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3617 | 1 | 3620 | 2010-09-04T20:16:41.417 | 15 | 14554 | <p>I would like to create a movie DVD that contains some pictures and small movies. I'm not after anything too fancy, just the ability to add some music, create a title screen and add a menu. Basically, something like <a href="http://explore.live.com/windows-live-movie-maker">Windows Movie Maker</a>. </p>
<p>What would be my best option?</p>
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3618 | 1 | 3814 | 2010-09-04T20:44:27.743 | 5 | 3140 | <p>My server (running ubuntu 8.04LTS server) reports the time as 9:38PM BST right now. BST (British Summer Time) is 1 hour ahead of UTC (or Greenwich Mean Time if you really want to confuse matters)</p>
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<p>the period beginning at one o'clock,
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<p>No problems scheduling this in cron but I don't know what date format/timezone I should be using. Do I set it to move forward at 1AM but back at 2AM when it ends? That makes sense if the machine uses BST but then I worry that that cron will not trigger at 2AM because the system clock might get reset back to 1AM before it has a chance to trigger - thus making my script run 1 hour late.</p>
<p>Or does it just use UTC?</p>
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3623 | 1 | 3624 | 2010-09-04T21:55:01.473 | 10 | 3569 | <p>Often I need to create packages which another package depend on (i.e. build dependencies). Instead of having all those packages first being build in my ppa (which can sometimes take some time), I would like to use the results directory from pbuilder as a source for the pbuilder itself.</p>
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3627 | 1 | 3643 | 2010-09-04T22:27:52.623 | 3 | 288 | <p>Suddenly, the propriety Broadcom STA wireless driver ceased to work on my Inspiron 1525 Dell. All of a sudden, when I turned on the laptop the tooltip of the wireless indicator in the top panel shows <code>networking disabled</code>.</p>
<p>This also cause the wired network interface not to work, unless I manually <code>dhclient</code> it.</p>
<p>Indeed, <code>lsmod</code> doesn't show anything with <code>bcm</code> in it.</p>
<p>How can I further troubleshoot the issue?</p>
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"text": "How could that happen? I didn't do anything with sudo at all. Moreover, after I suspended and got back from suspending it suddenly began to work. I really hate this kind of weird problems.",
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3629 | 1 | 3631 | 2010-09-04T22:34:24.267 | 8 | 3815 | <p>I'm looking to stream my desktop live via a service such as ustream and having extreme difficulty in finding a solution.</p>
<p>I've tried WebcamStudio and it could only use FME files which don't work with Ustream. </p>
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3632 | 1 | 3644 | 2010-09-04T22:46:18.157 | 4 | 216 | <p>In order to allow php5.2 being used on lucid, I created a ppa (<a href="https://launchpad.net/~txwikinger/+archive/php5.2" rel="nofollow">ppa:txwikinger/php5.2</a>) and build several php5.2 packages there. In order to prefer those packages I have given instructions to pin them. However, the packages php5-mcrypt and php5-imap do not correctly load due to the dependency to phpapi, even phpapi is provided by i.e. php5-cgi, php5-cli which are available. What is the problem?</p>
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3645 | 1 | 3650 | 2010-09-05T04:07:35.653 | 57 | 389492 | <p>I have a file that ends in .ts, which according to wikipedia is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_transport_stream">MPEG2 file</a>. I've never run into a file like this so I want it want the file to be in a more common format/container to use on multiple devices.</p>
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3648 | 1 | null | 2010-09-05T06:20:30.943 | 2 | 873 | <p>The pen works great out of the box. Any idea how to get multi-touch working?</p>
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3651 | 1 | 3914 | 2010-09-05T07:37:41.790 | 9 | 5673 | <p>I have Ubuntu 10.04 server currently setup with dhcp3-server as well as a bridged interface (br0) for use with virtual machines. The problem I have is that when the server reboots, dhcp3-server fails to load because of the extra delay caused by bringing up the bridged interface.</p>
<p>Essentially br0 doesn't have an IP address for use with DHCP3-Server until late in the boot cycle, well after DHCP3-server has attempted to load.</p>
<p>Once the server has booted I can run '/etc/init.d/dhcp3-server start' without any issue.</p>
<p>Is there any way I can either:
- Force dhcp3-server to wait until the interface has loaded before attempting to load?
- Start dhcp3-server after everything else has loaded up?</p>
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3652 | 1 | null | 2010-09-05T08:09:03.153 | 4 | 2445 | <p>I want to do iPhone tethering using MyWi, I can see the network it creates but I just can't join. Having WEP security on would throw me into the passphrase input again and leaving it unprotected doesn't connect.</p>
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3656 | 1 | null | 2010-09-05T10:30:11.750 | 9 | 820 | <p>I run Ubuntu 10.04 on an EEEPC with a <strong>4GB fast SSD</strong> set as the / partition, and a <strong>16GB slower SSD</strong> set as the /home partition. I keep running out of space on "/", and can no longer install the latest updates, or new apps.</p>
<p>How can I better manage the partitions to avoid this problem? Bear in mind that the large SSD is lower performance so I don't think I should use this for the OS. Is it possible to install apps to a different partition when using apt?</p>
<p>Any advice?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
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3659 | 1 | null | 2010-09-05T11:11:11.313 | 7 | 11192 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/49869/how-to-roll-back-ubuntu-to-a-previous-version">How to roll back Ubuntu to a previous version?</a> </p>
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<p>Is it at all possible to downgrade from one version of Ubuntu to a previous version without doing a re-install similar to the way you can upgrade.</p>
<p>If so, what are the required steps?</p>
<p><em>In this specific case from Netbook Remix 10.10 to Netbook Remix 10.04</em></p>
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<li><p><kbd>Super</kbd> + <kbd>UpArrow</kbd> to <kbd>PageUp</kbd></p></li>
<li><p><kbd>Super</kbd> + <kbd>DownArrow</kbd> to <kbd>PageDown</kbd></p></li>
<li><p><kbd>Super</kbd> + <kbd>Left</kbd> to <kbd>Home</kbd></p></li>
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<p>on an Apple aluminum wireless keyboard. Those who know the keyboard would note that it already does these with the <kbd>Fn</kbd> key by default; that's fine, and I'd like to keep that, but be able to do the same with a one-handed key combination as well, hence my wanting the <kbd>Super</kbd> mappings.</p>
<p>I've been searching around for a possible way to do this via xmodmap for 3 hours, yet nothing has worked. </p>
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3667 | 1 | 150793 | 2010-09-05T14:12:54.577 | 3 | 3136 | <p>After installing Ubuntu 10.04 I had some flickering issues, so I tried upgrading drivers and such, then I installed the <code>fglrx</code> driver and the flickering have gone away but when trying to access the TTY screens from 1-6 the screen goes blank. I'm able to get back in to gnome on tty7.</p>
<p>any one have a suggestion on what to try here?</p>
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<p><strong>Dennis</strong></p>
<p>the output is:</p>
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<p><strong>Nerdfest</strong> im using radeon x1300</p>
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00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
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00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300]
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
02:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
02:06.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller
02:06.4 Communication controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 GemCore based SmartCard controller
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5753M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 21)
10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
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<p>Anyone have a suggestion?</p>
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3672 | 1 | 3676 | 2010-09-05T15:49:29.330 | 6 | 1691 | <p>I've just upgraded to Maverick 10.10 beta and notice heavy performance penalty on my Nvidia GT240 card. Will it be fixed for release?</p>
<p>EDIT:For me, 260.19.12 fixes all bugs. Perfomance & stability now perfect!</p>
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3673 | 1 | 3685 | 2010-09-05T15:50:18.533 | 3 | 684 | <p>I just updated to the Maverick beta (actually it's a fresh install, and not an upgrade of 10.04). But now "Ubuntu One" doesn't show up in my me-menu thing. In addition, when I go to Ubuntu One from System->Preferences and attempt to log in from there it will sometimes look like it works, but other times it won't do anything. When I go to the command line and type u1sdtool -s it will either say something like "doing auth dance" or "auth failed" and often it has never even prompted me to log in or try to get a new password (even though I know it's correct).</p>
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<p>I would like to disable it by default, but to have possibility to enable or disable it later.</p>
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<p>When I press <kbd>Fn</kbd>+<kbd>F2</kbd> it disables those diodes and Wireless + Bluetooth.</p>
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3678 | 1 | 3679 | 2010-09-05T17:08:34.333 | 70 | 50535 | <p>Does anybody know of any resources that can show me how to make my own "Dropbox, Ubuntu One" server at home?</p>
<p>I really like the idea of these services, but I don't want to put my 'stuff' in the clouds. Ideally, it should have a client that runs on Linux and Windows.</p>
<p>I tried to setup iFolder on my Ubuntu 10.04, but without any success so far.</p>
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3683 | 1 | 3684 | 2010-09-05T19:57:11.670 | 2 | 1214 | <p>Is Flock browser available in Ubuntu 10.4. If so how do I download in command line. Is it perhaps:</p>
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<p>Not sure, will appreciate some help. Thnxs</p>
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3689 | 1 | 3698 | 2010-09-05T20:32:56.013 | 5 | 2991 | <p>I'm currently (for some days now) having the problem, that my Ubuntu clock runs too fast. and by too fast I mean like: last time I adjusted it was at 4 PM, now (10:25 PM) it shows 10:57 PM ! Any ideas how to fix that?</p>
<p>Could it have something to do with handbrake? (I'm currently ripping my DVD collection, so handbrake is always running).</p>
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<p><a href="http://pastebin.com/VAanad5E" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Output of <code>dmesg</code></a> <br>
<a href="http://pastebin.com/VAZLAHzR" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Output of <code>cat /proc/interrupts</code></a><br></p>
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3690 | 1 | 3692 | 2010-09-05T21:14:45.597 | 15 | 20024 | <p>I have been moving toward Ubuntu from a long time Windows development background. The one program I cannot seem to do without is a graphic editor. I have seen recommendations for programs, but they turn out to be directed at children or tailored to working with personal photographs.</p>
<p>I am looking for something more for programming tasks like analysing colors, resizing, creating web graphics, etc. I have used Photoshop in the past and more recently have mostly used Paint.net for Windows.</p>
<p>Is there a program for Ubuntu that covers this area?</p>
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"text": "Other aspects that GIMP noticeably lacks are some convenience features like adjustment layers and layer folders. I have used both, though, and GIMP is fine for 90% of what I need to do--which seems similar to the OPs requirements.",
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3697 | 1 | 3706 | 2010-09-05T22:14:49.670 | 400 | 662111 | <p>How do I install fonts on Ubuntu Linux? I need them to be available in gimp.</p>
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3707 | 1 | null | 2010-09-05T22:50:09.967 | 8 | 2114 | <p>I run ubuntu on my macbook pro, with nvidia proprietary driver.</p>
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3710 | 1 | null | 2010-09-05T23:41:32.133 | 1 | 471 | <p>When I start <a href="http://www.bluetile.org/" rel="nofollow">bluetile</a> it replaces the current theme of the window manager. How can I keep the current theme and settings, and still use bluetile?</p>
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<p>Is there a way to specify a different sensitivity setting for each mouse?</p>
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3727 | 1 | 3767 | 2010-09-06T10:00:32.177 | -2 | 363 | <p>The title explains it already...</p>
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3732 | 1 | null | 2010-09-06T12:13:48.893 | 3 | 5195 | <p>Firefox 3.6.8 on Ubuntu 9.10; using TreeStyleTab 0.10.2010040201.</p>
<p>I use the tab-bar on the right, and I would like to see more of the tab names without widening the bar. The default font used is Sans, I believe; I would like to use something like condensed DejaVu Sans. I haven't found anything in the settings, nor in the <code>about:config</code> page, so I presume I can play some .css trick, but I don't know where to start.</p>
<p>How can I do this change?</p>
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3735 | 1 | 3797 | 2010-09-06T12:50:43.740 | 2 | 5361 | <p>I'm having trouble getting a cheap LCD 18.5 inch monitor to work properly with Ubuntu 10.04.1. The brand is "Great Wall".
