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| np | <reply> The Nepali Ubuntu Local Community is in #ubuntu-np - Also see: http://wiki.ubuntu.org.np | Added by LjL Date: 2008-03-19 00:46:57 Last edited by PriceChild Date: 2008-04-17 21:20:15 Requested 68 times |
| ar | <reply> La comunidad local de Argentina se puede encontrar en #ubuntu-ar y en su canal de offtopic: #ubuntu-ar-cafe | Added by jpatrick Date: 2008-03-17 12:16:14 Requested 384 times |
| ops-#ubuntu-youth | <reply> Help! MenZa, jpatrick, Tm_T, LjL, elkbuntu! | Added by jpatrick Date: 2008-03-15 12:27:38 Requested 0 times |
| servergui | <reply> Ubuntu server does not install a desktop environment or X11 by default in order to enhance security, efficiency and performance. !eBox provides a GUI system management option via a web interface. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerGUI for more background and options. | Added by Seveas Date: 2008-03-13 16:49:00 Requested 29 times |
| nodeco | <reply> If you're missing windows decorations after enabling Desktop Effects with an NVIDIA card, try « sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals -d 24 » in a !shell. | Added by LjL Date: 2008-03-10 03:27:20 Last edited by LjL Date: 2008-03-10 03:27:20 Requested 4 times |
| danger rmrf/ dangerous | <reply> DO NOT RUN THAT COMMAND! That particular command is DANGEROUS and shouldn't be uttered here. REST OF YOU: DANGER, WILL ROBINSON, DANGER! Do not use the command or utter it here thank you! | Added by ompaul Date: 2008-03-08 18:30:18 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-01-11 02:10:55 Requested 1025 times |
| appreciate | <reply> The people in this channel are all volunteers who donate their valuable time. Please do not 'reward' this kindness with rudeness. Saying 'Thank you' is more appropriate. | Added by Seveas Date: 2008-03-05 22:55:43 Requested 9 times |
| hal open the pod bay doors-#ubuntu-offtopic | in the process of being deprecated. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_abstraction_layer for more info. | Added by Tm_T Date: 2008-03-01 19:27:34 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:44:22 Requested 158 times |
| brainstorm | <deleted><reply> Post your ideas for Ubuntu at http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com and vote for the ones you like! | Added by PriceChild Date: 2008-03-01 16:35:56 Last edited by bazhang Date: 2013-09-15 12:08:25 Requested 274 times |
| moblock | <reply> info in detail is on this wiki page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MoBlock | Added by ompaul Date: 2008-03-01 00:59:27 Requested 13 times |
| amaranth-#ubuntuforums | <deleted><reply> Amaranth: Get back to work! | Added by Amaranth Date: 2008-02-28 11:48:21 Last edited by jussi01 Date: 2009-06-14 12:54:42 Requested 4 times |
| goodquestion gq betterquestion | <reply> Are you sure your question allows us to help you? Please read http://www.sabi.co.uk/Notes/linuxHelpAsk.html to understand how to ask a 'better' question. | Added by LjL-Temp Date: 2008-02-28 00:52:05 Last edited by LjL-Temp Date: 2008-02-28 01:32:09 Requested 245 times |
| lolops | <deleted><reply> Teh lolops r in ur chanelz, wotchin u mizbehav | Added by ompaul Date: 2008-02-27 23:43:02 Last edited by knome Date: 2014-03-19 19:38:44 Requested 43 times |
| langpack | <deleted><reply>A recent update broke some KDE language packs, leaving the user unable to login. (http://launchpad.net/bugs/195647) This has now been fixed and an updated package is in the -updates repo. If you removed the packages with the interim fix you can reinstall them with: << sudo apt-get install language-pack-kde-en language-pack-kde-en-base >> | Added by jussi01 Date: 2008-02-26 19:26:10 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-01-30 08:26:50 Requested 24 times |
| khardy | <deleted><reply> Kubuntu Hardy Heron expects to ship with both KDE 3 and KDE 4 as 2 separate disks. KDE 3 should be offered by shipit. The KDE 3 CD will be commercially supported for 18 months and KDE 4 will be community supported | Added by jussi01 Date: 2008-02-25 11:43:35 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2012-09-19 10:16:19 Requested 51 times |
| filenames case | <reply> File names in Ubuntu are case sensitive, MyFile is not the same as myfile, and if you put spaces in there and use a console you need to "escape" the space, thus "gedit My\ File.txt" | Added by ompaul Date: 2008-02-24 22:24:58 Requested 20 times |
| 3rdparty | <reply> Packages contained in 3rd party repositories are not included in Ubuntu for a reason. Whether this be poor packaging standards, bugs or malicious authors. You should trust the maintainers of these repositories before using them. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=297814 for consequences. | Added by ompaul Date: 2008-02-24 22:00:39 Last edited by PriceChild Date: 2008-02-24 22:13:37 Requested 14 times |
