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    [other] New Gazelle Professional Laptop Thread

    I am extremely excited by the new Gazelle Professional laptop model released today. I'm hoping this will be my next laptop.

    Are there any third party reviews of the new model available or has...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Recovery of ecryptfs .Private backup

    The silence is ominous.

    Could it actually be impossible to mount a .Private directory backup outside of its original machine due to bugs or bad weather?
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    [ubuntu] Recovery of ecryptfs .Private backup

    I'm attempting to test recovery of a ~/.Private directory which has been rsync'ed to my backup server. I still have access to the original working ~/Private for comparison.

    I am unable to mount...
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    Re: Turn off (mute) system beep

    In a cafe now, annoying the hell out of everyone around me because Ubuntu beeps under mute everytime I do a failed Firefox page search.

    The blacklist method works for me now, but let me just say...
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    [gnome] Re: gnome-terminal via ssh fails

    I am also experiencing this horror. gnome-terminal does not work over an ssh forwarded X11 connection with 9.04.

    GConf is a terror.
    What registry entry do I set to go back to 1998?
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    [ubuntu] Re: Help installing tor on jaunty 9.04

    Why Tor fell out of Jaunty.

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tor/+bug/328442

    From what I read, Tor provided debs for Jaunty many months ago. The Ubuntu team rejected the debs...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Help installing tor on jaunty 9.04

    The protesters in Iran are actively trying to use Tor to protect their safety.

    There are many calls for people outside Iran to run Tor proxies (known IPs get blocked by the government).
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    [ubuntu] Re: Jaunty's update notifier

    What happened to the wide-spread usability principle that modal dialogs (aka, an unwanted update window) are BAD?

    The notification area IS an abused swamp (Shuttleworth's words) IN WINDOWS, where...
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    [ubuntu] Re: "WEP 64/128-bit Hex" in ubuntu 8.10

    I'm chiming in on this as a veteran of pre-1.0 kernel Linux. This Network Manager WEP situation is by far the worst I've seen in an Ubuntu release. I keep hoping the next update will fix it but so...
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    [ubuntu] Re: (Daru1,8.10) Where's Suspend, Hibernate?

    Okay, found the "Shut Down" applet in "Add to Panel", and now I can suspend.

    I have two power buttons on my panel - a red round one for logout, and a round grey one for "power" and suspend, etc....
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    [ubuntu] Re: (Daru1,8.10) Where's Suspend, Hibernate?

    I have the same issue after a clean install of 8.10, but using a home directory partition from 8.04.

    Searching for "can-suspend" and "can-hibernate" in my gconf-editor cannot find any keys.

    How...
  12. [ubuntu] Re: 3945 iwlwifi fails when idle - No STA entry for own AP

    I am also having this problem, exactly as described, on a Dell E1505n "Ubuntu Laptop" with Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG, using up-to-date Hardy, kernel 2.6.24-18-generic #1 SMP.

    Wireless...
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    Re: Websites Unsupported By Linux

    I also am unable to play the cnn.com LIVE feed, with the same "Unsupported Platform Error". Can't the HTTP browser ID string be forged to look like Windows?

    I am on up-to-date Ubuntu 7.04 with...
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    Re: Banner, Poster, and Sign Printing in Linux?

    I made an unfortunate type-o in the thread title...obviously I meant "Poster". *sigh*
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    Banner, Poser, and Sign Printing in Linux?

    I often want to print a large format image on multiple sheets on a normal printer, and tape or paste the sheets of paper together to make a poster, banner, or sign.

    I have never found a way to do...
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    Network Monitoring Tools Survey

    I spent some time trying out various tools from the repositories for monitoring network traffic. I was just looking for something simple, preferably console based, that would show instantaneous...
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    Re: Can't find GL/gl.h ¿where should it be?

    I had a similar problem, but more complicated. I think I may have actually encountered a bug in upgrading to dapper? Here are my notes and a fix;

    I've seen this described on a few forums...
  18. One Time Passwords/Single Use Passwords Howto

    I couldn't find any Ubuntu-specific info for getting one time passwords to work using OPIE. Turns out there is a needed option in sshd_config. Here are my notes that got me working on Dapper:
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