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pingOfDoom

00:34

hi guys

whats going on?

so i have ubuntu installed alongside windows7 and windows 8 on the laptop i am using. how would i go about deleting the other 2 partitions so that ubuntu is the sole OS? Also is it worth it to do so in terms of the performance gains for the computer?

Seth

00:55

@pingOfDoom You can use gparted for that. sudo apt-get install gparted. Performance gains will be negligible if any.

pingOfDoom

01:09

ooh ok. also is there an easy way to transfer files between the partitions?

Seth

@pingOfDoom Yup. You should be able to just mount the partitions on Nautilus and transfer the files like normal. You might need to disable hybrid boot in Windows 8 before its partitions will mount though.

pingOfDoom

whats nautilus lol?

and how do i mount the partitions on there lol

Seth

Nautilus is the default file manager.

pingOfDoom

im a complete noob with ubuntu lol

Seth

Your drives/partitions should appear here, somewhat like this:

just click on one and Nautilus (the file manager) will attempt to mount it.

Ravan

01:58

@Seth evening!

@Fabby @A.B o/

Hey man @cl-netbox I got second bounty here

@Fabby thank you

Ravan

02:34

@chmike thank you

Nathan Osman

03:40

o/

George the Dev

@NathanOsman \o

Nathan Osman

04:10

So it's not actually that hard to import a Photo Sphere from Google Camera into Blender.

Nathan Osman

04:58

And what happened to "Set Title" in gnome-terminal???

hbdgaf

05:15

ahoy @NathanOsman

Nathan Osman

Argh.

That painful moment when you compare MD5 hashes on a large file you just downloaded and it doesn't match.

>.<

hbdgaf

I'm quite sorry, but.... sucks for you

Nathan Osman

Well, it could have been worse. It was already broken into multiple 1 GB chunks.

hbdgaf

That at least is a blessing.

On the other hand, it looks like I'm 2/3 of the way done with my current toy.

You may be able to play that card game before they ship actual cards... albeit in hotseat mode, but still.

Nathan Osman

05:37

@hbdgaf With your CLI app?

hbdgaf

@NathanOsman yup

Nathan Osman

Sweet!

hbdgaf

even at 100% of the cli app, i'm still only a third of the way through the trello board and some of those cards are grossly simplified.

still, something that works would be nice.

Nathan Osman

Yeah, and I'm sure having some feedback from testers will help create some energy to keep going.

hbdgaf

This is true. And I already have 3 bugs for myself.

This would be better if, but I'll do that after it works so works at least marginally is goal number 1

Some of them will sort themselves out when I move away from the CLI version, but I'ld still like to fix them.

This has been playing for like ever... and it just doesn't get old. We'll see though.

trying to build it to be easily scalable to more than 2 players. it would be easier if i never wanted a 3+ player mode, but i'm building it with that in mind.

Fabby

07:34

@Ravan: Good! (and stop thanking me)

:P ;-)

@hbdgaf You need testes for a card game?

in CLI mode?

Good! I'll be using my best cli debugging tool yet!

Haven't used it for debugging in years!

Ravan

08:07

@Fabby ;P

cl-netbox

Good Morning ! o/

Ravan

morning

George the Dev

@Ravan Hi!

cl-netbox

@Fabby - good morning ... I don't see anything ... no upvote ... :)
http://askubuntu.com/questions/676003/installation-interrupted-during-upgrade-from-ubuntu-14-10-to-15-04/676005#676005

Ravan

08:22

@cl-netbox look at my new question

cl-netbox

@Ravan good morning ! seen your question ... no idea ... afaik MS services : always trouble when using with linux OS ... :)

Ravan

@cl-netbox does my question will be closed???

about onedrive!

cl-netbox

@Ravan why should it ? you want to use a service with ubuntu !

Ravan

just got doubt!

by the way I got second bounty!

cl-netbox

@Fabby @Fabby - late fifties - grew up in best times of music ... remember Communication Breakdown (LedZep) ? :D ... and what about you, decade / age wise ... you old fart ?

cl-netbox

08:52

@Fabby @Fabby - by the way, I created a new system backup just a moment ago ... =)

@Ravan Congratulations for that - well done - nice answer - gave it +1 ! =)

Ravan

09:10

@cl-netbox thank you!

cl-netbox

@Ravan You're welcome ! :)

Ravan

@cl-netbox Are you english pundit??

cl-netbox

@Ravan I am quite good in it - why ?

Ravan

@cl-netbox while reviewing your edits I got that doubt.....till now I reviewed many of your edits

cl-netbox

@Ravan Yes I speak this language since I was about five years old ...

