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hello everyone. i would like to hear anyones thoughts on why i am able to connect just fine wirelessly to my gband, but not my n band? i have a netgear dual band router.	n standard is not set properly or fully supported
which package name refer to the j2sdk1.4 in apt-get way ? apt-get install j2sdk seems didnt work, hehe	are you trying to install the sun java sdk for like eclipse ?
hey guys, how would i go about listing the names of attached drives in terms of sdc1, sdc2 etc?	mount
hi, folks. how do i tell upstart to not automatically start a service (mysql)?	https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/94065
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 ...
what's better desklets	i'v used gdesklets.. i liked it
i have a problem ,i download a chm document ,but i can't read it evan i installed the chmsee which can't run .the chm reader for firefox can't support my firefox3.0 .does anyone who can help me ?	xchm or gnochm
hi. how can i arrange all opened windows in gnome with a mouse click? is there something like 'arrange side by side' ?	i think there is nothing like that
how do you list all hard drives on a computer (including ones that arent mounted)?	cfdisk or df -h or fdisk
hi all. i'm trying to install ubuntu desktop amd64. i've got an ati radeon 5770 and everytime i load the installer, from usb or cd, 10.10 or 10.04.1, i just get a black screen after it's finished booting which i guess is a display issue. any ideas? i've done a search and found a few people with similar probs with 5770 but can't find any solutions	disable kms?
hey, i tryied to install ubuntu server edition on an older pc and got this message when trying to boot from the install cd: 'acpi : unable to locate rsdp'	i get that on my pentium laptop. just ignore it and get on with your life :)
hi i keep getting this error when trying to compile the latest mythtv.... you must have the lame mp3 encoding library installed to compile myth.	liblame-dev
should i install mplayer-386 or mplayer-586 if my system is 685?	m586
so, i noticed that i have two swap paritions... how can i tell which one is in use?	do a sudo fdisk -l to see all your partitions and how they are allocated.. then do a cat /etc/fstab and compare the two.. the one that is active is the one listed in fstab
does anyone have the .so file for 64bit flash?	if you are aware of the security flaw.. https://launchpad.net/~sevenmachines/+archive/flash
i'm trying to run gparted to format and partition a usb hdd. do i need to format the whole disk to (say) ext3 before i can create partitions? thanks	yeaha you need to partition be a ext3 or somilar (not ntfs or vfat) for you edit that partition
can someone tell me the name of the task bar that i can install that looks like the one for leopard?	awn
how do i add a new admin user from bash while still making sure that it behaves just as if i had created it from the gui?	use the command 'adduser' or 'useradd', add this user to the desired groups (/etc/groups) and give him sudo privileges (visudo)
anyone interested in helping me in private room?	its almost always easiest to intall windows first.
synaptic can show which packages have not been fully purged - can aptitude do the same for a server install?	aptitude purge ~c to get rid of them
hello. i want to automate the ubuntu installation by using preseeds. how can i identify the names of the questions asked in d-i (the debian/ubuntu installer) ? the wiki describes many of them, but i'm not sure they are all there.	if you want a custom install, use remastersys or just clonezilla an exisiting iso
is there anyway to disable the join/leave server messages?	/ignore * joins parts quits nicks
hi, just added a new screen to my computer ( now i have 2 screens ). the problem is that i cant drag app from one lcd to the other. any idea?	are you using nvidia?
can you use compiz in vmware workstation?	with workstation i beleive so, workstation is supposed to support 3d stuff
can someone point me to ubuntu pam documentation?	there's usually also useful info in /usr/share/doc/package for relevant packages
is 'universe' reposity like plf or something? like nonfree?	multiverse is non-free and contributed by people who aren't official developers
how do i get the folders a package is using?	dpkg -l
is there a way to make apt-get not complain about the gpg keys for the repositories fow which it's missing?	>> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/aptauthenticationinstructionsforhoary/view?searchterm=gpg%20apt
the same procedure as always.. setup machine, tell it to boot from the install cd/iso, start machine	it's a gtk webkit-based browser
okay, so i had to boot into winxp to get the cdrom working again, to burn an install cd. how can i get the iso from the linux partition, so i don't have to download it again?	why don't you just burn it from under linux?
how do i get my sh script to cd to a directory and run a command, and then return?	cd into the first directory then cd into the second one
how do i uninstall a package that i've installed using 'sudo make install'	sudo make uninstall
how can i get ahold of the 2.6.27.11 kernel that comes with 8.10 in 8.04 - my new mb resources are not in the 8.04 kernel. i do not want to go to kde4 nor gnome. tmia!	might still be on packages.ubuntu.com
hi .. i'm new on ubuntu .. and have some problems with the permission .. i've installed apache, php, mysql and git .. now i want to create a webproject and track it with git .. but 1. i can't add files to the folder withour sudo and 2. git can't work because of permission .. what can i do ?	you could use sudo to copy the files, or configure apache to use something like ~/webserver
