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Seth

12:00 AM

Someone bountied the sandbox on MSO O_O

Mateo

The sandbox rocks!

hbdgaf

left4dead2 runs JUST fine single player on intel graphics... the audio subsystem glitches a little, but it's nothing horrible.

@fossfreedom ^^

fossfreedom

12:18 AM

neat ... just finished downloading - I'll get it a try whenever the "ready to launch" progress bar finishes

Braiam

12:28 AM

how is called the lateral bar of unity? dash, bar, taskbar (sounds like Windows)?

Mateo

1:02 AM

woah, chromecast works on the linux version too

chaskes

1:47 AM

@NathanOsman Whoa! thx for the RPi/Wolfram link.

jmunsch

2:28 AM

@braiam you got me all I can think about at the moment is Turkish keyboard config. Sorry. I'm no good at tech.

Seth

3:31 AM

>For Debian 6 it said to use the below:

deb http://files.freedv.org/debian/ oldstable main
deb-src http://files.freedv.org/debian/ oldstable main
For Debian 7, use this one (below) instead:

deb http://files.freedv.org/debian/ stable main
deb-src http://files.freedv.org/debian/ stable main
I put both in the sources file (in my /etc/apt/sources.list) because I was uncertain of which Debian version Ubuntu 10.04 has.

>.>

Braiam

@Seth err... you know what to do ;)

btw, my queue is below 200! :D

I'm guessing the title here askubuntu.com/q/396201/169736

btw @Seth I'm sure there's a dupe of this somewhere askubuntu.com/q/281609/169736

Mateo

4:31 AM

babaji spam is back :( , thought that word would have been blacklisted by now... askubuntu.com/q/396234/47291 SPAM!

that and people are downvoting and closing without flagging as spam... askubuntu.com/questions/396224/…

Braiam

meh, this question is sooooo bad askubuntu.com/q/396078/169736

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Where are the canonical question for installing Ubuntu in a Apple hardware (macintosh)?

Seriously, I've found too many answers (contradictory or being exactly the same or just link-only answers) about this and none seems to be 100% precise in what needs to be done to complete the task. Has anyone actually done this and have experience? I'm afraid to upvote an answer about this in f...

discussion

RPi Awesomeness

4:54 AM

@Mateo I know. Why did that pop again!

Journeyman Geek

5:08 AM

hmm

hostapd is really cool

Nathan Osman

5:24 AM

Netflix was down for an hour today :P

Nathan Osman

8:57 AM

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

9:29 AM

0

Q: How to properly setup user/groups/permissions for a web server?

I spent all day figuring this out, but without success, so hopefully I can get some help here: I have Ubuntu 13.10 VPS server with nginx, PHP 5 and MariaDB installed. I created custom system user (for example "myuser") which I use for connecting through SFTP to my server. In my user home directo...

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

9:42 AM

0

Q: How do I install unetbootin on an E1 Vision AMD processor?

I'm on Ubuntu on an E1 Vision AMD (64 bit) processor. The available binaries for Unetbootin do not work on this architecture. Is there any way that I can get Unetbootin working on this system?

ubuntu amd

Taylor Bioniks

10:07 AM

I'd just like to ask someone for one thing please upvote or downvote on of my posts so that I am not on the number with three sixes anymore

3

thank you

Journeyman Geek

10:26 AM

lol

2

Utkarsh

WELCOME BACK HOME

@JourneymanGeek whats up?

Journeyman Geek

10:57 AM

not much

Utkarsh

11:38 AM

@Mateo babaji is a hindi word which is from india. if you find babaji's phone number then call him while adding +91 in that. you may also give this number to police

Mahavatar Babaji

Mahavatar Babaji is the name given to an Indian saint by Lahiri Mahasaya and several of his disciples who met Mahavatar Babaji between 1861 and 1935. Some of these meetings were described by Paramahansa Yogananda in his book Autobiography of a yogi, including a first hand telling of Yogananda’s own meeting with Mahavatar Babaji. Another first hand account was given by Yukteswar Giri in his book The Holy Science. All of these accounts, along with additional meetings with Mahavatar Babaji, are described in various biographies of those mentioned by Yogananda. Mahavatar Babaji’s given name i...

there is a new babaji in ubuntu market!!

he is spamming on youtube too

Rinzwind

1:12 PM

It starts with a S and endswith an M. Answer can be found here: askubuntu.com/questions/396368/…

blade19899

> Page Not Found

Braiam

@Rinzwind actually, there are users not capable of identifying spam?

fossfreedom

geez - we all need love this xmas ... apparently

Braiam

@fossfreedom are only spam answers the ones that gets edited?

fossfreedom

never ever edit spam - just hit the flag and delete buttons.

