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hello all. thx for a great linux distro. i have a small q: how do i start an x app on the currently (only) running xserver from the console logged in over ssh?	normally 'display=:0.0 xterm', replacing xterm with what you want
i just created a dvd video with dvdauthor. how do i burn that to dvd? just drag the folder over to a blank? or do i need some dvd burning app to write it properly?	there might be gnome-based cd burning tools that'll do it too, but personally i like k3b.
what i need to enable two screens on two monitors on ati card with fglrx? by default both monitors shows same things at same resolution	i wanted to do the same thing earlier with my old laptop. in the end, i couldn't do it. i wish you luck.
hey guys. my friend just someone uninstaled most of his packages during a botched hoary upgrade... is there any virtual package (or similar) i can apt-get install to get the default packages back?	go back to warty sources and install ubuntu0desktop and ubuntu0base areplace those 0's with -'s
hey guys, i just updated to 12.04 64. in the last version my additional mediakeys on my keaboard worked just fine but now they dont. any ideas?	it's often the case with these programs that you need to delete the config files and start over. you will lose you settings though
what kind of problems would cause ubuntu/linux to freeze on a laptop with no error messages?	power and/or hardware failure (like overheating)
i have installed ubuntu 12.04 in dual boot with w7. now i want to make the ubuntu partition larger, and thw w7 one much smaller (than i originally selected when installung u). can i do this from within ubuntu?	you'll need to do this from live media (a live cd) as the partitions will be in use
has anyone here used gaim-vv on hoary?	never successfully
does anyone know how to disable 3rd party repositorys?	simply remove it from there.
hello, has anything with the fonts changed in gutsy? it looks like the font from fedora 7, gnome.... it looks really nice. not sure how to explain, but the fonts are bigger, and more smooth?	you can change the font in system > preferences > fonts
how do i install ubuntu yet preserve my /home partition's data?	alternatively, you could just let it make a /home under / and fix fstab post install to mount your home partition
how do i find out the path of the ubuntu desktop wallpaper? and... when is ubuntu gutsy or gusty coming?	go to ubuntu.com to find out when gutsy will be out
hi, how work better, reiserfs or ext3	ext3 is the standard now and well-supported. you may like to read up later on xfs
hi there, i installed ubuntu 9.04 on my eeepc and it was working fine for the first few months but one day it stopped letting my update saying that my connection had been refused by the repositories. does anyone have any idea why this happened?	pick a new mirror, maybe it just got moved
by cant be logged into the desktop, do you mean i cant have nautilus open..?	no just log out-- then goto the options on the left bottom of the screen- then window manger-- then look for the option of prompt only (or maybe listed as command line recovery) depending on build
has dcfldd any downsides compared to dd? if not, will i break anything, if i alias or symlink dd to dcfldd?	whats dcfldd ?
how is the package called which installs the man pages for system calls or posix library functions, printf() for example?	manpages-dev ?
any know what package iwconfig is in? or better, how i would find out myself?	iwconfig is preinstalled. man iwconfig for description
i have a microcontroller which is connected trough a usb-port on the computer. although, it emulates a serial port. which device should i use under /dev?	probably /dev/ttyusb0 for a usb serial device
i have a ? on avant-window-navigator when the cursor goes over an icon text appears i tried everything i can to disable that but it wont co away i am usin compiz-fusion btw thanks	or if awn has a channel, ask there
i have downloaded computertemp from gnomefiles and wonder how i start the application in the panel? can't find it :s	right click on panel and sellllllllllect add to panel
does anyone know, should an smp kernel be used to take advantage of a dual core processor such as an athlon x2?	yes, if there is one for it
what's the name of the program that will tell me the #'s of my m ouse buttons?	xev maybe?
is there a way to send data from a program like hwinfo into a text file so it can more easily and leisurely be read?	command > foo.txt
where do i put the favicon.ico in apache so that it shows up in the address bar?	you need to refer to it in the webpage to
youtube videos tend to lag behind the audio, and its gotten a bit annoying, how can this be fixed? google chromium	tried youtube with html5? www.youtube.com/html5 to turn feature on/off
i'm trying to find out what features seahorse-plugins provide, there isn't really much information about it online..does anyone know?	right-click -> encrypt in nautilus, encrypt/decrypt plugins for gedit, double-click actions for encrypted files, signed files, and keyrings, etc.
hello all. anyone know of a cli client for p2p networks	what are you trying to do exactly?
anyone know how i would go about making my wireless lan wlan0 instead of eth1, as it is now?	look into the ifrename command
hello if i want to write anything in welcome message/ascii figure to openssh where can i do it then ?	http://patorjk.com/software/taag/
why is it the linux community say server and they mean 'web' server, why is that? not file server or backup server or application server, like business wise, why is that? lol it drives me potty :p	not sure - because most of the time when people say 'server' they mean 'web server', probably. people who want advice on a file server will generally be more specific than just 'server'
