[00:24] <confusious> anybody here able to tell me why when I try to upload pics to myspace,myspace for some reason is only seeing 1 pic out of about 7 that are on the desktop ?
[00:27] <knome> wrong file type?
[00:28] <knome> wrong file extension?
[00:29] <confusious> hmmmm I don't think so.they were all taken with the same cameraphone.I did change the name of the pics but I've done that before with no problem..It's realy weird
[00:32] <knome> i don't know myspace so i can't help any further
[00:32] <knome> just some ideas
[00:33] <confusious> Well,thanks very much anyway.Just thought I could maybe get some ideas about where to go or something
[00:33] <knome> yeah
[01:32] <Balsaq> good evening xubuntu tribal council...
[01:40] <knome> ha
[02:19] <Balsaq> I need to assign the output to a variable. In bourne shell it would be VAR=`application argument0 argument1`.
[02:22] <bj0> how do you disable the screensaver from locking the screen?
[02:24] <Balsaq> Maybe automatically disable/change screensaver/monitor power off when any program is in full screen mode.
[02:26] <bj0> i mean when it just idles long enough for the screen saver to come on...
[02:27] <charlie-tca> bj0: Applications -> Settings -> Screensaver should have a checkbox for it
[02:27] <bj0> it's not checked
[02:29] <Balsaq> I
[02:29] <Balsaq> grabbed "no screen saver" real quick as it entered
[02:29] <Balsaq> the screen saver and that seems to have done it.
[02:29] <bj0> grabbed 'no screen saver'?
[02:30] <Balsaq> I tried to jump to the
[02:30] <Balsaq> >> settings quickly to disable it before the image
[02:30] <Balsaq> >> displays, but no go.
[02:32] <bj0> i'm assuming it's xscreensaver that's locking it
[02:34] <bj0> i'm using the test version of 10.04 tho, so maybe i should be posting this to the mailing list? ><
[02:34] <confusious> hello again everybody
[02:35] <Balsaq> you could try disabling/removing the lines that start a screensaver daemon in /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc to prevent locking in Xubuntu 9.04 or less. You could remove this:
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[02:35] <Balsaq> # Launch xscreensaver (if available), but only as non-root user
[02:35] <Balsaq> if test $UID -gt 0 -a -z "$VNCSESSION"; then
[02:35] <Balsaq>     if test x"`which xscreensaver 2>/dev/null`" != x""; then
[02:35] <Balsaq>         xscreensaver -no-splash &
[02:35] <Balsaq>     elif test x"`which gnome-screensaver 2>/dev/null`" != x""; then
[02:36] <Balsaq>         gnome-screensaver &
[02:36] <Balsaq>     fi
[02:36] <Balsaq> fi
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[02:36] <Balsaq> If you still want xflock4 to work, install xlockmore.
[02:36] <Balsaq> Xubuntu 9.10 uses xfce4-power-manager for which there is a setting not to lock screen when going to suspend/hibernate
[02:38] <charlie-tca> Maybe that is where it is now in lucid too
[02:39] <charlie-tca> bj0: Asking on the mailing list may not get an answer either. You do need to specify that it is Lucid. Try in #ubuntu+1, too
[02:39] <confusious> maybe someone could help me with this...is there anything I could do to make my online experience any better ??when I go to certain websites {like myspace "photo upload",etc} my cpu just really maxes out & sometimes even seems to get stuck.I end up someites just killing the whole browser because of this.Is there anything I can do about this ? I have a 30-40 {can't remember} GB HD on this pc so that's not a problem
[02:40] <charlie-tca> try a different browser. How much memory do you have?
[02:40] <confusious> hmmmmmm 256 I think
[02:41] <bj0> charlie-tca, the only reason i was thinking of the mailing list is because the xubuntu testing wiki said to post stuff there
[02:41] <charlie-tca> yup
[02:42] <charlie-tca> but you need to specify the version to get the right help
[02:42] <Balsaq> the system monitor feature sucks up a lot of juice
[02:42] <bj0> right, i was thinking more of "posting results" than of getting help
[02:42] <bj0> heh
[02:42] <charlie-tca> confusious: That would be the problem.
