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Hi all,

I want to try the new Ubuntu gnome style in my Jaunty system, but where can
I find and select it?

bye/Alain

Hello,

I would like to digitize my old family recordings from VHS tapes to DVD or
some sort of *.avi format. For that, I have a BT848 based video card.

What software would I use to capture and encode the videos?

Hi all,

I have an Asus EeePC 1000HE with Ubuntu Netbook Remix installedthe next time
it on it.

In Wicd one can see the available wireless networks. How can the user
check which protocol (-g, -n) each network uses? Can it be done right
there in Wicd, or is some other tool necessary? Thanks!

I've been researching this for several hours, now, and I'm not getting
anywhere.

I have a DI1501 laptop with the following audio found with lspci:
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
and a desktop with
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 02)
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 on each.

I remember in 9.04 being able to plug the headphone output of my am/fm
radio into the line-in jack and listen over the computer speakers.

Now, on either computer, in the Preferences->Sound
(gnome-volume-control), the input level meter f

Hi all,

I am using Ubuntu 9.10 october 2009 release. having a problem in running
wget recursively i mean if i call 2 or more website one after the other my
internet stops working i have to reboot the machine to connect to the
internet. I am calling this wget function from perl.

$i = chr(1) ; % variable from 1 to 100
$address = 'wget -q http:\\www.xxxxx.com\'.$i
system($address); # system('wget -q http:\\www.xxxxx.com\a');

this will work for first few wget call after that my internet stops
working. Please can you tell is there any restriction in wget calls in
ubuntu.

Thanks
fido

UBUNTU 9.10
EVOLUTION 2.28.1

I have imported my address book contacts from Gmail into Evolution, and now
want to batch mail each contact's v-card to them for editing and automatic
updating. How would I do this?

I do not see a related Evolution plug-in. I have checked features in Gmail
and Plaxo, and don't see an obvious way to do this. Is there maybe an
OpenOffice spreadsheet or database method to handle this?

ANDY - Salt Lake, UT US

I msut deal with some annoying PPS attachments on a regular basis.
They have effects and whatnot. How can I configure Thunderbird to open
them in the soffice Presenter editor, NOT the viewer, so that I can
browse the slides without effects?

Thanks!

http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/7735/tablehow.png

i just can't write this table in html code.. :\

how can i make it?

Hi All,

Originally I am using Ubuntu Karmic with no swap partition / swap file.
The Ubuntu system automatically initializes a 500M Ram Swap for me. Recently
I manage to create a 2G Swap Partition and install the Swap Partition by
adding a line in /etc/fstab.

However, after booting my system, I find that there are in fact 2 swaps
on my system --- the Ram Swap and the Swap Partition.

How can I tell Kubuntu to use 1050*1680 screen resolution when it does
not show in the available screen resolution options? As there is no
more xorg.conf file, I don't know where to add the necessary
resolution.

Not that this machine _had_ the right resolution until I plugged in
the KVM. It was working fine for months, then today I plugged in the
KVM and the 1050*1680 screen resolution is just gone.

Hallo ubuntuuser,

kann mir jemand eine gute und ausführliche Anleitung zur Installation
von ftpd empfehlen?

Das Programm würde ich gern unter OpenBSD verwenden.
Da die Dokumentation unter BSD aber ehr spartanisch ist würde ich die
Funktionsweise des Programms gerne unter Ubuntu durchspielen.

Lg

Jan

Folks,

I have been watching the thread on the zero space problem and when I saw the
note about ncdu, I decided that it might be a good thing to have. So..

I like it! I was able to recover about 500MB of space on one of my systems that
was used by an application I had forgotten about. Not a lot of space but when
you only have 32GB every MB counts!

In the process I discovered that on two of the four systems it reports an error
in the directory .gvfs for the home directory of a user(not the same user).

Hey guys...
A friend of i was using a free internet on his hand phone...i try to figure it out but i dont know where to start and all the proxy setting i try was useless...
He give me a hint and he said he got it from ubuntu...
Plsss guys teach me how to do it...
Since i knew i could make an oline conection to desktop via mobile phone,I would like to use it to start a small online marketing but broadband is still out of our budjet.
Plss guys..im only a dude trying to make someting out of nothing.

hi all,
is flex is an linux alternative for Flash CS3 Professional?
im in a dire need to do some actionscript programming in ubuntu. please
suggest me some good applications.

thanks a lot.

