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jrg

21:00

serverside, no. locally, yes. i'm probably going to fire up nagios and look at how it does it.

Jorge Castro

@Greg alt-f1, then arrows

Greg

@JorgeCastro Nice! I was aware of the Super+number to launch things, but couldn't work out how to open up sub-menus

thanks

Jorge Castro

yeah go down

then right opens a quicklist if it has it

George Edison

@jrg Have you tried any other email addresses?

jrg

@GeorgeEdison Yeah.

rlemon

21:02

god - two timeouts in a row trying to access my website - I hate my host.

@GeorgeEdison was it by design that stored messages don't transfer between sites->rooms?

George Edison

They don't?

It should across rooms.

rlemon

messages are retained on all AU rooms, but none of my AU messages appear in my SO stored list

George Edison

Ah - yes, that's by design.

SO's chat room is on a different domain.

rlemon

hrmm. first feature request - allow me to import stored messages to other domains / give me the option to make them cross domain????

George Edison

It uses HTML5's localStorage, so unfortunately it can't access data cross-domain.

rlemon

21:09

booo!

also @GeorgeEdison (just because it's bugging me) .... why have you posed this as a Question when clearly it is a statement? "Frequent Message Manager - Easily store and send frequently used messages in chat?"

George Edison

@rlemon That's due to the fact that the Stack Exchange engine "automatically" adds question marks when I end a sentence without a period :P

That wasn't my fault.

@JorgeCastro: I fixed up that charm... will Clint see my tag and message?

rlemon

ahh.. well that's ok then.

Jorge Castro

@GeorgeEdison yeah

line 14: /usr/share/charm-helpers/sh/net.sh: No such file or directory

I get this error now though

I think you'd need to include charm helpers in the charm

I am asking now

George Edison

That was from his suggestion.

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison it's a great suggestion :)

George Edison

21:16

Yeah, but it's an error :)

What happens if /usr/share/charm-helpers/sh/net.sh becomes /usr/share/charm-helper/sh/net.sh?

Does that work?

Jorge Castro

@MarcoCeppi figured it out

@MarcoCeppi paste what you said in irc here

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison Just install charm-helper-sh in the install script before you source the file

George Edison

@MarcoCeppi Isn't it charm-helper-bash?

Marco Ceppi

no, charm-helper-sh

All the "bash" helpers are written using /bin/sh "for speed" (Mark Mims is convinced Dash is faster :P)

George Edison

So that's the name of the package?

Marco Ceppi

21:24

charm-helper-sh

It comes from the Juju PPA, but since the PPA is automatically added to each deployed machine, you have access to it

George Edison

Fixed. Please try it now.

Marco Ceppi

Updates his charms too

George Edison

It.. is?

So I don't need the apt-add-repository ... ; apt-get update lines?

Marco Ceppi

no, just do an install :)

George Edison

Okay.

Marco Ceppi

21:33

Continues building charm-helper-php

rlemon

21:51

@GeorgeEdison rlemon.com/blog/2011/11/…

Jorge Castro

don't we have a question for enabling the source code parts of a repo somewhere?

rlemon

I had to rush it and didn't get a chance to spell / grammar check it - it's 2 minutes to 5pm =P

i'll fix it when I get hom.e

jrg

Heh, is it messed up that I'm running nagios on the box that needs monitoring? :P

wisemonkey

damn this sucks -- if anyone here is from ASIC world synopsys bought magma

Thomas Ward

@jrg yes it is

jrg

22:00

@ThomasWard :D

wow Nagios is ugly.

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison you've got more feedback FYI

Bruno Pereira

22:25

0

Q: My laptop freezes after enabling extra visual effects

I recently updated everything to the latest version through Ubuntu tweak. My compiz PPA is also enabled in Ubuntu tweak. After the update, the extra visual effects are all gone. When I enter Compiz, I try to enabled the effects & the others settings, Compiz suddenly close automatically. Th...

compiz

wisemonkey

man my app tabs list is taking half the FF tabs space :-/

Bruno Pereira

need 1 more vote to close that one, have a look please or can a moderator just close it?

jrg

already voted, sorry. :(

wisemonkey

flagged

George Edison

22:38

@MarcoCeppi Thanks.

@rlemon Thanks for the article.

fires up VM again...

