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does anacron poll for changes to anacrontab? or must it be restarted...?	real time changes
hi, it seems apt-get knows somehow when there are updates on the net but i can't see any cron job for it, how?	update-notifier
if i want to start developing applications for gnome in c++ i was told to get gtkmm which is the c++ interface to gtk+, is it in the repositories somewhere? i couldn't find gtkmm.	libgtkmm-2.4-1c2 and libgtkmm-2.4-dev
i want to use the official driver of my realtek network card ,but when i startup the computer, it goto the linux one but not the official.i have installed the official driver.	i'm not sure if the initramfs already loads the network driver, but if it does, you'd have to update your initramfs as well
hi all, 'nmap localhost' is showing ports 631 (ipp) and 5432 (postgres) running. how can i kill these now, and disable them for good	on the local interfaces i mean...
hi, can any1 tell me if there is a program similar like the simply accounting or the quickbooks that i can have on my system ....for small business?	gnomecash is good
what should i do with a .bin installer?	but really only if you know what the package is (ie. sun java)
anything i need to know when adding free space on hd to my ubuntu partition? im dual booting. should it be fine to add 40gb with gparted or do i need to do something else as well? i plan on keeping my windows partition for work. please help	make sure you have everything backed up first. that's all
if you can't get it working on your machine, you could mail it to me, i think i can ...	hehe
is it possible to tell ubuntu that one wants to have the home directory on another physical harddrive after installation?	http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome
anyone know of a music player that has a an eq?	you can add an equalizer to pulseaudio lemme look it up
how do you remove a pkg with apt-get	sudo apt-get remove blah
i seem to remember a 'services' utility in gst, where you could configure what services to launch at boot time. why isn't it in ubuntu?	if you are looking for an replacement try rcconf
hi! how many hard drives can i use with an ubuntu system? is there a formula to calculate it?	there shouldn't be any limit which you could possibly hit.
can someone please help me	check http://www.kinodv.org/article/static/3 if u have missed any dependecy
i only have bash/shell access to my linux box right now, how can i tell linux to burn an iso to a black cd in the cdrw drive?	cdrecord -dao -eject -data <isofile>
hey guys, i'm following the instructions for installing java, and it asks me to type in ' chmod +x jre-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin' to install. but this doesnt do anything	to actually run if.. type './jre-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin'
how do i burn audio cd? from mp3's ... wanna play it in my carstereo	you've got to read about restriced formats in ubuntu. try on www.ubuntulinux.org
what is the command that i set random white noise to my audio output?	once upon the time, it was cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
is there a simple way to get 10.10 to authenticate with our osx ldap server? i'm not sure what i should be looking at and as we're considering setting up several ubuntu boxes we don't want to have to edit shit loads of files to do it if we can help it.	i think pam (pluggable authentication modules) has an ldap module
hello, how can i use a .deb file?	try sudo gdebi foo.deb or sudo dpkg -i foo.deb
i have a bunch of programs that are no longer needed and come up when i install something with apt to be autoremove. i don't want them to be removed, so is there someway to suppress the warning or keep them so to speak?	sudo apt-get install them or aptitude markauto them
can i use the alternate cd to upgrade my distro or do i have to actually boot off of it?	last time, i used the alt.
hi guys! does this mean that i have the 64bit version of ubuntu? (	looks like it.
anyone happen to know a commandline torrent client that can watch a particular directory for new torrent files?	though i've never used it myself
how do i update from beta1 to beta2?	yes, and that will also take you to the final once released
wow. for the life of me i can never remember this command. whats the command that outputs your ati hardare information? shows if you have direct rendering?	glxinfo \| grep dri ?
hey i'm nervous to install drivers for my ati x600 - i don't know what to do and don't want to get stuck with a console :(	i think sudo alsactl store
how can i view a files permissions at the terminal?	ls -l
lduros best to keep the chatter to #ubuntu-offtopic and this place for direct support ;)	yeah i figured its not welcome to do that here, apologies
hi, i have a problem with my ubuntu. whenever i get to the beginning of a document and i hit backspace, there's this horrible beep.	goto system->sounds->system beep tab and uncheck it
hello there i want to try kubuntu live cd 8.10, whats the user/password to login?	user is 'ubuntu', there is no password
i don't know if xchat has that feature asdqwezxcdsf	yes it had
hey all. if i want to remove a program that i installed manually (not using a package manager), to uninstall it, there is no mechanism right? i just delete the files ?	you should avoid installing programs outside the package manager. if it was a normal source tree then you should be able to cd to the directory containing the source and 'make uninstall' or 'sudo make uninstall' (depending on whether you originally ran 'make install' or 'sudo make install').
can i pass variables in an alias? i.e. alias acs='apt-cache search $1' where 'acs gnome' will work?	just do alias acs='sudo apt-cache search'
i'm trying to get vmware-server working in edgy, i have the server installed and kernel modules loaded, i am running the 64bit version of edgy, i am having a problem with vmware-authd. it just says . reason: operation not permitted, when i try to connect to it. any ideas?	will that run windows though
