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Lucio

12:17 AM

@blade19899 Thanks for the reply :)

Call me V

2:35 AM

anyone that is here frequently going to defcon this year?

Seth

3:56 AM

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Q: Wubi Installer with complete package

Sir, Can i get full package ubuntu with WUBI ? . when I try using wubi, it needs to download Obuntu OS,If connection goes , it needs to start again.

Obuntu o_O

Nathan Osman

6:23 AM

My desktop keeps getting bigger and bigger:

Mitch

6:40 AM

@NathanOsman Good Morning.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

9:39 AM

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Q: Do all distrbutions have the same drivers for ATI cards?

The problem is that my fan is too loud and working nonstop on my desktop. I have tried so far: Ubuntu 13.04, Linux Mint 15 and I had in both the same fan problem (nonstop working fan and very loud). In Windows 7 it's working nice. Is this only a problem of Gnome distros or KDE or Xfce based w...

ubuntu linux-mint gnome kde xfce

Ask Ubuntu Meta

10:39 AM

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Q: Why there are so few answers on askubuntu site?

Why are so few answers on askubuntu? I don't get it, it's quite big when compared with another SE sites, but still very few answers. Very many unanswered questions in my opinion, when compared with another SE sites? Why is that? Again, there are a lot of users and questions, but it seems tha...

bug answers unanswered-questions answered-questions users

Mitch

10:55 AM

@fossfreedom ?

Zignd

Some help here please?

6

Q: Is it possible to use Python with the Ubuntu SDK?

David Planella wrote in his answer to a question I posted that: ...the recommended way to develop apps for Ubuntu is the Ubuntu SDK. So I installed it, but looks like the supported programming language is C++. Does it mean I will need to know C++ to develop a new application for Ubuntu? Is...

application-development python c++ ubuntu-sdk

fossfreedom

11:21 AM

@Mitch hmm?

Mitch

There was a bounty on this question that ended the day before yesterday, and grace period ended yesterady. But I haven't received the bounty. Is there anything wrong? Or has the rules regarding bounties change?
Thanks.

askubuntu.com/questions/300408/…

fossfreedom

you need 2 upvotes in the bounty period - you only received one as far as I can see.

Mitch

The votes has to be during the bounty period? I though it has to have 2 or more vote whenever.

fossfreedom

yep - otherwise ... lets say someone has 100 votes on an answer - but someone bounties for a new answer - the new answer will get the bounty with 2 upvotes - but it would be unfair for the old 100 votes answer to get it.

Alvar

can we close this one? askubuntu.com/q/314593/10698

Mitch

11:29 AM

OK. Sorry to bother you on Sunday :(

fossfreedom

@Mitch no worries

@Alvar why - what's wrong?

Alvar

@fossfreedom opinion based

unclear what he's asking for

fossfreedom

maybe - change "You think is it safe enough of spying" to "Does Ubuntu One fall under the american legislation that provides the NSA with access to data" ... or something similar.

bbl

Orion

12:49 PM

Hello, all! Any expert helps me here askubuntu.com/questions/314620/… ?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:07 PM

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Q: What is the difference between RGB and YCbCr?

In my Linux Mint ATI Catalyst setup I have set YCbCr as default for Color Pixel Format? What is the difference? I subjectively think that RGB (Full RGB) is better for my eyes. YCbCr seems to be more blurry and my eyes have problem to focus and are tired sooner.

ubuntu linux-mint gnome monitors color-management

Ask Ubuntu Meta

3:01 PM

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Q: ask for system specifications when asking a questions

I thought it might improve the question quality when you ask a question below the question form there is a form asking for your systems specifications. For example version of Ubuntu running, laptop model, network card, processor, Ram etc (feel free to expand upon that list). I think there often a...

feature-request asking-questions

Lucio

3:54 PM

Guys, please review the queue in the Ubuntu Regulator Rooms.
We need more people there. If you find a dupe, post the question there, don't limit your self to flag it.
At least a little more or help from time to time will help to maintain the site clean :)

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Seth

4:39 PM

Even if people would just hang out there you know.. mark it as one of your favourite rooms and it will appear in the sidebar.

@fossfreedom Around?

jokerdino

ta?

Seth

I feel bad... all I do is give you guys work :-/

Anyway, wanna dupe close and merge this?

