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Amith KK

16:00

You forgot WebUpd8

rlemon

i'll make more

:P

Amith KK

Generate all the ads |o|

@jokerdino Is ubuntu-tv So awesome?

rlemon

I have installed and 'demo'd it

it is pretty cool - although it did not work for me.

:P looked slick.

Amith KK

@rlemon ?

rlemon

I couldn't actually get videos to play.... so failboat there

but the interface was slick.

ctxtechnologies.com/…

and after doing so watch this video

►

I want one!!!!!

Amith KK

16:14

@rlemon You have one?

10 mins ago, by rlemon

I have installed and 'demo'd it

rlemon

ubuntu tv - i was talking about how i installed that

the MIseeTX is just a pipe dream

Amith KK

@MarcoCeppi I broke my apache server because of the launchpad installation.. Can You please help me fix it?

@rlemon ssh: "Dream failed:Broken pipe"

rlemon

lol

lol stop editing it!

Amith KK

@rlemon Mwahahahahah

rlemon

@AmithKK i get a desktop notification every time you edit it! see how annoying it is?

Amith KK

16:20

Thats what is called the amith effect

Nope

I get notify osd msg's

@StefanoPalazzo

16

A: Should questions/answers dealing with "adult" software be flagged as inappropriate?

Yes, they must be allowed We don't even have a choice in the matter, because we're unable to form any policy that would be fair and respectful to the vast majority of users if we start deleting any content on moral grounds. We don't make the moral rules. And if anybody is offended by any kin...

What was [3]

Marco Ceppi

How many "I hate unity" posts have you seen on the site?

Amith KK

@MarcoCeppi 0 as so far

Marco Ceppi

Exactly :)

Stefano Palazzo

@AmithKK Nothing interesting, nothing coherent

Amith KK

@MarcoCeppi Heh, Lol

PHP aint seeming to work here

Stefano Palazzo

16:28

but there were a few posts obviously racist, things like that. most of them posted while drunk, I assume.

maybe 2 posts, perhaps 3

Amith KK

It doesen't serve pages

It just sends a phtml(php?) file I guess

Stefano Palazzo

there was one that was really funny

I wouldn't be able to find it now, but it went something like "now help me fix my problem, you stupid plonkers"

Amith KK

lol

lazyPower

haha

stupid plonkers

i'm so going to use that in casual conversation

Stefano Palazzo

found it via google

google.com/?q=inurl:askubuntu.com+plonker

call me a child, but I find this very funny (:

Amith KK

16:37

@StefanoPalazzo Call me one too :P

Marco Ceppi

haha

ajmitch

I can't see the question now :(

Stefano Palazzo

@ajmitch webcache.googleusercontent.com/…

ajmitch

heh

rlemon

What the efF Bomb?

ajmitch

16:43

very eloquent description of the problem there

Amith KK

@rlemon You on facebook?

rlemon

yes and no

yes I have a facebook account

no i do not use it or log into itt

aand a big F U facebook for never letting me delete it.

Amith KK

@rlemon YU NO KNOW HOW TO DELETE?

lazyPower

thats brilliant. I'm saving that for later

Amith KK

@lazyPower ?

@rlemon Do you like spiders?

rlemon

16:47

@AmithKK not as much as i like pickles.

2

lazyPower

@AmithKK the cached plonkers post.

Amith KK

@lazyPower That is lolable

1

A: How do I get some USB devices to be recognised when I plug them in rather than only on boot?

Please file a bug about this - it seems like this is a bug specific to this device. (My RS232-USB adapter gives me a /dev/ttyUSB0 upon its insertion, although I have not tried it on 10.10.)

upvote required

1

A: PDF thumbnails don't work

After many removals and reinstallations of gnome and document viewer something good happened and thumbnails are working.

This on ealso

2

A: Is it possible to use a small LCD to display load?

"How you turn this list into real devices is something else" This is a question best answered with the Arduino, I might suspect. And definitely under £50. But the "how to", I do not know. Would you please post here a link to a howto if you get it done? Thanks!

Like a boss

1

A: Microphone records audio only when it's called by one process

You might need to install the pulseaudio utilities to manually configure them sudo apt-get install paman padevchooser paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter Once that's done, fire up pavucontrol and take a look at the recording tab for details. It's possible you might have muted it on accident.

^ Upvote

1

A: "Disk driver for / is not ready yet or not present" error after upgrade

There are many reasons this could have occurred. Please see the link below for a solution. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1507558

Seems like it was not attended

1

A: Repartition encrypted partition

(This answer is targeted only at those using eCryptFS-based encryption, as the original author has indicated.) In this case, you'll want to do the following: 1. Back up your data. (Always a good idea.) 2. Boot from a LiveCD with GNU parted. (I believe the Ubuntu CD has this. GParted is a Gnom...

upvote

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Questions Feed

17:31

Bounty offered: Where do I need to change "Ubuntu" when naming my own custom distribution? http://askubuntu.com/questions/83521/where-do-i-need-to-change-ubuntu-when-naming-my-own-custom-distribution #distribution

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on January 11, 2012 at 5:24 PM

Bruno Pereira

17:46

depiratenpartij.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/…

Roland Taylor

18:31

George Edison

18:43

Aw man...

