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12:34 AM

@aking1012 I just use int(11) as my time fields and have the program insert epochs :)

12:46 AM

Wow, I did such a hack to get ssh from one machine to the other... ugh

(protip: ssh forwarding is like, one of the most complicated, most powerful and most ugly tools I have ever used. And yet its so beautiful in its ugliness.)

@JorgeCastro so, about this: askubuntu.com/questions/130499/… you're saying that this is a duplicate, or... i'm confused.

George Edison

I give up.

^--- That was hard to say.

jrg

@GeorgeEdison :(

George Edison

Mingw-w64 is struggling on too many libraries.

It won't even get past the configure stage for GLib.

Marco Ceppi

2:16 AM

We are now number 3 in the network for traffic

2

George Edison

\o/

jokerdino

@MarcoCeppi Oh my wow..

Marco Ceppi

analytics so far don't really show us slowing down either, so keep up the good work!

George Edison

Thanks, bzr:

bzr: ERROR: Don't know how to handle SSH connections. Please set BZR_SSH environment variable.

How did that happen???

Questions Feed

Bounty offered: Creating symlink for Postgres http://askubuntu.com/questions/121896/creating-symlink-for-postgres?atw=1 #symboliclink

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on May 5, 2012 at 2:14 AM

George Edison

2:29 AM

Seems like I need the standalone Bazaar installer.

Amith KK

2:50 AM

Hello all

jokerdino

askubuntu.com/questions/131821/… Someone is stuck with their grub. :)

Chan-Ho Suh

Jokerdino, why does that make you happy? :-/

jokerdino

That is an obligatory smiley face. :)

Amith KK

Yeah, You have to insert it into every other sentence here to make sure that someone doesn't mistake you :)

lol

George Edison

@AmithKK From Super User?

jokerdino

2:58 AM

Yeah, they have clippy on.

Amith KK

@GeorgeEdison Yep

George Edison

I know, we've met :)

Amith KK

And ServerFault has rm -rf

And gameing has that space invaders(?) game

George Edison

There's even one on Stack Overflow.

Bam... a daily build recipe for Stack.PY.

Amith KK

3:17 AM

@GeorgeEdison I Demand you to build a PPA for Nvidia

:P

Please

George Edison

A PPA for Nvidia???

What would I put in it?

Amith KK

Even the latest fix wont fix it :O

WHAT?

@GeorgeEdison For the 295.49 driver

George Edison

3:33 AM

That's beyond my knowledge, I'm afraid.

I don't have the patience to muck around in kernel drivers :P

Amith KK

1

Q: Whats Wrong with my OpenGL

Something is wrong with my OpenGL after my 12.04 upgrade All OpenGL apps run slowly. Including but not limited to Google Earth,glxgears,Draftsight e.t.c My graphics card: Nvidia Zotac 6200 This is my glxgears output amith@amith-desktop:~$ glxgears 12 frames in 5.2 seconds = 2.299 FPS 12 fram...

I guess I have to bounty?

George Edison

I guess so.

jokerdino

Just about 300 rep away from the first page! yay

George Edison

Make that 280 :P

jokerdino

LOL thanks :D

Amith KK

3:38 AM

Wow

Your at 7k

drools

jokerdino

:P

Amith KK

jokerdino

I was at 5k just about a month ago. :)

Amith KK

@jokerdino Yeah

Your quick

Too quick

I think you are a robot

Prove to me your not

jokerdino

not as quick as others.

Amith KK

3:42 AM

by solving 1.3billion captchas

jokerdino

o.O

Amith KK

4:02 AM

@GeorgeEdison Gtalk Now

George Edison

Maybe in a minute.

George Edison

4:21 AM

@AmithKK Okay.

aking1012

4:36 AM

It's irritating when you go to the trouble of upping something to PPA for someone and don't even get an upvote

0

A: Remove Unmet Dependencies error

Install a deb that says it provides aircrack-ng. It appears it used to be in universe, but hasn't been bumped for precise. I just ran a test build only bumping the distribution and it seems to work. I upped the package to PPA. It should be available here pretty soon, if I didn't mess anyt...

