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7:15 AM
Good morning
 
Gd morning.
Are these supposed to be edited?
 
lol...here it is technically morning...
(2:17am local time)
 
New york time zone?
 
I'm not sure if you'd call it that, but I'm in Michigan. So, close!
 
2:17 just shortly before we have to really go to bed ;)
 
7:18 AM
Go to bed yet?
it is time for lunch here. Well. almost.
 
Nah...well, I did nap a little earlier.
 
Not here - even if it feels like having to.
 
I no longer have a set sleep schedule...I guess I'm slipping into another nocturnal phase that will last a few days again.
Haha, I'm part-vampire! :D
 
From nap to nap is the best way to get over all those winter depressions.
 
Funny you should bring that up, because I actually probably do suffer from depression (never actually had it diagnosed, though). Just sort of comes and goes...I'm actually in a "normal" phase as far as mood goes at the moment, though.
 
7:22 AM
Unlike a part-vampire I do hate it not to see the sun for weeks.
 
I don't think it's seasonal, though.
 
Night all.
 
Night.
 
gd night george
 
G'night
 
7:23 AM
0
Q: Kernel panic at boot with BusyBox and init error messages

Sarah KingHow do I reboot my computer? A friend of mine started my computer over from scratch, then installed Ubuntu on my computer. But, when my computer ran out of power and I charged it, the computer turned on with this message: BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash) Enter h...

There's something that just tugs at my heartstrings when the user says they can't afford to buy a new machine...
To me, it sounds like something got screwed up when their battery suddenly ran out, but I don't know much more beyond that...
 
panic and kill are words that may lead to depressions.
 
Sudden battery failure may be bad for the HDD
But if should hibernate if set up correctly before that happens
 
Hence why I was looking for a UPS for my desktop recently...darn dorm room power issues...
 
I have a UPS
 
7:27 AM
@Takkat Then again, she mentioned her friend set it up, so who's to say what customizations they made before giving it to her?
 
UPS are necessary in this part of the world
 
@WarriorIng64 depends how much friends they are :P
 
@Takkat True...
 
I ususally leave it with default settings and let them find out themselves.
Defaults are on purpose.
 
@jokerdino I got an APC UPS based on this recommendation, but I haven't had the time to set it up yet.
Do you know if these things are just "plug-and-play", or do you need to do some additional setup on the software side?
 
7:31 AM
Is that a company-made UPS?
If yes, they usually work out of the box.
It is like a hardware.
 
I hope so...it came with an "installation disc", but 3 guesses which is the only OS it supports. :P
 
Win... blah
 
DOS?
and maybe Ubuntu 6.04...
 
there is no 6.04
 
7:33 AM
@GeorgeEdison OMG! That is....
 
There is only 6.06 which is the first LTS
 
But 6.06 is not supported...
(on purpose to not have those customers in the support hotline)
 
@Takkat Well, not anymore...it's so old the support period ended already
 
True that.
@WarriorIng64 My UPS works like a battery. You plug in the back side of the UPS and it supplies power even when there is a power outage.
 
Why exactly was 6.06 delayed by two months, anyway? I heard it was because it wasn't "ready for release", but nothing more specific than that.
 
7:35 AM
and the UPS is plugged into the power socket. it charges itself when there is power supply.
I never heard of Ubuntu in 2006. So, no info available.
 
@jokerdino Yes, but I am just wondering about the UPS because mine also has a USB connector, which presumably connects into the back of the computer to tell it when the power goes out so it has enough time to hibernate/shutdown automatically.
 
Ubuntu releases are made semiannually by Canonical Ltd, the developers of the Ubuntu operating system, using the year and month of the release as a version number. The first Ubuntu release, for example, was Ubuntu 4.10 and was released on 20 October 2004. Ubuntu releases are timed to be approximately one month after GNOME releases, which are in turn about one month after releases of X.Org, resulting in each Ubuntu release including a newer version of GNOME and X. To date every fourth release, in the second quarter of even-numbered years, has been designated as a Long Term Support (LTS) ...
 
server support UPS. huh?
 
Dapper was delayed because...
 
Hm why?
 
7:38 AM
(Side note: that happens to be one of my favorite Wikipedia articles)
 
The circle magazine is down.
 
"Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here."
 
askubuntu.com/search?q=title%3aquestion <-- Should I clean this mess?
 
That might be a good idea.
Maybe I can help a little. :)
 
it's 4 Q only...
Closed ones are not worth it.
 
7:43 AM
There are only 2 questions that can be edited then?
@WarriorIng64 You clean them up. I will look for something else to do :P
 
@jokerdino oh you can edit all of them, of course.
 
@Takkat I won't touch the closed ones, but the others could use some touching up still.
@jokerdino I don't mind in the slightest. ;)
 
I am not really into editing closed questions either. :P
 
I just found out that we have zero occurences of Ubunut or Ubunto \o/
 
Go ahead then @WarriorIng64
Search for obuntu :p
 
7:46 AM
lol
Oineric or Onieric?
 
what is the actual spelling?
oneiric ?
 
+1
 
i don't want to mess up my spelling :D
 
Well, that wasn't a lot of work (or at least didn't feel like it)
 
All done! Huzzah!
 
Let me first get S & W :p
But 500 posts :s
Do people make so many mistakes?
 
I already got S&W...I am addicted to editing
 
They do.
 
I do some editing if I think it is substantial.
 
I'm working on Copy Editor right now...only 64 more edits to go ;)
 
Wow that's great!
 
Gd luck @WarriorIng64
436 edits is awesome.
 
it is - I am far from that (too lazy)
 
When I get bored/feel procrastinating, I edit something. I've always had some sort of urge to keep things neat and tidy even as a kid.
 
The problem is my priority is translating Ubuntu.
I can't spend too much time on this site.
 
7:56 AM
For me chaos theory rules...
 
I probably shouldn't either, but sometimes it's just too hard to put down.
 
everytime I clean up my desk I don't find anything anymore.
 
@Takkat That had happened to me.
 
I still remember where I put things before I moved them away.
 
Time for lunch. BBL
 
7:58 AM
In high school, we'd have monthly locker cleanouts, where for 15 minutes students could go to their lockers, pull stuff out they didn't need anymore, and toss it into nearby garbage cans. Out of my 3 years spent at my high school, only once did I ever need to do any sort of cleanup: tossing out a worn pencil.
@jokerdino Enjoy your lunch.
 
lol
<-- need to go back to work
 
Same...I actually have some homework to get done still.
Right, I'm making myself get back to work on school stuff...night.
 
8:28 AM
Bounty offered: Laptop touchpad triggering 3-finger gestures randomly http://askubuntu.com/questions/75830/laptop-touchpad-triggering-3-finger-gestures-randomly #touchpad
 
Back.
 
 
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10:06 AM
g'day!
 
morning everyone
 
Morning.
 
Good morning too!
 
10:21 AM
@Takkat How is the absorber situation?
 
Absorbers are worse than ever. I need to be here incognito...
2
 
Oh boy.
 
> visited 391 days, 365 consecutive
3
\o/
(i hear @Takkat laughing :D)
 
nice work :D
nice, id has released Doom 3 under the GPL
 
Is UbuntuOne allowed to share files across a small business' network?
 
10:35 AM
How do you mean?
 
> 406 days, 406 consecutive
2
@htorque har har
 
meh
the day will come
:P
 
I know.
 
wow. That is pretty impressive.
Ouh! The new profiles are live now. :)
 
It only attracts absorbers - he's got nothing else to do they say.
 
10:42 AM
Can anyone tell me where do I get Python players?
I found this url for installation Python in Mac.
failed to find the “Build Applet” tool, which allows you to package Python scripts as standalone applications on your system.
 
if you're trying to install python on a mac, there's Ask Different
 
Ok,I'll try there.
 
10:57 AM
Cool! we have a new user page
 
jrg
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Q: Upgrading from Jaunty to Oneiric, unmet dependancies

ParrisSo I have been trying to read around about how to upgrade from the terminal. I am actually SSHing through putty to do all this. Anyways.. I first tried sudo apt-get update but since Jaunty is expired I needed to update my sources. I updated my sources and apt-get update started to work. I then t...

