[00:09] <kristian-aalborg> how do I see when I installed ubuntu??
[00:11] <philipballew> kristian-aalborg, what exactly do you need?
[00:11] <philipballew> see what?
[00:13] <kristian-aalborg> the date I made the initial install
[00:13] <kristian-aalborg> the current one
[00:13] <philipballew> you want to find when you installed it?
[00:13] <philipballew> well i have a easy idea
[00:14] <philipballew> roughly how long ago did you install?
[00:15] <philipballew> i have this http://askubuntu.com/questions/1352/how-can-i-tell-what-date-ubuntu-was-installed
[00:15] <philipballew> ill look and see what the best way there is
[00:15] <kristian-aalborg> philipballew, some months
[00:16] <philipballew> akright. hold a couple minutes
[00:18] <kristian-aalborg> Filesystem created:       Wed May 11 11:51:22 2011
[00:19] <philipballew> nice!!!
[00:59] <josimba1> hello
[01:37] <JoonsS> Help: After I installed cups development package. When I meet error message "undefined reference to 'cupsGetDests'", How do I set configuration? (Ubuntu 11.4)
[03:00] <ApOgEE> hi all
[07:01] <philipballew> whats the best way to copy files from my server to my laptop via ssh
[07:03] <pleia2> rsync -avz -e ssh file.foo laptop:
[07:04] <pleia2> or you could use scp, but that doesn't have resume functions and things like rsync
[07:21] <philipballew> pleia2, hum. so i need to send them back to my laptop. I'll need ssh-server on laptop then?
[07:24] <geirha> Or do the copy from the laptop. rsync -av server:dir-to-copy /local/dir
[09:04] <head_victim> What's the easiest way to completely reset all shortcut keys?
[09:05] <geirha> Not sure, it might be as easy as a gconftool --recursive-unset on the right gconf tree
[13:04] <kayaman> hi all
[13:22] <kayaman> hey guysssssssssssssssssss
[13:47] <holstein> kayaman: ?
[13:49] <kayaman> yes holstein
[13:49] <kayaman> heyyyyyyyyy
[13:50] <holstein> kayaman: welcome to the channel
[13:50] <kayaman> thanks alot
[13:50] <kayaman> am new in ubuntu
[13:50] <holstein> check out the topic, and feel free to join #ubuntu-beginners-team or #ubuntu-ot for more "heyyyyyyy" appropriate venues :)
[13:51] <kayaman> where are those questions
[13:51] <holstein> kayaman: question?
[13:51] <holstein> questions*
[15:53] <pleia2> philipballew: you can do an rsync either way, you said "copy files from my server to my laptop via ssh" so I was giving you instructions in that direction, if you want to pull files from your server you just run it on your laptop with the options reversed
[15:54] <pleia2> so like: rsync -avz -e ssh server:file.foo directory_on_laptop/
[16:02] <philipballew> that makes scene. and then i just delete off the server if I want. pleia2
[21:08] <Geodude> Hey, guys.
[21:10] <escott> Geodude, quiet channel today. go ahead and ask your question if you have one
[21:10] <Geodude> I'm having trouble burning .iso images. (I tried several different ones.) When Brasero is "100% finished success" it tries to do some other stuff and my computer just goes insane and it can't finish whatever the last steps are supposed to be.
[21:11] <Geodude> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dVAonkK-U
[21:12] <escott> Geodude, the fixating step. you might try using wodim directly and you can control whether or not to fixate
[21:12] <Geodude> So it's a Brasero issue? I've never used it. Is there just a command line I can use to burn .iso files?
[21:14] <escott> Geodude, could be a Brasero issue, could be specific to your cd burner. i've always preferred using wodim with verbosity (-vvvv argument) turned on so I can see any possible error.
[21:14] <Geodude> where do I get wodim?
[21:14] <escott> Geodude, the gui may be easier but you get into situations where you don't know what is happening (like you are in)
[21:14] <escott> !info wodim
[21:14] <Geodude> Nevermind, the software center says I have it...
[21:15] <Unit193> escott: You have to prefix bot because it's broken
[21:15] <Unit193> ubot2: info wodim
[21:15] <ubot2> Unit193: wodim (source: cdrkit): command line CD/DVD writing tool. In component main, is optional. Version 9:1.1.10-1ubuntu3 (maverick), package size 427 kB, installed size 864 kB
[21:15] <Geodude> reading man page now
[21:16] <escott> Geodude, generally it is wodim dev=/dev/dvd -vvvvv -data filename.iso
[21:17] <escott> Geodude, in your case you may want to adjust the speed and/or disable fixation
[21:26] <Geodude> It's giving me a warning. Do I need to sudo?
