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help! i'm trying to rescue data from a hdd and have followed steps at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/datarecovery but got stuck trying to mount it...	bad drive, corrupted filesystem, bad hardware?
i remember on the last release of ubuntu, there was an option in the shutdown menu to save the session. how can i get that in this (6.06) tnx	goto system > preferences > sessions and there is a tick box to save
is there a way to tell what db level your headphones are playing at?	alsamixer shows in db
are there any other linux tablet users around? the lack of a good onscreen keyboard is pointing me towards the direction of writing one, but i want to make sure theres no other keyboards before i start doing it	http://tuxmobil.org/tablet_unix.html scroll down, near the bottom is a bunch of input methods, including onscreen keyboards. (im sure that's not exhaustive)
edgy... do i update the repositories (breezy to edgy) to upgrade distro?	yes in /etc/apt/sources.list
hi all... accidentally i hide the menu bar in xchat, any clue how to show it again??	try ctrl+f9
anyone got negative experience with ubuntu 64 bits?	but in general i am quite happy with 64bit ubuntu
i am seeking recommendations for ideas to expand the userbase and promote the use of linux and ubuntu. i have a release party to plan in 350 hours, and still need a title.	350 hours?
lts updates are going to made for 3 years on the desktop, but 5 years on the server. how can i tell which version was used to install a machine?	lsb_release -a
matlab was for windows, i don't know if matlab available on linux	yep, and it works now
is there a shell script i can run to shutdown my computer in 1 hour or so ? ?	man shutdown
how do i make an iso file from folder?	i use isomaster for all that stuff
anyone here help me with this problem? i got ubuntu booting from an sd card along with backtrack 3 from grub. everything boots correct but ubuntu won't get to the desktop, rather giving me a blank screen with a mouse. this is after i log in with user and pass in the respective boxes. any help?	tryed giving it a min ?
i'm working with a friend to get his wifi working and and reading this page http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-360426.html , how do i tell what kernel we have.	uname -r
can someone point me in the direction of how to get maverick to recognize and use my laptop fingerprint reader?	libfprint
i installed geany 0.18.1 on windows.. but it lags a lot i mean when u scroll down the image comes a little slowly	this is not windows
trying to figure out the best way to clone an ubuntu box	partimage.
can any help me please? i have ubuntu 9.10 64bit and my programs shuts down suddenly, with giving no error reports atll all?	i'm using 64 bit and it works perfectly.
i have a very annoying problem, when i try to install new programs with the software center, it always get stuck at 70%, the program is actually installed properly, but i need to restart the computer to install new programs.	can install from terminal fine?
how to find the uid and gid of a given user	id username
how do i get a list of attached hard drives on my system (even if they haven't been mounted)?	or lshw
i'm thinking about installing ubuntu on my mac, but i'm wondering if i should get the cd or the dvd iso? what's the difference?	- the dvd loads faster and has three methods of install text, oem and live cd.
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 am connected to an university network which blocks all incoming connections... is there some way to make a permanent connection to a remote server, and somehow tunnel back along the connection? is this what vpn is?	reverse* http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5779944.html
how do i tell what video card i have via cli?	lspci -vvv \| grep video
is vim easy to use or is a full tutorial needed ?	the latter
is there someone in particular who maintains this channel?	the developers tend to be noninvasive. why?
i'm about to reinstall ubuntu, i've already backed up my docs, and i don't want to keep my configuration; is there any special precaution i should take? (about grub, boot sector, etc)	just a general advice; create a separate /home partition.
hello! does anyone has the intel gma 900 or 950 running? i wann know if it runs xgl...	you need to use aiglx xgl is for ati and nvidia only
hey, is there a way to make an xterm window go full-screen?	iirc there is a gnome-terminal menu option for going fullscreen.
can someone please tell me were ubuntu server hides the web root for apache and also apache.conf or httpd.conf -- which ever it calls it - -im comming from gentoo and finding stuff is driving me nuts	and /etc/apache2
i'm following a tutorial for installing rails, and i've gotten to a point where it tells me to $ mate gemfile but i receive command not found error. did i miss something along the way?	the command is 'make' not mate
does anyone know of a program/script that can help in tagging and organizing music with lookups to cddb, gracenote, etc?	easytag does cddb lookups, not sure about other web-based song services.
i have a question regarding ubuntu + drupal. according to this guy, it seems that a mail server is not necessary (http://groups.drupal.org/node/22401#comment-77421). is this true?	try installing 'sendmail', i think that should resolve your issue
can some one tell me the sudo apt-get for compizconfig please	try it.
i just got a new computer and am now trying to figure out how to sync up my old files from my previous ubuntu install. to ssh from one box to the other, do i need to make firewall changes? i'm getting 'port 22: connection refused'	sudo apt-get install openssh-server on the comp you want to connedt to