hi. if i want to install kde software - e.g. ktorrent and konversation - should i install kubuntu instead of the regular ubuntu?	nope. it's just a question of what you prefer.
does anyone here knows if there is any simulation software for electrical engineering?	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntuscience <= this should list most of them
question: what is the simplest way to use a default gnome desktop instead of unity?	install xfce4, log off and log into xfce, it will run a lot like gnome2
guys... i've just installed an application and i want to place a short in applications>other and i want this application to be ran as root. how do i do that? please help.	though you should learn this by messing around i will tell you, right click on the start-menu, and click edit-menus, go to other section 'add a new item', select the command for it which should be ('gksudo app_name', eg gksudo gedit), and than select a relevant icon, and click ok, put the check mark on, and it will appear in the relevant section
hi, does anybody know what is that web browser, it says mozilla but it is not firefox. i think i saw it on backtrack.	seamonkey?
hi, do you know some easy video editor for ogv format? just cut and copy frames, and add some text to it	kdenlive
to copy a file to the current direct is it simply cp /foo/foo.php?	you need a . for current directory so 'cp /foo/foo.php .'
hello everybody, i seem to have hosed my installation upgrading from 10.10 -> 11.04 -> 11.10, i was curious if the best course of action was to download 12.04 and start over	seems like a fresh install of 12.04 would be alot easier
hi, my ubuntu has hostname, named 'hulahula'. but when my windows xp in the same lan try to ping by name, that is 'hulahula', it said unknown host. ping with ubuntu ip address works fine. how do i make it work?	simplest solution is to configure and run samba
i forgot how to turn on dma, what is the command hdparm -d1?	eg hdpram -d1 /dev/hdc
hola, i have a silly question. i am trying to get into a folder that i have sitting in the home directory and every time i try to cd into it i get /foldername no such file or directory when i do the ll i see the folder but when i do cd /foldername no dice. any help? merci!!!	try ~/, not /
u know how to install vlc thru synaptic package manager?	sure, find the 'vlc' package and click install.
is there a decent c++ rad for ubuntu? or is it possible to implement glade with g++? i've never understood how to do that.	anjuta
specifying my question better. i installed some drivers for my intel chipset display, from the intel website (bad move i know) in attempts to get something working, i need to revert the display settings to back before i installed the drivers. as in the old xorg settings. would anyone be able to tell me how to do that?	dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
does mount --bind olddir newdir permanently changes the fs tree?	yes, with umount newdir
if i am using ubuntu with gnome, is there a way to close a window that is frozen and won't close by using the x? (pardon me if this is a stupid question)	alt+f2, enter xkill, click on frozen window
does anyboy know how to increase the verbose of the syslog?	check the section talking about enterprise.log http://www.aboutdebian.com/syslog.htm
can someone who doesn't have via integrated sound show me the result of ls /dev/snd ?	hwc0d0 pcmc0d0c pcmc0d1c pcmc0d2p
i don't think you can.. i think vmware sets up a virtual disc image..	so i need to install another windows from it?
does anyone know how i could set up 'profiles' on my laptop (eg, docked with a different resolution and without cpu frequency scaling) and not docked?	check in /proc/acpi
does anyone know what the version of modwsgi is in 11.04 and 10.04 lts?	http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/libapache2-mod-wsgi
i reinstalled compizfusion last night, everything works but not the cube, it's not a cube it's a 2 sided object, my desktop is set to 4 desktops so i don't know what is going on with this, is there something else i'm missing, what am i doing wrong?	open ccsm and go to general>destop size> put in 4 1 1 as size
hello!! what laptop brands have hardware that works well with ubuntu?	i'd go with dell. they're actually supporting ubuntu.
i have a sound blaster live! 5.1 sound card and a logitech x-530 5.1 speaker set... the sound is okay but i got an interference noise at the central speaker all the time. does anyone know what's happening?	creative.com (but sb drivers are included with ubuntu)
how can i recover some files i just deleted from an ext3 filesystem? (it isn't critical, but i'd like to get them back)	you might get lucky if you can find the inode you might beable to recover it
if i remove something with 'rm' command, is there a way to get it back if i did wrong? i can't see the files in the trash.	'rm' deletes files, doesn't put them in the trash. no easy way to get them back.
hey anyone know how to make glxgears spit out the frame rate nowadays?	or glxgears -printfps, if you don't want to type that much
hi, how do i add an extra workspace?	right click on the workspaces -> properties
has anybody had problems with google chrome flash player, videos running in fast forward?	you may have two flash plugins, if you go to chrome://plugins and disable one of them (i don't remember which one), that should solve the problem
how much 'better' is 10.10 than 10.4. or would it be the otherway around? i believe 10.04 is the lts, correct?	it is lts, yes
is there a way to tell what db level your headphones are playing at?	alsamixer shows in db
is grub still the bootloader for ubuntu/xubuntu?	grub2 is the standard these days. yes.
