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hey all. ubuntu convertee here, so please excuse the newbness. how do execute a program from terminal without tying it up? like in a separate thread?	programname &
or do you know a simple network ports scanner?	gnome-nettool knows how to scan for open ports..
simple question, if i had a previous install of ubuntu on my hardrive and would like to overwrite this with a new install of ubuntu. if i formated the drive and then proceeded to install the new version of ubuntu, would that replace the old mbr?	if you completely rewrite the harddrive, yes, if you add a partition, no
i want to fdisk my usb drive. how do i know which block special device is that, i mean sda or sdb or any other in /dev ?	you could alternatively launc gparted which should show you which drive is which.
hey ya'll, i am wondering, what is a good virtual drive program? like to mount isos, etc on ubuntu?	loom on the internet. you don't need a seperate program, just a couple of scripts.
how do i prevent a kernel module from being loaded at boot?	put it in /etc/hotplug/blacklist
hi. how do i activate mouse (cursor actions) in vim?	try using gvim
hey, how do you combine 2 wordlist files one after the other?	cat file1 file2 > file3
whats the path of hard disk drives in the root directory	you might also see it in your 'places' menu as 'xx.x gb media'.
is it normal that the cmd 'su' fails?	use sudo su in order to get root
hello! how do i get rid of this message? enter password to unlock your login keyring the password you use to log in to your computer no longer matches that of your login keyring.	install seahorse. you can use blank password (for unsafe) without any password prompt or put in a new password.
is there somebody who help me, i cant change my screen resolution after i upgraded to feisty	yeah.. take a look at this:http://aidanloughran.co.uk/wordpress/?p=135
when i open synaptic i can see a sun-j2re1.5 but i don't see an sdk for it? where can i get that...do i have the wrong name?	you need to download it from sun; then convert it according to the instructions on the wiki.
would 'sudo apt-get install firestarter' work on a hoary install?	i don't know, i'm not installable.
trying to do cp /media/cdrom/vmwaretools-*.tar.gz /tmp/ but i get cp: cannot create regular file /tmp/vmwaretools-6.0.4-93057.tar.gz permission denied. how to	you need to be superuser - try sudo with the command. and copy it to $home/src and work in there.
hi all... it seems that our ffmpeg doesn't come configured with mp3 codecs (when trying to transcode an mpeg movie to flv and forcing it to use mp3 streams, it claims that the codec is unsupported). any clue how to fix that?	try this link re codecs and conversions: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683
hi. i'm trying to start my 10.04 (lucid) computer in text mode. i found http://fooninja.net/2010/07/29/text-boot-in-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04-disabling-gdm/ which says to put 'grub_cmdline_linux='text'' in /etc/default/grub, but that file doesn't exist on my system, and when i created it and rebooted, it didn't change anything. is that file somewhere else?	try /boot/grub/menu.lst
hello everyone, i have a question, after two years i wanted to play a game but couldn't find a single good game! could someone introduce me a good online source to check for top linux games?	tremulous, open arena, neverball, wormux, enemy territory, etc.
how can i theme gdm? is there a tutorial/manual?	sabayon should work for both gnome and kde i think. it just makes a default set of dot-files
hi guys. when i run totem, and try to get it to play a dvd, i get the error: don't know how to handle audio/x-ac3	installed dvd support? i think wiki.ubuntu.com/restrictedformats will tell you how to do that.
helll folks. i have a problem with ubuntu 12.04. yesterday all alt+fkeys stopped working. like alt+f4 to close active window.. how should i fix it?	see if system settings > keyboard > shortcuts gives you an ide
how do i check to see what filesystem a drive is formatted to?	type 'mount' in terminal, that gives a list of all filesystems currently mounted
does anyone here knows if there is any simulation software for electrical engineering?	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntuscience <= this should list most of them
anyone know if the d-link dwl-122 works under ubuntu?	but i'm not 100%
can i upload a package created with checkinstall (generated deb package, no deb source file) to my ppa?	you probably 'shouldn't' checkinstall is a 'cheat' and shouldn't be used to distribute the created debs...
how can i 'customize' the name of 'desktop' folder?	try looking in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
is there a list of bugs discovered since the release of 7.04 anywhere?	check out launchpad
can anyone help me? i can't see my minimized programs and have to use alt+tab.	then add windows list
somebody could tell me the default password of user 'ubuntu' in the image downloaded from ubuntu?	by default, there is no password and it should autologin
does ati gfx card works fine on 3d desktop?	depends on the model
sorry to bump, but does anyone know the terminal command to start gnome-screensaver in xubuntu please? when i run gnome-screensaver, it says its already running, but i want it to actually start the animation and all that..	gnome-screensaver-command --activate
