Ask Ubuntu General Room

Roland Taylor

00:00

7?

TheX

@RolandTaylor yeah windows 7

Roland Taylor

ahhh

that explains it

George Edison

No, Vista for me :(

Roland Taylor

e.e that makes two of us

TheX

@GeorgeEdison yeah it would eat it for lunch then.

Roland Taylor

00:00

I have vista because I never upgraded to 7 when I had the chance :P

George Edison

@TheX That is actually what pushed me to Linux.

Roland Taylor

Same here - except I was using both before.

George Edison

@RolandTaylor I didn't have the chance! Microsoft was selling upgrades for something like $100.

Roland Taylor

Vista would shut down if I ran any 3D games or intense applications, so I gave up.

TheX

@GeorgeEdison I actually like Windows 7 (minus some improvements that could be made) I just don't like Microsoft.

Roland Taylor

00:01

@GeorgeEdison lol! I upgrade my Ubuntu for...

George Edison

I mean... what is really so different about Win 7 over Vista?

Roland Taylor

gets a calculator

calculating

TheX

@GeorgeEdison it runs better.....

faster....

crashes less often...

George Edison

I mean as far as features go.

Roland Taylor

well, for one thing, it's more blocky

TheX

00:02

@RolandTaylor lol yeah that too

Roland Taylor

and it doesn't have a side bar

George Edison

...like why couldn't Microsoft give us Vista users a free upgrade?

Roland Taylor

IKR!

TheX

@GeorgeEdison UAC isn't as annoying as it is in Vista

Roland Taylor

If I had gotten a free upgrade, I might have actually used Windows 7 on my laptop :)

but then Ubuntu offered this free upgrade to 10.04...

George Edison

00:03

@RolandTaylor I could have used it :P

DoR

hackertyper.net is strangely addicting...

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Roland Taylor

and one thing led to another

@DoR yes!

TheX

I didn't technically pay for Windows 7....

George Edison

@DoR What is it?

I just get a blank page after clicking 'hack.'

Marco Ceppi

@DoR Going to have to use this for when my boss is looking over my shoulder

@GeorgeEdison Start typing

TheX

00:05

lol someone just brought me money...

George Edison

@MarcoCeppi Then what...? Strange C code is showing up.

TheX

rang the door bell...

George Edison

Looks like Kernel code.

TheX

and I opened it, and they where standing there with a wad of cash in their hand...

and I was like can I help you...

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison it's the kernel file - it's meant to make it look like you're typing

as if you were a hacker, like in the movies

TheX

00:06

and they were like came to pay you for some computer work for me last week

George Edison

Oooooh... I thought it was a game or something :P

TheX

I was like I don't remember doing work for you but I will take your money....

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Marco Ceppi

When people give me money that I'm unfamiliar with, I take the money and say "it's about time". Drop the mic, walk away

Roland Taylor

hackertyper.net/130913311340

DoR

@TheX Tomorrow you find out it's actually counterfeit, Directed by M.Night Shyamalan

Roland Taylor

00:09

@TheX lol wth O.o

TheX

@MarcoCeppi lol

Roland Taylor

is it a lot?

TheX

$25

pretty good for a job I don't remember doing

Roland Taylor

lol yeah :D

George Edison

@FlackBot: restart

@FlackBot: star 1219653

Roland Taylor

00:22

hey Marco, am I a 2buntu room owner?

George Edison

@RolandTaylor Nope.

TheX

@MarcoCeppi no he isn't. Don't listen to his lies :P

Roland Taylor

O.O

can I post something random?

George Edison

@RolandTaylor You are now.

I just made you an owner.

TheX

@RolandTaylor you can, but that doesn't mean it won't get flagged

Roland Taylor

00:24

@GeorgeEdison thanks :D

@TheX haha I don't see that ^--- getting flagged :D

:O

TheX

...

Roland Taylor

loool

good one

George Edison

I see a new flag...

Roland Taylor

I can't counterflag :D

2

George Edison

Who invited FlackBot to 2buntu... ?

