Ask Ubuntu General Room

1:01 PM

@Mateo :D Looks like a Yeti went shopping before disappearing down his ice-cave!

@Toroidal: Now I'm sure you're a girl: askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/372819 You forgot to change massage into message... ;-)

user136984

@Fabby :D Come on!

user136984

@Fabby I was eating biscuits at the time when I was editing that one so got a bit distracted... But definitly not a girl! :D

Lucio

Hello people!

@hbdgaf sorry, a month later I've lost any understanding on that message

Fabby

@Toroidal: >:)

Lucio

So stackoverflow design has been changed. cool

RPi Awesomeness

1:09 PM

Just a quick recap for those who managed to miss it: The New England Patriots won Super Bowl XLIX on the strangest play call of a Super Bowl ever.

:)

ByteCommander

@Toroidal Don't worry, seems like Fabby accuses almost everybody of being a girl... ;D

RPi Awesomeness

Oooo

ByteCommander

And I don't want to know how YOUR keyboard looks like either ;D

RPi Awesomeness

Raspberry Pi Model B+ gets Windows support!

ByteCommander

@RPiAwesomeness So this is the reason why you changed your icon? I preferred the goat!

RPi Awesomeness

1:13 PM

@ByteCommander ;)

@Seth Changes his, so I figured I'd change mine!

I'll change back sometime.

ByteCommander

Okay :)

user136984

Can someone please edit this question so that I can at least understand what they are trying to say and why they say that it is not the right place:

user136984

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Q: Rooting/ viewing android screen in ubuntu 14.04

i know that its not the right place at all, but ive seen your links most of the places while surfing. since i didnt got anywhere im asking my question here. How to view my android screen in my ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit. as i told its not a right place to ask but some other tutorials tell that u hav...

root

user136984

:D

user136984

I would edit it if I could understand what they are trying to say! :D

user136984

1:15 PM

The formatting is so bad that I just find it really unreadable.

user136984

And he keeps on saying things like "bla bla bla", which is really not helping the readability of that question! :D

user136984

Maybe you could you have a look @Fabby? :)

Fabby

Looking

Forget it...

This is about rooting an Android. Nothing to do with Ubuntu...

user136984

:D

Fabby

And comment about editing help added (now in my toolbox)

user136984

1:23 PM

Well, that didn't help to not confuse me then (the fact that it didn't have anything to do with Ubuntu)...

user136984

:D

Fabby

I'm sorry and, please, blame it on me: I'm confused and confusing...

user136984

:D

Rinzwind

0

Q: ubuntu desktop next 15.04 from usb flash

i have asus transformer book t100ta and i will install ubuntu desktop next 15.04 32bit on it. bios is updated >>>> 313 after ISO file burned by Rufus 1.4.12.535, i don't find EFI\BOOT directory. so i did create EFI and BOOt folder. i've copied bootia32.efi to EFI\BOOT. after disabling Secure ...

boot asus unity8 unity-next

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Q: How to install Ubuntu Desktop Next 15.04 on Asus Transformer Book T100ta

Please help me to install Ubuntu Desktop Next 15.04 32Bit on Asus Transformer Book T100TA (step to step) Thank you

boot uefi asus unity8

same user same q :-D

and here he made it an answer:
http://askubuntu.com/a/580831/15811

ByteCommander

Hey, just reached 800 reps! YAYYYY ;D

Fabby

1:32 PM

Congrats!

@Rinzwind: I've closed the second as a duplicate of the first! >:)

Rinzwind

I did not; flagged them both as OT and the answer as NAO

KasiyA

What do you get from this comment?

Fabby

@KasiyA: Don't bother... Broadcom... Let chili555 handle it tonight. He's a Level 100000 wizard when it gets to that stuff...

KasiyA

look at closely!

Fabby

What do you mean??? Did I miss something?

AP-HotSpot?

KasiyA

1:43 PM

read meta.stackexchange.com/questions/43019/… and check again.

Fabby

Even if it's an AP HotSpot it's still one for @chili555: He's a wizard with a bag full of tricks when it comes to this stuff

@KasiyA: I always do both so he knows he's in the right spot!

;-)

Tell them you're going to tell, tell them, tell them you've told them...

Rule #1 of successful communication...

