| busy_ | Just switched from Mint back to Ubuntu MATE. Any sugguestions about a good theme? | 00:15 |
|---|---|---|
| * nomic has a zero black background | 00:17 | |
| busy_ | I'm looking for something a bit colourfull that my old eyes can easily see. | 00:19 |
| busy_ | I love the Gnome 2 layout, just need to customize a bit, thanks in advance. | 00:20 |
| pilne | there are some colorful options in the ones already installed IIRC | 00:34 |
| nomic | z.z.z. | 00:40 |
| HetroErectus | green submarine | 00:53 |
| HetroErectus | thats the one i use | 00:53 |
| pilne | does mate make much use of the "vala" programming language? | 00:53 |
| newbsCoder | hello I am installing QT creator for the first time on Ubuntu Mate and I downloaded an *.Run file double clicked it and ubuntu is telling me thert is no program to run this type of file \ | 00:56 |
| pilne | right click it, choose "open with other application" and find qtcreator | 00:58 |
| pilne | if that is what is supposed to open it. | 00:58 |
| newbsCoder | no its an online installer of qtcreator | 00:58 |
| pilne | that doesn't sound like a linux based installer | 00:58 |
| pilne | qtcreator might already be in the repos for ubuntu | 00:59 |
| newbsCoder | http://download.qt.io/official_releases/online_installers/qt-unified-linux-x64-online.run | 00:59 |
| pilne | not sure that is the way that link should be working that way | 01:01 |
| newbsCoder | ok how can I download the latest version from the repository? | 01:02 |
| pilne | this might help with .run files thought: http://askubuntu.com/questions/18747/how-do-i-install-run-files | 01:02 |
| pilne | or you can download from this link: https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/#section-2 | 01:03 |
| pilne | scroll down to qtcreator | 01:03 |
| pilne | hrm, those are all .run too... wtf | 01:04 |
| pilne | why not just package it like... normal lol | 01:04 |
| pilne | the askubuntu link has some good info about .run files | 01:04 |
| newbsCoder | yeah thanks | 01:06 |
| newbsCoder | :) | 01:06 |
| pilne | and to answer my own question, vala should be fine to use since it compiles down to c and headers. | 01:07 |
| pilne | ohhhhh we're on the MATE wikipedia page! | 01:08 |
| newbsCoder | you need to set the permissions to run as an exe | 01:09 |
| === newbsCoder is now known as UbuntuNewbs | ||
| === UbuntuNewbs is now known as ubuntuNewbs | ||
| pilne | or you could just do it the "easy" way and use a slightly older version in the official repo | 01:14 |
| pilne | or use a PPA for a more up-to-date version: https://launchpad.net/~adrozdoff/+archive/ubuntu/qtcreator-git | 01:14 |
| ubuntuNewbs | Whats a PPA ? | 01:15 |
| ubuntuNewbs | Piracy Protection Act? | 01:15 |
| pilne | personal package archive | 01:16 |
| ubuntuNewbs | Sweet | 01:16 |
| pilne | community-maintained packages. | 01:16 |
| pilne | honestly if you are very new to ubuntu/qtcreator | 01:17 |
| pilne | i would just do sudo apt update | 01:17 |
| pilne | and then sudo apt install qtcreator | 01:17 |
| pilne | and when/if you run into issues | 01:17 |
| pilne | look into other ways | 01:17 |
| pilne | because that will be the easiest to remove if you end up not liking it. | 01:17 |
| ubuntuNewbs | Yeah Removing Software is a hassel in linux. :D | 01:18 |
| ubuntuNewbs | I want to invent an easy uninstall software for Linux | 01:18 |
| ubuntuNewbs | question, Can I split my partition to install arch after Ive already installed Ubuntu mate? | 01:20 |
| pilne | you can, but you have to boot from a live cd so that the partition isn't mounted | 01:20 |
| pilne | err live usb | 01:21 |
| pilne | or cd.. or dvd, but yeah, you can't partition it while it is part of the active system | 01:21 |
| pilne | but... | 01:21 |
