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Seth

12:01 AM

sorry, had to bake some brownies.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

You lucky you! I cannot bake for my life.

All I can do is run computer simulations that help optimize athletic strategy, and make a quick buck off them.

And type at, like, 5 WPM.

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Anyway, I have to go.

Seth

lol

Okay see ya @ObsessiveSSOℲ!

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Q: Roaming profiles and file sharing

I work for a college that uses autocad, microsoft office etc. I am looking to set up a ubuntu server for, Roaming profiles for students, File server for students storing files Ability to remotely install windows software and updates for installed programs. all 125 computers are running windo...

is he asking what to buy?

FEichinger

Nope.

Seth

OK good.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

If there are any mods around, could they ensure that this answer doesn't get CW'd, since I anticipate many edits on it?

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FEichinger

12:05 AM

He's asking how to set up a large network distributing Microsoft licensed software.

Seth

eh, is that even possible?

FEichinger

That's the other part of his question. :P

Seth

I'm sure MS wouldn't like it..

@ObsessiveSSOℲ starred. maybe someone will see it.

FEichinger

Well, theoretically, one could set up something like that. But, tbh, Windows Server solutions are more efficient at that type of thing.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

@FEichinger What about Ubuntu logon servers+Ubuntu workstations? Do we have a canonical question for that?

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FEichinger

12:13 AM

@ObsessiveSSOℲ Uhh ... dunno.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

@FEichinger If not, I'll do a Q&A tomorrow or something.

RolandiXor

1:58 AM

@GeorgeEdison did you read the post I sent?

George Edison

Post?

RolandiXor

2buntu.com/1295/rant-where-open-source-fails-us

jrg

@obsessiveSSO I'd be interested in that Q&A...

@rolandixor it's a 404 over here if I'm not signed in.

RolandiXor

@jrg well of course :)

That's why I shared it with you guys on the 2buntu room.

Only certain people will be able to see it, and they have to be signed in.

:)

jrg

oh. ok

oh man. our business idea was just done by facebook. stillborn before i could start writing code.

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Q: How to configure Ubuntu as an LDAP client?

How to configure ubuntu 12.04 as ldap client with pam modules?

ldap client

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Q: LDAP server set-up

I'd like to set up LDAP to act as central authentication of 2 web applications running on the same server. Whats the simplest step-by-step way to go about this from scratch? In the long run I'd also like to be able to administer the users on the system as simply as possible (think end users, no...

server ldap

@ObsessiveSSOℲ

help.ubuntu.com/community/SingleSignOn

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Q: SSO solution and centralized user mgmt for about 10-30 Ubuntu machines?

I'm looking for a clean way to centralize user management. The setup: About 10-30 linux machines (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server) Maybe 10-30 users for now. The requirements (hopes and expectations): A single place for the administrator to manage user accounts, passwords and the list of machines e...

linux ssh single-sign-on

RolandiXor

3:00 AM

brb

The Lord of Time

3:15 AM

helpful flags: 404

i found that on my profile. LOL

Ask Ubuntu Meta

3:39 AM

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Q: What should I do with some answers I provided that probably are irrelevant to the questions asked?

I was going through the list of answers I provided and some of them are not at all what the questioners were expecting; I'm making this assumption based on the accepted answers. Is it okay to flag them for deletion?

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George Edison

3:53 AM

Lol.

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vasa1

Thanks for the lol. Very helpful. Lol, Lol.

jrg

:-)

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@GeorgeEdison I almost feel bad for laughing...but at the same time - climbs in to enclosure ... fail

AbrahamVanHelpsing

4:12 AM

hey @jrg - you know any vendor comparisons for arduino gear? i know i heard in some chat there's somewhere cheaper than adafruit with good service, but i can't remember the name of the vendor

George Edison

Speaking of Arduino... I finally dug mine out the other day to play around with it.