:P ;-)

ByteCommander

KasiyA

:D

solved

Fabby

@ByteCommander: That one looks remarkably like @chili555 (starred!)

user136984

@Fabby: I have just posted this question, but some of it may sound a little bit confusing, so could you please have a look and edit if needed please: :)

user136984

1:46 PM

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Q: "Intel(R) Graphics Installer for Linux" for Ubuntu 14.10

I know that my Intel drivers are out of date, but I am unsure of exactly how to get them up-to-date, because when I was running Windows 7 I was able to run Intel's "Intel® Driver Update Utility" which would automatically find the right Intel drivers for my system and then install them. But this ...

drivers 14.10 intel-graphics

Fabby

Looks perfectly clear to me!

user136984

Good! :)

Fabby

I might even try it! (I'm on 14.04.1)

user136984

Ok! :)

user136984

I thought that I had fixed the bit which seemed a bit unclear, but just wanted to check, it was the part when I kept on referring to links "mentioned above".

Fabby

1:49 PM

a bit confusing, but the link made up for it...

OTOH: there is a source package available: why don't you make a system backup, download that and compile it yourself???

ByteCommander

Eisbrecher - EISZEIT youtube.com/watch?v=PjXAGORF9JI

Only listen to it if you have good bass speakers!

terdon

@Toroidal the drivers should be in the repos.

Fabby

intel-gpu-tools

Was just looking at that...

Will report back

intel-gpu-tools is already the newest version.

@Toroidal: you shouldn't do anything....

(at least on 14.04.1)

user136984

Well, my graphics drivers are rather buggy, and some of the bugs which are in them which I have noticed have been fixed in later releases from Intel, but I have not received them.

terdon

@Toroidal Download them from intel directly then.

user136984

1:58 PM

@terdon: That is part of the problem... It asks for specifications about my computer which I don't know... :( It says to refer to the label on the bottom of my computer for a certain number, but I cannot find that number! :(

terdon

@Toroidal What don't you know? All it needs is the graphics card model

You can see that with lspci | grep VGA

user136984

Oh, maybe they changed the process then...

Virusboy

@Seth We need to find out who's abusing the starring system.

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Fabby

@Virusboy: No starring pictures?

user136984

@terdon: The result of that command was:

user136984

2:03 PM

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)

Virusboy

@Toroidal Old system?

user136984

@terdon: So does that mean that for the product line I choose "2nd Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) Proccessor with Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000/2000"?

user136984

I only got the system about 3 years ago.

user136984

This question even though mostly in another language has the characteristics at the end of spam:

user136984

But I am not too sure.

user136984

2:13 PM

What do you guys think?

user136984

Oh wait... It is gone! :D

user136984

Looks like it was spam then!

Greg

@Toroidal if his washing machine is broken, then maybe it needs an upgraded Linux Kernel. (Just saying.)

user136984

Why do people come and post spam anyway? I mean what really is the point of coming and doing that, it doesn't help anyone and will end up just being removed?

RPi Awesomeness

@Toroidal They're trolls and they somehow get enjoyment out of wasting other people's time

Dang enter key

user136984

2:21 PM

:D

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness: The goat is gone!

@chili555: Good morning!

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby And the Patriot is in!

@Fabby You must have missed the news. The Patriots beat the Seahawks in the Super Bowl 28-24!

Fabby

What's a super bowl?

:P

Greg

@Toroidal I don't believe that was the work of a human. The point is if their software spams 10 billion websites, maybe one of the websites users will remember the name whitewestinghouse when their next Egyption washing machine breaks down.

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby O.o

chili555

2:24 PM

Hmmmrrff.. I was sleeping soundly until you guys interrupted my little doze...@Fabby

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby Can't figure out if you're trolling or not...

OH MY GOSH!

NEW RASPBERRY PI!

Fabby

@chili555: So I shouldn't do that any more so early???

:(

RPi Awesomeness

raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale

OMG!

IT CAN RUN UBUNTU SNAPPY CORE!

IT HAS A 900 MHz CPU + 1GB RAM!

chili555

JK @Fabby

user136984

@Greg :D But if I had an Egyption washing machine and it broke down, I wouldn't trust the guy who spammed a good forum with the name of their washing machine repair company or whatever it was...

user136984

2:25 PM

:D

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness: I just can't get worked up about sports...

RPi Awesomeness

"The Raspberry Pi 2-compatible version of Windows 10 will be available free of charge to makers."

@Fabby ;)

chili555

I am looking at the Broadcom (yuck!) access point question now.

Greg

@Toroidal yeah, but you're a technically competent internet user. If one of the other billion people who saw it weren't as technically literate as you are, maybe they'd think about giving them a call.

Fabby

@chili555: Sorry again...

RPi Awesomeness

2:26 PM

ERMEGOSH!

