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how do i make someones name red when i reply to them?
you only need to type 'LJ' then tab and the the program will complete the name for you. If many names start the same press tab many times
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{"user_question": "adzy", "user_answer": "eamon"}
How do I install packages on Ubuntu 11.10?
just getting it to run normally without crashing and being extremely buggy.
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{"user_question": "salil", "user_answer": "vacho"}
is there a way to check what module eth0 is using? Im trying to figure out what module one of the networkcards on my brothers computer is using, but i cant figure out which.. :(
lspci
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{"user_question": "kent", "user_answer": "paper"}
hello -- i'm trying to install ubuntu 12.04 on an asus zenbook, but it doesn't respond after i click `Install Ubuntu', and syslog shows squashfs errors (unable to read ...)
yeah first suspect your media/burn/image, and then your devices
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{"user_question": "`thomas", "user_answer": "reisio"}
any of you know a nice way to move my /home to a different partition ?
log out of everything, control-alt-f2, log in, sudo cp -a /home /newpartition/ ; sudo mv /home/ /home-old ; sudo mount /dev/hdc1 /home
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{"user_question": "eruin", "user_answer": "Jerub"}
guys, I'm new to debian, is there a place to find bleeding edge debs? like gimp-devel branch?
it's not easy to find external bleeding edge debian packages. If you want the newest experimental packages, you should look at Debian Unstable
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{"user_question": "natex", "user_answer": "JDahl"}
does anyone know if the channel bot has a seen system?
it does not
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{"user_question": "sxndave", "user_answer": "bazhang"}
i was looking at this post http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11466#post11466 cause i can't install gftp could someone please help me ? i did unchecked 'universe' in sources list but i still get the same error msg
did you run apt-get update (or have you clicked the update button in the package manager) ?
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{"user_question": "rsa", "user_answer": "Treenaks"}
what is ubuntu's equivalent to Windows Image Viewer? gpicview doesn't fit, since it cannot be used in order to print pictures
or you can install gthumb
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{"user_question": "real_name", "user_answer": "Flare183"}
hey, is openoffice.org re-GNOMEized in hoary amd64? warty amd64 openoffice.org is ugly :(
cdrecord tells a lot annoying messages if you use it this way
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{"user_question": "erik", "user_answer": "Friczy"}
is there something like defragmentation on linux?
nope theres no need for it the wat it writes to the disk. ntfs ans designded to be hard to recover data from thats why you have to defrag it
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{"user_question": "d0gmaz", "user_answer": "mos__"}
I have Xine installed and working. Is there any way to get embedded video in firefox without installing another media player?
gxine has a mozilla plugin
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{"user_question": "infornography", "user_answer": "tritium"}
why is my transmission torrent manager running so slowly? my max download speed seems to be under 10KiB/s for every torrent, and the same torrents download around 300KiB/s on my other windows computer with bittorrent on the same network. Also, while using transmission, i cant access the internet via any browsers
maybe your isp is throtteling torrent traffixc
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{"user_question": "UbuntuNoob", "user_answer": "vectory"}
I am having trouble downloading torrents on my school's wifi network. I have Internet access. nmap says my ports are all blocked. Does this mean I can't torrent?
not that im a expert or anything
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{"user_question": "edbian", "user_answer": "vectory"}
Can someone tell em how to format a floppy
tried Applications>System Tools>Floppy Formatter ?
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{"user_question": "StolenShoeBox", "user_answer": "farruinn"}
so there is no hardware matrix that I can reference?
see http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HardwareSupport ?
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{"user_question": "akabigbro", "user_answer": "farruinn"}
but I'm on ppc, so I don't know for sure
no it won't
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{"user_question": "farruinn", "user_answer": "Tsjoklat"}
can the ubuntu installer coexist with a windows XP installation?
yup
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{"user_question": "erik_", "user_answer": "Matt|"}
I admit that this is strictly a Gnome 2.8 question, but how can I put a panel applet of some kind in the far right corner of the top panel with a warty installation?
make sure the other applets aren't locked, if they are, right click on them and then select unlock. Then middle click on the applet you want to move and drag it to the corner
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{"user_question": "aquarius", "user_answer": "CraHan_"}
How do I turn dma on on my /dev/hdc
sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc
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{"user_question": "Twiggy", "user_answer": "Burgundavia"}
can someone try this url for me and see if it works: https://www.mypipex.net
works for me
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{"user_question": "Matt|", "user_answer": "supos"}
hmm, 'universe' is Debian Testing main, right? Then what is 'multiverse'?
