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any girl? jeje	tonnes of them
in usn-\d\d\d-\d (security notices), there are references to cve-\d\d\d\d-\d\d\d\d -- what are those?	http://cve.mitre.org/
any idea on what the next lts release is going to be?	2008-04
wtf is terminator?	terminal with multiple windows
how do i change desktop icons size??	go to home then edit/preference
hi is it possible to get graphical applications running under root user to render using same theme preference as regular user?	the easiest way to do that is to copy your config files from your home directory to root's home directory, which is /root
folks...it's there possible for me to encrypt all trafic that comes and goes out from my pc ? (ubuntu 10.04 lts)	you can use proxies for example
how do i open a passworded rar with default ubuntu apps?	try with unrar-non free package
how to kill a pid number?	start with: man kill
i'm trying to run opera 32-bit on ubuntu gutsy 64-bit so i can use flash. i have three libraries which opera can't use because it is 32-bit. how do i grab the 32-bit libs?	you need to setup a 32bit chroot most likely
do i need to restart samba after a change to smb.conf? if so, how? thanks... i know i'ma bit off-topic now ;)	sudo invoke-rc.d samba restart
are there any shortcut keys available while talking on irc.	in most clients, hitting tab after the first few letters of a name usually does autocomplete
what dose a \| 'pipe' means ??	passes the output of the command before it to the input of the command after it
what's the best iptables gui configurator ?	firestarter ?
anyone know how to change the text that is displayed after logging in through ssh?	/etc/motd, /etc/issue.net, man those
hi guys, new ubuntu and gnome user, not a new linux user. when i right click in a gnome menu gives me nothing when the manual says it should give me a submenu for adding new menu items etc. using hoary 5.04, gnome 2.10..	vixus is an expert on that, he'll help you :)
can someone point me to a good site that explains how to get ubuntu kernel source via git?	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/kernelgitguide
what file is used to store the keyring that networkmanager needs for vpn connections? i'm reinstalling and can't find the old keyring in my backup	here it is .gnome2/keyrings/login.keyring
how do i choose a different kernel at boot?	fine your linux-image* package and reinstall it. apt-get --reinstall install linux-imagexxxxx
i have two monitors. i would like to rotate one of them 90 degrees. i don't see this option in either the nvidia settings or the system settings -> displays of ubuntu 11.10 - can anyone suggest how to do this?	hardly, when even twinview doesn't work properly in oneiric ...
yo, is there an ls++ package for ubuntu? i've been using the google, and the package search, but haven't found anything	it looks like you can just install it with the instructions on this page: https://github.com/trapd00r/ls--
how can i place icons for programms on a desktop? i have tried to search for them, and right-click menu doesn't have any send to -> desktop entry	i think you can simply create a launcher (right click desktop and find something about that there), or right click a running app in the left panel and 'keep in launcher'.
what aptitude/apt-get command can i use to display what programs are dependent of a package?	apt-cache with rdepends
does anyone know if it's possible to set up some kind of host aliases? so on my local machine, i can alias 'hello.com' to '10.10.10.101', so all traffic from my box to hello.com goes to that local machine?	map them in your /etc/hosts file.
is there any gui editor for /etc/fstab?	i don't think so, no
if you can't get it working on your machine, you could mail it to me, i think i can ...	hehe
hey guys, how can i add an extra xsession to ubuntu 10.04?	try this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/customxsession
what command should i use to list all drives attached to my system, even those that aren't mounted?	`fdisk -l` perhaps what you need?
i have a nice new server install here. i am wondering how is a an easy way to get a desktop manager and some goodies without going all the way through with ubuntu-desktop	why a gui for a server?
what's the keyboard shortcut for minimizing a window?	alt+f9
can anyone tell me why 'ls -lsar > test.txt' has different input than 'ls -lsar' when i check in the .txt file?	prepend the command with time. 'time command'
can someone please explain beryl to me?	it's a way of making your windows wobble when you move them, at the expense of performance and stability./
hey all, i want to convert video (ogm, mkv, avi) (with subs, it's anime) to dvd (for playing on a dvd player, not just burning the files to disk), any suggestions on what apps i could use?	try ffmepg or mplayer for conversion. for composing dvd, i dunnp
does anyone know how i can get the powered by ubuntu sticker?	http://www.system76.com/article_info.php?articles_id=9
anyone know how to get ubuntu (edgy) to tell me what it's doing when booting?	cr4ftyb0n35: removing silent option from menu.lst
is there a better browser than firefox? i cant load a xslt page on firefox :s	try opera
can somebody tell how i can add folders to the sidebar in nautilus....ie the place where the desktop and home folder reside	start gedit, choose file -> open, navigate to the folder you want to add, click the 'add' button.
how do i tell if a nic is recognized as gige or 10/100?	sudo ethtool eth0 (or whatever device)
