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28458 | 1 | null | 2011-02-28T18:57:39.587 | 3 | 4065 | <p>I have an Ubuntu 10.04 Server installation with PHP 5.3.2 installed, I want to upgrade it to PHP 5.3.5. I'm led to believe that <code>apt-get upgrade</code> will only install security updates, we're on this LTS release and don't plan on updating our servers until 12.04, so it's pretty important for us to be able to update PHP.</p>
<p>Any ideas?</p>
<p>Many thanks.</p>
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28459 | 1 | null | 2011-02-28T18:59:36.207 | 2 | 417 | <p>I want to simulate the following network with 2 laptops connected over internet. How can I do it? How can I set up the intefaces? [I'm using KVM if it matters]. Any help appreciated.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/WwY7q.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
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28464 | 1 | 28465 | 2011-02-28T19:17:52.050 | 5 | 10273 | <p>SiSoftware Sandra is a hardware diagnostic tool for windows: <a href="http://www.sisoftware.net/">http://www.sisoftware.net/</a>
the time update my little note book has come, and i encountered the problem of not knowing
what is the model of my processor(the notebook come in two flavours, its asus eee pc 1005ha btw and yes, i did try to google it).
and its very critical for me since im upgrading the ram.</p>
<p>edit:
sorry for the misunderstanding, i need to find out my processor model right now but i want to find similar software for future use that is more than just finding what is my processor. </p>
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28468 | 1 | 28691 | 2011-02-28T19:37:07.237 | 4 | 4456 | <p>With an Ubuntu Live Disc, I have copied my Ubuntu 10.04 installation to a new harddisk (with the same hardware). However, it doesn't boot, since I think I still need to set up grub for this new installation.<br>
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<p>running</p>
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28470 | 1 | 28472 | 2011-02-28T19:50:03.863 | 66 | 27866 | <p>I'd like to know how I would build Unity from source code in the current development release. Please cover the following topics:</p>
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<li>Which packages are needed to compile Unity?</li>
<li>Where would I get the current source code?</li>
<li>What are the steps to actually configure and compile Unity?</li>
<li>Is it possible to safely run the latest version alongside the version from the repositories?</li>
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<p>I know I can setup a cron job to keep checking for events, but is there anything like PUSH which can be done?</p>
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"text": "You can use dyndns.com and run a cron script on your server which tells dyndns.com of your IP address. The client then looks up the your ip address on dyndns.com before connecting. Since all HTTP connections are made on port 80 but default, so one rule in port forwarding is enough.",
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"text": "@Manish Thanks for explaining & introducing `dynds.com`, it will save a lot of efforts for sure. Any pointers or guides on how do I go about building a simple listener which will listen to the data?",
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28474 | 1 | null | 2011-02-28T20:18:41.983 | 4 | 655 | <p>and not NFS?</p>
<p>click on a folder and select proprieties, tab "share".</p>
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28476 | 1 | 28482 | 2011-02-28T20:38:55.403 | 322 | 353166 | <p>I'm trying to create a zip file from a folder and I'd like to exclude the <code>.git</code> sub-folder from the resulting zip file.</p>
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<p>But it doesn't exclude the <code>.git</code> sub-folder.</p>
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28477 | 1 | 28488 | 2011-02-28T20:45:23.707 | 44 | 26280 | <p>I'm looking for a list which paths/files are safe to exclude for a full system/home backup. </p>
<p><em>Considering that I have a list of installed packages.</em></p>
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<li><code>/home/*/.thumbnails</code></li>
<li><code>/home/*/.cache</code></li>
<li><code>/home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache</code></li>
<li><code>/home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/OfflineCache</code></li>
<li><code>/home/*/.local/share/Trash</code></li>
<li><p><code>/home/*/.gvfs/</code></p></li>
<li><p><code>/tmp/</code></p></li>
<li><code>/var/tmp/</code></li>
<li>not real folders but can cause severe problems when 'restoring'
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<li><code>/dev</code></li>
<li><code>/proc</code></li>
<li><code>/sys</code></li>
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<p>What about...</p>
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<li><code>/var/</code> in general?</li>
<li><code>/var/backups/</code> - can get quite large</li>
<li><code>/var/log/</code> - does not require much space and can help for later comparison</li>
<li><code>/lost+found/</code></li>
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"text": "I would recommend using the -x option with rsync for backups. That way, it will not cross filesystem boundaries, which will exclude things like /dev /proc /sys /mnt and /media. You still have to exclude /home/*/.gvfs.",
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"text": "@Azendale: might be. On the other hand, when you use something like `--exclude=/proc/*`, it will keep the directory /proc on the backup (which is needed if you want to boot the mirror), but not the contents of it.",
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"text": "or Opera users , I would add `--exclude=/home/*/.opera/cache` as well :)",
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"text": "@Guandalino: `/etc/fstab` should be edited manually if you want to be able to boot into the backup partition. Otherwise it's not necessary to exclude that file.",
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"text": "Firefox [stores it's cache](http://askubuntu.com/q/616551/14601) in `/home/*/.cache/mozilla/*` these days instead of `/home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache/`",
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<p>Gnomes automount system for some reason never gets this right and I can find nowhere to change its settings. </p>
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<p>This is with Ubuntu 10.10 and the system can display the characters involved.</p>
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28491 | 1 | 28502 | 2011-02-28T21:52:21.300 | 2 | 583 | <p>I'm thinking of an investment in a new root server running ubuntu. Due to the fact, that the provider won't have extra backup-space, I need an other solution.</p>
<p>Is it possible to download the server backups automatically when my desktop machine is connected to the internet and in idle state?</p>
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28493 | 1 | 28497 | 2011-02-28T22:16:21.007 | 3 | 2434 | <p>I'd like to run a script every time that a DVD is inserted into the drive.</p>
<p>Ideally, it would be auto-mounted and then a script would be run. The script would NOT be on the drive (not looking for autorun functionality a la Windows).</p>
<p>A command line solution would be optimal!</p>
