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brunopereira81

00:05

hwo do you access the review post part?

Roland Taylor

what do you mean?

Did you get review posts privs?

brunopereira81

the link you shown shows a post edit review thing, I can access the link now, can I review the edits as you guys do?

jrg

Yup

brunopereira81

dont see it on the page tough, if i click edit I can only see the normal edit panel, not revisions of edits

jrg

Now for the waiting game...

@brunopereira81 askubuntu.com/review/…

brunopereira81

00:10

I feel ashamed, thx @jrg :D

jrg

@brunopereira81 refresh in a moment and there will be a edit for you to reject.

Roland Taylor

lol

jrg

just so you can see how it works :)

Roland Taylor

My mistake I didn't reply faster

I'm answering a rather funny (but sad question)

Will post the link when I'm done :P

brunopereira81

btw the apt:// link within posts image is gone, i get image not found, is that being fixed?

jrg

00:12

assuming I can like, submit the edit.

brunopereira81

jrg

@brunopereira81 feel free to play around with that edit I just submitted.

Reject it, approve it, improve it, whatever.

Roland Taylor

@brunopereira81 that image gives trouble from time to time

brb

brunopereira81

@jrg improved it i think :P

jrg

Enjoy that? :P

brunopereira81

00:17

yeah, its kinda like taking some edge of knowledge and put effort in to making things look better ;)

jrg

:)

so, that's how you do editing

just like upvoting/downvoting, there is a limit to how many edits you can approve in a day though

brunopereira81

ok ok, nice! thx

next milestone: 10k! :P

0

Q: how do i add a "new window" entry to the nautilus quicklist?

when i right click on 'file manager' in the launcher i can select 'home folder', but it takes an open nautilus window and displays the home folder in that window, often shunting me back to a different workspace. how can i open a new nautilus window from the launcher? -- begin text block to st...

wth?

jrg

@brunopereira81 agreed

brunopereira81

falling in love with marlin

jrg

marlin?

brunopereira81

00:28

4

Q: How do I move Nautilus' navigation buttons to the left?

Can the "navigation buttons" (forward and back) in nautilus 3 be moved to the left? I just find them impractical and confusing on the right. This is nautilus looks by default: I would like to move the forward and back buttons to the left of the "location bar". The search button could be left t...

11.10 nautilus

been testing it for 1 hour now, looks so nice and the speed is amazing fast

and no more issues with the location bar vs breadcrumbs

jrg

Time to install it then. :)

brunopereira81

ah, colored labels!

Roland Taylor

Speaking of which - I need to install it on this laptop :)

1

Q: Why can't I run Compiz?

I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my laptop. The main reason I switched to Ubuntu is because I wanted to use Compiz. The first thing I did was to go to Additional Drivers and install ATI/AMD Proprietary FGRLX Graphics Driver. There was also another one available, ATI/AMD Proprietary FGRLX Graphics Dri...

compiz

Just finished writing my answer :)

brunopereira81

look at the 2nd shot, bar customization! :P so, so nice

Roland Taylor

That question is a good lesson to "wikis" and blogs...
KEEP UPDATED!

jrg

00:35

That wiki was poorly done.

Roland Taylor

And, it is a lesson to users... to check if things are up to date

jrg

@RolandTaylor that's why I've got a reminder on my calendar every month to go back over everything I've written in the past 4 months and check it

Roland Taylor

:D

I need to do something like that

I get spurts of checking back on my old stuff

but I'm not that organized yet

jrg

Roland - is there anything special you want me to add to the Ubuntu Book?

any special things I should cover? After this chapter, I was just going to jump straight into the "how to do stuff"

(mainly borrowed (with attribution) from things I've written on Ask Ubuntu)

@brunopereira81 WHY ARE WE STILL USING NAUTILUS BY DEFAULT?!

brunopereira81

Dunno! :D

think it has something to do with gnome and canonical or something ;)

jrg

00:41

Marlin brings us up to the level of Finder on Mac OS X.

which is a good thing

brunopereira81

the phantom downvoters are not so phantom, 2 of those are oli and jorge, thats cause the previous answer was a disaster caused by speed reading

