| Firefishe | that would've been perfect | 00:00 |
|---|---|---|
| PsynoKhi0 | darn | 00:00 |
| Firefishe | ya, tell me about it. | 00:00 |
| Firefishe | I could get one from Radio Shack, but all they have is a $50 universal...a bit too pricey for me. | 00:00 |
| Firefishe | At least right now. | 00:01 |
| PsynoKhi0 | I see | 00:01 |
| Firefishe | Actually, when my loans come available, I really want a new laptop and a BlackBerry Bold when they come out. They'll be out by then | 00:01 |
| Firefishe | Time to get my email system back online then, and I'm tired of slow on the phone/data side ;) | 00:01 |
| PsynoKhi0 | hehe | 00:02 |
| Firefishe | I figure I'll leave the gaming to my desktop that's been languishing in my bedroom for ages now | 00:02 |
| Firefishe | I'm going for portable and light, with a touch of power. | 00:02 |
| Firefishe | And anything that doesn't use Broadcom for a wi-fi card. | 00:02 |
| Firefishe | Atheros or Intell Pro/Wireless sound good choices for a linux system? | 00:03 |
| Firefishe | Intel | 00:03 |
| PsynoKhi0 | my knowledge of linux is lacking in many areas still... one of them being wireless support | 00:06 |
| PsynoKhi0 | :) | 00:06 |
| PsynoKhi0 | you can always have a look at this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported | 00:07 |
| PsynoKhi0 | crap, those are cards... | 00:09 |
| * Myrtti huggles her A-link USB dongle | 00:10 | |
| Firefishe | PsynoKhi0: It's okay, I'm pretty familiar with troubleshooting wireless card problems. I am, after all, the owner of three. Two built in's, and one pcmcia derivative. All BCM-4306 though. How weird is that? | 00:13 |
| PsynoKhi0 | 3 is enough to say "never Broadcom again, ever" then? | 00:14 |
| Firefishe | make that 4 | 00:14 |
| Firefishe | my wife's hp laptop is the same as my compaq...same chassis exactly, same processor, same freakin' bcm-4306 chip...but it died earlier than my compaq did | 00:15 |
| PsynoKhi0 | the safest might be to check the chipset and do a quick serach prior to buying | 00:15 |
| PsynoKhi0 | heh | 00:15 |
| Firefishe | the mac g4 powerbook 1ghz aluminum 15-incher is still goin' strong...but it's hers now and if I even tried to keep it from her, I'd be melted into slag by her adroit x-ray vision ;) hee | 00:15 |
| PsynoKhi0 | :) | 00:15 |
| Firefishe | I actually gave her the mac so she'd have something that works | 00:16 |
| Firefishe | ubuntu for power pc is on the other partition ;) hee | 00:16 |
| Firefishe | <--sneaky | 00:16 |
| PsynoKhi0 | my laptop is a refurbished compaq toaster that has no builtin wireless whatsoever, I guess that's a headache less | 00:16 |
| PsynoKhi0 | :) | 00:17 |
| Firefishe | hee | 00:17 |
| Firefishe | toaster? | 00:17 |
| PsynoKhi0 | yup | 00:17 |
| Firefishe | xubuntu, no doubt? | 00:18 |
| gaurdro | shaped like one or really hot like one? | 00:18 |
| Firefishe | good query there gaurdro ;) hee | 00:18 |
| Firefishe | now I'm interested | 00:18 |
| PsynoKhi0 | harddrive sits at 53ish celsius most of the time, the RAM cover gets pretty uncomfy to leave you hand on after a couple of hours | 00:18 |
| PsynoKhi0 | dang... I'd say... both! | 00:19 |
| Firefishe | hot like a toaster | 00:19 |
| Firefishe | got a desktop processor in there? | 00:19 |
| PsynoKhi0 | duron mobile... so you can say that | 00:19 |
| gaurdro | don't they shove those in servers? | 00:19 |
| PsynoKhi0 | nope, opterons are server CPUs | 00:20 |
| Firefishe | duron mobile's are okay... | 00:20 |
| Firefishe | My big thing now is deciding if I want to get a pen-tablet | 00:20 |
| PsynoKhi0 | I've never owned a lappy prior to this one so I have no clue what's accptable em wise | 00:21 |
| Firefishe | I need to be able to compile on it....too small a system and I'll be waiting aeons for software to compile ;) | 00:21 |
| PsynoKhi0 | heh | 00:21 |
| PsynoKhi0 | acceptable temp wine* | 00:21 |
| PsynoKhi0 | GRRRRRRR | 00:21 |