It's supposed to have resolution 1366x768, but I can only set it as 1360x768.</p>
<p>I have Ubuntu installed on an external hard drive, and for what it's worth, at work I have a nicer 18.5 inch monitor, HP brand, also 1366 x 768, and it works perfectly when I boot there.</p>
<p>I have tried using cvt, but it gives me this:</p>
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# 1368x768 59.88 Hz (CVT) hsync: 47.79 kHz; pclk: 85.25 MHz
Modeline "1368x768_60.00" 85.25 1368 1440 1576 1784 768 771 781 798 -hsync +vsync
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<p>I managed to add this 1368 x 768 mode to my xorg.conf, that I generated using some command I can't remember now (sorry!), but it looked just as bad as 1360 x 768, so I undid the change.</p>
<p>I can live with it for watching video, but any extended OpenOffice session makes me want to poke my eyes out :)</p>
<p>I'm using Intel graphics:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)</p>
<p>Any suggestions? Can I get the EDID out of the HP monitor and try to override it for the monitor at home? (and cross my fingers)</p>
<p>EDIT: I have added the xorg-edgers PPA, and it didn't make any difference.
Here is my Xorg.0.log in case it helps: <a href="http://clippy.cz.cc/index.php?show=124" rel="nofollow">http://clippy.cz.cc/index.php?show=124</a></p>
<p>EDIT2: I got the modeline for 1366 x 768 on the HP monitor at work. Going to try it at home and see what happens. This is what I got from the Xorg.0.log when booting the computer with my external HD with Ubuntu 10.04:</p>
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<p>EDIT3: Tried the modeline above, and it gave similar results to modelines for 1360 and 1368.
But then I noticed something, so see below for the answer to my own question :)</p>
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3743 | 1 | 8674 | 2010-09-06T15:54:48.410 | 1 | 634 | <p>I've just sorted out the tearing in videos on my PC following this guide:</p>
<p><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1390284" rel="nofollow">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1390284</a></p>
<p>However before this i had a wonderfully performing cube, Nice smooth and no/very little tearing (at least only around the sides) Now however the cube feels slow when rotating and i get some sort of tearing (white lines) underneath my gnome panel when 'landing' on a desktop
Any ideas how i can return to the previous performance of the cube without turning sync to VBlank off?</p>
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3744 | 1 | 3757 | 2010-09-06T16:56:36.163 | 82 | 287089 | <p>I want to add a directory to search my search path. I know I have to modify the <code>PATH</code> environment variable. However, I want the change to be permanent, so that it is always in effect, for every Terminal (bash) window I open.</p>
<p>There is an overload of confusing and possibly conflicting information in <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables" rel="noreferrer">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables</a></p>
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<p>In particular <code>usbhid 6-2:1.0: suspend error -5</code>. Google didn't find anything useful about that.</p>
<p>How can I further troubleshoot this matter?</p>
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3750 | 1 | 3753 | 2010-09-06T17:48:22.510 | 30 | 1914 | <p>I've always used my Ubuntu desktop behind the security of a router with NAT, but there have been a few times when I've had to plug it directly into an active cable modem.</p>
<p>In general, what precautions I should be taking in situations when my computer is exposed to the internet like this for extended periods of time? Specifics that immediately come to mind are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Are there any default network services I might want to disable?</li>
<li>Is there a need to modify the default firewall configuration?</li>
<li>Should I be concerned about services using password authentication?</li>
<li>What kind of logging can I do to be notified of unauthorized access?</li>
</ul>
<p>I realize that questions like this are just the tip of the iceberg of expansive topics that entire professions are based upon, so let me make clear: What I'm looking for are a few straightforward recommendations of best practices or configuration changes that a desktop user would find useful in a default Ubuntu installation.</p>
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3759 | 1 | 3769 | 2010-09-06T18:55:47.307 | 15 | 10363 | <p>Not sure if it is possible, but i seem to remember from my old days using AIX it was possible to change my path by just saying which part of the path needed to be replaced by something else. For instance, say i have two paths:</p>
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<p>that i could switch from folder 1 to 2 using a command like </p>
<p>cd /2.0.1/1.0.8/</p>
<p>which would replace, in the path, the string <code>2.0.1</code> to <code>1.0.8</code>. Obviously this does not work for me now. But is there a way to do this? </p>
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3763 | 1 | null | 2010-09-06T19:57:51.157 | 5 | 3514 | <p>I've been attempting for quite a long time to get a Serial 3M Touchscreen to work on Ubuntu 10.04.</p>
<p>The closest post I could find to what I needed was this one:
<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1508944&highlight=3m+touchscreen" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1508944&highlight=3m+touchscreen</a></p>
<p>Unfortunately, I get to where I touch the screen and the mouse jumps to the top right corner and that is it. The calibration software doesn't really work (straight from 3M). Either sometimes it won't start, or there is something wrong with it.</p>
<p>It now looks like the problem has to do with the calibration software not recognizing the attached touchscreen. With some changes to the installation script, I was able to get the calibration software to install properly.</p>
<pre><code>#!/bin/bash
#
# Copyright 2007-2009 3M. All rights reserved.
#
# This script installs the MT7 touch screen driver
# During installation, all directories must be writeable.
#
# These symbols point to where the MT7 software binaries and data reside.
# The script attempts to detect where the installation kit is. If this
# fails, you need to set BinDir.
# The data directory must be on writeable media. The script normally uses
# the directory where the installation kit resides as the data directory.
# If you need the data directory to be elsewhere, set DataDir.
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# If desired, define a file to contain driver startup options and set
# the TwDrv_Cfg symbol to the full path of the file. Normally this is
# not needed.
TwDrv_Cfg=""
# This symbol points to where the Java VM binaries reside.
JavaBinDir=""
# These symobls point to system and applictaion directories other than
# those specific to the MT7 software
UdevDir="/etc/udev"
HotplugDir="/etc/hotplug"
XorgDir="/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input"
XFree86Dir="/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input"
LibDir="/usr/lib"
SEDir1="/usr/selinux/booleans"
SEDir2="/selinux/booleans"
LSBDir="/lib/lsb"
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# If this is not appropriate or this script otherwise fails, set this value.
