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@SmokeDetector fp

12:50 AM

fp?

Fine post?

Nathan Osman

I'm guessing "fp" is "false positive".

Aaah

I'm messing with GRUB 2 theming and have set a custom background and custom colors ... but I can't see how to use HTML colors - even though they're supposed to be supported...

1:07 AM

@RPi_Awesomeness Editing files manually or with grub-customizer?

@ByteCommander Manually

I tried grub-customizer in the past and it screwed up plymouth & GRUB 2 pretty bad.

Granted, that was a while ago

uugh. You understand everything in there?

Kinda, I understand the whole theming parts

Which file were they in again?

@RPi_Awesomeness yeah @Nathan is right, but apparently smokey doesn't listen from this room ;)

1:12 AM

@Seth Ah

Yeah. set menu_color_highlight=243,115,32/black should work

But it gives me an error saying that that RGB color isn't valid or something.

@ByteCommander Um, I've been editing the default /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme file.

Hmm, looks like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics to me... ;D

2:02 AM

kapoof!

http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/202727/should-i-install-the-intel-drivers-for-linux-to-make-minecraft-faster/202731#202731

Am I wrong?

2:18 AM

I would think it depends on the particular hardware

He is asking would Ubuntu Drivers and the ones from Intel have any difference.

yes, I understand. And I think the answer is going to be different based on the particular hardware configuration.

How so?

so you're asking why I think a generic driver will either outperform or underperform a manufacturer specific driver based on the exact hardware?

IvyBridge has no better throughput or output.

with either driver

2:28 AM

that's irrelevant

Your not making any sense

that's fine... I'm starting to think likewise of you :(

3:05 AM

Anybody in here on poker-heroes.com (running PokerTH)? I wanna play, but there aren't enough buddies around... :(

Mateo

3:17 AM

@Virusboy i've actually had problems with the ones provided by the intel installer, it would vary case by case. could be better, could be worse

5:04 AM

Heavens above, help me. I've commented on a Youtube video.

5:14 AM

Okay. Microsoft is doing some pretty cool stuff.

Their HoloLens project looks awesome - I want to try Minecraft on HoloLens so bad.

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It's weird to say, but I'm actually excited to see something Microsoft is doing. Windows 10 looks so much better than Windows 8 and Project Spartan looks really intriguing. I hope they release an update for the Tech Preview with Cortana.

omg, what a noob am I talking with. It gets annoying... askubuntu.com/q/577151/367990

@ByteCommander Invite him to chat. 22 comments is a bit much

5:34 AM

@RPi_Awesomeness I would have done that hours ago, but he's a low-rep user and chat is allowed only with 20+ rep! Very annoying!

@ByteCommander Ooo yeah

Hm, he seems to be busy with posting his fstab. What are you doing?

Watching The Tek 0167: Windows 10 - What We Think

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Good Youtube channel, definitely one you should watch

They post all sorts of cool stuff

Gosh is he chattering fast! I can barely understand him... ;D ;P

@RPi_Awesomeness HELP! That guy drives me crazy! Is it possible that a system has no /etc/fstab? I managed to get him into a live system within about 10 comments and needed another 30 (20 of them already deleted) to manually mount his hdd "/" partition into the live file system and he still says he can't find that dammmmmn fstab!!!! '@**§$%1=?+>##

Hey! Finally he got the problem! ;D askubuntu.com/questions/577151/…

HOLY SHIT! THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!

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6:07 AM

Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" played by ArcAttack with two HUGE Tesla Coils as speaker, playing with the lightnings! How cool is this!?!?

7:04 AM

anything arcattack is awesome

@JourneymanGeek You know them? Cool.

Nathan Osman

8:00 AM

Oh dear.

2

This is absolutely terrible.

8:18 AM

Few traffic in here this morning...

Heeeeellllloooooo??? EEEEeeeeeccchhhhooooooo!!!!

9:49 AM

hi

ny one here ?

new york one?

No not new york. Singapore!

hbdgaf

>.> that was punny @JourneymanGeek

@JourneymanGeek can you help me with one small program

That was probably entirely my intention

@abhi: could I? I don't know.

(just ask ;p)

I mean, its not like IRC where people can't read the transcripts dating back to the beginning...

i know you can @JourneymanGeek i need to make patter like this 1
3 * 2
4* 5 *6
if n=3

1

9:58 AM

erm.

no

3'*2

;p

that is to say, I have no idea what you actually want. Or what language or...

