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mojo706

12:15 PM

Damn Variety is amazing!

BBL

Avinash Raj

12:27 PM

did someone had an experiance in editing Ubuntu community page?

this commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo sed 's/trusty/saucy/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-boot-repair-trusty.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && (boot-repair &)

in the communtiy page

intended to work only for 14.04

for other older versions

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && (boot-repair &)

is enough.But they failed to mention that.

Radu Rădeanu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo sed 's/trusty/saucy/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-boot-repair-trusty.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && (boot-repair &)

@AvinashRaj these commands:

will work for older distributions too

Avinash Raj

yes, i agree. But why we have to change like above in precise or raring.

and also in raring or precise it would not be

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-boot-repair-trusty.list

it's /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-boot-repair-raring.list

or

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-boot-repair-saucy.list

Radu Rădeanu

12:43 PM

@AvinashRaj This is the point, in precise, raring or saucy, that file not exist, so nothing will be edied

and so remain only three commands for older versions

Avinash Raj

yep. Then the default commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && (boot-repair &)

is enough for 12.04,12.10,13.10

Oli

But running the extra command doesn't hurt those users. They won't have a trusty source file.

Rinzwind

famous last words @oli :-D

Radu Rădeanu

@Oli exactly, this I wanted to say

Rinzwind

I'd go for the safe route ;-)

Avinash Raj

12:46 PM

i think it shows no such file or directory error.

consider if we run

sudo sed 's/trusty/saucy/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-boot-repair-trusty.list

Radu Rădeanu

@AvinashRaj no problem, skip over

Avinash Raj

command in a raring

then the list created in raring would be

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-boot-repair-raring.list

so no such file or directory error.

@RaduRădeanu someone may raise this as a question.

why it appears no such file or directory error?

friends catch you later.

Radu Rădeanu

1:00 PM

@AvinashRaj help.ubuntu.com/community/…

...they test if the file exists

nutty about natty

hi

is there a glitch in my calendar, or why is the update/upgrade to Tahr not showing (from Precise LTS) ?

in settings, "notify me about LTS" is selected

download from: "main server"

hit Check in Update Mgr

(my guess is that it'll come thru o'er the next few days...)

((but why not already here-and-now ?))

Rinzwind

1:23 PM

lol

0

Q: Run TOR / Start TOR / Terminal command

This is a great answer. It worked for me using Ubuntu 13.10 and now 14.04. Creating Desktop or terminal comands shortcuts to open a program Thank you to Kamil for originally answering this question.

damn Oli :( I was helping that user :(

@ulrich if you want to thank someone upvote the answer that worked for you :)

Oli

They don't have the rep to upvote yet.

Rinzwind

tsk that's a temporary problem

Oli

Okay, okay, I've left them a comment.

Rinzwind

see! that's why you are a mod :D :D

nutty about natty

1:39 PM

ne1? chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/15110501#15110501

answer: omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/04/upgrade-ubuntu-14-04-12-04

mojo706

damn Firefox acting up

Rinzwind

1:55 PM

@nuttyaboutnatty no idea >:)

Braiam

-1 because this is not the way how a user should interact with Ubuntu: to remove all the PPA repositories when upgrading (which is your main point in the answer). — Radu Rădeanu 7 hours ago

^ this is funny

Rinzwind

@oli this seems out of order to me: askubuntu.com/a/453398/15811

(refering to edits has nothing to do with the answer)

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Q: Global Keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu 14.04

I've just upgraded my distribution from 13.10 to 14.04, which seems to have broken global keyboard shortcuts. They are still present in the "Keyboard settings" as before. Although media keys are affected, so are other global shortcuts like Ctrl+Alt+T for Terminal. Other keyboard shortcuts work a...

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Rinzwind

@Braiam I removed the comment in his answer :-)

Avinash Raj

2:13 PM

7 hours ago, by Avinash Raj

sudo dpkg -i --force-all --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-settings-daemon-schemas_3.8.6.1-0ubuntu11_all.deb

@Rinz ^^

Rinzwind

I am ready to accept his anger :-)

Avinash Raj

@Rinzwind did you able to remove a comment?

Braiam

@AvinashRaj that's the worse approach ever

never do that

Rinzwind

no I removed a line in an answer that was a comment to a edit-war :-)

these 2 are evil: --force-all --force-overwrite

Avinash Raj

i just combined both.

fossfreedom

2:19 PM

no more editing on that question please - it has had the best of brains at it. Its now fine as is.

