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I do have root on a separate partition, although doing clean installs every release or even every LTS makes the whole thing even worse than Windows, and it must be absolute non-sense to design a...

I have one particular machine which has been running Ubuntu for quite some time, since Ubuntu 10.04. This means that the distribution has been upgrade many times.

Since every new upgrade carries...

I am having this problem as well. Somehow someone thought it was a good idea to remove this functionality... It appears that one would have to use iptables to change the default port, which is truly...

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I just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 and switched to the Unity environment. So far, I am happy with most things. However, I noticed that I can no longer change keyboard shortcuts (are these also called...

I am currently running a lot of simulations and am always interested to speed things up a bit. My workstation has 2 hdds, 1 ssd-drive (sda1) and 1 mechanical platter drive (sdb1). Of course, most of...

I am wondering how to run a script on startup as a given user before logging in. I know that one can somehow edit /etc/rc*.d, or use the update-rc.d utility. But is a bit unclear to me how to specify...

I doubt there is any big disadvantages while using Wine. I use it plenty on my home computer. You won't install tons of deps as you do if you would choose to install a KDE (Qt) app, and some...

I'm not sure I understand. To turn a machine to accepting ssh connections you simply have to configure the daemon, sshd. Make sure you've double checked /etc/sshd.config and that sshd is running on...

Although I tend to lean towards the side on which a company who has locked itself so hard onto a single (flawed) platform will probably just do worse and worse as time passes, that is a different...

You did manage to shave off 62 MB or 33%, which is quite good imo. :)

As far as I know, simply wanting ext4 over ext3 alone never warrants a clean install. Ext4 just does not seem to be what it was designed and thought to be. :(

Unfortunately, if you run a properiatary driver in Ubuntu, VNC is broken by default. The easiest workaround, currently, is to disable desktop effects in Ubuntu.
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I suspect you mean that you need to have the terminal window, in which you type "matlab", open as long as you want matlab to run? I can see two easy fixes for this:

1) Start matlab from ctrl+f2...

I have had that error as well, but only while using Adobe Reader. If it now happens both in Reader and Evince, that's a major reason not to upgrade to Lucid for me.

You need to open your ports, or else you will never be able to communicate with your home computer.

I think what you are currently doing is to try and tunnel traffic from your computer to your...

I believe for some reason the system-monitor will max out one thread on your CPU. But on modern CPUs and OS, the load may not stick to a single core and may switch from time to time, but the total...

Which CPU do you have? Maybe you're unlucky enough that sensors does not support it?

+1 to that!

By default, firewalls are not necessary in Ubuntu as none of your running processes are listening to the outside world. However, as you start to install server-apps, you may in some cases want a...

Indeed, by default on *nix, Matlab installs with the so called "emacs-like shortcuts". However, ctrl+c should really override those shortcuts when trying to break a loop/run.

I vote for Thunderbird as well. Don't forget to install a plugin that lets it be minimized to the upper panel ("taskbar"). The plugin I am using is called "FireTray" and works excellent.

I don't know about giving each screen a name, but you can detach from a running screen section by pressing ctrl+a followed by ctrl+d. If you have multiple screens open, you can switch between them by...

I believe we would need more information about your issue. Which graphics chip are you using? And which drivers?

Actually, the -z flag only uses the gzip algorithm during transfer. It doesn't store the files compressed. :)