I have a dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Whenever I start my computer it will go straight into linux unless I hold shift to go into GRUB. I am constantly having to change between operating systems and my keyboad configuration doesn't allow for my to press shift at startup. Is there a way I can...
I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 in my system and i saw that the default time for os selection menu is only 10 sec, as i am new to Linux can anyone tell me how to increase this time?
This community-wiki answer providing details about what the OP said solved the problem needs a couple upvotes so the apparently abandoned question no longer appears open:
The original poster here, SplashHit, indicated in a comment that this question on SuperUser answered the question.
In that question, the OP followed this "guide" posted on Launchpad (which is actually the original version of this bug report by TJ).
rumtscho, the OP of that SuperUser question, h...
Bounty offered: How to easily delete snippets using Kdenlive? http://askubuntu.com/questions/162696/how-to-easily-delete-snippets-using-kdenlive?atw=1 #videoeditor
@AnwarShah If Oracle provided a deb download on their website, then pretty much everyone in Debian, Ubuntu, and other Debian-based systems would download that instead of the the executable installer. So if you're installing Java on a large number of your own systems, it would be handy to be able to make that yourself. Also, a properly constructed deb would use the Debian alternatives system and would automatically run update-alternatives on installation and removal.
I do agree that this is not something most users would want, though--if you're installing it on a single computer, then it's just more work. And you'd have to make a new package for every version that comes out.
@AnwarShah Well, I think he said "personal use" to clarify that is is not for distribution. One of the reasons to clarify that is that distributing recent Oracle Java JVM's would be against their license (but packaging it for yourself, and probably even for your whole company to use in-house, would probably be fine ...but I am not a lawyer and it's been some time since I've read that license).
@AnwarShah It depends on exactly how they are "restricted." Oracle Java's license agreement for quite some time (I think since jdk6u17 or something, but that may not be right) has prohibited redistribution. So that would violate the license.
My understanding is that Adobe Flash is distributed under similar terms--you cannot redistribute the actual Flash runtime, without violating the license. Permission is not granted to do so for Flash or Java, so it would probably be against copyright law to do it. (That would be a tort rather than a crime, though some countries including the US have limited cases where copyright infringement is a crime too. At that level of detail, you would need to consult a lawyer.)
The packages in multiverse that provide Adobe Flash don't actually contain Flash. They contain scripts that automatically download and install it from authorized sources. That's why it's called flashplugin-installer.
@AnwarShah Adobe actually does distribute Flash as adobe-flashplugin through the partner repository. But unauthorized redistribution of those .deb files would, I believe, violate the license.
This isn't really a question, but I'm not exactly sure where to put it. I would like to request stack exchange linking rewards.
Everyday many of the same questions are asked. Users that are experienced will link to a Post where the question has already been answered. If the link is put in as a c...
For example, there are packages that provide codecs that implement algorithms covered by software patents in some places and not others (and even where they are covered, there are generally exceptions for research and other purposes, plus you might actually have a patent license).
@AnwarShah If you're providing packages provided publicly through main, restricted, universe, or multiverse, I think that's fine. Some packages install software over the Internet by fetching files that are not authorized for distribution (like flashplugin-installer and ttf-mscorefonts-installer). If you were to include those files, then distribution the iso might be a problem. But you can still include those packages.
@aking1012 Why would anyone? Does Mint actually contain files like recent Oracle JVM's, the Flash plugin itself (rather than a downloader), and font files themselves that are not authorized for third-party redistribution?
@AnwarShah You can redistribute the packages in multiverse that provide them, but it would not be covered under the license, and thus would probably be copyright infringement, to redistribute the copyrighted content itself.
@AnwarShah I understand. I certainly welcome such questions, and I am pleased to help. I'm saying I'm not a lawyer not to discourage you ...but instead because it is very important to me that you know I am not a lawyer and that what I say mustn't be taken like advice from a lawyer. :-)
@aking1012 In my opinion, questions by novices that ask how to do something that is a really bad idea (from a technical perspective) should be mercilessly upvoted, since we really want people to ask about that stuff here first where we can explain why that it's bad, instead of just rushing ahead and doing it. (Of course, the question should still be a good question, to get upvotes. It should be clear, for instance. I am not asserting that we should all feel obligated to upvote this.)
