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William

00:03

18 hours ago, by George Edison

That way, you're bound to get an answer by the time you get up.

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I downloaded a simple PHP blogging template called sphpblog and put it on my server. The blog is accessed through classlibrary.org. This domain redirects to the folder /other/william/classlibrary on the server. I can visit the homepage of the blog, and it displays just fine. However, when I try t...

@GeorgeEdison Umm...Fail.

No answers - not even an upvote.

2 days ago, by jokerdino

We now have an answered percentage higher than that of Stack overflow.

Haha! Whatnow, flack overstow!

Yay!

And we all now that thats thanks to @Oli and his cleanup website/extension.

William

00:22

ROOM IS NOT RESPONDING Force Quuit?

George Edison

01:41

Sounds like my firewall needs adjustment.

There, I did it!

Questions Feed

03:03

Can you answer this? Why can't I change my icon theme in gnome-classic? http://askubuntu.com/questions/89873/why-cant-i-change-my-icon-theme-in-gnome-classic #gnome3

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on March 5, 2012 at 2:39 AM

Roland Taylor

TheX

Why I stared that, I have no idea.

Roland Taylor

you should see the original comment thread...

it's amazing

the guy asked my twice "Roland Taylor what is your name?"

I should have said "Fred".

Amith KK

03:19

Hello all

Unity is getting awesomer.. I cant run it!!! INJUSTICE!!

Roland Taylor

That's more awesome, and I am out for now :D

BTW, @AmithKK check G+, if you are not going to sleep soon :)

Amith KK

@RolandTaylor uhh... its 8:53AM here

@RolandTaylor Y ME NO IN NOVEL CIRCLE?

Anybody notice a dog button on the G+ hangout page?

William

03:39

Anyone home?

/me wants to become more active in the Ubuntu community.

I have tons of free time on my hands and want to put it towards something productive.

I went to the Microsoft Store today and had Windows 8 demoed to me and a few others.

And there were buisnessmen whose response was pretty much "WHAT THE HECK IS THIS CRAP?"

(they used a worse word then crap)

So, as soon as Windows 8 comes out people are gonna be really mad at microsoft.

And that is Ubuntu's time to shine.

DoR

@MarcoCeppi Is it possible to use Django or Cherrypy with ondina?

William

By 12.10, Ubuntu has to be user-friendly enough that people have an easier time switching from Windows 7 to Ubuntu then from 7 to 8.

And I want to do whatever is in my power to help contribute towards that goal.

So, where do I start?

I've done some with SE, and technical support is good, but the Developer Community is where the real action happens,

Amith KK

@William \o

William

/

lol

Hello @AmithKK

Amith KK

@William Heya

How many tonnes?

William

03:46

12.14277272782922929278^1383 to be exact

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

05:04

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Q: Grub not installing properly with two seperate discs

I'm trying to set up a dual boot Windows 7/ Ubuntu 11.10 I have 3 drives Linux - sda1 Swap - sda5 Windows - sdb1 Media - sdc1 I installed Windows first so that it didn't muck up my GRUB loader. While installing GRUB, it was supposed to install to the master boot record on sda. However, after...

ubuntu windows dual-boot grub2

William

05:28

i am alone

Amith KK

Nope you arent

Timezoned :D

William

Oh.

I JUST GOT TIMEZONED!

0.0

//me spent the last hour renaming files

/me needs to learn shell scripting

o.o

Amith KK

I spent the last hour arranging my DP episodes

Im missing a few :D

William

hm

both boring.

Amith KK

@GeorgeEdison Lets all make some awesome

William

05:36

:)

sorry im so immature

George Edison

@AmithKK I finally figured out how to install Django in IIS.

That is a loooong answer :P

William

I've done a few of those ;)

George Edison

After you've written them, do you feel like you've really accomplished something?

...and that you're helping others who run into the same situation in the future.

William

Yep.

