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question to bash-scripting: how can i make an echo that writes its output to the screen and to a logfile?	out=`echo hello' ; echo $out ; echo $out >> logfile
i was wondering the same for myself, thats why i was asknig about antivirus	i think that while ubuntu developers don't try to make things simpler for the windows users, we'll be fine
any ultima online player here, that can help me patch uo with wine?! iam having troubles and an error with vercfg...	no offense, but why not play games under the os they were written for?
is there a way of controling amarok with multimedia keys under ubuntu? they work in the gnome preferences, but amarok just ignores them, when i try to set them in amarok's preferences	i dont have it in front of me so i'm not sure what its all exactly called.
xubuntu still uses grub 2 right?	it should be using grub2 yes.
how do you check for updates to installed packages in ubuntu?	system, administrator, update manager
in gnome 3.2, how do i open the empathy buddy window after i close it?	i haven't used gnome 3.2, but prior to gnome 3 the empathy icon was in the 'tray' or on the panel. so the icon is nowhere on scree? other than relaunching the app, which it should just bring up the active window, i don't know of any other way.
hello, what is the correct term when talking about the latest version and not the lts one. what should i say, non-lts?normal version or what?	latest version usually does it (11.04 btw)
hey guys,,, from a fairly default setup, no x, just terminal,, how do i add ~/bin/ to $path for all users? including root?	this line works for me. maybe it will help you. export path=$path:$home/base/mine/bin
when y'all get done with that, i have a question about x11 forwarding and i'm not even sure how to google about it: i ssh -y from my hardy box into another box (fedora) and try to run firefox. i get firefox running on my local machine, not the remote machine. is ubuntu trying to outsmart me?	lol, means your probably not connected to the remote machine when you issue the command
i get this error trying to install crystalcursors, any help? http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/16574	then try installing it again
hey guys, i ran the restricted driver thingy and after that it says 'in order for this computer to function properly ubuntu may be using driver software that cannot be supported'	it simply means its closed source and ubuntu cannot provide support to problems arising from its intrnals
i can't get sound to play from my terminal or tty	is puleaudio running?
is there any canonical place to store *.deb files? or for that matter, is there any reason to save them after i have installed them?	they usually get saved into /var/cache/apt/archives. there's no real reason to save them
suddenly my internal speakers on my hp laptop do not work anymore. only the audio output works. know problem?	no, if you find out let me know ;-)
question about the firefox 4 ppa: should it be displaying the tabs-on-top style?	change from view menu
does anyone know if the listen music player in xubuntu 8.10 can play flac files?	according to http://www.listen-project.org/wiki/features it does.
hey, i found a server that is stuck on 8.04, intrepid. how can i upgrade it to the latest version, or at least, 10.04 lts?	see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/lucidupgrades
what would be a small-yet-reasonable amount of hdd space to allocate for a new install in a vm on laptop without a whole lot of space to spare? mostly for poking around and learning my way around linux, so i won't be using it for serious work yet.	why do you need to allocate any? don't vm's have dynamic resizing now?
can someone help me fix my ubuntu install, think kdm got messed up somehow and i dont know how to either switch to gdm or to re-install kdm	have you checked to see what type of seesion you have selected?
is it possible to do an inverse find. like say i want to find everything that isn't an mp3 in my music folder?	where $path is the path you want to search in
i've installed command line system and want to read dmesg output, how can i scroll back?	if you just type dmesg \| less, you can use page up and page down to scroll up and down through the output
hello, i have a box with ubuntu 11.10 32 bit...i updated..and now i want to put adobe flash on the machine. when i try to install it from software center i get: there isn't a software package called 'adobe-flashplugin' in your current software sources.	i believe it's called 'flashplugin-nonfree' and you need universe enabled?
okay anyone here actually burn there own video cds/dvds??	i do, but not in linux.
i am trying to run firefox, but when i try delete them it says, firefox i running. how do i find the id in terminal to kill?	killall firefox should also work
what do i need to download to be able to play mp3s on music player?	ubuntu-restricted-extras? depends
aloha, i have always upgraded by disk or via upgrade manager / synaptic but i wanted to minimize network traffic for the ubuntu.com folks and acquired 11.10 via bittorrent this time. i have 11.04 and tried sudo mount -t iso9660 ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso /cdrom -o loop but that doesn't help. it mounts as a volume but i'm not sure how to make it upgrade.	you need to burn the iso to cd/dvd/usb
i almost forgot... does the amd64 version of breezy have flash plugin support yet?	i dont think so..
what is the command to find out in what format a disk is formatted?	err. sudo cfdisk /dev/sda
why should you use gksudo over sudo?	it sets the graphical environment up properly - see http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo to know why
