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is there somebody in this channel running a laptop computer? what value does show gnome panel > icon power manager > laptop battery > design charge? (with me it's 17.3 wh.)	mine is 38.0 wh
anyone know of a way to make gmail work with e-mail links? i.e. i click an e-mail address, firefox pops open a new tab for gmail compose (assuming i'm logged in)	substituting ubuntu for linux may turn up better results
hello, pls i would like to publish video i recorded on web but it is large (mpeg2, 720x576, 24fps - 1 minute has over 400mb) . could anybody give me advice - which format / software shall i use?	if you don't need to be super concerned about quality, just use mencoder file.mpg -ovc lavc -oac copy -o file.avi
is xwindows capable of having two monitors running in different resolutions?	(xinerama)
i am ubuntu 5.10. what kind of animal am i ?	breezy badger, though i don't have a slightest ideawhat a badger is
does anyone know of premade intel 3945ag wireless driver packages for dapper?	what are you trying to do with intel wireless
is there a way i can get alt+f2 to work for the run dialog while i have gnome-panel turned off?	might be able to set hot keys in admin menus
how do i get 'custom' to show up in my appearance preferences > visual effects tab?	- do you have compizconfig-settings-manager installed?
hi! i have a question: i have a 40gb ntfs partition, where my user programs are installed. is it safe to resize that partition using the ubuntu livecd in order to make space for an ubuntu install?	how much empty space on the windows drive
hello, why i can't lock screen in 9.10?	does gnome-screensaver remain installed?
why are there no jigdo files for the live cd of intrepid at http://ubuntu.intergenia.de/releases/intrepid/ ?	because the livecd is mostly made up of one large file and it doesnt make sense to have a jigdo for that.
hi folks! does anyone know if is it possible to move openvpn ca and client certificates from ipcop to a ubuntu openvpn server?	yes, they are the same x509 certificates
is there a way to copy a file over the telnet protocol?	not sure, but why telnet? wouldn't ssh be better?
anybodies done the math to see if burning a cd-rw at 24x is faster than burning a dvd-rw at 6x?	1x cd = 150kbps, 1x dvd = 1350 kbps
do you know any good tutorial for iptables, please?	get rid of the ) off the end of that url
how would i go about sharing a folder with a user in the same group, and having all the files/folders created in it receiving the same permissions by default?.. i just need pointing in the right direction, i guess.	man umask
let's say my '/etc/sudoers' is broken and i can't remember my root password. how can i reset it? i have physical access to the box.	it's mnot a reinstall, it's setting up a recovery env
anyone know a program on ubuntu to make a liveusb for fedora?	unetbootin?
i'm having a 'low graphic mode' issue when booting 12.10 w/out monitor. is there any way to get ubuntu to remember the last corret configuration?	i had similar problem and adding this to my /etc/rc.local helped: sleep 1 && service lightdm restart
two boxes are connected to a router, how can i connect from one box to another one via ssh?	you have to install openssh-server
is compiz bad?	i don't think it makes a difference
yep, but will that work for the meta package alone?	and if i was questionable on it i ran sudo apt-get autoremove and then say that it would remove the libs that went with it
hi - can anyone recommend a good mouse for a laptop with ubuntu? shouljd be wired and not too big but with a good optical sensor for difficult surfaces	i like the 'marble mouse' by logitech, which is really a trackball :)
can anyone help me with gok (on screen keybd) it needs libatk-bridge but i can find what package that is in??	- an apt-get install libatk* returns nothing for you?
hi, im dual booting with windows and windows is at the bottom in grub.. how do i make windows as default start?	sudo vim /boot/grub/menu.lst
can someone help me with my audio problems, i've started a thread but haven't gotten much help. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1226922	what is the issue you are having? there is a really good audio guide on the forums
i have a lot of partitions on my disk so there are two disks on my desktop but i want to clear it .. is there any way i can hide them from the desktop but not change anything else?	i think there is a gconf setting for it in nautilus
i just installed ubuntu 10.10 on a seperate partition on my hard drive but now it auto boots into ubuntu instead of asking me, most of the guides i find assume you haven't installed anything yet, how can i get it to ask which os to boot?	get startup-manager from ubuntu software centre
okay guys, does this look reasonable?	that should work.
does tribe 4 have the issue that tribe 3 had with the live cd freezing?	use ktorrent, it has this built-in.
is there a way to play a .wma music file in karmic ? ?	or go to ubuntu software center install ubuntu restricted extras and rhythmbox will play it
does gstreamer-mad give mp3 support to ubuntu's rhythmbox ?	'gstreamer0.8-mad', yes
how do i check my glibc version?	dpkg -l \| grep libc6
can somebody running ubuntu 9.10 beta tell me what version of empathy is included out of the box?	i have, empathy 2.28.0.1
do you happen to know how can i create a windows 7 bootable usb flash drive from fedora 15? i know this isn't the proper channel to ask this, but ##windows is useless. =_='	there is usb disk creator , im not sure if you'd find it in fedora
