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Mateo

00:00

@hbdgaf not that mine did much ;)

so sounds fine

hbdgaf

i know.

Mateo

I think we can also drop the ported from statement at this point

Braiam

excuse me i forgot one detail. i completely reinstalled ubuntu to its original state with no settings. — Nolan Burgin 36 mins ago

????????????????... ???????????????

Mateo

@Braiam I had a similar problem on this laptop - steam wanted extra xorg stuff, installed - next boot was in 2d-mode without the graphics detected in settings and "extra drivers".

Braiam

@Mateo yeah, but reinstalling should have fixed it, no?

Mateo

00:11

basically had to chroot on livecd and un-install the propartary drivers and the specific xserver-xorg-** packages and reinstall xorg

@Braiam unless he went back to the "extra drivers" and tried again...

kalina

00:34

HELLO

I HAS PROBLEM WITH OOBUNTO

PLZ HELP

Typical, everybody else asks their questions in that format and at least gets a comment

When I do it, I get ignored

/sigh

hbdgaf

i'm just a little bitter... if you ask it properly i'll speak...

^^ there's the comment

kalina

that's not a very constructive comment

hbdgaf

it's constructive criticism and a reply to a call for help

kalina

I don't actually need help, otherwise I would ask it on the site and gain zero reputation out of it

I have, however, just been through the review queue

hbdgaf

anything odd? i'm cleaning the house, so i may be a little touch and go...

kalina

00:46

nah, just the usual people asking inane questions with terrible spelling, grammar, and... well

we're here to help.

hbdgaf

we're all always here to help. it's just the tolerances that differ from user to user.

Braiam

@kalina rule #1... never tell them that there's caps lock... EVER!

kalina

old

hbdgaf

has braved MSO more than one time means "tolerance_score -= 100"

kalina

in The Bridge, yesterday, by LessPop_MoreFizz

@kalina OH WOW, THIS IS FANTASTIC. THANKS FOR THE TIP.

hbdgaf

00:50

lolz.. that sounds like someone on IRC...

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

01:03

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Q: After installation of VirtualBox via apt-get, Linux Mint was replaced by Ubuntu

Today I set up an Ubuntu virtual machine for a computer science course using VirtualBox on my Linux Mint OS. It installed fine and worked great. But then when I turned off my computer and then booted into Mint a few hours later, the Linux Mint OS (after the login screen) was replaced entirely by ...

hbdgaf

bucket full of...

it's not a bug... it's a feature.

Mateo

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L ~~maybe replaced the Plymouth theme? (assuming mint uses that...)~~ oh after the boot screen...

hbdgaf

my guess is the vbox package pulls in something that triggers unity installation...

and... since it's just a fork with no substantial code written... you get unity by default instead of mate or whatever desktop is the default in mint with whatever skin. /me sticks with xfce.

kalina

01:18

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Q: could not write bytes: broken pipe after chown in /usr

When I boot ubuntu 12.04, I get this message on screen and the the system does not boot. This happened after I did the following: I installed tor-browser. When I tried to run it, it gave an error that /usr/bin/tor-browser permissions are set to root. So I did the following (was a mistake): su...

12.04 boot

Is that not just a case of boot from live cd, mount your existing partition with root on it, fix all of the permissions, reboot?

ManishEarth

@kalina the "fix all of the permissions" bit is nontrivial

You can chown -R root /usr, and you'll probably have a semi-working system though

kalina

well, they're all root:root

and whatever mask -rwxr-xr-x turns out to be

so you should just be able to chown -R root:root /usr and chmod -R <whatever> /usr

NOT THAT I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT LINUX

but I'm sure you know enough to correct all of my mistakes

FEichinger

@kalina Hey, you know more than half of the people in our CompSci courses do.

kalina

it's not going to get me internet points though is it

FEichinger

Well, yeh ... But your obsession with Internet points is unhealthy anyway.

kalina

01:25

you're only saying that because I have 4x more points on one site than you have network wide

FEichinger

Yes, I'm just jealous of you. Obviously.

kalina

right so

how do I answer this question

FEichinger

I don't know, I didn't even read it.

kalina

...

