[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:
[02:35] <Balsaq> <clip>
[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
[02:36] <Balsaq> </clip>
[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
[03:16] <ubottu> Compiz (compositing window manager), for a howto see http://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompositeManager and more help #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] <ubottu> bj0: Hi! I'm #xubuntu's favorite infobot, you can search my brain yourself at http://ubottu.com/factoids.cgi - Usage info: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/Bots
[03:31] <charlie-tca> !ubottu | xiainx
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[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] <ubottu> Please don't ask to ask a question, simply ask the question (all on ONE line and in the channel, so that others can read and follow it easily). If anyone knows the answer they will most likely reply. :-)
[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
[13:02] <ubottu> Please don't ask to ask a question, simply ask the question (all on ONE line and in the channel, so that others can read and follow it easily). If anyone knows the answer they will most likely reply. :-)
[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
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[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
[18:17] <ubottu> confusious: Please don't ask to ask a question, simply ask the question (all on ONE line and in the channel, so that others can read and follow it easily). If anyone knows the answer they will most likely reply. :-)
[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? :/