Roland Taylor

00:28

@FlackBot join us!

I did

FlackBot

@RolandTaylor Someday I will be able to intelligently reply to that command. This isn't that day.

Roland Taylor

@GeorgeEdison it would be cool if it responded

@GeorgeEdison I want to discuss my top secret world domination schemes with FlackBot :)

George Edison

Roland Taylor

haha

ty

FlackBot

James Gifford, Cleveland, OH

2.2k 4 31

George Edison

00:31

@FlackBot: star 1219727

@FlackBot: Who made you?

FlackBot

FlackBot, The Interwebs

96 4

launchpad video hardware-recommendation

George Edison

A bot creating itself....?

Roland Taylor

O.o

Marco Ceppi

Must have used a MakerBot

3

Charlie

How I can recover a previous version of a file? http://bit.ly/kRebU0 #files

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on June 27, 2011 at 12:25 AM

George Edison

00:39

@MarcoCeppi Wow...

Marco Ceppi

I've been wanting one since Bre Pettis announced the production of MakerBot

Roland Taylor

I brought "The Unicorns" back >:)

TheX

01:00

how come Ubuntu only addresses 3.4 gbs of ram out of 5???

Marco Ceppi

@TheX It only takes what it needs, what does free -m display?

TheX

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3513       1548       1964          0        134        748
-/+ buffers/cache:        665       2848
Swap:            0          0          0

(using a live USB)

if I run sudo lshw

it sees all 5

verified that I am indeed using 64bit OS

Roland Taylor

64bit?

kk

after installing it should use all 5 or something is wrong

TheX

@RolandTaylor I expect that some will go to video but not 1.6gbs

Roland Taylor

it is a bit odd, but if you are running a live system it's not 100% surprising

I think some might be dedicated to the live system itself

TheX

01:13

@RolandTaylor I will let you know when it is done installing :D

Roland Taylor

cool

TheX

what should I name my computer?

Nevermind

Roland Taylor

brb

Name is Susan :D!

TheX

kkkkkkkkkkk

Roland Taylor

lol

brb

TheX

01:18

My wife is Suzanne

Roland Taylor

oops

I guessed btw - from a twitter suggestion (twitter keeps showing the same people over and over again)

TheX

I see

Steel Storm is on sale :D

okay restarting be back in a few

maybe... if it will let me restart

still 3.4....

256 video...

hmm...

so that is about 3.7....

<----- is annoyed

George Edison

02:14

playtankworld.com/level/the_fields

TheX

i just blew something up

lol this kid needs to get a life

►

George Edison

@FlackBot: star 1219908

George Edison

02:40

@FlackBot: Who am I?

FlackBot

@GeorgeEdison You are George Edison.

George Edison

@FlackBot: star 1219908

Yessss! Finally.

DoR

03:00

@Oli @MarcoCeppi @StefanoPalazzo What is the policy on questions about Elementary OS?

0

Q: Button "Add" is disabled in VPN Connection's dialog

I've just installed elementaryos-jupiter. (It's based on Ubuntu 10.10) I've entered VPN Connections' menu (nm -> VPN Connections -> Configure VPN) And there should be button "Add" -> it is, but it's disabled (I can't press on it) I'm connecting via ethernet (LAN in a students' hostel) and we g...

network-manager vpn

Roland Taylor

03:22

back

aw damn

TheX is gone

@TheX sorry I ended up going for an hour long walk

Charlie

Add files from a network location in VLC http://bit.ly/ikw0Oq #1104

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on June 27, 2011 at 3:25 AM

Marco Ceppi

04:26

@DoR I think it's a No.

Should be a meta topic on it

However, it depends on the context. Context is key.

1

Q: Should we include support for BackTrack?

