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TheX

00:02

speaking of cosplay I just beat FFVII

Marco Ceppi

01:41

Ohhh yeah, Just ordered my new PC to replace this stupid Mac

3

Jorge Castro

01:57

omg

@ajmitch FANATIC!

TheX

what you gonna do with the stupid mac?

ajmitch

02:58

@JorgeCastro yeah, I don't have the rep to match though

karthick87

04:11

Is it possible to resume a firefox download after a restart?

TheX

@karthick87 not that I am aware of...

DoR

05:03

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Q: How do you change Window Control Position in the Unity Panel?

Currently, my window decorations are in the top left as per the default Ubuntu, but I have reordered them to "Minimize, Maximize, Close" However on Unity Desktop, when I maximize my window, and the Unity Panel takes over window decorations, It switches back to the default "Close, Minimize, Maximi...

karthick87

05:25

Can we check the hash code of a file before downloading??

fluteflute

07:56

askubuntu.com/posts/21784/revisions

I want to revert the guys last edit here, but I'd feel mean doing so :P

karthick87

15:01

Hello @htorque

2

Q: How do I change the background on the Personal menu?

How do I go about changing the white background on the Personal menu? I want to change it specifically to match the color of the toolbar and status-bar.

ubuntu-desktop nautilus-elementary theme

Your answer is not working for me..

iamsid

My guess: It works for nautilus but not nautilus-elementary

karthick87

Am using nautilus..

iamsid

Does it work on nautilus-elementary?

The answer is for nautilus-elementary

karthick87

Haven't tried

iamsid

The answer is for nautilus-elementary

karthick87

15:07

Oh is it working on nautilus-elementary?

iamsid

I don't know. I don't use nautilus-ele*

Marco Ceppi

I have found my new weekend project...

karthick87

@MarcoCeppi What project?

Marco Ceppi

Making a ski ramp off the back of my house

iamsid

@MarcoCeppi :) I thought it was fun-in-the-sun-extension-rainbow-sauce-awesome! This is "real fun".

karthick87

15:09

Nice :)

iamsid

1. Go to www.google.com
2. Enter this: "abc news 50 most popular women on the web"
3. Click the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button
4. Scroll down to No.7 on the Top 10 list
5. ROFL.

Marco Ceppi

Caffeine is enabled for most people "I'm feeling lucky" doesn't work :P

iamsid

:þ

Marco Ceppi

Whoa, nice!

iamsid

:þ

Marco Ceppi

15:14

I wonder if @RebeccaChernoff knows about the new Unicode smiley :D

iamsid

That's smiley from Iceland. :) þ = "th" as in "thorn"

ಕನ್ನಡ

badp

Mainly because you're the ones with better access to it :Þ

iamsid

ಅ ಆ ಇ ಈ ಉ ಊ : Can you see squares or alphabets?

badp

I see letters even on Windows

iamsid

Hehe

mwm

16:28

hi everyone

Marco Ceppi

Hello @mwm! Welcome :)

mwm

i'm currently on my notebook because my desktop simply refuses to login.

from nowhere... yesterday i shutdown my pc normally and now, when i press my user and fill in my password, it simply goes back to the start on gdm

i don't even have session options to chose from

i read everything i could before coming here

Marco Ceppi

@mwm Interesting - Have you tried logging in via SSH or a Virtual Console?

mwm

i can login to it through tty1 yes

done a bunch of stuff but nothing works

Marco Ceppi

That's interesting

mwm

16:31

i even went through /etc/profile

the script loads every other script in /etc/profile.d/*.sh

and there it is my stupid fglrx ati sh

i renamed it so i couldn't be read, supposing it was the cause, but nothing

i was trying to follow the order of things happening

i read .xserver-errors

mwm

16:49

back

any tips?

Marco Ceppi

@mwm So sudo service gdm restart doesn't do anything for you?

mwm

i have gdm

but it won't login

i chose my name

then it asks for password

press login or enter

and it blacks the screen and goes back to gdm start

showing the usernames list

Marco Ceppi

@mwm Right, but have you tried to restart GDM anyways?

mwm

and when i chose my username, it doesn't show any session options on the bottom panel

yap

just now

how come there aren't any sessions on the bottom?

