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My only minor critic would be that in some cases, all 3, opensuse, centos and ubuntu will show the same or have the same options, like in the part about default directories.

Seth

2:26 AM

Is the course at your own pace?

That was the only thing that stopped me.

Luis Alvarado

yes. I did first 3 chapters 2 days ago

did some RL work and today got a break to do another chapters

Seth

So if life gets busy I can stop, and then start again and do as much as I want in one sitting?

Luis Alvarado

BUT ACT NOW!! Because you need to finish all course before tomorrow

Journeyman Geek

ya

Seth

lol

Luis Alvarado

2:27 AM

my just clicking next next next

kidding, no but yeah you can do it at your time

Seth

I thought it was cool Linus did a intro video for it

Luis Alvarado

yeap

Journeyman Geek

I only started a few days ago;p

Seth

@LuisAlvarado cool, I might just jump in.

Luis Alvarado

yeah, they mentioned synaptic and aptitude there... am so happy ;)

Seth

2:30 AM

hehe. I refuse to use aptitude, although I know some people swear by it.

Journeyman Geek

@Seth: let me warn that the first few lessons are insanely simple

Luis Alvarado

like me

Journeyman Geek

I use apt, mainly cause I'm used to it

Luis Alvarado

I would take aptitude any day over apt

Journeyman Geek

@LuisAlvarado: they're using centos 6 btw. centos 7 uses gnome 3, which is vaguely unity-like

Luis Alvarado

2:32 AM

I actually install it every time I install ubuntu, but on the ask ubuntu site I "recommend" apt by using it in the answers.

aaa ok

am in the package managers part, let's see which one is easier and looks better

Journeyman Geek

and eh

Luis Alvarado

watching...

Journeyman Geek

Things I miss from *buntu....

some flavour of quake styled console. Centos has none in the repos or epel

Luis Alvarado

ok i won't be installing anything on centos anytime soon. Next opensuse....

opensuse looks cool

omg the dude in the video, rather than clicking on the software center that was sitting right there on the launcher, he went for dash

ok opensuse and ubuntu have nice software installers

ok guys take care, big hug

gotta cook tonight

cesar's salad with chicken, yeah!

Seth

yum!

No Time

3:03 AM

Does anyone know a lot about Cygwin?

Seth

it's slow..

No Time

I have just been going through a phase thinking about if it is possible to truly translate between languages/OS, or get around it at the very least

Nathan Osman

3:22 AM

o/

nathan@quickmediasolutions:~$ uptime
 03:31:29 up 288 days,  3:56,  1 user,  load average: 0.53, 0.24, 0.18

Meh, we're getting there.

No Time

what is that for?

Nathan Osman

3:39 AM

One of my servers.

It has 288 days of uptime.

No Time

That't pretty good, how do updates get pushed for that?

Nathan Osman

I just install them through APT the same way I do on a desktop.

The only difference is I don't reboot for kernel upgrades.

So I'm still running 3.2.0-24.

(For comparison, my desktop is running 3.13.0-32.)

No Time

Yeah I guess that is what I was asking, how do they apply? Oh ok.. does that cause instability?

Like when would you need to do a restart in order to make sure everything is secure?

@NathanOsman what is the server being used for?

quickmediasolutions.com ?

Journeyman Geek

@NoTime: If you're willing to beat stuff into working, you wouldn't need cygwin

you can often recompile linux software with say mingw

No Time

3:56 AM

@JourneymanGeek I'm just starting to get in depth into understanding OS (especially history, and baser components) I haven't done any compiling except 1. a long time ago Ubuntu 8ish, 2. things I had to. I haven't worked with win past 7 much, and don't have much prog experience beyond basic python

just saw cygwin running across personal research was wondering more about it (past wiki entries)

Journeyman Geek

@NoTime: cygwin is generally the worst solution to any problem

No Time

hard to tell from wiki entries :)

@JourneymanGeek Is there any tried and true method to translate cross platform, or is it mainly a huge hassle?

I mean it seems POSIX crafting of programs hits the "most" OSs, but (most) Windows isn't POSIX

I guess write everything in a separate language that is cross platform and forget everything else

Journeyman Geek

@NoTime: Its really the same issue you'd have compiling linux software - you'd have to make sure you have the prerequisites

No Time

Yeah, I just really think this problem should be addressed, I just have no idea how to do it :) I mean if there was a way to have a line by line translator that could "change" the application/software/driver etc. onto the "other OS(s)"

Nathan Osman

@NoTime Yup.

