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12:38 AM

Clonezilla failing as soon as image copying begins http://bit.ly/mdAP86 #1004

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3:36 AM

How can I find out a file's path in the text encoding used by PosteRazor? http://bit.ly/iWMcJJ #nautilus

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Worst Questions Ever

6:31 AM

Does Ubuntu ever push new versions of GCC into the package repository between releases? http://bit.ly/j8gtsu #packages

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Takkat

Good morning Flacky and all!

oh - Flacky is sleeping :)

karthick87

7:04 AM

File contents missing all of a sudden in openoffice, is it possible to recover?

Takkat

@karthick87 OO backup file?

karthick87

Where the backup file will be located?

Takkat

if OO is setup to make them in the document's directory...

karthick87

7:23 AM

@Takkat how to check which directory it is set to..

Takkat

@karthick87: in Libre Office go to Options -> Load/Save -> General - no OO here atm :(

lazyPower

7:45 AM

Hurray for firmware updates. seems to have fixed a ton of latency issues with my lan

htorque

8:01 AM

good morning all

lazyPower

morning @htorque

@karthick87 did you get your Networking issue sorted out that you DM'd me about a few weeks back?

karthick87

8:27 AM

which one?

Takkat

morning @htorque!

htorque

8:45 AM

hi

@Rinzwind got your package? i'm thinking about ordering again today and wait tomorrow for nothing to be delivered :D

Rinzwind

nope

still waiting.

@karthick87 the question on command line moving panels to the bottom is a good au q don't you agree? If you disect all your questions like that I could add them to the custom live cd answer >:D

lazyPower

@karthick87 the one where you had to dynamically map a hostname across the network

Takkat

> You can only perform 6 searches within a 60 second window, please wait a moment and try again.

:(

Rinzwind

@Takkat that's better than on UF.org :-X

lazyPower

@Takkat you've had too much coffee for the SE network to keep up. Please decaffinate and try again later.

Rinzwind

8:53 AM

the amount of errors messages I get there when searching is insane

Takkat

better is rarely the comparative of good

Hi @Rinzwind

Rinzwind

hey takkat

i just realised why I never finished my 1st run of white knight chronicles

at some point it has 5 bosses in a row and my char back than was 100% mage so I got clubberd a lot >:D

y-day I blew through them with my swordsman :-X

3 days of gaming chapter 6 reached. nearing the end from the looks of it \o/
and then it's wkc2 next >:D

oh and I -could- reach a gold badge today if I want \o/

Octavian Damiean

:O

'lo

Takkat

Go for gold!!!

Hi @OctavianDamiean :)

Rinzwind

heya OctavianDamiean

htorque

9:03 AM

hi @OctavianDamiean

Octavian Damiean

hello all :)

FlackBot

@OctavianDamiean Hey, nice to see you!

Octavian Damiean

aww, even FlackBot missed me :D

Lekensteyn

hello all

FlackBot

@Lekensteyn Hey, nice to see you!

Lekensteyn

9:05 AM

@FlackBot nice to see you too :)

FlackBot

@Lekensteyn I'm sorry, but I haven't the foggiest notion what you're trying to say.

Lekensteyn

@FlackBot okay, do not try to be rude.

FlackBot

@Lekensteyn I'm not that smart - I haven't learned that command quite yet.

Lekensteyn

Nevermind :p

htorque

hi @Lekensteyn

Takkat

9:09 AM

Hi @Lekensteyn

Lekensteyn

hi @htorque @Takkat Do you know a good icon for Angry Birds

Worst Questions Ever

9:29 AM

How to restore GRUB without re-installing the OS? http://bit.ly/mLPKew #grub

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lazyPower

9:42 AM

@Lekensteyn maybe that will suit your fancy for a 64x64 icon?

Rinzwind

9:56 AM

I would have just saved the answer with "NO" but AU did not let me :D
http://askubuntu.com/questions/50314/wallpaper-in-each-workspace-and-right-click-problem/50322#50322

another angry bird:

Lekensteyn

I got this one now: technologyblogged.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/…

lazyPower

@Rinzwind share your desktop wallpaper please :D

Lekensteyn

Back to learning Python :p

Rinzwind

too much blue @Lekensteyn

I already have @lazyPower >:D it's in the chat >:D

I made it myself >:-D

lazyPower

argh, digging... no fun

Rinzwind

10:00 AM

one moment :+D

lazyPower

Rinzwind

and so you can have some fun ->

fantasticwall.com/?go=cat&id=1&en

fantasticwall.com/?go=wallpapers&id=1209&en

2nd link is my current wallpaper

Octavian Damiean

:D

lolz

lazyPower

Thanks rinz

Rinzwind

np!

now upvote my answer >:D

lazyPower

10:04 AM

ugh time to go shower and get ready for class/work

Rinzwind

:X

holiday \o/

sounds a lot better than 'class/work'

damn you lot are easy to convince to upvote >:D

htorque

what does automatically move this discussion to chat? do?

lazyPower

you shared root images that have nudez in them.. how can I not upvote the pr0n king of south western philladelphia?

