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hey, want the system to stop asking me to enter a password whenever i start evolution (keyring access) or try to change cpu frequency. how do i do that, or what do i google for? also, in the same area: how to allow a regular user to use `nice`?	that eliminates the purpose of passwords....
anyone knows the program used to partition the disks when we install ubuntu?	i think parted is used below the gui of the installer, check docs, wiki, etc
can people hear me in here?	no, we cannot hear you. :x
hey guys im goign to begin developing my own clustering distro based off of ubuntu server. i need a very minimalistic kde install what package do i need to download	just stat with the server install and just add the xserver and the kde base packages
how di i associate an icon with a program listing in the menu?	right click > edit menu > eight click on item > properties > click on ico to change it
does anybody know how to give the shell a background image?	just go to edit/current profile/effects
hey, i was here a while ago and someone suggested a gnome-panel app to put the computer into presentation mode (stops screensaver) --does anyone know the name of it?	there is the classic inhibit applet for gnome-panel and there is kaffine for unity.
are there any other good image editors aside from gimp? i'm not a fan of the way gimp is layed out...	there's gimpshop, which rearranges the gimp.
every time i shutdown for about a 1/4 sec there is an error about compiz it's not a big deal but is there an easy way i can see what that error is?	it's just there because compiz shuts down before x does
hi folks, can someone help me please? i am here in a datacentre at a server and need some www-research (have no gui here, so cannot browse)	install links, the browser.
i've just ubuntu 5.04 for amd64 .... uhm ... .what can i say except gnome starts up and hangs .... not that i expected gnome to work at all .... but what runlevel does ubuntu use for multiuser/no-x envoironment ? ... and whats the apt-get param to install kde ?	i would guess that the no x run level is 3
i'm looking for a script or anything, that deletes my duplicate songs from my hardrive, any idea ?	sudo aptitude install fslint
hi! i can't seem to find a guide to installing a realtime kernel for 9.10 (64 bit). does anyone know where i can find such a thing?	and linux-image-2.6.31-9-rt package might be what you want, no comments on how stable it is however
hey, i'm trying to do this 'useradd bob' but it says 'useradd: unable to lock password file' what am i doing wrong?	use sudo
i need some help with netbook remix- i'm trying to get a full desktop (i.e. no netbook launcher) but i don't know how...	remove ubuntu-netbook-remix package.
how do i get gnome network manager to manage my wifi connection?	read through the wifi howto yet?
does anyone know what size hard drives ubuntu supports 'out of the box?'	it will take all hard drive sizes
hey, after i update my /etc/bash.bashrc file, do i have to reboot my computer?	no, just type this: . /etc/bash.bashrc and subsequent logins will catch it too
what do i use to make a software raid (raid0) for two disks in ubuntu?	mdadm
how to get the read/write-speed from a hdd?	hdparm -t\|-t
can we set to auto mount every time we log in ubuntu?	auto mount what?
what could consume all my free disk space (20.2gb) and then give it back on a reboot? i'm in gnome, and only firefox and xchat are running.	/tmp ?
can you confirm that 10.10 still uses gnome and gdm?	yes the folders exist
why i can't edit or modify the file 'etc/default/grub' ??? i have gedit installed :-s	it would be /etc/default/grub and chances are you need to do what celthunder said.
i installed samba and for some reason when i access a computer on my network where the username has no password, it says access denied... what's going on	set a password on the accounts
i just dist-upgraded to edgy, and now x won't load... it doesn't give any logging at all... anyone know what's up?	what if you apt-get install x-window-system-core xserver-xorg?
hey, i'm rather new to linux and i really like it. i would like to change over completely but because of my ipod is there an ipod program or something that can run ituns?	try gtkpod
is there an easy way to get a sound feedback in a bash script? beep or something? but not over pc-speaker but sound-device	aplay ?
ok, another q: i installed gnome desktop in charge of unity (because i think it's bs) but what i want to know	choose a theme that has the buttons on the side you want
hi all... any idea about envy for nvidia driver installation ?	it's probably unnecessary. look at the restricted drivers manager.
pardon my ignorance but either my grep is broken or my head is broken but why wont my grep work anymore lol is try ls -la /etc \| grep yum and it shows listings with yum then i try to enter a regex and it wont work. for example i tried ls -la /etc \| grep /^yum/ didnt work also /yum/ didnt work also /yum+/ didnt work	don't put // around the expression
hi, if /dev/scd0 is my dvd drive, how do i find my cd drive address pls? i typed 'df' but the result didn't make sense to me, that or it isn't showing up (shows on desktop when i put a cd in the drive)	put a cd in, go to terminal, type mount, it will show you everything that's mounted
a question about rss-feeds. i just installed liferea and when i click one of the news in it i get like two rows of text and when i click it firefox opens the real article. isn't there a way to have liferea show me the entire article right away and just read all news there? or is rss just a 'oh-there's-something-new-on-this-page-i'll-go-check-it-out-then'-thing?	sometimes rss feeds are shorter versions of a full article, it depends on the feed, most that i read are more than 2 lines though.