what is the best audio player for ubuntu ?	i like amarok quite a bit
ok i can now mount my /dev/mapper/root /mnt. how can i install lvm and grub now?	what are you having trouble with?
how does one install mplayer? apt-get install gives me 'package mplayer is not available, but is referred to by another package. blahblah' it shows up in the add-remove software gui tool, but still won't install. i've added a couple of archive source lists to sources.list (based on an ubuntu site recommendation) but get the same error messages.	did you apt-get update after adding stuff to te sources.list?
hi guys... any release date info for 6.10?	26 oct planned
anybody know what the tag 'rhubarb' means? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bugs?field.tag=rhubarb	it's a plant of some kind.
is anybody else having problem with 'apt-get update' on the us.archive.ubuntu.com repository?	remove the us. part from sources.list and try again
does ubuntu's license or relationship with canonical prevent it from being pre-installed on pcs?	i can't see how
any brave soul here get dapper working with a dual monitor setup?	it's no different than any other dual monitor setup in linux.
i'm running compiz fusion but it uses gtk-window-decorator instead of emerald. using emerald --replace makes the borders disappear; what can i do?	i have those problems on cards that dont have enough vid memory.
hello. when i plug in my newly formatted (ext3) portable hd, it mounts as root. how do i make it mount as me?	sudo chown -r yourusername /media/mountpoint
anyone know where i can get a free shell account with a few gb of hdd space? i need it to do some open source testing, my home machine network is far to slow	yes, you are connected
can anyone help me with this? if i had an image on my desktop, let's call it 'test.jpg', what would the path for it be?	/home/yourusername/desktop/test.jpg
geeksquid: yeah i just f**ked my ubuntu before always kicked me to login... after 1 easy post on ubuntuforums.org it was fixed in 30 mins!! best support ever :)	gta2 works! :-p
can apt-get be used to install old versions of apps?	synaptic makes things like that somewhat easier if you're familiar with that
any ideas where to start fixing a broken lvm partition? when i try to mount the lvm directly i get following error: wrong fs type, bad superblock on <partition>.. try dmesg	try this http://www.tcpdump.com/kb/os/linux/configuring-lvm/intro.html
i'm getting an error upgrading to ff: 'unable to find expected entry mail/binary-i386/packages in meta-index file' i think it's supposed to be 'main/binary...' any ideas?	you have a typo in your sources.list
my fresh (but fully updated) install of 11.10 is mounting all external drives (tried three drives, one ext2 and two ntfs) as read-only. even manual mounting through sudo with a -w option mounts them read-only. i'm having a hard time searching for solutions because of google noise with those keywords.	storage group
hello. what i should do if instead the ubuntu boot screen i want see verbose mode?	(silent)
hei, do anyone knows about a writer program for terminal?	if you're talking about a terminal based text editors then there are: nano & vim <--- well the most popular atleast :)
i just modified /etc/network/interfaces. do i have to reboot to implement changes? or is there another way?	sorry /etc/init,d/networking restart
does anyone know the name of the process that controls a notebook's brightness keys?	i'm going to say... gnome-settings-daemon
there was a kernel update that i just installed.. it asked me to restart... i did, and now i have no sound. what's going on?	sounds like a regression. reboot again, at grub (you might need to hit escape) select your old kernel and see if it works again. if so, file a bug at launchpad
q: is there any application that can find duplicate files (exact match) for ubuntu, perhaps even one that can even look into archives like .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 for this purpose?	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fdupes this also list other candidates
good evening, how do i make dvd playback work on my new laptop, have installed libdvdcss2 but no luck	i think there's a new package now, libdvdread3, that replaces it. and depending on where you are, maybe regionset.
what is the file name for the background image?	it's in /usr/share/backgrounds/ i believe
when i just updated ubuntu, i got arnings like cryptsetup: warning: failed to detect canonical device of /dev/sda1	i experienced that also, but nothing serious happened. i guess it does not matter.
how does one restart or stop the x server without restarting the os?	ctrl+alt+backspace
when i boot my computer, it has some sort of firmware bootloader that tries to get a dhcp lease for no apparent reason before grub loads... is there any way i can skip that?	go to your bios setup, then deactivate preboot execution environment.
what's a safe way to remove a soft link?	you can remove a soft link with rm, for instance if the softlink is a dir make sure it doesnt have the / at the end and it removes the link not the dir
i am trying to upgrade to jaunty, but its saying that the package 'xubuntu-desktop' is marked for removal but it is in the removal blacklist. any idea how i can fix this?	i think xubuntu-desktop is a meta package
does anyboy know how to increase the verbose of the syslog?	check the section talking about enterprise.log http://www.aboutdebian.com/syslog.htm
hi there! does anyone know where i could find a list of linuy compatible usb numpads for laptops?	usb numpads that uses stardard usb hid driver must all work
