[00:13] <ry_> I need help getting my computer to recognize my virgin mobile 3G usb thingy.  It is automatically recognized when I use Gnome3 (I'm using Kali Linux right now because it has Gnome and I need the adaptor) and it allows me to configure it, but when I boot into kubuntu, networkmanager isn't automatically recognizing it.
[00:14] <ry_> The model is Virgin Mobile 3G/4G U600.
[01:19] <Macer> tried ubuntu to see how unity was and it is very unimpressive
[01:19] <Macer> looks like gnome with an osx dock on the left
[01:48] <roasted> hello
[01:48] <roasted> Macer: I quite like Unity's layout. In fact I made KDE mimic that layout, but of course, I'm on KDE - so it's a win win for me :P
[01:49] <roasted> Question - I'm trying to use a microphone with Kubuntu 12.10. I'm finding (even on totally different machines) that when I record something in Audacity, the channel just shoots right to 100%, records nothing but garble, and is therefore unusable.
[01:49] <roasted> Are there any tricks to getting Kubuntu to work properly with this? I admittedly had zero issue on Ubuntu with projects like this. After all I'm just trying to record audio...
[01:56] <roasted> I have to be doing something wrong. There's no way Kubuntu just flat out doesn't record audio whatsoever.
[02:00] <valorie> roasted: you might ask in #kde-multimedia
[02:00] <valorie> could be a phonon problem, or kmix, or pulseaudio.....
[02:00] <valorie> dunno what audacity uses, tbh
[02:01] <roasted> Well, nothing works at all - guvcview, kamoso, etc. They're all acting the same.
[02:01] <roasted> This is the first time that I'm actually saying "Doh! Ubuntu would have done this fine" :((((((((((
[02:33] <roasted> hi
[02:34] <roasted> is Kubuntu flat out incapable of recording audio from a  microphone?
[02:34] <roasted> Or have I managed to mess this up on several systems with several microphones?
[02:58] <roasted> I have come to the conclusion that Kubuntu is indeed incapable of recording audio from a microphone.
[02:58] <roasted> NICE.
[03:00] <Macer> lol
[03:04] <roasted> I seem to have discovered something.
[03:05] <roasted> In Ubuntu (Gnome Shell), if I click on Sound Settings in the upper right a menu comes up. Under the input tab, all I have to do is select my USB microphone and magically, recording works. I need to do *that* but in KDE.
[03:08] <roasted> plasma crash
[03:08] <roasted> workin on my nerves KDE...
[03:10] <roasted> Continued plasma crashes when testing speakers in phonon :/
[05:58] <shadeslayer> roasted: did you try using the vlc backend
[05:59] <roasted> shadeslayer: it wasn't available in the backends.
[05:59] <roasted> shadeslayer: another user in #KDE helped me figure it out though.
[05:59] <shadeslayer> er what?
[05:59] <shadeslayer> oh, what was the issue?
[05:59] <roasted> shadeslayer: seems as if KDE, for whatever reason, maximizes the mic boost continuously each time you  muck around with kmix or various other sound settings.
[06:00] <roasted> I had to run alsamixer, hit f6, select my mic, and take the mic boost down a few notches.
[06:00] <roasted> Definitely sent me into a near homicidal rage.
[06:01] <shadeslayer> heh okay
[06:16] <fuzzwaltz> hello, using 12.04, flash video just displays a black box, no video or audio, I do have the flash plugin installed... any ideas to help troublshoot this?
[07:00] <Kris_away> Soo, I installed 13.4, it was wring jsut fine afer i updated it... and now i can't run apt-get, can't open synaptic, muon crashes, firefox crashes
[07:01] <Kris_away> [  311.680393] apt-get[2609]: segfault at 1 ip 00007f83430718ef sp 00007fff81d76d70 error 4 in libapt-pkg.so.4.12.0[7f834300b000+11c000]
[07:01] <Kris_away> [  183.807586] do-release-upgr[2469]: segfault at 1 ip 00007f3f299e48ef sp 00007fff7e72fa70 error 4 in libapt-pkg.so.4.12.0[7f3f2997e000+11c000]
[07:01] <Kris_away> Pretty mch every program segfauts
[08:00] <lordievader> Good morning
[08:46] <toString> hello
[08:46] <toString>  symphony:i386 dipende da libnotify1 (>= 0.4.4).
