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help! i'm trying to rescue data from a hdd and have followed steps at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/datarecovery but got stuck trying to mount it... | bad drive, corrupted filesystem, bad hardware? |
i remember on the last release of ubuntu, there was an option in the shutdown menu to save the session. how can i get that in this (6.06) tnx | goto system > preferences > sessions and there is a tick box to save |
is there a way to tell what db level your headphones are playing at? | alsamixer shows in db |
are there any other linux tablet users around? the lack of a good onscreen keyboard is pointing me towards the direction of writing one, but i want to make sure theres no other keyboards before i start doing it | http://tuxmobil.org/tablet_unix.html scroll down, near the bottom is a bunch of input methods, including onscreen keyboards. (im sure that's not exhaustive) |
edgy... do i update the repositories (breezy to edgy) to upgrade distro? | yes in /etc/apt/sources.list |
hi all... accidentally i hide the menu bar in xchat, any clue how to show it again?? | try ctrl+f9 |
anyone got negative experience with ubuntu 64 bits? | but in general i am quite happy with 64bit ubuntu |
i am seeking recommendations for ideas to expand the userbase and promote the use of linux and ubuntu. i have a release party to plan in 350 hours, and still need a title. | 350 hours? |
lts updates are going to made for 3 years on the desktop, but 5 years on the server. how can i tell which version was used to install a machine? | lsb_release -a |
matlab was for windows, i don't know if matlab available on linux | yep, and it works now |
is there a shell script i can run to shutdown my computer in 1 hour or so ? ? | man shutdown |
how do i make an iso file from folder? | i use isomaster for all that stuff |
anyone here help me with this problem? i got ubuntu booting from an sd card along with backtrack 3 from grub. everything boots correct but ubuntu won't get to the desktop, rather giving me a blank screen with a mouse. this is after i log in with user and pass in the respective boxes. any help? | tryed giving it a min ? |
i'm working with a friend to get his wifi working and and reading this page http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-360426.html , how do i tell what kernel we have. | uname -r |
can someone point me in the direction of how to get maverick to recognize and use my laptop fingerprint reader? | libfprint |
i installed geany 0.18.1 on windows.. but it lags a lot i mean when u scroll down the image comes a little slowly | this is not windows |
trying to figure out the best way to clone an ubuntu box | partimage. |
can any help me please? i have ubuntu 9.10 64bit and my programs shuts down suddenly, with giving no error reports atll all? | i'm using 64 bit and it works perfectly. |
i have a very annoying problem, when i try to install new programs with the software center, it always get stuck at 70%, the program is actually installed properly, but i need to restart the computer to install new programs. | can install from terminal fine? |
how to find the uid and gid of a given user | id username |
how do i get a list of attached hard drives on my system (even if they haven't been mounted)? | or lshw |
i'm thinking about installing ubuntu on my mac, but i'm wondering if i should get the cd or the dvd iso? what's the difference? | - the dvd loads faster and has three methods of install text, oem and live cd. |
does anyone use firebug 1.2 w/firefox 3.0rc1 on linux? i'm asking before i ask because i'm doubtful anyone does. | i thought firebug doesn't work with firefox 3 yet? |
i am connected to an university network which blocks all incoming connections... is there some way to make a permanent connection to a remote server, and somehow tunnel back along the connection? is this what vpn is? | reverse* http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5779944.html |
how do i tell what video card i have via cli? | lspci -vvv | grep video |
is vim easy to use or is a full tutorial needed ? | the latter |
is there someone in particular who maintains this channel? | the developers tend to be noninvasive. why? |
i'm about to reinstall ubuntu, i've already backed up my docs, and i don't want to keep my configuration; is there any special precaution i should take? (about grub, boot sector, etc) | just a general advice; create a separate /home partition. |
hello! does anyone has the intel gma 900 or 950 running? i wann know if it runs xgl... | you need to use aiglx xgl is for ati and nvidia only |
hey, is there a way to make an xterm window go full-screen? | iirc there is a gnome-terminal menu option for going fullscreen. |
can someone please tell me were ubuntu server hides the web root for apache and also apache.conf or httpd.conf -- which ever it calls it - -im comming from gentoo and finding stuff is driving me nuts | and /etc/apache2 |
i'm following a tutorial for installing rails, and i've gotten to a point where it tells me to $ mate gemfile but i receive command not found error. did i miss something along the way? | the command is 'make' not mate |
does anyone know of a program/script that can help in tagging and organizing music with lookups to cddb, gracenote, etc? | easytag does cddb lookups, not sure about other web-based song services. |
i have a question regarding ubuntu + drupal. according to this guy, it seems that a mail server is not necessary (http://groups.drupal.org/node/22401#comment-77421). is this true? | try installing 'sendmail', i think that should resolve your issue |
can some one tell me the sudo apt-get for compizconfig please | try it. |
i just got a new computer and am now trying to figure out how to sync up my old files from my previous ubuntu install. to ssh from one box to the other, do i need to make firewall changes? i'm getting 'port 22: connection refused' | sudo apt-get install openssh-server on the comp you want to connedt to |
