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How can I change the automount settings for all USB drives from 'sync' to 'async'?
try this - http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/ubuntu-tips-and-tricks.htm
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{"user_question": "boobsbr", "user_answer": "H08b8"}
i use conky. but this code : ${downspeed eth0} is not working for wireles. can we add another clock for wireles and if possible for other connections types ? . thanks!
try ifconfig and see what it says it is.
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{"user_question": "clps", "user_answer": "Dr_Willis"}
Hi, where is the hosts file in ubuntu? My computer is acting a bit strange, would you also recommend me a scanner for ubuntu?
host-file /etc/hosts
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{"user_question": "Lokroer", "user_answer": "Oer"}
What is the linux command to locate the directory of a command/exec? (eg: what is the dir of python. what is the dir of apt-get, etc.)
which command
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{"user_question": "Leemp", "user_answer": "|Twilo|"}
Is it possible to change the Gnome panel weather icon (Clock) into something more colorful (like in earlier versions of Ubuntu)?
depends of your icon theme
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{"user_question": "Madmanden", "user_answer": "xangua"}
I installed cinnamon, kde plasma, MATE, and several other desktop environments from Unity in order to try them and decided to stick with unity, How do I remove the rest? they were all installed from the terminal.
if you intalled with apt-get install then use apt-get remove
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{"user_question": "hangdeadman", "user_answer": "InspectorCluseau"}
hi all. couldn't find the command from manual of apt-get on how to install manually downloaded .deb files ?
doubleclicking the .deb file should do the trick :)
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{"user_question": "ezy", "user_answer": "bindi"}
I recently upgraded from kubuntu karmic to lucid. Since that upgrade my system performance has decreased severely. Doing basically anything in Dolphin can make it hang for ~10s and I can't even run Half-Life at a stable 60fps anymore. Any ideas?
sounds like you need to get your graphics drivers going again. run glxgears from a terminal and tell me if they are running smoothly. (Nvidia or ATI install if they aren't running right)
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{"user_question": "wea0", "user_answer": "realcoolguy"}
How can I list all the groups that a certain user is a member off? And how do I add that user to a certain group?
read /etc/group
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{"user_question": "Stava", "user_answer": "remote"}
is it ok to ask general linux questions here?
what for? maybe you want a fifo ? « man mkfifo »
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{"user_question": "display", "user_answer": "erUSUL"}
will ubuntu resize an ntfs partition nowadays?
'usually', i think you might need some ntfs package - i'm not the person to know...
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{"user_question": "craigmarshall9", "user_answer": "ZykoticK9"}
My 'locale' is configured to UTF-8. Concordingly, when I request output from a text file from the CLI (using cat, less, more, nano,...) it's interpreted as UTF-8. The problem arises when I want to 'cat' an ISO-8859 txt file... it gets outputted as UTF-8 so many chars don't look okay. My question is: How can I get ISO-8859 files to be displayed as such from the CLI when my config is set to UTF-8?
try this: iconv --from-code=ISO-8859-1 --to-code=UTF-8 filename
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{"user_question": "FastReading", "user_answer": "magnetron"}
What eee have you got? Because 10.10 awful freezing for me
: EEE PC 1000H
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{"user_question": "Besogon", "user_answer": "wastl"}
Hi, how can I change python version ? default version now is 2.6.6 I want to change in to 2.7.1+ symlink showing python -> /usr/bin/python2.7 but its not using 2.7 how can I change it ?
you can't
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{"user_question": "zatan", "user_answer": "wols"}
hi , ubuntu 10.04 by default using Pulse-Audio or ALSA?
pulseaudio
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{"user_question": "zatan", "user_answer": "uLinux"}
Hi, where is keep unity root password ?
your user password is never stored anywhere
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{"user_question": "zatan", "user_answer": "ssta"}
hi all, in ubuntu 10.04, if i want to add this line -> options ip_conntrack hashsize=32768 ; where do I put it (its supposed to go int /etc/modprobe.conf but i cant find it
/etc/modprobe.d/anything_you_want_to_call_it.conf
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{"user_question": "acidflash", "user_answer": "theadmin"}
Hi. how to change user's initial group?
edit /etc/passwd
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{"user_question": "sshme", "user_answer": "gvo"}
Where is the location of the commands ifconfig and dhclient
have you tried the which command in a terminal?