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"text": "Excellent. This is a headless box without x installed - I found information on /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules which seems to allow me to do this as well from the bash prompt.",
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28495 | 1 | null | 2011-02-28T22:23:31.860 | 63 | 237633 | <p>If you select "USB" and "Mac" on <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download">this download page</a>, it gives a series of command line instructions to make a USB key which the MacBook will boot into Ubuntu from.</p>
<p>I've followed them to the letter two or three times on different USB keys, and it doesn't work. There's a very great deal of technical discussion about EFI etc. but this set of instructions seems to suggest it should just work, but it doesn't.</p>
<p>Help? I'm increasingly unhappy with the more locked-down approach Apple is taking, and I'd quite like to start using Linux with a view to transitioning over to using it as my main operating system, but booting from the CD takes forever, runs slowly and I'm really hoping to get it moving off USB.</p>
<p>Can anybody help me?</p>
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<p>However I did not find an easy step by step guide on how to set this up.</p>
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"text": "Regarding the \"Leave it as localhost when you only want to stream in your local network\" part, does this not need to be a network-reachable IP or interface for other deviced to be able to connect?",
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"text": "@Charbel: no, they are not related. Choose any password you like. You e.g. need them to access the icecast admin web interface (http://localhost:8000/admin/).",
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"text": "This is a great answer, thank you. In a great many tutorials, I see icecast and mpd mentioned together, working together. I don't understand the relationship between icecast and mpd - would you be able to clarify? What role does each serve?",
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"text": "@CoolUserName: Yeah, if you have an MPD server running you can configure the Icecast server as audio output there. You don't need Darkice then.",
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"text": "Note, that the Icecast2 passwords are stored (and used in Darkice) as clear-text. Do not reuse your very secret passwords here.",
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"text": "For ices, the mediubuntu link is down, but these days you can just use `sudo apt-get install ices2`. Wish I had known that earlier.",
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"text": "@RaisinBranCrunch thank you - sad that Medibuntu is down again. Note that you can't stream **mp3** playlists with Ices2",
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"text": "@Takkat what I should do if I wanna access Icecast outside the local network. I followed your tutorial, I used Icecast and Darkice together and it's working nice. But I have to use it out of my local network. Kindly provide help.",
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"text": "@MuhammadSarmadMahmoodMalik: I believe you have to edit the config file (`icecast.xml`) to replace `localhost` with your public IP address. Then restart the Icecast server. If the listen socket port (defaults to 8000 but this is configurable) is open, forwarded to the Icecast server, and not blocked by a firewall you should be ready to go. It is years since I tried that but it should still work.",
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"text": "@Takkat I enabled port forwarding in my router. Server IP Address: **192.168.10.16**, I used this address as it is the IP address of my raspberry pi. The port is **8000** as Icecast users this port. I found public IP using ``curl icanhazip.com`` command and replace the IP address in the **icecast.xml** file. After all this setup I reboot the system and trying to access Icecast using this public IP but not succeeded. Can you please tell me where I am doing wrong.",
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"text": "@Takkat project is done! I was wrong in setting my port forwarding at router side. I was only doing in `NAT -> Virtual Server` but it was also required to port forwarding setting in `NAT -> Port Triggering` and `NAT -> DMZ Host`.",
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28501 | 1 | 112184 | 2011-02-28T23:19:51.030 | 1 | 219 | <p>I know that on Windows it's quite futile to try to backup the "C:" partition file-wise and that's why a full partition backup is needed. Is it OK to backup a the root Linux partition file-wise? Are there any downsides?</p>
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<p>Here, I don't care about advantages of partial backups. I'm going to do additional separate backups of <code>/home</code>, etc. What I'm interested in here is the comparison of</p>
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28504 | 1 | 53450 | 2011-02-28T23:51:40.400 | 10 | 18802 | <p>After many days and a lot of frustration, I managed to get freenx to work on my home server. I can connect to it with nomachine's linux client, but I want to use Remmina for this purpose. The problem is that I don't exactly know how to connect to a NX-server with the program.</p>
<p>In the connection dialog, I've chosen SSH as the protocol, and I've correctly added the IP and port. Under "SSH Authentication" I've added my user name on the server, and I choose "identity file" and selected the ssh-key I generated (which works with nxclient). (When am I supposed to provide my password for the user on the server?)</p>
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<p>Why do I get this message? How shall I proceed correctly to get the authentication working?</p>
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28505 | 1 | null | 2011-02-28T23:53:55.453 | 0 | 166 | <p>I'm trying to use this code from webupd8 to fix the problem I have. It seems it didn't work. </p>
<pre><code>sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/smplayer_0.6.9+svn3595-1ppa1~maverick1_i386.deb
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<p>Here is the output from my attempt to install dockbar :</p>
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dpkg: error processing var/apt/cache/archives/dockmanager_0.1.0~bzr80-0ubuntu1~10.10~dockers1_i386.deb
(--install): cannot access archive:
No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing:
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<p>Is there any way around this?</p>
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28511 | 1 | 28513 | 2011-03-01T00:40:03.513 | 85 | 52159 | <p>In 10.10, when opening a directory in Nautilus, I was wondering how to copy the current path?</p>
<p>My address bar, pictured here, is not copyable: </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/UJsTP.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
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28514 | 1 | 28551 | 2011-03-01T01:01:06.973 | 4 | 548 | <p>I have an issue with my new Toshiba laptop. Whenever I plug in an external USB device, if the laptop is not plugged in to the wall, the laptop freezes. However, nothing happens if the laptop is plugged in to the wall.</p>
<p>When I say the laptop freezes, I mean it really freezes. The only way to recover is to hard reboot.</p>