Marco Ceppi

That's an interesting point

mwm

16:58

is gdm the one to populate the sessions menu?

the menu is disabled :p

Marco Ceppi

I believe GDM populates it based on what active desktops are installed

Maybe your gnome installation is corrrupted

mwm

yesterday i installed unity-qt 2d version

and i think i didn't restart... te desktop was on the whole daly

now it doesn't display any session

i uninstalled unity-qt half an hour ago, but still nothing

it shouldn't be because of it any way

how can i fixe gnome installation? apt-get install ubuntu-desktop ?

Marco Ceppi

@mwm No, that's a meta-package and won't do crap

mwm

what do you suggest then?

Marco Ceppi

Looking it up on AU

mwm

17:06

i have already done that, can't seem to find anything that suits

also 've been on the forums

Marco Ceppi

I was looking for something different

psychocats.net/ubuntu/puregnome

Change remove to --reinstall

mwm

but ubuntu-desktop?

it is installing evolution and firefox 3.6 and bluetooth now loool

hoping for it to reconfigure something

well

reboot

i now have my ubuntu-desktop-session back

now uninstalling evolution and bluetooth and firefox3.6 :p

thank you @MarcoCeppi

Marco Ceppi

@mwm no problem! I'm glad that actually worked! It was from my answer here:

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A: Can my xubuntu installation be converted to standard Ubuntu?

You'll simply need to install the ubuntu-desktop meta-package. This installs all the nessisary packages for a "Vanilla" Ubuntu Desktop. sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop Once this has been completed you can restart your computer. At the login screen you can switch from XFCE to Ubuntu Desktop un...

mwm

;)

Marco Ceppi

Where people were trying to remove a DE - because apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop only remove the meta package and not the rest of the packages it represents

htorque

17:14

hm, can i require a ssh key and a user/password to connect to a ssh server?

mwm

@htorque if the server requires you to do so, yes

htorque

@mwm cool, thanks!

mwm

@MarcoCeppi the config that the reinstall did, should be available independently

and maybe it is

but i don't know... i had to install some packages in order for it to reconfigure something in the end

glad it worked though

Marco Ceppi

Me too. That could have gone one of two ways. It would have worked - or you would have caught fire. I'm glad it was the former.

Maybe next time I should give these warnings before the instructions...

mwm

i was about to backup my /etc and reinstall :P

iamsid

17:24

Lol. :) My question is No.9 on the current hottest questions on SE. :P

mwm

i have /home partition so

well, off i go

thank you

Stefano Palazzo

hello (:

iamsid

Grrr. :E

that's Hello in monster-language

Stefano Palazzo

heh

Marco Ceppi

@iamsid Which Question?

iamsid

17:36

@MarcoCeppi

3

Q: Which variant of English should I use when my target audience is the world?

I know that all variants of English (American English, British English, etc.) can be generally understood by everybody who knows any of the English variants. But there are some regionalisms that can lead to ambiguity. What are the things I must be aware of when the target audience (of my writi...

usage

LOL. :P

Marco Ceppi

Ah, I thought it was an AU question

iamsid

No! Oli's question's No.2

Marco Ceppi

6

Q: How can I install and use text-to-speech software?

I want to convert text to an audio file containing synthesised speech that reads out that text. What free (libre+gratis) software is available for this and how do I install and use it? I don't need to use it as an accessibility tool - I just want to be able to listen back to my revision notes wh...

installation software-recommendation audio text-to-speech

iamsid

Yup

Marco Ceppi

Is by @dv3500ea

iamsid

17:39

Whoops! My bad.

Oli

Coincidentally, the accepted answer for that question is really good. Everybody should vote it up ;)

iamsid

I did. :)

Oli

That's the spirit. Almost 2/5ths on my way to Epic.

