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| Factoid | Value | Author |
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| tea | a very British beverage made from infusing leaves of various tea plants in hot water. | Added by Mez Date: 2009-04-02 13:04:31 Requested 31 times |
| team-#xubuntu-devel | <reply> bluesabre, jphilips, knome, krytarik, ochosi, pleia2 and Unit193 | Added by knome Date: 2013-11-14 15:17:40 Last edited by krytarik Date: 2021-04-23 01:03:33 Requested 259 times |
| teamspeak | the proprietry VoIP software see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TeamSpeak For a open source alternative consider using Mumble http://mumble.sourceforge.net/ | Added by ompaul Date: 2007-11-23 21:04:16 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:43:42 Requested 57 times |
| techboard tb | <reply> You can contact the technical board via email on technical-board AT lists DOT ubuntu DOT com | Added by Mez Date: 2007-10-16 21:04:43 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-01-02 03:05:24 Requested 13 times |
| teg | <deleted><reply> Come play teg with us! (Like the board game Risk.) Game will start when we get some players rounded up - get yourself set up and join quickly if you'd like to participate. Install the "teg" package, run 'tegclient', and connect to server home.tonyyarusso.com, , port 2000. Ping tonyyarusso for more info. | Added by Hobbsee Date: 2006-12-16 16:09:28 Last edited by dax Date: 2019-11-27 20:44:25 Requested 73 times |
| telnet | not safe. Please use ssh instead. See !ssh | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 15:45:32 Requested 116 times |
| tempopabuse-#ubuntu-offtopic | <deleted><reply> rww is a bad op. | Added by IdleOne Date: 2013-05-25 05:30:30 Last edited by rww Date: 2016-02-11 08:08:12 Requested 6 times |
| terminal shell bash commands ln ls sed awk cat lsof kill symlink sh console konsole lxterminal | <reply> The linux terminal or command-line interface is very powerful. In Unity or GNOME, search the dash for "terminal" and press ENTER. Other desktops: Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal (MATE), K-menu -> System -> Konsole (KDE), or Menu -> Accessories -> LXTerminal (LXDE). Guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal | Added by Madpilot Date: 2006-06-24 13:07:53 Last edited by SonikkuAmerica Date: 2016-10-09 03:01:48 Requested 6929 times |
| test | <reply> Testing... Testing... 1. 2.. 3... | Added by Amaranth Date: 2006-08-09 10:19:13 Last edited by rww Date: 2016-01-05 03:10:16 Requested 5473 times |
| test again | <deleted><reply>Failed again. | Added by Amaranth Date: 2006-09-03 22:05:05 Last edited by Pici Date: 2011-04-08 23:02:34 Requested 59 times |
| test-#ubuntu-bots-devel | <reply> test $nick $chan $curLTS $who | Added by m4v Date: 2011-08-03 20:29:12 Last edited by m4v Date: 2011-08-03 20:36:51 Requested 15 times |
| testdrive | <reply> Testdrive makes it simple to run any Ubuntu release in a virtual machine, safely, and without affecting your current Ubuntu installation. See: https://launchpad.net/testdrive | Added by jpds Date: 2010-01-07 17:01:23 Requested 10 times |
| testers-#kubuntu | <reply> Help is needed in #kubuntu-devel. Please ping Riddell, yofel, soee, Tm_T, BluesKaj, James147, Quintasan, lordievader, shrini, tester56, parad1se, mamarley, alket, SourBlues, sgclark, neo31, vip, mparillo, wxl, DarinMiller, tsimonq2 for information | Added by Tm_T Date: 2012-01-25 17:02:44 Last edited by genii Date: 2017-03-22 21:43:13 Requested 3 times |
| testers-#kubuntu-devel | <reply> Help is needed in #kubuntu-devel. Please ping RikMills, soee, BluesKaj, mamarley, mparillo, wxl, DarinMiller, tsimonq2, crydotsnake-M for more information. | Added by Tm_T Date: 2012-01-25 17:04:00 Last edited by genii Date: 2019-08-28 22:30:59 Requested 344 times |
| testers-#kubuntu-offtopic | <reply> Help is needed in #kubuntu-devel. Please ping Riddell, yofel, soee, Tm_T, BluesKaj, James147, Quintasan, lordievader, shrini, tester56, parad1se, mamarley, alket, SourBlues, sgclark, neo31, vip, mparillo, wxl, DarinMiller, tsimonq2 for information | Added by genii Date: 2017-03-22 20:38:05 Requested 2 times |
| testing | <reply> To test your hardware, you can use the packages memtest86+ (for memory, can be started from the !GRUB boot menu), smartmontools (for hard drives), cpuburn (which MIGHT damage your processor if cooling is not adequate!). Additionally, lm-sensors can be useful to monitor temperatures and fan speeds - See also !benchmark | Added by LjL Date: 2012-01-21 13:04:52 Last edited by LjL Date: 2012-01-21 13:06:05 Requested 44 times |
| testing-#xubuntu | <reply> For information on how to help test the next release of Xubuntu, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Testing | Added by somerville32 Date: 2007-01-11 03:42:24 Last edited by knome Date: 2011-09-06 12:10:03 Requested 16 times |
| tex latex | a language for describing a document, commonly used especially for scientific publishing. Information and instructions for installing TeX and other related packages can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LaTeX | Added by LjL Date: 2007-05-12 00:23:42 Requested 147 times |