i'm trying to install ubuntu on a toshiba portege - external cd drive. boot from cd, opt to install, find myself at a command prompt (busybox, ash). is this a known problem?	to get live cd to run this often helps..at start or install press f6 and remove quiet and splash from the command line. if it still fails.. repeat and after removing quiet and splash add noapic acpi=off before the '--'
whats an easy way to make a zombie process?	run a process, have it run a child process, then kill the parent while having the child ignore the sighup and sigterm signals
i'm trying to figure out the size of a disk that has no partition table; i think i can get it with the udevadm command and the usec_initialized line although i have no idea how to calculate it. does anybody have any idea. this is the size of one disk (i think): e: usec_initialized=5087245	why not just use 'sudo parted -l'?
trying to keep a log of the steps i need to take a configure a new ubuntu vps... when i have to do things like add several lines to the end of a config file... is there an easier way than multiple echo '...' >> filename commands? can i do a single command and then just paste all the lines into stdin and hit ctrl d to finish?	or script file.txt
recently bought a removable hard drive, formatted it but cannot write to it as owner is 'root' ... how do i change this to logged-in user? running 9.04	chown user /mnt/hardrive
somehow my root '/' folder became writable. what do i have to do to fix this?	writable by who?
when i installed ubuntu .. i unhooked my other drives.. is there a way to get grub to find them ?	there is. grub-install
how do i undelete something i emptied from the trash bin?	you cant
anyone know how to install the latest beta of firefox on 7.10 a64? i wanted to give the the beta3 a try but not sure what to do	and run it as /opt/firefox3/firefox
how do i plot a regression curve onto the graph in gnumeric?	http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/doc/sect-graphics-plots-overview-types.shtml
how can i make metacity the default??	change visual efects to none
how to install openal in ubuntu? i'm using lucid lynx........	on my hardy install, 'sudo apt-get install libopenal0a'. being on lucid, the suffix for you will probably be different from '0a', so search using 'apt-cache search openal'
how do i specify the password as a parameter when connection to a ssh server? (no need for security, the user has no access on the server)	use ssh keys
anyone with experience from dell emc san?	we need more details on what your problem is.
goodmorning everyone. i have just inserted a new graphics card in my computer. i still have the old one (a s3 pci) in my computer and today i inserted a geforce mx in the agp slot. my vga cable is connected to the geforce mx but when i try to run sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg it detects the card as a s3 but i want it to detect the geforce mx (which is now supposed to be my primary graphics card). can anyone help me getting xserve	instead of letting it autodetect the module, select the correct one in the list
does anyone know of a thunderbird channel i can go and maybe harrass them instead of u guys :p ??	can i recommend a mac to you :-p
what is 'glxinfo \| grep direct' for?	it tells you if your video config is using direct rendering
if i have a yahoo account can i use gaim for instant messanger ?	yes you can
hello, one quick question: how do i empty my trash as root?	use -rf instead
newbee - i am getting the following error when updating xcommon--- e: /var/cache/apt/archives/x-common_1.08_all.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/x11/fonts', which is also in package xfonts-base...can someone help	known bug, just wait...
use something like partition magic and you can resize the partitions w/out any kinda of destruction to the existing data	partition magic can handle ext3 and swap?
hey guys i don't know what that applet is but the little mailbox looking icon in the top right on the bar in ubuntu 10.10 is there a way to change the empathy chat button to pidgin ?	you can remove the empathy chat item, but you can't change pidgin to chat (well, not easily anyway, empathy is hardcoded in the indicator code). just uninstall empathy or delete /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/empathy (which is just a text file that has the path to the empathy .desktop file)
can someone who doesn't have via integrated sound show me the result of ls /dev/snd ?	hwc0d0 pcmc0d0c pcmc0d1c pcmc0d2p
what compression form can i use that osx will unpack?	tar
how is the default ubuntu user privlaged?	that does not give the user any extra privileges except the ability to use sudo
i need to transcribe a lot of audio. does anyone know of a way to get a linux audio player to replay slowly so that i don't have to keep pressing play/pause?	use vlc and there's an option to slow down playback
hey! i use the latest ubuntu version (10.10). the default theme has minimize, maximize icons in the left side of window. how can i move them to the right side of window?	http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-back-to-the-right-in-ubuntu-10.04/
xmodmap command in terminal is being ignored, e.g. xmodmap -e 'keycode 133 = alt_l' doesn't seem to do anything (key isn't mapped). the keycode is correct, just checked it with xev. tried other keycodes, not working as well.	please help?
ok, i'm having this problem with lynx, and also opera, i'm starting a download, directly from hak5.org (their podcast), and it gets like halfway, and then stops... can anyone help me with that. it works fine with firefox.	treid wget?