Rinzwind

yay more badges

@fossfreedom yes boss! just to make sure: you mean the one braiam posted? This one: askubuntu.com/questions/451254/…

fossfreedom

yeah that

Rinzwind

might be wise to star both >:D

fossfreedom

I've commented on the Q to that effect.

Rinzwind

if I make an edit and someone rolls it back or changes it again I always have this "ok have it your way" idea

Avinash Raj

2:21 PM

lol

fossfreedom

seems like a good policy :)

Avinash Raj

that's Rinzwind :-)

Rinzwind

its even more funny if someone else then shows up and changes it to my edit _o-

seen that happen a few times :D

yay another badge

Avinash Raj

show that.

tag badge?

Rinzwind

enlightend and nice answer :=D

2 of the easiest ones

@Braiam yes I can confirm that askubuntu.com/questions/447882/disable-lock-screensaver

my system goes to the lock screen with the password thingy and thats it

Avinash Raj

2:28 PM

delete askubuntu.com/questions/453710/wheres-the-f-termminal-in-14-04

me also get enlightend and nice answer badge for that vbox answer:=D

Rinzwind

ha! I got 56 enlightend :=)

Avinash Raj

myenlightendbadges=$(echo 56/2 | bc | cut -c1)

@jokerdino match is going on. What are you doing here? I'm going to support.

jokerdino

I would like to watch it. But I am a bit occupied with other stuff. Will join in a short while!

Rinzwind

2:48 PM

what match? :=)

jokerdino

the boring IPL cricket match

didn't you get the streaming link from the in-house spammer?

Rinzwind

ah
and no

Jorge Castro

migrating-from-windows

why does that exist?

Braiam

nuke it

btw: askubuntu.com/posts/226504/revisions <-- this is why

Seth

Kill it!

Lucio

3:11 PM

I don't always patch backdoors...

4

jokerdino

that's called enbugging.

Braiam

@Lucio OMG

Lucio

@jokerdino No, it is called implanting backdoors.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

3:25 PM

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discussion

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prepangolin

3:47 PM

Hello guys!

I'm the guy to make Ubuntu fun fun fun.

fossfreedom

O_o - quick - run - fun free zone ;)

prepangolin

你好

Your character is also fun.

@fossfreedom I've something to ask.

fossfreedom

you've got 30seconds - then I'm out of the door...

prepangolin

That's okay.

fossfreedom

time is up ... home time. bbl

prepangolin

3:58 PM

Cya

Seth

@prepangolin What's your question?

prepangolin

Ohh

I've posted question.

But It was voted down and no good answer.

xiaodongjie

@prepangolin You need to show us your question voted down.

prepangolin

Thx for your time if only for a brief second

Seth

Well it's more of an open ended discussion question.

-1

Q: How can I get involved in the Ubuntu Ayatana team?

How can I get involved in Ubuntu UX team? I think that Ubuntu is the most one of the Linux Distros in the world. Especially, I am interested in Mir, Unity project to make Ubuntu UX. I am not experienced but I'd like to Ubuntu Graphics.

ayatana

@xiaodongjie Found it --^

prepangolin

4:02 PM

Yeah It is.

Seth

@prepangolin You might get better luck on a site like discourse.ubuntu.com or the ubuntu forums.

I see

I had voted up it.

No thanks

:(

@Seth Hi, Can you understand @prepangolin?

about his question?

Seth

4:05 PM

What about it?

xiaodongjie

I think that it's off-topic.

prepangolin

That 's fun.

xiaodongjie

He is going to get a job at here.

It's too bad, I think.

It's open source site, and We are freely contributers.

prepangolin

@xiaodongjie you spam me

xiaodongjie

But he don't.

@Seth It's right isn't it?

prepangolin

4:07 PM

You 're not beautiful girl as you seen.

xiaodongjie

@prepangolin Oh, yes. You're right.

Seth

@xiaodongjie Not entirely. but it is on the border.

prepangolin

Please be polite as madam.

xiaodongjie

@Seth oh, you're right, you can see his comment about it's answer.

@Seth So, I had already voted up. But now.

mojo706

you can downvote

xiaodongjie

4:10 PM

@mojo706 Oh, I talk about his comment, not question.

question is good.

but comment is...