InitDir=""
# This symbol enables permission for some MT7 shared objects on
# SELinux systems. On most systems SEGivePermission is texrel_shlib_t.
# Change this variable if another security type is appropriate.
SEGivePermission="texrel_shlib_t"
# This symbol affects when the X input driver converts raw touch screen
# coordinates into screen coordiates. Normally, the X input driver reports
# the raw coordinates to the X server which then calls an conversion
# routine. Some versions of the X server expect the initial report to
# contain converted coordinates. If your touch behavior is off and
# calibration does not address the problem, set ConvertAtRead to true.
ConvertAtRead="false"
# This symbol defines the name of the xorg.conf file to generate if one is
# not found. Starting with X server version 1.5, this file is not
# automatically generated. This file is needed for MT 7 for Linux to work.
# If you want the file to reside elsewhere, set this symbol.
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# These symbols define where the 50MT7-xinit script needs to go and what
# suffix it requires. The script places this file automatically in
# /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d and /etc/X11/Xsession.d without a suffix. If
# your distribution requires another location or requires a suffix on the
# file, set these symbols.
XinitDir=""
XinitSuffix=""
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then
if [ $(echo $0 | grep ^/) ]
then
BinDir=$0
else
BinDir=$(echo $PWD"/"$0 | sed s#[.]/##)
fi
BinDir=$(echo $BinDir | sed s%/[^/]*$%%)
fi
# Determine if the system is compatible
$BinDir/TwCompat
if [ $? != 0 ]
then
echo "ERROR: MT7 for Linux not installed - shared memory support not detected"
exit
fi
# Determine the data directory
[ -z $DataDir ] && DataDir=$BinDir
# Create the data and fifo directories
if [ $DataDir != $BinDir ]
then
[ -e $DataDir ] || mkdir $DataDir
chmod a+w $DataDir
ln -s $DataDir $BinDir/data
else
[ -e $BinDir/data ] || mkdir $BinDir/data
fi
chmod a+w $BinDir/data
[ -e $BinDir/data/fifo ] || mkdir $BinDir/data/fifo
chmod a+w $BinDir/data/fifo
# Determine the init script directories
if [ -z $InitDir ] && [ -d /etc/init.d ]
then
if [ $(ls -l /etc/init.d/ | sed -e /functions/d -e /^total\ [0-9]*$/d | wc -l) != 0 ]
then
InitDir="/etc/init.d"
fi
fi
if [ -z $InitDir ]
then
if [ -e /etc/rc.d/rc.local ]
then
InitDir=/etc/rc.d
else
InitDir=$BinDir
fi
fi
# Install the init script
[ -e $InitDir/TWDrvStartup ] && rm -f $InitDir/TWDrvStartup
sed -e s#%BINDIR%#$BinDir#g \
-e s#%INITDIR%#$InitDir#g \
-e s#%LSBDIR%#$LSBDir#g \
-e s#%TWDRV_CFG%#$TwDrv_Cfg#g $BinDir/TWDrvStartup.ORIG \
>$InitDir/TWDrvStartup
chmod a+x $InitDir/TWDrvStartup
if perl $BinDir/TwIsThere.perl chkconfig
then
chkconfig --add TWDrvStartup >/dev/null
elif perl $BinDir/TwIsThere.perl update-rc.d
then
update-rc.d TWDrvStartup defaults >/dev/null
elif [ -e $InitDir/rc.local ]
then
sed -e '$ a\
%INITDIR%/TWDrvStartup start
' $InitDir/rc.local >$InitDir/rc.local.TEMP
rm -f $InitDir/rc.local
sed -e s#%INITDIR%#$InitDir# $InitDir/rc.local.TEMP >$InitDir/rc.local
rm -f $InitDir/rc.local.TEMP
chmod +x $InitDir/rc.local
else
echo "Cannot install the init script"
fi
# Test for USB support
if [ -z $(uname -r | grep ^2\.4\.) ]
then
# Copy the udev rules script
Hotplug=0
if [ -d $UdevDir/rules.d ]
then
if [ -e $UdevDir/rules.d/99-TwDriver.rules ]
then
rm -f $UdevDir/rules.d/99-TwDriver.rules
fi
sed s#%BINDIR%#$BinDir#g $BinDir/99-TwDriver.rules.ORIG \
>$UdevDir/rules.d/99-TwDriver.rules
Hotplug=1
fi
if [ -d $HotplugDir/usb ] && [ -e $HotplugDir/usb.agent ]d
then
[ -e $HotplugDir/usb/TwHotplug ] && rm -f $HotplugDir/usb/TwHotplug
sed s#%BINDIR%#$BinDir#g $BinDir/TwHotplug.ORIG > $HotplugDir/usb/TwHotplug
chmod a+x $HotplugDir/usb/TwHotplug
[ -e $HotplugDir/usb.usermap ] || echo "# Created by MT7" >$HotplugDir/usb.usermap
sed <$HotplugDir/usb.usermap >$HotplugDir/usb.usermap.TEMP '$ a\
# TwHotplug is for the MT7 for Linux software\
TwHotplug 0x0001 0x0596 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x06 0x00 0x00 0x00000000
'
rm -f $HotplugDir/usb.usermap
mv $HotplugDir/usb.usermap.TEMP $HotplugDir/usb.usermap
Hotplug=1
fi
if [ $Hotplug == 0 ]
then
echo "Hotplugging of USB touch screen controllers is not supported"
fi
else
echo "USB touch screen controllers are not supported under kernel 2.4"
fi
# Test for the version of C++ standard libraries
if [ -e $LibDir/libstdc++.so.6 ]
then
CppExt="6"
elif [ -e $LibDir/libstdc++.so.5 ]
then
CppExt="5"
else
echo "Cannot find needed libstdc++.so in $LibDir"
CppExt=""
fi
# Link the libraries into /usr/lib
perl $BinDir/TwLibInstall.perl install $LibDir $BinDir/lib*.so
if [ x$CppExt != x ]
then
perl $BinDir/TwLibInstall.perl install $LibDir $BinDir/so$CppExt/lib*.so
fi
# Link RnR sensitive files
if [ x$CppExt != x ]
then
$BinDir/TwLibTest $LibDir/libTwSystemRnR12.so
if [ x$? != x0 ]
then
rm -f $LibDir/libTwSystem.so
ln -s $LibDir/libTwSystemRnR12.so $LibDir/libTwSystem.so
ln -s $BinDir/TwMonitorRnR.bin$CppExt $BinDir/TwMonitor
else
$BinDir/TwLibTest $LibDir/libTwSystemRnR.so
if [ x$? != x0 ]
then
rm -f $LibDir/libTwSystem.so
ln -s $LibDir/libTwSystemRnR.so $LibDir/libTwSystem.so
ln -s $BinDir/TwMonitorRnR.bin$CppExt $BinDir/TwMonitor
else
ln -s $BinDir/TwMonitor.bin$CppExt $BinDir/TwMonitor
fi
fi
fi
# Copy the X input driver
XCopyDefault=0
if [ -d $XorgDir ]
then
XDir=$XorgDir
if [ -z "$(X -version 2>&1 | grep X\.Org[^1]*1\.[4-9]\.)" ]
then
XSrc=$BinDir/twxinput_drv.so
elif [ -z "$(X -version 2>&1 | grep X\.Org[^1]*1\.[5-9]\.)" ]
then
XSrc=$BinDir/twxinput_drv.so.1.4
else
XSrc=$BinDir/twxinput_drv.so.1.5.1
XCopyDefault=1
fi
elif [ -d $XFree86Dir ]
then
XDir=$XFree86Dir
XSrc=$BinDir/twxinput_drv.so
else
XDir=""
echo "Cannot install the X input module"
fi
if [ -d $XDir ]
then
[ -e $XDir/twxinput_drv.o ] && rm -f $XDir/twxinput_drv.o
[ -e $XDir/twxinput_drv.so ] && rm -f $XDir/twxinput_drv.so
ln -s $XSrc $XDir/twxinput_drv.so
fi
# Install the xinit scripts
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]
then
sed s#%BINDIR%#$BinDir#g $BinDir/50MT7-xinit.ORIG \
>/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/50MT7-xinit$XinitSuffix
chmod a+x /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/50MT7-xinit$XinitSuffix
fi
if [ -d /etc/X11/Xsession.d ]
then
sed s#%BINDIR%#$BinDir#g $BinDir/50MT7-xinit.ORIG \
>/etc/X11/Xsession.d/50MT7-xinit$XinitSuffix
chmod a+x /etc/X11/Xsession.d/50MT7-xinit$XinitSuffix
fi
if [ x$XinitDir != x ]
then
sed s#%BINDIR%#$BinDir#g $BinDir/50MT7-xinit.ORIG \
>$XinitDir/50MT7-xinit$XinitSuffix
chmod a+x $XinitDir/50MT7-xinit$XinitSuffix
fi
# Set up the SELinux security types
if [ -d $SEDir1 ]
then
SEDir=$SEDir1
elif [ -d $SEDir2 ]
then
SEDir=$SEDir2
else
SEDir=""
fi
if [ x$SEDir != x ]
then
chcon -t $SEGivePermission $LibDir/libTwSystem.so
chcon -t $SEGivePermission $LibDir/libTwConfig.so
chcon -t $SEGivePermission $LibDir/libTwIO_Utilities.so
chcon -t $SEGivePermission $LibDir/libTwAppIO_JNI.so
chcon -t $SEGivePermission $LibDir/libTwCommon_JNI.so
chcon -t $SEGivePermission $LibDir/libTwConfig_JNI.so
chcon -t $SEGivePermission $LibDir/libTwUI_JNI.so
chcon -t $SEGivePermission $LibDir/libTwUICP.so
[ -e $XDir/twxinput_drv.so ] && chcon -t $SEGivePermission $XDir/twxinput_drv.so
fi
# Set up the configuration
[ -d /dev/shm ] && rm -f /dev/shm/*TwConfig*
sed s#%BINDIR%#$BinDir#g $BinDir/TwFramework.cfg.ORIG >$BinDir/TwFramework.cfg
$BinDir/TwCfgUtil /u $BinDir/TwFramework.cfg
$BinDir/TwCfgUtil /u $BinDir/TwFactory.cfg
# Produce the Remove script
sed -e s#%BINDIR%#$BinDir#g \
-e s#%UDEVDIR%#$UdevDir#g \
-e s#%XDIR%#$XDir#g \
-e s#%LIBDIR%#$LibDir#g \
-e s#%SEDIR%#$SEDir#g \
-e s#%HOTPLUGDIR%#$HotplugDir#g \
-e s#%INITDIR%#$InitDir#g \
-e s#%XINITDIR%#$XinitDir#g \
-e s#%XINITSUFFIX%#$XinitSuffix#g \
$BinDir/Remove.ORIG >$BinDir/Remove
# Produce the X input script
sed -e s#%CONVERT%#$ConvertAtRead#g \
$BinDir/TWXinputInstall.perl.ORIG >$BinDir/TWXinputInstall.perl
# Produce the CP start script
sed -e s#%JAVABINDIR%#$JavaBinDir#g \
-e s#%BINDIR%#$BinDir# \
$BinDir/StartCP.ORIG >$BinDir/StartCP
# Set any necessary permissions
chmod a+x $BinDir/TwCalib
chmod a+x $BinDir/TWXinputInstall.perl
chmod u+x $BinDir/Remove
