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The Interrupter

00:25

Can you answer this? Wammu - USB Device Name? http://askubuntu.com/q/185666?atw=1 #usb

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on October 9, 2012 at 12:01 AM

George Edison

I'm tempted to switch the bot over to Twisted.

George Edison

00:35

Whistles and waits for the bot to post a question link...

Roland Taylor

00:52

IT'S ALIVE!

Joshua

cans I haz?

Roland Taylor

Shore!

You will need an entourage though

it's not very quick on turns

Joshua

Once I retrofit it... I won't need nothing!

Roland Taylor

lol

It can hold hundreds of people... or bombs...

which ever you choose

Joshua

I prefer people strapped to bombs...

George Edison

01:00

WOW.

Twisted is 100 times easier to use.

Roland Taylor

@GeorgeEdison why does that sound sick and twisted :P?

/pun

George Edison

It's a Python network framework.

twistedmatrix.com

Roland Taylor

Oh so that's why there are all these python-twisted-blablabla packages in the repos

George Edison

It's a very large library.

Roland Taylor

It has demented thoughts :O

Joshua

01:08

I have to go back to work tomorrow, that kinda sucks...

Roland Taylor

:[

Joshua

We uh... celebrate the Europeans taking away the Native American's land today...

Roland Taylor

lol

that's a funny, but sobering way to put it

Journeyman Geek

@Joshua: More like 'Thank god these people fed us, so we can survive long enough for our decendants to displace them'

George Edison

Someone else is celebrating Thanksgiving today?

Roland Taylor

01:17

Hi!

Joshua

@GeorgeEdison Columbus Day...

George Edison

Oh.

Joshua

Columbus Day

Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas, which occurred on October 12, 1492, as an official holiday. The event is celebrated as Columbus Day in the United States, as Día de la Raza in many countries in Latin America, as Discovery Day in the Bahamas, as Día de la Hispanidad and Fiesta Nacional in Spain, as Día del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural (Day of Respect for Cultural Diversity) in Argentina and as Día de las Américas (Day of the Americas) in Uruguay. These holidays have been celebrated unofficially si...

Roland Taylor

mew

jrg

howdy

Joshua

01:29

@jrg oi

jrg

time to cut the twitter following again.

@Joshua sup?

plus.google.com/117754537616115960941/posts/6iZbzZPxDc7 - they need to give this guy a break...

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@jrg that's okay, i was on the nullcon speakers page and got denied an indian visa...

Eliah Kagan

01:58

@jrg I finally got around to posting on meta about how people shouldn't post duplicate canned comments when reviewing low quality posts. (Sorry for taking so long.)

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Q: PSA: When reviewing, don't post duplicate (and near-duplicate) comments!

As jrg♦ said (pinned in main chat): Hey folks who use "canned" comments: If you see one thats already there that expresses the same general idea, don't add another one. Thanks. :) This has been happening a lot lately, and I'm pretty sure it's mainly because many people are not using the new...

As always, please feel free to edit it as necessary, or to suggest changes, in case there's any incorrect or missing information.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

02:25

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Q: PSA: When reviewing, don't post duplicate (and near-duplicate) comments!

As jrg♦ said (pinned in main chat): Hey folks who use "canned" comments: If you see one thats already there that expresses the same general idea, don't add another one. Thanks. :) This has been happening a lot lately, and I'm pretty sure it's mainly because many people are not using the new...

discussion comments community review review-beta

Luis Alvarado

Anybody here with time to help me with a bug: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1060268

penreturn

Morning \o/

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@LuisAlvarado sounds like it's something not free-ing buffers right/leaking memory to me

Luis Alvarado

the worst thing is, it affects so badly my system that after 2 to 5 hours the whole system locks and I need to reset my computer the hard way. Started around June and since then it has been a nightmare. I thought the 3.5/3.6 kernel with 12.10 would solve it but it didn't.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

02:44

:'( maybe someone with the card will be able to pin down where the leak is (or if it's even a leak). i'm really not sure how to run a driver under valgrind though (probably what they'll want you to do if my guess is right)

AbrahamVanHelpsing

03:06

yep, i'm rep-hunting: askubuntu.com/questions/196829/…

The Interrupter

How should we handle plagiarized answers? http://meta.askubuntu.com/q/4196?atw=1

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on October 9, 2012 at 3:01 AM

George Edison

04:48

Okay, the bot's not quite working yet.

George Edison

05:05

Oh dear - I found a glitch in Stack.PY. Again.

I really need to write up some unit tests for that library.

It's just that I'm so busy...

