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i am new to ubuntu (and gnome). can someone tell me what the best pdf viewer for this combinatio0n is?	i believe it's called 'evince'
is anyone aware of some kind of program that watches port 22 and blocks the ip of anyone with 3 bad login attempts within 60 secs, or some such ?	i know that its possible to use iptables rules to limit login tries for port 22
does anyone know if its possible to change the names of the sinks in pulseaudio?	if there's any way to do it, you might find it with the pacmd command line tool.
hello, i was wondering if i can safely use sendmail to send emails with ubuntu hoary instead of my isp smtp server ?	most folks don't accept email from local servers (spam risk is high)
hello, what's the ubuntu equivalent of redhat's chkconfig?	update-rc.d
how can i search for which package provides a particular file?	http://packages.ubuntu..com
i've used photorec, but am still uncertain how to recover the file names themselves.	i don't think you can
i have ubuntu server, and installed ubuntu-desktop, but the desktop runs automatically when i turn the pc on. how can i set it so i have to manually start it?	try bum
hi, can someone please tell me how to change my permissions of a dvd drive? i'm pretty sure it's a cd-writer drive but i can't seem to get it to burn a disc.	install k3b and see what it shows
the classic unix in a nutshell is a good resource, but its really more about what you want to learn	i just want my nephew to learn some things on his own without bugging me all the time
hello all.... please help me... i cannot update or go to syntipac papckage manager ... it comes up with an error that says run dkp* something manally to fix this problem!!	type sudo dpkg --configure -a in a terminal
if i want to add an extra directory to my path, should i edit the /etc/profile or bashrc?	if you want it just for your user, put it in bashrc, if you want it for all users, put it in /etc/profile
is there anyone who is having trouble with mounting sony mp3 player in 9.04?	which apps have you tried? rhythmbox, gtkpod, banshee, etc
how do i copy a files contents to another file using the terminal	if you don't have permissions under the username you are logged on as to access those direcories normally, use sudo in front of the command ljl provided
is there a way to display timestamps in the chat window using regular xchat (2.8.4)	settings>preferences>interface>text box
hey all, how can i set my linksys router to forward everything up to the network its in(dhcp requests, logon info for domain, etc.)? i have 2 that do this quite well, but my third is a different model and tries to be a dhcp server. if i disable the dhcp server, then no one gets an ip, so i am trying to tell it to forward up to the network its in and be transparents to the packets from...	i don't think this is an ubuntu specific problem
this is freenode right?	irc.freenode.net
is there anyone who can help me get x server up and running after i installed feisty?	alt-ctrl-f2 then login then sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg then choose vesa driver then sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
what is the <ctl> leter to get you out of x server screen to the other none graphic screen?	ctrl + alt + f1
thats exactly what i've been looking for... if i can learn just three commands a day, just three, by the end of a single year, i'll know more than a thousand linux commands... that would put me in rank amongst the novice ;)	it's not about knowing commands, there are probably under 100 core commands
what is the shell command to display ubuntu version?	lsb_releas -a or cat /etc/issue
i have this file on my desktop install-crossover-pro-4.1.sh . how do i install it? i am a newbie plz help...	chmod +x install-crossover-pro-4.1.sh
what are the changes that were made in 9.10 would make a kernel rebuild necessary, the kernel i ran in 9.04 now just sits on a flickering console, while the supplied 2.6.31-14 boots with a higher console res fine into the x (rather than blindly trying to go for anything framebuffer related, i hope someone knows what parts exactly are now required for a successful boot into x)	the new kernel and x will use kernel modesetting (kms) on intel hardware.
hi there my mplayer its crashing if i pause !! where can i see a log file ??	maybe ~/.mplayer
hey, does anyone know the name of the old 2d spaceshooter game where 2 satellites orbit a star and try to blow each other up? it would be nice if i could find it in the repositories.	space war
what app can i use as a webcam or camera on my laptop? thnks!	cheese
in the newer versions of ubuntu (i.e. oneiric) is there a way to configure the launch bar to launch another instance of what you click on instead of restoring the already opened instance?	right-click on it and see if there's an option
how to copy text from firefox to terminal?	medibuntu.org?
anyone know where fluxbox stores its included styles by any chance?	/usr/share or /usr/local/share somewhere i think
anybody knows if there if printing in edgy is broken?. it seems to be a problem with gnome-cups, at least in my case	and to answer you i have no problems printing
you go into /etc/password and change the password string there from whatever it is to whatever it is that represents 'no password'	if you use /dev/false as shell in /etc/passwd you cant login
you want it fat or what?	i sent him an answer so maybe he is doing it :)