So I suggest him remove his own comment.

mojo706

yes comments can be down voted

prepangolin

@mojo706 comment is freedom I think.

xiaodongjie

@mojo706 It's right? I don't think so.

@Seth What do you think about it?

prepangolin

In comment, What can I say anymore?

xiaodongjie

@prepangolin oh, remove your comment.

Minato Namikaze

4:15 PM

Oh and Kittens Accidentally got Shipped in Box of Computer Equipment

xiaodongjie

I suggest it strongly.

prepangolin

Every wise guys, I'd love to here from you

xiaodongjie

2

Q: How can I get involved in the Ubuntu Ayatana team?

How can I get involved in Ubuntu UX team? I think that Ubuntu is the most one of the Linux Distros in the world. Especially, I am interested in Mir, Unity project to make Ubuntu UX. I am not experienced but I'd like to Ubuntu Graphics.

ayatana

hey

please look his comment.

It's good.

prepangolin

What is the penalty in comment of my own question?

xiaodongjie

I suggest remove his comment about answer.

mojo706

4:16 PM

@prepangolin what do you mean most one?

prepangolin

@xiaodongjie Tell me reason

If I understand, I will consider.

xiaodongjie

@mojo706 Oh, I think that his comment is too bad.

@prepangolin Look

it's your comment:"Thx for your reply with voting. I've tried to join these teams but my proposals are in posponed. How to good join to that team? I'd love to hear from you, have more experience."

Mew

what am i missing?

prepangolin

But the reason is bad,You must have responsibility against me.

xiaodongjie

at "how to good join to that team?", you find good job.

mojo706

4:18 PM

@mew nothing much

Seth

@xiaodongjie I think he isn't asking for a job.

Mew

oh, someone wants to join UX?

is that OT here?

xiaodongjie

@Seth Oh, I see. But he isn't use launchpad.net.

I think that it's spam.

prepangolin

She is wrong

mojo706

no this is a an open chat room I think. I also think its fine on Ask (but you know I am new here) so I might be wrong

Seth

4:21 PM

@xiaodongjie How do you know? Besides, it isn't any of your business.

prepangolin

Anyone can find that I use Launchpad

Avinash Raj

oh i missed the flag.

Seth

@AvinashRaj It was a silly flag.

xiaodongjie

@Seth because

prepangolin

launchpad.net/~prepangolin is my address.

@xiaodongjie is chat box

xiaodongjie

4:23 PM

@prepangolin @Seth look above address about launchpad.net

Seth

What about it?

xiaodongjie

@Seth He hasn't any experiences with contributing ubuntu.

prepangolin

@xiaodongjie spam me.

Seth

@xiaodongjie Gotta start somewhere don't you? And you better stop now.

Why do you have such a problem with his question?

prepangolin

She is violating the rule.

xiaodongjie

4:25 PM

@prepangolin It's not violate.

Mew

@prepangolin If you want to start with the UX, you need to get the code from Launchpad (launchpad.net/ayatana), make edits, and then upload them and see if they accept it

prepangolin

I suggest Let her vote down.

Avinash Raj

@prepangolin she? who?

prepangolin

Yes

She pretend her

She is not good user.

Seth

That's enough.

prepangolin

4:26 PM

She is argly girl.

Seth

I'm going to boot the both of you if you don't stop this silly bickering now.

xiaodongjie

@Seth Oh, I just talk about his comment. I didn't talk about him.

prepangolin

As the man. I will stop.

Avinash Raj

don't irritate mods.

Bob

Could we please stop with the seemingly useless flags?

xiaodongjie

4:27 PM

@Seth Now I'll stop.

prepangolin

Good bye everybody except @xiaodongjie.

Seth

Good, and keep it that way.

Bob

PSA: chat flags are broadcasted to every 10k user and mod on the network. Do not use them lightly.

6

Seth

@Bob yeah sorry about those.

Mew

@Bob which explains the flood of users whenever something happens.

Bob

4:28 PM

@Seth Hey, you were trying to stop them. Hardly your fault :P

Seth

@Bob Well I suppose, but still, sorry :)

Mew

we should always have 3 active mods in this room.

it would help a lot.

