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i do not need the source repo's in my sources.list do i? they arn't anything important right?	not really no.
hey guys. i've installed ubuntu on a pc next to the tv meant primarily for watching videos on the internet, and it's running off a fully fledged install off ubuntu on a usb stick. however performance can sometimes be sluggish - is there any way to increase the amount off ram used to cache data from the drive?	face it, the bottleneck in performace is the usb bus
im new to ubuntu. and this may sound stupid but how do i review/edit my xong.conf file?	gksudo gedit /etc/x11/xorg.conf
hey how can i change my installs computer-name?	reboot.
hi i need urgent help..i use firestarter and there are strange occurences..mas source is my ip and target is my localhost on port 16001..after that there is an connection attempt from my router to my ip on port 14013..rkhunter and chrootkit does not show any alarm..netstat tulpen does not show any open socket	you should use ufw instead and monitor its logs with : watch -n1 -d 'tail /var/log/messages \| grep ufw '
where are per user cron jobs stored ?	not sure where they are stored, but you can get a list of them with 'crontab -l'
hi. how do i launch a program with a terminal window?	rxvt -e program
now i cant quit the installer	you use ps aux and grep for that process then kill it
anyone know the keyboard shortcut for switching workspaces?	ctl-alt-> left right
been a while since i installed ubuntu, where do i see if my wireless adapters are spported?	^^^
q: i have 8 gb of ram, and using 64bit kernel, why system monitor shows that i have 7.7 gb of ram? :s	or gib instead of gb
repeat: which is the correct channel to ask about after-upgrade hassles (8.04 -> 8.10)? touchpad stopped working.	here i would guess..
and another question: it's obvious that i'm new to linux (no?), so i was just wondering, should i bother to fully customize and set up the new preview version, because i will be able to simply 'upgrade' once the final 5.04 comes out in april, or will i have to reinstall and so i shouldn't bother to fully set it up just yet?	just upgrade
can i resize partitions to trade space from one to another?	a usb will be fine too, i tend to use partedmagic for that sort of thing but ubuntu livecd/usb comes with gparted
is it possible that xorg update caused usb wlan-stick to stop working?	see the forums
hi everyone, i would require some help. my samsung yp-k3 is not mounting on ubuntu, is there anything i could do about it, to make it work ?	try enabling mtp mode on your mp3 player
how can i give administ right to a user though terminal?	sudo -i
hi guys. i'm very very new to ubuntu, installed just an hour ago. could you please point me to the good storage of themes for ubuntu? thank you!	art.gnome.org
oh sweet. i can install with the alternate cd and not have to use the new gnome	iit's on the login screen :]
in a gnome environment? it's easy in a kde environment	yeah. never had any problems before... but this new version is odd. maybe i should try restarting. =/
i can not get hotot to summon with <alt>c. might unity be the cause?	alt+c is just to post/tweet, not for 'summoning'
how can i completely hide the gnome desktop toolbars so that there isn't that annoying strip of it showing, i know how to set it to autohide that's not what i'm looking for... and if possible, how to change it's response rate.	have a look at the extra settings you can make under /apps/panel in gconf-editor
#math is an irc channel for math help, right? (haven't checked but assuming it is) is there an irc channel for grade 10 physical science help?	physical science sort of falls under math
just installed karmic but the sound is not working.. can someone help?	also make sure you have the volume turned up from upper right corner, by default it is set to zero
so apparently people in the apache channel think ubuntu is for n00bs that cant install debian. wut.	linux superiority is a waste of time, it could go on forever ubuntu < debian < arch/gentoo < bsd's < lfs < etc
gaaah! that stupid new left-side bar in 11.04 gets stuck all the time. either above all my windows unable to hide, or the app starter is stuck behind my windows, unable to get to the front. wtf is happening?	just select ubutnu classic interface from login page.
folks... i have a fresh kubuntu lucid, my video is distracted. i intend to switch xaa to exa, but right now don't have a xorg.conf file... how can i proceed this	you can still use a xorg.conf if you want to
dear-gurus, can any one help me with the above problems? thank in advance, need the answer to help making tutorial in ubuntuforum.org	you have a very specific set of circumstances (edubuntu using different environments than most)... - you might ask on the ubuntu forums?
i have a little noobish question. pidgin is not working for me and i want to kill it. i've never successfully done the kill command though, how could i end this program? it's frozen	pkill -9 pidgin
is there a way to get a logical partition (ext3) to give users read write (same as /home) access on boot?	just change permission on the mount points
how, whats the default permission-set for a file? (digits)	644 unless it's executable then its 755
how does ubuntu differ from freebsd?	different kernel, different userpace command line tools. most common options to tools are the same, some of the extra ones differ...guis tend to be the same
theos.. scrubber/slider/the thingy that shows the progress of the song being played.	try this 'speaker-test -c6 -l1 -twav'