I'm so excited! They said they weren't going to release a new Pi for like 2 years - let alone a totally new & more powerful design!

user136984

@Greg Well... If they would spam my forum that I got to... I wonder what they would do to my washing machine... :D

RPi Awesomeness

And it's still only $35.

Greg

@Toroidal probably replace it with a camel powered one.

2

user136984

:D

Greg

</passive_racism>

RPi Awesomeness

2:28 PM

@Toroidal ...are you the one spamming stars? Hmmm?

;)

Hey guys. Does anyone know what version of ARM Ubuntu runs on?

Rinzwind

7

chili555

No prob, @Fabby. I'm hungry for points this morning; this on has a nice juicy 50!

RPi Awesomeness

@Rinzwind Dude. The new Pi can run Ubuntu!

Finally!

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness: V7

Rinzwind

@Fabby too late!

RPi Awesomeness

2:30 PM

#RPiIsExcited

Fabby

(And I only know that because V6 support was dropped recently)

RPi Awesomeness

DANGIT! Now I have to decide between New England Patriots Super Bowl t-shirt and a new Pi...

Fabby

@Rinzwind: Huh?

terdon

@Toroidal Probably, yes. You should also check lshw-gtk (sudo apt-get install lshw-gtk and then sudo lshw-gtk) and see what it says about your graphics card there.

Lucio

Hi guys

Rinzwind

2:32 PM

@Fabby I said 7 first

Fabby

Oh yes!

:)

Lucio

I'm having a hard time trying to change Ubuntu VM screen resolution

Rinzwind

@Lucio why? >:-D

user136984

@terdon Ok, thanks! :)

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness: a T-shirt will only be good for a year... The Pi for a few years!

Lucio

2:33 PM

this doesn't help

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby True

" Now that we're using an ARMv7 core, we can also run Ubuntu: a Snappy Ubuntu Core package for NOOBS will be available in the next couple of weeks."

Ooooo

Lucio

@Rinzwind ubuntu desktop is currently using 640x480

RPi Awesomeness

Hehe...I think Element14's website is having issues ... :)

Lucio

that is way tiny

RPi Awesomeness

Same thing for Farnell/RS Components

terdon

2:34 PM

@Lucio Have you installed the drivers? How much video memory have you allocated?

RPi Awesomeness

It's the original Pi launch all over again!

Lucio

@terdon 64mb, fresh installation

I'm using VirtualBox

chili555

@Fabby answered

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio You probably need the guest additions. Have you installed that?

I've always had a tiny resolution until I installed those...

Lucio

@RPiAwesomeness nop?

what is that

Rinzwind

2:36 PM

@Lucio you need it :-)

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio Try that, then reboot

Just a sec

Lucio

okay

Rinzwind

@RPiAwesomeness 1

Fabby

@chili555: I knew it! 5 minutes flat!

chili555

LOL

Fabby

2:37 PM

When I saw the question, i thought of you! >:)

looking now...

Lucio

@RPiAwesomeness still waiting :)

RPi Awesomeness

Rinzwind

Damn he is doing it with images :D

Lucio

yep

user136984

@terdon: I have installed that, but when running the command "sudo lshw-gtk" in Terminal I get this ouput although other than that it seems to work fine:

RPi Awesomeness

2:39 PM

It'll download a file.

user136984

Why do I get an error like that?

RPi Awesomeness

Once it's downloaded, you'll need to "Insert the CD" (same button again) and then mount it within Ubuntu.

@Lucio Actually...

►

Lucio

@RPiAwesomeness its say "Do you want to run it?"

RPi Awesomeness

I show it in that tutorial

@Lucio Screenie?

Lucio

RPi Awesomeness

2:41 PM

nooooooo. It's sold out :(

@Lucio No

Is the CD mounted?

Fabby

@chili555: 10 points already in! 50 depends on s.o. else!!! ;-)

Lucio

what CD?

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio CD image

Lucio

no idea

the OS is already installed

RPi Awesomeness

Click on the CD icon on the bar

Lucio

2:42 PM

checked. The liveCD is mounted

is that okay?

RPi Awesomeness

Umm..

hrm

chili555

C'mon, bounty!!

Lucio

@RPiAwesomeness O.O

RPi Awesomeness

You should see files like these if it's truly mounted (sry, the only Linux VBox I have is eOS)

Lucio

sorry, my fault

it is not mounted

but available in the CD menu

RPi Awesomeness

2:44 PM

Okay. Click that

See if the files match mine

icons aside

Lucio

that's what happens after click on the iso from menu

RPi Awesomeness

Nonono. You don't want to mount the ISO.

Lucio

so what should I click?

RPi Awesomeness

You want to "Insert Guest Additions CD image..."

