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<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/6339/how-do-i-install-firefox-4">How do I install Firefox 4?</a> </p>
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<p>I'm getting fed up of Chrome's crazy memory usage and quirks and I'm tired of FF3's sluggish performance. I'd like to replace FF3 with FF4.</p>
<p>Now I've already installed it technically but the branding is completely off. It's using its codename. Is there a PPA of the latest <em>releases</em> (not nightlies) that comes with the proper branding and optionally a conflicts directive in its package so it clears out the old FF3 packages too.</p>
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30003 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T00:32:40.723 | 4 | 427 | <p>How can I get an alphabetical list of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_marker" rel="nofollow">kernel markers</a> from command-line?</p>
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30007 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T01:40:41.193 | 7 | 12202 | <p>I was wondering why my memory useage was so high, what is this thing that take a whopping 1.2GB of memory.</p>
<p>Please and thank you.</p>
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30011 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T02:12:25.263 | 2 | 5239 | <p>It's my first time running ubuntu server and I'm trying to figure out a way to prevent the machine from going into suspend mode (I'm guessing) when the Lid is closed on the Laptop. </p>
<p>Is it possible to stop the laptop from entering suspend mode when the lid is closed? Possibly without needing to install some GUI package.</p>
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30012 | 1 | 30016 | 2011-03-12T02:33:02.647 | 16 | 20081 | <p>This is the third time I have installed Ubuntu on my pc along with Windows 7, but every time I install, I have to upgrade all packages. (Almost 300 - 400 Mb). Is it possible to make a bootable DVD of my current installation so that I don't have to upgrade all the packages next time?</p>
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"text": "I Chossed the Distcdfs option.. I can't go to ubuntu any more.. it is not starting.. i am on windows currently. (My system is dual boot)",
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30015 | 1 | 30018 | 2011-03-12T03:22:27.220 | 1 | 72 | <p>I noticed that there is a time lag of several days between a software update (for example "chromium") and their inclusion in the repositories! Is there certain criteria that software has to meet, before Ubuntu releases it into the repositories?</p>
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30017 | 1 | 30354 | 2011-03-12T03:47:27.693 | 4 | 187 | <p>This question is about backports again, but is specific to the difference in availability of packages.</p>
<p>A specific example of this would be the two gcc packages in 10.10's repos: gcc (which is 4.4), and gcc-4.5 (which is gcc 4.5).</p>
<p>While this change is in 10.10's repositories, such optional packages aren't included in the 10.04 LTS repositories, and the option to have a gcc-4.5 compiler in 10.04 might help several people (such as myself, who needs the 4.5 compiler for University, and I can't upgrade to 10.10 because it doesnt operate correctly on my system).</p>
<p>Is there a reason a lack of such optional packages is in the 10.04 repositories?</p>
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"text": "So I spoke with them about this issue. As I suspected this really boils down to a lack of time and resources. The same factors that kept them from responding to this question also. They are unable to provide the time needed to keep watch over these questions like they would like to. So, short answer again, \"There is no time to do the backports.\"",
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30019 | 1 | 30023 | 2011-03-12T04:56:22.697 | 2 | 715 | <p>I wish to integrate Gnome MPlayer with Nautilus file browser.<br>
You know, add:</p>
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30020 | 1 | 30487 | 2011-03-12T05:00:17.050 | 3 | 1765 | <p>I have checked several "Tracker Search Tool" questions, but they all stop at very superficial usage. Google, at least for me, didn't turn out anything either. I am using Maverick, 10.10.</p>
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<li><p>As I write, I use Tracker Search Tool to find and add references from within my downloaded articles and ebooks. It's like having a mini-Google within materials that I know I have, and that I know it's academically appropriate.</p></li>
<li><p>However, I work on several subjects, and right now, to use Tracker Search Tool but limit the results to one of the subjects (all the materials for that subject are in a specific folder), I need to stop tracker, delete the databases, change the indexed locations to the one specific to the current subject, and re-index everything.</p></li>
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<p>Does the Tracker Search Tool have any special syntax that I can use to limit results to a specific folder/subfolder within the indexed locations? Does anyone have a link to help on this specific tool? The GNOME page for the Tracker project doesn't have anything.</p>
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30022 | 1 | 30025 | 2011-03-12T06:50:59.133 | 16 | 23453 | <p>I don't know how to install files to Ubuntu. Kindly explain to me how to install Groovy.</p>
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30027 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T07:32:04.303 | 7 | 294 | <p>I would like to know how to ask for new features in Ubuntu. </p>
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30030 | 1 | 30031 | 2011-03-12T08:52:26.347 | 6 | 328 | <p>I have installed the Groovy documentation from the Ubuntu Software Centre, but where does it reside? And how to view it?</p>
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30032 | 1 | 30033 | 2011-03-12T09:19:22.347 | 21 | 11955 | <p>Last week I started desktop sharing using krfb. Continuing from my last session, it appears that the process restarts itself.</p>
<p>Two days ago I noticed messages popping up saying something like "rejecting uninvited connection from (some IP)", but today I figured it might be because of krfb, and I was right. krfb was running in the background.</p>
<p>Hence the question, How safe is Ubuntu? Should I expect someone to connect to my computer and erase everything on my hard drive?</p>
<p>To extend my question : how safe is Ubuntu compared to other OSs (Windows, Mac, ...)? How safe it is compared to other distros?</p>
<hr>
<p>Linked Question</p>
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<li><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1069/why-is-ubuntu-more-secure-than-windows-or-mac-os-x">Why is Ubuntu more secure than Windows or Mac OS X?</a></li>
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"text": "Can you link to some quantification data for `on Ubuntu, it's also comparatively rare, these vulnerabilities get fixed very quickly*.`",
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"text": "@apoorv020 - this is true of linux in general, not just ubuntu, but finding links is easy for anyone to do, so while he could add some to his answer, you can easily find some of the data via google/search_site_of_your_choice.",
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"text": "@apoorv020 I've added some links. They're not perfectly obvious, but a good starting point. Understandably, Linux vendors don't like to release concrete figures, neither does Microsoft. But there is some pretty good analysis available.",
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"text": "A further caveat to SSH vulnerability is that you have to be allowing password login, as opposed to requiring public key authentication to be used. It's good for people to know about this, especially since `openssh-server`, by default, allows password login. I realize that you were just using SSH as an example, but wanted to mention this anyway.",
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30037 | 1 | 30083 | 2011-03-12T11:06:24.197 | 10 | 12883 | <p>To monitor what my job definitions are doing, I would like to see text output from the jobs. That does not seem to be possible when I am logged on via SSH.</p>
<p>I am having this problem with Natty 11.04, but I am convinced that it is a more common one.</p>
<p>A simple job file I use (filename <code>/etc/init/test.conf</code>):</p>
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<p>My goal is to see the text "Gotcha..." when doing <code>initctl emit test</code> or <code>initctl start test</code>. But that does not work.</p>
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30038 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T11:39:47.240 | 3 | 32721 | <p>I have installed Ubuntu on my emachines. It works well, so far, although I am unable to play movie files which I have saved from my old Windows installation. </p>
<p>I am using the default movie player that comes with the Ubuntu. I have seen other movie players in the Software Centre.</p>
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30039 | 1 | 30041 | 2011-03-12T11:41:11.233 | 2 | 729 | <p>Lately I've been getting a lot of warnings about SSL certifications on my pc, Empathy keeps telling me that Facebook's certificate is self-signed and can't be trusted, and also, there are occasional warnings in Google-Chrome about security. I remember the last one saying that that the page is secured but some of the resources that the page is using are not from a secure connection, something like that.</p>
<p>Is my pc hacked / under attack? How can I check that, and if so, how can I safeguard myself?</p>
<p>PS: One thing that comes to my mind is that I might be under an arp poisoning / spoofing attack.</p>
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30043 | 1 | 30044 | 2011-03-12T12:15:32.200 | 20 | 42542 | <p>I have the package installed. Now I want to use it to install the ms ttfonts, as stated in the description:</p>
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<p>so, how do I install the fonts?</p>
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30045 | 1 | 30454 | 2011-03-12T12:48:14.227 | 1 | 628 | <p>I installed Firefox 4 from the daily builds PPA, and it doesn't seem to be the latest RC, and tells me that I'd better update to it. How come a daily build is behind snapshot releases like beta or RC?</p>
<p>I used the profile for my Firefox 4 on Windows, I had a few app tabs saved in the profile. What gives? How do I get the Firefox Menu Button to be orange or whatever color it's supposed to be?</p>
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30047 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T13:01:30.703 | 1 | 844 | <p>I want to mount my root filesystem as read-only on boot, and use separate writable partition for logs.</p>
<p>Is it necessary to create a ramfs image for such task?</p>
<p>How can I do this?</p>
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30048 | 1 | 30051 | 2011-03-12T13:02:13.730 | 8 | 5785 | <p>I have a bootable CD image that I would like to transfer to a USB stick, so that I can boot from it. The Startup-Disk creator doesn't support it. How can I make a bootable USB disk from it? The ISO is quite old so that might be a problem.</p>
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30050 | 1 | 30201 | 2011-03-12T13:05:58.323 | 4 | 5609 | <p>I am going to buy Logitech C510 HD webcam and I just checked on other questions here on AskUbuntu that it works out of the box with cheese. Jorge's response also confirm this and I feel confident buying it now.</p>
<p>My question is can it be limited in any functionality that I would like to do with it?
