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i want to create a partition to storage files from ubuntu , i must create 'fat32' ?	fat32
can you set up apache so when a user goes to the web address it requires the user to log in prior to seeing what's available for downloading off of the apache web server?	i'm sure it's covered extensively in the apache faq:s
hey guys, can someone explain me how to un-install a kernel package?	otherwise use the package manager and search for the version numbers like 2.4.5-32 or whatever to get the exact ones
hi, here is my problem: the '1' key doesnt work (the one below esc), but shift+'1' does work, im 100% shure it is ubuntu thing, cause on other pc and on this pc on win it works normal, any ideas?	go to the console and see if it works there..
can i safely edit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf --without conflict from the gnome network thingie	it should be safe
i need to edit my smb.conf yet this file exists in several places. which one do i edit?	/etc/samba/smb.conf
lol...help! my ubuntu livecd is asking for a login and password...now i gather the login name is ubuntu, but what is the password?	cp -r /source /target/
anyone here successfully using the openvpn plugin for the network manager?	heh, have you successfully used the network manager at all? doesn't work for me :p
i've got werid problem with buttons, for example in firefox http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen11rc.jpg anyone has similar?	if you change the theme it should go away
guys i downloaded ubuntu ,, so how to burn its using nero ?	cancel out of the wizard and go to file -> open
does anyone know how to install twisted?	or maybe python-twisted-bin...
is there away to open terminal using a keystroke	depends on the system, usually in preferences;keyboard shortcuts.
try with the dat disconnected, maybe it's a scsi problem?	i tried with disabled installng in novell suse....den i got da same
ppl what irc client can you recomend me? i'm using konversation at the moment	the bot in there will tell you what others have voted the best client
hey peep, anybody knows a good artist-site, who makes nice icons for gnome ?	http://jimmac.musichall.cz
i want to make a t-shirt with the expression: 'if not drunk, add beer' in c++ or another programming lingo. can anybody help me?	if(!drunk){beer++)
what does bash do with the pipe character?	the pipe takes the output of one command and sends it to the input of another command.
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
hi, i just installed jaunty and stuff that was not yet working with intrepid is now working ootb (scroll-button, wireless (ath5k)). yay ;d. i would like to test the built-in camera too. does anyone know a program with which i could do that?	- search synaptic for 'cheese'
anyone know of a good way to get an application to minimize to the notification area if the program doesn't do it by itself?	alltray claims to do that
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
when using the xv video driver in a media player, my videos on my tv is just black. any ideas?	not all cards/drivers support overlay (xv) on tv-out. just don't use it if you're in such a situation...
is there any way how to turn on dma and 32bit transfer in feisty?	man hdparm
to quit x, i type init ?	there's no non-x runlevels in ubuntu (maybe 1 and 6, of course)
how do i 'revert' sudo su again? :p	'exit'
how do you see the owner i know chown changes the owner but if i just want to view it?	ls -l
hi, any issues with 10.04 upgrade ? i am getting 'could not download the release notes - please check your internet connection.' error. i don't think i have any problems with my internet connection	if you go to system > administration > software sources there's a way in there to chck for a faster mirror
i want to perform a command when i start my desktop manager, (in this case xfce) how do i do it please?	use .xsession
how can i pipe all the file and folder names of a given directory to a file?	ls * -r > list.txt
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 ;)
hey guys, just burned xubuntu to cd, tried to boot into it, at the login screen it asks for user and password - what to type? i already tried 'ubuntu' and just hitting enter, does not help..	or nothing
how do you create a shortcut via terminal	ln -s /location/of/file shortcut-filename is the quickest way
wow... driving and on the internet at the same time.. that's way too connected for me. i always wait till my horse is hungry and we've stopped for a while. :)	gps navigation from a treo / car cradle is awesome, let me tell you!
hello, i have a problem with my thinkpad x61 tablet after i upgraded from hardy to intrepid. my wireless doesn't work anymore. there is no icon or anything. does anyone know anything i can try?	try this: press alt+f2 and run networkmanager and see if any icon appears
i can only create 4 partitions and then the rest of the space is given as 'unusable' and there is a max of 200gb per partition	you need to make 1 of the 4 partitions an extended partition
what's the command line tool that can list all of the installed packages? i'm looking for the equivalent of gentoo's 'equery list' and redhat's 'rpm -qa'.	dpkg -l
where is the preferred program (web browser, etc) thing now?	top-right corner, system settings, system info, default applications.
