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is there something like the ctrl+alt+del task manager in ubuntu that can be called from the keyboard?	system > administration > system monitor (gnome-system-monitor)
hi...apologies for the truly n00b question, but which version of ubuntu should i install on a laptop computer? desktop or netbook?	desktop (netbook is for.. netbooks.. smaller than 10in screen)
is there an app i that will log bandwidth used?	give iptraf a try
is there a live cd available?	desktop cd is the live cd and the install cd
hello, i am trying to disable my touchpad folowing this article http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/09/20/disable-touchpad-temporarily-when-typing/ but it doesnt work. here is my xorg.conf http://pastebin.com/d1e23392c please help me to disable my touchpad.	have you tried system->preferences->mouse->touchpad?
can someone confirm if kde-look.org is down?	yep...down it is
hi all. what is the standard ubuntu way to format a disk?	but those tools only alter partition table, they dont format
does anyone know of a decent app that does reminders? i.e you can set a reminder on certain dates and times on a calender with a note? and it pops up at that set time?	take a look at this see if it works for you: http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php?option=com_rny_download
is there a reason why my numerical keypad is now controlling my mouse cursor after the upgrade to 8.04?	it's possible holding down one of the buttons for too long triggered it to turn on. happens all the time with the shift and sticky keys to me.
how do extract a tar.bz2 file? preferably from the command line	tar -xzf file result
hi. i have 4gb of ram in my laptop. is it worth installing 64bit 12.04 ?	that's plenty
what windows manager does ubuntu use?	unless you use compiz instead
i need to pass 'atapi_enabled=1' to the libata module... since that module is in the initrd, it doesn't help to just update /etc/modprobe.d/options. will it help to regenerate the initrd, and if so, is that only to do mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd-blabla?	i'm thinking pass it as a kernel option from grub's menu.lst
ouff.. trying to de-install wmvare which i installed using their own install script etc.. i feel... clueless what i should do to remove it.. hmm..	tried reading the howto uninstall on vmwares site yet? (its pretty clearly outlined)
what package do i have to install in order to run the command 'sudo ./blah blah --buildpkg ubuntu/breezy'?	build-essential
!!!!!!!!!!!!suggest software for improving desktop look like gdesklets( since i know this sugesst some thing else which is good and works for sure)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!	xfce4
how to find out if i have a 32 or 64bit system?	'uname -a'. that will tell you if your os is 32 or 64bit.
does kill -9 free memory and etc?	that's why some processes catch the regular kill signal - so they can clean up and exit gracefully.
http://img153.imageshack.us/my.php?image=slick1jy.jpg	thats a nice desktop :o
what security threats am i opening myself up to if i keep my wifi network open?	your leaving yourself open to middleman attack
so is it normal to have 2 firefox-bin running?	firefox is a script which launches firefox-bin
hello, i have a weird problem with a .xauthority file that keeps reverting on a seemingly random basis to root ownership, is there anyway to track not so much who changed a file but why a file was changed?	that would mean that x is writing to the file
i obtain the error message: 'xinit unexpexted signal 2.' what is the effect of 'signal 2'?	aka sigint
hi! question! how can i force the refresh rate in ubuntu? it's stuck at 1024x768 - 60hz when obviously my 17' lg crt can do up to 80	edit xorg.conf perhaps?
when installing vmware server console, it will not let me run the install script unless im a super user.. after installing it (with sudo) it will not let me run vmware-server-console unless im i user sudo.. how can i install this so that it shows up in my applications and doesnt require sudo from terminal??	try adding yourself to the vmware group if there is such a thing
uff. question: windowskey-e does this pretty thing where it shows all my workspaces. is there a variation on that to show applications. also, what is doing that? gnome? compiz? what component am i using?	it is compiz. you might be looking for that expose like feature, checkout modules 'scale' and 'scale addons'
is there a way to re-generate the xorg.conf file? i'm trying to the proprietary drivers and it cannot activate, saying the xorg.conf file is invalid	sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
is there a way to 'sudo' a file drag and drop?	cp -r
help somebody i forgot how to select which java to use??? how to reconfigure path for java either gcj or the sun java?	sudo update-alternatives --config java
how do i restart the x server???	sudo invoke-rc.d gdm restart
has any thunderbird user got threads working with one of the ubuntu mailinglists? no posts are nested as threads on my system.	click the icon in the 'thread' column to switch between threaded/nonthreaded view or use the menu or configfiles..
heya (on 10.4 btw), i'm trying to get half life 2 working, got it started in game with sound, but it doesn't show any models like all npcs but background objects are fine. i was told on the wine irc that i needed more reliable drivers (got edge open source ones atm) like gallium3d but i'm not sure how to remove my old drivers and install ones that might work better	if the regular wine packages don't work, then try crossover. it is unlikely that gallium3d is packaged for lucid.
how can i find out which repository package provides a particular file?	apt-file search filename
hello all - multi-kernel question: how might i go about installing a 2.6.24 (hardy) kernel alongside my current karmic kernel?	- just install it sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, grub will create another entry and preserve the old kernel.
