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hi, when linux 2.6.28. is coming to ubuntu ??	you can install it if you want system > administration > synaptic pack manager > search linux-kernel
just installed ubuntu just getting to grips with it, i'm a redhat/fedora user, where do i put the default gateway?	should look something like this - http://pastebin.ca/2983
i am new to ubuntu and can not figure out how to unstall wgetpaste or nopaste. i was googling but didnt find out how to isntall one of those	pastebinit is in universe
how can i obtain the default ~/.asoundrc? i accidentally deleted mine	if such a file exists (i dont have one here) it may be in /etc/skel or else some app customiuzed the settings and made that file for your specific user.
hi! where to put a command that should be executed at boot?	in the init scripts for 6.0.6 in upstart deps script for edgy
i want to shift from lucid to 11.04, how should i backup the packages?	file > generate..
hello! i've upgraded from feisty to gutsy. after some daily updates i've received this error http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/428/ any idea? ;)	gusty is still in development so expect breakages
is there any way to transfer firefox profile from windows to ubuntu.........	sure, try ftp. you might want to try the febe addon, also.
is there a command that will tell me when an application is found using path, what location it was found in specifically? (like if i type firefox, it would tell me /usr/bin/firefox or /usr/local/bin/firefox or wherever it ended up finding it first?)	try 'which'
hey guys, i instaleld beryl with my radeon...wondering how to do the rotating cube view	that was meant to be ctrl+alt+left mouse button. hold all three and move mouse
the two should not be related.... but i can't guerntee that.	hmmm would installing my old ethernet card work ?
i want to fdisk my usb drive. how do i know which block special device is that, i mean sda or sdb or any other in /dev ?	you could alternatively launc gparted which should show you which drive is which.
exactly,what do you want to know?	sorry but i was not talking to you
gibbons has installed the ethernet and wireless as eth0 and eth1. how do i rename the wifi card as ath0?	see /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
hello. i'm wondering if gnome 2.18 is available on the ubuntu repositories?	only for feisty i believe.
i need a tutorial who allow me to use gimp	lots of handy tips http://www.scottphotographics.com/40-best-gimp-tutorials-of-2010/
can someone tell me what the difference is when mounting an iso image with the the command 'mount -o loop foo.iso /media' compared to 'mount -ro loop foo.iso /media'?	the r in -ro means read-only
hi, i would like to ask you, how can i run gnome-commander as a root? i need copy files to folders with root privilege	launch it from command line, with sudo?
the vlc icon in the panel has a white background and looks like crap... any way to change that?	without recompiling, doubt it
anyone know a handy utility to record your desktop?	istanbul
do my compiz settings suck resources even if i am playing a full screen game? that is, if i turn on all these effects, will they slow down other programs even when you can't see the desktop?	proberly to some degree yes.
if i had hardy beta, do the regular updates just make it into the final version? or do i have to dist-upgrade?	youre done
how do i remove a package which i manually installed (with gdebi-gtk)? it isn't listed in synaptic package manager and i don't need it anymore.	it should show up in synaptic, try : sudo apt-get remove <package>
ok i have a simple question but i can't figure it out. i'm trying to restore a mysql database via ssh. my password has an ! character in it. this seems to make the command line freak out and add a long command, something i typed a while ago, in the middle of my password (where the !) is. any suggestions short of changing the password?	withpout the question mark that is
can someone suggest where i can look to figure out why one of my user accounts has a different terminfo than another account? (one acts wierd in screen and the other works)	~/.bash_profile
any suggestion for a gnome based hex editor?	sudo apt-get install ghex (then run ghex2)
is there any p2p for music as ares inside distribution??	i use limewire
anyone else running virtualbox on 64-bit 8.10? for some reason, when i start it up, it crashes gconf.	run virtualbox from terminal, you my get smart outputs
home or prof/superduperawesome edition?	two ultimates and a home
how do i install a .deb file?	dpkg-install <name of .deb file>
hi. in ubuntu 11.04 the radeon 6470m (ni seymour) was unsupported. how can i find out if it is now supported in ubuntu 11.10?	well, it's basically the driver supporting it, not the distribution itself. i would suggest finding out what version of the driver is being installed with 'hardware drivers managers2
looking for a good system benchmark tool that will measure the cpu capabilities and hdd read\write speeds and return the results of the calculations (which 'stress', for example, does not) so i can compare them against my other machine. any ideas?	not sure about cpu loading, but hdparm can run some tests to show read/write cache speeds of your drives
p7zip-full_9.04~dfsg.1-1_amd64.deb is buggy, when it creates gzip files, their crc are invalid (in 64-bit os).	7zip is at 9.20 now
first time, can you people see this msg?	maybe your router is blocking ping, can you pastebin the output of 'ip addr && ifconfig'
hmm, not that i think irssi is hard to learn, you just need to know how to look for help :)	/help ;-)