'universe' is 'stuff in debian that ubuntu doesn't want to officially support'
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{"user_question": "supos", "user_answer": "Skif"}
i wanna make Firefix to make a PDF file when printing but the only printer device i get listed in firefox is PostScript/default. In texteditor i can print to pdf :(
print a ps and then ps2pdf
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{"user_question": "nab_", "user_answer": "baluba"}
could somebody tell me which software should i use for get my webcam working? i mean, its found and installed, but i dont know the app-name which i should use.. lol
tried gtkam?
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{"user_question": "Deviled", "user_answer": "cef"}
anyone else using hoary had devices dissapear from 'places -> computer'?
yeah, they used to auto show when plugged in (two diff. usb drives) ... are you getting a HAL error on Gnome login?
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{"user_question": "linux_mafia", "user_answer": "gabaug"}
anyone feel like helping an ubuntu noob?
sorry, I haven't done any wifi stuff in Ubuntu
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{"user_question": "mtutty", "user_answer": "robertj"}
quick question: does anybody know the environment variable that sets the system's default text editor? I went 'crontab -e' and it brought up VIM, which I'm still completely confused about.
EDITOR
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{"user_question": "pdaoust", "user_answer": "xuzo"}
you got all that from the log?
wait, it works now?
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{"user_question": "almoxarife", "user_answer": "andycc"}
I know it's a bad to repeat messasges, but I want to cleanly disconnect my SSH session. I'm on my cli laptop, and have an SSH session into screen on my server at home. how do I close the SSH session without closing the screen session? should I just kill the ssh process on the laptop?
capital Ds
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{"user_question": "lxsys", "user_answer": "andycc"}
does ubuntu have anything like packages.debian.org?
http://higgs.djpig.de/ubuntu/www/
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{"user_question": "sii", "user_answer": "scandium"}
how do i setup an nfs client in ubuntu?
http://www.metaconsultancy.com/whitepapers/nfs.htm
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{"user_question": "heavy", "user_answer": "crimsun"}
Hi all. I'm running 10.04 with two disks in Raid-1 with mdadm. Works great. I've just added a new raid-5 with 3 disks. In /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf only the raid-1 is stated. I guess both should be there to automatically bring both raids up after rebooting? Any pointers would be great. Thanks!!!
I've used dmraid to manage a RAID0.
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{"user_question": "Medusa", "user_answer": "andycc"}
whats the difference between apt-get upgrade, and apt-get dist-upgrade
upgrade will not install new packages, it will only upgrade what it can
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{"user_question": "gen", "user_answer": "thaytan"}
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/remas this is not working for me . it gives this error : /media/remas does not exist. can someone help me please ?
mkdir is a command to make a new directory
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{"user_question": "tarma_12", "user_answer": "hungtran"}
I need to convert some .doc and .pdf files to .epub ... anything that will do this?
check out calibre
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{"user_question": "Aptar", "user_answer": "glebaron"}
Is there a smooth way to generate an xorg.conf in 10.04? Having some annoying behaviour using two monitors when they are configured inside of Gnome, so I thought the xorg.conf would be a better place to set this up
try « sudo Xorg -configure :1 »
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{"user_question": "Peax", "user_answer": "erUSUL"}
can somebody help me with a network printer installation? the postscript filter in the ppd file taken from installation cd does not exist.
is see linux : http://www.support.xerox.com/go/results.asp?Xlang=en_us&XCntry=USA&prodID=WC5225_WC5230&ripId=&Xtype=download
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{"user_question": "jitenderdogra", "user_answer": "airtonix"}
hi there, i would like to install 64 bit ubuntu on my system. I know that my processor is a 64 bit processor, but ubuntu does not install (i am installing from boot using CD). what can i do?
as I didn't see a solution I guess to get it to work was to install the 32bit version of ubuntu
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{"user_question": "B0101", "user_answer": "sacarlson"}
i want to install ubuntu preferably Xubuntu version for c++ developing how much HDD space 4 system files do I need and which version should i install 10 or 9 or what ?
install the latest version, it will need 2GB disk space
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{"user_question": "Cypeq", "user_answer": "jonathon"}
Hi. I just installed Ubuntu. Everything looks good except there is a black X in the middle of my screen. Anyone know how to fix this?
>> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/hwcursor
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{"user_question": "diesel", "user_answer": "LinuxJones"}
I really like how ubuntu automatically mounts usb devices.. I would like that on my Debian/Sarge machine also; what do I need to configure for that - discover?
not discover but hotplug scripts.
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{"user_question": "JDahl", "user_answer": "stratus"}
are there legal problems with providing a wrapper package for Suns jre (like the one debian has for non-free flash?) It would seem to make the life easier for a lot of people...
There is one. It's called java-package
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{"user_question": "JDahl", "user_answer": "darksatanic"}
how do I subscribe to [email protected]
www.ubuntu.com --> right hand side lists mailing lists
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{"user_question": "arc_", "user_answer": "Burgundavia"}
I'm not sure if lyx would go in the GNOME menu, but yes, you can kill the panel from the root console.
like sudo cdrecord ..., i tried that and didnt work
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{"user_question": "ficusplanet", "user_answer": "santo_"}
Hey Ubuntu. I have a problem and I am wondering if there is any way I can fix it. Basically for whatever reason my memory stick has turned Read Only. I cant delete any files from it no matter what I do, I even tried formatting it from gparted (No important data on there at the moment). Anyone got any suggestions how I can format this USB stick?
you can specify mount options to mount the partition as writable if you use mount correctly
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{"user_question": "mestar", "user_answer": "actionParsnip"}
guys, how can i get the kernel source
linux-source is what youre looking for
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{"user_question": "sch1fo", "user_answer": "ogra"}
hi all. i'm trying to install ubuntu desktop amd64. i've got an ati radeon 5770 and everytime i load the installer, from usb or cd, 10.10 or 10.04.1, i just get a black screen after it's finished booting which i guess is a display issue. any ideas? i've done a search and found a few people with similar probs with 5770 but can't find any solutions
disable KMS?
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{"user_question": "Scott__2", "user_answer": "st__"}
actually I noticed on my system that one does not *have* to use vi to edit /etc/sudoers - nano as root works fine here: any reason not to do it that way?
so you can get away with other editors, but visudo is the safe/proper way to do it
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{"user_question": "thoreauputic", "user_answer": "BrittBS"}
what is the debian/ubuntu equivalent to RedHat's chkconfig to turn off/on services on boot?
rcconf works (there are other ways)
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{"user_question": "MarcN", "user_answer": "Xenguy"}
does someone know if hoary will use the new debian installer?
you have the answer now from kamion ;)
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{"user_question": "the_one", "user_answer": "Qo-noS"}
does anybody know how to open a .wps file?
sounds like wordperfect ... openoffice?
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{"user_question": "GotD0t", "user_answer": "erik"}
hello all, I have a stupid question, whats missing from the current rhythmbox to get mp3's playing? it works on another install I had done on a laptop about a month ago....
https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RestrictedFormats
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{"user_question": "drakonim", "user_answer": "ogra"}
hey there, i just installed ubuntu 10.04 , and install the 'docky' ... i understand that it is not the same as gnome-do, but there is nothing on the web about it, i have no idea how to add 'google search' like we have in gnome-do , and stuff like that, there is a build in programs and that's it, it's very minimal
use awn is better
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{"user_question": "winterelf", "user_answer": "thecdgg"}
is it not on either desktop ? are you using the xinerama extension ?
nope...it just disappeared off both screens...
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{"user_question": "mercurus", "user_answer": "gerard"}
how can i get mplayer in ubuntu ?
I think you might have to re-seat that video card. Check the connection on the video card as well.
