Ask Ubuntu General Room

Lucio

00:06

I just forked some code in GitHub and I have no Idea what do that means :)

@TheLorfOfTime did I broke something on your structure?

how can I un-forke your git dude?

oh, done :)

soandos

Is there a reason that ubuntu would install without dev/audio?

(I do have a line in, and speakers, and the speakers work)

mateo_salta

00:55

@Lucio what? Now i automatacally have a wordpress account? Is that what they are saying...

FEichinger

@mateo_salta You had for quite a while.

They just tied it to the login system now.

Doesn't make it any better, and in fact reduces part of what made Gravatar so wonderfully easy ... Oh, well.

mateo_salta

without even knowing....

FEichinger

See? Money can buy anything on the Internet!

Xxx Xxx

01:09

hello

have any one tried taking the cores off line to save battery consumption ?

Seth

@Lucio Looks cool..

@XxxXxx Didn't know you could.

@FEichinger me neither.

Xxx Xxx

i tried .....did several test .....talking 2 cores off line save around 0.5 watts ...but taking more cores off line did not save battery...

Seth

Hm. Interesting.

Xxx Xxx

people say when system is idle ..it save much battery

i m doing researching on core parking .....microsoft thing

FEichinger

When the system is idle, yes. But what you're doing is just redistributing the load.

Xxx Xxx

01:17

hmm

mateo_salta

Aw, automatacally give me an account the don't let me delete it en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts

Xxx Xxx

10

Q: Does Ubuntu support Core Parking?

Core parking is a new feature that introduced in Windows 7 to get better Battery performance . Depending on the resource use of the operating system it may park one or multiple cores of a multi-core cpu to reduce the computer’s power consumption and thermal emissions. Once operations require mor...

Seth

@mateo_salta Yep.

Xxx Xxx

basically i m working on saving the battery life in ubuntu .....askubuntu.com/questions/285434/… is there any thing more ...i do research that i can save some battery....

Seth

01:40

O_o

mateo_salta

Hm, so community wiki's are not updating user names...

Jorge Castro

that appears to be correct?

jrg

02:06

AWESOME.

(for those of you who aren't stalking me on the various social networks)

FEichinger

stdin: Not a typewriter

Seth

lol

Gui

@jrg stalking??? that is a bit harsh isn't it?

jrg

but accurate

Gui

I do all my stalking here: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/201/ask-ubuntu-general-room

Seth

02:07

Same here :P

FEichinger

If I recall correctly, you followed me first on twitter.

jrg

i remember you finding me first.

and me being like "HEY! I KNOW THAT GUY!"

Seth

:O

FEichinger

I'm not sure, 'cause randomly following you is so not me.

jrg

i'm sure you had a reason that was good at the time.

FEichinger

02:17

In fact, following people in fields I don't already follow is absolutely not me ... Weeeeird.

jrg

righteousit.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/… OMG. THE INTERNET. IN LEGOS.

Seth

Cool.

FEichinger

I take it, once the EMP hits, FedEx-transmitted lego boards will be the new age.

Seth

0

Q: Change of wording on posts at Stack Apps

Preface: StackApps doesn't have a meta site that I know of, so I posted this on here. Feel free to migrate it if you feel it would fit better on another site. Over at StackApps, the majority of the posts over there are either scripts to change/add features on the Stack Exchange network. Like...

feature-request user-interface stackapps

@NathanOsman ^^

jrg

time to print more business cards!! :D

Seth

02:36

So.. does Stack Apps have a meta?

Gui

@Seth doesn't look like it.

Seth

Yeah I didn't think so.

> Now the next steps will depend on what repos are: There are literally thousands of Ubuntu programs available to install new software onto Ubuntu using an Internet connection, while also providing a high level of security, as LXDE.

XD

Flackoverflow always makes me laugh.

> Of course, it seems like the system eventually sorts itself out.

> This will also make the text scrollable if you to translate their code aren't usually gets 4 downvotes fairly quickly, that will require cooperation between the translator and OP. ..but this question will require cooperation between the translator and meta sites in general.

Nathan Osman

02:52

@Seth Thanks.

