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hi all :) apt-get is telling me that 'it is not going to be installed' (packages include lsb-{core,graphics,cxx,desktop.printing}) does that mean i should not install them?	that just means their not going to be includeed in the update or w/e you can install them if you wish, but they are either not requried or not supported or they are restricted repositories
if i 'make uninstall'... what do i do after that? anything?	remove the directory if you want, but no, that should be it
hey -- where can i find out what changes were made with the new kernel update in hoary?	/usr/share/doc/<packagename>/changelog.debian.gz
whats the command for stopping x server please	log out, ctl-alt-f1, log in, type sudo invoke-rc.d gdm stop
freidrichman: use synaptic and enable universe and such.	its not in the repos, i checked here.
re nfs 'connection refused' issue - is there a better channel i should be pestering? (i'm new so pls mention network too) tia	ubotu sent you some information in a private message. did you receive it?
doesn't openjdk run java applets in browsers?	you need icedtea for that
can ui buttons (lke ok, etc) be resized?	under system->preferences->appearance, fonts tab, 'application font'
what are the the gtk desklet things i see on desktops called?	gdesklets , or screenlets
what is a good binary download for newsgroups, for ubuntu?	thunderbird
hi, i am running apache web server on a vm with nat interface. i have added port forwarding in my router to 80. i am able to browse the site on local network. but not from internet. how to fix this?	it may be that apache only allowd 127.0.0.1 and not 0.0.0.0:80 or *:80 in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default < this is in debian
isn't postgresql's default setup supposed to allow local adminstration from any user?	not when i have installed it... you need to sudo su postgres.
hey anyone know how to make glxgears spit out the frame rate nowadays?	or glxgears -printfps, if you don't want to type that much
room: would you instll 64-bit in a virtualbox on a 64-bit system, or 32 bit? (i got 8gb ram to play with :) )	if you're running a 64-bit host, you can use either 32 or 64 bit guests in virtualbox without much difference.
anyone know how to stop frostwire from sucking up all my resources and freezing everytime i search/dl ?	yes, but it runs a lot faster and smoother
hello. when i want to burn an .iso file in doesn't work. i wanted to create a file image with cd/dvd creator but when i'm copy the file and click 'write to disc' it'll open a dialog with 'from image' and 'file' and when i hit from image i don't get nothing	just right-click the actual iso file, select 'burn to disc' - no need to use the cd/dvd creator
hey guys, i am getting this error : failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu/dists/natty/release unable to find expected entry 'restricted/binary-i386/packages' in release file (wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)	remove the ppa - it looks like it's dead
how can i backup dvd chapters to individual avi files?	use the handbrake program. http://www.handbrake.fr/
hey guys, i just installed the virtualbox version from their website, but now i don't seem to have it installed at all, any ideas?	type sudo virtualbox
how do i make grub recognise oss on multiple hdds?	installed before or after grub was?
hi, if i copy some files via a cp -rvp /myfiles* /destination, how can i see the mbit/s of this copy command? is there a tool i can pipe the command through?	pv can measure the data through a pipe. but you will have to use a more convoluted command
what command lists groups in existence?	thatll get just that column
easy question: how does one say ubuntu? 'oooh-boon-two'? 'ooh-bun-two'?	not out of the box. but you can install any package you'd like after you install the server edition.
how to recognise which kde version is installed in my ubuntu? (karmic) is that kde 4.3 or 4.4?	i'm on karmic and i see: 4.3.2
i have a dual boot system and my dos operating system selection screen shows duplicate ubuntu selections. how can i fix this?	grub is the thing responsible for booting the kernel
when i want add an user config in apache2, do i add in conf.d/ or httpd.conf?	its not in httpd
hi all! i will ask a question that probably was made for about a thousand times.... i changed my apt-get sources.list from hoary to breezy and my system is working almost well, and it look like its upd to date.... do i need to do more to get a breezy from my hoary distro?	yes: http://tinyurl.com/dkllj
anyone know how to install a new gnome splash image?	there might be a key in gconf-editor
how to test if fglrx is installed and working properly?	type glxgears into a terminal
how can you really protect your computer form someone going on to it with a live cd. i mean how can you stop that?	sleep next to it.. use a shotgun =).. or encrypt the harddrives and keep the shotgun to keep them from kidnapping you
anyone know how to set a script to run at boot	you can put it in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh
what is the cmd to show your ip address from shell ?	ip a
please help, ive installed ubuntu karmic, and everything worked perfectly. i updated through 'update manager' and after a restart, my cpu is being used constantly. it wasnt like that before the update. ive even reformated and reinstalled ubuntu thinking it was something i did, with the same results. any suggestions?	start ubuntu and press (and hold) the <shift>button at boot. then choose an olde kernel (not recovery)
