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jokerdino

2:00 PM

ah, should have added a new answer?

i guess it is a dupe anyway

penreturn

hahhha dupe of?

jokerdino

never mind.

i am hallucinating

Eliah Kagan

@penreturn Approved (and edited slightly for clarity).

penreturn

thanks man!

Takkat

> "Update Manager" to scan your system for available software and hardware updates.

O.o

jokerdino

2:03 PM

woah

Takkat

I wish that would work!

One click new CPU

penreturn

hehehehe

Takkat

or moar RAM, or the newes graphic card....

Eliah Kagan

I think the idea behind that wording was that it would fetch updates for drivers and some firmware.

smartboyhw

Is this a dup or?

0

A: Ubuntu system updates

Upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS To upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a desktop system: Open Software Sources. Switch to the Updates tab and set Notify me of a new Ubuntu version to For any new version. Press Alt+F2 and type in update-manager -d (without the quotes) into the command box. Update ...

Eliah Kagan

2:04 PM

@smartboyhw I'm quite sure it is a duplicate. Let me find the question.

@smartboyhw Here we go:

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Q: How do I upgrade to the development release (aka. Ubuntu+1)?

I've seen that Unity with compiz is availiable as a ppa for natty, but I'm using Maverick. How do I 'upgrade' my system to Natty so I can try out the new nifty Unity desktop ?

smartboyhw

@EliahKagan Close vote it then (though I got an answer for it)

hakermania

@Takkat yes, it works just fine!

Eliah Kagan

@smartboyhw Already done. (And with my last close vote of the day!) It still needs 4 more votes, though.

Takkat

@smartboyhw "wow thank" you but no upvote - boo

smartboyhw

@Takkat True boo I am crying:(

Takkat

2:08 PM

@hakermania great!

smartboyhw

@EliahKagan Thx

penreturn

hehhehehee

Eliah Kagan

@Takkat It's not always possible to upvote. New users cannot, and as you know, one only gets so many votes per day. Of course, I have no idea what the context is for this, so what I am saying may or may not be relevant.

Takkat

@EliahKagan let me upvote for Jeff then ;)

Jeff may have just forgotten to do so. Or they don't know yet how to do that.

smartboyhw

Thx guys

penreturn

2:12 PM

np @smartboyhw

smartboyhw

@penreturn :)

I think that is one of my best answers on askubuntu

penreturn

ahahahhaa

jokerdino

If you weren't cheeky enough to suggest a XORG ppa for a kernel question, I would have taken your posts more seriously.

smartboyhw

Grrrr

Takkat

I was looking a this: askubuntu.com/questions/197087/… - Voice Control for BIOS. "No, I said" - "No!" - "N. O. O. O." ;)

jokerdino

2:18 PM

@Takkat LOOOL

smartboyhw

@Takkat lmao!~

penreturn

1 user 2 acc ... askubuntu.com/users/94932/woozie same with askubuntu.com/users/94893/woozie

Eliah Kagan

@Takkat The best vocalists could download librettos for their BIOS firmware updates and flash them operatically.

Takkat

LOL

Voice commands free - Download NOW

jokerdino

@penreturn looks like it

penreturn

2:21 PM

@jokerdino alamakk :D

Eliah Kagan

@penreturn Yes, they are almost certainly the same, as can be seen here:

jokerdino

kamala

Eliah Kagan

1

Q: NVIDIA proprietary driver logging me to console instead of GUI

Firstly i want to apologise for any mistakes, English is not my native language. My problem is I can't get NVIDIA proprietary drivers to work. I tried to install it on Ubuntu 12.04.1 32 and 64 bits, Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2, Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon 64 bits and openSUSE 12.2 64 bits and the error code ...

nvidia xorg proprietary xserver

jokerdino

@EliahKagan woah three people

penreturn

yeahh i was looking at that post

Takkat

2:22 PM

Clones!

jokerdino

Nope. just two.

smartboyhw

Even accounts have dupes!

jokerdino

That's the sorta reason I was looking forward to proposing mandatory registration for asking questions.

penreturn

@smartboyhw +1 !!! hahhaha

Takkat

They may have forgotten their password.

smartboyhw

2:23 PM

@penreturn lol

jokerdino

@jokerdino No idea what that sentence means.

