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1:03 PM
hello
 
@jrg Not a constructive action, but I do find it funny at least in part
 
@penreturn Good desktop
 
ermmm wheres the other 0.2GB ram gone?
@smartboyhw thanks!
 
@penreturn do you use on-board video?
 
nope
 
1:05 PM
The next guy who asks a mergelist question should be permabanned.
 
idk then, rounding error i guess?
 
jrg
AHH YEAH ROUNDING ERROR!
 
1000 versus 1024 and all that
 
@aking1012 rounding error? what it mean?
 
@jokerdino -1 lol
 
1:09 PM
@penreturn 1000/1024*8
 
oooohhhh okey
 
there should be a "manufacturer reported size" versus "real size" HUD toggle so home users can artificially inflate specs just like manufacturers
 
Who writes like this?
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Q: Lubuntu Installation......trouble ;(

Praveen Patil:( I tried install lubuntu on my pc(pentium 4,160 Gb Hard disk,1256 MB Ram) I have downloaded ISO image file from torrent which is on lubuntu site,then burn cd at 32x speed and tried to install on my pc, installation wizard was successfully loaded even manual partition is also done ...

I gave up editing on the second line.
 
hehehehe
 
btw, myunity is dropped from 12.10 repo
 
1:15 PM
@jokerdino fixed
@jokerdino what? that was the most useful thing related to unity...
 
@aking1012 Thanks.
@aking1012 i was told it is not updated for 12.10
 
jrg
waaaaaaaaaaat.
 
sounds like it's going to be in someone's ppa. mine if nobody else does it
 
just need to update all gconf to dconf
uhm, i might look into it.
 
heh. it would be funny to add a lens-toggle tab. just saying
 
1:20 PM
it's written in basic
 
it's written in what?
 
gambas.. basic
 
what's the opposite of a me-gusta face
 
lol
 
@aking1012, no-me-gusta face ?
 
1:23 PM
@jokerdino someone already kludge-ed it to working on quantal: bugs.launchpad.net/myunity/+bug/1009590
 
That was before it got removed.
 
i see that, just pull it from the precise repo, apply the suggested edit, and it sort of works
methinks there were other motivations for pulling it from repo
 
it got removed because myunity was handling gconf settings while unity had dconf settings
 
ponders if it's abnormal that he'ld rather read api docs than tutorials
 
i am gonna update myunity :D
 
1:26 PM
grr, so all of the gconf-settings tweaks that people have been posting as solutions are going to be nuked with 12.10?
 
@aking1012 yep
i updated one for nm-applet so far
 
RAGE takes a break
 
need to fix others
 
rage was at breaking a ton of questions/answers not at you fixing stuff
 
yeah i got that o.O
lol some of the gsettings don't have a schema yet
 
1:34 PM
@jokerdino LOL
 
dino, did you ping me?
 
so looks like most configuration options aren't in yet
@msPeachy yeah and then i removed it
 
@jokerdino what was it?
 
regarding fixing a question that aking did it already
 
oh okay
 
1:38 PM
@jokerdino well that explains it. hopefully all the "options" actually make it in to dconf so it's not like "no we don't want you tweaking that because it introduced a bug, so it's hard coded now :|"
 
ehehe
there is still so much to fix for this cycle :|
 
i alternately like and dislike that so much is trying to be "improved". rapid change is sort of good, but it goes against the measure twice cut once thing...
whoever makes the applet tray to webkit bridge is going to be a god to my thinking (so you can do a monstrous on bottom root window with webkit and manage your own UI instead of depending on stock stuff)
 
nice
 
i really hope a DE goes that route (no bars or trays...just an undecorated root window and some html widgets)
 
1:46 PM
speaking of, does anyone have a link for that beyond read the source? making a custom system tray i mean? like what callbacks have to be handled etc?
 
Does anyone else thing it is kind of hard to even tell what the question here is?
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Q: unable to install ubuntu 12.04 along side with windows 8.

y.srinivasI am trying to install ubuntu 12.04 along side with windows 8. After selection of option installing along side with windows 8 the installation will copy required files, after completing that action copying files indication will go prompting to click continue button. When i am pressing this butto...

 
@Joshua it has been asked before. they're not filling in a prompt
 
So it is a dupe?
 
i don't remember the original, but it was something like "next button broken in installer" and someone found the screen they were on. they had to select a timezone.keyboard layout type of thing
 
1:48 PM
I am so tired of cleaning up self dupes after self dupes
 
Ill see if I can find it...
 
