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12:31 AM

aw... I'm on a lift in bl2 that needs someone to push a button... can't get to treasure without someone else playing

Q: What does it mean, when lshw says a wireless adapter to be `UNCLAIMED`, while iwconfig doesn't find it?

12:57 AM

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What does it mean, when iwconfig doesn't find (i.e. report) an internal wireless adapter, while lshw says it to be UNCLAIMED? If the adapter is in loose connection to the PCI or whatever it should be connected to, can lshw still find (i.e. report) it? *-network UNCLAIMED description: ...

1:25 AM

@fossfreedom Seriously?.... o..kay.

@Rinzwind I get a card for someone else's birthday? Cool with me!

3:18 AM

Anyone else having trouble getting some things to load?

huh, just disappeared.

3:38 AM

hi to any night owl :)

> CD won't read in Ubuntu

Really??!

If I had Bitcoin, I would say "here, take this brand new USB stick"

8:40 is a night owl? :O

;)

@Lucio If I had a bitcoin I'd be in the Bahamas.. ok, not really (I hate hot weather), but you get the point :P

heh, yeah

@Lucio A CD though? Kinda odd.. What's on this CD I wonder.

a copy of Ubuntu 5.04 :P

Are you serious? haha

3:43 AM

nop, sorry :-)

Was that... Breezy?

googling breezy

oh yeah

ugggh, cloud flare issues again.

:(

I will need one of those next month

Oh, no, Breezy Badger was 5.10.

(sorry for the confusion)

3:47 AM

haha xD

big coincidence

I just read a (or should I say the) '95 article. Late is better than never, right? :-)

wow, old website :)

yeah, I guess @hbdgaf will be happy to remember old times :P

Since a couple of weeks, Github has started to throw all the info that they can at once, really ugly

4:03 AM

Really? I thought it looked nice.

what is your monitor inch or screen resolution?

1920x1080

15.9 inch.

right, full hd

I'm 70% than yours

you can see white spaces! xD

70% more? That's a lot of room!

nop. if you are 10, I only 7

10/7

4:15 AM

Right. I thought that was what you meant at first, my bad.

but yeah, I see only buttons everywhere. That's too much

haha, absolutely precise

funny thing: I was selecting Bootstrap buttons and that really confused me

4:33 AM

hehe

4:46 AM

@Seth I thought you were reading my mind!

Q: Why can't I start a VNC session using the randr flag?

5:13 AM

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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 (I think it's desktop...) and can successfully run vncserver (which ultimately links to /usr/bin/vnc4server) and connect with my client, and I can also add the -geometry flag and connect to it. However, the server doesn't start when I add the randr flag like in this example...

linux ubuntu remote vnc

7:03 AM

Night all.

gnight nathan

I'm out too

bye

Q: Why dont website used native buit in icon menu?

7:24 AM

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Every time i see a website with a menu or a navigation bar, i see the three dash menu button?. And they always use a icon, .gif, .png etc... But there is an HTML entity for that: &equiv; -> ≡. Since it's an HTML entity you can style it the way you want Why don't people use &equiv; for there webs...

user-centered-design

7:46 AM

Guys, will you upgrade to 14.10? Or would you recommend someone to upgrade?

I tend to do it.

Oli

@IonicăBizău I'm probably going to stick with 14.04 and use the "hardware enablement" versions of the Kernel and X. And I'll probably move to a PPA for KDE5 when it's finally functional enough.

I also have 14.04 servers so keeping everything pre-systemd for as long as possible is going to be helpful for my sanity.

8:24 AM

@IonicăBizău I'm probably gonna switch, just to get a clean start again. I filled up my Ubuntu - as usual with - junk.

I wasnt expecting this answer: Probably because they didn't know it existed. - ux.stackexchange.com/a/66719/43526

9:12 AM

@Seth ofcourse we all get one :=)

Q: Any one help me to configure LDAP in centos

9:53 AM

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I need to configure open ldap server in centOS and client in ubuntu. can any one help me

ubuntu centos ldap openldap

Pandya

10:36 AM

@Seth this question is edited. and dependencies is removed! & added "after adding a PPA" in title. see revisions Is it ok? I'm discussing this because Many questions are linked/refereed to this question (also voted number of dups of this) So, this revisions are OK? #@mods

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Q: Receive multicast on any source

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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS for IPTv multicasting. If i use same Source-IPv4 address then I can receive stream over multicast from the sender. If I've different Source-IPv4 addresses on sender and receiver side then I cannot receive multicast stream over multicast. example: sender address 10.10...

linux ubuntu multicast

hbdgaf

11:57 AM

@Lucio fun times.

@IonicăBizău allready on it since beginning of the month. 14.10 is stable for me.

Q: Ubuntu "has no installation candidate" or "Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages"

12:23 PM

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I've got 2 ubuntu VM's on my windows 8.1, one ubuntu 12.04 Server, one ubuntu 12.10 Desktop. Problem with both: I want to install openssh-server (and other software) Server: sudo apt-get install openssh-server [...] Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an ...

ubuntu apt

1:12 PM

@Rinzwind Did you install it on a laptop? I installed it on a PC since alpha release, but not on my laptop (that I use in production). I'm afraid there will appear issues (e.g. suspend when I close the lid etc).

