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anyone knows a good tool for scanning a drive and what you can print the maps with the size of every map ect	:look if tree is what are you looking for
hi, i'm having an issue with youtube, perhaps flash as a whole. i can't pause videos or use any of the buttons	adobe give crap flash versions to use linux users. what version and browser are you running?
does anyone know of a command line utility that outputs image information (for .jpg specifically)?	'file' should tell you some basic stuff
i would like to get rid of firefox and i would like to not have chromium either, how may i do this?	sudo apt-get remove firefox, or sudo apt-get purge firefox. purging will remove dpkg config files as well.
why are there no jigdo files for the live cd of intrepid at http://ubuntu.intergenia.de/releases/intrepid/ ?	because the livecd is mostly made up of one large file and it doesnt make sense to have a jigdo for that.
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
hi, if /dev/scd0 is my dvd drive, how do i find my cd drive address pls? i typed 'df' but the result didn't make sense to me, that or it isn't showing up (shows on desktop when i put a cd in the drive)	put a cd in, go to terminal, type mount, it will show you everything that's mounted
aloha. how can i change password in ubuntu lucid. i don't like my current password because it remind me of my ex gf.	passwd
what does 'fe' stand for in the filename /usr/bin/nmapfe?	front end
what is the best irc client for gnome?	xchat is a nice graphical client. irssi and bitchx are nice text-based clients.
what's up with marillat's repo? i get md5sum mismatches on packages.gz	gstreamer-mad and libdvdcss2
do programs usually run slower via wine?	depends on the program
hi. how do you upgrade ubuntu 9.04 to 12.04? i tried making a usb with startup disk creator but it wont boot.	a good practice would be, if you're planning fresh install of 12.04
anyone know how the backspace key works?	it should just work
how do i install python 2.6? this one didnt exist: sudo apt-get install python2.6 is there a way to upgrade from 2.5 to 2.6, maybe its easier for my case, or?	if you're using hardy, then you'll need to find a ppa, i'm not sure once exists though, since python is rather integral to ubuntu.
this is an odd question. but how can i connect to a computer that is behind a firewall via ssh? i can ssh -from- that machine, but can't ssh -to- that machine, is there a reverse tunnel switch for ssh ?	yes there is
guys whats best way let flash work on 64bit ubuntu?	i used nspluginwrapper to get flash working under 64-bit firefox
what version of gtk do i have in ubuntu hardy?	2.6 iirc
my hdd got a hit, ubuntu unable to boot, disks utility on live-usb tells there are bad sectors and viewing /home fails with input/output error. any way to save data from /home?	may be time to resort to ddrescue. :-(
hello. how do i use .run files (it's graphic drivers)?	you might need to use sudo as appropriate
if i have a broken install of ubuntu that won't boot, will my windows installation on another sidk be in danger if i just format the ubunu disk and reinstall ubuntu on it?	if you just format the ubuntu disk it shouldn't affect your windows installation
hi - what file can set utc = false ?? i have a dual boot system - linux time ok, but winblows is 6 hours off.	/etc/timezone maybe ?
anyone free? please help me fix this 7 line bash code: http://pastebin.com/rs1sqtdk . i run './runmount.sh u' to unmount but it gives error	http://tldp.org/ldp/abs/html/
so dumb question, what xgl?	check out the videos ubotu posted
trying to do a clean install of lucid. desktop won't format hard disks, alternate starts to install and gives message: please insert the disc labeled: 'ubuntu 10.04 lts _lucid lynx_ - release i386 (20100427.1)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter' no joy from putting desktop disk in and hitting enter. can someone help? this is my office workstation and i've been down two days now.	https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/360460
is there a website where i can send my webcam feed to let's say my gf privately	justin.tv, stick.am
hello fellows, once done upgrading or reinstalling... how would you restore an accounts access to its /home folder?	try chown -r username:username /home/username
god knows why any one would use mad wifi over ndiswrapper. i have used madwifi for 2 years and it was nothing but trouble now couldnt get it wooorking on intredip so have been trouble free with ndiswrapper since intrepid from day one. its great and connection speed and % is faster	ndiswrapper relies on windows binaries and doesn't gvie you anywhere near the amount of options that madwifi does
$ sudo echo 5 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode $bash: /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode: permission denied. why?	sudo -s, then do it
hey guys does ubuntu 11.10 have obex opp support for bluetooth transfers	see this http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/obextool.1.html
is compiz bad?	i don't think it makes a difference
someone can give hints how to configure kvm in 12.04?	see what i just put above
how do i disable avahi?	/etc/default/avahi-daemon
is somewhere out there in the multiverse a good stable and working ftp server?	proftpd, vsftpd
