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bioShark

12:01 AM

@OctavianDamiean super cool. I know that position ;)

lazyPower

12:15 AM

Congrats @OctavianDamiean \o/

George Edison

12:26 AM

Any GitHub users around?

Octavian Damiean

raises hand

George Edison

Oddly enough, this works:

ssh -T git@github.com

...but when I try to clone a repo., I get:

Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

So something fishy is going on here...

Octavian Damiean

:o

nods

George Edison

Wait - I think I might have it...

I was trying to clone with sudo. I guess that's bad.

lazyPower

1:06 AM

reads the wrong keyring

William

Anyone kno if it's possible to me the lock screen window semitransparent? It's kinda ugly...

@JorgeCastro See this pic:

4

lazyPower

zing!

George Edison

You're getting more starred images today then any of us have ever! :)

William

lol

I know!

I feel starworthy!

Ive already gotten the outspoken badge

All in all, it's just another cat in a wall

Octavian Damiean

Mhmm, BackTrack 5. Interesting.

William

1:16 AM

R1. Dont forget the R1.

Octavian Damiean

Indeed.

William

One must always remember the R1.

Or otherwise it will come and get you when you least expect it.

@htorque Like it?

htorque

1:48 AM

@JorgeCastro i've not yet decided whether i like ask ubuntu or not. hehehe... ;-)

but yeah, i was close to never get started.

Questions Feed

2:34 AM

how to ping & use specific network card http://askubuntu.com/questions/99411/how-to-ping-use-specific-network-card #networking

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on January 29, 2012 at 2:25 AM

jokerdino

2:48 AM

@htorque Grats, There are no more bad Ubuntu's lying around!

William

3:01 AM

And the room goes silent!

jokerdino

yeah :p

William

thats how it goes

well be talking for a while and then... silence

jokerdino

you want to play slime volley on network?

i don't know how to set it up..

William

yeah

but i dont have it

jokerdino

it is in the software-center.

William

3:13 AM

?is it the one thats 3 bucks

jokerdino

the free one.

William

ok

whats the package name?

sudo apt-get install ____

i cant get to the software center

on joli os

jokerdino

apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/oneiric/slimevolley

package name : slimevolley

William

root@Jolibook:/home/williamt# apt-get install slimevolley
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package slimevolley
root@Jolibook:/home/williamt#

restarting to ubuntu

jokerdino

ok

William

3:21 AM

ok

installing

jokerdino

ok

William

what server?

jokerdino

i don't know...

never tried it before.

can play on remote?

William

dunno

jokerdino

who got a server?!!!

William

3:24 AM

dunno

googling

jokerdino

argh

William

we need a se slime volley server

sience there are no other ones

jokerdino

how do we get one?

William

i can set one up if i get the files that need to be put on the server

jokerdino

hmm?

i don't know about the required files.

William

3:28 AM

►

yay!

like a boss!

not even the right game

jokerdino

lol

William

slime.tuxfamily.org

jokerdino

yeah i found it as well

William

no servers though

jokerdino

boo

William

3:32 AM

my thoughts exactly.

jokerdino

no info on setting up the server as well.

William

boo

seems to be a dead game

jokerdino

it is not a bad game. just a bit inactive

William

yeah

it needs some open source love

theres a million games like it

jokerdino

any Ubuntu games that can be played online?

William

3:35 AM

i dunno

jokerdino

i haven't played online ever since I switched to Ubuntu :(

William

my mouse doesnt work

you have no idea how annoying it is to not be able to click on stuff

jokerdino

:P

William

on that cherry note, goodnight

i like cherries

jokerdino

good night!

Amith KK

4:15 AM

Hello all

jokerdino

hi there

Amith KK

Hello all!

Repost :P

@jokerdino Hey

jokerdino

how do you install the upbar script?

