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how do i disable compiz automatically when i start i game?	start the game in another x server without gnome on it.
can anyone recommend a good radio app?	i use clementine, all around good music player. comes with a good selection of radio stations and you can add your own
isn't there any software that configures grub automatically?	i think there is some grub command that performs setup (that is used in the initial install) but im not sure. you could try looking at config with kgrubeditor
is there a way to use a smartphone as an typing input device for my ubuntu laptop?	http://www.remotedroid.net/ needs java on the server side
how can i get the uid of the logged in user?	type 'id'
how can i figure out what ubuntu im on? (what the name is, lucid, maverick, etc)	lsb_release -a
is there a way to fix the boot menu throught the ubuntu 10.04 cd?	http://grub.enbug.org/grub2livecdinstallguide
ok does any one know if xps 1330 wireless card by broadcom will be supported and automatically detected/installed by 8.04	you might need to use ndiswrapper (something like that)
i have a strange problem here since i installed a few updates today, generally the problem is that the 'enter key' doesn't work anymore under x. it does work when logging in via gdm, but not after i have logged into gnome. the the enter key on the numeric keypad still works. any ideas? (dapper )	read you /var/log/xorg.0.log
is there an rsync archive of the daily iso's? so i can just rsync the iso, rather than download a new one (saves bandwidth) ?	yes, it's documented on the wiki
newest if you don't know the command line maybe ' sudo nautilus' would work cuz it gives you a root browser	it can screw up the settings.
hi all ... is there a way to have consoles individually remember their 'last commands' history, so that after a reboot, any automatically re-opened consoles retain their own command history ?	that is just systemwide history for any user
whats with the unrar app...	probably because the rar files do have errors
is there a way to change ubuntu's sensibility to the scrolling of the mouse's wheel? thanks.	yeah. preferneces -> mouse.
does ubuntu come with true type fonts installed?	i believe so
how do i find out my local ip address? :)	ifconfig
i would like to install some 3d desktop on my ubuntu feisty. i tried before but it crashed my computer, i panicked and i deleted all the files related to it. now is there someone that could explain me how do i get that 3d desktop without killing my computer please?	3d desktop is buggy at best its still beta if your hardware didnt support it look around for how to make it work and if you cant find anything discussing your hardware then give it a while and wait for the next beta
i just built myself a custom kernel from upstream and it all went well, but now i'd like to patch in a driver, how can i do this without having to recompile everything?	it's in the 'make' command. make<what?>
quick question... how do i mount my master drive from my slave drive?	in a terminal type sudo fdisk -l then find the section relating to the disk you wont to mount (dev/hda1) then make a mount point sudo mkdir /media/mountpoint sudo mount /dev/hda1 /media/mountpoint
are some of the ubuntu repositories down?	some are very loaded right now and mey be slow
is there a downloadable document for the windows users switching to ubuntu?	not currently, but you could join the ubuntu documentation team & help us finish one for the next release!
can anyone tell me how to remove mysqld?	apt-get remove --purge mysql-server
anyone here successfully using the openvpn plugin for the network manager?	heh, have you successfully used the network manager at all? doesn't work for me :p
does anyone know how can i open .sit file in ubuntu?	http://my.smithmicro.com/unix/stuffit/index.html any help ?
does anyone know what package has kdecoration.h in it	you can do a search at packages.ubuntu.com , second form
hi. when reading /etc/fstab everything is in uuid format...how can i know what this maps to in terms of /dev/sdx ?	use vol_id to find out what the uuid of each disk is
hi. the new light theme comes with the latest 10.4 build isos?	not yet
how do i make someones name red when i reply to them?	you only need to type 'lj' then tab and the the program will complete the name for you. if many names start the same press tab many times
what is a good program that can be apt-get installed to test sound input?	sound recorder should be pre-installed
i'm trying to get my tv-out working (nvidia fx 5200), setting up modes like '1600x1200,640x480' does not make the computer display in 1600x1200 and the tv in the other, but instead changes the computer to display 2240x1200 so it extends the desktop in such a way that the tv displays something out of the (to the computer) visible desktop range.	what with
hello all. i am an ubuntu-newbie (coming from mac). i have connected an old apple extended keyboard to the pc i have ubuntu on, but some special-keys, like the at-symbol aren't available with the key-combination that is shown in the keyboard-layout-window	look with pstree what is the parent-process of the zombie and kill that
guys im installing the default installation of ubuntu in my 486 do you think it will run?	only one way to find out...
hi, how to know the path of an executable that can be used systemwide	which gedit -- that works too
is it repository or just package storage? http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/bless	its not the repo, also its debian not ubuntu, dont mix the packages
i downloaded my kernel source to put into /usr/source/ but i can't figure out how to put it there from my desktop	you need to be super user probably, try using 'sudo mv /usr/source /where/ever/you/want/it' or starting your file browser with 'gksudo'