[02:43] <charlie-tca> with 256MB, you have to only have the browser open, without a lot of tabs
[02:43] <charlie-tca> or try midori or epiphany-browser
[02:44] <Balsaq> i have 512 rram on my xubuntu machine and it get to be over 256 all the time when i am in system monitor and on the internet
[02:44] <confusious> hmmmmmm according to system monitor I have 248.6MiB celeron
[02:44] <charlie-tca> Balsaq: system monitor sucks up the memory
[02:44] <confusious> I usualy don't run it
[02:45] <bj0> try running "free -m" in a terminal
[02:45] <confusious> what's "free -m" ?
[02:45] <syn-ack> try it and see
[02:45] <bj0> shows how much free memory you have (in megs)
[02:45] <confusious> okay I'll try
[02:46] <syn-ack> heh, I think I need to get 2 more gigs for this machine
[02:46] <bj0> i've got 8 gigs, it's wonderful :)
[02:47] <confusious> according to free -m.............                       total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
[02:47] <confusious> Mem:           248        243          5          0          1         46
[02:47] <confusious> -/+ buffers/cache:        194         54
[02:47] <confusious> Swap:          721        246        474
[02:47] <bj0> yikes
[02:47] <confusious> yeah
[02:51] <confusious> so,any suggestions other than buying more memory which I don't think can ahppen at the moment
[02:51] <xiainx> turn of any fancy graphical effect?
[02:51] <xiainx> Only have 1 workspace?
[02:51] <xiainx> does your video card have dedicated RAM?
[02:53] <confusious> ohh my God ! Whoa ! As far as I know,no fancy graphics.........2 workspaces so far
[02:53] <Balsaq> ram is sooo cheap now...bought a gig the other day for 17 bucks
[02:53] <confusious> don't know about that video card thing Can you tell me how to check ?
[02:54] <bj0> some old laptops can't fit much ram (mine only goes up to 256 + 512)
[02:54] <bj0> you can try using epiphany-browser for web browsing
[02:54] <confusious> old pc here balsaq besides,the woman is in charge of the $ right now DARMNIT !
[02:55] <Balsaq> ah
[02:55] <charlie-tca> And, depending on the country, ram can be very expensive yet
[02:55] <bj0> and don't open a lot of instances of it
[02:55] <Balsaq> i see
[02:55] <charlie-tca> try midori or epiphany instead of using firefox. They don't use as much memory
[02:55] <confusious> hey thanks for that info bjo I might try that
[02:56] <confusious> Yes,thank you all very much
[02:56] <Balsaq> anytime confucious
[02:56] <Balsaq> thank you for choosing xubuntu
[02:57] <confusious> If it weren't for a geek friend I would never even known there were different OS'S besides Microcrap
[02:59] <Balsaq> i like xp pro sp3 and w7...but xubuntu is so scrappy, you gotta luv it!
[03:00] <bj0> i can't ever give up multiple workspaces
[03:16] <xiainx> lol
[03:16] <xiainx> can someone tell me about compiz-fusion??
