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gertvdijk

12:22 AM

@mateo_salta No, somebody actually downvotes it...

mateo_salta

aw, well I tried.

gertvdijk

:)

AbrahamVanHelpsing

1:01 AM

@hey there's a qemu VM that maps to the raspi

@RolandiXor - yeah...or you were speaking in the style of the flackbot

RolandiXor

@AbrahamVanHelpsing that's a natural gift/talent of mine :)

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@gertvdijk just tell him to file it against alsa and call it a day. maybe he'll give you the bounty anyway.

@hey booting raspian in qemu: seabright.co.nz/2012/08/24/running-raspbian-inside-linaro-qemu

RolandiXor

bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-appmenu/+bug/…

any 13.04 users, please confirm.

gertvdijk

@AbrahamVanHelpsing I think he downvoted it actually, but okay, yeah I just commented this.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

why people downvote something that verifiably works on someone else's hardware... just not their own. beyond me.

FEichinger

1:11 AM

"It doesn't help me, so it has to be wrong!!!!!"

-1

Q: How do I reboot my ebuntu software to windows 7 I have a boot Disk but dont know which option to boot

I have a 64 bit desk top that has ebuntu installed on it for some reason my passord is no longer workikng so I cannot even access my computer . I have a windows 7 software boot disk but I do not know how to actually use it to boot ? also how to reset my password would be very useful lol thankyou....

"Ebuntu"? Really?

AbrahamVanHelpsing

that could get split up in to three questions a duped

FEichinger

It could also gain a simple "For the love of god, capitalization and punctuation aren't sins." comment, but I'm not in the mood.

^ Go me!

AbrahamVanHelpsing

heh. with it ending on lol thankyou...i'm thinking it's just someone being silly

FEichinger

It doesn't even end there. It keeps going after that.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@FEichinger check the edits on that. i don't think i changed the meaning.

FEichinger

1:25 AM

Meh, seems nice. I flagged it as low quality. Wouldn't call it sufficiently salvagable without major information.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

Yeah. I already voted to close as dupe...there's just no reason to leave a text-wall a text-wall

FEichinger

Dupes don't get deleted though, LQ does, iIrc. ;)

RolandiXor

@FEichinger you've never used ebuntu?!

FEichinger

@RolandiXor No, I've lived in a cave for the past century. Mind enlightening me? :P

AbrahamVanHelpsing

There's a possibility they meant edubuntu

RolandiXor

1:29 AM

@FEichinger ebuntu is a new official *buntu that uses e for everything.

gertvdijk

Ebuntu is Ubuntu with Enlightenment (E17) (wiki.ubuntu.com/Elbuntu?action=show&redirect=Ebuntu). Edubuntu is educational derivative of Ubuntu.

FEichinger

sigh Seriously now? ... What the bleeding heck?

RolandiXor

I was jk... but apparently you are not.

FEichinger

@AbrahamVanHelpsing That sounds reasonable.

@RolandiXor The sad thing is, with the amount of randomly appearing and disappearing DEs and derivatives, an actual ebuntu existing didn't seem too far off.

RolandiXor

@FEichinger true lol

AbrahamVanHelpsing

1:34 AM

people should stop forking and start spooning (showing existing packages some love)

RolandiXor

@AbrahamVanHelpsing in many cases yes.

We also need some new applications to fill certain gaps.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

that's fair too.

FEichinger

We need one core, and a bunch of working DEs. Not a half-baked distro for every DE.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

who was it saying they wanted a podcast tracker so they could sync their phone and their dekstop playlist? was it jrg?

FEichinger

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Just ping random people with it. You'll probably get the right one.

(Or you could be lame and use Search)

AbrahamVanHelpsing

1:38 AM

it was a while back before app showdown. was one of his ideas i think. like gpod except with a phone-side app that could communicate what was listened to back to the desktop.

George Edison

Oh this is just terribly funny.

Some of those are priceless:

> "We demand $1 trillion/year fund to challenge against cardiovascular disease,cancer and death."

