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    Re: run a script when shutdown computer

    That is what this forum is for, to substitute reading of manuals :P. It is rather easy and straightforward, using the magic of "-exec":



    find ~/.thumbnails/ -type f -exec rm -f {} \;


    Note,...
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    [ubuntu] Re: use nokia as modem

    Well, Network manager does not work for me either, as I do not have it installed :-). Nonetheless, there is a sort of bullet-proof way how to connect, but you need to go down to the terminal window...
  3. Thread: Video Converter

    by seydou
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    Re: Video Converter

    As for viewing any movie on the iPod/iPhone - I use mencoder, mplayer, sox, gpac and faad to produce mp4 movies, and I gather it is the most flexible and reliable way of doing the thing. It can be...
  4. [ubuntu] Re: upgrade to 10.10 evolution palm os conduits missing

    Ubuntu maintainers decided to compile evolution without pilot conduits, and there is little hope it will be brought back again, hence standard upgrade will not fix it. Read above and install...
  5. [ubuntu] Re: upgrade to 10.10 evolution palm os conduits missing

    Not at all! It only purges system-wide files. Your contacts etc. live in your home (~/.evolution and subdirectories), and are not touched by the installer.

    If you want to see what comes with the...
  6. [ubuntu] Re: upgrade to 10.10 evolution palm os conduits missing

    Have you tried my precompiled binaties? These are ready to install, no compilation needed. The link is above.
  7. [ubuntu] Re: upgrade to 10.10 evolution palm os conduits missing

    Fair enough :) In the meantime, I have found a hack to the source package, so I just compiled the alternative set of proper debian packages - better than all-in-one above. They are vailable at
    ...
  8. [ubuntu] Re: Turn your box to Wireless Acces point for your iPod/IPhone

    Hi, sorry for being a bit late - nevertheless, as for the root console, open the terminal and issue


    sudo su -

    and you are there. The latter is a bit tricky - you can do it, but you would most...
  9. [ubuntu] Re: upgrade to 10.10 evolution palm os conduits missing

    There is a way, but only for dauntless ;-). I was disappointed the same way as you, it took me a while to dig out the solution:

    First, remove evolution:



    sudo apt-get P evolution...
  10. [ubuntu] Re: Turn your box to Wireless Acces point for your iPod/IPhone

    That's what being newbie is all about ;-) I can assure you that once you go through it and succeed, you would find it fairly easy + you learn some stuff under the hood of your machine.
  11. [ubuntu] Turn your box to Wireless Acces point for your iPod/IPhone

    ====== Wireless Access Point & IP Forwarding Mini-Howto ======

    Use case: we have a pc (laptop, for that matter) with UBUNTU 10.04, and with wired connection to the internet. We want to connect...
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    [all variants] Re: Regarding 'passwd' command

    Better late than never ;-) Just for the sake of others seeking the same advice - use chpasswd for that purpose, see man page for details.
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    Mini HowTo - WPA connection on demand

    WPA connection on demand - Mini HowTo for UBUNTU users

    I put this guide together while being on extensive travels. In many occasions, I got connected through the router using WPA/WPA2...
  14. Thread: ksokoban

    by seydou
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    Re: ksokoban

    Another option is to compile your own package, it is fairly easy, I just tried that out. Download Fedora source rpm package, strip out the source, configure the main tree and then descend to ksokoban...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Ubuntu/Mint Boot Problem

    Small piece of advice - if you play like that often, consider creating bootable CD with just grub on it, so you might use that and boot from grub command line anything you want. This is faster than...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Using Old Computer as Storage Space

    I kinda like the attitude of re-using old stuff, even though the storage space in this case is far from being impressive ;-) Anyhow, I would probably put a network card into that and use nfs to share...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Transfer of Ubuntu?

    With linux this should not be a big problem. I would recommend following:

    - attach your new hdd to the pc and boot from live cd
    - partition your new hdd (I use fdisk), make active and format the...
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