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I'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 netbook edition on my Lenovo S10-3. According to the release notes, there is a bug in the kernel that forces me to add intel_idle.max_cstate=0 to the kernel parameters. I did this when booting the install CD and I was able to install Ubuntu. During the insta...

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hey wait

@Oli did our Accept Rate just go UP a percentage point?

I could have sworn we were at 86% yesterday

we seem to swap with Gaming daily on traffic ranking.

Oli

@JorgeCastro yeah that's possible - We have had a lot of accepted answers today

Jorge Castro

getting close to 13k users too

it "feels" like we've had a bunch of new users the past two weeks

Alvar

hehe

Oli

Not sure how much I can say before I'm told off but traffic has been steadily increasing with a peak yesterday. New user sign-ups have been fairly constant

Marco Ceppi

1:30 PM

Waits for the SE teams wrath to fall upon @Oli :P

Oli

Yeah traffic yesterday was the highest since launch (where I assume the mobs of SO, etc all came over to have a look)

Jorge Castro

1:46 PM

good, so the beta is having an effect on us (I hope)

James Gifford

My two cents: It's the beta.

Jorge Castro

we have the best Unity content on the web, period.

this hard work will pay off. :)

tunpishuang

test

good chating room!

oh yeah.

Jorge Castro

2:21 PM

@Oli check this out: blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/stack-overflow-homepage-changes

@Oli so I started bookmarking: askubuntu.com/?tab=interesting instead

@Oli anyway I was wondering if that would help our rate or not. I have no way to measure that.

sadmicrowave

guys I'm needing some help compiling php with odbc and dbase options in linux, does anyone know about this or should I ask on SO?

Jorge Castro

@Oli or maybe it only works past a certain question threshold

@sadmicrowave that sounds more SOish

sadmicrowave

thanks

Marco Ceppi

2:39 PM

SO for compiling questions? That sounds More U&L maybe AU

htorque

2:49 PM

@JorgeCastro hi! sorry, somehow missed your message :)

Alvar

What can you do when the user files gets killed?

James Gifford

what do you mean by that?

Alvar

Must i reinstall it or can i correct it by using the install cd?

My servers filesystem krashed i cleaned it up and the files were corrected but my log in files were deleted

James Gifford

3:06 PM

I'm not sure. I've never had my users files go AWOL.

Jorge Castro

@htorque hey I just remembered

there's a bunch of stuff in dconf-editor that can be configged if you're looking for something to add to the config unity answer

htorque

hm, which question/answer would that be?

Ask Ubuntu Twitter

Bash script to start and then shutdown/restart various processes http://bit.ly/dPpta7 #bash

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on April 5, 2011 at 3:09 PM

htorque

@AskUbuntuTwitter, what's up? you got a lot of questions!

Jorge Castro

20

Q: How can I configure Unity?

Are there any configuration options for the Unity desktop in Ubuntu 11.04?

unity 11.04

htorque

3:14 PM

@JorgeCastro will do

Yi Jiang

@htorque Don't we all? :P

htorque

@YiJiang so many questions, so few answers ;D

Marco Ceppi

3:45 PM

Trying to do something...different in Awk

I want to format a CSV file to create a new one, using elements of the CSV. So I have a three col CSV = ID, NAME, COUNT, I want to create URL, COUNT where URL is a standard format composed of ?id=ID wrapped around the NAME element

Octavian Damiean

@MarcoCeppi Volley Brawl! :D

Marco Ceppi

@OctavianDamiean No Ubuntu machine at work :(

Octavian Damiean

@MarcoCeppi later then :)

Marco Ceppi

@OctavianDamiean Definitely!

Octavian Damiean

I'm upgrading my Natty install YAY!

htorque

3:49 PM

@MarcoCeppi something like awk '{print $1 $2 $3}' doesn't work?