1
3 * 2
4* 5 *6
if n=3 in java

ahh, I don't do java.

Q: Can't Unlock Ubuntu Account (KDE) with correct Password

okey no problem @JourneymanGeek :)

cricket world cup is going to start awesome !

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:41 AM

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Unable to unlock my Ubuntu session with correct password. I got this solution but it was for Gnome. Need solution for KDE. Thanks.

user136984

2:16 PM

@Seth: I still have not got the new privilages that should have come with 1k reputation points. And it has been much longer than 10 minutes, it has been many many hours. Why is it not giving me the privileges yet? And yesterday my rep points were at 1,004, now they are at 1,000, but I have not got any downvotes, or anything which would have taken those points away from me, so why did that happen too? Is it really meant to take this long to give me more privileges or is this some sort of bug?

user136984

I mean the 4 points going away for no apparent reason isn't such a big deal, but why haven't I got the new privileges yet? :)

KasiyA

Hellow!
Does this check mark in ubuntu is a single image or it's a settings (orange color)?

I want to change its color.

thanks :)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:38 PM

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Q: Curl Command PUT Method

curl -i -X PUT -H 'Content-Length: 1000' http://dfdc:dfdc@xx.xx.xx.xxx:xx/directory/ Above curl doesn't produce any response at Ubuntu shell prompt.

ubuntu curl

user136984

2:56 PM

@Seth: As you guys are not online at the moment I have posted about it here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/247535/… But please do get back to me on this. :)

user136984

3:06 PM

@Seth: Unless my problem has been solved by the time that you come online though. :)

user136984

3:18 PM

@Seth: Ok, it is all working now, so that is good, although I have not received a notification about my new privileges, I now have them! :) It must have just been a really long delay.

Rinzwind

3:38 PM

please nuke this askubuntu.com/questions/577338/… :-X

@Toroidal those are probably given at the end of a day. or at least when some software is run to check all users reputation

chili555

@Rinzwind Nuked!

hbdgaf

4:18 PM

@Rinzwind wow that was crap... the rant and comments mostly i mean.

@Toroidal some computations only happen at 00:00:00 UTC

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

4:44 PM

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Q: Recover /var/lib/dpkg directory in ubuntu 14.04

Today by mistake, i deleted directory /var/lib/dpkg using "rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/*" from my VPS server. Can you please tell me how i can recover this directory ?

ubuntu vps

@Rinzwind That's unclear? I would have considered it almost spam...

I have to say, Albert is pretty darn awesome and useful

webupd8.org/2015/01/albert-fast-lightweight-quick-launcher.html

^ ONE BOX NEEDED!

Halp.

I froze my computer and so ran unity --replace from TTY1

and that didn't work, Unity is gone...

I even tried running export DISPLAY=:0

Do I need to just reboot?

@Seth Any idea?

Oh, probably should have said hi first :)

try restarting lightdm. You'll use your work but it is faster than rebooting.

sudo lightdm restart

Thar we go.

Thanks :)

np ;)

Q: What's your Ubuntu question? Be specific

5:04 PM

Downloading newest Windows 10 Preview build. Should be interesting

Rinzwind

5:39 PM

junk askubuntu.com/questions/577376/…

user136984

Guys have a look at this guys title! :D They have put what it says in the box before typing anything in:

user136984

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Whenever I try and isnall apps in the software center I see a popup like this: http://s1122.photobucket.com/user/riscos3/media/Bildschirmfotovonraquo2015-01-24182752laquo_zps26f5bfac-1.png.html It says my nvidia drivers will be removed, I don't know if this is ok, how can I fix this problem so ...

drivers gnome software-center 14.10 video-driver

user136984

:D

6:02 PM

yeah, no idea how that happens but it does sometimes..

user136984

@Seth :D

Rinzwind

6:29 PM

@Seth happens when you leave the title empty :P

6:57 PM

@Rinzwind the system lets you do that?!?

user136984

7:19 PM

@Seth and @Rinzwind: That shouldn't be allowed, it should give you one of those red box errors.

cake all gone

in one day

:(

(wasn't me!)

¬_¬

Hey everyone, is there a way to get basic hard disk info like manufacturer, model etc.?

@DemCodeLines Hi there.

@JamesKayla hey!

I have Ubuntu 13.10

@DemCodeLines Well... I'm not actually sure. I think... no, I don't know. Maybe there's an option somewhere to view it?

