| mcw | hello | 03:14 |
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| mcw | I have a question | 03:14 |
| mcw | need help please | 03:15 |
| mcw | with just one thing | 03:15 |
| mcw | how do I enable compiz permanently | 03:15 |
| mcw | I tried compiz --replace that gets it working but only untill you restart | 03:16 |
| mcw | is anyone even on? | 03:17 |
| mcw | AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!! | 03:18 |
| mcw | lol | 03:18 |
| mcw | mcw,jumps off cliff due to frustration with Unity | 03:19 |
| mcw | fuck it! | 03:19 |
| Keith_Lassiter | Hello. I am in the process of installing Ubuntu and need a little assistance please. | 05:56 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: hey... are you currently actually installing? | 05:57 |
| Keith_Lassiter | I downloaded the file and am attempting to mkae the CD | 05:57 |
| holstein | AH, ok | 05:58 |
| Keith_Lassiter | make* | 05:58 |
| holstein | you'll need to actually make a copy | 05:58 |
| holstein | using the downloaded iso as the source* | 05:58 |
| Keith_Lassiter | According to the directions it tells me I downloaded the ubuntu11.04 from the main page.. and now I have a zip file | 05:59 |
| Keith_Lassiter | So I inzipped | 05:59 |
| Keith_Lassiter | unzipped | 05:59 |
| holstein | shouldnt be a zip... where did you get it? | 05:59 |
| Keith_Lassiter | The file that is.. LOOL | 05:59 |
| Keith_Lassiter | Also downloaded Infra Recorder | 05:59 |
| Keith_Lassiter | BUt can't determine which file I am supposed to use to create the CD | 06:00 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: im not convinced you have the correct file | 06:00 |
| Keith_Lassiter | http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download | 06:00 |
| holstein | it should be one file, a something.iso | 06:00 |
| Keith_Lassiter | That is what it said when it was downloading.. then when it finished, it came out as a zip file.. Kina wierd actually | 06:01 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: it might be recognized as something that can be unzipped | 06:01 |
| holstein | but, it should have been ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso | 06:01 |
| holstein | nothing weird about it | 06:01 |
| holstein | not ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.zip | 06:01 |
| holstein | what did you download? ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso ? | 06:02 |
| Keith_Lassiter | I just clicked the link where it said download | 06:02 |
| Keith_Lassiter | it showed me the iso file while it was downloading | 06:02 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: right, look in the /download directory | 06:02 |
| holstein | and tell me if you have ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso or not | 06:02 |
| holstein | and if not, what do you have? | 06:02 |
| Keith_Lassiter | ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386 | 06:03 |
| Keith_Lassiter | jZip archive file (.iso) | 06:03 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: right, just dont unzip it | 06:03 |
| holstein | you have ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso downloaded, and thats what you burn to CD | 06:04 |
| Keith_Lassiter | ok, so don't unzip it and create the CD with the zip file? | 06:04 |
| holstein | you make a copy of the CD using the ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso as the source | 06:04 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: its not a zip file, but yes | 06:04 |
| Keith_Lassiter | ok, it says its a jzip archive file | 06:04 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: jzip recognizes it as an iso archive, and is offering to extract it | 06:05 |
| holstein | but, thats not what you want to do | 06:05 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: if you extracted it, you can just throw all of that away, and work with the ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso | 06:06 |
| Keith_Lassiter | OK, another quick question.. the file size is showing 701MGB and the CDs only have 700 in sace.. SHould I use a DVD instead? | 06:06 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: you can* | 06:06 |
| holstein | it *should* be cd sized | 06:06 |
| holstein | i would probably try it, and you should get an error if its too big | 06:07 |
| holstein | its likely your OS is estimating its size | 06:07 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: the only reason *not* to burn to DVD is if you cant boot DVD's on the machine in question | 06:08 |
| Keith_Lassiter | Gotcha .. ok, I am burning the CD as we speak | 06:08 |
| Keith_Lassiter | The idea her eis to try it before I install it | 06:08 |
| holstein | yup, try it live | 06:09 |
| holstein | see how everthing works, hardware wise | 06:09 |
