Ask Ubuntu General Room

jrg

01:22

@JorgeCastro here's one that looks like its worth a 50 rep bounty - askubuntu.com/questions/34219/how-do-i-autosuspend-a-usb-device

William

@jrg Can I add bounty and stir?

jrg

sure, if you want. I do recommend you save yourself the rep, since Jorge will probably do it. :)

William

@jrg Why are you starting this bounty? What should I select?

(BTW You said yourself that reputation isnt worth much)

jrg

Looking to draw attention, and something that amounts to "I'm looking for an authoritative answer that will work on 10.04-11.10 if possible."

@William yes, but rep gives you useful things. like edits without approval.

and close votes. and more fancy buttons to use wisely. I encourage you to get more rep. :)

William

Yes, but then you dont get the +2 rep per edit.

jrg

01:28

But you only get +200 of that max anyway. :)

William

No, 1000 of that

And I sollemly pledge to try to get 200 rep tonight.

For now - I have to clean the bathroom.

Otherwise, my mom charges me 15 dollars.

jrg

Heh, i know your pain.

@lazyPower So, I "launched" the site today - rubycasts.github.com

made with jekyll and bootstrap, and soon i'm going to claw my way to a custom theme with it

Bruno Pereira

aaarrrrrrggggghhhhh, why is my gf music mixed with my music library?

was listening to youtube.com/watch?v=nH7kx9QUPkI when youtube.com/watch?v=WyHsE0OpmHM started, such a buzz kill!

William

02:17

cairoshell.github.com

Wow.

Me has to check out.

jrg

02:41

It looks cool.

William

It does

Any way I can get that to work in Ubuntu?

Questions Feed

Bounty offered: Touchpad detected as both PS/2 mouse and ALPS Glidepoint...uses PS/2 mouse settings http://askubuntu.com/questions/70418/touchpad-detected-as-both-ps-2-mouse-and-alps-glidepoint-uses-ps-2-mouse-setti #mouse

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on February 19, 2012 at 2:38 AM

William

ANyone know @rlemon's twitter feed?

I want to put it in SuperNews

jrg

Not everything he says is worth putting all over the internet. :P

jokerdino

Do you want mine? :))

William

02:52

Sure, if its tech news related.

Im looking to populate the room.

jokerdino

it is a mix match of everything

William

OK, let me take a look.

jokerdino

Barneedhar

@jokerdino, Singapore

Student. Ubuntu user. Prefers Open source software. Occasional blogger. Google+ profile: http://goo.gl/MZgnD

1.1k tweets, 79 followers, following 98 users

jrg

He rants and raves about unity all the time.

don't follow him. ;)

jokerdino

you can just pool the #ubuntu tweets if you want?

@jrg :P

William

02:53

I actually kinda like Unity.

jrg

I love unity - heck, I loved every version of it.

jokerdino

I submitted a tip to OMG Ubuntu and it is still down.

William

Ubuntu

@ubuntu, Ubuntu is everywhere

Official Twitter Account for Ubuntu

145 tweets, 14k followers, following 190 users

jrg

heh, OMG is down for the foreseeable future. :)

William

How do I add this to the room?

jokerdino

02:55

You add me as admin and i will add it for you.

William

OMG! It's down!

jrg

OMG really needs to switch to octopress and s3 for their blogging thing. Never have to worry about pricing or database failure again. ;)

George Edison

Qt Creator is unparalleled in pure awesome - but it does sometimes get confused when it comes to dependencies.

William

So why is OMG Ubuntu down?

I love OMG!

George Edison

If you ever experience strange crashing issues in what appears to be semantically valid code, try rebuilding the project.

jrg

02:56

@GeorgeEdison I need to play with it again, last time it didn't like my setup with Qtruby.

jokerdino

03:12

Hey, Philip Ballew is not a female right?

en.gravatar.com/philipballew

jrg

no he's philip ballew.

he just has long hair.

jokerdino

I don't understand. :S

jrg

and looks like waldo.

jokerdino

LOL

William

+1 to that.

jokerdino

03:14

I see pyladies on the background.

William

I love starring random messages out of context. It's a great way to make people look bad.

jrg

William

No. No stars for you today, @jrg.