how do i make a file read-only	chmod -w filename
hi, my password for mynickname is not working, is there anyway i can reset it ????	you'll have to talk to server admin about it.
hi guys; i'm looking to make my ubuntu laptop and windows 7 desktop work together. this would include synching certain folders, ability to control my windows box from linux (is this ssh? i'm not too familiar with networking) and so on. does anyone have any pointers?	http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/configure-a-system-to-automount-a-samba-share-with-etcfstab/ may or may not help
what is the command again to get my own kernel information?	uname -r
can someone help me? i need to figure out how to execute a file from a cron job (the file is /home/<myname>/scripts/backup, and i usually execute it with ./backup), but it won't let me do that from cron. ( i seem to have to be able to do a ./home/myname/scripts/backup, but it won't do that.) :(	try /home/myname/scripts/backup and not with that dot
how can i put the linux logo on framebuffer??? i want it like knoppix boot (and gentoo)	http://mailman.linuxchix.org/pipermail/courses/2004-april/001451.html
why? .13 is so beautiful	basically the point is 'well-tested on everything' so that 'it just works' for newbies, etc
anyone know of a decent, easy-to-use tool for capturing av from a tuner card, preferably straight to mpeg2? trying to convert some old home movies to dvd for christmas back home. i've got the tuner working fine with several viewers, just can't find a decent foss tool for capturing	i'm clueless in the a/v area also :p
how can i unpack an ace-file	try installing unace :)
hello all -- i have quick question. i am installing a server, but one of the packages i use has a better version in the debian repository. but the package name is the same in both debian and ubuntu. is there a way to tell apt-get to always get this package from a particular repository?	if you need the latest - there might be ubuntu ppa repos for what3ever it is you want.
i reinstalled windows after i'd installed ubuntu and now grub doesn't show up. how can i fix grub?	first link
trying to keep a log of the steps i need to take a configure a new ubuntu vps... when i have to do things like add several lines to the end of a config file... is there an easier way than multiple echo '...' >> filename commands? can i do a single command and then just paste all the lines into stdin and hit ctrl d to finish?	or script file.txt
how to change the password of default keyring ?	applications > accessories > passwords and encryption keys. click the 'passwords' tab. right-click 'passwords: default', select 'change password'.
okay. then green checkmark to apply that?	not natively but you can install ext drivers
anyone having problem with restricted drivers?	yes, lots of people are :p
how do i make it so that i don't require a password everytime i want to mount a drive?	list it in fstab so it automounts.. also there use to be a utility for mounting drives easily.. started with py<something>
is there a way to block im spam in empathy?	pidgin can with privacy please plugin
hey! i wanted to know which filesystem did 7.04 and 7.10 had , ext3 or ext2?	ext2 iirc
when i reboot after enabling the nvidia drivers, the screen is black. any suggestions?	log in at another tty, look into /var/log/xorg~sumthin~.log and see if it says anything about errors.
if i install with ubuntu desktop, how hard is it to install server stuff (lamp mostly)?	there are some very good how-to's for ubuntu, with those you shuld be up and running in about 5/10 minutes
hi! i use xubuntu 9.04 and 2 ntfs partitions don't mount at startup. this is my options: defaults,rw,user,auto,locale=ru_ru.utf-8. what's wrong?	it might be that the 'shut down safely' flag is not set...
how to install a program in .tar.gz, .tgz and .tar.bz2 formats?	what do you want to install, most programs are in the repositories
i'm having trouble trying to set use keys for logging in over ssh. on my client i keep getting permission denied (public key)	if that does not help, please give more details about the steps you followed and the errors you're getting (including 'ssh -vvv user@host' output)
how do i make an icon on my desktop that opens a directory? launcher that launches nautilus dir?	could just make a 'ln -s' link (shortcut) to the dir on the desktop
how i can download everything inside directory using wget ?	but there are definately tons of examples to be websearched for.
what is the easiest way to get grub to rescan all the os's installed on a system and rebuild its menu list?	super grub repair cd
btw did they canceled kubuntu? i can't find it anywhere on the official site	http://www.kubuntu.org/
is anyone aware of any tricks that are needed to get 64-bit ubuntu working under qemu? everything i try, grub is just hanging during the install phase, and i'm getting the same results invoking grub/grub-install manually	have you tried virtual box, afik it is based off of qemu
hello, ububtu users, i am very new to linux and installed yesterday ubuntu on my notebook. everything is working ok. but when booting the screen resolution is not seelcted properly. 1280x800 would be the correct setting. but displayed text is wrapped up from the buttom to the top of the screen. can anybody help me with this problem?	please read the message from the channel bot ubotu
what is the default file browser for ubuntu?	gnome nautilus
hello, what's the best fs type to use at present for a system disk and a separate data disk? ext2, 3, or 4? i don't need super high performance, priority is stability and i do want journaling	if you want to play it safe stick with ext3
i've been googling a little, but can't seem to find information on special laptop keys ('internet keys'). any pointers?	hotkeys