so, quick query, anyone know how risky it would be to resize a reiserfs partition	risky enough that you'll want to have backups of any mission-critical data.
helo, i need to know where i can download oil rush game (full-free) for linujx	hopefully from the repos.
how can you enable xdmcp remotely (over ssh) i wanto set up vnc from 100 miles away :)	http://en.tldp.org/howto/xdmcp-howto/
anybody mind looking at my fstab http://pastebin.ca/935513 and tell me why my ntfs is not mounting on boot ?	remove the first ,
halp! i pulled the dvd rom drive from my system, it froze, and now when i've restarted it, it isn't finding the drive. :(	is it seing the drive in the bios
how does one do a surface scan in linux to detect bad sectors and such?	its an option to fsck
hi, i'm just looking for an howto to upgrade my ubuntu server dapper to edgy	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/edgyupgrades im guessing this will work for server too
hello, why doesnt gcc fail to find stdio.h , i installed gcc4.1 and 4.1-source	install 'build-essential'
fullscreen flash video is really flickery under compiz, but smooth as butter without it. is there any solution to this?	until someone can find a workaround for compiz
what about dsl?	i don't know anything about any distro other then ubuntu, thats why i'm asking :p
anyone have a recommendation for software for drawing diagrams?	check out http://diagram.ly
how to find which version of ubuntu i am using	lsb_release -a
yes, i know.	was more just to tie your flows together. i guessed you knew :)
hey, is there a way to search for a package in the repo?	you can search for packages in the synaptic package manager, under system, administration, synaptic package manager
where can i get date/parse.pm?	cpan
hi, i chose to encrypt my home partition during installation of 10.04, now i'm noticing in my home soft links .ecryptfs and .private, which point to themselves. mount says that ~/.private is of type ecryptfs. does it mean, that my ~ is not encrypted, just ~/.private is?	all your encrypted files are kept in .private i believe and ~ is mapped to point there when you enter your passphrase. i'm pretty sure about that, read quite a bit back ago.
do i need to install the whole gnome package just to get gdm? im running fluxbox	then check out the dependencies
somehow i managed to execute ssh -x root@localhost without using a terminal ( made a hotbutton and pressed it by accident (forgot to press run in terminal) and i am now running linux as root, anyone know how to go back to my regular user privlegas?	gconf-editor /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop , uncheck that
i still can't figure out how these linux people ripped all those nvidia stuff	what nvidia stuff?
does anyone know if i can purchase a usb stick already loaded down with ubuntu 9.10 desktop i686? i know how to create usb sticks well enough myself, but would like to be able to order one and have it shipped to someone else as a gift.	look @ the ubuntu store page
hello, i'm trying to setup ssh access from an external network. locally it works fine, i've also successfully configured dyndns, i've opened up the necessary ports on ufw, forwarded the ports in the router and made a port scan to verify the service is listening. but i still get a connection refused... what am i missing here? is there a setting that is on that will only allow ssh connections from the local network ?	probably ssh is not installed on the target system. sudo aptitude install ssh
ok, im trieing to unrar a rar file but no matter what program i use when i open it with it nothing happens unless its archive manager and then it only gives me an error unrecognized format	did you try right-clicking and 'extract here'?
hi, i am using gdm but i want to use kdm, what can i do?	sudp dpkg-reconfigure kdm
hey, i was wondering if anyone knows how to modify the 'places' menu	- i know you can edit ~/.gtk-bookmarks by hand but i don't know any other way.
where can i download the ubuntu iso?	use the current release, hoary
hello: is there a way to avoid the start of gthumb when a sdcard is inserted?	system-preferences-removable drives and media
when installing a new version of ubuntu (e.g. 10.04) is there a way to list my installed software from 9.10 and feed it into 10.04 so i don't have do this manually	easiest thing to do is just upgrade.
please help me with this: i installed fluxbox from source and i don't know how to add it to the gdm sessions. thanks	why from source?
i'm wondering if anyone has any experience with running world of warcraft in wine on ubuntu? i'm getting some weird graphical issues i just can't figure out.	i think with recent wine it should be fine if your graphic driver allows it
can i apt-get thunderbird?	mozilla-thunderbird
what would the syntax be for a shell script to grep out a string from a log file, then e-mail from the cli?	cat /var/log/mail.info \| grep yourstring \| mailx -s subject mailadress
hello, anyone got a link to a tutorial on how to get sound working on ubuntu?	http://ubuntuguide.org
if i'm browsing a ubuntu root directory from windows, how can i tell what version of ubuntu it is?	/etc/release or version or something
hello. i need to install sun-java6-jdk and a few weeks ago that still was found in synaptic and installed, when canonical partners was added as repository. now i installed same ubuntu 11.04 on a different machine today and it can't find sun-java6-jdk anymore, even though canonical partners etc. is the same...?	double check the partners repo is enabled and make sure you updated your package list