Olive Twist

good morning

Olive Twist

05:43

nobody's here..

msPeachy

hi

Olive Twist

o/

George Edison

o/

Olive Twist

I cannot download the full circle from here dl.fullcirclemagazine.org/issue63_en.pdf

from fedora

The Interrupter

06:03

Does installing to an extended partition reduce disk performance? http://askubuntu.com/q/198062?atw=1 #partitioning

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on October 9, 2012 at 6:01 AM

penreturn

06:17

0

Q: Windows installer for Ubuntu Desktop 32bit

I want to instal ubuntu with windows installer. The probles is that I can not select to be installed on 32 bit. How can I do that, please? Thanks

installation windows

Eliah Kagan

I think this might benefit from editing, but I don't know enough about the subject matter to do a good edit. Anyone want to try?

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A: Can't make Safenet PKI client "find" my etoken (12.04 LTS)

I may be wrong, however it's worthy a shot. In my understanding it's just the opposite. I work here with ikey2032 and etoken pro 72k. You only disable libhal and enable libusb to work with ikey. I do use ubuntu 12.04 too, 32bit and 64bit. I just do a clean instalation via dpkg, resolve all depend...

George Edison

06:34

It works!

@AmithKK, @jokerdino: When you guys are around... I've got a working bot with instructions on the GitHub page.

It's late here so I'm heading to bed.

Leave me a message if you encounter any problems.

Amith KK

appears

jokerdino

hey!

Amith KK

Hello

I'll get to the bot asap

jokerdino

thanks

penreturn

13 years old? o..O wewww

jokerdino

06:39

14 by now

penreturn

WOW!

Amith KK

This is nice @GeorgeEdison

Good Work

jokerdino

where?

Amith KK

github.com/nathan-osman/StackIRC

jokerdino

not that. where is the bot working?

@GeorgeEdison awesome work. I'll get to it and see how things goes.

Amith KK

06:45

@jokerdino #2buntu

jokerdino

okay.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Add Unix and Linux to the off topic menu

Sometimes I come across questions that I believe to be better suited on the Unix and Linux StackExchange site. E.g. PAM modules and RRadius authentication. When using the flag as off topic option, why can we not flag it to be sent to Unix and Linux?

discussion flagging offtopic-questions

RobinHood

07:03

o/

Olive Twist

o/

@bidur You asked question for 12.04. — Olive Twist 1 min ago

people ask questions about 12.04 and complain later that doesn't work for 10.04 !

jokerdino

haha

Olive Twist

what would be a better friend for a programmer, "Kindle fire" or "Nexus 7"?

Amith KK

@OliveTwist Nexus 7

2

jokerdino

I can't tell. but I am a little biased towards the Nexus.

Olive Twist

07:09

@AmithKK @jokerdino thanks for the feedback

I have a question about AU site's username popup

jokerdino

ok

Olive Twist

why is there only +50 showing in the question?

first question

jokerdino

you got a bounty in the last two days.

nothing else?

Olive Twist

oh.. it is for last 2 days?

jokerdino

something like that

i am not sure of the days.. it might be two or three days

i guess it is 3

Olive Twist

07:14

I'm checking

Yes, it is 3. Thank you @jokerdino

jokerdino

thanks.

Eliah Kagan

I don't think we currently have enough (non-deleted) examples, and there's no progress on this question. So I'm voting to close this question as too localized. But if anyone has more to contribute, please go ahead (and then presumably other people will withhold their close-votes and this meta question will stay open for the discussion). — Eliah Kagan 5 mins ago

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Q: Are questions about problems later revealed to be common hardware issues "too localized"?

Sometimes a user posts a question that they think has to do with Ubuntu, but it turns out to be a hardware problem. (And not one that can be worked around or troubleshooted by Ubuntu. There are, of course, many hardware problems, like failing disks, that can be troubleshooted and sometimes even w...

discussion close-reasons closed-questions

jokerdino

meta discussions are never too localized. Voting not to close.

Eliah Kagan

@jokerdino Certainly. My intention is to put it to vote by the community, if the meta question should remain open. By way of clarification ...do you mean that no meta questions should be closed as too localized, or just that discussion questions should not be closed as too localized (even if they have no answers)?

jokerdino

questions can be too localized but I believe discussions cannot be considered too localized.

It made sense when I first said it but not now. :P

Olive Twist

07:29

^that

what type of question should be tagged with configuration?

and why this question should not be closed as a dupe?

Eliah Kagan

@OliveTwist Questions that are primarily about changeable settings, usually. At least that's what I think.

Olive Twist

@EliahKagan thank you. I also thought as such

Eliah Kagan

@OliveTwist The main bug reporting question is about reporting bugs against Ubuntu packages in general. Its answers wouldn't answer that question, and it's not clear anything that would answer that question would be an appropriate answer to the main bug reporting question.

