SO is just a weird site - I mean - look at this stackoverflow.com/questions/8999221/… - in my mind its an obscure question, but somehow its got 125 upvotes. Madness.
okay. i guess i'm just a more powerful should be heavier suitcase phone kind of guy and all the ultra-thin ultra-portable stuff is still a slick design trick to get people to pay double kind of thing. opinionated
hardware driver bounties. just saying. gun.io exists, but there so needs to be some kind of integration with launchpad or popular/desirable hardware list
Should this be the canonical question to dupe all the pre-february release day ubu-phone questions to? http://askubuntu.com/questions/235691/ubuntu-phone-emulator-and-developer-phone-release-date
Sparked by this question and this comment, I'm confused to what development stuff here is on-topic and what isn't.
The FAQ says:
Development on Ubuntu.
Well, that on leaves room for wider interpretation here. My interpretation: see answer.
Others seem not to share my opinions about it and...
@gertvdijk I have a Windows .iso which I've put on a VM in VirtualBox. It says that the VM closed unexpectedly with error #1. It also says I haven't installed a Kernel Module. I'll attach a screenshot. Thanks for your help C:
@gertvdijk in answer to your question about pinging people yesterday, I'm not sure really, assuming that you just take the name in their URL profile (if that makes sense, not sure if it does)
I have an Ivy Bridge laptop here, HD4000 Intel GPU in the CPU, but the freaking manufacturer HP decided to turn it off and only allow me to use the power hogging Nvidia Quadro card. Really... do not buy these kind of machines.
@gertvdijk I do a lot of 3D-modelling with physics, I need both really, which leads me to beleive NVidia Optimus would be optimal in my case, will just have to fiddle around with Bumblebee a bit I reckon
@Mochan SC one right? Or what expansion coming out that I don't know about? (might not play the game yet)
@gertvdijk guessing your HP was meant to be switchable easily through Optimus-technology right? Heard it sometimes just doesn't work unfortunately on linux :(
The freaking HP BIOS tells the CPU to not advertise its graphics capabilities. It just won't let me use a brilliant piece of hardware I paid A LOT of money for.
@Oyibo HP official specs say my machine needs it. It's doing 30-35W idle for a notebook. Probably 20W+ is Nvidia. I managed to get it to peak at 120W (according to upower -d)
It runs Linux pretty well. Can't spot a non-standard quirk to use apart from a glitch in the brightness controls in ACPI.
This makes me piss off though. There's a Linux BIOS image and a Windows one. Now if you have a model that was shipped with Windows, you can't load the Linux one...
@gertvdijk how do you check laptop power usage? Any package to install? I'm curious because mine is 7 years old and even so, I'd be surprised it gets anywhere near your power consumption XD
Next year, hopefully being employed, I can buy good laptop and sell this one. I just need the performance. quadcore i7 Ivy Bridge, 24GB RAM, SSD, HDD (and still room for another SSD). around €1000 for students, limited offer. they must have given money in for this to sell.
@Oyibo no. just plain capacity of power, in Watt-hours or Ah.
Apart from running Ubuntu with Linux 3.5+ pretty well, my laptop is one big face palm. For a $3000 machine retail, this is something HP should be ashamed of.
@gertvdijk oh wow you really upgraded the base hardware, thats pretty annoying considering on the sites they're one of the more "customizable" OEMs in my opinion
@Oyibo It's hard. My study mate had managed to configure some system at Dell with Intel integrated HD Graphics with 1080p via phone. The Dell web configurator doesn't allow you to.
@gertvdijk yeah their site is already a pain, I was thinking about maybe getting: dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-15r-se-7520/… and upgrading it with options, but once you get to "Customise" no options for screen or gpu or cpu....
@OctavianDamiean yeah my brother has one, quite satisfied with it, except he had to unlock lots of samsung stuff in the BIOS because it was stopping him from modifying for example closing lid options: Hibernate/Turn off screen/Turn off laptop but is very good value and has nice performance options, I'd just like a 1080p display though which I haven't seen while browsing their site :(
1080p=1800x1280 if I'm not mistaken, so 1.6 times the resolution of 1600x900 too, I'm quite an avid film-fan so I take it quite a bit into account though admittedly for my work doesn't matter :P
1080p is a set of HDTV high-definition video modes characterized by 1080 horizontal lines of vertical resolution and progressive scan, as opposed to interlaced, as is the case with the 1080i display standard. The term usually assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of , implying a resolution of 1920×1080 (2.1 megapixel) often marketed as Full HD.
1080p typically refers to the ability to accept 1080p signals, and displays it with native resolution of at least 1080 lines, as well as the ability to upscale lower-resolution material to 1080p). The HD ready 1080p logo program, by DIGITALEUROPE, ...
Colleague of me was wondering why it performs so much better on my Ubuntu installation. (the it is a set of Linux applications running in/with X) Frowning, eyes wide open, scratches head, took it home yesterday for a thought... today he was happily reporting "I've found the performance issue for me. I had debug mode on ever since I started this project."