i need to increase the verbosity of the /etc/init.d/apache2 script - the script is looking for $verbose ('yes' or 'no') - i tried to run $ export verbose=on; before i called the initscript, but this didn't help (i suspect it belongs to the previous shell). so how can i set $verbose for the shell's script?	put it in ~/.bashrc ?
is usb support a work in progress, i need to get an asdl modem, and judging from webcam, it doesnt look too stable, so probaly work work well with usb :-/	usb is sort of stable.... whats the trouble?
hey could someone help me figure out why my wifi card's connection only lasts two seconds?	/etc/init.d/networking that is
how do you get irc in text mode???	irssi
i have the sunyeah i've installed sun-java6-plugin jun-java6-jre and sun-java6-bin, i've manually instaled it as well and tried making a symlink to the .so file in ~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins like java says to do, but nothing is working. i also followd info on the link provided by typing !java, but firefox still doesn't show anything in its 'plugins' section in add-ons. any ideas ?	control-shift+c , control+shift+v
hi, anyone knows how to purge bauncing mail (warning: message delayed 48 hours)?	read the docs for your mta
dualboot with vista and karmic. has anyone tried? heard of any problems, or should it be easy as pie?	install vista first and leave unpartitioned space for ubuntu = easy
hi all. where should i look if i want to see ssh login attempts? i thought it was in '/var/log/secure' but it doesn't exist. running server 10.04.	how about /var/log/auth.log ?
after upgrading to xorg 7.0 on an intel 945gm/950gma video card, full page terminals and even xchat scrolling is dog slow. its like the wave... are there any reports of this yet?	make sure you have the right driver being used ?
i made an error, i know when doing a dual boot you should always install windows first then linux or else windows will over write the bootloader and you won't be able to boot ubuntu, i had to reinstall windows because that's how windows is needs to be reinstalled so often but i had a whole bunch of stuff on ub untu and don't want to lose itr. how do i install a bootloader now?	search for recover grub at https://wiki.ubuntu.com --> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/recoveringubuntuafterinstallingwindows?action=show&redirect=recoveringgrub
how do i use my desktop as a server to host a small personal website ?	use lampp
i have no sound in vlc after hardy. what to do?	just vlc or system-wide?
does anybody know somba pretty well??	http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/cups-unable-to-connect-to-server-184088/
i think my locales are way broken, im getting a ton of error messages when updating, should i worry about that? and how would i fix it if that breaks anything?	they will stop once the locales have been configured
can anyone tell me how to update the greyed packages i see on the update manager list?	go into system > administration > synaptic package manager and if you can't do it there at least it should tell you why.
is there anyone who knows the command for recieving a file a 'dcc send' from a user in irssi?	/dcc get $nickofsender
can someone point me to a good starter guide for git version tracking system?	if you know subversion, try http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html
i put the updatedb command into a cronjob. was this necessary or does ubuntu run updatedb on its own?	correction... not a symlink... an actual script!
this is beautiful.. ubuntu. i always wanted linux. last time i tried was 5 years ago. alot has happened since then --- wheeeew sweet. sorry for noise :)	sudo gedit file
how to get back classic ubuntu desktop in a netbook remix install?	sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
anyone know of a good newbie guide to the linux file structure (in detail)... showing what goes where and what each area is for?	http://www.freeos.com/articles/3102/
guys how can i check if my iso download is ok, how to use the md5sums? am using windows at this moment.	then drag'n'drop your iso-file onto the exe, and compare the output with that which is from the ftp. :)
anyone have any idea when flash 8,9+ will be released for linux?	http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/
how do i blacklist a sertain command, like 'vbetool'	read up on how sudo works
how does one go about booting into runstate 3 on ubuntu?	'sudo init 3' should do it
how do i install programs in wine	open with... wine
what is alternative cd (?) and i'm looking for *buntu with no desktop	use the alternate cd when you have problems installing with the normal cd.
if i have an amd64 box what kernel image should i be using?	dont install 64bit kernel, pain in the butt. use the linux-k7.
hi, i currently have my pc as dual-boot with vista and ubuntu, using the grub bootloader. i am thinking about installing xp and triple-booting but i'm not sure how i'd go about fixing grub after installing xp. i'm assuming that the xp install will destroy grub and i will somehow have to restore it. how would i do this?	you need the 'recoveringubuntuafterinstallingwindows' link
hi i chose not to show the toolbar on gnome terminal, how do i get it back?	right-click in your terminal window and select show menubar.
anyone know what command starts ati control panel	type in these commands: sudo updatedb; locate ati \| grep bin
have you tried creating a new user and seeing if the new user can login? you did say you can get to the login screen right?	nope. i can't get the login screen. the xserver itself doesn't start altoghether.