in ubuntu, when you install a package either through 'add/remove' or 'synaptic' , where it will keep the downloaded packages ?	/var/cache/apt/archives/
what has happend to inittab on (k)ubuntu?	the things that used to be in it are mostly controlled by the scripts in /etc/event.d/
hi. anyone know how i can convert a avi -> iso (readable from dvd-players) ?	a very easy program to do that is devede
how do i encode in h263 using ffmpeg... in spite of installing all missing codecs its showing 'incorrect parameters' though i use standard qcif resolution	isnt' the ffmpeg in ubuntu crippled or did they resolve that?
u know how to install vlc thru synaptic package manager?	sure, find the 'vlc' package and click install.
anyone used rdesktop with xp?	yeah, works fine
is there some easy way to count the number of files in a dir from a terminal?	how about find \| nl ? that's hardly elegant though.
how do i add a new user through the terminal if i can't access the user gui thing?	you need to edit /etc/sudoers using 'visudo'
does gstreamer-mad give mp3 support to ubuntu's rhythmbox ?	'gstreamer0.8-mad', yes
is it possible to let mailx pick gmail ?	gmail supports pop3 and imap, if mailx supports one of those, yes
my ati card and wireless card do not work under 9.10, is there an easy way to downgrade to 9.04?	clean install
is there powermizer option for opensourced nv drivers?	iam not sure if the binary drivers support that at all under linux
hi all. quick one. connecting ext2 formatted external drive to ubuntu 12.04 machine and i cannot create any folders on it. it is freshly formated but mounts as root	chown -r user:user /mnt/mountpoint
ok i am in failsafe now in cli, how can i remove or uninstall kde from cli?	'sudo apt-get remove kde'
question about purging: i can't seem to purge (config files of) packages i've already removed. now, i want to purge 'mysql', but 'amarok' depends on 'mysql' and i just want to remove and not purge 'amarok'. can i do this? how? (prefer cmd-line.)	sudo apt-get remove amarok
is it possible to manually add a folder to the main folders in nautilus sidebar? (not the bookmarks)	drag and drop the folder to the sidebar.
how do i give myself permission to copy a font into the font folder?	you may want to use sudo to copy your files around i.e. sudo cp -a /path/to/source /path/to/target
intrepid here; does someone knows why googleearth goes soo slow?	you'll want to disable compiz (visual effects in appearance prefs) if it's enabled
can i read ext3 formatted harddrives on vista?	i don't know of a program that will let you do that.
is there a way to specify the path to your private key when you connect to a server with ssh and nautilus?	if you add an entry to .ssh/config for the server you're connecting to you can specify an identity file there
i wil ask in a different way: whats the easiest wy to install apache/php/mysql in dapper?	xampp
how do i write a script?	bash script? there are many scripting languages and all are far too complicated too learn without a tutorial/manual etc.
hi, i just installed 9.04 in paralles mac, but i cant login. everytime i enter my credentials i hear the login sound, see the desktop for a second and then the login screen reapeas, asking me again form my username/password. does anyone know a solution for this?	that sounds like a bug i had... but i forget how i fixed it :o
have you somebody good experience with anyone?	your last post..is a metaphysical question ;)
ubuntu's installed uses uids to mount things, regardless of their device. how can i find teh uid of my devices so it does not matter which device node they are on?	disk uuid's are just symlinks to the various devices in /dev -- they are linked in this directory - /dev/disk/by-uuid
is it right to say 'conflicts are waging' or should it be 'conflicts are raging'?	conflicts are raging
is there a better way to get a typo in a ui string fixed than filing a bug?	great nick
can someone help me with deluge bittorrent - some plugin of mine got screwed and deluge refuses to start. i need to disable the plugin manually. hellp	deluge was always breaking for me like that, so i switched to transmission
guys, i don't have the 'configuration editor' under applications -> system tools. anybody know what package this is part of please ?	it's in the menu, but hidden: alacarte can unhide it
hey everyone. what's the difference between ; and && when chaining commands?	the '&&' means if previous command ends without error. you can use '\|\|' as the opposite
i have two computers (jaunty 9.04), how can i create a local wireless network between the two??	click on the wifi icon in the top right tray, and select 'create new wireless network...'
my pointer preferences is not showing up under my mouse preferences like it's supposed to. is there something i need to install additionally?	it is in preferences>appeaerence>themes>customize>pointers
is anyone familiar with xterm? shift+ctrl+v is doing nothing for me, and it should work by default, should it not? i haven't overriden anything related to keys in my .xdefaults	isn't shift+ctrl+v to paste? maybe you didn't copy?
hey peeps can anyone tell me is there an alternate download for a 'slim' version of ubuntu? something with less services and packages enabled/installed on default...	just use the alternate cd with expert mode and only install the base system
what do i do about a black screen with blinking cursor on ubuntu cd install?	you might need the alternative disk instead