This question just rolled in a few hours ago. I'm unfamiliar with BackTrack but it appears to be a highly modified Ubuntu installation which from the site's appearance - dropped most ties to Ubuntu. I know we've discussed "What distros we should allow" and seem to have agreed on the entire Ubuntu...

discussion scope

@DoR In this case, it appears to be part of the upstream (Ubuntu) so it's on-topic, though in other cases when this is either less obvious or not a part of Upstream it would be closed as off-topic

Marco Ceppi

04:46

George Edison

05:01

Who's got twitter.com/flackbot!?!?!

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison flackbot.tumblr.com/post/416089207/introducing-flackbot

htorque

05:58

haha

nice

Rinzwind

06:08

morning!

htorque

morning

Rinzwind

do you think lulzsec is a member of AU?

htorque

i think sabdfl is lulzsec and he did it all for the lulz

4

@Rinzwind got your package yet?

Rinzwind

nope

htorque

but today?

Rinzwind

06:17

let's see if they got it move somewhere

(I can track&trace it)

htorque

i just ordered the monitor a second time \o/

Takkat

Morning @htorque @Rinzwind and all

Rinzwind

heya Takkat

htorque

@Takkat morning! no absorbers yet?

Takkat

my teeth are falling out!

Rinzwind

06:18

still no change in status :X still at the 1st bullet of postNL :X

htorque

@Takkat metaphorically speaking?

@Rinzwind maybe i'll beat you - it's supposed to be there tomorrow :D

Takkat

not really: some tooth broke the other day... need to go to get it done (wait until tomorrow)

Rinzwind

you will :D

Takkat

hope this time monitor is ok!

htorque

broke? whay? coffee too hot? ;)

@Takkat i've found one guy that returned it three times before getting one he was pleased with :D

maybe this time backlight is fine but i get a big dead pixel in the center of the screen :)

Takkat

06:22

@htorque just broke - tooth too old I guess

htorque

think about it: it should be a bit younger than you!

:P

Takkat

as long as I don't break in two :P

htorque

two takkats? oh noes!

:D

meh, coffee doesn't help. this day is going to suck... and it's already 21°C

Takkat

two semi-Takkats me/2 and me/2

htorque

what do you think? should i order a second monitor? i'm not sure... i'm afraid to get on amazon's blacklist of bad people that return stuff all the time :D

Takkat

06:27

I wouldn't - just because I think it's not necessary and makes products more expensive for everyone if many people do so

If that monitor is bad again I'd send it back and order another brand

Charlie

Sudo Errors : 0777 http://bit.ly/kyeST6 #sudo

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on June 27, 2011 at 6:25 AM

htorque

haha another brand... i've been looking around and even with +150€ i cannot be guaranteed to not have to deal with such issues.

the monitor itself was great.

i know a guy that got on amazon's blacklist. that's how he ordered a new computer: 5 different cpus, 3 different motherboards, 4 sets of ram, 5 graphic cards. he then tested everything for days and returned the parts he didn't like.

Takkat

oh, +150 is too much!

htorque

what a d-bag :)

i even feel bad about using the tft for 8h...

Takkat

I am lucky - never had to send sth back

htorque

06:39

the monitor is my third delivery i had to send back (overall). one time i got something that clearly has been used before, another time it didn't match the product description.

Takkat

@htorque both justified!

htorque

23°C

rain during the weekend, sun during the week - the weather gods are some cruel folks

Takkat

head crash in another office :/

good I'm not the admin \o/

htorque

i know head crashes only from myself :P

Takkat

:D

Rinzwind

06:53

it's getting hot in Roermond

Takkat

Good for hardware salesmen!

George Edison

07:04

@FlackBot: recent tweet by george_edison.

@FlackBot: What time is it?

FlackBot

@GeorgeEdison The current UTC time is Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:07:18 GMT

George Edison

This message was starred by FlackBot.

@FlackBot: star 1220336

There. Starred my own message :P

htorque

ha, i'm going to report you to the authorities!

:P

George Edison

Report FlackBot :P

htorque

@FlackBot recent tweet by FlackBot.

George Edison

07:18

Tweets seem to be broken.

Night all.

FlackBot

@GeorgeEdison Goodbye!

George Edison

Waits for FlackBot to say goodbye.

htorque

night!

