[00:31] <holstein> earthling_: what are you trying to do?
[00:31] <holstein> you should just be able to upgrade the kernel you have.. and not need to bother with the details much
[00:39] <aragorn> I'm new to Ubuntu, running 12.04 on a Dell XPS M1330.  I did something to one of my user accounts that caused the panels to disappear from that desktop.  I can't start any programs because there's nothing to click on.
[00:40] <JoseeAntonioR> aragorn: Try opening a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T, and then write 'unity' (without quotes) and press enter.
[00:41] <aragorn> Did that; got a series of error msgs?
[00:41] <holstein> aragorn: its just that one user?
[00:42] <aragorn> Yes; other users are fine.  Including my admin, thank goodness.
[00:42] <holstein> aragorn: if it were me, i would just blow out all the configs, and test again.. and put back just what i need/want carefully testing as i go
[00:43] <aragorn> Wish I knew how and where to do that...
[00:47] <TheNewGuy> Hi guys
[00:47] <TheNewGuy> I'm the new guy
[00:48] <phillw> !patience | TheNewGuy
[00:50] <TheNewGuy> so... how does this work?
[00:52] <phillw> !ask | TheNewGuy
[00:53] <TheNewGuy> ok i gotcha... Ill get back in a little bit... Just messing around with ubunto for now
[00:53] <phillw> TheNewGuy: then come back and ask!
[00:55] <TheNewGuy> here is a quick i had earlier... whenever I config my ip address with ifconfig eth0 192.168..... netma....
[00:55] <TheNewGuy> Ill lose connection to the outside world
[00:55] <TheNewGuy> I can still ping the ubuntu vm from my host machine
[00:56] <TheNewGuy> so if i restarted my vm, the eth0 grabs 192.168.1.87 from my at&t router, but everytime I try to change it to something else, ill lose connection
[00:56] <TheNewGuy> even if I try to change it to the exact same ip addr of .87
[01:18] <earthling_> holstein, just doing recommended security update
[13:49] <seriously_random> hi, how to use tracker-needle? I think it doesn't index even though I did select folders in tracker-preferences
[14:06] <holstein> !info tracker-needle
[14:07] <holstein> seriously_random: what are you trying to do? search files?
[14:22] <seriously_random> holstein, search /code folder
[14:22] <holstein> seriously_random: you want to search for a directory named /code ?
[14:22] <seriously_random> inside code folder there are .py files, lots of them. I want search within these files
[14:23] <seriously_random> I installed tracker-gui
[14:23] <seriously_random> but it seems that indexing did not start
[14:24] <holstein> seriously_random: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FindingFiles is what i would refer too ?
[14:25] <holstein> !info beagle
[14:25] <seriously_random> hohoho
[14:25] <seriously_random> you are behind times
[14:25] <holstein> seems beagle has been pulled.. what are you using?
[14:25] <holstein> seriously_random: ?
[14:25] <seriously_random> tracker is same as beagle
[14:25] <holstein> seriously_random: i am using the LTS mostly
[14:26] <holstein> seriously_random: would you prefer talking with a different volunteer? if you feel i am "behind times" i dont have to bother with searching for information if you prefer
[14:27] <Unit193> !info catfish
[14:27] <seriously_random> actually, it would be cool if you installed it let me know how to get it to index
[14:27] <seriously_random> I can't log out at the moment. I am in a little race against the time
[14:27] <holstein> yeah, catfish is what i go to.. since i found it a few years back
[14:28] <holstein> seriously_random: how does catfish suit you?
[14:28] <holstein> Unit193: should we update that wiki?
[14:29] <seriously_random> holstein, I will promise to take a look. first I will have to finish something
[14:30] <Unit193> apt-file, and dpkg listed first?  That wiki is confused...
[14:30] <holstein> Unit193: seems like its a bit odd and out dated
[14:32] <Unit193> holstein: Yeah, my go to is normally locate, but need find at times for a different use case.  I have no idea other than those two, and catfish though.  (Not counting apt-file, dpkg -S and -L, which I wouldn't personally list.)
[14:33] <holstein> Unit193: catfish is not even on the list.. and i think it should be
[14:34] <Unit193> holstein: Yeah, it may not have been so awesome before, but been nicely updated.
[15:30] <seriously_random> holstein, I actually had it installed already. Reporting that it works and finds nicely text in files