@Seth No, Meta.SO is the "official" Meta site for Stack Apps questions.

Seth

Ah OK.

That's mainly what I was wondering ;)

Very good answer @NathanOsman.

Nathan Osman

03:07

Guys, I've had it up to here (points at the roof) with PhoneGap.

Can we please drop it for 2buntu?

jrg

@NathanOsman sure

Nathan Osman

I think I'm gonna just write a plain old Android app :P

jrg

write a plain android app

Nathan Osman

Then it will look native because it will be native.

jrg

and when i get a mac, i'll shell out the $200 for rubymotion

and build a native iOS app.

Nathan Osman

03:08

:P

That's the spirit!

PhoneGap was... interesting.

jrg

i mean, seriously. - rubymotion.com

IT'S LIKE RAILS

Seth

@jrg You are gonna get a Mac? :O

jrg

@Seth need to

we have almost a 50/50 split at work

Seth

Don't you know Apple means evil?

jrg

so i am going to need one for keeping up with printer config, wifi config, etc.

it's on the "buy" list.

Seth

03:10

@jrg Nah, I understand. I'm gonna have to get an iPad for school eventually. :P

jrg

probably one of these guys. - store.apple.com/us/configure/MD387LL/A

Seth

It's annoying that everyone wants to use Apple... I'd much rather have an Ubuntu running surface :D

jrg

but with a VGA adapter

Seth

@jrg Those are the nice ones.

@jrg Can't believe they don't have a VGA adapter on those.. Most monitors still only have VGA connectors.

jrg

i have a difficult time finding monitors that are VGA only, most are HDMI + VGA + Composite.

Seth

03:13

Really?

I was just at office depot and most of them only had VGA. And they were the new LED ones too!

Gui

I have never seen a monitor without VGA...

jrg

what price range are you going at?

Seth

$80 to about $250.

jrg

oh, i go from $250-300.

Seth

I see...

jrg

03:15

(aka, business grade, not consumer. :p)

Seth

Well that would be why then.

jrg

i will never buy a consumer grade machine again if i can help it. :P

Seth

lol.

jrg

been burned too many times.

Seth

I have a business grade computer and I hate it. dreadfully.

Errg. Ubuntu's spellcheck is awful.

Gui

03:22

Business grade computers are awfully expensive for no more then what they are...

The Lord of Time

0

Q: 13.04 & Wubi (dual boot) with Win 8 Upgrade (non-uefi or secure boot)?

I upgraded an HP computer from Vista to Win 8. Can I install 13.04 with WUBI? I have seen some messages that seems to suggest WUBI will no longer be supported for 13.04 and beyond.

dual-boot 13.04

Vote To Close: Dupe of:

6

Q: Will I be able to use wubi to install Ubuntu releases newer than 12.10?

I want to install 13.04 (or higher) using wubi, is that possible?

installation wubi

per the general agreement on this, located at:

6

Q: How do we handle 13.04 Wubi questions?

The Discussion Wubi's been dropped from 13.04. They no longer test it, and they no longer support wubi in 13.04. There was a developers mailing list post about proposing to drop Wubi, and they removed the Wubi builds for everything but 12.04. Therefore, if I am interpreting this correctly...

discussion scope offtopic-questions

Seth

represses desire to link meta question about not answering duplicates..

The Lord of Time

@Seth answered without thinking, whoops!

(things happen, be tolerant?)

Seth

That's what I said to you when Luis missed that meta answer... Just sayin.

Anyway..

What happened to @EliahKagan?

The Lord of Time

@Seth (answer deleted, so blah, you can lay off :P)

Seth

03:34

:P

Yet Another User

Shouldn't someone put a community bulletin that the servers are down right now?

The Lord of Time

@YetAnotherUser Uh... what servers?

(because the update servers are working from here)

(and the Ask Ubuntu servers are working too)

Seth

Yeah.. what servers?

Everything seems to work...

SE outages are reported here: twitter.com/StackStatus

The Lord of Time

and update mirror servers are usually fixed pretty quickly

Yet Another User

*the launchpad/ubuntu.com/ubuntu one servers

Seth

03:39

Your right!

