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RPi Awesomeness

00:02

Whee....reflashing an SD for my RPi...Fun! (not)

Seth

Opinion based: askubuntu.com/questions/394143/…

hbdgaf

i'm not reflashing my raspi. i'm feeding the raspi firmware to binwalker and ida...

Journeyman Geek

hm

my rpi has kept corrupting its boot sd card a lot lately :/

Mateo

overclocking?

hbdgaf

i'm sure mine will soon ;)

Journeyman Geek

00:04

hmm

maybe

I've generally run it on moderate

Mateo

what class sd card

hbdgaf

overclocking is a common cause for that...

Journeyman Geek

both stock class 6 supplied by the raspi foundation, and class 4

I'll try without overclocking

RPi Awesomeness

Always worth a shot!

hbdgaf

40 moar minutes until the dryer is done... twiddles fingers and looks at sublimetext

Braiam

00:07

@Seth mm... I don't find it in the review queue!

Journeyman Geek

yeah

maybe later today

I don't have any HDMI cables (and only one HDMI capable monitor) so Its a PITA getting things re-set up

(yes, I ought to image a set-up drive)

Seth

@Braiam Give it a minute

hbdgaf

omg...here comes the funny...

Braiam

HA

blade19899

HA! HA!

hbdgaf

00:12

it's only funny because it's true. it does make me wonder about ssh though

Mateo

NASA?

hbdgaf

@Mateo setec astronomy

Braiam

@Mateo ¬_¬

crap... my uplink is laggin

@Rinzwind askubuntu.com/q/394013/#comment504637_394013 we need a translator!!

hbdgaf

@Braiam don't ever ever use ndiswrapper. i'ld spend money before i used something that broken

Journeyman Geek

lol

@hbdgaf: heh, a basic USB wifi adaptor is dirt cheap

hbdgaf

00:16

ikr

Braiam

@Seth what to do? askubuntu.com/questions/394018/…

hbdgaf

i think part of it is nobody nutting up and saying - this one seems to work mostly. just buy it

Braiam

someone voted OT, but dobey said it "should work", so I'm not sure if he hit a bug or what...

hbdgaf

@Braiam here's the real question. if ubuntu-one on windows is on topic, then how do you make mint off-topic without it looking like a grudge match? personally i think they're both off-topic.

Seth

@Braiam Close it IMO. The Ubuntu One client isn't supported on Mint AFAIK.

Braiam

00:25

can someone vote to remove this askubuntu.com/q/392406/169736?

hbdgaf

i didn't realize i could vote for deletion...but i can

Seth

yeep. 10k users can vote to delete questions that have been closed for X days.

I forgot what X was...

hbdgaf

what does mas eval to as an int? ;P

Seth

Why is he getting a computer illiterate person a SSD? As if they even know what an SSD is?

Braiam

D:

Seth

00:28

not to mention appreciate it..

hbdgaf

my lappy has an ssd, but i don't use it since i can't erase it

Braiam

@Seth 2 or if it has -something votes, inmediatly

Lucio

@Seth you should have added that into a comment

Braiam

@hbdgaf didn't you know you were awesome?

hbdgaf

Lucio

00:29

@hbdgaf Where do you get those images?

hbdgaf

google ninja

Lucio

more than ninja

Journeyman Geek

most modern browsers have spellcheck. As a fellow dyslexic, I'd suggest using it might turn out to be a lifechanger. — Journeyman Geek 22 secs ago

;p

Lucio

@JourneymanGeek nice hat :D

Braiam

O_O

Journeyman Geek

00:31

thanks, it fit perfectly ;p

Braiam

> It's hardly your fault that on your first attempt, when you accost a clergyman, a clumsy orphan attempting to swipe his hat instead sticks a fish-hook in his ear. There is no sound on earth or under it like the sound of a clergyman with a fish-hook in his earlobe.

Journeyman Geek

o0

hbdgaf

wow

Journeyman Geek

where is this from?

