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Roland Taylor

15:00

:>

You will know when it's time what made me do that.

Amith KK

@RolandTaylor Mwahahahaha

You know nothing, minion. ;)

Roland Taylor

(:

smartboyhw

muahahahahahahahahahahahwhahahahah

Stephen Myall

@fossfreedom I made the changes in the 2 answers, makes more sense. How do you create a bookmark to link from 1 answer to another in the same question? Ive seen this done and it would be useful in this instance based on the traffic of this Q&A

fossfreedom

click the share link - right click and copy the address.

Marco Ceppi

15:06

you can just right click copy link address on the share link to, btw

Stephen Myall

@fossfreedom all done, thanks

Amith KK

BBL

fossfreedom

@StephenMyall - cheers - another follow up - that chazdg answer - have you already incorporated what he said? If so we can delete his answer.

Stephen Myall

checking it out.....

Joshua

@RolandTaylor Why do I always get the pie? I don't even care for the pie...

Roland Taylor

15:17

@Joshua you want cookies?

Stephen Myall

@fossfreedom His answer is not valid, yes and there is a another new answer from Arup I flagged as Not and Answer

Joshua

@RolandTaylor yes!

fossfreedom

@StephenMyall gone

Roland Taylor

@Joshua :O but I took all of the remaining cookies with me to the afterlife!

Joshua

:-(

Stephen Myall

15:20

@fossfreedom great! a Q&A with large traffic volume looking good! Thanks for yoiur help :-)

fossfreedom

thank-you!

Jorge Castro

@StephenMyall Nice work on that ATI question

Roland Taylor

I'm seeing two problems in the review queue:

1. False positives.

2. Laziness on the part of the OP.

Another sad thing I've noted:

Too many Ubuntu blogs attempt to be "Ubuntu Help Central", instead of "Ubuntu news source for the common man". BAD IDEA!

Journeyman Geek

@RolandTaylor: laziness by the reviewers ;p

Roland Taylor

A lot of our users' questions could be avoided if blogs would stop giving instructions on "How to fix xyz error using... bleh look, here's half the instructions, figure it out on your own... noobs!"

brb

Stephen Myall

15:32

@JorgeCastro Team work :-)

Jorge Castro

@Roland yeah it's dumb

the best part is

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Can someone accept other user old question?

Can someone accept other user old question? Example: If "A" have a question posted. Then "B" answered the question (and it is good and acceptable). But "A" didn't open his/her account for 1,5 years. Can someone (say it "C", high reputation user) accept this question cause it is acceptable answer...

feature-request

Jorge Castro

"I was trying to do this, so I followed this blog now my machine is broken."

it's like man, why don't you ask US how to do something, our stuff is at least maintained!

Journeyman Geek

lol

Amith KK

16:02

The first thing I thought after hearing 13.04's codename was julian

Hey wait

@htorque you could use a julian model and make your gravatar

Joshua

I like Julian salad...

Amith KK

@Joshua This julian

Joshua

and this is julian salad

@AmithKK

Amith KK

@Joshua Your an omnivore?

Joshua

Yes, yes I am an omnivore...

Amith KK

16:09

@Joshua I guess i'm an omnomnomnivore

Joshua

I thought it was against Hindu to eat meat, or is that just cows, and you are Hindu no?

Amith KK

I am a Hindu.

And yes, we're not allowed to eat cows.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Amith KK

We can eat everything else

Journeyman Geek

@AmithKK: sorta ;p

Amith KK

16:11

can, not will

Journeyman Geek

different cultures within hinduism have different food restrictions ;p

Joshua

So... you can't have a big fat juicy steak?

Amith KK

Joshua

like this one

plus.google.com/100310351859631286297/posts/2ViA39DA9ku

Amith KK

Aww come on.

Stop Showing off :P

Joshua

16:15

lol

So wait... you guys hold the cow sacred because it gives you dair products and plows your fields?

Amith KK

@Joshua theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill

@Joshua Yep

Journeyman Geek

@Joshua: cows are more useful alive than dead to us

Joshua

How.... I don't know...

