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29350 | 1 | 29518 | 2011-03-07T07:58:20.300 | 11 | 9205 | <p>As ext4 was introduced as more reliable than ext3 with block journals, is there any chance to suppose it 100% reliable? What if enabling block journaling on it, which is disabled by default?</p>
<p>As friend's guide to explain my case in more detail:
I have an embedded linux device, after installation keyboard and monitor is detached and it works standalone.</p>
<p>My duty is to make sure it has reliable file-system so with errors there is no way for manual correct faults on device. <strong>I can't force my customer to use a ups with each device to ensure no fault by power-failure.</strong> </p>
<p>What more can ext4 offer me besides block journaling?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
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29352 | 1 | 31048 | 2011-03-07T08:48:44.530 | 6 | 1504 | <p>In Natty I downloaded the latest version of Dropbox from their <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/install" rel="noreferrer">website</a>. It should come with an appindicator rather than a systray icon, and it does so on my other Maverick installation.</p>
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"body": "<p>Figured it out myself. It's actually very simple!</p>\n\n<p>First, stop Drobpox. This can be done easily by entering the following terminal command: </p>\n\n<pre><code>dropbox stop\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Now download the following .zip file: <a href=\"http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-1.0.20.tar.gz\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-1.0.20.tar.gz</a>\nOr: Get the latest one if it should exist by the time you read this.</p>\n\n<p>The content of that .zip file should look like this, only containing the folder <code>.dropbox-dist</code></p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/rMEaX.png\" alt=\"How the .zip file should look like\"></p>\n\n<p>Now simply extract this .zip file into your home folder. You will be prompted to merge the existing folder with your new one. Do this and confirm all requests for overwriting.</p>\n\n<p>Now simply start Dropbox again, which is easily done by:</p>\n\n<pre><code>dropbox start\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Enjoy!</p>\n",
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29354 | 1 | null | 2011-03-07T09:17:23.860 | 2 | 2690 | <p>I have ubuntu(8.10) ldap server running. I am migrating from my old servers to ubuntu 10.04.2 server and I have set up almost all freshly on the new servers. How could I perfectly migrate ldap to the new server after installing ldap?.</p>
<p>I found the following to export and import ldap in the google:</p>
<pre><code>slapcat -l master.ldif
slapadd -c -l master.ldif
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<p>Is there anything I've to do before/after using those commands?. Any precautions?</p>
<p><strong>EDIT 1</strong>:
I could not configure ldap server freshly following the <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html" rel="nofollow">link</a>:
error:</p>
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Enter LDAP Password:
ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)
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29356 | 1 | 29358 | 2011-03-07T09:34:43.140 | 9 | 15926 | <p>I want to copy a file into a ZIP or JAR archive.</p>
<p>Is that possible? If so how?</p>
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29359 | 1 | 29364 | 2011-03-07T09:57:30.967 | 114 | 301700 | <p>I want to create a new user to run a service on the system but don't want to have <code>/home</code> and other configuration files for it. Like there is a user for postgres but it doesn't have any <code>/home</code> directory. </p>
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29363 | 1 | null | 2011-03-07T10:09:02.923 | 2 | 202 | <p>Will there be a separate distribution for Unity 2d?</p>
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29365 | 1 | null | 2011-03-07T10:34:31.900 | 2 | 693 | <p>I'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 32bit on <a href="http://www.sonystyle.com.hk/products/apps/product/simplePage.do?modelCode=27533387&lang=en" rel="nofollow">this pc</a>.
I have both tried with Wubi from Windows and from USB stick, but after the installation process when I select to boot Ubuntu the screen becomes black and nothing happens (btw I can hear the cpu running)!</p>
<p>Notice that maybe it is something related to the graphic card of the pc, since when I use Ubuntu in live mode or during the installation process all the graphics and colors are messed up as if there wasn't an appropriate diriver...</p>
<p>What can I do??
Thanks</p>
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29367 | 1 | null | 2011-03-07T10:41:25.573 | 1 | 902 | <p>I am on a wired dsl, pppoe connection which is properly set, but the problem is that is shows that is connected but there is no internet at all.</p>
<p>I thought that the problem was the ipv6 and I managed to disable it, but now in NM the eth0 ipv4 address is 0.0.0.0. I don't know what the problem is :) , weird.</p>
<p>I also edited the interfaces file by adding the new interface auto eth0 and setting it to be dhcp. I restarted the dhcp server and got some errors I think, it says "no leases ..." whatever. </p>
<p>Any ideas what the problem could be? Why it is not giving me ip address? </p>
<p>It is weird that when I work with my wireless there is no problem, it connects auto and the internet is just fine.</p>
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29370 | 1 | 29379 | 2011-03-07T11:40:28.603 | 394 | 795090 | <p>Is there any way to check if there is an error in executing a command?</p>
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<p>I already tried do that but it seems it isn't working. I don't how do that. </p>
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"text": "That's nice ...can i hold the output error ??!! , because in this case i have 2 error : command error \"text\" ex, file not found and my error \"text\" Which is in this case failed for example",
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29380 | 1 | 29401 | 2011-03-07T12:09:22.867 | 4 | 11748 | <p>I have a remote computer on which I want to install a new hard drive for rsync backup. The problem is, I don't know what controller technology is used (PATA, SATA, SATA2, ...) and how many available slots are left. I'd like to obtain this information remotely, rather than physically opening up the chassis and looking at wires.</p>
<p>How do I query the SATA or PATA controllers? I'm interested in the following points:</p>
<ul>
<li>Which controllers exist in the machine</li>
<li>How many (and which) disks are attached to each controller</li>
<li>How many available slots are there</li>
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29381 | 1 | null | 2011-03-07T12:20:32.407 | 2 | 2101 | <p>I want to run a command on remote database (oracle) from local server using sqlplus, eg: </p>
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<p>What's the syntax for it?</p>
<p>I want to use the command exit (from database) just to test something in a unix script.</p>
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29385 | 1 | null | 2011-03-07T12:55:00.557 | 19 | 10285 | <p>Is there an application (non-commercial) to make phone calls from PC to phone on Ubuntu? </p>
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29387 | 1 | 29430 | 2011-03-07T13:13:43.373 | 2 | 410 | <p>I have a TV tuner card (Leadtek Winfast TV2000 Global). It isn't fully supported by Ubuntu (and Linux kernel). It isn't a problem, because my dad only use it in Windows. But I've got an error message every Ubuntu boot. Can I disable this device for Ubuntu?</p>
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29389 | 1 | 29949 | 2011-03-07T13:27:40.693 | 4 | 1001 | <p>I'm using the <a href="http://awesome.naquadah.org/" rel="nofollow">awesome</a> window manager, and it's, well, awesome.</p>
<p>However, I have a slight issue - I'm using an IBM Model M keyboard, which lacks the <kbd>Meta</kbd> key.</p>
<p>This is kind of a problem, as awesome relies on it for basically every action you can make.</p>
<p>I do tend to use my <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> and <kbd>Alt</kbd> keys quite often, so I'm not really able to remap those - however what I would like to be able to do is remap <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd> to fire a meta event. Is this possible? I've toyed around with xkeycaps and done some searches on "rebind ctrl+alt" but most of the results give me either swapping the two keys or something else. (Also, I use caps-lock as an additional control, or I would just map that one.)</p>
<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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29394 | 1 | 29807 | 2011-03-07T14:09:30.977 | 1 | 2896 | <p>About a week ago a regular Synaptic update ran in the background. Ever since, when I try to watch a Youtube video (just hitting "play" on the video) the monitor goes black for a moment, then there are just random bars of colour flashing. The only way to fix it is to turn the computer off using the power button and then restarting the computer. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04. It looks like a lot of people have had troubles since that update (red videos, videos that just don't work) but I haven't found anybody with this kind of spectacular crash. I've tried both Firefox and Chromium, same results. Any ideas?</p>
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29395 | 1 | 29398 | 2011-03-07T14:13:15.590 | 2 | 90 | <p>When my laptop goes into or comes out of hibernation I'm presented with only a blank screen. Is there any way of providing a progress indicator for hibernation, similar to that of the boot screen for example? </p>
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29405 | 1 | null | 2011-03-07T15:33:35.163 | 2 | 211 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/20728/how-can-i-auto-align-desktop-icons-on-right-side">How can I auto align desktop icons on right side?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Hi, </p>
<p>How do I "clean up by name" so that my icons are sorted from the right instead from the left as it is now.
