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does anyone know where i can test the vlc firefox plugin for something other than flash, most sites as understand it only use flash now | doesn't apple's move trailer site have non-flash videos? www.apple.com/trailer |
how do i change the owner of everything in a directory? | 'man chown' helps |
i just upgraded to 9.10 and now the option to run the window manager in my .xinitrc is gone. any hints on how to fix that? | you can set stuff to run on login via startup applications under system -> preferences |
how do i install perl dbd::odbc successfully? the cpan install keeps erroring out. | install the libdbd-odbc-perl package. |
my 'locale' is configured to utf-8. concordingly, when i request output from a text file from the cli (using cat, less, more, nano,...) it's interpreted as utf-8. the problem arises when i want to 'cat' an iso-8859 txt file... it gets outputted as utf-8 so many chars don't look okay. my question is: how can i get iso-8859 files to be displayed as such from the cli when my config is set to utf-8? | try this: iconv --from-code=iso-8859-1 --to-code=utf-8 filename |
is there an easy way to delete everything in the trash via command line? | probably something like rm -r ~/.trash |
hi everybody.. i'm pretty new to ubuntu, but i want to hear if anybody knows how to customize the interface in ubuntu 7.10 with things such as widgets and docks? | look at superkaramba for widgets |
anyone else ever had the problem of the gui installer freezing while 'installing system'? this is rediculus | yes, it did the same thing to me, so i got the text based installer |
corrected: what does /tmp/orbit-username serve?? can i delete it? because after i issue netstat -lp i find a whole lot of entries from there. | well, it is in /tmp, so blowing em away won't hurt. just kill the ones from older sessions, to be safe |
what keys do i press to shutdown the xserver and go to the command line? i don't want it to restart. i need this so i can try to fix xorg | ctrl-alt-f1 will put you on the console. or what engla said |
hey everyone! i have one of these multimedia keyboards. in gnome, the volume control wheel on the keyboard works great, but in enemy territory it does not function. could anyone help? | enemy territory is probably grabbing the keyboard in some way. |
odd question.. does anyone happen to have the opendns nameserver info? | 128.8.74.2 is open to get you going |
hi, does anyone know if it's possible to have multiple private/public key pairs on the client side of ssh and specify which host should use which? | or whip up a .ssh/config file and specify it on a per-host basis, and you needn't bother doing it on the command line |
i installed an awesome gtk2 theme, but nautilus and gedit, among others, use the ugly default gnome theme! how do i make them pretty? | where did you get the theme from? |
anyone available to help me with my screen resolution problem? i only get 800x600 and i tried different ways to get 1024 in intrepid | https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/50317 <--- maybe could help |
i'm playing with a new install of dapper 6.06, my screen saver works ok, but when i wake up in theh morning, the box is frozen, and won't reboot into x. running startx at reboot locks up too. to get here now, i had to boot into safe graphics mode, recreate my user, etc... i didn't have this trouble with 5.10, ideas? | if that is a new install, you might consider installing 8.04 because 6.06 will end life in a few months |
is there a 64-bit ubuntu for intel processors? | core 2 duo is x86-64/amd64 |
i'm just starting with linux (don't be angry for my question:)-what i have to type in terminal if i want to reinstall something? | apt-get install whatever package. |
hello all, does anyone know of a ubuntu application that will accept windows media 9 audio stream? | try opening it with totem, it will give you an option to download the codec from the repository |
are there any wireless cards with good linux drivers? | without ndiswrapper? |
new to ubuntu. sometimes a window will get stuck in 'drag mode' (where the hand that's moving it has a clenched fist) and i can't drop the window anywhere. ideas? | xdg-open |
is it possible to remove pulseaudio and just use alsa and dmix? | if it wants to uninstall everything obv dont do it ;) |
whats an 'install prefix ' when trying to install a .sh file | the path were it will put the files |
why isn't firefox 1.5 available in the repos? | no i think you have to do that in a vm session |
what is the easiest way to know where an executable is located? i'm trying to find where bmp is installed... | which execname |
what is the key combination to close a running process while in command line mode? | is the program is taking up your foreground, you can try ctrl+c or ctrl+z to freez it and go to the shell |
i have tried dia, does anyone have any recommendations for a program i could use to create a layout designed more for architectural use? | if you have a numeric keypad, it has an ins key (on the 0 key). just hit num lock and then use it |
is rc.local the typical place to lay out iptables rules, or is there a more preferred way to define them in a debian/ubuntu environment? | use iptables-save and iptables-restore |
if i want to install grub to the partition that linux is installed on, i set the location to /dev/hdax, and that won't affect the mbr of hda? | it shouldn't |
in ubuntu, how to know what hardware attached on our pc? | lshw |
'e: invalid release file, no entry for main/binary-i368/packages' when i try to debootstrap --arch i386 dapper /foo/ http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ | 368 vs 386.. |
