Ask Ubuntu General Room

George Edison

12:10 AM

Cool: google.com/search?q=.js+mime+type

jrg

1:31 AM

@JorgeCastro has anything been heard from tualatrix on the ubuntu tweak status?

George Edison

2:22 AM

The worst question I've seen in years:

-13

Q: Why is a used laptop I bought banned on a forum while my old laptop is not?

I thought that maybe the IP address for this used laptop I bought is banned. However, that can't be, because my other laptop which I am still trying to sell, I registered on that one and it worked fine. Both my old and new laptop show the same public IP address at http://whatismyip.com. What am...

George Edison

2:36 AM

It's deleted now, here's a pic:

DoR

2:52 AM

W...T...F...

Amith KK

3:05 AM

@Jacob Oh please be there!

Hello all

The title of the image: IT_Kamasutra ,and you say SE is appropriate :P

@GeorgeEdison HOLY SH*T that's awesome!

The Evil One

3:32 AM

flies in and accidentially sets the room on fire

Amith KK

Opens Fire Hydrants oya

accidentially kills @TheEvilOne with water

The Evil One

points out there's an antimatter bomb next to him and he just presssed the BIG RED BUTTON

Amith KK

points out that i'm wearing the anti-damage suit with extra hosdings

The Evil One

points out he holds the key to the universe, multiverse, and every dimension, string, and subatomic particle

also points out he controls the time vortex

Amith KK

points out I stole the key and the vortex

The Evil One

3:39 AM

points out that this entire argument is pointless

shall return in a bit... changing location

Amith KK

points out that i know

Pointless Argument

12 mins ago, 11 minutes total – 11 messages, 2 users, 0 stars

Bookmarked 30 secs ago by Amith KK

MEGAFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

> "Your AWS account credentials have been created, but in order to begin using any of the services, you will need to provide your payment information and continue. There is no fee to sign up and you only pay for what you use."

:(

Amith KK

4:56 AM

Linode seems SO Awesome

I wish i can have a 512 :P

@MarcoCeppi I have this q about victory chat, i think you could answer it Stefano in online in Gtalk but i don't want to disturb him

If im running on a BareBones version of python, what modules do i need?

BBL

Oxwivi

6:20 AM

Interesting question:

2

Q: Start Ubuntu Unity With Dash Open

How do you start ubuntu unity 3D with the dash open? This is so that I can get things done fast. I would like to log in to my desktop with a full-screen dash without having to click the Ubuntu dash button.

unity dash

Add a startup command to emulate pressing the Super key, maybe?

Amith KK

6:37 AM

Is back

Awesome

look at the list of users

Amith KK

7:38 AM

想的不一样

10:47 AM

@AmithKK there?

htorque

11:00 AM

first draft of the ultimate 'how to deal with old questions' plan:

it's a bit more complicated than that :D

想的不一样

:D

htorque

i'm not sure dot tries very hard to minimize edge crossings.

jrg

11:35 AM

@htorque I like it nonetheless.

htorque

still needs work before i can put it on meta for discussion. if we can categorize questions (and that's not that complicated after we get this thing right :D), it's a lot easier to handle them...

jrg

True.

jrg

12:25 PM

Duplicate.

askubuntu.com/questions/71818/…

htorque

nope

Questions Feed

Bounty offered: Event registration on Ubuntu Wiki similar to http://loco.ubuntu.com http://askubuntu.com/questions/59245/event-registration-on-ubuntu-wiki-similar-to-loco-ubuntu-com #locoteams

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on October 24, 2011 at 10:06 PM

Can you answer this? How can I enroll in the Ubuntu Software Centre on behalf of my company? http://askubuntu.com/questions/70638/how-can-i-enroll-in-the-ubuntu-software-centre-on-behalf-of-my-company #softwarecenter

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on October 25, 2011 at 1:07 AM

Don't edit spam answers, just flag them http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/1925/dont-edit-spam-answers-just-flag-them

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on October 25, 2011 at 4:07 AM

Can you answer this? How to keep Thunderbird and Pidgin running on background? http://askubuntu.com/questions/68284/how-to-keep-thunderbird-and-pidgin-running-on-background #thunderbird

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on October 25, 2011 at 7:07 AM

Bounty offered: Doesn't boot after fresh install of oneiric http://askubuntu.com/questions/70199/doesnt-boot-after-fresh-install-of-oneiric #boot

