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can i install nvidia drivers inside gnome?	.config/foobnix ?
hi. is there a utility that will a) rip a cd to a single lossless file with all the track timing etc maintained, and b) rip individual tracks (with tag lookup) from that file?	tracks, yes. i don't know of one that will rip the entire cd (talking an audio cd now)
can i get out of gdm and get to text-mode? my login does not work. it stops on 'window manager'... ctrl-alt-backspace only gets me back to gdm...	ctrl-alt-f1
hi there i just downloaded a driver for my wireless card how do i install it?	this shows you how to install ralink drivers; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=296281
x doesn't want to run at 1280x800 on my new laptop, what can i do?	check what ubotu has to say to you
is konqueror still available in the latest kde?	thought konq was core to kde
is this the right channel to ask a apt-get question? in the red hat world, the are software groups so you can just 'yum grouplist ; yum groupinstall emacs' ; i know apt-get has this too, so 'apt-get install kde' ; how do i list these software groups?	man apt or man dpkg might shed some light on that
hey all! hows going? uhm, i have a few questions! 1) which ftp client with fxp feature do u suggest? 2) u know... there was this app, with it u can add widgets like... whats the weaether in new york or something... 3) windows supports my monitor (its crappy one) - 1024x768 @ 85 hz, but linux only @ 60 hz, i know that i can reconfigure that.. uh xorg :) but can i edit it with hands? hm, guess thats all	gftp, gkrellm, /etc/x11/xorg.conf or dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
after latest update manager updates, firefox scrolls in slow motion. anyone know how to fix this?	in firefox go to edit->preferences->advanced and uncheck smooth scrolling
i've another question for you. i'm looking at the server edition. is there something like landscape, but free? (as i'm setting up my home server for some try i cannot afford to pay for it :( )	puppet or chef should be able to help you synchronize configuration. nagios and cacti can do monitoring and graphing
hey all .. using 8.04 currently trying to upgrade... however when i do-release-upgrade i get told there are no new versions?	edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades, and change it from 'lts' to 'normal'
hello.... can anyone tell me how i can edit my current run level (i.e. i want to stop some program to starts up by default...)	default runlevel is 2
how do i make an icon on my desktop that opens a directory? launcher that launches nautilus dir?	could just make a 'ln -s' link (shortcut) to the dir on the desktop
hi all, how can u remove ubuntu from my hard drive without doing a reformat? i also have windows installed on the same drive and do not want to lose all my info	use some partitioning program to delete the ubuntu partition, and expant the windows one to fill the space.
i found my user account, is there any way to get or reset the password? or even check who changed it?	'passwd username' changes a user password (as long as you have the privileges to reset it'
can someone tell me how to remove all of kubuntu?	just removing kubuntu-desktop won't do it
hello. i want to automate the ubuntu installation by using preseeds. how can i identify the names of the questions asked in d-i (the debian/ubuntu installer) ? the wiki describes many of them, but i'm not sure they are all there.	if you want a custom install, use remastersys or just clonezilla an exisiting iso
how do i create a tarball from the terminal?	and see man tar
what will be your responsibilities in that position?	a handfull of developers has done that up til now. they didn't want to do it anymore, so they hired me.
i guess i'm on a wrong track anyways as there's no where the installer can get files from	feisty fawn
i run a dhcp server on my server, is there any command i can run to list all the dhcp leases it has given out?	you could also examine /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases
is there any general rule to get suspend and hibernate working?	there are some threads talking how to debug suspend/hibernate... procedure does not looks easy for me...
i have an entry in crontab that was created by ubuntu upon installation, and it has the dow set to 7. i thought it only went from 0(sun) to 6(mon) ?	0 and 7 are both sunday (`man 5 crontab` is the manpage that covers this) because it works out better that way (sunday first and monday first both make sense numerically)
