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jrg

00:00

ok.

Seth

I use a workforce 630 type

(they have the 630, 632, and 350)

jrg

Short term, I need to scan my entire file cabinet into evernote.

Seth

Each with one more duplexer.

jrg

long term, I need to be able to print, sign and scan contracts/paperwork

print the occasional 3 or 4 page document to give to someone.

Seth

@jrg I don't see an ADF on it...

jrg

00:01

@Seth most of it is small things, so the lack of a ADF isn't a big deal

and I need to split them into individual files as well, so doing it manually is perfectly OK. annoying, but OK.

Seth

entire cabinet? Small?

ok then

The fancy Epson commercial software for scanning is fancy, but I suppose you won't be able to use it anyway.

jrg

essentially this.

evernote.com/market/feature/scanner < if it weren't for the fact that I need a printer as well, I'd really consider this...

Mateo

@jrg looks ok, but you want one with the top loader for scanning a lot

jrg

amazon.com/Brother-Printer-MFCJ450DW-Inkjet-Scanner/dp/… < this one has a 20 page ADF. might be handy.

Mateo

Epson has Linux drivers

I'll send you what model we got, the Family likes it

Epson WF-3540

Braiam

00:27

want a reason to not hang out in the Maid Café? here's one:

in Maid Café (メイド喫茶), 28 mins ago, by Shinobu Oshino

@user1306322 Araragi is...a man among men, he's a gentleman, lady killer, and a lolicon, siscon..

jrg

oooh, duplexing. @Mateo

that's nifty.

Braiam

@JorgeCastro if you need someone translating Juju documentation to spanish, just give me a shout

Braiam

01:03

stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

I'm sure @hbdgaf have read this ^, but I think it's still important

Seth

> They have a point. Mordor sucks, and it's certainly more physically taxing to dig a tunnel than poke at a keyboard unless you're an ant.

ahaha

Braiam

@Seth you haven't reached the end :P

Seth

Not going to TL;DR :P

Mateo

just got a new keyboard with mechanical blue switches

Seth

Oooh. Is it backlit?

Mateo

01:07

yep

Braiam

gets all jelly

> because standards are unicorns.

SO FREAKING TRUE!

Seth

@Mateo awesome :D

I have a backlit keyboard on my laptop. Man, I never knew how much I'd love that!

Mateo

images17.newegg.com/is/image/newegg/23-162-029-Z01

hm, no one box

Braiam

@Mateo you have to append some extension to work...

Mateo

ah

jrg

01:13

@Mateo oh man, which one is that?

i think my boss has that

Mateo

let me find where they moved the history in firefox...

newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823162029

so they say these are pretty good for typing

daskeyboard.com/blog/mechanical-keyboard-guide

jrg

the das keyboard is just amazing.

next month my big purchase will be a mechanical keyboard.

i'm borrowing my coworkers. :P

Seth

Which one you getting? The CODE keyboard?

jrg

dunno

the CODE keyboard is definitely drool worthy

but the problem is

i need 2 keyboards

a really quiet one for home and then i can get anything except a buckling spring for the office.

everyone has blacks, which are uber loud.

Journeyman Geek

I tend to like blues

but I don't find em loud

jrg

01:20

I just need something that isn't a rubber dome

i'm not that picky

Journeyman Geek

see if you can get browns ;p

(tactile/silent IIRC)

jrg

i didn't like the browns

i tried one out, wasn't clicky enough

Mateo

I didn't care about the sound

Richard

@Mateo Three horizontal bars in the upper right, just like in Chrome.

Mateo

@Richard ;)

Braiam

01:27

@Mateo ctrl + h :P

Richard

@Braiam the wimp method :P

Mateo

oh, they let you get the menu bar back at least, unlike chrome

Braiam

I barely leave my keyboard :P

yeah, alt brings the menu back

Richard

@Braiam (GUIs are, I mean)

well idk sometimes (x

Braiam

I don't know what you mean but ok D:

Mateo

01:33

@Richard I think I know what you mean, but don't know what you are saying

xiaodongjie

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A: Why can't my other Ubuntu machines have read/write access to my samba shares, when Windows machines do?