Rinzwind

oh I think it creates a room for you and that person

Octavian Damiean

@htorque that is when you have a comment discussion that is more appropriate on chat it moves it to the chat

Rinzwind

10:07 AM

saw dv3500ea do it the other day when it got suggested

htorque

@OctavianDamiean yeah, but what does "moves it to the chat" mean

will the involved users be logged into the chat?

Rinzwind

it actually moves that text to chat :D

no they have to join themself

oh and at the right hand side of this chat I also got an extra message below "there are other rooms" when it happend for me >:D

why can't I find the bloody method of swap calculation from the installer.
I hate it when I find something a while back and can not find it again :D

Back then I even found the bl**** code it used to do this and now I can not even find a good answer :X

Lekensteyn

Any python coders here?

Octavian Damiean

10:23 AM

Does it count if I'm in the process to become one? :)

Rinzwind

I only dable in python :D

Lekensteyn

Well, I'm still learning too and am now at docs.python.org/tutorial/…

The style guide says that lines should not exceed 79 characters, but my editors default is 80. Why should I make 79 of it?

Octavian Damiean

10

Q: Why should Python PEP-8 specify a maximum line length of 79 characters?

Why in this millenium should Python PEP-8 specify a maximum line length of 79 characters? Pretty much every code editor under the sun can handle longer lines. What to do with wrapping should be the choice of the content consumer, not the responsibility of the content creator. Are there any (le...

Lekensteyn

Thanks @OctavianDamiean

I think the main reason that it's 79 and not 80 is to have multiple files next to each other, if the max line would 80, then files would appear glued to each other. The 80th column would be a separator between the files.

Rinzwind

am I good or what! >:D

found it again O+

dphys-swapfile

if [ "${CONF_SWAPSIZE}" = "" ] ; then
# compute automatic optimal size
echo -n "computing size, "
# this seems to be the nearest to physical RAM size, lacks about 60k
KCORESIZE="`ls -l /proc/kcore | awk '{ print $5 }'`"
# make MBytes which rounded down will be exactly 1 too few, so add 1
MEMSIZE="`expr "${KCORESIZE}" / 1048576 + 1`"
# default, without config file overwriding, swap=2*RAM
CONF_SWAPSIZE="`expr "${MEMSIZE}" '*' "${SWAPFACTOR}"`"
fi

lol

Lekensteyn

10:38 AM

What is that?

Takkat

to calculate swap size needed!

Rinzwind

0

A: What is the default swap size?

This is going to be rather technical but was fun to find out so here goes... Swap is determined by dphys-swapfile. Option setup is used to set it up: Tells dphys-swapfile to compute the optimal swap file size and (re-)generate an fitting swap file. Default it 2 times RAM size. This can be ca...

Takkat

nice btw +

Rinzwind

now WHY do I know who upvoted me @Takkat and @Lekensteyn >:D

Takkat

@Rinzwind knows it all :P

Rinzwind

10:41 AM

:D

now I hope Marco does not close it due to not being about ubuntu >:D

Takkat

tell us: who was 3rd upvote?

Rinzwind

hmmm

octavian!

Takkat

@Rinzwind we'd end up having less than 10k Q again...

Rinzwind

he's the other person in chat so :D

Takkat

Flacky should be able to vote!

Rinzwind

10:43 AM

lol I know you next q Takkat

"who is number 4?" :X

Lekensteyn

"A family with 2 kids"

Takkat

Flack can't be it!

Rinzwind

this will get me to 200 fast >:D

htorque

number 4 is fine, thanks

Takkat

hi @ number4!

Rinzwind

10:44 AM

heya htorque :D still not package for me :*

htorque

awesome, right?