<p>My question is, what could be causing this? Could it be the extra power drain from the sub devices that causes this (even the simplest flash drives cause a freeze)?</p>
<p>Please help me out, it's very annoying.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<h1>EDIT</h1>
<p>Doing a google search, I found that there was a BIOS update that I didnt have. After updating the BIOS, I no longer have this problem.</p>
<p>Laptop model: Toshiba Portege R705-P35</p>
<p>old BIOS: 1.70</p>
<p>new BIOS: 1.80</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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28516 | 1 | 28658 | 2011-03-01T02:56:47.417 | 15 | 54796 | <p>Is it possible to redirect connections to a specific IP/port to an external IP/port?</p>
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28517 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T04:14:20.860 | 1 | 969 | <p>I'm new to Ubuntu and my question is pretty much the title. I just need help with this because I don't want to go through and specifically name ALL of my songs.</p>
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28519 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T04:35:36.600 | 3 | 1226 | <p>I am running Ubuntu Wubi in Windows 7 on my netbook.</p>
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28520 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T04:38:16.853 | 1 | 782 | <p>I want to buy a new PC to be used as a media server that streams HD movies, music to any wireless device on my network (laptop, desktop, TV, etc.).</p>
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<li>Is there any tutorial showing how it could be done?</li>
<li>And the security - how can I secure it?</li>
<li>As well as I need it to to host my emails. I mean I have many emails. And sometimes I'm using desktop, sometimes laptop.. so is it possible to make the server store a copy of my emails, attachments, all sent items (whether they were from desktop or laptop)?</li>
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28523 | 1 | 28528 | 2011-03-01T06:03:26.673 | 15 | 33866 | <p>For instance for mechanical engineering; from what I've seen, Blender is quite flexible and powerful so maybe it serves well for this also?</p>
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28530 | 1 | 28537 | 2011-03-01T08:17:06.483 | 92 | 32956 | <p>I have <code>unattended-upgrade</code> set up on my Ubuntu systems. Occasionally I will log in remotely to one of them and I'll see a message informing me that I need to reboot the system (in order to complete an upgrade). Is there a way to determine the specific package (or set of packages) which is triggering this notice?</p>
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28538 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T09:14:16.863 | 5 | 771 | <p>In 11.04, if you don't want to use the new Unity desktop, you can use Ubuntu Classic Desktop (selectable from the login screen), which is similar to the Gnome 2 desktop provided in 10.10. Will Ubuntu Classic Desktop continue to be improved, or is it in "maintenance mode"? If the latter, will it continue to exist for the foreseeable future, or is the plan to eventually discontinue it?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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28544 | 1 | 28554 | 2011-03-01T10:24:01.510 | 11 | 10639 | <p>I depend upon Ubuntu for most of my work but I still need Windows 7 for some applications such as </p>
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<p>I checked Wine but as of now it provides no support for Office 2010 and most of my games and softwares. So, I decided to go for Virtualizing Windows 7 inside Ubuntu, but I am confused about which virtualization software should I use on Ubuntu for virtualization.</p>
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28547 | 1 | 28582 | 2011-03-01T10:34:33.563 | 3 | 12490 | <p>I don't want this to be default behavior for Chromium though.</p>
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28550 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T11:06:13.507 | 1 | 1079 | <p>I have downloaded the tar.gz file for Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit from <a href="http://plcemu.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://plcemu.sourceforge.net/</a> but I don't know how to install this.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how to install plc-emu from the .tar.zip?</p>
<p>Tried but i cant install the software...it gives error </p>
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[sudo] password for melwin:
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cc -O -g -c plcemu.c
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28559 | 1 | 28640 | 2011-03-01T12:29:46.633 | 2 | 245 | <p>It was suggested I use hg-buildpackage to build my Ubuntu packages because it will ignore my .hg folder and files.</p>
<p>However I can't seem to find it in the Ubuntu 10.10 repos.</p>
<p>How can I get hg-buildpackage on Ubuntu 10.10?</p>
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28561 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T12:32:50.593 | 9 | 55248 | <p>The current home directory gets full.</p>
<p>Can I assign more disk space to the home directory somehow or are there any other solutions?</p>
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28562 | 1 | 28629 | 2011-03-01T12:49:42.043 | 38 | 6545 | <p>Let's assume I have a working application written in C, C++ or Python. I want to create a Launchpad PPA so others can easily install it from a package. Please give step by step instructions for doing this from beginning to end. (Or provide a link that does the same ;)</p>
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<li>Do I need to add anything to my build?</li>
<li>Where should the build install itself to?</li>
<li>How do I define dependencies?</li>
<li>How do I use dependencies?</li>
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28563 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T12:55:03.277 | 3 | 8044 | <p>I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 Server on nodes of a computational cluster, and I access the nodes via ssh. I configured a X server, which I start with the command <code>startx -- -ac</code>. The server is running fine on port :0. Then, I set the environment variable DISPLAY to :0. Now, when I run a GTK application on the node, it fails with the following error: </p>
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<p>Now, my question is, is there any runtime library that I need for running GTK applications on top of a X server? I'm probably missing something obvious here, but I can't tell what :P</p>
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28564 | 1 | 28580 | 2011-03-01T13:00:30.667 | 4 | 9735 | <p>I want to run a simple bash script automatically when I log in. For example</p>
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<p>I tried to add this to <code>/home/me/.bash_login</code> or something, but that didn't work.. </p>
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28566 | 1 | 28574 | 2011-03-01T13:06:30.997 | 5 | 228 | <p>When I login after boot, or maybe after a idle time, I am presented with a login box. If I enter the incorrect password, it takes a longer time to verify, and give the error message, than entering the correct password, and getting logged in. Why is that?</p>