can i configure ubuntu with a fqdn for a domain name that is not currently pointing at the server? i am replacing one server with another	sure, just fill out the appropriate prompts when you install the os
is there a way to download from repos using bittorrent? the us and main repos seem slow.	no, but you can try changing repos, i use the swedish ones for instance and find them very fast
anyone have any experience with an hp mini 1000 with broadcom bcm4312 chip? looking for wireless and ethernet on clean install	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/wifidocs/driver/bcm43xx
is it off be default?	i'm actually not sure, i havent done a gutsy instalation from scratch, only upgrades.
does anyone know where i could get some mplayer debs or at least make totem work?	all th ethings you need are explained there
anybody know a good wallpaper site?	http://www.deviantart.com/
could somebody tell me which keys i can change my actually active desktop panel in kde?	in gnome it's ctrl-alt-arrow
what is the permission of umask 0022 (777 666 655 644)?	calculate it. for files, 0666 & ~022 = 0644
hey guys i was just changing the color of my download speed in the little realtime chart in my system monitor and it worked fine. then for some reason it said my download or upload speed was zero when it wasnt so i closed the system monitor and reopened it. now i can only see my download speed, not my upload speed and i cant/dont know how to add the upload speed sensor. any help? thanks	sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras
hi, whenever i try to start visualboyadvance-gtk it says 'bash: visualboyadvance-gtk: command not found' but i know i have it installed because when i try to install it again i get visualboyadvance-gtk is already the newest version.' what could stop this from opening?	that will tell you the names of files in that package, then look for the name of the file in the /usr/bin folder
which compiler for c++ do you guys recomend me using ubuntu?	g++
i was considering using photoshop through wine, but i have a feeling it'll be slow on my laptop, so instead of a dual boot--where i'd have to go back and forth between nix and win--im thinking wubi would be the best way to go, dunno	you may also consider gimp (heresy i know) or !virtualbox
how do i list processes in order to kill one?	usually, i know i want the postfix program, so i do something like ps aux \| grep postfix
does anyone here uses a 32bit ubuntu whit more than 4gb of ram? does the pae mode work fine? im wondering about adding more ram to my machine but i don't want to move to a 64bit install	i have 32 gigs f ram in my 32 bit server and it uses and sees it all
where can i download a torrent of the dapper install disc (iso)?	click your way through from http://www.ubuntu.com/download
i want to recompile my kernel and need some help. first, where can i get the source for the default dapper kernels? (2.6.15-23 is what i'm running at the moment)	or sudo apt-get isntall linux-source-2.6.15-23
anyone know what application i can use instead of tcpdump for wlans?	etherape and wireshark
how can i switch from full screen within the terminal server client?	try crtl+alt+enter
is ext4 safe for a backup drive?	ext4
what keyboard is it?	logitech g15
hey guys - can someone help me out... i don't want 1 particular program to lock out the sound. ie. if rhythmbox is playing and i start a youtube video in chrome i want the option to turn rhythmbox off without having to start my web browser again to capture the sound.	use alsa instead of oss. but i thought pulseaudio allowed sound mixing :o does ubuntu not use pa anymore?
hi all. i just installed ubuntu 7.04 server on my box. there ist nothing special about it. it's final task is fairly simple, but i'm not quite sure howto go about this. i want to have a typical server installed on it (apache+php+mysql), the one ethernet is connected to my adsl-connection and the other to a switch. the server should act as an internet gateway, but be acessable from the outside like a normal server... what is the best way of	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/internetconnectionsharing
hi i forwared my tcp and udp for port 22 for ssh, but i still can't get a connection, any ideas ?	can you ping what your trying to connect to?
how can i remove ip address using ifconfig?	try sudo ifconfig del eth0 172.23.1.1
hi, what command can remove a dir even though its not empty, 'rmdir -p' doesnt work	rm -r
when is the next release of ubuntu live cd? please	10.10 refers to the date... oct of 2010
where can i find my xorg log ? i'm getting some trouble with that and i need to check the log	/var/log/xorg.0.log
how can i see my internal ip from the terminal?	ifconfig
can someone tell me of a little applet that will allow me to turn on/off my synaptics touchpad?	http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/the-omg-guide-to-must-have-indicator-applets/ (middle of the page)
mouse cursors have never worked for me in any ubuntu, the normal state cursor never changes, only when hover cursor or in firefox etc.	joooo is gone. the mouse cursors usually appear if you disable compiz (not really an option in modern unity)
is it necessary to install a firewall?	i am no expert, but firestarter to the best of my knowledge is only a nice way to configure the built in firewall that's in your kernel
hey guys, i need to reinstall my windows boot loader, i've just removed the linux partition (and ext partition) and now grubs broken and i cant boot into windows, any ideas on how to reinstall the windows boot loader with out reinstalling windows	and at prompt type a 'y' for yes and it will overwrite the mbr
what does this line mean? `ln -s ../bivailable/gitto ./milow'	actually, the other way around ;)
