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there are many 'messenger-clones' or all-in-one clients to connect to msn. most of them have many more usefull features compared to the original live messenger. however audio/video-chat is 1 thing that every single one lacks.	ok , yahi knew about multi-connect clients,was just wondering how emense or how eve you spell it works with video chats
hi! anyone know how to open a dbf file in open office?	what about dbview
someone should write a short screen how-to on the wiki :)	you want to kill a single screen? ^ak
well boys im a super noob and since playing arund with ubuntu i loved it and installed it but now i tried to install my grf driver and it says i need super user privliges what do i do here?	use sudo <command>
hello, can someone help me setup my wireless connection? i'm using a broadcom b43 driver and i just installed ndiswrapper. i'm not sure what to do now.	that ought to be all if ndiswrapper is set up properly.
what software are you using?	gnome baker
oh one moment: if i update the kernel (as in the upgrade) should n t i reinstall the nvidia drivers as well?	you should disable the nvidia drivers.. update your kernel.. then reinstall the nvidia drivers
i just cant remember what is the name of the application that helps me create live usbs with iso images. can anyone remind me???	maybe unetbootin is what you are thinking of
that isn't true at all! i've put my /home in another partition, and when i reinstalled _none_ of the users could login saying they could not have write permissions to their own folders!	have you read through 'man dpkg' to check if there's a relevant option for your predicament ?
anyone know what this might mean? apic error on cpu0: 04(04)	yep! it means that on thge 4th of april 2006, there was a memory read error in your secondary cache in your cpu :)
chkconfig mysql off ?	ah, chkconfig... i haven't used that since fedora 9. sounds like it does the same thing as update-rc.d (ie: updating /etc/rc* scripts). i just wasn't sure if upstart had a new way of doing this.
so kernel-package does not pull in linux-headers?	doesn't look like it, no
can someone tell me how to uninstall libdvdcss2? i tried: sudo dpkg -r libdvdcss2_1.2.8-1unofficialubuntu3_i386.deb but that gave: dpkg: you must specify packages by their own names, not by quoting the names of the files they come in. c	whats the package name?
can i relese a music album under gnu/gpl?	maybe dd if=/dev/hd? of=~/whatever.iso
i have downloaded an intrepid iso. how do i put it on a usb drive so that it's installable from there? (my laptop does not have a cd drive, and i don't have windows) simply point me at a howto or something please.	also check out unetbootin
could someone tell me what program is running in the console here: http://news.cnet.com/2300-1001_3-6247274-2.html?tag=mncol	i think that's midnight commander.
how do i export my kernel_path for make?	kernel_path=/foo/bar make
does anyone know about a tool to scan for wlan and which channels they use? (i need to switch channel on my wlan since there is too much interference)	'iwlist scanning'
when trying to play an avi i can hear the file but the video is blinking and color depth is low, anyone might have the issue to this?	problem is in vlc also?
anyone knows what a dns suffix is?	whne people were having dns problems
i need help deciding what ubuntu versions are better, like kubuntu, mythbuntu, xubuntu......	/msg
how do i restart apache? i changed apache2.conf and want the changes to take effect.	sudo invoke-rc.d apache2 restart
i will connect ubuntu remotely. do you recommend me to use teamviewer or another better program?	maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vnc
is there any way to list all processes in ubuntu and kill one?	ps -a \| grep processyouraresearching
hello, i enabled the root password with sudo passwd, and now i don't know how to disabled it like it is default in ubuntu. can someone help me?	sudo passwd -l root
i have spent the last 4 hours trying to make me owner of a partition and it still says root is the owner. anyone able to help me?	have you tried sudo chown myusername:myusername /path/to/mountpoint/of/the/filesystem -r ?
is there any nice way to copy an ubuntu installation on to another machine?	http://paste.ubuntu.com/745963/
i know i can mount it but i have about 7tb's of images i would like to be able to script something to convert 1 iso at a time and dump it into a new dir.	you can't convert isos because it is an image, not a format for media
is there a way to install ubuntu without all the programs and services?	use the minimal cd and install a command line system
what port is ftp on?	'grep ftp /etc/services'
your advice to vladimirsanchez, sound like i should do the same. i have 9,10 and i want to install 12.04. would i also need to install 11.04, 11.10 and then 12.04?	9.10? you can go to 10.04 and then lts to lts upgrade to 12.04
is there any free tool for resizing ntfs partition?	gparted live cd
what directories in $home should i remove to reset gnome to its default?	.gnome* .gconf* but this will reset other apps as well
how can i know if ssh start or not ? on redhat service sshd status how can i do that on ubuntu ?	ps -a \| grep sshd
morning.. what is the name of the standard window manager.	gnome (metacity)
why isn't firefox 1.5 on the repositories yet?	it's not in backports no - but there are pages on the wiki on howto install the new firefox (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/firefoxnewversion
hi. how can i list storage devices from a command line ?	quick n dirty: dmesg \|cut -d \] -f 2- \|grep ' sd' \|grep gb
