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last question please - timeout of grub - where i can set it? | have you seen/tried http://www.tvmobili.com/ ? |
hi guys i have a pair of matching 500gb sata drives but i currently have only one physically installed on the system. is there a way to hook both up to combine free space or boost boot and speed performance? i already know that i can choose to use one as my home folder. i was wondering if there is a better use scenario. | you could look into raid |
does anyone here know how i can install the windows7 boot manager from within ubuntu? | why? and only in virtualbox as far as i know |
i know this isn't ubunu related, but i'm trying to find the right room to ask a question and i can't find the 'channel list' in x chat ... any help, and then i'll be out of your hair | then it gives the option to retrieve channel list |
hi guys: am trying to install ubuntu-7.10, but along the way i get the error; file///cdrom/pool/main/n/ncurses/libncurses5_5.6+20070716-iubuntu3_i386.deb was corrupt. what might cause this error? please help | that or download |
i have^h^hd a problem with the shell (bash). :( i want to traverse a file in a for loop and execute it for every line. but 'for line in $(cat $file);do foo;done' treats every `word' separated by any whitespace as one iteration - and i've found my answer! the variable $ifs holds the field separator. :) | or even better. while read line; do echo '$line'; done < file |
is there any way to tweak wifi reception in my laptop with ubuntu 11.04?? tia! | try changing channel, try relocating laptop physically. |
i had to reset my mbr using a vista cd, but now my ubuntu live cd can't see a couple of ext3 partitions i had | : use supergrub |
hello how do i set keyboard delay + repeat? | .xinitrc isn't used much. try system -> prefs -> keyboard if you're using gnome |
could someone tell me if there is a way to totally disable a laptops internal speakers short of tearing into the laptop and unplugging them? i have a sony vaio, vgn-nr385e, and when i plug in head phones the internal speakers still broadcast. it is annoying and makes the laptop unusable in public if i want to hear web content | i had the same problem on a dell laptop...i don't remember what i did, but i removed something -- i'm pretty sure it was a package |
can anybody help me???!!! on vaio notebook vgn-fe31zr 7.10 dont boot. other bootcds working properly | where did you get the ubuntu cd from? |
hi i have a problem with gcc when i try to compile something it says gcc: installation problem cannot exec cc1plus` no such file or directory | have you installed build-essential ? |
hi, how do i show computer and trash icons on desktop? | its a setting in gconf-editor |
ok, and back to my original question: is there a way to pass options via command line to 'dpkg reconfigure'? i'd like to pass it options to reconfigure ipmasq without having to enter it's little ansi menu... | man dpkg-reconfigure tells you how |
what's the difference between sudo and su? | the above links will help you with your questions |
i just installed ubuntu karmic beta but grub hangs. does anyone know anything about this? | might want to try to beta channel. if it's open. i can't remember the name of the channel though. |
hello you wonderful helpful people, i notice an option for vpn in the network appelet but its not enabled how do i enable vpn? | i never did vpn but ubuntugeek has a guide for pptp vpn: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-configure-pptp-vpn-in-ubuntu-intrepid-and-jaunty.html |
how can you tell which package a file belongs to? | apt-cache search blah |
what keyboard is it? | logitech g15 |
how do i test out my #d acceleration? i know there is a command to show some animated gears, but i don't remember it. | glxgears |
hey guys. are the nvidia drivers default in (x)ubuntu or is it the same as with debian ? | non-free proprietary binary driver, not auto included in distro but i have nvidia and have installed their latest driver with no obvious issues so far. |
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=43383#post43383 <-- :(!!! | ext3 is resizable |
in the terminal i know / takes you to root and . is current directory and .. is previous, but how do i say to start from the user directory or something? | you may not be interested, but you can also specify a path from another user's home by using '~<username>' |
has anyone got any idea why firefox is segfaulting every time i try to launch it in karmic? it was fine yesterday... | corrupt profile would be a guess, try running 'firefox -p' and creating a new one. |
how do i choose a different kernel at boot? | fine your linux-image* package and reinstall it. apt-get --reinstall install linux-imagexxxxx |
how do i change the name of my computer? | `hostname' |
does ubuntu have an api on top of its system configuration (e.g. init scripts, network config) accessible from python ? | i don't know the answer to your question, but i feel compelled to point out that python can execute commands on the cli |
dosbox question: does anyone know where the dosbox.conf file is? :p | sudo updatedb && locate dosbox.conf |
is there a way for me to permanently resize the terminal in ubuntu? i use it fullscreen all the time, and i have to resize it every time.. | edit > profile preferences > general on 12.04 with gnome-terminal |
hello! my question is a simple one about the upgrade facilities in ubuntu. are there, in general, separate packages for various hardware drivers that can be installed via a package manager, if i didn't want to compile the driver myself? | that's the idea - you use kernel modules for drivers |
how do i name a workspace? used to be able to do it, can't now. | what window manager? |
is it possible to change the username in ubuntu? | system -> admin -> users and groups |
hi everyone. my wireless just started suddenly not working yesterday morning at around 1am. i'm on a wired connection right now until i get it fixed, does anyone know how to fix it? | when did it stop working.. explain more :) |