| bootchart | <reply> bootchart charts your machine at boot time, to install >> sudo apt-get install bootchart << the graphic is in /var/log/bootchart after the next reboot | Added by ompaul Date: 2008-02-24 21:34:35 Last edited by ompaul Date: 2008-02-24 21:35:27 Requested 104 times |
| puregnome pureubuntu | <reply> If you want to remove all !Kubuntu packages or !Xubuntu packages and have a default !Ubuntu system, follow the instructions here: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/pureubuntu | Added by PriceChild Date: 2008-02-23 01:00:54 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2012-11-11 13:34:51 Requested 1078 times |
| hacker hacking | <reply> A hacker is a person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular, as defined by Request for Comments (RFC) 1392 - i.e. a good programmer -- crackers on the other hand break systems, see also !piracy | Added by ompaul Date: 2008-02-21 20:34:28 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2009-04-12 12:16:51 Requested 296 times |
| intrepid ibex 8.10 | <reply> Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) was the ninth release of Ubuntu. End Of Life: April 30th, 2010. See !eol and !upgrade for more details. | Added by Pici Date: 2008-02-21 01:19:06 Last edited by Pici Date: 2010-04-28 15:00:09 Requested 1545 times |
| nickfork-#ubuntu-offtopic | a silly little game for offtopic channels ONLY. The way it works is you pick out a random nick from the /names list (works best if they're idle), have a bunch of people switch to something similar (scrambles, reverse, 1337speak), and see how long it takes for the real person to catch on. Have fun! | Added by tonyyarusso Date: 2008-02-20 09:55:16 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-04-06 06:16:22 Requested 14 times |
| pulseaudio pulse | <reply> PulseAudio is a sound server intended as a drop-in replacement for !ESD - See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio for information and installation instructions | Added by LjL Date: 2008-02-19 03:58:10 Requested 772 times |
| 5-a-day 5aday | a community event where each person will take 5 bugs a day and work on them. Everyone is invited to help no matter your abilities! More information available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day | Added by nixternal Date: 2008-02-18 21:31:26 Requested 13 times |
| scope redundancy | <reply> We don't need factoids for *everything*, or ten factoids for the same thing ;) | Added by LjL Date: 2008-02-14 16:27:14 Last edited by LjL Date: 2009-03-27 01:55:07 Requested 186 times |
| addingfs | <reply>If you are adding space to your Ubuntu installation mounting a newly created unix filesystem (ext3, xfs, jfs, etc) you can not set permissions (read, write, etc) filesystem-wide like you do when mounting filesystems that do not support unix permissions (vfat, ntfs, hfs, etc). See !permissions and !fstab | Added by jrib Date: 2008-02-12 15:52:30 Last edited by jrib Date: 2008-02-12 15:58:35 Requested 50 times |
| dbgsym | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash | Added by asac Date: 2008-02-10 14:26:49 Last edited by PriceChild Date: 2008-02-10 14:54:01 Requested 26 times |
| redmond | not relevent to my interests. | Added by Seveas Date: 2008-02-10 01:03:29 Last edited by elkbuntu Date: 2008-05-12 17:18:00 Requested 32 times |
| gutsysources | <reply> In System->Admin->Software Sources, enable (main) (universe) (restricted) and (multiverse) and disable the Cdrom on the Ubuntu Software tab. On the Updates tab, enable (gutsy-security) and (gutsy-updates). | Added by LjL Date: 2008-02-09 21:47:05 Last edited by Seeker` Date: 2008-06-19 01:29:05 Requested 79 times |
| identify | <reply> You can identify to NickServ automatically when connecting to Libera. See https://libera.chat/guides/sasl for more information. When identifying manually, do NOT send the command from a channel tab, as a typo will give away your password. If that happens, identify and then type «/msg NickServ set password <newpass>» in the server tab as soon as possible. | Added by LjL Date: 2008-02-09 03:30:18 Last edited by kryten Date: 2021-05-24 22:54:37 Requested 174 times |
| cowsay-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> MOOOooo! | Added by PriceChild Date: 2008-02-08 22:58:19 Last edited by PriceChild Date: 2008-02-08 22:58:26 Requested 41 times |
| truecrypt | <reply> Truecrypt is a free open-source on-the-fly disk encryption software. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TruecryptHiddenVolume | Added by Pici Date: 2008-02-07 20:31:14 Last edited by Flannel Date: 2010-04-17 23:57:46 Requested 159 times |
| queue newqueue new queue | <reply> The queue of packages awaiting approval to enter the archive (also known as the NEW queue) and scheduled to build it at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/$curDevelLower/+queue | Added by ompaul Date: 2008-02-04 19:55:54 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2010-04-26 23:28:32 Requested 31 times |
