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hi! what is the best practice to create a custom ubuntu installation cd?	there's a program called remastersys that you can use
anything better than oo impress?	free money
is there a simple way to throttle network bandwidth of an application - something like 'nice' for network usage?	depends on your understanding of /simple/ :-) ...
is there really no other way to make desktop shortcuts than to use gnome-panel and then gnome-desktop-item-edit?	make textfiles -- learn on gnome docs site
is there a software like dragon naturally speaking for linux ? it is, a voice command program	that is a good question. if you find one, let me know ;)
is there a way to change permissions of a folder that is owned by root without using the terminal?	`gksu nautilus` will get you a root nautilus window. close it as soon as you're finished, and be extremely careful.
can somebody help me restore the wifi card applet in gnome ?	right click the panel, click add, add notifications.
are there any lightweight rss readers (hell, preferably all it has is a tray icon that notifies me of new entries) for gnome? i don't feel like grabbing a couple hundred megs of kde libs along with akregator	opera has it built-in, and also there's liferea, which seems to be good.
any idea why my rhythmbox won't play mp3's?	open nautilus and double click on an mp3. does that work?
anyone know what would be the best way to record a video of the screen? (screencast). something with a smooth end result..	xvidcap
!webcam \| regressless1 (about all i know, except mine works for me™)	yes, obottu told me that earlier (yes i know it's not a real person). it was not helpful. i wish i was that lucky.
hey guys. i want to easily switch between running the nvidia proprietary drivers and nouveau. is there a switch i can put in at boot time to toggle between the two, or is it always going to involve something awkward?	i think its more complex then that. since the nvidia drivers blacklist the nouveau drivers. and the 2 can conflict otherwise
hi, this morning i had this problem 'alert /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxxxxxx does not exist. dropping to a shell.' after googleing for a while i found many possible solutions but all of em involved a sys re-install or a grub re-install or anyway some long and maybe difficult and uncomfy stuff. i solved it just by opening my desktop and unplugging and replugging both the power cables and the sata connector of my main hdd, reboot and it works! i thin	man fsck
hello all, i have 2 hdd, one with an xp install(hdd0) and this one(hdd1) with ubuntu on it. is there a way to boot the xp inside ubuntu ?	take a look at xbox
i need help with my ubuntu. i can not open java applet like this >> http://supremosforever.tripod.com . any ideas? thanks	you probably have a java plugin that's not compatible
easy question to some of you, is it possible to browse the 'net as just text via the terminal? :) if so how?	that's what lynx and elinks does.. text mode browser you can run in a terminal
when i use the default gnome bittorrent client am i still seeding to others? i can't find anything that says whether or not others are leeching from me.	a fair bittorrent client always seeds the others, thats why bittorrent works
i have installed ndiswrapper with the right drivers for my card, typed modprobe ndiswrapper and it still does not work---what could be possibly wrong?????	does ndiswrapper say driver present hardware present
what do i have to install to get 'add-apt-repository'?	python-software-properties
hi guys, is there any channel available for gimp support?	http://www.gimp.org/irc.html
it saves time ... tell some of the ops to put it in the topic?	put what in the topic?
ugh. does anyone know if there are any programs for linux that are capable of using a visual studio .sln file? my school uses the stupid things and i don't run windows, but i need to do my homework.	maybe this could help: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jaunty/man1/prj2make.1.html
hi. if my cpu is 32 bit amd, which iso file must i download? i386 or amd64?	i386
i'm having some compatability problems with pulseaudio and wine and urbanterror, so i decided to remove the pulseaudio package and everything works, but i would like my volume control back. is there some sort of alternative?	swap the mixer from pulseaudio to alsa
what can be used to play ram files? (realaudio files)	totem media player, or you can get the realplayer for linux from real.
is it possible to install from the livecd?	they say it is, but i still can't figure it out how
somone here has a clue about universe and so? how easy is it to package sth for ubuntu's universe?.	read the packaging links from wiki/motu
anyone have an idea how i 'drop to cmd line' when booting _any_ linux?	ctrl+alt+f1 usually works (ctrl+alt+f7 to get back)
anyone use evolution to fetch exchange mail? is evolution still unstable?	to get evolution to work with exchange, it seems you need the exchange admin's cooperation to get it set up
apt-get dist-upgrade seems to be working, so hopefully that will fix my update-manager woes, is there anything special i need to do after an apt-get dist-upgrade that upgrade-manager usually does?	that's not the important part for a successful upgrade. proper metapackage (ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-minimal, ubuntu-standard, and your kernel metapackage) installation makes it a lot happier
how can i get mplayer to play on a secondary screen automatically?	mplayer -xineramascreen 1
is it possible for me to download teamspeak using the terminal?	sudo apt-get install teamspeak-client
