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^-- be aware of this when people with Samsung laptops report their laptop to be non-functional when booting Ubuntu/Linux. They can send it straight to RMA service.

Joshua

1:38 AM

@rolandixor. Did I spell your name right?

Journeyman Geek

@jrg: ping

askubuntu.com/questions/248603/… <- this is PROBABLY spam, BTW

RolandiXor

@Joshua idk

Journeyman Geek

I spell it Ro <kbd>tab<kbd>

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jrg

2:18 AM

@journeyman OK... So that answer might be,but the question?

AbrahamVanHelpsing

2:50 AM

@gertvdijk i said it a while ago...i'll pop the hundred bucks myself for the certificate if canonical will start signing official boot/kern packages...

i'm just getting proven right one day at a time

Flabricorn

3:48 AM

Python... my goodness.

maggotbrain

4:04 AM

This question askubuntu.com/questions/246920/… could probably use a better title and I don't want to get in trouble, again, for editing questions that I have answered ;-)

Amith KK

4:48 AM

BBL

Journeyman Geek

6:01 AM

@jrg the question is probably designed to link back to the site as well. Its quite horrible as it is too

also meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem

Eliah Kagan

@JourneymanGeek Hi.

@Oli Hi. Are you around? There's some tricky spam...and it's being posted on AU and across the network. (I've flagged it everywhere I've seen it, but I figured you might want to hear about it all in one place.)

Amith KK

Eliah Kagan

This, this, this, and this all advertise sites that have lots of spam on SE. (And in a very promotional way too ...most of the posts are even exact reposts.) If you want information on related spam elsewhere on SE, please let me know.

(In the mean time, more flagging by non-moderators is of course always good.)

Journeyman Geek

6:20 AM

@EliahKagan: yeah

I'm superfamiliar with this off superuser ;p

maggotbrain

@EliahKagan If only they used their powers for good. :-/

Eliah Kagan

6:40 AM

Well, if you haven't already spam-flagged them, I recommend doing so.

(Unrelated) Do we wait as long on meta to close abandoned support questions. I'm thinking of this, which we would definitely not close as abandoned on main, but which I wonder if we should close on meta:

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Q: AskUbuntu does not recognize my account email

I have been communicating with AskUbuntu for a few weeks on Windows while I brought my Ubuntu internet connection up to speed. Now that I am up and running on Ubuntu, I would like to use my same account, but StackExchange says it does not recognize my email address, clearly displayed in my Window...

support

maggotbrain

@Eliah Kagan Done. What is the threshold for answers like that just disappearing? On occasion, I have left posts alone with -2 or -3 score since I figure that they already have a mods attention

Eliah Kagan

@maggotbrain For score, there is no threshold. A post can be quite negative, and no moderator is informed. Anytime a moderator should know about a situation with a post, the post should always be flagged. Since this is spam, I recommend using the spam flag. A few spam flags from users actually do delete a post, while less still inform moderators.

Downvoting means a post is wrong, unhelpful, or dangerous, but it does not mean anything needs to happen to the post. Downvotes make it easier for 20k users to delete posts, but they don't cause posts to be deleted.

If you downvote a post and it's deleted, you get your 1 rep back. If you spam flag a post, you never lose rep at all (but only spam flag for actual spam!!). You can also do both.

Spam should always at least be spam-flagged.

I think the specific number of spam flags a post needs, to be automatically deleted, varies based on a variety of heuristic factors. Mark Gravell says it's "about 6":

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A: What actually happens when you click the "spam" link for a question or answer?

A spam vote (like an offensive vote) is very simple; there is no retraction (or even obvious visibility). But don't panic if you do it by accident; it needs about 6 such votes before the system will automatically step in. Before that, items with spam/offensive votes are visible to users with 10k...

maggotbrain

7:02 AM

Thanks for the info. I should clarify. When I see obvious spam, then I do flag it. I'm a bit more hesitant on flagging Q's of "low quality" as I'm still somewhat new and wish to give the questioner the benefit of the doubt.

Eliah Kagan

@maggotbrain Yes, low quality questions should not be flagged as spam. Those four posts I linked to above, though, are spam--they advertise a site advertised by a lot of similar spam, often identically worded spam, by multiple sockpuppets across the SE network. (Much of it has been deleted but the Google cache will show some of it.)

Takkat

7:21 AM

"I'm forced to use Ubuntu..." - what a beautiful world this is :) Hi all

Journeyman Geek

7:57 AM

lol

Takkat

8:18 AM

"...problems that ubuntu users face..." - What problems? Are there any?