1:30 PM

First Question on Ux stackexchange, right aways nice question badge: ux.stackexchange.com/q/66717/43526 yaay

@Rinzwind Hi! are you here??

@KasiyA Yes, I 'm here....

No I was wrong I want to call @Whaaaaaat. Are you here?

... Damnit...

Hi @blade19899 did you change your nano filemgr?

1:45 PM

@KasiyA ?

yes I am

Aaaaand am gonna do some work. Bye, bye

good luck

2:32 PM

Why recommended "don't parse the output of 'cat' command"?

2:52 PM

Got a Popular Question: ux.stackexchange.com/q/66717/43526 yaay... Work was repetitive :/

@IonicăBizău laptop

@KasiyA good good good :) we got a storm today like we never had in Holland. well... 1953 was worse (with the flooding) but we had flood warnings today.

@KasiyA cuz output of cat is not sanitized

@Rinzwind It's just looks a bit windy outside... Nothing mayor... from the looks of it :/

Oli

Well I know people are dying but I'm furious because I just cleaned the garden up last week and this wind has come along and blown all the leaves everywhere.

First world problems.

@blade19899 now it is blue outside but we also had a mega-shower this morning

@Oli I would hate that, if i had a garden...

@Rinzwind That indeed we did.

3:14 PM

bbl :) going home

Oli

@blade19899 Count yourself lucky you don't have a pair of oak trees just waiting to chuck hundreds of acorns on your lawn.

Q: Cannot change vncserver default geometry

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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 (I think it's desktop...) and running vncserver to connect to it remotely. I can successfully set the resolution if I use the -geometry flag when starting the server, but I can't get it to change the default so I don't have to set the flag every time. The manual suggests to...

ubuntu xorg remote vnc

Whaaaaaat

3:51 PM

@KasiyA I will be here in an hour.

meda

4:13 PM

lol @ "I think it's desktop..."

5:02 PM

:)

Q: Can/Should we report companies who solicit astroturfing services?

6:56 PM

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I got an email today: Hello Oli! My name is [withheld], and I’m Sales & Marketing Manager in [withheld]. I found your contacts on stackoverflow.com. We are impressed with your activity on this website. Our company would appreciate if you could help us to promote our tool and services on ...

discussion spam email astroturfing

lol

Guys, I started upgrading to 14.10, can I stop the upgrade process? :-)

Things are still getting downloaded:

Get:2812 archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic/main transmission-common all 2.82-1.1ubuntu4 [225 kB]
Get:2813 archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic/main transmission-gtk amd64 2.82-1.1ubuntu4 [307 kB]

good question.. I don't know.

I think I will just kill it.

I did it.

:-)

cool

CTRL + C has a special handler: x for destroy, r for resurect.

I chose x and I go to sleep now. :-)

Better to do it tomorrow.

Good night!

Q: Is .ogg for Audio or for Video format?

7:03 PM

Night!

What do people think of this?

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What is the .ogg format? Is that used for audio files or used for video files? I found two examples in /usr/share/example-content/Ubuntu_Free_Culture_Showcase

file-type

Sounds... somewhat off-topic.

but I'm leaning towards "it's fine".

chaskes

@Seth I think it's fine

cool, I'm going with fine then.

terdon

@Seth I'd shunt it to SU. Nothing there about Ubuntu.

@Seth yeah seems ok, since it is a main format, and there are examples in ubuntu included

terdon

Ah, hang on, no, he's asking about specific files. That might indeed make it on topic.

Still, the basic Q is what is ogg and that is not an Ubuntu thang.

7:09 PM

Yes, at its core it is not about Ubuntu, but I believe it is too borderline to shunt around (I'm pretty sure SU would just kill it anyway)

Most downvoted post ever.

And it's falling as we speak :P

8:03 PM

@Seth I also flaged that as off-topic since that is not about Ubuntu. Sorry for that, it's my old beginner question.

Q: Why isn't Firefox 33 use GCM on our webserver?

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We have a webserver (Ubuntu 12.04) with apache2 2.2.22-1ubuntu1.7. From client side with openssl: $ echo QUIT | openssl s_client -connect OURSERVER:8080 2>/dev/null | egrep "Cipher is|Protocol" New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 Protocol : TLSv1.2 $ we can connect O...

ubuntu apache firefox

@KasiyA We decided it's ok, so don't worry :)

then it will be close?

And one question how do you move/share question into chat room?

@KasiyA copy/paste the link

No I mean Original question like chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/18260328#18260328 not just its link

8:10 PM

the same...

or -

really I didn't know. can I test one?

Q: Why isn't Firefox 33 use GCM on our webserver?

terdon

@KasiyA Just make sure you paste the link to the question in a separate message.

This fails: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/18260328#18260328

This works:

8 mins ago, by Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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We have a webserver (Ubuntu 12.04) with apache2 2.2.22-1ubuntu1.7. From client side with openssl: $ echo QUIT | openssl s_client -connect OURSERVER:8080 2>/dev/null | egrep "Cipher is|Protocol" New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 Protocol : TLSv1.2 $ we can connect O...

ubuntu apache firefox

uh I got it. Thanks. Can I allow to test one?

go ahead

Q: How to customize terminal's commands output?

