| SoItBegins | Question: Does Ubuntu have contextual menus? And how can you bring them up on a single-button mouse? | 00:15 |
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| urlin2u | SoItBegins, could you give a definition of contextual menus | 00:32 |
| SoItBegins | Menus containing commands, which appear at the location of your mouse cursor containing commands tailored to what you have clicked on, when you right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Mac OS X). | 00:32 |
| urlin2u | SoItBegins, you using a apple mouse? | 00:33 |
| SoItBegins | No. An apple laptop trackpad. | 00:33 |
| urlin2u | ah, hmm not sure there are right click menu's not sure om your setup how though, sorry | 00:34 |
| urlin2u | on* | 00:34 |
| SoItBegins | OK... thank you. | 00:36 |
| urlin2u | SoItBegins, found this though it is possible. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook_Santa_Rosa#Fix_Touchpad | 00:40 |
| urlin2u | SoItBegins, check this out in synaptic emulates the mouse with keys. mouseemu | 00:43 |
| No_ | i am sorry i am off topic. but maybe you know how to install stardics on windows | 00:45 |
| urlin2u | No_, #windows is where you need to be | 00:48 |
| No_ | sorry but i need it for work | 00:49 |
| No_ | but i still need ubuntu performance :) | 00:50 |
| urlin2u | No_, we help on dualbootng issues, but can't on windows only. | 00:50 |
| No_ | ok i try search myself, still thanx | 00:52 |
| PsiKloPx | Hiya | 03:43 |
| Unit193 | !hi | 03:46 |
| ubot2` | Factoid 'hi' not found | 03:46 |
| Unit193 | Bah, it's on some. Howdy and good day! | 03:46 |
| bobweaver | any one here that can help me write a script | 06:17 |
| bobweaver | bash | 06:17 |
| bobweaver | should be real easy I just dont understand awk and sed | 06:22 |
| geirha | bobweaver: for f in *.desktop; do echo mv "$f" "$(awk -F= '$1=="Name"{print $2".desktop";exit}' "$f")"; done | 08:00 |
| geirha | Added an echo for testing in there. | 08:00 |
| aleixosk_ | hello everybody, I've tried to resize a partition with gparted a couple of times and it would freeze every time. All I know is it was "scanning inode table" as it freezed. Can anyone recommend me another program or help me solve the problem? | 09:38 |
| jp_Hranice | palimpsest | 09:44 |
| aleixosk | hello everybody, I've tried to resize a partition with gparted a couple of times and it would freeze every time. All I know is it was "scanning inode table" as it freezed. Can anyone recommend me another program or help me solve the problem? | 11:20 |
| kristian-aalborg | hi all | 13:17 |
| kristian-aalborg | I made a holstein yesterday - found two gigs of memory in a pile of garbage ;) | 13:18 |
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| cinematic | Hello anyone home? | 20:58 |
| cinematic | I am having alot of trouble booting from USB on my macbook pro 4,1. I want to install on a small 20GB partition formatted in FAT32, I followed instructions for creating a usb install on the ubuntu wiki, but when i try to boot all i get is either no bootable device or non-system disk. Any other suggestions? | 21:01 |
| holstein | hey cinematic | 21:11 |
| cinematic | hello holstein | 21:11 |
| holstein | i would burn a CD | 21:11 |
| cinematic | I would if I could, however my superdrive is toast | 21:12 |
| holstein | cinematic: well, you'll need to troubleshoot why your macbook is not booting USB | 21:12 |
| cinematic | I was told that the 11.10b1 build fixed the booting on macs | 21:12 |
| holstein | cinematic: i booted 10.04 on a mac | 21:12 |
| holstein | i would go to another machine | 21:12 |
| cinematic | from usb? | 21:12 |
| holstein | confirm that the stick is good | 21:12 |
| holstein | then, troubleshoot from there | 21:13 |
| cinematic | Should i create the boot drive on windows? | 21:13 |
| holstein | cinematic: i read the the macbook couldnt boot USB | 21:13 |
| holstein | i have an older one though | 21:13 |
| holstein | cinematic: its not the creation, its the testing | 21:13 |
| cinematic | I have a 4,1 early 2008 | 21:13 |
| holstein | right now.. you have a USB stick that you dont know if it works or now | 21:13 |
