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i am waiting until my question leaves my screen but i suppose i can wait until it leaves a bigger window... and i am searching the forums, nothing there either... and i thought that, when your question isn't directed at someone, it can 'get lost'... so i was just making sure mine didn't get lost. i'm sorry if it was out of line. thank you for letting me know. :)	every 10 minutes or more is not considered rude/annoying :)
i've got a netgear ma311(a wireless pci adapter) working with the orinoco module, will it be recognised by the installer? or will i need to set it up after?	if it doesn't, send us the pci id
anyone can suggest me a night vision webcam that will work with ubuntu ?	many webcams does not filter ir
miro seems to be on the fritz, and joost is anti-linux-facists (spelling?), any alternatives?	ut runs native on linux, this guy wants to know about wine
can anyone tell me how to change the group of all the files in a directory at once	from a terminal: `chgrp -r groupname /dir/name` - prefix with 'sudo' if your account can't change the group.
hi, i have ubuntu 12.04 live/desktop that i want to burn onto cd, what burn speed do i set it on using brasero - maximum speed, 48.0x (cd), 40.0x (cd), 32.0x (cd), 24.0x (cd), 16.0x (cd), 8.0x (cd)?	no. just burn an iso
hi, is there any way i can install i386 software onto hardy amd64? i need to use winff which is 386 only. thanks a lot for your kind help	it should work fine
i'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask this question, but why is bluefish still at 0.12 in universe when 0.13 has been out for 2 or 3 months?	presumably, this is due to the time it takes for someone to update the package, although i'm not entirely sure.
this kis kind of a basic question but something is using up 100% of my clock cycles, how would i go about finding out what process is doing that and killing it (sys monitor is no help)	start with 'top'
can someone point me to a good site that explains how to get ubuntu kernel source via git?	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/kernelgitguide
hi room, i would like to upgrade to the latest ubuntu kernel and compare how my application runs agains the current one. hence i need to boot into one kernel and then go back and boot into the other. first question regarding this 1) what packages do i need to install for the latest 2.6.28.15.20 kernel? -- is there a single meta-package?	actually it should have been the !kernel factoid there
what is the command for opening nautilus with sudo power??? i forgot	: gksudo nautilus
how can how can i order a view on evolution so see mailing list subjects ordered as mailing list thread order? thanks!	hit <ctrl> t
which compiler for c++ do you guys recomend me using ubuntu?	g++
in layman terms, what's the difference between utf-8 and iso-whatever encoding?	look up 'unicode' on wikipedia.org
if i want to use the packages from a different ubuntu release, all i need to do is change the paths in /etc/apt/sources.list, right?	bad idea to mix repos it is not supported and will break things
how do you propose someone boots a p4 machine from an iso file that's located on an internal hard drive, without already having an os running?	i wasn't aware that there was no os already on the machine.
whats this avahi? totally new to me..	also known as 'zeroconf' or 'bonjour'. basically, no-configuration network stuff.
i've downloaded openoffice 2.0 and its all rpm's, is there a way to install them on ubuntu ?	openoffice.org2 is already in ubuntu...
why is my fan on my laptop constantly going when using linux? any ideas?	what brand?
how do i clean the kernel build files out for a new re-build?	make distclean
hi, can i burn the iso-image of 8.04 to a dvd instead of a cd?	http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/dvd/current/
does anyone here know the package name for installing basic development tools (gcc, make, pkgconfig, etc..(?	build-essential
other than writing a script to parse /var/log/apt/term.log, is there an easier way to identify packages the user has installed?	sorry.. dpkg -l (lower case l)
what's the default root pw ?	- sudo su -
hi, i'm connected to a server through ssh. i've had a game server opened (the console), but i was disconnected from the internet. now my question is: is there a way to resume the tty the server console is running on	this is why you should use 'screen' next time. i don't think you can grab it after the fact though :/
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
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
pan nzb app doesnt seem to be in the repos for ibex, is that right? anyone know about this?	pan is in the intrepid repos.
is anyone here using network-manager with wlan and static ip here now? i'd like to know how nm-applets config looks like in gconf, cause it's broken in karmic and i need info to hunt down the bug.	at least static ip seems to be fixed for ethernet in karmic.. (but i dont use wifi)
is there any reason i should install the i386 version over the amd64 on my dual-core?	maybe not... head to the 64-bit forum for more info and tricks on 64-bit
how to check which mysql version i have?	maybe apt-cache policy mysql-server
hi, guys. i prefer yakuake to tilda. is it less efficient to use yakuake in gnome?	i use guake, very similar to yakuake, not sure about efficiencies though.
seb128, how goes it?	fine, thanks
i hope someone can help me with this problem: i have a laptop with i5 processor (which integrates graphics sandybridge) and graphic card nvidia geforce gt540m. at first system info said 'graphics: unknown'. when i started to use the gnome 3 shell system info began to say 'graphics: mobile intel sandybridge' and the processor heats up a lot. i tried to install the nvidia driver (suggested by 'additional drivers') and the graphics stopped working altogether,	sounds like you have intel/nvidia hybrid graphics - there is some special software to use such devices. bumblebee i believe is one option (i don't have the hardware so no personal experience)
