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guys, since no one can help me with my suspend problem here, can anyone recommend another channel?	a bot can care less where you are :) read the rest of it
what's the name for the default terminal ? i installed terminal.app but it's not exactly what i need	try gnome-terminal
ok guys, i got a big one if anyone has any ideas. my /home won't mount, the partition is not listed in /dev/disk/by-uuid (i thought my fstab maybe got corrupted), i can mount it manually but i have to specify the fs type (mount can't find it), did both fsck and e2fsck, didn't help	replace uuid=..... with /dev/yourdrive in /etc/fstab
when i plug in my mp3 player, rhythmbox automatically runs. this is very irritating. how can i disable this?	removable media options under system>preferences
i would like you to test my add-on for mozilla firefox on ubuntu... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/13129 is the description. but please take the latest version 0.11 at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addons/versions/13129#version-0.11 :?	this isn't the place for that. don't advertise here.
hello is there a way i can have whatever song i am playing show up in my gaim away message?	go poke those fine people @ gaim
how do i install java 1.5 or 1.6?	aptitude install sun-java6-jre
what is the command to 'see' whats inside a directory?#	ls, like ikonia said ;)
can anyone tell me how i mount smbfs drives on the desktop as icons?	do you have the drives mounted somewhere with samba already?
how can i grab/create/make a cd image from a cd-rom in ubuntu?	dd if=/dev/cdromdevicefile of=image.iso
does eeeubuntu work well for the 1000h model of eee pc?	1000h has a hard drive, you shouldn't have to bother with cut-down stuff on it
how to change gnome's gui language	gnome-language-selector
howdy! anyone aware of any documentation for ubuntu unity?	also system > about ubuntu
hello all. could someone give me some advice on a wireless card that is likely to be ubuntu friendly?	any mainstream popular card should be fine
can anyone tell me how and where i should set the default text editor?	computer > deskt prefs > preferred aplications
anyone know of a good tutorial for creating firefox themes?	golly, no, haven't seen something like that. have you tried just dissecting the xml file of a decent theme and seeing what it's made out of
i have a question, would i get better vid card performance from nvidia by installing the binary drivers from their site?	missing in menu however is nvidia-settings, you might wish to add it
is the sun j2re package still in ubuntu or was it removed temporarily ???	the repository where it is stored is not working correctly right now. it will probably get better, but no schedule at this point.
does anyone know what the logout menu hibernation and standby exactly do? are they hard coded or do they execute the /etc/acpi/ scripts	the scripts
i just upgraded feisty -> gutsy. the new .22 kernel fails to boot b/c fsck can't find /dev/hda* - which became /dev/sda* with the new kernel.	boot up a livecd and mount your / partition. modify /etc/fstab to change /dev/hda to /dev/sda
would it be a problem to have multiple distros sharing a single /home partition?	there could be some small incommpatabilities but for the most part i think it's fine. many people do it
how do i switch to metacity (that's the default wm right?) i typed metacity --replace in the console and it switched but when i closed the console it switched back or something and froze	type metacity --replace & exit (it will close the terminal)
hi, maybe an easy question, but how can i disable the bootsplash in edgy, so that i just see the bootup-messages in the console?	remove 'splash' from the kernel lines in /boot/grub/menu.lst
how do i set date in xubuntu desktop, right click on date doesn't show any option to set the date	(in a terminal)
system > preferences > startup applications shows 20 applications asserted. why does ~/.config/autostart list only 7?	that's a good question. the startup apps work very weirdly
what can i infer from the dmesg message 'acpi: sleep button (cm) [slpb] '? my laptop does not have any sleep button.	don't you have a sleep button as fn + f(something)?
am a newbie - how do i find what my com1 port is under ubuntu please - trying to configure minicom	note that minicom assumes you have a modem attached and does lots of at wierdry before you get a chance to do anything
hello, i'm trying to rsync my directory to a remote nfs mounted directory, but rsync can't hold permissions, is there a way to avoid setting permissions, i saw the man page, can't get it	although i can't give a direct answer to your question i'd recommend to look at rdiff-backup (some useful wrapper around rsync)
hi. i just installed kde with 'sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop,' but how do i remove gnome and all the gnome apps?	http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/purekde
where can i access ubuntu's control center? sorry for the stupid question..:)	you can add the mint one or something similar if you wish but it is not recommended nor supported
hi... if i want to clone a bootable ntfs partition onto a new drive is there a way to do this with oss?	no but there are free apps to do it in windows
how do i get ubunto to boot in to runlevel 3? i don't want x running as i'm thinking of running this on a server.	runlevels on ubuntu/debian do not work like other distributions. if you don't want x running, remove it from startup: sudo update-rc.d gdm remove
