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| feeding the troll feedthetroll don't feed the troll botattack | <reply> The above mess was caused by someone who thought it was funny (they're gone now). Please ignore it completely, since discussing it and making a fuss will only make them think they've reached their "fun" goal. | Added by LjL Date: 2007-10-17 17:04:23 Requested 237 times |
| vanilla-#ubuntustudio | <reply> To install Ubuntu Studio on top of a vanilla Ubuntu install, read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/Installation | Added by Seveas Date: 2007-10-16 23:12:20 Requested 266 times |
| syn | <reply> FIN... FIN!!!... GO AWAY!!! FIN. | Added by Spec Date: 2007-10-16 22:09:20 Last edited by Seveas Date: 2008-02-20 08:09:36 Requested 69 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 |
| gobuntu | <deleted>a freedom-focused flavour of Ubuntu intended for experienced Linux enthusiasts. See http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/gobuntu for more information and download mirrors.. | Added by Spec Date: 2007-10-16 20:06:59 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-01-02 03:05:38 Requested 78 times |
| studiorepo | <reply>All Ubuntu Studio packages are included in the official Ubuntu repos. However, Ubuntu Studio 7.04 had its own custom addon repository. This is no longer supported or available. | Added by gnomefreak Date: 2007-10-16 13:16:46 Last edited by jussi01 Date: 2008-05-18 21:01:47 Requested 71 times |
| purekde | <reply> If you want to remove all !Gnome packages and have a default !Kubuntu system follow the instructions here « http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/purekde » | Added by ompaul Date: 2007-10-12 23:32:22 Last edited by pangolin Date: 2011-10-25 00:54:08 Requested 783 times |
| backtrace | <reply> To get a backtrace of a failing application please read: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace | Added by gnomefreak Date: 2007-10-12 21:38:27 Requested 33 times |
| lug | <reply> LUGs are Linux User Groups. At LUGs you can meet other Linux enthusiasts in person, and often get one on one support. You can find your local group here: http://lugslist.com/ | Added by gnomefreak Date: 2007-10-11 18:59:44 Last edited by Pici Date: 2016-11-30 19:45:52 Requested 42 times |
| rc | <reply> Ubuntu does not provide a distinct release candidate image. Instead during the week leading up to the release, each image is considered a release candidate. More details at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseCandidate | Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-10-11 18:14:44 Last edited by k1l Date: 2016-04-15 22:12:56 Requested 47 times |
| stages | <reply> The Ubuntu Kernel gets updated in stages. If you have the updated kernel, but do not have the corresponding restricted modules, you may be leaving yourself with no X when you reboot. If you have compiled binary versions of your video driver, eg from the nVidia site, you will need to recompile them for the new kernel. This is normal, and not a bug. | Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-10-06 16:47:05 Last edited by Hobbsee Date: 2007-10-06 16:48:34 Requested 310 times |
| shortcuts-#kubuntu | <reply> Keyboard shortcuts can be set in System Settings -> Keyboard & Mouse. If your multimedia keys don't work with that, try the 'keytouch' package, explained at https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KDEMultimediaKeys - See !Keyboard for changing layouts. | Added by LjL Date: 2007-10-04 23:33:09 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2010-10-30 01:50:26 Requested 105 times |
| man-#kubuntu | <reply>The "man" command brings up the Linux manual pages for the command you're interested in. Try "man intro" at the command line, or type man:/ in Konqueror's location bar. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal | Added by Jucato Date: 2007-10-04 15:10:11 Requested 17 times |
| aptoncd | <reply> APTonCD is a tool with a graphical interface which allows you to create one or more CDs or DVDs with all of the packages you've downloaded via apt-get or aptitude, creating a removable repository that you can use on other computers - See also !offline | Added by Seveas Date: 2007-10-02 23:14:54 Last edited by LjL Date: 2009-03-06 17:09:56 Requested 942 times |
