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philipballewwhere would I find the list of ppa's I have so I can purge them?00:04
sebikulphilipballew, press ALT + F2 and execute "software-properties-gtk". The list you are looking for is under the "other software" tab00:08
philipballewalright, because ppa's are not gonna be in a /etc/apt.sources.list file I dont think sebikul ?00:12
philipballewat least their not for me when i updated 11.1000:12
Unit193/etc/apt/sources.list.d/00:12
philipballewyeah! thats what i ment00:12
sebikulthey are under the folder "/etc/apt/sources.list.d"00:12
sebikulohh, sorry, i was typing ;)00:13
philipballewmaybe the update effed up my list00:13
philipballewbecause software-properties has them, though they were all disabled I beleive00:13
philipballewhttp://paste.ubuntu.com/705181/00:15
philipballewill look into it, but figured it paste it here anyway00:15
philipballewi gotta run. peace!00:16
gunjin2112hi02:19
gunjin2112need help02:19
philipballewok gunjin211202:20
philipballewwhats up02:20
gunjin2112i'm using ubuntu 11.04 and running a dual boot with win7 pro 64 bit and i think my system has a virus i mean my win7 and can i scan that drive using ubuntu02:29
gunjin2112is there a good anti virus for linux and how to install it and how do i scan?02:30
philipballewok gunjin2112  yeah, there are some virius scanners for linux that would scan your windows partition,02:32
gunjin2112where do i dl it?02:32
gunjin2112and do you have any recommendations?02:32
philipballewwell, I would try the ones in the software center02:33
philipballewsome good ones are...02:33
* philipballew is remembering02:33
philipballew!virus02:34
ubot2Antivirus is something you don't need on !Linux. except where files are then passed to windows computers (perhaps using samba), See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Antivirus02:34
gunjin2112the first on the list is clamav02:36
gunjin2112is it any good02:36
philipballewI think so. I would honestly just install it and run it and see what turns up. and if you dont like it try a different one02:37
gunjin2112haha thanks02:38
gunjin2112ok ill try it then02:38
gunjin2112thanks again02:38
urlin2ubitdefender and avast have linux versions as well02:38
philipballewyeah. I think there are commerical ones to02:39
philipballewif you want to pay a few bucks02:39
urlin2uboth free thiugh02:39
urlin2uthough02:39
philipballewi guess i would try them. also see when they were uploaded to the software center02:40
urlin2uhttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/BitDefender02:40
urlin2uhttp://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition#tab4 if you run avast read this link as well. http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=70903.002:43
gunjin2112you need to register to avast in order to get the license02:44
philipballewi wonder if there and any viriuses on my laptop just sitting there02:44
philipballewclam might work. in the software center reviews it says you need to02:44
gunjin2112i'm currently running just now clamav02:44
gunjin2112in terminal02:44
philipballewTo update virus definitions:02:44
philipballewsudo freshclam02:44
philipballewaccording to some review02:45
urlin2uphilipballew, probably not, I have yet to find one myself, but I don't save cookies and use better privacy in FF to remove longterm cookies some =times thought of as addware02:45
* philipballew uses chrome :)02:46
urlin2uI also run rkhunter and chkrootkit on occasion, the others are for the windows dual boot mostly.02:46
philipballewi stoped duel booting when i installed ubuntu over my xp partition years ago and said "well, so long windows i guess"02:48
gunjin2112well i cant just yet02:49
gunjin2112but i'm getting my feet wet02:49
urlin2uI have college classes that I need word for and got W7 for 25$, and word cheap to as a student, I actually started on open source.02:49
urlin2uthought I would check out MS a while back.02:50
urlin2uhardly use it though02:51
philipballewi am in college to. NICE!!!02:52
urlin2uI grad after next semester with a bachelors, older student here.02:52
philipballewmajor?02:53
urlin2ublack Studies, Psych minor02:54
urlin2ualso called african studies, the african Diaspora basically02:54
philipballewah right, We talked about this a few months back02:59
philipballeware you from Africa ?02:59
urlin2uno a anglo in america just interested03:02
urlin2uI used to play jazz, and like cultural studies in general, these depts also have a more afro-centric view at times which is kind of refreshing, really to some extent it is the left out history at times, and a dofferent point of view.03:04
