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htorque

6:08 PM

looks more like a deletehat

what's that thing?

Stefano Palazzo

it's from a web–comic called "homestar runner"

one of the characters has a fan club called 'the deleteheads' ;-)

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Files are read-only after copying over samba http://bit.ly/ljO19K #samba

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on May 21, 2011 at 6:12 PM

htorque

15 featured questions :-o

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even a fat one

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Q: Adjusting display geometry in a virtual machine?

Running 11.04 beta in a Parallels 5.0 virtual machine, but this question will apply to any virtualization software. Parallels 5 Linux tools (guest additions) don't work for 10.10 and 11.04 and I don't want them. I like how the VM is integrated as is. The only thing that needs tuning is the scree...

Takkat

6:25 PM

@htorque needs people running Parallels :P

htorque

no thanks :P

Takkat

@htorque not even for +500 lol

htorque

exactly ;)

Octavian Damiean

heh

Rinzwind

6:37 PM

can I also make a link for an IRC channel?

ah guess I can

htorque

if the answer is only "go to this irc channel: irc://..." then i wouldn't :P

Rinzwind

na >:D

htorque

6:53 PM

dude, those invisible windows make me crazy :D

Gilles

7:20 PM

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Q: Installing KDE on Ubuntu Natty from cdrom

Currently I have Ubuntu 11.04 - Natty, with Unity as the default environment; but I just want to install KDE along-side it, and I don't have perfect bandwidth. So I took Kubuntu 11.04 cdrom from my friend and inserted it to my cdrom. After running apt-cdrom add it prints out this: Using CD-ROM ...

ubuntu kde apt software-installation

Nobody seems to have an idea over at Unix.SE

Is there a known issue with this particular CD, or an apt-cdrom bug?

Rinzwind

@Gilles from what I found... you get this with the command apt-cdrom add. Uncheck the box that says cd rom where kde stores its sources: it should have been unchecked automatically.

I found it on the web in a couple of topics:this one is the most informative: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10803670

Gilles

@Rinzwind I found this (informative? I'd call it illegible!) forum post when I googled too, but as far as I can tell the “solution” is not to use the CD-ROM. And the asker on our question does want to use the CD-ROM.

Rinzwind

but but but :-D

guess Ill look a bit longer >:)

htorque

7:45 PM

> YouTube Administration sent you a message: Your video is approved

too bad i deleted my account some months ago :>

Rinzwind

heya @htorque come help Gilles >:D

htorque

i would but i have no knowledge in that area

Rinzwind

so? >:-D that's just being lazy! you should strive for knowledge

@Gilles another interesting one: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/115536 it has some workarounds that might be worth testing

@Gilles and another one bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/112599 >:D

bugfest \o/

htorque

but i'm not interested in that stuff :-)

Rinzwind

@htorque look at the font in the screenshot: askubuntu.com/questions/44317/cant-install-openoffice :D

htorque

7:57 PM

nice - if you hate your eyes

:P

Rinzwind

I blinked twice when I saw it _O-

Gilles

@Rinzwind doesn't look relevant, the asker has no CD-ROM entry in his fstab

Anyway, if you have theories, post on the question!

Stefano Palazzo

@MarcoCeppi are you still around?

Marco Ceppi

@StefanoPalazzo Yes

Stefano Palazzo

@MarcoCeppi cool :) please refresh the chat and log back in, I'd like to quickly check if @replies work

(on any system other than my own)

htorque

8:04 PM

@Gilles there's no cd-rom entry supposed to be in /etc/fstab (for a couple releases now)

Gilles

@htorque I know, that's why I don't think that old bug is relevant

htorque

ah, sorry, didn't check that

George Edison

Typo here:

> "Data LifeGuard Diagnostics is designed to test the physical condition of your hard drive. This utility is designed for drivers larger than 8.4GB..."

Drivers larger than 8.4 GB?

I wonder what hardware needs a 8.4GB driver...

Stefano Palazzo

now that's what I call bloatware :P

Gilles

@GeorgeEdison Even for an automatic car, that's a lot of code

Takkat

8:15 PM

George Edison

Wow...

George Edison

8:27 PM

Got an awesome answer to my question over on Unix.SE:

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Q: How does the Unix file privilege system differ from that of Windows?

Related question: How does the Linux file system/organization differ from Windows? I am somewhat familiar with how privileges work when it comes to files and directories - each entry has an owner and group property that represent the owner of the file and the group that the owner belongs to (cor...

permissions ntfs comparison

Gilles

@GeorgeEdison It's a good presentation of traditional unix permissions, but it's missing ACLs and capabilities

I'll write something up in a minute or three

Octavian Damiean

@Takkat whats eddy doing there?

