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Alvar

00:10

not a real question askubuntu.com/q/234202/10698

close votes!

or not....

Answered it...

jrg

someone send help. My little sister has discovered the word "Furby" and thinks its funny to drive the family insane.

@Alvar no offense, but that rather a lame answer. :-!

Alvar

@jrg ok, what should I improve?

jrg

Link to our "how can i edit things in /var/www"

and MDN or something about html maybe

link to our wordpress install thing, thats probably what he's going after.

Alvar

00:25

@jrg didn't know we had a question about that...

@jrg Thanks! :)

jrg

lwt me get to a real computer and i can edit it really quick.

Alvar

@jrg askubuntu.com/q/234199/10698 just kill this question.... :(

Mochan

00:42

@AmithKK Waah! I missed you T__T

Ubuntu on my tablet! Woo! I proved you wrong, @jokerdino!

FEichinger

It's a wild @Mochan

Mochan

@FEichinger Mochan uses Hi! It's not effective at all!

@FEichinger How is FEichinger?

FEichinger

@Mochan I don't know! He's just ... normal, I think. I can't tell :(

Mochan

@FEichinger I see. I hope he's alright. Feeling normal is a little abnormal. Does he think the same?

jrg

he started tweeting more.

Mochan

00:47

LOL

FEichinger

@jrg He hasn't. He just has ... waves. Sometimes it's like 10 tweets at a time ... Then it's two weeks of silence.

Mochan

@jrg Ubuntu on my tablet! Ubuntu on my tablet! happydance

jrg

@FEichinger i see.

@Mochan what, Nexus 7?

Or did you hack the Nexus 10?

Mochan

@FEichinger What a strange guy. LOL.

FEichinger

@Mochan He feels kinda worried about feeling normal, I think. But that's about it.

Mochan

00:48

@jrg Noooope.

@jrg Nooooope.

jrg

@Mochan Then color me confused.

Mochan

@jrg What colour is confused?

Yellow?

mateo_salta

red?

Mochan

@mateo_salta Nah, that's angry.

FEichinger

@Mochan gets a +1 for spelling colour correctly.

Mochan

00:49

What about orange?

@FEichinger Yaaaay.

jrg

Blurplish.

Mochan

@jrg OK. On an Acer Iconia A500 :DDD

mateo_salta

Android tablet?

FEichinger

"light grey" is confused, btw.

jrg

@Mochan cool!

Mochan

00:50

@mateo_salta Ya.

jrg

@FEichinger nah, that's more of a "confuzzled"

Mochan

@FEichinger Ohhh... I see

@jrg +1

@jrg Beaming with excitement

jrg

@Mochan so 10.10 or something else?

FEichinger

@jrg I thought that was around #CCC? I was talking more #EEE.

Mochan

@jrg 12.04

jrg

00:51

@FEichinger Ah, right. #EEE is definitely confused, #CCC is more of a confuzzled.

FEichinger

lol

mateo_salta

fun! probably with u-boot or something

Mochan

@mateo_salta VNC...?

mateo_salta

oh, intresting @Mochan

Mochan

What's dir in UNIX commands? LOL noob fail

mateo_salta

00:55

ls ?

jrg

cd?

or ls?

Mochan

@mateo_salta Wah. It's being screwing

jrg

or mkdir?

Mochan

@mateo_salta ty

jrg

idk what dir is in DOS.

mateo_salta

00:55

it lists the directories

Mochan

@mateo_salta +1

FEichinger

ls it is, yeh.

Mochan

ls stands for list sh*t LOL

jrg

really?

Mochan

No! XD

Shoot. No Ubuntu on my tablet... //cries

I will find a way.

FEichinger

01:03

raises eyebrow

Mochan

Is there anything wrong with this command?: sh /data/data/com.zpwebsites.linuxonandroid/files/bootscript.sh /sdcard/ubuntu.img

jrg

idk, looks right.

mateo_salta

I thought dir worked on ubuntu as well... at least on the desktop edition, although I really like the colors of ls

Mochan

@mateo_salta ls was perfect :)

jrg

ls -h is what I like to use.

Mochan

01:07

@jrg What is [: not found?

The [: part specifically

FEichinger

raises eyebrow further

jrg

eh?

i will freely admit that i'm confused now.

mateo_salta

looks like a smiley face to me

Mochan

@mateo_salta Same.. T_T

Should I ask on android.se?

jrg

maybe. not sure if it'd be on-topic, but worst case they close as OT and you can get it migrated here.