"people" should never put things in root. ~/, /opt, and /tmp are the only places non-root should touch.
and yes, i just try not to answer things that will lead to broken. someone cited me by name on a launchpad bug for "telling them to remove the nvidia driver". obviously i meant through jockey, but they apt-get removed nvidia-*
@aking1012 Well, I think we should answer by telling not to do it and why. And then those cautionary answers should be super-duper upvoted. (But I am not saying you should upvote my answer in this case ...since there is now more information that renders it obsolete. I may either delete it or edit it, soon.)
@AnwarShah I mean, if other answers provide the same cautionary information and also answer the question about /var/www. I don't mean I'm about to delete my answer just now.
So I seem to recall that we have an earlier question about how to modify /var/www. Given the OP's comment, if we can find that, this should perhaps just be duped to that. Does anyone know if I'm remembering rightly?
I want to take the contents of home/magpie/xoops-2.5.5/htdocs/ and put it into var/www using the terminal. I don't want to go downloading anything I don't need.
Having installed the web server is there a simple way to set a user able to use the graphic interface to copy files and directories to the local web server /var/www
I gave myself administrative privileges in Ubuntu but it still doesn't allow copies.
@AnwarShah I would encourage you to. But I should disclose that I have an answer in mind already. "It seems to me that re-tagging may clarify the meaning of a question, which could cause someone to change their mind about a vote (either up or down)."
you used to be able to edit inittab and set default runlevel to not 5, but things have changed. i don't really know how to do that any more since single-user, single-user networking, multi-user, gui runlevels got nuked
I have seen recently that, When I re-tag a question, It is considered as edit. Then I can even reverse my vote on that question. I have a feeling that, It should not be considered as edit since, The actual meaning of the question is not changed. Also I think, very few of the answerer get informat...
Well, it got farther than it did before. It now fails while trying to launch X instead of not trying.
But it's sort of negative progress since I now can't access the console.
Well, I'm kind of stuck. My guess is that I need to get access to some kind of log so that I can find out where it goes awry. Any suggestions for how to do that?
scp copies files between hosts on a network. It uses ssh(1) for data
transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides the same security
as ssh(1). Unlike rcp(1), scp will ask for passwords or passphrases if
they are needed for authentication.
Any file name may contain a host and user specification to indicate that
the file is to be copied to/from that host. Copies between two remote
hosts are permitted.
The options are as follows:
-1 Forces scp to use protocol 1.
-2 Forces scp to use protocol 2.
-4 Forces scp to use IPv4 addresses only.
-6 Forces scp to use IPv6 addresses only.
-B Selects batch mode (prevents asking for passwords or
passphrases).
-C Compression enable. Passes the -C flag to ssh(1) to enable
compression.
-c cipher
Selects the cipher to use for encrypting the data transfer. This
option is directly …
I have seen recently that, When I re-tag a question, It is considered as edit. Then I can even reverse my vote on that question. I have a feeling that, It should not be considered as edit since, The actual meaning of the question is not changed. Also I think, very few of the answerer get informat...
@Wackidev Cool. Just keep in mind, though, that with scp -r, the default behavior is to follow symbolic links. Probably not a problem in this particular situation, but it's a good thing to keep in mind, because it's not necessarily intuitive that copying a directory to a remote location could write more data to the remote location than the total size of the directory locally.
@Wackidev: because sometimes permissions are not exactly cloned by scp you may consider putting the file to copy in a tarball first, or use rsync (with its 10000000 options)
if you're dead set on getting this thing working without an upgrade to something supported you could always edit your x config to use vesa for the time being...just to get you in the gui
@HorstJENS - I just popped over to check your profile on SO and saw your pygame answer. You might enjoy taking a look at Panda3D. I'm enjoying it, and it has some interesting sample programs and such.
