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    Re: Nvidia-current v. 310.19

    Interesting. First of all, know that if it's the bug I mentioned above, then this is a non-fatal error so your program should work. Nevertheless, you may be curious to find out what's going on. Let's...
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    Re: Nvidia-current v. 310.19

    Is your /tmp mounted noexec? If so, the update-initramfs issue might be related to Debian Bug #576678; at least it seems familiar.



    Does
    grep \ /tmp /etc/mtab show noexec as a mount option?...
  3. [ubuntu] Re: Oh joy , Oh rapture .. Major breakage me thinks :)

    Seems like either some of your repos are down or your network connection is spotty. You might want to run apt-get update in a while loop to make life easier. Here's what I use to update and upgrade...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Cannot lock screen - Ubuntu 12.10, Gnome 3.6

    You can lock the screen manually from a terminal.

    $ gnome-screensaver-command -l

    -l Tells the running screensaver process to lock the screen immediately
  5. [SOLVED] Re: [bash] [code review] Script to download and update iso's

    This seems to fix it:


    $ diff -Nru ../isodl-orig.sh ../isodl.sh
    --- ../isodl-orig.sh 2011-08-29 00:36:35.000000000 -0400
    +++ ../isodl.sh 2011-08-29 00:35:28.000000000 -0400
    @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@...
  6. [SOLVED] [bash] [code review] Script to download and update iso's

    I created a script to grab and checksum the latest iso images of lubuntu (alternate installer), debian testing (using installer build from sid), lmde (gnome) and crunchbang (openbox).

    Hoping for a...
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    [all variants] Re: apt pinning not working on lucid server

    Change to
    Pin: origin http.us.debian.org
    and for good measure:

    sudo cp /etc/apt/preferences /etc/apt/preferences.d/debian

    Take a look at the result of
    apt-cache policy | grep debian
    For...
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    [all variants] Re: How can I make my root partition Btrfs?

    Per the blueprint, btrfs support should land in alpha 3.

    Per the spec, installer support is currently targeted for lucid+1:
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    Re: Ubuntu 9.04 integrated GMail Notifier

    From the developer's blog: http://bleedingpaper.com/2009/05/13/gmail-notifier-release-v0-9/#comment-61
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    Re: Ubuntu 9.04 integrated GMail Notifier

    When will packages be available for karmic?
  11. [other] Re: Is there any distro that will run good virtually?

    Check out SliTaz http://www.slitaz.org/en/. It's similar in concept to Puppy Linux and DSL, uses Openbox as the window manager (in the "cooking" version), and provides a GUI without consuming too...
  12. [SOLVED] #!/bin/bash recursively remove *.BK\!

    I need a way to recursively remove all WordPerfect auto-backups from our file server every night. There has to be a better way than the following, but I was not having success with recursive options...
  13. [ubuntu] Re: Easily install Sun's Nimbus-0.0.12 GTK theme and icons

    Thank you for this! I was having trouble with the errors resulting from the instructions on http://www.vinodlive.com/2007/08/20/make-your-ubuntu-desktop-more-beautiful/, and was just setting about...
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    Re: Where is everyone from?

    Nyc
  15. Re: vmware-config.pl missing from repo install of vmware

    I am not aware of one. You could try the wiki or searching other forum posts. My guess is that the changes made by the Ubuntu packagers would be discussed somewhere in the mailing lists. When I...
  16. Thread: XP in Ubuntu

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    Re: XP in Ubuntu

    When I have had to boot into Safe Mode, my system appears to hang when loading the mup.sys driver, sometimes for 10-15 min, but eventually will move on and boot into Windows. Try giving it more time...
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    Re: Terminal Server or equivalent

    Sounds like you might need a Windows version that can handle multiple concurrent Remote Desktop Connection or rdesktop (both use RDP as the protocol) users, such as Windows 2000 Advanced Server or...
  18. Re: vmware-config.pl missing from repo install of vmware

    When installed from the partners repo, the script can be found here:
    /usr/bin/vmware-config-network.pl

    When compiling from a tarball downloaded from the VMware website, the script can be found...
  19. Re: Boot an existing XP (Physical HD) install with VMWare

    For the more adventurous, a gentleman by the name of Bob Brandt scripted the whole process - including a modification to the boot process - on the SUSE (SLED 10) Wiki:...
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    Re: HOWTO: Active Directory Authentication

    I had the same issue with Feisty. I forget which packages got updated, but AD authentication no longer worked, and it was most definitely due to updating stuff that SADMS installed and configured...
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    Re: HOWTO: Active Directory Authentication

    In sadms, stage 1 is to install SADMS itself (Samba server) and stage 2 is to install the PAM modules (for authentication to Active Directory).

    1. Sadms must be run as root (i.e. invoke with...
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    Re: HOWTO: Active Directory Authentication

    I have used sadms successfully on 2 ubuntu workstations and 1 server on which I put a GUI (Xorg). Let me know if you have any questions, and I'll try to be as helpful as I can.
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    Re: HOWTO: Active Directory Authentication

    check out http://sadms.sourceforge.net/

    It automates the process of configuring samba and PAM/kerberos with a GUI and works great!

    SADMS = Samba as Active Directory Member Server
  24. Re: HOWTO: NTFS with read/write support using ntfs-3g (easy method)

    There seems to be something missing in the instructions for adding the GPG keys.

    The instructions say to
    wget http://

    but seem to be missing a "-q", and should say
    wget -q http://

    You...
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