Ask Ubuntu General Room

12:00 AM

@ByteCommander I think it's that you keep plugging away with answers (rather than getting discouraged) when nobody but the OP's likes them.

ByteCommander

Maybe? At least sounds somehow right...

Okay folks, I'll go to bed. My router will be probably reconnecting for the next hour anyway. Good night!

RPi Awesomeness

12:16 AM

Goodness. Rebuilding your apt-cache or whatever if you have to do after you delete all of the lists takes quite some time!

j0h

12:45 AM

I recently acquired a t-mobile prism u8651t is this something Ubuntu would install onto? if so, how? Will I need a micro SD card to perform the operation?

RPi Awesomeness

Welp. Wonderful. I've lost Unity and reinstalling NVIDIA drivers didn't help :P

Yup, there we go.

@luis-alvarado You are the man.

Twice now your answer has saved my bacon!

Do you want a bounty or just some internet cookies? Or both. That's a possibility too :D

Nathan Osman

1:01 AM

This Windows XP virtual machine is killer fast. Booting takes about 10 seconds. Installing Firefox (from scratch) takes about 20 seconds.

I'm starting to see why everyone was so reluctant to upgrade.

RPi Awesomeness

lol

jrg

1:39 AM

@NathanOsman yeah.

chaskes

2:59 AM

@hbdgaf How's it going?

Nathan Osman

3:10 AM

At first I was thinking that I should reimplement a system tray class in Qt that uses D-Bus to create an indicator. Once I realized how ridiculously complex that was going to be, I instead decided that Unity users don't get a tray icon :P

Instead they'll either get a main window or some sort of floating desktop widget. Sorry, but that's life.

Journeyman Geek

@NathanOsman 0_0

Nathan Osman

Well, maybe I'll try a little bit longer.

Journeyman Geek

XP has generally not been that fast at boot for me. Even with a fresh install

Nathan Osman

In a VM though?

Journeyman Geek

Granted, I run 8 on an SSD, and a HDD boot of it I did take a little longer to boot

ahh. maybe.

Seth

3:17 AM

@jrg So my friend runs linux next and uses, believe it or not, nouveau.

jrg

@Seth hm, ok.

Seth

He has no problems, although I just remembered he also runs xfce (it's Arch so..)

jrg

Right.

Seth

Could be a Unity issue.

jrg

i do want to be able to use the graphics card

for uh, you know, games.

that's the only reason i'm on windows right now. want to play gamesssss.

Seth

3:17 AM

sure ;)

Tried nouveau then?

jrg

Will have to.

Seth

Cool. Let me know how it goes. This should work.

Also: your coding style can be used to identify you.

jrg

@Seth and 4 random transactions on your credit/debit card are likely (90% chance) to uniquely fingerprint you.

Seth

huh, interesting.

hbdgaf

@Seth That has been used more than once to identify people... as has toolchain choices.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

4:26 AM

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Q: How to setup 2 NIC PC with a DHCP server on one NIC and LAN on the other. Ubuntu

So I have a networking setup I need for a project. On one of my NICs I need to have a DHCP server. I've found for ubuntu there exists dhcp3-server for a dhcp server. I've done a bit of research, I have no idea where to start after that or how to separate one nic over the other. I've never setup ...

Nathan Osman

D-Bus for Python doesn't explain how to create properties :(

No Time

5:00 AM

for C programmers

cise.ufl.edu/~manuel/obfuscate/obfuscate.html

Nathan Osman

5:40 AM

I really like this one: cise.ufl.edu/~manuel/obfuscate/palind.c

SmokeDetector

6:20 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Drink lots of lukewarm water through? by Brazeal on askubuntu.com

Nathan Osman

6:37 AM

I am running dangerously low on disk space on my Windows server.

You know you're in hot water when an update is in progress and you have 812 MB free.

And I'm really starting to have second thoughts about using CPack for NitroShare. I already have Debian packaging, so it has no value on Ubuntu. And for Windows, exporting to NSIS is buggy. I'm better off with InnoSetup.

I honestly have no idea about OS X. But I'll leave that for someone smarter.

das_envision

8:18 AM

hello linux pros.. I need help with the ubuntu software update manager. it shows error "daemon might have crashed"

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