Braiam

fallenlondon.storynexus.com

xangua

00:38

bingo code...really¿ askubuntu.com/questions/394154/… lol

Braiam

close askubuntu.com/q/385214/169736 shopping rec

I'm kinda needing another close reason... these shopping recomendation kills me

3 years, less than 500 views, lets bring this Q out of its misery askubuntu.com/q/1690/169736

hbdgaf

@xangua should have had a long involved gdb answer that didn't work

Ask Ubuntu Meta

01:27

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Q: Why is this edit rejected?

I'm new to answering and editing questions. My edit on how to install the ia32-libs in ubuntu 13.10 has been rejected. I do not know why. The reasons given were This edit introduces spam, defaces the post in some way, or is otherwise inappropriate. This edit changes too much in the original pos...

discussion

Jeremy

01:42

which avatar should I use =/

Seth

01:58

Hmm

updated version. Just a few changes.

Maybe I should add a print statement or two..

Jeremy

Updated version of what?

Seth

@Jeremy this

Jeremy

I see

Seth

What best practices am I breaking now? D: (ever so slight, joking sarcasm)

Jeremy

Well you're wasting resources by initializing variables without using them

Seth

02:08

True, but that's ok here. Anything else you can see? I would think it's too simple to really be that bad..

Jeremy

Haha... I can't think of anything...

Seth

:D

Braiam

@Seth what the... you only show that bit of code to look cool with the black background ¬_¬

Jeremy

Of course it's still equivalent to an unproductive loop

Seth

@Braiam What do you mean?

The tilt is to highlight the important bits of the code. The rest is just to fill up the 10 char limit and provide some background.

@Jeremy lol. That is true I suppose.

Anyone want to take this in hand?

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Q: how can i migrate my global and user settings from a hard drive alone,without it being connected to the old system?

I'm trying to get my settings from a hard drive that used to be in my laptop running 12.04.3LTS. For some reason it just stopped booting properly in the laptop. I did some troubleshooting to no avail and i want to migrate settings/data for now. the hard drive is now connected to my desktop whi...

12.04 hard-drive settings system-settings migration

Needs some space and capitalization mostly.

Nathan Osman

03:37

2

Lucio

There is an arshole trying to spam with edits since 1 day, and with the same content!

@Jeremy the second one, by far

Jeremy

03:53

Hmm

anyways, i want a nice hat, so someone star this:

Lucio

now?

Jeremy

Now I need to wait until the server sends me my new hat :)

Lucio

lol

Now you will receive a bunch of them :)

Jeremy

Why?

Lucio

Jeremy

03:57

Oh... no, it doesn't work like that... Stop starring everything 0.o

Lucio

hehe, that felt fun

Jeremy

Where's my damn hat

Lucio

F5

Jeremy

no

Lucio

What hat should you have?

Jeremy

04:03

the chatty cat

Lucio

:P

With at least 2...

So I was right

JohnMerlino

Lucio

Now you should

Nathan Osman

Lucio

What an irony, John hate hats..

@NathanOsman couldn't you put your hat a bit more at the top xD

Nathan Osman

04:09

Why?

Lucio

nothing :D

Jeremy

@Lucio I already had one before

Lucio

@Jeremy meh, donno

Jeremy

But now I have the hate :D

Lucio

\o/

yep, you do

Jeremy

04:10

I don't think I'll wear it though

Okay, bedtime. G'night.

Lucio

@Jeremy see you :)

Jeremy

@Lucio Before I go, do you remember my old avatar? :D

I'll take that as a no...

Bye

JohnMerlino

04:40

any reason to use shorewall over ufw?

RolandiXor

05:16

I lav you frendz!

RolandiXor

05:34

Our plymouth questions are out of sorts.

I need some willing hands to organize them (not now, as I have to sleep, urgently).

Google: "change plymouth theme ubuntu" to get an idea of what I mean. There are a lot of dupes with duplicated answers.

Example:

Nathan Osman

Halp! My pagerank has dropped to 0.

RolandiXor

askubuntu.com/search?q=change+plymouth+theme

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

06:34

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Q: Access devices on a shared internet connection from other devices on home network (Ubuntu, shared wireless to ethernet)

Laptop OS: XUbuntu 12.04 Home PC: XUbuntu 12.04 guest on Windows 7 host Embedded Things: Mix of Raspberry Pis or Beaglebones I'm trying to share the wireless connection on a laptop with multiple embedded devices connected to the laptops ethernet port, through a switch. So far all I've had to d...

ubuntu networking

Utkarsh

06:59

good afternoon

Utkarsh

07:32

qwertie

Is there any GUI way to mount a internal HDD?