does anyone know if you can run hardware drivers (restricted drivers) from the command line? or how to search for the available commands like that?	like i said, jockey-gtk will lauch the restricted drivers manager
i tried to boot with ubuntu live so that i could repartition my drives, but it didnt have qtparted. anyone have any alternative suggestions?	http://www.sysresccd.org/
thanks.is package management that important?	https://help.ubuntu.com/ actually covers all of the basics
hey, can anyone give me a link to the project status page?	http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntudownunder/breezygoals
i am trying to use a frontpage client with apache; believe i've loaded all of the frontpage extensions from the package manager, but frontpage client still claims the frontpage server extensions are not installed. any ideas?	yw :)
hello, i was wondering how is the amd64 version of ubuntu for basic web surfing and learning how to use ubuntu/linux in general? does flash9 work in firefox?	everything works fine, except for some proprietary stuff (namely, java and flash, but flash works now :)
is there a website where i can get these news (server problems and so on...)?	it will probably be solved in two dozens of minutes.
hi all. what is the standard ubuntu way to format a disk?	but those tools only alter partition table, they dont format
is 15 gb enough to partition / ??	even 10g will be enough
so i'm wondering why i can't play more than one audio file at once...	set your sound to alsa, not oss
does upstart respawn services if they die unexpectedly by default?	only if you tell it to in the service.conf script
does anyone know if i can get away with not booting to a livecd to resize the home partition with gparted?	you have to boot to some other partition other than the one hta tyou want to re-size... the easiest way to do that is to use a live cd
wow is gnome 3 hard toget used to why when i try to add my current user to vboxusers by sudo usermod -a -g vboxusers cjae and select something under vbox it tells me that i am not under vboxusers and how do i see this info?	then check the output of 'groups'
what user do jobs in /etc/cron.daily/ run as?	root
i feel stupid but i have to ask. how is it that amaranth got the torrent before the ubuntu.com site has it up?	we have monitored releases.ubuntu.com closely and started downloading when it was updated
is there a graphical proggy that lets me add boot entries to grub ?	like, kate
i have far too many kernels listed in my boot screen. is there a safe, reliable way to purge all the last 3 kernel updates?	this will work too - http://www.foogazi.com/2008/07/02/quickzi-how-to-remove-older-kernels-from-ubuntu/
people, is there any program like macromedia dreamweaver, to design webpages under linux? i'm using ubuntu 6.10	mozilla composer?
good evening all... i have a laptop with a nice fresh install of 8.10 on it. what would be the simplest easiest quickest way of getting a forum running locally on it?	apt-cache search forum
hi, server's (not any user's) public key located? there is no private/public key in /root/.ssh/. i am using jaunty	look in /etc/ssh/
does anybody know how to remove the close tab button from firefox? my buttons are huge and they make my tabs huge too	browser.tabs.closebuttons browser.tabs.tabminwidth browser.tabs.tabclipwidth
what is the deb line for extras?	its not official yet as maverick has not been released, webupd8 has the info let me get it
does anyone know how to host multiple domains and subdomains on ubuntu with apache? i am using webmin.	i don't think you need to look for ubuntu documentation but apache documentation.. i think it works the same on most large distros
how can i find out what video card my computer has in ubuntu?	lspci \| grep -i vga
i ask everyone who has ubuntu karmic running on his/her notebook without any issues to tell me their model number b/c i d like to buy one that i can be shure it works with karmic.	would you like to buy my netbook? i don't use it much. :)
dangit...how do you toggle line numbers in vi again?	set nu, set nonu
how do i get azereus working?	http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75272
hi ubuntu. does anyone know of any application which would allow me to somehow move around a window that doesn't completely fit on my screen? i have had little enhancement with maximus, by the way.	alt+drag? :p
hi all, i have a problem with my keyboard, i speak spanish so i need my keyboard in spanish, when i change the config to spanish the '' works but the 'tildes' (small line above the letters like this: ) doesn't work.. and when i change to other languaje (or some with dead or not dead keys) tildes works but doesn't.. what can i do??	go systems >> preferences >> keyboard check under layouts
canany one tell me how to make admin user from command line	sudo -i
if i have two hard disks on my machine and i only want to partition the second one, how would i go about doing this.	boot up the live cd , in menu > system > admin > gnome partition editor will let you change your partitons
i'm trying to joke around with my friend's laptop while we're on the same wireless network, but he won't tell me his ip. anyone know the command for how i can probe the ip's on the network?	is there anyone else connected to that lan?
are you hackintoshing? or you have that triple boot on a mac?	shhh! (yes i've a triple booted dell hackintosh. but i spend most time in ubuntu.)