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on October 25, 2011 at 10:07 AM

htorque

he want's the gnome 3 unity in gnome 2 ubuntu

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

1

Q: Switching runlevel when moving /var to another partition

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and I would like to move /var to another partition using a python script. I found some directions that I thought were pretty good, but they call for switching to runlevel 1 (single-user mode) to prevent changes to /var while it is moved. Is switching the runlevel necessa...

ubuntu filesystems partition

htorque

LOL?

jrg

12:27 PM

... what just happened?!

htorque

queue.flush();

Oxwivi

Questions Feed is on a rampage! o_O It's angry with all the questions.

I like this.

jrg

The docs are still confusing however. :)

htorque

i don't like any of the available diagram programs :-/

jrg

Then write your own. :P

2

Oxwivi

12:32 PM

Why? GIMP and Inkscape FTW! (though I never used them)

htorque

or boot windows :P

jrg

Inkscape is pretty awesome.

Oxwivi

/me kicks @htorque

jrg

Dear ubuntu portal, no mention of ruby is troubling. :P

Oxwivi

It will remind devs of Apple!

jrg

12:35 PM

?

Oxwivi

Oh well, not Ruby specifically, but lots Apple support for Ruby on Rails.

jrg

Whoa, Wunderlist desktop is open source.

I don't understand - Apple ships old, outdated versions of Ruby in Mac OS X. How can that be termed "support"? :)

Oxwivi

I'm not saying Apple supports, the project does.

htorque

linux ships limited drivers and calls devices supported, so that's fair. :P

Oxwivi

Anyway, I'm not quite knowledgeable about stuff like that since I'm no dev, so I'll stop.

Marco Ceppi

12:40 PM

@jrg Not really. I should probably update it.

jrg

@MarcoCeppi That's what I thought. :)

htorque

12:56 PM

damn, i need a giant whiteboard for this :D

Oxwivi

@htorque Break it up.

htorque

already done that

so i only need four big whiteboards :D

Oxwivi

Ouch, good luck with that.

If it's on GDocs, maybe you can haz help?

jrg

htorque doesn't trust google. :D

Just realized I don't have a 11.10 desktop liveDVD. :O

Questions Feed

1:12 PM

Bounty offered: How to remove a specific folder from the Ubuntu search? http://askubuntu.com/questions/70854/how-to-remove-a-specific-folder-from-the-ubuntu-search #unity

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on October 25, 2011 at 1:07 PM

htorque

i don't do google docs

google is the enemy

:D

Alvar

1:54 PM

@htorque don't talk so loud they can hear you! ;)

Oxwivi

Speaking of which, does Google crawl SE chat as well?

Alvar

@Oxwivi there bots do...

htorque

2:14 PM

true that

Alvar

2:29 PM

lol

Marco Ceppi

@htorque Crazy logic!

Alvar

:D

1

Q: Dell Laptop won't shutdown / restart by itself

I recently upgraded to ubuntu 11.10 64-bit on my Dell Studio 1569. Before this I ran ubuntu 11.04 64-bit. Every time I shutdown, or restart it goes through the usual processes, and shows no error ( I watch the shutdown messages by pressing the Page Down key). When it gets to the point where i...

11.10 64-bit shutdown reboot power

intresting question....

jrg

2:51 PM

@htorque doesn't work. :(

htorque

:P

@MarcoCeppi flawed, incomplete, overly complex logic :D

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

3:32 PM

0

Q: Where the postifx store my email and in what format? I'm using ubuntu server 11

I just don't know how to know it, there aren't any doc for it.

ubuntu mail postfix

Roland Taylor

3:45 PM

►

World: dominated.

I come, Alvar goes...

Amith KK

Hello all

@Oxwivi We are one of the most indexed chatrooms on the web

@RolandTaylor Cuteness : |||||||||||||||||

Nobody online?

htorque

4:03 PM

i.stack.imgur.com/PsNBk.png i.stack.imgur.com/TjZqG.png i.stack.imgur.com/JWFGC.png i.stack.imgur.com/eY4Wo.png

@AmithKK ^^ what ya say?

:P

Amith KK

@htorque Awesome Flowchart

htorque

this is totally going to make the world a better place!

jrg

@htorque I love flowcharts.

