| daftykins | nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure | 00:00 |
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| Nitin | i actually don't use windows much ....before i was using ubuntu and opensuse in virtualbox...from windows ....but now i want ubuntu | 00:00 |
| directhex | the easiest, east thing to do, with a blank disk, is to install windows first - use "advanced" mode, and create a partition of the desired size. then the ubuntu installer will have a "use empty space" option where it'll just set up some partitions of recommended sizes in the remaining space | 00:01 |
| directhex | http://i.stack.imgur.com/kGMqN.jpg | 00:02 |
| Nitin | so install ubuntu alongside windows will not affect windows ? | 00:03 |
| directhex | it's a long long time since i ran the installer without having complex partition requirements, but i think that's the point of it | 00:03 |
| directhex | even if you installed windows to one big c: partition, the installer can shrink it to make free space for its own partitions | 00:04 |
| Nitin | ok | 00:04 |
| Nitin | and why do we have option of swap area while installing ubuntu? | 00:05 |
| directhex | swap is used for two things - to free up RAM (and keep the system going if you run out of RAM), and for hibernation mode when suspending the computer to disk | 00:05 |
| Nitin | ok... | 00:06 |
| Nitin | so what would be the ideal size for swap area? | 00:06 |
| directhex | same as RAM, plus a few meg for luck, is my formula | 00:06 |
| Nitin | ok so i got 4gb ram..so keeping 5gb of swap area would be enough i guess? | 00:07 |
| directhex | yes | 00:07 |
| Nitin | i saw a video on youtube where the guy kept 512mb for /boot partition... what does that mean? | 00:08 |
| Nitin | ?? | 00:14 |
| daftykins | it's where the kernels are stored, that's a fine idea | 00:17 |
| daftykins | a lot - but certainly no harm in it | 00:17 |
| Nitin | so keeping only 512mb for kernel is good enough? | 00:19 |
| Nitin | or shall i increase the size a bit more? | 00:19 |
| daftykins | oh no 512MB is loads | 00:20 |
| daftykins | i usually set 150. | 00:20 |
| Nitin | ok | 00:22 |
| directhex | daftykins, protip: on UEFI, you need a much bigger /boot than 150 :| | 00:23 |
| daftykins | that's not even technically a /boot though? :D | 00:23 |
| directhex | well, you can still have a /boot in edition to th efi system partiton | 00:23 |
| Nitin | so i'll make one partition for /boot = 512mb then one for swap area = 5gb and rest for / ....anything else i should do? | 00:23 |
| directhex | e.g. if you have disk encryption you need an unencrypted /boot | 00:24 |
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| AlanBell | morning all | 09:31 |
| brobostigon | good morning everyone. | 10:05 |
| ali1234 | what is the keyboard shortcut to switch workspace in unity? | 12:24 |
| ali1234 | is it still ctrl-alt-arrowkeys? | 12:25 |
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| AlanBell | ali1234: yes | 12:41 |
| tripleclones | ali1234: once you have enabled workspaces | 13:05 |
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| ali1234 | AlanBell: remember how compiz used to barf if the mouse polling rate was too high? any idea why that was or what fixed it? | 15:08 |
| ali1234 | the xfce maintainer accepted my zoom patch in principle, just need to clean up some stuff | 15:11 |
| AlanBell | ali1234: I found mouse polling to be stable, but compiz doesn't poll faster than the vblank interval anyway | 15:55 |
| AlanBell | things get a lot smoother with the polling interval at less than 50hz | 15:55 |
| bigcalm | Good morning peeps :) | 16:34 |
| MartijnVdS | \o | 16:34 |
| bigcalm | My father is looking for me to replace his laptop's HDD with a SSD. Seems he wants a minimum 200GB drive. Anybody had experience of Samsung SSD? | 16:35 |
| bigcalm | Hi MartijnVdS | 16:35 |
| MartijnVdS | My Samsung SSD is fine | 16:36 |
| MartijnVdS | just make sure you enable discard/trim | 16:36 |
| bigcalm | ? | 16:36 |
| MartijnVdS | bigcalm: it's a mount option, makes it send "this bit of disk is now unused" to the disk | 16:36 |