how i can change password.. u know login and password..	system->administration->users and groups
so i'm on 64 bit ubu and this proprietary binary needs the 32 bit versions of libraries ... is there a magic apt incantation to get these on here?	sudo apt-get install libname-foo:i386
could someone help me build a script that restarts a process when it crashes ?	look at the daemontools package. look at the respawn option of inittab
anyone know the specific wiki software the wiki runs on?	http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/
does anyone here know how i can batch encode several .wav files to flac? in windows, flac had several 'front end' gui's that made batch encoding a drag & drop affair... from the command line in ubuntu, however, i cannot figure out how to batch anything; only one file at a time	for file in *.wav ; do flacenc -o '`basename $file .wav`.flac' $file ; done , or something along those lines
how can i mount a .cue/.bin? also, gksudo network-admincan i have some real-people recomendations for vnc viewers and software?	1) not, convert it to iso with bchunk 2) freenx
what is the package that installs all the development tools (gcc gdb make, etc)	and apt-get build-dep <package> will install specific build dependencies for a package
i was experimenting with my menubar and unclicked the show menubar option	right-click in the terminal window and choose show menubar
hey all :) i installed java like described in the ubuntu wiki, but limewire cant locate java.. how can i configure limewire to find my java, or set symlinks so limewire can find it?	did you do update-alternatives?
let's say my '/etc/sudoers' is broken and i can't remember my root password. how can i reset it? i have physical access to the box.	it's mnot a reinstall, it's setting up a recovery env
uhh.. whats the command to see available ram?	vmstat, free, top these commands
is it better to do a fresh install of ibex or will an upgrade from a fresh install of hardy be the same? i just fresh installed hardy before i realize that theres 6 days left till ibex. i don't really want to download a whole new iso etc... if it would be the same as upgrading	i'd recommend doing a fresh install of ibex. theoretically, though, there won't be too much difference.
i understand that root is locked in ubuntu. but i don't have acces to my ubuntu server right now and wanted to clarify something i can't test. if root is locked, does that mean root can't even log in at the console, no matter the runlevel or init?	you can do a single user shell or recovery
at least with 'qtconfig' and 'kcontrol' but i dunno how much kde dependencies they have	qtconfig helped with the font size. and does not depend on anything beside libqt. now if i find out, how to apply qt themes without kde that would be great. but i think that will not be possible without kcontrol. but anyway the fonts are set. thanks!
i used startup manager to tell grub to log into windows with 0 countdown. how do i access grub in bootup to go back into ubuntu	holding shift while booting will pop up the grub menu
hi, is there an mp3 tag editor that runs on xfce? i think kid3 only works with kde	there's exfalso or easytag that work well with xfce
i'm looking for a lightweight bittorrent client that provides more statistics than the original bittorrent client (something similiar to utorrent on windows), anyone have any suggestions?	it's terminal-based, but i'm a big fan of rtorrent
whats a good wysiwyg web devel tool?	pretty much everything else is going to be tailored to hand coded html/etc.
can somebody help me with enabling/installing svn?	ubotu is a bot
hi i need to know how to set a module to load every time a reboot	add your module to this file /etc/modules
can anyone recommend a good app for adding / deleting tracks from an ipod on ubuntu?	gtkpod
what is the name of winamp-look mp3 player for linux?	xmms i guess
is there an easy way to figure out what packages are installed on machine 1, and get all the same packages on machine 2?	get-selections and set-selections
guys, what other p2p client exists that works like 'amule'? i mean, i want to access the same network that 'amule' accesses, but i want to use other client. is it possible?	open a terminal and type 'apt-cache search mule'
hi everyone. i had tomcat6 installed on my ubuntu machine. however, last wednesday i got notified that there are security updates. and after updating, tomcat6 is really slow and takes up 101% of memory (1 cpu core out of 4). is there a way to fix this? installing tomcat7 didn't fix anything.	you're going to have to research that update and see what it changed and how it effects your config/system
ok, so no utilties that can analyze drive access and help determine what task might be chewing through my hd?	top might be able to show things sorted by reads/writes, but you'd have to check the manpage
you don't have it mounted, do you? :)	which one?
how can i get mplayer in ubuntu ?	i think you might have to re-seat that video card. check the connection on the video card as well.
does anyone know the best place to ask packaging related questions?	irc.debian.org has channels for apt and dpkg iirc
q: can the latest ubuntu version run gnome 3 ?	you'd probably do better to reinstall
hi i have an error message when booting is there a log file i can look at to check it now.	/var/log/boot
what is the name of the file system which allows you to 'layer' on top of an existing read-only file system? new and modified files can be stored on a different device with transparent fall-through to the underlying fs.	aufs?
