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3:02 PM
hypnotic
@AvinashRaj 10k!? Awesome
 
Now for you @MinatoNamikaze ;P
 
Wait till these exams get over xD
 
@MinatoNamikaze exams are STILL?
i thought they are ended?
 
@Utkarsh Till 27th
Today was comp
Hopefully 100 xD
el
 
Oh btw, @terdon it only takes a score of -1 for 20k users to vote to delete answers. Dunno if it was changed or something.
 
3:12 PM
@MinatoNamikaze Absolutely!
@MinatoNamikaze what type of questions came in your exam?
related to? Ubuntu? or anything else?
 
Nono :P
It's all java :P
Section a was a bit tricky
But manageable
This hoodie <3
I want it xD
 
I don't see a hood...
 
@MinatoNamikaze Sometimes I think you are a Japanese
 
@Seth yeah, that was explained in the meta p[ost I posted. So not changed, I just remembered wrong.
 
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Q: Replace hard drive in ubuntu

user62759I know variants of this question have been asked before, but I couldn't find a specific answer to my situation. So here goes: Running ubuntu server 12.04 with the os on a separate drive and two 1,5 TB WD Green drives (sdc and sdd). The 2 WD greens make up a volume group using all the available ...

 
3:18 PM
oh OK.
 
@Seth You get hoodies too xD
 
Not that I know of.
 
@Seth That's just the whole er... cloak
 
Thanks :-) @Seth @MinatoNamikaze @Utkarsh
 
@Utkarsh I just like anime :P
 
3:21 PM
what am i at last >-(
 
What do you think of it @AvinashRaj?
 
i can't understand..
@Seth
 
What can't you understand?
 
you mean above 10k.
 
Yeah.
 
3:23 PM
@terdon amazing your answer dude
 
What do you think of the privilege?
 
where are the 10 k tools?
 
hey!
 
@Lucio thanks, I wasn't sure what you were asking so I answered everything :)
 
i only see the flags.
 
3:24 PM
lol
 
@AvinashRaj that's all you get. That and the stats
 
@Utkarsh why you delete that? Thanks...
 
@AvinashRaj Welcome :P I don't know tamil hehe
@fossfreedom sorry
 
@terdon First, I marked the other one as accepted, but I felt bad. With that amount of data, you deserve it :D
 
3:26 PM
@Seth plz post the fastest to 10k users list.
 
@Lucio feel free to accept the other one. That was what pointed me to faketime as well.
 
@AvinashRaj not sure I have those stats.
Gotta run for now.
 
S = Seth :P
 
The S stands for hope!
 
@JorgeCastro O_O
 
3:29 PM
@JorgeCastro yeah, right. Grrrr.
 
and I got fed up trying to package canto
 
good luck with that
So GitHub keeps receiving DDoS. Everything as usual..
 
is this question deleted?
i put my 1st delete vote on ^
 
@AvinashRaj yes
:O
 
@AvinashRaj yes, it is unavailable
 
3:37 PM
Raj has reached 10K!!! Congratulations buddy!
 
@Lucio thanks man :-)
 
@ParthKohli Welcome Detective. I think @Braiam is already a Detective here. ;P
 
lol
 
Well, I'm a criminal actually.
 
O.o
 
3:38 PM
(Breaking Bad)
 
Hi
 
o/
 
Oli
@Utkarsh Do you not remember the dozen or so times we've asked you not to delete your messages after posting them?
Please desist.
 
@Oli oh sorry!
 
@Oli did you ever manage to export that CD as a block device?
 
3:45 PM
how do i change the url i go to to access the owncloud
 
delete and upload again?
 
Oli
@terdon Still need to try nbd... There've been a few days of furious moderation. Hopefully that's settled now.
To compound issues, got a DVB-S2 card today so beating tvheadend into submission is taking priority at the moment.
 
@Oli have nice weekend :)
 
@terdon thanks for adding the explanation.
 
@AvinashRaj you're welcome. Is that clear?
And thanks for accepting :)
 
3:57 PM
And also asked my files are on the desktop.
sed -i '5s/.*/ Good Morning /' ~/Desktop/file{1..4}.txt
is this correct?
 