Roland Taylor

@jrg I will have to think about it

Maybe we can discuss some points in a separate document and then if you like you can add those in later (that's kind of what I do with my novel, except I use LibreOffice Notes for that :P)

jrg

@brunopereira81 oh, i don't care, they are phantom until they leave comments

75

Q: How dangerous is a wet server room floor

We have a couple of tower servers in a small server room. The carpet is wet as a result of the cooler and no-one else really seems concerned about this but I'm not too happy. I'm only a lowly developer, but I seem to be more concerned than the hardware guys! Is this dangerous? What's the worst t...

server-room

Wow

(btw, I'm going to be catching up on my SE newsletters tonight, so be prepared for some random stuff being shared here)

rofl

brunopereira81

@jrg holy shit: "carpet was put there to absorb the water" <- lol

jrg

@brunopereira81 I know, right?!

brunopereira81

00:52

this is out of scope right?

0

Q: Java-JDBC-MySQL Error

I'm trying to get my java program to talk to a MySQL DB. So i did some reading and downloaded MySQL Connector/J. I've extracted it into my home directory ~. Here are the contents. user@hamster:~$ ls LoadDriver.class LoadDriver.java mysql-connector-java-5.1.18-bin.jar The contents of LoadDr...

java mysql

jrg

yeah, should go to SO.

jrg

01:11

4

Q: How to protect source code from remote developers?

My company is going to hire an external developer to create some new modules and fix some bugs in our PHP software. We have never hired an external developer by the hour before. How can we protect the source code? We are not comfortable giving out source code and was thinking that everything rem...

project-management

the weekly "....."

Roland Taylor

lol

brunopereira81

interesting comments

jrg

Seriously, if I was offered employment by someone like that, I'd prefer to just live on the street. :P

brunopereira81

"will code for food" sign would look sexy on you :P

jrg

it's kinda like the guys who wanted to have a hadoop database cluster with a single node "because that's all they needed" (which doesn't work)

lol

lame, i still don't have my yearling badge.

it'll probably be tomorrow morning. :P

Roland Taylor

01:40

2

A: Why can't I run Compiz?

Looks to me like you installed some incorrect packages thanks to a bad guide (it's obviously outdated or poorly done). I'll try my best to walk you through how to fix it. Fusion Icon: Firstly, the fusion icon does not work anymore. It is no longer supported in Ubuntu because it does not use an...

guy needs votes to chat

jrg

+1

Roland Taylor

02:07

back later

Icedrake

Back

@jrg Sorry about missing your question, but the answer is that I'm just creating a site with HTML 5 and CSS3. Hopefully going to end up making it my personal website, but I still have quite a bit of things to figure out.

HTML5 is actually quite easy once you learn the basics. :D

Currently have my website outlines done, now I just have to make things look prettier, like creating actual links and having smooth looking gradients for backgrounds and whatnot.

Icedrake

02:28

Btw

If anyone is there, anyone have any idea how to host a website for free? I've never hosted one before, but I do have a domain ready and everything; I just have no idea how to host a website.

Questions Feed

Great answer: Why is there no lightweight desktop environment specialized for free developers? http://askubuntu.com/questions/76867/why-is-there-no-lightweight-desktop-environment-specialized-for-free-developers/76879#76879 #gui

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 12, 2011 at 2:19 AM

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: Installing php-cgi under Ubuntu for Cherokee web server

I have set up Cherokee web server on my server, and want to enable PHP and MySQL support for applications like Wordpress and phpBB. I have tried running these commands: sudo apt-get install php5 mysql-server And they both install, but when I try to link Chrokee with PHP in the admin interface...

ubuntu php mysql webserver

Thomas Ward

04:46

hello all

Roland Taylor

05:16

hey

George Edison

@jrg: This is what you're looking for.

It adds Chromify-OSD support to Firefox.

(Linux-only.)

htorque

good morning!

user26781

05:38

Hello, can someone help me?