what's with the 4.10 release number for warty?	deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty main restricted universe
sorry for disconnection.. am trying to build an installation cd not a live cd.. i saw debian-live script for building live cds from repo.. but i can't see a similar one for installation cd..	not sure really.... have you checked out remastersys
is there a gui ftp server?	yes its called gproftp
hello, some of you can help me, please to connect a palm with ubuntu?	http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/palm_sync_dapper
is there any way to create the equivalent of a restore point in ubuntu?	rsync
is anyone having problems connecting to msn in empathy?	no problems in pidgin, you can try msn-pecan an alternative msn plugin for pidgin and empathy
hey better than the days when it wasn't just one site that was wrong, but when only one site, or document was correct.	it was no that easy. i recall i had to get the headers or something like that, then i had to change some lines on the scripts, then make
if i want to triple-boot ubuntu, xp, and os x, which should go furthest to the left in the partition table?	xp then linux but i dont know about the osx
how do i both download and upload photos to and from facebook using ubuntu ?	using firefox?
from gksudo nautilus how to locate trash in system files?	i think trash is in ~/.local
can anyone help me get sound working?	i might be able to
hello, i upgraded to ubuntu 10.04 about 2 days ago and sometimes my actual time on the system shows wrong, but the package gdesklet with time was right, is that a bug or a error probably on my side?	are you running windows as well?
does the ubuntu installation (im using 6.06) typically freeze up? i cant get to the partitioning stage.	it sometimes takes a while for the partitioning tool to load
is it possible to run windows vista, xp, and osx on ubuntu?	tar -cvzf file.tar.gz /var/www/project
does anyone know why my system sounds are playing, but my multimedia apps are silent?	sure, pavucontrol
my ubuntu server, running apf firewall is blocking my ip, even though it's in the allow/whitelists, i can connect if i stop the firewall. anyone know how i could fix this?	connect with what?
how do i execute a cli php script in 8.04?	you need the php-cli package if you intend to run scripts outside of apache
hi all! are other people getting crashes and slowness in evolution in dapper flgiht 5?	upgrade to flight 7
how difficult is lua to learn for a non-programmer?	it's generally quite straightforward
when i start up with my usb harddrive connected, ubuntu will have it mounted as /media/sdb5. when i hotplug it, it will show up as /media/usbdisk, which confuses all my programs which expect stuff to be at /media/sdb5, not usbdisk. how can i fix this. the only entry in /etc/fstab is for sdb5. i have no idea where that usbdisk comes from.	that usbdisk comes from pmount
is there a program that will put up a dialog with a short message that can be triggered from a script?	yes, zenity can do that and it's quite configurable.
did anybody have the same thing? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=407185	are your firewall rules set correctly on all the machines?
what torrent client would you guys suggest for breezy? in xp, i am used to azureus. but it acts a bit cranky in breezy (throws errors in the background)	use the default client that comes with breezy?
i am running ubuntu server, i am trying to install ubuntu-desktop but i get alot of failed to fetch errors.. any suggestions?????	fix your connectivity?
why i cant see my cd-r in the cdrecord -scanbus? what coud cause this? i can read cds from it.	with ubuntu, you can just use the devicename as your device, eg. -dev /dev/hdc
i am having a problem trying to upload photos to a critique site, i have followed their instructions to the letter and the upload indicator runs and then it drops me out on their page but my photos are not there... this has been going on for days and now they are asking me to try another browser, i am using firefox and have no problems with any other site could someone tell me if there is a better browser than firefox for ubuntu	it's in the repositories
hey, im currently running hoary on amd64, and whenever i try to write files to a usb drive, it doesnt stick, like it wont stay on unless i do it (copy the file) many times. this happens with my ipod, my usb sd card reader, and my external hd	try unmounting before disconnecting
i've got a 15,000 song music collection and when playing it through rhythmbox, some songs are much louder than others. how can i normalise the volume of every track in my collection so that i don't have to manually change the system volume all the time?	you can learn more about that here: http://replaygain.hydrogenaudio.org/
when i insert an audio cd in maverick, vlc media player 1.06 will start and play the first song. the status line shows 'track 1.wav'. why does '~$ mount' no device /dev/sr0?	because you don't mount an audio cd there are no files, it's read directly from the device (cd)
is it possible to forward / intercept ports with iptables? ex, can you forward an incoming connection from port 27080 to port 80?	yes i belive it can
edgy will by syncing with debian sid <- why do you know that?	that's how all the releases start, by syncing with sid, then going from there.
i need basic knowledge, like if i'm not root and want to paste a file in a folder that i don't have write permission to; will i just be prompted for the root password or do i need to log out and then in again as root?	http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/104-5061484-7694347?initialsearch=1&url=search-alias%3dstripbooks&field-keywords=ubuntu&go.x=0&go.y=0&go=go :)