getting along pretty decent with my new 8.04 install, but i'm catching hell setting up samba shares using any guis. system>administration>file sharing (or similiar) doesn't exist and the nautilus sharing dialog fails citing file permissions in /var/lib/samba/usershares, but i'm in the sambasharing group. help? another gui i could use?	did you try system-config-samba
how do i check the available user groups of my machine?	'cat /etc/group' and 'sudo adduser <username> <groupname>'
i have an entry in crontab that was created by ubuntu upon installation, and it has the dow set to 7. i thought it only went from 0(sun) to 6(mon) ?	0 and 7 are both sunday (`man 5 crontab` is the manpage that covers this) because it works out better that way (sunday first and monday first both make sense numerically)
is there a way to force apt-get or aptitude to reinstall and force overwrites of existing files?	with sudo of course
hi, how to check hardware raid 1 configuration working fine or not in ubuntu 10.04, pls help me.	'the date of the last password change, expressed as the number of days since jan 1, 1970'
is there a nameserver command in ubuntu?	look, i've just joined and i'm not sure what you're at, but i have dnsmasq installed, it's a tiny dns 'proxy' server that caches dns queries, it's very easy to configure and helps for times when your isp's dns isn't quite in its right mood
clean install edgy, but 104 sec boot (dapper @ ~80) what might be broken? http://www.leotec.se/edgy/edgy-20061029-5.png	'fraid i don't know much more than that
when installing a new version of ubuntu (e.g. 10.04) is there a way to list my installed software from 9.10 and feed it into 10.04 so i don't have do this manually	easiest thing to do is just upgrade.
okay, silly question. how do i run a graphical program so that it can have sudo privs to edit a system file? (specifically i want to edit a config file that's owned by root)	actually, it should be: gksudo 'gedit /path/to/file'
hey what is the package name for libcurl?	libcurlz-dev
does anyone know of a good usenet download program that supports video streaming?	you can open the rar and double click the content, it will be opened to temp whil it is played
how can i set the message that pops on screen after people login to tty or ssh?	audacity
any bluetooth guru here?	just ask
hey all, in a bash script i got grep to output a line like this: 'pts=0.1860, frame_time=33 ms, bitrate=9100 kbps'. now i need to store the number 33 in a variable, how do i extract the number 33 from this line?	not sure this is the proper channel for questions on bash programming
guys, what's the command line to view a .png or .jpg files?	eog <file>
maybe that error has nothing to do with your executable (some say that error is caused by the bluez-alsa package) just out of curiosity, what app are you trying to run?	sdrsharp
humanrage^: are you following a tutorial?	im using wine
okay, i have an application running as user:group drostie:drostie. i am a member of the group wireshark. how the hell do i run something as drostie:wireshark?	sg (never used it)
how to play swf files in ubuntu? i am not able to play it in mplayer or vlc or in totem	use a web browser to view .swf
does anyone know if there is a free software development programming tool like labview for ubuntu.	there are plenty of ide's.
is it possible to get a iso for 11.10? i'd like to give it a spin running form a usb drive	i hear it's a hybrid iso/usb - so you should be able to just cat/dd it to usb now.
is there some way to archive old mail in kmail?	mail files are just text, so use a compressor of your choice
does anyone know when the ubuntu home server is comming out? because i just cannot get apache to work so i think im going to get windows home server	its also not an official derivitive
how do i set the time of my server via command line	date
i have a sound problem with my new acer aspire 5920. installed newest ubuntu and there is no sound at all and no errors (as far as i know). anyone familiar with this?	give me a few, and i'll look to see if i can find anything bud.
anyone know why a usb mouse would continually just stop working?	... have you looked at the output from dmesg?
hi all, does anybody how to make a program have executable rights	'chmod 755 yourfile'
could somebody please help me lame process a whole directory?	for i in *.wav ; do lame -i $i ; done
whats a good replacement for gaim? gaim keeps having some sort of segmentation fault even when i completely remove it then reinstall it.	centericq
can you get a version history for a given package?	you may want to lookup the changelogs in /usr/share/doc/<package-name>/changelog.gz
how to activate the universe and multiverse repositories?	system -> administration -> software sources basically, but see ubotu's message
how do i copy stoff to a samba share via terminal?	smbclient
to be more specific, i am running ratpoison and not gnome-session. ifup eth0 doesn't work like it did in older versions	for now, you should be able to test with 'sudo ip link set eth0 up' and then 'sudo dhclient eth0', assuming that your network is using dhcp