i like vim instead of vi. does that make me less manly? ;)	vi is just a symlink to vim in most cases
how can i see what service is running on a certain port?	netstat -tpan \|grep :port_number
what is the difference between a .ko and a .o file?	a k
with acpi disabled, will i be able to use a pmcia slot?	i don't see how acpi would affect pcmcia.
when i use wifi radar, i see my neighboors wireless but not mine, my broadcast is on...	: tried to switch the channel?
i'm looking to install lighttpd but its not listed in apt-cache / apt-get. my understanding is it'd be in an 'unstable' branch... question is, where do i find out what this is and how to get it?	you need to enable universe. see ubotu's private message:
how do i change settings with compiz (i enabled extra effects under the appearance menu) and how do i choose a compiz theme?	ccsm
hi there :) hey any1 knows how do i tell ubuntu not to load certain modules at boot?	the man pages for 'modprobe.conf' and 'depmod' will explain it better than people on irc can
hello, i'm looking at a shell script and it has date +%m%d%y in it, and i was wondering if this is a system variable? and what other variables are there??	man date
hi. quick question: i'm using nvidia drivers with twinview - any possibility to specify a single screen for a fs application (ogl) without using metamodes?	makes for weird gameplay in some games.
when i login via ssh to my ubuntu machine, i get a motd and 'last login' string. what determines the order that info is displayed? its not in my /etc/profile	http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/change-ssh-welcome-banner-on-ubuntu/
i konw there is a program to automatically install stuff for ubuntu called automatix, and there is also another program that does something similiar, i was wondering what the other program is	the other one is easyubuntu
what's up with marillat's repo? i get md5sum mismatches on packages.gz	gstreamer-mad and libdvdcss2
hi, two questions - i'm just 'installing' urt, where's the best place to put the directory full of game-files and the launcher itself, preferably so it can be executed from a terminal/launcher in the same way stuff like 'xterm' or 'firefox' can be?	for the second question. check out the 'gnome-terminal' command.. there is a switch for a command to run
anyone know how i can get info on network activity from a computer running ubuntu server?	yeah iptraf will show you that
i installed the latest nvidia driver for my geforce 4 but it's giving me trouble.how can i revert to the previous restricted driver?	you shouldn't have installed stuff not from the repositories in the first place... good luck reverting, now. anyway, see if the driver comes with an uninstall script, if it does run it, and then « sudo apt-get --reinstall install nvidia-glx » (or nvidia-glx-new, whichever you had installed)
hello, anyone got a link to a tutorial on how to get sound working on ubuntu?	http://ubuntuguide.org
i have a problem. when i type my dpkg comman,age@agedesktop:~$ dpkg --configure -a	stick sudo in front of that sucker
have installed ubuntu in 'cli' and have installed build-essential. i also need linux-headers to be able to build virtualbox's guest additions. what linux-headers should i install?	sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
how do i convert an ext4 to ext3 fs?	you can by formatting 'mkfs.ext3 /dev/your_partition but this will delete all the data on that partition
running ubuntu 10.04 server, i added a script to /etc/network/if-up.d/, i made it executable ( chmod a+x myscript ), the trouble is my script is not being run when ppp0 comes up. is there something i am missing ?	shouldn't it be places at /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ ?
i have installed msttcorefonts on gutsy, however the fonts do not appear to be available in openoffice, this used to work in feisty, does anyone know if there is any additional steps to make msttcorefonts work correctly on gutsy now?	i just installed them, and they work
im running ubuntu 8.04 server and i setup a bind server. thing is the name server im putting in /etc/resolv.conf which is 127.0.0.1 is being ignored. its like my dns settings are still being retrieved through dhcp and storing them somewhere else. im using /etc/network/interfaces and specifying static ips. where are the dns numbers getting set from?	/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf request domain-name-servers
ahh, then why the permission errors?	the file that needs changing is /etc/fstab
anyone using ubuntu 10.10, what is the latest kernel in use at the moment, i included some ppa (kamal-backlight ppa) to fix some brightness issue, that was almost a month ago and save for the kernels in this ppa, i still have the non-ppa kernel [2.6.35.23-egeneric], is it that the kernel team is not releasing anymore kernel or kamal's ppa kinda disabled updates from the previous kernel team?	you could try editing your /etc/apt/sources.list (or the files under /etc/apt/sources.list.d) and comment out the ppa that's overriding your kernel, then run 'apt-get update'
how do i install subversion?	sudo apt-get install subversion
how to do a dist upgrade from cli	i'm having upgrade issues myself ...damn apt-get unable to replace files
does anyone know a defragmenter for ext4?	there is a tool called shake
how can i know which hardware ubuntu did/didn't recognize? does it have a device manager like windows does?	for the record though, ubuntu recognizes about 90% of all hardware i have thrown at it
is there a way to roll back an update?	there is a way to install a specific version of a single package, but it's not even really guaranteed to work
