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Mahesh

19:01

@Seth need two more votes.. I just voted

Braiam

dupe of something http://askubuntu.com/q/132239/169736
dupe of another http://askubuntu.com/q/189907/169736

blade19899

@Mahesh, I got some votes...

Which Q?

Braiam

17 mins ago, by Seth

Can we close this? It's getting new answers!

@blade19899 this 4 ^

blade19899

Am on it

►

The best of Bach

Takkat

~$ xkill
Select the window whose client you wish to kill with button 1....
xkill:  unable to grab cursor

Never had that before O.o

Mahesh

19:11

Me too 'Seeing it for the first time

Takkat

Some applications do not have a nice behaviour.

~$ killall evolution
evolution(2442): Operation not permitted

I only selected all my mails of the last 4 years, was that asking for too much?

blade19899

GUYS!

If you have a suggested edit, that is spam, and links to a malicious site, here is what you can do:

17

Q: Where to report malicious URLs, phishing, and malicious web sites?

I recently discovered that my web site was hacked: there was a HTML hidden div selling about shoes... I Googled the text in question and voila: thousands of sites have been hacked. Check this out: Google 'There is also hang tag made of leather, a slip pocket to put cards' and go to the sites in...

Takkat

> In some states of the United States hacking another private computer is a class B Felony. On conviction it comes with 20 years in prision.

is that not a bit long?

Ask Ubuntu Meta

0

Q: Suggested Edits problem

Errmm... I keep getting things like this on the review thing - It seems to be anonymous users spamming... Here is a screen-shot in case the link does not work: Is there anyway of blocking this?

bug close-reasons spam-handling

blade19899

20 YEARS! :0

Takkat

19:20

end of all dreams.

Mahesh

@Takkat insane

Seth

@Mahesh thanks

Mahesh

@Seth You're welcome. community responsibility and such stuff. :P

blade19899

0

Q: Alternative to Paperwork

I am looking for an alternative to the program Paperwork as it is rather complicated to install under Ubuntu. I am specifically interested in finding a way to read dates, prices and other details from scanned invoices and store everything in a kind of database or at least Excel sheet. Thanks fo...

alternative ocr

Anyone?

Seth

@Mahesh Know an answer for this? askubuntu.com/questions/404862/…

blade19899

19:39

Damnit, those spammers need to post links to better written/designed websites. Again: god awful!!

Seth

They aren't used to markdown ;)

Braiam

anyone in unity could paste their dconf dump / | grep launcher?

blade19899

I wasn't talking about there suggested edits. But there sites, that they link to.

@Braiam, ` dconf dump / | grep launcher` see:

> [com/canonical/unity/launcher]
> launcher-hide-mode=0
> num-launchers=1

Seth

user@host:~$ dconf dump / | grep launcher
[com/canonical/unity/launcher]
launcher-hide-mode=1

Thomas W.

downvote this into the abyss - askubuntu.com/a/404948/10616

blade19899

19:42

My momma told me not to pick on stupid people :/

Braiam

@blade19899 ty

blade19899

Or misinformed one

Braiam

@Seth and ty for confirming

blade19899

@Braiam, No prob 0/

Braiam

@blade19899 gconftool-2 --dump / | grep -i launch?

blade19899

19:44

@Braiam gconftool-2 --dump / | grep launcher:

> <long>Enable this, if your dock, launcher or taskbar is set to show only windows of the current viewport.</long>

Seth

Wont this:

0

A: Ask for password when starting dconf

First edit /usr/share/applications/dconf-editor.desktop file as follow: From terminal open dconf-editor.desktop file using the following command: sudo -i gedit /usr/share/applications/dconf-editor.desktop Find the following line: Exec=dconf-editor and replace it with: Exec=pkexec env DISP...

blade19899

Are you done editing

Seth

Run dconf as root?

Braiam

nope, different users...

Seth

I don't understand.

blade19899

19:46

> <key>/apps/compiz-1/plugins/screenshot/screen0/options/launch_app</key>
> <schema_key>/schemas/apps/compiz-1/plugins/screenshot/screen0/options/launch_app</schema_key>
> <key>/schemas/apps/compiz-1/plugins/screenshot/screen0/options/launch_app</key>
> <long>Enable this, if your dock, launcher or taskbar is set to show only windows of the current viewport.</long>
> Keyboard shortcut key for launching help. Expressed as a string
> If true, the command inside the terminal will be launched as

gconftool-2 --dump / | grep -i launch ^

Seth

dupe (I don't remember of what though..): askubuntu.com/questions/404899/…

Braiam

@Seth nah, his problem is more serious

Seth

How do I run a script as root without having to enter a password. We have a question about that.