I think that you didn't check the permissions of /mnt/md0/theta with nobody privileges(force user = nobody). You can modify /mnt/md0/theta's permissions with following command. chown -R nobody /mnt/md0/theta or modify following line in smb.conf. force user = root(it's easy, but bad for secur...

0

Q: Ubuntu Software Updater cannot find repository information. Check your internet connection

I cannot find what is causing the problem. Any tips on how to go about diagnosing what is wrong? Also, updating takes too long. It just keeps on waiting for headers.

I don't know diagnosing, too.

I think that you can help him than me.

Braiam

02:28

@Takkat if you want, can you cast a delete vote here? askubuntu.com/q/9854/169736

user371699

if I'm still running Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring), does that mean I'm not getting ANY updates, like the latest Firefox?

Braiam

@user371699 yep

If you want the latest, stay with the latest

user371699

@Braiam damn

@Braiam thanks for the clarification

Lucio

03:14

Firefox.

Avinash Raj

Yeh, What's this

728 suggested edits.

oh today, i will earn a gold badge.

no

it's total review items.

facepalm :(

Lucio

Why fox?? I loved you before, but now you look too chromium :(

Journeyman Geek

lol

I threw oneliner on it.

Its perfect :)

I can't get any more minimal than that

Lucio

03:37

@JourneymanGeek what does that mean?

Lol, this just happened:

Request @jrg! :P

Danatela

hi guys!

Lucio

hello danatela :)

Danatela

@Seth I remember you asked what was my answer to pidgin hide groups question. I did not yet developed this feature but I came close to it. See the question below:

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Q: How do I add item to Pidgin menu

c gtk pidgin

Lucio

Well, at least the built-in IDE is getting better

Danatela

what built-in IDE?

Journeyman Geek

03:49

@Lucio: its an extention

Lucio

@Danatela this one

Danatela

hmm things are getting better after time passes ;)

Seth

@Danatela That's cool!

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to safely eject usb hardrive in Ubuntu

I have a USB external hard drive with several partitions, and I cannot spin down the hard drive to get it to eject. Any suggestions? I unmounted all partitions through Nautilus, but the drive is still spinning. Nautilus does not seem to have other options besides unmount in Ubuntu 13.10. After e...

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Seth

Hey @TorbenGundtofte-Bruun! Been a while since I've seen you in here I think :)

Braiam

04:01

@Seth you used tab, right?

Seth

Yep. I always use tab.

Lucio

I must say that Ubuntu 14.04 and the whole system has a really amazing performance.

Firefox, Sound Player, Terminal, FXs, everything is working perfect!

Seth

Yeah it's pretty good, but pepperflash is terrible.

Lucio

haha, what is that?

oh chrome

chrome sucks

Seth

The replacement for flash plugin for linux.

@Lucio It does, but I refuse to use Firefox (at least for now) and there are some other reasons I can't use it.

What does Firefox use for flash?

Lucio

04:07

We need to get rid of Flash, a replacement only make it worse.

Braiam

@Seth they plan to use shumway

is still very alpha

Lucio

you can consider Flash very alpha too :D

Seth

That looks like a good idea.

If they can make it work.

At this point anything can beat Pepperflash.

Lucio

There wasn't a single day were a 0-day for Flash wasn't found.

I weak up, take my milk, and see what new 0-day Flash has brought to its users.

Braiam

btw, this is funny cracked.com/blog/…

Lucio

04:15

I reviewed the four movies but still don't see the point

I'm not a good movie reviewer :(

Seth

@Braiam I don't like his attitude.. but interesting.

Lucio

@Seth are you using Java for something atm?

Seth

Nope.

Lucio

some other language or nothing related with dev?

Seth

04:43

nothing related atm.

Javascript FTW! Err, ahem, lose.