how do i figure out what the mount point is for my sansa?	usually you can run dmesg and look at the last dozen or so lines to find the mount point. wanna paste them to pastebin for us?
hey everyone. a coworker of mine built a server running lucid server, but when i shell in and try to execute a command that's not in my path as root (i.e.: ./mycommand) it tells me the file doesn't exist. i can see it in ls and i can open it with vim though. anyone have any suggestions?	if its not in your path use a full (relative) path
hmm, does aneone know an easy tool to convert ascii files into pdf?	gedit can do that. and most apps let you print to a pdf file
how can i temporarily assign one window to stay on top of all the others?	right click on window, click always on top
how would i find out the dimensions of my desktop (in pixels)?	system>preferences>display
i have an ubuntu box that i use to do various functions that is connected to an intranet without being connected to the internet. i want to install certain packages on it, is there an easy way to download all the packages i need and the dependencies for them? does apt-get -d download them to the local directory or will i have to wade through the pkg directory to find them?	set up an apt-mirror? aptoncd? /msg ubottu offline as well
hello, how can i make a shortcut to an sh file ?	right click desktop, shortcut
how can i mount my windows partition every time when my ubuntu starts! i had to manually mount it and only root can access it!	put it in /etc/fstab
what is the correct line for 'sudo apt-get install nvidia'	am having a big issue with nvidia - the line goes like sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
i have a limited ram system. when i close any program it does not release all the ram. any way to do it manually?	pull the power cord
uff. question: windowskey-e does this pretty thing where it shows all my workspaces. is there a variation on that to show applications. also, what is doing that? gnome? compiz? what component am i using?	it is compiz. you might be looking for that expose like feature, checkout modules 'scale' and 'scale addons'
ath0? what happened to eth0?	ath0 is wireless atheros card
i know about the dailies, but they seem to be for the regular install-to-disk pre-release builds. just wanted to see if someone would suggest which livecd would be best to download	the livecds are built by hand
anyone know how to set the label on a fat32 thumbdrive ?	it's part of mtools.
does somone here use irssi?	plenty of people
anyone else have an idea why my filesystem won't free up space after deleting files? they were deleted last week, i can't find any other reasons that i would have files taking up over 30 gigs of space, and fsck, repeat runs at boot time, won't free up that space.	stating the obvious here, but did you make sure to clear the trash too? i find myself doing that often...forget to clear it out of the trash. >.>
can someone please point me in the right direction so i can find out how to make a raw copy of an audio cd in ubuntu	grip or the old fashioned way k3b which is just a good burner
alright, what package do i need for apache's authdigestfile setting to work?	no extra package, just enable the apache module with 'sudo a2enmod auth_digest'
hey just wondering how well does cs:source work under wine?	apparently very well
how do i make terminal on ubuntu not 'always on top'?	right click
i know there has to be some slashdot readers here. has anyone else had problems with the auto-more feature, the one where it automatically loads more articles when you scroll to the bottom of the page? any ideas why this may no longer be working for me?	it stopped working on my system as well ???
whats a good iso burner for gnomw?	k3b is the best burner for linux
anyone want to help me get my ipod touch working in ubuntu?	yes, banshee aparently does use it like a normal ipod i think
what is nautilus	it's the file manager used by gnome
what's the best way to uninstall everything related to gnome and x? is there a shortcut instead of searching for all related files individually?	and gnome is an x thing so it'll go away too
what do you get out of helping people on here?	it's all volunteers here
is there a way to log a telnet session from shell to a file?	telnet \| tee filename
anyone know how to bond nics in ubuntu?	bond nics?
so nobody knows how to get the linker working on 5.10-rc?	did you install build-essential?
hi. what command can i use two concatenate two audio files (namely .ogg files) and create a new .ogg audio file out of them?	ffmpeg, mencoder, can proberly do it. :) they can do most everything else.
hi! i need to fix someone's computer. i think it is possible if he logins on my machine via ssh. what is the parameter he need for this?	basically ssh remote user@remote ip
what are the common packages i should install so that gxine will be able to play the sound in movies?	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/restrictedformats
hi, moved to ubuntu a couple of weeks ago been having all sorts of problems with my ati card. can anyone recomend a good nvidia card. looking for dual monitors and all the desktop effects etc.???	any newer nvidia card should work fine
hey, does someone know a good program to burn an iso to a dvd?	right click the iso -> write to disc. or open up brasero and proceed from there
hey does anyone know if there is a program which copies the music from an ipod to my computer ?	i think there's a program called gtkpod that will do it
hey guys, im having trouble connecting to a cisco vpn with ubuntu 9.04. everytime i try to connect with the network manager it fails. is there any way i can see an output or log somewhere so i can see exactly what fails? thanks	or one of the other files in that directory. i'd use something like this to find out. sudo tail -f /var/log/*
