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Journeyman Geek

00:10

@DanHulme: I consider RMS a bit of the extreme fringe of FOSS, despite (maybe because) of the influence he's had through and with gnu. Amusingly his issues seem to be with non free codecs, other than what I'd have expected to be his problem

I really like a system where people don't intentionally make me jump through hoops to get something working for ideological reasons

Seth

@JourneymanGeek Do you have a question on SU on how to SSH into an Ubuntu box from Windows? I'd like to play around with SSH but only have one Unix computer.

I could probably figure it out myself.. but a Q/A would be nice :)

Journeyman Geek

@Seth: no, probably cause its too trivial ;p

do you need X forwarding or not?

jrg

@AbrahamVanHelpsing sure, why not?

@Seth putty

Seth

@JourneymanGeek I'd think not. I don't plan on doing anything big. Just tinker.

Journeyman Geek

if no x, step one, install putty.

there is no step 2

Seth

00:13

@jrg I didn't think that was free...

Ah, looks like it is.

Journeyman Geek

@Seth: free as in beer, speech, and ubuntu ;p

Seth

lol.

That's what I get for not looking it up ;P

Journeyman Geek

if you want a slightly more full fat ssh client/terminal emulator for windows I like mobaxterm.mobatek.net

@Seth: yeah, its really that simple ;p

but putty is what I use every day (almost) to access my raspi and vpses

Seth

Thanks @JourneymanGeek.

Journeyman Geek

np ;p

Seth

00:16

I did find this though:

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Q: how can i set up ssh on home network from windows 7 to linux?

I have a windows 7 machine and a linux machine. I want to SSH from windows to linux. How would I set this up if both are connected to my router at home? Would there be any changes necessary if I left my linux machine at home but took my windows machine with me to starbucks? SO FAR I'VE installed...

ssh

jrg

00:37

@lazyPower nice. :-)

@lazyPower was in a cave.

AbrahamVanHelpsing

@jrg i was trying to think in advance so it could run on OSX... there's no client there, but i don't see why an app couldn't use the api anyway.

Seth

0

Q: How to transfer ringphone from download on the phone

unable to change the ringtone. Stuck with the choices beeing given by samsung.I downloaded other ringphones but seems impossible to go and get them in a selection. Thanks in advance

updates

Off topic.

And filed under updates.

Anyone feel like meta-ing?

Journeyman Geek

00:56

its an open and shut case of KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT

Seth

yes.

For meta I'm talking about this: askubuntu.com/questions/271975/…

It's a strange question to ask here... Being a Windows only issue.

Journeyman Geek

I think SU would be a better fit, personally

Seth

I agree.

Journeyman Geek

I'll do it

Seth

Thanks :)

Between AU meta and MSO I'm kind meta'ed out for now.

Journeyman Geek

01:04

0

Q: Would superuser be a better place for How do I read <linux file system> in Windows?

Since it has been suggested on the comments to this question on reading BTRFS on Windows that if we wanted to discuss if its on topic, I will. In many cases, the decision on what site's the best depends on who can best answer it. While its a linux file system created on an ubuntu system, your fi...

discussion

Seth

+1

Huh. ubuntu.windows8az.com/…

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Q: How to link inserted images by default in LibreOffice writer?

I often have to deal with documents using multiple images -- as e.g. Howtos, short documentations, or even books with many examples. Always when I start a new document with LibreOffice Writer and insert the first pictures, they are embedded by default. I need them to be linked by default -- but c...

libreoffice

:/

Journeyman Geek

01:27

@Seth: blah SEOflakes

but its entirely legit, since they attribute

Luis Alvarado

@Seth - meta.askubuntu.com/questions/6357/…

Created an answer, let me know what you think

Ask Ubuntu Meta

01:59

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Q: Would superuser be a better place for How do I read <linux file system> in Windows?