No Time

4:10 AM

I need to fix wifes Mac later people

Parto

5:25 AM

can somebody please explain to me why I'm gettting downvotes in this answer - askubuntu.com/a/432079/163331

Seth

apt has special ways of handling asterisks, it's not that simple.

Parto

@Seth Can you please shed some more light on that..

Seth

@Parto Unfortunately, no I can't. I was literally just closing the computer down as I am falling asleep in my chair. I can't recall exactly how it works right now either. Sorry.

now that I think about it, maybe it was the shell that treats asterisks differently.. I can't remember right now.

Parto

@Seth It's okay. Lemme ask Google. Btw, It's 8 in the morning here. Just go sleep, it can wait.

Seth

@Parto 10:30 at night over here :)

good night.

Parto

5:33 AM

Hav a good night or in Swahili 'Usiku mwema'

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

7:16 AM

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Q: /dev/sda not appearing after secure erase

I decided to wipe my SSD with a secure erase before installing Arch Linux, since the Arch wiki said that it would improve performance. I followed the instructions listed on the wiki, but now when I attempt to install Arch, /dev/sda does not show up and errors about I/O are given. When I run fdis...

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Q: how do i copy files from unix hard drive to a ubuntu server

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 I have files on a unix external harddrive i would love to copy them to normal 2TB windows external harddrive using my server of ubuntu. How do i do that

ubuntu

Ionică Bizău

9:02 AM

whymicrosoft.com/Pages/linux.aspx - However, sometimes your solution is focused solely on server-side operating systems, and that's where Linux falls short. - WHAT? (via nixCraft)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

9:16 AM

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Q: SSH Server on Ubuntu not works

I wanted to start SSH server on Ubuntu 14.04 running on VirtualBox. I installed Openssh, sshd, etc., configured sshd_config to listen on ip, which I see in ifconfig and it not working. I'm starting sshd on port 2222. nmap gives: PORT STATE SERVICE 80/tcp open http 22...

ubuntu ssh sshd

Madara Uchiha

10:56 AM

Hey fellas

theTuxRacer

\o

Madara Uchiha

Sometimes, I wake my PC up after a long time I haven't touched it, (the computer's screen eventually dims out and then the PC locks) that I can't use my keyboard or my mouse

Neither have lights, and connecting/reconnecting the cables does nothing

It doesn't happen on the same PC when I use Windows (Dual Boot)

Anyone familiar with this?

theTuxRacer

I had similar issue, but I upgraded and dont remember having it again.

This was a while back and I dont remember the versions, sorry.

Madara Uchiha

I'm having it in 14.04

theTuxRacer

Nah, this was way back.

TIFU by editing the ulimits. Now I cant ssh back into the machine.

Madara Uchiha

11:05 AM

@theTuxRacer 'tis but a flesh wound

Few days ago I executed sudo chmod -R 755 . while on /

theTuxRacer

Nope, cant get back into the machine. Tried a thousand things. Panic is about to set in.

'tis a mortal wound.

@MadaraUchiha Shit, how did you get back, then?

Madara Uchiha

@theTuxRacer It was a VPS, and ramnode offers an emergency console that works via the host

theTuxRacer

Good for you.

ypercube

11:33 AM

Can I use this method: askubuntu.com/questions/178712/how-to-increase-swap-space

to create a swap file? I have:

> root@localhost:~# cat /proc/swaps
Filename				Type		Size	Used	Priority
/dev/xvdb                               partition	262140	126788	-1

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: virtualbox mail server postfix+dovecot

I'm setting up a mail server(ubuntu14.4 serverX64) for development/testing purposes (using virtualBox bridged-mode) and I just finished this tutorial and everything seams to work. Now I'm not able to login/ use the email service using either: Thunderbird client Squirrelmail with Th...

ubuntu virtualbox postfix dovecot vps

theTuxRacer

11:53 AM

unix.stackexchange.com/questions/148714/…

Ask Ubuntu Meta

12:11 PM

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Q: Is using `code` styling for non-sode samples okay?

The code is for code samples, of course.example code or performatted text here However, instead of codes, this styling is also used for technical things like directories usr/share/backgrounds. Is this okay?

discussion

Pandya

1:33 PM

@Rinzwind Should this be closed as off-topic as not for Ubuntu (user asking for Linux mint)?

terdon

@Pandya Yes. It's not about Ubuntu => off topic.