i've a question for anyone intimiatly familiar with debian packaging, anyone here fit that?	intimately?
what package contains alsaconf?	alsa-base
gasseus my wireless light is blinking when ever there is data transfer. instead it was static with white light before. how to fix this bug?	thats probably going to be a kernel issue, it affected my girlfriend as well, and that is a very involved fix. i suggest filing a bug on launchpad.net and hopefully it will get fixed 'soon'.
are there any other terminal-based text editor than vim? i'm using ssh to my school and want to edit a file	nano, pico, emacs, sed/cat/awk for manual line editing
the 10.10 livecd is showing garbage after the 5 dots boot thing. is there a way for me to send kernel options before it boots or something?	if you hit esc the n'e' you can chage the boot
any reason why you're not using xp on it if it came with an xp license in the first place?.....if it's not for you and you're having so much trouble	u serious? there are other professions in the world where they just want a computer that's safe, runs 100% of the time and does what the basic requirements that they have. there are people out there that are good at other things than computers. ok ?
anyone has dual boot ubuntu in macbook air ?	another option is virtualbox or vmware?
why is my wife's compaq on linux 3.0.27 while my toshiba is still at 3.0.26?	run 'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'
what is the predicted release date for ubuntu 11.10 anyone?	04 is 4th month and at the end of the month
hello everyone. this may not be the appropriate place for this question, but i don't know where else to start asking. my wife got an email for someone who claims to be one of my wife's friends (who took a trip to scottland, got mugged, and asking for help, but my wife know for a fact her friend is not in scottland). can one trace an im chat to get a source ip??	contact nearby cyber crime department of police
can anyone tell what app to use to get my dvds on to my hdd like avi files?	acidrip, k9copy, dvd::rip
hey you guys. does cron savve entries past a reboot? i used crontab -e then i rebooted myserver and got kicked out by my firewall...i set up a backup cron but then i reboot so im not sure now if it will fire	did you ever verify the cron job worked?
does anyone know why this is keeping me from compiling an app no package 'libxml-2.0' found	try looking for something with a name like that using 'apt-cache search libxml' then you can install through synaptic, aptitude, apt-get, etc.
hi everyone, i've installed a new kernel from a debian package however the grub menu never pops up to allow me to choose from both of my kernels... how do i get the grub menu to come up?	keep the shift key pressed when you turn on your pc
i'm trying to access my ubuntu computer from my vista laptop, and i keep on getting a password prompt, but no user/pass is working. can anyone help?	install swat...makes all the samba configs easy
anyone now how to install google earth on ubuntu	you might be able to use it with wine, but there is defs no way to install with apt
i have cacti on one pc for network monitoring, what do i need in each pc, snmp or snmpd?	no idea on snmp
is there a way to stop 10.04 prompting me for the keyring password when connecting to the wireless at boot?	apps > acces > passwords...
i can't believe there is no way to see which files a package installed. or is there?	or look at the package properties in synaptic after you've installed it
how can i append something to an enviroment variable?	variable=$variable:blah ?
anyone have any experience with an hp mini 1000 with broadcom bcm4312 chip? looking for wireless and ethernet on clean install	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/wifidocs/driver/bcm43xx
hey all, how do i get into an external hd to do an ls command?	cd /media/extnalharddiskname
i'd like to load the classic gnome-menus, bey there is no options at the login-screen. is there any other way to to this ?	when you enter your user name. no menus at the bottom of the gdm screen?
hm, is there a way to take a screenshot with a timer?	yes, apps->accessorioes->screenshot tool
i have a laptop that cannot be connected to internet and dosenot have make files or dpkg, any way to install make in it so i can install other stuff on it	look into aptoncd ...
i'm new to irc. i just got xchat. anyone got some tips (besides normal talking like i'm doing now) i can use?	also, try not to paste large dumps of code, you'll get booted. use a pastedump site.
with the alternate install, is exim installed by default or do you have to add the package after?	i believe exim4 is part of the minimal install, just for mail client functions
is there a gnome panel applet that displays the currently playing song for xmms?	i guess not, it just lets you control xmms
is the debian irc down?	it's not the channel, it's you
how to start the battery docklet?	power has choices on displaying it.
i checked the iso before and after i wrote it to usb. the disk check error i have says there's a bad checksum for ./install/netboot/ubuntu-installer/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default what can i do?	redownload the image and rewrite it to the usb stick
how can i make a dynamically expandable /home partition?	lvm
is there a graphic cdrecording app in the livecd that i'm completely missing? i see the commandline cdrecord is there but i need to burn some random files	nautilus-cd-burner
hello. has anyone installed ubuntu on a compaq presario laptop? i'm looking to switch from fedora to a debian based distro and ubuntu looks pretty nice.	there is a live cd you can try for compatibility.