Amith KK

github.com/rlemon/UserScripts/raw/master/StackExchange/Upbar/…

@MarcoCeppi

Merge these accounts

Chris90

1

firefox

Chris90

11 1

firefox

Uhh

1

Q: Some gnome programs having lost graphic elements

Some nautilus, empathy etc windows are having some lost graphic elements: But some apps such as Xfce Terminal still looks normal Is this because of some package missing?

11.10 nautilus empathy xfce

jokerdino

4:32 AM

@AmithKK thanks!

Amith KK

@jokerdino np

jokerdino

@AmithKK what is the problem? I don't quite understand the question?

Amith KK

@jokerdino The titlebar text. The empathy theming is not proper

jokerdino

oh hm

I had that problem just a while ago.

but you don't seem to use the dark sidebar ambiance.. hmm

George Edison

Some new changes to Stack Mobile for you to look at.

Please excuse the funny title for the site :)

Amith KK

4:38 AM

@GeorgeEdison Make a good chat ui

:D

George Edison

Isn't there a good chat UI?

Amith KK

@GeorgeEdison No

George Edison

Why not?

Amith KK

You need to make it so that you don't need to press send but just press enter for messages to be sent

George Edison

You can.

...or are you referring to mobile devices?

Amith KK

4:39 AM

@GeorgeEdison Yes

George Edison

Ah... I can't really do anything about that.

jokerdino

@AmithKK free rep askubuntu.com/questions/99452/how-to-use-echo-command-to-show

Amith KK

@jokerdino 1 guy answered

jokerdino

sigh :/

@AmithKK can you see the hindi fonts in chrome? (bbc.co.uk/hindi)

Amith KK

@jokerdino Nope

jokerdino

4:49 AM

are there any hindi fonts for ubuntu?

Amith KK

@jokerdino Install Hindi language support

jokerdino

i will be back after lunch :)

Amith KK

@jokerdino cya

Amith KK

5:17 AM

BBL

Questions Feed

5:47 AM

Why must Dash take full screen? http://askubuntu.com/questions/99407/why-must-dash-take-full-screen #unity

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on January 29, 2012 at 5:25 AM

jokerdino

6:06 AM

i am going to take a nap. BBL

George Edison

6:42 AM

Dupe: askubuntu.com/questions/99472/ubuntu-internet-stops-working

George Edison

6:58 AM

Night all.

Questions Feed

8:33 AM

Ubuntu Internet stops working! http://askubuntu.com/questions/99472/ubuntu-internet-stops-working #internet

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on January 29, 2012 at 8:25 AM

jokerdino

8:54 AM

Anyone around?

lazyPower

Nobody but us chickens

htorque

not really

jokerdino

1

A: Hindi Font Problem in Chrome

The Hindi font rendering problem in Chrome is already well-documented. There has been a bug filled against this problem. The following workaround has been suggested in the bug report and this seems to work fine for me. sudo rm -f /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerif.ttf sudo rm -f /us...

Can someone email me those fonts that I just deleted?

Please :D

@lazyPower I see that you went back to your older gravatar.

lazyPower

Yeah. the POW was a little too BOFH for my current taste

htorque

@jokerdino sure, can do

wait, i up it to dropbox

jokerdino

8:57 AM

ok thanks :)

htorque

dl.dropbox.com/u/673326/fonts.tar.gz

tell me if you got it, so i can delete it again ;)

jokerdino

finished downloading

htorque

\o/

Amith KK

9:20 AM

Hey all

2

Q: Some gnome programs having lost graphic elements

Some nautilus, empathy etc windows are having some lost graphic elements: But some apps such as Xfce Terminal still looks normal Is this because of some package missing?

11.10 nautilus empathy xfce

Anybody feel like putting in a bounty :D .

And getting a badge :D

Amith KK

9:32 AM

0

Q: Does Unity 2d support lenses?

Does Unity 2d support lenses and scopes? If not, are there any plans to support them in the future?

unity-2d lenses

jokerdino

They support them @.@

5

Q: Would a Unity lens written for Unity 3D also work in Unity 2D?

