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15:01
Done.
Guys, please move on.
we on...
@jrg wants to drop his Ban Hammer!
resisting the urge
anyway folks...
I'm out.
15:03
Darn.
Back to writing, and being "serious and mature".
:)
@RolandTaylor you say that like it is possible...
I wanted to say my mission is to answer questions that Roland answered as not possible.
@TheX (it's not, but who's counting ;)?)
lol
15:04
echo admin.rlemon.com | perl -ne 's/\./@/; print'
adios amigas
interesting way to cheat the bots.
Good bye
@RolandTaylor Nice knowing you Roland.
@RolandTaylor you will be missed.
15:05
3
Q: Is there a keyboard shortcut to toggle Tree view / Places View?

zinzolinI find both the Tree view and the Places view useful. Changing from one view to the other is not fast because one have to go into the appearance menu. It's even slower with Oneiric because this menu can now be far away. (Before Unity, I always had the tree view on and I used my bookmarks directly...

hasta luego
@BrunoPereira ok so I tested boinc on that 8x spot instance
but it didn't finish any work units on time before I killed the instance
so I guess I need to let it run longer
15:25
Any idea why I cannot install from the Ubuntu Software Center? I'm utilizing my wi-fi but I get "Failed to download package files" check your Internet settings
3
A: Failed to download package files error

Bruno PereiraPress ALT+F2 and type software-properties-gtk. Change the download location to Main Server and try to sudo apt-get update again.

@jokerdino Thank you...that fixed it!! You da man!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@thex do you own the 2buntu draft google doc?
@jokerdino yes
15:40
I will request permission one more time. Please do accept it. ;(
Oh, it is accepted.
lol... what do you want me to do? I am getting conflicting messages...
last time, i didn't have the permission. but now i have.
so, ignore everything said above. :D
That is strange, I haven't made any changes to it.
Hmm, strange indeed.
@MarcoCeppi can I eat your brains? @RolandTaylor says they are tasty....
15:45
@KyleBrandt Did you find a solution to your raid problem?
15:56
0
A: How to change the brightness automatically when running on battery/power?

Bodhisatwa GhoshIt does not work for me. I think Ubuntu 11.10 doesnot have any functionality for automatically adjusting screen brightness when switching between AC and battery.

Do I flag it or what?
yeah
I left a comment
he needs a new question with what kind of hardware he has
Just a bit of nit picking. You got two "Welcome to AU" in your comment.
I guess in your saved comments, remove the welcome part because it is auto inserted.
BBL
ah nuts, nice call
16:18
@JorgeCastro: Yes, someone pointed out that the alternate installer did have an option for RAID 10 (Had read otherwise) and that all worked fine
Used dd to blow away any mbr / partition info, then ran that installer, working great so far
^^ Happy desktop :-)
Oli
Oli
@KyleBrandt What did you RAID together to get that? That's pretty fast.
@KyleBrandt oh for a desktop. Boo, I was hoping it was an ubuntu server doing something for SE. :)
@JorgeCastro: help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SoftwareRAID "Select RAID type: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 or RAID 6" , needs to be updated
ok so just add 10 to that?
I can do that.
actually this whole page sucks, I'll tag it for review
jrg
jrg
16:25
the whole wiki sucks, it should be moved over here. ;)
@JorgeCastro: Currently the routers and load balancers are Ubuntu server. The routers are slotted to be replaced with Cisco hardware. On the whole though most stuff will move to CentOS. We want to consolidate it so it easier to manage, and Dell management stuff goes into CentOS easier
Can somebody answer this? It's should be simple but I have no experience with graphics cards.
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Q: Is it safe to remove all radeon packages?

AntonyI am not able to boot Ubuntu 10.11 due to a Radeon card driver problem I have read nearly everything on the web now. My idea is to get into Ubuntu at least and then download the latest driver. I have read to try sudo apt-get remove radeon-* but when I enter it I am warned that its harmful. Can s...

hmmm, we're certified on Dell, I wonder why that is. Can you be more specific on "dell management stuff"? Or is it just basically all of it?
OMSA suite -- last time I checked
It might be easier, been a while since I looked
Also a larger picture it seems like Server is the secondary consideration and gets things maybe more suited for desktop -- that is a feeling though, would need more thought to articulate it well.
upstart might be an example
I think we just suck at telling people about server, but I can understand why you'd think that
16:31
That being said our experience with Ubuntu server hasn't been negative persay, but for the most part we need to pick a distribution to make management more uniform
and most of our server work is usually concentrated on cloud deployments
Oh, just remembered an askubuntu question with my new install ... will ask :-P
cool, holla at me if you have server questions
@JorgeCastro: Cool thanks :-)
@Oli: 8xX25-E 64 GByte Intel SSDs
Oli
Oli
@KyleBrandt What's the throughput of a single (JBOD) X25-E?
16:38
man this latest SE podcast is pure gold
@Oli: Don't have that info handy anywhere
@JorgeCastro: Any askubuntu.com stuff planned around the upcoming LTS release?
it's still mentioned in the installer
except this time it's a link
so theoretically hand-wavy it should hopefully spike the traffic again
Oli
Oli
Just wondering because that seems slow to me. I get 540MB/s read through on a DMRAID RAID0 array on 2 disks
I will be sad if we don't pass SU and SF in traffic for a little while on stackexchange.com/sites
@Oli: I think this is all you get out SATA II. Disk benchmarks are tricky, depends on random/sequential tests, block size, read/write mixture. Then there is also latency as part of the bechmark results
jrg
jrg
16:42
I just want to pass gaming and leave them in the dust, then i'd be happy. ;)
I would say 95% of disk benchmark results I see are meaningless because not enough information is provided
@jrg yes!
we were doing awesome and they did that clever skyrim vs. whateverthegame-is-that-isn't -skyrim contest and then they blew up huge
@jrg Don't worry, release spike: soon :)
jrg
jrg
Indeed.
How does askubuntu compare with ubunutuforums traffic?
the googlejuice on the forums is immense
Though we have a better US ranking :)
though, did our design guy ever get back to jin wrt. their idea to link AU from the top level ubuntu.com page?
jrg
jrg
although they are going down, slowly.
I know we linked them up but I dunno if they continued working on that or not
though from my privacy mode random searches AU is now hitting the front page of the google results each time for me
@JorgeCastro I'm not sure, we're out of that loop
I'm out too, oh well, they'll sort it, shrug
though for things that are newer our content is top notch.
You won't find a better resource for anywhere else on the net.
and that includes the official documentation, hah
0
Q: MinimalCD Network autoconfiguration fails