anyone have any suggestions for a way to use yahoo messenger and a webcam (within empathy?)	something like skype
hey... how do i get dapper to set num lock on by default?	and richard_ - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/numlock
andreadakis wants only editor support for greek and apparently not the whole environment	then what i said in my second line
please tell me about virtual box	you'll need to install virtualbox, then get a copy of win 7.. then install it there just like you would on another computer
i have a 64 bit processor. is there any reason why i shouldn't use the 64 bit version of hardy? for example, hardware compatibility or incompatible packages.	a major hangup tends to be java applet support in browsers
is there a way to get apt to ignore depends?	why would you want to do that?
do you all manually type eachother's names to address specifically?	i type first three letters then tab :
ljl, if the process chews io then it can be very annoying. ever tried to close a forkbomb ?	again, /etc/security/limits.conf
using irssi, how can i find a string in the past postings of this channel?	/lastlog string
ok. there was this computer which for whatever reason didn't like to boot from the cd-drive. using an option of ubuntu installation, it changed some boot procedure/file in winxp. booting from the hd gave a menu: a)install from cd b)continue in windows. ubuntu install proceeded. now, there still remains that menu when booting in winxp. how to get rid of it?	: you can use your xp cd to restore the xp boot loader, which will remove any of those menus
hi guys! does this mean that i have the 64bit version of ubuntu? (	looks like it.
how do i install the xfce desktop in terminal	sudo apt-get install xfce4
anyone know how i can make thunderbird download mail every x number of mins?	if you go to the account preferences , in server configuration , its there
hi, i'm just looking for an howto to upgrade my ubuntu server dapper to edgy	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/edgyupgrades im guessing this will work for server too
does dapper run well inside virtual pc 2004?	use vmware :p
what would the root entry be for the 3rd partition on the first hd in the grub menu.lst? i've become confused by the documentation	that's correct
it's sources.lst on ubuntu? worst file extension ever!	it was a typo. it is sources.list. ty for noticing it.
are the updates available in the 'hardy proposed' section of synaptic usually safe?	they'll work their way into hardy once they're tested
hi! i noticed the info on launchpad for nbd is horribly incorrect. who do i contact to get it fixed?	good question
when i edit the music directory to /dev/sdax it says /dev/sdax is not a directory	use the actual mount point. not the /dev entry.
how do i install the new ubuntu system font in debian?	or just find teh font file and copy it to your .fonts dir
if i edit the menu.lst why i should use update-grup?	update-grub looks for kernels, and generates a menu.lst entry (actually two entries) for each one.
hello, right that 'rm -rf /*' is blocked in ubuntu ?	no, and i don't recommend saying dangerous commands in here
anyone have any recommendations of things to watch for on updating from 8.04 to 10.4? i have the 'clean upgrade' notes.	do a fresh
how do i run modprobe ath_pci at start up?	sudo modprobe ath_pci
my husband has what looks like a video driver problem in 10.10 - is there something to read about ati radeon graphics?	hope that helps.
what can i use to capture images from my webcam?	camorama
is there a way to get emails from launchpad bug activity?	subscribe to a bug?
can anyone advise me on security measures for running a server with listening applications and security? best practices? hardening the system?	there are a few linux administration pdfs online that have alot of great in-depth information about that
i wish to install the 32-bit java plugin into firefox 64-bit. i've followed the wiki, and the link is valid, but the plugin doesn't install no matter where i link it.	i have downloaded an early build of it and the directory is there for the plugin, but i haven't actually tried to use it and it has also been said on several news sites
guys, i am looking for a cd/dvd burning application in gnome. can someone tell me some of the best applications for that.	gnomebaker
is there a command to list user accounts from the command line?	cat /etc/passwd
is there any soft for driver finding ? ??	system administration hardware drivers
is it just me or is http://au.archive.ubuntu.com really slow?	could very well be, try to find a mirror nerby, i have one just down the street (not literally...) and it's much faster
ah this is fucking annoying. how can the default be that you can't access the grub menu?!	you've tried shift-key?
anyone good with securing ssh server?	pretty easy, disable root log in, force ssh keys, change the port, etc.
where is the clipboard?	i don't know where things are stored within it though
is there any way to find out exactly how much video ram i have?	get it from the repositories
is there a way to install ubuntu over the net by booting off floppy disks? if so, is there a document that details where to get the images or could someone point me where to get them from.	caveat: i don't know if this works
hello! how can i uninstall themes that were installed by dragging them to the appearance preferences windows, as described here? where are these files copied? http://code.google.com/p/gnome-colors/wiki/instructions	or, just goto appearances and 'remove'