amendo, wireshark will show all packets in the air regardless of encryption or not. the important point here is that the wireless network card is not showing anything at all when it's put into monitor but works fine when in managed mode for internet serfing	i had to manually add the 'root wireshark' from add/remove to be able to have it function and capture all packets
someone here has problem with firefox 3 beta 4, reading alot to disk and acts real slow?	many people (but not me). it's been reported as a launchpad bug. look for 'firefox sqlite cache'.
hey guys, silly question, does the 'run application' dialog have a command line command to trigger it?	you can press alt-f2 from anywhere in gnome, but whether it's a separate binary being run that you can specify on the command line, i don't know
hi folks, anyone in here know a lot about swfs and ubuntu compatibility?	the file format?
g_81, how do you go about deleting your tty i will find it useful for my old spec laptop	remove or modify the files in /etc/event.d as you see fit
anyone tell me how to find out if firefox has more than one process running? when i start ff it says choose another profile because default is already running. but its not.	'ps auwx \| grep firefox' will show any running processes, it could just be you need to remove the 'lock' file from your firefox profile
anyone know how to install nsupdate with apt-get?	dnsutils
how do i now my memory amount?	free -m
quick question. have any of you been updated to firefox 9 yet? it's been out for weeks and i still haven't recieved an update. when is it coming?	it is in proposed, it will likely land in updates soon
thought so, thanks - although i prefer the fresh install, i've heard upgrading can cause issues	clean installs are always more likely to be problem free. one thing you may want to consider is how much customization you've put into the system. upgrades will carry over a lot of that customatization, and save you the hassle of having to do it all over again.
a question about rss-feeds. i just installed liferea and when i click one of the news in it i get like two rows of text and when i click it firefox opens the real article. isn't there a way to have liferea show me the entire article right away and just read all news there? or is rss just a 'oh-there's-something-new-on-this-page-i'll-go-check-it-out-then'-thing?	sometimes rss feeds are shorter versions of a full article, it depends on the feed, most that i read are more than 2 lines though.
hey guys how come the linux partition manager wont let me resize my linux partitions, but lets me resize my windows one?	no, use a livecd
how do i see dir's named .somthing in terminal ?	ls -la
i know this is not the appropriate channel to ask this, but i do not know where else to do it. anyone knows of an emulator to check if a usb drive made bootable works without restarting the computer?	not sure but qemu / virtualbox or vmware could help
anybody know of a repository to get libdvdcss for breezy from?	try videolan homepage
i just added a new hard drive and i am editing the fstab could any tell me if this looks right?	just remove the 1 at the end
where i can get compizfusion alpha?	opencompositing.org
how do i find out that uuid for fstab entries?	sudo blkid
anyone know my issue?	add gksudo to the front of the command
i'm on wireless in ubuntu and i can surf through firefox, but empathy and evolution only can go online through the ethernet. if i am on wireless they don't connect. anyone got any ideas?	are you on your home network or on a corporate / school network?
is there a way to expand on wildcards in client, by typing that which is unique (e.g. psuedosyntax s0005) and hitting tab?	look at the docs for zsh. it has more more powerful and configuration completion capabilities
can anyone recommend any good free ebooks on ubuntu?	http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/download_main.html
ot: can someone tell me when there will be the first results for the us presidential elections on tue?	the networks aren't allowed to call the election until the polls close at 8:00, but results will be coming in and pundits talking their heads off for hours before that.
8.04 is quite old and does not support newer hardware as well. dump it	maybe yours do, but mine live forever
i'm getting extremely poor video performance on my laptop, i'm trying to use the radeon open source driver on a thinkpad t41, (radeon 9000 mobile.... m9, r250) glxinfo output is here:http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/28016/ it seems that its using mesa3d? is that right?	you con use the fglrx driver i think
what is envy?	a script that tries to install your drivers, we reworked a version of it for your repos, but the original can mess you up and keep the real drivers from working
hi all this is a bit embarrassing... um how do i find out what version of ubuntu i'm currently running (7.04, 7.10...)?	lsb_release -a
hello i need to manually delete two lines in sources.list in ubuntu 10.10., how i do that?	gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
hi, is it possible to find out the ip of a windows smb share?	what is the port used for smb
this is the best hash check. its a right click list of different hash md5 sha etc. check it out works with xp or win7 http://code.kliu.org/hashcheck/	what if you want to view the properties of a large file?
everyone: is there a reason to install windows 64 bit yet?	yeah, it works
hey guys, web developper here. spent the last 10 years working with osx, considering switching to ubuntu (on same macbookpro machine). any tips/recommendation ?	look up everything, compatibility varies from mac to mac
how can i download a whole directory at once using wget?	it's worth it to read `man wget'. long, but you'll get what you need.