is there a way to force the ubuntu installer to not format the '/' drive? it's already a reiserfs partition and there's data on it	you'll need to install from the alternative media.
how do i edit grub configuration ?	'sudo update-grub' might/should automatically add it
is there a command to show all disks... (hard drive cd floppy usb firewire...)	fdisk -l
hi, can anyone help me with irssi? i lost my config file. i just want to ask how to hilight a whole sentence when my nick is mentioned?	/help highlight
how do i enable mp3 encoding from sound-juicer?	you need gstreamer-lame.
i've noticed that when i have closed firefox lately i have to kill the process before i restart. is this normal, or the result of a recent update?	it might just take a while for ff to shut down
how to start the battery docklet?	power has choices on displaying it.
hello. i accidentally ran echo 'ls' > ./me in bash, and now everytime i lauch ./me it reads ls and executes! is there a way to erase this redirection?	delete the file
what does jfgi stand for? :p	its not very nice
where does networkmanager log to? i'm failing to connect to an openvpn vpn and i'm trying to find the logging	i have it in /var/log/daemon.log
hello, im tryin to cd into my flash drive. i see it on my desktop but i dont see it when i type ls. what am i doing wrong? thank you	it's not in your home or ~/desktop ..
i'm trying to find a 10.04 iso for intel 64 bit ... i can't find it? i do find a amd64 image, as well as a i386. is it one of those?	the 64 bit version is named amd64. it works with all 64 bit processors
whats the status of the ubuntuforums.org site, it appears to be down for me, but making sure i did'nt inadvertently block them	it is currently down
will realtek alc888s work with gusty?	try it and tell us
what's the adress of the gnome irc ?	http://www.gnome.org/support/
how can i monitor network traffic?	gkrellm
i have a sound problem with my new acer aspire 5920. installed newest ubuntu and there is no sound at all and no errors (as far as i know). anyone familiar with this?	give me a few, and i'll look to see if i can find anything bud.
aptitude cannot connect to the host (tries to connect 1.0.0.0) unless i ping the host myself first, any ideas? (karmic)	nameserver fails?
where are the .deb files stored in 6.06?	/var/cache/apt/archives
hey guys. i'm a little not satisfy about my ubuntu. it's working very slow. i have a toshiba satelitte, 3 years old with amd64 thurion. i need to do something else after i install ubuntu on it? instal video driver etc?	that wouldn't speed anything up...
how to generate the x11 configuration files for xinit? i don't have /etc/x11/x.	sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
can someone help me with my wireless card - after using ndiswrapper it functioned properly but after restart it has stopped working completly	sudo modprobe ndiswrapper should bring your wireless up now
my linksys wireless-g usb adpater wusb54gc is detected in ubuntu and i have wlan0 but can't be connected to the router	here is a related thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=225206
'requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker.' <-- i'm getting that when i try to download 10.10 through transmission	i wonder if it could be a tracker load thing
how do i make folders hidden?	in x?
if i type 'apt-get remove kubuntu-desktop', will it just remove that package itself (while leaving alone all packages that depend on it) or will it start disassembling the entire distro (which depends on it)? i just want to get rid of kde-helpcenter4 which is preventing the upgrading of my other components.	the *buntu-desktop psackatges are just meta-packages. removing them wont affect much
ubuntu has very nicely setup my dual monitors for me, but i'm not sure what it's actually using for it. how do i find out whether it's using xinerama or something specific to my graphics card/driver (or is it just always xinerama?) ?	the xrandr command can do that
can any one solve issue for empathy audio and video chat	does it work in cheese?
isn't left and right arrow with some other key supposed to have compiz switch viewports?	default is ctrl+alt+left arrow
no printer gurus out here?	i hate the damn things
my mouse lags during quake2, anybody know how to solve this?	mess with the in_mouse cvar maybe? not sure, but that's the quake3 one
i am making a compilation cd and i want to normalize the volume for all the tracks so i don't have to keep reaching for the volume knob; how can i do this either with brasero or through another program	i use the program named 'mp3gain'
good morning. i've been following the instructions in this blog post (http://blogs.forever.sg/2008/06/15/lcd-brightness-andubuntu-804-hardy/) about how to set my laptop's brightness. i'm having trouble with /etc/init.d/rc.local. there is no line reading exit 0	the line is in /etc/rc.local
not according to this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=872197	thanks for the article. i was wondering since pysdm somehow manages to handle my fstab, which only contains uuid entries. so the wiki und forum info seems to be outdated?
has a package for ubuntu been created for alsa 1.0.14?	if so, it won't be in repos until gutsy
is there a tool which i can copy files through ubuntu boxes on my network which is faster than scp ?	nfs? samba?
is there a way in xchat to have it not show me when people join and leave the channel and server?	yes, it's a /set, but for the life of me, i can't remember what it is