question to bash-scripting: how can i make an echo that writes its output to the screen and to a logfile?

out=`echo hello' ; echo $out ; echo $out >> logfile

i was wondering the same for myself, thats why i was asknig about antivirus

i think that while ubuntu developers don't try to make things simpler for the windows users, we'll be fine

any ultima online player here, that can help me patch uo with wine?! iam having troubles and an error with vercfg...

no offense, but why not play games under the os they were written for?

is there a way of controling amarok with multimedia keys under ubuntu? they work in the gnome preferences, but amarok just ignores them, when i try to set them in amarok's preferences

i dont have it in front of me so i'm not sure what its all exactly called.

xubuntu still uses grub 2 right?

it should be using grub2 yes.

how do you check for updates to installed packages in ubuntu?

system, administrator, update manager

in gnome 3.2, how do i open the empathy buddy window after i close it?

i haven't used gnome 3.2, but prior to gnome 3 the empathy icon was in the 'tray' or on the panel. so the icon is nowhere on scree? other than relaunching the app, which it should just bring up the active window, i don't know of any other way.

hello, what is the correct term when talking about the latest version and not the lts one. what should i say, non-lts?normal version or what?

latest version usually does it (11.04 btw)

hey guys,,, from a fairly default setup, no x, just terminal,, how do i add ~/bin/ to $path for all users? including root?

this line works for me. maybe it will help you. export path=$path:$home/base/mine/bin

when y'all get done with that, i have a question about x11 forwarding and i'm not even sure how to google about it: i ssh -y from my hardy box into another box (fedora) and try to run firefox. i get firefox running on my local machine, not the remote machine. is ubuntu trying to outsmart me?

lol, means your probably not connected to the remote machine when you issue the command

i get this error trying to install crystalcursors, any help? http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/16574

then try installing it again

hey guys, i ran the restricted driver thingy and after that it says 'in order for this computer to function properly ubuntu may be using driver software that cannot be supported'

it simply means its closed source and ubuntu cannot provide support to problems arising from its intrnals

i can't get sound to play from my terminal or tty

is puleaudio running?

