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@Richard I would agree.

1:12 AM

@NathanOsman The HTML links are a bit messed up in this 2buntu article: 2buntu.com/articles/1034/how-to-write-a-manpage I dunno if that applies to the rest of the site or not, but certainly broken there :)

1:40 AM

@Seth remember the developer account question-meta-question-question, the dev accounts use ubuntu one SSO so you can change stuff on the ubuntu one account, can you reopen - I'm formulating an answer right now

@Mateo awesome, I'll do that.

He did mention something like that in his meta post, but it was kinda hard to dissect.

yeah... I thought it could be that, or something like a ubuntu member thing, but I was quite sure it wasn't an AU account

ok, all reopened. If you can think of a good tag at the same time that'd be good too ;)

@Seth thanks, I'm taking screenshots now ;)

awesome!

A: how can change my Ubuntu profile and Ubuntu developer profile email address?

2:01 AM

and done.

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You should be able to add a new email, and change the default on your Ubuntu One Single Sign On. Go to https://login.ubuntu.com/ and login with your current e-mail and password. Under Personal Details click on Manage email address: Enter in a new email address in this field: Verify your new...

oh, wait wrong one...

<!- erm-!>

2:17 AM

of course... I get someone saying they cancelled the file sharing service...

-_-

2:37 AM

@Mateo looks like he was pretty reasonable about it though, so that is good.

/me is writing manpages

@Seth yeah, I kind of wish they renamed it to Ubuntu login or something :)

it is confusing

Q: startx, gui on tty7 and sound on tty 1

yes, that is a good idea.

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I just installed ubuntu minimal and fluxbox. I have installed no login manager, so after the system boots, I login in the tty1 and use the startx command to run. After that, if I open Firefox and go to a youtube video (or use aplay to play a wav file) I have no sound. alsamixer is unmutted and a...

okay, that's weird.

Q: How to export X Display with Audio?

hm, interesting

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How can I export my X Display with audio. For example, in tty1 if I put, "startx xmoto -- :1 &", I can play xmoto ok, but have no sound. If i put "xinit -- :1 &"and then put "xmoto &", again I can play xmoto ok, but have no sound. The strange thing is the sound continues in tty1...if I go back ...

xorg

maybe?

3:04 AM

wow, so all the relevant tags were removed...

Nathan Osman

@Seth there's a good explanation for those articles with messed up links. We originally used WordPress and later imported the content into our new blog engine.

Some of the WordPress content was raw HTML.

Our current engine only supports markdown.

So some really old articles haven't been converted yet.

3:38 AM

@NathanOsman ah, I see. Well as long as you know about it :)

(very helpful article btw)

@Mateo sigh

karel

6:33 AM

OP says in a comment -- "I'm using linux, not ubuntu. ". Voting to close the question for being off topic.

Pandya

6:47 AM

in Unix and Linux, 11 mins ago, by Pandya

I am using Ubuntu (with Xfce) 14.04 ; after reading Free GNU/Linux distributions and Explaining Why We Don't Endorse Other Systems I'm thinking to migrate to gNewSense or Trisquel. Which is recommended to try ?

Pandya

7:09 AM

this needs close.

7:26 AM

@karel it has another vtc on it.

@Mateo well done

Rinzwind

woot! askubuntu.com/help/badges/102/package-management?userid=15811 :D

8:15 AM

Bump, bump-ity bump! — Gregory Opera Feb 19 at 13:26

Constructive comment: Yes, no?

8:32 AM

@blade19899 I occasionally bump things. Evidently this fellow doesn't know about ninja edits bumping things to the top of the queue

oh, jeebus, i'm so sorry. that didn't need a bump. that needed a nap and fire... so i could smell napalm in the morning

did you know that doing something like adding data through an edit or inserting things you tried in an edit bumps you to the top of the unanswered queue? It's a VERY old question, so if you have to bump it and you haven't tried anything... just extrapolate some logic there. — hbdgaf 14 secs ago

@blade19899 - problem solved.

8:51 AM

@hbdgaf Job well done boys.

This is just too funny:

If I only drank beer!

Ugh, Mondays!

Evolution delays GNOME session quit

> Vibrant Forest: We won't tolerate "dull" or "boring", so wether it be from a cask or from a bottle we want our beer to excite the palate and stimulate the taste buds.