Questions Feed

Can you answer this? How do I move Nautilus' navigation buttons to the left? http://askubuntu.com/questions/78362/how-do-i-move-nautilus-navigation-buttons-to-the-left #nautilus

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 12, 2011 at 5:19 AM

user26781

I installed compiz fusion, restarted and now my unity launcher is gone.

Roland Taylor

Hi

I see you got onto chat!

Welcome!

I'm still on your case btw

@jasoncruz98 hello?

Roland Taylor

06:12

askubuntu.com/posts/78068/revisions

Anyone here?

I'm getting sleepy :P

George Edison

06:47

I'm here.

I've just set up a chroot for Hardy.

Argh! The version of Bazaar that shipped in Hardy doesn't even recognize Launchpad branches :P

ARGH! It's the classic chain of dependency upgrades...

...leading right up to libc6.

I wonder if I should just copy a newer version of it onto the system...

(Just kidding!)

Roland Taylor

:D

Okay time to sleep

It's after 3...

and I'm making too many typos :D

Good night @GeorgeEdison!

George Edison

07:06

Night.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: AltGr keys don't work with Ubuntu in VirtualBox

I just installed VirtualBox (from Oracle) in Windows 7, and created a virtual machine with latest Ubuntu. Here in Firefox I can use the left Ctrl key, while the right one doesn't have any effect. However, I can't use the AltGr key (also known as Right Alt) to produce e.g. curly braces like {} (I...

ubuntu keyboard

Alvar

I hate the tag "bug" :/

George Edison

SUCCESS!! I have compiled Python 2.6 from scratch!

Alvar

07:22

lol

why not 3.0? ;)

George Edison

'Cause I needed it to run Bazaar 2.5.

Alvar

xD

George Edison

I'm trying to compile an app on Hardy (8.04) :)

Alvar

hehe

I had that on my server (8.04)

George Edison

Well it's not fun - I've created it inside a chroot.

(Compiling Python in a chroot is not my idea of fun.)

Alvar

07:26

your time to waste :)

George Edison

I'm not wasting time - I need it to test an app.

Wait - why are there two Alvars?

Alvar

@GeorgeEdison yesterday waz the invasion of Oli today it's my time ;)

George Edison

Alvar

@GeorgeEdison what?!

George Edison

Two different pictures of you.

...er - well one is of Oli.

@Alvar: I guess you saw askoli.quickmediasolutions.com

Alvar

07:33

@GeorgeEdison actually I didn't :P

hehe it was left since yesterday

and I jsut switched

my upper panel crashed again :(

had to reboot :P

@GeorgeEdison I saw the htorque link

George Edison

Night all.

Takkat

08:11

Good morning all

user26781

Good morning.

user26781

Is anyone online here?

Takkat

Hi @jasoncruz98

user26781

I need help.

user26781

4 hours ago, I installed Ubuntu 11.10 as a dual-boot to my Windows 7 operating system.

Takkat

08:14

what's the problem?

user26781

The main reason I switched to Ubuntu is because of Compiz Fusion

user26781

After getting help from another askubuntu member, I installed and configured compiz fusion on my laptop.

Takkat

Configuring Compiz may be dangerous...

...things can break

user26781

However, after I installed some updates, I was required to restart and when I did, the whole screen crashed and I couldn't touch anything.

user26781

Even the CTRL+ALT+T shortcut couldn't bring up the Terminal.

Takkat

08:17

Empty wallpaper or freeze?

user26781

freeze.

Takkat

Ctrl+alt+print+REISUB?

user26781

I had nothing else to do but install Ubuntu 11.10 again.

user26781

Now I configured compiz fusion, but I'm too scared to shut down.

Takkat

What did you configure?

user26781

08:19

@Takkat what is Ctrl+alt+print+REISUB?

Takkat

Magic SysRQ - a safe way to power off and reboot

user26781

I configured Wobbly Windows, Water Effect, Paint fire on the screen

Takkat

Is it all working ok?

user26781

Desktop Cube, 3D Windows, and Cube deformation

user26781

yes it is all working ok for me

user26781

08:21

How do I auto-configure Compiz at startup?

Takkat

Compiz should keep your settings for the next restart.

That's why you have a problem if you broke something

user26781

Are you sure?

