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could anyone tell me how ubuntu livecd works in general? i wonder wheter it really holds no session data on cd, even when writed on cd-rw (afaik it is possible to add data even to normal cd on multisession cd) and harddrive? all is in ram (for example files on desktop) and disappears after reboot? in other words - can i be sure that when i lost my livecd or livecdrw nobody can read my private data?	it will not do anything to store without you telling it to
anyway to su to become root?	sudo su -
is there a way to make it so drives and network drives don't show up on the desktop?	look through the nat settings in gconf-editor
what is the 'default keyring' it keeps making me type my password every login.	http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/07/12/automatically-unlocking-the-default-gnome-keyring-pam-keyring/
hello. is there any tool i could use inside ubuntu to shrink another partition on the hard drive (my windows partition) without loosing data?	gparted, as long as you don't touch any partition which is mounted
how do i toggle the virtual desktops with the keyboard	dpkg -l foo
is there a list of xorg.conf tweaks for maximum 3d performance?	that would probably depend on your actual graphics card and your actual application - try adjusting the parameters until you get the desired performance
hi there - i'm a long term linux user, returning after a break of a couple of years and i'd like to try ubuntu - i understand the installation routine is different to what i'm used to (anaconda). is there a way to burn a boot cd image, and then continue the install pulling it off the net?	the livecd comes with a full system and is most likely the best solution though.
how do i enable 5.1 my vlc shows theres only mono and stereo,	http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/the-simple-way-to-get-51-surround-sound-audio-working-in-ubuntu/
is there a way to invoke firefox on an url to make it appear in a new window instead of a tab?	http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2008/01/03/more-command-line-firefox-tips/
hey, my ubuntu boots all up to where it's loading the login window, but it never gets past that point.. any one?	press ctrl+f1 and see whats going on during boot
easiest way to do it is just use the download from macromedia/adobe, it should detect all your installed browsers	already had that half typed when you posted what you did
i am looking to install vhcs on ub 10.04 lts. is vhcs supported on ub?	it's just php...so yes it can be done...
what's better than xterm?	gnome terminal or konsole.
i've got a conflict where apt-get insists on applying an upgrade at the same time that i'm removing a package that conflicts with that upgrade. how do i make apt-get withhold the update until i'm done removing the old package?	use dpkg directly, there are --force parameters to allow it proceed, and then apt-get/aptitude can do its thing after
what is the ubuntu way of making gaim run at startup?	then startup programs
when i dist-upgraded to gutsy, my gnome-panel started stretching across both of my monitors. i checked my xorg.conf and it's still setup for twinview. how do i make my gnome-panel stop stretching across both monitors?	mine was doing that too, i removed 'xgl-server' and rebooted, now it's right.
what does 'ls ~ ' mean?	man ls
i don't regularly use that computer, i just want to boot a linux os from disk while i'm there so i'm not so miserable.	it will run faster if you install it though
how can i tell which of my usb ports are usb 1.0 and 2.0 ?	lsusb -v
does linux also have the 3gb limit for 32bit versions?	by default, i believe ubuntu turns the option on.
wtf? i just realized that the ubuntu cd has no lvm savvy kernel ... is that right?	if you want lvms .. get the alternative cd
what's a good tool for ripping dvd's in linux?	k9copy
how do i create a folder in shell?	mkdir
hey all, need a little help with making a usb stick work, anyone available?	work to do what
how i can install source of some package? synaptic added src in apt/sources.list, but i don't see any src packages in a list from synaptic (i also did reload).	'apt-get source package' note that you do not need to run as root and the source package will be downloaded to the current directory
how do i tell if a nic is recognized as gige or 10/100?	sudo ethtool eth0 (or whatever device)
does anyone know how i can play mpeg files on my firefox browser?	with xine firefox plugin
does anyone know of a channel for troubleshooting email servers	a bit more specific? there is postfix, courier, dovecot - and more...
ive got a usb wireless usb adaptor (awuso36h), works ok in ubuntu but i can't get it to run in a linux virtual machine (under virtualbox). the wireless adaptor is detected, it shows available networks etc but when i try to connect to a wpa2 secured network it reports 'bad password'. the exact same settings work in the host (ubuntu) machine. any ideas? the driver is the same for both cases (rtl8187)	once it is set up gpa does a decent (and easy) job
how to play .cda files? i have only files, not whole cd.	have you tried mplayer? i have no expericnce with cda files.
help ... the applications icon disappeared from the panel, i rebooted, and it said something about busy box and the prompt says (initramfs) ... how do i get applications icon back and get back into gui ... this is xbuntu 8.04	you should get more help inside kubuntu.
what's the command to show which files belong to a package?	ah, misread your question
hi. can anyone tell me where doom3 stores it's resolution-to-restore, i.e. initial resolution?	you should ask alis /msg alis help
hello, all! how do ubuntu developers like reiserfs or reiser4?	you just dont hear much about any of the reiserfs's these days. btrfs is the next big thing i guess.