hello. anyone running the 2.6.26 kernel from intrepid on hardy ? im just trying it now to see if it fixes a big machine lock up problem.	i run the interpid kernel on hardy. i fail to install ati hd3200 drivers - otherwise it seems to work :/
i need some help. i just installed 11.10 and when i try to log in it either goes back to the login screen or freezes, forcing me to reboot depending on who i try to log in as. what's going on and how do i fix it?	you might try moving/renaming your /home/<yourusername> directory and logging in again
is there a software that allows you to see your computer specs?	start with 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'
what app is the best for music in linux? xmms?	i like audacious
hey, how do i run an app from the menu panel as root?	gksudo may do what you want
hello, when i install the latest drivers from nvidia hopepage (for my nvidia gpu) do i have to remove nvidia-glx prior to installation?	i think so too.. lots of problems later on if you don't
anyone ever been able to get a joystick to work in ubuntu? i read a howto and it says a '.joystick' file will be saved to /home/user, but i don't see it there.	in a terminal, try ls -la in a terminal.
how to force-terminate a running program?	ctrl+c, pkill, kill, xkill
hi - trying to see if i can load hardy heron on a friends computer - it's the live cd version. when it comes up almost to desktop it's asking for a username - it has never done this before on any computer i've always been able to start right up on the desktop to chec k and see if network card works, video, sound etc. any idea's ? ? ?	verify the integrity of the disk (from the first menu you see)
i'm having a really weird issue, i have files that aren't being read by programs, nautilus doesn't show the files as existing (even gksudo nautilus) and weechat can't read any of its settings, but midnight commander and ls show the files as existing, although ls returns: cannot access file.extension: input/output error	tried rebooting?
`allegro: gnome3 doesn't work at all from what i've seen and heard.	fud. gnome3 does have some rough spots, but it's pretty good.
hello. how can you add your wireless connections (bars icon) to the panel?	there's a notification area applet or something similarly named
where can i find full dvd of hardy for amd64 ???	http://www.acc.umu.se/~mighty/ubuntu/ubuntu-8.04-dvd-amd64.iso.torrent
tell marcn about w32codecs	try /msg ubotu tell marcn about w32codecs
can somebody dcc a small text file so i can test my irssi setup?	alright
hi all. where are the source codes for generic bash commands? such as pstree, cat,ls?	er. i mean dpkg -s `which pstree`
wat do i download from synaptic so i can write on ntfs drives	ntfs-3g
can somebody tell me how i can stop the graphical ui like we used to do service gdm stop'	lightdm
is there a gui that works for p7zip on a 64bit system?	lucid
how can you tell what video care you have using the command line?	wubi?
i need to make one distro starting from ubuntu can anybody help me please	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/livecdcustomization/6%2e06
hi, can anyone help me with setting up a wireless connection in ubuntu? its not connecting and i cant figure out why	try iwlist eth1 scanning (or eth0 or wlan0, whatever your wlan device is)
hi there. please, could somebody advise me, how to back up playlists in rhythmbox, or at least, if it is possible?	should be possible. they are proberly in some .gnome or .applcations directory. but i dont know what one.
hi, i've got this really irritating problem. i can have nvidia's drivers working fine and everything going well, however when i restart or turn off my computer the drivers seem to unistall themselves or something because it says (i'll find the log out in a minute) that something have version blah and something else has a lower version. this is made more irritating because i can restart x until i go blue and it will work but it is when i turn off my compute	you need to have an nvidia driver version that matches what your kernel needs, i think
hi, i'm using ubuntu 10.10 (it was suported until 10 april 2012). when i run 'update-manager -d' it show a button to upgrade to 11.04, but i want to upgrade to 12.04. how upgrade to 12.04?	the best thing to do is upgrade sequentially, or you might want to install over what you have (it keeps your documents, but not your applications)
hi how do i stop my screen from auto dimming after a couple mins?	system -> prefs -> power mgmt
hi, i'm replaceing my ati radeon with a nvidia geforce. i'm running the open ati driver. is there anything i need to do before i powerdown and swap the hardware? or will ubuntu detect the changed hardware and edit xorg.conf for me?	that's what ubuntu does to configure it first time
nobody here has dvd burner?	nautilus should burn dvds too if you need data dvd
what's a good cd burning app?	gnomebaker, k3b
i am trying to set up a samba share on my feisty box so i can access it on my modded xbox, but i know nothing about samba. can anyone give me a hand?	good luck!
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
is gaim usually a stable aplication? because it spontaneously closed just now, and its the second time it does that...	the version in feisty is still a beta...
how do i disable a restricted driver i previously enabled	what driver?
hey.. is it possible to tell ubuntu to always get the same internal ip? lets say 192.168.1.10	you can set ubuntu to use static ip or you can create a reservation on your dhcp service