there must be something wrong with the uploaded amd64 iso...no matter where i download it, it has a different md5 :/	installed it fine here using the iso from oxford computing in the uk
hi, i installed vista and now i can't boot to ubuntu, how do i reinstall grub?	http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/reinstall-ubuntu-grub-bootloader-after-windows-wipes-it-out/
is there a easy way to do find and replace in a file in terminal	sed -i file 's/lol/wat/g'
how can i figure out what network domian my computer is on?	dnsdomainname will tell your dns domain name
hi guys, for some reason network-admin does not seem to be able to recognise my wireless card. i am on a toshiba with an atheros wireless card with an amd64	it may be lack of driver. also asus eee comes with atheros wireless card, and there is made a eeexubuntu to ship the correct driver.
can someone tell me how to make numbered list items in the community docs? i'm having a little trouble figuring out the correct wiki code....	i think it's just: <indent>1. first item<newline><indent>1. second item ...
how to create a blank file in terminal?	touch <filename>
what would be a small-yet-reasonable amount of hdd space to allocate for a new install in a vm on laptop without a whole lot of space to spare? mostly for poking around and learning my way around linux, so i won't be using it for serious work yet.	why do you need to allocate any? don't vm's have dynamic resizing now?
my gnome terminal does render the gnome terminal font letters with fixed width. how can i change that to variable-width?	variable width would break midnight commander and all other programs that use ncurses, for example
is there a gnome (or non-kde) equivalent of kile (the latex editor)?	check out lyx
he should be able to boot all of the os's without having to call up the ntldr right?	no, the way to boot xp from grub is via that bootstrap-to-ntldr process.
i have a question about games (chess in particular), what's the appropriate channel to ask?	you can play other users on online chess servers
hi do you know what are the locations .desktop files are stored in?	you can do a find command like so: find / -name *.desktop -print (you might need sudo)
what's a good cool dock (like the apple dock) that has nice graphics and is basically a program launcher. i've tried kiba-dock, but i get a core dump when it tries to run.	awn
hi, can anone suggest to me a free cross platform password manager?	password gorilla i believe is cross platform and open source
oh this is driving me mad. all i want to do is be able to have write permissions into any folder? i was asking how to set a read/write for a specific folder, however that just won't fix the problem. can someone tell me how to give myself (the user) write permissions to all system folders?	you might as well enable root pass and login as root
anyone know how you view the progress of an fsck that started at boot and then was backgrounded?	top or htop shows your running ones (for job id)
how can i make a #define something as a parameter for gcc?	gcc -dthing_to_define -o file.o file.c
what is the command to give a tree like structure in linux at the prompt, something similiar to tree in dos?	sudo aptitude install tree ( then you will be able to use the tree command)
the mercurial package shipped with ubuntu is horribly old. and even if it weren't, i sometimes do development work with mercurial. so, i would very much like to be able to create my own mercurial packages.	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/howtobuilddebianpackagesfromscratch
how do make apache not start at boot time in ubuntu? airline has a ssl key password that needs to be entered by an admin.	i think, system > administration > services
is there a way to change ubuntu's sensibility to the scrolling of the mouse's wheel? thanks.	yeah. preferneces -> mouse.
when upgrading to a binary 686 kernel from the stock 386 kernel, i added the right packages, but what now? do i change my grub entry and that's it? or something else?	thats it it will give you a boot option when grub comes up
do feisty mirrors exist anymore? i'm trying to upgrade an old server to 8.10	there is a repository for older releases... can never remember the name though
where can i find a detailed description of scrollkeeper?	http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/documentation.shtml ?
how can i show the amount of ram in my computer in the terminal ?	sudo lshw
hi everyone. i have a strange networking issue. i've configured my ethernet using ifconfig. i can ping my other computers on the network, and i can ping my router/modem. but, i can't ping anything outside of the local network. neither by ip address or www name. however, i can do an nslookup and get ip addresses.	are your local machines getting addresses via dhcp?
where can i add the 'source list' in ubuntu repo?	in software center
need help before i reinstall windows! im fairly new to linux. its yet another resolution problem, running ati radeon 9800. my xorg.conf shows the 9800 with all the nice resolutions but im stuck in 640x480, thanks for your help!	perhaps xorg.conf lists refresh rates that are not adequate for higher resolutions? try a sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and see if you can set them to something better (ideally, look them up on your monitor's manual)
anyone can help me with that ?	sudo apt-get install build-essential ?
did you get it?	yes. maybe there is something that could help... lemme try
hello. any body knows how to give java plugins for firfox without instaling the sun-j2re? i installed the kaffe pack but it doesn't have the plugins for the firefox.	have you tried gcj? i think that might work
how to turn off 'clear clipboard' after app was closed ?	as far as i know there is no way to stop that. i know there have been a few bugs logged, but i don't have their numbers in front of me. you may be able to skirt the problem by using a clipboard manager like glipper.