hello there, i want to run in background a program and save the pid in a file named myprogram.pid, i have this, this run the program in background ./myprogram > /dev/null & , but how i get the pid to save it in myprogram.pid?	the process id of the current bash is $$
so, seriously, no antivirus?	clamav
is there a way to see how much bandwidth devices on a network are consuming?	iftop
hello! does anybody know how to change the default media player to kaffeine when using gnome?	sorry, you first have to open the properties and then select open with
you 'can' sure, you 'can' jump off a cliff too, if you wish, being able to do something and it being practical are not really mutually inclusive, soooo, i'd suggest instead to do a full-install wheneve possible	try this instead' yes janelle you can, but it's not recommended' see same thing, but much less rude
hello, i'm having an issue with using multiple monitors. the first time i tried to attach a crt to my laptop, i went to preferences -> display, and tried to turn on the crt. however, 'monitor resolution settings detected that the virtual resolution must be set in [my] configuration file ... to apply the settings.' when i gave it the go-ahead, my screen resolutions went haywire.	no need to reinstall in those cases. just do sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and everything should be back to normal
hi. where does google chrome stores its extension files? thanks	~/.config/chromium/default/extensions
why is the torrent so slow ?	no idea
i am sure i will kick myself when i here the answer but, how do i figure out what my workgroup is in ubuntu? (used to know how...)	smb.conf
is there a simple way to get 10.10 to authenticate with our osx ldap server? i'm not sure what i should be looking at and as we're considering setting up several ubuntu boxes we don't want to have to edit shit loads of files to do it if we can help it.	i think pam (pluggable authentication modules) has an ldap module
so i'm on 64 bit ubu and this proprietary binary needs the 32 bit versions of libraries ... is there a magic apt incantation to get these on here?	sudo apt-get install libname-foo:i386
i think you can also use synaptic, aptitude to select packages for upgrade	gui = bad :)
the next question would xfce support gaims flashing window feature? :)	have you seen gaim-guifications?
whats the best way to share my hp printer on my ibex server, its headless so i have to do all cli config, cups still the way to go?	i just install the 'ubuntu-restricted-extras' package and it installs flash and java.. ive not had to 'tweak/work/mess' with those in ages.
how to close a hanged program?	if it is a graphical program running xkill is easisest
am i the only one that hosed his machine from the latest 10.04 kernel update? first part of the error is complaining about a missing post-install hook.	can you boot the older kernel ok?
what's a good iso burner for gnome?	you could use brasero.
anyone know how i can drop to a busybox shell at boot / splash?	break the root= argument to the kernel
hi! i have a question, please :) can i update from ubuntu 7.04 to ubuntu 9.04 with only one update? (maybe with the alternate cd? :) thanks!	the instructions say that such a long upgrade isn't supported :(
what is a .la file? i am trying to install sdl_image and sdl_net locally, since i do not have root privs. i tried building sdl_image and sdl_net from source, but i get .la files rather than .so and i don't know how to link to them....	la is some libtool temporary file format
do you have build-essential installed?	awesome, that fixed it
i have heard that some people having a lot of trouble since updating firefox to 3.5.5. the browser willl crash now and then. what do you guys/girls say about that?	mine is stable so far
to upgrade from hoary to breezy, can i just change 'hoary' to 'breezy' in /etc/apt/sources.list, or do i actually have to install from the cd?	that will update you to breezy
how do you check to see if there are any usb conflicts...	lsusb will give you everything connected to the usb buss. probably addresses as well.. dmesg will give you a long list of information while booting.
hi, does anyone knows how can i enable ssh and sshfs as root remotely ?	first edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and make sure permitrootlogin is yes and then sudo passwd to set a password for root (or better sudo ssh-keygen to generate him a keypair)
does anybody know where i can find tcl8.5 tcl8.5-dev tk8.5 tk8.5-dev please?	why do you need them?
i have wireless working on my laptop, but every reboot i have to disable eth0 (my ethernet) and enable ath0 which is my wireless device, is there a way to make ath0 enabled by default and eth0 disabled by default?	yes, edit /etc/network/interfaces
is running ubuntu from an usb disk as simple as from an internal drive? or do you need to do something dfferently during install?	the most complicated part is figuring out to choose your boot device from the bios or efi. not really a linux issue
hello. i need to install sun-java6-jdk and a few weeks ago that still was found in synaptic and installed, when canonical partners was added as repository. now i installed same ubuntu 11.04 on a different machine today and it can't find sun-java6-jdk anymore, even though canonical partners etc. is the same...?	double check the partners repo is enabled and make sure you updated your package list
sombody else can help me?	what is your question?
how do you close a msg in irssi	if you do that in a window where you're connected to a channel, it'll also part the channel...
whats the correct channel for an issue with nvidia binary driver and 10.10, i have a gts250, which is apparently not supported	if i were i would try maybe the 10.04 version with a live cd and see if working