^-- one reason for why compiling from source is a bad idea.
I use ubuntu 12.04, x86_64, kernel 3.2.0-35-generic.
I use KDE desktop. However, under KDE the GTK programs have black background in some areas.
Sorry, I cannot post image now because of not enough reputations.
How to solve the problem?
@jokerdino just as I was getting used to the idea of USH :P
UTT isn't as smooth off the tip of the tongue
@gertvdijk thanks for the correction, should've read up a bit @OctavianDamiean I've got a tendency to stay in my room to watch movies when I should really go downstairs :D
@Lucio Sorry, at that time, I took a nap already. "$this->" can't be avoided, as it checks for global functions without it. Since that function doesn't exist globally, but only within the current class, it doesn't find it.
@jokerdino unfortunate, because seeing as they've called theirs: System Settings would've been ok I think, although to avoid ambiguous situations I'm guessing its for the best
@jokerdino the "of course" here is not that obvious for me. I'm relatively new here, yet I tend to hit some sensitive strings here on meta given the votes for stuff I post there.
@gertvdijk coincidentally have you noticed how in your meta, it demonstrates the advantage of having 3 people posting relatively simlar views, Eliah+Oli's answer both complement my answer and are more concise in my opinion :)
@Oyibo Thank you for the offer. I have this question here I would be very glad if somebody had some information for me there : see askubuntu.com/questions/239561/…
@humanityANDpeace you get my upvote for the effort in the question background research, and its a very interesting question even so, never really thought about it
@jokerdino thanks for reading the question. I am glad to hear you have some informations. Where is the gpg thingie. Do you know that?
@Oyibo thank you for the vote. Honest, It's just been today I figuered that Md5 has been broken, worse even sha-1 seems broken.... so I wanted to know if this has been considered in the ubuntu package system
(after all) my sys security relies on this system not being tricked :)
Relevant basic concepts about the idea behind GPG signature and how it ensures a more secure signed repository:
What are the GPG signatures?
In my opinion, the proposed fixes aren't secure. A more secure solution would be to blow out everything in /var/lib/apt/lists/ as suggested in this answ...
@humanityANDpeace being a relatively new user to Ubuntu (about a year) I wouldn't be able to tell you as I haven't thought of/encountered this issue myself. But I'd be surprised if noone had noticed a potential flaw like this.
@jokerdino Yes I assume as much. I think it's mostly for *.deb files (packages) outside of the repository. For those deb files that come from the reps there must be (for security reasons) some kind of other check (most likely on the whole deb file) which would then render the DEBIAN/md5sums not very much necessary anymore
It surely is a "trusting" thing. And to be able to trust I would like to verify if the hashes used in deploying packages to the users is done at least with sha-256 (so a hash I have not heard coalition attacks about yet)
@jokerdino Oh yes (how could Ive been such a blind beetle?) I did not see the answer you posted above...
I want to create a basic CentOS 5.8 system from scratch.
for now i build my own img for Ubuntu Guest (debootstrap), my host is a Ubuntu 12.04.1LTS but I don't know how to make for a CentOS, is possible build CentOS from Ubuntu?
full disk encrypted my laptop [...] swap partition [...]
It's totally up to you where you put swap partitions. Some typical set ups:
dm-crypt on raw partition and /boot as small plain parition, then on top of the large crypto 'device' as LVM Physical Volume:
-> LVM Volume Group (one PV as...
@EliahKagan the reason that the kernel service do not have to be all power full, is they do not run as root user. since its not required due to the kernel interface
@strings it's not wrong. I needed a view/answer on why this utterly broken behaviour existed in Ubuntu or what I was doing wrong. At the time i posted the question I was looking in the direction of preventing the 60+ instances of running apt-checkers. It turns out, this is more apt-checker's own failure, IMO.
But the Q&A is useful anyway I think. It helps people bumping into it - OOM killer, the nice levels, your answer on parent processes too. their situation might be different. I'm running Icinga/Nagios as well as Byobu. Maybe others are using desktop tools running into it and want to find out what applet has caused it. I think your answer is more of an answer rather than a comment.
@strings yeah, sort of. although, if you would have actually looked into apt-checker's 100 lines of code, you could have drawn a conclusion that would have made me edit your answer rather than posting another one. Conclusion in a sense that: "no sibling process check, will run forever in the background, etc." would have been enough to make it the same answer basically.
Hi, I just installed this "Chat for Google" extension for Chromium chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/… Is there any way to start this extension directly without opening Chromium?
Here is the detailed answer for how to create Chromium web app short cuts in Ubuntu 12.10, askubuntu.com/questions/239187/… but this method is not working with this extension.
@strings yeah, but apt-check really runs as unprivileged users. putting a pid file in /tmp comes with security issues. It must be setuid/setgid or something to work around on that... sigh.
Networking isn't that hard people...
Virtual hosting is done at HTTP level. You're looking at IP/TCP-level using iftop and netstat. What web server are you using? E.g. Apache, Lighttpd, ... — gertvdijk1 min ago
Here's the first one, on Ask Different.
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