| pilne | if you are new to linux... i wouldn't dick with arch just yet tbh | 01:21 |
| ubuntuNewbs | Yeah Thats why Im here in ubuntu | 01:21 |
| pilne | and if you really want to get a taste of it, try something like manjaro | 01:21 |
| ubuntuNewbs | I used to mess around with Kali and Backtrack | 01:22 |
| pilne | it's the ubunto of arch | 01:22 |
| pilne | err ubuntu | 01:22 |
| ubuntuNewbs | But Got tired of windows Creeping On my keystrokes | 01:22 |
| ubuntuNewbs | Microsoft the Creeper Of Keystrokes | 01:22 |
| pilne | heh | 01:23 |
| ubuntuNewbs | I do Dev stuff for blender. | 01:23 |
| pilne | IMHO for most people moving to linux, ubuntu is going to be ideal, and ubuntu mate is so very slick and polished, i haven't even looked at distrowatch in like 2 weeks except to read the review of ubuntu mate lol | 01:23 |
| ubuntuNewbs | Thats why I need a good dev environment | 01:23 |
| pilne | nice, my gf rocks the shit outta blender | 01:23 |
| pilne | she's the director of marketing for a local craft brewery | 01:24 |
| ubuntuNewbs | I see | 01:25 |
| ubuntuNewbs | Yeah Im the director of and Open Movie project too, | 01:26 |
| ubuntuNewbs | An epic Sheeps tale. We just joined forces with a game company too. | 01:26 |
| pilne | very cool :) | 01:27 |
| pilne | i'm just a lower-management bitch-boy at UPS LMAO | 01:28 |
| ubuntuNewbs | haha | 01:28 |
| ubuntuNewbs | pays the bills | 01:28 |
| pilne | this is true, and it is a pretty "not going to dissapear anytime soon" type of job | 01:29 |
| ubuntuNewbs | yeah, thats presicely why I work as a Herb Farm Guy | 01:32 |
| Steveaustin1971 | no questions (yet) just popped in to say great job on Mate. I am loving it. | 01:53 |
| [7666] | i wonder if anyone is around that has installed the powerpc variant | 01:55 |
| Newbs | anyone know if my downloads in Firefox will be good if I restart them after being disconcted? | 01:55 |
| === kisb_ is now known as kisb | ||
| kisb | probably not | 01:57 |
| Newbs | crap. :) | 01:58 |
| kisb | use downthemall extension next tym | 01:59 |
| Newbs | Whats that | 02:00 |
| luong | hello! I want change my login screen, but I can find Login Windows, LightDM GTK+ can't run file .desktop. Please help me! | 02:48 |
| pilne | system/control center/lightDM GTK+ Greeter settings | 02:51 |
| kfox | does anyone know how to install juniper network connect? | 03:25 |
| === emma- is now known as emma|offline | ||
| mate|36265 | good morning | 06:16 |
| mate|36265 | or should I just say hit everyone | 06:16 |
| mate|36265 | if there is anyone out there | 06:16 |
| mate|36265 | I have problems with the proprietary nvidia driver | 06:17 |
| mate|36265 | on my laptop, when I connect a monitor | 06:17 |
| mate|36265 | I can't arrange the screens | 06:17 |
| mate|36265 | in the nvidia settings manager all I see is 1 giant screen with "no scanout" message | 06:18 |
| sagar | hi | 06:29 |
| alkisg | Hello | 06:30 |
| mate|36265 | hello | 06:30 |
| sagar | you r from | 06:30 |
| === sagar is now known as Guest53434 | ||
| alkisg | sagar, this isn't a channel to make friends, it's specifically for ubuntu support | 06:30 |
| Guest53434 | yes | 06:30 |
| Guest53434 | ok | 06:31 |
| alkisg | !ask | 07:05 |
| amy_ | hello, sbdy there to help me ? | 08:02 |
| mra_ | amy_: what's your problem? | 08:02 |
| amy_ | hello is thezre sbdy to help me ? | 08:02 |
| amy_ | thx | 08:03 |
| mra_ | don't thank me yet | 08:03 |
| amy_ | :-))) i've just install mate. it's my 1st linux | 08:03 |
| mra_ | okay, so what's the problem? | 08:03 |
| amy_ | i'm french and i'm sure i have install keyboard and langgage in french but firefox or Tbirds are in english | 08:04 |
| alkisg | Are the menus in french? | 08:05 |
| alkisg | The system menus, the panel | 08:05 |
