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hbdgaf

00:23

how goes it @mateo

Mateo

not bad, you? @hbdgaf

hbdgaf

it goes. i'm working on some django stuff and trying to get it right the first time

going to work at the day job in like 2 hours

the day job is all "ZZZ"

Mateo

yeah, can't wait till the stable Ubuntu touch, have you tried a recent image of the developer - they are making some good progress

well, small things here and there, can wait if you don't have the extra time...

hbdgaf

i don't have time for touch. when it gets closer to stable i may look at it.

i wanted to watch it, but i just don't have time to play with not ready products when there are so many consumers to support

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

01:49

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Q: Setting up server to share music with tv

Can someone please point me in the right direction? Hopefully first by letting me know if this is possible... I recently purchased a home theater system which you plug via hdmi into the tv. It has its own nice gui with netflix, and youtube, and blah blah blah. One of the options was to "browse y...

Andrew

06:12

Please Help Me

Understand this

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Q: Why am I suck with a version of Gnome-Shell Unlike KDE Or other DEs?

Why am I suck with a version of Gnome-Shell Unlike KDE, ...? For, example on Ubuntu 12.04 I am suck with Gnome-Shell Version 3.4, and can't upgrade to newer version of Gnome-Shell like 3.6, Why? With Kubuntu 12.04 comes with KDE 4.8 and I can upgrade it to the latest version which is 4.10. It s...

unity gnome upgrade desktop-environments versions

Amith KK

09:31

If anyone remembers

there was this Game on a robot

in 3d

who went through mazes

deflecting lasers and stuff

it's a puzzle game

It's name I think starts with robo

You could up the armour, use mines and stuff

BTW, its a windows game

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

Oli

11:04

@AmithKK Hover

Amith KK

nope

hbdgaf

14:02

@AmithKK The only thing I remember like that was macross, but it was 2d...and I think it's probably older than you are :)

Amith KK

15:08

Pypi down for anyone else?

Ask Ubuntu Meta

15:25

0

Q: Should e-Mail adresses be edited away?

I'm still pretty new to Ask Ubuntu. I've seen some people include their e-mail adress in their question. Is it okay to edit the e-Mail adress way as I feel they break the way Ask Ubuntu works?

discussion asking-questions email

denNorske

15:41

Okay, is this the correct place to bother people about problems with ubuntu ? :D

fossfreedom

15:51

@denNorske ask ... sure ... bother ... maybe :)

denNorske

Hi :P I've got this problem about "network-manager" in ubuntu

It's failing 100 % when booting...

is there a way to get logs from it?

@fossfreedom

fossfreedom

"failing" ? in what way is it failing?

denNorske

Well, it's kinda hard to explain, but when i enter Unity f.ex, i can see the icon on top right flickering, (dissapearing and appearing in 10sec interval)

And it doesn't connect to any networks.

fossfreedom

weird ... have you tried install wicd to see if this works - then if necessary reinstalling network-manager?

denNorske

nope, i will try that.

hang on

fossfreedom

15:58

sorry - cant hang-on :) Hometime for me. Hopefully someone else can chip in. bbl.

denNorske

ah forget it, no internet avaialable

ok :D Available*

fossfreedom

... connect via a wired connection when doing this.

denNorske

Nope, because i am needing the network-manager to work first then

like it is now, it is disconnecting my network every 1 sec, so it wont connect at all if you understand

hey if you got time, i made a thread on ubuntuforums:

ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2178994

it's a few more details there.

Mitch

@fossfreedom Hello

Did you see this?

askubuntu.com/users/38788/naveen?tab=reputation

denNorske

Hmm

wow

hbdgaf

16:10

@denNorske I'm not sure it's related, but what arch and dist version are you running (uname -a and cat /etc/lsb-* respectively). the sound applet in saucy had an architecture issue for x64...so it could be a tangentally related bug.

denNorske

Nah, well, the same things happened in 12.10,13.04 too, and now i am just giving it a chance here.

just upgraded. Shouldn't have done that i suppose

Seth

OT (Elementary OS): askubuntu.com/questions/354917/…

Braiam

@Mitch there will be a script to run at 3:00 that will revert the changes

Seth

Is this a dupe? askubuntu.com/questions/354905/…

denNorske

dupe - is?

Seth

16:19

duplicate.

As in, is this question a duplicate of some other question?

denNorske

Nvm, it will be closed shortly anyways, since you got your answer in it.

Mitch

@Seth, Maybe this one. askubuntu.com/questions/139810/…

@Braiam k/

Seth

Good enough.