hey all. ubuntu convertee here, so please excuse the newbness. how do execute a program from terminal without tying it up? like in a separate thread?

programname &

or do you know a simple network ports scanner?

gnome-nettool knows how to scan for open ports..

simple question, if i had a previous install of ubuntu on my hardrive and would like to overwrite this with a new install of ubuntu. if i formated the drive and then proceeded to install the new version of ubuntu, would that replace the old mbr?

if you completely rewrite the harddrive, yes, if you add a partition, no

i want to fdisk my usb drive. how do i know which block special device is that, i mean sda or sdb or any other in /dev ?

you could alternatively launc gparted which should show you which drive is which.

hey ya'll, i am wondering, what is a good virtual drive program? like to mount isos, etc on ubuntu?

loom on the internet. you don't need a seperate program, just a couple of scripts.

how do i prevent a kernel module from being loaded at boot?

put it in /etc/hotplug/blacklist

hi. how do i activate mouse (cursor actions) in vim?

try using gvim

hey, how do you combine 2 wordlist files one after the other?

cat file1 file2 > file3

whats the path of hard disk drives in the root directory

you might also see it in your 'places' menu as 'xx.x gb media'.

is it normal that the cmd 'su' fails?

use sudo su in order to get root

hello! how do i get rid of this message? enter password to unlock your login keyring the password you use to log in to your computer no longer matches that of your login keyring.

install seahorse. you can use blank password (for unsafe) without any password prompt or put in a new password.

is there somebody who help me, i cant change my screen resolution after i upgraded to feisty

yeah.. take a look at this:http://aidanloughran.co.uk/wordpress/?p=135

when i open synaptic i can see a sun-j2re1.5 but i don't see an sdk for it? where can i get that...do i have the wrong name?

you need to download it from sun; then convert it according to the instructions on the wiki.

would 'sudo apt-get install firestarter' work on a hoary install?

i don't know, i'm not installable.