I would like it to be used with everything - Skype, Gtalk video chat, Facebook, Youtube etc. Also this may sound lame but I need to know whether I could record or do a video call in lesser resolution video (its a 720p one)?</p>
<p>Edit: Ported part of this question to another question to make it more specific.</p>
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30053 | 1 | 30054 | 2011-03-12T14:30:30.760 | 9 | 840 | <p>I'm new to Linux and Ubuntu is my first distribution. I have chosen Ubuntu because I want to learn more about Linux.</p>
<p>I'm under time constraints and need to setup a server as soon as possible. I have Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server setup via VMWare Fusion on my MacBook Pro. </p>
<p>I installed everything I need on the server edition, but it feels way over my head. I have no experience with CLI.</p>
<p>Can I just use Ubuntu Desktop to run my Web server for the time being while I learn CLI? I basically need to run Apache, PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Python and Django. Should I be using MAMP?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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30056 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T14:52:41.020 | 0 | 892 | <p>Im trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 64bit on my pc. Unfortunately when I try to boot the installation from my usb-drive the installation begins with asking for a username and password.. </p>
<p>I didn't set up a user or a password for that matter, so what username/pass should I fill in. I already tried to submit the form blank and with root / root but without success.. </p>
<p>Somebody knows what the right combination is or explain if I'm a complete idiot for not understanding what to do..</p>
<p>Thank you all!</p>
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30058 | 1 | 30059 | 2011-03-12T15:08:18.683 | 3 | 661 | <p>I installed windows 7 and my grub is gone. I'm trying to follow: <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows" rel="nofollow">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows</a>
but I can't mount my ubuntu partion.</p>
<pre><code>sudo fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 13 4863 38958080 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 4864 14594 78157825 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 14220 14594 2999296 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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<p>Gparted shows my Extended partition as empty/unallocated space (???).
How can I mount it? </p>
<pre><code> sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /media/ubuntu
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
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30061 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T15:46:43.793 | 2 | 756 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3678/make-my-own-dropbox-ubuntu-one-server-at-home">Make my own “dropbox, ubuntu one” server at home</a> </p>
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<p>I have a Debian based box in my house that runs as a webserver, and a 4GB bootable usb-stick with Ubuntu. I need to store stuff on a server and Ubuntu One seems an ok way to go but I find that 2GB is not sufficient. </p>
<p>I can most likely solve that when I install this server software. Where can I find it - there is no ubuntu-one-server package or similar in the Software Centre.</p>
<p>How can I install the Ubuntu One server software or an alternative?</p>
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30063 | 1 | 30074 | 2011-03-12T16:01:34.227 | 4 | 492 | <p>I've been dual booting my system with <strong>Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)</strong> and 11.04 <strong>(Natty Narwhal)</strong> but today after an update, <strong>I can't boot into 10.10</strong>, there's only option to boot into 11.04 and <strong>Grub also looks a bit different</strong>.</p>
<p>Before this update, I used to see first option for 11.04 and an other option called <code>/dev/sda1</code> for 10.10 but now there is a new option called <code>Previous Linux Versions</code>, but when I Enter into that menu, there is <code>no option to boot into 10.10</code> all the options take me to 11.04 now it looks like this...
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<p><strong>And when I click on Previous Linux Versions...<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1MF4y.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></strong></p>
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"text": "Thanks Owais, It solved my problem. If you have a minute could you explain what could have caused the problem, so I'd be more cautious in future.\nThanks again.",
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30064 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T16:14:21.277 | 2 | 194 | <p>I do most of my work in either a terminal or a web browser. I prefer my terminals to use bright colours on dark. I would really prefer that web pages tended to look this way as well, but that's not under my control. The problem is that when I switch from a light-on-dark terminal to a dark-on-light web page (like this one), my eyes have to adjust to the overall rise in screen brightness. Apparently this is bad for your eyes, in addition to being painful and annoying.</p>
<p>It would seem to be possible for some layer of the interface to adjust the displayed colours for parts of the screen, or perhaps for particular windows, to reduce the brightness of the brighter areas of the screen. Can this be done, possibly with a Compiz extension?</p>
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30067 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T16:08:20.667 | 3 | 3272 | <p>So I purchased a computer recently and have been trying to customise the display.</p>
<p>AMD Radeon HD 6800 series Ubuntu 10.10. I have three 22inch 1080p LCD monitors that are mounted together. Everything is working smooth.</p>
<p>How do I get the 'big-desktop' display where I have one enormous display across all monitors?</p>
<p>Linux - ATI Catalyst Control Center 11.2 does not give me an option to 'group' my profiles like the pictures on their site show with Windows.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TKFYB.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
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30071 | 1 | 30939 | 2011-03-12T17:11:06.123 | 11 | 41604 | <p>I have a Dell XPS M1330 laptop that has Vista installed and I just installed Ubuntu 10.4 LTS so I can dual boot. </p>
<p>Everything seems to be working well, but when I opened the Disk Utility to have a look, almost all the partitions on the hard disk are showing the warning <code>WARNING: The partition is misaligned by xxx bytes</code> with xxx being anything from 512 to 2048 to 3072 depending on which partition we are examining.</p>
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<p>The warning is suggesting repartitioning, but I am not sure if it would be helpful. So here are my questions: is repartitioning really necessary, what tool should I use to do this, and will repartitioning the Vista partition damage it? </p>
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30072 | 1 | 30199 | 2011-03-12T17:13:04.290 | 383 | 387697 | <p>The computer gave me this output in a window:</p>
<pre><code>E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
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<p>How can I fix this?</p>
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30073 | 1 | 30516 | 2011-03-12T17:19:22.370 | 7 | 14041 | <p>I have 2 video cards, one On board, a <code>nVidia 6150SE nForce 430</code> and a PCIe <code>nVidia GeForce GT 220 1GB DDR2 RAM</code></p>
<p>I have already configured the PCIe card to use the dual monitor feature, using the VGA and HDMI ports, but now I want to add a third monitor, using the On board VGA port</p>
<p>I have managed to enable the On board graphics processor, which is taking 400MB of ram, but I cant manage to use it, <code>nvidia-settings</code> does not detect it, like it's not usable (but is there)</p>
<p>My questions are the following:</p>
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<li><p>How can I manage to get the On board VGA display to work together with the PCIe graphics card?</p></li>
<li><p>If possible, how can I recover those 400 MB the on board card is taking (even without being used) or how can I get it to use the PCIe card available memory?</p></li>
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<hr>
<p>System Details:</p>
<pre><code>Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686 Ubuntu 10.10 (All updates installed)
NVIDIA Driver Version: 260.19.06 (Official)
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<p>If more info is needed please let me know.</p>
<p>Here is the <code>lspci</code> output when the On board card is disabled:</p>
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00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMU (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 08)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
02:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
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<p>And this is when both are enabled:</p>
<pre><code>00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMU (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3)
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00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
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00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 08)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2)
02:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
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<p>Output of <code>lshw -class display</code>:</p>
<pre><code> *-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GT216 [GeForce GT 220]
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: a2
