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is there a linux game where you're a ship at the bottom of the screen and lots of ships come from the top down, and you can shoot unlimited shots, and get upgrades, and acquire bombs...	chromium
is there a difference between testicles and testes?	isn't testes the singular form of testicles?
is there a more efficient method of stopping/restarting services than sudo /etc/init.d/foo bar ?	with sudo perhaps
hi, guys. someone in this channel told me about a quake like console that wasn't tilda or yakuake. do any of you know another?	maybe guake?
if i'm funning a java app that requires a particular java lib, where do i put that lib (.jar) so i don't get a java.lang.noclassdeffounderror?	you should be able to add any path to your $classpath variable, and it will pick up the new jar.
how do i change my hostname?	in a terminal 'man hostname'
anyone here running hoary w/ alsa and an audigy2 with no sound ?	many of us
how do i find out that uuid for fstab entries?	sudo blkid
friends who are familiar with 'unity', does anyone know why my ubuntu unity launcher will not remember when i right click on a running app and select 'keep in launcher'? also does anyone know why on my top horizontal task bar the theme looks good up until the right hand side where it shows me icons for networking, sound, mail, time, chat, user, and power. pls use my nick when replying :)	you could try to reset unity configuration: unity --reset
can i relese a music album under gnu/gpl?	maybe dd if=/dev/hd? of=~/whatever.iso
if i typed in a command for a program where is it usually stores, like pidgin etc	in the terminal tyupe locate pidgin
newest if you don't know the command line maybe ' sudo nautilus' would work cuz it gives you a root browser	it can screw up the settings.
hi, whats th sd in sd card ?	secure digital
hi. i have installed the deskbar applet in ubuntu 7.04 using this guide: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/search-your-computer-quickly-with-the-deskbar-applet-on-ubuntu/ . will it mess up when i upgrade to 7.10 in october?	i shouldn't think so. it should just update itsefl.
ashamed to ask but must know: what is the difference btw the ubuntu desktop cdrom and the ubuntu desktop dvd other than the size?	more language packs and software packages.
does anyone know how to setup a public git repository?	never done it before but the instructions on github are very straightforward
is there a version of ubuntu well suited for recording midi devices? rosegarden complains that the system timer is not right (and there's always that big delay.....)	ubuntu studio is for digital audio and video. i will admit that is about all i know about it
hey, what's the keyboard command to bring up system monitor?	i don't think there's a keybinding for it by default, you can add one through gconf-editor though
can ubuntu determine what graphic controller a pc has?	lspci in terminal should give you that info
hello. i know its not exactly the right place but i can't find anywhere else to ask this: anyone knows where can i find a java support chat?	most likely its a 'regiestered nick only' channel.
hi all what is the syntax for a symlink?	ln -s /target/file /link/file
hi! i was wondering what options do i have for doing a thorough check of my harddrive which can detect even physical errors? i experienced a crash once in ubuntu where the harddrive seemed to go bananas. after this incident everything on my harddrive was lost, and for some reason windows xp fails to install onto the drive, but linux doesn't complain. i had windows on it before the crash.	badblocks
hey all! i've got a fairly noobtastic question: how do you downgrade a package with aptitude (or apt-get)?	sudo apt-get install mypackage=12.34
is vbox on the ubuntu package? or do i need to download it?	and the answer is yes.
hi all, does anyone know why the ubuntu live cd won't boot from a mac g4? the option is enabled	did you hold down the 'c' key?
hey, i can't save the file: /usr/bin/compiz it says i don't have permissions... how can i access it as superuser?	sudo nano /usr.....file
how can i login as root in livecd ver :/?	sudo -i, i think
i have a harddrive and it is formated to ntfs... should i see any different if i format it to ext4? speed or something	they say you would see a small speed boost, but i personaly havent ever seen a speed increase at all.
hello, new ubuntu user here... how do i tell where my app updates are coming from? is there a preferred mirror to use? also, same area.. the recommended security updates didn't complete (lost power) how do i restart that? systems seems to be running fine, but i want all the latest updates applied.	and system>admin>software sources
how do you stop recording with desktop recorder... i started but dont know how to stop it.	right click the icon in the top right corner
hi guys. my system wants to update itself, but it warning me that there are a bunch of not authenticated packages. should i fret?	reload the package list and the problem will be solved
dumb question about the installer. if i guided - resize, it asks me for the 'new partition size'. is this the new size of the old partition, or the size of the new partition?	the one you are creating
hey can anyone help with an ftp question? in a web browser i can load ftp://user:pass@host to have it connect without prompting for login info... i'd like to do the same with the command-line client, so i can just create a bash script to immediately drop me into a specific ftp account connection. does anyone know how to do that on the command line?	ncftp supports ftp:// url like that
anyone installed vlc 1.0.0?	i did use that deb. worked ok for me.
so, i was doing some prodding around with cuda enhanced applications, and found myself at a hard-lock and had to hard-reset my desktop, and it appears my session has become corrupt (or something along those lines) i can login to gnome failsafe, but not my gnome session	rename .gnome and .gnome2 --> .gnome-old .gnome2-old. try to login then