were can i get a gantt chart for any of the ubuntu projects? thanks	don't know of a gantt chart but there is https://wiki.ubuntu.com/feistyreleaseschedule
how to make a partition mount automatically ?	/etc/fstab
hello is there a way to show hidden files when doing an ls?	ls -la
can anyone point me in the right direction, i've got a pc running ubuntu 10.04, and i will like to run windows 7 on a virtual machine, how do i go about this?	i recommend you look into using virtualbox by sun microsystems.
hi, i'm trying to use a shared directory, but it doesnt show in 'network'. more over, adfter an smbclient -l localhost, server and master remain empty. any help welcome.	ive noticed those tools and samba tends to not see all my shares. i just enter the actual path in the gnome file manager - ctrl-l smb://servername/sharename and it sees them here.. i naver seen them when i browse the network.
is that so he can see what fails?	comerc: yeah, it should give him at least an idea on where the boot hangs
i have just installed ubuntu 7.10 and wasn't asked to set up a root password or user account. i'm using my /home dir from my previous account. i'm at the login screen and don't know what to type. help!	same username and pass as you had before should work
what is the highest level of wireless security in ubuntu?	wireless security is a contradiction in terms tbh ;)
anybody here who has a working 'apple wireless keyboard' ??	you mihg look at this... mac hardware running ubuntu... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/macbookpro
hello. is there a way to find out the 'parent-process' of a process that is shown as 'uninterruptable'?	ppid = parent process id
hey guys, i just upgraded to 12.10 and want to remove the music suggestions under 'more suggestions'. how do i do this?	remove the unity-scope-musicstores package
i'm trying to move my /home directory to a new partition, and reinstall ubuntu using that as home. execpt i've just realised that my current /home is encrypted. does anyone know if this would work?	if it is ecryptfs you should be ok
hi, how can i set the thunderbird like this. when a mail from [email protected] is received, it will be listed in a specific sub dir?	http://kb.mozillazine.org/thunderbird_:_faqs_:_filters
is there any way to see if an audio interface is sending audio? i have a pctv card which seems to be working properly, but there is no audio.	u can use pavucontrol to check your audio playback stream(s) if you're using pulseaudio
does anyone know how to upgrade to 10.04 using and iso file by mounting it locally?	if you're talking about a livecd -> you can't upgrade with that. it would be 'possible' to potentially mount an alternate cd locally and perform update (but i have no idea how! so good luck)
has anyone had their keyboard not respond when trying to install 10.04 using vmware fusion?	yes, many people have reported that. i believe that installing 'manually' works (virtually boot the iso and install ubuntu rather than the automatic script they have)
how do i get linux-wlan-ng to compile with the current kernel?	you may only need the headers.
does anyone know what size hard drives ubuntu supports 'out of the box?'	it will take all hard drive sizes
i am trying to reset my root password with ubuntu 9.10 i selected recovery mode from the grub menu i then get a menu which gives me the option to get a root shell. however this root shell requires a maintenance password. how do i change a forgotten root password?	add 'init=/bin/sh' to your kernel line from the grub menu, change password.
hi guys, for some reason network-admin does not seem to be able to recognise my wireless card. i am on a toshiba with an atheros wireless card with an amd64	it may be lack of driver. also asus eee comes with atheros wireless card, and there is made a eeexubuntu to ship the correct driver.
what's the simplest way to get remote desktop access to an ubuntu machine from a windows machine without installing client software for remote desktop access?	teamviewer
in a computer techy way	exaile
hello. linux can insmod a module when needed, what do i need to do ?	sudo modprobe modulename
question: how do i install radeon hd drivers for ubuntu so i have fast 3d opengl?	but first, check system > administration > hardware drivers
i have a little noobish question. pidgin is not working for me and i want to kill it. i've never successfully done the kill command though, how could i end this program? it's frozen	pkill -9 pidgin
ixmu4ugd - okay, so that would take care of the issue of not knowing if someone is pretending to be me?	was lstarnes that gave that answer
anyone with experience of turning off webcam led? :)	i dont even want to know lol but if you search for cam in your package manager you should find some cool programs
greetings. any consice online reference for grub 1.98 as installed on ubuntu 10.04 ? i need to do two things. remove a menu entry and pass options to different os kernel ( os x, this is a hackintosh box also. i sort of got the hang of editing raw grub.conf files on gentoo... but this distro seems to script everything	/etc/default/grub
i hesitate to choose the most suitable filesystem for a debian/ubuntu repository ... (ext3 or ext4 or something else ) .... it's a partition just for .deb and source	ext3 would be recommended as it is considered to be more stable then ext4
i tried the live cd but it didn't play mp3-files. does ubuntu come with a mp3 player?	they have several problems with the licences and stuff ...
how do i enable overburning in nautilus-cd-burner?	in gconf-editor - go to apps -> nautilus-cd-burner. there is an option there to turn it on
hi, why isnt this site not working? http://www.quietglow.com/docs/ubuntumythtv.htm	or try this :) http://www.quietglow.com/docs/ubuntumythtv.html

