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i have a filesystem question, i'm trying to figure out which filesystem i would be best off using... i have a 2tb disk array which i'm hoping to get both a decent amount of performance and stability out of, but mainly i will be using it for video files, music and gaming, which filesystem would you use?

i'd use a journaling file system like ext3/ext4 or reiserfs...

in gftp, have i chosen wrongly?

is it any faster connecting to ftp.kernel.org?

why is it possible to use drivers for my ati radeon 9550 on ubuntu 8.xx, but not on 9.04?

i don't think so, the oldests drivers will not work with the current xorg

hi could any one help please i have used diffrent usp wifi adapters and at first it started at wlan1 now im up to wlan7 does any one know how to chage it back to wlan1

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux-help/92280-how-change-ethx-ethy.html

is there a way to have it so ubuntu loads without entering any password or selecting any user. i am the sole user fo this machine and would like it if as soon as i power on my machine i can bypass the login screen

then click 'security'

anyone knows of a machine/website which is currently down?

1.1.100.1

hello, how can i tell networkmanager not to manage a device in intrepid?

delete settings in network manager

how do i change permissions on the .sh file from terminal?

normally it's 'chmod +x file.sh' to add the executable 'bit' to the file's permissions

what program will allow me to burn a .avi to dvd?

try gnomebaker or brasero

hi, i need a tool for ripping my audio-cds to mp3 (mp3 cause of my mp3-player, which doesn't support ogg). also i need it to 'overread' damaged parts instead of braking down my pc (which happened to me with some tools)

grip or sound juicer

anybody an idea why alsa + esd could sound... well choppy?

busy system?

hello i use ubuntu dapper and i have an intel card based laptop and my resolution is not widescreen at all. i have installed 915resolution but i can not change pls help.i use a dell inspiron 1300 laptop

have you seen ubotu's link?

hi. could someone tell me a command that will let me see all recognized drives on this computer (so i can mount one, i don't know the exact identifier, e.g. /dev/sd#)?

dmesg |grep /dev/[sh] d*

did anyone had luck with installing feisty on a hp nx9420?

after updating the bios to newest version it should work

is it possible to get a iso for 11.10? i'd like to give it a spin running form a usb drive

i hear it's a hybrid iso/usb - so you should be able to just cat/dd it to usb now.

to which file is stderr being dumped to?

you have to put 2>>file to redirect stderr to a file

how can i copy a logical volume?

you could use gparted (gnome partition editor in add/remove)

anyone notice a difference between dejavu and bistream fonts?

iirc bitstream is more suitable for print, dejavu more for screen reading

do you create xconfig file?

how can i correct this display problem?

i have installed lamp-server - is there a gui to have easy access to edit php.ini start and restart apache etc? like you know on a windows setup using xampp

maybe webmin?

if anyone has actually managed to disable the system bell, pls tell me about it

system-sound preferences- unclick sounds for events

i've seen comments on the web that 9.10 is not as bug-free as other debian releases and that it's 'a better option to wait a few months after it comes out before installing'. this does not make sense to me. once 9.10 comes out it's out and doesn't change until the next release, right? or are there point releases that fix problems along the way?

ubottu is our channel bot.

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.

kitty: you can start a new profile in firefox with 'firefox -profilemanager' and debug after why firefox hangs or wont work sometimes.

no room to add that profile

is there a command that i can use to burn an iso to cd from the terminal?

cdrecord

how to tell whether my machine is i386 or i486 or i586 and so on

yea amd64 will work

any good ftp applications for ubuntu?

i tried http://filezilla-project.org/ its working great for me

hello. has anyone tried to install vmware 5.5.5 on gutsy? i get errors in the vmmon module

on the forums theres a script to install vmware server

how do i find out if an extarnal hdd is /dev/whatever?

type 'mount' in a terminal

during the boot in hoary, the part 'configuring network interfaces...' lasts about 2 min, what can i do to speed it up ?

make sure you actually have a network connection

is there a terminal command to output data on network traffic? i know the system monitor tool will but that's a gui. i need something i can use in a terminal from a remote connection

'ip -s link show' will give you some info

hi, is anyone know what is the commadline used by synaptic to install packages ?

sudo apt-get install <packagename>

hello.. i seem to have had a disk failure... now when i reboot, grub enters 'minimal' mode.. what does this mean about the disk? grub is still on the disk, right? so it's not totally broken?

can you read your hdd from a livecd?

whats the extension of a linux script again? :d

it doens't need an extension it just needs to be executable

i'm switching 30 student laptops to ubuntu. we are switching from fedora. i was wondering if anybody can suggest a decent _advanced_ user book? i need to harden these boxes before we hand them out to students. tia.

