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did anyone manage to get an ati radeon9800 to use hardware acceleration?	https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/binarydriverhowto
why doesn't 'unrar x -r *.rar' extract all the .rar-files on directory, it says 'extracting from (the first file)' but then 'no files to extract'	that's supposed to be *.rar -- sorry
what's the difference betweein pool/main and pool/universe at archive.ubuntu.com ?	the main difference is universe has no guarantee of security fixes and support
what software can i use to burn an audio cd? brasero isn't working, it just hangs on 'normaliing audio'	gnomebaker k3b
does everyone else immediately relink /bin/sh to /bin/bash when dash screws them over?	no we just run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash'
could anyone recommend a good podcast player?	banshee.
i have a dual core machine. how can i be certain both cores are being used?	or install htop and run it.. there are two cpu bars at the top
hi to all. what is ubiquity?	yes it is.
i'm a noob, but i thought ssh was used to connect to other machines. can you use it for that?	ssh is just a protocol for transfering data through encrypted pipes..
killall esd ??	istanbul looks like exactly what i want
my wireless wasn't showing up so i followed a thread that said to go into nm-system-settings.conf and change where it said 'managed=' to true, the in console do a 'sudo killall nm-system-settings' and then do a 'sudo nm-system settings'. now my wired connection isn't showing up either. i tried changing 'managed=' back to false but both my wired and wireless connection are still broken.	restarting the network and/or networkmanager might help. sudo /etc/init.d/network restart (might be networking restart) and /etc/init.d/networkmanager restart
hello - can someone help me with an 'unable to connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com' error	try another server
when would be ibex released ? tomorrow ?	if the xorg.conf exists. its used. what driver are you trying to not use?
i did a full upgrades and at the end it asked me what versions of grub did i want i chose the three comparison and then reinstalled ..it didnt boot and went black, the turned pc off and on andd it rebooted but it did thsi on the last reinstall	yes but never touch a running system
is there a way to create a ubuntu live cd with the programs one chooses? something just like the ubuntu live cd (which can be installed) but only with the things you choose...	yes reconstructor but it is young
so is it normal to have 2 firefox-bin running?	firefox is a script which launches firefox-bin
anyway to grep out all reboots / shutdowns from logs ?	last -x \| grep init
metratron == voice of god, yeah?	the story goes that enoch got taken directly into heaven without dying (per genesis), and became some kind of lieutenant of god called the metatron
if my computer has 64 bit support, is there any reason to not run 64 bit linux?	my wife uses kubuntu-amd64, it's no problem except for some things that change like flash... also if you program you have to keep in mind that your binaries won't run in other computers
q: my ssh connection freezes after partial complete output of common functions like: 'ls, cat, top, ps' any idead how i can start to investigate?	try lowering the mtu size on the client size. if that helps, some router on the way to the ssh server drops all icmp packets (which is totally braindead)
how would i turn off the obnoxious system beep?	system ->preferences ->sound
im struggling trying to complie one of the e17 librarys its saying 'configure: error: unable to find lua' i tried using apt to grab a copy of 'lua' but it says its allready installed	just use ubuntuforums.org they're 10x as quick 100x as smart these guys are just assholes mostly ill take my comment off the air
am i being annoying or being ignored? i'm not figuring that anyone knows the answer to my question i'm just suprised nobody's told me to shut up yet.	honestly i didn't see your question mate. :d i'm sorry, i'll scroll up now.
i need to know, how can i stop web server daemon and mysql daemon ... please !!	ls /etc/init.d/ youll see many scripts there. just sudo /etc/init.d/scriptname stop or start or restart
what's the best and safest way to shutdown from a terminal?	sudo if not root
anybody willing to walk me through some wine setup? i'm running 32bit ubuntu, wine 1.3, and have done all the config changes mentioned in the community page but still suffer from significantly lower framerates than my windows install	hmmm.. have you tried disabling compiz (the desktop effects)? i know they can negatively effect 3d apps in wine
hey, does anyone know if there will be any issues if i download and install the latest stable dbus from source?	if i knew what dbus is, maybe i could help...
hello i want to enable 3d animation on my gnome .04desktop how can i set it by default in ubuntu	system-preferences-appereance-visual effects
hey, how do i end a process -- specifically firefox,,?	killall firefox-bin
how do i install elm or some other dirt simple email reader ?	try mutt
is there any support for the thinkpad hdap hard drive parking thing in ibex? or do i need to wait for the 2.6.28 kernel to come out, which allegedly has everything built in?	err.. sorry it's http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/thinkwiki
