Ask Ubuntu General Room

jrg

3:03 PM

its sometimes easier for me to open a new tab than to find the tab

Jorge Castro

hey @jrg I can't get any of these 2 methods to work (the tumblr) ones

github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/blog-migrations

can you try it? I am pretty sure it's my ruby thing not finding gems

jrg

does a new clone of octopress

sure

Jorge Castro

$ ruby -rubygems -e 'require "jekyll/migrators/tumblr"; Jekyll::Tumblr.process("http://www.your_blog_url.com", true)'

my blog is castrojo.tumblr.com if you want to try it

Octavian Damiean

O hai @ManishSinha!

Manish Sinha

@jrg Install activity-log-manager-control-center

@OctavianDamiean hey

jokerdino

3:13 PM

@jrg I told you so (@ManishSinha)

jrg

@ManishSinha shouldn't it be installed by default in 12.04 though? In other words, i'm asking "is this a bug"?

Manish Sinha

@jokerdino @jrg It will be put in iso seeds

by 13-14th

it is uploaded

to check if nothing breaks

and also to pass the NEW queue (if Ubuntu has it)

jokerdino

Oh right. It is there but not there.

Manish Sinha

switch will be flipped

in the next release of alm

jrg

@JorgeCastro i think you need to install the 'nokogiri' gem.

Manish Sinha

3:14 PM

ruby. :)

jokerdino

The activity journal can never be opened in Precise :(

Manish Sinha

@jokerdino you too facing this issue?

Jorge Castro

@ManishSinha yeah, ruby. :O

@jrg ok I will give that a shot

jokerdino

@ManishSinha For almost a month.

Manish Sinha

ah

Activity journal crashes on Ubuntu P

When trying to start the activity journal in P I get the following: Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap", Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/gnome-activity-journal", line 97, in <module> from src.main import PortalWindow File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/main.py", line 31, in <module> from activity_widgets import MultiViewContainer, TimelineViewContainer, ThumbViewContainer File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/activity_widgets.py", line 41, in <module> from store import ContentStruct, CLIENT File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/store.py", line 588, in <module> STORE = Store() File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/store.py", line 411, in __init__ days_population = CLIENT_EXTENSION.GetHistogramData() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zeitgeist/client.py", line 120, in _ProxyMethod lambda: getattr(self.__iface, name), *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dis…

GNOME Activity Journal

Undecided / Fix Committed

I fixed it in trunk

jokerdino

3:16 PM

I marked it as affecting me.

Manish Sinha

but need to push any MOTU to update the package

@jokerdino can you confirm this is the issue

try opening from console

jokerdino

Same thing.

Manish Sinha

@jokerdino file the bug please bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-activity-journal/+filebug

this thing needs to be ported to pygi

jrg

weird, @JorgeCastro are you getting the CGI (LoadError) as well?

jokerdino

@ManishSinha It is the same end result, but different bug you mean?

Manish Sinha

3:19 PM

nope

your looks like a seperateb ug

jokerdino

Hmm, ok filing it then.

Manish Sinha

please use apport

if possible

jokerdino

Sure.

jrg

hangon, I think I figured it out @JorgeCastro.

Jorge Castro

@jrg hey if it imports for you, wanna just tarball up the pages?

that would save me a hella amount of time

jrg

3:24 PM

yeah, i will

let me check my oneiric, because i seem to remember some bug with precise and 1.9.*

jokerdino

@ManishSinha bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-activity-journal/+bug/… not sure if this is a duplicate bug.

Manish Sinha

if it is found to be so, then will mark it as so.

Jorge Castro

@jrg heh yeah, my whole household is precise except the xbmc box, and I'm not going to go through that install on an Atom. :)

jrg

heh

Odd, i can't get cgi. Odd....

rlemon

►

lol - but every canadian should watch.

Marco Ceppi

3:45 PM

Canada needs: FEWER SQUIRRELS

jokerdino

how do i remove alternate lines in bash?

or empty lines would do as well

jrg

@JorgeCastro weird, i can't get this working

Jorge Castro

whew, so I'm not totally retarded

jrg

ok, this is going to sound stupid, but

whatever happened to good 'ol rss imports? :P

Amith KK

Hello guys :D

jokerdino

3:48 PM

Hi Amith

I am actually liking the non dodgy launcher now.

My productivity shot up by a few miles.

Amith KK

Hey @jokerdino

@ManishSinha was here? :D

jokerdino

Fellow Bangalorean!

Manish Sinha

@AmithKK still here

@jokerdino me too :)

Amith KK

Yeah :D

@ManishSinha Heh.. Me too

Manish Sinha

so we have 3 bangaloreans here

jokerdino

3:49 PM

OK not me.

