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This is confusing the hell out of me - I absolutely love gaim-text (now Finch, I know I know) but I can't for the life of me figure out how to add/remove/whatever buddies in my contact list. Any ideas, fellows?
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minute posted:mpd I'm not sure about your default output device problem (although one question to start with would be, do you have any sound at all?), but for the configure errors you posted first, your problem is likely that you need to install all the dependencies before you build. As it is it looks like even if you get your output device sorted, you won't be able to read any music files. My suggestions below stem from my reading of the guide you linked. Try this: code:code:code:code:code:code:
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Apr 18, 2007 02:46
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Smackbilly posted:The second hard drive is /dev/hdb YES! You just made my day! I have 2 more questions but I wanna try to figure it out myself first but thank you so much! Not having my music is enough to make me go back to windows... rugbert fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Apr 18, 2007 |
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Apr 18, 2007 03:38
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Well, I finally got MPD installed. I want to create a launcher for sonata on my panel, but I can't find the icon for sonata. Is there a way to find icons for various programs?
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Apr 18, 2007 06:40
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minute posted:Well, I finally got MPD installed. I want to create a launcher for sonata on my panel, but I can't find the icon for sonata. Is there a way to find icons for various programs? Try searching for .xpm and .svg files in sonata's data folder, probably in /usr/share/sonata.
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Apr 18, 2007 08:31
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minute posted:Well, I finally got MPD installed. I want to create a launcher for sonata on my panel, but I can't find the icon for sonata. Is there a way to find icons for various programs? /usr/share/pixmaps on gentoo. or... 
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Apr 18, 2007 15:58
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I'm trying to set up this PDF creator program in a Ubuntu server at work. It's a project for me to learn how to use this, something that's small and can be useful. At any rate, I'm stuck. Here are the instructions I'm trying to follow: http://www.n-view.net/yafpc/Setup_en.php#headline4 I think I've followed everything correctly, but I'm stuck at step #6, where it says I should do lp -d pdfwriter SomePsFile.ps. I get a "lp command not found", so I'm pretty sure I hosed up somewhere on the packages I needed to install... right? What the hell did I miss? What's lp? Oh god 
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Apr 19, 2007 23:31
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Alfajor posted:I'm trying to set up this PDF creator program in a Ubuntu server at work. It's a project for me to learn how to use this, something that's small and can be useful. At any rate, I'm stuck. Here are the instructions I'm trying to follow: http://www.n-view.net/yafpc/Setup_en.php#headline4 That's very odd, I've never seen a Linux system lacking lp before (It's the standard command-line tool for printing). In any case, from trawling packages.ubuntu.com, it appears it's included with two packages: cupsys-client and lprng. Try installing one of them.
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Apr 19, 2007 23:51
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Jorenko posted:That's very odd, I've never seen a Linux system lacking lp before (It's the standard command-line tool for printing). In any case, from trawling packages.ubuntu.com, it appears it's included with two packages: cupsys-client and lprng. Try installing one of them. You want cupsys-client; the other is old BSD lp, which CUPS replaces.
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Apr 19, 2007 23:57
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How do I make MRTG not run from 12-1AM when my backups are made and FTP'd so I don't get useless graphs like this: Right now it's setup to run every 5 minutes in crontab
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Apr 20, 2007 07:39
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fletcher posted:How do I make MRTG not run from 12-1AM when my backups are made and FTP'd so I don't get useless graphs like this: Set a cron job at the beginning of your outage window to create a marker file in /tmp and then make your regular mrtg cron check for the presence of the file. Create another cron job which removes the marker at the end of the outage window.... voila! code:dfn_doe fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Apr 20, 2007 |
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Apr 20, 2007 19:03
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Is there a relatively straightforward way to ActiveSync an iPaq rx5915 with Ubuntu Feisty? The firmware update I need is in EXE form 
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Apr 20, 2007 22:01
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dfn_doe posted:Set a cron job at the beginning of your outage window to create a marker file in /tmp and then make your regular mrtg cron check for the presence of the file. Create another cron job which removes the marker at the end of the outage window.... voila! A better solution would probably be to put the start, backup, and stop in one script, for example (I have no idea how mrtg works, but you get the idea): killall -STOP mrtg backupcommand killall -CONT mrtg Then put that script in cron and it will run your backup as usual.