It's ironic though, because the short answers get upvoted and not the long ones :(

Questions Feed

How to create live Ubuntu CD and connect using android USB tethering. http://askubuntu.com/questions/110105/how-to-create-live-ubuntu-cd-and-connect-using-android-usb-tethering #liveusb

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on March 5, 2012 at 5:39 AM

lazyPower

05:46

Nice write up

George Edison

@William Yeah, I know.

William

Yeah.

George Edison

But like I said - the important thing is that it is there for the next guy who has the problem.

Amith KK

BBL

Marco Ceppi

@DoR Yes, it's possible. We'll have a blog post this week about how to setup Django with Ondina

William

05:55

@AmithKK see ya

btw currrently making class blog

Marco Ceppi

@DoR We'll also be adding a one-click install for Django to the control panel

George Edison

@MarcoCeppi Woooo!

@MarcoCeppi: Any more invitations coming?

Marco Ceppi

We've got to fix a few more bugs. Optimistically, we'll have another batch of invites by the end of the week

George Edison

@MarcoCeppi Also, another question - will I be able to use my Ondina account as a remote Bazaar (or Git) server?

Marco Ceppi

@GeorgeEdison yes, we're building tools to make it easier to administer remote repositories. Right now there's no real interface for it other than you uploading and setting up your own infrastructure

George Edison

06:07

Ah, okay.

Amith KK

06:21

\o/ yay! More invites

William

I have no idea what your'e talking about.

Amith KK

@William Ondina

William

Oh.

Whats ordina anyway?

Amith KK

@William Its a new awesome shell powered shared web hosting by the awesome @MarcoCeppi

(You should really see the youtube videos)

Octavian Damiean

@William That is not always true.

You have to know how you present your content.

William

06:38

@OctavianDamiean On what?

Octavian Damiean

You gotta click that arrow.

Amith KK

07:20

@StefanoPallazo Y U NO ALERT ME?

Anouncement: Victory Chat 2.0 has been gitted 9 days ago

Amith KK

07:52

BBL

Questions Feed

08:59

Can you answer this? Middle click with a three finger touchpad tap on 11.10, How can I restore this? http://askubuntu.com/questions/84771/middle-click-with-a-three-finger-touchpad-tap-on-11-10-how-can-i-restore-this #mouse

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on March 5, 2012 at 8:39 AM

jokerdino

09:21

OMGOMGOMGOMG Unbelievable stuff

Octavian Damiean

10:11

lol

jokerdino

@octavianD can you fix that eyesore? :S

Octavian Damiean

Holy cow!

Looks good for me. :(

Try refreshing.

jokerdino

no diff :(

look through incognito mode

Octavian Damiean

It still works.

Is that only for the twitter icon?

jokerdino

Yeah only twitter

Octavian Damiean

10:25

Do you see it here in chat?

jokerdino

Nope

Octavian Damiean

Odd.

I'll just reupload it.

jokerdino

Octavian Damiean

wow.

Reuploading it broke it for me as well.

jokerdino

My bad :D

Octavian Damiean

10:27

Y U BREK MEH PROFILE?

Seems to be a stack.imgur problem.

jokerdino

are you uploading into your personal account or what?

Octavian Damiean

Nope.

I'm using the Stack Exchange image upload function.

jokerdino

Heh

Octavian Damiean

11:11

Does it work now?

Amith KK

11:22

Hello all

Nope.. Doesnt break here

Octavian Damiean

I can see it too.

Amith KK

@OctavianDamiean And that's the twitter icon

Octavian Damiean

Yup, I can see that one too.

Amith KK

Better fix that :D

Octavian Damiean

Some people on Meta.SO are experiencing it too.

Amith KK

11:27

►

jokerdino

@OctavianDamiean Nope.

ActionParsnip

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11.10 64-bit hibernate partitioning password reset username

Guide him along.

Questions Feed

11:45

Can you answer this? USB WiFi is detected but can't connect http://askubuntu.com/questions/84599/usb-wifi-is-detected-but-cant-connect #wireless

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on March 5, 2012 at 11:39 AM

Amith KK

13:05

BBL

Octavian Damiean

13:25

Facebook ... who needs Facebook if there is Github?

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Roland Taylor

@jokerdino an active parsnip...