Eliah Kagan

@jokerdino We do allow multiple accounts, but in this situation, it's unlikely the user wants more than one account, since it would be unusual for someone to prefer to work on the same question with more than one account. So when I flagged this post for conversion to a comment, I used a custom flag and suggested the accounts be merged.

jokerdino

@EliahKagan I know, yes i have done both the flags.

penreturn

linux, linuix, ubunto playonlinix

jokerdino

> Merge user with askubuntu.com/users/94932/woozie

@penreturn terrible

penreturn

2:27 PM

so about spelling... do we need to change if only to edit 1 words?

jokerdino

sure

penreturn

ohh okey

Takkat

@penreturn there were edit-suggestions to only remove a blank :/ That is going too far imo

penreturn

hahhahhahaha

smartboyhw

@Takkat yeah but then what is the point really?

Takkat

2:29 PM

But if the word is essential in terms of search&find - we do have to edit this

Eliah Kagan

@penreturn If you're thinking of this, there were multiple instances of the misspelling, and multiple misspellings, so definitely yes. But I already did the edit. ;-) (If I missed anything, you should go ahead and edit, of course.)

penreturn

i edit some question / answer just to add <kbd></kbd> :D

Eliah Kagan

@Takkat Unless it's in a question that has been closed as a duplicate. Then we should consider leaving the misspelling, so people can find the dupe by searching with the misspelling (and thus find the master question through the dupe).

^ (my opinion)

penreturn

@EliahKagan alright sir

smartboyhw

How come I don't get the Guru badge?....

jokerdino

2:30 PM

@smartboyhw You need 40 upvotes.

smartboyhw

@jokerdino Wait I am wondering then

Eliah Kagan

@penreturn IMO that is a good thing to do. It often substantially improved clarity.

penreturn

you get star for that question

smartboyhw

Accepted answer and score of 40 or more

Someone change it to votes please....

Takkat

@smartboyhw Go for Legendary!!!

penreturn

2:31 PM

i will add some screenshot if i found it will help new user

Eliah Kagan

@smartboyhw Well, it has to be a score of 40 on the same question; it's not the total.

smartboyhw

@EliahKagan Grr same question, the one I just got the answer......

jokerdino

40 reputation points =! 40 score

penreturn

4 upvotes

smartboyhw

@jokerdino Someone teach me the concept plz

jokerdino

2:33 PM

@smartboyhw I'll give you the link to FAQ and you read it thorough.

faq

penreturn

askubuntu.com/badges

Takkat

askubuntu.com/badges/18/guru look at the post that made them. They are all listed.

Eliah Kagan

score = upvotes - downvotes

penreturn

before u get Guru for sure you have askubuntu.com/badges/23/nice-answer 1st

Takkat

40 upvotes and accepted.

smartboyhw

2:34 PM

@Takkat wow

jokerdino

40 final score and accepted.

Takkat

@jokerdino right it could be 60 downvotes and 100 upvotes... theoretically.

penreturn

lol

jokerdino

@Takkat yeah. some answers pick up a couple of stray downvotes along the way

smartboyhw

@Takkat Yeah it could be 1000 downvotes and 1040 upvotes:D

Takkat

2:38 PM

There also are few users who random vote here and there...

Eliah Kagan

@Takkat That's actually a quite plausible situation on meta, where voting means something a bit different and downvotes are much more common than on main (though our site will have to grow before it's likely to happen...that sort of thing does, I think, happen on Meta.SO).

penreturn

random votes?

jokerdino

@Takkat Like me :D

askubuntu.com/posts/131027/revisions

Woah, a link to a complete answer

penreturn

4 more T..T

jokerdino

Ouch.

smartboyhw

2:42 PM

This is a duplicate

0

Q: Apt-get saying "Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."

TL;DR: sudo apt-get install ... saying "Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages." I was trying to get the WebApps feature for PP and QQ following this blog post. I ran the sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webapps/preview command to add the repository, but i got a connection err...

apt package-management packages

of

30

Q: How do I resolve unmet dependencies?

How do I resolve unmet package dependencies? occasionally, when I'm installing stuff, I get an error like the following: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages ...

apt package-management

Takkat

BBL

jokerdino

I am done with this torture.

smartboyhw

@jokerdino ?

msPeachy

I admit SU mods are fast but they're not as efficient as AU mods.

jokerdino

@msPeachy What?

msPeachy

2:45 PM

link answers are not even commented but mostly upvoted

jokerdino

@msPeachy that has nothing to do with mods.

HackToHell

@msPeachy You do not want to tell that to them in Root Access

jokerdino

users upvote.. not mods.

