The /tools/vote-hot/ page of the 10k tools breaks down votes by type. However, the two letter abbreviations are far from being self-explanatory. I guess "up" are upvotes, "fv" are favorites, "dn" (not pictured) are downvotes. I can't quite guess what the rest is, however, and my normal approac...

For years I have used Debian and Ubuntu, but have been severely mentally pained by the fact that APT is written in C++. Now suddenly Compiz gets rewritten in C++. I cursed a little as I had to stop using Compiz. To make matters worse suddenly Mark decides to fund the atrocity. He has been doing s...

For years I have used Debian and Ubuntu, but have been severely mentally pained by the fact that APT is written in C++. Now suddenly Compiz gets rewritten in C++. I cursed a little as I had to stop using Compiz. To make matters worse suddenly Mark decides to fund the atrocity. He has been doing s...

Well I finally found out that I copied the required libraries on wrong folder, because when I tested chroot for first time I was on a 32bit Ubuntu Machine, while my server is 64bit. So, I copied the required libraries and bin/sh at the proper folders at my directory that I would like to jail and ...

Give a try to alsamixer in a terminal by dropping: sudo alsamixer and after providing your password, you will have the controls of alsa mixer on which you can do as many changes as you wish in order to test if it is a software related issue. Remember that in the majority of the cases the audio...

Every respected dock out there (docky, awn, cairo dock) has these 2 important features that i really consider a must: 1. the ability to re-size them (someone may like smaller or bigger icons than the default ones) 2. the ability to change their position (bottom, left, right) In unity (which let'...

No, the size and position of the Unity launcher are fixed. In future, they should respond to information we can discern on your preferred font sizes and screen size/resolution, but that's for a future date.

For years I have used Debian and Ubuntu, but have been severely mentally pained by the fact that APT is written in C++. Now suddenly Compiz gets rewritten in C++. I cursed a little as I had to stop using Compiz. To make matters worse suddenly Mark decides to fund the atrocity. He has been doing s...

We just got this email from the Google Analytics team: We love that you love our product and use it as much as you do. We have observed however, that a website you are tracking with Google Analytics is sending over 1 million hits per day to Google Analytics servers. This is well above the "5 ...

As an avid Ubuntu user I am so sad to learn that Canonical does not help at all with upstream work. Why is that? If I go the extra mile and fund Ubuntu, will it just end up right in Mark Shuttleworth's wallet? Need to be sure here before I transfer over a boatload of money.

I have some user accounts in my Ubuntu 10.04 and I want them to login from all over the world and access their data using Internet and of course I want any of my users to be able to access only their own user and to be able to change data. What should I do? Are there any remote desktop apps?

I have a PC with a current ubuntu distribution installed. I've upgraded many times since 5.10. It always went well, however some tools or features were kindof left behind in a unsatisfactory state: grub to grub2 - is it an really necessary to switch the boot loader some time to grub2. Upgradi...