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28570 | 1 | 28615 | 2011-03-01T13:26:35.607 | 1 | 739 | <p>I currently have Kubuntu running on a large SATA drive. I am considering setting up KXStudio to dual boot. Rather than messing up my current partitions I am thinking of adding an old IDE drive and installing KXStudio there. I'll probably share the swap and data partitions.</p>
<p>Any potential pitfalls with this?</p>
<p>I've not dual-booted multiple Linuxes before. Is KXStudio likely to set up GRUB for me?</p>
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"text": "Well it worked out a bit easier than I expected. I thought re-partitioning the big drive would be tricky, but KX let me resize one to make room, so didn't use other drive. Not getting GRUB menu yet, so need to look into that. Still using Kubuntu for now. Thx",
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28575 | 1 | 28577 | 2011-03-01T14:11:08.500 | 0 | 292 | <p>I want to schedule my machine to run all my updates unattended at night, but this requires my authentication (which pretty much axes the unattended part). Would it be best to use a cron job or is there something better?</p>
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"text": "In more than 5 years i never received an update which I didn't install - to what information would I refuse that? So why not let it automatically happen? I guess the risk is very low.",
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"text": "@user unknown: in more than 5 years I have received multiple updates that broke something, and required manual intervention. Including mysql, apache2, and LDAP libraries. With Ubuntu LTS and with Debian, for example. Also, few times there have been dependency which removed important package(s). Therefore, I would claim running unattended updates during night is risky.",
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28578 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T14:54:38.053 | 6 | 1852 | <p>Does anyone knows if the 2D (Qt) version of unity will be theme-able and also will support transparency in the top panel?</p>
<p>How customizable is Unity 2D planned to be?</p>
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28579 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T13:44:19.520 | 2 | 1049 | <p>When I put a site on a shared folder on Virtualbox I get a very slow response time. If i move it to a non-shared folder such as my home folder it responsed instantly. I am running a Ubuntu guest on a Snow Leopard host.</p>
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28581 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T15:10:00.210 | 1 | 1002 | <p>I'm probably missing something here. I'm using the default Ubuntu power manger, I set it up like this:</p>
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<li>On battery: I kept the default settings.</li>
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<p>Still, Ubuntu does whatever it likes, and after 15 min it puts the display to sleep.</p>
<p>Does anyone have the same problem and found a way to solve it? I'm using an Eee PC with Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop.</p>
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28583 | 1 | 28611 | 2011-03-01T15:20:37.190 | 12 | 7373 | <p>I have manually installed a software to <code>/opt</code> and I wanted to add it to the Applications menu. </p>
<p>Although Ubuntu makes it dead easy to add it to my user's menu, how do I add it system wide, so that all users will see the application in their menu?</p>
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28584 | 1 | 28591 | 2011-03-01T15:22:44.953 | 1 | 7270 | <p>When try to cd into <code>init.d</code> or less <code>init.d</code> I get an error message: </p>
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28586 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T15:35:09.390 | 12 | 669 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/15749/alternative-to-dragon-naturally-speaking">Alternative to Dragon Naturally Speaking?</a> </p>
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<p>Is there any good speech to text tool like one we have for Win & Mac named Dragon Speaking software?</p>
<p>I found this question - <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/15749/alternative-to-dragon-naturally-speaking">Alternative to Dragon Naturally Speaking?</a> and I was wondering if anyone has tried anything from the list - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_in_Linux" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_in_Linux</a> which works good enough.</p>
<p>I am looking for some recommendations on the basis of what has worked for other community members. Can't try all of them one by one.</p>
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28592 | 1 | 29273 | 2011-03-01T15:51:11.383 | 15 | 7733 | <p>I want to merge the standard Ubuntu Mono icon set and the Faenza icon set. I would like to keep the standard Ubuntu icons in the panel (including icons for the likes of Dropbox, file transfers etc.) and replace all the other application icons with the Faenza versions. </p>
<p>How would I go about this?</p>
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28593 | 1 | 28602 | 2011-03-01T16:44:58.660 | 3 | 2103 | <p>There is not much documentation in the project page. Did anyone try it on Ubuntu?</p>
<p>In any case, what to expect from it? Can it become a FOSS alternative to Catia, Autodesk Inventor or SolidWorks?</p>
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28594 | 1 | 28598 | 2011-03-01T16:50:00.343 | 1 | 88 | <p>I mistakenly removed by message indicator from the panel. How can I add it again?</p>
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28597 | 1 | 28599 | 2011-03-01T16:54:34.363 | 17 | 43667 | <p>From apt-get or aptitude there's just termcap-compact, but I still see "no termcap library found" when trying to install my software (a development kit from another enterprise).</p>
<p>This happens just on my computer.</p>
<p><a href="http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html">This page</a> has a .tar.gz, but looks like it's the source, I how to install it..</p>
<p>Where can I install termcap from?</p>
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28600 | 1 | 29947 | 2011-03-01T17:14:57.920 | 3 | 1646 | <p>Does Lucid support hotswapping of AHCI devices? Is there anything more to it than simply unmounting all filesystems on the drive to be disconnected and plugging in the new disk?</p>
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<p>BIOS is set to AHCI. I also tried simply unmounting and unplugging. That seemed to work fine. Plugging in a new drive locked up the system. AHCI kernel module is also loaded.</p>
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28603 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T17:29:20.197 | 1 | 299 | <p>I've a question concerning a weird issue I never ran into before even though I am working with many servers for quite a long time.</p>
<p>So there is the <a href="http://www.cherokee-project.com/" rel="nofollow">cherokee web server</a> that I compiled and installed with </p>
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<p>It seems like a hard copy of cherokee-worker/-admin isn't working properly. But how come?</p>
<p>Do you know what happens? I have absolutely no clue what's going on.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help in advance!</p>
<p>Paul</p>
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28604 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T17:34:08.107 | 2 | 2110 | <p>Heartbeat don't start on automatic.
