Ask Ubuntu General Room - 2011-10-01 (page 1 of 2)

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Jorge Castro

00:02

@GeorgeEdison for the lens we want to put it in USC, so everything needs to be self contained in /opt

even the data

developer.ubuntu.com/publish/my-apps-packages

Marco Ceppi

@Greg OH, You wanted to match the end path too, so long as it had html or js

I thought you wanted only the path with the exception of the file

Jorge Castro

ok

today is the day I figure out stacktack

George Edison

StackTack?

Jorge Castro

143

Q: StackTack, a JavaScript widget you can stick anywhere

Screenshot / Code Snippet <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://app.stacktack.com/jquery.stacktack.min.js"></script> <script...

app javascript jquery widget

heh

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://app.stacktack.com/jquery.stacktack.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$(document).stacktack( {onlyShowAcceptedAnswer: true, site: 'askubuntu.com'} );
});
</script>

@MarcoCeppi this look correct to you?

Marco Ceppi

Yup

This is what I use on my blog:

$(document).stacktack( {site: 'askubuntu.com', onlyShowAcceptedAnswer: true, stylesheet: 'http://marcoceppi.com/wp-content/themes/classica-package/classica/css/stacktack.min.css' } );

Jorge Castro

00:16

oh

did you make yours orange?

Marco Ceppi

Not yet, I've been meaning to

Still looks like this: marcoceppi.com/2011/06/fork-bombs-they-still-exist

George Edison

@JorgeCastro Can the data dump be in a separate package?

Marco Ceppi

I probably won't make it crazy orange all over. Just use some of the font styling and colors from the main site

Jorge Castro

yeah

@GeorgeEdison for now put it in the same package

like, when we really want to go into the archive we should

or, you can submit both packages I guess

castrojo.tumblr.com/post/4795149014/…

aha! Got it!

George Edison

Okay...

Marco Ceppi

00:19

ew, you've got list-styles bleeding over

but at least it's working now!

Jorge Castro

yeah

Marco Ceppi

I'll clean up my css file and publish it for people to use

Jorge Castro

oh bummer, no way to only show the answer

but whatever, it beats maintaining this crap in my blog

Marco Ceppi

No way...yet

true

Actually. Work calls - AU StackTack CSS will have to wait until tomorrow morning

George Edison

I can't get Ubuntu to boot from a USB stick :(

I've used the application on the LiveCD to copy the data from the installation CD to a USB stick...

...but it won't boot.

Marco Ceppi

00:27

I've forked it on bitbucket, I'll just track my changes there

George Edison

Does the USB stick need a certain filesystem? Does Fat32 not work?

Jorge Castro

00:38

to install TO it?

I would think you'd need it

jrg

00:50

Today is the day I pretend to figure out stacktack.

(yes, I stole that line from Jorge. :P)

Questions Feed

01:07

Can you answer this? Assigning keyboard shortcuts to multi-monitor configurations http://askubuntu.com/questions/25921/assigning-keyboard-shortcuts-to-multi-monitor-configurations #nvidia

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on October 1, 2011 at 1:01 AM

George Edison

01:20

Let me try booting it with the USB stick again.

Okay, I get a message saying:

> "SYSLINUX 3.82 2009-06-09 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2009 H. Peter Anvin et all"

...and a blinking cursor and then nothing.

What am I doing wrong?

Capt.Nemo

01:35

^Try unetbootin

George Edison

I did.

I'm trying the Universal USB Installer now.

Heh! There we go!

Hrm... a little on the slow side.

George Edison

01:51

...and the wireless is a little flakey.

Heh... it's taking down the whole router :P

That does it... I'm installing Ubuntu to disk on this machine.

George Edison

02:19

Thanks, HP! You've loaded the machine with 4 primary partitions so now I have to delete one to create an extended partition!

So frustrating.

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

03:38

0

Q: Having a bash script run at startup and display the results when I log in

I am running Ubuntu 11.04 and I want to be able to run a command like top so when I login it is running in a window. I been trying many things for a while now and can't seem to get it to work I added entries in the control panel under start up programs, but that didn't seem to work. I tried bot...

