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348 | 1 | 450 | 2010-07-29T11:47:20.750 | 5 | 2540 | <p>When Ubuntu 10.4 was in alpha stage, there was pyjamas package, which didn't work. I posted a bug on launchpad and the only resolution, was removing this package altogether.</p>
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352 | 1 | 355 | 2010-07-29T12:09:07.897 | 13 | 13711 | <p>I've used <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/rdesktop/files/">rdesktop</a> in the past. Is there something better?</p>
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353 | 1 | 360 | 2010-07-29T12:09:41.267 | 11 | 1520 | <p>I know I can edit gconf to move the [Minimize,Maximize,Close] buttons back to the right-hand side, but is there a way to do this for all users?</p>
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358 | 1 | 368 | 2010-07-29T12:39:11.067 | 114 | 100717 | <p>Currently I use the character palette applet in gnome panel to put special characters into text.</p>
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365 | 1 | 371 | 2010-07-29T13:06:34.677 | 25 | 2918 | <p>I've upgraded Ubuntu on my laptop all the way from 7.04 to 10.04 without ever wiping the disk. I have a sneaking suspicion that means I have a bunch of crufty packages that I don't use and that are just taking up disk. Is there any way to get a list of all the packages included that are beyond the base install?</p>
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367 | 1 | 384 | 2010-07-29T13:09:38.443 | 6 | 359 | <p>Every time I click on the application or system menus, I notice that no icons show up for a second, then they page in. Is there some way to explicitly tell Ubuntu to cache this? My SuSE (GNOME) desktop doesn't have this problem, but I don't know whether that's because they're doing something custom, or because it's ... | 242 | null | null | 2010-07-29T14:11:46.233 | Stopping the menu icon flicker | [
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369 | 1 | 372 | 2010-07-29T13:22:22.330 | 6 | 751 | <p>What's the general rule for when to install a package from the official <code>.deb</code> repositories, versus when to install with the language's package manager? The ones in the upstream repositories are frequently at least slightly out-of-date, but I also don't want to have my packages colliding with the "officia... | 242 | null | null | 2010-07-30T14:56:06.213 | When to use packages in aptitude versus CPAN/Gems/PyPI? | [
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370 | 1 | 391 | 2010-07-29T13:28:12.877 | 5 | 8704 | <blockquote>
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<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/25609/remote-desktop-similar-to-teamviewer">Remote Desktop similar to Teamviewer?</a> </p>
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374 | 1 | 385 | 2010-07-29T13:41:39.740 | 10 | 1645 | <p>I have all of them locked to the panel, but they keep moving around upon logging out and back in. So, for example, sometimes the Indicator Applet Session is farthest to the right, but sometimes the Clock/Calendar is, and occasionally the Notification Area is. This is a small issue, but annoying.</p>
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375 | 1 | 382 | 2010-07-29T13:45:04.600 | 6 | 2197 | <p>Currently, I can change themes and icons through the Appearance dialog, but this leaves things like the Skype, Dropbox, and Firestarter icons in the notification area unchanged. Where are these stored? How do I change them?</p>
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<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/25633/how-to-migrate-user-settings-and-data-to-new-machine">How to migrate user settings and data to new machine?</a> </p>
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395 | 1 | 396 | 2010-07-29T14:45:12.053 | 21 | 35008 | <p>How can I reset my keyboard layout after modifying it with <code>xkbcomp</code>?</p>
<p>Is there a way to do this without restarting X?</p>
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406 | 1 | null | 2010-07-29T17:04:58.450 | 9 | 2323 | <p>My laptop's keyboard has keys that don't do anything when I press them. How would I enable the keys, and add functionality to them?</p>
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422 | 1 | null | 2010-07-29T17:48:22.700 | 12 | 4505 | <p>What book would you recommend as a reference for Ubuntu server administration?</p>
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424 | 1 | 425 | 2010-07-29T18:39:05.420 | 57 | 95060 | <p>What does "Ubuntu" mean, and why did they choose that particular name?</p>
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426 | 1 | null | 2010-07-29T18:53:38.887 | 12 | 5831 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/64788/how-to-install-ms-internet-explorer-7-8-or-9">How to install MS Internet Explorer 7, 8 or 9?</a> </p>
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427 | 1 | 430 | 2010-07-29T19:07:12.930 | 38 | 29014 | <p>There are several programs only available on Windows. </p>
<p>Wine can be a negative experience, so I want to run Windows inside Ubuntu using a virtual machine. It seems that Virtualbox is the standard way, but I don't have any experience with it.</p>
