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how can i make local repository on removable device?	look for apt-mirror
the server edition doesn't install a window manager and keeps the total memory used down, which is great for a server	very basic ones, i tested openarena in wine on my 701, got 30 fps drop from 70 to like 40-45
so can anyone tell me why lately when i reboot my laptop i have to ifconfig eth1 up then run dhclient.	do you have auto eth1 in /etc/network/interfaces ?
i have a gf 6200 (agp).. should i install nvidia-glx or nvidia-glx-new?	i suggest using envy, it will pick the best driver
how i do change back to icon view on the application preferences? all my applications is showing menus as text and not icons.	go to system, settings, menu and ...
hi - i'm learning through experimentation and so far i've setup apache and registered a domain name from godaddy and created a tiny test website in my www folder. i registered at zoneedit and am waiting for a response. i installed the ez-ipupdate package (but can't find it, if there is something to find in order to configure it). i opened port 80 on my router and can access the site from my...	do you want to pm?
hey, is there any way to normalize any audio? i mean not at the separate application (if some app have it then that app normalize) but all the audio i mean im sick when i listen some online radio and that is very silent need to overvolume it manually cant make it auto? isnt that a nice idea?	i don't have any programs to help you, but wouldn't that make silence into a buzz as loud as music, and make loud parts of music just as loud as the quiet parts?
how i do increase my workspace?	my workspace is the whole screen. yours not?
how can we bring a installed program in to the 'application' menu?	what application?
is the person who forgot there pass still here	it was usuario424 who needs the password help
is it means file descriptor 63 ?! /dev/fd/63	there's not much detail in your question. often file descriptor references the entries in /proc/<pid>/fd
no, you can't cut the branch you are sitting on, you can't repair a car engine while driving	well, i figured there might be a way to at least destabilize it enough that my live usb would work again.
anyone know how ubuntu runs on the eee pc 1000he?	read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/hardwaresupport/machines/netbooks
hi - trying to see if i can load hardy heron on a friends computer - it's the live cd version. when it comes up almost to desktop it's asking for a username - it has never done this before on any computer i've always been able to start right up on the desktop to chec k and see if network card works, video, sound etc. any idea's ? ? ?	verify the integrity of the disk (from the first menu you see)
is anyone else seeing enormous amounts of joins/quits?	you should start those jobs in the background (append & to the line)
i just realized ive never viewed an image in anything but gimp and firefox, anyone recommend an app for image viewing, not manipulation? maybe with an easy forward backward mode(fappable)	gthumb or eog - eog is included by default, but gthumb is nicer, imo
when i boot my computer, it has some sort of firmware bootloader that tries to get a dhcp lease for no apparent reason before grub loads... is there any way i can skip that?	go to your bios setup, then deactivate preboot execution environment.
is it possible to manipulate irqs?	you can in your bios, although generally you shouldn't need to
who likes xfce? i installed it last night....it flies! :-)	i liked it for a bit, it sucks with the network-manager-applet though
i feel stupid but i have to ask. how is it that amaranth got the torrent before the ubuntu.com site has it up?	we have monitored releases.ubuntu.com closely and started downloading when it was updated
hello everybody, i have a problem about gnash. when i open youtube in firefox, my computer choked, gnash uses more than 50% of cpu, how can i deal it except uninstall gnash?	but you may want to ask the gnash people
i installed geany 0.18.1 on windows.. but it lags a lot i mean when u scroll down the image comes a little slowly	this is not windows
can i use yum in ubuntu?	www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/
if i have made a sudo -s in a terminal, how can i reverse it without closing it and open a new one? :)	exit
what's the command used to compile a piece of software as a debian package? not make-kpkg...	checkinstall
hey all. just installed 10.04 on a macbook. trackpad works like crap, i have to press very hard on it to operate it, and it constantly loses my finger position. what do i have to do to get the trackpad working properly on apple laptop hardware??	see wiki page for macbook 4,1, has directions
whick kernel version comes with breezy ?	current is 2.6.12-9
why do novice users pick ubuntu ..	because its a great system to work on?
normally one just has to 'disable' pulse audio - not remove it.	whats the solution now?
guys, what's the best irc client to use?	just plain xchat.
i have heard that some people having a lot of trouble since updating firefox to 3.5.5. the browser willl crash now and then. what do you guys/girls say about that?	mine is stable so far
hey, does anyone how can i make firefox work with openjdk for applets?	you can't successfully use the openjdk on my machine, might be like that for you.
