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when i update ubuntu, a bunch of menu items are added to the grub menu. is there a way to prevent this from happening?	you probably want to be able to boot the new kernels though
how do i install packages on ubuntu 11.10?	just getting it to run normally without crashing and being extremely buggy.
hi please can any one help me with this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8922754	will see what i can do
does anyone know how to fix firefox random crashes while using flash?	install flash player 10 beta, look at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4928900 (part b)
but doing that i assume apt may stop installing the list of packages (?)	i assume synaptic crashed , but is locking access to dpkg
how do you trick a website into thinking you're running windows or ie?	usr the 'user agent switcher' plugin for firefox
hey, what's the quickest way to mass encode a bunch of m4a songs to mp3?	http://linux.togaware.com/survivor/m4a_mp3.html
why headphones just doesn't work?	they should generally just work, if they don't sometimes you have to use some kind of little workaround, depends on computer model. have you tried googling your modem + headphones don't work etc..?
how can i generate randomized numbers in bash ? it's possible to do something like that ?	echo $random
i can choose between 1074x768 800x600 640x480 with gnome's resolution management. what command can do it in the terminal?	xrandr
folks... i have a fresh kubuntu lucid, my video is distracted. i intend to switch xaa to exa, but right now don't have a xorg.conf file... how can i proceed this	you can still use a xorg.conf if you want to
and another question: it's obvious that i'm new to linux (no?), so i was just wondering, should i bother to fully customize and set up the new preview version, because i will be able to simply 'upgrade' once the final 5.04 comes out in april, or will i have to reinstall and so i shouldn't bother to fully set it up just yet?	just upgrade
should i install k3b, or is there any gtk burning program that work as good?	k3b is just a frontend but it works well in gnome yes
hi , i'd like kernel messages not to display on the console , how can i do that in ubuntu 10.04 ?	theres a /etc/sysctrl.conf file i think that can tweak that.
has anyone upgraded the to the newest 2.6.20.16 kernel? i have been on the forums and it seems that there are a few people that have had issues with the upgrade..	you shouldn't have a problem as long as you used the restricted driver manager instead of installing from ati.com
i want to find all processes with a specific cmd... so i do ps -e \| _______.. what do i put in blank?	wget http://example.org/index.html -o /someplace/somefile
i'd like to use the kernel .config file the default ubuntu kernel uses, to change it only a bit. where can i find that config file?	/boot/
hi im writing a little bash script is there a way to mask the actions of the script with user text for a cleaner looking install process	yes both should be installed. one is the low level driver, the other is a software mixer
how can i see what video driver i am using?	'lspci -k' lists all hardware and the driver currently in use for each.
hi everybody. does anybody use gamepad or joystick? i have bot two gamepads, saitek p990, all is ok, i can play with both. the only question is: some applications allow to set keys configuration, another use some default values. where can i find this values? how can i override them? my gamepad use 2 modes: analog and ... not analog =) both of them working ok, switching (all like in windows, i've testing it). but in windows there is an application to change	not sure if this is what you are after, but joy2key might help
hi everybody, sorry when editing with pico (nano), it says something like ^o to save, but i dont know what doe that means..	use the control key
how do i set up an ftp server?	https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/c/ftp-server.html
i need some help with netbook remix- i'm trying to get a full desktop (i.e. no netbook launcher) but i don't know how...	remove ubuntu-netbook-remix package.
hey guys, a question: i want to suppress updates for the openoffice package included in hardy as i have installed ooo3.0, how would i go about doing that?	in synaptic, you can lock version on it
how do i determine if a package say php is installed from the console	dpkg -l package
lo all, how do you repair xorg.conf? i wiped it by accident	in a terminal, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
does anyone know of a daemon similar to gnome-volume-manager	ivman
is there a program in ubuntu that works like a post-it-notes type thing?	something like tomboy notes click on applications >> accessories >> tomboy notes
and i'm asking again... is there an option of freaking dual-boot in the partitioner during the install?	uh, just edit the partition table manually.
how can i find the mac address for my nic? im trying to reserve an ip on my router, but my host name wont show up, just says 'unknown name'	sudo ifconfig
whats the command to open the default terminal in u8.10	gnome-terminal
where is the apt config file	/etc/apt/sources.list
what is the command to start the gnome 'disk usage analyzer' from the command line?	baobab
hi all, i just upgraded from 5.10 to 6.06 and hal is not working properly, anyone know what i should try?	you could upgrade to 6.10...
hi all...i have a ati radeon 9600 pro graphic card and i would like to know could i play 3d games under ubuntu with the graphic card i have ? does ubuntu support that ...?	https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/binarydriverhowto
anyone know of problems with pidgin connecting to icq? tried changing the login server, but still doesn't work	pidgin didn't work for me either try xchat if you don't have it