Since it has been suggested on the comments to this question on reading BTRFS on Windows that if we wanted to discuss if its on topic, I will. In many cases, the decision on what site's the best depends on who can best answer it. While its a linux file system created on an ubuntu system, your fi...

discussion scope

Seth

02:17

@LuisAlvarado I agree 100% with your answer. The fact that it was Jorge who asked it confused me as well.

Lucio

02:30

@LuisAlvarado Really?!!!

My goodness lord :S

@LuisAlvarado Although, the post should be marked as duplicated.

Luis Alvarado

@Lucio good eye on the duplicate for 32bit to 64bit question

I even linked the duplicate to that question

jrg

Time to go cell phone shopping again. :-P

Luis Alvarado

need to eat something

@jrg why did the cell phone die

explode?

become a small transformer

jrg

@LuisAlvarado had a accident with a hard surface.

@AbrahamVanHelpsing cool!

Luis Alvarado

let me guess, you try to test the Gorilla Glass... with a Gorilla

jrg

02:39

No. I bumped a rock the wrong way.

Luis Alvarado

I see, now, what did the rock look like. Was it big, mean and green?

jrg

Was dark and wet. :-P

Lucio

Does Libre Office have exactly the same GUI that Open Office?

Luis Alvarado

02:56

Don't know, but a quick google will solve our doubt... TO THE GOOGLE CAVE!!

Seth

03:16

@jrg What are you thinking of?

Galaxy Note II? :P

Seth

03:45

-1

Q: How do you wash silk pillowcases?

I got a stain on silk pillowcases, i don't know how though and i'm afraid putting in the washing machine will ruin the fabric.

games

O_O

Journeyman Geek

07:47

o0

I think that's a seetup for spam ;p

Rinzwind

08:34

boo!

Rinzwind

09:20

spam spam spam spam spam!

-1

Q: How can I arrange my travel insurance?

Accident insurance up to $30,000 per person is automatically covered in our tour price, but we strongly recommend that you take out comprehensive insurance cover for trip cancellation, medical expenses, personal accident, China tours,personal baggage, money and public liability before you travel....

packages

22 seconds O

fossfreedom

too slow

Rinzwind

fossy!!! :)

5 more days and I have been on AU for 700 days

fossfreedom

o_o ... jail sentences are not that long

Rinzwind

member for 1 year, 11 months
visited 695 days, 695 consecutive

>:D

fossfreedom

by order of your better half ... you are banned in your next holiday from any electronics what-so-ever

Rinzwind

09:29

tsk.

you assume I have a better half? >:D I am 100% evil

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fossfreedom

:)

Aditya

09:43

Hi... Anyone using Raring at the moment?

fossfreedom

no

skunkfrukt

Nope. Maybe tonight, depending on how things turn out.

Aditya

I installed it yesterday... works quite well

uses 15% lesser memory than 12.10

however, noticed a strange issue... when I run sudo apt-get update it tends to fetch the complete index files (not the diffs)

about 13+MB of data against 0.9MB in Quantal

fossfreedom

@Aditya that's not unusual - all dev releases do this.

Dan Hulme

@JourneymanGeek HIs (and GNU's) policy of not accepting patches without copyright assignment is pretty broken, even if you understand the reason for it.

Aditya

09:46

@fossfreedom oh... I thought so

But what's the logic

fossfreedom

@Aditya they need to do this because of the high-quantity of package updates - need to ensure systems are kept updated correctly.

Aditya

@fossfreedom so, using diffs create some sort of trouble?

I tend to sometimes take my backup through rsync - should I be worried?

fossfreedom

logically - yes - multiple updates for the same package sometimes on the same day.

no - no worries - just make sure you dont exceed your broadband cap :)

Aditya

okay... thanks

Journeyman Geek

10:00

@DanHulme Oh, I can understand that. Its just the my way or YOU ARE EVIL AND NEED TO ROT IN HELL YOU B****** way attitude...

Rinzwind

@JourneymanGeek being evil has NOTHING to do with rotting in hell!!!

fossfreedom

huh? what's going on?

Rinzwind

is there? :D

fossfreedom

hope not ... play those sort of games elsewhere.

