| nhandler | Any ideas on what I can do to get an external hd to mount? It shows up in fdisk -l, but if I do the mount command, there is no output in the terminal, and the terminal just freezes up (not even Ctrl+c works) | 00:00 |
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| Mohan_chml | nhandler: you mounted it media? | 00:04 |
| nhandler | Mohan_chml: I *tried* to mount it to /media/disk | 00:04 |
| Mohan_chml | it to /media* ? | 00:04 |
| Mohan_chml | nhandler: try on /mnt | 00:04 |
| Mohan_chml | just a try | 00:04 |
| Mohan_chml | nhandler: If you are in a GUI, goto users and groups and check whether the user previliges allows you to mount an externel drive | 00:06 |
| Mohan_chml | in *advanced settings* | 00:07 |
| nhandler | Mohan_chml: Mounting to /mnt didn't do anything (it shouldn't matter where I mount it if the permissions are correct). I am marked as an administrator, so I should be able to mount external drives as well. | 00:09 |
| Mohan_chml | Hmmm. okay! | 00:10 |
| === pedro_ is now known as pedro3005 | ||
| unam3 | hi, Is there any way to rebuild /var/lib/dpkg/diversions ? | 00:30 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Goodbye | 01:11 |
| blasenmich | ever since I updated to 10.4 my machines video doesn't work after the GRUB..... I updated to proprietary video drivers as recommended by Ubuntu's update manager, but can't get it to work.... I've also reinstalled 10.4. I can only boot using an old 9.04 disk --- help? | 01:12 |
| blasenmich | must be dinner time | 01:14 |
| stlsaint | blasenmich: you have issue? | 02:24 |
| blasenmich | yes | 03:07 |
| blasenmich | stlsaint you still there? | 03:07 |
| blasenmich | anyone here? | 03:08 |
| blasenmich | bye | 03:09 |
| Nautilus | can anyone tell me how to install a browser (other than FF) in 8.04 LTS? eg: Opera, Chrome, etc | 04:21 |
| Nautilus | don't see them in Synaptic, think I the common repositories selected | 04:22 |
| Nautilus | have* the | 04:22 |
| Mohan_chml | Nautilus: search for chromium-beowser | 04:24 |
| Mohan_chml | chromium-browser | 04:24 |
| Mohan_chml | sorry for the typo* | 04:24 |
| Nautilus | dont find it. already installed Chromium (turns out to be a game, heh) | 04:24 |
| Mohan_chml | argh.! Let em find the reposoiyoties that you have yo add | 04:26 |
| Mohan_chml | Nautilus: http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/1266367.htm#post4675358 | 04:30 |
| Mohan_chml | wait its for 9.10 and newer versions I think | 04:31 |
| AndrewMC | Nautilus: I did the same thing (install chromium bsu [actually is quite a fun game]) but you have to select chromium-browser to be installed in the synaptic package manager | 04:33 |
| Nautilus | Mohan_chml: ah navermind... just realized FF isn't my problem because a wget does the same thing. | 04:33 |
| Mohan_chml | ah..! any errors? | 04:33 |
| Mohan_chml | AndrewMC: he said its not detected in Synaptic | 04:34 |
| Nautilus | yea, I have a vhost that I can ping but when I do a wget I get a 301 rewrite/redirect for unknown reasons | 04:34 |
| Mohan_chml | Hmmm.. when you ping www.google.com what is the output? | 04:35 |
| Mohan_chml | is it pinging? | 04:35 |
| Nautilus | 0% packet loss | 04:35 |
| AndrewMC | Nautilus: Really you behind a firewall or something... Although I couldn't imagine that could cause a issue with synaptic | 04:35 |
| AndrewMC | Did you refresh synaptic? | 04:36 |
| Nautilus | yup | 04:36 |
| Mohan_chml | AndrewMC: I am suspecting that his internet is not connected | 04:36 |
| Nautilus | i need to step away a few, pickup in 10 or 15 | 04:36 |
| AndrewMC | Mohan_chml: How could he be talking here | 04:36 |