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Apr 21, 2007 00:21
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Has anyone tried Linux from Scratch or is Slackware the preferred method of getting a bit deeper into Linux? They both seem to have good books.
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Apr 21, 2007 20:29
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Kinch posted:Has anyone tried Linux from Scratch or is Slackware the preferred method of getting a bit deeper into Linux? They both seem to have good books. After I broke Mandrake for the first time I jumped to LFS. It's a great way to figure out how all the pieces fit together, and pick bash along the way. Back then (2000ish) it was a real pain to keep things updated due to the complete lack of package management - I basically ended up completely reinstalling every time something major got upgraded. That seems to have improved though, I have a friend running through LFS right now and he says they talk about different strategies for managing package explosion. I don't know anything about Slackware, though.
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Apr 21, 2007 21:04
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I need to put a path into a program manually but the path in question is not on my primary drive its on a USB external drive. Is there a simple way I can find out how to do that? Aka is there somewhere in the GUI I can see the drive list so that I can figure out the exact naming to use. If it were windows I could look at the directory and see the path but in linux I know things are just as easy as "c drive" but I see nowhere even on the properties of my mounted drive that tell me whats its patch would be. Which is silly of them I might point out. edit: nevermind I think I got it. Turns out the drive in question was named Media which obviously was causing me to not realize that the mount point was /media edit edit: drat it that didn't work how the hell do you make mythtv see video files on your hard drive? I installed wait I was told to but when I go there it says there are no videos. editx3: I got it, but its lead to OTHER issues lol Your HILARIOUS fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Apr 22, 2007 |
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Apr 22, 2007 00:53
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Is there a way to permanently change my hostname in Debian 4? I tried running `hostname <newName>` but that resets after my system restarts. I tried editing /etc/hosts, which works 'till I reset. I tried making /etc/HOSTNAME, which, again, works 'till I reset. I even made /etc/sysconfig/network, which works 'till I reset my machine. Is there any way (other than a reformat/reinstall) to change my hostname?
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Apr 22, 2007 01:18
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Jo posted:Is there a way to permanently change my hostname in Debian 4? Set from /etc/hostname during startup. See /etc/init.d/hostname.sh
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Faustus D.D. posted:I need to put a path into a program manually but the path in question is not on my primary drive its on a USB external drive. In the future, the console command to show all mounted devices and mount points is 'df'. For example: code:This shows, among other things, that the USB thumbdrive that I just plugged in is mounted on /media/CARD DISK. There is probably a more user-friendly way to show this in your GUI, but that depends on which GUI apps you are using. In Konqueror, you can go to media:/, which will shwo you all mounted devices. You can right click, choose properties, and there's a "Mounted On:" line.
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Apr 22, 2007 02:49
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I'm running Ubuntu server 6.10 and if I don't have any outgoing traffic on the machine, it will lose connectivity (the web pages its serving won't load, can't ftp/ssh in, etc) until I ping out from the machine. The internet connection is still working and other computers connected to the same switch still work. How would I go about fixing this, or if nobody has any ideas, how would I go about setting it up so it pings a website every minute starting when it boots up?
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Apr 22, 2007 22:26
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Paco de Suave posted:I'm running Ubuntu server 6.10 and if I don't have any outgoing traffic on the machine, it will lose connectivity (the web pages its serving won't load, can't ftp/ssh in, etc) until I ping out from the machine. The internet connection is still working and other computers connected to the same switch still work. How would I go about fixing this, or if nobody has any ideas, how would I go about setting it up so it pings a website every minute starting when it boots up? code:
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Apr 22, 2007 22:39
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sund posted:/usr/share/pixmaps on gentoo. Awesome, thanks. A couple more quick questions. Right now, I have WinXP installed on partition, Xubuntu on a partition and a shared FAT32 partition. I have all my music on the FAT partition. I tried adding a symbolic link to my music folder in /var/lib/mpd/music. It seems to work, I can cd into it, etc. But when I try to run sudo mpd --create-db, it won't add anything to the database. I think it has something to do with the permissions. Right now, the permissions for that partition are: drwxrwx---. I tried doing sudo chmod a+rwx, and that didn't do anything. I tried actually changing into the superuser and running chmod and still didn't do anything. Also, all the files in that partition are listed in green in terminal. I have an external harddisk also formatted as FAT32 which seems to work fine. The permissions for that are: drwxr-xr-x. I can add a symbolic link to my music directory on there and mpd adds it to the database with no problem. Another thing, can MPD play CDs? Do I just make a symbolic link to /media/cdrom in /var/lib/mpd/music? And, can MPD access freedb? minute fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Apr 23, 2007 |
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Apr 23, 2007 00:00
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Let me preface this by saying that I know what I'm trying to do is stupid. I'm running Ubuntu 7.04, and I have a VirtualBox with WindowsXP that has a bridged connection to the outside world, it's own IP from the router and everything. If I have a Samba share on the ubuntu machine and the Windows image accesses it, is that traffic going to go out to the network and bounce back or is the whole setup going to be smart enough to avoid putting it on the wire and just transfer it internally? How could I tell?