It doesnt give me a cancel stars option.

jrg

I disapprove of starring random messages out of context.

@William click in the sidebar

William

I'm @jrg, and I disaprove this message.

And what sidebar?

jrg

03:20

@William the star list.

William

Oh! Tada!

jrg

Can someone else verify move has 0 questions please?

jokerdino

Got 20 questions

William

jrg

@jokerdino oh yes forgot about that tab.

William

03:23

SO is bit-tech.net a good source?

jrg

I don't know, it isn't loading for me

William

Hmm. Starnge.

How do I get a planet Ubuntu feed of all posts?

jokerdino

get the twitter feed.

William

OK.

jrg

OOh fancy it worked

piyo

04:00

How to set an upstream proxy server setting during an install of precise-desktop-amd64.iso 2012-02-17? I don't see a dialog for it.

Amith KK

04:24

Hello all

Capt.Nemo

@piyo I don't think ubiquity allows that any longer. It might be possible in the pre-install screen. See bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/657464

Amith KK

WHYYYY!

am i so slow?

Capt.Nemo

Does anyone have any experience in compiling kernel modules ?

Help me out please: github.com/dgiagio/ipheth/issues/14

jrg

@jokerdino anymore flags you want to raise before I go to sleep? ;)

Amith KK

@jrg :D

@jrg Can I suggest tag wiki's?

@jrg askubuntu.com/tags/12.04/info

Boo! No oneboxing for tag wiki's

jokerdino

04:43

@jrg LOL, nope. Take your nap.

@GeorgeEdison The Chromify-OSD plugin keeps crashing in Firefox.

George Edison

Hmm... that's not good.

jokerdino

@AmithKK Test me?

Amith KK

@jokerdino ping

jokerdino

No notifications :(

And the live home page too? :D

George Edison

04:58

Is it broken too now?

You're using Firefox 11?

jokerdino

Oh I need to update it manually?

Yes I am on Firefox 11

George Edison

Ah, FF10 is the latest stable version ATM.

So that might explain it.

jokerdino

Yeah.

William

05:48

@AmithKK ping

And yes, jrg, I know its rude.

Fancy, aint it!

Its the first steps of my customized Ubuntu distro and LiveCD.

Thats a python mockup of the ubiquity supplement.

George Edison

@William That's awesome.

William

And it took me a loooong time to make.

George Edison

It was worth the time.

William

@GeorgeEdison Thanks. I'm glad someone thinks its awesome.

Yes, the end result is pretty satisfing.

Questions Feed

Bounty offered: How do I autosuspend a usb device? http://askubuntu.com/questions/34219/how-do-i-autosuspend-a-usb-device #usb

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on February 19, 2012 at 5:38 AM

Amith KK

06:50

@William AWESOME!!!

He went to sleep I guess :D

@GeorgeEdison Feeling Bored? Im making 2bottuX2

@William Your a born designer AFAICS

George Edison

@AmithKK What?

Amith KK

@GeorgeEdison 2bottu from scratch

Now based on SQlite and stuff

George Edison

Cool.

Amith KK

No module named RDF

Hmm... Whats wrong with the RDF python module

lazyPower

07:06

@jrg looks brilliant so far :) I like the clean aesthetic. Don't change that.

George Edison

Wow... these template definitions are giving me a headache.

lazyPower

Templates for what?

Amith KK

Do we have a 2buntu launchpad team?

George Edison

StackApplet - I'm rewriting it in C++ (with Qt).

lazyPower

Ah i see.

Not satisfied with the python implementation?

George Edison

07:15

Yeah, it was just getting out of hand.

And it's probably not Python's fault :) I'm just not a Python expert.

lazyPower

I hear that

i'm still tickled pink how easy python is to write. Extending that Google closure script was the highlight of my week.

George Edison

Great.

Well, night all.

lazyPower

night george

Amith KK

@GeorgeEdison Night

2bottu alpha! Whoever wants to see it, come to #2buntu

Hey @OctavianDamiean

BBL

nitstorm

08:14

can new users post answers to their own questions if their rep is below 10?

Amith KK

08:32

@nitstorm Yep

nitstorm

@AmithKK danke :)

Amith KK

"You've earned the "Tag Editor" badge for 12.04. See your profile."