i used to be able to take a screenshot of a single window, using ctrl-prtscrn (or maybe it was alt). it doesn't seem to be working after upgrade, i tried all the modifier keys. only pressing prtscrn by itself takes a screenshot of the whole screen	do you have ccsm>gnome compatibility enabled? (and screenshot set inside of the plugin)
hi.... after i tried updating my graphics card driver, my system freezes at the login screen .... how do i switch back to the standard ubuntu video driver in recovery mode or using my linux rescue cd?	sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -phigh
qtn: if i want to reply to someone in this chat and have their names appear automatically (i.e. not have to type it) how do i do it?	e.g., i'm pressing 'db' and then tab for these messages
which flash player works best?	flashplugin-nonfree
hi guys .... where do i get unistd.h from ?	libc6-dev, most likely
does anybody know how i can make the terminal window transparent?	, then select transparent background, and set the transparency
ok, so the question thats been answered a billion times, can someone just give me a quick opinion, is there really any benefit to using the amd64 version over the i386 version?, and is there any drawbacks?	if you don't have 4 gigs or more of memory there's not much point for now imo.
i just installed the ubuntu 7.04 server and it booted up. last output on the display is '* running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [ ok ]' which i'm thinking is ... uh ... [ ok ] :) however i'm kinda missing a prompt.	if you press enter you get a prompt ?
i got a problem, when trying to install madwifi it gives me this error build is missing, please set kernelpath. stop. any idea how to fix it?	http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=38972
from cli, how would i remove all files (files only, not dirs) which filename starts with 'wget'?	rm wget* for all files in the current directory which you're in (not subdirs)
just wondering if someone knew a site where you could get the ubuntu cd as a torrent?	abiword?
i've got a conflict where apt-get insists on applying an upgrade at the same time that i'm removing a package that conflicts with that upgrade. how do i make apt-get withhold the update until i'm done removing the old package?	use dpkg directly, there are --force parameters to allow it proceed, and then apt-get/aptitude can do its thing after
hello, i pressed ctrl+shift+f5 (i think) by misstake and this got me into terminal window... how do i get back to ubuntu ui?	and you pressed ctrl+alt+f5.
what is persistent usb ?	it keeps your home directory on the usb stick.
hi all , i got 'no suitable module for running kernel found' error when i installed virtualbox-ose in ubuntu 10.10	have a look at the manual, there is a command to build the kernel-modul, but normally the modul comes when you install it with apt-get
hey folks - i am trying to setup vmware-server on fiesty but it dies building the kernel module - any idea how i get it to use the kernel mods i was able to apt-get?	http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_feisty_fawn_vmware_server_howto
can anyone recommend a reskin of the launch bar on the left of the screen? the default one is so ugly	try myunity
anyone know how to make numlock turn on on boot?	numlockx
i have question .. what is rc kernel .. never heard of that term.. been out of loop with linux development for a while..	although, if you see 'rc' in output of 'dpkg -l', it's actually 'has to be removed, but some configuration files are left'
whats the proper way to install ndiswrapper? does ndiswrapper-common include the binaries? i can't find a straight answer, it seems to be the kernel has ndiswrapper with it?	sudo aptitude install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 ndiswrapper-common
i am looking for an ids named snare according to the snare website it should be in the repo, but when i type 'snare' on the console it doesnt suggest me any alternate name. how can i look it up in the repo?	apt-cache search packagename
not to interrupt, but does anyone know much about dual monitors? i'm having an interesting problem i can't search the internet for because i'm not sure how to phrase it.	standard trick, try to reset the monitor with build in factory reset?
this is an irc question...how do you direct your msg to a user without private msg them? is everyone just prefixing their messages with 'user:'?	start typing the user name, and then press the tab key, that should autocomplete the usename to save a bit of typing (it does for me in xchat anyway)
anyone knows how to disable compiz??? must i install it to disable it???	system -> preferences -> appearance goto visual effects and choose none
whre do i disable automount icon in gconf-editor	that should be in apps>nautilus
ouch.. i just discovered that i have two active mounted swap partitions.. if i unmount one will the system hic-up?	i think the safest method is to boot into a live-cd and remove one swap partition from fstab
i need java for linux, what to download, is blackdown still ok?	i guess so
hey all i have a process that i just cannot kill, is there something i have to do to force a kill?	kill -9 <pid>
looking for a rule-of-thumb explanation of when i need a regular package, and when i need a '-dev' package. or when i need both. for example, libxml2 / libxml2-dev	dev package if you plan to develop or compile against the library
hi all! would anyone tell me how can i view files with .map extension?(with which software i mean)	tried http://www.mgmaps.com/cache/gmapmaker-setup.exe in wine?
hey all, i been looking all over the forum how to make my microphone work with teamspeak but for some reason it is recongnizing the mic but not capturing anything i say? can anyone help me please?	no idea, sorry.
brasero is giving me trouble, it's requesting 2 packages that i can't find. can anyone actually help me? or should i come back another time? it seems everyone's watching the news	be patient wait a sec then re-post the ? they are ppl in here getting around, you should get help

