Ubuntu is a free open source operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
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Sierra Wireless AirCard 313U (AT&T Momentum 4G) on Ubuntu Linux
I'm trying to get a Sierra Wireless AirCard 313U (more specifically, the AT&T Momentum 4G) working under Ubuntu Linux.
I've looked at a number of pages so far:
How to connect internet using ...
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How can I enable readline for PHP 5.4 on Ubuntu 11.10?
I installed PHP 5.4 on my Ubuntu 11.10 PC like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install php5
It's working fine but I don't have the readline ...
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How can I pin point a USB file transfer bottleneck in Unix?
I'm experiencing very slow data transfer speeds over USB 2.0 on my nix box and was wondering how I can pin-point the cause of the problem.
I've looked into iotop and top but the cpu and mem figures ...
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Windows 8 doesn't boot up after trying to boot Ubuntu from USB drive
Two nights ago I tried booting Ubuntu off a USB drive after I upgraded to Windows 8.
This sent my computer into some weird panic mode, and it took me three hours to get Windows to boot up properly. ...
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Search for menu bar commands on Windows 7
Ubuntu's Unity interface has a feature called "HUD" that allows the user to search for commands in the menu bars of all applications. Is similar software available for Windows that can do the same ...
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Change windows files permissions from Ubuntu
I need to change a windows file permissions from Ubuntu, I found that article about it http://askubuntu.com/questions/195464/how-to-change-file-permission-from-ubuntu-wubi-install I did change that ...
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Converting FLAC to ALAC, preserving tags - in a script
I'm currently building a script to maintain parallel music libraries, because I have devices that can't play FLAC, but prefer to store my music in that format. However, I'm having some trouble with ...
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How to reboot Ubuntu in Recovery Mode from SSH terminal shell?
I have Ubuntu 12.04 Virtual Machine running in cloud and the only way I can connect to it, is via SSH using Putty. If I want to boot Ubuntu in recovery mode, is it possible to create some kind of ...
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Starting Redmine at boot using upstart on Ubuntu
So after installing redmine from the repositories on Ubuntu 12.04, i've tried to create an upstart script (see below) so it would start up at boot time.
While
service redmine start
does start ...
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Why can't I bind Ctrl-Shift-W in Emacs?
I'm trying to bind Ctrl+Shift+W to something in emacs under Ubuntu. Nothing happens when I press that key combination. When I call describe-key on that key combination, nothing happens.
Is Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu linux - new “MIDI” device diagnostic software?
I'm looking for software that will tell me if a particular USB device meets the MIDI standard.
I have a new Madcatz wireless USB controller, that I suspect will need a special driver before it's ...
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Redmine contex-menu and member deletion/modification failure
I'm using Redmine 0.9.3.stable (SQLite) on my Ubuntu 11.04.
It is all ok except for the context-menu and inability of removing the members from some project. Concerning the first problem, when I do ...
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kdialog --passivepopup notification only shows up after second message
On an up to date Kubuntu precise, my notifications will only pop up after the second one. I'm using:
kdialog --title "foo" --passivepopup "bar"
The first one is shown in the system tray only – the ...
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Firefox on Ubuntu repeatedly asks for password with HTTP authentication
I asked this on Stack Overflow and it was suggested that I ask here instead.
I have tried searching for this but nothing I find quite matches my issue. My wife and I run identical setups. We both run ...
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CPU usage according to lxde applet and task manager is different than top
The CPU usage in top (htop) appears normal but the task manager and lxde CPU applet don't. Here is a screenshot:
This is Lubuntu 12.04
Is this a bug?
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Analog Tv Tuner drivers for ubuntu
I was searching for the Analog usb (stick) tv tuner card for Ubuntu, but I have not found single such tv tuner card with ubuntu drivers available. I tried to search for the open source tv tuner ...
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PHP : curl is and Not working in ubuntu10.04 and Nginx
I am running Nginx server on ubuntu 10.04
I am using the php version 5.3.2 .I installed php5-curl using apt-get install php5-curl.