at this point your best bet is flash	doing development for flash isn't as good for linux i have heard, so i should probably not use it?
anyone who can an easy way to replace pulse audio with alsa or make alsa the default driver?	pulse audio uses alsa. so its allready there. i dont reccomend trying to remove pulse.
do they pass md5 test?	the what test? :l ive never heard of it
i'm a little confused by the behaviour of networkmanager and /etc/network/interfaces (feisty). it seems that the only way to get networkmanager to manage an interface is add the 'iface wlan0 inet dhcp' line to interfaces(5) and reboot. if the line's not there, the wlan0 isn't managed. am i on crack or is this just a bad coincidence?	dpkg -l network-manager, there's a readme that says so
is there any way to totally remove an app? do i just use purge?	sudo apt-get purge app should do it
where can i find ubuntu server 12.04	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/precisepangolin/technicaloverview/beta2
hello! how i can make symbolik link from directroy to directory? thanks!	like you'd do with files, 'man ln'
did you do any upgrades lately on your ubuntu - before it stopped detecting the sata drives ?	i just put a pci sata/pata card in :)
how can i check my svn version?	look for an help/'about' menu though
i have had a lot of good luck with spinrite. i have used it to recover data on everthing from zip disks to hard drives. it gives a real good indicator on the health of the drive as well. i have ruled out hard drive problems that were actually controller problems using it as well. it is pricey at $90, but when it works, it is worth it. if it doesn't help, they have a 100% money back guarantee, i think.	i'm not interested in recovering the data. i just erased the partition table :p. i just want to check the drive for defects to see if it's useable.
how can i have a 'insmod' run command at startup? (it needs sudo) thanks	see /etc/modules
what's burnp6 utility?	something to do with power management i suspect
does ubuntu-one support browser access like dropbox?	yes, indeed, it does. http://one.ubuntu.com
can i upload a package created with checkinstall (generated deb package, no deb source file) to my ppa?	you probably 'shouldn't' checkinstall is a 'cheat' and shouldn't be used to distribute the created debs...
seriously? none of the people i helped out today want to bother spending 10 seconds checking if their window buttons highlight on mouse hover for me? i'd get annoyed if i wasn't so handsome and witty and charming and so on	mine don't do anything but i'm on 10.04
network monitor applet shows i'm uploading at 36k/sec, but i'm not running anything that i know of. how can i find out what it is?	netstat shows you every active network connection + process and even listening ports
can anyone help me get my desktop back up and running? i think i might haev accidentally deleted a startup process or something, because nautilus doesn't launch and all that is on my desktop is the wallpaper	create a new user and see if the problem persists
can i umount a usb stick without using sudo?	pumount
i guess multitouch isn't yet popular enough that people can help me with my question. ^_^	yep. its a bit of a new fad. still hasent totally caught on for the masses.
how stable is breezy vs sid right now?	breezy seems pretty stable to me. x breaks every now and then thou ;)
is there a way to allow a user to install software via synaptic, but not allow sudo access?	when you open synaptic without setting a password, they can still select software, and go to file -> generate package script.
can you run conky in a terminal?	it's a x app, so no
iwconfig wlan0 scan	mine gives error : unrecognised wireless request 'scan'
how do i print out whats in a log file into a terminal?	if you want to look through it more logfile or less logfile helps
hi. can i set the screen gamma in ubuntu?	http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=33829
can someone help me with installing java?	its in the repositories
what's the usual '/' partition size if im going to use the rest of the space for the '/home' partition?	10-15g should be enough. probably ~ 5g used
how can i shut down the x-server in ubuntu desktop?? i want to install the nvidia drivers	then you can proceed to install the drivers.
anyone know about file recovery? i've already ran photorec but recovered almost no files even though no action in the drive other unmount and remount it. can anyone suggest anything?	foremost
what is the best tool to add id3 tag info to mp3 and ogg files? i have a ton of mp3/ogg files (ripped myself, thank you) and my kid now has a player that displays those tags and now i want to fix them.	easytag
little question, when i want to remove some default packages like bittorrent, i cant do it because it shows me a dependency on ubuntu-desktop (which i believe is very important package)	ubuntu-desktop is a metapackage, if you remove any of the default programs you lose it, but you will still have all the other individual packages.
hello i want to launch vlc without it to have the focus, is there a way ?	http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/400/
hi.. can i install ubuntu to a second partition from a running system using ubiquity so i don't have to download/boot a livecd?	that page (first link) has a number of methods for installingw without a cd