/usr/local/lib/libfreeradius-radius-2.2.0.so: elf 32-bit lsb shared object, intel 80386, version 1 (sysv), not stripped \| --- \| export path=$path:/usr/local:/usr/local/lib \| --- \| radiusd: error while loading shared libraries: libfreeradius-radius-2.2.0.so: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory <- why ?	you might need to rerun sudo ldconfig
please tell me why edgy wont play midi files	do you have the timidity package installed?
hello - i need an advice - can you give me a reccomendation for a ftp online server, where can i store data, chat between another users?	try ubuntu-one, 2 gb free storage
hey, if you get jinxed, are you still allowed to type?	i guess so
hi, i'm interested in dual booting winxp and ubuntu. my motherboard/bios are fairly new, so will i have to worry about the 1024 cylinder boundary when creating the /boot partition?	i put ubuntu at the end of my 2nd hard drive
after enabling desktop cube from compiz i dont know how but 'close, minimize and close' buttons just vanished....anybody know how to fix it?	if compiz crashed do alt-f2 'compiz --replace'
what program should i use to extract img files?	http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=276743
how do i find out what kernel i'm running?	sudo uname -a
do you know where i can find assembly instructions set for my core2duo processor ?	http://www.sandpile.org/
hi all. i bought a laptop with a 4gb ram and i've downloaded one kernel source and compiled for enabling support for eap but sound doesn't work now. where is alsaconf? :)	try in /usr/share/alsa
i just had my ubuntu 11.10 reboot after i unlocked the screen. which of the files in /var/log/ would i look at to find the reason why? i've also came back into work before to see that it has magically rebooted.	, dmesg
i just installed windows 7 alongside my installation of the latest release candidate of ubuntu 9.04, but now ubuntu doesn't show up on any sort of os selection screen when i boot. is there anyway to get back into my ubuntu install?	read the pm from ubottu..... that has the link
i found my old ipod. which software can i use on ubuntu to change the music? :o	the latest version of banshee works nice for me , but you can also use gtkpod
can anyone reccomend a good cvs client that i can get from synaptic?	gcvs
what's the package to put 'terminal' into the right click menu?	like nautilus-open-terminal ?
how can i mount my windows partition every time when my ubuntu starts! i had to manually mount it and only root can access it!	put it in /etc/fstab
confused i dont know my root pw... i know. thats a post for the wiki quotes. but by installing ubuntu they never was a dialog for settig it	loading a console and typing sudo passwd root will set one if you actually need to connect to the root account
does ubuntu have parental controls?	you can use 'nanny' to limit web browsing time, chat time, etc. you can also decide what times of the day certain programs can be used. you can also filter web sites that are undesirable.
hello again. i think my message went unnoticed. so 3 of the 4 usb ports aren't working. got some data here: http://pastebin.com/mccdna89 . any help ?	i think the output of dmesg might be more itneresting, after plugging a usb device
pinky file size limitations and broken downloads can result in segments of an rar being in different archives	it was a good download, it's just the way whoever made them packed it... there are 3 separate files spread out across 49 rar parts, each of the 3 files having a separate block of files dedicatied to it
any suggestions for a good vnc client? gnome-rdp?	i like tsclient -- it handles vnc, rdp and a few other protocols
any idea guys?	after a boot or logging out of x, press ctl-alt-f1 , then type sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop . that will stop x
do i dare using a ntfs-partition for sharing data between linux and windows?	that shouldn't be a problem... linux handels ntfs nicely
i want to see who else is connected to the server in my dorms, the server is http://yos2-3-4.reshall.calpoly.edu/, is there a way to probe for connections?	if you have a shell, 'who'
hi, is there any program for ubuntu that can download all pdf on a website automatically?	the download-them-all firefox ext.
is there a way to manage ram? as in, is there a way to see if there's anything that i can cut out?	open unity, type 'system monitor' and open the app
is there anyway to set ubuntu back to post instalation state? that is, removing packages, files etc	easiest way is to just re-install. you can preserve your /home during re-install even if it's not on a separate partition.
glgo: error while loading shared libraries: libsdl_ttf-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory	sudo apt-get install libsdl-ttf2.0-0
i'm on feisty, and when i use gparted to try to edit my partition, it won't allow me to do anything, all of the options are grayed out....and help?	download the gparted livecd from the gparted site, i find it more reliable than gparted from the ubuntu livecd
is there a program for linux that allows to send messages across local networks to other computers?	there's also regular mail.. im.. irc etc
can i get help regarding how to format an usb drive in ubuntu??	use gparted
hey guys how do i use debhelper, i mean, i have it installed apparently, i did 'debhelper' and it says commadn not found	man debhelper
i have a probably foolish question- whenever i try to compile something, i have to apt-get all the libraries and dependent stuff individually. how can i make it do this automatically?	sudo apt-get build-dep