hi... silly question: how do i find out my cpus frequency? | cat /proc/cpuinso | grep mhz |
what is the latest ubunty release? | the latest stable release is 7.10, gutsy gibbon |
heya guys! ummm what gui archive application can i use to open .rar files and to extract them | the archive manager can open any kind of archive but just needs the specific pkg installed. there's one for 7z files, rar files etc |
hi, i just installed ubuntu 11.04 and wish to install nomachine nx but do not know how to. i am confused because some old docs report that i have to install extra applications to make nx work. is there a doc or page on internet that would guide me through on how to install nx on a desktop for current 11.04 version? | nomachine strongly discaourages people to use a free version of their software. with predictable results |
so is this the place i go after trying everything i've found on google or before | your question is fine, unfortunately the problem is no one here right now knows the answer probably |
what do i install to have the get command available? | ssh i believe |
hey guys what do you think of mac4lin, i'm thinking of installing it but i just want to make sure if it would be safe or compatible with unbuntu gibbon? | mac4lin is just a theme, should not be an issue |
how do i check active processes and how the ram is spent with command line (ubuntu server)? | well, i'd start by typing 'top' for the procesess, and 'free -m ' for memory, 'top' will show it up too but in another, less readable form. |
i'm getting two devices for my one card: wlan0 and wmaster0. which should i use to connect to the wireless network? | wlan0 |
so who here knows hwo to make java work for firefox on 10.4 | you can use proprietary or gnash. |
where are modules being called? /etc/modules.conf does not exist.... like in gentoo i need to pass some options to a module but putting it in /etc/modules doesn't seem to be doing anything =( | ls /etc/modules* |
i have another ubuntu machine... but i have no idea how i could transfer the information to the other computer without internet... hrm maybe someone has a flash drive i can borrow. | it's possible but not easy if there are many dependencies |
does anybody know how to manually change the sources.list file, i got a bad repository that i done through sudo | listen to linuxgeekery i spoke to soon |
does ubuntu (8.10) ship with any music cd ripping apps? | rhythmbox might but it's easy to install ripperx |
can someone help me ?? | maybe! |
i need little help with ettercap on ubuntu... when i try to log infos... i get error! it says that i can't make a file that i wish to log infos.. permission denied.. i'm talking about gui ettercap, any help (sorry for bad english) | well if you run the app as you, you don't have write access there do you. you will need to find where the logs are written and give yourself write access there, or run the app with gksudo |
hey there to all: i have an original problem. when i type ifconfig -a, there is no eth* listed ! is that to say that the driver to eth0 was not found when i installed jaunty on this lenovo y550p?? | it sounds like it. have a look in lspci -vv. it will say what driver is controlling the ethernet adapter |
what driver will allow windows7 to read/write ext4? | there is an experimental ext2 driver for windows |
what antivirus do you recommend for ubuntu? and some firewall? | and ubuntu ships with a firewall, try sudo apt-get install gufw |
hi all im on an ubuntu 9.10 and my home partition is sort of filling up and i noticed a folder taking 14.4 gb of space. it is under .local/share/gvfs-metadata im guessing that i should not be deleting this to reclaim space or would it be ok to delete this folder at all ? | that folder takes up 852k on my system |
hi. i'm looking for a certain header file in ubuntu 6.10 (qpointarray.h, incidently) - are there any tools out there to find out what package this would be in? | http://packages.ubuntu.com and search for file-within-package |
i have an intel graphics card.. can ubuntu support it? | i don't have a widescreen display, but perhaps this will help: http://www.wiredfool.com/2005/06/15/widescreenlcdsandubuntulinux |
hello ! i am on pretty older ubuntu 7.10 . would like to upgrade to newer one ...1. which one to choose 9.04 or 8.10 2. what is best way to upgrade | 8.10 , upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 and then 8.10 |
does anyone know the name of a unbunto directly installed which a a plane game controlled by the mouse ?? | xplane? |
what's the easiest way to type 'abc' in a terminal & have it display contents of the text file 'abc' and then wait at command prompt?prompt | 'cat' is the command to display contents of the file |
so for irsis can i do sudo apt-get irssi ? | apt-get install irssi |
hi for everybody, i have a lot of .deb that i want to install... but i really don't like to install all that one by one.... anyway of you have a command that i can install then all in the terminal ( i knos that i have to go to 'cd <that folder that i has been talking about' ) :p but i don't know what to do next :s | though, you must ensure that all dependencies are satisfied |
when i do apt-get remove mysql-server-5.0 and then reinstall it, it still is pulling config from somewhere, cause i get access denied when trying to log onto the db | apt-get remove --purge package |
does anyone knows if ubuntu have support (driver hotplug) to webcam creative go plus ? | 2.10 |
is there a program in linux that can lookup ips? | whois works on linux |
does anyone know of a program i can use to create a video, i dont want to edit one | i have read about a powerful video editor program called jahshaka |
where does gnome store its panel settings? i'd like to clone my panel configuration easily. | run gconf-editor and it will be in apps>panel |