Nathan Osman

Yup. gnome-disk-utility.

You should be able to press Alt+F2, type the command, and get a nice GUI for mounting internal disk drives.

qwertie

07:47

@NathanOsman Can I get that from the software centre?

Nathan Osman

Yes.

Takkat

Disk-utility is installed by default in a vanilla Ubuntu.

Nathan Osman

I think it's simply named "disks".

Takkat

Nautilus should also mount everything it can see on click.

qwertie

How do I mount the hdd

Nathan Osman

07:49

Be easy on me - I'm on Windows ATM, so all of this is off the top of my head.

Takkat

yeah - they renamed it to keep us busy.

qwertie

im on disks

Takkat

what release version?

qwertie

13.10

Takkat

<-- fires up 13.10

qwertie

07:51

Takkat

<-- still booting (machine is old and slow)

which drive do you want to mount?

qwertie

@Takkat 3 TB one

Nathan Osman

It's mounted already according to the screenshot.

qwertie

I have tryed sudo mount /dev/sdb /home -t ntfs
but I get NTFS signature is missing.

@NathanOsman I cant see it in the file manager

Utkarsh

@Takkat if machine is old and slow, you can install lubuntu

Takkat

07:58

This is Nautilus having mounted an 11 GB NTFS

Nathan Osman

Try pressing Ctrl+L and typing /media into the location box (in Nautilus).

Takkat

Unmount on right click context menu

qwertie

@NathanOsman empty folder

Nathan Osman

Hrm. Nothing is mounted in that case.

Takkat

Ubuntu is on your SSD?

qwertie

08:00

@Takkat Yes

Nathan Osman

If you go back to Disks, there should be a "play" button under the partition table.

Utkarsh

can anyone help me here? i have 2 HDD and I want to combine them. please help

Nathan Osman

@Utkarsh Combine them? How?

Utkarsh

@NathanOsman one is 20gb and one is 51gb and want to mix them

Nathan Osman

You need RAID for that.

qwertie

08:01

@NathanOsman Only a "-" and a settings button

Takkat

Click on the cogwheel for mount options:

Utkarsh

@NathanOsman can you help?

Takkat

Nathan Osman

@Utkarsh I don't have any experience with RAID.

Utkarsh

@NathanOsman what is raid?

Nathan Osman

08:02

RAID = R eduntant A rray of I nexpensive D isks.

Utkarsh

wait! let me upload a image

qwertie

@Takkat I only have options for partitioning and formatting

Mount options is grayed out

Avinash Raj

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Q: Why did you fuk nautilus bookmarks

How do I add my bookmark into places ? Why I can't post comments without reputation ? People of canonical are you brain sick ? You actually fuk linux, made me sick, goto dev/null with this shajt forum

nautilus

Utkarsh

Takkat

@qwertie that's not the default behaviour... Is the drive in use by Windows?

Utkarsh

08:05

@NathanOsman please see that image

Nathan Osman

@AvinashRaj Flagged.

qwertie

@Takkat I don't have windows. it was a external HDD before

Nathan Osman

@Utkarsh Ah, those are partitions.

Those cannot be combined.

qwertie

I took it out of its case and put it into my pc

Takkat

@qwertie sometimes Windows hibernating/fast boot messes up the drive.

Utkarsh

08:06

why?

Takkat

@qwertie is it encrypted?

Utkarsh

@NathanOsman :-( but why?

Nathan Osman

You will need to back up the data on both, format it, and then copy the data back on.

Avinash Raj

@NathanOsman flag it as what

Nathan Osman

@AvinashRaj I flagged it as offensive.

Either the community or a moderator will remove it - just give it time.

qwertie

08:07

@Takkat No

"Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark, 0)"

Utkarsh

@NathanOsman this will be a too long process

any other way?

qwertie

HA I got part of it to mount

Takkat

part of it???