i want 'sudo tail /var/log/syslog' permanently updated in a window ... but how ?	tail -f
how does the ubuntu package system work in this case: natty repository has package x version y but another source has package x version y+1.. how does ubuntu (apt) determine which one to use/install?	http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html read about how version numbers are compared. unless you have some sort of apt rule setup, the greater version will be chose
while i have 2 monitors how can i specify on which screen a program shall start?	display=:0.1 foo
guys, is there yahoo messenger for ubuntu?	try gaim, there isn't an official yahoo messenger for linux
hello. quick launchpad question. i should use 'blueprints' for filing feature requests right?	right
how do i change the port settings of mail servers in evolution for use with gmail?	mail.server.com:port
i just installed ubuntu karmic beta but grub hangs. does anyone know anything about this?	might want to try to beta channel. if it's open. i can't remember the name of the channel though.
how can i boot ubuntu not in gui mode? because when i boot ubuntu it leads me to gdm login	just hit ctrl+alt+f1 to switch out of graphical mode.
does anybody have wifi roaming working 'perfectly'??	but it works alright with nm, as shrikee said.
can someone plz help me with this xubuntu install to my flash drive?	have you done everything from here --> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/liveusbpendrivepersistent
hardware drivers is not working. i enable the driver and a progress bar shows up quickly and disappears. how do i debug this?	make sure synaptic isn't running
i was wondering the same for myself, thats why i was asknig about antivirus	i think that while ubuntu developers don't try to make things simpler for the windows users, we'll be fine
is there only one instance in the xf86config-4 file that i need to change 'ati' to 'fglrx' and is that the only edit i need to make to it?	should be only one
hey, are all terminal based programs able to run with via ssh? irssi works as im using it on my windows comp atm	yes you have pretty much full control with ssh
i have a text file that i want to have every 'pd;' replaced with a ',' ... no quotation marks of course. this seems like something a one line script could do but i am clueless. anyone wanna help? :)	opet it in gedit, go to search -> replace
hi, i just installed 9.04 in paralles mac, but i cant login. everytime i enter my credentials i hear the login sound, see the desktop for a second and then the login screen reapeas, asking me again form my username/password. does anyone know a solution for this?	that sounds like a bug i had... but i forget how i fixed it :o
lo' there shamm don't think i know ya.	no, we don't know each other, but your nick reminds me.. i'm hardcore starcraft player
i want to shift from lucid to 11.04, how should i backup the packages?	file > generate..
i have scratchy sounds with xmms and amarok, how to fix this ?	buy a very good speaker, heh
does anyone have a really good tut on ubuntu lamp	i do hold on
no, this is xubuntu, cannot see preferences on the pager	you can use ccsm
where could i ask my performance related question on ubuntu-server?	maybe run transmission with idle i/o priority? ionice -c 3 -p `pidof transmission`
could any please tell me how to undo a removal from the gnome panel?	rhythmbox icon is now part of indicator applet, so add that back to your panel
are there any official 80x15 images for linking to ubuntu?	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/websitebuttons
greetings to all can give me any good sites with music	http://www.heartseed.org/thecarpenters
hi, does anyone know how to get the sha256 checksum of a file at the command-line? thank you?	sha256sum
anyone good with securing ssh server?	pretty easy, disable root log in, force ssh keys, change the port, etc.
hey, simple question--in these steps ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3851308&postcount=3 ), which way do i go about 'install fglrx closed source driver for ati video cards.'	sudo apt-get install fglrx
nice when everthing 'just works!' huh?	oh yes. its like sex.
does anyone know how to auto configure xorg.conf... ?	sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
does anyone know if the channel bot has a seen system?	it does not
hi all, i want to know what is the current support for ati radeon cards. mostly about video playback. i'm having trouble with the open source driver (radeon) and fglrx. in case of radeon, the video play isn't of the right color, in case of fglrx is doesn't display the video at all ...	i'm assuming that you tried 'sudo jockey-gtk'
but i'm on ppc, so i don't know for sure	no it won't
hi all! how does xwindows work when there is no /etc/x11/xorg.conf?	usually not at all, why?
hm... i find it completely unacceptable that the resolution of x11 is impossible to control in 7.04.... no matter what i write in xorg.conf, i still have the exactly same choices in the 'screen resolution' app....	try sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xorg-server
how and when is /etc/systcl.conf read and acted upon during boot up?	when /etc/init.d/procps runs
