Ask Ubuntu General Room

George Edison

00:00

The one thing that's helping me out is that I'm literally copy-and-pasting stuff from my website here.

Pagination... Markdown... etc...

jrg

i hadn't done this before, so development was slow on my end.

Lord of Time

@jrg meant before that, you ninny

Roland Taylor

lol with the way things are, I'm more of a figure head and occasional writer at 2buntu :[

jrg

00:21

@LordofTime You'd think big important changes would get sent out to a PSA mailing list. I don't have time to keep up with the blog of every service I use.

George Edison

And ta-da:

Lord of Time

you assume we have a mailing list :P

George Edison

Lord of Time

and that's not the blog, that was the main site

i now have to rebuild from scratch, which angers me

George Edison

Excuse the silliness in the bio :P

jrg

00:22

:(

@GeorgeEdison :D

George Edison

Any comments / suggestions / feedback?

(That's the ~~user~~ account profile page, BTW.)

jrg

@LordofTime I don't know the circumstances of what happened, i apologize.

I assume its gravatar based?

George Edison

Yes.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

Grr. For a piano lesson, I ended cleaning up after a previous student who, coming from (of all things, why, considering today's heavy rain) a crew race, dripped water from the Mohawk river all over the piano then vomited all over the floor. I didn't even have time to check my piano skills today because of this.

jrg

any cool articles I should read while I'm in the car? I don't think I have enough interesting things.

@ObsessiveSSOℲ :(

And people wonder why I stopped playing the piano...

George Edison

00:27

@jrg I have one: brynosaurus.com/pub/net/p2pnat

That is one of the most fascinating articles I've read in a long time.

I have it in .mobi format if you want.

Roland Taylor

I stopped playing the piano because I was tired getting shouted at for not knowing things I was never taught.

George Edison

@RolandTaylor Scroll up for a screenshot.

jrg

@GeorgeEdison: Thanks for the link. Now to play around in calibre... :D

Roland Taylor

@GeorgeEdison I just closed that tab actually :P

ObsessiveSSOℲ

So I clean up after a lunatic rower with an irritated digestive system, and don't even get a chance to check my technical exercises. No Hanon today, just river water. And I had to scream just an hour ago (because his timing was crap) at that same kid over Skype since I don't have time or a ride to physically show up at the river just to scream at crappy rowers about their lousy timing/

George Edison

00:29

Oh! I almost forgot that we need a 404 page.

Otherwise it will display a 500 page.

jrg

oh , 404 pages are useful.

make it with a random placekitten

placekitten.com

so do them between 400-450x400-450

@ObsessiveSSOℲ :(

ObsessiveSSOℲ

My hands smell like vomit and I ran out of keyboard wipes.

jrg

Tmi bro. tmi

ObsessiveSSOℲ

?

George Edison

jrg

00:31

too much information.

@GeorgeEdison that one is my placeholder somewhere... hangon.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

@GeorgeEdison In code.launchpad.net/win-cross, how do you have branches as mature with the initial commit?

George Edison

The contents are copied directly from stable release archives.

Hence they are stable - even though there is only one commit.

jrg

@GeorgeEdison: How did you create the mobi?

i'm curious, since I need to do that for about a bajillion other webpages.

Roland Taylor

ObsessiveSSOℲ

@GeorgeEdison Ah.

I need to get some keyboard wipes.

Roland Taylor

00:38

P.s. don't use my kitten - I don't know where that image came from

I'll work on some funny 404 stuff next week (maybe)

jrg

oh, i think i have a good one for a 404 page

subtitle: Sorry about that, I think I broke it. Would you like to search?

Roland Taylor

Really funky smiley rage face gif

(that was random)

(and not related to our conversation :P)

@jrg me gusta

jrg

Dear me, wonder what happened to that gif. ;)

Roland Taylor

xD

George Edison

Sorry, stepped away for a minute.

@jrg: I just imported the HTML file into Calibre.

jrg

00:50

@GeorgeEdison i think thats what I just did

we'll find out if amazon accepts it in a moment

George Edison

:)

jrg

I like that one.

that is our 404 page.