anyone know the name of the x dev packages?	x-dev?
is there a way to limit the download speed because each time i download something the internet becomes to slow	i think there is a download throttling firefox addon
was there a magic sysrq combination to kill x?	alt+sysrk+k will kill whatever is running on the current tty.
how do i make a udev device? i keep losing /dev/hda* devices.. should i really be using the /.dev ones?	there's a nice article on udev at http://www.redhat.com/magazine/
hello all, i'd like to know what's necessary to give some article the permission to be 'published' nacionaly. (sorry my english)	money :p
hi everyone, new user to ubuntu/gnome here... i'm trying to get bitchx to launch in an eterm terminal instead of the default gnome term... would my exec command be eterm && bitchx ?	'eterm -e bitchx', assuming eterm correctly implements the related specification
what would be a reason packages are held back during an upgrade.... i just tried to upgrade and my xorg is broke now	the package is made but the deps it needs are not satisfiable yet
hi, i just recently switched over to fluxbox, running ubuntu 6.10. however, none of my gtk settings seem to stay constant. what program would i have to run at the start of fluxbox to get the settings up?	: http://linux.byexamples.com/archives/239/gtk-configuration-for-non-gnome-desktop-user/
does anyone know any good wireless desktop cards that are compatible with ubuntu 11.04 64bit	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/wifidocs/wirelesscardssupported
anyone know wehere to find the keyring manager in xubuntu? i'm trying to get rid of the password to unlock the keyring on login (login without password)	run seahorse, right click your keyring, change password, use blank password. use at your own risk
hello everyone, how can i set several wallpaper so that it changes (randomly if possible) regularly?	desktop drapes
hi, i changed to chromium recently and i must say, i like it al lot and it is much faster than firefox (for me). what browser do you use? just type a c for chromium or f for firefox. or is there a site that shows the usage of the browsers on the web (or a certain site)?	thots not really on topic here, but... http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
well, thats it, 45 minutes and i still can't configure x	sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
hello all. i just installed ubuntu on my thinkpad x31. everything works perfectly except for the bootsplash (it's just black). what would be the recommended way to debug the problem?	try modifying your usplash.conf
in layman terms, what's the difference between utf-8 and iso-whatever encoding?	look up 'unicode' on wikipedia.org
when will feisty final release be out	yes. i installed feisty a month or so ago and had no probs so, now it should be fine :)
quick question: someone had a bad ram stick and repeatedly crashed his ubuntu box. the ext3 filesystem is all sorts of messed up. is it better to run fsck first, then back up data? or back up data then run fsck, then back up again (in case some corruption is fixed?)	it's definitely safest to image it first. then you're not lost, even if fsck fails
does anyone know if there is a firefox extension ro resubmit a post periodically?	you can do it using greasemonkey
i'm using it atm for my acx111 card, but it is a wrapper around windows drivers, so you can get very odd bugs. i'm replacing my wireless with one that is natively supported	acx111 cards do have native drivers iirc
where are boot-time configurations for alsa stored?	: alsamixer up the volume, then alsactl store to store it for reboots
what's the default theme in ubuntu? (the gnome theme in preferences > appearance)	ambiance or radiance.
omg help me please i made a folder in /var/www for a user of my server but how doi allow only him to edit the contents of that folder	sudo chown username /var/www/thefolder
anyone know how to, or if i should try to change the nodename returned by uname?	/etc/hostname and /etc/hosts
hello, when i enter any channel i seem to have all the old chat in there instead of a blank window and the same with pm. how can i stop that and delete the old saved stuff. thanks	i don't think the option's available in xchat-gnome. normal xchat (in the xchat package) can do it, though.
is there any way to change the chmod of a folder, and all the folders and files in that folder?	chmod -r
what do you think the best (resolution, font, dpi) settings are on a 19' monitor?	depends on the user .... i am using 1280 x 1024
you there, mate?	dunno?
clean install edgy, but 104 sec boot (dapper @ ~80) what might be broken? http://www.leotec.se/edgy/edgy-20061029-5.png	'fraid i don't know much more than that
how do i check what time it is via cli	'date'
what's the hotkey to switch virtural desktops?	ctrl-alt-arrow
how do i install src packages using synaptices	apt-get source $package
ligatures ('fi', 'ff', 'fl') don't render correctly on my 8.10 install (they look a little smaller and lighter than the surrounding text). it happens with deja vu sans, which is used in a lot of places on my desktop, and a few other fonts...but not in openoffice with the same fonts, oddly. any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this?	system > preferences > appearance > fonts > advanced, make sure if you have an lcd it is set for lcd, and opposite for crt
