[07:48] Hi, can I access launchpad or the wiki etc with my openid account? Or only through the launchpad openid? [12:50] hello [12:50] newz2000: for the start.ubuntu.com, unless we wanna have headaches, there is a simple workaround [12:51] you can just put the size of the text input to 37/38 instead of 40 for when it's a little too big [12:54] having wifi trouble :d [12:54] newz2000: there alsoo are a few syntax errors in the page [12:54] missing / at the end of input and meta [12:54] (and yeh, thats dramatical :D) [15:19] Hello [15:23] hey SiDi [15:23] Thanks for your work on the start page, I'll give it a try. [15:23] Hello [15:24] Well, if you ask me early enough for karmic, i can code you a page in proper and completely flexible (em-based widths/heights) css, i did it for my portfolio and it really works well. [15:25] Yes, I've done that too, the problem is never the HTML [15:25] that is easy [15:25] the trick is making graphics that work with flexible widths [15:25] the problem here is directly related to the html ;) [15:26] the size element of a text input should almost never be used, as it implicitely fixes an min-width [15:26] which was too large, in our case [15:30] regarding the xhtml, it is actually finished in the trunk, waiting for translation updates to go live [15:30] s/finished/fixed [20:01] Hello [20:04] Salut [20:11] Salut newz2000 , ça va ? :P [20:11] * newz2000 took three years of French in school and now can only say "hello" and count to 10 [20:11] hehe :) [20:11] use it or lose it they say [20:12] Exactly [20:12] and i'm losing my spanish little by little [20:12] (which sucks, for someone of spanish origin :P) [20:12] UDS will be a good training ! :) [20:12] yeah [20:12] I won't be there for UDS but will a week prior for canonical meetings [20:12] i will *try* to be there [20:13] SiDi: where are you located currently? [20:13] still have to convince a few persons that my networks orals can be postponed at uni [20:13] south of france [20:13] it's my last year there, and i've got family in barcelona, so i dont wanna lose my chance to go there this year [20:14] you're not too far [20:14] it would be a shame not to go [20:14] but a degree is important. :-) [20:14] Well, if they weren't so badly organised... i still don't know when i'll have my exams :D [20:27] a noob here needs help plz [20:28] i want to use my machine as an ftp server so dat friends can access from anywhere [20:28] i have ubuntu intrepid installed [20:28] gata: plz is spelled "please" and instead of "dat" you should say "that" [20:28] If you want to help with this website, this is the right channel. [20:29] ok thanks [20:29] news2000, thanks, i appreciate [20:30] i have vsftpd installed. but i do not know how to configure my machine to make it accessible through the internet by my friends [20:30] gata: what part of the world are you in? [20:30] we can assume your machine is configured. can you login from localhost ? [20:31] i will appreciate a kind of step-by-step guide to do this [20:31] gata: that is here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FtpServer [20:31] but you may have better luck with a local user group [20:31] getting it set up is not too hard, getting to it from outside your own network is challenging [20:31] Sidi: yes i can [20:32] and not from outside ? [20:32] and just like that, did you configure your router to redirect port 22 tcp traffic to your computer ? [20:32] that's what i do not know how to do [20:34] We can barely help you on that. [20:34] Unless you have exactly the same ISP as me :D [20:34] right, thats why I asked where you're located gata [20:34] I'd get in touch with a local user group or a loco team [20:35] probably someone close to you has already done it [20:35] dublin [20:36] you're in luck [20:36] really? how? when? [20:36] (wiki is moving slow, just a sec) [20:36] "dublin.eircom.net] has joined #ubuntu-website" [20:36] http://www.ubuntu-ie.org/ [20:37] gata: ^ [20:37] they have forums, an email list and even an IRC channel [20:37] And also; #ubuntu-ie and #ubuntu-server can help too. [20:38] Every time I see that animated banner I think that this team is so awesome. [20:38] newz2000, jpds: thanks a million, i appreciate. i will try now. i have been on this for over 6hours [20:38] gata: if that fails (ftp is especially challenging) [20:38] look into the web dav module for apache 2 [20:38] it can do the same thing and may be easier to pass through the firewall [20:39] (but you do stil have to contend with the firewall) [20:40] ok. i will try ftp first. if that fails, i will try apache [20:41] hm ftp active mode doesnt support NAT static traversal, right ? [20:42] I think you have to use pasv mode [20:42] yeh, at least for the connection part [20:43] it may work OK if the ftp server is behind the nat though [20:44] i'll have to try that one day, to check out how it works [20:44] I gave up on FTP a while ago [20:45] webdav is better, sftp is better yet [20:46] i used to use sftp, too [20:46] anyways if i want a file to be downloadable from the outside, i put it on the apache serv [20:47] I actually did have a problem the other day where I was trying to share a 2.8GB file with someone [20:47] my apache is only 32b so it wouldn't serve the file [20:48] what's the limit, exactly ? [20:48] 2GB for 32b apache [20:48] apparently === mpt_ is now known as mpt