is there a way to remove dapper drake, and go back to breezy badger?	not really
i need to download some ubuntu-packages (for gutsy gibbon) form a non-ubuntu pc (fedora) is there any webfrontend for the ubuntu-repositories?	packages.ubuntu.com
when do i put the password for evolution?	only if they share the same subnet mask
how do i disable my machine trying to set the clock by internet when my computer starts up	remove init script of ntpdate from /etc/init.d/
i'm on feisty, and when i use gparted to try to edit my partition, it won't allow me to do anything, all of the options are grayed out....and help?	download the gparted livecd from the gparted site, i find it more reliable than gparted from the ubuntu livecd
hi, 64-bit version of the iso image of ubuntu is right choice for an intel core duo based machine?	otherwise 32bit is enough
fetch data from where?	from the internet. like fetching images from a site or fetching pdfs from hundreads of pdf links on some site on the internet
is ekiga based on gstreamer?	because partner repositories are disabled by default, and the upgrade tool sees disabled repositories as comments and ignores them
hi: not sure if this is the right place to ask, but does anyone know of a mysql tutorial which shows how to install multiple, standalone instances of mysql from source which does not install a background daemon	you do not install many mysql, just create databases (or even users for it).
no, is that a package i need to install?	no - add your isp's nameserver - or opendsn ones - to /etc/resolv.conf
anyone know how to disable the gnome screensaver via command line?	: sudo killall gnome-screensaver
package for manpages for c functions?	manpages-dev
the press release for version 6.10 rc gives a target release date of 26th. is this looking likely? i ask as someone thinking of either installing 6.04 or waiting a few more days.	the schedule doesn't seem to be changing, but i'd install ubuntu dapper as the new version might not get bug-free yet.
how can i figure out which /dev/hd* are hds?	wants to see which /dev/hd* is a hd and which is an optical drive ?
is there an easy way to purge the list of backgrounds in the program to configure backgroundimages in gnome? there is no way to select all images, and i have more than 100 images, dont want to click on every single one of them :(	edit ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml
what command opens the application called 'eye of gnome' ?	i'm thinking eog.
wow... driving and on the internet at the same time.. that's way too connected for me. i always wait till my horse is hungry and we've stopped for a while. :)	gps navigation from a treo / car cradle is awesome, let me tell you!
how do make apache not start at boot time in ubuntu? airline has a ssl key password that needs to be entered by an admin.	i think, system > administration > services
i'm trying to get postgresql in ubuntu and it is not working - 'your php installation does not support postgresql. you need to recompile php using the --with-pgsql configure option.' am i missing something?	yes, install php5-pgsql
can someone recommend a youtube downloader: one that allows you to que them up and download one at a time?	/boot/config
has anyone also tried the new bitdefender for unices, it scanned the same proc/task folder for almost 2 hours, funny av	ubuntu channels do not support that.
hi, i installed the recent version of ubuntu and the bootloader now doesn't have my windows partition in the list. how do i correct this problem with minimum risk	run: sudo update-grub
when booting up a new 9.04 server installation for the first time, one item in the boot sequence fails - setting up network hardware; and ifconfig returns nothing. what's going on?	what chipset is your network card?
this is a kinda silly question but when i install a program with the package manager.. is there a default save location? it doesn't seem to create icons	depends on the program, but sometimes you need to log out and back in before new menu icons appear
if i have a laptop with vga-out (intel integrated graphics card) is it possible to set up a multi-display - like have a separate desktop on each monitor???	no the vga is a dump of your lappy screen...
why is there no modconf in ubuntu? is there any alternative frontend?	rcconf is in universe
does anyone know a good email client that is comparable to gmail's web interface?	i don't think such a thing exists...but evolution and thunderbird are good e-mail clients
can anyone tell me how i set up my system so that is starts in a shell not gnome? thanks.	check /etc/inittab to see what the default run level is set to
hi, do you know about a app to record audio and video whit the webcam?	cheese will do for video
hi all, just helping a buddy setup his new dyi barebones kit. there is a fan in the middle of the case....what kind of power does it plug into? standard plug like for cdrom drive or one of the cables coming from the front of the unit which i think is for led lights, extra fans etc. or does it plug into someplace on mobo?	if you're going to be gaming, 200gb for ubuntu would be good. if not, 60gb will be plenty
i can sucessfully log in and browse a samba share using smbclient but i can not mount a samba share to a mountpoint. i get wrong fs type	i don't know??
hello there im trying to change the color of the gnome ubuntu menu from the default black to white, i dont seem to have any .gtkrc directory in which to edit it as google suggests. any ideas?	then restart the panel afterwards
does anybody use screen and ever notice it behaving strangely with gnome-terminal? screens blacking out, typing over the status bar and generally being a pain in the ass? :/	try using tty instead of gnome-terminal. ctrl+alt+f1