i got a problem, i need to have the nvidia dev headers for opengl available for a program i am using, but when i use synaptic to install them it conflicts with the manually installed drivers i have and gnome stops working. any suggestions?	instructions are on nvidia's site
anybody care to help a newbie? i need to switch my mouse-buttons around :-)	system > preferences > mouse> check the 'left-handed mouse' box
can you run them in a terminal?	they don't run in terminal either. you run them simply by typign the name of the shell script without the .sh extension, am i correct?
bash: /etc/x11/xorg.conf: permission denied any ideas?	he left the channel
i am attempting to install ubuntu 10,10 on my macbook. i have followed the instructions for installation (created a partition, installed refit) but whenever i try to load ubuntu from the live cd i get a black screen after the first splash. i tried moving to the text based installer, but i get the same results after selecting 'install ubuntu'. the disc and memory checks both passed tests. does anyone have any help to offer?	works in any
everything else works fine, it does read the medibuntu repository and shows it if i manually look for packages in synaptic	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/medibuntu
am i in the right channel for wubi?	it may be best to file a bug or a brainstorm entry for that, rather than mentioning it here and having it get lost in the channel.
hi all! i am trying to print from a winxp virtual machine that i've stup on ubuntu 11.10 but the printer stat in xp shows : access denied, unable to connect, i have referred the networkprintingwithubuntu page but with no luck, help	does your printer already work in ubuntu?
anyone know hot to check the changelog on new updates via command line?	i personally have apt-listchanges installed. it will give you the changelogs when you do an apt-get/aptitude upgrade/dist-upgrade.
is there a way to determine what version of ubuntu you are running? much like /etc/debian_version?	cat /etc/issue
hi. could someone tell me a command that will let me see all recognized drives on this computer (so i can mount one, i don't know the exact identifier, e.g. /dev/sd#)?	dmesg \|grep /dev/[sh] d*
where is 'restricted drivers manager' in 9.04?	administrator->hardware drivers
what have i done wrong ? (fing jpg more than 1kb ) find /media/usb-hdd/ -size +1k -type f -name jpg	'*.jpg'
am i asking this in the wrong place?	that version is really outdated, get a 10.04 kubuntu release for greater satisfaction
what is the latest ubunty release?	the latest stable release is 7.10, gutsy gibbon
hello. how i can get list of all packages in a ppa ?	one way is to just go to the website
voltagex how's that looking for you?	err, what?
hmm.. in firefox, on ubuntu 6.06, i enter the url 'about:config' and i get an xml parsing error reponse? what may be wrong? this is a fresh install from dvd	exit firefox, make sure your system is up-to-date, and start firefox again
hi,all. may i ask which program provide the command 'dpkg-depcheck', please?	sudo apt-get install devscripts
i would rely like to be able to sync my palm with evolution without making doubles of my calander enteres	wouldn't we all
hi everybody, yesterday my cousin enabled ssh on my computer and he gave me a domain on dyndns. now i tried to setup an apache, mysql, and php server so i can host a website. but whenevere i go to my domain it asks for a username and password (so i can acsess my router). what do i do? :s	: and don't allow external http access to your router
i am having problems with beep media player it is not playing anything. i did get the codacs as instructed by the ubuntu unofficial guide. anyone else have the same experence and know what i should do?	and i hope you didn't use ubuntuguide that much
is there a way to stop scrolling on output at the consle or in screen?	run the command but pipe it through less like this mycommand \| less
hey there, does anybody know an easy way to flip the video from a dvd from left to right?	use vlc
i'm running gcc to install a gnome applet and it complains that package libpanelapplet-2.0 is missing.. i know that is is installed... what can i do to get this to work ... i also edit pkg_config_path to include the libpanelapplet file	you probably need the -dev package for that lib
can someone help me to exec some util on a file when it's directory has spaces in the directoy name?	this\ is\ an\ example
apologies if this info exists somewhere obvious (i've looked and can't find!) but does anyone here know how to get my galaxy nexus phone to talk to ubuntu 12.04 ? i just want to transfer some files and neither ptp or mtp is working for me.	http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/how-to-connect-your-android-ice-cream-sandwich-phone-to-ubuntu-for-file-access
there is already a #channel for that?	its not in hardy repos
is there a way i can connect trough internet to a ssh server that is in a lan	you will have to port forward on the lan's router then connect with ssh i.p.addy -p 1234
what does the generic kernel do? someone said it provides optimizations on demand - can anyone elaborate?	you dont need to do it manually, its done automatically
anyone can suggest me a night vision webcam that will work with ubuntu ?	many webcams does not filter ir
hi, anybody know a good site that will show me how to overclock my amd 3000+? thanks	http://overclockers.com.au
should i run a firewall in ubuntu?	if you're not running any services, i wouldn't bother