hello is there a way i can have whatever song i am playing show up in my gaim away message?	go poke those fine people @ gaim
anyone know a nice command that can read certain bytes from a file and display them in hex, or something like this?	hexcat
who made this ubuntu distribution? is it from britain? what does the name mean, is in in africaan? please answer	. it is named after the southern african philosophy of ubuntu ('humanity towards others').[7]
what the best program for managing passwords in linux?	http://keepassx.sourceforge.net/
w: gpg error: ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable release: the following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: no_pubkey 07dc563d1f41b907	sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
whats the diference beetween debian and ubunto?	i'd like to have that answered myself
how can i disable my other sound cards so that ubuntu defaults to my usb sound card?	look in the sound preferences
i'm running jaunty on my laptop. when it's not plugged in, the screen dims after like 15 seconds of inactivity, and when i touch a key or move the mouse again, it doesn't return to its former brightness. where are the settings for this?	or go to system->preferences->power management
question, do i need install an antivirus in ubuntu?	an antivirus doesn't do much because there are no ubuntu viruses in the wild. however, if you're concerned about passing viruses on to windows-using friends, you can use clamscan to check for viruses.
is there a program like pcanywhere that you can control a pc that is beside of router?	http://www.tightvnc.com/
i'm a little confused by the behaviour of networkmanager and /etc/network/interfaces (feisty). it seems that the only way to get networkmanager to manage an interface is add the 'iface wlan0 inet dhcp' line to interfaces(5) and reboot. if the line's not there, the wlan0 isn't managed. am i on crack or is this just a bad coincidence?	dpkg -l network-manager, there's a readme that says so
does anyone here know how ubuntu routes midi files for playback? is there some config file somewhere that tells it what to do with midi files when the user asks for them to be played?	see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/midi/softwaresynthesishowto if you need software synthesis and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/midi/hardwaresynthesissetup if you have hardware support and would prefer that
fedora uses /etc/grub.conf for permanent additions to the grub kernel cmdline .. what about ubuntu?	it's in /boot/grub/menu.lst
so, where can i find the correct md5sum for the feisty desktop iso image? it is strange that it is not provided somewhere in the download page at www.ubunutulinux.org (or am i blind?)	http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/md5sums
will the final version of 6.10 include linux kernel 2.18?	i don't think so. -17 would be the default, i believe
i'm trying to install karmic from usb using an image created with unetbootin. it boots, logs in, and hangs directly after displaying gnome-panel. i'm on a dell optiplex 320. i can switch to a terminal (ctl+alt+f1) during xsplash, but every time i switch back to x (ctl+alt+f7) it hangs, and i have to power cycle. any ideas on how to get it to stop freezing like this?	- i would try killall compiz-fusion or something
don't you know an editor more user friendly? :-)	sorry; i only use vi :$
i was wondering if anyone knows a way to mount as not root? ive got a user called gem who has sudo access but it keeps mounting as root? anyone know why	-o uid=$uid
i used to be able to take a screenshot of a single window, using ctrl-prtscrn (or maybe it was alt). it doesn't seem to be working after upgrade, i tried all the modifier keys. only pressing prtscrn by itself takes a screenshot of the whole screen	do you have ccsm>gnome compatibility enabled? (and screenshot set inside of the plugin)
is there a way to make an ini file (or whatever the ubuntu equiv. is) that loads a certain number of programs, and positions them in a certain place on the screen?	look here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=435073
so nobody knows how to get the linker working on 5.10-rc?	did you install build-essential?
does anyone know the name of the process that controls a notebook's brightness keys?	i'm going to say... gnome-settings-daemon
hi there :) i'm trying to find a program for a mate that will automaticly change his background every so often, anyone know a good way to do this?	err desktop drapes or wallpapoz, but they are both buggy and hacks
anyone know how to make udev repopulate /dev/disk/by-label without a reboot?	-> try sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart or hald restart on same dir
how do i go about extracting a windows executable file ? i dont have access to windows atm :/	if it's a self-extracting zip, unzip might do it
why are you so unfriendly? maybe she doesn't speak any english.	pici: she used english if you're not having been looking into the conversation.
sorry for the repost: how is the combination these days for intel gma x3100 and compiz fusion? i read about lots of problems getting it to work. i was wondering if it's working out of the box now after you've installed the compiz-config settings manager?	compiz is the major source of problems, you should uninstall it