That question had no effort anyway.

hbdgaf

Saying the Ubuntu SDK only applies to mobile when it's really just a tweaked Qt sdk seems a little overzealous, but I can see what you were thinking.

denNorske

ye ;)

Seth

16:21

@hbdgaf That's true, I was just trying to keep it simple ;)

hbdgaf

pity we can't cross-site closevote

Since it's really just Qt + some dev environment tweaks and fonts/widgets to make everything seamless, you could get away with developing cross using Qt, then when you have whatever it is you want working go to the 30 minutes work of installing an ubuntu vm and apt-get installing the sdk. For setting up a cross environment, the fellows on SO already have a question stackoverflow.com/questions/11011251/… — hbdgaf 20 secs ago

i wonder how he plans to do testing if he doesn't want to install an OS in a VM...I really do.

JohnMerlino

I asked this question on this site a week ago. Haven't received any comments or responses. Any idea where I can ask this?

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Q: Gammu: "Device or resource busy"

I am successfully able to send myself an SMS message via minicom on the serial port /dev/ttyS0: at+CMGS=954xxxxxxx > Hello World Again +CMGS: 8 However, I have the following configuration for gammu-smsd: [gammu] port = /dev/ttyS0 connection = at115200 [smsd] service = pgsql logfile = syslog ...

gammu

Braiam

@JohnMerlino do you have another Gammu instance running?

JohnMerlino

@Braiam no

Mitch

New Microsoft product

JohnMerlino

16:29

but I have minicom running using same serial port

Mitch

JohnMerlino

maybe minicom is hanging the port?

Braiam

I think that's your problem... maybe you need to free the device before trying to use it...

@JohnMerlino yeah

hbdgaf

it seems a lot like this error message from 2009...i'ld look at the old error message solution and see what falls out

Braiam

@Mitch that a BSOD?

hbdgaf

16:30

comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/195917

JohnMerlino

@Braiam do I need to restart minicom to free the device?

Mitch

@Braiam That it is :)

Braiam

@JohnMerlino maybe, otherwise, the device is just not supported... which is not surprising

JohnMerlino

@Braiam it was working fine till a week ago

something must have crushed

Braiam

@JohnMerlino if that's the case, just go 1 by 1 tracing your steps until you find the thing that broke it....

@JorgeCastro about this some discussion happened here

Jorge Castro

16:44

We have tons of questions about moving ubuntu tech back into Debian and that's all on topic

Amith KK

BBT

Good Night

Seth

@JorgeCastro How is it on-topic since Canonical doesn't support it?

(yet anyway..)

Jorge Castro

I don't see what canonical has to do with it

I think if someone wants to get it working on Debian then what's the problem?

Braiam

I might be able to answer the Debian one...

Seth

@JorgeCastro It has nothing to do with Ubuntu, besides the fact that Ubuntu devs created it for Ubuntu.

@jokerdino Wanna migrate this? askubuntu.com/questions/354917/…

@JorgeCastro shrug If you want them open I don't care, though I don't believe they are on-topic.

Jorge Castro

16:50

shrug

jokerdino

@Seth got to check.

Seth

Right.

jokerdino

@Seth Done

Seth

17:16

@jokerdino Awesome. Now to download Elementary OS and answer it ;P

jokerdino

:)

Put it on a VM.

Seth

Yep.

Seth

17:45

Is there anyway to monitor dconf for changes?

Braiam

18:07

@Seth dconf watch but it won't do if you don't know the path that will change

and I don't think it goes recursive

Seth

Well I'll try it.

Thanks :)

Nathan Osman

18:26

Morning.

Braiam

18:39

can anyone make sense of this? askubuntu.com/q/354837/169736

Seth

All I see is "it broke" "my wired broke" etc

No actual question as far as I can see.

@NathanOsman So did you have a 0 A.D. game yesterday? :)

Nathan Osman

Nope.

I'll probably edit the question to actually schedule one for next week.

And I'll mention it on Gaming.SE like Marco suggested.

Seth

Cool. You should consider recording the sessions...

It seems like a pretty cool game.

Braiam

@NathanOsman can you check what answer is OP talking in the link above? I think you can see deleted asnwers no?

Nathan Osman

I can.

@Seth I don't have the hardware for recording the games, but I may capture some screenshots.

Seth

18:50

Hmm. Any clue why it was deleted?

Nathan Osman

@Seth Probably need to ask @Luis.

Seth

@NathanOsman That's true. Recording game play requires pretty good hardware... Screenshots are cool :)

@NathanOsman He's hard to get a hold of :P

No comments?

Nathan Osman

One of the new Nvidia cards has a dedicated processor for recording up to 45 minutes of gameplay in HD, IIRC.

Seth

ooh cool.

Nathan Osman

I wonder if my CPU would be capable of doing that. It's a quad-core.

Seth

18:54

Isn't it a 3rd gen intel i5?

