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8:01 PM
hmmm forget that
 
<-- never forgets anything
<-- always forgets everything
 
8:17 PM
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Q: I can't find Grab Menu

Saiful IslamI have just install Ubuntu 12.10 alongside my windows 8 pc. I get my pc in Windows 8 and I can't get the Grab Menu for selecting my operating system. I also use live version. What can I do now for getting my grab menu?

He searches Ubuntu 12.10's "Grab Menu" with a question tagged as "networking". ??? o.O
 
End of life --> "Grab" German for grave
 
@Takkat Yep, good one! ;D I didn't even think of that due to all the English conversation I'm doing here. Ts ts...
 
tsk tsk... but it was so obvious.
 
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@Takkat I only could think of the English "to grab"...
 
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8:26 PM
This picture just came up on SE when searching for something that didn't exist! :D
 
Yo, they already crossed my way too. ;D
Seems to be cold up there...
 
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@ByteCommander :D
 
@Takkat he means grub :P
 
oh ah :) at 12:10 time to grab a grub.
 
@Rinzwind Hm, I thought this should be clear!?
 
8:32 PM
True or not? I take bets
 
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^ This is the true formula! ;D :P
 
@Toroidal According to this my energy consists only of milk...
 
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@Mateo Much better! :D
 
8:35 PM
CMake 3.2 is scheduled for release Feb. 1 - let's hope they meet that goal.
 
ah, yeah. never gets old ;)
 
BTW (@Toroidal), do you really want to keep your current profile pic? It looks like an old sports sock somebody forgot under the bed until it became alive and found the way out itself... ;)
 
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@ByteCommander Well, it looks much better when you see the actual large image.
 
The problem is...
... I don't!
 
Why'ld you make them all pronouncedly redshirts ;) Oh wait, that switched to engineering as opposed to disposable extra at some point didn't it.
 
8:38 PM
well, was going for a dark orange, but that works too
I should remake that one some day, and make it better
 
It was a valiant attempt... and well done.
 
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@ByteCommander Here:
 
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Come on, you have got to admit that it is a bit creepy. I also made it and hold copyright for it.
 
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:D
 
8:44 PM
Hm, to me it still looks like a sock. I liked your other recent pics better, though this is obviously made with more effort. Sorry
 
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@ByteCommander Just think of it more as an Iron Hound or serpent as it is meant to be! :D
 
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FYI: The image is called "Iron Hound".
 
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:D
 
Well, everybody has his/her own taste... Just referring to Queen ;)
Btw, I'm just listening to my favorite band on YT:
POWERWOLF
 
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:D
 
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8:49 PM
And I was just listening to some Pet Shop Boys! ;D And some Genesis.
 
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And now some AC/DC! :D
 
They reached #1 in the German all genre album charts for one week in summer 13, which is pretty rare to be achieved by a metal group.
 
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I am listening to this now: AC/DC - Rock or Bust :D
 
@Toroidal Hey, this one definitely sounds better! Back in Black? Thunderstruck? Hells Bells? Highway to Hell? ...?
I'll just join you then!
 
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@ByteCommander AC/DC - Rock or Bust Enjoying lots of this now! :D
 
8:54 PM
@Toroidal It's the same link. Why post it twice?
 
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My internet went wrong or something, it wasn't meant to be that one the next time.
 
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I meant to say: @ByteCommander AC/DC - Play Ball Enjoying lots of this now! :D
 
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:D
 
@Toroidal I'll return to that one: youtube.com/watch?v=2HT0fWoWDJg Just don't care about the lyrics, you might become red... ;)
 
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9:01 PM
@ByteCommander: You know that Heavy Metal is a type of Rock right? I remember something you were saying about banning rock, but as that is the general category that would ban heavy metal too...! ;D
 
@hbdgaf Good one!
@Toroidal Whaaaaaat???? Me?? You will have to show me that lines in transcript! I bet I never said that!!!!!
And this one is also from their great recent album: youtube.com/watch?v=C1hHsk6Sfps
 