s-foxHello.10:26
bioterrorgreetings to s-fox10:27
s-foxHello bioterror .10:27
bioterrorbeen a while10:27
M0hiGreetings bioterror :P10:32
bioterrorhi10:32
M0hiHeya s-fox10:34
M0hisup bioterror ?10:34
s-foxHello M0hi10:34
bioterrorM0hi, hardly working, surfing downhill bikes mostly :D10:34
M0his-fox: PM?10:35
M0hibioterror: :P10:35
bioterrorI decided that I'm starting downhill ride as a hobby for next summer/autumn ;)10:35
M0hibioterror: Be carful. My friend met with an accident two days before10:36
M0hiI hope someone here remembers rraj_be10:36
M0hiHe is in Intensive Care Unit now :[10:36
bioterrordid he crash with bike or what?10:37
M0hiHit on a truck while crossing the 4 roads junction10:38
bioterrorthose are bad10:40
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shahanthegeekhello all :)13:18
Abhijithi13:19
shahanthegeekWhat about new release of ubuntu? Is it going to be released just in time (JIT)?13:23
Abhijitshahanthegeek, #ubuntu+113:24
shahanthegeekAbhijit: oh! sorry!!! tnx  :)13:25
Abhijitok13:25
holsteinwhere are the messages that come up when you ssh into a server?13:36
holsteini have a server install that gives info, and i would like to add that to a vanilla install im going to be regularly ssh-ing into13:37
holsteinNM... i think i found some info... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=110050013:41
coalwaternow suppose im running ssh to my home pc, when i run a program it asks for a display, how can i tell it to use the remote display at home14:13
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aeryalhello everybody17:15
aeryalI need help with iperf, anybody knows?17:15
tenachHiya.17:16
aeryalthe README file says:17:16
aeryal- The 'java' (JRE 1.5+) executable have to be into the system path17:16
aeryalbut I don't know how to do that17:17
tenachDo you have JRE installed?17:17
aeryalyes17:17
tenachHmm.17:17
aeryalI installed it 10 minutes ago17:17
w47331hello all19:42
w47331anyone willing to help with a wireless card issue?19:43
lucahi guys19:51
lucaare there anybody??19:51
lucaHow can one person hel the community?19:52
lucahelp19:52
nlsthznw47331: best is to state the problem and I am sure someone will pip in and assist as they can19:53
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nlsthznluca: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu19:54
lucaHow can one persone test ubuntu version?19:54
holsteinw47331: whats up?19:56
lucaI'm trying to do a wiki page how can i do?19:56
holsteinluca: you have a launchpad account?19:56
lucayes I do19:56
lucaSigned Ubuntu Code of Conduct:19:58
lucaYes19:58
lucaI have also signed the ubuntu code of conduct19:58
w47331im new to ubuntu and have a BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01) that will not work for some reason...19:58
w47331nor will the function keys to activate the wifi19:58
w47331im on a inspron 154519:59
holsteinw47331: check out https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx19:59
holsteintheres a bug where you dont get prompted for the correct additional driver right now19:59
w47331did19:59
holsteinw47331: if neither of those drivers work for you, and you are sure you installed them properly, then you'll want to try the windows driver20:00
w47331i have a list of reports ive compiled i can send20:00
holsteini would download the windows XP driver from dell20:00
holsteinlook for 'windows wireless drivers' in the menu20:00
holsteinor, install ndisgtk and run it20:01
w47331ok20:01
holsteinpoint to your hardware and see how it works20:01
w47331i just read about that...im not sure how to go about that20:01
holsteinw47331: you want to plug the computer up to internet20:01
holsteinat least temporarily20:01
holsteinthat'll be easiest20:01
holsteinthen, if i were you, i would check for, and apply all available updates20:02
holsteinreboot... and then re-try things from that wiki page20:02
holsteinthen, try the windows wireless driver20:02
holsteinw47331: in the menu, you'll see 'windows wireless drivers'20:02
w47331OK SO WILL THAT FIX THE FUNCTION KEY ISSUE AS WELL?20:02
w47331srry for the caps20:02
holsteinif not, that package is called 'ndisgtk'20:02
holsteinyou run that, and its a GUI20:03
holsteinyou point it to the windows driver, the *.ini you get from dell20:03
w47331i have those packages already but am yet to install20:03
holsteinw47331: i would go in that order20:03
w47331ok man ill try20:03