hello, is someone familiar with compilig using gcc/g++ ?	recompile them on your 32 bit system.
am i the only one that hosed his machine from the latest 10.04 kernel update? first part of the error is complaining about a missing post-install hook.	can you boot the older kernel ok?
i have problems with firefox. so, is there any way to upgrade firefox from the terminal??	try sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0
hello -- a few months ago i swapped my speakers with changing /etc/pulse/defaults.pa -- i (silly me) didn't make a backup of this file. how can i restore it to whatever the package that provided the audio subsystem used in the first place?	lsb_release -a
hi- i'm trying to, while logged in to a remote machine, initialize an xserver on that machine to display on its monitor (this is a machine running edgy.) i have a barebones session in .xinitrc that i use when entering 'xinit' on the keyboard of the remote machine and that works fine	im not sure i know you can designate displays with xinit like xinit --:1 to launch
killall esd ??	istanbul looks like exactly what i want
i would like to set the vga in my grub configuration (menu.lst) to 1280x800 (widescreen) but i dont know the vga code to put in the menu entry, can anybody help me?	i use a utility called startup-manager to automate grub.lst modification. you could check it and see if it works for you.
when i plug in usb devices, they aren't always detected automatically.... only when i reboot. is there any command i can use to mount a device automatically?	sure - sudo mount /dev/sdxn, where x is a letter and n is a number corresponding to the device and partition thereon
hi is the kernel loading output stored to a file so one can read it after boottime, i see some error messages and i think they are a big clue while starting but they pass too quick..	run dmesg
is it possible to telnet to the same computer running telnetd?	what are you trying to do? the telnet daemon is not enabled by default - for a very good reason
ok, i've looked at the documentation and it seems i've read it already - my main problem is windows-users get a password-challenge when trying to access the samba-shared files...	no ideas. i just no how to trigger the factoid
i would like to see what network speed my network card is set at. how can i do this?	miitool i believe
i want to read from a windows-formatted floppy disk. are there a few simple commands i can try to mount the drive? (pretty new to linux here)	-> yes, they are calle the 'm' commands,, mdir is one
in 'less', how can i look for two consecutive newlines (that is, an empty line)?	search for ^$ .. ^ represents the start of a line, and $ the end .. with nothing between them, it'll match empty lines
here is a question for anyone. i read that ubuntu only update packages for bugfixes during the life of a release while i think fedora updates for new versions (features). so if a bug is fixed and a new feature to a package is added, does the feature go into ubuntu with the upgrade?	features / new versions go to backports, bugfixes go to security
is there a way to make it so drives and network drives don't show up on the desktop?	look through the nat settings in gconf-editor
i am logged into my computer over ssh. how do i get a login screen to come up so i can vnc in?	have a look here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/vnc
is there any way i can prevent users from writing to shared folders to avoid exceeding disk quotas?	there is quota support, or you can just revoke the write permissions
hello, what is the best way to save settings of evolution, before a total reinstall?	back it up and put it back before you run it on the reinstall
is there anyway to get gnome terminal to remember my settings? for example.. i want it to start max size, with no menu bar.. it did it in 8.04 but it's not in 9.10	devilspie probably takes care of that also (in a non-app-specific way)
if i wanted to install a program, would i use the .deb version or the rpm version?	the deb
'llo. is there something like screen for x? i have a headless system on which i want to start an x app. i have a remote x server that can display the x app, but then i want to put the x app in background and shut down the remote system.	i usually use ssh with the -y paramter
do you know of other file managers that do?	find out where the icons locations are stored, youll probably be able to work something out
less in color? how?	although, if you use screen, you can just display something and do a 'ctrl-a,[' to start copy mode and scroll around using that
does anyone know if i can install lxde and remove gnome/kde within xubuntu?	use synaptic.
how do i run commands while using nano?	ctrl-what it says at the bottom.
hey #ubuntu, is there a utility that will tell me the integer value of a key combination? i'm trying to configure my trackpad to handle three-finger swiping correctly	xev maybe?
hi all. i've got question. i've installed libmysql-java with apt-get but i have no idea where it is on my filesystem ... anyone know how i can find that out?	dpkg -l libmysql-java
i'm running fluxbox as wm and it's great, except one thing :/ my ipod won't load in rhythmbox. when i switch to my gnome-session it works fine but not using fluxbox (it connects without problem, but not listed in rhythmbox). how do i solve this? or is there another good music manager that i can use with ipod support (playing from the ipod) and last.fm scrobble?	im using exale media player, and i beleive it has support for what your wanting.
whats the best way to share files and folders from linux to linux without worrying about windows compatibility	nfs
how do i install a .dmg app.?	those are for mac os x
hey. about the w32codecs package listed on the wiki; it doesn't seem to be there anymore. anyone know what is up?	you need to download it by hand from http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/w/w32codecs/w32codecs_20060611-0.0_i386.deb