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442 | 1 | 448 | 2010-07-29T20:39:03.040 | 20 | 2904 | <p>I use Thunderbird instead of Evolution for my mail client, so I'd prefer if I could replace Evolution with Thunderbird in the messaging component of the Indicator applet. Does anyone know how to do this?</p>
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443 | 1 | 445 | 2010-07-29T20:48:56.153 | 53 | 147011 | <p>I want to install a package (DigiKam), but it has a lot of dependencies. If I decide I no longer need this software and uninstall it, will the now unnessary dependencies be removed?</p>
<p>If not, how can I do it manually?</p>
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447 | 1 | 2108 | 2010-07-29T21:00:09.010 | 435 | 708662 | <p>Is there a way I can see all the versions that are in the archives that I have configured in <strong>sources.list</strong>. I can see the last version of each archive with<code>apt-get policy</code>, but how can I see them all?</p>
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454 | 1 | 777 | 2010-07-29T22:09:14.150 | 10 | 1529 | <p>I've been manually applying patches to Wine for use on my own machine, but I want to put it in a PPA for my friends and relations.</p>
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456 | 1 | null | 2010-07-29T23:01:14.360 | 11 | 9961 | <p>How do I make Evolution keep checking my emails and notifying in the indicator applet without keeping the main UI open?</p>
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459 | 1 | 461 | 2010-07-30T00:10:18.603 | 3 | 565 | <p>Is there anything simular to Eyefinity for Ubuntu? More the idea of turning 3 smaller monitors into one big monitor</p>
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460 | 1 | 559 | 2010-07-30T00:38:58.267 | 7 | 12928 | <p>I have a <strong>Xubuntu Lucid 10.04</strong> computer plugged in to my TV. I use the command line to administrate it.</p>
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465 | 1 | 466 | 2010-07-30T01:47:53.943 | 15 | 5786 | <p>I read on <a href="http://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-implements-units-policy-will-switch-to-base-10-units-in-future-release">somewhere</a> that Ubuntu will no longer use the familiar file size units we all know by now (kB, MB, GB, TB) and switch to a different IEC standard (KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB). If this is true, I wo... | 45 | 366676 | 2015-08-11T04:24:14.463 | 2016-10-24T09:24:46.047 | Why will Ubuntu no longer measure file size unit as byte, megabyte, gigabyte, etc? | [
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467 | 1 | 468 | 2010-07-30T02:43:25.120 | 5 | 11772 | <p>I would like to know if there is a package for <a href="http://www.sphinxsearch.com/">Sphinx search</a> hiding out there somewhere. Their download page shows various RPM's, but I was not able to find anything for Ubuntu.</p>
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474 | 1 | 476 | 2010-07-30T03:43:12.380 | 18 | 17824 | <p>I have a growing music collection which I manually keep in sync with an external USB drive. Sometimes I edit their ID3 tags, add or delete a file in either the hard drive or the USB drive, and I would like to keep those changes synchronized between both.</p>
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481 | 1 | 482 | 2010-07-30T08:10:55.430 | 756 | 630725 | <p>Simple enough question: is there some shell command (or GUI method) I can use that, given the path to a file on my system, tells me what package put it there? Assuming the file did in fact come from a package, that is.</p>
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493 | 1 | 10727 | 2010-07-30T14:21:24.097 | 8 | 1064 | <p>I tried to install the provider plugin for thunderbird, but it said my release was too old. I have the lastest release of thunderbird in the lucid archives.</p>
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494 | 1 | 497 | 2010-07-30T14:24:29.627 | 4 | 749 | <p>Where can I find such a plugin?</p>
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501 | 1 | 510 | 2010-07-30T15:33:55.393 | 44 | 17636 | <p>I'd like to learn and use LaTeX on Ubuntu. What packages do I need? What is the best editor for LaTeX code on Ubuntu for a new LaTeX user? I'd also like the ability to see the code in one pane and the results in a second pane, if possible -- not necessarily WYSIWYG, though. </p>
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505 | 1 | 507 | 2010-07-30T15:49:07.283 | 37 | 95525 | <p>Specifically, I have a <a href="https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=349&ra=true">Garmin Forerunner 305</a> (a GPS-enabled, hear-rate-monitor for runners). I plug it in to the USB port and it is not recognized by Ubuntu at all. I'd like to be able to have it recognized, so that I can pull the exercise recor... | 109 | 275 | 2010-08-05T18:47:43.853 | 2017-03-12T08:28:33.720 | How can I use my Garmin device in Ubuntu? | [
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513 | 1 | 43117 | 2010-07-30T16:19:02.817 | 53 | 25817 | <p>Do you know of any URLs for PPAs of Google's Go Language?</p>
