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  1. [SOLVED] Re: HOWTO reinstall Ubuntu without loosing configs (even if /home not separate)

    I tried to upgrade to 12.10 and now the boot is broken and it won't get past the Ubuntu loading screen. Will the Reinstall option destroy any customized system files I have? Or will it be smart and...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Old Juno OLE2 email archives

    Ok, someone poked me about this and I couldn't find any tools to do this, so I wrote my own. It is probably incomplete/buggy/etc.

    https://gist.github.com/997075
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    [all variants] Re: NTFS symbolic links / IntxLNK

    I'd like to know this, too. I'm trying to migrate all my files from EXT to NTFS, but Ubuntu's choking on the symlinks. NTFS supports symlinks just fine, and Link Shell Extension is smart about...
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    Re: X11 forwarding with Xvfb

    That part seems difficult. :)
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    [SOLVED] Re: Tangerine media server Karmic

    Don't look fixed to me.


    ~> tangerine-properties
    Unhandled Exception: System.DllNotFoundException: libgobject-2.0.dll
    at (wrapper managed-to-native)...
  6. Poll: Re: Poll: Did you move your window management buttons?

    Wow, really? That's a pretty odd thing for a leader of "open" software to say...

    Voting on design decisions would seem to be the right way to do it. A lot better than a handful of (qualified?)...
  7. [ubuntu] Re: Archive Mounter adds ;1 to all file names in the ISO

    Well it was a pretty safe bet. :D That's the wonderful world of open source...



    Don't confuse "solution" with "workaround".
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    Re: HowTo: Find Orphaned Packages With Synaptic

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/17297
  9. Poll: Re: Poll: Did you move your window management buttons?

    Haha, yes it was. Just look at all the blog posts about it and hundreds of comments on the bug report.

    http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2515466779.html...
  10. Poll: Poll: Did you move your window management buttons?

    One of the most controversial changes in Lucid was the movement of the window management buttons from the "Windows positions" on the right corner to the "OS X positions" on the left corner.
    ...
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    Re: Qalculate for Windows

    Qalculate is great, but I'd like a Windows port, too. AndLinux doesn't work under 64-bit Windows. :/

    Another possibility is running a virtual machine and running Qalculate using Xming or NX to...
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    [ubuntu] Re: firefox gmail mailto

    Is that only in Lucid?
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    [ubuntu] Re: remote desktop viewer

    Yeah. Don't ever upgrade within a few months of an Ubuntu release. What are you, crazy? You might as well be a beta tester. ...
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    [ubuntu] Re: remote desktop viewer

    That's only for VNC or SSH, not RDP
  15. [ubuntu] Re: [SOLVED] downloading 8.10 language packs takes forever

    Mine's doing this, too. Is it possible to press "Skip"?
  16. [SOLVED] Re: Error The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:DrapesApplet"

    That's fine, but it's the opposite of my experience. I used to use Windows, and I switched to Ubuntu several years ago. Initially when I crossed to Ubuntu, I was pleasantly surprised at how well it...
  17. [SOLVED] Re: Error The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:DrapesApplet"

    I already did that in March.

    I've given it several years of being my primary OS, and no, it's not awesome. It's buggy, frustrating, and unreliable.
  18. [SOLVED] Re: Error The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:DrapesApplet"

    And it STILL gives the error after a reboot. I have to log back out and log back in again. Such a useless OS.
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    Re: Howto: Configure Pidgin for Google Talk

    this has worked fine for me for years, but now one account disconnects and says "not authorized" while the other works fine. empathy says authentication failed
  20. [SOLVED] Re: Error The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:DrapesApplet"

    That removes everything from the panel!
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    Re: Windows 7 after years of Ubuntu

    I've been running Ubuntu for a few years, and have been growing increasingly frustrated with it.

    At work, I've been running Windows 7 for a few months, and it's really great in comparison.
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    Re: Before ranting about bugs...

    Reporting bugs is a lot of work, and basically futile. Unless you expect everyone to go to school for computer science for 4 years, it's not something we can fix. So we try to do the right thing...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Which webcam should I buy?

    Eyeball 1.0 works there with Video 4 Linux 2, but not in Skype. Eyeball 2.0 doesn't work in either.

    They work in Cheese, but only at some of the resolutions that are listed in Preferences. ...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Which webcam should I buy?

    Really? Blue Eyeball doesn't work in Linux for me. Why did he recommend it?
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    [SOLVED] Re: VBox Information message on boot-up

    That's pretty weird, because now I'm seeing this message in VirtualBox 3.1.6 and Karmic as the guest. It doesn't seem solved to me.
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