chmod a+x $BinDir/StartCP
# Copy the default xorg.conf
if [ $XCopyDefault == 1 ]
then
$BinDir/TWXinputInstall.perl -find
if [ $? == 1 ]
then
cp -a xorg.conf.ORIG $XorgConf
fi
fi
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<p>Usually this puts out this error, although I don't think the errors are critical (warnings?):</p>
<pre><code>update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/TWDrvStartup missing LSB keyword 'required-start'
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/TWDrvStartup missing LSB keyword 'required-stop'
update-rc.d: warning: TWDrvStartup start runlevel arguments (2 3 4 5) do not match LSB Default-Start values (2 5)
update-rc.d: warning: TWDrvStartup stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do not match LSB Default-Stop values (0 1 3 4 6)
ln: creating symbolic link `/home/kioskadmin/Desktop/twscreen/TwMonitor': File exists
root@kiosk1:/home/kioskadmin/Desktop/twscreen#
</code></pre>
<p>I also asked <a href="https://superuser.com/questions/139162/touch-screen-ubuntu-10-04lts">this question</a> on Super User quite a long time ago, although other than the link to the Ubuntu forums, nothing. If I recall correctly, no one on the Ubuntu Forum was very helpful beyond pointing me to the same post. It seems "touchscreens" is a specialized topic that not a lot of people know much about.</p>
<p>My questions:</p>
<p>1 Any tips to get this to work correctly? My major problem seems to be the newer boot process in 10.04.</p>
<p>2 Any alternative calibration software or touchscreen driver that may work or is worth trying? (serial, not USB).</p>
<p>It seems that the the driver is not initiating correctly. The calibration software and control panel do not detect the controller for some reason. My assumption at the moment is that the init script is not correct, most likely due to changes in Ubuntu's start-up process.</p>
<p>Edit:</p>
<p>It seems I can now run the control panel script correctly, I was having problems with Java, but I just had to execute it differently. Now I have the problem that the control panel and calibration software cannot detect the touchscreen. Everything runs, but just can't find it, even though it's connected and it responds if I enable the screen manually.</p>
<p>The error is, "touchscreen 1 is not present".</p>
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3773 | 1 | 3783 | 2010-09-06T23:11:13.503 | 4 | 472 | <p>I really like some of my shortcuts but I find at times there are other ways I would like to invoke the same shortcut.</p>
<p>For example: </p>
<p><kbd>Ctrl</kbd> + <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>Left</kbd>/<kbd>Right</kbd> </p>
<p>Switches workspaces left/right respectively. </p>
<p>I want a mouse click to perform this same functionality. My mouse wheel can go left/right and I want to map this to go left/right in my workspaces but I also want the keyboard shortcut to remain.</p>
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3778 | 1 | null | 2010-09-07T04:04:29.357 | 12 | 9319 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/10998/what-is-a-good-text-editor-for-developing-code-on">What is a good text editor for developing code on?</a> </p>
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<p>I'm trying to find a text editor that I can use for doing Ruby on Rails development. I have been using TextMate on my Mac and would love to find something that even comes close to that experience. My Ubuntu laptop is a little old, and doesn't have a lot of memory, so I need something lightweight. I don't need/want a bloated IDE because the performance on my slow laptop would be terrible.</p>
<p>It would be nice if this text editor had:</p>
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<li>Syntax highlighting</li>
<li>A project/file browser view to be able to open files in my project</li>
<li>Keyboard shortcuts (don't need them as much)</li>
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3780 | 1 | null | 2010-09-07T05:27:33.063 | 4 | 10179 | <p>I've been using an HP Pavillion dv4-1430us laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 installed on it. I want to use the IR6 remote control that comes with the laptop on my Ubuntu. However, I've failed to do so after several attempts.</p>
<p>Could anyone please let me know about the complete and detailed procedure to get the remote working in Ubuntu 10.04?</p>
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3781 | 1 | 4209 | 2010-09-07T06:48:26.477 | 7 | 984 | <p>I have a PXE server at home for doing <a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/">network-based installs</a>, which uses the text-based alternate installer.</p>
<p>However in 10.10 the Ubiquity (aka graphical) installer has some really nice features; like installing in the background while I fill out my user information, installing updates as part of the install, and it looks pretty great.</p>
<p>Is there a way to set up netboot with ubiquity so I can use my existing PXE server but have a nice graphical installation?</p>
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3782 | 1 | 3784 | 2010-09-07T07:04:24.197 | 20 | 20082 | <p>It is time for a new cell phone and I am facing the difficult question: which one?
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3796 | 1 | 3801 | 2010-09-07T11:59:00.470 | 8 | 2976 | <p>Just took a look at the memory usage (with <code>free -m</code>) on one of my Ubuntu servers and saw this:</p>
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3804 | 1 | null | 2010-09-07T13:46:21.933 | 2 | 1979 | <p>It is possible with other distros! If so, how do you do it?</p>
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3805 | 1 | 3827 | 2010-09-07T14:11:41.460 | 11 | 1080 | <p>I have setup some applications to startup on each login (e.g., redshift-gtk, gtg) automatically but after adding these to startup applications (<code>System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications</code>) obviously the time taken to login has increased. Due to all this the time it takes for my panels, desktop etc to appear is too long - until which I am forced to wait.</p>
<p>I don't need these apps to be available immediately, but it would be good if they startup eventually, meanwhile the ubuntu menu/panel is available for running other apps that I might need to.</p>
<p>I tried using at command, with the intention of editing all startup applications to put the commands in the at queue, but this didn't work since the apps don't get the necessary environment variables (like DISPLAY).</p>
<p>Is this what <code>nice</code> command is used for? Any other ideas how I can accomplish this? If possible, I would like to avoid editing the startup applications commands, since this would mean a lot of effort to replicate on other machines I use.</p>
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"text": "aendruk - this works very well. One question still remains: I think the original command line of the startup application should be enclosed in single-quotes `''` for this to work. If the command line of the startup application has some parameters already enclosed in single-quotes, then how can I quote the command-line so that everything gets included in the input to batch ? If I understand correctly, only $1 is passed on to batch so the whole command line with quotes and everything should appear to this script as it first parameter, correct ?",
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"text": "This is now really helping me reduce time to login. Just to keep abreast of these apps eventually starting up, I have modified your script slightly to inform me when these apps actually run. Also unless the process forks to background, it stays on the `batch` queue as still running, so I made the process startup in background as well. The modified line is as follows: `echo \"export DISPLAY=$DISPLAY; notify-send 'Running on Load low' '$1' && $1 &\" | batch`",
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3807 | 1 | 3808 | 2010-09-07T14:32:40.767 | 23 | 270412 | <p>I'm trying to set <strong>Network Proxy</strong> to use my LAN's internet connection to update packages.