Bruno Pereira

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4cEn3-t_dWE#!

wisemonkey

omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/11/…

Bruno Pereira

cool!

wisemonkey

everythin is going overlays?

ohh I found 24hrs of nyan cat footage on youtube

its very scary place :P

@BrunoPereira: that one actually is pretty nice

Bruno Pereira

22:56

3

Q: GNOME Shell Battery Icon missing

I am just wondering..... Why is there no battery icon? It's hard to work without any battery status around. I am using Maverick, and the GNOME3 files came from git.

battery gnome-shell gnome3

can we close this please? I am assuming no one is using that git version from gnome-shell and are actually using something more recent :)

Bruno Pereira

23:23

0

Q: Problem running fwupd to update OCZ RevoDrive firmware with Ubuntu 'Permission denied'

Try as I might I just don't get it working (http://www.ocztechnology.com/ssd_tools/OCZ_RevoDrive_and_RevoDrive_X2/). There's another thread here with an similar issue here: Command is giving me "bash: ./fwupd: cannot execute binary file" I'm running command ./fwupd /dev/sdb whi...

live-usb ssd firmware

self answer ftw

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wisemonkey

0

Q: Does picasa web album have compressed pictures if no then how to download complete album using firefox

Please refer to Can't download web photo albums to Picasa The question is bit old hence starting again with more information to it: I can download photos from picasa with no issues, however when I click on Download Album, I receive: Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because...

firefox google-picasa

man writing question is tough :(

Thomas Ward

bull

writing questions is easy

wisemonkey

I always need to include so much in question that it takes around half an hr or more just to compose it

:(

Thomas Ward

you should see my questions ;P

they're usually short and to the point

(I very rarely explain every single step i took to attempt to resolve a problem)

save for working with iptables...

with that, you kind of need to go into GREAT detail

wisemonkey

23:31

hmm

Thomas Ward

on the other hand

why do you want to use Windows software on Ubuntu?

because Windows software NEVER integrates itself into ubuntu firefox

(which answers part of your question)

and you realize in the RSS feeds that it is likely a reformated, smaller-size image that you're downloading with DTA rather than the originals which are 8 - 9 MB?

wisemonkey

I understand that but when someone gives packaged .deb I tend to believe its local

Thomas Ward

its not always the case

case in point, teamviewer 6

wisemonkey

especially when someone like google says it :P

Thomas Ward

i use it to provide remote tech support

it requires wine

well google is full of noobs who know not of what they do.

wisemonkey

23:34

yea I'm not gonna use those programs and LOL

Thomas Ward

just because something is in a deb does not mean its linux-built ;P

ESPECIALLY if its released from google

wisemonkey

yup now I know

I'll keep that in mind

but still need to find a way to get album downloading each picture gonna take me forever -- unless my friends stop using picasa

I don't understand them I created cloud with owncloud for them have 500GB there and they still prefer picasa x-(

makes me angry

Thomas Ward

its freaking google dude

they will ALWAYS push you to use their stuff

cept for gmail, they dont have a Google Mail dedicated program yet ;P

(besides, Microsoft dominates the email program market in businesses who use gmail, so... :P)

(Microsoft Outlook)

ARGH

wisemonkey

thankfully :P I wouldn't be surprised if one day I see gmail running in chrome but not FF

Thomas Ward

stupid cat

Jorge Castro

23:41

1

Q: Unity Launcher does not appear in 11.10 on mouseover

I can reach the launcher with the superkey, but that''s just about it. When I move my mouse all the way to the left, nothing happens.

unity launcher

too localized!

Bruno Pereira

@JorgeCastro I close yours you close mine??? :P

Jorge Castro

I always vote for yours bro!

Thomas Ward

@JorgeCastro are you asking for people to flag as localized?

Jorge Castro

we. are cleanup ninjas

Thomas Ward

i havent had my flagging quota filled today

Jorge Castro

23:42

@ThomasWard yeah, he was like "oh it works now, weird"

Thomas Ward

well 'tis flagged

Bruno Pereira

self fixing ftw!

why is not all software like this???

Thomas Ward

you owe me 1 rep ;P

Bruno Pereira

11

Q: What do you call a disk drive that is not solid state?

I tried searching for things like opposite of solid-state, but most of what I've found suggest things like liquid-state. I'm pretty sure a drive that is not solid-state contains no liquid to speak of. Is there a one word antonym for the use of solid-state in this context?

word-choice antonyms technology

oh wow, i felt old reading this: I can name 300 names for drives that are not solid state!

wisemonkey

@ThomasWard: DownThemAll works perfectly for pictures by point and shoot camera (sizes are small) so I think its rss feed which reduces the size

@BrunoPereira :)

and I thought it was question on askubuntu.com

Bruno Pereira

23:50

@wisemonkey you were wondering why everything looked pinkish and girly??? ;)

Thomas Ward

@wisemonkey if that's what you did not get from my statement, then you need to go back and reread it

wisemonkey

@ThomasWard yes that is why I tried on other album with photos from digicam

and it worked :) now is there a way to increase stuff received through rss ? I'm pretty sure sender maybe able to do it but as an user?

Thomas Ward

@wisemonkey nope, usually has to be done by the feed provider

alternatively, Windows (i think) is on sale for $20 off its normal price in the US :P

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