pls... anyone... ive tried to install beryl and emerald themes in my edgy 6.10, ati x700 with 3d acceleration enabled, but the official guide didnt worked for me ;( ... anyone can help me?	compiz is supposedly smoother, faster, and more stable... look into that too.
is there a way to make aptitude install from downloaded packages? i'm stuck without a gui after attempting to switch to xubuntu from ubuntu. and i want to follow this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/18920/any-way-to-get-a-fresh-ubuntu-desktop-without-re-installing/18993#18993	$ sudo dpkg -i -y /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
anyone know a good pack that can view connections being made to my computer?	depending on what you want you can use iptraf, wireshark, ethereal, netstat, (lsof can tell you about open connections) etc
my ubuntu randomly freezes (completely locks) or pc restarts or x restarts from time to time - how do i find out what is causing it?	or possibly memtest
hello, can someone take a look and suggest other dependencies i may need? i'm trying to build the source package rbmake-1.2.tar.gz. ./configure seemed to work ok. the ./configure output is posted here: http://paste.ubuntu.com:80/192073/ however make gave me errors. the output is posted here: http://paste.ubuntu.com:80/192073/.	the second link there is the same as the first
hi all, can anyone help me with a problem? i installed ubuntu 10.04 but when i boot my bluetooth keyboard & mouse wont work, so i cant log in..	http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2017615
how do i remove the menu bar for gnome terminal? so that it is hidden by default?	right click on screen and uncheck show menubar
i want to run windows 7 in a virtual machine, what vm runs well under ubuntu ?	virtualbox and vmware
hello. my laptop has a touchpad. can i use that with fprint-demo?	libfprint is for finger print scanners (e.g. thinkpads). not for touchpads. a touchpad is mouse. it doesn't detect fingerprints
question... i know it doesn't really matter, but if i have a storage drive, for consistency's sake with the 'ubuntu way,' should i put it at /media/storage or /mnt/storage?	/media/storage, officially (fhs) /mnt has no subfolders and is for temporary mounting
hi guys, is there an irc client that runs in the terminal?	lots of. irssi, bitchx, epic2, although you probably want to use irssi
hello everyone how can i use chmod recursively ? i want to chmod 777 /directory/all contents	try the man page
hello, how can i install shockwave in ubuntu jaunty?	https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/14413
hey guys. any ubuntu 11.10 repositories with mysql 5.5 or 5.6?	maybe this will help http://askubuntu.com/questions/75977/mysql-5-5-ppa-trustworthy
is there a shortcut to change worskpaces in 10.10/11.04?	its like ctrl alt arrow or something
is ubuntu ever going to support the linksys wireless cards that it currently doesn't support?	is linksys ever going to support ubuntu like they support windows?
does anyone know a gstreamer-compatible audio transcoder?	yes, soundconverter
hi could any one tell me if i download the new version of ubuntu tomorrow will it update to the stable version in 10 days. or shuld i wait 10 days to install thanks in advance	it will upgrade to stable if you accept the proposed updates
hi all. i'm running 10.04 with two disks in raid-1 with mdadm. works great. i've just added a new raid-5 with 3 disks. in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf only the raid-1 is stated. i guess both should be there to automatically bring both raids up after rebooting? any pointers would be great. thanks!!!	i've used dmraid to manage a raid0.
why can't i resize images to arbitrary small sizes in eye of gnome? it always has a minimum width and height, and it is annoying.	what about feh ?
hey.. can you do a non graphical install from the live cd?	no. you'd need the alternate cd.
how fast are fresh ubuntus suppose to start up	mine starting in ~80 seconds, fresh from dell.
in bash ... is there a character that i can use to continue the same command but on a new line?	that is, you escape the new-line with the escape char, which is \
in order to register a nick in the irc what kind of valid email address is required?	any email account that you can access do not make one up
whats wrong if gparted takes very long time to scann?	it should not. are some of your devices external usb?
my end of life ubuntu 7.1 can't be upgraded? it says up-to-date in update manager	etherealite: change the owner to www-data:www-data, not username:username
anyone could recommend me which book/s are good for command line in ubuntu?	http://subsignal.org/doc/aliensbashtutorial.html
like my way better	copy that script, paste it into a new file called transmission in /etc/init.d; then run 'sudo update-rc.d transmission defaults' to enable automatic starting
hi guys, i cant access my other partition, it has a folder called 'lost+found' with a lil 'x' next to it. how can i access it?	http://tldp.org/ldp/linux-filesystem-hierarchy/html/lostfound.html
now i cant quit the installer	you use ps aux and grep for that process then kill it
my une issue seems to be with the interface. the docking bar and the main panel seems to be transparent or i am unable to see icons that appear on them. one thing that i notices is that when if i us scroll bar on docking bar i am able to see icons but they disappear. i also have tried the software on multiple machines and still get the same results. i have also tried downloading multiple copies and same results is this i known i	if you type too many characters at once, your line gets truncated.
is there a way to completely kill gnome-panel?	tell it not to relaunch in system -> preferences -> session -> current session
is there some way to deny access from all other ip others than mine to my server and revert it easily, some iptables rule? i have ubuntu server in a virtual server, and some hack attemps	depending on what type of attempts, you may want to look into fail2ban as well.