is there something like the ctrl+alt+del task manager in ubuntu that can be called from the keyboard?

system > administration > system monitor (gnome-system-monitor)

hi...apologies for the truly n00b question, but which version of ubuntu should i install on a laptop computer? desktop or netbook?

desktop (netbook is for.. netbooks.. smaller than 10in screen)

is there an app i that will log bandwidth used?

give iptraf a try

is there a live cd available?

desktop cd is the live cd and the install cd

hello, i am trying to disable my touchpad folowing this article http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/09/20/disable-touchpad-temporarily-when-typing/ but it doesnt work. here is my xorg.conf http://pastebin.com/d1e23392c please help me to disable my touchpad.

have you tried system->preferences->mouse->touchpad?

can someone confirm if kde-look.org is down?

yep...down it is

hi all. what is the standard ubuntu way to format a disk?

but those tools only alter partition table, they dont format

does anyone know of a decent app that does reminders? i.e you can set a reminder on certain dates and times on a calender with a note? and it pops up at that set time?

take a look at this see if it works for you: http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php?option=com_rny_download

is there a reason why my numerical keypad is now controlling my mouse cursor after the upgrade to 8.04?

it's possible holding down one of the buttons for too long triggered it to turn on. happens all the time with the shift and sticky keys to me.

how do extract a tar.bz2 file? preferably from the command line

tar -xzf file result

hi. i have 4gb of ram in my laptop. is it worth installing 64bit 12.04 ?

that's plenty

what windows manager does ubuntu use?

unless you use compiz instead

i need to pass 'atapi_enabled=1' to the libata module... since that module is in the initrd, it doesn't help to just update /etc/modprobe.d/options. will it help to regenerate the initrd, and if so, is that only to do mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd-blabla?

i'm thinking pass it as a kernel option from grub's menu.lst

ouff.. trying to de-install wmvare which i installed using their own install script etc.. i feel... clueless what i should do to remove it.. hmm..

tried reading the howto uninstall on vmwares site yet? (its pretty clearly outlined)

what package do i have to install in order to run the command 'sudo ./blah blah --buildpkg ubuntu/breezy'?

build-essential

!!!!!!!!!!!!suggest software for improving desktop look like gdesklets( since i know this sugesst some thing else which is good and works for sure)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

xfce4

how to find out if i have a 32 or 64bit system?