Hello,

I am Eldho George. I am a new user of ubuntu 6.10. I am using
Lenovo y510 laptop the default OS is MS Vista Home Premium which is
working properly. When tried to use Ubuntu 6.10 the sound card of my
system is not working properly. It detected properly but the sound is
not comming properly while listening music or watching movies. Please
tell me what should i do to solve this problem. Expecting your
immediate replay

Eldho George

Hi,

Synaptic: "The DEB program package linux-doc includes Linux kernel
specific documentation for version 2.6.31. -- The DEB program package
linux-source-2.6.31 includes Linux kernel source for version 2.6.31 with
Ubuntu patches."
So, does linux-source-2.6.31 contain a superset of linux-doc? Can I
delete linux-doc if I have linux-source-2.6.31 installed?

For example both include the same file BUG-HUNTING.

Kind regards,
Detlef Lechner

*I downloaded the alpha 3 and burned it on cd but could not install it
although the cd was checked and it worked as ' live '. Then* *did a full
install of Ubuntu 9.10 and upgraded it to the 10.04 alpha 3 which works
flawlessly.*
*Just cannot wait for the distribution release.*
*People desiring to try the new alpha may follow the procedure adopted by
me.
Cheers,
Farid Ansari
Karachi, Pakistan*

In The Name Of God The compassionate merciful

Hello;

There is folder contains karmic and juaunty packages , how to separate the
jaunty packages from the karmic packages?

Regards dehqan

I'm running 8.04 LTS server 64bit and was trying to get Skype running
properly. I read that in order for this to work I would need to set up pulse
audio. I installed pulse from the repo and followed the instructions given
at this link -
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio

But now I don't have sound on any application... Odd part is if I go into
the sound control and play test sounds, they all come through fine.
Anyone have any other net docs on this or have some information on how to
fix this correctly ?

Hello,

May be this question has nothing to do with Ubuntu in general, but someone
probably give good advice.

Recently I have purchased one seagate 640GB portable hard-drive and most of
the time ( > 95% ) I work on
Linux ( Ubuntu of course ). So

1. Is it advisable to format the disk with ext4 fileformat ? I use Ubunbu
9.10 right now.

2. If I reformat my disk for ext4 filesysystem, will I loose "preloaded
backup and encryption software".
and file synchronization. If yes, what alternate shall I have ?

Hello, I am using Thunderbird 3.0.1 and I do not care for how it
works. I would like to go back to an older version with a simpler way to
operate.

Thanks Karl

I've noticed that the Ubuntu 10.04 screenshots show the GTK window
chrome min/mix/close buttons on the left instead of the right. I
suppose that they are trying to emulate the Mac (the wallpaper
suggests this as well) however it looks like they are doing it wrong.
The reason those buttons are on the right in Windows is because being
near (and closer to the screen edge than) the Main Menu those buttons
will get pressed accidentally (See Fitt's law). As a Hebrew user, with
some applications putting them on the left and others putting them on
the right, I know all about this issue.

Which is harder on your system when X freezes?

Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or Ctrl+Alt+Delete?

You decide. Oh wait, you can't decide this is Ubuntu...

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XorgCtrlAltBackspace

I have upgraded my workstation to Ubuntu 9.10 server with 2.6.31-20-server
kernel. I have a HP Smart Array 642 card in my machine. The kernel doesn't
pick up the card anymore, there is no /dev/cciss directory with the device
files for my hard drives connected to this card. I would appreciate it if
someone can tell me what to do or where to read in order to rectify this
problem.

Thanks in advance

I am a Kubuntu user, I do not have Gnome installed. In order to change
the GTK theme, what is the name of the executable that I'd have to
run? Thanks.

Note that my goal is to configure the GTK theme to Clearlooks, so even
just knowing which config file to edit would help too.

Hello all,

I'm looking for a way to rename a bunch of files. I've searched but I
haven't found any references on what I would like to be doing. Maybe there
isn't a way to do what I am thinking.