i can use audio programs like audacity to open a sound file and look at its meta data (artist, track number, year, etc.). is there a command line program i can use to dump this info so i won't have to do so much clicking?	ffmpeg -i foo.mp3
hi, i'm new to ubuntu, is there way to upgrade firefox on ubuntu 4.10 to 1.0?	use ubuntu-backports
i'm having trouble locating the program to make any iso bootable in ubuntu. i have a terrible memory, but i know i used it recently..	unetbootin?
is there any way to mount ubuntu dvd onto a usb stick and load from it?	yes... alot of ways.. one way is unetbootin... from a windows machine
how do i see the sticky bit or whats it called when listing, it doesnt always show in the permission field (with ls -l) how do i know the exact permissions?	ls -l should show, but there's also 'stat filename'
hi, im running the 6.06 desktop version and i can access the internet with a ethernet cable but how can i select wireless access points	... if you don't mind running kde applications, apt-get install kwificonfig ...
anyone know about using gnome3 for ubuntu? (not looking forward to unity desktop after f15a) should i look to debian instead?	most likely the gnome packages will still be around so you can just install them yourself
hey everyone! what is the best search to use with ubuntu? for some reason whenever i search with nautilus(using ctrl+f) it only searches my home folder.	find, man find
hey! i wanted to know which filesystem did 7.04 and 7.10 had , ext3 or ext2?	ext2 iirc
will it be possible to perpetually upgrade ubuntu releases, just like one can upgrade debian 3.0 to 3.1?	yes, we'll support constant upgrades from version to version
hi, is every nc10 mousepad multi touch capable? i've got the one with the small touchpad and physical keys	yeah every nc10 is multitouch, i don't know about the special edition (the glossy screen one) though. but it doesn't work on ubuntu (multitouch)
how is sudo and gksudo different?	ouch.. yes....
hi guys, i reported a bug that is completely wrong... how can i adjust or close it?	if no one is there, you can just post a comment, saying its invalid, etc. someone will come by and do the official stuff
anyone know when ati proprietary drivers will show in 12.10?	might not ever... ati dropped support for a whole slew of cards with their new drivers... but it is my understanding they are trying to add tehm back
newbie question: hi, can someone explaine the ubuntu/linux directory structure? i am used to windows and everything installing in c:\program files - is there an equivilant in linux?	programs in /usr/bin libraries in /usr/lib, configuration files in /etc, temp files in /tmp, all your personal config and data files in /home/user
what is the prefered cd/dvd burning software for ubuntu?	are you going to burn mp3 toaudio music ...
question, do i need install an antivirus in ubuntu?	an antivirus doesn't do much because there are no ubuntu viruses in the wild. however, if you're concerned about passing viruses on to windows-using friends, you can use clamscan to check for viruses.
hey everyone. sort of new to linux... is there a command i can use to run a program from the terminal and then have it print out how long that program took to execute?	e.g. time my_command
now, when i boot up , i get a message about waiting for network configuration.. and then waiting 60 seconds..	if you don't get a reply here, try the ubuntu forums
anybodies done the math to see if burning a cd-rw at 24x is faster than burning a dvd-rw at 6x?	1x cd = 150kbps, 1x dvd = 1350 kbps
anyone here use frostwire?	i had used it long back..
howto copy/paste text from links2 to bash (no desktop)? gpm works, but i'm unable to copy text from different programs (such as finch, links2 or nano) to bash so far.	for links2 specifically use shift + highlight text, then middle mouse click to paste. for other terminal apps, just highlight and middle click will work.
ubuntu-8.10-desktop-amd64 understand russian language ?	it should
i have a question regarding ubuntu + drupal. according to this guy, it seems that a mail server is not necessary (http://groups.drupal.org/node/22401#comment-77421). is this true?	try installing 'sendmail', i think that should resolve your issue
hi, i want to only download a certain range of bytes of a remote file, how to do this?	curl
can anyone tell me how to boost bass in ubuntu 11.04?	i believe banshee has a built in equaliser plugin
can anyone hear me?	yes you are alive
is there a way to see what program was last apt-get installed?	cheap way - 'history \| grep apt-get install'
does anybody knows how to send msgs throughout my lan using the terminal?	check 'man smbclient' for the syntax
somebody here?	nobody's here
err, i had vista on one partition & ubuntu on another. instead of uninstalling ubuntu like i should have, i just deleted the partition. now, when i try to boot, it gets stuck on 'loading grub, please wait..' is there a way to get rid of grub or what? :<	boot from vsta dvd/cd and do a repair
can anyone help me get sound working?	i might be able to
help... my virtual desktop is gone.... how do i restore it ??	right click on a free space in the panel --> add --> desktop switcher
how do i open an gedit file in the terminal?	yes, depends on which printer it is.
is, running from the live cd a bad way to check your. system, as you do not have the new updates and builds ? as i have trouble acheving any sound from my intel dg45id motherboard.	my laptop had no sound, bad vid, and no wireless, untill i got all the updates, after that all worked

