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6:08 PM

@A.B.: What are you thanking me for? :D

For the accepted answer :)

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Ah... :D

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You're welcome! :)

@ParanoidPanda they'll probably reject you I believe

just saying

i'm not even a member of the reviewers xD

<-- Proud owner of LibreOffice 5.0.0.5 !!! :D

6:12 PM

@A.B. @ParanoidPanda +1's

@ParanoidPanda wiki.ubuntu.com/ReviewersTeam

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:D

i don't think the qualifications are met in this case but meh

@ByteCommander so, what do you think about it?

To me it still looks like LibreOffice... `\_(°-°)_/´

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6:14 PM

@NathanOsman: I am executing a cunning and evil plan by the way, your penguin is paying me with fish... He is ordering me to get him more YouTube views, so has devised an evil plan, which is now being executed... >:P

^^

@ByteCommander fair enough. :)

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@NathanOsman: And there is more truth in that than you think... :D

\o/

6:14 PM

Except for the splash screen, there is no big optical change.

\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/

But the splash of 5 looks really cool!

@A.B. Very nice!

one of seven

@A.B. Wow, congrats.

6:15 PM

=)

That is an amazing accomplishment.

thanks

Gotta get off my lazy butt and start answering again! :P

@A.B. Congratulations. I'm tempted to dig out good Cliff Richards! ;D

^^

6:16 PM

What badge was the one Fabby has as only guy in the whole SE world? Reversal?

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@Terrance: Oh I hate it too when my butt goes to sleep...

makes me happy

@A.B. Congratulations :)

@ParanoidPanda LOL. I think mine is right now! :P Work seems to do that to me.

Thanks =)))

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6:17 PM

@Terrance: I've just been sitting here, typing, and eating cake... So it's taking a snooze... :D

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Oh no! I've run out of cake and it won't allow me to get up!

@ParanoidPanda =)

>.<

Speaking of food, I need lunch.

Give it a good smack until it wakes up again...

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6:19 PM

@Terrance: Lunch? I've only just had dinner... :P

@ParanoidPanda 12:20 here. It's lunch time! :D

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Your clock is wrong! It's 19:20:56 here! :D

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I don't care if you are in a different time zone, the right time is here! :D

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Although could you fly at a speed around the world so that you could take a day to travel, however arrive on the same day you left, at the same time? :D

Nono 20:23

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6:24 PM

@NathanOsman: If my cunning plan works your penguin should get more views, or I might lose some... Or both... :D

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I guess we will see! :D

It's at 70 views now.

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I hope it will go higher, now that my cunning plan is in place... >:P

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@NathanOsman: You see I run a reasonably successful YouTube channel, and I have set it so that it will recommend your penguin video with 70 views at the end of al of my videos... :D I have also set your penguin's channel as a recommended channel on my channel home... So although things have been a bit quiet lately with my channel, I get a couple of hundred views each month... So some people should go to your video... :D

Cool!

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6:39 PM

:)

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@NathanOsman: So people should see this:

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:D

Win98?

I have to watch that later... :)

7:13 PM

Mmmmmmm, Singapore Mei Fun!

Meanwhile, stuccy.com - how's that for a clone?

٩(๏̯͡๏)ゞ?

@Terrance looks funny =)

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@ByteCommander: I think that this is one of Powerwolf's best songs, what do you think of it? :)

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Lust for Blood (werewolf)

7:21 PM

Yes, it's one of the greatest songs by them!

Sounds great

@A.B. It is a Confused guy with a question mark in response to what @NathanOsman found.

7:38 PM

VTC, it's a duplicate askubuntu.com/q/656975/367165

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I missed the unicode toilet?! Sad face D=

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And my desktop widget …

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8:19 PM

woo, an excuse to use my imac!