Hooked it up to an 8-ohm speaker to play some tones.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

odd that you say tones. i was thinking one of the projects on the getting used to arduino should be making a line-man's handset with the other row/column of buttons and all

arduino is only half of where i want to be though. i really want to get some surface-mount chips and breakout silicon for them to turn them in to modular arduino stuff instead of depending on stock shields

Seth

4:41 AM

so I saw a question on this once, can't find it now.

When I run a python script the terminal opens and closes right away.

preventing me from interacting with my script

AbrahamVanHelpsing

um, i had ~~a question~~ an answer on holding a terminal open, but if you need to interact with your script...something else is going on...crashing...like env variables not declared

Seth

no, all variables declared...

AbrahamVanHelpsing

then put in a bunch of sleeps and prints. find out after which one it excepts/throws uncaught. and handle it

Seth

I don't think you understand, the terminal appears for 1/2 of a second, and then closes. I can't find out when it stops...

AbrahamVanHelpsing

yeah. i get it. i was saying edit the python

here's the question/answer i was referring to

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A: Run python script IN TERMINAL after Lubuntu login?

It seems your script is running, but you want the term to stay open. If that's the goal: Exec=lxterminal -e "python ~/scripts/myscript.py && /bin/bash" Should keep the term open for you...

Seth

4:51 AM

Well, I'll see.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

the thing with that answer being no matter what happens in the first half, the bin/bash thing gets executed to hold the terminal open

okay, not no matter what. but under most circumstances

can anyone else confirm this: askubuntu.com/questions/247702/…

Seth

jockey is certainlty still here, but I've always used Ctrl-C to cancel something.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

ctl-c kills a process, but just C cancels disk check during boot

Seth

ah, OK. I would add that to your comment

AbrahamVanHelpsing

and if he really has to press ctl-c it's this bug: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/561228

so either way... NO - rageface

added secondary comment

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Seth

5:12 AM

huh, it works in xterm...

AbrahamVanHelpsing

6:28 AM

lol i just saw your 500 rep apple comment...it would take free hardware for me. literally free hardware.

Eliah Kagan

9:17 AM

Anybody around? If so, there's some spam that needs flagging...

Takkat

where?

Eliah Kagan

@Takkat Every post by this user across the SE network is the same spam advertisement with the same link. There's even one one Meta.SO! I recommend flagging them all (wherever you have accounts, I mean).

Oh cool, the ones on AU are gone already.

fossfreedom

destroy all spammers

Eliah Kagan

And the user is deleted here.

Takkat

\o/

Eliah Kagan

9:25 AM

@fossfreedom I suspect this was your doing. If so: Thank you!

fossfreedom

:)

Eliah Kagan

The user still exists on Ask Different and on MSO (as do the posts on those sites). I'm not sure if some cross-moderator commnication is indicated here, or if my flags on those sites are sufficient. (On MSO, others have flagged to. On Ask Different, i don't think anyone else has, as the post scores are just -1.)

On Ask Different the spam posts are this and this; on MSO it's this.

fossfreedom

flagging is the way to go - MSO are usually quick to act. Dont know about Ask Different.

Takkat

<-- oligo-account-holder :/

Eliah Kagan

@fossfreedom They probably seem closest to on topic on Ask Different, so I'd expect that it might take longer for them to be recognized as spam.

Greg

10:21 AM

Have I done something, or has Nautilus updated quite a lot?

I don't know how to make Nautilus sort files by name, folders first, then files.

Bruno Pereira

11:03 AM

morning

gertvdijk

\o

ObsessiveSSOℲ

11:28 AM

@jrg Took a look at the links you posted. Looks like it's been appreciably solved, but I'll try to clean up and edit a bit when I have time.

gertvdijk

12:21 PM

@BrunoPereira Can we merge this? askubuntu.com/questions/248778/… (cc @EliahKagan)

@BrunoPereira thanks :)

jrg

12:36 PM

@Greg that looks like the nautilus in raring.

@ObsessiveSSOℲ OK. I actually have never done it. If you'd like to try and set up a cloud that does this, I've got a VM host we could potentially use.