Pandya

@terdon ok I flagged for that.

theTuxRacer

Me too. Its flagged.

terdon

@theTuxRacer Flagged? Why not vote to close? You have the rep.

theTuxRacer

1:49 PM

@terdon Ah, I meant the same. I voted to close. There are 2 votes at present, including mine.

Seth

Want it @terdon?

terdon

@Seth sure, pass it over.

Seth

k

done.

terdon

Cheers.

Rinzwind

2:04 PM

@Pandya mint is 99% of the times offtopic

Ask Ubuntu Meta

3:40 PM

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Q: Format issues with code

I have noticed that when using code for multiple lines there is an extra grey/gray area(s), and space when encountering a new line. Example: <code>This is a sample of what the issue is when using multiple lines. </code> Results: This is a sample of what the issue is when using multiple l...

discussion

Alaa Ali

Can we mark this question askubuntu.com/questions/16042/… a duplicate of this question askubuntu.com/questions/87409/…;?

Instead of the proposed other way round, or merge them?

The one that has a lot more informative answers should stay open.

Journeyman Geek

@Braiam: is gnome shell and gnome 3 the same thing?

Oli

@JourneymanGeek It's pretty close. I'd argue that Gnome 3 includes projects like Gnome Shell (and the new versions of all the Gnome project apps). Of course then you have to factor in what people actually mean when they say it. I wouldn't expect much consistency.

reversiblean

sleep 20; dropbox start -i command does not work on startup applications. Anyone know why?

Journeyman Geek

ahh k

@Oli: I specifically pinged him since he edited in the tag into one of my questions ;p

Oli

3:53 PM

Oh fair enough

Journeyman Geek

it was about the lock screen/slider thing though

Oli

@reversiblean Try wrapping it up: sh -c 'sleep 20; dropbox start -i'

Journeyman Geek

superuser.com/questions/793039/… (for reference, not repwhorage... its a hot question anyway)

reversiblean

@Oli i'll try

Oli

@JourneymanGeek Hmm, yeah I'm not sure what the lockscreen belongs to. Could even be gdm.

ypercube

3:55 PM

@AlaaAli I don't think you can merge them. The askers are not the same.

reversiblean

@Oli btw, what is sh -c mean?

Alaa Ali

@ypercube oh, never knew that. Well then, at least mark them duplicates as the other way round =/.

Seth

@reversiblean -c lets you pass commands in as a string.

reversiblean

sh?

Oli

@reversiblean sh is a shell (Dash in Ubuntu). The sh -c '...' construct just means it'll launch a new shell that goes on to run the two commands. It's good for things that only expect one command (because it looks and acts just like one command).

reversiblean

3:58 PM

OK, thanks i'll if that work

*see

it is now working, thanks @Oli and @Seth

Braiam

@JourneymanGeek Gnome 3 is a leap on all Gnome related projects in spirit and design, not only the shell, through the shell is the most predominant

every gnome application saw a change with gnome 3

ah, btw @Oli, the shell is that controls the lock screen

jokerdino

4:15 PM

but it won't show up if you are using lightdm.

tried it in ubuntu last time.

Braiam

I presume is a Ubuntu patch

let me check out

Oli

@Braiam kk

Mateo

Hmm, which laptop next:

Or I could work on the HP p4 workstation, I just got has a quadro graphics card...

Braiam

4:35 PM

TIL: when they said that you can install to display managers and change between them... is a lie, they don't

Oli

@Braiam What combination have you just tried?

Braiam

gdm and lightdm with systemd

ligthdm started, but refused to start gnome shell, and gdm won't start if I had lightdm installed

Oli

Weird. I'm not looking forward to the inevitable "systemd ate my baby" posts that come in 14.10.

I guess there are two months to go. It'll probably be 100% bug free by then.

jokerdino

@Oli you know, dingoes do eat babies.

Oli

Little known fact: I was eaten by a dingo when I was a baby.

3

jokerdino

4:43 PM

@Braiam i suppose yes. ubuntu-gnome carries that patch in gdm i think.

Braiam

@Oli does that means kittens are safe?

@Oli TIL

4:54 PM

5:05 PM

oh hi @RolandiXor!

RolandiXor

hey @Seth

what's cookin?

Seth

biscuits, actually.

RolandiXor

lol I was hoping you would say "meth"

hahaha

cool

Seth

(and for you Brits, a scone, not a cookie)

What's up on your end @RolandiXor?