i might have an amd card, actually. gonna try system settings, how else can i check?	lshw -c video
i forgot whats the command that is typed in the address bar of firefox to change setting its something like confix : ???	it's about:config
i running dapper drake (6.0.6) and need to include the command 'sudo iwpriv ath0 authmode 2' on every reboot since it enables wep on my wireless card. how do i add the instruction? config file? can i use a text editor? i am new to linux and would appreciate some help.	that's not a quirk, but adesign decision
how do i open ace archives?	sudo apt-get install unace-nonfree
how can i share my custom compiled kernel image with someone, do i just package up what's in /boot?????	normally /lib/modules/$(uname -r) is essential as well. didn't you use a ubuntu or debian method to compile? that would give you a .deb in /usr/src
is there an x64 version of compiz available? want to determine whether i should install 32 or 64bit ubuntu	i use compiz on my x64 ubuntu
or the new hardy heron?	what did you tell the update manager to do? update your distriubution?
anyone know how i might find the code behind the 'show desktop' applet in awn?? i want to hotkey it in compiz commands	may help
how do i send a given sig number to a process via a shell prompt	kill -signal ?
is it possible to mount an iso on an actual cd drive? i'm trying to install something that wants the ubuntu cd, but i don't have the cd handy, but i still have the iso...	you can mount iso file easily, the trick is the installer to be told to use your iso instead of the cdrom..
seems that 12.04 comes with the internal error message and asking permission to report.. the way windows does??? :-(	please do report those, it's helpful to us.
is there a way to tell the sytem not to do a filesystem check on a drive at startup? do i just not mount the drive?	man fstab
hey i tried asking this in #vmware but im not sure whether this is vmware specific or ubuntu, i get this when trying to network with vmware-player: 'the network bridge on device /dev/vmnet0 is temporarily down' help much much appreciated	maybe not applicable to your question, but have you looked at whether the open source kvm / qemu will work for you?
i am unable to hear anything in my install of ubuntu, the mixer shows 2 defices.. alsa has an nvidia device and oss has a realtec one.. as far as i know it is a realtec audio system. ideas?	u sure you don't just have e.g. pcmoutput muted?
i doubt it'll be that long - from what i've seen the nvidia support is going to arrive in the next few months	but will it actualy work? i'm dubious
[video related question]: every time i play a video, the hue is always at 0, so everything looks greenish. in vlc or other apps i can apply adjustments, but i have to do so every time, and it doesn't have an option in all programs to do that. the same is true for video coming from my webcam. i have karmic and nvidia, using proprietary binary version of the driver.	have you tried 'nvidia-settings' in a terminal, then manually adjust the hue for your entire computer?
any ideas how to run mirc 6.2 on wine? 'bad exe format'	apt-get install xchat
what is the difference between /dev/hdb and /dev/sda?	ide bus*
if uname -a reports i'm using the 686 kernel why did apt-get dist-upgrade also download the 386 kernel?	because you have not purged the old copy
i'm puzzled why it put stuff in /etc the first time...	postgresql doesn't seem to like to properly purge the files so you can recreate the defaults, i believe i managed to get it to work by purging both postgresql-8.4 and postgresql-common, then deleting the /etc/postgresql and /etc/postgresql-common and then reinstalling successfully recreated those /etc directories
hiya how can i create the shortcut that allows me to type 'oowriter' to the run application menu (alt+f2) and have that launch openoffice.org2.2 -writer ?	sudo ln -s $(which openoffice.org2.2-writer) /usr/local/bin/oowriter
what's the most common reason for conky not appearing?	- not being installed :p
why did you give someone that link - that's nothing to do with his problem	he asked for help
how to switch between screens on irssi	/quit
how do i cheat on four-in-a-row at the games-menu? :o	install the source and hack a cheat function into it?
how do i find out if samba is installed ?	smb tab-key
http://169.254.169.254/ << is this a reserved ip address?	the internet assigned numbers authority (iana) has reserved 169.254.0.0-169.254.255.255 for automatic private ip addressing. as a result, apipa provides an address that is guaranteed not to conflict with routable addresses.