from the command line, how do i get to the: file system/var/www ?	cd /var/www
is apache web server already installed in ubuntu?	apache2
how can i force to remove a package even if dpkg returns some error code?	--force-all
has anyone got any idea on why i have to manually enter the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf (i do it through network-admin) every time i boot? i connect wirelessly to a router	/etc/resolv.conf is reset by dhcp when you boot. search the ubuntu forums for /etc/resolv.conf
i have a desktop/ directory created in my home/ on every start of gnome, how can i disable that?	maybe with gconf-editor, /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop... maybe not, i do not know
can anyone tell me how to list all the files on my drive in size order so i can determine where all my disk space has gone?	find / -size +100m -exec ls -l {} \;
i am trying to use make menuconfig with my kernel. it is failing with scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: no such file or directory. i've installed libncurses5. any ideas why its failing?	you need libncurses5-dev
is there any way to transfer firefox profile from windows to ubuntu.........	sure, try ftp. you might want to try the febe addon, also.
i should be safe to upgrade to dapper when im in kde ?	sed 's/breezy/dapper/g' sources.list > x; mv x sources.list
it can't seem to find aalib or pretty much anything whatsoever when trying to configure even if its installed	devel packages?
can anyone tell me best three mail servers?	postfix, qmail, sendmail
i'm planning on reinstalling ubuntu. i have a 64 bit processor and i know in the past i have gotten frusterated at the difficulty of finding working packages for amd64 machines. so i've always installed 32 bit ubuntu instead. would you recommend installing 64 bit ubuntu this time? explain.	no, don't install the 64-bit unless you really know what your are doing. i've read it is recommended for headless machines, or servers, not for desktop, everyday users.
i just installed kubuntu-kde4-desktop. now, when i rebooted, the startup halts with errors that fsck could not check /dev/sdb6 (which is my /home/ partition). i need to press ctrl-d to continue booting. also, when logging into gnome, now the 'user switcher' applet crashes immediately. what happened and how do i fix this?	press ctrl+1 to get into the vt1, log in as normal user and try to fix the problem manually, with something like: sudo fsck /dev/sdb6; sudo mount -a
how do i uninstall something that i installed from a .deb file?	the /usr/share hierarchy is for all read-only architecture independent data files - http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.txt.gz
hey guys i am following instructions i foind online to mount an nfs partiotion and they are having me modify the /etc/fstab file, but it keep opening as read only. how do i open it under root?	add 'sudo' to the front of whatever command line you're using
how do i set a static default gateway from the command line?	man route
hey, i how can i add a folder to the 'places' menu ?	that is easy, bookmark it :)
hi, i want to uninstall an application using the command line, can you guys help me?	'sudo apt-get --purge remove packagename'
hmm ... dapper is 6.06 isn't it?	jmfthevci ys there is a command line alternative: do-release-upgrade
is it posiible to multiplex 2 adsl lines with ubuntu ?	http://www.linux.com/feature/133849 i think?
how do i install older version of some package via apt, for instance the latest version of mozilla-thunderbird that's available via apt is 1.5 or something, what do i do if i want to install one version older via apt?	manpages-dev
is anybody here able to access archive.ubuntu.com?	archive.ubuntu.com is accessable for me
hi, what's the defualt root pass?	use sudo blah instead and enter your normal users password
hi all, some one tell me how to install hud in 11.10	http://techhamlet.com/2012/01/how-to-install-the-new-hud-in-ubuntu-12-04-and-11-10/
could anyone help me? since i've been updating ubuntu i have to choose which ubuntu kernel i want to load. if i don't choose anything it loads some 'safe mode' type ubuntu.	set the default in /boot/grub/menu.lst
what's a very light weight httpd server?	http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/wa-ltwebserv/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07lw-webservers&s_tact=105agx59&s_cmp=grsitelnxw07 presents an overview of options
fast question: warty supposedly somewhat corresponds to sarge, but what is hoary?	until march, it will be the development branch
hello all. have a small question. understand that ubuntu supports 64bits processor. but how abt dual core? does ubuntu takes advantage of the dual core setup?	supports both cores of my core duo at least.
where can i get hoary?	in your /etc/apt/sources.list change warty to hoary
i'm trying to get dual monitors working with a radeon 9800 card under ubuntu. so far both monitors are displaying the same screen but i can't find any (working) tools to configure what is displayed on each one. i just want the secondary to extend the primary, with an option of displaying a different workspace. eep it's busy right now.	screens and resolutions.
is there a nice, colorful client for irc for ubunut? i hate command line irssi	try xchat
what does the 5 mean when the source says something like 'see fstab(5).'? does this have to do with a man page?	its not page 5, its section 5.
hey all , whats a good disk inventory app for ubuntu? something like treesize professional for windows or diskinventoryx for osx?	disk usage analyzer under accessories