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{"user_question": "Chiggins", "user_answer": "pbarros"}
nobody has a freaking website so I can download this font?
sudo apt-get install ttf-ubuntu-title
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{"user_question": "toter", "user_answer": "Cryophil1"}
how can i convert vob dvd files to 3gp ?
try winff
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{"user_question": "ibrahim-kasem", "user_answer": "logan_wolf"}
how can I, using metacity, have a window stay always on bottom?
http://foosel.org/linux/devilspie, something like (if (is (application_name) 'tilda') (begin (below)))
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{"user_question": "NixGeek", "user_answer": "VCoolio"}
Ok, huge screw up, I tried rewriting a particular small partition on an external hard drive, and it destroyed my entire partition table, including a large HFS+ partition with lots of information on it. Before I use testdisk to recover the filesystem, will I be able to recover the data if I recover the filesystem that way?
yep, I completly wiped a harddrive with a bad fedora install disk and got everything back with testdisk. it's a great program
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{"user_question": "djindy", "user_answer": "NixGeek"}
hello can anyone tell me if ubuntu can be install bu mouting iso file in a directory ?
no that cannot be done. You either need to burn a cd or put in on a USB device
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{"user_question": "gurkhali69", "user_answer": "headkase314"}
Anyone know how to download older < 12.04 version of ubuntu?
you could downlaod the ISO, burn a DVD and rn a clean install?
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{"user_question": "eggbert", "user_answer": "Shant"}
I'm trying to use wget to put all of the files in a web directory into a local directory, but it creates a bunch of unnecessary folders (e.g. domainname/folder/folder/folder/images.jpg instead of just images.jpg into the local directory). Which command line option am I missing?
it's -nd or --no-directories
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{"user_question": "Travis_42", "user_answer": "gregbair"}
does anyone have a really good tut on ubuntu lamp
i do hold on
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{"user_question": "Syph3r", "user_answer": "ssfdre38"}
how do we enable SASL?
dont pay attation to it its not a freenode message
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{"user_question": "abountu", "user_answer": "ssfdre38"}
i accidently erased my apache error log file and now that even though I recreated it, it doesn't work anymore
restart apache
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{"user_question": "FalsAlarm", "user_answer": "rww"}
Are there any open source java browsers in ubuntu repositories?
I'm not sure whether he ever finished or even started it, but I know a dude called eondev awhile ago was making one.
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{"user_question": "plouffe", "user_answer": "Fshy"}
Hey, why 'time -f '%S' find .' show me '-f: command not found'? How I can format the time command output in Ubuntu?
my bad - but it looks like rww's solution works
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{"user_question": "pfweb", "user_answer": "ZykoticK9"}
what is the terminal command to restart X?
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start (or 'sudo start gdm')
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{"user_question": "morbio", "user_answer": "ledbettj"}
Making a flash drive bootable from Maverick using the iso of Precise (12.04) is OK?:)
but to be safe, you may want to use unetbootin instead of startup disk creator
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{"user_question": "VP", "user_answer": "gaelfx"}
hi. i would like to make a video using some images and an audio. whats the best software to do that?
pitivi?
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{"user_question": "ghufran", "user_answer": "cotavo"}
SunTsu> when I try with gedit I got 'Could not save the file', can I force it?
iconv
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{"user_question": "yva", "user_answer": "rypervenche"}
Is there an easy way to reconfigure all of the network settings in Lucid? I think my smb.conf file is borked.
smb.conf isn't your network settings, it's your SAMBA settings
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{"user_question": "Davide-NYC", "user_answer": "Procule"}
any of you folks have a working backlight on your keyboard..... and if so, how did you do it?
Yes, and it Just Worked™ for me.
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{"user_question": "tortoise7", "user_answer": "Jordan_U"}
where in the file system, does the mail program evolution normally live? 10.04 lts
Run `which evolution` at a terminal prompt.
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{"user_question": "tortoise7", "user_answer": "dajhorn"}
same problem here on a satellite, speakers work,,, no output at ear jack..... do you happen to have a backlight keyboard... that actually lights?
no, I don't have a backlit keyboard, but I'm looking into this problem
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{"user_question": "tortoise7", "user_answer": "HaPK_PerCar"}
does anyone know of a FREE voip program that can make landline calls?
i don't know that such a program exists. Telco companies normally charge for this kind of connectivity.