how do i disable compiz automatically when i start i game?

start the game in another x server without gnome on it.

can anyone recommend a good radio app?

i use clementine, all around good music player. comes with a good selection of radio stations and you can add your own

isn't there any software that configures grub automatically?

i think there is some grub command that performs setup (that is used in the initial install) but im not sure. you could try looking at config with kgrubeditor

is there a way to use a smartphone as an typing input device for my ubuntu laptop?

http://www.remotedroid.net/ needs java on the server side

how can i get the uid of the logged in user?

type 'id'

how can i figure out what ubuntu im on? (what the name is, lucid, maverick, etc)

lsb_release -a

is there a way to fix the boot menu throught the ubuntu 10.04 cd?

http://grub.enbug.org/grub2livecdinstallguide

ok does any one know if xps 1330 wireless card by broadcom will be supported and automatically detected/installed by 8.04

you might need to use ndiswrapper (something like that)

i have a strange problem here since i installed a few updates today, generally the problem is that the 'enter key' doesn't work anymore under x. it does work when logging in via gdm, but not after i have logged into gnome. the the enter key on the numeric keypad still works. any ideas? (dapper )

read you /var/log/xorg.0.log

is there an rsync archive of the daily iso's? so i can just rsync the iso, rather than download a new one (saves bandwidth) ?

yes, it's documented on the wiki

newest if you don't know the command line maybe ' sudo nautilus' would work cuz it gives you a root browser

it can screw up the settings.

hi all ... is there a way to have consoles individually remember their 'last commands' history, so that after a reboot, any automatically re-opened consoles retain their own command history ?

that is just systemwide history for any user

whats with the unrar app...

probably because the rar files do have errors

is there a way to change ubuntu's sensibility to the scrolling of the mouse's wheel? thanks.

yeah. preferneces -> mouse.

does ubuntu come with true type fonts installed?

i believe so

how do i find out my local ip address? :)

ifconfig

i would like to install some 3d desktop on my ubuntu feisty. i tried before but it crashed my computer, i panicked and i deleted all the files related to it. now is there someone that could explain me how do i get that 3d desktop without killing my computer please?

