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    User title "ubuntu developer"as

    When I quit the forum staff, I blanked my user title in the database manually. I think "ubuntu developer" was one of the available options though. I've been a MOTU for two years. Can someone set me...
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    [ubuntu] Re: 11.10 wired network problem

    The first immediately obviously wrong thing on annalee's machine when I got here was that the r8168 file in the modules dir ended in .o instead of .ko. I renamed it as appropriate and attempted to...
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    Re: Which field for woman to start own business?

    A computer repair business seems to be working well for one of the women involved in the Ubuntu Women Project.
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    Re: Portable players with Ogg Vorbis support

    I've had a Cowon iAudio 7 and a Cowon D2. The iAudio didn't break; it got stolen. Both quite nice.
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    Re: Idea for Senior Project?

    Would help if you said what your major is...
  6. Re: What is the difference between 'color' and 'colour' ?

    Before or after the Republic of Ireland got independence? There are probably a lot more if you include the RoI.
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    Re: Help a noob with KDE 3.3 Install

    3.3 hasn't been around in... 6 years at least. You realise you'd be running completely unpatched, insecure, buggy software...right?

    Anyway, I think if you can dig up a copy of Slackware 9.1, it...
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    Re: forum moderator violating rules

    I figure it'd be really sketchy if I actually did delete the thread, so...posting this.
  9. Re: What is the difference between 'color' and 'colour' ?

    The Atlantic Ocean.

    I'm American, and when I was a kid and learned metric in school, I thought it was great because of the units being smaller, so I could be more precise. My dad wasn't too happy...
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    Re: What happened to www.linux.org?

    Because linux.com is the official page run by the Linux Foundation while linux.org is just some squatter site that last I checked scolded visitors if they didn't include the "www." and was supported...
  11. Re: Question about buying from the ubuntu store?

    Yes you can be charged for customs. How much it'd be is a question for your government though.
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    Re: Stop Unity... Yes? No?

    Sure sure having to move the mouse 3 times instead of 1 isn't a problem blah blah whatever.

    Except if you use focus follows mouse. Then your focused window changes as you try to move the mouse...
  13. Re: glib-warning on process 290 and problem with suspend/resume on Zareason Terra HD

    Needing to click the button to suspend is a known bug. I believe some kernel people are looking at it.

    The glib error is harmless. It gives that error whether it finishes booting or not, you just...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Scanning in Image Scan for Linux

    That's my blog, but nowadays I highly recommend Simple Scan. Click a button, and it scans the page. Click the button again, and it scans the next page. Click "Save" and you get a multi-page PDF.
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    [all variants] Re: ZaReason Verix 1656

    This isn't really a support request, so probably shouldn't be in this part of the forum...

    So you know, ZaReason has their own forums for these sorts of questions: laptop section of ZaReason...
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    Re: What other "kind" of geek are you

    Welcome!
  17. Thread: FOSS Licensing

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    Re: FOSS Licensing

    I use GPL so people can't mooch.
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    [ubuntu] Re: This suddenly happened :[

    Any of you considered filing a bug on the Synaptics driver?

    ubuntu-bug xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
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    [other] Re: Considering a system 76 laptop...

    I don't have an Alto, but I bought my UltraLap from them 2 years ago. My brother bought the same one a couple of months later because mine's so nice :) I'm intending to buy a Terra HD when they're...
  20. Re: Ever Get irritated with being mistaken for male online?

    Ah yes, the solution to people being jerks is not to fix the jerks...it's to fix their targets.

    Likewise, bullies should not be punished by the teacher for being bullies, but rather nerds should...
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    Re: Cry of frustration: Why ubuntu devs, why?

    What configuration error is this? Are you giving a modprobe option in your /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf or something? What was your bug report number? Whoever marked it as a duplicate was Doing...
  22. Thread: Ubuntu + sound

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    Re: Ubuntu + sound

    There is now a Pulse-aware version of Skype. That might help you. But I don't think Ubuntu developers can do much about it if proprietary software developers (remember, Flash and Skype are...
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    Re: Cry of frustration: Why ubuntu devs, why?

    Companies that make hardware do stupid things like not properly setting up the sound card's info in the BIOS, calling 2 different sound devices the same model numbers so that they can't be...
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    Re: Do you install Beta 1 of every new version?

    Usually for me it's Alpha 1, and then yeah eventually I end up at Beta 1. Beta's too late to report bugs and expect they'll be fixed before release (unless they're *really* critical)

    I think I've...
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    Re: I'm stunned how good KDE is.

    Well if you don't have network shares to worry about... then you're just left with Dolphin's nicer UI (yay split pane! can't drag stuff from tab to tab easily in Nautilus)
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