there are many 'messenger-clones' or all-in-one clients to connect to msn. most of them have many more usefull features compared to the original live messenger. however audio/video-chat is 1 thing that every single one lacks.

ok , yahi knew about multi-connect clients,was just wondering how emense or how eve you spell it works with video chats

hi! anyone know how to open a dbf file in open office?

what about dbview

someone should write a short screen how-to on the wiki :)

you want to kill a single screen? ^ak

well boys im a super noob and since playing arund with ubuntu i loved it and installed it but now i tried to install my grf driver and it says i need super user privliges what do i do here?

use sudo <command>

hello, can someone help me setup my wireless connection? i'm using a broadcom b43 driver and i just installed ndiswrapper. i'm not sure what to do now.

that ought to be all if ndiswrapper is set up properly.

what software are you using?

gnome baker

oh one moment: if i update the kernel (as in the upgrade) should n t i reinstall the nvidia drivers as well?

you should disable the nvidia drivers.. update your kernel.. then reinstall the nvidia drivers

i just cant remember what is the name of the application that helps me create live usbs with iso images. can anyone remind me???

maybe unetbootin is what you are thinking of

that isn't true at all! i've put my /home in another partition, and when i reinstalled _none_ of the users could login saying they could not have write permissions to their own folders!

have you read through 'man dpkg' to check if there's a relevant option for your predicament ?

anyone know what this might mean? apic error on cpu0: 04(04)

yep! it means that on thge 4th of april 2006, there was a memory read error in your secondary cache in your cpu :)

chkconfig mysql off ?

ah, chkconfig... i haven't used that since fedora 9. sounds like it does the same thing as update-rc.d (ie: updating /etc/rc* scripts). i just wasn't sure if upstart had a new way of doing this.

so kernel-package does not pull in linux-headers?

doesn't look like it, no

can someone tell me how to uninstall libdvdcss2? i tried: sudo dpkg -r libdvdcss2_1.2.8-1unofficialubuntu3_i386.deb but that gave: dpkg: you must specify packages by their own names, not by quoting the names of the files they come in. c

whats the package name?

