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hi, i have this line: /dev/hda7 /media/shared hfsplus defaults,user,noauto 0 0 in my /etc/fstab but it doesn't mount when i boot, i have to type in mount /media/shared manually anyone know what i'm doing wrong?

remove the noauto option (that's what it means)

hi, i've just upgraded to lucid with the alternate cd, my wireless connection doesn't work anymore

is it that you can't maintain a wireless conection or you can't even see the networks?

can you upgrade hoary with the breezy cd?

likely, why not use the network?

what was the command again to list your audio devices?

lspci | grep audio

hello. my laptop has a touchpad. can i use that with fprint-demo?

libfprint is for finger print scanners (e.g. thinkpads). not for touchpads. a touchpad is mouse. it doesn't detect fingerprints

hi everyone. i've just installed vim-gnome, but when i launch it (typing gvim), it hangs and i have to switch to console mode to kill it.

try gvim & instead

embarassingly simple question: how to tell what version of ubuntu i have installed?

cat /etc/lsb-release

how can i keep the disk reformat from happening on ubuntu installation?

advanced installation

can i make you a question regarding wireless access point and p2p client software? when i turn on ktorrent client on my laptop connected to the net through an us-robotics access point, the web navigation became very bad... furthermore i tried to ping the wifi router and the amount of packet loss is huge.. like 90%. is this normal? do you have to turn off p2p clients too for a correct navigation? i never had this problem with

i think you need to change your firewall settings / port forwarding settings for torrent clients to work

i accidentally changed my /etc/sysctl.conf, is there anyway i can get it back to maintainer's version?

if you have /usr/share/doc/procps/examples/sysctl.conf then you can use that

i have a pdf with incredibly terrible, grainy fonts, yet when i select text in evince, i can see decent fonts (example: http://imagebin.org/88261). is there a way to make evince simply render the whole thing in decent fonts instead of having to manually select the text? (or is there maybe a better pdf reader out there?)

you could install the adobe reader

i used <img>'s in <a href>'s, but i always get a blue box around it in firefox. how do i fix that?

add border='0' in your img tag

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 ;(

i just upgraded from breezy to dapper, and now my existing user is logged out automatically as soon as the desktop loads. users created after the upgrade can log in fine. no luck on the forums; any ideas?

have you checked malone?

how can i install kubuntu thru apt get?

sudo first obviously

this upgrade requires that the /usr/x11r6/bin directory be removed and replaced with a symlink. an attempt was made to do so, but it failed, most likely because the directory is not yet empty. you must move the files that are currently in the directory out of the way so that the installation can complete.

sudo mv /usr/x11r6/bin /this/is/the/new/place

anyone know the command to configure xorg?

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

hey guys. i'm a gentoo user, but found that, on the breezy live cd, my joystick worked, but fails under the vanilla/gentoo kernels. where would i go about getting the source for the kernel that was used on the breezy live cd?

packages.ubuntu.com - the kernel should be similar to the one used by an actual breezy install

hello.. i use google gmail.. is there a good program that sync calender, mail etc. etc. with gmail.. other than evolution?

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

can someone tell me what is twitter? where and all it can be used?

this is a support channel for the ubuntu operating system

i want to use vnc on ubuntu to connect to my windows laptop. any advice on what vnc server/client i should use on the two sides?

remote desktop at your windows machien side, and terminal server client at the ubuntu machine side

is there a way to take an xubuntu install and turn it into a regular install of ubuntu (gnome)? i tried removing xubuntu-desktop but all it did was drop a little 33k package.

also there's an apt-get command that cleans out unused packages. it's possible you have an unbelievable amount of dependencies that aren't needed. try apt-get autoclean

hi, i looking at my dmesg output & i dont understand a few things.. what is 'aperture from northbridge cpu 0 too small (32 mb)'? thanks

read 'man man', in the tips section there's something about how to get a plain-text output from man

how to increase the screen resolution on ubuntu 10.04? system > preferences > monitor > etc. it only has 800x600, i would like it to be more then 1000x.. can anyone be kind to assist me with it?

you should install video drivers first, lspci first to verify video card

how do i get ubuntu to play mp3s?

several ways

is there a command similar to yum --whatprovices in ubuntu for finding file level dependencies?

-s | --search <pattern> ... find package(s) owning file(s).

evening good people. i've been having trouble finding a solution to my problem on the forums: my wireless network connection speed is always displayed as 'unknown' in the connection information window and 0 kb/s bit rate in iwconfig. (atheros, ar9285, ath9k driver, ubuntu 10.04).