i am waiting until my question leaves my screen but i suppose i can wait until it leaves a bigger window... and i am searching the forums, nothing there either... and i thought that, when your question isn't directed at someone, it can 'get lost'... so i was just making sure mine didn't get lost. i'm sorry if it was out of line. thank you for letting me know. :)

every 10 minutes or more is not considered rude/annoying :)

i've got a netgear ma311(a wireless pci adapter) working with the orinoco module, will it be recognised by the installer? or will i need to set it up after?

if it doesn't, send us the pci id

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

many webcams does not filter ir

miro seems to be on the fritz, and joost is anti-linux-facists (spelling?), any alternatives?

ut runs native on linux, this guy wants to know about wine

can anyone tell me how to change the group of all the files in a directory at once

from a terminal: `chgrp -r groupname /dir/name` - prefix with 'sudo' if your account can't change the group.

hi, i have ubuntu 12.04 live/desktop that i want to burn onto cd, what burn speed do i set it on using brasero - maximum speed, 48.0x (cd), 40.0x (cd), 32.0x (cd), 24.0x (cd), 16.0x (cd), 8.0x (cd)?

no. just burn an iso

hi, is there any way i can install i386 software onto hardy amd64? i need to use winff which is 386 only. thanks a lot for your kind help

it should work fine

i'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask this question, but why is bluefish still at 0.12 in universe when 0.13 has been out for 2 or 3 months?

presumably, this is due to the time it takes for someone to update the package, although i'm not entirely sure.

this kis kind of a basic question but something is using up 100% of my clock cycles, how would i go about finding out what process is doing that and killing it (sys monitor is no help)

start with 'top'

can someone point me to a good site that explains how to get ubuntu kernel source via git?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/kernelgitguide

hi room, i would like to upgrade to the latest ubuntu kernel and compare how my application runs agains the current one. hence i need to boot into one kernel and then go back and boot into the other. first question regarding this 1) what packages do i need to install for the latest 2.6.28.15.20 kernel? -- is there a single meta-package?