| holstein | not* | 21:13 |
| cinematic | Ive tried it on 2 sticks | 21:14 |
| holstein | so, i would want to confirm it works on something that for sure boot USB | 21:14 |
| holstein | cinematic: right, but you dont know if its the mac, or the way you are making the sticks | 21:14 |
| holstein | it literally wont hurt to confirm that what you are making is bootable | 21:14 |
| cinematic | hold on im gonna test the stick on a windows laptop | 21:15 |
| holstein | then, you dont have to wonder... is the stick bad? or is the mac not booting USB | 21:15 |
| holstein | not that the stick is bad... just inproperly configured | 21:15 |
| holstein | bad image | 21:15 |
| holstein | whatever... | 21:15 |
| geirha | Also, please note that you can't install Ubuntu on a FAT32 filesystem. You'll have to remove that partition and create one with ext4 or similar. You can do that from the usb once you get it to boot though. | 21:15 |
| cinematic | what key lets you choose boot order | 21:17 |
| cinematic | F9? | 21:17 |
| holstein | cinematic: thats really based on that particular machine | 21:18 |
| holstein | thats the issue | 21:18 |
| holstein | i cant tell you that | 21:18 |
| holstein | its on a per/machine basis | 21:18 |
| cinematic | its an old windows laptop | 21:18 |
| cinematic | not my mac | 21:18 |
| holstein | cinematic: doesnt matter | 21:18 |
| cinematic | it usually only 1 of 3 keys | 21:18 |
| holstein | for my asus eee's its esc | 21:19 |
| holstein | ive seen f9, f10, options in the bios | 21:19 |
| cinematic | as in eeepc? | 21:19 |
| holstein | if could be anything | 21:19 |
| holstein | eeepc netbook | 21:19 |
| holstein | yeah | 21:19 |
| geirha | The manual for the computer will tell you | 21:19 |
| holstein | i mean, if you would like some help googling, i'll do that, but i need to know the modle | 21:19 |
| holstein | model | 21:19 |
| cinematic | its F12 | 21:20 |
| cinematic | its not booting off usb on this machine either, so it has to be creation error | 21:21 |
| holstein | :) | 21:21 |
| holstein | there you go | 21:21 |
| holstein | i use unetbootin | 21:21 |
| holstein | ive used that from win and lin | 21:21 |
| cinematic | the mac build of that isnt very good | 21:21 |
| holstein | i would check the md5 sum of whatever image you downloaded as well | 21:21 |
| holstein | cinematic: ? | 21:22 |
| holstein | i would say whatever you are using is *not* very good | 21:22 |
| holstein | ;) | 21:22 |
| cinematic | I was doing it through terminal | 21:22 |
| holstein | cinematic: you trying to dd it over? | 21:22 |
| cinematic | yeah | 21:22 |
| holstein | you're supposed to be able to dd the new ones | 21:22 |
| holstein | i havent tried it yet | 21:23 |
| cinematic | which iso should i use? | 21:25 |
| cinematic | the regular 11.04? | 21:25 |
| holstein | cinematic: thats a matter of opinion | 21:26 |
| holstein | im running 10.04, the latest LTS | 21:27 |
| holstein | pretty sure only the 11.10 iso's are hybrid | 21:27 |
| * holstein looking | 21:27 | |
| holstein | yeah... http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Ubuntu-11-10-ISOs-to-be-hybrid-CD-USB-images-1261923.html | 21:28 |
| holstein | you wont be able to dd any stable iso's... not 11.04, nor 10.04 | 21:28 |
| cinematic | can i unetbootin it? | 21:29 |
| holstein | cinematic: i do | 21:29 |
| cinematic | this one? http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/natty/release/ 64bit macimage? | 21:31 |
| holstein | cinematic: that depends | 21:31 |
| cinematic | on? | 21:31 |
| holstein | i mean, if you are asking me what i would use? thats the 32bit 10.04 one | 21:31 |
| holstein | if you have a 64bit machine, you might want the 64bit version | 21:31 |
| holstein | and you might want 11.04 | 21:31 |
| cinematic | i have a 64bit intel core 2 duo | 21:32 |
| holstein | i say, since they are live, just try them live, and see what you thinkg | 21:32 |
| holstein | think* | 21:32 |
| bodhizazen | go for 11.10 beta =) | 21:33 |
| holstein | yeah, at this point, i would not be afraid to run 11.10 | 21:33 |