how can i change ownership of a file?	right click > properties > permissions :)
hey, i wanted to know if i can restore the data from back in time on newly installed distro	you want a time machine back up like in mac os?
hello all, i have 2 hdd, one with an xp install(hdd0) and this one(hdd1) with ubuntu on it. is there a way to boot the xp inside ubuntu ?	take a look at xbox
i've got ubuntu up and running, with 2 nics...and this strange virtual nic called eth:avahi showed up. what is this?	eth0:avahi can be ignored
hey guys. im running ubuntu 10.04 (great so far), and would like to know if there is any way to play back hd video (.m2ts, .mkv, etc) or flash video with hardware acceleration. i have an ati card (radeon 4650) btw. thanks	with hardware acceleration you will neet to wait to the next version of vlc, 1.2 i believe
hey all, im looking for something equivalent to macromedia fireworks, but for linux.....any suggestions? i have gimp but havent done much graphics on linux before	gimp has just about all functionality that photoshop has
hi , is there any program to find duplicate file ?	there's many, fdupes, kleansweep, perforate... or just plain diff with a little script
hello, i just bought an epson cx7450 all in one printer. i've read somewhere that someone installed it in ubuntu 7.10 and the printer was found immediately. can anyone tell me whether this printer will work in ubuntu 8.04.1 and if so how would i go about getting it to function	did you check the cups database?
are you still here? what webtop versions of ubuntu for android are floating around?	this is probably not the correct #, go look around on xda
how can you configure how long sudo remembers your password?	`sudo visudo` would let you change some configurations, like `timestamp_timeout` which is the time that your password would be remembered.
can one play bluray on ubuntu?	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/restrictedformats/blurayandhddvd
how do i execute a bash script inside a bash script?	use full path
does anyone have any idea how to join the support team of ubuntu?	check the website
anyone know how i would bridge my eth0/1 with my ra0 on 10.04? everytime i bring the bridge up it knocks my wireless out.	just fyi (if it applies) but as noted on this page, most wireless don't support bridging - good luck. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/kvm/networking
crescendoi think amarok does automatic naming, but don't quote me on that.	so do most other players, by the cddb database - which isn't the best at figuring out what song it is. maybe i'm looking for some sort of mp3 signature comparison application? it fingerprints the mp3, and compares it to a database somewhere?
hey i'm back. does anyone have a sec to help?	whats the problem??
what does a default install of xbuntu 9.10 use for an xorg.conf, if any ?	9.10 does not generate an xorg.conf but one can be used to manually set things
i just upgraded from breezy to dapper, and now my existing user is logged out automatically as soon as the desktop loads. users created after the upgrade can log in fine. no luck on the forums; any ideas?	have you checked malone?
what is the correct syntax to apt-get remove purge a package?	apt-get remove --purge <package>
how can i write comments like * \| ge5i is asking	type /me is doing something
would anyone know how to move the /home to and from a separate partition?	or man mount
aloha #ubuntu, i've accidentally deleted the network manager icon from the task bar and can't work out how to get it back. my internet connection is gone from ubuntu so i can't do any tests atm	run 'nm-applet' i think
how do i revert to an earlier version of the linux kernel? i am experiencing hardware regressions and i want to go back.	choose it in grub?
how do i uninstall an application i installed with wine?	the same way you would in windows (well without the add/remove programs dialog) use the uninstall program, or just delete it's files and regentries
hello. how can i change keymap to that of nb_no ? i didn't do it in the install, and the folder /usr/share/keymaps is empty which means that i don't know how to find the correct keymap file. i want to use it with the loadkeys program	install locales
is there any risk of screwing up my computer if i want to change completely from kubuntu to ubuntu? how do i do that and remove kde without deleting important files? i have a lot of things already configured (wine 1.1.1, firefox 3, amsn, pidgin, and so on) and i'd rather not lose that configuration- especially with my xorg.conf file, which took forever to get right.	shouldn't