how can i restore the volume option on the panel?	it's part of indicator applet
my ubuntu installation fails after 9 seconds (approx), last outoput is '[ 9.342435 sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] attached scsi removable disk' after this output nothing happens with the install... any ideas?	ubottu is a bot
is there an x64 version of compiz available? want to determine whether i should install 32 or 64bit ubuntu	i use compiz on my x64 ubuntu
when booting how do i get to the grub menu?	hold shift after post
i uninstalled a program that had an old version in the ubuntu repositories and added a ppa to my sources and added the key. how do i install the version from the ppa? do i just go add/remove and add the program from there again?	if you just add/remove the program it should pull the updated one from the ppa now
in 11.04 ctrl+alt+numpadkeys resizes windows. how do i turn this off? it doesn't seem to be an option in the keyboard shortcuts configuration.	install and run ccsm.
hi, any hint about the best way to sesize partitions (ext3)?	remember that you want to unmount the partition before resizing.. if it is your / then might be easier to use livecd or remount ro maybe
whats the command to reconfigure a package...?	dpkg --reconfigure <packagename>
guys i just did sudo modprobe -r fglrx, how can i reverse that?	rmmod fglrx
i don't think you get what i'm saying. i already know that ubuntu is easy, but that's not what i asked. i asked if anyone could suggest any good addons that would make it easier for a windows user to switch to, such as themes / etc. i'd much rather you tried to answer my question rather than telling me something irrelevant, although i appreciate your input.	your question should be more specific. the answers you got _were_ relevant.
hi guys! how do i make a pdf reader other than evince the standard pdf reader?	right click and then properties, under the open with tab
has anyone here had the problem with freenx and it just starting a blank screen?	i use it on my windows box and went to config chose custom desktop and xfce4-session to start
is it possible to remove and install two different packages at the same time, so dpkg won't remove a whole bunch of packages only to install them again?	the _ at the end tells it to purge that
anyone have any idea how to install mailparse for php5 under edgy?	for your earlier mailparse question, perhaps something useful for you here: http://www.cerb4.com/forums/showthread.php?t=244
- looks interersting - i really wish i could remember which distro i used about 3/4 years ago, when i had no ms os for a while. i'm determined to dump xp/vita	well, lsmod will give you a list of currently loaded modules, lsmod \| grep snd should narrow it down quite a bit
if i put a computer on suspend, it will still connect to the network right?	as long as it's turned on, and sshd is running.
where can i find a repository or older versions of ubuntu desktop and server?	try here; http://releases.ubuntu.com/
is there a way to extract the audio stream from rhythmbox	use mplayer -dumpstream
i might have an amd card, actually. gonna try system settings, how else can i check?	lshw -c video
is there a way to customize the standard gnome applications menu? i want to add something.	see the forums, under 3rd party stuff
hey - if i wanted to open some applications on login, where would i put the commands? in .gnomerc?	gnome-open seems to do something like that
hi all, does anyone know if there will be a desktop version of 8.10 available?	yes, in october
does anyone know of any foreign apt servers	countrycode.archive.ubuntu.com (i.e gb.archive.ubuntu.com de.archive.ubuntu.com etc)
how do i add the 'proposed' apt repository to oneiric from the command line?	which 'proposed' apt repository?
hi, is it possible to colorize apt-get or aptitude output?	highlight works pretty well, you'd probably have to write your own syntax file for apt though
how do i know if my usb drive is disk2s1 or disk0s3?	it'll tell you what it got discovered as
hi, does anyone here know a web site that contains all gtk+ or gnome software? i've been there before once but didn't bookmark it?	gnome-apps.org?
hi. does anyone know how to find out which repository in my sources.list a given package comes from?	apt-cache policy package_name may help but it is not the answer to your question
anyone else have probs with adobe flash hanging up firefox? any way to remedy that?	had similar problems too. i guess it's a problem in flash, so only adobe can do anything about it
how do i start gnome from terminal?	/etc/init.d/gdm start
hey! anyone know any good planner/scheduling app? what would you recommend?	np - i actually just use ev. for planning, i don't use the email side at all :)
is there any sort of grub diagnostics bootable cd, after a ubuntu install went wrong and froze. now i cant access ubuntu or xp. ?	http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/
how can i change mouse speed?	system -> preferences -> mouse
i am trying to set up a samba share on my feisty box so i can access it on my modded xbox, but i know nothing about samba. can anyone give me a hand?	good luck!
hey how do i remove animation of 'min-max'imize' in gnome?	in gconf-editor, set /apps/metacity/general/reduced_resources to true.
guys when ever i open my terminal .... a message pop up saying ' you have new mail'	mail