Yay!

Bruno Pereira

@nitstorm you should convert that comment in to an answer

nitstorm

@BrunoPereira Roger that sir :) On it right away :)

Amith KK

1 hour ago, by Amith KK

2bottu alpha! Whoever wants to see it, come to #2buntu

nitstorm

08:35

@BrunoPereira Done :D

@AmithKK getting there...

gotta punch out now... will be back in a few hours.. Cheers!

Amith KK

@nitstorm cya

Amith KK

08:57

Package xorg-video-abi-10 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'xorg-video-abi-10' has no installation candidate

What?

Questions Feed

Wireshark problem. Can't select default interface http://askubuntu.com/questions/105521/wireshark-problem-cant-select-default-interface #networking

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on February 19, 2012 at 8:38 AM

Amith KK

@William Want to Corroborate on a project called Neo

I think you have just what is needed to restore it to awesomness

askubuntu.com/q/60151

Amith KK

09:33

0

A: Text User Interface for fdisk?

Yes, There is such a tool Cfdisk It is a curses based partition editor. It is based on fdisk It is preinstalled on ubuntu, If not just use the following command to install it sudo apt-get install util-linux run it using sudo cfdisk You will get this screen Using cfdisk The user inter...

BBL

Gigili

11:39

'Ello.

How do you strike-through things?

Questions Feed

How can I enable smooth-scrolling? http://askubuntu.com/questions/105552/how-can-i-enable-smooth-scrolling #unity

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on February 19, 2012 at 11:38 AM

Octavian Damiean

--- Some text --- (without the spaces).

Hello. :)

Gigili

Neat, thank you.

piyo

11:58

@CaptNemo thanks for the link

Octavian Damiean

Dodge windows is down but what about making the launcher autohide only on maximised apps ?

I was using dodge windows in unity mainly because it make the launcher go out of the way on maximized apps (like Kdenlive who is benefiting a lot from unity's capability of making the most space usable). But I was never hiding the launcher when I use "windowed" apps (like firefox on the left and openoffice on the righ part of the screen) because it helped me a lot switching with something else rapidly (like thunderbird, pidgin, etc) What I think to be a good third behavior of the launcher is to hide itself when one app or more are fullscreen and if they are not, being always there. There is some corner cases like if one app is full screen and the focused app is not. But I think this will not bring some crazy bugs like dodging windows did in the past.

unity

Wishlist / Confirmed

One Zero

hello all , is it safe to remove orca ? & does it remove speech dispatcher

jokerdino

12:27

@OneZero I think you can remove orca.

it is just a screen reader IIRC

jokerdino

12:39

0

A: Virtualbox , Ubuntu 11.10 , linux-kernel 3: cannot start virtual machine

I have no idea!, but I got the problem like you. I just tried to solve by install vbox version support on kernel version. it worked fine. I mean that if ur vbox version is 4.X.X support which is your os kernel version ( your computer). If you want check kernel version, go to terminal type: uname ...

Who wants to review that?

Octavian Damiean

Oh boy.

I don't even understand what he is trying to say.

Octavian Damiean

12:54

1

Q: Bleeding Edge for Selected Programs

I am running 10.04 and have Octave 3.2.3 installed. Recently, I decided to try my hand at development and hence wanted my Octave copy to stay on the Bleeding Edge. Ordinarily, this could be done by using a PPA and adding it to sources (correct?) but Octave doesn't have a PPA. So, how do make sur...

ppa

\o/

jokerdino

13:11

1

A: How do Ubuntu LibreOffice builds differ from vanilla LibreOffice builds?

You can see how the distro builds are done by using the: apt-get source libreoffice command. That said, up to LibreOffice3.4/Oneiric both Debian and Ubuntu used the go-oo build system, which is scary for the uninitiated (and perhaps even more so for the initiated). Since LibreOffice-3.5, we (D...

From the LO developer himself!

I am liking the keyboard shortcuts for Stackexchange.

0

Q: Ubuntu 12.04 (and probably also previous version), use NTFS filesystem for the /home partition

Why if you install Ubuntu (12.04, and probably previous versions) with the normal installer option, it uses by default NTFS filesystem for the /home partition? Why it doesn't use EXT3/EXT4, which are more performant?

filesystem ntfs 12.04 ext4

Close it please!