Marco Ceppi

@htorque it does, I'm trying to do this:

5,"Name of place",14
7,"Name of palace",2

This is what I came up with

cat file.csv | awk -F',' '{ print "\"<a href=http://URLURL/?sellerId="$1">" system("echo "$2" | sed s/\\\"//") "</a>\","$3 }'

That way it'll output into a 2 col CSV - but the system just pipes back to the shell - instead of inserting it into the stream

Not sure how to strip the "" from the second field

htorque

i see. hmm, not being an awk guru doesn't help.

Marco Ceppi

Actually - I'm being stupid. I'll just strip them prior to processing. It'll break if there is a , in the CSV regardless of the ""

I should probably parse the CSV out into an array then process down. Anyways

Octavian Damiean

^- that

Marco Ceppi

Arugh! it still didnt' work. I wanted the CSV import into OpenOffice convert the URLs to clickable links :(

Octavian Damiean

4:04 PM

uh got outvoted by Jon Skeets awesomeness :D

2

A: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

It means that you are trying to access an index of an array which is not valid as it is not in between the bounds. For example this would initialize a primitive integer array with the upper bound 4. int intArray[] = new int[5]; Programmers count from zero. So this for example would throw an A...

Yi Jiang

Is it normal for xorg's memory usage to creep upwards slowly?

Octavian Damiean

@YiJiang you're the second one I hear with that problem, it really seems to leak memory

htorque

leaks can happen. here it's 62mb after three days uptime.

Octavian Damiean

@htorque well due to the nature of leaks it also depends on the usage I guess. :)

@htorque ew thanks for the nice edit! :)

Yi Jiang

@OctavianDamiean That was me complaining about it a few hours ago

Its now back up to somewhere around 30% again

Octavian Damiean

4:13 PM

oh right :D

reboots

Marco Ceppi

I strongly dislike Java

Yi Jiang

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 2149 zhang     20   0 1339m 728m  20m S   23 37.4 105:17.35 firefox-bin
 1199 root      20   0  817m 629m  29m S   51 32.3  41:59.28 Xorg
 4696 zhang     20   0  442m  60m  13m S    9  3.1   3:19.79 prism-bin
 2386 zhang     20   0  292m  50m 7404 S    0  2.6   0:33.39 thunderbird-bin
 1689 zhang     20   0 97.8m  31m  27m S    6  1.6   7:25.27 compiz

Tell me now that this isn't normal?

Marco Ceppi

Looks like business as usual for Firefox :P

Yi Jiang

I got a theory, might try it out tomorrow, hrump...

Octavian Damiean

@MarcoCeppi I feel with you sometimes

@MarcoCeppi whats bugging you?

Marco Ceppi

4:23 PM

@OctavianDamiean Nothing, I just don't use it was just lamenting over that SO question

Now I'm going to get into a fist fight with Wordpress because it's preserving my indents or code structure for this code example :(

Octavian Damiean

@MarcoCeppi oh :D

my new C book should be here tomorrow, YAY for diving into C

htorque

@OctavianDamiean yw ;)

George Edison

4:39 PM

@Marco: blog.superuser.com

[Sigh... can't format as NTFS.]

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison What about?

Shazzner

Hello

Marco Ceppi

Ohh, you got an article published - nice!

George Edison

@MarcoCeppi Look at the author.

Shazzner

if anyone can help me out; I've got a joystick that's configured and working smoothly unfortunately it acts as my mouse

and I can't get it to stop

so when I play a game that does use joystick input I get random clicks all over the screen

and sometimes it crash the program :(

googling reveals that this is an old problem that has been fixed, but it's still doing it for me

something about xorg automatically assigning joysticks as mouse input or some such

trying to play spiral knight like this is impossible; impossible I say!

James Gifford

4:45 PM

OH WOW. Ubuntu one's come a lonnnnggg way since I last used it. :O

2

George Edison

[Patiently formatting as NTFS...]

djeikyb

@Shazzner hilarious. that's a pretty stupid bug. you should post it as a question

Shazzner

@djeikyb ok will do

djeikyb

@GeorgeEdison hey! so you finally got vista up, eh?