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28608 | 1 | 30862 | 2011-03-01T17:55:40.957 | 94 | 164017 | <p>I've noticed people using a product for Windows and Mac called <a href="http://www.shapeservices.com/en/products/details.php?product=idisplay&platform=none">iDisplay</a> which lets you use your Android or iPad as a secondary display. This seems like a great idea, and something that could be done on Ubuntu. Unfortunately, I've got no idea how to get started.</p>
<p>How could you re-create this setup on Ubuntu?</p>
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28614 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T18:22:49.860 | 0 | 641 | <p>I have a little problem with my vim config. </p>
<p>This what I got in my <code>home/user/.gvimrc</code></p>
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<p>The colorsheme work, but the font has way to much spacing. Every sentence is twice as long. I installed the <code>Inconsolata</code> font and I have the same config on my windows 7 box and it works fine. </p>
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28619 | 1 | 28670 | 2011-03-01T18:32:57.510 | 38 | 13522 | <p>When installing applications via the software center or by a DEB file they will usually be installed system wide for all users.</p>
<p>Is there a way to install an application for a single user only?</p>
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28624 | 1 | 28715 | 2011-03-01T19:05:41.337 | 1 | 776 | <p>I used to have dockbarX applet installed on my gnome panel. However one day when I login in I got a error message which can be seen in the screenshot below. So I removed it, and then tried adding it again to the gnome panel but I still get the error message.</p>
<p>I am running the latest version of <strong>dockbarX 0.43</strong> on <strong>Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat</strong> with the helpers enabled and media buttons etc. I did not update it recently and have been using this version for a couple of weeks now and got this problem only now.</p>
<p>I tried a reinstall of all the components of dockbarX but still get the error message.</p>
<p>Here is the ~/.dockbarx/log/dockbarx.log</p>
<pre><code>ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:18,984 | Traceback (most recent call last):
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:18,985 | File "/usr/bin/dockbarx_factory", line 31, in <module>
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:18,985 | import dockbarx.dockbar
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:18,985 | File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dockbarx/dockbar.py", line 37, in <module>
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,187 | from groupbutton import *
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,187 | File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dockbarx/groupbutton.py", line 40, in <module>
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,324 | import zg
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,324 | File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dockbarx/zg.py", line 34, in <module>
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,399 | iface = client.ZeitgeistDBusInterface()
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,400 | File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zeitgeist/client.py", line 184, in __init__
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,428 | self.OBJECT_PATH)
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,428 | File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 244, in get_object
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,496 | follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,496 | File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 241, in __init__
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,520 | self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,520 | File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 183, in activate_name_owner
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,520 | self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,520 | File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 281, in start_service_by_name
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,521 | 'su', (bus_name, flags)))
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,521 | File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 620, in call_blocking
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,574 | message, timeout)
ERROR | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,575 | dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute program /usr/local/bin/zeitgeist-daemon: Success
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<p>How can I solve this problem?</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tZAAw.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tZAAw.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
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28627 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T19:40:38.810 | 2 | 727 | <p>I'm seeing some weird behaviour in Ubuntu 10.04. I have a cifs mount that's mounted by fstab as follows:</p>
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<p>I can mount the share using:</p>
<pre><code>sudo mount -a
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<p>my user can then access it, create and delete files. The deleted files appear in the gnome trash applet. A folder <code>/media/storage/.Trash-1000</code> is created automatically.</p>
<p>When I log out, restart the machine and log in, the cifs share is mounted but the trash applet is empty. If I unmount the share with <code>sudo umount /media/share</code> then remount with <code>sudo mount -a</code> the trash applet displays the contents of the <code>.trash-1000</code> folder!</p>
<p>It gets stranger...sometimes after <code>umount</code> then <code>mount -a</code> the trash is STILL empty, but another round of <code>umount</code> then <code>mount -a</code> fixes it.</p>
<p>It seems like the trash applet is "forgetting" to scan the <code>/media/storage</code> mount point and is not always finding the <code>.trash-1000</code> folder at that mount point. Even when the trash applet is not displaying any trash from <code>/media/storage/.trash-1000</code> I can still delete things from the <code>/media/storage</code> and they're moved to the <code>.trash-1000</code> folder.</p>
<p>So I conclude there's a bug in the trash applet...anyone know how to fix it?</p>
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28631 | 1 | 28641 | 2011-03-01T20:07:45.847 | 5 | 4569 | <p>What is wrong with this picture?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZagRG.png" alt="Can somebody suggest the best (non-destructive) way to correct this?"></p>
<p>Top is output from "df -h", bottom is gparted. I suspect I'm missing a lot of free space. No problems other than that (yet).
Can somebody suggest the best (non-destructive) way to correct this?</p>
<p>sudo dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda3:
(source <a href="http://pastebin.com/nAvrdT4E" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://pastebin.com/nAvrdT4E</a>)</p>
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Last mounted on: /
Filesystem UUID: 9f6eff64-60d7-4eec-81d5-1e8acd818b38
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize
Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash
Default mount options: (none)
Filesystem state: clean
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: Linux
Inode count: 1602496
Block count: 6406144
Reserved block count: 320306
Free blocks: 4842284
Free inodes: 1361222
First block: 0
Block size: 4096
Fragment size: 4096
Reserved GDT blocks: 1022
Blocks per group: 32768
Fragments per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 8176
Inode blocks per group: 511
RAID stride: 32692
Flex block group size: 16
Filesystem created: Sun Nov 8 18:18:13 2009
Last mount time: Tue Mar 1 01:04:27 2011
Last write time: Mon Feb 28 04:27:34 2011
Mount count: 16
Maximum mount count: 28
Last checked: Thu Feb 24 06:23:39 2011
Check interval: 15552000 (6 months)
Next check after: Tue Aug 23 07:23:39 2011
Lifetime writes: 227 GB
Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
First inode: 11
Inode size: 256
Required extra isize: 28
Desired extra isize: 28
Journal inode: 8
First orphan inode: 268015
Default directory hash: half_md4
Directory Hash Seed: cc101517-e617-482b-a883-a72919419c84
Journal backup: inode blocks
Journal features: journal_incompat_revoke
Journal size: 128M
Journal length: 32768
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<p>fdisk and parted output per requests:
<a href="http://pastebin.com/EGVH7Ken" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://pastebin.com/EGVH7Ken</a></p>
<p>SOLUTION: (thanks Hamish Downer)
Boot to a liveCD and run
"sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sda3"
followed by
"sudo resize2fs -p /dev/sda3"</p>
