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@AnwarShah it just works. it's a corner case where he has keyboard shortcuts set wrong imo

BTW @aking1012 @jokerdino, the evidence will show that njallam made it clear numerous times that his main goal on AU was to hit 200 rep so he could get the 100 starting across SE....and he then seems to have vanished

ty @izx

10:01 AM

@izx I do remember that.

But he hasn't gotten 200 rep yet

@Mitch Thx. Happy July 4th to you as well!

i think he might be searching for a site where he can post questions that get upgoats

same on the 4th to all whom find it relevant

for some reason, I feel uneasy reading my username used outside of pinging me.

@jokerdino His interest(s) may just have been fleeting....

> Update: jokerdino has pointed out that these 3 suggested edits ...

10:03 AM

@izx i cannot over-express my thanks for reading the logs

@izx haha fair point :P

@Mitch Happy 4th to all who celebrate throwing off the colonial yoke, no matter when ;)

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Dear mods, you still have some 27 flags of mine in that stinking queue of yours. get back to work already.

Just attending to 11 is barely enough.

OTOH I do feel bad about not being able to stay online enough to help @bob more earlier today: combo of mobile view + being actually mobile is quite interrup-tive.

who wants carbonara?

10:07 AM

i checked in software center and there seems to be a package specifically for VNC over ssh

I don't do alcohols. No thanks.

@aking1012 Add as answer!

@jokerdino it's pasta

and i love pasta, but i don't have a wormhole generator

@jokerdino lol

@aking1012 yes, white pasta

@aking1012 Yeah I Google'ed

10:09 AM

my sister loves to cook and it's delicious

@izx i haven't tested it, it seemed too obvious

@msPeachy, this comment is inaccurate, please delete/fix; actually:

12.04 will install PAE on anything with over 640k of RAM, because it doesn't have non-PAE (by default) any more...

yeah, that irritated me(not the comment the force enable of PAE)

is it the same on an xubuntu iso? does anyone know?

@izx okay will do

May the PAE be with you.

10:10 AM

@jokerdino gratz you just made the first star wars reference i've seen you make

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@aking1012 No,it's still good; the most common "solution" is to start with Xubuntu or Lubuntu and then install ubuntu-desktop if you want it....

thank...god...

@aking1012 haha, I am learning the nerd talk.

is it safe to purge software center?

i've got nerd down pat...i need to learn to speak human

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@msPeachy i wouldn't

10:12 AM

whoever troubleshoots tomboy-blogposter for me gets a 50 bounty.

@jokerdino link pls?

i haven't made a question yet.

i need to ask one, get it solved and bounty it in the meantime.

BTW @jokerdino, just curious (from logs) where your IBDP future will (probably) lie?

and the problem might very well be my own stupid school network firewall

@jokerdino oh i thought there was a already a post

10:14 AM

@izx my IB ending in about 5-6 months. After that, probably do a B and a M.

I figured that, but where/in what (i.e. interests) :)

System engg perhaps.

@aking1012 yes, but if i do would it give adverse effects on my desktop? it keeps on freezing, whenever i try to install via software center unity would crash, i can't do anything, can't click anything not eve Ctl+Alt+Del

but that totally depends on whether i pull through this year ;)

Systems engineering

Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering focusing on how complex engineering projects should be designed and managed over their life cycles. Issues such as logistics, the coordination of different teams, and automatic control of machinery become more difficult when dealing with large, complex projects. Systems engineering deals with work-processes and tools to manage risks on such projects, and it overlaps with both technical and human-centered disciplines such as control engineering, industrial engineering, organizational studies, and project management. History ...

Fascinating!

10:16 AM

@msPeachy I'm not aware from direct experience. One of my friends indicated that KDE and Software Center don't get along

KDE has a muon SC

nitstorm

@jokerdino machan, did the 2buntu room get nuked?

@izx eh.. same old same old

@jokerdino i hope it works out for you. another thing i cannot overly express is my discontent with how little a degree has aided in employment in my geographic region

I'm not using KDE

10:17 AM

@nitstorm err that happened like a million years ago lol

it got frozen.

nitstorm

@jokerdino Oh... LOL :P

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In review, I'm told there are 3 suggested edits for me to approve/reject/improve: It looks like that when I am on any tab except the suggested edits tab itself. But when I switch to the suggested edits tab, so that I can review edits, there's nothing there: I switch back to any other tab, a...

