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Mateo

12:33 AM

liliputing.com/2014/10/… < Touch Tablet?!

Oli

2:01 AM

10 inches? Isn't that a phone these days?

Mateo

yeah, so not very good sources, and companies that seem to have just appeared on the net...

Seth

2:35 AM

@Mateo So.. the CW feature was put in place to enable low rep users help edit a community collaborative wiki, but it didn't end up getting used like that, just making users cry because they stopped getting rep for making their answers better.

So they pulled it.

@Mateo That's interesting.. I've never been much of a tablet person myself, but it looks good.

Or is that just a N10 with UT on it?

Mateo

@Seth the picture is

they are talking about something else though

Seth

oh, lol.

My bad ;P

Mateo

yeah, I'm not ~~too~~ +at all+ convinced about the authenticity of it

Lucio

3:15 AM

@badp your message made me giggle a little

very strange, but I could not install Lubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.04 nor 14.10

very bad day

the best that I could make was use a LiveUSB with extraspace to store there the system. It sucks but does the job

Journeyman Geek

3:37 AM

@Oli lol

Seth

Well with the Nexus 6...

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

5:17 AM

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Q: Network connectivity trouble to non-routing multi-homed hosts?

I have two networks: A and B (172.16.2.0/24 and 172.17.2.0/24). A is Ethernet, B is WiFi. An OpenWRT router connects A and B, and most traffic gets passed OK. Default route on router leads to a cable modem on the Ethernet, and traffic to the Internet works fine. I have two multi-homed Linux m...

Lucio

I think paste.ubuntu.com is being used as (or for) spam at this hours

Look at this shit: paste.ubuntu.com/8742111 paste.ubuntu.com/8742112 paste.ubuntu.com/8742116 paste.ubuntu.com/8742117 paste.ubuntu.com/8742118

despicable

Ask Ubuntu Meta

5:54 AM

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Q: How to reterive the delete folder or file using gui software

I want to know how to recover the deleted folders or files using Ubuntu GUI software

support ubuntu-community

hbdgaf

6:27 AM

@Mateo - interesting. I'll keep that bit in the back of my brain for if/when I get something marginally working. Not perfect, but at least "Okay. I've crossed all the little hurdles. Now it's just playing with the math." Anything before that is just a little embarrassing.

Indrajith Indraprastham

7:11 AM

anyone read this book: "The Linux Command Line"

Journeyman Geek

Someone clearly must have ;)

Indrajith Indraprastham

vary funny.... i almost forgot to laugh..

@JourneymanGeek so you have'nt read?

Journeyman Geek

Nope

I tend to learn a little more informally personally.

Indrajith Indraprastham

by writing a book and reading it yourslef..? LOL.. :P

lets stop this mocking..

Journeyman Geek

Naw, looking up stuff as I need to solve issues.

More seriously, though its probably more useful to ask exactly what you want to ask. Are you asking for opinions on the book, or you want to talk about stuff in the book?

Indrajith Indraprastham

7:26 AM

i was thinking someone here read that book. i just want to know if it is worth my time..

Journeyman Geek

ahh k

Indrajith Indraprastham

it looks promising though..

http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
author had given a free pdf

Journeyman Geek

Quick skim looks good

I'll probably stash this for reference ;)

Indrajith Indraprastham

actually I planned to build an LFS system.. so i thought some basics would be good

Journeyman Geek

ahh

I'm working my way through the linux foundation course on edx

kinda similar. I'd like to work on my fundamentals, so I skip anything I already know XD

Indrajith Indraprastham

7:32 AM

have learned unix and shell in college.. but i think it is not enough...

Journeyman Geek

I'm entirely self thought. I actually ended up helping my lecturers with putty and such >_>

Indrajith Indraprastham

me a dropout.. :)

Journeyman Geek

Oh, I went back to school and kicked its ass ;)

blade19899

8:00 AM

@Lucio Can't you report those?