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28632 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T20:15:16.733 | 4 | 3792 | <p>I have an HP Pavilion dv1000 laptop with a widescreen monitor.</p>
<p>My monitor works well at its native resolution, But when I choose 1024x768, I see black bars on left and right side of the monitor. </p>
<p>I used a live-cd of an old Backtrack 3 distro, and I notice it can stretch the image there, but in Ubuntu I can't. Can someone help me?</p>
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28635 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T20:41:06.393 | 2 | 12786 | <p>I use Ubuntu (Spanish language). Sometimes I get this error when I use special characters (codification error) so I read that if I edit a file of my hard disk by using <code>gedit /etc/fstab</code> and adding <em>utf8</em> I can fix it....</p>
<p>I had this line:</p>
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<p>I adeed <em>utf8</em> like this:</p>
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<p>But I messed my Ubuntu and I can't log in now to my Ubuntu so im using live session... so I'll have to remove that code in order to be able to use my Ubuntu again. Can someone tell me how that line should look like?</p>
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28637 | 1 | null | 2011-03-01T22:03:35.487 | 2 | 297 | <p>How can I try the newest codebase of Unity, so that I can send bug-reports and feature requests to the Unity developers?</p>
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28644 | 1 | 28655 | 2011-03-01T22:30:25.410 | 30 | 8698 | <p>Related to <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/24022/how-can-i-backup-my-repositories">this question</a>. But my concern is that over the past year, most of my more interesting (or used) applications are from PPAs, and just backing up my sources list won't add the associated launchpad keys the way that <code>add-apt-repository</code> does.</p>
<p>So I'm looking for a way to list all the PPA urls (like <code>ppa:chromium-daily/stable</code>) so that I can easily script a series of add-apt-repository commands to add them into a new installation gracefully.</p>
<p>Short of dumping my bash history of course. Which might be feasible, depending on how far back that file goes back?</p>
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28649 | 1 | 28651 | 2011-03-01T22:54:26.737 | 11 | 4736 | <p>It competes with the <kbd>Alt</kbd> behavior in Photoshop, so I want the left <kbd>Alt</kbd> key to do nothing.</p>
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28656 | 1 | 28688 | 2011-03-02T00:20:20.853 | 4 | 856 | <p>On 10.04 (and other versions, but I am asking about 10.04), going to<br>
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28659 | 1 | 28660 | 2011-03-02T01:25:06.997 | 0 | 539 | <p>I have noticed that when I type in some programs, Text Editor, Terminal, Bluefish, Gnome Baker, etc. the mouse cursor disappears while I am typing. In other programs like Firefox and LibreOffice, it does not.</p>
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28661 | 1 | null | 2011-03-02T01:53:22.557 | 1 | 399 | <p>On my <code>top</code> output, at header level, swap is showing 0k used. But on each individual process the SWAP is shown as a non-zero value (output column enabled with option p). What does this mean?</p>
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28663 | 1 | null | 2011-03-02T02:32:43.990 | 1 | 198 | <p>Ubuntu 10.10 Server x64 installed as Virtual Box VM.</p>
<p>Fresh install plus postgresql and tomcat6 installed via aptitude. Rebooted the server and now when I run some command the console hangs. For instance, I run "sudo shutdown now" and then nothing happens but I am not returned to the prompt. I hit CTRL+C and nothing happens except ^C appears on the following line. I can type whatever and it will show up inline.</p>
<p>I switch to tty2 and try to login and I only get as far as [username][enter] and that console hangs.</p>
<p>One other thing - after "sudo reboot" the console appears to hang (just like above) when shutting down tomcat6.</p>
<p>Any idea what's going on or what I should check?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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28666 | 1 | null | 2011-03-02T04:13:25.793 | 3 | 1971 | <p>I am using Empathy IM Client for my google hosted mail domain on 9.04, 9.10, 10.04 desktops. I could able to chat from the google mail chat to Empathy and I have set empathy notification to get notified when a message is received and it pops up. Whenever it pops up, it show the complete message of the sender which I don't like/want the message to be revealed to everyone whoever looks at my desktop. </p>
<p>Is there anything I could do so that the actual message is not shown whenever empathy pops up instead showing any message something similar to <code>"You have got a new message"</code>?.</p>
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28667 | 1 | null | 2011-03-02T04:55:02.570 | 6 | 7048 | <p>I can't figure out how I allow my iBook to right click in Ubuntu. It's one big button; so, I used to hold Option and click. I'm willing to do that, but I can't figure out how. Unless, of course, I've completely let the noob out and one doesn't right click in Ubuntu. </p>
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28669 | 1 | null | 2011-03-02T05:44:05.370 | 11 | 35952 | <p>I added the Japanese Layout in Keyboard preferences, however all the layouts look like being in katakana. </p>
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<p>How can I solve this problem?</p>
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<p>A LiveUSB installation seems to be pretty close to what I want, but apparently I have to choose whether or not it will be persistent by the time I install it. I want to be able to choose that every time I boot.</p>
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28675 | 1 | 55266 | 2011-03-02T06:50:05.617 | 9 | 8403 | <p>How do I individually change the horizontal and vertical acceleration of the cursor? I can scroll side-to-side in a single stroke on a 1600x900 monitor on my laptop, but I can never do that vertically. Furthermore, the touchpad seems to be too sensitive horizontally (I hold my index finger still, but the cursor subtly moves)... is this fixable?</p>
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28676 | 1 | null | 2011-03-02T06:54:00.000 | 2 | 10540 | <p>I set up Apache web server.</p>
<p>When I open <code>http://localhost</code> in Google Chrome, it asks me to download a file. It works correctly with Firefox.</p>
<p>How can I resolve this issue?</p>
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28682 | 1 | 28694 | 2011-03-02T07:36:48.627 | 2 | 6309 | <p>I tried to install <code>xinetd</code> by the command <code>sudo apt-get install xinetd</code>. I got this error message</p>
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<p>Why?
Isn't it supposed to be under <code>init.d</code> folder?</p>
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28685 | 1 | null | 2011-03-02T07:47:25.497 | 47 | 73286 | <p>How to delay a program such as cairo-dock (No openGL) or Firefox?</p>
<p>Sometimes programs crash when started with other startup apps. I want programs to start 10 seconds late to avoid a crash.</p>
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28697 | 1 | 28699 | 2011-03-02T10:23:07.353 | 8 | 8549 | <p>Is it possible to remove the window border for gnome-terminal only in Compiz? I recall that it used to be possible to do this with a command-line option, but I can not find it anymore.</p>
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28698 | 1 | null | 2011-03-02T10:36:57.097 | 0 | 236 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/80251/keyring-on-startup-popup">Keyring On Startup popup</a> </p>
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<p>I use automatic login because I don't want to enter a password every time I start the system. Although automatic login works, I'm still asked for my password after the desktop is loaded (I need to enter it three times). How can I fix this?</p>
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28700 | 1 | 28727 | 2011-03-02T10:47:59.907 | 2 | 345 | <p>I want only two keyboard layouts in my system: <code>us altgr-intl</code> (USA International (AltGr dead keys) ) and <code>gr</code> (Greece), so this is what I've selected in System → Preferences → Keyboard → Layouts. However, every time I begin a new Gnome session (reboot, logout/login), the <code>us</code> keyboard layout is automatically inserted at the top of the list.</p>
<p>I created a small script called <code>fixlang</code> that ensures the desirable result:</p>
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<p>which I run on login.</p>
<p>However, this is a kludge. How can I ensure that Gnome does not mess with my keyboard layout selection?</p>
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28704 | 1 | 28718 | 2011-03-02T11:44:51.543 | 2 | 264 | <p>I have Ubuntu Server 10.04 1 system disk, and 5 disks in RAID-5 configuration.