Greg

@jrg What's raring?

fossfreedom

@Greg ubuntu 13.04

jrg

13.04

What version are you running, and did you just upgrade or something?

gertvdijk

@Greg You probably upgraded Nautilus to a newer-than-Ubuntu-stable version. PPA? 13.04 / Raring Ringtail? etc. Looks good though! :)

Greg

12:51 PM

@gertvdijk I don't know how I managed that :S

but I actually quite like it, having managed to find the settings menu

(it isn't the cog, before you ask)

jrg

12.10 or 12.04?

gertvdijk

@Greg Can you show the output of apt-cache policy nautilus?

jrg

I know they were back porting some stuff in nautilus to those releases.

fossfreedom

@ObsessiveSSOℲ why? nothing really special about that answer.

Greg

g105b@Hyperion:~/Webroot/G105b$ apt-cache policy nautilus
nautilus:
  Installed: 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1
  Candidate: 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1 0
        500 gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4 0
        500 gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal/main amd64 Packages

Bruno Pereira

1:13 PM

We dont give cw protection to anything on the site (unless there is a reasonable payment for it I mean), this is actually something good that happens for a reason...

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Eliah Kagan

@BrunoPereira @ObsessiveSSOℲ Also, bounties on CW answers still go to their first author. So it's not inherently a problem for answers seeking a bounty to get CW'd. (Related: If a question is un-CW'd by a moderator, it doesn't become CW automatically again.)

Eliah Kagan

2:19 PM

This comment is amazing.

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Bruno Pereira

2:33 PM

@EliahKagan lol

smartboyhw

3:24 PM

@jrg where is my testimonial!??

lazyPower

@AbrahamVanHelpsing dude - latest blue stahli album is choice

jrg

@smartboyhw soon. Its the third item on the "to do" list today. :-)

smartboyhw

3:42 PM

@jrg lol

mojo706

3:53 PM

@iGadget sorry but I gave up. I'll try again now

yoh @jrg where you been? If you dont mind my asking

lazyPower

at my house, hacking the planet

mojo706

@lazyPower tell him some guy needs help

Amith KK

I'm having the most weird problem :/

lazyPower

Sorry, I only play the game of extortion. How much is it worth to you?

mojo706

haha a lot may be my career

jrg

4:07 PM

@mojo706 spent the weekend freezing outside and building fires (was fun), and then i've been working on school stuff and my book.

whats up?

@lazyPower i wish i had done that. ;P

lazyPower

:)

jrg

so i keep trying to write this thing in rails 4, but rails 4 keeps being uber buggy so i keep debating if i should just come up with a stack that uses 3.2.x, but backports the larger changes.

Seth

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Q: Unintsallation Ubuntu

I am new to Ubuntu. i have installed it using windows Ubuntu installer. at first it worked well.but i have committed mistake while working in Quantum espresso software,Linux is required plat form for it. this mistake erased my Ubuntu. while i restart my pc there are two OS option to select one is...

uninstall

jrg

and then once 4 is released, i can go and update the parts that need it.

Seth

that is a dupe of something.

jrg

4:13 PM

thoughts @lazyPower?

Seth

but the new search doesn't like me :(

jrg

@Seth espresso?

ubuntu has espresso software?!

Seth

idk

jrg

you need to have ubuntu to program your espresso maker. i want this espresso maker.

Seth

I could use an espresso right about now

jrg

4:15 PM

oh, it's a physics thing. PASS.

Seth

lol

basically he ruined his WUBI install, so he installed again, but now he has three OS options in GRUB.

jrg

right.

so he needs to boot windows, remove the one, and then reboot, and pick the other.

or am i missing something else?

Seth

when have you used WUBI?

jrg

many moons ago.

like, last time was maybe the 11.10 or the 11.04 cycle.