:D

Octavian Damiean

13:37

@rlemon You closed my issue. You's mean!

:D

rlemon

check again

Octavian Damiean

I know. :)

@rlemon github.com/rlemon/vlettering.js/issues/3

What exactly do you mean?

rlemon

get some demo's of some cool text effects using the script as a base to separate the text.

Octavian Damiean

Oh I see.

Sounds like something cool to work on. :)

Prepare for some pull requests this evening (my evening).

I'm not sure I understand your comment on issue #2.

rlemon

13:57

base classname, splitter, and after text should all be configurable per request.

inject += '<span class="' + klass + (i + 1) + '">' + item + '</span>' + after;

ergo no more whitespace issue.

Octavian Damiean

Hum, I'll just trust you on that one.

admits that he hasn't taken the time to properly read vletterin.js line by line yet

I should probably do that.

rlemon

We're almost there

@OctavianDamiean it's really not that bad. I also need to put all of the sizzle calls into a single generic 'collect elements' function or something. that way you can easily pop it out and dump in your own selector engine (or none at all)

jokerdino

14:21

@RolandTaylor lol :D

jrg

waves

rlemon

waves back

goes and makes a coffee

Octavian Damiean

waves and runs for a bit

lovesh

i try to install libgd-devel from synaptic and get a 404 error. how do i resolve it?

jrg

update your package list. not 100% sure how to do it in synaptic though

lovesh

14:30

:)

any idea where to look for it

jrg

let me install synaptic and check for you.

or you could run this in a terminal, then try to install your package:

> sudo apt-get update

To do that in synaptic, click the "reload" button:

lovesh

and one more thing i wanted to ask ? wat is the difference between -devel packages and without -devel? like libgd and libgd-devel. both contain source code right?

jrg

the -devel (or -dev, depending on the package) are the development headers - so if you're compiling something, you probably need the -devel/-dev package for the dependencies.

lovesh

@jrg when i hit reload it starts downloading package information and starts downloading 68 files but when i looked at individual files most of them failed

jrg

I suggest you ask on the site, unless you're running 12.04, in which case you need to file a bug

lovesh

14:38

like some show hit,some show done and some show failed. Most of them are hit but all with a hit are of size 0

the errors say they are gpg errors

Octavian Damiean

is back

starts working on vlettering demos

rlemon

never left... coffee is probably done

jrg

oh, gpg errors? hangon

rlemon

goes to check

jrg

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Q: What is the easiest way to resolve apt-get BADSIG GPG errors?

I frequently cross this issue, and always have to google for an answer. Does anyone have a permanent fix for BADSIG errors from apt-get? W: GPG error: http://download.virtualbox.org lucid Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 54422A4B98AB5139 Oracle Corporation (Virtu...

apt gpg

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

14:43

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Q: rtcwake Ubuntu 8.04

I'm trying to put my old laptop into suspend mode through the terminal. Typing rtcwake -m disk -s 10 works in newer versions but in 8.04 I get: error /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/device/power/wakeup: No such file or directory" rtcwake: /dev/rtc0 not enabled for wakeup events. I have tried googling thi...

ubuntu suspend

jokerdino

askubuntu.com/questions/110203/… ?

jokerdino

14:55

Check out how Leo and Barneedhar (among others) fixed bugs on our last Fix-It Friday! Hope to see you next Friday too! http://is.gd/YUrBlb

Tweeted by ubuntudev on March 5, 2012 at 2:54 PM

Quite surprising to see my name there. :D

jrg

Congrats!

Octavian Damiean

Nice!

jokerdino

LOL, thanks. :D

Second contribution on Fix-it Friday's.

Questions Feed

Can you answer this? Error while reading shared library symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 http://askubuntu.com/questions/83298/error-while-reading-shared-library-symbols-for-lib-ld-linux-so-2 #gdb

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on March 5, 2012 at 2:39 PM

jokerdino

Though I didn't do much work. it was dholbach who guided me along.