help! i'm trying to rescue data from a hdd and have followed steps at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/datarecovery but got stuck trying to mount it...

bad drive, corrupted filesystem, bad hardware?

i remember on the last release of ubuntu, there was an option in the shutdown menu to save the session. how can i get that in this (6.06) tnx

goto system > preferences > sessions and there is a tick box to save

is there a way to tell what db level your headphones are playing at?

alsamixer shows in db

are there any other linux tablet users around? the lack of a good onscreen keyboard is pointing me towards the direction of writing one, but i want to make sure theres no other keyboards before i start doing it

http://tuxmobil.org/tablet_unix.html scroll down, near the bottom is a bunch of input methods, including onscreen keyboards. (im sure that's not exhaustive)

edgy... do i update the repositories (breezy to edgy) to upgrade distro?

yes in /etc/apt/sources.list

hi all... accidentally i hide the menu bar in xchat, any clue how to show it again??

try ctrl+f9

anyone got negative experience with ubuntu 64 bits?

but in general i am quite happy with 64bit ubuntu

i am seeking recommendations for ideas to expand the userbase and promote the use of linux and ubuntu. i have a release party to plan in 350 hours, and still need a title.

350 hours?

lts updates are going to made for 3 years on the desktop, but 5 years on the server. how can i tell which version was used to install a machine?

lsb_release -a

matlab was for windows, i don't know if matlab available on linux

yep, and it works now

is there a shell script i can run to shutdown my computer in 1 hour or so ? ?

man shutdown

how do i make an iso file from folder?

i use isomaster for all that stuff

anyone here help me with this problem? i got ubuntu booting from an sd card along with backtrack 3 from grub. everything boots correct but ubuntu won't get to the desktop, rather giving me a blank screen with a mouse. this is after i log in with user and pass in the respective boxes. any help?

tryed giving it a min ?

i'm working with a friend to get his wifi working and and reading this page http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-360426.html , how do i tell what kernel we have.

uname -r

can someone point me in the direction of how to get maverick to recognize and use my laptop fingerprint reader?

