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    [ubuntu] Re: What can Ubuntu Do For Me?

    Article worth a read:
    Linux is not Windows

    What can it do for you?
    Free you from the shackles of endless amounts of EULAs, for instance.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu boots into full screen

    When Benz and Daimler invented the car, were people amazed or did a bike "do the trick"?
  3. [SOLVED] Re: Removed/lost ability to SUDO ... how do I get it back?

    If your observations of having "lost the sudo ability" are correct,



    this is exactly what you want to be looking at.

    Did you change your username or are you logging in from a user account...
  4. [xubuntu] Re: Anyone know a app for saving streaming video?

    I dunno what file format and codec you're aiming at, but unless it's divx encoded avi, it ought to get saved to your /tmp folder once buffered.

    So just start the stream, mute the volume or hit...
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    [ubuntu] Re: ports not "open"

    Open port 21 via iptables
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    [ubuntu] Re: Grub rescue and no such device error

    Please post the exact error message the LiveCD responds with.
    Most likely it's a bad burn. Have you checked the md5 hash?

    Are you running the danger of losing non-backed up data?
    If so, boot...
  7. [ubuntu] Re: Is there a terminal command that kills all programs open.

    Killing all running processes would shutdown your system.

    Listing all running processes:
    ps aux | less

    Killing processes by PID or name: man killall
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    [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu boots into full screen

    +1
  9. [ubuntu] Re: how would i remove ubuntu from a dual boot windows 7 machine?

    Same thing.

    Wipe the Ubuntu partition and add the newly created unallocated space to some existing Windows partition.

    32 or 64 bit, Windows 98 or 7 - it's all ntfs.
  10. [ubuntu] Re: What will happen when I install xp

    http://www.virtualbox.org/
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    [ubuntu] Re: Changing "places" drop down menu

    Open an instance of nautilus (your file manager) and utilize it's "bookmarks" menu.
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    [ubuntu] Re: make problem

    sudo apt-get install ncurses-bin
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    [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu boots into full screen

    You have access to a terminal?

    The just run
    gnome-panel from there.

    Add it to System > Preferences > Startup Applications manually afterwards, if it keeps failing to start itself.
  14. [SOLVED] Re: How to mount a NTFS partition from terminal.

    That's exactly what the problem lies in now.

    Create the folder, either by the quoted command or manually in nautilus.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Desperate help required

    Darn.

    Problem appears to be more deeply rooted, eh? Sorry.

    If you get the opportunity to, cause the system works gracefully for a while, still do the above updating.

    Boot from a LiveCD. If...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Desperate help required

    It's beyond the scope of a forum thread to discuss the causes of kernel panics and I have no reasonable guess as to what went awry with you system after the latest update.
    Most likely it's some bug...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Stuck pixel in program?

    Could you post a screenshot, please?
  18. [SOLVED] Re: How to mount a NTFS partition from terminal.

    sudo mount /dev/sda3 /media/OS
    is theoretically correct syntax, leave the /.
    It would have been helpful had you also posted the error it results in.

    Does the folder /media/OS exist in the first...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Desperate help required

    You updated from 10.04 to 10.10 right?

    If that's the case, older kernel versions are still existent on your system but do not get booted by default.

    "GRUB" is your bootloader. After your...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Run recovery tool from Ubuntu

    In order to recover / backup data before reinstalling:
    http://www.knoppix.net/get.php
    http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Rescue_FAQ

    In order to reinstall the Windows OS:
    No, you cannot "make" MS...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Desperate help required

    Have you attempted booting from an older kernel version?

    Unless you've reinstalled, older kernel version ought to be selectable from the GRUB menu.
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    [ubuntu] Re: hindi font problem

    sudo apt-get install language-support-hi
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    [ubuntu] Re: Click window to focus not top bar

    Duplicate.
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    [ubuntu] Re: Click window to focus not top bar

    System > Preferences > CompizConfig Settings Manager > General Options > Focus & Raise Behavior
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    [SOLVED] Re: Clear out applications menu probe

    System > Preferences > Main Menu
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