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:18 memory:df000000-dfffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:da000000-dbffffff ioport:ef80(size=128) memory:def80000-deffffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430]
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: d
bus info: pci@0000:00:0d.0
version: a2
width: 64 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:22 memory:dd000000-ddffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff memory:dc000000-dcffffff memory:deb40000-deb5ffff
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<p>If what I'm looking for is not possible, please tell me, so I can disable the On board card and recover those 400MB of wasted RAM</p>
<p>Thanks for your help!</p>
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30075 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T17:43:16.423 | 3 | 606 | <p>Is there a way to change the hide button on the gnome-panel? What I mean is the buttons placed at the end of each side of the panel? I'm wondering if its possible, and if it is, how to go about doing it.</p>
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30077 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T17:56:39.113 | 3 | 2442 | <p>I have dual boot Windows Vista and Ubuntu 10.10
Now I have error message as follows:</p>
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BusyBox v1.15.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.15.3-1Ubuntu5) built-in shell (ash)
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<p>I booted from live CD and ran sudo blkid and the partitions are:</p>
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<p>sda5 is my data partition.</p>
<p>The problems started after I tried to upgrade video drivers, then the hibernate or sleep function stopped working. I had to restart the computer. The last time I had to restart, I got the no init found error. </p>
<p>I tried several things, including gparted and check the sda3. But no success. Is there a way to recover the booting or do I need to reformat and re-install. I did not want to loose my email profiles and email data.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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30080 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T18:07:48.433 | 143 | 1296876 | <p>I have an Ubuntu Server 10.10 32-bit in my home. I'm making SSH connections to it from my PC via Putty.</p>
<p>The problem is, sometimes I'm able to login seamlessly. However, sometimes it gives me an error like this: <code>Network error: Connection refused.</code></p>
<p>Then, I dont't change anything, try to login a few times more, wait a while and try again. Sometimes I can log in, sometimes I cannot. It seems pretty random to me.</p>
<p>What can I do to solve this?</p>
<p>Edit:</p>
<p>And Sometimes, Putty gives <code>Network error: Software caused connection abort</code> error after displaying <code>login as:</code> text.</p>
<p>Here is the ping -t output:</p>
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Reply from 192.168.2.254: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.2.254: bytes=32 time=65ms TTL=6
Reply from 192.168.2.254: bytes=32 time=88ms TTL=6
Reply from 192.168.2.254: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.2.254: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
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<p>I turned off firewall of router, and everything seems to work now. Except for that, I still can't enter my web server by typing external IP from my PC.</p>
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30081 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T18:14:24.040 | 1 | 193 | <p>I'm told to go to <code>/home/jbander/Downloads</code>, so how do I do that, I assume you do it in terminal but what do you do next, I can get to home but that is it. </p>
<p>How do I go from one directory or file or whatever they are, to another and once I'm there what do I do to see what is in the download file. One more question if I want to change it from e.g. cow to e.g. duck how would I do that(they are just arbitrary names) </p>
<p>How do I get rid of cow and how do I put duck in it's place.</p>
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30088 | 1 | 30095 | 2011-03-12T18:45:10.467 | 0 | 2016 | <p>Hey guys, I am currently running 10.10 - 32 bit on a new Thinkpad W510 with nVidia Quadro FX 880M graphics card. I am running with the default graphics drivers that installed with ubuntu install. </p>
<p>My problem is that when I am logging in the screen acts normally as far as birghtness is concerned. I can increase/decrease brightness with Fn keys. But few seconds after I log in screen goes pitch dark. Hitting Fn+Home flickers the screen to all the way bright, then all the way dark. This behavior continues until I reach maximum brightness, in which case the screen stays all the way bright, for a few more seconds and then again goes dark if there is no activity & the cycle continues.</p>
<p>Have you guys faced any of these issues? If so any pointers on how to resolve it. I am not alone, on ubuntu forum I saw another person having the same issue - <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10550779" rel="nofollow noreferrer">link</a> but no solution.</p>
<p>Please help!</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p>
<p>I followed the instructions that htorque mentions in his <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/30088/thinkpad-w510-with-default-graphics-drivers-shows-weird-brightness-issues">answer</a> and it worked.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE 2</strong></p>
<p>After a while the issues cropped again. This time I bit the bullet and installed the nVidia's official graphics drivers (via System > Admnistration > Additional Drivers) and the issue seems to have gone. The UI seems more snappier as well.</p>
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30093 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T19:51:07.717 | 4 | 2545 | <p>I have problem with touch-pad. It is not working correctly. It goes like this. When laptop is booting, right after desktop shows, <strong>I can move mouse with touch-pad for a second</strong>, but when icons shows up, touch-pad does not want to move cursor at all. Even buttons stops work. The same problem with Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 10.10</p>
<p>I can see "Touchpad" tab in "Mouse" menu, and I can even set "two finger scrolling". I checked in gconf-editor under "desktop->gnome->pheriferals->touchpad" and it's enabled.
Furthermore I checked xinput and it is as it should be:</p>
<p><code>SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=11 [slave pointer (2)]</code>.</p>
<p>I tried to create new master reattach but still nothing...</p>
<p>EDIT: Laptop has <code>fn + F7</code> to control touch-pad. Ubuntu shows bobble showing touchpad OFF and touchpad ON. But it does nothing. No matter if it say ON, it still does not work.</p>
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30096 | 1 | 30122 | 2011-03-12T20:03:21.193 | 11 | 579 | <p>Is C++ a supported language for writing unity places?</p>
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30102 | 1 | 30110 | 2011-03-12T20:31:15.117 | 1 | 1010 | <p>I was recently starting to setup my usual alias. I ended up needing to pass more information than my alias originally needed</p>
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<p>Now as I was writing this i realized maybe the alias isn't set for root. Could that be it?</p>
<p>If not, could someone explain why this doesn't work. </p>
<p>Please and thank you</p>
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30104 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T20:31:53.873 | 2 | 2739 | <p>I have some strange problems with Samba server. I am using samba Version 3.5.4 on Ubuntu 10.10.</p>
<p>I have two Windows XP machines, one on VirtualBox on Ubuntu and another office laptop. Windows machine on VirtualBox has no issues in accessing the shared folders, but the laptop is not able to access all the shared content.</p>
<p>The issue faced on laptop is the following.</p>
<p>Shared folders on ext3 drives have no issues in accessing, but the contents shared on NTFS and FAT32 drives (mounted ones) are not accessible. When I try to open the shared folder, it asks for user name and password, but doesn't accept when I provide it. (Even if I provide admin login details).</p>
<p>I changed workgroup value to the domain_name in office laptop, but still the problem persists.</p>
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<p>Workgroup was defined as "HOMENET" before, changed it to domain name on the office laptop thinking it was the problem, but for no avail.</p>
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30114 | 1 | 30118 | 2011-03-12T21:33:52.277 | 44 | 46210 | <p>When I add a new user to my system I set a password and tell it to the new user. If the user doesn't like it, he/she can change it. However in my opinion it is better to force the user to change his/her password at the first login. Is there a way I can do that in Ubuntu?</p>
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30115 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T21:36:11.113 | 3 | 7989 | <p>I am trying to generate a GPG key, and I cannot generate enough entropy. So I installed <code>rng-tools</code> and tried following these instructions: <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/214605/gpg-not-enough-entropy">https://serverfault.com/questions/214605/gpg-not-enough-entropy</a></p>
<p>When I am logged in as root, and try to run <code>rngd -r /dev/urandom</code> I get the following error: <code>can't open /dev/random: Permission denied</code></p>
<p>I find this disturbing as I am root.</p>
<p>This is Ubuntu on a virtual server (via Parallels I believe.)</p>
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30117 | 1 | 30121 | 2011-03-12T21:51:51.497 | 1 | 576 | <p>I'm using Ubuntu as a LAMP server. I'd like to arrange the disk partition and folder structure for an easy upgrade to the next Ubuntu version.</p>
<p>In Windows it can be: <code>A: windows</code> <code>B: program files</code> <code>C: data</code>.<br>
How should this be done in Ubuntu?
