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rlemon

17:09

me: "Lets crank it to eleven"
girlfriend: "is that loud?"
me: "Well, it's one past ten..."

Amith KK

@rlemon \o/

Hey @Takkat

Hey @Sathya

Takkat

Oh hi @AmithKK

Hi to all

Amith KK

@rlemon Are you there

Sathya

hi @AmithKK

36 mins ago, by Bruno Pereira

I am going to have pizza, cheese and good beer tonight! Weekend \o/

Amith KK

@Sathya Teh elections are over

Sathya

17:16

I'm done with the cheese & pizza part, half way with the rum :P

@AmithKK yeah, I know - the ones I elected for won ;)

Amith KK

Rum+Mod+Chat+Site=Bad

Sathya

not really.

well not at these levels anyway

William

Yay! It's @AmithKK!

Amith KK

@William Hey :D

William

I made rooms!

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Thomas Ward

17:22

you're still on about you creating rooms?

i've created rooms willy-nilly before, it got BORING

Amith KK

@ThomasWard Heya

Thomas Ward

now, where's @Jorge...

he needs a slap

Jorge Castro

hi!

William

IMA PROFFESIONAL ROOMCREATOR

Amith KK

@JorgeJuJu Slap Given

Jorge Castro

17:23

what did I do?

Thomas Ward

hey @Jorge, did you poke AlanBell about integration of AskUbuntu feeds on the IRC?

Jorge Castro

I did

Thomas Ward

did you (and everyone else on the ubuntu-irc mailing list) get my blank email and the email with actual content as my response?

(it didnt originate from my ubuntu.com email :/)

Jorge Castro

I got one blank one

and then your real one

Thomas Ward

yeah my phone fubar'd

it sent out a blank by accident

i mentioned that in the second email ;P

stupid glitchy technology!

William

17:26

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Thomas Ward

ugh, i'm making spelling errors everywhere... reminds himself to give him coffee

okay, now i'm concerned...

any mods around?

jrg

Yes...

Thomas Ward

good its you

see IRC

rlemon

@AmithKK sorry was eating lunch

William

17:44

@rlemon pls jion supernews

Amith KK

3

Q: Making Existing Userlevel program root?

Is it possible to give root to an already running application which runs at userspace? Like x program is running, I did some unsaveable work on x program, But it needs root to complete. I do not want to restart the x program.

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Amith KK

BBT

rlemon

18:13

Ahhhh!!! PC has ghosts.

@jrg do you really need to be in 17 different chat rooms at once?

not very helpful.

William

News of Superness.

jrg

@rlemon yes, I do.

i have a stake in almost all of those.

William

Someone out of the kindness of thier heart please star the link to the room. It would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

I will send you a free unicorn as a token of my gratitude!

rlemon

ugh... my lunchtime sushi is not sitting well.

ugh...

ok back to work!

Thomas Ward

@rlemon you should have given me the sushi :p

rlemon

18:22

Multigrain salmon avocado roll.

jrg

@nitstorm Congrats on hitting 3K!!

William

Wow! Now me has to hit 3k so I get congratualted!

@jrg No, it doesnt give an option.

Thomas Ward

@rlemon sounds decent :P

William

Please use your diamond powers.

jrg

@William Link then?

Thomas Ward

18:25

@rlemon just be glad it wasnt the spam roll

some people still eat spam sushi

rlemon

@ThomasWard eww

Thomas Ward

@William you won't get congratulated :P

@rlemon i know right? I want to be like "BURN!" and burn that sushi with Hell Fire. :/

rlemon

Panda Roll?

Thomas Ward

AskUbuntu: "You havent voted on questions in a while... how about voting on questions?"

Me: "BECAUSE NONE HAVE PIQUED MY INTEREST!"

@rlemon oh how cute! OM NOM NOM NOM NOM!

rlemon

jrg

18:27

Spam isn't bad, although Oli will probably file suite and have my diamond taken away for doing it.

rlemon

Linux Sushi

Thomas Ward

its too cute to eat, @rlemon. eating that will defy the Linux Gods and bring evil upon all of Linux :/

rlemon

then eat these

Thomas Ward

yeah those need to die

but they need less pink

rlemon

sushi == Japanese
sushi kello kitty == Japanese eating cats

hrm.....

Thomas Ward

18:29

grabs black rice paste, smothers that evil thing with the paste, swallows them whole

nitstorm

@jrg Thanks :D

Just finished a major edit + answer work..

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Q: How to install a software manually?

I have recently learnt how to install programs from the terminal and would like to know the meaning of a few commands that I use to install. For example, I downloaded python 3.2 from source and extract and try to install it but failed. I saw in the explanation in other sites that I must use ./con...

install-from-source

jrg

@nitstorm you're welcome. :)

nitstorm

:)

jrg

This people, is what happens when you're in too many chatrooms at once.

