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jrg

00:50

Oh wait. @aking1012 is at defcon. He didn't just leave us. :D

Jul 23 at 17:26, by aking1012

example: i don't see myself using the wireless at defcon

Flabricorn

01:10

@jrg Hey, how was your week away?

jrg

@Flabricorn really boring until friday, then I got stuck out in a hailstorm.

Now that was fun.

Flabricorn

@jrg That sounds like a lot of effing fun.

Today I got to organize all of my hardware.

jrg

@Flabricorn you can ask Andrew about that hailstorm, he was with me.

Sweet! Today I got to go looking for all my hardware. I think I found it all. :P

Flabricorn

Found out I'm missing three screws to a ruggedized tablet PC casing. That is this mission. And @jrg I actually found like a nvidia 4200, a 2.40 Ghz Celron, a 3.2 Ghz processor... mobile something. About 8GB RAM (Laptop) and three fans.

@jrg I was going to talk to Andrew this weekend.

jrg

I can try and drop by the pool sometime this week, I've got a crapload of screws you can dig through if you want.

Flabricorn

01:15

Found 1/3 I'm pretty sure they're all here in this like woven carpet I never vacuum.

jrg

That's why I do it in my bed. I always find the screws, because I end up sleeping on them and finding them that way. :P

Flabricorn

OH! My house key. That's useful. Anyway, Did your sister already tell you how the swim meet went?

jrg

Yeah, she did tell me. 2nd place, right?

Flabricorn

Second!

Yes, 'tis becoming an annual event this second placing.

jrg

sorry, it was last year it was 3rd iirc. :P

Flabricorn

01:18

No, second last year too.

jrg

sighs just shows how much attention I pay - or rather, a distinct lack thereof.

Flabricorn

Well in your absence I edited some posts, wrote some answers and now I'm up to a whopping 125 REP! Whooot! (From 44. Big milestone for me.)

jrg

:D

Flabricorn

And izx owes me a 50 rep bounty he decided to give me for asking and writing an answer for Oracle 11g R2, after responding with the answer to someone's question. Now, if anyone asks about Oracle 11g again, they have a post to refer to.

All in all a productive week. 2 Screws!

Flabricorn

01:52

3 SCREWS. I'M FREE.

The Interrupter

02:15

Great answer: Why has Gnome 3 reverted to classic (Gnome 2) look and feel? http://askubuntu.com/questions/158297/why-has-gnome-3-reverted-to-classic-gnome-2-look-and-feel/158307?atw=1#158307 #gnome3

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on July 29, 2012 at 2:10 AM

Mahesh

02:49

o/

jokerdino

03:06

@Mahesh sup?

msPeachy

hello cinderell(o) :P

jokerdino

boo

msPeachy

lol

good morning to you

jokerdino

good morning

Mahesh

03:51

@jokerdino another great day ahead!!!

was afk..

jokerdino

yay!

Mahesh

^ I-don't-know-why-star-of-the-day.

jokerdino

o.O

Mahesh

:P

u running Quantal?

jokerdino

yeah

Mahesh

03:54

Good.. :)

jokerdino

:-)

Mahesh

yesterday, i had to write a summary for your blog post.. :P Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. I was re-re-re-reading that, and by that time, someone else did it.

jokerdino

fail

how many people read the newsletter anyway? ;o

Mahesh

umm.. no idea. I scan it atleast.

jokerdino

i don't even read what summary they write for my blog post ;p

Mahesh

04:00

:P

It actually takes a lot of effort to summarise your blog post. a bit more than usual. :P

jokerdino

wait why?

Mahesh

* to me. Coz everything seems so obvious, summaries are limited to 2-3 lines, and it is difficult to decide what to mention and what to ignore. Its not like a news article, right?

Prasad

Hello! Good morning!

jokerdino

@Mahesh yeah; actually my post by itself is a summary

Mahesh

your posts themselves are kind-of-summaries of ask ubuntu. now try re-summarising that. :P

yup..

@Prasad \o

jokerdino

04:05

@Prasad hi

Prasad

AU Anniversary ?