Prasad

5:00 AM

Hi all Hi@aking1012 nice pro pic!

Amith KK

Wait.. That was Aking?

Prasad

@aking1012 please don't ignore me, please, forgive me :-{

Questions Feed

5:17 AM

Bounty offered: Can I convert a 2D video to 3D? http://askubuntu.com/questions/126496/can-i-convert-a-2d-video-to-3d?atw=1 #wine

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on May 5, 2012 at 5:14 AM

Amith KK

5:55 AM

Hello @jokerdino

jokerdino

hi there

Amith KK

@jokerdino api.askubuntu.com/0.8/users/id/…

Maintanance?

jokerdino

wah?

Chan-Ho Suh

6:17 AM

Sigh, it never stops boggling my mind why people ask this kind of thing: askubuntu.com/q/131878/43660

Amith KK

Is @GeorgeEdison Asleep

Chan-Ho Suh

"my system becomes problematic"

Somehow they don't realize all they've really said is: "I have a problem when I visit certain websites. End."

jokerdino

arrgghhh

George Edison

@AmithKK Almost :P

I'm heading to bed now.

Night all.

jokerdino

night

Amith KK

6:21 AM

@GeorgeEdison Good night

Chan-Ho Suh

Nite, George.

@Jokerdino, did you get that community service credit?

jokerdino

no. not yet

Jorge hasn't written the email yet. He asked me to write one.

And, I don't know the status of it, as of now.

Amith KK

@ChanHoSuh Whats that?

Chan-Ho Suh

Ok. I see.

You can ask jokerdino. Some stuff he was talking about days(?) ago.

You guys might be interested in this documentary called "Code Rush". It came out years ago... it's about Netscape, but I never got to watching it until today. Quite strange to see it now.

It's free to watch online: clickmovement.org/coderush

jokerdino

I am lazy

Amith KK

6:32 AM

I am amith, nice to meet you @lazy

Chan-Ho Suh

you probably just messaged some random person

Amith KK

no

for them to be pinged they need to be in the room abut 2(?) days ago

So, I can do this

jokerdino

you pinged lazypower Haha

Chan-Ho Suh

oh really?

Amith KK

@MarkShuttleworth

Chan-Ho Suh

6:34 AM

no, this guy askubuntu.com/users/48296/lazy

LOLOL.

Amith KK

I pinged both of them

@joke @chan

lol

Chan-Ho Suh

oh wow

Amith KK

you only need 3 letters

Chan-Ho Suh

teaching me a lot of things today, Amith :-)

Amith KK

@cha

@AmithKK I can Ping myself

Chan-Ho Suh

6:35 AM

I guess this is a good reason for Mark Shuttleworth to never step into this chat room.

2

jokerdino

I am bored. Anything interesting to do?

Or else, I will go back to learning C.

Chan-Ho Suh

Probably you should go back to learning C.

jokerdino

ok see you later

Chan-Ho Suh

bye

Amith KK

7:24 AM

BBL

jokerdino

8:09 AM

hey @TomBrossman how are you?

Amith KK

8:27 AM

Hello all

Questions Feed

8:41 AM

Bounty offered: Xinerama = 1 loses theme http://askubuntu.com/questions/129641/xinerama-1-loses-theme?atw=1 #nvidia

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on May 5, 2012 at 8:14 AM

Prasad

@AmithKK hello! nice pic :-)

Have a look at this!

0

Q: internal error message pops up after each time system is rebooted

I had installed ubuntu 12.04 using wubi. But each time i boot the system an internal error message pops up. As show below:- Executable path /usr/share/apport/apport-gpu-error-intel.py Package xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4 Problem Type crash Apportversion 2.0.1-0ubuntu7 and s...

error wubi

is this because incorrect drivers or corrupted drivers?

Tom Brossman

9:13 AM

@jokerdino Hi, sorry I had this open in a tab I forgot about. Signing out now, see you later.

Prasad

someone has down voted his question, he's angry about it :-)

-1

Q: Who downvoted my question on AskUbuntu?