George Edison

Yeah :P

Shazzner

4:52 PM

I was hoping it was something simple and stupid :/

George Edison

It... was... interesting.

Thanks for updating the question with chat info.

djeikyb

@Shazzner the answer prolly is simple and stupid. unfortunately for you, it's also obscure.

George Edison

@djeikyb It's formatting as NTFS right now.

djeikyb

@GeorgeEdison oh, i didn't update the question, i just made an answer with the stuff we went through. i left you to update the question as you saw fit

George Edison

I see.

Thanks.

Shazzner

5:02 PM

0

Q: Joystick acts as mouse; won't stop

Joystick acts as a mouse, even when I'm playing a game that uses a joystick so I get random mouse events going on. I plugged a joystick in to play Spiral Knights, also installed joystick and jcalibrate. Everything is working good, except by default the joystick moves the mouse around and the but...

11.04 xorg input-devices gamepad

it wouldn't let me add a joystick tag :9

surprised there wasn't one already

Marco Ceppi

@Shazzner There's one now

Shazzner

@MarcoCeppi Gratci! :)

Joshua Robison

if I run ubuntu 9 and I do apt-get dist-upgrade, will I then be running ubuntu 10 or 11?

Marco Ceppi

@JoshuaRobison you mean dist-upgrade ? Also which version 9.04 or 9.10 ?

Joshua Robison

right, ... actually I don't know how to check which version I am running?

Marco Ceppi

5:17 PM

lsb-release

Jorge Castro

don't do a manual upgrade, use the update manager

Joshua Robison

I want to install nautilus elementasdfdsfa and it's telling me to run sudo apt-get dist-upgrade in the terminal

I just am wondering if that will put me at the newest version of ubuntu or not

Marco Ceppi

@JoshuaRobison dist-upgrade (the upgrade manager thing (i think)) will update to the next version unless you're running and LTS and choose to do LTS -> LTS. So if you have 9.04 - dist-upgrade will put you at 9.10. Running it again will get you 10.04 - running it an additional time will put you at 10.10

Jorge Castro

those instructions are likely wrong

but you can't skip releases

you have to go from one to the next one

unless you're doing LTS to LTS, so if you're on 8.04 you could go 10.04

Marco Ceppi

win

Joshua Robison

5:21 PM

hmm. that is confusing

Marco Ceppi

It's simple @JoshuaRobison upgrade goes to each next version. Doesn't jump to the most recent. So you have to upgrade in order of releases

Joshua Robison

i just want to install nautilus elemental

elementary

Jorge Castro

what instructions are you reading?

Joshua Robison

webupd8.org/2011/03/install-nautilus-elementary-2322-in.html

Jorge Castro

ok and what version of ubuntu are you on?

Joshua Robison

5:23 PM

im actually running mint 9.xx but feel embarrassed because im chatting in a ubuntu room.

Jorge Castro

hah

Joshua Robison

im actually trying to install this theme jurialmunkey.deviantart.com/#/d316eqx

I actually had it working nicely before but I did a system reinstall

and I cant find my instructions for how I installed nautilus elementary the last time

Jorge Castro

maybe ask on unix.se how to install it on linux mint?

Joshua Robison

so I already installed it once using the apt-get dist-upgrade command

but just wondering if that will put me at 10.0 or not

htorque

doooood, the new twitter page is weird

Jorge Castro

5:28 PM

that shouldn't move you a major version

fail badp

in The Bridge, 3 mins ago, by Bob

0

Q: How to configure an usb ddr dance pad for Stepmania on linux ???

Ubuntu documentation seem outdated for lucid lynx 10.04 LTS, I have Stepmania running but my official ddr dance pad from ddr universe 2 ...

linux joystick ddr gamepad stepmania

Would you like this question migrated to AU after I clean it up?

Marco Ceppi

@failbadp yeah, post cleanup should be okay.

We probably don't want it, but it might get a better response on AU

fail badp

@MarcoCeppi Well I doubt we can answer it either

Marco Ceppi

I actually have a DDR pad I think. Maybe I can take a stab at this tonight

htorque

awesome, now i have no idea which answer should get the bounty

11

Q: Disable resize gripper in windows?