Thomas Ward

ooh nifteh

@jrg what does that, a userscript?

nitstorm

18:36

@jrg lol lol lol :P now i am guessing even this comes up in three notifications :P

@ThomasWard its a webkit feature i think, shows up on Chromium/Chrome and such when you get a reply ...

rlemon

@ThomasWard "Enable Desktop Notifications" in the bottom right corner of the chat.

Thomas Ward

ah. it doesnt exist on firefox then :P

rlemon

cept on dual monitor with chat windows open in each display mine often does not display on the correct display.

jrg

Yeah not on Firefox.

rlemon

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/html-notifications ohh but it does.

to test someone ping me

nitstorm

18:41

@rlemon test ping

rlemon

hahaha I should close chrome before I do this.

try again

nitstorm

@rlemon lol lol :P ping 2

rlemon

nope

nitstorm

:(

rlemon

nvm. The desktop notifications plugin is a bust

Thomas Ward

18:42

@rlemon This is a message of random irrelevant text. Lorem ipsum is equally as irrelevant.

yeah, thought so :P

rlemon

ok last try

ping me

jrg

@rlemon ping

rlemon

ugh. there lists that it works but not 100%

Alvar

@jrg told that to marco yet?

jrg

@Alvar Haha.

Alvar

18:48

:D

rlemon

omg ok... one more ping.

jrg

@rlemon ping pong you're dead

rlemon

ok the plugin works... just not for this site.

I don't know why

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/html-notifications

and for me the notification is a OSD notification.

jrg

I think you have the OSD thing setup

Octavian Damiean

@JorgeCastro I've edited my Global Jam post.

nitstorm

18:56

Alrighty boys, punching out. Cheers!

rlemon

@jrg for that plugin.. not chrome

Alvar

@rlemon what's firefox?

rlemon

^ just about sums it up

Alvar

aha..

the slow one witch pretends to be older than it really is...

George Edison

Ta-da:

Super User Blog: WTFriday: What happens when Windows runs out of Disk Space?

Posted by George Edison on February 17th, 2012

I have been using the Windows 8 Developer Preview for about 5 months or so and in order to install it on my PC, I had to create a rather small partition on my primary hard drive consisting of only about 16GB. Thankfully, a clean install of Windows 8 will fit comfortably within that space and still provide enough room for some basic utilities and drivers (of course, I do have other secondary partitions that I use for installing applications).

During the installation of a particular application, the free disk space on the partition dropped to about 28MB. One of the users over in the Root Access c …

Written by yours truly.

rlemon

19:09

yea i've seen that message ohh to often.

almost there

6K global rep here I come!

so pumped I need one more line to see it!

BAH! 5994?! I just did an edit!

Octavian Damiean

19:23

You don't gain reputation from an edit if you are > 2000.

rlemon

global rep ;)

i'm editing here. (300 something rep)

and adds to global rep.

Woot! @OctavianDamiean FINALLY got that form worked out.

now If I can figure out a handy trick to get rid of this line i'll be js free in this form.

<label><input type="checkbox" name="is_sales_ready" id="is_sales_ready" onclick="document.getElementById('price_input').style.display = this.checked?'block':'none';" /> Is Sales Item</label>

only inline js because I was too lazy to make a new file :P

waits for oli to suggest $('#price_input').toggle(this.checked);

jrg

Thats a creepy ad

George Edison

It's... weird.

rlemon

19:41

probably took quite a bit of work too...

jrg

True.

rlemon

it's a wicked awesome idea for a home office desk/playpen

however those orange cords hanging into the playpen concern me.

jrg

SEE?!

rlemon

USB Baby?

jrg

something like that.

rlemon

19:44

any why are all of the babies toys just out of reach

kinda cruel.

jrg

Cruel ad bro.

rlemon

ahhhh, the baby is a vampire

only thing not casting a shadow

it all makes sense now!

George Edison

@rlemon I've posted on Meta complaining about it now.

rlemon

20:00

i love the 4 upvotes... refresh... 6 upvotes... refresh... 3 upvotes... refresh... 2 upvotes...

Marco Ceppi

It's just an ad.

George Edison

@MarcoCeppi But some people find it in poor taste.

@MarcoCeppi And some people haven't got their Ondina invites yet :P

Marco Ceppi

Someone will find something in poor taste about everything

George Edison

(Did you like how I somehow correlated the two unrelated comments?)

rlemon

lol, i'm participating for the trolls.

I wont lie.

the ad is in poor taste.

but having no kids of my own, i'm not offended by it.

George Edison

20:04

Heh, it worked.

Alvar

don't really get it.. (might be because of my low resolution (1366*768)

George Edison

Read my Meta question.

Alvar

@GeorgeEdison I never saw it in that way, although I get how it could be read in that way..

the baby is a bit big..