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{"user_question": "intrusion", "user_answer": "[thor]"}
I have a usb drive (fat32) that has some bad blocks. What utility should I use to fix this?
I don't recommend trusting flash drives with known bad blocks. Most I have encountered don't even do CRC checks so you're likely to get silent data corruption.
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{"user_question": "s5fs", "user_answer": "Jordan_U"}
How to switch to another workspace w/o mouse?
alt+ctrl+left/right/up/down arrow keys
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{"user_question": "vlt", "user_answer": "Calinou"}
Does anyone know how to convert a .3gp (an mpeg audio container) to .wav in ubuntu?
will mplayer play it? If so 'mplayer -ao pcm $FOO_FILE.3gp' will output to a WAV file
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{"user_question": "z340", "user_answer": "ZykoticK9"}
hello all!! my laptop is suffering from sound problems. all of a sudden the sound stops working. right now also sound isnt working. anything we can do about it?
have a go through the suggestions in this guide
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{"user_question": "theos", "user_answer": "Acido-"}
How can I switch from Full Screen within the Terminal Server Client?
try crtl+alt+enter
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{"user_question": "masoncloud", "user_answer": "chemical_death"}
What's a simple way to transfer a folder via ssh from my server (ubuntu) to my client (putty on win xp)?
winscp
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{"user_question": "haavaros", "user_answer": "bindi"}
i have a question guys, do i have to enable the firewall again when i set up a new user account?
no. firewall is system wide
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{"user_question": "zolomon", "user_answer": "dr_willis"}
is anybody here who would help me to get my wireless router woriking? it is recognized, but it is not able to get on internet.
I am probably the biggest 'doof' with networking issues on this channel :)
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{"user_question": "janicko", "user_answer": "coz_"}
suggestions on bittorrent client for ubuntu?
qtorrent
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{"user_question": "EddieV113", "user_answer": "hatake_kakashi"}
In future, would it be possible to upgrade ubuntu?? Without reinstalling?
thats a main feature of the package manager system
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{"user_question": "ServerTech", "user_answer": "Dr_Willis"}
What ng ? ?is the shell command to see what version of Ubuntu you are runni
lsb_release -a
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{"user_question": "smooth_", "user_answer": "bastid_raZor"}
Does anyone have any good alternative suggestions to google-desktop... I just need a quick launcher for programs (kind of like OSX's spotlight)
gnome-do?
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{"user_question": "bgiarrocco", "user_answer": "abhijit"}
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=nopat'?
you need to update GRUB to make the change take effect
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{"user_question": "Kritoslap", "user_answer": "headkase314"}
Hey Everyone, How do I find out if my filesystem has 'no exec' on it? Is there a command or something to see that?
check the mount command and what it says about the filesystem in question
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{"user_question": "biodegabriel", "user_answer": "Dr_Willis"}
i can't find the right commands to configure the config file
with update-grub2 it should be found automatically i guess
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{"user_question": "racerd", "user_answer": "chemical-death"}
it's not really an ubuntu question but: Does anyone know if for a blackberry it exists a GSM cell locating software that let's me publish a driven route to the web?
there isn't a official software
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{"user_question": "padi999", "user_answer": "chemical-death"}
Hi, what *iso do I need, if I want to encrypt the whole computer while installing Ubuntu?
alternate CD. The desktop CD will only encrypt your home directory.
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{"user_question": "artinfrieden", "user_answer": "rww"}
I want to set up a triple-boot Windows/two Linux distros machine, and I came across a slight snag: Is the general recommendation to make a partition for GRUB, or to let it overwrite the MBR?
it's no big deal, there's also instructions on how to do it all over the net
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{"user_question": "Chariblaze", "user_answer": "Onyx47"}
um,,, how to change group of file or dir
chgrp newgroup file
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{"user_question": "EasygoingPanda", "user_answer": "bastid_raZor"}
Ubuntu Programming question to anyone who may have any ideas. I'm writing a program and I'm looking to include my own sort of Status Notifications as is seen in 10.04 with Gwibber, Empathy, ETC. Anyone know where I could go to find out more about how that is done?
libnotify
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{"user_question": "blackarray", "user_answer": "trism"}
I have a netbook with no CD drive... can I use an SD card instead of a usb flash drive as the installation medium?