All beer claim to do that... but after a "Maß" at the Oktoberfest it stimulates the bladder rather than anything else ;)

<-- prefers espresso to beer

Logging out of a Unity session while Evolution is running blocks log out for approx. a minute. There is no windows decoration, therefore manual closure of Evolution is not possible. Killing the running Evolution process from TTY will lead to an immediate log out. How to reproduce: Login to a session to start Evolution. Wait until there is no more activity in Evolution (that may block application termination). Log out from the session by me-menu or from terminal `gnome-session-quit --logout' What is expected: Evolution should terminate and the login screen should be displayed. What happens instead: The windows decoration disappears on all open windows. No launcher or panel, mouse and keyboard are unresponsive. After 1 minute Evolution quits and the login screen appears. This is stock Evolution 3.10.4-0ubuntu2 from 14.04.1 LTS (am64 3.13.0-39-generic) but was present in 12.04 and still is in 14.10 (the latter with intact windows decoration however). ProblemType: Bug DistroRele…

evolution (Ubuntu)

Undecided / New

Nobody, really?

or is it only us here still using Evolution...

I only use webmail or thunderbird... so sorry.

this bug nearly made me stop using Evolution - but I could never get used to TB for very obscure reasons.

9:07 AM

In other news, I'm looking at this for myself for xmas amazon.com/KRUPS-XP160050-Espresso-Machine-Combination/dp/…

@hbdgaf if only the right side coffee was not there... :)

<-- hates filter coffee

I like coffee, although I prefer the "perfect cup" glass evaporative brewers you put on bunsen/gas stove etc. It's still nice to have the utility of a multifunction machine that fits on my counter.

It's only the traditional Italian machines that survive our demand for more than a year.

I find it hard to believe that one of these dies that quickly en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_coffee_maker

it does look very very fragile... :)

Many people here have those pad machines... there are reusable pad-like adapters to put in cheaper ground coffee.

9:12 AM

Well, it would be if you juggled it...

>.>

...or have a son throwing things...

Okay, that too

model cars are meant to fly :D

sadly or not, i don't live in a mosh pit like this youtube.com/watch?v=dCESufY8hMc

well he grew up - now his wishes fro X-mas are a gamer mouse and a gamer keyboard.

9:14 AM

he'll age to the point that he just wants good coffee eventually. just hold on.

@hbdgaf banned in Germany.... :/

@hbdgaf lol

@Takkat sorry.

at home I can watch them but here at the office we cannot do anything.

<-- would love Mondays if there were no office.

repetitive lyric is keep living loud and proud.

conversely, when you're working a mundane job and doing your own thing on the weekends - friday night is monday morning... and it's much nicer than the actual monday.

:)

9:21 AM

redacted

@hbdgaf lol - that's far away from here.

Not even the same time zone, so I'm quite ashamed ;) It is about a 12 hour difference though, so not so horrifying a failure.

9:39 AM

I found a bug on Ask Ubuntu

This is a dupe: askubuntu.com/q/231512/36315

But it doesn't show the original question above the question

Or is ait just me?

not just you.

@Takkat Where to report bugs about Ask Ubuntu? or should I ask that on meta?

Q: Should I avoid to post answer on question going to close?

@blade19899 Meta, I think.

you have a bug tag there.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Consider I visited a question and which looks going to close, Also voted to close, then Should I avoid posting answer to that question? Example you can see that this question is closed (at present on hold) as primarily opinion-based and I also voted to close that but I've also at same time poste...

discussion moderation

Dan

@blade19899 Nah, it was removed in an edit askubuntu.com/posts/231512/revisions

I re-added it

Q: Make the 'Possible Duplicate:' uneditable by normal users

10:02 AM

@Dan Tooo bad, thought i found a bug.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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I noticed a post that had the marked as duplicate by:... But the Possible Duplicate: ..... in the answer wasn't there, at first i thought it was a bug, but another user informed me that it was removed in an edit. That surprised me that a user just can edit out or Rollback to Revision...

feature-request bug

@Dan The user did it again: askubuntu.com/q/231512/36315

He roll back again!

10:18 AM

@blade19899 ok - I reopened and closed it again with the same dupe - a rollback will not affect the dupe text now.

@fossfreedom, care to answer the meta then?

I'm not here... working ... but short answer added

@fossfreedom Thanks! I should be to... bye ya'all

:)

Procrastination is so mean

Q: Adding multiple user with shell script on Ubuntu

10:30 AM

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Can someone help me in providing me the shell script for creating multiple users on Ubuntu. Password needs to be different for each user. Thanks in advance

linux shell ubuntu useradd

classic! askubuntu.com/questions/547840/…

Dan

lol

11:18 AM

I wonder if this will have any effect on possibly offense tools allowed to be in repo?

11:31 AM

@hbdgaf as far as I read the regulations they are quite hardware-bound... e.g. any computers capable of more than 8 Teraflops are not allowed to be exported. Software is only included marginally in a sense that software used to produce any such computers falls under these regulations as well.