i want to create a partition to storage files from ubuntu , i must create 'fat32' ?

fat32

can you set up apache so when a user goes to the web address it requires the user to log in prior to seeing what's available for downloading off of the apache web server?

i'm sure it's covered extensively in the apache faq:s

hey guys, can someone explain me how to un-install a kernel package?

otherwise use the package manager and search for the version numbers like 2.4.5-32 or whatever to get the exact ones

hi, here is my problem: the '1' key doesnt work (the one below esc), but shift+'1' does work, im 100% shure it is ubuntu thing, cause on other pc and on this pc on win it works normal, any ideas?

go to the console and see if it works there..

can i safely edit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf --without conflict from the gnome network thingie

it should be safe

i need to edit my smb.conf yet this file exists in several places. which one do i edit?

/etc/samba/smb.conf

lol...help! my ubuntu livecd is asking for a login and password...now i gather the login name is ubuntu, but what is the password?

cp -r /source /target/

anyone here successfully using the openvpn plugin for the network manager?

heh, have you successfully used the network manager at all? doesn't work for me :p

i've got werid problem with buttons, for example in firefox http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen11rc.jpg anyone has similar?

if you change the theme it should go away

guys i downloaded ubuntu ,, so how to burn its using nero ?

cancel out of the wizard and go to file -> open

does anyone know how to install twisted?

or maybe python-twisted-bin...

is there away to open terminal using a keystroke

depends on the system, usually in preferences;keyboard shortcuts.

try with the dat disconnected, maybe it's a scsi problem?

i tried with disabled installng in novell suse....den i got da same

ppl what irc client can you recomend me? i'm using konversation at the moment

the bot in there will tell you what others have voted the best client

hey peep, anybody knows a good artist-site, who makes nice icons for gnome ?

http://jimmac.musichall.cz

i want to make a t-shirt with the expression: 'if not drunk, add beer' in c++ or another programming lingo. can anybody help me?

if(!drunk){beer++)

what does bash do with the pipe character?

the pipe takes the output of one command and sends it to the input of another command.

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

hi, i just installed jaunty and stuff that was not yet working with intrepid is now working ootb (scroll-button, wireless (ath5k)). yay ;d. i would like to test the built-in camera too. does anyone know a program with which i could do that?

- search synaptic for 'cheese'

anyone know of a good way to get an application to minimize to the notification area if the program doesn't do it by itself?

alltray claims to do that

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

when using the xv video driver in a media player, my videos on my tv is just black. any ideas?

not all cards/drivers support overlay (xv) on tv-out. just don't use it if you're in such a situation...

is there any way how to turn on dma and 32bit transfer in feisty?

man hdparm

to quit x, i type init ?

there's no non-x runlevels in ubuntu (maybe 1 and 6, of course)

how do i 'revert' sudo su again? :p

'exit'

how do you see the owner i know chown changes the owner but if i just want to view it?

ls -l

hi, any issues with 10.04 upgrade ? i am getting 'could not download the release notes - please check your internet connection.' error. i don't think i have any problems with my internet connection

if you go to system > administration > software sources there's a way in there to chck for a faster mirror

i want to perform a command when i start my desktop manager, (in this case xfce) how do i do it please?

use .xsession

how can i pipe all the file and folder names of a given directory to a file?

ls * -r > list.txt

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 ;)

hey guys, just burned xubuntu to cd, tried to boot into it, at the login screen it asks for user and password - what to type? i already tried 'ubuntu' and just hitting enter, does not help..

or nothing

how do you create a shortcut via terminal

ln -s /location/of/file shortcut-filename is the quickest way

wow... driving and on the internet at the same time.. that's way too connected for me. i always wait till my horse is hungry and we've stopped for a while. :)

gps navigation from a treo / car cradle is awesome, let me tell you!

hello, i have a problem with my thinkpad x61 tablet after i upgraded from hardy to intrepid. my wireless doesn't work anymore. there is no icon or anything. does anyone know anything i can try?

try this: press alt+f2 and run networkmanager and see if any icon appears

i can only create 4 partitions and then the rest of the space is given as 'unusable' and there is a max of 200gb per partition

you need to make 1 of the 4 partitions an extended partition

what's the command line tool that can list all of the installed packages? i'm looking for the equivalent of gentoo's 'equery list' and redhat's 'rpm -qa'.

dpkg -l

where is the preferred program (web browser, etc) thing now?

top-right corner, system settings, system info, default applications.

i want 'sudo tail /var/log/syslog' permanently updated in a window ... but how ?

tail -f

how does the ubuntu package system work in this case: natty repository has package x version y but another source has package x version y+1.. how does ubuntu (apt) determine which one to use/install?