what have i done wrong ? (fing jpg more than 1kb ) find /media/usb-hdd/ -size +1k -type f -name jpg | '*.jpg' |
hi what command do i use to open multiple files in gedit? | gedit file1 & gedit file2 & gedit file3 |
got any ideas how to make mouse media buttons work on xubuntu | copy ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile/<something>.default i think |
who knows a good program or plugin to translate words directly from a website selecting a word and making right click ? | check the firefox websites |
how do i use the command line to connect to a wireless network? iwconfig wlan0 essid myessid seems to set the essid, but iwconfig doesn't show it as connected. | tried sudo ifconfig wlan0 up ? |
i'm getting the error 'the file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly, can someone help me correct this? | i guess id rerun grub-install |
what u trying to do? | just set the command to open a folder in add custom keyboard shortcuts. yep got it, thanks |
oki. seems i have to run without using swap. not nice, but unavoidable atm... :/ | there's a program in the repository called swapd that will create swapfiles on the fly when needed. |
i removed a package, but now wish to purge it. how can i purge the package without having to install it again? apt says the application is not installed, and so it will not be removed. but i must purge | open synaptic and find the package and select mark for complete removal |
i need to edit my smb.conf yet this file exists in several places. which one do i edit? | /etc/samba/smb.conf |
hmm, how can i go about seeing the restricted repository? | go to system> administration > software sources and check the box for restricted |
alsa shoudl work out of the box, what are you trying to do? | my soundcard does not work out of the box |
[newbie] i want to add sources to apt-get. i uncommented sources at my sources.list but i now get an error message: 'couldn't stat source package...' for the uncommented sources. any ideas? | run apt-get update or het the reload button in synaptic |
fryguy: sorry - still newbie to some degree here - where is the '~/.firefox directory' in 'etc' ? | the '~' means your home dir |
aloha #ubuntu, i've accidentally deleted the network manager icon from the task bar and can't work out how to get it back. my internet connection is gone from ubuntu so i can't do any tests atm | run 'nm-applet' i think |
will someone help me figure out how to connect to my computer with my ds (running linux) using ssh? i have openssh-server installed, and ssh seems to be installed on the ds. | umm... you might want to ask a nds homebrew community |
hello all i am looking for documentation to setup an official ubuntu mirror for french polynesia. where to get it? | it is on the site. navigate as though you are wanting to download and you should see a link |
ok, so you're good? | i wish, same thing happened to me once when i first installed :) |
what was the name of the app that was kinda like amarok, but for gnome? some undead name... | banshee? |
can i change my terminal background color, i want it to be black and the text to be white. | just edit the default profile in the terminal menu |
guys, anyone can help me? my control volume on the unity bar doesnt' work! | did you remove pulseaudio¿ |
im using ubuntu 8.10 im trying to figure out how to change the default runlevel why isnt it in /etc/inittab? | /etc/event.d |
hello. i'm wondering where the equivalent of windows 'program files' is in linux? (where should i place programs like thunderbird?) | /usr/bin |
how can i restore the volume option on the panel? | it's part of indicator applet |
you said installing bfs do not help with flash performance. is there something i missed about that thing? | video used to play smoothly for him before, and now it's signifigantly worse. that means that 1: there is a problem somewhere that has made his situation worse, that needs to be fixed 2: trying to work around the root cause by getting slightly better general performance with bfs will not make up for the difference. |
frostwire is bad news , it dls all kinds of virus garbage on to your system that can then get into windows machines or partitions connected to your pc, varc , be careful | i think is better if i copy here my download music in the other pc |
in the network tools dialog, what does 'location' do? | for example you can setup home and office, both of which would have different configs typically |
hello, i have a few .c files i wish to print. is there some nice program out there that will let me print them all into the same file ? | just do something like `cat *.h *.c > printme && a2ps printme` |
hello, i am trying to download a zip file into the folder /var/www using wget but after typing the command i get this message. cannot write to `latest.zip' (permission denied).,, do i have to change the permessions? | you likely don't have permission to write to that dir |
would it be possible to mount an ubuntu livecd iso and modify it from there? and then burn it? | http://www.atworkonline.it/~bibe/ubuntu/custom-livecd.htm |
how do i unzip a *.bz | it it's just .bz2 or .bz, bunzip2 file.bz2, but if it has .tar.bz or .tar.bz2, use tar xjf file.tar.bz2 |
i've got this delay when my cursor drags between windows in unity. how can i cancel it? | go to display properties and turn off sticky edges |
hey guys! any1 know how to get the grub booting list instead of the auto ubuntu load? | from memory, if you hold down the left shift key at bootup, that'll dislpay the boot list for grub |
i'm trying to find out how much memory i'm using now. when i log in, my motd says i'm only using about 30%. when i run free -m, it says i have 1729 used out of 1750, with only 21 mbs free. however, it says 875 mbs is cached. how much memory is in use then, should i be worried that i'm almsot running out of memory? | http://www.linuxatemyram.com/ |
were you able to get 3d acceleration running ati-driver-installer-8.25.18-x86 ?? | no experience with ati, always used nvidia myself |