i do not need the source repo's in my sources.list do i? they arn't anything important right?

not really no.

hey guys. i've installed ubuntu on a pc next to the tv meant primarily for watching videos on the internet, and it's running off a fully fledged install off ubuntu on a usb stick. however performance can sometimes be sluggish - is there any way to increase the amount off ram used to cache data from the drive?

face it, the bottleneck in performace is the usb bus

im new to ubuntu. and this may sound stupid but how do i review/edit my xong.conf file?

gksudo gedit /etc/x11/xorg.conf

hey how can i change my installs computer-name?

reboot.

hi i need urgent help..i use firestarter and there are strange occurences..mas source is my ip and target is my localhost on port 16001..after that there is an connection attempt from my router to my ip on port 14013..rkhunter and chrootkit does not show any alarm..netstat tulpen does not show any open socket

you should use ufw instead and monitor its logs with : watch -n1 -d 'tail /var/log/messages | grep ufw '

where are per user cron jobs stored ?

not sure where they are stored, but you can get a list of them with 'crontab -l'

hi. how do i launch a program with a terminal window?

rxvt -e program

now i cant quit the installer

you use ps aux and grep for that process then kill it

anyone know the keyboard shortcut for switching workspaces?

ctl-alt-> left right

been a while since i installed ubuntu, where do i see if my wireless adapters are spported?

^^^

q: i have 8 gb of ram, and using 64bit kernel, why system monitor shows that i have 7.7 gb of ram? :s

or gib instead of gb

repeat: which is the correct channel to ask about after-upgrade hassles (8.04 -> 8.10)? touchpad stopped working.

here i would guess..

and another question: it's obvious that i'm new to linux (no?), so i was just wondering, should i bother to fully customize and set up the new preview version, because i will be able to simply 'upgrade' once the final 5.04 comes out in april, or will i have to reinstall and so i shouldn't bother to fully set it up just yet?

just upgrade

can i resize partitions to trade space from one to another?

a usb will be fine too, i tend to use partedmagic for that sort of thing but ubuntu livecd/usb comes with gparted

is it possible that xorg update caused usb wlan-stick to stop working?