did anyone manage to get an ati radeon9800 to use hardware acceleration?

https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/binarydriverhowto

why doesn't 'unrar x -r *.rar' extract all the .rar-files on directory, it says 'extracting from (the first file)' but then 'no files to extract'

that's supposed to be *.rar -- sorry

what's the difference betweein pool/main and pool/universe at archive.ubuntu.com ?

the main difference is universe has no guarantee of security fixes and support

what software can i use to burn an audio cd? brasero isn't working, it just hangs on 'normaliing audio'

gnomebaker k3b

does everyone else immediately relink /bin/sh to /bin/bash when dash screws them over?

no we just run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash'

could anyone recommend a good podcast player?

banshee.

i have a dual core machine. how can i be certain both cores are being used?

or install htop and run it.. there are two cpu bars at the top

hi to all. what is ubiquity?

yes it is.

i'm a noob, but i thought ssh was used to connect to other machines. can you use it for that?

ssh is just a protocol for transfering data through encrypted pipes..

killall esd ??

istanbul looks like exactly what i want

my wireless wasn't showing up so i followed a thread that said to go into nm-system-settings.conf and change where it said 'managed=' to true, the in console do a 'sudo killall nm-system-settings' and then do a 'sudo nm-system settings'. now my wired connection isn't showing up either. i tried changing 'managed=' back to false but both my wired and wireless connection are still broken.

restarting the network and/or networkmanager might help. sudo /etc/init.d/network restart (might be networking restart) and /etc/init.d/networkmanager restart

hello - can someone help me with an 'unable to connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com' error

try another server

when would be ibex released ? tomorrow ?

if the xorg.conf exists. its used. what driver are you trying to not use?

i did a full upgrades and at the end it asked me what versions of grub did i want i chose the three comparison and then reinstalled ..it didnt boot and went black, the turned pc off and on andd it rebooted but it did thsi on the last reinstall

yes but never touch a running system

is there a way to create a ubuntu live cd with the programs one chooses? something just like the ubuntu live cd (which can be installed) but only with the things you choose...