Lucio

lol

Javascript is not so bad

Seth

No it isn't.

Lucio

I was kidding :O

it is awful! :P

Talking seriously, I like to write funny code with it

Seth

oh..

Lucio

Flexibility helps to build something in. ... minutes, it is pretty amazing

Seth

04:46

yeah, HTML5+CSS3+JS is pretty neat.

Lucio

Yes, it is the language of the web atm and seems for the future

docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/reflect/class/classNew.html

^nice java hack

Nathan Osman

I'm writing a series of articles that describe how to write a compiler.

But first, I must brainstorm a simple language to write the compiler for.

I'm trying to decide between static type-checking and dynamic type-checking...

a_variable = 12
a_variable = "test"

vs.

int a_variable = 23
string a_variable = "test"

Thoughts, anyone?

Lucio

IMO You should go with the hard-type one

Nathan Osman

Static type-checking? (That's the second example above.)

Lucio

yes

Nathan Osman

04:54

That does tend to make more sense.

Lucio

Absolutely :D

Nathan Osman

I'll write some sample programs in this imaginary language so you all can get a feel for it.

Lucio

The other one is something that, at least I, try to avoid.

@NathanOsman I can't way for them!

Nathan Osman

string name;
print("Enter your name:");
input(name);
print("Hello, " + name + "!");

Pretty simple example of I/O and string concatenation.

Lucio

I'm loving it

Nathan Osman

04:58

I don't really like the way input() works, though. It doesn't feel right.

Lucio

what is the way input works?

Nathan Osman

The variable is being passed by reference, which isn't even supported in this language :P

Lucio

lol

Nathan Osman

So I've got an exception. Exceptions are bad.

Lucio

naaaa

Internal Errors are bad.

Nathan Osman

04:59

I'd like to do this: name = input();

...but then input() is returning a string all the time.

Lucio

input.getLine()

Nathan Osman

Which, really isn't all that bad I guess.

So for an integer: some_integer = integer(input());

Then our example becomes much simpler:

string name = input("Enter your name:");
print("Hello, " + name + "!");

Lucio

that is nicer

Nathan Osman

Okay, that is much better.

integer radius = integer(input("Enter the radius of a circle:"));
float area = 3.1415 * radius * radius;
print("The area of the circle is: " + string(area));

^--- calculates the area of a circle

Seth

Hmm. Is input() sanitized automatically now?

In Python 3?

Oh wait, this isn't python.

Nathan Osman

05:05

No, it's not :)

It's a language I am creating (literally).

Seth

Cool!

All right, time for bed.

Lucio

@NathanOsman gosh, I finished a mats exam a couple of hours :(

@Seth have a good night!

I will keep with my tasks

ciao

Venki

05:49

Anyone there??

I want help in something completely unrelated to Ubuntu? ! :-p

What is TeX, LaTeX and all? I was googling for software to write math equations easily and I stumbled upon this... anyone has any idea about this?

Nathan Osman

LaTeX is a text formatting language.

Venki

Hmmm... so for inserting a +.. i will be writing a command? Thanks for helping BTW!

Nathan Osman

I know next to nothing about (La)TeX unfortunately.

Venki

Atleast you know it is a text formatting language!!! BTW TeX and LaTeX are different? And to write this language you can just use gedit like any other language or you need some IDE ?

Nathan Osman

You can use a text editor, yes.

But to make something readable, you will need to compile the (La)Tex files to a document format such as PDF.

That's about all I know :P

Venki

05:56

Oh!! u know tat much!! I suppose it will be easy to learn and so i have downloaded an e-book! Hope it works!

Wow! There seems to be a whole stack ex. site for this!

Venki

06:08

ok Ciao!! :-)

xiaodongjie

0

A: Facing configuration error while installing from source

I suggest you following commands to solve this problem. apt-get build-dep vlc ./configure Ubuntu repository has also vlc. So you can build it with following command. apt-get source vlc cd vlc-<version> dpkg-buildpackage

It's accepted, but no upvote.

the man who ask this question could not give me upvote with accept?

xiaodongjie

06:36

hi

Avinash Raj

why you worry for upvotes?

xiaodongjie

@AvinashRaj oh, upvote is important to me.

and to every one.