hey! is it possible to zpgrade ubunto to kubuntu from the kubuntu cd? ;)	apt-get install kde-desktop
on windows in 'console' when you press esc it clears your input. what is the key to clear input in ubuntu console?	oh wait, just the input not the whole screen? ctrl+u
hello, i got a question, i just installed unbuntu. worked fine, then it said needed to do some updates.. so i did them then it reboot comp, now when i try to boot up it brings me to this black screen where i can just type commands something like grub how i fix this?	do you get any kind of error message when you boot up?
is there some other web browser than firefox that i could get from ubuntu's repositories?	links, lynx
can i install quake3 via apt-get? or do i have to use the installer?	update-alternatives --config usplash-artwork.so && dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-$(uname -r)
is it possible to install grub from a livecd?	this is a support channel for ubuntu, if you aren't using ubuntu you'll have to ask somewhere else.
we are the knights who say... vista!	kde has superkaramba stuff, gnome has gdesklets, and there are a bunch of other kinds of widgets, so they already may
check this: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/10/27/what-is-a-linux-distribution.html#useful-jargon	so i've noticed- unfortunately, i'm the type that just dives right in and to heck with the manuals; a trait that's biting me in the bum this time.
for burning cds/dvd's, is k3b still the best thing to use?	i use gnomebaker
i have a lot of partitions on my disk so there are two disks on my desktop but i want to clear it .. is there any way i can hide them from the desktop but not change anything else?	i think there is a gconf setting for it in nautilus
you know how when you move your mouse to the corner of the screen and all the windows arrange them selves neatly for you to select one, what is that called? and how do you enable it?	here on my opensuse, it's called 'scale: initiate window picker'
anyone know if the ubuntu forums having authentication issues presently?	the forums are down at the moment
anybody on my question?	install build-essential first
guys what to put in space used to preserve files across reboots field when making a bootable iso using unetbootin ???	i honestly have no idea, im guessin files stored there would be if you were to install programs and such when you are booting from your usb key, so if you are going to just boot and play around, i would put 0 if you are going to boot play around and then install on the hdd i would still put 0 but if you are going to use it i would say 1gb or so depends on what you are going to do
i find that a very large amount of space on my root partition is being used by /var/cache/apt/archives. does it make sense to try to delete some of this? if so, is there an apt-* tool that does the cleanup?	apt-get clean
where do i submit packages i've built for hoary?	what have you built?
is there no j2re package for ubuntu?	read the wiki
is there any easy way to update to 8.10 version from insaid a earlyer version of ubuntu, or should i just reinstall over last os? i donät have much t lose here so i can just clean the root partition without worries.	http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
anyone know a fast document search utility like google desktop?	try running the tracker search tool
hi. it's possible to dd the iso file into a flash drive and boot and install from it?	no, use a tool like unetbootin.
how do you spell hip hop	either is acceptable.
is anyone aware of some kind of program that watches port 22 and blocks the ip of anyone with 3 bad login attempts within 60 secs, or some such ?	i know that its possible to use iptables rules to limit login tries for port 22
neo... however. don't install 5.04. it's outdated and no longer supported, and there's practically no way to upgrade to 7.04 from there	he is gone :)
hi, i need help, i'm with a wrong clock. because at shutdown, the system fails to synchronize with hardware clock. it can't find /sbin/hwclock	/sbin/hwclock is part of util-linux. i guess you could try reinstalling that package
hi, i'm new to ubuntu, is there way to upgrade firefox on ubuntu 4.10 to 1.0?	use ubuntu-backports
could anyone help me with this? http://pastebin.org/204407	try running an apt-get update then retry the install
i was a backtrack user, and liked the konsole....anything similar in ubuntu ?	i think konsole exists in kubuntu
now, being serious, any ideas if there is trouble with the ubuntu tracker? i can list (azureus says) there's 118 seeders on the swarm, but i don't conect to a single seeder or peer.	painless for me.
someone knows if gparted comes with the standard ubuntu 8.04 livecd ?	nope its not there
did anyone notice this weird behavior after recent updates: when you 'stick' a window to the monitor edge, so that it's automatically resized to take up half the screen, you can no longer grab a window edge to further resize it manually.	yes i have
it's too bad i can't install windows 7 in virtual box. my laptop came with it (i have an unused product key because i formatted and immediately installed ubuntu)	no it is free for home use just have to reg but it is free
installed compizconfig session manager on 11.10, started it and since then my unity sidebar and indicators from the top bar are gone. what could i do? please help.	try setting ccsm to unity defaults and then log out and back in
how can i check my ethernet card's address in ubuntu?	type ifconfig in a terminal
hey guys, whats a good irc network these days with some tech channels, including windows, games, etc whatnot?	freenode?
hi all. i have a question: when i use tar xvzf f.e., can i make it, so all the extracted files get extracted into a specified directory?	yes, tar xvf <file> <directory>