yes reconstructor but it is young

so is it normal to have 2 firefox-bin running?

firefox is a script which launches firefox-bin

anyway to grep out all reboots / shutdowns from logs ?

last -x | grep init

metratron == voice of god, yeah?

the story goes that enoch got taken directly into heaven without dying (per genesis), and became some kind of lieutenant of god called the metatron

if my computer has 64 bit support, is there any reason to not run 64 bit linux?

my wife uses kubuntu-amd64, it's no problem except for some things that change like flash... also if you program you have to keep in mind that your binaries won't run in other computers

q: my ssh connection freezes after partial complete output of common functions like: 'ls, cat, top, ps' any idead how i can start to investigate?

try lowering the mtu size on the client size. if that helps, some router on the way to the ssh server drops all icmp packets (which is totally braindead)

how would i turn off the obnoxious system beep?

system ->preferences ->sound

im struggling trying to complie one of the e17 librarys its saying 'configure: error: unable to find lua' i tried using apt to grab a copy of 'lua' but it says its allready installed

just use ubuntuforums.org they're 10x as quick 100x as smart these guys are just assholes mostly ill take my comment off the air

am i being annoying or being ignored? i'm not figuring that anyone knows the answer to my question i'm just suprised nobody's told me to shut up yet.

honestly i didn't see your question mate. :d i'm sorry, i'll scroll up now.

i need to know, how can i stop web server daemon and mysql daemon ... please !!

ls /etc/init.d/ youll see many scripts there. just sudo /etc/init.d/scriptname stop or start or restart

what's the best and safest way to shutdown from a terminal?

sudo if not root

anybody willing to walk me through some wine setup? i'm running 32bit ubuntu, wine 1.3, and have done all the config changes mentioned in the community page but still suffer from significantly lower framerates than my windows install

hmmm.. have you tried disabling compiz (the desktop effects)? i know they can negatively effect 3d apps in wine

hey, does anyone know if there will be any issues if i download and install the latest stable dbus from source?

if i knew what dbus is, maybe i could help...

hello i want to enable 3d animation on my gnome .04desktop how can i set it by default in ubuntu

system-preferences-appereance-visual effects

hey, how do i end a process -- specifically firefox,,?

killall firefox-bin

how do i install elm or some other dirt simple email reader ?

try mutt

is there any support for the thinkpad hdap hard drive parking thing in ibex? or do i need to wait for the 2.6.28 kernel to come out, which allegedly has everything built in?

err.. sorry it's http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/thinkwiki

/usr/local/lib/libfreeradius-radius-2.2.0.so: elf 32-bit lsb shared object, intel 80386, version 1 (sysv), not stripped | --- | export path=$path:/usr/local:/usr/local/lib | --- | radiusd: error while loading shared libraries: libfreeradius-radius-2.2.0.so: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory <- why ?

you might need to rerun sudo ldconfig

please tell me why edgy wont play midi files

do you have the timidity package installed?

hello - i need an advice - can you give me a reccomendation for a ftp online server, where can i store data, chat between another users?

try ubuntu-one, 2 gb free storage

hey, if you get jinxed, are you still allowed to type?

i guess so

hi, i'm interested in dual booting winxp and ubuntu. my motherboard/bios are fairly new, so will i have to worry about the 1024 cylinder boundary when creating the /boot partition?

i put ubuntu at the end of my 2nd hard drive

after enabling desktop cube from compiz i dont know how but 'close, minimize and close' buttons just vanished....anybody know how to fix it?

if compiz crashed do alt-f2 'compiz --replace'

what program should i use to extract img files?

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=276743

how do i find out what kernel i'm running?

sudo uname -a

do you know where i can find assembly instructions set for my core2duo processor ?

http://www.sandpile.org/

hi all. i bought a laptop with a 4gb ram and i've downloaded one kernel source and compiled for enabling support for eap but sound doesn't work now. where is alsaconf? :)

try in /usr/share/alsa

i just had my ubuntu 11.10 reboot after i unlocked the screen. which of the files in /var/log/ would i look at to find the reason why? i've also came back into work before to see that it has magically rebooted.