what is the best audio player for ubuntu ? | i like amarok quite a bit |
ok i can now mount my /dev/mapper/root /mnt. how can i install lvm and grub now? | what are you having trouble with? |
how does one install mplayer? apt-get install gives me 'package mplayer is not available, but is referred to by another package. blahblah' it shows up in the add-remove software gui tool, but still won't install. i've added a couple of archive source lists to sources.list (based on an ubuntu site recommendation) but get the same error messages. | did you apt-get update after adding stuff to te sources.list? |
hi guys... any release date info for 6.10? | 26 oct planned |
anybody know what the tag 'rhubarb' means? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bugs?field.tag=rhubarb | it's a plant of some kind. |
is anybody else having problem with 'apt-get update' on the us.archive.ubuntu.com repository? | remove the us. part from sources.list and try again |
does ubuntu's license or relationship with canonical prevent it from being pre-installed on pcs? | i can't see how |
any brave soul here get dapper working with a dual monitor setup? | it's no different than any other dual monitor setup in linux. |
i'm running compiz fusion but it uses gtk-window-decorator instead of emerald. using emerald --replace makes the borders disappear; what can i do? | i have those problems on cards that dont have enough vid memory. |
hello. when i plug in my newly formatted (ext3) portable hd, it mounts as root. how do i make it mount as me? | sudo chown -r yourusername /media/mountpoint |
anyone know where i can get a free shell account with a few gb of hdd space? i need it to do some open source testing, my home machine network is far to slow | yes, you are connected |
can anyone help me with this? if i had an image on my desktop, let's call it 'test.jpg', what would the path for it be? | /home/yourusername/desktop/test.jpg |
geeksquid: yeah i just f**ked my ubuntu before always kicked me to login... after 1 easy post on ubuntuforums.org it was fixed in 30 mins!! best support ever :) | gta2 works! :-p |
can apt-get be used to install old versions of apps? | synaptic makes things like that somewhat easier if you're familiar with that |
any ideas where to start fixing a broken lvm partition? when i try to mount the lvm directly i get following error: wrong fs type, bad superblock on <partition>.. try dmesg | try this http://www.tcpdump.com/kb/os/linux/configuring-lvm/intro.html |
i'm getting an error upgrading to ff: 'unable to find expected entry mail/binary-i386/packages in meta-index file' i think it's supposed to be 'main/binary...' any ideas? | you have a typo in your sources.list |
my fresh (but fully updated) install of 11.10 is mounting all external drives (tried three drives, one ext2 and two ntfs) as read-only. even manual mounting through sudo with a -w option mounts them read-only. i'm having a hard time searching for solutions because of google noise with those keywords. | *storage* group |
hello. what i should do if instead the ubuntu boot screen i want see verbose mode? | (silent) |
hei, do anyone knows about a writer program for terminal? | if you're talking about a terminal based text editors then there are: nano & vim <--- well the most popular atleast :) |
i just modified /etc/network/interfaces. do i have to reboot to implement changes? or is there another way? | sorry /etc/init,d/networking restart |
does anyone know the name of the process that controls a notebook's brightness keys? | i'm going to say... gnome-settings-daemon |
there was a kernel update that i just installed.. it asked me to restart... i did, and now i have no sound. what's going on? | sounds like a regression. reboot again, at grub (you might need to hit escape) select your old kernel and see if it works again. if so, file a bug at launchpad |
q: is there any application that can find duplicate files (exact match) for ubuntu, perhaps even one that can even look into archives like .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 for this purpose? | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fdupes this also list other candidates |
good evening, how do i make dvd playback work on my new laptop, have installed libdvdcss2 but no luck | i think there's a new package now, libdvdread3, that replaces it. and depending on where you are, maybe regionset. |
what is the file name for the background image? | it's in /usr/share/backgrounds/ i believe |
when i just updated ubuntu, i got arnings like cryptsetup: warning: failed to detect canonical device of /dev/sda1 | i experienced that also, but nothing serious happened. i guess it does not matter. |
how does one restart or stop the x server without restarting the os? | ctrl+alt+backspace |
when i boot my computer, it has some sort of firmware bootloader that tries to get a dhcp lease for no apparent reason before grub loads... is there any way i can skip that? | go to your bios setup, then deactivate preboot execution environment. |
what's a safe way to remove a soft link? | you can remove a soft link with rm, for instance if the softlink is a dir make sure it doesnt have the / at the end and it removes the link not the dir |
i am trying to upgrade to jaunty, but its saying that the package 'xubuntu-desktop' is marked for removal but it is in the removal blacklist. any idea how i can fix this? | i think xubuntu-desktop is a meta package |
does anyboy know how to increase the verbose of the syslog? | check the section talking about enterprise.log http://www.aboutdebian.com/syslog.htm |
hi there! does anyone know where i could find a list of linuy compatible usb numpads for laptops? | usb numpads that uses stardard usb hid driver must all work |
