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1:48 AM

@stueng IIRC Xen needs(needed at one point, but it may have been fixed by now) a custom bit for windows to work

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2:04 AM

dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu 12 http://askubuntu.com/questions/154820/dual-boot-windows-7-and-ubuntu-12?atw=1 #dualboot

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on June 23, 2012 at 1:34 AM

2:43 AM

Oops. Found and fixed a memory leak.

Anyone sort of know any time management / planning app?

i think you've asked that before...

i don't think gnome-planner cuts it out.

@GeorgeEdison Yay for bug fixes. I found some faulty logic. I have it sorted out now as long as you don't try to make maps of the poles

and i was previously asking for a task management tool not time management IIRC

2:46 AM

yeah. the two concepts blend together for me

It's kind of funny the way I jump back and forth between my main machine and the netbook. I'm working on a super small screen and then a really big one. I'm waiting 3 minutes for the project to rebuild and then I'm waiting a few seconds. Such a big difference.

psusi

3:15 AM

oh boy, this question makes my brain want to dump: askubuntu.com/q/154829/8500

I currently lack the patience to form a kind/helpful response

@psusi close it as NARQ please

i already took quite a severe brain damage.

anyway, brb.

Finally... I found the source of the bug.

Seems like sending multiple files was causing the issue.

Anyway, now I can fix it.

multiple files concurrently? or in sequence?

if it was in sequence, you might want to check concurrently

4:16 AM

hello all

psusi

4:29 AM

@jokerdino voted

4:48 AM

@psusi voted too

Hello!

hey

What have we been doing?

what we should be doing or what we are currently doing?

i am replying emails.

great...

4:55 AM

some editing or revising the answer may be

i am writing an answer

I'm going to do some editing

good idea

Although, when an answer is just that bad, I make my own

@jokerdino, did you see the latest tag

@AnwarShah which one is it?

4:58 AM

finding. it was made by BrunoPareira

seems it has been deleted. It was "ghost-in-computer"

lol

ha

Looks like someone beat you to it

Now, nothing has been added to the transcript for 13 hours. Someone say something witty.

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Bounty offered: How to set up multiple GPUs (12.04)? http://askubuntu.com/questions/152358/how-to-set-up-multiple-gpus-12-04?atw=1 #graphics

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on June 23, 2012 at 4:34 AM

Anything and everything I say is star-worthy.

Hmm, I want to star that and avoid starring it.

5:02 AM

No, i was wrong, It was by izx. here it is askubuntu.com/posts/154686/revisions

Q: Icedtea in Chrome won't load java applets

Also, would you say this is a necessary tag [minecraft]

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Icedtea in Chrome won't load java applets such as minecraft and runescape. It shows a gray screen instead. I've tried and failed to install the java plugin for chrome and it's left me wondering why icedtea wont's work!?

@AnwarShah it got removed. so, not much of a problem.

@njallam not in that question. remove it.

will do

yes. I was just pointing to the fun made

brb after lunch.

Q: How do I keep my Broadcom wireless card connected?

5:13 AM

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I brought a samsung netbook with a broadcom Wireless adapter BCM4313 [14e4:4727]. I did a clean install of Ubuntu Precise Pangolin 12.04 LTS and my issue with it is that I keep on being disconnected every few minutes then it reconnects itself as fast as it had been disconnected. I tried the sta d...

12.04 wireless broadcom disconnect ubuntu-n

Should this tag exist?

askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu-n

[ubuntu-n]

@aking1012 The problem was with the way the socket was reading data. If multiple packets arrived in a single packet, it would only read one of them.

Oh, he was trying to remove ubuntu-netbook tag, but wasn't successful

@njallam, remove that one

@GeorgeEdison okay. i just didn't know where the problem was laying

sure

I am reading this, as i am new in chat ngureco.hubpages.com/question/17328/…

5:16 AM

I changed it to [ubuntu-netbook]

Also how do you post tags in chat?

#ubuntu-netbook ?

@njallam, no no remove that full

ubuntu-netbook tag should not exist

Oh I see

@aking1012 Now I just need to come up with a good while loop that encompasses the logic.

@njallam, see this. askubuntu.com/posts/154378/revisions

Goes old school and puts on his thinking cap...

5:17 AM

@AnwarShah I saw

@njallam, good.

@GeorgeEdison There's some help

Can someone please tell me why there is no sound notification in firefox

meaning in this chat

@aking1012 Perfect!