Olive Twist

thanks.. i got the point

I saw that, If a question is correctly tagged, the tags themselves give a very quick idea about the nature of the question. So, i always try to check whether tags are hinting at the question

BBL

Eliah Kagan

@jokerdino As a policy, this makes some degree of sense to me, but are you sure there is a community consensus or rule about this? These eight meta questions are tagged discussion and are closed as too localized, all by moderators:

-1-, -2-, -3-, -4-, -5-, -6-, -7-, -8-

Unless I'm missing something...you might want to post on meta (or if you prefer I do so, that's OK with me) about whether or not it's sometimes appropriate to close discussion questions on meta as too localized.

jokerdino

07:37

Let me check if they are really discussions.

None of them are really discussions regarding the site, are they?

Eliah Kagan

@jokerdino Unless we're thinking of different things when we think about what constitutes a discussion (or what it means to be about the site), it seems to me that -1-, -5-, and -6- are unambiguously discussion questions relating to Ask Ubuntu itself. -5- may not be a good example, though, since it looks like it should have been closed, just as off topic.

jokerdino

Re: Q1, lord of time wanted it deleted and Marco closed it, because it was mainly a rant. re:Q5, it was a bot that lived in chat and no one really liked. re:q6, IMO, it was a support question.

I might not make sense but that's just me.

BRB

Eliah Kagan

08:01

(Unrelated to the above.) 1 more close vote needed to close this as a duplicate:

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Q: How to install Latest VLC media player nightly builds on ubuntu 12.04?

Hello guys, I have already installed stable version of VLC from Ubuntu Software center. But i would like to try the latest beta VLC media player nightly builds http://nightlies.videolan.org/#ubuntu <-- These ones How can i do it? ty Regards :)

vlc

And 1 more needed to close this as off topic:

0

Q: Upgrading lion and loosing Virtual Box

My virtual box is not working since I have upgraded my lion OS. VT-x is being used by another hypervisor. (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE). VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode. Please close all other virtualization programs. (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE). So I found a forum thread here : https:...

virtualbox

jokerdino

Wait.. isn't he talking about nightly builds?

Olive Twist

I love aptitude

it has a decent feature which is not available in any other package mgmt system

jokerdino

it is superior to apt-get

that's my opinion

Olive Twist

it helps to get rid of the unmet dependency black hole

jokerdino

oh yes.

it also purges configuration files.

sudo aptitude purge '~c'

Olive Twist

08:06

niceee

i always considered aptitude superior but somewhere in the Internet i read something about it... (telling aptitude can now fully complement apt-get)

I strongly disagree with them

Eliah Kagan

@jokerdino ppa:videolan/master-daily, which is mentioned in this answer, provides nightly builds, doesn't it?

jokerdino

@EliahKagan Looks like it does. Thanks!

Takkat

@jokerdino @EliahKagan there is a nasty multiarch bug in aptitude fixed in 12.10 only: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/831768 hope they backport it.

Hi btw

Olive Twist

hi @Takkat

Takkat

Hi @OliveTwist

jokerdino

08:12

@Takkat They were gonna since 11.10.. at least it is done by now

Takkat

Yeah it took them quite a while.

Eliah Kagan

@Takkat Indeed, I remember that from here.

Mitch

Good Morning all

Takkat

I remember your nice answer as well. :)

Eliah Kagan

@Mitch Good morning.

Takkat

08:14

Hi @Mitch

Olive Twist

So, aptitude is superior again

Mitch

@OliveTwist I know it late, but congrats on crossing 10k

Olive Twist

@Mitch hi

what late?

Mitch

@EliahKagan @Takkat o/

Olive Twist

thanks @Mitch

oops, it seems i was 15 hour late to see this question @jokerdino

jokerdino

08:16

haha

Olive Twist

grrr

I need to use this to open two tabs automatically now on. (superuser and AU)

jokerdino

Not everyone with the same name is the same person ;P

Olive Twist

@Mitch don't mind. i was joking

@jokerdino ;P

BBL

Takkat

@jokerdino but different names may not always be different people :P

jokerdino

@Takkat oh I see where you are going with that ;p

Takkat

08:24

Only THX1138 and user 25798 are clear identities.

jokerdino

hey that's me!

Whose the first guy now?

Eliah Kagan

On Stack Exchange sites in general, in cases I believe are clear-cut where I don't have enough reputation to reopen-vote, is it appropriate for me to custom-flag saying it should be reopened? Or should I always post on the site's meta instead, in that scenario?

This is the question I'm thinking of:

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Q: Practicality of faster than light travel

How was a patent granted for a technology that violates basic physics? I apologize, I'm new to the site and thought I had linked to the patent. Patent number: 6025810 Filing date: Oct 2, 1997 Issue date: Feb 15, 2000 http://www.google.com/patents/US6025810?printsec=claims#v=onepage&q&f=...

patentability

It was extensively edited recently, and I strongly believe the new edit makes it clear and brings it in line with Ask Patent's FAQ.

jokerdino

I guess you are better off starting a meta thread.