can i relese a music album under gnu/gpl?

maybe dd if=/dev/hd? of=~/whatever.iso

i have downloaded an intrepid iso. how do i put it on a usb drive so that it's installable from there? (my laptop does not have a cd drive, and i don't have windows) simply point me at a howto or something please.

also check out unetbootin

could someone tell me what program is running in the console here: http://news.cnet.com/2300-1001_3-6247274-2.html?tag=mncol

i think that's midnight commander.

how do i export my kernel_path for make?

kernel_path=/foo/bar make

does anyone know about a tool to scan for wlan and which channels they use? (i need to switch channel on my wlan since there is too much interference)

'iwlist scanning'

when trying to play an avi i can hear the file but the video is blinking and color depth is low, anyone might have the issue to this?

problem is in vlc also?

anyone knows what a dns suffix is?

whne people were having dns problems

i need help deciding what ubuntu versions are better, like kubuntu, mythbuntu, xubuntu......

/msg

how do i restart apache? i changed apache2.conf and want the changes to take effect.

sudo invoke-rc.d apache2 restart

i will connect ubuntu remotely. do you recommend me to use teamviewer or another better program?

maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vnc

is there any way to list all processes in ubuntu and kill one?

ps -a | grep processyouraresearching

hello, i enabled the root password with sudo passwd, and now i don't know how to disabled it like it is default in ubuntu. can someone help me?

sudo passwd -l root

i have spent the last 4 hours trying to make me owner of a partition and it still says root is the owner. anyone able to help me?

have you tried sudo chown myusername:myusername /path/to/mountpoint/of/the/filesystem -r ?

is there any nice way to copy an ubuntu installation on to another machine?

http://paste.ubuntu.com/745963/

i know i can mount it but i have about 7tb's of images i would like to be able to script something to convert 1 iso at a time and dump it into a new dir.

you can't convert isos because it is an image, not a format for media

is there a way to install ubuntu without all the programs and services?

use the minimal cd and install a command line system

what port is ftp on?

'grep ftp /etc/services'

your advice to vladimirsanchez, sound like i should do the same. i have 9,10 and i want to install 12.04. would i also need to install 11.04, 11.10 and then 12.04?

9.10? you can go to 10.04 and then lts to lts upgrade to 12.04

is there any free tool for resizing ntfs partition?

gparted live cd

what directories in $home should i remove to reset gnome to its default?

.gnome* .gconf* but this will reset other apps as well

how can i know if ssh start or not ? on redhat service sshd status how can i do that on ubuntu ?

ps -a | grep sshd

morning.. what is the name of the standard window manager.

gnome (metacity)

why isn't firefox 1.5 on the repositories yet?

it's not in backports no - but there are pages on the wiki on howto install the new firefox (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/firefoxnewversion

hi. how can i list storage devices from a command line ?

quick n dirty: dmesg |cut -d \] -f 2- |grep ' sd' |grep gb

i like vim instead of vi. does that make me less manly? ;)

vi is just a symlink to vim in most cases

how can i see what service is running on a certain port?

netstat -tpan |grep :port_number

what is the difference between a .ko and a .o file?

a k

with acpi disabled, will i be able to use a pmcia slot?

i don't see how acpi would affect pcmcia.

when i use wifi radar, i see my neighboors wireless but not mine, my broadcast is on...

: tried to switch the channel?

i'm looking to install lighttpd but its not listed in apt-cache / apt-get. my understanding is it'd be in an 'unstable' branch... question is, where do i find out what this is and how to get it?

you need to enable universe. see ubotu's private message:

how do i change settings with compiz (i enabled extra effects under the appearance menu) and how do i choose a compiz theme?

ccsm

hi there :) hey any1 knows how do i tell ubuntu not to load certain modules at boot?

the man pages for 'modprobe.conf' and 'depmod' will explain it better than people on irc can

hello, i'm looking at a shell script and it has date +%m%d%y in it, and i was wondering if this is a system variable? and what other variables are there??

man date

hi. quick question: i'm using nvidia drivers with twinview - any possibility to specify a single screen for a fs application (ogl) without using metamodes?

makes for weird gameplay in some games.

when i login via ssh to my ubuntu machine, i get a motd and 'last login' string. what determines the order that info is displayed? its not in my /etc/profile