does anacron poll for changes to anacrontab? or must it be restarted...?

real time changes

hi, it seems apt-get knows somehow when there are updates on the net but i can't see any cron job for it, how?

update-notifier

if i want to start developing applications for gnome in c++ i was told to get gtkmm which is the c++ interface to gtk+, is it in the repositories somewhere? i couldn't find gtkmm.

libgtkmm-2.4-1c2 and libgtkmm-2.4-dev

i want to use the official driver of my realtek network card ,but when i startup the computer, it goto the linux one but not the official.i have installed the official driver.

i'm not sure if the initramfs already loads the network driver, but if it does, you'd have to update your initramfs as well

hi all, 'nmap localhost' is showing ports 631 (ipp) and 5432 (postgres) running. how can i kill these now, and disable them for good

on the local interfaces i mean...

hi, can any1 tell me if there is a program similar like the simply accounting or the quickbooks that i can have on my system ....for small business?

gnomecash is good

what should i do with a .bin installer?

but really only if you know what the package is (ie. sun java)

anything i need to know when adding free space on hd to my ubuntu partition? im dual booting. should it be fine to add 40gb with gparted or do i need to do something else as well? i plan on keeping my windows partition for work. please help

make sure you have everything backed up first. that's all

if you can't get it working on your machine, you could mail it to me, i think i can ...

hehe

is it possible to tell ubuntu that one wants to have the home directory on another physical harddrive after installation?

http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

anyone know of a music player that has a an eq?

you can add an equalizer to pulseaudio lemme look it up

how do you remove a pkg with apt-get

sudo apt-get remove blah

i seem to remember a 'services' utility in gst, where you could configure what services to launch at boot time. why isn't it in ubuntu?

if you are looking for an replacement try rcconf

hi! how many hard drives can i use with an ubuntu system? is there a formula to calculate it?

there shouldn't be any limit which you could possibly hit.

can someone please help me

check http://www.kinodv.org/article/static/3 if u have missed any dependecy

i only have bash/shell access to my linux box right now, how can i tell linux to burn an iso to a black cd in the cdrw drive?

