[00:42] <rick_h> oooh https://twitter.com/jessenoller/status/355453772803211264
[00:44] <shakes808> Hello all
[00:46] <shakes808> been looking for a way to reset my root password. I keep finding the same way that won't work for me. Go into recovery and passwd <name> and then set pass. When I get the root shell open it prompts me for the admin pass. That is what I am trying to change because I forgot it. :\ Anyone help please?
[01:05] <jrwren_> we use ubuntu, we don't use a root password
[01:06] <jrwren_> we use sudo
[01:06] <jrwren_> can you sudo? do you know your own password?
[01:06] <shakes808> that is what I am trying to get into :\ haha
[01:06] <shakes808> I don't remember my own password to get into the machine
[01:07] <shakes808> I am logged in as guest searching the internets
[01:07] <shakes808> and keep finding the same thing over and over by different pepple
[01:07] <shakes808> people
[01:07] <jrwren_> can you boot single user?
[01:07] <shakes808> ? what do you mean by single user?
[01:08] <jrwren_> runlevel 1 ?
[01:08] <shakes808> ....
[01:08] <shakes808> I don't know what that is.
[01:08] <jrwren_> should be as simple as adding "single" to the kernel command line
[01:08] <shakes808> Guest doesn't have any permissions to use command line but to look around.
[01:09] <jrwren_> kernel command line.
[01:09] <jrwren_> so you would reboot and type it in the right place in grub
[01:09] <jrwren_> grub does make it a little tricky
[01:10] <shakes808> I will try that.I will be back in a little while :\ haha
[01:10] <jrwren_> good luck
[01:10] <shakes808> Thank you
[01:10] <shakes808> http://www.tejasbarot.com/2012/09/16/howto-reset-break-root-and-other-users-password-in-ubuntu-12-04-linux-grub2-precise-pangolin/#axzz2YmyiUuVj
[01:10] <shakes808> is what i found
[01:10] <shakes808> too
[01:20] <shakes808> jrwren_ didn't get to a kernel cmd line
[01:20] <shakes808> :\
[01:20] <shakes808> When I click on the shell prompt it asks me for a administrator password or hit Control-D to return the the menu options
[01:20] <shakes808> Is there a way to get passed that
[01:25] <shakes808> The instructions that I keep finding are like this: http://www.noobslab.com/2012/02/reset-your-forgotten-password-quickly.html
[01:25] <shakes808> but in the second screenshot where it has root@ubuntu...  I get that different message
[02:00] <jrwren_> shakes808: i'm unsure. single user always works for me.
[02:01] <jrwren_> shakes808: short of that, boot a live CD, mount the filesystem and edit /etc/shadow
[02:02] <jjesse> everyone watching sharknado tonight?
[02:03] <jrwren_> no, just watching peopel tweet about it.
[02:03] <jrwren_> i'm watching TED talks and reruns of The Newsroom
[12:17] <rick_h> ok, I didn't look at this yesterday thinking 'big deal' but now that I watch it...freaking cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=syJq10EQkog
[13:20] <snap-l> Good morning
[13:20] <rick_h> morning
[13:20] <rick_h> from the rv dealership wheeee
[13:22] <snap-l> Woo wooo
[13:22] <snap-l> That helicopter is pretty cool. :)
[13:23] <rick_h> yea, you can tell they got a real biker for it. Crazy to think of the forces that he's swinging in those wings. And love that the quadcopter is the latest/greatest in designs like that
[13:41] <snap-l> http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/hp-keeps-installing-secret-backdoors-in-enterprise-storage/ <- Why?