| Nautilus | internet is fine | 04:36 |
| Nautilus | different box here | 04:37 |
| AndrewMC | Nautilus: Go sudo apt-get install chromium-browser | 04:37 |
| AndrewMC | In terminal | 04:37 |
| AndrewMC | Mohan_chml: And he is getting full packet response to google his inet is fine | 04:37 |
| Nautilus | "couldnt find package chromium-browser" | 04:38 |
| Nautilus | but I must step away for 10+ mins | 04:38 |
| AndrewMC | Nautilus: Take out the -browser | 04:38 |
| Nautilus | "chromium is already the newest version" | 04:38 |
| Nautilus | thats the game | 04:38 |
| Nautilus | bbiaf | 04:39 |
| AndrewMC | Oh right | 04:39 |
| AndrewMC | Search in synaptic for chromium I KNOW it's there on my PC | 04:39 |
| Nautilus | chromium is the game | 04:46 |
| Nautilus | but no matter, I wanted to try a second browser to debug something, but wget shows me the problem isn't FF | 04:47 |
| shahan | In ubuntu 10.04, is JAVA preinstalled? | 04:49 |
| Mohan_chml | Hey shahan. It is not | 04:50 |
| shahan | Mohan_chml: how to install? | 04:51 |
| Mohan_chml | shahan: goto synaptic and type java 6 | 04:51 |
| shahan | Mohan_chml: hm.mm.... tnx | 04:51 |
| Mohan_chml | shahan: No worries and hows your college going on? | 04:52 |
| shahan | Mohan_chml: I am in University.... not in college :) | 04:52 |
| Mohan_chml | argh! | 04:53 |
| shahan | Mohan_chml: I asked about JAVA 6 because someone is asking in a BANGALI forum of Linux http://forum.linux.org.bd | 04:55 |
| shahan | Mohan_chml: for this I thought I could help him by asking the matter in the irc :) | 04:56 |
| Mohan_chml | shahan: forgot to ask you. how is the forum going on? don't show me (coz idk :P) | 04:56 |
| shahan | Mohan_chml: you MOHI? | 04:57 |
| Mohan_chml | shahan: yep :P | 04:57 |
| shahan | Mohan_chml: what is idk? | 04:59 |
| Mohan_chml | shahan: I dont know | 04:59 |
| larry21 | I am in search of some documentation for the GRUB boot-loader. specifically GRUB-PC v 1.98 | 05:02 |
| Mohan_chml | larry21: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 | 05:05 |
| Mohan_chml | larry21: you can find the link of GNU GRUB at the bottom of that link | 05:07 |
| larry21 | Thanks been there |-) I am interested in the *.mod files... I have got the background_image and resolution and gfxterm working... but there is a lot of missleading and wrong version stuff in most of what I have found I was hoping some where there might be some up-to-date docs floating around | 05:08 |
| larry21 | BTW I am very new to this Linux world and though loving it still grubbing around for info | 05:09 |
| Mohan_chml | Good luck larry21 | 05:09 |
| larry21 | thanks | 05:10 |
| Nautilus | ok, i see whats at the heart of my problem, a 301 redirect that shouldnt be happening (local dev box setup, 8.04 LTS). First of all, what's a good channel to ask about this? | 05:12 |
| larry21 | I am also new to all of the social media stuff... just an old BOFH and been truck driving since the last merger so I got stumbled onto Ubuntu when *P blew up over the summer with security updates...:'( | 05:12 |
| Nautilus | IRC is far from new though | 05:13 |
| Mohan_chml | Nautilus: tried at #ubuntu? | 05:15 |
| Nautilus | will do | 05:15 |
| Mohan_chml | Okay | 05:15 |
| Nautilus | thanks | 05:15 |
| Mohan_chml | Nautilus: have patience there. Someone will surely help you =] | 05:16 |
| Nautilus | yea, narrowed my issue down, now needta find the right person :) | 05:16 |
| Mohan_chml | Nautilus: you googled about this issue? | 05:17 |
| Nautilus | yea | 05:17 |
| Mohan_chml | No one had posted anything regarding the issue of yours? | 05:17 |