, dmesg

i just installed windows 7 alongside my installation of the latest release candidate of ubuntu 9.04, but now ubuntu doesn't show up on any sort of os selection screen when i boot. is there anyway to get back into my ubuntu install?

read the pm from ubottu..... that has the link

i found my old ipod. which software can i use on ubuntu to change the music? :o

the latest version of banshee works nice for me , but you can also use gtkpod

can anyone reccomend a good cvs client that i can get from synaptic?

gcvs

what's the package to put 'terminal' into the right click menu?

like nautilus-open-terminal ?

how can i mount my windows partition every time when my ubuntu starts! i had to manually mount it and only root can access it!

put it in /etc/fstab

*confused* i dont know my root pw... i know. thats a post for the wiki quotes. but by installing ubuntu they never was a dialog for settig it

loading a console and typing sudo passwd root will set one if you actually need to connect to the root account

does ubuntu have parental controls?

you can use 'nanny' to limit web browsing time, chat time, etc. you can also decide what times of the day certain programs can be used. you can also filter web sites that are undesirable.

hello again. i think my message went unnoticed. so 3 of the 4 usb ports aren't working. got some data here: http://pastebin.com/mccdna89 . any help ?

i think the output of dmesg might be more itneresting, after plugging a usb device

pinky file size limitations and broken downloads can result in segments of an rar being in different archives

it was a good download, it's just the way whoever made them packed it... there are 3 separate files spread out across 49 rar parts, each of the 3 files having a separate block of files dedicatied to it

any suggestions for a good vnc client? gnome-rdp?

i like tsclient -- it handles vnc, rdp and a few other protocols

any idea guys?

after a boot or logging out of x, press ctl-alt-f1 , then type sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop . that will stop x

do i dare using a ntfs-partition for sharing data between linux and windows?

that shouldn't be a problem... linux handels ntfs nicely

i want to see who else is connected to the server in my dorms, the server is http://yos2-3-4.reshall.calpoly.edu/, is there a way to probe for connections?

if you have a shell, 'who'

hi, is there any program for ubuntu that can download all pdf on a website automatically?

the download-them-all firefox ext.

is there a way to manage ram? as in, is there a way to see if there's anything that i can cut out?

open unity, type 'system monitor' and open the app

is there anyway to set ubuntu back to post instalation state? that is, removing packages, files etc

easiest way is to just re-install. you can preserve your /home during re-install even if it's not on a separate partition.

glgo: error while loading shared libraries: libsdl_ttf-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

sudo apt-get install libsdl-ttf2.0-0

i'm on feisty, and when i use gparted to try to edit my partition, it won't allow me to do anything, all of the options are grayed out....and help?

download the gparted livecd from the gparted site, i find it more reliable than gparted from the ubuntu livecd

is there a program for linux that allows to send messages across local networks to other computers?

there's also regular mail.. im.. irc etc

can i get help regarding how to format an usb drive in ubuntu??

use gparted

hey guys how do i use debhelper, i mean, i have it installed apparently, i did 'debhelper' and it says commadn not found

man debhelper

i have a probably foolish question- whenever i try to compile something, i have to apt-get all the libraries and dependent stuff individually. how can i make it do this automatically?

sudo apt-get build-dep

how can i restore the volume option on the panel?

it's part of indicator applet

my ubuntu installation fails after 9 seconds (approx), last outoput is '[ 9.342435 sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] attached scsi removable disk' after this output nothing happens with the install... any ideas?

ubottu is a bot

is there an x64 version of compiz available? want to determine whether i should install 32 or 64bit ubuntu

i use compiz on my x64 ubuntu

when booting how do i get to the grub menu?

hold shift after post

i uninstalled a program that had an old version in the ubuntu repositories and added a ppa to my sources and added the key. how do i install the version from the ppa? do i just go add/remove and add the program from there again?