Mahesh

I want to write a userscript that pings any new user with 'hi' or 'o/' or something similar, randomly.

and one day, lets all use that userscript, all at once.

Amith KK

Hello all

Mahesh

and.. umm... can we cat /dev/chaos ?

@AmithKK hi

Amith KK

Hey @Mahesh

@Mahesh Yeah, if it exists

Prasad

04:08

@AmithKK Hi

Mahesh

YAY!! my userscript is working...

Amith KK

So, you want a userscript to do that?

Mahesh

wait.. my userscript is not yet born.. :P

@AmithKK umm... yes.

Prasad

Thought so :-)

Mahesh

hehehe

pi pi pi ping me please

@jokerdino chat notifications are working fine?

hi @AnwarShah

Anwar Shah

04:10

hi

morning all

Mahesh

UGT morning.. ;)

Prasad

@AmithKK is your cinnamon desktop working now!

Anwar Shah

using my favorite theme (which was the cause of love for Ubuntu) now again in XFCE

jokerdino

@Mahesh sort of

Amith KK

@Prasad :P

Mahesh

04:12

@jokerdino FF or chromium?

Prasad

@AmithKK like some screenshot :-)

jokerdino

FF

Mahesh

did you enable desktop notifications on se chat?

jokerdino

@Mahesh oh you mean that.

Amith KK

Bounty now awarded

Anwar Shah

04:13

@jokerdino How good or stable is quantal

Mahesh

yup. in FF.

* brought to you by, webapps

jokerdino

@AnwarShah okayish

Anwar Shah

@AmithKK which one?

Amith KK

7

Q: How to make dash load faster in unity-2d

My dash always takes 10-15 seconds to show up. Is there a way to make it stay permanently loaded in the RAM or something so that it shows up faster?

Anwar Shah

@jokerdino any major changes?

jokerdino

04:13

@AnwarShah not really

Anwar Shah

hmm

I really recommend everyone to use "Bree serif" font for Firefox

Suggestion needed

@AnwarShah i have seen it completely and its duplicate man . see answer 4 . — imwrng 44 mins ago

Mahesh

upticked your comment.

thats one passive way of supporting without starting a comment-chat thingy

Anwar Shah

Do me another favor on this

I told you that, You have to install virtual machine in the system with internet. then virtual machine will also have internet. Read the answer carefully — Anwar Shah 2 mins ago

Mahesh

actually, its a bit tricky threre. let me read it in full

Anwar Shah

@Mahesh If you think, there are ambiguity or missing info, I will be glad if you add those there or inform me here

Mahesh

04:27

The dependency is python <2.7 and you probably are having python 3. — Mahesh 20 secs ago

thats one of his problems.

and why did you ask him to create a vm??

Anwar Shah

Yes, but don't need install synaptic on his machine, it's on vm

@Mahesh his machine is 11.04 and he wants to provide updates for 11.10 or above

a bit tricksy !!

jokerdino

wait, where is the plugin folder in mozilla?

Anwar Shah

@jokerdino ~/.mozilla/firefox/bb5iq1mt.default/extensions

jokerdino

:~/.mozilla$ ls
extensions  firefox  firefox-trunk  npchromifyosd.so

Anwar Shah

the profile name will be different, but all same

I always backup extensions by copying the folder

jokerdino

04:33

ok

Anwar Shah

and restore it by pasting in the active profile

@jokerdino You may want to ask a question on AU ;P

jokerdino

@jokerdino test

Anwar Shah

Does that work?

jokerdino

testing my answer - askubuntu.com/a/91238/25798

it doesnt work

Anwar Shah

Oh, I see you need MOAR ping!

OK, don't worry

jokerdino

04:35

yeah

Mahesh

@jokerdino wait.. u have webapps installed right?

jokerdino

@Mahesh no

Mahesh

pings are captured by that, if installed. thats why.

okies..

Anwar Shah

@jokerdino are you editing that answer?

jokerdino

i can only edit if i can find a working solutino.

Anwar Shah

04:37

Does You solutino work?

jokerdino

no

solutiNO

Anwar Shah

you tried copying those extensions on your profile?

jokerdino

yeah

Anwar Shah

and still same?

jokerdino

yeah

Anwar Shah

04:39

So, I need to test that solution and give a slightly modified answer and get the prize!