| Nautilus | most answers are in relation to software installs like wordpress, I'm getting it on a new vhost with no more than an index.html in it. | 05:18 |
| Mohan_chml | Nautilus: and what bothers you to install a new version? | 05:18 |
| Nautilus | it feels like a redirect I was playing with is 'cached' somewhere | 05:18 |
| Nautilus | new version of ubuntu? When I tried to upgrade to 9 it buffalo'd many things | 05:18 |
| Mohan_chml | Nautilus: that is which makes me feel bad sometimes | 05:18 |
| Mohan_chml | Nautilus: try 10.04 and It is awesome. We have 10.10 testing version too (: | 05:19 |
| Mohan_chml | I will brb. Breakfast | 05:19 |
| Nautilus | Mohan_chml: Yea one of these days the 10.x LTS version | 05:20 |
| Nautilus | thanks again, too many tabs open, byes | 05:25 |
| larry21 | ttfn | 05:31 |
| Mohan_chml | tc | 05:31 |
| Kimbis | Hej! I installed Ubuntu last night and it works really well. The only problem is my wireless connection. I can connect with an ethernet cable, but I can't connect via WLAN. I don't see any other wireless accounts either. Not sure if a driver is missing or what the deal is. I tried to add it manually, but it doesn't work.:-/ | 08:55 |
| Kimbis | Anyone? | 09:05 |
| seidos | Kimbis, have you tried ndiswrapper? | 09:07 |
| seidos | Kimbis, do you know what wireless chipset you are dealing with? | 09:07 |
| seidos | Kimbis, is it an rtl8180 by chance? | 09:08 |
| Kimbis | No, I just now got some drivers installed which wouldn't install yesterday. I'm not sure which wireless chipset I have. | 09:09 |
| Kimbis | Aha! The driver installation fixed it :). Now I can see all the wireless modems in the house. | 09:10 |
| seidos | well, that was easy :/ | 09:16 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hello | 09:39 |
| seidos | greetings | 09:39 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hello seidos | 09:39 |
| Silver_Fox_ | How are you ? | 09:39 |
| seidos | Silver_Fox_, good/bad. yourself? | 09:40 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Not bad thank you, just doing some reading | 09:40 |
| seidos | i am doing some writing, taking a break from reading | 09:41 |
| Silver_Fox_ | =) | 09:41 |
| MattJones | I'm trying to install Ubuntu for the first time, and after the install screen I get a large unfriendly black blank screen :( | 11:20 |
| out-of-hand | hi all.... | 11:40 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hello | 11:40 |
| out-of-hand | is there any possible way one can make a IM Chat Client to comunicate with Blackberry BBM | 11:40 |
| duanedesign | morning all | 12:37 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hello | 12:37 |
| * Silver_Fox_ is super quick ;) | 12:37 | |
| duanedesign | that was | 12:42 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hehe | 12:45 |
| Silver_Fox_ | o/ | 13:14 |
| philinux | 0/ Congrats Silver | 13:21 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hey philinux =) Thank you | 13:25 |
| philinux | Have you banned anyone yet ;) | 13:25 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Not yet, you volunteering ? >:) Hehe | 13:25 |
| philinux | Try your new skills out on this user if you haven't already. Resident Troll | 13:26 |
| Silver_Fox_ | I'll probably have a proper poke around later philinux , bit busy at the minute at work. Did issue and remove an infraction though , as well as read some of the stickies | 13:27 |
| philinux | Ok. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1447353 | 13:27 |
| Silver_Fox_ | philinux, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1575734 | 13:28 |
| philinux | LOL | 13:29 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Some light hearted humour :) | 13:30 |