Manish Sinha

sorry 2

jokerdino

I was saying on behalf of Amith.

Amith KK

@jokerdino Lets talk about the India-South LoCo

jokerdino

Off topic guys.. New room perhaps?

jrg

its not off-topic

Amith KK

3:50 PM

@jokerdino chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/2453/…

jrg

its around ubuntu.

jokerdino

I have 10 minutes before midnight

jrg

wow.

Amith KK

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/2453/indian-south-loco-discussion

@jokerdino O.O

@jrg How's your LoCo there?

jrg

Its going. need to organize a charm school and then a global jammin' session

Amith KK

3:52 PM

@jrg \o/ Good luck

Hey @RolandTaylor

Sigh ... Apple HAS to stop AutoCorrect by default

jokerdino

@ManishSinha We were discussing the potential of having Ubuntu in Indian English. As a leader of Indian loco, your thoughts to this is crucial.

Amith KK

It corrected this msg:

@jokerdino Psst Room ---->>>

Manish Sinha

@jokerdino which city?

Amith KK

@ManishSinha The whole of south

jrg

@JorgeCastro this might be enough for me to ditch RVM... :S

Jorge Castro

3:55 PM

hah

jrg

idk yet though

Jorge Castro

let's not tell Marco

3

jrg

lol

Manish Sinha

@jokerdino I am not leader of Indian LoCo, but yeah, being a leader does not matter

Jorge Castro

he could probably figure it out in 5 minutes

really though, I can' t believe people put up with this every day

Amith KK

3:55 PM

@JorgeCastro lolol

jrg

Well its spitting a weird cgi require thing.

Jorge Castro

no wonder ruby kids are all druggies

Amith KK

@JorgeCastro ಠ_ಠ We are not druggies (:D)

jrg

@JorgeCastro Hey, I'm not a druggie. ;P

although i did laugh

jokerdino

@ManishSinha Oh hmm.

Manish Sinha

3:56 PM

Indian LoCo is somewhat inactive

but translaters are active

jrg

anyway, i think i can blame some odd code on this, because I had it working last weekish.

jokerdino

What about Indian English? D:

@ManishSinha Wait, you are Indian Loco contact?

Jorge Castro

:)

Manish Sinha

@jokerdino I am one of the contact, but the LoCo is pretty much inactive

because most people are either students

Amith KK

@ManishSinha I can see that, We need to fix that

Manish Sinha

3:58 PM

or work at bangalore (a heavily crowded rush filled city)

yes

we need to

Amith KK

@ManishSinha Tell Me about it! Traffic.....Traffic.....Traffic

Manish Sinha

yeah

jrg

4 days, 20 hours until the election is over. O_o

Roland Taylor

@AmithKK hi

jrg

@RolandTaylor TELL ME NEXT TIME YOU GET DAILY BUILD FAIL MESSAGES ON LAUNCHPAD!!! :P

jokerdino

4:00 PM

@RolandTaylor plus.google.com/u/1/b/102330453873285638035/…

Roland Taylor

@jrg pfff nevah!

jrg

i was totally unaware that it was still running.

now I feel really bad. :S

Marco Ceppi

@JorgeCastro I heard you what you said! :P

jokerdino

Anyway, good night all

Amith KK

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Roland Taylor

4:01 PM

@jokerdino cya

@jokerdino cya

@ManishSinha hi

@RolandTaylor hi

@RolandTaylor ok, I finally killed it. :P

Roland Taylor

@jrg noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

it was all I had left on the desert planet!

jrg

4:02 PM

Now @RolandTaylor won't know what day of the week it is because I removed the nightly PPA build that was failing. :P

Amith KK

@jrg May I have a insight to what is going on?

@AmithKK nope

@AmithKK never.

gaaah :D

4:05 PM

@RolandTaylor Ah, Nice trick

jrg

@RolandTaylor that is evil

Roland Taylor

:>

Amith KK

@DineshCyanam Hello, Welcome to AU chat :D

jrg

4:29 PM

@JorgeCastro i'm about to install rbenv, i'll see if I can get those blog posts for you.

Jorge Castro

sure, no rush or anything

jrg

because the fact that it worked last week is driving me crazy. :P

John

starts typing question; realizes it'd probably be better on the site

:P

rlemon

@RolandTaylor I hate you... goes off to other rooms to trick people with this

jrg

@John Ask there and then drop a link here. :)

John

4:36 PM

@jrg I plan on it. :) Assuming I don't find the question already asked first... I'm still looking.