'uname -a'. that will tell you if your os is 32 or 64bit.

does kill -9 free memory and etc?

that's why some processes catch the regular kill signal - so they can clean up and exit gracefully.

http://img153.imageshack.us/my.php?image=slick1jy.jpg

thats a nice desktop :o

what security threats am i opening myself up to if i keep my wifi network open?

your leaving yourself open to middleman attack

so is it normal to have 2 firefox-bin running?

firefox is a script which launches firefox-bin

hello, i have a weird problem with a .xauthority file that keeps reverting on a seemingly random basis to root ownership, is there anyway to track not so much who changed a file but why a file was changed?

that would mean that x is writing to the file

i obtain the error message: 'xinit unexpexted signal 2.' what is the effect of 'signal 2'?

aka sigint

hi! question! how can i force the refresh rate in ubuntu? it's stuck at 1024x768 - 60hz when obviously my 17' lg crt can do up to 80

edit xorg.conf perhaps?

when installing vmware server console, it will not let me run the install script unless im a super user.. after installing it (with sudo) it will not let me run vmware-server-console unless im i user sudo.. how can i install this so that it shows up in my applications and doesnt require sudo from terminal??

try adding yourself to the vmware group if there is such a thing

uff. question: windowskey-e does this pretty thing where it shows all my workspaces. is there a variation on that to show applications. also, what is doing that? gnome? compiz? what component am i using?

it is compiz. you might be looking for that expose like feature, checkout modules 'scale' and 'scale addons'

is there a way to re-generate the xorg.conf file? i'm trying to the proprietary drivers and it cannot activate, saying the xorg.conf file is invalid

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

is there a way to 'sudo' a file drag and drop?

cp -r

help somebody i forgot how to select which java to use??? how to reconfigure path for java either gcj or the sun java?

sudo update-alternatives --config java

how do i restart the x server???

sudo invoke-rc.d gdm restart

has any thunderbird user got threads working with one of the ubuntu mailinglists? no posts are nested as threads on my system.

click the icon in the 'thread' column to switch between threaded/nonthreaded view or use the menu or configfiles..

heya (on 10.4 btw), i'm trying to get half life 2 working, got it started in game with sound, but it doesn't show any models like all npcs but background objects are fine. i was told on the wine irc that i needed more reliable drivers (got edge open source ones atm) like gallium3d but i'm not sure how to remove my old drivers and install ones that might work better

if the regular wine packages don't work, then try crossover. it is unlikely that gallium3d is packaged for lucid.

how can i find out which repository package provides a particular file?

apt-file search filename

hello all - multi-kernel question: how might i go about installing a 2.6.24 (hardy) kernel alongside my current karmic kernel?

- just install it sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, grub will create another entry and preserve the old kernel.

can i configure ubuntu with a fqdn for a domain name that is not currently pointing at the server? i am replacing one server with another

sure, just fill out the appropriate prompts when you install the os

is there a way to download from repos using bittorrent? the us and main repos seem slow.

no, but you can try changing repos, i use the swedish ones for instance and find them very fast

anyone have any experience with an hp mini 1000 with broadcom bcm4312 chip? looking for wireless and ethernet on clean install

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/wifidocs/driver/bcm43xx

is it off be default?

i'm actually not sure, i havent done a gutsy instalation from scratch, only upgrades.

does anyone know where i could get some mplayer debs or at least make totem work?

all th ethings you need are explained there

anybody know a good wallpaper site?

http://www.deviantart.com/

could somebody tell me which keys i can change my actually active desktop panel in kde?

in gnome it's ctrl-alt-arrow

what is the permission of umask 0022 (777 666 655 644)?

calculate it. for files, 0666 & ~022 = 0644

hey guys i was just changing the color of my download speed in the little realtime chart in my system monitor and it worked fine. then for some reason it said my download or upload speed was zero when it wasnt so i closed the system monitor and reopened it. now i can only see my download speed, not my upload speed and i cant/dont know how to add the upload speed sensor. any help? thanks

sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras

hi, whenever i try to start visualboyadvance-gtk it says 'bash: visualboyadvance-gtk: command not found' but i know i have it installed because when i try to install it again i get visualboyadvance-gtk is already the newest version.' what could stop this from opening?