how can i install the basic java sdk so i can use the command javac?	sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
heh.. is it possible to send a message to someone else logged in via ssh on a linux bx?	yes, if the proper programs are installed on that machine. i think one of them is 'talk' but i'm not sure.
hey guys, whats the package manager in ubuntu called?	synaptic or apt-get in the command line
can someone show me where the medibuntu wiki is so i can install packages instead of adding the repository.	you need to add the repo b4 you install the packages...
another question before installing: i read somewhere that ubuntu has no multimedia support.. does it mean i wont be able to watch my avi(divx/xvid) or realmedia files ?	http://www.ubuntuguide.org/ details installation of all comon packages
only firefox?	seems to work for me too, thanks very much:)
anyone know why the edgy repositories arent updated for oo.org 2.2?	edgy repos aren't updated for ooo 2.2 because edgys already released? it'll probably be in backports once feisty is released...
how do i get my ip	ifconfig
how can i upgrade linux-image-386 and linux-restricted-modules-386? i keep getting 'the following packages have been kept back'	sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
after i do the synaptic install how do i set it up?	no idea. don't use it. sorry.
hi i'm looking for a guide to versioning filesystems that works with ubuntu. any ideas?	any time i hear people mention specilized filesystems.. i always think to look at the 'fuse' project and its fs's
a quick question... if i install ubuntu 10.04 beta now and install all updates from canonical till 10.04 final release is out...would my ubuntu installation be then equivalent to final release...	thats a top 10 faq.. and the answer is yes..
in linux, it's 'it crashed because when w, x, y and z are true, and you do a, it b's and goes into c'	im back! it's working great now
hi all, how do i install dapper from the 6.06-1 live cd on a raid1 boot, root partition?	you might need the alternative cd, im not sure. let's see what the channel has to say.
i don't suppose anyone can point me at what key combination i may have hit to inverse the colors on all things gtk?	seems tobe super-m and super-n here.
does ubuntu 10.04 server edition support ide hard drives?	yes it does
whats the status of the ubuntuforums.org site, it appears to be down for me, but making sure i did'nt inadvertently block them	it is currently down
i use ubuntu 12.04 and i want to use root to login in .what should i do?	and enable the root user
hi, q. if i extract all the files from an 8.10 iso to a thumb drive, will i be able to install from it ok ? (i am out of dvds & cds) lol	use the 'unetbootin' tool to create a bootable thumbdrive from the iso file
hey all. what cool software can i add to my edgy machine to spiff out my desktop? i'm thinking along the lines of a compositor or xplanet or some linux version of mac os x's dashboard widgets. what software might i not have heard of before?	beryl , bb ( ascii animation demo ) , kiba-dock ( composited dock with a physics engine, requires composited wm like beryl )
does anyone know why my pc doesn't seem to be able to connect to my phone, yet my phone can connect to my pc and send it files?	i would try and look up your phone model in the forum see if there is anyadvice, you can also look up bluetooth, i don't know much about it myself
hi, my cdrom doesn't want to open :\| it has a dvd inside and i can view the files on it, but neither clicking 'unmount' nor pushing the button on cd-rom itself, nor executing `eject` opens it :/ it gives me `umount: /media/cdrom0: device is busy` and i don't think anything is using the dvd inside :/ any ideas on how i can open it without rebooting?	you can try sudo umount -l /media/cdrom0
ubuntu how i love you... but you don't love me... my mouse constantly freezes... so while we have had good times in the past... nobody on irc or the forum knows why this is happening...	because it is not ubuntu, it is your hw
hey. i have a problem getting 'failed to compile module vmmon!' when trying to install vmware workstation on 10.10. this bug is allready described well here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/671369	cant you use virtualbox ? =)
really, so i can just pkill k3b, for example?	aye.
hi guys, can you tell me how to make it so that alt-tab shows all processes on all workspaces, not just the current one?	you likely just need to go into advanced desktop effects and find the plugin which alt-tab initiates .. .then change the plugin's settings to show all workspaces when initiated ... something like that
what's the best way to run photoshop in ubuntu?	if you don't mind trying other stuff, you might perhaps want to experiment w/ cinepaint
how do i install new packages with ubuntu? with apt-get?	apt-get or synaptic (gui)
hey, does anyone know if utouch has been ported to 10.04?	perhaps a ppa might have it.. but nothing official afaik
suppose i were to boot from a live cd and i needed to find out what motherboard the pc has... is there a command that would give me that info?	lshw \| more
i'm having issues with unr 9.10 on my aspire one - whenever i unplug it from the wall it shuts down claiming the battery is discharged, but in 9.04unr this did not happen	(this was suggested by someone else the other day) boot into the bios and try unplugging the power to see if the same thing happens, removed ubuntu as a cause
i can't seem to type in #vim, it says '#vim cannot send to channel'. anyone know why that is?	you need to be identified with nickserv to speak in that channel