what file system partition is best for ubuntu and also compatible wit windows? ( an now installing it)	no. but there are no partition types that linux works on that windows can read natively. there's a third party ext3 driver that is pretty decent though. on the flipside, linux can read/write ntfs and fat32 (both windows filesystems)
i've got a question i'm not sure which channel to ask in. how can i change my root password (if i have another account with root privileges) from grub?	http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=716201
is there a tool to install which would allow me to shutdown computer after a given perfiod of time??	where the first example is a 24 hour time, the second being a number of minutes
hi everybody. based on some earlier advice from nanodano, i booted the ubuntu 10.4 livecd to see if the disk tool could detect my sata hard drive which the installer refuses to recognize. the disk tool does see the hard drive and allowed me to create appropriate partitions. however, when i run the installer, it still only sees a usb stick and external usb drive. any thoughts on a next possible step?	check your bios settings to make sure you don't have some raid type stuff going on, also check to make sure your mobo supports the hdd, you may need to set jumpers to force the drive down to slower speeds/protocols if that's the case
hi - is there anywhere i can download gnome 2.30.2 binaries plz ?	check packages.ubuntu.com
how can i make ntfs partitions mountable (or readable actually) by normal user accounts ?	mount with umask=0 and/or uid=1000
i've got a server with 3 nics in it, but only one shows when doing ifconfig, what gives?	then 'ifconfig <nic> up' to activate it
how can i repair my desktop? i can only get into the terminal session correctly...	dpkg --reconfigure xserver-xorg
hello all, while trying to install a tar.gz file i get this error when using ./configure , ' ./configure: no such file or directory ' <-- linux noob	read the readme file
you probably need to update your package cache. 'sudo apt-get update' in the terminal, or the relevant button in synaptic/whatever.	what is the difference between aptitude and apt-get/
anybody knows how to copy a directory and keep the permission of the files?	cp -a will work
im using ubuntu 10.10 and need to update my gtk+ version to 2.24 (its 2.22 now). how can i safely do this?	the best option is always a distro upgrade
can someone here tell me how to tell ubuntu to open downloaded msword files with ooo ?	right-click on a .doc file, choose properties, third tab is an associate with program dialog.
heya, how can i change my screen resolution? i got a fresh install of ubuntu. when i go to system -> preferences -> screen resolution the maximum is 1280x1024 but my monitor supports 1680x1050 and i'd like to use that	sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg i believe will change your xserver resolution without having to go through the entire reconfiguration unless you know/want to do that
how can i see how big a directory and everything in it is on-disk with `du -h` or something? just the total.	du -hs
how do i edit passwd and group with a text editor? they seem to be protected somehow	if u edit that youll have many problems
if i have a second harddrive for random files maybe games, is there a difference between what partition i would want to use? besides the obvious 'not ntfs'	its storage so doesnt matter
hi, am a relatively new linux user (btw, ubuntu is much easier for newbie to handle than mdk), and need to reed .pdf's in firefox. battling to set up acrobat reader - can enayone help? have copied the file, as instructed, into plug-in directory.	acroread plugin http://kitech.com.my/ubuntu/4.10/index.html
where should i turn to to report problem with launchpad.net????	file a bug at launchpad :)
cli q: someone told me once about a program that would take two binary files and compare them and show the differences. anybody know what i'm talking about? like if i have two identical files but with slightly different metadata or encoded data,e tc	in general you are talking about a checksum
hmm, what is the recommended way to change resolution if it does not appear under the preferences list? i usually use dpkg-reconfigure but im wondering if there is something better.	u can probably just add the desired resolution to /etc/x11/xorg.conf
anyone still on hoary????	i will be for the next 20 mins or so :)
can anyone help with using https://prepay.snap.net.nz/ on ubuntu?	if you check the 'vista' help you'll see its a pppoe, might want to try that
hi , i made a new user and i want to give him sudo rights , i know i need to go visudo /etc/sudoers but can someone tell me what to put in the sudoers file?	on ubuntu the group is admin
how do i go about editing the linux time via terminal	to update time via ntp via cli.. sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org
does anyone know how to get nvidia twinview to work with xgl on edgy?	nno but if you figure it out you should let me know :p
if i want to reinstall ubuntu, can i mount the ubuntu.iso from within ubuntu, and install it just as normal?	no you need to be on live cd
hello everyone! my computer takes about 2 minutes to star, so i guess theres something wrong with it. how can i fix it?	k3nto: when booting up, ctrl+alt+f6 and then ctrl+alt+f8 should bring up what's actually happening in the background. that way, you can pinpoint the problem.