4

Utkarsh

1:16 PM

@fossfreedom okay

@fossfreedom know who is this babaji?

blade19899

fossfreedom

there must be a number to call ... anyone know it ? :P

blade19899

Just my opinion

@Utkarsh, : duckduckgo.com/?q=babaji

Braiam

@fossfreedom I'm not talking about that, but community obscure the spam/rude flagged posts, forcing me to see the post history

apparently only happen with answer

fossfreedom

linky?

Utkarsh

1:19 PM

yea

Braiam

wait

Utkarsh

@blade19899 no they are the real saints

babaji is something fake

blade19899

I'll research it better latter on

btw

Utkarsh

@Braiam waited now?

Braiam

blade19899

1:20 PM

Old unity 5 mockup

Braiam

@fossfreedom ^, only answers appears like that

questions not, is intended?

fossfreedom

hmm - you must be seeing a different view - I see the actual spam answers

must be a mod thing

Braiam

ok, time of a meta Q

Utkarsh

@fossfreedom if u see babaji next time, then dont forget to note down his phone number

blade19899

Utkarsh

1:23 PM

blade19899

Ubuntu 10.10 the most stable OS i have ever used. And the os that dragged me into the Linux world!

Utkarsh

@fossfreedom see the image

got babaji's ph.no.

@blade19899 mee too

@blade19899 i swear

@fossfreedom ?

blade19899

@Utkarsh, I believe you!

fossfreedom

@Utkarsh irony is lost

blade19899

btw you have in your terminal the command scrot?

Utkarsh

1:25 PM

@blade19899 thanks

Fitzroy

Ubuntu 7.10 was the first version I used - I think I got a free CD in the post with it on...

Utkarsh

@blade19899 dont know! my friends told me to use scrot

@fossfreedom irony? what is it?

blade19899

Just searched for it terminal based screen-shot tool

Utkarsh

@blade19899 screentshot tool takes 5-7 sec. and scrot takes 1 sec

:-)

Fitzroy

screenshot stool -haha

blade19899

1:28 PM

@fossfreedom, it looks so ancient by todays standard:

Fitzroy

I use a program called Greenshot on Windows systems. I've aways wondrred what the past participle is for having used Greenshot? As in I just 'greenshat' it?

Utkarsh

@blade19899 lol

blade19899

But is was probably more stable then some distros today

fossfreedom

@blade19899 theming back then was so easy ... I'm sure it would be able to produce an ambiance equivalent.

Utkarsh

@fossfreedom i still cant understand what do you meant by irony is lost google.co.in/…

blade19899

1:30 PM

Slightly better

I kinda miss gnome2! ;'(

Utkarsh

@blade19899 i had this on boss linux but now...

@slhck is coming...... he is dangerous ....

:P

blade19899

lol

Numix looks awesome

slhck

@blade19899 Looks nice. Fixes most of what I disliked about the GNOME 3 stock theme.

Utkarsh

@blade19899 is it a environment? or a different OS?

blade19899

@slhck, I dislike gnome3 in general

@Utkarsh, its a theme!

Utkarsh

1:34 PM

@blade19899 okay!

blade19899

@Utkarsh, its homepage:

numixproject.org

Utkarsh

@blade19899 thanks. will surely install it!

@blade19899 oh no! non-free

I think i have to Stck with my boring ubuntu 13.10

blade19899

@Utkarsh, optional.

`sudo add-apt-repository ppa:numix/ppa`
`sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install numix-gtk-theme`

Utkarsh

:-)

Rinzwind

@Braiam yes seems so :-) the word "coupons" in the url was all I needed _O-

Utkarsh

1:39 PM

@blade19899 you brought a smile on my face!

blade19899

@Utkarsh... your welcome buddy

Utkarsh

:-)

Braiam

unclear askubuntu.com/q/386447/169736

Utkarsh

the user @Braiam has a rocket on his head!!! lol

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blade19899

@Utkarsh, lmao!