Mahesh

@AnwarShah your answer is perfectly okay, though i would have asked him to cd into that updates folder and dpkg -i *.deb

Anwar Shah

@Mahesh I have another answer ready ;P

@jokerdino ping!

Mahesh

Yours was better solution in that it handles updates, etc properly,but it confused him

jokerdino

:5552395 ping

ping me again

Anwar Shah

@Mahesh read his comments he periodically give me

Prasad

04:40

need to go, bye

Mahesh

its Everyone-ping @joker day

Anwar Shah

@jokerdino ping

@Prasad bye

jokerdino

unity web apps chromium extension works in chromium

@Prasad bye

Mahesh

@jokerdino does it?? :P

Anwar Shah

@Mahesh he first refused to do sudo apt-get update fearing ,that will update his machine

jokerdino

04:41

yeah

Anwar Shah

@jokerdino working?

jokerdino

yes

but not in firefox

Anwar Shah

@jokerdino copy theme to where?

there's no profile folder

jokerdino

what?

i don't know

Anwar Shah

lol

jokerdino

04:47

@jokerdino ping

alrightie

Mahesh

BBL

jokerdino

bye

Anwar Shah

bye

@jokerdino found it, where to copy

jokerdino

alright

Anwar Shah

It said, "A plugin is installed but appear to corrupt"

@jokerdino Found you also?

jokerdino

04:55

no

i dumped firefox and using chromium

Anwar Shah

Your system 32bit or 64bit?

jokerdino

64

Anwar Shah

sudo cp npchromifyosd.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ -v after doing this, I found the message

jokerdino

thanks

Anwar Shah

try if it has something to do

jokerdino

04:56

i am being lazy. will do laterz

Anwar Shah

I'll give you a DV

jokerdino

ok

Anwar Shah

and your laziness will be gone

This procedure is not working. Did you try it yourself? — Anwar Shah 27 secs ago

jokerdino

ok

it was working when i posted.

Anwar Shah

OH, that's an old one

There is a "install missing plugin" bar on firefox after installing the script,but when i click "install" it says, "no suitable plugins found".

jokerdino

05:04

yeah same here

Anwar Shah

Discontinued support of that plugin?

jokerdino

dunno

if someone can find a hack that makes gnome-shell use notify-osd instead of the native one, i will give that someone 300+ bounty

Anwar Shah

someone ---> you

;P

good ! that's great

jokerdino

ok whoever can find, gets the bounty

Anwar Shah

No

jokerdino

05:08

naw

Anwar Shah

You said so

jokerdino

5

Q: Can I run NotifyOSD in GNOME?

I use the Gnome Shell (11.10) but am not liking its notification system. Is it possible to return to lucid - style notifications? Like this instead of this

gnome-shell notify-osd

Anwar Shah

and Don't use mod power

Amith KK

@jokerdino wait... Isnt that a good feature?

jokerdino

eh

@AmithKK i like notify osd

the gnome notification distracts me.

Anwar Shah

05:10

me too.

But, somehow, that has changed in Unity!

jokerdino

if i am typing in this chat and someone pings me, i lose focus on the browser

Anwar Shah

It's now showing xfce style notification

Amith KK

Yeah.. you need to do some modifications to the stack

jokerdino

yep

Anwar Shah

<--- Declares: gnome notification is the worst notification system, i've ever seen

jokerdino

05:11

so use this impending bounty as a motivation to find the hack

BRB lunch time

izx

hey @jokerdino, tuntunnelling working ok?

jokerdino

yeah

BBL :P

Amith KK

@jokerdino Found the hack

Anwar Shah

found it also

The Interrupter

Linking Encouragement http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/3691/linking-encouragement?atw=1

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on July 29, 2012 at 5:10 AM

Amith KK

05:18

@jokerdino Shell OSD

Anwar Shah

@AmithKK the answer was there !

@EliahKagan congrats for 10k !