Braiam

@blade19899 gsettings list-recursively | grep launcher

I presume he still wants to be asked for a password

blade19899

gsettings list-recursively | grep launcher:

>

Nothing showed up using the above command

Seth

19:50

> But when I run it, the file needs password.

Nope.

Braiam

> Can't comment to the original question due to the reputation system

blade19899

@Braiam, what are you running?

Braiam

people don't figure out that those restrictions are in place for some reason?

@blade19899 debian/gnome3

why?

blade19899

Just out of curiosity... You can actually work with gnome3? D:

Braiam

err... my workflow is very simple: start doing something, don't stop until you finish it

blade19899

19:56

Thats is a very productive workflow... but, gnome3? might be a bit counter productive. I tried it a couple of times. But it annoyed me to much. But, then again thats just me :/ Others find Unity horrible to work with:|

Braiam

@Takkat @ThomasW. do you have delete votes for this? askubuntu.com/questions/371473/…

Community won't delete it

Takkat

gone

Seth

Hm. When I run sudo xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- :1 it works fine, but doesn't give me focus of the xterm window.. So I can't type anything.

blade19899

Damn! check out the source of this one:

pointclouds.org/documentation/tutorials/reading_pcd.php

Braiam

@Seth mm... why with sudo?

blade19899

20:01

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A: Ubuntu 13.10 takes 1min 12 sec to boot up

Do you have the recommended specs for Ubuntu 13.10? Or have you checked if any bootloaders (just making a guess) or OS's that on your drive that are slowing down the process of loading your Ubuntu? I am only a beginner at Ubuntu so pardon me if I get anything wrong; I just started now. There hav...

Braiam

@blade19899 WTF...

blade19899

... yup...

This guy is suggesting a windows app

0

A: Sharing files over internet

Tonido is a good software, it can be installed onto any desktop and files can be accessed by a desktop end or droid end program that links it to the main computer. You do not need a server for it to work, just a desktop. Its native enviornment is windows sadly enough, though I have it running und...

Although its running fine via wine?

Braiam

btw meta.stackoverflow.com/q/212372/213575

blade19899

...Don't really care how it looks...

Braiam

come on... > Why I installed Xubuntu Desktop after Installing Ubuntu 13.10

blade19899

20:10

@Braiam, Where?!

Braiam

here

blade19899

Thats a 3 year old Q and we are closing it:

47

Q: What is a good text editor for developing code on?

Trying to learn python, and I was wondering if there are any favorite text editors that are good for noobs?

software-recommendation

Seth

Close da thing!

@Braiam It says I don't have permissions otherwise..

blade19899

Maybe we could rename it: What advanced editors are there available

Seth

Nope. Still too broad.

Braiam

20:15

we don't need list questions

Seth

Exactly.

blade19899

Cooooolll

Wait, ‮‮‮‮‮‮‮‮‮ — RolandiXor 21 hours ago

Something is wrong whit the SE engine ^

Seth

No, nothing is wrong. it's actually right

blade19899

Cool.

Braiam

when any answer is equally correct, is not good for SE Q&A model

Seth

20:18

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A: How do you write a askubuntu username backwards?

There are many such tools on the internet, that consist of using normal text characters to make it "look" like the text it reversed or upside down. One such one I found here - http://textmechanic.com/Reverse-Text-Generator.html Hit the "Upside Down" button For example my user name would look li...

blade19899

Lol

It's very cool. But, kinda useless.

Braiam

‮I don't know, but I do know that this is normal on my planet...

‮I don't know, but I do know that this is normal on my planet

where the heck is that character

I don't know, but I do know that this is normal on my planet...

blade19899

etis eht gnivorpmi siht si woH

ǝʇıs nɐ ǝɥʇ oʇ ʇuǝɯǝʌoɹdɯı sıɥʇ sı ʍoɥ ɥʇǝs@ ɯɐıɐɹq@

Braiam

err... that doesn't ping me...

blade19899

.... see, it break the site :P

ahh who cares

Does anyone know if there is a free owncloud server?