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<p>is there any way to fix drive names, so that even if it's disconnected for example, no other drive can occupy this letter based on disk UUID or something?</p>
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28706 | 1 | null | 2011-03-02T11:59:40.320 | 2 | 1127 | <p><br>
I'm trying to analyze an enormous text file (1.6GB), whose data lines look like this:</p>
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How can I split this file into pieces according to the date? </p>
<p>Everything I know would be to <code>grep file '20090118*' > data20090118.dat</code> , but there sure is a way to do all the dates at once, right?</p>
<p>The number of entries per date differ, so using <code>split</code> with a constant number won't work.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance,<br>
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28719 | 1 | null | 2011-03-02T14:09:40.357 | 11 | 381 | <p>I have a 2 yr old HP pavillion dv4 laptop. Ubuntu runs fine.
But I recently noticed that the temperature of the cores (with just a browser open, not playing flash videos) is significantly higher than when I run windows 7.</p>
<p>If I buy one of the laptops listen in the 'ubuntu certified list', is it likely to run ubuntu at the same temperatures as windows 7?</p>
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28721 | 1 | 74725 | 2011-03-02T14:33:51.657 | 1 | 2394 | <p>I have always had trouble setting up samba shares with ubuntu. In the past I've tried getting it to work by configuring <code>/etc/samba/smb.conf</code> but never achieved what I wanted. Last time I managed to get it working by making a share with nautilus built in file sharing (which utilises samba). Now when I try do it again it doesn't work. (running ubuntu 10.10 Desktop x64)</p>
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<p>I think there is no restrictions in the User Settings for the other users blocking them and I marked "make available to other users (or whatever it says)" in the file sharing dialog.</p>
<p>What can I do?</p>
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28723 | 1 | 28726 | 2011-03-02T14:46:03.803 | 4 | 3432 | <p>By default when Evolution is launched, I have to press the button "Check emails" (or press <kbd>F9</kbd>) to receive new emails. I would like it to be automatic each time I launch Evolution. Is it possible?</p>
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28728 | 1 | null | 2011-03-02T15:25:57.980 | 2 | 16443 | <p>I want to use Thunderbird as an IMAP client to backup Gmail and would prefer to run it from a CRON... Basically want to wake it up, sync IMAP folders than shutdown... I tried offlineIMAP with no success and it seems that Thunderbird is a reasonable solution.</p>
<p>What would the command line settings be to have it check, download, then shutdown?</p>
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28730 | 1 | 103733 | 2011-03-02T15:30:07.857 | 3 | 2046 | <p>I just upgraded to 10.10 last night and I'm having issues now with dual display from my laptop dock. This was working in the previous release with a manual xrandr command:</p>
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<p>When I run this now, the DP1 output doesn't have a mode for 1920x1080. The two displays are a matched pair of dell 22" that are both 1920x1080. The laptop/dock is a Lenovo X201 with the Intel graphics in it. The dock does VGA and DisplayPort out.</p>
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<p>If I avoid the 1920 and just attempt to setup DP1 at the 1280x1024 max it thinks it has, then the second display will come up, but obviously looks horrible since it's non-native resolution.</p>
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<p>I've submitted a bug report here:
<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/729788" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/729788</a></p>
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28733 | 1 | 28755 | 2011-03-02T15:35:24.833 | 60 | 243851 | <p>How can I associate a script to OpenVPN so that it runs when the VPN is connected successfully?</p>
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"text": "I have expanded the answer to use `openvpn` directly. When setting up a server, I noticed that OpenVPN will try to reconnect when the server went down. Not sure if OpenVPN continues trying when your network interface goes down.",
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"text": "Oh, and does the script apply to all VPN connection? And *please* tag @Oxwivi when replying, I won't get notified otherwise.",
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"text": "@Oxwivi: I just tested it: if network-manager (re-)connects to the Internet, the route to the server gets deleted which causes OpenVPN to fail in connecting to the server (probably because I've configured OpenVPN to encrypt all of my traffic). After manually adding the route to, it works again. I think you could write a trigger for network-manager. To add the route, run: `sudo ip route add <server-ip>/32 via <local-gateway> dev <device>`. `<local-gateway>` is the IP address of the local gateway, like `192.168.1.1`. `<device>` is your NIC, like `eth0` or `wlan0`.",
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"text": "@Oxwivi: if you meant the `/etc/openvpn/up.sh` script, no. It only applies to the VPN defined in `/etc/openvpn/client.conf`. Other VPNs (e.g. `/etc/openvpn/company.conf`) are unaffected.",
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"text": "@Oxwivi: if you have no full-encrypted connection, you do not have to worry about the route. Otherwise, if you do not add this route, your computer does not know how to reach the server and will respond with a \"No route to host\" error. As shown in my answer, you can specify a script using `up` (run after establishing a connection).",
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"text": "@Lekensteyn, the VPN in question is a commercial service - I'm using the free version. I do not not the ins and outs of OpenVPN config files well - are you willing to take a look at it for me? And I do not understand `script-security 2`, `up` and `down` stuff.",
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"text": "There is a [RTFM](http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/maverick/en/man8/openvpn.8.html): `man openvpn`. Added more details to my answer.",
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"text": "I need to use the first script in this answer: http://askubuntu.com/questions/26870/exempt-programs-from-using-active-vpn-connection/27735#27735 Should I use `up` or `down`?",
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"text": "Well, you mentioned \"so that it runs when the VPN is connected successfully\", so I guess it should be `up`.",
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"text": "Thanks! I'll award you the bounty when it's possible (after 24 hours) for all the trouble. Not that it matters much in real life... Anyway, two last things, I want OpenVPN to start after I boot and found an internet connection, and this VPN requires username/password authentication, how do I set it up?",
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"text": "Please read the [manual](http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/maverick/en/man8/openvpn.8.html). You can pass it in two ways, either putting the password plaintext in the command or let OpenVPN read it from file. I recommend the latter. Add `auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/credentials.txt` to your conffile and create `/etc/openvpn/credentials.txt` with the username on the first line and the password on the second. (I didn't know this before, I read it in the manual :) )",