I am thinking of writing a few lens features to link Unity into some business web applications, do I have to target both Unity variants separately or can I do one and assume the other will just work?

unity development lenses application-development

Quickly delete your question! \o/

@AmithKK Are you using Ambiance GTK+ theme?

2buntu.com/2011/11/18/… <-- does this help your lost graphical elements?

Amith KK

@jokerdino Im on XFCE

jokerdino

What does that supposed to mean?

I still dont understand.

BTW, I upvoted your question. :)

Oh wait, you are closing it? @.@

Amith KK

@jokerdino YEEAAHHHH

:D

That way People will know there is anoter question

jokerdino

cool

Bruno Pereira

9:42 AM

Another CCSM victim:

0

Q: Unticked PNG files in compizconfig settings manager

I recently installed "compizconfig settings manager" in ubuntu 11.10. As i was experimenting some features of it, in image loading tab i mistakenly unticked PNG files now im not getting (linked PNG system files) dialogboxes,windows,unity panel etc. Kindly some one help.

compiz

Amith KK

Let me boot into unity

Bruno Pereira

11:28 AM

2

Going like this I will beat @JorgeCastro in badges next week! :P

jokerdino

Grats!

Bruno Pereira

thx

Questions Feed

11:43 AM

Can you answer this? How do I use get_media_file() in the latest Quickly? http://askubuntu.com/questions/99367/how-do-i-use-get-media-file-in-the-latest-quickly #python

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on January 29, 2012 at 11:25 AM

htorque

12:14 PM

is there a log of screen locks?

i need the time of the last screen lock :-(

jokerdino

@htorque I don't know. Ask on the site?

htorque

this would be off-topic :P

jokerdino

How so?

2

Q: How do I find the last logged system boot and shutdown times?

I'm a Rails developer working on a web application on Ubuntu Server 10.04. Due to internal requirements, I was asked to find the last 10 system boot and shutdown times... I have no clue where to find these details. Could someone help me out?

boot shutdown logging events

someone might know where to look for screenlock logs

htorque

even better: i also switched off the monitor → the monitor has two usb ports → /var/log/kern.log \o/

jokerdino

so you found it?!

grats

htorque

12:33 PM

i didn't find the screen lock time but a timestamp very close to it, so i'm fine. :P

jokerdino

12:43 PM

God made me an Atheist. Who are you to question his judgement?

Tweeted by shashwatkhatri on January 29, 2012 at 12:43 PM

Conflict of ideas.

deostroll

1:07 PM

HI just dropping to post a tip. My upgrade process from 10.10 to 11.04 (via an alternate iso) got interrupted due to power failure. I couldn't log back in to my profile after that: the gui kind of stuck at the login screen. Fortunately I was able to log in via recovery mode, defaulted to root prompt, mounted the iso and ran the upgrade...Yes the upgrade worked in the shell. ( ./cdromupgrade )

jokerdino

happy to hear that your upgrade was a success.

deostroll

I hope someone can star that and share it with ppl...thx

Marco Ceppi

@deostroll Forget starring it, why not ask the question on the site "Upgrade interrupted with Alternative CD" then provide the answer

No one ever comes in chat, but if you ask then answer a question on the site you're bound to help someone else out :)

jokerdino

i was gonna ask him to document it on the site but my network went haywire. :X

Marco Ceppi

If he doesn't, does someone here want to instead?

jokerdino

1:39 PM

oh well, he quit already?

I am in the process of documenting it..

my network is terribly pathetic. i am now in the process of improvising the poor quality Q&A. give em some time.

@MarcoCeppi askubuntu.com/questions/99568/…

Questions Feed

2:29 PM

After downloading the latest 64-bit ver., that .iso installed a 32-bit platform in my notebook! http://askubuntu.com/questions/99562/after-downloading-the-latest-64-bit-ver-that-iso-installed-a-32-bit-platform #64bit

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on January 29, 2012 at 2:25 PM

Bruno Pereira

3:08 PM

where is the AU script to add formated packages links to a question/answer?