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Apr 24, 2007 00:47
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JawnV6 posted:Let me preface this by saying that I know what I'm trying to do is stupid.
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Apr 24, 2007 00:55
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JawnV6 posted:Let me preface this by saying that I know what I'm trying to do is stupid. The quick and dirty solution is probably to watch the activity light on the router and see if it starts blinking furiously when you access it. If that doesn't give conclusive results, or you want to be a little more scientific about it, I would get a switch that can clone its output of one port to another one, hook up another box running wireshark to the cloned port, and watch to see if you see the samba traffic.
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Apr 24, 2007 00:55
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minute posted:Awesome, thanks. Since fat32 is not a unix-y filesystem, it does not hold unix-y information. The only way to set these for such a filesystem is with mount options. Use uid/user (owner) gid/group (group) and umask (numerical permissions, but inverted) on mount to get the correct permissions on the filesystem. Maybe you could have more than one set of permissions for the files on the partition with multiple umasks, but I don't know how that would work. This is why you are much better off using a native linux filesystem for this sort of thing. Although I would suspect there is a way you can use a read-only directory as a mpd music source and write the db metadata to another location.
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Oh god can anyone help me out? I am in over my head and oh god I recently have been trying to route my internet connection from my wireless signal into my directly-connected Xbox. In order to do this, I followed this guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91370 After following the guide to the T, I found it actually worked. I was able to play my Xbox online through my wireless signal coming from my Ubuntu laptop. To my dismay, every single time I boot (and sometimes randomly throughout a single session), I have to run the command listed under step 5: code:What can I do to make my internet "just work" every time it boots, using these settings? It is irritating and obnoxious to have to run this stupid command every time I want to use the internet on boot. Because of this, my girlfriend and other friends are unable to use my computer at any time, and I have to constantly get up to type scary commands before anyone can use the internet. What can I do to fix this? Please help
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minute posted:A couple more quick questions. Right now, I have WinXP installed on partition, Xubuntu on a partition and a shared FAT32 partition. I have all my music on the FAT partition. I tried adding a symbolic link to my music folder in /var/lib/mpd/music. It seems to work, I can cd into it, etc. But when I try to run sudo mpd --create-db, it won't add anything to the database. I think it has something to do with the permissions. Right now, the permissions for that partition are: drwxrwx---. I tried doing sudo chmod a+rwx, and that didn't do anything. I tried actually changing into the superuser and running chmod and still didn't do anything. Also, all the files in that partition are listed in green in terminal. I have an external harddisk also formatted as FAT32 which seems to work fine. The permissions for that are: drwxr-xr-x. I can add a symbolic link to my music directory on there and mpd adds it to the database with no problem. I just rip my CDs and update the database. I would suspect it can't. As for the other issue, the short, quick, and dirty solution is to run mpd as root while you find a better fix (mounting the partition as owned by mpd, or adding the mpd user to a group that owns the mounted partition. look into fstab options) just comment out the line in /etc/mpd.conf that sets the user to mpd.
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Apr 24, 2007 03:58
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Hey if I'm using rtorrent on Ubuntu and it says the files are being saved to the default location at ./ , where the hell can I find them in the graphical browser?