my ubuntu keeps randomly freezing. is there any logs i could tail before it freezes to see if there is anything oging on?	maybe /var/log/messages ?
how can i switch to console from x in ubuntu 10.04?	f7 will get you back
will ubuntu resize an ntfs partition nowadays?	'usually', i think you might need some ntfs package - i'm not the person to know...
i know that. is there a way to just turn all samba security off and allow everyone full access to the share folder?	also make sure the partition is mounted writable
will anyone browse to 91.155.238.61 and tell me if you can see my router?	i don't think it is.
damnit, i keep middleclicking in firefox to autoscroll (which it does) but occasionally it opens google or one of my bookmarks instead :(	you also might want to set middlemouse.contentloadurl to false too
hey guys are there apps for ubuntu which will allow me to take a screenshot by hitting a keyboard shortcut? i ask because the app under accesories will not let me take a screenshot of the code assist in eclipse	xev
what's the package that with some tab key combination, like alt-tab, not only shows you the _names_ of the windows it can switch to, but shows an _image_ of that window? compiz???	ccsm to configure compiz
will it cause problems if i upgrade straight from hoary to dapper without going through breezy first?	probably :p
why doesn't man strcat work? it's a simple c function	because you didn't install the manpages?
anyone know how i can list all processes in a tree structure?	'pstree'
hey, how can i play a wmv file on ubuntu? i tried using totem, but it never starts playing (stays at 0:00), and i tried using vlc - the sound works well but there is no picture :(	maybe the file is corrupted
i have this laptop i've just purchased that currently has vista on it. i'd like to do a dual boot configuration on it. it worries me because it doesn't come with any install cds, and in addition to the os partition, it apparently has a vista-restore partition. i'm worried that if i make room and install ubuntu that when it writes to mbr i wont ever be able to access the system restore partition. is that true ?	there is probably a program to create the recovery disk installed. search for that 1st
hey guys, is there any way to update ubuntu while being on it?	run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and thats it
hey - i am having some stability and crashing problems with the gnome desktop that i installed on my ubuntu-server 8.04 installation. i am looking to add a faster and more stable gui. after research - xfce seems like what i will be going with. however, does anyone have recommendations for faster and more stable guis?	icewm
java programs can be speedy	totally, but for processor intensive they are shocking i had to do an evolutionary algorythum's in them and it was slow
hello, i have a question, in software sources -> ubuntu software - i must to have all those selected ?	not necessarily, but some software you may wish to use may not be as 'free' as others. see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/repositories
is there a way to turn off 'joined / exit' messages in xchat?	right click the channel on the left side, hide join/parts is somewhere in the options
i use firestarter, it is very cool.. its gui for iptables!	for instance, if you do a 'ps aux' it's going to print you all of the running processes, but say you are looking for a java process in particular, then you do 'ps aux \| grep java' and it prints only processes containing java
what command should i use to list all drives attached to my system, even those that aren't mounted?	`fdisk -l` perhaps what you need?
will dell ship linux laptops? i was thinking either to get a dell or a mac loptop	dell.com/linux
hey a little off-topic does anyone know where id find a compiz server/channel	they may help
what is the little thing i type into the terminal to get the exe compatibility?	sudo apt-get install wine
when you have a version of ubuntu, does it really matter to upgrade everytime or will a version suffice forever?	generally yes - new features can be another reason [incidentally using <> for people's names can be confusing, it looks like you're pasting something i said]
what is bt_metadata in ~/.opera/	at a guess, maybe someting to do with opera's bittorrent client?
hi...apologies for the truly n00b question, but which version of ubuntu should i install on a laptop computer? desktop or netbook?	desktop (netbook is for.. netbooks.. smaller than 10in screen)
hi, what would happen if i deleted everything in my /tmp folder pls?	it will not harm anything in your system, but you will lose all your temporairy data.. i clean my tmp folder every week..
does anyone know of a tool to put several jpgpics into a short movie? :)	check out the tovid thread on the forums
hello, have a linux question: how do i test if a text file has unix or dos formating (line break)?	open in it in any linux text editor...
is there a way to disable computer beep from ubuntu ?	check out http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=126746
who's having issues with xchat autocomplete?	i do. if you aren't specific enough, it autocompletes for the first name. ideally, it would just not autocomplete at all until you've typed in enough to narrow it down to a specific nick
how do you get irc in text mode???	irssi
how can i excecute device manager from a terminal window? i mean, something like hal-device-manager	gnome-device-manager
whats the problem when 'add/remove programs' is not loading the content? the window stays empty	slow laptop
hi, i'd like to know where files stored in the trash basket are kept?	- it's .trash - it's a hidden file in your home directory
hi all.. how to synchronize my clock with internet time zones...?	package 'ntp'