does anyone know if cube is enabled on extra mode? i tried ctrl+alt+left click and it does nothing.	you have to get advanced desktop settings
hello. i have a problem. my network card says that there is no connection whereas when booting from the live cd it's working. how do i fix it? any clues?	sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r) do that incase its not already installed
how can i force firefox to go into online mode?	on the file menu, near the bottom
hello, how can i find out what kind of support packages were compiled with? (eg. mmx, o2, o3, arch, etc..)	you could 'apt-get source package' and the read debian/rules. don't know of an easier way
how can i get mplayer to play on a secondary screen automatically?	mplayer -xineramascreen 1
how would i autostart a .sh script at log in?	put it in /etc/rc.local
hi! is it hard to setup squid?	http://www.visolve.com/squid/sqguide.php
those pop-ups in the gnome panel. what package is responsible for drawing them? i need to file a bug.	file it against gnome-panel, it'll get sorted from there if needed
anyone know how to create an iso file with a folder i have like windows folders?????	mkisofs
i want to be able to easily mount and unmount iso files.. anyone know a good way? perhaps a script for nautilus?	nautilus scripts are way cool.. and i'm sure there's a script for that.. if not, you can write your own
anyone know how you view the progress of an fsck that started at boot and then was backgrounded?	top or htop shows your running ones (for job id)
i coldn't get ipod works with ubuntu. any suggestions ?	http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9266 perhaps this will help.
i just installed another linux distro, but i unchecked 'install boot loader', because i want to keep the one i installed with gutsy gibbon, but, the new distro is not showing at the boot menu.is there a way i can eddit grub and add the new distro to the grub boot menu?	edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
this is his question: i have a general irc question. is there anyway to turn off the so and so has joined/left #ubuntu messages?	well, usually, but right now, the flash installer is broken, so it requires a little more work(but its ot hard)
does anyone know of a dock that doesn't require a compositor or 3d graphics?	there are composite managers that don't require 3d acceleration
i just formatted an internet hdd as ext4 how can i get write permission to the drive?	sudo chown -r <you> /path/to/drive
what kernel does 7.10 use?	2.6.22-14
hey thanks for responding peepingtom, i had gone through those setup details as well. my problem is that i think i have more tried to set dhcp 3 different ways and these settings are conflicting with each other. i'll take ke1ha's suggestion and check out the server channel. =)	dhcp should only be reading from the one config file. have you checked the config in /etc itself ?
hey all, does anyone know if packages.ubuntu.com is down?	was earlier
anyone know how to disable a firefox media plugin? i want to remove the totem mozilla plugin, so mplayer can take over, i dont want to remove all of totem though.	remove totemrelated plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
is there any good guides for configuring tv-out (vga)? i make it work, but only at 800x600	are. are there any good guides ;p
i am buying a laptop and would like to know what is the best to-date brand laptop i can get what will work prefectly with ubuntu!!!	hp/compaq runs well with ubuntu
hey guys when you install j2sdk through apt where does the java bin folder get installed too?	probably /usr/bin or /usr/lib/java/ and symlinked to from /usr/bin
hello, a windows vista (ntfs formatted) os failed on a friend's laptop, i'm trying to recover his data. i've tried running bartpe but couldn't get to see the hd partitions, i tried running knoppix but altought i could see hd partitions i wasn't able (due to my noobishness probably) to mount the lan interface or to write to the usb drive (ntfs formatted aswell, with some data i can't delete so i can't reformat it in fat) i wanted to backu	you were cutoff at 'i wanted to backu'
on a laptop, is there a way to switch from internal to external display without restarting x ? ..	for me it just happends. never configured anyything. but then on the other hand i get the same resolution on the external as the internal
i hear linux is designed to be left on and not rebooted, is that still the case? is it bad to reboot?	i wouldn't worry about it. your computer will be obsolete before something wears out from continous running. might want to keep an eye on your hard drive temperature though..
is there any ubuntu 7.04 installer without have to run the live cd before to install ?	alternate
can anyone tell me why my volume reverts to 0 every time i shut down my computer?	alsamixer, set the volumes as desired, and alsactl store
how do i search for a file on my usb drives?	places>search
hi! is it possible to install a non-gui ubuntu (without x) with the live-cd?	you could get the server edition and install that...
is it normal that the cmd 'su' fails?	use sudo su in order to get root
but i used to be a debian developer.. one of my reasons to stop (aside from lack of time..) was the way people try to make you do what they want, even if it's not the best thing for the project	same as any interpreted language