what is the program to do screen captures under gnome?	i don't remember the name, but you can justt press printscreen button on keyboard
whats more popular, and comes standard with most commonly used distros? gnome/gtk or kde/qt?	suse used to hand out kde - but they stopped doing that... so... gnome it is!
anyone can help me? thanks!	what did you download it with?
what's the default player for internet radio? i added a bunch and i don't remember what it originally came with.	streamtuner
is there any way to set up a guest login in lucid that works from the login screen?	'sudo adduser guest' :)
how do i recognize which version of ubuntu i am running?	check your sources.list file
anyone have experence with the mx5000tools? when i perform a ./configure i get 'configure: error: you need pbm.h from the netpbm package.' netpbm & libnetpbm10 are both installed.	try installing libnetpbm10-dev
i made a packaging request on launchpad, but it hasn't gone anywhere for about a year. is there anything i can do to get my favourite program packaged for ubuntu and added to the repositories?	i think launchpad supports votes..
where can i disable the finger daemon in lucid?	no finger daemon is installed/enabled by default
is there a way for me to tile the windows on my ubuntu gnome desktop?	but i don't recall how to do that. something simple like setting an environment variable such as title i think.
hi all. i have a question about partitioning: currently there are 3 partitions on my hdd. 1. windows (80gb) 2. linux swap (2gb) 3. linux (ubuntu) ... i want to remove windows completely to have more space for my linux partiton. is there any possibilty to merge the 80gb with the linux partition?	you need to run it from a livecd
how much will it cost to buy telephonic support from canonical right now to fix the problem their updates have caused?	what is your problem?
anyone know a way to pull like 100 files at a time out of directory and move them to another directory?	for foo in $(ls \|head -100); do mv '$foo' /some/path; done
when i used windows, i enjoyed composing simple music using anvilstudios (a midi sequencer.) what is a good alternative to this application? is there an alternative to midi in the linux worid? i tried seq24/jack/zyn, but found that combo too complex and i could not figure out how to save the sequence to a midi file.	however, they aren't trivially easy to setu p. i couldn't figure it out. :-\
uh oh, i installed a x server update from the update manager and now x doesn't start.	/topic
sorry, did anyone answer my question about ldp printing?	man lpadmin should help
hey, is it me or bug #423694 && #421347 are dups?	ubottu doesn't report bugs here.
where can i find the text files that store my networking configurations?	/etc/network
is there away to open terminal using a keystroke	depends on the system, usually in preferences;keyboard shortcuts.
i¬m going to a friends today to install ubuntu on his new laptop, ive never used a 64bit before so i`m just making sure :) if i installed ubuntu-restricted-extras will it install 64bit java/flash/w64codecs?	checkout medibuntu.org
during update laptop was turned off. now i can't start ubuntu. 'ubuntu is running in low-graphic mode'. how can i login to shell and try to fix problem in shell?	try to boot into recovery mode, should get a shell that way
i am looking for an app that can bring up to terminal sessions and echo the commands on both terminal sessions	screen
which imap-server is most painless with ubuntu?	probably dovecot. https://help.ubuntu.com/6.06/ubuntu/serverguide/c/email-services.html
what the heck... i cannot do a dashletterr... it comes out dashare... why?	most likely spelling correction in your client. i believe xchat corrects 'r' and 'u' by default?
is there a wiki for notify-osd where i can provoke one using command?	use 'notify-send' (i think from 'libnotify-bin')
hi, how can i add the bottom menu (in picture) to my linux : http://www.linuxmint-art.org/content/content-pre1/92774-1.jpg	you'd need a dock such as awn. its the avant-window-navigator package in the repos.
is there any other source to download ubuntu 12.04 lts other than ubuntu.com ? it's not getting downloaded ... :(	here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/alternative-downloads
hi, do you know some way to record the sound output with gtk-recordmydektop?	i never record audio with it so im not sure. but i assume ticking the checkbox serves that function.
hi folks, is there anyway to check what version a package is in apt before installing it?	apt-cache showpkg foobar
lol never been called a cracka before... is that good?	high in fiber.
does kvm easy to use?	opinions differ. ;) i do have to say that virtualbox is highly polished. :)
is there a way i can find out what type of ram i have through terminal?	dunno if you can, but try 'sudo lshw'
hi all, i'm running 12.04 and would like to know if it is possible to add a program to the unity bar on the left side, the program has to be started from the shell (it's name is 'ding', a dictionary) so when i start it it appears in the bar but after closing it i cant's start it again...	probably with gnome-extensions (ppa), but it was very broken when i tried to use any gnome-extension
is there a better utility i can use to connect to wireless networks than networkmanager? nm doesn't work too well for me on networks without any security	there relly is no better or best, just use what you like