Takkat

If only one of the effects does not play nice with your GPU you will not be able to login to your session..

Questions Feed

Can you answer this? pkexec vs. gksu/gksudo http://askubuntu.com/questions/78352/pkexec-vs-gksu-gksudo #security

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 12, 2011 at 8:19 AM

Takkat

Then it's quite hard to undo all from a terminal

Even more so as you don't know exactly which setting it was that broke your desktop

30

Q: What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?

All operating systems freeze sometimes, and Ubuntu is no exception. What should I do to regain control when... just one program stops responding? nothing at all responds to mouse clicks or key presses? the mouse stops moving entirely? In what order should I try various solutions before decidi...

troubleshooting

Good reading...

user26781

08:31

GPU?

Takkat

^^graphic card/dfriver

user26781

Ok I did some experimenting, and I found this file:

user26781

file:///usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/ubuntu.session

user26781

Inside it was something like this:

user26781

[GNOME Session]
Name=Ubuntu
Name[eo]=Ubuntuo
RequiredComponents=gnome-settings-daemon;
RequiredProviders=windowmanager;panel;
DefaultProvider-windowmanager=compiz
DefaultProvider-panel=compiz
IsRunnableHelper=/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test
FallbackSession=ubuntu-2d
DesktopName=Unity

user26781

08:33

@Takkat By giving you this information, does this mean Compiz and its effects will load on startup the next time I reboot?

user26781

I'm just scared something will break...

Takkat

If you don't know what exactly was the problem last time, it may happen again.

Unity3D/Compiz should start fine however, when they are running fine now.

Amith KK

08:45

st00pid cooler was a fake

:<

Takkat

Hi @AmithKK

Amith KK

Hi @takkat

The cooler broke on my computer, must hunt for a socket 775LGA and hope my processor ain't dead

Takkat

oh. That sounds really bad.

Amith KK

Im on my droid tab now

Takkat

That will slow down typing speed considerably

Amith KK

08:49

Im having a USB H/W keyboard

and usb host

Takkat

That's better \o/ - are wireless USB keyboards supported for android?

Amith KK

Yep

Takkat

(asking because my boy wants one too now that his little sister has it)

Amith KK

even the mouse works

@Takkat awesome!

does he like hw hacking?

If so, dont get him the ARCHOS one :)

Takkat

He is 8 - no idea about hardwar, only games matter :P

Amith KK

08:53

then NEVER get him archos )

Takkat

I'm thinkig of the Odys

Amith KK

Get him a Xperia Play :P

Takkat

What's NEVA with Archos?

Amith KK

NEVA?

I dont feel like opening a new tab and searching

Takkat

never you said

Amith KK

08:55

Because ArchOS is waaaayyyy limited in terms of pure power

Takkat

odys.de/web/tablet-pc_loox_de.html

This looks ok.

Amith KK

can you come on irc?

Takkat

Should not be too expensive because he likes big screwdrivers ;)

I don't irc - can't play on all locations at my age :P

Amith KK

Lolz

THise se people makes thiz chat so hardz to reeds

Takkat

brb

Amith KK

08:58

K

Bbl

Takkat

back

htorque

09:18

g'day again

Takkat

Hi @htorque

htorque

o/

Takkat

I missed the whole day yesterday :(

htorque

at least your avatar is green all the time :D

Takkat

Yeah :)

htorque

09:20

don't worry, next appreciation day is 12-12-12 :P

Takkat

I'll wait for 01-01-01

We may be able to chat from heaven by then...

...not from hell because they still run Vista

htorque

i decided to make 01-01-01 the date i'll marry :P

Takkat

lol

This is bad luck - marriages on those days won't last long

and a major drawback by then is - you won't be able to have kids

htorque

09:37

yeah, but i don't think it's a problem with the date - rather with couples that choose such dates being morons. :P

(not in general of course ;))

yay, shopping day.

Takkat

People that choose 01-01-01 are mummies

htorque

i hate shopping.

that's for sure :D

Takkat

Depends on where and what.