Oli

@Braiam The kittens will always be safe. I'm fairly sure there are at least two moderators who would take a bullet for a kitten.

*always safe unless you have three bullets, you monster

Mateo

5:11 PM

@Seth no jammie dodgers?

RolandiXor

@Seth updating the system, working on a message for tomorrow night's bible study listening to music and chatting here

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Ubuntu boots immediately

After using Wibu for a few weeks I thought it would be time to do a real install of Ubuntu. I download the iso file from the official website and 'installed' the iso on a usb (with Pen Drive Linux's USB Installer). Next I boot my pc via the usb and installed ubuntu on a new partition and also a s...

ubuntu windows dual-boot

RolandiXor

tl;dr - procrastinating and multitasking

Mateo

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L wibu? oh dear...

Seth

@Mateo haha, no.

hey, if systemd can not break things and make services work, I'm ok with it.

RolandiXor

5:12 PM

Wibu is pretty cool

Seth

@RolandiXor cool :D

I have a 12.04 system that won't update..

Need to figure out why.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: How can I search my old (previous) answers?

I sometimes see questions that I know are duplicates because I've answered another question that asked the same thing. Unfortunately, I don't know the name of the exact question I answered before so that I can mark a duplicate. Is there a way to use the search to search for keywords only in my a...

support searching

RolandiXor

Have you tried upgrading to 14.04?

Mateo

@Seth apt-get install aptitude, then aptitude install aptitude

4

hm, that could either fix everything, break everything, or do nothing much at all

Seth

@RolandiXor that's what it won't do..

Always 'no new release found'

RolandiXor

5:21 PM

Strange. I think there was a question on here about that.

Braiam

@Seth first thing I check, cat /etc/apt/sources.list{,.d/*}

Seth

That just prints my sources.list. I'm not really sure what all the upgrade does, but my sources are still at precise.

Braiam

on the third hand, I knew Tron Legacy was bad, but it really deceptionated me

@Seth you have precise-updates also?

Seth

@RolandiXor yeah I looked at a couple, didn't help :/

RolandiXor

@Seth :(

Seth

5:26 PM

@Braiam yeah

RolandiXor

I tend to manually upgrade, but I wouldn't suggest it for a jump from 12.04 to 14.04

Braiam

@Seth and all package upgraded, right?

Seth

yup

reversiblean

Can I disable Unity dash and use Indicator Synapse instead?

Mateo

@RolandiXor I did that to my cubieboard, they had a image last for 13.04, so I just replaced the code name and upgraded

reversiblean

5:28 PM

Is it a good or bad idea?

Braiam

@Seth time to burn a cd then...

Seth

oh wait, it just found some more.

Huh, yesterday it didn't have any.

Guess they're new.

@Braiam :(

RolandiXor

hmm

Mateo

@reversiblean well, unless your are on unity 2d on 12.04 the dash/launcher/top bar are hard coded together (afaik)

RolandiXor

@reversiblean you can't disable it but you can hide the launcher and use Synapse

reversiblean

5:33 PM

Opps, that's sad. I thought linux is all about freedom : )

RolandiXor

Don't be silly...

reversiblean

I just trying to save up some resources, thats all.

Mateo

what version are you on?

reversiblean

14.04

Mateo

ah, oh well. with 12.04 you could do this: ubuntuvibes.com/2012/06/…

I was even using the 2d launcher in xubuntu for a while, awesome stuff

rest in ~~pieces~~ peace unity-2d :(

RolandiXor

5:39 PM

@reversiblean if you aren't actively using the dash, it doesn't really use much of anything.

Seth

@reversiblean If I were you I'd just switch to xfce. Unity is a love or hate thing. Either you love it (or tolerate it) or you hate it and use something else. There's no 'in-between'.

Mateo

can you still make the launcher trigger really slow only from one corner? so you never trigger it on the side of the screen\

RolandiXor

I'm in between lol

On my new system I hid the launcher and use plank + synapse IIRC

reversiblean

#Mateo I'll check it out. It's not that I don't like Unity, but the dash seems overkill big .. huge icons, lenses ...

RolandiXor

@Mateo yep

@reversiblean then... don't use it?

Just because a feature is there, doesn't mean you have to use it.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

5:41 PM

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Q: How to create KVM guest with SPICE graphics but TLS disabled using virt-install?