anybody who know how to ban message like this 'quit' 'join' ?	see also /help ignore on your client
hmm i have http://au.archive.ubuntu.com in my sources.list but it seems to be down can some one confirm please	can't connect there either
hi, how do i mark a package as not held back?	sudo aptitude unhold package?
how do i find out what sound module my kernel has loaded for my sound card?	try lshw -class sound and/or lsmod \| grep snd
does anybody know of a good sqlyog alternative for linux? it's a mysql gui frontend (and no, the mysql administrator isn't enough)	do you object to phpmyadmin?
hello, i have a problem, i have a folder full of photos, many copied from an iphoto library... the permissions are a mess, and i need to give myself privilages to read and write to all files and subfolders within my ~/photos/ folder. what is the command for this?	chmod -r 755 ~/photos/
is there a way to use 3 monitors on 2 graphic cards and still be able to use 3d accelleration?	windows does it, so linux can, i think
anybody ever had issues connecting thunderbird to gmail ?	i use thunderbird with gmail, i've not had any issues with connections at all
anyone know what package 'libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3' belongs to?	http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-search.en.html - section 5.4
folks, updated to hoary, no xorg.conf. x -configure didn't work (or do i need to be out of x). what was that deb-something command i need to get an xorg conf to appear?	sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
hey i know some wifi drivers which are causing me problems and i can unload them manually with modprobe -r. how do i blacklist these drivers from being loaded on startup?	well. in arch it'd be /etc/rc.conf/ but, via ubuntu i have no clue
looking for a quick way to enable/disable pppoe.	pon/poff ?
can anyone here help me figure out my notification problem? i'm not getting notifications with notify-send unless i specify -u critical	libnotify-bin installed¿
hey guys if i am running a version of xubuntu, kubuntu or ubuntu, can i install the other windows managers on them for example -> kde in ubuntu?	you can install other wms too - fluxbox, wmaker, etc
hi, im new to linux. can any one tell how to mount windows partitions in ubuntu	search thee
i don't know if this file exist..	i suggest you read /usr/share/doc/wordpress* (especially if there is a readme.debian). there may be a special way to install those things because of the packaging. however, if you want to find php.ini, just use locate
would it hurt to install 'kubuntu-desktop' on an ubuntu system even if 'libpostproc1d' is 'not authenticated' on the medibuntu servers?	authentication can usually be fixed by doign a sudo apt-get update, if it still doesnt go away, it really doessnt break anything.
does anyone know a software that can automatically place photos on a page? i want to make a photo-book with around 16-25 photos/page?	gthumb has a contact sheet plugin, which might do what you want.. i'm not sure but worth a look. does shotwell nto have such a thing also?
where can i find my .bashrc?	it's a hidden file, so if you're using nautilus press ctrl+h to show hidden files
does anyone know how some people get '# $id: changelog 218 2006-08-11 14:40:20z garrett $ #' to go at the top of their files whenever it's changed?	you've got to use a version control system like cvs or subversion
is there a quick command to see how much ram is installed on the system?	free --help to make it readable
hi, is it possible to create a searchable pdf from an image file in ubuntu?	try the scribus channel, they have a lot of knowledge in the pdf realm
how can i set costum icons for devices, listed in computer:/// ??	top left *
hey #ubuntu, is there a utility that will tell me the integer value of a key combination? i'm trying to configure my trackpad to handle three-finger swiping correctly	xev maybe?
i have ibm thinkpad t43 but i am not able to get the fn+f7 to work to switch the ldc to the screen and back to the lcd .. does anybody know how can i switch between it	some of those fn-key functions won't work out of box w/ ubuntu, you can try to do it using keyboard mapping, or find a script to do that task...which is what i did w/ monitor brightness w/ ac-adapter/battery
can someone tell me what the 'super' button is	it's known to windows users as 'winkey'
i moved my home folder to another partition with find . -depth -print0 \| cpio --null --sparse -pvd /media/newhome/ and made it as home, after i rebooted i get errors like $home/.dmrc having the wrong permissions. do you know if cpio got the permissions right?	chown your home dir.
next problem....sighs '/home/neo/uplink-demo/lib/uplink.bin.x86: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory'	apt-get install libstdc++5
hi all. what is the cli command for showing the distro information....i cant remember or find it on google...	lsb_release -a
hi. am a bit of a newbie and having trouble trying to mount an ntfs drive from using edgy live. have created /media/hda folder - and added '/dev/hda /media/hda ntfs@ to fstab but get the following error when i try 'sudo mount /media/hda' - mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda, missing codepage or other error' can anyone help please.	you mount partitions, not drives. so probably hda1
i installed ubuntu, jacked it up, now i am on the live cd... where is the installed /etc/group file located? all i am finding is the live cd's /etc/group	did you mount your hard drive?
what does cvs stand for ?	cvs is a type of versoin control
if i might ask a noob question, what irc client do most of y'all use?	using xchat
does ubuntu have a text based browser	links