Avinash Raj

@Seth could you change the close reason dupe askubuntu.com/questions/452923/windows-colon-did-not-open

Mew

73

Q: Let me opt out of viewing chat flags

I'm not a moderator. I have ~50k rep on Server Fault. I am a regular in chat. Because chat allows all 10k+ users across the network to act on chat flags, I (and many other regulars in SF chat) see some problematic users from other chats flagging things that aren't actually offensive. I disagree...

feature-request chat flags moderation

Seth

@AvinashRaj done

Mew

4:33 PM

i envy you moderators.

Seth

@Braiam Didn't you want me to reverse the dupe closure on something earlier? I didn't have time at the time..

Lucio

Mew

hey?

can't someone with skill write a greasemonkey script to block the 10k notifier?

that would solve a lot.

Seth

@Mew You wouldn't if actually had to be one.

Mew

@Seth i like dealing with trivial tasks

Seth

4:37 PM

@Mew I'm sure someone could..

@Mew Being a moderator isn't a trivial task ;)

Mew

@Seth still more fun than watching users bicker. you can do something about it.

Seth

True in a way.

Mew

and, where should i go for this question:

How to run Django and PHP (under different subdomains) on same Apache webserver?

webmasters?

Braiam

@Mew no, SU, SF, UL

AU if its about ubuntu

Mew

ik not to post it here

but i was not sure if webmasters or SuperUser or UnixLinux.

so, UL it is.

even though its on a ubuntu machine?

Braiam

4:42 PM

@Mew webmasters.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic

Mew

serverfault it is.

Seth

no no no.

They only want professional based questions.

I'm guessing you aren't doing this at work ;)

Mew

??

this is professional.

Seth

> Server Fault is a site for system and network administrators needing expert answers related to managing computer systems in a professional capacity.

> and it is not about…

**Anything in a home or development environment**

Mew

okay.

so then where??

UL?

Seth

4:45 PM

That'd work I think.

Mew

okay

Braiam

if it's apache running on windows ask on SU

Mew

apache on ubuntu

windows.... shudders

Dan

What happens when we choose "Recommend Deletion" in the LQP queue? do they get deleted after a certain amount of "Recommend Deletion" votes?

I'm asking to know, if it is needed to flag non-answers after I review them in the queue?

Minato Namikaze

@Mew Try UL

Mew

4:51 PM

on UL.

thanks guys

anyone feel like helping?

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Q: How would I run Django and LAMP on different subdomains, but on the same Apache server?

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Mew

wut

mojo706

lol what happened with those two

Mew

erhm...

Mateo

@Mew wow, that looks like art! you should start saving them and putting them on flickr.

Mew

4:58 PM

hehehelol

what can i say, I'm a starving artist.

my nvidia card is my paintbrush

Rinzwind

looks nice :D

xiaodongjie

Hi everybody.

Rinzwind

make it your background @Mew
hey @xiaodongjie

xiaodongjie

@Rinzwind how are you?

Mew

no.

Rinzwind

5:00 PM

still got the flue

xiaodongjie

@Rinzwind just a question about a program.

@Rinzwind I forgot a program's name.

Rinzwind

you are not that old to start forgetting things :=)

xiaodongjie

This program is compress ELF.

Rinzwind

what does it do? or should I start with a and name them all? >:)

upx-ucl ?

xiaodongjie

Oh, @Rinzwind It's right. upx!

Rinzwind

5:03 PM

LOL

how good am I? :-DDDDD

xiaodongjie

:) :) :)

May I give you star?

Rinzwind

btw... if I'd start with a we'd be here a long time :+)

oh and I would not mind if more ppl starred Bob's starred msg

xiaodongjie

Are you agree?

Braiam

@Dan here is the behavior meta.stackexchange.com/questions/226092/…

xiaodongjie

@Rinzwind Thank you.

Mateo

5:10 PM

@Rinzwind which one is that ( have a netbook, can only see first star)

xiaodongjie

@Braiam hi. yesterday, why you were baned from askubuntu temporarily.

Mateo

ah found it :)

Braiam

@xiaodongjie that's private matters

xiaodongjie

@Braiam Oh, I see.

however, very pleasure to meet you.

sorry this question.

Rinzwind

5:37 PM

@Mateo 5 PSA: chat flags are broadcasted to every 10k user and mod on the network. Do not use them lightly. - 1h ago by Bob

this one deserves upvotes: askubuntu.com/a/453790/15811

(but feel free to ignore me :+ )

(and if it was up to me Ubuntu should suply this out of the box)

xiaodongjie

bye, I need to sleep.