i heard somewhere that wine 1.0 was in the ubuntu repos. i can't find it myself.	you could try the 'latest' repos from the wine hq sites
besides trojan being the fatso here! and me being a little overweight. who ells joins the club of fat ubuntians? :-d	i'm not fat, but out of shape
still can't get metacity to load on startup. i rename .gconf and .gconfd, so it's not a configuration file thing. does anyone know what's supposed to start up metacity?	/etc/gdm/defaultinit/ something like that. look around in /etc/gdm/
i wonder why the installer doesn't detect the processor and install the optimized kernel?	on the server edition, what you suggest is done afaik
guys using no_root_squash in /etc/exports for nfs is advisable or its considered a security problem	if you need to to access files on the share, it's highly advisable to use it.
oh.. i have a dual boot, how do i get ubuntu to stop tampering with the system clock, i don't use utc but don't find this option in the administration of time	you set utc='no' somewhere - give me a moment and i'll try to find the file
have you tried it under different distros?	i only tried xubuntu becuase i that's what i use most of the time; so could it be just the kernel?
hi folks, i do have this basic problem in understanding ubuntus concept: i like using f-spot. now there was a newer version released than installed in my 8.04. so does the new version enter only the next 8.10 ubuntu or do i have any option to upgrade earlier?	you can enable the backports repository to get newer releases
hi, i'm running feisty/amd64. i want to install a sun java6 plugin for firefox, but couldn't find one. searched google and found reference to sun-java6-plugin, but i don't have this pkg in my cache. any suggestions?	there is no 64-bit java plugin for firefox. you can install a 32-bit chroot environment
does any one have idea	try totem /etc/skel/examples/experience\ ubuntu.ogg' as a test
there is some info here on vmware player problems http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1735951	i solved it by installing libview2 package
hi! when doing switching to firefox in gnome, firefox gets maximized, and i have to press f11 twice every time to get it back to normal. how to work around this? please help! :(	then use resize from window menu (top left hand corner of the window)
i upgraded to feisty from dapper (from and iso). in dapper i could have 4 'window selectors' (ie, work space windows) in the lower right hand corner of the work space. feisty seems to limit this to 2 'window selector.' how do i get 4 in feisty?	can't you right click on the tool bar, and edit it's properties?
how do i change language? (menues, helptext etc, not keyboard)	isn't that the purpose of locales? dpkg-reconfigure locales <-- choose the right one....
hello. i am using ubuntu 10.10 and would like to upgrade so i can use libreoffice (it freezes up my system in 10.10. would it be better to do a fresh install or will an udate work correctly. i am fairly new to ubuntu. thanks.	you will need to go from 10.10 to 11.04 to 11.10
how can i view subtitles in gnome-mplayer in my language?	why dont' you check your localized channel?
hi... i'm trying to make a script start at startup: isn't working... 'system > startup applications' or thing like this.	have you made your script executable?
any ideas how to run mirc 6.2 on wine? 'bad exe format'	apt-get install xchat
can someone pop-up their totem and see if the bbc plug-in works for them or if it fails to connect?	are you on lucid? if so, i know there was a bug filed against it
can someone tell me what the 'super' button is	it's known to windows users as 'winkey'
anyone know if its possible to get cups to 'listen' to a shared folder or email and print any new pdf's in the folder or received on a specific address?	cups won't do that itself, i don't believe, but you could certainly use inotify to fire off a command when a new file shows up in a directory. have a look at the 'inotify-tools' package. obviously, you'll want to debug this extensively before committing to production (ink is expensive...)
how to set dns manually? cant find good tutorial. please	fyi i believe networkmanager will overright resolv.conf (when it wants to), there should/might be a way to set dns in n-m. good luck.
a lot of us on 8.10 have noticed a longer login time. there could be a large number of reasons why this is, but so long as you can login successfully, then it would be prudent to wait to see if updates improve the time. is the delay for you that bad?	so someone else is having the same problem not just me...
anyone else having gnome menu issues on hoary?	it's a known bug
how can i start notify-osd manually?	just run it: /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd; although there isn't any reason to, since it is started automatically when someone sends a notification
hi guys. i'm wondering how to install java. there is no sun-java6-plugin available.	you need to eable the partners repository for sun's java.
is there something like deepfreez linux for debian based?	what is deepfreez linux?
i have, what may be a wild good chase question. back in my 5.04 days, i played around with an 'ai' software that was just a blank chat window, and the bot just mimicked what you said until it started to get the grasp of sentence structure and such, and got the the point where it would carry full conversations. it was like a 5 letter abbreviation and i havent been able to find it in any of the newer repos, anybody know what program i'm talking a	eliza?
does anyone use chrome and video downloader? it said installing themes and extensions can harm my computer, i did it anyway... then the pop up window said this extension can access my browser history, wich i read in a thread it should not, by the developer himself.. is this normal?	normal