For all I know my "problem" could be exactly what's supposed to happen. :P

jrg

well what is it?

because I might be able to help

John

Whenever I close a window, instead of going away, like I'm used to, it just blurs.

Is that normal?

Amith KK

@John No

jrg

nope

11.10 or 12.04?

Amith KK

Oh, Where are my manners

John

4:38 PM

As a result, my desktop is littered with dozens of blurry windows.

@jrg 11.10.

Amith KK

Hey @John

John

Just upgraded yesterday then this happened.

@AmithKK Hi!

jrg

Ask on the site, because let me tell you now, thats not the normal behavior.

John

@jrg Alright. Thank you

Thomas Ward

@GeorgeEdison when you're not busy, got a couple of questions for you regarding StackApplet

rlemon

4:39 PM

@John Your desktop was automatically updated to the new 'smart DE', which determines whether or not you actually wanted to close the window.. It appears to me the computer has out smarted you and thinks these windows are in fact meant to be left open. So as a UX decision the designers decided to blur them out. The workaround is to smear your monitor with Unicorn blood off a paint brush made from a Ponies mane.. but that only works if you have compiz

jrg

@John :)

John

@rlemon If that's the case, how do I get them back? :P

Because otherwise, they're useless blurred out.

Roland Taylor

@rlemon :D

jrg

@rlemon um... are you just playing with him?

rlemon

@John i provided a workaround.

John

4:41 PM

@jrg I sure hope so...

Thomas Ward

@rlemon um... you realize this is technically a support room right?

John

@rlemon Right...because Unicorn blood is so easy to get...

Roland Taylor

@MarcoCeppi when you have a sec, why was this deleted: askubuntu.com/a/42543/1992?

rlemon

@John follow Hagrid into the forbidden forest and wait for Voldermort to feast!

Marco Ceppi

7

A: What Media Players Are there?

Exaile Player - http://www.exaile.org/ Exaile is a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python

John

4:43 PM

@rlemon Of course...why didn't I think of that... :P

rlemon

@ThomasWard general discussion. non-offensive off topic trolls have always been acceptable.

Roland Taylor

@MarcoCeppi oh nvm, I see

lol you got there before me

jrg

@RolandTaylor you mean this one? - askubuntu.com/a/42535/6005

John

Ok...it's working now.... UBUNTU Y U MESS WITH MY BRAIN

Windows are going away correctly...

rlemon

I take full credit!

Roland Taylor

4:44 PM

@jrg yesh

John

That started as soon as I tried to take a screenshot to add to my question...

Roland Taylor

@rlemon :D

nice!!!!

Amith KK

Night

John

@rlemon Not being found is the troll, isn't it?

Roland Taylor

We need to make gif that combines them

John

4:44 PM

@AmithKK Goodnight!

rlemon

@John that is an unexpected troll... WP sucks.

John

@rlemon Oooh ok.

jrg

@RolandTaylor I deleted that one because it already listed as an answer.

rlemon

@John WP trolled my trolling attempt to re-troll a troll.

2

Roland Taylor

@jrg yeah

John

4:46 PM

@rlemon Woo! My first mention in a starred message here :P

rlemon

@John make life more interesting... Install the Unicorn Staring UserScript

John

@rlemon The link only tries to install it.... what does it do?

rlemon

when you star or unstar a message unicorns appear.

github.com/rlemon/UserScripts/blob/master/StackExchange/…

John

I think it fixed when this AWN applet quit trying to load...

rlemon

for github take the /raw away from the uri

John

4:49 PM

@rlemon See, I misread that as "Unicorn Staring" as in "Staring at Unicorns".

Methinks it needs another "r".

rlemon

probably

on starr ^

John

@rlemon I remember that! That was a good day. :)

rlemon

on unstarr ^

John

This reminds me: I wonder what SE is doing for April fools this year.

rlemon

grrrr. star is one r... starring is two GET IT RIGHT ROB!

Thomas Ward

4:50 PM

oh god..........

John

I approve. :)

I like the new dock behavior.

rlemon

/me needs to set up a 12.04 VM when I get home tonight... anyone wanna assist me in aprox. 6 hours time?

John

@rlemon I can try, but no guarantees.

rlemon

as payment I can write any (small, time is money) JS scripts or UserScripts for you.. i'm also getting pretty good with GIMP if you need any minor image editing

jrg

@rlemon Sure.

rlemon

4:53 PM

I am a no-fuss no-jquery kinda js developer.

jrg

I can help with 12.04

Heck, i'm running 12.04

rlemon

@jrg will you be around in 6 hours?

noon here, 5pm home time + commute home + bathroom breaks == 6pm :<

jrg

Yeah.

