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    Poll: Re: would you be interested in a mobile Ubuntu?

    Only because they started the relevant Ubuntu Mobile thread six years ago!

    Based on the video announcement, consider my interest piqued. I'd like to see what happens with it.
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    Re: What's the worst pain you've ever been in?

    I dislocated my kneecap once. That was pretty gnarly.
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    [photography] Re: Photographer Thinking of Switching

    Is Windows not an option?

    That's what I'd do if I were you. It's a pain in the **** but if Mac is unsatisfactory and you need PS that's about your only other option.
  4. Re: The servers are melting! You might want to wait a bit.

    That would make sense. So why is/was nearly everyone reporting that us.archive.ubuntu.com is slow as molasses but I had only to randomly try a few different mirrors before finding one that was...
  5. Re: The servers are melting! You might want to wait a bit.

    It may prove helpful to remind people of the existence of more than one package mirror for the entire United States.

    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors#Mirror-Mirrors

    I'm on mirrors.kernel.org...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Swap File/Partition

    Not quite certain what you're asking. If you're wondering where it mounts in the filesystem hierarchy... it doesn't because that's not how it's structured. It's just a space on-disk for the kernel to...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Multiple small problems

    Regarding DVD ripping:

    Handbrake rips like a charm for me on OSX and they added an official Linux GUI with the last release. It's pretty simple, too.

    With the whole compiz thing: I suggest...
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    [ubuntu] Re: apt script hangs in cron.daily

    Use the Source, luke! ;)

    I'm looking at it right now and it looks like a very dull maintenance script. It's very tersely written, but if I understand it right, it checks the age of the cache...
  9. Thread: Other icons

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    [ubuntu] Re: Other icons

    I'm amazed this hasn't been answered yet.

    Ubuntu (and Linux GUI's in general- GNOME, XFCE, KDE, LXDE, and the *box's) supports custom themes for icons, UI widgets, and window borders. You can get...
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    [all variants] Re: Copy a filename into a simple text file

    Try losing the quotes around $here on that last line, double-quoting causes bash to treat an asterisk as an asterisk and not a wildcard and you don't need them to use a variable. Also, the -f switch...
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    [all variants] Re: Copy a filename into a simple text file

    The problem is how you defined $elsewhere. It looks like you wanted to set it to the output of the command "basename`pwd`" Double-quotes are not appropriate in this case- you want to use backticks....
  12. Poll: Re: Do you think ubuntu is getting worse with every release?

    Comparing the effort it took to get Ubuntu 8.10 working as I like it to the effort it took to get 5.04 to the same place (actually, I wasn't able to get 5.04 working as well as 8.10), I can say...
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    Re: September 2008 Desktop Screenshot Thread

    Glossy GTK/Metacity, GNOME-Brave icon theme, Trebuchet MS font, and Outta Space Blue wallpaper by Infinise Design.
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    Re: What do you think of the new ipods?

    I'm less than excited about the redesign (I thought the smaller, squat nanos were way sexier- the screen looks too long on this one), but the upgrade in storage capacity so you can get 8GB of flash...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Some apps won't start

    Try running them both from the terminal. I don't know what you'd do for VMWare, but for pidgin, just do
    pidgin from a terminal.
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    [ubuntu] Re: which directory for install of tar.gz

    Will getting it from Medibuntu work? Just enable the Medibuntu repository and install the package named acroread. Medibuntu has the version you're looking for.
  17. Thread: Watchmen

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    Re: Watchmen

    Dude, the story doesn't even work if Veidt is just a baddie.

    The trailer seems to include relevant backstory on Manhattan, but who can say about the rest?
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    [xubuntu] Re: how do i edit my xorg.conf file?

    Wait, are you running mousepad as root? If not, you need to run it with sudo:
    gksudo mousepadEDIT: Wow, I got beaten like, four times already.

    @PMDematagoda: I've tried that before, and gksudo...
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    Re: Anyone else have a font they hate?

    Okay, I guess I don't hate it per se, but it made changes to Helvetica which didn't deserve to be made. My two biggest gripes with Arial are actually covered in the "How to Spot Arial" article linked...
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    Re: Anyone else have a font they hate?

    I absolutely hate Courier, and Arial, and Comic Sans.

    I also hate the excessively-flourished typefaces you only ever see on tasteless wedding invitations. I have a friend who works at a...
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    Re: Fedora Firewall in Ubuntu?

    Try
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    Re: Fedora Firewall in Ubuntu?

    There's nothing especially "Fedora"-ey about the firewall in Fedora. It's just iptables.

    If you want a simple frontend, I recommend using Ubuntu's ufw.

    If you meant the GUI configuration tool...
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    [all variants] Re: Editing / Creating custom themes

    Here's some documentation on making a Metacity (window manager for GNOME) theme.

    Modifying gtk themes, I've found, is simple enough that you can usually pick it up by opening up a theme's gtkrc...
  24. [ubuntu] Re: Upgraded to new kernel...lots of hard disk space used up..

    1) When you copied your old kernel config over, did you rename it to .config?
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    make oldconfigBefore modifying your configuration? You need to do that to make sure that the old...
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    [all variants] Re: editting the CP, MV commands

    Why should a user-specific file be edited with root permissions, fatality_uk?
    You can add it pretty much anywhere you like in the .bashrc file. I suggest the very end- and, just in case it wasn't...
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