Is it possible to disable the the new resize gripper that shows up in Ubuntu Natty/11.04?

11.04 gtk resize

fail badp

5:33 PM

@MarcoCeppi Is it any better now?

Marco Ceppi

@failbadp Yeah, looks better

We'll retag it when it makes it over here

fail badp

Okay, I'll retag and send it over then.

Marco Ceppi

Or that works too <3

fail badp

Whoops, I forgot to kill that comment

I'll mention that we received that untouched from Super User :P

I'm too nice for my own good.

djeikyb

@htorque a nice problem to have

htorque

5:44 PM

plus, it's not my worst problem :D

lazyPower

amazon.com/gp/product/B004UOE7VA/…

Boom ... mind = blown

htorque

crystal method ftw

Marco Ceppi

@lazyPower Probably going to watch that movie tonight

lazyPower

@MarcoCeppi have you not seen it yet?

djeikyb

hey, any of you programmer types want to recommend a database to a perl newbie such as myself? i'll search the so site, just thought i'd ask here

Marco Ceppi

5:48 PM

The previous message would indicate that's correct. I have not

@djeikyb Database software - or documentation/tutorials?

djeikyb

@MarcoCeppi a database i can store food recipes in, and interact with

Marco Ceppi

@djeikyb I would recommend MySQL personally

lazyPower

@MarcoCeppi Excellent. THe movie is awesome, turn up the sound system when you watch it, very epic.

Marco Ceppi

Will do!

htorque

@djeikyb you can also take a look at sqlite for smaller projects

djeikyb

5:53 PM

@MarcoCeppi any particular reason? i've heard of mysql, couchdb, a few others.. looking to get a feel for what/why people use them.

Marco Ceppi

@djeikyb I'm a php/web developer. MySQL is by far the most popular in php PHP development (It's the M in LAMP) CouchDB is definitely more Destkop oriented and SQLite is a great alternative because you don't require a running database server (either local or external).

lazyPower

@djeikyb the biggest thing behind database usage is strictly preferences. 90% of most applications wont realy see the "advanced" features of its DB backed. and the issues related to each. The presense of a DB server in itself makes the app kind of limited, when you can go with something like SQLite that is portable. YMMV with each ofcourse.

djeikyb

ah, intriguing. so if a webhost has php but not mysql, then i use sqlite instead and can just upload the sqlite file and continue working?

hm. well this gets me started, thanks guys!

EvilPhoenix

yawn

how's things people

djeikyb

@EvilPhoenix they go.

EvilPhoenix

6:04 PM

heh

Ask Ubuntu Twitter

Video Recording in Ubuntu http://bit.ly/fuqZZg #video

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on April 5, 2011 at 6:09 PM

Marco Ceppi

Dear @AskUbuntuTwitter Please stop tweeting bad questions.

Tempted to merge

2

Q: Video Recording in Ubuntu

What Video Recording software is there that matches (or better) than the software version in Windows for FRAPS and WeGame? Already tried istanbul (honestly it sucks) and the last update was when dinosaurs ruled ;) http://live.gnome.org/Istanbul Then i tried recordmydesktop which is very good BU...

video record

into this question

21

Q: How to create a screencast?

How can I create a screencast on Ubuntu? What applications are available? The app I'm looking for has ideally all of these features: Can record in a format that can be played back easily on any platform and/or accepted by youtube or another popular video site Can record just a window (instead...

software-recommendation video

Jorge Castro

yeah

that should be

I don't understand how higher rep users keep making dupes

but whatever shrug

Marco Ceppi

6:20 PM

I understand the question - but all of these have been covered in the "mega" thread

Jorge Castro

yeah

htorque

cough it would help if the search function would give better results cough

Marco Ceppi

@htorque the number one match to related posts was the duplicated question. So there is no excuse :P

htorque

@MarcoCeppi bah, ok :P

Marco Ceppi

But yes, not everything is caught :)

lazyPower

6:33 PM

throws a fit

i hate outlook so much

Jorge Castro

@MarcoCeppi some noise flags from the gnome 3 answer incoming

Marco Ceppi

@JorgeCastro readies

George Edison

@djeikyb: You around?

htorque

6:57 PM

@MarcoCeppi what happens if two people flag one post - do both flag weights increase?