Stefano Palazzo

nicely put :)

Oli

I frankly don't think there are enough original questions to answer to get the Legendary badge.

karthick87

17:47

Is there any way to resume a download in firefox?I was downloading a 700MB file the connection drops at 300MB..Is there any way to resume the download ? ? ?

iamsid

AU now has the 6th highest number of users on SE.

Marco Ceppi

@karthick87 Not without a 3rd party download manager

badp

I thought Firefox did pausing and resuming.

Oli

@badp It does.

@karthick87 It all depends on the provider. Some sites route their downloads through non-standard methods. But a simple file download should be able to resume in FF

karthick87

Oke thank you

Marco Ceppi

17:56

@iamsid We're really number 2

SF, SU, SO, and M.SO don't really count because they're not Area51 sites

Really it's Programmers then us

iamsid

@MarcoCeppi Whoa! :)

There's an S.E. for that.™

Marco Ceppi

I don't count programmers either - but only because I think the site is pretty doomed

iamsid

Hmm

Marco Ceppi

Basically I find excuses for us to be #1 :)

iamsid

I know. :P

I've become an SE-vangelist.

I must've been in a cave all these years; I discovered SE on 10/10/10!

Stefano Palazzo

18:05

2

Q: How do I change the background on the Personal menu?

How do I go about changing the white background on the Personal menu? I want to change it specifically to match the color of the toolbar and status-bar.

nautilus-elementary theme

pretty sure that's called the side-bar or side-pane

iamsid

Side-pane it is.

Stefano Palazzo

is everyone okay with "How do I change the background of the side pane?" (where nautilus elementary is implied by the tag)?

iamsid

I am. Personal Menu is plain wrong.

Stefano Palazzo

k done :)

I'm only asking because there's been some heavy editing on this question

Marco Ceppi

@StefanoPalazzo I wouldn't call that "heavy" at all

Stefano Palazzo

18:10

more users than usual have edited this question :)

by the way, @MarcoCeppi, so your employer has agreed to give you a real computer?

iamsid

Apple = !Computer ?

Marco Ceppi

@StefanoPalazzo Yeah, we were at lunch yesterday and he was like "how's the mac treating you?" and I replied "Dude, it blows. Worst part of my day". To which he replied: "So you want a Dell or an HP?"

iamsid

Apple = Fruit.

Dell or HP?

Marco Ceppi

We got back at the office and it'll be here Tuesday

Stefano Palazzo

nice

Marco Ceppi

18:13

Okay, I'm almost 100% HP man. However, I'm not a fan of their desktops (Servers and notebooks are, amazing) So I went with a Dell

dell.com/us/business/p/precision-t7500-n/…

With 8 GB RAM and 1TB drive

iamsid

Does anybody here have an opinion on System76?

Stefano Palazzo

wow :D

I was going to say the HP z800 is pretty sweet, but this thing is droolworthy :)

Marco Ceppi

I almost choked when he asked me if 24GB of RAM would be enough!

iamsid

:P

Marco Ceppi

I was like "Dude, just give me 8, that's like 3 times more than I'll ever need"

iamsid

18:16

Haha

Stefano Palazzo

You should have gone with 192gb, In case you switch back to firefox

:P

Marco Ceppi

LOL! You win!

iamsid

Firefox version < 4. grrr. :P

Firefox is faster on Windows than on Linux-based distros! That's unfair.

IMO. YMMV.

Marco Ceppi

@iamsid I'm surprised you can get Firefox to run in windows. Most of my friends have switched to Chrome because of firefox's inablitly to run

Stefano Palazzo

I'm completely happy with this cheap laptop I have; but I'd really like some of that OpenCL in my intel graphics chip :\

what were they thinking not putting it in

Marco Ceppi

18:21

Well I plan on finally experiencing Gaming on Linux to it's full potential

iamsid

@MarcoCeppi: Surprising!

Marco Ceppi

I mean, my current desktop is pretty good. But still has troubles with Portal and HL2 (4g quad core forgot what gfx card)

But playing like sauerbraten on my machine at home is AWESOME

Marco Ceppi

18:33

@fluteflute Great way to start "fun-in-the-sunday-coding-awesome-rainbow-party-pants-day"

0

Q: Web-link-package. Do not work with Google Chrome!!