Is there any way to know which user down-voted my question/answer on askubuntu so that I can ask him the reason for it?

vote-down

jokerdino

9:38 AM

needs help editing this into shape - askubuntu.com/questions/131953/…

@ChanHoSuh ^^

Chan-Ho Suh

9:54 AM

argh, spent one hour configuring synaptics driver

jokerdino

was that fun?

N.N.

10:15 AM

Are tags automatically removed after a while if they are empty?

Takkat

@NN yeah, in fact that's the only way to remove tags.

N.N.

@Takkat I retagged some meta questions a while a go. But the tags still remain.

jokerdino

yeah if there are no questions tagged, the tags get removed

They stay for a month or so, I think

Takkat

We may have to wait a bit (and hope that nobody uses them in between...)

jokerdino

I am bored.

Takkat

10:29 AM

do something exciting

jokerdino

i am going to hack on Unity.

Takkat

Most valuable hack: make Unity be loved by everyone.

not possible yet :D

Then hack people

o.O

10:34 AM

Introduce bugs to all other DM to make them unusable.

Amith KK

Im on XFCE

jokerdino

haha

Takkat

I'm sure XFCE has bugs.

Amith KK

while(unity>=Popular)
{
insert.bugs.de(all -unity)
}

Takkat

lol

Prasad

10:38 AM

HI guys, do you know about July 9?

jokerdino

yeah

Amith KK

Yeah

Prasad

Internet blackout!

did you check it?

Amith KK

CISPA or WITNOGITUSGD?

Takkat

We had that before, did never work.

Amith KK

10:40 AM

What In The Name Of Gnu Is The US Government Doing?

jokerdino

Building Unity from source because I can.

Prasad

is it safe to close the terminal when running sudo apt-get update (when I do not want to update)

Marco Ceppi

10:56 AM

@Prasad running update yes, if it's anything else (like upgrade, install, remove, etc) no.

Amith KK

@MarcoCeppi Cool Gravatar

Requires a Hawaiian shirt

Prasad

@MarcoCeppi thank you!

haha, windows just joined the July 9 internet blockout party! ubuntu 10.10 and 12.04 refused it! (that means windows got DNS malware!)

Questions Feed

11:35 AM

Bounty offered: How do I make Thinkpad X220T Tablet with multitouch screen rock with Ubuntu 12.04? http://askubuntu.com/questions/115220/how-do-i-make-thinkpad-x220t-tablet-with-multitouch-screen-rock-with-ubuntu-12-0?atw=1 #thinkpad

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on May 5, 2012 at 11:14 AM

BHM

Just want to add 5-p to that notion: I just had (another) update manager error (sha-hash mismatch) and yesterday I had a corrupted image from the ubuntu website. Does anyone known what the risk is that we get the same kinda infiltration that kernel.org had?

jrg

11:56 AM

@BHM From what I understand, they are using a new distribution method with packages and ISOs for 12.04, and i think all the kinks are related to that.

BHM

@jrg Ah, alright. I just installed the fresh one from this morning and with exception of the sha-hash its seems alright. I'll keep testing...

fossfreedom

@warrioring64 - someone mentioned your name here ... any chance with any feedback on this :-)

0

Q: Unable to See Text After Installing Ambiance-Dark Sidebar Theme

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and have installed Ambiance Dark Sidebar Theme. Now I can see the dark ambiance side bar, but in the main Ubuntu window of Nautilus I see the orange Folders (ambiance) but the writing under the folders is almost totally white. How to reestablish the black writing u...

12.04 nautilus themes

Amith KK

@jrg Good UTC morning

jrg

Morning @AmithKK

Amith KK

Heya @fossfreedom

fossfreedom

12:02 PM

hi @AmithKK

jokerdino

@fossfreedom that theme was made from 11.10 ambiance, he has to do the same changes for the new ambiance theme to make it work.

or what the commentator said

fossfreedom

... agreed - just a gentle prod for the-warrior ..

Amith KK

@jrg Numbah 3!

It was a success :D

jokerdino

12:25 PM

Can anyone hear anything from this - tunein.com/tuner/…; it is a Tamil Radio FM.