when i update ubuntu, a bunch of menu items are added to the grub menu. is there a way to prevent this from happening?

you probably want to be able to boot the new kernels though

how do i install packages on ubuntu 11.10?

just getting it to run normally without crashing and being extremely buggy.

hi please can any one help me with this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8922754

will see what i can do

does anyone know how to fix firefox random crashes while using flash?

install flash player 10 beta, look at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4928900 (part b)

but doing that i assume apt may stop installing the list of packages (?)

i assume synaptic crashed , but is locking access to dpkg

how do you trick a website into thinking you're running windows or ie?

usr the 'user agent switcher' plugin for firefox

hey, what's the quickest way to mass encode a bunch of m4a songs to mp3?

http://linux.togaware.com/survivor/m4a_mp3.html

why headphones just doesn't work?

they should generally just work, if they don't sometimes you have to use some kind of little workaround, depends on computer model. have you tried googling your modem + headphones don't work etc..?

how can i generate randomized numbers in bash ? it's possible to do something like that ?

echo $random

i can choose between 1074x768 800x600 640x480 with gnome's resolution management. what command can do it in the terminal?

xrandr

folks... i have a fresh kubuntu lucid, my video is distracted. i intend to switch xaa to exa, but right now don't have a xorg.conf file... how can i proceed this

you can still use a xorg.conf if you want to

and another question: it's obvious that i'm new to linux (no?), so i was just wondering, should i bother to fully customize and set up the new preview version, because i will be able to simply 'upgrade' once the final 5.04 comes out in april, or will i have to reinstall and so i shouldn't bother to fully set it up just yet?

just upgrade

should i install k3b, or is there any gtk burning program that work as good?

k3b is just a frontend but it works well in gnome yes

hi , i'd like kernel messages not to display on the console , how can i do that in ubuntu 10.04 ?

theres a /etc/sysctrl.conf file i think that can tweak that.

has anyone upgraded the to the newest 2.6.20.16 kernel? i have been on the forums and it seems that there are a few people that have had issues with the upgrade..

you shouldn't have a problem as long as you used the restricted driver manager instead of installing from ati.com

i want to find all processes with a specific cmd... so i do ps -e | _______.. what do i put in blank?

wget http://example.org/index.html -o /someplace/somefile

i'd like to use the kernel .config file the default ubuntu kernel uses, to change it only a bit. where can i find that config file?