hello all. thx for a great linux distro. i have a small q: how do i start an x app on the currently (only) running xserver from the console logged in over ssh?

normally 'display=:0.0 xterm', replacing xterm with what you want

i just created a dvd video with dvdauthor. how do i burn that to dvd? just drag the folder over to a blank? or do i need some dvd burning app to write it properly?

there might be gnome-based cd burning tools that'll do it too, but personally i like k3b.

what i need to enable two screens on two monitors on ati card with fglrx? by default both monitors shows same things at same resolution

i wanted to do the same thing earlier with my old laptop. in the end, i couldn't do it. i wish you luck.

hey guys. my friend just someone uninstaled most of his packages during a botched hoary upgrade... is there any virtual package (or similar) i can apt-get install to get the default packages back?

go back to warty sources and install ubuntu0desktop and ubuntu0base areplace those 0's with -'s

hey guys, i just updated to 12.04 64. in the last version my additional mediakeys on my keaboard worked just fine but now they dont. any ideas?

it's often the case with these programs that you need to delete the config files and start over. you will lose you settings though

what kind of problems would cause ubuntu/linux to freeze on a laptop with no error messages?

power and/or hardware failure (like overheating)

i have installed ubuntu 12.04 in dual boot with w7. now i want to make the ubuntu partition larger, and thw w7 one much smaller (than i originally selected when installung u). can i do this from within ubuntu?

you'll need to do this from live media (a live cd) as the partitions will be in use

has anyone here used gaim-vv on hoary?

never successfully

does anyone know how to disable 3rd party repositorys?

simply remove it from there.

hello, has anything with the fonts changed in gutsy? it looks like the font from fedora 7, gnome.... it looks really nice. not sure how to explain, but the fonts are bigger, and more smooth?

you can change the font in system > preferences > fonts

how do i install ubuntu yet preserve my /home partition's data?

alternatively, you could just let it make a /home under / and fix fstab post install to mount your home partition

how do i find out the path of the ubuntu desktop wallpaper? and... when is ubuntu gutsy or gusty coming?