I mean it makes sense..... it is the whole idea that they would be sacred...

@AmithKK great cartoon btw... I totally understand now...

Amith KK

:P

Lets leave this topic shall we?

Joshua

Oh... well I enjoy learning about other peoples cultures...

Amith KK

16:22

@Joshua theoatmeal.com/comics/dog_paradox

MOAR COMICS

Journeyman Geek

hmm

Joshua

lol

@AmithKK do Hindus have a "book" they read, like the Christians have the Bible, and Islam has the Quran, do Hindus have anything?

AbrahamVanHelpsing

the Vedas afaik

Joshua

I see...

Soo...if I am reading this right...

Hinduism is a very broad and open religion...

?

Hinduism

Hinduism is the predominant religion of the Indian subcontinent, and one of its indigenous religions. Hinduism includes Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Śrauta among numerous other traditions. It also includes historical groups, for example the Kapalikas. Among other practices and philosophies, Hinduism includes a wide spectrum of laws and prescriptions of "daily morality" based on karma, dharma, and societal norms. Hinduism is a conglomeration of distinct intellectual or philosophical points of view, rather than a rigid common set of beliefs. Hinduism is formed of diverse traditions and has n...

AbrahamVanHelpsing

simpler and reasonably accurate description as far as i know: religionfacts.com/hinduism/beliefs/theism.htm

Amith KK

16:40

@Joshua Vedas and Bhagavad Gita

BBT

Good Night

AbrahamVanHelpsing

later @AmithKK ... @Joshua I'm getting off the religious thing now. It was an objective question that's moving towards discussion

Joshua

harmless discussion IMHO, as there isn't much going on here...

AbrahamVanHelpsing

...yeah, i'm just avoiding it altogether so nobody in particular doesn't try to compare "what is the religious book of this religion" to "check out this idiot that's disagreeing with my religious perspective"

Joshua

I see... but I must make it clear, that was not my intent..

user85872

16:56

hy can someone answer please? i installed video drivers on my ati card and in system information it says vesa m96 is it good or bad?

AbrahamVanHelpsing

system information is known to say unknown for lots of cards recently. saying vesa is probably bad though

Joshua

@user85872 does the computer work as expected?

user85872

thanks for reply..there is some package wich can add feature to see installed grafic driver in system info. Josua the system work but am not sure about this vesa m96 as i used open driver gelium 3d.Ati hd 4 series are not supported in 12/10 so i installed package of some guy makson 96

George Edison

17:26

@MarcoCeppi: Please let me know when it's a good time for you to complete the 2buntu switchover.

Evandro Silva

17:54

only one active?
http://www.emula.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/forever-alone-face1.png

Roland Taylor

hi....

Evandro Silva

hey o/

Jeff

hi folks! :D How do you list files based on an attribute (e.g., executable)? For example, suppose I want to list all executable files in the directory. How? Thx.

Roland Taylor

sup?

Evandro Silva

@Jeff stackoverflow.com/a/4458361/1431600

What time is it where you guys are?

Roland Taylor

18:09

@EvandroSilva time to boogie

Jeff

@Eva thanks. all the other refs to 'find' had an exclamation mark after the -f. so i have to adjust the +111 for executable by me?

@eva it's 2:10 pm (1410) where I am.

Evandro Silva

@Jeff +111 is the execute bits, if you want something different, I think yes.

it's 16:11 on Brazil o/

maybe this is why there are few people active

Joshua

You should fart on a daily basis, it is good for you.

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Evandro Silva

18:31

@Joshua wtf?

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Q: setting wlan on ubuntu with fluxbox

I need your help. I'm at my parents home for this week and i brought an old laptop with ubuntu 12.04 and fluxbox installed (and unfortunately i removed unity and gnome). In my home i could connect to my wlan. Now at my parents home i don't know how to get wlan working (with WPA2).And because of ...

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AbrahamVanHelpsing

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L wicd

Jorge Castro

hey @RolandTaylor do you use synapse?

Amith KK

<supposed-to-be-asleep>

@JorgeCastro I used to

Whats up?

Jorge Castro

where does it store it's keybindings?

