[01:52] <Mashandar> hello
[03:03] <popman> hey
[03:03] <popman> I'm trying to boot into bios in my dell and I'm having trouble
[03:07] <TheSheep> boot into bios?
[03:07] <TheSheep> what do you mean?
[03:10] <popman> I'm trying to press F2 or del to boot into moo bio's I can't seem to do it on this dell
[03:12] <Unit193> It can also be F1
[03:13] <popman> o
[03:13] <popman> I'll try that
[03:14] <TheSheep> or del
[03:15] <TheSheep> and it's not related to linux or xubuntu in any way
[03:16] <popman> nope
[03:17] <popman> just bought this older computer for $5
[03:17] <popman> has windows on it
[03:17] <popman> if I cram the keys to press f1, f2, and del think that's a affective method in attempting to boot into bios?
[03:17] <TheSheep> I had some old compaq that didn't have bios by itself, you had to boot it from a special system disk to access bios settings
[03:18] <Unit193> What's the specs on that $5 laptop?
[03:18] <popman> I got the bios somehow
[03:18] <TheSheep> by disk I mean disquette
[03:18] <popman> I think it was del
[03:18] <popman> also i put in a new keyboard
[03:19] <TheSheep> del, dell, makes sense ;)
[03:19] <popman> The other one worked but kept reading that their was a error on the keyboard i assume a driver error
[03:19] <popman> :D
[06:40] <ubuntu_> hi is there an easy way to tell if my mic will work in xubuntu?
[11:17] <horse> good morning everyone. Ive got a acer travelmate 521tev notebook here with a p3 600 MHz, 256 MB RAM and a ati rage mobility 8 mb. Will xubuntu run on this machine?
[11:20] <Sysi> horse: should run, but you could also consider lubuntu
[11:26] <horse> what would make lubuntu fitting better than xubuntu?. sorry if it sounds stupid, im an absolute linux newbie (i want to change that - starting with this laptop).
[11:27] <horse> or do u have an even better distribution, one more appropriate for that ancient hardware xD
[11:28] <Sysi> lubuntu uses less ram
[11:28] <Sysi> 256 should be enough for xubuntu though
[11:29] <horse> yeah, but the video ram worries me a bit.
[11:30] <Sysi> both should work on pretty bad graphics too
[11:30] <horse> bad grafics are enough grafics.
[11:30] <horse> :)
[11:34] <horse> and another question. ignorinng the hardware, which distribution would you consider to be the best for beginners? Im guessing this will anyway be ubuntu. are xubuntu and lubuntu any different in that regard?
[11:35] <Sysi> maybe a little but not much
[11:35] <Sysi> they're also tried to be made easy
[11:39] <horse> to be precise it will actualy my second linux system. atm im running a hard drive install of damn small linux, but dsl seems to be to specific for my purpose?
[11:45] <horse> alright, im getting lubuntu anyway. thank you very much Sysi, much appreciated.
[11:45] <Sysi> np
[22:04] <metroid1> hey, so i did an update yesterday and now i get this warning when i attempt to open my home folder: Error stating file '/home/username/.gvfs': Transport endpoint is not connected.
[22:04] <metroid1> does anyone know what this means and/or how to fix it?
[22:08] <metroid1> brb
[22:15] <metroid1> ok, i am back
[22:15] <Unit193> metroid1: In terminal enter: ls -al /home/username/ | grep gvfs
[22:16] <metroid1> ls: cannot access /home/username/.gvfs: Transport endpoint is not connected
[22:16] <metroid1> d?????????   ? ?       ?           ?                ? .gvfs
[22:17] <Sysi> gvfs is kinda special..
[22:17] <Sysi> what upgrade, 10.04 → 10.10?
[22:39] <metroid1> Sysi: 10.10 (sorry for the delay)
[22:40] <Sysi> you just installed normal updates?
[22:40] <metroid1> yep
[22:41] <metroid1> i have a repos for a music player turned on but the updates weren't for it
[22:41] <metroid1> i believe it was mostly kernel stuff
[22:45] <Sysi> you could try reinstalling gvfs
[22:45] <Sysi> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get reinstall gvfs
[22:45] <metroid1> ok, will do!
[22:45] <Sysi> apt-get --purge reinstall could be better
[22:46] <metroid1> what is gvfs?
[22:47] <Sysi> thingy for remote filesystems etc
[22:48] <metroid1> i don't think reinstall is valid
[22:49] <knome> you don't lose anything if you try. :)
[22:49] <metroid1> could i just purge it then reinstall it right after?
[22:50] <Sysi> propably, if it isn't removing lots of other stuff
[22:54] <metroid1> ok, i reinstalled it
[22:54] <metroid1> maybe i will have to restart
[22:58] <metroid1> reinstalling didn't work... but i didn't purge...
[23:43] <metroid1> now i seem to be able to access my home folder!
[23:43] <metroid1> does this look like how it should?
[23:43] <metroid1> ls -al /home/username/ | grep gvfs
[23:43] <metroid1> dr-x------   2 username username     0 2011-03-19 19:38 .gvfs
[23:44] <Sysi> yup
[23:44] <Sysi> what did you do?
[23:44] <metroid1> sweet
[23:44] <metroid1> i am not sure exactly
[23:44] <Sysi> heh, the usual
[23:44] <metroid1> it seems i traded my desktop for my home folder because now my desktop is just a big sheet of grey with no icons
[23:45] <metroid1> the panel is working though
[23:45] <Sysi> maybe desktop just crashed
[23:45] <Sysi> alt+F2 "xfdesktop"
[23:47] <metroid1> huh.
[23:47] <metroid1> yep that was it
[23:48] <metroid1> well we'll see how long this lasts for!
[23:48] <metroid1> thanks for the help
[23:48] <Sysi> np
[23:49] <metroid1> maybe i will restart a couple more times to see how resilient it is
[23:50] <Sysi> you you wanna be more sure, rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions
[23:50] <Sysi> and save working session on logout
[23:51] <metroid1> just once or everytime i log out?
[23:52] <Sysi> save session? shouldn't matter very much