anyone knows a good tool for scanning a drive and what you can print the maps with the size of every map ect

:look if tree is what are you looking for

hi, i'm having an issue with youtube, perhaps flash as a whole. i can't pause videos or use any of the buttons

adobe give crap flash versions to use linux users. what version and browser are you running?

does anyone know of a command line utility that outputs image information (for .jpg specifically)?

'file' should tell you some basic stuff

i would like to get rid of firefox and i would like to not have chromium either, how may i do this?

sudo apt-get remove firefox, or sudo apt-get purge firefox. purging will remove dpkg config files as well.

why are there no jigdo files for the live cd of intrepid at http://ubuntu.intergenia.de/releases/intrepid/ ?

because the livecd is mostly made up of one large file and it doesnt make sense to have a jigdo for that.

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

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

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

aloha. how can i change password in ubuntu lucid. i don't like my current password because it remind me of my ex gf.

passwd

what does 'fe' stand for in the filename /usr/bin/nmapfe?

front end

what is the best irc client for gnome?

xchat is a nice graphical client. irssi and bitchx are nice text-based clients.

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

gstreamer-mad and libdvdcss2

do programs usually run slower via wine?

depends on the program

hi. how do you upgrade ubuntu 9.04 to 12.04? i tried making a usb with startup disk creator but it wont boot.

a good practice would be, if you're planning fresh install of 12.04

anyone know how the backspace key works?

it *should* just work

how do i install python 2.6? this one didnt exist: sudo apt-get install python2.6 is there a way to upgrade from 2.5 to 2.6, maybe its easier for my case, or?

if you're using hardy, then you'll need to find a ppa, i'm not sure once exists though, since python is rather integral to ubuntu.

this is an odd question. but how can i connect to a computer that is behind a firewall via ssh? i can ssh -from- that machine, but can't ssh -to- that machine, is there a reverse tunnel switch for ssh ?

yes there is

guys whats best way let flash work on 64bit ubuntu?

i used nspluginwrapper to get flash working under 64-bit firefox

what version of gtk do i have in ubuntu hardy?

2.6 iirc

my hdd got a hit, ubuntu unable to boot, disks utility on live-usb tells there are bad sectors and viewing /home fails with input/output error. any way to save data from /home?

may be time to resort to ddrescue. :-(

hello. how do i use .run files (it's graphic drivers)?

you might need to use sudo as appropriate

if i have a broken install of ubuntu that won't boot, will my windows installation on another sidk be in danger if i just format the ubunu disk and reinstall ubuntu on it?

if you just format the ubuntu disk it shouldn't affect your windows installation

hi - what file can set utc = false ?? i have a dual boot system - linux time ok, but winblows is 6 hours off.

/etc/timezone maybe ?

anyone free? please help me fix this 7 line bash code: http://pastebin.com/rs1sqtdk . i run './runmount.sh u' to unmount but it gives error

http://tldp.org/ldp/abs/html/

so dumb question, what xgl?

check out the videos ubotu posted

trying to do a clean install of lucid. desktop won't format hard disks, alternate starts to install and gives message: please insert the disc labeled: 'ubuntu 10.04 lts _lucid lynx_ - release i386 (20100427.1)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter' no joy from putting desktop disk in and hitting enter. can someone help? this is my office workstation and i've been down two days now.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/360460

is there a website where i can send my webcam feed to let's say my gf privately

justin.tv, stick.am

hello fellows, once done upgrading or reinstalling... how would you restore an accounts access to its /home folder?

try chown -r username:username /home/username

god knows why any one would use mad wifi over ndiswrapper. i have used madwifi for 2 years and it was nothing but trouble now couldnt get it wooorking on intredip so have been trouble free with ndiswrapper since intrepid from day one. its great and connection speed and % is faster

ndiswrapper relies on windows binaries and doesn't gvie you anywhere near the amount of options that madwifi does

$ sudo echo 5 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode $bash: /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode: permission denied. why?

sudo -s, then do it

hey guys does ubuntu 11.10 have obex opp support for bluetooth transfers

see this http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/obextool.1.html

is compiz bad?

i don't think it makes a difference

someone can give hints how to configure kvm in 12.04?

see what i just put above

how do i disable avahi?