is there any canonical place to store *.deb files? or for that matter, is there any reason to save them after i have installed them?

they usually get saved into /var/cache/apt/archives. there's no real reason to save them

suddenly my internal speakers on my hp laptop do not work anymore. only the audio output works. know problem?

no, if you find out let me know ;-)

question about the firefox 4 ppa: should it be displaying the tabs-on-top style?

change from view menu

does anyone know if the listen music player in xubuntu 8.10 can play flac files?

according to http://www.listen-project.org/wiki/features it does.

hey, i found a server that is stuck on 8.04, intrepid. how can i upgrade it to the latest version, or at least, 10.04 lts?

see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/lucidupgrades

what would be a small-yet-reasonable amount of hdd space to allocate for a new install in a vm on laptop without a whole lot of space to spare? mostly for poking around and learning my way around linux, so i won't be using it for serious work yet.

why do you need to allocate any? don't vm's have dynamic resizing now?

can someone help me fix my ubuntu install, think kdm got messed up somehow and i dont know how to either switch to gdm or to re-install kdm

have you checked to see what type of seesion you have selected?

is it possible to do an inverse find. like say i want to find everything that isn't an mp3 in my music folder?

where $path is the path you want to search in

i've installed command line system and want to read dmesg output, how can i scroll back?

if you just type dmesg | less, you can use page up and page down to scroll up and down through the output

hello, i have a box with ubuntu 11.10 32 bit...i updated..and now i want to put adobe flash on the machine. when i try to install it from software center i get: there isn't a software package called 'adobe-flashplugin' in your current software sources.

i believe it's called 'flashplugin-nonfree' and you need universe enabled?

okay anyone here actually burn there own video cds/dvds??

i do, but not in linux.

i am trying to run firefox, but when i try delete them it says, firefox i running. how do i find the id in terminal to kill?

killall firefox should also work

what do i need to download to be able to play mp3s on music player?

ubuntu-restricted-extras? depends

aloha, i have always upgraded by disk or via upgrade manager / synaptic but i wanted to minimize network traffic for the ubuntu.com folks and acquired 11.10 via bittorrent this time. i have 11.04 and tried sudo mount -t iso9660 ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso /cdrom -o loop but that doesn't help. it mounts as a volume but i'm not sure how to make it upgrade.

you need to burn the iso to cd/dvd/usb

i almost forgot... does the amd64 version of breezy have flash plugin support yet?

i dont think so..

what is the command to find out in what format a disk is formatted?

err. sudo cfdisk /dev/sda

why should you use gksudo over sudo?

it sets the graphical environment up properly - see http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo to know why

how do i figure out what the mount point is for my sansa?

usually you can run dmesg and look at the last dozen or so lines to find the mount point. wanna paste them to pastebin for us?

hey everyone. a coworker of mine built a server running lucid server, but when i shell in and try to execute a command that's not in my path as root (i.e.: ./mycommand) it tells me the file doesn't exist. i can see it in ls and i can open it with vim though. anyone have any suggestions?

if its not in your path use a full (relative) path

hmm, does aneone know an easy tool to convert ascii files into pdf?

gedit can do that. and most apps let you print to a pdf file

how can i temporarily assign one window to stay on top of all the others?

right click on window, click always on top

how would i find out the dimensions of my desktop (in pixels)?

system>preferences>display

i have an ubuntu box that i use to do various functions that is connected to an intranet without being connected to the internet. i want to install certain packages on it, is there an easy way to download all the packages i need and the dependencies for them? does apt-get -d download them to the local directory or will i have to wade through the pkg directory to find them?

set up an apt-mirror? aptoncd? /msg ubottu offline as well

hello, how can i make a shortcut to an sh file ?

right click desktop, shortcut

how can i mount my windows partition every time when my ubuntu starts! i had to manually mount it and only root can access it!

put it in /etc/fstab

what is the correct line for 'sudo apt-get install nvidia'

am having a big issue with nvidia - the line goes like sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

i have a limited ram system. when i close any program it does not release all the ram. any way to do it manually?