i'm trying to convert chm to pdf, but use the command chm2pdf it comes up with the usage message (the command i'm using is 'chm2pdf -book help.chm')	try chm2pdf --book help.chm
on xubuntu, how can i increase the number of virtual desktops for my computer?	open settings manager > workspaces and margins and enter your #
anyone knows what is hup?	-> man signal for detailed explanations
has anyone here performed 9.10 -> 10.04 upgrade on a dual-boot, win/ubuntu, machine and had grub2 properly detect both oss?	triple booting osx/win7/ubuntu no problems
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-virtualbox-16-in-ubuntu-804hardy-heron-including-usb-support.html#more-553 you might look here	i'll give that a try, thanks
hi.. how do i tell dapper to mount removable vfat drives (like an ipod) case insensitive ?	black magic i'm afraid -- you'll need to edit the udev rules
so, has anyone else had trouble with ubuntu not configuring x during setup?	have you tried vesa already?
hi. i'd like to have my tv cards remote control not do default things (ie volume up down, power switch etc) i want to remap those keys for use with lirc and lirc only. can i stop gnome/x from reading /dev/input/event6? (if i'm barking up the right tree)	no idea
what would cause a dd-copied partition to fail to boot on the destination disk?	a different uuid, which would prevent the partition from being found by some boot-time tests and scripts. you may need to hack grub's config files and fstab.
that reboot issue raised by kyle__ do you know what bug number/	no. i don't know the actual cause.
quick survey: how much space is used by the files in /boot?	2 years of kernel upgrades will start to fill your /boot
i'm trying to mount an fat16 filesystem to my computer but when i type mount -t fat /dev/sdb /mnt/test ... it tells me that fat is an unknown filesystem .. can anyone help ?	try /dev/sdb1
i'm having a problem accessing history in firefox. when i click history, it brings up organize bookmarks instead.can anyone help me fix this?	what happens if you hit ctrl-h
hi guys.... i've installed ubuntu using wubi. i've just 10 gbs allotted to it. now i want to download something from ubuntu, but there is not enough space in the home folder. can i download this to windows partition from ubuntu without any problems?	yea look in the root folder should be one that says host thats your windows drive
i liked the mouse pointer icon in mandriva, is there any way to get that in ubuntu?	download it from a site. place it in your .icons directory. install gcursor. run gcursor and select the new mouse pointer/cursor. restart xorg.
can anyone tell me if they think this card would work well in ubuntu dapper?	should work
how do i boot network in terminal?	'/etc/init.d/networking restart' i believe
can someone recommend a wireless nic .. i'm getting a new one, and i want one that just works with ubuntu..	my broadcomm 43xx works good, but i hear the intel 2200 bg is good too
where can i find a log of the latest updates ubuntu has done?	/var/log/dpkg
how can i find out which ubuntu i have?	lsb_release -a
hi! how do i set up default user names for specific ssh servers, for the standard ssh client?	in ~/.ssh/config
hya anybody can help me..i was using youtube-dl to download videos from you tube but now it doesn't work anymore and then i start to use unplug so was working fine but now experienced the same problme actually is quite weird ..	i haven't used those, but keepvid.com works fine for me
i'm attempting to use mkinitrd to include a driver for my ide controller so i can boot my system. i'm building it in the livecd environment, and chrooting into my system. mkinitrd is segfaulting after about ten minutes per execution. anyone have any ideas?	mkinitrd is deprecated use mkinitramfs
in the terminal how do i see what username i am?	whoami or id
anyone know how to make udev repopulate /dev/disk/by-label without a reboot?	-> try sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart or hald restart on same dir
hi all. any fix for youtube player plugin on totem? gstreamer encountered a general supporting library error.	thats a good version
i'd like a text editor (for coding) where i can create projects, and if i like add ftp-information for each project so that i can work directly against the ftp, or work local and simply upload the content. any tip on this ?	kompozer has sites functionality but it is a little rough around the edges still
i was doing a system upgrade, and at about 99% it crashed. now on normal boot i'm having issues, but i can boot in failsafe mode.	in terminal type: sudo dpkg --configure -a - it will finish yhe uncomplete job.
anyone ever have a problem with windows opened in a vnc session? the windows open, but their title bar is off screen	when vnc has control, hit alt space to bring up the menu. then hit m to move it and use the arrow keys. does that work?
how do i tell if my wintv-pc drivers are install correctly	try running tvtime
hey all. is there any reason why x should be eating up ~600mb of memory?	probably just general x weirdness, i have never encountered problems with x unless it's either buggy or misconfigured.
we have a centralized samba share for mounting all the /var/cache/apt/archives of all the ubuntu machines. this allows less downloads when doing updates. we also have the repositories download from a centralized location. so we update the main machine, and then the other machines update from the local network.	why samba instead of http?
does ubuntu support wireless mice and keyboards? how easy would the installation of one be?	mostly 'just works [tm] '