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Q: Meizu ubuntu / Connect to macbook per USB / Filetransfer

I have a new Meizu MX4 Ubuntu and it is not possible to mount the device on an macbook or imac. How I can transfer my music, photos etc. from/to the Ubuntu phone? I think this I quite very important and without this funtion the phone is almost useless. Is there any solution or instruction for th...

usb mac macbook

how do we end up trying to support everyones old dead products, with our new ones...

it is you imac that is "almost useless" not you new phone...

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@A.B.: This is probably one for you:

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Q: How to safely change the names of items in the system settings

I am running Ubuntu Gnome 15.04, with Gnome Shell, and Gnome 3.14, and in my gnome-control-center I have many items, one of which is called Sound, now I don't like this name and would like to change it to Audio Control, and I would also like to change the image to a custom one, so how can this be...

gnome sound customization system-settings

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:)

ParanoidPanda why the need to include OS and package information? and with every question even.

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I don't know... I just think people might need it sometimes... :P

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8:30 PM

@Rinzwind: And it makes a tinny question look bigger! :D

I would assume you are using 15.04 is the OS is not mentioned.
To me that info distracts from the question ;)

My eyes always want to see the bold and text between ` 's first :P

Anyone knows what .desktop file will be taken if there's one in /usr/share/applications/ and one in ~/.local/share/applications with the same name? Should be the one in my home folder, right?

And to answer: I would asssume there is a translation file for that package. That might be the best way to change it @ParanoidPanda

But when I right-click on that icon in my Unity launcher, it's still the old one in /usr.

@ByteCommander the one in /home/ takes precedence over the system wide one

8:32 PM

How do I force it to update?

Do I have to logout/-in again or can I command it to do so?

make sure it is actually the same and does not have a capital char where the other is lower case

log out would be the easiest I assume

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@ByteCommander: Give it chocolate cake! Nothing, not even it, can resist that! :P

@ParanoidPanda you got an answer :+)

afk. watching Resident Evil <3

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8:50 PM

@NathanOsman: My desktop now: :)

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:D

Not bad.

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It's perfect!

aw, poor ppc, osx 10.4 finally died on it

8:53 PM

Died?

I thought Macs never died.

tried to update a system file to run android file transfer, so I actually killed it...

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Is there any way to get images to play audio?

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Normal audio file formats that is.

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Or ones that would be accepted on imgur.

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8:55 PM

Oooh! I have 4.9k now!

maybe time to try ubuntu on my old mac @RPiAwesomeness !!

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Nearly 5k! :D

didn't you have a tutorial somewhere?

36 mins ago, by Mateo

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Q: Meizu ubuntu / Connect to macbook per USB / Filetransfer

I have a new Meizu MX4 Ubuntu and it is not possible to mount the device on an macbook or imac. How I can transfer my music, photos etc. from/to the Ubuntu phone? I think this I quite very important and without this funtion the phone is almost useless. Is there any solution or instruction for th...

usb mac macbook

because of really old mac

any way to vote this off topic:

oh, he is using 10.5 or 6 then I guess

nice

just above the threshold of everything is broke

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I am thinking about getting a roundy penguin...

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9:00 PM

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that one is nice

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O_o

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@NathanOsman: Which do you think is the nicest?

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@Mateo: Or my other penguin expert? :D

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9:01 PM

Because I just don't know which to get...

the last two are the same

Hey... an image search turned this up: polyvore.com/ty_waddles_penguin_pluffie_plush/thing?id=15062523

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@Mateo: I think not, the eyes are closer together on the third one.

it's all an illusion

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Oh... :D

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9:03 PM

I'll get the black one then! :D

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Black and white that is...

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But not blue... :P

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@NathanOsman: What's that link?

@ParanoidPanda It looks just like George.

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I can't seem to get to it... The link is not loading for me...

user136984

9:04 PM

Can you post a picture of the page?

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Or at least link to an uploaded picture of it?

