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Lucio

12:35 AM

@NathanOsman Your tuto doesn't mention what to do after edit a Model. It just mention the commands for the first time.

Nathan Osman

You mean when you add something to the model?

Lucio

@NathanOsman right

Add/Remove/Edit

Nathan Osman

Maybe that will be part of Part 5 :)

Lucio

hehehe

Nathan Osman

In the meantime, I can tell you how to do it.

Lucio

12:41 AM

:O

Nathan Osman

That looks exactly like my webcam.

O_o

Lucio

And the glasses looks like, your glasses!

Here comes a burst of funny pics recently found:

hbdgaf

What to do after you change the model varies GREATLY from django version to django version. It's my understanding than in django latest, south-like functionality for migration is a built-in not a bolt-on

Lucio

you've ruined my burst..

hbdgaf

you should only have two left for a burst to finish...

one now...

Lucio

12:49 AM

it is ended now :)

@hbdgaf I have the latest one

hbdgaf

from repo or from git? from git south is built-in

i guess i played an interrupt...

Lucio

django? 1.6.1

hbdgaf

beta is at 1.7 from git

Lucio

I am an stable guy :)

Nathan Osman

Wait.

hbdgaf

12:52 AM

waits

Nathan Osman

Isn't 1.7 the latest beta release and dev. is on 1.8 now?

hbdgaf

afaik yes

the django release model breaks my mind. how can something be in beta/non-stable state and still not be dev branch?

Nathan Osman

It was confusing to me too.

It's kind of like Chrome.

They have a stable channel, a beta channel, and a "nightly" channel.

Lucio

xD

hbdgaf

so there's stable, awesomesauce but buggy and needs work, and where the work is going on ;)

<.<

Lucio

12:55 AM

That should be the title.

so

@NathanOsman what can I do?

Thomas W.

everyone: downvote this, and flag it: askubuntu.com/a/403681/10616

it's a random downloadsite link to some random tarball

and that's all it says in the answer.

Lucio

> You have already flagged this post for moderator attention

I thought it was going to be history soon.

Braiam

""

Lucio

@Braiam you are starting to worry me :/

Thomas W.

@Lucio it still shows on the 10K_tools window

Lucio

1:00 AM

what is that?

Braiam

mods has to handle the flag, or 20ker vote to remove

@Lucio meta.askubuntu.com/q/8075/169736 this

more or less..

Lucio

but I'm not there

Braiam

start working ;)

Lucio

@Braiam flags/edits/reviews don't get you to 10K

Braiam

err... I was talking about answering questions but ok...

hbdgaf

1:07 AM

@ThomasW. oh lord. might as well just ask for rootkits.

Thomas W.

@hbdgaf my point exactly. flag it as spam

Lucio

Guys!

Kill it with fire: askubuntu.com/q/403704/62483

hbdgaf

i need to make a better music player. one that lives on my desktop background with clickables.... i shouldn't need a window to have seekable background noise...

Lucio

@hbdgaf what a great idea!!!

Stolen. :P

hbdgaf

it's the things that awesomesauce is made from. pure unicorn rainbow shit.

Journeyman Geek

1:11 AM

lol

IIRC one of the addons for foobar did that pretty well

Lucio

BTW, I found it! south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorial/part1.html

cc: @NathanOsman

Nathan Osman

:)

hbdgaf

@JourneymanGeek might have. i've only played around with amarok, gmusicbrowser, and rythmbox... if it's not the default, it's probably not worth it yet...

Lucio

Did I used the CC ok here?

Nathan Osman

Yes.

Lucio

1:12 AM

\o/ :D

hbdgaf

Used it well. I might have used ^^ though

Lucio

Right, I'm used to ^ but CC makes me like a native English.

hbdgaf

;) no it doesn't. My coworkers laughed at me for using the phrase blind-carbon-copy in verbal conversation.

Lucio

lol <-- English native

hbdgaf

i'm gonna stop. i have work to do anyway...

Lucio

1:16 AM

Last one..

Do you know what makes you an english native:

Thomas W.

I have a question for you all.

Lucio

:(

Thomas W.

since mod elections might be coming up, should I consider nominating myself?

like, do you think i'd even get any votes

hbdgaf

This is radioshack, you have questions we have answers

fwiw - I'ld vote your way.