> "Declare the Monday following the Super Bowl a national holiday."

(And that one has 7,000 signatures.)

AbrahamVanHelpsing

sort by popular

FEichinger

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Why? Then they sound actually legit.

Except for the obvious "QQ we lost the election." ones.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

it lets you narrow down the # of signature funny zone

George Edison

> "Recognize International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19)"

FEichinger

1:50 AM

petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/… lol

AbrahamVanHelpsing

that is a little funny. while we're at it, let's do away with time zones and all just use Zulu time...

FEichinger

Oh, I agree with the petition, mind you. But the very notion that this is petitioned for ... is plain ridiculous.

George Edison

Best. One. Yet.

> "officially recognize the Sasquatch as an indigenous species and have them lawfully protected by laws banning any hunting"

FEichinger

Dammit, @GeorgeEdison ... You're killing me.

3

George Edison

petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/ban-hammers-and-baseball-bats/…

^--- You have to read all of that one.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

1:55 AM

@GeorgeEdison wait isn't it already the state animal of alaska?

George Edison

Now this one is a good idea.

@AbrahamVanHelpsing No clue.

petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/save-lewpty-lew/XLGNBBJs

FEichinger

@GeorgeEdison Would have to be done globally to work, though. Timezone calculations get all funny with random DS changes.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@FEichinger parts of indiana don't do daylight savings time while other parts do iirc

George Edison

> "Make, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), a legal form of protesting."

Probably not a good idea...

FEichinger

@GeorgeEdison lolno.

George Edison

1:58 AM

> "authorize the production of a recurring television program featuring Vice President Joe Biden"

FEichinger

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Now, imagine that confusion on a global scale.

George Edison

> "Direct the United States Mint to make a single platinum trillion dollar coin!"

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@GeorgeEdison It would be called the daily gaff

FEichinger

@GeorgeEdison I'd sign that, if I were American.

George Edison

> "demand justice for police killing our family pets!"

Really?

FEichinger

2:01 AM

@GeorgeEdison Well, excessive use of force against animals does go largely unpunished, afaik.

And, as Pavlov taught us: A taser would probably suffice.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

can you imagine the memes if somebody got an officer tazing a dog on camera though? it would be don't taze me bro all over again

FEichinger

I absolutely hate dogs, but I'd take the memes over a dead one no less. :P

AbrahamVanHelpsing

I mean if they had to take a shot at it to feel safe...Our family pet could have been:

RolandiXor

Hi @GeorgeEdison,

George Edison

o/

AbrahamVanHelpsing

2:12 AM

@RolandiXor or that...still. just saying. you never know

RolandiXor

TBH I have little clue of what the whole discussion is about, but I thought a cute dog would be nice.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

I'm not touching you should be the caption here:

RolandiXor

2:28 AM

@AbrahamVanHelpsing lol

AbrahamVanHelpsing

so i want to get in to low level hardware, but i can't find an entry point...this arduino project has me thinking there HAVE to be fun projects around

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hJIkJ9x0-JQ

Seth

2:47 AM

Am I the only one getting this?

AbrahamVanHelpsing

no same for me

sort by active appears broken

Seth

yeah, and that's not fun.

maggotbrain

@Seth That was happening to me for about 5 minutes only on active questions. Now it seems resolved for me.

Seth

Actually, just started working here too...

weird.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

still whoopsing here. might be which server you're on and some kind of active updating that evidences that way

Amith KK

2:53 AM

appears

George Edison

o/

Amith KK

@GeorgeEdison Hey!

maggotbrain

ugh. not working for unanswered question, for me, now.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

3:29 AM

here's a weird one...wine added vbs-setscriptstate back in 1.3.8, but the 1.5 version from repo is erroring out as not implemented...

The Lord of Time

yawns

my ubuntu partition magically fixed itself

NO CLUE WHAT HAPPENED, but non-use somehow fixed it

o.O

anyways, how goes it?

Amith KK

BBL

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@TheLordofTime it goes. trying to get in to closer to hardware stuff. how goes it for you?