hi, is there any way to install php5 without apache ? i don't want the module, just the interpreter	you can do that, just don't install libapache-mod-php5 or something like that.
anyone have experience customizing live 8.10 boot process ... dont want to boot to the ubuntu account ... would rather system boot to a user login screen .... any help?	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/livecdcustomizationfromscratch
whats the command to install flash player in terminal?	sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
what is macros for?	i imagine it's for the same thing
hmm ... dapper is 6.06 isn't it?	jmfthevci ys there is a command line alternative: do-release-upgrade
has anyone had any success in running gnome shell off a base xubuntu install? it's a long story....	you could have a dozen de's installed if you wanted. but you can get a lot of extra apps that way. but they should all work
i have a 5 button mouse. is there anyway to bind the other 2 buttons?	www.linuxforums.org/forum/peripherals-hardware/43542-5-button-mouse.html
how can i access another laptop on wireless in ubuntu?	see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/wifidocs/adhoc
[video related question]: every time i play a video, the hue is always at 0, so everything looks greenish. in vlc or other apps i can apply adjustments, but i have to do so every time, and it doesn't have an option in all programs to do that. the same is true for video coming from my webcam. i have karmic and nvidia, using proprietary binary version of the driver.	have you tried 'nvidia-settings' in a terminal, then manually adjust the hue for your entire computer?
hey, anyone know off the top of their head how to get the taskbar to group multiple instances of the same app?	right clic in the window list applet >preferences
hey, how do you combine 2 wordlist files one after the other?	cat file1 file2 > file3
does upstart respawn services if they die unexpectedly by default?	only if you tell it to in the service.conf script
how can i just reinstall ubuntu ? ( i have /home on a diffrent partion ) i dont want ubuntu to do anything to that	when you're at the partition step, you'll mark your home partition as having a mountpoint of /home, and then make sure it's not marked to format, and then it'll be used as /home without being touched
if i wanted to take a look at the the 'rules' file created for a package in ubuntu, where would i get that?	apt-get source package
hi. i'm trying to start my 10.04 (lucid) computer in text mode. i found http://fooninja.net/2010/07/29/text-boot-in-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04-disabling-gdm/ which says to put 'grub_cmdline_linux='text'' in /etc/default/grub, but that file doesn't exist on my system, and when i created it and rebooted, it didn't change anything. is that file somewhere else?	try /boot/grub/menu.lst
hello, right that 'rm -rf /*' is blocked in ubuntu ?	no, and i don't recommend saying dangerous commands in here
can i buy muisc from itunes music store on linux? and how do i play it?	use banshee
if you have the windows cd then you can insert it, boot from the cd and manually reset your mbr	speak to r3akt0r5
hi. i've got an options dialog that is too big for my netbook screen, and it doesn't have a scrollbar. what can i do to see the lower part of it?	use alt+click to move it
is there a command to write the output of another command to the end of a file????	pipe the output then use sed (i would assume) to append it to the end of a file.
has anyone played with wubi in xp?	you boot , you should have a new boot entry
i have gnome and im using ubuntu how can i switch to kde	you can run a kde program under gnome and vice versa, just some of the 'desktop integration' stuff will break
freidrichman: use synaptic and enable universe and such.	its not in the repos, i checked here.
hello. has anyone tried to compile the ubuntu kernel? i've tried it but there are many drivers missing. for example no audio driver is selected. how can i exactly rebuild the ubuntu kernel?	i would reccomend: http://www.howtoforge.com/roll_a_kernel_debian_ubuntu_way
just wondering if anyone knows how to set which network card gets assigned to which eth address	look at /etc/iftab and change it accordingly
how to play youtube flash video on totem?	download the video and open with totem
the command 'glxinfo \| grep' doesn't seem to be right... what did i do wrong?	grep looks for 'something', grep on its own looks for nothing and will return nothing
how do i search for a certain filename in the terminal?	try 'locate <filename>'
using 9.04 with nautilus 2.26.2. i use the 'tabs' in nautilus so i can switch quickly from one directory to the other. is there way to display 'hidden' files in one tab but not the others?	i don't think so. it is just a state of operation for nautilus. you can use ctrl-h to quickly switch back and forth.
where does the nm-applet store settings? i have somehow added a wireless network that i cannot delete	: i think '/etc/networkmanager'
could reconfiguring xserver-xorg possibly help with my refresh rate problems?	you can try; also, maybe read the page ubotu's about to send (not sure if it'll help)
does anyone know what '128mb (max)' sticker mean on my computer?	b is a flat so 128m stands for 11 of may. so that is the flatline date
i have an image file (jpeg) and i want to print it to be a specific physical size on the paper. i'm having trouble finding out how to do that, most instructions seem to be abount setting the paper size, not the image size. any ideas?	use a tool like inkscape to import and scale