hi again everybody, whats the best way to connect to a wireless network (wpa encryption) through a xubuntu laptop? network-manager?	follow the link ubuotu gaive you
which windowmanager is drapper drake flight 6 using by default?	i think it's nautilus.
is it usefull to learn python?? or not used much nowdays ?	it is used for app development and also for many ubuntu system utilities and scripts
what browser can i import my history and bookmarks from firefox but is faster than firefox?	you could try chromium. i use the ppa:chromium-daily/ppa repository, and i have had no issues with it so far.
has somebody a link with a tutorial how to install downloaded programs in ubuntu? there is only a older version in synaptic ...	http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/
does anyone know of a tool to put several jpgpics into a short movie? :)	check out the tovid thread on the forums
hello, i want to transfer all my ubuntu os to another disk and make that disk bootable, so, besides the 'copy' operation how do i make the 2nd disk bootable? (that is, how do i reinstall grub on it)	you will need the --root-directory option to point to the new root. man grub-install
on ubuntu with apache2 installed where is it installed to? more specifically where can i find the vhosts file?	/etc/apache2/
what's the simplest way to get remote desktop access to an ubuntu machine from a windows machine without installing client software for remote desktop access?	teamviewer
what keyboard?	what is the command for determining the keyboard type?
when will ubuntu be used instead of microsoft windows?	http://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/participate
can someone tell me how to see the version a repository app?	apt-cache showpkg packagename
anybody? if i have 8.04 server and i run do-release-upgrade, will it upgrade to 8.10 or to jaunty?	depending on what you are using the server for you might want to wait until the next lts release which you will be able to upgrade to directly
ubuntu programming question to anyone who may have any ideas. i'm writing a program and i'm looking to include my own sort of status notifications as is seen in 10.04 with gwibber, empathy, etc. anyone know where i could go to find out more about how that is done?	libnotify
hi how do i know where i installed jdk1.6	try sudo updatedb, then locate jdk
hi. i'm new to ubuntu and gnome. just installed the 64bit version of feisty and i was wondering how i would go about uninstalling firefox, and reinstalling a 32bit version of it.	i recommend installing swiftfox(x86-32) through automatix.
by cant be logged into the desktop, do you mean i cant have nautilus open..?	no just log out-- then goto the options on the left bottom of the screen- then window manger-- then look for the option of prompt only (or maybe listed as command line recovery) depending on build
hi. is no_no a separate locale, or is it only alias of nn_no / nb_no?	try alacarte
how can i find the uuid of my ipod touch	maybe ls /dev/disk/by-id/ ...but thats just a guess
q: i am trying to install ubuntu 7 from dvd on a computer where i have windows 7. on ubuntu.com it says there should appear install ubunto alongside windows 7, however that option does not appear. when i go to something else only one partition appears (having as size the total amount of space on the harddrive), however when i browse from cd on ubuntu all partitions appear. what's wrong and how can i fixt this?	i would say that s a bug , try to retart the pc and go at it again,
hi, i've just upgraded to lucid with the alternate cd, my wireless connection doesn't work anymore	is it that you can't maintain a wireless conection or you can't even see the networks?
i am new to ubuntu and can not figure out how to unstall wgetpaste or nopaste. i was googling but didnt find out how to isntall one of those	pastebinit is in universe
how do i choose gcc 3.4, since the kernel is not compiled with gcc 4.0	as long as you have installed gcc-3.4 you can temporarily use 'export cc=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4'
how can i bridge internetconnections on ubuntu 9.4? i want my internetconnection from my wireless to work on my other computers as well via a switch. my computer is connected to internet by wlan0 and i want to share from eth0 to switch.	did you tried yet to use the dnsmasq-base method ?