HackToHell

They bite

msPeachy

@jokerdino I know but the Review list is empty and there are posts that should have been actioned upon

@HackToHell lol

I bite back

jokerdino

2:46 PM

@msPeachy well then, you still can't blame it on the mods.

msPeachy

sort of

jokerdino

the mods are diamonds. not every reviewer on SU is a mod.

msPeachy

Review is clean but posts needs to be cleaned

jokerdino

and half of them are only doing it for badges. not because they really want to do it

msPeachy

well the reviewers too

HackToHell

2:47 PM

@jokerdino what badge ?

jokerdino

@HackToHell the five gold badges

gold 0_O

O_o

@jokerdino I guess

superuser.com/badges/156/steward

msPeachy

2:49 PM

unlike Eliah

Eliah should be mod

jokerdino

Yes ofcourse.

HackToHell

That's what the new bar says huh, how close you are to a gold !

jokerdino

I remember nominating izx and Eliah for the next election.

Just curious, is that gravatar yours @msPeachy?

(I also reserved the third nomination slot for myself, for those who are curious)

msPeachy

@jokerdino I'll nominate you

If I'm allowed to

@jokerdino oh okay good

penreturn

wewww

smartboyhw

2:52 PM

Who actually stupidly starred that "Guru badge" post duh?

msPeachy

@jokerdino of course its mine. it is me

jokerdino

Well, what I am saying above has no real life impact. Just what I had in mind.

@msPeachy wah seh

msPeachy

remind me, what's wah seh again?

jokerdino

shock

Eliah Kagan

@smartboyhw I think that if you want one of your starred posts to not be starred, you can click the star on it and remove it (even though you were not, of course, the one who starred it, as one cannot star one's own posts).

HackToHell

2:53 PM

2

Q: Common folder in linux

I have two users on my Ubuntu machine. I want to share some media files between these users, so I created a directory in /home/ called 'media'. I made the group 'media' and I added my user 'rks171' to the group 'media'. So: sudo groupadd media sudo mkdir -p /home/media sudo chown -R root.medi...

permissions shared-folders

What did the OP do wrong ?

msPeachy

@jokerdino lol

jokerdino

@msPeachy It's Singlish.

@HackToHell he made a mistake using sudo

msPeachy

which is the -lish part?

jokerdino

Singlish vocabulary

Singlish is the English-based creole or patois spoken colloquially in Singapore. Although English is the lexifier language, Singlish has its unique slang and syntax, which are more pronounced in informal speech. Word origins Singlish vocabulary formally takes after British English (in terms of spelling and abbreviations), although naming conventions are in a mix of American and British ones (with American ones on the rise). For instance, local media have "sports pages" (sport in British English) and "soccer coverage" ("soccer"—originally slang for Association football—while use...

HackToHell

@jokerdino where ?

jokerdino

2:57 PM

should not have used sudo

HackToHell

ah I get it

penreturn

@msPeachy wah :D seh /sey sing - johore slang

msPeachy

what?

HackToHell

Answer it @jokerdino

jokerdino

@msPeachy It's Malaysian - Singaporean slang

@HackToHell I would but what if I am wrong?

HackToHell

2:58 PM

Delete the answer, I do dumb things like that once in a while

jokerdino

aha

msPeachy

@HackToHell aha

HackToHell

No one has found my dumb answers yet :)

@msPeachy ??

smartboyhw

@HackToHell lol

HackToHell

Did you log in after adding yourself to the group? Or are you using your old session from before the changes? — Hennes 37 secs ago

Comment baffles me

jokerdino

3:01 PM

well, i am outta that

HackToHell

AFAIK, changes are made to ext3 so logging in and out must not matter

but then he has 6k rep so i am probably wrong

jokerdino

nah

msPeachy

@HackToHell nvm

jokerdino

lol @hack he hasn't added himself to the group

HackToHell

but he has

Eliah Kagan

3:05 PM

@HackToHell Hennes is asking if rks171 is working in a login session started since the user account was added to the group. Changes associated with a user being in a new group (including them appearing in that group when they check) usually don't take effect for sessions that were started before the change.

HackToHell

> sudo usermod -a -G media rks171

jokerdino

oh right. i am so dumb

HackToHell

@EliahKagan No it's instantaneous !

Atleast for me

jokerdino

$ touch /home/media/file.txt
touch: cannot touch `/home/media/file.txt': Permission denied

i get the same problem

smartboyhw

@jokerdino sudo?

HackToHell

3:08 PM

It was instantaneous in my vps

jokerdino

@smartboyhw that's not the problem.