George Edison

04:15

...and the FilestoreCache class is now complete!

Complete with atomic file operations too!

Questions Feed

Can you answer this? Cloud storage that works with rsnapshot? http://askubuntu.com/questions/25200/cloud-storage-that-works-with-rsnapshot #backup

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on October 1, 2011 at 4:01 AM

George Edison

04:47

I have a special preview for all of you interested in working with the Stack Exchange API in PHP: docs.google.com/document/…

4

Amith KK

Hello people

George Edison

NOTE: disregard the section on how to download the code.

Amith KK

Now Downloading

George Edison

You will need to checkout 'lp:~george-edison55/stackphp/0.4-series'

Amith KK

k

George Edison

04:49

@AmithKK Er... how can you? :) It doesn't exist.

Feedback on the document is welcome.

Amith KK

@GeorgeEdison Yes, i meant i clicked the link

@GeorgeEdison launchpad.net/stackphp/0.3/stackphp0.3/+download/…

George Edison

That's the old version.

Amith KK

The link :D

George Edison

It won't look anything like what the document describes.

It isn't compatible at all.

You can at least see the code here: bazaar.launchpad.net/~george-edison55/stackphp/0.4-series/files

Amith KK

can i get an editable link from docs?

George Edison

04:56

Unfortunately not at this point. Why do you need one?

Amith KK

ill uload it onto my blinkenshell

George Edison

Why would you want to do that?

Couldn't you just save the HTML for the document?

Amith KK

ill see that

amith.blinkenshell.org/stackphp.html

George Edison

Yup, that worked.

@MarcoCeppi: I couldn't help but think of you when I saw this: shouldiusetablesforlayout.com

Marco Ceppi

haha

George Edison

05:04

Hm... FlackBot finally went down.

Amith KK

@GeorgeEdison That is ALOT like him

@GeorgeEdison the server went for maintanence yday

and all users got "Stack is down for unscheduled maintanance"

George Edison

He's back now.

Amith KK

hi flaky

George Edison

I can't remember why I wanted him... oh yeah!

@FlackBot: WHOIS shouldiusetablesforlayout.com

FlackBot

pastebin.com/k4HS5tTe

George Edison

05:06

Thanks.

I know I'm copying stuff from other rooms but... lol.

user image

Amith KK

@FlackBot Dang, i thought the Owner would me Marco ;)

FlackBot

try_to_understand(what_you_said) == FALSE

Amith KK

oh, i forgot flacky inteprets it as a command

Marco Ceppi

I am learning to code! http://i.imgur.com/EwrcP.png

Tweeted by sara_dactyl on October 1, 2011 at 4:35 AM

Amith KK

@GeorgeEdison Cant you make a function in flacky that make it ignore a user when 4 invalid commands are given?

@MarcoCeppi Nice

follows Sara_Dactyl

laughs head off, reading her tweets

Amith KK

05:33

Anybody wants some testing to be done?

George Edison

@MarcoCeppi PHP? Neat! Did you see my announcement?

Alvar

morning :P

Alvar

05:55

@MarcoCeppi no way?!

btw, isn't that a bit late...

Amith KK

06:08

Nobody wants any testing?

forgot to turn off transliterator

M!₢₀$₀₣₸

Alvar

06:27

lols

htorque

07:07

goedemorgen!

Amith KK

@htorque If you aint busy can ya help out with my project? (Its on Computer ethics)

Alvar

yay

Amith KK

So, can ya?

(helping out by friends are allowed)

Questions Feed

Can you answer this? Italic text in Steam under Wine http://askubuntu.com/questions/24549/italic-text-in-steam-under-wine #wine

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on October 1, 2011 at 7:01 AM

Amith KK

@Rinzwind :?

Amith KK

07:40

Nobody?

George Edison

08:01

Cool feature-request:

0

Q: Can user profile pages please contain rich snippet data?