The Lord of Time

@AbrahamVanHelpsing meh

AbrahamVanHelpsing

that good huh?

The Lord of Time

3:37 AM

meh

:P

George Edison

Lol.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

important stuff eraser. that's cute

George Edison

...and that's why there is a "trust" level for recipes.

...and why we make the source code of each one public.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

or why you don't fork people you don't know har har

Seth

4:13 AM

Since this is going to be fixed in 13.04 shouldn't we close this as OT?

2

Q: Lightdm-too many desktop envirements

Today I tried to play with LXDE. After installing I go to login screen and try to select LXDE from list of avaible DE, but I can't select OK after that. . I know this is bug, but maybe somebody can help me with finding temporary solution. PS. This in in Launchpad bugs, but it looks abbadoned. PS2...

lightdm desktop-environments

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@Seth you are SURE it's fixed in 13.04? maybe link to a source on that and the bug and tell him to request a backport of the fix to LTS on launchpad? i'ld upvote that answer

Seth

erg, let me see if I can find my source again :/

AbrahamVanHelpsing

i was talking to sabdfl on IRC doesn't count unless you can produce logs ;)

if you can't source it then just close it.

Seth

@AbrahamVanHelpsing lol

@AbrahamVanHelpsing I'm getting there....

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Q: What to do about answers that offer suggestions without emphasizing that the answer is merely a suggestion?

I have seen suggestions proffered as answers. My concern in when such "answers" don't emphasize, or even hint, that the suggestion is just that and not based on the answerer actually having tried out the suggestion to see if it really works. Other than just downvoting such an answer, is there so...

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Q: Is my approach to fixing plagiarized tag wikis a good one?

I've been fixing tag wiki plagiarism lately. Recently I've been getting a lot of "reject" reviews (though only a very small number of actual rejections--accepts are still largely cancelling them out). I think it's time for me to explain what I've been doing and get input from the community. We h...

Seth

4:29 AM

well, I'm still looking...

George Edison

5:31 AM

Night all.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

night GE

AbrahamVanHelpsing

6:42 AM

any github fans also fans of pizza? i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/6997578496/h6B5576E9

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9:53 AM

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Q: Why can't I see my past questions?

A couple weeks ago when I logged into this "ask ubuntu" website, all my past questions and activity (and points/score) vanished. I have enjoyed "ask ubuntu" for a year or so, and don't understand what happened, or how to fix this. My user/login name is still the same as always (honestann). Doe...

discussion

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10:26 AM

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Q: Title is eaten by diff in suggested edit

While reviewing a suggested edit, I encountered something weird: a title is deleted and no title is inserted in the diff as can be seen below. When I press the "improve" button, I see exactly the same (unmodified) title. This happens both when I use the review tool and when I go to the question...

bug suggested-edits

Mochan

11:16 AM

I'm back~ ^v^

Eliah Kagan

@Mochan Welcome back!

Mochan

@EliahKagan Ah, thanks! It's great to be here. I've just been on a holiday to a semi-local beach for 10 days ;)

Eliah Kagan

11:29 AM

@Mochan That sounds like a good thing. You must love Ask Ubuntu, to be glad to have that done with to be back here! :P

Mochan

@EliahKagan I do. I almost feel sad to be behind with all the news, even if It's a mere 10 days C:

Hi @BharathVRP

FEichinger

12:26 PM

@Mochan Welcome back! :D

Mochan

@FEichinger Hey FEichinger. Long time no see. How's life?

Eliah Kagan

Here the OP's goal is to make a bootable USB flash drive out of a Windows installation ISO, using Ubuntu. I seem to recall we had a question for that. Does anyone know?