go to ubuntu.com to find out when gutsy will be out

hi, how work better, reiserfs or ext3

ext3 is the standard now and well-supported. you may like to read up later on xfs

hi there, i installed ubuntu 9.04 on my eeepc and it was working fine for the first few months but one day it stopped letting my update saying that my connection had been refused by the repositories. does anyone have any idea why this happened?

pick a new mirror, maybe it just got moved

by cant be logged into the desktop, do you mean i cant have nautilus open..?

no just log out-- then goto the options on the left bottom of the screen- then window manger-- then look for the option of prompt only (or maybe listed as command line recovery) depending on build

has dcfldd any downsides compared to dd? if not, will i break anything, if i alias or symlink dd to dcfldd?

whats dcfldd ?

how is the package called which installs the man pages for system calls or posix library functions, printf() for example?

manpages-dev ?

any know what package iwconfig is in? or better, how i would find out myself?

iwconfig is preinstalled. man iwconfig for description

i have a microcontroller which is connected trough a usb-port on the computer. although, it emulates a serial port. which device should i use under /dev?

probably /dev/ttyusb0 for a usb serial device

i have a ? on avant-window-navigator when the cursor goes over an icon text appears i tried everything i can to disable that but it wont co away i am usin compiz-fusion btw thanks

or if awn has a channel, ask there

i have downloaded computertemp from gnomefiles and wonder how i start the application in the panel? can't find it :s

right click on panel and sellllllllllect add to panel

does anyone know, should an smp kernel be used to take advantage of a dual core processor such as an athlon x2?

yes, if there is one for it

what's the name of the program that will tell me the #'s of my m ouse buttons?

xev maybe?

is there a way to send data from a program like hwinfo into a text file so it can more easily and leisurely be read?

command > foo.txt

where do i put the favicon.ico in apache so that it shows up in the address bar?

you need to refer to it in the webpage to

youtube videos tend to lag behind the audio, and its gotten a bit annoying, how can this be fixed? google chromium

tried youtube with html5? www.youtube.com/html5 to turn feature on/off

i'm trying to find out what features seahorse-plugins provide, there isn't really much information about it online..does anyone know?

right-click -> encrypt in nautilus, encrypt/decrypt plugins for gedit, double-click actions for encrypted files, signed files, and keyrings, etc.

hello all. anyone know of a cli client for p2p networks

what are you trying to do exactly?

anyone know how i would go about making my wireless lan wlan0 instead of eth1, as it is now?

look into the ifrename command

hello if i want to write anything in welcome message/ascii figure to openssh where can i do it then ?

http://patorjk.com/software/taag/

why is it the linux community say server and they mean 'web' server, why is that? not file server or backup server or application server, like business wise, why is that? lol it drives me potty :p

not sure - because most of the time when people say 'server' they mean 'web server', probably. people who want advice on a file server will generally be more specific than just 'server'

pls... anyone... ive tried to install beryl and emerald themes in my edgy 6.10, ati x700 with 3d acceleration enabled, but the official guide didnt worked for me ;( ... anyone can help me?

compiz is supposedly smoother, faster, and more stable... look into that too.

is there a way to make aptitude install from downloaded packages? i'm stuck without a gui after attempting to switch to xubuntu from ubuntu. and i want to follow this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/18920/any-way-to-get-a-fresh-ubuntu-desktop-without-re-installing/18993#18993

$ sudo dpkg -i -y /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb

anyone know a good pack that can view connections being made to my computer?

depending on what you want you can use iptraf, wireshark, ethereal, netstat, (lsof can tell you about open connections) etc

my ubuntu randomly freezes (completely locks) or pc restarts or x restarts from time to time - how do i find out what is causing it?

or possibly memtest

hello, can someone take a look and suggest other dependencies i may need? i'm trying to build the source package rbmake-1.2.tar.gz. ./configure seemed to work ok. the ./configure output is posted here: http://paste.ubuntu.com:80/192073/ however make gave me errors. the output is posted here: http://paste.ubuntu.com:80/192073/.

the second link there is the same as the first

hi all, can anyone help me with a problem? i installed ubuntu 10.04 but when i boot my bluetooth keyboard & mouse wont work, so i cant log in..