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1650507

i need a shortcut key to minimize all the running apps on my desktop somthing i can bind to the the middle mouse button

i just click the little box icon on the panel.

is msn broken in pidgin for anybody else?

its down for me on windows live too

hi. i want to change the defaut program used to open audio (mp3, ogg, wav). they are currently oppened with totem but i want quod libet to open them. is there any to work with this? ty

maybe its in the right click menu

question: i've always been running debian but since i'm spreading out linux to my relatives i think it might be good changing everything to ubuntu since it's got a little more user friendly wiki etc, anyway, i never really understood if it's possible to have something alike 'stable' in sources.list to that it'll use all the new soft from stable releases, is this possible?

if ubuntu does not work out for the newbies you can try linspire or freespire because they are very newbie friendly even if not too geek friendly

anyone know an application for encoding avi files into divx ?

http://www.transcoding.org

i ssh to ubuntu server, ls -l doesn't show up .htaccess file, anyidea why?

ls -al > ls -l

how can i make metacity the default??

change visual efects to none

it would probably also be nice if he could easily reinstall all the packages he has installed. i've wondered, is there an easy way to export that?

yep, sure is. just a sec...

does anyone know of a good usenet download program that supports video streaming?

you can open the rar and double click the content, it will be opened to temp whil it is played

is there a safe way to resize a partition while running ubuntu (i'd like to extend /boot while shrinking either / or the swap partition)?

yes, live cd and then gparted or qtparted

hey, i want to install ubuntu to a friend. but i don't wanna reinstall in about a month. so would you suggest to install 9.10? will 9.10 be stable with updates in about a week or two?

your other option would be to install 9.04 and run the upgrade next month which is easyer than reinstalling

hey everyone! guys, i'm about to install 9.04 and can't choose between ext3 & ext4.

use ext3 for now

ok how do i turn off desktop effects? i found it to turn it on and now can't find it to turn it off. :)

system - preferences - appearnce

hello i recently installed 11.10 as a virtualbox guest vm. i have a dual core amd 7850 but for some reason ubuntu wont recognize both cores. acpi is enabled in my bios. anyone have any thoughts?

look in the settings, there's an option for how many cores to use.

i want to install bluefish-hoary shows blushfish 1.0+cvs........... what does the cvs mean?

cvs is the most bleeding edge from the cvs repository

which imap-server is most painless with ubuntu?

probably dovecot. https://help.ubuntu.com/6.06/ubuntu/serverguide/c/email-services.html

does anyone know of a program gui or console, pref console, that shows you which programs are using bandwidth, ie kb/s. and i know about netstat but i need something else ?

- iostat in a terminal

what is a troll?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/internet_troll

anyone know the command to re/configure a new nic in an ubuntu server?

run 'ifconfig -a' find the interfacve name, add it to /etc/network/interfaces

i'm new to linux. and everything here is new. i recall only some from my slackware 4.0 period (wich lasted a few months). but where would you guys start to get a good understanding of linux kernel and all that comes with, let us say ubuntu :-d

https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/

what the best media player like winamp

xmms

hi! how can i record video from a webcam ?

install cheese

has anyone had this problem: when using apt-get autoremove, it removes other packages (like wine, that i am installing again now, because it was removed...)

use deborphan and manually remove deps, apt-get is not good with autoremove, for just the reason you stated

how can i install one application which i downloaded the folder?

sudo dpkg -i yourapp

hey guys, is there any way to determine how much hdd space is alloted for a user (non-root)? if there is no quota set, are we to assume that all of the diskspace is available to that particular user?

yes without a quote everything is available

nautilus keeps freezing up my desktop. can anyone recommend an alternative file browser?

the terminal? midnight commander?

anyway to reset a root password ?

single user mode (or recovery mode)

can anyone reach http://alvi.homeip.net ?

i can

is there any way to see who's in a certain group? (command+opt)

'groups <user>' in terminal

how to install a application from apt-get in /home ?

can't.

hi, dist-upgrade'ed into breezy. now x11 wont work... if i apt-get install x-window-system it complains about twm error... i know many ppl has been in this situation... could anybody please tell me how to fix it? i sort of cant search the web in this terminal

also, the wiki has stuff on fixing that...apt-cache search surfraw apt-cache search lynx

can someone do me a big favor and see if www.53.com works for them?

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i'm getting error message '1 of your harddisks is failing' ... i'm in the process of moving my data over to my 2nd drive. once done what should i do to test/possibly repair the first drive?

