my name is Tina Chastain.
I'm sorry to bother you, but I will make this brief. I am trying desperately to find my friend Stanley Adkisson. I just thought, that maybe you might be related in some way. He is approximately 51-52 years old, and speaks with a heavy southern accent. We met while we w...
I have Ubuntu 13.04 running in a VM in VirtualBox. Originally, I was just trying it out, but now I've started using it a lot, and I have many of my programs and files in it. Is it possible to transfer this to a partition on my hard drive? Also, (this would be much more preferable), is it possible...
@AvinashRaj doh! having a homer simpson moment. Shutter is the tool. Sorry about that.
@Alvar I see no reason why they shouldnt. We now treat "closed" questions as being on-hold - so they could in theory be reopened. So they should still be looked after ... unless community deletes the question.
Just out of the curiosity, who owns askubuntu? Canonical or Stackexchange ?
Previously it was said that Canonical helped to make this site and also assisted in desings but there were no Ubuntu links at top. Now it appears every link of Ubuntu.com in the navbar at top, so, thought of asking.
minor is the key here - fair enough to improve stuff. Remember we are looking for fairly good edits - improved tags, better headings, restructuring of the question. All of that could have applied to that question.
my favourite rejection is doing a good edit that turns gibberish into sensible wording and then getting rejected as "Attempting to reply to an existing post"
@fossfreedom I didn't pay attention to the fact it was closed, my bad. Let's say it wasn't closed, are you saying we should reject edits that only improves readability?
@EricCarvalho well it didn't improve the question it just added a few returns after each sentence. An edit should improve the question where it's possible. This just fixed one of the many issues with the question. The tags where wrong, the title needed improvement. The question needed to be clearer with less discussion. MUCH more could have been in that edit. That's why it was too minor.
"I'd to I would" and adding a colon after EDIT doesnt really improve readability. Stuff like blocks of code, adding white space & new lines would help to break stuff up.
@Braiam Haha... Even better. I just read the guidelines and found out that I could not report the bug using them. Because the bug reporting tool crashes repeatedly...
Wny has this question been down voted? Too much of that going on at the moment. Please read Ubuntu guide for contributors and levels of respect required. — comrademike4 hours ago
This was a concern raised in UL some time ago, but recently I've seen several cases where I've changed the use of backticks, I will ripoff strugee post from UL:
I've noticed that a lot of new users tend to format their posts like this, where they put things they want to emphasize or things tha...
@Braiam where have you been the past three years? Bug Control is a subset of the bug groups which has elevated permissions, we can't merge volunteer triagers into people with elevated permissions with bugs! At vUDS we discussed that, and QA lead and Bug God Master (Brian Murray) agreed that for the purposes of the short term, Bug Control will be left alone. Bug Squad is being merged with QA team with extra QA roles for "Bugs Triager" (for people who don't test the latest release)
long term, Bug Control might become part of QA, but we were short-term focusing on the volunteers with no additional permissions, not the bug controllers with extra bug powers
@Braiam well killing the application is not a solution to having it in the background. You should be able to activate the window via the icon. At least that was/is possible in the-good-old-days version of GNOME. Like right click the icon and click on show/hide.
[2013/11/25 17:15:08] <TheLordOfTime> what does one do when you can't use `ubuntu-bug` to file a bug about something crashing, because apport itself crashes? [2013/11/25 17:16:02] <hggdh> TheLordOfTime: first step: cry. 2nd: verify if there is a bug opened against apport on that
@Alvar I'm betting to the horse that: 1) skype starts at startup 2) either, he doesn't know that there is a icon in the tray or somehow skype managed to hide itself very well
[2013/11/25 17:15:08] <TheLordOfTime> what does one do when you can't use `ubuntu-bug` to file a bug about something crashing, because apport itself crashes? [2013/11/25 17:16:02] <hggdh> TheLordOfTime: first step: cry. 2nd: verify if there is a bug opened against apport on that [2013/11/25 17:16:25] <TheLordOfTime> hggdh, first step cry? lol [2013/11/25 17:16:26] <hggdh> usually, apport -- being THE eror handler -- should not crash [2013/11/25 17:16:39] <hggdh> so, I would cry first ;-) [2013/11/25 17:16:55] <TheLordOfTime> hggdh, so if apport is crashing, go curl up in the corner, cry, p…
@Undo Please don't ask to ask; if you simply ask your actual question, we will help you if we know the answer or can help you find it. This is much faster and simpler than asking if it's OK to ask. As a rule, it is always OK to ask in this channel. Please go ahead.
I've made a live CD of Ubuntu 13.04, downloaded from here, which I'm trying to run on my iMac G4. However, upon typing live into the command line at boot, the nice startup screen shows up (with the five little dots). After a few dozen seconds, though, I see a bunch of white text on a black backgr...
As every time i boot into ubuntu it makes sound, i want to assign a custom sound on startup as well as on log off and shutdown.
Is it possible??
Just out of the curiosity, who owns askubuntu? Canonical or Stackexchange ?
Previously it was said that Canonical helped to make this site and also assisted in desings but there were no Ubuntu links at top. Now it appears every link of Ubuntu.com in the navbar at top, so, thought of asking.
I want to install winusb software on ubuntu 13.10.Installation via PPA method doesn't work.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:colingille/freshlight
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install winusb
I found a problem with an application on Ubuntu. How do I best report the issue? What sort of information should I provide?
This was a concern raised in UL some time ago, but recently I've seen several cases where I've changed the use of backticks, I will ripoff strugee post from UL:
I've noticed that a lot of new users tend to format their posts like this, where they put things they want to emphasize or things tha...