@aking1012 :/

@jokerdino I presume you are somewhere Commonwealth-bound for college? Or does IB now give you a leg up in India too?

@izx I'll probably stick around SG for the UG.

10:18 AM

@jokerdino that was meant to be well-wishing, i realise malcontent came across more

@aking1012 :/ was for your misfortune :/

ah. well thanks for that i suppose

and whatever happened to lazy..

he's still around, he's just not in here as much any more

yeah.

10:20 AM

When i did sudo apt-get purge software-center, it says ubuntu-desktop will be remove as well :((

@msPeachy ubuntu-desktop is no big deal

it's listed as a dependency then. don't do it

it is just a useless piece of meta package

@jokerdino - it's probably going to screw up auto-remove

but it will help you when you screw up dependencies

10:21 AM

@jokerdino For the sake of your sanity I hope college has a less restrictive firewall :P

@aking1012 ah yes. that is a valid screwable point.

@izx ah, I'll buy myself a private connection..

@jokerdino It might also potentially be a problem in a future release upgrade (but ubuntu-desktop could be manually reinstalled before doing that).

Oh that's right, you must be stuck in the dorms now....

@jokerdino okay will do it

unless you're grossly size restricted it's a better idea to just re-associate deb with another package manager or remove the software center .desktop file so you don't accidentally launch it

10:23 AM

@aking1012 that

ty

oops sorry. went off to unfreeze 2buntu room.

@EliahKagan i would guess so myself.

@izx yeah. one of the rules is to not own a private connection.

If software-center gives you lemons, you fix it so it makes lemonade (or some such)

@jokerdino You may have been better off at the North Korean Military Academy, network-wise... :P

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hehehee

10:27 AM

Hahahaha!

@aking1012 TOO MUCH PINK.. MY EYES ARE BURNING.

also, that reminds me of my name.

this is the only way i would wear a pink tshirt

Bunneh.. sorta

yeah, so who installed tomboy-blogposter and is eager to help me out here?

sorry on this one i'm "not it"

the lab rat :p

10:31 AM

what's a tomboy-blogposter anyway?

A tomboy who blogs?

@msPeachy 2buntu.com/2012/04/04/using-tomboy-to-post-to-your-blog

@izx hmm almost

@izx :P

btw, that post was NOT posted from tomboy-blogposter.

@izx :P

10:33 AM

@izx :P

@izx one more :P

Well, I don't blog

well, i do.

sorta. i just call myself a blogger.

because it sounds cool.. you know

so, you try it out...:P, or you have already?

Sorta? Everyone and their grandma "blogs" these days...(yes, twits are bloggers IMO)

most bloggers are male

10:35 AM

@msPeachy it worked. once upon a time. but it doesn't work these days

@izx ah, microblogs :/

i think about blogs as extended twitter. they're longer but less frequent and should be meaningful. blogging should NOT be a profession

tweets are blogs, but I don't even tweet

he he he

@jokerdino Bounty it and they will come

tweeting is a waste of time

@izx i promised a retrospective bounty if you help me figure it out

10:37 AM

twit i mean

@msPeachy i use it for following thoughts from decision makers. it's useful for that

looks for aking's twitter

it should be easy to find

haha, found it.

i guess so

10:38 AM

@aking1012

BS:IT, MS;ISA, CEH/CHFI/EDRP, MCTIP Enterprise, CCNA/CCNA Security/CCIE Candidate, Net+/Sec+/Project+

16 tweets, 14 followers, following 17 users

that egg pro pix is ugly

> BS:IT, MS;ISA, CEH/CHFI/EDRP, MCTIP Enterprise, CCNA/CCNA Security/CCIE Candidate, Net+/Sec+/Project+

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=gb2312">
<TITLE>The requested URL could not be retrieved</TITLE>
<STYLE type="text/css"></STYLE>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://ultra_error"></HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
I got this when I confirm an SU account on SE

Show off nananaa

not showing off. just telling people who i am and what i did

You are doing it wrong.