i can't get sound to play from my terminal or tty	is puleaudio running?
hey guyz...just downloaded pidgin...and executed the './configure' command...and when i executed the the 'make' command...this is what i get http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/57588/ ...i think it's some thing to do with the dependencies....although i might be wrong....can some one plz give me a hint or point me to the right direction...thnx	why didnt you just get it from the repos?
my computer has decided it no longr wants to play audio from games mp3s youtube etc,can someone give me a hand? http://pastebin.com/m36aa49e9	you may want to consider your machine hostname when asking random people for hlpe
what's the current 10.10 kernel version? (with all current updates?)	it gave me 2.6.35 when i installed a week ago
how do i get/set my machine name?	hostname? you can run 'hostname {host here without the brackets}' to change it
if i want to triple-boot ubuntu, xp, and os x, which should go furthest to the left in the partition table?	xp then linux but i dont know about the osx
can someone try this url for me and see if it works: https://www.mypipex.net	works for me
i am trying to use an application, but the bottom part is not showing (my display is only 1024 x 768). any ideas?	if you press alt and drag anywhere on the window it will let you drag it around higher
hey guys ... i wrote a init.d script to start a custom service and it's working ok, but the service is running as the root user. how can i make it run with a different user?	su <username>
hi, i'm trying to use dpkg -r to remove a .deb that i installed, but it is telling me that the package hasn't been installed. are there individual packages inside of one .deb, and if so, is there a way to list them?	so dont do the whole .deb, just the bit before _
oh yes... i always forget ubuntu have their own pastebin	that won't tell him what interfaces ubuntu is seeing.
is there an fairly easy way to make a ubuntu-desktop install a ubuntu-server install?	and apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop; apt-get --purge autoremove
hi, any firefox experts here ?	if you have the firefox-gnome-support package, the font size will follow the settings in system-preferences-appearance-fonts
anyone who can an easy way to replace pulse audio with alsa or make alsa the default driver?	pulse audio uses alsa. so its allready there. i dont reccomend trying to remove pulse.
can anyone tell me how to change the hard drive numbers in menu.lst?	find the groot option in /boot/grub/menu.list ... might be what you need
how do i set my lang and other variables system-wide?	/etc/bash.bashrc
hello, i am having a problem with the gnome terminal, and vi in particular. it seems the keymap is not what it should be, becasue vi is doing some funny things. the right arrow key inserts a capital c and a newline, backspace simply moves the cursor left, etc	you can 'sudo apt-get install vim' to correct that :)
is it safe to remove my current kernel? it is one from the 'generic-pae' type. i don't use the 'generic-pae' type. how do i disable or prevent from future updates to install the generic-pae kernels? thanks	don't remove your current kernel. reboot to another one first (to make sure it works), then remove the kernels you don't want.
hi all, i've just get my upgrade to 11.04 and the desktop switcher in the panel is showing only 1 workspace.. have you ever experience that? is it because of new compiz?	just add another workspace...
can someone tell me how i can have teamviewer auto start when i start my pc? i'm running ubuntu 12.04	for the first step, see 'login window' in the settings panel, for the second, 'startup applications'.
how do i enable breezy backports ?	backports are versions of software from an unstable version fo rthe stable version. breezy is the unstable version
no one has any input on my iso problem? haha	i don't see that you've even asked a question.
what do people use to mount iso files? fuseiso? or nautilus scripts? or just the out-of-the-box mount command?	mount works...
now how do i undo all this nonsense i've installed e.g. - tftp-server and dnsmasq etc... and return my system to normal?	this isn't windows, so no registry to worry about. just flat files
where is the sources of the ubuntu custom debian installer ?	someone should have the specifics, but that's the best i know tonight
can anybody tell me in which folder my mysql data is stored? i have an old backup folder with a data subfolder, from which i want to copy a database. now i need the location of my mysql folder in my filesystem	http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=411338
i want to expand my ubuntu partition (ext4) to take up some space from my windows partition, i don't care if i lose data on the windows partition but i want to not lose anything on my linux partition. can i do this with gparted?	ubuntu livecds carry gparted
hello, is program qtparted bootable from cd? can i work with it without operating system	you can use the live cd and run gparted from that
can i ask hardy questions in here yet?	yes, that will be a new install cd. if you install now, and keep up with updates, you'll get that version transparently
why is compiz-fusion not dodging when i tell it to? is it because the settings from the beryl-manager is overriding it?	right click on the ubuntu icon -> edit menu
anyone know how to disable the password prompt when opening the laptop screen?	there may not be an easy way...it's a security feature