Ravan

09:24

Ok

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to quick move+resize a window using ALT key+Mouse on Ubuntu Mate 15.04?

On earlier Linux GUI Desktops it was quick n easy to move around or resize any window just by holding the ALT Button + klicking and draging the mouse on almost any position of the app window. so there where no need to "aim" for a specific "handle" or spot on the window. with ubuntu Mate 15.04 ...

Ravan

@cl-netbox I gave answer to my new question

cl-netbox

09:40

@Ravan As I am adding 'flavor' rarely to my answers, don't you think you sometimes add too much ... ? =)

Brandin

09:58

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L Things like this are why one should not blindly upgrade. I prefer to stay on the LTS where there are no surprise changes.

Fabby

10:48

@cl-netbox on mobile phone. You should see upvote now, about a decade less then you, but there is another one about a decade your senior...

@Brandin you're tespondind to a bot...

it just shows ubuntu questions pn our unix&linux sister site... ;)

pn = on

cl-netbox

@Fabby Thanks !!! As I always say : age doesn't matter anyway, important is your attitude ! You are as young as you feel though ... ! =)

Fabby

😂

cl-netbox

@Fabby Nice community here - mixed through all ages - great to know that I am not the only "old fart" ! :D

A.B.

Morning guys

Brandin

@Fabby tespondind = responding?
I just thought I would throw in my USD 0.02

cl-netbox

11:15

@A.B. Good Morning and thank you ! :)

A.B.

@cl-netbox Morning, Thank you?

cl-netbox

@A.B. askubuntu.com/questions/675895/…

A.B.

=)

cl-netbox

@A.B. =)

@A.B. did you see @Fabby and me joking about how SOC we are ? :)

cl-netbox

11:34

@A.B. no explanation required ? :)

Fabby

@Brandin i'm on a mobile... Didn't even know what you were talking about until i zoomed in... 😋

A.B.

11:55

@cl-netbox sorry, I'm busy here chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/29334/…

cl-netbox

F1 Singapore GP is about to start - see you later ... \o :)

Byte Commander

12:33

May I advertise this nice answer here for a few votes? askubuntu.com/a/676275/367990

A.B.

12:50

@ByteCommander Yes =)

Byte Commander

Thanks a lot! :D (bows)

user136984

13:28

@A.B.: Did you see my Q&A by the way? :)

A.B.

@ParanoidPanda oh, cool

user136984

:)

user136984

I'm surprised why people are only upvoting the answer though... Why not the question too?

user136984

Oh good! My first upvote on the actual question! :D Thanks! :)

Thomas W.

13:51

Close this as too broad, or unclear.

i think too broad works better

@ParanoidPanda gave you a comment for consideration

i know not sending data to Mozilla may 'seem' good but the reports being generated and not sent is a waste of disk space, IMO

terdon

@RPiAwesomeness I tried to help with your translation but some of them are hard with no context. Let me know when you're online so you can tell me what exactly I'm translating.

user136984

By the way, what happened to wiki.tox.im?

user136984

Why is the site offline?

user136984

Have I missed something?

Byte Commander

14:07

@ParanoidPanda Moved to wiki.tox.chat.

As everything moved from tox.im to tox.chat.

As well as the repository, but it also got a different directory structure and key, so you have to set it up from scratch.

user136984

@ByteCommander: Why did they move? And if their old PPA is no longer safe, then what of their old site, I went to it just now and was told that the connection timed-out, could I have gotten anything malicious from the site or is it properly shutdown?

user136984

Sorry to be such a paranoid panda... :P But just want to be sure.

Byte Commander

14:32

@ParanoidPanda Read their blog. The owner of the old domain took the company's money and escaped...

user136984

@ByteCommander: I have, and it says that he is now holding the domains 'hostage', so I am wondering if that could mean that he also has some nasty surprises awaiting those who go there...

A.B.

Upvotes please for my brutal solution ?=

1

Q: Can't install haskell platform because of libgl1-mesa

When trying to install haskell platform using sudo apt-get install haskell-platform I get the following error message: The following packages have unmet dependencies: haskell-platform : Depends: libghc-gluraw-dev (>= 1.3.0.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libg...

apt package-management dependencies aptitude haskell

>:)

user136984

15:26

VTC this EOL question.

A.B.

@ParanoidPanda Yes Sir =)

user136984

:)

user136984

@A.B.: I kind of feel sorry for the poor guy, but he really should upgrade.

A.B.

Yes, he should

cl-netbox

@A.B. Hi - I'm back - better now ? askubuntu.com/questions/676224/… =)

A.B.