For those of you who haven't heard of rich snippets, it essentially involves inserting special data into HTML markup that describe content on the page. The benefit would be really neat looking search results on Google. For example (and this is just an example), my Stack Overflow profile might lo...

feature-request profile-page

^--- Please vote for.

Amith KK

+1

George Edison

08:14

Night all... it's passed 1am here.

FlackBot

Goodbye!

Amith KK

08:32

hi @Explorer

Explorer

hi

Amith KK

are you busy?

Gmail is down?

htorque

@AmithKK what you want me to do? i'm actually busy but i at least can take a look ;)

Amith KK

@htorque linode.jamesrgifford.com:9001/p/Project

htorque

brain hacking?

don't you mean social engineering?

Amith KK

08:46

Wait.. where?

htorque

@FlackBot lookup social engineering (security)

FlackBot

Social engineering

Social engineering may refer to: * Social engineering (political science), efforts to influence society on a large scale * Social engineering (security), the practice of obtaining confidential information by manipulating and/or deceiving people. * "Applied sociology" refers to efforts to fix a sociological problem in a society. For the early history of the term, see * Social engineer

Amith KK

@htorque Change it

htorque

i won't do your homework! :P

Amith KK

not my h/w

Greg

08:51

morning

Amith KK

mornong @Greg

Greg

09:23

having trouble tidying up my mail server

gotta do it over the weekend when the clients are not in the office

... sucks

Questions Feed

10:22

When I type in terminal: export JDK_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/", where does it get stored? http://askubuntu.com/questions/63847/when-i-type-in-terminal-export-jdk-home-usr-lib-jvm-java-6-sun-where-does-i #terminal

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on October 1, 2011 at 10:01 AM

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Alaukik

11:28

1

Q: Backgroun Doesn't Fit With Screen

I'm facing another problem with Unity these days. Current problem is about the background orientation. I have attached the image to the question so you can view and recognize what the problem is. Thanks in advance. https://i.sstatic.net/Cw3sK.png

11.10 background

should be closed becuase its a bug?

2 hours later…

Questions Feed

13:14

Ubuntu 11.10 powers down automatically http://askubuntu.com/questions/63874/ubuntu-11-10-powers-down-automatically #powermanagement

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on October 1, 2011 at 1:01 PM

Marco Ceppi

13:32

@AmithKK You're mixing up crackers with hackers. Hackers typically aren't people who do illegal things, like you've outlined. Those are crackers. Please see the wiki article for more history on the misuse of this term.

Hacker (computer security)

In computer security and everyday language, a hacker is someone who breaks into computers and computer networks. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, including profit, protest, or because of the challenge. While other uses of the word hacker exist that are not related to computer security, they are rarely used in mainstream context. They are subject to the long standing hacker definition controversy about the true meaning of the term hacker. In this controversy, the term hacker is reclaimed by computer programmers who argue that someone breaking into computers is better c...

Roland Taylor

13:44

yay...

someone downvoted an old answer with lots of upvotes (pure evil)

1 hour later…

Amith KK

14:58

@MarcoCeppi Thanks!

But rather

our computer textbook

mentions them as hackers (i think)

Justin Andrusk

@AmithKK Also check out, catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/hacker.html

Amith KK

[originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe]< LOL

Marco Ceppi

@AmithKK A lot of people do. WE'RE TAKING IT BACK THOUGH

Amith KK

15:17

Is there any bulk image downloader for ubuntu

Justin Andrusk

What type of images?

If your talking about Ubuntu ISO images, I just use Rsync in a shell script that's in my daily cron folder.

Stefano Palazzo

15:46

> Hacking is harmful to the security and well-being of an individual or an organisation

uhm

diginotar is bankrupt by the way. so, hacking didn't work out so badly there

that is to say, I couldn't disagree more :)

Amith KK

@JustinAndrusk .JPG'S

@StefanoPalazzo ok

Yo! @nitstorm

nitstorm

16:01

hey @AmithKK wassup?