greetings, i have a tmpfs filesystem that i made too small, how can i give it more space on the fly? can it be done?	you'll have to unmount that disk, and the disk that you want to take space from. it can easily be done using the standard ubuntu livecd.
well, how much would a basic linux system with kde need?	the complete system fits on one cd, and i doubt it has more compression than 2.
any more challenging questions here for me tonight? i like complete questions with lots of data pastebin prefered.	you say tonight? what time is it there.
i need to know, how can i stop web server daemon and mysql daemon ... please !!	ls /etc/init.d/ youll see many scripts there. just sudo /etc/init.d/scriptname stop or start or restart
so kernel 3.0.0-13 doesn't boot for me...	i advise you do not use it, then
question: if 2.6.30 kernel had support for your webcam and you discovered karmic's 2.6.31 has mysteriously dropped your webcam, what should you do?	giving us the device id (the output from the command 'lsusb') would be helpful so we know exactly what chipset your camera has.
guys, why is it that everytime i use ubuntu... my cd rom doesn't eject?	if your cd disc is in the drive, you can eject it out by right mouse click on the cd icon..
how can i cd into a folder that has spaces in the name?	or cd foo[tab]
what package should i reconfigure to change list of available video modes for x server?	xserver-xorg?
somebody can tell me why i can use web based irc but not my konversation or irssi?	many workplace firewalls consider irc a security risk, and block port 6667, but not 80 ... that would do it
i am currently using kdm but would like to switch back to gdm how can i do this in dapper	udo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
whats the cli app to make a command wait before executing?	yes but onlt up to a few seconds, plus iwouldn't mess around unless you knew what you're doing
what tools exist for making html websites on ubuntu (like dreamweaver)?	there isn't really a dreamweaver equivalent as far as i know. i did use bluefish and thought it was good.
needing help with compiling support for my modem in the kernel. anyone willing to help?	is it a module you need to download 3rd party source from to compile against the kernel source?
can someone else in here running virtualbox confirm that their ' id ' command does not list ' vboxusers '	id command lists vboxusrs here
anyone know a good console app i can use in a cron job that reports cpu usage?	iostat
hello. is it possible to download source of packege with synaptic? how?	sudo apt-get source <package> should work
hi. if i have put a dvd in the drive, and i can go through the filesystem and whatnot and execute programs from it, then it must be mounted, yes? why would there be no device, then, in gparted? or, on a related note, how can i figure out what device is associated with a folder in /media/ ???	it's probably /dev/cdrom0
do you guys generally go with a lts for you desktop machines? i'm trying to decide between 10.04 and 10.10. any suggestions? my servers will be on 10.04	go with 10.04, upgrade to 10.10 if you find yourself needing a lot of updated stuff.
what app can i use as a webcam or camera on my laptop? thnks!	cheese
does anybody know if there is a way to run vbasic scripts properly while browsing with ubuntu?	_if_ they adhere to the win sdk using wine might be an option
how do i lease/renew my ip in linux?	dhclient [interface]
hello, i am a linux newbie. i have set up windows 7 and ubuntu 12.04 dual boot system on my laptop. i use truecrypt (v 7) encrypted partitions. these partitions are set as favorites volumes. in windows treucrypt has option of auto mounting favorite volumes on logon. but i don't see such option in ubuntu. i searched for a solution to auto mount truecrypt favorite volumes in ubuntu without success. can anyone advice me on this?	so write a bashsript and have called by - for instance- rc.local
how can i take multiple video files and combine them into a single continuous file?	cat file1 file2 > result
how can i force to remove a package even if dpkg returns some error code?	--force-all
i want xboard to be able to find crafty... i have it in my path in .bashrc and it works when i launch it from a terminal but if i launch it with alt+f2 it cant find crafty anymore :p	because the default login shell is not bash. use chsh to change your login shell.
what can i use to find out keyboard scan codes under x? i want to try and map some of the multimedia keys to different apps	xev
anyone able to get the cube display working on 12.04?	cube feature can break unity.ive seensome guides on getting it working at the webupd8 and/or the omgubuntu blog sites
hi, is there any package for the game 0 a.d. ?	http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1211966
is quantal causing issues with ati 5k cards ?	it borks up because of xorg 1.13... so yes... install catalyst 12.9 from amd's website :)
q: how to update 12.04 to 12.10 beta ? possible ? thanks!	the 28th of this month
hey how many kilobytes is 256 mb?	afaik i selected no, im not sure though, lol
ok, but in newbie speak. what are the actual physical differance between kubuntu and ubuntu. i realize that kubuntu is ubuntu with kde, but how does that change what ubuntu is?	its sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop actually.
it is 'turned off'(ie, open out, open in) by default however	still i believe it would still work if you add rules to the table, it'll block, pretty sure its active just with noting configured