Lucio

What the heck!!

@ThomasW. you'll get mine :)

hbdgaf

1:17 AM

shift+enter bro... shift+enter

Thomas W.

I guess I'll have to keep an eye out for the elections announcement

hbdgaf

this
is
an
unbroken
burst
of
more
than
three
rounds...

Thomas W.

launches grenades and missiles at the spam

watches as @hbdgaf's message gets blown to bits

hbdgaf

enters foxhole

Lucio

@hbdgaf you just made me found a never used before feature

Press SHIFT+ ARROWSsssssssss up and down..

hbdgaf

1:20 AM

it happens... use it sparingly

@Lucio on your database migration thing earlier, i don't like doing auto-migrations because i want to populate the empty fields that i add manually for each record. it's just my cdo.

Thomas W.

@hbdgaf your foxhole is no match for the Internet Ballistic Missiles (IBMs)!

hbdgaf

Definition of OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER

: a psychoneurotic disorder in which the patient is beset with obsessions or compulsions or both and suffers extreme anxiety or depression through failure to think the obsessive thoughts or perform the compelling acts—abbreviation OCD, alternately CDO - alphabetized as it should be; called also obsessive-compulsive neurosis, obsessive-compulsive reaction

Gilles

how the hell do you run a command at GUI logout?

is there a dbus event? How is Joe Average Ubuntu user supposed to figure it out?

hbdgaf

@Gilles just at logout or generally shutdown?

Gilles

2

Q: Script Execution at user logout (non root user)

I am in my university labs running ubuntu 12.10 with unity and I don't have root privilleges. I need to run a script at logout. Is this possible? Note: this is probably a duplicate of this question, however the answers given are quite cryptic and no specific directions are given.

and for those who don't use Unity:

5

Q: How can I run a script during GNOME logout if I don't have admin privileges?

I want to run a script before I log out of my GNOME session, to warn myself if I have forgotten a pendrive plugged into the machine. However, all solutions I have found have not been enough for me: This similar question suggests editing the /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default file, but I don't have t...

gnome logout

Lucio

1:28 AM

@hbdgaf and what would you do?

hbdgaf

script it manually.

Gilles

@hbdgaf X11 logout. Without root access.

hbdgaf

without root access at runtime or at implementation time?

Gilles

@hbdgaf you can request that root installs a package, but that's all

hbdgaf

Add it to a service init script or add some random application with no gui presence that has a cleanup routing that does it for you ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/glibc-2.2.3/html_chapter/…

Gilles

1:32 AM

@hbdgaf how do you “add to a service init script” without root access?

@hbdgaf I'm talking about a GUI session

hbdgaf

you said "at install time" was in bounds

Gilles

@hbdgaf only that if you want to use an Ubuntu package that isn't installed by default, it's ok

because most admins will consent to that

no admin will let you add arbitrary system jobs (or else they'll give you root access in the first place)

hbdgaf

it just means there should be a package that exists already, but doesn't, for logoff jobs

like cuttlefish did for handling usb events. it so should have existed already.

Journeyman Geek

maybe write your own custom logout script? ;p

Gilles

@JourneymanGeek the question is where to put it

hbdgaf

1:37 AM

could do that too, but it wouldn't apply to all users...

Journeyman Geek

@Gilles: or write something that replaces the current log off script

Gilles

@JourneymanGeek which is?

Journeyman Geek

cause I do suspect that the log off procedure is a wrapper

I need to dig, I don't have any graphical linux systems running at the moment

something like cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-run-commands-when-you-log-out this

Gilles

@hbdgaf what do you mean all users? The question is about doing something on one account, it shouldn't affect other users (and won't, since we have no root access, anyway)

Journeyman Geek

OOH

Gilles

1:38 AM

@JourneymanGeek no, that's a text session logout

Journeyman Geek

10

Q: Create a logoff script/task for Linux

In similar vein to my question for Windows and Mac OS X, how would one go about creating a logoff script for Linux? Any distro is fine, as I'm sure it'd be extendable across others. I'm most familiar with RHEL/CentOS/Fedora and Ubuntu, though. addition If this exists for both a graphical login...

linux script

Gilles

I know how to use the command line, thank you very much

Journeyman Geek

@Gilles: searching is iterative

;p

Lucio

lol

hbdgaf

@Gilles sorry, i wasn't looking at it in the context of the question. i was thinking of how i would use it.