8 TFlops may be reached pretty soon - put in some high end GPUs and we will be there...

Q: Ubuntu cannot find or detect new wired network adapter

1:14 PM

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I want to use two ethernet card on my machine,so I add new ethernet car on my machine,however when enter ifconfig -a command,ubuntu cannot find or detect the new device,so I try to bring the new device up like usual and give me this error: ifconfig eth1 up eth1: error fetching interface informat...

ubuntu networking

Oliver Schöning

2:06 PM

Does anyone have trouble with Chrome and Java ? Is this still relevant? askubuntu.com/questions/470594/…

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Is there any place to discuss already answered question on askubuntu or other stackexchange sites

I want to discuss already answered question. Is there any place to discuss it?

discussion feature-request

Rinzwind

2:23 PM

W T F @seth

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A: Is there any place to discuss already answered question on askubuntu or other stackexchange sites

AskUbuntu chat. You need 20 reputation though. Ubuntu discourse. How's Ubuntu Discourse different from other sites? Ask Ubuntu, the Ubuntu Forums, and project mailing lists are where we do our tech support. We recommend those sites for questions about how to configure and use Ubuntu. T...

20 seconds and we posted all 3 the same locations in the same ordr _O-

Oliver Schöning

Great.. looks like Ubuntu is a nono in Denmark now. If I can't do internet banking. Lmao

Ahh at least in runs in FF after some fixing

3:08 PM

You guys think using the overlay scrollbar on a website would look good?

My site has a custom scrollbar, and i just realized that i can customize it to look like the Unity Ubuntu overlay scrollbar.

aVIRA

3:22 PM

Can you please tell me site where I can create function for bash

*in bash programming

@aVIRA generic programming issues & questions is probably better suited here - stackoverflow.com - make sure you do your research carefully - poorly worded questions tend to get downvoted to oblivion

however unix.stackexchange.com and ourselves also answer bash stuff - just make sure the question is relevant to the operating system you are using before posting

@fossfreedom I've experienced that. T'was painfull

terdon

@aVIRA In your ~/.bashrc or directly in the commandline:

foo(){ echo bar; }

Then run foo and it will print bar.

3:44 PM

This is a first:

4:19 PM

witnessed something weird here -> askubuntu.com/q/547956/114489 where the user geary could comment even with 1 rep. is it possible?

@astrob0t no he can't - however what you cannot see is that he added an answer which has been converted into a comment

was that automated or someone manually did it?

manual - me

i remember seeing an answer with the exact words and a downvote. i was about to comment something there when that comment appeared and my page refreshed and the answer disappeared. i thought, that's cool.

:)

Rinzwind

5:55 PM

\o

6:10 PM

@blade19899 cloud flare is up, they came in chat to monitor if bad things happen a few days ago, so I would report strange stuff as you find it if it keeps happening

@OliverSchöning last I heard java is gone and banned from chrome, so... yeah - firefox.

@hbdgaf lol, they better scan windows computers at the gate ;)

Q: How do i install the firefox developer edition?

6:30 PM

Mozilla Releases 'Firefox Developer Edition' for Windows, Mac and Linux - OMG! Ubuntu!

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Mozilla released Mozilla Firefox developer edition! How do in install it on Ubuntu? Mozilla Releases 'Firefox Developer Edition' for Windows, Mac and Linux - OMG! Ubuntu!

firefox

ooo, dark theme!

someone ppa it!

or is it a binary...

woah, cli for the web!

this is amazing!

1 fox 2 fox orange fox blue fox

Q: Half of the window in one workspace and the other half in another one

6:54 PM

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I have an application that runs in an embedded system with 2 screens. However, in my development environment I only have one monitor, so in order to debug the application I used to run the desktop with two workspaces, and then I would place my app window in a manner that half of it would be plac...

ubuntu mate workspaces

KasiyA

This question edited before by @Braiam and deleted [install-from-source] tag from that. See the edit #9. @muru @EricCarvalho

Also that tag already added by himself(@Braiam) in edit #8 but deleted in #9 edit again by himself again.

7:13 PM

@KasiyA [software-installation] tag becomes too broad a topic to search for with Ubuntu software center also in picture. every other software issue gets tagged with this [software-installation] tag. so [install-from-source] seemed more relevant to me here.

Q: Tag 'source' seems to be pointless

7:31 PM

@astrob0t I think we are more concerned about braiam's tagging habits, your add seems logical to me

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I just asked a question and added the tag source-code but only typed source to get it. I then noticed that the tag source exists, it has 83 questions and no wiki - should it be deleted? No questions should have this tag, any question tagged with this can be changed to be tagged with source-code ...

discussion tags

KasiyA

@astrob0t Did you see the other removed tags in edit #8. MORE specific tags[tar bzip2 zip] are deleted too. While you still have added the deleted tag.

7:54 PM

@FlackBot are you listening? you are here without nathan?

I thought the question was about 'software installation' in general and 'software installation from source' to be particular. That was my intention behind re-adding the tag. [tar, bzip2 and zip] tags appeared to be more divergent and would not have added value to the question and searches. :)