guys, since no one can help me with my suspend problem here, can anyone recommend another channel?

a bot can care less where you are :) read the rest of it

what's the name for the default terminal ? i installed terminal.app but it's not exactly what i need

try gnome-terminal

ok guys, i got a big one if anyone has any ideas. my /home won't mount, the partition is not listed in /dev/disk/by-uuid (i thought my fstab maybe got corrupted), i can mount it manually but i have to specify the fs type (mount can't find it), did both fsck and e2fsck, didn't help

replace uuid=..... with /dev/yourdrive in /etc/fstab

when i plug in my mp3 player, rhythmbox automatically runs. this is very irritating. how can i disable this?

removable media options under system>preferences

i would like you to test my add-on for mozilla firefox on ubuntu... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/13129 is the description. but please take the latest version 0.11 at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addons/versions/13129#version-0.11 :?

this isn't the place for that. don't advertise here.

hello is there a way i can have whatever song i am playing show up in my gaim away message?

go poke those fine people @ gaim

how do i install java 1.5 or 1.6?

aptitude install sun-java6-jre

what is the command to 'see' whats inside a directory?#

ls, like ikonia said ;)

can anyone tell me how i mount smbfs drives on the desktop as icons?

do you have the drives mounted somewhere with samba already?

how can i grab/create/make a cd image from a cd-rom in ubuntu?

dd if=/dev/cdromdevicefile of=image.iso

does eeeubuntu work well for the 1000h model of eee pc?