any girl? jeje

tonnes of them

in usn-\d\d\d-\d (security notices), there are references to cve-\d\d\d\d-\d\d\d\d -- what are those?

http://cve.mitre.org/

any idea on what the next lts release is going to be?

2008-04

wtf is terminator?

terminal with multiple windows

how do i change desktop icons size??

go to home then edit/preference

hi is it possible to get graphical applications running under root user to render using same theme preference as regular user?

the easiest way to do that is to copy your config files from your home directory to root's home directory, which is /root

folks...it's there possible for me to encrypt all trafic that comes and goes out from my pc ? (ubuntu 10.04 lts)

you can use proxies for example

how do i open a passworded rar with default ubuntu apps?

try with unrar-non free package

how to kill a pid number?

start with: man kill

i'm trying to run opera 32-bit on ubuntu gutsy 64-bit so i can use flash. i have three libraries which opera can't use because it is 32-bit. how do i grab the 32-bit libs?

you need to setup a 32bit chroot most likely

do i need to restart samba after a change to smb.conf? if so, how? thanks... i know i'ma bit off-topic now ;)

sudo invoke-rc.d samba restart

are there any shortcut keys available while talking on irc.

in most clients, hitting tab after the first few letters of a name usually does autocomplete

what dose a | 'pipe' means ??

passes the output of the command before it to the input of the command after it

what's the best iptables gui configurator ?

firestarter ?

anyone know how to change the text that is displayed after logging in through ssh?