libfprint

i installed geany 0.18.1 on windows.. but it lags a lot i mean when u scroll down the image comes a little slowly

this is not windows

trying to figure out the best way to clone an ubuntu box

partimage.

can any help me please? i have ubuntu 9.10 64bit and my programs shuts down suddenly, with giving no error reports atll all?

i'm using 64 bit and it works perfectly.

i have a very annoying problem, when i try to install new programs with the software center, it always get stuck at 70%, the program is actually installed properly, but i need to restart the computer to install new programs.

can install from terminal fine?

how to find the uid and gid of a given user

id username

how do i get a list of attached hard drives on my system (even if they haven't been mounted)?

or lshw

i'm thinking about installing ubuntu on my mac, but i'm wondering if i should get the cd or the dvd iso? what's the difference?

- the dvd loads faster and has three methods of install text, oem and live cd.

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 am connected to an university network which blocks all incoming connections... is there some way to make a permanent connection to a remote server, and somehow tunnel back along the connection? is this what vpn is?

reverse* http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5779944.html

how do i tell what video card i have via cli?

lspci -vvv | grep video

is vim easy to use or is a full tutorial needed ?

the latter

is there someone in particular who maintains this channel?

the developers tend to be noninvasive. why?

i'm about to reinstall ubuntu, i've already backed up my docs, and i don't want to keep my configuration; is there any special precaution i should take? (about grub, boot sector, etc)

just a general advice; create a separate /home partition.

hello! does anyone has the intel gma 900 or 950 running? i wann know if it runs xgl...

you need to use aiglx xgl is for ati and nvidia only

hey, is there a way to make an xterm window go full-screen?

iirc there is a gnome-terminal menu option for going fullscreen.

can someone please tell me were ubuntu server hides the web root for apache and also apache.conf or httpd.conf -- which ever it calls it - -im comming from gentoo and finding stuff is driving me nuts

and /etc/apache2

i'm following a tutorial for installing rails, and i've gotten to a point where it tells me to $ mate gemfile but i receive command not found error. did i miss something along the way?

the command is 'make' not mate

does anyone know of a program/script that can help in tagging and organizing music with lookups to cddb, gracenote, etc?

easytag does cddb lookups, not sure about other web-based song services.

i have a question regarding ubuntu + drupal. according to this guy, it seems that a mail server is not necessary (http://groups.drupal.org/node/22401#comment-77421). is this true?

try installing 'sendmail', i think that should resolve your issue

can some one tell me the sudo apt-get for compizconfig please

try it.

i just got a new computer and am now trying to figure out how to sync up my old files from my previous ubuntu install. to ssh from one box to the other, do i need to make firewall changes? i'm getting 'port 22: connection refused'

sudo apt-get install openssh-server on the comp you want to connedt to

what is the best audio player for ubuntu ?

i like amarok quite a bit

ok i can now mount my /dev/mapper/root /mnt. how can i install lvm and grub now?

what are you having trouble with?

how does one install mplayer? apt-get install gives me 'package mplayer is not available, but is referred to by another package. blahblah' it shows up in the add-remove software gui tool, but still won't install. i've added a couple of archive source lists to sources.list (based on an ubuntu site recommendation) but get the same error messages.

did you apt-get update after adding stuff to te sources.list?

hi guys... any release date info for 6.10?

26 oct planned

anybody know what the tag 'rhubarb' means? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bugs?field.tag=rhubarb

it's a plant of some kind.

is anybody else having problem with 'apt-get update' on the us.archive.ubuntu.com repository?

remove the us. part from sources.list and try again

does ubuntu's license or relationship with canonical prevent it from being pre-installed on pcs?

i can't see how

any brave soul here get dapper working with a dual monitor setup?

it's no different than any other dual monitor setup in linux.

i'm running compiz fusion but it uses gtk-window-decorator instead of emerald. using emerald --replace makes the borders disappear; what can i do?

i have those problems on cards that dont have enough vid memory.

hello. when i plug in my newly formatted (ext3) portable hd, it mounts as root. how do i make it mount as me?

sudo chown -r yourusername /media/mountpoint

anyone know where i can get a free shell account with a few gb of hdd space? i need it to do some open source testing, my home machine network is far to slow

yes, you are connected

can anyone help me with this? if i had an image on my desktop, let's call it 'test.jpg', what would the path for it be?