hi, when linux 2.6.28. is coming to ubuntu ??

you can install it if you want system > administration > synaptic pack manager > search linux-kernel

just installed ubuntu just getting to grips with it, i'm a redhat/fedora user, where do i put the default gateway?

should look something like this - http://pastebin.ca/2983

i am new to ubuntu and can not figure out how to unstall wgetpaste or nopaste. i was googling but didnt find out how to isntall one of those

pastebinit is in universe

how can i obtain the default ~/.asoundrc? i accidentally deleted mine

if such a file exists (i dont have one here) it may be in /etc/skel or else some app customiuzed the settings and made that file for your specific user.

hi! where to put a command that should be executed at boot?

in the init scripts for 6.0.6 in upstart deps script for edgy

i want to shift from lucid to 11.04, how should i backup the packages?

file > generate..

hello! i've upgraded from feisty to gutsy. after some daily updates i've received this error http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/428/ any idea? ;)

gusty is still in development so expect breakages

is there any way to transfer firefox profile from windows to ubuntu.........

sure, try ftp. you might want to try the febe addon, also.

is there a command that will tell me when an application is found using path, what location it was found in specifically? (like if i type firefox, it would tell me /usr/bin/firefox or /usr/local/bin/firefox or wherever it ended up finding it first?)

try 'which'

hey guys, i instaleld beryl with my radeon...wondering how to do the rotating cube view

that was meant to be ctrl+alt+left mouse button. hold all three and move mouse

the two should not be related.... but i can't guerntee that.

hmmm would installing my old ethernet card work ?

i want to fdisk my usb drive. how do i know which block special device is that, i mean sda or sdb or any other in /dev ?

you could alternatively launc gparted which should show you which drive is which.

exactly,what do you want to know?

sorry but i was not talking to you

gibbons has installed the ethernet and wireless as eth0 and eth1. how do i rename the wifi card as ath0?

see /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

hello. i'm wondering if gnome 2.18 is available on the ubuntu repositories?

only for feisty i believe.