does anybody know of some network hardware that actually reliably works in linux? i have intel pro/wireless 4965 and after a period of use, it just magically stops working.... and i have realtek rtl8111/8168b ethernet hardware and it randomly stops working too. and they stop working at different times. i've never had them both stop working at the same time. honestly ubuntu 10.10 needs rebooting more than win 95. | i'd suspect some sort of hardware issue.. cuz i have that same realtek device, and it never has caused me a problem |
hi do you know what are the locations .desktop files are stored in? | you can do a find command like so: find / -name *.desktop -print (you might need sudo) |
how can i send at commands to a modem? | https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/56306 |
does anybody know how to work with iptable? i need to open a port on a server for a specific ip, please help out :) | have you tried this : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/iptableshowto ? |
are there tools to manage multiple ubuntu servers at once? | don't know about ubuntu specifially, but check out cfengine |
hi, does anyone know if it's possible to set up ubuntu to automatically connect to a wifi signal prior to logging in to an account? | use /etc/network/interfaces ? |
hey, does anyone know how to output wine's console output straight to a file? | ./notepad++.exe > output? |
hey guys, what's the command to launch nautilus with sudo privleges again? | gksudo nautilus |
strange problem with my server... for some reason networking has gone down, i can't ping any hosts beyond my lan, was working fine up until yesterday, i can ping the server lan ip and other ip's on the lan, but no ip's on the internet | do you have a default gateway? 'ip route show' |
how can i reinstall mysql-server package so it will create all it's /etc/mysql files? | if you're not sure, `dpkg -s /etc/mysql` will give you the packages you need to purge/reinstall |
is it necessary to install a firewall? | i am no expert, but firestarter to the best of my knowledge is only a nice way to configure the built in firewall that's in your kernel |
hi all, does anyone know a video screen capture application ? | or xvidcap i think or xscreencap |
has anyone compiled their own kernel with ubuntu? i'm on 8.04 and i used to use archlinux. my first step would be 'zcat /proc/config.gz' but it seems that that option is unavailable to me. how do i get the default kernel .config? | don't like modules? :p |
so how long is it gonna take to fix the flash plugin? | ask adobe |
hi. do i can install ubuntu 9.10 on ext3 file system? (ext4 destroyed my hdd ;/ ) | ext4 should not do that. what happened. ext4 is vary stable and better for 9.10 but yes you should bre able to use ext3 fine i should think |
my cursor is acting funny, when i try to click inside a window it just grabs the window instead, why is it doing this? | could your alt key be stuck down? |
version amd64-bit ubuntu: should it have any issues running on an intel core2quad q6600? | not really no |
hello, i need you help here. i'm french and i don't know what is the right expression to talk about the index you found at the end of a book that containt a list of keyword and at which page it's referenced into the book. | a glossary lists the word definitions, an index is a list with page references |
how bad of idea is it, to start installing packages from karmic? | that's not going to be a happy backport. |
what you need to do is install the 'user agent switcher: this will alow firefox to spoof the server and pretend its ie | paloyme is the one with that problem |
hey everyone. trying to make a custom distro cd of karmic, and trying to leave off a lot of packages. when i blow packages away, the no longer show up in the packages file, and aren't on the cd, but the 'ubuntu-desktop' task still selects them, and they download instead. how can i make the installer forget about them? | rebuild 'ubuntu-desktop' with changed dependencies |
which package has grub 2 and the grub 2 configuration files? | grub2 |
wow, i just plugged in the usb hard drive, and ubuntu recognized it right away, just opened a window on my desktop | that would be bruenig who sent you that message |
hey, if my firefox crashed, how can i kill it? its not going away | pkill firefox or killall firefox or use -9 if that doesnt work |
how do i find out what my drives are? | gparted will let you view them easily |
it seems that x crashes when i try to log in | ~/.xsession-errors |
besides awn and gnomedo there is another popular mac os x style panel, what is it called? | cairo dock |
i'm having major nfs issues with my ubuntu server. anyknow know where i can get quality nfs advice? | http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/nfs-howto/ <-- quite helpful |
i'm trying to install a package but i keep getting a dependency error. it says it needs ia32-libs but the version of ia32-libs i have installed is the most recent. is there something else i need to do to setup ia32-libs so the system can make use of it? | is it coming from a 3rd party repo? |
when i open the sound recorder in gnome it says 'your audio capture settings are invalid. please correct them in the multimedia settings'. the sound works well, and i have the highest volue on my mic in alsamixer | run gstreamer-properties |
i've got 11.04 desktop on a desktop machine and i'm thinking of setting it up as the server for a vpn setup, do i need to reinstall with server edition or can i just add whatever packages i may need? | no reinstallation needed. no need for server kernel either. just install/remove packages as needed |