Amith KK

@jrg Hi

jrg

Hello @AmithKK.

hehe, the Ubuntu app devel guys aren't happy with me. :D

Questions Feed

4:15 PM

Bounty offered: Any way to exclude accounts from mail indicator in Oneiric? http://askubuntu.com/questions/70614/any-way-to-exclude-accounts-from-mail-indicator-in-oneiric #indicator

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on October 25, 2011 at 4:07 PM

Amith KK

google.co.in/…

> - Scale is based on the average worldwide traffic of shit in all years.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: How does one open a new window from the shell with a specific size and position?

For example, say I wanted to start gnome-terminal with it's northwest corner at 0,0, and make the window 736x434 pixels (apparently the default, which allows for an an 80-character by 24-character terminal window). I'm not sure how much of this matters, but I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 with GNOME 3, a...

ubuntu xorg

Alvar

@RolandTaylor that's the laws of the nature.

Oxwivi

@jrg What did you do?

jrg

@Oxwivi I submitted a binary instead of a source package.

Simple stupid n000b mistake. :P

Oxwivi

4:24 PM

So much for open-source.

jrg

hehe.

this actually can't be opensourced easily, I've got some proprietary API keys. :P

Oxwivi

@jrg Now, now, let's net give them licensing headaches. :P

htorque

interesting: the broadcom drivers are leaving the kernel's staging area (BCM4329, BCM4313, BCM43224, BCM43225)

jrg

No, licensing headaches are all on me.

Oxwivi

@htorque Yeah, so the BCM4313 driver on the Ubuntu CD was proprietary? :/

htorque

4:28 PM

staging (more or less) means "crappy state" :D

Oxwivi

You saying that Ubuntu shipped with some drivers from the staging area?

htorque

certainly

$ cat /boot/config-3.0.0-12-generic | grep STAGING
CONFIG_STAGING=y

Oxwivi

The driver was provided in a separate package.

htorque

don't know about that. can only say that the free driver will leave staging in 3.2

though, i don't know if 3.2 is going to be the LTS' kernel of choice.

Amith KK

Neither do I

Hi @Takkat :)

Takkat

4:37 PM

Hi @AmithKK

Amith KK

@GeorgeEdison Flackbot is broken

Takkat

Hi to all others too!!!

Alvar

hi!!

I need help with bad sound in wine!

:/

Amith KK

@FlackBot lookup test

jrg

@AmithKK relax, george knows he's broken.

Alvar

4:41 PM

I just installed caesar 3 and now after login 3 I hear "bad" sound

jrg

It's not like the site is down and stackexchange went broke or something.

2

Amith KK

@jrg Why?

Alvar

and if i test sound in wine i hear the same wine...

jrg

@AmithKK He knows, I just checked the sandbox.

10 hours ago flackbot broke.

@TheEvilOne You should post your packaging session as a actual question/answer. It's awesome stuff.

Alvar

winealsa is the audio driver and it doesn't work.....

George Edison

4:54 PM

@AmithKK I know.

brunopereira81

hello

2

Q: Resetting CCSM settings

I was running 11.04 before upgrading to 11.10 recently and now I am not able to access my account. When I try to login, the console flashes up with some messages on it, then the NVidia logo pops up and then it takes me back to the login screen. I have a Latitude E6500. I believe the issue stems ...

11.10 settings ccsm

duplicate

this is way too localized no?

0

Q: bash program important

bash program that accepts a list of users as argument At least one argument must be provided and must not exceed 10 alphanumeric characters. The script must not use the usedadd or similar commands. It must: 1-Check if user is root. If not the script cannot be run and it exits. 2-Check the numb...

bash

jrg

I think it needs formatting before we can make a decision about that. :)

brunopereira81

agree, but the conditions and body of text makes so hard to do so :( voted as localized, was just asking before doing it, too late!

belacqua

5:17 PM

allooo

possible dupe : askubuntu.com/questions/71982/…

possible out of scope, etc. : askubuntu.com/questions/71978/bash-program-important

Alvar

http://askubuntu.com/questions/71992/bad-sound-in-wine
help, please....

brunopereira81

@Alvar done!

Alvar

@brunopereira81 that's not helping that's annoying! ;)

brunopereira81

@Alvar I made it pretty!