rlemonI'm attempting to get an Ubuntu MinimalCD Install working without much luck.. Working from the guide posted here I can get the CD to boot and I select the Command-Line Installer option. After selecting my Language and Keyboard settings the installer fails on Configure the network with DHCP with...

BOOM!
FTR: I have tried modprobe 8139too and 8139cp
hellos
17:02
@jrg is there anything cooler/better than gitolite or is that what the cool kids use?
@rlemon: quite sure u are not looking for something very time consuming but still wanna ask if u looked at LFS (Linux from scratch)
jrg
jrg
@JorgeCastro no idea, i use personally use gitolite.
@wisemonkey I have considered it but so far this is my only issue with ubuntu minimal .. if it remains so then I can likely get away with using it.
jrg
jrg
mainly because its the first git server i came across, and i'm too lazy to try anything else, since it works.
thought so
btw does anyone know better guide (deployment) for kolab
17:06
hah man
plus I couldn't find very distinctive comparison between citadel and kolab
someone apparently stole the android ubuntu phone thing at MWC
:-o ??
jrg
jrg
not good... :{
who would have the nerve?!?!?!?!
jrg
jrg
17:07
speaking of MWC:
I wanted it but didn't have nerve :-/
I wanted it too but wasnt at MWC :-(
jrg
jrg
lookit that. its a lovely booth.
haha yea neither was I
17:08
it is beautiful
@JorgeCastro I've used a few, gitolite is still the best IMO
ok so that would be a good charm then
definitely would
this guy shazzner called dibs but hasn't updated it
@MarcoCeppi
17:09
I am trying to think of other clever ideas for charms
it would be great if someone did a REALLY good one
@RolandTaylor says you have a tasty brain, can I eat it?
looks nice, I'm waiting for mobile phones (devices) to go PC way -- buy hardware and leave choice of OS to user
yeah
@MarcoCeppi I railed on that 8 way aws cluster instance with boinc
but I killed the instance before it reported the work units
@wisemonkey it will never happen to much money involved
17:09
@TheX dude that's the second time you asked me that. either you're trolling, or trolling
@MarcoCeppi I'm going to spot instance another one today and let it run for 24 hours
@MarcoCeppi sorry. didntt know if you saw it the first time :-(
You never responded...
@JorgeCastro Trying to get AWS to give you a call :)
@TheX I know though I hate it :(
jrg
jrg
@TheX There is no response to that...
17:11
SOrry...
:-(
I will take my bad Zombie self somewhere else :-(
@MarcoCeppi I wonder if you launched like say ... 10 or more if you could as one person affect the price of all the spot instances
Want to try it?
it'd a be a fun $100 experiment ;P
I think I'll wait for bruno to finish the charm
it's annoying to install afterwards
Are you deploying on the East?
plus, I think it'd be cool to use the spot utilities to be like "If the spot instance is less than 50 cents, yes, up to a maximum of 10, otherwise, keep me at 5 instances"
and then EBS all the partial work units so you don't really lose compute time if you blow it away
and then (this is the cool part)
when doing this also probe HPs cloud and Rackspace for the prices of instances
and just launch on what is cheapest at the time
17:14
That would be amazing
@MarcoCeppi I think I'll try the $100 thing as an experiment
but not until I investigate how boinc works more
17:36
Hi everyone.
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@GeorgeEdison hi
As you can see, the update finally finished.
Windoze 8 I see
How long did that take?
Bounty offered: How to configure Grub to show only splash-screen and error messages during boot and shutd... http://askubuntu.com/questions/79500/how-to-configure-grub-to-show-only-splash-screen-and-error-messages-during-boot #boot
@TheX About 20 minutes for the installer and then 10 minutes to get everything set up.
Not very long at all really.
17:41
Nice...
Of course the default display adapter is awful - I'm downloading the Nvidia driver for my graphics card now...
from booting the flash drive to first boot
and I even had time to change my theme...
Wow. Not bad.
of course at that point the only thing I had installed was google chrome...
I'm going to try installing StackApplet just in case I can reproduce the bug now.
17:45
Stupid IBM case... Who puts the CD-ROM eject next to the Power button?!?!?!
@rlemon I guess IBM does...
Biebs probably likes it.
BIEBER!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Hrm.. it works.
^ 29 year old man who enjoys the Biebs.... Lock up your kids!
17:48
Therefore I can only conclude that the issue is 64-bit related.
@GeorgeEdison well glad we got that solved
It's not "solved" until I get it working for you :)
@GeorgeEdison I mean solved as in you know it is a 64-bit issue
But I hereby conclude that the cause of the issue is the width of your CPU's bus :)
No wait - the width is probably 64 bits anyway.
@rlemon I never said I liked Bieber, you all assumed that I did because I said Happy Birthday to him...
17:50
Okay, let's try that again - the root of the problem is the architecture of your OS.
@GeorgeEdison I don't know what the width of my bus is...

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