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@ByteCommander It was around this time, can't actually find the actual message, but it was during the time of you wanting to ban Queen! :D And then there was talk about a war, and then at some point you said that you would ban rock: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/201/2015/1/20/12-20
 
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This one is great:
 
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Q: What is the 'libc gethostbyname buffer overflow' and how can I protect myself from it

blade19899Apparently there is a bug in the GNU C Library, that can cause a buffer overflow? What exactly is it, and how can i protect myself from it?! Reference: oss-security - Qualys Security Advisory CVE-2015-0235 - GHOST: glibc gethostbyname buffer overflow

 
9:15 PM
@blade19899 @jrg just posted a link on this few hours ago
@Toroidal I looked through it. You have misunderstood me! I said (making fun, of course), that I would agree on banning everything except rock and metal, but with Queen not really counting to rock...
 
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@ByteCommander Oh... Queen does count because it is classified as Classic Rock.
 
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Officially, but I see you don't see it as rock.
 
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:D
 
I can tell you I love real Rock and I love real Classic, but Queen is none of them! It is more like glam pop with some rock elements...
But we shouldn't go on arguing about this.
Better let's find some music we can agree on. such as Highway2Hell!
What a pity that they're already that old. Angus looks a bit awkward walking over the stage like a duck shirtless...
 
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:D
 
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9:25 PM
I love the train here! :D
 
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May I advice you Airbourne? They sound quite similar to AC/DC: Too much, too young, too fast
 
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@ByteCommander Thanks! They are good! :)
 
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And yes, they are very similar! :)
 
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Rock on dude! :D :P
 
9:37 PM
@ByteCommander Network just broke on me! Really? must of missed that!
How come it says its a dupe, when the close button still says close(1)?
 
It doesn't say closed, that's just a banner to make sure you see the suggestion ;)
Confusing I know.
 
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By the way, @Fabby, I had a look at your Shouldn't Stack Exchange build a Question Wizard? (for beginning users) and I think that it is a great idea! :)
 
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I voted it up, but thought that I should tell you here as you asked anyway. :)
 
@Seth Feature or Bug :)
 
:)
Thanks!
 
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9:48 PM
@Fabby :)
 
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You're welcome!
 
Just saved your avatar picture in my pictures directory... In High-res it's much better and scarier then what I see now! :D
 
On the original, it looks as scary as a Lion. In here it looks as scary as a kitten... ;-)
What did you use to make it???
 
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GIMP 2.8
 
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9:52 PM
And some experience.
 
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:D
 
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It was made in about 5 minutes though, so got a lot of other things like that done too.
 
@Toroidal GIMP? You know what "gimp" means (English adjective)? This is just the way GIMP works too!
I so much prefer my (pretty old) Photoshop! Was expensive, but worth it.
 
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@ByteCommander GIMP, is better in some ways though.
 
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@Fabby: So which one did you download? The one I sometimes post in the chat, or the profile pic? As I think that the profile pic is lower quality.
 
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9:56 PM
Although because I linked it through to the original maybe it is not...
 
@blade19899 There jrg posted a link to some paper describing the GHOST security issue.
 
The link was high-rez! :-)
 
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Ok
 
1777*1777
 
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@Fabby Yep, that was the default size that I used to use. Now I have gone for 1778x1778 for perfect symmetry! :D
 
9:58 PM
:D
 
@ByteCommander Ah. I see, totally missed that. Cause i am asking what this 'ghost' is and how can i protect myself from it. He is asking how to update the GNU C library.
 
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@Fabby: Anyway, I get a shock every day when I turn on my computer because I forget that I have set it as my desktop picture! :D
 
@Toroidal Ouch!
 
Repeat after me: "I WILL NOT ATTEMPT TO MANUALLY UPGRADE LIBC."
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I WILL NOT ATTEMPT TO MANUALLY UPGRADE LIBC
 
10:00 PM
:)
 
Why should I? Tomorrow it's going to be in the updates!
 