:D

i still have two hours to decide whether to order or not

Rinzwind

I don't mind >:D I got au and wkc to keep me busy. some anime eps and I'll get this day done >:D

20 upvotes away from 600 upvotes on q's \o/

Takkat

@htorque if you don't order you will have to wait until Tuesday the earliest

Rinzwind

still got 21 upvotes for today

@Takkat oh the pressure >:D

htorque

i'm actually not sure what to order - that's the problem :D

not to mention that i need a bank account refill

Takkat

10:50 AM

@Rinzwind I asked 21 questions here...

Rinzwind

cool

found 1 >:D

2

Takkat

:) TY

Rinzwind

more would be spamming >:D

lol

Takkat

it would. Don't do it

Rinzwind

time to finish off chapter 6 \o

bbl

htorque

11:07 AM

@Lekensteyn can you remove your comment please?

1

A: Error while compiling ffmpeg during make

The Ubuntu version of ffmpeg comes without support for restricted formats like MP3, but you can fix that by installing packages that include that support. So to fix your initial problem: Purge the existing installation of ffmpeg (if any): sudo apt-get purge ffmpeg Install ffmpeg: sudo apt-ge...

M. Night Shyamalan

12:23 PM

2

Q: How can I get a java extension in LibreOffice to use the GTK+ theme?

I'm using LibreOffice with the LanguageTool extension, and it is kinda out of place (the options dialog at least) because it uses the open solaris default theme instead of my gtk+ theme. Is there a way to get it to use my gtk theme? Screenshot: Edited my question - it's not the default theme ...

themes java gtk libreoffice

can i edit this to broaden the scope ?

(ie how to use the gtk+ themes for java apps )

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How to make a time-lapse video with webcam? http://bit.ly/kKoje5 #softwarerecommendation

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Amith kk

12:38 PM

<----- Is back

hey all

FlackBot

@Amithkk Hey, nice to see you!

Amith kk

Anybody have free time and sh skills?

htorque

-1

Q: ASUS Eee PC 1001PX crashes when activating wireless

I have a problem with my ASUS Eee PC 1001PX. When I connect the PC to Wi-Fi, Ubuntu crashes and I can only shutdown by pulling the power plug. I upgraded all my packages with an ethernet connection but the problem remains. What could the solution be? Does someone has the same problem? Thanks for...

11.04 ubuntu-netbook eeepc

please close this

or not?

askubuntu.com/users/20552/lore9625 -> registered

askubuntu.com/users/20558/lore9625 -> unregistered

at first i wanted to close the one from the unregistered user, but then i thought he probably lost the cookie for the other one but now i see that's a registered user, so i'm actually not sure which one to close :D

Amith kk

i edited it O.o

htorque

12:57 PM

and i rejected the edit :P

there's no point in adding information that's already there

Amith kk

Good choice

@htorque
Do you have have free time and sh skills?

htorque

neither nor

ask a question on the site (if it's about ubuntu)

thanks @MarcoCeppi

i wish i could "unvote to close" ;-)

Amith kk

I wanted a script that dumps the log and starts logging on it as soon as a usb mass storage is plugged (with the file 'OKdump' on it)(Systemwide log)

@htorque Isnt sh scripts common to all linux systems?

Marco Ceppi

@htorque I can clear the vote - but it'll drop off eventually

htorque

yeah, after two days or so

Amith kk

1:07 PM

@MarcoCeppi do you think i should ask such a question?

htorque

reacting to an event like "mass storage connected" can be different on different linux distros, so i'd say it's ok

Marco Ceppi

@Amithkk It's on topic - people will probably try to say "Put on SO", etc - but from what I understand it's a suitable question for the site

Amith kk

What tags should i give to it?

0

Q: Request for a .sh script

I want a script that dumps the log and starts logging on it as soon as a usb mass storage is plugged (with the file 'OKdump' on it).And if anything abnormal is detected i want it to take a screenshot and save it on the same drive.

shell-scripting screenshot logging mass-storage

^^
0 0
.^.
\_/

Thanks for the upvote !

Rinzwind

2:10 PM

"Advanced system packaging tool ‘Synaptic Package Manager’ has been dropped from the latest builds of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot."

cool :D

@an

@Amithkk "the log" what log? "a screenshot" of what?

Alvar

2:29 PM

@Rinzwind why?

Rinzwind

@Alvar cuz of ubuntu software center

Alvar

2:43 PM

@Rinzwind aaa.. I hate that place....

Takkat

2:54 PM

leaving office BBL

Lekensteyn

3:34 PM

@Amithkk I've edited the title, does it reflect your actual question?

2

Q: How to run a shell script when a new USB storage device is detected?