Rinzwind

we can not play "wack the spammer" anymore?

:D

fossfreedom

10:05

@Rinzwind most definitely yes. Now that is fun.

Rinzwind

yeah well can you tell the next one to wait until I arrive? I missed all the fun :*(

Journeyman Geek

lol

@Rinzwind: 3 more days and I'd have been on SU 1234 days.

Rinzwind

@JourneymanGeek consecutive? >:)

Journeyman Geek

67 ;p

sathya probably has the record there, for now ;p

Rinzwind

on darn we are in trouble...

Microsoft tweaked the Metro GUI >:D

oops ->

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Q: Error: no such partation. Grub rescue>

Pls help!! This wasn't my comp !!! I wanted to remove backtrack but I deleted the wrong file. What can I do now?

ubuntu-one

he said backtrack >:D

fossfreedom

10:19

need to hide behind close votes

Rinzwind

all you do lately is hide behind close votes >:DDDDD

:P

fossfreedom

could go stomping around ... but really just a chilled sort of guy

Rinzwind

there is only 1 chilled guy on AU

fossfreedom

only one? - don't believe it.

Rinzwind

Barbados. Sun. Cocktail.

fossfreedom

10:26

until dusk hits - then the mosquitoes hit ...

not so chilled then.

Dan Hulme

how do you wash silk pillowcases, anyway?

skunkfrukt

@DanHulme You rub them vigorously with a napkin.

Rinzwind

@DanHulme wisegeek.com/how-can-i-wash-silk.htm

>:)

Dan Hulme

"it can be dangerous to hand wash"

reminds me of a Casey and Andy comic

Rinzwind

yeah ... if you stick it in those american sinks you could chop your hand

wait I am getting digits in a blue circle again

what was that again!?

fossfreedom

10:34

@Rinzwind someone complaining about "how to speed up torrents"

Rinzwind

that's not a complaint :\

fossfreedom

yeah - marked as invalid.

Rinzwind

lol

Aditya

Do we have a question about how to set up a localhost Development Server (on Ubuntu Desktop) - not open to outside world? (answered with step-by-step instructions for dummies)

I can't seem to find one

Rinzwind

You should never asssume localhost and always assume it will be set open to the world and set it up accordingly. Nothing worse than fixing permissions afterwards..

But that's just me :=)

Aditya

10:43

@Rinzwind I don't have much knowledge about stuff... Would like to setup one for playing with wordpress, setting up forums, etc.... (I don't want anyone else to be able to access it)

Rinzwind

ok but then again: it is easier to install lamp and put your user in the www-data group. That's all.

Aditya

Won't I have to make any further changes.... with regards to closing it for outside world

Rinzwind

sorry browser wanted to quit

@Aditya nope.

Well not really :-)

Aditya

I had installed LAMP about a few days back on 12.10, but I was able to access it by entering my IP in the browser

I don't know I might have entered some wrong permissions

I was following all the tutorials from all over the web

Rinzwind

ofcourse but if you do that from the outside it will not

Aditya

10:49

@Rinzwind oh...

and I got worried that I opened my box for the whole world

Rinzwind

well unless you told it to be able to :D :D

Aditya

Now onwards I don't seem to trust content outside SE Network

do you know any trustworthy tutorials which would help me

Rinzwind

Samsung UEFI brick topic from a fews weeks back is getting a kernel patch

@Aditya for what? lamp?

Aditya

@Rinzwind yes

Rinzwind

this one was used by a co-worker recently andyhawthorne.co.uk/setting-up-a-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-12-dot-10

Aditya

10:54

@Rinzwind Looks good... I would try it... Thanks :-)

Rinzwind

yeah it also deals with virtual setup

only thing I miss is to add a user to the group www-data.

Aditya

@Rinzwind Is virtual host same as virtualenv for python?

Rinzwind

VH are the definition of separate websites on 1 system

so you can use separate URL's to access them

Aditya

I didn't get it completely... something like http://localhost1. http://localhost2 ....