do you guys know of a program that can import *.pst files that were originally from microsoft outlook?	that was easily found by me by typing 'apt-cache search outlook'. learning to search repositories is very important.
what i have to choose install 6.06.1 dapper drake (stable release), with long term support. or 6.10, codename edgy eft (stable release) ?	on a desktop, install edgy. on a server, install dapper.
i'm unable to find the fstab command to mount an 'ext3' partition at the beginning of boot, making it writable and readable users other than root. can anyone help me out?	safer that way as well.
hi all, just upgraded my pc with new cpu/mb/memory and ubuntu 12.04 64bit is running like a champ. i checked with google, and it said everything should be good to go with no reinstall. can someone verify that or tell me it there's anything i still need to do please? thanks.	if nothing is broken, no need to fix anything :-)
whats the best free virtulization software for linux ? id like to run some windows games ( sins of a solar empire )	check out cedega
hi, i'm new to linux but i'm also interested in running a linux server - file, http, hl2 and dc. should i get ubuntu desktop or server? (i also want to play high end comp games eg, hl2)	if you need to play games, you should use the desktop version to install
is there a way to tell the sytem not to do a filesystem check on a drive at startup? do i just not mount the drive?	man fstab
does the usb-creator install ubuntu into a usb in a way that can save software changes and other system changes after reboot?	yes it can
whats the command to report current system type (i386, 686, etc)?	uname -a
is there an open-source 'quicken-like' program?	gnucash, kmymoney2
any news on getting a conexant capture card to play sound yet in ubuntu? i get the tv picture clear as day but no soun - let alone the radio features of the card	no specific ideas, but maybe you're card has the same trouble as a lot of other things with esd?
is anyone else having problems with beagle?	mine is fine.
would it present any problems for me to set /home on a different drive than / ?	you probably _should_ make /home have its own partition. wether it's on the same drive or another, is of no concern.
where did the proprietary driver dialogue go in 12.10? can't find it	its under the software sources app - in a tab
how do you save a session in firefox?	i think there is an extension that will do that; in iceweasel it seems to be turned on by default
hey all, this is the first time i have seen this message so i wanted to check. the update notifier was bugging me and when i blindly went to allow it to install all updates it prompts me about 'not authenticated' software. the ones it is complaining about are capplets-data, libpanel-applet2-0, gnome-control-center, libgnome-windows-settings1, gnome-panel-date, and gnome-panel. is this safe?	sudo aptitude update
you know running a command in terminal, can i somehow do that but hide the terminal? so its running in the background?	command &
after installing custom built (alsa) modules you need to run some command to update the modprobe cache.. anybody knows what that is ?	depmod -a ?
can i temporarily hide the gnome panel(s) and then get them back again after a while?	you could probably use a custom command with compiz magic to hide them temporarily, but that's a little playing.
i have attached a usb wireless adapter but it doesnt show up in 'ifconfig' only 'iwconfig'. is it necessary to show up in ifconfig for the adapter to work?	and yeah, it does need to show up in ifconfig for it to work, but you can do that by bringing up the interface
hey guys, i have this new server. i have apache set up and i create web sites in /var/vhosts, i have also set up samba... what i would like to do is set up so me an the other devs can login via our normal user account do work right in /var/vhosts/* how can i do this?	that'll work, yeah.
in 11.04, how do i change my workspace positioning? default has a 2x2 grid, but i would much prefer a 1x4 row. as the bottom panel is removed in 11.04, i cannot find anywhere to change this. i refuse to believe that this simple task is impossible to do in unity...?	its an option in compiz-settings-manager
does jaunty have the capability to encrypt the home directory or is that just karmic? i have a nasty feeling i am installing from the wrong cd. oops!	there should be an option on the jaunty live cd for encrypting home
hi guys, how can i print the full path of a directory using terminal?	for the current dir you can use 'pwd'
hi i've a little question, which file in etc that i can add a command for the starting of ubuntu ?	/etc/rc.local
can someone help me remember what to hold down to boot from livecd?	it depends on your motherboard bios. possibly the delete key, f11 or f8
hi kids. just need advice on how to mount a 16 gig ntfs flash drive if it never shows up in gparted or fdisk or anything; ideas?	mail it to me, i will mount it for you ;-p
does anyone know some gui video editing programs(not commandline such as mencoder / ffmpeg) for only cutting video and converting it to smaller format. also if im using wine, is there chance that video programs works on there such as videomatch?	( i use it and i like it )
when i try to install libdvdcss2 i get this error 'e: package libdvdcss2 has no installation candidate'.can someone help?	go to a terminal and type sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
it goes through the motions, mpg321 -v even showing the progress -- but all i hear is a faint noise. alsamixer settings are all up, and they do have an effect on the noise.	is it like the volume is too low, or are you just getting noise?
are there any tools in ubuntu that i can use to compress png files?	sure.. optipng, pngcrush. there might be others as well. don't know
is there anyway to enable network connections in terminal?	with ifup and ifdown, but i don't know how well that works with networkmanager and all