Gilles

1:39 AM

@JourneymanGeek none of the answers apply here

reminder: no root access, GUI session (Unity or Gnome)

RPi Awesomeness

Oh no. Indian Haxorz back?

Gilles

@RPiAwesomeness did you think he wouldn't be?

need some spam flags?

Braiam

dbus magic to the rescue stackoverflow.com/a/15009892/792066

Journeyman Geek

the black magic guy?

Braiam

gnome only apparently

RPi Awesomeness

1:41 AM

@Gilles Nope. I'm good, 20/21

hbdgaf

evidently our spammer needs a little youtube.com/…

Gilles

@Braiam I'd seen that but the answer doesn't actually answer the question

Mateo

There is the other room although most don't have access I think you do @RPiAwesomeness

Gilles

hmmm, the comment might

If you can confirm it works and explain how to use it, you'll get at least 110rep on Unix & Linux

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo Depends on the room. I had access to the (S)pam thingy and the one before that. Been fighting this right alongside yall.

Watching the Hobbit Numero Uno right now :D Good movie. Like the second better though

Mateo

1:55 AM

Haven't seen the second yet, almost want to wait for the third to avoid another cliffhanger

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo If you hate cliffhangers and thought the first was bad, DO NOT see the second. Believe me, it's worse...

Mateo

:)

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo Would you like a spoiler?

Mateo

nope... Someone dies - the butler did it.

RPi Awesomeness

:)

Well, Brask is on a rampage. What is it with users doing that?

First Braiam, no Brask...

Avinash Raj

2:06 AM

this askubuntu.com/questions/403586/… was not a dupe.op asks for how do i find the Ubuntu on dvd is 32 bit or 64 bit?

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo Did you see the now-deleted spoiler?

Brask rampaging. + a couple more...

Why does ^that^ happen?

Avinash Raj

2:19 AM

@RPiAwesomeness what was the op trying to ask in askubuntu.com/questions/403684/…

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karel

@RPiAwesomeness You should pay more attention to the way you flag questions. In particular, when you flag duplicates I have noticed that you sometimes link to the wrong duplicate. When you're flagging a question, the flag should also help the OP to find an answer to his question.

RPi Awesomeness

@AvinashRaj Never hurts to ask the little questions like that. Amazing how many are caused by something like that. The OP didn't mention that in his question.

@karel Really? Sorry, could you give me some examples and what it should have been? I don't want to give bad flags :(

Eg. What I said the dupe was and what it should be?

karel

2:36 AM

@RPiAwesomeness Sorry, I don't remember. It happened about two weeks ago, and I noticed a string of about five consecutive flags with bad links in the review queue. I'll tell you next time I see one. It can sometimes take quite a while to find the right duplicate to a question when you're flagging it.

RPi Awesomeness

@karel Thanks! I don't want to flag badly...

Braiam

3:04 AM

@RPiAwesomeness remember, if you are not sure, you can bring it to chat

RPi Awesomeness

@Braiam Yes. Will remember that :)

Marco Ceppi

3:44 AM

Why are we trying to reason with idiots?

Nathan Osman

You mean my letter?

Marco Ceppi

Yeah, why waste time

Nathan Osman

I needed to get that off my chest.

And besides, you never know if it might deter others.

(I doubt we're going to get through to this guy.)

Marco Ceppi

It's not going to deter anyone, we're dealing with a troll. You can't reason with them, all attempts to reason with them only result in fueling them

Journeyman Geek

is the the guy who wants to be a mod?

Marco Ceppi

3:48 AM

@JourneymanGeek yes

Journeyman Geek

heh

Nathan Osman

@JourneymanGeek The one and only.

Journeyman Geek

just keep whacking his questions and answers ;p

Nathan Osman

We're doing that, and with vengeance too.

Journeyman Geek

don't keep eye contact. Just walk away, and press down on the big red kill button ;p

Laugh maniacally.

Marco Ceppi

3:50 AM

I fear your meta question may fuel them to continue :\

Nathan Osman

Seriously?

