Using a GUI file browser, I would like to be able to mark files with an emblem or something similar as quickly as possible, with a single click. I'm currently using Gnome Nautilus in my Ubuntu 10.04, which doesn't seem to offer the functionality. I'm not keen on trying the extension Nautilus-Actions as it doesn't seem to be open source. I've set up some scripts though, but accessing them through the pop-up submenu is just clunky enough to still have me searching for a faster solution. Does a file browser exist that would let me set up a toolbar button for marking files? Or a button for launching scripts, which would amount to the same thing.
I need to view 10.858 text files by this friday to see which ones I need (searching file contents is not a solution), I was wondering if anyone knew any way/program to quickly view them as if they were, for example, images? And, optionally, to be able to save them to a different location from there? It doesn't necessarily have to be for Ubuntu as I also have WinXP and Vista, but it would save me having to transfer those couple of gigabytes to another computer.
Here I am editing /etc/samba/smb.conf and trying to remember what I should chmod the directory and the files to, then I think to myself there's probably an easier way. That way should be clear to the user.
There's dropbox and Ubuntu one but these are something slightly different, these sorts of things involving a cloud service or something needing to download to Windows clients, which is not what we want if we don't have an internet connection. So, is there a better way? Something to aide making smb.conf and permissions perhaps?
In Xubuntu, I can't seem to mark files as executable. I go into the properties, but there is no option to do this. Is there a way to mark .exe and .jar files as executable in XFCE?
Is it possible to remove the "ubuntuone-synchronized" emblem from files and folders that are being synchronized with Ubuntu One? Seeing the check mark on all my files and folders is just really annoying and distracts from the thumbnail preview that nautilus provides.I've tried going into folder properties -> emblems and de-selecting the emblem but it won't let me.
We have quite a few SEO clients who require multiple IPs which are all from different class c allocations. (10 - 50 IPs) used for projects lasting weeks to months at a time. Since we don't have connected IPs in ranges we can't use the range scripts but I don't know of a way to easily add a long list of individual IPs. These are CentOS servers, by the way
I'm trying to sync the clock of an ubuntu desktop with the network with ntpdate -u <ntp-server> and in a matter or minutes it's growing an offset of a few hundred milliseconds and even more than one second. Is there anyway to guarantee that the time keeps synchronizing with the network more frequently? does it make sense that the offset grows so fast? Am I doing something wrong?
when i play a song in banshee, or a videos video, i get no sound at all. however, in banshee 1 3 minute song will appear to play in about 20 seconds (the progress bar speeds along), and videos videos play back in ultra-fast motion with no sound. weirdly, when i go to system settings -> multimedia, and click test on the default sound device, the kde login sound plays back fine. this worked when i first installed; does anyone know what's going on here? i think it may be a problem with gstreamer?
I'm running badblocks on some new disk drives just to be safe before my return period expires. I'm running the command
Code: sudo badblocks -b 4096 -p 4 -c 65536 -w -s /dev/sdb1 on an empty partition taking up the entire device. I am getting the following output:
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1) When it gets to the "reading and comparing" phase, it seems to complete in <1s. I see other posts where people say this takes them as long as it took to write to the drive. I don't see any mention of this being quick, so I'm just afraid that badblocks is being denied read access or something.. Anyone familiar with this behaviour?
2) Obviously since it is on a sixth pass, badblocks thought that it found new bad blocks on the second pass (or later). When I check SMART, though, the drive has not re-allocated anything (despite having plenty of spares)... Doesn't this seem odd? Is there some reason why the disk would not step in upon a write fail? In fact, I thought a write fail should be transparent... Which makes me wonder if question 1 (above) is causing this...
Ubuntu 10.04 - when I logout I get screenful (at least) of messages all with the same format. They disappear too quickly to see what they're about. I've looked at the logs but can't see anything like what I see on the screen. Is there any way I can find them?
I bought a new Hp Pavillion DV6T. For the most part, everything worked right out of the box with ubuntu, but the computer seems to be heating up really quickly for no reason whatsoever even if I'm not doing anything intensive. Why this is happening. The fan always seems to be running at full blast. I logged onto windows for a minute to see if there was any difference in heating between the two OSs and windows seems to run much cooler and much more quiet. On a side note I'm thinking of returning the HP and buying a dell XPS 15. I hear they are more compatible with ubuntu and are better built.
HP Pavillion DV6t ATI Radeon 6570 1 GB graphics card Intel I7 2.0GHZ quad
So I am prompted in desktop for updates, but no information is given about the size of the packages involved. Sometimes, I don't like to wait too much for the dowload or to update packages which are too large.
Any settings dealing with that, so the individual size and the total per groups (security updates, etc) would be show without going in yum?