@AvinashRaj yes, or you can just cd to Desktop and run it there
You can understand the brace expansion better by running
echo ~/Desktop/file{1..4}.txt
 
ok
is that question not understandable?
if yes, please edit that into convinient form.
 
@AvinashRaj done
The problem was append, that means add to, not replace
 
i think i will be on the 10th place in this
 
@AvinashRaj ^
 
4:04 PM
@AvinashRaj sorry
 
@basketball why?
 
last night
 
cool man :-)
 
Oli
:14285515 I think on balance the less we know about the contents of your rectum, the better.
5
 
@AvinashRaj heh, I'm 4th to 20k on U&L. Thanks, that's a cool query.
 
4:08 PM
totally agreed.
 
Oli
A sentence I couldn't even have dreamed of writing at the beginning of the week. Today is a good day.
 
what happens in uranus, stays in....
 
@JourneymanGeek ಠ_ಠ
 
Oli
@Undo No need for that. I'm sure we can mention bottoms without a FLAGSPLOSION.
Ha. I said bottom.
 
;p
well, not really. but there's appropriate recepticles for that sorta thing, come to think of it.
anyways...
sleep!!!
 
4:11 PM
night @JourneymanGeek
 
@basketball what do you mean? owncloud will go at whatever URL you place it if you are running the server
(yes, I'm a blueman that showed up indirectly because of the flag, but I saw an owncloud question and I <3 owncloud)
 
it is at ip address/owncloud
 
so what are you trying to do with it, you want it to be a normal URL?
 
yea
 
do you have a domain and is it a static IP?
 
4:13 PM
@JourneymanGeek what happened? why are you not thoughtful?
 
i dont have a domain
 
in order to have a normal URL you would need a domain. Alternately, you could use a site that provides subdomains such as DynDNS
 
is it free
 
OwnCloud is just a web server based application, so you put it at a URL the same way you put any site at a URL
there are free options on dyndns
so it could give you something like basketballcloud.homedns.org
so it would end up being basketballcloud.homedns.org/owncloud then
with your own domain you can do things like cloud.ajhenderson.com
but domain's aren't free
if you want your own
not too expensive either (like $9 a year)
and whoops, apparently my owncloud install needs an update
didn't realize 6 was out now
 
@Henderspm jpw dp yu get to your owncloud
 
4:22 PM
oh, and you might end up having to change some configuration settings. OwnCloud tries to automatically detect the URL, but it may fail in some cases, there is details in the sample config file about it in the rare case that happens though (ie, if links on the site still end up going to the wrong place)
you may also have to update your host-header information on your webserver when you get a DNS record for it
@basketball I just go to cloud.ajhenderson.com and that's my owncloud
that or I use the app on my phone
or the desktop client
 
do you pay for that
 
I paid for the domain AJHenderson.com
 
the app
 
it's $9 a year
um, yeah, I think it might have been like a buck
 
is it worth the buck\
 
4:23 PM
but I don't remember for sure
I think so
I can just share stuff directly in to my drive and have it show up on my computer
and can easily pull down files to my phone
and have them kept in sync
oh, and when I take photos they are instantly uploaded to my owncloud
 
I dont want to spend money but i do need it at a easier address
 
use dyndns.org then
they offer free subdomains for personal use
 
AJ
how fo i set it up
 
their site will walk you through it better than I can
basically a URL like cloud.ajhenderson.com is just a query made to the server responsible for ajhenderson.com (which is my server since I own the domain) and then your browser uses the IP address that DNS gives it to access it
 
I take it there were flags?
 
4:27 PM
so DynDNS owns a bunch of domain names and they create a DNS record for some subdomain you pick (like mynamehere.dyndns.org)
 
You don't normally see so many mods around here..
 
and when someone asks for yournamehere.dyndns.org dyndns tells them the IP of your server
that's how any domain name works on the internet. It all eventually boils down to IP Addresses
 
I cant find the free server on that page
 
@Seth yeah, somenody mentioned rectums
 
anybody involved with Trusty here? I need to file a bug report with the new implementation of the screen lock feature
I have no idea what package that would be though
 
4:29 PM
@terdon So I saw.
 