Octavian Damiean

15:02

Sheesh! I just had to figure out how to keep my forked Github project up-to-date.

jrg

git remote add upstream $url; git pull upstream

Joshua Robison

just switched from mint to ubuntu ^_^

Octavian Damiean

Add the upstream project as a git name (is that even the right expression?) and then you have to fetch from that repository, merge it with your local and push it to your origin. :D

Joshua Robison

runnin unity now but .... would really like to get some unity themes

jrg

git remote.

Joshua Robison

15:04

where can I go to find unity themes?

Octavian Damiean

pull actually fetches and merges.

Joshua Robison

the normal gnome-looks doesnt seem to have any yet

Octavian Damiean

Oh I see, thanks James. :)

jrg

@JoshuaRobison there aren't any unity-specific themes.

You're welcome Octavian. :)

jokerdino

March 13 is the next membership meeting.

thinks a little

Joshua Robison

15:05

@jrg i mean there is stuff like this mygeekopinions.blogspot.com/2011/07/… but nothing standard

right now I have the option to switch between ambiance and adwarta and radiance

are those gnome3 themes?

i guess if I install a whole bunch of gnome3 themes then they will show up in my theme switcher huh?

Octavian Damiean

Ok, plan for today. 1) Work on vlettering demos, 2) write an email to Github to ask for permission to use their logo for the lens and 3) do some more research for the new Unity lens and scope. :)

jrg

The only themes that are in the default Ubuntu install are ambiance and radiance, and adwata or whatever its called is the gnome shell theme.

@OctavianDamiean Do 2 first, then 1, then 3. :D

jokerdino

@JoshuaRobison Looks interesting. ;)

Octavian D, I can help you with packaging the lens :D

Octavian Damiean

Sounds like a good idea.

Awesome. :)

jrg

@jokerdino Go for membership.

Joshua Robison

15:09

i like ambiance , i just want it to be darker

like nautilus is all ... white

it's blinding me

i always use black themes

Octavian Damiean

GITHUB HAS A SHOP AND NO ONE TOLD ME!?!?

Joshua Robison

but can't find a way to change the color in unity

jrg

@OctavianDamiean WHOA. THEY HAVE A SHOP!?

lovesh

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Q: 404 errors in synaptic and reload does not work too

I tried installing libgd-devel from synaptic but i get this error W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gdb/libgdb-dev_7.2-1ubuntu3_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.183 80] Now i hit Reload in synaptic and it starts downloading 36 files but most of them result i...

synaptic gpg

jrg

Dangit, I wish they paid moderators - between github swag and SE swag, i'm going to go broke. ;P

jokerdino

15:11

@jrg I am thinking about it. I will confirm my stand before this weekend. :)

jrg

Best way to wear pink, ever.

rlemon

STACKEXCHANGE HAS A SHOP AND NO ONE TOLD ME!?!?

jrg

No Ask Ubuntu ones though, yet.

jokerdino

lol, funny troll

Octavian Damiean

Oh right, @rlemon Stack Exchange has a shop. :P

jokerdino

15:13

Octavian, you can use singlet for starting your lens.

Octavian Damiean

Phahaha, Fork you shirt. :D

jrg

This looks cool - docracy.com

rlemon

UNICORNS HAS A SHOP AND NO ONE TOLD ME!?!?

ok now it's old.

jrg

I should just buy one of these onesies and give it to a developer friend of mine who is expecting...

jokerdino

mhall119.com/2012/02/singlet-quickly-better-faster-simpler

lovesh

15:14

@jrg have an idea abt my question

jrg

@lovesh other than what fossfreedom said, not really.

lovesh

ok

Octavian Damiean

Oh, I didn't know about Singlet.

Interesting.

Jorge Castro

! Singlet for the win!

Octavian Damiean

4

Q: How to Change Quickly's Editor?

I've just downloaded Ninja IDE and I really like it's interface. Is there a way to configure the Quickly app to launch my project in Ninja IDE when I type quickly edit?

terminal python application-development quickly

This question is so much win.