is there somebody in this channel running a laptop computer? what value does show gnome panel > icon power manager > laptop battery > design charge? (with me it's 17.3 wh.)

mine is 38.0 wh

anyone know of a way to make gmail work with e-mail links? i.e. i click an e-mail address, firefox pops open a new tab for gmail compose (assuming i'm logged in)

substituting ubuntu for linux may turn up better results

hello, pls i would like to publish video i recorded on web but it is large (mpeg2, 720x576, 24fps - 1 minute has over 400mb) . could anybody give me advice - which format / software shall i use?

if you don't need to be super concerned about quality, just use mencoder file.mpg -ovc lavc -oac copy -o file.avi

is xwindows capable of having two monitors running in different resolutions?

(xinerama)

i am ubuntu 5.10. what kind of animal am i ?

breezy badger, though i don't have a slightest ideawhat a badger is

does anyone know of premade intel 3945ag wireless driver packages for dapper?

what are you trying to do with intel wireless

is there a way i can get alt+f2 to work for the run dialog while i have gnome-panel turned off?

might be able to set hot keys in admin menus

how do i get 'custom' to show up in my appearance preferences > visual effects tab?

- do you have compizconfig-settings-manager installed?

hi! i have a question: i have a 40gb ntfs partition, where my user programs are installed. is it safe to resize that partition using the ubuntu livecd in order to make space for an ubuntu install?

how much empty space on the windows drive

hello, why i can't lock screen in 9.10?

does gnome-screensaver remain installed?

why are there no jigdo files for the live cd of intrepid at http://ubuntu.intergenia.de/releases/intrepid/ ?

because the livecd is mostly made up of one large file and it doesnt make sense to have a jigdo for that.

hi folks! does anyone know if is it possible to move openvpn ca and client certificates from ipcop to a ubuntu openvpn server?

yes, they are the same x509 certificates

is there a way to copy a file over the telnet protocol?

not sure, but why telnet? wouldn't ssh be better?

anybodies done the math to see if burning a cd-rw at 24x is faster than burning a dvd-rw at 6x?