Amith KK

@jokerdino Yes

Its playing a song

jokerdino

darn, i can't hear anything

Amith KK

@jokerdino Gtalk please

Raynos

1:16 PM

I upgraded to ubuntu 12.04

now I broke everything :(

more specifically

KEYBOARD Y U NO WORK

jokerdino

lol?

Amith KK

2:00 PM

BBL

jrg

2:16 PM

@AmithKK sorry i missed you

jokerdino

what's up @HackToHell?

HackToHell

@jokerdino bored ..

jokerdino

same here. i have been pretty bored for most of the day

HackToHell

My RAM died and am I struck with an ancient computer, otherwise i could play tf2 (and waste time)..

jokerdino

that sucks

jrg

2:26 PM

I just don't have disk space for most games. :P

HackToHell

@jokerdino totally

jokerdino

@jrg lol i don't blame you for that

HackToHell

@jrg lol, I am squeezing out games with a 500 gig hdd

jokerdino

@HackToHell you gonna get it fixed soonish?

jrg

@HackToHell I've got a 250 on this box, and a 80 in the other.

Just doing dual boot + my VMs pushes it a lot.

HackToHell

2:29 PM

@jokerdino It's supposed to be fixed by Monday, idk what to do tomorrow

jokerdino

hmm i have nothing for you either

HackToHell

@jrg Too less a space to live with

@jokerdino tonight dropquest II starts !

Questions Feed

Bounty offered: How to remember currently running applications in 12.04? http://askubuntu.com/questions/129339/how-to-remember-currently-running-applications-in-12-04?atw=1 #startupapplications

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on May 5, 2012 at 2:14 PM

jokerdino

interesting.

jrg

We should totally do a informal askubuntu dropquest party

and we all help each other.

HackToHell

2:33 PM

Dropquest II Stack Alliance

there is one already

jokerdino

ok set.

jrg

I'm in.

HackToHell

10:30 pm is too late for me, my mom will be mad :/

jokerdino

lol :P

jrg

@HackToHell :( Yeah, I won't be able to help at the start, but further on i'll be able to help.

Also, Skydrive may be 25GB, but no linux syncing = no go.

jokerdino

2:36 PM

i won't be at the start either.

jrg

(likewise for Google Drive)

jokerdino

i'll go off in an hour or so

HackToHell

Bad timings for eastern guys

aking1012

@jrg There has always been that guy that made a gmail filesystem adapter

jokerdino

yeah

jrg

2:37 PM

@aking1012 Yeah, I remember that guy. I never used it much, it always seemed like it was... idk, hackish

aking1012

oh it was...but it was clever

HackToHell

@jrg they say that they have an linux client coming T

Kyle Brandt

12.04 upgrade been rougher than usual from what people are saying?

jrg

@HackToHell Hopefully.

jokerdino

@jrg coming in the second week of May I heard

jrg

2:39 PM

@KyleBrandt depends, there have been some unfortunate bugs that got in at the last minute, but for most people I think it's been smooth.

Kyle Brandt

My second failed upgrade, different machine, and was an install of the previous version

jokerdino

Desktop or server?

Kyle Brandt

Both have required me to finish the upgrade from a recovery console

Desktop

jokerdino

Desktop went smooth for me.

Kyle Brandt

The laptop was about as vanilla install as it could be I think

jrg

2:40 PM

Interesting, I don't know what you guys are doing because I've done 4 desktop upgrades and a server, no issues. :P

Kyle Brandt

New install from a month or so ago

jokerdino

I am that guy who upgraded from 10.04 -> 10.10 -> 11.04 -> 11.10 -> 12.04

aking1012

Ouch. I think there needs to be a list of be scared of these packages during 12.04 upgrade which mysql and binary drivers should be on.

HackToHell

@jokerdino Because you have an fast internet :/

jrg

@aking1012 ugh, i hated the mysql upgrades on my server.

jokerdino

2:41 PM

Me? Fast internet? You must be mocking me.

jrg

that broke my puppet manifests because I was stupid and didn't have things done correctly.

aking1012

@jrg I'm going strictly based on the quantity of bug reports of failed upgrades on AU

jokerdino

@KyleBrandt back up your data and do a fresh install.

jrg

@aking1012 yeah. i don't think it's been rougher, i think it's just the placebo affect because now we get to see more of it than last cycle.