people, how do you blank your cd-rw's ?	i use gnomebaker
if i do a apt-get dist-upgrade in edgy, will that upgrade me to feisty?	a dist-upgrade only works if you change the edgy strings to feisty in your sources.list
what would be the linux command replacement for cd.. on terminal?	cd .. (with a space)
hi everyone, how can i get to know the edition of the application which will be installed when using apt-get?	apt-cache policy <packagename>
has anyone had problems signing files with the latest seahorse update?	no, but evolution stopped wanting to sign my emails recently :-/
hello everybody. could anyone tell me is there is repository for opera browser and why it's still isn't official?	try searching for opera ppa
anyone know how i remote connect to a computer that is behind a router? i know the internal 192.168.0.* ip of the computer, and also the external ip that the router gives it. my guess is that its somethin like connecting to '49.211.223.(hidden)//192.168.0.102'	the router has to be configured by its adminstrator to port-forward , or to do nat
what is a good video player? want something like zoomplayer for windows	in my opinion th best gui for mplayer is smplayer. but there's lots of them
hi i think i have a 64bit cpu how can i tell?	sudo lshw
i have a slave with 4 partitions , do i need to add the drive, and then each partition in /etc/fstab to get them mounted at boot ?	or.. wait.. you don't have to add the drive.. just the partitions
how do i remove a non-empty directory that has non-empty subdirectorys?	rm -rf <dir> (be very careful)
hi, do i need composite?? unfortunally ati doesnt support it with dri yet ... but what is it? can i use ie: bery/compiz?	no. don't you love ati?
question: im trying to compile sdl_mixer, how do i compile it with ogg support?	at a guess you'll need at least the libogg-dev package
hello. how can i (as root) logout a user?	http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-kill-and-logout-users.html
hi. i was thinking of trying compiz fusion's widget layer, and i was wondering if there are more widgets available for screenlets or gdesklets. thanks for your help.	here you go -- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=614931
hi i'm trying to install karmic on an inspiron 1564 (pretty new) and i get the black screen. when i try the 'try ubuntu' option i heard the startup sound, but no video	what video card?
anyone know if ubuntu 8 has a torrent out yet? the servers are super slow	http://davang.org/ubuntu
can somone tell me how i can do a wallpaper slideshow with my own pictueres?	http://www.webupd8.org/2010/02/easily-create-xml-wallpapers-with-xml.html
hello. i've got a brand new usb hd, 2tb, and it's formatted with a 2tb ntfs partition. how can i create 2 partitions of 1tb each, and format them in etx3?	use gparted
how can i make my windows partition readable with my normal user?	edit /etc/fstab as root. in the parameter collum, use umask=007,gid=1000
how do i find what package contains some executable?	for apt-file you have to install it and do 'sudo apt-file update' before doing any searches. on alternative to apt-file search is http://packages.ubuntu.com/
how can i find an email address from a ip address?	you can't
anybody using compiz here?	i am.
how do i change the 'not so nice colored' brown background when starting gnome?	system -> admin -> login screen -> gtk greeter -> background color
hey, i resized my swap partition from 1.8 gb to 3.7 gb with gparted, even checked /etc/fstab, everything is mounted correctly, but my system monitor still says 'swap: 1.8 gb'. what did i do wrong?	you probably need to reformat the swap partition, the file system does not know it's bigger
what's the recommanded single partition size to install a default ubuntu?	i estimate 1.8 gig
the plugin-container is taking up lots of cpu, any idea what that is?	that's the firefox process managing the plugins. so maybe a ff plugin is malfunctioning?
i just did a fresh install of 7.04 on a thinkpad t42 w/ ati 9600. /etc/x11/xorg.conf does not exist...any ideas?	remove and then install xserver-xorg
hey, i was here a while ago and someone suggested a gnome-panel app to put the computer into presentation mode (stops screensaver) --does anyone know the name of it?	there is the classic inhibit applet for gnome-panel and there is kaffine for unity.
what is the bar at the bottom of gnumeric for (see here: http://img88.imageshack.us/done.php?l=img88/7595/gnubaret6.png)?	+b is ban
hello, i'm looking for the ubuntu way to download updates at work, and feed them to my lappy on cd. is there a how-to somwhere? also, it appears that the default install is a g-ish one, and i've grown fond of one or two k apps, how much overhead will i garner by installing any k app?	if they are not running i wouldn't think any overhead. but i don't know.
does the ubuntu lamp server install include everything the ubuntu server install would (ie: nfs, samba, cups etc)?	yes its possible
evening, quick question on setting screen output: if i ssh into my ubuntu machine, can i start a process (like vlc) and have it output to it's sent to it's own screen? how would i go about that?	you can install tightvnc and view it remotely if that's what u're asking ?
hi, is it possible to trigger hte notification system from command line?	see notify-send in the libnotify-bin package
hi all. what is the correct method for disabling gdm on startup?	use update-rc.d command is the proper way
could anyone recommend me a guide for pxe (network install )	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/installation/localnet