-2

Q: windows over ubuntu

I installed Ubuntu 12.10 few days ago to test it on my computer using wubi. Unfortunately I had a problem with my video card driver as I could not install it due to FGLRX issues. I followed the how-to on installation very closely but it still didn't work. The result was poor graphics. I wan...

boot flash drive

FEichinger

@Mochan Boring, tiresome and awfully cold. But other than that, it's nice. :P

Mochan

@FEichinger Cool! For me, it's been relaxing, a little tiresome (having to wake up early e.o) and hot :P

FEichinger

Heheh.

srikanth chandrasekaran

12:33 PM

hey. how can i install a software from source code in ubuntu 12.04

FEichinger

That largely depends on the software you're trying to install.

Eliah Kagan

23

Q: How to install a .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) file?

I have downloaded tar.gz files. But I don't know how to install it. How do I install this kind of file?

installation compiling tar zip bzip2

help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo

However, if you want to compile source, make a deb package, and install the package, you should do it differently. So as @FEichinger says, it depends.

srikanth chandrasekaran

@EliahKagan please say how i can do it. I want to install for all users in my comp. I understand that it is possible only with a .deb package

Mochan

@srikanthchandrasekaran Have you tried Google?

Eliah Kagan

@srikanthchandrasekaran Whether or not you make a deb package, you can install for all users. What are you trying to install? Have you read those or similar guides?

srikanth chandrasekaran

12:38 PM

@Mochan questions like this make me NOT wanna come here to stackexchange.com.

FEichinger

The problem here is, "source code" can be anything.

srikanth chandrasekaran

it is a tar.gz package of a software called GNS3

@FEichinger Are all tar.gz same or different?

Mochan

@srikanthchandrasekaran Well, Google is a useful place. Why ask for a 'new' answer when one already exists? Would you ask a mathematic stackexchange how to use algebra? No, because thousands of people already have answers on the internet ready for you to use - accessible via Google.

Eliah Kagan

@srikanthchandrasekaran When you have a tar archive, including tar.gz, usually the method you use to unpack, configure, built, optionally test, and install are very similar. You should be able to use the methods explained in the two sources I link. They are better explanations than I could give without building the software myself. The archive will contain instructions also, though those may be more technical.

FEichinger

First step: Unpack it using the linked instructions, look for a README file or similar.

Mochan

12:42 PM

@FEichinger quick question - should I use LVM with my new Ubuntu install?

srikanth chandrasekaran

@FEichinger ok will try it

FEichinger

@Mochan Well, I don't.

Eliah Kagan

@Mochan What are you planning on using the machine for? Have you thought of any reasons why you might or might not want to use LVM? LVM is a bit more complicated, so a bit more involved to recover or repair. But it's very versatile, you can in effect grow and shrink partitions at will, even extend them seamlessly to other drives, including drives not present at the time of installation.

FEichinger

@srikanthchandrasekaran Oh, also, did you read this? It's a little outdated, but the way it works shouldn't have changed that much. Option B in particular.

Mochan

@EliahKagan I'm using it for a work computer. I've only installed Ubuntu 5 times, so I have tested much :P

@FEichinger I didn't end up using it. I don't think it's awfully necessary.

FEichinger

12:48 PM

@Mochan Tbh, unless you excessively use various partitions that need to be changed on the fly, there's barely any need for it. It's nice to have, but it's more often than not just kernel clutter.

Mochan

@FEichinger Kernel Klutter C:

FEichinger

@Mochan ★

Mochan

@FEichinger ;)

Who's looking forward to 13.04? :D

FEichinger

Not me. 12.10 was unstable enough already.

Mochan

@FEichinger Very happy 12.10 user here ;)

Hey @mateo_salta

mateo_salta

12:57 PM

HI @Mochan

Mochan

@mateo_salta How's life? :)

mateo_salta

@mochan going well, you?

Mochan

@mateo_salta Quite swell, thank you.

Getting Debian. Should be interesting. Going to redownload Mint, also C:

Journeyman Geek

yay, debian

though I've gotten a kubuntu install again

FEichinger

BBL

Mochan

1:10 PM

@JourneymanGeek Kubuntu is worth a happy dance or two, I feel. I might have a pure Kubuntu install on a VM or something (when I finally iron out the idiotic problem si have with it)

jokerdino

Argh, KDE

Mochan

@jokerdino You are not worth a happy dance. Hi, though.

jokerdino

Hi regardless.

