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jrg

00:42

ahg eek agh. cringes

yum feedme sugar doesn't work. :(

George Edison

About 60% done the WordPress plugin for StackTack.

jrg

Yay!

George Edison

It's a lot harder than it sounds because I'm writing 1) most of StackTack 2) a WordPress plugin for it 3) a TinyMCE plugin for the post editor.

jrg

ugh... centos is downloading firefox 10. I installed a server, not a desktop!! :\

George Edison

And Firefox 10 is old now.

jrg

00:54

Forget that.

well don't, but you know what I mean. :p

why is centos so popular again? right now it seems pretty bloated.

George Edison

The only server I have access to that's running CentOS is the one powering my website.

jrg

What version?

George Edison

Not sure. I'll check.

jrg

Thanks. :)

George Edison

What command do I need to run?

jrg

01:04

tail /etc/redhat-release

George Edison

> "CloudLinux Server release 5.7"

Is that the right information?

jrg

ok, i'm running 6.2, so that explains it.

George Edison

Also, this:

Questions Feed

02:40

Bounty offered: How do I setup OpenVPN so I can securely use the internet from an unsecured hotspot? http://askubuntu.com/questions/35647/how-do-i-setup-openvpn-so-i-can-securely-use-the-internet-from-an-unsecured-hots?atw=1 #networking

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on March 17, 2012 at 2:39 AM

Questions Feed

05:55

Bounty offered: Chromium 19+ for ubuntu http://askubuntu.com/questions/112432/chromium-19-for-ubuntu?atw=1 #ppa

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on March 17, 2012 at 5:39 AM

Amith KK

07:17

Hey @jrg :D Whats up with the CentOS?

@GeorgeEdison Give me the link

jokerdino

08:14

I hope eventually someone edits this question...

I would, but I don't have time.

Octavian Damiean

Oh boy ...

Amith KK

Im on it

Questions Feed

08:40

Enabling passphrase on an already existing private key http://askubuntu.com/questions/113643/enabling-passphrase-on-an-already-existing-private-key?atw=1 #ssh

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on March 17, 2012 at 8:39 AM

Amith KK

09:55

0

Q: Good GameBoy Advance Emulator?

Is there any good GameBoy Advance Emulator for ubuntu which supports loading gameshark or action replay saves?

jrg

10:11

@amithkk Several reasons, including my need for a fedora-like VM for a project, just for fun and my need to look at a single library path.

Lame reasons all, but they are good together. Sorta.

Daniel

11:26

I'm going to go bonkers in a second :P

Amith KK

11:51

@jrg Heh :)

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Bounty offered: Windows keep moving as if I did ALT+Click http://askubuntu.com/questions/97106/windows-keep-moving-as-if-i-did-altclick?atw=1 #touchpad

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on March 17, 2012 at 11:39 AM

Amith KK

consumercourt.in/product-services/…

Woah lol

tachyons

12:08

facebook.com/groups/ubuntukerala our fb group

Amith KK

\o/

Another malayalee :)

tachyons

you too malayalee :o

Amith KK

Yeah.

tachyons

evide?

Amith KK

parat

tachyons

12:13

which district?

Amith KK

Not sure :P

tachyons

:@

Amith KK

@rlemon Is that from That DisneyCinderella?

tachyons

hmmm

jokerdino

OK, got ubuntu email id and the irc cloak!

2

Amith KK

12:17

@jokerdino \o/

jokerdino

don't star that...

:S

tachyons

:D

legospace9876

HELLO!

tachyons

@legospace9876 hi

welcome to facebook.com/groups/ubuntukerala

and facebook.com/groups/ubuntuindia

Octavian Damiean

@jokerdino You're an Ubuntu member now?

jokerdino

12:22

@OctavianDamiean Yes, kinda. For 4 days now.

Octavian Damiean

Kinda?

jokerdino

Because I still can't believe it just happened.

Octavian Damiean

heh. :)

Congratulations!

jokerdino

Thank you :)

tachyons

@jokerdino congrats

jokerdino

12:24

Thank you @tachyons

tachyons

@jokerdino welcome

@OctavianDamiean what about you? ubuntu developer?

Octavian Damiean

Nope. I'm not even a member yet.

Just an enthusiast.

tachyons

oh you are an android developer

Octavian Damiean

Not anymore. Where did you read that?