I want a script that dumps the log and starts logging on it as soon as a usb mass storage is plugged (with the file 'OKdump' on it).And if anything abnormal is detected i want it to take a screenshot and save it on the same drive.

shell-scripting screenshot logging mass-storage

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Apply transparent background in GIMP http://bit.ly/kUFRIO #gimp

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Amith kk

3:49 PM

@Lekensteyn Its good,but its is a request :)

@Rinzwind the system log ,the screenshot of the desktop when the error occurred

Oli

4:08 PM

Anybody know if there's something that can emulate an iPad browser for me?

Roland Taylor

@Oli your best bet might be to run a browser with a modified UAS

Oli

The website isn't doing anything special with the useragent (it's not even reading it) I'm just wondering how it'll look at the iPad's resolution/dpi/font-settings

Amith kk

well.... get an ipad emu i.e if its there

Roland Taylor

@Oli would Firefox Mobile (Fennec) work for you?

Amith kk

Fennec uses a different font..I think

Atleast it does on my Windows Mobile 6.5

Oli

4:16 PM

@RolandTaylor Doesn't iOS default to a Safari browser?

Lekensteyn

@Oli the iPad runs Safari, that's the closest rendering engine you can get. check stackoverflow.com, superuser.com or apple.stackexchange.com

Amith kk

Yes,Yes it does

@Lekensteyn Kinda, But it uses compression

0

A: How to run a shell script when a new USB storage device is detected?

In /etc/udev/rules.d create a file that starts with two digits. The two digits specify which of the files in this directory are processed first by udev. Your file could look like this: KERNEL=="sd?1", ATTRS{serial}=="UA04FLGC", ACTION=="add", SYMLINK+="cusb1", RUN+="/home/confus/bin/usb-encrypt...

confuse might win some rep :)

Cool @MarcoCeppi I didnt know you could edit other persons chat .can you show me how chat looks like to a mod?

Roland Taylor

@Oli yes, but there is no "safari mobile" for desktops :D

@Amithkk no, he cannot ;)

Oli

We can edit but we can't show you. Well we could, but we'd have to permaban you.

Roland Taylor

aka killall -9 you :)

o/ DoR

DoR

4:28 PM

\o

Amith kk

@Oli no i dont wanna see it now. Oh and refering to your older question there i a iOS emu that runs on a Mac

@DoR \o

Oli

/o\

(I'm upside down)

Roland Taylor

=o=

I'm top down :D

DoR

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Amith kk

⤲0 0
⤲.^.
⤲\_/

DoR

4:32 PM

Synaptic removed from 11.10? That's it, I'm moving to Arch!

3

Oli

I was about to say how weird it would be if we were all stick-people but that reminded me of a far entertaining conversation I had with my significant other a little while ago. She's clever (really clever and she's a doctor) but apparently when she reads something all the people in it are stick figures. I'd love to be able to hop into other people's heads sometimes.

Pretty special.

Rinzwind

@DoR synaptic was overrated anyways! apt-get ftw

DoR

@Rinzwind I know, I almost never use synaptic.

Amith kk

Whoever misses Synaptic can use aptitude

Oli

@Amithkk Why do you keep suggesting aptitude-curses and not aptitude?

Amith kk

4:35 PM

Its awesome

I got a q ,My friend refuses to switch to linux

Oli

It's the same thing

Amith kk

Opt 1 :Sabotage windows

Opt 2 :Let him continue using windows

Your vote counts :)

BBT gotta sleep

Oli

Don't force people to do things they don't want to. They won't thank you for it and they'll just go back to Windows.

Roland Taylor

I use synaptic because aptitude gtk needs work

I could use aptitude (from the cmd) but... it's a bit tricky

@JorgeCastro do you know if we will be forced to use the GNOME-Tweak-Tool in 11.10 final? (Or will we get an updated GNOME-Appearance-Properties?)

Takkat

4:56 PM

has few pre-supper minutes Hi

Oli

Why is wifi signal level in minus-dBm?

And why is the "link quality" out of 70?

htorque

DBm

dBm (sometimes dBmW) is an abbreviation for the power ratio in decibels (dB) of the measured power referenced to one milliwatt (mW). It is used in radio, microwave and fiber optic networks as a convenient measure of absolute power because of its capability to express both very large and very small values in a short form. Compare dBW, which is referenced to one watt (1000 mW). Since it is referenced to the watt, it is an absolute unit, used when measuring absolute power. By comparison, the decibel (dB) is a dimensionless unit, used for quantifying the ratio between two values, suc...

that's why ;-)

Oli

Argl. Pop.