Amith KK

BBL

Anwar Shah

05:38

BBBBBBL

jokerdino

05:49

@AmithKK shell osd sucks, i want a real hack

Anwar Shah

First tell me, why xfce style notification is in my Unity

jokerdino

dont know

Anwar Shah

Seems I found it.. Let's try

@jokerdino working!!!

jokerdino

let's see

Anwar Shah

Working the FF notification for download!!

jokerdino

06:03

o.O

Anwar Shah

If The question was showing a notification for download completion like notify osd, then YES

jokerdino

no.

my question is use notify osd instead of native gnome notifications

Anwar Shah

I said "working" for the first problem

NPAPI plugins things

jokerdino

ah, the FF problem.

Anwar Shah

but wait, the 2nd problem should work also

@jokerdino Yes, FF

AM I right about the question?

jokerdino

06:05

not sure.

previously i had no notificatoin.

Anwar Shah

POP

bye

jokerdino

and then chromify osd in FF helped me get notify osd in FF

@AnwarShah bye

izx

I am liking @jokerdino's idea of ex post facto bounty offerings...same rewards with less risk :p

jokerdino

yep :P

if people give up, then i won't really waste rep

izx

Alright, can we NARQ this obvious Google translation from Upper Mongolian:

0

Q: problem to enter the computer administrator

I type my password well, my good user but what happens to him at the click of login is that let's pretend I restart the pc a black screen verifying things and I get the menu again of user choice I can do in this case? in xubuntu

boot login xubuntu login-screen

jokerdino

06:17

o.O

jokerdino

06:41

@EliahKagan Grats on hitting 10k rep. Now, help us clean up the backlog of close voted questions:

Prasad

Hi guys :-) i'm back

jokerdino

wb

Prasad

@jokerdino wb=why back?

jokerdino

welcome back

Prasad

@jokerdino sorrrrrrrryyyyyyyy :-)

sometimes amith's "bbl" reminds me "bye bye loosers"

jokerdino

06:44

:O

Prasad

/he got no teeth inside (:O)

jokerdino

:E

Prasad

@jokerdino u got them now

jokerdino

:P

Prasad

bad teeth :-)

izx

06:48

Yes, congrats @EliahKagan, you are now obligated to squeeze 48 hours into your usual 24-hour day on AU now :P

6

jokerdino

What he said ^

Prasad

Who uses KDE here?

jokerdino

> deleted by izx, Eliah Kagan, jokerdino 1 min ago

The new mod team :P

izx

btw @AmithKK, thanks for the bountah

Now I need the two of YOU to get to 20k so we can insta-delete closed Qs and highly DV'd non-answers ;)

jokerdino

that would be nice. but it is so far away that i feel lazy

izx

06:53

I need to create a sockpuppet and start posting questions in your respective specialties with large bounties ;)

jokerdino

heh

i get more delete votes per 1k rep?!

wait, i need more rep now.

izx

Sadly, all the current stuff in the delete queue tells me "You have already voted..." :(

jokerdino

mine says no more vote. get lost.

Prasad

@jokerdino lol

Anwar Shah

07:09

And now notify-osd is working on gnome-shell!!! 300k+ bountish

jokerdino

i now have other goals to attain o.O

can't waste rep now

Anwar Shah

NO

jokerdino

and it depends on whether it works here or not

Anwar Shah

You said , you will be a nice guy after 10k

And someone might want to put a 50 rep on this question

6

Q: How to make firefox use notifyOSD?

I have a computer that has 10.04 installed on it. When I download something off the internet, NotifyOSD displays to say the download is complete (Firefox is using NotifyOSD). I'm using 11.04 on another computer. When Firefox finishes downloading something it displays the "Firefox notifier" that...

firefox notify-osd

@jokerdino what are those goals?

jokerdino

get 20k

Anwar Shah

07:14

and why have you changed mind?

jokerdino

i don't have enough delete votes

Anwar Shah

20k have ?

jokerdino

15

Anwar Shah

and you now have?

jokerdino

5

Anwar Shah

07:15

10k for only 10 more !!!

jokerdino

10 every day

so that's a lot

Anwar Shah

means, you have only 5 votes total?

jokerdino

5 per day vs 15 per day

and then, i also can delete answer at 20k

Anwar Shah

So, you are no more a nice guy

:/

very sad :/

jokerdino

yes

Anwar Shah

07:20

found it

want to see?

