of a pickle here; my main computer has trouble with the Nouveau open source driver for NVIDIA cards. As this problem is seemingly quite complicated, I was wondering if there was a way to add/install the NVIDIA driver from Jockey onto a Ubuntu/Kubuntu <code>.iso</code> file.</p>
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3515 | 1 | 3535 | 2010-09-03T03:56:44.260 | 69 | 234025 | <p>When I SSH to a remote box</p>
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3520 | 1 | 3537 | 2010-09-03T08:23:37.453 | 9 | 2638 | <p>My thinkpad has two network interfaces, one wired and one wireless. Both interfaces can be connected to a router which in turn is connected to the Internet.</p>
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3528 | 1 | 3593 | 2010-09-03T12:02:19.363 | 15 | 4330 | <p>I am stumped. I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 Beta 3 and for some reason I can't get Alt-F2 to do anything. Is this a known bug or am I just not doing the right thing?</p>
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3530 | 1 | null | 2010-09-03T12:47:47.440 | 9 | 428 | <p>Will they be available in 10.10 or not? </p>
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3531 | 1 | 3532 | 2010-09-03T13:48:54.620 | 22 | 20455 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu 9.10. Whenever I open the gvim application, I have to select a custom font (Edit→Select font). I would like gvim to remember my choice. Perhaps I need to edit the <code>~/.vimrc</code> file, I am not sure.</p>
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3539 | 1 | 3542 | 2010-09-03T16:08:32.603 | 15 | 5491 | <p>I have no programming language preferences and I have a good knowledge of OpenGL coding. If I could use something like OpenFrameworks or Processing as a base, that would be ideal.</p>
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3541 | 1 | 3546 | 2010-09-03T16:41:01.040 | 45 | 52034 | <p>When I copy something from another window then my terminal and want to paste it into my terminal (on the command line) the paste option in Edit is grayed out. <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>V</kbd> does not work in GNOME Terminal 2.29.6.</p>
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3547 | 1 | null | 2010-09-03T18:07:05.323 | 3 | 5883 | <p>I just fixed the grub install, and found that my wired network connection did not work. I eventually got it working, but each time I restart, I have to manually restart the networking service to bring up the network. How can get the network to come up automatically?</p>
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3549 | 1 | 3551 | 2010-09-03T18:51:14.220 | 8 | 855 | <p>I want upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS. Is there a basic update? How do I do it?</p>
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3554 | 1 | null | 2010-09-03T19:13:22.920 | 21 | 33855 | <p>My company's corporate network requires me to set a network proxy to access the net, but when I am anywhere else, I don't need it.
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3557 | 1 | 8843 | 2010-09-03T19:34:01.560 | 7 | 7913 | <p>How can I get my webcam's (<em>Microsoft Lifecam VX-1000</em>) microphone to work?</p>
<p>It uses the <em>uvcvideo</em> driver and video quality is perfect on both <em>Cheese</em> and Gmail's Video Chat.</p>
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3561 | 1 | 565940 | 2010-09-03T20:26:57.167 | 48 | 75856 | <p>I'd like to watch disk activity on my USB external hard drive. I know that I can use <code>iotop</code> to monitor disk I/O for each running process, but is there a way to get a measure per filesystem?</p>
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3564 | 1 | 3568 | 2010-09-03T22:01:42.347 | 2 | 804 | <p>I'd like to have a script play a pretty chime sound as a notification, but I want it to use the internal speaker because the external sound system isn't always powered on.</p>
<p>Beeping is not an option; it makes passers-by think there is something wrong.</p>
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3573 | 1 | null | 2010-09-04T05:44:35.570 | 2 | 161 | <p>I have a box that has Xen on it. It currently has only one DomU. Given that Xen isn't supported in the newer versions of Ubuntu...are there any good HOWTOs or other instructions for removing Xen?</p>
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3576 | 1 | 3725 | 2010-09-04T08:27:34.797 | 28 | 104141 | <p>I copied "archives" folder (/var/cache/apt/archives) from another computer which was fully updated and had some packages that i want. Can someone guide me how to add my USB drive in repository list so that i can install those packages from it?</p>
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3577 | 1 | 3606 | 2010-09-04T08:33:33.357 | 6 | 7148 | <p>They use silverlight -- therefore I installed moonlight but still get a black screen.</p>
<p>Is there a way to watch it on Ubuntu? I now use a virtual (windows xp) machine so I can still watch it, but would like to know it there are possibilities.</p>
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3578 | 1 | 3584 | 2010-09-04T08:33:59.960 | 132 | 106643 | <p>Often I need to annotate (draw some arrows, lines, basic shapes like squares, ellipses etc and enter some text) on top of pictures (JPG, PNG images) and screenshots (again png images). I would also need to be able to crop, resize etc.</p>
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3580 | 1 | 3581 | 2010-09-04T08:39:13.457 | 2 | 200 | <p>If I download a packed file, and then want to open, the gnome file system points me to my home directory.
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3586 | 1 | 3587 | 2010-09-04T11:09:47.527 | 3 | 19733 | <p>How do I move the start bar on top to the right or left edge of the screen? </p>
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3592 | 1 | 3597 | 2010-09-04T12:11:18.687 | 6 | 4503 | <p>I am a Linux/Ubuntu newbie installing Ubuntu Server 10.04 on a fresh box as a web server.</p>
<p>My box has two physical drives (40GB and 160GB), and I wish to use them both.</p>
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3596 | 1 | 3833 | 2010-09-04T12:33:06.700 | 288 | 527032 | <p>As a Linux/Ubuntu newbie, what is LVM and what is it used for?</p>
<p>In terms of a web server installation, what benefits does it provide?</p>
<p>Would you recommend using it?</p>
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3601 | 1 | 240383 | 2010-09-04T13:42:20.357 | 14 | 8046 | <p>Maybe this is obvious and I am missing it, or maybe someone's already written a great guide and my (seeming exhaustive) googling is failing to turn it up, but I cannot figure out for the life of me how to get the darn python console in rhythmbox to <strong>do</strong> anything!</p>
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3609 | 1 | null | 2010-09-04T17:24:55.497 | 4 | 6754 | <p>I have and HP Officejet 6500 Wireless printer and I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 32bit. I want to print CD covers, what kind of software can i use to do that? I already tried glables, Gimp, and Image viewer. </p>
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3613 | 1 | 4184 | 2010-09-04T18:26:05.430 | 5 | 4864 | <p>Whenever I try to view a PDF of a document in <a href="http://www.lyx.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">LyX</a>, I get this error:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zhI5K.png" alt="No information for exporting the format PDF (pdflatex)"></p>
<p>I get similar errors for DVI and postscript.</p>
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3616 | 1 | 3800 | 2010-09-04T19:30:33.600 | 2 | 1291 | <p>I'm trying to install iFolder on Ubuntu 10.04 32bits by following the steps presented at <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/iFolderInstall" rel="nofollow">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/iFolderInstall</a>.</p>
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