see the forums

hi everyone, i would require some help. my samsung yp-k3 is not mounting on ubuntu, is there anything i could do about it, to make it work ?

try enabling mtp mode on your mp3 player

how can i give administ right to a user though terminal?

sudo -i

hi guys. i'm very very new to ubuntu, installed just an hour ago. could you please point me to the good storage of themes for ubuntu? thank you!

art.gnome.org

oh sweet. i can install with the alternate cd and not have to use the new gnome

iit's on the login screen :]

in a gnome environment? it's easy in a kde environment

yeah. never had any problems before... but this new version is odd. maybe i should try restarting. =/

i can not get hotot to summon with <alt>c. might unity be the cause?

alt+c is just to post/tweet, not for 'summoning'

how can i completely hide the gnome desktop toolbars so that there isn't that annoying strip of it showing, i know how to set it to autohide that's not what i'm looking for... and if possible, how to change it's response rate.

have a look at the extra settings you can make under /apps/panel in gconf-editor

#math is an irc channel for math help, right? (haven't checked but assuming it is) is there an irc channel for grade 10 physical science help?

physical science sort of falls under math

just installed karmic but the sound is not working.. can someone help?

also make sure you have the volume turned up from upper right corner, by default it is set to zero

so apparently people in the apache channel think ubuntu is for n00bs that cant install debian. wut.

linux superiority is a waste of time, it could go on forever ubuntu < debian < arch/gentoo < bsd's < lfs < etc

gaaah! that stupid new left-side bar in 11.04 gets stuck all the time. either above all my windows unable to hide, or the app starter is stuck behind my windows, unable to get to the front. wtf is happening?

just select ubutnu classic interface from login page.

folks... i have a fresh kubuntu lucid, my video is distracted. i intend to switch xaa to exa, but right now don't have a xorg.conf file... how can i proceed this

you can still use a xorg.conf if you want to

dear-gurus, can any one help me with the above problems? thank in advance, need the answer to help making tutorial in ubuntuforum.org

you have a very specific set of circumstances (edubuntu using different environments than most)... - you might ask on the ubuntu forums?

i have a little noobish question. pidgin is not working for me and i want to kill it. i've never successfully done the kill command though, how could i end this program? it's frozen

pkill -9 pidgin

is there a way to get a logical partition (ext3) to give users read write (same as /home) access on boot?

just change permission on the mount points

how, whats the default permission-set for a file? (digits)

644 unless it's executable then its 755

how does ubuntu differ from freebsd?

different kernel, different userpace command line tools. most common options to tools are the same, some of the extra ones differ...guis tend to be the same

theos.. scrubber/slider/the thingy that shows the progress of the song being played.

try this 'speaker-test -c6 -l1 -twav'

i need to increase the verbosity of the /etc/init.d/apache2 script - the script is looking for $verbose ('yes' or 'no') - i tried to run $ export verbose=on; before i called the initscript, but this didn't help (i suspect it belongs to the previous shell). so how can i set $verbose for the shell's script?

put it in ~/.bashrc ?

is usb support a work in progress, i need to get an asdl modem, and judging from webcam, it doesnt look too stable, so probaly work work well with usb :-/

usb is sort of stable.... whats the trouble?

hey could someone help me figure out why my wifi card's connection only lasts two seconds?

/etc/init.d/networking that is

how do you get irc in text mode???

irssi

i have the sunyeah i've installed sun-java6-plugin jun-java6-jre and sun-java6-bin, i've manually instaled it as well and tried making a symlink to the .so file in ~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins like java says to do, but nothing is working. i also followd info on the link provided by typing !java, but firefox still doesn't show anything in its 'plugins' section in add-ons. any ideas ?

control-shift+c , control+shift+v

hi, anyone knows how to purge bauncing mail (warning: message delayed 48 hours)?

read the docs for your mta

dualboot with vista and karmic. has anyone tried? heard of any problems, or should it be easy as pie?

install vista first and leave unpartitioned space for ubuntu = easy

hi all. where should i look if i want to see ssh login attempts? i thought it was in '/var/log/secure' but it doesn't exist. running server 10.04.

