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what are the improvements on the new nvidia drivers?

read the release highlights here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-7167.html

can i configure ubuntu with a fqdn for a domain name that is not currently pointing at the server? i am replacing one server with another

sure, just fill out the appropriate prompts when you install the os

hi, how can i change the mirror i use to get the updates / new apps?

in synaptic.. go to settings/repositories.. then where it says 'select servers'.. choose find best server..

i can see it listed on the packages website, but aptitude does not see it

it is in universe repos.

what happens if i delete a script from etc/init.d, i dont want no-ip script anymore

if you just remove the script, you will get a lot of broken symlinks in /etc/rc**.d

uhm i have a little issue with vi.. when i start it to edit a file and press the insert key to edit the file contents.. if i then press the arrow keys to normally move the cursor. it instead prints letters like adn and such.. what am i doing wrong ? havent been using vi for a very long time

faq - :) - install the vim-full package

what are some interesting things i can install on my ubuntu based webserver that use mysql/php?

www.hotscripts.com or www.sf.net -- search for stuff there, have fun, a starter would be phpsysinfo (http://phpsysinfo.sf.net)

how to install flashplayer for swiftfox please help me

-> sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

does linux also have the 3gb limit for 32bit versions?

by default, i believe ubuntu turns the option on.

hello guys im runing a ppc, with breezy on it, console only how do i upgrade to dapper?

first change alll instances of 'breezy' to 'dapper' in /etc/apt/sources.list ... then run sudo apt-get update, then sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

does someone know if hoary will use the new debian installer?

you have the answer now from kamion ;)

anyone on hardy here without sound? i have some fixes :)

i sometimes have no sound, cant play two sounds from separate apps at once

where i can get ubuntu lucid theme?

maybe https://wiki.ubuntu.com/artwork/incoming/lucid/ubuntusun?action=attachfile&do=view&target=ubuntusun-v5.tar.gz

can some one give me a url that describes how to make a shortcut script that will open up multiple applications at once. skype, xchat (specific rooms), firefox (with four sites) and etc

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1624175 here is the ur;

is anyone having problems with wifi cards in fiesty that worked in edgy?

thanks im sure but several people have told him that already :)

are there any alternatives to xbmc? preferable some where i can set a prefered language track for audio and subtitles

try googling 'xbmc vs'.

is there a better browser than firefox? i cant load a xslt page on firefox :s

try opera

keyboards are pretty much interchangeable, right? if i get one made for a mac (akb-805mac by adesso), that should plug right in and just work to my pc (dell vostro workstation), right? the only 'drivers' necessary would be to access to extra function keys and such. right?

should just work, will need to select the correct keyboard layout. the function keys should work without much editing (do on my usb mac keyboard)

guys how can i make a link to a ntfs mounted partition? the option is greyed out

ln -s also works fine

hi all ! on 12.04 what's the 'official' tool to manage start services (like rcconf..etc) , if there's a recommend one (cli/gui)

i don't believe upstart has any tools (i guess it's not expected for people running ubuntu to use services anymore)

where can i find a list of available packages for breezy?

packages.ubuntu.com iirc

i booted lucid in an eee 1005hab. i hooked up an external monitor and it recognized it, but when i tried to make the monitors not mirror the desktop and panels went away! the cursor was still there and moved correctly between the two monitors.

does the eee1005 videocard support that? none mirror dual monitors?

what was the name of the channel that does the linux application voting?

sorry, ubottu seems to be ignoring me when i ask about channels

how do i get is so ubuntu server stops asking for the install cd when i install new software?

apt-cache policy package

is there a .deb package of thudnerbird 1.0.6 available anywhere?

pitti from ubuntu-devel says that he has prepared one for hoary-security. it should be available shortly

good morning, any recommendations on ajunta v. kdevelop?

kdevelop

here is a simple poser for any one who can answer. i recently installed 9.04 on compaq evo n610c laptop with built in ati mobility graphics, after updating to the new recommended driver and catalyst. now when i reboot the screen is garbled and unusable. is there a way to enter a safe graphics mode so i can undo those changes?

i typically just use the open driver for ati. i find it very good for 2d stuff

any idea why most of my http requests are timing out in firefox?

dns errors?

do people using packages.medibuntu.org can apt-get update and let me know if they get a hash sum error from packages.medibuntu.org please ?

i get no errors

can anyone help me with the terminal commands to change the vlc theme so that i can read it.

screenshot?

dspam vs. spamassassin anyone?

both are as good as each other, just in different ways

anyone know how to stop displaying quits/parts/joins in xchat?

right click channel name

anybody know what package contains html::tablecontentparser?

libhtml-tableextract-perl - perl module that simplifies extraction of information from html

[ubuntu 9.04] how can i deinstall all games and associated overhead in order to gain free space on my hard disk?

or you could go through and remove them 1x1

hi, i have problems with my audio, i have an usb headset, and when i try system->preferences->sound it sounds, but when i go to rhythmbox it doesnt sound, any help?

maybe in rhythmbox preferences there are a switch to chose what you want to use. i dont use rythmbox, so just guessin

how do i get a list of users logged into a specific channel?