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html read about how version numbers are compared. unless you have some sort of apt rule setup, the greater version will be chose

while i have 2 monitors how can i specify on which screen a program shall start?

display=:0.1 foo

guys, is there yahoo messenger for ubuntu?

try gaim, there isn't an official yahoo messenger for linux

hello. quick launchpad question. i should use 'blueprints' for filing feature requests right?

right

how do i change the port settings of mail servers in evolution for use with gmail?

mail.server.com:port

i just installed ubuntu karmic beta but grub hangs. does anyone know anything about this?

might want to try to beta channel. if it's open. i can't remember the name of the channel though.

how can i boot ubuntu not in gui mode? because when i boot ubuntu it leads me to gdm login

just hit ctrl+alt+f1 to switch out of graphical mode.

does anybody have wifi roaming working 'perfectly'??

but it works alright with nm, as shrikee said.

can someone plz help me with this xubuntu install to my flash drive?

have you done everything from here --> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/liveusbpendrivepersistent

hardware drivers is not working. i enable the driver and a progress bar shows up quickly and disappears. how do i debug this?

make sure synaptic isn't running

i was wondering the same for myself, thats why i was asknig about antivirus

i think that while ubuntu developers don't try to make things simpler for the windows users, we'll be fine

is there only one instance in the xf86config-4 file that i need to change 'ati' to 'fglrx' and is that the only edit i need to make to it?

should be only one

hey, are all terminal based programs able to run with via ssh? irssi works as im using it on my windows comp atm

yes you have pretty much full control with ssh

i have a text file that i want to have every 'pd;' replaced with a ',' ... no quotation marks of course. this seems like something a one line script could do but i am clueless. anyone wanna help? :)

opet it in gedit, go to search -> replace

hi, i just installed 9.04 in paralles mac, but i cant login. everytime i enter my credentials i hear the login sound, see the desktop for a second and then the login screen reapeas, asking me again form my username/password. does anyone know a solution for this?

that sounds like a bug i had... but i forget how i fixed it :o

lo' there shamm don't think i know ya.

no, we don't know each other, but your nick reminds me.. i'm hardcore starcraft player

i want to shift from lucid to 11.04, how should i backup the packages?

file > generate..

i have scratchy sounds with xmms and amarok, how to fix this ?

buy a very good speaker, heh

does anyone have a really good tut on ubuntu lamp

i do hold on

no, this is xubuntu, cannot see preferences on the pager

you can use ccsm

where could i ask my performance related question on ubuntu-server?

maybe run transmission with idle i/o priority? ionice -c 3 -p `pidof transmission`

could any please tell me how to undo a removal from the gnome panel?

rhythmbox icon is now part of indicator applet, so add that back to your panel

are there any official 80x15 images for linking to ubuntu?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/websitebuttons

greetings to all can give me any good sites with music

http://www.heartseed.org/thecarpenters

hi, does anyone know how to get the sha256 checksum of a file at the command-line? thank you?

sha256sum

anyone good with securing ssh server?

pretty easy, disable root log in, force ssh keys, change the port, etc.

hey, simple question--in these steps ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3851308&postcount=3 ), which way do i go about 'install fglrx closed source driver for ati video cards.'

sudo apt-get install fglrx

nice when everthing 'just works!' huh?

oh yes. its like sex.

does anyone know how to auto configure xorg.conf... ?

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

does anyone know if the channel bot has a seen system?

it does not

hi all, i want to know what is the current support for ati radeon cards. mostly about video playback. i'm having trouble with the open source driver (radeon) and fglrx. in case of radeon, the video play isn't of the right color, in case of fglrx is doesn't display the video at all ...

i'm assuming that you tried 'sudo jockey-gtk'

but i'm on ppc, so i don't know for sure

no it won't

hi all! how does xwindows work when there is no /etc/x11/xorg.conf?

usually not at all, why?

hm... i find it completely unacceptable that the resolution of x11 is impossible to control in 7.04.... no matter what i write in xorg.conf, i still have the exactly same choices in the 'screen resolution' app....

try sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xorg-server

how and when is /etc/systcl.conf read and acted upon during boot up?