hey, want the system to stop asking me to enter a password whenever i start evolution (keyring access) or try to change cpu frequency. how do i do that, or what do i google for? also, in the same area: how to allow a regular user to use `nice`?

that eliminates the purpose of passwords....

anyone knows the program used to partition the disks when we install ubuntu?

i think parted is used below the gui of the installer, check docs, wiki, etc

can people hear me in here?

no, we cannot hear you. :x

hey guys im goign to begin developing my own clustering distro based off of ubuntu server. i need a very minimalistic kde install what package do i need to download

just stat with the server install and just add the xserver and the kde base packages

how di i associate an icon with a program listing in the menu?

right click > edit menu > eight click on item > properties > click on ico to change it

does anybody know how to give the shell a background image?

just go to edit/current profile/effects

hey, i was here a while ago and someone suggested a gnome-panel app to put the computer into presentation mode (stops screensaver) --does anyone know the name of it?

there is the classic inhibit applet for gnome-panel and there is kaffine for unity.

are there any other good image editors aside from gimp? i'm not a fan of the way gimp is layed out...

there's gimpshop, which rearranges the gimp.

every time i shutdown for about a 1/4 sec there is an error about compiz it's not a big deal but is there an easy way i can see what that error is?

it's just there because compiz shuts down before x does

hi folks, can someone help me please? i am here in a datacentre at a server and need some www-research (have no gui here, so cannot browse)

install links, the browser.

i've just ubuntu 5.04 for amd64 .... uhm ... .what can i say except gnome starts up and hangs .... not that i expected gnome to work at all .... but what runlevel does ubuntu use for multiuser/no-x envoironment ? ... and whats the apt-get param to install kde ?

i would guess that the no x run level is 3

i'm looking for a script or anything, that deletes my duplicate songs from my hardrive, any idea ?

sudo aptitude install fslint

hi! i can't seem to find a guide to installing a realtime kernel for 9.10 (64 bit). does anyone know where i can find such a thing?

and linux-image-2.6.31-9-rt package might be what you want, no comments on how stable it is however

hey, i'm trying to do this 'useradd bob' but it says 'useradd: unable to lock password file' what am i doing wrong?

