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knomewe have an offtopic channel too, but it's been even more quiet than this channel for a LONG time00:00
IStormNo, the point what emphasis and you only have 256 chars to do it with.00:00
IStormI don't wanna break the rules of this one00:00
knomemore than in a twitter message ;)00:00
knomewe've taken a more relaxed approach here00:00
IStormI was hoping you wouldn't make the mistakes that I made, so I emphasized.00:01
knomeif there is no support questions, some random chatter about things that somewhat relate to xubuntu are fine00:01
knomes/are/is/00:01
knomeyeah. it's easy to say afterwards, and it's also easy to think before, but it's harder to execute. :)00:01
knome(not doing (the same) mistakes)00:02
IStormI guess I don't get what you're saying, you don't wanna talk anymore? you would rather talk about Xubuntu?00:03
knomeno i mean offtopic (non-support) is fine in this channel as long as nobody needs support :)00:03
IStormAm I setting off some audio trigger on your system? I can stop, I'm just waiting during an install.00:04
knomei (or any other op) will make a growling voice if the offtopic chatter is too loud00:04
knomenope00:04
knomei'm just bored @ 3am ;)00:04
IStormthat is gmt+3 no?00:05
knomeyeah, i think00:05
knomei always get confused because the DST00:05
knomeso i think +2+DST00:06
IStorm It should be abolished, we were one of the last states in the us to go to it00:06
knomeagreed00:06
IStormI'm from Indiana, you?00:07
knomehelsinki, the capital of finland00:07
knomethat's why it is 3*am* ;)00:07
IStormWOW! close close close to the mud I first started on00:07
IStormI was thinking more southern00:08
knomelike greece?)00:08
IStormhang on, ..... wait, can I post a url?00:11
IStormfor the mud I used to be on, it's in your neighborhood.00:11
knomeas long as it is family-friendly00:11
IStormhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_MUD00:11
IStormMuds were a basis for motivating programmers. I learned regular expressions in order to design macros/triggers to play the game better.00:12
knomex)00:13
IStormoutside of that, it was the first mmorpg stuff that was out there.00:13
knomenever played much of those00:14
knomei enjoyed games like transport tycoon a LOT more00:15
IStormalright, so where do you come down on splitting the system drive. 2 drives, let's say 3.1Gb each00:15
knomei've used 15G on my /. i don't know :D00:15
IStormWe really didn't have great graphics back then. It was intriguing to play against another human00:16
IStormyea, this is what I'm on here about. I don't trust "web advice00:16
IStormwell, "web advice"/get-you-to-run-some-spyware00:17
knome/var /usr /etc00:17
IStormYea, /usr is the one I want moved00:17
knomemaybe /lib00:18
knome/etc is actually probably not so big00:19
IStormnote: I try to recover systems (call them frankensteins) from stuff no one thinks they want00:19
knomebut those are the ones you probably should think about00:19
knomei just read about ltsp-systems today00:19
IStormIt's a bit of a hobby, but with the economy, I'm finding more and more 3-4Gb drives00:20
IStormWindows....pfffft......a supportable version......pfffft........nope one must find his own way00:21
knomemm. with less than 1GB ram any windows somewhat readily avaialable is pretty much useless00:22
knome-a00:22
IStormless than 1gb, means linux00:23
knomeusually yes00:23
IStormcontrol, customization, and a bit of reality00:23
IStormwin7/64 nat(which is really pat) is offered as a system operation that the user has little or no control over. Linux - iptables and masquerading00:25
knomei have used win7 only a little, and even that was as a normal user00:25
IStormThe sad thing, is that a friend of mine and I were going to get invloved in a00:26
IStorm--srrry, early enter-key00:26
IStormpc recylcling biz, but they had another employee that was skimming hardware (his salary)00:27
IStormanyway, they had this giant box of RAM, I kid you not, 10x10x3, just ram they were gonna melt.00:28
knomeyeah00:28
IStormthey weren't even going through it (the skimmer guy was I think)00:29
knomewe had a "club" too where we had too much of old ram...00:29