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

hey guys. i want to easily switch between running the nvidia proprietary drivers and nouveau. is there a switch i can put in at boot time to toggle between the two, or is it always going to involve something awkward?

i think its more complex then that. since the nvidia drivers blacklist the nouveau drivers. and the 2 can conflict otherwise

what's the option?

apps->nautilus->desktop-> volumes_visible

hi guys, can anyone help me with sound problems with feisty, no sound with jack output

did you install jack?

what is a good microsoft visio type program for ubuntu

jude, umbrello, rational rose, eclipse + omundo

anybody know how to disable apport?

look at /etc/default/apport and set enabled to 0

is netbook remix intended for all laptops or mainly netbooks?

netbooks but nobody is preventing you from using it on your regular laptop

need help before i reinstall windows! im fairly new to linux. its yet another resolution problem, running ati radeon 9800. my xorg.conf shows the 9800 with all the nice resolutions but im stuck in 640x480, thanks for your help!

perhaps xorg.conf lists refresh rates that are not adequate for higher resolutions? try a sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and see if you can set them to something better (ideally, look them up on your monitor's manual)

does anyone knows any alternative of dreamweaver as a wysywg web design tool?

screem

hey what good voice-chat/im software does ubuntu have?

ubuntu comes with ekiga, an excellent voip client

i need to make one distro starting from ubuntu can anybody help me please

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/livecdcustomization/6%2e06

any one knows which is the best commercial antivirus for windows xp?

clamwin

is there an equivelent of nvidia-settings for ati cards?

amdcccle

the repositories for 32 bit os are different from the ones for 64 bit?

they're the same repositories

can someone point me to the status of sparc support?

dead project

nomasteryoda: other than that, is it just as safe to install hardy then upgrade? i've tried to burn intrepid 3 times, with no joy... i'd prefer a 'clean' install but is an upgrade prety much the same? (any disadvantages?)

i do upgrade all the time, never have a problem

i think thats the howto of the old 8.04 aproved encryption

uwe hermann ??\

i have little problem with my ubuntu. it does collect all memory. now 99% collected... (22% for programs and 77% for cache) how i can release some memory?

no; no problem. unused ram == wasted ram

how can i tell which deb provided a file on my hard drive?

man dpkg for details

my wifi network connection is only available during user session. i want it to be available during system load. how can i do this?

add the script to rc

how would i prevent snd_seq_opl from loading, ever? i don't have an opl3 card

put it in the blacklist, /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

so back to my original question, does anyone know how to make ubuntu more intelligent with respect to multiple monitors, it's rather pointless to use it for me if i can't use it on presentations and edit xorg.conf for every projector i connect to it.

then dont use it until it works for your purposes..

hey could you tel me how can i have the same dimension of my terminal all the time ? when i close or reboot my cmputer, the terminal open small again :/

you can pass --geometry geometry to gnome-terminal

hi, what does this sed command exactly do: http://pastebin.com/m12c26eae ?

swaps the localhost ip 127.0.0.1 with nothing, then i'm not sure what the 'g' does.

what would be the best virtual machine software (fully free, of course) to utilize if i wanted to run hardyalpha6

virtualbox

cafuego: sorry for stupid question, if mikebeecham created a user with same id/pass in /etc/passwd as is on his mac...would it then not ask for a password?

that's what ssh key sessions are for

is there any for sure way to test that the nvidia drivers are working?

'glxinfo | grep rendering' - if it comes up a line saying 'yes' then they are

is there a way to take an ubuntu install and move it onto a usb thumb drive?

i think it would be better to just do a fresh install on the thumb drive.

i have a unusual request, a couple of weeks ago at college i spotted a piece of software that runs on linux/mac/windows. it's a web developing environment that will highlight syntax errors, allow managing of a site's documents into a project and will complete java class methods into a drop down box. can anyone suggest what i am thinking of? it begins with an 'a' and it has a big website with video demo's and stuff

wikipedia comparison of web development environments

is it possible that xorg update caused usb wlan-stick to stop working?

see the forums

under places, how do i add another folder there? i did it once for music but i can't get it again

i think you can add the folder as a bookmark in nautilus, then it will appear within the places menu

can anyone point me in the right direction, i've got a pc running ubuntu 10.04, and i will like to run windows 7 on a virtual machine, how do i go about this?

i recommend you look into using virtualbox by sun microsystems.

hey! i use the latest ubuntu version (10.10). the default theme has minimize, maximize icons in the left side of window. how can i move them to the right side of window?

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-back-to-the-right-in-ubuntu-10.04/

please where is the localhost on my machine ?

if you've got apache et al installed, you're probably serving stuff from /var/www

does ubuntu come with a vnc server?

you will likely have to share the host manually every time, tightvncserver starts automatically on system boot

hi, i installed the recent version of ubuntu and the bootloader now doesn't have my windows partition in the list. how do i correct this problem with minimum risk

run: sudo update-grub

fsck tells me my ext3 partition is clean, but how can i force verification?

fsck -f?

any one here knows how host a site with xampp?

just start it up and it's ready to run? it's very plug'n play. :)

i've got a question, i installed ubuntu amongside windows, and i wanted to install it on a certain partition, but on the install i didn't selected custom install and it installed without asking anything.now the problem is i don't know where does ubuntu was installed, i mean on what partition.the partition i wanted ubuntu to be installed was in fact unpartitionned.

does windows still boot?

hi, anybody have tutorial how to setup ubuntu 6.* become router? help me pls. aand thanks to respond me.

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

how do you set screen brightness in ubuntu 10.10

xrandr