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hi. how do i remove software - in this case the 'songbird' program - that i installed from a tar ball instead of a .deb package? thanks.	look into the documentation in the tar ball - often it is make uninstall
hello, every time during boot, i get an error message along the lines of 'kinit: no resume image, doing normal boot'. is this something i should be worried about? i have no problems with the installation, everything works, just kind of an annoying message.	at least that's always been my take on it o.o
how do i change my hostname?	/etc/hostname
wow, an s3 virge is a pretty bad video card. what else do you have. i doubt vesa supports that.	vesa works with intel 915. bit of useless info.
anybody know how to disable apport?	look at /etc/default/apport and set enabled to 0
is there a set timeframe for lts releases? is it always three years after the previous (when the desktop support ends)?	the next one is probably 9.10
where does ubuntu keep its menu.lst for grub? it doesn't exist anywhere.	grub2 dosent use a menu.lst
is there a deb package for the original xmms for ubuntu 9.04 or do i need to compile it?.	no, xmms is no longer supported upstream, so yes, if you really want it.
what is the way to open a bug against ubuntu in general, when no specific package is known.... seems to be the base os.	i'll help you find the package it's in. what's the problem?
does anyone know to which bug frogzoo was referring? or how to 'reregister schemes', as he put it?	perhaps https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gconf2/+bug/50150
alright now my system still refuses too boot, at the begining there is an error 'init: ureadahead process id (340) has terminated with status 5' any ideas? the sysboots, but it does not give me a gui it gives me a terminal similar to cntrl alt f2	read yer syslog
of course, bittorrent does tend to max out my network bandwidth, i was thinking i might be hitting some kind of threshold, buffer overflow, something like that	i know its all preference, but try out deluge, if you like utorrent style clients, deluge torrent is what your after, i personally hate transmission and doesnt ever seem to work right for me
how can i publish a samba share in ubuntu so that windows pcs can access it	modify that then /etc/init.d/samba restart
hello, i have a laptop i want to upgrade to 9.04, but i'm using a lot of third party software sources. will it update the software from the ubuntu repositories? also, what happens to these software sources on an upgrade?	you should disable those software sources before upgrading, and check on their sites if they provide packages for the newer release
is there a way to use apt-get or aptitude list every file belonging to a package ?	dpkg -l packagename
so, if i compile a program from the source and create a .deb file with checkinstall, will it work in other computers (same platfrom, of course)?	if the systems are configured the same, it should, which is why its good to build the package on a vbox'd plain system
can somebody dcc a small text file so i can test my irssi setup?	alright
hi ! i have installed ms office 2007 with wine on ubuntu 10. it is working fine. now i want to install the service pack 2 of ms office 2007, but i dont know how to ? because the latest time i had installed, ms office seems like i did not have installed service pack 2 . now i re-install the wine and i installed office 2007. now what should i have to do to ?	why you use office 2007 anyway :)
screenshots ?	i'm at work, i'll try that this evening
hi, what is the best way to share stuff between vista and ubuntu (i mean on one computer)?	fatxx
does minimal install cd let you choose what repository to use?	you can alwayus change the repos source in the package manager
how do i set up an ftp server?	https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/c/ftp-server.html
can anyone tell me if it's possible to disable ipv6 in the live cd without installing to hd?	it certainly should, just about everything is possible on the live cd, as long as ram doesn't fall short
hallo, can i just copy my old .evolution folder from the old home directory into my new home from a fresh install and have all my evolution settings, emails, and contacts back?	so somewhere in ~/.gconf/apps/
can someone tell me what is twitter? where and all it can be used?	this is a support channel for the ubuntu operating system
how can i kill a program from terminal?	see kill and pkill
how to setup timeserver?	then edit /etc/ntp.conf
i've done sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swap bs=1m count=3000 - how can i undo this command ?	sudo rm /tmp/swap
can i make you a question regarding wireless access point and p2p client software? when i turn on ktorrent client on my laptop connected to the net through an us-robotics access point, the web navigation became very bad... furthermore i tried to ping the wifi router and the amount of packet loss is huge.. like 90%. is this normal? do you have to turn off p2p clients too for a correct navigation? i never had this problem with	i think you need to change your firewall settings / port forwarding settings for torrent clients to work
how can i installed multimedia support on lubuntu 10.04? on ubuntu i would just install ubuntu-restricted-extras, and there also also *buntu-restricted-extras packages for kubuntu and xubuntu. what do i need to get multimedia support on lubuntu?	so far there is no special package for it, go with ubuntu-restricted-extras