I WILL MANUALLY UPGRADE LIBC
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>:)
 
I'm just too lazy to either repeat this sentence or do it, so - who cares?
 
@blade19899 Nooooooooo....
 
10:01 PM
@blade19899: be sure to make a system backup before you do! :P
 
especially when you are pulling the version from debian unstable, tried that once on my pi
 
@Fabby I most certainly will not.. okay i will.
 
@NathanOsman: Is there a way to rename a user name? (I'm going to change mine in "Mr.Backup!"
 
But, not today. Got an early day ahead of me.
Night Night academics!
 
@Fabby Not very easily. The actual change itself is simple:
usermod -l NEWNAME
...but then you'll have to update a ton of places that refer to your old username.
 
10:03 PM
:P On the AU site!
 
Not the least of which is the name of your home directory.
 
@Fabby Display name should be easy to change. Real system username including home directory should be difficult.
 
I'm talking about AskUbuntu Screen name!
 
Ah, that's very easy.
 
<Sigh>
 
jrg
10:04 PM
user image
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And it was a joke!
 
jrg
rather tempting
 
*/*/Attempt*/*/
 
Because I'm always harping about backups, I might as well change my screen name in Mr.Backup!
 
10:05 PM
@jrg I'm a mod... I can change it back :P
 
Meeh:
Oops! There was a problem updating your profile:
Display Name can only contain letters, digits, spaces, apostrophes or hyphens and must start with a letter or digit
no "!"
So I might as well keep what I have...
 
jrg
@NathanOsman lol
 
Unless... you use some special Unicode >:)
 
Smart man!!!
 
jrg
You only get one display name change by a mod free.
So if you want a tattoo (unicode or otherwise), we will only change it for you once.
 
10:07 PM
...that, or wait 30 days.
 
jrg
or you wait 30 days.
 
I tried upgrading libc once... ONCE.
 
Once is enough.
 
jrg
 
@NathanOsman Very much so.
 
jrg
10:08 PM
replace xorg.conf with libc.
 
Too many times actually.
 
Even the double ‼ doesn't work... Seems to be ANSI only...
 
jrg
oh, you can do some fun unicode stuff.
unless they started fixing it.
 
As some smart guys once said: Let It Be
 
10:12 PM
:D
Good one!
 
@NathanOsman O.o ???
 
What happened here?
Still Fabbby...
Log out and back in?
test
Meeh...
@NathanOsman: So now I have to keep this for 30 days or ask you gently to change it back?
Because it doesn't seem to change in the chat room...
 
10:28 PM
I can't change it.
I'm not a mod. on Ask Ubuntu.
I can only change names here on chat.
 
True!
@jrg: Please? Change me back as it doesn't seem to change in the chat room? :-)
 
You have to change it here in chat separately.
In fact, it doesn't look like I can even change your name here.
 
So why the blue then???
How did you change that??? ;-)
 
I'm a mod here.
 
chat moderatorship and site moderatorship are different.
 
10:37 PM
@Seth: Could you please change me back to Fabby? (or will you make me wait for 30 days?) ;(
Good joke, guys!
 
@Fabby * grin * ;] You look kind of weird...
I wouldn't even know how to type this...
 
I can't see any difference
Let me leave and come back...
Back to normal?
 
No, I mean the AU name. I just went there quickly!
 
Ah...
That was "Mr.Backup" using Cyrillic characters...
Ё Ђ Ѓ Є Ѕ І Ї Ј Љ Њ Ћ Ќ Ў Џ А Б В Г Д Е Ж З И Й К Л М Н О П Р С Т У Ф Х Ц Ч Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я а б в г д е ж з и й к л м н о п р с т у ф х ц ч ш щ ъ ы ь э ю я ё ђ ѓ є ѕ і ї ј љ њ ћ ќ ў џ Ѡ ѡ Ѣ ѣ Ѥ ѥ Ѧ ѧ Ѩ ѩ Ѫ ѫ Ѭ ѭ Ѯ ѯ Ѱ ѱ Ѳ ѳ Ѵ ѵ Ѷ ѷ Ѹ ѹ Ѻ ѻ Ѽ ѽ Ѿ ѿ Ҁ ҁ ҂ ҃ ...
 