actually it should have been the !kernel factoid there

what is the command for opening nautilus with sudo power??? i forgot

: gksudo nautilus

how can how can i order a view on evolution so see mailing list subjects ordered as mailing list thread order? thanks!

hit <ctrl> t

which compiler for c++ do you guys recomend me using ubuntu?

g++

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

look up 'unicode' on wikipedia.org

if i want to use the packages from a different ubuntu release, all i need to do is change the paths in /etc/apt/sources.list, right?

bad idea to mix repos it is not supported and will break things

how do you propose someone boots a p4 machine from an iso file that's located on an internal hard drive, without already having an os running?

i wasn't aware that there was no os already on the machine.

whats this avahi? totally new to me..

also known as 'zeroconf' or 'bonjour'. basically, no-configuration network stuff.

i've downloaded openoffice 2.0 and its all rpm's, is there a way to install them on ubuntu ?

openoffice.org2 is already in ubuntu...

why is my fan on my laptop constantly going when using linux? any ideas?

what brand?

how do i clean the kernel build files out for a new re-build?

make distclean

hi, can i burn the iso-image of 8.04 to a dvd instead of a cd?

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/dvd/current/

does anyone here know the package name for installing basic development tools (gcc, make, pkgconfig, etc..(?

build-essential

other than writing a script to parse /var/log/apt/term.log, is there an easier way to identify packages the user has installed?

sorry.. dpkg -l (lower case l)

what's the default root pw ?

- sudo su -

hi, i'm connected to a server through ssh. i've had a game server opened (the console), but i was disconnected from the internet. now my question is: is there a way to resume the tty the server console is running on

this is why you should use 'screen' next time. i don't think you can grab it after the fact though :/

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

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

pan nzb app doesnt seem to be in the repos for ibex, is that right? anyone know about this?

pan is in the intrepid repos.

is anyone here using network-manager with wlan and static ip here now? i'd like to know how nm-applets config looks like in gconf, cause it's broken in karmic and i need info to hunt down the bug.

at least static ip seems to be fixed for ethernet in karmic.. (but i dont use wifi)

is there any reason i should install the i386 version over the amd64 on my dual-core?

maybe not... head to the 64-bit forum for more info and tricks on 64-bit

how to check which mysql version i have?

maybe apt-cache policy mysql-server

hi, guys. i prefer yakuake to tilda. is it less efficient to use yakuake in gnome?

i use guake, very similar to yakuake, not sure about efficiencies though.

seb128, how goes it?

fine, thanks

i hope someone can help me with this problem: i have a laptop with i5 processor (which integrates graphics sandybridge) and graphic card nvidia geforce gt540m. at first system info said 'graphics: unknown'. when i started to use the gnome 3 shell system info began to say 'graphics: mobile intel sandybridge' and the processor heats up a lot. i tried to install the nvidia driver (suggested by 'additional drivers') and the graphics stopped working altogether,

sounds like you have intel/nvidia hybrid graphics - there is some special software to use such devices. bumblebee i believe is one option (i don't have the hardware so no personal experience)

amendo, wireshark will show all packets in the air regardless of encryption or not. the important point here is that the wireless network card is not showing anything at all when it's put into monitor but works fine when in managed mode for internet serfing

i had to manually add the 'root wireshark' from add/remove to be able to have it function and capture all packets

someone here has problem with firefox 3 beta 4, reading alot to disk and acts real slow?

many people (but not me). it's been reported as a launchpad bug. look for 'firefox sqlite cache'.

hey guys, silly question, does the 'run application' dialog have a command line command to trigger it?

you can press alt-f2 from anywhere in gnome, but whether it's a separate binary being run that you can specify on the command line, i don't know

hi folks, anyone in here know a lot about swfs and ubuntu compatibility?

the file format?

g_81, how do you go about deleting your tty i will find it useful for my old spec laptop

remove or modify the files in /etc/event.d as you see fit

anyone tell me how to find out if firefox has more than one process running? when i start ff it says choose another profile because default is already running. but its not.