how to hookup svn repo to checkin to /var/www?	http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
does ubuntu have a text based browser	links
hi im new to linux and want to know what i can use for word documents like in microsoft word	openoffice.
where's ubuntu's /boot/grub/grub.conf	menu.lst
can any1 help me with a simple msql issue, it sais error 1045 (28000): access denied for user 'dimitri'@'localhost' (using password: no), when i just type msql form the console, i installed from the repos, verson 5.0	but you should try logging into mysql the first time as root, not your user name
how do i make terminal on ubuntu not 'always on top'?	right click
hello eveybody, is there anyone could help me with my keyboard ? it is an abnt2 portuguese-br, the only problem are the keys pipe/left slash and 'close {['	sorry, i dont know anything about it
hi, i would like to know how do i do a backup of my home?	tar it up to a different location
ok, i've got a bit of an unusual problem. i had some trouble with my partitions recently, and just now recovered them. however, one of them, my home partition had a slightly larger filesystem (ext3) than it has a partition. i can mount it fine, and as far as i can tell, all the data is fine, but when i run e2fsck, it tells me that the superblock says the fs is too large, and then proceeds to work fine. http	use resize2fs to restore the partition to the original size
i just moved from fedora distros to ubuntu and was just wondering what the ubuntu equiv to yum exists	you might want to check out http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/dapper
i have the ubuntu 10.04 beta 2. when the 10.04 for-real version comes out, will i be able to upgrade within the beta or will i need to download yet another iso?	no more iso's.. apt-get will keep you upto date all the way to the final
i suppose piii 700mhz 256mt is enough to run ubuntu smoothly enough?	you could try xubuntu-desktop
is there a script in ubuntu which executes commands, at shutdown?	http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/20161/next/
anyone knows of a good gtk based ftp client, besides gftp?	not sure about gtk based though
any terminal utility that shows varous info about a file?	'file foo'?
is there a command to combine two .wav files into one?	cat file1 >> file2 , backup first, i am not sure it works or not
the best way to use windows on my ubuntu is using vmware server?	i run windows in virtualbox on linux
what is the correct way to run an arbitrary script as root after reboot ?	put it in init.d
something123, working now?	it's the line between what you've read and what you haven't, if you switch windows
anyone here know what program creates the /dev/dvd symlink dynamically?	udev does :)
that you can load as module ?	loaded and ready to go
hello i just tried installing beryl and there is something wrong with my xorg.conf settings right now. x-server cant start! i tried to sudo gedit /etc/x11/xorg.conf but it cant display it or something :p ?	use sudo nano /etc/x11/xorg.conf
in a default install, are extended attributes enabled on the filesystem?	check in fstab, you need user_xattr in the option
can somebody help me? i already have this problem longer time... all my videoplayers just show bluescreen, but i can hear the sound... what the heck is wrong?	that's cause the codecs might be missing
i am trying to understand the details of what happens when i plug a usb drive in in ubuntu... the details of what makes it appear automatically for me to mount.	start with udev, i think. (and hal, though it's getting slowly removed.) in gnome, the mounting itself is handled by nautilus and gnome-volume-manager, but i think it is possible to make udev do it.
i downloaded the ati driver, but how do i start the setup? (it's a .run file)	chmod +x whatever.run && ./whatever.run
is there any kind of limitation with ubuntu or the kernel regarding the support of a resolution of 2500x1400?	that should be related to the xorg video driver
but what happens if i install that package? will the packages from here http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/build-essential be installed?	yes, but replace dapper with a release that is actually supported.
small question here: im on 9.04 with ext3. when 9.10 comes out and i upgrade, will it automatically make me ext4?	the home folder is enough, i highly doubt you put files anywhere else.
hi, i'm searching for a program that holds program icons at the bottom of the desktop. it's like panel. i see almost all screenshots of the gnome. it's like this http://www.gnome-look.org/content/content-pre1/26448-1.jpg . but when the mouse comes over it, the icons are getting bigger. i can't find the name of it. anyone knows?	one of the desklets
after i've been idle for a while, my monitors turn off, and when i get back only one monitor turns on again after touching the mouse. i have disabled screensaver. how can i disable the feature that turns my monitors off ?	oh, it's dpms
what is the easiest mail server (configuration wise)?	postfix probly
how can i switch to console from x in ubuntu 10.04?	f7 will get you back
can anyone help me, i cant see to find my cdrom drive	should be in your computer. if youve installed it. ;d
people, is there any program like macromedia dreamweaver, to design webpages under linux? i'm using ubuntu 6.10	mozilla composer?
what should i do if /dev/dsp is missing?	that has been a popular question recently for some reason :)
can someone help me with my sd* issues	what is the issue?
how to find to what package given file belogs ?	elsae install apt-file