hi! what is the best practice to create a custom ubuntu installation cd?

there's a program called remastersys that you can use

anything better than oo impress?

free money

is there a simple way to throttle network bandwidth of an application - something like 'nice' for network usage?

depends on your understanding of /simple/ :-) ...

is there really no other way to make desktop shortcuts than to use gnome-panel and then gnome-desktop-item-edit?

make textfiles -- learn on gnome docs site

is there a software like dragon naturally speaking for linux ? it is, a voice command program

that is a good question. if you find one, let me know ;)

is there a way to change permissions of a folder that is owned by root without using the terminal?

`gksu nautilus` will get you a root nautilus window. close it as soon as you're finished, and be extremely careful.

can somebody help me restore the wifi card applet in gnome ?

right click the panel, click add, add notifications.

are there any lightweight rss readers (hell, preferably all it has is a tray icon that notifies me of new entries) for gnome? i don't feel like grabbing a couple hundred megs of kde libs along with akregator

opera has it built-in, and also there's liferea, which seems to be good.

any idea why my rhythmbox won't play mp3's?

open nautilus and double click on an mp3. does that work?

anyone know what would be the best way to record a video of the screen? (screencast). something with a smooth end result..

xvidcap

!webcam | regressless1 (about all i know, except mine works for me™)

yes, obottu told me that earlier (yes i know it's not a real person). it was not helpful. i wish i was that lucky.

hey guys. i want to easily switch between running the nvidia proprietary drivers and nouveau. is there a switch i can put in at boot time to toggle between the two, or is it always going to involve something awkward?

i think its more complex then that. since the nvidia drivers blacklist the nouveau drivers. and the 2 can conflict otherwise

hi, this morning i had this problem 'alert /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxxxxxx does not exist. dropping to a shell.' after googleing for a while i found many possible solutions but all of em involved a sys re-install or a grub re-install or anyway some long and maybe difficult and uncomfy stuff. i solved it just by opening my desktop and unplugging and replugging both the power cables and the sata connector of my main hdd, reboot and it works! i thin

man fsck

hello all, i have 2 hdd, one with an xp install(hdd0) and this one(hdd1) with ubuntu on it. is there a way to boot the xp inside ubuntu ?