I have to update that on every page I wrote it.

tachyons

mainerror.at

why stopped it? shifted to ios?

Octavian Damiean

12:32

No.

Web development.

tachyons

oh

Amith KK

13:10

BBL

Joshua Robison

13:47

omg ubuntu site is still down O_o been down for three days and such a popular blogsite, and there is no info on why O_o

ah ok. i found it

they are moving servers it looks like

cool. ill just half to be patient

Questions Feed

14:40

Bounty offered: How to insert countdown into a video file http://askubuntu.com/questions/108023/how-to-insert-countdown-into-a-video-file?atw=1 #videoeditor

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on March 17, 2012 at 2:39 PM

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

14:55

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Q: Linux crashing my DD-WRT router

I'll start off that I'm new to Linux. A couple months ago I tried installing Ubuntu 11.10 on a laptop (HP). The install went great, however when setting up my wireless network, it caused my router (Buffalo) to crash. I could not login to the routers http interface even on a wired PC. I remove...

ubuntu linux-mint wireless

htorque

15:43

omgubuntu.co.uk

It works!

This is the default web page for this server.

The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.

:D

Amith KK

15:58

Anybody else gettiing this always?

@htorque Serious? @MarcoCeppi can move a server in the fraction of that time

Marco Ceppi

@AmithKK I own the servers though, OMG Ubuntu doesnt :(

Amith KK

@MarcoCeppi They Dont?

Marco Ceppi

No, not many people own their own servers

plus.google.com/105258101046165462263/posts

Amith KK

I dont get it. What is there to do? isnt it just tar>scp>profit ?

Marco Ceppi

The server's networking is down, which means tpheir host needs to go to the Datacenter and fix it.

OMG Ubuntu! should have had a better backup process in place, but their host isn't making it easy for them to get back online either

Amith KK

16:02

WebFusion?

Marco Ceppi

Yeah

Amith KK

I'snt SE running off RackSpace?

Marco Ceppi

No, SE owns their own hardware IIRC

Amith KK

Meh

UseOndina :P

Marco Ceppi

Yeah, SE racks their own servers

Amith KK

16:05

Anyways... I need Stefano or someone who's good at python

Marco Ceppi

George is pretty good at Python

Amith KK

How can I use the new StackExchange API's Inbox feature to send a unread message it to a serial port

StackDuino :)

@GeorgeEdison ^^

Nov 21 '11 at 13:35, by Marco Ceppi

import serial
import time
import urllib

# Create serial connection to arduino
ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyACM0', 9600, timeout=0)
url = '/var/www/lcd.txt'
previousMessage = "";

while(True):
    message = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
    if(previousMessage != message):
        ser.write(message)
        previousMessage = message
        print message

    time.sleep(4)

^ Code for the old LCD Script

Marco Ceppi

weird, I wrote that?

Amith KK

@MarcoCeppi You helped me to indent that

Marco Ceppi

Oh, okay, I was about to say " I don't remember writing that"

Amith KK

16:11

:D

Before:

After ^

Im sensing a pattern

Amith KK

16:25

Hey @aking1012

How do I do a global rep recalc

Marco Ceppi

You can't, it does it automatically now

Amith KK

I should have 6k global rep since the association problem is fixed

jokerdino

Is it just me or is irccloud.com down for everyone?

Amith KK

@jokerdino Nope

jokerdino

16:41

what does nope supposed to mean?

@AmithKK Click this link

Amith KK

@jokerdino Its up

@jokerdino Not on AU

On the global rep

jokerdino

I see.

Amith KK

I opped you

BBT

jokerdino

good night

aking1012

@AmithKK - hey i was away

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

17:44

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Q: File in Ubuntu equivalent to /etc/inittab file in RedHat

I searched a lot but can't get any solution. My question is what file in Ubuntu is equivalent to /etc/inittab file in RedHat. In RedHat /etc/inittab file contains the setting related to runlevel in which you want to boot the linux.

linux ubuntu

Questions Feed

17:56

Recovering data from Private in an ecryptfs backup when the new home is also encrypted http://askubuntu.com/questions/113765/recovering-data-from-private-in-an-ecryptfs-backup-when-the-new-home-is-also-enc?atw=1 #ecryptfs

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on March 17, 2012 at 5:39 PM

Amith KK

BREAKING NEWS! @RolandTaylor had bombed OMG! Ubuntu (j/k)

Roland Taylor

that was a joke...