trying to do cp /media/cdrom/vmwaretools-*.tar.gz /tmp/ but i get cp: cannot create regular file /tmp/vmwaretools-6.0.4-93057.tar.gz permission denied. how to

you need to be superuser - try sudo with the command. and copy it to $home/src and work in there.

hi all... it seems that our ffmpeg doesn't come configured with mp3 codecs (when trying to transcode an mpeg movie to flv and forcing it to use mp3 streams, it claims that the codec is unsupported). any clue how to fix that?

try this link re codecs and conversions: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683

hi. i'm trying to start my 10.04 (lucid) computer in text mode. i found http://fooninja.net/2010/07/29/text-boot-in-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04-disabling-gdm/ which says to put 'grub_cmdline_linux='text'' in /etc/default/grub, but that file doesn't exist on my system, and when i created it and rebooted, it didn't change anything. is that file somewhere else?

try /boot/grub/menu.lst

hello everyone, i have a question, after two years i wanted to play a game but couldn't find a single good game! could someone introduce me a good online source to check for top linux games?

tremulous, open arena, neverball, wormux, enemy territory, etc.

how can i theme gdm? is there a tutorial/manual?

sabayon should work for both gnome and kde i think. it just makes a default set of dot-files

hi guys. when i run totem, and try to get it to play a dvd, i get the error: don't know how to handle audio/x-ac3

installed dvd support? i think wiki.ubuntu.com/restrictedformats will tell you how to do that.

helll folks. i have a problem with ubuntu 12.04. yesterday all alt+fkeys stopped working. like alt+f4 to close active window.. how should i fix it?

see if system settings > keyboard > shortcuts gives you an ide

how do i check to see what filesystem a drive is formatted to?

type 'mount' in terminal, that gives a list of all filesystems currently mounted

does anyone here knows if there is any simulation software for electrical engineering?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntuscience <= this should list most of them

anyone know if the d-link dwl-122 works under ubuntu?

but i'm not 100%

can i upload a package created with checkinstall (generated deb package, no deb source file) to my ppa?

you probably 'shouldn't' checkinstall is a 'cheat' and shouldn't be used to distribute the created debs...

how can i 'customize' the name of 'desktop' folder?

try looking in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

is there a list of bugs discovered since the release of 7.04 anywhere?

check out launchpad

can anyone help me? i can't see my minimized programs and have to use alt+tab.

then add windows list

somebody could tell me the default password of user 'ubuntu' in the image downloaded from ubuntu?

by default, there is no password and it should autologin

does ati gfx card works fine on 3d desktop?

depends on the model

sorry to bump, but does anyone know the terminal command to start gnome-screensaver in xubuntu please? when i run gnome-screensaver, it says its already running, but i want it to actually start the animation and all that..

gnome-screensaver-command --activate

i'm trying to install ubuntu on a toshiba portege - external cd drive. boot from cd, opt to install, find myself at a command prompt (busybox, ash). is this a known problem?

to get live cd to run this often helps..at start or install press f6 and remove quiet and splash from the command line. if it still fails.. repeat and after removing quiet and splash add noapic acpi=off before the '--'

whats an easy way to make a zombie process?

run a process, have it run a child process, then kill the parent while having the child ignore the sighup and sigterm signals

i'm trying to figure out the size of a disk that has no partition table; i think i can get it with the udevadm command and the usec_initialized line although i have no idea how to calculate it. does anybody have any idea. this is the size of one disk (i think): e: usec_initialized=5087245

why not just use 'sudo parted -l'?

trying to keep a log of the steps i need to take a configure a new ubuntu vps... when i have to do things like add several lines to the end of a config file... is there an easier way than multiple echo '...' >> filename commands? can i do a single command and then just paste all the lines into stdin and hit ctrl d to finish?

or script file.txt

recently bought a removable hard drive, formatted it but cannot write to it as owner is 'root' ... how do i change this to logged-in user? running 9.04

chown user /mnt/hardrive

somehow my root '/' folder became writable. what do i have to do to fix this?

writable by who?

when i installed ubuntu .. i unhooked my other drives.. is there a way to get grub to find them ?

there is. grub-install

how do i undelete something i emptied from the trash bin?

you cant

anyone know how to install the latest beta of firefox on 7.10 a64? i wanted to give the the beta3 a try but not sure what to do

and run it as /opt/firefox3/firefox

how do i plot a regression curve onto the graph in gnumeric?