Mochan

01:09

LOL.

Okay... I'll try.

FEichinger

It seems like a misinterpreted file path syntax.

Mochan

Probably

FEichinger

But where that comes from, god knows.

Not to mention ... where it is supposed to lead to.

Flabricorn

@jrg We just got in yesterday, we should be available some time soon. I'll let you know.

mateo_salta

@Mochan ubuntu.com/devices/android

jrg

01:16

@Flabricorn ok, cool. you have my number, feel free to call me. I'm available next Saturday (as of right now, i'm wide open) allllll day. Coffee, tea, anything non-alcoholic or illegal, i'm game.

Flabricorn

@jrg How does beet juice sound?

jrg

@Flabricorn only if you're buying.

Flabricorn

Or making?

FEichinger

@jrg (non-alcoholic || illegal) is probably not how you wanted to phrase that, is it? :P

jrg

@FEichinger hey, i keep an open mind when it comes to food and drinks.

FEichinger

01:22

@jrg Heheh.

mateo_salta

you mean anything legal.

jrg

i'll try anything legal. may not drink the full glass, but i'll try it.

(note: Human blood is known to cause cancer in cali, so i won't drink that.)

mateo_salta

prune juice?

Flabricorn

How about Absinthe?

mateo_salta

It is now legal, at the legal age.

jrg

01:25

i'm under 21, remember @Flabricorn? Falls under the second category.

@mateo_salta yes.

mateo_salta

good stuff.

Flabricorn

Mmmm.

Good point.

Mochan

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Q: How can I successfully run this script on a emulated terminal on Android?

Background I am trying to install Ubuntu onto my Acer Iconia A500 using VNC and this application called Complete Linux Installer. My tablet is rooted and I have found several sources saying they have achieved this on their tablet. It is Ubuntu 12.04, but since this is about doing this on the And...

FEichinger

I never knew just how barfworthy Android.SE looks. Oh wait, that's android's colour scheme, I'm sorry.

Flabricorn

Android's SE isn't that bad.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

01:35

@Mochan that looks a lot like how does my rooting operation fail

RolandiXor

01:53

Black.

Alvar

@RolandiXor White.

Flabricorn

Considering looking into Linux Mint

RolandiXor

Dirty.

jrg

@Flabricorn just stay in the debian family and you'll be fine.

Flabricorn

@jrg I figured, I like the mate theme.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

01:56

@Flabricorn don't even think about it. every time i see X doesn't work on Mint i think - why are you even using it?

Flabricorn

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Is there often a "x" doesn't work on mint?

jrg

go to the rpm distros, i end in lots of headaches

AbrahamVanHelpsing

it did during the gtk 2->3. idk about now

jrg

i know a ruby dev who loves his mint debian flavored.

George Edison

o/

mateo_salta

02:03

hi @GeorgeEdison

RolandiXor

o|

jrg

if they can keep the quality up, this will be something i will follow very closely. blog.linuxgrrl.com/2012/12/13/fedora-magazine-planning-design

George Edison

I'm beat.

11 hours of overtime this week.

jrg

@GeorgeEdison :(

mateo_salta

long day? wow

jrg

02:12

that's insane.

George Edison

But profitable!

jrg

true

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@jrg how does the main site have no content at all? linuxgrrl.com

makes me wonder about the blog a little

mateo_salta

strawberries!

FEichinger

Strawberries make for more than enough content.

jrg

02:16

@AbrahamVanHelpsing idk, mine is pretty sparse.

is in dire need of an update though...

AbrahamVanHelpsing

mine is 404 b/c i stopped doing the paid hosting thing...i should fix that eventually

jrg

well, ok, more along the lines of a complete rewrite based off of jekyll or something instead of rails.

@AbrahamVanHelpsing use a simple rack server + static html to host on heroku.

for free. you just have to have a credit card on file to add a domain, but it doesn't cost anything.

George Edison

Best Buy's "1 business day" delivery is stretching to a week :|

jrg

last time i paid for hosting was... never.

George Edison

@jrg And how did you manage that?

jrg

02:19

@GeorgeEdison free dynos on heroku.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

i'll do some vps hosting thing first probably...so it can be actually useful instead of just a webpage

George Edison

You need a VPS :P

I'm planning to finally get a couple in a month or so.

jrg

so long as it's either static (and can be served up via rack), or rails based, it's free to host.