Need less physics, less Django and more cider.

htorque

5:16 PM

no physics at all, just math :P

Rinzwind

math O+

Oli you can start painting my 1st gold badge I think >:D

there it is \o/

htorque

look, @Rinzwind got a yellow point :P

Rinzwind

:D

and Oli made it look extra extra shiney

htorque

to beat Jorge, you just need 7 more :D

Rinzwind

I am never gonna beat Jorge :-X

I would not dare, let alone try :D

Takkat

5:54 PM

@Rinzwind woohoo \o/ Congrats!!!

Rinzwind

tx and I am on a roll today \o

Takkat

today only? This I don't believe :P

Rinzwind

well normally I do not roll >:D

Takkat

rolling Rinzwind :D

Rinzwind

I did not get my silver badge for this one yet: askubuntu.com/questions/50308/what-is-the-default-swap-size/…

look at the comment of boej

askubuntu.com/questions/a50402/…

I only did a search on ubuntuforums :X

Takkat

6:03 PM

nice - must of us don't know...

My last silver badge came from Alaukik's edits - he didn't leave much of the original, not even my shot (:

It was not that bad the first time...

Rinzwind

I have a rather funny memory. when I read something I like I -will- remember it for a long long time and 99 out of a 100 times I guess right when someone asks about something I once read

it's not like I know it for a fact but something inside goes ping when I see what is the correct answer :D

Takkat

yeah that's a precious thing to have. I only remember I have read that before but never where I read it

useless then!

htorque

@Takkat it's unbelievable... wednesday morning i returned the package, today they moved it about 2km - that's all they did in two work days! :D

Rinzwind

like the one about swap. I knew the answer cuz I once saw the sourcecode for it posted somewhere. No idea where it was but I even remembered the source codes comments had soooooooo many typos >:D

Takkat

@htorque Snails can't do better - don't be harsh!

Rinzwind

6:06 PM

@htorque try gps it and see if all they did was visit terasses >:D

htorque

:D

Rinzwind

maybe they took it binge-drinking :-D

htorque

in my next life i'm going to "work" as delivery man :D

Takkat

DHL at work

htorque

lol

Takkat

6:11 PM

loves these kind of paintings

Rinzwind

my delivery service is even worse :X still no logitech remote ps3 thingy

Takkat

well it says "remote"

who do you blame?

htorque

lol²

Rinzwind

I blame "postnl"

wanna bet they deliver on saturdays cuz they think I'd not be home anyways?

Takkat

@Rinzwind just checked on their page: every other word is 'snel'

Rinzwind

6:15 PM

yeah

they renamed themself about 5 times in 25 years or so

Takkat

"Hoe laat komt mijn pakket?"

It says...

don't they use digital watches?

htorque

hoe? i hope that's dutch, else i gotta flag it :D

Rinzwind

hoe = how

Takkat

why do they have a secondhand on their watch?

Oli

Well I'm waiting for one of these to be delivered. And by Jove, as soon as it get's here, I'm going to connect to every WiFi AP in a 300metre radius.

Rinzwind

6:19 PM

wordly translated it would be "how late does my package arrive" so
"When does my package arrive"

@Oli wow

htorque

nice

Takkat

Oli this looks dangerous

htorque

i built something "similar" and it boosted my range quite a bit

Rinzwind

sure does :D you can poke someones eyes out with it!

Takkat

@htorque my yagi didn't work... :(

Oli

6:21 PM

I've been considering making a cantenna but the lack of fuss (and sums) for these won me over.

Rinzwind

btw! Oli did you see an article today about 2 consortiums wanting to make wireless roaming worldwide

mine... similar

Rofl

mine too

wow you can poke 6 peoples eye out with one swing!

and one even gets a double poke!

htorque

6:22 PM

1mm off and it doesn't work

Takkat

0,5 mm rather

Oli

@Rinzwind I didn't. Are they suggesting it be free? Or just that people should be able to roam (at extortionate cost)?

Rinzwind

hold on Ill try and find an english source

Takkat

I read it supposed to be a bit costly

Oli

If it's not on /. it didn't happen.

htorque

6:24 PM

internet should be free for everyone world-wide :)

4

Rinzwind

theregister.co.uk/2011/06/23/wi_fi_roaming

htorque

(not only for those that can hack wep APs :D)

Rinzwind

@Oli the sun setting is not on /. but it did happen ;)

Oli

@Rinzwind Lies, hax and photoshop.