as long as the netbook wants to boot from sd its fine. However.. it might spam you with a lot of 'cant read' stuff.. you can safely ignore it or disable 'floppy disk emulation' in the bios.. either way it will install just fine
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{"user_question": "kazagistar", "user_answer": "_DGM_"}
as I understand it in ubuntu we use a partition table of type msdos. Is this true?
someone already said 'true' to you
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{"user_question": "tripelb-liveCD", "user_answer": "maco"}
does icewm work on lucid?
if it is in the synaptic package manager you cna install it
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{"user_question": "chrowe", "user_answer": "AndrewMC"}
I am going to do a fresh install with the 10.10 release candidate. Is there a problem if I use: sudo cp -R /home /media/'My Passport' to backup my home directories and then put them back once the upgrade is done? Might I have permissions issues? or problems with incompatible config files?
i have useed it and found it to work quite well
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{"user_question": "Friar", "user_answer": "AndrewMC"}
Hi guys, could you help me with this regular expression/command ls | grep *\.h$ ? i'd like listed all the files with .h extension.
ls | grep -E '*\.h$'
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{"user_question": "Virunga_", "user_answer": "llutz"}
Anyone have suggestions for troubleshooting ftp connection issues with ubuntu server karmic?
Um....so you're trying to ping the server, but you get nothing back - just a hang?
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{"user_question": "kentr", "user_answer": "YankDownUnder"}
hi. if i setup dual boot on my comp, which should i install first, windows or ubuntu? or dont matter?
install windows first
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{"user_question": "hblount", "user_answer": "NRemorse"}
hi guys, I am using Ubunt Netbook, is it possible to use skype web cammera? and how?
if your web cam works then yes, I've have skype installed on ubuntu 10.04
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{"user_question": "ohies", "user_answer": "sacarlson"}
is there a free text editor with ftp support available for ubuntu - something like pspad or htmlkit
search for filezilla in software centre
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{"user_question": "rainrain", "user_answer": "schweegi"}
im using ubuntu 10.10 and need to update my gtk+ version to 2.24 (its 2.22 now). how can i safely do this?
The best option is always a distro upgrade
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{"user_question": "gmitrev", "user_answer": "theadmin"}
is there any sense in RoundCube Webmail on DCHP-Internet box?
static ip would be preferred but if you hold your dns uptodate, dhcp shouldn't matter
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{"user_question": "wechat", "user_answer": "llutz_"}
I don't know the proper term for it but I'm looking for a program that can spam key press events when I hold down a mouse or keyboard button. Can anyone help me with this?
keytouch or keylaunch
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{"user_question": "mouse", "user_answer": "Penguincsc"}
Hi, If I want to change my computer into a web server I have to install this things right? apache , mysql and phpmyadmin but when I search for apache i get many results.
sorry, inly http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_debian_lamp_server
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{"user_question": "ibrahim-kasem", "user_answer": "AlHafoudh"}
When using dmraid, I can't use any triggers, it keeps telling me 'ERROR: you must be root' So how do I gain root to mess around in terminal?
sudo -i
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{"user_question": "Snandy", "user_answer": "Pici"}
Hi, I have a ~/path/script.sh file and I would like to be able to call it like script.sh from wherever I am (like nano, mysq, gedit, etc). How can I do it?
edit ~/.bashrc = > export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/script or `sudo cp script.sh /usr/local/bin`
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{"user_question": "iandan", "user_answer": "welinux"}
theos.. scrubber/slider/the thingy that shows the progress of the song being played.
try this 'speaker-test -c6 -l1 -twav'
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{"user_question": "ilyekkakai", "user_answer": "theos"}
hi guys, hope all are well. I have a little problem with minitube on my lucid lynx, it keeps complaining about missing h.264 codec. i have searched for it all over the internet with no luck, can any kind soul help me install it so i can get minitube 1.1 working? please help?
did you try installing this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
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{"user_question": "prabh", "user_answer": "sacarlson"}
how do set bind/named to start automatically on boot?
/etc/init.d/bind9 start
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{"user_question": "smileycustomer", "user_answer": "rhodan"}
I was wondering what is the command to install wine in terminal:)
'sudo apt-get install wine'
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{"user_question": "tbrown2012fb", "user_answer": "DJones"}
Hello, I wanted to upgrade to 12.04 from 11.04 but the upgrade manager only shows 11.10. From the console as well it only says oneiric is available via do-release-upgrade -c -d
From 11.04, you have to update to 11.10 first.