that will tell you the names of files in that package, then look for the name of the file in the /usr/bin folder

which compiler for c++ do you guys recomend me using ubuntu?

g++

i was considering using photoshop through wine, but i have a feeling it'll be slow on my laptop, so instead of a dual boot--where i'd have to go back and forth between nix and win--im thinking wubi would be the best way to go, dunno

you may also consider gimp (heresy i know) or !virtualbox

how do i list processes in order to kill one?

usually, i know i want the postfix program, so i do something like ps aux | grep postfix

does anyone here uses a 32bit ubuntu whit more than 4gb of ram? does the pae mode work fine? im wondering about adding more ram to my machine but i don't want to move to a 64bit install

i have 32 gigs f ram in my 32 bit server and it uses and sees it all

where can i download a torrent of the dapper install disc (iso)?

click your way through from http://www.ubuntu.com/download

i want to recompile my kernel and need some help. first, where can i get the source for the default dapper kernels? (2.6.15-23 is what i'm running at the moment)

or sudo apt-get isntall linux-source-2.6.15-23

anyone know what application i can use instead of tcpdump for wlans?

etherape and wireshark

how can i switch from full screen within the terminal server client?

try crtl+alt+enter

is ext4 safe for a backup drive?

ext4

what keyboard is it?

logitech g15

hey guys - can someone help me out... i don't want 1 particular program to lock out the sound. ie. if rhythmbox is playing and i start a youtube video in chrome i want the option to turn rhythmbox off without having to start my web browser again to capture the sound.

use alsa instead of oss. but i thought pulseaudio allowed sound mixing :o does ubuntu not use pa anymore?

hi all. i just installed ubuntu 7.04 server on my box. there ist nothing special about it. it's final task is fairly simple, but i'm not quite sure howto go about this. i want to have a typical server installed on it (apache+php+mysql), the one ethernet is connected to my adsl-connection and the other to a switch. the server should act as an internet gateway, but be acessable from the outside like a normal server... what is the best way of

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/internetconnectionsharing

hi i forwared my tcp and udp for port 22 for ssh, but i still can't get a connection, any ideas ?

can you ping what your trying to connect to?

how can i remove ip address using ifconfig?

try sudo ifconfig del eth0 172.23.1.1

hi, what command can remove a dir even though its not empty, 'rmdir -p' doesnt work

rm -r

when is the next release of ubuntu live cd? please

10.10 refers to the date... oct of 2010

where can i find my xorg log ? i'm getting some trouble with that and i need to check the log

/var/log/xorg.0.log

how can i see my internal ip from the terminal?

ifconfig

can someone tell me of a little applet that will allow me to turn on/off my synaptics touchpad?

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/the-omg-guide-to-must-have-indicator-applets/ (middle of the page)

mouse cursors have never worked for me in any ubuntu, the normal state cursor never changes, only when hover cursor or in firefox etc.

joooo is gone. the mouse cursors usually appear if you disable compiz (not really an option in modern unity)

is it necessary to install a firewall?

i am no expert, but firestarter to the best of my knowledge is only a nice way to configure the built in firewall that's in your kernel

hey guys, i need to reinstall my windows boot loader, i've just removed the linux partition (and ext partition) and now grubs broken and i cant boot into windows, any ideas on how to reinstall the windows boot loader with out reinstalling windows

and at prompt type a 'y' for yes and it will overwrite the mbr

what does this line mean? `ln -s ../bivailable/gitto ./milow'

actually, the other way around ;)

there must be something wrong with the uploaded amd64 iso...no matter where i download it, it has a different md5 :/

installed it fine here using the iso from oxford computing in the uk

hi, i installed vista and now i can't boot to ubuntu, how do i reinstall grub?

