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What is the difference between "Unmount", "Eject", "Safely Remove Drive" and the eject icon?
When I right-click the desktop icon for my USB drive or SD card I have the choice to "Eject" or "Safely Remove Drive":
In the Tree side pane in Nautilus, I can either "Unmount" or "Eject":
The Places side pane in Nautilus has some kind of eject…
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What IDEs are available for Ubuntu?
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RolandiXor
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Where is the X.org config file? How do I configure X there?
As Ubuntu 10.10 seems to neither detect my graphics card (Intel 82852/855GM) automatically nor use the corresponding Intel driver even after manually installing it, I am looking into manually configuring X (shouldn't I?). Where can I find the…
Ivan
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How do I stop Orca Screen Reader?
I accidentally opened Orca Screen Reader from the Dash when I was trying to open Screenshot. Now everything I type or click on is spoken out loud.
How do I make it stop?
For reference, here is a screenshot of Orca Screen Reader running:
ændrük
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Bash: delete from cursor till end of line with a keyboard shortcut
Consider the following bash prompt, where ^ denotes the prompt location:
$ git commit -am "[bug 123456] Do this and that with the bug"
^
Suppose that I want to commit again to the same bug, with a different commit…
Adam Matan
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How do I sudo a command in a script without being asked for a password?
I want to turn my system on automatically every day. So I use the below code in my Python script, but sudo asks me for a password every time:
os.system('sudo sh -c "echo date \'+%s\' -d \'+ \
24 hours\' > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm"')
How…
Viswa
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How to enable numlock at boot time for login screen?
I am trying to force numlock to be on upon initial boot at the login screen on Ubuntu 12.04. The only solutions I have found so far switch numlock on only after initial login.
I'm looking to force numlock to be on when the login screen is displayed,…
darryn.ten
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How to uninstall VMware Player?
I want to uninstall VMware Player on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS system. How should I uninstall it?
Fanoy
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What's the difference between multiverse, universe, restricted and main?
I've been peeking into the ubuntu respository and I see four folders, multiverse, universe, restricted and main. What do they represent?
alexyorke
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Is it possible to install a .deb from a URL?
Is there a way to install a deb package directly from a URL, using a shell?
Something like
dpkg -i http://domain.com/path/to/package.deb
(I know I could use wget and then dpkg, I'm just wondering if there's something that does it already)
Joril
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How to remove/install a package that is not fully installed?
I went to install bsnes the other day and, for whatever reason, the installation failed. Now, I cannot update, install new packages, or do basically any apt-get commands as they all try to process this broken package and fail. Attempting to install…
Bijak
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What do I select for "GRUB install devices" after an update?
After running Update Manager, a debconf window (titled "Configuring grub-pc"), popped up, requiring me to select the appropriateGRUB install devices for my system. I've made no changes to grub or the filesystem recently, and I don't remember what…
belacqua
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How to find all the used IP addresses on a network
In my work there is a lot of computer and I want make a joke. I can close computer over the network but finding IP addresses is hard to me.
How can I easily find all online IP adresses from 192.168.1.aa to 192.168.1.zz?
user84277
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How to compile a .java file on Ubuntu?
How can I compile a .java file?
What programs will I need? If I need the Java JDK I will also need help installing that. I'm very new to Ubuntu, so any program that I need to install I will need a tutorial on how to install them.
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Logging out other users from the command line
Sometimes when there are too many users logged in it can cause my computer to become very slow and laggy due to low amount of available RAM. I would like to be able to quickly log out the other users from the command line instead of manually…
Isaiah
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