@Braiam Do we have a question about checking an ISO's MD5 sum? (askubuntu.com/questions/354953/…)

Nathan Osman

Nope. It's an AMD A8-5600K.

Seth

@NathanOsman Oh. My bad >.<

Nathan Osman

(4 cores @ 3.6GHz.)

I haven't tried overclocking it though.

Seth

@NathanOsman Well that's better than the Intel anyway. (at least on paper)

askubuntu.com/questions/312529/… ?

Braiam

@Seth there should be

Nathan Osman

18:56

It also has an integrated GPU.

Braiam

@Seth what!

Seth

@NathanOsman I think it could, in a pinch. I've tried 0 A.D. a little and it doesn't seem to be that heavy on resources.

@Braiam IKR O_O

Braiam

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Q: How can I check the integrity of a downloaded Ubuntu CD?

I've just downloaded a CD image of Ubuntu. I know the installer has a check CD option, but how can I check that the image is good before burning it to CD?

cd live-cd downloads md5sum

my system freeze whenever I try it... P4 and all...

Seth

Excellent. Wanna vote to dupe?

Braiam

can't, maybe @Nathan

or leave it in the backlog

Nathan Osman

19:01

What do I need to do?

Seth

Can you vote to dupe this: askubuntu.com/questions/354953/… to this: askubuntu.com/questions/17764/… please ?

Thanks.

Nathan Osman

19:17

I'm going to try to get GLC into my PPA.

Nathan Osman

19:55

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A: How can I record an OpenGL game in Ubuntu?

GLC is well-suited for this purpose. Unfortunately it is not packaged in the archives. However, I have put it (and its dependencies) in a PPA: ppa:george-edison55/glc (Click here for instructions on using PPAs.) You can add the PPA to your system using the following commands: sudo apt-add...

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Q: What is the best way to gain reputation?

I can't seem to do much except ask questions without having any reputation. It's almost like a catch 22, how do I get reputation if I can't vote or comment? I guess this is the best way right just to ask questions? Are there any other ways to gain reputation on here? I mean I can't even make my o...

discussion

Seth

20:08

@NathanOsman Oh cool! Have you tested it?

Nathan Osman

Yup!

It does have a minor impact on FPS.

And it burns through disk space like you wouldn't believe. It uses close to 1 GB per minute of capture.

Seth

Wow. That'll need compressing. What format does it save as?

Nathan Osman

It's a proprietary format.

But you can encode it afterward.

Seth

That's not too bad.

Long time no see @VRU :)

VRU

@Seth: Hey Hi Mates!!!

Seth

20:21

Sup?

VRU

I am grooming my self on kernel programming, could not make much of time.... and back now

@Seth: Howz you?

Seth

Ooh. Kernel programming eh?

@VRU Pretty good :)

I'm working on my Java and Python.

VRU

Great!

@Seth: I have just tried PlayonLinux to install MS Office 2010.... how good it is to use in this way?

Seth

@VRU It should be just fine.

Any particular reason you need Office?

VRU

that page manipulation / conversions and bullets while trying to read / edit MS Word Doc on Libre

its hard to sync them both

Seth

20:27

Yes, that is a problem. Just curious :)

VRU

but after installing MS Office through PlayonLinux I have noticed the bullets still don't show up.... when opened in MS Word

may be Libre converted it ?

Seth

What file format are you saving your documents as? .doc or .docx?

Which version of MS Word are you using?

VRU

saving it in .doc and version installed is MS Office 2010

not all bullets but the arrow bullet in specific

is having the issue

Seth

Which version of Word are you opening the file with? 2010 too?

VRU

I m opening a .doc file on 2010 version

Seth

20:36

OK.. All I can say right now is try saving it as .docx

VRU

yeah... still have to do some experiments on it........ by the way ... do you know any one in our group who work linux device drivers and linux kernel..... I want to set a target to develop drivers for kernel .... atleast for ubuntu

Seth

@VRU @NathanOsman has done a little. The only other person I know of top of my head might be @LuisAlvarado.

Nathan Osman

Yes, I wrote a kernel module for a USB light once.

Here's the project:

github.com/nathan-osman/Webmail-Notifier-Linux-Driver

(What? No oneboxing for GitHub?)

Seth

Yeah :(

Only gists

VRU

Oh Great! to hear that......

Seth

20:43

BTW, I was surprised to see C++ doesn't have curly brackets on it's if/else statements... What's up with that? Does it use indentation like Python or ?

Braiam

This is a regresion right askubuntu.com/q/353748/169736

VRU

@NathanOsman: Can you help me out in understanding things for developing Device drivers ............... and even this... how to use GIT HUB....

Nathan Osman

Do you have a GitHub account?

