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Braiam

00:05

WALP!

I have a IBM T42 type 2378 which doesn't have an operating system at all. I downloaded the non pae ubuntu onto a cd. As I was answering the questions, I came to the archive mirror section which required the country which then provided me with the mirror that failed. What's sudo apt-get update? How do I run sudo apt-get update? Where do I find sudo apt-get update? Was I suppose to run it before I install ubuntu? — Jacquie 3 mins ago

searchfgold6789

00:38

WALP?

Nathan Osman

Yes, WALP.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: "Windows + left" equivalent in Ubuntu to move window

In Windows I can press Windows key + (left/right/up/down) keys to move a window around. Is there an equivalent in Ubuntu?

Nathan Osman

I need to calibrate my monitor. Youch!

newprint

01:59

Hi !

I have a questions, but not sure if it is right place to ask

it is about Linux Kernel Real-Time Scheduler

Nathan Osman

02:15

Sure, ask away.

I can't guarantee an answer though.

newprint

Do you know internal of it ?

*internals

Peter Tirrell

I have an mp4 video taken with a galaxy nexus that I want to rotate 90 deg clockwise. I tried avconv and it looked like it tried to work, but took overnight before I killed the process...it's slow as heck and runs my CPU hot. Is there a simple way to rotate video files in something?

I tried winff as well, but that just dropped to avconv too

newprint

Check Android Video Editor

I haven't used it

it should have rotation function

it comes with Android

Nathan Osman

There's a difference between a flag instructing the player to rotate the video vs. decoding, rotating, and re-encoding the video.

What you need is the former. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that with avconv.

Peter Tirrell

Hmmm. I think I need the latter actually...I'm trying to ultimately make a video DVD of some family videos

searchfgold6789

02:19

Wonder if using ffmpeg may help or if they both are just heads for the same libraries that will function the same.

Nathan Osman

@PeterTirrell What are you using to create the DVD files?

Peter Tirrell

But some of them were taken portrait style and I need to rotate them to look right.

@NathanOsman I'm using DVDStyler right now, it seemed to have the better menu options. DeVeDe actually seemed to natively let me rotate videos, but it's menu editor sucks.

Nathan Osman

DVD Styler is a great tool. I haven't used it in a while, however.

Peter Tirrell

Well that and the package version in Ubuntu seems to be a few versions behind, even in the PPAs. I haven't tried compiling from source yet.

It seems to do what I want to do, just some of the source videos I'm working with need tweaking.

Nathan Osman

I see.

Peter Tirrell

02:35

Does anyone know what the avconv output means? There's a dup= value that I found some forum reference that that might be slowing it down, and a time= value that I wonder if that's incrementing up to the total time of my video. Like it's a 20 second video and it's at 0.12 now after about 10 minutes.

Braiam

02:48

has anyone seen this

Ask Ubuntu Meta

03:50

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Q: Should answers advising the use of EOL versions of Ubuntu be flagged?

I came across this answer. While the rest of the answer is valid, the first option/advice given was to run 10.10. I did add a comment that it is dangerous to advise using EOL releases so that any reader(and hopefully the OP) will see my comment and at least be warned that it is not a good idea....

discussion

RolandiXor

04:08

Hi all.

Lucio

04:38

Yep, because sadly and correct answers exist :(

@Mitch Why don't you create an answer here?

imgur.com/gallery/WJWRFsF

This is how my eyes look whenever I see the source code words in a title on AU:

I'm missing Eliah..

Mitch

06:01

@Lucio Answer created for this

karel

@Lucio I created a new tag to fix the issue with this question: askubuntu.com/questions/382686/major-graphics-problem. Without the tag questions like this one were being sent all over the place.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

06:55

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Q: This guy has a 101 rep with after only asking 2 questions and getting no up votes: Bug in Ask Ubuntu?

I really don't want to be a dick, but I ran across the following question: How to learn ubuntu after installing it from the following user: http://askubuntu.com/users/172308/deepak and I can't see why deepak would have the reputation he has... Is this a bug in the ask site itself?

bug askubuntu

blade19899

08:46

they got a new design of the topbar

Are they planning something similar for Askubuntu?

blade19899

09:18

blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/12/a-new-top-bar-for-stack-exchange/…

Looks like a lot of other se sites have gotten the new top-bar. EXcept us. probaly because we got our own custom-header?!