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{"user_question": "Foxtrot", "user_answer": "LinuxJones"}
anyone have an idea how I 'drop to cmd line' when booting _any_ linux?
ctrl+alt+f1 usually works (ctrl+alt+f7 to get back)
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{"user_question": "belgianguy", "user_answer": "magnetron"}
screenshots ?
i'm at work, i'll try that this evening
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{"user_question": "p0windah", "user_answer": "NoStress"}
hello everyone, How can I set several wallpaper so that it changes (randomly if possible) regularly?
desktop drapes
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{"user_question": "ChesterX", "user_answer": "AbhiJit"}
how to check which mysql version i have?
maybe apt-cache policy mysql-server
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{"user_question": "AbhiJit", "user_answer": "ChogyDan"}
how can I publish a samba share in ubuntu so that windows pcs can access it
modify that then /etc/init.d/samba restart
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{"user_question": "guptan", "user_answer": "magneto"}
why doesnt evolution automatically mark stuff as junk?
you can tell it's working if you see 'learning spam' on the status bar when you mark junk.
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{"user_question": "pepsi__", "user_answer": "tolstoy"}
anybody running cedega under Ubuntu ?
wine is running fine though
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{"user_question": "cuga", "user_answer": "xenonite"}
when I install ubuntu by custom boot, what have I to install for have Gnome??
install ubuntu-desktop
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{"user_question": "restrex", "user_answer": "HrdwrBoB"}
hi there, fo which is the name of gnome window manager package? apt-cache show me a lot of package
metacity
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{"user_question": "tiago", "user_answer": "HrdwrBoB"}
does evolution 2 spam filtering under ubuntu work for anyone?
is it a ubuntu problem or an evolution problem? i am thinking of using evolution as my mail client
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{"user_question": "StormShaman", "user_answer": "arun--"}
i've just added a new user (useradd user); the new user can't play audio cdroms (but can mount data cds)
sudo adduser <your new user> audio
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{"user_question": "lev", "user_answer": "ogra"}
in synaptics, under warty, i was able to configure the repositories without opening the /etc/apt, but under hoary i am unable to do it
others have the same issue
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{"user_question": "arun--", "user_answer": "thoreauputic"}
When I was trying to get MP3 working in rythmnbox, there was a package I could apt-get install that covered a range of codecs, anyone caer to remidn me what it is?
or are you referring to w32codecs?
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{"user_question": "HauntedUnix", "user_answer": "crimsun"}
if i edit the menu.lst why i should use update-grup?
update-grub looks for kernels, and generates a menu.lst entry (actually two entries) for each one.
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{"user_question": "wfx", "user_answer": "darkersatanic"}
folks, updated to hoary, no xorg.conf. X -configure didn't work (or do I need to be out of X). What was that deb-something command I need to get an xorg conf to appear?
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
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{"user_question": "tolstoy_", "user_answer": "ogra"}
hi all...i have a ati radeon 9600 pro graphic card and i would like to know could i play 3d games under ubuntu with the graphic card i have ? does ubuntu support that ...?
https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/BinaryDriverHowto
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{"user_question": "the_tux", "user_answer": "ogra"}
where is the clearlooks gtk file? It is not in ~/.themes ... ???
did you installed the gtk2-engines-clearlooks? if you did you can see the properties of it in synaptics where it installed it's files
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{"user_question": "ubuntu_", "user_answer": "cas"}
can anyone recommend a utility for downloading album art for my entire music library and embedding them in the ogg and mp3 files?
rhythmbox
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{"user_question": "zylogz80", "user_answer": "AbhiJit"}
hey how can i install gaim on jaunty?
Pidgin is already installed.
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{"user_question": "luis_", "user_answer": "jason_"}
know anything about hostap drivers?
nope, sorry.
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{"user_question": "jason_", "user_answer": "crimsun"}
which file do I edit to change the default login manager from kdm to other?
/etc/X11/default-display-manager
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{"user_question": "Kleggas", "user_answer": "Seveas"}
is there a gnutella client for ubuntu?
0.95 is in hoary, but it doesn't seem to have an executable :|
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{"user_question": "website", "user_answer": "Nermal"}
or just follow the 7 commands or so in the howto :)
strange though. the gnome hackers still seem to be 'working on' the release process. :) i guess the software itself is there though
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{"user_question": "Nermal", "user_answer": "topyli"}
What's the easiest way to install the flash plugin for firefox under Ubuntu? Is there a way to install it via apt-get?
sudo apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla
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{"user_question": "Drel", "user_answer": "geppy"}
I want the IRC command to get information on a user. I want to know how much does IRC know about me.