i am new to ubuntu (and gnome). can someone tell me what the best pdf viewer for this combinatio0n is?

i believe it's called 'evince'

is anyone aware of some kind of program that watches port 22 and blocks the ip of anyone with 3 bad login attempts within 60 secs, or some such ?

i know that its possible to use iptables rules to limit login tries for port 22

does anyone know if its possible to change the names of the sinks in pulseaudio?

if there's any way to do it, you might find it with the pacmd command line tool.

hello, i was wondering if i can safely use sendmail to send emails with ubuntu hoary instead of my isp smtp server ?

most folks don't accept email from local servers (spam risk is high)

hello, what's the ubuntu equivalent of redhat's chkconfig?

update-rc.d

how can i search for which package provides a particular file?

http://packages.ubuntu..com

i've used photorec, but am still uncertain how to recover the file names themselves.

i don't think you can

i have ubuntu server, and installed ubuntu-desktop, but the desktop runs automatically when i turn the pc on. how can i set it so i have to manually start it?

try bum

hi, can someone please tell me how to change my permissions of a dvd drive? i'm pretty sure it's a cd-writer drive but i can't seem to get it to burn a disc.

install k3b and see what it shows

the classic unix in a nutshell is a good resource, but its really more about what you want to learn

i just want my nephew to learn some things on his own without bugging me all the time

hello all.... please help me... i cannot update or go to syntipac papckage manager ... it comes up with an error that says run dkp* something manally to fix this problem!!

type sudo dpkg --configure -a in a terminal

if i want to add an extra directory to my path, should i edit the /etc/profile or bashrc?

if you want it just for your user, put it in bashrc, if you want it for all users, put it in /etc/profile

is there anyone who is having trouble with mounting sony mp3 player in 9.04?

