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jrg

4:07 PM

lol

Fabby

@A.B. Deleted! Thanks!

@A.B. Gparted is installed by default on 14.04 (can't remember for previous versions)

ByteCommander

4:36 PM

Does anybody know where I can get a geologist and expert about the creation of the Grand Canyon from?

RPiAwesomeness is giving hard arguments I can't rebut without the suitable knowledge - which I don't have as I am a programmer and not a historian or geologist...

user136984

@Fabby: What should I do about this guy?

user136984

He now says that he doesn't want to try to fix his problem in Ubuntu with Skype, but just switch back to Windows 7.

user136984

back on Win7 at that is that — Marko Horvat 27 mins ago

user136984

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Q: Skype video call does not work

In my Skype video settings I can see myself (not just a still), and also in cheese, but when attempting a Skype video call, I can only see a still of myself where the video should be. And there is also a line across the video icon/button. Why is this and how can I fix it?

skype

user136984

4:51 PM

@jrg: What do you think I should do about the above?

user136984

Anyone have any thoughts?

user136984

He's decided to go back to Windows 7, and given up with Linux, so do I vote to close as already resolved?

user136984

@ByteCommander?

user136984

:)

ByteCommander

Do whatever you want.

A horde of creationists is currently attacking my nerves.

Well - they are not attacking.

They are just difficult to disprove.

But Unihedron is really annoying me at the moment.

terdon

4:55 PM

@ByteCommander Huh? Let me at 'em! Where? Creationism is ridiculously easy to disprove.

user136984

@ByteCommander: Where is that?

user136984

:D

user136984

@terdon: What do you think that I should do about this guy though (above)?

user136984

He now says that he doesn't want to try to fix his problem in Ubuntu with Skype, but just switch back to Windows 7.

user136984

back on Win7 at that is that — Marko Horvat 43 mins ago

user136984

4:57 PM

So should I vote to close?

user136984

As he has made up his mind.

ByteCommander

@terdon Thanks for your support.

Theories about the origin of earth an…

A discussion about evolution and big-bang theory vs. Young Ear...

terdon

@ByteCommander Yeah, reading the transcript now.

ByteCommander

And my fight with some others is over there: chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/22091/teenage-programmers-chatroom

terdon

@ParanoidPanda May as well, yes. I'd choose "non reproducible".

user136984

4:58 PM

Ok

user136984

@ByteCommander: So who is the creationist in that room?

ByteCommander

RPiAwesomeness.

user136984

Oh no...

user136984

:D

user136984

We've lost him!

Fabby

5:01 PM

@ParanoidPanda VTC...

user136984

@ByteCommander: Wait, you're not one of them too are you?

user136984

I'm very confused...

user136984

@ByteCommander: Who's the science guy and who's the creationist and what are you guys talking about?

user136984

:D

jrg

hey, at least you all decided to create a room for this sensitive topic.

ByteCommander

5:12 PM

@ParanoidPanda Me: science. RPi: Creationism

But he's giving me a hard time.

jrg

should we get some Christianity.se and Biology.se mods to moderate this debate?

ByteCommander

Too bad I don't have a friend of mine on the phone.

jrg

only way it will be 100% partial.

ByteCommander

He's an expert on history and geology and things like that.

@jrg Good idea, if you know some. :)

user136984

Well... It seems that I have now entered the debate as I have posted something in there too! :D

ByteCommander

5:14 PM

So?

We are no sect in that room, so you may still enter and leave freely whenever you want.

Mateo

5:36 PM

Meh, most of what happened in the past doesn't really matter in the grand scheme

ByteCommander

grand scheme @Mateo?

Mateo

The "big picture" so to say

Mudit

6:11 PM

@ParanoidPanda hello

Nathan Osman

I'm here.

@ByteCommander Did I miss the debate?

Fabby

@NathanOsman here

user136984

@NathanOsman: But they don't like Pasafarians so that's why I'm not in there! >:{

Nathan Osman

Thanks.

Nathan Osman

6:37 PM

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/…

Here we go again with SourceForge.

This time they're bundling adware with the Gimp for Windows installer.

@RPiAwesomeness: oh... you already posted the link :P

ByteCommander

@ParanoidPanda What did you do?

user136984

I clicked the button to delete the room...

Fabby

@NathanOsman :D

user136984

@ByteCommander: And you left!

ByteCommander

NO, the room is still alive.

user136984

6:48 PM

But nothing actually happened!

ByteCommander

You just kicked me out!

user136984

What?!

user136984

...

ByteCommander

You

kicked

me

user136984

Really?

Nathan Osman

6:48 PM

He couldn't have.

ByteCommander

out of the room!

Nathan Osman

He's not an owner of this room.

ByteCommander

Out of the Pasta room.

Nathan Osman

Oh.

