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cyberangerhey vychune_00:04
vychunehow u doing00:05
cyberangervychune_: good00:06
cyberangerand you?00:06
vychunegood at work00:07
vychuneu seen linuxman?00:08
cyberangernot lately00:12
wrstmorning Xpistos14:46
Xpistoswhat up homie14:46
Xpistoswhy can't wordpress just make sense to me14:46
cyberangerXpistos: <html><head><body>why can't wordpress just make sense to me?</body></head></html>15:09
cyberanger;-)15:09
cyberanger <html><head><body>who knows</body></head></html>15:10
Xpistoslol15:10
cyberangerXpistos: what is the actual issue15:14
XpistosI want to take posts from the "Comics" category and publish them automoatically in the Comics page15:14
Xpistosbut15:14
Xpistoswithout the word ARCHIVE in the header15:15
Xpistosnoob posted an article about DMZ today and I want to make sure how it gets posted15:15
cyberangerhrm, don't think I've ever seen that happen15:33
cyberangerfor wordpress at least15:33
Juzzyhandy *nix script: http://juzzycode.blogspot.com/2011/02/linux-security-wrapper.html15:56
XpistosWow Juzzy, that guy has the same name as you@16:00
cyberangerXpistos: what are the odds of that? ;-)16:10
XpistosI know, right16:11
Juzzyhah16:22
Juzzyjust sharing crap16:22
cyberangerJuzzy: thanks, it's very intresting (your words here) crap16:25
cyberanger;-)16:25
cyberangerJuzzy: really, it's intresting16:46
vychune_o/18:28
vychune_got a mac mini 17018:28
vychune_  \O/18:28
* cyberanger hands vychune_ an ubuntu install disc18:30
vychune_got one in the mail last week18:33
vychune_maverick18:33
vychune_how are you this morning18:34
* cyberanger hands vychune_ another install disc, and a list of uses for it, A) fix a mac ;-)18:34
vychune_lol18:34
cyberangervychune_: doing well this afternoon, how about you18:35
vychune_good as this sale is going now in a min18:35
vychune_down even18:35
vychune_lol18:35
cyberanger:-D18:35
vychune_gtg18:37
vychune_later18:37
starsprouthowdy folks19:14
starsproutrainy and cool in Memphis :-)19:14
starsproutanyone know anything about external Seagate HD with NTFS partition errors? I can't write to it today19:16
starsproutrunning testdisk now19:16
cyberangerNTFS errors are a bit rare here19:22
starsproutWhen I started using the disk for backup I was running Windows XP19:22
starsproutNow I've only been writing to it with Ubuntu19:22
* starsprout wondering if I should connect it to my one Windows machine19:23
starsprouteven testdisk eventually loaded the error "unable to mount"19:23
starsproutand gparted shows errors on it too19:23
starsproutsigh19:23
wrststarsprout: what error do you get?19:23
starsprouthttp://pastebin.com/hkW5qA2219:25
starsproutdoes fsck or e2fsck work on an NTFS partition?19:29
* starsprout thinking I should change my name to n00b19:29
wrststarsprout: have you tried what it said to do from within windows?19:31
starsproutno. I'll do that now :-)19:31
wrstprobably where i woudl start :)19:31
wrstand then if i could I would reformat the drive to ext3/4 :)19:32
starsproutyeah except I'm using it already as backup for ~500G19:33
wrstgot anyplace you can dump that data ?19:33
starsproutyeah, another seagate ntfs external disk :-(19:36
* starsprout shakes his fist at Microsoft19:36
wrstI use ext4 attached to my server and have no issue and use samba to share with winders19:37
starsproutspeaking of my (dual boot) windows machine, any idea why the keyboard won't work in ubuntu (but works fine in windows)?19:52
xTEMPLARx:D20:00
xTEMPLARxhttp://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e12000.m43.l1123/7?euid=f5fe5094a16f40b5b3aa162d5f01db09&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D110653228305%26ssPageName%3DADME%3AL%3ALCA%3AUS%3A112320:00
xTEMPLARxwow huge link20:00
xTEMPLARxwrst, I heard u were the coolest guy in here20:00
xTEMPLARxbet this link is more sane:  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110653228305&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:112320:01
xTEMPLARxyup20:01
xTEMPLARxgrr20:01
wrstwhat type of keyboard starsprout?20:01
wrsthey xTEMPLARx i doubt that :)20:01
starsproutit's a compaq laptop20:04
starsproutone day suddenly ubuntu keyboard doesnt respond - can't even login20:05