| PsynoKhi0 | acceptable temp wiSe* | 00:21 |
| PsynoKhi0 | there | 00:21 |
| Firefishe | I'm just so glad that most of my stuff for gnu/linux is already available in binary at this point. I don't have to compile stuff much anymore. | 00:21 |
| Firefishe | ubuntu has simplified my life tremendously | 00:22 |
| Firefishe | debian also | 00:22 |
| PsynoKhi0 | true | 00:22 |
| === Genely1 is now known as Genelyk | ||
| Firefishe | What's nice about deb is that I can, when I'm ready, play around with all those cool embedded systems. | 00:23 |
| PsynoKhi0 | still, there always the "do I really need that?"... :P | 00:23 |
| Firefishe | oh heck, PsynoKhi0, I usually just install every development tool I can get, including the f77 fortran compiler ;) hee | 00:23 |
| PsynoKhi0 | uh | 00:23 |
| Firefishe | speeds up compiling quite a bit | 00:24 |
| Firefishe | f77 library, actually | 00:24 |
| Firefishe | algorithms for compiling, not a compiler itself...I need to be accurate about these things | 00:24 |
| PsynoKhi0 | speaking of HP/Compaq... has anyone upgraded a firmware using their exes on a linux box? | 00:27 |
| Firefishe | PsynoKhi0: That sounds tough. Doesn't that imply a need for being divorced at least once? | 00:28 |
| Firefishe | j;) | 00:28 |
| Firefishe | ;) | 00:28 |
| Firefishe | firmware upgrade using your exes. that just sounds.....wrong ;) | 00:28 |
| PsynoKhi0 | .exe files :P | 00:28 |
| Firefishe | ohthatwuzit, ic | 00:29 |
| Firefishe | ;) | 00:29 |
| Firefishe | :P lol | 00:29 |
| PsynoKhi0 | :) | 00:29 |
| Firefishe | Well, the company is in good humour, that's fer sure :) | 00:29 |
| PsynoKhi0 | pretty crazy how bad the air flow must be in that thing | 00:32 |
| PsynoKhi0 | a fan on the cpu, a tiny one near the power plug and that's it... | 00:34 |
| PsynoKhi0 | nothing near RAM nor HDD | 00:34 |
| PsynoKhi0 | they should have carved "please fry" on the case | 00:34 |
| Firefishe | heh | 00:39 |
| === pv2b_ is now known as pv2b | ||
| Bakedleaf | hello? | 02:59 |
| Bakedleaf | can someone help me connect to my wireless network with ubuntu? | 03:00 |
| Bakedleaf | xubuntu* | 03:01 |
| lostogre | Bakedleaf: whats the prob? | 03:01 |
| lostogre | Bakedleaf: ?? | 03:05 |
| === David is now known as Guest95229 | ||
| Guest95229 | where is everyone | 03:07 |
| === emma_ is now known as emma | ||
| Luzer | does anybody know if xbox/xubuntu has a limit on the / size? | 04:06 |
| Myrtti | why would it have? | 04:09 |
| Luzer | i dont believe it does but im trying to install (x)ubuntu on my xbox(orginal) and it seems to be stuck at "make rootfs" | 04:10 |
| Myrtti | hm | 04:11 |
| Myrtti | it just might be that there is something else stalling it | 04:11 |
| Luzer | any ideas what it might be? | 04:12 |
| Luzer | i let it install at the default2gb and it works. only when i try to make the partition size bigger it seems to freeze | 04:13 |
| Myrtti | do you have enough RAM? | 04:15 |
| Luzer | that is the thing. it is for the xbox | 04:15 |
| wols | Myrtti: 64MB | 04:28 |
| wols | Luzer: ext3 has a limit yes, but that's in the terrabyte or petabyte area | 04:29 |
| Luzer | that is what i figured....im going to try a diffrent cd | 04:30 |
| wols | Luzer: try making the fs manually with mkfs maybe? | 04:31 |
| Luzer | xubunt has a install script that im using. | 04:32 |
| === worm is now known as totalwormage | ||
| cherrry | can i install more effects on hardy? | 13:01 |
| cherrry | from wher I will get it? | 13:02 |
| cherrry | Help me plz.. | 13:02 |
| TheSheep | effects? | 13:02 |
| cherrry | visual efects | 13:02 |
| TheSheep | !compiz | 13:03 |
| ubottu | Compiz (compositing window manager) and XGL (X server architecture layered on top of OpenGL) - Howto at http://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager - help in #compiz-fusion | 13:03 |
| cherrry | http://www.metacafe.com/watch/876290/windows_vista_with_beryl_affect/ | 13:03 |
| cherrry | plz check these visual effects | 13:03 |