Look for some kind of system diagnostics tool :)

Q: Having A Shitty Shitty Time Installing Ubuntu (Dual Boot Windows 7)

7:24 PM

I had Windows installed, but it crashed because my hard disk went bad. So now I need to get another hard disk, but I don't know which I am supposed to get. So I had an old Ubuntu 13.10 Live CD that I booted, but I don't know how to get the info.

user136984

Well this is a bit of a rude title! :D

user136984

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I'm trying to dual boot Ubuntu with windows 7. I need Linux for my research project, but would like to keep windows as I am familiar with it and it is not even half as finicky and bug-logged as ubuntu. It has been my severe displeasure of trying to install ubunutu recently, and I am having the fo...

dual-boot windows-7 wubi

@DemCodeLines lshw

ishw? wassat

More precisely

7:26 PM

lets see hardware :D

(kidding)

$ sudo lshw | grep -A 20 disk: | grep product
                product: ST3500418AS
                product: WDC WD15EARX-00P
                product: SAMSUNG HD204UI

@JamesKayla ls hardware, list hardware.

ah ok

You can install it with sudo apt-get install lshw

@JeffreyLin hai

pretty sure it comes default @terdon

7:27 PM

You can also install the GUI: sudo apt-get install lshw-gtk

user43095

So I think I just rm -rf 'd my home directory.

but then I might have forgotten I installed it.

@Seth Oh, OK then.

@JeffreyLin Were you removing steam?

I think I just installed it recently but it was on Debian

7:27 PM

@JeffreyLin :|

user43095

@Seth No, I was trying to unencrypt my user directory and didn't realize that $PRIVATE is the home directory.

ah.

user43095

So is there anything I should do while still pseudo-logged in?

@terdon Do YOU like cake? Sorry... can't... stop... with the cake..

Ummm. Ooookay

7:29 PM

@terdon >:D

user43095

I'll probably need a new user account as there's currently nothing in /home

@JeffreyLin Not much as far as I know. You can save any files you happen to have open but apart from that, if you really ran rm -rf ~/ you're up the proverbial creek with no paddle in sight.

@terdon go on, admit it... you love cake.

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@JamesKayla Shhhh, not in public!

2

@terdon xD (i'm in a taggy mood today)

user43095

7:31 PM

@terdon Using ls in Terminal shows nothing, but User Accounts shows that my account is still active.

user43095

Alright, time to log out. I'll be back later.

@terdon I was dared I could mention cake to a single person multiple times. I've done it!

@JeffreyLin Well, yes. You have a few things in RAM probably but none of the stuff you need. Your data, photos etc.

user43095

@terdon "xyz could not be found. Perhaps it has been deleted".

user43095

I logged in through TTY1 and it says that since there's no home, it's temporarily setting /=HOME

7:36 PM

lshw lists all hardware, any way to get just hard disk info?

13 mins ago, by terdon

$ sudo lshw | grep -A 20 disk: | grep product
                product: ST3500418AS
                product: WDC WD15EARX-00P
                product: SAMSUNG HD204UI

user136984

Oh dear... Sometimes I want to flag something up but don't know whether I should put "Too broad" or "Unclear what you're asking"...! :D

@Toroidal link?

Mateo

@RPi_Awesomeness fun show

@jrg link to what (I know you're not talking to me, I just wanna know :D )

user136984

7:41 PM

@jrg: Maybe it's just because I am unfamiliar with the software but I found it a very broad and a little bit of an and unclear question: askubuntu.com/questions/577412/xrdp-configuration-for-account

Oh, @Toroidal - that is vague.

user136984

@jrg: And this one too is extremely vague, I mean I know what they are saying, but they don't provide any real information to help us help them solve the problem: askubuntu.com/questions/577414/gedit-hangs-and-crashes

@Toroidal so i'm going to spin the question back around to you - what is your recommended action?

do we drop a comment on the question asking for more details, do we close it instantly, do we ignore it?

user136984

@jrg: I think that we should comment asking for more information, and then if it becomes clear that not enough information is known to help us help them then we should close it.

@Toroidal OK, so we've left a comment (hypothetically). Then what? How long do we wait?

user136984

7:50 PM

In other words we should try to help first, but then if it becomes impossible we should close it.

A day, a week, 2 months, a year?

user136984

I would wait a day.

user136984

Or 2.