hello everyone. i would like to hear anyones thoughts on why i am able to connect just fine wirelessly to my gband, but not my n band? i have a netgear dual band router.

n standard is not set properly or fully supported

which package name refer to the j2sdk1.4 in apt-get way ? apt-get install j2sdk seems didnt work, hehe

are you trying to install the sun java sdk for like eclipse ?

hey guys, how would i go about listing the names of attached drives in terms of sdc1, sdc2 etc?

mount

hi, folks. how do i tell upstart to not automatically start a service (mysql)?

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/94065

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 ...

what's better desklets

i'v used gdesklets.. i liked it

i have a problem ,i download a chm document ,but i can't read it evan i installed the chmsee which can't run .the chm reader for firefox can't support my firefox3.0 .does anyone who can help me ?

xchm or gnochm

hi. how can i arrange all opened windows in gnome with a mouse click? is there something like 'arrange side by side' ?

i think there is nothing like that

how do you list all hard drives on a computer (including ones that arent mounted)?

cfdisk or df -h or fdisk

hi all. i'm trying to install ubuntu desktop amd64. i've got an ati radeon 5770 and everytime i load the installer, from usb or cd, 10.10 or 10.04.1, i just get a black screen after it's finished booting which i guess is a display issue. any ideas? i've done a search and found a few people with similar probs with 5770 but can't find any solutions

disable kms?

hey, i tryied to install ubuntu server edition on an older pc and got this message when trying to boot from the install cd: 'acpi : unable to locate rsdp'

i get that on my pentium laptop. just ignore it and get on with your life :)

hi i keep getting this error when trying to compile the latest mythtv.... you must have the lame mp3 encoding library installed to compile myth.