heya (on 10.4 btw), i'm trying to get half life 2 working, got it started in game with sound, but it doesn't show any models like all npcs but background objects are fine. i was told on the wine irc that i needed more reliable drivers (got edge open source ones atm) like gallium3d but i'm not sure how to remove my old drivers and install ones that might work better | if the regular wine packages don't work, then try crossover. it is unlikely that gallium3d is packaged for lucid. |
question: is there any pre-installed font on ubunutu that resembles verdana font? | i do not believe so, but verdana can be installed via the msttcorefonts package - to install type 'sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts' without the quotes into a terminal |
in hoary it seems like you can't delete any apps without deleting the ubuntu-desktop.... is there a way around this? | it's adummy package - losing it won't matter |
how and when is /etc/systcl.conf read and acted upon during boot up? | when /etc/init.d/procps runs |
is ntfs really that unstable to write to? | check out nfts-3g |
anyone knows some good ebook reader? | try calibre |
hi guys, is there any channel about learning shell language? | start here http://linux.org.mt/article/terminal |
is the 2.6.17-10-generic kernel the -686 version of the 2.6.17 series? | not really. i regularly purge all except the latest two. |
what repo for karmic do i need to add to install icecast2? | its in universe |
my computer has stopped booting at 'loading modules' with the error message 'buffer i/o error on devicd sdb, logical block 0' i have no scsi drive can anyone help? | what kind of disks do u have? |
hello guys, is it possible to put more than one linux distros on my pc? | put the new distro on your 10g future partition. |
how do i set my network up to use a computer i just configured to be a gateway? | i most times you can configure it via gui (i don't know on gnome though). if nothing else, read up on the command 'route' |
is there a way to restart gnome-shell without the side effect of logging me out? | alt-f2 r |
in gnome's file dialog windows is there a way to go so hidden directories i.e. directories that start w/ a '.'? | browse for other folders, right click, and 'show hidden files' |
for those of you who have tried virtual machines, which do you think is faster? (as in better emulation?) qemu or vmware? | vmware is better in my opinion |
is there a command to do a recursive search in a directory and return just the filetypes that are in the directory and any subdirectories? | hmm ls -r |grep filetype? |
can someone direct me to good a cd cover maker? | try glabels |
kontact-- # the bloody kwallet thing pops up, asking your password, and *doesn't take focus* | file a bug report :) |
how do i turn off the system beep | system -> preferences -> sound -> beep |
i sucessful installed kde enviroment using 'sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop'. ok what should i need to download to have option at login to choose between gnome and kde. | as you get to the login screen, click 'session' |
how can one increase the text sixe, in xchat? | settings, preference, font size |
how can i get iptables to run iptables-restore on boot? also, i have to keep echo '1' > ip_forward on boot as well.. how can i make that permanent? | make a 'firewall' script and add it to startup |
any one knows how to fix sleep and suspend functions on my laptop | detail |
why did you give someone that link - that's nothing to do with his problem | he asked for help |
how do i give myself permission to copy a font into the font folder? | you may want to use sudo to copy your files around i.e. sudo cp -a /path/to/source /path/to/target |
what is a good midi player for ubuntu? | yes, for breezy and dapper, don't know about hoary |
any good linux programs i should know of when i get ubuntu? | there are lots, use syanptic |
i have figured out how to rip a .vob file from my dvd, then extract an .ac3 file from the audio stream i want. now i have a vob file and an ac3 file. would someone please help me to make an x264-encoded?synched? .avi or .mp4 file using the two files? | you can use avidemux for that i think |
how to change preferred dns server through terminal?! | edit /etc/resolv.conf |
is there anyone who knows the command for recieving a file a 'dcc send' from a user in irssi? | /dcc get $nickofsender |
i'm a little bit confused about the ability to read sd-cards under linux. i read that there are no 'sd card drivers' out there... but at the same time i read that people happily access their sd-cards via a usb-card reader. i was always under the impression that there is no other way to read such a card via usb. i do have a usb card reader and i am not able to read my sd-card. so am i doing something wrong or what? if i connect the sd-card | no pasting |
since i installed compiz i am not able to see the window cross, maximize and minimize sign | try pressing alt+f2 and running gtk-window-decorator --replace |
i would like to install something on my hardy, but it is asking for c/c++ compiler and kernel source. what should i add in synaptic? | sudo apt-get install build-essential |
how do i change permissions recursively thru a folder? | 'chmod ??? -r /whatever/', use sudo if needed. |
anyone know which package svn belongs to, i did apt-get install svn and it says can't find package | that was t you |
anyone know how to have ubuntu/gnome auto-logout after x minute of inactivity? | there is a way that after x minutes it goes to a screen saver which requires you enter your password. other users can still log in if they encounter this screen by selecting 'switch user' |
i feel a bit stupid asking this, but how do i make a new file in the terminal? i can't find a command for it... | or, just open it in whatever editor (nano filename) and then save it. |
please help me. how can i change server to connect? | /server new.server.here |
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