/etc/motd, /etc/issue.net, man those

hi guys, new ubuntu and gnome user, not a new linux user. when i right click in a gnome menu gives me nothing when the manual says it should give me a submenu for adding new menu items etc. using hoary 5.04, gnome 2.10..

vixus is an expert on that, he'll help you :)

can someone point me to a good site that explains how to get ubuntu kernel source via git?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/kernelgitguide

what file is used to store the keyring that networkmanager needs for vpn connections? i'm reinstalling and can't find the old keyring in my backup

here it is .gnome2/keyrings/login.keyring

how do i choose a different kernel at boot?

fine your linux-image* package and reinstall it. apt-get --reinstall install linux-imagexxxxx

i have two monitors. i would like to rotate one of them 90 degrees. i don't see this option in either the nvidia settings or the system settings -> displays of ubuntu 11.10 - can anyone suggest how to do this?

hardly, when even twinview doesn't work properly in oneiric ...

yo, is there an ls++ package for ubuntu? i've been using the google, and the package search, but haven't found anything

it looks like you can just install it with the instructions on this page: https://github.com/trapd00r/ls--

how can i place icons for programms on a desktop? i have tried to search for them, and right-click menu doesn't have any send to -> desktop entry

i think you can simply create a launcher (right click desktop and find something about that there), or right click a running app in the left panel and 'keep in launcher'.

what aptitude/apt-get command can i use to display what programs are dependent of a package?

apt-cache with rdepends

does anyone know if it's possible to set up some kind of host aliases? so on my local machine, i can alias 'hello.com' to '10.10.10.101', so all traffic from my box to hello.com goes to that local machine?

map them in your /etc/hosts file.

is there any gui editor for /etc/fstab?

i don't think so, no

if you can't get it working on your machine, you could mail it to me, i think i can ...

hehe

hey guys, how can i add an extra xsession to ubuntu 10.04?

try this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/customxsession

what command should i use to list all drives attached to my system, even those that aren't mounted?

`fdisk -l` perhaps what you need?

i have a nice new server install here. i am wondering how is a an easy way to get a desktop manager and some goodies without going all the way through with ubuntu-desktop

why a gui for a server?

what's the keyboard shortcut for minimizing a window?

alt+f9

can anyone tell me why 'ls -lsar > test.txt' has different input than 'ls -lsar' when i check in the .txt file?

prepend the command with time. 'time command'

can someone please explain beryl to me?

it's a way of making your windows wobble when you move them, at the expense of performance and stability./

hey all, i want to convert video (ogm, mkv, avi) (with subs, it's anime) to dvd (for playing on a dvd player, not just burning the files to disk), any suggestions on what apps i could use?

try ffmepg or mplayer for conversion. for composing dvd, i dunnp

does anyone know how i can get the powered by ubuntu sticker?

http://www.system76.com/article_info.php?articles_id=9

anyone know how to get ubuntu (edgy) to tell me what it's doing when booting?

cr4ftyb0n35: removing silent option from menu.lst

is there a better browser than firefox? i cant load a xslt page on firefox :s

try opera

can somebody tell how i can add folders to the sidebar in nautilus....ie the place where the desktop and home folder reside

start gedit, choose file -> open, navigate to the folder you want to add, click the 'add' button.

how do i tell if a nic is recognized as gige or 10/100?

sudo ethtool eth0 (or whatever device)

so, quick query, anyone know how risky it would be to resize a reiserfs partition

risky enough that you'll want to have backups of any mission-critical data.

helo, i need to know where i can download oil rush game (full-free) for linujx

hopefully from the repos.

how can you enable xdmcp remotely (over ssh) i wanto set up vnc from 100 miles away :)

http://en.tldp.org/howto/xdmcp-howto/

anybody mind looking at my fstab http://pastebin.ca/935513 and tell me why my ntfs is not mounting on boot ?

remove the first ,

halp! i pulled the dvd rom drive from my system, it froze, and now when i've restarted it, it isn't finding the drive. :(

is it seing the drive in the bios

how does one do a surface scan in linux to detect bad sectors and such?

its an option to fsck

hi, i'm just looking for an howto to upgrade my ubuntu server dapper to edgy

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/edgyupgrades im guessing this will work for server too

hello, why doesnt gcc fail to find stdio.h , i installed gcc4.1 and 4.1-source

install 'build-essential'

fullscreen flash video is really flickery under compiz, but smooth as butter without it. is there any solution to this?

until someone can find a workaround for compiz

what about dsl?

i don't know anything about any distro other then ubuntu, thats why i'm asking :p

anyone have a recommendation for software for drawing diagrams?