I would like to rename files by adding the directory name where a particular
file is located to the filename. So in a situation like this, where I have:

/A/B/1.txt
/A/B/2.txt
/A/C/1.txt
/A/C/2.txt

I would like to have all the *.txt files renamed to reflect which directory
they are in like so

/A/B/B1.txt
/A/B/B2.txt
/A/C/B1.txt
/A/C/B2.txt

Have anyone ever done this before?

I got some updates this afternoon on my Lucid alfa and the
background which had been a nice light brown was changed by
one of the updates to a dark purple on the left side and a
light purple on the right side.

Is this a problem or a feature?

Hello,

In the ext4/fsync/rename discussion, Ted Ts'o states that if an
application wants to guarantee that the new version of a file will
be present after a crash, it needs to

fd = open(”foo.new”, O_WRONLY);
write(fd, buf, bufsize);
fsync(fd);
close(fd);
rename(”foo.new”, “foo”);

and do an additional fsync to the containing directory.

Now, I am trying to do that from perl.

support, not for general discussions"
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How old and/or dirty is the mouse? Sometimes they get dirty and the
button with have some dust so that it works sometimes and not others.

-- Douglas E Knapp Thank you Douglas. The wireless unit with mouse and
keyboard is new and not dirty. Recently I changed batteries inside the
mouse. It worked ok in Ubuntu 8.04 but not in 9.04 and 9.10.

hi, since i compiled the newest kernel 2.6.33 the iwl3945 driver does
not load the microcode anymore. this has worked up till 2.6.32.9
any ideas?

the driver loads, but in dmesg the following 2 line are missing and
ifconfig show no interface

thanks _hans

Using Ubuntu 9.04 (32-bit version)

Is it possible to have a local cache/ "repository" of all -

1) Updates (Critical, Security, Bug-fixes), and
2) Additional installed deb's (that were installed through Synaptic/
additional third-party repo's) e.g. Opera, Adobe Reader, VLC Player, Google
repo, etc.

I installed, uninstalled and re-installed Ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu 9.10,
Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows XP Pro again and again because the mouse won't
catch when being clicked. When the OS was freshly booted up, it worked
ok and then a moment later, it quitted working. Then I tried Ubuntu
8.04 and the mouse worked! Does this ring a bell?
My PC is home assembled with ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS motherboard, AMD Athlon
64 X2 CPU. 4 gb ram and 320 gb SATA hard drive. Me an old dog
struggling to learn a new trick.

Seems it was a system error on my side... removed the repository & key
from my /etc/apt/sources.list, reloaded & all is working now. Still
curious as to what was borked, but happy all is working again.

Since upgrading to 9.10 I've had a lot of weird problems on this laptop. It
will sometimes Freeze and require a power cycle. And more disturbing, I can
be reading my email and the screen will go black and the laptop will
immediately reboot.

I'll also note that I'm using Chrome a lot and it seems I'm using Chrome
when it happens. Likely unrelated.

Nothing shows up in the logs.

Mar 3 16:56:43 tiger NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: end _init.
Mar 3 16:56:43 tiger NetworkManager: Loaded plugin ifupdown: (C) 2008
Canonical Ltd.

Evening all,

Been working on some code to clean up UTF16 encoded files and I find
myself needing to create a test file with some NULLs embedded within it.

I had hoped that (in vi) Ctrl-V followed by an @ would do the trick but
it seems not.

The :digraph command give me a nice list, but I'm still at a loss as to
how to get a deliberate NULL character into the middle of some existing
text.

Any clues?

- --
Steve Flynn

Hi Folks!

I am running UBUNTU Server 9.10 but I´m a newbie to UBUNTU.

After my login the following message appears:

65 packages can be updated.

30 updates are security updates.

How can I automatically update those packages?

Thanks for any help.

Héberson Sette de Almeida

the easiest way to do so is using: ps aux | grep process_name
but the problem is that ubuntu 9.10 desktop shows me two processes:
1 is the one i need, and the 2nd is the grep process was used when i was
looking forward to find out my process state.