Avinash Raj

it's based on the mood of OP.

xiaodongjie

sorry, what is OP?

Avinash Raj

original poster.

xiaodongjie

06:49

@AvinashRaj I see.Thank you.

Rinzwind

morning!

xiaodongjie

@Rinzwind good afternoon.

Rinzwind

07:04

720 reviews?>1

did someone open the floods?

@NathanOsman still around?

cshubhamrao

SPAM : askubuntu.com/questions/458134/…

Rinzwind

racist alert: askubuntu.com/review/low-quality-posts/256826

@cshubhamrao flagged + thanks

cshubhamrao

@Rinzwind thnx

Rinzwind

itll be gone soon

Rinzwind

07:27

and gone are my 20 votes :P

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feature-request

Danatela

08:26

Does anybody know why migration paths look so lonely?

and how can I look for questions closed for particular reason?

Danatela

08:49

so I made a question on meta incoming right now

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nutty about natty

hullo there

just had an unpleasant experience "upgrading" from FF 28 to 29

was using the "classic compact" theme which is now back to alpha dev

installed the "classic theme restorer" extension, but that will only do have the tricks

sad...

my question to the floor:

has the globalmenu support for FF 29 gone belly up, too?

(or do I "just" need to reboot my machine)

Braiam

09:11

@Venki TeX is a programing language (in the sense that it is Turing complete) that it's mostly used for typography documments

nutty about natty

09:25

disabled statusbar4eva and now globalmenu is intact again

(not that this proves any causal relationship...)

what a mess...

Braiam

@nuttyaboutnatty if you don't like the new firefox, how about sticking with 28 instead?

Oli

09:46

@Braiam Pinning an old version of Firefox is a great way to get exploited though. Old versions aren't maintained like they used to be. v29 is now the default candidate for all supported versions of Ubuntu.

hbdgaf

10:34

@Braiam - yes, I had read that. It also showed up on my facebook wall from someone in India. It's just one of those things.

@terdon - on the "SMART" thing... I had a Western Digital "green" drive that failed SMART the day I plugged it in. Exchanged that one quickly. Reminded me why I always bought Seagate.

terdon

@hbdgaf Yeah... I've never had problems with SMART personally.

Oli

@hbdgaf I might swing in different circles, but I don't often see people claiming Seagate to be better than WD... I honestly can't remember the last time I saw anybody say anything even remotely nice about Seagate.

Journeyman Geek

>_>

I tend to favour hitachi

and NEVER get green drives ;p

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

11:15

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Q: A file exists but executing it doesn't work

I downloaded a Java tarball, extracted the archive and copied over scp to a remote machine. Using the ls command, the java executable exists: ubuntu@Ubuntu:~$ ls -la /home/ubuntu/jre1.7.0_55/bin/ total 420 drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Mar 18 03:54 . drwxr-xr-x 6 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Apr 30 ...

ubuntu java executable

Oli

@JourneymanGeek They're in the process of being absorbed into WD (they renamed to HGST too)

Journeyman Geek

@Oli: they still have their own R&D and their designs are still not WD based. Maybe when they get assimilated, I may need to reassess

Oli

Yeah, that's what I mean by "in the process". They aren't there yet but that's the goal (WD has already commented about how they're competing with themselves over helium-buffered disks and the sealing tech used to keep helium in their enterprise disks). What's wrong with WD anyway?

Journeyman Geek

@Oli: oh, not much

I went from IBM -> seagate -> hitachi

Oli

Not sure I could ever hope to name all of mine but I think I started with a Quantum Fireball and meandered around Seagates and Maxtors for a few years. There were some Seagates not too long ago and a pair of WD Raptors... But now it's mostly OCZ SSDs and a pile of Samsung rust.

