When I click on the Stack Exchange menu to get at my Inbox and click on one of the links, it will open on a new tab which is great. However, the menu itself will remain open in the original tab which means that I won't receive notifications of new messages until I remember to return to that tab a...
I have a big problem with grub. After installing it I only get GRUB loading. After 1 minute I see a "Welcome to GRUB"
After 10-20 minutes I see "No such device: UUID"
I tried to repair this with boot-repair but it did not help. (Log http://paste.ubuntu.com/7068131/)
I think it is related to ...
@AvinashRaj read terdon comment, being noobish is not excuse that you can't ask a reasonable question. Maybe he's reading that question but it fails somehow, and then the dupe wont help
I think @Braiam's answer is spot on though, you have all sorts of images installed by default since the package cannot know what hardware you have or, even more so, what hardware you might acquire
Automated Removal of 404 Not found PPA's through script
This is a script to remove automatically all the 404 Not found PPA's.Copy the below code and paste it into a file and name it as ppa-remove.
#!/bin/bash
[ -f /tmp/update.txt ] && sudo rm /tmp/update.txt; tput setaf 6; echo "Initializing.. Please Wait" || echo "No...
@AvinashRaj One more thing, uniq needs files to be sorted, use sort -u filename instead.
This is less important, but for next time, you might want to consider generating a temp file with mktemp instead of hardcoding the name, you never know, the user might already have a file called /tmp/awk.txt and your script will overwrite it.
@Ell just cause it's never a good idea to change permissions on a system dir, it is also never really necessary. Why don't you just do sudo make install or whatever you are attempting?
Anyway, you don't have write permissions or have you only given them to your user specifically via setfacl?
I am replacing a bongos skin and I know that the smooth side of the skin should the one to play on.
Problem is that I forgot to check and now the skin is already wet and both sides are smooth.
However I can tell by the darker spots of the skin which side was actually the external one when it wa...
@Ell the problem is not you but a malicious or just dumb third party program that attempts to do something dangerous and will be able to because of those permissions
@Ell actually, it sounds like what you are doing is trying to change the permissions of /usr/local/include, not write to it and only root or the owner can do that irrespective of what permissions you have set
It is probably making sure that the default permissions are correctly set or something
@Ell why not just use sudo? There are likely various programs that expect specific permissions (I can think of ~/.ssh off the top of my head but there may be reasons for it in /usr/local as well)
Due recent changes to our help page I took a peek what was written there too. I found there was a link to some video tutorials, I checked out that was linked to meta.AU, and was in the disposition of watching some just to find they has been deleted of blip.tv.
This produces some frustration of ...
This is a feature request to suggest adding a Video Tutorial section on Ask Ubuntu.
Primary target would be including videos to explain most common tasks like Installation, WUBI installation, identifying wireless card....etc
Also; when -for example, I provide an answer on a question. User who a...
There is a general trend towards video tutorials and I, personally, really hate it. I don't think I've evr watched one in its entirety and whenever one of my search results is a video I just skip to the next. Now, that might be cause I'm older than the internet but that's how I feel.
@Seth and thank your favorite deity for that! Can you imagine what AU would become if all the newbie script kiddies started posting videos?
@Alvar That's fine, that's what I thought you meant. However, that has nothing to do with the meta proposal. You can do that now, nothing new is needed
@Alvar cool, can you give me a short smarty file example so I can play around with it? Just in case I figure something out. Also, I take it that changing editors is an option, as long as it is a straightforward, simple editor like gedit? (I've already found solutions for vim and I'm sure emacs can do this but I won't suggest them :)
@Alvar I'd upvote you but I already had. I tend to upvote self-answered questions as a matter of course. Anyone who took the time to come back and post their solution to help others deserves a vote.
been thinking of making a guide about BankId, it's a swedish way of identifying yourself. It's probably not only swedish people that use it, but it's quite hard to get it to work.
instead of using a random password for one time usage each time you log in you use a file on your computer. it's easier and harder at the same time, but it can be used as ID on other sites as well. So It would be a great guide for people who use it. Found a guide for it after I searched for several days. but it was a long time ago and haven't done it on this ubuntu install yet ...
@hbdgaf o no! Videos: 1) have sound 2) are much heavier 3) need plugins or 4rd party software
Anyway, the conversation was about including videos, as in implementing that into the site somehow. And I am dead set against that for the reasons outlined in my answer here
embedding youtube or whatever would be bad... but motion pictures is fine. it was settled a long time ago. you can still link to vimeo or wherever, but it's not EVAR going to be an embed.
i think i actually linked to vimeo once with a proof of video...
@hbdgaf yeah, my argument is against implementing some special function for this. Last thing we want is for people to start posting videos instead of answers. Can't search'em, can't edit'em, they're no good for stack exchange.