Eliah Kagan

Sorry, I should clarify.

As someone who is not the asker of the question, is it appropriate for me to flag it? A moderator wrote:

Once edited, this question can be 'flagged' to be reopened. — Robert Cartaino Oct 3 at 14:17

But I don't know if that applies to me, as I'm just some random guy. :-)

jokerdino

Well, since the OP doesn't have the minimum rep to flag, you should probably proceed in that case.

Eliah Kagan

08:32

@jokerdino Good point. I did not notice / think of that. Thanks!

jokerdino

Good luck.

Eliah Kagan

@jokerdino Thx.

Takkat

THX1138

jokerdino

oh wow

you can't fake it anymore ;p

Takkat

First and best George Lucas movie. Needs watching!

jokerdino

08:39

Hm. Took a note. Thanks!

Olive Twist

08:57

do you think this question should be closed

jokerdino

no

Olive Twist

thx

Takkat

no

(just to have said it)

jokerdino

lolz

Olive Twist

thx

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Q: How to make a string search inside files in a folder? (Utility name)

Is there any utility to make searches for a string inside ascii files to avoid command line searches? How to make a command line search for example for the string "test" inside all files in the directory /var/x/?

software-recommendation search string

my addition wasn't bad...

I just missed the answer for my network problem :-(

Takkat

09:02

@OliveTwist shots for the win \o/

Olive Twist

please clarify the situation more carefully. That might change the answer — kamil 20 hours ago

??

The Interrupter

09:25

How to make a string search inside files in a folder? (Utility name) http://askubuntu.com/q/198110?atw=1 #softwarerecommendation

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on October 9, 2012 at 9:01 AM

Eliah Kagan

@OliveTwist That is strange. I've requested clarification.

jokerdino

I suspect a deleted comment from OP.

dino, Chicago, IL

103 3

10.04 configuration files hadoop

Doppelganger

Eliah Kagan

1 more close vote needed to dupe this:

0

Q: Got an Error in Update manager

I am getting this error in Update manager and also Software center is also crashing.

update-manager

Amith KK

10:43

BBL

Takkat

10:53

I'm not sure you understood my question. I have a working dual boot. I just want to be able to use my Windows partition in Ubuntu like any other Virtual Machine. My Windows is not actually booted... — Piero 43 mins ago

sighs

jokerdino

Yours was the best advice..

BRB

Takkat

I know - but if they want to break their machine... no help :/

penreturn

\o/

Takkat

Hurray to what?

penreturn

dinner time :D

Takkat

10:58

lol

<-- likes food too

penreturn

hehehehe... tata... \o

AbrahamVanHelpsing

12:11

@jokerdino i'm not sure that qualifies as doppleganger and more than the ton of andrews qualifies

The Interrupter

Bounty offered: Temporary dimming of desktop in 12.04 http://askubuntu.com/q/195088?atw=1 #unity

Tweeted by AskUbuntu on October 9, 2012 at 12:01 PM

fossfreedom

cool - spam alert - died with 25secs of posting... :)

jokerdino

omgz

fossfreedom

be alert people - spammer is around.

jokerdino

thanks!

yay spam @foss

fossfreedom

12:26

dead - that dodo wont go away :/

jokerdino

that's two in less than 10 minutes. i won't complain because i get free flags!

AbrahamVanHelpsing

o/ .. not on for long

has anyone successfully embedded a gst drawing area inside a window with other objects in the same window with pygi? i have this question half-answered, but it spawns a new video window...there NEEDS to be a pygi media player example and most of it is done:

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Q: 'module' object has no attribute 'element_make_factory'

i have this code : import pygst import st, pygtk player_name = gst.element_make_factory("playbin", "Multimedia Player") player_name.set_property("uri", "../media/alert.mp3") player_name.set_state(gst.PLAYING) it keeps throwing me the following error : player_name = gst.element_make_factory(...

python quickly pygtk gstreamer gst

smartboyhw

12:44

Yo guys

jrg

@amithkk @olivetwist: As a programmer... Nexus 7.

Olive Twist

Thank you @jrg

I think, i should be able to compile programs on it.

jokerdino

funky bug we have with shaded windows in unity

Olive Twist

in 12.04? what bug?

jokerdino

12.10.

smartboyhw

12:53

@jokerdino give us a screenshot:D

jokerdino

i'm trying to reproduce third time and failing

Olive Twist

You had a script to reset unity in 12.10. can i have it?

smartboyhw

@jokerdino Alright

jokerdino

@OliveTwist sure.

but it was customized for my own use though.

paste.ubuntu.com/1269206

Olive Twist

thank you

smartboyhw

12:59

Hey @RolandTaylor

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