pull the power cord

uff. question: windowskey-e does this pretty thing where it shows all my workspaces. is there a variation on that to show applications. also, what is doing that? gnome? compiz? what component am i using?

it is compiz. you might be looking for that expose like feature, checkout modules 'scale' and 'scale addons'

ath0? what happened to eth0?

ath0 is wireless atheros card

i know about the dailies, but they seem to be for the regular install-to-disk pre-release builds. just wanted to see if someone would suggest which livecd would be best to download

the livecds are built by hand

anyone know how to set the label on a fat32 thumbdrive ?

it's part of mtools.

does somone here use irssi?

plenty of people

anyone else have an idea why my filesystem won't free up space after deleting files? they were deleted last week, i can't find any other reasons that i would have files taking up over 30 gigs of space, and fsck, repeat runs at boot time, won't free up that space.

stating the obvious here, but did you make sure to clear the trash too? i find myself doing that often...forget to clear it out of the trash. >.>

can someone please point me in the right direction so i can find out how to make a raw copy of an audio cd in ubuntu

grip or the old fashioned way k3b which is just a good burner

alright, what package do i need for apache's authdigestfile setting to work?

no extra package, just enable the apache module with 'sudo a2enmod auth_digest'

hey just wondering how well does cs:source work under wine?

apparently very well

how do i make terminal on ubuntu not 'always on top'?

right click

i know there has to be some slashdot readers here. has anyone else had problems with the auto-more feature, the one where it automatically loads more articles when you scroll to the bottom of the page? any ideas why this may no longer be working for me?

it stopped working on my system as well ???

whats a good iso burner for gnomw?

k3b is the best burner for linux

anyone want to help me get my ipod touch working in ubuntu?

yes, banshee aparently does use it like a normal ipod i think

what is nautilus

it's the file manager used by gnome

what's the best way to uninstall everything related to gnome and x? is there a shortcut instead of searching for all related files individually?

and gnome is an x thing so it'll go away too

what do you get out of helping people on here?

it's all volunteers here

is there a way to log a telnet session from shell to a file?

telnet | tee filename

anyone know how to bond nics in ubuntu?

bond nics?

so nobody knows how to get the linker working on 5.10-rc?

did you install build-essential?

hi. what command can i use two concatenate two audio files (namely .ogg files) and create a new .ogg audio file out of them?

ffmpeg, mencoder, can proberly do it. :) they can do most everything else.

hi! i need to fix someone's computer. i think it is possible if he logins on my machine via ssh. what is the parameter he need for this?

basically ssh remote user@remote ip

what are the common packages i should install so that gxine will be able to play the sound in movies?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/restrictedformats

hi, moved to ubuntu a couple of weeks ago been having all sorts of problems with my ati card. can anyone recomend a good nvidia card. looking for dual monitors and all the desktop effects etc.???

any newer nvidia card should work fine

hey, does someone know a good program to burn an iso to a dvd?

right click the iso -> write to disc. or open up brasero and proceed from there

hey does anyone know if there is a program which copies the music from an ipod to my computer ?

i think there's a program called gtkpod that will do it

hey guys, im having trouble connecting to a cisco vpn with ubuntu 9.04. everytime i try to connect with the network manager it fails. is there any way i can see an output or log somewhere so i can see exactly what fails? thanks

or one of the other files in that directory. i'd use something like this to find out. sudo tail -f /var/log/*

i've a question for anyone intimiatly familiar with debian packaging, anyone here fit that?

intimately?

what package contains alsaconf?

alsa-base

gasseus my wireless light is blinking when ever there is data transfer. instead it was static with white light before. how to fix this bug?

thats probably going to be a kernel issue, it affected my girlfriend as well, and that is a very involved fix. i suggest filing a bug on launchpad.net and hopefully it will get fixed 'soon'.

are there any other terminal-based text editor than vim? i'm using ssh to my school and want to edit a file

nano, pico, emacs, sed/cat/awk for manual line editing

the 10.10 livecd is showing garbage after the 5 dots boot thing. is there a way for me to send kernel options before it boots or something?

if you hit esc the n'e' you can chage the boot

any reason why you're not using xp on it if it came with an xp license in the first place?.....if it's not for you and you're having so much trouble

u serious? there are other professions in the world where they just want a computer that's safe, runs 100% of the time and does what the basic requirements that they have. there are people out there that are good at other things than computers. ok ?

anyone has dual boot ubuntu in macbook air ?

another option is virtualbox or vmware?

why is my wife's compaq on linux 3.0.27 while my toshiba is still at 3.0.26?

run 'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'

what is the predicted release date for ubuntu 11.10 anyone?