liblame-dev

should i install mplayer-386 or mplayer-586 if my system is 685?

m586

so, i noticed that i have two swap paritions... how can i tell which one is in use?

do a sudo fdisk -l to see all your partitions and how they are allocated.. then do a cat /etc/fstab and compare the two.. the one that is active is the one listed in fstab

does anyone have the .so file for 64bit flash?

if you are aware of the security flaw.. https://launchpad.net/~sevenmachines/+archive/flash

i'm trying to run gparted to format and partition a usb hdd. do i need to format the whole disk to (say) ext3 before i can create partitions? thanks

yeaha you need to partition be a ext3 or somilar (not ntfs or vfat) for you edit that partition

can someone tell me the name of the task bar that i can install that looks like the one for leopard?

awn

how do i add a new admin user from bash while still making sure that it behaves just as if i had created it from the gui?

use the command 'adduser' or 'useradd', add this user to the desired groups (/etc/groups) and give him sudo privileges (visudo)

anyone interested in helping me in private room?

its almost always easiest to intall windows first.

synaptic can show which packages have not been fully purged - can aptitude do the same for a server install?

aptitude purge ~c to get rid of them

hello. i want to automate the ubuntu installation by using preseeds. how can i identify the names of the questions asked in d-i (the debian/ubuntu installer) ? the wiki describes many of them, but i'm not sure they are all there.

if you want a custom install, use remastersys or just clonezilla an exisiting iso

is there anyway to disable the join/leave server messages?

/ignore * joins parts quits nicks

hi, just added a new screen to my computer ( now i have 2 screens ). the problem is that i cant drag app from one lcd to the other. any idea?

are you using nvidia?

can you use compiz in vmware workstation?

with workstation i beleive so, workstation is supposed to support 3d stuff

can someone point me to ubuntu pam documentation?

there's usually also useful info in /usr/share/doc/package for relevant packages

is 'universe' reposity like plf or something? like nonfree?

multiverse is non-free and contributed by people who aren't official developers

how do i get the folders a package is using?

dpkg -l

is there a way to make apt-get not complain about the gpg keys for the repositories fow which it's missing?

>> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/aptauthenticationinstructionsforhoary/view?searchterm=gpg%20apt

the same procedure as always.. setup machine, tell it to boot from the install cd/iso, start machine

it's a gtk webkit-based browser

okay, so i had to boot into winxp to get the cdrom working again, to burn an install cd. how can i get the iso from the linux partition, so i don't have to download it again?

why don't you just burn it from under linux?

how do i get my sh script to cd to a directory and run a command, and then return?

cd into the first directory then cd into the second one

how do i uninstall a package that i've installed using 'sudo make install'

sudo make uninstall

how can i get ahold of the 2.6.27.11 kernel that comes with 8.10 in 8.04 - my new mb resources are not in the 8.04 kernel. i do not want to go to kde4 nor gnome. tmia!

might still be on packages.ubuntu.com

hi .. i'm new on ubuntu .. and have some problems with the permission .. i've installed apache, php, mysql and git .. now i want to create a webproject and track it with git .. but 1. i can't add files to the folder withour sudo and 2. git can't work because of permission .. what can i do ?

you could use sudo to copy the files, or configure apache to use something like ~/webserver

hi. if i want to install kde software - e.g. ktorrent and konversation - should i install kubuntu instead of the regular ubuntu?

nope. it's just a question of what you prefer.

does anyone here knows if there is any simulation software for electrical engineering?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntuscience <= this should list most of them

question: what is the simplest way to use a default gnome desktop instead of unity?

install xfce4, log off and log into xfce, it will run a lot like gnome2

guys... i've just installed an application and i want to place a short in applications>other and i want this application to be ran as root. how do i do that? please help.

though you should learn this by messing around i will tell you, right click on the start-menu, and click edit-menus, go to other section 'add a new item', select the command for it which should be ('gksudo app_name', eg gksudo gedit), and than select a relevant icon, and click ok, put the check mark on, and it will appear in the relevant section

hi, does anybody know what is that web browser, it says mozilla but it is not firefox. i think i saw it on backtrack.