/etc/default/avahi-daemon

is somewhere out there in the multiverse a good stable and working ftp server?

proftpd, vsftpd

does anyone know if you can run hardware drivers (restricted drivers) from the command line? or how to search for the available commands like that?

like i said, jockey-gtk will lauch the restricted drivers manager

i tried to boot with ubuntu live so that i could repartition my drives, but it didnt have qtparted. anyone have any alternative suggestions?

http://www.sysresccd.org/

thanks.is package management that important?

https://help.ubuntu.com/ actually covers all of the basics

hey, can anyone give me a link to the project status page?

http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntudownunder/breezygoals

i am trying to use a frontpage client with apache; believe i've loaded all of the frontpage extensions from the package manager, but frontpage client still claims the frontpage server extensions are not installed. any ideas?

yw :)

hello, i was wondering how is the amd64 version of ubuntu for basic web surfing and learning how to use ubuntu/linux in general? does flash9 work in firefox?

everything works fine, except for some proprietary stuff (namely, java and flash, but flash works now :)

is there a website where i can get these news (server problems and so on...)?

it will probably be solved in two dozens of minutes.

hi all. what is the standard ubuntu way to format a disk?

but those tools only alter partition table, they dont format

is 15 gb enough to partition / ??

even 10g will be enough

so i'm wondering why i can't play more than one audio file at once...

set your sound to alsa, not oss

does upstart respawn services if they die unexpectedly by default?

only if you tell it to in the service.conf script

does anyone know if i can get away with not booting to a livecd to resize the home partition with gparted?

you have to boot to some other partition other than the one hta tyou want to re-size... the easiest way to do that is to use a live cd

wow is gnome 3 hard toget used to why when i try to add my current user to vboxusers by sudo usermod -a -g vboxusers cjae and select something under vbox it tells me that i am not under vboxusers and how do i see this info?

then check the output of 'groups'

what user do jobs in /etc/cron.daily/ run as?

root

i feel stupid but i have to ask. how is it that amaranth got the torrent before the ubuntu.com site has it up?

we have monitored releases.ubuntu.com closely and started downloading when it was updated

is there a graphical proggy that lets me add boot entries to grub ?

like, kate

i have far too many kernels listed in my boot screen. is there a safe, reliable way to purge all the last 3 kernel updates?

this will work too - http://www.foogazi.com/2008/07/02/quickzi-how-to-remove-older-kernels-from-ubuntu/

people, is there any program like macromedia dreamweaver, to design webpages under linux? i'm using ubuntu 6.10

mozilla composer?

good evening all... i have a laptop with a nice fresh install of 8.10 on it. what would be the simplest easiest quickest way of getting a forum running locally on it?

apt-cache search forum

hi, server's (not any user's) public key located? there is no private/public key in /root/.ssh/. i am using jaunty

look in /etc/ssh/

does anybody know how to remove the close tab button from firefox? my buttons are huge and they make my tabs huge too

browser.tabs.closebuttons browser.tabs.tabminwidth browser.tabs.tabclipwidth

what is the deb line for extras?

its not official yet as maverick has not been released, webupd8 has the info let me get it

does anyone know how to host multiple domains and subdomains on ubuntu with apache? i am using webmin.

i don't think you need to look for ubuntu documentation but apache documentation.. i think it works the same on most large distros

how can i find out what video card my computer has in ubuntu?

lspci | grep -i vga

i ask everyone who has ubuntu karmic running on his/her notebook without any issues to tell me their model number b/c i d like to buy one that i can be shure it works with karmic.

would you like to buy my netbook? i don't use it much. :)

dangit...how do you toggle line numbers in vi again?

set nu, set nonu

how do i get azereus working?

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75272

hi ubuntu. does anyone know of any application which would allow me to somehow move around a window that doesn't completely fit on my screen? i have had little enhancement with maximus, by the way.

alt+drag? :p

hi all, i have a problem with my keyboard, i speak spanish so i need my keyboard in spanish, when i change the config to spanish the '' works but the 'tildes' (small line above the letters like this: ) doesn't work.. and when i change to other languaje (or some with dead or not dead keys) tildes works but doesn't.. what can i do??

go systems >> preferences >> keyboard check under layouts

canany one tell me how to make admin user from command line

sudo -i

if i have two hard disks on my machine and i only want to partition the second one, how would i go about doing this.

boot up the live cd , in menu > system > admin > gnome partition editor will let you change your partitons

i'm trying to joke around with my friend's laptop while we're on the same wireless network, but he won't tell me his ip. anyone know the command for how i can probe the ip's on the network?