| philinux | Just banned my first spammer for today lol | 13:31 |
| * philinux Hates spammers ;) | 13:31 | |
| hobgoblin | welcome back Kimbis | 13:57 |
| Kimbis | Thanks! | 13:58 |
| Verminator | I need suggestions for an easy to use, FOSS, donor management system. Any suggestions? | 14:31 |
| change_of_heart | This is beginners chat :P !!! | 14:32 |
| change_of_heart | ask me which notepad application is best and i could help you :P ! | 14:32 |
| change_of_heart | sorry to not be of much help | 14:32 |
| MattJones | I'm trying to install Ubuntu for the first time, and after the install screen I get a large unfriendly black blank screen :( I'm sure it's a graphic problem, I've tried to boot in safe graphics mode and no luck. | 14:33 |
| change_of_heart | ok | 14:33 |
| change_of_heart | What have you done to install it so far | 14:33 |
| change_of_heart | Do you mean your installation has finished ? | 14:34 |
| hobgoblin | change_of_heart: this is not actually beginners chat - this is a channel for beginners to get help in :) | 14:35 |
| MattJones | Yep, I installed it over Windows XP, but before that I tried to install it fresh from the bios but it gave me the same black screen. | 14:35 |
| hobgoblin | MattJones: might be useful to know what specs you're trying to install it on to | 14:38 |
| change_of_heart | hobgoblin: semantics :) | 14:39 |
| hobgoblin | not really - it's not a chat channel - the BT chat channel is #ubuntu-beginners-team | 14:39 |
| hobgoblin | this is the beginners team help channel | 14:40 |
| hobgoblin | this used to be the BT chat channel about 9 months ago though ;) | 14:40 |
| change_of_heart | hah :P | 14:41 |
| MattJones | I have an Asus mobo, a radeon 9200 gfx card, only 1 GB ram though D: | 14:41 |
| MattJones | Intel Pentium 4 | 14:42 |
| change_of_heart | for ubuntu thats more than enough | 14:42 |
| change_of_heart | hmm | 14:42 |
| MattJones | That's what I was hoping | 14:42 |
| hobgoblin | indeed - though I'd not know whether the radeon was a supported card or not | 14:42 |
| MattJones | :/ | 14:43 |
| change_of_heart | hahaha | 14:43 |
| change_of_heart | ahh, the irony | 14:43 |
| MattJones | What lol? | 14:43 |
| change_of_heart | shell out for a nice graphics card, but it doesn't wana work :) | 14:43 |
| MattJones | Yeah lmao | 14:43 |
| hobgoblin | I'm not saying it's not supported - I just never take much notice of ati cards | 14:44 |
| MattJones | Other people have used the 9200 with linux I just read so there should be support, my monitor is an lcd tv with vga input but I wouldn't think that would be a problem | 14:46 |
| philinux | MattJones: google "ubuntu radeon 9200" It's an old card not supported by the new ati driver. | 14:47 |
| stlsaint | philinux: sup | 14:48 |
| MattJones | Ah crap :( so no hope then? | 14:48 |
| philinux | MattJones: the google search should provide answers. I went with nvidia for my new pc 3 years ago. | 14:49 |
| philinux | stlsaint: o/ | 14:50 |
| MattJones | That's was my exact search term a few minutes ago but I haven't found anyone with installation problems | 14:50 |
| stlsaint | philinux: hows the week been for ya? | 14:50 |
| philinux | stlsaint: good yeah apart from rain. got drenched last night lol | 14:50 |
| stlsaint | little water never hurt lol | 14:51 |
| philinux | MattJones: google this then. ubuntu radeon 9200 black screen | 14:52 |
| MattJones | LOL I just was reading through those links | 14:53 |
| stlsaint | whats the issue? | 14:53 |
| MattJones | Still reading through I'll come back if I find anything | 14:54 |
| MattJones | stlsaint I get a black screen booting ubuntu | 14:54 |