I got the desktop client installed. But, Know what? some where to save my files.

Braiam

20:24

@Takkat if you have a close vote askubuntu.com/questions/10998/…

blade19899

And, don't know where to save them with owncloud

Takkat

@Braiam do we now close all historical list Q as too broad or opinion based? Why not dupe it to askubuntu.com/questions/48299/…?

Braiam

@Takkat I'm going to close that other one...

This seems like an overly broad topic. My answer would be: Software Center > Development — Marco Ceppi Jun 12 '11 at 4:46

actually I'm in awe that Marco didn't close it already

@Takkat btw, that is asking for "the best" or "good"

Takkat

@Braiam so you close the IDE Q as a dupe of a too broad question... hm

Braiam

nope, I close both as too broad ;)

Takkat

20:31

But it's a rather popular question, 26k views is a lot

Braiam

popularity doesn't means that is a good question ;)

blade19899

Those big list Q's fills a niche

Poeple want a list of there options

They may not be generally allowed. But, It would be stupid to close and or delete them.

Takkat

well, personally I do like questions that give an overview of existing applications. I might not be the only one.

Jorge Castro

leaving it open doesn't hurt anything, it's got the warning thing on the top already

it's not like it's in the unanswered queue

Seth

Leaving it open lets it get more and more answers.. Which it doesn't need.

blade19899

20:33

True.

Seth

Why do people think closing == very bad?

2

blade19899

@Seth, more answer is that a bad thing?

Braiam

Leaving it open means that when we want to close new ones they will ask "but why that other didn't got closed?"

closed doesn't means that it will get deleted, it just means that our scope is getting more narrow

Seth

@blade19899 Yes, it just makes more of a mess. It least give them a historical lock anyway.

@Braiam That too.

blade19899

@Braiam, thanks for the clarification

Braiam

20:36

examples of questions that are extremely popular and are still there but closed stackoverflow.com/search?q=views%3A100000+closed%3Ayes

blade19899

@seth not all available apps are in the software center. Having a list with ALL options is good IMO

Braiam

superuser.com/search?q=views%3A50000+closed%3Ayes

blade19899

So closed just means there can be no further Answer added?

Braiam

our closed popular questions are duplicates mostly askubuntu.com/search?q=views%3A50000+closed%3Ayes

@blade19899 ALL OPTIONS?!?!?! Y U SO MAD??!?!

apt-cache search "what you want" FTW

blade19899

I am not mad... am actually tired and stressed(job interview in the morning)

Braiam

20:38

or software center search, or package search or google...

boiling it down to the bone if you are asking for a "list", then your question is no good for SE

blade19899

> So closed just means there can be no further Answer added?

Braiam

and that no similar questions should not be asked...

blade19899

agree

Consider this one closed:

47

Q: What is a good text editor for developing code on?

Trying to learn python, and I was wondering if there are any favorite text editors that are good for noobs?

software-recommendation

Braiam

@blade19899 is closed ;)

blade19899

Aight, bro's!

Am off to bed(programming to the last minute probably), and hoping my job interview will go well

Night night,

And don't let the bed bugs bite!

Braiam

20:43

just go to sleep, darn it!

Thomas W.

20:59

@Braiam i have close votes yes

but i was not on :P

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Virus check for Dell Inspiron Mini running Ubuntu for netbooks? Suddenly running slow

I've had this computer for I think three years. It's suddenly, in the last two months, running much slower. I would like to clean it up, but since my old computer was Windows and I never have had any problems with this one before, I don't know where to start. I am running Ubuntu for netbooks on a...

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0

Q: Setting up Ubuntu to use as Web server

I want to setup a web server on Ubuntu machine so that I can host my files along with database and have name servers and point the domain to that direction. I know how to install apache2, mysql server, php5, and phpmyadmin what else do I need to make it a web server. I have few problems using o...

ubuntu webserver

Jebediah Kerman

I have an external hard drive in my computer. I want to create a folder on a the drive.

"You are not the owner, so you cannot change these permissions."

well If I am not the owner, than who is????

Braiam

mount output?

Seth

@blade19899 Not here. That doesn't belong here.

Jebediah Kerman

@Braiam I am new to linux.