[08:46] <toString>  symphony:i386 dipende da libnotify1-gtk2.10.
[08:46] <toString> i can't find libnotify1 on 12.04
[08:48] <toString> last one is in lucid, can i manually install the that deb?
[10:51] <BluesKaj> HI all
[12:40] <mao> ?
[12:56] <OgRo> Hey there. I just update for 13.04 beta and now telepathy isn't working. When i enter the IM properties screen I get "something went terribly wrong and the IM systemcould not be initialized." It is likely your system is missing Telepathy Mission Control package."
[12:56] <OgRo> but it is installed....
[12:57] <lordievader> OgRo: Kubuntu 13.04 support is in #ubuntu+1
[12:57] <OgRo> thans lordievader
[12:57] <lordievader> !raring
[13:13] <Captain_Proton> Why is Canonical braking stuff? over the past few updates smb-fuse is no longer working right, new one kernel cause a panic.. lol downloading opensuse but I never like Yast so I probably just delete it
[13:24] <BluesKaj> Captain_Proton, just make sure you update/upgrade , even at the tty if that's possible
[13:27] <Captain_Proton> BluesKaj: thanks it was more of a rant. :) one thing I have seen is the updater in KDE will create impossible upgrade that will key software so I have to drop to term to do them.
[13:40] <root_> hello
[16:46] <cojack> uhm
[16:46] <cojack> how to upgrade kubuntu from 12.10 up to 13.04 ;>
[16:47] <arezey> 13.04 exists?
[16:47] <ovidiu-florin> hello world :D
[16:47] <ovidiu-florin> arezey: yes it does
[16:47] <arezey> i would imagine it would exist next month
[16:47] <ovidiu-florin> not officially released though
[16:47] <arezey> oh i see
[16:48] <arezey> ah, beta 1
[16:48] <ovidiu-florin> and it probabily won't even be released
[16:48] <cojack> Im crazy because of this qt 4.8.3
[16:48] <cojack> why they won't upgrade it to 4.8.4 in 12.10?
[16:48] <lordievader> ovidiu-florin: Yes it will, Riddel took care of that.
[16:48] <arezey> well you'll likely have to update your /etc/apt/sources.list and change quantal to.. either raring or ringtail, i dunno
[16:48] <arezey> at least that's how it's traditionally done
[16:49] <ovidiu-florin> if they switch to rolling release, this broblem won't exist anymore
[16:49] <cojack> kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade
[16:49] <ovidiu-florin> lordievader: thank you for the heads up
[16:49] <arezey> then sudo apt-get install apt aptitude and sudo apt-get full-upgrade
[16:49] <arezey> er gotta apt-get update first
[16:49] <cojack> arezey: kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade
[16:49] <cojack> found it
[16:49] <arezey> or that i guess
[16:50] <lordievader> cojack: However since it is a beta this version isn't recommended for production machines.
[16:50] <ovidiu-florin> cojack: is that update really that important to Qt 4.8.4?
[16:51] <cojack> ovidiu-florin: im working on kdevelop master version, and yes in qt 4.8.4 they fix some qml scripts
[16:51] <cojack> so it's realy important for me
[16:51] <yofel> ovidiu-florin: here's what the tech board did decide on instead of rolling releases: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/03/19/ubuntu-technical-board-looks-at-shuttleworths-proposal-for-release-management-methodology/
[16:51] <arezey> kdevelop master version?
[16:52] <ovidiu-florin> I think he meant master branch
[16:52] <cojack> yes
[16:54] <arezey> aha
[16:56] <cojack> there is anyway to configure apt to use more than one thread?
[16:58] <ovidiu-florin> yofel: so they decided to do it like OpenSUSE?
[17:00] <ovidiu-florin> provide an option for the user to select roling updates if they want it?
[17:01] <yofel> seems so, except that rolling will mean you simply get synced with the dev release
[17:01] <yofel> whatever is in there
[17:01] <ovidiu-florin> even if it's unstable?
[17:02] <yofel> yeah, it'll probably be like debian unstable with freezes every six months
[17:34] <gem> hi all
[17:37] <rosco_y> hi gem, how are you doing?
[17:38] <gem> hi rosco
[19:20] <Bulent09> hello
[19:29] <lordievader> Hey Bulent09, how are you?
[19:35] <Bulent09> I'm good how are you
[19:38] <lordievader> Doing good too, Bulent09 ;)
[20:05] <gerta> Hi, can anybody help me to install 64 bit version of skype
[20:05] <DarthFrog> Is there one?