Rinzwind

sleep well

Those chinese people are weird. They always go to bed at 19:40 :P

Seth

5:54 PM

@Dan 3 to 4 will delete it, depending on how others have reviewed (as Braiam's link said). It isn't needed for you to flag them though. You can if you want.

Ah, nope. It still requires 6 recommendations.

sadmicrowave

F* AlienVault

Takkat

Utopic Unicorn

9

wonder where they live.

Seth

Is that.. Official?

I mean, is he joking/has it been definitely decided?

Takkat

it appears to be... we're not the first to jump on the Unicorn train.

His blog is filled up with Us an u an uuu

Seth

Yeah, he does that. Hey, at least he has a sense of humour!

Takkat

6:04 PM

great sense of that :)

but having an Utopic release is promising.

searchfgold6789

6:21 PM

Ew...just saw a "troubleshooting" tag...

...it looked at me with its eyes...

Seth

Yeah, been a couple meta posts on it.

Rinzwind

6:35 PM

@Takkat we are ditching python2? :)

Takkat

@Rinzwind obviously - that's very ambitious...

Rinzwind

very.

Takkat

Let's prepare for the broken apps.

Rinzwind

oh man there is so many p2 apps :X

Takkat

ancient gems :"(

long abandoned but still brilliant.

Rinzwind

6:36 PM

hmm wondering does p2 do anything p3 can not?

Takkat

nope but they changed the code all over the places...

only minor stuff but it prevents p2 apps from running.

Rinzwind

yeah but basically 1st test would be an string search and replace of the shebang if it is not set to /usr/bin/env :D

come to think of it... also a good moment to kill anything that does not use env _O-

Takkat

grrr

Rinzwind

that is rrrg backwards

Takkat

switched my app from python2 to python3 some year ago... it was pretty straightforward because I did not use anything "deprecating" there.

Rinzwind

6:40 PM

that proves you are a good coder :=)

Takkat

@Rinzwind no way - I should just because of this encrypt my code so that nobody sees it... :D

Rinzwind

yes way! :=) thinking ahead in time when coding is good practice

Takkat

and not using recipies from The Internets that are 10 years old or so... ;)

unless they are good, of course... :)

Rinzwind

ok I need afk time (got flue so screen starts to flicker after an hour :D )
bbl

Aditya

@Takkat That means we are going to have unicorn as tags..

Takkat

6:46 PM

@Aditya lol - don't let Braiam know. ;)

jokerdino

nay. we will have 14.10 tags

Takkat

what a pity, really... we should switch to codenames just because of this.

BRB

jokerdino

good night then

Ask Ubuntu Meta

7:24 PM

0

Q: is there any way to backup our askububtu profile?

I have asked 40 questions on ask ubnutu . also I mark more than 20 question as favorite question this like a notebook for me . But some times I do not have access to internet and I wish if there some thing to backup my profile on my desktop.

discussion support feature-request

Rinzwind

7:56 PM

gotta love unicorns :)

Seth

8:23 PM

Andrew

8:59 PM

meta.askubuntu.com/questions/8965/do-you-think-these-questions-need-to-be-close-‌deleted-because-they-are-too-broad

Mateo

@Seth he usually announces it in his blog first, so I think that is it.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

9:29 PM

0

Q: How to list all protected questions?

I know that we can use some sort of queries/SQL to get this kind of information. But I don't really know the exact API nor the exact keywords to use. I ask because I'm looking for a way to browse great questions, not only by looking at their votes. So where and how could I build such query?

support

PyRulez

Grub doesn't seem to appear. I am on Ubuntu 14.04, updated from Ubuntu 13.10. What do I do?

hbdgaf

the same things you always did askubuntu.com/questions/162075/…

PyRulez

I mean it seems to skip to the login screen.

I am on the machine right now.

Also, I forgo the root password.

hbdgaf

search the site

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Q: How do I set the grub timeout and the grub default boot entry?

Hello I'm newbie 2 ubuntu 12.04 How do I set the grub time and default os(that I see at the boot time) as I'm using dual boot OS(Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04)

boot grub2 default

PyRulez

That requires root.

I am on the guest account right now.

hbdgaf

9:37 PM

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Q: How do I reset a lost password (using recovery mode requires me to type the password)?

I need to reset my password. I have followed these steps: How do I reset a lost Administrative (root) password? However, then I go to "root" or "netroot" recovery options, it tells me: Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue) Clearly, I do not know the root password...