Manish Sinha

13:55

@jokerdino This does not answer the question exactly askubuntu.com/questions/104584/…

How about moving this question to ask.libreoffice.org?

jokerdino

That question is on topic here.

I will be back shortly.

Manish Sinha

I am also moving it to ask.libreoffice.org

to see how much answer it gets from there

asked: ask.libreoffice.org/question/129/…

Octavian Damiean

14:50

@ManishSinha ask.libreoffice.org is not an official Stack Exchange site.

Questions Feed

Great answer: How do I force a user to change the password periodically? http://askubuntu.com/questions/105040/how-do-i-force-a-user-to-change-the-password-periodically/105043#105043 #password

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on February 19, 2012 at 2:38 PM

jokerdino

Sorry. I am back now.

@OctavianDamiean What exactly is an etherpad?

nitstorm

@jokerdino Should we just vote to close this off as not being a real question?

Octavian Damiean

pad.ubuntu.com

nitstorm

0

Q: black screen blinking mouse cursor

ubuntu 11.10 black screen blinking scroll.. here is little info i need our help (EE) open /dev/fb0: no such file or directory grep vga 00.02.0 vga compatible controler: intel corp. mobile 945gm/gms, 943/940gml express integrated graphics controller (rev 03) sudo service ligthdm start Black ...

black-screen

Octavian Damiean

15:02

It is basically Notepad but multiplayer.

jokerdino

@OctavianDamiean oh those. cool then.

@nitstorm Don't close it yet. Ask the user for some more info. If he doesn't respond for a week or so, then close it. :)

nitstorm

@jokerdino Oh, I put a close vote anyway (before you answered), let's wait for it to age away harmlessly

jokerdino

It doesn't hurt anyway.

jokerdino

15:15

@OctavianDamiean Can you create a pad? I have no experience of using it before.

@nitstorm Edit the question for him please. He seems to show some effort in getting this resolved.

nitstorm

@jokerdino Yes sir, on it.. trying to make sense of the Ubuntu Turkish forums with Google Translate

jokerdino

Heh. me too.

nitstorm

@jokerdino :D

jokerdino

@StefanoPalazzo Can we have our own Chaos team from the community? :))

Stefano Palazzo

we already do, don't we? :)

jokerdino

15:29

Do we?

Stefano Palazzo

you're in it

jokerdino

I mean the official kinda one?

But, am I really in the team? I didn't know that.

Octavian Damiean

The Chaos team is a paid team isn't it?

It is not just a community team.

jokerdino

I know it is a paid team. But our site doesn't have the chaos team. So, I am proposing one from our own community.

Well, basically, a bunch of people who can bother to review stuff.

I am not making sense, am I?

Octavian Damiean

@jokerdino The Chaos team is SE network wide.

nitstorm

15:37

@jokerdino: Working on editing the question..

jokerdino

Are they? I don't find them doing things here though.

@nitstorm Thanks, mate!

nitstorm

@jokerdino no problemo :D

Octavian Damiean

Yup they are a SE network wide team.

Not sure how exactly they work, you might have to ask on Meta.

jokerdino

88

Q: What is the meaning of CHAOS? Is it related to the PSI (Ψ) character?

I've seen a number of users with a PSI character in their names doing strange mysterious things on some Stack Exchange sites. What does it all mean?

discussion announcements chaos

Not sure. It seems like they are assigned to sites.

12

Q: SOAHC, edit popular questions with (maybe) low quality

Recently some of the Area51 sites have gotten CHAOS. ...they will spend a couple of days sweeping up a little bit just to get the place in order. This is the world's most superficial cleanup: they're just looking at the top 1000 questions in order by page views and, if necessary, editing the ...

discussion cleanup soahc

I see we have some things related.

We can have SOAHC team then!

Octavian Damiean

0

Q: How do I create a Fedora 16 live usb from Ubuntu?

UNetBootin and LiveUSB Install don't support Fedora 16 yet, so how do I manually create a live USB?

live-usb fedora live-environment

Is that even on-topic?

jokerdino

15:49

Off topic yeah

nitstorm

what the heck!

jokerdino

LOL

You closed: askubuntu.com/questions/105584/… with the following reason: askubuntu.com/questions/18641/… but my question isn't about an issue, my question is: I see in the alpha 2 that with the normal installer option, ubuntu created 2 partition and one of this in ntfs.