1000h has a hard drive, you shouldn't have to bother with cut-down stuff on it

how to change gnome's gui language

gnome-language-selector

howdy! anyone aware of any documentation for ubuntu unity?

also system > about ubuntu

hello all. could someone give me some advice on a wireless card that is likely to be ubuntu friendly?

any mainstream popular card should be fine

can anyone tell me how and where i should set the default text editor?

computer > deskt prefs > preferred aplications

anyone know of a good tutorial for creating firefox themes?

golly, no, haven't seen something like that. have you tried just dissecting the xml file of a decent theme and seeing what it's made out of

i have a question, would i get better vid card performance from nvidia by installing the binary drivers from their site?

missing in menu however is nvidia-settings, you might wish to add it

is the sun j2re package still in ubuntu or was it removed temporarily ???

the repository where it is stored is not working correctly right now. it will probably get better, but no schedule at this point.

does anyone know what the logout menu hibernation and standby exactly do? are they hard coded or do they execute the /etc/acpi/ scripts

the scripts

i just upgraded feisty -> gutsy. the new .22 kernel fails to boot b/c fsck can't find /dev/hda* - which became /dev/sda* with the new kernel.

boot up a livecd and mount your / partition. modify /etc/fstab to change /dev/hda to /dev/sda

would it be a problem to have multiple distros sharing a single /home partition?

there could be some small incommpatabilities but for the most part i think it's fine. many people do it

how do i switch to metacity (that's the default wm right?) i typed metacity --replace in the console and it switched but when i closed the console it switched back or something and froze

type metacity --replace & exit (it will close the terminal)

hi, maybe an easy question, but how can i disable the bootsplash in edgy, so that i just see the bootup-messages in the console?

remove 'splash' from the kernel lines in /boot/grub/menu.lst

how do i set date in xubuntu desktop, right click on date doesn't show any option to set the date

(in a terminal)

system > preferences > startup applications shows 20 applications asserted. why does ~/.config/autostart list only 7?

that's a good question. the startup apps work very weirdly

what can i infer from the dmesg message 'acpi: sleep button (cm) [slpb] '? my laptop does not have any sleep button.

don't you have a sleep button as fn + f(something)?

am a newbie - how do i find what my com1 port is under ubuntu please - trying to configure minicom

note that minicom assumes you have a modem attached and does lots of at wierdry before you get a chance to do anything

hello, i'm trying to rsync my directory to a remote nfs mounted directory, but rsync can't hold permissions, is there a way to avoid setting permissions, i saw the man page, can't get it

although i can't give a direct answer to your question i'd recommend to look at rdiff-backup (some useful wrapper around rsync)

hi. i just installed kde with 'sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop,' but how do i remove gnome and all the gnome apps?

http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/purekde

where can i access ubuntu's control center? sorry for the stupid question..:)

you can add the mint one or something similar if you wish but it is not recommended nor supported

hi... if i want to clone a bootable ntfs partition onto a new drive is there a way to do this with oss?

no but there are free apps to do it in windows

how do i get ubunto to boot in to runlevel 3? i don't want x running as i'm thinking of running this on a server.

runlevels on ubuntu/debian do not work like other distributions. if you don't want x running, remove it from startup: sudo update-rc.d gdm remove

hello. anyone running the 2.6.26 kernel from intrepid on hardy ? im just trying it now to see if it fixes a big machine lock up problem.

i run the interpid kernel on hardy. i fail to install ati hd3200 drivers - otherwise it seems to work :/

i need some help. i just installed 11.10 and when i try to log in it either goes back to the login screen or freezes, forcing me to reboot depending on who i try to log in as. what's going on and how do i fix it?

you might try moving/renaming your /home/<yourusername> directory and logging in again

is there a software that allows you to see your computer specs?

start with 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'

what app is the best for music in linux? xmms?

i like audacious

hey, how do i run an app from the menu panel as root?

gksudo may do what you want

hello, when i install the latest drivers from nvidia hopepage (for my nvidia gpu) do i have to remove nvidia-glx prior to installation?

i think so too.. lots of problems later on if you don't

anyone ever been able to get a joystick to work in ubuntu? i read a howto and it says a '.joystick' file will be saved to /home/user, but i don't see it there.

in a terminal, try ls -la in a terminal.

how to force-terminate a running program?

ctrl+c, pkill, kill, xkill

hi - trying to see if i can load hardy heron on a friends computer - it's the live cd version. when it comes up almost to desktop it's asking for a username - it has never done this before on any computer i've always been able to start right up on the desktop to chec k and see if network card works, video, sound etc. any idea's ? ? ?

verify the integrity of the disk (from the first menu you see)

i'm having a really weird issue, i have files that aren't being read by programs, nautilus doesn't show the files as existing (even gksudo nautilus) and weechat can't read any of its settings, but midnight commander and ls show the files as existing, although ls returns: cannot access file.extension: input/output error

tried rebooting?