1x cd = 150kbps, 1x dvd = 1350 kbps

do you know any good tutorial for iptables, please?

get rid of the ) off the end of that url

how would i go about sharing a folder with a user in the same group, and having all the files/folders created in it receiving the same permissions by default?.. i just need pointing in the right direction, i guess.

man umask

let's say my '/etc/sudoers' is broken and i can't remember my root password. how can i reset it? i have physical access to the box.

it's mnot a reinstall, it's setting up a recovery env

anyone know a program on ubuntu to make a liveusb for fedora?

unetbootin?

i'm having a 'low graphic mode' issue when booting 12.10 w/out monitor. is there any way to get ubuntu to remember the last corret configuration?

i had similar problem and adding this to my /etc/rc.local helped: sleep 1 && service lightdm restart

two boxes are connected to a router, how can i connect from one box to another one via ssh?

you have to install openssh-server

is compiz bad?

i don't think it makes a difference

yep, but will that work for the meta package alone?

and if i was questionable on it i ran sudo apt-get autoremove and then say that it would remove the libs that went with it

hi - can anyone recommend a good mouse for a laptop with ubuntu? shouljd be wired and not too big but with a good optical sensor for difficult surfaces

i like the 'marble mouse' by logitech, which is really a trackball :)

can anyone help me with gok (on screen keybd) it needs libatk-bridge but i can find what package that is in??

- an apt-get install libatk* returns nothing for you?

hi, im dual booting with windows and windows is at the bottom in grub.. how do i make windows as default start?

sudo vim /boot/grub/menu.lst

can someone help me with my audio problems, i've started a thread but haven't gotten much help. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1226922

what is the issue you are having? there is a really good audio guide on the forums

i have a lot of partitions on my disk so there are two disks on my desktop but i want to clear it .. is there any way i can hide them from the desktop but not change anything else?

i think there is a gconf setting for it in nautilus

i just installed ubuntu 10.10 on a seperate partition on my hard drive but now it auto boots into ubuntu instead of asking me, most of the guides i find assume you haven't installed anything yet, how can i get it to ask which os to boot?

get startup-manager from ubuntu software centre

okay guys, does this look reasonable?

that should work.

does tribe 4 have the issue that tribe 3 had with the live cd freezing?

use ktorrent, it has this built-in.

is there a way to play a .wma music file in karmic ? ?

or go to ubuntu software center install ubuntu restricted extras and rhythmbox will play it

does gstreamer-mad give mp3 support to ubuntu's rhythmbox ?

'gstreamer0.8-mad', yes

how do i check my glibc version?

dpkg -l | grep libc6

can somebody running ubuntu 9.10 beta tell me what version of empathy is included out of the box?

i have, empathy 2.28.0.1

do you happen to know how can i create a windows 7 bootable usb flash drive from fedora 15? i know this isn't the proper channel to ask this, but ##windows is useless. =_='

there is usb disk creator , im not sure if you'd find it in fedora

anyone know the name of the x dev packages?

x-dev?

is there a way to limit the download speed because each time i download something the internet becomes to slow

i think there is a download throttling firefox addon

was there a magic sysrq combination to kill x?

alt+sysrk+k will kill whatever is running on the current tty.

how do i make a udev device? i keep losing /dev/hda* devices.. should i really be using the /.dev ones?

there's a nice article on udev at http://www.redhat.com/magazine/

hello all, i'd like to know what's *necessary* to give some article the permission to be 'published' nacionaly. (sorry my english)

money :p

hi everyone, new user to ubuntu/gnome here... i'm trying to get bitchx to launch in an eterm terminal instead of the default gnome term... would my exec command be eterm && bitchx ?

'eterm -e bitchx', assuming eterm correctly implements the related specification

what would be a reason packages are held back during an upgrade.... i just tried to upgrade and my xorg is broke now

the package is made but the deps it needs are not satisfiable yet

hi, i just recently switched over to fluxbox, running ubuntu 6.10. however, none of my gtk settings seem to stay constant. what program would i have to run at the start of fluxbox to get the settings up?