I have ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
If you right click in your desktop in ubuntu you get a list where you can "clean up by name".</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/yAFa5.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
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29407 | 1 | 30324 | 2011-03-07T15:52:12.160 | 5 | 2315 | <p>I'm on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS Desktop. (And by scanning /boot, it appears I <em>might</em> be on kernel 2.6.32-29-generic? Not certain.)</p>
<p>Anyway, after my last system update, now my screen lock asks me to login twice, whereas before it did not require this.</p>
<p>I assume this is a bug? And is there a way to undo this for now until the bug is fixed?</p>
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29409 | 1 | 29420 | 2011-03-07T16:00:35.417 | 2 | 2589 | <p>I'm wondering if anyone out that has been able to install ConnectWise PSA on Ubuntu?</p>
<p>I've got wine up and running, and I know Connectwise needs Microsoft .Net 3.5. Can I just install .Net through wine, or would I have to go the route of installing Mono, then trying to install Connectwise?</p>
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29410 | 1 | 29419 | 2011-03-07T16:07:31.087 | 6 | 2472 | <p>I'm coming to like Brasero more than I did before (hardly used it in the past to be honest), and now I'm wondering, are the plugins that come with the default install the only available plugins? I don't remember seeing any in apt, so I guess they would have to be plugins you download, compile and install (fun fun fun :P!).</p>
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29412 | 1 | 29416 | 2011-03-07T16:15:17.447 | 2 | 4937 | <p>I'm trying to catch any error when run a command in order to write a log-file / report</p>
<p>I've tried this code:</p>
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if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "$var1" ": status : OK"
else echo "$var1" ": status : ERROR"
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sed -i "/:@/c connection.url=jdbc:oracle:thin:@$ip:1521:$dataBase" $search
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<p>The output looks like this:</p>
<pre><code>adding database ip : status : OK
sed: no input file
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<p>But I want it to look like this: </p>
<pre><code>adding database ip : status : OK
sed: no input file : status : ERROR"
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<p>or this:</p>
<pre><code>adding database ip : status : OK
addning database SID : status : ERROR"
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<p>I've been trying, but it's not working with me. :(</p>
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"text": "that's perfect ,, thanks let me check that :),,thanks",
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"text": "The quoting `a=\"$(echo foo bar baz)\"` is useless - a needs still quoting. `f () { echo $1; }` might be a function. `f $a` will just display 'foo', while `f \"$a\"` will display 'foo bar baz'. Which is, what you get for `a=$(echo foo bar baz)`.",
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"text": "well , still facing same problem of out put (log) still hiding error message that i wrote, it just write sed error , [sed: no input file] i want it be like this [addning database SID : status : ERROR\"] OR [addning database SID : status : ERROR\"] ,,,,,,geekosaur i will try your genius script tomorrow ...",
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"text": "I recommend against using the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide for learning Bash. It doesn't teach good practice, and in some parts, it's just plain wrong. Read http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide instead.",
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"text": "what is different between `local label=$1` and `local label=\"${1:-$2}\"` , both of them do same job !",
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"text": "The second one says \"if $1 is empty, substitute $2 instead\"; so if you say `log \"\" sed ...`, the label will be `sed`. It's just defining a convenient shorthand for `log sed sed ...` or whatever.",
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"text": "@geekosaur,why you are using `\"$(\"$@\")\"` , i mean after command shift you already called `sed...` but when i delete `\"$(\"$@\")\"` i always get OK even its error or ERROR even its OK...Please could you explain this point...",
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"text": "`\"$(command)\"` runs `command` and substitutes its output, preserving spaces, tabs, and newlines instead of the default of collapsing all of them to a single space. `\"$@\"` substitutes the command line arguments (minus the label, which we `shift`ed away) with all quoting preserved. So `\"$(\"$@\")\"` means \"run the command specified in the script's arguments and substitute its output\" — which we then assign to `err` for later use. (Where did you think I had called `sed`? I use it later to indent the output from the command, but that is unrelated.)",
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"text": "@geekosaur , now every thing is clear 100% ,,but you know if i used command `ls` instead of `sed...` then `\"$(\"$@\")\"` would not work i already tried use `\"$(\"$*\")\"` then it works ,, so there is an situation that i can use `\"$(\"$*\")\"` instead of `\"$(\"$@\")\"` ,, Thanks 4 ur time",
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"text": "its says `./cc: line 7: 0: command not found` , if you type `\"$(\"$1 $2 $3 $4\")\"` instead ,out put comes but only 4 argument of output which mean that its run but out put not come out by using this command `\"$(\"$@\")\"` or should i use it in different way !!",
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29421 | 1 | 29423 | 2011-03-07T17:52:58.023 | 1 | 1119 | <p>I am making a website that I run with apache from <code>var/www</code>, I have stopped the apache server and closed <code>gvim</code>, but when I right click on <code>compress</code>, select <code>.7z</code> compression with password. I get an error: </p>
<pre><code> An error occurred while adding files to archive.
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<p>I can copy the files, so why can't I compress them like this? I can also compress the files when I move the files to my home folder... </p>
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29422 | 1 | null | 2011-03-07T17:57:32.220 | 2 | 2671 | <p>This is what I get when I start up the terminal:</p>
<pre><code>bash: /dev/cgroup/cpu/user/2823/tasks: No such file or directory
bash: /dev/cgroup/cpu/user/2823/notify_on_release: No such file or directory
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<p>I reinstalled 10.10 yesterday because of other problems, I didn't have this error message before. I have a separate /home partition, and new installation picked up almost all of the old settings, also those which I don't like, but it looks like that is not a problem or maybe I am wrong? Wouldn't ask if I knew! :) I'll be glad to post more info if someone needs it!</p>
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29425 | 1 | 29426 | 2011-03-07T18:23:08.440 | 3 | 1279 | <p>I'm at spring break so I'm back at my parent's house. I've turned my computer on which has been off since January and its unusably slow. This was not the case when I last used the computer in January.</p>
<p>It is running 10.04, </p>
<p>Memory: 875.5 MB
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+</p>
<p>Available Disk Space: 330.8 GB</p>
<p>I'm not seeing a large usage of either memory or Disk I/O.</p>
<p>If I look at my list of processes there is only a very small amount of CPU usage. However, if I hover over the CPU usage graph that I've on the top bar, I sometimes get really high readings like 100%. </p>
<p>It took a long time to boot, to open firefox, to open a link in firefox. As far as I can tell everything that the computer tries to do is just massively slow.</p>
<p>Right now, I'm apt-get dist-upgrading to install any updates that I will have missed since last time this computer was on.</p>
<p>Any ideas as to what is going on here?</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong></p>
<p>I thought to check dmesg and it has a lot of entries like this:</p>
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[ 1870.142221] ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 1870.142223] ata3.00: error: { UNC }
[ 1870.143981] ata3.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
[ 1870.146758] ata3.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
[ 1870.146761] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
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[ 1872.096795] ata3.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
[ 1872.096798] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
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[ 1874.046861] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled sense code
[ 1874.046863] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 1874.046867] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor]
[ 1874.046872] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 1874.046874] 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
[ 1874.046883] 03 65 4a c5
[ 1874.046886] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
[ 1874.046892] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 03 65 4a c0 00 00 08 00
[ 1874.046900] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 56969925
[ 1874.046920] ata3: EH complete
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<p>I'm not certain, but that looks like my problem may be a failing hard drive. But the drive is less then a year old, it really shouldn't be failing now...</p>
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29428 | 1 | null | 2011-03-07T18:56:29.230 | 1 | 362 | <p>Ubuntu was recommended to me as a viable option to Vista. I am unable to boot up my computer and have no recovery media. I keep seeing 'BootMGR is missing' on the screen.