take a look at the free downloads for phptr (prentice hall technical reference)

hey i just got a new hard drive. how can i make sure it's mounted automatically at boot without defining the /dev/sdb1 kind of point? other entries in /etc/fstab have uuid

find uuid with : sudo blkid

i wonder why the installer doesn't detect the processor and install the optimized kernel?

on the server edition, what you suggest is done afaik

daboo: forcedepth not working?

im running a nforce2 mobo here and it works fine, it's an abit an7.

in nautilus in oneiric, i don't see the 'location bar' (showing the file path as 'breadcrumbs'). has it been removed?

no like in 11.04 and 10.10 you can press ctrl l to see it

where's the code for dash? in unity, libunity? or one of the lenses?

unity

i just installed ubuntu 10.10 on a seperate partition on my hard drive but now it auto boots into ubuntu instead of asking me, most of the guides i find assume you haven't installed anything yet, how can i get it to ask which os to boot?

get startup-manager from ubuntu software centre

is the best method for supporting virtual domains with ubuntu+postfix/dovecot using mysql database?

i find it works nicely

doesn't mount automatically assume auto if no -t is specified?

correct

i have question .. what is rc kernel .. never heard of that term.. been out of loop with linux development for a while..

although, if you see 'rc' in output of 'dpkg -l', it's actually 'has to be removed, but some configuration files are left'

so xdm is only responsible for the graphical login page and to startx? then what is gdm and kdm for i thought gdm was for gnome and kdm for kde.

for those that don't use gnome or kde

does anyone know of a package that works on ubuntu that can convert .flv, mpg, avi, etc movie files and create a video dvd with them? i've tried devede but the disc's won't play on any machine in my house. i verified that i used the right format (ntsc) and i also tried dvd -r,+r,-rw and +rw with no luck.

qdvdauthor

quick question...how do you change virtual desktops(besides mouse)? i try alt + # and it doesnt work : |

ctrl-alt-<left or right arrow>

anyone know why, when i try to open file with other application, set it as the default application, it goes back to toetem(avi)

system > preferences > preferred applications

guys how can i click ok in this console window: http://i55.tinypic.com/wralx2.jpg

use tab and the space bar

hey, could someone plz tell me the cli command to list all the hardware?

hwinfo would be the alternative

hi! i recently installed ubuntu 11.04 (no upgrade). now evolution and networkmanager have lost their memory and ask me for passwords every time i start them. immediately afterward, the gnome keyring want's me to choose a password and enter it twice. how can this be solved?

heya, i hear you, but i don't know how ;(

hello everybody. could anyone tell me is there is repository for opera browser and why it's still isn't official?

try searching for opera ppa

i have 3 partitions on my drive, windows ntfs, ubuntu ext4, data ntfs. if i reinstall windows will it overwrite my boot loader?

yes, see

hi. how can i have wicd start at boot? i removed networkmanager and installed wicd and wicd-daemon (using apt-get). but at the moment, i need to start wicd manually: sudo service wicd start.

might be sudo update-rc.d wicd enable

hey all :) could you tell me the file i need to create in order to define the dns servers of my provider ?

/etc/resolv.conf

how can one determine the active graphics driver?

use sudo

anyone have any idea why i can't switch between workspaces in jaunty?

you have only specified 1 workspace maybe?

i have both sun java and openjdk install, you can choose which one to use. follow http://is.gd/7olwf and in my desktop openjdk is better.

why openjdk is better?

why to activate beryl, don see windows border?

you need a new metacity with beryl, iirc

question to bash-scripting: how can i make an echo that writes its output to the screen and to a logfile?

out=`echo hello' ; echo $out ; echo $out >> logfile

is there a way to upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 from the command line?

first upgrade to desktop, then install server-kernel

is there a command to clear the screen in linux?

clear

did you ever figure out the dns speed issue?

sure! it's solved, finnaly! it was the dns forwarder... it was set to an windows server and it's service was stopped. that's why i hate windows.

hey, in xchat, what is that bar that appears to the right of the message box

fyrestrtr is correct, it's a lag meter

serious question: would fonts on a lcd look better if i wore glasses?

do you use corrective lenses?

running karmic on a tablet pc. screen is 1024x600, but xorg is driving it at 800x600. how to fix?

driver doesnt support that res.

does anyonne knows a god gui for mysql on ubuntu?

navicat is excellent

hi all, what's the key combo to get a startup menu?

press <shift> while booting

hi! i'm not able to add adblock plus-filters via right-click on an image. someone there to help me?

best results on irc.mozilla.org

hello, does anyone know a good java compiler for beginner beginners?

eclipse

hi ! i want to install ubuntu netbook 10.04 on my hp mini 210 but i still want to keep windows 7. the problem is that the ubuntu installer does not recognize my windows 7 installation and profiles. what can i do to be sure that after i install ubuntu i would still be able to boot win7 too ?

ubuntu installer do not migrate anything from windows

i have just modified './etc/x11/xorg.cong' in the terminal. what is the command to save it?

for nano press ctrl o and for vi+vim press esc then :w

gnome-applets crash upon login, how can i track the problem?