how about /var/log/auth.log ?

after upgrading to xorg 7.0 on an intel 945gm/950gma video card, full page terminals and even xchat scrolling is dog slow. its like the wave... are there any reports of this yet?

make sure you have the right driver being used ?

i made an error, i know when doing a dual boot you should always install windows first then linux or else windows will over write the bootloader and you won't be able to boot ubuntu, i had to reinstall windows because that's how windows is needs to be reinstalled so often but i had a whole bunch of stuff on ub untu and don't want to lose itr. how do i install a bootloader now?

search for recover grub at https://wiki.ubuntu.com --> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/recoveringubuntuafterinstallingwindows?action=show&redirect=recoveringgrub

how do i use my desktop as a server to host a small personal website ?

use lampp

i have no sound in vlc after hardy. what to do?

just vlc or system-wide?

does anybody know somba pretty well??

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/cups-unable-to-connect-to-server-184088/

i think my locales are way broken, im getting a ton of error messages when updating, should i worry about that? and how would i fix it if that breaks anything?

they will stop once the locales have been configured

can anyone tell me how to update the greyed packages i see on the update manager list?

go into system > administration > synaptic package manager and if you can't do it there at least it should tell you why.

is there anyone who knows the command for recieving a file a 'dcc send' from a user in irssi?

/dcc get $nickofsender

can someone point me to a good starter guide for git version tracking system?

if you know subversion, try http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html

i put the updatedb command into a cronjob. was this necessary or does ubuntu run updatedb on its own?

correction... not a symlink... an actual script!

this is beautiful.. ubuntu. i always wanted linux. last time i tried was 5 years ago. alot has happened since then --- wheeeew sweet. sorry for noise :)

sudo gedit file

how to get back classic ubuntu desktop in a netbook remix install?

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

anyone know of a good newbie guide to the linux file structure (in detail)... showing what goes where and what each area is for?

http://www.freeos.com/articles/3102/

guys how can i check if my iso download is ok, how to use the md5sums? am using windows at this moment.

then drag'n'drop your iso-file onto the exe, and compare the output with that which is from the ftp. :)

anyone have any idea when flash 8,9+ will be released for linux?

http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/

how do i blacklist a sertain command, like 'vbetool'

read up on how sudo works

how does one go about booting into runstate 3 on ubuntu?

'sudo init 3' should do it

how do i install programs in wine

open with... wine

what is alternative cd (?) and i'm looking for *buntu with no desktop

use the alternate cd when you have problems installing with the normal cd.

if i have an amd64 box what kernel image should i be using?

dont install 64bit kernel, pain in the butt. use the linux-k7.

hi, i currently have my pc as dual-boot with vista and ubuntu, using the grub bootloader. i am thinking about installing xp and triple-booting but i'm not sure how i'd go about fixing grub after installing xp. i'm assuming that the xp install will destroy grub and i will somehow have to restore it. how would i do this?

you need the 'recoveringubuntuafterinstallingwindows' link

hi i chose not to show the toolbar on gnome terminal, how do i get it back?

right-click in your terminal window and select show menubar.

anyone know what command starts ati control panel

type in these commands: sudo updatedb; locate ati | grep bin

have you tried creating a new user and seeing if the new user can login? you did say you can get to the login screen right?

nope. i can't get the login screen. the xserver itself doesn't start altoghether.

i can use audio programs like audacity to open a sound file and look at its meta data (artist, track number, year, etc.). is there a command line program i can use to dump this info so i won't have to do so much clicking?

ffmpeg -i foo.mp3

hi, i'm new to ubuntu, is there way to upgrade firefox on ubuntu 4.10 to 1.0?

use ubuntu-backports

i'm having trouble locating the program to make any iso bootable in ubuntu. i have a terrible memory, but i know i used it recently..

unetbootin?

is there any way to mount ubuntu dvd onto a usb stick and load from it?

yes... alot of ways.. one way is unetbootin... from a windows machine

how do i see the sticky bit or whats it called when listing, it doesnt always show in the permission field (with ls -l) how do i know the exact permissions?

ls -l should show, but there's also 'stat filename'

hi, im running the 6.06 desktop version and i can access the internet with a ethernet cable but how can i select wireless access points