If I were to download Ubuntu and then burn it to a disc or discs:</p>
<p>A. Would It have the BootMGR as a part of the program?</p>
<p>B. Could I then go into BIOS and boot up my computer from the disc drive with Ubuntu overwriting Vista thereby reviving my computer?</p>
<p>Thank you all.</p>
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29433 | 1 | 29435 | 2011-03-07T19:56:55.980 | 1 | 2529 | <p>I need to access my mounted iso in terminal but where it is mounted? My partitions used to mount in <code>/media</code></p>
<p>What are the general paths for where different things are mounted?</p>
<p><strong>Edit</strong>: I mounted my ISO by just double clicking it (Ubuntu 10.10)</p>
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29434 | 1 | 29438 | 2011-03-07T19:59:57.933 | 5 | 1994 | <p>When selecting <em>Compress...</em> from the right click context menu in Nautilus I am able to quickly compress files to .gz format.</p>
<p>However by default Nautilus does not use maximum compression. Can I make Nautilus to use maximum compression like <code>gzip -9</code>?</p>
<p>Using gconftool or gconf-editor to set the compression_level for File Roller to <code>maximum</code> seems right but infortunately has not the desired effect and will not lead to maximum compressed files. As this is the expected way of how to set compression levels a <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644162" rel="nofollow">bug report has been filed</a> upstream.</p>
<p>Any ideas for a workaround are welcome.</p>
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29436 | 1 | 29458 | 2011-03-07T20:23:41.237 | 2 | 703 | <p>I use Ubuntu 9.04 (the most recent version that the VPS host provided) on a Xen VPS. The kernel version seem to be something Xen-specific: <code>2.6.18-194.32.1.el5xen</code>.</p>
<p>I would like to have the most recent version of Ubuntu Server, 10.10. Can I upgrade my VPS to 10.10 or do I need to stay with this version because it seem to be a Xen-specific kernel?</p>
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29437 | 1 | 29450 | 2011-03-07T20:56:39.720 | 1 | 191 | <p>Is there a way to make the launcher "dodge" open windows in Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition?</p>
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29443 | 1 | 29631 | 2011-03-07T22:13:41.973 | 3 | 649 | <p>So I have a pretty dumb problem...I accidentaly pressed Hibernate while trying to Restart...since then my computer wont boot into Ubuntu anymore (through normal mode or single user mode - rescue mode that is)...all I get is:</p>
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29444 | 1 | 29447 | 2011-03-07T22:25:00.043 | 5 | 21957 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/27997/which-hard-disk-drive-is-which">Which hard disk drive is which?</a> </p>
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<p>How can I get more information about devices?</p>
<p>For example how do I determine what <code>/dev/sda1</code> is?</p>
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29445 | 1 | null | 2011-03-07T22:27:15.830 | -1 | 1771 | <p>Please be specific (apart from the obvious, eg. free and open source vs commercial support). I need this information in order to be certain as to what to expect and what not to expect from Gimp. </p>
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29446 | 1 | null | 2011-03-07T22:34:22.437 | 1 | 1880 | <p>I'm using the <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/de/maverick/gecko-mediaplayer" rel="nofollow">gecko-mediaplayer</a> plugin (formerly "mplayerplug-in"). The totem plugin was not always working correctly with Opera, and I'm actually depending on the [Copy URL] feature of gecko-mediaplayer.</p>
<p>However that plugin does some inept buffering of videos. It seems to default to 20% caching regardless of what you set in the preferences window. This is quite annoying for big video files. But appearantly it's by design <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/gecko-mediaplayer/browse_thread/thread/b7f0f5a3cedc8979" rel="nofollow">http://groups.google.com/group/gecko-mediaplayer/browse_thread/thread/b7f0f5a3cedc8979</a><br>
The Gentoo forums listed some workaround <a href="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-816690.html" rel="nofollow">http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-816690.html</a> - but <code>~/.config/gecko-mediaplayer/gecko-mediaplayer.conf</code> is not working in the Ubuntu version.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the actual way to configure the cache= size. Which is the real configuration filename under Ubuntu?</p>
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<p>I've now tried that gconf registry, but <code>apps > gecko-mediaplayer > preferenes > cache</code> has no effect either.</p>
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<p>After restarting my speakers and microfon works fine.</p>
<p>Maybe somebody knows different/better subsystem code for my sound card???</p>
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29461 | 1 | 29466 | 2011-03-08T00:53:26.887 | 4 | 2868 | <p>just a quick question but I can't figure out if it's just not possible, (which is fine, workaround is easy enough just time consuming), or if I'm too blind to see it.</p>
<p>For example, I want to put one word in a text in <strong>Bold</strong>, or in a different color. Is there any way? I'm used to this functionality in Photoshop, I'm sure you guys know what I mean. </p>
<p>If it's not there, what's the best workaround? Just put a bunch of spaces in there and make a new text-layer with the word and the different formatting? </p>
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29462 | 1 | 29464 | 2011-03-08T01:02:09.673 | 3 | 8854 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/16825/how-can-i-add-and-change-items-in-my-applications-menu">How can I add and change items in my Applications Menu?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>In Gnome Applications Menu, I would like to move gEdit, Gnu Emacs, KWrite, Kate, NEdit and Scribes from the Accessories menu, to the Programming menu.</p>
<p>Is there any simple way to do this ?</p>
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29463 | 1 | null | 2011-03-08T01:02:29.147 | 1 | 2080 | <p>I'm trying to setup OpenVPN Access Server on a VPS running Ubuntu 9.10 for a friend so she can play games from her uni campus. The problem is I keep running into this error when trying to start openvpn.</p>
<pre><code>Service deferred error: IPTablesServiceBase: failed to run iptables-restore [status=1]: ['FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.18-028stab070.14/modules.dep: No such file or directory', 'FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.18-028stab070.14/modules.dep: No such file or directory', 'iptables-restore: line 46 failed']: internet/base:1175,internet/base:752,internet/process:45,internet/process:306,internet/_baseprocess:48,internet/process:775,internet/_baseprocess:60,svc/pp:116,svc/svcnotify:26,internet/defer:238,internet/defer:307,internet/defer:323,sagent/ipts:105,sagent/ipts:39,util/error:52,util/error:32
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<p>Now I've already got my provider to enabled the TUN/TAP device driver and I checked this using </p>
<pre><code># cat /dev/net/tun
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<p>Which returned </p>
<pre><code>“File descriptor in bad state”
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<p>Which I believe means it's enabled.</p>
<p>After extensive searching, I've been unable to find any solution other than people suggesting to make sure TUN/TAP device driver is enabled. </p>
<p>Any ideas on how to solve my issue? I'm not very experience with Linux and I feel in over my head here so any advice is greatly appreciated.</p>
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29468 | 1 | 29470 | 2011-03-08T01:34:06.490 | 6 | 1072 | <p>I foolishly upgraded my Firefox install on Ubuntu to the beta 4 release, I believe by adding the PPA repository -- is there an easy way to roll it back to the 3.6 version provided by Ubuntu?</p>
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"text": "ok, I did this and removed FF4-- however when I refresh and then upgrade, there's no changes made (no install of 3.6 )-- any ideas?",
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29474 | 1 | 29517 | 2011-03-08T04:15:31.860 | 18 | 70240 | <p>I'm running Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS Desktop. Being a web developer, naturally I created a "me.com" in my <code>/etc/hosts</code> file. Unfortunately, my name resolution is going out to the DNS before first checking my local hosts entry and I can't figure out why.</p>
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<p>Do you know why my workstation's name resolution has to hit the DNS server first before hitting my <code>/etc/hosts</code> file entry? For now, I'm using the <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/29286/how-to-auto-add-to-etc-resolv-conf">resolv.conf trick</a>.</p>
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29475 | 1 | null | 2011-03-08T04:16:49.457 | 10 | 922 | <p>Just curious, but I love the look.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lv1p4TvRw4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lv1p4TvRw4</a></p>
<p>Is there something similar to this for Ubuntu, when shutting down, or logging out, or even when the screen goes to sleep?</p>
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29476 | 1 | null | 2011-03-08T04:33:50.120 | 2 | 654 | <p>I am having a situation where I can not use a CD or PxE boot or wubi to install.I need to necessarily do an http install of Ubuntu.I am basically trying to create a guest OS in a virtualization setup on Xen on a non VT hardware. On a non VT hardware the virt-manager does not allow to install from local ISO or PXE even the only option is via a URL on http://</p>
<p>Here is what I did:</p>
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<li>Download ubuntu 10.04 32 bit ISO </li>
<li>Kept it in /var/www (apache2 is running) </li>
<li><p>renamed it to ubuntu.iso</p>
<p>and when I reached a stage where installation begins I gave path <code>http://localhost/ubuntu.iso</code> but I got an error <code>any installable distribution not found.</code></p></li>
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<p>and this time during the installation I gave path <code>http://localhost/sk</code> I was able to see the contents in browser <code>http://localhost/sk</code> which you will see in a normal CD. But beginning installation I got same error</p>
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<p>So I want to just confirm if http install is done only this way or some other way because the installation is not proceeding.</p>
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29477 | 1 | null | 2011-03-08T05:05:48.307 | 1 | 4279 | <p>I've been trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 as a dual boot with Windows 7 on my Dell latitude e6510. It is currently running Windows 7 and I have used the MS disk tools to shrink the Win 7 NTFS partition to make room for Linux.</p>
<p>The issue I'm having is that when I run Ubuntus installer by booting from CD it sees the entire hard drive as unallocated space. </p>
<p>I have also tried Kbuntu 10.10, Fedora 14, booting a Gparted 0.8.0 usb drive, and Ubuntu "install in Windows" with wubi they all have problems.</p>
<p>EDIT:</p>
<p>When I run the "try Ubuntu" option on booting from cd it can mount my Windows partition and I can view the files.</p>
<p>The output of <code>sudo parted -l</code> when running in try Ubuntu mode:</p>
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However, it does not have a valid fake msdos partition table, as it should.