| change_of_heart | Hey, anyone know how i can launch a windows cd from ubuntu using wine? | 14:54 |
| stlsaint | MattJones: are you using xorg? what release are you on? | 14:54 |
| MattJones | The latest one | 14:54 |
| stlsaint | 10.04 or 10.10? | 14:54 |
| MattJones | I had to install it from windowsXP because installing it from bios gave me a black screen during installation | 14:55 |
| MattJones | let me check | 14:55 |
| stlsaint | change_of_heart: you should have some wine options to open the .exe when you right click on it? | 14:55 |
| MattJones | 10.04 | 14:55 |
| MattJones | 10.04.1* | 14:55 |
| change_of_heart | ahh yes but when i try to edit the properties of the setup.exe on the cd so i can execute it, it says read only format( im reading off game cd ) | 14:56 |
| hobgoblin | MattJones: try adding some boot options when you boot the livecd https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions#Changing%20the%20Boot%20Option%20Configuration%20Line | 14:57 |
| hobgoblin | there's a link in the page to some common ones | 14:57 |
| change_of_heart | stlsaint: ahh yes but when i try to edit the properties of the setup.exe on the cd so i can execute it, it says read only format( im reading off game cd ) | 14:57 |
| MattJones | Thanks I'll try and tell you how it goes | 14:58 |
| stlsaint | change_of_heart: drag the contents of the cd to your system and take ownership of it | 14:58 |
| stlsaint | change_of_heart: chown <username> <path_to_file> | 14:58 |
| stlsaint | change_of_heart: after that run with wine | 14:59 |
| change_of_heart | just to my desktop or soemthing stlsaint ? | 14:59 |
| stlsaint | change_of_heart: sure...make a folder titled test or whatever and drag the contents to the cd | 15:00 |
| change_of_heart | 6.3 GB D: 25 minutes | 15:01 |
| change_of_heart | lol | 15:01 |
| change_of_heart | zzz | 15:01 |
| stlsaint | hehe | 15:01 |
| hobgoblin | change_of_heart: I assume you had a look on the wine appdb to see if it would actually be worth the trouble in the first place | 15:02 |
| change_of_heart | yea | 15:02 |
| change_of_heart | it said | 15:02 |
| change_of_heart | COD 4 would work | 15:02 |
| change_of_heart | oh well, mightaswel try it | 15:02 |
| change_of_heart | seeing as i had to format my preinstalled vista because i was screwing around with operating systems :P | 15:03 |
| stlsaint | cod4 on computer?? pfft...ps3 FTW!!! | 15:03 |
| change_of_heart | :( im 16, no money for consoles lol | 15:03 |
| geirha | Try nethack. Much more fun :) | 15:03 |
| change_of_heart | aha | 15:04 |
| change_of_heart | i love how help channels turn into chat channels once the right topic is brought up :D | 15:04 |
| hobgoblin | when there's no help needed or a wait while 6Gb get's copied - it turns quickly | 15:06 |
| stlsaint | +1 hobgoblin | 15:06 |
| change_of_heart | :) | 15:07 |
| MattJones | I tried adding vga=771, got to see a nice ubuntu logo with 5 flashing dots underneath for a while, then the screen flashed green and it went back to the trusty blank black screen again | 15:07 |
| change_of_heart | 2.6GB of 6.3 GB completed :) | 15:07 |
| change_of_heart | i should be studying for yearly exam in 9 hours D: ! | 15:09 |
| hobgoblin | MattJones: noapic and noapci can be helpful | 15:09 |
| MattJones | Thanks I'll try that too | 15:09 |
| geirha | s/noapci/noacpi/ I think | 15:11 |
| hobgoblin | two different ones - never remember which is which ;) | 15:12 |
| change_of_heart | only 300 MB left ! | 15:13 |
| change_of_heart | Who else thinks the way companies advertise USB's and Harddrive space using the decimal system instead of computer measurments is shonky ? | 15:13 |