I found it
 
@JorgeCastro is the man
 
but it's been fix released, so I don't know if it's that problem
 
This it?
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Q: Installer gets stuck with a grayed out forward button

TRiGI have a CD with Ubuntu 10.10 and a laptop with Ubuntu 8.10. The laptop had all sorts of crud on it, and anything I wanted to keep was backed up on an external drive, so I was happy to do a wipe and reinstall instead of an update. So after a bit of faffing about trying to work out how to get the ...

 
1:49 PM
@Joshua it's the one i was remembering. could be a different issue though
 
@msp not an answer.
 
I will throw it out there...
@JorgeCastro beat me to it...
 
@jokerdino I was gonna post a link to you spanish comment
 
Go figure...
 
what did you expect, he's youtube.com/watch?v=3cShYbLkhBc mr roboto
 
1:51 PM
I know...
 
Ooh that is quiet:P
 
crickets, crickets... a little too quiet
 
@msPeachy where?
so, here's the new deal. I'll post the same question 3 times.
until someone blows up in anger
 
@msPeachy oh
 
1:56 PM
@jokerdino er that deal is the worst of all worlds sorry
 
@aking1012 wow! never seen that before, and I used to listen to styx
 
that comment was made using Google translate
 
@msPeachy you'ld never heard mr roboto feels old
 
@jokerdino yes i know still sound cool
 
@jokerdino i wonder if there's a query for "user posts more than one question in a 24 hour period". I think it would catch at least a quarter of the self-dupes and not much else
 
1:58 PM
@aking1012 I might have heard it before, I only know 1 styx song, the one called "babe I'm leaving"
 
@msPeachy well that person never really responded after that :|
@aking1012 yeah.. it is hard to catch otherwise
this person is wasting the time of so many community members because he can't follow the link to the master qusetion.
instead, he makes another new question
 
we had one of those the other day that i found...
 
which day was that?
i bet i got really angry the other day too.
 
@jokerdino you used to be so patient
3
lol
 
@jokerdino I will smack you so hard your grandma will feel it...
 
2:02 PM
@msPeachy i was? good ol' days
 
@msPeachy +1
 
@Joshua wut
 
7 mins ago, by jokerdino
so, here's the new deal. I'll post the same question 3 times.
7 mins ago, by jokerdino
until someone blows up in anger
 
@jokerdino has gone wild I think:P
 
2:03 PM
@aking1012 that one was a different level. but he didn't continue posting it 5 times.
@smartboyhw I think it is all coz of you.
 
@jokerdino on the third bring the rain of downvotes. enough grossly downvoted questions and the account can't post anymore without doing some good answering
 
@smartboyhw I was so nice before you came in.
 
@jokerdino What the............
 
@aking1012 downvotes. we need more of those
 
@jokerdino yes, you used to tolerate me
 
2:05 PM
@jokerdino Oh thank you you are SO nice
 
@msPeachy yeah i think i found the reason now.
 
@jokerdino i thought he was on your ignore list
 
He was. I switched browser and he jumped out of it.
Also, Roland was talking like it was super evil to ignore people etc.
So, left him out.
 
i unignored prasad recently since there were real questions being asked instead of circular complaint logic
 
@aking1012 I remember that time &.&
 
2:06 PM
@jokerdino Oh I see. It's not pure evil. It's your choice.
 
@msPeachy I think I'll give him one last chance.
 
plus you had reason to ignore him with all his dino bully rooms...
 
The best part was Prasad was haggling with EOL 10.10.
@msPeachy oh yes. that was harassment at the max.
 
@jokerdino yes, iirc it was "i won't install a supported distro, but i must have this package"
 
yes something like that.
 
2:09 PM
@jokerdino Didn't liked that too. Anyway, he's cool down a bit. I guess.
 
bob did the same thing with 8.04 and some edge package. resolution was "until i get a substantial reason*i won't is not a reason* we're done"
 
and then he wonders why i call him help vampire :P
@msPeachy Sorta. He still is in IRC.. >_>
On a distant land, Jorge is sighing over this silly issues.
I guess I should move on.
 
@jokerdino what's IRC? and where is it?
 
@aking1012 i probably wasn't around when he was in the chat. Though I have some passing glimpses of his annoyances.
@msPeachy Internet relay chat on Freenode.
webchat.freenode.net and join #ubuntuforums.
ok everyone. i was just rambling above
 
2:17 PM
\o/ for companies that have unified applications (we have two positions open and there are dropdowns for position #2-#4). someone actually thought about hiring/application user interface
 
don't take me seriously
@aking1012 gd luck
 
it's sheet metal fabrication...so it shouldn't be difficult to get on, it's just long hours of hard work not in my study area... thx just the same though
 
:/
got some work to do.
 