i am running aptiude for the 1st time in a long time and it says the following packages have been held back: desktop-file-utils gdm gtk2-engines-pixbuf libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-bin libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-dev libgnomevfs2-extra libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libgtk2.0-dev. is this a problem? why are they being held back?	sounds like you need to do an apt-get dist-upgrade to me
any good linux programs i should know of when i get ubuntu?	there are lots, use syanptic
i want to remove a repo from my sources.list. how can i make sure all packages from that repo are uninstalled?	if you remove the repository and then check synaptic those packages will be listed under 'installed (local or obsolete)
hello, can anyone help me with unmounting?	you will probably need to edit /etc/fstab and comment it out
come on guys ! could anyone please try to add a printer on breezy ? i need to know if the printing tool is only broken on my computer. it will take you 5 seconds.	sudo invoke-rc.d ntpdate start
anyone: when i go to 'applications > add/remove' are all those programs to install up to date everyday? or can i make them that way if not?	whenever there are upgrades available, an orange buttone will show up in the top bar
hi, i have ubutnu 7.10 and want to deaktivate this 3d compiz-fusion and want a windowmanaher(?) wich needs less performace, how can i do that or what are good keywords for google?	http://xwinman.org/
i'm running ubuntu under vbox and already have selected a network adapter on bridge mode! but when i boot ubuntu i dont have my eth0, anyone can help me	i've never used vbox + ubuntu as guest os, but found something online. might help. http://www.kkoncepts.net/node/107
does anyone use firebug 1.2 w/firefox 3.0rc1 on linux? i'm asking before i ask because i'm doubtful anyone does.	i thought firebug doesn't work with firefox 3 yet?
i know this is kind of a random request, but i come from another distro where i'm used to having apt-get/apt-cache equivalents have colored output. does anyone know of anything that makes the output more pretty?	aptitude or hack the terminal , like ikonia is saying.
is there any way i can find all files in the system with group id 12345 ?	find / -group 12345
hm, i've been intrigued, how can i scroll the items of the 'top' list?	other than that i think you have to set the height to see a longer list
what's the command line for starting the file browser?	nautilus
will it create a problem to install kde apps like amarok in gnome?	more memory usage compared to using only gnome apps
is there a way to monitor what process is modifying a file? like, something combining tail and lsof	watch -n1 -d 'lsof \| grep <file>'
ive got a msi 9600xt card using the ati fglrx driver, if i set visual effects to anything but off google earth flickers so bad i cant use it, any ideas???	yeah dont use compiz
can anyone suggest an easy to use software development kit along the lines of visual basic? i need to make a very simple app along the lines of a spreadsheet or database macro. i have experience of programming macros in excel and access and a little pascal from years ago	what about openoffice, or php or python etc...
(sighhhh) will anyone check if the 'xserver-xorg-video-radeon' even exist in the package tree ? i remembered i did have installed that before, but now i couldn't find it.	not on mine...
hello everyone, i installed ubuntu for a friend on his laptop and am trying to figure out how to sync his itouch music... is there a linux app that is compatible with the itouch/iphone?	see the links i directed to you previously
i leave my notebook on 24/7, it is not a laptop (the fans are on the bottom of the notebook), and when i use it on my lap im careful not to cover the fans. i am asking about what i can do to cool it down, because at night i leave it on my table and shut the lid, but sometimes (once every few weeks) it overheats and shuts down, more frequently in summer it shuts down because of overheating (i am guessing) because no matter what os	there are laptop coolers you can set it on that will move air from under it
how to hibernate from terminal in ubuntu?? or set shortcut for hibernate??	pm-suspend
anyone know why amixer (or alsa in general) is still trying to connect to pulseaudio, after i uninstalled pulseaudio? =o	/usr/share/alsa/pulse.conf
anyone know why a usb mouse would continually just stop working?	... have you looked at the output from dmesg?
does installing ubuntu from usb make any changes to the usb?	usb should be yntouched
updates screwed up, how can i reinstall all packages part of ubuntu-desktop	i dont know what im talking about tho, would wait for someone to answer
good morning. i am kind of new to linux haven't used it in 10 years or more. i have a piii with 256 ram and it has an old copy of a different linux operating system. do i need to figure out how to uninstall that or can i just put the cd in once i have downloaded and burnt it and go from there?	the install cd can reformat the drive if needed
i need to knwo where to learn some linux commands?	http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
hello.. im back.. :) just want to ask can i installed ubuntu in 3gig hd?	stop repeating
how come i lose my tv display when gnome starts up?	probably your xorg.conf file not configured correctly - or resolution too high
ahhh i can't eject my cdrom :( -- is 'lsof \| grep cdrom' supposed to find the source of the problem?	look if /dev/cdrom is a soft link to a real device and grep for that instead
any chance proftpd will be compiled with mod_tls by default in 8.04 or 8.10 ibex ?	probably because they did not use tls for the encryption but this isn't the channel to ask that question really the -dev channel is really