10:39 AM

possibly

People on twitter only care what you had for lunch and dinner.

not what you did for your studies xD

This is your reminder that if you don't drink water, you'll end up dead.

Tweeted by jrgifford on July 3, 2012 at 2:04 PM

I mean seriously.. ^

twitter is a last resort. if they google me they'll find my linkedin

@aking1012 thanks and i agree

who doesn't know that Mr Jrg? Who doesn't?

you know what nobody likes?

@msPeachy Justin Bieber. I win.

10:42 AM

She was one of the top 20 women on the internet a couple months ago

xD

anyway, brb. dinner time.

ha ha ha...I was trying to follow through with you're "showoff" remark.

if i put in my profile that i did it in under a year it would be showing off...as it sits, it's just what i did

No offense to @aking1012 I was just trying to quote a line from my new fave TV show, Suits

suits is EPIC

10:43 AM

Faints seeing @aking1012's cert list

@aking1012 just messing around

np, not upset

@izx a year and a half ago i was working at walmart

good

@aking1012 me too...hope they won't cancel it soon

@aking1012 :/ What kind of boonies are you stuck in where a CCNA can't find gainful employment?

wilmington NC. it's not boonies, it's just that i don't "know" anyone here

@izx if you want to be more jaw-dropped check my linkedin

10:47 AM

@aking1012 Huh, need to be part of the old-boy network!?

that's about the size of it

oh, and i don't drive. that doesn't help (i need to find a larger city where mass transit is common)

Dude, you so f'ing need to MOVE to NY, Chicago, LA (maybe Atlanta?) -- and not just for the mass transit!

i agree, but relocation costs money too

Based on your experience, I would certainly define Wilmington as "boonies"

fair point

it's a place movie companies go for cheap extras and nice scenery

10:51 AM

The driving/geographic situation precludes freelancing as a tech too, otherwise I made a decent bit of $$$ at that while at school in NYC

if i could hitch a ride back to CA on a movie bus i might be okay...if i pull an offer at defcon i might just not come back type of thing

anyway

MMMOOOOVING on

Well, one last thought: have you considered adjuncting at local community college(s)? I believe they're often more receptive to people who have more industry experience vs an Ivy League diploma...

I tried, they turned me down even though their current instructors don't know how to burn a dvd that will play in a standard player

WTF! +1 defcon then...

also, one of their instructors after seeing my application is trying to get college funding to pay for training for a cert i already have (one of the expensive ones)

@izx yes.

10:55 AM

@aking1012 Yes! :D (Unfortunately, it seems brick-and-mortar networking may be the best way out....)

it seems so

1) there's a mod on 2) comment flags don't show up in flag history quite right

The Interrupter

Setting up computer with Linux http://askubuntu.com/questions/159442/setting-up-computer-with-linux?atw=1 #installation

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on July 4, 2012 at 10:34 AM

@TheInterrupter, Who named you so nice a nice?

I stated who did it already...search the chat history

I would think "TheInterrupter" would be a good search term

chat.stackexchange.com/…

nothing there

11:07 AM

you're not going back far enough

chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/201/8-10

@AnwarShah Protip: use just "interrupter" :P

and you're right btw, that gets you there fairly quickly

oh god...i have to tutor someone in like 3 hours. /me needs more coffee

Is that our mod Marco Ceppi?

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the image? no it's barney from how i met your mother

you are funny though

Casting call for Marco Ceppi! :P

11:16 AM

hehehe

why is everyone talking about @Marco and nobody pinging him

You were wrong. I was talking about the one who named "Interrupter".

erm, i doubt it

My question was: "Is that Marco Ceppi who named Interrupter"?

I even did not see your image

@AnwarShah hahahahahahahha

This self-labeled ["geezer"](http://askubuntu.com/users/71766/mathematician1975) and his questions about his totally obscure embedded system are beginning to rile me.
If you're going to mess with obscure embedded platforms, know how to hack!