@AnwarShah i get audible notifications in FF

5:19 AM

@aking1012 Relevent...

but mine is muted, why

I thouht it is normal until yesterday , when there was a talk about sound notification

Guess what! Rhythmbox crashed again...

Rubber duck debugging

Rubber duck debugging, Rubber Ducking, or the Rubber Duckie Test is an informal term used in software engineering to refer to a method of debugging code. The name is a reference to an apocryphal story in which an unnamed expert programmer would keep a rubber duck by his desk at all times, and debug his code by forcing himself to explain it, line-by-line, to the duck. To use this process, a programmer meticulously explains code to an inanimate object, such as a rubber duck, in the expectation that upon reaching a piece of incorrect code and trying to explain it, the programmer will notice...

@aking1012 I totally know what that means

oh. he had a problem earlier that he solved, but he has another bit to implement. so i gave him a ducky

5:22 AM

O @mateo_salta ... why do must you rage against ghost-in-the-machine :P

How do you do that, the tags in chat?

To all: please excuse these whimsical tags in my edits as an attempt at maintaining sanity given the original post :)

@njallam [tagCOLONname-of-tag]

izx, i feel good about that

@izx Thanks, I knew it had [] in it

Here's my latest comment in the source code:

/* Note: this is probably the first time in 5 years I've used
   a do...while loop. */

5:24 AM

I would lol if somone put that in a post @aking1012

Why is there a song in my library called "Lick the Rainbow"?

@njallam You tell us, buddy....or go to psychoanalysis.SE ;)

@GeorgeEdison One of my more interesting comments in something I wrote for nuking rogue processes had funny variable names. One line actually read: 'izInUrBase = killinUrDoodz' or something like that

That's almost always a sign you've been working on a bug late at night :)

In Java my code crys at the end of each line ");"

@GeorgeEdison And yes, from experience that is not a good idea

My question to you is. Why do questions with answers show up in the "Unanswered" section?

Because the answers aren't accepted.

5:30 AM

@njallam was a for fun thing... like the level of prejudice to attack the process with was defined in tiers Maximum-prejudice, kill-it-with-fire, and Persona-non-grata if I remember correctly

it ALMOST makes the code fun to go back and re-read sometimes

I find that when I debug late at night, I break more things than I fix...

I only work on a particular feature if it's late at night. Sometimes I don't even understand what I was thinking the next morning and purge it. Other times there's something brilliant in there...it's mixed bag

Though you're right, it leans more towards purge most of the time

I now have the Python equivalent of a NullPointerException somewhere. Except Python doesn't crash on that kind of thing, which is good, and annoying.

A: How do I install a 32-bit proprietary deb on a 64-bit system without causing dependency problems?

@EliahKagan : When you have some time, I'd love a critique and suggestions on my answer to this question for possible canonical conversion (others welcome too!)

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Warning: The GuitarPro deb is dangerously packaged! On a 64-bit system, if you apt-get -f install after trying to install it, apt-get will want to remove the following system critical packages, which can ruin your Ubuntu installation! The following packages will be REMOVED: gks...

Also, why when I click on a Google doodle, do I want to see the top pages saying "<NAME HERE> Honoured by a Google doodle." Do I not know this already?

I also have an epic song called "Unicorn" in my library

5:43 AM

Ah, I finally figured out why the checksums were being calculated incorrectly too.

Guess who's favorite music player has crashed again

Are we talking about Banshee?

No Rhythmbox is one of the most crashy programs I have ever used

i am back from lunch.

with a plaster on my left thumb.

run everyone

What did we tell you about sharp things on your desk

5:46 AM

almost sliced it.

@njallam it was on my dining table

banshee crashes daily :-(

Also what is this?:

askubuntu.com/users/-1/community

@njallam community bot

Post bumper

that too

5:49 AM

Need to get 200 rep on this site

@njallam askubuntu.com/unanswered

all questions with no upvoted answers

I figured it is a matter of time before I reach 10k.

Even if I am not answering any new question, I would still reach 10k.

Q: Unable to log in to the Clean-Up site with a Google OpenID

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Since the 27th May I've been unable to log in to cleanup.thepcspy.com with the Google OpenID that I was previously using, I keep getting a "500 Internal Server Error, Cherokee web server, Port 80" error. Using Launchpad OpenID works fine as does Yahoo so no great problem, just thought I'd mentio...

bug cleanup openid

@izx Looks pretty good to me. Two thoughts: (1) Someone who hasn't attempted to install the .deb already (or who purged it) will not already have the .desktop file, so if this is to be made a canonical answer, it will have to explain how to find that and put it where it needs to be. (2) Just so it's totally clear, in i.stack.imgur.com/ZOGa3.png, you may want to show a tiny curved red arrow from the icon you right-click to the contextual menu that comes up for it.