2

Rinzwind

@Oli just a background ;)

Oli

6:26 PM

Cracking WEP is just easier (and in most cases, faster) than signing up and signing in to a public hot spot.

5

That's the sad state of hotspot technology for you, I guess.

Not that I condone any such behaviour as a moderator. Be good, children.

Takkat

there are enough non-encrypted ones around - no need for cracks

htorque

the number of wep "secured" aps has decreased imo

Takkat

only after they told us that we are being made responsible if someone does evil things

htorque

at my parent's flat i get ~80 APs and only 4 of them use wep

four years ago it was like 15

Oli

@htorque Not round here. O2 is an ADSL ISP (as well as a mobile provider) and all their routers (I can see 10 from here using a crappy little USB stick) use WEP by default.

htorque

6:31 PM

that's ugly

Takkat

here most WEP pre-installed routers died of age by now

htorque

exactly :D

the good thing about lead-free solder :D

Takkat

some WiiFi periphery does not understand WPA :(

Oli

I think they probably do it because some old devices (eg Nintendo DS) don't support WPA and they don't want support calls from their customers.

htorque

i understand what it means to allow someone in your network, so i don't care how much it costs to replace unsecure hardware

but how many people care?

Oli

6:34 PM

About having an unsecure network? To be honest, I don't think a lot of people know that WEP only gets you about 10 seconds of protection.

htorque

on the other hand, you can always use an open ap plus vpn...

yeah, likely

Oli

There's still somebody stealing your bandwidth, even if they can't steal your data.

htorque

i'd send them to a page showing some honeypot output :D

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Limiting the download rate of apt-get http://bit.ly/iZcR0I #1104

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htorque

5

Q: How do I clean up my dconf database?

Dconf is pretty young, yet my database is already a mess with lots of "schema-less" keys. Is there a way to do some cleaning up, or would I need to start from scratch (by removing ~/.config/dconf/user I guess)?

dconf maintenance

man, why did people vote on this? would have been perfect for tumbleweed...

Rinzwind

6:43 PM

lol

well I did cuz I thought it was a good question. sorry

Takkat

@htorque they all want an answer?

FlackBot

@Takkat Hey, nice to see you!

Takkat

I didn't talk to Flacky!

Flacky has a mental disease!

Rinzwind

just means his weird owner is around ;)

Takkat

oooh - in disguise scary

htorque

6:47 PM

they all

FlackBot

@htorque Hey, nice to see you!

htorque

lol

@GeorgeEdison ^^ - another regexp fail ;-)

Rinzwind

@htorque when I was in Boston they had free internet in the center of town. That was absolutely amazing thing to use there. In NYC I had to use a credit card where they charged 10 euro a minute :-X

Takkat

good find @htorque! t

BRB phone

Roland Taylor

Hey guys I need some help quick

Rinzwind

6:53 PM

Peter Falk died :-(

Roland Taylor

nautilus refuses to start with this error:

Eel:ERROR:eel-preferences.c:107:preferences_gconf_value_get_bool: assertion failed: (value->type == GCONF_VALUE_BOOL)
Aborted

who is Peter Falk?

Rinzwind

Never heard of "Columbo"?

actor; won 4 emmy's :D

try this Roland: gksu "nautilus --no-desktop"

Roland Taylor

oh

I remember his name vaguely

Rinzwind

did you run nautilus as root? >:D

Roland Taylor

trying now

Rinzwind

6:55 PM

source: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1183351

Roland Taylor

it dies as root too

Rinzwind

cool. you broke it \o

Roland Taylor

but I don't know how I broke it O.o

I haven't done anything but install a few updates/apps today

and change the quicklist for my home folder

Rinzwind

source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/0.2/+bug/798039
The error is because some variables on gconf (i don't know why) are not Booleans, but strings.

I solved the problem with gconf-editor, changing some keys data type on apps/nautilus. They show the value "FALSE" or "TRUE". Create a new key with the same name but with boolean type, and you will be replacing the old keys.

I just did it, but can't remember what keys I have changed, but they are related with nautilus elementary (two of them are rgba_colormap on app/nautilus/preferences and volumes_visible on apps/nautilus/desktop)

.... so happy fishing around gconf >:D

Roland Taylor

o.o

Rinzwind

6:58 PM

lol

would help if the error had the gconf setting in the message :-X

but that would be too easy I guess :D

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