Journeyman Geek

yeah

Marco Ceppi

"Oh, we're really annoying them, they made an open letter, lets keep going until they crack"

Journeyman Geek

these people want attention

you're giving it to them

Marco Ceppi

When I once was a troll, and I read that, I would juts be wetting myself with joy

Nathan Osman

3:52 AM

I purposely tried to word it in such a way that I wasn't giving them anything to gloat over.

I tried to avoid indications that we were getting tired of what they were doing.

I also tried to make it clear that it was a losing battle on their part and they could save everybody's time by quitting.

Marco Ceppi

You're addressing them, doesn't matter how you word it. Once you acknowledge them it's a victory

Nathan Osman

I mean we aren't going to make them mods even if they find an exploit in Windows Server, gain access to the production DB, and manually assign the permission to themselves.

Marco Ceppi

Right, it's just a matter of how much longer until they get bored and go away

When you write an open letter it's like a "we're not afraid, come at me bro" sentiment, regardless of the wording

Nathan Osman

I didn't intend it to come across that way.

Marco Ceppi

doesn't matter the tone or the content of the message, the fact it exists is enough

Nathan Osman

3:55 AM

All I wanted to say was "are you guys really expecting worse and worse behavior to be rewarded? srsly?"

Marco Ceppi

Again, people are literally trollling. Logic left the second they started

Nathan Osman

Well, that being said - I doubt they even know Meta exists :P

Marco Ceppi

No, they don't think they're going to be a mod, they simply want to become as much of a problem as possible for the site

5 hours ago, by Nathan Osman

Request: please continue to flag "MOD" spam and please post a link to this question as a comment.

They do now :)

Nathan Osman

Yes, but our research so far has suggested that they don't even read comments to their own posts after they are made.

At least not some of the later ones.

Marco Ceppi

Anyways, if we could just stop engaging with them, flag the posts, and move on that'd be greatttt

Nathan Osman

3:57 AM

Fair enough. I will continue to flag.

And I will try to keep silent.

Marco Ceppi

<3

If it is getting to you, just step away for awhile. It's seriously not worth it

Nathan Osman

Trust me, what I said in comments to their posts (which is nothing - I never commented) was not what I wanted to say.

@MarcoCeppi I'm sure we both agree that this distracts from time spent answering questions on the site.

Seth

@NathanOsman Has the spam started again?

Nathan Osman

No.

The last one was a veiled threat about DDoS-ing the site from a botnet.

Seth

Oh.

Amith KK

4:09 AM

So, the "make me mod"s are back?

Nathan Osman

In the immortal words of Nick Craver:

113

A: What should be done about a user who makes a threat?

Hope your server can handle it Bring it.

Amith KK

@NathanOsman But they read the chat

Seth

I can't believe my NAA flag here was disputed... whatever.

Nathan Osman

@AmithKK They do?

Alright, everyone put on their tin hats and we'll stealthily switch to our protected chat room. Stand by.

@AmithKK: Check hangouts.

@Seth: not sure if you'll receive a popup or not... but you were added to a certain "room".

Oh hey - I can just paste the link here: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/12386

It doesn't give away the title or anything.

Seth

4:48 AM

@NathanOsman So it did start again?

RPi Awesomeness

Darn spam.

Just finished watching the Hobbit: Unexpected Journey :D Good movie

Last 5 minutes of the movie in 20 words: Orcs! Eagles! Our home. Pretty birdies! Oo! A snail! Knock Knock Echoes Dragon nose fart. Eek! Evil dragon eye! Muzik!

:)

RolandiXor

@NathanOsman I am seeing your letter for the first time

RolandiXor

5:07 AM

@ThomasW lol I got my commands mixed up :P

RolandiXor

5:20 AM

hbdgaf

5:54 AM

@RolandiXor it's not zoomed out far enough to see the bucket...

Lucio

@hbdgaf who is all going?

hbdgaf

6:21 AM

@Lucio wait what?

I was going for the drop in a bucket reference...

Lucio

forget..

just asking what was you doing

(bored)

hbdgaf

lots of things. waiting on my scheduled task db job to finish so i can see if it worked.

