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@RolandTaylor: ok I can offer u space on my owncloud, however I can't guarantee security (though I didn't have problem) neither can I guarantee connectivity -- I keep playing/testing with that server so sometimes it goes down for 2/3 days

1:29 AM

@JorgeCastro Hey

Q: Programming the Gnome Clock Calendar with Python

hey

4

I want to develop a little application and I want to add events to the calendar of the Gnome panel clock. How does it work? Is there a D-Bus Interface I can use? Or can I directly access the evolution-data-server?

gnome python development application-development calendar

can someone upvote that answer? it's correct.

@MarcoCeppi did clint review the mysql thing?

@JorgeCastro yeah, he had a question in IRC, but then wandered away

ah

want me to test it still?

Sure, there are some changes needed for the phpMyAdmin charm

Mark did an initial review, nothing major just things that need to be discussed and standardized if possibler

Q: Upgrade remote server from 9.04 to Ubuntu LTS

woo, found a dupe!

3

My situation: I'm stuck with a VPS which I have no physical access to. The VPS currently runs Ubuntu 9.04 and I'd like to upgrade to 10.04. How would I go about doing this? (A fresh install would be fine. I have a complete backup of the server.) I've tried to do do-release-upgrade but it give...

10.04 upgrade 9.04 vps

Q: Register for the Stack Exchange V2.0 API Private Beta

1:39 AM

@MarcoCeppi: !!!

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It's getting to be that time (actually, it's about a month later than I'd hoped but still!), API V2.0 is shaping up and we're spending more and more time on UI polish rather than functionality. So let's get this beta started. What I'm looking for right now are people interested in pre-release a...

discussion api-v2

FINALLY the beta is about to begin!

Registered :)

Good.

@MarcoCeppi Are you going to work on an app?

Don't forget all of those changes I made to Stack.PHP.

2:34 AM

Bounty offered: Xinerama and double buffering? http://askubuntu.com/questions/78353/xinerama-and-double-buffering #xorg

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 29, 2011 at 2:20 AM

Q: Build Ubuntu from source, for speed

2:45 AM

@RolandTaylor svn sucks.........

Not constructive:

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I've read about how source-based linux distros like Gentoo and Arch can have considerable performance increases when compared to pre-built distros like Ubuntu because they install from source with optimizations for your particular system. Is is possible to build Ubuntu from source to get the same...

compiling

3:19 AM

hey @jrg

are you using the review UI?

Oli

I wish it was possible to ring up your ISP and have them reverse the upstream/downstream rates on your connection for a set period of time. I could really do with doing an off-site online backup but 40gigs of photos would take over 4 days on my connection. If I could flip things over it would take under 5 hours.

migration flag incoming @Oli!

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XLQoh8YCqo4

Warning, you may LOL hard enough to wake the dead!

@jrg I know :)

@RolandTaylor wtf???

Oli

@RolandTaylor Yeah I saw that earlier. I think they'll need to make the urinals bigger. Or have a cleaner there 24/7.

3:30 AM

@Oli +1

@BrunoPereira my thoughts (almost) exactly :D

(the things you find on G+)

Oli

Also: Runs on Windows 7. Something I gleamed from the BBC article earlier.

lol

D:

that's... traumatic

at least windows is being used on the right places

LOL

3:44 AM

gn peeps

I really need some more RAM.

All I have to do is get TrackMania and a VM running and my computer slows to a crawl.

@JorgeCastro: Can I use a '.' in charm names?

I'm thinking of 'status.net' but I can easily make it 'statusnet'.

4:22 AM

Never mind, I went with 'statusnet'.

@GeorgeEdison no . in charm names

just statusnet or status-net

Okay.

the former being better IMO

@MarcoCeppi By the way... I discovered a neat little trick:

If you right-click a tab in the terminal, you can give it a title.

That way you can find your way around if you have a lot of tabs open.

Heh, I think I'll make that into a post.

5:32 AM

Bounty offered: After installing macbuntu theme, VMware menus disappear http://askubuntu.com/questions/82637/after-installing-macbuntu-theme-vmware-menus-disappear #themes

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 29, 2011 at 5:20 AM

6:15 AM

hiello

Muhammad Qasim

hello

seems pretty quiet today :)

Muhammad Qasim

yes

6:32 AM

Yup.

ohh hey hi @GeorgeEdison

A: Blank Screen ... No Bios Loading Screen Either

I am here!

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UPDATE !!!! NUMBER 1 WORKS! and NUMBER 2 ! AS OF NUMBER 3 ... THAT'S GOING IN A BIT DEEPER BUT AS OF NOW I WILL SAY THAT IN ORDER TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM OF A BLANK SCREEN ON YOUR DELL XPS M1530 OR COMPUTER IN GENERAL YOU MUST... Connect your PC to a external screen. Press F12, and run the D...