Thanks.</p>
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30123 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T22:42:32.310 | 2 | 669 | <p>I recently bought a Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch CTH460L. I installed doctormo's PPA, however, the pen functionality didn't work and the touch was very glitchy (when I touched it, it immediately double clicked and began to drag elements in the screen). </p>
<p>I tried to configure it using the wacom-utility package in the Synaptic Package Manager (version 1.21-1) but that didn't work either. Then I followed <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1515562&page=63" rel="nofollow">this post</a> (#621, written by aaaalex), and after some problems trying to restart Ubuntu (graphics related problems), the pen works fine (it could be better, though) but the touch functionality doesn't work anymore.</p>
<p>Currently I have installed xserver-xorg-input-wacom (1:0.10.11-0ubuntu7), wacom-dkms (0.8.10.2-1ubuntu1) and wacom-utility. The Wacom Utility only displays an "options" field under "Wacom BambooPT 2FG 4X5" but no other option to configure it.</p>
<p>What is the correct way to get this tablet working on Ubuntu 10.04?.</p>
<p>By the way, currently I can't start Ubuntu properly when the tablet is connected (in that case, Ubuntu start in low graphics mode). I need to connect it later.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: I uninstalled xserver -xorg-input-wacom, and wacom-utility because one of them prevented Ubuntu to start normally. I only re-installed wacom-dkms 0.8.10.2-1ubuntu1. The pen is working but no touch functionality. The side buttons don't work either.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
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30126 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T22:56:14.170 | 4 | 888 | <p>I am currently running Ubuntu 10.10. The Unity Netbook interface seems to fail on my laptop because it has an unsupported video card (one of the Radeon ones).</p>
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30128 | 1 | 30152 | 2011-03-12T23:15:02.093 | 5 | 1829 | <p>I got a new Thinkpad X201 last week with the 6 cell battery, which is advertised to work for 5 hours. I installed Ubuntu Maverick on this machine right away. My battery life is only around 2 hours. Is this because the Thinkpad's battery power management only works well under Windows? Or can I change some configuration to make my battery last longer under Ubuntu?</p>
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30129 | 1 | null | 2011-03-12T23:23:52.023 | 1 | 640 | <p>I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick. Does anyone know where I can find a version of Zentyal for it? </p>
<p>I heard that webmin is not available any more, and I had a problem with it, so I'm trying to change the webmin to Zentyal.
The problem now is that I can only find the version for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid).</p>
<p>I'm having a problem with connection speed, which is why I need Zentyal to help me configure squid to cache the webpage for faster loading. </p>
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30130 | 1 | 30131 | 2011-03-12T23:36:22.807 | 17 | 15249 | <p>Sometimes I wanted to do smart partitions, by doing <strong>separate /boot partition</strong>, but I only give little space. Now I am having problems with lack of space on that partition.</p>
<p>How to remove /boot partition and join it with /root partition?</p>
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"text": "@jrtayloriv: Would you care to elaborate why a separate boot partition is preferable? -- I read in some ancient guide, 100 MB for a boot partition would be ok. Now `apt-get upgrade` regularly fails because of insufficient disk space. I don't want to move partitions. Do you know a solution that would automatically purge ancient kernels?",
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"text": "I have tried this, but my system somehow appears to load the configuration from the (now not mounted anymore) boot partition. (I have changed `/etc/default/grub`, and run `update-grub`, but the changes were not reflected in `/boot/grub/grub.cfg`.) Any hints?",
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30135 | 1 | null | 2011-03-13T01:53:59.833 | 2 | 1277 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/13487/gnome-mplayer-failed-to-open-vdpau-backend-libvdpau-nvidia-so-error">GNOME Mplayer: “Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so” error</a> </p>
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<p>When I open an avi file under Gnome Mplayer, there is an error report:</p>
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libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory</p>
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<p>I then followed <a href="http://vsingleton.blogspot.com/2010/02/failed-to-open-vdpau-backend.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this blog</a> to solve this problem, which suggests two ways.</p>
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<li><p>The first way is to call mplayer in
terminal:</p>
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<p>mplayer -vo xv video.wmv</p>
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<p>This works for me.</p></li>
<li><p>But I would like to try the second
way, which is to call GUI version of Gnome Mplayer by writing some options in
one of the configure files of Gnome
Mplayer. I choose to write into
~/.mplayer/config, where I wrote:</p>
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<p>-vo xv</p>
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<p>But it does not work. So I was
wondering if I make any mistake?
What to write into the configure
file?</p></li>
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<p>Thanks and regards!</p>
<hr>
<p>ADDED:</p>
<p>I followed fragos's reply, by replacing the original command "gnome-mplayer %U " with "gnome-mplayer -vo xv %U " in its item in the Applications menu. But this fails to call the Gnome Mplayer. Any idea why? Thanks!</p>
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30140 | 1 | 35961 | 2011-03-13T04:10:55.983 | 0 | 476 | <p>I have netatalk install on a headless Ubuntu box on my lan. I have a usb drive mounted on /mnt/ext. When attempting to copy a ~700 MB file from the box using netatalk (afp) OR samba, my estimated time is ~3.5 hours. When using scp to copy the same files I complete the transfer in 5 minutes.</p>
<p>Anyone have a clue what is going on?</p>
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30143 | 1 | null | 2011-03-13T05:44:37.020 | 2 | 531 | <p>Installed 10.10 this week on dual boot system. Everything else works fine but cannot read from 2nd SATA drive with all my data. </p>
<p>Same drive works normally when booted to Windows XP.</p>
<p>Interesting part is that I can see the drive in Ubuntu Disk Manager, can read all its attributes, can test it, shows up in Disk Manager, Storage Device Manager and Mount Manager, and can mount it, even change attributes; it appears healthy but does not show up in "Computer" or anywhere else that it can be accessed.</p>
<p>The drive is connected via an external e-SATA docking station which is connected to a SATA port on the motherboard.</p>
<hr>
<p>Screen captures:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smallwood.com.au/ubuntu/" rel="nofollow">http://www.smallwood.com.au/ubuntu/</a></p>
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<p>(FYI DISK THAT CAN'T BE ACCESSED IS SDC5)</p>
<p>rob@rob-GA-VM900M:~$ mount</p>
<p>/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw)</p>
<p>none on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)</p>
<p>none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)</p>
<p>fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)</p>
<p>none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)</p>
<p>none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)</p>
<p>none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)</p>
<p>none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)</p>
<p>none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)</p>
<p>none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)</p>
<p>/dev/sda1 on /media/142C6BDD2C6BB87E type fuseblk
(rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)</p>
<p>/dev/sdb1 on /media/sdb1 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)</p>
<p>binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)</p>
<p>gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/rob/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=rob)</p>
<p>rob@rob-GA-VM900M:~$ ^C</p>
<p>rob@rob-GA-VM900M:~$ </p>
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30145 | 1 | 30146 | 2011-03-13T06:38:23.617 | 40 | 6821 | <p><em>(quote from chat)</em></p>
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"text": "***NOTE FOR OTHER QUESTIONS THAT LINK TO HERE!!!*** Copying existing binaries DOES NOT ALWAYS WORK for programs that are destined for other versions of ubuntu! See my rkhunter PPA and the changelogs for the Lucid version to understand what I mean: https://launchpad.net/~trekcaptainusa-tw/+archive/rkhunter/+packages",
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"text": "George, i mention it because of a more recent question i answered and had my answer accepted in for a multidistro package. Also, I have learned things from the MOTUs. :P",
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"text": "What will happen, if I put something like these in the `changelog` file: `hello (2.6-0ubuntu1) lucid maverick natty; urgency=low` ?. Will launchpad build it for all 3 distros?",
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"text": "@KhurshidAlam Sorry for the super super late response. That will fail with an \"Invalid Changelog\", and as such, you have to specifically tag each separately when using a PPA with a different version. [https://launchpad.net/~nginx/+archive/stable ](https://launchpad.net/~nginx/+archive/stable) is a good example of this, because to make it build I have to add the distribution to the version so it builds correctly with all the different libraries. (I maintain the nginx team's ppas for now hence me using that as an example.)",
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30147 | 1 | 30414 | 2011-03-13T07:09:40.190 | 10 | 4642 | <p>I have a small shell script that plays a little jingle and displays a notification whenever I get a new email.</p>
<p>The problem is that this shell script can get invoked <em>anytime</em> - including when I'm watching a DVD / video in fullscreen mode with the sound turned up quite a bit - which is quite annoying.</p>
<p>I'd like to enhance this script with the ability to detect whether an application is in fullscreen mode. I know this must be somehow possible because notifications don't display under those circumstances.</p>
<p>What command can I use?</p>
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"body": "<p>Kind of extreme overkill as a shell script, but it should do the trick:</p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/bin/bash\nWINDOW=$(echo $(xwininfo -id $(xdotool getactivewindow) -stats | \\\n egrep '(Width|Height):' | \\\n awk '{print $NF}') | \\\n sed -e 's/ /x/')\nSCREEN=$(xdpyinfo | grep -m1 dimensions | awk '{print $2}')\nif [ \"$WINDOW\" = \"$SCREEN\" ]; then\n exit 0\nelse\n exit 1\nfi\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Then you can check it:</p>\n\n<pre><code>if is-full-screen ; then echo yup, full screen ; fi\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>As pointed out below, you'll need to install xdotool first:</p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo apt-get install xdotool\n</code></pre>\n",
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30148 | 1 | null | 2011-03-13T07:29:06.470 | 40 | 10278 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/15853/how-can-a-script-check-if-its-being-run-as-root">How can a script check if it’s being run as root?</a> </p>
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<p>This is something I've been curious about. I make a lot of small bash scripts (.sh files) to do tasks that I routinely do. Some of those tasks require everything to be ran as superuser. I've been curious: Is it possible to, within the BASH script prior to everything being run, check if the script is being run as superuser, and if not, print a message saying <code>You must be superuser to use this script</code>, then subsequently terminate the script itself. The other side of that is I'd like to have the script run when the user <strong>is</strong> superuser, and not generate the error.</p>
<p>Any ideas on coding (if statements, etc.) on how to execute the aforementioned?</p>
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30159 | 1 | 30166 | 2011-03-13T09:24:25.347 | 4 | 1357 | <p>/* to see the screenshots clearly please hit 'ctrl' and '+' */</p>
<p>After installing Kubuntu 10.10 the look and feel was awesome. The fonts looked beautiful.
