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Thanks papibe ! That was perfect.
I asked somebody at the PC to move the USB webcam to the USB 2.0 AND the additional benefit was that webcam is now running at a higher resolution 1280x720.
When...

This older PC has 3 USB 1.1 ports and 1 USB 2.0 port.
There 1 USB keyboard and 1 USB webcam connected to this PC.
Currently, I have only ssh access to this PC.

How do you find out which device...

On the lucid desktop, you can change the login screen settings via ...
System -> Administration -> Login Screen

How do you invoke the same "login screen settings" applet via the command line ?

I need to install apache2 on a Ubuntu 9.10 system. Yes, 9.10 is no longer supported.

I am not allowed to upgrade this system because the system has some custom applications running on it. These...

This old PC has 4 memory slots. Each slot has 12 Mb memory module.

One of the 12 Mb modules was bad and had to be replaced.
But it took a while to find a replacement for such a dinosaur.

If...

Just installed (the base) Ubuntu 10.04 Minimal CD on an old cheap lowend PC.

openssh-server is the only package that was installed after the minimal base.
This PC is only being used to provide...

Do I need to un-install the existing version VLC before i do that?

This is an older desktop running Ubuntu 9.04 and it is used infrequently.
Yes, 9.04 is no longer supported.
But there is no real need to put a newer version of Ubuntu on this desktop.

Is it...

Hi Jonathan,

That works. It helped.

There was a slight typo in the BOTTOM range, it should be:

awk -F, '(($1>="\"2011 09 16 23 00\"")&&($1<="\"2011 09 18 20 00\"")) {print;}' datafile...

I have been looking around online at various text manipulation tutorials but could not find something that solves this problem.

There are some very large data files.
Each line has multiple...

Can you recommend a USB Web Camera that:

Just works with Ubuntu.
Will be used to video chat with family members, so will it work with Pidgin?
If not Pidgin, what other video chat software can...

On this Ubuntu 10.04 system, there are 3 sound devices.

I don't want the system's default audio output device to be the "/dev/dsp1".
Only when I run Firefox or the Chrome web browser I want the...

Is there some kind of Ubuntu desktop application that notifies you when your WAN ip address has changed?
I don't care about my LAN ip address.
I need some kind of popup on the desktop when my ISP...

I am sitting in front of 2 Mac Book Pro systems.
Both have Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS installed.

One has been running with a wireless connection for months.
ifconfig shows eth0, lo and wlan0
No...

Ok, understood.

Anway, I have not had that problem so far because ...

... therefore I can access all the ports on my server because they are accessible/visible thru the OpenVPN tunnel.
So I...

Do you mean ...
if I am using a Wifi at a coffee shop where they block outbound ports 22 and 8080
... then I am out of luck?

Currently, I am running apache2 on this server on port 80 and 443.
Can your suggestion work concurrently with this apache2 setup?

So if I am not running something like squid on the server ...
then will the sshd on the server be just a conduit between the remote laptop and (say) google.com ?

Where conduit = transparent +...

Ok.
What do I need to install/run on the server side?

Does that take care of TCP and UDP ?

I have a Ubuntu laptop when I travel.
And a Ubuntu server back at my desk.
The laptop connects to the server via OpenVPN.
So I can access all the resources on the server from the laptop.

What...

Can you recommend any color printer that:

Costs less than $150
Is reliable
Connects via USB (ethernet is nice, but not required)
Has low ink/toner replacement cost
Works with Ubuntu...

I am trying to help a Ubuntu 10.04 desktop user who needs to send and receive faxes from his older system.
Hylafax would be too much.
There are hardly 2 or 3 faxes per day.
The system should...

On this LAN we have:
* Windows 7 desktop, 192.168.1.2
* Ubuntu 10.04 desktop with ext4 filesystem, 192.168.1.5

On the Windows 7 system, how do you mount a Ubuntu "/home/myHomeDirectory" (ext4...

Assume that you have already created 10 user accounts during a regular Ubuntu install.
A few days later 4 users want those existing accounts to have the Encrypted Home Directory feature enabled....