'ps auwx | grep firefox' will show any running processes, it could just be you need to remove the 'lock' file from your firefox profile

anyone know how to install nsupdate with apt-get?

dnsutils

how do i now my memory amount?

free -m

quick question. have any of you been updated to firefox 9 yet? it's been out for weeks and i still haven't recieved an update. when is it coming?

it is in proposed, it will likely land in updates soon

thought so, thanks - although i prefer the fresh install, i've heard upgrading can cause issues

clean installs are always more likely to be problem free. one thing you may want to consider is how much customization you've put into the system. upgrades will carry over a lot of that customatization, and save you the hassle of having to do it all over again.

a question about rss-feeds. i just installed liferea and when i click one of the news in it i get like two rows of text and when i click it firefox opens the real article. isn't there a way to have liferea show me the entire article right away and just read all news there? or is rss just a 'oh-there's-something-new-on-this-page-i'll-go-check-it-out-then'-thing?

sometimes rss feeds are shorter versions of a full article, it depends on the feed, most that i read are more than 2 lines though.

hey guys how come the linux partition manager wont let me resize my linux partitions, but lets me resize my windows one?

no, use a livecd

how do i see dir's named .somthing in terminal ?

ls -la

i know this is not the appropriate channel to ask this, but i do not know where else to do it. anyone knows of an emulator to check if a usb drive made bootable works without restarting the computer?

not sure but qemu / virtualbox or vmware could help

anybody know of a repository to get libdvdcss for breezy from?

try videolan homepage

i just added a new hard drive and i am editing the fstab could any tell me if this looks right?

just remove the 1 at the end

where i can get compizfusion alpha?

opencompositing.org

how do i find out that uuid for fstab entries?

sudo blkid

anyone know my issue?

add gksudo to the front of the command

i'm on wireless in ubuntu and i can surf through firefox, but empathy and evolution only can go online through the ethernet. if i am on wireless they don't connect. anyone got any ideas?

are you on your home network or on a corporate / school network?

is there a way to expand on wildcards in client, by typing that which is unique (e.g. psuedosyntax *s0005*) and hitting tab?

look at the docs for zsh. it has more more powerful and configuration completion capabilities

can anyone recommend any good free ebooks on ubuntu?

http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/download_main.html

ot: can someone tell me when there will be the first results for the us presidential elections on tue?

the networks aren't allowed to call the election until the polls close at 8:00, but results will be coming in and pundits talking their heads off for hours before that.

8.04 is quite old and does not support newer hardware as well. dump it

maybe yours do, but mine live forever

i'm getting extremely poor video performance on my laptop, i'm trying to use the radeon open source driver on a thinkpad t41, (radeon 9000 mobile.... m9, r250) glxinfo output is here:http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/28016/ it seems that its using mesa3d? is that right?

you con use the fglrx driver i think

what is envy?

a script that tries to install your drivers, we reworked a version of it for your repos, but the original can mess you up and keep the real drivers from working

hi all this is a bit embarrassing... um how do i find out what version of ubuntu i'm currently running (7.04, 7.10...)?

lsb_release -a

hello i need to manually delete two lines in sources.list in ubuntu 10.10., how i do that?

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

hi, is it possible to find out the ip of a windows smb share?

what is the port used for smb

this is the best hash check. its a right click list of different hash md5 sha etc. check it out works with xp or win7 http://code.kliu.org/hashcheck/

what if you want to view the properties of a large file?

everyone: is there a reason to install windows 64 bit yet?

yeah, it works

hey guys, web developper here. spent the last 10 years working with osx, considering switching to ubuntu (on same macbookpro machine). any tips/recommendation ?

look up everything, compatibility varies from mac to mac

how can i download a whole directory at once using wget?

it's worth it to read `man wget'. long, but you'll get what you need.

i used to be able to take a screenshot of a single window, using ctrl-prtscrn (or maybe it was alt). it doesn't seem to be working after upgrade, i tried all the modifier keys. only pressing prtscrn by itself takes a screenshot of the whole screen

do you have ccsm>gnome compatibility enabled? (and screenshot set inside of the plugin)

hi.... after i tried updating my graphics card driver, my system freezes at the login screen .... how do i switch back to the standard ubuntu video driver in recovery mode or using my linux rescue cd?

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg -phigh

qtn: if i want to reply to someone in this chat and have their names appear automatically (i.e. not have to type it) how do i do it?

e.g., i'm pressing 'db' and then tab for these messages

which flash player works best?

flashplugin-nonfree

hi guys .... where do i get unistd.h from ?

libc6-dev, most likely

does anybody know how i can make the terminal window transparent?