is there a linux game where you're a ship at the bottom of the screen and lots of ships come from the top down, and you can shoot unlimited shots, and get upgrades, and acquire bombs...

chromium

is there a difference between testicles and testes?

isn't testes the singular form of testicles?

is there a more efficient method of stopping/restarting services than sudo /etc/init.d/foo bar ?

with sudo perhaps

hi, guys. someone in this channel told me about a quake like console that wasn't tilda or yakuake. do any of you know another?

maybe guake?

if i'm funning a java app that requires a particular java lib, where do i put that lib (.jar) so i don't get a java.lang.noclassdeffounderror?

you should be able to add any path to your $classpath variable, and it will pick up the new jar.

how do i change my hostname?

in a terminal 'man hostname'

anyone here running hoary w/ alsa and an audigy2 with no sound ?

many of us

how do i find out that uuid for fstab entries?

sudo blkid

friends who are familiar with 'unity', does anyone know why my ubuntu unity launcher will not remember when i right click on a running app and select 'keep in launcher'? also does anyone know why on my top horizontal task bar the theme looks good up until the right hand side where it shows me icons for networking, sound, mail, time, chat, user, and power. pls use my nick when replying :)

you could try to reset unity configuration: unity --reset

can i relese a music album under gnu/gpl?

maybe dd if=/dev/hd? of=~/whatever.iso

if i typed in a command for a program where is it usually stores, like pidgin etc

in the terminal tyupe locate pidgin

newest if you don't know the command line maybe ' sudo nautilus' would work cuz it gives you a root browser

it can screw up the settings.

hi, whats th sd in sd card ?

secure digital

hi. i have installed the deskbar applet in ubuntu 7.04 using this guide: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/search-your-computer-quickly-with-the-deskbar-applet-on-ubuntu/ . will it mess up when i upgrade to 7.10 in october?

i shouldn't think so. it should just update itsefl.

ashamed to ask but must know: what is the difference btw the ubuntu desktop cdrom and the ubuntu desktop dvd other than the size?

more language packs and software packages.

does anyone know how to setup a public git repository?