| holstein | you can dd the iso's to the USB stick :) | 21:34 |
| cinematic | the beta is the one ive been trying to use | 21:34 |
| holstein | cinematic: 11.10? | 21:34 |
| cinematic | mmhmm | 21:34 |
| holstein | that *should* dd | 21:35 |
| bodhizazen | http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.10/ubuntu-11.10-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso | 21:35 |
| holstein | but, you shoud try it with unetbootin | 21:35 |
| bodhizazen | unetbootin *usually* works, but if it does not, reformat the flash drive ant try again | 21:35 |
| cinematic | im using unetbootin to create it now | 21:38 |
| cinematic | the stick is supposed to be in FAT32 right? | 21:38 |
| holstein | cinematic: you wont be able to do it wrong | 21:39 |
| holstein | fat32 is what it should be | 21:39 |
| bodhizazen | for unetbootin yes, does not matter with dd | 21:39 |
| cinematic | i will be right back, im gonna test it | 21:43 |
| cinematic | Didnt work | 21:53 |
| cinematic | rEFIt recognized it as a linux usb though | 21:53 |
| cinematic | im gonna try a different image i think | 21:53 |
| cinematic | or could it be the way the partition table is | 21:54 |
| holstein | on the stick? | 21:54 |
| cinematic | Shouldn't it be MBR? | 21:54 |
| holstein | if you are not familiar with booting sticks, i would just try making one | 21:54 |
| holstein | amybe with a 32bit iso | 21:54 |
| holstein | maybe* | 21:55 |
| holstein | make one that boots on another machine | 21:55 |
| cinematic | It depends, if the parition table is GUID instead of MBR it might boot | 21:55 |
| holstein | then, take that one to the mac | 21:55 |
| holstein | you just need to run it live... you can install another 64bit version later | 21:55 |
| holstein | when you get more comfortable creating media | 21:55 |
| cinematic | http://cl.ly/9s0v | 21:56 |
| holstein | cinematic: i would suggest a mac channel for that | 21:57 |
| holstein | im not familiar with the tools in OSX | 21:57 |
| holstein | i usually just boot alive CD with gparted on it | 21:57 |
| holstein | it wont hurt for you to try all 3 though | 21:58 |
| holstein | mbr is probably the way i end up doing it... id have to look to conrfirm | 21:58 |
| cinematic | I think...im gonna try this | 22:00 |
| cinematic | im thinking if i can get gparted to boot, i can run it and format the bootcamp partition as ext4, then try and boot it | 22:00 |
| holstein | ive never used boot camp | 22:01 |
| holstein | i tried 10.04 on my macbook | 22:01 |
| holstein | it was awful | 22:01 |
| holstein | i wouldnt worry too much about it til you see something running live on there | 22:01 |
| holstein | linux/ubuntu runs great virtualized... in vitualbox for example | 22:02 |
| cinematic | ive been using ubuntu since 8.04, I can run it virtualized but i need physical hardware access for the OS to do what i need to do | 22:05 |
| cinematic | hmmm looks like windows cant read a GUID partition table | 22:06 |
| holstein | sure, im just giving you my user experience, and suggesting that you explore it live before wasting a lot of time | 22:07 |
| holstein | i needed that too | 22:07 |
| cinematic | The only thing i dont like about 11.04 is the unity interface, i prefer the classic desktop | 22:08 |
| holstein | gnome2 is still there in 11.04 | 22:08 |
| holstein | give xubuntu a look if you like gnome2 | 22:09 |
| holstein | i think XFCE is the most gnome2 like, and its quite nice | 22:09 |
| philipballew | QUESTION does this look like a good thing? | 23:09 |
| philipballew | http://www.ebay.com/itm/PNY-GeForce-7300-GS-DDR2-256MB-PCI-E-GRAPHIC-CARD-/130562306027?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item1e661eafeb | 23:09 |
| holstein | eh... i dont think its worth paying shipping, and taking the risk | 23:09 |
| holstein | i got a similar card for $10 | 23:10 |
| philipballew | i need a new graphics card as my new monitor doesnt like my integrated vga port holstein | 23:10 |
| philipballew | but i can find one cheeper? | 23:11 |
| holstein | sure.. but nice new cards are not much more than that | 23:11 |
| holstein | 40 or 50 bucks gets you something new from the egg | 23:11 |