@basketball oh, I guess they dropped the free option
 
@badp package is gnome-screensaver
 
thanks
 
I use them but I've used the paid level for years
there should be other services that will do it for free, but I don't know of any
 
anyone
 
freedns.afraid.org that's another option though I know nothing about them
 
is it safe
 
no idea at all
there aren't a whole lot of ways it could be particularly dangerous though
so probably
 
Don't we have a dupe about this?
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Q: ubuntu external ip addres

MetalSaintI'm new to ubuntu and I need your help with this, As you know when you install apache you put the internal ip address in your browser and you get it works, I want as well to access it from somewhere else beside my local network how do I do that ?

 
how do i find the graphics and the ram amount
 
4:33 PM
@Lucio >.<
Is this really an Ubuntu problem?
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Q: Escape character ^] not working from Mac terminal

codecowboyIf I ssh into an Ubuntu machine and run telnet localhost 4730 I see: me@ip-10-xx-xxx-30:~$ telnet localhost 4730 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. But ctrl + ] does not work from a terminal on Mountain Lion. How can I resolve this?

Stop using a Mac layout already!
 
@Seth come on, not fair. Linux is all about choice (latest versions of Gnome and Unity notwithstanding)
 
hm, seems like a problem with the mac keyboard and terminal... but it is affecting using a ubuntu machine remotely...
 
@Seth Where do i get these?
Posts with extreme votes
Posts with the most comments/views/edits
Recently protected questions
Recently closed/reopened questions
Recently migrated questions
Recently deleted/undeleted posts
 
@terdon It was a joke ;P
 
@AvinashRaj review - tools - stats
 
4:37 PM
^^
 
askubuntu.stackexchange.com/tools?tab=stats&daterange=
 
@Seth is that even on topic here? IMO the host is just doing fine, the problem is the client
 
@JorgeCastro Love that!
 
@terdon link won't works .
 
4:40 PM
It's really not that hard.
 
@JorgeCastro I really disagree. That is exactly the problem that so many of us have with what the Gnome devs have been doing. ONe of the best things about Linux and one not found on other OSs is that I can set things up to be the way I want them. Yes, this can be a problem for new users but those of us who have been using it for years should still be able to mod it as desired.
 
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Q: Can you please help me solving the problem of bad titles? Urgent!

BraiamThere are words that are so bad in the titles that I want to puke and that is used and abused in all our questions: problem x 3743 help x 1049 (this is funny because about a 20% of the questions are closed) urgent x 8 (I'm amazed that this got so little hits) please x 253 trouble x 361 error x ...

 
@AvinashRaj that's cause I'm an idiot. It should be askubuntu.com/tools?tab=stats&daterange=
 
@fossfreedom now i able to see that :-)
 
4:43 PM
well, the kernel doesn't really have an opinion on choice, other than probably hardware
 
@Braiam Depends. If he wants to change the escape character then it's on-topic.
Although I'd say use a different ssh client.
 
@Braiam I toned your post down a little, hope you don't mind
@JorgeCastro I'm thinking more along the lines of GUI really
 
@terdon much better IMO.
The world isn't about to explode, lets not write like it is ;)
 
I don't really get how you can arbitrarily demand that a project follows your specific ideas
unless of course, you were writing it yourself
 
@JorgeCastro You go down that road and suddenly you guys have to build your own file browser, or so I hear
 
4:46 PM
@badp it's the one on the phone currently
 
I thought we were going to use Thunar.
 
but at some point everything in the core desktop will be a Qt/QML app
 
Hopefully the dev team will actually make some good docs for QML sometime.
 
@JorgeCastro I don't! Exactly the contrary. I prefer (not demand) a project that allows me to set it up the way I like. That was what first attracted me to *nix 15 years ago and what I've always loved about it. I get annoyed when choice that's been there since the early days of, say Gnome, is removed in a newer version.
 