Amith KK

did you see the techtoyz ep.?

Roland Taylor

Hi

Amith KK

Hi @RandomTaylor

nitstorm

@AmithKK wasn't able to buffer it fully, internet super-slow :(

Roland Taylor

I saw it, but they made the usual mistakes of people not familiar with/trying to window-zize Ubuntu and related software

nitstorm

16:03

@RolandTaylor Hello !

Amith KK

@nitstorm i mean, did you see it LIVE on TV

nitstorm

@AmithKK Nope, TV is strictly mom's territory. No trespassers allowed :P

2

Roland Taylor

lol

hi @JustinAndrusk

where is @jrg?

I need to try Banshee in a clean profile and see if it works...

Amith KK

@RolandTaylor raises hand

i never touched my banshee.. yet

Roland Taylor

for? :P

Questions Feed

16:06

Bounty offered: Why does rsa key authentication only work when samba access is made? http://askubuntu.com/questions/61222/why-does-rsa-key-authentication-only-work-when-samba-access-is-made #server

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on October 1, 2011 at 4:01 PM

Roland Taylor

oh.....

Well... I used to use it every day... until it refused to start.

0

Q: What is wrong with my banshee installation and how can I fix it?

When I try to launch banshee this what I get: [Info 20:28:13.619] Running Banshee 2.2.0: [Ubuntu oneiric (development branch) (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2011-09-23 04:47:58 UTC] Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "rgba" Exception in Gtk# callback delegate Note: Applications can use GLib.ExceptionM...

Amith KK

What do you want me to do?

Roland Taylor

Reported 2 bugs (as instructed), and not a single reply :)

@AmithKK nothing :P

I will do the testing on my system :D

Amith KK

It starts here

Roland Taylor

I was asking for jrg because he is normally on (that's all).

Amith KK

16:08

0 updates availabe

gir1.2-caribou-1.0

^ my friend read that as girl .2-caribou-1.0

He Was like "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU UPTO!?"

@RolandTaylor which is the most 1+'d post on 2buntu?

Roland Taylor

@AmithKK I'm not sure actually.

We tend not to get a lot of community feedback. We're still in the traction-gaining phase.

Amith KK

How old is 2buntu?

Roland Taylor

it's been around since March

jrg

17:14

@JustinAndrusk Afternoon.

@RolandTaylor I'm right here.

Roland Taylor

hai

ugh gajim wouldn't open the msg

restarting

jrg

hehe, you need to use something else for IM dude.

Roland Taylor

Oh sweet, unity restarts after crashes now...

if only it would crash less often...

BTW - for the record, Gajim is awesome - I only get problems cause I use Nightly builds (has more features).

George Edison

17:47

@RolandTaylor: You need help with recording your desktop on VLC?

Roland Taylor

Yep :D

I can't do it right now (about to play 0 A.D), but a tutorial would be nice :D

George Edison

Well... I do have this:

Super User Blog: Working with VLC Media Player – Part 2 of 2

Posted by George Edison on April 9th, 2011

In the last article, I explained how to stream content using VLC. In this article, we’re going to take a look at using VLC to transcode files as well as how to control VLC with any Internet-connected device.

VLC ships with a number of built-in encoders for a wide range of different file formats. According to this page, the list of all of the video formats currently supported includes:

MPEG-1 Part 2

MPEG-2 Part 2

MJPEG (A/B)

Divx (1, 2, 3)

DivX 4, 5, 6 , 3ivx D4, MPEG-4

MPEG-4 Part 2 (AVP), Xvid …

2

I wrote that earlier in the year.

Roland Taylor

ty :D

George Edison

Just use the Desktop Capture Device when you're selecting a source.

Roland Taylor

ohhh

George Edison

17:53

Hey!

Maybe this should go on 2buntu.