Sorry if my screenie didn't make that clearer :(

Lucio

that mounted a CD

RPi Awesomeness

2:46 PM

@Lucio What's in the CD?

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness @Lucio: Can you guys get a room???

:p

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby Good point

Lucio

@RPiAwesomeness my internet connection is not good enough to open a new room

sorry but no

RPi Awesomeness

Except...my internet just went kaput

@Lucio Good! That's what we want!

Vader

I have a question about VMs

When I download a live cd, e.g. ubunutu serve or centos. Do I install them since the VMs

or just always run the livecd?

RPi Awesomeness

2:49 PM

@Lucio Open a terminal

Lucio

done

RPi Awesomeness

Just a sec...

Have to take care of something .

All righty

Lucio

yey :D

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio cd to the VBOXADDITIONS

Lucio

done

RPi Awesomeness

2:51 PM

Okay, now sudo chmod +x VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

and then sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

ByteCommander

@Vader You can either install or run live, just as you want, but I don't see any reason for running a live iso in a VM because of the lack of persistence...

Lucio

@RPiAwesomeness wait a second, it is a CD!

how would I change the file?

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio It's fine ;)

It's a CD image

Plus, VBox

Lucio

it is already runnable anyway :)

RPi Awesomeness

Okay

Vader

2:52 PM

So I should install it? Will that mean I can actually restart and poweroff?

RPi Awesomeness

Then do the second step and you'll be good!

Lucio

running the file..

RPi Awesomeness

It'll compile/install some kernel modules and you should then be able to reboot the VM & have higher resolutions.

Might take a few reboots & some finagling with your display settings too

Lucio

sudo ./VBoxfile

@RPiAwesomeness hah, cool!

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio np

ByteCommander

2:54 PM

@Vader Yea, just like a real machine, except that it is virtual. Therefore VirtualMachine ;D

Lucio

@RPiAwesomeness haha, thank you

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio So, it's working?

Lucio

hope this works

user136984

Wow! It is getting busy here now! :D

Vader

I only have a pretty bad laptop with 4gb ram and only 2 cores. Will it be able to run unity?

Lucio

2:54 PM

@RPiAwesomeness it has finished

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio Okay. Reboot

ByteCommander

@Vader Don't think so. Should be fine as real installation, but I think it's too much for a VM. Get LUbuntu or XUbuntu instead.

Vader

But I would like a server distro

RPi Awesomeness

@ByteCommander Or Ubuntu MATE

ByteCommander

But servers come without any DE, don't they? So you wouldn't have Unity anyway

Lucio

2:57 PM

@RPiAwesomeness done

RPi Awesomeness

Any improvement?

Vader

can I use xubuntu as a server?

Lucio

I have a new resolution now, bigger one. From 640 to 800. that's good

RPi Awesomeness

For whatever reason, the login screen rarely seems to be affected by it.

terdon

@Lucio Install the graphics drivers on the guest. Also install guest-additions.

Lucio

2:58 PM

but only that resolution

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio Try increasing the video memory

terdon

@Toroidal That's fine, ignore it.

user136984

Ok

user136984

What is this person trying to say?

ByteCommander

@Vader Don't know. What's the difference between server and desktop distro anyway?

RPi Awesomeness

3:01 PM

@Lucio Try shutting down the VM, then increasing video memory/enabling 3D in the VM's settings

ByteCommander

@Toroidal Maybe he has an encrypted partition?

Lucio

@RPiAwesomeness yep, that's ok

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio Is it all the way up?

The video memory slider

Lucio

yep

Vader

@ByteCommander I was hoping you would know, :D

RPi Awesomeness

3:02 PM

@Lucio Okay.

user136984

@ByteCommander Maybe... But he really doesn't provide enough information to be sure of exactly what his problem is.

Lucio

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio That's strange. I mean, I've got the Guest additions CD installed in elementary OS Freya and it's got full resolution (I can go full screen no problem)

@Lucio No, I meant the VM's video memory slider

Lucio

wops

good news

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio Yay!

Lucio

3:04 PM

maximizing the window have enabled a new resolution!

\o/

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio \o/

Try pressing right Ctrl + F

Lucio

@RPiAwesomeness you are the best :)

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio ;)

I'm gonna be posting a tutorial on my Youtube channel about this exactly - you can repay me with a watch/like/constructive criticism ;)

Lucio

don't forget the maximize window thing! :D

RPi Awesomeness

@Lucio Yup :)

Boo

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

3:09 PM

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Q: Diagnose network connectivity loss

A linux workstation suddenly lost network connection. The cable is connected and the LED's are lit. ifconfig only shows the loopback interface lo. Another workstation with the same configurations correctly shows eth2, lo and wlan1 using ifconfig. How could I proceed to trouble shoot ? It co...

ubuntu network-interface

RPi Awesomeness

ByteCommander

@Vader help.ubuntu.com/community/…

RPi Awesomeness

Whoa. I've got 9.8% of my views on my one video from YT suggested vids. Sweet!