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/change-ssh-welcome-banner-on-ubuntu/

i konw there is a program to automatically install stuff for ubuntu called automatix, and there is also another program that does something similiar, i was wondering what the other program is

the other one is easyubuntu

what's up with marillat's repo? i get md5sum mismatches on packages.gz

gstreamer-mad and libdvdcss2

hi, two questions - i'm just 'installing' urt, where's the best place to put the directory full of game-files and the launcher itself, preferably so it can be executed from a terminal/launcher in the same way stuff like 'xterm' or 'firefox' can be?

for the second question. check out the 'gnome-terminal' command.. there is a switch for a command to run

anyone know how i can get info on network activity from a computer running ubuntu server?

yeah iptraf will show you that

i installed the latest nvidia driver for my geforce 4 but it's giving me trouble.how can i revert to the previous restricted driver?

you shouldn't have installed stuff not from the repositories in the first place... good luck reverting, now. anyway, see if the driver comes with an uninstall script, if it does run it, and then « sudo apt-get --reinstall install nvidia-glx » (or nvidia-glx-new, whichever you had installed)

hello, anyone got a link to a tutorial on how to get sound working on ubuntu?

http://ubuntuguide.org

i have a problem. when i type my dpkg comman,age@agedesktop:~$ dpkg --configure -a

stick sudo in front of that sucker

have installed ubuntu in 'cli' and have installed build-essential. i also need linux-headers to be able to build virtualbox's guest additions. what linux-headers should i install?

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

how do i convert an ext4 to ext3 fs?

you can by formatting 'mkfs.ext3 /dev/your_partition but this will delete all the data on that partition

running ubuntu 10.04 server, i added a script to /etc/network/if-up.d/, i made it executable ( chmod a+x myscript ), the trouble is my script is not being run when ppp0 comes up. is there something i am missing ?

shouldn't it be places at /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ ?

i have installed msttcorefonts on gutsy, however the fonts do not appear to be available in openoffice, this used to work in feisty, does anyone know if there is any additional steps to make msttcorefonts work correctly on gutsy now?

i just installed them, and they work

im running ubuntu 8.04 server and i setup a bind server. thing is the name server im putting in /etc/resolv.conf which is 127.0.0.1 is being ignored. its like my dns settings are still being retrieved through dhcp and storing them somewhere else. im using /etc/network/interfaces and specifying static ips. where are the dns numbers getting set from?

/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf request domain-name-servers

ahh, then why the permission errors?

the file that needs changing is /etc/fstab

anyone using ubuntu 10.10, what is the latest kernel in use at the moment, i included some ppa (kamal-backlight ppa) to fix some brightness issue, that was almost a month ago and save for the kernels in this ppa, i still have the non-ppa kernel [2.6.35.23-egeneric], is it that the kernel team is not releasing anymore kernel or kamal's ppa kinda disabled updates from the previous kernel team?

you could try editing your /etc/apt/sources.list (or the files under /etc/apt/sources.list.d) and comment out the ppa that's overriding your kernel, then run 'apt-get update'

how do i install subversion?

sudo apt-get install subversion

how to do a dist upgrade from cli

i'm having upgrade issues myself ...damn apt-get unable to replace files

does anyone know a defragmenter for ext4?

there is a tool called shake

how can i know which hardware ubuntu did/didn't recognize? does it have a device manager like windows does?

for the record though, ubuntu recognizes about 90% of all hardware i have thrown at it

is there a way to roll back an update?

there is a way to install a specific version of a single package, but it's not even really guaranteed to work

from the command line, how do i get to the: file system/var/www ?

cd /var/www

is apache web server already installed in ubuntu?

apache2

how can i force to remove a package even if dpkg returns some error code?