cdrecord -dao -eject -data <isofile>

hey guys, i'm following the instructions for installing java, and it asks me to type in ' chmod +x jre-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin' to install. but this doesnt do anything

to actually run if.. type './jre-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin'

how do i burn audio cd? from mp3's ... wanna play it in my carstereo

you've got to read about restriced formats in ubuntu. try on www.ubuntulinux.org

what is the command that i set random white noise to my audio output?

once upon the time, it was cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp

is there a simple way to get 10.10 to authenticate with our osx ldap server? i'm not sure what i should be looking at and as we're considering setting up several ubuntu boxes we don't want to have to edit shit loads of files to do it if we can help it.

i think pam (pluggable authentication modules) has an ldap module

hello, how can i use a .deb file?

try sudo gdebi foo.deb or sudo dpkg -i foo.deb

i have a bunch of programs that are no longer needed and come up when i install something with apt to be autoremove. i don't want them to be removed, so is there someway to suppress the warning or keep them so to speak?

sudo apt-get install them or aptitude markauto them

can i use the alternate cd to upgrade my distro or do i have to actually boot off of it?

last time, i used the alt.

hi guys! does this mean that i have the 64bit version of ubuntu? (

looks like it.

anyone happen to know a commandline torrent client that can watch a particular directory for new torrent files?

though i've never used it myself

how do i update from beta1 to beta2?

yes, and that will also take you to the final once released

wow. for the life of me i can never remember this command. whats the command that outputs your ati hardare information? shows if you have direct rendering?

glxinfo | grep dri ?

hey i'm nervous to install drivers for my ati x600 - i don't know what to do and don't want to get stuck with a console :(

i think sudo alsactl store

how can i view a files permissions at the terminal?

ls -l

lduros best to keep the chatter to #ubuntu-offtopic and this place for direct support ;)

yeah i figured its not welcome to do that here, apologies

hi, i have a problem with my ubuntu. whenever i get to the beginning of a document and i hit backspace, there's this horrible beep.

goto system->sounds->system beep tab and uncheck it

hello there i want to try kubuntu live cd 8.10, whats the user/password to login?

user is 'ubuntu', there is no password

i don't know if xchat has that feature asdqwezxcdsf

yes it had

hey all. if i want to remove a program that i installed manually (not using a package manager), to uninstall it, there is no mechanism right? i just delete the files ?

you should avoid installing programs outside the package manager. if it was a normal source tree then you should be able to cd to the directory containing the source and 'make uninstall' or 'sudo make uninstall' (depending on whether you originally ran 'make install' or 'sudo make install').

can i pass variables in an alias? i.e. alias acs='apt-cache search $1' where 'acs gnome' will work?

just do alias acs='sudo apt-cache search'

i'm trying to get vmware-server working in edgy, i have the server installed and kernel modules loaded, i am running the 64bit version of edgy, i am having a problem with vmware-authd. it just says . reason: operation not permitted, when i try to connect to it. any ideas?

will that run windows though

how do i make a file read-only

chmod -w filename

hi, my password for mynickname is not working, is there anyway i can reset it ????

you'll have to talk to server admin about it.

hi guys; i'm looking to make my ubuntu laptop and windows 7 desktop work together. this would include synching certain folders, ability to control my windows box from linux (is this ssh? i'm not too familiar with networking) and so on. does anyone have any pointers?

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/configure-a-system-to-automount-a-samba-share-with-etcfstab/ may or may not help

what is the command again to get my own kernel information?

uname -r

can someone help me? i need to figure out how to execute a file from a cron job (the file is /home/<myname>/scripts/backup, and i usually execute it with ./backup), but it won't let me do that from cron. ( i seem to have to be able to do a ./home/myname/scripts/backup, but it won't do that.) :(

try /home/myname/scripts/backup and not with that dot

how can i put the linux logo on framebuffer??? i want it like knoppix boot (and gentoo)

http://mailman.linuxchix.org/pipermail/courses/2004-april/001451.html

why? .13 is so beautiful

basically the point is 'well-tested on everything' so that 'it just works' for newbies, etc

anyone know of a decent, easy-to-use tool for capturing av from a tuner card, preferably straight to mpeg2? trying to convert some old home movies to dvd for christmas back home. i've got the tuner working fine with several viewers, just can't find a decent foss tool for capturing

i'm clueless in the a/v area also :p

how can i unpack an ace-file

try installing unace :)

hello all -- i have quick question. i am installing a server, but one of the packages i use has a better version in the debian repository. but the package name is the same in both debian and ubuntu. is there a way to tell apt-get to always get this package from a particular repository?