/home/yourusername/desktop/test.jpg

geeksquid: yeah i just f**ked my ubuntu before always kicked me to login... after 1 easy post on ubuntuforums.org it was fixed in 30 mins!! best support ever :)

gta2 works! :-p

can apt-get be used to install old versions of apps?

synaptic makes things like that somewhat easier if you're familiar with that

any ideas where to start fixing a broken lvm partition? when i try to mount the lvm directly i get following error: wrong fs type, bad superblock on <partition>.. try dmesg

try this http://www.tcpdump.com/kb/os/linux/configuring-lvm/intro.html

i'm getting an error upgrading to ff: 'unable to find expected entry mail/binary-i386/packages in meta-index file' i think it's supposed to be 'main/binary...' any ideas?

you have a typo in your sources.list

my fresh (but fully updated) install of 11.10 is mounting all external drives (tried three drives, one ext2 and two ntfs) as read-only. even manual mounting through sudo with a -w option mounts them read-only. i'm having a hard time searching for solutions because of google noise with those keywords.

*storage* group

hello. what i should do if instead the ubuntu boot screen i want see verbose mode?

(silent)

hei, do anyone knows about a writer program for terminal?

if you're talking about a terminal based text editors then there are: nano & vim <--- well the most popular atleast :)

i just modified /etc/network/interfaces. do i have to reboot to implement changes? or is there another way?

sorry /etc/init,d/networking restart

does anyone know the name of the process that controls a notebook's brightness keys?

i'm going to say... gnome-settings-daemon

there was a kernel update that i just installed.. it asked me to restart... i did, and now i have no sound. what's going on?

sounds like a regression. reboot again, at grub (you might need to hit escape) select your old kernel and see if it works again. if so, file a bug at launchpad

q: is there any application that can find duplicate files (exact match) for ubuntu, perhaps even one that can even look into archives like .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 for this purpose?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fdupes this also list other candidates

good evening, how do i make dvd playback work on my new laptop, have installed libdvdcss2 but no luck

i think there's a new package now, libdvdread3, that replaces it. and depending on where you are, maybe regionset.

what is the file name for the background image?

it's in /usr/share/backgrounds/ i believe

when i just updated ubuntu, i got arnings like cryptsetup: warning: failed to detect canonical device of /dev/sda1

i experienced that also, but nothing serious happened. i guess it does not matter.

how does one restart or stop the x server without restarting the os?

ctrl+alt+backspace

when i boot my computer, it has some sort of firmware bootloader that tries to get a dhcp lease for no apparent reason before grub loads... is there any way i can skip that?

go to your bios setup, then deactivate preboot execution environment.

what's a safe way to remove a soft link?

you can remove a soft link with rm, for instance if the softlink is a dir make sure it doesnt have the / at the end and it removes the link not the dir

i am trying to upgrade to jaunty, but its saying that the package 'xubuntu-desktop' is marked for removal but it is in the removal blacklist. any idea how i can fix this?

i think xubuntu-desktop is a meta package

does anyboy know how to increase the verbose of the syslog?

check the section talking about enterprise.log http://www.aboutdebian.com/syslog.htm

hi there! does anyone know where i could find a list of linuy compatible usb numpads for laptops?

usb numpads that uses stardard usb hid driver must all work

were can i get a gantt chart for any of the ubuntu projects? thanks

don't know of a gantt chart but there is https://wiki.ubuntu.com/feistyreleaseschedule

how to make a partition mount automatically ?