Utkarsh

1:55 PM

@blade19899 how is the weather i your country?

blade19899

@Utkarsh, Depressing. Rainy. Cold.

Utkarsh

@blade19899 in india, it was also rainy and cold

@blade19899 have you ever used windows?

blade19899

@Utkarsh Yes. on my main laptop ages ago. Now am Running Ubuntu 13.10. And Never use Windows. Except when am at work.

Utkarsh

@blade19899 me too! when i do my work i use windows as java and other things are only in windows i just use ubuntu for its speed :-)

blade19899

Am currently also looking at other distros: Debian, Linux mint. But, preferably one that doesn't use gnome3

I use Ubuntu for everything.

Utkarsh

2:00 PM

Linux mint???

blade19899

I never used it. So, i can't really agree to that

Utkarsh

@fossfreedom why you can't bear naything against linux mint?

@blade19899 yea

fossfreedom

be nice - be merry - its xmas

Utkarsh

@fossfreedom xmas passed two days ago

blade19899

second day of xmas ended yesterday for me

Utkarsh

2:02 PM

@blade19899 i was 10 when i installed it and by mistake i downloaded it from any other site than the official and it deleted all my data! (formatted my PC)

blade19899

@Utkarsh, lol

Utkarsh

@blade19899 how did you celebrate xmas? i mean what do you eat or do?

blade19899

haha U ask allot of question.

ehm i ate chinees

Utkarsh

@blade19899 :P

blade19899

and slept all day.

Utkarsh

2:04 PM

I am very curious to know abt other countries!

blade19899

played the latest 0 A.D. Alpha 15

A little bit of left 4 dead 2

Utkarsh

I don't know what happens to me when i talk to other coountry people. i just feel like i am in heaven

blade19899

but most of my day was playing 0ad

Utkarsh

@blade19899 left 4 dead?

blade19899

yep. a zombie game

Utkarsh

2:05 PM

saw it on my facebook front page!

BYEAskUbuntu

@fossfreedom I need to talk

fossfreedom

private?

BYEAskUbuntu

yes

Utkarsh

@BYEAskUbuntu ooooh rajagenupula! i remeber you

@blade19899 is 0ad a nice game?

blade19899

@Utkarsh, U should play 0 A.D. its a lot better. and a lot les blood

Yes!

Utkarsh

2:06 PM

@blade19899 okay so i will spen my tomorrow while playing 0ad

blade19899

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Q: How to Install 0 A.D.?

What is 0 A.D. and how can I install it on Ubuntu?

installation games 0ad

Utkarsh

currently i play Kings Island

blade19899

My own Q/A i made for 0 A.D.

Utkarsh

@blade19899 nice!

blade19899

cause i like it so much

Thanks!

Utkarsh

2:07 PM

really? I palyed it 4 month ago but uninstalled as it was confusing

blade19899

it takes some time to getting used to

BYEAskUbuntu

@fossfreedom what happen ?

blade19899

I played an entire day just 0 A.D.

Utkarsh

@BYEAskUbuntu nothing i think he is busy

@blade19899 :-)

Braiam

@blade19899 any idea askubuntu.com/q/366393/169736?

blade19899

2:09 PM

@Braiam, A reboot.

i have seen that allot. not just with 0ad.

Utkarsh

@blade19899 lol

great! answer

blade19899

but with other app as well.

Utkarsh

@blade19899 450MB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

blade19899

yyyeeep.

Braiam

@blade19899 can comment/answer/edit the question to make it more relevant to all software/unity?

Utkarsh

2:10 PM

@blade19899 welcome to 4000 reputation

blade19899

@Braiam, first let see if the reboot helped. if it didn't, then we look into editing the Q

Wait just noticed he asked this 3 month ago. faill

Utkarsh

@blade19899 bye!

cloudgames.com <----------------- nice!

blade19899

@Utkarsh, bye!

Utkarsh

good night everyone!