@Seth Thunar is not part of a default install of Ubuntu 14.04 - or at least, not part of mine.
 
4:47 PM
It's like the worst documented language EVAR.
 
@JorgeCastro it is the gnome devs, for example, who decided to go the Mac way and tell me how I should use my machine
 
@badp WAT. I thought we were going to ditch Nautilus and use Thunar.. Oh well. Wishful thinking.
@terdon Like...?
 
People have asked for Thunar to replace Nautilus, but I don't think it was ever seriously proposed
 
I'm not sure I know what you're referring to.
 
Gnome has always been about minimizing the number of options
 
4:49 PM
@JorgeCastro :-/ Thunar is so much better than Nautilus and there's no (easy) way to make Thunar the default.
 
@Seth Like: unable to tweak GDM, like gnome-color-chooser, like a variety of themes etc etc
 
@terdon on the contrary I've been using *nix for about as long, and I'm glad that projects are going for "working out of the box" instead of "let's ship a bunch of checkboxes"
 
It's just that every time I am amazed by how fast the number of options, and sometimes features, is decreasing.
 
Bad examples dammit. I know, I'll look for better ones
 
emm, yeah :P
 
4:50 PM
@Seth I think the big gotcha is that nautilus wants to draw the desktop, and you can't just swap something in it's place
 
I can still add a minimize button. I can still install lightDM. I can still use Thunar.
 
@JorgeCastro yes, fair enough. And I can see why that's a good thing for a distro like Ubuntu. I would prefer that to happen at the distro level though, not at the DE level so more experienced users still have the choice of tweaking it
 
@JorgeCastro Ahh. That's something that aught to be fixed.
@terdon says the Mint user ;P
 
Exactly, for example, back in the day, Gnome allowed you to choose the WM. I used to be very happy with gnome as DE and WindowMaker as WM.
@Seth says the Mint Debian edition user. Not the same!
 
Not exactly.
 
4:52 PM
@JorgeCastro yeah, every time I open it in kubuntu - swap, nautilus desktop!
 
I think it's great that distros that just work exist. They should. They should also not be the only choice. Us weird geeks should have twekability
@Seth ?
 
@terdon and you do. I mean, you're using Cinnamon!
@terdon i.e. close enough for me ;)
 
@JorgeCastro I can sympathize with "everything should be at simple as possible but no simpler." If you do remove the visible controls for the PDF view options, however, I do expect you to automatically detect PDFs that are actually slides and do the right thing automatically (turn continuous mode off)
 
We all hate Gnome. At least we can agree on that :P
(hate is a strong word, but it's the only one that fits)
 
I don't hate GNOME
 
4:53 PM
@Seth I don't. Honestly I much prefer it over Unity
 
@terdon you do have that tweakability, you have the source code!
 
@terdon eww.
 
@JorgeCastro (blush) not that much of a geek
@Seth I use Cinnamon though
 
Gnome is great, the DE is just getting worse though. That's what I meant.
 
@Seth I've been a happy Gnome user for as long as I've been using Linux (considering Unity the natural evolution of Gnome 2), but the direction they're taking occasionally confuses and befuddles me.
 
4:54 PM
@JorgeCastro And yes, that is true and important. But tweaking the gnome base is not easy
 
@badp Unity isn't official Gnome.
I'm talking the Gnome 3 DE.
 
because GNOME and Unity are designed for you to get work done, not tweak colors and window managers all day
launch apps, get out of the way is how they roll
 
@badp Yeah, I remember reading this whole conversation thread between red hat gnome devs about having a "brand image" and such crap. They want all computers that run gnome to be instantly recognizable as such.
 
@Seth Last I checked, Mutter is a piece of crap.
 
@JorgeCastro yes, and that's a decent way to go for some users, but not all. Especially if what they consider "usable" is not the same as what I do.
 
4:56 PM
I like the notification idea for Gnome 3 but find the whole system rather constricted and constrictive. Also, Mutter.
 
