Ask Ubuntu General Room

Mateo

00:51

hi @DougSmythies I like your user picture

RPi Awesomeness

01:07

Does anyone know why my wacom tablet is recognizing the pen ~3-4 inches off the pad? It's kinda annoying...

And, does anyone know how to fix it.

chaskes

Sounds like it's infrared?

RPi Awesomeness

@chaskes That's the thing, it's a contact tablet and it's definitely not supposed to do that

chaskes

Ok, that's all I had.

RPi Awesomeness

Thanks for trying :)

Mateo

01:44

@RPiAwesomeness oh, my wacom did that when the pen pressure tip was broke :( had to buy an new pen

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo Nooooo. That had better not be it...I already had to return the first one I got 'cause the reciever was broken

Mateo

does yours also have a eraser?

two ends on the pen?

RPi Awesomeness

Plus, it's not actually drawing, it's just moving the pen on the screen.

@Mateo Um..it's got one nib

And the pen has a button on it that I'm not sure what it does.

Mateo

usually for shortcuts

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo Yeah, probably

Mateo

01:48

if it is a toggle up/down you can assign it to make the brush smaller/bigger

or if just one button, map it to undo

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo I guess? I can't make sense of the Wacom settings within system settings...

Mateo

@RPiAwesomeness huh, sounds bad. you should be able to move it slightly off the surface, but then draw by pressure

send a picture of your settings

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo @Mateo Yeah. I don't know why it's doing this. It's usable, but because of the way it does this hovery stuff, it makes it really hard to actually use.

Because I'll be doing something in the air, then go to tap, and it screws everything up :P

Mateo

is it clicking without touching the pad?

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo No

So I don't think it's the nib

Mateo

01:55

oh, then I think you are ok

RPi Awesomeness

The detection thing is just hyper sensitive

Mateo

did you try mouse mode?

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo Trackpad mode?

And yes, I did

Oh well. I'll look into it more tomorrow. G'night folks. Dang 9PM computer curfew

Mateo

later

Nathan Osman

02:31

NSIS isn't working very well...

File: "C:/Users/Nathan/Documents/repositories/nitroshare/src/data/header.bmp" -> no files found.

...even though the file does indeed exist.

Wut.

> "There is a "bug" in the NSIS installer that refuses to extract the file name properly when there are only "/" forward slashes in the file name..."

Lame. That is incredibly lame.

And double escaping slashes is not cool.

Virusboy

@NathanOsman Double slashes for anything is lame

Doug Smythies

@Mateo Thanks for the comment. I didn't see it earlier, still finding my way around.

Mateo

02:46

sure. always nice to see new people around.

Doug Smythies

I've been on forums for a few years, but people kept saying try askubuntu.

Mateo

yep, it's a bit different, but I like the focus on question/answers

that and the chat is fun :)

Doug Smythies

Agreed. I am struggling to get to 50 points thou, so I can comment.

Virusboy

Find a decent question you know the answer to

Doug Smythies

I have, or so I think, but don't get anything out of the answers.

it'll come.

Mateo

02:51

you can also suggest edits, make sure you find a few things to edit in another a post - say spelling + capitalization + a bit of formatting what is code, paragraph spacing. then you can get rep for doing some of that.

Doug Smythies

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it.

Virusboy

03:30

0

Q: How to remove disk lock

I have installed ubuntu 14:04 version, I already write the password on the disk. turns out it was too long for me, I want to disable it, how? I am a beginner, need an answer

does he mean pwd?

Joshua Robison

03:43

anyone know where I can get some definitive research / benchmark evidence as to the resource performance of various different desktop environments?

I have some old hardware and have been going crazy installing various DEs with no luck

everything is laggy

Nathan Osman

I think Phoronix makes a benchmark tool.

Joshua Robison

I specially am interested in Elementary freya / Unity / gnome-shell / cinnamon 17.1 (with compiz) / the new plasma with kwin

@NathanOsman

@NathanOsman, but then I'd have to install each one and benchmark them right?

not to sound lazy but

Nathan Osman

Probably.