Octavian Damiean

Should be on

bubble

can we ask questions related to linux mint here ?

jokerdino

Should be on

Octavian Damiean

16

Q: Linux Mint (and other unofficial derivatives) - on topic?

(Inspired by this question about Mint. ) You only have to look at Wikipedia to find a long long list of Ubuntu derivatives - should we allow, or even actively encourage, questions regarding these on Ask Ubuntu?

discussion scope derivatives

jokerdino

4

A: How to post links that install software via apt?

Insert Apt Link This small UserScript adds a button to the editing toolbar that makes it easy to insert a link to an APT package. Simply click on the button and type the name of the package. License MIT License Download http://files.quickmediasolutions.com/userscripts/apt.user.js Platform...

That one?

Bruno Pereira

3:18 PM

@jokerdino Already done, @OctavianDamiean was faster ;) thx you 2

Bruno Pereira

3:29 PM

why do we have a grub and a grub2 tag? do we need that much split?

should we get a unity4 and unity5 one? ^^

Octavian Damiean

Yes the split is needed.

Read up on grub and grub2's differences.

And no, we don't need a unity4 and unity5 tag.

Bruno Pereira

I know we don't need 2 unity tags but just mentioning the distro version should be enough to know what grub a user is talking about no?

Octavian Damiean

No.

Bruno Pereira

Oh.

Octavian Damiean

You can decide which grub version you use if you really want. You can even decide not to use grub at all.

jokerdino

3:37 PM

MBR?

Octavian Damiean

Uh?

Bruno Pereira

I understand that was wondering why grub2 was so different from grub but since it was completely re wroten makes sence now. nvm

jokerdino

I mean instead of grub, you can use MBR, right?

Bruno Pereira

@jokerdino no, that is wrong. MBR is the starting sectors of a disk that contain the information to load the bootloaded, grub, syslinux, etc are bootloaders.

jokerdino

Right

Octavian Damiean

3:40 PM

MBR stands for Master Boot Record which just describes the 512 bytes in the first sector of your hard disk.

Meh ... ninjad.

Amith KK

3:55 PM

Hey all

jokerdino

Wow, There is a inbuilt screen-caster in gnome-shell

good night

Bruno Pereira

gn

Amith KK

4:19 PM

@jokerdino night

Amith KK

4:30 PM

BBT

Jorge Castro

5:23 PM

@Alvar if you're seeing a bunch of duplicate java questions why aren't you marking them as dupe?

Marcos Roriz

5:35 PM

Hi guys :). I just returned (active) to the AskUbuntu communty. I'll focuse on answering Java question (which are my expertise). =)

Questions Feed

Can you answer this? No bass from the speakers http://askubuntu.com/questions/99526/no-bass-from-the-speakers #sound

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on January 29, 2012 at 5:25 PM

jokerdino

i can't get some sleep. so here i am =)

and welcome back to AU community @MarcosRoriz

Marcos Roriz

5:50 PM

:D thanks

Alvar

@JorgeCastro because I can't find the original...

Jorge Castro

7:07 PM

@Alvar please don't leave comment spam because then I have to find the dupe and flag the comment.

William

Hello All! Hello @htorque the unbeliever!

htorque

hi

William

@MarcoCeppi Please delete my old account : askubuntu.com/users/31388/william-teder

That way when me name is googled people will see my new one

Marco Ceppi

What if I just merged it for you?

William

That'd work

What would be different??

Would I get the 11 reputation ( big whoop!)?

Marco Ceppi

7:15 PM

nothing, except your questions, answers, badges, and rep would be merged into your account

William

ok

thanks

htorque

@MarcoCeppi can you merge my old account too? → askubuntu.com/users/235/jorge-castro :P

Marco Ceppi

Sure I'll merge @htorque in to Account 235 :)

Octavian Damiean

hehe

What happens if you merge one moderator account into another? Do you get a super moderator?

3

William

You get a moderator squared!

A super baby moderator!