I try the Ubuntu software center url-request for install a package/program via a browser "http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/package-name". But with Google Chrome 8.0.552.224 it just sad 'You don't seem to be running Ubuntu' in Firefox it works. Is there any workaround solution to this? (See this: https:/...

ubuntu-desktop 10.10 software-center apturl

htorque

@StefanoPalazzo hello, may i ask how fast you ssd-based system boots? i'm not sure if i should sacrifice 8gb of precious ssd space to be able to do suspend-to-ram (should have thought of that earlier :D)

Stefano Palazzo

@htorque my bios is pretty slow, so it's 16 seconds altogether (that's running unity)

htorque

oh wait... do you even need a swap to do suspend-to-ram? i always confuse suspend/hibernate :-/

Stefano Palazzo

pure boot time is 11 secs

htorque

show me a fast BIOS

Stefano Palazzo

18:35

you need swap for hibernation :)

and for suspend if you don't have lots of ram

htorque

i don't need this suspend-to-disk thingy - it's pretty worthless even now

8gb

that's why a 8gb+ swap partition would be a pain with a 60gb ssd :D

Stefano Palazzo

I almost never suspend or hibernate now

at uni, my laptop is ready before I've plugged in the power chord

htorque

what's a power cord? i have a 9-cell battery :D

iamsid

Bears hibernate every winter.

htorque

how much swap do they need?

:>

iamsid

18:38

Power cord [noun]: a cord to conduct power to an electrical appliance.

Stefano Palazzo

ah,

htorque

power brick's too heavy...

Stefano Palazzo

oops :)

iamsid

:P

htorque

ok, so suspend-to-ram doesn't need swap (just tried it) - that calms my nerves. :-)

Scaine

18:45

Just hibernate that needs swap. Writes the memory to swap, uses it to turn off all power. Too slow though. I prefer suspend.

htorque

yes, it's even slower than doing a normal reboot here.

0

Q: Asus K52F laptop web camera shows upside-down picture in Skype or Cheese

How to fix upside-down picture produced by web camera in Asus K52F (1.3 Mpix, don't know the model) laptop (Intel i3 M350, Intel video, Ubuntu 10.10) ?

webcam

if i don't get this bounty i'm gonna scream!

:D

Marco Ceppi

@htorque You're going to get it because you have the highest upvotes

even if you aren't manually awarded it - you'll automatically get it

htorque

19:00

this was fixed like in november, all he had to do was to add the ppa and install the fix... no need for a bounty

but only the half, right?

Marco Ceppi

No, I think all?

We'll find out tomorrow

htorque

If you do not award your bounty within 7 days, the highest voted answer created after the bounty started with at least 2 upvotes will be awarded half the bounty amount.

oh noes, i created it before the bounty was started :D

Marco Ceppi

@htorque Delete and re-add! I'm sure you can get two people to upvote it here

htorque

ah noooo, that's cheating the system!

santa won't bring me presents 2011

Marco Ceppi

Like he's going to remember what happened in the first two weeks of January

htorque

19:04

:D

iamsid

S.E. is designed to be addictive. :P Bounties, badges, reputation, privileges, it's much more than just the satisfaction of helping people. :) Right now my sights are on the privilege to close questions. :)

htorque

i heard rumors, SE was created by Zynga

:D

iamsid

Lol! :P You can "harvest" milk from your green alien cow in 3 hours! :P

@htorque The rumors you heard are true.

htorque

well, if they were, you'd be able to buy rep points and badges :D

iamsid

You can! Weren't you aware?

I bought mine.

Marco Ceppi

19:08

How do you think @JorgeCastro got so much! :P

iamsid

Indeed!

htorque

a great opportunity for canonical to make ubuntu profit-yielding :P

iamsid

@FOSS DIVERSER bought too! :P

htorque

hook all users on AU and then make it a paid service

iamsid

From the fake Zynga site. He was conned.

htorque

19:15

<3 FC Barcelona - FC Malaga, 21:00 CET

iamsid

I'll watch. :)

htorque

me too :)

live at camp nou would be great :P

iamsid

@MarcoCeppi Why can't a sheet of paper be folded more than eight times? Math or Physics or Both?