hmm.. the vesa driver makes x work, but vesa sucks ;-) the autodetection detects 'i815' but that doesn't work. any idea what i can try to know why x fails to load?	- lspci is your friend getting x to work is the one big hurdle to a new user if you get x working you are home free
xchat n00b question, is there a way to quickly pick a name to respond to?	i haven't used xchat in a while (using irssi), but i think that ought to do it =/
just wondering, can i use a dvd as the installer for ubuntu 10.04 64bit?	i do believe so
is there a nice gui tool for simple video editing and (video) dvd burning ?	i have created a ton of dvds using kino to edit dv stream and then encode to dvd mpeg and qdvdauthor to finish the job
question: best software to run windows7 as a vm from ubuntu's 32 bit desktop?	check out virtualbox
if x crashes and doesn't come back or hangs do 'ctrl+alt+f1' login to your account then do 'sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart'	ctrl+alt+backspace is just as good isn't it?
what's the command that 'refreshes' an open terminal to account for changes to $home/bin, .bashrc, etc?	source $home/bin or .bashrc
is there a wiki for notify-osd where i can provoke one using command?	use 'notify-send' (i think from 'libnotify-bin')
i am trying to run firefox, but when i try delete them it says, firefox i running. how do i find the id in terminal to kill?	killall firefox should also work
i want to start dual-booting ubuntu, i have not installed it yet, and i am running windows xp. except, my only problem is i'm quite afraid that during the 'partition' step i will lose some of my data. how can i avoid this, or am i paranoid?	i have never lost any (and i have installed ubuntu many, many times). but if you don't back up your data, you will lose it some day :)
hi. how much megabytes exactly (+- 50mb) does 11.04 desktop i386 standard installation takes after fresh install?	i have a fresh install sitting here - its using 2.8 gigs
i have a sound blaster live! 5.1 sound card and a logitech x-530 5.1 speaker set... the sound is okay but i got an interference noise at the central speaker all the time. does anyone know what's happening?	creative.com (but sb drivers are included with ubuntu)
which is the lightest de?	xcfe, openbox, flux, e17...
how can i find more detailed info on my processor? i know about cat /proc/cpuinfo, basically i need to know what amd i got	sudo lshw
dabar: i think my ubuntu is broken cuz i'm getting a bunch of unresolved dependency messages even when i excluded the net based repositories and try to dist-upgrade from the cdrom alone.	show me the cd line from /etc/apt/sources.list file, please
is there a good frontend ftp client for ubuntu?	when you click on the 'connect to server' and then edit your details, you will have an icon on your desktop that represents the connection
how can i tell which deb provided a file on my hard drive?	man dpkg for details
hey i finally managed to make my wlan card work with an ndiswrapper and a windows driver, now i have to run 'sudo modprobe ndiswrapper' everytime before it works, where could i put that so that it happens on every startup?!	i know of a file /etc/rc.local where you can put commands that are tun on boot
we have a centralized samba share for mounting all the /var/cache/apt/archives of all the ubuntu machines. this allows less downloads when doing updates. we also have the repositories download from a centralized location. so we update the main machine, and then the other machines update from the local network.	why samba instead of http?
not to interrupt, but does anyone know much about dual monitors? i'm having an interesting problem i can't search the internet for because i'm not sure how to phrase it.	standard trick, try to reset the monitor with build in factory reset?
how do i change the default bittorrent client from vuzu back to transmission	you can associate .torrent files with transmission
hi, here is my problem: the '1' key doesnt work (the one below esc), but shift+'1' does work, im 100% shure it is ubuntu thing, cause on other pc and on this pc on win it works normal, any ideas?	go to the console and see if it works there..
i have a folder that i need to give access to user www, group www, but i need to edit the files with my user. the best way is to add my user to the group www and make the folder part of the group www?	and make the folder group-writable
is there any web interface for ubuntu repositories?	packages.ubuntu.com
last night i set up gnupg. gnupg responded: 'the key 1024d/7c52bc42 was successfully validated.' what does the letter 'd' mean?	that you are using dsa as algorithm
what is the linux euqivalent of ipconfig?	ifconfig
how can i view a txt file in non-wrapped mode	in nano. nano should have wrapping off by default
hi. google earth 5 does not run. could give you a logfile - could anyone help me?	i have it working fine but you must use the workaround
would someone mind looking at this pastebin of my /var/log/syslog, could this be my problem? server running insanely slow, but not sure what this message means.	you have a severe hardware problem with your /dev/sda disk which is about to die.
how i can turn off my pc from terminal	shutdown -h now ?
is samba necessary in order to view files from a wind7 machine using a ubuntu machine?	the package you need for this is smbfs, not samba
did you download breezy while running hoary?	yeah, replace all instances of hoary in sources.list with breezy, apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