3d desktop is buggy at best its still beta if your hardware didnt support it look around for how to make it work and if you cant find anything discussing your hardware then give it a while and wait for the next beta

i just built myself a custom kernel from upstream and it all went well, but now i'd like to patch in a driver, how can i do this without having to recompile everything?

it's in the 'make' command. make<what?>

quick question... how do i mount my master drive from my slave drive?

in a terminal type sudo fdisk -l then find the section relating to the disk you wont to mount (dev/hda1) then make a mount point sudo mkdir /media/mountpoint sudo mount /dev/hda1 /media/mountpoint

are some of the ubuntu repositories down?

some are very loaded right now and mey be slow

is there a downloadable document for the windows users switching to ubuntu?

not currently, but you could join the ubuntu documentation team & help us finish one for the next release!

can anyone tell me how to remove mysqld?

apt-get remove --purge mysql-server

anyone here successfully using the openvpn plugin for the network manager?

heh, have you successfully used the network manager at all? doesn't work for me :p

does anyone know how can i open .sit file in ubuntu?

http://my.smithmicro.com/unix/stuffit/index.html any help ?

does anyone know what package has kdecoration.h in it

you can do a search at packages.ubuntu.com , second form

hi. when reading /etc/fstab everything is in uuid format...how can i know what this maps to in terms of /dev/sdx ?

use vol_id to find out what the uuid of each disk is

hi. the new light theme comes with the latest 10.4 build isos?

not yet

how do i make someones name red when i reply to them?

you only need to type 'lj' then tab and the the program will complete the name for you. if many names start the same press tab many times

what is a good program that can be apt-get installed to test sound input?

sound recorder should be pre-installed

i'm trying to get my tv-out working (nvidia fx 5200), setting up modes like '1600x1200,640x480' does not make the computer display in 1600x1200 and the tv in the other, but instead changes the computer to display 2240x1200 so it extends the desktop in such a way that the tv displays something out of the (to the computer) visible desktop range.

what with

hello all. i am an ubuntu-newbie (coming from mac). i have connected an old apple extended keyboard to the pc i have ubuntu on, but some special-keys, like the at-symbol aren't available with the key-combination that is shown in the keyboard-layout-window

look with pstree what is the parent-process of the zombie and kill that

guys im installing the default installation of ubuntu in my 486 do you think it will run?

only one way to find out...

hi, how to know the path of an executable that can be used systemwide

which gedit -- that works too

is it repository or just package storage? http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/bless

its not the repo, also its debian not ubuntu, dont mix the packages

i downloaded my kernel source to put into /usr/source/ but i can't figure out how to put it there from my desktop

you need to be super user probably, try using 'sudo mv /usr/source /where/ever/you/want/it' or starting your file browser with 'gksudo'

how i can change password.. u know login and password..

system->administration->users and groups

so i'm on 64 bit ubu and this proprietary binary needs the 32 bit versions of libraries ... is there a magic apt incantation to get these on here?

sudo apt-get install libname-foo:i386

could someone help me build a script that restarts a process when it crashes ?

look at the daemontools package. look at the respawn option of inittab

anyone know the specific wiki software the wiki runs on?

http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/

does anyone here know how i can batch encode several .wav files to flac? in windows, flac had several 'front end' gui's that made batch encoding a drag & drop affair... from the command line in ubuntu, however, i cannot figure out how to batch anything; only one file at a time

for file in *.wav ; do flacenc -o '`basename $file .wav`.flac' $file ; done , or something along those lines

how can i mount a .cue/.bin? also, gksudo network-admincan i have some real-people recomendations for vnc viewers and software?