Avinash Raj

10:29

any duplicate votes askubuntu.com/questions/386415/skype-for-13-04

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Q: How to deal with answers wich clearly shows that answerer did not read/understood question?

In short, often happens that a quite simple question got a quite fast answer but answer is not applicable since answerer did not read/understood the question properly. I understand the language could be issue too, since not all users are proficient in English. Should we down-vote the answer (but ...

discussion answer-format

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11:50

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Q: Day and month comparison in Linux

The employee records whose month and day of birth are same File data: 2233|Charles Harris|g.m.|sales|12\12\52|90000

shell ubuntu linux-mint sed cat

Igor Zinov'yev

12:35

Hey everyone! Has anyone heard something (or perhaps experienced him/herself) about network and/or mouse problems with the 3.11.0-14 kernel in Saucy? I have everything working perfectly on 3.11.0-12, but 14 breaks both mouse and network.

Braiam

13:55

@karel the title! change the title!

karel

14:20

@Braiam OK, I just want to make sure we're on the same page first. What is the link?

Braiam

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Q: Major graphics problem

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my old HP Pavilion ze1210 laptop. When I boot to Ubuntu it shows less than half of the screen; the rest is garbled and has a mixture of red and black squares. The top portion that is somewhat visible when the computer boots becomes distorted when I move the cursor (a r...

graphics visual-artifacts

karel

@Braiam OK, this question is giving me the blues because it got categorized as a black screen dupe when it's got red and black visual artifacts written all over it.

Braiam

I know... that's why I voted to reopen...

karel

@Braiam Now what do you think I should call this thing?

@Braiam Yeah, that's good. Thanks.

Braiam

@karel did you vote for reopen?

karel

14:34

@IgorZinov'yev I got a bad kernel update one time and I had to Force Version and Lock Version in Synaptic Package Manager back to the older kernel version. It went on like this for four or five kernel updates, and then finally the fifth or sixth kernel update fixed everything and after that I could continue to accept all kernel updates.

@Braiam Yeah, I edited the body text to clean it up and nominated to reopen it.

Braiam

mm.... upgrade to saucy failed... and now ask me for a reboot.... mm.... what to do....

well, time to reboot *cross fingers*

Avinash Raj

@Braiam how do i get the posted answer link

Braiam

14:51

@AvinashRaj what?

Avinash Raj

i answered a question.How do i get that link?

jokerdino

@AvinashRaj click on the 'share' button

Avinash Raj

@jokerdino thanx

Igor Zinov'yev

15:23

@karel Yes, I thought that would also be my case, but I managed to fix it by installing a proprietary nvidia graphics kernel module. Don't know why, but now it's all working fine on the latest kernel

But I have another question now! Does anyone know how to make Ubuntu switch keyboard layouts using only right Alt key? The setting was there in 12.10, and I think in 13.04, but now it's gone.

Braiam

@IgorZinov'yev there's a bug report that says that they really removed the option

Igor Zinov'yev

@Braiam Do you mean they removed it totally? Isn't there any other way to make it work like this?

Braiam

15:49

@IgorZinov'yev wait until they roll back the change

Igor Zinov'yev

@Braiam OK, thanks

karel

@IgorZinov'yev Take a look at the answers to the question: How to use Alt+Shift combo to switch keyboard layout. This question was asked by someone who was also using Ubuntu 13.10.

Igor Zinov'yev

@karel Oh, cool, thank you!

karel

@IgorZinov'yev 46 votes... it looks like a lot of people have that problem.

Amith KK

16:35

BBT

Good Night

Utkarsh

16:54

;is someone here? i have a SERIOUS problem with my ubuntu

Oli

@Utkarsh There are more people on the main site than in here. Ask a question there before asking it here.

Utkarsh

but its just a SMALL question

@oli are you moderator?

Oli

It was a SERIOUS problem a second ago. If it's serious, and you want an answer, you should ask it on the main site. It's not a case of what's right, it's that there are about 200x as many users on the site than in here.

@Utkarsh Yup.