@oli still wont work ,it says bad gateway meta.askubuntu.com/questions/3277/…

5:56 AM

@njallam: good edit, but what does "Commer Positioning" mean?

@izx A (3)rd thought: You might want to include information, or a link to information, about how to mount a .tar archive for users of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Lubuntu. A command-line alternative way might be best, as that will work for everyone. (You should keep the current GNOME instructions though--those will work, and are best, for most users.)

text ,text -> text, text
It was a very bad description, I changed some grammer too

Q: HDI: Dim the screen beyond the typical maximum?

@EliahKagan If the deb-tar has a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications and it is extracted, won't that automatically give it visibility in the HUD, etc.?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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I'm on a Dell Latitude E6320, and the screen doesn't get very dim. It's way too bright even when it's dimmed as far as Ubuntu will let it. How do I dim it more? For example, when you have this problem on a windows system, you can install a program like Dimmer (http://www.mylittlehost.com/dimme...

ubuntu

@izx Oh, I see...yes, I think it will. Never mind that criticism.

5:59 AM

Who does the themes for these sites?

@EliahKagan It's important to include info on creating a launcher though, because not every package will have one. Do you know off-hand if mounting a tar via the GUI is possible in Thunar, PCmanfm, and (I forget: KDE file man)?

@njallam one of the Canonical design team member did for Ask Ubuntu.

@jokerdino It is by far the best of any StackExchange I have seen

@njallam yeah grammar is spelt grammar.

@izx KDE4 has Dolphin as the file browser. I'm running Lubuntu with PCManFM right now. So let me see.

6:01 AM

/me goes off to find some more neglected gems in @jokerdino's answer-trove... ;)

@njallam Sometimes I think Ask Ubuntu got too much orange.

@jokerdino No such thing

@izx they all are configuration answers one way or the other.

just like ubuntu

@njallam oookay

@Mahesh ubnutu you mean.

6:02 AM

Is there a URL param to reverse sort order, i.e. least votes, oldest, etc.?

is a power user

Mitch

Hello all

Q: Please make the "Ask Question" button on AskUbuntu more prominent

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I'm a user familiar with StackOverflow websites but it took me a while to locate the Ask Question button on AskUbuntu. Reason: Insufficient contrast (as can be seen below). A single grey / translucent back background should fix the problem.

feature-request design

and there are ppl who dont use ubuntu coz its too orange

@jokerdino I thought that was ubuntu. when did we change the name??

@Mitch hi

6:03 AM

@jokerdino, do you cull your zero-vote answers periodically?

@izx IIRC you can only start from the back. no flipping the order

Mitch

If an answer to a question is a bug, how would you answer it?

@Mitch Yes, make it known far and wide...name and shame...you get the idea ;)

@izx mostly, no. I get people to vote on it.

:P

6:04 AM

@jokerdino which is how....(beyond the usual nags in the comments)?

but I do remember deleting no vote answers when there are better answers.

ok, gtg. BBT

design.ubuntu.com/assets/dot-patterns

@izx I remember getting a couple of votes during the clean up week done by Oli.

@njallam Dot patterns are assets? OH GAWD

Is 42.31% a decent accepted rate, or do I need to nag people more?

6:06 AM

@izx I think 30% above is good enough already.

I think I have a 40+ score myself though.

@izx I can open a an archive with Archive Mounter in PCManFM, but it's not appearing as a drive. If I manually navigate with PCManFM to ~/.gvfs, I can access it in there.

@Mahesh bye

Yes! I can listen to the radio again!

@izx 60+ is good

@njallam hopefully it won't crash.

@tachyons accepted rate =! accept rate

6:07 AM

@jokerdino Don't jinx it :P

@EliahKagan Thanks, I'll check things out and try to edit it during the weekend.

your answer getting accepted =! you accepting answers.

gnu.org/fun/jokes/ubuntu.html :D

@njallam i'll try my best.

@tachyons Roland would rage.

It works, but the radio station is playing terrible music atm. Don't want to leave because it may not run again.

6:09 AM

I have a feeling @njallam is living in my time zone or nearby.

@jokerdino No, I just wake up reeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaallllly EARLY

okay!

Timezone: BST

bull time.

yup Bull Standard Time

6:12 AM

ahh, DST. Cause for some reason changing the damned clock makes more sense than changing the working hours

@JourneymanGeek yep it makes much sense.