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515 | 1 | null | 2010-07-30T16:53:36.943 | 9 | 3830 | <p>I need both running on one computer</p>
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517 | 1 | 518 | 2010-07-30T17:20:34.607 | 7 | 4758 | <p>and what schedule/sysadmin routine is recommended?</p>
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519 | 1 | 520 | 2010-07-30T18:30:26.597 | 56 | 193828 | <p>Does anyone know how to write a shell script to install a list of applications? It's a pain to have to install each application by hand every time I set up a new system.</p>
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522 | 1 | 523 | 2010-07-30T19:18:52.450 | 11 | 479 | <p>Both my desktop and server installation are okay. Am I missing something important that would make an upgrade worth the hassle?</p>
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527 | 1 | 531 | 2010-07-30T22:30:31.043 | 9 | 2777 | <p>I've seen some folks have errors relating to files in <code>/var/lib/dpkg/updates</code>. All I can find about the directory is that the files in it are numbered <code>0000</code>, <code>0001</code> etc. and that the error messages often mention "trouble parsing one of the files".</p>
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529 | 1 | 532 | 2010-07-31T00:33:04.720 | 56 | 72417 | <p>I would like to set up an APT repository on a server that will provide a couple of packages.</p>
<p>Is there a way to set one up <em>without</em> installing any software on the server?</p>
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533 | 1 | 548 | 2010-07-31T01:17:59.520 | 5 | 3454 | <p>Is installing the tree command line utility on Ubuntu server has security issues? It's not included by default on the server.</p>
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537 | 1 | 558 | 2010-07-31T01:54:21.163 | 2 | 6699 | <p>I just can't seem to get the .net 2.0 Framework installed using <code>wine</code> / <code>winetricks</code>.</p>
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540 | 1 | 541 | 2010-07-31T05:39:42.453 | 42 | 28762 | <p>at college we use Microsoft .NET for developing applications. I recently switched to Ubuntu and would like to know similar tools for making apps on/for ubuntu.</p>
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557 | 1 | 612 | 2010-07-31T13:07:23.380 | 4 | 4443 | <p>Ever since I reinstalled Ubuntu a few hours ago, I've experienced major visual artifacts with smaller font sizes in Firefox. The fonts end up looking like this: </p>
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561 | 1 | null | 2010-07-31T15:20:32.513 | 57 | 337595 | <p>I installed Firestarter, and configured my firewall.</p>
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564 | 1 | 587 | 2010-07-31T15:47:36.993 | 8 | 1357 | <p>I like to use Debootstrap for making sparse systems (usually a base for something embedded) or paravirtualized Xen guests.</p>
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565 | 1 | 573 | 2010-07-31T15:54:14.823 | 29 | 4536 | <p>When I first migrated from Windows to Ubuntu, by far the most daunting thing I had to do was use the command line.</p>
<p>Typing commands is an alien experience when you've only ever been used to pointing and clicking.</p>
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571 | 1 | 572 | 2010-07-31T16:13:22.703 | 12 | 2106 | <p>Does anyone know of a PPA that has the development version of GIMP?
I would like to try out the new single window mode.</p>
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575 | 1 | null | 2010-07-31T17:01:39.217 | 28 | 23885 | <blockquote>
<p>This question exists because it has historical significance, but it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site, so please do not use it as evidence that you can ask similar questions here.</p>
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<p>What free ebooks do you recommend to learn more about Ubuntu? </p>
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579 | 1 | null | 2010-07-31T17:33:24.360 | 28 | 1636 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/174292/how-can-i-move-all-the-window-controls-to-the-right">How can I move all the window controls to the right?</a> </p>
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<p>How can I move the window buttons to the right?</p>
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583 | 1 | 584 | 2010-07-31T17:54:37.707 | 3 | 2888 | <p>I have Windows 7. I want to run Ubuntu inside it and don't want to loose any data.. How can I do this?</p>
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594 | 1 | null | 2010-07-31T21:00:18.010 | 75 | 4394 | <p>Add blogs and websites that are useful in the quest to know/learn more about Ubuntu.</p>
<p><em>One blog per answer, please - you can vote answers up/down as you feel appropriate. If you feel the blog is biased towards or is good for particular tasks, please mention them.</em></p>
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601 | 1 | 602 | 2010-07-31T21:59:22.357 | 1696 | 1808126 | <p>I just added a PPA repository for the development version of the GIMP, but I get this error:</p>
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...