~/.xsession-errors

hey can someone help me with some compiz problems?

if you need to compile something against compiz' libs, you need its development package. try installing compiz-dev

hi, is there someone who can help me to get pulseaudio working???

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

so what is all backported and where do i find the links to put into my apt.

http://backports.ubuntuforums.org

is it possible for anyone of u to take over my comp right now over the net??

why not fix it yourself?

ok..i need help anyone know how to convert .ogg file video codec theora..? i'm super confused

try avidemux

how can i change the default media player in dapper ? i hate totem _

right click on a file of the type of the association u want to change ... and go to the open with tab.

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

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

hi, i'm searching a alternative web browser, does somebody have an idea ?

firefox and iceweasel

i'm transferring 4 gigs of data from my ubuntu hd to my windows hd. both are sata, but the transfer is going slower than paris hilton doing a suduku puzzle. i've transferred 20 gig of data faster than this before (it was a ide to sata)... any ideas?

ntfs-3g is really slow because it's in userspace

is it possible to create a shortcut key to my home folder? i tried creating a custom key with the command /home/matthew (shift+ctrl+h) but it doesn't work.

alot of keyboards have buttons to launch browser , mail and such, homefolder or atleast file browser should be there too

is it possible to use dos programs in ubuntu?

try dosbox or dosemu

omg! i ben searching for hardware failure for like a mounts (my server dies every seventh day) just felt the passiv cooling on my radeon 800gto and its burning hot! nothing graphical is running at all! what does this mean? :s

spend more $$

hey, i resized my swap partition from 1.8 gb to 3.7 gb with gparted, even checked /etc/fstab, everything is mounted correctly, but my system monitor still says 'swap: 1.8 gb'. what did i do wrong?

you probably need to reformat the swap partition, the file system does not know it's bigger

any way to check recently installed packages?

/var/log/dpkg.log should contain that information for you

does anyone know where to look up which binary nvidia driver supports which cards? thers the legacy, the new driver...

there's a link to that on the nvidia help page

what's the command to get the alternate install list? it'll show postfix, lamp, and others

tasksel ?

you guys know of any cli tool to show my bandwidth usage on a machine?

nethogs shows the bandwidth usage per app real-time.. no history support though (afaik)

where can i find free bible guide to ubuntu

at a command line you can type tabb twice then all the commands will scroll down the screen type man then your cmmand name and youll get info poages about them

hi how can i add firestarter to my menu+icon, so it run with root privilege ?

or whatever it is to run it, for command put gksudo <thatcommand>

alright; i am vastly confused about security certificates. i want to install a new certificate, so when i wget https://migs.mastercard.com.au/ i don't have to --no-check-certificate. everything i have googled so far has told me to install firefox and click on things. this is a server, without firefox. what do i want to google next?

you download the certificate file, put it in /etc/ssl/certs, cd to that dir, and run 'c_rehash' as root

i could look this up, but in /var/www do all of the riles require root/root permissions?

for something specific to work? not really tbh, i run a wordpress blog and some files are owned by my user, most by root

what's the next version called?

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove package ?

just wondering how often the ubuntu servers rebuild the packages file (i'm anxious for the new restricted-modules)

well, it took me 45min to throw the new tarball up my dsl, then it'll probably take about 5-10 minutes for the buildds to notice and build it, 2m2s/2m10s/3m for the various buildds to build it and then upload it, and then packages.gz gets regenerated every half hour

morning all. is there a way to see what libs an executable file is calling? i need to see if i have to acquire different ones for a program that used to run in 7.10 but doesn't in 8.04.

ldd filename

hi all, i am on quantal, my system does not shut down properly, it gets stuck in the process, can you help me what logs to look into?

we don't support the alpha/beta/dev stream in here, that's what +1 exists for :)

packages in edgy-backports should not have dependencies that are not themselves in edgy-backports, correct?

no, incorrect. backports requires standard universe and multiverse to be enabled. see their pages, it should be mentioned there i think

has anyone upgraded the to the newest 2.6.20.16 kernel? i have been on the forums and it seems that there are a few people that have had issues with the upgrade..

you shouldn't have a problem as long as you used the restricted driver manager instead of installing from ati.com