Alvar

@brunopereira81 not really

ooh gtg

brunopereira81

5:24 PM

@Alvar have you tried using OSS?

jrg

@brunopereira81 Yeah, he strongly dislikes it.

Alvar

@brunopereira81 How do I even change?

@brunopereira81 it's the 1.3 it has a new interface!

brunopereira81

@jrg mean the OSS thing?

@Alvar, sec let me check it then...

Alvar

@brunopereira81 I mean everything is different

brunopereira81

@Alvar its wine, nothing is different 1.3 is out for ages now...

Alvar

5:36 PM

@brunopereira81 everything is different

brunopereira81

@Alvar and all the same, are trying to get anywhere here?

Alvar

this is how it looks now

it's not how it used to look....

brunopereira81

your still able to choose sound drivers, that cannot change!

Alvar

@brunopereira81 yes it has..

so WHERE?

brunopereira81

@Alvar just a sec plz, im still installing :)

Alvar

5:39 PM

ya :P

u HAZ failed @Amithkk

Amith KK

@Alvar I HAZ?

Alvar

@AmithKK da removed post.

Amith KK

nvm

belacqua

Another possible dupe: askubuntu.com/questions/1175/…

Marco Ceppi

6:02 PM

@belacqua dupe of?

That question is mega old.

George Edison

0

Q: Command to determine whether Ubuntu is running in a virtual machine?

Is there a command or tool that can be used to determine whether Ubuntu is running as a guest within a virtualization program such as VirtualBox or Qemu or whether it is running on the bare metal?

command-line virtualization

brunopereira81

how to quickly switch from unity3d to unity2d in a command using terminal?

Marco Ceppi

@brunopereira81 Don't think you really can.

Oxwivi

I know Unity 2D to Unity 3D.

Not the other way round.

brunopereira81

@MarcoCeppi @Oxwivi :( thx for the quick replies ;)

Oxwivi

6:11 PM

@brunopereira81 Can't help you to go to 2D, but switching to 3D is as easy as unity --replace in either terminal or Alt+F2. I prefer the F2 because there's a lot of output in the terminal and you can't close the terminal without closing Unity.

brunopereira81

@Oxwivi nah, i go both ways always, we cant make one other seem more important than the other can we??? :D

Oxwivi

@brunopereira81 I don't get it, make what seem more important?

brunopereira81

@GeorgeEdison I know its not an application but should be easy to follow: stackoverflow.com/questions/154163/…

@Oxwivi its a joke... but if there was a command it had to work both ways not just for 3d. but thanks for the help

George Edison

What happened???

jrg

@GeorgeEdison no idea, I must admit it's kinda cool-not-but-is though.

brunopereira81

6:16 PM

@GeorgeEdison graphics went fuzzy!

jrg

@brunopereira81 yeah, the OSS thing.

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison Looks like a kerning issue

George Edison

It's running in VBox ATM.

George Edison

6:33 PM

We'll find out:

0

Q: Why are letters overlapping in the terminal?

I installed Oneiric as a guest OS in VirtualBox using the Mini CD. I installed the ubuntu-desktop package and everything seems to work fine - well, except for a font issue with the terminal: As you can see, some of the letters overlap and it's difficult to read. I checked the settings and it t...

Sorry George. :P

A bug?

@jrg I'd argue that he doesn't really know what the problem is yet, and that the answer to his question might be what goes into a bug report.

jrg

In the ubuntu-font family.

George Edison

It's not using the ubuntu-font family.

jrg

6:44 PM

But it should, since it's Oneiric.

Oh, now I see the edit.

htorque

6:56 PM

looks like you are using ubuntu beta mono

dconf-editor → org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name

or look in your gnome-terminal profile settings

Alvar

7:11 PM

no answers for my question! :'(

Questions Feed

Can you answer this? Where are my tray icons in the Unity 2D panel? http://askubuntu.com/questions/66579/where-are-my-tray-icons-in-the-unity-2d-panel #icons

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on October 25, 2011 at 7:07 PM

George Edison

Noooooooo!

Qt Creator crashed.

Alvar

nooooooooo, no audio in wine....

caesar III FTW :)

Marco Ceppi

7:40 PM

Number 10 on LEGO.stackexchange!

Private beta here we come!!

jrg

7:51 PM

@MarcoCeppi Number 6 on LEGO.se. ha beat you

And I got meta question #1 in!