use sudo

i need some help with netbook remix- i'm trying to get a full desktop (i.e. no netbook launcher) but i don't know how...

remove ubuntu-netbook-remix package.

how do i get gnome network manager to manage my wifi connection?

read through the wifi howto yet?

does anyone know what size hard drives ubuntu supports 'out of the box?'

it will take all hard drive sizes

hey, after i update my /etc/bash.bashrc file, do i have to reboot my computer?

no, just type this: . /etc/bash.bashrc and subsequent logins will catch it too

what do i use to make a software raid (raid0) for two disks in ubuntu?

mdadm

how to get the read/write-speed from a hdd?

hdparm -t|-t

can we set to auto mount every time we log in ubuntu?

auto mount what?

what could consume all my free disk space (20.2gb) and then give it back on a reboot? i'm in gnome, and only firefox and xchat are running.

/tmp ?

can you confirm that 10.10 still uses gnome and gdm?

yes the folders exist

why i can't edit or modify the file 'etc/default/grub' ??? i have gedit installed :-s

it would be /etc/default/grub and chances are you need to do what celthunder said.

i installed samba and for some reason when i access a computer on my network where the username has no password, it says access denied... what's going on

set a password on the accounts

i just dist-upgraded to edgy, and now x won't load... it doesn't give any logging at all... anyone know what's up?

what if you apt-get install x-window-system-core xserver-xorg?

hey, i'm rather new to linux and i really like it. i would like to change over completely but because of my ipod is there an ipod program or something that can run ituns?

try gtkpod

is there an easy way to get a sound feedback in a bash script? beep or something? but not over pc-speaker but sound-device

aplay ?

ok, another q: i installed gnome desktop in charge of unity (because i think it's bs) but what i want to know

choose a theme that has the buttons on the side you want

hi all... any idea about envy for nvidia driver installation ?

it's probably unnecessary. look at the restricted drivers manager.

pardon my ignorance but either my grep is broken or my head is broken but why wont my grep work anymore lol is try ls -la /etc | grep yum and it shows listings with yum then i try to enter a regex and it wont work. for example i tried ls -la /etc | grep /^yum/ didnt work also /yum/ didnt work also /yum+/ didnt work

don't put // around the expression

hi, if /dev/scd0 is my dvd drive, how do i find my cd drive address pls? i typed 'df' but the result didn't make sense to me, that or it isn't showing up (shows on desktop when i put a cd in the drive)

put a cd in, go to terminal, type mount, it will show you everything that's mounted

a question about rss-feeds. i just installed liferea and when i click one of the news in it i get like two rows of text and when i click it firefox opens the real article. isn't there a way to have liferea show me the entire article right away and just read all news there? or is rss just a 'oh-there's-something-new-on-this-page-i'll-go-check-it-out-then'-thing?

sometimes rss feeds are shorter versions of a full article, it depends on the feed, most that i read are more than 2 lines though.

in ubuntu, when you install a package either through 'add/remove' or 'synaptic' , where it will keep the downloaded packages ?

/var/cache/apt/archives/

what has happend to inittab on (k)ubuntu?

the things that used to be in it are mostly controlled by the scripts in /etc/event.d/

hi. anyone know how i can convert a avi -> iso (readable from dvd-players) ?

a very easy program to do that is devede

how do i encode in h263 using ffmpeg... in spite of installing all missing codecs its showing 'incorrect parameters' though i use standard qcif resolution

isnt' the ffmpeg in ubuntu crippled or did they resolve that?

u know how to install vlc thru synaptic package manager?

sure, find the 'vlc' package and click install.

anyone used rdesktop with xp?

yeah, works fine

is there some easy way to count the number of files in a dir from a terminal?

how about find | nl ? that's hardly elegant though.

how do i add a new user through the terminal if i can't access the user gui thing?

you need to edit /etc/sudoers using 'visudo'

does gstreamer-mad give mp3 support to ubuntu's rhythmbox ?