Lucio

@hbdgaf what platform? MS, Psql..

hbdgaf

@Lucio what's up - what's going on - etc is how to say that

Lucio

@hbdgaf got it

hbdgaf

6:24 AM

@Lucio linux, but sqlite for testing so i can just nuke a file to start over. i populate it all from static local files for testing. it will be postgres when actually deployed ... probably ...

i wouldn't use mssql if you paid me to do so

sorry stackexchange

Lucio

@hbdgaf even if paid?

hbdgaf

well, it would have to be a substantial amount ;)

Lucio

The first time I hear that from a developer.

Oh, ok then :P

hehe

hbdgaf

also, check the star wall. the mso link there is epic. i starred it for a reason

Lucio

I already read that post

hbdgaf

6:29 AM

i was all - SE mods just went "BEAST MODE ACTIVATED"

Lucio

lol

very true

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/129814/…

hbdgaf

i commented there to, but yes. i like the attitude

Lucio

yeah, I saw that one

You know, your user name is hard to search.

hbdgaf

that might be on purpose...

Lucio

I know, I know

You use Tor so I expected that :)

hbdgaf

6:32 AM

i don't use it consistently.

Lucio

No one does ;)

hbdgaf

if i really cared i would use tails or something...but i don't.

Lucio

yep

a live edition is the way to go

hbdgaf

no idea. it's an effort reward ratio. i just don't do enough things that require it to need to use something like that.

Lucio

@hbdgaf I know that you hear music, so I guess that this song will like you youtube.com/watch?v=Adgx9wt63NY

hbdgaf

6:37 AM

i'm more a fan of youtube.com/watch?v=nU9Wyio8fMc

@Lucio i've heard that song before and liked it at the time though

Lucio

right

hbdgaf

Yeah, he made some songs that got featured in previous versions. The "in frame featuring" is just branding now.

Lucio

There is a really dynamic business around YT.

Vevo

Vevo, LLC (stylized vevo) is a video hosting service owned and operated by a joint venture of: Universal Music Group (UMG), Google, Sony Music Entertainment (SME) and Abu Dhabi Media (ADM). EMI Records licensed its content to the service before being purchased by UMG in 2012. It was launched on December 8, 2009. The videos on Vevo are syndicated across the web, with Google and Vevo sharing the advertising revenue. Vevo offers music videos from two of the "big three" major record labels, UMG and SME. Warner Music Group was initially reported to be considering hosting its content on the se...

I don't get this.. ^

hbdgaf

example: youtube.com/watch?v=dFs6cIxuMH4 i guess they found that youtube hits for the trailer were ridiculous and they needed to commoditize

it's even the same franchise

@Lucio vevo is just a way to say - higher resolution playlists that don't show up as readily in search

Lucio

I don't know what about downloads and so on..

anyway

too late here

cya!

hbdgaf

6:46 AM

kk

Lucio

@hbdgaf good luck with your cron job

hbdgaf

i just think a lot about:

my batch will wort itself out

\o/ the audio widget is FINALLY fixed in xfce.

Braiam

10:36 AM

spam

Eliah Kagan

11:13 AM

When I wrote that comment I had been thinking you'd keep your 1st comment, but I think it works okay even though you've removed it, too. Anyway, if you'd prefer we do it any differently or that my comment be even shorter, please let me know!

@guntbert I agree with your idea about cleaning up comments but since I'm not actually totally sure I'm right, I've removed my first comment as well as the others and replaced it with a new one that expresses my newfound uncertainty.

guntbert

@EliahKagan, looks good, the warning is still there :-)

Braiam

o/ @eliah

Eliah Kagan

@Braiam Hi.

karel

11:53 AM

@EliahKagan I was installing Xubuntu for some guy, and the USC apparently froze. I minimized it to see what was the matter and guess what? - it's the MS Core Fonts EULA.

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12:48 PM

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Q: How to get LAN physical computers to see VM's and vice versa

On my home LAN, I have a few computers which can easily ping each other and which can also VNC into each other. I want to add a few more computers to my home LAN in the form of VM's. How do I go about setting up VM's so all other physical computers can see the VM's and so all the VM's can see t...

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Eliah Kagan

@karel Was there a way, in the Software Center itself, to enable the installation to continue (for example, to accept the EULA)? If not, I recommend reporting this as a bug.

karel

1:27 PM

@EliahKagan The problem was that this guy had a 17" low-rez screen and the USC was blocking the MS EULA window which was underneath it. The USC was running and it was just waiting for me to click to accept the EULA so it could continue. No bug, just more MS kerfluffle.