Amith KK

Notice the ;) Face after the message

Do not star that!

Do not Give me a +500 bounty

2

;)

Roland Taylor

plus.google.com/b/101559243825004856256/101559243825004856256/…

Amith KK

18:11

BBT

George Edison

18:49

@MarcoCeppi: (with fingers crossed) Is Ondina planning to issue some invites this weekend?

Octavian Damiean

crosses fingers as well

Marco Ceppi

No promises, but maybe tomorrow if I can get a few major bug fixes tested and deployed.

George Edison

I'm really hoping it works out because I have something really important to deploy :)

Luis Alvarado

Is it me or omgubuntu just says: IT WORKS!!

jokerdino

it works, kinda

Octavian Damiean

19:38

@LuisAlvarado At least it does!

William

I have reached my 100th answer!

4

Questions Feed

20:41

Can you answer this? HP Photosmart 7150 printer causes shutdown of PC http://askubuntu.com/questions/105415/hp-photosmart-7150-printer-causes-shutdown-of-pc?atw=1 #printing

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on March 17, 2012 at 8:39 PM

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

20:59

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Q: Accedently removed ia32-libs and now gui not working in ubuntu 11.04

I have removed accidently i32-libs... using the following command sudo apt-get remove ia32-libs Now the gui is not properly working... I am wondering that how could i fix it thanks a lot

ubuntu gui

jrg

21:29

@MarcoCeppi You and jorge hooking OMG! up with some AWS goodness?

htorque

does anyone know if samsung's kies and virtualbox like each other?

htorque

21:51

"no usb devices connected" - what a lie!

lazyPower

I wondered what was going on -- OMGUbutu was throwing the default apache page.

@MarcoCeppi o/

Marco Ceppi

afk

tachyons

It works!

This is the default web page for this server.

The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.

omgubuntu.co.uk

htorque

22:14

hm, i thought with version 4, virtualbox-ose also supports usb? guess i was wrong...

George Edison

Flash in Chrome is broken... badly.

lazyPower

indeed

George Edison

22:30

At least it still works in Firefox.

I'm 95% done my WordPress plugin for StackTack now.

Just a few tweaks remain.

htorque

22:45

only took me an hour to access my samsung phone with ubuntu... wooooo! :D

George Edison

23:02

Plugin completed and submitted to the WordPress folks.

jrg

@lazyPower question for you: what would a 5-7 hour (so lets jut call it 1 day) gig for sysadminny type work run?

lazyPower

23:33

depends on what you're doing in teh sysadmin field

if you're working on MS products, you're going to charge starting at base line $60USD an hour

if you're working on something you enjoy, i'd start at circa 45 if not 40

Roland Taylor

come join us on G+ on a hangout with no purpose

George Edison

@RolandTaylor The StackTack plugin for WordPress is in the review queue!

Roland Taylor

@GeorgeEdison sweet :D

@jrg join the dark side!

NAO

user49523

i am trying to ask a question but keeps saying the same bug Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because: It does not meet our quality standards.

what am i doing that shows up that?

Bruno Pereira

@user49523 your question is too short probably, you need to add more detail and information to it.

@tachyons your answer is 100% a copy of the wiki's content askubuntu.com/a/113854/25863

user49523

23:47

that was it thanks the question was too short ?

but why is that sometimes a question is only a sentence does not have to do more input

htorque

good night all

Bruno Pereira

@htorque gn m8

jrg

@lazyPower Ok, i'll do $40 then.

no MS stuff with this project, thankfully.

@RolandTaylor Can't, precise borked my webcam and sound.

lazyPower

Those are my rates ;) $40 /hr for unix based admin. MS products start at 60 because i get headaches when i start touching Active Directory and Sharepoint.

jrg

Hey, I did my last gig at $20/hr and regretted it after I was done in 10 hours. :p

Questions Feed

23:56

Bounty offered: Set up a VPN, route samba over it http://askubuntu.com/questions/104834/set-up-a-vpn-route-samba-over-it?atw=1 #samba

Tweeted by StackUbuntu on March 17, 2012 at 11:39 PM

lazyPower

gotta start somewhere bro

we all live and learn by undervaluing our services at one point or another

Its how i got into the job i'm at now. I started freelancing for them at $15 an hour.

jrg

Indeed.

Roland Taylor

@jrg np, the hangout ended.

jrg

'tis such a shame.

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