Seth

OK, well, WUBI doesn't let you install again without first removing your other install. So this is a GRUB issue

mojo706

4:18 PM

@jrg have you ever made an app indicator? and used notifications?

jrg

@mojo706 in ruby? Nope. i'm told the bindings are pretty bad though.

never built one in any language either.

mojo706

I'm using python ok then redirect me to some resources then if you know of any

Seth

@jrg wouldn't sudo update grub fix GRUB showing old OS'?

jrg

@Seth it should

Seth

someone just posted it as an answer.

so never mind.

jrg

4:25 PM

oh man.

i guess i'm inheriting another open source project.

Amith KK

►

does the audio play infinitely for you?

mojo706

@jrg ?

jrg

@mojo706 i keep coming across projects that need maintainers.

Oli

@AmithKK Yeah - looks like they've somehow sprocketed a short video onto a long audio track and Youtube hasn't dealt with that when it transcoded it. Very odd.

mojo706

@jrg for example?

Oli

4:38 PM

@AmithKK (it's not indefinite but it's longer than the video_

jrg

and fit the following criteria:
1. they are in a language i know.
2. they are licensed in something like the MIT or BSD (i did make one exception).
3. and they are something i'd like to use, but needs a bit of work to make it something i can use.

mojo706

so you are willing to help me? Have you ever done some Python?

jrg

never done python, and im adopting the ruby appindicator bindings, need it for a project.

Seth

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Q: using video tag to stream videos that located in ubuntuone

i have a few videos on ubuntu one cloud web storage and want to play that videos on my webloag using html tag without downloading. so may my friend do not like download but like see! when i enter the video url in firefox address bar the video stream's and played but using video tag give an error...

video streaming

mojo706

I thought Ruby was for Web only purposes?

Seth

4:43 PM

Lesson: ALWAYS READ THE API FIRST!

mojo706

am I wrong?

Oli

@mojo706 You are wrong.

mojo706

@Oli I stand corrected. Tell me how

jrg

@mojo706 That's rails. Ruby is just like python - you can force it to do a lot of stuff.

Ruby was made "famous" (or infamous) because of Rails. It's primarily used for the web.

Oli

You're thinking of Ruby on Rails (which is a web-facing framework). Ruby is just a language. You can do anything with it.

jrg

4:44 PM

but i've built desktop apps for windows, mac and linux in ruby. you can build android and iOS apps in it. it's just another language.

i mean, i could build this chat in lisp.

mojo706

@jrg oh ok I now know

jrg

lisp is just a language, as is ruby, as is python, as is C, as is $language_of_choice.

Oli

But if you're only going to take one thing from this, let it be that it's not as good as Python.

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amirite?

jrg

i beg to differ.

Oli

Filthy beggar

Seth

4:46 PM

looooooool

lazyPower

@jrg rails4 isn't production ready

unless you want to keep on the bleeding edge, you're better off to cover the 3.x series since its the current stable build.

jrg

@lazyPower i know. i gambling that it would be out by like, the end of this month, first week of next

but that isn't happening.

lazyPower

nope, they are doing a massive security audit

have you seen the CERT warnings issued in the last month?

jrg

there were like 5.

lazyPower

yea

mojo706

4:47 PM

so if you were to help @jrg it would be in Ruby?

jrg

@mojo706 it would, but i don't have time. sorry. :(

Oli

@lazyPower Makes sense after that SQL injection hole

jrg

did you see the devise hole?

lazyPower

me?

jrg

yeah

lazyPower

4:48 PM

i write ruby for a day job, and .net, and php

writer of many, master of none

mojo706

when do you have time? Its just an indicator that receives some notification from the web

lazyPower

bug introducer from way back

jrg

@mojo706 never. :P

blog.plataformatec.com.br/2013/01/… < nice one that doesn't apply if you're using sqlite or postgres.

lazyPower

1990's linux guy :D

jrg

even nosql was affected there. which was a bit of a shock to me.

Seth

4:52 PM

speaking of python, every time I try to run a python script gnome-terminal crashes.

mojo706

@jrg but can you do it?

Seth

It works in Xterm though

mojo706

@Seth do you have different versions of Python installed?

Seth

IDK, just the defaults..

