Ubuntu :: Ruining KDE Experience Ever Upgraded To 10.4?
May 19, 2010
No matter what desktop I use, there are 5 nepomuk processes and one virtuoso-t process running, taking up quite a lot of CPU in total. These stupid things have been ruining my Ubuntu and KDE experience ever since I upgraded to 10.4. I want to have those things NEVER run again, no matter what they're for, preferably by editing a config file because using graphical settings in KDE hasn't actually disabled them.
EDIT: If I kill the process nepomukservices, it keeps coming back! Who does that??? I installed KDE 3.5 now (instead of the very bad KDE 4). I have no setting to disable desktop search, because the brilliant and good KDE 3.5 has no such useless, CPU hogging, feature. But somehow the evil KDE 4 still manages to hog down my system by keeping to spawn this nepomukservices process all the time even when I'm not logged into KDE4 at all!
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Jan 2, 2011
A friend has sent me an .iso by ftp, only trouble is it is 7gb and all my blanks are 4.7gb
Any simple suggestions, I am totally inexperienced working with DVD's so not sure how to re-size without ruining the content!
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May 12, 2010
For some reason, my downloads on Windows are really slow no matter what download accelerator I use. I've tried IDM, FDM , DAP , DAM , Orbit , Supersonic , jDownloader - they all have some problem . Sometimes the files just halt and refuse to be downloaded.
Warning : Not For Advanced Users!
On Ubuntu though I have found a wonderful solution that sees me all the time maxing out my download connection and often exceeding it with absolutely no problems.
Here's the combination :
Aria 2 + Flashgot.
I will show you how to set it up, how to configure it and how to pause , resume downloads.
That's all one needs!
1. To get started , let's download Aria 2.
Fire up a terminal and enter
Code:
sudo apt-get install aria2
2. And now Flashgot : Install the add-on from this site: [URL]
Close Firefox
3. Now to choose Aria 2 as the default download manager
Open Firefox
Tools
Flashgot -> More Options -> General Tab and select Aria 2.
4. Now in terminal:
Code:
cd
mkdir .aria2
Now create a file called aria2.conf inside .aria2( which is a hidden folder can be viewed by pressing Ctrl+H in the Home Folder)
Code:
cd .aria2
gedit aria2.conf
5. Open the file and type split=100 on the first line. That does it . Now to download anything say for example a video from ..... : [URL] in the bottom right corner click the flashing icon ( Flashgot Media) or alternatively go to Tools->Flashgot->Flashgot Media
6. Your download will start after selecting a download folder. A window will open which will display progress. To Pause , press Ctrl+C.
7. To resume open History, navigate to the page and again click 'Flashgot Media'
The file will resume.
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Oct 10, 2010
After upgrading one of my computers to 10.10 I experience freeze on shutdown I understand that there are multiple things that can do that. Is there a way to Isolate the issue. It freezes during the ubuntu dots screen. The dots are still changing endlessly. So it is not complete freeze. The only way to intervene is by issuing a CTRL-ALT-DEL then the computer restarts.
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Jan 1, 2010
This post is not to ask for help, but rather to document my recent effort to downgrade my ext4 file systems to ext3 file systems. I don't know if it'll help anyone, but here it is anyway, fwiw.I am running ubuntu 9.10 on an older Dell GX-270, and had formatted my partitions with ext4 file systems. I began to notice partimage wasn't backing up my ext4 file systems and I decided to downgrade to ext3 file systems.My system has one 160GB drive and one 500GB drive. I also have an external usb2 500GB drive./home is on the internal 500GB drive. To convert it, I mounted an ntfs file system on the external drive, created a container file, put a file system on it, and mounted the container as a linux file system.
The backup was done done via rsync. rsync makes things really easy. It understands uids, gids, file permissions, and all kinds of links. That's one reason I created the container file on my external drive. NTFS doesn't understand uids gids, linux file permissions, or linux style links.
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May 2, 2011
I have assembled an "old" PC I want to attach to my 32" Sony TV. Mainly for browsing, watching videos, playing casual games. Is there a special Desktop theme suited for big screen ? In other words: Big icons, big text? Not sure if Unity helps out here. I would be willing to install another desktop manager (e.g. XFCE, KDE) than Gnome if it provides such features. Firefox for examples supports increased font size for browsing. For shell I've played around with guake and font sizes around 20 pix. It just would be nice to have "enlarged" menu entries.
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Dec 16, 2010
I am stuck with Fedora 13 due to the fact that clutter has some nasty bug which colides with the nvidia binary blob driver (I _require_ CUDA _and_ usable 2D/3D). So the new version is out since some days ago but not yet in rpmfusion. So did anyone give 260.19.29 a shot and does the 2D/3D UI still lag?
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Sep 26, 2010
has anyone experiences with the bluetooth headset DR-BT101 from Sony under Ubuntu?