hi - how do i get libphp5.so back? i wanted to move from apache prefork to worker, but realized it needed more than i could deal with, so i apt-get install apache2-mpm-prefork and restart, but get this error: http://pastebin.com/jfivs5yn	sudo aptitude libapache2-mod-php5
how can i cd into a folder that has spaces in the name?	or cd foo[tab]
humanrage^: are you following a tutorial?	im using wine
what's the command to restart a service like sshd?	sudo /etc/init.d/sshd restart
will apt-get automatically remove dependencies that an app installed?	not automatically, you have to tell it you want to.
hello, i have a question: ubuntu 7.10, t43 laptop, accesspoint has no encryption/security but every time i wake or boot i have to open network prefs, select an encryption type, type junk into the password field, delete it, then click ok for the network to work. if i don't it shows enabled but i can't connect to anything.	the network manager is far from being perfect, i suggest you just configure you network manually with the /etc/network/interfaces
can anyone suggest a good ftp-server for ubunut?	i would visit each site for those and choose based on that
what's the deb versions of 'rpm -qa' to list all pkgs and 'rpm -ql' to list the files in a package?	dpkg -l
i know gnome uses .desktop files for it's desktop lanuchers. can someone send me a sample file of what kde uses?	they use the same thing i think
how do i know what touchpad driver my system is using? xorg.conf does not refer to any input device.	lsmod
hello, i need you help here. i'm french and i don't know what is the right expression to talk about the index you found at the end of a book that containt a list of keyword and at which page it's referenced into the book.	a glossary lists the word definitions, an index is a list with page references
to run dist-upgrade in the terminal, i have to change dapper to edgy in sources.list, then run apt-get update, then aptitude dist-upgrade right?	basically but i hope you are following a guide
does anyone know if the repo's are down? i'm trying to update and aptitude sticks at ca.archive.ubuntu.com (hits the security servers fine)	in the system -> admin -> software sources
hello everyone. anyone else using jabber.org for xmpp messaging with empathy on ubuntu 12.04 is having a certificate expired warning when logging in ?	i'm not using jabber, but i'd imagine they'll be updating their certificate shortly.
hello, is there a open source c++ interpreter?	http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint
how do i delete a certain update from the update manager?	open synaptic, find the package, change it to an older version
does the ubuntu lamp server install include everything the ubuntu server install would (ie: nfs, samba, cups etc)?	yes its possible
i have troubles with my wlan..when i write iwconfig, i get three things.. lo, eth0 and eth1 and eth1 seems to be the wlan..wht is it not called wlan0?	does it matter to you?
can i remove a bookmarked network connection under the places menu? i have since changed my ssh settings and they aren't connecting anymore.	you can delete them yes.
anyone here that knowes, where i can finde the fonts?	there's a section on fonts there that takes you step by step
hi all, what is the command in terminal to update clamav, please and thank you.	it is gksudo clamtk
updates screwed up, how can i reinstall all packages part of ubuntu-desktop	i dont know what im talking about tho, would wait for someone to answer
how i can turn off my pc from terminal	shutdown -h now ?
can somone tell me what command i need to type in the terminal to locate myself into the root directory?	cd /
how can i find out what graphics card i have?	type sudo lspci
anyone know of a way to make firefox not so damn slow?	disable ipv6 in about:setup
how can i set beryl to start up during boot or login?	add it to system>preferences>sessions
hi. i just installed ubuntu 6.06 alternative. i remember typing in a password for the default user but i don't remember choosing a user name. what would the default user name be?	if you can't figure it out, boot in recovery mode and run 'grep 1000 /etc/passwd'
how do i remove all kde based applications?	sudo apt-get autoremove kdelibs-core should take all other kde stuff witg it as dependency
how is sudo and gksudo different?	ouch.. yes....
does compizfusion have the cool thing like in mac os that shows all windows?	yes, i think it's bound to alt-shift-up by default?
anyone knows how to disable 'emulate3buttons'? i used to do it with an fdi file but since 10.04 it's supose to be done via udev ??	i have a similar issue, try http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-configuration-world-order.html
does anyone use azureus on ubuntu?	i tried a while ago, but the package was constantly broken
hello! is anyone here using irssi?	it means there are additional messages on that window (alt+1 to go see them)
hi all, i've problem with my eggdrop, if i type ./configure, output is: tcl cannot be found on this system. but i've tcl instaled, where is problem?	you probably need tcl-dev
anyone have an idea what would cause my display running at 1280x800 to display gtk items large?	it has to do with the dpi setting, but i'm not sure where to configure that