Nathan Osman

@Utkarsh: You could back up the data on only one of them, expand the other, and then copy the data back.

qwertie

@Takkat It seems to be split into 2 partitions even though it use to be one

Takkat

08:09

@qwertie this can only be done by deliberate user action.

qwertie

Formating the other part gives me Error creating partition

Utkarsh

@NathanOsman 51gb partiton is VERY VERY importnat as it has sensitive data and 20gb is empty. so, what to do?

Nathan Osman

You will have to remove at least one partition in order to "merge" them.

There is simple no other way.

Takkat

did you make an msdos or gpt partition table? msdos does not support 3TB

qwertie

@Takkat gpt

Takkat

08:11

:/

Any data on that drive you need to keep?

qwertie

Tring to open the mounted partition gives "Unable to access “a” No object for D-Bus interface"

Utkarsh

@NathanOsman thanks

Takkat

@qwertie yeah - the system does not see your partitions.

qwertie

@Takkat Any way to nuke the drive

the format option in disks wont work

Takkat

@qwertie If there are no data you need I'd try to re-partition with gparted. There is something weird with that drive.

<-- has only little if no experience with GPT

qwertie

08:17

@Takkat Just give me errors, how can I totally nuke the drive

Utkarsh

@NathanOsman please see above. would it be okay to combine them

Takkat

@qwertie what errors? Can you see it's SMART data?

Nathan Osman

You can only combine free space by moving partitions. And moving partitions can break things. Horribly.

I would strongly advise against it since the benefit would be minimal.

qwertie

Takkat

@qwertie that comes from an msdos partition table. Use gpt instead!

Utkarsh

08:22

@NathanOsman what do moving partiton break? the full HDD or just the data inside the HDD we are moving?

qwertie

@Takkat How do I change it?

Utkarsh

@NathanOsman ?

qwertie

SMART data

Takkat

@qwertie open gparted, wipe all partitions and create then new from scratch.

Gparted may need to be installed first.

Utkarsh

@qwertie why is my powered on time is 7 months?

qwertie

08:27

@Utkarsh mine is not correct aswell

Utkarsh

@qwertie which thing is not correct in mine??????

please tell

qwertie

Mine says 6 days And i only turned on my pc today

Utkarsh

how old is your HDD?

qwertie

@Takkat splitting my drive in half seems to have got it working

Utkarsh

@
BYEAskUbuntu

@BYEAskUbuntu

@rajagenupula

see this below

@AmithKK please see above

I AM NOT ABLE TO SEE HINDI! WHAT TO DO? @rajagenupula @BYEAskUbuntu @AmithKK

@AmithKK can you help?

Amith KK

08:36

did you try retyping it?

I don't think those symbols are allocated in the font you're using

Utkarsh

@AmithKK it was already typed. it was working in ubuntu but not in lubuntu

@AmithKK there is some error please help

what to do?

Amith KK

Same program?

Same font set?

Utkarsh

@AmithKK yes

Amith KK

LibreOffice?

Does it work in Google docs?

Utkarsh

no abiword

let me see in google docs

@AmithKK please give ur email, let me send that doc in your PC after that tell me if its working

Amith KK

08:40

I'm not running on ubuntu right now.

Utkarsh

then which OS are you running?

Amith KK

Currently Win 8(For School)

Utkarsh

@AmithKK i just want to check whether it is damaged or working

@AmithKK is it real or pirated? as in india, its expensive (8 thousad rupees)

Amith KK

My cousins college licence

Utkarsh

@AmithKK which is the president of india? (asking just of fun)?

Amith KK

08:43

Pranab Mukherjee?

Utkarsh

Amith KK

So, it's some sort of font problem

That's a mucky topic

Utkarsh

@AmithKK its working now, but the word (traa) which comes in the word (maaTRAA) is not working

Amith KK

just stick with Google Docs for now

Utkarsh

but what about (traa)?

Amith KK

08:45

Google's hindi support ain't that great yet :P

Utkarsh

@AmithKK or do i need to install any other font?

Amith KK

not sure

Utkarsh

@AmithKK i typed this all in mangal font which is in windows 7

Amith KK

Try installing it

Utkarsh

okay let me install

oh no!

not isntalling

@AmithKK i am not able to install a .ttf file. what to do now?

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