I'm sure I've had a hitachi but I can't remember when.

Maybe I'm thinking of one I've ripped out of a laptop to replace with an SSD

Quantum, Maxtor and Samsung's disk departments are all part of Seagate now.
They've eaten a great deal of companies over the years.

Journeyman Geek

11:36

yeah

which kinda annoys me

Rinzwind

12:47

WE ARE DOOMED! 666 in the review

just rejected 2x vandalism :P
does that warrant clubbering someone?

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13:02

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Q: Start the script with sudo not working

I am trying to start the virtual machine(ORACLE VIRTUALBOX) using this script(script name:start_vm001.sh). START_VM=`/usr/bin/VBoxHeadless --startvm testvm001` EXECUTE_VM=`exec /sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --chuid 1001 --exec "$START_VM" -- $START_VM` echo $EXECUTE_VM usernam...

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Q: Start the script with sudo not working

I am trying to start the virtual machine(ORACLE VIRTUALBOX) using this script(script name:start_vm001.sh). START_VM=`/usr/bin/VBoxHeadless --startvm testvm001` EXECUTE_VM=`exec /sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --chuid 1001 --exec "$START_VM" -- $START_VM` echo $EXECUTE_VM usernam...

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Rinzwind

13:19

Dumping the same Q within seconds. TSK. UQonUL and AUM you 2 should co-operate more :=D

Braiam

@Oli firefox 29 is still beta, through ;)

Oli

@Braiam I don't think so... There have been a few stories about it being released over the last couple of days... And as I say, it's been pushed to all Ubuntu's live repos.

Braiam

was yesterday apparently

meh, debian still doesn't have it :/

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13:37

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Q: How to install QGIS from source into user space?

I want to install QGIS from source on Ubuntu 13.10. (saucy). into ~/bin. There is Python 2.7.5+ installed. Therefore, I cloned the repository to my machine and checked out the master branch. First I did what the QGIS documentation recommends: $ export CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/bin $ cd QGIS $ ...

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Braiam

actually it has it but in experimental

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14:05

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Q: Connecting remotely to Red Hat

so I've done this tutorials http://nearlydeaf.com/?p=1122 http://golubev.org/?p=73 also installed minimal version of gnome in Redhat my firewall is open on port 3389 and then trying to connect using Remmina but I get unable to connect what am I doing wrong? I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 locally ...

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Braiam

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L huh?

Braiam

14:24

There are a lot of graduate-educated young-earth creationists.

xiaodongjie

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A: Why can't my other Ubuntu machines have read/write access to my samba shares, when Windows machines do?

I think that you didn't check the permissions of /mnt/md0/theta with nobody privileges(force user = nobody). You can modify /mnt/md0/theta's permissions with following command. chown -R nobody /mnt/md0/theta or modify following line in smb.conf. force user = root(it's easy, but bad for secur...

Dan

should this be closed as abandoned or too vague? It has quite a lot of views, and it's getting unrelated answers at the moment

Braiam

@Dan "this"?

Dan

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Q: Apache server not starting

My apache server just don't start! I get the following error: apache2: Syntax error on line 203 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/alias.load: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_alias.so into server: /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_alias...

apache2

stupid me, forgot to paste the link'

Rinzwind

@Dan seems trivial... "apache2: Syntax error on line 203 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf" seems to be the only thing to check

Braiam

14:37

@Dan actually, it can be fixed, but dunno, I will go for the "no repro" close reason

Rinzwind

@Dan I would flag the answers. they are not adressing the problem :P question itself is nothing wrong (though old but old is not a reason to close it all). I would prefer an answer that actually adresses the problem instead of closing it

Dan

@Rinzwind Makes sense I guess. I guess it's just my mild OCD tingling a bit and wanting to close a question that probably won't get a correct answer (specially since the OP has been seen since '12):p

Rinzwind

I do not have the need to close everything ;=) I this case I consider the answers worse than the question.