| cherrry | i have the default efects with compiz... | 13:04 |
| TheSheep | cherrry: ubuntu has it out of the box, if you have computer that can handle those effects, it can probably also handle ubuntu just fine | 13:04 |
| cherrry | but compiz is working fine for me.. | 13:04 |
| TheSheep | oh, ok then | 13:04 |
| cherrry | but on dat video i found some thing more... | 13:04 |
| cherrry | please note dAT MINIMIZE EFFECT... | 13:05 |
| TheSheep | cherrry: it's Windows Vista, a completely different operating system | 13:05 |
| TheSheep | cherrry: no? | 13:05 |
| cherrry | plz watch the video completely | 13:05 |
| TheSheep | besides, we don't do compiz support here, its on #compiz-fusion | 13:06 |
| wols | a!ccsm | 13:06 |
| wols | !ccsm | 13:06 |
| ubottu | To enable advanced customization of desktop effects in Ubuntu: install 'compizconfig-settings-manager' or 'simple-ccsm'. If you install the latter, a new option will appear in your appearance properties - See also !compiz - Help in #compiz-fusion | 13:06 |
| cherrry | ok thankz..... | 13:07 |
| cherrry | join #compiz-fusion | 13:07 |
| === Twinkletoes|W_ is now known as Twinkletoes|W | ||
| The_Sorrow | uhm, well hello... i would have a few questions here | 13:47 |
| TheSheep | !ask | 13:49 |
| ubottu | Please don't ask to ask a question, ask the question (all on ONE line, so others can read and follow it easily). If anyone knows the answer they will most likely answer. :-) | 13:49 |
| The_Sorrow | ok, thanks... so... i would like to know how i can connect to a windowsserver which has an account with my username... | 13:51 |
| cody-somerville | What do you mean a "windows server"? | 13:52 |
| The_Sorrow | well, the server runs with windows... it's the one from my school | 13:53 |
| The_Sorrow | and to access the network-folders and the other stuff i have to connect with an accountname and a password... | 13:54 |
| The_Sorrow | but somehow i don't know how i can do it with xubuntu as i am new with it (just changed some days ago to linux and i see that it has potential) | 13:55 |
| * Myrtti tries to grasp a word | 13:56 | |
| Myrtti | The_Sorrow: do you use citrix or some other similar application to connect to it? | 13:56 |
| The_Sorrow | well i wasn't able to try till now as i have still holidays... | 13:57 |
| The_Sorrow | and to be honest... i don't have any idea how i could connect to it ^^''' | 13:59 |
| tsiros | hello all... google searching returns irrelevant things sooo: do i have the option to force vsync? | 14:00 |
| tsiros | so that i do not get tearing when moving windows about? | 14:00 |
| tsiros | if it's easy but you're bored to explain just give me a couple keywords and i will google / man / wiki my way from there | 14:01 |
| tsiros | i have the s3 driver if it matters | 14:05 |
| tsiros | thanks anyway | 14:07 |
| The_Sorrow | well, could anybody help me out? | 14:08 |
| maxamillion | The_Sorrow: what's the issue? | 14:12 |
| The_Sorrow | well, i am new to linux and i want to know how i can connect to my school's server which is running windows... my problem is that i don't know how i can connect to it. i need a username and a password to be able to use the full server with it's folders and all the other stuff | 14:14 |
| bassboi | are you talking about the windows remote desktop stuff? | 14:15 |
| The_Sorrow | uhm, no... it's localized. i can only connect to it if i am in the network | 14:16 |
| Myrtti | so samba then? | 14:16 |
| Myrtti | probably... | 14:16 |
| The_Sorrow | i know, my english is bad, not my native language, but i try my best | 14:16 |
| The_Sorrow | hm... i'll give samba a try | 14:17 |
| The_Sorrow | can i install with samba the network printers as well? | 14:21 |
| The_Sorrow | on my machine | 14:22 |
| The_Sorrow | uhm O.o''' where's samba? i installed it, but it doesn't show up... | 14:26 |
| bytor4232 | Samba is a service. You actually need smbclient and smbfs to connect to a windows server. | 14:32 |