can i install nvidia drivers inside gnome?

.config/foobnix ?

hi. is there a utility that will a) rip a cd to a single lossless file with all the track timing etc maintained, and b) rip individual tracks (with tag lookup) from that file?

tracks, yes. i don't know of one that will rip the entire cd (talking an audio cd now)

can i get out of gdm and get to text-mode? my login does not work. it stops on 'window manager'... ctrl-alt-backspace only gets me back to gdm...

ctrl-alt-f1

hi there i just downloaded a driver for my wireless card how do i install it?

this shows you how to install ralink drivers; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=296281

x doesn't want to run at 1280x800 on my new laptop, what can i do?

check what ubotu has to say to you

is konqueror still available in the latest kde?

thought konq was core to kde

is this the right channel to ask a apt-get question? in the red hat world, the are software groups so you can just 'yum grouplist ; yum groupinstall emacs' ; i know apt-get has this too, so 'apt-get install kde' ; how do i list these software groups?

man apt or man dpkg might shed some light on that

hey all! hows going? uhm, i have a few questions! 1) which ftp client with fxp feature do u suggest? 2) u know... there was this app, with it u can add widgets like... whats the weaether in new york or something... 3) windows supports my monitor (its crappy one) - 1024x768 @ 85 hz, but linux only @ 60 hz, i know that i can reconfigure that.. uh xorg :) but can i edit it with hands? hm, guess thats all

gftp, gkrellm, /etc/x11/xorg.conf or dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

after latest update manager updates, firefox scrolls in slow motion. anyone know how to fix this?

in firefox go to edit->preferences->advanced and uncheck smooth scrolling

i've another question for you. i'm looking at the server edition. is there something like landscape, but free? (as i'm setting up my home server for some try i cannot afford to pay for it :( )

puppet or chef should be able to help you synchronize configuration. nagios and cacti can do monitoring and graphing

hey all .. using 8.04 currently trying to upgrade... however when i do-release-upgrade i get told there are no new versions?

edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades, and change it from 'lts' to 'normal'

hello.... can anyone tell me how i can edit my current run level (i.e. i want to stop some program to starts up by default...)

default runlevel is 2

how do i make an icon on my desktop that opens a directory? launcher that launches nautilus dir?

could just make a 'ln -s' link (shortcut) to the dir on the desktop

hi all, how can u remove ubuntu from my hard drive without doing a reformat? i also have windows installed on the same drive and do not want to lose all my info

use some partitioning program to delete the ubuntu partition, and expant the windows one to fill the space.

i found my user account, is there any way to get or reset the password? or even check who changed it?

'passwd username' changes a user password (as long as you have the privileges to reset it'

can someone tell me how to remove all of kubuntu?

just removing kubuntu-desktop won't do it

hello. i want to automate the ubuntu installation by using preseeds. how can i identify the names of the questions asked in d-i (the debian/ubuntu installer) ? the wiki describes many of them, but i'm not sure they are all there.

if you want a custom install, use remastersys or just clonezilla an exisiting iso

how do i create a tarball from the terminal?

and see man tar

what will be your responsibilities in that position?

a handfull of developers has done that up til now. they didn't want to do it anymore, so they hired me.

i guess i'm on a wrong track anyways as there's no where the installer can get files from

feisty fawn

i run a dhcp server on my server, is there any command i can run to list all the dhcp leases it has given out?

you could also examine /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases

is there any general rule to get suspend and hibernate working?

there are some threads talking how to debug suspend/hibernate... procedure does not looks easy for me...

i have an entry in crontab that was created by ubuntu upon installation, and it has the dow set to 7. i thought it only went from 0(sun) to 6(mon) ?