hi. how do i remove software - in this case the 'songbird' program - that i installed from a tar ball instead of a .deb package? thanks.

look into the documentation in the tar ball - often it is make uninstall

hello, every time during boot, i get an error message along the lines of 'kinit: no resume image, doing normal boot'. is this something i should be worried about? i have no problems with the installation, everything works, just kind of an annoying message.

at least that's always been my take on it o.o

how do i change my hostname?

/etc/hostname

wow, an s3 virge is a pretty bad video card. what else do you have. i doubt vesa supports that.

vesa works with intel 915. bit of useless info.

anybody know how to disable apport?

look at /etc/default/apport and set enabled to 0

is there a set timeframe for lts releases? is it always three years after the previous (when the desktop support ends)?

the next one is probably 9.10

where does ubuntu keep its menu.lst for grub? it doesn't exist anywhere.

grub2 dosent use a menu.lst

is there a deb package for the original xmms for ubuntu 9.04 or do i need to compile it?.

no, xmms is no longer supported upstream, so yes, if you really want it.

what is the way to open a bug against ubuntu in general, when no specific package is known.... seems to be the base os.

i'll help you find the package it's in. what's the problem?

does anyone know to which bug frogzoo was referring? or how to 'reregister schemes', as he put it?

perhaps https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gconf2/+bug/50150

alright now my system still refuses too boot, at the begining there is an error 'init: ureadahead process id (340) has terminated with status 5' any ideas? the sysboots, but it does not give me a gui it gives me a terminal similar to cntrl alt f2

read yer syslog

of course, bittorrent does tend to max out my network bandwidth, i was thinking i might be hitting some kind of threshold, buffer overflow, something like that

i know its all preference, but try out deluge, if you like utorrent style clients, deluge torrent is what your after, i personally hate transmission and doesnt ever seem to work right for me

how can i publish a samba share in ubuntu so that windows pcs can access it

modify that then /etc/init.d/samba restart

hello, i have a laptop i want to upgrade to 9.04, but i'm using a lot of third party software sources. will it update the software from the ubuntu repositories? also, what happens to these software sources on an upgrade?