| change_of_heart | buying a 4GB usb | 15:14 |
| change_of_heart | coming home | 15:14 |
| change_of_heart | and it can only hold 3.9 ! | 15:14 |
| change_of_heart | what is this ! | 15:14 |
| change_of_heart | yay transfer is complete | 15:14 |
| MattJones | It's shonky | 15:14 |
| hobgoblin | such is life - some of us remember drives and RAM from the old days so don't worry too much about .1Gb .... | 15:14 |
| Verminator | why do new windows appear underneath existing windows? For instance, I open the calculator and instead of being the topmost window, it appears just below the topmost window. | 15:15 |
| change_of_heart | ITS INSTALLING ! COD IS INSTALLING ! | 15:16 |
| change_of_heart | success! | 15:16 |
| change_of_heart | thanks stlsaint | 15:16 |
| stlsaint | change_of_heart: np man | 15:18 |
| MattJones | well if I only add vga=771 I get the ubuntu logo screen, if I tack on noapci or noapic I only get the blank screen | 15:18 |
| hobgoblin | Verminator: not sure - but you can select when a mouse moves over them - sys - prefs - windows | 15:18 |
| stlsaint | Verminator: you may need to check out your window bahaviour settings | 15:20 |
| Verminator | stlsaint, lloking at that now | 15:22 |
| Verminator | I dont see anything under preferences or admin that would control this behavior | 15:23 |
| change_of_heart | COD has been finalizing installation for the past 15 mins | 15:30 |
| change_of_heart | :( | 15:30 |
| change_of_heart | NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO | 15:32 |
| change_of_heart | COD crashes | 15:32 |
| change_of_heart | :'( | 15:32 |
| stlsaint | change_of_heart: i had a feeling about that with wine and CoD | 15:38 |
| stlsaint | change_of_heart: are you sure that the current cod was rated as working and that you werent looking at a older rate on an older cod? | 15:38 |
| change_of_heart | possibly... | 15:39 |
| change_of_heart | daaaaaamn it | 15:39 |
| change_of_heart | silly wine | 15:39 |
| change_of_heart | :) | 15:39 |
| stlsaint | sorry, though there are alot of other first person shooter games for linux simply in the repos | 15:40 |
| change_of_heart | mm | 15:40 |
| change_of_heart | :/ | 15:40 |
| change_of_heart | i like playing dofus | 15:40 |
| change_of_heart | its an mmorpg thats linux compatible | 15:40 |
| change_of_heart | without wine or anything | 15:40 |
| change_of_heart | pretty sweet | 15:41 |
| stlsaint | alien areana :D | 15:41 |
| change_of_heart | hm | 15:47 |
| change_of_heart | ill reinstall wine | 15:47 |
| change_of_heart | then playonlinux | 15:47 |
| change_of_heart | then | 15:47 |
| change_of_heart | cod | 15:47 |
| change_of_heart | then try :S ! | 15:47 |
| Verminator | try tremulous, alien arena, nexiuz | 15:54 |
| change_of_heart | lol cool, playonlinux freezes :) | 15:55 |
| kosaidpo | hello | 16:11 |
| kosaidpo | im readin this classroom but idk from where ican get the slides https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays/07102010/Using%20Launchpad | 16:11 |
| duanedesign | kosaidpo: i don't think they are available] | 16:13 |
| kosaidpo | duanedesign: ohh then thers noway to get em ? | 16:14 |
| change_of_heart | cya guys | 16:16 |
| change_of_heart | i got exam in less than 8 hours | 16:16 |
| change_of_heart | and i need sleep :) | 16:16 |
| stlsaint | l8er | 16:16 |
| duanedesign | kosaidpo: i would say talk to the instructor, but I do not think ddecator is around much anymore | 16:20 |
| hobgoblin | that was my thought duanedesign | 16:20 |
| kosaidpo | ok tnx guys | 16:34 |
| kosaidpo | peace out | 16:34 |
| === yofel_ is now known as yofel | ||