Roland Taylor

Yes! Indeed!

jrg

@GeorgeEdison If I give you access to the theme code, can you add stacktack? can't get it to work

Roland Taylor

fires up 0 A.D

nitstorm

@GeorgeEdison Sweet idea :)

George Edison

@jrg ...to 2buntu?

jrg

18:06

@GeorgeEdison Yes.

George Edison

I can at least look at it.

jrg

OK. That'd be a great help, I probably just made a typo somewhere. :L

htorque

hi

what's in the news?

jrg

I'm now public ubuntu enemy number one?

htorque

i thought you are an ubuntu fanboy :P

jrg

18:21

LOL, I show up for that? :P

htorque

user image

jrg

ROFL

George Edison

2buntu.com/2011/10/01/how-to-record-your-desktop-with-vlc

@RolandTaylor: There you go ----^

Roland Taylor

XD!!!!

htorque

haha, jorge's shoes:

user image

user image

"god's shoes" ↑

jrg

18:28

lolwhut.

Roland Taylor

haha?

George Edison

@jrg: So what do I have to do to fix the CSS for StackTack?

jrg

@GeorgeEdison Ok, what I did was go here, then I added this to header.php - it's something I did there that prevents it from working.

Roland Taylor

they see me trollin, they be hatin...

George Edison

@jrg Alrighty... I'll take a look.

jrg

18:37

If it helps, this is what marco uses - chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/201?m=2066497#2066497

George Edison

@jrg Now do you have a page that uses StackTack that I can test?

jrg

yes. - 2buntu.com/stacktackworkplox

We had another one, but it looks like Roland killed it.

George Edison

Found at least one bug off the bat.

Hrm... it won't update.

@jrg: I can't get the page to update.

I've changed header.php but the changes don't show on that page you linked me.

Even a hard refresh is fruitless.

Oh... hang on... it's just Chrome.

CHROME: REFRESH THE PAGE!!!

:(

jrg

18:52

isn't working in firefox either.

"Uncaught ReferenceError: askubuntu is not defined"

George Edison

You needed to quote that.

askubuntu.com => 'askubuntu.com'

I've fixed that but it won't refresh.

htorque

thisisthecountdown.com

whats this

jrg

@htorque IDK, and I'm the IRC channel op. :P

@GeorgeEdison :(

htorque

ubuntu isnt released in 10d 10h :P

jrg

@htorque You aren't the only one to raise a ruckus about that.

George Edison

18:55

Aha... you guys have "WP Super Cache".

jrg

So if we dump the cache, then we might be set?

George Edison

I'll try it.

WOOHOO!

Sort of...

Needs some adjustment still.

jrg

WHOA. Awesome.

George Edison

Almost there...

Perfect.

3

Take a look now.

jrg

AWESOME.

Thanks.

George Edison

18:58

Eeeexcept for some underlining.

jrg

Minor details. :P

George Edison

I'm going to fix it.

We want only the best.

jrg

Ok, I'm going to go back and re-do all the pages that have links to AU questions and have them be properly stacktack'ed.

George Edison

There. Much better, no?

nitstorm

@GeorgeEdison Awesomeness!

George Edison

19:05

@jrg: 2buntu.com/2011/09/23/…

There's one ----^

jrg

@GeorgeEdison Cool, looks good from here.

George Edison

Great.

jrg

um, it's borked on post pages: 2buntu.com/2011/09/23/…

George Edison

That's no good :(

Oh no.

StackTack has a bug in it.

We have two choices:

- Fix it and host our own copy of the JS files.

- Contact the author of the plugin.

- Both

(Yes, I realize that's three options.)

jrg

1 for now, then 3.

George Edison

19:13

So... what do you want to do?

jrg

lets fix it, host it, then once it's fixed we'll contact the awesome people over at stacktack.

George Edison

Wait a minute...

There is no question with an ID of 62006.

Did you mean 32065?

jrg

62001

George Edison

It works now.

jrg

Yay!

George Edison

19:19

Well...

Now I have another problem to fix... scroll down the page.

Jacob

@GeorgeEdison hi

George Edison

@Jacob: Hey.