But after having a reboot the font style changed and looked very ugly. After that i gave it another install. The fonts looked beautiful again. But after installing a Gnome program (synaptic packagemanager) the font style changed again. I have taken some screenshots system settings -> font before and after the font style chaged but there were no change in the settings.
this is immediately after installing Kubuntu.
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9bJ7x.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>the fonts look very healthy here<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9XKk3.jpg" alt="enter image description here">
after installing a gnome application or a reboot fonts got very thin and ugly. just compare the line in konsole , words in menu.
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TVXLm.jpg" alt="enter image description here">
there is no change in the system settings.
<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/GQmlV.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>also compare the letters of system settings page. same settings. but different style !!
what's wrong ? How can i bring back the font style that was immediately after installation?</p>
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"text": "It may be hard to recognize the difference. But you can look at the clock. Before the digits are almost bold. After it is normal regular digits. Anti-aliasing set to 'enabled' and hinitng 'full' didn't help. Can this be because of graphics driver? I have intel 82945G graphics controller.",
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30163 | 1 | null | 2011-03-13T10:33:59.217 | 17 | 43353 | <p>How can I install the most used plugins like flash player and mp3 in Ubuntu?</p>
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30167 | 1 | 30169 | 2011-03-13T10:52:12.387 | 4 | 563 | <p>IIRC, once upon I time I used only the mouse for copy-and-paste, which I consider way superior to the Windows-like <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-<kbd>C</kbd> <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-<kbd>V</kbd> complication. Now after many years I'm slowly starting to use Linux again and to my horror I see that it doesn't work anymore, except between Emacs and terminal windows. Of course, the keyboard shortcuts don't work in Emacs, so it's a real pain e.g. to copy from Emacs to Firefox.</p>
<p>Is there a way how to fix it? <strong>I mean I want to use marking and pasting using the mouse only everywhere, not the other way round.</strong></p>
<p><sup>I'm not asking about clipboard managers, I need neither clipboard persistence nor multiple clipboards, but if it solves my problem, I'll go for it.</sup></p>
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30172 | 1 | 30366 | 2011-03-13T11:15:55.303 | 3 | 2283 | <p>It's been well over six months but I have the same router SmartAX MT880d with Ethernet, and the exact same problem : no internet, even though I can successfully reach the modem settings page by entering 192.168.1.1 in Firefox.</p>
<p>I'm a total beginner with Ubuntu. My internet works great in Windows but does not work in Ubuntu.</p>
<p>Sorry if I don't use the right (technical) terminology to explain my issue. English is not my mother tongue. </p>
<p>For 2 weeks, I've been doing reading on the web and forums and the ubuntuguide.org to name a few, but to no avail. Now I see no other solution but to ask for help.</p>
<p>My problem is that I can't find a way to put the right digits in the right place because I don't know what numbers I need to put in what files. E.g.: do I need to use DHCP? or a static IP address? No clue whatsoever. I'm concerned that I might put figures in the wrong spaces. For example, is the modem/router's IP exactly 192.168.1.1 for Huawei Smart AXMT880d modem? Is the subnet 255.255.255.0? Gateway 192.168.1.1?</p>
<p>I'm confused as I can also see a different IP starting with 155131*<em>*</em>* (is it an account number?) on my contract with Huawei (a Chinese ISP).</p>
<ul>
<li>Apart from calling 911, what other numbers do I need to put in and where?</li>
<li>How do I check that all the numbers have been entered correctly in every appropriate space before trying to connect the Internet?</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Further development of the issue:</p>
<p>First as per the post below, I successfully disabled IPv6 from article called "Simple Way to Disable IPv6 in Windows Vista". Then I tried connecting to the Internet in Ubuntu, to no avail again. </p>
<p>Then I checked my settings in Ubuntu. I typed /etc/network/interfaces. There appears the loopback setting only, i.e.</p>
<pre><code>auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
</code></pre>
<p>I also checked <code>/etc/resolv.conf</code> but it's empty.</p>
<p>At this stage, the network manager still does not detect anything even after having disabled IPv6.</p>
<p>Then I tried Scaine's suggestion about pppoeconf coming from an article translated from Chinese. So I did the steps below and rebooted as the restart option (last step of the procedure below) has frozen for 2 minutes before i decided to reboot...(is that supposed to freeze at this stage??):</p>
<hr>
<p>Basically, from the article (I have obviously not tested this!):</p>
<blockquote>
<pre><code>sudo apt-get install pppoeconf
</code></pre>
<p>To start the ADSL connection when
needed, in a terminal, <code>sudo pon
dsl-provider</code> To disconnect the ADSL
connection, you can enter in a
terminal, <code>sudo poff</code> If you need to
check the log, you can enter in a
terminal <code>plog</code>. Access to interface
information in a terminal type
<code>ifconfig ppp0</code></p>
<p>After using the pppoeconf if Network
Manager does not display hosted
solution:</p>
<p>Enter the following command in a
terminal to configure a network
connection : <code>sudo gedit
/etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf</code>
and change</p>
<pre><code>[ifupdown] managed = false
</code></pre>
<p>to</p>
<pre><code>[ifupdown] managed = true
</code></pre>
<p>Then in terminal run <code>sudo gedit
/etc/network/interfaces</code> and keep only
:</p>
<pre><code>auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
</code></pre>
<p>Delete dns settings <code>sudo mv
/etc/resolv.conf</code>
<code>/etc/resolv.conf_backup</code></p>
<p>Finally restart network-manager: <code>sudo
service network-manager restart</code></p>
</blockquote>
<hr>
<p>After that, the settings remained the same. That is, in <code>/etc/network/interfaces</code>, still the loopback settings, and <code>/etc/resolv.conf</code> is still empty.</p>
<p>Then, I tried <a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-desktop-74/how-to-install-ethernet-modem-huawei-smartax-mt880-638425/" rel="nofollow">Simon Bridge's advice about pppoeconf (in post #8)</a></p>
<p>I tried that <code>pppoeconf</code> before registering on AskUbuntu.com and after reading and trying everything in this thread (until 16th March 2011).</p>
<p>My view on the topic is that by having tested many things different tips one after the other, I may have mixed settings in the end.</p>
<p>TO SUM UP NOW:</p>
<ul>
<li>IPv6 is disabled. In addition, in ipconfig /all in windows, I now noticed that DHCP is on for the Wireless LAN Adapter Wireless Network Connection, and Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection just shows the description of it: VIA VelocityFamily Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. That's it. The Ethernet is not "on" anymore. What should I do now??? Setting the IP address maybe???</li>
<li>As a result, DHCP is on in Windows (for the wireless) but still does not auto-detect anything yet (same thing for DHCP as a matter of fact. For the wireless, no detection although i can see the different wireless networks)</li>
<li>pppoeconf does not detect anything either after having done everything below.</li>
</ul>
<p>Therefore, I think there's a setting which has not been set correctly somewhere but where? That remains a question...Thx anyway to you all. If you have any suggestion...