| equivocate | I'm about to start using ubuntu but i dont know if my laptop and external hard drive are compatible. can anyone help? | 16:51 |
| hobgoblin | a model/make would be a good start ;) | 16:52 |
| hobgoblin | also - boot the livecd see what works | 16:52 |
| equivocate | it's a fujitsu siemens, model ms2228 | 16:53 |
| equivocate | im downloading the livecd at the moment | 16:53 |
| equivocate | it's more the hard drive i'mconcerned about | 16:53 |
| geirha | equivocate: If it's usb, you should be fine | 16:55 |
| equivocate | yeah, its usb. i've only just bought it and its saying i need to format it, and it says that I need to make a partition for linux. It's only allowing me to allocate a tiny GB allowance for linux, so I didnt know if thats gonna limit how much i can put on it | 16:57 |
| Mohan_chml | heya hobgoblin. I am happy that you are back :) | 16:57 |
| hobgoblin | hi Mohan_chml | 16:57 |
| geirha | equivocate: «It's only allowing me...» what's «It»? | 16:58 |
| equivocate | the external hard drive. I've plugged it in for the first time and i have to complete the set up | 16:59 |
| geirha | The external harddrive is telling you? Does it have a speaker? | 17:00 |
| equivocate | funny. the set up just comes up when i plug it in | 17:03 |
| geirha | What OS are you currently running? Windows? If so it's windows telling you, not the harddrive... | 17:03 |
| equivocate | ahhh ok | 17:03 |
| equivocate | so if i just dont do the set up it'll still work with linux? | 17:04 |
| geirha | Either way will work. If you want to install Ubuntu on it, just tell the Ubuntu installer to use that drive, and it'll format it for you. | 17:05 |
| equivocate | ah wicked. thank you! | 17:06 |
| equivocate | also, my boyfriend used ubuntu a while back, and there were problems with wireless internet and he needed to use somthing called ndswrapper or something, to sort it out. Has that been resolved in the newer versions? | 17:09 |
| geirha | It depends on the brand and model of the wireless interface. Some work out of the box, no fiddling needed. Some are just plain hell to get working because the manufacturer doesn't bother with drivers for linux. | 17:10 |
| geirha | ndiswrapper sort of "translates" a windows driver into a linux driver, so it allows you to use the windows driver in linux ... which sometimes work. | 17:12 |
| geirha | equivocate: You should be able to find the brand and model of the wireless interface in the manual that came with the laptop, or on the manufacturer's website. If you can find that, we can look it up and see if it's problematic in linux or not. | 17:13 |
| Verminator | Empathy normally uses 10-20% of CPU, sometimes it locks up and uses ~60% cpu, usually on start up, but also each time, I am re authenticated on freenode. Is this a bug, can it be fixed, is there a work around? | 17:13 |
| equivocate | ubuntu's pretty much downloaded now so I'll just give it a go i think. My boyfriend just wanted to know! thank you for your help though :) | 17:15 |
| hobgoblin | MattJones: anymore joy? | 18:20 |
| hobgoblin | duanedesign: thanks for the welcoming mail - appreciate that this piskie does :) | 18:41 |
| duanedesign | hobgoblin: :) | 18:42 |
| hobgoblin | :) | 18:46 |
| stlsaint | feel the love | 18:47 |
| hobgoblin | lol | 18:47 |
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| zkriesse | hobgoblin: ping | 19:35 |
| hobgoblin | pong | 19:37 |
| zkriesse | hobgoblin: coming back to us eh? | 19:37 |
| zkriesse | It's about time | 19:37 |
| hobgoblin | lol | 19:37 |
| hobgoblin | never really left - I've been undercover | 19:38 |
| zkriesse | How true | 19:38 |