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Q: How to install ubuntu - no cd/usb

So basically as it stands I have a laptop which has no cd/dvd drive, and I don't have a usb drive. The laptop has windows 7 installed with ubuntu 11.04 installed through wubi. What I want to do is remove windows completely, and make ubuntu the only OS installed on the system. Is there a way to...

11.04 partitioning wubi re-installation

Amith KK

BBT

Good Night

Seth

Night @AmithKK

jokerdino

@Seth do i really have to merge?

i hate merges

Seth

4:47 PM

It has way better answers than the master.

jokerdino

then i can link it the other way?

Seth

I guess you could.

Except that's the older question.

jokerdino

well, age don't matter too much

Seth

Well when you're doing dupe close and merges it sorta does.

jokerdino

generally yeah but i am quite a non-confirmist

Seth

4:51 PM

I know.

Merge now?

Thanks.

Man, those answers need some cleaning.

Ronnie Marlow

5:06 PM

I need some help, from a technical genious, toward the product pebble watch!

Seth

@jokerdino BTW, when I try to change the workspace switcher key in UTT nothing happens..

@RonnieMarlow Not sure anyone can help you with that..

I've never even heard of it before.

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jokerdino

@Seth it works for me.

it's a substitute for the button in launcher

Seth

Hmm.

jokerdino

are you on 13.10?

Seth

No.

But I do have a VM to test it if you want.

jokerdino

5:11 PM

can you tail -f .config/unity-tweak-tool/debug.log?

Seth

paste.ubuntu.com/5814468

jokerdino

it doesn't work as in, you can't change the key or it doesn't function?

Seth

I can change the key, but it doesn't function.

jokerdino

what version of UTT?

Seth

0.0.5

I just checked for updates.

jokerdino

5:16 PM

no number after ~ ?

0.0.5~155?

Seth

No.

jokerdino

apt-cache policy unity-tweak-tool

Seth

unity-tweak-tool:
  Installed: 0.0.5-0~138~quantal1
  Candidate: 0.0.5-0~138~quantal1
  Version table:
 *** 0.0.5-0~138~quantal1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.0.4ubuntu0.1 0
        500 ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring-updates/universe amd64 Packages
     0.0.4 0
        500 ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring/universe amd64 Packages

Maybe that's it.

jokerdino

latest version is ~155

Seth

This machine is a Quantal upgrade to Raring.

jokerdino

5:18 PM

the PPA is disabled.

Seth

OK.

Thanks let me try again.

Err, fix that.

jokerdino

but it still should work on that version

Seth

Well I haven't logged out and logged back in.. do I need to do that?

jokerdino

nope

you might need to make sure if the gsettings key is getting any updates from UTT

Seth

Didn't think so.

I'm getting the latest version right now.

Upgraded. Still nothing happens.

jokerdino

5:23 PM

let me see.

Jorge Castro

morning folks!

Seth

Hey @JorgeCastro

Does data.stackexchange.com work for any of you?

jokerdino

it's on maintenance mode since morning

Seth

For longer than that.

When I went to bed they were doing maintenance.

jokerdino

$ gsettings get org.compiz.expo:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/expo/ expo-key
'<Super>s'

@Seth maybe you are using a different Unity config profile

@JorgeCastro hello!

Seth

5:28 PM

@jokerdino It changes it in Dconf.

Maybe it's a dconf problem?

jokerdino

it could be a bug in unity but i won't admit it

@Seth can you change the key in UTT and see if gsettings sees any change in the key?

i just gave you the command to get the value

Seth

It does.

I set it to Primary-Z and gsettings changed.

@RonnieMarlow Now I have ;-)

jokerdino

can you tell me if you are using the default profile for unity?

Seth

Don't know..

It could be because I upgraded from Quantal to Raring..

jokerdino

use ccsm

Seth

5:30 PM

ccsm!?!

Okay....

jokerdino

i dont know how else to know the profile

Seth

Okay, got ccsm.

jokerdino

go to preference on the side bar

Seth

KK

Jorge Castro

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A: PSA: gksu is no longer installed by default

From the discussions I have had since asking the question you refer to and before providing the answer I gave it seems that for raring at least there is no problem with installing and using gksu. However in the longer term some of the developers want to phase it out. They believe policy-kit offe...

anyone know if gksudo is installed by default?

jokerdino

5:34 PM

@Seth pretty -.-

@JorgeCastro IIRC, it is available in live media. i dont know if it is installed by default though.

i presume it is like gparted

Seth

@JorgeCastro It is.