you should disable those software sources before upgrading, and check on their sites if they provide packages for the newer release

is there a way to use apt-get or aptitude list every file belonging to a package ?

dpkg -l packagename

so, if i compile a program from the source and create a .deb file with checkinstall, will it work in other computers (same platfrom, of course)?

if the systems are configured the same, it should, which is why its good to build the package on a vbox'd plain system

can somebody dcc a small text file so i can test my irssi setup?

alright

hi ! i have installed ms office 2007 with wine on ubuntu 10. it is working fine. now i want to install the service pack 2 of ms office 2007, but i dont know how to ? because the latest time i had installed, ms office seems like i did not have installed service pack 2 . now i re-install the wine and i installed office 2007. now what should i have to do to ?

why you use office 2007 anyway :)

screenshots ?

i'm at work, i'll try that this evening

hi, what is the best way to share stuff between vista and ubuntu (i mean on one computer)?

fatxx

does minimal install cd let you choose what repository to use?

you can alwayus change the repos source in the package manager

how do i set up an ftp server?

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/c/ftp-server.html

can anyone tell me if it's possible to disable ipv6 in the live cd without installing to hd?

it certainly should, just about everything is possible on the live cd, as long as ram doesn't fall short

hallo, can i just copy my old .evolution folder from the old home directory into my new home from a fresh install and have all my evolution settings, emails, and contacts back?

so somewhere in ~/.gconf/apps/

can someone tell me what is twitter? where and all it can be used?

this is a support channel for the ubuntu operating system

how can i kill a program from terminal?

see kill and pkill

how to setup timeserver?

then edit /etc/ntp.conf

i've done sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swap bs=1m count=3000 - how can i undo this command ?

sudo rm /tmp/swap

can i make you a question regarding wireless access point and p2p client software? when i turn on ktorrent client on my laptop connected to the net through an us-robotics access point, the web navigation became very bad... furthermore i tried to ping the wifi router and the amount of packet loss is huge.. like 90%. is this normal? do you have to turn off p2p clients too for a correct navigation? i never had this problem with

i think you need to change your firewall settings / port forwarding settings for torrent clients to work

how can i installed multimedia support on lubuntu 10.04? on ubuntu i would just install ubuntu-restricted-extras, and there also also *buntu-restricted-extras packages for kubuntu and xubuntu. what do i need to get multimedia support on lubuntu?

so far there is no special package for it, go with ubuntu-restricted-extras

how to hookup svn repo to checkin to /var/www?

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

does ubuntu have a text based browser

links

hi im new to linux and want to know what i can use for word documents like in microsoft word

openoffice.

where's ubuntu's /boot/grub/grub.conf

menu.lst

can any1 help me with a simple msql issue, it sais error 1045 (28000): access denied for user 'dimitri'@'localhost' (using password: no), when i just type msql form the console, i installed from the repos, verson 5.0

but you should try logging into mysql the first time as root, not your user name

how do i make terminal on ubuntu not 'always on top'?

right click

hello eveybody, is there anyone could help me with my keyboard ? it is an abnt2 portuguese-br, the only problem are the keys pipe/left slash and 'close {['

sorry, i dont know anything about it

hi, i would like to know how do i do a backup of my home?

tar it up to a different location

ok, i've got a bit of an unusual problem. i had some trouble with my partitions recently, and just now recovered them. however, one of them, my home partition had a slightly larger filesystem (ext3) than it has a partition. i can mount it fine, and as far as i can tell, all the data is fine, but when i run e2fsck, it tells me that the superblock says the fs is too large, and then proceeds to work fine. http

use resize2fs to restore the partition to the original size

i just moved from fedora distros to ubuntu and was just wondering what the ubuntu equiv to yum exists

you might want to check out http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/dapper

i have the ubuntu 10.04 beta 2. when the 10.04 for-real version comes out, will i be able to upgrade within the beta or will i need to download yet another iso?

no more iso's.. apt-get will keep you upto date all the way to the final

i suppose piii 700mhz 256mt is enough to run ubuntu smoothly enough?

you could try xubuntu-desktop

is there a script in ubuntu which executes commands, at shutdown?

http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/20161/next/

anyone knows of a good gtk based ftp client, besides gftp?

not sure about gtk based though

any terminal utility that shows varous info about a file?