The Lord of Time

well sorta

Seth

Ubuntu.com is down.

The Lord of Time

one.ubuntu.com responds

ubuntu.com times out sorta

and LP returns a DB error

but that'll be fixed somewhat quickly

so they don't need to make a whole announcement about it

(this happens sometimes!)

Yet Another User

see this: askubuntu.com/questions/288234/cant-log-in-to-ubuntu-one

Seth

Interesting.

\o @HackToHell

@TheLordofTime Wanna do some reviewing?

jrg

03:44

8 close votes, that's the lowest i've seen it in a long time

Seth

Oh.. queue is dead to me. I forget it's not the same for each of us.

The Lord of Time

@Seth already sifted through /review

there is nothing left for me to review.

jrg

i'll clean out the close votes now

Seth

@TheLordofTime here :P

The Lord of Time

@jrg and the flags queue

Seth

03:46

That one is fun!

jrg

took out 30% of it just now

YAY! welcome to 5K @Seth

Seth

Oh. Thanks :)

I noticed that you had reached 13k too @jrg

jrg

:)

0 close votes

Chacha102

Hey, anyone having Compiz CPU Eating problems with 13.04 and Nvidia?

I installed, and it was pretty fast, and then I tried to fix Skype and now everything has gone to crud..

HackToHell

04:05

@Seth hi

jrg

wow, ubuntu.com is down hard.

Seth

@Chacha102 That's happening to a lot of people. Myself included.

Chacha102

@Seth And the Nouveau driver is really just slow as all heck

Seth

Yes it is.

But it's the only one that works for me ATM..

Chacha102

Plus it doesn't like my second rotated monitor. But I guess I can live without it

Seth

04:12

Every time I resume from suspend I have to go into a TTY and reset unity so I can logout and log back in.. Which I have to do to get my desktop working again.

Chacha102

Bah... 13.04 doesn't sound so fun anymore :(

Seth

I think the same thing :(

Chacha102

Well, the rest of tonight will be spent moving things off of my SSD to the correct document drives. Backing up stuff, and tomorrow will be all about reinstalling and pushing home over to a partition

The Lord of Time

and now you all know why i'm usually currentRelease-1 :p

Chacha102

@TheLordofTime So you just upgraded to 12?

The Lord of Time

04:16

@Chacha102 the current release is 13.04

i'm still on 12.04

but generally i stick to the latestRelease - 1

that is to say, the prior release to it

(so 12.10 is latestRelease - 1)

Chacha102

To follow that logic, you'd have to have upgraded to 12 on Thursday

And been on 11 prior

The Lord of Time

and to follow the logic, the system would have to be working

which it's not.

and no you're wrong

there is NO MATH involved

only the list of releases

and the order of when they were released

wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

go to the "Stable" category

Chacha102

Either way, its stupid to say that you're always latestRelease -1. Its always best to say "I wait a couple months for bugs to be figured out before switching"

The Lord of Time

read the top most entry (most recent) and go down one.e

@Chacha102 erm...

i don't switch until the next release is out.

so i should be upgrading to 12.10 once I replace my CPU

the only thing preventing the upgrade: no working processor.

Seth

Which one are you going to get?

The Lord of Time

04:19

(it died)

@Seth no clue

Seth

OK.

Motherboard?

The Lord of Time

@Seth the hardware's ~4 years old or more

i can't replace any parts until i get overhaul money

means i'd replace the mobo, the cpu, the RAM, the graphics, the powersupply.

(the hard drives are still good)

Seth

Why not just buy a new computer at that?

Getting a new motherboard is not fun.

Mitch

Hello all

The Lord of Time

@Seth when you find that custom building your computer is fun, that's where it gets interesting

@Seth my desktop which is broken and going to be upgraded is a custom build

so all the parts are hand-selected

Mitch

04:24

@jrg why this was deleted? :) askubuntu.com/questions/142875/…

Seth

Oh, is this a custom build?

Those are fun.. I was saying replacing the motherboard on a store-bought wasn't so fun.

@Mitch Can't see it yet.