Jorge Castro

7:30 PM

@MarcoCeppi a bunch of incoming Firefox stable PPA flags

as it's being removed

William

Help! I lost reputation, not gained it!

Used to have 1365

+2 for tag edit

I lost 30

Octavian Damiean

@William I guess your reputation gets recalculated when your account gets merged.

That might explain the reputation loss.

William

What do you mean by recalculated?

I can do a lot with 30 reputation!

Octavian Damiean

Don't worry about your reputation. Answer a question and you'll get them back in no time.

Alvar

@JorgeCastro ok... won't do it again...

William

7:40 PM

Well, Yourr'e helpful!

Jorge Castro

@MarcoCeppi ok done!

Bruno Pereira

I have a problem... its been on for a week... please help... my problem is... illuminated keyboard flickers... be detailed... I did script and all... does not work... i am using UBUNTU... <--- its been like this all day! Can we shock users that cant proper format theyr questions via the Internet? :P

William

Can we shock moderators that can't spell theyr chat messages? Just Kidding :)

Bruno Pereira

you can try ;)

Octavian Damiean

He is a normal user, not a moderator. ;)

William

7:47 PM

ok then.

can we shock normal users?

Octavian Damiean

♦ ← this thing qualifies you as a moderator.

Bruno Pereira

you can try ;)

William

williamt@F813RR0R:realshocker uid=BrunoPereria

Looking up user on askubuntu.com...

Tracing Ip...

Octavian Damiean

0

Q: I want U1 to delay before uploading files

I'm an author and I am often working on quite large book files, say around 15Meg, in LibreOffice. LibreOffice autosaves every few minutes, and I manually save too. When I'm producing graphics or PDFs, I might be creating new files and overwriting old ones more than once per minute as I find erro...

sync file

William

Unable to shock. This user must have super cow powers.

Octavian Damiean

7:49 PM

Isn't this a bit too localized?

William

williamt@F813RRoR:

Bruno Pereira

@William you misspelled my name and everything...

William

Doh!

Bruno Pereira

@OctavianDamiean I think not, why, its a nice question and its Ubuntu connected

William

You watch out @BrunoPereira... for realshocker 2.0! (now running on python 3) :)

Jorge Castro

7:50 PM

ok so the firefox stable PPA is being retired

William

What a pretty question! Mommy, I want that question!

Jorge Castro

so I've fixed all the answers referring to that PPA on the site

if you see any new ones, kill them with fire

William

Good job!

Shock them!

Octavian Damiean

@BrunoPereira The question wasn't if it was off topic but if it isn't too localized.

Bruno Pereira

@OctavianDamiean no.

bioShark

7:55 PM

@BrunoPereira hi Bruno. You have time a minute to look over my question? askubuntu.com/questions/99111/…

Bruno Pereira

@bioShark I did, several times, I have no clue. Never see it happen or a bug report about it. :S Sorry.

bioShark

I reported it. But now I have reverted to the 11.10 driver and the behavior is still the same. How can I make sure I am not using the open source drivers as well?

William

Anyone see any cool conky.conf files lately?

Bruno Pereira

@bioShark maybe it has nothing to do with them?

William

bioShark

8:01 PM

@BrunoPereira maybe, but how do I check? I have done the reinstall of the driver like you suggested. After uninstall of fglrx : sudo apt-get install –reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 xserver-xorg-core then reboot and install the new drivers

Takkat

Hi all

William

Hola!

Hesajn!

bioShark

@BrunoPereira can I uninstall my mesa packages? Or at least the ones I have mentioned above

Bruno Pereira

no, why? they are part of the xorg server packages I think

William

Pulseaudio is om nomming 2% of my cpu!

Takkat

8:04 PM

ask other people: Pulseaudio can easily grab 100%

bioShark

ok

William

Why can't I change the nice value of a process?

in gnome-system-monitor

Octavian Damiean

@William Tried it with renice already?