Perhaps it was corrupted -- possibly by a program that doesn't understand GPT
partition tables. Or perhaps you deleted the GPT table, and are now using an
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Yes/No? yes
Model: ATA ST9500420AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
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Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sr0
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29478 | 1 | 29616 | 2011-03-08T05:14:51.793 | 3 | 1522 | <p>In ubuntu 10.10 I have a dual monitor setup. I have an nVidia graphics card and am using twinview. One of the monitors is 1024 pixels high and the other is 900. In the monitor configuration screen & in real life, I have them set up side by side, 1024 on the left.</p>
<p>The result of this is that when I am on the bottom of the left monitor and move the mouse to the right, it goes into the hidden area below the right monitor's visible area.</p>
<p>It seems like it would make a lot more sense for it to be bumped up to the bottom of the right monitor - since one almost never wants to move the mouse into an area of the screen that doesn't show up. And, systems I have used before have been set up that way.</p>
<p>How can I set this up?</p>
<p>I am not interested in lists of window managers for ubuntu; I would like to know the identity of a particular WM or set of steps I can take to solves the particular problem I have outlined above. Thanks!</p>
<p>EDIT:
I changed to use two seperate X window monitors, and it works better. if you cross in an area that the target monitor doesn't cover, the software just puts you at the nearest point to where you crossed.</p>
<p>EDIT LATER:
You can use XCreateMouseVoid to do this; I used it to improve the setup even more in <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/29490/connecting-two-monitors-at-the-corners/">Connecting two monitors at the corners</a></p>
<p>using XCreateMouseVoid has the advantage of letting you use just one X window, so <kbd>Alt</kbd>-<kbd>Tab</kbd> shows all windows and you can move them between the screens without any dead areas.</p>
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29481 | 1 | 30254 | 2011-03-08T07:49:28.953 | 3 | 5320 | <p>I have server running Ubuntu 10.10. Never used samba before, as I never had windows machines, but now I need it.</p>
<p>So I did: <code>apt-get install samba smbfs smbclient</code>.</p>
<p>Packages are installed, but I have no idea how to configure it. All howtos I found on the net relate to /etc/samba/something.conf, where I don't even have /etc/samba directory.</p>
<p>The only config I found is /etc/default/samba, which contains (aside from comments) only:</p>
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<p>All I want is to be able to have access to some directories on the Ubuntu machine from Windows, nothing else.</p>
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29482 | 1 | 29507 | 2011-03-08T07:53:54.357 | 1 | 763 | <p>I bought a small touchpad to stick on top of the keyboard, and it works fine on the windows computer, but not on my ubuntu desktop.</p>
<p>I mean, when I do "xinput list" it shows the following:</p>
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⎜ ↳ PIXART USB OPTICAL MOUSE id=8 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
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<p>The Cirque Corporation touchpad (I'm assuming that's the component name) is the touchpad. Is there anything I'm missing?</p>
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29483 | 1 | 29522 | 2011-03-08T08:22:31.647 | 26 | 21114 | <p>I am looking for a software that will search text in files from a folder similar to <a href="http://www.xyplorer.com/free.php">XYplorer</a>.</p>
<p>Is there something similar?</p>
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"text": "yes, you can... just click on \"select more options\" and you can have not only \"Contains the Text\" but also tons of other search options (date, user, file sizer, even regex expressions). I also missed this little beast for a long time... i wish it was integrated into Nautilus (kinda like F3 in Windows Explorer)",
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"text": "could someone help to find out where is this tool please? for Ubuntu 20.04. I searched this tool, it's not there anymore. How to get it back?",
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29486 | 1 | 41050 | 2011-03-08T08:59:19.963 | 7 | 4932 | <p>I'd like to send files to my phone via bluetooth using a bash script or something similar. The ussp-push utility works, but I find it is much slower than the "Send To" option in gnome. Is there a way to use gnome's bluetooth functionality from a shell scirpt?</p>
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29487 | 1 | 29551 | 2011-03-08T08:59:49.130 | 4 | 3601 | <p>I have two cairo docks, one is at the bottom , one is at the top of my desktop.
How do I remove the top dock?</p>
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29489 | 1 | 38307 | 2011-03-08T09:28:55.073 | 6 | 528 | <p>I have the impression that Japanese input method editor (変換) is not as good as it used to be (can't tell since when).</p>
<p>When I type "terekomu" and transform, the IME does not propose テレコム (a very usual word) but テレ込む which makes no sense.</p>
<p>Using Ubuntu 10.10, everything by default (which means iBus 1.3.7/Anthy).</p>
<p>Is it a known bug I just did not notice before? Can I fix it somehow?</p>
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"text": "Yeah, and the keyboard icon should change to show an orange icon when it's activated. Make sure Anthy is not selected if both are in the list.. If that doesn't work then I don't know what will.\n\nThis is what I see:\n\n[link](http://www.imageupload.org/?d=DDA2065C1)",
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"text": "I removed Anthy altogether from the preferences list, but I think it is still being called, even though Mozc is always the one selected in the status bar icon's contextual menu. I will try to uninstall Anthy from the whole system.",
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29490 | 1 | 29680 | 2011-03-08T09:29:45.927 | 1 | 714 | <p>I am using two separate X screens on two monitors and I would like them to be connected at the lower right corner. That is, if you move to the lower right corner of screen0 the mouse should appear at the upper left of screen1.</p>
<p>I do not want an entire edge of each monitor to be permeable to the mouse.</p>
<p>I modified the xorg.conf file like so:</p>
<pre><code>Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" Relative "Screen0" 1200 1000
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
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<p>(screen 0's resolution is 1280x1024)</p>
<p>so there is a bit of overlap. However whenever I move the mouse to the bottom of screen0, the pointer appears at the upper left of screen1. And, the entire top of screen1 is permeable to the mouse and brings it to the lower left corner of screen0.</p>
<p>I have tried various numbers in following the "relative" statement - if I put 1280 1024 the mouse does not cross over at all. If I use 1280 1023 the entire right side of screen0 is permeable.</p>
<p>I haven't been able to find any documentation about how to explicitly tell the mouse where to crossover - is there some? It seems that xorg is being really aggressive in guessing where the mouse crossover should take place.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks!</p>
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29498 | 1 | null | 2011-03-08T10:37:01.110 | 6 | 3246 | <p>Is there a simple way (on the command line - I want to write a script which compresses all videos in a folder) to reduce the filesize of a video (almost) without quality loss? Is there a method which works equally well for different video format (mp4, flv, m4v, mpg, mov, avi)?</p>
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29499 | 1 | 29501 | 2011-03-08T10:38:40.987 | 2 | 781 | <p>I can see the remote share from nautilus and browse to it. I want to access that share from another application in this case, Eclipse - which is using the standard open file dialog.</p>
<p>Is there a convenient way I can do this from Nautilus? I cannot find that share anyway on the file system, mnt or media... is it somewhere? How do I put it somewhere if it is now.</p>
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29511 | 1 | null | 2011-03-08T11:42:50.827 | 3 | 939 | <p>I am getting the following error:</p>
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sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0666, should be 0440
Segmentation fault
</code></pre>
<p>To start xampp, I typed</p>
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<p>Please help. How can I solve this?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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29512 | 1 | null | 2011-03-08T12:06:25.470 | 1 | 217 | <p>The application make the color reversed when i type <kbd>super</kbd>+<kbd>m</kbd>. I don't know what 's its name, and how can i make it start automatically when i log in?</p>
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29513 | 1 | 61304 | 2011-03-08T12:13:25.583 | 18 | 44819 | <p>I have lots of video files on my hard drive and I want to manage and sort them using tags. So my question is: What do you think is the best way to do this?</p>
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29515 | 1 | null | 2011-03-08T11:33:16.710 | 0 | 1017 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/29511/sudo-permissions-error">Sudo permissions error</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am getting the following error:</p>
<pre><code>sudo: unable to resolve host XXX
sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0666, should be 0440
Segmentation fault
</code></pre>
<p>To start xampp, I typed</p>
<pre><code>sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
</code></pre>
<p>Please help, How can I solve this?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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29519 | 1 | 29524 | 2011-03-08T12:43:51.413 | 6 | 4383 | <p>I have <code>postfix</code> mail agent installed and I've configured gmail relay and I could send mails from the terminal as below:</p>
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CC: <hit enter for empty cc>
Type the mesage here
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<p>I have to send a log file contents as a mail and schedule it to run everyday.</p>
<p>How do I send log file contents as mail message, how do I automate the inputs of <code>mail</code> command? so that I can schedule it. Anybody has any idea?</p>
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"text": "Worked perfectly!. One more thing, is it possible to fine tune to send only if the log file is not empty. i.e if logfile has something in it then send, like checking the size of the file or something",
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"text": "Awesome!!!. it works. when I checked syslog file without any mail command it didn't print \"file is not empty\". I checked your last line editing it and it worked perfectly. Thanks a lot!. The admins like you eases others life, otherwise I would have to spend months searching for this with what key word? don't know. Any way thanks again",
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29523 | 1 | 29539 | 2011-03-08T13:10:51.127 | 11 | 8631 | <p>Is there a way to sync a folder to an USB drive when the drive is plugged in? I'd like it to sync, or copy over changes, both ways. I've seen the Back In Time and Unison-GTK applications, but I'd like for it to run as soon as the drive is mounted. What I mean is, unintrusively sync the two folders without any input from myself besides setting it up.</p>