0 and 7 are both sunday (`man 5 crontab` is the manpage that covers this) because it works out better that way (sunday first and monday first both make sense numerically)

i might have an amd card, actually. gonna try system settings, how else can i check?

lshw -c video

i forgot whats the command that is typed in the address bar of firefox to change setting its something like confix : ???

it's about:config

i running dapper drake (6.0.6) and need to include the command 'sudo iwpriv ath0 authmode 2' on every reboot since it enables wep on my wireless card. how do i add the instruction? config file? can i use a text editor? i am new to linux and would appreciate some help.

that's not a quirk, but adesign decision

how do i open ace archives?

sudo apt-get install unace-nonfree

how can i share my custom compiled kernel image with someone, do i just package up what's in /boot?????

normally /lib/modules/$(uname -r) is essential as well. didn't you use a ubuntu or debian method to compile? that would give you a .deb in /usr/src

is there an x64 version of compiz available? want to determine whether i should install 32 or 64bit ubuntu

i use compiz on my x64 ubuntu

or the new hardy heron?

what did you tell the update manager to do? update your distriubution?

anyone know how i might find the code behind the 'show desktop' applet in awn?? i want to hotkey it in compiz commands

may help

how do i send a given sig number to a process via a shell prompt

kill -signal ?

is it possible to mount an iso on an actual cd drive? i'm trying to install something that wants the ubuntu cd, but i don't have the cd handy, but i still have the iso...

you can mount iso file easily, the trick is the installer to be told to use your iso instead of the cdrom..

seems that 12.04 comes with the internal error message and asking permission to report.. the way windows does??? :-(

please do report those, it's helpful to us.

is there a way to tell the sytem not to do a filesystem check on a drive at startup? do i just not mount the drive?

man fstab

hey i tried asking this in #vmware but im not sure whether this is vmware specific or ubuntu, i get this when trying to network with vmware-player: 'the network bridge on device /dev/vmnet0 is temporarily down' help much much appreciated

maybe not applicable to your question, but have you looked at whether the open source kvm / qemu will work for you?

i am unable to hear anything in my install of ubuntu, the mixer shows 2 defices.. alsa has an nvidia device and oss has a realtec one.. as far as i know it is a realtec audio system. ideas?

u sure you don't just have e.g. pcmoutput muted?

i doubt it'll be that long - from what i've seen the nvidia support is going to arrive in the next few months

but will it actualy work? i'm dubious

[video related question]: every time i play a video, the hue is always at 0, so everything looks greenish. in vlc or other apps i can apply adjustments, but i have to do so every time, and it doesn't have an option in all programs to do that. the same is true for video coming from my webcam. i have karmic and nvidia, using proprietary binary version of the driver.

have you tried 'nvidia-settings' in a terminal, then manually adjust the hue for your entire computer?

any ideas how to run mirc 6.2 on wine? 'bad exe format'

apt-get install xchat

what is the difference between /dev/hdb and /dev/sda?

ide bus*

if uname -a reports i'm using the 686 kernel why did apt-get dist-upgrade also download the 386 kernel?

because you have not purged the old copy

i'm puzzled why it put stuff in /etc the first time...

postgresql doesn't seem to like to properly purge the files so you can recreate the defaults, i believe i managed to get it to work by purging both postgresql-8.4 and postgresql-common, then deleting the /etc/postgresql and /etc/postgresql-common and then reinstalling successfully recreated those /etc directories

hiya how can i create the shortcut that allows me to type 'oowriter' to the run application menu (alt+f2) and have that launch openoffice.org2.2 -writer ?

sudo ln -s $(which openoffice.org2.2-writer) /usr/local/bin/oowriter

what's the most common reason for conky not appearing?