The following packages have been kept back:
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613 | 1 | 616 | 2010-08-01T02:43:51.123 | 5 | 266 | <p>So I tried following the steps <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete" rel="nofollow">here</a> to create a package to upload to my PPA. I ran <code>dh_make</code> and edited the files. However, when my package gets generated by <code>debuild</code>, none of the programs files show up in the package... | 5 | null | 2015-12-14T17:08:37.813 | 2015-12-14T17:08:37.813 | Trouble creating a package for my PPA | [
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615 | 1 | 618 | 2010-08-01T05:00:24.883 | 72 | 59460 | <blockquote>
<p>At this time, <strong>Wubi does not work with Windows 8</strong> default boot-loader. Thus at this point Wubi would not work on a new Windows 8 machine.</p>
<p><sub>Citation fom <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide">WubiGuide</a></sub></p>
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617 | 1 | 634 | 2010-08-01T06:01:47.583 | 2 | 636 | <p>I have a brand new ipod nano, and if I plug it in to my media center running Ubuntu 9.10, it gets mounted and I can see it in Nautilus.</p>
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622 | 1 | 623 | 2010-08-01T08:21:36.507 | 55 | 80799 | <p>Back in the dark days when I used to run windows I used to use MindJet Mindmanager and I found it to be very good.
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631 | 1 | 19696 | 2010-08-01T13:26:04.877 | 10 | 9367 | <p>I was wondering what is the best way to start the guest session from the login screen (GDM).</p>
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635 | 1 | 36904 | 2010-08-01T15:50:54.087 | 52 | 29940 | <p>I have installed Ubuntu on my D: partition using Wubi. Is there any way in which I can remove my Windows from C: drive and move my existing Ubuntu installation to C: drive and make it a regular install.</p>
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641 | 1 | 643 | 2010-08-01T18:54:38.573 | 10 | 2721 | <p>I have a Brother HL-2040 plugged into my Ubuntu 10.04 machine and an HP DeskJet 6540 plugged into a Windows 7 machine on the same network. Out of the box the Windows machine does not see the Ubuntu-attached printer and the Ubuntu machine does not see the Windows-attached printer. </p>
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642 | 1 | 938 | 2010-08-01T19:18:44.717 | 55 | 39470 | <p>I am currently doing some experimental work and I have a lot of data to trawl though. I use Gnumeric, and it's very good, but often I feel there has to be something better.</p>
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645 | 1 | 661 | 2010-08-01T19:46:45.070 | 258 | 668214 | <p>Is it possible to reset the connection of a USB device, without physically disconnecting/connecting from the PC? </p>
<p>Specifically, my device is a digital camera. I'm using <code>gphoto2</code>, but lately I get "device read errors", so I'd like to try to do a software-reset of the connection. </p>
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647 | 1 | 7684 | 2010-08-01T20:17:40.567 | 28 | 13551 | <p>Does anyone know of a good way to set up some sort of parental controls so that one user account is subject to them, but not another?</p>
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649 | 1 | null | 2010-08-01T22:29:47.800 | 13 | 3229 | <p>I installed kubuntu-desktop using sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop but I no longer want to use KDE.</p>
<p>How do I remove all the packages that were installed by this command ?</p>
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656 | 1 | 668 | 2010-08-02T00:21:36.603 | 29 | 63140 | <p>My <code>/usr</code> folder needs to get moved to a new partition. How can I do this without erasing the contents?</p>
<p>Can this be done while Ubuntu is running, or do I need to use the LiveCD for this?</p>
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657 | 1 | null | 2010-08-02T00:29:08.537 | 5 | 4341 | <p>Does Ubuntu support the full functionality of the Apple Magic Mouse? What bluetooth adapters work best? What are the caveats?</p>
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662 | 1 | 727 | 2010-08-02T04:34:55.267 | 3 | 957 | <p>Is there a way to automatically sync just my Ubuntu One music (and not the rest of my Music Library) to my Sansa Fuze mp3 player?</p>
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671 | 1 | 1264 | 2010-08-02T14:10:35.763 | 8 | 2087 | <p>Recently I upgraded from 8.04 LTS to 10.04. </p>
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674 | 1 | null | 2010-08-02T15:10:46.837 | 5 | 2051 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
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676 | 1 | 1074 | 2010-08-02T16:21:33.370 | 7 | 3539 | <p>I'd like to have a Samba server that appears as a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) to a bunch of windows lab computers. But instead of having the users have accounts with passwords stored on this Samba PDC, I'd like to have all the account information stored on our functioning LDAP server.</p>
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684 | 1 | null | 2010-08-02T22:27:41.180 | 30 | 811 | <p>There has been a couple questions here regarding alternatives to certain programs, and I'm sure as more people start using Ubuntu, and join this site, there will be more people looking for alternatives to programs they used in their previous operating system.</p>
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690 | 1 | 699 | 2010-08-03T02:17:12.017 | 77 | 64217 | <p>What different Ubuntu derivatives are there? And what is special with them? </p>
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691 | 1 | 696 | 2010-08-03T02:28:47.357 | 10 | 1731 | <p>At <a href="https://login.ubuntu.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">login.ubuntu.com</a> it says Ubuntu Single Sign On.