I am using virt-install (see below) to create a guest. All seems fine up to the point where it complains about auto-allocation of the SPICE TLS port. Here's what I am running and the full output: # sudo virt-install --name vmname --ram 1024 --os-type=linux --os-variant=ubuntutrusty --disk path=...

ubuntu kvm spice

RolandiXor

That would be like saying "I don't use the internet, because there is porn on the internet."

reversiblean

;) OK, I'll see

I thought both synapse and dash would be heavy on resources, that's why i asked before. thanks anyway

RolandiXor

lol no, the dash only really uses resources (heavily) when activated, and synapse is super light

reversiblean

ok thanks

RolandiXor

np :)

brb

Luis Alvarado

6:11 PM

Hi people

RolandiXor

7:02 PM

Hi friends...

@LuisAlvarado h r u?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

7:48 PM

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Q: Starting up and keeping up a process

I am having an Ubuntu box on which I am having a Haskell process (think of it as a random server process) that I built. I want to start it on boot and restart it in case it fails for whatever reason (ideally with some kind of logging that it failed, what exec code it failed with, etc.). How to d...

ubuntu job-control

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Q: Ubuntu 12.04 lts cannot finish booting

Can someone help me to boot my Ubuntu OS. I tried earlier to configure my zte modem in Ubuntu but on restarting it hangs. It does not finish the boot process. On tty 1 it tells me that its collecting crash reports and also setting up the network manager. I haven't found a way to access the gnome ...

ubuntu

Luis Alvarado

8:16 PM

@RolandiXor Awesome buddy.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

8:44 PM

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Q: to run script over several folders?

Help! I have a several folders containing *.jpg images. I need to have a bash file that can run only in a single folder. Here are the lines, I have. !/bin/bash for file in ls -1 *.jpg|sort -t . -n -k 3 do echo "compute ./scripName $file" ./scriptName $file done Please help. Thanks!

ubuntu

hbdgaf

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L why on earth is that tagged ubuntu...

No Time

9:05 PM

@hbdgaf I don't know when you posted that but it's changed

Did you make aircrackng? Or is it just on your Launchpad?

hbdgaf

@NoTime No, I didn't make it. It was for a gap when it wasn't in repo. Simply an autobuild with packaging so people could apt-get it on 12.04

No Time

Ah ok but you did make the lens toggle right?

hbdgaf

Yes, I did make lenstoggle and a couple of other things.

No Time

what was that written in?

hbdgaf

python+pygi. it was stupid simple. tiny bit of code really.

No Time

9:12 PM

I think I looked at the code before honestly, for someone Locale when they were trying to add a spanish wikipedia to their lens

hbdgaf

Yeah, it's still on github...

github.com/aking1012

No Time

I can't remember though it may have been another lens program that let you make custom lenses too.. I haven't used lens toggle (don't really use my lenses :)

hbdgaf

It seems to me I made that some time ago when nothing would do that. I wrote it to solve a problem for a uestion here

No Time

so try and except.. what's a simple example of how that works, as it seems powerful

Mateo

@hbdgaf tell me what you think, in the right direction? or too much:

No Time

9:15 PM

yeah thats how I wrote 2 script programs as well

hbdgaf

@Mateo I love it

No Time

@Mateo Is that an evolution of a logo you had before? or do you design logos

hbdgaf

it's something i asked him for... and my cue key is broken apparently.

No Time

@hbdgaf one thing not sure if you have learned about with python (you are way more advanced than I am it seems) if you triple single quote you keep spacing.

I can't show it in chat

hbdgaf

>>> while True:
...     try:
...         x = int(raw_input("Please enter a number: "))
...         break
...     except ValueError:
...         print("Oops!  That was no valid number.  Try again...")
...     except:
...         print("Oh god, something bad happened")

@NoTime there's a fixed font button

No Time

9:19 PM

ok so do you need to know the error codes?

Mateo

@hbdgaf awesome, glad you like it, the idea was to have the rss symbols going in, and have the chaos arrows, but the inside ones also look like meters

hbdgaf

@NoTime it's clean to catch specific errors you expect and pass others up the chain until you get to a point where you really want to bail out - or catch a suash-all right at the beginning to just say - i don't really care what went wrong. just keep going.

Mateo

@NoTime yeah, graphic design is what I went to school for, I'll do a logo here and there for fun ;) like to keep thinking and doing

No Time

@Mateo make more RSS inside the 4 inner arrows and have inception going on :)

@hbdgaf i always used while true, with an integer being set only if the len was >1

or something like that

Mateo

@NoTime that would be fun :)

No Time

9:22 PM

somewhere around that logic, doing the same thing, but more code and more roundabout

hbdgaf

@NoTime If you did that, it would probably want to be inside of an imaginary euilateral four sided figure to keep it all mathematically pleasing.