`allegro: gnome3 doesn't work at all from what i've seen and heard.

fud. gnome3 does have some rough spots, but it's pretty good.

hello. how can you add your wireless connections (bars icon) to the panel?

there's a notification area applet or something similarly named

where can i find full dvd of hardy for amd64 ???

http://www.acc.umu.se/~mighty/ubuntu/ubuntu-8.04-dvd-amd64.iso.torrent

tell marcn about w32codecs

try /msg ubotu tell marcn about w32codecs

can somebody dcc a small text file so i can test my irssi setup?

alright

hi all. where are the source codes for generic bash commands? such as pstree, cat,ls?

er. i mean dpkg -s `which pstree`

wat do i download from synaptic so i can write on ntfs drives

ntfs-3g

can somebody tell me how i can stop the graphical ui like we used to do service gdm stop'

lightdm

is there a gui that works for p7zip on a 64bit system?

lucid

how can you tell what video care you have using the command line?

wubi?

i need to make one distro starting from ubuntu can anybody help me please

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/livecdcustomization/6%2e06

hi, can anyone help me with setting up a wireless connection in ubuntu? its not connecting and i cant figure out why

try iwlist eth1 scanning (or eth0 or wlan0, whatever your wlan device is)

hi there. please, could somebody advise me, how to back up playlists in rhythmbox, or at least, if it is possible?

should be possible. they are proberly in some .gnome or .applcations directory. but i dont know what one.

hi, i've got this really irritating problem. i can have nvidia's drivers working fine and everything going well, however when i restart or turn off my computer the drivers seem to unistall themselves or something because it says (i'll find the log out in a minute) that something have version blah and something else has a lower version. this is made more irritating because i can restart x until i go blue and it will work but it is when i turn off my compute

you need to have an nvidia driver version that matches what your kernel needs, i think

hi, i'm using ubuntu 10.10 (it was suported until 10 april 2012). when i run 'update-manager -d' it show a button to upgrade to 11.04, but i want to upgrade to 12.04. how upgrade to 12.04?

the best thing to do is upgrade sequentially, or you might want to install over what you have (it keeps your documents, but not your applications)

hi how do i stop my screen from auto dimming after a couple mins?

system -> prefs -> power mgmt

hi, i'm replaceing my ati radeon with a nvidia geforce. i'm running the open ati driver. is there anything i need to do before i powerdown and swap the hardware? or will ubuntu detect the changed hardware and edit xorg.conf for me?

that's what ubuntu does to configure it first time

nobody here has dvd burner?

nautilus should burn dvds too if you need data dvd

what's a good cd burning app?

gnomebaker, k3b

i am trying to set up a samba share on my feisty box so i can access it on my modded xbox, but i know nothing about samba. can anyone give me a hand?

good luck!

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

is gaim usually a stable aplication? because it spontaneously closed just now, and its the second time it does that...

the version in feisty is still a beta...

how do i disable a restricted driver i previously enabled

what driver?

hey.. is it possible to tell ubuntu to always get the same internal ip? lets say 192.168.1.10

you can set ubuntu to use static ip or you can create a reservation on your dhcp service

greetings, i have a tmpfs filesystem that i made too small, how can i give it more space on the fly? can it be done?

you'll have to unmount that disk, and the disk that you want to take space from. it can easily be done using the standard ubuntu livecd.

well, how much would a basic linux system with kde need?

the complete system fits on one cd, and i doubt it has more compression than 2.

any more challenging questions here for me tonight? i like complete questions with lots of data pastebin prefered.

you say tonight? what time is it there.

i need to know, how can i stop web server daemon and mysql daemon ... please !!

ls /etc/init.d/ youll see many scripts there. just sudo /etc/init.d/scriptname stop or start or restart

so kernel 3.0.0-13 doesn't boot for me...