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<p>How can I make sure that the Proxy Network is applied correctly?</p>
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3815 | 1 | 3816 | 2010-09-07T17:10:37.673 | 41 | 216893 | <p>Is there any links/tutorials/videos that helps me share files between Ubuntu and Mac OSX?</p>
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3817 | 1 | 10720 | 2010-09-07T18:40:26.567 | 3 | 1186 | <p>I have this issue where the entire text in text boxes is selected whilst I'm typing in it. For example, in FireFox search box I'd try to type "foo" but end up with "o" because I managed to type "fo" before everything was selected, and then typed "o" which replaced the "fo".</p>
<p>When it happens, it is incessant - not just a one-off. But it doesn't happen all the time, and I haven't managed to figure out what causes it to start and stop.</p>
<p>Is this a known problem with an easy solution?</p>
<p>EDIT: this has nothing to do with touchpad. I get this occasionally even on a machine without one. I can usually rectify the issue just be alt-tabbing about a few times.</p>
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3818 | 1 | 3897 | 2010-09-07T18:43:44.220 | 16 | 32017 | <p>I have just started at sixth form college, and I'm going to take a Computing A-level. I have been informed all the programming in the first year is in VB.NET on Windows (I believe you are allowed more freedom in the second year...)</p>
<p>I do have a Windows XP partition and you can download Visual Basic Express Edition for free, however I would like to know to what extent am I likely to be able to use Ubuntu (Mono or anything else) for my studies? Can anyone give me any pointers of where to start?</p>
<p>Realistically if this is to work I need to be able to use the same files/projects/whatever on both Ubuntu and Windows - so I can work from Windows machines at college, and more importantly so teachers can look at and mark my work! (I don't really want to make a point of asking my teacher about my Ubuntu use, I'd prefer to blend in and be a normal student...)</p>
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3830 | 1 | 3831 | 2010-09-07T20:27:39.003 | 4 | 1791 | <p>I need to connect to a specific wireless network before being able to successfully connect to my user account, since it needs access to a secured LDAP server.</p>
<p>The same applies when I am outside of the office, where I need to connect to a VPN before I can log in.</p>
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3832 | 1 | null | 2010-09-07T20:36:15.490 | 10 | 7442 | <p>I am tired of the envelope in the indicator applet (also known as the messages menu) because I don't use it so I would like to get rid of it but I don't have root access so I can't remove it by uninstalling the indicator-messages package. Is there another way to disable this applet?</p>
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3837 | 1 | 3839 | 2010-09-08T00:20:45.120 | 14 | 2709 | <p>What are the chances that the Ubuntu Project will die if its primary source of funds are removed? In other words, how healthy are the finances of the Ubuntu sponsors Canonical? Is Ubuntu losing money?</p>
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3841 | 1 | 3842 | 2010-09-08T01:53:52.750 | 58 | 58550 | <p>Every time I reboot my machine the brightness goes back to 100% in Gnome. I wish it would keep the last setting. Is there anyway?</p>
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3850 | 1 | 3851 | 2010-09-08T10:29:08.313 | 32 | 79409 | <p>I've had a few security problems with a server of mine, a few SSH users have been setting up fires aka giving problems.</p>
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<p><strong>I am not much of a sys admin and I am quite inexperienced in this matter, so any kind of advice would be very welcome and very helpful.</strong> :)</p>
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3856 | 1 | null | 2010-09-08T12:18:39.863 | 4 | 3603 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/2631/access-ubuntu-server-by-host-name">Access Ubuntu Server by host name</a> </p>
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<p>How can I configure Ubuntu server to report its hostname in such a way that typing <code>http://thehostname/</code> in a web browser will connect to apache running on my Windows machine.</p>
<p>This question is not about configuring apache, but more specifically getting <code>myhostname</code> to resolve to the machine's IP address from a computer running Windows.</p>
<p>Extra information: I am running Ubuntu Server 10.04.1 32bit with minimal changes from default. The most notable change is enabling ufw.</p>
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3860 | 1 | 3862 | 2010-09-08T14:05:43.583 | 6 | 6944 | <p>I have a particular service (in this case OpenFire) that runs at startup. When it starts, it attempts to connect to a database at a given hostname. At startup time it fails to connect to that database because it cannot find the host in DNS.</p>
<p>My best guess is that this service is executing on startup before networking has initialized and DNS servers have been obtained from DHCP. Is there any way to specify startup service dependencies that must be met before executing the <code>/etc/init.d/</code> script?</p>
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3865 | 1 | 3866 | 2010-09-08T19:11:46.623 | 157 | 158313 | <p>I have a largish music collection and there are some duplicates in there. Is there any way to find duplicate files. At a minimum by doing a hash and seeing if two files have the same hash.</p>
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"text": "I added little more explanation about the command here http://stackoverflow.com/a/31630565/54964 I would like to have similarly some static file which would remember my early wishes so I do not next time say which duplicates not to remove.",
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3869 | 1 | 3962 | 2010-09-08T21:27:47.943 | 1 | 4111 | <p>I have an Acer Aspire 4810T with ubuntu 10.04 installed on it. <code>Fn+F3</code> should turn on/off the internal bluetooth receiver. But it does nothing. The "bluetooth" menu in System > Preferences says "your computer does not have any bluetooth adapters plugged in". I have <code>bluez</code> and <code>bluez-utils</code> installed. Other people have reported that bluetooth works out of the box on the timeline series of laptops with ubuntu. (Although others say that upgrading to a newer version of ubuntu rather than doing a fresh install can break things...)</p>
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<p>I'm not sure what the next step is in diagnosing what the problem is. What can I do now to figure out where the problem is?</p>
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3870 | 1 | 3896 | 2010-09-08T21:39:28.827 | 2 | 1226 | <p>I downloaded the 64-bit ISO of Ubuntu, mounted it with Daemon Tools, and installed it on an WD 500 GB "My Passport" Hard Drive. I did this with the drive attached to my desktop machine. When I rebooted the desktop, it asked me if I wanted to boot into Ubuntu or not. Now, my thinking was "if I plug this drive into my laptop, it should give me the same Ubuntu option"....Yeah, not so much. It just boots straight into Windows Vista. I tried changing the boot order on the laptop (it's a Toshiba), but there was no option for booting from USB. This may be the true problem. If it is, I'll take that issue to superUser. :D</p>
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3872 | 1 | null | 2010-09-08T22:02:57.003 | 11 | 11702 | <p>Under Ubuntu 10.04 one of the problems which appeared is that USB devices would no longer automatically mount when plugged in. Normally I would get a pop up message asking what application I wanted to open the newly plugged in device with, however now that doesn't happen.</p>
<p>This happens regardless of the way the device is formatted (NTFS or FAT32) and all other USB devices (printer, keyboard and mouse) work perfectly. </p>
<p>My current solution is the mount them manually using <code>sudo mount dev/... /medai/...</code> however to be honest I'm just getting tired of having to do this.</p>
<p>I'm happy to post any extra information you are likely to need. I know there will be lots of places I could look to find out what's going wrong but I have no idea where to start really.</p>
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3877 | 1 | 3886 | 2010-09-08T23:32:04.723 | 6 | 865 | <p>I would assume not as Preload is installed to use idle priority. Though I wonder if it is a duplication of efforts with other processes installed in Ubuntu. Does anyone have any more information?</p>
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3879 | 1 | null | 2010-09-08T23:57:17.730 | 5 | 677 | <p>I have a bunch of bookmarks in my laptop, I know I can copy ~/.gtk-bookmarks to my desktop</p>
<p>But i have to re-entry all the passwords for ftp, ssh, etc...</p>
<p>Is there a way i could restore the bookmarks <strong>along</strong> with theirs respective passwords.</p>
<p>My username/id is the same in both computers and both keyrings are unlocked on login.</p>
<p>Any help?</p>
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3880 | 1 | null | 2010-09-09T00:45:20.070 | 7 | 1605 | <p>I have a large music collection on an external drive, and until I installed ubuntu, my preferred music player was Itunes. I am currently using Rythymbox. Is there a program that is better for listening, loading onto Ipods, and general organization?</p>
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3883 | 1 | null | 2010-09-09T01:40:38.333 | 161 | 547176 | <p>Are there any tools, methods, incantations to recover recently deleted files on Ubuntu?</p>
<p>If it makes any difference, I want to recover a <a href="http://keepass.info/">Keepass</a> 2.x database file. But would be better to have a method/tool that works on any kind of file.</p>
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3899 | 1 | 3909 | 2010-09-09T05:27:19.827 | 5 | 9393 | <p>I use <code>xinput</code> to <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3719/how-can-i-set-different-sensitivities-for-two-mice-at-the-same-time">change the settings of my USB mouse</a>:</p>
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<p>How can I make these settings persistent after unplugging the mouse or rebooting?</p>
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"body": "<p>You could <code>cron</code> the command or add it to your startup but neither are particularly elegant. If I were you, I'd add this to my udev rules and let the system detect events and fire off the command when it needs to.</p>\n\n<p>First we need the mouse vendor and product strings. You can find these through <code>lsusb</code>. Look for your mouse. Here's my mouse shows up:</p>\n\n<pre><code>Bus 004 Device 012: ID 1532:000f Razer USA, Ltd \n</code></pre>\n\n<p>The In the part <code>1532:000f</code>, <code>1532</code> is the vendor and <code>000f</code> is the product.</p>\n\n<p>So then we add a rule to udev. udev rules are found in <code>/lib/udev/rules.d/</code>. You can <a href=\"http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html\">write your own</a> or be cheeky and edit another one. There is a helpful little README in there too that I suggest you peruse (<code>cat /lib/udev/rules.d/README</code>).</p>\n\n<p>Whichever you do you want to add a rule like this. Notice I use the IDs from earlier to make this work.</p>\n\n<pre><code>BUS==\"usb\", SYSFS{idVendor}==\"1532\", SYSFS{idProduct}==\"000f\", ACTION==\"add\",\nRUN+=\"/usr/bin/xinput set-ptr-feedback 'USB Optical Mouse' 4 1 1\"\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>udev <em>should</em> pick that up immediately.</p>\n\n<p>Note udev can do pretty clever things on its own when it comes to configuring devices. You might not need <code>xinput</code> at all. Here's an example of <a href=\"http://daniel.hahler.de/hal-configuration-for-kingsis-peripherals-evoluent-verticalmouse-3\">a custom configuration</a> for a mouse.</p>\n",
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"text": "To address the user issue you can wrap the command in a `su` command. The run would be: `/bin/su username -c '/usr/bin/xinput set-ptr-feedback \\'USB Optical Mouse\\' 4 1 1'` (my escaping might not be right). But yes, this still might not work here. Custom evdev commands through udev are probably the best device specific option though, but yes, xorg rules should work too. But this requires a translation of the `xinput` command that, like you, I don't know.",