--force-all

has anyone got any idea on why i have to manually enter the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf (i do it through network-admin) every time i boot? i connect wirelessly to a router

/etc/resolv.conf is reset by dhcp when you boot. search the ubuntu forums for /etc/resolv.conf

i have a desktop/ directory created in my home/ on every start of gnome, how can i disable that?

maybe with gconf-editor, /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop... maybe not, i do not know

can anyone tell me how to list all the files on my drive in size order so i can determine where all my disk space has gone?

find / -size +100m -exec ls -l {} \;

i am trying to use make menuconfig with my kernel. it is failing with scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: no such file or directory. i've installed libncurses5. any ideas why its failing?

you need libncurses5-dev

is there any way to transfer firefox profile from windows to ubuntu.........

sure, try ftp. you might want to try the febe addon, also.

i should be safe to upgrade to dapper when im in kde ?

sed 's/breezy/dapper/g' sources.list > x; mv x sources.list

it can't seem to find aalib or pretty much anything whatsoever when trying to configure even if its installed

devel packages?

can anyone tell me best three mail servers?

postfix, qmail, sendmail

i'm planning on reinstalling ubuntu. i have a 64 bit processor and i know in the past i have gotten frusterated at the difficulty of finding working packages for amd64 machines. so i've always installed 32 bit ubuntu instead. would you recommend installing 64 bit ubuntu this time? explain.

no, don't install the 64-bit unless you really know what your are doing. i've read it is recommended for headless machines, or servers, not for desktop, everyday users.

i just installed kubuntu-kde4-desktop. now, when i rebooted, the startup halts with errors that fsck could not check /dev/sdb6 (which is my /home/ partition). i need to press ctrl-d to continue booting. also, when logging into gnome, now the 'user switcher' applet crashes immediately. what happened and how do i fix this?

press ctrl+1 to get into the vt1, log in as normal user and try to fix the problem manually, with something like: sudo fsck /dev/sdb6; sudo mount -a

how do i uninstall something that i installed from a .deb file?

the /usr/share hierarchy is for all read-only architecture independent data files - http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.txt.gz

hey guys i am following instructions i foind online to mount an nfs partiotion and they are having me modify the /etc/fstab file, but it keep opening as read only. how do i open it under root?

add 'sudo' to the front of whatever command line you're using

how do i set a static default gateway from the command line?

man route

hey, i how can i add a folder to the 'places' menu ?

that is easy, bookmark it :)

hi, i want to uninstall an application using the command line, can you guys help me?

'sudo apt-get --purge remove packagename'

hmm ... dapper is 6.06 isn't it?

jmfthevci ys there is a command line alternative: do-release-upgrade

is it posiible to multiplex 2 adsl lines with ubuntu ?

http://www.linux.com/feature/133849 i think?

how do i install older version of some package via apt, for instance the latest version of mozilla-thunderbird that's available via apt is 1.5 or something, what do i do if i want to install one version older via apt?

manpages-dev

is anybody here able to access archive.ubuntu.com?

archive.ubuntu.com is accessable for me

hi, what's the defualt root pass?

use sudo blah instead and enter your normal users password

hi all, some one tell me how to install hud in 11.10

http://techhamlet.com/2012/01/how-to-install-the-new-hud-in-ubuntu-12-04-and-11-10/

could anyone help me? since i've been updating ubuntu i have to choose which ubuntu kernel i want to load. if i don't choose anything it loads some 'safe mode' type ubuntu.

set the default in /boot/grub/menu.lst

what's a very light weight httpd server?

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/wa-ltwebserv/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07lw-webservers&s_tact=105agx59&s_cmp=grsitelnxw07 presents an overview of options

fast question: warty supposedly somewhat corresponds to sarge, but what is hoary?

until march, it will be the development branch

hello all. have a small question. understand that ubuntu supports 64bits processor. but how abt dual core? does ubuntu takes advantage of the dual core setup?

supports both cores of my core duo at least.

where can i get hoary?

in your /etc/apt/sources.list change warty to hoary

i'm trying to get dual monitors working with a radeon 9800 card under ubuntu. so far both monitors are displaying the same screen but i can't find any (working) tools to configure what is displayed on each one. i just want the secondary to extend the primary, with an option of displaying a different workspace. *eep* it's busy right now.

screens and resolutions.

is there a nice, colorful client for irc for ubunut? i hate command line irssi

try xchat

what does the 5 mean when the source says something like 'see fstab(5).'? does this have to do with a man page?

its not page 5, its section 5.

hey all , whats a good disk inventory app for ubuntu? something like treesize professional for windows or diskinventoryx for osx?

disk usage analyzer under accessories