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Oct 11, 2010
I've been looking around for the past week, but I have yet to find anything yet that provides a media center solution using Ubuntu + Xbox 360, comparable to Windows 7 + Xbox 360.
I want to drop Windows 7 completely on my media PC, and just use Ubuntu (or Linux Mint). I've tried ushare, XBMC, Moovida, and a few other apps. Either they don't support sharing, or it's difficult to configure, or it is a cheap looking solution.
Is there no way to use my Xbox 360 for a smooth media center experience, similar to how it functions as a Media Center Extender for Win7, while replacing Win7 w/ Ubuntu?
I'm even open to commercial Linux solutions, I'm just hoping to be able to drop Win7 if possible..
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Dec 5, 2010
I have no RAID experience on Linux, so I've found dozen of information on the net about software raids, hardware raids and fake raids. Now situation is not clear to me at all. I'm considering to buy one of these cards to run on my Ubuntu server (currently 9.04, but will be upgraded to 10.10):
1. Promise FastTrak TX2300. I believe this is fake raid as it has some RAID bios. It handles SATA II cards and has PCI interface (what is important to me because I don't have PCI-X or PCI-e).
2. Promise SATA 300 TX2 Plus. I believe this could be a software raid because it has no built in raid support at all.
So I don't need to install my system on future raid system I just want to add those disks as storage mirror to my existing system. So what card is better (I believe both are supported on current ubuntu)? Is card better with built in raid which has some settings in BIOS ? What will be setup of the card? I mean should I use any BIOS RAID options or I should disable BIOS raid and use linux dmraid? In that case maybe better choice is card without any RAID in bios ?
Sorry if question is too beginner, but I'm lost with all the information. The main thing I want to know if I should use BIOS raid featured to use fakeraid or I should disable it anyway.
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Feb 27, 2011
I came to know about namebench tool while working on a setup of DNS server, test results showed some servers working pretty fast. After investigating different options and many tests i managed to keep a good rank of DNS slave server. The idea was to keep checking available fastest DNS servers in the region and modify named.conf accordingly.As many of us are not building a DNS server, I am not going to discuss it in details here, however in case you are using some flavour of GNU/Linux, UNIX you can use following method to have a faster internet experience.
To have it accomplished we are going to use namebench, cron and a small script. namebench looks for the fastest DNS (Domain Name System) servers accessible to your computer.
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Mar 30, 2010
I wrote this script to attach url's to specified 6 digit numbers in a configuration text file. My original goal was to be able to be able to pull the url's and the 6 digit numbers from .csv files. that would allow me to make the script more versatile, not only for this particular project, but also for other projects in regards to the configuration file. This script works, and has served it's purpose, but it is not very pretty, and it's probably not very efficient. What can I do to improve it and possibly make it more versatile. I've thought about functions and arrays, but my skill set is still pretty limited. I'm not looking for someone to write it for me, just to point me in the right direction.
[Code]...
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Jun 9, 2011
When I play Bejewelled Blitz on Mozilla firefox or Google Chrome,, it is so painfully slow that it is frustrating, I have all the latest updates from Ubuntu installed including the Adobe flashplayer. Is there some way I can increase the graphics memory allocation?
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Jan 18, 2010
Well; soon my site will be down and my internet too.I am still unemployed and can't pay my bills.I wish I could get a job in Linux somewhere, but it doesn't seem possible.Does anyone get paid in Linux? So, was wonderin how can I continue my Linux experience with no internet connection?And, Does anyone know of a hosting site that would hold or distribute my creations URL...they will be deleted from servers in about a week.I only pay $7 a month for my site; but its $40 a month for internet connection.
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Jul 12, 2011
i 've been using fedora 14,15 for like few months and i still have a 4GB NTFS partition win XP pro.i have installed fedora in about like 20gb for root and home ext4.i rarely use win xp nowadays (once in a week) considering i was using windows for like years.i have a commondata partition of about 130GB NTFS.i now dont want to use the windows and i want to convert the 130GB NTFS to ext4, but i am worried that if somehow at some point i crash my partition tables and i was using ext4 i wouldn't be able to recover the data as easily as i would in a windows.i want to know whether there is a reliable ext4 data recovery tool for fedora?igoogled and i found this link .. if any of you guys have used these tools can you share the experiences ?Mondo RescueTestDisk safecopy PhotoRecddrescue
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Jan 24, 2010
I always experience "authentication error" when connecting to server.
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Apr 19, 2010
That program is recommend by author of foxyproxy extension for firefox,so i installed and connection to socks5 works fine,but i want to set username and password as well,and that for some reason doesn't work.Does antinat support that at all or is that just for local users?Also i tried ss5 socks server which works fine with username and pass but for some reason foxyproxy extension not working with it(on logs i see ERROR IS CONNECT).So basically i need socks 5 server program with username and pass support and it need to work with foxyproxy extension as client.