| Keith_Lassiter | So will this thing run all my windows aps and such? | 06:09 |
| holstein | ? | 06:10 |
| holstein | i dought it | 06:10 |
| Keith_Lassiter | I have been reading on it and it said something about replaceing my current operating system with htis. | 06:10 |
| holstein | you can ask the vendors if they support linux though | 06:10 |
| holstein | anyone can write software for linux/ubuntu | 06:10 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: yup, thats up to you | 06:10 |
| holstein | but, running your current windows apps is no the goal | 06:11 |
| holstein | the idea is, you probably will find you dont need the windows apps in question* | 06:11 |
| Keith_Lassiter | So there should be Linux/Ubuntu aps to replace what I use now then. | 06:11 |
| holstein | we have WINE though, which can run a lot of windows apps with varying degrees of success | 06:12 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: there will be, you just need to learn how to use them | 06:12 |
| holstein | OR, look around for linux verions of what you need | 06:12 |
| holstein | or get the windows apps to run | 06:12 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: for most cases, what comes default in ubuntu is plenty | 06:13 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: i think its important to realize that its not windows | 06:14 |
| holstein | nor is it trying to replace or emulate windows | 06:14 |
| holstein | ubuntu is a fully functional operating system that any company can choose to write software for and support | 06:14 |
| holstein | weather or not it works for you is totally up to you | 06:15 |
| Keith_Lassiter | I am finding that out. It appears as though at best I will be running it alongside Windows for some time. | 06:15 |
| holstein | but, i think its realistic to go in expecting something differnt | 06:15 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: lots of folks do | 06:15 |
| holstein | dual boot* | 06:15 |
| Keith_Lassiter | I have webisites and sales programs that may still require Windows for some of the functions to work correctly. A lot of PHO | 06:16 |
| Keith_Lassiter | PHP | 06:16 |
| holstein | yup | 06:16 |
| holstein | thats the P in LAMP :) | 06:16 |
| holstein | anyways... do what makes you feel comfortable | 06:17 |
| Keith_Lassiter | I appreciate your hel[. Gonna try it out and see how it works | 06:17 |
| holstein | please do, ask whatever you need :) | 06:17 |
| Keith_Lassiter | I was told by my Service support people from HP that it may even be able to ready my HD that recently crashed | 06:17 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: how bad? | 06:18 |
| holstein | is it still spinning? | 06:18 |
| Keith_Lassiter | Windows is saying "No hard drive present".. LOL | 06:18 |
| holstein | http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec is what i use | 06:18 |
| holstein | as long as the drive can still spin* | 06:18 |
| Keith_Lassiter | Haven't taken it out of the laptop. It under warranty and getting ready to ship it off to HP | 06:19 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: well, you wont get the old HD back anyways | 06:19 |
| Keith_Lassiter | So my last backup was a few weeks agoi. Been working out of town. | 06:19 |
| Keith_Lassiter | If I am lucky, I can save myself a lot of work. | 06:19 |
| holstein | i use photorec either in ubuntu or from a live cd like http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ | 06:20 |
| Keith_Lassiter | Right, that's why I am going to try to retrieve the info before I ship it to HP. | 06:20 |
| holstein | Keith_Lassiter: you can see if ubuntu sees it, but, if its clicking and dying, photorec is probably the best chance | 06:20 |
| holstein | i usually get it going, and just let it 'chew' on the data for as long as it needs | 06:21 |
| Keith_Lassiter | Is photorec on the ultimatebootCD alredy? | 06:21 |
| holstein | yeah, partedmagic is on there | 06:22 |
| holstein | has photorec/test disk and all kinds of handy HD tools (and other goodies) | 06:22 |
| holstein | someone mentioned this at our LUG the other day http://www.hackfromacave.com/katana.html | 06:23 |
| Keith_Lassiter | I will try it.. I have the Blackboot CD which has always doen a good job for me.. but it didn't see the HD | 06:24 |
| Stockholm_Angel | tala du svenska? | 07:29 |
| head_victim | !se | 07:33 |
| ubot2 | Svensk Ubuntu- och Kubuntusupport hittar du i #ubuntu-se resp. #kubuntu-se | 07:33 |
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| bioterror | superwoman! ;) | 08:20 |
| ApOgEE | hi all | 08:57 |
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| s-fox | o/ | 11:07 |