Joshua Robison

I was hoping someone has already done this

plus I am lazy

j0h

04:26

sensors -A | awk {'print $3'} | sed 's/+\|°C//g'
prints the percore temprature of each core. Can anyone think up a simple way to produce one line of output, posibly in csv type fromat?

No Time

05:43

@JoshuaRobison are you asking the memory usage benchmark?

This one is usually close

KDE is most memory intense, with TinyWM, and some other lesser known at top (bottom on usage)

Unity is a little more than GNOME, and Cinnamon is much less

This was pre-plasma I believe though

Much more recent flexion.org/posts/…

Nathan Osman

JWM... shivers...

No Time

Is it Jim's or who was it?

The link has better results, but not as visually appealing

and a year newer

@NathanOsman do you use a different desktop manager

Nathan Osman

06:01

I use Unity.

Though I've used both Gnome 3 and KDE in the past.

No Time

Were you the one who wrote lenses?

Nathan Osman

I don't think I wrote any lenses.

Virusboy

I use Cinnamon

No Time

hehe at " i dont think"

@Virusboy on mint?

Virusboy

no Trusty

Nathan Osman

06:04

E17 (Enlightenment) is pretty lightweight.

I installed it on an old netbook and it made a huge difference.

Virusboy

Cinnamon is a LW option for DE in Ubuntu

No Time

I installed enlightenment over the top of ubuntu, it made it kinda slower.. but I had tweaked the heck out of my system

and I ended up pointing to wrong ppa

first experience with dependency hell

@Virusboy i thought it was supposed to be lightweight for Gnome3/2

oh not KDE :)

Virusboy

No, its considered a stand alone

No Time

I was reading that as KDE not DE

I love being able to press super button and find any program

so that's why I like gnome/unity

Like I do super then fire to open ff

or, super then libre to open librewriter

and i would rather not mess too much with other things

Virusboy

Cinnamon has the search feature in super, but it resembles a more 2000 look

No Time

06:11

Is it like Windows?

Virusboy

yes

its GUI very much resembles it

tomorrow ill ping you a SS

No Time

I am actually not a fan of Windows GUI anymore, but if I started with that I probably would like it

I hate icons on the desktop :)

Virusboy

I dont mind the Windows GUI, i just hate the Kernel(Or lack thereof)

No Time

It just feels watered down after messing with linux

esp. cmd

Virusboy

well just remember its standard in Mint

No Time

06:14

even powershell

Virusboy

In other news, Winblows has once again borked my synpatics install and can now no longer turn off my touchpad

No Time

Yeah Mint used to pretty much just be Ubuntu with a diff desktop, but has grown even since I have messed with linux

Like it borked synaptics in windas?

Virusboy

yea

it works but past getting it reintergrated with winblows is no longer a concern

No Time

Ah ok.

I need to sleep I am starting to doze

have a good night!

Virusboy

same
night

Nathan Osman

06:19

Apparently, Windows doesn't like the BMPs that Gimp exports.

I built an NSIS installer and it wouldn't display the bitmaps at all. Resaved them in paint and they display without issue :P

@Fabby: just FYI, I took the time to build an MSI installer as well as an EXE installer for both x86 and x64. So you have four installers to choose from :P

Nathan Osman

06:44

^--- Windows installer

@Mateo: they've now bumped CMake 3.2 to Feb. 10 (next Tuesday).

hbdgaf

07:03

@NathanOsman and such are the problems of building to spec...

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness: no I've never heard about Amway until you told me... Why?

@NathanOsman (y)

Whaaaaaat

07:19

@RPiAwesomeness I feel your pain.

I'm trying to download LoL on a 100kb/s connection fml

Mateo

10:31

@NathanOsman strange

user136984

10:53

This is probably the funniest thing I have seen today in the review queue! :D

user136984

It is just so strange...

user136984

And it is by "A good man"! :D

user136984

It is here:

user136984

-5

A: How do I download VirtualBox on Lubuntu 13.10?