Now.

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A: Why is gksu no longer installed by default in 13.04?

I just installed 13.04 : GKSU is already installed...

jokerdino

@Seth so it was only out of the images momentarily?

@Seth hold on. can you make other changes in the window manager section and see if they work?

Seth

@jokerdino Of ccsm or UTT?

jokerdino

UTT yeah

Seth

@jokerdino I guess..

KK

gertvdijk

5:37 PM

spam. askubuntu.com/a/314707/88802

Seth

Hello @gertvdijk :)

Flagged.

gertvdijk

Hi there, @Seth :)

Seth

@jokerdino Yeah, other settings work.

jokerdino

@Seth other keyboard shortcuts too?

why dont you edit the settings in CCSM and see if that helps?

that particular setting is in expo

Seth

Other keyboard shortcuts don't work either in UTT it seems.

I need to go.

jokerdino

5:46 PM

@Seth cya

Seth

@jokerdino Hmm. Sorta working now..

Get back to you later on it

jokerdino

O_o

@Seth thank you

Seth

No, thank you :)

jokerdino

lol is it working fine now?

Seth

No not really :-/

The workspace switcher works..

but changing window spread doesn't.

jokerdino

5:51 PM

on a terminal, tail -f the debug,log

and simultaneously change the settings in UTT.

if you notice things flowing, then it's alright

err, scratch that.

keyboard shortcuts stuff aren't getting dumped into debug.log

if you can reproduce this issue again and consistently, file a bug report.

Takkat

@Seth @JorgeCastro its not here

jokerdino

and we'll forever clump it together with other ignored reports :D

Takkat

gksu will be installed when upgrading from alpha or a previous release. But it is also not installed in 13.10

Seth

@jokerdino will do :)

@Takkat Errg.

jokerdino

6:25 PM

so gksu is not installed by default

Lucio

Can someone add a bounty here?

jokerdino

too soon

Lucio

This is a bug that is affecting to all the users of Ubuntu.

jokerdino

bug link?

Lucio

Also, it will be very valuable that someone report the bug

@jokerdino right :)

@gg-79 are you there?

we need that some user create the report of that bug, @gg-79 you are the one :D

@jokerdino sorry, I though that a mod can do that

@jokerdino You could upvote it :)

thank you

Lucio

7:37 PM

@luis are you around?

@LuisAlvarado maybe? :-)

Lucio

8:09 PM

Can someone upvote this comment? Will help future users, hopefully..

Luis Alvarado

8:37 PM

@Lucio Hi

RolandiXor

9:14 PM

Hi guys

I'm going to ask a question on the site, but first, I'm checking in here (I know it's against convention).

I have a second hard drive in this current laptop, but it is not mounted on startup.

Now, I know I could use fstab, but I want to know, seeing as it is mounted as /media/myusername/Storaige (Yes, Storaige is its name), I'm wondering if it will still work with fstab smoothly. Why I ask is because I've created symlinks to folders on the drive, and I don't want to have to recreate them if I add it to fstab.

Luis Alvarado

@RolandiXor I am cleaning my PC right now but when it dries up I can test that. I think I did that with one of my drives and it worked.

RolandiXor

cool ^_^

RolandiXor

9:32 PM

gonna play some AOE

Luis Alvarado

@RolandiXor Go at it hehe. nice to see you again, long time no see, well nobody ^^

RolandiXor

@LuisAlvarado lol

I was busy with work and stuff

But still checking in on Au daily

Thomas W.

11:05 PM

if any mods are around for AskUbuntu...

0

Q: Suggestions for hardware on a file server

I am planning to build a file server using Ubuntu server for my home network. This machine would connect with a Gigabit ethernet nic, have its drives configured in RAID 1, and use an encrypted file system, what would be a decent hardware configuration (processor/memory) where throwing more hardwa...

server hardware

VTC: Too Opinion Based

mojo706

11:48 PM

@NathanOsman checkout Random string generator. Now how do I integrate?
https://c9.io/mojo706/signup
I got it running but now how do I integrate with existing script?

@Lucio ^^ help

hey @FEichinger you any good at PHP?

FEichinger

@mojo706 Yeh. What do you need?

mojo706

c9.io/mojo706/signup trying to get a signup form working Ive got everything mixed up

you can look and I could add you as a collaborator if you have tips

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