which apps have you tried? rhythmbox, gtkpod, banshee, etc

how do i copy a files contents to another file using the terminal

if you don't have permissions under the username you are logged on as to access those direcories normally, use sudo in front of the command ljl provided

is there a way to display timestamps in the chat window using regular xchat (2.8.4)

settings>preferences>interface>text box

hey all, how can i set my linksys router to forward everything up to the network its in(dhcp requests, logon info for domain, etc.)? i have 2 that do this quite well, but my third is a different model and tries to be a dhcp server. if i disable the dhcp server, then no one gets an ip, so i am trying to tell it to forward up to the network its in and be transparents to the packets from...

i don't think this is an ubuntu specific problem

this is freenode right?

irc.freenode.net

is there anyone who can help me get x server up and running after i installed feisty?

alt-ctrl-f2 then login then sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg then choose vesa driver then sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

what is the <ctl> leter to get you out of x server screen to the other none graphic screen?

ctrl + alt + f1

thats exactly what i've been looking for... if i can learn just three commands a day, just three, by the end of a single year, i'll know more than a thousand linux commands... that would put me in rank amongst the novice ;)

it's not about knowing commands, there are probably under 100 core commands

what is the shell command to display ubuntu version?

lsb_releas -a or cat /etc/issue

i have this file on my desktop install-crossover-pro-4.1.sh . how do i install it? i am a newbie plz help...

chmod +x install-crossover-pro-4.1.sh

what are the changes that were made in 9.10 would make a kernel rebuild necessary, the kernel i ran in 9.04 now just sits on a flickering console, while the supplied 2.6.31-14 boots with a higher console res fine into the x (rather than blindly trying to go for anything framebuffer related, i hope someone knows what parts exactly are now required for a successful boot into x)

the new kernel and x will use kernel modesetting (kms) on intel hardware.

hi there my mplayer its crashing if i pause !! where can i see a log file ??

maybe ~/.mplayer

hey, does anyone know the name of the old 2d spaceshooter game where 2 satellites orbit a star and try to blow each other up? it would be nice if i could find it in the repositories.

space war

what app can i use as a webcam or camera on my laptop? thnks!

cheese

in the newer versions of ubuntu (i.e. oneiric) is there a way to configure the launch bar to launch another instance of what you click on instead of restoring the already opened instance?

right-click on it and see if there's an option

how to copy text from firefox to terminal?

medibuntu.org?

anyone know where fluxbox stores its included styles by any chance?

/usr/share or /usr/local/share somewhere i think

anybody knows if there if printing in edgy is broken?. it seems to be a problem with gnome-cups, at least in my case

and to answer you i have no problems printing

you go into /etc/password and change the password string there from whatever it is to whatever it is that represents 'no password'

if you use /dev/false as shell in /etc/passwd you cant login

you want it fat or what?

i sent him an answer so maybe he is doing it :)

is there a way to force the ubuntu installer to not format the '/' drive? it's already a reiserfs partition and there's data on it

you'll need to install from the alternative media.

how do i edit grub configuration ?

'sudo update-grub' might/should automatically add it

is there a command to show all disks... (hard drive cd floppy usb firewire...)

fdisk -l

hi, can anyone help me with irssi? i lost my config file. i just want to ask how to hilight a whole sentence when my nick is mentioned?

/help highlight

how do i enable mp3 encoding from sound-juicer?

you need gstreamer-lame.

i've noticed that when i have closed firefox lately i have to kill the process before i restart. is this normal, or the result of a recent update?

it might just take a while for ff to shut down

how to start the battery docklet?

power has choices on displaying it.

hello. i accidentally ran echo 'ls' > ./me in bash, and now everytime i lauch ./me it reads ls and executes! is there a way to erase this redirection?

delete the file

what does jfgi stand for? :p

its not very nice

where does networkmanager log to? i'm failing to connect to an openvpn vpn and i'm trying to find the logging

i have it in /var/log/daemon.log

hello, im tryin to cd into my flash drive. i see it on my desktop but i dont see it when i type ls. what am i doing wrong? thank you

it's not in your home or ~/desktop ..

i'm trying to find a 10.04 iso for intel 64 bit ... i can't find it? i do find a amd64 image, as well as a i386. is it one of those?