Braiam

can anyone that has an android tell this one how to check the date/time settings? askubuntu.com/questions/396215/unable-to-login-into-ubuntu-one/…

blade19899

2:39 PM

@whoeva Whats is the Q or A with the most revisions. I have 37 -> askubuntu.com/questions/355273/how-to-install-0-a-d/…

Just out of curiosity

askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/201729

Aditya

3:17 PM

@Seth I have been on and off on Stack Exchange sites... Have been a bit active for the last couple of days.. Don't know when I would disappear once again :)

RPi Awesomeness

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Q: Ibackup operating system

i have a Windows XP PC that has been totally blocked with a virus. It does boot, but once fully started it gets blocked and nothing can be done. I tried to start antivirus and other rescue programs from disks, but none would work. Now i was wondering, is it possible to install Linux as a seco...

windows-xp

Anyone able to provide any input on this one? I thought one could use ClamAV to scan the Windows partition, but apparently you can't modify system files from Ubuntu...

blade19899

Dropped some comments

blade19899

3:48 PM

Ask Ubuntu

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Updated the screen-shots of AU on wikipedia

> Ask Ubuntu has two sub-sites: a "meta" where users can ask and answer questions about the site itself, and a set of real time chat rooms as part of the Stack Exchange network of sites.[15]

the chats here are a sub sites?

askubuntu us commercial?

> Commercial? Yes

Oli

@blade19899 Yeah

Stack Exchange owns and runs the site... They're in it to make money.

blade19899

I knew the mods on StackOverflow were getting paid but.... how do they make money off of askubuntu?

Oli

@blade19899 I don't think they do... Some may also be SE staff (and get paid for that) but as far as I know all the community moderators are volunteers.

blade19899

Ah. Oops 17:00, time for weekend! :)

Ask Ubuntu Meta

4:30 PM

0

Q: Can I recover my deleted account

I was a community member since a while and decided to delete my account once. Then I came back with the same email but I lost all my reputations even that my Q/A and comments are still available under the user : user61928 Can I recover my old account and merge it my new one? (recover my Q/A,repu...

discussion

Braiam

4:45 PM

@RPiAwesomeness actually you can, what you can't be entirely sure is that it don't break something else

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: Desktop session from 1 LAN computer to another LAN computer

I've got 2 computers on my LAN (computer A and computer B), and I want to access computer B from computer A. I should be able to see a desktop. How do I go about doing this? What I don't want to do is make either of these computers accessible from a WAN, this must remain in the LAN. Ideally, ...

linux ubuntu debian session remote-desktop

Braiam

5:19 PM

err... what meta.askubuntu.com/a/7924/169736?

Alvar

this is so awesome! codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/16226/…

in the same time so annoying and evil for the OP. But still kinda awesome.

Mitch

5:32 PM

Any Mods available? @fossfreedom

Can a question be accepted or unaccepted by other than the OP?

Oli

@Mitch Nope

I mean, we can delete the answer, but the deleted answer is still the accepted one (IIRC)

Mateo

@hbdgaf Congratulations! you went from un-paid to underpaid on the CamCastic project. ;)

Mitch

Then would you be kind enough and explain this?

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A: How do I install the latest version of LibreOffice?

*UPDATE 2 * As of July 25, the following PPA offers the Release version of LibreOffice: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade That will leave you with LibreOffice 4.1. UPDATE 1 A PPA is now available for 4.1.0. To add it, just press Ctrl+A...

Oli

@Mitch Which bit?

Mitch

@Oli My answer to the above question was unaccepted and the OP hasn't been on since the 21th.

Oli

5:40 PM

There was a merge in 17 minutes ago.

Mitch

OK, that explains it.. Thanks..

Oli

I'm not sure I understand... Was it your answer that was merged in?

Mitch

I really don't know. But I think that my answer was merged to Jorge's answer, and since it had more votes, and was the accepted answer it removed mine.

My answer was to a question by Luis Alvarado

Braiam

5:59 PM

@Mitch I think that the checkmark stays with the answer in the target question

Seth

What's with the stars?

All these messages with one star..

Jeremy

Oohh. Fancy hat @Seth

Seth

6:15 PM

@Jeremy Thanks :)

chaskes

Should I be proud that I just passed Mark Shuttleworth in rep? ;)

Seth

lol. Nice job @chaskes!

chaskes

Thx! I had made that a milestone to reach by the end of the year.