i advise you do not use it, then

question: if 2.6.30 kernel had support for your webcam and you discovered karmic's 2.6.31 has mysteriously dropped your webcam, what should you do?

giving us the device id (the output from the command 'lsusb') would be helpful so we know exactly what chipset your camera has.

guys, why is it that everytime i use ubuntu... my cd rom doesn't eject?

if your cd disc is in the drive, you can eject it out by right mouse click on the cd icon..

how can i cd into a folder that has spaces in the name?

or cd foo[tab]

what package should i reconfigure to change list of available video modes for x server?

xserver-xorg?

somebody can tell me why i can use web based irc but not my konversation or irssi?

many workplace firewalls consider irc a security risk, and block port 6667, but not 80 ... that would do it

i am currently using kdm but would like to switch back to gdm how can i do this in dapper

udo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

whats the cli app to make a command wait before executing?

yes but onlt up to a few seconds, plus iwouldn't mess around unless you knew what you're doing

what tools exist for making html websites on ubuntu (like dreamweaver)?

there isn't really a dreamweaver equivalent as far as i know. i did use bluefish and thought it was good.

needing help with compiling support for my modem in the kernel. anyone willing to help?

is it a module you need to download 3rd party source from to compile against the kernel source?

can someone else in here running virtualbox confirm that their ' id ' command *does not* list ' vboxusers '

id command *lists* vboxusrs here

anyone know a good console app i can use in a cron job that reports cpu usage?

iostat

hello. is it possible to download source of packege with synaptic? how?

sudo apt-get source <package> should work

hi. if i have put a dvd in the drive, and i can go through the filesystem and whatnot and execute programs from it, then it must be mounted, yes? why would there be no device, then, in gparted? or, on a related note, how can i figure out what device is associated with a folder in /media/ ???

it's probably /dev/cdrom0

do you guys generally go with a lts for you desktop machines? i'm trying to decide between 10.04 and 10.10. any suggestions? my servers will be on 10.04

go with 10.04, upgrade to 10.10 if you find yourself needing a lot of updated stuff.

what app can i use as a webcam or camera on my laptop? thnks!

cheese

does anybody know if there is a way to run vbasic scripts properly while browsing with ubuntu?

_if_ they adhere to the win sdk using wine might be an option

how do i lease/renew my ip in linux?

dhclient [interface]

hello, i am a linux newbie. i have set up windows 7 and ubuntu 12.04 dual boot system on my laptop. i use truecrypt (v 7) encrypted partitions. these partitions are set as favorites volumes. in windows treucrypt has option of auto mounting favorite volumes on logon. but i don't see such option in ubuntu. i searched for a solution to auto mount truecrypt favorite volumes in ubuntu without success. can anyone advice me on this?

so write a bashsript and have called by - for instance- rc.local

how can i take multiple video files and combine them into a single continuous file?

cat file1 file2 > result

how can i force to remove a package even if dpkg returns some error code?

--force-all

i want xboard to be able to find crafty... i have it in my path in .bashrc and it works when i launch it from a terminal but if i launch it with alt+f2 it cant find crafty anymore :p

because the default login shell is not bash. use chsh to change your login shell.

what can i use to find out keyboard scan codes under x? i want to try and map some of the multimedia keys to different apps

xev

anyone able to get the cube display working on 12.04?

cube feature can break unity.ive seensome guides on getting it working at the webupd8 and/or the omgubuntu blog sites

hi, is there any package for the game 0 a.d. ?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1211966

is quantal causing issues with ati 5k cards ?

it borks up because of xorg 1.13... so yes... install catalyst 12.9 from amd's website :)

q: how to update 12.04 to 12.10 beta ? possible ? thanks!

the 28th of this month

hey how many kilobytes is 256 mb?

afaik i selected no, im not sure though, lol

ok, but in newbie speak. what are the actual physical differance between kubuntu and ubuntu. i realize that kubuntu is ubuntu with kde, but how does that change what ubuntu is?

its sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop actually.

it is 'turned off'(ie, open out, open in) by default however

still i believe it would still work if you add rules to the table, it'll block, pretty sure its active just with noting configured