@FlackBot star 1220336

Takkat

@FlackBot lookup absorber

FlackBot

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Takkat

07:25

Antimatter! yeah

htorque

i'm looking for the antimatter to my backlog. if i put it exactly in the same place it should vanish. :D

Takkat

mv backlock blackhole

htorque

or i could actually start doing something... cya!

lazyPower

@FlackBot lookup schroedingers cat

FlackBot

Schrödinger's cat

Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, usually described as a paradox, that Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger devised in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. The thought experiment presents a cat that might be alive or dead, depending on an earlier random event. In the course of developing this experiment, he coined the term Verschränkung (entanglement). Origin and motivation Schrödinger intended his thought experiment as a discussion of the EPR article, named after its authors—Einstein...

Takkat

07:43

> Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name

Flacky is good!

Octavian Damiean

08:01

morning

Takkat

Hi @OctavianDamiean

Octavian Damiean

hello :)

Hows the absorber situation?

Takkat

@OctavianDamiean very bad today: 180 work items for this morning another don't know yet many for the afternoon - :'''(

(want 12 weeks of holiday preferably Barbados or sth)

Octavian Damiean

oy that sounds bad

Takkat

08:17

at least I am in an excellent mood :)

(still)

Rinzwind

08:43

is still on a holiday

Takkat

envies Rinzwind very much

Rinzwind

@Takkat sigh -:> lkubuntu.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/…

Takkat

>:): my Phone has a plug in the wall...

@Rinzwind baah useless, needs Virtual Box and stuff :)

Rinzwind

:-D

oh that 'quickly' thing Oli talked about it amazing :)

Takkat

not that I don't think a VM is a good place to do such things - but if you don't need it...

Rinzwind

08:52

sigh

I need to know how to expand a button over 2 thingies

or how to divide something into 1/3rd and 2/3rds >:D

Takkat

@Rinzwind grid!

Achu

Morning @Takkat @Rinzwind

Rinzwind

grid?

Takkat

Hi @Achu

Achu

My win7 answer keep going

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A: Is there an Ubuntu theme available to make it look like Windows 7?

Make Ubuntu look like Windows 7 Installing the Win7 Them cd ~/ sudo wget http://web.lib.sun.ac.za/ubuntu/files/help/theme/gnome/win7-setup.sh sudo chmod 0755 ~/win7-setup.sh ~/win7-setup.sh This will download a script file that will be used later to tell your computer what files to downl...

Rinzwind

08:54

I don't have grid :P

Achu

\o/

Takkat

yeah grids in x rows and y colums with Glade then fill with widgets

Rinzwind

17 already :D My custom live cd got 25 yday too \o/

Achu

nice

Rinzwind

can I do that with horizontal hmmm

panes?

Takkat

08:57

@Rinzwind that'd be a grid with 1 row x-columns

can't show you no Glade here

Rinzwind

this is a horizontal pane with 5 rows left and right

top button goes to ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download but needs a nice image instead of text :D

oh are ubuntu pixs free to use?

lazyPower

@Rinzwind ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy

Takkat

@Rinzwind don't overdo it with Icons - there are some stock Icons you can use (but you can individualize these with some effort)

Rinzwind

oh well :D

just fooling around ;)

Takkat

:) - just getting more and more absorbed...

Rinzwind

09:11

:D

lazyPower

o/ Jorge. Hope ireland is treating you well.

Rinzwind

f00d. bbl :)

Jorge Castro

09:34

@lazyPower it's pretty awesome here

the beer ftw.

Octavian Damiean

o hai Jorge :)

waves

Oli

Argl it's too hot.

Jorge Castro

@OctavianDamiean heya!

/me waves back

Oli

@GeorgeEdison That's a step too far. It should only ever be a passive bot and shouldn't get involved with voting at any level, otherwise it's just a noisy sockpuppet (which we can't allow in here or on the site).