Seth

I guess this is offensive..

-1

A: Can't delete/edit files on my pendrive

do this homey sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sdb and remove your shit,

Frank Slezak

Why was this deleted? askubuntu.com/questions/395787/…

Seth

6:27 PM

What was it?

An answer or a comment?

Frank Slezak

It was an answer.

With 11 upvotes.

Braiam

7

Q: Automatic duplicate redirection SOP

According to this question and the link in the answer from Jacob Edwards closed duplicates that have no answers will redirect the user automatically to the main post after the dupe is closed. This gets us to a point where we all wanted to be, its a nice implemented feature that should be conside...

discussion questions

Seth

It was probably deleted because it messes up auto redirection

That's a risk you take when you answer duplicate questions.

Frank Slezak

It wasnt marked as duplicate when i answered

Seth

You can't answer when it's closed ;)

Frank Slezak

6:29 PM

i know that.

Seth

Alright.

Frank Slezak

i find that a problem, that someone's question is a dupe and nobody knows and then an answerer loses 110 rep.

Braiam

@FrankSlezak I remember seeing a comment almost inmediatly

Seth

You shouldn't have lost any rep..

Frank Slezak

so basically i need to check for dupes before i answer a question to help someone?

Seth

6:31 PM

I don't see what's wrong with getting your answer deleted.. but basically, yes.

Frank Slezak

-110 10 hours ago removed Can I use wine to run all the windows programs?

Seth

They should technically look for dupes before they ask.. although people don't always find 'em.

@FrankSlezak Huh. Dunno why that happened. Supposedly if a answer has a score of 3 you shouldn't lose reputation when it gets deleted.

Frank Slezak

well, i did.

under 30 rep, i wouldn't complain...

Seth

shrug Well all I can do is say "sorry". You could talk to a mod, but there isn't much that can be done.

Frank Slezak

so there is no way to refund the lost rep?

Braiam

6:35 PM

@FrankSlezak read the other answer in the dupe, you will notice that you are not saying anything new, if that's the case mods will delete the answer

Frank Slezak

so theres no way to get back that rep. okay.

Braiam

(that's why I don't answer dupes or most likely dupes)

Frank Slezak

well, then 95% of all questions here are dupes.

Seth

Not that much.

A lot of them are though.

Frank Slezak

a lot.

Braiam

6:36 PM

well, you can't fix humanity @FrankSlezak ;)

Frank Slezak

on a lighter note, @Braiam, you should run for MOD. You'll have my vote.

Braiam

nah, I rant a lot, and I have a very strong conviction about how stuff should work...

Frank Slezak

exactly.

now, to go post the 3+ votes keep rep on deleted answers to meta.

nevermind. its a dupe.

but found this: blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/03/…

First, if you’ve contributed something worthwhile to the site, you should keep the reputation for that even if it eventually gets deleted. “Worthwhile” here is defined as,
A score of 3 or greater
**Visible on the site for at least 60 days**

Seth

Yeah, no idea why you lost the rep.

Frank Slezak

wasnt on the site for 60 days...

Seth

6:45 PM

Well that's true, but I always though it was or not and..

Mateo

@JourneymanGeek happy new year present for you ;) meta.askubuntu.com/a/7918/47291

Frank Slezak

i don't care, i will just vote for undelete

nevermind. you cant overturn a mod...

Mateo

if the dupe does not have the same answer you can flag it and ask for it to be merged into the dupe, maybe..

Seth

It shouldn't be undeleted. It was deleted to make the site work properly.

Frank Slezak

nope. Rafał Cieślak wrote a 5 page answer on that topic.

and won 540 rep...

Seth

6:52 PM

@Braiam So I'm writing an answer to that Java problem, but for some reason if I try to set the timeout of the notification manually with myNotification.setTimeout(15000); it still times out after about 10 seconds :S

Braiam

/me thinks that Java was made by the Devil

Seth

rolls eyes

I think it's an issue with Ubuntu.

Frank Slezak

Java is neat. Not sure about timeout. But that sounds like your JRE

Braiam

wait... are you reading well what's being done?

Seth

And since you run debian... hint hint

@Braiam Me?