<p>If this isn't possible, is it possible to run the application when the thumb drive is plugged in to remind myself to sync manually?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
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29526 | 1 | 29529 | 2011-03-08T13:49:27.900 | 38 | 56917 | <p>I have a lot of images on my laptop as I work in graphics. On the same system, I also have a folder containing my family pictures.</p>
<p>I would like to do two things:</p>
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<li>Empty the already cached images</li>
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<p>and then </p>
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<li>"blacklist" or exclude the folder holding the family pictures as I use Shotwell for organizing/adding/deleting these files</li>
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<p>In the settings of Nautilus you can only change global settings.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gd6L8.png" alt="File Management Preferences preview tab"></p>
<p>Any ideas?</p>
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29533 | 1 | 29538 | 2011-03-08T14:59:19.530 | 5 | 5192 | <p>I want to install MySQL but my internet connection is very slow so I decided to download the database from the MySQL site.</p>
<p>I have read <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/27817/how-to-install-mysql-db-while-offline">this question</a>, but I don't have any friends using Ubuntu.</p>
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29540 | 1 | 29547 | 2011-03-08T16:52:28.970 | 174 | 491765 | <p>How can I browse the Internet from the command line in Ubuntu?</p>
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"text": "Wow, thanx for mentioning elinks' inbuilt search rewrites (\"smart prefixes\").. somehow missed them although I've been using `elinks` (with joy!) for years! here's a conf line to invoke it nicely from inside `tmux`, the 21st century terminal multiplexer: `bind-key g command-prompt -p \"google:\" \"split-window -c '#{pane_current_path}' -p 90 'elinks -no-home -no-connect \\\"g %%\\\"'\"`",
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29542 | 1 | 29548 | 2011-03-08T17:10:37.943 | 48 | 61829 | <p>Is there a way to get files/directories permissions in number format "0777" instead of "-rw--r--r" format? </p>
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29543 | 1 | null | 2011-03-08T17:12:32.853 | 3 | 1007 | <p>Ever since 10.04 I have been trying to resolve an issue with my graphics card - nVidia GeForce 210.</p>
<p>I'm having issues when I watch movies on 10.10 - they are jumping all the time, even with Compiz disabled and when that is the only thing I am doing.</p>
<p>I have tried the solution to <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4954/how-to-get-nvidia-geforce-gt-210-drivers-working-on-lucid-lynx">How to get NVidia GeForce GT 210 drivers working on Lucid Lynx?</a> but it didn't work.</p>
<p>How can I fix this?</p>
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Here are the steps I took:</p>
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<li><code>apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau</code></li>
<li>edit <code>/etc/default/grub</code> to add the line <code>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nouveau.modeset=0"</code></li>
<li><code>sudo update-grub</code></li>
<li>Reboot</li>
<li>Download official Linux drivers from nVidia site.</li>
<li><code>sh filename-of-downloaded-driver-package</code></li>
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29545 | 1 | null | 2011-03-08T17:15:01.790 | 4 | 241 | <p>I currently have my</p>
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<p>I haven't been able to find any information on this issue.</p>
<p>Is it even possible to do this?</p>
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29546 | 1 | 159655 | 2011-03-08T17:17:52.880 | 4 | 5617 | <p>I was reading that LibreOffice was finally opening up in supporting many of the formats that were eventually been closed in OpenOffice every time an update appeared. I see that Lotus 1,2,3 and WordPro are there but does it support Amipro .sam format? I have about 10K documents just in one of the offices and work maybe more than 100K in total .sam documents and the only way to read them is using the AmiPro 3.1 original.</p>
<p>But I want to change them all to .odt format assuming LibreOffice supports amipro. If yes (via an extension or a new upgrade) I would search for a way via console to convert them from .sam to .odt.</p>
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29553 | 1 | null | 2011-03-08T17:38:59.750 | 305 | 501329 | <p>Are there any configuration options for the Unity desktop?</p>
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<p>There are multiple valid answers for this question spanning over several versions of Ubuntu. For your convenience an index of each below <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/12493/how-can-i-find-the-version-of-ubuntu-that-is-installed"><em>(How can I tell which Ubuntu release I'm using?</em>)</a>:</p>
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<li><a href="https://askubuntu.com/a/294604/14356">13.04</a></li>
<li><a href="https://askubuntu.com/a/224775/14356">12.10</a></li>
<li><a href="https://askubuntu.com/a/101415/14356">12.04</a></li>
<li><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/29553/how-can-i-configure-unity/62903#62903">11.10</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/29553/how-can-i-configure-unity/29561#29561">11.04</a></li>
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<p>If you're looking to configure Unity 2D, <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/32667/how-do-i-configure-unity-2d">look here</a>.</p>
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29557 | 1 | null | 2011-03-08T18:11:47.043 | 2 | 6491 | <p>I am running Ubuntu 11.10 64bit with a Sony VAIO VPC F11. It has an NVIDIA GeForce 310M video card, with the latest Nvidia drivers for the 64 bit linux, and a Windows partition with Win7 64bit.</p>
<p>NVIDIA driver version is NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-280.13</p>
<p>External monitor is Samsung SyncMaster P2770</p>
<p>If I boot into the Windows partition, the HDMI works as expected, with sound and video-- under linux, the HDMI port is not recognized at all, apparently, and provides no signal to the attached monitor. The nividia-settings tool does not recognize any monitor connected to the HDMI port.</p>
<p>Disper is installed and cannot recognize an attached external monitor.</p>
<p>Can anyone help me diagnose this issue and fix it if possible? The laptop has only the one HDMI port to connect any external monitor, so it I can't get this working I'm stuck using either the laptop screen or Windows.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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29559 | 1 | 29576 | 2011-03-08T18:24:59.367 | 152 | 132725 | <p>I sometimes browse erotic media files but I would like to avoid having them appear in files & folders / recent. How can I do that?</p>
<p>The old "making <code>.recently-used.xbel</code> a folder" trick from 10.10 and older doesn't work any more. </p>
<p>Plus I'd prefer to turn off tracking only temporarily.</p>
<p>I also prefer not to use a separate user for this, as switching users sometimes isn't fast enough.</p>
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"text": "I found a not so nice side effect: If you really want to hide something, this is not sufficient: Every time Zeitgeist can't write an entry because of the blacklist, it is logged in ~/.cache/zeitgeist/daemon.log",
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29562 | 1 | null | 2011-03-08T18:50:51.547 | 4 | 902 | <p>I have tried booting from ubuntu on my emac, but when i hold down the <kbd>C</kbd> key, or any other key like option. It just continues to boot up mac os 10.3, Panther. I really want to run ubuntu on my mac, instead of mac os panther.</p>
<p>My specs:</p>
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Mac os 10.3, Panther.</p>
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29566 | 1 | 29570 | 2011-03-08T19:22:12.977 | 18 | 6706 | <p>My hard drive is going crazy and I don't know what application is doing it.</p>
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"body": "<p>you can install <code>iotop</code></p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/vpjHs.jpg\" alt=\"enter image description here\"></p>\n",
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"text": "Looks great... although no standard repo package for it. Link is [here](http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/) for anyone else looking.",
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29574 | 1 | null | 2011-03-08T20:17:21.710 | 5 | 918 | <p>Is it possible to do a fulltext search (or even better regexp) automatically on all websites I have in my bookmark list?</p>
<p><strong>Edit</strong></p>
<p>Is there any other browser where this is possible?</p>
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29581 | 1 | null | 2011-03-08T21:26:20.063 | 3 | 144 | <p>So I have a pretty big server full of all sorts of Open/Office files, engineering data and whathaveyou and I was looking for a good way to index all of the data and create a tag or keyword cloud. Is there any sort of tool do so something like this in Ubuntu? It would save me a ton of time in digging around and rooting out old files...</p>
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29588 | 1 | 29605 | 2011-03-08T22:30:13.340 | 0 | 192 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/37/when-installing-im-given-the-option-of-encrypting-my-home-folder-what-does-th">When installing I'm given the option of encrypting my home folder — what does this do?</a> </p>
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<p>I know the basic idea behind encrypting, but what exactly does it mean to encrypt your home folder? Why would one choose to do that?</p>
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29589 | 1 | 29591 | 2011-03-08T22:30:16.370 | 167 | 562044 | <p>What is the difference between <code>chmod u+x</code> and just <code>chmod +x</code>? I have seen a ton of tutorials that say to use <code>u+x</code> to make scripts executable. However, omitting the <code>u</code> doesn't seem to have any effect.</p>
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29595 | 1 | null | 2011-03-08T23:50:09.547 | 3 | 16495 | <p>I am following the <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html" rel="nofollow">Ubuntu server guide</a> to configure OpenLDAP on an Ubuntu 10.04 server, but can not get it to work.</p>
<p>When I try to use <code>sudo ldapadd -x -D cn=admin,dc=don,dc=com -W -f frontend.ldif</code> I'm getting the following error:</p>
<pre><code>Enter LDAP Password: <entered 'secret' as password>
adding new entry "dc=don,dc=com"
ldap_add: Naming violation (64)
additional info: value of single-valued naming attribute 'dc' conflicts with value present in entry
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<p>Again when I try to do the same, I'm getting the following error:</p>
<pre><code>root@avy-desktop:/home/avy# sudo ldapadd -x -D cn=admin,dc=don,dc=com -W -f frontend.ldif
Enter LDAP Password:
ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)
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<p>Here is the <code>backend.ldif</code> file:</p>
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olcDbConfig: set_lk_max_locks 1500
olcDbConfig: set_lk_max_lockers 1500
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olcLastMod: TRUE
olcDbCheckpoint: 512 30
olcAccess: to attrs=userPassword by dn="cn=admin,dc=don,dc=com" write by anonymous auth by self write by * none