check out http://diagram.ly

how to find which version of ubuntu i am using

lsb_release -a

yes, i know.

was more just to tie your flows together. i guessed you knew :)

hey, is there a way to search for a package in the repo?

you can search for packages in the synaptic package manager, under system, administration, synaptic package manager

where can i get date/parse.pm?

cpan

hi, i chose to encrypt my home partition during installation of 10.04, now i'm noticing in my home soft links .ecryptfs and .private, which point to themselves. mount says that ~/.private is of type ecryptfs. does it mean, that my ~ is not encrypted, just ~/.private is?

all your encrypted files are kept in .private i believe and ~ is mapped to point there when you enter your passphrase. i'm pretty sure about that, read quite a bit back ago.

do i need to install the whole gnome package just to get gdm? im running fluxbox

then check out the dependencies

somehow i managed to execute ssh -x root@localhost without using a terminal ( made a hotbutton and pressed it by accident (forgot to press run in terminal) and i am now running linux as root, anyone know how to go back to my regular user privlegas?

gconf-editor /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop , uncheck that

i still can't figure out how these linux people ripped all those nvidia stuff

what nvidia stuff?

does anyone know if i can purchase a usb stick already loaded down with ubuntu 9.10 desktop i686? i know how to create usb sticks well enough myself, but would like to be able to order one and have it shipped to someone else as a gift.

look @ the ubuntu store page

hello, i'm trying to setup ssh access from an external network. locally it works fine, i've also successfully configured dyndns, i've opened up the necessary ports on ufw, forwarded the ports in the router and made a port scan to verify the service is listening. but i still get a connection refused... what am i missing here? is there a setting that is on that will only allow ssh connections from the local network ?

probably ssh is not installed on the target system. sudo aptitude install ssh

ok, im trieing to unrar a rar file but no matter what program i use when i open it with it nothing happens unless its archive manager and then it only gives me an error unrecognized format

did you try right-clicking and 'extract here'?

hi, i am using gdm but i want to use kdm, what can i do?

sudp dpkg-reconfigure kdm

hey, i was wondering if anyone knows how to modify the 'places' menu

- i know you can edit ~/.gtk-bookmarks by hand but i don't know any other way.

where can i download the ubuntu iso?

use the current release, hoary

hello: is there a way to avoid the start of gthumb when a sdcard is inserted?

system-preferences-removable drives and media

when installing a new version of ubuntu (e.g. 10.04) is there a way to list my installed software from 9.10 and feed it into 10.04 so i don't have do this manually

easiest thing to do is just upgrade.

please help me with this: i installed fluxbox from source and i don't know how to add it to the gdm sessions. thanks

why from source?

i'm wondering if anyone has any experience with running world of warcraft in wine on ubuntu? i'm getting some weird graphical issues i just can't figure out.

i think with recent wine it should be fine if your graphic driver allows it

can i apt-get thunderbird?

mozilla-thunderbird

what would the syntax be for a shell script to grep out a string from a log file, then e-mail from the cli?

cat /var/log/mail.info | grep yourstring | mailx -s subject mailadress

hello, anyone got a link to a tutorial on how to get sound working on ubuntu?

http://ubuntuguide.org

if i'm browsing a ubuntu root directory from windows, how can i tell what version of ubuntu it is?

/etc/release or version or something

hello. i need to install sun-java6-jdk and a few weeks ago that still was found in synaptic and installed, when canonical partners was added as repository. now i installed same ubuntu 11.04 on a different machine today and it can't find sun-java6-jdk anymore, even though canonical partners etc. is the same...?

double check the partners repo is enabled and make sure you updated your package list

what file system partition is best for ubuntu and also compatible wit windows? ( an now installing it)

no. but there are no partition types that linux works on that windows *can* read natively. there's a third party ext3 driver that is pretty decent though. on the flipside, linux can read/write ntfs and fat32 (both windows filesystems)

i've got a question i'm not sure which channel to ask in. how can i change my root password (if i have another account with root privileges) from grub?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=716201

is there a tool to install which would allow me to shutdown computer after a given perfiod of time??