how can i make local repository on removable device?

look for apt-mirror

the server edition doesn't install a window manager and keeps the total memory used down, which is great for a server

very basic ones, i tested openarena in wine on my 701, got 30 fps drop from 70 to like 40-45

so can anyone tell me why lately when i reboot my laptop i have to ifconfig eth1 up then run dhclient.

do you have auto eth1 in /etc/network/interfaces ?

i have a gf 6200 (agp).. should i install nvidia-glx or nvidia-glx-new?

i suggest using envy, it will pick the best driver

how i do change back to icon view on the application preferences? all my applications is showing menus as text and not icons.

go to system, settings, menu and ...

hi - i'm learning through experimentation and so far i've setup apache and registered a domain name from godaddy and created a tiny test website in my www folder. i registered at zoneedit and am waiting for a response. i installed the ez-ipupdate package (but can't find it, if there is something to find in order to configure it). i opened port 80 on my router and can access the site from my...

do you want to pm?

hey, is there any way to normalize any audio? i mean not at the separate application (if some app have it then that app normalize) but all the audio i mean im sick when i listen some online radio and that is very silent need to overvolume it manually cant make it auto? isnt that a nice idea?

i don't have any programs to help you, but wouldn't that make silence into a buzz as loud as music, and make loud parts of music just as loud as the quiet parts?

how i do increase my workspace?

my workspace is the whole screen. yours not?

how can we bring a installed program in to the 'application' menu?

what application?

is the person who forgot there pass still here

it was usuario424 who needs the password help

is it means file descriptor 63 ?! /dev/fd/63

there's not much detail in your question. often file descriptor references the entries in /proc/<pid>/fd

no, you can't cut the branch you are sitting on, you can't repair a car engine while driving

well, i figured there might be a way to at least destabilize it enough that my live usb would work again.

anyone know how ubuntu runs on the eee pc 1000he?

read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/hardwaresupport/machines/netbooks

hi - trying to see if i can load hardy heron on a friends computer - it's the live cd version. when it comes up almost to desktop it's asking for a username - it has never done this before on any computer i've always been able to start right up on the desktop to chec k and see if network card works, video, sound etc. any idea's ? ? ?

verify the integrity of the disk (from the first menu you see)

is anyone else seeing enormous amounts of joins/quits?

you should start those jobs in the background (append & to the line)

i just realized ive never viewed an image in anything but gimp and firefox, anyone recommend an app for image viewing, not manipulation? maybe with an easy forward backward mode(fappable)

gthumb or eog - eog is included by default, but gthumb is nicer, imo

when i boot my computer, it has some sort of firmware bootloader that tries to get a dhcp lease for no apparent reason before grub loads... is there any way i can skip that?

go to your bios setup, then deactivate preboot execution environment.

is it possible to manipulate irqs?

you can in your bios, although generally you shouldn't need to

who likes xfce? i installed it last night....it flies! :-)

i liked it for a bit, it sucks with the network-manager-applet though

i feel stupid but i have to ask. how is it that amaranth got the torrent before the ubuntu.com site has it up?

we have monitored releases.ubuntu.com closely and started downloading when it was updated

hello everybody, i have a problem about gnash. when i open youtube in firefox, my computer choked, gnash uses more than 50% of cpu, how can i deal it except uninstall gnash?

but you may want to ask the gnash people

i installed geany 0.18.1 on windows.. but it lags a lot i mean when u scroll down the image comes a little slowly

this is not windows

can i use yum in ubuntu?

www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/

if i have made a sudo -s in a terminal, how can i reverse it without closing it and open a new one? :)

exit

what's the command used to compile a piece of software as a debian package? not make-kpkg...

checkinstall

hey all. just installed 10.04 on a macbook. trackpad works like crap, i have to press very hard on it to operate it, and it constantly loses my finger position. what do i have to do to get the trackpad working properly on apple laptop hardware??

see wiki page for macbook 4,1, has directions

whick kernel version comes with breezy ?

current is 2.6.12-9

why do novice users pick ubuntu ..

because its a great system to work on?

normally one just has to 'disable' pulse audio - not remove it.

whats the solution now?

guys, what's the best irc client to use?

just plain xchat.

i have heard that some people having a lot of trouble since updating firefox to 3.5.5. the browser willl crash now and then. what do you guys/girls say about that?

mine is stable so far

hey, does anyone how can i make firefox work with openjdk for applets?

you can't successfully use the openjdk on my machine, might be like that for you.

does anyone know if cube is enabled on extra mode? i tried ctrl+alt+left click and it does nothing.