take a look at xbox

i need help with my ubuntu. i can not open java applet like this >> http://supremosforever.tripod.com . any ideas? thanks

you probably have a java plugin that's not compatible

easy question to some of you, is it possible to browse the 'net as just text via the terminal? :) if so how?

that's what lynx and elinks does.. text mode browser you can run in a terminal

when i use the default gnome bittorrent client am i still seeding to others? i can't find anything that says whether or not others are leeching from me.

a fair bittorrent client always seeds the others, thats why bittorrent works

i have installed ndiswrapper with the right drivers for my card, typed modprobe ndiswrapper and it still does not work---what could be possibly wrong?????

does ndiswrapper say driver present hardware present

what do i have to install to get 'add-apt-repository'?

python-software-properties

hi guys, is there any channel available for gimp support?

http://www.gimp.org/irc.html

it saves time ... tell some of the ops to put it in the topic?

put what in the topic?

ugh. does anyone know if there are any programs for linux that are capable of using a visual studio .sln file? my school uses the stupid things and i don't run windows, but i need to do my homework.

maybe this could help: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jaunty/man1/prj2make.1.html

hi. if my cpu is 32 bit amd, which iso file must i download? i386 or amd64?

i386

i'm having some compatability problems with pulseaudio and wine and urbanterror, so i decided to remove the pulseaudio package and everything works, but i would like my volume control back. is there some sort of alternative?

swap the mixer from pulseaudio to alsa

what can be used to play ram files? (realaudio files)

totem media player, or you can get the realplayer for linux from real.

is it possible to install from the livecd?

they say it is, but i still can't figure it out how

somone here has a clue about universe and so? how easy is it to package sth for ubuntu's universe?.

read the packaging links from wiki/motu

anyone have an idea how i 'drop to cmd line' when booting _any_ linux?

ctrl+alt+f1 usually works (ctrl+alt+f7 to get back)

anyone use evolution to fetch exchange mail? is evolution still unstable?

to get evolution to work with exchange, it seems you need the exchange admin's cooperation to get it set up

apt-get dist-upgrade seems to be working, so hopefully that will fix my update-manager woes, is there anything special i need to do after an apt-get dist-upgrade that upgrade-manager usually does?

that's not the important part for a successful upgrade. proper metapackage (ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-minimal, ubuntu-standard, and your kernel metapackage) installation makes it a lot happier

how can i get mplayer to play on a secondary screen automatically?

mplayer -xineramascreen 1

is it possible for me to download teamspeak using the terminal?

sudo apt-get install teamspeak-client

how can i install the basic java sdk so i can use the command javac?

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

heh.. is it possible to send a message to someone else logged in via ssh on a linux bx?

yes, if the proper programs are installed on that machine. i think one of them is 'talk' but i'm not sure.

hey guys, whats the package manager in ubuntu called?

synaptic or apt-get in the command line

can someone show me where the medibuntu wiki is so i can install packages instead of adding the repository.

you need to add the repo b4 you install the packages...

another question before installing: i read somewhere that ubuntu has no multimedia support.. does it mean i wont be able to watch my avi(divx/xvid) or realmedia files ?

http://www.ubuntuguide.org/ details installation of all comon packages

only firefox?

seems to work for me too, thanks very much:)

anyone know why the edgy repositories arent updated for oo.org 2.2?

edgy repos aren't updated for ooo 2.2 because edgys already released? it'll probably be in backports once feisty is released...

how do i get my ip

ifconfig

how can i upgrade linux-image-386 and linux-restricted-modules-386? i keep getting 'the following packages have been kept back'

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

after i do the synaptic install how do i set it up?

no idea. don't use it. sorry.

hi i'm looking for a guide to versioning filesystems that works with ubuntu. any ideas?

any time i hear people mention specilized filesystems.. i always think to look at the 'fuse' project and its fs's

a quick question... if i install ubuntu 10.04 beta now and install all updates from canonical till 10.04 final release is out...would my ubuntu installation be then equivalent to final release...

thats a top 10 faq.. and the answer is yes..

