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49 Minutes Ago

andrew.46 replied to a thread opening vlc player in terminal window in General Help

A slight misunderstanding: 'pathtovideo' is intended to be the actual path to (or location of) your own video :).

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1 Hour Ago

andrew.46 replied to a thread Howto: Compile the development version of vlc under the latest Ubuntu release in Tutorials

Vovoid's vsxu visualisations now in place and I have added in a soundfont suitable for vlc + libfluidsynth, midi playback possible with this. I...

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1 Hour Ago

papibe replied to a thread changing mic port into audio port in Multimedia & Video

Check that the input and output you want to use are not muted. Open a terminal and run: alsamixer Regards.

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3 Hours Ago

varunendra replied to a thread Can't get wifi connection over 150Mbps in Networking & Wireless

6 Mb/s ?? Wasn't it supposed to be 150 Mb/s ? How about setting it to be fixed at 150 Mb/s rather than auto (which it currently seems to be set at)...

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5 Hours Ago

andrew.46 replied to a thread store dvds on hard drive and play back in Multimedia & Video

Best quality comes from simply storing a copy of the DVD on your HDD, takes a lot of space but quality is same as DVD itself. If you like the...

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6 Hours Ago

varunendra replied to a thread Wirless works, wired does not in Networking & Wireless

Like mentioned in the launchpad answer page I linked to, see if the IRQ (Interrupts) are set to be "Set by the system" (or "Auto" or something...

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6 Hours Ago

andrew.46 replied to a thread ffmpeg - Unknown encoder libfaac in Multimedia & Video

When I use aac encoding I spend some extra time and use NeroAacEnc, I am not what you would call an audiophile and my speakers etc are not the best...

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7 Hours Ago

varunendra replied to a thread Wifi won't connect on 13.04 with BCM 4313 in Networking & Wireless

Wah...?? :shock: That 'mixed mode' thing is 'Strongly' discouraged with Linux. Set it to WPA2-PSK only. To be honest, I only know about wireless...

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7 Hours Ago

varunendra replied to a thread Wireless (BCM4306) not working on Dell Latitude D505 in Networking & Wireless

While you are connected via cable, please do - sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source sudo apt-get install...

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8 Hours Ago

varunendra replied to a thread Wirless works, wired does not in Networking & Wireless

I downloaded the messed-up code for your 'base-64' image before CharlesA removed it. I fixed the code, and what I see WAS a terminal (see...

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9 Hours Ago

varunendra replied to a thread Wirless works, wired does not in Networking & Wireless

I think the above needs a slight correction, the last command (sudo modprobe -v tg3) should be the first. If that does not help, try a temporary...

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10 Hours Ago

sandyd replied to a thread Nginx + Google PageSpeed Builds for Ubuntu in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

Updated to nginx 1.4.1

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12 Hours Ago

SeijiSensei replied to a thread Ubuntu Server help in Security Discussions

I just did a Google search for "php.backdoor.trojan" and found many articles about it. It seems to be a problem with insecure Wordpress sites. I...

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14 Hours Ago

papibe replied to a thread no youtube video in Absolute Beginners Section

An alternative would be to subscribe to youtube's html5 trial. You would be able to play lot of youtube videos (not all though). Regards.

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15 Hours Ago

papibe replied to a thread no youtube video in Absolute Beginners Section

Hi adamAL370. Welcome to the forums ):P Close your browser, open a terminal and run these commands: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get updrade ...

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15 Hours Ago

matt_symes replied to a thread Ubuntu Server help in Security Discussions

Hi Do you have a known clean backup you can revert to ? I would really suggest taking the site down until you know exactly what has been...

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15 Hours Ago

papibe replied to a thread Screen: stay alive in General Help

Hi hojjat. I use 'screen' all the time. How are you launching your command? Are you launching as an argument in an screen command? Regards.

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15 Hours Ago

matt_symes replied to a thread Ubuntu Server help in Security Discussions

Thread moved to security discussions.

