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@JorgeCastro I also added the Meta Meerkat for meta discussion - but I wonder if it would be wise to just consolidate it to this room - then split after (or when) more people trickle in

chat.ubuntu.stackexchange.com/rooms/5/meta-meerkat

This is what I really like about this over IRC - I stepped in for a question about 10.10 into the #ubuntu room, and was yelled at to go to #ubuntu1 rooms there are just confusing to non-regulars. Here it's pretty easy to tell what each room is for. Hopefully one day Ubuntu will drop IRC for something better (and web based) like this!

balpha

3:25 PM

... except that the close button for the popups is on the left ;)

Marco Ceppi

So I discovered yesterday that my touchpad on my laptop Does support multi-gesture! I was so excited.

2 hours later…

George Edison

5:20 PM

Is this the new place to hang out?

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison Yup. The other room was frozen - now we have our own chat area

Have you seen Robert's blog post about Subjective questions? I think it's got some really good and compelling stuff that we could apply towards this site:

Stack Overflow Blog: Good Subjective, Bad Subjective

Posted by Robert Cartaino on September 29th, 2010

Stack Exchange is about questions with objective, factual answers. We’ve been crystal clear about this for as long as I can remember, even back to the earliest, pre-beta days of Stack Overflow. It’s right there in the standard Stack Exchange FAQ:

What kind of questions should I not ask here?

Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion. This is not a discussion board, this is a place for questions that can be answered!

Thus, questions that are not answerable — discussions, debates, opinions — should be closed as subjective. It seems simple enough: Fact good; opinion and discussion bad. But why? …

aw - no mini-window

Dmitriy Likhten

5:36 PM

Anyone had a chance to look at ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions/4901? Could really use some help.

Marco Ceppi

@DmitriyLikhten So you don't have any networking on the machine - and all you see the loopback in ifconfig?

George Edison

6:37 PM

@Marco: Just read the blog post.

Nice to see a solid definition of what belongs and what doesn't.

Marco Ceppi

Yeah - it was quite informative

Dmitriy Likhten

:52 its working now, won't load on boot, want to know why.

Marco Ceppi

I had a similar problem with another machine of mine

Dmitriy Likhten

the strange thing is

it was working for a year

no problem

even diff kernels

however after my last restart it happened and restarts didnt fix it.

Marco Ceppi

@DmitriyLikhten Have you tried using an older kernel (if it's still installed)

Dmitriy Likhten

6:52 PM

first thing i tried :)

Marco Ceppi

I really can't recall what I did to fix this on my other laptop - I wish I would have remembered.

I think I eventually added a script I wrote to my startup scripts with a couple of bash lines to bring up the networking interfaces

What did you do /etc/init.d/networking restart ?

Dmitriy Likhten

that didnt work

said something to the extent of the service not already running

Marco Ceppi

What about just /etc/init.d/networking start ?

Dmitriy Likhten

didnt work... gave me /stop/waiting as the status

afk meeting 1 hr

Marco Ceppi

7:21 PM

Hey! We're down to 51 unanswered questions! But that only means there's still 51 unanswered questions: ubuntu.stackexchange.com/unanswered

George Edison

That doesn't mean there are 51 questions without an answer, though.

Just 51 questions with less than 2 answers and no accepted answer.

Marco Ceppi

That means there are "51 questions with no upvoted answers"

But that only means that the answers either suck - or no one has paid enough attention to upvote good answers/OPs haven't accepted answers

I'm out for the evening!

George Edison

7:44 PM

...evening?

Well, I guess I'm on a different timezone.

Dmitriy Likhten

8:18 PM

Im back.

Dmitriy Likhten

8:37 PM

ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions/2071 regarding this one (since you guys were indicating we have 51 unanswered) I really haven't gotten a good answer. Maybe answer my own indicating its most likely an issue with Dropbox? It has not been resolved for me whatsoever.

balpha

Q: Dropbox reconnect on network connection established.

I am running UNR (but using the regular gnome launcher) and have DropBox installed. Since I use my laptop on the train, there is no network connectivity. However once I reconnect to a network, dropbox seems to be completely unresponsive to the fact that there is a network connection and has to be...

Jorge Castro

8:49 PM

I think that's a dropbox problem

1 hour later…

Marco Ceppi

10:10 PM

@GeorgeEdison What timezone are you?

Finally updating my oldest laptop from 8.04 to 10.04 - hopefully this will go smoothly

George Edison

PST.

Do you know of a utility that converts PDF files into HTML files?

...where each page is a separate HTML file?

Marco Ceppi

EST

Nope - not off the top of my head

George Edison

11:07 PM

Aw... I guess it's time to ask the community.

Q: Tool to convert PDF file into separate HTML files?

I'm looking for a tool that will convert the pages of a PDF file to HTML files. I just need the text and formatting - I don't care about images and other media.