After reading that question and all its answers, I got a headache.

does it count as Ubuntu question?

Technically, it doesn't

plus its so badly answered x-(

6:53 AM

I got a headache. :(

haha u still reading those?

I have the tab open.

OK. Closed it now. Moving on to the next question.

closed it as soon as I reached second answer :P

Smart work :P

brb

bavk

back*

7:06 AM

You can edit your message.

lol typing again took less time :P don't need to move mouse ;) ooh need to look at keyboard shortcuts

Press up and you can edit your message.

thanks :)

:)

do u know how to go to location in nautilus (Go --> Location) but old nautilus allowed me to simply double click on top (where current location is displayed) and put address there

7:13 AM

Oh that

You talking about the location bar?

yup I wanted to write dav://<web address>/files/webdav.php

http://askubuntu.com/q/83524/10698
vote to close this

You can access the go ---> location from the app menu.

it's a dupe, I was first to start vote cast.

yup thats wat I did

7:15 AM

@Alvar Do you have the vote to close privilege? :>

@jokerdino I'm the owner so yes

Oh right.

Q: Why can't I upgrade my kernel via the terminal?

2

If I type sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade I can only see that the kernel packages are kept back, and not installed. As the screenshot shows. If I then start the update manager I can install the kernel, with no problems at all. As the second screenshot shows. Why is this?...

11.04 kernel update-manager

You can't delete the question? :O

why would I?

@jokerdino it's good to have dupes

7:16 AM

Oh.

@jokerdino more people will find the "real" question.

Point taken.

@jokerdino so a dupe is like a hyperlink to the new question

I know what you mean. More Google results leading to the right question.

I was looking for a way old nautilus used to work double click on location and location bar is revealed @Alvar I think I just gained vote to close but don't know where is the option yet :-/

7:17 AM

@wisemonkey it's next to the edit and link button, if you now can do it.

@wisemonkey You get the option to view close votes in your question. Not all questions.

@wisemonkey I think you need 3k rep

view and cast votes are different. :(

yeah

o.O then no

lemme see wat privilege I received

I got 'view close votes' not sure wat it does though

7:20 AM

view close votes in your question that is.

need to get back to asking and answering questions more than chatting here :P

get back after you get more than all of us. :P

hehe

for now I'll sleep :) cya all tomorrow

gd night

7:50 AM

Night all.

Good night @GeorgeEdison

Q: Laptop touchpad triggering 3-finger gestures randomly

8:31 AM

Bounty offered: Cannot connect to Onda GSM phone using network-manager http://askubuntu.com/questions/63385/cannot-connect-to-onda-gsm-phone-using-network-manager #networkmanager

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 29, 2011 at 8:20 AM

Octavian Damiean

8:58 AM

Morning.

WarriorIng64

9:25 AM

Anyone want to take a stab? My bounty expires in 20 hours.

3

I did a fresh install of 11.10 shortly after it was released. My laptop's touchpad (a Synaptics touchpad I believe, laptop is an Asus G53SW) had been acting strangely from the beginning. After receiving an answer to this question, I decided to look for other multi-touch gestures, and came across ...

11.10 touchpad multi-touch gestures

10:59 AM

Hey all!

amith@amith-desktop:~$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +42.5°C  (crit = +100.0°C)

Whaa

11:19 AM

►

Hyper Fail

I have a question you should close as a dupe. Vote cast! :p

Bounty offered: Force gdm login screen to the primary monitor http://askubuntu.com/questions/11738/force-gdm-login-screen-to-the-primary-monitor #multiplemonitors

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 29, 2011 at 11:20 AM

12:28 PM

@MarcoCeppi Can you unfreeze a room?

Q: shell commands to check & create dir

which one?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

1:17 PM

0

I am writing a Ruby script inside which I would like to invoke/execute some shell commands. The shell commands I would like to run is used to check if a directory named 'tmp' under /var/lib/mysql/ exists or not. if it exists, remove all the files(including sub-dir & files) inside the /var/...

linux shell ubuntu command-line shell-script

@JorgeCastro Yeah, I'm using the review UI.

here's something to hack on, it seems:

Fancy.

bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/390508: confirmed with 70 affected users, nobody assigned

but on Global Rep

Im actually

much more big (3k)

1:25 PM

@StefanoPalazzo ouch,

bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgimme-codec/+bug/137527

^^ I'm going for that one.

I mean, it'd be a simple grep in the codez, and then a few little tweaks. :P

am I understanding this correctly? it's as it should be in 11.10, but broken in prior releases?