"problems ubuntu": About 19,500,000 results - "problems windows": About 487,000,000 results

Journeyman Geek

9:00 AM

lol

maggotbrain

9:31 AM

@Takkat I've got 487 million problems, but a chkdsk ain't one. :-/

Journeyman Geek

fsck that ;p

gertvdijk

$ apt-cache search --names-only linux signed
linux-signed-generic-lts-quantal - Complete Signed Generic Linux kernel and headers
linux-signed-image-3.5.0-19-generic - Signed kernel image generic
linux-signed-image-3.5.0-21-generic - Signed kernel image generic
linux-signed-image-3.5.0-22-generic - Signed kernel image generic
linux-signed-image-generic-lts-quantal - Signed Generic Linux kernel image
linux-signed-image-generic - Signed Generic Linux kernel image
linux-signed-generic - Complete Signed Generic Linux kernel and headers

Takkat

@maggotbrain lol - here 0 problems since I moved them all to /dev/null

Journeyman Geek

though

I did have 3-4 installer bugs and issues with dkms being broken on my new ubuntu install

(otherwise its fantastic ;p)

Takkat

yeah, once it's all installed, running, and happily upgraded with as few as possible proprietary drivers it really is fantastic ;)

If we did not have to run it on hardware it would be even better.

Gerhard Burger

9:50 AM

what should I do with a question like this

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Q: Cronjob for security updates?

I'm having trouble creating a cronjob for automatic security updates on my ubuntu server 12.04. I separated the security sources into a different file, and then did this from within a cronjob: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin apt-get -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist="sec...

12.04 security cron

My suggestion in the comments to use an alternative is accepted by the OP, but I wouldn't consider it an answer to the question

vote for close, or adding alternative as solution

?

or nothing ;)\

and whoa, anyone read this? linux.slashdot.org/story/13/01/30/1426255/…

Takkat

9 hours ago, by gertvdijk

Linux Bricks Some UEFI Samsung Laptops

Gerhard Burger

ah, sorry, 9 hours ago i was soundly asleep, but apparently my fellow countryman gertvdijk not :P

Takkat

some people never sleep ;)

Gerhard Burger

:)|

Takkat

@GerhardBurger can't you customize unattended-upgrades?

(never did it so idk)

Gerhard Burger

9:58 AM

You can customize it by increasing the random sleep interval, but that random sleep interval is still relative to the time cron.daily is executed

but the other cron.daily jobs will be delayed when unattended upgrades is 'sleeping'

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:34 AM

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Q: How to configure xorg.conf for widescreen VNC on headless Linux/Ubuntu?

I have a Ubuntu 12.10 Box configured to run headless. I've managed to boot X headless by a lot of trial and error but I still have a glitch: When booting using the monitor, it all works ok, widescreen resolution and all, when booting headless it will stick with 4:3 resolutions, I suspect that it ...

linux ubuntu x11 vnc xorg

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Q: Mouse in Ubuntu 12.04 (Unity 2D) stalls occasionally

Time to time my mouse cursor stalls, and it can be freed only by reloading the psmouse daemon: $ sudo rmmod psmouse $ sudo modprobe psmouse This happens, when I'm using my laptop's trackpad, and this problem goes away if I plug in USB mouse. I haven't used USB mouse for longer time to experien...

ubuntu mouse

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

11:07 AM

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Q: Ubuntu 12.10 Fan overspeeding

I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 leaving Win 7 licensed ver. But again as usual I need to fix so many issues. This time fan is creating lots of noise. I was looking for the solution and found the below: sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq < \ /sys/devices/system/cpu...

ubuntu fan

Ask Ubuntu Meta

11:55 AM

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Q: Retagging question by 500+ user makes the Community reject an edit suggested earlier by another user

Time: 2013-01-31 11:03:29 UTC I had suggested this edit. Me having less than 2000 Reputation sends this edit in Review Queue for approval of members with more than 2000 Repuatation. Time: 2013-01-31 11:04:04 UTC Another user with more than 500 Reputation but less than 2000 Reputation edits the...

bug suggested-edits retagging

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

1:19 PM

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Q: Low display resolution Ubuntu Gnome remix 12.10

I'm running Ubuntu Gnome remix 12.10 and it can't recognize my display. My HW is: Intel i3 3225 with HD 4000 onboard / is on a OCZ Vertex 4 SSD display is an old IBM Thinkvision with vga connector connected through an adapter to dvi slot. When I start it up I get to gdm which is in low resolu...

ubuntu gnome-shell ssd 12.10 gdm3

Eliah Kagan

2:09 PM

Do we have anything this can be duped to?

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Q: sudo chmod -R 755 * accidentaly run in /, what are the options?

I have many programs installed, I want to keep my history, and so on and so on.. What can I do to save the situation? Thank you.

sudo chmod

gertvdijk

2:38 PM

@EliahKagan been looking for that as well. can only find a very similar one on UL. Posted in the comments. And answered.