Takkat

Mr Murphy is being a giant driver, larger than 8.4 GB :P

Octavian Damiean

lol

Takkat

9:05 PM

\o/ just solved my pulseaudio issue I was at for months now \o/

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9:18 PM

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htorque

@Takkat \o/

Takkat

Feels like birthday wedding and Xmas in one :)

(was "only" a configuration issue)

htorque

wedding? are you suuuuure? :P

so it was a layer 8 problem?

Takkat

@htorque 100% (in my case).

layer 8?

htorque

= user

Takkat

9:25 PM

not really. Default settings don't let you use the CLI mode to control pulseaudio.

There is almost no documentation on where to say what for making it work.

Needle in a haystack.

htorque

that's the PA bug you linked yesterday?

(or the day before)

Takkat

yes: pulseaudio.org/ticket/937#comment:1

htorque

see, that's why i'm all against systemd - if you can't get audio right, how are you supposed to make the init system work

(needless to say, that i'm just kidding)

Takkat

lol

htorque

gotta check out lightdm, brb

Takkat

9:35 PM

hope you can tell us good things!

htorque

yes, if it's supposed to show you a black screen, then it works as intended :P

Takkat

hmm.

htorque

well, at least the demo mode works (runs as window inside a running session)

styling the greeter with html/css could get us some nice looking themes

(there's already lightdm-theme-webkit)

Takkat

9:56 PM

Theming is always a great issue for ppl

George Edison

Where's @Marco... I found a bug with Chromify-OSD.

htorque

@Takkat and given the interest in plymouth theming it doesn't matter how often or long you see the component

Takkat

so true - but then the boot time is another issue (for other ppl?)

htorque

right. i want a cool bootsplash but also fast boot times. i want autologin but also a good looking greeter. :D

(plus cake and unicorns)

Takkat

Who want to resume from suspend if you had a nice boot-animation playing?

(with sound eventually)

htorque

10:08 PM

flash would be nice

:D

Takkat

oh sure - 64-bit?

htorque

been using 64-bit flash half a year w/o problems :-P

Takkat

admittedly same here :)

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison I'm right here, I got your bug report

George Edison

@MarcoCeppi Oh good.

I provided a solution that should work.

Marco Ceppi

10:20 PM

Well the next version removes the direct embedding of the Chromify-OSD object on each page (causes crashes, and about 30% of the browsers to not work) I'm placing it on the background page and trying to capture notify events from the injected JS page

So that will fix this bug as well

George Edison

@MarcoCeppi Background page? (Forgive me for not knowing what that is...)

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison Don't worry about - it's a Chrome plugin thing

George Edison

@MarcoCeppi Ah, okay. That means there's only ever one instance of the plugin loaded?

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison Yeah

George Edison

Okay. I wonder why my plugin was crashing...

Takkat

10:29 PM

time to go - good night everybody

htorque

ditto

Octavian Damiean

11:05 PM

ew awesome, wireless Android debugging

likes that :D

Roland Taylor

4

Q: Why is there a new Group for me as a User?

Why is it that when I install Ubuntu with a user name, a new group is created with that name too? Is there a reason we're not just plain Administrators?

users accounts group

...

sigh....

Octavian Damiean

oh boy ... groups are there even on Windows and even on Windows you can be in more than one group at once <.<

Roland Taylor

exactly D:

Marco Ceppi

I wish Chrome would just let me do what I want to do with this extension

Roland Taylor

gah

I had to write two comments just to explain to him what users and groups are -_-

LOL - the guy thinks groups == user roles :D!

Octavian Damiean

11:15 PM

@RolandTaylor which is a pure fail as you could've just linked him to an explanation of Unix SE ;)

Roland Taylor

@OctavianDamiean I don't know where it is :O

(the link)

Octavian Damiean

well I'd have to search for such a link myself but if it is not on Unix SE I can bet you will find some very good documentation on groups and users on the internewbs :D

George Edison

JavaScript output is now enabled for StackImage 2.

Just append '?type=js' to the end of a StackImage 2 URL.

Hello71

11:53 PM

@RolandTaylor: gah

I had to write a comment just to explain to you that the root account doesn't mean anything -_-

LOL - you think root == super user :D!

Roland Taylor

@Hello71 ?

Hello71

@RolandTaylor: ? or ?

Roland Taylor

no, ?

it is ?, not ?

esecurityplanet.com/news/article.php/3934151/…

ROFL

linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/21/204207/…

COPTER

Octavian Damiean

@Hello71 you know that the term super user is a synonym for root, yes?

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