in linux, it's 'it crashed because when w, x, y and z are true, and you do a, it b's and goes into c'

im back! it's working great now

hi all, how do i install dapper from the 6.06-1 live cd on a raid1 boot, root partition?

you might need the alternative cd, im not sure. let's see what the channel has to say.

i don't suppose anyone can point me at what key combination i may have hit to inverse the colors on all things gtk?

seems tobe super-m and super-n here.

does ubuntu 10.04 server edition support ide hard drives?

yes it does

whats the status of the ubuntuforums.org site, it appears to be down for me, but making sure i did'nt inadvertently block them

it is currently down

i use ubuntu 12.04 and i want to use root to login in .what should i do?

and enable the root user

hi, q. if i extract all the files from an 8.10 iso to a thumb drive, will i be able to install from it ok ? (i am out of dvds & cds) lol

use the 'unetbootin' tool to create a bootable thumbdrive from the iso file

hey all. what cool software can i add to my edgy machine to spiff out my desktop? i'm thinking along the lines of a compositor or xplanet or some linux version of mac os x's dashboard widgets. what software might i not have heard of before?

beryl , bb ( ascii animation demo ) , kiba-dock ( composited dock with a physics engine, requires composited wm like beryl )

does anyone know why my pc doesn't seem to be able to connect to my phone, yet my phone can connect to my pc and send it files?

i would try and look up your phone model in the forum see if there is anyadvice, you can also look up bluetooth, i don't know much about it myself

hi, my cdrom doesn't want to open :| it has a dvd inside and i can view the files on it, but neither clicking 'unmount' nor pushing the button on cd-rom itself, nor executing `eject` opens it :/ it gives me `umount: /media/cdrom0: device is busy` and i don't think anything is using the dvd inside :/ any ideas on how i can open it without rebooting?

you can try sudo umount -l /media/cdrom0

ubuntu how i love you... but you don't love me... my mouse constantly freezes... so while we have had good times in the past... nobody on irc or the forum knows why this is happening...

because it is not ubuntu, it is your hw

hey. i have a problem getting 'failed to compile module vmmon!' when trying to install vmware workstation on 10.10. this bug is allready described well here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/671369

cant you use virtualbox ? =)

really, so i can just pkill k3b, for example?

aye.

hi guys, can you tell me how to make it so that alt-tab shows all processes on all workspaces, not just the current one?

you likely just need to go into advanced desktop effects and find the plugin which alt-tab initiates .. .then change the plugin's settings to show all workspaces when initiated ... something like that

what's the best way to run photoshop in ubuntu?

if you don't mind trying other stuff, you might perhaps want to experiment w/ cinepaint

how do i install new packages with ubuntu? with apt-get?

apt-get or synaptic (gui)

hey, does anyone know if utouch has been ported to 10.04?

perhaps a ppa might have it.. but nothing official afaik

suppose i were to boot from a live cd and i needed to find out what motherboard the pc has... is there a command that would give me that info?

lshw | more

i'm having issues with unr 9.10 on my aspire one - whenever i unplug it from the wall it shuts down claiming the battery is discharged, but in 9.04unr this did not happen

(this was suggested by someone else the other day) boot into the bios and try unplugging the power to see if the same thing happens, removed ubuntu as a cause

i can't seem to type in #vim, it says '#vim cannot send to channel'. anyone know why that is?

you need to be identified with nickserv to speak in that channel

people, how do you blank your cd-rw's ?

i use gnomebaker

if i do a apt-get dist-upgrade in edgy, will that upgrade me to feisty?

a dist-upgrade only works if you change the edgy strings to feisty in your sources.list

what would be the linux command replacement for cd.. on terminal?

cd .. (with a space)

hi everyone, how can i get to know the edition of the application which will be installed when using apt-get?

apt-cache policy <packagename>

has anyone had problems signing files with the latest seahorse update?

no, but evolution stopped wanting to sign my emails recently :-/

hello everybody. could anyone tell me is there is repository for opera browser and why it's still isn't official?