- not being installed :p

why did you give someone that link - that's nothing to do with his problem

he asked for help

how to switch between screens on irssi

/quit

how do i cheat on four-in-a-row at the games-menu? :o

install the source and hack a cheat function into it?

how do i find out if samba is installed ?

smb tab-key

http://169.254.169.254/ << is this a reserved ip address?

the internet assigned numbers authority (iana) has reserved 169.254.0.0-169.254.255.255 for automatic private ip addressing. as a result, apipa provides an address that is guaranteed not to conflict with routable addresses.

how can i change ownership of a file?

right click > properties > permissions :)

hey, i wanted to know if i can restore the data from back in time on newly installed distro

you want a time machine back up like in mac os?

hello all, i have 2 hdd, one with an xp install(hdd0) and this one(hdd1) with ubuntu on it. is there a way to boot the xp inside ubuntu ?

take a look at xbox

i've got ubuntu up and running, with 2 nics...and this strange virtual nic called eth:avahi showed up. what is this?

eth0:avahi can be ignored

hey guys. im running ubuntu 10.04 (great so far), and would like to know if there is any way to play back hd video (.m2ts, .mkv, etc) or flash video with hardware acceleration. i have an ati card (radeon 4650) btw. thanks

with hardware acceleration you will neet to wait to the next version of vlc, 1.2 i believe

hey all, im looking for something equivalent to macromedia fireworks, but for linux.....any suggestions? i have gimp but havent done much graphics on linux before

gimp has just about all functionality that photoshop has

hi , is there any program to find duplicate file ?

there's many, fdupes, kleansweep, perforate... or just plain diff with a little script

hello, i just bought an epson cx7450 all in one printer. i've read somewhere that someone installed it in ubuntu 7.10 and the printer was found immediately. can anyone tell me whether this printer will work in ubuntu 8.04.1 and if so how would i go about getting it to function

did you check the cups database?

are you still here? what webtop versions of ubuntu for android are floating around?

this is probably not the correct #, go look around on xda

how can you configure how long sudo remembers your password?

`sudo visudo` would let you change some configurations, like `timestamp_timeout` which is the time that your password would be remembered.

can one play bluray on ubuntu?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/restrictedformats/blurayandhddvd

how do i execute a bash script inside a bash script?

use full path

does anyone have any idea how to join the support team of ubuntu?

check the website

anyone know how i would bridge my eth0/1 with my ra0 on 10.04? everytime i bring the bridge up it knocks my wireless out.

just fyi (if it applies) but as noted on this page, most wireless don't support bridging - good luck. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/kvm/networking

crescendoi think amarok does automatic naming, but don't quote me on that.

so do most other players, by the cddb database - which isn't the best at figuring out what song it is. maybe i'm looking for some sort of mp3 signature comparison application? it fingerprints the mp3, and compares it to a database somewhere?

hey i'm back. does anyone have a sec to help?

whats the problem??

what does a default install of xbuntu 9.10 use for an xorg.conf, if any ?

9.10 does not generate an xorg.conf but one can be used to manually set things

i just upgraded from breezy to dapper, and now my existing user is logged out automatically as soon as the desktop loads. users created after the upgrade can log in fine. no luck on the forums; any ideas?

have you checked malone?

what is the correct syntax to apt-get remove purge a package?

apt-get remove --purge <package>

how can i write comments like * | ge5i is asking

type /me is doing something

would anyone know how to move the /home to and from a separate partition?

or man mount

aloha #ubuntu, i've accidentally deleted the network manager icon from the task bar and can't work out how to get it back. my internet connection is gone from ubuntu so i can't do any tests atm

run 'nm-applet' i think

how do i revert to an earlier version of the linux kernel? i am experiencing hardware regressions and i want to go back.

choose it in grub?

how do i uninstall an application i installed with wine?

the same way you would in windows (well without the add/remove programs dialog) use the uninstall program, or just delete it's files and regentries

hello. how can i change keymap to that of nb_no ? i didn't do it in the install, and the folder /usr/share/keymaps is empty which means that i don't know how to find the correct keymap file. i want to use it with the loadkeys program

install locales

is there any risk of screwing up my computer if i want to change completely from kubuntu to ubuntu? how do i do that and remove kde without deleting important files? i have a lot of things already configured (wine 1.1.1, firefox 3, amsn, pidgin, and so on) and i'd rather not lose that configuration- especially with my xorg.conf file, which took forever to get right.