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/reinstall-ubuntu-grub-bootloader-after-windows-wipes-it-out/

is there a easy way to do find and replace in a file in terminal

sed -i file 's/lol/wat/g'

how can i figure out what network domian my computer is on?

dnsdomainname will tell your dns domain name

hi guys, for some reason network-admin does not seem to be able to recognise my wireless card. i am on a toshiba with an atheros wireless card with an amd64

it may be lack of driver. also asus eee comes with atheros wireless card, and there is made a eeexubuntu to ship the correct driver.

can someone tell me how to make numbered list items in the community docs? i'm having a little trouble figuring out the correct wiki code....

i think it's just: <indent>1. first item<newline><indent>1. second item ...

how to create a blank file in terminal?

touch <filename>

what would be a small-yet-reasonable amount of hdd space to allocate for a new install in a vm on laptop without a whole lot of space to spare? mostly for poking around and learning my way around linux, so i won't be using it for serious work yet.

why do you need to allocate any? don't vm's have dynamic resizing now?

my gnome terminal does render the gnome terminal font letters with fixed width. how can i change that to variable-width?

variable width would break midnight commander and all other programs that use ncurses, for example

is there a gnome (or non-kde) equivalent of kile (the latex editor)?

check out lyx

he should be able to boot all of the os's without having to call up the ntldr right?

no, the way to boot xp from grub is *via* that bootstrap-to-ntldr process.

i have a question about games (chess in particular), what's the appropriate channel to ask?

you can play other users on online chess servers

hi do you know what are the locations .desktop files are stored in?

you can do a find command like so: find / -name *.desktop -print (you might need sudo)

what's a good cool dock (like the apple dock) that has nice graphics and is basically a program launcher. i've tried kiba-dock, but i get a core dump when it tries to run.

awn

hi, can anone suggest to me a free cross platform password manager?

password gorilla i believe is cross platform and open source

oh this is driving me mad. all i want to do is be able to have write permissions into any folder? i was asking how to set a read/write for a specific folder, however that just won't fix the problem. can someone tell me how to give myself (the user) write permissions to all system folders?

you might as well enable root pass and login as root

anyone know how you view the progress of an fsck that started at boot and then was backgrounded?

top or htop shows your running ones (for job id)

how can i make a #define something as a parameter for gcc?

gcc -dthing_to_define -o file.o file.c

what is the command to give a tree like structure in linux at the prompt, something similiar to tree in dos?

sudo aptitude install tree ( then you will be able to use the tree command)

the mercurial package shipped with ubuntu is horribly old. and even if it weren't, i sometimes do development work with mercurial. so, i would very much like to be able to create my own mercurial packages.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/howtobuilddebianpackagesfromscratch

how do make apache not start at boot time in ubuntu? airline has a ssl key password that needs to be entered by an admin.

i think, system > administration > services

is there a way to change ubuntu's sensibility to the scrolling of the mouse's wheel? thanks.

yeah. preferneces -> mouse.

when upgrading to a binary 686 kernel from the stock 386 kernel, i added the right packages, but what now? do i change my grub entry and that's it? or something else?

thats it it will give you a boot option when grub comes up

do feisty mirrors exist anymore? i'm trying to upgrade an old server to 8.10

there is a repository for older releases... can never remember the name though

where can i find a detailed description of scrollkeeper?

http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/documentation.shtml ?

how can i show the amount of ram in my computer in the terminal ?

sudo lshw

hi everyone. i have a strange networking issue. i've configured my ethernet using ifconfig. i can ping my other computers on the network, and i can ping my router/modem. but, i can't ping anything outside of the local network. neither by ip address or www name. however, i can do an nslookup and get ip addresses.

are your local machines getting addresses via dhcp?

where can i add the 'source list' in ubuntu repo?

in software center

need help before i reinstall windows! im fairly new to linux. its yet another resolution problem, running ati radeon 9800. my xorg.conf shows the 9800 with all the nice resolutions but im stuck in 640x480, thanks for your help!

perhaps xorg.conf lists refresh rates that are not adequate for higher resolutions? try a sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and see if you can set them to something better (ideally, look them up on your monitor's manual)

anyone can help me with that ?

sudo apt-get install build-essential ?

did you get it?

yes. maybe there is something that could help... lemme try

hello. any body knows how to give java plugins for firfox without instaling the sun-j2re? i installed the kaffe pack but it doesn't have the plugins for the firefox.

have you tried gcj? i think that might work

how to turn off 'clear clipboard' after app was closed ?

as far as i know there is no way to stop that. i know there have been a few bugs logged, but i don't have their numbers in front of me. you may be able to skirt the problem by using a clipboard manager like glipper.