olcAccess: to attrs=shadowLastChange by self write by * read
olcAccess: to dn.base="" by * read
olcAccess: to * by dn="cn=admin,dc=don,dc=com" write by * read
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<hr>
<p><code>frontend.ldif</code> file:</p>
<pre><code># Create top-level object in domain
dn: dc=don,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: dcObject
objectclass: organization
o: Example Organization
dc: Example
description: LDAP Example
# Admin user.
dn: cn=admin,dc=don,dc=com
objectClass: simpleSecurityObject
objectClass: organizationalRole
cn: admin
description: LDAP administrator
userPassword: secret
dn: ou=people,dc=don,dc=com
objectClass: organizationalUnit
ou: people
dn: ou=groups,dc=don,dc=com
objectClass: organizationalUnit
ou: groups
dn: uid=john,ou=people,dc=don,dc=com
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: shadowAccount
uid: john
sn: Doe
givenName: John
cn: John Doe
displayName: John Doe
uidNumber: 1000
gidNumber: 10000
userPassword: password
gecos: John Doe
loginShell: /bin/bash
homeDirectory: /home/john
shadowExpire: -1
shadowFlag: 0
shadowWarning: 7
shadowMin: 8
shadowMax: 999999
shadowLastChange: 10877
mail: john.doe@don.com
postalCode: 31000
l: Toulouse
o: Example
mobile: +33 (0)6 xx xx xx xx
homePhone: +33 (0)5 xx xx xx xx
title: System Administrator
postalAddress:
initials: JD
dn: cn=example,ou=groups,dc=don,dc=com
objectClass: posixGroup
cn: example
gidNumber: 10000
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<p>Can anyone help me?</p>
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29600 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T00:04:07.763 | 0 | 977 | <p>An icon has recently appeared on my panel with an exclamation mark. The message i get when hovering over this is that the update information is out of date, and that this may be caused by an unavailable repository or a network isssue.</p>
<p>My network connection appears to be ok.</p>
<p>The message advises i manually check for updates. When i do this, i get the following message:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>W:Failed to fetch
<a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net///ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/source/Sources.gz" rel="nofollow">http://ppa.launchpad.net///ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/source/Sources.gz</a>
404 Not Found , W:Failed to fetch
<a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net///ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz" rel="nofollow">http://ppa.launchpad.net///ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz</a>
404 Not Found , E:Some index files
failed to download, they have been
ignored, or old ones used instead.</p>
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<p>Any idea whats going on?</p>
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29602 | 1 | 74721 | 2011-03-09T00:09:17.630 | 2 | 1846 | <p>I've been struggling a while with getting the iMON LCD/IR-receiver on my Antec Fusion Black case to shutdown together with the system (XBMC Live 10 - ubuntu based). But it won't. When it's turned off the LCD still lights up the whole room. Many have proposed the "solution" of setting the machine into hibernation instead but that however won't work for me, since I'm unable to suspend my system.</p>
<p>It is the LCD/IR-module that prevents me from suspending and I haven't found a solution to properly unload it on suspending (it's way above my linux knowledge). I need help with getting the display to turn off the backlight when the system is turned off. Can anyone please help me?</p>
<p>If anyone also has the knowledge on how to get the eject function to work on my Antec Veris rm200 remote I would be very grateful, I was told about that it could get fixed with irexec but I do not know how since I haven't been able to find a good tutorial on the subject.</p>
<p>Thank you for helping me!</p>
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29603 | 1 | 29609 | 2011-03-09T00:15:59.090 | 60 | 64128 | <p>Exactly what the title asks. How do I clear xmodmap settings?</p>
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<p>So I'm trying to reset my keyboard to the default settings, but the xmodmap manpage is woefully devoid of "reset all" or "clear all" or anything of that nature (that I was able to find).</p>
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29607 | 1 | 47529 | 2011-03-09T00:40:01.143 | 5 | 2445 | <p>I want to install the <a href="http://awesome.naquadah.org">Awesome</a> window manager.
In the environment where I want to configure it I don't have root access.</p>
<p>I do have a machine were I can be root (I use for this a virtual machine in my laptop).</p>
<p>I have tried the following:</p>
<pre><code>$ sudo apt-get install awesome
The following packages are about to be installed:
awesome libev3 libid3tag0 libimlib2 liblua5.1-0 libxcb-icccm1 libxcb-image0
libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-property1 libxcb-randr0 libxcb-xinerama0
libxcb-xtest0 libxdg-basedir1 menu rlwrap
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
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<p>I do now have the list of dependencies for awesome, so I downloaded them all.
For that, I did the following.</p>
<pre><code>$ pkgs="awesome libev3 libid3tag0 libimlib2 liblua5.1-0 libxcb-icccm1 libxcb-image0
libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-property1 libxcb-randr0 libxcb-xinerama0
libxcb-xtest0 libxdg-basedir1 menu rlwrap" # this is just for not writing it all ;)
$ sudo apt-get install --download-only $pkgs
....
$ mkdir -p /tmp/x_debs
$ for pkg in $pkgs; do cp /var/cache/apt/archives/$pkg* /tmp/x_debs/; done
[ copies all *.deb from my dependencies to /tmp/x_debs ]
</code></pre>
<p>Now, I want to install the dependencies.
For that, I setup a fake dpkg install in my home folder:</p>
<pre><code>$ mkdir $HOME/root
$ mkdir -p $HOME/root/var/lib/dpkg/{triggers,updates}
$ touch $HOME/root/var/lib/dpkg/{available,status}
</code></pre>
<p>Now I tried to install with dpkg, but I could not:</p>
<pre><code>$ dpkg --force-not-root --root=$HOME/root --recursive -i /tmp/x_debs
</code></pre>
<p>It failed while trying to set permissions for the packages and running chroot.
As I do have root access in this machine, I ran it with privileges:</p>
<pre><code>$ sudo dpkg --root=$HOME/root --recursive -i /tmp/x_debs
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<p>Then I had a lot of stuff (i.e., everything: dependencies and the own WM) installed inside <code>$HOME/root</code>.
Particularly, xcb-* libraries were installed in <code>$HOME/root/usr/lib</code> and the awesome binary in <code>$HOME/root/usr/bin/awesome</code>.</p>
<p>If I try to execute awesome as is I get as an error that libraries could not be loaded.
That's normal, as they are not in /usr/lib nor in /lib. So I ran <code>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/root/usr/lib:$HOME/root/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}</code> and awesome <em>would</em> try to load.</p>
<p>However, I could not make gdm to run <code>awesome</code> within gnome or replacing it.</p>
<p>I did it this way so I can copy everything in my $HOME/root folder, paste it in the other machine and have it running.