HackToHell

@jokerdino Singapore has better&faster internet than India :(

jokerdino

2:44 PM

that I agree.

But if you use from 2 am to 8 am, it is fast in India

HackToHell

@jokerdino BSNL free time ?

jokerdino

yep

HackToHell

I have unlimited plan, same freaking speed

aking1012

@jrg that's entirely possible

jokerdino

that sucks. at least you have unlimited cap.

HackToHell

2:46 PM

Yeah, I ended up overusing with limited plans, I could not manage with limited.

jokerdino

I always ended up going beyond limited.

Lucky there is no limit here in Singapore.

HackToHell

How fast does it go ? 5 or 10 ?

jokerdino

If I am lucky, it can top 20 mb/s

but, usually, it crawls around 1-5 mb/s

HackToHell

OMG that's FAST !! I am managing with a 0.5 Mbps connection, I hav not yet upgraded to 12.04 thanks to sucky internet :'(

jokerdino

LOL only you have a slower internet than me here

HackToHell

2:50 PM

You have a better ping too :/

speedtest.net/wave/6162f3b18c231eb6

jokerdino

I can't help your case :(

HackToHell

A speed wave that was presented at Root Access a long time ago

jokerdino

Sathya is from Chennai?

HackToHell

Ya

jokerdino

right, never knew that.

HackToHell

2:53 PM

Journeymangeek is from Singapore

I didn't know that.

And i am tamil too

:D

so is Journeymangeek

wow, that's a lot of Tamilians I didn't know about.

HackToHell

2:54 PM

A lot of Indians(and tamilians) here ...

jokerdino

There are quite a number actually.

HackToHell

And I feel like a fish out of water are the Ubunutu room :/

brb, dinner

jokerdino

bye!

Kyle Brandt

@jokerdino This second case was as simple as apt-get -f install from the recovery console

The first case was using software raid, so a little more involved

jokerdino

Right, so your upgrades are now doing fine I guess?

I am sorry, I wasn't involved in QA for the PP cycle. :P

Kyle Brandt

3:00 PM

Had to chroot from livecd, and do some manual copying of /boot from the raid partition to my actual boot

jokerdino

wow, i would have given up much earlier.

Kyle Brandt

I've actually always had smooth upgrades (with the exception of some post install fixes) since Warty

I pretty much always have some regressions, but those are regressions within a functional OS

jokerdino

Hmm, how you liking Unity? (if you are using it, that is)

Kyle Brandt

Didn't like it at first, but it has grown on me

jokerdino

Note to self: This guy is a fast typer.

@jrg are you going to jump on U+1 before alpha?

Kyle Brandt

3:05 PM

I really don't like the way it maximizes to the top bar though

I thought I found a way to fix that in the past, but can't remember

jokerdino

I guess you have a huge monitor?

you probably can remove the appmenu but I am not sure if that would help.

Kyle Brandt

2x30" so don't need it. Also, I'm just so used a different behavior

jokerdino

Mine is a 14" laptop. Every inch counts.

Kyle Brandt

13

Q: Is there any way to stop a window's title bar merging with the panel when maximised?

I'm working on a desktop machine with plenty of screen real-estate, so I don't need my windows' title bars to merge with the global menu bar when the windows are maximised. Moreover, I'm working on a dual-screen set-up, so the fact that a window is maximised doesn't mean that it's the only window...

unity panel titlebar

Yup, I can see the advantage on a small laptop

I don't think it is "wrong", I just don't like it personally

Not sure why I can't seem to adjust to it

jokerdino

Now that I think about it, 30" is monstrous huge.

Kyle Brandt

3:10 PM

Yes, and 2 of them is silly :-) But I love it

jokerdino

I am going to buy one of those when I start working.

Just for the fun of it!

So, what brought you here? :)

Kyle Brandt

I have a bias for SE :-P

Blog - Stack Exchange: Server Fault: Hiring From the Community

Jeff Atwood on June 29, 2010

Remember when I talked about Eating Our Own Careers Dogfood? Well, that applies to all of our sites, not just Stack Overflow. Including Server Fault.