i need a tutorial who allow me to use gimp

lots of handy tips http://www.scottphotographics.com/40-best-gimp-tutorials-of-2010/

can someone tell me what the difference is when mounting an iso image with the the command 'mount -o loop foo.iso /media' compared to 'mount -ro loop foo.iso /media'?

the r in -ro means read-only

hi, i would like to ask you, how can i run gnome-commander as a root? i need copy files to folders with root privilege

launch it from command line, with sudo?

the vlc icon in the panel has a white background and looks like crap... any way to change that?

without recompiling, doubt it

anyone know a handy utility to record your desktop?

istanbul

do my compiz settings suck resources even if i am playing a full screen game? that is, if i turn on all these effects, will they slow down other programs even when you can't see the desktop?

proberly to some degree yes.

if i had hardy beta, do the regular updates just make it into the final version? or do i have to dist-upgrade?

youre done

how do i remove a package which i manually installed (with gdebi-gtk)? it isn't listed in synaptic package manager and i don't need it anymore.

it should show up in synaptic, try : sudo apt-get remove <package>

ok i have a simple question but i can't figure it out. i'm trying to restore a mysql database via ssh. my password has an ! character in it. this seems to make the command line freak out and add a long command, something i typed a while ago, in the middle of my password (where the !) is. any suggestions short of changing the password?

withpout the question mark that is

can someone suggest where i can look to figure out why one of my user accounts has a different terminfo than another account? (one acts wierd in screen and the other works)

~/.bash_profile

any suggestion for a gnome based hex editor?

sudo apt-get install ghex (then run ghex2)

is there any p2p for music as ares inside distribution??

i use limewire

anyone else running virtualbox on 64-bit 8.10? for some reason, when i start it up, it crashes gconf.

run virtualbox from terminal, you my get smart outputs

home or prof/superduperawesome edition?

two ultimates and a home

how do i install a .deb file?

dpkg-install <name of .deb file>

hi. in ubuntu 11.04 the radeon 6470m (ni seymour) was unsupported. how can i find out if it is now supported in ubuntu 11.10?

well, it's basically the driver supporting it, not the distribution itself. i would suggest finding out what version of the driver is being installed with 'hardware drivers managers2

looking for a good system benchmark tool that will measure the cpu capabilities and hdd read\write speeds and return the results of the calculations (which 'stress', for example, does not) so i can compare them against my other machine. any ideas?

not sure about cpu loading, but hdparm can run some tests to show read/write cache speeds of your drives

p7zip-full_9.04~dfsg.1-1_amd64.deb is buggy, when it creates gzip files, their crc are invalid (in 64-bit os).

7zip is at 9.20 now

first time, can you people see this msg?

maybe your router is blocking ping, can you pastebin the output of 'ip addr && ifconfig'

hmm, not that i think irssi is hard to learn, you just need to know how to look for help :)

/help ;-)

what's with the 4.10 release number for warty?

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty main restricted universe

sorry for disconnection.. am trying to build an installation cd not a live cd.. i saw debian-live script for building live cds from repo.. but i can't see a similar one for installation cd..

not sure really.... have you checked out remastersys

is there a gui ftp server?

yes its called gproftp

hello, some of you can help me, please to connect a palm with ubuntu?

http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/palm_sync_dapper

is there any way to create the equivalent of a restore point in ubuntu?

rsync

is anyone having problems connecting to msn in empathy?

no problems in pidgin, you can try msn-pecan an alternative msn plugin for pidgin and empathy

hey better than the days when it wasn't just one site that was wrong, but when only one site, or document was correct.

it was no that easy. i recall i had to get the headers or something like that, then i had to change some lines on the scripts, then make

if i want to triple-boot ubuntu, xp, and os x, which should go furthest to the left in the partition table?

xp then linux but i dont know about the osx

how do i both download and upload photos to and from facebook using ubuntu ?

using firefox?

from gksudo nautilus how to locate trash in system files?

i think trash is in ~/.local

can anyone help me get sound working?

i might be able to

hello, i upgraded to ubuntu 10.04 about 2 days ago and sometimes my actual time on the system shows wrong, but the package gdesklet with time was right, is that a bug or a error probably on my side?

are you running windows as well?