Yeah, I have nothing to do with that room.

ByteCommander

Not that I would have intended to be there.

But I had to click away that invitation.

Nathan Osman

6:49 PM

Just click the "click here to remove the notification bar" link.

It's in small print under the header that pops up.

user136984

@ByteCommander: Anyway, please, enough of this guys, too much negativity, I understand you want a debate based on facts and nothing else, and that is fine, you should just make that clear at the beginning and not be so rude to his noodlyness!

user136984

:D

user136984

@NathanOsman: Is this on-topic?

user136984

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Q: Unable to boot windows

I had windows on NTFS drive. I freed a partition and installed Ubuntu successfully on an SDA drive . I booted to Ubuntu once but after I restarted i wan't able to boot into it again and all I could boot to was just windows. So I reinstalled Ubuntu on the previous Ubuntu drive, but now I can't boo...

boot dual-boot grub2

Nathan Osman

It looks like a valid question.

But I'm very certain it's a dupe.

Don't have time to find it at the moment though.

user136984

6:54 PM

Ok, it's just that I never know what to do with these that ask about booting into Windows, when they have Ubuntu and nothing to do with that.

ByteCommander

@ParanoidPanda No more noodles. Pleeeeaaaassssseee!

user136984

@ByteCommander: Not in your room, but elsewhere! :D

ByteCommander

Off for supper.

Bread! Not noodles.

If you were going to ask...

user136984

I was!

user136984

:D

Nathan Osman

6:57 PM

@ParanoidPanda It appears to be a problem caused by installing Ubuntu, so it would be in our best interests to accept it as a valid question.

user136984

Ok

user136984

7:12 PM

user136984

@Mateo: ^^

Nathan Osman

O_O

Seth

@NathanOsman With the state of open source hosting I'm sad Google Code died.

Not that I had any love for it.

But GitHub isn't the perfect option.

Nathan Osman

Launchpad offers Git now so it will be interesting to see where that goes.

And anyone can run GitLab too. (Which I do for private projects.)

Seth

@NathanOsman Indeed, but I'm not sure Launchpad is really cut out to host the world's code. Not sure though.

@NathanOsman That's true too.

Serg

7:20 PM

@ByteCommander I love noodles :D

Seth

But requires you host it yourself.

Serg

O/ hi guys

Nathan Osman

@Seth It's a lot easier to run now, though.

It used to involve setting up Ruby, etc.

Now it's a single DEB IIRC.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Issue on updating Linux Ubuntu

Question #1: As LU is strongly suggesting me, I want to update my packages but a problem (which I hadn't encountered before) interrupts upgrading process. Some specific packages fail to be downloaded. They are: LibiCu25, LibreOffice-Calc 4.2.8, LibreOffice-Common 4.2.8, LibreOffice-Writer4.2.8 a...

ubuntu software-installation python libreoffice python3

A.B.

@Serg o/

Serg

7:30 PM

@A.B. hi o/ how's life ? Any good questions today on the site ? I'm in New York, waiting for my flight

A.B.

New York cool

Good questions? No. Only 20 points today.

Serg

Still some points. Hopefully I won't miss much on the site while I'm on vacation.

Well, gotta conserve the phone battery. I just wanted to see how's chat doing. See you later !

A.B.

How long have you vacation?

Cu

Seth

Anyone ever used Ekiga?

Looking for a good, hopefully FOSS replacement to Skype.

Doesn't need video conferencing, but it's a nice feature.

Honestly mobile app is more important.

Nathan Osman

@Seth 2buntu.com/articles/1406/ekiga-an-alternative-to-skype

:)

Mateo

7:44 PM

@ParanoidPanda more spam?

interesting inbox you have :)

user136984

@Mateo Yep! :D

user136984

@Mateo Yes, I do! ;P

Mateo

i'm going to get out the atom box again - maybe make it do owncloud on snappy or something

which sadly seemed not to be on arm

Seth

@NathanOsman oh hm. Does Ekiga not support text chatting too? I guess I should have asked that first :P

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

8:34 PM

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Q: Linux Ubuntu: Problem using Python3 Package Installer

I successfully installed Python3's Pip and SetupTool packages by: sudo apt-get install python3-pip but when I try to download/install any package for Python3 by: pip install <package-name> It says that I don't have python-pip. It looks like OS's default is Python2 but I don't want to use it...

ubuntu python pip python3 setuptools

kos

askubuntu.com/questions/629490/… -> VTC

Seth

@kos Server Fault only accepts questions that are in a professional capacity, I doubt they'd look kindly on this question.

Nathan Osman

No, they most certainly won't.

kos

@Seth I see, so you propose to leave it here?

Seth

@kos I'm not entirely sure what to do with it, but since it is software on Ubuntu I guess that's what we'll do.

Theories about the origin of earth an…

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