| home separatehome movehome | <reply> Your home directory is where all of your personal files are usually kept. For moving your home directory to a separate partition, please see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving | Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-10-01 08:45:38 Last edited by jussi Date: 2011-05-16 07:43:54 Requested 937 times |
| ocr | <reply> For OCR (optical character recognition) software in Ubuntu, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OCR for packages and instructions. | Added by LjL Date: 2007-09-29 22:03:51 Last edited by jussi Date: 2011-04-28 15:10:43 Requested 87 times |
| gnutella | <reply> Some Gnutella clients: GTK-Gnutella (GTK, stand-alone), gifTui, giFToxic (GTK, based on giFT), Apollon (KDE, based on giFT), mldonkey-gui (GTK, based on MLDonkey), KMLDonkey (KDE, based on MLDonkey) - See also !P2P | Added by LjL Date: 2007-09-28 20:01:51 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2011-09-07 11:30:12 Requested 55 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 |
| ttyerror | <reply> If you get an error on boot similar to « /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off », you can try the fixes proposed at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TTYError | Added by LjL Date: 2007-09-26 18:04:04 Requested 31 times |
| myself-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> I know all there is to know about myself, and more. What about you? | Added by LjL Date: 2007-09-23 15:54:40 Requested 35 times |
| screenlets | <deleted><reply> Screenlets are little widgets for your !desktop. Note you must have a compositing window manager such as !Compiz Fusion, xcompmgr, or KWin to run them. You can get them at http://www.screenlets.org/ | Added by LjL Date: 2007-09-22 16:38:11 Last edited by dax Date: 2016-03-31 15:35:58 Requested 137 times |
| life-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> "Life" is a so-called game created by John Conway. But make no mistake: it's really no fun at all. | Added by LjL Date: 2007-09-22 15:11:04 Requested 133 times |
| life | something very few people know about in this channel - and anyway, it's probably offtopic, perhaps you want to try #ubuntu-offtopic | Added by LjL Date: 2007-09-22 15:10:06 Requested 216 times |
| yay | <reply> Glad you made it! :-) | Added by LjL Date: 2007-09-22 14:38:08 Requested 1670 times |
| foo baz foo2 | [baz|bar|wibble] | Added by LjL Date: 2007-09-22 14:37:00 Last edited by Pici Date: 2014-06-19 15:50:27 Requested 437 times |
| rootirc | <reply> It's not technically our business, but we'd like to tell you that IRC'ing as root is a Very Bad Idea (tm). After all, doing anything as root when root is not needed is bad, and especially bad with software that connects to the Internet. | Added by LjL Date: 2007-09-21 17:20:07 Last edited by LjL Date: 2007-09-25 18:04:50 Requested 621 times |
| lag | <reply> You have lag, I don't have lag | Added by LjL Date: 2007-09-19 19:50:31 Requested 360 times |
| b | an IRC channel mode that you don't want on your hostmask. | Added by LjL Date: 2007-09-18 21:26:05 Last edited by Pici Date: 2009-07-15 13:13:01 Requested 161 times |
| l33t | <reply> 1337 i5 n1gh-inc0mpr3h3n5ib13 70 u5 n00bs, 4nd n0b0dy c4r35 if UR 4 1337 h4x0r. Giv3 i7 4 r357. | Added by PriceChild Date: 2007-09-16 21:17:55 Last edited by Spec Date: 2008-02-11 21:18:09 Requested 52 times |
| nl-troll | In een internetomgeving is een Troll een persoon die slechts als doel heeft: het zaaien van onrust en het krijgen van reacties en aandacht. | Added by ompaul Date: 2007-09-15 19:58:02 Requested 9 times |
| manuals | <deleted>for an introduction and a bit more on how to get the best out of your ubuntu install please check out https://help.ubuntu.com/ | Added by ompaul Date: 2007-09-15 10:06:01 Last edited by Pici Date: 2009-05-18 23:56:18 Requested 1 times |
| kirby-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> <(^.^<) <(^.^)> (>^.^)> | Added by Spec Date: 2007-09-14 20:49:06 Last edited by Spec Date: 2007-09-14 20:49:14 Requested 636 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 |
| repeat-#kubuntu | <reply> Don't feel ignored and repeat your question quickly; if nobody knows your answer, nobody will answer you. You can search https://help.ubuntu.com/ http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ or http://www.kubuntuforums.net/ while you wait. | Added by Jucato Date: 2007-09-10 10:28:44 Last edited by tsimpson Date: 2010-01-17 11:00:12 Requested 336 times |