11:19 AM

@jokerdino. why?

rofl @Anwar....the InadvertentFunnyForce is with you today

@AnwarShah That was funny. Calling Barney Stinson = @marcoceppi was just too funny

@jokerdino, that was really accedentally. I even didn't see the image

The image is off in my FF

yeah that makes it even more funny

Heh :P

OK, see this, he solved his problem, now asking "how I solved the problem"?

11:23 AM

wait he made the change and it didn't apply somehow? ccsm always reset compiz for me. he's doing something highly custom and shouldn't be asking a question about it

custom == figure it out im<ho

@AnwarShah FTFY ... I love newbies with this kind of initiative...

@izx, that was mine.

upvoted to resolve

DONE

you answered my question.

I am very hungry

No food till morning

Haha, we have a possible overload of inadvertent funny today!

11:26 AM

ouch

I haven't got a single rep today.

@AnwarShah FTFY too :)

That explains all the inadvertent funny...lack of food == no proteins for the brain-cells to

►

Thanks for the upgoats guys...

it was a goat to resolve thing, but you're welcome

11:31 AM

Is there any way to downstar chat msg

you can only de-star your own stars

mods have god powers over de-starring, but there is no equiv of downvote in chat

Testing my random chat message mode.

got it

if it was a rebuttal to my fire video i was saying he wasn't firing on all cylinders

it wasn't. it's just a random chat message

kk

11:37 AM

totally on topic askubuntu.com/questions/159490/…

> The word "fedora" seems so beautiful to me. I wanted to find some similar word!

sarcasm doesn't suit you much @jokerd

@aking1012 :/

i goated, i was just saying, it doesn't make sense when it comes from you

i on the other hand have never been sarcastic in my life

11:40 AM

I try my best though

@AnwarShah saw it

decent question. you can even get them by accident if you cat the wrong binary file

I find it amusing that a fork-bomb question gets swamped with responses while more meritorious questions usually languish...

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you'll notice that i didn't weigh in on that one

But glad to know AU caters to the script-kiddie demographic...

@aking1012 Nah, we keep the real hackers like you around for the more serious stuff ;)

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feel safe in knowing that most answers to that question probably asked how do i restore ntfs-3g on wubi if i remove it

humour fail

11:45 AM

I starred it

There, I killed the star.

hey...there was a 3 2 1 pattern there for a sec

i thought that was relatively interesting

why you have a "flag for moderator" option with your own message?

wait what?

oh...i know what you mean. it's just a default window. small oversight. it might just delete instead. if you want to try it out, do it on something innocuous and i'll reject the flag

there is a mod flag as well

11:50 AM

@aking1012 ROFL! <--- you remembered that Q

yessir i did

@izx did you reject this edit? askubuntu.com/suggested-edits/14523

untick that check box did you??!

i need speakers for my desktop...this headphone only stuff is silly (3 monitors vs speakers...think i chose right)

running a dist-upgrade always scare me a little

a little

I never did a dist-upgrade in my life

11:57 AM

you haven't lived long enough then.

then i am confident you are making a large mistake

I lived 4 years

could not stop lolling

@jokerdino Wasn't me... It didn't show me the suggested-edit box when I directly edited the Q of my own volition

@AnwarShah not getting defaced is not the same thing as being secure

11:59 AM

I think @Sathya's suggested-edit and my independent-edit were spaced too closely temporally for the system to tell me that a sug-edit was pending (less than 1 min)...apologies Sathya

that's possible

@aking1012 Actually, I need very little security and also the fact is we don't have very cheap internet

fair point, i guess

but, I agree with dist-upgrade things. it is just me. with a rare condition

I must admit, it is not a standard method(not doing dist-upgrade)

@izx I should be apologizing for jumping to conclusions /// @jokerdino

12:04 PM

@AnwarShah :P

@izx i see.

@izx I thought so myself. I just wanted to clarify / verify.

@Sathya for science. ya know!

what's Ask Ubuntu's stand on software recommendations?

No one knows. Everything goes.

Q: Is there a software like proxyfire for ubuntu?