Hi All

At work I am behind a proxy which I set using the proxy applet. Most
applications take this proxy setting into account. However if I launch
Rhythmbox from the menu, than is does not play radio streams. If I launch
from a terminal, than all is OK. How can I tell Rhythmbox to use the proxy
if sat by the proxy applet?

Hi Guys and girls,

I've tried Linux many times, but always went back to the Microsoft stuff as
I still believe it's easier to use (and no, I don't like Microsoft policies
in general, especially the pricing).

However, I need to run an Ubuntu system to be able to serve a customer, so I
(finally) managed to set it up in a VMWare virtual machine (again, I was a
bit annoyed as I normally use Microsoft Virtual server, but it did not want
to install the Ubuntu stuff, so had no option).

Now I just want to connect with multiple users (as with Windows remote
desktop) and seem to have to assign

Dear all:
I use ubuntu 8.10 and try to compile kernel by my self.
But I have the error message appended at the end of letter.
Did I miss any file?
appreciate your help,
miloody

kernel/built-in.o: In function `audit_send_reply_thread':
/home/harry/work/linux-source-2.6.27/kernel/audit.c:545: undefined
reference to `netlink_unicast'
kernel/built-in.o: In function `audit_send_list':
/home/harry/work/linux-source-2.6.27/kernel/audit.c:488: undefined
reference to `netlink_unicast'
kernel/built-in.o: In function `audit_buffer_free':
/home/harry/work/linux-source-2.6.27/kernel/audit.c:1022: undefine

Why does Ubuntu 9.10 crash frequently

Alternatively, use a "set -x" command inside the shell script... I
/believe/ most shells will honour a set -x command.

I'm trying to run BBC Iplayer with Ubuntu 9.04 and keep being told to
upgrade my flash to 9.0.115 or higher. However, when I try to download
and install the latest version from the Adobe website I get the message
that the Adobe flash plugin is already installed - I've also tried it
from the command line using 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get install
adobe-flashplugin' but to no avail - it simply will not allow me to use
the iplayer. Has anybody else found a solution to this frustrating
problem please?

Andy

Hi All,

Really stuck, will try and be descriptive a short so that you understand my situation.

I work for a major South African PC manufacturer, and I have been trying to play with the OEM boot option. With no success! :)

I can duplicate a hard drive at approximately 5 GB per minute using our fancy Wytron duplicators. The problem is that the duplicated hard disks only work if we plug them into the original machine.

Using Kubuntu 8.04.4 LTS

When I boot the machine, /etc/rc.local doesn't run.

root at arriba /etc/init.d# ls -l /etc/rc.local
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.2K 2010-02-14 18:31 /etc/rc.local

root at arriba /etc/init.d# ls -l /etc/init.d/rc.local
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 522 2009-01-23 09:01 /etc/init.d/rc.local

init.d/rc.local looks like this:
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
[ -f /etc/default/rcS ] && . /etc/default/rcS
.

I now have a working NFS between 2 computers using wifi and a router.
They are all rated as 802.11g but I am getting only 1,100 kBytes/s.
How can I debug this? What might be the problem? I don't even know
what info to post to get started.
Thanks all.

I'm trying to get a D-Link DWL-G520 (rev B) PCI card to work with
Ubuntu 9.10. Atheros chipset -- lspci tells me that the ath5k driver
is right for this card.

My problem is that if I modprobe this driver, my machine immediately
locks. Not sure that it's a kernel panic, but it behaves that way.
The screen freezes in place, I lose mouse and keyboard control.

I've tried both ath5k, and ath_pci which I've seen others suggest
elsewhere. The only way I can get my machine to boot with this card
in the PCI slot is by blacklisting ath5k in my /etc/modprobe.d/
directory.

I looked at the gparted image and was just not sure what to
do. I could see all the partitions and knew not what to do. I
did back up earlier today the whole thing so I was to take a
chance!

I turned on Help and there read about moving a partition
right. I did this and it took a lot of time but it was a
success! This was /dev/sda13.

Now with /dev/sda13 above the free space I was able to add 30
GB of free space to /dev/sda12 which is my /home/karl which
includes Desktop which was complaining about only 1.2 GB left!

So now Desktop which had 26 GB now has 60 GB.