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3913 | 1 | null | 2010-09-09T11:55:26.850 | 43 | 249901 | <p>I've been doing my google-fu, but I can only find outdated guides or guides pertaining solely to the server variations of Ubuntu.</p>
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3915 | 1 | null | 2010-09-09T12:12:27.457 | 2 | 817 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4922/gui-twitter-clients-what-are-my-options">GUI Twitter clients: what are my options?</a> </p>
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<p>Can we get a list of Twitter clients that support Oauth going?</p>
<p>Gnome:</p>
<p><a href="http://gwibber.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Gwibber</a></p>
<p>KDE:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ohloh.net/p/choqok" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Choqok</a> <a href="https://www.ohloh.net/p/choqok/download?package=choqok" rel="nofollow noreferrer">source</a> >= beta 3 has oauth</p>
<p>Air:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.tweetdeck.com/desktop/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">TweetDeck</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.twhirl.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Twhirl</a></p>
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3920 | 1 | 3921 | 2010-09-09T14:25:40.863 | 0 | 330 | <p>I copied photos onto my notebook hard drive and got a warning of limited hard drive space...I continued to copy photos onto my hard dirve. I got a message that the space limit was reached an no more photos could be copied onto the hard drive.</p>
<p>I restarted my notebook and the initial Ubuntu page could not load due to lack of memory. I tried to start-up in safe mode, buit to no avail. I guess that will mean that I uninstall Ubuntu completely and reinstall it again.</p>
<p>I have all important stuff backed up in case I need to unistall Ubuntu. My screen is black at the moment with my computer name prompting for the password. When I type in the password I get a message" the configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly. See administrator." </p>
<p>What can I do and how do I do it?</p>
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"text": "The suggestion should work. If you installed it inside windows you can remove it as any other program. If you have an ISO of ubuntu you can use something like http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ to create live usb. Checkout https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromWindows",
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"text": "I tried Crtl-Alt-F1...put my laptop login and password...message now is: hylton@hylton:~$ ....where to from here.",
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"text": "type<br>\nsudo apt-get autoclean<br>\n<your password><br>\nReboot and it should work",
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3924 | 1 | 3947 | 2010-09-09T15:49:10.150 | 19 | 48113 | <p>I have a server that, as of the upgrade to 10.04, is now running the "ondemand" CPU scaling daemon. Why would it automatically install this? I don't want my server saving power at the expense of performance.</p>
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3929 | 1 | 3930 | 2010-09-09T17:28:21.447 | 18 | 2399 | <p>I <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">just found out</a> that Broadcom has released a set of open source drivers for their wireless cards. I know that the Ubuntu kernel team keeps a package of backported drivers for LTS 10.04.</p>
<p>Is the driver mature enough to be included in an update for LTS users, or will they have to wait for 10.10? </p>
<p>Update for users who might be affected: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/4000/how-can-i-tell-if-i-have-a-broadcom-wireless-card">How can I tell if I have a broadcom wireless card?</a> </p>
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3933 | 1 | null | 2010-09-09T17:41:47.637 | 4 | 3990 | <p>I recently bought a USB wifi adapter for my new desktop computer. It's a D-link DWA-160 A2. From the start it didn't want to work at all, but after unplugging and then plugging it back in, it seems to work.</p>
<p>However, my browsing is painfully slow. NetworkManager reports the connection to be at around 78-85% signal strength, which seems perfectly acceptable. </p>
<p>Is there anything I can do to make it faster? I'm dual booting with Windows 7, where it seems to work fine, so I'm guessing that the problem occurs because of crappy drivers.</p>
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3934 | 1 | 3935 | 2010-09-09T17:54:07.210 | 55 | 259879 | <p>I'm brand new to Ubuntu and Linux in general and I installed Ubuntu on a second PC (just to be sure that if I mess something up, I still have my Windows 7 PC).</p>
<p>Is there an easy way for me to use remote desktop or an equivalent on my Windows 7 PC to connect to my Ubuntu PC? I want to be able to work on Ubuntu without having two keyboards/mice.</p>
<p>So far, what I've found on the web take for granted that I'm already good with Linux, which is not my case. So I'm looking for a answer for dummies. ;)</p>
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3939 | 1 | 3941 | 2010-09-09T20:09:14.080 | 3 | 1401 | <p>I've got an x61 tablet pc with fingerprint reader, and I want a way to see the image(?) scanned when I swipe my finger. Obviously I can use it for login - I don't really care about that, it's easier for me to type my password. I just want to be able to see the fingerprint it gets.</p>
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3940 | 1 | 4385 | 2010-09-09T20:12:44.227 | 1 | 3458 | <p>I'm trying to get the zoom wheel on my wacom bamboo to work. Though i have very little idea of how to do so. I tried using xinputwacom (i think) however it moaned it was missing something. Is there anyway of running wacom-tools on 10.04?</p>
<p>A bit more reading here on wacom-tools
<a href="http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/09/wacom-support-in-linux.html" rel="nofollow">http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/09/wacom-support-in-linux.html</a></p>
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3942 | 1 | 3943 | 2010-09-09T20:39:08.313 | 8 | 16697 | <p>It just isn't there on the base install of a virtual host I am evaluating from an ISP.</p>
<p>Not in path:</p>
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-bash: tasksel: command not found
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<p>Config files not there:</p>
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<p>It's just .... gone!</p>
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<p>I'm a little concerned that the install is broken. Running locate spews this out:</p>
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3944 | 1 | 3950 | 2010-09-09T21:36:25.677 | 3 | 5323 | <p>I have all of my music on a network drive hooked up to an Ubuntu server. I can access the music from my Ubuntu laptop. The problem is that I can't find a program that will use my samba connection to access the music directly. Any suggestions?</p>
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3945 | 1 | 3955 | 2010-09-09T21:51:41.387 | 30 | 23338 | <p>When i was using windows, i used to run defrags, ccleaner and revouninstaller once a month to keep the system and the registry clean.</p>
<p>I know ubuntu (and all linux distro) has a different system structure and doesnt need defrags, but i've heard there are some mainenance tasks that help to keep the system clean (for example, <code>sudo apt-get clean</code> or <code>sudo apt-get autoremove</code>)</p>
<p>How many of those commands/software (and <strong>please explain what they do</strong> and if they can compromise the system stability) do you know and use regularly?</p>
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3949 | 1 | 3964 | 2010-09-09T22:16:07.623 | 3 | 4695 | <p>Earlier, I was trying to find a way to connect to Ubuntu from Windows 7: <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/3934/is-it-possible-to-use-remote-desktop-from-windows-7-to-ubuntu-10-04">Is it possible to use remote desktop from Windows 7 to Ubuntu?</a></p>
<p>The solution was simple enough, I installed TightVNC Viewer on Win7 and I can see/control the current Ubuntu session. The problem is, if there's no active session, I cannot connect to Ubuntu using TightVNC.</p>
<p>My goal is to be able to use Ubuntu that is installed on a computer in the basement from my Windows computer that is on another floor. Both computers are on the same LAN. Ubuntu PC will <strong>not</strong> have a monitor, keyboard or mouse plugged on it. (Currently, while I'm configuring things, it does have those but I want to get rid of it as soon as possible.)</p>
<p>Is there anyway to get Ubuntu to start a session from my Windows 7 PC without having to log in directly on the PC first? Like I can do with two Windows PC using Remote Desktop, I can open a session on a remote computer and the desktop take the same screen resolution as the "host" computer.</p>
<p>By the way, I'm a total noob with Linux and Ubuntu. I got my "For Dummies" book, but it seems that I'm already trying to do things that are not discussed in the book! Thanks for your help!</p>
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3954 | 1 | 5195 | 2010-09-09T23:21:36.357 | 2 | 1681 | <p>It seems while the 173 driver is installed, my resolution settings are not loaded when I log in or reboot. I've tried opening nvidia-settings as superuser and user, changed the resolution, applied, then saved it to the default xorg conf file (while giving my password when needed.). Nothing I do seems to fix this issue.</p>
<p>If anyone could help, that'd be great.</p>
<p>(Running the equivelant of Ubuntu 10.04 I think, when I'm actually on Mint. (Kernel 2.6.32-24-generic #42-ubuntu)</p>
<p>xorg.conf file:</p>
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3956 | 1 | null | 2010-09-09T23:36:07.180 | 6 | 259 | <p>Is there a good Sopcast player for Ubuntu?</p>
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3958 | 1 | 3975 | 2010-09-09T23:50:05.520 | 3 | 3809 | <p>I have an Ubuntu 10.04 running on a laptop, connected to a local network via WiFi.</p>
<p>This machine does not respond to pings/ssh connect requests, as if it was firewalled. However, if I ssh from this laptop to another machine on the local network, let's call it B, then, while ssh connection is active, I can ping the laptop from B.</p>
<p>Any suggestions where to look for the problem?</p>
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3981 | 1 | 3991 | 2010-09-10T13:12:02.867 | 8 | 7608 | <p>I have two screens hooked together with twinview. Some applications treat it as one big 3840*1200 panel but that's pretty undesirable in first person shooters as your sights end up in the gap between the two screens.</p>
<p>So I usually run Wine games in a 1920*1200px window. The window manager makes it full-screen on one screen and that works great for some games. However some games lag and that allows the mouse to fly out the side of the Wine window, causing my player to spin like a fox on drugs.</p>
<p>And then there are a whole load of native games (X3, OpenArena, Quake4, QuakeWars, etc) that don't have a good windowed mode. Using windowed mode on X3 results in the mouse becoming uber-sensitive.</p>
<h2>Wouldn't it be nice if I could launch some games in a new X session that just used one screen?!</h2>
<p>It would. I've got as far as this for Steam:</p>
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X :3 -ac & nvidia-settings --load-config-only
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cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/
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<p>Now this technically uses two screens but when games launch in fullscreen mode once they've already been set to 1920*1200, they seem to adapt and use one of my xorg.conf metamodes. It would be better if I could explicitly state the mode in this executable. Is there a way to do that?</p>
<p>There's also no sound. I've got the WinePulse patch so I just need to get PulseAudio hooked into this session (or vice versa) and I'm good to go for now, I think.</p>
<p><strong>Edit:</strong> Ralf picked up on a few things but missed (or misconstrued) some others. This is probably down to my over-verbose question. Despite the length of the post, I only have two problems.</p>
<p>Here are my problems in a succinct setting:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>How can I start a new X session with a specified resolution? I would preferably like to specify an existing metamode or the exact resolution when I call X.</p>