holsteinupgrade the packages, try forcing the broadcom packages from the ubuntu repos20:04
holsteinthen, try the windows drivers20:04
holsteinluca: whats the problem with the wiki page?20:04
holsteinyou click 'edit' and go for it20:04
w47331i do this in the synaptic package manager right?20:07
holsteinw47331: you can20:11
w47331E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)20:11
holsteini do updated in the terminal20:11
w47331E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?20:11
holsteinw47331: right20:11
holsteinthats because something else is locking the resources like it says20:11
w47331<<<<lost...so lost...lol20:11
w47331what can i give ya to tell ya wat is wrong with it?20:12
holsteinw47331: well, nothing is wrong20:14
holsteinyou can only run one package management tool20:15
holsteinthis is a feature to make sure nothing gets broken20:15
holsteinyou can close the update manager20:15
holsteinor the software center20:15
holsteinor apt/aptitude20:15
lucaI cannot create a wiki page holstein20:15
holsteinor whatever else you are using, and pair it down to just one20:15
holsteinw47331: worst case, just reboot the machine, then run the update manager20:16
lucaI have an account on launchpad20:16
holsteinthe update manger is running in the background at boot typically20:16
holsteini disable it20:16
w47331~$ sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source20:16
w47331Reading package lists... Done20:16
lucaI read the ten steps20:16
w47331Building dependency tree20:16
w47331Reading state information... Done20:16
w47331bcmwl-kernel-source is already the newest version.20:16
w47331The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:20:16
w47331  wine1.2-gecko20:16
w47331Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.20:16
w473310 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.20:16
holsteinw47331: you'll want to use a pastebin for that kind of thing too20:16
holsteinhttp://paste.ubuntu.com/20:17
w47331i download as txt?20:18
holsteinw47331: you use that link to share lines of information20:18
holsteininstead of pasting them here.. 'flooding' the channel20:19
w47331http://paste.ubuntu.com/705590/20:19
w47331???20:19
w47331right?20:19
holsteinw47331: thats good20:19
holsteinyou should also make sure the hardware is turned on in the bios and whatever switches it has20:20
holsteinand make sure you know how to use the network manager20:20
holsteinclick around on the icons up by the time and see if any networks are there20:20
holsteinluca: this is my wiki page20:21
holsteinhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/holstein20:21
holsteinluca: what page are you trying to make, and what is the error?20:21
w47331no networks20:21
holsteinright-click on it, make sure networking is enabled, and wireless networking is enabled20:22
w47331http://paste.ubuntu.com/705593/20:23
holsteinw47331: did you check for and apply upgrades?20:23
w47331im still struggling20:23
lucaI'm tryinf to create my page but I can't20:23
lucaI don't know how can i create it20:23
lucaI'm studying yours20:24
lucait's very interesting20:24
holsteinw47331: with? upgrading?20:24
holsteinthats what im calling step 120:25
holsteincheck for and apply upgrades20:25
holsteinthen... we'll do something else20:25
holsteinluca: right, what page are you trying to create? what URL?20:25
holsteinand what is the error message you recieve?20:25
w47331yes holstein upgrading20:26
holsteinw47331: you can use the upgrade too20:27
holsteintool*20:27
digikwondohello , having issues with my touchpad. it stoped working after enabling nvidia drivers. running 11.04 desktop20:27
holsteindigikwondo: i would remove the drivers... you can try checking for a kernel upgrade, or apply the patches to an older kernel20:28
holsteini would probably try it in both gnome and unity too just to be sure20:28
lucaholstein: http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/Filiberto20:28
w47331holstein how easy would it be for someone to remote in and fix this for me?20:29
holsteinluca: we dont have access to *-it like that20:29
holsteinhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Filiberto should work fine for you20:29
holsteinw47331: depends20:30
lucawhy should I cut it?20:30
w47331be willing to try?20:30
holsteinyou should know how to upgrade the system though20:30
holsteinthats good security practice20:30
digikwondoholstein: thanks. but how do i remove the drivers through command line?20:30
lucaholstein: tell me in the URL you have to write complete name and surname?20:30
holsteinw47331: if it comes to that, i might20:30