I demand up-votes!

rlemon

15:19

sudo octavian --now make-me-another-coffee

Octavian Damiean

Invocation error: Octavian status: is too lazy.

rlemon

sudo octavian --now -f make-me-another-coffee

pfft, making me bust out the force flag

Octavian Damiean

Kernel Panic

You just made the Octavian panic! I hope you're happy.

drools

Daniel

Gah!!

Anyone got any idea why a simple hello world C++ program wouldn't (when compiled on a Arch system) run on Ubuntu, but when compiled on Ubuntu (same makefile) would run on the Arch?

The error being (on Arch -> Ubuntu) that "cannot execute binary file"

:P

Octavian Damiean

Because Ubuntu is more awesome than Arch.

jrg

15:27

@OctavianDamiean don't troll. ;P

Octavian Damiean

Soz. :D

Daniel

haha :P

Octavian Damiean

@Daniel Show us your compile flags.

jrg

@Daniel i'd blame multiarch, although if we see your compile flags we might be able to help you.

Daniel

-W -Wall -Wextra -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual -Wconversion -pedantic

Bout it. lol

oh

-O3

Thats it

pastie.org/3526589

^ whole makefile

Couldn't make heads or tails of it tbh

Octavian Damiean

15:30

Mhmm.

Daniel

Thought maybe because Arch is using a later GCC version, but binary is binary in the end :|

Octavian Damiean

This should not be the reason but did you try it without the O flags yet?

Just to exclude that possibility.

Daniel

No, that would be my next attempt, but my friend (whom I was doing this with) has gone to sleep :P (2:32am)

So its all theory for now, I will be trying that out probably later today

Just incase it was doing some SSE ops or something

Though their both x86

i7 and Atom do have some differences

Ah ffs

I'm a twat

Just saying that I've realised lol

32bit - 64bit

The 32bit exe would probably work on mine (the 64bit)

but not the other way round

jrg

Don't worry, everyone who has compiled something has made that mistake at least once.

makes it every morning

Jorge Castro

man someone from mozilla is working on a firefox sync charm

Octavian Damiean

15:37

Oh awesome!

Easy to deploy private Firefox sync server?

A side note. Using quickly with Sublime Text 2 just rocks.

jokerdino

Good night.

Daniel

Cheers fellas :)

dunderhead

Can anyone here offer me some advice. I'm tearing my hair out - actually, I think I've torn all my hair out...

I really very much do not want to go back to Windows but Ubuntu is crashing so often and I keep losing work several times a day

I've filed a bug at Launchpad but not much has happened over the past week or so

Octavian Damiean

Which Ubuntu version do you use?

dunderhead

11.10

With Unity

Octavian Damiean

15:52

Mhmm.

Post the link to the bug report please.

dunderhead

Oneiric unpredictable crashes straight out to login screen

Ubuntu 11.10 crashes on an almost daily basis, and I'm doing various different things when it does so, so I can't easily identify what's to blame. Sometimes it happens when I'm in Firefox, sometimes Thunderbird, sometimes in a Virtualbox machine running Windows Xp. But it always happens the same way: it goes instantaneously to the black screen of death (which looks like a logout) and thence to the login screen. My Xorg.0.log.old has the following entries at the end of the log after every crash: [ 1214.793] Segmentation fault at address 0xb2536008 [ 1214.793] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting [ 1214.793] Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. [ 1214.793] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. [ 1214.793] [ 1214.794] (II) Power Button: Close [ 1214.794] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" [ 1214.794] (II) Unloading evdev [ 1214.796] (II) Power Button: Close [ 1214.796] …

xorg-server (Ubuntu)

Undecided / Incomplete

Stefano Palazzo

@rinzwind where are you :D - when you get this please add your comment to the cpu time question as an answer, and hopefully the grace period for the bounty won't have ended. this is pretty much what I want, in conjunction with process accounting it's the best answer so far - if you can write a complete answer for that

Octavian Damiean

This may sound stupid but what input devices do you use?

dunderhead

When I ran x-diagnose the bug became:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/944626?comments=all

It doesn't sound stupid at all. I use a wireless mouse and keyboard and a wacom tablet

Octavian Damiean

Ah, a wireless mouse.

dunderhead

15:55

Is that often problematical?