| pie-#ubuntu-offtopic sugar-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply>PIE PIE PIE, mmm PI PI PI http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3663/3358637054_9f756a3615.jpg | Added by Seveas Date: 2008-02-03 19:43:21 Last edited by rww Date: 2015-03-15 01:41:36 Requested 505 times |
| pptp | <deleted><reply> pptp is not good according to Bruce Schneier http://schneier.com/pptp.html here the words insecurity are useful | Added by ompaul Date: 2008-02-03 19:01:13 Last edited by Pici Date: 2009-02-12 00:24:30 Requested 25 times |
| point | <deleted><reply> Do you have any? | Added by LjL Date: 2008-02-01 22:51:42 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-05-26 02:34:22 Requested 21 times |
| moo-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> There are no easter eggs in this bot. | Added by Pici Date: 2008-02-01 20:03:32 Requested 165 times |
| ack | <reply> fin | Added by LjL Date: 2008-01-31 22:50:39 Requested 20 times |
| irccouncil ircc irc-council | <reply> The Ubuntu IRC Council is the team governance council for the the Ubuntu IRC channels on the Libera network. For serious inquiries, please join #ubuntu-irc-council or email irc-council@lists.ubuntu.com - See also https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcCouncil | Added by Pici Date: 2008-01-31 19:36:19 Last edited by kryten Date: 2021-05-24 22:54:39 Requested 147 times |
| worst-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> This factoid is supposed to be pretty terrible. Please contact rodserling if you find a factoid worse than this, in order to improve, I mean pejorate, this useless conglomerate of words, thank you, well not really. Worst is also the dutch word for sausage. | Added by LjL Date: 2008-01-31 03:56:37 Last edited by Flannel Date: 2011-08-17 08:07:37 Requested 149 times |
| wastrel-#ubuntu-offtopic drm-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> sometimes wastrel cries | Added by LjL Date: 2008-01-28 16:47:46 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-12-18 02:36:11 Requested 147 times |
| resetpanels resetpanel panels | <reply> To reset the GNOME panel to defaults, type this in a !terminal: « gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel && killall gnome-panel » | Added by LjL Date: 2008-01-27 02:26:16 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-03-28 01:44:51 Requested 1159 times |
| enablesources chrepo | <reply> Enable the standard Ubuntu repositories by going to System > Administration > Software Sources - See !repositories for detailed information | Added by LjL Date: 2008-01-26 03:07:22 Last edited by LjL Date: 2008-01-26 03:07:45 Requested 34 times |
| guishell | <deleted><reply> Several "hybrid" GUI command line interfaces are in development, see: http://www.bterm.org/ - http://linux.pte.hu/~pipas/CUI/ - http://hotwire-shell.org/ | Added by LjL Date: 2008-01-25 16:37:28 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2013-03-23 02:47:21 Requested 2 times |
| no0tic | <deleted><reply> Hi, how can I help you? | Added by LjL Date: 2008-01-25 03:03:51 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2011-04-11 20:22:56 Requested 3 times |
| derivatives gnewsense mint linuxmce ultimate mce crunchbang backtrack kali based on ubuntu lxle popos | <reply> The Ubuntu channels can only provide support for Ubuntu and its official !flavors. Derivatives and other distributions use different software repositories and other software. Please use their dedicated support venues, such as: Linux Mint: #linuxmint-help on irc.spotchat.org, Pop!_OS: https://support.system76.com/ , Kali Linux: #kali-linux on irc.oftc.net, LXLE: https://lxle.net/support-options/ <deleted>cut off... | Added by LjL Date: 2008-01-24 22:57:06 Last edited by tomreyn Date: 2022-06-17 16:11:03 Requested 2991 times |
| store shop mug shirt | <reply> Buy some Official Ubuntu Merchandise & Professional Support. See https://shop.canonical.com/ | Added by Seveas Date: 2008-01-24 13:14:46 Requested 29 times |
| translate | <reply> Translate Ubuntu into your own language, important translations that are needed are listed first. See https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ | Added by Seveas Date: 2008-01-24 12:41:12 Requested 58 times |
| jding | <deleted><reply> jdong | Added by Pici Date: 2008-01-24 03:35:00 Last edited by Myrtti Date: 2009-06-18 22:31:07 Requested 60 times |
| requirements reqs specs | <reply> Hardware requirements to install, boot and comfortably use Ubuntu are listed at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements - For a !flavor with lower requirements, see !Xubuntu or !Lubuntu | Added by LjL Date: 2008-01-23 15:51:02 Last edited by nhandler Date: 2010-09-30 02:29:08 Requested 526 times |
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