Is there any other way (to have less wasted space maybe..) to do this?</p>
<p>How can I tell gdm to <code>exec awesome</code> without root access?</p>
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29610 | 1 | 29612 | 2011-03-09T01:35:36.567 | 3 | 1104 | <p>When using Elementary (at least, using the Controls), it makes the panel dark, and I'd like to use a light panel. How can I change this?</p>
<p>Thanks for any help!</p>
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29617 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T05:08:50.830 | 0 | 409 | <p>I am new to both percona & Ubuntu. According to this <a href="http://www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-5.1/Percona-Server-5.1.55-12.6/deb/" rel="nofollow">page</a> percona is only available for</p>
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<p>But i am using 11.04 (Natty). Can someone recommend me which version should i choose?</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
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29618 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T03:29:54.517 | 2 | 164 | <p>I have two disks with the exact same partitioning and size. When I start the computer it obviously only boots from one of the disks. How can I tell which one?
(I have used <code>sudo fdisk -l</code>, but that will list the disks but since they have the same partitioning and size, I do not get a clue on which one is getting booted from)
Thanks in advance. </p>
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29620 | 1 | 29636 | 2011-03-09T06:26:02.883 | 8 | 2836 | <p>I'm a bit confused about whether or not Gnome-shell is a new distribution or just a desktop environment? Will shell be available to install and use instead of Unity?</p>
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29621 | 1 | 29666 | 2011-03-09T06:48:34.337 | 1 | 1045 | <p>I really don't like the gradients in the Elementary theme and I was wondering if there is a way to remove them from applications like Nautilus-Elementary, Postler, Dexter, etc. I've tried commenting out the <code>Apps/[Application].rc</code> in <code>/usr/share/themes/elementary/gtk-2.0/gtkrc</code> but it doesn't work. It still leaves the gradients in their place.</p>
<p>I'm a big fan of the other controls in the theme: the scroll bar, the way it borders gedit and the buttons, and I'd like to keep these features, but I don't like the way it styles its windows.</p>
<p><strong>EDIT:</strong> The gradients I'm talking about are the ones at the top of the window.</p>
<p>Some examples:</p>
<p>Nautilus-Elementary:<br>
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dftrs.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>Postler:<br>
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/SmBEb.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>Rhythmbbox:<br>
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Ax4U.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>Transmission:
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rUatX.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>I'd like to create a sort of matte look, similar to this, which was done using Orta:</p>
<p>Nautilus-Elementary:<br>
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/xX2on.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>Postler:<br>
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wMSiA.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>Rhythmbox:<br>
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wMIfK.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>Transmission:<br>
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/svi4I.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>I'd like a flat color, preferably without the line separating the top part of the application with the bottom.</p>
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29624 | 1 | 29735 | 2011-03-09T07:18:42.573 | 2 | 2011 | <p>The other day I came in to work and found that our development server - a Ubuntu box - had a full hard disk. I did a bit of investigation and it seems like mozilla thunderbird is the major culprit. After burning off some backup files which did not need to be on the machine, the disk was left at 94%:</p>
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 895G 791G 59G 94% /
none 4.0G 300K 4.0G 1% /dev
none 4.0G 1.4M 4.0G 1% /dev/shm
none 4.0G 140K 4.0G 1% /var/run
none 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /var/lock
none 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /lib/init/rw
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666G ./.thunderbird/ccsmcruu.default/ImapMail/mail.adofms.com.au
666G ./.thunderbird/ccsmcruu.default/ImapMail
667G ./.thunderbird/ccsmcruu.default
667G ./.thunderbird
2.2G ./.VirtualBox/Machines/iBike/Snapshots
2.2G ./.VirtualBox/Machines/iBike
2.2G ./.VirtualBox/Machines
2.2G ./.VirtualBox
670G .
670G total
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<p>I did some reading and found that Mozilla Thunderbird does not compact files by default - i.e. all of the old emails that were sent to trash are still kept. One of the mailboxes used to get a lot of spam so I guess this accounts for the 667GB. I opened up Thunderbird to see how much space the inbox actually takes up and it turns out to be approximately 500MB - over 1000 times less than the stuff that has not been compacted over the years.</p>
<p>So i right clicked on the inbox directory in the tree on the left of Thunderbird and selected 'compact'. I left it for about 12hours but even after that it still said 'compacting folder' on the status bar. I don't use Thunderbird on this PC - it belonged to a colleague who has left the company, however I do occasionally need to look through the inbox for references to the project I am working on, so deleting all traces of Thunderbird is not an option.</p>
<p>My question is - is there any way I can monitor the progress of Thunderbird's compacting function? I would really like to know how long it is going to take.</p>
<p>If there is any way I can speed up the compacting process i would also like to know.</p>
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29625 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T07:26:57.970 | 3 | 5491 | <p>I want to configure EVDO Usb Modem in Ubuntu 10.10
I insert my usb modem to laptop and check the usb is detected or not using <code>$sudo lsusb</code> and the result is:</p>
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Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 201e:2009
Bus 002 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 001 Device 003: ID 14cd:6600 Super Top USB 2.0 IDE DEVICE
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<p><code>Bus 002 Device 002: ID 201e:2009</code> is my us device.
and than I execute command <code>$dmesg | grep -e tty</code></p>
<pre><code>[ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
[ 818.054660] usb 2-1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 818.055125] usb 2-1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
[ 818.055647] usb 2-1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2
[ 818.330641] option1 ttyUSB0: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
[ 818.330743] option1 ttyUSB1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB1
[ 818.330840] option1 ttyUSB2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB2
[ 1054.917473] usb 2-1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 1054.917995] usb 2-1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
[ 1054.918481] usb 2-1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2
[ 1055.214087] option1 ttyUSB0: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
[ 1055.214221] option1 ttyUSB1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB1
[ 1055.214356] option1 ttyUSB2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB2
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<p>Why converter disconnected from ttyUSB2 ? </p>
<p>and than I try to execute command <code>$sudo wvdialconf</code></p>
<pre><code>sorry, no modem was detected! Is it in use by another program ?
did you configure it properly with setserials ?
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<p>I change the same type usb modem from my friend, but I still get error above. </p>
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29626 | 1 | 49941 | 2011-03-09T07:29:20.260 | 16 | 11109 | <p>I have a problem where a one-pixel high white line is displayed through certain letters of text. Almost always only a single character type is affected at once, and only in one font size (though that size can change over time). Most of the time things are fine, but this happens several times a day. It happens frequently in Firefox, but system dialogs, menus, etc. can also be affected.
