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alis alist	<reply> Alis is an IRC service to help you find channels. For help on using it, see «/msg Alis help list» or ask in #libera - Example usage: «/msg Alis list http»	Added by Pici Date: 2010-10-14 13:31:41 Last edited by kryten Date: 2021-05-24 22:54:09 Requested 3073 times
ssh openssh sftp	<reply> SSH is the Secure SHell protocol, see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH for client usage. PuTTY is an SSH client for Windows; see: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ for its homepage. See also !scp (Secure CoPy) and !sshd (Secure SHell Daemon)	Added by LjL Date: 2006-06-22 03:32:41 Last edited by rww Date: 2016-01-12 00:08:13 Requested 2566 times
pastebinit	<reply> pastebinit is the command-line equivalent of !pastebin - Command output, or other text can be redirected to pastebinit, which then reports an URL containing the output - To use pastebinit, install the « pastebinit » package from a package manager - Simple usage: command \| pastebinit	Added by genii Date: 2009-06-01 23:40:16 Last edited by genii Date: 2017-05-30 21:35:12 Requested 1276 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
lm-sensors sensors fan	<reply> To access CPU temperature sensors and detect fan speeds, install the lm-sensors package. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SensorInstallHowto for installation and usage instructions.	Added by jrib Date: 2007-09-27 03:50:30 Last edited by jussi01 Date: 2009-03-12 10:20:42 Requested 365 times
scp winscp	a secure way of copying files across networks using !SSH. Usage: scp filename user@host:filename - WinSCP is a client for Windows, available at http://winscp.net/	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-19 13:35:53 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:40:56 Requested 341 times
devilspie	a tool that can perform actions on windows when running applications. Actions include resizing, positioning, pinning etc. Use the package gdevilspie to configure from GUI, or see usage information at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Devilspie	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-23 19:34:05 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-08-21 20:23:21 Requested 152 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
ubugtu	an Ubuntu Bot. Usage info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Bots - Please don't play with the bot in the main channel.	Added by LjL Date: 2006-10-28 21:55:34 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 06:45:13 Requested 54 times
popcon	<reply> The Ubuntu Popularity Contest project is an attempt to map the usage of Ubuntu packages. To participate, install the package "popularity-contest", and see http://popcon.ubuntu.com/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucasNussbaum/PopconDraft	Added by gnomefreak Date: 2006-10-25 14:03:31 Last edited by Jucato Date: 2008-04-24 08:08:52 Requested 37 times
eir	<deleted>a utility bot for managing ban expiration. For usage instructions, see http://freenode.net/eir.shtml . For source code, see https://dev.freenode.net/redmine/projects/eir	Added by rww Date: 2011-08-17 06:47:14 Last edited by ezri Date: 2016-03-09 21:24:02 Requested 29 times
bothelp	<reply> For ubottu usage instructions see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBots \| For help with ubottu plugins for supybot, please ask in #ubuntu-bots	Added by stdin Date: 2009-03-15 13:32:10 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 06:45:41 Requested 28 times
picard	a digital audio fingerprinting/tagging program using the MusicBrainz online music database, not unlike freedb. It can be used to identify and tag files in your music collection. Usage instructions: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/HowToTagFilesWithPicard ; Ubuntu installation instructions: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardLinuxInstall	Added by gnomefreak Date: 2006-08-26 02:31:18 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-03-03 21:33:31 Requested 23 times
encyclopedia	<reply> See https://ubottu.com/devel/wiki/Plugins#Encyclopedia for usage information on the Encyclopedia factoid plugin	Added by tsimpson Date: 2010-12-14 02:58:49 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 07:02:33 Requested 16 times
tags	<reply> We use some common tags for tracking bugs on Launchpad.net See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Tags for common usage.	Added by PriceChild Date: 2007-06-04 14:27:27 Last edited by Tm_T Date: 2010-09-21 07:45:34 Requested 15 times
distrowatch	<reply> "[Distrowatch stats] correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch.com was accessed each day, nothing more." ~ https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity	Added by dax Date: 2017-01-14 07:55:24 Requested 14 times
usage	<alias> ubotu	Added by Seveas Date: 2006-06-18 01:11:22 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2012-04-05 15:44:51 Requested 5 times
papercut	<reply>A papercut is a trivially fixable usability bug in a central Ubuntu component. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut for more info	Added by jussi Date: 2010-12-27 18:28:44 Requested 4 times
botbugs	<reply> Bugs in or wishlist items for the Ubuntu IRC Bots can be filed at http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-bots - For requesting new factoids, see !usage	Added by Pici Date: 2011-06-28 12:39:34 Requested 3 times
devilspie-#xubuntu	<deleted><reply> devilspie is a tool that can perform actions on windows when running applications. Actions include resizing, positioning, pinning etc. Use the package gdevilspie to configure from GUI, or see usage information at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Devilspie	Added by knome Date: 2011-08-21 19:55:39 Last edited by knome Date: 2011-08-21 20:21:03 Requested 2 times
devilspie-#xubuntu devilspie	<deleted>a tool that can perform actions on windows when running applications. Actions include resizing, positioning, pinning etc. Use the package gdevilspie to configure from GUI, or see usage information at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Devilspie	Added by knome Date: 2011-08-21 19:53:06 Last edited by knome Date: 2011-08-21 19:55:27 Requested 1 times
sausage-#ubuntu-offtopic	<deleted><alias> worst-#ubuntu-offtopic	Added by Pici Date: 2008-02-21 04:12:59 Last edited by Pici Date: 2010-08-12 12:36:13 Requested 0 times