Unfortunately the curl package is not displaying in phpinfo() .
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How can I mount a sdcard and view it in /dev of a virtualbox guest
I'm trying to insert a SD card into my laptop (it's got a side slot for one) and have it show up on the guest machine running in a virtual box.
Host: Windows 7 64 for x86
Guest: Ubuntu 64bit
I want ...
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My new servers will shutdown instead of rebooting when I do init 6 or equivalent, any idea?
I have 2 new Supermicro servers (5037C-T) with Ubuntu 12.10 and when I try to reboot the machine I instead get a nice shutdown.
Interestingly enough, the reboot command in the BIOS or grub work ...
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How to create RAID array using Disks app in Ubuntu 12.10?
Ubuntu 12.10 has an app called Disks that used to be called "Disk Utility" and "palimpsest".
This tool used to be able to create RAID arrays, but on a clean install of Ubuntu 12.10, the app no longer ...
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How do I permanently map Shift-Right to PageUp on xubuntu?
I got myself a laptop and the keyboard is slightly goofed up because the right Shift key is in a place where I have typically had the PageUp key. So, I wanted to figure out how to remap the right ...
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Cloning Ubuntu mdadm RAID1
I would like to clone a pair of RAID1 drives created with mdadm. I've tried Clonezilla, but there's no native support for mdadm, so it resorts to using dd which is incredibly slow. I've looked for ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - Session.log filling hard drive
Here's a goofy problem.
On my Ubuntu computer the session.log and session.log.old files have been continually filling up the hard drive. I've got a 80gb partition for the OS and these logs have ...
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Seemingly inconsistent output from `top` re: Swap header vs. SWAP column
How should I interpret this seemingly inconsistent output from top re: swap?
Running free confirms that no swap space is in use:
$ free -m
total used free shared ...
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upstart node.js cant save files, wrong permissions?
I got my own linode server the other day and moved a small nodejs / express I was playing around with over from an aws linux. Everything works great, but if I launch the app with upstart it doesnt run ...
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Uninstall VM Workstation 9.0 in Ubuntu 12.10
I can't uninstall VM from my PC. I run from the command line
sudo vmware-installer --uninstall-product vmware-workstation
but the installer shows me this message
vmware installer could not shut ...
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emacs ansi-term is very slow
I'm running emacs GNU Emacs 24.2.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10) on Ubuntu 12.04.
When I open an ansi-term (or term or multi-term) buffer, and use it for a few minutes, it ...
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Computer stopped booting after I tried to allocate a drive to unallocated space
I installed Ubuntu on my Windows 7 yesterday and after that I booted to Windows. After that as I saw an unallocated space while installing Ubuntu, I tried to allocate that unallocated space to make it ...
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MySQL crashes when connecting from localhost with tcp (UNIX sockets work)
I have Ubuntu 12.04 running MySQL server 5.5.24.
I can connect with mysql --user root -p. status shows me :
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Connection: Localhost via UNIX socket
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When I try to connect with mysql --host ...
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ubuntu12.04 hangs at checking battery state
My 12.04 system hangs at "Checking battery state". At this stage, no commands work eg: ctrl+alt+f1, alt+f5. I ran recovery mode, I ran the command
sudo mount -o remount, rw
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
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Keyboard Issue with Synergy, Oracle Virtual Box & Linux Hosts
I'm getting weird behavior using synergy with Oracle Virtual Box VM over Linux Ubuntu systems.
My setup has
A Ubuntu Linux 11.04 (synergy server) with US International keyboard layout ...
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Playing and recording a live stream from another computer webcam using VLC/FFmpeg
I was trying lately to set a video server on one machine and play it in a differen machine, it works with me.. but the problem is that it always stuck and become jammed in the middle .. and it is very ...
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ffmpeg/avconv crashes when video frame isn't expected size
I'm capturing my webcam using ffmpeg/avconv, but I keep running into this problem:
The v4l2 frame is 828212 bytes, but 829440 bytes are expected
And then it crashes. It should just skip that frame, ...
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can I restore windows via ubuntu
I have a dual boot configuration with Windows 7 and Ubuntu.
