> There are already several custom lenses that adventurous users can install on their system for testing. Some of the custom lenses pull data from Web APIs and others are designed to interoperate with existing desktop applications. For example, there is an AskUbuntu lens that provides a convenient Unity-integrated interface for searching the questions from the AskUbuntu Stack Exchange site.
@djeikyb if you had the sources setup you can install as usual with sudo apt-get install <package>. The <package>-name should be the same as in the apturl link.
I use back-in-time for backuping up my projects automatically. but my data base is not backuping up automatically like scheduling by day or hours. Is there any tool to back up MySQL automatically?
@Takkat i got dependency problem when i install apps "dependency problems - leaving unconfigured" when i google it i found old discussions i face this on natty what should i do?
i can not install thunderbird.tar.bz2 , after i extract the file, make command not work. this error appears:
XXXXX@ubuntu:~$ sudo make
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/uname -r/build M=pwd
make[1]: Entering directory /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic'
CC [M] /home/XXXXX/src/wl/sy...
why is it when i need to find old repo's I never find that page and when I occaisionally need it for something like this it's the 1st answer in google!?
@htorque my laptop changes resolutions to the lowest resolution possible everytime the screensaver comes on.... and then I cant change it back till I do a "unity --reset"
Here at UDS a lot of people of course wear Ubuntu T-Shirts, for very obvious reasons. Wouldn't it be awesome if we could have some nice Ask Ubuntu T-Shirts to give away as there are a large number of Ubuntu experts here (~600 attendees)?
Here's what the UDS one looks like:
And we could just p...
@haltman had to learn the difference for an official test regarding software deployment for school. In practive it never came up (everyone always just starts coding instead of making diagrams first (what a programmer should do ;) )
@Rinzwind I often do flowchart before doing code..and preserve it so if I have to check how to work a code after long time I can understand in a second..
@haltman actually the order of the processes of developing software doesn't matter if you develop as a one man team as long as the documentation is there in the end
and as long as you are disciplined enough to set specifications which don't change
it is something totally different when you develop in a team tho
you'll need those charts, diagrams and whatnot to communicate and set the specifications so that everyone understands them and can work to achieve the set goal
Notepad++ will only auto-insert subsequent indents if you manually indent the first line in a block; otherwise you can re-indent your code after the fact using TextFX > TextFX Edit > Reindent C++ code.
I would like to delete a junky page from help.ubuntu.com, but it seems I do not have access to the page, what team should I talk to to have the page removed?
@JamesGifford generally Android developers should test against the emulator as it is the most basic and default system image
@JamesGifford if he gets any HTC device he will have to flash the device with a custom developer image, which is really not that hard, there are many good articles on the internewbz about that
According to SMART data, the hard drive I curently use is about to fail. I bought a new, bigger drive to copy the system to a safer place.
The old drive is 160GB. Ubuntu was installed with Wubi, and the partition is NTFS. There are a few other partitions around (recovery partition, swap...) that...