Marco Ceppi

@iamsid It can, you're just not trying hard enough

iamsid

Grrr. :)

Say!

Marco Ceppi

19:18

It's math though, If you ask me

htorque

physics, if you ask me

:D

iamsid

All righty. I ask at both places then!

Marco Ceppi

@JeffAtwood is going to be a sad panda

iamsid

Math aspect and physics aspect ?

I'll ask them to explain mathematically. :P

I'll modify it like hell.

Marco Ceppi

It comes down to a math equation: Y slowly approaches X but never intercepts.

htorque

19:21

Mathematics of paper folding

The art of paper folding, or origami, has received a considerable amount of mathematical study. Fields of interest include a given paper model's flat-foldability (whether the model can be flattened without damaging it) and the use of paper folds to solve mathematical equations. Pure origami Flat folding The construction of origami models is sometimes shown as crease patterns. The major question about such crease patterns is whether a given crease pattern can be folded to a flat model, and if so, how to fold them; this is an NP-complete problem. Related problems when the creases are or...

Marco Ceppi

Booya! it was math

htorque

it isn't :P

iamsid

:) Sank you!

0

Q: How many times can we fold a piece of paper in half?

What is the maximum number of times a piece of paper can be folded in half? Why not more that? Could you explain it mathematically?

geometry

htorque

there is no mathematical bound on the number of times you can fold it

Marco Ceppi

@htorque Yes there is - the paper's "weight" (thinkness)

I don't know what this is, but I love it.

htorque

19:31

in math, everything is oO

:P

that's... well, disturbing :D

iamsid

:)

Stefano Palazzo

if you were to fold it 20 times, and the paper is half a millimetre thick, it'd be 560 metres high :P

Marco Ceppi

The papers starting size also matters

htorque

size matters!

seriously, this gif is weird!

:D

Marco Ceppi

I really want to know where it came from.

Stefano Palazzo

19:37

lol

Marco Ceppi

lol

@oli is that where the gif came from?

iamsid

@MarcoCeppi Gimme your powers for 1 day, a la Bruce Almighty. :)

Stefano Palazzo

these powers should really be called "energy": the ability to do more work than us

(:

iamsid

Or the ability to build a ski ramp from earth to the rainbows.

@MarcoCeppi How to convert "1 answer + n comments" to "n comments to the question"?

Marco Ceppi

@iamsid ? You mean how do I convert an answer and it's comments to just all comments?

iamsid

19:43

Yes.

Marco Ceppi

There's a mod function that we can use to do that

iamsid

Can you gimme a screenshot (if that's allowed)?

Not of the entire process! Just the tool or sumfin'.

Marco Ceppi

It's a one step process

So answers can be converted to comments on the question or other answers

iamsid

@MarcoCeppi Sank you! That's neat. I need a shade over 7000 reps to have access to 'em. :)

Marco Ceppi

I don't think it's a 10k tool - just a mod tool for now

iamsid

19:48

askubuntu.com/privileges/moderator-tools

Reputation Required
10000

Marco Ceppi

Yeah, those are the 10K tools

badp

Yes, it's mod only

iamsid

So @Stefano will get 'em soon?

Marco Ceppi

Those privileges but 10K users != moderators

they have some, but not all the tools

Stefano Palazzo

I hope so (:

iamsid

19:50

Ah! Like that.

htorque

io vorrei 6000 punti di reputazione!

or something like that

Stefano Palazzo

I'm hoping to be elected community moderator of course :)

htorque

one seat's already taken by jorge :P

when are elections? still "soon"? :D

Marco Ceppi

No seats are guaranteed :)

Soon-ish

Tentative date: Eventually

htorque

heh, in German you could confuse "eventually" with "eventuell", which means "maybe"

oh, it's la liga time - cya! :-)

iamsid

19:59

Go Messi!

:)

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