</li>
<li><p>How can I get applications on the new X session talking with the right PulseAudio server? At the moment, they don't seem to line up. I've tested this with <code>totem</code>, not just Wine apps.</p>
</li>
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3982 | 1 | 3995 | 2010-09-10T14:46:48.647 | 8 | 777 | <p>I've been bitten a few times recently with <code>rm</code>ing things I shouldn't have - for example, forgetting to <code>ulink</code> symlinks, not <code>rm</code> them.</p>
<p>I'm thinking of writing a small bash script to simply move the target to <code>~/.local/share/Trash</code>, as I haven't grasped restoring files (seems to involve a lot of Linux hackery that I'm not going to achieve any time soon).</p>
<p>The only problems I can think of are:</p>
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<p>Of course the real answer's in backing up or just learning not to do silly things but I'd like an accommodating solution none-the-less.</p>
<p>Is this a really terrible idea or something that could be done?</p>
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3983 | 1 | 3984 | 2010-09-10T14:50:12.047 | 4 | 6061 | <p>Simple question. I was about to assign the <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>+</kbd> keyboard shortcut to increase the volume, but I then realized it was already assigned for something. If I press this key combination the screen flashes black for a second, and then comes back. Pressing <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>-</kbd> produces similar behavior. So I'm curious, what's this shortcut supposed to do?</p>
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3986 | 1 | null | 2010-09-10T15:26:04.460 | 3 | 2391 | <p>I have two samba shares. One a public (local network) that anyone can see and change, this works great. I have another share that I want the username and password to be entered</p>
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<p>I did have "force user = jon" as well but didn't seem to help.</p>
<p>The issue I have at the moment is that when I go to the share "\myip\webroot" I get the popup asking for the password, but the username is grayed out with "ip\Guest". How can I get it to either allow me to enter the username, or force it to just use "jon".</p>
<p>loging in from Windows7 machine seems to work better after fixing an issue with the smpasswd part. I set the password the same as my username accuont on W7 machine and all was good. Has a bit of an issue from other machines have to login with ip\jon otherwise it sets the domain to be the name of that computer. </p>
<p>TestParm output:</p>
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server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
security = SHARE
map to guest = Bad User
obey pam restrictions = Yes
passdb backend = tdbsam
pam password change = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
unix password sync = Yes
syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
dns proxy = No
usershare allow guests = Yes
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
[media]
comment = public share
path = /mnt/media_files
force user = nobody
force group = nogroup
read only = No
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
guest ok = Yes
[webroot]
comment = Apache web root folder
path = /var/www
valid users = jon
force user = jon
read only = No
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
guest ok = Yes
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3996 | 1 | null | 2010-09-10T17:54:04.863 | 6 | 6713 | <p>Whenever I plug by digital camera in, a nice media-icon pops up. Great! !</p>
<p>When I right click on this icon, I can only open Rhythmbox or VLC-media-player. Both applications are rather senseless to be used here. When I want to download photos (be it
by means of F-Spot, Shotwell or Picasa) I have to unmount the camera first. This seems
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It looks strange to me that one has to unmount a device before one can use it!</p>
<p>Camera model : <strong>Canon PowerShot SX20</strong> IS (new id has been added for this camera in libgphoto2 2.4.9. The packagemanager tells me that libgphoto2-2 is installed, version 2.4.8-0ubuntu2 => it looks like libgphoto2 can't read the camera? Anyway, the PTP/MTP-
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Linux Ubuntu-Bernard **2.6.32-24-generic #42-Ubuntu** SMP Fri Aug 20 14:24:04 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
cat /etc/lsb-release
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DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="**Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS**"
lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04a9:31e4 **Canon, Inc.**
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0b05:1706 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. WL-167G 802.11g Adapter [ralink]
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 050d:0234 Belkin Components F5U234 USB 2.0 4-Port Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Type filesystem = **gphoto2**
KernelLoggings (plug-in/plug-out)
Sep 11 19:23:55 Ubuntu-Bernard kernel: [ 1370.156803] usb 1-2.1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
Sep 11 19:23:55 Ubuntu-Bernard kernel: [ 1370.282419] usb 1-2.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Sep 11 19:31:59 Ubuntu-Bernard kernel: [ 1854.101144] usb 1-2.1: USB disconnect, address 4
Detailled Camera info
lsusb -v
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 04a9:31e4 Canon, Inc.
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x04a9 Canon, Inc.
idProduct 0x31e4
bcdDevice 0.02
iManufacturer 1 Canon Inc.
iProduct 2 Canon Digital Camera
iSerial 3 E2F5E9B80A584FFDA901B46ECBC87410
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 39
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xc0
Self Powered
MaxPower 2mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 3
bInterfaceClass 6 Imaging
bInterfaceSubClass 1 Still Image Capture
bInterfaceProtocol 1 Picture Transfer Protocol (PIMA 15470)
iInterface 0
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bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
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bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x83 EP 3 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
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bInterval 32
Device Qualifier (for other device speed):
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bDescriptorType 6
bcdUSB 2.00
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bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
bNumConfigurations 1
Device Status: 0x0001
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4002 | 1 | 4006 | 2010-09-10T20:02:34.903 | 4 | 751 | <p>I've installed Jokosher and all the LADSPA effects I could see, but when I try to add an effect to a track Jokosher says none are installed.</p>
<p>Do I need some extra Gstreamer package to make this work?</p>
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4010 | 1 | 4013 | 2010-09-10T22:55:15.290 | 3 | 7812 | <p>I have an Ubuntu (10.04) machine that is running my firewall, dhcp and dns. I just installed squid from packages and set it to run on port 8888. Before any changes to my firewall the webpages will work normally, if I manually set a proxy to 192.168.10.1:8888 on firefox it works. The issue happens when I try and turn squid into a transparent proxy.</p>
<p>My firewall is as follows:</p>
<pre><code>#!/bin/sh
iptables="/sbin/iptables"
modprobe="/sbin/modprobe"
depmod="/sbin/depmod"
EXTIF="eth1"
INTIF="eth2"
load () {
$depmod -a
$modprobe ip_tables
$modprobe ip_conntrack
$modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp
$modprobe ip_conntrack_irc
$modprobe iptable_nat
$modprobe ip_nat_ftp
$modprobe ip_conntrack_pptp
$modprobe ip_nat_pptp
echo "enable forwarding..."
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
echo "enable dynamic addr"
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr
# start firewall
#default policies
$iptables -P INPUT DROP
$iptables -F INPUT
$iptables -P OUTPUT DROP
$iptables -F OUTPUT
$iptables -P FORWARD DROP
$iptables -F FORWARD
$iptables -t nat -F
echo " opening loopback interface for socket based services."
$iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT
echo " allow GRE 47 for VPN"
$iptables -A INPUT -p 47 -j ACCEPT
echo " allow all connections OUT and ONLY existing related ones IN"
$iptables -A INPUT -i $INTIF -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A OUTPUT -o $EXTIF -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A FORWARD -i $EXTIF -o $INTIF -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A FORWARD -i $INTIF -o $EXTIF -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A FORWARD -j LOG --log-level 7 --log-prefix "Dropped by firewall: "
$iptables -A INPUT -j LOG --log-level 7 --log-prefix "Dropped by firewall: "
$iptables -A OUTPUT -j LOG --log-level 7 --log-prefix "Dropped by firewall: "
echo " enabling SNAT (MASQUERADE) functionality on $EXTIF - allow LAN internet access"
$iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $EXTIF -j MASQUERADE
$iptables -A INPUT -i $INTIF -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A OUTPUT -o $INTIF -j ACCEPT
echo " Allowing packets with ICMP data (pings)"
$iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A INPUT -p udp -i $INTIF --dport 67 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
echo " port 137 for netBios"
$iptables -A INPUT -i $INTIF -p udp --dport 137 -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A OUTPUT -o $INTIF -p udp --dport 137 -j ACCEPT
#echo " port 139 for netBios-ssn smb"
#$iptables -A INPUT -i $INTIF -p tcp --dport 139 -j ACCEPT
#$iptables -A OUTPUT -o $INTIF -p tcp --dport 139 -j ACCEPT
echo " opening port 53 for DNS queries"
$iptables -A INPUT -p udp -i $EXTIF --sport 53 -j ACCEPT
echo " opening port 22 for internal ssh"
$iptables -A INPUT -i $INTIF -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
echo " opening port 80 for webserver"
$iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i $EXTIF --dport 80 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
echo " opening port 21 for FTP Server"
$iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i $EXTIF --dport 21 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
echo " opening ssh for web on port 2609 for firewig"
$iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 2609 -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 2609 -j ACCEPT
echo " opening ssh for web on port 22 for WS2008-CI"
$iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i $EXTIF -p tcp --dport 22 -j DNAT --to 192.168.10.97
$iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -m state --state NEW -d 192.168.10.97 -j ACCEPT
echo " opening ssh for web on port 2302 for firewig 2302"
$iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i $EXTIF -p tcp --dport 2302 -j DNAT --to 192.168.10.96:2302
$iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -m state --state NEW -d 192.168.10.96 --dport 2302 -j ACCEPT
echo " opening Apache webserver for HoH"
$iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i $EXTIF -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to 192.168.10.96:80
$iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -m state --state NEW -d 192.168.10.96 --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
#echo " opening Hudson"
#$iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i $EXTIF -p tcp --dport 81 -j DNAT --to 192.168.10.97:81
#$iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -m state --state NEW -d 192.168.10.97 --dport 81 -j ACCEPT
echo " opening Target Process"
$iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i $EXTIF -p tcp --dport 90 -j DNAT --to 192.168.10.98:90
$iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -m state --state NEW -d 192.168.10.98 --dport 90 -j ACCEPT
#echo " This is designed to stop brute force attacks"
$iptables -I INPUT -p TCP -m state --state NEW -m limit --limit 6/minute --limit-burst 5 -j ACCEPT
#echo " setting up squid proxy server"
#$iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $INTIF -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to 192.168.10.1:8888
#$iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $EXTIF -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8888
#$iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $INTIF -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to 192.168.10.1:8888
#$iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $EXTIF -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8888
#echo " Diverting port 80 traffic through Squid."