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/doc/sect-graphics-plots-overview-types.shtml

how can i make metacity the default??

change visual efects to none

how to install openal in ubuntu? i'm using lucid lynx........

on my hardy install, 'sudo apt-get install libopenal0a'. being on lucid, the suffix for you will probably be different from '0a', so search using 'apt-cache search openal'

how do i specify the password as a parameter when connection to a ssh server? (no need for security, the user has no access on the server)

use ssh keys

anyone with experience from dell emc san?

we need more details on what your problem is.

goodmorning everyone. i have just inserted a new graphics card in my computer. i still have the old one (a s3 pci) in my computer and today i inserted a geforce mx in the agp slot. my vga cable is connected to the geforce mx but when i try to run sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg it detects the card as a s3 but i want it to detect the geforce mx (which is now supposed to be my primary graphics card). can anyone help me getting xserve

instead of letting it autodetect the module, select the correct one in the list

does anyone know of a thunderbird channel i can go and maybe harrass them instead of u guys :p ??

can i recommend a mac to you :-p

what is 'glxinfo | grep direct' for?

it tells you if your video config is using direct rendering

if i have a yahoo account can i use gaim for instant messanger ?

yes you can

hello, one quick question: how do i empty my trash as root?

use -rf instead

newbee - i am getting the following error when updating xcommon--- e: /var/cache/apt/archives/x-common_1.08_all.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/x11/fonts', which is also in package xfonts-base...can someone help

known bug, just wait...

use something like partition magic and you can resize the partitions w/out any kinda of destruction to the existing data

partition magic can handle ext3 and swap?

hey guys i don't know what that applet is but the little mailbox looking icon in the top right on the bar in ubuntu 10.10 is there a way to change the empathy chat button to pidgin ?

you can remove the empathy chat item, but you can't change pidgin to chat (well, not easily anyway, empathy is hardcoded in the indicator code). just uninstall empathy or delete /usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/empathy (which is just a text file that has the path to the empathy .desktop file)

can someone who doesn't have via integrated sound show me the result of ls /dev/snd ?

hwc0d0 pcmc0d0c pcmc0d1c pcmc0d2p

what compression form can i use that osx will unpack?

tar

how is the default ubuntu user privlaged?

that does not give the user any extra privileges except the ability to use sudo

i need to transcribe a lot of audio. does anyone know of a way to get a linux audio player to replay slowly so that i don't have to keep pressing play/pause?

use vlc and there's an option to slow down playback

hey! i use the latest ubuntu version (10.10). the default theme has minimize, maximize icons in the left side of window. how can i move them to the right side of window?

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-back-to-the-right-in-ubuntu-10.04/

xmodmap command in terminal is being ignored, e.g. xmodmap -e 'keycode 133 = alt_l' doesn't seem to do anything (key isn't mapped). the keycode is correct, just checked it with xev. tried other keycodes, not working as well.

please help?

ok, i'm having this problem with lynx, and also opera, i'm starting a download, directly from hak5.org (their podcast), and it gets like halfway, and then stops... can anyone help me with that. it works fine with firefox.

treid wget?

anyone have any suggestions for a way to use yahoo messenger and a webcam (within empathy?)

something like skype

hey... how do i get dapper to set num lock on by default?

and richard_ - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/numlock

andreadakis wants only editor support for greek and apparently not the whole environment

then what i said in my second line

please tell me about virtual box

you'll need to install virtualbox, then get a copy of win 7.. then install it there just like you would on another computer

i have a 64 bit processor. is there any reason why i shouldn't use the 64 bit version of hardy? for example, hardware compatibility or incompatible packages.

a major hangup tends to be java applet support in browsers

is there a way to get apt to ignore depends?

why would you want to do that?

do you all manually type eachother's names to address specifically?

i type first three letters then tab :

ljl, if the process chews io then it can be very annoying. ever tried to close a forkbomb ?

again, /etc/security/limits.conf

using irssi, how can i find a string in the past postings of this channel?