| bytor4232 | apt-get install smbfs smbclient | 14:32 |
| The_Sorrow | thanks :) | 14:33 |
| bytor4232 | Once their installed, look at the man pages for smbmount and smbclient. Use smbumount to unmount stuff mounted by smbmount. | 14:33 |
| The_Sorrow | man? manual? | 14:34 |
| wols | The_Sorrow: "man <command>" yes | 14:37 |
| wols | bytor4232: not anymore. one uses "mount" | 14:37 |
| The_Sorrow | thanks ;) | 14:38 |
| The_Sorrow | is there also a graphical interface? | 14:38 |
| wols | for what? | 14:40 |
| DavidTangye | Hi all. I just installed xubuntu desktop. Printers do not seem to be automatically detected. What do I do to enable this, so it will load the appropriate driver? | 14:40 |
| wols | !cups | DavidTangye | 14:40 |
| ubottu | DavidTangye: Printing in Ubuntu is done with cups. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Printers - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsPrinters - http://linuxprinting.org - Printer sharing: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkPrintingFromWindows | 14:40 |
| The_Sorrow | uhm, for the mounting of the drives and so on... i don't want to screw anything up with the server if i do i'll be in very big trouble ~.~ | 14:41 |
| bytor4232 | The_Sorrow: Your not going to screw anything up more than if you mapped it as a network drive in Windows. | 14:42 |
| DavidTangye | Ok, thanks. Thats the same as for Ubuntu. I would have thought cups would be already loaded as a dependency of the desktop. The PC is not here, so I will need to confirm this later. | 14:42 |
| The_Sorrow | hm... but to access them i need to enter a username and password... | 14:43 |
| DavidTangye | So when I plugged a usb printer in (Canon MPS520) nothing happened. Any guesses why? | 14:43 |
| wols | DavidTangye: lsusb | 14:45 |
| DavidTangye | Thanks |wols. I remember I did that ... a few hours ago. It showed the 2 usb ports. Hmmm ... but the nearest supported printer in the list at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsPrintersCanon refers to 'Add Printer'. I started to do that but did not see a USB port. so I stopped. What shuold I have selected there? | 14:48 |
| DavidTangye | ... I remember BSD, um, HP Jet driver, parallel etc, no USB though. | 14:49 |
| DavidTangye | The PC is not here so I am working on memory, sorry I cant be more clear withe more details. | 14:50 |
| DavidTangye | Just checked with this Ubuntu box though .. .same Printer Utility... Its the Select Device that I need to get right. Methinks IPP? Anyway i shall play with that. | 14:52 |
| DavidTangye | Thanks for the help. | 14:53 |
| DavidTangye | 1 more question: Which cheap PCI card sold in Australia works with WPA (1 or 2)? Most seem to need WEP. | 14:54 |
| deepfriedsquirre | I coukld install Quake 4 on an installation of xubuntu over the top of an installation of ubuntu, but now that I'm on a plain xubuntu I'm getting: 'The setup program seems to have failed on x86_64/glibc-2.0' | 16:09 |
| TheSheep | deepfriedsquirre: was your previous install 32 bit, and this is 64 bit? | 16:37 |
| surki | hi. Using Xubuntu 8.04. I am not able to play vlc in full screen (panels are showing). any idea? | 18:11 |
| surki | anybody around? | 18:15 |
| cody-somerville | Hi | 18:15 |
| surki | ping | 18:22 |
| bytor4232 | Sorry about the log outs and in. Playing with Xinerama | 18:29 |
| jdrake | I have a xubuntu 8.04 image and would like to know if there would be a simple way to upgrade the image to 8.04.1 without redownloading it. | 18:58 |
| === tuna-fish is now known as tuna | ||
| JinKazama | hi all | 21:02 |
| cody-somerville | Hi | 21:04 |
| cody-somerville | :] | 21:04 |
| chris_debian | Hi, all. | 21:33 |
| chris_debian | I've just installed xubuntu-restricted-extras, as I thought this would enable me to rip my CD's to mp3's. Does anyone know the best way to achieve this? | 21:34 |