Utkarsh

@OLI okay okay, i will ask there but its hardware related. where to ask?

they will make it off topic

and thats a serious problem as because of that my private data is unsecure

@oli are you there?

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Q: How to make ubuntu as the second Operating System

So, I installed Debian (my dad installed it, i dont know, i am just 13), 2 months ago and after that installed Ubuntu (I installed it!!!) alongside debian by re-sizing the partition. Now, the Ubuntu is in the first option and the second one is debian. (I REGULARLY USE DEBIAN). I want debian to b...

12.04 boot grub2 debian console

help

Avinash Raj

17:22

any duplicate votes askubuntu.com/questions/386609/running-the-base-c-program

Braiam

@AvinashRaj if you flagged the question don't worry.

Rinzwind

17:57

@Braiam I was gaming :=)

Seth

18:13

Should this be reopened?

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Q: Touchpad left clicks randomly

I have installed Ubuntu 13.10 on a Samsung ATIV Book 9 NP900X3F-K03SE, and the touchpad left clicks randomly and very often, so it is completely unusable. Even if I don't touch the touchpad it randomly left clicks. Below have I attached the output from xinput. Question Have anyone seen a simila...

12.04 13.10 mouse touchpad

Elysium

hey. Can anyone tell me how to uninstall the default VGA driver? How to purge my OS of it.....since I am about to install the ATI catalyst beta driver

Jorge Castro

you're probably looking for "vesa" - xserver-xorg-video-vesa

but you probably don't want to remove it

Elysium

hey Jorge

well, I am planning to use steam......so, I thought I would remove the fglrx part from the synaptic manager and then just install the beta driver. Is it a bad idea?

Jorge Castro

yeah

just leave it there, it just sits on disk anyway

and if the driver breaks then you'll need to fall back to it anyway

consider it like "safe mode" for X

Elysium

so....for steam to work well...what shall I do? Just use the additional fglrx-updates?

Jorge Castro

18:25

I have a steam box too

but mine's nvidia

Elysium

from the additional drivers

mine is ATI...it doesnt work with the default driver

Jorge Castro

I use the xupdates PPA, let me see if ATI stuff is in there

Elysium

I mean steam

I know there is a driver for ATI in the software center....shall I install that?

Jorge Castro

launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

I am not sure, I am not ATI-smart at all

Elysium

can you tell me what the link is? I am a bit of an incompetent guy when it comes to VGA

Jorge Castro

18:28

well, let's do this first

install it from the software center

then you'd have it working at least

then after that we can look at updated drivers

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Q: What is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx)?

I am planning on doing a fresh install of 12.04 LTS and want to know what is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Driver? There are multiple valid answers for this question spanning over several versions of Ubuntu. For your convenience an index of each below: 13.04 12.10 12.04 11....

ati graphics radeon fglrx catalyst

Elysium

ok. thanks

Braiam

@Seth check mah comment

can anyone figure out how this user solved the question?askubuntu.com/posts/349857/revisions

Rinzwind

"I am able to get a directory listing now that the second port is forwarded directly to the outside!"

Braiam

18:43

meaning, PEBCAB!

Rinzwind

probably

kalina

@Braiam problem exists between computer and book?

@Braiam problem exists between computer and bin?

@Braiam problem exists between computer and bakery-store?

Braiam

anyone can cast protection over this question? answers keeps being more and more crappy over the time

kalina

@Braiam problem exists between computer and backyard?

Braiam

@kalina near, it's bookshelf!

kalina

18:46

@Braiam problem exists between computer and blue?

oh, bookshelf

Braiam

@kalina no, that's Kalina

kalina

there is no problem

Ask Ubuntu Meta

19:19

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Q: Do we need a "Will Ubuntu work for X model PC?" question?

This is related to: Do we need thousand of "dumb questions"? or can we just duplicate them to more general answer? I know newbies will be always newbies, and there isn't enough users to deal with them (the eternal September rings a bell for anyone? Usenet?). So, to take care of the influx I'm pr...

discussion review

Thomas W.

20:41

yawns

Thomas W.

21:26

@Mateo can you @ highlight me in about 20 seconds? I need to test desktop notification integration with Chrome...

or anyone really

Braiam

@ThomasW. sighs

Thomas W.