hi all :) apt-get is telling me that 'it is not going to be installed' (packages include lsb-{core,graphics,cxx,desktop.printing}) does that mean i should not install them?

that just means their not going to be includeed in the update or w/e you can install them if you wish, but they are either not requried or not supported or they are restricted repositories

if i 'make uninstall'... what do i do after that? anything?

remove the directory if you want, but no, that should be it

hey -- where can i find out what changes were made with the new kernel update in hoary?

/usr/share/doc/<packagename>/changelog.debian.gz

whats the command for stopping x server please

log out, ctl-alt-f1, log in, type sudo invoke-rc.d gdm stop

freidrichman: use synaptic and enable universe and such.

its not in the repos, i checked here.

re nfs 'connection refused' issue - is there a better channel i should be pestering? (i'm new so pls mention network too) tia

ubotu sent you some information in a private message. did you receive it?

doesn't openjdk run java applets in browsers?

you need icedtea for that

can ui buttons (lke ok, etc) be resized?

under system->preferences->appearance, fonts tab, 'application font'

what are the the gtk desklet things i see on desktops called?

gdesklets , or screenlets

what is a good binary download for newsgroups, for ubuntu?

thunderbird

hi, i am running apache web server on a vm with nat interface. i have added port forwarding in my router to 80. i am able to browse the site on local network. but not from internet. how to fix this?

it may be that apache only allowd 127.0.0.1 and not 0.0.0.0:80 or *:80 in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default < this is in debian

isn't postgresql's default setup supposed to allow local adminstration from any user?

not when i have installed it... you need to sudo su postgres.

hey anyone know how to make glxgears spit out the frame rate nowadays?

or glxgears -printfps, if you don't want to type that much

room: would you instll 64-bit in a virtualbox on a 64-bit system, or 32 bit? (i got 8gb ram to play with :) )

if you're running a 64-bit host, you can use either 32 or 64 bit guests in virtualbox without much difference.