I'm trying to assign vanilla Super to just launch synapse

Amith KK

18:44

Settings?

Jorge Castro

yeah, it doesn't take Super by itself as a shortcut though

so I was hoping to manually set it in dconf or gconf

but I can't find where it stores it's settings

Amith KK

@JorgeCastro I think it uses flat file

Jorge Castro

aha! it does!

Amith KK

> This is more of a question to GtkHotkey, as we use that for the global hotkey, but I don't think it supports that.

answers.launchpad.net/synapse-project/+question/140664

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When I'm trying to edit synapse config, it does not allow me to use left Super as a direct shortcut for invoking it. Is there a round-about way that I can go through. When I just press the Windows/Super key, the configuration window does not acknowledge it. However, a combination shortcut (suc...

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Nathan Cazell

if i had pfsense running ona vm within esxi would i have to have three physical NICs to have my other virutal machines behind the pfsense vm?

Amith KK

18:53

</supposed-to-be-asleep>

Roland Taylor

19:03

@JorgeCastro ya

back

Jorge Castro

nm Amith helped me out

Roland Taylor

oh cool

George Edison

19:34

@JorgeCastro If I have a C++ library that I would like included in the Ubuntu archives, who should I be talking to? I heard somewhere that I should first attempt to get the package into Debian... is that true?

Jorge Castro

yes

which library?

George Edison

Well it's not quite done yet.

@JorgeCastro It's a Qt wrapper for ENet (a cross-platform networking library).

Joshua

19:55

where did the ad-free internet go?

Roland Taylor

the what? O_o

Joshua

ad-free internet... like in the late 80's early 90's...

Roland Taylor

I think you've lost your marbles...

Joshua

@RolandTaylor that is possible...

Roland Taylor

lol 30 days

that's fast!

Joshua

20:01

►

Roland Taylor

lies.

Joshua

check out her outfit...

Roland Taylor

OMG

e_e

that's like a stepped through a time tunnel

Joshua

Lynx :D

now we have Links... oh the progress :-D

Roland Taylor

Oh the memories

I'm sad now :'(

@Joshua stop cutting onions!

Joshua

20:06

what?

Roland Taylor

The nostalgia!

It's all your fault!

Joshua

►

Roland Taylor

MAKE IT STOP!

Joshua

►

I actually rmember playing ghost busters and thought it was the best game ever

Roland Taylor

Lucky you...

We had Pacman and Tetris...

Joshua

20:12

The others I don't remember

Tetris is still awesme

WTH???? Revenge of the Mutant Camels?

AbrahamVanHelpsing

►

best game ever

Joshua

never heard of it

Niek Bergman

20:52

Hello!

/me is excited.

Apparently Ubuntu is ported to the Nexus 7 :)

AbrahamVanHelpsing

\o/ for being excited...

George Edison

21:18

My Qt wrapper for ENet is getting closer and closer to being ready for prime time... \o/

Joshua

Damn... that means I have to get me a Nexus 7 now...

csgeek

hi all

ObsessiveSSOℲ

Hello

csgeek

real quick question. If I need to attach an image or reference an image in an askUbuntu question. Are there recommended guidelines?

ObsessiveSSOℲ

Just put the image using the built-in(ctrl+G) uploader.

Also, there is still time to fulfill my bounty with a shell script!

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Q: How can I force apt to optimize the dependency tree for minimal download size?

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csgeek

21:29

that works. thanks

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

22:14

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Q: what is the proper solution to a server trying to write to a directory?

So, I have a box with a "deploy" user. This deploy user owns a code repository and wordpress is running on this box... When wordpress attempts to do something like upload a plugin, it is using the user "www-data" to write to "wp-content/plugins".. Apparently it is uploading a zipfile, unarchiv...

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ObsessiveSSOℲ

22:29

@Oli I fear there may be a bug related to per-site metas and rollbacks. Can I make a post to check this? I'll need a mod at one step. It;s fine if no.

George Edison

Wow... the AWS outage... just wow.

Bruno Pereira

@GeorgeEdison wut?

ObsessiveSSOℲ

What?