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| johnnylep | hi, i'm fairly new to ubuntu and this is my first time on irc, so apologies in advance for breaking any conventions. i need to install a specialist mindmapping software, named Sciplore, but it isn't in any repository. i've downloaded it as a zip file, but get stuck there. does anybody know how to install such things? | 11:37 |
| geirha | There's no recipe for such things, apart from extracting the archive somewhere, and look for a README or INSTALL file or similar. | 11:46 |
| geirha | The site where you found that file might also have documentation on how to proceed. | 11:47 |
| johnnylep | thanks geirha, there is some info on the site, but it's too complex for me. i have zero coding skills and little IT skill. i need a dummies guide or someone competent to talk me through it. | 11:50 |
| geirha | Ok, so you got the Linux Binaries (.zip) from here? http://sciplore.org/software/sciplore_mindmapping/#download | 11:52 |
| johnnylep | thanks again geirha. yes, i got it from there | 11:54 |
| geirha | Ok, create a folder somewhere, perhaps in your homedir or one the desktop. Call it SciPlot or something (whatever you feel is best). | 11:55 |
| geirha | Doubleclick the zip file, click extract and choose your folder as the place to extract the archive. | 11:55 |
| geirha | The folder you just created that is. | 11:56 |
| geirha | Now you should see three files named SciploreMindMapping with extensions .bat, .exe and .sh. | 11:57 |
| geirha | The .bat and .exe files are for windows users, ignore them, right-click on SciploreMindMapping.sh and choose Properties, then in the Permissions tab, mark the checkbox to make it executable. | 11:58 |
| geirha | After that double-clicking SciploreMindMapping.sh should start the program. | 11:58 |
| geirha | Are you with me, or did I lose you at some point? :) | 12:00 |
| johnnylep | so sorry, i've just switched to 11.04 and am trying to work through the new UI....i'm not enjoying it. | 12:01 |
| johnnylep | can you give me 10 mins to catch up pleae? | 12:02 |
| geirha | Ah, I'm sticking with 10.04 myself. Haven't tried the new UI at all. | 12:03 |
| geirha | Maybe someone else here can translate my instructions to the new UI (if they differ) | 12:04 |
| johnnylep | i'm hoping it's the same once past the UI. this new UI (unity?) is taking a lot of getting used to. should be back with you in 5 mins though | 12:05 |
| johnnylep | geirha, you're a genius. it's all working. thank you so much. | 12:08 |
| geirha | \o/ | 12:09 |
| Laftur | Can someone help me with an issue on bootup? | 12:09 |
| coalwater | Laftur, there's a rule here that says don't ask to ask, just ask :D or something like that lol | 12:10 |
| coalwater | anyway what's ur problem | 12:10 |
| Laftur | I'm trying to boot from a USB drive or a CD, and it just freezes on a purple loading screen. | 12:11 |
| coalwater | it takes a little bit to load, but how much rams do u have on ur computer? | 12:12 |
| Laftur | 4 Gigabytes. | 12:13 |
| coalwater | how long have u tried to leave it before u give up and turn it off? | 12:13 |
| Laftur | I've left it for around five minutes. | 12:14 |
| coalwater | is it just a purple screen? or is there an ubuntu spalsh screen? | 12:14 |
| Laftur | It says Ubuntu, and there are some dots below, indicating some sort of action. | 12:14 |
| Laftur | I assumed it wouldn't take too terribly long to load, but do you think I should try leaving it for longer? | 12:15 |
| coalwater | it loads the whole system to the ram only, it takes a bit | 12:16 |
| geirha | It shouldn't take five minutes on a machine with 4GiB RAM though, so it does sound like something's wrong. | 12:17 |
| coalwater | u sure the cd is fine? no scratches or any thing? | 12:17 |
| geirha | Is the machine frozen? Does hitting caps lock toggle the caps lock led on your keyboard? | 12:17 |
| Laftur | Oh, yes.. It's brand new... and I also tried booting from a USB drive: same thing happens. | 12:18 |
| Laftur | it's not frozen... there's even a cursor that I can maneuver with my trackpad. | 12:18 |
| geirha | Most likely it's having some trouble with the graphics hardware | 12:19 |
| Laftur | I've got a Radeon HD 4200 series chipset. | 12:20 |
| geirha | When you boot with the cd, you'll see a purple screen for a few seconds, it has an image of a man and a keyboard. If you hit some key at that point, you should get a boot menu. | 12:20 |
| geirha | In the boot menu you can try to select something like safe graphics mode | 12:21 |
| Laftur | Yes, and I instructed it to load from the disc/usb device. | 12:21 |
| geirha | There are more options, which you access with the F1-F6 keys | 12:21 |
| Laftur | oh... that sounds like a good idea, I'll try that, and get back to you. | 12:21 |