anyone know how to stop frostwire from sucking up all my resources and freezing everytime i search/dl ?

yes, but it runs a lot faster and smoother

hello. when i want to burn an .iso file in doesn't work. i wanted to create a file image with cd/dvd creator but when i'm copy the file and click 'write to disc' it'll open a dialog with 'from image' and 'file' and when i hit from image i don't get nothing

just right-click the actual iso file, select 'burn to disc' - no need to use the cd/dvd creator

hey guys, i am getting this error : failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu/dists/natty/release unable to find expected entry 'restricted/binary-i386/packages' in release file (wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

remove the ppa - it looks like it's dead

how can i backup dvd chapters to individual avi files?

use the handbrake program. http://www.handbrake.fr/

hey guys, i just installed the virtualbox version from their website, but now i don't seem to have it installed at all, any ideas?

type sudo virtualbox

how do i make grub recognise oss on multiple hdds?

installed before or after grub was?

hi, if i copy some files via a cp -rvp /myfiles* /destination, how can i see the mbit/s of this copy command? is there a tool i can pipe the command through?

pv can measure the data through a pipe. but you will have to use a more convoluted command

what command lists groups in existence?

thatll get just that column

easy question: how does one say ubuntu? 'oooh-boon-two'? 'ooh-bun-two'?

not out of the box. but you can install any package you'd like after you install the server edition.

how to recognise which kde version is installed in my ubuntu? (karmic) is that kde 4.3 or 4.4?

i'm on karmic and i see: 4.3.2

i have a dual boot system and my dos operating system selection screen shows duplicate ubuntu selections. how can i fix this?

grub is the thing responsible for booting the kernel

when i want add an user config in apache2, do i add in conf.d/ or httpd.conf?

its not in httpd

hi all! i will ask a question that probably was made for about a thousand times.... i changed my apt-get sources.list from hoary to breezy and my system is working almost well, and it look like its upd to date.... do i need to do more to get a breezy from my hoary distro?

yes: http://tinyurl.com/dkllj

anyone know how to install a new gnome splash image?

there might be a key in gconf-editor

how to test if fglrx is installed and working properly?

type glxgears into a terminal

how can you really protect your computer form someone going on to it with a live cd. i mean how can you stop that?

sleep next to it.. use a shotgun =).. or encrypt the harddrives and keep the shotgun to keep them from kidnapping you

anyone know how to set a script to run at boot

you can put it in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh

what is the cmd to show your ip address from shell ?

ip a

please help, ive installed ubuntu karmic, and everything worked perfectly. i updated through 'update manager' and after a restart, my cpu is being used constantly. it wasnt like that before the update. ive even reformated and reinstalled ubuntu thinking it was something i did, with the same results. any suggestions?

start ubuntu and press (and hold) the <shift>button at boot. then choose an olde kernel (not recovery)

getting along pretty decent with my new 8.04 install, but i'm catching hell setting up samba shares using any guis. system>administration>file sharing (or similiar) doesn't exist and the nautilus sharing dialog fails citing file permissions in /var/lib/samba/usershares, but i'm in the sambasharing group. help? another gui i could use?

did you try system-config-samba

how do i check the available user groups of my machine?

'cat /etc/group' and 'sudo adduser <username> <groupname>'

i have an entry in crontab that was created by ubuntu upon installation, and it has the dow set to 7. i thought it only went from 0(sun) to 6(mon) ?

0 and 7 are both sunday (`man 5 crontab` is the manpage that covers this) because it works out better that way (sunday first and monday first both make sense numerically)

is there a way to force apt-get or aptitude to reinstall and force overwrites of existing files?

with sudo of course

hi, how to check hardware raid 1 configuration working fine or not in ubuntu 10.04, pls help me.