IStormI'm on "preparing perl" so tell me about it00:30
IStormHave you fiddled with Citrix yet?00:30
IStormThat's a side question00:30
knomewell we pretty much just gathered and built some pc's and installed linux on them and had fun :)00:31
knomeand had fun with each other too00:31
IStormIn the US, a club like that wouldn't be "cool". Times are changing though.00:32
knomeno, haven't touched citrix00:33
knomewhy does somebody want to be UTC+12 AND 3/4??00:33
knomehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Islands00:33
knomewasn't cool here either00:33
knomebut it was fun00:33
knome;)00:33
IStormWait, was your first site where you live or in the US? (being ambiguous about location since you seem sensitive)00:33
knomehuh, wait, what? first site? :)00:34
knomenow you confused me00:34
IStorm[19:35] <knome> started fiddling with pc's when i was 5, our first internet was broadband (cable!) when i was 14, the same year i was paid to create my first ever website for a company... ;)00:35
knomeah, it was here in finland yeah00:36
IStormSales or just info?00:36
knomei actually built the whole site00:36
IStormyou're on irc, I haven't a doubt about that00:37
IStormlol00:37
knomehehe00:37
knomeyeah, i was on irc then too...00:37
knomedidn't take a day to get to irc once we got our first internet!!00:38
IStormActually it suprises me that someone your age is still even on IRC00:38
knomewell why not. it's a fast way to communicate, and if you work in the open source world, you pretty much will have to at least know what irc is00:38
IStormActually, it surprises me that ANYONE is still on IRC00:38
IStormI will agree, for programmers it's invaluable.00:39
knomeit's a slowly dying culture amongst the "normal" people, yeah00:40
IStormIt's the best place for answers, if you can avoid or tolerate the abuse you get for asking the question.00:41
knomewell, at least the ubuntu community is giving much work in not having abuse in their channels00:42
knomenot a problem here really, but #ubuntu is really busy.. of trolls and abusers too00:42
IStormpeople chose Xubuntu for a reason00:46
knomewell, the abusers are banned from #ubuntu too, it's just a hard day's work00:47
IStormSo tell me more about your first web?00:52
IStormhandcoded? utility?00:52
knomepartly coded with frontpage, later updated to completely handocded00:52
knomea very basic site00:52
IStorm2-way? Was it their server (my bets would be yes on that)00:52
knomeit is some hosting00:53
knomeis & was :)00:53
IStormdid you use a package for funds transfer00:53
knomenow you lost me again - what package?00:54
IStormThat is a tough thing to do right00:54
IStormcredit cards, paypal, etc.....00:54
knomeah00:54
knomei think you must've misunderstood00:54
IStormYou didn't handcode the security for that, did you?00:54
knomeit was just a regular website, no webshop00:55
IStormAH! I did misunderstand00:55
knome:)00:55
patricehi everybody, i have a problem with compwiz galaxy00:55
IStormWell, that's a lot at that age.00:55
patriceit doesn't work00:56
IStormwhat does it do?00:56
knomepatrice, compiz is not really supported on xubuntu00:57
patriceti doesn't launch00:57
patriceit*00:57
patricei call the binded keys but nothing happen00:58
charlie-tcaHow did you run it?00:58
patricefrom menu00:58
patricewhat you mean? th configuration manager, i run it from the menu00:59
charlie-tcaI thought you had to replace xfwm with compiz for it to work, has that changed?00:59
patriceyes, with wompiz switch00:59
knomeyeah, as i understand it, it's a plugin for compiz00:59
patriceyes01:00
patricenone is working01:00
charlie-tcaMIght have more luck in #ubuntu, then. We really don't deal with compiz very much01:00
patriceok, thanks anyway01:00
IStormthe house here is xfce4 no?01:01
patriceyes01:01
patriceme too01:01
charlie-tcaYes, xfce4 with xfwm401:01
patriceyes01:02
charlie-tcaWhen you add compiz, you do replace xfwm4 with it01:02
IStormyea, for me, it's lightweight, not options01:02
patricenow i did01:02
charlie-tcaSince compiz is used by Ubuntu, they are much better at it then we are.01:03
patriceok01:03
knomei think that's it for me today.01:09
knomesee you later01:09
charlie-tcaGood night, sir01:09