[13:41] <snap-l> I swear, HP is working hard to become irrelevant
[13:47] <jcastro> wow that is awesome
[13:48] <jcastro> That's one way to market Ceph
[14:10] <snap-l> jcastro: No kidding
[17:02] <snap-l> Ifi this had a Thinkpad nub, I think this would be rick_h's new laptop:
[17:02] <snap-l> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/07/review-acer-aspire-r7-tries-really-hard-to-address-needs-no-one-has/
[17:03] <greg-g> snap-l: that keyboard sucks
[17:03] <greg-g> WHY IS EVERYONE GOING TO STUPID MACBOOK AIR KEYBOARD DESIGN?!
[17:04] <greg-g> "you know, fewer keys the better, and make this not responsive, that's good"
[17:12] <jrwren> because its a nice KB
[17:13] <greg-g> is not
[17:13] <greg-g> :P
[17:14] <brousch> jrwren++
[17:15] <greg-g> OUT!
[17:15] <greg-g> OUT YOU HEATHENS!
[17:19] <brousch> They have the best touchpads too
[17:22] <snap-l> heh
[17:23] <rick_h> apple does have the best touchpads
[17:25] <jrwren> omg, touchpad alone is enough reason to never buy a nonapple laptop.
[17:27] <rick_h> stop using a touchpad and win!
[17:28] <brousch> I prefer the nipple too
[17:31] <jcastro> Out of all the stupid thing that laptop does
[17:31] <jcastro> you point out the keyboard
[17:31] <jcastro> nevermind the dumb rotating display
[17:40] <snap-l> I think the display is pretty cool
[17:40] <snap-l> It's better than some of the idiotic convertible systems I've seen out there
[17:51] <greg-g> jcastro: that was just a given :P
[17:51] <greg-g> jcastro: also, I'm just still burned from the Dell XPS (typing on it now)
[17:56] <jcastro> fo sho
[18:35] <snap-l> Ubuntu hard-codes the distribute version into virtualenv?
[18:35] <snap-l> (maybe it's not Ubuntu-specific, but that's a bit strange to me)
[18:35] <rick_h> why does that matter? Since no one would ever copy/move/shift a venv around?
[18:36] <snap-l> It would matter if you were building new virtualenvs and wanted to use a later version of distribute without running an upgrade step
[18:36] <snap-l> since the package ships with 0.6.24
[18:36] <snap-l> and MySQL-Python 1.2.4 wants 0.6.28
[18:36] <snap-l> or higher
[18:37] <rick_h> snap-l: because the virtualenv version is tied to the pip version and might break if things change?
[18:38] <brousch> I thought distribute installed into the virtualenv, so the virtualenv version determined the deistribute
[18:38] <brousch> Maybe I'm thinking of pip
[18:39] <rick_h> brousch: no, it's there. It's included in the virtualenv.py file
[18:49] <snap-l> possibly. But you can do an easy_install -U distribute to upgrade it
[18:51] <snap-l> But yeah, it ships with it's own version of distribute. I was just wondering if it's possible to upgrade it
[18:52] <snap-l> I'm just getting a little tired of my machine being the special case because I stick with the default packages.
[19:47] <snap-l> Some days it's not even worth trying to code out of the paper bag. ;)
[19:48] <rick_h> lol
[19:48] <rick_h> "hmmm, this looks like a book reading day"
[19:50] <snap-l> WEll, what should have been a pretty easy "adapt this code to do this" turned into a bit longer
[19:50] <snap-l> especially when I adapted the code, and then pretty much used less than 10% of it
[19:51] <snap-l> and that's being generous
[21:24] <rick_h> O...M...G https://twitter.com/frailgesture/status/355797117681410048
[21:41] <snap-l> ho le fuk
[21:54] <jcastro> hah
[21:54] <jcastro> craig
[21:54] <jcastro> "Hanneman’s ashes were present, displayed on top of a Marshall cabinet surrounded by his collection of guitars and amplifiers as well as an iron cross made out of flowers. During a video tribute to Hanneman’s life and music fans formed a circle pit while ‘Raining Blood’ played, providing the most fitting tribute."
[21:54] <jcastro> do this for me when I die
[21:54] <jcastro> n0p_: ^^