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  1. [all variants] Re: How To: Wireless on a Fujitsu Siemens Li 2727 notebook

    To turn off the wifi, you should be able to type the following:

    sudo echo off > /proc/driver/acerhk/wirelessled

    It looks like there's still no support for the Li2727's hotkeys in any version of...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Are run-levels being phased out?

    Thanks for that, but the question remains: Are there plans to phase-out run-levels? I understood that this was one of the reasons Upstart was created.
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    [ubuntu] Are run-levels being phased out?

    I understand that with the introduction of Upstart, run-levels would slowly be phased out, and all run-level-style tasks put into /etc/event.d. But on my 8.10 system, it's still a pretty traditional...
  4. [ubuntu] Re: Cannot turn on wireless in FSC Amilo Li 2727

    Hi -- I've written an easy guide to getting wifi working on these annoying Fujitsu Siemens notebooks:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6205188#post6205188

    Covers both 8.04 and 8.10. It...
  5. [all variants] How To: Wireless on a Fujitsu Siemens Li 2727 notebook

    This should work for all the annoying notebooks in the Fujitsu Siemens range that require a special software switch to activate wifi, although it's only tested on an Li2727 notebook.

    These steps...
  6. [ubuntu] Encrypted /private directory -- backported to Hardy?

    Has anybody backported the encrypted /private directory to Hardy?

    And, more importantly, if they have, does it work properly?
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    [ubuntu] Re: Directory permissions

    Yes, that's right :)

    I used to think that the execute permission was about who can switch into a directory. A surprising amount of documentation says this too, and it's inaccurate.

    What the...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Directory permissions

    Thanks but I think you misunderstand because that doesn't answer the question. Did you read the first post in this thread?
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    [ubuntu] Re: Directory permissions

    I think this is starting to make sense the more I research.

    The execute permission is about ACCESS to a directory. If the execute permission for a directory isn't set then you can't access files...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Directory permissions

    I'm not sure I understand you.

    In my tests, even if the files were set to be read and write for ugo, it was still impossible to modify them (or write new files to the directory) unless the...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Directory permissions

    I found this over at a BSD documentation page (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/permissions.html):



    This might a rare example of Unix/Linux not being entirely logical, although I'm...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Directory permissions

    I'd like to hear what others have to say, but I'm reasonably sure that Ubuntu is doing things different from other Linuxes here. I hesitate to say but this might even be a bug.

    EDIT: Nope, same...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Directory permissions

    Yes, but surely that doesn't prove anything? Root can always do anything, anywhere.
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    [ubuntu] Directory permissions

    Please read through this entire post before making a reply -- it's a little complicated :)

    Let's say a directory called "test" has the following ownerships/permissions:

    drwxrw-rw- john john
    ...
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    Re: How much GNU stuff is in Linux?

    Hi -- great link, thanks. I'm primarily interested in how much GNU stuff is in Ubuntu, in terms of a recreation of Unix, and not so much allied projects like GNOME, which are really independent...
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    How much GNU stuff is in Linux?

    Hi

    I'm not a programmer, and this will perhaps be obvious, but how much GNU stuff is actually in Linux?

    I know about BASH and GNU C Lib, and how GCC is used to compile Ubuntu. But what else...
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    [ubuntu] Re: No hibernate on first-gen MacBook

    That says to install the Hardy kernel to fix it, but I'm running Hardy!

    I tried the steps at the end but they don't work and, besides which, are designed to help the computer wake up from...
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    [ubuntu] No hibernate on first-gen MacBook

    Hibernate won't work on my first-gen MacBook (CD 1.83GHz).

    The screen blanks, and I'm left with a flashing cursor. Then the fan ramps up until it's blowing at full-speed and nothing much happens...
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    [ubuntu] CPU whine :(

    My MacBook first gen (Core2Duo 1.83GHZ) has a bad case of whining CPU.

    I've enabled CPU Frequency Selector and tried various settings, but it's still there.

    I've installed the iSight...
  20. [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu triple-boot no longer booting :(

    I'm not sure this is the problem in my case. I didn't even get a GRUB menu. All I got was the word GRUB and a flashing cursor. If what you say is true, I would expect to at least get a boot menu.
    ...
  21. [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu triple-boot no longer booting :(

    OK, I fixed it, but not in a way that's 100% fuss-free.

    I had to reinstall Ubuntu. In the installer I chose not to repartition or reformat the ext3 partition. This caused the installer to wipe the...
  22. [ubuntu] Ubuntu triple-boot no longer booting :(

    Yesterday I made my Intel MacBook (CD 1.83GHz) triple-boot OS X, Vista and Ubuntu. I used boot camp to resize the partition, then installed Vista, and finally installed Ubuntu by shrinking the Vista...
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    [ubuntu] Annoying gparted error

    I'm trying to shrink my Ubuntu partition down to install Windows alongside.

    I'm using Gparted in Ubuntu's live distro mode to do this -- booting from the install CD.

    Each time I try Gparted...
  24. Poll: [ubuntu] Re: Do you always update to the latest release?

    That's one of the best things about Hardy. It finally seems to get everything right. It's what Ubuntu's always wanted to be.
  25. Poll: [ubuntu] Do you always update to the latest release?

    Hi -- I'm trying to get a feel for how Ubuntu users view new releases.

    Is it the case that everybody always upgrades every six months?

    Or people genuinely stick with the LTS releases (ie...
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