Dan

my need is jsut a higher rate of answered question. AU stats are pretty bad. Though I'm no one to talk I don't answer that much questions myself

Rinzwind

14:53

I only answer q's that have no answers (or got 1 while I was typing)
15k unanswered is a lot

Braiam

should I edit this Q, to something more general...

@Rinzwind but crap has to go ;)

Rinzwind

that counter should be lowered with the unsupported releases questions >:D

Braiam

meh, my side of the site has only 10k non-answered

Rinzwind

nice answer braiam :)

Braiam

btw can we close this? askubuntu.com/q/342322/169736 unclear

Oli

14:55

It has a lot of votes for something unclear

(Just an initial observation)

Braiam

@Oli he hasn't answered Gilles query

Rinzwind

hey Oli! :) almost tea time!

@Braiam he did the memtest though :+)

Braiam

oh yeah

terdon

@Braiam He's answered all queries as far as I can tell. Why should we close it?

Braiam

@terdon later queries still unanswered

Rinzwind

15:01

That question is so out of my league :D :D :D
But it sounds serious. cd'ing in and out an dir should not be a trigger for a file update :P

Braiam

yeah, is a interesting question, is in the top of my unanswered list

@Oli do you got stats on the amount of extra reviews since they pushed the orange thingy?

Oli

@Braiam Yeah probably, one sec.

Rinzwind

I did my 20 :=)

Braiam

15:38

@terdon why leave open? askubuntu.com/review/close/256644

terdon

@Braiam Because it is perfectly on topic. The problem is not about elementary, it is an issue with setting up the virtual machine correctly to take advantage of the hardware. The OP could have the same issue with any guest OS and since the host is Ubuntu, it seems on topic to me.

As you can see from the accepted answer, the solution is to install guest additions on the guest. The details of which guest OS you have are irrelevant.

Braiam

@terdon then, OP will ask all his elementary os questions here because, hey! his previous elementary os was "on topic"

there are things that shouldn't be asked here in first place, that's what off topic means

terdon

@Braiam If he has another question that is actually about elementary and not about problems running VMs on Ubuntu we can close it. This question is on topic.

Braiam

I prefer not sending mixed signals at all, and that Q is a dupe if it was about Ubuntu

terdon

Then close as a dupe, closing as off-topic sends mixed signals.

Braiam

15:43

no, closing as OT sends the correct signal: if you want to ask about elementary os, ask in UL

terdon

@Braiam the question is in no way about elementary, it is a classic issue with virtualbox and that was running on Ubuntu.

The answer is "install guest additions on the guest OS" that does not depend on which guest OS you happen to be running. Therefore, the issue is generally about VBox + UBuntu, or any other host but since this host is Ubuntu, the Q is on topic.

fossfreedom

@terdon yep - I was just looking at this - we've got several similar resolution issues with virtualbox and all the answers were "install guest additions". Think we should identify a canonical Q&A and dupe and clean the others.

terdon

Yeah, closing as a dupe is a different thing altogether.

Braiam

@terdon but OP will continue asking his Elementary OS questions here

terdon

We heard you the first time, when you didn't shout.

Braiam

15:47

I really don't care if it happens in Ubuntu or not, is about Elementary OS

I didn't used CAPS....

terdon

And I repeat, it is not about Elementary, why is that so hard to understand?

Braiam

@terdon because I'm tired of people that gets confused about that

Elementary OS problem = not asking in AU

terdon

Apparently, you are one of them. That Q is about using virtualbox on Ubuntu.

It is not an elementary problem, it is a virtualbox one.

Braiam

@terdon Is about the frigging guess OS

aha, let's say you are right, how about if the guess is Windows?

terdon

The answer is the same for any guest OS. That's because of the way that virtualbox works with the host.

fossfreedom

15:49

Actually - you'll find all guest O/S's behave similar - its how virtualbox works

terdon

@Braiam Still on topic as long as the host is Ubuntu and the issue is about virtualbox itself running on Ubuntu.

fossfreedom

ubuntu has the same issue as a guest as well.