/boot/

hi im writing a little bash script is there a way to mask the actions of the script with user text for a cleaner looking install process

yes both should be installed. one is the low level driver, the other is a software mixer

how can i see what video driver i am using?

'lspci -k' lists all hardware and the driver currently in use for each.

hi everybody. does anybody use gamepad or joystick? i have bot two gamepads, saitek p990, all is ok, i can play with both. the only question is: some applications allow to set keys configuration, another use some default values. where can i find this values? how can i override them? my gamepad use 2 modes: analog and ... not analog =) both of them working ok, switching (all like in windows, i've testing it). but in windows there is an application to change

not sure if this is what you are after, but joy2key might help

hi everybody, sorry when editing with pico (nano), it says something like ^o to save, but i dont know what doe that means..

use the control key

how do i set up an ftp server?

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/c/ftp-server.html

i need some help with netbook remix- i'm trying to get a full desktop (i.e. no netbook launcher) but i don't know how...

remove ubuntu-netbook-remix package.

hey guys, a question: i want to suppress updates for the openoffice package included in hardy as i have installed ooo3.0, how would i go about doing that?

in synaptic, you can lock version on it

how do i determine if a package say php is installed from the console

dpkg -l package

lo all, how do you repair xorg.conf? i wiped it by accident

in a terminal, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

does anyone know of a daemon similar to gnome-volume-manager

ivman

is there a program in ubuntu that works like a post-it-notes type thing?

something like tomboy notes click on applications >> accessories >> tomboy notes

and i'm asking again... is there an option of freaking dual-boot in the partitioner during the install?

uh, just edit the partition table manually.

how can i find the mac address for my nic? im trying to reserve an ip on my router, but my host name wont show up, just says 'unknown name'

sudo ifconfig

whats the command to open the default terminal in u8.10

gnome-terminal

where is the apt config file

/etc/apt/sources.list

what is the command to start the gnome 'disk usage analyzer' from the command line?

baobab

hi all, i just upgraded from 5.10 to 6.06 and hal is not working properly, anyone know what i should try?

you could upgrade to 6.10...

hi all...i have a ati radeon 9600 pro graphic card and i would like to know could i play 3d games under ubuntu with the graphic card i have ? does ubuntu support that ...?

https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/binarydriverhowto

anyone know of problems with pidgin connecting to icq? tried changing the login server, but still doesn't work

pidgin didn't work for me either try xchat if you don't have it

hey! is it possible to zpgrade ubunto to kubuntu from the kubuntu cd? ;)

apt-get install kde-desktop

on windows in 'console' when you press esc it clears your input. what is the key to clear input in ubuntu console?

oh wait, just the input not the whole screen? ctrl+u

hello, i got a question, i just installed unbuntu. worked fine, then it said needed to do some updates.. so i did them then it reboot comp, now when i try to boot up it brings me to this black screen where i can just type commands something like grub how i fix this?

do you get any kind of error message when you boot up?

is there some other web browser than firefox that i could get from ubuntu's repositories?

links, lynx

can i install quake3 via apt-get? or do i have to use the installer?

update-alternatives --config usplash-artwork.so && dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-$(uname -r)

is it possible to install grub from a livecd?

this is a support channel for ubuntu, if you aren't using ubuntu you'll have to ask somewhere else.

we are the knights who say... vista!

kde has superkaramba stuff, gnome has gdesklets, and there are a bunch of other kinds of widgets, so they already may

check this: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/10/27/what-is-a-linux-distribution.html#useful-jargon

so i've noticed- unfortunately, i'm the type that just dives right in and to heck with the manuals; a trait that's biting me in the bum this time.

for burning cds/dvd's, is k3b still the best thing to use?