I did

sudo fdisk -l

Braiam

21:04

@JebediahKerman that normally doesn't matter

if you follow instructions, even a monkey can do it

(not saying that you are a monkey, but is a speech figure)

Jebediah Kerman

ohk

can you help me please.

I do not know where to start

Braiam

2 mins ago, by Braiam

mount output?

in a terminal type mount then press enter

Jebediah Kerman

I/dev/sdb1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)

I have 1 HDDs and 2 SSDs
the part I want to write tois a partition os the HDD

Braiam

the drive is "MintSpace"?

Jebediah Kerman

yays

Nathan Osman

21:07

I now have two diamonds: meta.ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/145/…

3

Braiam

it's solved?

Jebediah Kerman

no, I still do not have permissions

Takkat

@NathanOsman grats \o/

Nathan Osman

@Takkat Thanks.

Takkat

I saw what you did ..,. ;)

Jebediah Kerman

21:12

so what do I do next?

who has the permissions for drive/partition?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

21:30

0

Q: Diff dpkg files with local copies

Is there a way of diffing the dpkg files with the one that are actually installed? Or barring that a way to find ones that have been modified?

ubuntu debian

RPi Awesomeness

Yay! I got my laptop's power cord finally! I can use Ubuntu again!! HAPPIENESS.

And I'm seeing how much bigger this screen is compared to my iBook...whoa.

Journeyman Geek

@AvinashRaj yeah ;p

hbdgaf

@NathanOsman if it's still going on and you just need more votes/flags, you can get my email from github.com/aking1012/YahooCsvApi/blob/master/ycsvapi/ycsvapi.py

@NathanOsman I wouldn't have time for one. You're a machine...

Nathan Osman

@hbdgaf Both sites have low traffic.

hbdgaf

That would explain it. And the email is in there with the rather cheeky joke...

Jebediah Kerman

21:54

how can I see which drivers are set to auto mount?

on every start up I get an warning/error about some drive not being able to mount or no existing, than it asks me to press 'S' to skip or 'M' to manually mount, i just skip it. I do nto know know what is going on with it. I would like to fix it

Seth

@NathanOsman Sweet!

btw, did you see my message in the spam handle?

hbdgaf

@JebediahKerman check your fstab

Nathan Osman

@Seth Yes.

Jebediah Kerman

how do I check myfstab?

hbdgaf

help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab

Seth

22:01

@NathanOsman Okay. Mateo would do a good job too.

hbdgaf

@JebediahKerman if you get stuck, ask it as a question on the site and point to where you're stuck on the wiki ... then the changes refinements could be merged in to the wiki. wins all around.

Jebediah Kerman

I am not using a wiki

Nathan Osman

@Seth I think he's already been added.

hbdgaf

@JebediahKerman You should.

RPi Awesomeness

KERBALS!! Eek!

Jebediah Kerman

22:03

should I use this official one? wiki.ubuntu.com

Seth

@NathanOsman Nope.

hbdgaf

@JebediahKerman read my previous link

Nathan Osman

@Seth Uhm... he's showing up in the list for me.

Jebediah Kerman

I see thanks

Seth

Check my message again please :)

Jebediah Kerman

22:07

this is my fstab file

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=b262335e-be9f-44ca-869a-25fb4ea0c87c /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/disk/by-uuid/2c695376-4e91-43c6-8c34-23d0fbb5a398 /mnt/2c695376-4e91-43c6-8c34-23d0fbb5a398 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

it looks like it trying to mount 2 drives

not sure whats its doing though

Nathan Osman

@Seth Sorry. I misread what you wrote.

Puts on better glasses.

Jebediah Kerman

can I delete the non-comment part of my fstab? will that make it stop trying to automount 2 things on start-up?

on start up I always get 2 wanrings/erros about some driver not existiing

RPi Awesomeness

Hey, I have a question regarding upgrading. I've been getting an error whilst upgrading saying I'm gonna have to do a partial upgrade. Terminal upgrade gives this:

The following packages have been kept back:
libvlc5 linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic vlc vlc-data
vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse

hbdgaf

@JebediahKerman you don't go around deleting things in fstab willy nilly. read your dmesg logs, re-read the wiki, and comment out a line instead of deleting it so you can fix it if you bork up the wrong thing...

Jebediah Kerman

is there a GUI method?