Braiam

@terdon WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

terdon

sigh

Avinash Raj

@fossfreedom it's can't able to resize my vm after installling guest-additions.

fossfreedom

15:51

bug in guest additions - send it to oracle

terdon

I am telling you that the problem is about any guest OS running in virtualbox. The solution is to install guest additions on the guest. The specifics of which OS is the guest are irrelevant, it is a question about using vbox on UBuntu.

Braiam

> How to Install Mac OS X Lion 10.7 on Virtualbox 4.1?

This is off-topic because it's an issue with Mac OS X, as far as I can tell.

Avinash Raj

it only happens for 14.04 running as guest. But for other versions, it resizes fine.

fossfreedom

@AvinashRaj if you are referring to ubuntu 14.04 as a guest you need the very latest guest additions to make it work

terdon

@Braiam Yes, if the problem is specific to a particular non-Ubuntu guest, then it's off topic. If the problem will apply to any guest OS installed on VBox on Ubuntu, then it's on topic.

Avinash Raj

15:53

i updated Virtualbox and installed it's corresponding guest additions. Now it resizes fine.

fossfreedom

@AvinashRaj excellent!

Braiam

@terdon when dealing with "virtualization question" the first thing is "where is the problem, guess or host?" then if the cause of the problem is something OT (ie, the guess or the host is not Ubuntu), it gets closed.

Avinash Raj

@fossfreedom link

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Q: Virtualbox not resizing Ubuntu 14.04

I've installed Ubuntu 64bit on Virtualbox 4.2.16. Guest Additions were installed in Ubuntu as well. However the display resolution of Ubuntu does not seem to change as the Virtualbox window is resized or if we were to go into Full Screen mode. Any ideas?

virtualbox resolution screen 14.04

Braiam

it has been like that since always

fossfreedom

@AvinashRaj link xpressubuntu.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/… I got there first!

terdon

15:55

@Braiam Yes. However, for this particular issue, the solution does not depend on the guest OS. It just needs to be run on the guest but it is the same for all guests. It is, therefore, an issue of the Ubuntu program virtualbox.

Braiam

@terdon lets say again you are right: what about fedora?

fossfreedom

anyway folks - open the window and breath in the fresh air - might be more productive

terdon

^^^^^^

fossfreedom

5pm - home-time for me. bbl

Avinash Raj

@fossfreedom nice :-)

terdon

16:04

@Braiam there, I posted an answer giving a nice, GUI, Ubuntu-based solution. There is a menu item in the vbox app that lets you do this ==> host-side solution.

Dan

Was this edit of mine unneeded? (just need to know for future reference)

Avinash Raj

@foss Ubuntu 14.04 + Nvidia optimus laptops.

Richard

@Dan seems valid to me

Avinash Raj

is there any posts in your site about installing nvidia drivers in Ubuntu 14.04(optimus laptops)?

From this list, which one i have to select

Seth

@Dan Ugh, people should almost never use that option...

Mateo

16:18

@AvinashRaj I would choose the biggest number, if more than one of that the one with updates

But optimus so who knows.

Avinash Raj

you mean the 3rd one 337

yes, optimus.

i think it's better to install bumblebee-nvidia rather than installing the nvidia packages from the above list.

Mateo

@AvinashRaj that is my logic for regular cards...

Dan

@Seth Cool. thought I was just being paranoid.

Avinash Raj

First i thought sed commands are so tougher on seeing a large sed command. But now only i realized sed commands are so so so easier than any other text processing tool.

chaskes

@Dan It was a good edit

@Dan In fact, I felt a little sheepish since I had edited right before you and missed that.

Dan

16:55

3 years 3 months later, Ask Ubuntu apparently still doesn't believe I'm human. It just asked me for a captcha verification after I submited my asnwer!

Richard

@Dan The system has seen too many scifi movies

Rinzwind

17:34

so it seems people still use assembly :P

xiaodongjie

17:56

bye. good evening.

jrg

18:09

@lucio yo waddup?

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