George Edison

...and here we go...

jrg

or that works. :D

sweet. thanks for the link @GeorgeEdison, i'm going to read that.

George Edison

You're welcome.

Roland Taylor

00:54

@GeorgeEdison lol!

@GeorgeEdison can we have it pull from a pool at random?

(or almost random)

George Edison

Maybe later - I don't want to spend too much time making random kittens appear instead of making sure passwords can be reset, etc.

Roland Taylor

@GeorgeEdison lol exactly - one of those things we can list for later improvements :D

"Did you eated that page?"

DoR

04:03

I just finished installing 12.04 and then immediately upgrading to 12.10, because I don't have any blank DVDs.....NOW I find out about the MinimalCD

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: Installing USR 5422 on Ubuntu 12.04

I am a newbie to Linux. I was trying to set up the USR5422 USB adapter. It worked fine for the first time, but since then it freezes the computer most of the time. What commands can I fire to see what's going on? Thanks. I followed the instructions on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=781...

ubuntu

K.K Patel

04:46

0

Q: Grub bootloader goes fail to boot in dual boot system after installing Ubuntu 12.10

I had 12.04 with my dual boot system. Yesterday I downloaded Ubuntu 12.10 make bootable USB and choose Upgrade option in Installer. After installation Grub failed to boot my machine. I tried following to fix grub bootloder . Same problem I fixed with Ubuntu 12.04 using live USB but this solution...

grub2 12.10

K.K Patel

05:10

o / @jokerdino

jokerdino

o/

K.K Patel

Problem with grub bootloader in above question. Help me

jokerdino

let me see

why are you not using boot-repair?

K.K Patel

@jokerdino due to Slow internet connection , I tried till I could fix without it

jokerdino

well, you can't fix without it.

K.K Patel

05:18

What's size of boot-repair-tool ?

jokerdino

not too big.

K.K Patel

But how much ?

jokerdino

about 350kb

Mochan

@jokerdino OK so yeah, I probably should have heeded your warning -.-''

K.K Patel

Ok, Thanks a lot

jokerdino

05:20

@Mochan hey

you upgraded to 12.10. lolzer

Mochan

Yurs

And yes, Unity is like... non-existent ;A;

jokerdino

ok let's get to fixing it ;p

Mochan

Yayyy! TY! ^o^

K.K Patel

let's do it..

Mochan

(I managed to open Firefox through terminal. So genius) -o-

jokerdino

05:21

describe the case.

Mochan

Me?

jokerdino

yeah.

run this command:

ok you have a terminal alright.

cd $HOME; rm -r .config/dconf/user

Mochan

Done~

jokerdino

now logout and back in

sudo service lightdm restart

Mochan

Alright. I'll be back soon.

jokerdino

05:23

good luck

K.K Patel

@jokerdino I have query that Boot-repair-disk (355 MB) and boot-repair-tool is the same or not ?

jokerdino

hm

it's boot-repair. and it's from the PPA

K.K Patel

Ya, understood, I have to create disk so I can fix problem anytime it occurs again in future.Thanks

Mochan

No fix

jokerdino

okay.

darn, you need to run unity --reset to get back.

Mahesh

05:30

is it in ?

jokerdino

@Mahesh nope

cd $HOME; rm -rf .compiz-1

@moc --^

Mochan

As an additional detail - I had the low-graphics mode error in the beginning and an internal failure saying Xorg wasn't working. I'm thinking I should update my drivers. I had to with 12.04 because it was running Unity2D.

@jokerdino It returns ERROR: the reset option is now deprecated

jokerdino

@Mochan i know.

Mahesh

why do you want to get rid of all her customizations. :P

jokerdino

@Mahesh it doesn't work otherwise ;p

Mahesh

05:31

@Mochan we fixed it. yet to land in Unity.

jokerdino

@Mochan hm, i guess that's the problem.

Mahesh

O.o

jokerdino

her drivers prevent things from showing up

Mahesh

yup. got that.