@NoTime not the same thing.

No Time

@hbdgaf similar results (I didn't have complex logic),
and I just looked at it again the RSS would be in the way of the main arrows out

Mateo

@hbdgaf let me know if you need a .svg or something, or need a higher rez .png

hbdgaf

@Mateo ty. i'll play with it as a placeholder for the app. after a commit of working mini-app - i'll see if anyone uses it. then possibly ask about an svg or feed it to rasterbator

No Time

@Mateo I had a friend make like an icon or something for that for the group Atmosphere, and he got a free vinyl (it was a contest)

a good logo can be worth a lot

Mateo

9:27 PM

@hbdgaf cool, if it becomes a thing, I'll go back and make sure everything lines up and lines are perfect and such

hbdgaf

@Mateo okay. if it's a thing, you know the deal. you're in the credits and such. if it pulls any money we'll sort something out... but I really doubt it pulling any money.

Mateo

@NoTime ah, that is cool

No Time

@Mateo do you use a bamboo? or anything like that?

Luis Alvarado

Anybody here from a Latin American country that speaks Spanish?

hbdgaf

nope...

Mateo

9:29 PM

I have a wacom graphire 4, I mostly use it just to throw a rough sketch together

No Time

@LuisAlvarado no, sorry. you could toss it in a translator and paste original and I could try to figure it out

Mateo

and it works on ubuntu, so I can have fun sketching on my netbook even

rough ideas/sketches for logo

No Time

thats cool Mateo

Luis Alvarado

@hbdgaf hey buddy, hi @Mateo

hbdgaf

@LuisAlvarado hi

Mateo

9:34 PM

but you never show those to the client, because then they say "I like that one in the center" then you are like "uh, that is just a scribble"

No Time

I like the whitish one towards bottom left

Mateo

hi @LuisAlvarado

No Time

heh

The one towards bottom makes me think of firefox with a sunrise and a target on his face

Luis Alvarado

talking about drawings, a week ago I bought this geniusnet.com/wSite/ct?xItem=16837&ctNode=174 very cool actually

smooth, VERY precise and gimp and inkscape detect the pressure I am doing

hbdgaf

back in a sec. seeing if my cue key was stuck down on boot and it's being ignored, or if i actually have to buy a keyboard for a laptop under a year old.

Luis Alvarado

9:36 PM

and more comfortable that using the mouse obviously

Mateo

@LuisAlvarado ooo, cool

No Time

that looks nice too,

Mateo

those "rolling pads" look nice

hbdgaf

yep. key is broken. dammit...

No Time

that is not cool.. can you pop your keys or is it a pain?

hbdgaf

9:41 PM

it's a laptop

No Time

Some have chiclet keys still :)

chicklet?

however that's spelled

what model .. it might just be gunk or something

hbdgaf

... so - a pain. they're the open the whole thing, rubber thingy under the key kind... and the weird part is the rubbery part is still good. it still "feels" like a good key when you strike it

it's not uite as firm as the surrounding keys, but close

Mateo

try reseating the cable?

No Time

I would say remap something..but would be weird, if you don't want to open it up

hbdgaf

i doubt it... but i'll try. gunk on the lead that the key fires is the most likely culprit. i'll probably just use and external keyboard, or see if I can find an on-screen keyboard popup from the bottom app, since it's a touchscreen... and turn it in to the uber-tablet most of the time.

Mateo

9:46 PM

have a "that one key that is broke" widget to touch

No Time

otherwise.. if you really just want to mess with it cut off the "q" poke around under the key then use apoxy to put it back on :P

but a new keyboard would probably cost less than a tube of apoxy

hbdgaf

why that key though? it's not the most freuently used. return, backspace, anything i've worn the ink off of i understand... but cue?

all my wasd keys work... just saying

Mateo

then you couldn't type quip, quickly, quirky, or quagmire

No Time

possibly surrounding keys moved it off a bit, or some component is there which messes with it (maybe fan pushes air there) or just faulty things. I thought laptop keyboards had more of a shared receptor on their boards though honestly.

hbdgaf

or uestion...

No Time

9:49 PM

just use k

kuestion

kuality

kuick

kueen

close enough

hbdgaf

you mean kwestion