Your Answer Thanks for contributing an answer to Ask Ubuntu! •Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research! But avoid … •Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. •Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or persona...

Fabby

11:07

@Toroidal: :D

Also flagged for deletion now...

;-)

user136984

Good.

user136984

:D

user136984

It was funny how it was listing the rules, some of which it was breaking! :D

Fabby

@Oli: what should I do with this answer? I told the guy 4 days ago to clean up his excrement, he was on-line 2 days ago, and no change... Flag for deletion? Or shrug and move on?

user136984

@Fabby: Which answer?

user136984

11:15

I think that it had been removed.

Fabby

I think that the deletion was Oli's answer...

>:)

He must be busy!

user136984

:D

user136984

What did the answer say?

user136984

Which was deleted.

Oli

11:36

I edited it down and converted it to the comment that's sitting under the question now. It's not useful enough as an answer might still be worth mentioning to the OP.

user136984

Ok

user136984

By the way guys, I have posted a feature request here, what do you think?

user136984

0

Q: New type of flag - feature request

I think that a really useful flag would be one that you can use to flag "Questions" with that actually within them contain questions nothing to do with each other, so in fact questions that should be asked separately. So that you can for example flag a question which reads something like (and le...

feature-request flags

user136984

Well... Turns out it wasn't very popular... :(

user136984

So that's going out the window! :D

user136984

11:47

Oh wait!

user136984

It's too heavy for me to throw out the window!

user136984

I can't lift it!

user136984

And throw it out!

user136984

:D

user136984

Maybe I should try again at lifting it!

user136984

11:48

Heave-ho Heave-ho....

user136984

Smash!

user136984

I didn't realise it was larger than the window...

user136984

So if went right through some of the window!

user136984

But at least I managed to throw it out the window successfully!

user136984

:D

user136984

11:50

Third time lifting it lucky I guess then! ;D

user136984

In other words... It didn't want to delete for a while because it already was answered... :D

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

12:06

0

Q: how to logrotate openerp-server.log to openerp-server-YY-MM-DD.log

how to setup logrotate openerp-server.log to openerp-server-YY-MM-DD.log?

ubuntu

user136984

I am getting fed up with all this spam!

Takkat

How they think people in the Circle of Friends look like.

user136984

12:25

I have created several aliases for commands in Terminal, but how would I remove these aliases if I wanted to?

Takkat

22

Q: How to remove an alias?

I want to remove gs alias from my PC. When type gs it will open the Ghost Script. But I checked everywhere in the home directory .alias .bash_aliases .bashrc I also overwrite the gs with my custom alias. I can't remove it. And I also type alias in terminal, in the list I could't find it Ple...

command-line alias

Rinz for the rescue ;)

user136984

@Takkat: Thanks! :)

Fabby

@Toroidal: question removed?

user136984

@Fabby: What question?

Fabby

:D

:P

Rinzwind

12:37

@Takkat i see my name used idle!

Fabby

I had two pings, but was busy on another viewport...

Takkat

@Rinzwind to make people klick on that link I posted to then upvote you :)

user136984

@Fabby: Oh yes... I asked some questions which I thought that you would be able to answer, so I pinged you. But then someone else quickly answered my question, and so as not to bother you I thought I would remove the messages where I pinged you! :D But I guess it didn't work out exactly as I thought it would... :D

Fabby

The pings stay, but the message was indeed removed, so I had no clue what you were talking about.

Rinzwind

@Takkat I got 2. so must be fabby and someone else (I assume you stalked me long enough to already upvoted me >:) )

Fabby

12:40

I was confused, you were confusing! ;-)

user136984

:D

Fabby

@Rinzwind: I regularly go out and look what interesting answers you've come up with...

(so that I can learn and upvote)

I don't do it every day as I'm scared it might be considered vote fraud...

and the algorithm is secret...