'file foo'?

is there a command to combine two .wav files into one?

cat file1 >> file2 , backup first, i am not sure it works or not

the best way to use windows on my ubuntu is using vmware server?

i run windows in virtualbox on linux

what is the correct way to run an arbitrary script as root after reboot ?

put it in init.d

something123, working now?

it's the line between what you've read and what you haven't, if you switch windows

anyone here know what program creates the /dev/dvd symlink dynamically?

udev does :)

that you can load as module ?

loaded and ready to go

hello i just tried installing beryl and there is something wrong with my xorg.conf settings right now. x-server cant start! i tried to sudo gedit /etc/x11/xorg.conf but it cant display it or something :p ?

use sudo nano /etc/x11/xorg.conf

in a default install, are extended attributes enabled on the filesystem?

check in fstab, you need user_xattr in the option

can somebody help me? i already have this problem longer time... all my videoplayers just show bluescreen, but i can hear the sound... what the heck is wrong?

that's cause the codecs might be missing

i am trying to understand the details of what happens when i plug a usb drive in in ubuntu... the details of what makes it appear automatically for me to mount.

start with udev, i think. (and hal, though it's getting slowly removed.) in gnome, the mounting itself is handled by nautilus and gnome-volume-manager, but i think it is possible to make udev do it.

i downloaded the ati driver, but how do i start the setup? (it's a .run file)

chmod +x whatever.run && ./whatever.run

is there any kind of limitation with ubuntu or the kernel regarding the support of a resolution of 2500x1400?

that should be related to the xorg video driver

but what happens if i install that package? will the packages from here http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/build-essential be installed?

yes, but replace dapper with a release that is actually supported.

small question here: im on 9.04 with ext3. when 9.10 comes out and i upgrade, will it automatically make me ext4?

the home folder is enough, i highly doubt you put files anywhere else.

hi, i'm searching for a program that holds program icons at the bottom of the desktop. it's like panel. i see almost all screenshots of the gnome. it's like this http://www.gnome-look.org/content/content-pre1/26448-1.jpg . but when the mouse comes over it, the icons are getting bigger. i can't find the name of it. anyone knows?

one of the desklets

after i've been idle for a while, my monitors turn off, and when i get back only one monitor turns on again after touching the mouse. i have disabled screensaver. how can i disable the feature that turns my monitors off ?

oh, it's dpms

what is the easiest mail server (configuration wise)?

postfix probly

how can i switch to console from x in ubuntu 10.04?

f7 will get you back

can anyone help me, i cant see to find my cdrom drive

should be in your computer. if youve installed it. ;d

people, is there any program like macromedia dreamweaver, to design webpages under linux? i'm using ubuntu 6.10

mozilla composer?

what should i do if /dev/dsp is missing?

that has been a popular question recently for some reason :)

can someone help me with my sd* issues

what is the issue?

how to find to what package given file belogs ?

elsae install apt-file

hmm.. the vesa driver makes x work, but vesa sucks ;-) the autodetection detects 'i815' but that doesn't work. any idea what i can try to know why x fails to load?