Ouch.
Isn't the answer "Going from jaunty to oneiric is unsupported?"
ugh, too late, the mouse got there first. :P
298 days, 88 consecutive - SO CLOSE.
 
ugh. it can't be so difficult to make the ubuntu server installer ask question first, then install. can it?
it's been installing for an hour, because I forget to look at it (:
 
jrg
@StefanoPalazzo doing mass deployments eh? :P
 
I know exactly what you mean.
 
11:09 AM
I tried to set up preseed yesterday, with not much success
it seemed to just ignore (almost!) everything
 
jrg
Yeah, the installer is a little screwy like that.
 
at least it looks pretty (:
 
Somebody needs to notify the server team to remove the pixie dust and make the installer a little less screwy
 
jrg
@AmithKK honestly,
for servers, the installer is pretty good
and besides, 90% of the time, you do that once,
then you use cobbler/puppet/chef to handle the rest.
(in my limited experience)
 
I'm always installing VMs,
which means I just hit enter all the time
 
jrg
11:14 AM
haha
 
I want an option that says "just do it!", and then I can change the hostname and passwords after it's installed
 
Would you like to activate the self-destruction process? - Yes. Oh sh ...
 
I shouldn't complain really. Ubuntu server is pretty much operating system nirvana. It's absolutely perfect.
Fast, lightweight, has everything you'd ever need, looks good, and it's up for 113 days without a single hitch. Even when I let apachebench pound on it for 20 minutes.
the best feature of them all: askubuntu.com ;)
 
@jrg I guess its another strain of the virus in my gmail... That got to @ThomasWard
 
jrg
Yeah, it's a awesome little big OS. only reason my uptime doesn't get that high is because precise is... hard on my uptime. ;)
@AmithKK no idea what you're talking about. :P
 
11:20 AM
133 days actually
aaaaahhh...
 
@jrg The "Pwr of s**" email
 
so, when will we see the first game based on the doom 3 engine? :P
and: do we really want to see such a game in 2012? :D
 
Yes.
Just because an engine is old it doesn't mean that a game can't be good.
 
okay, after all that praise ubuntu decided that my disk is corrupt and dropped to a root shell :D
 
just because a game is good, it doesn't mean it's pleasant to the eyes. :P
 
11:27 AM
You know that the entire Call of Duty series is based on the Quake engine right?
 
cod and cod:uo, yeah
do they look good? no. are the games fun? most definitely! :)
 
No. Call of Duty 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 as well.
It was just refined to support new things.
 
The IW engine is a game engine developed by Infinity Ward for the Call of Duty series and has recently become the main engine for the James Bond video games. The engine itself is proprietary with inclusion of GtkRadiant by id Software. It has been used by Infinity Ward, Treyarch, Raven Software, and Sledgehammer Games. History The engine was first used for Call of Duty 2 in 2005 under a proprietary license of id Tech 3 created by id Software in 1999, as at this time, the engine was a heavily modified version of the Quake III engine. The engine did not have an official name until IGN was ...
doesn't sound like "just refined" :P
 
The IW engine is almost entirely the Quake 3 engine.
 
i want a diff or it didn't happen.
:D
 
11:31 AM
Get me an official license of the IW engine and you'll get your diff. :D
 
you can get a half finished cod4 map :D
 
Have enough of those. :P
 
Bounty offered: IRC client that automatically associates with IRC URI http://askubuntu.com/questions/81060/irc-client-that-automatically-associates-with-irc-uri #irc
 
i want to see a game made with the unlimited engine
that particle thingy
 
11:46 AM
Anyone got the link for the best comments in sourcecode on stackoverflow?
I need a laugh..
@stefanopalazzo you got it?
Impossible to find it on a mobile....
 
I think that question was deleted
 
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo
I loved that one..
 
/* This is O(scary), but seems quick enough in practice. */
 
They should have migrated it to comedy..
 
It should be in the current data dump. You can extract it there.
 
11:58 AM
Day 2 of using Ubuntu only via the command line... Sorry if I annoy anyone and if you think I should be asking as a full question, please slap me and say! .... Is there an equivalent of the Windows "Dir /p" in Ubuntu? I have tried a few things like pumping it in to more, but, that looses formatting (color and line breaks).
 
@OctavianDamiean ?
 
@WilliamHilsum What does dir /p do?
 
@WilliamHilsum if that does what I think it does, yes
I've written a long and tedious answer about it
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Q: How to activate pagination for ls command?