sp4zhi all, i have been monitoring my network traffic and i have a lot of ssdp packets being sent is there a way to disable upnp in xubuntu (fresh install)01:20
sp4zdoes anyone know how to get a program to run at startup?02:19
sp4znvm newb question found it02:20
dreamsofreasonAnyone have any idea what would cause the "Additional Drivers" option to disappear from the System menu?02:22
charlie-tcamight have moved to menu -> Settings -> Additional Drivers02:38
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knomeSaaMmY, problems with connection?10:20
SaaMmYyes10:20
SaaMmYsorry10:20
knomeif you can, could you keep from #xubuntu until you get it fixed?10:20
SaaMmYIf it go on10:20
SaaMmYI can do that you said10:20
knomeokay, thanks10:21
SaaMmYatm it is fixed10:21
SaaMmYI think10:21
SaaMmYI have rebooted10:21
knomelet's hope it works now then10:21
SaaMmYyes so I think10:22
SaaMmYit is fixed10:22
knomegreat to hear, enjoy10:34
likemindeadIs there a web page with anything like "The Latest In Xubuntu World" ?15:50
charlie-tcatechnical overview for the current development release?15:51
likemindeadSure.15:52
redbeard_Good morning/afternoon/evening16:03
redbeard_Anybody here that might be able to answer a question?16:03
charlie-tcalikemindead: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/TechnicalOverview#Xubuntu16:03
charlie-tca!anybody | redbeard_16:04
ubotturedbeard_: A high percentage of the first questions asked in this channel start with "Does anyone/anybody..." Why not ask your next question (the real one) and find out? See also !details, !gq, and !poll.16:04
likemindeadThanks, charlie-tca.16:04
charlie-tcaThere are lots of people the *might* answer, but no one will without knowing the actual question16:04
charlie-tcas/the/that16:05
redbeard_Is Xubuntu available for download as a DVD?  I can only find CDs16:05
charlie-tcano, it is not16:05
redbeard_OK16:05
redbeard_Thanks16:05
charlie-tcaXubuntu only produces cd images16:05
redbeard_Good enough.  Many thanks16:06
pleia2hmm, xubuntu doesn't really have an equivalent to "My Computer" aside from basic Thunar stuff, right?16:47
charlie-tcawhat's "My Computer" got?16:47
pleia2drat, I was hoping someone else would know :)16:48
Sysino window/folder showing all partitions, they appear in side panel16:48
likemindeadI think you're looking for Home, pleia2.16:48
Sysiwith thunar 1.2 that is16:48
pleia2I'm writing the Xubuntu portion of a "this stuff in k/x/l/ubuntu" article16:49
charlie-tcaWhat about File System in Thunar?16:49
likemindead>> /home16:49
pleia2so this one is "the my computer equivalent"16:49
likemindeadSure?16:49
pleia2ok, that's what I thought, I'll reference the side panel in thunar16:50
jnsl_Hi, when im watching a movie... as in now, the screen keeps going black after awhile and i have to move the mouse. In xfce4 manager under power settings i have set it to never turn off display on all options.. have also uninstall xscreensaver but it still dose it :S17:32
charlie-tcaInstall xscreensaver again, tell it no screensaver, and in the advanced settings, make sure power management is off17:36
Sysithere's dpms trick for that..17:42
charlie-tcaand it is...?17:43
Sysixset dpms 0 0 017:45
jnsl_ooo17:46
jnsl_i will try that17:46
jnsl_i have run "xset dpms 0 0 0" in terminal, if it work will i need to set it at boot ?17:46
jnsl_no luck :/18:10
a_guyi come in search of assistance with xfce-desktop18:46
a_guywhenever i login, i see the wallpaper and desktop icons for a split second18:46
a_guythen they disappear and there is only a blue wallpaper, but xfce-panel and everything else seems to work.18:46
knomea_guy, have you enabled root account?18:46
a_guy(in ubuntu 11.10)18:47
a_guyhmm, lemme check18:47
knomeyou shouldn't have18:47
knomei'm just checking18:47
a_guyyup, i have18:47
knomethen we can't help you18:47
a_guy?18:47
knomea_guy, is there a specific reason why you enabled it?18:47
a_guyyes, but is that what's messing xfce-desktop up?18:48
knomea_guy, we can't support systems with root account enabled. note that this is different than using sudo.18:48
knomea_guy, probably yes.18:48
knomea_guy, that's one of the reasons you never should enable the root account.18:48