George Edison

AWS had a small "hiccup" this morning.

Bruno Pereira

hiccups are not nice!

George Edison

22:31

forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2012/10/22/…

ObsessiveSSOℲ

@BrunoPereira Since you just arrived, can you please consider making one post where I can check for a small edits bug on Ask Ubuntu Meta? I'll need a mod at one step.

Bruno Pereira

@ObsessiveSSOℲ what can I specifically do for you?

ObsessiveSSOℲ

Permission to make one post to check for a bug, and for you to add a mod-only tag later in the process. I think they may have overlooked rollbacks with mod-only retags.

Bruno Pereira

@ObsessiveSSOℲ go ahead

you have 10 of my minutes, more and I will be sleeping or very very annoyed :)

ObsessiveSSOℲ

@BrunoPereira After 8 or so minutes, can you please add a mod-only tag, like status-norepro?

It needs to have a few minutes so it doesn't fall in the grace period. That's all I need.

Bruno Pereira

22:37

link when your done

ObsessiveSSOℲ

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Q: This is a post to check for a roll-back based bug

This is a little post that I am using to check for a bug in the SE code, on this meta. This has been approved as per http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/6596403#6596403.

bug

Bruno Pereira

@ObsessiveSSOℲ time to test

ObsessiveSSOℲ

I need to give it 5 minutes.

Bruno Pereira

I will ping you in 4

@ObsessiveSSOℲ time to test?

ObsessiveSSOℲ

@BrunoPereira Never mind, it seems to have been fixed since the MSO post that appears to have fallen prey to the bug. Sorry for wasting your time. I hope that a site will be made for such testing eventually.

Bruno Pereira

22:50

@ObsessiveSSOℲ you can always ping me for these things, thx for trying out.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

No problem. I do nitpick sometimes, like raising a MSO post over a missing period.

Bryan

Quick question. Fuduntu is said to be great for battery usage, but it uses gnome. Why would it be better than an lxde distro?

ObsessiveSSOℲ

It's technically OT here but I don't think anyone would mind. Honestly, I don't know.

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Q: Missing period in explanation about review queue badges

When mousing over the badge progress in a review queue, one gets the following explanation: These badges are awarded once per review queue which is missing a period. Can someone fix this admittedly trivial problem? Look at the bottom line of text.

bug status-completed user-interface wording help-text

Roland Taylor

@Bryan this might be the wrong place to ask, but I would assume they have tweaked the kernel or something.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

@Bryan Don't forget there is a Unix and Linux.

Bryan

22:58

From what I understand, it is from the guy that made the jupiter applet for Ubuntu. His OS is Debian.

Roland Taylor

@Bryan yes but Fuduntu is based on Fedora, and both Fedora and Debian are a bit off topic here.

Not that we can't discuss, but just you won't get good answers.

Bryan

Fairly new to Linux. I thought that Ubuntu was from Debian, and perhaps I should have said Lubuntu, instead of lxde.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

It's OK. Ubuntu does stem from Debian. Lubuntu is a distro, and LDXE is a desktop environment.

Bryan

Just having a heck of a time finding a nice on my battery distro.

Roland Taylor

@Bryan Xubuntu.

To be honest, you won't find that most distros are any better than any other.

Your best bet is to install a light distro and use powertop for tweaking your system's internals to max out the battery.

Bryan

23:09

I did like it, and was able to use Jupiter on it. Then I tried Lubuntu, and became obsessed with lxde distros, not for the appearance, just for the thought of saving battery with that DE.

Roland Taylor

Well then you can use that.

Bryan

Just have to find a way to get rid of the black screen on login in 12.10 now.

Roland Taylor

Have you looked around this site for a solution?

There is a general black screen question on the site, but I don't remember the link right now.

Bryan

I will look around again. I am sure that I just missed it. Thanks for your help you two.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

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Q: My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?

I am trying to boot Ubuntu on my computer. When I boot my computer it boots to a black screen. How can I fix this? Table of Contents: If you are trying to install Ubuntu If you have a dual boot system If an update or something else caused your problem

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ObsessiveSSOℲ

23:16

BBL.

BBT

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