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As an aside, if you work on the upstream packages, fixing the docs to make them more user friendly may be met with some resistance, but if you can make them more user friendly while making the...

Absolutely! There are several ways to contribute to the Ubuntu Community that do not require you to be a programmer. Helping with the Official Ubuntu Docs (xml DocBook based), man pages, and...

My 2 cents on the matter is that if you decide to link the sticky or suggest googling, then do it in an instructional manner. In other words:
1. Try googling "foo"
2. Try looking at this...

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though Firefox is better than IE its not perfect. Using the noscripts extension is highly recommended.

it is very common practice to set a dns "alias" to www.somedomaain.tld . In this case ubuntuforums.org is the same as www.ubuntuforums.org. In some sites mail, www, and other services are handled on...

Actually telling people to search is a valid response, as long as it is done in a helpful way. For example try googling <search_terms>. For the most part we do discourage the stick RTFM and google it...

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Debian was my second distro I started using debian in 97 after starting off with slackware...

Actually you take it out of context. the important part of the clause was it ( the forum) is owned by Canonical. Thats why you should be amazed, RHEL doesn't allow such stuff on their official site...

Threads merged. the way to get support on this forum is not to make multiple threads and report a post suggesting thread merge. State you problem in a descriptive title and be prepared to give...

I would do:

killall firefox && nohup firefox > /dev/null
This allows you to close the terminal and sends the nohup.out file to dev null.


edit: Without nohup, closing the terminal will close...

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Much harder than reading the first post in this thread lol!

which cron is a fast way to tell if cron is installed. A good basic cron tutorial is here:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=102626 There is more to cron than is shown in the tutorial but if...

for a graphical application you must specify the display. also for cron it is always best to use the full path. You can use "which" to get the path

chuck@apocalypse:~$ which nautilus...

hehe actually I didn't. I figure since they found the thread they can find the channel :) its not hard *winks*

sudo apt-get install <package> or follow the included instructions if the program is downloaded as a tarball.

Polls generally don't work the package "popularity contest" has more weight. The Desktop Team is in charge of deciding what is in the default installation.

See the team's Wiki Page for more info.

WoW installation threads belong in the wine subforum, I'll move it now.

There is no such thing as a legal Vista live cd. Closing this thread because this discussion is against the CoC. You may repost in the windows discussion area but please make it clear you are only...

It doesn't matter- if the machine is hosted by a ISP/hosting service they will attempt to prosecute anyone and everyone involved. Illegal access is illegal access.

Hello and welcome to the forums. The BT is a friendly group so feel free to drop by the IRC channel and chat. Don't be hesitant to ask questions, everyone here is happy to help.

+1 You've outdone yourself this time:)

If you didn't backup your private key then you are out of luck. The public and private keys are different and you cannot restore or retrieve the private key using the public key.

new math? :)

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