| chris_debian | Strange....some text missing | 21:34 |
| chris_debian | I've just installed xubuntu-restricted-extras.... | 21:34 |
| wols | chris_debian: dpkg -l|grep lame | 21:35 |
| chris_debian | 2 secs....not sure if installed.... | 21:35 |
| chris_debian | Returned liblame0 | 21:35 |
| wols | good. that is a mp3 encode. best one there is | 21:36 |
| wols | now you need a ripper. dunno what to use there tho | 21:36 |
| chris_debian | Any idea how I can use it. Can I use it with Sound Juicer for example? | 21:36 |
| wols | !Info cdex | 21:36 |
| ubottu | Package cdex does not exist in hardy | 21:36 |
| chris_debian | exit | 21:36 |
| chris_debian | Sorry...wrong window.... | 21:36 |
| chris_debian | Still here | 21:37 |
| chris_debian | Just confirmed cdex not available | 21:37 |
| chris_debian | Can anyone else help? | 21:38 |
| chris_debian | I know I should rip to ogg,but my girlfriends Archos doesn't support that. | 21:39 |
| chris_debian | This did the job: | 21:49 |
| chris_debian | http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=957&page=6 | 21:49 |
| chris_debian | Cheers, all. | 21:50 |
| chris_debian | Hi, can anyone suggest a good CD ripper? Sound Juicer keeps crashing. I need to be able to rip mp3's, but have liblame installed. | 22:10 |
| zoredache | I must shamefully admit that I just use iTunes on my mac.... :| | 22:11 |
| chris_debian | Nice..... ;-) | 22:11 |
| zoredache | sound juicer worked ok for me a while ago, but I haven't used it since feisty I think... | 22:12 |
| chris_debian | Gets so far and then crashes. No memory or cpu problems, must be buggy. | 22:12 |
| zoredache | do you get an error or anything? | 22:13 |
| chris_debian | Maybe time to try something that's not quite as pretty. | 22:13 |
| chris_debian | Nope, just randomly crashes. | 22:13 |
| zoredache | you might try starting it from a terminal to see if you get anything on stdout/stderr | 22:13 |
| chris_debian | I'll have a look at the available packages and search on extract | 22:13 |
| chris_debian | That will be job number 2. I need to try to rip a CD first. | 22:13 |
| === adam is now known as maxBerry | ||
| === karltk_ is now known as karltk | ||
| === maxamillion is now known as maxBerry | ||
| arthur02 | i need a little help, with my 8.04 Ubuntu distro | 23:15 |
| diogo | hey I was thinking about putting xubuntu on my pc because prefer xfce (not because of hardware) but how does it works better on ATI than ubuntu? Or it doesn't? I saw that depending on the distro whatever it is ATI has totally different performance!! | 23:18 |
| zoredache | arthur02: if you want help you'll need to ask your question... If somebody knows the answer they may respond | 23:18 |
| zoredache | diogo: there should be no different in video performance between ubuntu and xubuntu for the same release | 23:19 |
| diogo | k... and I saw that xubuntu xfce is kinda gnomish... is it th intention? | 23:20 |
| zoredache | diogo: xfce uses gtk, so does gnome | 23:22 |
| diogo | yeah I know but the default look looks like the gnome look... don't just a comment.... I'll try it out | 23:22 |
| arthur02 | ok, i have a dual boot system, ubuntu with another "OS" Windows Xp, i recently was obligated to reformat my windows partition and reinstalled everything, but in this process i lost my ubuntu partition, i already check my ubuntu cd installation but it says that it doesn't come with rescue tool, what can i do? (Sorry for my english, i only speak in spanish) | 23:23 |
| TheSheep | !grub | 23:23 |
| ubottu | grub is the default Ubuntu boot manager. Lost grub after installing windows: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows - Making GRUB floppies & other GRUB howtos: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto | 23:23 |
| TheSheep | arthur02: see the first link in there --^ | 23:23 |
| arthur02 | thank you guys | 23:24 |
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