Then, will canonical uses ntfs as /home partition's filesystem in ubuntu? And if it is yes, why don't they use the better ext4?

I got an email. :S

nitstorm

@jokerdino Macha, can you edit it and add the startx output in the end?

I'll put up the pastebin link

@jokerdino: pastebin.ubuntu.com/848723

Amith KK

@nitstorm :D

jokerdino

What should I do?

nitstorm

15:58

@jokerdino Copy the contents from the pastebin link and paste in the question - askubuntu.com/questions/105600/…

@AmithKK LOL LOL :P Friggin' unexpected

Amith KK

Hey all

jokerdino

Can you just put the pastebin link?

Coz I have only two minutes before the internet shuts down here. :S

Good nightttt

Amith KK

@jokerdino cya

nitstorm

@AmithKK Damn you are fast :P

Amith KK

nitstorm

16:05

@jokerdino Good night mate :) and it's done :)

@AmithKK LOL :P LOL :P keeps making me laugh :P anyhoo gotta go buy me some dinner now.. Catch ya later

Amith KK

@nitstorm cya

Thats better

Aww..

Nobody is in the room

Amith KK

16:25

Ohey @Gigili

Gigili

16:37

Hi Amith.

Amith KK

16:49

BBT

nitstorm

@AmithKK That's a BIG face :P

@AmithKK cya morrow, good night :)

@AmithKK And not to take any credit, copious amounts of output on that post :P

Does somebody know Turkish here in AU?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

17:15

0

Q: Confusion about low frame rate with Nvidia GeForge, but hardware rendering seems to work?

All over the years I have always wondered why my Compiz animations on Gnome 2 are not as smooth as on my old Laptop running with Intel GMA 965. Maybe this is related to low frame rates. When I run glxgears (I know, it's no benchmark test) I get only values about 300 frames in 5 seconds: $ glxgea...

ubuntu x11 nvidia

Questions Feed

17:58

"The connection to the daemaon was lost" when updating Ubuntu http://askubuntu.com/questions/105628/the-connection-to-the-daemaon-was-lost-when-updating-ubuntu #update

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on February 19, 2012 at 5:38 PM

William

@AmithKK Yep, I went to sleep I guess.

Actually, my laptop ran out of batteries.

I have set the rule that when my laptop runs out of batteries it's time to call it a night so I get some sleep.

How come I always miss you?

ARRGH!

@AmithKK Thanks for the compliment.

In my humble opinion, Ubiquity could be a lot prettier.

And What's this Neo thing?

5 TAG WIKI EDITS?

WHAT?

I've done at least 20.

jrg

18:17

@ManishSinha So you haven't gotten your swag packet yet?

I'll ping the SE team when i get the chance and see whats up with that.

William

Swag packet?

Whoa! Rep in epic porportions!

Alvar

flash isn't working on my Ubuntu laptop, so I went on to youtube to se if my changed made it to work, but they hadn't. I then realized that html5 was working, it was waaaay better! I now can watch 1080p on fullscreen no lag. with flash I couldn't watch 480p fullscreen! :D

godbye flash! :D

William

youtube.com/html5

for anyone that wants to opt in

I did so on my netbook but flash works fine on my laptop.

Alvar

this si SO great! :D

the ironi is that my screen is only 720p! :D

William

@Alvar Goodbye flash! I'd tell you that I'll miss you but that's be lying!

Alvar

18:28

and I'm running eclipse, spotify for linux and 10 tabs in chrome, while playing in 1080p

@William so true! :D

William

No one likes flash. It's about time that adobe faces the facts.

Alvar

►

William

I'm proud of YouTube for giving users the option of using HTML5.

Alvar

@William the mobile versions have been terminated just so you know..

William

Yes, I heard.

chrome.angrybirds.com

is made in HTML5

so is cuttherope.ie

which has more internet explorer logos on it then a Microsoft convention

Alvar

18:30

@William xD

William

You see my CBOOS Installer mockup?

Alvar

no?

William

1 sec...