NESWhat is the equivalent option for the ls command to activate pagination as in DOS the dir /p does?

 
@StefanoPalazzo Oh, It was already asked?
 
"ls -C --color=always | less -R" is what you want
 
12:06 PM
Epic answer is epic.
 
@OctavianDamiean Does the same as ls, but, basically puts "press to continue at the end"
@StefanoPalazzo thanks, reading now
 
I just found out some time ago that Miguel de Icaza wrote "mc" because he couldn't stand all this stuff
*midnight commander
 
but it's so easy, isn't it? who could ever forget `ls -C --color=always | less -R"? simple!
:D
 
Well, instead of writing a simple alias you can also write an entire program, why not. :D
 
12:10 PM
like nautilus :)
 
ah, that brings back memories :)
I read about that command in a UNIX book I got when I was about 12.
 
PS: thats the output of ls
 
I started pretty late in comparison to you, now that I think about it
good for you
 
12:16 PM
oh, thanks
 
man pages were written in stone back then, if I remember correctly :P
 
Unable to mount location
DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.Failed: An operation is already pending
 
When did you start @StefanoPalazzo?
 
@StefanoPalazzo Argh, a bit annoying, and not perfect - have to press q at the end e.t.c. , but, it does work and better than nothing, so thanks!
 
12:19 PM
I guess I got my first computer at around 8 years of age, an old commodore (already outdated back then)
first windows box at 11, first debian install at 13
 
@StefanoPalazzo Awesome
 
@WilliamHilsum If you use more you don't have to press q.
 
I wasn't good at football you see, so I learned pascal :D And I turned out okay. uhm. right?
(:
 
@OctavianDamiean But, that seems to loose color :/
 
hehe My first Commodore64 was a gift from my fathers boss. I was four or five years old! :D
 
12:20 PM
sweet
 
I didn't learn any programming language though.
 
@OctavianDamiean O.o
 
The Commodore Plus/4 was a home computer released by Commodore International in 1984. The "Plus/4" name refers to the four-application ROM resident office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, database, and graphing); it was billed as "the productivity computer with software built-in". It had some success in Europe, though it was a total flop in the United States, where it was derided as the "Minus/60"—a pun on the numerical difference between the Plus/4 and the dominant Commodore 64. Background In the early 1980s, Commodore found itself engaged in a price war in the home comput...
 
But I knew how to change the color of some text and stuff like that which was amazing back then.
Amazing for me that is. :P
 
I'm just trying to learn this as fast as possible - another thing I can't seem to work out is, what is the difference between more and type? ... e.g., I am in /etc/init.d and typing "type README" comes up with an error, but "more README" works fine
 
12:22 PM
Years later I got a 386 with Win 3.1. :D
 
@OctavianDamiean Nice
When do i get my diaspora invites?
 
@WilliamHilsum type is something different, it's there find out how something would be interpreted if you type it
~:$ type ls
ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'
 
Any good web hosters with root access?
 
meaning "if you type ls, I will turn it into "ls --color=auto"
 
doh... ok... I have too much Windows in my head!
 
12:26 PM
Don't worry. It just takes some time to get used to it but when you're there it'll be awesome!
 
{
    "load_avg": [
        5.95,
        6.1,
        5.84
    ],
    "memory": {
        "total": 2987,
        "free": 409
    }
}
(still installing ubuntu in a vm)
or rather four VMs.
I have a feeling it'll crash in a minute
 
@StefanoPalazzo Cant you just clone it?
 
I've written a script to clone VMs some time ago but I couldn't find it :)
 
@StefanoPalazzo Your on VBOX?
 
@StefanoPalazzo is that actually free memory, or just memory not yet sequestered by the kernel?
 
12:32 PM
It just took the drives, copied them, changed their UUIDs. iirc.
@MarcoCeppi that's actually free, minus buffers
interestingly, most of that is chrome
the VMs only have 256 megs
~:$ hogs
     PID   %CPU   %MEM    CMD
    2524    0.8    3.2    /opt/google/chrome/chrome
   31772    1.0    2.1    /opt/google/chrome/chrome
   16253    2.1    9.3    /opt/google/chrome/chrome
    2476    2.2   10.5    /opt/google/chrome/chrome
    1058    7.6    0.6    /usr/bin/X
   31807    8.0    0.2    python3
    2509    9.7    1.1    /proc/self/exe
    1798   11.1    4.7    /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
   31065   16.4   10.8    /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
   31113   16.5   11.0    /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
top 10 there...
 