if you need the latest - there might be ubuntu ppa repos for what3ever it is you want.

i reinstalled windows after i'd installed ubuntu and now grub doesn't show up. how can i fix grub?

first link

trying to keep a log of the steps i need to take a configure a new ubuntu vps... when i have to do things like add several lines to the end of a config file... is there an easier way than multiple echo '...' >> filename commands? can i do a single command and then just paste all the lines into stdin and hit ctrl d to finish?

or script file.txt

how to change the password of default keyring ?

applications > accessories > passwords and encryption keys. click the 'passwords' tab. right-click 'passwords: default', select 'change password'.

okay. then green checkmark to apply that?

not natively but you can install ext drivers

anyone having problem with restricted drivers?

yes, lots of people are :p

how do i make it so that i don't require a password everytime i want to mount a drive?

list it in fstab so it automounts.. also there use to be a utility for mounting drives easily.. started with py<something>

is there a way to block im spam in empathy?

pidgin can with privacy please plugin

hey! i wanted to know which filesystem did 7.04 and 7.10 had , ext3 or ext2?

ext2 iirc

when i reboot after enabling the nvidia drivers, the screen is black. any suggestions?

log in at another tty, look into /var/log/xorg~sumthin~.log and see if it says anything about errors.

if i install with ubuntu desktop, how hard is it to install server stuff (lamp mostly)?

there are some very good how-to's for ubuntu, with those you shuld be up and running in about 5/10 minutes

hi! i use xubuntu 9.04 and 2 ntfs partitions don't mount at startup. this is my options: defaults,rw,user,auto,locale=ru_ru.utf-8. what's wrong?

it might be that the 'shut down safely' flag is not set...

how to install a program in .tar.gz, .tgz and .tar.bz2 formats?

what do you want to install, most programs are in the repositories

i'm having trouble trying to set use keys for logging in over ssh. on my client i keep getting permission denied (public key)

if that does not help, please give more details about the steps you followed and the errors you're getting (including 'ssh -vvv user@host' output)

how do i make an icon on my desktop that opens a directory? launcher that launches nautilus dir?

could just make a 'ln -s' link (shortcut) to the dir on the desktop

how i can download everything inside directory using wget ?

but there are definately tons of examples to be websearched for.

what is the easiest way to get grub to rescan all the os's installed on a system and rebuild its menu list?

super grub repair cd

btw did they canceled kubuntu? i can't find it anywhere on the official site

http://www.kubuntu.org/

is anyone aware of any tricks that are needed to get 64-bit ubuntu working under qemu? everything i try, grub is just hanging during the install phase, and i'm getting the same results invoking grub/grub-install manually

have you tried virtual box, afik it is based off of qemu

hello, ububtu users, i am very new to linux and installed yesterday ubuntu on my notebook. everything is working ok. but when booting the screen resolution is not seelcted properly. 1280x800 would be the correct setting. but displayed text is wrapped up from the buttom to the top of the screen. can anybody help me with this problem?

please read the message from the channel bot ubotu

what is the default file browser for ubuntu?

gnome nautilus

hello, what's the best fs type to use at present for a system disk and a separate data disk? ext2, 3, or 4? i don't need super high performance, priority is stability and i do want journaling

if you want to play it safe stick with ext3

i've been googling a little, but can't seem to find information on special laptop keys ('internet keys'). any pointers?

hotkeys

hello, is someone familiar with compilig using gcc/g++ ?

recompile them on your 32 bit system.

am i the only one that hosed his machine from the latest 10.04 kernel update? first part of the error is complaining about a missing post-install hook.

can you boot the older kernel ok?

i have problems with firefox. so, is there any way to upgrade firefox from the terminal??

try sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0

hello -- a few months ago i swapped my speakers with changing /etc/pulse/defaults.pa -- i (silly me) didn't make a backup of this file. how can i restore it to whatever the package that provided the audio subsystem used in the first place?