'gstreamer0.8-mad', yes

is it possible to let mailx pick gmail ?

gmail supports pop3 and imap, if mailx supports one of those, yes

my ati card and wireless card do not work under 9.10, is there an easy way to downgrade to 9.04?

clean install

is there powermizer option for opensourced nv drivers?

iam not sure if the binary drivers support that at all under linux

hi all. quick one. connecting ext2 formatted external drive to ubuntu 12.04 machine and i cannot create any folders on it. it is freshly formated but mounts as root

chown -r user:user /mnt/mountpoint

ok i am in failsafe now in cli, how can i remove or uninstall kde from cli?

'sudo apt-get remove kde'

question about purging: i can't seem to purge (config files of) packages i've already removed. now, i want to purge 'mysql', but 'amarok' depends on 'mysql' and i just want to remove and not purge 'amarok'. can i do this? how? (prefer cmd-line.)

sudo apt-get remove amarok

is it possible to manually add a folder to the main folders in nautilus sidebar? (not the bookmarks)

drag and drop the folder to the sidebar.

how do i give myself permission to copy a font into the font folder?

you may want to use sudo to copy your files around i.e. sudo cp -a /path/to/source /path/to/target

intrepid here; does someone knows why googleearth goes soo slow?

you'll want to disable compiz (visual effects in appearance prefs) if it's enabled

can i read ext3 formatted harddrives on vista?

i don't know of a program that will let you do that.

is there a way to specify the path to your private key when you connect to a server with ssh and nautilus?

if you add an entry to .ssh/config for the server you're connecting to you can specify an identity file there

i wil ask in a different way: whats the easiest wy to install apache/php/mysql in dapper?

xampp

how do i write a script?

bash script? there are many scripting languages and all are far too complicated too learn without a tutorial/manual etc.

hi, i just installed 9.04 in paralles mac, but i cant login. everytime i enter my credentials i hear the login sound, see the desktop for a second and then the login screen reapeas, asking me again form my username/password. does anyone know a solution for this?

that sounds like a bug i had... but i forget how i fixed it :o

have you somebody good experience with anyone?

your last post..is a metaphysical question ;)

ubuntu's installed uses uids to mount things, regardless of their device. how can i find teh uid of my devices so it does not matter which device node they are on?

disk uuid's are just symlinks to the various devices in /dev -- they are linked in this directory - /dev/disk/by-uuid

is it right to say 'conflicts are waging' or should it be 'conflicts are raging'?

conflicts are raging

is there a better way to get a typo in a ui string fixed than filing a bug?

great nick

can someone help me with deluge bittorrent - some plugin of mine got screwed and deluge refuses to start. i need to disable the plugin manually. hellp

deluge was always breaking for me like that, so i switched to transmission

guys, i don't have the 'configuration editor' under applications -> system tools. anybody know what package this is part of please ?

it's in the menu, but hidden: alacarte can unhide it

hey everyone. what's the difference between ; and && when chaining commands?

the '&&' means if previous command ends without error. you can use '||' as the opposite

i have two computers (jaunty 9.04), how can i create a local wireless network between the two??

click on the wifi icon in the top right tray, and select 'create new wireless network...'

my pointer preferences is not showing up under my mouse preferences like it's supposed to. is there something i need to install additionally?

it is in preferences>appeaerence>themes>customize>pointers

is anyone familiar with xterm? shift+ctrl+v is doing nothing for me, and it should work by default, should it not? i haven't overriden anything related to keys in my .xdefaults

isn't shift+ctrl+v to paste? maybe you didn't copy?

hey peeps can anyone tell me is there an alternate download for a 'slim' version of ubuntu? something with less services and packages enabled/installed on default...

just use the alternate cd with expert mode and only install the base system

what do i do about a black screen with blinking cursor on ubuntu cd install?

you might need the alternative disk instead

hello there, i want to run in background a program and save the pid in a file named myprogram.pid, i have this, this run the program in background ./myprogram > /dev/null & , but how i get the pid to save it in myprogram.pid?

the process id of the current bash is $$

so, seriously, no antivirus?

clamav

is there a way to see how much bandwidth devices on a network are consuming?

iftop

hello! does anybody know how to change the default media player to kaffeine when using gnome?