| holstein | you'll have 25 or 30 bucks in that thing | 23:11 |
| holstein | and my 10 dollar card is similarly spec'd | 23:12 |
| philipballew | hum. the desktop is like 5 years old though | 23:12 |
| holstein | do what you feel | 23:13 |
| holstein | i dont think its worth the shipping and all... | 23:13 |
| holstein | but its probably a nice-ish card | 23:13 |
| cinematic | even if a desktop is 5yrs old dropping a newer graphics card in to it, will speed it up you can snag a slightly dated Radeon card for $20-$50 depending | 23:13 |
| philipballew | whats the best graphics card then for ubuntu or linux in general? | 23:14 |
| holstein | intel ;) | 23:14 |
| cinematic | intel doesnt make cards | 23:14 |
| holstein | i like ATI's, but the one i got for 10 bucks was invidia, and i didnt look the gift horse in the mouth | 23:14 |
| cinematic | only embedded graphics chips | 23:14 |
| holstein | i dont mean to split hairs... intel chips are usually well supported | 23:15 |
| philipballew | true, this laptop is intel and really nice | 23:16 |
| cinematic | philipballew: does the desktop have PCI or PCI-E 1.x or PCI-E 2.x | 23:16 |
| philipballew | PCI-E GRAPHIC CARD is what im looking for | 23:17 |
| philipballew | holstein, http://imagebin.org/171055 | 23:18 |
| philipballew | see it would work but I aggree now that you say it, it might not be worth the risk | 23:18 |
| holstein | well, if it were 10 bucks and local, id say go for it | 23:19 |
| holstein | but, for approaching 30?, you can get something new | 23:19 |
| philipballew | maybe I can continue to look | 23:20 |
| philipballew | college students get free amazon shipping | 23:20 |
| holstein | i mean... unless you really want that model for some reason | 23:21 |
| holstein | then, go for it | 23:21 |
| philipballew | nope. i just wan something too work | 23:21 |
| cinematic | that top slot looks like an AGP slot | 23:21 |
| cinematic | is it? | 23:21 |
| holstein | anyways... i gotta run for a bit... BBL | 23:21 |
| cinematic | wait no nvm 3 pin banks | 23:22 |
| cinematic | philipballew: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1558&name=PCI%20Express%20Video%20Cards | 23:23 |
| cinematic | theres a decent list for you | 23:23 |
| cinematic | the top card for $35 is a great deal | 23:23 |
| philipballew | is this bad http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-PCI-Express-Graphics-Warranty-512-P3-1300-LR/dp/B004BQKQ8A/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1315178567&sr=1-1 | 23:24 |
| cinematic | thats a pretty crappy card | 23:24 |
| cinematic | here http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6681269&CatId=1558 | 23:24 |
| cinematic | that will fit your needs and its a pretty decent card, especially for $35 | 23:24 |
| philipballew | http://www.amazon.com/ATI-Graphics-109-A62831-00-Connection-Supported/dp/B005EGRFA8/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1315178663&sr=1-2 | 23:24 |
| philipballew | never herd of sparkle | 23:25 |
| cinematic | nah go with the card i linked you to. its got 1GB of GDDR3 | 23:25 |
| philipballew | ive never herd of it? | 23:25 |
| cinematic | and its rated 4.8/5 | 23:25 |
| cinematic | Sparkle just makes the card, the chipset on it is nVidia | 23:26 |
| cinematic | its got a nVidia 8400GS 1GB DDR3 chipset in it | 23:26 |
| philipballew | i have nivida now and its kinda pissing me off. but thats intragrated | 23:26 |
| cinematic | yeah integrated chips from nvidia usually suck | 23:26 |
| cinematic | Thats why the majority of manufacturers use intel HD chips for embedded graphics | 23:27 |
| philipballew | my laptop is intel. its amazing | 23:27 |
| cinematic | im actually on a mac right now with the mobile version of the card i linked you to | 23:27 |
| cinematic | and i can edit real time 1080p HD with no drop frames | 23:28 |
| cinematic | its a pretty decent card | 23:28 |
| philipballew | i'll look for this on amazon and see if its there | 23:29 |
| philipballew | i get free shipping on there | 23:30 |
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