a_guyis this a design flaw, or intentional?18:49
charlie-tcaIt is a direct result of using a root account18:49
a_guyi'm not logged in as root, i just have it enabled18:49
charlie-tcaand it only takes once to screw things up with it.18:50
knomea_guy, it's not intentional that it breaks stuff, but it is intentional that root account is not enabled, and there is a reason why it's not supported18:50
a_guyif i disable the root account, would it be fixed?18:52
a_guy"sudo passwd -l root" for example18:52
knomeno18:53
a_guyany idea what would?18:53
knomereinstall18:53
a_guyis it something that's fixable in an update? i'd prefer to just wait it out if it is.18:55
knomeno.18:55
genii-aroundI'd suggest to check ownership of all the directories and files in /home/<your-username> (including the hidden ones and their contents also) and revert them to <your-username>18:58
a_guyhmm, everything changed to my username except for ~/.gvfs19:05
a_guyeven as root19:06
a_guy*even as root, i get .gvfs': Permission denied19:06
a_guygenii-around: unfortunately, double-checking the ownership of my home folder didn't fix the issue20:03
knomea_guy, you can try to run 'xfdesktop', but i can't guarantee it'll work20:04
a_guyxfdesktop[2099] is already running; assuming --reload20:05
a_guycan't find any bug reports for it, and i would imagine other people have enabled root before20:06
knomeyes, but the only fix that will work 100% is to reinstall and not enable root. i'm sorry.20:07
charlie-tcaBug reports for it will be invalid, because it is not supported20:07
a_guyknome: know any fixes that might not work 100%? i'm in a situation where I won't be able to reinstall for about 2 weeks :/20:08
knomea_guy, no, sorry, i don't know. also, please don't ask about it again because it is, as told now few times, not supported.20:10
a_guyallright, thanks for the help20:12
a_guyperhaps it should be made more clear that root is not supported on xubuntu?20:13
charlie-tcaYou mean besides making it difficult to do and not the default?20:13
charlie-tca!root20:14
ubottuDo not try to guess the root password, that is impossible. Instead, realise the truth... there is no root password. Then you will see that it is 'sudo' that grants you access and not the root password. Look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo20:14
knomei'll make a note of that and will make sure it's mentioned on the new website. but on the other hand, anything will not be enough, because you can follow any unofficial tutorial that will make you enable root20:14
a_guyyes, but at least making a note of it on the website, as i didn't see it anywhere20:15
charlie-tcaIt is not needed on the website.20:15
a_guyunless of course, it's already on there20:15
knomecharlie-tca, we can at least post a blog article about it.20:15
charlie-tcaYou had to find a way to do it, didn't you?20:15
charlie-tcaknome: then start writing it20:15
a_guyfind a way to do it? no, just a simple "sudo passwd root"20:15
knomecharlie-tca, yes master, once i've sorted out uploading the countdown banners... :P20:16
charlie-tcaand how did you know it would work?20:16
a_guythat's generally how it works on most distros.20:16
a_guynothing seems to break in regular ubuntu when changing the root password20:17
a_guyjust saying: you guys seem to be annoyed by my not knowing about it not being supported. you could avert more users coming here with questions about it by making it more well known.20:19
a_guybut thanks for the info!20:20
knomea_guy, i'm not blaming you, i'm sorry for you20:20
zeatinganyone know anything about extended monitors with a 6950 ?21:37
hipo_hello how do i make a .exe file executable21:41
knomehipo_, chmod +x file21:41
knomezeating, what do you mean with extended?21:41
hipo_do i need to be in the same directory21:41
knomehipo_, yes, but you can also chmod +x /path/to/file21:42
zeatingi mean i just installed xubuntu and on my second monitor is just a clone of everything on my main i want to be able to drag windows onto the second one21:42
hipo_ok so it would be "chmod +x VisualLogic-Course-2.2.4.exe21:42
knomehipo_, yes, if that is the filename21:43
knomezeating, was that nvidia or ati?21:43
hipo_with sudo ?21:43