| MartijnVdS | so it can use that bit for wear-leveling | 16:36 |
| MartijnVdS | keeping everything working smoother for longer | 16:37 |
| bigcalm | Ooo | 16:37 |
| bigcalm | This will be used with Windows 7 | 16:37 |
| bigcalm | Hopefully that feature is available | 16:37 |
| Nitin | guys i need help | 16:37 |
| Nitin | Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up nuvolaplayer-flashplugin (0.5-0fenryxo3~precise1) ... [INFO] Removing previously installed Flash plugin. [INFO] Downloading Flash from http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.310.orig.tar.gz --2013-11-16 22:04:04-- http://archive.canonical.com/pool/part | 16:39 |
| Nitin | sorry | 16:40 |
| Nitin | i am getting this error can anyone please help me? | 16:40 |
| Nitin | dpkg: error processing nuvolaplayer-flashplugin (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 8 Setting up nuvolaplayer (2.2.1-0.1~precise) ... Errors were encountered while processing: nuvolaplayer-flashplugin E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) | 16:40 |
| Nitin | what do i need to do? | 16:41 |
| Nitin | anyone? | 16:42 |
| DJones | Ugh, just setting a new laptop windows 8 for father-in-law, its got to be most badly designed desktop environment ever, it makes the change from Gnome 2 to Unity look a simple change | 16:58 |
| Nitin | guys i need ur help...anyone? | 17:12 |
| Nitin | i am getting below error... plz help | 17:13 |
| Nitin | dpkg: error processing nuvolaplayer-flashplugin (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 8 Setting up nuvolaplayer (2.2.1-0.1~precise) ... Errors were encountered while processing: nuvolaplayer-flashplugin E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) | 17:13 |
| SuperEngineer | boo! | 17:58 |
| SuperEngineer | just made some changes recommended here [ http://www.techdrivein.com/2013/03/4-simple-tweaks-to-improve-unity-performance-ubuntu.html ]... impressed! | 17:59 |
| SuperEngineer | n.b. works for me - doesn't mean it'll work for all .... etc. etc. blah blah blah | 18:00 |
| Myrtti | even if some of you are in #ubuntu-offtopic, I have to crosspost this, it's way too funny to not show it | 18:12 |
| Myrtti | for your entertainment: http://zed0.co.uk/crossword/ | 18:13 |
| ali1234 | the thing about passwords on a site like adobe is that, yes, a lot of them are terrible | 19:10 |
| ali1234 | but it is because nobody cares about adobe accounts | 19:10 |
| ali1234 | it doesn't protect anything useful for 99% of the users and they only created an account because some feature required it | 19:11 |
| GentileBen | Myrtti, how are you getting along with the N5? I've found it has excellent standby battery performance. | 19:42 |
| GentileBen | Not...so great if you've got the screen on 100% brightness. | 19:42 |
| Myrtti | GentileBen: I never have mine on full brightness, well, none of my devices are | 19:42 |
| Myrtti | I had to turn the brightness on my new laptop as low as it would go because I just don't like bright screens | 19:43 |
| GentileBen | I bet you hate sun spotting too. | 19:43 |
| GentileBen | To be fair, the N5's screen is ridiculously bright. | 19:44 |
| GentileBen | Indoors, it's actually too bright. | 19:44 |
| GentileBen | Eg. the bright red on the call screen - it pierces the eyes. | 19:44 |
| Myrtti | I also have Twilight installed | 19:44 |
| DJones | Sheesh, Win 8 to Win 8.1 is a 3.1Gb download | 21:30 |
| mungbean | thats a lot of gigglebytes for a half baked start menu | 21:46 |
| DJones | Yup | 22:15 |
| GentileBen | DJones, you don't seem to understand how this "updating" business works. | 23:16 |
| GentileBen | If Microsoft was to include just the delta bits for every file changed by official or third party patches, the upgrade would be larger than 3.1GB. | 23:17 |
| GentileBen | It's actually more efficient to just ship the standard 8.1 WIM to users - files of whatever version are replaced by the 8.1 RTM build. | 23:17 |
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