I'm grateful to you anyway.</p>
<hr>
<p>Edit:</p>
<p>Hi Scaine, here are some interesting results from pppoeconf! I think I'm about to succeed....but one more barrier below. Could you please help guide me again? What do I have to do to turn on that Internet connection? when I enter sudo pon dsl-provider, nothing (I can see) happens...</p>
<pre><code>joel@ubuntu:~$ sudo pppoeconf
[sudo] password for joel:
Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.5
joel@ubuntu:~$ plog
Mar 16 21:08:14 ubuntu pppd[1840]: Remote message: Authentication success,Welcome!
Mar 16 21:08:14 ubuntu pppd[1840]: PAP authentication succeeded
Mar 16 21:08:14 ubuntu pppd[1840]: peer from calling number 00:25:9E:F1:C1:9C authorized
Mar 16 21:08:14 ubuntu pppd[1840]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP
Mar 16 21:08:14 ubuntu pppd[1840]: local IP address 27.190.153.195
Mar 16 21:08:14 ubuntu pppd[1840]: remote IP address 27.190.152.1
Mar 16 21:08:14 ubuntu pppd[1840]: primary DNS address 222.222.202.202
Mar 16 21:08:14 ubuntu pppd[1840]: secondary DNS address 222.222.222.222
joel@ubuntu:~$ pon dsl-provider
Error: only members of the 'dip' group can use this command.
joel@ubuntu:~$ sudo pon dsl-provider
Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.5
</code></pre>
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30180 | 1 | null | 2011-03-13T14:02:24.123 | 8 | 9387 | <p>I am using Kubuntu 10.10 with Plasma-Netbook on my netbook. Somehow I messed up with window's settings and now the menubar (the one on top of the window, just below the titlebar, which has the File button, Edit, Settings, Help, ...) is hidden from all my KDE applications.</p>
<p>I don't remember what I did to hide the menubar, I clicked somewhere in the context menu which shows right-clicking on window title, but I cannot find that setting anymore.</p>
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30181 | 1 | 30182 | 2011-03-13T14:11:20.777 | 7 | 6439 | <p>thers a similar question out there <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/30148/how-can-i-determine-whether-a-shellscript-runs-as-root-or-not/30155#30155">How can I determine whether a shell-script runs as root or not?</a></p>
<p>I have the same doubt with different result</p>
<p>Is it possible to, within the BASH script prior to everything being run, check if the script is being run as superuser, and if not, print a message saying You must be superuser to use this script, then subsequently </p>
<p>get pass from the user using askpass or something like that then execute the same script as superuser?</p>
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"body": "<p>I just call sudo if the program needs root permissions, but doesn't have:</p>\n\n<pre><code>#!/bin/bash\nif [ $(id -u) != 0 ]; then\n echo \"This script requires root permissions\"\n sudo \"$0\" \"$@\"\n exit\nfi\n</code></pre>\n\n<p><code>\"$0\"</code> contains the name of the script, <code>\"$@\"</code> optional arguments. It may be omitted if your program does not accept arguments.</p>\n\n<p>Note: this shellscript is expected to be run in a shell, if this script should run as GUI, use something like <code>gksu</code> or <code>kdesudo</code> instead of <code>sudo</code>.</p>\n",
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30183 | 1 | 46945 | 2011-03-13T14:14:33.650 | 3 | 299 | <p>I just upgraded to Chromium 12 using daily build ppa. But Chromium is still showing older icon on the gnome panel and appication menu. But it shows new icon if I create shortcut on the desktop and it shows new icon about window of chromium. I tried to remove it completely and re-installed but no use. I even deleted the .cache folder from my home directory.</p>
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30185 | 1 | 30314 | 2011-03-13T14:40:55.730 | 6 | 10214 | <p>I am running ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, and recently I am helping in testing out indicator-weather using the unstable buids. However there was a bug which caused my system to freeze suddenly (due to indicator-weather not ubuntu) and the only way to recover is to do a hard reset of the system. This happened a couple of times.</p>
<p>And when i tried to open banshee after a couple of such resets I get the following fatal error which forces me to quit banshee.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/gvswS.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>The screenshot is not clear enough to read the error, so I am posting it below,</p>
<pre><code> An unhandled exception was thrown: Sqlite error 11: database disk image is malformed (SQL:
BEGIN TRANSACTION;
DELETE FROM CoreSmartPlaylistEntries WHERE SmartPlaylistID IN (SELECT SmartPlaylistID FROM CoreSmartPlaylists WHERE IsTemporary = 1);
DELETE FROM CoreSmartPlaylists WHERE IsTemporary = 1;
COMMIT TRANSACTION)
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at Hyena.Data.Sqlite.Connection.Execute (System.String sql) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteCommand.Execute (Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteConnection hconnection, Hyena.Data.Sqlite.Connection connection) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Reflection.MonoCMethod.Invoke (BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Reflection.ConstructorInfo.Invoke (System.Object[] parameters) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type type, Boolean nonPublic) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Activator.CreateInstance (System.Type type) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
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.NET Version: 2.0.50727.1433
OS Version: Unix 2.6.35.27
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Banshee.AudioCd (1.9.0.0)
Banshee.MiniMode (1.9.0.0)
Banshee.CoverArt (1.9.0.0)
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Migo (1.9.0.0)
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DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
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<p>Just to make it clear, this happened only after the hard resets and not before. I used to use banshee everyday and it worked perfectly.</p>
<p>Can anyone help me fix this? </p>
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30189 | 1 | null | 2011-03-13T15:07:55.637 | 2 | 1145 | <p>I need to use Windows 7 VM to test my web application in Internet Explorer.</p>
<p>I have a bootable USB drive for Windows 7.</p>
<p>I have already installed VirtualBox.</p>
<p>However in the vbox when I press start, the first run wizard is looking for a DVD image, which I do not have.</p>
<p>What can I do?</p>
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30191 | 1 | null | 2011-03-13T15:16:01.427 | 11 | 14230 | <p>Approximately twice a week, the entire graphical interface will lock up for about 10-20 seconds without warning while I am doing simple tasks such as browsing the web or writing a paper. When this happens, GUI elements do not respond to mouse or keyboard input, and the System Monitor applet displays 100% IOWait processor usage.</p>
<p>Today, I finally happened to have GNOME Terminal already open when the problem started. Despite other applications such as Google Chrome, Firefox, GNOME Do, and GNOME Panel being unresponsive, the terminal was usable. I ran <code>iotop</code> and observed that commands named <code>[flush-8:16]</code> and <code>[jbd2/sdb2-8]</code> were alternately using 99.99% IO.</p>
<p>What are these, and how can I prevent them from causing GUI unresponsiveness?</p>
<h2>Details</h2>
<pre><code>$ mount | grep ^/dev
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,discard,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
/dev/sdb2 on /home type ext4 (rw,commit=0)
$ cat /proc/swaps
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<p><code>/dev/sda</code> is an <a href="http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-vertex-2-sata-ii-2-5-ssd.html">OCZ-VERTEX2</a> and <code>/dev/sdb</code> is a <a href="http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=120#tab3">WD10EARS</a>. Here is <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/579783/"><code>dumpe2fs /dev/sdb2</code></a> and <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/580257/"><code>smartctl /dev/sdb --all</code></a>.</p>
<p>I don't see anything unusual in <code>dmesg</code> or <code>/var/log/syslog</code>.</p>