I send all my family to the Weihnachtsmarkt and go shopping with amazon

htorque

clothes :-o

Takkat

Clothes, shoes and handbags are taboo

htorque

09:40

i'm so weirdly sized that it's like lottery :D

yeah, clothes and shoes it is... already woke up depressed :D

Takkat

Me too - one of the biggest stores in Baden-Württemberg don't have my size

htorque

women's eyes sparkle - mine say "get off"

Takkat

So I have no reason to go there \o/

htorque

but what do you do, if you need something urgently?

Takkat

I shop online.

(well I let shop online)

htorque

09:42

but they don't deliver within hours :P

i like esprit with their return policy

(online)

Takkat

Every now and then one of those parcels has also stuff for me in it.

Esprit is great.

htorque

:D

Takkat

At least they have my size of trousers

I wanted to make a deal that for every 10 items in clothes I am allowed to order 1 item for computing.

Did not work.

htorque

:D

Takkat

I could open a PC store by now.

htorque

09:45

10 pairs of socks + a new TFT :D

Takkat

:D

htorque

time flies. already almost 11am. :-(

Takkat

bbl - you go shopping (good luck!)

htorque

too bad there are no glühweinstände yet. that would help a lot :D

cya

Alf P. Steinbach

10:32

hi. does anyone know how to make ubuntu deal correctly with scandinavian keyboard?

i can use the onscreen keyboard to type curly braces by pecking with the mouse, but, impractical...

it may be an issue with VirtualBox

or it may be an ubuntu issue

Takkat

11:08

@AlfPSteinbach: sorry, no expereince with se keyboard. Curly braces (or any other AltGr-keys) work nicely on Virtual Box 4.1.6 with en keyboard layout...

Alf P. Steinbach

I found this, and it works: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/349487/…

Takkat

good find :)

Questions Feed

11:27

Can you answer this? Custom mount points in gvfs http://askubuntu.com/questions/35623/custom-mount-points-in-gvfs #mount

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 12, 2011 at 11:19 AM

jokerdino

12:45

hey guys. how do i find the language code for translations?

htorque

12:56

@Takkat it was awesome fun! not. main goal achieved, but nothing else. dialog: "can i help you?" - "yeah, make me taller or thinner" :P

Takkat

@htorque you need your private tailor...

(is cheaper than bodyshaping)

(and much more effective)

htorque

13:15

not sure about the cheaper part :D

gotta go again. my feet are not yet burning. \o/

bbl

jokerdino

14:16

Hi @RolandTaylor

Questions Feed

14:31

I want to change the position of the quiklist items in Ubuntu 11.10 http://askubuntu.com/questions/78484/i-want-to-change-the-position-of-the-quiklist-items-in-ubuntu-11-10 #unity

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 12, 2011 at 2:19 PM

user15533

15:10

Is it allowed to to make a propose for a project idea

Alvar

15:36

is this possible? askubuntu.com/q/78547/10698

I know vlc can catch streamed audio but I have no idea how to use vlc in that matter.

Takkat

@JorgeCastro Should we supply information on how to become administrator when a user only has a restricted account: askubuntu.com/q/78538/3940?

There is something fishy here: how can you deactivate a password of an admin?

And have the account deactivated as a whole... strange.

Roland Taylor

@user15533 it is not advisable. This is not the brainstorm site.

Jorge Castro

16:02

@Takkat I don't know

I think the resetting of the admin password answer is sufficient

Takkat

I think so too - they can do everything one can do from a root shell ;) ty

Roland Taylor

16:25

Alright everyone. This is a stick up!
Give me all your rep, and no one gets hurt.

Questions Feed

17:35

What is the dual tag for? http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/2003/what-is-the-dual-tag-for

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on November 12, 2011 at 5:19 PM

lazyPower

18:01

askubuntu.com/q/78434/6807 hey guys, was this a solid edit on my part or did i fail to catch what we were doing with "signpost questions"

George Edison

Seems good to me.

lazyPower

@RolandTaylor you better pack a lunch man. it'll take you all day to collect all that rep

Thanks George. I started feelin spunky lastnight and decided to help.. then realized halfway through half my edits i didnt know if i was doing it right and should stop before I create a bunch of trash edits.

feelin pretty rusty

Roland Taylor

XD

As you can see from my avatar, we will eat everyone we acquire rep from :>

lazyPower

so you constitute a plural entity now? we? you've gone completely mad....