That's my issue with this idea. What if I don't like the way your (not you personally) defaults work? What if I don't consider the way you've set it up to be practical?
It's the same mentality as the walled garden crap of Apple
 
it's not the same
how can Free Software be a walled garden?
 
Oh, and note that the linux is not about choice thing is from a red hat employee. That is precisely the problem. I feel that Red Hat and Canonical are each trying to impose their own vision of how I should use my computer.
 
you have everything you need to do what you want
other than "I want the GNOME developers to implement my workflow and if they don't they're like Apple".
 
@JorgeCastro yes and no. If I am an experienced hacker I could tweak the source but 2 years ago, I had a system that both worked out of the box and allowed me to easily tweak it so it works as I like.
@JorgeCastro No! Not at all! I want them to implement theirs, just let me mod it to my taste.
 
4:59 PM
@JorgeCastro I think the pain isn't so much "I want things to be my way" as it is "I wanted things to be my way. I used to have the configuration switches to make things my way. Now some of the switches are all over the place and most of them are actually gone entirely."
 
exactly
We all have different workflows and find different things comfortable.
 
It's not so much "please give me control" as it is "give me control back"
 
it would be like going back to windows 98 ;)
 
@badp If you were writing software that had to test for every convoluted combination of workflows and window managers, you'd go insane
 
@JorgeCastro That's why it's important to get at least the defaults right, and Unity does that better than anything I've given a cursory look at
 
5:01 PM
The Unity thing about global menus is a perfect example. Some people might prefer it. It drives me insane. Why was this imposed on us? I have finally figured out how to turn it off but that requires setting env variables and does not even work everywhere
 
@terdon You have choice over that in 14.04.
 
who's using menus when we have the hud?
 
@terdon meh, you can always use something else...
 
@badp for you. So, great, use it. For me, the default are extremely annoying. You can't please everyone, so give us the change to fix it
@JorgeCastro for thing like file=>open or preferences? How can you use the hud for that?
 
5:03 PM
hit alt and type preferences
 
@terdon alt pref enter
 
or alt-open
either way, I'd rather have the horizontal space than the menu on each window
 
(you need to release alt)
 
though the solution in 14.04 is pretty awesome
 
@JorgeCastro seriously? And why is that easier?
 
5:03 PM
@terdon Have you ever used GIMP?
 
Also, think of issues like this: askubuntu.com/q/433513/85695
 
 
@badp yes, they've done some really annoying things with their menu system too
 
how is it not easier? I don't need to remove my hands from the keyboard first of all
 
@JorgeCastro yes, fair point.
 
5:04 PM
for gimp, just type what you want - bam done
 
I type what I want, it gives it to me
 
@JorgeCastro More productive isn't necessarily easier.
 
Hmmm, I'll have to use it a bit more :)
 
I don't go to dmoz -> tech websites -> tech support -> stack exchange -> askubuntu.com either
 
What of nested menu options?
 
5:05 PM
I type what I want in google, it takes me there
 
Ubuntu HUD shines with large and broad menu trees, which are incidentally becoming rarer and rarer.
 
the entire menu is indexed, I don't have to browse throough a ton of nested stuff
 
how do i change max upload
 
I can do alt-"blur"
 
sure it dosn't exactly make sense for everyday firefox, but other programs it is really nice
 
5:05 PM
and go to blur in gimp without navigating through the menu
 
@JorgeCastro OK, that's really cool then. Point taken.
 
I agree it's not discoverable though
 
It's becoming increasingly hard to remember that programs have a menu to begin with
 
But then, I love the keyboard. Others don't. And it also cause issues with some menus apparently (see the link I posted before)
 
and all of the features are being banished from the UI into the menu
so what you've superficially got is a PDF reader that can flip through pages and that's it.
Can you zoom in or out? Who knows!
 
5:07 PM
I use the chrome pdf viewer
It seems to be the right balance of what I want/need and isn't too slow
 
Want to view each page individually and hit space to flip through them? Who knows if you can do that!
PDF annotations? Maybe! Maybe not! Maybe gently caress yourself!
@JorgeCastro That's convenient but I'm not sure it makes sense to drag PDFs into a web browser window to open them.
 