I saw this, but I would have no idea on how to get them out of my keyboard
 
10:43 PM
The full Cyrillic alfhabet... Only 36 characters are actually used!
 
Except looking every single one up in Ubuntu's sign tables
 
Use google translate and type phonetically...
It'll transliterate...
(different animal)
 
Looks like you got it back @Fabby.
 
There is no 30 day waiting time... :P Good joke!
Took me 5 minutes to find that out! :P
@ByteCommander: Do you want your name in Russian?
 
Hm, I once wondered whether I should start learning Russian. But I decided not to do because I am much too lazy...
But I'm still interested.
 
10:46 PM
Go to google translate,
take Russian as language to translate from
and then just type your name
and on the bottom, it will give you your name in Cyrillic...
 
ВитэКоммандер looks just weird!
 
E.G.: Did you mean: ВитэКоммандер
Yeah, I meant: your REAL name!
 
Good trick!
 
that's why I didn't do it for you...
so you could see your own!
Nifty trick...
 
No, I wont post it. I like having a small amount of anonymity.
 
10:49 PM
Yes, yes!
That's what I meant!
I gave you the opportunity to do it yourself
without revealing your name!
You've got the most stringent privacy laws in the EU...
I'm not fishing! :P
@NathanOsman: htere's your name in Russian: Натхан Осман
 
But what I find annoying about Cyrillic is that many letters just look like some Latin characters, but have a totally different meaning. That is confusing!
 
It's all Greek to you, isn't it?
Saint Cyrill came up with the Russian alphabet...
It's a combination of Greek, Latin and then some stuff he made up himself.
And E.G. @Mateo in Russian is just Матео
so some stuff is just the same...
 
Nah, in Greek I at least know some symbols due to Physics, Maths etc
 
Yeah, sure, you know how to take the λεωφορείο in Greece, don't you?
 
10:55 PM
Google says I should take the bus ;)
 
facepalm
Honestly?
These people seem to not know how Ad Block works..
They redirect you to a totally different page, to display that
 
And there was a lambda, an epsilon, an omega, a phi, an omicron, an ?, another epsilon, ? and another omicron.
And I did not look this up!
 
You knew Leoforio in Greek is bus?
Well, if you've been there you would...
 
I did not state I know the language, I just know more of their symbols than of the Cyrillic ones!
 
@RPiAwesomeness: most people who have AdBlock+ installed have it
because someone like us installed it
 
10:59 PM
And no, I've only been to France once and luckily they write Latin, except for some weird accents...
 
And with such sites, these end-users ask for it to be removed "because they cannot see everything"
éàèç
 
@Fabby I only have it because I all but have to with my internet speeds :P
 
I don't propose it any more unless people ask me to "speed up their internet"
:D
Great minds etc...
I have everything set to have fast speed:
custom hosts file
AdBlock+
NoScript
That's it I think...
 
I added Disconnect.
 
What's that?
 
11:01 PM
But I think it does partially the same as NoScript
Automatically block some social plugins, advertising and analytics.
 
Oh, and I've got custom cookie settings!
 
I use Ghostery, does something similar.
 
I also have WOT, BetterPrivacy, some downloaders, Youtube Unblocker, and some more that don't appear in the symbol menu
 
No cookies at all unless I whitelist them...
 
Makes quite a few sites load much faster since it blocks most off-site tracking/ad material.
 
11:04 PM
Yup!
(sorry)
And a fast DNS server in Denmark
 
I just let it wipe all cookies at terminating time, including LSO
 
and a back-up server in Sweden???
 