8:15 PM

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I'm trying to make a couple of empty lines right before first line of running commands in terminal and also another one after last line (for always even running any command), because when I edit PS1 I only can add empty line before first line but it's gone when I run some commands if it's have lo...

gnome-terminal

wow

Pink background on selected items

it works on other things too. For example:

Stack Exchange

Stack Exchange is a network of question and answer websites on diverse topics in many different fields, each site covering a specific topic, where questions, answers, and users are subject to a reputation award process. The sites are modeled after Stack Overflow, a forum for computer programming questions that was the original site in this network. The reputation system is designed to allow the sites to be self-moderating. == History == In 2008, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky created Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer Web site for computer programming questions, which they described as a...

After the last update I did, last night the 22, there is pink highlights everywhere. I don't have any options selected to show pink in appearance and it was all working great before the updates. I tried deleting my settings and it still shows up. I do have some third party repos enabled but nothing that I would think would change my appearance like this. I'm willing to offer any info you need. I've posted 3 example images here: http://oceighty.co/bug/ Description: Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch) Release: 14.10 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: xubuntu-desktop 2.183 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-13.19-generic 3.16.1 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-13-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Wed Sep 24 00:33:06 2014 SourcePackage: xubuntu-meta UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

xubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu)

Undecided / Invalid

gist.github.com/Seth-Johnson/af01f21c51d7ad6ff90b

hm, well gists are supposed to work.

NICE!!

There's a full list here.

And @Seth is that really a bug? I don't think so cuz I have this feature on my selected items and since I edited my gtk-main.css file to having that. like

no, not a bug, just someone complaining about the default theme...

8:27 PM

@KasiyA nice

@Seth cough fuchsia cough

er, that is a strange looking word

Fuchsia (color)

Fuchsia (/ˈfjuːʃə/, FEW-shə) is a vivid purplish red color, named after the flower of the fuchsia plant, which took its name from the 16th century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs. The color fuchsia was first introduced as the color of a new aniline dye called fuchsine, patented in 1859 by the French chemist Francois-Emmanuel Verguin. Its name was changed the same year to magenta, to celebrate a victory of the French army at the Battle of Magenta on June 4, 1859, near the Italian city of that name. In the RGB color model, used to create colors on computers and television screens, and in web colors...

^ for clarification ;)

the code #ff0080

@Mateo heheh, yes you win ;)

@KasiyA No, not a bug. You can see it was marked "invalid".

didn't want anyone flagging it as a bad word...

Cameron Verotti

Looked more Magenta to me

8:32 PM

there is a hint more purpleish to it than magenta ;)

magenta

then the theme color

Cameron Verotti

I think I need to re-calibrate my monitor haha

Q: How to best communicate color names to users more clearly

yeah, that too. It is a running joke about color names around here ;)

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Many times in using general color names in communication, i.e. Red and Green, users are confused when the color is a non-pure form of the color. For Example, in referring to the Red-ish color of the error box on Ask Ubuntu: There is much debate as to what to classify the color as, Here are so...

color color-perception user-communication

@Seth most importantly - Youtube videos!

lol

or xkcd comics, those are good too

9:11 PM

I think I'll hold out till office comes over on believing it...

but here is the article: pcworld.com/article/2836412/…

Gotta love Azure.

Cameron Verotti

@NathanOsman agree

Wow

Does the include Office :P

badp

There seems to be some sort of Office for Android, and if Chrome can be made to run Android apps... :P

Yup, there's an Office for Android.

9:17 PM

and there are the webapps

there is a install that makes .desktop short-cuts for them

@badp might be an interesting one to try with this: omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/09/install-android-apps-ubuntu-archon

It made it. The new most downvoted post on meta.

badp

►

hbdgaf

10:44 PM

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11:34 PM

nathan@quickmediasolutions:~$ uptime
 23:34:35 up 365 days, 0 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.27, 0.27, 0.25

\o/

11:45 PM

So...I ordered mine GPU, SSD, and Case! Yay me!

All that remains is mass storage + CPU!

What GPU did you go with?

@NathanOsman newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487028

EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti w/ACX cooler

Oh, it's an Nvidia card.

@NathanOsman Uh...is that bad?

I thought NVIDIA had better support for Linux than AMD...

Depends what you need/use it for.

11:48 PM

@NathanOsman Well, this PC is gonna be more of a productivity/coding/graphics PC than a gaming one

I see.

@RPiAwesomeness In some cases yes. In others, not so much.

@NathanOsman Curse you, now you're making me second-guess my decision

Hang on.

Let me share my experience...

1) The open-source AMD driver works better than the open-source Nvidia driver (Noveau)
2) The binary Nvidia driver works better than the binary AMD driver
3) AMD cards are nearly useless for rendering and computation

@NathanOsman And I'm going for more of a productivity (rendering included) PC and don't care a crap ton about using open-source drivers vs proprietary