The Lord of Time

04:36

@Seth yes

@Seth it's a custom build in an ATX mid-tower case

so there's a variety of mobos I can fit in this :P

Chacha102

05:05

Well, just moved /home over to a partition, so all that's left to do is reinstall

Nathan Osman

05:27

@Chacha102 Oh, hi! I haven't seen you around in a while.

RolandiXor

05:37

Hi

Nathan Osman

@RolandiXor: I haz bad news.

3 hours ago, by Nathan Osman

Guys, I've had it up to here (points at the roof) with PhoneGap.

Sorry, but it's not going to work for the app.

I'm going to just go with a native Android app for now.

It was getting to the point where I was implementing the workaround for a workaround for a workaround... etc.

There's nothing like a native app when it comes to speed / appearance anyway.

RolandiXor

:(

And I was planning to try PhoneGap myself :(

Nathan Osman

I mean it's nice and everything...

But I mean right off the bat - the splash screen is automatically stretched to fill the screen (completely distorting it) resulting in a really ugly appearance.

And that was just the beginning...

RolandiXor

05:58

e_e

Nathan Osman

At least on the positive side, we have an API on 2buntu now:

2buntu.com/api

RolandiXor

Hax.

2

Forgot to show you that.

It's for the Community Ads thingy.

Takkat

beautiful :)

RolandiXor

Gracias :D

@NathanOsman this is pretty awesome :D

We could implement an Ubuntu Touch app using this :)

Nathan Osman

Love the new ad.

@RolandiXor We sure could.

Okay to support Android 4.0 and later?

RolandiXor

06:13

@NathanOsman fine by me

Nathan Osman

Motion carried :P

RolandiXor

No sense in supporting older versions :)

@NathanOsman what is Motion?

Nathan Osman

That's a common expression around here that means "all I needed was one person to agree - anyone else is too late".

RolandiXor

brb

@NathanOsman ohhhh

I got it now

brb

Achu

Where is the keyboard management on 13.04? i used to add my local language custom keyboard layout but i don't know where to put it.

kmfl taps gone and and i couldn't add my kmfl files

Nathan Osman

06:28

Night all.

RolandiXor

gnight

jokerdino

07:13

Some things I love about our site:

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A: How can I customize the Ubuntu boot up logo?

Install Theme I have created theme as you wanted with faded ubuntu ( moreover I have added animation of ubuntu logo. Hope you'd like it :-P ) Screenshot Want to see it live ? Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPo50gM3txU Where to Get this theme ? I have uploaded it to Mediafire cloud H...

Xxx Xxx

07:54

hello guys

its been 2nd time i have loose my points ....cauzz you guys close the question askubuntu.com/questions/285985/…

just a reminder ...its 2nd time

i have 4 up votes

Oli

@XxxXxx I didn't think you lost points if the question gets closed.

Moreover, it's closed because it's a bug report. And that is off-topic here.

Xxx Xxx

i had more than 639 repo .. i dont know now its 604

Mitch

Hello

Oli

@XxxXxx That's because your answer on a Skype question was deleted by Jokerdino

Xxx Xxx

oh ok

Mitch

08:00

@Oli Out of curiosity, can you please tell me why this was closed? :) askubuntu.com/questions/142875/…

Oli

@Mitch I can try

Mitch

Cool

Oli

@Mitch Yeah the OP flagged it saying they'd moved to Mint and could no longer verify the validity of the answers. They requested deletion and it seems we gave it to them.

Xxx Xxx

@Oli which one ?

Mitch

That's fair enough..

Thanks

Oli

08:03

@XxxXxx I'm talking about Mitch's answer. Yours was deleted to enable us to dupe the whole question against another one that already has dozens and dozens of answers (some of which were yours anyway).

Xxx Xxx

hmmm

Takkat

once I had a -1100 drop in rep.

Journeyman Geek

o0

Oli

@Takkat Deletion of a +110 answer?

Takkat

Nope user purged their account :"(

this may have changed by now, but I am not sure.

Last user account deletion did not lead to a drop in rep, but it may be that this user did never upvote me. ;)

Rinzwind

09:34

@takkat how's work, asks the person that has a day off

Takkat

Work is harder than having a day off ;P

How's the king?

