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You should look into the xbacklight tool -- the syntax is incredibly easy, and it's in the repos. It's as simple as:



xbacklight = 0 # Turn off backlight
xbacklight = 50 # Backlight at 50%...

When running grep, you don't need to put in wildcards. It will automatically search for the argument anywhere in a line. So when you run:

grep *root*
You're actually searching for the phrase...

You might want to repost this is the Tutorials forum
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=100

As the root user, and in the root user's home directory, use:


cp -r .* /path/to/non-root/user/home
chown -R non-root-username /path/to/non-root/user/home

The first command will copy all of...

Well, Ubuntu uses package files that end in ".deb" to distribute its software - they're similar to .exe on Windows or .pkg or .dmg on Macs. Normally you can install software from Synaptic on the...

Skype is probably just a little late on updating their version numbers. Linux has never really been their focus :( The 8.04 packages will work fine on 8.10, and most packages will work no matter...

A quick tip, but I use it all the time:
If you're running out of disk space and you want to quickly see what packages are using the most space on your hard drive, use the following command:

...

You can have Gnome reopen the windows when you last logged off by going to System -> Preferences -> Sessions -> Session Options then check the box next to "Automatically remember running applications...

I have no idea how to assign two different IPs to a single network card, but you might find people who do on the Networking forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=336

You can get old packages from packages.ubuntu.com
The gaim ones from Gutsy (actually it was Pidgin by then) can be found here:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/pidgin
You'll also need to download...

The easiest way would definitely be to reinstall. As far as I know, the only way to get the password off of the computer would be to use a liveCD and bruteforce the password, but that usually takes...

might be better to suggest downloading from here:
http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/b/blueproximity/blueproximity_1.2.4-0ubuntu1_all.deb

@penguinv: take out the brackets and it'll work.

Thanks a ton!
I tried using the Emacs Lisp interpreter, gave up on it and found one in Perl instead :)

I lied... I found one.
Except I don't know what language it is in nor how to compile it.
If anyone could give me a little push in the right direction on what the hell this is written in, I'd be...

I found this http://www.cliff.biffle.org/esoterica/beatnik.html today (which is a little introduction to the Beatnik "programming language") and I really wanna play with it, but I haven't been able...

TI-BASIC

Input "WHAT'S YOUR NAME? ",Str1
Disp Str1

can't be run on a computer, but I felt it was a glaring omission.
(btw: tons of spaces so 'name?' doesn't get cut across lines ;))

i would love to be a part of it, if there's still space!!