After dual booting into Windows to play Mass Effect 2, I hit the windows key by mistake, and the screen quickly turned black! Since then, I couldn't boot into Fedora, nor Windows; not even Fedora's linux rescue. I see the GRUB, I hit enter on any one of the two options, and all I see is a black screen!
I keep losing my Internet Connection(DSL) very quickly. Usually after a couple of minutes, it's absolutely unpredictable. And then, it gets difficult to reconnect. And if I succeed in reconnecting, I again lose the connection quite quickly.
Here are some logs from the ifcfg-dsl0.log code...
Recently, I'm getting an annoying problem: When I scroll quickly the text smears or duplicates itself -- doesn't happen with all applications. I haven't had this problem until I started to use OpenGL compositing with my NVidia card.
Working with a scientific code that uses more RAM+swap then i generally have (system has 12GB RAM + 24GB swap, but this thing is crazy)It's kind of a one use problem, so I'm not looking to get more RAM, is there a quick way to add more swap space (not on the swap partition, because i have that set at 24GB) so that my system can use it immediately?I don't want to drive up to the office tonight to get this fixed, so a command line setup would work best.
I am having a problem watching videos and such in 10.04 LTS, In power management I have display set to sleep in 1 hr but it is going to sleep every 10 minuets and prompting for my password everytime I make a mouse or keyboard movement. Makes it kind of difficult to watch a video.
i have a netbook with ubuntu desktop 10.10 (gnome), i don't know what i've done, t got a message
"OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet panel encountered a problem "
and i don't know how it was fixed, now it works good , but the panel doesn't start normally (quickly), i have to wait few minutes to get the menu bar and the other elements,
I'm looking for a way to quickly remove all data/partitions/boot records from my hard drives while running linux (distribution is irelevant). There are lots of ways to do this that I know of, but they all have some problems. Here's a list of what I've tried/thought of already. The most obvious is fdisk: Simply delete all the partitions. This usually works just fine and is very quick, but there are times it just doesn't....I'm realy not sure what gets left behind...I remove the MBR as well..but whatever it is, it's in the way. A couple other options are:
Both of these approaches are great if you're selling the components and want to make it very difficult for anyone to recover data. The draw-back is they take so very long to run. I've got four 1.5 TB drives that I've been writing zeros to for 2 days now. If you thought watching grass grow or paint drying was boring. A hundred years ago or so, when I was doing tech support for Windows 95 users we used this nifty dos-based debug script to wipe the hard drive. It was sort-of a last resort thing, but it worked beautifully, most of the time. If the customer had already formated, fdisked, fdisk /mbr, reinstalled Windows, but still couldn't get the thing to work, this would clean the drive so you could do a fresh install.
Just in case someone wants this, I'll post it. To use: first boot to some type of DOS environment in which you have the program "debug".
I would like to create some posters of A3 size quickly using some photographs, figures, tables,text boxes,etc. What is the suitable app which can do a quick and clean job? I do not find Scribus very user-friendly esp with text boxes.
I am using Ubuntu 10.04. I wish I could use Nautilus to change file dates, but I guess that does not work.
Is there another file manager, or something, that allows me to do this? I know about the touch command, but that's a little cumbersome for I am trying to do.
I want to add double quotation marks to contents of an column ,the column contains over 7000 cells with content already,so it would be heavy task to add "double quotation marks"one by one.Is there any way to do that quickly on Libre office?
My company needs to send sensitive data across to another company, 800gb of .dpx. The way I have thought of is: E-Sata/1TB WD black. True-encrypted/ hw accelerated aes (3x machines being built with 2600k) Sha1sum on each file.
The main goal is to make sure that 1. The files that were transferred off the server onto the drive, are exactly the same. 2. Secure. 3. Fast.
I have setup debian lenny as router - kernel 2.6.26, iptables 1.4.4 and compiled xtables-addons 1.17 There are these rules in:
iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -j CONNMARK --restore-mark iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -m mark ! --mark 0 -j ACCEPT iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -m ipp2p --bit -j MARK --set-mark 1 iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -m mark --mark 1 -j CONNMARK --save-mark iptables -t mangle -A POSTROUTING -m mark --mark 1 -j ACCEPT
Unfortunatelly if I try dowload something via router by ktorrent, then there are minimum of packets with id 1 (I find that at the last rule). There are only a few 100B packet with id 1 eventhought I downloaded a few MB with k torrent
There was a necessity of creation cluster file system on a basis gfs.Prompt how better to mark a disk 500 gb. Means how many better to allocate /root, LVM and so on.Or throw the reference on sensible manual.
I met problems when istall FC 10 on LG ED 500. I put the installation CD in the DVD drive, and start the computer, but it stopped very quickly. I didn't even see the progress bar of Fedora 10 coming out of the screen. What happend? I have checked the DVD drive under the windows system, and it's working.