OK, yeah, I have 3 as well as 2.7

mojo706

check then maybe Xterm refrences another one

jrg

4:54 PM

@mojo I can do anything with enough time.

time is the one commodity that will always be in short supply.

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Seth

@jrg star!

@mojo706 I'll see...

mojo706

@jrg true

jrg

skill isn't even really a commodity that will always be in short supply - because given enough time, i can become skilled in anything.

Amith KK

BBT

Good Night

jrg

cya @AmithKK

mojo706

4:56 PM

cya

Seth

ah, wait. If I cd to documents and run it from there it works in gnome terminal.

jrg

interesting @Seth.

sounds like a puts on sunglasses bug.

mojo706

you see @seth you have local copies but no global install

Seth

@jrg I know :(

@mojo706 What do you mean? Local copies of Python?

@jrg I'd like to see you in sunglasses :P

mojo706

you may have installed in documents directory

Seth

4:58 PM

those look about right...

@mojo706 Have python installed in the Documents folder? I haven't been messing with anything...

mojo706

ok then thats odd

lazyPower

@jrg i believe we call that "the hacker mentality"

Seth

geeky sunglasses

jrg

@lazyPower true that.

here

found that old picture of me in sunglasses.

Seth

ooooh

jrg

5:04 PM

hardly flattering.

and it's almost 2 years old at this point.

mojo706

what are those called @jrg?

jrg

@mojo706 what are what called?

mojo706

those sunglasses

jrg

i never knew they had a name, i just always called them sunglasses.

Seth

There are the secret agent ones @jrg uses to read peoples minds >:)

mojo706

5:06 PM

hehe

jrg

something like that

mojo706

see the ones I have on? on my avi?

Seth

yeah

mojo706

those are called Geeks?

Seth

I don't think sunglasses have real "names". Its all relative.

If my cousin where to see these he would call them "Minecraft Glasses"

So, @mojo706, not exactly

mojo706

5:11 PM

facebook.com/…

mojo706

5:22 PM

see that. That is my setup

in the kitchen next to the food

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Seth

Nice!

@mojo706 exactly. Always next to the food right?

mojo706

yeah just incase

mojo706

5:45 PM

@jrg A title for a course you may offer.

"Building Ubuntu Desktop Apps in Ruby" I would subscribe to that

Ask Ubuntu Meta

5:58 PM

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Q: Do we need a tag for every Apple product?

I was editing a Mac related question, and noticed we had a macbook, mackbookpro, macbookair and mac-mini tags. Do we really need all these tags for Apple products? I'm not sure anything needs to be done about this, but I want to know what other people think. Are Apple products that differe...

discussion tags

jrg

6:08 PM

@mojo filed away into the list of stuff to look into during august.

mojo706

August? It's only January not February yet?

jrg

No, I don't have any work stuff a scheduled for august.

Last two weeks of July and first two of August are going to be free to spend on stuff like that.

Updating and maintaining the stuff I've got to have done by July is going to be hard enough as it I, without adding more.

mojo706

I respect your schedule August it is!

BBL

gertvdijk

8:15 PM

"[...] every time i suck at the point after [...]" askubuntu.com/q/249115/88802

jrg

8:36 PM

@jorgecastro bootswatch.com/united

@gertvdijk sounds like a corrupt image to me.

gertvdijk

@jrg oh well, I was posting it here because of the funny typo.

jrg

well, true.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

9:20 PM

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Q: Can I see which comments I flagged?

In my profile, under Flags I see the posts I flagged. Now I want to see which comments I flagged and don't find them. Am I too blind to see the obvious?

support

The Lord of Time

10:43 PM

*sigh*

the ending has begun - someone managed to ponyfy my... evil... side. :/

on another note, hi everyone!!

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

11:18 PM

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Q: Ubuntu 12.10/UNR wireless thinks network uses wrong security

I have a recently-upgraded UNR (12.04) running on my netbook, and I just built a computer with Ubuntu 12.10. UNR had no wireless problems until I upgraded, and now the only way I can connect is by manually choosing the connection every time I turn on my netbook - because trying to connect to the...

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