[03:16] <bj0> the most annoying thing about non-firefox browsers is i'm so use to "shift/ctrl+tab", it's so natural and none of the other ones let me change it :/
[03:16] <charlie-tca> !compiz
[03:17] <xiainx> thank you
[03:17] <bj0> that's neat, i wonder what else it can do
[03:17] <bj0> !gnome-do
[03:17] <bj0> nope :/
[03:17] <xiainx> !makemeasandwich
[03:17] <bj0> !sudomakemeasandwich
[03:17] <xiainx> hmmm
[03:18] <xiainx> !placehamandcheesebetweenbreadandbringittome
[03:18] <xiainx> not explicit enough, I guess
[03:20] <charlie-tca> You are welcome
[03:30] <charlie-tca> !ubottu > tell bj0 about you
[03:31] <charlie-tca> !ubottu | bj0
[03:31] <charlie-tca> !ubottu | xiainx
[08:44] <sealive> hi from germany i need help in understanding a installation of drivers
[08:45] <sealive> http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/WLAN/Karten#TP-Link there is the card wn332g
[08:46] <sealive> lsusb says exactly the card id
[11:17] <Balsaq> we are buried in snow and it keeps coming
[11:23] <knome> congrats
[11:50] <sealive> hi i need some help to install my wlanstick http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/WLAN/Zydas_ZD1211
[11:50] <sealive> i downloadet the driver package but there is no makefile in it
[11:51] <sealive> package is from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/zd1211/files/
[11:59] <TheSheep> sealive: apparently it contains already compiled binaries
[12:00] <TheSheep> sealive: ah, those are firmware images
[12:02] <TheSheep> sealive: maybe this post from their mailing list helps: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=412086.5684.qm@web23101.mail.ird.yahoo.com&forum_name=zd1211-devs
[12:04] <sealive> i do only have to copy them to the folder says the readme file
[12:04] <sealive> sudo cp zd1211_* /lib/firmware/zd1211
[12:04] <sealive> is this the right command
[12:05] <sealive> ther is a kernal folder under the lib folder
[12:05] <sealive> and in the kernal folder ther is a zd1211 folder
[12:36] <sealive> Hi how can i find out if a Modul is in the system?
[12:36] <sealive> sudo modprobe zd1211b does not fiind it
[12:44] <jlive> is anyone around?
[12:44] <Sysi> !ask
[12:44] <jlive> haha :) two seconds
[12:49] <jlive> SO I've installed karmic on an old pIII laptop,and on first boot, I get a GRUB error 'no such disk' and  then it goes through the boot process. And then, I get a black screen. I have tryed reconfiguring xorg but it just configures itself to a black screen. I can tty out of display 0, but the consolecomes short of the bottom of the screen and repeats itself. any response would be appreciated
[13:02] <jlive> !ask
[13:38] <topebwana> hi, anyone knows a gui desktop swicher for xfce/gnome/enlightment/...?
[13:54] <sealive> hi can i download multi packages(about100) at once from a list?
[13:55] <sealive> http://juve.ro/~juve/emc/package_list
[13:55] <sealive> reason is the pc that needs the programm has no way to connect to the internet
[14:00] <sealive> hi can i download multi packages(about100) at once from a list?
[14:00] <sealive> does wget mange this
[14:09] <sealive> as simple as it is wget -1 filelist.txt
[16:42] <sealive> hi from germany i'
[16:42] <sealive> i'v got a problem  no wlan
[16:42] <sealive> iwconfig says there is a card
[16:43] <sealive> wlan2
[16:43] <sealive> but the cars has a led this went off 10sec fter the card was plugt in
[16:44] <sealive> the card is a TP-wn322g system is xubunt 8.04
[16:45] <sealive> i followd this page http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/WLAN/Zydas_ZD1211
[16:47] <sealive> if i modeprob the driver modul sudo modprobe zd1211b  does fail
[16:47] <sealive> no modul
[17:11] <sealive> hi does this command download and istall the driver or only download it and ask where to put it
[17:11] <sealive> svn co https://zd1211.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/zd1211 zd1211
[17:11] <th0r> sealive: it should just ask where to put it...you will have to install it yourself.
[17:11] <sealive> i'am here on an karmic and want to use it for hardy
[17:14] <sealive> there are to new folders branches and trunk are they for diferent distros
[17:52] <hawkal> In Synaptic there is openjdk and sun jdk which one should I install (64bit system)?
[18:17] <confusious> hi all
[18:17] <confusious> wondering if anybody could help me with a little problem.............
[18:17] <knome> !ask | confusious
[18:18] <confusious> a little less than a week ago I interrupted a firefox update & this really seemed to scrwe things up..............
[18:19] <confusious> all files/folders on desk are gone....they are still here.......they were for some reason placed in one I had on the desk called funny pics
[18:21] <confusious> it seems that interrupting this upda {because I thought it was stuck} took all the files/folders off the desktop & reset everything
[18:22] <confusious> I mean everything.It's like I've got a frsh install of xubuntu & firefox
[18:22] <confusious> I would like to have all my old stuff back......including settings
[18:22] <confusious> can anybody tell me how to do this ?
[18:23] <confusious> so unfair !! I didn't ask for this ! Darnit !!
[18:24] <confusious> I thought Xubuntu was stable !
[18:24] <confusious> especially my old version
[18:24] <charlie-tca> Xubuntu is stable, but we can't account for things a user did to the system.
[18:25] <confusious> All I did was to stop an update that seemed hung !
[18:25] <charlie-tca> Apparently none of us have seen this issue before.
[18:25] <confusious> ahhhhhhhh !! Darnit
[18:26] <confusious> Well,it's gotto be something someonew did to my pc when I wasn't looking or maybe it's just because my comps ram is crap
[18:27] <confusious> Doesn't Xubuntu  have a way to like go back to a previous date & restore old settings & things ?
[18:27] <charlie-tca> nope
[18:28] <confusious> You're kidding !
[18:28] <charlie-tca> That would be windows, unless you have installed an application that will do it
[18:28] <confusious> Argh !
[18:28] <charlie-tca> I haven't needed such an application myself since I started using Ubuntu and Xubuntu in 2005
[18:28] <Sysi-> taking backups <- that's kidding
[18:29] <confusious> Shoot man there  must be a way
[18:29] <confusious> Argh !
[18:29] <knome> calm down please
[18:29] <confusious> he he
[18:29] <confusious> hi'ya knome
[18:29] <knome> hello
[18:31] <confusious> Okay.Well,I guess I'm stuck with doing things the slow way.Argh ! Oh,well
[18:31] <confusious> Thanks anyway everybody
[18:31] <confusious> Well then.Gotta go retrieve some more stuff
[18:32] <confusious> peace all
[18:33] <charlie-tca> everyday occurrence now?
[18:34] <knome> heh
[18:39] <topebwana> #ubuntu
[18:39] <knome> no, this is #xubuntu
[18:40]  * charlie-tca thinks thats our helpful knome ;-)
[18:41] <topebwana> how can i change?
[18:41]  * knome doesn't think much
[18:41] <knome> topebwana, /join #ubuntu
[18:41] <topebwana> thanks
[18:41] <knome> charlie-tca, see, i had that under a keystroke as well
[18:41] <charlie-tca> I know
[18:41] <charlie-tca> I was typing it
[18:41] <knome> :)
[18:41] <knome> t[tab] /join #u[tab]
[21:02] <confusious> hello again everybody
[21:07] <confusious> question...I had on my top panel a program called the "notes" plugin for the xfce4 desktop UNTIL a recent MAJOR disaster.Had alot of notes within thiis program.Had alot of things on the desktop also which disappeared which I have since found in another folder & returned to my desktop.Now...I would like to find all of those jotes also if possible.Can anyone possibly tell me where I might look for those ?
[21:07] <knome> the notes? what about trying to reload the panel plugin?
[21:08] <mr_pouit> confusious: should be in ~/.local/share/notes
[21:08] <confusious> Yeah,I tried that.Unforunately,it just gave me a new version of it
[21:08] <knome> see the file mr_pouit pointed you to then
[21:09] <knome> he's probably correct
[21:09] <confusious> So,mr_pouit,if I were to type this into a terminal I might be able to retrieve thos3e
[21:09] <confusious> ?