I needed to do annonations yesterday and tried okular
it seemed to support it but I couldn't figure out how to use it
@badp I have it set as my default viewer for that mime type actually
 
Evince can create annotations, if by annotations you mean "virtual post its" and not "highlight text" (which is what I usually need)
 
but I am weird like that
 
@badp well, if the make it into a one of those chrome "desktop apps" it won't make a difference eventually
 
5:12 PM
@Mateo That wouldn't work because the PDF viewer is not a web page.
 
Does anyone know how to activate Alt+click to move and Alt+middle click to resize a window in unity?
 
it does those ootb
 
@terdon That should be already enabled? It works on 14.04 for me at least.
 
@badp not on 13.10
 
check the keyboard settings
I use both of those heavily and that hasn't changed as a default ever afaik
 
5:14 PM
yay, I was trying to package a piece of software that was already done
 
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Q: Fatal: module nfs not found (ChrUbuntu)

MountainXI'm running ChrUbuntu with kernel 3.4.0 (Kubuntu 12.04) on an Acer Chromebook. I installed nfs-common. However, the mount command returns the error mount.nfs4 no such device. And # modprobe nfs returns Fatal: module nfs not found. Google didn't offer me any solutions.

 
@JorgeCastro this is a vanilla install, and I don't see anything relevant in the keyboard settings. Any idea what I should look for?
 
@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L again, why are those tagged Ubuntu...
 
Could the issue be that I'm running it in a VM?
@Braiam why shouldn't they be?
 
@terdon there's a chrubuntu tag already, also, they apparently change heavily the kernel
 
5:17 PM
@Braiam oh, you meant why Ubuntu and not ChrUBuntu, fair enough
 
I think it's a compiz setting
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A: How to disable window move with alt + left mouse button?

FitoschidoIt’s a Compiz plugin. Install Compiz Config Settings Manager (sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager in a terminal) and open it. Once opened, search for a “Move Window” plugin. Select it, and disable or change the first option, that says something like “Initiate window movement” (I ...

aha!
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A: How to resize windows with alt+right click instead of alt+middle click in Ubuntu 13.04

Basharat SialFollow these steps: To open dconf-editor, Hit Alt+F2, type dconf-editor and hit Enter. In dconf-editor goto: org ➤ gnome ➤ desktop ➤ wm ➤ preferences and enable ☑ resize-with-right-button.

probably in dconf-editor
 
That flips alt-rmb and alt-middle around
 
@JorgeCastro cool thanks, I'll go check it out
 
though if those are busted then likely other oens are too
maybe consider blowing them all away to revert to the defaults
 
@JorgeCastro has the package name changed? Can't seem to find ccsm
 
5:22 PM
in 13.10 it's dconf editor
ignore my first post
 
:~> dconf-editor
fish: Unknown command “dconf-editor”
The program 'dconf-editor' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
(I think it's alright that it isn't included by default, btw)
 
@JorgeCastro ah, but that is to make it use right click instead, I want the "normal" middle click to resize and alt+leftclick to move.
 
also the fish shell is a kickass shell and it puts everything else to shame
just putting that out there
 
@badp no, it's not. And yes, fish is cool :)
Oh, I meant no, it's not included by default sorry. I quite agree that that is a good choice, no need for it by default.
 
@terdon yeah I was thinking if you go to that key and click "restore default" then that would fix it
 
5:25 PM
Ah, good point, I'll try that
 
bbl, got a Juju charm school to give on ubuntuonair.com at the top of the hour if anyone is interested!
 
@JorgeCastro HFGL
 
Weird, my dconf settings are default. It must be a VM issue if I'm the only one
 
Ubuntu Forums (unannounced) system upgrade!
 
@JorgeCastro We still have charm school? I didn't know that :P
Wait
Why is is 14.03?
Isn't it supposed to be 14.04
 
5:36 PM
This UDS is 14.03, because it's march
 
totally forgot about that, sorry :P
 
6:15 PM
Oh what do you know. It's Pi day.
 

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