@Lucio, : askubuntu.com/q/543483/36315 . Don't know if thats the site to ask it on xD. To coffee I go!

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

8:16 AM

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Q: Failed to get good battery widget for awesome wm

How to get the notification for battery and battery widgets for Awesome WM for ubuntu ?

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Indrajith Indraprastham

@JourneymanGeek next year i am going back.. probably 'll kick everyone's ass..

blade19899

After heavy editing, it still reads terrible: askubuntu.com/q/543484/36315

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:30 AM

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Q: Ubuntu init script failed - trying to find out more detail about the error

my /var/log/boot.log shows this under Ubuntu 14.04: ... * Starting servicename chown: invalid user: ‘username’ No passwd entry for user 'username' * Starting ... ... The init script /etc/init.d/servicename does not contain such chown command. How can I found out, where this c...

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Pandya

11:03 AM

I faced problem similar this and it's answer but I want to know what are (possible) reason that caused such problem?

Is it a Bug?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

11:36 AM

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Q: line 4: 5 + : syntax error: operand expected (error token is "+ ")

noticing the error mentioned in the subject line when trying to execute the below listed bash script on Ubuntu (53-Ubuntu x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) !/bin/bash read x y echo $(($x + $y)) However same runs perfectly on Redhat and CentOS. Please help me find why this is happening all OS's...

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Dan

1:05 PM

is anyone else having this problem with nautilus?

Nautilus Close All Windows is only closing the current window

After I upgraded from 13.10 to 14.04, the "Close All Windows" in the File menu and Ctrl+Q are not closing all windows. Instead they are only closing the active window. As if I had pressed Ctrl+W. However, running "nautlius -q" in a terminal, closes all Nautilus windows. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-27.50-generic 3.13.11 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-27-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Fri May 30 19:16:30 2014 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true' b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'group', 'where', 'mime_type', 'owner', 'permissions', 'date_accessed']" InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-14 (685 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd6…

nautilus (Ubuntu)

Undecided / New

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

4:09 PM

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Q: how to install any linux distribution from existing ubuntu

I have Ubuntu 14.04 and I want to install FreeBSD,SUSE or which distro is possible but I need to do this without any USB Install or DVD. Actually I'm looking for something like wubi but as I said before I'm on Ubuntu and I do not have any other kind of os. Is this possible ? Is there wubi for li...

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P_O_I_S_O_N

i have ubuntu 14.4 . running but its not booting properly . how to trouble shoot it

Lucio

4:47 PM

@blade19899 thank you buddy!

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

5:45 PM

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Q: How to set LANG in locale, despite it's in /etc/default/locale in ubuntu for unicode support?

I run Ubuntu 12.04, I can't set the locale to en_US.utf8. $cat /etc/default/locale LANG=en_US.utf8 $locale LANG= LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHO...

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Nathan Osman

6:18 PM

The built-in Font Viewer crashes the entire desktop when I try to install fonts.

It's easier to just copy them to ~/.local/share/fonts myself.

Mateo

font manager is better

maybe they will replace viewer someday

you can even organize your fonts in collections, and enable/diable/export them as groups

blade19899

6:43 PM

@Lucio No problem!

Nathan Osman

@Mateo That looks a lot better.

Mateo

should just be font-manager for the name of the package

Torben Gundtofte-Bruun

7:41 PM

I've got a curious problem: The greeter screen correctly accepts my login&password, but the session throws me back out to the greeter screen immediately. I know the pw is correct because if I try something else, it gives the typical "incorrect pw" message. Without access to my desktop, how can I troubleshoot this??

Rinzwind

@TorbenGundtofte-Bruun check the errors file in your home

Torben Gundtofte-Bruun

This is on 14.10 (upgrade of 14.04.