Charlie

09:53

Why is my card Unity blacklisted with all the requirements fulfilled? http://bit.ly/l3cnAu #unity

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on June 27, 2011 at 9:25 AM

Jorge Castro

Hey I missed it, we hit 18k users

Greg

hmm my titlebars keep disappearing... I can't log off and on AGAIN

lazyPower

10:25

@JorgeCastro envy ;)

i gotta jam to work tho. bbl

trampster

Anyone know of a program I can use to get PPA usage statistics?

htorque

4

A: Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2011

vote for it

this is an order!

;-)

@Oxwivi can you delete your comments from askubuntu.com/questions/50718/… - the question is pretty much answered without our chatter

Alvar

10:53

I'm almost at a 100 consecutive :P

htorque

how many left?

Alvar

21 :/

htorque

149 left till a consecutive year :P

Alvar

LOL

that is just wrong

htorque

not sure i can make it happen

Alvar

10:57

I should build a bot that logs in here with my name so I don't have too...

@htorque well u could just get the 100 day award 3 times :P

htorque

easy with a router that runs linux -> cronjob :D

Alvar

:D

OR I just make a server reload the page 2 a day or so...

would be easier :D

Oxwivi

11:10

@htorque. done and thanks for the support.

@htorque, just for my information, where did you pull the blacklist from?

htorque

@Oxwivi yw! got it from the nux source code

(in tools/unity_support_test.c)

Oxwivi

Ah.

Sorry, and thanks for throuble.

htorque

no trouble ;)

Oxwivi

Excuse me, I shall exit from chat now, and continue my eternal Ask Ubuntu refresh.

htorque

good luck, bye!

lucazade

11:43

hi! Is gravatar the only way to add an avatar to my profile?

htorque

@lucazade unfortunately yes

lucazade

@htorque tnx... creating umpteenth account

username not available....grrrrr

lol was already mine but created some years ago :)

Rinzwind

I joined the necromancers \o

Achu

12:21

Takkat

Necromancer is a nice badge :) Congrats!

site is down atm :(

Achu

what happen?

Oli

Works here... Temporary caching hiccough?

Takkat

no idea - been absorbed anyway - too much to do...

works again! \o/

Achu

seems fine now

Yeah it works!

Greg

12:27

after playing a little with hackertyper.net my normal typing seems sooooooo slow...

Amith kk

hackertyper.net/130917786185

@JorgeCastro *o/

Charlie

How to create a plymouth splash for ubuntu 10.10 with boot messages, progress bar and a spinning logo http://bit.ly/lpd3yD #boot

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on June 27, 2011 at 12:25 PM

Greg

in PHP on Stack Overflow Chat, 1 min ago, by Greg

Just been playing in Sandbox... managed to get a very odd effect by self-referencing a message... http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/914058#914058

Marco Ceppi

12:42

@Greg I don't get it

Roland Taylor

looool

Greg

@MarcoCeppi you can permalink a message by its id, and it produces something like my last message. In the example (chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/914058#914058), I permalinked the message's own id....

Roland Taylor

Marco you have to open the transcript

Marco Ceppi

@RolandTaylor I did, it's just a oneboxed response over and over and over again

Greg

@MarcoCeppi the message is a reference of another message. In this case, the reference message is the same as the referring message... Recursive loop :)

Marco Ceppi

12:45

Greg

:D

The old quote:

To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.

Amith kk

Yes ,a!!

Greg

or Google's take on that: google.co.uk/…

Amith kk

^ I cannot believe I made that

Roland Taylor

lol

XD

Amith kk

12:50

That is called-speed

Greg

:D²

is there a subliminal message being flashed on each clap?

Amith kk

yes

Roland Taylor

က

Amith kk

but my computers too slow to play the frames in order

Roland Taylor

lol yeah, it's "I can has glitch"

Marco Ceppi

12:52

@Greg I looks like VHS artifact

Greg

I want to break Twitter by tweeting a retweet of the tweet... that possible?

Amith kk

nah not on MY watch

Greg

@Amithkk nice

Amith kk

Something in the sandbox chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/1221054#1221054

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marco :I haz powahh!

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