FEichinger

Nah, I'd have to reboot to check. And I cba to reboot.

j0h

02:17

drunk

but I need to fix this

the fonts look stupid

just intalledmat e on server

12.04

what d?o

kalina

night all

Nathan Osman

j0h

02:32

tabb complet halps

JohnMerlino

@NathanOsman where was that question asked?

Nathan Osman

j0h

heres me screen looking stupid

I mean im drunk

but not that drunl

k

Nathan Osman

Looks like you're missing a font :P

Mateo

02:53

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Q: Why are letters overlapping in the terminal?

I installed Oneiric as a guest OS in VirtualBox using the Mini CD. I installed the ubuntu-desktop package and everything seems to work fine - well, except for a font issue with the terminal: As you can see, some of the letters overlap and it's difficult to read. I checked the settings and it t...

11.10 command-line virtualbox fonts

@j0h or maybe? askubuntu.com/questions/299184/…

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

05:07

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Q: What will be my location for dns servers if I use google public dns 8.8.8.8

As i saw most of the internet is being load balanced even at DNS . And DNS load balancers takes decision on behalf of client's DNS . So I Am just curious to know if i will use 8.8.8.8 in ubuntu 12.04 box nameserver then what will be my location for the internet.

ubuntu networking dns load-balancing

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How do I mount a shared folder on startup?

So I'm following this article on how to mount a shared vmware folder: http://pubs.vmware.com/workstation-10/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.ws.using.doc%2FGUID-AB5C80FE-9B8A-4899-8186-3DB8201B1758.html I can successfully mount with the following command: mount -t vmhgfs .host:/foo /home/user/Docu...

ubuntu linux-mint mount vmware fstab

Rinzwind

07:59

morning all

Takkat

Oh you survived the avalanche?

Rinzwind

we are soon having breakfast. then we are going back up the mountain.

Takkat

hope it stopped snowing... mountains are so much better in sunshine.

Rinzwind

it did; according to apple weather app 60% chance on snow later today. ALL other apps say clear skied >:)

so we are currently insulting all the apple users here >:D

Takkat

08:14

Good to know they have iWeatherGod in mountain areas.

send $all_snow to $mountains

Rinzwind

08:38

@oli games.fok.nl/review/637529/1/1/50/olliolli.html (google translate it >:D )

MeinAccount

10:24

Hi everyone. I have a question: How can I extract localhost from the following text?
$dbHost = 'localhost';

Journeyman Geek

10:36

@MeinAccount: I'd probably use cut, using ' as the deliminator

MeinAccount

Yes, but how to I cut?

Journeyman Geek

I'm assuming this is in a file?

so cat file|cut -d \' -f2

You're piping whatever to cat. telling it the delimiter is ' (and escaping it), and telling it to give you the second field

MeinAccount

Can I also use ` = ` and ; as delimiters?

hbdgaf

@kalina chown -R surely it won't break anything - made me lol a little

speaking of, there should so be a browse-able default permissions for everything under package management and created in ~/ snapshot somewhere. it would make a great n00bfixtool

@MeinAccount if you just want to extract localhost, ' is the right delimiter. looks like it's in a shell script. can you just grep the line out, dump it in something else, and source that new script so you can have it directly accessible as a variable instead? or use juju that has convenience methods for this type of thing.

MeinAccount

This is the entire file:
<?php
$dbHost = 'kksamflkm';
$dbPort = 0;
$dbUser = 'lkasnlfkn';
$dbPassword = 'skdgmlkm';
$dbName = 'sdglkn';
$dbClass = 'wcf\system\database\MySQLDatabase';
if (!defined('WCF_N')) define('WCF_N', 1);

I need the $dbHost, $dbUser, $dbPassword and $dbName

hbdgaf

10:48

oh.. :( php.

MeinAccount

Can I map the output lines from cut to variables?

hbdgaf

you could with python pretty easily... in bash i'm not so sure.

Azker Mohamed

Hey! Guys.. what do we do for these type of questions > askubuntu.com/questions/417809/…

can this be fallen under off topic?

MeinAccount

@hbdgaf I have no experience using python so it's not an option at the moment.

Can I read a single line of a file to a variable?

hbdgaf

and execute the resulting string to get it as bash variables

MeinAccount

11:03

@hbdgaf Thank you! That works great

Now I should maybe try to understand how it works...