'the date of the last password change, expressed as the number of days since jan 1, 1970'

is there a nameserver command in ubuntu?

look, i've just joined and i'm not sure what you're at, but i have dnsmasq installed, it's a tiny dns 'proxy' server that caches dns queries, it's very easy to configure and helps for times when your isp's dns isn't quite in its right mood

clean install edgy, but 104 sec boot (dapper @ ~80) what might be broken? http://www.leotec.se/edgy/edgy-20061029-5.png

'fraid i don't know much more than that

when installing a new version of ubuntu (e.g. 10.04) is there a way to list my installed software from 9.10 and feed it into 10.04 so i don't have do this manually

easiest thing to do is just upgrade.

okay, silly question. how do i run a graphical program so that it can have sudo privs to edit a system file? (specifically i want to edit a config file that's owned by root)

actually, it should be: gksudo 'gedit /path/to/file'

hey what is the package name for libcurl?

libcurlz-dev

does anyone know of a good usenet download program that supports video streaming?

you can open the rar and double click the content, it will be opened to temp whil it is played

how can i set the message that pops on screen after people login to tty or ssh?

audacity

any bluetooth guru here?

just ask

hey all, in a bash script i got grep to output a line like this: 'pts=0.1860, frame_time=33 ms, bitrate=9100 kbps'. now i need to store the number 33 in a variable, how do i extract the number 33 from this line?

not sure this is the proper channel for questions on bash programming

guys, what's the command line to view a .png or .jpg files?

eog <file>

maybe that error has nothing to do with your executable (some say that error is caused by the bluez-alsa package) just out of curiosity, what app are you trying to run?

sdrsharp

humanrage^: are you following a tutorial?

im using wine

okay, i have an application running as user:group drostie:drostie. i am a member of the group wireshark. how the hell do i run something as drostie:wireshark?

sg (never used it)

how to play swf files in ubuntu? i am not able to play it in mplayer or vlc or in totem

use a web browser to view .swf

does anyone know if there is a free software development programming tool like labview for ubuntu.

there are plenty of ide's.

is it possible to get a iso for 11.10? i'd like to give it a spin running form a usb drive

i hear it's a hybrid iso/usb - so you should be able to just cat/dd it to usb now.

is there some way to archive old mail in kmail?

mail files are just text, so use a compressor of your choice

does anyone know when the ubuntu home server is comming out? because i just cannot get apache to work so i think im going to get windows home server

its also not an official derivitive

how do i set the time of my server via command line

date

i have a sound problem with my new acer aspire 5920. installed newest ubuntu and there is no sound at all and no errors (as far as i know). anyone familiar with this?

give me a few, and i'll look to see if i can find anything bud.

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

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

hi all, does anybody how to make a program have executable rights

'chmod 755 yourfile'

could somebody please help me lame process a whole directory?

for i in *.wav ; do lame -i $i ; done

whats a good replacement for gaim? gaim keeps having some sort of segmentation fault even when i completely remove it then reinstall it.

centericq

can you get a version history for a given package?

you may want to lookup the changelogs in /usr/share/doc/<package-name>/changelog.gz

how to activate the universe and multiverse repositories?

system -> administration -> software sources basically, but see ubotu's message

how do i copy stoff to a samba share via terminal?

smbclient

to be more specific, i am running ratpoison and not gnome-session. ifup eth0 doesn't work like it did in older versions

for now, you should be able to test with 'sudo ip link set eth0 up' and then 'sudo dhclient eth0', assuming that your network is using dhcp

what is the program to do screen captures under gnome?

i don't remember the name, but you can justt press printscreen button on keyboard

whats more popular, and comes standard with most commonly used distros? gnome/gtk or kde/qt?

suse used to hand out kde - but they stopped doing that... so... gnome it is!

anyone can help me? thanks!

what did you download it with?

what's the default player for internet radio? i added a bunch and i don't remember what it originally came with.

streamtuner

is there any way to set up a guest login in lucid that works from the login screen?