- lspci is your friend getting x to work is the one big hurdle to a new user if you get x working you are home free

xchat n00b question, is there a way to quickly pick a name to respond to?

i haven't used xchat in a while (using irssi), but i think that ought to do it =/

just wondering, can i use a dvd as the installer for ubuntu 10.04 64bit?

i do believe so

is there a nice gui tool for simple video editing and (video) dvd burning ?

i have created a ton of dvds using kino to edit dv stream and then encode to dvd mpeg and qdvdauthor to finish the job

question: best software to run windows7 as a vm from ubuntu's 32 bit desktop?

check out virtualbox

if x crashes and doesn't come back or hangs do 'ctrl+alt+f1' login to your account then do 'sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart'

ctrl+alt+backspace is just as good isn't it?

what's the command that 'refreshes' an open terminal to account for changes to $home/bin, .bashrc, etc?

source $home/bin or .bashrc

is there a wiki for notify-osd where i can provoke one using command?

use 'notify-send' (i think from 'libnotify-bin')

i am trying to run firefox, but when i try delete them it says, firefox i running. how do i find the id in terminal to kill?

killall firefox should also work

i want to start dual-booting ubuntu, i have not installed it yet, and i am running windows xp. except, my only problem is i'm quite afraid that during the 'partition' step i will lose some of my data. how can i avoid this, or am i paranoid?

i have never lost any (and i have installed ubuntu many, many times). but if you don't back up your data, you will lose it some day :)

hi. how much megabytes exactly (+- 50mb) does 11.04 desktop i386 standard installation takes after fresh install?

i have a fresh install sitting here - its using 2.8 gigs

i have a sound blaster live! 5.1 sound card and a logitech x-530 5.1 speaker set... the sound is okay but i got an interference noise at the central speaker all the time. does anyone know what's happening?

creative.com (but sb drivers are included with ubuntu)

which is the lightest de?

xcfe, openbox, flux, e17...

how can i find more detailed info on my processor? i know about cat /proc/cpuinfo, basically i need to know what amd i got

sudo lshw

dabar: i think my ubuntu is broken cuz i'm getting a bunch of unresolved dependency messages even when i excluded the net based repositories and try to dist-upgrade from the cdrom alone.

show me the cd line from /etc/apt/sources.list file, please

is there a good frontend ftp client for ubuntu?

when you click on the 'connect to server' and then edit your details, you will have an icon on your desktop that represents the connection

how can i tell which deb provided a file on my hard drive?

man dpkg for details

hey i finally managed to make my wlan card work with an ndiswrapper and a windows driver, now i have to run 'sudo modprobe ndiswrapper' everytime before it works, where could i put that so that it happens on every startup?!

i know of a file /etc/rc.local where you can put commands that are tun on boot

we have a centralized samba share for mounting all the /var/cache/apt/archives of all the ubuntu machines. this allows less downloads when doing updates. we also have the repositories download from a centralized location. so we update the main machine, and then the other machines update from the local network.

why samba instead of http?

not to interrupt, but does anyone know much about dual monitors? i'm having an interesting problem i can't search the internet for because i'm not sure how to phrase it.

standard trick, try to reset the monitor with build in factory reset?

how do i change the default bittorrent client from vuzu back to transmission

you can associate .torrent files with transmission

hi, here is my problem: the '1' key doesnt work (the one below esc), but shift+'1' does work, im 100% shure it is ubuntu thing, cause on other pc and on this pc on win it works normal, any ideas?

go to the console and see if it works there..

i have a folder that i need to give access to user www, group www, but i need to edit the files with my user. the best way is to add my user to the group www and make the folder part of the group www?

and make the folder group-writable

is there any web interface for ubuntu repositories?

packages.ubuntu.com

last night i set up gnupg. gnupg responded: 'the key 1024d/7c52bc42 was successfully validated.' what does the letter 'd' mean?

that you are using dsa as algorithm

what is the linux euqivalent of ipconfig?

ifconfig

how can i view a txt file in non-wrapped mode

in nano. nano should have wrapping off by default

hi. google earth 5 does not run. could give you a logfile - could anyone help me?

i have it working fine but you must use the workaround

would someone mind looking at this pastebin of my /var/log/syslog, could this be my problem? server running insanely slow, but not sure what this message means.

you have a severe hardware problem with your /dev/sda disk which is about to die.

how i can turn off my pc from terminal

shutdown -h now ?

is samba necessary in order to view files from a wind7 machine using a ubuntu machine?

the package you need for this is smbfs, not samba

did you download breezy while running hoary?

yeah, replace all instances of hoary in sources.list with breezy, apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade