[07:48] <ziroday> Hi, can I access launchpad or the wiki etc with my openid account? Or only through the launchpad openid?
[12:50] <SiDi> hello
[12:50] <SiDi> newz2000: for the start.ubuntu.com, unless we wanna have headaches, there is a simple workaround
[12:51] <SiDi> 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] <SiDi2> having wifi trouble :d
[12:54] <SiDi2> newz2000: there alsoo are a few syntax errors in the page
[12:54] <SiDi2> missing / at the end of input and meta
[12:54] <SiDi2> (and yeh, thats dramatical :D)
[15:19] <SiDi> Hello
[15:23] <newz2000> hey SiDi
[15:23] <newz2000> Thanks for your work on the start page, I'll give it a try.
[15:23] <SiDi> Hello
[15:24] <SiDi> 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] <newz2000> Yes, I've done that too, the problem is never the HTML
[15:25] <newz2000> that is easy
[15:25] <newz2000> the trick is making graphics that work with flexible widths
[15:25] <SiDi> the problem here is directly related to the html ;)
[15:26] <SiDi> the size element of a text input should almost never be used, as it implicitely fixes an min-width
[15:26] <SiDi> which was too large, in our case
[15:30] <newz2000> regarding the xhtml, it is actually finished in the trunk, waiting for translation updates to go live
[15:30] <newz2000> s/finished/fixed
[20:01] <SiDi> Hello
[20:04] <newz2000> Salut
[20:11] <SiDi> 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] <SiDi> hehe :)
[20:11] <newz2000> use it or lose it they say
[20:12] <SiDi> Exactly
[20:12] <SiDi> and i'm losing my spanish little by little
[20:12] <SiDi> (which sucks, for someone of spanish origin :P)
[20:12] <SiDi> UDS will be a good training ! :)
[20:12] <newz2000> yeah
[20:12] <newz2000> I won't be there for UDS but will a week prior for canonical meetings
[20:12] <SiDi> i will *try* to be there
[20:13] <newz2000> SiDi: where are you located currently?
[20:13] <SiDi> still have to convince a few persons that my networks orals can be postponed at uni
[20:13] <SiDi> south of france
[20:13] <SiDi> 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] <newz2000> you're not too far
[20:14] <newz2000> it would be a shame not to go
[20:14] <newz2000> but a degree is important. :-)
[20:14] <SiDi> Well, if they weren't so badly organised... i still don't know when i'll have my exams :D
[20:27] <gata> a noob here needs help plz
[20:28] <gata> i want to use my machine as an ftp server so dat friends can access from anywhere
[20:28] <gata> i have ubuntu intrepid installed
[20:28] <newz2000> gata: plz is spelled "please" and instead of "dat" you should say "that"
[20:28] <newz2000> If you want to help with this website, this is the right channel.
[20:29] <gata> ok thanks
[20:29] <gata> news2000, thanks, i appreciate
[20:30] <gata> 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] <newz2000> gata: what part of the world are you in?
[20:30] <SiDi> we can assume your machine is configured. can you login from localhost ?
[20:31] <gata> i will appreciate a kind of step-by-step guide to do this
[20:31] <newz2000> gata: that is here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FtpServer
[20:31] <newz2000> but you may have better luck with a local user group
[20:31] <newz2000> getting it set up is not too hard, getting to it from outside your own network is challenging
[20:31] <gata> Sidi: yes i can
[20:32] <SiDi> and not from outside ?
[20:32] <SiDi> and just like that, did you configure your router to redirect port 22 tcp traffic to your computer ?
[20:32] <gata> that's what i do not know how to do
[20:34] <SiDi> We can barely help you on that.
[20:34] <SiDi> Unless you have exactly the same ISP as me :D
[20:34] <newz2000> right, thats why I asked where you're located gata
[20:34] <newz2000> I'd get in touch with a local user group or a loco team
[20:35] <newz2000> probably someone close to you has already done it
[20:35] <gata> dublin
[20:36] <newz2000> you're in luck
[20:36] <gata> really? how? when?
[20:36] <newz2000> (wiki is moving slow, just a sec)
[20:36] <jpds> "dublin.eircom.net] has joined #ubuntu-website"
[20:36] <newz2000> http://www.ubuntu-ie.org/
[20:37] <newz2000> gata: ^
[20:37] <newz2000> they have forums, an email list and even an IRC channel
[20:37] <jpds> And also; #ubuntu-ie and #ubuntu-server can help too.
[20:38] <newz2000> Every time I see that animated banner I think that this team is so awesome.
[20:38] <gata> newz2000, jpds: thanks a million, i appreciate. i will try now. i have been on this for over 6hours
[20:38] <newz2000> gata: if that fails (ftp is especially challenging)
[20:38] <newz2000> look into the web dav module for apache 2
[20:38] <newz2000> it can do the same thing and may be easier to pass through the firewall
[20:39] <newz2000> (but you do stil have to contend with the firewall)
[20:40] <gata> ok. i will try ftp first. if that fails, i will try apache
[20:41] <SiDi> hm ftp active mode doesnt support NAT static traversal, right ?
[20:42] <newz2000> I think you have to use pasv mode
[20:42] <SiDi> yeh, at least for the connection part
[20:43] <newz2000> it may work OK if the ftp server is behind the nat though
[20:44] <SiDi> i'll have to try that one day, to check out how it works
[20:44] <newz2000> I gave up on FTP a while ago
[20:45] <newz2000> webdav is better, sftp is better yet
[20:46] <SiDi> i used to use sftp, too
[20:46] <SiDi> anyways if i want a file to be downloadable from the outside, i put it on the apache serv
[20:47] <newz2000> I actually did have a problem the other day where I was trying to share a 2.8GB file with someone
[20:47] <newz2000> my apache is only 32b so it wouldn't serve the file
[20:48] <SiDi> what's the limit, exactly ?
[20:48] <newz2000> 2GB for 32b apache
[20:48] <newz2000> apparently