never done it before but the instructions on github are very straightforward

is there a version of ubuntu well suited for recording midi devices? rosegarden complains that the system timer is not right (and there's always that big delay.....)

ubuntu studio is for digital audio and video. i will admit that is about all i know about it

hey, what's the keyboard command to bring up system monitor?

i don't think there's a keybinding for it by default, you can add one through gconf-editor though

*can* ubuntu determine what graphic controller a pc has?

lspci in terminal should give you that info

hello. i know its not exactly the right place but i can't find anywhere else to ask this: anyone knows where can i find a java support chat?

most likely its a 'regiestered nick only' channel.

hi all what is the syntax for a symlink?

ln -s /target/file /link/file

hi! i was wondering what options do i have for doing a thorough check of my harddrive which can detect even physical errors? i experienced a crash once in ubuntu where the harddrive seemed to go bananas. after this incident everything on my harddrive was lost, and for some reason windows xp fails to install onto the drive, but linux doesn't complain. i had windows on it before the crash.

badblocks

hey all! i've got a fairly noobtastic question: how do you *downgrade* a package with aptitude (or apt-get)?

sudo apt-get install mypackage=12.34

is vbox on the ubuntu package? or do i need to download it?

and the answer is yes.

hi all, does anyone know why the ubuntu live cd won't boot from a mac g4? the option is enabled

did you hold down the 'c' key?

hey, i can't save the file: /usr/bin/compiz it says i don't have permissions... how can i access it as superuser?

sudo nano /usr.....file

how can i login as root in livecd ver :/?

sudo -i, i think

i have a harddrive and it is formated to ntfs... should i see any different if i format it to ext4? speed or something

they say you would see a small speed boost, but i personaly havent ever seen a speed increase at all.

hello, new ubuntu user here... how do i tell where my app updates are coming from? is there a preferred mirror to use? also, same area.. the recommended security updates didn't complete (lost power) how do i restart that? systems seems to be running fine, but i want all the latest updates applied.

and system>admin>software sources

how do you stop recording with desktop recorder... i started but dont know how to stop it.

right click the icon in the top right corner

hi guys. my system wants to update itself, but it warning me that there are a bunch of not authenticated packages. should i fret?

reload the package list and the problem will be solved

dumb question about the installer. if i guided - resize, it asks me for the 'new partition size'. is this the new size of the old partition, or the size of the new partition?

the one you are creating

hey can anyone help with an ftp question? in a web browser i can load ftp://user:pass@host to have it connect without prompting for login info... i'd like to do the same with the command-line client, so i can just create a bash script to immediately drop me into a specific ftp account connection. does anyone know how to do that on the command line?

ncftp supports ftp:// url like that

anyone installed vlc 1.0.0?

i did use that deb. worked ok for me.

so, i was doing some prodding around with cuda enhanced applications, and found myself at a hard-lock and had to hard-reset my desktop, and it appears my session has become corrupt (or something along those lines) i can login to gnome failsafe, but not my gnome session

rename .gnome and .gnome2 --> .gnome-old .gnome2-old. try to login then

hi, is there any way to install php5 without apache ? i don't want the module, just the interpreter

you can do that, just don't install libapache-mod-php5 or something like that.

anyone have experience customizing live 8.10 boot process ... dont want to boot to the ubuntu account ... would rather system boot to a user login screen .... any help?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/livecdcustomizationfromscratch

whats the command to install flash player in terminal?

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

what is macros for?

i imagine it's for the same thing

hmm ... dapper is 6.06 isn't it?

jmfthevci ys there is a command line alternative: do-release-upgrade

has anyone had any success in running gnome shell off a base xubuntu install? it's a long story....

you could have a dozen de's installed if you wanted. but you can get a lot of extra apps that way. but they should all work

i have a 5 button mouse. is there anyway to bind the other 2 buttons?

www.linuxforums.org/forum/peripherals-hardware/43542-5-button-mouse.html

how can i access another laptop on wireless in ubuntu?

see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/wifidocs/adhoc

[video related question]: every time i play a video, the hue is always at 0, so everything looks greenish. in vlc or other apps i can apply adjustments, but i have to do so every time, and it doesn't have an option in all programs to do that. the same is true for video coming from my webcam. i have karmic and nvidia, using proprietary binary version of the driver.

have you tried 'nvidia-settings' in a terminal, then manually adjust the hue for your entire computer?