Marco Ceppi

@htorque Weights don't really matter to us - we only have at most 15 flags in the queue at anyone time. If more people flag though - it shows all the flags. So if 5 people flag "offtopic" I'm not really going to second guess it

But yes, it gets a weight increase

George Edison

htorque

no, i meant do both people get an increase (if the flagging was correct)?

George Edison

^--- No errors.

Marco Ceppi

@htorque Yes, you both do but I think it's the same amount as if you were the only one to flag

htorque

7:02 PM

@GeorgeEdison to be expected, after badblocks didn't show any errors

@MarcoCeppi ok, thanks :)

George Edison

@htorque: So... what now?

htorque

@GeorgeEdison wait for an answer :-/

George Edison

:(

Marco Ceppi

Just got Civic Duty on meta: meta.askubuntu.com/badges/32/civic-duty?userid=41

Jorge Castro

@StefanoPalazzo the keyboard shortcut works great btw

Octavian Damiean

7:20 PM

:o I have a flag weight of 270

htorque

flag weight 280 :P

22 flags to go for deputy :P

Octavian Damiean

@htorque meh :D

Marco Ceppi

I only have a 110 :P

htorque

you should do more flagging ;D

Roland Taylor

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Q: Using update manager to upgrade from Ubuntu 8 to 10.04 LTS leaves me with 'kernel panic'

I recently used the update manager to upgrade my laptop from Ubuntu 8 to 10.04 LTS. When I tried to reboot after the upgrade was complete, I got the message kernel panic not syncing: vfs: unable to mount root FS on unknown block. If I try to boot into recovery mode, I get the same problem. I ...

kernel update-manager

someone help him please

it has to be slow and simple

(I was suggesting he try to follow what the forums say (it had worked for me when I had similar problems) but it appears he is not as knowledgeable about the system as I thought

Marco Ceppi

7:26 PM

@RolandTaylor Why don't you just repost the forum instructions in a form which he would understand?

Jorge Castro

aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! that question

should have asked him to edit!

Octavian Damiean

is sad because is LoCo Team is kinda dead

Takkat

Hi all back again

htorque

@OctavianDamiean First Ubuntu Austria Meeting on Saturday, 09 April 2011 at 17:00 UTC - doesn't sound dead :P

@Takkat hi

Octavian Damiean

@htorque woot have I missed something?

oh wow the team owner has created two new teams today

now that is awesome :)

is happy again

@htorque bumpz, do you have a link or something? Where is that information from?

htorque

7:50 PM

@OctavianDamiean loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-at

Octavian Damiean

@htorque yea just found out that we really have an IRC channel :D

awesome :P

ajmitch

even the nz loco team has an irc channel :)

Octavian Damiean

@ajmitch till yesterday the austrian team had none :(

ajmitch

shocking

we all say 'morning' in ours, some days there may be some more discussion

htorque

:D

Octavian Damiean

7:53 PM

hehe

htorque

@OctavianDamiean ubuntu-at.org seems down :(

Octavian Damiean

yep

htorque

wiki.ubuntu.com/AustriaTeam -> activities doesn't look too promising :D

ajmitch

so is ubuntu-nz.org, I need to find who to ping about that

Octavian Damiean

@htorque it is outdated

lazyPower

7:56 PM

@MarcoCeppi See you in your home town mang. I'ma bout to jam from work and get packin, i should arrive around 10

Octavian Damiean

we are discussing that right now :)

lazyPower

Holla @ you on here or twitter for lunch details :)

Marco Ceppi

@lazyPower I'll DM you my cell number

Have a safe trip!