K.K Patel

@jokerdino question is that I show another option for Ubuntu 12.10 installing for OEM what's difference between Standard "install ubuntu" option and that ?

jokerdino

05:31

Jeff is in SU chatroom \o/

Mochan

@jokerdino Yeah? Could you help? I forget how to do it and I'm a noob anyway.

Mahesh

I'm waiting a week before upgrade. mainly coz i'm dumb enough not to download the cd while at college.

Mochan

@Mahesh LOL

jokerdino

@K.KPatel what's the other option again?

Mochan

Hi @Mitch

jokerdino

05:33

@Mochan you need help upgrading o.O check on the site if it isn't there already.

Mitch

Good Day all

jokerdino

:6567028 yesh

Mitch

@Mochan o/

K.K Patel

@jokerdino OEM installtion option the third one

Mochan

@jokerdino ? I know where the drivers are. I need help to apply them.

jokerdino

05:34

@K.KPatel it's supposedly meant for those pc makers.

@Mochan i never had to install drivers. so i wouldn't know.

K.K Patel

ok

Mochan

@jokerdino NP. Do you think I should use the beta driver or the stable version?

jokerdino

which one are you on?

Mochan

@jokerdino As in...?

jokerdino

are you using beta or stable atm?

Mochan

05:36

Don't know. I think they're generic. But I'm going to download the stable one.

jokerdino

good luck then.

6

Q: Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop does not show when I installed nvidia drivers!

The desktop does not show after I installed nvidia experimental drivers. I tried nvidia simple proprietary drivers, and they did not work either. Here is how it looks. This is not cropped or any thing. This is how it looks, after the installation of the drivers the desktop resolution decreased f...

nvidia resolution 12.10

Mochan

I'm running AMD but true story.

jokerdino

2

Q: Upgrade to Quantal unity top bar, side bar, and window declorations missing

I upgraded from 12.04.1 to 12.10 via the Update Manager and the upgrade said it completed successfuly. However after rebooting the unity task bar was missing along with the launch bar and the window declorations. All compiz settings seemed to be purge deleted, and at first bootup it gave me a sys...

unity upgrade 12.10

Mochan

LOL

Journeyman Geek

lolo

jokerdino

05:46

lolol

Mochan

How do I format the thing that detonates keys? Like instead of ctrl+alt+x they kind of pop out?

jokerdino

what o.O

Mochan

Don't worry. nvm

jokerdino

hey @JorgeCastro!

who takes of these pages? developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.10/python/…

Mahesh

in Unity reconfiguration, 35 secs ago, by jokerdino

give me the link, we can annoy Jorge for the timebeing.

developer.ubuntu.com/api/ubuntu-12.10/python/…

jokerdino

05:50

@Mahesh dude!

Mahesh

:P

jokerdino

he is going to hate us for annoying him on a saturday :P

Mahesh

ducks just in time to escape a flying saucer

@jokerdino YAY \o/

jokerdino

so, @mahesh, you fix the two failing test and i'll look at adding an option for show desktop ;p

Mahesh

after my lunch.

jokerdino

05:52

cya.

Mahesh

hi @Sathya

anyone blamed you recently? :P

jokerdino

hi @Sathya.

Sathya

morning folks

jokerdino

oh, i got a publicist gold badge \o/

thanks to reddit link spamming.

Mahesh

great!

I got a nice answer on that unity reset one.

jokerdino

05:54

neat.

you got some 600 rep from that bugger

Mahesh

I need moar upboats. :P

yup. :D

jokerdino

:P

Sathya

@jokerdino yay!

jokerdino

hopefully the first of many more to come.

kiln.stackexchange.com

Sathya

@jokerdino that's been around since quite some time

also, kiln is a fog creek product, which is founded by Spolsky

jokerdino

06:05

haven't seen it until today. is it a SE 1.0 site?

@Sathya knew it!

Mahesh

Fogcreek looks good

Sathya

@jokerdino and yes it is a SE 1.0 site

<meta name="generator" content="StackExchange 0.9 (20100413135304-37b86aed49ad)">

jokerdino

i see

njallam

@jokerdino So shiny!

Mochan

06:33

@jokerdino Still no avail DX

jokerdino

hm :O

Mochan

I purged fglrx btw

Mahesh

good thing you did.