Questions Feed

Bounty offered: Fan control for Ubuntu 11.04? http://askubuntu.com/questions/63588/fan-control-for-ubuntu-11-04 #fan

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on October 1, 2011 at 7:01 PM

nitstorm

This question should be migrated to StackOverflow correct? -askubuntu.com/questions/63911/gstreamer-and-python

George Edison

Probably.

nitstorm

19:23

Roger that. Thanks.

jrg

@nitstorm Flag it as such.

nitstorm

@jrg Flagged it as "off-topic" :)

jrg

@nitstorm That works.

nitstorm

:)

jrg

19:35

bug with stacktack and images: 2buntu.com/2011/09/23/…

George Edison

Working on it.

htorque

19:55

arrr, i'm a pirate now

:>

George Edison

@jrg: I need to copy http://app.stacktack.com/jquery.stacktack.min.js to the 2buntu server so I can edit it.

I have two lines to add that will fix the image bug.

jrg

@GeorgeEdison ok, let me get ahold of our host and see if they have A. FTP access or B. ssh.

@MarcoCeppi Don't suppose we have SSH or FTP access for 2buntu by any chance, do we?

George Edison

As a last resort, we could embed the JS directly onto the page...

...but that's a last resort.

jrg

Hmm... can we possibly use something like paste.ubuntu.com to host it?

OHOHOHOHOH.

Just use your dropbox public folder.

George Edison

We could do that, sure.

jrg

20:05

then once ondina launches with ssh access someone can move it over.

htorque

0

Q: Dash Icons Are Cropped?

I have some problems with Dash which is visible through the picture I've included to this question. Is there any way to get the icons look like normal? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

11.10 icons dash

please close

George Edison

20:34

@jrg: I DID IT. FINALLY.

After some horrible JavaScript / jQuery trickery, I have now fixed the images.

They are now sized a lot nicer and clicking them brings up the full size image.

Alvar

I couldn't find a question regarding this subject...

0

Q: How much free space should I have on my hdd?

I know this could sound like a silly question. But I have always wondered what the free space on a Ubuntu partition should be! Is it 10%? 10GB? or something else? is it specific for this hard drive or only the Ubuntu partition? Is it specific for "/home"? (if you have separate system and pers...

11.04 hard-drive

@GeorgeEdison edited

George Edison

Thanks.

Alvar

good point :)

I have no idea...

isn't swap always on another partition?

George Edison

I don't know... I don't think it has to be.

Alvar

you have to do that when you install linux?! right

George Edison

20:47

What does the command df return?

Alvar

I know it's on a seperate partion...

df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8 116206012 95229544 15073520 87% /
none 890188 696 889492 1% /dev
none 898072 12180 885892 2% /dev/shm
none 898072 436 897636 1% /var/run
none 898072 8 898064 1% /var/lock
/dev/sda1 104857596 94266628 10590968 90% /media/CE005521005511B7

George Edison

Okay, never mind. That was the wrong command.

Alvar

xD

if swap is on the same partition then I would add that not the other way around (the normal way)

a mac has for instance swap and then disk space...

I think...

George Edison

I don't know too much about this.

All I know is what happens when you do run out of disk space.

Alvar

then I just w8 for the morning to come...

George Edison

20:52

It happened to me once on Ubuntu... maybe 9.04 I think.

Alvar

ok?

I have been down at 4 gb soem times

and it's REALLY slow, almost as running on swap..

George Edison

I couldn't launch Gnome... so I had to free some space without a window manager / desktop environment.

Alvar

I moved 15gb form the hardrive and it took 30 min

instead of 6

Marco Ceppi

@jrg Not at the moment

jrg

@GeorgeEdison Yay. <3

@MarcoCeppi Ok, I'll wait. As you can see, we found a solution.

George Edison

21:02

@jrg Did you StackTack any other posts?

jrg

Nope.

George Edison

21:43

It's too quiet in here.

htorque

crickets

jrg

THUNDER

htorque

cricket AND tumbleweed :D

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