does ubuntu work with dvi, or do i need to use vga?	do you have a separate graphics pci card , but if so you need to set it as default in the bios
are there any lightweight rss readers (hell, preferably all it has is a tray icon that notifies me of new entries) for gnome? i don't feel like grabbing a couple hundred megs of kde libs along with akregator	opera has it built-in, and also there's liferea, which seems to be good.
how to use regexps in ettercap?	but ettercap -e
who maintains the synaptic package manager? i have found some problems with packages there.	if you find a bug report it in launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu
hey, where can i change the resolution for the login screen? it doesn't seem to follow what i set for the desktop	run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and follow that- itll let you select resolutions you want.
hi, i installed the restricted drivers for my video card that was suggested when i went to hardware devices, and now i am unable to boot into my ubuntu partition. it seems like it is starting normally and then it will go to a screen with some weird characters on top and like three ubuntu small loading logos and loading bars spaced horizontally across the scn	mega, thanks
can anyone recommend a good bittorrent client to replace azureus, cause i cant get it to work in linux. any suggestions?	qbittorrent is kinda good
hi all, do you known an nfs client for windows?	i use automatix read/write ntfs and fat32 mounter for that
i need some help installing some drivers. anyone out there can help me?	just ask
hi i think i have a 64bit cpu how can i tell?	sudo lshw
how do i set the gnome terminal from a block to a cursor, i can't seem to find it in profile preferences?	its under profiles general, under cursor shape : block underline ibeam
hello! how to update system from 10.04 to 11.04 ( sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade doesn't work :( ) maybe some repositaries or somethin' .. ?	you have to go to 10.10 first
does anyone know if amd, or intel is more supported with ubuntu	cpu the same \|\| chipsets intel is more supported
what is the easiest way to configure which daemons should start on system boot? i have install sshd and lightppd for testing purposes, but don't want them running all the time	chkconfig
can someone tell me how to get rid of totem in firefox?	if you want to use mozilla-mplayer and it is installed already yyou will need to reinstall after you remove totem
you can try www.shoutcast.com but i dunno if rhtymbox is compatible with those streams	so i basically add this url in rythmbox
hi, i want to install python 2.6 and python 2.7 in the same environment how can i do it and switch between both versions?	if they are both in the package manage then its easy. the command python2.6 will give you that version and python2.7 the other
hello. what shell command can i use to get the gateway of my network interfaces?	ip route \| grep default
are there commands to disable/enable and/or prioritize network interfaces? i.e. eth1 and wlan0	disable/enable? 'ip link set face up' (replace face with eth1, wlan0, etc). i'm sure there's some way to prioritize, but that's beyond me
getting: 'error re-scanning registry , child terminated by signal' errors when running some applications.	you must be on windows.. there.s no 'registry' in linux perse
i need a bit of help. i need to resize the main partition on my ubuntu computer, the active one, but i can't because it's mounted. i can't use a live cd because there's no cd drive, and the usb port is dead. is it possible to resize the active partition somehow	get unetbootin. it will allow you to boot from an iso on your harddrive. it doesn't always work perfectly but it usually works pretty well.
what are those mac minis going for?	$500-600
why 'killall /dev/dsp', what does it do?	so the sound card won't be busy
what is the best / easiest / fastest way to switch to kubuntu from ubuntu?	:http://psychocats.s465.sureserver.com/ubuntu/purekde read remove ubuntu
when i do 'nmap localhost' it tells me, that port 25 (smtp) is open. why is this, and how do i turn it off?	/etc/init.d/postfix stop
can someone tell me if it is possible to run mac-software with links .oo(like win-software with wine)	on some application you can change the $home_java = /to/path
hi, i just recovered my server (over ssh) from a horrible failure: it was starting networkmanager, which trampled on its static ip configuration. i only had a few seconds in the shell each boot, so i ran some diagnostics and rm'ed the networkmanager binary. now: how can i absolutely forbid the network-manager package from ever being installed again on the server?	sudo aptitude purge network-manager; sudo aptitude forbid-version network-manager
who's having issues with xchat autocomplete?	i do. if you aren't specific enough, it autocompletes for the first name. ideally, it would just not autocomplete at all until you've typed in enough to narrow it down to a specific nick
hi, bit of a newbie, how do i install programs that are .tar.gz?	tar -xvf <tar file>
hi how do i find out which ubuntu version is installed?	lsb_realease -a
hi sometimes xorg freeze on my macbook (with hardy) i don't understand why. where can i search ?	also check out launchpad.net
how can i uncompress .tar.gz file in terminal ?	tar xvf filename.tar.gz
hey guys, i'm looking at a tutorial on apache configuration, and it claims that my httpd.conf will be full of stuff. mine is blank. are there any tutorials/docs that are uptodate with the way ubuntu sets apache up?	i think that's the major difference
- there doesnt seemto be any apm daemon on this?	amd or intel?