What effects does changing the dns server have?
 
You still got some windows somewhere?
 
Me? Yo, some XP machines...
 
11:07 PM
If yes, download :
and run a DNS benchmark... Most ISP DNS servers are ill-equipped
@RPiAwesomeness: hey, this one is for you too!
 
I think the DNS is not the part that slows down a 56k modem connection.
 
Anything slow slows down a 56K modem!
Better then a 1200 BAUD modem, bit still...
(that was the slowest I ever used...)
 
But I can't imagine that modern servers are slower than this thing I used to call ...
(let me translate)
bush drum(???)
 
Tam-tam!
 
What's the latest kernel I can get on 10.04?
 
11:11 PM
I don't know the code name!
 
10.04 is still supported
it's lucid
At least the server edition is.
 
@Fabby This runs fine within wine too. I'm curious for the results...
 
before my time
2.6.32-42-generic
What version of wine?
 
Current version I suppose. Know the command to find out?
 
wine --version
 
11:14 PM
wine-1.6.2
 
Hah! it shows the screen but doesn't actually run the benchmark...
:(
 
And apt-cache policy wine?
 
(Tried yesterday as my Swedish DNS server was giving me head-aches)
 
@muru You're still running a lucid machine?
 
?? I have the progress bar at about 75%
 
11:16 PM
wine:
Installed: 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4
Candidate: 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu4
 
I'm not. The department's got a few old servers running 10.04. Can't upgrade for fear of what will break. :'(
 
;( Poor you!
Make a system back-up and upgrade!
>:)
 
Figured while I'm restarting for libc, might as well get new kernels in.
 
Here's a good Q&A
:D
 
Can't. Nobody will go near the configuration with a ten-foot pole.
 
11:17 PM
Works for old servers too!
 
:D
 
What have you got to loose? You've got a system back-up!
just restore the image and done!
Back to where it was!
PIT recovery!
 
Oh, we have got backups, whole image ones too. But I don't get to decide.
If it were up to me, all the 10.04 ones would long since be nuked
 
Some old incontinent fart like me weeing his pants???
 
Well, she is around 60. :P
 
11:21 PM
Her panties then... ;-)
I don't believe in gambling,
 
Let me go running after some Debian 6 servers while I am at it. :(
 
but when I was sure, I used to wager 1 bottle of real French Champagne...
I lost 2 in the last 30 years...
 
Hm. It just froze when I clicked on building a personal server list... Trying again.
But it already said that mine is faster than those included in the default list.
But I don't know which one this is, as my router provides DNS functionality for the LAN and I would have to look up where it takes its data from...
 
from the ISP
You're lucky to have a good one!
 
Grrr! It crashed again!
 
11:27 PM
My ISP is very god at getting stuff out of their LAN, better then doing DNS lookups
That's why I asked:
Have you got a windows machine around???
:P
 
Same situation: default list benchmark finished, popup about building custom list comes up, I click on build, GREY!
 
Oli
@RPiAwesomeness FWIW, Adblock Plus (the most popular Firefox ad-blocker AFAIK) does use a ton more RAM because it injects a fairly massive CSS file into every page to do its element hiding.
 
I have, but I can't access one with connection at the moment, since I'm not alone in the house and it is 0:28
Btw: provider is UnityMedia (Germany), and connection is via TV cable, 10MBit down/1MBit up
 
@Oli Huh, okay. Didn't know that :)
 
@Oli seriously? Ugh.
Ghostery doesn't block all ads but at least it doesn't slow you down.
 
Oli
11:42 PM
Doesn't matter too much if you have a ton of RAM. There's a relatively new project called µblock that has a RAM comparison (warning: obvious bias!) between a few blockers.
 
Hey, found a funny video on YT: youtube.com/…
This one would especially please @Toroidal
 
@jrg keyword attempt.
 

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