starsproutlike I said - works fine in windows though20:06
xTEMPLARxand it doesn't work at all?  not a single key?20:06
starsproutneither mouse nor keys20:06
starsproutgrub keys work (up/down)20:06
xTEMPLARxwell it doesn't sound like a keyboard TYPE messup20:07
xTEMPLARxcoz then you'd probably see SOMETHING out of it20:07
xTEMPLARxcan you get to console, or does that not work either?20:07
xTEMPLARxctl-alt-2 that is20:07
starsproutctl-alt-2 from the login splash screen?20:08
starsproutor from right after GRUB?20:08
xTEMPLARxfrom the login screen20:08
xTEMPLARxi'm assuming you have a GUI-based login, and not a console one20:08
starsproutyes gui20:08
starsproutwill try in a moment (in windows right now completing updates)20:09
xTEMPLARxif that DOES work, ctrl-alt-7 or ctrl-alt-8 will bring it back to the GUI screen20:09
starsproutok - at spalsh screen ctrl-alt-2 does nothing.20:10
starsprouteven capslock and numlock don't work20:10
starsprout(same with "recovery mode")20:10
wrststarsprout: do you have an xorg.conf file?20:11
starsproutprobably (did I mention it's kubuntu?)20:11
starsproutI'm wondering if there's an setting in GRUB I can try20:12
starsproutlike disable acpi or something20:12
xTEMPLARxthat I don't know, but one thing you COULD do, is disable the splash at boot... edit the boot line for the kernel you like to boot from, and get rid of the splash business at the end of the line20:14
xTEMPLARxit should cause it to boot while showing you all the stuff going on during boot20:14
xTEMPLARxSO20:14
xTEMPLARxif there's an error somewhere with the keyboard PRIOR to getting to the GUI, you may catch a glimpse20:15
* xTEMPLARx is grasping at straws 20:15
* starsprout lol20:16
starsproutI'm gonna try to get this external drive fixed, back up my files, then re-install :-)20:17
wrststarsprout: a reinstall shouldn't be necessary20:17
starsproutalright I believe it, but one thing at a time because right now I'm using Windows to look at the Seagate...(which is working, btw - hooray!)20:18
wrststarsprout: what version of ubuntu ?20:18
wrstor kubuntu?20:18
starsproutI wanna say version 4.xx20:18
starsproutInstalled it about 10 months ago20:19
xTEMPLARx10.0420:19
xTEMPLARx?20:19
wrst10.04?20:19
starsproutduh yes 10.04 64-bit20:19
starsproutheh20:20
wrstand its kubuntu starsprout?20:20
wrstor ubuntu with kubuntu-desktop?20:20
wrstwhat i'm getting at is that you are using KDM?20:21
starsproutit's a full kubuntu 10.04 64-bit install20:21
starsproutKDE20:21
starsprout(I love it)20:21
wrstahh well kde is your problem obviously20:21
wrst:)20:21
starsproutyah it's a KDE splash screen20:21
wrstdoes the mouse work?20:22
starsproutbut it all worked fine for 10 months (the onboard mouse pad does not work - haven't tried an extension mouse)20:22
starsproutwouldn't matter if mouse worked anyway, I can't type anything20:22
wrstno that helps out, you could try using the recovery boot up and then startx from the cli and see if that matters20:23
starsproutwith an external mouse?20:24
wrstno from the console starsprout20:27
wrstwith a sudo startx command20:28
starsproutoh with a boot disk20:28
starsproutok hang on20:28
wrstno starsprout one of the boot options is a recovery option20:28
starsproutoh! ok...20:28
wrsti'm wondering if the problem could be with KDM20:28
starsproutbooting into recovermode20:28
starsproutit stops after attaching scsi disk - just sits there20:29
starsprout(I've tried recovery mode before)20:29
starsproutctrl-alt-2 nothing. all f-keys, nothing.20:30
wrststarsprout:  did you select recovery mode at the grub screen?20:31
starsproutyes20:31
wrstoh sorry i didn't read well20:31
wrstno login screen?20:31
wrstterminal login screen20:31
xTEMPLARxwhen you're at the KDM screen, do you see the usual stuff where you'd click or type?20:32
wrstxTEMPLARx: he shouldn't have hit KDM in recovery should he unless kubunt is on crack? :)20:32
xTEMPLARxi have a machine (this one) that sometimes "hangs" on teh Gnome login, and I have to hit C to continue some process that's underneath20:32
wrstxTEMPLARx: have you tried natty out?20:34
xTEMPLARxnot fairly20:34
wrstits certainly a work in progress20:35
wrststarsprout: any luck ?20:35
starsproutno luck20:35