@StefanoPalazzo Hey! There is an Inbuilt function of clone!
 
oh my, you're right
egg on my face
 
thanks
 
np
 
12:37 PM
I cancelled all but one installation, now I really hope the clone function works
 
@StefanoPalazzo Ubuntu server 10.04?
 
I also only just found out that "bridge networking" just works™ now
you just set it to bridge networking in the vm settings, and that's it
no, 11.10
@AmithKK you just sent spam to my inbox
what's that about?
 
@StefanoPalazzo ?
 
O.o
This is bad?
 
12:42 PM
what email client do you use?
 
the web client
 
it's a fake anti virus
 
@StefanoPalazzo fake antivirus? lol
Does gmail even have one?
 
you're on linux, right?
 
yes...
 
12:44 PM
so, it must mean your email account is compromised
as in somebody got your password and is using your account to send spam to your address book
hang on
go to the bottom of the page (gmail) and click "Details"
 
Oh, and Ive got the same email from @ThomasWard
 
should look like this
are there any other IPs in yours?
 
@StefanoPalazzo Hey! somebody accessed my account from the US at 5:01PM
 
:O Got your IP! hax0rtime :D
 
@AmithKK what's the IP?
here's what you do to fix it:
(one sec)
click on your profile image at the top and select "account settings", then click "2 step verification"
 
12:48 PM
@StefanoPalazzo 141.105.65.133
 
it will send you a text message when you try to log in, and you have to enter the code from the text as well as your password
 
@StefanoPalazzo Problem: Me no haz a mobile sim
 
oh, right
then just change your password
 
oh ok then!
 
and change it quickly, and to something you've never used before
you can consider all your old accounts compromised, and you should change every password you have set
 
12:50 PM
and something you'll never remember yourself. :D
 
yes, write it down on a piece of paper
 
Oh crap: 13,000+ accounts to go :O
 
Oh, and i use a different password on everything(sometimes)
 
they used to recommend not writing down your passwords, but didn't gave a good reason. it's great, my passwords are all 30+ mixed characters
 
12:51 PM
@StefanoPalazzo Friends who are a bit haxor -nuff said
 
person:          Peter Chayanov
address:         Moscow, Russia
phone:           +7 499 246 3587
nic-hdl:         PC7356-RIPE
mnt-by:          MTLM-MNT
source:          RIPE # Filtered
here's your leet-haxor
"Mir Telematiki Ltd"
 
Who's that?
 
the person who "hacked" into your account
maybe you'll also want to send an email to "abuse@hostkey.com", reporting the incident
 
I dont remember Why I did it
 
12:55 PM
you, uhm, what?
 
@AmithKK It was not very smart.
 
lol
Its my fault then
 
a learning experience ;)
 
@StefanoPalazzo Will you please delete message #2512095
 
Follow up to the last one! Another thing that is confusing me - typing "/etc/init.d/ssh stop" stops ssh, but, going to /etc/init.d ... I can't type ssh stop as that is just the ssh client .... Can someone explain this (briefly!) ... Again, if you want me to shut up/ask on the site, just say (I know what it's like - I see this all the time on Super User room, and I don't want to annoy anyone... I just need to learn Ubuntu quick!)
 
12:57 PM
@WilliamHilsum If you go to /etc/init.d you need to type ./ssh Otherwise you're just invoking /usr/bin/ssh :)
 
@WilliamHilsum Nah, we are not SU type
 
did you change it yet?
go go go
 
yes, i have
now, how did @ThomasWard 's account get hack'd.
 
@MarcoCeppi Ahh... so, simple path sort of issue? ... Why don't I need to type ./etc/init.d/ssh stop then? :/
 
@AmithKK make sure to send him an email explaining what happened
he should change his password as well, just to be on the safe side
 
12:59 PM
Oh and PS @StefanoPalazzo amith.dyndns-ip.com
 
@WilliamHilsum The ./ just refers to the current directory.
 

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