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@ParanoidPanda again an illusion - and badly calibrated camera

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@NathanOsman: It looks fatter though! :D :D :D

@ParanoidPanda plus looks he has been squished a few times ;P

user136984

9:06 PM

@Mateo: Unless that is an illusion too?

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@Mateo: Ah yes, that must be what I am seeing! :D

@ParanoidPanda this is what you need: squishable.com/pc/squish_panda_15/Big_Animals/Large+Round+Panda

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O_o

oh man, the user pictures are amazing

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@Mateo: I don't know, I don't really like the look in his eye... :D

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9:09 PM

Plus, he's a panda, and not a penguin... Although it is slightly worrying how long it took me to realise that! :D

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@NathanOsman @Mateo: Do you guys remember Ping Pong? ^^ :D

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That's a picture of my panda...

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:D

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The room falls silent...

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9:15 PM

@ByteCommander: Do you remember tooth paste cake at least? :D

Argument going around in circles

No the problem is it's not protected to begin with — Randol Albert 1 min ago

Anybody care to step in?

What's with all the toys? O.o

@muru done

Thanks. <insert-take-off-on-jetpack-ascii-art>

downvote and move along - no such thing as hacker proof with physical access

I didn't want to downvote, though. Thought maybe somebody could explain it better.

9:26 PM

also, I didn't even need a cd anymore to change an osx password

and even with the protection there was a bypass...

in OSX? O.o

yeah, took two min...

<shrug> never going to buy Apple stuff anyway. :D

so steps:

Hold ⌘R on startup
Open Terminal from the Utilities menu
Type resetpassword and follow the instructions

bam that easy

they actually made it easier in newer versions...

There's actually instructions? Is that a security hole or just being über user-friendly?

9:30 PM

meh, same thing

similar to what he was talking about - implement a security - he knows a bypass - implement another - but now they can get the keys form memory or something - implement another - OH they can pull the drive and decrypt it... never ends

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Right well anyway...

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Goodnight guys! :)

@ParanoidPanda See you later.

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:D

9:57 PM

@muru In help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Passwords the part that starts with Superuser and passwords, there is a part about protecting submenus

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That's... a lot.

looks like mostly my scope researching

10:13 PM

@Terrance O.o

Are you talking of the OSX thing that Mateo was talking about, or the GRUB entry editing question?

@muru it was about protecting the submenus that Randol Albert was complaining about.

The OSX thing, you can also hold down ⌘S at startup and get into Single User mode and change any password you want.

@Terrance Oh. You can tell him that, but I doubt it'd break the cycle of argument. Randol wants to disable editing altogether, and it seems setting passwords on the entries don't prevent that.

@muru Yeah, true. But there is a part there that states: "Note: GRUB 2 1.99 in 12.04 LTS doesn't protect submenu, ie. command line, entry editing and access to entries is not protected! See bug 718670. The workaround is to export superusers variable by adding to the above export superusers"

Just thought I would share that.

10:39 PM

@ParanoidPanda: I'm gone for a day and I find 10 messages from you...

Which is still relevant?

@muru I answered it:

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A: how to prevent changes in the grub menu

If you look at this page here in the Superuser & Password Designation section, you will see that it specifically states that: Note: GRUB 2 1.99 in 12.04 LTS doesn't protect submenu, ie. command line, entry editing and access to entries is not protected! See bug 718670. However, they cla...

Nice!

11:19 PM

@Mateo and then, after a while you get lost in your own tabs xD

"I knew it said it in one of these tabs..."

yeah, need alt+tab for tabs or somethign

wasn't there a tab search on one of these browsers?

Sometimes I try to use FF's tab groups to organize it some, but it doesn't help too much.

@Mateo mmmm, I do not recall.

Do you use Tab Mix Plus?

I have it installed and it gives me - wait for it - three rows of tabs :P

LOL

It works fairly well if you have less than about 30 tabs.

11:24 PM

well i'm rolling with over 100

How do even find a tab with that many open?

@NathanOsman Luck?

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