[20:05] <genii-around> No, the 64 bit package is just a wrapper for the 32 bit
[20:06] <gerta> is there a way to install it for 64bit machine?
[20:06] <arezey> a 64-bit computer can run 32-bit programs
[20:07] <arezey> so if you can't find the 64-bit version you could just get the 32-bit one, especially if - as mentioned - the 64-bit version is just a wrapper for the 32-bit one
[20:07] <lordievader> gerta: The skype site provides a debian package for 64bit.
[20:07] <arezey> welp
[20:07] <genii-around> Install the 64 bit package, then when you run it it will say can't find a number of libraries, etc. Note the names down and apt-get install those with :i386   appended
[20:07] <genii-around> lordievader: Yes, but the issue I described above occurs
[20:08] <lordievader> gerta: http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-linux/downloading/?type=ubuntu64
[20:08] <DarthFrog> genii-around:  Wouldn't "sudo apt-get -f install" also install the required 32bit libs after attempting to install Skype?
[20:08] <genii-around> DarthFrog: It tries to download the 64 bit version first
[20:09] <genii-around> The skype package doesn't specify architecture of the packages it wants, if they already are installed on 64bit it won't install the 32bit ones it really neeeds
[20:10] <BluesKaj> I always found the static version to be a stable install
[20:15] <BluesKaj> oops the static version is now called dynamic
[20:15] <gerta> hm weird, now it worked, before i had problems with installing'
[20:15] <gerta> thanks
[20:16] <BluesKaj> it's awon der it's still available for linux , now that MS has bought it
[20:23] <lordievader> BluesKaj: MS also contributes code to the Linux kernel ;)
[20:28] <invariant> If MS wouldn't do that, people would advice everyone to install superior alternatives making their entire investment in Skype worthless over a period of a few months.
[20:29] <invariant> The value of Skype is in the network effects.
[20:32] <BluesKaj> lordievader, the MS contribution to the linux kernel:  "Microsoft however is very keen to make Linux distributions work well with its Hyper-V hypervisor, so its kernel contributions are not entirely selfless." ...a quote from the Inquirer
[20:33] <BluesKaj> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2166123/microsoft-contributed-code-canonical-linux-2632
[20:33] <lordievader> Of course not, it's MS ;)
[20:48] <hazamonzo> hey folks. Is there a way to "refresh" the KDE UI. Looks like even though my mouse pointer still works (i can see items being highlighted on the desktop)... the mouse pointer has frozen on the screen. makes it tough guessing where your mouse actually is based on what items its highlighting on the screen
[21:17] <calwig> what is the codec required for .pls?
[21:17] <calwig> using amarok
[21:18] <lordievader> calwig: .pls is a playlist file.
[21:21] <calwig> oh right i meant to ask is there anything else necessary for a pls to be loaded on amarok
[21:22] <lordievader> calwig: I don't think so. However I haven't opened a pls file in Amarok for a long time...
[21:24] <calwig> cool
[21:24] <calwig> i know moc will load it
[21:28] <calwig> lordievader, the IP addresses are being blocked, now i see
[21:28] <calwig> thought it was something technical
[21:28] <lordievader> calwig: Radio streams?
[21:28] <calwig> yep
[21:28] <calwig> Stream error: HTTP response code said error
[21:32] <lordievader> calwig: Perhaps the radio service on their end ain't running.
[21:32] <calwig> its di.fm
[21:32] <calwig> ya think
[21:32] <calwig> heh
[21:32] <calwig> checked the 15 streams from one pls file, all dead
[21:33] <calwig> so yea may be di.fm or may just be the isp im on
[21:33] <lordievader> calwig: Not a firewall being annoying?
[21:34] <calwig> anything is possible
[21:34] <calwig> public wifi
[22:48] <emma> how can i tell which version of kubuntu i have?
[22:50] <DarthFrog> emma: "cat /etc/issue"
[22:51] <DarthFrog> Or open that file in Dolphin and read the contents. :-)
[22:51] <emma> thanks
[22:52] <emma> I bought an external USB sound card and i guess it cannot work now.
[23:01] <emma> where do you choose a sound device in kubuntu?
[23:04] <DarthFrog> emma:  Install pavucontrol and use it.
[23:06] <emma> oh so kubuntu does not come with pavucontrol
[23:06] <emma> why not?