Mochan

Yeah?

Didn't know it was. I thought it was graphical suicide :P

Hi @nathancahill

nathancahill

Hey guys

Mahesh

06:35

I say fglrx is evil, but maybe thats just me.

Mochan

@Mahesh Most likely. Do I need it to run WINE programs?

Mahesh

depends on the program we are talking of.

Mochan

A) Skyrim
B) TS3
Don't judge. Hear me out T.T

Mahesh

never heard of that. :/

jokerdino

skyrim is a game o.O

you are a gamer :O

Mochan

06:38

@Mahesh The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Game.

Mahesh

/me is a gaming noob

jokerdino

me too

Mochan

@Mahesh So am I. And a girl.

(Sigh)

jokerdino

so you are a gaming..

Mahesh

looks up that old sighmeter

jokerdino

06:39

@Mahesh it got burnt due to overload

Mochan

@jokerdino A gaming girl? No. I am a noob. I just said that -.-

jokerdino

@Mochan oh

Mochan

@jokerdino :3

jokerdino

okay.

Mochan

But yeah. Do I need fglrx to run games on WINE?

jokerdino

06:41

@mahesh, now we can add and remove the show-desktop with the python script \o/

Mochan

I love trying to say fglrx. Sounds like a have trouble pronouncing things XP

Mahesh

lemme add a new file named showdesktop.py with enable and disable options.

Mochan

!_! <--- never done that before. It looks cool w

jokerdino

@Mahesh that's what i am sorta doing.

Mochan

I think it shall be an angry face :3

Mahesh

06:43

@jokerdino need help, ping me.

jokerdino

okay

Mochan

No-one helping DX I'm leaving.

jokerdino

o.O

i don't have a ATI graphics card. how can i help?

ask on the site.

Mochan

Not accusing. I'll ttyl

BYE!

jokerdino

bye

so you left already?

Journeyman Geek

07:01

lol

A.S.

hello

I have this panel on lubuntu (right side)

jokerdino

that's lxdm

been there; seen that

A.S.

how to remove the extra spaces?

jokerdino

you can't. it's a feature

A.S.

it is not in Lubuntu (default installation)

jokerdino

07:13

then, purge the configurations. that's how i fix most annoyances.

A.S.

it only appears because i installed lubuntu on top of unity

OK

what is the name of "startup application"'s executable file?

Found it..

gnome-session-properties

I disabled "Update notifier" and now the space is much smaller!

kan

Pain!!

jokerdino

@kan Ubuntu!!

kan

What does sudo su do?

jokerdino

o.O

it gives you temporary su access

kan

07:27

did I kill something?

jokerdino

no

Journeyman Geek

lol

It lets you execute a single command as a different user

as opposed to switching users

and not necessarily root, you can actually set it up for more restricted things too

kan

But, it spit out a large number of directories with number infront of them....

jokerdino

so, why did you run that command?

kan

Oh! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I typed in sudo du! :((((

jokerdino

07:31

gj

Journeyman Geek

lol

kan

I put in man du and I am at peace.

Journeyman Geek

that won't break anything

du = disk usage

kan

Sorry! :)

Journeyman Geek

Now if you rm -rf /

;p

jokerdino

07:33

if you run that command, you shall get yourself killed

kan

I was worried: I knew what sudo su did but this behaviour made me go paranoid... I did not expect....

@JourneymanGeek Heh. Must. Resist. Temptation. To. Try.

Journeyman Geek

stop right there ;p

jokerdino

you'll lose all your data :)

Journeyman Geek

Super User Blog: The Path of Destruction: rm -rf

Simon Sheehan on July 25, 2011

This week at Super User, MaxMackie asked “How far will you get with a ‘rm -rf /’” ? Within minutes of the post, it had not only my attention, but others as well. It had 39 upvotes just eight short hours later, and answers and thoughts poured in.