RPi Awesomeness

MS :P

karel

@RPiAwesomeness As bad as XP is, it's only going to get worse when the support period ends on April 8.

RPi Awesomeness

Well, XP is better than Vista and 95/ME

I have XP Pro, and I can't afford to upgrade. Then again, I don't even know if my system could upgrade :D

Braiam

@karel the EULA should get focus and be on-top the USC... not a bug, but a expected feature

karel

@Braiam OK, so I was sitting in front of the screen waiting and after 10 minutes I gave up and minimized the USC and saw the EULA. I have learned not to expect too much from Microsoft.

Eliah Kagan

1:40 PM

@karel What was the resolution? I'd say that if it was 600 pixels tall or more, then this is actually a bug. My understanding is that Ubuntu developers try to support small widescreen resolutions--where there would be a problem whenever there's a problem on an old low-res monitor of the same vertical res--at least in the minimal sense of ensuring that it is possible to use the system at that resolution (so: all the important apps that could work at it should).

For example bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/727905 is considered a real bug.

@Braiam The foregrounding issue may not be a bug, but if it actually doesn't fit on the screen, I think that probably is.

karel

@EliahKagan OK, maybe it IS a bug. I've been f**ked over by MS so many times, that it didn't even occur to me to report it as a bug.

RPi Awesomeness

Blech. MS

Eliah Kagan

@karel Well atually, Microsoft really has nothing to do with the problem here. They created the EULA, but they did not create any part of the interface that's displaying it. For the same reason, this is totally fixable by the Ubuntu project, since fixing it only requires changing something about the way [n]curses interfaces called from installation scripts are displayed by USC.

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karel

@RPiAwesomeness I really believe that Lubuntu 13.10 is better than Windows XP. And it will run on the same hardware.

RPi Awesomeness

1:45 PM

oh definitely

Braiam

@EliahKagan I'm saying that USC should always put debconf window on-top, if it doesn't then we got a problem. Gnome/mutter has a feature that child window always open on-top of the parent one, Unity should have that too somewhere

Eliah Kagan

@Braiam When you say on top, are you talking about which window has focus, or about which window is vertically at the top of the screen? My understanding is that part of the problem in this situation is that not enough of the interface shown in the window would fit on the screen, at least where the window was placed.

But yes, either way, I totally agree with you. USC should give debconf windows focus as well.

karel

@EliahKagan Actually this helps me to understand better what might have happened. The computer had on old graphics card with only 64MB built-in memory. The RAM had been upgraded to 1GB, so it was running Xubuntu alright. I think the timing between the graphics card and the CPU might have caused a delay which covered up the EULA window. Not necessarily a software bug. It could have even been an unfortuitous combination of hardware.

@EliahKagan In fact it does seem to give debconf windows focus generally - except for the EULA window.

Eliah Kagan

@karel I'm not sure I understand what you mean (about CPU/GPU timing here). That doesn't sound like something that would happen. But since I don't entirely know what you mean, I could be mistaken.

Btw I might go afk for an extended time without warning. So if I don't respond (for a while), you'll know why. :)

RPi Awesomeness

Whoa. Long messages

karel

1:57 PM

@EliahKagan It's a guessing game, but the computer was probably designed for 256MB RAM and a 128MB graphics card. However Xubuntu's performance with 1GB RAM is quite acceptable. Nothing wrong with the web browsing experience.

Takkat

<-- remembers having had an EULA message on a debconf window only showing up in text mode on clicking on "details"

An EULA is a "won't fix" bug anyway

<-- never accepted any EULA just to get rid of that annoyance

Braiam

if it was a problem with the way USC shows debconf messages it would be fixable...

Takkat

do not distribute stuff needing an EULA would also be a permanent fix.

is there any use case where we really need these ~~ugly~~ extremely beautiful fonts?

Braiam

stupid ~~old~~ new webpage that doesn't know how to properly set fonts?

Avinash Raj

awk '{print substr($1,5,3)}' filename in this command $1,5,3 represents what.plz someone answer me.