VRU

@NathanOsman: Nope... want to start using it

Seth

@VRU help.github.com learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/using-github

VRU

20:47

@Seth Thank you!

Braiam

I would rather learn how to use git... git hub is easier that way

Nathan Osman

@VRU github.com/signup/free

VRU

Okay!

Seth

BBL

VRU

@Seth leaving?

@NathanOsman are you in the mailing list for kernel development?

Nathan Osman

20:54

@VRU No.

VRU

okay... any other mailing list?

was wondering... how to sync in a mailing list and start developing modules for kernel development...

Nathan Osman

Well, first of all, I'm not expert in this area.

I've only written a very simple kernel module.

The best I can do is point you to what I've written here: github.com/nathan-osman/Webmail-Notifier-Linux-Driver

The two files of interest are Makefile and webmail_notifier.c.

VRU

Oh Okay! will go through it.... will try to understand... Thanks once again

Nathan Osman

Oh, and I think there is a free e-book out there somewhere on developing against the 2.6.x kernel.

It should be roughly similar to 3.x kernels. Not a lot has changed.

VRU

ldd ?

Nathan Osman

21:01

What about ldd?

VRU

I mean are you referring to Linux Device Drivers book? or some thing else?

Nathan Osman

Yeah, I think so.

I forget the name of it.

But I think it's that one.

VRU

Okay....

@NathanOsman can you share more details? how did you start off to the USB Light project?

Nathan Osman

The first thing I had to do was reverse engineer the blocks of data being transmitted to the device.

Unfortunately, I had to do that from within Windows using a tool that captured the USB data packets.

VRU

Okay.

Nathan Osman

21:13

This is funny.

3

VRU

@NathanOsman actually I did not understand the usage of WebMail Notifier. When we have feature's on mobile/tablet/computers to notify about Mail arrival with sound.... what's the special about this product?

Nathan Osman

Nothing really. It's just a glorified USB lamp.

VRU

Oh Okay.

still nice!

@NathanOsman Are you aware of GParted ?

Nathan Osman

I've used it on occasion.

VRU

21:29

Okay, actually I have a Dell laptop which comes with Ubuntu pre-installed on it and once I thought of installing Windows 7 on it ...... for which I had to create a new partition on my disk using GParted Live Editor ...... finally while trying to install Windows 7 on new partition I got the error msg for more number of partitions.....where after I left the unallocated partition as it is.... now I am thinking to resize or reallocate it so that I can use it....

Nathan Osman

Do you have four primary partitions?

VRU

yeah it came with 4 primary partitions

@NathanOsman for your reference above image...

@NathanOsman I am thinking to recover the unallocated space to /dev/sda3

should I just unmount the sda3 and then try to resize it?

Braiam

@VRU you should disable the swap, then try to grow the extended partition

Nathan Osman

@VRU First off, you will need to do that from a LiveCD since you cannot work with a partition that is mounted.

...and you can't unmount it if it is the root partition.

VRU

21:49

@NathanOsman @Braiam Oh is it? can't I just use the GParted Editor? turn off the swap and unmount the disk and then try to resize?

I am going through this link howtogeek.com/114503/how-to-resize-your-ubuntu-partitions

Seth

22:03

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Q: Wake up, Xserver screen. Can't stand it

Recently switched from Windows XP to Xubuntu. This is my second question and also the last one, I hope. Well, I'm talking about another useless/secondary graphical issue. When I manage to open the lid, waking up the laptop, Xserver welcomes me with his not-that-cool screen. Is there any way t...

xubuntu login xserver

Either I don't know what X server he's talking about.. or he doesn't know what X is.

Braiam

22:18

@Seth he corrected

check the comment

VRU

Okay Bye Bye Guys!!

Seth

@Braiam Oh cool.

Braiam

22:46

WHOA! I didn´t knew that sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart could be so destructive... it took away my X

Nathan Osman

23:12

Gotta love Python:

>>> 1.1 + 2.2
3.3000000000000003

Seth

@Braiam >:D

Braiam

@NathanOsman dammed floating point :P

searchfgold6789

23:44

Can someone confirm that my final remark here is correct? askubuntu.com/questions/355080/…

Seth

Yes, I love you too 13.10.

searchfgold6789

Braiam

@searchfgold6789 I think 3 users considers that your answer is helpful

Nathan Osman

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Q: Why can't I access a member of this class?

I have the following three class definitions: class String { public: String() {} String(const char *) {} }; class ClassA { public: ClassA(const String &) {} }; class ClassB { public: ClassB(const ClassA &, const String & = String()) {} void m...

c++ class

A downvote? Really?

Seth

SO freaks. Again.

Braiam

23:59

I bet was about the duplicated

Seth

I understand downvoting some questions, but well written dupes?

Seriously?

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