[01:26] <Nothing_Much> One of these days, being an Ubuntu certified technician will mean something in the US!
[03:01] <ShawnR> good evening gents (and ladies?)
[03:02] <ShawnR> I was reading about trying to add a new SATA HDD without rebooting the PC, I saw to initiate a scan by echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan (where host0 is the host you need to rescan)... but I get permission denied (I am running it using the sudo command).  Is there anything else I need to do?  I'm running 12.04 server
[03:23] <ShawnR> nvm, found the solution
[03:23] <ShawnR> sudo sh -c "echo "'- - -'" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan"
[03:52] <Nothing_Much> Hi ShawnR
[03:52] <Nothing_Much> Oh okay
[03:52] <Nothing_Much> I don't know the solution tho
[03:57] <ShawnR> hi Nothing_Much 
[03:57] <ShawnR> it's ok, i figurd it out (well, google and some russian site helped out)
[03:57] <Nothing_Much> oh nice
[03:57] <ShawnR> I had to encapsulate the entire command in a sudo by doing the sudo sh -c command
[03:57] <Nothing_Much> whatever that means lol
[03:59] <Nothing_Much> That's a bit advanced for me
[04:00] <ShawnR> it helps that I carry over a pretty good knowledge of batch scripting in windows
[04:00] <Nothing_Much> oh my
[04:01] <Nothing_Much> I have no knowledge on languages and stuff lol
[04:01] <Nothing_Much> Man I wish there was an alternative to Impress
[04:01] <ShawnR> well, scripting, at the most basic form, is just the exact same thing you'd type in the terminal or at the command prompt...
[04:01] <Nothing_Much> Really big lack of sounds during a slideshow
[04:01] <Nothing_Much> ohh
[04:02] <ShawnR> it's ok, MS PowerPoint on Windows 7 can't even properly play embedded WMV files (but plays mp4 fine)
[04:02] <Nothing_Much> oh wow
[04:02] <Nothing_Much> yeahbut
[04:02] <Nothing_Much> It works on WIndows
[04:02] <Nothing_Much> Not Ubuntu
[04:02] <Nothing_Much> :(
[04:02] <Nothing_Much> I've been obsessing over this bug
[04:03] <ShawnR> good time to learn to code a bit :P
[04:03] <ShawnR> the best way i learned stuff is in time of need and using the reverse engineering trick
[04:03] <Nothing_Much> nah, not too interested, it's that and I have a learning/social disability
[04:05] <ShawnR> not to make light of that, but i've seen many times where some random situation has been able to overcome that, with the right amount of interest and determination about a certain project (I have a cousin with mild autism)
[04:05] <Nothing_Much> Asperger's?
[04:06] <ShawnR> yeah, but it's not full on... but i think they still technically classify it as so
[04:06] <ShawnR> i get kinda confused when they talk about what it actually is
[04:07] <Nothing_Much> ah, well I got Asperger's