, then select transparent background, and set the transparency

ok, so the question thats been answered a billion times, can someone just give me a quick opinion, is there really any benefit to using the amd64 version over the i386 version?, and is there any drawbacks?

if you don't have 4 gigs or more of memory there's not much point for now imo.

i just installed the ubuntu 7.04 server and it booted up. last output on the display is '* running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [ ok ]' which i'm thinking is ... uh ... [ ok ] :) however i'm kinda missing a prompt.

if you press enter you get a prompt ?

i got a problem, when trying to install madwifi it gives me this error build is missing, please set kernelpath. stop. any idea how to fix it?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=38972

from cli, how would i remove all files (files only, not dirs) which filename starts with 'wget'?

rm wget* for all files in the current directory which you're in (not subdirs)

just wondering if someone knew a site where you could get the ubuntu cd as a torrent?

abiword?

i've got a conflict where apt-get insists on applying an upgrade at the same time that i'm removing a package that conflicts with that upgrade. how do i make apt-get withhold the update until i'm done removing the old package?

use dpkg directly, there are --force parameters to allow it proceed, and then apt-get/aptitude can do its thing after

hello, i pressed ctrl+shift+f5 (i think) by misstake and this got me into terminal window... how do i get back to ubuntu ui?

and you pressed ctrl+alt+f5.

what is persistent usb ?

it keeps your home directory on the usb stick.

hi all , i got 'no suitable module for running kernel found' error when i installed virtualbox-ose in ubuntu 10.10

have a look at the manual, there is a command to build the kernel-modul, but normally the modul comes when you install it with apt-get

hey folks - i am trying to setup vmware-server on fiesty but it dies building the kernel module - any idea how i get it to use the kernel mods i was able to apt-get?

http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_feisty_fawn_vmware_server_howto

can anyone recommend a reskin of the launch bar on the left of the screen? the default one is so ugly

try myunity

anyone know how to make numlock turn on on boot?

numlockx

i have question .. what is rc kernel .. never heard of that term.. been out of loop with linux development for a while..

although, if you see 'rc' in output of 'dpkg -l', it's actually 'has to be removed, but some configuration files are left'

whats the proper way to install ndiswrapper? does ndiswrapper-common include the binaries? i can't find a straight answer, it seems to be the kernel has ndiswrapper with it?

sudo aptitude install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 ndiswrapper-common

i am looking for an ids named snare according to the snare website it should be in the repo, but when i type 'snare' on the console it doesnt suggest me any alternate name. how can i look it up in the repo?

apt-cache search packagename

not to interrupt, but does anyone know much about dual monitors? i'm having an interesting problem i can't search the internet for because i'm not sure how to phrase it.

standard trick, try to reset the monitor with build in factory reset?

this is an irc question...how do you direct your msg to a user without private msg them? is everyone just prefixing their messages with 'user:'?

start typing the user name, and then press the tab key, that should autocomplete the usename to save a bit of typing (it does for me in xchat anyway)

anyone knows how to disable compiz??? must i install it to disable it???

system -> preferences -> appearance goto visual effects and choose none

whre do i disable automount icon in gconf-editor

that should be in apps>nautilus

ouch.. i just discovered that i have two active mounted swap partitions.. if i unmount one will the system hic-up?

i think the safest method is to boot into a live-cd and remove one swap partition from fstab

i need java for linux, what to download, is blackdown still ok?

i guess so

hey all i have a process that i just cannot kill, is there something i have to do to force a kill?

kill -9 <pid>

looking for a rule-of-thumb explanation of when i need a regular package, and when i need a '-dev' package. or when i need both. for example, libxml2 / libxml2-dev

dev package if you plan to develop or compile against the library

hi all! would anyone tell me how can i view files with .map extension?(with which software i mean)

tried http://www.mgmaps.com/cache/gmapmaker-setup.exe in wine?

hey all, i been looking all over the forum how to make my microphone work with teamspeak but for some reason it is recongnizing the mic but not capturing anything i say? can anyone help me please?

no idea, sorry.

brasero is giving me trouble, it's requesting 2 packages that i can't find. can anyone actually help me? or should i come back another time? it seems everyone's watching the news

be patient wait a sec then re-post the ? they are ppl in here getting around, you should get help