| oneko | <deleted>the cat of cats, the loler with minions, the sudo apt-get installable one, the cat of our times, but not the cat of the command line! | Added by ompaul Date: 2007-09-03 23:17:33 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-01-23 04:44:11 Requested 20 times |
| lnw | <reply> Want to know the differences between Windows and Linux? This guide, called "Linux is Not Windows" is a pretty good read -- http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm | Added by elkbuntu Date: 2007-09-01 12:32:19 Last edited by elkbuntu Date: 2007-09-01 12:49:34 Requested 209 times |
| hardy heron 8.04 | <reply> Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) was the eighth release of Ubuntu. Desktop support ended on May 12 2011, Server support ended on May 9th 2013. See https://ubottu.com/y/hardy for more details. | Added by PriceChild Date: 2007-08-29 22:41:06 Last edited by dax Date: 2017-10-30 07:01:30 Requested 2471 times |
| ppa ppas | <reply> A Personal Package Archive (PPA) can provide alternate software not normally available in the offical Ubuntu repositories - Looking for a PPA? See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas - WARNING: PPAs are unsupported third-party packages, and you use them at your own risk. See also !addppa and !ppa-purge | Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-08-28 13:47:45 Last edited by Myrtti Date: 2012-02-27 21:39:45 Requested 3227 times |
| bzrmerges | <reply> are always committed at once - without specifying any file - e.g. bzr commit -m "your merge comment" | Added by gnomefreak Date: 2007-08-27 19:29:46 Requested 1 times |
| sco | <deleted><reply> Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha!!!!! | Added by Seveas Date: 2007-08-15 21:07:02 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-05-26 02:34:11 Requested 45 times |
| ymmv | short for "Your mileage may vary". It means that someone else's experience with compatibility, performance etc. may not necessarily match yours. Also see !wfm | Added by Seveas Date: 2007-08-15 20:52:04 Last edited by Pici Date: 2007-12-26 17:35:18 Requested 37 times |
| girl girls | <reply> Girls exist on the internet. See http://www.escapistmagazine.com/print/17/27 | http://www.xkcd.com/322/ | For more interesting reading: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/ | Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-08-12 09:12:44 Last edited by Pici Date: 2008-08-08 15:33:44 Requested 435 times |
| sorry | <reply> It's ok, I am only a bot so I cannot stay mad at you. For apologising to humans though, take a read of https://web.archive.org/web/20170201184826/http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2009/07/20/on-apologies/ | Added by Amaranth Date: 2007-08-10 23:05:06 Last edited by tonyyarusso Date: 2017-05-22 21:48:30 Requested 544 times |
| smack* | <reply> Ouch, that hurt! | Added by Amaranth Date: 2007-08-10 23:04:10 Last edited by Amaranth Date: 2007-08-10 23:04:46 Requested 169 times |
| nouveau | an open-source nvidia driver included by default since Ubuntu 10.04. Currently, 3D rendering is only partially supported. More information can be found at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ | See !nvidia for the closed-source Nvidia driver. | Added by Hobbsee Date: 2007-08-09 09:03:42 Last edited by rww Date: 2011-05-23 22:49:26 Requested 157 times |
| mornington crescent-#ubuntu-offtopic | <reply> Here's the map: http://www.upminster.com/travel/underground.gif | Added by Seveas Date: 2007-08-05 11:57:41 Requested 10 times |
| newstome | ohh wow, I missed the 11 o'clock bulletin | Added by ompaul Date: 2007-08-04 17:53:23 Requested 6 times |
| highno | <reply> A higher version number does not mean that it's better. Especially with packages such as the linux kernel. The packages in the Ubuntu repositories are stable and will work fine. You should have a better reason than "newer" when considering compiling from source or using 3rd party repos. | Added by PriceChild Date: 2007-07-27 20:06:24 Last edited by PriceChild Date: 2007-07-27 20:06:36 Requested 89 times |
| xp | <reply> XP, or "eXtreme Programming" is a style of programming, for more information see: http://www.extremeprogramming.org/ | Added by Spec Date: 2007-07-17 21:04:07 Last edited by Spec Date: 2007-07-17 21:04:51 Requested 62 times |
| logo | <reply> Official Ubuntu artwork including the Ubuntu logo can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Official | Added by jrib Date: 2007-07-16 21:55:56 Last edited by jrib Date: 2007-07-16 21:56:01 Requested 31 times |
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