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Nkciy84

19:26

Anyone who understands EFI, MBR GPT and windows booting alongside Ubuntu, please let me know.

Seth

19:40

@Nkciy84 There is a user that answers most of those questions, but I don't remember his name. Let me look it up if I can.

Rod Smith, Woonsocket, RI

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He never comes to chat though, as far as I know.

Nkciy84

Yes I know, he is hard to get a hold to I noticed and to be honest.

he created rEFInd, which I installed.

I am recovering some of my wrongdoings on this laptop, like, everything got deleted (ouch)

I managed to recreate the harddrive state using testdisk and some external HDD's and everything is as much as it first was. Only thing missing is a way to boot into windows

RolandiXor

@Braiam I got it fixed :)

The solution - reinstall my kernels.

Nkciy84

19:55

@Seth thanks for looking it up :)

Seth

20:06

O_o

When did ccsm change to compizcomfig-settings-manager

We have an ultimate version?

@RolandiXor sup?

Nkciy84

20:24

@seth maybe he meant this one: ubuntulook.com/category/ubuntu-ultimate-edition

Seth

@Nkciy84 Ahh. gulps. That is old.

Mateo

21:09

@Seth think that is a unofficial spin-off

which is now just called ultimate edition? ultimateedition.info/ultimate-edition/ultimate-edition-3-8

Seth

Could be.. Strange name if you ask me.

Mateo

I think someone thought "windows has a ultimate edition...so..."

hbdgaf

21:24

windows also has a black edition that boots from usb with slipstreamed service packs and broken activation logic shipping from hongkong in a jolly roger case...

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21:35

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Q: Ubuntu screen is small in VMware

I have installed Ubuntu at VMware. But I have a problem, and I do not know how to solve it. When I have the virtual machine as a window, to can at the same time have access to my windows at my host operating system (Windows 8), Ubuntu vm has a very small desktop, and I cannot work at that. I mea...

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hbdgaf

and.... answered

has anyone played with yocats? free vps? i think not. just wondering.

Seth

I'm a little stuck.. maybe someone can help me. I'm trying to use the command sed -n xp in a script, where x is a variable.. I can't just use $xp because bash then looks for a variable named xp not x. I've tried lots of things and I'm really stuck now :S

Lucio

@Seth change the name

Seth

@Lucio Can you be more verbose?

Lucio

sed -n $x

Seth

21:48

I need the letter p after the value of x in the command or it doesn't work right.

Takkat

$x'p' should do it.

Seth

ok

@Takkat Excelente. That works. Thanks.

Lucio

strange command btw

Takkat

<-- is always worried how much such a tiny little ' can do.

hbdgaf

^^ has obviously experienced a compilation failure because of a failed closure with uninformative error messages due to escaping in the past.

Takkat

21:54

the last missing bit.

nested enclosures are hell.

[[{{(([who]((is [able to])see))where)an)enlcosure}is}too]many]wins]

hbdgaf

extra ]

Takkat

lol

hbdgaf

yes. it took me 2 seconds from switching back to this tab. practice makes perfect right?

Takkat

it does - but I always feel I need new glasses whenever I have to debug such things.

Lucio

extra )

@Takkat totally

Mateo

21:58

helps that they were mixed

hbdgaf

extra of both? i would have had to run it twice.

Mateo

@Lucio but which one?

Lucio

hehe

Takkat

presbyopia adds to lack of concentration.

hbdgaf

[[{{(([who]((is [able to])see)where)an)enlcosure}is}too]many]wins

those two are the only two that keep it valid

nm... there's one other option. [able to]see might expand properly

Mateo

22:02

or if you wanted it like that and forgot them at the beginning? [[[{{((([who]((is [able to])see))where)an)enlcosure}is}too]many]wins]

hbdgaf

in my experience, i never forget opening enclosures.

Lucio

@hbdgaf that is experience ;)

hbdgaf

that would be hell to figure out if someone did.

FEichinger

Is it bad that I first assumed "LISP joke" when I entered?

Takkat

<-- votes for simplified code: all good

Mateo

22:03

would probably be code coming from me ;)

Lucio

@FEichinger nop, it was a Perl one :P

FEichinger

Ah, yes, Perl regex.

Lucio

22:25

@Mateo what is the most complete app to draw and edit pics?

I don't get the difference between gimp and inkscape for example

hbdgaf

gimp is for image stuff, inkscape is for illustration. one is art the other is math/science.

Seth

Inkscape is vector drawing, GIMP is Image Manipulation ;)

hbdgaf

that too. i think were saying the same thing.

Lucio

Isn't the same stuff?

I mean, you can do more stuffs with Ink but it also does the same than GIMP

Seth

Nope.

Lucio

22:30

Wait a minute, Seth is actually @Seth? o.O

Seth

They are different. GIMP can draw too, but it can't draw vector AFAIK.

@Lucio nfl.com/superbowl/48

Lucio

lol

Seth

Inkscape is for artists, GIMP is more for photographers.

Although someone like @Mateo would use both.

depending on what he was doing.