is there anyone else connected to that lan?

are you hackintoshing? or you have that triple boot on a mac?

shhh! (yes i've a triple booted dell hackintosh. but i spend most time in ubuntu.)

at this point your best bet is flash

doing development for flash isn't as good for linux i have heard, so i should probably not use it?

anyone who can an easy way to replace pulse audio with alsa or make alsa the default driver?

pulse audio uses alsa. so its allready there. i dont reccomend trying to remove pulse.

do they pass md5 test?

the what test? :l ive never heard of it

i'm a little confused by the behaviour of networkmanager and /etc/network/interfaces (feisty). it seems that the only way to get networkmanager to manage an interface is add the 'iface wlan0 inet dhcp' line to interfaces(5) and reboot. if the line's not there, the wlan0 isn't managed. am i on crack or is this just a bad coincidence?

dpkg -l network-manager, there's a readme that says so

is there any way to totally remove an app? do i just use purge?

sudo apt-get purge app should do it

where can i find ubuntu server 12.04

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/precisepangolin/technicaloverview/beta2

hello! how i can make symbolik link from directroy to directory? thanks!

like you'd do with files, 'man ln'

did you do any upgrades lately on your ubuntu - before it stopped detecting the sata drives ?

i just put a pci sata/pata card in :)

how can i check my svn version?

look for an help/'about' menu though

i have had a lot of good luck with spinrite. i have used it to recover data on everthing from zip disks to hard drives. it gives a real good indicator on the health of the drive as well. i have ruled out hard drive problems that were actually controller problems using it as well. it is pricey at $90, but when it works, it is worth it. if it doesn't help, they have a 100% money back guarantee, i think.

i'm not interested in recovering the data. i just erased the partition table :p. i just want to check the drive for defects to see if it's useable.

how can i have a 'insmod' run command at startup? (it needs sudo) thanks

see /etc/modules

what's burnp6 utility?

something to do with power management i suspect

does ubuntu-one support browser access like dropbox?

yes, indeed, it does. http://one.ubuntu.com

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

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

seriously? none of the people i helped out today want to bother spending 10 seconds checking if their window buttons highlight on mouse hover for me? i'd get annoyed if i wasn't so handsome and witty and charming and so on

mine don't do anything but i'm on 10.04

network monitor applet shows i'm uploading at 36k/sec, but i'm not running anything that i know of. how can i find out what it is?

netstat shows you every active network connection + process and even listening ports

can anyone help me get my desktop back up and running? i think i might haev accidentally deleted a startup process or something, because nautilus doesn't launch and all that is on my desktop is the wallpaper

create a new user and see if the problem persists

can i umount a usb stick without using sudo?

pumount

i guess multitouch isn't yet popular enough that people can help me with my question. ^_^

yep. its a bit of a new fad. still hasent totally caught on for the masses.

how stable is breezy vs sid right now?

breezy seems pretty stable to me. x breaks every now and then thou ;)

is there a way to allow a user to install software via synaptic, but not allow sudo access?

when you open synaptic without setting a password, they can still select software, and go to file -> generate package script.

can you run conky in a terminal?

it's a x app, so no

iwconfig wlan0 scan

mine gives error : unrecognised wireless request 'scan'

how do i print out whats in a log file into a terminal?

if you want to look through it more logfile or less logfile helps

hi. can i set the screen gamma in ubuntu?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=33829

can someone help me with installing java?

its in the repositories

what's the usual '/' partition size if im going to use the rest of the space for the '/home' partition?

10-15g should be enough. probably ~ 5g used

how can i shut down the x-server in ubuntu desktop?? i want to install the nvidia drivers

then you can proceed to install the drivers.

anyone know about file recovery? i've already ran photorec but recovered almost no files even though no action in the drive other unmount and remount it. can anyone suggest anything?

foremost

what is the best tool to add id3 tag info to mp3 and ogg files? i have a ton of mp3/ogg files (ripped myself, thank you) and my kid now has a player that displays those tags and now i want to fix them.

easytag

little question, when i want to remove some default packages like bittorrent, i cant do it because it shows me a dependency on ubuntu-desktop (which i believe is very important package)

ubuntu-desktop is a metapackage, if you remove any of the default programs you lose it, but you will still have all the other individual packages.

hello i want to launch vlc without it to have the focus, is there a way ?

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/400/

hi.. can i install ubuntu to a second partition from a running system using ubiquity so i don't have to download/boot a livecd?

that page (first link) has a number of methods for installingw without a cd