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2017615

how do i remove the menu bar for gnome terminal? so that it is hidden by default?

right click on screen and uncheck show menubar

i want to run windows 7 in a virtual machine, what vm runs well under ubuntu ?

virtualbox and vmware

hello. my laptop has a touchpad. can i use that with fprint-demo?

libfprint is for finger print scanners (e.g. thinkpads). not for touchpads. a touchpad is mouse. it doesn't detect fingerprints

question... i know it doesn't *really* matter, but if i have a storage drive, for consistency's sake with the 'ubuntu way,' should i put it at /media/storage or /mnt/storage?

/media/storage, officially (fhs) /mnt has no subfolders and is for temporary mounting

hi guys, is there an irc client that runs in the terminal?

lots of. irssi, bitchx, epic2, although you probably want to use irssi

hello everyone how can i use chmod recursively ? i want to chmod 777 /directory/*all contents*

try the man page

hello, how can i install shockwave in ubuntu jaunty?

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/14413

hey guys. any ubuntu 11.10 repositories with mysql 5.5 or 5.6?

maybe this will help http://askubuntu.com/questions/75977/mysql-5-5-ppa-trustworthy

is there a shortcut to change worskpaces in 10.10/11.04?

its like ctrl alt arrow or something

is ubuntu ever going to support the linksys wireless cards that it currently doesn't support?

is linksys ever going to support ubuntu like they support windows?

does anyone know a gstreamer-compatible audio transcoder?

yes, soundconverter

hi could any one tell me if i download the new version of ubuntu tomorrow will it update to the stable version in 10 days. or shuld i wait 10 days to install thanks in advance

it will upgrade to stable if you accept the proposed updates

hi all. i'm running 10.04 with two disks in raid-1 with mdadm. works great. i've just added a new raid-5 with 3 disks. in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf only the raid-1 is stated. i guess both should be there to automatically bring both raids up after rebooting? any pointers would be great. thanks!!!

i've used dmraid to manage a raid0.

why can't i resize images to arbitrary small sizes in eye of gnome? it always has a minimum width and height, and it is annoying.

what about feh ?

hey.. can you do a non graphical install from the live cd?

no. you'd need the alternate cd.

how fast are fresh ubuntus suppose to start up

mine starting in ~80 seconds, fresh from dell.

in bash ... is there a character that i can use to continue the same command but on a new line?

that is, you escape the new-line with the escape char, which is \

in order to register a nick in the irc what kind of valid email address is required?

any email account that you can access do not make one up

whats wrong if gparted takes very long time to scann?

it should not. are some of your devices external usb?

my end of life ubuntu 7.1 can't be upgraded? it says up-to-date in update manager

etherealite: change the owner to www-data:www-data, not username:username

anyone could recommend me which book/s are good for command line in ubuntu?

http://subsignal.org/doc/aliensbashtutorial.html

like my way better

copy that script, paste it into a new file called transmission in /etc/init.d; then run 'sudo update-rc.d transmission defaults' to enable automatic starting

hi guys, i cant access my other partition, it has a folder called 'lost+found' with a lil 'x' next to it. how can i access it?

http://tldp.org/ldp/linux-filesystem-hierarchy/html/lostfound.html

now i cant quit the installer

you use ps aux and grep for that process then kill it

my une issue seems to be with the interface. the docking bar and the main panel seems to be transparent or i am unable to see icons that appear on them. one thing that i notices is that when if i us scroll bar on docking bar i am able to see icons but they disappear. i also have tried the software on multiple machines and still get the same results. i have also tried downloading multiple copies and same results is this i known i

if you type too many characters at once, your line gets truncated.

is there a way to completely kill gnome-panel?

tell it not to relaunch in system -> preferences -> session -> current session

is there some way to deny access from all other ip others than mine to my server and revert it easily, some iptables rule? i have ubuntu server in a virtual server, and some hack attemps

depending on what type of attempts, you may want to look into fail2ban as well.

my ubuntu keeps randomly freezing. is there any logs i could tail before it freezes to see if there is anything oging on?

maybe /var/log/messages ?

how can i switch to console from x in ubuntu 10.04?

f7 will get you back

will ubuntu resize an ntfs partition nowadays?