The Ubuntu installer should look like that.

Alvar

what is it?

William

This is a python mockup of the installer for my Ubuntu-based distro, CBOOS.

It's goal is to be prettier then Ubiquity.

I did that all myself. All images used were made by me.

It took forever.

Octavian Damiean

18:34

What is the purpose of the distro?

Alvar

hehe

William

To be a cloud based operating system with plenty of eye candy.

I'm building it using Customizer.

Octavian Damiean

A cloud based operating system. Why do you need an installer for that then?

nitstorm

I think someone's going downvote-crazy today and not leaving any comments.

Alvar

@nitstorm where? :P

nitstorm

18:37

When I comment on the posts, people think I am the one downvoting. WTH

William

I am ready to pull out my upvoting lazer!

Alvar

@nitstorm lol

nitstorm

@Alvar well, been in quite a few places. and for no reason at all sometimes like for this question - askubuntu.com/questions/105535/…

William

@nitstorm someone downvoted me for no apparent reason and didnt leave a comment:

7

A: Connecting to the internet through Firefox

You have scarcely any detail in your question, so it is very hard to help you. But, I will try to touch on the most common issues with getting online and Ubuntu. I hope this helps, and if you need clarification, please ask. But next time, please be a little more specific. You said that you use W...

nitstorm

@William Damn!

William

18:38

I know.

Alvar

@nitstorm it's not a good written question... I understand the downvote

nitstorm

Half the new questions here are not well-written but people just shouldn't go downvote-crazy , especially without leaving comments

William

I completely agree.

Alvar

true

but some questions deserve a downvote, and you should leave a comment but you don't have to. it's in the FAQ!

nitstorm

@Alvar yeah.. but it's courtesy, and the next guy who comments on it gets blamed for down-voting for no reason.

Alvar

18:43

@nitstorm but there's always a reason for downvoting..

nitstorm

@Alvar agreed.. just saying it would be a nicer place if it were accompanied with appropriate comments

Alvar

true..

less down voting would be also great

I almost think we should have downvoting on questions to cost reputation..

William

I try to not downvote.

Alvar

my is much "worse"

William

@Alvar Why not suggest it on the meta?

Alvar

18:46

all time by type month week day
403 up 246 question 32 4 4
112 down 269 answer

nitstorm

@William So do I :)

Alvar

@William it was changed to be free a few months ago.

William

Downvoting only annoys.

Alvar

@William not allways.

William

Give me an example

Alvar

18:48

a bad answer that's really bad if downvoted enough then it's ignored

I think it's five or three times..

(-3)

William

I fixed the diamond dots.

New image:

nitstorm

@Alvar Commenting on it first to give the OP a chance to better their answer would be nicer.

lazyPower

@William assuming you own cboos.com?

Octavian Damiean

Right, on Ask Ubuntu it is not so much necessary to down-vote. On Stack Overflow on the other hand ... well ...

Bruno Pereira

down voting is just part of the game, should be useful as voting up. Voting is important, no matter in which direction. Just leave a comment explaining your reasons so the user at least has a chance to fix it.

10

im at 1590 up, 180 down :P

181!

Alvar

19:01

@nitstorm yeah, but still..

nitstorm

@Alvar Well, everyone's got a different style of doing things and as long as its for the better, no arguments :)

Alvar

@nitstorm "it's for the greater good"

nitstorm

@Alvar Exactly :D

William

19:16

Yep, I own cboos.com.

lazyPower

19:30

I like your landing page - nice color scheme. The silver and blue.

lazyPower

19:53

github.com/chuckbutler/it306-capstone/blob/master/project/… -- are the level of comments helpful to a non C# programmer in what i'm doing here?

Shazzner

Hi there, I had a quick question that I feel is just me being stupid before I create an ask-topic

where on earth did the Jamendo/Magnatune plugin for rhythmbox go?

it's supposed to be in the rhythmbox-plugins package but it doesn't seem to be there :(

and there isn't a peep about it online that I could find

lazyPower

@Shazzner - certainly not a stupid question. I can verify its not on my local installation either and would actually be better asked as a question on the site. - since other people probably have the same question and it would allow more people to answer than just the hand full in here.

Shazzner

@lazyPower hmm let me see

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