wrstso you hung at trying to boot up?20:36
starsproutxTEMPLARx, yes, I see the normal login screen and graphics20:36
wrststarsprout: tried booting using an older kernel from grub?20:36
starsproutyeah tried that too20:36
wrststarsprout: i might be tempted to check and see if i had an xorg.conf file if i did i would rename it and try booting without it20:37
wrstas a quick attempt at something20:37
starsproutyeah, older kernels hang after the scsi disk attach too20:37
wrstxTEMPLARx: shoudln't that be done ^^ by the time he gets to KDM?20:38
starsproutbooting now with ubuntu startup disk20:38
xTEMPLARxyeah, it SHOULD be beyond attaching to disks by the time KDM arrives20:38
wrstbut xTEMPLARx as you know anything related to KDE can really be a mess :)20:43
* wrst shouldn't make fun of starsprout when he is down20:43
xTEMPLARxKDM has some great ideas in the way things look20:45
xTEMPLARxi just had a problem with how it accessed (or rather, didn't) my samba shares via the file manager20:45
xTEMPLARxit kept me from being able to use it here at work20:46
starsprout:D20:47
starsproutI don't know where to begin with this boot disk20:48
wrstyeah xTEMPLARx kde looks great but functionaly its just a big turd for me20:48
wrststarsprout: does it work?20:48
starsproutI'm "trying ubuntu" now and it's loading20:48
starsproutthe mouse and keyboard are responsive20:48
xTEMPLARxso we know its possible20:49
xTEMPLARx:)20:49
wrststarsprout: see if you have /etc/X11/xorg.conf on your kubuntu partition20:49
xTEMPLARxi don't believe they use xorg.conf anymore20:50
xTEMPLARxdeprecated n such20:50
wrstxTEMPLARx: no, but if you use nvidia drivers or ati they create one20:50
starsprouthow do I mount the internal disk?20:50
xTEMPLARxah so20:50
xTEMPLARxit should show up under your PLACES menu20:51
wrstjust go to places and clicke it20:51
starsprout:-)20:51
wrststarsprout: what type of video card do you have?20:52
starsproutthere is no xorg.conf in /etc/X11/20:52
wrstok cancel what i thought starsprout that's as it should be20:52
starsproutit's an ATI Mobility Radeon according to lspci20:52
wrstok you ever installed drivers for it? i'm guessing not since the open ones work decent enough20:53
starsproutI might have installed them in KDE, but then there would be a xorg.conf file wouldn't there20:54
wrstto cause the issue i'm thinking it would have20:55
wrstwhat model is the laptop?20:55
XpistosStupid Windows 7 update21:01
starsproutit's a compaq... is there a command to learn the model number with bash?21:01
wrstdoubtful starsprout21:02
xTEMPLARxmodel number should be printed on one of the labels on the bottom21:10
starsproutPresario CQ8121:12
starsproutis there a way to login to the KDE user with a boot disk?21:12
starsproutdang - I can't even see the files because it's ecryptfs21:16
xTEMPLARxthat'll learn ye!21:17
xTEMPLARxall the time encrypting yer files21:17
starsprout:-) this was the first time I ever tried, on this here box. #fail21:18
starsproutlol21:18
starsproutit won't accept the login passphrase21:18
xTEMPLARxhrm21:20
starsproutfun.21:25
starsproutthere's gotta be a way to get back into KDE21:25
wrsti just don't have any files that are that important21:28
wrststarsprout: its a sign, KDE hates you ;)21:28
wrsthmm you could loginto a root shell and install gnome21:29
wrstbut that's not the most desierable thing to do21:29
starsprouthow can I login to root from grub? if I get in there I can at least access my home directory I think21:31
xTEMPLARxwell, grub just dictates boot params21:31
xTEMPLARxi think the trick is, you need to boot up in a different runlevel, and one which doesn't boot to KDE by default21:32
wrststarsprout: you would want to use the recovery console, but that doesn't seem to be working...21:32
xTEMPLARxassuming KDE is the problem21:32
xTEMPLARxand not something else underlying21:32
wrststarsprout: you have a usb keyboard and mouse?21:32
wrstyes and it could be something else as much as i wish to blame it on kde21:32
starsproutbooting grub with "noacpi" did nothing :-(21:33
starsproutoh well I give up for now (kubuntu channel no help either)22:11
starsproutthanks y'all for your help! :-)22:11
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