Eliah Kagan

@gertvdijk Thx.

This suggested edit is an improvement, but the post is still unclear. Do you understand what the first sentence is saying? If so, may you could review and improve the edit?

askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/78210

gertvdijk

@EliahKagan "Approved 50 secs ago"

@EliahKagan anyway, improved it.

Eliah Kagan

@gertvdijk Thx.

Eliah Kagan

2:56 PM

Should this be considered an answer? My leaning slightly toward saying it is an answer (just wrong), but I'm not sure.

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A: What's a good way to run a virtual copy of Ubuntu on Windows 7?

This really isn't an Ubuntu specific question, but you need to install Cygwin inside your Windows 7 session. Cygwin is a Linux emulator. You can then run your Linux executable from within your Cygwin session. http://www.cygwin.com/install.html

gertvdijk

@EliahKagan yes, just like any other "wrong answer"

Eliah Kagan

@gertvdijk Well, it's considerably further from addressing the situation in the question than most wrong answers.

jrg

3:18 PM

Cygwin sure gets me a heckuva lot closer to having my native linux tools around. :P

Eliah Kagan

3:37 PM

@jrg Yes, it's awesome! The question there, though, is about how to run a Linux executable on Windows.

Lucio

Someone ran a GUI for SELinux?

in Ubuntu

jrg

there is a selinux gui?

Eliah Kagan

@Lucio Yes, that too. They want to run Ubuntu on Windows. They want to run a Linux executable in Ubuntu.

@jrg SELinux is Linux ...no reason you can't have a GUI.

@Lucio Do you mean a GUI utility to control SELinux capabilities?

Lucio

@jrg That is the question, I don't know..

@EliahKagan Right

Eliah Kagan

@Lucio Ah. That could be useful.

Lucio

3:40 PM

yep

jrg

something existed in fedora 8 according to wikipedia.

Lucio

I found this: *policycoreutils-gui: provides system-config-selinux, a graphical tool for managing SELinux. * See here

for Fedora

jrg

well, installing that on ubuntu wants the tk libraries, lets give it a spin

Lucio

Oh, so, to run fedora apps I need the tk library, isnt?

jrg

policykit is different, isn't it?

Lucio

3:45 PM

@jrg Yep

quite different

jrg

ok.

Lucio

@jrg Don't worry. I will research a little more later.. Now I have hunger! :-)

VRU

Hi Geeks!

@EliahKagan Hi I finally installed ubuntu on my system only through VMWare Palyer

now I am thinking, weather I can update my system GPU driver from here....

what is the command to update gpu?

Eliah Kagan

4:00 PM

@VRU Are you saying you installed it to a physical disk with VMware?

VRU

I have windows xp and on which I installed VMWare

Eliah Kagan

@VRU Do you want to install a driver for the real hardware, or for the hardware of the virtual machine? Or just get the VMware guest to use graphics acceleration? Or are you trying to update firmware on the card itself, rather than drivers?

VRU

@EliahKagan I want to give try to the real hardware because it was the one which was causing not to install ubuntu directly on to the physical driver

as i guess

FYI: I have a assembled PC with Intel Pentium D processor and its chipset Intel 102D with ati radeon xpress 200

Eliah Kagan

@VRU Virtualization solutions so far don't enable a virtual machine to directly access the host's GPU. So if I am understanding your correct, you cannot do this. But is your goal to run Ubuntu in a VM, or on the physical machine?

Gerhard Burger

@gertvdijk "@GerhardBurger 1) Who says frustrations are welcome in chat? :) 2) One needs some reputation to be able to talk in chat."

Eliah Kagan

4:10 PM

I mean, you can install drivers for the host machine's video card on the guest. They won't do anything, though. This would only make sense if the same system were being run on the physical hardware and (at other times) virtualized. If that were the case, then the system should have video drivers for both GPUs.

Gerhard Burger

haha

well i thought the chat was a better place than in a question

in the chat you can just say STFU

(but that wouldn't be nice, would it)

I was trusting in the people skills of the people in the chatroom to handle frustrations ;)

VRU

@EliahKagan Oh Okay. I understand now

Eliah what about the other option you were saying, like if I wish to upgrade only the Virtualization gpu performance

may be some accelerator

b'coz the appereance is still not good, as if it needs boos for the graphics

boost*

Eliah Kagan

@VRU You can enable 3D graphics acceleration in the virtual machine. It's in the settings for the VM. I believe it requires VMware Tools to be installed in the VM (though the necessary components may already be part of Ubuntu). You can enable/disable graphics acceleration, and you can also change the amount of video memory the VM has (so if you want good performance, you may want to increase that).

VRU

oh okay I will just test and let you know, thanks! for your prompt response.