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Jan 7, 2010
Upgraded to 9.10 from 9.04. I now hove no audio whatsoever. Nothing is muted, and audio output seems to be set to Dummy Output, with no other choice for output.
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Apr 30, 2010
I want to upgrade without using the on screen updates. Can I do this from the iso?
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May 18, 2010
I have just got my 10.04 LTS CD from Canonical.
I was too impatient and upgraded to 10.04. The up-gradation was not without its flaws, but I have worked around a number of issues and I am happily working on it now.
I have installed a number of other software on the 10.04 upgraded version like Eclipse, GATE (NLP software), BasKet Notes, Thunderbird etc. If I install the LTS version will I have to re-download and install all of these things? Or is it portable?
I use only Linux on my laptop and so the stability is very important.
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Jun 22, 2010
Was enjoying ubuntu 9.10 without any issues then foolishly thought an upgrade to 10.04 would be a good idea but since hav`nt been able use the internet on my linux pc due to connection problems using a 3g dongle.Thats another issue altogether what i wanted to ask here was in the terminal i keep getting [sudo] password for rjb: but then im not able to type anything
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Oct 21, 2010
I upgraded a week ago to ubuntu 10.10 (amd64). I was unable to boot in 2.6.35-22 so I have been using 2.6.32-25. I tried again last night after installing updates to 2.6.35-22. Still no luck.I gave up since this was much like what happened a week ago and I couldn't find any solutions then. (I ran memtest then.)
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Nov 12, 2010
The software manager has been nagging me to upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 for some time now. I finally gave in and clicked on Upgrade. After the upgrade completed, my computer won't start. It just flashes Ubuntu for a split second and goes to a black screen. I happen to have the 10.04 CD from Canonical, and I tried that, and it won't launch the installer either; just a logo and a black screen. Since I can't even get to the terminal to diagnose and fix whatever's wrong, I'm installing 9.10 from the CD that I ordered from Canonical a long time ago. I went through all the graphical options just like the first time I installed 9.10, and it's in the process of installing right now.
I don't really have time to futz with it because I need my laptop for when I go and visit my mum for Thanksgiving. Maybe I'll try after the holidays if I can get some feedback on what might have gone wrong with 10.04.
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Apr 28, 2011
The title says it all. I am using an Acer Aspire laptop that I upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04 today. There is no backlight. What's the fix?
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Mar 8, 2010
A couple of weeks ago I connected my desktop to the internet and upgraded Ubuntu. I haven't used it since then, until today, when I took the ethernet cord out of my laptop and stuck in in the desktop. The light next to the place you plug the cord in came on and Ubuntu tried to connect, but eventually it just said "You are now disconnected." I restarted and it continued to do this. I plugged the ethernet cord into the laptop and now I am online. What is going on here??
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Apr 29, 2010
I've looked in the grub.cfg file, and it has :
Code:
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
[code]....
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May 1, 2010
I did the update from within 9.10 to 10.4. Now when Ubuntu boots up, something happens and it goes to busybox. I tried sitting there and waiting, but nothing happened. So I tried typing exit, and then about a minute or two later it finally finished booting.
It's real nice that everyone else is reporting 20-30 second boot times, but before with 9.10 my boot time was around 60 seconds or so, and now it's around 5 minutes. So how can I fix this? Is there a way to post the boot log here? Where would it be located at on my computer?
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May 3, 2010
I upgraded from 8.4 all the way through to 10.04. I want the default 10.04 theme and it's settings (the dark one). Cant find the actual one in my themes folder. Whats teh name of it, or is there a way to just choose default for all?
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May 11, 2010
I have a 10.04 installation upgraded from 9.10 somewhere around the first beta.However, since a couple weeks I have the problem that I cannot use nano anymore.
Code:
mypc:~$ nano
Segmentation fault
I've tried to do apt-get remove nano then installed but stil the same,Even tried apt-get purge but with no avail.
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May 27, 2010
I upgraded 9.10 to 10.04 and now it won't boot. The way 9.10 used to boot was after turning on the computer it would go through the bios screen and then a screen would come up and list both operating systems, Windows Xp and Ubuntu. XP would be highlighted and would normally boot if I did not change the highlighted area. If I changed the highlighted area to Ubuntu it would boot into Ubuntu 9.10. Now after doing the upgrade, it gets to the same screen with the two operating systems listed.
When I change the highlighted to Ubuntu an error message is briefly displayed and then it goes back to the screen that lists both operating systems. I think the error message says something like couldn't find Ubuntu, or something similiar to that. Windows XP runs fine when I highlight Windows XP in that first screen, but I want to be able to run Ubuntu. I have Ubuntu on a secondary drive, but shouldn't it have rewritten the upgraded files on that same drive that had 9.10 on it?
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