My Windows 7 installation won't load after some Windows updates, Startup repair will not work (startuprepairoffline), and System Restore ...
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Access to certain files but not others
Hoping someone can help me as I have, thus far, been unable to solve the issue.
I am running a media center utilizing Ubuntu 12.04.
I was initially successful accessing media files from the ...
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Missing characters when printing in linux
I have a pdf that I was printing recently, and on the final printout there is a single character that doesn't print. It is the greek letter phi, and the pdf was built with pdflatex. The phi shows up ...
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Wifi connected but no data transfer
I have a Desktop which runs on Windows XP and a laptop which runs in Ubuntu. Recently I have set up a wireless router in order to be able to access internet on my laptop through wifi. The laptop ...
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Ubuntu Live-CD won't find my harddrive
My laptop crashed (Sony Vaio) and I had a lot of important files that I need to recover. I got a suggestion from a friend that I can try to recover them with a Ubuntu Live-CD.
I downloaded both ...
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Mouse movement in KVM is much slower than VirtualBox, any work arounds?
I'm running KVM in latest Ubuntu, mouse seems pretty slow compared to host machine, the cursor looks "heavy" to me,
Anyone know what could possibly wrong ? I use a wireless mouse that connects ...
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How can I boot directly into an application?
How can I disable and hide all menus for a specific user and start only one program?
What I mean is, I would like my user to login and see only the background image and the one program that the ...
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AC3 & DTS Output Produces Buzzing/Noise Using a52 ALSA Plugin in Pulseaudio
Note: I hope this is the right site to ask it on, as I'm using ubuntu 12.04 64bit but assumably this is a general linux/alsa configuration question.
I've followed the guide at ...
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Boot records messed on dual boot (win7 and ubuntu) machine with SSD and HDD
I have a Lenovo Ideapad y570 with two hard drives: SSD and normal HDD both managed by RapidDrive and Windows 7 pre-installed.
First, I have shrunk my 500 GB HDD a little bit to make some place for a ...
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Epson TM-T88V formatting issues
I set up a little machine running Ubuntu Server 12.04 with an Epson TM-T88V plugged into it directly. At first I was able to print fine (using lp) but the auto-cutter wasn't working. I realized it ...
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Chrome in Xmonad - Mouse Unresponsive
I have Xmonad installed on Ubuntu 10.10.
When using google Chrome, sometimes the mouse becomes unresponsive (only inside chrome). The problem goes like this:
I have several tabs open
Click with the ...
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Do HP Elitebooks allow to switch off Optimus from BIOS?
I'm checking which HP EliteBook (among 8740w,8760w) gives the possibility to switch off Optimus in the BIOS (need it to simplify CUDA development under Ubuntu). Or even better, is there a list of the ...
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Why are my images getting corrupted in ubuntu?
I have a netbook running as a server for some web development I do. It's running Ubuntu.
Whenever I put images on it, they get corrupted and do not display correctly.
I've viewed them properly on ...
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Ubuntu - how to setup hot-spot?
I'm looking for a suitable WiFi nano dongle so as to enable my Linux single board computer (Raspberry Pi) to act as a WiFi hotspot.
I've tried scouring the internet in search of information.
Would ...
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Can't get webcam working (VirtualBox Ubuntu 11.10 on Mac OSX 10.6.8)
I installed the Guest Additions, installed the isight-firmware-tools by using the AppleUSBVideoSupport file but I still can't get access to the iSight webcam.
When I launch >vlc v4l2:///dev/video0 I ...
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xmodmap confusion betwen AltGR and Left Control
I'm having trouble making AltGr work on ubuntu so I can type 3rd level characters (@£§,{[],etc)
it so happens that RCtrl+RAlt don't work either so I have no way of typing such characters.
My RCtrl ...
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When and where does Wubi mount it's virtual disks?
My use of the wubi-new-virtual-disk command made Wubi start mounting this new virtual home disk over my /home folder. After the use of the script failed, I am left with Wubi constantly remounting an ...