hey, anyone know off the top of their head how to get the taskbar to group multiple instances of the same app?

right clic in the window list applet >preferences

hey, how do you combine 2 wordlist files one after the other?

cat file1 file2 > file3

does upstart respawn services if they die unexpectedly by default?

only if you tell it to in the service.conf script

how can i just reinstall ubuntu ? ( i have /home on a diffrent partion ) i dont want ubuntu to do anything to that

when you're at the partition step, you'll mark your home partition as having a mountpoint of /home, and then make sure it's not marked to format, and then it'll be used as /home without being touched

if i wanted to take a look at the the 'rules' file created for a package in ubuntu, where would i get that?

apt-get source package

hi. i'm trying to start my 10.04 (lucid) computer in text mode. i found http://fooninja.net/2010/07/29/text-boot-in-ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04-disabling-gdm/ which says to put 'grub_cmdline_linux='text'' in /etc/default/grub, but that file doesn't exist on my system, and when i created it and rebooted, it didn't change anything. is that file somewhere else?

try /boot/grub/menu.lst

hello, right that 'rm -rf /*' is blocked in ubuntu ?

no, and i don't recommend saying dangerous commands in here

can i buy muisc from itunes music store on linux? and how do i play it?

use banshee

if you have the windows cd then you can insert it, boot from the cd and manually reset your mbr

speak to r3akt0r5

hi. i've got an options dialog that is too big for my netbook screen, and it doesn't have a scrollbar. what can i do to see the lower part of it?

use alt+click to move it

is there a command to write the output of another command to the end of a file????

pipe the output then use sed (i would assume) to append it to the end of a file.

has anyone played with wubi in xp?

you boot , you should have a new boot entry

i have gnome and im using ubuntu how can i switch to kde

you can run a kde program under gnome and vice versa, just some of the 'desktop integration' stuff will break

freidrichman: use synaptic and enable universe and such.

its not in the repos, i checked here.

hello. has anyone tried to compile the ubuntu kernel? i've tried it but there are many drivers missing. for example no audio driver is selected. how can i exactly rebuild the ubuntu kernel?

i would reccomend: http://www.howtoforge.com/roll_a_kernel_debian_ubuntu_way

just wondering if anyone knows how to set which network card gets assigned to which eth address

look at /etc/iftab and change it accordingly

how to play youtube flash video on totem?

download the video and open with totem

the command 'glxinfo | grep' doesn't seem to be right... what did i do wrong?

grep looks for 'something', grep on its own looks for nothing and will return nothing

how do i search for a certain filename in the terminal?

try 'locate <filename>'

using 9.04 with nautilus 2.26.2. i use the 'tabs' in nautilus so i can switch quickly from one directory to the other. is there way to display 'hidden' files in one tab but not the others?

i don't think so. it is just a state of operation for nautilus. you can use ctrl-h to quickly switch back and forth.

where does the nm-applet store settings? i have somehow added a wireless network that i cannot delete

: i think '/etc/networkmanager'

could reconfiguring xserver-xorg possibly help with my refresh rate problems?

you can try; also, maybe read the page ubotu's about to send (not sure if it'll help)

does anyone know what '128mb (max)' sticker mean on my computer?

b is a flat so 128m stands for 11 of may. so that is the flatline date

i have an image file (jpeg) and i want to print it to be a specific physical size on the paper. i'm having trouble finding out how to do that, most instructions seem to be abount setting the paper size, not the image size. any ideas?

use a tool like inkscape to import and scale

do you guys know of a program that can import *.pst files that were originally from microsoft outlook?

that was easily found by me by typing 'apt-cache search outlook'. learning to search repositories is very important.

what i have to choose install 6.06.1 dapper drake (stable release), with long term support. or 6.10, codename edgy eft (stable release) ?

on a desktop, install edgy. on a server, install dapper.

i'm unable to find the fstab command to mount an 'ext3' partition at the beginning of boot, making it writable and readable users other than root. can anyone help me out?

safer that way as well.

hi all, just upgraded my pc with new cpu/mb/memory and ubuntu 12.04 64bit is running like a champ. i checked with google, and it said everything should be good to go with no reinstall. can someone verify that or tell me it there's anything i still need to do please? thanks.