We’ve all heard the stories – and please, don’t try this at home! rm -rf has caused a LOT of problems with accidental usage in the past. It is a linux/unix command which erases all files recursively, and won’t stop to ask if you’re sure. Adding the extra / has it start at the root directory – …

someone else actually did it

;p

kan

:P

Is it possible to check if my laptop is overheating? :)

jokerdino

07:40

yeah.

A.S.

yes

jokerdino

i wrote a bash script that annoys you when you exceed 70 degrees

kan

@jokerdino I see. How long is that?

jokerdino

about 15 lines

need to install sensors for that

A.S.

BBL

kan

07:42

@jokerdino I see. I'll check out...

jokerdino

i put it in my crontab and it checks every minute

kan

@jokerdino I learnt how to write a crontab! :-))

jokerdino

neat

@mochan, askubuntu.com/a/203199/25798

kan

BRB. I should be having lunch or go hungry, at this hostel.

jokerdino

@kan cya

kan

08:06

Back...

jokerdino

wb

George Edison

jokerdino

neat

bootstrap?

George Edison

Is it intuitive though?

@jokerdino Yes.

jokerdino

secksy

looks clean and awesome

George Edison

08:12

Great!

jokerdino

i would love to write more articles

markdown right?

George Edison

The one and only.™

jokerdino

it can't get any better. when do i get my hands on it?

George Edison

I can show you a preview right now.

One sec.

home.quickmediasolutions.com:8000

There you go.

jokerdino

No port 8000 here :(

only port 80 and 443.

George Edison

08:14

Let me see if I can run it on 443.

Try it now on port 443.

Hmm... it isn't even working for me :(

jokerdino

nope o.O

George Edison

Oh hang on...

Try again.

I can confirm it's publicly accessible on port 443 now.

jokerdino

hm, i guess it is just my network

Mahesh

0

A: How to add a "Show desktop" icon to the launcher?

For 12.10 Unity patch team at work! We have created a script that lets you enable/disable show-desktop icon. If you dont want to install a separate tool, grab our script and run it. It is hosted on bitbucket at https://bitbucket.org/jpmahesh/unity-reset Or if you are lazy and prefer not to op...

George Edison

*****@*****:~$ wget -O - home.quickmediasolutions.com:443
--2012-10-20 08:18:54--  home.quickmediasolutions.com:443
Resolving home.quickmediasolutions.com... 154.5.0.154
Connecting to home.quickmediasolutions.com|154.5.0.154|:443...

Mahesh

08:20

upboats welcome. :P

George Edison

I can't get at it from an external server either...

This is just plain weird.

jokerdino

@Mahesh gave you one

George Edison

It could be my ISP :(

jokerdino

hmph

George Edison

You can't use a proxy or anything?

jokerdino

08:21

no :(

George Edison

Otherwise I'll find some screenshots then.

jokerdino

i can wait. no problem.

Umair Mustafa

can someone please check this thread. askubuntu.com/questions/202405/…

George Edison

@jokerdino: So here is the user profile page as visible to a logged-on user:

jokerdino

Nice :))

the penguin lives in Iceland? o.O

George Edison

08:23

No... but it was a nice joke :)

jokerdino

hehe

George Edison

08:42

Night all.

Amith KK

appears

K.K Patel

@jokerdino I have question that quental's (12.10) features are available in 12.04.1 ?

jokerdino

nope

Amith KK

\o/

@Mahesh there?

K.K Patel

@jokerdino then just sequirity packages are updated in 12.04.1 and bugs fixed or anything else?

jokerdino

08:46

yeah something like that.

they mostly fix minor bugs in 12.04.1 and release it as 12.04.2

K.K Patel

@jokerdino upgraded to 12.10 ?

jokerdino

yes

kan

09:25

@jokerdino so, there's 12.04-2?

jokerdino

yes, that's the second point release

kan

I have 12.04.1 here....

@jokerdino When is it gonna be released?

jokerdino

they haven't released 12.04.2 yet

on jan 31

kan

@jokerdino I see. OK. That update should not be traumatic... :-)

jokerdino

it's just bug fixes being rolled into one

kan

09:28

I guessed. :-)

kan

09:48

I need to be travelling in an hour.... back home. I'll be around later...
Bye friends.

jokerdino

cya

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