George Edison

Yeah, it's just better to change it a bit and then nobody will have problems with it.

Alvar

if the baby lay in a bed a bit higher up then it would make sence

rlemon

20:10

@GeorgeEdison imacs man! imacs!

George Edison

@rlemon Then what is the orange cord?

Alvar

@rlemon imacs are more evenly shaped they don't have a box on the backside of the screen.

@GeorgeEdison it's a mix from the old rainbow apple years :P

@GeorgeEdison or a cord to make it hard to steal!

orange copper wire ;)

Octavian Damiean

@rlemon You misspelled that, it is not USB Baby it is USBaby.

rlemon

to me it looked like a orange usb cable (more likely Ethernet)

@OctavianDamiean then I think american baby

George Edison

@rlemon Then where is the power cable?

Alvar

20:14

@GeorgeEdison hidden.

Octavian Damiean

They use POA technology @GeorgeEdison.

Alvar

solar power FTW ;)

Octavian Damiean

Power Over Air.

George Edison

@OctavianDamiean That technology hasn't matured enough to be commercially usable.

Octavian Damiean

heh

Maybe it is also just the new OCE technology.

One Cable for Everything.

George Edison

20:17

That would be sweet.

Alvar

@GeorgeEdison this is a picture not real life.

Octavian Damiean

Also, it looks like the cables are plugged into the baby if you ask me. Does the baby power the machines? Matrix-like?

George Edison

I don't know.

rlemon

they are bio-kinetically powered by the baby...

the baby is really a young Gambit.

Alvar

@rlemon you mean the child AKA baby with a diaper ?

rlemon

20:19

the baby suffers from Gigantism

Alvar

@rlemon tell that to SO! ;) the meta post you know...

rlemon

and trolled.

George Edison

Ack! My inbox:

jrg

We agree it's poor taste, but we also agree its not supposed to be accurate.

George Edison

jrg

20:23

@George oh I feel so sorry for your inbox. Lol.

George Edison

I can also verify that StackApplet's notifications work... :)

Octavian Damiean

:D

That's Meta. :)

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rlemon

@Feeds, Use mouthwash.

buh dum dum

Alvar

20:40

@rlemon did you see my comment? :P

rlemon

20:51

@OctavianDamiean meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/122711/…

Octavian Damiean

WHOA! Posted an answer!

rlemon

Woop! Love when the boss wants to leave early.

Bruno Pereira

21:12

Also, why the cruelty.. Give the baby his toys, don't place them just out of reach. -> lol, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.

its just an ad, I dont really have any opinion on it (dont feel offended, worried or concerned about it) but the comments are great!

jrg

Oh the comments sure are funny.

George Edison

@jrg I'm beginning to have second thoughts about the whole thing.

I mean... we all know you shouldn't ignore a baby like that, but...

Jorge Castro

that's no baby

Octavian Damiean

Oh yea? Babies have died because of that.

Jorge Castro

it's a space station

Bruno Pereira

21:19

lol

Octavian Damiean

lol

jrg

@JorgeCastro snort

Bruno Pereira

it starts

George Edison

@OctavianDamiean What are you saying?

Octavian Damiean

There have been cases where a baby died because the parents were too busy playing World of Warcraft.

jrg

21:21

@GeorgeEdison I will stand by my comment of Its definitely weird.

George Edison

@OctavianDamiean Okay, that's what I thought. And I completely agree.

@jrg No doubts about it being weird.

jrg

Although I have seen weirder and more offensive ads cough GoDaddy. cough

George Edison

I'm just wondering if I overreacted.

Was it weird enough to warrant its removal?

Octavian Damiean

Yes.

jrg

Yes, but thats not saying it couldn't have been tweaked to be not so weird.

Octavian Damiean

21:24

Also, people without a face are just extremely terrifying.

jrg

@OctavianDamiean I can't figure out if you're mocking us or not. :P

Octavian Damiean

I'm not, I admit that I really am scare of people without a face.

Don't ask me why, I have no idea. It is completely irrational.

George Edison

Thanks guys - all of those downvotes made me wonder if I was crazy or something.

Octavian Damiean

Meh, that is just Meta.

jrg

No you're not - the downvotes are from people who probably didn't read the entire post.

Bruno Pereira

21:29

metas are opinions, not if its right or wrong. you did good @GeorgeEdison

rlemon

22:11

Ok just gor home. On boot after my grub menu nothing happens . Monitor gets no signal and no light blinky blinky . But pc stays on

Please help . Tis my only running pc at home

I hate trying to debug on my phone

Bruno Pereira

have you tried recovery mode?

rlemon

Get this 'read only menu'

t.co/13I8LZ1G

Sorry trying to share pics from my phone on the chat is not easy

And read only means it . No keyboard control

Ooh this time i got a screen saying a bunch of post stuff then hangs on checking battery state ...