| Guest62964 | having trouble installing the server edition 11.04. The install hangs after the disk partitioner window pops up and leaves me with a purple screen, any suggestions? | 16:03 |
| Stockholm_Angel1 | if i am running a intel atom 4 core processor should i use 36 or 64bit intaller? | 16:04 |
| Stockholm_Angel1 | brb | 16:04 |
| holstein | Guest62964: there are some options in the installer that i would suggest trying, but that could be a bad install image too | 16:04 |
| holstein | Guest62964: personally, i would install 10.04 server edition | 16:05 |
| Guest62964 | I tried both the AMD64 and the i386 versions... | 16:05 |
| holstein | that shouldng matter | 16:05 |
| holstein | however, you should confirm the md5 sum | 16:05 |
| holstein | and look at those options | 16:05 |
| holstein | in 10.04, i believe its F4 or F6 and the first boot splash | 16:06 |
| holstein | you can pass options there like 'nomodeset' | 16:06 |
| Guest62964 | what is the md5 sum? | 16:08 |
| holstein | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5sum | 16:11 |
| holstein | Guest62964: there are other sum methods as well... basically, its a way to confirm the image you download is the same as what you expect it to be | 16:12 |
| holstein | Stockholm_Angel: if you have a dought, just get the 32-bit | 16:12 |
| holstein | nothing really deal-breaking anymore with running a 64bit linux install though, assuming your hardware supports it | 16:12 |
| holstein | Guest62964: i suggest http://releases.ubuntu.com/lucid/ubuntu-10.04.2-server-i386.iso | 16:14 |
| holstein | unless you want 64bit http://releases.ubuntu.com/lucid/ubuntu-10.04.2-server-amd64.iso | 16:14 |
| holstein | ^ trouble shoot that installer IF you have the same issues | 16:14 |
| Stockholm_Angel | holstein: tack | 16:15 |
| Stockholm_Angel | thanks sorry i forgot this is english speaking channel | 16:15 |
| Stockholm_Angel | umm, i have a eeepc seashell series machine | 16:16 |
| Stockholm_Angel | 1gb ram 2gb swap | 16:16 |
| Guest62964 | OK, thanks I'll try and confirm the image and install i386 | 16:19 |
| holstein | Guest62964: OK, but, just for the record, i suggest you download the 10.04 verion, try that install, and go from there | 16:20 |
| holstein | version* | 16:20 |
| Guest62964 | I'll give the 11.04 one more chance, and then download the 10.4 Thanks for the advice! | 16:21 |
| holstein | Guest62964: its more than advice | 16:21 |
| holstein | the 10.04 version is the LTS - long term support | 16:22 |
| holstein | i dont think anyone would argue that the LTS server edition *should* be used | 16:22 |
| Guest62964 | OK, you convinced me, downloading 10.4 now! | 16:23 |
| ranilynn | hi all i'm new to the whole linux thing and i was wondering.. i have a 64 bit computer does it really make a difference between 32 bit and 64 bit ubuntu? | 17:01 |
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| jeff__ | OK, I downloaded 10.04 and have the same result. I work thru the beginning of the install and after the I verify the time zone the disk partitioner window briefly pops up and then I get a blank blue screen with a white bottom, suggestions? | 19:03 |
| tdn | Is there a way I can force my laptop cooling fans to run all the time? | 19:18 |
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| jeff__ | is there an alternate installation method? | 19:42 |
| leoquant | jeff__, there is an alernate cd | 19:50 |
| jeff__ | nope, i downloaded the 64 bit server addition | 19:51 |
| leoquant | and? | 19:52 |
| jeff__ | sorry, where can i obtain it, I have this same issue with 11..4 and 10.4 I don't think that it is the cd | 19:53 |
| Pici | !alternate | 19:55 |
| ubot2 | The Alternate CD is a classic text-mode install CD. It supports a wider range of hardware than the !LiveCD, and can also be used as an upgrade CD. http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/alternative-download#alternate - See also !minimal | 19:55 |
| jeff__ | Thanks, I'll try it now | 19:56 |
| leoquant | https://samiux.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/the-different-between-ubuntu-desktop-alternate-cd-and-server-cd/ explains a lot | 20:00 |
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| pedro3005 | I need some help | 22:28 |
| pedro3005 | anyone out there | 22:28 |
| kendrickLeiter | I am dual booting 11.04 and windows 7. I just created a liveUSB with Bauer-Puntu on it, but it will not load on startup. Any recommendations? | 23:38 |
| kendrickLeiter | I am dual booting 11.04 and windows 7. I just created a liveUSB with Bauer-Puntu on it, but it will not load on startup. Any recommendations? | 23:43 |
| nathans80 | im having a problem running ubuntu10.10 where all my popup's chat windows and new windows are opening in the second window not my main using ati catalyst | 23:52 |
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