#$iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $INTIF -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8888
# NOTE THE THREE LINES BELOW ALLOW ACCESS FOR THE VPN CONNECTION...Ry.
$iptables -A INPUT -i $EXTIF -p TCP --dport 1723 -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A INPUT -i ppp+ -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp+ -o $INTIF -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A FORWARD -i $INTIF -o ppp+ -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A OUTPUT -o ppp+ -j ACCEPT
# ICMP for vpn
$iptables -A INPUT -i ppp+ -p icmp -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A OUTPUT -o ppp+ -p icmp -j ACCEPT
# DNS for vpn
$iptables -A INPUT -i ppp+ -p tcp --dport 0:65535 --sport 53 -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A OUTPUT -o ppp+ -p tcp --sport 0:65535 --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A INPUT -i ppp+ -p udp --dport 0:65535 --sport 53 -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A OUTPUT -o ppp+ -p udp --sport 0:65535 --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
# forward vpn--->internet
$iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp+ -o $EXTIF -p ALL -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A FORWARD -i $EXTIF -o ppp+ -p ALL -j ACCEPT
#$iptables -A FORWARD -j LOG --log-level 7 --log-prefix "Dropped by firewall: "
#$iptables -A INPUT -j LOG --log-level 7 --log-prefix "Dropped by firewall: "
#$iptables -A OUTPUT -j LOG --log-level 7 --log-prefix "Dropped by firewall: "
}
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<p>If I uncomment the squid prerouting lines the internet stops working.</p>
<p>I am not sure what I have missed. Do you think it could be a Squid config thing? </p>
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4011 | 1 | 4012 | 2010-09-10T23:16:33.130 | 6 | 2086 | <p>I'm about to (at least, want to..) buy a laptop with an ATI Radeon HD 4250, and I haven't a good opinion on ATI's drivers. How is the actual performance of the open/proprietary driver (currently I have nVidia, and I'm very satisfied)?</p>
<p>The intended use for the laptop is: watching videos, programming in Java/PHP/maybe Qt... but, I like to know if Compiz runs well. Yes, I'm a hardcore (?) programmer that uses Compiz. :P</p>
<p>Someone has this GPU? Experiences? Thoughts?</p>
<p>Thanks! :D</p>
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"body": "<p>Im using an Packard Bell easynote TJ75 with a ati mobility radeon HD5650, and its not bad at all.</p>\n\n<p>Compiz benchmark is around 500~600 frames/sec, i can play good World of Warcraft or Call of duty MW 4 (under wine), for example (well, there is some slowdown sometimes).</p>\n\n<p>BTW, im using the experimental drivers:</p>\n\n<pre><code>deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu lucid main \ndeb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu lucid main\nhttp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x3B22AB97AF1CDFA9\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Sometimes compiz has some issue (for example, does not load the windows icons, minimixe, maximize and close), but i dont know if this is really related with the ati card.</p>\n\n<p>I have an ati on my desktop too, with ubuntu 9.10 no kind of driver used to works, with ubuntu 10.04 it works perfectly.</p>\n\n<p>Here's a screenshot for you, with the compiz expo effect:\n<img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/VREAP.png\" alt=\"alt text\"></p>\n\n<p>As you see, ati card and drivers does not work bad at all.</p>\n",
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"text": "You said: Sometimes compiz has some issue (...)\ni used to have some issues like this with nVidia older drivers, so i think it's driver related, with particulars cards..\nSo, thanks! it was very usefull your opinion, and happy to know that the ati drivers aren't to bad :P\nare you using the propietary drivers? how about stability/crashes/etc?",
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"text": "As i sais, sometime happen that compiz has some issue, as the windows control, but i simply stop and restart compiz to solve, and really dont know if is a driver or compiz issue at all. Its almost 2 year im using ubuntu with ati drivers (in my answer, there is the repository of the drivers i use, are proprietaty development drivers) and i never had a crash that forced me to restart the system.",
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4014 | 1 | 4020 | 2010-09-11T03:37:15.137 | 80 | 294070 | <p>Short of rebooting, how can I release and renew my DHCP lease? It would be useful to know a GUI and terminal method.</p>
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"body": "<p>Having just upgraded to Maverick Meerkat Beta 1, something broke in my standard, vanilla eth0 configuration which I've not debugged yet. The quick and dirty <a href=\"http://linux.die.net/man/8/dhclient\" rel=\"nofollow\">workaround has been</a></p>\n\n<pre><code>sudo dhclien... | null | null | null | null | null |
4019 | 1 | 4021 | 2010-09-11T08:03:15.940 | 0 | 724 | <p>While I can see there is a lot of info available on setting up the headphones, but before I buy one I would like to know from the community if anyone tried setting up a bluetooth headphone on Ubuntu Lucid and which brands work well with Ubuntu.</p>
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4026 | 1 | 4074 | 2010-09-11T14:52:07.670 | 2 | 565 | <ul>
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<li><p>I use GRUB to get the boot menu. The GRUB screen looks something like this (has a fedora logo at the bottom)</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Md7Za.png" alt="alt text"></p></li>
<li><p>The problem is that when I insert the CD and try to boot, it takes me directly to the GRUB menu for Fedora/Vista, nothing for Ubuntu.</p></li>
<li><p>So, I tried Ubuntu's CD boot helper to help me boot from the CD, and I get this error</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/HATv1.png" alt="alt text"></p></li>
<li><p>The BIOS says that I should press <kbd>F2</kbd> for setup and <kbd>F12</kbd> for boot options. I tried them. Nothing happens except that it goes straight to the GRUB menu.</p></li>
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<p><strong>What should I do?</strong></p>
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"body": "<p>It was a stupid problem.</p>\n\n<p>My machine has function keys that need to be pressed in combination of <kbd>Fn</kbd> key (opposite to what is there in most laptops). So, I was trying just that (<kbd>Fn</kbd>+<kbd>F2</kbd>, <kbd>Fn</kbd>+<kbd>F12</kbd>).</p>\n\n<p>Turns out while booting, you need to press <kbd>F2</kbd> without the <kbd>Fn</kbd> key.</p>\n",
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4028 | 1 | null | 2010-09-11T16:13:47.480 | 3 | 1962 | <p>I have a Tenda TWL541U wireless usb card and I cannot make it work with Ubuntu 10.10 64 bits. I've tried the Windows XP drivers with ndiswrapper to no avail. In Windows 7 I've made it work with using the Vista 64 driver. Does anyone can help? I'm quite a noob in Ubuntu.</p>
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4029 | 1 | null | 2010-09-11T16:47:52.860 | 3 | 301 | <p>An error occurred in the partitioning stage of an Ubuntu 10.10 installation on my computer that caused me to restart and now all of my other partitions are gone.</p>
<p>Is there a way to recover these files? </p>
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"body": "<p>It is possible that your partition table was corrupted but your partitions are still there.</p>\n\n<p>There is a tool available in the Ubuntu LiveCD called gpart that can recover your partition table. </p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/index.html\" rel=\"nofo... | null | null | 2013-03-14T17:09:55.390 | null | null |
4033 | 1 | 4035 | 2010-09-11T19:18:37.370 | 5 | 494 | <p>I'm building a security-intensive (stores credit card numbers, etc) using Python and Django with UWSGI (written in C), NGINX, and PIL (Python Imaging Library). I'm trying to work my way up in the Ubuntu world to be less of an ignoramus, so I just bought the <strong>Official Ubuntu Server Book</strong>. Just reading this book isn't going to make me even an amateur level server admin compared to the peeps on here though, so I have to ask:</p>
<p><strong>Which flavor of Ubuntu</strong> would be an optimal route to go down with the above requirements, and <strong>more importantly, why</strong>? I've read good things about Hardy, but I know not the reasons why it's "good".</p>
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"body": "<p>Hardy 8.04 and Lucid 10.04 are both Long-Term Support (LTS) releases and will be supported for quite a while.</p>\n\n<p>Both are getting updates and security fixes until 2013 and 2015 respectively. Contrary to answer by Source Lab, LTS server editions are maintained for <strong>5 years</strong>.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Hardy</strong> has python <strong>2.5</strong> as default whereas <strong>lucid</strong> has <strong>2.6</strong> as default. If not all of your dependencies are proven to be reliable with 2.6 I would recommend sticking with Hardy for now.</p>\n",
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"text": "It may be more relevant that lucid dropped support for Python 2.4 and 2.5, while hardy supports both 2.4 and 2.5 (but not 2.6).",
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"text": "To clarify the 3 year/5 year point: it's true that desktop editions are maintained for three years. Server editions are something different, and are maintained for longer. (I know you know this, @Dima, but it wasn't clear to me and I had to look it up :D)",
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"body": "<p>Basically I would use the latest <a href=\"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS\" rel=\"nofollow\">LTS</a> release for a server, as of writing that would be 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). The reason is quite simple! On a server you properly want to use a system that doesn't need to be upgraded i... | null | null | null | null | null |
4037 | 1 | null | 2010-09-11T20:21:44.123 | 21 | 24795 | <p>The wireless connection in my house unfortunately often disappears, requiring a wireless router reboot.</p>
<p>Making this worse is that my ubuntu media pc, does not automatically reconnect to the wireless network when it's been gone, and then comes up about a minute later. The network in question is setup as "connect automatically" in the network settings.</p>
<p>If I manually select my wireless network, using the wireless icon in the topright of my screen, everything works fine, until the next time that wireless goes down.</p>
<p>I'm looking for a way so I don't have to remember to do this manually all the time.</p>
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4041 | 1 | null | 2010-09-11T20:55:51.150 | 2 | 2045 | <p>How can I set up my PC the Remote Desktop is enabled from the moment it is booted, regardless of who is logged on?</p>
<p>Currently, I have to open vino-preferences so I can access my PC from another computer. But if my wife then logs on, I can't see either my account or my wife's.</p>
<p>Can it be set up as a service, so it is enabled when I turn on the computer?</p>
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