lsb_release -a

hi- i'm trying to, while logged in to a remote machine, initialize an xserver on that machine to display on its monitor (this is a machine running edgy.) i have a barebones session in .xinitrc that i use when entering 'xinit' on the keyboard of the remote machine and that works fine

im not sure i know you can designate displays with xinit like xinit --:1 to launch

killall esd ??

istanbul looks like exactly what i want

i would like to set the vga in my grub configuration (menu.lst) to 1280x800 (widescreen) but i dont know the vga code to put in the menu entry, can anybody help me?

i use a utility called startup-manager to automate grub.lst modification. you could check it and see if it works for you.

when i plug in usb devices, they aren't always detected automatically.... only when i reboot. is there any command i can use to mount a device automatically?

sure - sudo mount /dev/sdxn, where x is a letter and n is a number corresponding to the device and partition thereon

hi is the kernel loading output stored to a file so one can read it after boottime, i see some error messages and i think they are a big clue while starting but they pass too quick..

run dmesg

is it possible to telnet to the same computer running telnetd?

what are you trying to do? the telnet daemon is not enabled by default - for a very good reason

ok, i've looked at the documentation and it seems i've read it already - my main problem is windows-users get a password-challenge when trying to access the samba-shared files...

no ideas. i just no how to trigger the factoid

i would like to see what network speed my network card is set at. how can i do this?

miitool i believe

i want to read from a windows-formatted floppy disk. are there a few simple commands i can try to mount the drive? (pretty new to linux here)

-> yes, they are calle the 'm' commands,, mdir is one

in 'less', how can i look for two consecutive newlines (that is, an empty line)?

search for ^$ .. ^ represents the start of a line, and $ the end .. with nothing between them, it'll match empty lines

here is a question for anyone. i read that ubuntu only update packages for bugfixes during the life of a release while i think fedora updates for new versions (features). so if a bug is fixed and a new feature to a package is added, does the feature go into ubuntu with the upgrade?

features / new versions go to backports, bugfixes go to security

is there a way to make it so drives and network drives don't show up on the desktop?

look through the nat settings in gconf-editor

i am logged into my computer over ssh. how do i get a login screen to come up so i can vnc in?

have a look here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/vnc

is there any way i can prevent users from writing to shared folders to avoid exceeding disk quotas?

there is quota support, or you can just revoke the write permissions

hello, what is the best way to save settings of evolution, before a total reinstall?

back it up and put it back before you run it on the reinstall

is there anyway to get gnome terminal to remember my settings? for example.. i want it to start max size, with no menu bar.. it did it in 8.04 but it's not in 9.10

devilspie probably takes care of that also (in a non-app-specific way)

if i wanted to install a program, would i use the .deb version or the rpm version?

the deb

'llo. is there something like screen for x? i have a headless system on which i want to start an x app. i have a remote x server that can display the x app, but then i want to put the x app in background and shut down the remote system.

i usually use ssh with the -y paramter

do you know of other file managers that do?

find out where the icons locations are stored, youll probably be able to work something out

less in color? how?

although, if you use screen, you can just display something and do a 'ctrl-a,[' to start copy mode and scroll around using that

does anyone know if i can install lxde and remove gnome/kde within xubuntu?

use synaptic.

how do i run commands while using nano?

ctrl-what it says at the bottom.

hey #ubuntu, is there a utility that will tell me the integer value of a key combination? i'm trying to configure my trackpad to handle three-finger swiping correctly

xev maybe?

hi all. i've got question. i've installed libmysql-java with apt-get but i have no idea where it is on my filesystem ... anyone know how i can find that out?

dpkg -l libmysql-java

i'm running fluxbox as wm and it's great, except one thing :/ my ipod won't load in rhythmbox. when i switch to my gnome-session it works fine but not using fluxbox (it connects without problem, but not listed in rhythmbox). how do i solve this? or is there another good music manager that i can use with ipod support (playing from the ipod) and last.fm scrobble?

im using exale media player, and i beleive it has support for what your wanting.

whats the best way to share files and folders from linux to linux without worrying about windows compatibility

nfs

how do i install a .dmg app.?

those are for mac os x

hey. about the w32codecs package listed on the wiki; it doesn't seem to be there anymore. anyone know what is up?

you need to download it by hand from http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/w/w32codecs/w32codecs_20060611-0.0_i386.deb