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  1. Re: Call for Testing Ubuntu GNOME Vivid on wayland

    Well I didn't test on a disposable installation. My results are very similar to the previous ones reported.

    Text sometimes misrenders, and usually hovering or selecting it fixes parts of the...
  2. Re: What is the better way to compare and contrast one's system with a fresh system?

    And how would you go about comparing both efficiently?
  3. [ubuntu] At shutdown, message suggests to use upstart instead of old /etc/init.d/

    Every time I shutdown, I get the purple console where all messages are print out, and among those I read


    I would delightfuly use upstart instead of the /etc/init.d interface, but I can't see how...
  4. What is the better way to compare and contrast one's system with a fresh system?

    So we all know that when a system (OS) gets out of control, the solution with less thought involved is to reinstall the system. However, this might not be favorable when the user has installed lots...
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    Re: Female Robotic Text-To-Speech Tutorial

    OpenMARY sounds so much better than the espeak voices! I think the robotic voice will sound a lot less cryptic
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    [SOLVED] Re: Multiple drive items (icons) in nautilus

    Yes the problem seems to be gone for me too. I stopped seeing it after I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 though.
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    [ubuntu] Banshee disappeared from sound menu

    How can I put it back? I don't know how did it happen.

    I already checked the file at ~/.local/cache and deleted because I couldn't fix the problem modifying it. Rhythmbox and Quodlibet still...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Unison - Failed to set permissions

    Hm, I bet you didn't restart the application after the first change, because I was able to add it to the end of the file and it did work.
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    Re: How-to for crontab

    Oh thanks, that comes pretty handy to me :) just one question, does it start at 00 by default or is that something one can specify?
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    Re: Female Robotic Text-To-Speech Tutorial

    Nice job! The female voice is a lot more clear! Sometimes I barely understand the other one!
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    TIP - Record all edits to system files

    Have you ever wondered how to easily record the changes you make to system files without taken much time from yourself?

    I did, and I have written a small bash script that I think is the solution...
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    Re: How-to for crontab

    (He was talking about selecting the editor from which the cron file is edited)

    I don't know if this was answered to you in the way I did below, as I did not read every page in this thread, but...
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    Re: Female Robotic Text-To-Speech Tutorial

    You can easily let it tell you the time by adding a cron job :) I did it myself, on an hourly basis.

    However, I did some modifications to my script, I think it sounds a bit better:



    espeak...
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    Female Robotic Text-To-Speech Tutorial

    Hi, I've been trying to get a robotic voice TTS to replace the default voice in espeak, which is boring and terrible.

    I have achieved a female robotic voice, which I explain how to obtain here.
    ...
  15. Re: [Volunteer Request] Dwarf Blast (Bomberman-style 2D game)

    Bump! Help wanted, python programmers and 2D artists are the main interest

    EDIT:
    For those who cannot view the video, here is a screenshot of the game:
    http://i.imgur.com/OyDey.png
    The dwarf...
  16. [Volunteer Request] Dwarf Blast (Bomberman-style 2D game)

    CONCEPT
    The game is a 2D bomberman-style game, with dwarf characters and a little of gore involved.

    LICENSE
    The game is open-source, and it is licensed under the CC-BY-SA v3.0 license.
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    [SOLVED] Re: Multiple drive items (icons) in nautilus

    Oops, I pasted twice. My actual fstab file does not look like that; I already corrected my post, thanks for noticing!
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    [SOLVED] Multiple drive items (icons) in nautilus

    I have a "Storage" partition in my hard drive which I have labeled as such and added to fstab. This is my fstab file:


    proc proc /proc proc ...
  19. [SOLVED] Re: Pidgin gets certificate error trying to login to MSN.

    Hmm, sorry to keep this confusion going but it keeps not working. As mizar said, everything works temporarily.
    When I visit the certificate page, even through https protocol, I get a SSL Error....
  20. [SOLVED] Re: Pidgin gets certificate error trying to login to MSN.

    This doesn't work for me :S The error persists

    [EDIT] After a while it started working, I can't tell how much because I went for a meal and when I came back and retried to connect it worked.
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    [ubuntu] Wireless not being start up

    I thought this would be fixed by now, that LTS is finished, but anyway:

    It appears to be random in some way, but sometimes when I turn on my computer, the wireless drivers won't get loaded. I have...
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    [ubuntu] Re: No WM or Nautilus at startup

    Solution finally found. I discovered the problem was home-dir related by making a new user and logging in (everything was fine there).
    So, I sorted through all the .folders (most logical thing) and...
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    [ubuntu] Re: No WM or Nautilus at startup

    (This post read about a solution I had found, but turns out it didn't work on the long run, I don't even think the previous post's solution works)
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    [ubuntu] Re: No WM or Nautilus at startup

    Ok, I discovered this is due to gnome using [gnome-wm] as a tool to start the window manager, whichever the user uses. Now, in the case of we the people who use [compiz], [gnome-wm] attempts to run...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Hardy... No Audio in Games (e.g. OpenArena)

    I think you have to install the SDL library compiled with ALSA. It worked for me. Its called [libsdl1.2debian-alsa].
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