does the ubuntu installation (im using 6.06) typically freeze up? i cant get to the partitioning stage.

it sometimes takes a while for the partitioning tool to load

is it possible to run windows vista, xp, and osx on ubuntu?

tar -cvzf file.tar.gz /var/www/project

does anyone know why my system sounds are playing, but my multimedia apps are silent?

sure, pavucontrol

my ubuntu server, running apf firewall is blocking my ip, even though it's in the allow/whitelists, i can connect if i stop the firewall. anyone know how i could fix this?

connect with what?

how do i execute a cli php script in 8.04?

you need the php-cli package if you intend to run scripts outside of apache

hi all! are other people getting crashes and slowness in evolution in dapper flgiht 5?

upgrade to flight 7

how difficult is lua to learn for a non-programmer?

it's generally quite straightforward

when i start up with my usb harddrive connected, ubuntu will have it mounted as /media/sdb5. when i hotplug it, it will show up as /media/usbdisk, which confuses all my programs which expect stuff to be at /media/sdb5, not usbdisk. how can i fix this. the only entry in /etc/fstab is for sdb5. i have no idea where that usbdisk comes from.

that usbdisk comes from pmount

is there a program that will put up a dialog with a short message that can be triggered from a script?

yes, zenity can do that and it's quite configurable.

did anybody have the same thing? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=407185

are your firewall rules set correctly on all the machines?

what torrent client would you guys suggest for breezy? in xp, i am used to azureus. but it acts a bit cranky in breezy (throws errors in the background)

use the default client that comes with breezy?

i am running ubuntu server, i am trying to install ubuntu-desktop but i get alot of failed to fetch errors.. any suggestions?????

fix your connectivity?

why i cant see my cd-r in the cdrecord -scanbus? what coud cause this? i can read cds from it.

with ubuntu, you can just use the devicename as your device, eg. -dev /dev/hdc

i am having a problem trying to upload photos to a critique site, i have followed their instructions to the letter and the upload indicator runs and then it drops me out on their page but my photos are not there... this has been going on for days and now they are asking me to try another browser, i am using firefox and have no problems with any other site could someone tell me if there is a better browser than firefox for ubuntu

it's in the repositories

hey, im currently running hoary on amd64, and whenever i try to write files to a usb drive, it doesnt stick, like it wont stay on unless i do it (copy the file) many times. this happens with my ipod, my usb sd card reader, and my external hd

try unmounting before disconnecting

i've got a 15,000 song music collection and when playing it through rhythmbox, some songs are much louder than others. how can i normalise the volume of every track in my collection so that i don't have to manually change the system volume all the time?

you can learn more about that here: http://replaygain.hydrogenaudio.org/

when i insert an audio cd in maverick, vlc media player 1.06 will start and play the first song. the status line shows 'track 1.wav'. why does '~$ mount' no device /dev/sr0?

because you don't mount an audio cd there are no files, it's read directly from the device (cd)

is it possible to forward / intercept ports with iptables? ex, can you forward an incoming connection from port 27080 to port 80?

yes i belive it can

edgy will by syncing with debian sid <- why do you know that?

that's how all the releases start, by syncing with sid, then going from there.

i need basic knowledge, like if i'm not root and want to paste a file in a folder that i don't have write permission to; will i just be prompted for the root password or do i need to log out and then in again as root?

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/104-5061484-7694347?initialsearch=1&url=search-alias%3dstripbooks&field-keywords=ubuntu&go.x=0&go.y=0&go=go :)

i'm trying to convert chm to pdf, but use the command chm2pdf it comes up with the usage message (the command i'm using is 'chm2pdf -book help.chm')

try chm2pdf --book help.chm

on xubuntu, how can i increase the number of virtual desktops for my computer?

open settings manager > workspaces and margins and enter your #

anyone knows what is hup?

