Ask Ubuntu General Room

TheX

22:00

I am trying to watch a dvd, why is it all fuggly and green?

Sid

@RolandTaylor True that!

Roland Taylor

@TheX I was trying to do some writing but couldn't concentrate :P

Sid

@RolandTaylor Is your motto "Pride and Industry"?

TheX

@RolandTaylor how is the book coming

Roland Taylor

@Sid not mine personally

@TheX going great ^^

TheX

22:01

awesome, do I get to be your test market?

Sid

@RolandTaylor Do you speak Bajan?

Roland Taylor

yep

Sid

Wunna win de cricket?

Roland Taylor

@TheX in a while lol

@Sid nah b

Sid

I done guh church pon Sunduh

:)

TheX

22:02

err...

Roland Taylor

de men play de fool dread

site

TheX

you tell a dude, that loves to read that you are writing a book... and you won't let him read it... you are such a tease

Sid

De higha de monkey climb, de more he show he tail!

Roland Taylor

I's guh tuh church too

@TheX :P I will, when it's at the right point to read it

@Sid one smart dead at too smart door

TheX

nah that is cool I am just giving you a bad time

Sid

22:04

@RolandTaylor Make your book a wiki

@TheX You're abominable!

TheX

@Sid what?

you hate me?

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Sid

@TheX Doesn't everybody?

TheX

@Sid I think my wife loves me...

Sid

@TheX Just kidding.

TheX

okay can someone help me get my dvd to play>

Marco Ceppi

22:08

@Sid This is what snow looks like

Roland Taylor

back

DoR

Wow, I have never seen it that bad, and I live in MN!

TheX

Roland Taylor

@Sid I will make a wiki based on the book after the book is published :)

Sid

@MarcoCeppi That's awful!

TheX

22:09

@DoR you live in MN and you have never seen snow?

Roland Taylor

your DVD is encrypted @TheX

DoR

@TheX Not that MUCH snow.

TheX

@DoR oh I see

@RolandTaylor how do I fix it?

Roland Taylor

@TheX not sure if you can, I've never been able to get encrypted windows media files to play :P

or encrypted dvds to my memory

TheX

@RolandTaylor I think I have... I just can't remember how...

Roland Taylor

22:11

although -- I probably have quite a number of times and just don't know it, so I could be wrong - if it's not wmv format then it should be such a problem

Sid

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Q: How can I read every DVD, even if encrypted by CSS or other?

I sometimes want to use my computer as a DVD-player. Unfortunately I know that I will often have to cope with encrypted DVDs, for example with CSS. Therefore I installed the libdvdcss2 library from Medibuntu. But from now on, how can I be sure I will be able to read any DVD whatever its encrypti...

TheX

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Roland Taylor

lol silly me

wait - an update is running - brb

TheX

yeah

Roland Taylor

btw - if someone gets eaten - should I describe the crunching sounds etc (sci-fi novel) or would that be too pg-13?

TheX

22:15

hmm didn't work

@RolandTaylor I think you should leave it to the imagination lol

but that question made me lol in real life

Roland Taylor

@TheX good point :D and LOL :D

@TheX have you tried VLC?

Sid

@RolandTaylor You should! And also provide a companion CD with recorded sounds.

TheX

@RolandTaylor no I haven't good idea

Roland Taylor

hmm... @TheX if it doesn't work in VLC/MPlayer it ain't gonna work lawl

TheX

@Sid my personal opinion, if you can write a book, that leaves the reader using their imagination, making up the sounds in their own mind, or the smells, or the whatever... that is a good book...

Roland Taylor

22:17

@Sid... O.O

@TheX a friend of mine who is reading as I write told me to add more detail :P - which I'm doing, but I don't want to give it all to the reader cause that just becomes boring

TheX

@RolandTaylor Yeah I think you need to add enough detail to just take them to the edge, and let their mind take them over :D

Roland Taylor

hmm

Sid

@RolandTaylor What's the title?

Roland Taylor

>:)

Sid

Who's your ghost writer?

Roland Taylor

22:19

@Sid that's classified muhahaha

jk

TheX

of course that is my opinion and like armpits, it probably stinks

Roland Taylor

I think it's good to let the mind take over actually

to stir your imagination, while I won't tell you the title :P - the story is pretty much like Jurassic Park on steroids :)

+ a lot of extra stuff

TheX

no aliens?

Sid

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Intelligent Design, Creationism and Science

Proposed Q&A site for those who either believe in God and intelligent design, and have questions, or those who don't, and have questions about what we who do believe, believe. Also for discussing/asking about the science of it. Not for arguments (civil debates are fine).

Currently in defintion.

Roland Taylor

trust me, these creatures are way worse than aliens :)

TheX

22:21

how can you have jurrasic park without aliens?

Roland Taylor

HAHAHA

I lol'd

Sid

I didn't lol.

Roland Taylor

@Sid at my proposal?

TheX

ugh... no work on vlc....

Roland Taylor

:(

TheX

22:22

could it be compiz???

Roland Taylor

@TheX congratulations on your new frisbee - it's a boy...

TheX

because I have lost the green...

Sid

@RolandTaylor No.