@jokerdino lol
 
@smartboyhw if you don't me asking, when was the last time you added something meaningful to the conversation?
you get me an answer while i go off for a walk
 
2:21 PM
@jokerdino my last meaningful contribution was around here
 
i am going off now.
 
/me is angry with @jokerdino
 
o/ @fossfreedom
 
\o/
 
Hi @msPeachy - how are you today?
 
2:27 PM
Hi @fossfreedom
 
@fossfreedom I'm good, quite full, just had dinner. How about you?
 
@smartboyhw o/
@msPeachy hungry ... dinner in two hours.
might raid the snack machine
 
Oh 2 hours still quite long, snack machine it is
so you're around asia?
 
empty pockets :(
UK based
 
@fossfreedom -1
 
2:30 PM
@fossfreedom :)
 
will snack heavily on wind-pie
 
what's a wind-pie?
 
breathe in and chew hard
 
oh lol
try water
 
tried that ... chewing is not so much fun with water
 
2:35 PM
you're not supposed to chew air nor water
 
hehhehee... lol @msPeachy
 
@msPeachy chewing water is messier than chewing air...
 
@aking1012 lol, right
 
@aking1012 - are you a gtk programmer?
 
@fossfreedom pygi, not largely C/C++ based
 
2:44 PM
good - off the top of your head... I need to manually "set_position" a widget - it takes arguments in pixels. I need to put this at the bottom of the window - how do I find the bottom of the window?
 
get size of window and subtract size of widget
 
function?
 
i'ld have to google. i don't typically do fixed size widgets
window_instance.get_size()
 
thanks - I'll take a look.
 
was from:

>>> from gi.repository import Gtk
>>> w = Gtk.Window()
>>> w.show()
>>> w.get_size()
(200, 200)
>>>
200x200 seems like an absurd default size, but it is the default(like a box of tictacs)
 
2:50 PM
@smartboyhw you stole my line
 
even better - disappear for 5 mins
 
:D
 
@jokerdino be nice
 
@fossfreedom Yeah. that's why i went off for a walk.
Trying to cool down myself.
 
@jokerdino Er what line
 
2:52 PM
@smartboyhw change story - talk about something else
 
@fossfreedom OK Mr.Peace:)
 
@fossfreedom +1
 
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A: Ubuntu One under KDE

DGUERREROSince precise, there's a QT version you can install from console: sudo apt-get install ubuntuone-control-panel-qt Is there an Ubuntu One client for Kubuntu?

@fossfreedom same as your answer here
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A: Is there an Ubuntu One client for Kubuntu?

fossfreedom12.04 From Precise, there is now an officially supported QT version of the Ubuntu-One client. how to install sudo apt-get install ubuntuone-control-panel-qt

 
I think I started the trend of copying foss' answers verbatim.
(told foss and removed them later)
 
does that mean the first question is a dupe?
 
3:00 PM
yep
 
that Q has 3 upvotes
 
that shouldn't matter
 
I see, will flag it then
 
@msPeachy closed
 
@fossfreedom oh okay
thank you
 
3:05 PM
Nobody move!
 
jiggles.
 
@RolandTaylor lol
 
@RolandTaylor i dropped me eye
 
I farted....
 
semper vi
 
3:06 PM
lol
 
"teaching kids to use non-open source software, is like giving kids needles full of heroine" - Free Software Foundation..
 
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Q: Can I add picture to my profile if I am using OpenID?

FrantiqueI logged in to askubuntu.com using my Launchpad OpenID, but, afaik Gravatar uses email address to identify the account. How will be linked to this profile in this case?

 
@Joshua there's nothing inherently wrong with closed source. don't get me wrong, i'm on the linux side of the fence, but at least closed source applications (the ones that don't copy large swathes of open source code) are honest about what they're profiting on. some OSS companies profit on the work donated to the world by others
ends thought and won't be drawn in to that discussion
 
I was just repeating what I heard
 
3:10 PM
there's nothing inherently wrong with heroine
 
@jokerdino O.o
 
Firefox messed up my grand entry.
 
it's just the people who consume heroine
 
@jokerdino yes...there is. moving along
 
3:11 PM
@RolandTaylor wasn't to hard was it?
 
@aking1012 you didn't catch the trollbait. FIne.
 
@Joshua it was a flop :/
 
Rejected?
 
@RolandTaylor hmmm tragic...
 
GWOffice is doesn't show my comments as being from me O_o
@smartboyhw hi
 
3:13 PM
@RolandTaylor hi
 
@jokerdino hi
 
@RolandTaylor what is GWOffice?
 