you have to get advanced desktop settings

hello. i have a problem. my network card says that there is no connection whereas when booting from the live cd it's working. how do i fix it? any clues?

sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r) do that incase its not already installed

how can i force firefox to go into online mode?

on the file menu, near the bottom

hello, how can i find out what kind of support packages were compiled with? (eg. mmx, o2, o3, arch, etc..)

you could 'apt-get source package' and the read debian/rules. don't know of an easier way

how can i get mplayer to play on a secondary screen automatically?

mplayer -xineramascreen 1

how would i autostart a .sh script at log in?

put it in /etc/rc.local

hi! is it hard to setup squid?

http://www.visolve.com/squid/sqguide.php

those pop-ups in the gnome panel. what package is responsible for drawing them? i need to file a bug.

file it against gnome-panel, it'll get sorted from there if needed

anyone know how to create an iso file with a folder i have like windows folders?????

mkisofs

i want to be able to easily mount and unmount iso files.. anyone know a good way? perhaps a script for nautilus?

nautilus scripts are way cool.. and i'm sure there's a script for that.. if not, you can write your own

anyone know how you view the progress of an fsck that started at boot and then was backgrounded?

top or htop shows your running ones (for job id)

i coldn't get ipod works with ubuntu. any suggestions ?

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9266 perhaps this will help.

i just installed another linux distro, but i unchecked 'install boot loader', because i want to keep the one i installed with gutsy gibbon, but, the new distro is not showing at the boot menu.is there a way i can eddit grub and add the new distro to the grub boot menu?

edit /boot/grub/menu.lst

this is his question: i have a general irc question. is there anyway to turn off the so and so has joined/left #ubuntu messages?

well, usually, but right now, the flash installer is broken, so it requires a little more work(but its ot hard)

does anyone know of a dock that doesn't require a compositor or 3d graphics?

there are composite managers that don't require 3d acceleration

i just formatted an internet hdd as ext4 how can i get write permission to the drive?

sudo chown -r <you> /path/to/drive

what kernel does 7.10 use?

2.6.22-14

hey thanks for responding peepingtom, i had gone through those setup details as well. my problem is that i think i have more tried to set dhcp 3 different ways and these settings are conflicting with each other. i'll take ke1ha's suggestion and check out the server channel. =)

dhcp should only be reading from the one config file. have you checked the config in /etc itself ?

hey all, does anyone know if packages.ubuntu.com is down?

was earlier

anyone know how to disable a firefox media plugin? i want to remove the totem mozilla plugin, so mplayer can take over, i dont want to remove all of totem though.

remove totemrelated plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins

is there any good guides for configuring tv-out (vga)? i make it work, but only at 800x600

are. are there any good guides ;p

i am buying a laptop and would like to know what is the best to-date brand laptop i can get what will work prefectly with ubuntu!!!

hp/compaq runs well with ubuntu

hey guys when you install j2sdk through apt where does the java bin folder get installed too?

probably /usr/bin or /usr/lib/java/ and symlinked to from /usr/bin

hello, a windows vista (ntfs formatted) os failed on a friend's laptop, i'm trying to recover his data. i've tried running bartpe but couldn't get to see the hd partitions, i tried running knoppix but altought i could see hd partitions i wasn't able (due to my noobishness probably) to mount the lan interface or to write to the usb drive (ntfs formatted aswell, with some data i can't delete so i can't reformat it in fat) i wanted to backu

you were cutoff at 'i wanted to backu'

on a laptop, is there a way to switch from internal to external display without restarting x ? ..

for me it just happends. never configured anyything. but then on the other hand i get the same resolution on the external as the internal

i hear linux is designed to be left on and not rebooted, is that still the case? is it bad to reboot?

i wouldn't worry about it. your computer will be obsolete before something wears out from continous running. might want to keep an eye on your hard drive temperature though..

is there any ubuntu 7.04 installer without have to run the live cd before to install ?

alternate

can anyone tell me why my volume reverts to 0 every time i shut down my computer?

alsamixer, set the volumes as desired, and alsactl store

how do i search for a file on my usb drives?

places>search

hi! is it possible to install a non-gui ubuntu (without x) with the live-cd?

you could get the server edition and install that...

is it normal that the cmd 'su' fails?