I just got an evil plan.

i'll silently slip in links to my answer in the G+ feed and the monthly update. Bwahaha

OK, enough ranting. Today's Google doodle is pretty epic

Farming announcer badges in the mean time.

I am totally distracted with Binary puzzles

huh

6:18 AM

google.com

cool

I just beat it

btw, gratz. All your questions are answered.

It's actually really easy once you stop just mashing the buttons

ik :D

Apparently they should be going on StackOverflow though

no, it's on topic here as well.

developing on Ubuntu is on topic here.

2

6:22 AM

I though so. I am making an Ubuntu app here

for the Ubuntu competition

(I hope)

good job.

i also hope baking an Ubuntu cake is on topic here.

I'm still really confused about the PPA thing

But it could be migrated to Seasoned Advice though

How do I sign the code of conduct without a Key Server?

Q: How do I sign the Ubuntu Code of Conduct?

you need to sign the CoC

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In order to submit patches and items to certain projects it says I need to Sign the Code of Conduct. How do I do this?

community

6:26 AM

thanks

I though I would need a dedicated server the way it was worded on lp

that would suck.

oh look. you got 100 rep.

yup

Did I!

Oh lol, I though you meant +100 rep

yeah, that's how I word it.

They couldn't make this simple could they... (Developer Process)

the idea is to make the whole process confusing to discourage drive by developers

6:31 AM

Noticed

Google is simple, just give them money

$5

@jokerdino: I just got 65 rep on SF for a really simple hardware question ;p

wait... they are rich

@JourneymanGeek next time, give it to me. I need some rep on SF.

lol

I'm only about 1K there

i have like 100 rep there :/

6:34 AM

lol

thats my biggest 1 day haul

hah xD

Why do I need an encryption key to do this. Just make a central account, and make a trust system, like on this site.

Yay! I can make chat rooms now!

BTW, if a number of your edits are rejected, you can't suggest edits for a week.

Well, none to my knowledge have been declined so far.

two of 8 have been.

6:37 AM

Oh

well with that maths, I should be fine for the week

someone is disagreeing with my opinion. and you are the scapegoat xD

So close to the vote down privilege. I would feel so horrible if I actually used it though.

Q: Answering a question by using information from the Web

I use it all the time.

ok so, after some napkin math, I came up with this:

oh my, my napkin is drowned in sweat

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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I had answered a question by using information from the web, and citing the source. But then I modified the answer, and put it in my own words, and direct it specifically to Ubuntu, and the user who asked the question, and also citied the source. I have emailed the author, and asked permissio...

discussion

@AskUbuntuMeta Oh wow.

6:49 AM

I'm back

I forwarded the wrong device to my VM, then the VM locks up, then the System freezes and then everything crashes...

welcome back.

yuck. i just CW-ed a question.

gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
Grrrr

askubuntu.com/questions/154784/how-do-you-remove-ubuntu-one what the Windows?

@njallam hah, keep trying.

The window "Rhythmbox" is not responding.

Forcing this application to quit will cause you to lose any unsaved changes.

force kill it

7:01 AM

That's what I have been doing all week @jokerdino

lol

Good. Created a nice tag on my blog. farming-announcer-badges

Making new GPG key

@jokerdino Do you know of a way to check the unique IP views from your link or how close you are to achieving one of those?

@izx i have got announcer badges on all those links. that tag is for future monthly updates.

answering your question, no way to track.

@jokerdino Thanks - do they just appear as the thresholds are met, or is it based on the dumps, etc.?

7:09 AM

i guess they just appear. i usually get the badges the day after posting the updates.

I'm hoping someone knowledgeable about CCSM can review (and approve or reject) the suggested edit here.

@EliahKagan i would just change it to 12.04 and below and link to "CCSM is dangerous" question.

@jokerdino OK, I'll do something like that.

askubuntu.com/questions/154829/… poor question must be closed to save the kittens.

@EliahKagan Ideally, that answer needs to be merged with Marco's, with MyUnity headlined, a break with the OOGA-BOOGA-CCSM warning, and then the CCSM steps. The edit is accurate, though.

Does MyUnity work in 11.04? IIRC it does.