FlackBot is now forbidden from the sandbox.

I guess he'll have to make his home here.

:)

Marco Ceppi

Or we can make a FlackBot Sandbox

George Edison

Yeah.

I'll do that once he comes back online.

Marco Ceppi

handcraft.it Pretty cool site

George Edison

19:00

What is it?

Marco Ceppi

Web based prototyping tool - much like jsFiddle

jrg

19:18

Wait, flackbot was banned from the sandbox?! :(

jrg

19:31

So if you're a DC #tech person and/or interested in #SOPA #PIPA #OPEN, come to @GOPoversight hearing on 1/18 at 10 AM: http://1.usa.gov/y8MwOs

Tweeted by DarrellIssa on January 11, 2012 at 2:23 PM

don't know if you are interested/available, but figured I'd let you know. He claims they'll have Wifi/power strips there as well.

Marco Ceppi

I'll probably be there

jrg

Awesomsauce.

sadmicrowave

anyone know how to set linemode in telnet?

jrg

Reading the RFC, i'm not sure I understand it.

sadmicrowave

me either

I also found this but it is not helping: stackoverflow.com/questions/273261/…

@jrg, I'm trying to change this because my windows based telnet connections are attempting to send each character instead of each line

jrg

19:36

i see.

Guys, this is what Unity is going to be in 12.04. :DDDD

sadmicrowave

I like the color changing aspect

jrg

yeah, we've had a few questions about that here on the site.

George Edison

19:52

My Launchpad points are disappearing faster than ever!

I had like 3000 a month ago... do they really 'de-value' that quickly?

Marco Ceppi

6 months I believe is the TTL for Karma on LP

@jrg Uguu, they're MAKING IT WORSE. Why can't they just go back to Arch.

sadmicrowave

@jrg I'm trying to figure out how the answer came up with those numerical values for the text to send in that SO link I shared

jrg

20:21

@MarcoCeppi Hey, as the Power Users Community leader crazy dude, its my "job" to fight the good fight about unity and customizing (as well as Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu etc).

so... I appreciate the ability to tweak most of those. :)

granted, we'll get even more duplicates of "i broke unity, help pl0x", but we can just vote to close ALL OF THEM as dupes.

and I don't know about you guys, but I kinda get a thrill out of voting to close something as a dupe. :P

Jacob Johan Edwards

18

Q: Where is the X.org config file? How do I configure X there?

As Ubuntu 10.10 seems to neither detect my graphics card (Intel 82852/855GM) automatically nor use the corresponding Intel driver even after manually installing it, I am looking into manually configuring X (shouldn't I?). Where can I find the configuration files I need to edit?

This question gets a ton of views even though it's a duplicate and answered suboptimally. Anything mods can do (eg delete and redirect)?

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Q: xorg.conf in ubuntu Natty 11.04

Possible Duplicate: Where is the X.org config file? How do I configure X there? I am not able to manually configure since I can't find my xorg.conf under /etc/X11/ I read in a forum that it got depricated. Any insights?

11.04 xorg

Dope I mean this one

jrg

I think you're looking for what I call a "merge and purge".

Ok, tonight i begin the triple boot dance again... 12.04 here i come!

Thomas Ward

hi

jrg

hello @ThomasWard

Thomas Ward

hows things?

George Edison

20:34

@ThomasWard What browser do you use these days?

Thomas Ward

@GeorgeEdison ffox on natty, chromium on natty, iexplore or ffox on windows when my ext4 partition is unclean

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I need a Program similar to WinSCP http://askubuntu.com/questions/94665/i-need-a-program-similar-to-winscp #softwarerecommendation

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Thomas Ward

@GeorgeEdison i've actually been digging around in packaging

i've very rarely pulled my head out of code and IRC :P

George Edison

For Chrome.

For Firefox.

:)

rlemon

20:50

Hey! I just saw one of my ads on the side of the page for the first time! (I always see others ads, just not mine)

George Edison

Cool!

htorque

21:19

hi all

Takkat

Hi @htorque

and of course hi to everybody else too :)

htorque

just ate those and now i'm completely out-of-order. :D

can't even vote to close. :D

Takkat

You should have left the bones over.

htorque

hehe

really annoying. animals shouldn't be allowed to have bones. :P

like politicians. :P

Takkat

Snails don't have any.

htorque

21:27

not as tastey i guess (i heard they taste like nuts)

(ubunuts)

Takkat

Politician's bones are of little use. They break too easily.