It's been happening ever since I upgraded to 10.10. Only restarting seems to fix it.</p>
<p>Two examples (in the first, only the larger "r" is corrupted):
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<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/B9Egg.png" alt="os"></p>
<p>Any help would be appreciated, thanks.</p>
<p>Edit: I've since noticed that I can (sometimes) make the fonts appear correctly by zooming in/out all the way and returning to the default in Firefox (one or two steps, then going back, does nothing) seems to make the problem go away temporarily.</p>
<p>Edit 2: I figure it's worth noting that the solution below doesn't fully work for me any longer (I'm now using Ubuntu 11.10). It does <em>significantly</em> reduce the frequency of this problem occurring.</p>
<p>Edit 3: Still around in 12.04. The fix provided by Vanni works perfectly now for me, but apparently doesn't for some.</p>
<p>Edit 4: This seems to be an xorg problem, with Vanni's answer fixing it for many Intel video cards. I've had this occasionally happen with AMD graphics cards in 13.10 and 14.04, but very rarely (only two or three times).</p>
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29627 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T07:45:15.987 | 8 | 688 | <p>I installed Ubuntu 10.10 a few days ago. It is really awesome but the problem is that it takes unusually long time (about 20 minutes) for the login screen to appear after the Ubuntu startup screen. This only happens if I shutdown the computer. There is no problem when I restart the computer.</p>
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29629 | 1 | 29634 | 2011-03-09T08:39:45.720 | 2 | 963 | <p>So I am trying to install Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 on Wine but at the installation I manage to get only at the last point of the setup where it is stuck for more than an hour</p>
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<p>What should I do now? I believe clicking cancel will rollback changes but that seems to be the only thing remaining, or I can just kill this process and trying installing it over again, it might get over with this step. Suggestions?</p>
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29630 | 1 | 29862 | 2011-03-09T08:48:58.183 | 7 | 4352 | <p>I'm pretty new to Ubuntu, but I know the basics.</p>
<p>I read the <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5209/how-do-i-change-the-folder-icons-in-the-places-menu">"How do I change the folder icons in the “Places” menu?"</a> but it didn't help, did the option #2 since I want to specify it for a single directory (for now).</p>
<p>So what should I do?</p>
<p>I have the folder image as SVG in:</p>
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<p>The image I want to use: </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/KRJ9r.png" alt="enter image description here"> </p>
<p>and where I want it: </p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xx4ED.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
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For example, if you want to change the directory for your Public folder to the directory of your Dropbox folder change the line:</p>\n<pre><code>XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"\n</code></pre>\n<p>to:</p>\n<pre><code>XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Dropbox"\n</code></pre>\n<p>(assuming that your Dropbox folder is located in your home directory)</p>\n<p>After you have done this you will notice that your Dropbox folder (if you are using the Ambiance theme) will look like this:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/2DVtx.png\" alt=\"Icon Dropbox/Public\" /></p>\n<p>And after you bookmarked it by dragging it to your sidebar in nautilus it will appear in your places menu like this:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/zNyWh.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\" /></p>\n<p>If this is not the case try refreshing your window by pressing Ctrl+R or F5, if its still not working at that point check the users-dirs.dirs file for any mistakes you could have made.</p>\n<h1>step 2)</h1>\n<p>Although this is a very nice icon it's not the one you wanted to use. You have to replace the icons of the user folder with your own. The icons for the user folder public are named "folder-publicshare.svg" and can be found in:</p>\n<pre><code>/usr/share/icons/Humanity/places/16/\n/usr/share/icons/Humanity/places/22/\n/usr/share/icons/Humanity/places/24/\n/usr/share/icons/Humanity/places/32/\n/usr/share/icons/Humanity/places/48/\n/usr/share/icons/Humanity/places/64/\n</code></pre>\n<p>Because i was bored i made a bash script to make this easy for you</p>\n<pre><code>#!/bin/bash\ni=0\nfor d in `ls -d $2*/`\ndo cp $1 $d$3\necho copying $1 to $d$3\nlet i++\ndone\necho "The file $3 was copied to a total of $i locations"\n</code></pre>\n<p>You can copy this in a text editor like gedit and save it in your home folder with the name copy.sh or some other name which you like better. Once you have saved it you have to open a terminal window and type:</p>\n<pre><code>sudo chmod +x ./copy.sh\n</code></pre>\n<p>This will make the file you just created executable, to replace the icons type:</p>\n<p><code>sudo ./copy.sh /dir/to/icon.png /usr/share/icons/Humanity/places/ folder-publicshare.svg</code></p>\n<p>Replace the first parameter /dir/to/icon.png with the location of your icon, the second parameter is the parent directory of the folders where the icons are stored, the third parameter is the name of the icons that need to be replaced (this parameter is optional if the script is used for a different purpose).</p>\n<p>Using this script will also make a copy to the 128 folder where it isn't needed, it will do no harm there but if you want to delete it you can do this by typing the following line in a terminal window:</p>\n<pre><code>sudo rm /usr/share/icons/Humanity/places/128/folder-publicshare.svg\n</code></pre>\n<p>After you logged out and and logged in again this will be the result (in Dutch):</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/SiAbu.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\" /></p>\n<p>As you can see there is another custom icon in my menu named School (it has my School logo on it), this one replaced the user folder Templates (guess no one really uses that folder). The icons for the user folder Templates are named folder-templates.svg and can be found at the same locations as the icons for the user folder public. While replacing these icons i didn't use the bash script that i posted above but i copied them manually because i made six different icons with different resolutions.</p>\n<p>The downside on this approach is that you can only customize a total of seven icons and you have to hand in a standard user folder.</p>\n<p><em>Note: Do not change the directory of your Desktop unless you know what you are doing.</em></p>\n<p>I hope this has answered your question, it may look like a lot of work but its done in a minute.</p>\n",
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29635 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T10:18:51.517 | 5 | 925 | <p>I want to develop a little application and I want to add events to the calendar of the Gnome panel clock. How does it work? Is there a D-Bus Interface I can use? Or can I directly access the evolution-data-server?</p>
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29637 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T10:46:24.770 | 10 | 2489 | <p>After installing 10.10 I used <code>Hardware Drivers</code> (Jockey) to install the graphics driver v11.2 for my ATI HD 5770.</p>
<p>After restarting to activate the driver all went well and the boot screen showed up but not like the normal one the text was rough on the edges and after the boot finished the screen turned black and no signal.</p>
<p>I have found some forum discussions about that issue but no fix worked for me.
I use a DVI to VGA adapter and I have a View Sonic E70F CRT monitor.</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rrzfS.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this is the last thing i see before i get a no signal</a></p>
<p>i found a bug report at <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/560306" rel="nofollow noreferrer">launchpad.net</a> take a look </p>
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<li>using <code>sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf</code>
and the rebooted the screen came on</li>
<li><p>after the boot or splash screen the
desktop resolution is <code>1152x864</code> </p></li>
<li><p>I can't use the CCC "catalyst control
center":
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/NTUc5.png" alt="msg popup"></p></li>
<li>I can't enable desktop effects </li>
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<p>I have found that my <strong>EDID</strong> in my monitor is corrupt and Ubuntu is not reading my monitor when I set it to defalut and gives me this error:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/SCUxu.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>In windows the display is read as generic non-PnP monitor and it can live with that while Ubuntu can't. The error message is the right size when I set my display as default.</p>
<p>People told me i can put refresh rates horizontal and vertical and screen resolution in xorg. Am I on the right track? How can I do that? </p>
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29639 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T11:03:14.300 | 6 | 26850 | <p>In Ubuntu when new mail arrives <em>Evolution</em> changes message indicator to green color. I have migrated from <em>Evolution</em> to <em>Thunderbird</em> and that is why looking for how to make <em>Thunderbird</em> react like <em>Evolution</em> once a new mail arrives.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE 1</strong></p>
<p>I have forgotten to note that I don't have <em>administrator privileges</em> in my working computer.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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29641 | 1 | 29650 | 2011-03-09T11:17:19.260 | 1 | 274 | <p>Is it possible to make a script that basically does the same thing as <code>jockey-common</code>? i.e. An script to find any hardware that requires proprietary drivers and install them.</p>
<p><strong>EDIT</strong> As Oli mentioned, the scripts are already present in Ubuntu, if any of you are already aware as to which script corresponds to which options listed in <code>jockey-text --help</code> and how to use them, please answer!</p>
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"body": "<p>I'm not sure I know what you want to achieve but <code>jockey-text</code> will let you detect and install drivers from the command line.</p>\n\n<p>It has various arguments where you'd be able to parse the output and feed them back into it via a script. Just look at <code>jockey-text --help</code></p>\n\n<p>If you need to really play around with <em>how</em> it works, it's all Python (with a light dusting of dbus) so you're free to just dive in and hack around with whatever you want.</p>\n\n<p>You can find the scripts in <code>/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/jockey/</code> (this path will change in future Ubuntu versions when there's a different Python version being used) and you can see how <code>jockey-text</code> interfaces with this in its own script here: <code>/usr/bin/jockey-text</code>.</p>\n\n<p>I'd suggest inheriting <code>jockey.ui.AbstractUI</code> like <code>jockey-text</code> does and working it from there. It's not a simple application though. It's going to take a bit of time to figure out what's actually happening inside that class before you can meaningfully use it.</p>\n",
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"text": "Yes, I'm already aware of it - `jockey-text` and `jockey-gtk` (Additional Drivers) are there because of `jockey-common`. What I'm looking for is a script that is an alternative solution to let me detect and install restricted drivers.",
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"text": "Have a look at `/usr/bin/jockey-text` and you'll see it's just a wrapper around other Python scripts in `/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/jockey/`. You're free to pull those apart and dig in.",
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"text": "I was hoping it'd be something like that and thinking to take a peek into the source code (even though I don't really know any programming), so thanks for the pointer! I'll accept this answer if I can get them to work.",
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29642 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T11:22:01.977 | 5 | 1932 | <p>This is something that's been bugging me for quite some time.</p>
<p>I'm attaching a screenshot of the issue as seen in <strong>Microsoft Office Word 2007</strong>.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/6FZg9.png" alt="Issue in Word 2007"></p>
<p>While it doesn't get in the way when it's like this, I've had to uninstall other apps as the black artefacts affected usability.</p>
<p>Here is the same issue in <strong>Excel 2007</strong>.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/KCE8e.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p><strong>Setup</strong><br>
I'm running 32-bit Ubuntu 10.10, with an Intel 945 chipset.</p>
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29647 | 1 | null | 2011-03-09T12:13:41.777 | 1 | 2034 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/5304/upgrading-to-latest-stable-mono">Upgrading to latest stable Mono</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Hi, I want to use Mono for some projects, but in Ubuntu (or Debian in general) is just 2.6.7 avalible. And I could not find any packages or PPAs. </p>
<p>I tried to compile it myself, but I failed. </p>
<p>Where can I get the current Mono 2.10 Version for Ubuntu Maverick and Natty? <a href="http://badgerports.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://badgerports.org/</a> only supports Lucid and Hardy and is not up to date</p>
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