could anyone tell me how ubuntu livecd works in general? i wonder wheter it really holds no session data on cd, even when writed on cd-rw (afaik it is possible to add data even to normal cd on multisession cd) and harddrive? all is in ram (for example files on desktop) and disappears after reboot? in other words - can i be sure that when i lost my livecd or livecdrw nobody can read my private data?

it will not do anything to store without you telling it to

anyway to su to become root?

sudo su -

is there a way to make it so drives and network drives don't show up on the desktop?

look through the nat settings in gconf-editor

what is the 'default keyring' it keeps making me type my password every login.

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/07/12/automatically-unlocking-the-default-gnome-keyring-pam-keyring/

hello. is there any tool i could use inside ubuntu to shrink another partition on the hard drive (my windows partition) without loosing data?

gparted, as long as you don't touch any partition which is mounted

how do i toggle the virtual desktops with the keyboard

dpkg -l foo

is there a list of xorg.conf tweaks for maximum 3d performance?

that would probably depend on your actual graphics card and your actual application - try adjusting the parameters until you get the desired performance

hi there - i'm a long term linux user, returning after a break of a couple of years and i'd like to try ubuntu - i understand the installation routine is different to what i'm used to (anaconda). is there a way to burn a boot cd image, and then continue the install pulling it off the net?

the livecd comes with a full system and is most likely the best solution though.

how do i enable 5.1 my vlc shows theres only mono and stereo,

http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/the-simple-way-to-get-51-surround-sound-audio-working-in-ubuntu/

is there a way to invoke firefox on an url to make it appear in a new window instead of a tab?

http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2008/01/03/more-command-line-firefox-tips/

hey, my ubuntu boots all up to where it's loading the login window, but it never gets past that point.. any one?

press ctrl+f1 and see whats going on during boot

easiest way to do it is just use the download from macromedia/adobe, it should detect all your installed browsers

already had that half typed when you posted what you did

i am looking to install vhcs on ub 10.04 lts. is vhcs supported on ub?

it's just php...so yes it can be done...

what's better than xterm?

gnome terminal or konsole.