/names

who knows about everything there is to know about wine? i want to know how to use it and how to know what programs i can run with it. thank you

you just run 'wine blah.exe'

hmmm, this reminds me: is there a list of laptops that are known to work very well with ubuntu?

/msg ubotu hardware

what boot option to unmask vfat? unmask= something :s :p forgetful

similar but better than umask

hi, what are good and easy to use tools available to convert videos (media) in linux? in windows we had endless number. i am having some trouble in finding same for linux.

that's a editing package

have you tried ion? if so, is there a reason you prefer ratpoison?

no window dressings in ratpoison, i don't have to learn lua, and i think the keybindings are more intuitive. *shrug*

is there a graphical tool for examining dbus?

'd-feet' is the package name

how to add more irc servers to xchat?

click on server then join a channel

q: is there a command i can type ... to see what kind of hardware i have ?

try lspci

hello there, anybody know what is pgp key and for what purpose this is used? any website to learn abt this feautre in ubuntu 8.10 ? thanks

it's used for encryption.

i get the following message in synaptic: 'the repository might be no longer available or could not be contacted because of network problems. if available an older version of the failed index will be used. otherwise the repository will be ignored. check your network connection and the correct writing of the repository address in the preferences.' what is wrong?

can you get to websites ok using a web browser?

there was a wrapper package which include refs to all needed for compiling stuff. what was the name?

build-essential

is there a shortcut key to access the applications menu? (like the windows key in windows?)

i think its alt f1

hi guys, for a intel core 2 duo, is it better to install the 386 version or the amd64? (i am worried about compatibility issues or lack of some packages for amd64)

core 1 duo isn't 64 bit. core 2 duo is

you might try deleteing all the .gnome stuff in your /home/user directory. but if other settings have been chasnged elsewhere, such as soem settings somehwere in /etc/ then i don't know

thanks. i already reconfigured xorg.conf to default (even screen on vesa)... so i hope it must be gnome.. wish me luck.. thanks folk

can anyone help me change video drivers?

what drivers do you want to change to?

hey guys; i am using the ubuntu 6.10 live cd, but can not see my sata controller. it is an integrated controller in an abit nf7-s mobo. any thoughts?

ubuntuforums.org may help too

i just installed ubuntu 8.04 64bit and encountering problems with 'applications->add/remove...'...first it always asked me to reload the list of applications...now it doesn't even start anymore...what's wrong?

yoou might want to reinstall your package manager, go to system, administration and start synaptic

anybody knows how to open dwg file?

search for autodesk at http://freshmeat.net

how can i install older packages? i want to roll back evolution and evolution-exchange to the 8.10 version (2.24 i believe) but cant figure out how to do it

i think you can add the 8.10 repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list (also via your packagemanager) and select the proper version (force version)

is there any over-riding command to eject the cd tray?

guess what 'eject' will do

did opera get taken out of the feisty repositories?

try the commercial repos

help please... somehow i turned off everything for my compiz/gnome desktop.... like cube and zoom and animations..... what key to turn it all back on??

system > preference > appearance .. last tab.. activate which ever you want.

hi *, what's the recommended virtualization technology for running windows on ubuntu? vmware, xen, kvm, virtualbox or other?

i've heard good things about virtualbox and vmware yet i haven't fully tested them myself on ubuntu. i know vmware runs great on windows :)

how to show man page about bind(), connect(), listen() etc ? im learning socket programming

try manpages-dev

wow, this channel has really gone down the tubes, canonical

this channel has nothing to do with canonical.

hi folks, can someone help me please? i am here in a datacentre at a server and need some www-research (have no gui here, so cannot browse)

install links, the browser.

hi. i replaced the mbr, can somebody tell me how to install grub there again without harming the partitions?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/recoveringubuntuafterinstallingwindows try that

does anyone know a defragmenter for ext4?

there is a tool called shake

how do i access ntfs drives from ubuntu live?

'sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt' (substitute the proper device name)

how do i share a folder on the network from the shell?

you'll need to edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf and follow the example, is very easy

can i run something like ventrillo on ubuntu?

probably should take a look at this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=41737 yeah surround sound comm software thingy i get it

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'.

does someone know a program for mounting virtual drives (like poweriso or daemon tools in windows)?

fuseiso it isn't perfect but it gets you somewhat closer

anyone have any idea what the gkrellm type program in the righthand side of this screenshot is? http://puggy.symonds.net/~praveen/journal-images/gnome-desktop.png

gdesklets or adesklets

i'm confused. i'm trying to backup this box to my test box using rsync. from my test box i run rsync thisbox:/home/me /home/me, but the files end up in /home/me/me, on the test box!?

never tried rsync myself, but try adding trailing slashes to those paths (so /home/me/)

how do i tell what dapper verison i have?

cat /etc/issue

hi guys - anyone know where to get java debs depository....

i followed this to get mine http://serios.net/content/debian/java.php

does anyone a way to track make install?

yeah... install 'checkinstall'

where did xmms go?

it's development stopped. there's xmms2 now but it's way different

iceroot: forgive me, i'm a bit new to linux. tried what you said in terminal but 'nmap' isn't installed. what did i miss?

install nmap if you want to use nmap

is there an interval timer for ubuntu that plays different songs at different time and randomize it? such as an audio player that let's you set songs to play at interval then randomize the play time at certain points in the song, and does shuffle tracks too?

that is something you would have to write yourself but players like banshee have simply programming languages that make that easier. like boo.

hi, i have a question, if i want to install ubuntu on notebook dell machine.. i'll have anything problem?

possibly, you might want to download a live cd first to see if all the hardware works. a life cd runs off the cd. if everything is okay you reboot and then do an install.

remmember the old text based installer shipped with can you somehow get 6.10 to run that?\

alternate cd has that

how do i 'restart gdm'?

it might be the xorg bug... read the topic

** is there no way to boot from usb using a macbook?? i need to reinstall ubuntu but i dont have any cds left~~~! heeeelp

press alt while booting your macbook - should show all bootable devices

is there a command, if you log into terminal as say user, then root, then otheruser, to show how deep you are?

also: ps and pstree

hi there, anyone have experience with acer travelmate notebooks?

check list on wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/laptoptestingteam/

questopn: when i turn on the pc ubuntu shows the loading screen that after about a minute it sitches to a black screen that shows lots of lines of text including 'bug: unable to handle kernel paging request at f8c84848'

can you get to a terminal? press ctrl-alt-f2 or ctrl-alt-f3

what is your question? it made no sense... can you burn programs to cd that you already burned to a cd? the same cd?

gnome-art

is there a way to get synaptic to stop asking for the install cd-rom and fetch all packages from the net?

edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and comment out the entry for apt-cdrom

what has happend to inittab on (k)ubuntu?

the things that used to be in it are mostly controlled by the scripts in /etc/event.d/

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

the download-them-all firefox ext.

hi peoples. what's the command to show what kernel version i'm using?

you can also do uname -a for the full deal.

will an ati radeon 7000 evil wizard work in ubuntu dapper drake?

it will work with 3d by default, but i think ati have dropped support for the latest 3d effects on that card with their non-free non-default driver

i'd like to make the current google chrome in windows be able to play mp4s...i realize that chrome is using avcodec-52.dll found @ c:\documents and settings\owner\local settings\application data\google\chrome\application\16.0.912.75 ...i've tried to drop in previous dlls avcodec.dll files into that folder but i'm not having any luck...any ideas why this isn't working?

you could try 'sudo dpkg -i *.deb' but dpkg dosen't consider order, so that might fail.

ok, i'm having this problem with lynx, and also opera, i'm starting a download, directly from hak5.org (their podcast), and it gets like halfway, and then stops... can anyone help me with that. it works fine with firefox.

treid wget?

when ubuntu hoary comes to me on cd, will i be able to simply put the cd in the drive, and update my warty?

check out apt-cdrom

hello, i'm trying to apt-get iptraf program and i'm getting a md5sum mismatch

look at the topic

i tried to give ubuntu server a go but i felt like i was trying to work blindfolded with hands tied behind my back... is there a way to have an idea of its own surroundings from the terminal (for example listing the installed applications)?

help.ubuntu.com would also be helpful

hello. reading http://www.ubuntugeek.com/kernel-2-6-35-officially-available-for-ubuntu-10-04.html it says 'this kernel is now available in the git repository of ubuntu 10.04' and 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'. if its a dist-upgrade, isn't that 10.10 beta? i don't understand how it can remain 10.04 but with 2.6.35.4 kernel. can anyone help me understand this please? thanks.

a dist-upgrade does not always upgrade to the next release.

said designed wrote a lot of shit which doesn't work right. so unfortunately it's warranted hostility

its an image for meego devices

is dapper drake alpha flight 4 close to the speed we will see in the stable release? ...or will it get faster?

i think everybody is looking for the answer.... but in this case, we have to wait a few more weeks for a true answer....

i'm reading about upstart in ubuntu and comparing it against daemontools. we currently use daemontools for two purposes - to startup and monitor a process, and to log the process output to a centralized location (via multilog). i understand upstart does the former. does it also facilitate logging?

you can use rsyslogd for the remote logging i guess

is there a way to install ubuntu in text-mode?

in fact it was the default installation mechanism before hoary.