'sudo adduser guest' :)

how do i recognize which version of ubuntu i am running?

check your sources.list file

anyone have experence with the mx5000tools? when i perform a ./configure i get 'configure: error: you need pbm.h from the netpbm package.' netpbm & libnetpbm10 are both installed.

try installing libnetpbm10-dev

i made a packaging request on launchpad, but it hasn't gone anywhere for about a year. is there anything i can do to get my favourite program packaged for ubuntu and added to the repositories?

i think launchpad supports votes..

where can i disable the finger daemon in lucid?

no finger daemon is installed/enabled by default

is there a way for me to tile the windows on my ubuntu gnome desktop?

but i don't recall how to do that. something simple like setting an environment variable such as title i think.

hi all. i have a question about partitioning: currently there are 3 partitions on my hdd. 1. windows (80gb) 2. linux swap (2gb) 3. linux (ubuntu) ... i want to remove windows completely to have more space for my linux partiton. is there any possibilty to merge the 80gb with the linux partition?

you need to run it from a livecd

how much will it cost to buy telephonic support from canonical right now to fix the problem their updates have caused?

what is your problem?

anyone know a way to pull like 100 files at a time out of directory and move them to another directory?

for foo in $(ls |head -100); do mv '$foo' /some/path; done

when i used windows, i enjoyed composing simple music using anvilstudios (a midi sequencer.) what is a good alternative to this application? is there an alternative to midi in the linux worid? i tried seq24/jack/zyn, but found that combo too complex and i could not figure out how to save the sequence to a midi file.

however, they aren't trivially easy to setu p. i couldn't figure it out. :-\

uh oh, i installed a x server update from the update manager and now x doesn't start.

/topic

sorry, did anyone answer my question about ldp printing?

man lpadmin should help

hey, is it me or bug #423694 && #421347 are dups?

ubottu doesn't report bugs here.

where can i find the text files that store my networking configurations?

/etc/network

is there away to open terminal using a keystroke

depends on the system, usually in preferences;keyboard shortcuts.

i¬m going to a friends today to install ubuntu on his new laptop, ive never used a 64bit before so i`m just making sure :) if i installed ubuntu-restricted-extras will it install 64bit java/flash/w64codecs?

checkout medibuntu.org

during update laptop was turned off. now i can't start ubuntu. 'ubuntu is running in low-graphic mode'. how can i login to shell and try to fix problem in shell?

try to boot into recovery mode, should get a shell that way

i am looking for an app that can bring up to terminal sessions and echo the commands on both terminal sessions

screen

which imap-server is most painless with ubuntu?

probably dovecot. https://help.ubuntu.com/6.06/ubuntu/serverguide/c/email-services.html

what the heck... i cannot do a dashletterr... it comes out dashare... why?

most likely spelling correction in your client. i believe xchat corrects 'r' and 'u' by default?

is there a wiki for notify-osd where i can provoke one using command?

use 'notify-send' (i think from 'libnotify-bin')

hi, how can i add the bottom menu (in picture) to my linux : http://www.linuxmint-art.org/content/content-pre1/92774-1.jpg

you'd need a dock such as awn. its the avant-window-navigator package in the repos.

is there any other source to download ubuntu 12.04 lts other than ubuntu.com ? it's not getting downloaded ... :(

here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/alternative-downloads

hi, do you know some way to record the sound output with gtk-recordmydektop?

i never record audio with it so im not sure. but i assume ticking the checkbox serves that function.

hi folks, is there anyway to check what version a package is in apt before installing it?

apt-cache showpkg foobar

lol never been called a cracka before... is that good?

high in fiber.

does kvm easy to use?

opinions differ. ;) i do have to say that virtualbox is highly polished. :)

is there a way i can find out what type of ram i have through terminal?

dunno if you can, but try 'sudo lshw'

hi all, i'm running 12.04 and would like to know if it is possible to add a program to the unity bar on the left side, the program has to be started from the shell (it's name is 'ding', a dictionary) so when i start it it appears in the bar but after closing it i cant's start it again...

probably with gnome-extensions (ppa), but it was very broken when i tried to use any gnome-extension

is there a better utility i can use to connect to wireless networks than networkmanager? nm doesn't work too well for me on networks without any security

there relly is no better or best, just use what you like