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  1. [all variants] Re: Ubuntu 17.04: problems with wireless (VERY BAD !)

    I got my wireless working finally on 17.04 by going into network connections and setting ivp6 to ignore for my network.

    [ The image won't upload so here: http://pasteboard.co/oW62xUiK.png ]
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    [SOLVED] Re: USB disk and multiple users

    Don't quote me but I think it has to do with permissions in /etc/group.

    Try adding the kids account to the plugdev group.

    usermod -a -G plugdev accountname

    Maybe?
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    [ubuntu] Re: Trouble formatting flash drive

    You don't need to mess with filesystem types and formatting if you just write the image directly to the drive.

    Install ddrescue:

    apt install gddrescue

    Plug in your usb drive.

    Write the...
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    Re: Can't login into 16.04 after upgrade

    nvidia card?
  5. [SOLVED] Re: can't access apache2 server with security2 mod enabled

    /var/log/apache2/error.log seems to point to one of the modsecurity rules /usr/share/modsecurity-crs/base_rules/modsecurity_crs_21_protocol_anomalies.conf which says "Host header is an ip address". ...
  6. [SOLVED] can't access apache2 server with security2 mod enabled

    I have apache2 2.4.18 installed on my server with libapache2-mod-security2 & modsecurity-crs installed and configured. I can access apache locally on the server (127.0.0.1 [localhost]) with...
  7. [SOLVED] Re: apache libapache2-modsecurity or libapache2-mod-security2

    Never mind. Turns out libapache2-modsecurity is now a dummy package that points to libapache2-mod-security2.
  8. [SOLVED] apache libapache2-modsecurity or libapache2-mod-security2

    Running Apache 2.4.18 on 16.04 LTS server and was wondering which security module to use, libapache2-modsecurity or libapache2-mod-security2 (or both?). Most tutorials show how to configure and use...
  9. Re: Unable to install google chrome due to libappindicator

    apt-get install libappindicator1
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    [SOLVED] Re: Grub doesn't find Windows 7

    Make sure the package os-prober is installed before running update-grub.
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    [all variants] Re: VirtualBox and 16.04

    5.0.18 was released yesterday. It no longer requires you to fetch libvpx2 from wily to install properly. It correctly uses libvpx3 from xenial.

    virtualbox-5.0.18 (64 bit) for Ubuntu 16.04
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    Re: what to use now truecrypt is insecure?

    I use veracrypt (good suggestion above).

    https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/

    directions to compile the source here: readme
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    [ubuntu] Re: Libre office writer

    You can try clearing out the settings. Close Libreoffice, pop open a terminal, and run this:


    rm -rf ~/.config/libreoffice/

    Try opening a document now.
  14. [ubuntu] Re: 15.10 Mate has experienced an internal error - package Marco

    It's a known issue and will be fixed in marco 1.10.3. Ubuntu MATE 15.10 currently uses 1.10.2. You can add a PPA if you want this fix now:

    https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/test/
  15. Re: Failure upgrading Ubuntu 14.04 to latest kernel

    You're wasting about 45mb per kernel in /boot by keeping old ones around. Save this code to a script and run it to clear out all but the current kernel. You will need to use sudo.



    #!/bin/bash...
  16. [ubuntu_mate] Re: unable to install google-chrome-unstable via commandline

    apt-get -fy install
    dpkg doesn't resolve dependencies when installing debs so we call apt-get afterward to install anything that google-chrome needed. Using the software center or gdebi (dpkg gui)...
  17. [ubuntu_mate] Re: unable to install google-chrome-unstable via commandline

    wget -c -t0 https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
    dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb; apt-get -fy install
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    [SOLVED] Re: Ubuntu no longer giving me LTS reminders

    14.04 LTS will notify you of the upgrade to 16.04 LTS when the first point release is made, usually around July of that year. You will not get a notification to upgrade to 16.04 LTS when it is first...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Install package list.text on new install

    I've done it this way:

    getting my packages list...


    dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' | tail -n+6 > mypackages.txt


    and installing on the other machines...
  20. [server] Re: Ubuntu Server Installation: Error fsyncing/closing

    Make sure the GPT on /dev/sdd (your hdd2) is wiped. Gparted used to give me that error on some of my GPT disks.

    https://www.bfccomputing.com/zero-a-gpt-label-using-dd/

    Most of what I read...
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    [SOLVED] Re: help me to solve GParted error

    You can try this from a Live CD environment. Keep in mind that at any point your /home data can be lost. Make an image beforehand.

    See where the backup superblocks are:

    sudo mke2fs -n /dev/sdb5...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Purging old kernels

    Pop this in a script and make it easy. It removes all but the current running kernel:

    #!/bin/bash

    kernel_list=$(dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' | grep linux-image- | grep -v $(uname -r) | grep -v...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Upgrade from 14.04 to 15.10

    You can add these to a text file called ubuntu-1510-packages.txt and put it in the same folder as the script:


    account-plugin-aim
    account-plugin-facebook
    account-plugin-flickr...
  24. Re: cleaning up my "home" folder (is that my root partition?)

    get rid of the config files that were orphaned

    dpkg -l | grep -e ^rc | awk '{print $2}' | xargs apt-get -y purge
  25. Re: cleaning up my "home" folder (is that my root partition?)

    Save this list to a text file, call it kernels.txt or something:

    linux-headers-3.16.0-41
    linux-headers-3.16.0-41-generic
    linux-headers-3.16.0-45
    linux-headers-3.16.0-45-generic...
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