were can i get a gantt chart for any of the ubuntu projects? thanks | don't know of a gantt chart but there is https://wiki.ubuntu.com/feistyreleaseschedule |
how to make a partition mount automatically ? | /etc/fstab |
hello is there a way to show hidden files when doing an ls? | ls -la |
can anyone point me in the right direction, i've got a pc running ubuntu 10.04, and i will like to run windows 7 on a virtual machine, how do i go about this? | i recommend you look into using virtualbox by sun microsystems. |
hi, i'm trying to use a shared directory, but it doesnt show in 'network'. more over, adfter an smbclient -l localhost, server and master remain empty. any help welcome. | ive noticed those tools and samba tends to not see all my shares. i just enter the actual path in the gnome file manager - ctrl-l smb://servername/sharename and it sees them here.. i naver seen them when i browse the network. |
is that so he can see what fails? | comerc: yeah, it should give him at least an idea on where the boot hangs |
i have just installed ubuntu 7.10 and wasn't asked to set up a root password or user account. i'm using my /home dir from my previous account. i'm at the login screen and don't know what to type. help! | same username and pass as you had before should work |
what is the highest level of wireless security in ubuntu? | wireless security is a contradiction in terms tbh ;) |
anybody here who has a working 'apple wireless keyboard' ?? | you mihg look at this... mac hardware running ubuntu... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/macbookpro |
hello. is there a way to find out the 'parent-process' of a process that is shown as 'uninterruptable'? | ppid = parent process id |
hey guys, i just upgraded to 12.10 and want to remove the music suggestions under 'more suggestions'. how do i do this? | remove the unity-scope-musicstores package |
i'm trying to move my /home directory to a new partition, and reinstall ubuntu using that as home. execpt i've just realised that my current /home is encrypted. does anyone know if this would work? | if it is ecryptfs you should be ok |
hi, how can i set the thunderbird like this. when a mail from [email protected] is received, it will be listed in a specific sub dir? | http://kb.mozillazine.org/thunderbird_:_faqs_:_filters |
is there any way to see if an audio interface is sending audio? i have a pctv card which seems to be working properly, but there is no audio. | u can use pavucontrol to check your audio playback stream(s) if you're using pulseaudio |
does anyone know how to upgrade to 10.04 using and iso file by mounting it locally? | if you're talking about a livecd -> you can't upgrade with that. it would be 'possible' to potentially mount an alternate cd locally and perform update (but i have no idea how! so good luck) |
has anyone had their keyboard not respond when trying to install 10.04 using vmware fusion? | yes, many people have reported that. i believe that installing 'manually' works (virtually boot the iso and install ubuntu rather than the automatic script they have) |
how do i get linux-wlan-ng to compile with the current kernel? | you may only need the headers. |
does anyone know what size hard drives ubuntu supports 'out of the box?' | it will take all hard drive sizes |
i am trying to reset my root password with ubuntu 9.10 i selected recovery mode from the grub menu i then get a menu which gives me the option to get a root shell. however this root shell requires a maintenance password. how do i change a forgotten root password? | add 'init=/bin/sh' to your kernel line from the grub menu, change password. |
hi guys, for some reason network-admin does not seem to be able to recognise my wireless card. i am on a toshiba with an atheros wireless card with an amd64 | it may be lack of driver. also asus eee comes with atheros wireless card, and there is made a eeexubuntu to ship the correct driver. |
what's the simplest way to get remote desktop access to an ubuntu machine from a windows machine without installing client software for remote desktop access? | teamviewer |
in a computer techy way | exaile |
hello. linux can insmod a module when needed, what do i need to do ? | sudo modprobe modulename |
question: how do i install radeon hd drivers for ubuntu so i have fast 3d opengl? | but first, check system > administration > hardware drivers |
i have a little noobish question. pidgin is not working for me and i want to kill it. i've never successfully done the kill command though, how could i end this program? it's frozen | pkill -9 pidgin |
ixmu4ugd - okay, so that would take care of the issue of not knowing if someone is pretending to be me? | was lstarnes that gave that answer |
anyone with experience of turning off webcam led? :) | i dont even want to know lol but if you search for cam in your package manager you should find some cool programs |
greetings. any consice online reference for grub 1.98 as installed on ubuntu 10.04 ? i need to do two things. remove a menu entry and pass options to different os kernel ( os x, this is a hackintosh box also. i sort of got the hang of editing raw grub.conf files on gentoo... but this distro seems to script everything | /etc/default/grub |
i hesitate to choose the most suitable filesystem for a debian/ubuntu repository ... (ext3 or ext4 or something else ) .... it's a partition just for .deb and source | ext3 would be recommended as it is considered to be more stable then ext4 |
i tried the live cd but it didn't play mp3-files. does ubuntu come with a mp3 player? | they have several problems with the licences and stuff ... |
how do i enable overburning in nautilus-cd-burner? | in gconf-editor - go to apps -> nautilus-cd-burner. there is an option there to turn it on |
hi, why isnt this site not working? http://www.quietglow.com/docs/ubuntumythtv.htm | or try this :) http://www.quietglow.com/docs/ubuntumythtv.html |
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