Takkat

@Rinzwind -4000 serial upvote removed :P

Rinzwind

wow I have 2 stalkers it seems >:-D

Fabby

No, it's more like 30-40 / day... I have to learn something!

Not all of Rinzwind's answers are gems...

(but then also: not many questions are brilliant!)

>:)

Smoke! BRB!

Rinzwind

12:43

@Fabby I only post gems if the questions deserves it

Fabby

That's what I was trying to infer...

:P

user136984

@Fabby: You know, every time you say "Smoke!" an image of a smoked fish pops into my head! :D

Fabby

:D

The other night there was someone in the chat room on the East coast

that answered:

If you see smoke in your building I advise you to leave the premises...

en 3 minutes later:

Hello?

and another 3 minutes:

I hope you're fine!

:D

user136984

:D

Fabby

@Rinzwind: have you ever connected 2 linux machines with a cross-cable?

Do they get a fake IP address like Windows?

Googling it, it looks like it's manual...

Rinzwind

12:54

That is manual as far as I remember

Fabby

Thanks for the confirmation! ;-)

Rinzwind

VTD please. answer is wrong and removes data askubuntu.com/a/419274/15811

Same VTD. plain wrong and deletes data: askubuntu.com/a/547579/15811

Oli

Is there anything important in ~/.skype?

Fabby

13:10

looking

@Oli No, nothing that will not be recreated at next login... (chat history etc.)

@NathanOsman: first AU question ever solved by nitroshare! :-)

Rinzwind

@Oli well the log they want to delete are NOT there. skype stores the chat hist on their own servers nowadays

Oli

Fair enough

Rinzwind

@Fabby lol and 1st upvote >:)

Fabby

>:) And filed my first bug!

Rinzwind

the msn.db .... I thought MS killed msn >:-D

Fabby

13:14

:D Nathan is going to hate me for ever asking me to test this!

Rinzwind

Sorry @oli I have a problem with posts that only have a "do this 'rm ...'" even it is correct. I'd expect both an explanation AND a backup commando :-D

user136984

14:24

@Fabby: Looks like we have a "comuter" here: ;D

user136984

0

Q: What should I d to Install?

I have burned the iso file of ubuntu to a DVD. But when i tried to install the OS on restarting the comuter the PC bypassed the CD and booted from the Hard Disk.

iso

user136984

I just saw the above image and felt compelled to share it! :D :P

user136984

14:53

@Fabby: What is the point of this?:

user136984

-1

Q: What are the urls of radio rai for radiotray

From January 2015 I am unable to listen Radio Rai from radiotry. What are the new urls?

internet-radio

user136984

-1

A: What are the urls of radio rai for radiotray

The new urls are: Radio Rai 1 http://icestreaming.rai.it/1.mp3 Radio Rai 2 http://icestreaming.rai.it/2.mp3 have a nice day

fossfreedom

official announcement (at last) of the Ubuntu Phone! insights.ubuntu.com/2015/02/06/…

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: How convert these output into human readable format

I just ping the google.com, then i checked in the wireshark it give some output icmp. Like this 0000 c8 d3 a3 c9 a6 f4 9c 2a 70 cd f2 c5 08 00 45 00 .......* p.....E. 0010 00 54 6c b0 40 00 40 01 d5 89 c0 a8 01 02 4a 7d .Tl.@.@. ......J} 0020 ec 47 08 00 f7 14 4b 6b 00 02 ae d2 d4 54 0...

ubuntu wireshark

Fabby

@Toroidal: closing an leaving a note

user136984

14:57

>:)

user136984

:D

Fabby

@fossfreedom: I don't know what tools that moderators have but the user here smells like a human/robot getting ready to spam...