Rinzwind

this one: .xsession-errors

Torben Gundtofte-Bruun

@Rinzwind thank you, can you please be more specific

thanks :-)

Rinzwind

no I can't :=)

and it can also be a corrupted .Xauthority file (but I believe you then also get a popup about it; has been a couple of years ago I saw that one)

Torben Gundtofte-Bruun

7:43 PM

you can and you were faster than me

Rinzwind

@TorbenGundtofte-Bruun ofcourse :=D

Torben Gundtofte-Bruun

I'm on a guest session right now... how can I "sudo" as my admin user?

(sometimes I still feel like a total noob :-) but I'm comparing against 25 years of Windows...)

wait, I can still use tty2!

Rinzwind

and tty1 and 3 and 4 probably too

and 5

Torben Gundtofte-Bruun

yeah yeah :)

Rinzwind

and ... do a
tail -f .xsession-errors
and then log in on tty7

tail -f will show you new lines in the file as they are added

Torben Gundtofte-Bruun

7:48 PM

here it is: pastebin.com/kA9brkZC

@Rinzwind I'll try this now, hang on

Rinzwind

Script for ibus started at run_im.

that is the last line in my file

Torben Gundtofte-Bruun

hm, no change from what I pasted

Rinzwind

here same problem: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2240600

Torben Gundtofte-Bruun

I wish there'd be timestamps

@Rinzwind [solved] but I can't seem to find the solution

no wonder SE works so well :)

Rinzwind

bottom 1st page has 2

Torben Gundtofte-Bruun

7:52 PM

is it this? quote: i finally fixed it by resetting compiz/unity with the following commands:

Code:

dconf reset -f /org/compiz/

setsid unity

Rinzwind

that is one

2nd one
rm ~/.gconf ~/.gconfd ~/.metacity ~/.compiz-1 ~/.config/compiz-1 ~/.config/dconf -rf

but BOTH have also messages after that claiming not to work

Torben Gundtofte-Bruun

:-/

I can't copy from the webpage and paste into tty2

Rinzwind

nope

and the dconf one probably needs X ?

oh did you know you can delete almost all files in /home/$USER/ and it will recreate it after a reboot?

just don't delete your personal files when doing that ;)

it will also delete all settings (like bookmarks for browser)

Torben Gundtofte-Bruun

@Rinzwind confirm.

@Rinzwind why would I want to do this? Seems dangerous, and I'd be sad to lose settings and whatnot

Rinzwind

WTH. Tom Cruise dated Lindsay Lohan?

@TorbenGundtofte-Bruun oh I did it once just to test it >:D

good luck. Ill be back after diner :=)

Torben Gundtofte-Bruun

8:01 PM

thanks! I'll be in bed then

@Rinzwind this didn't work either :/

good night!

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

8:43 PM

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Q: Linux drives not showing when I try to install

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Q: SSH broken when connected to VPN upon upgrading from Ubuntu 13.04 to 14.04

I need to SSH into a server which is only accessible when I am connected to a VPN (PPTP). Using my Ubuntu 13.03 virtual machine, this works perfectly. First I connect to the VPN, then I ssh into the server. I have recently created a new Ubuntu 14.04 VM and am trying to use this instead. I have no...

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Mateo

9:23 PM

sweet, Transistor(new game from people who made Bastion) is out on linux

hbdgaf

I'm happy that people are bringing more games to linux. I do wish more game companies would make more choices based on engine portability though. That's where I really want it to go.

I think a lot of the games that never make it to linux are because most of the "ragdoll" engine plug-ins and other bits they just re-use are bits that are Windows only.

Kalamalka Kid

9:53 PM

hi can anyone help me real quick. I just reformatted a drive and now my fstab file is all wonky. I looked in gparted and all the dev allocations have moved around. DO i have to manually retype everything into the fstab file now?

hbdgaf

Circumstantial and nothing to do without details. Ask a question on site with lots of diagnostic output.

Mateo

11:21 PM

@hbdgaf was that you?

oh, no, I guess they are just giving it away, sorry for the confusion: steamcommunity.com/games/246070/announcements/detail/…

hbdgaf

@Mateo that made me smile a little.

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