Well Panda just recently got a speed boost from letting python run in one core and graphics etc in another or three
@Wackidev looks like it "should" be enabled. i'ld use jockey to install the nvidia driver package then remove it to blow out your compiled driver and get you back to at least a kind of working terminal
Exact Duplicate: How to roll back ubuntu to a previous version
Now this might sound stupid, but coming from 12.04 I would like to upgrade/downgrade to 11.10. I can't do a fresh install because that would get rid of roughly 3GB of data I would have to download again. The upgrade option on the li...
my job offers have slowed down finaly, which is nice. Too many people looking for .net devs - and its ultimately not what i want to continue doing. AMUSING NOTE! had a meeting 2 weeks ago and the business types asked me "Why aren't we using this PHP thing? We get resume's from PHP developers all he time, lets capitalize on this" so they made the executive decision with zero tech input to roll over the entire network to PHP applications -- i get to re-code the entire setup :|
mostly headhunters don't know what they're looking at on an HR req sheet vs resume. it's like playing find-a-word/word-search without knowing english..and they get a commission for it
Can you answer this? Is there a way of automatically suspending processes that are running in unfoc... http://askubuntu.com/questions/88790/is-there-a-way-of-automatically-suspending-processes-that-are-running-in-unfocus?atw=1 #workspaces
i'm looking at packing up makehuman to put in repo and save people from the pita i had getting it on post 8.04 (seriously, it depends on python 2.6 if you try and install their deb and they refuse to build it on anything not ancient). up side? it's a one character fix to the makefile
@aking1012 also working in my spare time at ditching octopress and rolling my own rails based markdown powered blog. I have the markdown processing done, just need to template it and finalize my git deploy hooks and its a finished project. Total time to live so far is about an hour.
not to be the latest ruby noob preaching the awesomeness to an already dead horse, but wow rails makes developing things crazy fast by consuming gems.
oh every language has its perks. I'm not a holy war anymore on anything but opening the flow of information exchange. I've consumed so many api's and written connectors over the last month it makes me sick to think about recoding them in PHP - i should have done it in a FOSS solution in the first place so i could just consume them. I may cheat and use a mono middle man
the issue is that someone somewhere is braindead to the point that they can't handle the migration tool that exports all the groupwise credentials and content
well the simple tool migrates to 2003...and we have to run 2008 only... hold on while i go install it in a personal vm to bounce it off of then. you'll never have 2003 on corp assets
well i meant for it to be a bit more "different voice" than rageface, but it works either way
on the developer for marketing job opportunity just pop me an email when something comes open. i'll send the resume i sent before plus some modifications to more fit the job description
good job. i've had mine for a while, but evidently didn't know the right folks :/
that or the openings i see are for "so and so with 7 years peoplesoft experience with oracle backend and this custom plug-in we wrote in house"
i think the student loan bubble is just a deferral of the job market tank. it's not really getting any better out there, just 4 years of school looks like employment in statistical notes. by the same token it only creates debt if there's no consumer waiting when it's over
Is there a Debian or Ubuntu bug requesting that the newer version be packaged in sid/quantal? If so, then people can subscribe and (in the case of an Ubuntu bug) use the Launchpad feature to silently indicate they are affected. That sometimes stimulates progress.
Can you answer this? How to show opened windows in the panel seperately on multiple monitors? http://askubuntu.com/questions/91875/how-to-show-opened-windows-in-the-panel-seperately-on-multiple-monitors?atw=1 #multiplemonitors
@GeorgeEdison /sys/bus/usb/devices/usbX and idProduct or idVendor to confirm
and sorry to hear about the software center review. sounds a little upsetting that an old version of your software is in center with a working version in ppa, but they're soliciting new apps to push in...
The original poster here, SplashHit, indicated in a comment that this question on SuperUser answered the question.
In that question, the OP followed this "guide" posted on Launchpad (which is actually the original version of this bug report by TJ).
rumtscho, the OP of that SuperUser question, h...
How do I create a deb package for Oracle JDK for personal use?
I need to rename it in the terminal because it is in the root directory
Having installed the web server is there a simple way to set a user able to use the graphic interface to copy files and directories to the local web server /var/www
I gave myself administrative privileges in Ubuntu but it still doesn't allow copies.
I just installed a new version of Ubuntu and I want to roll it back to the previous version.
How can I do that? Is that even possible?