(credit to @Toroidal for noticing)

fossfreedom

doubtful - has already answered something a few months back - not the normal "mo" of a spammer

user136984

Aww...

user136984

:(

user136984

15:09

I'm always rather sad when I come to the end of my review queue and it tells me to come back tomorrow... :(

user136984

15:21

This could just be a mistake and I don't really know what that site is that this person is talking about:

user136984

0

Q: I'm trying to play a video on youtube but everytime I got this screen

http://goo.gl/OHxlUB photo.. I have installed adobe flash player through ubuntu software centre.

youtube

user136984

But, the site which they are referring to is on several blacklists for being malicious, phishing and it is also on a Spamhaus blacklist.

user136984

@Fabby: Do you know if this link is anything to worry about? Or if it it just a normal URL shortener which happens for some reason to have not such a good reputation?

user136984

Because I have seen many other trusted URL shorteners on major blacklists.

Fabby

Looking

looks like MadMike is on it already.

user136984

15:34

Right... Seems to be fine now. It just worried me when I saw it on many major blacklists for being malicious, and the origin of spamming. Also the fact that it is here in the PhishTank database for being a phish worried me.

user136984

But I suppose that that will happen to any URL shortener which is used for those sorts of things. Actually it is a rather good and sneaky way of doing it, so that your spammy/malicious site does not get blacklisted, but instead the URL shortener does.

user136984

16:17

Could somebody please take a look at my question here: :)

user136984

0

Q: Location of "~/.bash_aliases"

I want to make permanent aliases in Terminal, and I have read this answer on how to do it: http://askubuntu.com/a/5278/364819 But I have got a small problem, I have found the code: if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then . ~/.bash_aliases fi As refereed to in the answer. But I cannot actually fin...

14.10 bashrc alias

user136984

Maybe @Fabby?

user136984

:)

user136984

@Fabby: Ahh... Somebody already answered it, so that is fine now. :)

Mateo

16:47

@Toroidal that would be spam

ByteCommander

Hey people...

Mateo

hi

RPi Awesomeness

@Whaaaaaat What pain? :D I've got plenty of things causing me pain, digitally anyways :P

Mateo

@fossfreedom hopefully they ship over here, as I totally use wifi all the time and don't really use a "phone" to talk on...

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby Yeah. So, I went on a tour of their world headquarters (~20 min from my house) for school and they had a computer set up where you could get your face scanned and then they would recommend which of their beauty products would help you the most.

Me, being bored out of my skull, was just derping around.

ByteCommander

16:56

@RPiAwesomeness Be happy to just be a bit bored...

RPi Awesomeness

I decided to hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, just to see if it did anything (I know, I know, for shame) and it brought up the task manager...

Mateo

hm, brings up lock screen on unity for me

ByteCommander

I'm bored and ill... brother infected me with a cold... :(

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness: :D Now I'm absolutely sure you're a girl! :P ;-) >:)

Mateo

I used to map it to the task manager on my old computer

RPi Awesomeness

16:57

and I was able to interact with Windows (it was running Windows XP). So, being the hax0r I am, I hit Win+R...

ByteCommander

@RPiAwesomeness I get the logout screen with Ctrl-Alt-Del

RPi Awesomeness

@ByteCommander The computer was running Windows XP

It's not mine

Mateo

@ByteCommander they usually lock that one down if they are "smart"

Fabby

@ByteCommander: I have a good recipe against cold:

ByteCommander

Oh, you're on Win? Shame on you!! ;D

Fabby

16:57

1/3 hot lemon juice

Mateo

strawberries

Fabby

1/6 th honey

RPi Awesomeness

Anyways. It brought up the Windows run dialog, and I was able to launch a command prompt.

Fabby

1/6h orange juice

1/3rd whiskey!

RPi Awesomeness

I didn't have time to do anything really l33t, so I just ran echo You have been Hax0rd

and left.

@Fabby Wait...why am I a girl??!??

ByteCommander

16:59

Oops, have to go... Sorry - Bye!

RPi Awesomeness

Yeah. I was bored and "hax0rd" and international company in their own headquarters. Nothing major.

Fabby

"you could get your face scanned and then they would recommend which of their beauty products would help you the most"

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby Like I said. I was bored out of my skull.

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