[21:09] <confusious> thank you.Will try
[21:10] <mr_pouit> yeah, it should work, if the new instance you started didn't erase everythin :]
[21:10] <mr_pouit> +g
[21:10] <confusious> Sorry what's  +g mean ?
[21:11] <confusious> I got  a readout that said "bash: /home/bobby/.local/share/notes: is a directory
[21:11] <confusious> "
[21:11] <mr_pouit> everythin+g = everything (I forgot the 'g' ;)
[21:12] <mr_pouit> confusious: yes, it's a directory, indeed. You should have inside one (or several) directories containing several notes
[21:14] <confusious> I get the same readout
[21:15] <confusious> I tried  ~/.local/share/notes +g   &  ~/.local/share/notes g    and the terminal just tells me that it's a directory
[21:15] <mr_pouit> raah, sorry, forget about the 'g'
[21:16] <mr_pouit> if you're not confident with xfce4-terminal, open thunar, hit ctrl+h to show hidden files/dirs, and go to .local/share/notes
[21:17] <confusious> tried that way first......am I supposed to put all of that in there ? including the squiggle & backslah etc ?
[21:17] <confusious> Hmmmmmmmm
[21:17] <confusious> Well,now,that's another idea
[21:17] <confusious> Let me try that
[21:19] <confusious> Shoot ! Looks like it may have all been erased
[21:20] <confusious> Shoot ! It looks like it may have all been erased
[21:20] <confusious> ooops
[21:20] <confusious> Could it be anywhere else mr-pouit ?
[21:21] <mr_pouit> confusious: which version do you use?
[21:22] <confusious> Xubuntu..........uhmm 8.0 or 8.10
[21:22] <confusious> I know.It's old
[21:22] <confusious> 8.04 or 8.10
[21:23] <mr_pouit> mmh, I think it's the only place
[21:24] <confusious> Oh,well.Thanks very much anyway.Atleast I was able to recover all those files/folderes that were on my desk
[21:26] <confusious> I'm so surprised by all of this.All this just because I interrupted a Firefox updqate because I thought it was stuck
[21:28] <confusious> Well,let me ask this of you guys....in the future,so this doesn't happen again....how can I make sure I don't lose all of that stuff ? At least the stuff on my desktop.Now,the only other thing is maybe trying to get all bookmarks back
[21:28] <confusious> I havea floppy {yes,I know}
[21:29] <charlie-tca> Back up
[21:29] <charlie-tca> check out the application called sbackup
[21:30] <confusious> See,at this point,I'm not even sure  my entire system is working properly.Like the update feature that tells me when there's updates available
[21:30] <confusious> Thank you
[21:31] <charlie-tca> If it isn't working, you will get an error message of some kind
[21:31] <confusious> Heck I'm not even sure my floppy is working.I saw an instance of it somewhere & it was greyed out
[21:31] <confusious> Well,thanks again everybody
[21:32] <charlie-tca> It will grey out if there is not a disk in it
[23:42] <ryanrhee90> hi guys. i'm installing xubuntu on a machine thru a usb. i have a 1080p hdtv as my monitor that's connected thru a vga cable. when xubuntu (9.10 live, x64) tries to load the menu, my monitor goes blue and says 'unsupported format'. i think xubuntu is pushing 1920x1080 or higher, which my monitor can't handle. (it only likes 1920x1080 from hdmi)
[23:43] <ryanrhee90> is there a way to force xubuntu to output at a lower resolution when showing the menu? i get the 'unsupported format' before i get to any command prompt / GUI screen.
[23:43] <charlie-tca> Try hitting F4 and choosing safe graphics
[23:43] <ryanrhee90> thanks! i'll try that right now.
[23:49] <ryanrhee90> hrm.. pressing f4 didn't do much. i was able to get to a command prompt by pressing ctrl+alt+f1 / ctrl+alt+f2
[23:49] <ryanrhee90> is there a way to start the installer with safe graphics from the prompt?
[23:54] <ryanrhee90> anyone? :/