the 64 bit version is named amd64. it works with all 64 bit processors

whats the status of the ubuntuforums.org site, it appears to be down for me, but making sure i did'nt inadvertently block them

it is currently down

will realtek alc888s work with gusty?

try it and tell us

what's the adress of the gnome irc ?

http://www.gnome.org/support/

how can i monitor network traffic?

gkrellm

i have a sound problem with my new acer aspire 5920. installed newest ubuntu and there is no sound at all and no errors (as far as i know). anyone familiar with this?

give me a few, and i'll look to see if i can find anything bud.

aptitude cannot connect to the host (tries to connect 1.0.0.0) unless i ping the host myself first, any ideas? (karmic)

nameserver fails?

where are the .deb files stored in 6.06?

/var/cache/apt/archives

hey guys. i'm a little not satisfy about my ubuntu. it's working very slow. i have a toshiba satelitte, 3 years old with amd64 thurion. i need to do something else after i install ubuntu on it? instal video driver etc?

that wouldn't speed anything up...

how to generate the x11 configuration files for xinit? i don't have /etc/x11/x.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

can someone help me with my wireless card - after using ndiswrapper it functioned properly but after restart it has stopped working completly

sudo modprobe ndiswrapper should bring your wireless up now

my linksys wireless-g usb adpater wusb54gc is detected in ubuntu and i have wlan0 but can't be connected to the router

here is a related thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=225206

'requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker.' <-- i'm getting that when i try to download 10.10 through transmission

i wonder if it could be a tracker load thing

how do i make folders hidden?

in x?

if i type 'apt-get remove kubuntu-desktop', will it just remove that package itself (while leaving alone all packages that depend on it) or will it start disassembling the entire distro (which depends on it)? i just want to get rid of kde-helpcenter4 which is preventing the upgrading of my other components.

the *buntu-desktop psackatges are just meta-packages. removing them wont affect much

ubuntu has very nicely setup my dual monitors for me, but i'm not sure what it's actually using for it. how do i find out whether it's using xinerama or something specific to my graphics card/driver (or is it just always xinerama?) ?

the xrandr command can do that

can any one solve issue for empathy audio and video chat

does it work in cheese?

isn't left and right arrow with some other key supposed to have compiz switch viewports?

default is ctrl+alt+left arrow

no printer gurus out here?

i hate the damn things

my mouse lags during quake2, anybody know how to solve this?

mess with the in_mouse cvar maybe? not sure, but that's the quake3 one

i am making a compilation cd and i want to normalize the volume for all the tracks so i don't have to keep reaching for the volume knob; how can i do this either with brasero or through another program

i use the program named 'mp3gain'

good morning. i've been following the instructions in this blog post (http://blogs.forever.sg/2008/06/15/lcd-brightness-andubuntu-804-hardy/) about how to set my laptop's brightness. i'm having trouble with /etc/init.d/rc.local. there is no line reading exit 0

the line is in /etc/rc.local

not according to this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=872197

thanks for the article. i was wondering since pysdm somehow manages to handle my fstab, which only contains uuid entries. so the wiki und forum info seems to be outdated?

has a package for ubuntu been created for alsa 1.0.14?

if so, it won't be in repos until gutsy

is there a tool which i can copy files through ubuntu boxes on my network which is faster than scp ?

nfs? samba?

is there a way in xchat to have it not show me when people join and leave the channel and server?

yes, it's a /set, but for the life of me, i can't remember what it is

i can't get sound to play from my terminal or tty

is puleaudio running?

hey guyz...just downloaded pidgin...and executed the './configure' command...and when i executed the the 'make' command...this is what i get http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/57588/ ...i think it's some thing to do with the dependencies....although i might be wrong....can some one plz give me a hint or point me to the right direction...thnx

why didnt you just get it from the repos?

my computer has decided it no longr wants to play audio from games mp3s youtube etc,can someone give me a hand? http://pastebin.com/m36aa49e9

you may want to consider your machine hostname when asking random people for hlpe

what's the current 10.10 kernel version? (with all current updates?)