15:31

@cl-netbox Sure, read my comment. =)

cl-netbox

@A.B. I don't think this will happen as new users seldom come back - shall we better delete our comments ?

@ParanoidPanda did I see right - you are nearing 7K rep ? =)

A.B.

This is a duplicate http://askubuntu.com/q/676295/367165
of http://askubuntu.com/q/676235/367165

user136984

@cl-netbox: Yep! Just 96 rep to go before 7k! :D

cl-netbox

@ParanoidPanda WOW great ! =)

user136984

:)

A.B.

15:37

Please, VTC as duplicate, see comments askubuntu.com/q/676295/367165

cl-netbox

@ParanoidPanda to help you in achieving it faster I gave +1 on Q and +1 on A : askubuntu.com/questions/676074/… =)

user136984

@cl-netbox: Thanks! :)

cl-netbox

@A.B. You didn't already reach 200 today, so : +1 -> askubuntu.com/questions/676227/… =) I think that was a lot of work !

@ParanoidPanda so only 81 left ! =)

user136984

Yep! :)

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Q: Can I award myself a bounty?

I was just curious, let's say that I posted a question, then put a bounty on it, and then found the answer myself, could I then award that bounty back to myself?

discussion support bounty

Ravan

15:42

@A.B @cl-netbox o/

cl-netbox

@Ravan o/

A.B.

@cl-netbox One hour or so =)

He @Ravan \o/ =)

cl-netbox

@A.B. Sweating ? =)

A.B.

@cl-netbox No, not my system >:)

Ravan

@A.B today I faced unexpected issue!

A.B.

15:44

@Ravan issue?

cl-netbox

@A.B. chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/24219027#24219027

A.B.

where is a problem?

@cl-netbox Uhm SOC?

System On a Chip?

cl-netbox

@A.B. HA - this time I got you !!! Stone Old & Crazy :D =)

Ravan

@A.B My recent post deleted bcz of copy right issue

@A.B just edited and flagged for moderator review

A.B.

@Ravan Link?

@cl-netbox We are only old farts :)

@cl-netbox How old are you?

cl-netbox

15:53

@A.B. born 1958 and you ?

A.B.

@cl-netbox 1970

cl-netbox

@A.B. the older we get - the closer the gap ! =)

A.B.

@cl-netbox ^_^

cl-netbox

@A.B. 1970 - great year - LED ZEPPELIN ruled ! =)

Ravan

@A.B here

@A.B apart from that I used same content in few other posts those also deleted!

A.B.

15:57

@Ravan OMG

How many rep lost?

Ravan

40

cl-netbox

@Ravan what are you talking about ?

A.B.

@Ravan 20 =)

Ravan

@cl-netbox read above messages man

A.B.

Questions like these I will never understand.

0

Q: Couldn't find libcgroup.h in Ubuntu 14.04

libcgroup.h is generally located at /usr/include/libcgroup.h. After searching whole file-system ( find / -type f -name 'libcgroup.h' ), couldn't find it. From where can I get it?

14.04 find header cgroup

Ravan

16:05

@cl-netbox just curious ,how old are you?

Alexander Solonik

what up guys

?

bin/sh -c

what does the -c command flag doing ?

!!google "lala"

A.B.

@AlexanderSolonik read the man page
-c Read commands from the command_string operand instead of from the standard input. Special parameter 0 will be set from the command_name operand and the positional parameters ($1, $2, etc.) set
from the remaining argument operands.

Alexander Solonik

opps , last message was an error LOL

cl-netbox

@Ravan @Ravan read the messages above =)

@Ravan and how old are you ?

A.B.

My limit today is 275 =)

cl-netbox

16:18

@A.B. and my limit seems to be 40 ! =)

A.B.

@cl-netbox No, currently your limit is 200

Ravan

@cl-netboxyou gave a punch!!! right! ;=) I read above messages ! yours age 45??

A.B.

@cl-netbox base limit is 200 + 15 for each accepted answer + bounties

cl-netbox

@A.B. I said 'seems to be' =)

A.B.

@cl-netbox =)

cl-netbox

16:20

@Ravan 2015-1958=45 ? you have to learn some maths, man !!! =)

Ravan

@A.B After4 or 5 days I got 50+ yesterday and today

@cl-netbox OMG i read @A.B message!

haha

cl-netbox

@Ravan and what about your age ?

A.B.

@Ravan Which message

cl-netbox

@Ravan great improvement ! =)

Ravan

@cl-netbox Ok yours 57

@cl-netbox mine 22

born on 1993

a kid before you @cl-netbox ;);)

Alexander Solonik

16:22

@Ravan me 1939 !

i'am your dada .

cl-netbox

@Ravan wow your maths knowledge is getting better ... =)

A.B.