@Braiam it worked :) thanks

@Braiam why're you sighing though?

(note my answer on your meta post was written without coffee, i've removed it because i didn't like my answer)

Braiam

@ThomasW. I can still read it >:)

Thomas W.

but the rest of the world can't so it doesn't matter

:P

Braiam

mah, no seriously, these questions of late just keep me depressed

Thomas W.

21:29

@Braiam dude, try doing my job, dealing with people abusing the bugs system

there's a few serial abusers who are constantly futzing with bug statuses and disrupting triage

questions here may be depressing. dealing with serial abuse is a different story >.>

newbie stupidity vs. serial abuse... i think the abuse of a system is worse :/

Braiam

@ThomasW. that is why comments should be added by people in teams instead

Thomas W.

@Braiam um... i didn't say comments

i said statuses

Braiam

(saw a bug with >300 comments only of me-toos)

Thomas W.

I.E. new, invalid, incomplete, fix released, etc.

Braiam

fix released should be only for the bots/devs

Thomas W.

21:33

@Braiam and bug control. but the unfortunate thing is the permissions only restrict Triaged and Won't Fix to certain groups of people

but meh

it's not hard to reverse the damage, it's just a problem when you see a lot of it

'course since i haven't had my normal amounts of coffee yet... shrugs

oh wait you have 10k+ right? No wonder you can see my deleted post.

Braiam

lol, just soft-changes instead and a reputation/karma system should suffice

Thomas W.

@Braiam LP isn't gonna change their perms i don't think, not yet at least.

i think they're in "maintenance only" mode with everything

so no new features or code or smth

Jorge Castro

21:48

lp's design kind of predates stackoverflows

so the whole concept of the community being able to manage itself is missing

for example there's no way for anyone to collectively remove +1 comments

Mateo

@ThomasW. Just got this on the stack app

Thomas W.

@Mateo Heh. No problem.

@JorgeCastro solution: have a bot that does it, add in the ability for bugcontrollers to flag those comments for bots to delete them. 'Course you're right LP's design predates SO's in that the community can't really manage itself

but if we had that then bugs would never get fixed, and bug triage would be chaos

Braiam

@JorgeCastro yeah, that kind of actions like "flag" and "change status" wars

Ask Ubuntu Meta

22:39

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Q: Integrate my Launchpad/Open ID with stack exchange account?

I am currently using my AskUbuntu account created using Stack Exchange credentials. Recently started being active on Launchpad. But trying to log in using Launchpad/OpenID credentials makes me create a new user. Anyway I can get the two login methods to log me into the same user account?

support login stackexchange launchpad openid

hbdgaf

23:27

I'ld probably give myself brain cancer if I had this wireless adapter dx.com/p/…

6000mW RT3070 USB dongle with 2 antennas for mimo for anyone interested but scared to click.

Journeyman Geek

rofl

they had an even more crazyass one

hbdgaf

i sort of have a nerdcrush on it...but i digress

Journeyman Geek

dx.com/p/…

hbdgaf

I think that wattage rating is all gain from the antenna probably on the latter one.

Journeyman Geek

2 to 4 km effective range?

hbdgaf

23:31

@JourneymanGeek It would be even higher if it were a yagi of more of a directional than a pan. I've seen guys use dish satellite junk they harvested from dis-satisfied customers as antennas with a little modding get CRAZY distance.

At one point I even thought about trying a business model out here in the rural areas where there's a two mile gap in high-speed internet selling people wireless access rigs and charging them 125% of my bill per line, so I could have a 6 or 8 x 10Mbps bonded backhaul in my camper. No seriously...it's a legitimate business model.

just noticed the cap on the pooch. that's cute.

speaking of hats...when is that starting this year?

It must be night time, the trolls are coming out askubuntu.com/questions/386779/…

Braiam

23:52

@hbdgaf errr...

Seth

@hbdgaf No word on that yet... At least, non for us little guys.

Started on the 19th last year.. I suppose it will be the same this year too.

hbdgaf

@Braiam i haz a bad disk image. i can get to the trial screen. can i use windows only software from the livecd boot to desktop but don't install (i'm assuming that's what he means by trial since there's no such thing)? download it again until you get a good iso...kthx.

@Seth i was just wondering

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