Octavian Damiean

Wireless using Bluetooth technology?

dunderhead

I'm not sure. I replaced the wireless mouse yesterday with a new one: a Logitech Anywhere MX. And I'm still getting crashes.

Octavian Damiean

Or let's ask it this way, what kind of wireless adapter do you use on your computer?

Ah, so it is the original Logitech wireless adapter I guess.

dunderhead

It's a USB dongle

Octavian Damiean

Be right back.

dunderhead

15:58

Thanks!

Octavian Damiean

16:10

Back.

I was asking wireless stuff because I have experienced that problem with my Magic Trackpad which uses Bluetooth. It was the Bluetooth adapter that didn't play nice and caused the crashes.

I've replaced it with another adapter and it worked.

Not sure if that could be your problem though.

rlemon

@OctavianDamiean this is why I need someone else to make the demo's :P

jsfiddle.net/rlemon/b2Gmr/1/embedded/result

Octavian Damiean

Man that looks awesome!

dunderhead

Thanks but the keyboard and mouse are using usb

jrg

If someone is on 11.10 and has a few moments, I'd appreciate someone testing this answer - askubuntu.com/a/108337/6005

Octavian Damiean

@rlemon That background is pure CSS!?

jrg

16:14

(I can't do it here on 12.04, i think something is broken)

rlemon

@OctavianDamiean yup - actually looks ok with a name there. jsfiddle.net/rlemon/b2Gmr/embedded/result

dunderhead

@OctavianDamiean - when I first installed 11.10 a while back I don't think it crashed like it's doing now. Would a re-install of Ubuntu help, do you think?

rlemon

@OctavianDamiean see what you can do with that\

Octavian Damiean

16:30

@dunderhead I can't really tell. Depends on the problem. If it is a bug introduced by an update then not really.

dunderhead

Thanks. Of course. I didn't think of that.

A recent kernel update broke Wacom, and then the next one seemed to fix it

Perhaps I should try an old kernel version?

Or is that not a good idea from a security point of view?

jrg

Most of the security patches kernel level are uh, shall we say "really rare edge cases".

so you should be fine, however you need to know that you aren't as well protected as you would be normally.

dunderhead

thanks jrg - I could always log into the newer kernel for a security session

btw, I would have helped with your earlier post if I could, but I'm afraid I didn't understand it!

Octavian Damiean

0

Q: Improved search input placeholder

I'd like to propose an improved (my personal opinion) search input placeholder text. Currently the placeholder text just says search Just so you can see what I'm talking about. Current version I think it would make sense to give people a bit more help by showing them that they can searc...

feature-request search

Yay or nay?

TheX

16:46

Ynay?

Octavian Damiean

Mhmm.

Some good points in the comments.

dunderhead

How about something like "search for keywords or tags"? That way it tells you you can use both, but doesn't imply you must use both

rlemon

ok @OctavianDamiean here is my last attempt at this

jsfiddle.net/rlemon/b2Gmr/3/embedded/result

Octavian Damiean

That's just sick ...

How am I supposed to create a demo now?

rlemon

i'm sure you're much better with css animations than I am.

jrg

17:01

I'm now playing with that non-stop. :P

rlemon

I would like to do more... like have the js look like it's hanging there but I don't know much abotu @keyframes

@jrg with that fiddle?

Octavian Damiean

hates Robert for pushing the bar that high

You're too humble @rlemon!

All I've seen from you so far is downright stunning. /fanboying

rlemon

I guess I just have high expectations.

jrg

Yes, with that fiddle.

rlemon

ok, had to tweak it a bit jsfiddle.net/rlemon/b2Gmr/embedded/result

@jrg github.com/rlemon/vlettering.js

jrg

17:13

Yeah I know, i've seen it.

rlemon

ohh goes away then

jrg

lol. :p

seferov

17:26

:)

Questions Feed

17:44

Can you answer this? Can see samba shares but not access them http://askubuntu.com/questions/82998/can-see-samba-shares-but-not-access-them #permissions

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on March 5, 2012 at 5:39 PM

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