... if you don't mind running kde applications, apt-get install kwificonfig ...

anyone know about using gnome3 for ubuntu? (not looking forward to unity desktop after f15a) should i look to debian instead?

most likely the gnome packages will still be around so you can just install them yourself

hey everyone! what is the best search to use with ubuntu? for some reason whenever i search with nautilus(using ctrl+f) it only searches my home folder.

find, man find

hey! i wanted to know which filesystem did 7.04 and 7.10 had , ext3 or ext2?

ext2 iirc

will it be possible to perpetually upgrade ubuntu releases, just like one can upgrade debian 3.0 to 3.1?

yes, we'll support constant upgrades from version to version

hi, is every nc10 mousepad multi touch capable? i've got the one with the small touchpad and physical keys

yeah every nc10 is multitouch, i don't know about the special edition (the glossy screen one) though. but it doesn't work on ubuntu (multitouch)

how is sudo and gksudo different?

ouch.. yes....

hi guys, i reported a bug that is completely wrong... how can i adjust or close it?

if no one is there, you can just post a comment, saying its invalid, etc. someone will come by and do the official stuff

anyone know when ati proprietary drivers will show in 12.10?

might not ever... ati dropped support for a whole slew of cards with their new drivers... but it is my understanding they are trying to add tehm back

newbie question: hi, can someone explaine the ubuntu/linux directory structure? i am used to windows and everything installing in c:\program files - is there an equivilant in linux?

programs in /usr/bin libraries in /usr/lib, configuration files in /etc, temp files in /tmp, all your personal config and data files in /home/user

what is the prefered cd/dvd burning software for ubuntu?

are you going to burn mp3 toaudio music ...

question, do i need install an antivirus in ubuntu?

an antivirus doesn't do much because there are no ubuntu viruses in the wild. however, if you're concerned about passing viruses on to windows-using friends, you can use clamscan to check for viruses.

hey everyone. sort of new to linux... is there a command i can use to run a program from the terminal and then have it print out how long that program took to execute?

e.g. time my_command

now, when i boot up , i get a message about waiting for network configuration.. and then waiting 60 seconds..

if you don't get a reply here, try the ubuntu forums

anybodies done the math to see if burning a cd-rw at 24x is faster than burning a dvd-rw at 6x?

1x cd = 150kbps, 1x dvd = 1350 kbps

anyone here use frostwire?

i had used it long back..

howto copy/paste text from links2 to bash (no desktop)? gpm works, but i'm unable to copy text from different programs (such as finch, links2 or nano) to bash so far.

for links2 specifically use shift + highlight text, then middle mouse click to paste. for other terminal apps, just highlight and middle click will work.

ubuntu-8.10-desktop-amd64 understand russian language ?

it should

i have a question regarding ubuntu + drupal. according to this guy, it seems that a mail server is not necessary (http://groups.drupal.org/node/22401#comment-77421). is this true?

try installing 'sendmail', i think that should resolve your issue

hi, i want to only download a certain range of bytes of a remote file, how to do this?

curl

can anyone tell me how to boost bass in ubuntu 11.04?

i believe banshee has a built in equaliser plugin

can anyone hear me?

yes you are alive

is there a way to see what program was last apt-get installed?

cheap way - 'history | grep apt-get install'

does anybody knows how to send msgs throughout my lan using the terminal?

check 'man smbclient' for the syntax

somebody here?

nobody's here

err, i had vista on one partition & ubuntu on another. instead of uninstalling ubuntu like i should have, i just deleted the partition. now, when i try to boot, it gets stuck on 'loading grub, please wait..' is there a way to get rid of grub or what? :<

boot from vsta dvd/cd and do a repair

can anyone help me get sound working?

i might be able to

help... my virtual desktop is gone.... how do i restore it ??

right click on a free space in the panel --> add --> desktop switcher

how do i open an gedit file in the terminal?

yes, depends on which printer it is.

is, running from the live cd a bad way to check your. system, as you do not have the new updates and builds ? as i have trouble acheving any sound from my intel dg45id motherboard.

my laptop had no sound, bad vid, and no wireless, untill i got all the updates, after that all worked