i've got a conflict where apt-get insists on applying an upgrade at the same time that i'm removing a package that conflicts with that upgrade. how do i make apt-get withhold the update until i'm done removing the old package?

use dpkg directly, there are --force parameters to allow it proceed, and then apt-get/aptitude can do its thing after

what is the ubuntu way of making gaim run at startup?

then startup programs

when i dist-upgraded to gutsy, my gnome-panel started stretching across both of my monitors. i checked my xorg.conf and it's still setup for twinview. how do i make my gnome-panel stop stretching across both monitors?

mine was doing that too, i removed 'xgl-server' and rebooted, now it's right.

what does 'ls ~ ' mean?

man ls

i don't regularly use that computer, i just want to boot a linux os from disk while i'm there so i'm not so miserable.

it will run faster if you install it though

how can i tell which of my usb ports are usb 1.0 and 2.0 ?

lsusb -v

does linux also have the 3gb limit for 32bit versions?

by default, i believe ubuntu turns the option on.

wtf? i just realized that the ubuntu cd has no lvm savvy kernel ... is that right?

if you want lvms .. get the alternative cd

what's a good tool for ripping dvd's in linux?

k9copy

how do i create a folder in shell?

mkdir

hey all, need a little help with making a usb stick work, anyone available?

work to do what

how i can install source of some package? synaptic added src in apt/sources.list, but i don't see any src packages in a list from synaptic (i also did reload).

'apt-get source package' note that you do *not* need to run as root and the source package will be downloaded to the current directory

how do i tell if a nic is recognized as gige or 10/100?

sudo ethtool eth0 (or whatever device)

does anyone know how i can play mpeg files on my firefox browser?

with xine firefox plugin

does anyone know of a channel for troubleshooting email servers

a bit more specific? there is postfix, courier, dovecot - and more...

ive got a usb wireless usb adaptor (awuso36h), works ok in ubuntu but i can't get it to run in a linux virtual machine (under virtualbox). the wireless adaptor is detected, it shows available networks etc but when i try to connect to a wpa2 secured network it reports 'bad password'. the exact same settings work in the host (ubuntu) machine. any ideas? the driver is the same for both cases (rtl8187)

once it is set up gpa does a decent (and easy) job

how to play .cda files? i have only files, not whole cd.

have you tried mplayer? i have no expericnce with cda files.

help ... the applications icon disappeared from the panel, i rebooted, and it said something about busy box and the prompt says (initramfs) ... how do i get applications icon back and get back into gui ... this is xbuntu 8.04

you should get more help inside kubuntu.

what's the command to show which files belong to a package?

ah, misread your question

hi. can anyone tell me where doom3 stores it's resolution-to-restore, i.e. initial resolution?

you should ask alis /msg alis help

hello, all! how do ubuntu developers like reiserfs or reiser4?

you just dont hear much about any of the reiserfs's these days. btrfs is the next big thing i guess.

i am running aptiude for the 1st time in a long time and it says the following packages have been held back: desktop-file-utils gdm gtk2-engines-pixbuf libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-bin libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-dev libgnomevfs2-extra libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libgtk2.0-dev. is this a problem? why are they being held back?

sounds like you need to do an apt-get dist-upgrade to me

any good linux programs i should know of when i get ubuntu?

there are lots, use syanptic

i want to remove a repo from my sources.list. how can i make sure all packages from that repo are uninstalled?

if you remove the repository and then check synaptic those packages will be listed under 'installed (local or obsolete)

hello, can anyone help me with unmounting?

you will probably need to edit /etc/fstab and comment it out

come on guys ! could anyone please try to add a printer on breezy ? i need to know if the printing tool is only broken on my computer. it will take you 5 seconds.

sudo invoke-rc.d ntpdate start

anyone: when i go to 'applications > add/remove' are all those programs to install up to date everyday? or can i make them that way if not?

whenever there are upgrades available, an orange buttone will show up in the top bar

hi, i have ubutnu 7.10 and want to deaktivate this 3d compiz-fusion and want a windowmanaher(?) wich needs less performace, how can i do that or what are good keywords for google?