/whois name
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{"user_question": "eroot", "user_answer": "jrdnn"}
how do i get linux-wlan-ng to compile with the current kernel?
you may only need the headers.
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{"user_question": "deadcat", "user_answer": "pestilence"}
where does wget stores bydefault?
There is probably an extension to help you. Mouse Gestures or similar perhaps.
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{"user_question": "AbhiJit", "user_answer": "maedox"}
How can I turn off 'Lock the monitor' when it goes to sleep?
in screensaver setting uncheck password
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{"user_question": "ner0x", "user_answer": "AbhiJit"}
is there a virtual package to get gcc, autoconf, automake, etc ?
build-essential
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{"user_question": "benjanet", "user_answer": "magnon"}
can i get Firegox 1.0 on my Ubuntu ?
go to mozilla.org and install their binary (it has an installer)
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{"user_question": "benjanet", "user_answer": "thoreauputic"}
I'm having problems with my xchat and trying to join a different server...any help?\
what happen/
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{"user_question": "Friar", "user_answer": "AbhiJit"}
anyone has tried a USB CD-RW with luck in linux? planning to buy one of those but i would like to hear if they really work out of the box (as usb sticks does)
yes they work fine
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{"user_question": "visor", "user_answer": "sabmoc"}
how do i get the count of the number of files in a directory through tty?
ls -l | wc -l
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{"user_question": "Ed_Money", "user_answer": "_jesse_"}
Is it possible to edit every users' start up applicaltions?
$HOME/.config/autostart/
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{"user_question": "Mkaysi", "user_answer": "erUSUL"}
Is there a standard (or perhaps just a favorite) in terms of messaging clients on Ubuntu. I'm looking at Empathy at the moment. Any others I should consider?
The other popular one is Pidgin
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{"user_question": "Trian3", "user_answer": "DJones"}
hey guys, the ubuntu installation of openldap seems kind of non standard, where is the slapd.conf file?
you can also dpkg -L [packagename], for whatever ldap package you're using, and grep it for .conf's
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{"user_question": "ipv6hermit", "user_answer": "morticide"}
does anyone know of a program that using traceroute, ping and other such utilities can determine which from a list of hosts/servers/mirrors is closest to you?
netselect
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{"user_question": "kinema", "user_answer": "thoreauputic"}
Hi all! Simple question: how to check how old is the system (when it was installed)?
sudo head -c 15 /var/log/installer/syslog;echo
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{"user_question": "bars0", "user_answer": "root_ninja"}
how can i install a kernel compiled for athlon-xp using apt?
linuxxxxxx.i686
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{"user_question": "Erix", "user_answer": "Acridien"}
Hi, what kernel does Ubuntu ude by default? Just wondering will it handle sata and my NIC rithout problems.. I have nforce2 based motherboard.
It worked flawlessly out of the box with my nforce2 board.
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{"user_question": "ATJ", "user_answer": "wm_eddie"}
hello do you guys know some command line video tool which would copy part of a video into new one? I'd like something like 'copyvideo --from 1:01 --to 1:35 video.avi 30secondsvideo.avi'
ffmpeg will do that
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{"user_question": "embryonalni", "user_answer": "nothingspecial"}
Anyone here using amd64?
apt-get install libxxf86vm-dev
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{"user_question": "bratsche", "user_answer": "daniels"}
Quick question - when I restarted, X wouldn't start on its own because my nvidia kernel driver wasn't loaded. I thought it is supposed to do this automatically. How do I fix this?
you installed the modules?
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{"user_question": "bratsche", "user_answer": "Gmail"}
if I have some iptables rules I want to take effect every time I boot, where's the 'ubuntu standard' place to store them ?
place the script in /etc/init.d/
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{"user_question": "ivar", "user_answer": "Pluk"}
Hi, can someone help me, i have just installed Lubuntu on my netbook. when i close the lid the notebook goes into standy, how can i turn this off, the notebook should be online all the time
System -> Preferences -> Power Management
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{"user_question": "Guest86171", "user_answer": "chelz"}