Common guys, I need one +1 for 200

>:)

Ravan

done @A.B

A.B.

:) Thx

cl-netbox

@A.B. @Ravan come on - and I need to break 40 ! =)

hbdgaf

16:24

Oh @Fabby - you're killing me. Testers, not fuzzers. Testing like "It would be more fun if" or "This doesn't seem to work quite right"

Ravan

@A.B I need +2 here to get a badge @cl-netbox

@cl-netbox are you serious about your age?

A.B.

@Ravan Already upvoted

Ravan

Still I have doubt @cl-netbox

@A.B ok

A.B.

@cl-netbox something for you? askubuntu.com/q/676345/367165

cl-netbox

@Ravan yes surely, why should I lie - anyway you are as old as you feel - and I always stay in contact with young people ... =)

Ravan

16:27

@AlexanderSolonik yes

cl-netbox

@A.B. God beware - I hate printers !!! Canon answer made me 10 years older (for @Ravan) ... =)

Ravan

No @cl-netbox I mean , you are so active

cl-netbox

@Ravan yes I am, I always was and always will be ... 'till the day I die ! =)

Ravan

@cl-netbox ;)

you will!!!!

cl-netbox

@Ravan die ? - hopefully not too early !

Ravan

16:32

@cl-netbox OMG !!

I can't talk with English pundit!!

cl-netbox

@A.B. @Ravan A wonder happened : I got past 40 ! THANKS ! =)

@Ravan ?

Ravan

@A.B @cl-netbox bye

cl-netbox

@Ravan goodbye my friend !

Ravan

@cl-netbox my intention is you will be happy through out your life as you are now!!

@cl-netbox please don't correct grammar !!!:P

cl-netbox

@Ravan why not ? =)

Ravan

16:36

-_-

man @cl-netbox will you use fb?

cl-netbox

@Ravan I think you English isn't that bad !

@Ravan fb ?

Ravan

thank you @cl-netbox you are the one appreciated my english!

facebook

cl-netbox

@Ravan NEVER !

Ravan

no social website??@cl-netbox

cl-netbox

@Ravan - not really - I show you some - wait ...

@Ravan clnetbox.wordpress.com

@Ravan plus.google.com/100427374330085925173/posts

@Ravan that's all - I don't use it much ...

@Ravan and your sites ?

@Ravan shocked to death ? =)

Ravan

16:44

@cl-netbox still not!; )

here

cl-netbox

@Ravan nice

Ravan

I don't use much!! @cl-netbox .....ok bye have to go to bed!

cl-netbox

@Ravan sleep well my friend !

user136984

@Fabby: Do you know anything about this by the way? :)

Seth

@jokerdino around?

cl-netbox

17:00

\o ... okay guys, that's it for today - bye bye - see you next time ... :)

Brandin

@ParanoidPanda You can find lots of information about setting color prompts here - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt
Try out a few of the examples and find one that works for you.

user136984

@Brandin: Thanks! :)

user136984

17:19

@Brandin: Ah, there is a slight problem, due to this detection, my security system won't allow me to visit that website, could you instead post an answer to my question explaining how one achieves it and maybe linking to the site? :)

A.B.

@Ravan cu =)

user136984

17:34

Why am I seeing barely any package updates by the way? For instance all of the bugs that I have reported which have been recently fixed have had updates released for Wily, but not Vivid, how come?

user136984

I mean I understand that it will be the latest release, but it hasn't even gone into final Beta yet, and shouldn't the current Stable non-LTS release be getting the latest updates?

Byte Commander

They freeze packages before the new release. No more updates (except security maybe) for Vivid until Wily is out for a while. And then it goes EOL...

Brandin

@ParanoidPanda I found that page by searching linux bash color prompt tset . Maybe you can view it in Google's page cache. Just reading it should be safe.

user136984

18:05

@Brandin: Ok

user136984

I have messed something up it seems, could someone please give me the default line for PS1 if colour is enabled?

user136984

In .bashrc that is.

A.B.

Funny enough? =)

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A: pdfpc Installation

If you want to compile software yourself, then it is normal that other libraries are needed. Typically, these libraries are available for Ubuntu If not, then start again with point 1 =) For pdfpc you need libPoppler and librsvg. Therefore start a search in your system: libPoppler % apt-cach...

Byte Commander

18:21

@A.B. A nice one. How long did that take to write?

Brandin

@ParanoidPanda If you messed up your prompt you can go back to this for a bare-bones default:
PS1='\$ '

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Why are there so many users that are unable to set and use their monitor's optimal resolution?