04 is 4th month and at the end of the month

hello everyone. this may not be the appropriate place for this question, but i don't know where else to start asking. my wife got an email for someone who claims to be one of my wife's friends (who took a trip to scottland, got mugged, and asking for help, but my wife know for a fact her friend is not in scottland). can one trace an im chat to get a source ip??

contact nearby cyber crime department of police

can anyone tell what app to use to get my dvds on to my hdd like avi files?

acidrip, k9copy, dvd::rip

hey you guys. does cron savve entries past a reboot? i used crontab -e then i rebooted myserver and got kicked out by my firewall...i set up a backup cron but then i reboot so im not sure now if it will fire

did you ever verify the cron job worked?

does anyone know why this is keeping me from compiling an app no package 'libxml-2.0' found

try looking for something with a name like that using 'apt-cache search libxml' then you can install through synaptic, aptitude, apt-get, etc.

hi everyone, i've installed a new kernel from a debian package however the grub menu never pops up to allow me to choose from both of my kernels... how do i get the grub menu to come up?

keep the shift key pressed when you turn on your pc

i'm trying to access my ubuntu computer from my vista laptop, and i keep on getting a password prompt, but no user/pass is working. can anyone help?

install swat...makes all the samba configs easy

anyone now how to install google earth on ubuntu

you might be able to use it with wine, but there is defs no way to install with apt

i have cacti on one pc for network monitoring, what do i need in each pc, snmp or snmpd?

no idea on snmp

is there a way to stop 10.04 prompting me for the keyring password when connecting to the wireless at boot?

apps > acces > passwords...

i can't believe there is no way to see which files a package installed. or is there?

or look at the package properties in synaptic after you've installed it

how can i append something to an enviroment variable?

variable=$variable:blah ?

anyone have any experience with an hp mini 1000 with broadcom bcm4312 chip? looking for wireless and ethernet on clean install

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/wifidocs/driver/bcm43xx

hey all, how do i get into an external hd to do an ls command?

cd /media/*extnalharddiskname*

i'd like to load the classic gnome-menus, bey there is no options at the login-screen. is there any other way to to this ?

when you enter your user name. no menus at the bottom of the gdm screen?

hm, is there a way to take a screenshot with a timer?

yes, apps->accessorioes->screenshot tool

i have a laptop that cannot be connected to internet and dosenot have make files or dpkg, any way to install make in it so i can install other stuff on it

look into aptoncd ...

i'm new to irc. i just got xchat. anyone got some tips (besides normal talking like i'm doing now) i can use?

also, try not to paste large dumps of code, you'll get booted. use a pastedump site.

with the alternate install, is exim installed by default or do you have to add the package after?

i believe exim4 is part of the minimal install, just for mail client functions

is there a gnome panel applet that displays the currently playing song for xmms?

i guess not, it just lets you control xmms

is the debian irc down?

it's not the channel, it's you

how to start the battery docklet?

power has choices on displaying it.

i checked the iso before and after i wrote it to usb. the disk check error i have says there's a bad checksum for ./install/netboot/ubuntu-installer/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default what can i do?

redownload the image and rewrite it to the usb stick

how can i make a dynamically expandable /home partition?

lvm

is there a graphic cdrecording app in the livecd that i'm completely missing? i see the commandline cdrecord is there but i need to burn some random files

nautilus-cd-burner

hello. has anyone installed ubuntu on a compaq presario laptop? i'm looking to switch from fedora to a debian based distro and ubuntu looks pretty nice.

there is a live cd you can try for compatibility.