Journeyman Geek

@MeinAccount: ^ what she said ;p

@hbdgaf: people keep telling me off for abusing cat with grep ;p

hbdgaf

@JourneymanGeek you could just use awk, but if you're answering a question where grep, cut, and sed aren't understood... awk just drops a nuke on the situation.

Journeyman Geek

I can never remember how to do it though ;p

@hbdgaf: I mean, you can feed a text file into grep without pipes

hbdgaf

@JourneymanGeek yes, i get that a lot too. it's an old habit from the redhat academy training material where i started linux oh so long ago... and i was "fixing" their grading scripts for the local academy... so what does that tell you

Journeyman Geek

;p

Everyone else is wrong? ;p

hbdgaf

11:09

no, they're right. it's just a bad habit. the grading scripts were actually broken( they tried to parse things that satisfied the deliverables and missed some of the parsing ).

also, i found an interesting solution to the virtual desktop switching inside of VM products. you can turn off X listening for the ctl-alt-fX keys if you want... it's not great, but it works.

o/ @jokerdino

jokerdino

11:25

o/ @hbdgaf

hbdgaf

have a chance to browse the code changes @Mateo ? it looks nice, but i broke all the functionality during the rewrite. putting it all back together a piece at a time.

Mateo

just had a glance the other day

hbdgaf

broke things out in to pieces instead of a monolithic file. it reads better too... but nothing works again yet.

blade19899

12:26

wthell: askubuntu.com/q/418093/36315

j0h

some day ill learn how to reply to specific comments.

but, I did solve my problem with stupid looking fonts

unchecked use system fixed width font.

stuff looks normal now.

blade19899

Okay this definitely is spam. Weird spam, but spam non the less: askubuntu.com/q/418093/36315

j0h

we get no points for responding to spam?

blade19899

@j0h, you responded to the spam?

Last time I did that, the spammer started using my name, and spammed the crap out of Askubuntu.

Cause i somehow pissed him off.

Lesson number 1, never feed the trolls.

j0h

12:44

maybe

what is the window manager fro mate?

hbdgaf

mate IS a wm... iirc it's a hacked up gnome2

@j0h it's not about points. if anything, responding to spam should be negative points unless you're shutting it down.

j0h

I typed in nautilus, thinking i would open a window and it was like nooooo nautilus not installed

so i was like waht am i in?

hbdgaf

no idea. i use xfce, so i'm in thunar. no idea since mate is a recode not a UI redesign(which it should have been)

i won't use mint on principle.

google indicates it's nemo

blade19899

13:03

Ubuntu To Create New File Manager for Unity 8 Desktop

j0h

what is the interface for installing printers?

I installed mate to ubuntu server. but the install printers link is missing

A friend of mine has CPP and Octave questions is there a good place to chat for him?

blade19899

13:29

PLEASE DELETE ACCOUNT

6 3

installation latex lubuntu packages

LOL

Ask Ubuntu Meta

13:49

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Q: Can this question be migrated to this site?

I asked This question on Superuser. Is it on topic here or not? If yes, what will happen to the bounty?

discussion asking-questions migration

0

Q: Tag synonym request: [settings] -> [preferences]

I think [settings] and [preferences] should be synonyms. Although more questions are tagged [settings] than [preferences], I think the main tag should be [preferences] because "Preferences" is usually the name given to a program's options its GUI in Ubuntu.

feature-request tags tag-synonyms

Avinash Raj

PLEASE DELETE ACCOUNT

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algebra-precalculus arithmetic calculus elementary-number-theory inequality homework functions

Braiam

14:14

@foosfreedom please, make the honors

MeinAccount

14:30

Is there any way to allow both absolute and relative values as the first parameter?

. $1/config.cfg

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Global menu items in Ubuntu 13.10

The global menu items for many application on my Ubuntu Linux 13.10 can't be clicked, but this doesn't include all applications, Firefox global menu works just fine and so is VirtualBox, but only "Highlight Mode" may be clicked in gedit, "Change Profile" and "Set Character Encoding" in GNOME Term...

ubuntu unity

Amith KK

14:55

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Avinash Raj

15:34

how to connect and share files between ubuntu and windows pc via wifi

en.docsity.com/news/engineering/solar-powered-laptops

Braiam

@AvinashRaj the same way as you do with a wired network...