: http://linux.byexamples.com/archives/239/gtk-configuration-for-non-gnome-desktop-user/

does anyone know any good wireless desktop cards that are compatible with ubuntu 11.04 64bit

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/wifidocs/wirelesscardssupported

anyone know wehere to find the keyring manager in xubuntu? i'm trying to get rid of the password to unlock the keyring on login (login without password)

run seahorse, right click your keyring, change password, use blank password. use at your own risk

hello everyone, how can i set several wallpaper so that it changes (randomly if possible) regularly?

desktop drapes

hi, i changed to chromium recently and i must say, i like it al lot and it is much faster than firefox (for me). what browser do you use? just type a c for chromium or f for firefox. or is there a site that shows the usage of the browsers on the web (or a certain site)?

thots not really on topic here, but... http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

well, thats it, 45 minutes and i still can't configure x

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

hello all. i just installed ubuntu on my thinkpad x31. everything works perfectly except for the bootsplash (it's just black). what would be the recommended way to debug the problem?

try modifying your usplash.conf

in layman terms, what's the difference between utf-8 and iso-whatever encoding?

look up 'unicode' on wikipedia.org

when will feisty final release be out

yes. i installed feisty a month or so ago and had no probs so, now it should be fine :)

quick question: someone had a bad ram stick and repeatedly crashed his ubuntu box. the ext3 filesystem is all sorts of messed up. is it better to run fsck first, then back up data? or back up data then run fsck, then back up again (in case some corruption is fixed?)

it's definitely safest to image it first. then you're not lost, even if fsck fails

does anyone know if there is a firefox extension ro resubmit a post periodically?

you can do it using greasemonkey

i'm using it atm for my acx111 card, but it is a wrapper around windows drivers, so you can get very odd bugs. i'm replacing my wireless with one that is natively supported

acx111 cards do have native drivers iirc

where are boot-time configurations for alsa stored?

: alsamixer up the volume, then alsactl store to store it for reboots

what's the default theme in ubuntu? (the gnome theme in preferences > appearance)

ambiance or radiance.

omg help me please i made a folder in /var/www for a user of my server but how doi allow only him to edit the contents of that folder

sudo chown username /var/www/thefolder

anyone know how to, or if i should try to change the nodename returned by uname?

/etc/hostname and /etc/hosts

hello, when i enter any channel i seem to have all the old chat in there instead of a blank window and the same with pm. how can i stop that and delete the old saved stuff. thanks

i don't think the option's available in xchat-gnome. normal xchat (in the xchat package) can do it, though.

is there any way to change the chmod of a folder, and all the folders and files in that folder?

chmod -r

what do you think the best (resolution, font, dpi) settings are on a 19' monitor?

depends on the user .... i am using 1280 x 1024

you there, mate?

dunno?

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

'fraid i don't know much more than that

how do i check what time it is via cli

'date'

what's the hotkey to switch virtural desktops?

ctrl-alt-arrow

how do i install src packages using synaptices

apt-get source $package

ligatures ('fi', 'ff', 'fl') don't render correctly on my 8.10 install (they look a little smaller and lighter than the surrounding text). it happens with deja vu sans, which is used in a lot of places on my desktop, and a few other fonts...but not in openoffice with the same fonts, oddly. any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this?

system > preferences > appearance > fonts > advanced, make sure if you have an lcd it is set for lcd, and opposite for crt

i got a problem, i need to have the nvidia dev headers for opengl available for a program i am using, but when i use synaptic to install them it conflicts with the manually installed drivers i have and gnome stops working. any suggestions?

instructions are on nvidia's site

anybody care to help a newbie? i need to switch my mouse-buttons around :-)

system > preferences > mouse> check the 'left-handed mouse' box

can you run them in a terminal?

they don't run in terminal either. you run them simply by typign the name of the shell script without the .sh extension, am i correct?

bash: /etc/x11/xorg.conf: permission denied any ideas?