Roland Taylor

@Sid ahh okay

TheX

why do I get a frisbee?

Roland Taylor

22:23

@TheX unlikely to be compiz, but if it is I wouldn't be completely shocked

TheX

now that I think about it...

Roland Taylor

@TheX DVD won't play -- > throws --> cat thinks it's a dog -- > you now have a frisbee

TheX

last time I played a dvd I had XBMC, and I think that disables compiz when you use it

Roland Taylor

ohh

TheX

@RolandTaylor I don't think that Netflix would appreciate that...

Roland Taylor

22:24

it doesn't disable compiz,

but it would work because it's fullscreen

@TheX rofl

TheX

I will try that later, but I have to go to the bank

Roland Taylor

cool

getting a million for me?

that's so nice of you man :')

cries like a baby

TheX

if I where getting a million, I would get it for myself first

Roland Taylor

haha

Sid

@RolandTaylor Who'll write the foreword?

Roland Taylor

22:27

@Sid no clue :P

Probably someone with a lot of time on their hands haha

Sid

Brian Lara!

Roland Taylor

no way D:!

TheX

@Sid I am, so just back up buttercup

Roland Taylor

lolololol

Sid

I'd buy a blank book if Brian Lara has written it's foreword. :)

Roland Taylor

22:28

rofl

I'd buy it and sell it for ten times as much :P

you know, now I remember, I met Lara once

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars ago

Sid

@RolandTaylor Really?

Roland Taylor

was kinda boring... to be honest

Sid

Did you ask him anything?

Roland Taylor

@Sid yeah honestly :)

@Sid I was young, so I didn't bother to ask him anything

my brother did I think

and got an autograph

Sid

Wow!

TheX

22:30

who is brian lara?

Roland Taylor

@TheX a famous cricketer - among other things :P

Sid

Brian Lara

The Hon. Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM (born 2 May 1969, in Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago) is a West Indian international cricket player, widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, holds the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history. The BBC radio commentary on the final day of the innings (6 June 1994), by Dave Robert...

TheX

oh...

they don't cover boring sports in USA

Roland Taylor

The Right Honourable Brian GoldChainAroundTheNeck Lara

Sid

@TheX Grrrrrrr....

Roland Taylor

22:31

cricket is awesome!

2

when the right teams are playing

TheX

just a joke chill

we have baseball remember

Roland Taylor

lol

DoR

@TheX @Sid Actually they do, its called NASCAR

Sid

Is baseball boring?

Roland Taylor

@DoR WIN

DoR

22:32

@Sid I don't think so.

Sid

@DoR Lol. :P

Roland Taylor

@Sid it isn't?

Sid

@RolandTaylor I haven't seen baseball.

Roland Taylor

ohh

where are you from again?

Sid

They don't broadcast it in India.

Roland Taylor

22:33

wuh loss I forgot :D

well hello my friend :D

Sid

Hello! :)

World Cup will be held in India next month; I'll grab lotsa autographs!

Roland Taylor

haha

Sid

@RolandTaylor We need 'em back!

Roland Taylor

@Sid NEVAR!

=)!

Sid

Lots of them live in Guyana, I didn't know about Barbados.

Roland Taylor

22:36

a lot of Guyanese come to Barbados >:)

sigh... brings back memories of a crush at school...

:/ sigh lol

Sid

Can you travel from one island to another? Without specific VISA

Roland Taylor

yep

soon from now it will be even freer than it is now

almost like taking the bus

imagine - literal flights for $2.50 US

that's 2 Dollars, and 50 cents US (no joke)

Sid

How's life in the West Indies? The image we have in India is that West Indians have lotsa fun: parties and spend their weekends in beach. :)

DoR

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@Sid ^

Roland Taylor

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

weekends on the beach... oh how I would love that :P

it's just 10minutes drive away - but alas - the time is never there :/

haven't been under the waves for over a year :(

brb

Sid

22:42

@DoR Cool! :)

TheX

@DoR that catch is fake, it was filmed for a commercial

Sid

@DoR Cool! :)

DoR

@TheX I have never heard that, link?

TheX

@DoR I will have to look for it..

snopes.com/photos/advertisements/ballgirl.asp

sorry to burst your bubble

Sid

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@DoR ^^

TheX

22:48

@DoR however this is real video.yahoo.com/watch/7364830/19256240

DoR

@TheX That is hilarious!

TheX

yeah...

oh hold on I know another funny one

DoR

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TheX

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DoR

@Sid That's nothing compared to these catches ^^

@TheX Doh! you butted in.

Sid

22:51

@DoR There are many better ones! By a guy named Jonty Rhodes. I'll try to find a video.

TheX

@DoR sorry

DoR

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BEST CATCH IN ANY SPORT EVER

Roland Taylor

I LIKE PIE!

gonna play a game for a bit :)

Sid

I like Angry Birds.

Is Rugby popular in USA?

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Q: To same computer Remote desktop thrue WRT54G router

Cant access from my Same comp same comp to test if all is ok. Tryd all mentioned posibilities. Tryd my ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx / localhost with / without :5900 added with / without in "Remote desktop" checked "Configure network automatically to accept connection" with / without in router WRT54G enabl...

remote-desktop routing

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