I have no idea what the fstab is saying

hbdgaf

22:10

not that i would use... i don't trust gui's for things like this.

@RPiAwesomeness it just means you need dist-upgrade instead of upgrade to get those packages.

Seth

@NathanOsman That's OK :)

RPi Awesomeness

@hbdgaf Ah. Danke :)

hbdgaf

@RPiAwesomeness pas de probleme

RPi Awesomeness

@hbdgaf What...?

Seth

Ahh, yeh.

I was confused by that at first too.

hbdgaf

22:13

@RPiAwesomeness you said something like thanks in another language ... i said no problem in a third.

RPi Awesomeness

Oh :)

Oui Oui

Jebediah Kerman

I updated my fstab. now on start up its only trying to auto mount 1 drive, it still fails though

this sit eh part from my fstab

UUID=b262335e-be9f-44ca-869a-25fb4ea0c87c / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/disk/by-uuid/2c695376-4e91-43c6-8c34-23d0fbb5a398 /mnt/2c695376-4e91-43c6-8c34- 23d0fbb5a398 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

hbdgaf

check your dmesg again, rinse, repeat

Seth

@RPiAwesomeness Take a look at this article: debian-administration.org/articles/69

Explains the nitty gritty.

Jebediah Kerman

how can I find out which drive it is?

hbdgaf

22:16

blkid. you could try searching the site first.

Jebediah Kerman

okay

RPi Awesomeness

@Seth Gracia

*Gracias

Jebediah Kerman

I commented out the part of the fstab and it works fine, it no longer throws an error on start up

Seth

@RPiAwesomeness No problema :)

@Braiam around?

RPi Awesomeness

@Seth Hey...that's not a new language. pouts

Braiam

22:22

@Seth maybe...

@Seth you know you can do this?

Jebediah Kerman

looks like I got my drive to auto mount just fine now. weird that the gui tool did not work though

Seth

@Braiam Right I had forgotten.

Jebediah Kerman

so I just gave myself permission for an external harddrive

its created a a new folder called 'lost+found'

is that normal?

Seth

Yeah

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Running Linux Install with nodmraid

I have a hard drive with multiple partitions. I think this is causing the linux installer (Ubuntu) to crash. I found in multiple sources that the most common fix is to run the installer with the nodmraid option. Being completely new to Linux, I have no idea where, when and how to do that. How do...

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Mateo

22:40

@Oli aw, I bought the old one...

blade19899

0

A: Pre-stop stanza ignored for gdm during shutdown

Without looking at your gdm.conf file, I would suggest you might need to add a line like stop on runlevel [016] If it is not already present in your config.

RPi Awesomeness

I'm looking at building a PC and I'm trying to be as cost-effective as possible. The current build I have has a 500W PSU, but the build only requires about 250W...Here's the build link: pcpartpicker.com/p/2AGMU Do I really need 250 extra W?

Journeyman Geek

@RPiAwesomeness: some overhead is generally good

RPi Awesomeness

even 250W?

Journeyman Geek

in addition 450-500w is a bit of a sweetspot

(its the most common size)

RPi Awesomeness

22:48

or will the price stay about the same?

if I get a lower one..

Journeyman Geek

I suspect it'll be around the same

and blah, pcpartpicker is down for me

RPi Awesomeness

Ah. Yeah, its down for me to

Journeyman Geek

(that said, if I wasn't too picky over quality, I can get a 450w psu for ~20 dollars ;p)

RPi Awesomeness

@JourneymanGeek Thanks, hey you know how to search for large files on Ubuntu via command-line? I've got a 100GB hdd and space is getting very tight.

RPi Awesomeness

23:06

Never mind I gots it :D

Braiam

23:20

@blade19899 I think there are more pressing matters in the questions like "Lucid LTS" ;) askubuntu.com/q/397528/169736

hbdgaf

23:38

@RPiAwesomeness Power problems are next to impossible to troubleshoot well... overshoot the mark by a mile is my recommendation.

like i spec-ed a system once to match pretty tight, and it wouldn't POST because of the video card power draw on boot. tried a weak PSU just for the video card. worked until it was under load, then i got really weird kernel panics. overshoot it or buy stock in asprin.

Journeyman Geek

lol

^^^^

this

man

going wired ethernet on my desk is awesome ;)

Braiam

wired is always awesome, unless you have to check the yellow cable

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