jokerdino

k

Anwar Shah

what k?

jokerdino

"want to see?" "k"

Anwar Shah

Let's set my target at 20k !!!!!!!!

jokerdino

ok

Anwar Shah

07:28

@jokerdino never mind, go for 20k. The site needs you at that position

You see the removed message?

jokerdino

yes and yes

Anwar Shah

2nd yes for after removal

jokerdino

yes

Anwar Shah

I should be more careful from now

Prasad

can u guys see me? i can't see my self in the room

oh there I am... kk please continue

Anwar Shah

07:32

We see you very clearly

Prasad

@AnwarShah :-) my gravatar just vanished and appeared after entering some post

i saw it!!!

Anwar Shah

saw what ?

Prasad

the NOLIMIT case

Anwar Shah

no problem

everyone knows it

Prasad

argh.... fonts messed again... does anyone use KDE here (kubuntu)

Anwar Shah

07:35

@Prasad delete the .fonts file in your home folder and restart ff

@jokerdino is Firefox using notify-osd now?

Prasad

no .fonts in that dir. i'm using kubuntu now

Anwar Shah

@Prasad you have kubuntu and Ubuntu, yes?

@Prasad the file is fonts.conf

Prasad

@AnwarShah i got ubuntu 12.04,10.10 kubuntu 12.04,10.10

Anwar Shah

@Prasad I mean, are you using Unity and KDE in the same installation?

Prasad

@AnwarShah noop, just KDE

Anwar Shah

07:39

oh. i missed

Prasad

that combination isn't working well on me, poor PC :-)

Anwar Shah

what is the problem actually

jokerdino

@AnwarShah no don't think so

Anwar Shah

meaning, after downloads, there is no notification for download in notify-osd?

jokerdino

there is only xul notify

i don't have any extensions for notifications now

Prasad

07:44

Anwar Shah

@jokerdino OK, I tried your answer. copied the NPAPI plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins folder and changed /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu and it's now using/showing notification for download completion in notify-osd

Prasad

help me fixing fonts :-(

jokerdino

@AnwarShah alright thanks

Anwar Shah

why thanks?

@Prasad I don't see any problem there

@jokerdino Can you check that?

I also installed gmail-notifier plugin

Prasad

@AnwarShah mm not the site contents, they are great, but look at the the title bar and taskbar

Anwar Shah

07:46

don't know, whether that triggered

Prasad

@AnwarShah anti aliasing problem?

jokerdino

@AnwarShah it should work

Anwar Shah

@Prasad that isn't a problem, it is a settings change

@jokerdino I told that, cause, I am not sure, whether gmail-notifier plugin i installed has something to do with that

@Prasad wait a sec

jokerdino

yeah i get you

Anwar Shah

that's why, a check is needed

I will try to answer that for 12.04 ;P

Prasad

07:49

KKK, there is no prob with 10.10

Anwar Shah

@Prasad go to KDE system settings --> Application appearence

Prasad

k

Anwar Shah

@Prasad then Fonts section

@Prasad What you see in the settings "Use anti-aliasing"?

Prasad

system settings ?

Anwar Shah

No, in system -settins --> Application appearence --> Fonts --> Use anti-aliasing

Prasad

07:52

yes bro, i can see it is system settings selected

Anwar Shah

Change it to "Enabled"

Prasad

OK, little different, but ....

Anwar Shah

Apply, exit system settins, and then re-open that to see change

Prasad

yes it is enabled now, but it's .....ugly as always, should I increase font size also... cuz i'm using 1440x900 res now

Anwar Shah

Logout and Log in

Prasad

07:55

give me a sec

yeah better.... funny thing is now my desktop seems great and chrome looks ugly again lol

Anwar Shah

@Prasad In the "Use anti aliasing settings", select Enabled, then click Configure, then check "Use sub-pixel rendering ---> RGB" and then Change the Hinting style to "Slight"

Prasad

done.... log out?

Anwar Shah

@Prasad Now try removing the .fonts.conf file

@Prasad Yes, always better

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