Avinash Raj

@Braiam please post the link to follow

Braiam

15:50

@AvinashRaj the SMB protocol doesn't care if your network is wired or wireless, any guide will do

Avinash Raj

@Braiam please plz plz post the link.I want to do it now,plz.

Braiam

@AvinashRaj what link?

Avinash Raj

@Braiam plz post the link for the tutorial which describes how to share files between ubuntu and windows pc via wifi

Lucio

@Braiam that is true

@AmithKK o/

Amith KK

@Lucio yo

Lucio

15:57

you always posting great pics :D

Amith KK

\o Doin' my job

Lucio

lol

Braiam

@AvinashRaj are you aware that what you are asking doesn't make sense?

Lucio

@AvinashRaj search around this site

you will find a couple of answers that would be helpful

askubuntu.com/q/418165/62483 <-- Wat the hell?

BBL

Braiam

as I said previously SMB/CIFS protocol doesn't care if you are using wifi, wired or morse code... just look for how to connect to windows shares using samba and it should be fine

Avinash Raj

16:05

@Braiam this one 7tutorials.com/how-change-workgroup-ubuntu-linux-work-windows

Amith KK

16:30

The olympic ring failure..

Aren't they pyrotechnics?

Rinzwind

16:42

Bonjour!

Avinash Raj

meaning.......

Rinzwind

@AvinashRaj Oh i am in France so that was "hello" ;-)

Amith KK

17:16

BBT

Good Night

hbdgaf

18:02

/me @ canonical - let's re-invent all the things so nothing works, but we control everything...

i don't think you understand.

oh but i do... it all worked for me a year ago.

@blade19899 ^^

hbdgaf

18:43

@Rinzwind hola frenchman;)

q'est que c'est passe?

Seth

18:58

This is a dupe of something:

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Q: Unity's "File Edit View" menus in Gnome Fallback? [12.04]

I was recently playing around with Ubuntu 11.04 (Ah, the last version of Ubuntu to use Gnome 2 in the background) and I noticed this: As you can see its the Unity "File Edit View..." menus in GNOME 2. It's available as an indicator addon in 11.04. Now what I'm asking is how do I get this i...

12.04 unity gnome 11.04 gnome-classic

hbdgaf

is it a dupe of canonical is replacing it anyway, don't get comfortable with normal tools available in arch and debian?

Seth

no, he wants a universal menu bar in the panel..

Rinzwind

@hbdgaf tomorrow going back to Holland, 8 hour drive

hbdgaf

@Rinzwind hopefully it turns out well

Rinzwind

@hbdgaf Itll be fine. today was great; sunny and lots of people.

hbdgaf

19:06

@Seth i was being facetious... i didn't actually think that was a dupe of the line of reasoning i cited

Seth

oh

Rinzwind

@hbdgaf co-worker did a black slope. 2 90% decents in it :D He stood on the side before he went down to look at it, did not see a lot but after got down from it and looked back he had a bit of a WTF moment :D

Dinner time :-) BBL

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Unreadable captcha

I wanted to add my answer to this post but I keep on being told to enter the text on a captcha. The problem is that the captcha text is bearly readable and no success after about five tries. I tried logging out and in again with no luck. How can I tell them am human or use a more readable captch...

support captcha

hbdgaf

is this closable as unclear? askubuntu.com/questions/418281/kernel-killing-java-process - it's not answerable in its current form, lacking ANY detail that might help

Mateo

@hbdgaf looks nice, I like how things are broken out into the - ui, settings, ect.

Rinzwind

21:52

back! had a nice talbot for dinner

Seth

22:04

@hbdgaf Running a server with 512MB of RAM is a no no in the first place.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to setup anonymous NFS correctly

I set up an NFS server on Ubuntu Server 12.04 for my linux based DVB-S receiver (Spark 7162) Unfortunately the receiver is only able to connect anonymously. Directories are created but can not be written to because the permissions are not sufficient: drw-r--r-- 2 receiver receiver 4096 Feb 8 22...