zeatingati21:43
knomehipo_, don't need sudo21:43
knomezeating, see xrandr21:44
hipo_awesome it worked21:44
zeatingdo i have to download xrandr?21:44
knomezeating, i think it should be installed by default21:45
knomezeating, if not, it's in the repos21:45
hipo_hey man thanks alot been fiddle with this for a wile thank you so much ur a beast21:45
knomehipo_, np, and have fun21:45
zeatinganyone know why catalyst control center (administration) does nothing when i click it?21:48
knomeno idea, sorry21:48
zeatingbummer21:48
knomei've mostly been working with nvidia, and when i had ati, i just set it up with xrandr21:49
zeatingtheres an option to do what i want called Xinerama but its grayed out and says im using one monitor even though both are on :/21:49
knomemight need to "enable" the second monitor from xrandr first21:50
knomezeating, something like xrandr --output OUTPUT-DEV --auto --right-of OUTPUT-DEV-ORIG21:50
knomezeating, xrandr -q should come handy with finding out the DEV's21:52
zeatingwhat does dev's mean21:56
knomeyou need the device id's21:56
knomefor the xrandr command21:56
zeatingoh21:56
zeatingjust says command not found when i do xrandr -q21:56
knomehmm, then try installing xrandr first21:57
knome;)21:57
zeatingguess id ont have the package21:57
knomei thought it came installed by default, but...21:57
zeatingum21:57
zeatingNo command 'xrander' found, did you mean:21:58
zeating Command 'xrandr' from package 'x11-xserver-utils' (main)21:58
zeatingthen i did did apt-get install xserver-utils and said i had latest version21:58
knomenote x11-xserver...21:58
raevolfirefox chugs so hard on my netbook sometimes22:02
raevoli have a gmail and facebook tab open, and neither of those sites are lightweight, but it seems like i shouldn't be seeing it hang for several seconds sometimes22:03
Myrttihave you tried the chrome offline app?22:04
Myrttialthough...22:04
raevoli was using chrome up until recently, it was using so much memory it was causing my whole system to chug22:04
Myrttiyeah, I get that too22:05
Myrttiany ǵoogle thing, in fact22:05
raevolyea :[22:05
knomemy solution: read email from an email client, and don't register to facebook22:06
knome:)22:06
raevoli've been thinking about using a local email client22:06
raevoldo google filters and labels integrate with any local clients?22:06
knomei can very warmly recommend that22:06
Myrtticlaws-mail is quite nice tho22:06
knomeraevol, don't know about that22:07
raevol:/ i have a quite elaborate filter/label system set up22:07
Myrttiback in 2007 I used Evolution, and once I got rid of the job that forced me to use it, I mved to thunderbird. After I got rid of that, I moved to claws22:07
knomeactually i think the filters you set in gmail (never send to spam etc) are working in tb22:08
knomebut there's no way to SET them from tb22:08
Myrtticlaws-mail has nice filters, and like in any other imap client, the labels show up as directories22:08
raevolhmm22:08
Myrttiknome: none of the imap clients can do that22:08
raevolis thunderbird the default xubuntu email client?22:09
knomeno wonder.22:09
knomeraevol, yeah22:09
raevoli've never used a "real" email client outside of one job that i had22:11
knomei've never had a job where to use an email client ;(22:12
pleia2I use thunderbird with gmail accounts that have lots of labels, works nicely22:13
raevolcool22:13
pleia2(I don't use it for my primary email, just for the half dozen group accounts I have to keep an eye on)22:13
raevolsomeone needs to reverse engineer facebook and write a local client for it22:14
pleia2the filtering is done gmail server side, so it all just drops into your labels (as Myrtti mentions, they are just imap folders)22:14
Myrtti22:14
raevolas much as i hate facebook, it's become an integral part of my communication because of some of the social circles i am in22:14
Myrttiit's lovely that gmail takes care of the filteringt22:14
Myrtti-t22:14
raevolyea, that's cool22:14
zeatinganyway, another issue i just installed a program and it didnt show up in the menu list how do i manually add it?22:17
Myrttiwhat program was it?22:17
zeatingchocolate-doom, lol22:17
zeatingjust changing the catagorys22:17