Ok im in but no unity

Bruno Pereira

recovery, enter root shell, remove your xorg.conf file from /etc/X11

rlemon

Okay

Cant find xorg.conf

Bruno Pereira

great (then you have no graphics driver issue) any other faults when booting?

rlemon

22:26

Nope

Was fine last night . Shutdown before bed

What could have caused this . I dont remember changing anything

Bruno Pereira

where do you get to when booting, to lightdm?

rlemon

Sorry new to linux .. i go from grub to a console screen. It hangs on some battery message but i can alt f2 to get to another console to log in

And that is where i am now

Bruno Pereira

start by checking how your fs are: sudo fsck -fv /dev/sd00 were 00 is the number of your linux disk, if you only have 1 disk that will be 01

rlemon

Could it be something else

No such file or directory . I tries 00 through 09

jrg

@rlemon ls /dev | grep "sda"

Bruno Pereira

22:36

Do you have a livecd with you?

jrg

most solo internal drives are sda*.

Bruno Pereira

true! sorry

@rlemon there is a a missing there on the command

sudo fsck -fv /dev/sda1 is what you want

rlemon

Ok so i had windows on this drive before and removed it and resized my partitions from a live cd

Now i have sda3 sda5 and sda6

3 is saying attempt to read block from file system resulted in a short read

5 says fsck.swap not found

6 says is mounted and suggests i dont continue

Bruno Pereira

this would be easy(er) with a livecd, do you have one with you?

rlemon

Yes ill boot

Should have thought of that

Bruno Pereira

22:42

checking fs that are currently mounted is kinda not recommended

rlemon

OK

on the live cd

much better

Bruno Pereira

check your fs again, check them all, to get a list of them use sudo fdisk -l

hard disks start with sd

rlemon

  310295 inodes used (8.88%)
     527 non-contiguous files (0.2%)
     402 non-contiguous directories (0.1%)
         # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 0/0/0
         Extent depth histogram: 276484/151
 2893093 blocks used (20.61%)
       0 bad blocks
       1 large file

  225584 regular files
   33797 directories
      57 character device files
      25 block device files
       0 fifos
     126 links
   50823 symbolic links (33568 fast symbolic links)
       0 sockets
--------
  310412 files

fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
fsck: fsck.swap: not found
fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.swap for /dev/sda5

and I still get nothing from sda3

fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sda3
Could this be a zero-length partition?

Bruno Pereira

can you show us fdisk -l?

rlemon

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ fdisk -l
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

Bruno Pereira

22:51

sudo fdisk -l

rlemon

Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders, total 117231408 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x05d79a29

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda3            2048   117229567    58613760    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            4096     4931583     2463744   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6         4933632   117229567    56147968   83  Linux

Bruno Pereira

make me sandwich: no!
sudo make me sandwich: ok

rlemon

normally it says i need root... not just nothing :P

Bruno Pereira

yeah

rlemon

sdb is my storage drive. sda is my ssd

do you see anything jumping out at you there?

Bruno Pereira

22:56

no, sda3 is extended so failing a fs check is no issue, sda6 returned clean right?

rlemon

looks to be

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck -fv /dev/sda6
fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information

  310295 inodes used (8.88%)
     527 non-contiguous files (0.2%)
     402 non-contiguous directories (0.1%)
         # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 0/0/0
         Extent depth histogram: 276484/151

Bruno Pereira

@rlemon follow this: askubuntu.com/questions/90045/…

keep us updated!

rlemon

ugh.. too much work. i'll just backup what little files I have to my storage and wipe the system.

fresh installs always feel better

Bruno Pereira

lol

good choice

rlemon

thanks for the help though :P

Bruno Pereira

23:03

np, not much of a help at this time of the night :/

rlemon

i should be good just backing up my home directory right?

assuming all I have are like screenies... configs. things like that.

Bruno Pereira

unless you are running servers or making edits to config files by hand, yeah

jrg

@rlemon yeah, you should be fine if you backup your home dir.

askubuntu.com/questions/105053/how-to-learn-linux-bits-everyday - hm, is this really on-topic? I'm not 100% sure, it smells of a list question.

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23:38

Bounty offered: Message "Sparse file not allowed" after succesfull install without swap-partition http://askubuntu.com/questions/100329/message-sparse-file-not-allowed-after-succesfull-install-without-swap-partitio #boot

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jrg

@Allan Ok, clarification for that answer.

I have a block in there like this:

function recordfail {
set recordfail=1
if [ -n "\${have_grubenv}" ]; then if [ -z "\${boot_once}" ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
}

Do I want to comment the entire function or just the third line?

Allan

@RolandTaylor just the third line

jrg

Ok.

Allan

@jrg Why Roland???

jrg

@Allan No idea, you must have made a typo.

Allan

23:55

He must know all things (the lidless eye)

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