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5 Hours Ago

mc4man replied to a thread Configure PPA's in General Help

If you are concerned about using synaptic for upgrades & still inadvertently upgrading unwanted from the ppa then I'd go with pining the ppa as...

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13 Hours Ago

mc4man replied to a thread unmount, safely remove, eject in Absolute Beginners Section

13.04 brought back 'safely remove', but only on hot-plugged devices, not those connected at boot As far as flash drives I've found that it doesn't...

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15 Hours Ago

mc4man replied to a thread Can't play restricted dvds on Ubuntu 12.04 run on VM Virtual Box in Multimedia & Video

You could open a terminal, copy & paste this in, post the complete terminal output if it 'fails' in some manner sudo...

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23 Hours Ago

shantiq replied to a thread Help burning CDs (Brasero, XFburn) in Multimedia & Video

if any of you guys are looking to copy music cd this is the most quiet way i have found to this day all in terminal RIP with ICEDAX ...

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1 Day Ago

mc4man replied to a thread Configure PPA's in General Help

Well you could install & use synaptic, it affords you a better look at what's upgradeable & you can pick & choose as desired. It also has an...

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1 Day Ago

mc4man replied to a thread Unity dash change in mouse behaviour when launching apps? in Ubuntu +1

From their current perspective & focus for 13.10 it makes perfect sense to have the default as is now. When they eventually get around more towards...

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1 Day Ago

mc4man started a thread Adding an additional user in Ubuntu +1

Currently on recent fresh installs it is impossible to add & enable (set password) for an add. user thru the system settings panel directly. The...

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2 Days Ago

mc4man replied to a thread Howto: Build the svn MPlayer under the latest release version of Ubuntu in Tutorials

You may want to check about whether live555 is enabled in 13.04 using the repo package(s). ( In 13.04 it's now built as shared so 5 or 6 packages....

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2 Days Ago

mc4man replied to a thread Smart scopes in Ubuntu +1

At least here find a number of the new scopes useful, many of which require online access enabled & the 'more-suggestions scope' However have no...

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3 Days Ago

shantiq replied to a thread Has get-iplayer just been broken? in Multimedia & Video

just to say guys the PPA has now been updated so all previous info is no longer needed all you need to do is to update sudo apt-get update...

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3 Days Ago

mc4man replied to a thread Unity dash change in mouse behaviour when launching apps? in Ubuntu +1

That was easy.. will invalidate bug

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3 Days Ago

mc4man replied to a thread Unity dash change in mouse behaviour when launching apps? in Ubuntu +1

It's currently working as coded, whether they will change for desktop installs no clue. Seen similarly in alt+f2, clicking on a command opens a...

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3 Days Ago

mc4man replied to a thread scrolling (smooth) has degraded with new gtk3 build (unity session in Ubuntu +1

Probably not, & just to note as current bug report may not may clear - this just affects a unity session, not gnome-shell

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3 Days Ago

mc4man replied to a thread How do you clear the recent files list in nautilus? in General Help

removing recently-used.xbel would also work as previously mentioned, though "Recent" in nautilus will still show the previous until...

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3 Days Ago

shantiq replied to a thread No sound from Rosegarden in Multimedia & Video

hi there salicet .... i explained elsewhere howto get started with midi in RG hope this makes it clear to you here and more detailed...

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3 Days Ago

mc4man replied to a thread How do you clear the recent files list in nautilus? in General Help

Best way to clear - open "Recent', select all > delete (either using the r.click > delte or shift+delete Not sure you can remove "Recent" from...

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4 Days Ago

mc4man replied to a thread scrolling (smooth) has degraded with new gtk3 build (unity session in Ubuntu +1

As not unexpected has returned in 3.8, seems to have gotten worse lately https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1184159

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4 Days Ago

shantiq replied to a thread How to convert audio file of type G.723.1 into wav format using sox? in Multimedia & Video

Hi S this is a phone audio file right? G.723.1 — Delivering Highly Compressed Speech at Near-toll Quality Adopted in November 1995 by the...

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5 Days Ago

mc4man replied to a thread GNOME3 Staging PPA in Ubuntu +1

The main issue here with 3.8 is that the unity7/compiz & file manager not handling the Desktop compo is not presentable, no good at all If the...

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5 Days Ago

shantiq replied to a thread FFmpeg Mplayer VLC - News & Howtos in Multimedia & Video

well Andrew me too no meat ; the animals were never guilty and do not deserve murder is my creed i am sure here we can get help again from the...

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5 Days Ago

shantiq replied to a thread FFmpeg Mplayer VLC - News & Howtos in Multimedia & Video

Maybe time for Windows or a Big Mac:KS:KS:KS:KS Just joking.... Soon gonna be a time ffmpeg can walk on water or at least has a line of code...

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5 Days Ago

mc4man replied to a thread Maximized Windows buttons Unresponsive in General Help

This is likely your issue - https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/1158267 It has a proposed patch & some comments mention workarounds on a user...

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5 Days Ago

mc4man replied to a thread Howto: Build the svn MPlayer under the latest release version of Ubuntu in Tutorials

Ultimately don't know if this mimetype business matters as mplayer works fine... & while there aren't that many packages using svn mplayer sources to...

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5 Days Ago

mc4man replied to a thread ld linker problem, PATH variable in General Help

The other question is why do you have a version of ld in /usr/local/bin to begin with?

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5 Days Ago

shantiq replied to a thread Unable to rip just one track in a CD in Multimedia & Video

well oxf let us not rip it but copy it to my mind the very easiest route here is this: load CD open folder manually drag track 11 to...

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