Lucio

@Seth I think that you mean the opposite

3 mins ago, by hbdgaf

gimp is for image stuff, inkscape is for illustration. one is art the other is math/science.

hbdgaf

he doesn't mean the opposite. if you consider typesetting, strict proportioning, logo design, etc art instead of math, then that's exactly what he meant.

i consider that illustration... but that's an opinion.

Lucio

22:33

yeah, too subjective

So, which of them should I install to draw 1 line? :D

hbdgaf

not a valid question. you can do that with a text editor...

_________________________________________________________________

Lucio

(and insert it into a PNG file)

hbdgaf

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw
im = Image.new('RGBA', (400, 400), (0, 255, 0, 0))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
draw.line((100,200, 150,300), fill=128)
im.show()

PIL supports png export...

Lucio

(and them == (array[2] = {'GIMP', 'Inkscape'}))

hbdgaf

not.a.valid.question.

FEichinger

22:39

@Lucio Inkscape.

Well, actually, GIMP if you really just want a pixel-perfect line.

Nkciy84

22:50

You should use vector (as in inkscape) if you want a logo or text that can ben shrunk and expanded without loss of quality and without taking to much space on a drive

hbdgaf

You know what would make trello even more awesome? If you could add a link to a git repo and it would parse commit messages for "closes issue X"... and you could define actions to be taken on cards on issue closes.

Nkciy84

vector works with points set in a position with a certain attribute attached, thus taking less space. Gimp creates images where every pixel is to be remembered

Braiam

@Seth CCSM means Compiz Configuration Settings Manager (or something like that)

and sup?

@RolandiXor that's not fixing... that's kernel stupidity... and stupidity can't be fixed...

Seth

@Braiam yes, but I thought the package used to be ccsm..

Lucio

@Nkciy84 thank you!

Seth

22:54

@Braiam If that was addressed to me... nothing much. Trying to help out on softwarerec.se and doing school type work

Nkciy84

@lucio I used to attend a graphical school so I know a little about those kind of programs

the main reason to use vector is the light weight of memory use and no pixelation effect when an image is expanded to, let's say, astronomical proportions

Seth

@Nkciy84 oh yeah? Looks like you explained it to Lucio well :)

@Nkciy84 Right.

Nkciy84

@Seth oh damn, my eyes, they burn

Seth

As in double ping orange? Yep.. that hurts :P

Nkciy84

o i c :)

Why are you guys all so comitted to Ubuntu anyway? Just curiousity

Seth

22:59

@Nkciy84 shrug. Why is anyone committed to anything?

@Braiam Actually uses Debian. I like Unity, so I use Ubuntu. And I like this site :P

Nkciy84

Ok, better say passionate

I thought some of you were developers or something

Debian is ok. But I've just gotten into Linux, tried openBSD one time and Arch.... yeah right... lol... But fiddleing is fun

hbdgaf

I like freeBSD. openBSD is interesting. If you're on the linux side of the house, running an arch-box is just asking to understand configuration. It's sort of the polar opposite of Ubuntu where you ask for everything to just work ootb.

Nkciy84

I tried it to reach better understanding. I got stuck with trying to configure the network (through vm). I ended up rage quiting

hbdgaf

That's not an OS problem, it's a virtualization problem.

Rinzwind

UPDATE! Made it to Abondance in 7:45 with 1 stop at a Burger King

Nkciy84

23:05

I've still got the ISO and when I get around to it I will def. try again. Just need that configuration right

@rinzewind chewing is overrated anyway

Seth

Trying to configure the network from the cli is very good for you, but doing from inside a VM is asking for trouble.

Nkciy84

@Seth maybe it's better then to skip the network config and go straight on

My default network setting is NAT

Braiam

D'OH!

Rinzwind

@Seth I agree!!

hbdgaf

If I ever say I'm using a default config of NAT to put the port forwarding in the virtualization solution's hands, shoot me in the face.

Seth

23:10

NAT is one thing I don't understand..

Nkciy84

why?

hbdgaf

I understand it, but the settings aren't universal. It's easier for me to use bridged and introduce my own thin VM as a router. This way I can tell it what to do in an agnostic way.

Nkciy84

meaning you configure it like you would a normal installation?

Braiam

this need some love askubuntu.com/q/416805/169736

only two lovers

Lucio

GIMP worked.

It did the job very well.

The Path tool made it so easy..

Remove Windows. Your welcome! — Lucio 18 secs ago

My day is finished with that :)

Rinzwind

23:24

@Braiam I am 1 of 2 so no more help from me

Lucio

The unknown user.

hbdgaf

I love it when I get that renew our certification you got to bypass a class in college, and I get to tell them I'm not renewing because the cert is useless.

Braiam

why is this a dupe? askubuntu.com/review/close/219563

hbdgaf

@Rinzwind is probably aware of a specific case where that is a dupe.

Seth

@Braiam well the answer to the second does pretty much the same thing the original question wants to..

Lucio

23:39

@Braiam askubuntu.com/q/416322/#comment537812_416322

Braiam

@Lucio that is actually incomplete... since I could have installed icons that ain't in the CD

this is a better answer askubuntu.com/q/113225/169736

Lucio

Guys we have a problem with "no Windows partitions installing" posts

Braiam

@Lucio close them all...

Lucio

@Braiam I'm not a mod :D

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