| th | <reply> Please type /join #ubuntu-th for Ubuntu in Thailand. | Added by elkbuntu Date: 2008-12-01 09:04:30 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2012-06-26 02:59:58 Requested 68 times |
| thanks thanks! thank you thankyou ty thanks. thanx ok thanks :) domo arigato thx | <reply> You're welcome! But keep in mind I'm just a bot ;-) | Added by Mez Date: 2006-09-09 08:48:38 Requested 4812 times |
| the fifth-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> I plead the fifth! | Added by genii Date: 2014-08-15 20:29:56 Requested 3 times |
| themes eyecandy theme artwork icandy i-candy eye candy wallpaper art | <reply>Find your themes at: http://www.gnome-look.org - http://art.gnome.org - http://www.kde-look.org - http://kubuntu-art.org - http://freecode.com/tags/theme - http://www.guistyles.com - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/ - Also see !changethemes and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuEyeCandy | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-07-14 18:27:04 Last edited by daxcat Date: 2016-03-09 06:12:08 Requested 2646 times |
| themes-#xubuntu xfce-themes themes-#xubuntu-devel | <reply> To change your theme in Xubuntu, go to Settings Manager -> Appearance (tabs Style, Icons) and/or Settings Manager -> Window Manager (tab Style). Starting with Xubuntu 13.10, you can control some of your theme colors from Settings Manager -> Theme Configuration. | Added by knome Date: 2011-08-13 12:48:11 Last edited by knome Date: 2013-10-14 20:18:51 Requested 44 times |
| this-#ubuntu-offtopic | <deleted><reply> not that | Added by IdleOne Date: 2012-05-12 15:14:43 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2012-05-12 15:16:15 Requested 1 times |
| threelaws-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply>Asimov's Three Laws don't apply to IRC bots, silly human! Be afraid! | Added by Madpilot Date: 2009-05-12 08:25:28 Requested 8 times |
| thunar | a file manager for !Xfce. It is a lightweight alternative to !Nautilus and is quite similar. More info at: http://thunar.xfce.org/index.html - Want to Replace Nautilus with Thunar? See http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonautilusplease | Added by elkbuntu Date: 2007-05-01 14:11:07 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:43:12 Requested 67 times |
| thunderbird | <deleted><reply> Thunderbird is a free email client, capable of close cooperation with Firefox (both by the Mozilla Foundation). To make Thunderbird links open in Firefox, see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=60427 | Added by gnomefreak Date: 2006-06-21 03:07:12 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-03-31 15:22:36 Requested 174 times |
| time ntp | <reply> Information about using and setting your computer's clock on Ubuntu can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime - See https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/NTP.html for information on usage of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) | Added by LjL Date: 2007-12-11 16:11:33 Last edited by knome Date: 2015-07-27 16:41:04 Requested 793 times |
| timevault | <reply> TimeVault is a graphical backup tool for GNOME. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeVault and http://launchpad.net/TimeVault | Added by Spec Date: 2007-12-27 19:02:52 Requested 11 times |
| todo-#ubuntu-motu | <reply> Looking for something todo? Look no further! Check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/TODO for a quick list of suggestions. | Added by jpds Date: 2008-07-14 09:55:15 Requested 0 times |
| tomb | <reply> 'tomb' is a user-friendly wrapper for !LUKS encryption. It allows making encrypted volumes as portable files, and panic-button functionality - 'tomb slam' | Added by hggdh Date: 2019-07-16 16:43:37 Requested 0 times |
| tonyyarusso | <deleted>weird. | Added by elkbuntu Date: 2008-05-12 17:23:26 Last edited by elky Date: 2010-10-18 11:42:06 Requested 15 times |
| topic | <reply> Please read the channel topic whenever you enter, as it contains important information. To view it at any time after joining, simply type /topic | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-10-22 18:02:36 Requested 1733 times |
| tor | <reply> Tor is a program to route connections through several servers for anonymity. It is in Ubuntu's repositories, but the Tor Project recommends using their Tor packages due to past issues with Ubuntu's. For setup info, see option (2) of https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en | Added by LjL Date: 2007-11-04 23:20:20 Last edited by ezri Date: 2016-03-09 21:22:05 Requested 516 times |
| torrent bittorent bittorrent | <reply> Some torrent clients: Transmission (GTK and terminal-based), Deluge-Torrent, Freeloader, BitStormLite, BitTornado-GUI (GTK), KTorrent (KDE), QTorrent (Qt), Azureus/Vuse (Java), !Frostwire (Java), TorrentFlux (web-based), bittornado, rTorrent, cTorrent, bittorrent, aria2 (terminal-based) - FAQ: http://www.bittorrent.com/help/faq - See also !P2P | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 17:03:09 Last edited by oCean Date: 2012-01-14 16:17:16 Requested 1352 times |