holsteincant do it today though20:30
w47331right on...thanks20:31
holsteinw47331: its do-able though20:31
holsteinluca: ?20:31
w47331it seems to be a tough one20:31
holsteinyou cant make the page you are trying to create at *-it20:31
holsteinwe dont have write access like that too wiki.ubuntu.it20:32
w47331brb20:32
w47331yea im lost man....20:34
holsteinw47331: with the upgrade step?20:34
w47331seems ive read to the point of not understanding20:34
w47331yes20:34
holsteinclose literally everything you have open20:34
w47331ok...how i do that?20:34
holsteinhit the little 'X's that clost the windows20:35
holsteinkeep this chat open20:35
holsteinclose *all* package managers20:35
holsteinanything that might be locking the packages20:35
lucaholstein: tell me mike20:35
w47331ok got that20:36
holsteinw47331: then, in the menu, you'll find 'update manger'20:36
holsteinin gnome, its in 'system-administration-updatemanager'20:36
w47331i dont know where to find the menu20:36
holsteinnot sure how to get there from unity20:36
holsteini think you just type20:36
lucaholstein: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/filiberto20:37
holsteinw47331: you hit the little ubuntu sign up in the top left and type update manger20:37
w47331ok20:37
holstein^ at least, im pretty sure thats how, i dont use 11.04, or unity20:37
lucaholstein: this page doesn't exist what should I do?20:37
holsteinluca: i created it when i made mine20:38
holsteini made an empty one, and went from there20:38
holsteini copied the code from someone else's (with permission) and edited it for me20:38
w47331up to date20:39
holsteinw47331: GOOD! :)20:39
lucacould I copy yours?20:40
luca:)20:40
w47331rite!!! lol20:40
holsteinnow you just have to *confirm* that the hardware is functional20:40
w47331ok console cmd?20:40
holsteinif you have windows dual-booting, i would reboot into that, and make sure its working20:40
w47331i dont20:40
holsteinmake sure the hardware switches are on20:40
w47331im going to reboot look at the bios20:41
w47331bbif20:41
holsteinw47331: i tech'd out a box for a guy in my LUG... we *had* to install windows for a moment, run a windows-only app to enable it in the bios20:41
holsteinthen, ubuntu used the hardware just fine20:41
holsteinim not saying thats your problem, but, i do see issues like this often20:41
holsteini was doing a broadcom the other day that was tricky like that hardware-switch wise20:42
holsteinluca: sure... you can hit the edit button if you want, and copy whatever, and just *dont* save it back20:42
holsteini do that a lot with the wiki pages20:42
holsteinhit 'edit', and look, but i dont save any changes back20:42
holsteinyou can always just grab it all and paste it out into gedit or whatever20:43
holsteinalright.. ill be back on in a bit... gotta driver home now guys20:43
lucaholstein: do you think it's better with it or without?20:44
lucaholstein: .it20:44
w47331got it man!!!!20:50
w47331thanks a million!!!!20:50
lucaholstein: it doesn't work21:00
lucaholstein: I cannot create wiki page21:00
digikwondorunning ubuntu 11.04 , touchpad not working. any suggestions?21:11
holsteinluca: ?21:22
lucaholstein:21:22
holsteini dont want to be a broken record, but what URL, and what is the error?21:22
holsteinluca: you will *not* be able to make one at .it21:22
holsteinwe dont have write access there21:23
lucabholstein: both the url21:23
holsteinluca: heres the one i made for you21:23
holsteinhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/filiberto21:23
lucaholstein: I'm a beginner how can i create a page??21:23
holsteini clicked the button that said 'make a new blank page'21:24
holsteinthen, i clicked save...21:24
lucaYou are doing a page for me?21:24
holsteinluca: no, i just created the page21:25
lucaholstein: In which language should I write? English or italian?21:25
holsteinluca: i would do english21:26
lucaHolstein: I wrote in italian21:33
lucaholstein: i can translate it in english21:33
lucaholstein:??21:38
holsteinluca: sure21:42
holsteindo what you want, its your page :)21:42
lucaholstein: can you read what I wrote?21:59
holsteinluca: as long as you save it, everyone can22:13
holsteinlooks good22:13
lucaholstein: thank you very much23:03
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Unit193bodhizazen: Hello23:22
Unit193ashams: Howdy23:22
ashamsUnit193: Hi :)23:22
bodhizazenOrion looks to be the tops in popcorn sales this year =)23:40
lucaholstein: But the language is correct?23:43

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