George Edison

Probably on Linode.

jrg

i have so many different things on heroku instances throughout TEH CLOUDZ

George Edison

02:20

What I really need is unmetered bandwidth on a VPS.

jrg

@GeorgeEdison for the things i need shell access to, i toss in a VM at home.

good luck finding that out. linode comes close for their $20.

George Edison

Close to unmetered bandwidth?

jrg

well, it's like ~~80GB~~ 200GB for their smallest one. i hit it once, when i seeded the ubuntu torrents.

George Edison

The 2GB machine only offers 800GB of bandwidth (I'm leaning towards one of those).

jrg

how much do you need?

George Edison

02:23

Literally unmetered :P

jrg

what are you doing?!

George Edison

I could easily swallow 1 TB.

@jrg I... can't say too much more. I have an idea for a killer app and I don't want to talk too much about it :)

Flabricorn

@GeorgeEdison You've said too much. I've already stolen your idea.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

cheapest kvm instance gets 500GB hostigation.com/?page=KVM for 30/yr

Mochan

@AbrahamVanHelpsing I have already rooted it. I can help you if you wish.

brb

George Edison

02:25

@Flabricorn Aw man!

jrg

@GeorgeEdison There are no original ideas, but ok. :)

Flabricorn

It was pretty unique, and incredibly intuitive.

jrg

i'm sure.

btw: It's really stupid when it's faster to do a wget of a 600MB file than it is to use the proper tools to transfer it over.

so many stupid things in life that i just don't understand.

FEichinger

bloated networking code causes that, y'know?

George Edison

I always use:

jrg

02:29

i'm seriously looking at a 16-minute projected transfer vs 600 minutes.

George Edison

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

...for large transfers over a local network.

jrg

@GeorgeEdison exactly what i did

George Edison

There you go.

Mochan

I wish I was a mod T___T. Pretty blue names *u*

jrg

@Mochan it's boring.

George Edison

02:35

@Mochan We'll be having an election in a couple of weeks or so.

(Off the top of my head.)

Mochan

@GeorgeEdison I don't think I'd make it. I have like, 700 rep and no gold badges XD

@jrg But the only thing I can do is edit, flag and troubleshoot. If I were a mod, it least it wouldn't look as pathetic XD

RolandiXor

@Mochan lol true.

jrg

@GeorgeEdison first i've heard of a set date.

RolandiXor

I had 30k + rep and multiple gold badges...

I was beaten by a guy who had only joined for a few months.

George Edison

@jrg It's annual.

jrg

02:36

@GeorgeEdison i thought it was as-needed?

Mochan

@RolandiXor Are you going to apply?

RolandiXor

@jrg annual.

FEichinger

annual is "as-needed" in SE-speech.

George Edison

@jrg I certainly don't think so.

RolandiXor

@Mochan Long story short. NO.

George Edison

02:37

And if it was... then we sure need it!

Mochan

@RolandiXor Well then I wouldn't lose to you.

RolandiXor

I have to be wanted.

FEichinger

I bet the entire chat would vote for @Mochan.

3

RolandiXor

Otherwise, I'll remain as I am.

George Edison

My first vote would be for Roland.

RolandiXor

02:37

@FEichinger because she's a perv? ;)

George Edison

...and my second for @jokerdino.

jrg

@GeorgeEdison uh, our flag handling time is still better than most sites.

FEichinger

@RolandiXor I'm not saying why, just that.

Mochan

@FEichinger Haha you're so cute, but I don't think like... 20 votes would do it. Plus there are people who deserve it more.

@GeorgeEdison He's too lazy. Jk XD

George Edison

@jrg True...

FEichinger

02:38

@GeorgeEdison Didn't both say they wouldn't run?

jrg

and FOSS keeps stealing all the flags, so none of the rest of us get to do anything. (most of the time)

6

George Edison

There - two votes thrown away already.

5

...and we haven't even started.

Mochan

@FEichinger +1

Flabricorn

@FEichinger +1

Mochan

Anyway. Are there any requirements?

And whoever said I was a perv is probably right. LOL.

RolandiXor

02:40

@Mochan yes.

Mochan

@RolandiXor And they are?

RolandiXor

You have to eat pie.

Elephant pie.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

you have to be willing not to delegate all the work to other people :O

Mochan

Aw man. I can enter.