'usually', i think you might need some ntfs package - i'm not the person to know...

i know that. is there a way to just turn all samba security off and allow everyone full access to the share folder?

also make sure the partition is mounted writable

will anyone browse to 91.155.238.61 and tell me if you can see my router?

i don't think it is.

damnit, i keep middleclicking in firefox to autoscroll (which it does) but occasionally it opens google or one of my bookmarks instead :(

you also might want to set middlemouse.contentloadurl to false too

hey guys are there apps for ubuntu which will allow me to take a screenshot by hitting a keyboard shortcut? i ask because the app under accesories will not let me take a screenshot of the code assist in eclipse

xev

what's the package that with some tab key combination, like alt-tab, not only shows you the _names_ of the windows it can switch to, but shows an _image_ of that window? compiz???

ccsm to configure compiz

will it cause problems if i upgrade straight from hoary to dapper without going through breezy first?

probably :p

why doesn't man strcat work? it's a simple c function

because you didn't install the manpages?

anyone know how i can list all processes in a tree structure?

'pstree'

hey, how can i play a wmv file on ubuntu? i tried using totem, but it never starts playing (stays at 0:00), and i tried using vlc - the sound works well but there is no picture :(

maybe the file is corrupted

i have this laptop i've just purchased that currently has vista on it. i'd like to do a dual boot configuration on it. it worries me because it doesn't come with any install cds, and in addition to the os partition, it apparently has a vista-restore partition. i'm worried that if i make room and install ubuntu that when it writes to mbr i wont ever be able to access the system restore partition. is that true ?

there is probably a program to create the recovery disk installed. search for that 1st

hey guys, is there any way to update ubuntu while being on it?

run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and thats it

hey - i am having some stability and crashing problems with the gnome desktop that i installed on my ubuntu-server 8.04 installation. i am looking to add a faster and more stable gui. after research - xfce seems like what i will be going with. however, does anyone have recommendations for faster and more stable guis?

icewm

java programs can be speedy

totally, but for processor intensive they are shocking i had to do an evolutionary algorythum's in them and it was slow

hello, i have a question, in software sources -> ubuntu software - i must to have all those selected ?

not necessarily, but some software you may wish to use may not be as 'free' as others. see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/repositories

is there a way to turn off 'joined / exit' messages in xchat?

right click the channel on the left side, hide join/parts is somewhere in the options

i use firestarter, it is very cool.. its gui for iptables!

for instance, if you do a 'ps aux' it's going to print you all of the running processes, but say you are looking for a java process in particular, then you do 'ps aux | grep java' and it prints only processes containing java

what command should i use to list all drives attached to my system, even those that aren't mounted?

`fdisk -l` perhaps what you need?

will dell ship linux laptops? i was thinking either to get a dell or a mac loptop

dell.com/linux

hey a little off-topic does anyone know where id find a compiz server/channel

they may help

what is the little thing i type into the terminal to get the exe compatibility?

sudo apt-get install wine

when you have a version of ubuntu, does it really matter to upgrade everytime or will a version suffice forever?

generally yes - new features can be another reason [incidentally using <> for people's names can be confusing, it looks like you're pasting something i said]

what is bt_metadata in ~/.opera/

at a guess, maybe someting to do with opera's bittorrent client?

hi...apologies for the truly n00b question, but which version of ubuntu should i install on a laptop computer? desktop or netbook?

desktop (netbook is for.. netbooks.. smaller than 10in screen)

hi, what would happen if i deleted everything in my /tmp folder pls?

it will not harm anything in your system, but you will lose all your temporairy data.. i clean my tmp folder every week..

does anyone know of a tool to put several jpgpics into a short movie? :)

check out the tovid thread on the forums

hello, have a linux question: how do i test if a text file has unix or dos formating (line break)?

open in it in any linux text editor...

is there a way to disable computer beep from ubuntu ?

check out http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=126746

who's having issues with xchat autocomplete?

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

how do you get irc in text mode???

irssi

how can i excecute device manager from a terminal window? i mean, something like hal-device-manager

gnome-device-manager

whats the problem when 'add/remove programs' is not loading the content? the window stays empty

slow laptop

hi, i'd like to know where files stored in the trash basket are kept?

- it's .trash - it's a hidden file in your home directory

hi all.. how to synchronize my clock with internet time zones...?

package 'ntp'