where the first example is a 24 hour time, the second being a number of minutes

hi everybody. based on some earlier advice from nanodano, i booted the ubuntu 10.4 livecd to see if the disk tool could detect my sata hard drive which the installer refuses to recognize. the disk tool does see the hard drive and allowed me to create appropriate partitions. however, when i run the installer, it still only sees a usb stick and external usb drive. any thoughts on a next possible step?

check your bios settings to make sure you don't have some raid type stuff going on, also check to make sure your mobo supports the hdd, you may need to set jumpers to force the drive down to slower speeds/protocols if that's the case

hi - is there anywhere i can download gnome 2.30.2 binaries plz ?

check packages.ubuntu.com

how can i make ntfs partitions mountable (or readable actually) by normal user accounts ?

mount with umask=0 and/or uid=1000

i've got a server with 3 nics in it, but only one shows when doing ifconfig, what gives?

then 'ifconfig <nic> up' to activate it

how can i repair my desktop? i can only get into the terminal session correctly...

dpkg --reconfigure xserver-xorg

hello all, while trying to install a tar.gz file i get this error when using ./configure , ' ./configure: no such file or directory ' <-- linux noob

read the readme file

you probably need to update your package cache. 'sudo apt-get update' in the terminal, or the relevant button in synaptic/whatever.

what is the difference between aptitude and apt-get/

anybody knows how to copy a directory and keep the permission of the files?

cp -a will work

im using ubuntu 10.10 and need to update my gtk+ version to 2.24 (its 2.22 now). how can i safely do this?

the best option is always a distro upgrade

can someone here tell me how to tell ubuntu to open downloaded msword files with ooo ?

right-click on a .doc file, choose properties, third tab is an associate with program dialog.

heya, how can i change my screen resolution? i got a fresh install of ubuntu. when i go to system -> preferences -> screen resolution the maximum is 1280x1024 but my monitor supports 1680x1050 and i'd like to use that

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg i believe will change your xserver resolution without having to go through the entire reconfiguration unless you know/want to do that

how can i see how big a directory and everything in it is on-disk with `du -h` or something? just the total.

du -hs

how do i edit passwd and group with a text editor? they seem to be protected somehow

if u edit that youll have many problems

if i have a second harddrive for random files maybe games, is there a difference between what partition i would want to use? besides the obvious 'not ntfs'

its storage so doesnt matter

hi, am a relatively new linux user (btw, ubuntu is much easier for newbie to handle than mdk), and need to reed .pdf's in firefox. battling to set up acrobat reader - can enayone help? have copied the file, as instructed, into plug-in directory.

acroread plugin http://kitech.com.my/ubuntu/4.10/index.html

where should i turn to to report problem with launchpad.net????

file a bug at launchpad :)

cli q: someone told me once about a program that would take two binary files and compare them and show the differences. anybody know what i'm talking about? like if i have two identical files but with slightly different metadata or encoded data,e tc

in general you are talking about a checksum

hmm, what is the recommended way to change resolution if it does not appear under the preferences list? i usually use dpkg-reconfigure but im wondering if there is something better.

u can probably just add the desired resolution to /etc/x11/xorg.conf

anyone still on hoary????

i will be for the next 20 mins or so :)

can anyone help with using https://prepay.snap.net.nz/ on ubuntu?

if you check the 'vista' help you'll see its a pppoe, might want to try that

hi , i made a new user and i want to give him sudo rights , i know i need to go visudo /etc/sudoers but can someone tell me what to put in the sudoers file?

on ubuntu the group is admin

how do i go about editing the linux time via terminal

to update time via ntp via cli.. sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org

does anyone know how to get nvidia twinview to work with xgl on edgy?

nno but if you figure it out you should let me know :p

if i want to reinstall ubuntu, can i mount the ubuntu.iso from within ubuntu, and install it just as normal?

no you need to be on live cd

hello everyone! my computer takes about 2 minutes to star, so i guess theres something wrong with it. how can i fix it?

k3nto: when booting up, ctrl+alt+f6 and then ctrl+alt+f8 should bring up what's actually happening in the background. that way, you can pinpoint the problem.