Roland Taylor

;)

Liza and Cam love to be called mad

I on the other hand - am very cold :3

(thunderstorm passing through :D)

lazyPower

18:05

so i discovered what my issue was yesterday with my ec2 instance... if anyone caught that and has to do this in the future.. fo ra production box to send email from EC2, you have to submit a request to be allowed to do so. They throttle reverse dns lookups which will thwart your MTA if you dont. and its in the FAQ's so RTFM if you go that route.

and the approval process takes from 4 to 24 hours

Roland Taylor

wow

lazyPower

yeah, it was a huge ordeal yesterday, i didnt have an elastic ip on my instance, biggest duh moment of the day so i assign it to the -production instance server and boom, we have outage as it changed the dns entry, public visible downtime, everybody paniced my phone blew up... it got messy to say the least. Just glad yesterday is over

Future me is gonna hate life on monday, but thats up to future me.. i'll let him worry about it.

Marco Ceppi

18:21

<3 ec2

Icedrake

Hey guys

Been working on that HTML5 site I started yesterday, and here's the progress so far: imgur.com/SBlzT

imgur.com/SBlzT

I do need some suggestions though

jokerdino

I am not here.

lazyPower

@MarcoCeppi i do too, i didnt rtfm before i undertook this endeavor and it was my downfall. Their support is pretty awesome though. I'll give them that, they saved my bacon.

Icedrake

Should I make some custom mouse-over buttons for the links in the nav bar, or should I just change the text properties of the links so that they have special effects on mouseover or something like that?

Marco Ceppi

Mmm bacon

lazyPower

18:26

@MarcoCeppi can you unfreeze webdev i have signal/noise to add.

George Edison

JS Studio is now being built for Precise.

Roland Taylor

@jokerdino true

@lazyPower hehe

jokerdino

0

A: What is the dual tag for?

The description that comes up with the privilege of retagging questions notes that when mistakes are made when using tags, like using spaces instead of hyphens, we should retag them. I guess the newer users of the site do not know that a hyphen should be used instead of space for compound words. ...

My first meta participation. Yay

Can someone help me edit that "dual" tag part with the tag link?

I don't know how to do that.

George Edison

@jokerdino Done.

jokerdino

Thank you. :)

Now, tell me how you did it. :D

George Edison

18:40

[tag:tag-name]

jokerdino

Ooooh. :D

Thank you.

Tom

Hi, so today I finally decided to update ubuntu 10.10 to 11.10. After 6 hours of updating I decided I should update new ATI drivers. It told me to first remove fglrx, so I executed some commands (from google) and rebooted. Now I'm getting a black screen without any feedback on login and the interface just won't load.

Any ideas what I can do or search for?

These commands caused it:

sudo apt-get remove –purge xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx*
sudo apt-get install –reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri fglrx-modaliases
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get install –reinstall xserver-xorg-core

it also gave some warning about fglrx-modaliases not existing or something like that.

rafalcieslak

try: cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

if you can execute anything

Tom

@rafalcieslak I can, when I boot in recovery mode it gives me a terminal

@rafalcieslak that requires me to reboot.. anything else I can try? it takes me about 5-10 minutes to reboot, try and boot back to windows

rafalcieslak

18:56

well

it seems you are simply left without any drivers

neither the open-source, neither the proprietary ones

Tom

can I not install the proprietary ones from the terminal?

rafalcieslak

yes you can! but that's the fglrx, which you wanted to remove, right?

Tom

@rafalcieslak no I wanted to install it, and it told me to first remove the old version

so I did that and rebooted

but now I cant install the new version because I have no GUI

and I am no console person

rafalcieslak

ah! you shouldn't have rebooted until it asked you to do so ;)

have you downloaded the driver installer?

i mean:

Tom

@rafalcieslak yes, it's a .run file

rafalcieslak

18:59

oh, great!

Tom

ati-......-x86-64.run

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