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30196 | 1 | 30205 | 2011-03-13T16:04:56.627 | 15 | 9257 | <p>I have simple question. Is it possible to use new 2.6.38 kernel with Ubuntu 10.10? Does there exists some PPA or you need to compile?</p>
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30198 | 1 | null | 2011-03-13T16:53:02.120 | 1 | 209 | <p>Using compiz with transparency behind windows and borders on a dual-screen system; all works fine, but the background that shows through with any transparency done by compiz is wrong.</p>
<p>It appears to be using the whole-width image from the display to generate the transparent image, but applying it to each display separately; so it's squished horizontally by 50%, and doesn't match the foreground. </p>
<p>Cripes this is hard to put into words... if anyone can tell me how to grab a screengrab I can paste it somewhere!</p>
<p>I'm an ubuntu veteran -- but new to ubuntu desktops!</p>
<p>(Display controller is ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X1650 Pro)</p>
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30202 | 1 | null | 2011-03-13T17:36:26.310 | 5 | 16383 | <p>What is the best way to share a folder between Win7 64bit (host) and Ubuntu 10.10 (guest) in VMware player?</p>
<p>I can setup the sharing just fine (using vmware-tools), but all shared files are root:root owned with 777 permission set. Which, well, sucks.</p>
<p>What can I do to have shared files with preserved ownership and permissions?</p>
<p>I'm guessing I would need some kind of a file container, that would get mounted in Ubuntu as a block device (if so, it would need to be dynamic, i.e. expand with size of contained files). But maybe there is a better solution?</p>
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30206 | 1 | null | 2011-03-13T18:31:51.160 | 5 | 339 | <p>Why are there 4 IEs (I have not installed them manually, may be one, but not four), 2 WordPads, 2 "winebrowsers" (and 2 notepads there up the list)? Do you know how fix this correctly?</p>
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30209 | 1 | 30215 | 2011-03-13T18:46:12.850 | 4 | 343 | <p>I'm trying to create a .deb for a python-based IRC bot. I've already gone through the Ubuntu Packaging Guide, and done a <code>debuild -S</code> on it to create the source package.</p>
<p>When its uploaded to the PPA, it fails to include the code for the bot (which is necessary for the bot to run). How do I make the .deb so that it (a) isnt a source package, and (b) includes the code for the bot so that it can be run?</p>
<p><strong>Edit</strong><br />
And by "includes the code for the bot so that it can be run", I mean so that the .deb extracts the code to the location in the virtual file structure that I specified so that it can be used by any user. Note that because its a python bot, there's no single executable file in the code, which explains the need for the source to be packaged and extracted with the .deb</p>
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30210 | 1 | 30214 | 2011-03-13T19:01:21.760 | 97 | 78114 | <p>When editing the Applications menu, I see for some applications their commands have <code>%U</code> such as <code>gedit %U</code> and <code>gnome-mplayer %U</code>, but others don't such as <code>gcalctool</code>.</p>
<p>I was wondering what <code>%U</code> means when calling a command, and when it is needed and when it is not? Thanks!</p>
<p>This is motivated from <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/30135/gnome-mplayer-failed-to-open-vdpau-backend-libvdpau-nvidia-so">my previous question</a>, where I followed <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/30135/gnome-mplayer-failed-to-open-vdpau-backend-libvdpau-nvidia-so/30137#30137">a reply</a> but did not make it work.</p>
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30219 | 1 | null | 2011-03-13T20:19:25.977 | 5 | 2579 | <p>I'm getting "NVRM: os_raise_smp_barrier()" messages in syslog and dmesg at a rate of 4-6 per minute; I think it's from the Nvidia graphics driver.</p>
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30220 | 1 | 30246 | 2011-03-13T20:29:35.913 | 7 | 13126 | <p>I have a new USB drive which came with a single NTFS partition.</p>
<p>How can I shrink that so that I can create an ext4 partition?</p>
<p>gparted does not seem to have the "Resize" option highlighted.</p>
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<p>However, with the partition mounted, I can read & write to the file system on the drive just fine, and ntfsprogs is installed and current. </p>
<p>What's next?</p>
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30221 | 1 | null | 2011-03-13T20:34:18.903 | 1 | 1035 | <p>When will Ubuntu support postgres 9? </p>
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30223 | 1 | 30264 | 2011-03-13T20:47:40.250 | 3 | 2003 | <p>When I attach my external hard drive, I cannot access it, because permissions are granted not to me but to another user. </p>
<p>I'm using Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat.</p>
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<li><p>Where do I report this as a bug?
1b. Is it a Ubuntu, or a Nautilus, or a Gnome problem?</p></li>
<li><p>Is there a solution for this problem?</p></li>
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<p>Any help will be appreciated!</p>
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30224 | 1 | 30225 | 2011-03-13T20:48:26.927 | 55 | 37381 | <p>This is not just gnome terminal, but pretty much all gnome windows: When you hold the "alt" key, you can press the first letter of one of the menu items. This will let you scroll that menu without clicking on it directly.</p>
<p>This is okay on any other window, like say Firefox, but on gnome terminal, it steals the keys I use for emacs!! There is very little chance of me learning a new set key combinations if I can avoid.</p>
<p>If I can't isolate this just to gnome terminal, I'm fine with that.</p>
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30226 | 1 | 30969 | 2011-03-13T21:16:50.473 | 3 | 1438 | <p>I would like to stop my network card from using the Minstrel algorithm because of <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/29316/steps-to-diagnose-snu5600-disconnection-problem">a problem</a> I am having.</p>
<p>I have tried creating /etc/modprobe.d/80211.conf with the following in it:</p>
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<p>But that doesn't seem to work.</p>
<p>Any ideas?</p>
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30231 | 1 | null | 2011-03-13T21:57:41.580 | 2 | 921 | <p>Though correctly mapped, some of my multimedia keys stopped working on my ASUS 1215N (Ubuntu 10.10).
All Fn keys are working excepting the ones related to Rhythmbox (XF86AudioNext, XF86AudioPrev, XF86AudioStop, XF86AudioPlay/XF86AudioPause).</p>
<p>I cannot tell when this issue began or if any packages where updated before this occurred.</p>
<p>Anyone knows how can I fix this?</p>
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30233 | 1 | 30236 | 2011-03-13T22:31:51.383 | 6 | 1630 | <p>I am trying to install ZendStudio 8 (Eclipse based) on 11.04 and am kinda stuck at the part were I can get it into the Applications list.</p>
<p>ZendStudio prior to version 8 came with a magic .bin which installed it all no problems, but now it simply comes as a folder all set up to be run as-is. I have copied this folder to <code>/opt/ZendStudio</code>, and I can launch the program using <code>/opt/ZendStudio/ZendStudio</code> but in the Unity Launcher it shows up with a grey box and a big Question Mark as it's icon.</p>
<p>However, I'd like it to be show up in the Applications list so I can search for it and load it like a normal application. </p>
<p>I also want to Pin it to the launcher so it stays there the whole time, and I tried this with running it directly but it didn't work and it didn't load up the application icon.</p>
<p>Any ideas how I can finish the install so it is in my menus etc?</p>
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30234 | 1 | 30235 | 2011-03-13T22:36:14.330 | 1 | 500 | <p>I had previously ruby 1.8 on my Ubuntu 10.10, which I removed through Synaptics. Then I have installed ruby 1.9.1 also via Synaptics (which is then saying that itself is version 1.9.2).
Then I installed ruby-debug19 and rspec gems with <code>sudo gem install ruby-debug19 rspec</code></p>
<p>However I can't start <code>rdebug</code> or <code>rspec</code>, but I can invoke the debugger from inside my ruby script, so the debugger is working.