Mochan

Is there a Cinnamon DE for Ubuntu?

jokerdino

There is.

Available in PPA for 12.10 and slightly older.

And available from repo in 13.04

Mochan

1:13 PM

Kewl q~u~

!

Can't wait for 13.04~ QuQ

jokerdino

I am not waiting.

Journeyman Geek

@jokerdino: I like KDE

jokerdino

I prefer Gnome.

KDE feels too blueish.

Journeyman Geek

I respect your religious preferences ;p

Mochan

Meh...

Journeyman Geek

1:14 PM

dude. Mine's all murdered out

lol

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek Quite >u<

jokerdino

@JourneymanGeek :P

Journeyman Geek

I'm using krita dark + oxygen

I'll screenshot when I reboot

Mochan

Black and white?

TY. (In Unity atm)

jokerdino

There are things I like in each of the major DEs.

Journeyman Geek

1:16 PM

@jokerdino: most important for me, I'm familiar with it ;p

jokerdino

That's probably the major issue. i get bored with it

Journeyman Geek

Also, ubuntu boot time is scary

jokerdino

It feels all too familiar :P

Journeyman Geek

Its booting up in 4-5 seconds off a slow 5400 laptop hard drive

jokerdino

Mine isn't any fast but I don't particularly care either.

Journeyman Geek

1:17 PM

XD

Its on my new desktop

thats the one thing I hate about this install.

16 gig swap on a 40 gig drive ;p

and RAM?

16gb

dupey selection

XD

I could probably load the whole OS in memory if I wanted to

Mochan

1:19 PM

o___________o

2 of my 3 (formerly 5) computers are now Ubuntu-only ;)

3 out of 3 use Ubuntu C:

Journeyman Geek

dualboot with totally seperate hdds

Mochan

hurr hurr

Journeyman Geek

Windows off a SSD, linux off a small, old-new stock hard drive

Mochan

._.

is envious and wants ssd

Journeyman Geek

SSD was free

;p

windows 8 contest

Mochan

1:21 PM

>.<`

@JourneymanGeek Hope you replaced Windows 8. :_:

Journeyman Geek

@Mochan: dualbooting

its good enough for gaming

Mochan

.

@JourneymanGeek are you doing Part 2 of Python Programming Course on Coursera?

Journeyman Geek

Want to

depends on school tho

jokerdino

Should I have to do part 1 to do 2?

Mochan

I always pictured you to be older than 18, @JourneymanGeek.

jokerdino

1:24 PM

in case i am doing that is

Journeyman Geek

I am ;p

jokerdino

@Mochan he is

Mochan

@jokerdino If you know enough probably not.

Journeyman Geek

I'm in uni at an old age of 28

Mochan

LOL

@JourneymanGeek When I think of school I think of highschool. I say Uni or College.

Journeyman Geek

1:26 PM

pastebin.com/3grCkczp <- @Mochan: thats my desktop ;p

Mochan

@jokerdino you have a good understanding of for loops and indexing, returning, printing and dictionaries?

@JourneymanGeek tl;dr

LOL

Journeyman Geek

I get those

file reads I need to work on

jokerdino

@Mochan sorta

Mochan

I got to i7 processor and thought that it was a nice computer.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Mochan

1:28 PM

@jokerdino It's easy to filter through, but I can't be bothered (12:28 AM ._.)

Journeyman Geek

Its a great computer without being overkill

Mochan

@JourneymanGeek What are the RAM, HDD and graphics?

Mochan is feeling lazy ._.

Journeyman Geek

@MochanL 16 gb ram, gforce 660 (asus, overclocked version). HDD is 250 gb + 40 gb + 500 gb

jokerdino

@Mochan filter what again?