use sudo su in order to get root

but i used to be a debian developer.. one of my reasons to stop (aside from lack of time..) was the way people try to make you do what they want, even if it's not the best thing for the project

same as any interpreted language

hi - how do i get libphp5.so back? i wanted to move from apache prefork to worker, but realized it needed more than i could deal with, so i apt-get install apache2-mpm-prefork and restart, but get this error: http://pastebin.com/jfivs5yn

sudo aptitude libapache2-mod-php5

how can i cd into a folder that has spaces in the name?

or cd foo[tab]

humanrage^: are you following a tutorial?

im using wine

what's the command to restart a service like sshd?

sudo /etc/init.d/sshd restart

will apt-get automatically remove dependencies that an app installed?

not automatically, you have to tell it you want to.

hello, i have a question: ubuntu 7.10, t43 laptop, accesspoint has no encryption/security but every time i wake or boot i have to open network prefs, select an encryption type, type junk into the password field, delete it, then click ok for the network to work. if i don't it shows enabled but i can't connect to anything.

the network manager is far from being perfect, i suggest you just configure you network manually with the /etc/network/interfaces

can anyone suggest a good ftp-server for ubunut?

i would visit each site for those and choose based on that

what's the deb versions of 'rpm -qa' to list all pkgs and 'rpm -ql' to list the files in a package?

dpkg -l

i know gnome uses .desktop files for it's desktop lanuchers. can someone send me a sample file of what kde uses?

they use the same thing i think

how do i know what touchpad driver my system is using? xorg.conf does not refer to any input device.

lsmod

hello, i need you help here. i'm french and i don't know what is the right expression to talk about the index you found at the end of a book that containt a list of keyword and at which page it's referenced into the book.

a glossary lists the word definitions, an index is a list with page references

to run dist-upgrade in the terminal, i have to change dapper to edgy in sources.list, then run apt-get update, then aptitude dist-upgrade right?

basically but i hope you are following a guide

does anyone know if the repo's are down? i'm trying to update and aptitude sticks at ca.archive.ubuntu.com (hits the security servers fine)

in the system -> admin -> software sources

hello everyone. anyone else using jabber.org for xmpp messaging with empathy on ubuntu 12.04 is having a certificate expired warning when logging in ?

i'm not using jabber, but i'd imagine they'll be updating their certificate shortly.

hello, is there a open source c++ interpreter?

http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint

how do i delete a certain update from the update manager?

open synaptic, find the package, change it to an older version

does the ubuntu lamp server install include everything the ubuntu server install would (ie: nfs, samba, cups etc)?

yes its possible

i have troubles with my wlan..when i write iwconfig, i get three things.. lo, eth0 and eth1 and eth1 seems to be the wlan..wht is it not called wlan0?

does it matter to you?

can i remove a bookmarked network connection under the places menu? i have since changed my ssh settings and they aren't connecting anymore.

you can delete them yes.

anyone here that knowes, where i can finde the fonts?

there's a section on fonts there that takes you step by step

hi all, what is the command in terminal to update clamav, please and thank you.

it is gksudo clamtk

updates screwed up, how can i reinstall all packages part of ubuntu-desktop

i dont know what im talking about tho, would wait for someone to answer

how i can turn off my pc from terminal

shutdown -h now ?

can somone tell me what command i need to type in the terminal to locate myself into the root directory?

cd /

how can i find out what graphics card i have?

type sudo lspci

anyone know of a way to make firefox not so damn slow?

disable ipv6 in about:setup

how can i set beryl to start up during boot or login?

add it to system>preferences>sessions

hi. i just installed ubuntu 6.06 alternative. i remember typing in a password for the default user but i don't remember choosing a user name. what would the default user name be?

if you can't figure it out, boot in recovery mode and run 'grep 1000 /etc/passwd'

how do i remove all kde based applications?

sudo apt-get autoremove kdelibs-core should take all other kde stuff witg it as dependency

how is sudo and gksudo different?

ouch.. yes....

does compizfusion have the cool thing like in mac os that shows all windows?

yes, i think it's bound to alt-shift-up by default?

anyone knows how to disable 'emulate3buttons'? i used to do it with an fdi file but since 10.04 it's supose to be done via udev ??

i have a similar issue, try http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-configuration-world-order.html

does anyone use azureus on ubuntu?

i tried a while ago, but the package was constantly broken

hello! is anyone here using irssi?

it means there are additional messages on that window (alt+1 to go see them)

hi all, i've problem with my eggdrop, if i type ./configure, output is: tcl cannot be found on this system. but i've tcl instaled, where is problem?

you probably need tcl-dev

anyone have an idea what would cause my display running at 1280x800 to display gtk items large?

it has to do with the dpi setting, but i'm not sure where to configure that