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I`ve been seeking for a software like proxyfire in ubuntu to connect to the socks proxy with it.But i found nothing. Now is there anyone to introduce me with a program like that? I really need it. thanks

proxy

@Sathya In line with chatroom policy I would normally say "Blame Sathya!", but in this case we can blame Ajax for being laggy :P

LOL

12:07 PM

it got an upgoat...so it's sort of resolved. i think proxy stuff is a personal decision that doesn't need a question though...like if you ask you shouldn't be doing something that requires one

@aking1012 my query is mainly for future flagging purposes, if it's all goes like @jokerdino mentioned, I won't bother flagging them

it's not flaggable unless it's unanswerable. e.g. what is the "best" proxy software (can't be answered), but "i need a proxy software" can be

iirc it has been brought up on meta a couple times (killing the tag), but the response is always the same

fixed the title to be more accurate "Is there an Ubuntu program to find anonymous proxy servers?"
@tachyons I downvoted your great answer because proxyfire is something totally different; please consider moving it to an existing, more appropriate unanswered question

there isn't software to do it, but there is a website

@Sathya You can flag if you don't really care about the result.

12:12 PM

nntime is scrapable if you have a js-enabled scraper

@jokerdino I don't care but it's pointless to bother Mods about something which is ok for the site as deemed by them & community

@Sathya Quasi mods won't mind much. cough

Q: Setting up computer with Linux

@jokerdino heh.

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I run an organisation that cleans data from donated laptops and reinstalls minimal operating systems and office for poor schools in rural India. I plan to boot and nuke the laptops I receive then ...? - What type of Linux Ubuntu should I burn onto DVD? Then I will install openoffice.

installation restart

way too broad / NARQ / NC IMO

and a whole lot of acronyms there

it's a poor question at best.

Oops...I jumped the gun on Sathya's edit again -- it was "improve" but I guess it got approved in the meanwhile.

12:17 PM

@izx I think I stealth approved it.

@jokerdino No doubt, but he was well-intentioned; I hope my radical edit preserved the spirit of his question.

the OP will let you know.

Amith KK

Hello all

I can't wait to run out of flags for the day. Too exciting.

Q: My Enconre N300 wireless usb doesn't connect, any workarounds?

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I decided to wipe Windows 7 and made a full installation. Everything works great but for a Encore N300 wireless usb dongle that I use on my desktop. Ubuntu seems to recognize it and I can browse the available networks, but I can connect to any of them. I was told that I should download its driv...

wireless

12:27 PM

@Sathya i approved the edit already.

IMO it's preferable to keep the untranslated original in the body TBH not many users know about revisions -- and Spanish isn't exactly Esperanto :P
A link to the revision may be the best solution though - available yet unobtrusive

Amith KK

wdyl.com/#ubuntu

@jokerdino refer to @izx's message as to why I posted that in here

looking for a consensus

anyhow off to home

back later

"Note: This question was originally posted in Spanish and then translated by a human. The untranslated original text is available here"

look good?

sounds better as a comment imho

12:34 PM

it depends on who translates it.

either by Gtranslate or native spanish speaker.

i mean, the level of trustworthyness i mean.

i won't shrink my face if it is removed or if it is kept.

Agreed, done.
@jokerdino, agreed too; I'd put the original or at least a note/link in the body if machine-translated.

yes that works. i already saw the translate yesterday and noted that Javier was Spanish. so yeah..

Q: Ubuntu doesn't boot after installation

12:50 PM

It seems to me that there must already be a question that this can be duped to:

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I just installed the latest version of Ubuntu next to my Windows 7 system. After I restarted my computer, it started Windows 7. I looked under Computer if I can start Ubuntu under Windows 7, but it does not show me the partition where I installed Ubuntu with 3 partitions. I restarted again, went ...

installation boot grub2

@EliahKagan there are several questions similar to that one, I even answered one.

@msPeachy Any suggestions for a good one to dupe it to? There's some ambiguity, so a question that has answers that provide information for both regular and Wubi installations might be ideal as a dupe target...if there is one.

I'm gonna have to look for it though. But this guy mentioned a partition for ubuntu so I'm guessing he didn't use WUBI.

@EliahKagan link# askubuntu.com/questions/158321/…

@EliahKagan this one as well askubuntu.com/questions/159270/setting-up-dual-boot/…

@msPeachy I think the first one is a better dupe target, of the two, since the second question is really two questions in one.

yeah i think so too