i use gnomebaker

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

i think there is a gconf setting for it in nautilus

you know how when you move your mouse to the corner of the screen and all the windows arrange them selves neatly for you to select one, what is that called? and how do you enable it?

here on my opensuse, it's called 'scale: initiate window picker'

anyone know if the ubuntu forums having authentication issues presently?

the forums are down at the moment

anybody on my question?

install build-essential first

guys what to put in space used to preserve files across reboots field when making a bootable iso using unetbootin ???

i honestly have no idea, im guessin files stored there would be if you were to install programs and such when you are booting from your usb key, so if you are going to just boot and play around, i would put 0 if you are going to boot play around and then install on the hdd i would still put 0 but if you are going to use it i would say 1gb or so depends on what you are going to do

i find that a very large amount of space on my root partition is being used by /var/cache/apt/archives. does it make sense to try to delete some of this? if so, is there an apt-* tool that does the cleanup?

apt-get clean

where do i submit packages i've built for hoary?

what have you built?

is there no j2re package for ubuntu?

read the wiki

is there any easy way to update to 8.10 version from insaid a earlyer version of ubuntu, or should i just reinstall over last os? i donät have much t lose here so i can just clean the root partition without worries.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

anyone know a fast document search utility like google desktop?

try running the tracker search tool

hi. it's possible to dd the iso file into a flash drive and boot and install from it?

no, use a tool like unetbootin.

how do you spell hip hop

either is acceptable.

is anyone aware of some kind of program that watches port 22 and blocks the ip of anyone with 3 bad login attempts within 60 secs, or some such ?

i know that its possible to use iptables rules to limit login tries for port 22

neo... however. don't install 5.04. it's outdated and no longer supported, and there's practically no way to upgrade to 7.04 from there

he is gone :)

hi, i need help, i'm with a wrong clock. because at shutdown, the system fails to synchronize with hardware clock. it can't find /sbin/hwclock

/sbin/hwclock is part of util-linux. i guess you could try reinstalling that package

hi, i'm new to ubuntu, is there way to upgrade firefox on ubuntu 4.10 to 1.0?

use ubuntu-backports

could anyone help me with this? http://pastebin.org/204407

try running an apt-get update then retry the install

i was a backtrack user, and liked the konsole....anything similar in ubuntu ?

i think konsole exists in kubuntu

now, being serious, any ideas if there is trouble with the ubuntu tracker? i can list (azureus says) there's 118 seeders on the swarm, but i don't conect to a single seeder or peer.

painless for me.

someone knows if gparted comes with the standard ubuntu 8.04 livecd ?

nope its not there

did anyone notice this weird behavior after recent updates: when you 'stick' a window to the monitor edge, so that it's automatically resized to take up half the screen, you can no longer grab a window edge to further resize it manually.

yes i have

it's too bad i can't install windows 7 in virtual box. my laptop came with it (i have an unused product key because i formatted and immediately installed ubuntu)

no it is free for home use just have to reg but it is free

installed compizconfig session manager on 11.10, started it and since then my unity sidebar and indicators from the top bar are gone. what could i do? please help.

try setting ccsm to unity defaults and then log out and back in

how can i check my ethernet card's address in ubuntu?

type ifconfig in a terminal

hey guys, whats a good irc network these days with some tech channels, including windows, games, etc whatnot?

freenode?

hi all. i have a question: when i use tar xvzf f.e., can i make it, so all the extracted files get extracted into a specified directory?

yes, tar xvf <file> <directory>

i heard somewhere that wine 1.0 was in the ubuntu repos. i can't find it myself.

you could try the 'latest' repos from the wine hq sites

besides trojan being the fatso here! and me being a little overweight. who ells joins the club of fat ubuntians? :-d

i'm not fat, but out of shape

still can't get metacity to load on startup. i rename .gconf and .gconfd, so it's not a configuration file thing. does anyone know what's supposed to start up metacity?