1) not, convert it to iso with bchunk 2) freenx

what is the package that installs all the development tools (gcc gdb make, etc)

and apt-get build-dep <package> will install specific build dependencies for a package

i was experimenting with my menubar and unclicked the show menubar option

right-click in the terminal window and choose show menubar

hey all :) i installed java like described in the ubuntu wiki, but limewire cant locate java.. how can i configure limewire to find my java, or set symlinks so limewire can find it?

did you do update-alternatives?

let's say my '/etc/sudoers' is broken and i can't remember my root password. how can i reset it? i have physical access to the box.

it's mnot a reinstall, it's setting up a recovery env

uhh.. whats the command to see available ram?

vmstat, free, top these commands

is it better to do a fresh install of ibex or will an upgrade from a fresh install of hardy be the same? i just fresh installed hardy before i realize that theres 6 days left till ibex. i don't really want to download a whole new iso etc... if it would be the same as upgrading

i'd recommend doing a fresh install of ibex. theoretically, though, there won't be too much difference.

i understand that root is locked in ubuntu. but i don't have acces to my ubuntu server right now and wanted to clarify something i can't test. if root is locked, does that mean root can't even log in at the console, no matter the runlevel or init?

you can do a single user shell or recovery

at least with 'qtconfig' and 'kcontrol' but i dunno how much kde dependencies they have

qtconfig helped with the font size. and does not depend on anything beside libqt. now if i find out, how to apply qt themes without kde that would be great. but i think that will not be possible without kcontrol. but anyway the fonts are set. thanks!

i used startup manager to tell grub to log into windows with 0 countdown. how do i access grub in bootup to go back into ubuntu

holding shift while booting will pop up the grub menu

hi, is there an mp3 tag editor that runs on xfce? i think kid3 only works with kde

there's exfalso or easytag that work well with xfce

i'm looking for a lightweight bittorrent client that provides more statistics than the original bittorrent client (something similiar to utorrent on windows), anyone have any suggestions?

it's terminal-based, but i'm a big fan of rtorrent

whats a good wysiwyg web devel tool?

pretty much everything else is going to be tailored to hand coded html/etc.

can somebody help me with enabling/installing svn?

ubotu is a bot

hi i need to know how to set a module to load every time a reboot

add your module to this file /etc/modules

can anyone recommend a good app for adding / deleting tracks from an ipod on ubuntu?

gtkpod

what is the name of winamp-look mp3 player for linux?

xmms i guess

is there an easy way to figure out what packages are installed on machine 1, and get all the same packages on machine 2?

get-selections and set-selections

guys, what other p2p client exists that works like 'amule'? i mean, i want to access the same network that 'amule' accesses, but i want to use other client. is it possible?

open a terminal and type 'apt-cache search mule'

hi everyone. i had tomcat6 installed on my ubuntu machine. however, last wednesday i got notified that there are security updates. and after updating, tomcat6 is really slow and takes up 101% of memory (1 cpu core out of 4). is there a way to fix this? installing tomcat7 didn't fix anything.

you're going to have to research that update and see what it changed and how it effects your config/system

ok, so no utilties that can analyze drive access and help determine what task might be chewing through my hd?

top might be able to show things sorted by reads/writes, but you'd have to check the manpage

you don't have it mounted, do you? :)

which one?

how can i get mplayer in ubuntu ?

i think you might have to re-seat that video card. check the connection on the video card as well.

does anyone know the best place to ask packaging related questions?

irc.debian.org has channels for apt and dpkg iirc

q: can the latest ubuntu version run gnome 3 ?

you'd probably do better to reinstall

hi i have an error message when booting is there a log file i can look at to check it now.

/var/log/boot

what is the name of the file system which allows you to 'layer' on top of an existing read-only file system? new and modified files can be stored on a different device with transparent fall-through to the underlying fs.

aufs?

is there a way to remove dapper drake, and go back to breezy badger?

not really

i need to download some ubuntu-packages (for gutsy gibbon) form a non-ubuntu pc (fedora) is there any webfrontend for the ubuntu-repositories?

packages.ubuntu.com

when do i put the password for evolution?

only if they share the same subnet mask

how do i disable my machine trying to set the clock by internet when my computer starts up

remove init script of ntpdate from /etc/init.d/

i'm on feisty, and when i use gparted to try to edit my partition, it won't allow me to do anything, all of the options are grayed out....and help?

download the gparted livecd from the gparted site, i find it more reliable than gparted from the ubuntu livecd

hi, 64-bit version of the iso image of ubuntu is right choice for an intel core duo based machine?