| zkriesse | so hobgoblin how ya been? | 19:43 |
| zkriesse | Welcome Verminator | 19:43 |
| hobgoblin | zkriesse: same as ever | 19:43 |
| zkriesse | taking over middle earth all that jazz? | 19:43 |
| zkriesse | :D | 19:43 |
| hobgoblin | zkriesse: more like eating again ... | 19:44 |
| zkriesse | lol | 19:45 |
| zkriesse | ok Im out for a few minutes | 19:45 |
| zkriesse | back | 19:55 |
| sebsebseb | Hi | 20:07 |
| zkriesse | hello AnPar and change_of_heart | 20:51 |
| change_of_heart | hello :P | 20:55 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hello. | 22:30 |
| zkriesse | wazup Silver_Fox_ | 22:31 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hello zkriesse | 22:33 |
| Silver_Fox_ | How are you? | 22:33 |
| zkriesse | Eh I'm ok | 22:37 |
| zkriesse | Preparing for an Exam at Uni tomorrow | 22:37 |
| zkriesse | wb Verminator | 22:39 |
| zkriesse | Silver_Fox_: you? | 22:39 |
| zkriesse | Silver_Fox_: How have you been? | 22:39 |
| Silver_Fox_ | I am fine thank you zkriesse | 22:40 |
| Silver_Fox_ | You have examinations already? | 22:40 |
| zkriesse | Yep | 22:40 |
| harrisonk | hello | 22:45 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hello harrisonk :) How are you ? | 22:45 |
| harrisonk | fine | 22:46 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Good to hear | 22:46 |
| harrisonk | Am I getting to be known around here? | 22:46 |
| harrisonk | or is it just me? | 22:46 |
| zkriesse | Lol | 22:47 |
| zkriesse | We're getting to know you | 22:47 |
| zkriesse | Start hanging out with us and that's what happens | 22:47 |
| harrisonk | I guess | 22:47 |
| zkriesse | are you in #ubuntu-beginners-team ? | 22:48 |
| harrisonk | the channel? | 22:48 |
| zkriesse | yes | 22:48 |
| harrisonk | not right now | 22:48 |
| harrisonk | Why? | 22:48 |
| zkriesse | Ok, this is our help channel, the aforementioned is our team/chat/off-topic/hangout channel. If you really wish to start hanging out with us join that channel as well. | 22:49 |
| zkriesse | :) | 22:49 |
| stlsaint | zkriesse: poke | 22:49 |
| stlsaint | zkriesse: meet me in -team | 22:49 |
| Verminator | hello zkriesse. Just trying to get some traffic here or what? | 22:53 |
| Verminator | how are you btw? | 22:54 |
| zkriesse | Just saying hi to those whom Ive not spoken to before here | 22:54 |
| Verminator | I ubgraded from Kubuntu 8.04 to Kubuntu 10. | 22:54 |
| zkriesse | I'm fine....working on a report of a Microbe/Virus but other than that i"m just peachy | 22:54 |
| Verminator | I ubgraded from Kubuntu 8.04 to Kubuntu 10.04 which seemed really sluggish and had many problems so I ditched Kubunt and went to Ubunt 10.04, but still seem to be having issues. Anyone else experienc this.? | 22:55 |
| Verminator | zkriesse, report on a microb/virus, is this for school or work? | 22:56 |
| zkriesse | School | 22:57 |
| zkriesse | College to be more specific | 22:57 |
| Verminator | zkriesse, good for you. I hope you do well. | 23:01 |
| zkriesse | ty | 23:05 |
| lukjad | Hai Silver_Fox_ | 23:25 |
| Silver_Fox_ | Hello lukjad , keeping well ? | 23:25 |
| lukjad | Silver_Fox_ better, and it's Thursday night! :D | 23:25 |
| Silver_Fox_ | That is excellent news lukjad , you shall be 100% for the weekend. :) | 23:26 |
| lukjad | Hope so, I really am hoping to get to a train show. :) | 23:26 |
| harrisonk | How would I Zip a folder to a .zip extention? | 23:54 |
| duanedesign | hello harrisonk | 23:56 |
| duanedesign | harrisonk: right-click on the file and select 'compress' | 23:57 |
| duanedesign | harrisonk: it will give you the option to compress as .zip | 23:57 |
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