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{"user_question": "tesuji", "user_answer": "bekks"}
what is a good cli radio station player for music?
http://jango.com
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{"user_question": "magicianlord", "user_answer": "tesuji"}
how to add more irc servers to xchat?
Click on server then join a channel
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{"user_question": "Kyo", "user_answer": "Aionym"}
hi guys, 'java -version' says 'java version '1.6.0_24'' and 'javac -version' says 'javac 1.7.0_07' .. how can I make java use 1.7 too?
have a look at 'update-java-alternatives' command
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{"user_question": "mkohler", "user_answer": "shihan"}
hello everybody! Can please someone help me?
Did you do a dual boot?
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{"user_question": "kanoutas", "user_answer": "Tux43"}
I wanted to share a thought :p I'm missing something in ubuntu that windows does have. Being notepad.
try mousepad
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{"user_question": "Solow1", "user_answer": "th0r"}
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
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{"user_question": "rbedi99", "user_answer": "Wiesshund"}
does anyone know of a decent app that does reminders? i.e you can set a reminder on certain dates and times on a calender with a note? and it pops up at that set time?
take a look at this see if it works for you: http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php?option=com_rny_download
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{"user_question": "Kingsy", "user_answer": "SimonSayez"}
Is it possible to install Ubuntu on my Mobile Phone?
Im sure, given enough time and the right resources its 'possible' but at the moment, that is not one of the Distributions that supported in UB that i know of.
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{"user_question": "lymera1n", "user_answer": "KE1HA"}
I am using Ubuntu 9.04 and would like to know how to update xchat thru the update manager. Thank you in advance for your help.
Try this https://launchpad.net/~ken-vandine/+archive/xchat-gnome
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{"user_question": "IndigoMan", "user_answer": "minimec"}
if I run ubuntu from a live cd, can I burn a cd in the same cd drive? Or remains that drive busy with the OS?
no the OS runs off tat cd
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{"user_question": "vsds", "user_answer": "tik"}
Hi. I just lost the maximize/minimize/close buttons. What do I need to do to get that back?
'compiz --replace' to try compiz again
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{"user_question": "AviMarcus", "user_answer": "ZykoticK9"}
What is the best version of ubuntu at the moment?
10.10 is the current stable, 10.04 is the current stable LTS release, both are acceptable
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{"user_question": "frimend", "user_answer": "ikonia"}
what package is needed to provide KERNELPATH? (hoary)
linux-headers
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{"user_question": "Entity", "user_answer": "fabbione"}
In ubuntu 12.04, I am attempting to project the display onto a diagonal mirror for an interactive project, is there an option in ubuntu's X display system to flip the display vertically so the display appears reversed?
xrandr?
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{"user_question": "Compy2", "user_answer": "gustav__"}
help please...-> installed 10.04 fine. now i need to get the raid card recognized. found the card in the dmesg, but it's listed as scsi7.. when i was expecting it to have like a sda1 or something. does that mean the bios sees it but a driver has not been loaded, or...?
if you run: lspci ,you will see the chip it uses and you can find guides using that. You may just see your drives with: sudo fdisk -l ,in which case you are good to go
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{"user_question": "HeadAche", "user_answer": "ActionParsnip"}
Hello. I know its not exactly the right place but I can't find anywhere else to ask this: Anyone knows where can I find a Java support chat?
MOST likely its a 'regiestered nick only' channel.
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{"user_question": "danieldd", "user_answer": "Dr_Willis"}
How do I see all of the dependencies for a program from the commandline?
and you can change the language on the login screen, if you installed the proper language packs from Control Center/Language Support
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{"user_question": "MarkSS", "user_answer": "trism"}
My cursor is acting funny, when I try to click inside a window it just grabs the window instead, why is it doing this?
could your ALT key be stuck down?
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{"user_question": "pyTopher", "user_answer": "ZykoticK9"}
Anyone have a way I can tell exactly what video card I have without taking the case apart?
via lshw, lshal, lspci command through command line
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{"user_question": "FishFace", "user_answer": "psycho_oreos"}
Shadows around application windows. 11.04. How to get rid of this?
that wiould be a compiz setting, you can uise the 'ccsm' tool.
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{"user_question": "FishFace", "user_answer": "Dr_Willis"}