[21:27] <philipballew> whats up Geodude ?
[21:28] <escott> Geodude, yes
[21:28] <Geodude> Man, verbose doesn't mess around.
[21:28] <escott> Geodude, there may be some ways to avoid that, but its almost always a good idea to run wodim as root
[21:28] <Geodude> All kinds of errors.
[21:29] <escott> Geodude, hopefully just warnings, the more important things are that you dont get buffer underruns
[21:29] <Geodude> oh. I know what I did. I'm an idiot.
[21:30] <Geodude> It wouldn't record because I forgot to blank it first. :)
[21:30] <Geodude> Now it's doing that thing in the youtube video I linked.
[21:31] <Geodude> Nothing is happening and all of my CPUs are at 50%
[21:31] <Geodude> device or resource busy
[21:36] <Geodude> Awesome. Burned without issue. Thanks for the command line. Now to see if it will boot lol :)
[22:14] <Geodude> Won't boot from the CD I made. I'm going to try to boot from a CD I know boots.
[22:22] <escott> Geodude, using a cd-rw for a boot cd may not work well. i would recommend using a cd-r
[22:23] <escott> Geodude, and the fixation step could be important to the boot as well. an unfixated disk may confuse the bios
[22:24] <Geodude> I just booted into Ubuntu from a DVD-RW, but the disc I'm trying to use is a CD-RW. Unfortunately I do not have a cd-r.
[22:26] <Sidewinder1> Geodude, Did you md5sum the ISO image, prior to burning? If so and it agreed, did you burn at the slowest speed?
[22:26] <Geodude> I also tried to format a flash stick to be bootable but that went awfully wrong.
[22:26] <urlin2u> Geodude, how did you format the usb stick?
[22:26] <Geodude> umm I used instructions from the arch linux wiki.
[22:27] <Geodude> I don't know how to md5sum but I did try two different images and I used BitTorrent to double check that each file had all of its parts.
[22:27] <Geodude> pfSense.iso and Arch.iso
[22:27] <urlin2u> Geodude, use unetbootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
[22:27] <Sidewinder1> !md5sum | Geodude
[22:27] <ubot2> Geodude: To verify your Ubuntu ISO image (or other files for which an MD5 checksum is provided), see http://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM or http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/LQ_ISO/Checking_the_md5sum_in_Windows
[22:27] <Sidewinder1> !hashes | Geodude
[22:27] <ubot2> Geodude: See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes for the md5sums of Ubuntu discs.
[22:30] <szczur> is there a way to force program to use specific network interface? Say, that i have two ifaces (wlan0 i ppp0 [3G modem]) and i'd like to connect to my ssh server via wlan0 and do the rest (browsing, gaming, etc.) with the modem.
[22:31] <Geodude> ooh good question.
[22:31] <urlin2u> Geodude, if you reformat the usb stick and use unetbootin to load it you should be set if the ISO is good.
[22:32] <Geodude> I'm sure it's not the iso, but I'm going to find the md5 thing. I've downloaded this .iso twice and checked it with transmission.
[22:35] <Geodude> md5 is the same (c3f7e10d040eac1da0efe68fb2f64d5b  archlinux-2011.08.19-netinstall-i686.iso)
[22:35] <Geodude> So, this is probably not an Ubuntu problem.
[22:36] <Geodude> I know I've booted (and installed an OS) from this particular CD-RW before.
[22:36] <escott> Geodude, but you had to clear data off the cd-rw first right?
[22:37] <escott> Geodude, im not sure how exactly cd-rws work, but that might mess up the boot process
[22:37] <escott> so at least use a new clean cd-rw
[22:37] <Geodude> Good point. I'll ask my housemates if they have any CD-Rs and try that. Thanks for all the help.
[23:52] <Geodude> Is there any way to make >>sudo iwlist wlan0 scan<< show only my ESSID that I'm connected to? Or just a particular one. isntead of all within range.
[23:52] <Geodude> Also, is there an indicator applet that I can make do this command every so many minutes and display results? I'm very unhappy with the "sometimes 3 bars, usually 4 bars" approach. I no longer even receive the percentage signal tooltip in 11.04
[23:57] <philipballew> can someone help me install lubuntu. when i boot the cd it boots into a shell
[23:57] <holstein> philipballew: odd
[23:58] <holstein> how about live?.. i would think the lubuntu installer would be live, or have a live option
[23:58] <escott> Geodude, its pretty quiet in this channel today. #ubuntu may have an answer for you
[23:59] <philipballew> holstein, it is odd. it is the live version and it just goes and boots into that