Mochan

@jokerdino nvm

FEichinger

1:43 PM

< back

Mochan

o/

Amith KK

BBL

Journeyman Geek

2:25 PM

apparently my video card driver is not loaded T T

Elysium

VGA issues are driving all us mental (I am just a user...by the way)

Journeyman Geek

lol

just got an install up after maybe 2 years of going full windows

so, some learning curve again

fun ;p

Elysium

yeah, same thing here....installing a new distro for the 4th time this week

cant find my ideal distro/OS

Journeyman Geek

I keep getting 'this driver is installed but not in use'

Elysium

what's the problem eactly?

*exactly

Journeyman Geek

2:34 PM

blah

bug

podzemski.com/2012/10/20/ubuntu-12-10-nvidia-drivers

Elysium

use 12.04

Lucio

Someone knows if the image of the iatkos mL2 SO is a .dmg file?

Journeyman Geek

>_>

Elysium

no clue mate....I am no expert

ask in the forum...pros will answer soon

Lucio

@Elysium In what forum?

The iatkos forum?

Elysium

2:36 PM

Journey.....this week....I have been thru linuxmint 14 cinnamon, ubu 12.10, lubuntu, and now back to 12.04....

nope, ubuntuask...google it

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Elysium: I've used this in the past

just frustrated cause Its been one of those installs

everything possible going wrong ;p

Elysium

which one....do you mean?

12.04?

compiz keep crashing....that's one thing that drives me nuts. :D

I might just go back to gnome-fallback.......not very stylish...but at least it worked in 11.10....dunno if it work with 12.04

journeyman....do you know how to make workspaces stationary? I mean if I click on the icon of, for example, google....I dont want it to take me to the workspace where it is...but to open a new window of google

Lucio

@Elysium Yeah, the iATKOS website says that to download the .dmg image. I don't know if it's possible to download from another related site with another format. Anyway, thanks for the help, I'll see what I can do.

Journeyman Geek

I run KDE

Elysium

ok...that is something new to me.

Journeyman Geek

2:43 PM

@Elysium: lets see. I had two different errors including a segfault on my liveusb, the partitioner threw a cryptic error until I created a partition with fdisk on the installed drive ....

now it turns out there's a bug of some sort ;p

with the kernel maybe

I'll see if I can hack at it tommorrrow ;p

Elysium

haha

not your lucky day either....is it? :D

Journeyman Geek

lol

past few days

its a learning experience ;p

bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/… .... it affects AMD too?

Elysium

no idea...you are asking the wrong person. I use an ATI HD 5650 graphic card and it sucks big time with 12.10

no driver available....that's why I went back to 12.04

Journeyman Geek

I'e installed twice ;p

Elysium

well...there are drivers available but they dont work properly

Journeyman Geek

2:48 PM

@Elysium: not what the bug is. That it even exists ;p

its quite easy to fix, just not at *checks*10.50 pm ;p

Elysium

I hear you.....

gotta go. Have a good day guys.

Amith KK

3:55 PM

appears

AbrahamVanHelpsing

4:12 PM

o/ @JasonBourne - switched back to blue i see

user19161

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Yes. By the way, I forgot. Is that picture a representation of yourself?

AbrahamVanHelpsing

it's from alltheragefaces. great scott

representation of personality, not physical appearance

he's looking for adding keyfiles if anyone wants the rep: askubuntu.com/questions/111816/…

Amith KK

BBT

Good Night

gertvdijk

6:05 PM

0

Q: help me please to reopen my folders

ကုူညီပါဦးခင္ဗ်ာ က်ြန္ေတာ္က ubuntu mm 12.04LTS ကို တင္ထားပါတယ္ဗ်ာ အဲဒီ os ေလးကို windows 8 pro နဲ႔တဲြတင္ထားတာပါခင္ဗ်ာ မိတ္ေဆြတို႕ရဲ့ေက်းဇူးနဲ႔သံုးျဖစ္တဲ့ဒီos ေလးနဲ႔ အေတာ္အဆင္ေျပလို႔ windows 8 ကိုေတာင္မသံုးျဖစ္ဘဲနဲ့ ဒီos ေလးပဲသံုးျဖစ္ပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်ာ ဒီေန့ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ စက္ထဲက folder တစ္ခု...

locoteams

^--- what happened here?

all [] [] [] characters

Seth

6:36 PM

@gertvdijk I see it correctly. Its either a weird font or some other language.

gertvdijk

@Seth hmm. interesting. you seem to have installed more character sets

Seth

I don't have anything that isn't default... except maybe ubuntu-restricted-extras which I think comes with some font packages...

gertvdijk

I really don't understand why people post the question title in English, but the body in a different language...