@EliahKagan I guess as I am using VMWare Player there are not much of options... and 3D- accelerator seems to be with nvidea i don't see for ati... may be i will try installing vmware work station

Eliah Kagan

4:26 PM

@VRU Yeah, VMware Workstation should let you do that. But if you don't have it, you can also manually edit the .vmx file.

VRU

oh okay...

@EliahKagan signing off for the day, see you tomorrow

Eliah Kagan

@VRU Bye.

Amith KK

5:02 PM

appears

Today was awesome

so was yesterday

Amith KK

5:17 PM

lifehacker.com/5980182/…

2

Joshua

@AmithKK if it is on lifehacker then it has to be good...

@AmithKK I am curious though as to what they would deem suspicious...

Amith KK

@Joshua High ranges of IP adresses

Joshua

Yeah and maybe odd geographic locations...

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: How do you look for duplicates of a question?

I am looking for tips how to find out if a question is (possibly) a duplicate. I see how I can use my "google fu" to do it, and I am certain that many of you "know" it just by reading the question. Do you search for every question?

discussion

jrg

5:43 PM

@AmithKK ew, lifehacker.

an interesting idea though.

Amith KK

BBT

good night

Ask Ubuntu Meta

5:58 PM

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Q: What should be done for an answer that I provided but which I won't be able to update?

Please take a look at my answer to gnome-terminal tabs are very dark, difficult to tell which tab is in use. I'm now using Lubuntu and don't use GNOME terminal or gedit. For this reason, I won't be in a position to update my answer if the need arises. What should be done?

support

gertvdijk

6:20 PM

Here is my sound card description in answer. — Daniel Yunus 15 mins ago

^-- can somebody tell this user to not use answers as ways to provide more info? I commented twice already, still keeps posting as answers.

maggotbrain

9:34 PM

What is the policy on cross-posting the same question across SE sites within minutes? I've read the Meta question about it, but don't see anything actionable

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Q: Browse through file databases created by updatedb (locate)?

Having indexed external drives using updatedb -l 0 ... I wonder whether there is already a (GUI) browser like Nautilus to navigate 'offline' through the indexed files. Note: locate -d DB . gives the whole list of files. Plus: What format are the DBs -- sqlite?

nautilus tracker locate updatedb desktop-search

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Q: Is there a browser for updatedb/locate databases?

Having indexed external drives using updatedb -l 0 -o db_file -U source_directory I wonder whether there is already a (GUI) browser (nautilus :) to navigate 'offline' through the files.

file indexing tracker locate desktop-search

Should they be "cross-linked" in a comment to each question?

guntbert

9:53 PM

@Seth sometimes all efforts to make something readable seem to be in vain :) (Empathy Notifications ? How open Emphaty from envelope?)

Lucio

10:07 PM

is there any of why this is not working? precisely this statement: Posts.CreationDate = @CreationDate work with > or < but not with =

Lucio

10:53 PM

There is a PHP error in a w3.org page: w3.org/International/questions/qa-date-format.es.php insteresting..

FEichinger

Huh? Where?

@Urbycoz wait a couple years and it will be in every dictionary, just like "to google" and "to facebook". And again, using numbers to spell words is not grammatically wrong. The grammar of a sentence does not change in the slightest if you replace "plus" with "+" or "you" with "u". Which is why we have textspeak. Or Morse code, for that matter. — RegDwighт Mar 14 '12 at 20:21

... Soo ... "to facebook" is a verb now?

A legitimate and commonly used one, that is?

Eliah Kagan

@maggotbrain Thx, I've commented on the one on Stack Overflow (it's off-topic there so it will probably just be closed there and kept open here, probably there is no need to comment on the one here).

@FEichinger "Google" and "facebook" are pretty commonly used, in informal speech and writing, as verbs, with or without capitalization. I don't know what it means for a word to be "legitimate" or not, so I can't answer that part.

FEichinger

11:10 PM

@EliahKagan I've never ever heard anyone use FB as a verb, and it seems weirder than using Google as a verb by ... a very long stretch.

Eliah Kagan

"He Facebooked it."

FEichinger

I only heard that as "He posted it on Facebook." or similar.

Eliah Kagan

@FEichinger I don't think it's weirder, but I would be interested to know if "Google" is used more broadly than "Facebook." I don't mean more commonly. Rather, I'd be interested to know if people use "Google" to encompass searching the web with search engines other than Google. I suspect that some people do, and that in comparison very few people use "Facebook" as a verb to describe posting something on other social networking sites besides Facebook.

FEichinger

@EliahKagan Well, according to Microsoft Googling on Bing is fine. :P

Seth

11:49 PM

@guntbert yeah really :/

Jorge Castro

11:59 PM

@Seth

askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/78374

this edit makes no sense

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