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692 | 1 | 729 | 2010-08-03T02:31:20.487 | 56 | 3543 | <p>I would like to know what kinds of contributions someone can make to Ubuntu. Such as Programmer, User, Proofreader, etc.</p>
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693 | 1 | 698 | 2010-08-03T02:37:36.320 | 6 | 297 | <p>I heard 10.10 will have windicators, what are they? How will they look?</p>
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694 | 1 | 695 | 2010-08-03T02:40:41.277 | 11 | 605 | <p>Are there any legal reasons for that?</p>
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701 | 1 | 1564 | 2010-08-03T04:37:34.237 | 8 | 696 | <p>I have two different mice (one is always used on the system, the other is wireless and moves between systems as needed). Unfortunately, the wireless one is much more sensitive than the wired mouse, and the mouse settings panel doesn't seem to have a way to set different settings for different mice.</p>
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703 | 1 | 1040 | 2010-08-03T06:09:18.890 | 6 | 965 | <p>We know you can either click on the show desktop icon or use <kbd>CTRL</kbd>+<kbd>ALT</kbd>+<kbd>D</kbd> to ask Ubuntu to show the desktop. Unfortunately, this does not always show the desktop in one action. </p>
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723 | 1 | 726 | 2010-08-03T14:20:18.680 | 23 | 10058 | <p>By default date and time is displayed by the clock applet on the top right of the gnome desktop in Ubuntu. For me this displays something like "Tue Aug 3, 19:45". I would like to change it to make the date terser and to include e.g., ISO week number - to something like 03/08-19:45-W31.2</p>
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725 | 1 | null | 2010-08-03T15:39:46.383 | 8 | 6087 | <p>I have Ubuntu 9.10 set up with multiple monitors. Unfortunately, the way that Ubuntu handles multiple monitors by default in 9.10 is by having a separate desktop displayed on each monitor (it is not possible to drag a window from one monitor to the other). I would like to set it up so that I can move applications ... | 63 | 25863 | 2012-11-21T22:07:41.383 | 2012-11-21T22:07:41.383 | Is there a way to have an extended Desktop in Ubuntu a la Windows? | [
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730 | 1 | 731 | 2010-08-03T16:31:38.473 | 182 | 792424 | <p>I'm trying to set up Apache Tomcat on my pc, and it wants me to set up an environment variable for <code>CATALINA_HOME</code>. Does any know how to do this?</p>
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732 | 1 | 736 | 2010-08-03T19:32:42.420 | 41 | 53155 | <p>I have a couple of cron jobs that sometimes produce error output and would like to get a notification in my "real" email account, since I don't use my user's mailbox in my Ubuntu laptop, but cron (or is it postfix maybe) keeps trying to email the local root account.</p>
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737 | 1 | 739 | 2010-08-03T20:07:43.160 | 11 | 1379 | <p>I created a package and uploaded it to my PPA. After it got built, I went to install it, but was faced with this message:</p>
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
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743 | 1 | 751 | 2010-08-03T22:28:09.047 | 108 | 144341 | <p>I am looking for a IRC client for the terminal that has colors, user list and just generally looks awesome ;)
Any recommendations? There are loads of IRC clients in the repositories and I don't want to download them all to find the best one.</p>
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745 | 1 | 762 | 2010-08-03T22:37:21.717 | 7 | 4389 | <p>I am having some trouble creating a package for a shared library.</p>
<p>I ran <code>dh_make</code> and edited the files. However, when I go to build the package, I get the following:</p>
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"body": "<p>The Makefile you are using is not respecting the DESTDIR variable - packages should never install directly into /usr at build time, but instead put files into a temporary tree.\nYou've mentioned that you added the Makefile yourself - the usual case is that you'd need to make it use t... | [
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748 | 1 | 803 | 2010-08-03T22:55:54.740 | 16 | 7493 | <p>I'm trying to make a new gtk theme using the murrine engine, using Humanity (default in ubuntu 9.10) as a template.</p>
<p>You can grab the code in <a href="http://github.com/tutuca/themes" rel="noreferrer">http://github.com/tutuca/themes</a> </p>
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"body": "<p>There is <a href=\"https://launchpad.net/twl\" rel=\"nofollow\">the widget laboratory</a> from one of my cohorts, Isaiah Heyer. That may be of use to you.</p>\n",
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