http://xwinman.org/

i'm running ubuntu under vbox and already have selected a network adapter on bridge mode! but when i boot ubuntu i dont have my eth0, anyone can help me

i've never used vbox + ubuntu as guest os, but found something online. might help. http://www.kkoncepts.net/node/107

does anyone use firebug 1.2 w/firefox 3.0rc1 on linux? i'm asking before i ask because i'm doubtful anyone does.

i thought firebug doesn't work with firefox 3 yet?

i know this is kind of a random request, but i come from another distro where i'm used to having apt-get/apt-cache equivalents have colored output. does anyone know of anything that makes the output more pretty?

aptitude or hack the terminal , like ikonia is saying.

is there any way i can find all files in the system with group id 12345 ?

find / -group 12345

hm, i've been intrigued, how can i scroll the items of the 'top' list?

other than that i think you have to set the height to see a longer list

what's the command line for starting the file browser?

nautilus

will it create a problem to install kde apps like amarok in gnome?

more memory usage compared to using only gnome apps

is there a way to monitor what process is modifying a file? like, something combining tail and lsof

watch -n1 -d 'lsof | grep <file>'

ive got a msi 9600xt card using the ati fglrx driver, if i set visual effects to anything but off google earth flickers so bad i cant use it, any ideas???

yeah dont use compiz

can anyone suggest an easy to use software development kit along the lines of visual basic? i need to make a very simple app along the lines of a spreadsheet or database macro. i have experience of programming macros in excel and access and a little pascal from years ago

what about openoffice, or php or python etc...

(sighhhh) will anyone check if the 'xserver-xorg-video-radeon' even exist in the package tree ? i remembered i did have installed that before, but now i couldn't find it.

not on mine...

hello everyone, i installed ubuntu for a friend on his laptop and am trying to figure out how to sync his itouch music... is there a linux app that is compatible with the itouch/iphone?

see the links i directed to you previously

i leave my notebook on 24/7, it is not a laptop (the fans are on the bottom of the notebook), and when i use it on my lap im careful not to cover the fans. i am asking about what i can do to cool it down, because at night i leave it on my table and shut the lid, but sometimes (once every few weeks) it overheats and shuts down, more frequently in summer it shuts down because of overheating (i am guessing) because no matter what os

there are laptop coolers you can set it on that will move air from under it

how to hibernate from terminal in ubuntu?? or set shortcut for hibernate??

pm-suspend

anyone know why amixer (or alsa in general) is still trying to connect to pulseaudio, after i uninstalled pulseaudio? =o

/usr/share/alsa/pulse.conf

anyone know why a usb mouse would continually just stop working?

... have you looked at the output from dmesg?

does installing ubuntu from usb make any changes to the usb?

usb should be yntouched

updates screwed up, how can i reinstall all packages part of ubuntu-desktop

i dont know what im talking about tho, would wait for someone to answer

good morning. i am kind of new to linux haven't used it in 10 years or more. i have a piii with 256 ram and it has an old copy of a different linux operating system. do i need to figure out how to uninstall that or can i just put the cd in once i have downloaded and burnt it and go from there?

the install cd can reformat the drive if needed

i need to knwo where to learn some linux commands?

http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

hello.. im back.. :) just want to ask can i installed ubuntu in 3gig hd?

stop repeating

how come i lose my tv display when gnome starts up?

probably your xorg.conf file not configured correctly - or resolution too high

ahhh i can't eject my cdrom :( -- is 'lsof | grep cdrom' supposed to find the source of the problem?

look if /dev/cdrom is a soft link to a real device and grep for that instead

any chance proftpd will be compiled with mod_tls by default in 8.04 or 8.10 ibex ?

probably because they did not use tls for the encryption but this isn't the channel to ask that question really the -dev channel is really

does ubuntu work with dvi, or do i need to use vga?

do you have a separate graphics pci card , but if so you need to set it as default in the bios

are there any lightweight rss readers (hell, preferably all it has is a tray icon that notifies me of new entries) for gnome? i don't feel like grabbing a couple hundred megs of kde libs along with akregator

opera has it built-in, and also there's liferea, which seems to be good.

how to use regexps in ettercap?

but ettercap -e

who maintains the synaptic package manager? i have found some problems with packages there.

if you find a bug report it in launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu

hey, where can i change the resolution for the login screen? it doesn't seem to follow what i set for the desktop

run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and follow that- itll let you select resolutions you want.