/etc/fstab

hello is there a way to show hidden files when doing an ls?

ls -la

can anyone point me in the right direction, i've got a pc running ubuntu 10.04, and i will like to run windows 7 on a virtual machine, how do i go about this?

i recommend you look into using virtualbox by sun microsystems.

hi, i'm trying to use a shared directory, but it doesnt show in 'network'. more over, adfter an smbclient -l localhost, server and master remain empty. any help welcome.

ive noticed those tools and samba tends to not see all my shares. i just enter the actual path in the gnome file manager - ctrl-l smb://servername/sharename and it sees them here.. i naver seen them when i browse the network.

is that so he can see what fails?

comerc: yeah, it should give him at least an idea on where the boot hangs

i have just installed ubuntu 7.10 and wasn't asked to set up a root password or user account. i'm using my /home dir from my previous account. i'm at the login screen and don't know what to type. help!

same username and pass as you had before should work

what is the highest level of wireless security in ubuntu?

wireless security is a contradiction in terms tbh ;)

anybody here who has a working 'apple wireless keyboard' ??

you mihg look at this... mac hardware running ubuntu... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/macbookpro

hello. is there a way to find out the 'parent-process' of a process that is shown as 'uninterruptable'?

ppid = parent process id

hey guys, i just upgraded to 12.10 and want to remove the music suggestions under 'more suggestions'. how do i do this?

remove the unity-scope-musicstores package

i'm trying to move my /home directory to a new partition, and reinstall ubuntu using that as home. execpt i've just realised that my current /home is encrypted. does anyone know if this would work?

if it is ecryptfs you should be ok

hi, how can i set the thunderbird like this. when a mail from [email protected] is received, it will be listed in a specific sub dir?

http://kb.mozillazine.org/thunderbird_:_faqs_:_filters

is there any way to see if an audio interface is sending audio? i have a pctv card which seems to be working properly, but there is no audio.

u can use pavucontrol to check your audio playback stream(s) if you're using pulseaudio

does anyone know how to upgrade to 10.04 using and iso file by mounting it locally?

if you're talking about a livecd -> you can't upgrade with that. it would be 'possible' to potentially mount an alternate cd locally and perform update (but i have no idea how! so good luck)

has anyone had their keyboard not respond when trying to install 10.04 using vmware fusion?

yes, many people have reported that. i believe that installing 'manually' works (virtually boot the iso and install ubuntu rather than the automatic script they have)

how do i get linux-wlan-ng to compile with the current kernel?

you may only need the headers.

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

it will take all hard drive sizes

i am trying to reset my root password with ubuntu 9.10 i selected recovery mode from the grub menu i then get a menu which gives me the option to get a root shell. however this root shell requires a maintenance password. how do i change a forgotten root password?

add 'init=/bin/sh' to your kernel line from the grub menu, change password.

hi guys, for some reason network-admin does not seem to be able to recognise my wireless card. i am on a toshiba with an atheros wireless card with an amd64

it may be lack of driver. also asus eee comes with atheros wireless card, and there is made a eeexubuntu to ship the correct driver.

what's the simplest way to get remote desktop access to an ubuntu machine from a windows machine without installing client software for remote desktop access?

teamviewer

in a computer techy way

exaile

hello. linux can insmod a module when needed, what do i need to do ?

sudo modprobe modulename

question: how do i install radeon hd drivers for ubuntu so i have fast 3d opengl?

but first, check system > administration > hardware drivers

i have a little noobish question. pidgin is not working for me and i want to kill it. i've never successfully done the kill command though, how could i end this program? it's frozen

pkill -9 pidgin

ixmu4ugd - okay, so that would take care of the issue of not knowing if someone is pretending to be me?

was lstarnes that gave that answer

anyone with experience of turning off webcam led? :)

i dont even want to know lol but if you search for cam in your package manager you should find some cool programs

greetings. any consice online reference for grub 1.98 as installed on ubuntu 10.04 ? i need to do two things. remove a menu entry and pass options to different os kernel ( os x, this is a hackintosh box also. i sort of got the hang of editing raw grub.conf files on gentoo... but this distro seems to script everything

/etc/default/grub

i hesitate to choose the most suitable filesystem for a debian/ubuntu repository ... (ext3 or ext4 or something else ) .... it's a partition just for .deb and source

ext3 would be recommended as it is considered to be more stable then ext4

i tried the live cd but it didn't play mp3-files. does ubuntu come with a mp3 player?

they have several problems with the licences and stuff ...

how do i enable overburning in nautilus-cd-burner?

in gconf-editor - go to apps -> nautilus-cd-burner. there is an option there to turn it on

hi, why isnt this site not working? http://www.quietglow.com/docs/ubuntumythtv.htm

or try this :) http://www.quietglow.com/docs/ubuntumythtv.html