shouldn't

hi again everybody, whats the best way to connect to a wireless network (wpa encryption) through a xubuntu laptop? network-manager?

follow the link ubuotu gaive you

which windowmanager is drapper drake flight 6 using by default?

i think it's nautilus.

is it usefull to learn python?? or not used much nowdays ?

it is used for app development and also for many ubuntu system utilities and scripts

what browser can i import my history and bookmarks from firefox but is faster than firefox?

you could try chromium. i use the ppa:chromium-daily/ppa repository, and i have had no issues with it so far.

has somebody a link with a tutorial how to install downloaded programs in ubuntu? there is only a older version in synaptic ...

http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/

does anyone know of a tool to put several jpgpics into a short movie? :)

check out the tovid thread on the forums

hello, i want to transfer all my ubuntu os to another disk and make that disk bootable, so, besides the 'copy' operation how do i make the 2nd disk bootable? (that is, how do i reinstall grub on it)

you will need the --root-directory option to point to the new root. man grub-install

on ubuntu with apache2 installed where is it installed to? more specifically where can i find the vhosts file?

/etc/apache2/

what's the simplest way to get remote desktop access to an ubuntu machine from a windows machine without installing client software for remote desktop access?

teamviewer

what keyboard?

what is the command for determining the keyboard type?

when will ubuntu be used instead of microsoft windows?

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/participate

can someone tell me how to see the version a repository app?

apt-cache showpkg packagename

anybody? if i have 8.04 server and i run do-release-upgrade, will it upgrade to 8.10 or to jaunty?

depending on what you are using the server for you might want to wait until the next lts release which you will be able to upgrade to directly

ubuntu programming question to anyone who may have any ideas. i'm writing a program and i'm looking to include my own sort of status notifications as is seen in 10.04 with gwibber, empathy, etc. anyone know where i could go to find out more about how that is done?

libnotify

hi how do i know where i installed jdk1.6

try sudo updatedb, then locate jdk

hi. i'm new to ubuntu and gnome. just installed the 64bit version of feisty and i was wondering how i would go about uninstalling firefox, and reinstalling a 32bit version of it.

i recommend installing swiftfox(x86-32) through automatix.

by cant be logged into the desktop, do you mean i cant have nautilus open..?

no just log out-- then goto the options on the left bottom of the screen- then window manger-- then look for the option of prompt only (or maybe listed as command line recovery) depending on build

hi. is no_no a separate locale, or is it only alias of nn_no / nb_no?

try alacarte

how can i find the uuid of my ipod touch

maybe ls /dev/disk/by-id/ ...but thats just a guess

q: i am trying to install ubuntu 7 from dvd on a computer where i have windows 7. on ubuntu.com it says there should appear install ubunto alongside windows 7, however that option does not appear. when i go to something else only one partition appears (having as size the total amount of space on the harddrive), however when i browse from cd on ubuntu all partitions appear. what's wrong and how can i fixt this?

i would say that s a bug , try to retart the pc and go at it again,

hi, i've just upgraded to lucid with the alternate cd, my wireless connection doesn't work anymore

is it that you can't maintain a wireless conection or you can't even see the networks?

i am new to ubuntu and can not figure out how to unstall wgetpaste or nopaste. i was googling but didnt find out how to isntall one of those

pastebinit is in universe

how do i choose gcc 3.4, since the kernel is not compiled with gcc 4.0

as long as you have installed gcc-3.4 you can temporarily use 'export cc=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4'

how can i bridge internetconnections on ubuntu 9.4? i want my internetconnection from my wireless to work on my other computers as well via a switch. my computer is connected to internet by wlan0 and i want to share from eth0 to switch.

did you tried yet to use the dnsmasq-base method ?