RolandiXor

I won't expand on that, but it's not for the faint of nose.

Mochan

02:41

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Yeah... I don't think I'd make a good one. Nah jk

jrg

requirements to be moderator: 300 reputation, signed the ubuntu code of conduct (2.0), and some personality recommendations. askubuntu.com/election/2

AbrahamVanHelpsing

e.g. -- you can't be moody like me

Mochan

@AbrahamVanHelpsing Plus, didn't @jrg say the FOSS steals them all? So there is really nothing to delegate.

@jrg I can tick almost all the boxes. XD

RolandiXor

@jrg in other words, I can't be a mod - personality failure.

And my avatar.

People don't dig my avatar.

Flabricorn

I don't dig your avatar.

jrg

02:44

gah, seeing that i had like 50 comments on my nomination is rather... embarrassing.

RolandiXor

I said people.

Flabricorn

I love it.

RolandiXor

People!¬

Mochan

@RolandiXor LOL

RolandiXor

I love me too, @Flabricorn :)

Mochan

02:45

@jrg Nah! Congrats! You should be proud.

RolandiXor

@Mochan high five :D

Mochan

Jokerdino was a nominee this year. Why isn't he running next year?

RolandiXor

@jrg :)

Mochan

askubuntu.com/election/2#post-100199

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: relaying ports to remote pc via vpn

I've got a situation where a remote pcs is vpn'ed to my Ubuntu box, and I'm wondering how I set the Ubuntu box up to redirect calls to specific ports over to the PC. Any Ideas?

ubuntu windows vpn port-forwarding

RolandiXor

02:46

There is one very not so nice reason why I wasn't elected. It can be found in the comments.

Anyway.........................

Flabricorn

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L We can do that later. It's Mod Election conversation now.

RolandiXor

What's gone is gone.

George Edison

...and Windows 8 gets installed on another machine.

Mochan

Luis Alvarado answer!

jrg

ok, at the risk of sounding silly, the answer to winning mod elections is to write a few miles of text, and then trim it down so you hit the limit. er, something like that.

RolandiXor

02:47

@GeorgeEdison This is Ask Ubuntu.

To avoid angry mobs, please exit right.

Mochan

@jrg LOL

Flabricorn

@GeorgeEdison It's too late. Now I've stolen your idea and published it on every available platform.

Mochan

I'm on W7 at the moment //shot

jrg

so, here's the deal: Yes, if elections really are on a yearly cycle, we're coming up on one in the next few months or so. on the other hand, it's kind of smooth sailing.

RolandiXor

@Mochan you're dead to me.

Flabricorn

02:48

Question!

Mochan

@Flabricorn No you didn't. I patented that. See you in court.

Flabricorn

Raises Hand

jrg

anyway, i'm going to sleep. enjoy your dreams of diamonds dancing in your head. :P

Flabricorn

@Mochan I stole the idea though! I own that patent. I'll give you 50% to the rights of the product.

Mochan

@RolandiXor BUT...! It was for a good cause! I was putting Ubuntu on my tablet and I had to use Windows!

jrg

02:49

@Flabricorn this directed at me?

Mochan

@Flabricorn Hell no. See you in court! I'll get a restraining order against you if you keep bargaining!

RolandiXor

Mochan

@RolandiXor cries

RolandiXor

Are those real tears?

If so, you're forgiven.

(I hate crying...)

Mochan

@RolandiXor That's so cute~

Anyway, I'm going to crawl back into Ubuntu now. See you all in... like 2 minutes.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

02:50

i like the angry cat...

RolandiXor

@AbrahamVanHelpsing indeed.

Flabricorn

@Mochan Application has been removed.

@Mochan You win this round...

RolandiXor

AbrahamVanHelpsing

there's even a cake...

2

Flabricorn

I don't want to do iterators and blocks, but I should do iterators and blocks, but I don't want to have to go back to remember how to loop items.

Mochan

02:54

Back~

Hahaha I love the angry cat XD

RolandiXor

@AbrahamVanHelpsing sweet!

jrg

@Flabricorn just do them. :-P

Flabricorn

So, should probably stop Tweeria. :3

RolandiXor

I should be writing, but you don't see me being responsible...

Mochan

Flabricorn

02:58

No but you're not necessarily a role model.

Mochan

@Flabricorn Noooooo! That thing is hilarious! I'm seriously considering signing up to Twitter (for the third time) just to play it!

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