[23:07] <emma> does kubuntu come with pulseaudio?
[23:07] <DarthFrog> Yes, pulseaudio is the default.
[23:07] <DarthFrog> And most folks won't need pavucontrol.
[23:07] <emma> I wonder what the rationale is for putting pulseaudio in kubuntu and then not giving the user any way to control it.
[23:07] <DarthFrog> Simplicity?
[23:07] <emma> i respect that. I guess KDE is going the way of GNOME
[23:08] <emma> or maybe Kubuntu is taking its cues from the "UBUNTU WAY"
[23:08] <DarthFrog> I sincerely hope not.  And it's not KDE that makes that decisison, it's the Kubuntu devs.
[23:08] <emma> yeah i guess its the Ubuntu way then.
[23:08] <DarthFrog> Kubuntu uses pulseaudio, KDE doesn't need it.
[23:09] <DarthFrog> You can remove pulseaudio if you wish.
[23:09] <emma> KDE doesn't have any way of choosing your sound device though?
[23:09] <DarthFrog> Yes, it does.  SystemSettings/Multimedia
[23:09] <emma> I have an internal soundcard in my laptop. I just plugged in an external USB soundcard. I hope to find it and turn it on.
[23:10] <DarthFrog> pavucontrol is your friend. :-)
[23:40] <Guyfrominternet> Hello
[23:41] <Guyfrominternet> Someone knows how to share a directory with another GNU/Linux distro Like debian?
[23:41] <sithlord48> perfered method for nix 's would be NFS
[23:41] <sithlord48> you can use Samba or ftp also
[23:42] <sithlord48> Guyfrominternet: what are you planing to do with this directory ? if streaming you need to mount it in that case i would suggest NFS
[23:43] <Guyfrominternet> Well...
[23:43] <Guyfrominternet> Let me explain it
[23:45] <Guyfrominternet> I have two computers. One with kubuntu and another with Debian. I want to install Kubuntu on that Debian. I want to share a folder with the Debian only once, for copying what I don't want to lose before doing the installation.
[23:46] <Guyfrominternet> With the secondary click, on proprierties it sais  "install samba"
[23:46] <sithlord48> well for tempoary you can use ssh and the scp command to copy a directory its the easest to set up
[23:46] <sithlord48> you can do that..
[23:46] <Guyfrominternet> Ah ok!
[23:46] <Guyfrominternet> when I'm inside the machine
[23:46] <Guyfrominternet> I use scp to copy the files, right?
[23:46] <sithlord48> it really depends on how ok you are with cli stuff
[23:47] <sithlord48> yes you would need to install ssh server on the machine you wish to copy on to .
[23:47] <Guyfrominternet> I'm starting but I think that if it's only "ssh myuser@myserver" an then "$scp /aidon'tknowwhat /toIdon'tknowwhat2" I think I can do it
[23:47] <sithlord48> you don't need to ssh first
[23:48] <sithlord48> you can just scp it will ask for password
[23:48] <sithlord48> for instance if you wish to send all your home to an exsisting folder on the deb machine..
[23:49] <sithlord48> scp -R /home/mylocalname user@machine:/home/remoteName/oldHome
[23:50] <Guyfrominternet> No, because It goes really slow (my debian machine) and I think that If I keep my home I'll have the same troubles because of the config files and all of this (sorry, I don't know so much, but it's what I can do)
[23:50] <sithlord48>  will copy all files in /home/mylocalname to machine:/home/remove/oldHome (just not sure if little r or big R)
[23:50] <sithlord48> just saying as an exmaple
[23:50] <sithlord48> example*
[23:51] <Guyfrominternet> sithlord48: Wow, I had never seen someone like you, helping me this way!
[23:52] <sithlord48> Guyfrominternet: well your most welcome, and im happy to help
[23:52] <sithlord48> Guyfrominternet:  and what do u mean by " this way " irc , or a cli solution or other?
[23:55] <Guyfrominternet> Sorry sithlord48 (yes, as you could notice I'm not really fluent in english), I mean telling me the way I have to introduce the command on the terminal. Others could say "with ssh" and nothing more. You know what I'm trying to say? haha
[23:57] <sithlord48> Guyfrominternet: got ya. ill be around for a while let me know how it works out for you . SCP is usually fast too.
[23:58] <Guyfrominternet> sithlord48: Thank you!