Rinzwind

He is doing good :-)

Takkat

Nowadays they always do... hmm

Rinzwind

back to gaming :=D

Amith KK

09:58

appears

@RolandiXor nooo :P

131 comment argument about a nursery rhyme on brushing teeth

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Rsync not correctly mirroring content

I am trying to sync content between two servers. The servers are identical builds (Ubuntu 12.04LTS) and have this cron job running to sync the content: rsync -arzc --update --delete /htdocs/testing/www/cms_uploads/* [email protected]:/htdocs/testing/www/cms_uploads/ but I'm getting some stra...

ubuntu rsync

kan

10:25

@jokerdino On 13.04 now! There are lots of problems dude! :( My firefox spews a billion errors about failing Gtk_Theme or such... (it never used to.)

Amith KK

10:51

Heya @Mochan

I have 10 minutes left :P

jrg

11:06

@Mitch There was a flag from the original owner about how he no longer uses ubuntu, and is using mint. I meant to close as TL

Mitch

@jrg Fair enough. Thanks

jrg

thanks for catching that

Mitch

No problem :)

jrg

well, that was a weird spam.

Mitch

11:30

@jrg its was definitely different :)

jrg

you can say that again.

Mitch

@jrg Another one askubuntu.com/questions/288449/…

jrg

community handled it.

Greg

Morning

What is this AMD Testing use only logo I see?

jrg

hangon

18

Q: How to remove the “AMD Testing use only” watermark?

I've installed the latest catalyst driver (beta) following the step in this guide for Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal. My system is 64 bit and my graphic card is an ATI RadeonHD 6670, this g.c. is Officially Supported (Catalyst & Open Source), you can confirm that from this AMD Linux Community thread. I ...

drivers ati graphics hardware testing

I have one of those!

Greg

11:45

But what is it and why has it suddenly appeared?

jrg

it is an AMD thing and it has appeared because you're running a "unsupported" version of X!

Greg

hmm, after an update?

jrg

yes

Greg

ah, removing the UNSIGNED signature file did the trick.

this is what's stopping humans using ubuntu

jrg

this is the fault of the graphics card manufacturers.

Greg

11:49

to us it is, but to humans its the same thing.

jrg

they are the carriers of the Linux world. Constantly screwing everyone over, and nobody can do a thing about it.

Call me V

@Greg you mean vendors putting warnings on beta drivers? or humans insisting on using beta and complaining about it ;)

Greg

I haven't used a beta driver as far as I know... I just purchased a HP Pavilion pre-installed with Ubuntu for my dad (human) and after an update I got the AMD Testing use only watermark

jrg

O_o

that's why i have my sister using ubuntu. so i can know about these things. then she never applies software updates, so i don't.

Greg

I think I'll disable all updates for him, and also suppress all those crash reports that all my devices have started getting on a daily basis.

jrg

11:57

enable them for his browser at least.

but yes, suppress the crash reports. i keep getting those, and i'm not sure why ubuntu keeps doing it.

Call me V

@Greg the fact that the beta watermark made it into repo should be filed as a bug...

I agree that crash reports should have a "just send it i'm not a privacy nut" checkbox

Greg

I was thinking of getting some new PCs for the office, but really don't know what hardware would be a good idea

Greg

12:29

I like the look of the Intel Next Unit

.. or whatever its called

jrg

12:48

firefox sync dead for anyone else?

Prasad RD

14:25

huh !!!! askubuntu.com/questions/288536/…

Gui

Happy 20th Birthday internet!

5

Seth

And no Google doodle? :O

Chacha102

Morning

jokerdino

Depends.

Takkat

14:44

The morning shall last from 0:00 to 24:00 UTC. Then come work.

jokerdino

6 spam deleted in last half an hour.

Takkat

they want you to permanently be here.

fossfreedom

The spammers today have had no chance ... community has been on good form.

jokerdino

I been killing them with spam flags.

somoso

I just got one not 5 minutes ago. So satisfying to swat them off.

Takkat

14:57

<-- heading home BBL

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