HackToHell

I am bloody sure about that

jokerdino

i am sure logging out and in doesn't help

@HackToHell SHUP

HackToHell

kk

jokerdino

That was the problem. I'll update it with the answer. Thanks a lot Hennes. — rks171 4 mins ago

HackToHell

3:11 PM

0

A: Common folder in linux

As Hennes pointed out in the comment section, I needed to restart my session by logging out and back in before the settings would take effect. Everything works fine now. This reminds me of a joke that I can't help but post: Four men rode in a car: a mechanical engineer, an electrical engine...

I AM DUMB !!

jokerdino

it took you so long

smartboyhw

/me wonders why everyone says he is dumb...

@smartboyhw is stupid anyway

Eliah Kagan

Is this a duplicate of that? I am unsure.

HackToHell

3 mins ago, by jokerdino

i am sure logging out and in doesn't help

jokerdino

@HackToHell i was talking to myself

HackToHell

3:13 PM

:P :P

jokerdino

:P

go to bed

me ?

nah

:'(

me?

3:15 PM

@HackToHell There's an extraneous T character left from your edit, which you may want to remove. (I cannot, as I don't have enough rep to make such a minor edit on SU.)

jokerdino

I am afraid that joke was nice.

HackToHell

@EliahKagan sorry fixed

jokerdino

I don't see why it was edited out.

The Interrupter

Where should I be looking/learning about the changes between Ubuntu (server) editions? http://askubuntu.com/q/197086?atw=1 #server

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on October 6, 2012 at 3:01 PM

jokerdino

@TheInterrupter o.O

smartboyhw

3:18 PM

@TheInterrupter O.o

msPeachy

why do I get this when I confirm to create an SE account

HackToHell

:6395829 It seems to --- ISP --- proxy related

jokerdino

you are behind ultrasurf proxy

msPeachy

okay got it

how do I find out all my SE accounts

jokerdino

stackexchange.com/users/1573419/mspeachy?tab=accounts

msPeachy

3:21 PM

yes I'm there but SU is not listed there

jokerdino

yeah looks like a bug

ask on meta.so.

msPeachy

okay

HackToHell

Oh god

msPeachy

@HackToHell why aren't you on Root Access?

jokerdino

@msPeachy he likes you

HackToHell

3:24 PM

@jokerdino :/

jokerdino

admit the truth!

HackToHell

@msPeachy No one is there !

msPeachy

oh he's there but he can't make noise there

there's boris

HackToHell

@jokerdino why should I jump in the bandwagon all of a sudden ?

jokerdino

@HackToHell take your time ;)

HackToHell

3:25 PM

@jokerdino The biggest issue is it usually screws with /etc/init.

How bad is that statement

Quite

where is meta.so

meta.so

3:43 PM

bye all

Amith KK

3:56 PM

appears

msPeachy

good night dino

penreturn

am i answering this question?

jokerdino

@msPeachy night

Eliah Kagan

What does this mean?

See no need to copy information — den4ik 1 min ago

jokerdino

@penreturn sure

@EliahKagan he misunderstood you

penreturn

3:57 PM

hohooh okey

Eliah Kagan

@jokerdino Do you know how he misunderstood? I'm not sure how to reply to clarify, since I don't know the nature of the misunderstanding.

penreturn

@EliahKagan he's following kamil answer i think

msPeachy

I think he means he doesn't need to copy the essential part of the answer from the source

jokerdino

@EliahKagan he read you exactly oppositve

penreturn

eh how come the edit got color? wewww nice

Eliah Kagan

4:03 PM

@penreturn Yeah, it is cool. I didn't realize you could put markup in an individual post to determine what kind of syntax highlighting its formatted code gets. But apparently you can! See the markdown for how it was done.

penreturn

ohhh man... i still dont understand... sorry im not very good in english

Eliah Kagan

@penreturn This line was added to the top of the post in the most recent edit:

penreturn

ohhh okeyy! hhahahhaa thanks @EliahKagan

Eliah Kagan

Syntax highlighting is supported on a number of Stack Exchange sites including Ask Ubuntu, but for it to work, there has to be some way to know what language the code is in. For example, Python code would be highlighted according to different rules than bash script code. On Ask Ubuntu, certain tags (like bash) cause formatted code in posts to get syntax highlighting for certain languages (for the bash tag, bash).

What I wasn't aware of until now, is that there is apparently a second way for a post to get syntax highlighting--the post itself can contain an HTML comment that specifies what language code in the post will be in.