Vader

guess i m better of with a gui

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness: next time, click on the user's icon and get a private room! :P

RPi Awesomeness

3:12 PM

@Fabby @Lucio said he couldn't

Fabby

He's a 5K rep user!

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby I know that :P

He said his internet couldn't

So I was like, meh.

ByteCommander

@Vader Then I would get XUbuntu (for example) and install the required server-related packages (such as apache2 and stuff like this) manually.

Or get an Ubuntu server and manually install Xorg and xfce (or any other DE)

Fabby

dem interwebitubes di'nt wo'k fo' him?

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

terdon

3:16 PM

@Vader yes, of course you can . You can use any Linux whatsoever as a server.

The "server" edition of distros like Ubuntu simply comes with certain tools (apache, mysql etc) pre-installed and no GUI.

Vader

Cool, why is this point not better adevertised?

terdon

All the tools can also be installed on the other editions.

@Vader Umm. It is? You just need to read the documentation.

Vader

I always though I needed to download the server edition to use the server stuff

terdon

Also, it is assumed that people using the server version know what they're doing :)

Vader

@terdon I meant on the hompages of linux sites

terdon

3:17 PM

@Vader It is. You just need to read the details.

Vader

I want to get into the server side stuff

terdon

Go for it.

Vader

@terdon have you ever used ubuntu as a server?

Oli

@terdon (Mild correction: none of that is preinstalled, but they are on the installation media and a tasksel option at the end of the installer makes it easy to install them when you're done with the main installation)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: Number of installed keyboard layouts in Linux Mint Qiana

I cannot add more than 4 keyboard layouts in Qiana. Is that normal? Is there such limitation or I am doing something wrong?

debian ubuntu linux-mint keyboard-layout cinnamon

terdon

3:24 PM

@Oli Really? Thanks. I've never actually installed the server.

@Vader Yes. But I didn't install it myself.

Oli

@Vader The general ethos with servers is to keep it simple. The less nonsense on them, the less can {break,get hacked,hold back packages,need testing}. By extension because you don't need a GUI to host or administer a website server, you don't want a GUI running on the server. Ubuntu Server just reflects that way of thinking.

Bit of a shock to Windows Server users (which still has a GUI, because... Windows) but it's better in the long run if you can treat your servers like appliances and not Desktops that also happen to host things.

ByteCommander

@Fabby youtube.com/watch?v=5bYMAgM42pM

jrg

Servers as appliances is definitely a better way.

Means that you can replace them if you want.

Oli

(Although, as has been said a few times now, you can host things from an Ubuntu Desktop install —it's all the same stuff with a GUI installed— I just wouldn't recommend deploying a Desktop install on the internet)

Fabby

@ByteCommander: Meeeh... (sorry)

RPi Awesomeness

3:30 PM

►

Oooo...you didn't just say that about Unity :P

He said it's crap & has tons of Spyware. Spyware no. Amazon/ads maybe.

user136984

I am a bit confused about what this person is trying to say. So he is getting eye strain because of Ubuntu or something...?

user136984

Oh dear... Another critical vulnerability has been found in Adobe Flash Player which affects all platforms... :(

RPi Awesomeness

#FlashFail

blade19899

@Toroidal ... Who saw that coming one coming? :)

@Toroidal Answered, even though I myself don't funny understand his question!

Someone is gonna be really pissed at me after this:

> To talk to someone use the @ like this @username. Then they will get the message. - blade19899 53 secs ago

Fabby

3:57 PM

@blade19899: :D

blade19899

@Fabby Solved.

my Answered worked for him

@Fabby I'm thinking about editing out my Location section on my profile! :)

Fabby

@Toroidal: that's a help vampire... vague complaints, never accepted any answer...

blade19899

> Hey netherland dude , I feel fresh now :) Thanks SIR :) In return you can contact me for any PHP ,jQuery , mySQL and that kinda stuff -> stackoverflow.com/users/3326275/jquery-php-magento-com – jQuery.PHP.Magento.com 2 mins ago

Fabby

:D

That's why I put International (and it is, kinda)

blade19899

Whoops, it's five o'clock. Bye folks 0/

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