I have seen so many questions that ask something to effect of: How to apply resolution that isn't available in "Display Settings"? Almost all have not been solved. Such questions have been asked for the past 10 years. Are these problems to do with poor levels of kernel support for monitors? Or...

discussion

user136984

@Brandin: It's fine, I finally figured out how all the colours work and fixed it! Now I've got a very nice looking Terminal prompt! :)

user136984

18:36

@Terrance @A.B. @Brandin: Are the transparency settings for the Terminal stored in .bashrc or somewhere else do any of you know? :)

A.B.

@ByteCommander ten minutes? :)

Byte Commander

O.O' Oh!

You're a fast typer...

@ParanoidPanda I think it's part of the settings of the emulator, e.g. gnome-terminal.

A.B.

@ParanoidPanda not in bashrc. It's a terminal thing. Check the settings via dconf-editor or in the terminal settings. But only if you use the staging PPAs for GNOME 3.16. The transparency is not available in the standard repositories. The PPAs have a patched version of gnome-terminal

user136984

18:51

@A.B.: I remember finding something in my Terminal settings when I wasn't doing it from a PPA though... But anyway, now I am using the GNOME 3.16 PPA, and for some reason the settings just don't stick, well they do, but after restarting Terminal I have to go and turn it off and on again and then resize the Terminal window to get any transparency, and as nobody else seems able to reproduce this I seem to be stuffed... Any ideas? :)

Byte Commander

Nope, I use gnome-terminal, but with Unity.

A.B.

@ParanoidPanda no, no problems here :\

user136984

@ByteCommander: So if you go into Edit > Profile preferences > Colours you don't have any settings of the sort?

user136984

But maybe my mind is clouding about that, perhaps I only got the option when I started using the one from the PPA...

user136984

@A.B.: Strange...

Byte Commander

18:56

Can it be that I can't spawn a gnome-terminal from inside a gnome-terminal? o.O

Brandin

PPAs seem like a bad idea to me. If you want a custom package or bleeding edge/customized version, I always compile from source and put it in /usr/local

Byte Commander

@ParanoidPanda As I can't launch an English terminal (because I can't launch any gnome-terminal instance from inside another terminal!?), you have to compare my German one...

user136984

@Brandin: Well this is the official GNOME staging PPA so I am sure that it will be fine.

user136984

@ByteCommander: Well, you do seem to have the transparency option that @A.B. said was only in the patched version...

user136984

But maybe I misunderstood. :)

Brandin

19:06

'staging' does not mean 'stable'. The point of compiling from source is that you can adjust the prefix e.g. /usr/local or somewhere else, so it doesn't affect your stable system. The system package managed tools are not generally relocatable like that.

A.B.

@ParanoidPanda or I'm wrong

user136984

@A.B.: Ok, we'll go with that then... :P

user136984

19:26

Anyway, thanks for all the help today you guys! :)

user136984

And goodnight from me! :)

user136984

How rude...

user136984

@GeorgetheDev: I said GOODNIGHT! :P

user136984

@GeorgetheDev: Goodnight!

George the Dev

@ParanoidPanda See you later.

user136984

19:27

Good boy! :D

A.B.

@ParanoidPanda cu :)

Abyx

19:51

what's a decent video player for (k)ubuntu? tried vlc and smplayer, vlc can't open open a file, smplayer doesn't show subtitles properly

A.B.

My favorite is VLC ;)

Abyx

yeah vlc is cool. when it can open files =\

A.B.

20:08

@Abyx You should ask a question if you have a concrete problem. But search first for possible solutions on AskUbuntu

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Changing how the directory name is displayed in Ubuntu terminal

When I change directories in the Ubuntu terminal the full path of the directory is displayed. How can I change it so that only the current folder I am working in is displayed? username@computer:folder$ is what I want it to look like. I found elsewhere that I should edit the variable PS1 in the ....

ubuntu terminal

Terrance

20:26

@ParanoidPanda Sorry, I was away from chat and couldn't reply. It looks like you got it all figured out anyway. =)

ArtOfCode

20:49

@ByteCommander Random off-topic question: Has the ChatExchange6 API changed at all between the CE3 and CE6 versions? Obviously the code has so it's compatible with both, but have any of the API methods been renamed or majorly reworked?

Fabby

@hbdgaf :/ No clue what you're blabbering about... (Old fart, memory fading, etc) ;-)

@ParanoidPanda yes, but apparently some other people as well!

;-)

Fabby

21:37

this needs an upvote, but I'm all out of votes for today!

Nathan Osman

o/

George the Dev

@NathanOsman \o

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