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I'm not spending another hour catering to another browser. Not at this stage. Opera can burn in a fire. I've no idea why people choose a closed source browser when the open alternatives are as good as they are.

George Edison

Well... a lot of people use IE and that's far more worthy of a fire-burning.

That's closed-source at its worst.

Oli

Yeah but they don't go out of their way to choose that. Most just stick with what they're given.

Oli

1:29 AM

Right, email sent @GeorgeEdison

George Edison

K. Test in progress!

@Oli I sent a suggestion... kind of minor though.

lazyPower

1:44 AM

@Oli cheers to that!

Bruno Pereira

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Q: Recover files in Ubuntu from USB stick

I have Ubuntu 11.04 running from a USB stick. I think I ran some updates in terminal and now it has a kernel panic during boot up. Is there a way I can get hold of files I saved when Ubuntu was working? I just managed to watch the booot screen and it looks as if there are some errors saying ther...

can I get another upvote on users solution plz?

George Edison

@Oli: I found a much more serious bug and sent another email :)

Oli

@GeorgeEdison Yeah that's Chrome's fault for making me import another copy of Jquery. Working on it now.

lazyPower

@BrunoPereira i'd like to see more data in the post rather than a link thats probably going to 404 at some point in the future.

George Edison

@Oli You don't need jQuery at all on Chrome.

The site always has jQuery loaded by time your UserScript is injected.

Bruno Pereira

1:54 AM

@lazyPower askubuntu.com/questions/62086/…

lazyPower

Beautiful

+1'd

Bruno Pereira

@Oli oh wow, this is fun!

Oli

@GeorgeEdison But how does it communicate with it? unsafeWindow doesn't exist and window seems to block it (based on my earlier hackings)

That's what I was originally doing for Firefox - just pulling in the SE copy of Ask Ubuntu by reference to $

It's weird that it only affects flag. Perhaps I should target that rather than trying to rewrite it all over again

Bruno Pereira

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Q: My laptop freezes after enabling extra visual effects

I recently updated everything to the latest version through Ubuntu tweak. My compiz PPA is also enabled in Ubuntu tweak. After the update, the extra visual effects are all gone. When I enter Compiz, I try to enabled the effects & the others settings, Compiz suddenly close automatically. Th...

compiz

Oli

My bad. Flag, Close, Mod all die. Anywhere that's loading up a big jibbery-box

Bruno Pereira

2:02 AM

^ we can close that one

lazyPower

@GeorgeEdison what version of qtcreator are you using in Ubuntu 11.10?

Oli

2:15 AM

@GeorgeEdison almost fixed it (flagging etc work but the textarea is chucking out an error, probably something to do with me loading another jQ)

Bruno Pereira

2:34 AM

@Oli scores should be updated every 30 mins right? Is that part not functional yet?

Oli

@BrunoPereira They should be updating unless there's a horrible bug in the code. I'll run a manual update now and see what happens.

Bruno Pereira

@oli let me know when done

Oli

It's running now.

Bruno Pereira

did not do it automatic, did the work now

this is solved, can we get a upvote on any of the answers to see it gone for ever? askubuntu.com/questions/62086/…

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lazyPower

2:40 AM

hide yo kids, hide yo wife, @MarcoCeppi is here

George Edison

2:52 AM

@lazyPower I'm using Qt Creator on Windows these days :) I forget the version.

@Oli Why do you need jQuery?

The Ask Ubuntu pages already embed jQuery.

Bruno Pereira

You've earned the "Revival" badge for Recover files in Ubuntu from USB stick. See your profile. More badges! Thx @Oli :)

Oli

Mainly because I'm lazy and don't fancy coding my own JSONP decoder.
Yeah, as I said, I can't talk to the page's copy of jQ from a userscript in Chrome. You can in Firefox - that worked great.

George Edison

JSONP isn't 'decoded'... it's actual JavaScript source.

lazyPower

right, JSON is an actual javascript object by definition

Oli

@GeorgeEdison Yeah I really just mean writing the garb around it. I guess it wouldn't be too hard but I think I'm almost there fixing things. Firefox is the only problem now so I'm just going to add a shortcut back in to just use the direct copy of jQ

lazyPower

2:58 AM

haha, hack on top of a hack. hi5 Oli. i do that too then regret it five months down the road when i re-visit the source.

Oli

@lazyPower It's actually not quite as bad as it sounds. It also speeds things up for FF users so that's nice.

Bruno Pereira

@Oli leader-board / My open questions failed to update again

Oli

@BrunoPereira Yeah I've just found a stupid error in my cron entry. Fixed that now and fired off another manual update.

Bruno Pereira

:D

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Q: Multitouch on Acer Aspire 4740

How can I enable multi touch in Ubuntu 10.10 for my Acer Aspire 4740 notebook ? Screen 14.1-inch glossy LED-backlit 1366x768 res CPU Intel Core i5-430m 2.26GHz RAM 1GB DDR3 HDD 320GB Graphics Onboard Intel GMA HD USB Ports 3 DVD Writer Yes Gigabit Ethernet Yes Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n HDMI/eS...

10.10 multi-touch acer aspire

a fix was released on later patches that enabled multitouch, too localized?

WarriorIng64

3:34 AM

@BrunoPereira This is in response to your comment on my vbeinfo question...how can I switch to a tty and try that out? I won't be able to test it right now since my desktop is back in my dorm room, but I'd like to know so I can try it.

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Q: Is there a way to save the output of vbeinfo?

I'm trying to correct some GRUB2 and Plymouth display problems in 11.10 as part of an ongoing saga. I'm going to run the vbeinfo command to check supported display modes, but unfortunately from what I can tell this command can only be run from GRUB2, and hence the output is only visible while the...

11.10 grub2 output vbeinfo

nvm, found my answer:

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Q: What is a tty, and how do I access a tty?

I keep hearing about these things known as tty's. what are they how can I access them what do they do?

command-line tty

Heh, just tried it on my laptop...I've been using Ubuntu since 9.10 and never even knew about these things :)

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