I inspected the starting scripts <code>rdebug</code> and <code>rspec</code> and then I realized that they are still old scripts back from ruby1.8 time. In other words, the current 1.9 install of these gems haven't created the starting scripts anywhere.</p>
<p>What is the easiest solution for a lazy soul like me? It looks like removing-reinstalling ruby 1.9.2 won't help, and installing these gems over and over again won't create the starting scripts.</p>
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30242 | 1 | null | 2011-03-13T23:54:22.000 | 4 | 18396 | <p>I try to open an AVI file. </p>
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the video started playing and
stopped much earlier than when it is
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start to finish, but it is
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<p>So I was wondering how I can fix the AVI index error, or at least drag the playing progress bar in GMplayer?</p>
<p>Thanks and regards!</p>
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30243 | 1 | null | 2011-03-13T23:57:15.197 | 15 | 26249 | <p>I mount an NTFS partition (where I've got some Linux binaries and scripts alongside with Win32 and data files) with the following fstab line:</p>
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<p>All files seem to have executable attribute set then, but if I try to actually execute them, I get "Permission denied" error. Even with sudo. Even while execute (as well as read and write) permissions are granted to everyone and all the files owner is set to the user.</p>
<p>So how do I set the system up to be able to run Linux binaries from NTFS?</p>
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30249 | 1 | null | 2011-03-14T00:25:22.690 | 14 | 1236 | <p>In Empathy IRC, how do I turn off the "joined" and "disconnected" messages?</p>
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30255 | 1 | null | 2011-03-14T01:15:33.723 | 1 | 530 | <p>I have an "Acer Aspire ONE ZG8 Netbook", and i wanted to install Ubuntu on it for quite some time, but it won't install. It has wiped windows from my hard drive already, so i can't go back to the horrible "Win7 Starter Edition", that came with this Netbook. </p>
<p>I would really love a way to fix this, but right now i am using the "Try Ubuntu / Live CD" aspect just so I have use of the Internet. No idea if I will be able to download an older version and try again from here or what to do.</p>
<p>Any help would be great.</p>
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30267 | 1 | 30310 | 2011-03-14T04:44:36.617 | 25 | 27456 | <p>Scrivener is a word processing app designed for writers with a unqiue interface and tool set focused on ‘generating content’ rather than simply allowing for content to be written.</p>
<p>Anything like that for ubuntu?</p>
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30270 | 1 | null | 2011-03-14T06:00:48.440 | 4 | 2184 | <p>I am slightly new to Ubuntu and I just installed kate by typing <code>sudo apt-get install kate</code>. Now I want to install this <a href="http://kate-editor.org/2010/07/29/katesql-a-new-plugin-for-kate/" rel="nofollow">kate sql plugin</a> and google is not helping me. I downloaded a punch of files from <a href="http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Kate+SQL+Plugin?content=126861" rel="nofollow">here</a> </p>
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<li>what should I do with these files ? </li>
<li>Where should I put them ? </li>
<li>Would you please tell me how can I install this ? </li>
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<p>Thanks</p>
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30273 | 1 | null | 2011-03-14T06:13:33.687 | 1 | 296 | <p>Are you aware that Norton Safe Web blocks access to files published on UbuntuOne?
Reason given is they found a malicious worm uploaded (to a stated URL).
We send "community" feedback explaining we think their blocking is not right. They do not block hotmail, gmail or Yahoo because some user send an infected mail?
Might need follow-up from your site though.</p>
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30276 | 1 | 30286 | 2011-03-14T07:39:47.540 | 8 | 6451 | <p>Does anyone know if this is possible? I'm a Star Trek fan, and there's this screensaver that's for Windows that mimics a Star Trek systems panel, and I'd love to have that on Ubuntu (so would some of my friends).</p>
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30278 | 1 | null | 2011-03-14T07:49:33.627 | 3 | 4386 | <p>I want to connect a few PCs in my company so that they can share files, chat, and transmit data. I have no Internet connection. I want to accomplish this without Internet but whenever needed I can connect them to the Internet, but for now there is no Internet service.</p>
<p>Please provide step-by-step instructions for proceeding as I am quite new to this sort of thing.</p>
<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
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30279 | 1 | 30311 | 2011-03-14T07:51:00.487 | 3 | 1751 | <p>Is it possible to restore a deleted note in Ubuntu One? On the web page "Recent activities" it says "TODO deleted"</p>
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30280 | 1 | null | 2011-03-14T07:58:30.027 | 0 | 1173 | <p>When I use the emacs shell mode or in gdb, when I type double tab, the emacs pop up a new window which always cover an existed window. While in terminal, when I type double tab, to complete a directory, the terminal just print all the candidates in the same window. Can I make the emacs not to pop up a new window when I use this feature?</p>
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30287 | 1 | 30288 | 2011-03-14T08:21:57.197 | 5 | 4488 | <p>I am currently learning upstart by playing around. I think I have understood the principle now, but I am having difficulties with the "kill timeout" stanza in upstart jobs.</p>
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<p>The file /root/test is a small shell script which runs forever:</p>
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<p>When doing "initctl start test", the job "test" is run and calls the script "/root/test". I can verify that by doing "initctl status test" which shows the job as running as well as by doing "ps -Alf".</p>
<p>Now, the "kill timeout 5" stanza should cause the job to be killed after 5 seconds. But instead, the job seems to run forever.</p>
<p>I would like to know if I am using and understanding the kill timeout stanza in the right way. It is an essential feature for me.</p>
<p>This is on Natty 11.04, but I think the question applies to other versions as well.</p>
<p>Thank you very much,</p>
<p>Binarus</p>
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30290 | 1 | null | 2011-03-14T09:04:13.967 | 2 | 1914 | <p>I still haven't upgraded to the latest version of ubuntu because of poor support for this video card. What is the recommended upgrade path to ensure maximum 2D performance?</p>
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30295 | 1 | 30296 | 2011-03-14T10:02:05.630 | 10 | 13680 | <p>How to permanently add CSS to some pages using Firefox?</p>
<p>Say, I want to change the font or background of a page I frequent using Firefox.</p>
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30298 | 1 | null | 2011-03-14T10:10:09.943 | 3 | 182 | <p>After successfully updating my netbook from 10.04 to 10.10, I also tried to update my older Toshiba satellite A100, everything seemed to go well and indeed it all appears to be there, it's just that the dock does not show at all on the L/H side and the time, battery, network, etc also don't show on the upper right. When I click where they are supposed to be, they work, is it just that I can't see them? I just have a theme background (which I have tried changing to no avail) and nothing else. Any ideas?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
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30301 | 1 | null | 2011-03-13T11:43:39.170 | 5 | 1838 | <p>How can I screen-capture an inactive (minimized / on another workspace) window in Ubuntu?</p>
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30302 | 1 | 30307 | 2011-03-14T11:03:11.737 | 1 | 350 | <p>This morning I upgraded the server running ubuntu 10.04 to the latest kernel... except that apt-get returned an error. I'm pretty sure I shouldn't reboot, so I'm asking here to help solve the problem so I can reboot safely without compromising the machine. (It runs a network share which all the developer's SVN clients commit to - it's very important to keep downtime to a minimum). I was using webmin to send the command at the time.</p>
<p><a href="http://codepad.org/7rpA7CKo" rel="nofollow">http://codepad.org/7rpA7CKo</a></p>
<p>Any help would be very much appreciated!</p>
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<p><code>sudo apt-get install -f</code> didn't work, <code>sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade</code> gave me this: codepad.org/flwNsMO8</p>
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30305 | 1 | 113874 | 2011-03-14T11:39:34.017 | 9 | 11165 | <p>I'm running lucid server and have installed tomcat. The version it installed is 6.0.24-2ubuntu1.6.</p>
<p>Is this the version I'm tied to? Is it possible to install a more recent version? The one available from maverick is 6.0.28.</p>
<p>Maybe I can add a source to provide my lucid install with this version? In the package manager user interface I can "force version". Is it possible to force version from command line alternative as well?</p>
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30312 | 1 | null | 2011-03-14T12:32:22.797 | 5 | 1684 | <p>When I start Empathy absolutely no contacts appear, including if I check to show offline contacts.</p>
<p>My accounts are set up and authenticated and yes - I do have contacts on both accounts. When I check the accounts page both of them say "Offline -- Status is set to offline" despite the fact I have manually set my status to Available.</p>
<p>If I uncheck "Enabled" for the account and then re-enable it it connects fine, but it seems when empathy first starts up it's incapable of doing that itself.</p>
<p>Anybody got any suggestions? I'm using a fresh 32bit install of 10.10 with all updates installed and GNOME 2.32.</p>
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