sorry, you first have to open the properties and then select open with

you 'can' sure, you 'can' jump off a cliff too, if you wish, being able to do something and it being practical are not really mutually inclusive, soooo, i'd suggest instead to do a full-install wheneve possible

try this instead' yes janelle you can, but it's not recommended' see same thing, but much less rude

hello, i'm having an issue with using multiple monitors. the first time i tried to attach a crt to my laptop, i went to preferences -> display, and tried to turn on the crt. however, 'monitor resolution settings detected that the virtual resolution must be set in [my] configuration file ... to apply the settings.' when i gave it the go-ahead, my screen resolutions went haywire.

no need to reinstall in those cases. just do sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and everything should be back to normal

hi. where does google chrome stores its extension files? thanks

~/.config/chromium/default/extensions

why is the torrent so slow ?

no idea

i am sure i will kick myself when i here the answer but, how do i figure out what my workgroup is in ubuntu? (used to know how...)

smb.conf

is there a simple way to get 10.10 to authenticate with our osx ldap server? i'm not sure what i should be looking at and as we're considering setting up several ubuntu boxes we don't want to have to edit shit loads of files to do it if we can help it.

i think pam (pluggable authentication modules) has an ldap module

so i'm on 64 bit ubu and this proprietary binary needs the 32 bit versions of libraries ... is there a magic apt incantation to get these on here?

sudo apt-get install libname-foo:i386

i think you can also use synaptic, aptitude to select packages for upgrade

gui = bad :)

the next question would xfce support gaims flashing window feature? :)

have you seen gaim-guifications?

whats the best way to share my hp printer on my ibex server, its headless so i have to do all cli config, cups still the way to go?

i just install the 'ubuntu-restricted-extras' package and it installs flash and java.. ive not had to 'tweak/work/mess' with those in ages.

how to close a hanged program?

if it is a graphical program running xkill is easisest

am i the only one that hosed his machine from the latest 10.04 kernel update? first part of the error is complaining about a missing post-install hook.

can you boot the older kernel ok?

what's a good iso burner for gnome?

you could use brasero.

anyone know how i can drop to a busybox shell at boot / splash?

break the root= argument to the kernel

hi! i have a question, please :) can i update from ubuntu 7.04 to ubuntu 9.04 with only one update? (maybe with the alternate cd? :) thanks!

the instructions say that such a long upgrade isn't supported :(

what is a .la file? i am trying to install sdl_image and sdl_net locally, since i do not have root privs. i tried building sdl_image and sdl_net from source, but i get .la files rather than .so and i don't know how to link to them....

la is some libtool temporary file format

do you have build-essential installed?

awesome, that fixed it

i have heard that some people having a lot of trouble since updating firefox to 3.5.5. the browser willl crash now and then. what do you guys/girls say about that?

mine is stable so far

to upgrade from hoary to breezy, can i just change 'hoary' to 'breezy' in /etc/apt/sources.list, or do i actually have to install from the cd?

that will update you to breezy

how do you check to see if there are any usb conflicts...

lsusb will give you everything connected to the usb buss. probably addresses as well.. dmesg will give you a long list of information while booting.

hi, does anyone knows how can i enable ssh and sshfs as root remotely ?

first edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and make sure permitrootlogin is yes and then sudo passwd to set a password for root (or better sudo ssh-keygen to generate him a keypair)

does anybody know where i can find tcl8.5 tcl8.5-dev tk8.5 tk8.5-dev please?

why do you need them?

i have wireless working on my laptop, but every reboot i have to disable eth0 (my ethernet) and enable ath0 which is my wireless device, is there a way to make ath0 enabled by default and eth0 disabled by default?

yes, edit /etc/network/interfaces

is running ubuntu from an usb disk as simple as from an internal drive? or do you need to do something dfferently during install?

the most complicated part is figuring out to choose your boot device from the bios or efi. not really a linux issue

hello. i need to install sun-java6-jdk and a few weeks ago that still was found in synaptic and installed, when canonical partners was added as repository. now i installed same ubuntu 11.04 on a different machine today and it can't find sun-java6-jdk anymore, even though canonical partners etc. is the same...?

double check the partners repo is enabled and make sure you updated your package list

sombody else can help me?

what is your question?

how do you close a msg in irssi

if you do that in a window where you're connected to a channel, it'll also part the channel...

whats the correct channel for an issue with nvidia binary driver and 10.10, i have a gts250, which is apparently not supported

if i were i would try maybe the 10.04 version with a live cd and see if working