Maybe this is a new feature.

penreturn

i see... i just know that... hhahahhaahhaha

can you help me explain to him.. im sure he cant understand what the command was
http://askubuntu.com/questions/197149/is-there-any-way-to-keep-launchers-synchronized-among-machines/197151#comment245321_197151

Takkat

4:13 PM

@EliahKagan cool - didn't knwo that :)

Eliah Kagan

@penreturn It seems to me that he does understand what you are saying to do, and how it works. (Either that, or I also do not understand.)

penreturn

ahahhahahha... yep he do need to run that command everytime he want to put new apps ...

ManjotSingh

Hello, Anyone here?

penreturn

yeah hello

ManjotSingh

Can I ask here how to install web-cam driver in Ubuntu 12.04.1, as I installed Ubuntu today only.

penreturn

4:29 PM

have you test your webcam?

ManjotSingh

It was working on Windows.

Windows got corrupted, so Ubuntu is open source and I went with it.

penreturn

well try install cheese apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/cheese

ManjotSingh

sudo apt-get install cheese

Will above code run?

penreturn

yepp

sudo apt-get install <everything you need> For start, might be things like vim, emacs, gcc, python3, vlc, gnome-tweak-tool, compizconfig-setting-manager, etc — piyush 2 mins ago

nicee

Mahesh

4:56 PM

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNG

@ObsessiveFOSS !!!!!

bye. :D

penreturn

5:18 PM

Fast question... anybody....

ObsessiveFOSS

@penreturn Sorry, I was away, but go ahead.

penreturn

about startup application

ObsessiveFOSS

OK. What is the question?

penreturn

can we load command from network?
like conky -c /networkpath

i just want to make 1 master script to load on startup from network for this question

ObsessiveFOSS

You can do anything you can otherwise do, assuming the network share is mounted and functioning.

penreturn

5:32 PM

this user want to use 1 file to make all launcher apps synchronize. so i suggest him to make 1 startup apps ... he just need to add/remove from 1 source

ObsessiveFOSS

@penreturn The master script(the one directly run from Startup applications) is responsible for getting the remote script from the network share. If it can, it overwrites the local copy of the actual script with the actual startup items, and if it cannot connect for some reason, it just rns the old version,

Just copy the actual remote script from the network share if you can, and execute it, whether it was copied or not.

If it wasn't copied since the share was unavailable, it just runs the old version that is still there on disk.

penreturn

yeahhh thats what i mean... so its possible :) thanks @ObsessiveFOSS

ObsessiveFOSS

This also helps since it still works if the net is down. Please do give credit in your answer. No need to make it CW.

You can also quote directly with > at the beginning of the line.

@penreturn --^

penreturn

ahahhaa i donno how to explain to this user ... coz i tot he dont understand me :D

ObsessiveFOSS

5:51 PM

Explain to him the master script to get the actual script from the server, chmod the local copy to make it executable, and execute it.

penreturn

orite sir!

The Interrupter

6:02 PM

Is there any way to keep launchers synchronized among machines? http://askubuntu.com/q/197149?atw=1 #launcher

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on October 6, 2012 at 6:01 PM

penreturn

please see my revision ...

Roland Taylor

7:00 PM

hey guys

@jrg I saw that...

penreturn

7:20 PM

0

Q: Thunderbird new messages indicator didn't show after upgrade to 12.10

After upgrade thunderbird constantly won't show in the indicator area new messages. Didn't find working solution.

indicator thunderbird 12.10

Roland Taylor

7:35 PM

Hey ya'll

I think my boot problem on this system is that grub is broken (the filesystem is fine)

I'm going to try to reinstall grub and see if it works. My only challenge (or concern) is that 12.10 has a newer version of grub.

penreturn

\o/ gud luck!

Roland Taylor

I just remembered, I'm on a 32 bit live USB and my system is a 64 bit :D

Oh, and I have another laptop now (got it from a job I did today) - but it won't turn on/charge (might be the power cord)

It's a Toshiba p300 (not sure of the model number)

penreturn

:D

rafalcieslak

hey guys

I've just noticed the new review mode

how new is it?

it totally rocks!

penreturn

not sure since im not core in review :D

Roland Taylor

7:48 PM

:( no hope at this point yet

still can't boot

what is wrong with grub?!

jrg

@RolandTaylor seeing what?

@RolandTaylor you can install a 32-bit grub on a 64 bit install.

Roland Taylor

@jrg oh cool

xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub (is /dev mounted?).

I've had this problem before, but the big problem right now is... how do I get around it :P

I can't chroot on this system because it's not a 64bit one

I could make a 64bit live USB, but I'll only do that as a last resort (tired from a long day of lifting boxes and walking up and down)

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