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Apr 24, 2007 04:38
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Hmm, something isn't working right for me with openSUSE and Windows. I've got an extended partition with two NTFS logical partitions and SUSE stuck itself where I wanted it, after those partitions in its own formatting. I wasn't sure how well that'd work but it installed and started up just fine. Everything was working fine with GRUB loading my system until I ran YaST and it updated everything. The boot partition is in hda7 or (hd0,6) as GRUB would call it. Now when I try to start SUSE, the root (hd0,6) works but the kernel command gives me an error 15: file not found. None of the linux options work. The chainloading with Windows stills works fine, though. I actually had this happen once and then reformatted those logical partitions and reinstalled SUSE, only to have the same thing happen again after using YaST. Is this just a matter of the kernel name changing or something or is the idea of using an extended partition with different types of file systems in its logical partitions really, really dumb?
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Apr 24, 2007 04:55
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mynie posted:Hey if I'm using rtorrent on Ubuntu and it says the files are being saved to the default location at ./ , where the hell can I find them in the graphical browser? They'll be in whatever directory you ran rtorrent from. (I'm guessing /home/<your-username>)
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minute posted:Awesome, thanks. If it looks something like this, mpd won't access the music symlink. code:code:GringoGrande fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Apr 24, 2007 |
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Apr 24, 2007 07:15
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This is more of a Wine question that a Linux question, but I haven't been able to find the answer on WineHQ or by Googling. I'm using Ubuntu 7.04, vanilla kernel. I'm trying to get Steam working in Wine, and everything goes smoothly (if very, very slowly), until it comes time to download the games. I start the download and it begins (at about 3.0 K/s, but I could live with that as a one time download, and I don't even think that it's a Wine problem), then after about 5 minutes Wine freezes and I get this: code:Haven't been able to find anyone else with this or a similar problem. edit: I'm using the Wine version from the Wine Feisty repository (0.9.35), but the version that comes with Feisty does the same thing. I've tried removing and reinstalling my whole .wine directory a couple times now, and the same thing happens with Steam each time. I run Diablo II win Wine and it works flawlessly, it's only Steam that I'm having a problem with. fatcat fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Apr 24, 2007 |
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Apr 24, 2007 17:06
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Alright, Linux newbie here. I have tried out some distros before and ran ubuntu 6.06 and 6.10 for a bit. I downloaded 7.04 last night and I must say I love it. I only have one problem. My subwoofer isn't working. I have a sound blaster audigy SE and I'm trying to get my bass to redirect (because that's what I had to do in windows) and ALSA doesn't seem to offer any options for that unless I'm missing them somewhere. I found drivers for my Audigy SE but gently caress if I know what the hell that page even says. Any help would be appreciated  EDIT: Here's the page I found with drivers and info on my card in linux: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Creative+Labs&card=Sound+Blaster+Audigy+SE.&chip=CA0106&module=ca0106 Daedalus256 fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Apr 24, 2007 |
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Apr 24, 2007 17:11
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Small question here, with the icons in the top righthand corner, a lot have the icon on a square of white or grey, making it look pretty unsightly. Anyone know how you can change this? It's not too important. 
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Apr 24, 2007 20:36
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AlexHat posted:Small question here, with the icons in the top righthand corner, a lot have the icon on a square of white or grey, making it look pretty unsightly. Anyone know how you can change this? It's not too important. find the graphic file of the icons in question, open them up in gimp, use the color picker to select the offensive background color and then use the "alpha->transparency" filter. Save modified icon.
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AlexHat posted:Small question here, with the icons in the top righthand corner, a lot have the icon on a square of white or grey, making it look pretty unsightly. Anyone know how you can change this? It's not too important. It's probably not gonna be possible for the uTorrent icon, at least. I don't know what the far left icon is, so I can't comment on that. Additionally, why are you running Azureus and uTorrent?
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Apr 24, 2007 20:41
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fatcat posted:It's probably not gonna be possible for the uTorrent icon, at least. I don't know what the far left icon is, so I can't comment on that. I had Azureus downloading a few things before I installed uTorrent... They are both good though, so far, anyway. [Edit = Other Problem Fixed] Liquid Silk fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Apr 24, 2007 |
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Apr 24, 2007 22:27
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AlexHat posted:Torrent's icon is probably gray because it's actually rendered in Wine's tray window, and has Wine's color theme. Try matching Wine's colors to your DE's theme. HOWTO: Change colors of wine applications
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Anyone have anytips on how to install Nvidia GeForce fx 5200 drivers? Theyre listed in the yum but I used the GUI package updater because Im kinda nervous but got nothing but conflict errors... I wanna pretty up my desktop!
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