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My Ubuntu 12.04 box connects via another machine on the network.

I want to force a gateway of, let's say, 173.20.1.222. However, irrespective of what I have tried it keeps getting a gateway of...

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If I was good at dealing with people, I wouldn't be an engineer, I would be in marketing or HR or something making more money and having less time to bother...

Can you try "sudo poweroff" from the command line and see if it shuts down correctly?

I am trying to understand how I can contribute to Ubuntu from a technical point of view, and am basically lost.

As I understand it, most Google results simply say to "scratch your own itch". Pick...

Here's the thing - I have a Nokia smart phone, and Nokia smartphones have the capability to "mount" a Webdav directory, which can then be accessed using the file explorer interface etc. I would like...

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I basically want to setup webdav on my Ubuntu machine. I googled for it, and the HowtoForge tutorial link is helpful, but not entirely. I would appreciate if someone could guide me...

Any suggestions? No one PXE boots?

Tasksel! thank you so much!

I thought tasksel was a particularly Debian thing ! Nevertheless, thank you again

When I installed Ubuntu server, I was shown a nice list of services I could add on if required.

When I installed Ubuntu through the netboot network installer, I was shown a even bigger list.
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I have a tablet PC that allows for netboot, but doesnt have a CD ROM drive. I am PXE booting instead, and I downloaded the netboot.tar.gz from...

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I have a few questions regarding WebDAV / Apache2 on Ubuntu. I have been following this tutorial (http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-webdav-with-apache2-on-ubuntu-10.04) . If this is...

I currently have a Nokia 6102i that I use primarily for receiving SMS only. However, it has space only for around 150 SMS in its memory, so every time I receive 150 messages, I need to boot into my...

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So I have a bunch of CDs I have burnt over the past year or two, and only problem is, I would burn them, use it and forget about it. I never bothered labelling it.

Now, I want to label...

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So I have an internet accessible desktop. To that, I have attached a terabyte hard disk. In my fstab I have made the necessary modifications so that the hard disk is mounted in a...

That works with Ubuntu out of the box --- basically here are my requirements -

1. It should have a printer/copier/scanner.
2. It should have a LAN port, meaning I can connect it to my router...

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pastebinit doesn't work in Karmic at all, and turns out even though the bug is fixed, it's only available in Lucid.

Am I forced to upgrade my entire system because one package is not...

So there's a bug report filed for pastebinit, which is apparently too unimportant to be fixed in Karmic, and a fix has been release for Lucid.

Anyway I can get this Lucid package into my Karmic...

When I click on the top right area notification icon for Empathy, the Contacts list opens up, but it opens in the background, and is not in focus. I then have to go back to the bottom task bar, and...

Never mind. Ubuntu 9.10 sees the RAID, which 9.04 didn't. 9.10 ended up installing Grub-1 anyway, as Grub-2 is apparently not yet "ready for RAID setups".

Why switch to Grub-2 in the first place...

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I use BT to tether to my cell phone. When I do, it pops up a window on my cell phone asking for a PIN, and then a dialog window on my Ubuntu installation asking for a (the same) PIN.
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What I currently do is run this script -



rfcomm release 0
CHANNEL = `sdptool search --bdaddr=00:21:FE:A5:C9:4A dun | grep Channel | cut -c14`
rfcomm bind 0 00:21:FE:A5:C9:4A ${CHANNEL}...

I believe this is possible when you are using Linux itself as a router, or you are running a router with more powerful Linux firmware. But otherwise, sorry I have no idea :(

Yeah the visual bell helps, but at most it flashes it once. Doesn't have the steady flash that Putty does on Microsoft OS, for example.

I decided to use a combination of tail -f, logging to the...

How do I do this?

I am using IRSSI under screen, and it sends out a bell when my nick is hilighted. When the terminal window is minimized, or out of focus or in another workspace (again, out of...

Even I want this.

There are plenty of bug reports, patches, fixes, what not. And no working solution.