if nothing is broken, no need to fix anything :-)

whats the best free virtulization software for linux ? id like to run some windows games ( sins of a solar empire )

check out cedega

hi, i'm new to linux but i'm also interested in running a linux server - file, http, hl2 and dc. should i get ubuntu desktop or server? (i also want to play high end comp games eg, hl2)

if you need to play games, you should use the desktop version to install

is there a way to tell the sytem not to do a filesystem check on a drive at startup? do i just not mount the drive?

man fstab

does the usb-creator install ubuntu into a usb in a way that can save software changes and other system changes after reboot?

yes it can

whats the command to report current system type (i386, 686, etc)?

uname -a

is there an open-source 'quicken-like' program?

gnucash, kmymoney2

any news on getting a conexant capture card to play sound yet in ubuntu? i get the tv picture clear as day but no soun - let alone the radio features of the card

no specific ideas, but maybe you're card has the same trouble as a lot of other things with esd?

is anyone else having problems with beagle?

mine is fine.

would it present any problems for me to set /home on a different drive than / ?

you probably _should_ make /home have its own partition. wether it's on the same drive or another, is of no concern.

where did the proprietary driver dialogue go in 12.10? can't find it

its under the software sources app - in a tab

how do you save a session in firefox?

i think there is an extension that will do that; in iceweasel it seems to be turned on by default

hey all, this is the first time i have seen this message so i wanted to check. the update notifier was bugging me and when i blindly went to allow it to install all updates it prompts me about 'not authenticated' software. the ones it is complaining about are capplets-data, libpanel-applet2-0, gnome-control-center, libgnome-windows-settings1, gnome-panel-date, and gnome-panel. is this safe?

sudo aptitude update

you know running a command in terminal, can i somehow do that but hide the terminal? so its running in the background?

command &

after installing custom built (alsa) modules you need to run some command to update the modprobe cache.. anybody knows what that is ?

depmod -a ?

can i temporarily hide the gnome panel(s) and then get them back again after a while?

you could probably use a custom command with compiz magic to hide them temporarily, but that's a little playing.

i have attached a usb wireless adapter but it doesnt show up in 'ifconfig' only 'iwconfig'. is it necessary to show up in ifconfig for the adapter to work?

and yeah, it does need to show up in ifconfig for it to work, but you can do that by bringing up the interface

hey guys, i have this new server. i have apache set up and i create web sites in /var/vhosts, i have also set up samba... what i would like to do is set up so me an the other devs can login via our normal user account do work right in /var/vhosts/* how can i do this?

that'll work, yeah.

in 11.04, how do i change my workspace positioning? default has a 2x2 grid, but i would much prefer a 1x4 row. as the bottom panel is removed in 11.04, i cannot find anywhere to change this. i refuse to believe that this simple task is impossible to do in unity...?

its an option in compiz-settings-manager

does jaunty have the capability to encrypt the home directory or is that just karmic? i have a nasty feeling i am installing from the wrong cd. oops!

there should be an option on the jaunty live cd for encrypting home

hi guys, how can i print the full path of a directory using terminal?

for the current dir you can use 'pwd'

hi i've a little question, which file in etc that i can add a command for the starting of ubuntu ?

/etc/rc.local

can someone help me remember what to hold down to boot from livecd?

it depends on your motherboard bios. possibly the delete key, f11 or f8

hi kids. just need advice on how to mount a 16 gig ntfs flash drive if it never shows up in gparted or fdisk or anything; ideas?

mail it to me, i will mount it for you ;-p

does anyone know some gui video editing programs(not commandline such as mencoder / ffmpeg) for only cutting video and converting it to smaller format. also if im using wine, is there chance that video programs works on there such as videomatch?

( i use it and i like it )

when i try to install libdvdcss2 i get this error 'e: package libdvdcss2 has no installation candidate'.can someone help?

go to a terminal and type sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

it goes through the motions, mpg321 -v even showing the progress -- but all i hear is a faint noise. alsamixer settings are all up, and they do have an effect on the noise.

is it like the volume is too low, or are you just getting noise?

are there any tools in ubuntu that i can use to compress png files?

sure.. optipng, pngcrush. there might be others as well. don't know

is there anyway to enable network connections in terminal?

with ifup and ifdown, but i don't know how well that works with networkmanager and all