Rinzwind

nope

localhost/site1 localhost/site2

Aditya

11:02

So, if I use the VH method to setup the environment.... will I be able to create localhost/site1 and localhost/site2 ... or will I be restricted to just 1 site localhost/site1?

Rinzwind

you can use as many as you want.

Aditya

Thanks... I guess I would have to read a lot of stuff... :-)

Rinzwind

we have around 10 of those virtual hosts

and named them like this:

http://site1.domain.nl
http://site2.domain.nl

you do that in the "ServerAlias" tag in a file in /etc/apache2/sites-available

Aditya

I don't understand it completely... But I would search around google to find the answers... Thanks for your time... :)

Rinzwind

that link explains it at the bottom ;-)

( andyhawthorne.co.uk/setting-up-a-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-12-dot-10 )

Aditya

11:08

Yes... I was reading that article and when the topic of Virtual Hosts came I became puzzled...

Rinzwind

naaaa it's not complicated at all :=) you can do it!

vasa1

11:23

@fossfreedom, I was reading LXDE/XFCE Hybrid with much interest. I may want to replace PCManFM with Thunar. Is the information there current for 12.10 and the versions of PCManFM and Thunar presently in the standard repos?

Rinzwind

He went into hiding :=)

fossfreedom

@Rinzwind the beauty of XFCE and LXDE are that they change very-very slowly ... so - should be still relevant :)

Rinzwind

yeah but the thing is... I can not see a reason to use "beauty" with "xfce" in the same sentence and still be positive about it >:D

OSes with a start on the bottom suck anyways >:D

fossfreedom

heh! - just need a decent theme.

@Rinzwind move the panel to the top then!

Rinzwind

lol

ok just for you I am going to try xfce :=)

fossfreedom

11:28

vanilla xfce sucks ... I love what the lubuntu guys do - very nice polish.

Rinzwind

ok fossy where is the default answer for ubuntu+1 problems?

jrg

@Seth nope. I'd be getting a candy bar phone.

Rinzwind

yay I have been "Enlightened" once again O

Journeyman Geek

@jrg: get an old nokia

Dan Hulme

@Rinzwind yay

Journeyman Geek

11:31

I have one that two weeks to go flat

fossfreedom

@Rinzwind submit a canned comment to github - there isnt one - usually just make one up on the fly.

Rinzwind

@fossfreedom ok :P

oh and ... linux.slashdot.org/story/13/03/24/1952200/…

fossfreedom

simplest way to stop your laptop from being bricked ... is not to buy from Samsung

Rinzwind

my acer agrees

fossfreedom

bbl

Rinzwind

11:37

good idea!
lunchtime - bbl

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

12:23

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Q: LXC: How do I mount a folder from the host to the container?

I'm trying to mount a folder on the host to an LXC container. The host has a folder /mnt/ssd/solr_data created (this is currently on the root filesystem, but later I'll mount an SSD drive there, so I'm prepping for that). I want that folder to mount as /data in the container. So in the contain...

ubuntu mount lxc

Rinzwind

12:47

help!

0

A: Broken links inside Linux header file folder

The command should be apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -a) $(uname -a) will automatically be changed to the kernel release name. You can remove the directory itself with cd /usr/src && sudo rm -rf "linux-headers-uname -r" It is best to use somewhere after typing linux-hea...

if this delete correct?

Eliah Kagan

12:58

@Rinzwind I don't think they ran the wrong command. If you look at the actual text they wrote in the question, they have used backticks only around uname -r. They probably wrote these same backticks in the command they ran. Backticks around something have the same effect as enclosing it in $().

So they should not remove the directory; as far as I can tell, the directory they made is correctly named.

Rinzwind

AH

I did not see backticks in the post itself

Eliah Kagan

Also, you have uname -a rather than uname -r in a command in your answer. uname -a gives too much information to include in backticks or $() to generate a package name.

Rinzwind

editted >:)O

@EliahKagan no I do not...