@Seth browser?

Seth

IKR..

@gertvdijk Chromium

gertvdijk

@Seth Hmm. I'm using Chrome. Chromium renders the same, firefox even more useless.

Seth

6:41 PM

I still see it in Opera and Firefox though.

@gertvdijk weird.

gertvdijk

Seth

huh...

do you have ttf-mscorefonts-installer installed? I haven't changed any character sets...

gertvdijk

@Seth yes. it's like this in all my browsers, except Firefox, which is even displaying all Unicode numbers inside the boxes.

Seth

hmm..... idk.

gertvdijk

Seth

6:48 PM

yeeks...

@gertvdijk if I run xmodmap -e <expression> it will only work until I reboot right?

gertvdijk

@Seth No idea. haven't used it.

but yes, think so.

Seth

okay...

Flabricorn

8:14 PM

@jrg You have the T61 right?

Seth

should you edit someone else's answer to include more details or add another answer...

most people seem to add their own answer..

guntbert

8:32 PM

1

Q: How do the various gnome flavours use the config resources they do or do not share?

One of the things that has kept me away from gnome until now is the lack of a common, central place for configuration. This was bad in the old days, but after the advent of compiz, mutter and dconf, and the inofficial tweak utils (gnome-tweak, ubuntu tweak, unsettings, etc.), it's even more confu...

unity gnome configuration

deserves a few upvotes, I'd say

Seth

Hi @guntbert :)

guntbert

Hi @Seth - is all well?

Seth

That looks like a pretty interesting question... but I'm out of votes :(

@guntbert yeah everything is fine :)

guntbert

@Seth np, do it tomorrow :)

Seth

I'll try to remember ;)

I've already got a question or two on the 'tomorrow' list lol

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

8:37 PM

1

Q: Issue when settings a default path in BASH

I have a BASH scripting question. I'd like the mention that I am new to BASH scripting; however, I am now new to programming. I am developing a simple BASH script to watch a given compass project. My script is shown below. I would like to allow a user to optionally enter in a custom path or use ...

bash ubuntu scripting

Seth

9:03 PM

I advise flagging this as NARQ, or maybe someone can edit it to become a real question...

0

Q: The log in ubuntu's eye

I recently purchased a desktop computer. I installed xp used it to connect to the internet and download my dream OS, UBUNTU 12.04lts. I then installed the OS to a usb drive. So then with great anticipation I proceeded to boot into my unity dash. No problems at all, although it does take some time...

12.04 usb usb-modem

guntbert

How old must a question be before the OP can answer it?

Seth

@guntbert I think its like a day or 2...

or you can check the "Answer my own question" box while asking and then you can add an answer right away

guntbert

@Seth I was not talking about me - but I don't want to tell someone who found an answer to his own question and gave it in a comment to "make an answer" when he cannot do that yet.

Seth

oh, OK. Yeah he'll have to wait a day or two..

Flabricorn

10:29 PM

Option: Huge Installation (450MB) Yes please.

user125929

10:42 PM

Hi

so to uninstall windows, i would just delete partions and update grub?

gertvdijk

Wubi or regular install?

user125929

regular.

gertvdijk

1

Q: How do I delete Windows after an Ubuntu install?

I downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to my Dell Dimension 4600 with Windows XP installed. I now have a neat dual-boot system, but I want to get rid of the XP OS and keep Ubuntu as my only OS. How do I do this?

dual-boot windows-xp

user125929

thanky ou sir

gertvdijk

well, the questions are already on the site here :) just search for them.

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