James Gifford

@lazyPower Have a safe trip! :)

lazyPower

wish the rest of you cats could go :)

ajmitch

7:58 PM

@lazyPower what, you're willing to visit @MarcoCeppi but not me? :)

hardly anyone comes to visit me, it's not like I live far away

djeikyb

@GeorgeEdison i won't be back here till at least, hm, 4 am UTC, i think.

James Gifford

Do I detect some sarcasm there @ajmitch? ;)

ajmitch

@JamesGifford not at all! :)

James Gifford

@ajmitch Didn't think so. :)

Roland Taylor

@MarcoCeppi I probably will eventually - when I can get back to it :S

Ajay

8:09 PM

can anyone help me on this: askubuntu.com/questions/33697/…

htorque

@ajmitch don't know what you mean - it's just 1100€ from europe to new zealand (one way) :D

Takkat

@htorque you only need one way - you'd stay there :)

htorque

yeah, because nz is awesome

ajmitch

@htorque yeah, pocket change, right?

htorque

:..(

2011 Christchurch earthquake

The 2011 Christchurch earthquake was a 6.3-magnitude earthquake that struck the Canterbury region in New Zealand's South Island at on local time (23:51 UTC), causing widespread damage and multiple fatalities. The earthquake was centred west of the town of Lyttelton, and south-east of the centre of Christchurch, New Zealand's second-most populous city. It followed nearly six months after the 7.1 magnitude 2010 Canterbury earthquake that caused significant damage to the region but no direct fatalities. The names of 169 victims have been released as of 31 March 2011, with the final dea...

ajmitch

8:15 PM

yeah, one or two small issues, you know...

Roland Taylor

8:38 PM

James Gifford

@RolandTaylor I'm starting to wonder if you create awesome cat pics for a living. ;)

htorque

8:52 PM

good night, everyone!

Octavian Damiean

@htorque o/

Takkat

good night @htorque

sadmicrowave

@OctavianDamiean - sadmicrowave picture?

Octavian Damiean

@sadmicrowave gosh I knew I forgot something :p

sadmicrowave

@OctavianDamiean - lol

Octavian Damiean

8:55 PM

I'm sorry mate, I'll do it soon-ish, I promise!

sadmicrowave

where are you from? - what time is it now? - ohhh you said 'soon-ish' not 'noon-ish'

lol - nvm

Octavian Damiean

@sadmicrowave I'm from Austria and it is almost 2300

:)

sadmicrowave

dang buddy

George Edison

Okay, I partitioned my flash drive into 4 FAT32 partitions.

I'll try each partition to see if one of the flash memory chips is defective.

So far so good...

Roland Taylor

@JamesGifford if I got money for it would be sweet :D

Ask Ubuntu Twitter

9:12 PM

Adding swap partition after system installation http://bit.ly/hl4Cnf #swap

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on April 5, 2011 at 9:09 PM

George Edison

Who added the AskUbuntu Twitter bot? :P

Roland Taylor

O.o

@AskUbuntuTwitter will you marry me (you are a female bot right?)

-_- not very talkative I see...

._- neither am I... but...

o.- okay... be like that...

George Edison

All attempts to benchmark read/write performance are met with:

> "Daemon is inhibited."

What is that supposed to mean?

Roland Taylor

on linux?

George Edison

Yup.

In Disk Utilities.

Roland Taylor

9:17 PM

could be permissions of the disk? I'm not sure

George Edison

Hmmm.

Roland Taylor

usually I only get errors like that if there are problems with reading/writing

I had a similar error once with a flash drive that was failing

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Q: Wouldn't writing an open source program make it available for anyone to freely hack and exploit, thus making it less secure?

Also, is the notion true that Linux (and even Mac os for the matter) less exploited (at least partially) because less people use it? 91% of the market is windows, 7% mac, 1% linux, and 1% other. Does only having 7% or 1% play a major part in os security? For the record, I've seen the following a...

security

CLOSE! D:

Takkat

9:35 PM

gtg - security questions always make me fall asleep. cya

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