So far, almost all the people I've seen in bricks.se are web developers.

belacqua

8:35 PM

@MarcoCeppi You're a mod, you're supposed to be able to read my mind!

Sorry -- possible dupe is the newer question : askubuntu.com/questions/71991/run-script-at-shutdown

Marco Ceppi

8:47 PM

@belacqua Thanks :D

George Edison

Yeah - my swag arrived in the mail today!!!

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison @StefanoPalazzo is there any documentation on how to use the AU search engine that is provided for the Lens?

George Edison

Well... about the lens...

I posted something in the lens room.

I can't get it to start.

Stefano Palazzo

@MarcoCeppi it's basically the /similar method from the SE api

oh?

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison that's not good!

@StefanoPalazzo thanks

Stefano Palazzo

8:57 PM

@MarcoCeppi it doesn't support any of the arguments though. I think I have a maxsize=n argument

George Edison

AU Lens

@MarcoCeppi: Congrats on your trip to UDS.

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison Thanks! I look forward to heading down there on Sunday

George Edison

Yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun - and I hear you'll be handing out stuff.

Marco Ceppi

A large amount of swag will be handed out during the sessions and while walking around

jrg

Was that the big reason you went to SE HQ? To pick up a boxload (or two) of swag?

(sorry, now I'm just being nosy)

Marco Ceppi

9:09 PM

The Stack Exchange community team in session, deliberating whether to close your question http://yfrog.com/obnvhzvj

Tweeted by spolsky on October 20, 2011 at 3:21 PM

Top sekret :)

Guess which one is me?

jrg

The only one without a Mac?

Marco Ceppi

Ha! Good point

George Edison

Hmmm... I ought to recognize more of those people...

jrg

The guy with the awesome notepad instead of a laptop?

George Edison

@MarcoCeppi: By the way, have we switched to the new software icon now?

Can I get the URL for the new icon I should use in posts from now on?

(I need to update my UserScript.)

Marco Ceppi

9:12 PM

@GeorgeEdison not yet, and I don't have the icon URL yet

George Edison

Oh, so stick with the old one for the time being?

htorque

little to no spam today? booooring! :P

George Edison

There was quite a show on Super User yesterday.

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison No, it'll be replaced in a few days.

@jrg I have a netbook out

George Edison

@MarcoCeppi Wait - I'm confused.

Marco Ceppi

9:15 PM

@GeorgeEdison as soon as I get the new URL I'll let you know

George Edison

So what do I do until it gets fixed (replaced)?

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison just hold tight?

George Edison

Don't post any answers? :)

htorque

hehe, i couldn't stay calm in such an apple-dominated room. :P

my ultimate nightmare:

George Edison

faints.

Takkat

9:18 PM

woke up

George Edison

That's waaaaaay too many Mac users in the same room.

Takkat

:D

jrg

@MarcoCeppi the guy on the left corner?

@htorque Oh my, that reminds me of a conference I went to. XD

Marco Ceppi

@jrg Yeah, I'm the one with the sweater on

jrg

@MarcoCeppi From that angle, doesn't look like you.

Marco Ceppi

9:21 PM

haha, well I'm also a lot...bigger...since my avatar photo was taken

jrg

lol. :P

nevermind

Takkat

I did not really wake up (exhausted from pulseaudio answers) - Good night all

htorque

sweeeet!

good night!

George Edison

9:42 PM

@Jacob: Are you around?

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison yes

brunopereira81

how to check what package provides what library using apt?

George Edison

@Jacob I can't get at the server.

Jacob

9:53 PM

@GeorgeEdison router down standby

@AmithKK Whats up

htorque

10:08 PM

good night all

brunopereira81

gn

Questions Feed

Bounty offered: How can I assign a middle button press to a specific key in my laptop? http://askubuntu.com/questions/45203/how-can-i-assign-a-middle-button-press-to-a-specific-key-in-my-laptop #keyboard

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on October 25, 2011 at 10:07 PM

brunopereira81

11:07 PM

0

Q: How are you supposed to check your hard drive usage?

In prior versions, I would open Nautilus and check the statusbar, which would tell me how much free space there is. Now, the statusbar isn't shown by default. I know you can enable it from the View menu, but 99% of users won't do that (and I'd rather not do that, if possible). So, is there some n...

11.10 nautilus disk-usage usability

Pointless Argument

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