I'm in the same timezone remember. ;)

Roland Taylor

Anyone got some free time to update some old questions/answers?

I'm trying to go through one at a time, looking for outdated info.

I started with this media player list, updating info and adding newer screenshots, but I'm sure there must be more out there that could do with an update :).

John

@rlemon Thanks for that. This link is getting me stars in other rooms now. :P

Octavian Damiean

5:22 PM

is back

Roland Taylor

@OctavianDamiean welcome back so am I

Ask Ubuntu tag cleaners

We update outdated questions/answers as well maintain existing...

Join me, and we will take over the world.

rlemon

in The Bridge, 1 min ago, by rlemon

I will create a auto-star userscript that allows you to input the userID and the keyword(s)

I know people will hate me for this... but It has to be made.

Roland Taylor

That would be pretty useful.

Every time George speaks - should be starred.

rlemon

IF user = jrg AND message.indexOf(keyword) >= 0 THEN gimmie dem unicorns!

Roland Taylor

I would make a George Edison idol, but that's not allowed in my belief system :P.

rlemon

5:36 PM

Whats his id?

John

@rlemon 6005

Roland Taylor

I forgot

brb

John

Wait that's AU.

rlemon

1345 is what I see in the chat.

John

@rlemon Yeah, chat accounts have separate UID's.

rlemon

5:38 PM

@RolandTaylor

var to=[];$('div.user-container.user-1345').each(function(i,el) { to[i] = setTimeout(function() { $(el).find('span.stars:not(.user-star) span.img.vote').first().trigger('click'); }, to.length*1100) });

I auto-Star everything @GeorgeEdison says in the current chat view.

John

I'm seeing 6738

rlemon

chat.stackexchange.com/users/1345

Questions Feed

Boot order won't change http://askubuntu.com/questions/103098/boot-order-wont-change #grub

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on February 10, 2012 at 5:27 PM

John

@rlemon Oooh I had the wrong person. :P

Roland Taylor

@rlemon sweet :D

jrg

5:46 PM

Would you agree that in its current form, this is unanswerable? - askubuntu.com/questions/103110/how-to-harden-a-ubuntu-desktop

Roland Taylor

It's a bit of a "I don't want to Google, and I want to get some opinion, so uh... here" question, but it actually can be answered to some extent.

jrg

i left a comment - i'll let it go at that

Roland Taylor

For example, an answer could consist of:

- Install Pesselus,
- Edit the hosts file
- Use a shared, central firewall
- Find out that they have a group of ten hackers among the 80
- Panic.

(Sorry I couldn't resist the last two lines)

rlemon

- change nothing
- proceed with 80 installations
- Hope to god nothing goes wrong
- ???
- Blame the other guy

Roland Taylor

:D

jrg

6:01 PM

Citizens of Chat, please bring your knowledge and wisdom to bear on this - meta.askubuntu.com/questions/2551/…

1

Q: Couldn't pass the signin screen

I have an issue here with my computer using ubuntu 10.10 on a 64 bits machine. When I start it, I have the login screen, I enter my credentials but instead of starting the session it reloads the login screen again. I checked the disc using fsck and it seems clean. How should I proceed to diagnos...

too localized, see comment.

jrg

6:19 PM

0

Q: How do I enable Unity when using Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2?

At the moment, I am using Ubuntu 10.04 with visual effects on, i.e. with the shadows behind the windows, the windows wobble when moving etc. I downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 and booted up using the livecd and typed echo $DESKTOP_SESSION in a terminal window. It returned Ubuntu-2d. How do I en...

unity 10.04 unity-2d 12.04 lts

off-topic, 12.04

Bruno Pereira

6:30 PM

Alpha2 is failing big time on my computer, think my cd burner is broken :(

rlemon

anyone from ontario canada?

Quick! Someone ping me

jrg

@MarcoCeppi user needs a account merge - askubuntu.com/suggested-edits/7643

@rlemon ping

rlemon

sweet desktop notifications show up on all workspaces.

jrg

good thing or bad thing?

rlemon

since when is 'sweet' used in the negative context

Roland Taylor

6:45 PM

@rlemon we sometimes use it for sarcastic reasons :>

rlemon

I implore you all... we are nerds who sometimes are too caught up in 'correctness' that we miss sarcasm..

^star it, use it.

Roland Taylor

sweet, the pretty woman is cropped out of the picture

^-example of sarcasm (not actually representing my feelings).

0

A: How do I mount a CIFS share?

There is pyNeighborhood which is a gui for mounting samba shares and available in the software centre for download. There is a good article located here on how to set it up and use it. Alternatively the basic terminal command is mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWD //192.168.1.88/...