Braiam

2:14 PM

echo "HelloWorld" | awk '{print substr($1,5,3)}'
oWo

Avinash Raj

$1 represents first column and then 5,3 represents what

Braiam

man awk says: substr(s, i [, n]) Return the at most n-character substring of s starting at i. If n is omitted, use the rest of s.

it says, take from the 1st column from 5th character 3 characters

Avinash Raj

i think starting from the 5th letter return the 3 letters

Braiam

yeah

Avinash Raj

thnx

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:20 PM

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Q: VM webserver for testing

I have a VM webserver setup and I have installed and started Apache. The VM has a bridged network interface and can be pinged from the host using 192.168.0.2. However, if I type that same IP address into the browser, I was expecting to see the default apache page, but instead, I get can't conne...

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Avinash Raj

3:39 PM

plz someone recommend best pdf reader

RPi Awesomeness

Default one seems pretty good...

Alvar

@AvinashRaj the built in one?

RPi Awesomeness

@AvinashRaj Check out Foxit PDF reader help.ubuntu.com/community/Foxit foaitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader

its light, fast, secure, and plenty of features

I've used it on Windows, but have yet to try it on Ubuntu.

@AvinashRaj Check this question: askubuntu.com/questions/12401/…

Nice not to having to be worried about the Indian hackers lately...

Avinash Raj

3:56 PM

i think askubuntu got low number of questions today.what the reason for that?Because of saturday ahh..

RPi Awesomeness

Possibly...

Did my answer help any?

Amith KK

4:12 PM

That's all I have to say

RPi Awesomeness

Bingo! Cracker is the bad term :D

Hacker == someone who "hacks" together (creates) something

Cracker == something you eat and a bad dude that likes to get into stuff without permission.

Ionică Bizău

@Falconer If you are there please ping me. :-)

RolandiXor

4:42 PM

@EliahKagan the real fix is to always have dpkg use the optional GTK inferface for configuration questions.

(I forgot the name of it now that I want to use it :P)

Ionică Bizău

4:53 PM

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Q: How to listen live sounds from input from external sound card?

I have an external sound card. It is connected to my laptop via USB and to piano via a jack - jack cable. I can record sounds from piano (using Audacity) but I cannot hear the sounds in the live mode. How can I enable live mode? How can I hear the sounds while I am playing piano? I already t...

sound pulseaudio alsa external-soundcard

If you have any solution, please post it.

RPi Awesomeness

FYI: All Kindle Fires are $30 off ending today on Amazon. Use the code MAYDAY30 if you want it. Just a heads up for anyone

falconer

5:12 PM

@IonicăBizău

Ionică Bizău

@falconer Hi

falconer

hi

Ionică Bizău

Can you help to hear the sounds from piano?

Now is the reverse: I can record piano, but I cannot hear the sounds live.

RolandiXor

#!/bin/sh
exec pactl load-module module-loopback latency_msec=1 && clear

@IonicăBizău ↑

Ionică Bizău

@RolandiXor Can you come here: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/12433/…

RolandiXor

5:19 PM

Save that as a file in your ~/bin folder

then run the file whenever you need it

@IonicăBizău unfortunately I have to prepare to leave home soon.

Avinash Raj

there was no /etc/default/grub file.What can i do to set the grub timeout?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

6:02 PM

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Q: Install Arch Linux alongside Ubuntu 12.04

I have a windows 8.1 on which I installed Ubuntu 12.04 (dual OS). Now I also want to install Arch Linux alongside windows and ubuntu. Please tell me the how to do this on Ubuntu. I have a gparted Partion Editor. Also I installed the Arch linux which took me 24 minutes. But uploading it is taking ...

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Thomas W.

6:13 PM

@RolandiXor back on AU mod duties?

anyways, this needs deletion

Alvar

6:28 PM

lol, "we can't post on meta" well of course not fi you post spam and then get your account nuked...

Mitch

7:46 PM

@fossfreedom can you take a look at this?

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Q: How To Uninstall Ubuntu Wubi?

I tried to follow the guide as mentioned in : How do I uninstall Ubuntu Wubi? But Unfortunately, I cannot find the Ubuntu Entry in my add remove programs, and I find the guide quite confusing for manual uninstall. Please guide. My OS is Windows 7 in C: Ubuntu 13.04 is Installed in D: using ...

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