if you just add/remove the program it should pull the updated one from the ppa now

in 11.04 ctrl+alt+numpadkeys resizes windows. how do i turn this off? it doesn't seem to be an option in the keyboard shortcuts configuration.

install and run ccsm.

hi, any hint about the best way to sesize partitions (ext3)?

remember that you want to unmount the partition before resizing.. if it is your / then might be easier to use livecd or remount ro maybe

whats the command to reconfigure a package...?

dpkg --reconfigure <packagename>

guys i just did sudo modprobe -r fglrx, how can i reverse that?

rmmod fglrx

i don't think you get what i'm saying. i already know that ubuntu is easy, but that's not what i asked. i asked if anyone could suggest any good addons that would make it easier for a windows user to switch to, such as themes / etc. i'd much rather you tried to answer my question rather than telling me something irrelevant, although i appreciate your input.

your question should be more specific. the answers you got _were_ relevant.

hi guys! how do i make a pdf reader other than evince the standard pdf reader?

right click and then properties, under the open with tab

has anyone here had the problem with freenx and it just starting a blank screen?

i use it on my windows box and went to config chose custom desktop and xfce4-session to start

is it possible to remove and install two different packages at the same time, so dpkg won't remove a whole bunch of packages only to install them again?

the _ at the end tells it to purge that

anyone have any idea how to install mailparse for php5 under edgy?

for your earlier mailparse question, perhaps something useful for you here: http://www.cerb4.com/forums/showthread.php?t=244

- looks interersting - i really wish i could remember which distro i used about 3/4 years ago, when i had no ms os for a while. i'm determined to dump xp/vita

well, lsmod will give you a list of currently loaded modules, lsmod | grep snd should narrow it down quite a bit

if i put a computer on suspend, it will still connect to the network right?

as long as it's turned on, and sshd is running.

where can i find a repository or older versions of ubuntu desktop and server?

try here; http://releases.ubuntu.com/

is there a way to extract the audio stream from rhythmbox

use mplayer -dumpstream

i might have an amd card, actually. gonna try system settings, how else can i check?

lshw -c video

is there a way to customize the standard gnome applications menu? i want to add something.

see the forums, under 3rd party stuff

hey - if i wanted to open some applications on login, where would i put the commands? in .gnomerc?

gnome-open seems to do something like that

hi all, does anyone know if there will be a desktop version of 8.10 available?

yes, in october

does anyone know of any foreign apt servers

countrycode.archive.ubuntu.com (i.e gb.archive.ubuntu.com de.archive.ubuntu.com etc)

how do i add the 'proposed' apt repository to oneiric from the command line?

which 'proposed' apt repository?

hi, is it possible to colorize apt-get or aptitude output?

highlight works pretty well, you'd probably have to write your own syntax file for apt though

how do i know if my usb drive is disk2s1 or disk0s3?

it'll tell you what it got discovered as

hi, does anyone here know a web site that contains all gtk+ or gnome software? i've been there before once but didn't bookmark it?

gnome-apps.org?

hi. does anyone know how to find out which repository in my sources.list a given package comes from?

apt-cache policy package_name may help but it is not the answer to your question

anyone else have probs with adobe flash hanging up firefox? any way to remedy that?

had similar problems too. i guess it's a problem in flash, so only adobe can do anything about it

how do i start gnome from terminal?

/etc/init.d/gdm start

hey! anyone know any good planner/scheduling app? what would you recommend?

np - i actually just use ev. for planning, i don't use the email side at all :)

is there any sort of grub diagnostics bootable cd, after a ubuntu install went wrong and froze. now i cant access ubuntu or xp. ?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/

how can i change mouse speed?

system -> preferences -> mouse

i am trying to set up a samba share on my feisty box so i can access it on my modded xbox, but i know nothing about samba. can anyone give me a hand?

good luck!

hey how do i remove animation of 'min-max'imize' in gnome?

in gconf-editor, set /apps/metacity/general/reduced_resources to true.

guys when ever i open my terminal .... a message pop up saying ' you have new mail'

mail