I’m pleased to announce we’re expanding our team on the System Administrator side with Server Fault user Kyle Brandt.

(yes, technically this means Kyle is Stack Overflow Valued Associate #00009, since the actual name of the company is Stack Overflow Internet Services, Incorporated. But I personally prefer to think of him as Server Fault Valued Associate #00001.) …

jokerdino

You look nicer without the mustache. Really.

Sometimes, I don't know what I am talking about. Feel free to ignore when that is the case. :P

MR.GEWA

Hi All, have a trouble with a custom QT4 app I have from my friend. By him on fresh ubuntu it works, by me, in Kubuntu, it's starting, I see icon on tray, I click, the main page of software is shown, but any other click is closing it down, so no button is working, What could be reason? any ideas?

HackToHell

@jokerdino Yeah, can you delete that.. ?

I am trying to hide it :P

jokerdino

3:21 PM

alright, ok :P

HackToHell

unsuccessfully :/

aking1012

@fossfreedom I dropped a works for me .css on that question

jokerdino

It is never too tough to find where people live. If you know where to look for, that is.

jrg

@jokerdino No, I won't. Not for desktop.

i might move over on server

jokerdino

Interesting. I am planning to upgrade on alpha release.

:4482979 yeah :P

jrg

3:27 PM

it's a little different for me this go around, because I'm actually going to be working

and as such I won't have as much time as I'd like to spend on U+1

jokerdino

hmm all the best with your endeavors.

jrg

So I'll probably move my server over next weekend, and then maybe one of my laptops.

lol. thats funny, since a major part of my endeavors is the computer endeavor that is sitting in my basement. ;P

jokerdino

working from home, yay

jrg

partially, yes. which is nice.

jokerdino

i am looking forward to the new Unity spread.

But that would mean I have to leave Unity-2d :(

jrg

3:32 PM

I missed something obviously, since this is the first I've heard of that.

jokerdino

it probably isn't called Unity spread then.

Task switching I guess - design.canonical.com/2012/03/…

jrg

oooohhh, aahhh... i didn't see that.

jokerdino

It better be good. :P

aking1012

Current alt-tab behavior works fine for me. The hover expansion works. I'm not sure what more they want to do with it...

jokerdino

I feel it is something like the tab grouping in Firefox.

You can search for windows, etc.

aking1012

3:39 PM

maybe...idk. if you have to search for windows, i think you should adjust your workflow

jokerdino

I would have the close button in the spread more than anything else.

jrg

more gnome shell-like?

jokerdino

Yep. I like the gnome-shell spread.

aking1012

@jrg - have you given any effort towards that respins with slipstreamed updates thing?

jrg

@aking1012 I've given some, just haven't made much progress.

aking1012

3:41 PM

added a simpler respin utility to my to-do list...so maybe that will help

@lazyPower - long time no see...you've been busy obviously

jokerdino

Hmm since when did the progress bars work for Google Chrome? Seems like a pleasant surprise.

lazyPower

Like you wouldn't believe

o/ everyone

jokerdino

hey lazy! Have a happy weekend.

Amith KK

Hello all

Heya Power

lazyPower

How do i format a keyboard key in SE markup?

better yet, is there a list somewhere?

aking1012

3:47 PM

<kbd>

Amith KK

aking1012

@AmithKK too slow

Amith KK

@aking1012 I got the message before you

Network Lag

jokerdino

2

Q: <kbd> markup shortcuts

Inspired by the question, "Markdown syntax for <kbd>foo</kbd>", this script adds both a button and a keyboard shortcut to each post's <textarea> (when editing posts). Press the button or press AltK on the keyboard and <kbd></kbd> will be inserted at the cursor. If t...

script user-script editing

lazyPower

1

A: nvidia graphics scrambled ubuntu 12.04

I think its a vedio problem. One of my friend got into similar problem and I got this solution to get round to the problem. When the installation occurs, Just try to hit f6 and the ESC key which bring it to text mode. Just choose quiet to noquiet, splash to nosplash, and add nomodeset right after...