My snails tasted of garlic.

I had to eat them while I spent some days in Burgundy.

They make you eat them in the hope you drink a lot of wine after that.

htorque

they don't have... real food?

Takkat

Nope.

Not where I was.

The wine trick worked.

htorque

winetricks usually do :P

Takkat

:D

Running wine always makes me feel bad. It feels so 3.11-ish.

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htorque

21:33

not much choice if you wanna play windows games

Takkat

OMG where do all these close votes come from? My whole list turned black again.

htorque

and you probably voted on most of them

Takkat

Then it would show them in red.

htorque

have you tried some?

the system is buggy afaik

like this

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Q: Posts I've already reviewed show up in the review section again

I noticed that some posts I definitely already reviewed at some point show up again. It is impossible for me to suppress these; clicking "review answer/question" increments the review count, but the post still shows up when I reload (and the review count correctly resets, which shows that at som...

bug review

Takkat

Oh noes.

William

21:36

askubuntu.com/privileges/edit SO, when you gain this privelege does this mean that you lose the +2 reputation per edit?

Takkat

\o/ I spotted an Ubunut

@William you do :"( all edits are just for us then ;P

William

Sad.

Me likes the +2 per edit rep bonus.

omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/01/…

htorque

@Takkat ubunuts in the wild are rare but very tasty

William

Does anyone know if there's been any progress towards in Ubuntu tablet coming to stores in 2012?

Takkat

@William I can't go on forever. But there is Copy Editor

htorque

21:39

is there any ubuntu in stores right now (besides system76)?

never heard of dell again

Takkat

@htorque I can't eat this one - it's canned in a comment.

htorque

:(

William

I'm thinking of buying a tablet soon, and I want to know if they will come out with an Ubuntu tablet soon, i d buy that instead

Jacob Johan Edwards

@htorque If you live in Spain or China, yes

Or South Africa

Or Portugal (just saw)

William

Well, I dont live in Spain or China

I live in the US of A

rlemon

21:43

ohhhh yea... closing in on 300 rep. i'm so boss

htorque

isn't there anything cool released at this year's CES?

Jacob Johan Edwards

@rlemon Gratz

That said, some pretty hardcore AUers hang out here, so...

rlemon

lol, I hang out here most of the time.. mainly because i'm new to ubuntu

man, I have a wicked awesome idea for an AD just can't seem to get it right

Takkat

Good place to hang out.

htorque

passionate! or, let's call it crazy.

rlemon

21:44

sigh I might have to do this one in photoshop.

htorque

> libxklavier is now introspectable

i'm gald i have no idea what that means

Jacob Johan Edwards

@htorque It means you can now use the library with any GObject-bound programming language through the libxklavier vapi files

So sad I know what that means

William

Sorry wrong screenshot

My Gnome-Shell looks wierd

seems to be a pretty common problem

can someonw please point me to a helpful answer?

Jacob Johan Edwards

@William Not much you can do, I believe. mutter is super buggy, though it has fewer crashing problems than Unity's compiz

William

What's mutter? He mutters under his breath

Jacob Johan Edwards

21:53

It's the rendering engine for GNOME Shell, basically

htorque

hehe, unity based on mutter was bad

William

ubunut.com

What the heck?

Some kind of Ubuntu rip-off site?

Why?

Takkat

:)

htorque

ubunto.com

William

All that does is redirect

ubunut is in older copy of the site

Takkat

21:56

May 18 '11 at 7:40, by Alaukik

WTH is http://www.ubunut.com/ ?

Jacob Johan Edwards

ubunto.com

William

google.com/…

look at how many people misspell ubuntu

so is my Gnome-shell problem unfixable?

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OMG! The Ubuntu booth!

htorque

ubuntu booth babes?

William

What?

htorque

what do i do if i don't like orange and purple (i really don't)

Promotional model

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@William ^^

William

22:00

OMG

Takkat

Bedtime here - Good night all

htorque

there are lots of people that visit those consumer shows just to see those girls :D

ditto, night all!

jrg

22:20

Paul Miller is looking for men? lol verge

dupe:

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Q: Is it possible to install Gnome Shell side by side with Unity?

Just a clarification. I'm not sure if when I install Gnome Shell on Ubuntu 11.10 it substitutes Unity or not. In any case, would it be hypothetically be possible to install them side-by-side, like Unity and Unity 2d are? At login, for example, if I wanted to use Gnome Shell I could select it, ...

11.10 unity gnome-shell unity-2d login-screen

TheX

22:51

0

Q: Can someone tell me how to install reaver-wps?

Here is the webpage http://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/ Can someone help me install it so I can play around with it? Thanks

software

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23:39

What is the "Templates" folder in the home directory for? http://askubuntu.com/questions/94734/what-is-the-templates-folder-in-the-home-directory-for #default

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