> * In Ubuntu 11.10, "An error occurred" - "Could not read DVD. This may be because the DVD is encrypted and a DVD decryption library is not installed."

or is this a suggestion?

[E] Cannot launch launchpad-Torrenting {123141}

That error is what it is now - that bug wants to make it into more like this:

>> In order to play DVDs, please install the package <package name, with apt link>

ah, of course

So, yeah. :)

1:34 PM

like totem does for MP3s

What error does it give?

not sure, I can't test it of course. but it's something along the lines of "please click okay to install the package, you naughty pirate"

<bored> Till The end, I will be with you, we will go where our dreams come true.All the time that we have been through , you will always be my best friends. </bored>

LOL

@StefanoPalazzo it's in an answer somewhere

they need to run some script

I remembered that this search function just works

may be wrong

Q: How can I play encrypted DVD movies?

1:42 PM

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My machine can't play encrypted DVDs on a fresh install. How do I add this capability? Another useful bit of information would be what programs are best for playing DVDs, once I'm able to do so. See the similar question here. Will I be able to play DVD movies from any region?

dvd video-player codecs

<3 AU lens

Hi @TheX

BBL

oh

that's not very user-friendly is it

Nope.

Joshua Robison

finally got ubuntu working on my tablet :p

but running lxde cause im chrooted

just wish I could make lxde behave more like a tablet device

and see my mouse as a finger

hold down long time = right click etc...

→ 12 messages moved to Sandbox

1:56 PM

Wait, so Canonical only sells Kubuntu and Ubuntu CDs? No Xubuntu or Lubuntu? :O

TheX

@jrg is xubuntu and lubuntu official derivatives?

@TheX Yes and Yes.

there are xubuntu and kubuntu CDs

not sure on lubuntu since it's new

not here - shop.canonical.com/index.php?cPath=17

i don't see a xubuntu.

only kubuntu.

maybe they're not there yet, hmmm

2:00 PM

Dang, i know what i'm getting for christmas. :P - shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=565

TheX

@jrg nice

Q: ubuntu linux updates don't update to latest version, why?

0

I'm using ubuntu and any now and then new updates are offered for installation. However I've noticed these updates don't necessarily offer the latest update for any one package, but why? For example, today, under ubuntu 11.04 I'm beeing offered to update the linux kernel from version 2.6.38.12 t...

update apt-get

dupe!

anyone here use geany? In netbeans (and a slew of other editors) you can have a 'file treeview' open for easy file opening

in geany all I get is the files I currently have open.

@TheX :)

is there any way to point it at a directory and say "Hey - just show me everything in here"

2:03 PM

@rlemon which version of geany?

Q: How do I change my desktop environment to lxde?

0

I'm running ubuntu 11.10 unity my battery doesn't last more than 2 hours so i want to change from unity to lxde is it possible to install directly without formatting again? if so can you give me instructions please

lxde

another dupe!

@rlemon You can do that with Projects

and with plugins: sudo apt-get install geany-plugins

Another one!

Tools -> Plugins -> File Browser

please don't laugh.. but I (pre linux and pre notepad++) was a DW user - so is a Project like a 'Site' in DW (can I look at it the same way)

2:05 PM

@rlemon essentially, but a little more basic than a site. A project just allows you to setup different "workspaces" (not like netbeans) where it knows what files you had open and where the parent directory is for the project

@MarcoCeppi ahh - see I had them all installed - never turned any on. :P good show

i just hate having to alt-tab and navigate to the files.

I tend to go overkill on directory structure - makes it a pain when you don't have a nice handy treeview to choose from.

nerdtree/vim ftw

does anybody know what gnome3's new on/off switch is called in Gtk?

kind of hard to google (:

nevermind, it's called Gtk.Switch

aww - yay - my kitty is getting starred :P she will be happy to hear this.

Q: Enable Autologin for Xvnc/XDMCP?

Abandoned:

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Version: Ubuntu 9.10 How I do to enable automatic login in Xvnc/XDMCP? Im in the process of setting up a Xvnc kiosk, which will be a terminal server hosting multiple kiosk machines under separate sessions. /etc/gdm/custom.conf: [security] AllowRemoteAutoLogin=true [xdmcp] Enable=true Display...

gdm 9.10 login vnc xdmcp

And because I already voted on it (and had the flag disputed!), i can't vote again :P

2:13 PM

I wish there was an "abandoned" state

Too localized w/t comment :)

i should stop going through my flag summary. half of my declined ones were later closed with the same result i recommended... O_o

It's because no one likes @jrg :P

@MarcoCeppi Heh, figured as much. ;D

<3

TheX

2:16 PM

my internetz are breaking

Q: Can't unlock my user when returning from suspend or screensaver

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I have a bilingual Ubuntu setup on my netbook. Whenever the screen locks (due to screensaver or suspend), I find I am unable to log back in. In 9.10 I had to kill GNOME using Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, but in 10.04 I've at least found a workaround: I click the "Switch user" button, and then log back in ...