zeatingcant find any option to manually add shortcuts or anything22:18
Myrttidoom engine...22:18
zeating?22:18
MyrttiI just can't immediately figure out if it *should* create a menu entry or not22:19
raevolok... hmm one reason i don't like local clients, seperate line items per message, instead of threading... TB must have an option for this...22:19
knomeraevol, https://joindiaspora.com/ ? :P22:20
raevoli had one of those, no one uses it :P22:20
knome;)22:20
raevolthe point of a social network is to be social haha22:20
Myrttiah22:20
Myrttidiaspora, the social network nobody remembers unless a friend of theirs mentions it in Facebook, Twitter or IRC first22:21
raevolhaha22:22
Myrttiit's true...22:22
raevolok now the big question... is TB going to integrate with the indicator menu22:23
pleia2without any configuration a little popup shows up on my screen and then goes away when I have new mail22:23
raevolkill it D:22:23
pleia2I'm sure it's configurable :)22:23
knomepleia2, that is a bit annoying.22:23
raevoli want it to use ubuntu notifications22:24
pleia2I am not familiar enough with ubuntu to know what those are22:24
raevoloh god it's downloading everything ever22:24
pleia2(are they the same thing xubuntu uses for volume?)22:25
raevol(which is fine, it's just a lot...)22:25
knomeyeah22:25
knomepleia2, ^22:25
knomeor that is what we'd like them to use, yeah22:25
pleia2I hate notifications22:25
knomeme too.22:25
pleia2I only keep thunderbird on defaults because some of our customers use it and I should probably be familiar22:25
knomebut i hate ugly notifications more.22:25
raevoloh man, integration is all very unstable at the moment22:28
raevolthis may have been a bad idea22:28
madnickyou installed libnotify? :)22:28
raevoli have that, it's more the thunderbird side of things22:29
raevolbtw when i unmount usb drives, the "data still being written" message doesn't go through libnotify22:30
raevolis that because i borked things from too much meddling, or is that not integrated yet?22:30
Myrttiin my experience, it's because data is still being written :-)22:31
raevolthat's fine, but it's that the error doesn't come through libnotify22:32
raevolit pops up as a clickable window22:32
Myrttiif you are familiar with terminal usage, you might want to try 'sync' or 'sudo sync' to really get some input if the filesystem changes have been done or not22:32
raevolyou're misunderstanding my problem22:32
MyrttiI probably am, sorry22:32
raevoli don't care if the message is that my harddrive is failing and the moon broke in half, i want it to do through libnotify, rather than popping up as a window that i have to click on22:33
raevolalso i seem to have more net resource usage using mail on thunderbird and facebook on firefox rather than gmail + facebook on firefox22:34
raevolbut let's see if facebook stops chugging22:34
knomeraevol, that's because tb needs to check with gmail, when you have the gmail tab open in a browser, it only needs to notify you about changes, most of the traffic is internal22:38
raevolyea22:38
raevoli dunno, thunderbird just seems super clunky :( may not be for me22:48
knomeraevol, there's claws and evolution too22:49
raevolknome: does it support libnotify? gmail labels? threaded email view?22:50
knomei don't know :)22:50
raevoluseless :P22:52
knomehah22:52
knomei am22:52
knomeraevol, ask ochosi about claws22:53
raevolkk22:53
knome01:50  raevol: knome: does it support libnotify? gmail labels? threaded email view?22:57
knomeochosi, ^22:57
ochosiraevol: ah right. hm, about gmail labels i don't know. notifications: yes. both the messaging menu and popup-notifications. also: systray.22:58
ochosithreaded emails: yes, but not like in gmail22:58
raevolok, i see22:58
raevolthanks :)22:58
ochosinp22:58
pleia2labels are just imap folders22:59
ochosii mean to the worst you can always ask in #claws22:59
pleia2so if claws respects imap folders, it's all good22:59
raevolcool22:59
ochosiit does22:59
raevoljust seems weird because a message can have multiple labels, can it be in multiple folders?22:59
charlie-tcayes, messages can be in multiple folders23:02
raevolinteresting23:08
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