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16 Hours Ago

andrew.46 replied to a thread ffmpeg - Unknown encoder libfaac in Multimedia & Video

Mind you faac is not the best aac encoder to use anyway :)

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17 Hours Ago

varunendra replied to a thread Wifi won't connect on 13.04 with BCM 4313 in Networking & Wireless

That's a good news. With a new kernel update, either you'll get a fixed driver (by accepting suggestion from the "Additional Drivers" program to...

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18 Hours Ago

sandyd replied to a thread PDF editing in General Help

ImageMagick works with PDFs. Might be worth seeing if it can do what you want

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18 Hours Ago

sandyd replied to a thread App Armor Denied messages on clean install 12.04.2 in Absolute Beginners Section

Moved to absolute beginners section

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18 Hours Ago

HermanAB replied to a thread PDF editing in General Help

Howdy, Yes you can edit one or two of those using the Gimp, but it will take forever to do hundreds.

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18 Hours Ago

sandyd replied to a thread Skype in Absolute Beginners Section

run sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list Move down using arrow keys until you find #deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu raring partner...

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20 Hours Ago

Bachstelze replied to a thread convert uint16_t in Programming Talk

And just for kicks, which system call do you plan to use?

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20 Hours Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread PDF editing in General Help

As noted above, editing PDFs will be difficult if at all possible. If it is at all possible work with the upstream program that created the PDFs and...

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21 Hours Ago

matt_symes replied to a thread Ubuntu Server help in Security Discussions

Hi Yes. Take the box off line and then.. Read up on how to lock your box down. Read up on where the log files are.

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21 Hours Ago

sisco311 replied to a thread multiple issues with latest update to 12.10 in Installation & Upgrades

Thread closed. Duplicate: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2147892

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21 Hours Ago

sisco311 replied to a thread multiple issues with latest update to 12.10 in Installation & Upgrades

Thread closed. Duplicate: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2147892

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21 Hours Ago

sisco311 replied to a thread Access server from outside in General Help

Please don't post the same thing in multiple locations. Duplicate here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2147921 Thread closed.

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22 Hours Ago

SeijiSensei replied to a thread Ubuntu Server help in Security Discussions

What do you see in the Apache logs at /var/log/apache2? I'm very puzzled by the malware comment. Linux servers rarely have such problems. Do you...

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22 Hours Ago

SeijiSensei replied to a thread pgadmin3 restore fails in Absolute Beginners Section

I've never used pgadmin3, but I have restored PG databases from the command line many times using the psql client. Was the source created by running...

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22 Hours Ago

SeijiSensei replied to a thread Can't connect to school network secured with WPA & WPA2 Enterprise in Networking & Wireless

Have you spoken to your school's IT department yet? They are more likely to know the answer than we.

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22 Hours Ago

SeijiSensei replied to a thread Blocking websites with ufw in Networking & Wireless

Yes, but it takes quite a bit of work. Read this for more details. I'm testing the current 3.3 version now to see how well it works with...

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22 Hours Ago

SeijiSensei replied to a thread Video Export: Audio Scratch in Multimedia & Video

The AVI container works best with older MPEG4 technologies like DivX/XviD. Like Andrew, I'd pick mp4 or, my preference, mkv. On the audio side, the...

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22 Hours Ago

HermanAB replied to a thread is there autofix tool ? in General Help

Hmm, why do you think that you have problems that need fixing? You need to be a leeeetle more specific.

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22 Hours Ago

SeijiSensei replied to a thread Paid Linux software - open or closed source. Recommendations? in Ubuntu, Linux and OS Chat

As someone who has run Linux servers for over a decade now, my reason for using free and open-source applications has less to do with money than with...

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22 Hours Ago

HermanAB replied to a thread samba sharing in Absolute Beginners Section

Howdy, The best way to debug Samba is with a program called 'smbclient'. Read the man page. The advantage is that it will give error messages,...

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