hi, i installed the restricted drivers for my video card that was suggested when i went to hardware devices, and now i am unable to boot into my ubuntu partition. it seems like it is starting normally and then it will go to a screen with some weird characters on top and like three ubuntu small loading logos and loading bars spaced horizontally across the scn

mega, thanks

can anyone recommend a good bittorrent client to replace azureus, cause i cant get it to work in linux. any suggestions?

qbittorrent is kinda good

hi all, do you known an nfs client for windows?

i use automatix read/write ntfs and fat32 mounter for that

i need some help installing some drivers. anyone out there can help me?

just ask

hi i think i have a 64bit cpu how can i tell?

sudo lshw

how do i set the gnome terminal from a block to a cursor, i can't seem to find it in profile preferences?

its under profiles general, under cursor shape : block underline ibeam

hello! how to update system from 10.04 to 11.04 ( sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade doesn't work :( ) maybe some repositaries or somethin' .. ?

you have to go to 10.10 first

does anyone know if amd, or intel is more supported with ubuntu

cpu the same || chipsets intel is more supported

what is the easiest way to configure which daemons should start on system boot? i have install sshd and lightppd for testing purposes, but don't want them running all the time

chkconfig

can someone tell me how to get rid of totem in firefox?

if you want to use mozilla-mplayer and it is installed already yyou will need to reinstall after you remove totem

you can try www.shoutcast.com but i dunno if rhtymbox is compatible with those streams

so i basically add this url in rythmbox

hi, i want to install python 2.6 and python 2.7 in the same environment how can i do it and switch between both versions?

if they are both in the package manage then its easy. the command python2.6 will give you that version and python2.7 the other

hello. what shell command can i use to get the gateway of my network interfaces?

ip route | grep default

are there commands to disable/enable and/or prioritize network interfaces? i.e. eth1 and wlan0

disable/enable? 'ip link set face up' (replace face with eth1, wlan0, etc). i'm sure there's some way to prioritize, but that's beyond me

getting: 'error re-scanning registry , child terminated by signal' errors when running some applications.

you must be on windows.. there.s no 'registry' in linux perse

i need a bit of help. i need to resize the main partition on my ubuntu computer, the active one, but i can't because it's mounted. i can't use a live cd because there's no cd drive, and the usb port is dead. is it possible to resize the active partition somehow

get unetbootin. it will allow you to boot from an iso on your harddrive. it doesn't always work perfectly but it usually works pretty well.

what are those mac minis going for?

$500-600

why 'killall /dev/dsp', what does it do?

so the sound card won't be busy

what is the best / easiest / fastest way to switch to kubuntu from ubuntu?

:http://psychocats.s465.sureserver.com/ubuntu/purekde read remove ubuntu

when i do 'nmap localhost' it tells me, that port 25 (smtp) is open. why is this, and how do i turn it off?

/etc/init.d/postfix stop

can someone tell me if it is possible to run mac-software with links .oo(like win-software with wine)

on some application you can change the $home_java = /to/path

hi, i just recovered my server (over ssh) from a horrible failure: it was starting networkmanager, which trampled on its static ip configuration. i only had a few seconds in the shell each boot, so i ran some diagnostics and rm'ed the networkmanager binary. now: how can i absolutely forbid the network-manager package from ever being installed again on the server?

sudo aptitude purge network-manager; sudo aptitude forbid-version network-manager

who's having issues with xchat autocomplete?

i do. if you aren't specific enough, it autocompletes for the first name. ideally, it would just not autocomplete at all until you've typed in enough to narrow it down to a specific nick

hi, bit of a newbie, how do i install programs that are .tar.gz?

tar -xvf <tar file>

hi how do i find out which ubuntu version is installed?

lsb_realease -a

hi sometimes xorg freeze on my macbook (with hardy) i don't understand why. where can i search ?

also check out launchpad.net

how can i uncompress .tar.gz file in terminal ?

tar xvf filename.tar.gz

hey guys, i'm looking at a tutorial on apache configuration, and it claims that my httpd.conf will be full of stuff. mine is blank. are there any tutorials/docs that are uptodate with the way ubuntu sets apache up?

i think that's the major difference

- there doesnt seemto be any apm daemon on this?

amd or intel?