@Joshua a desktop GDocs client
 
Oh...
 
@RolandTaylor long time no see
 
3:14 PM
hmmm...
so like office 365 but for google drive
 
@jokerdino I was hiding :D
@Joshua ya
 
@RolandTaylor :(
 
@jokerdino it's the Kaiju!
I don't want to get eaten!
 
Wh?
 
> There are no items for you to review.
 
3:16 PM
Take a break
 
Is there a Windows version?
 
@Joshua nope
It was made for the app contest
@msPeachy would you like to be pampered now? You have worked very hard and you deserve a break
books an appointment in the "sumo care" spa :>
 
im coming home, tell the world im coming home \o/
 
Muhahahah
 
@penreturn why?
 
3:19 PM
songs brother :D
 
@RolandTaylor also blog about how myunity is removed from 12.10 temporarily.
@penreturn i know
 
hehehehe
 
@RolandTaylor lol, spa would be nice
 
@jokerdino oh?
@msPeachy :D
 
Is RMS still a major player in open source?
 
3:20 PM
@RolandTaylor :)
@Joshua who is he? ;)
 
@msPeachy even one run by sumo wrestlers?
muhahahaha
 
@jokerdino Richard Stallman
 
"Come, we give you massage, call "Crush!""
 
@RolandTaylor lol
 
@Joshua wait what?
 
3:20 PM
@Joshua itwsajke
 
@RolandTaylor you don't know who Richard Stallman is?
 
@Joshua People learned long ago that while he has great ideas, sadly his aspergers and general personality lend to some problematic statements.
@Joshua of course I do.
 
I only know HMS Beagle.
 
@jokerdino you poor little thing....
 
3:22 PM
@RolandTaylor he does some unspeakable things in public conferences. yeeek
 
@RolandTaylor so you are saying RMS is a socialist because he has asbergers?
 
@jokerdino like what?
 
@Joshua :O no!
I'm not a Republican!
 
@msPeachy do you really want to know? O_o
 
@msPeachy you don't want to know :)
think dirty
disgusting
 
3:23 PM
think disturby
 
sometimes, offensive too
the emacs virg*ns one still rings in my head....
 
or you could just read an article by him and see that he has good points, but may or may not do well on a stage:
 
disgusting and disturbing...wow
 
and his webpage is just a wall of text...
 
@msPeachy that's just the tip of the iceberg
 
3:25 PM
Should security updates 'always' be installed? http://askubuntu.com/q/193222?atw=1 #security
 
@TheInterrupter duh....
 
People overthink these days.
 
Quote of the day:
"The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it. "
— Julius Robert Oppenheimer
2
 
cryptic messages
 
OPTIMUS PRIME!
 
3:29 PM
oppa gangnam style
 
O_o
Oolium Lithium Flouride?
 
oxalic acid
 
Okay.
 
olfactory nerves
 
of course!
 
3:30 PM
obfuscation
 
otherwise known as...
 
obsessivefoss
 
oh yeah :>
 
o_o - oh-dear ... the letter o...
 
ololololo
 
3:32 PM
only o 'ombre
 
october is coming.
 
ornitholestes is oblong
 
oktoberfest.de/en is different than october ;)
 
oh my. i can't think of any
 
3:34 PM
@aking1012 (ok) - thanks it works.
 
ordinarily i would imagine it would
 
obviously, you would have gotten it right.
 
onus is on you anyway
 
overly attached girlfriend anyone?
 
organize it :D
 
3:38 PM
on your way.
 
obliterate the need for overly attached or otherwise, only obfuscates ordinary acumen
 
OMGWTPBBQ
 
oops i should have use obligation over need on my other observation
 
okay. what else?
 
3:47 PM
@RolandTaylor @jokerdino @aking1012 Hi
 
hola <-- it sounds like an o
 
hey there
hadn't we quickly switched to H?
 
@August hey
happily, my friend, we had to
 
@RolandTaylor Howz the day going ?
 
@August humming along nicely :D
 
3:48 PM
heresy
 
@Au
@RolandTaylor sounds good :)
 
back
 
brother, welcome back!
 
boldly became B by beginnig with back? enough of the first letter game...
 
no problem
 
3:55 PM
need to look at the source of docker and see if there's a simple way to do an html bridge
 
So what did I miss?
 
@Joshua me
 
@Joshua the first letter game...nothing meaningful
 
personally, I miss @msPeachy :P (alliteration ftw!)
 
@RolandTaylor well of course...
I mean if you didn't mmiss @msPeachy then we would have to conclude that you are plain stupid....
 
3:58 PM
or that I don't know how to use alliteration
 

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