7:19 AM

sharing made easier - iloveubuntu.net/…

sort of

auto accident;
register voters;
static electricity;
struct by_lightning;
void *where_prohibited;
char broiled;
short circuit;
short changed;
long johns;
long dong_silver; /* Submitted by Juan Carlos Castro */
unsigned long letter;
double entendre;
double trouble;
union organizer;
union jack;
float valve;
short pants;
union station;
void check; unsigned check;
struct dumb by[sizeof member];
union onion; /*submitted by srp*/
/*if GCC extensions are allowed -- Dave Gilbert */
long long ago; /* in a galaxy far far away */

if someone has a moment, can you talk to this guy to clarify what he wants? the latest comment makes it appear that he wants to upgrade the intel gfx driver on his ubuntu host because apparently the windows 7 aero effect won't work in a virtualbox guest!?!?

How to package above code into deb

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7:58 AM

Disable automatically connect to WIFI http://askubuntu.com/questions/154880/disable-automatically-connect-to-wifi?atw=1 #wireless

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on June 23, 2012 at 7:34 AM

Anyone wishing to answer this askubuntu.com/q/154784/61218

8:21 AM

@AnwarShah It seems pretty clear that the OP's intent is to ask how to uninstall Ubuntu itself. It should probably be duped to this. In the very unlikely event that the OP intended to also ask something about U1, they can comment to indicate this, or post a new question just about U1 and not also about making a Windows-only system from a system that has Ubuntu.

Speaking of which, this question should probably be either (1) duped to a question about backing up data from a broken Ubuntu system, with a comment added pointing to the canonical password resetting question, or (2) duped to the canonical password resetting question, with a comment added poiting to a question about backing up data from a broken Ubuntu system.

Amith KK

9:34 AM

Hello all

@AmithKK o/

Amith KK

@aking1012 Wassup?

I'm in that weird place on youtube where lots of stuff is interesting, but I have no idea how i got there

side note, it seems the defenders failed again...thehackernews.com/2012/06/…

Has anyone got an answer to this? meta.askubuntu.com/q/3532/61218

10:05 AM

@AnwarShah I put my response. I thought some mod might have a canonical policy to cite or something

@EliahKagan - I think we read that question differently (as to the OPs intent in asking). I think we addressed different things. If you want to incorporate the components of the issues I was looking at, I'll just delete my answer. I think they could be relevant though

@aking1012 I think it may be better for our answers both to remain, but be separate. I have some familiarity with the edits that went on to the specific answer being referred to in the question, and I responded as specifically as possible to that. There are other useful answers that could be posted to this question, to address other aspects of the general issue.

fair point. i hadn't tracked that particular question

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Q: How to disable Usb port?

I am using Ubuntu 10.10. I want to disable my usb port due to some resign. so how i can disable my usb port and after that how i can enable it..

10.10 usb usb-drive devices

--^

Q: How do I prevent standard users from using the USB ports?

@aking1012 While there is overlap in the answers that have been posted so far, in that question and in...

3

I'm admin for one of my college PC with 3 other normal users . If possible I want to restrict other 3 normal users from using USB. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 .

12.04

...I don't think they're actually the same question.

One of them is asking how to disable USB ports altogether, and the other is asking how to restrict use of USB ports to certain users. The only answer so far to the latter question says to disable them, then re-enable them manually to use them, but there may be other answers that would not fit with the former question. It seems to me that these questions,while they appear similar, should not be merged.

possibly. i don't think that's horribly do-able in a realistic way, but that's just me. i'll nuke the comment on meta about dupe though

10:20 AM

@aking1012 You might want to delete the comment on meta, but suggest the connection in askubuntu.com/questions/153964/… itself. It may be decided that you're right and that they should be duped. And if you feel strongly that it's a dupe, then you should go ahead and cast the close vote. The community can decide.

will do

@aking1012 It occurs to me that preventing some users from using USB devices while letting other USB devices operate at the same time might be unfeasible ...but preventing some users from mounting or accessing USB storage devices while allowing them to be attached and mounted for other purposes is quite feasable. It might be that what this question needs is more information from the OP.

exactly so. if it's storage it's completely doable

o/ @jrg

Morning @aking1012

it's morning already? i need to brew coffee and correct my sleep schedule ;/

10:31 AM

ouch.

Amith KK

Well Good Morning @jrg

Your up early

It's 6:30, I'm normally up this early.

I just don't normally get on chat this early. ;P

I regret circling you guys sometimes... ;)

noticing the details...it's all about noticing the details

interesting note: one of my peeps that attended summercon attended a talk where someone pointed out that an algorithm/method in flare was a copy of his work and implied that part of a method i spoke about might also be in there. wish i had a sample to play with...*is digressing so is also shutting up*

@jokerdino so did the MSO people shut down your question?

No.

It is still there.

I got like 90 rep from that question.

And, not a single close vote.

10:45 AM

yahoo!