he left the channel

i am attempting to install ubuntu 10,10 on my macbook. i have followed the instructions for installation (created a partition, installed refit) but whenever i try to load ubuntu from the live cd i get a black screen after the first splash. i tried moving to the text based installer, but i get the same results after selecting 'install ubuntu'. the disc and memory checks both passed tests. does anyone have any help to offer?

works in any

everything else works fine, it *does* read the medibuntu repository and shows it if i manually look for packages in synaptic

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/medibuntu

am i in the right channel for wubi?

it may be best to file a bug or a brainstorm entry for that, rather than mentioning it here and having it get lost in the channel.

hi all! i am trying to print from a winxp virtual machine that i've stup on ubuntu 11.10 but the printer stat in xp shows : access denied, unable to connect, i have referred the networkprintingwithubuntu page but with no luck, help

does your printer already work in ubuntu?

anyone know hot to check the changelog on new updates via command line?

i personally have apt-listchanges installed. it will give you the changelogs when you do an apt-get/aptitude upgrade/dist-upgrade.

is there a way to determine what version of ubuntu you are running? much like /etc/debian_version?

cat /etc/issue

hi. could someone tell me a command that will let me see all recognized drives on this computer (so i can mount one, i don't know the exact identifier, e.g. /dev/sd#)?

dmesg |grep /dev/[sh] d*

where is 'restricted drivers manager' in 9.04?

administrator->hardware drivers

what have i done wrong ? (fing jpg more than 1kb ) find /media/usb-hdd/ -size +1k -type f -name jpg

'*.jpg'

am i asking this in the wrong place?

that version is really outdated, get a 10.04 kubuntu release for greater satisfaction

what is the latest ubunty release?

the latest stable release is 7.10, gutsy gibbon

hello. how i can get list of all packages in a ppa ?

one way is to just go to the website

voltagex how's that looking for you?

err, what?

hmm.. in firefox, on ubuntu 6.06, i enter the url 'about:config' and i get an xml parsing error reponse? what may be wrong? this is a fresh install from dvd

exit firefox, make sure your system is up-to-date, and start firefox again

hi,all. may i ask which program provide the command 'dpkg-depcheck', please?

sudo apt-get install devscripts

i would rely like to be able to sync my palm with evolution without making doubles of my calander enteres

wouldn't we all

hi everybody, yesterday my cousin enabled ssh on my computer and he gave me a domain on dyndns. now i tried to setup an apache, mysql, and php server so i can host a website. but whenevere i go to my domain it asks for a username and password (so i can acsess my router). what do i do? :s

: and don't allow external http access to your router

i am having problems with beep media player it is not playing anything. i did get the codacs as instructed by the ubuntu unofficial guide. anyone else have the same experence and know what i should do?

and i hope you didn't use ubuntuguide that much

is there a way to stop scrolling on output at the consle or in screen?

run the command but pipe it through less like this mycommand | less

hey there, does anybody know an easy way to flip the video from a dvd from left to right?

use vlc

i'm running gcc to install a gnome applet and it complains that package libpanelapplet-2.0 is missing.. i know that is is installed... what can i do to get this to work ... i also edit pkg_config_path to include the libpanelapplet file

you probably need the -dev package for that lib

can someone help me to exec some util on a file when it's directory has spaces in the directoy name?

this\ is\ an\ example

apologies if this info exists somewhere obvious (i've looked and can't find!) but does anyone here know how to get my galaxy nexus phone to talk to ubuntu 12.04 ? i just want to transfer some files and neither ptp or mtp is working for me.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/how-to-connect-your-android-ice-cream-sandwich-phone-to-ubuntu-for-file-access

there is already a #channel for that?

its not in hardy repos

is there a way i can connect trough internet to a ssh server that is in a lan

you will have to port forward on the lan's router then connect with ssh i.p.addy -p 1234

what does the generic kernel do? someone said it provides optimizations on demand - can anyone elaborate?

you dont need to do it manually, its done automatically

anyone can suggest me a night vision webcam that will work with ubuntu ?

many webcams does not filter ir

hi, anybody know a good site that will show me how to overclock my amd 3000+? thanks

http://overclockers.com.au

should i run a firewall in ubuntu?

if you're not running any services, i wouldn't bother