seamonkey?

hi, do you know some easy video editor for ogv format? just cut and copy frames, and add some text to it

kdenlive

to copy a file to the current direct is it simply cp /foo/foo.php?

you need a . for current directory so 'cp /foo/foo.php .'

hello everybody, i seem to have hosed my installation upgrading from 10.10 -> 11.04 -> 11.10, i was curious if the best course of action was to download 12.04 and start over

seems like a fresh install of 12.04 would be alot easier

hi, my ubuntu has hostname, named 'hulahula'. but when my windows xp in the same lan try to ping by name, that is 'hulahula', it said unknown host. ping with ubuntu ip address works fine. how do i make it work?

simplest solution is to configure and run samba

i forgot how to turn on dma, what is the command hdparm -d1?

eg hdpram -d1 /dev/hdc

hola, i have a silly question. i am trying to get into a folder that i have sitting in the home directory and every time i try to cd into it i get /foldername no such file or directory when i do the ll i see the folder but when i do cd /foldername no dice. any help? merci!!!

try ~/, not /

u know how to install vlc thru synaptic package manager?

sure, find the 'vlc' package and click install.

is there a decent c++ rad for ubuntu? or is it possible to implement glade with g++? i've never understood how to do that.

anjuta

specifying my question better. i installed some drivers for my intel chipset display, from the intel website (bad move i know) in attempts to get something working, i need to revert the display settings to back before i installed the drivers. as in the old xorg settings. would anyone be able to tell me how to do that?

dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

does mount --bind olddir newdir permanently changes the fs tree?

yes, with umount newdir

if i am using ubuntu with gnome, is there a way to close a window that is frozen and won't close by using the x? (pardon me if this is a stupid question)

alt+f2, enter xkill, click on frozen window

does anyboy know how to increase the verbose of the syslog?

check the section talking about enterprise.log http://www.aboutdebian.com/syslog.htm

can someone who doesn't have via integrated sound show me the result of ls /dev/snd ?

hwc0d0 pcmc0d0c pcmc0d1c pcmc0d2p

i don't think you can.. i think vmware sets up a virtual disc image..

so i need to install another windows from it?

does anyone know how i could set up 'profiles' on my laptop (eg, docked with a different resolution and without cpu frequency scaling) and not docked?

check in /proc/acpi

does anyone know what the version of modwsgi is in 11.04 and 10.04 lts?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/libapache2-mod-wsgi

i reinstalled compizfusion last night, everything works but not the cube, it's not a cube it's a 2 sided object, my desktop is set to 4 desktops so i don't know what is going on with this, is there something else i'm missing, what am i doing wrong?

open ccsm and go to general>destop size> put in 4 1 1 as size

hello!! what laptop brands have hardware that works well with ubuntu?

i'd go with dell. they're actually supporting ubuntu.

i have a sound blaster live! 5.1 sound card and a logitech x-530 5.1 speaker set... the sound is okay but i got an interference noise at the central speaker all the time. does anyone know what's happening?

creative.com (but sb drivers are included with ubuntu)

how can i recover some files i just deleted from an ext3 filesystem? (it isn't critical, but i'd like to get them back)

you might get lucky if you can find the inode you might beable to recover it

if i remove something with 'rm' command, is there a way to get it back if i did wrong? i can't see the files in the trash.

'rm' deletes files, doesn't put them in the trash. no easy way to get them back.

hey anyone know how to make glxgears spit out the frame rate nowadays?

or glxgears -printfps, if you don't want to type that much

hi, how do i add an extra workspace?

right click on the workspaces -> properties

has anybody had problems with google chrome flash player, videos running in fast forward?

you may have two flash plugins, if you go to chrome://plugins and disable one of them (i don't remember which one), that should solve the problem

how much 'better' is 10.10 than 10.4. or would it be the otherway around? i believe 10.04 is the lts, correct?

it is lts, yes

is there a way to tell what db level your headphones are playing at?

alsamixer shows in db

is grub still the bootloader for ubuntu/xubuntu?

grub2 is the standard these days. yes.

anybody who know how to ban message like this 'quit' 'join' ?