/lastlog string

ok. there was this computer which for whatever reason didn't like to boot from the cd-drive. using an option of ubuntu installation, it changed some boot procedure/file in winxp. booting from the hd gave a menu: a)install from cd b)continue in windows. ubuntu install proceeded. now, there still remains that menu when booting in winxp. how to get rid of it?

: you can use your xp cd to restore the xp boot loader, which will remove any of those menus

hi guys! does this mean that i have the 64bit version of ubuntu? (

looks like it.

how do i install the xfce desktop in terminal

sudo apt-get install xfce4

anyone know how i can make thunderbird download mail every x number of mins?

if you go to the account preferences , in server configuration , its there

hi, i'm just looking for an howto to upgrade my ubuntu server dapper to edgy

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/edgyupgrades im guessing this will work for server too

does dapper run well inside virtual pc 2004?

use vmware :p

what would the root entry be for the 3rd partition on the first hd in the grub menu.lst? i've become confused by the documentation

that's correct

it's sources.lst on ubuntu? worst file extension ever!

it was a typo. it is sources.list. ty for noticing it.

are the updates available in the 'hardy proposed' section of synaptic usually safe?

they'll work their way into hardy once they're tested

hi! i noticed the info on launchpad for nbd is horribly incorrect. who do i contact to get it fixed?

good question

when i edit the music directory to /dev/sdax it says /dev/sdax is not a directory

use the actual mount point. not the /dev entry.

how do i install the new ubuntu system font in debian?

or just find teh font file and copy it to your .fonts dir

if i edit the menu.lst why i should use update-grup?

update-grub looks for kernels, and generates a menu.lst entry (actually two entries) for each one.

hello, right that 'rm -rf /*' is blocked in ubuntu ?

no, and i don't recommend saying dangerous commands in here

anyone have any recommendations of things to watch for on updating from 8.04 to 10.4? i have the 'clean upgrade' notes.

do a fresh

how do i run modprobe ath_pci at start up?

sudo modprobe ath_pci

my husband has what looks like a video driver problem in 10.10 - is there something to read about ati radeon graphics?

hope that helps.

what can i use to capture images from my webcam?

camorama

is there a way to get emails from launchpad bug activity?

subscribe to a bug?

can anyone advise me on security measures for running a server with listening applications and security? best practices? hardening the system?

there are a few linux administration pdfs online that have alot of great in-depth information about that

i wish to install the 32-bit java plugin into firefox 64-bit. i've followed the wiki, and the link is valid, but the plugin doesn't install no matter where i link it.

i have downloaded an early build of it and the directory is there for the plugin, but i haven't actually tried to use it and it has also been said on several news sites

guys, i am looking for a cd/dvd burning application in gnome. can someone tell me some of the best applications for that.

gnomebaker

is there a command to list user accounts from the command line?

cat /etc/passwd

is there any soft for driver finding ? ??

system administration hardware drivers

is it just me or is http://au.archive.ubuntu.com really slow?

could very well be, try to find a mirror nerby, i have one just down the street (not literally...) and it's much faster

ah this is fucking annoying. how can the default be that you can't access the grub menu?!

you've tried shift-key?

anyone good with securing ssh server?

pretty easy, disable root log in, force ssh keys, change the port, etc.

where is the clipboard?

i don't know where things are stored within it though

is there any way to find out exactly how much video ram i have?

get it from the repositories

is there a way to install ubuntu over the net by booting off floppy disks? if so, is there a document that details where to get the images or could someone point me where to get them from.

caveat: i don't know if this works

hello! how can i uninstall themes that were installed by dragging them to the appearance preferences windows, as described here? where are these files copied? http://code.google.com/p/gnome-colors/wiki/instructions

or, just goto appearances and 'remove'