I object to the idea I made an answer :=)

Amith KK

13:25

I need help from a graphics designer or something

Soon

Dan Hulme

@AmithKK what for?

Amith KK

Our teacher gave us a project with a 4 day dealine

This is the project for the board exam

And my main computer is busted

I want a cover page

I usually do them good

Eliah Kagan

Spam. (Please flag as spam.)

Amith KK

So ping @mateo and @rlemon

Eliah Kagan

More spam from the same account.

Rinzwind

13:41

spam spam spam

oh eliah was quikcer

another one :D

-> askubuntu.com/questions/272262/…

Eliah Kagan

@Rinzwind And that one is also from the same user.

Rinzwind

and eliah

this CAN be answered: askubuntu.com/questions/272257/whys-ubuntu-so-fast >:)

Eliah Kagan

@Rinzwind You mean with bootchart?

Install bootchart and you can see why YOUR system is so quick ;) — Rinzwind 1 min ago

Rinzwind

sorta

the answer is probably "competition" :=)

Dan Hulme

it seems like odd spam

Rinzwind

13:46

there is non-odd spam?

Eliah Kagan

@DanHulme Odd how?

Dan Hulme

it's not like many people are going to go "aha, I was looking for stolen credit card numbers"

it's a pretty specialist thing to sell

Rinzwind

seemed like a typical copy/paste to me >:)

WAIT

you ACTUALLY read that?

Takkat

lol

Rinzwind

:P

Dan Hulme

13:48

not entirely, just enough to see what he was spamming

Rinzwind

takky!

Takkat

<-- spam called me on duty

Rinzwind

5 more days and I reached 700 days on AU :=)

Dan Hulme

the light of the spamsignal in the sky

Takkat

french spam is new

Rinzwind

13:49

you read that with a croissant in one hand?

Takkat

Moi croissant flew out of my mouth.

Eliah Kagan

Oh good it's gone.

Rinzwind

lol

"community" has a floppy disc fetish today

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Takkat

Floppies!!!

rlemon

@AmithKK woah now?

why ping me?

Rinzwind

14:00

cuz he can :=)

rlemon

damn system... allowing communication.... sonofa

@Rinzwind the tv show? I have only watched to end of season 3.... I miss it

Rinzwind

@rlemon no our "community"

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Q: 12.10 login error "Unable to mount Floppy Disk"

After a fresh install of 12.10 on a system with 6 users. Every user that logs in gets the message Error mounting system-managed device /dev/fd0: Command-line `mount "/media/floppy0"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device No on wants to...

12.10 disk floppy

rlemon

booo

community the tv show is awesome

Takkat

2 days ago, by Takkat

Rinzwind

0

Q: How to distribute internet speed equally

Hi i am using adsl on my internet cafe and is there any way that i can distribute internet speed equally in all computers, is there any program for linux (Ubuntu) and Windows as well control and distribute internet speed referring to download/upload speed. For example Internet speed is contro...

12.04 windows internet download-speed

good question.. but he is looking at the wrong place >:)

jokerdino has returned! :)

jokerdino

14:10

:D

Rinzwind

yes I saw you sneak in! :+)

jokerdino

yeah, i am in need of an invisible cloak.

Rinzwind

That cloak is currently on Barbados

Seth

@EliahKagan I have handled this:

-2

Q: How do I automatically set my touchpad to turn off when an external mouse is used?

I need a way to automaticallay turn the touchpad off when an external pointing device is in use. I tried setting "turn off touchpad while typing" in System Settings, but that didn't work. A slight caveat is that I use both bluetooth and USB pointing devices, so perferably a solution would be ...

mouse touchpad bluetooth

Rinzwind

seth has returned

Seth

14:16

@Rinzwind Yep >:D

Rinzwind

I reused my prev. post >:D

today goes by so slowly

Seth

@Rinzwind Yes. Exactly. Have a ★

Rinzwind

I have yet to code 1 line of code today

Seth

:O

Rinzwind

that's a problem when your job description is "coder" :D

Seth