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"text": "Well, my point of asking was that if the VPN is going to be automatically connected, I won't get the chance of manually entering the authentication in command line. Thanks for all the help!",
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"text": "Just so you know, using `up`, I could not get it to work at all, it said script could not execute external program or something.",
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28734 | 1 | null | 2011-03-02T15:42:36.430 | 2 | 655 | <p>I've been experiencing a lot of crashes of the Sun JVM on both Ubuntu Server 10.04.1 and 10.04.2. The crashes seem to happening at random intervals. Sometimes they occur when the server is stressed, other times when there is no load on the server at all.</p>
<p>I'm running a host with four virtual machines using KVM as the virtualisation technology. Each of the guests is configured to have 1 gigabyte of memory. </p>
<p>The host:</p>
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<p>And each guest:</p>
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<p>On 3 of the guests I am running an instance of Tomcat with a single application. I am running:</p>
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<li>1 instance of Atlassian Jira</li>
<li>1 instance of Atlassian Confluence</li>
<li>1 instance of Magnolia CMS</li>
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<p>I have experienced random crashes of the JVM across all three machines. I have experienced these crashes in JVM versions 1.6.0_22 (64 bit), 1.6.0_24 (64 bit) and 1.6.0_24 (32 bit).</p>
<p>The crash seems to be consistently occurring within a native call to libjvm.so. I believe that it is happening when the JVM requests garbage collection, but I'm not fully sure of this. I have a sample of some of the crash dumps:</p>
<p>On the guest running Confluence:</p>
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<p>On the guest running Jira:</p>
<p><a href="http://pastebin.com/hfC0m9sv" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/hfC0m9sv</a></p>
<p>I have tried the following thus far:</p>
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<li>Re-installing the JVM </li>
<li>Updating the JVM from 1.6.0_22 to 1.6.0_24</li>
<li>Using a 32-bit JVM instead of the 64 bit version</li>
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<p>I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to try next, so any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
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28736 | 1 | 28737 | 2011-03-02T15:57:23.923 | 0 | 164 | <p>I downloaded and installed a Python-based application according to <a href="http://comix.sourceforge.net/download.html" rel="nofollow">this page</a>. How do I use it?</p>
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28738 | 1 | 28744 | 2011-03-02T16:27:08.437 | 62 | 7428 | <p>I know there have been other questions like "<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/6586/what-native-games-are-available">What native games are available?</a>" and they often have issues because they turn into a never-ending list of every game ever released for Linux.</p>
<p>But I'd like to know what's coming out <strong>this year</strong>.</p>
<p>Good answers can include:</p>
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<li>A game that's coming out in 2011</li>
<li>A Linux port being released for games that might be older (eg Trine)</li>
<li>As much information and as many screenshots and links as possible</li>
<li>Few old games unless they're doing a major update that changes the game very significantly.</li>
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<p>One game per answer, add as much information as possible and work with each other to build a catalogue of awesome things to look forward to this year. </p>
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"body": "<h1><a href=\"http://oilrush-game.com/\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Oil Rush</a> <a href=\"http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/oilrush\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/vyWhw.png\" alt=\"(Software Center)\" /></a> <a href=\"http://www.desura.com/games/oil-rush/play\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/G1WjO.png\" alt=\"(Desura)\" /></a></h1>\n<h3>Proprietary, beta preorder for $19.95</h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>OilRush is a real-time strategy game based on group control. It offers mechanics of a classical RTS combined with a Tower Wars genre: control the upgrade of production platforms as well as their defence forces, and send battle groups of naval and air units to capture enemy platforms and oil rigs.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/OjR9E.jpg\" alt=\"Oil Rush\" /></p>\n<p>Phoronix have been harking on about this for months like they're getting a dollar every time they mention it (they probably are), but it does look like a genuinely pretty game. It's made by Unigine, a company that sells a closed source graphics engine and hardware benchmarks based around the tech-demos they've made with it.</p>\n<p>This could be good.</p>\n",
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28742 | 1 | 28753 | 2011-03-02T16:37:18.443 | 2 | 798 | <p>I was trying to install the Crysis 2 demo on wine, but after extraction it said </p>
<pre><code>Unable to find a volume for file extraction.
Please verify that you have proper permissions.
</code></pre>
<p>and ended the setup there.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/dppzH.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/dTuS7.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>I have had trouble in the past getting Angry birds to run on it too - <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/25473/couldnt-make-angry-birds-to-work-on-wine">Couldn't make Angry birds work on wine</a></p>
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28749 | 1 | 28973 | 2011-03-02T17:07:40.127 | 7 | 212 | <p><a href="http://oilrush-game.com/" rel="nofollow">Oilrush</a> is a game with a high-end graphics engine due for release on the linux platform very soon. As a matter of fact, preordering is <a href="https://store.unigine.com/products/category/oilrush/" rel="nofollow">already possible</a>! </p>
<p>That is why I would like to ask <strong>whether it will be available for purchase in the Ubuntu Software Centre</strong>.<br>
If it will be offered, I would wait until it is available and buy it to support Ubuntu. If not, I'd rather buy it now and save some money.</p>
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28754 | 1 | 28758 | 2011-03-02T18:22:20.443 | 3 | 4289 | <p>Some files on my hard drive are corrupted (no worries, nothing system-related, just a junk of data files, mp3 etc.). I found that out when I tried to burn them all to a DVD, the burning application show a message that it cannot read the files as they are corrupted. [This is probably a drive issue, it had happened me once or twice already].</p>
<p>I don't care about recovering them, but I have to determine which ones are corrupted. I cannot check by manually opening them all, as there are thousands of them. <strong>Is there any tricky way to check all the files and list the ones that may cause problems when tried to open?</strong></p>
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