try searching for opera ppa

anyone know how i remote connect to a computer that is behind a router? i know the internal 192.168.0.* ip of the computer, and also the external ip that the router gives it. my guess is that its somethin like connecting to '49.211.223.(hidden)//192.168.0.102'

the router has to be configured by its adminstrator to port-forward , or to do nat

what is a good video player? want something like zoomplayer for windows

in my opinion th best gui for mplayer is smplayer. but there's lots of them

hi i think i have a 64bit cpu how can i tell?

sudo lshw

i have a slave with 4 partitions , do i need to add the drive, and then each partition in /etc/fstab to get them mounted at boot ?

or.. wait.. you don't have to add the drive.. just the partitions

how do i remove a non-empty directory that has non-empty subdirectorys?

rm -rf <dir> (be very careful)

hi, do i need composite?? unfortunally ati doesnt support it with dri yet ... but what is it? can i use ie: bery/compiz?

no. don't you love ati?

question: im trying to compile sdl_mixer, how do i compile it with ogg support?

at a guess you'll need at least the libogg-dev package

hello. how can i (as root) logout a user?

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-kill-and-logout-users.html

hi. i was thinking of trying compiz fusion's widget layer, and i was wondering if there are more widgets available for screenlets or gdesklets. thanks for your help.

here you go -- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=614931

hi i'm trying to install karmic on an inspiron 1564 (pretty new) and i get the black screen. when i try the 'try ubuntu' option i heard the startup sound, but no video

what video card?

anyone know if ubuntu 8 has a torrent out yet? the servers are super slow

http://davang.org/ubuntu

can somone tell me how i can do a wallpaper slideshow with my own pictueres?

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/02/easily-create-xml-wallpapers-with-xml.html

hello. i've got a brand new usb hd, 2tb, and it's formatted with a 2tb ntfs partition. how can i create 2 partitions of 1tb each, and format them in etx3?

use gparted

how can i make my windows partition readable with my normal user?

edit /etc/fstab as root. in the parameter collum, use umask=007,gid=1000

how do i find what package contains some executable?

for apt-file you have to install it and do 'sudo apt-file update' before doing any searches. on alternative to apt-file search is http://packages.ubuntu.com/

how can i find an email address from a ip address?

you can't

anybody using compiz here?

i am.

how do i change the 'not so nice colored' brown background when starting gnome?

system -> admin -> login screen -> gtk greeter -> background color

hey, i resized my swap partition from 1.8 gb to 3.7 gb with gparted, even checked /etc/fstab, everything is mounted correctly, but my system monitor still says 'swap: 1.8 gb'. what did i do wrong?

you probably need to reformat the swap partition, the file system does not know it's bigger

what's the recommanded single partition size to install a default ubuntu?

i estimate 1.8 gig

the plugin-container is taking up lots of cpu, any idea what that is?

that's the firefox process managing the plugins. so maybe a ff plugin is malfunctioning?

i just did a fresh install of 7.04 on a thinkpad t42 w/ ati 9600. /etc/x11/xorg.conf does not exist...any ideas?

remove and then install xserver-xorg

hey, i was here a while ago and someone suggested a gnome-panel app to put the computer into presentation mode (stops screensaver) --does anyone know the name of it?

there is the classic inhibit applet for gnome-panel and there is kaffine for unity.

what is the bar at the bottom of gnumeric for (see here: http://img88.imageshack.us/done.php?l=img88/7595/gnubaret6.png)?

+b is ban

hello, i'm looking for the ubuntu way to download updates at work, and feed them to my lappy on cd. is there a how-to somwhere? also, it appears that the default install is a g-ish one, and i've grown fond of one or two k apps, how much overhead will i garner by installing any k app?

if they are not running i wouldn't think any overhead. but i don't know.

does the ubuntu lamp server install include everything the ubuntu server install would (ie: nfs, samba, cups etc)?

yes its possible

evening, quick question on setting screen output: if i ssh into my ubuntu machine, can i start a process (like vlc) and have it output to it's sent to it's own screen? how would i go about that?

you can install tightvnc and view it remotely if that's what u're asking ?

hi, is it possible to trigger hte notification system from command line?

see notify-send in the libnotify-bin package

hi all. what is the correct method for disabling gdm on startup?

use update-rc.d command is the proper way

could anyone recommend me a guide for pxe (network install )

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/installation/localnet