otherwise 32bit is enough

fetch data from where?

from the internet. like fetching images from a site or fetching pdfs from hundreads of pdf links on some site on the internet

is ekiga based on gstreamer?

because partner repositories are disabled by default, and the upgrade tool sees disabled repositories as comments and ignores them

hi: not sure if this is the right place to ask, but does anyone know of a mysql tutorial which shows how to install multiple, standalone instances of mysql from source which does not install a background daemon

you do not install many mysql, just create databases (or even users for it).

no, is that a package i need to install?

no - add your isp's nameserver - or opendsn ones - to /etc/resolv.conf

anyone know how to disable the gnome screensaver via command line?

: sudo killall gnome-screensaver

package for manpages for c functions?

manpages-dev

the press release for version 6.10 rc gives a target release date of 26th. is this looking likely? i ask as someone thinking of either installing 6.04 or waiting a few more days.

the schedule doesn't seem to be changing, but i'd install ubuntu dapper as the new version might not get bug-free yet.

how can i figure out which /dev/hd* are hds?

wants to see which /dev/hd* is a hd and which is an optical drive ?

is there an easy way to purge the list of backgrounds in the program to configure backgroundimages in gnome? there is no way to select all images, and i have more than 100 images, dont want to click on every single one of them :(

edit ~/.gnome2/backgrounds.xml

what command opens the application called 'eye of gnome' ?

i'm thinking eog.

wow... driving and on the internet at the same time.. that's way too connected for me. i always wait till my horse is hungry and we've stopped for a while. :)

gps navigation from a treo / car cradle is awesome, let me tell you!

how do make apache not start at boot time in ubuntu? airline has a ssl key password that needs to be entered by an admin.

i think, system > administration > services

i'm trying to get postgresql in ubuntu and it is not working - 'your php installation does not support postgresql. you need to recompile php using the --with-pgsql configure option.' am i missing something?

yes, install php5-pgsql

can someone recommend a youtube downloader: one that allows you to que them up and download one at a time?

/boot/config

has anyone also tried the new bitdefender for unices, it scanned the same proc/task folder for almost 2 hours, funny av

ubuntu channels do not support that.

hi, i installed the recent version of ubuntu and the bootloader now doesn't have my windows partition in the list. how do i correct this problem with minimum risk

run: sudo update-grub

when booting up a new 9.04 server installation for the first time, one item in the boot sequence fails - setting up network hardware; and ifconfig returns nothing. what's going on?

what chipset is your network card?

this is a kinda silly question but when i install a program with the package manager.. is there a default save location? it doesn't seem to create icons

depends on the program, but sometimes you need to log out and back in before new menu icons appear

if i have a laptop with vga-out (intel integrated graphics card) is it possible to set up a multi-display - like have a separate desktop on each monitor???

no the vga is a dump of your lappy screen...

why is there no modconf in ubuntu? is there any alternative frontend?

rcconf is in universe

does anyone know a good email client that is comparable to gmail's web interface?

i don't think such a thing exists...but evolution and thunderbird are good e-mail clients

can anyone tell me how i set up my system so that is starts in a shell not gnome? thanks.

check /etc/inittab to see what the default run level is set to

hi, do you know about a app to record audio and video whit the webcam?

cheese will do for video

hi all, just helping a buddy setup his new dyi barebones kit. there is a fan in the middle of the case....what kind of power does it plug into? standard plug like for cdrom drive or one of the cables coming from the front of the unit which i *think* is for led lights, extra fans etc. or does it plug into someplace on mobo?

if you're going to be gaming, 200gb for ubuntu would be good. if not, 60gb will be plenty

i can sucessfully log in and browse a samba share using smbclient but i can not mount a samba share to a mountpoint. i get wrong fs type

i don't know??

hello there im trying to change the color of the gnome ubuntu menu from the default black to white, i dont seem to have any .gtkrc directory in which to edit it as google suggests. any ideas?

then restart the panel afterwards

does anybody use screen and ever notice it behaving strangely with gnome-terminal? screens blacking out, typing over the status bar and generally being a pain in the ass? :/

try using tty instead of gnome-terminal. ctrl+alt+f1