| torrents | <reply> $curStable can be torrented from http://torrent.ubuntu.com/simple/$curStableLower/desktop/ubuntu-$curStableNum-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent or http://torrent.ubuntu.com/simple/$curStableLower/live-server/ubuntu-$curStableNum-live-server-amd64.iso.torrent depending on your needs. Other flavors can be found at http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969 | Added by apokryphos Date: 2006-10-26 13:27:56 Last edited by dax Date: 2020-04-23 18:16:52 Requested 1088 times |
| torrents-#kubuntu | <reply>Kubuntu $curStableLong ($curStableNum) torrents can be obtained at http://torrent.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/$curStableLower/release/ | Added by LjL-Temp Date: 2008-04-24 16:28:20 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2012-10-14 19:52:31 Requested 42 times |
| torrents-#lubuntu torrents-#lubuntu-offtopic torrents-#lubuntu-devel | <reply> Lubuntu $curStable ($curStableNum) torrents can be downloaded from http://torrent.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/$curStableLower/release/desktop/lubuntu-$curStableNum-desktop-i386.iso.torrent and http://torrent.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/$curStableLower/release/desktop/lubuntu-$curStableNum-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent | Added by Unit193 Date: 2015-05-01 19:29:09 Requested 4 times |
| torrents-#xubuntu torrents-#xubuntu-offtopic torrents-#xubuntu-devel | <reply> Xubuntu $curStable ($curStableNum) torrents can be downloaded from http://torrent.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/$curStableLower/release/desktop/xubuntu-$curStableNum-desktop-i386.iso.torrent and http://torrent.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/$curStableLower/release/desktop/xubuntu-$curStableNum-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent | Added by knome Date: 2013-04-25 13:21:05 Last edited by knome Date: 2013-04-25 13:30:41 Requested 16 times |
| tr turkish turkey | <reply> Turk ubuntu kullanıcıları, Türkçe yardım ya da geyik için /join #ubuntu-tr hizmetinizde. | Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-17 23:43:43 Last edited by gpc Date: 2011-02-10 17:01:06 Requested 1035 times |
| trac | an open source, enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Look here for a Trac How To on Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTracHowto | Added by nalioth Date: 2006-08-27 02:11:14 Requested 8 times |
| traffic | <reply> NOTICE - There is a lot of traffic in this channel at the moment. Please try to keep your sentences into a single message, avoid repeating the same question multiple times, use http://paste.ubuntu.com for pasting, remember to mention the nickname of the person you're addressing, and join #ubuntu-offtopic for anything that is not Ubuntu support. Thank you for understanding! | Added by LjL Date: 2006-10-22 01:00:37 Last edited by jrib Date: 2009-12-14 16:23:57 Requested 264 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 |
| trash | <reply> Your GUI file manager's Trash folder is located at ~/.local/share/Trash/ for files moved to trash from your hard disk and .../.Trash-userid/ on external devices for files moved to trash from the device. | Added by LjL Date: 2008-04-18 01:11:40 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-04-19 00:43:28 Requested 780 times |
| triage-#ubuntu-bugs | <reply> Triage means ensuring that a bug has all of the necessary information for a developer to start working on it when they have time. | Added by nhandler Date: 2010-09-18 14:25:07 Requested 1 times |
| tribalwars | <reply> Tribal Wars is a web based browser game. For more information and to learn how to join the other ubunteros playing it, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TribalWars | Added by Mez Date: 2007-10-22 00:59:32 Last edited by LjL Date: 2007-10-22 00:59:57 Requested 4 times |
| tribe6 | <deleted><reply> Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) Tribe 6 is not a formal release, but rather a bugfixing milestone. Please see http://tinyurl.com/3ytk9g for more information. | Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-09-11 14:11:28 Last edited by IdleOne Date: 2011-05-26 16:53:43 Requested 8 times |
| trim ssd | <reply> Many Solid State Drives support TRIM, which allows the drive to do garbage collection and improves performance. Ubuntu 14.04 activates it by default. For older versions, see http://askubuntu.com/a/19480 for information on activating it. | Added by rww Date: 2014-03-29 05:24:27 Last edited by rww Date: 2014-05-16 00:45:48 Requested 114 times |
| trogdor-#ubuntuforums | <reply> http://www.homestarrunner.com/trogdor.html | Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-04-26 03:36:57 Requested 21 times |
| trolls-#ubuntu-offtopic | <deleted><reply> People who add factoids repeatedly even after they've been refused once or twice. Also, aubade. | Added by LjL Date: 2008-10-28 00:29:41 Last edited by rww Date: 2014-06-04 00:37:11 Requested 38 times |
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