it gave me 2.6.35 when i installed a week ago

how do i get/set my machine name?

hostname? you can run 'hostname {host here without the brackets}' to change it

if i want to triple-boot ubuntu, xp, and os x, which should go furthest to the left in the partition table?

xp then linux but i dont know about the osx

can someone try this url for me and see if it works: https://www.mypipex.net

works for me

i am trying to use an application, but the bottom part is not showing (my display is only 1024 x 768). any ideas?

if you press alt and drag anywhere on the window it will let you drag it around higher

hey guys ... i wrote a init.d script to start a custom service and it's working ok, but the service is running as the root user. how can i make it run with a different user?

su <username>

hi, i'm trying to use dpkg -r to remove a .deb that i installed, but it is telling me that the package hasn't been installed. are there individual packages inside of one .deb, and if so, is there a way to list them?

so dont do the whole .deb, just the bit before _

oh yes... i always forget ubuntu have their own pastebin

that won't tell him what interfaces *ubuntu* is seeing.

is there an fairly easy way to make a ubuntu-desktop install a ubuntu-server install?

and apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop; apt-get --purge autoremove

hi, any firefox experts here ?

if you have the firefox-gnome-support package, the font size will follow the settings in system-preferences-appearance-fonts

anyone who can an easy way to replace pulse audio with alsa or make alsa the default driver?

pulse audio uses alsa. so its allready there. i dont reccomend trying to remove pulse.

can anyone tell me how to change the hard drive numbers in menu.lst?

find the groot option in /boot/grub/menu.list ... might be what you need

how do i set my lang and other variables system-wide?

/etc/bash.bashrc

hello, i am having a problem with the gnome terminal, and vi in particular. it seems the keymap is not what it should be, becasue vi is doing some funny things. the right arrow key inserts a capital c and a newline, backspace simply moves the cursor left, etc

you can 'sudo apt-get install vim' to correct that :)

is it safe to remove my current kernel? it is one from the 'generic-pae' type. i don't use the 'generic-pae' type. how do i disable or prevent from future updates to install the generic-pae kernels? thanks

don't remove your current kernel. reboot to another one first (to make sure it works), then remove the kernels you don't want.

hi all, i've just get my upgrade to 11.04 and the desktop switcher in the panel is showing only 1 workspace.. have you ever experience that? is it because of new compiz?

just add another workspace...

can someone tell me how i can have teamviewer auto start when i start my pc? i'm running ubuntu 12.04

for the first step, see 'login window' in the settings panel, for the second, 'startup applications'.

how do i enable breezy backports ?

backports are versions of software from an unstable version fo rthe stable version. breezy *is* the unstable version

no one has any input on my iso problem? haha

i don't see that you've even asked a question.

what do people use to mount iso files? fuseiso? or nautilus scripts? or just the out-of-the-box mount command?

mount works...

now how do i undo all this nonsense i've installed e.g. - tftp-server and dnsmasq etc... and return my system to normal?

this isn't windows, so no registry to worry about. just flat files

where is the sources of the ubuntu custom debian installer ?

someone should have the specifics, but that's the best i know tonight

can anybody tell me in which folder my mysql data is stored? i have an old backup folder with a data subfolder, from which i want to copy a database. now i need the location of my mysql folder in my filesystem

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=411338

i want to expand my ubuntu partition (ext4) to take up some space from my windows partition, i don't care if i lose data on the windows partition but i want to not lose anything on my linux partition. can i do this with gparted?

ubuntu livecds carry gparted

hello, is program qtparted bootable from cd? can i work with it without operating system

you can use the live cd and run gparted from that

can i ask hardy questions in here yet?

yes, that will be a new install cd. if you install now, and keep up with updates, you'll get that version transparently

why is compiz-fusion not dodging when i tell it to? is it because the settings from the beryl-manager is overriding it?

right click on the ubuntu icon -> edit menu

anyone know how to disable the password prompt when opening the laptop screen?

there may not be an easy way...it's a security feature