Para realizar algunas tareas es preciso entrar en carpetas como root. La forma de hacerlo es ejecutar nautilus con gksu.

Ubuntu, and Linux (and even Windows) in general, does not have a simple calendar application, like Mac has with iCal.
We do have Evolution and Thunderbird+Lightning, but those are mostly plugins to use together with the e-mail application.

Back in the old ISDN days, you combined two 64K channels into one 128K connection to the Internet.

Well, flashback... at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/523076551/dispatch-the-internet-faster, they've created software for Windows that allows you to do this. They even demo using 10 USB wireless adapters, combined to make one really fast connection to the Internet.

It should not be that difficult. Could we do something like that in Ubuntu?

Cheers, Al

El fondo de pantalla tiene que ser cambiado manualmente cada vez que se desee tener una imagen diferente.

Just that. The technology for being able to patch the kernel at runtime has been around for years. Why are we still having to schedule maintenance windows and reboot systems?

Wouldn't it be better for everyone to be able to apply critical patches to servers that are hard to get full fledged maintenance windows for? I've been involved in plenty of situations where a serious patch comes out that should be applied immediately after testing is finished, but we can't get a window for two weeks, because of the reboot.

Being able to get the patch in place makes infosec happy (they get the patches on), application owners and users happy (their production is not impacted), and makes the infra guy happy (because no one is angry with him for being the bearer of bad news, and maybe he doesn't have to do a late shift). It also makes the people with uptime fetishes happy for the obvious reasons.

And finally, living in an imperfect world, it makes it so that a lot of people won't put off their security patches because they don't want to do a reboot "right now". This even includes home users.

Rebooting to apply a patch is so a) like using windows and b) 20th century.

Right now, if you want to check the properties of a USB disk (size, free disk space or filesystem type), then you have to open the disk in Nautilus and right-click on the background of the Nautilus window to open the properties window.
This could be done easier!

Instead of backing up apt entirelly, You could just back up the names and PPAs if you have the of the programs you have. Then you could save so much space and if you reinstall Ubuntu you can just have Ubuntu one or something reinstall all of the PPAs and packages you had. And if you didn't have the PPA of something like Skype it could find the download URL from doing a google search of the name and using probability analysis and so on to download the package and install it. This would save you A LOT of time, And would attract a lot of people over.

Probably an dupe, but it dosen't finds it.
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I think this already done in Ubuntu, it's not done in Kubuntu.
It would save us a lot of troubles if Home folder would be on different partition then rest of the OS, so if you've done something wrong and have to reinstall you just install everything else but the home folder. Experienced Linux users are probably able to that already but it would be nice that this could be easily done by all of Ubuntu users.
For this to work properly the installation should ask if you want to use existing home partition.
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I have just realised that this is more or less Kubuntu problem as Ubuntu imports user directory (at least from windows, not sure about Linux). But still think this could be great idea, as it would make a your home folder more secure if any thing bad happens like experimenting with rm -rf.
Also you could do an clean install of newest version, again something more for Kubuntu (I know that I will do clean install when KDE 4.1 comes) without backing up your personal data (it's still preferable to do this, just to be on the safe side)
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Hope I'm making some sense. Just thought that this would be an good idea.

Prevent too loud sound. This can damage your ear. I want protection.
"It isn't possible" is no reason to vote it down. I do not believe that you want to damage your ear.

One of the things I love about Ubuntu is that it keeps the desktop very clean, as opposed to Windows which uses the desktop as a dump truck, resulting in useless clutter.

Unfortunately, Ubuntu's desktop does contain icons for each partition and external hard drive. Worse, there isn't an obvious way to remove them from the desktop. These icons are more than useless considering the same volumes can be easily accessed in the "Places" menu.

The icons can be hidden by a simple edit to the gconf settings:
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2007/10/25/hide-partition-icons-from-your-ubuntu- desktop (remove the space in the URL)

I, and likely many others, would prefer this setting by default.