/etc/gdm/defaultinit/ something like that. look around in /etc/gdm/

i wonder why the installer doesn't detect the processor and install the optimized kernel?

on the server edition, what you suggest is done afaik

guys using no_root_squash in /etc/exports for nfs is advisable or its considered a security problem

if you need to to access files on the share, it's highly advisable to use it.

oh.. i have a dual boot, how do i get ubuntu to stop tampering with the system clock, i don't use utc but don't find this option in the administration of time

you set utc='no' somewhere - give me a moment and i'll try to find the file

have you tried it under different distros?

i only tried xubuntu becuase i that's what i use most of the time; so could it be just the kernel?

hi folks, i do have this basic problem in understanding ubuntus concept: i like using f-spot. now there was a newer version released than installed in my 8.04. so does the new version enter only the next 8.10 ubuntu or do i have any option to upgrade earlier?

you can enable the backports repository to get newer releases

hi, i'm running feisty/amd64. i want to install a sun java6 plugin for firefox, but couldn't find one. searched google and found reference to sun-java6-plugin, but i don't have this pkg in my cache. any suggestions?

there is no 64-bit java plugin for firefox. you can install a 32-bit chroot environment

does any one have idea

try totem /etc/skel/examples/experience\ ubuntu.ogg' as a test

there is some info here on vmware player problems http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1735951

i solved it by installing libview2 package

hi! when doing switching to firefox in gnome, firefox gets maximized, and i have to press f11 twice every time to get it back to normal. how to work around this? please help! :(

then use resize from window menu (top left hand corner of the window)

i upgraded to feisty from dapper (from and iso). in dapper i could have 4 'window selectors' (ie, work space windows) in the lower right hand corner of the work space. feisty seems to limit this to 2 'window selector.' how do i get 4 in feisty?

can't you right click on the tool bar, and edit it's properties?

how do i change language? (menues, helptext etc, not keyboard)

isn't that the purpose of locales? dpkg-reconfigure locales <-- choose the right one....

hello. i am using ubuntu 10.10 and would like to upgrade so i can use libreoffice (it freezes up my system in 10.10. would it be better to do a fresh install or will an udate work correctly. i am fairly new to ubuntu. thanks.

you will need to go from 10.10 to 11.04 to 11.10

how can i view subtitles in gnome-mplayer in my language?

why dont' you check your localized channel?

hi... i'm trying to make a script start at startup: isn't working... 'system > startup applications' or thing like this.

have you made your script executable?

any ideas how to run mirc 6.2 on wine? 'bad exe format'

apt-get install xchat

can someone pop-up their totem and see if the bbc plug-in works for them or if it fails to connect?

are you on lucid? if so, i know there was a bug filed against it

can someone tell me what the 'super' button is

it's known to windows users as 'winkey'

anyone know if its possible to get cups to 'listen' to a shared folder or email and print any new pdf's in the folder or received on a specific address?

cups won't do that itself, i don't believe, but you could certainly use inotify to fire off a command when a new file shows up in a directory. have a look at the 'inotify-tools' package. obviously, you'll want to debug this extensively before committing to production (ink is expensive...)

how to set dns manually? cant find good tutorial. please

fyi i believe networkmanager will overright resolv.conf (when it wants to), there should/might be a way to set dns in n-m. good luck.

a lot of us on 8.10 have noticed a longer login time. there could be a large number of reasons why this is, but so long as you can login successfully, then it would be prudent to wait to see if updates improve the time. is the delay for you that bad?

so someone else is having the same problem not just me...

anyone else having gnome menu issues on hoary?

it's a known bug

how can i start notify-osd manually?

just run it: /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd; although there isn't any reason to, since it is started automatically when someone sends a notification

hi guys. i'm wondering how to install java. there is no sun-java6-plugin available.

you need to eable the partners repository for sun's java.

is there something like deepfreez linux for debian based?

what is deepfreez linux?

i have, what may be a wild good chase question. back in my 5.04 days, i played around with an 'ai' software that was just a blank chat window, and the bot just mimicked what you said until it started to get the grasp of sentence structure and such, and got the the point where it would carry full conversations. it was like a 5 letter abbreviation and i havent been able to find it in any of the newer repos, anybody know what program i'm talking a

eliza?

does anyone use chrome and video downloader? it said installing themes and extensions can harm my computer, i did it anyway... then the pop up window said this extension can access my browser history, wich i read in a thread it should not, by the developer himself.. is this normal?

normal