10.04 suspend-resume lock-screen unlock

Abandoned

dupe, can't find the question thought...

3

Q: Proper way to restore user files/settings after an upgrade

I would like to install a fresh ubuntu 11.04 on my home computer that has a few user accounts I will need to restore. I currently use 'Back in Time' to back up my data. I want to make sure everyone's account is preserved with their data and settings and was wondering if these backups will suffic...

restore

Raynos

My terminal is stuck in dumb mode

Anyone know how to get it to behave

example: left , right, up , etc all print funny characters

up === ^[[A

How do I fix it?

Can you answer this? Set up a Serial-to-Ethernet Converter With a Virtual Serial Port http://askubuntu.com/questions/42144/set-up-a-serial-to-ethernet-converter-with-a-virtual-serial-port #configuration

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@MarcoCeppi you know

after we get through some of the obvious lamp ones

we need a "real" charm in python for a python app

to show that it's not just "runs some bash scripts"

Q: Strange characters appearing when I use the Ctrl and Arrow keys to navigate

2:47 PM

3

When I type Control and any of the arrow keys in any terminal (gnome-terminal, as well as terminator), I get this (or something like it). It happens when I use openbox as well, so it's not a compiz issue. And it's only in terminal programs, never in a GUI app (such as Firefox, Chrom(ium)e, or Em...

keyboard shortcut-keys

3:09 PM

@JorgeCastro I am not your Python man :) I'm writing one in PHP though!

I'm trying to write one in Ruby right now.

@jrg I'm so sorry. :)

Heh, it's not that bad.

most of what its doing is calling the system method to do the actual install of the stuff. :P

3:25 PM

can someone goto rlemon.com/wp and tell me if it is super crazy slow for you as well?

It's slow

wtf wordpress.

fresh install. no plugins - just a theme. standard theme was also slow for me

Interesting, now that it's cached it's cool

Could be your sever?

@rlemon does marcoceppi.com load slow for you?

nope

@MarcoCeppi loads fast for me

3:29 PM

are you self hosted or WP hosted

granted i'm on uber wifi :P

Self-hosted :)

same (well, ipage is my host)

I'd say this is likely a server issue

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Q: MySql: LOAD DATA INFILE

I am using MySQL v5.1 on Ubuntu machine. MySQL data directory is /var/lib/mysql/ I have a test.dat file located on /var/lib/mysql/tmp/test.dat I would like to load data from the test.dat file into my database table, so I execute the following SQL statement: LOAD DATA INFILE '/var/lib/mysql/tm...

linux ubuntu mysql database

3:30 PM

@rlemon what webserver and php framework?

Mine's a little more than a stock wordpress install too

unless its apache in which case i'll probably give you a 10 hour rant about why nginx pwns apache ;P

@ThomasWard lol framework.

why do i have to be using a framework.

framework was the wrong choice of words

/me is horridly tired

and marco - ipage offers a 'let us install your wordpress for you' option.

probably something they have added?

3:31 PM

Maybe? not sure

usually those "Let us install it!" things are evil

@ThomasWard lol i just get peeved when everyone assumes you need to be using a framework to do your development. I do as much vanilla-dev as possible just because i feel more satisfied knowing I have written something of value and is not relying on some heavy framework to run.

and are sometimes modified

@rlemon i should have said what provides the PHP processing, i.e. php5-fpm or other libraries

;P

Raynos

@rlemon it kind of works

@Raynos it's just soooo slow - i'm going to back out and install it by hand and see if that helps.

i do like that theme tho - any suggestions ???

3:33 PM

@rlemon as i said, framework is the wrong word, so cut me some slack (EXTRAORDINARILY FREAKING TIRED!!!)

Raynos

@rlemon thats because your using apache & PHP. They are simply soooo slow

@ThomasWard lol no worries - i wasn't harping you for it. just stating my opinion

@Raynos discount hosting fail.

@MarcoCeppi what version do you use?

@Raynos heh, that's not true.

@rlemon Apache 2.2 and php 5.3

no of WP

newest?

Latest

3:43 PM

@MarcoCeppi would you consider Steam "Done but not feature complete" or still in progress?

@JorgeCastro It's more done but not feature complete than in progress. However, it's still not tested thoroughly

It runs and spins up, but only with a select few games

/me nods

WarriorIng64

anybody know how to start the applications lens in 11.10 manually?

I'm stuck in lecture not being able to launch anything that's not in the launcher