-> man signal for detailed explanations

has anyone here performed 9.10 -> 10.04 upgrade on a dual-boot, win/ubuntu, machine and had grub2 properly detect both oss?

triple booting osx/win7/ubuntu no problems

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-virtualbox-16-in-ubuntu-804hardy-heron-including-usb-support.html#more-553 you might look here

i'll give that a try, thanks

hi.. how do i tell dapper to mount removable vfat drives (like an ipod) case insensitive ?

black magic i'm afraid -- you'll need to edit the udev rules

so, has anyone else had trouble with ubuntu not configuring x during setup?

have you tried vesa already?

hi. i'd like to have my tv cards remote control not do default things (ie volume up down, power switch etc) i want to remap those keys for use with lirc and lirc only. can i stop gnome/x from reading /dev/input/event6? (if i'm barking up the right tree)

no idea

what would cause a dd-copied partition to fail to boot on the destination disk?

a different uuid, which would prevent the partition from being found by some boot-time tests and scripts. you may need to hack grub's config files and fstab.

that reboot issue raised by kyle__ do you know what bug number/

no. i don't know the actual cause.

quick survey: how much space is used by the files in /boot?

2 years of kernel upgrades will start to fill your /boot

i'm trying to mount an fat16 filesystem to my computer but when i type mount -t fat /dev/sdb /mnt/test ... it tells me that fat is an unknown filesystem .. can anyone help ?

try /dev/sdb1

i'm having a problem accessing history in firefox. when i click history, it brings up organize bookmarks instead.can anyone help me fix this?

what happens if you hit ctrl-h

hi guys.... i've installed ubuntu using wubi. i've just 10 gbs allotted to it. now i want to download something from ubuntu, but there is not enough space in the home folder. can i download this to windows partition from ubuntu without any problems?

yea look in the root folder should be one that says host thats your windows drive

i liked the mouse pointer icon in mandriva, is there any way to get that in ubuntu?

download it from a site. place it in your .icons directory. install gcursor. run gcursor and select the new mouse pointer/cursor. restart xorg.

can anyone tell me if they think this card would work well in ubuntu dapper?

should work

how do i boot network in terminal?

'/etc/init.d/networking restart' i believe

can someone recommend a wireless nic .. i'm getting a new one, and i want one that just works with ubuntu..

my broadcomm 43xx works good, but i hear the intel 2200 bg is good too

where can i find a log of the latest updates ubuntu has done?

/var/log/dpkg

how can i find out which ubuntu i have?

lsb_release -a

hi! how do i set up default user names for specific ssh servers, for the standard ssh client?

in ~/.ssh/config

hya anybody can help me..i was using youtube-dl to download videos from you tube but now it doesn't work anymore and then i start to use unplug so was working fine but now experienced the same problme actually is quite weird ..

i haven't used those, but keepvid.com works fine for me

i'm attempting to use mkinitrd to include a driver for my ide controller so i can boot my system. i'm building it in the livecd environment, and chrooting into my system. mkinitrd is segfaulting after about ten minutes per execution. anyone have any ideas?

mkinitrd is deprecated use mkinitramfs

in the terminal how do i see what username i am?

whoami or id

anyone know how to make udev repopulate /dev/disk/by-label without a reboot?

-> try sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart or hald restart on same dir

hi all. any fix for youtube player plugin on totem? gstreamer encountered a general supporting library error.

thats a good version

i'd like a text editor (for coding) where i can create projects, and if i like add ftp-information for each project so that i can work directly against the ftp, or work local and simply upload the content. any tip on this ?

kompozer has sites functionality but it is a little rough around the edges still

i was doing a system upgrade, and at about 99% it crashed. now on normal boot i'm having issues, but i can boot in failsafe mode.

in terminal type: sudo dpkg --configure -a - it will finish yhe uncomplete job.

anyone ever have a problem with windows opened in a vnc session? the windows open, but their title bar is off screen

when vnc has control, hit alt space to bring up the menu. then hit m to move it and use the arrow keys. does that work?

how do i tell if my wintv-pc drivers are install correctly

try running tvtime

hey all. is there any reason why x should be eating up ~600mb of memory?

probably just general x weirdness, i have never encountered problems with x unless it's either buggy or misconfigured.

we have a centralized samba share for mounting all the /var/cache/apt/archives of all the ubuntu machines. this allows less downloads when doing updates. we also have the repositories download from a centralized location. so we update the main machine, and then the other machines update from the local network.

why samba instead of http?

does ubuntu support wireless mice and keyboards? how easy would the installation of one be?

mostly 'just works [tm] '