Takkat

nice -n niceness processname

of course do as @OctavianDamiean says when the process is already running

Jorge Castro

@BrunoPereira This guy is following your directions

0

Q: AMD 11.12 driver issue

I followed the steps letter by letter in this post... Gnome 3.2 problems in the shell However I have come to a problem that I don't know how to solve... It is saying that package build has failed and it could not process the .deb file. I would like to install this as it increases performance o...

driver terminal ati

I think he's missing a sudo? Might want to check your answer or add whatever he's missing to it

William

8:10 PM

Help! I do that with blender then it opens a new blender window. I want to change the niceness of the cureent blender window.

lazyPower

@William did you 'nice' or did you 'renice' ?

William

renice works

is -20 high priority?

Bruno Pereira

@JorgeCastro its already handled

Jorge Castro

<3

Takkat

@William -20 is highest priority - eats up all ;P

But for raytracing you might want that so.

Octavian Damiean

8:14 PM

2

A: How to install Java and which version of it?

You can have various JDK side-by-side in the same machine. This is needed because sometimes you are on a 64-bit machine but need to run a specific 32-bit stuff. Also there are others JVM availables, some (open source): JamVM, Cacao, JatoVM. They are usually made for a specific niche and unfortuna...

Uh?

> Since you pretend to develop Android applications I highly recommend using the Sun (Oracle) 1.7 i386 JDK. Why? Not only it's the official JVM but due to android not having a 64-bit SDK.

Bruno Pereira

LOL

looooool

Octavian Damiean

Mhmm, what should I do with this question?

0

Q: Conky colors wont show up

I am running Gnome 3 and am trying to get conky to work. When I just installed and ran "conky" in terminal, this showed up. http://imageurl.org/?d=TBY3 So I googled how to make it look better and I found Conky Colors. So I followed this guide http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/conky-colors-makes-your...

command-line gnome3 configuration conky

Jorge Castro

inlining the image would be a good start!

Octavian Damiean

The image he links to is not available or gone.

Yea well that is what I would have done if the image was available but without that image the question is kinda hard to understand I guess.

Bruno Pereira

added a comment to let him know

Octavian Damiean

8:20 PM

lol :D

28 seconds @BrunoPereira!

Bruno Pereira

@OctavianDamiean no matter having 2, I deleted mine :P

Octavian Damiean

:)

William

Slime Volley:

There are absolutely no servers for it.

Anywhere.

@jokerdino and I found this out through a lot of googling yesterday.

I would be wlling to set up a SE Slime Volley server if someone can find me the files I need to put in the root directory.

I currently have Godaddy linux hosting.

Cold anyone find me the files?

This seems to be a dead game.\

Marcos Roriz

@OctavianDamiean look at the OP comment on dschulzg answer. He says that he wants to develop android apps.

2

A: How to install Java and which version of it?

You can have various JDK side-by-side in the same machine. This is needed because sometimes you are on a 64-bit machine but need to run a specific 32-bit stuff. Also there are others JVM availables, some (open source): JamVM, Cacao, JatoVM. They are usually made for a specific niche and unfortuna...

Questions Feed

Bounty offered: Is there a way to remove/hide old kernel versions? http://askubuntu.com/questions/2793/is-there-a-way-to-remove-hide-old-kernel-versions #grub

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on January 29, 2012 at 8:25 PM

Octavian Damiean

8:30 PM

@MarcosRoriz All I wanted to highlight is that pretend might not be the right word.

William

Doh! Openshot crshed!

Marcos Roriz

ok :D

Octavian Damiean

I just realized that we don't have Google Code Prettify support on AU like on SO. :(

Marco Ceppi

Write a meta :)

Octavian Damiean

8:46 PM

I'm on it already. :)

0

Q: Google Code Prettify support for Ask Ubuntu?

Reading this answer I've realized that we don't have Google Code Prettify support on Ask Ubuntu like we have on Stack Overflow. Since we agreed that we welcome Ubuntu development questions I think we should also have Google Code Prettify support.