when /etc/init.d/procps runs

hello is there a way i can have whatever song i am playing show up in my gaim away message?

go poke those fine people @ gaim

anyone know a nice command that can read certain bytes from a file and display them in hex, or something like this?

hexcat

who made this ubuntu distribution? is it from britain? what does the name mean, is in in africaan? please answer

. it is named after the southern african philosophy of ubuntu ('humanity towards others').[7]

what the best program for managing passwords in linux?

http://keepassx.sourceforge.net/

w: gpg error: ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable release: the following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: no_pubkey 07dc563d1f41b907

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

whats the diference beetween debian and ubunto?

i'd like to have that answered myself

how can i disable my other sound cards so that ubuntu defaults to my usb sound card?

look in the sound preferences

i'm running jaunty on my laptop. when it's not plugged in, the screen dims after like 15 seconds of inactivity, and when i touch a key or move the mouse again, it doesn't return to its former brightness. where are the settings for this?

or go to system->preferences->power management

question, do i need install an antivirus in ubuntu?

an antivirus doesn't do much because there are no ubuntu viruses in the wild. however, if you're concerned about passing viruses on to windows-using friends, you can use clamscan to check for viruses.

is there a program like pcanywhere that you can control a pc that is beside of router?

http://www.tightvnc.com/

i'm a little confused by the behaviour of networkmanager and /etc/network/interfaces (feisty). it seems that the only way to get networkmanager to manage an interface is add the 'iface wlan0 inet dhcp' line to interfaces(5) and reboot. if the line's not there, the wlan0 isn't managed. am i on crack or is this just a bad coincidence?

dpkg -l network-manager, there's a readme that says so

does anyone here know how ubuntu routes midi files for playback? is there some config file somewhere that tells it what to do with midi files when the user asks for them to be played?

see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/midi/softwaresynthesishowto if you need software synthesis and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/midi/hardwaresynthesissetup if you have hardware support and would prefer that

fedora uses /etc/grub.conf for permanent additions to the grub kernel cmdline .. what about ubuntu?

it's in /boot/grub/menu.lst

so, where can i find the correct md5sum for the feisty desktop iso image? it is strange that it is not provided somewhere in the download page at www.ubunutulinux.org (or am i blind?)

http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/md5sums

will the final version of 6.10 include linux kernel 2.18?

i don't think so. -17 would be the default, i believe

i'm trying to install karmic from usb using an image created with unetbootin. it boots, logs in, and hangs directly after displaying gnome-panel. i'm on a dell optiplex 320. i can switch to a terminal (ctl+alt+f1) during xsplash, but every time i switch back to x (ctl+alt+f7) it hangs, and i have to power cycle. any ideas on how to get it to stop freezing like this?

- i would try killall compiz-fusion or something

don't you know an editor more user friendly? :-)

sorry; i only use vi :$

i was wondering if anyone knows a way to mount as not root? ive got a user called gem who has sudo access but it keeps mounting as root? anyone know why

-o uid=$uid

i used to be able to take a screenshot of a single window, using ctrl-prtscrn (or maybe it was alt). it doesn't seem to be working after upgrade, i tried all the modifier keys. only pressing prtscrn by itself takes a screenshot of the whole screen

do you have ccsm>gnome compatibility enabled? (and screenshot set inside of the plugin)

is there a way to make an ini file (or whatever the ubuntu equiv. is) that loads a certain number of programs, and positions them in a certain place on the screen?

look here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=435073

so nobody knows how to get the linker working on 5.10-rc?

did you install build-essential?

does anyone know the name of the process that controls a notebook's brightness keys?

i'm going to say... gnome-settings-daemon

hi there :) i'm trying to find a program for a mate that will automaticly change his background every so often, anyone know a good way to do this?

err desktop drapes or wallpapoz, but they are both buggy and hacks

anyone know how to make udev repopulate /dev/disk/by-label without a reboot?

-> try sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart or hald restart on same dir

how do i go about extracting a windows executable file ? i dont have access to windows atm :/

if it's a self-extracting zip, unzip might do it

why are you so unfriendly? maybe she doesn't speak any english.

pici: she used english if you're not having been looking into the conversation.

sorry for the repost: how is the combination these days for intel gma x3100 and compiz fusion? i read about lots of problems getting it to work. i was wondering if it's working out of the box now after you've installed the compiz-config settings manager?

compiz is the major source of problems, you should uninstall it