| alkisg | Not the firefox/thunderbird menus | 08:05 |
| amy_ | even all the store is writing in english (the description of the softwares not the headline of the store) | 08:05 |
| amy_ | the system menu is in french but softwares are in english | 08:06 |
| alkisg | Go to the control panel and run language support, it will prompt you to install the language packs | 08:06 |
| amy_ | even hexchat here is in french so i dont understand | 08:06 |
| amy_ | ok where is control pannel ? | 08:07 |
| alkisg | I have Greek menus and you have French so I can't help much, it will be somewhere under system settings, preferences, language support or something | 08:07 |
| alkisg | Or, press alt+ctrl+t to open a terminal, and run: /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector | 08:08 |
| amy_ | i hve someting in the left menu called system tools (in french) the pics is a wheel | 08:08 |
| alkisg | press alt+ctrl+t to open a terminal. There, type this and press enter: gnome-language-selector | 08:09 |
| alkisg | Fortunately this is the same in all languages :) | 08:09 |
| ouroumov | hi amy_ | 08:10 |
| amy_ | indeed it run something :p | 08:10 |
| amy_ | maybe i should restart Mate after ? | 08:10 |
| alkisg | Did it prompt you to install the language packs? | 08:10 |
| ouroumov | I'm French too and I can set the language fine on the login screen. | 08:10 |
| alkisg | ouroumov, he already has french menus | 08:11 |
| amy_ | can we talk french ouroumov it would be easier ? | 08:11 |
| ouroumov | amy_, when you're at the login screen, on the top right corner there's a language setting. If you switch to fr_FR and then login you should have Welcome in French | 08:11 |
| amy_ | maybe it's my version. i run 16 | 08:11 |
| ouroumov | I'm running 16.04 too | 08:11 |
| alkisg | Language packs for firefox, thunderbird etc are not installed by default | 08:11 |
| ouroumov | oh | 08:12 |
| ouroumov | yes | 08:12 |
| alkisg | That's what you're missing and that's what I was trying to tell you how to install them | 08:12 |
| amy_ | it's says that full take in charge is not fully installed (la prise en charge de la langue n'est pas completement installée) | 08:12 |
| ouroumov | amy_, do that step and you should have the language packs | 08:13 |
| amy_ | ok so i clicked install" | 08:13 |
| amy_ | cool ! it seems that fr language is installing for all softwares :-)) | 08:14 |
| amy_ | i think i will abandon windows :-))) | 08:15 |
| amy_ | by the way if you know him, kiss the guy in the team who had the idea to put a button in the welcome menu (only in 16) to resize automatically | 08:16 |
| amy_ | i couldn't get resize on 15 | 08:16 |
| ouroumov | amy_, si t'as besoin de plus d'aide en Français il y a le chan #ubuntu-fr que tu peux aussi utiliser | 08:19 |
| amy_ | hello ?? in fact i just opened again TBirds and it's still in english | 08:20 |
| ouroumov | Et pareil, si t'as besoin d'aide pour un truc spécifique à Ubuntu MATE tu peux aussi parler ici en Français je pense, je n'ai pas vu de règle l'interdisant | 08:20 |
| ouroumov | amy_, the changes might not come into effect until after your logout/login | 08:20 |
| amy_ | bon merci. en fait TBirds est tjs en anglais, du moins le parametrage du début | 08:20 |
| amy_ | ok so i will restart and coming here again. excuse me for my exit. i'm coming back to tell you my position | 08:21 |
| amy_ | again. thank you all. it worked. | 08:26 |
| alkisg | You're welcome | 08:27 |
| amy_ | in fact, i never saw such a support. the more it's free, the more the quality is :-))), i thank you very very much | 08:28 |
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| alkisg | !ask | 08:45 |
| newbs | Anyone familiar with installing cuda toolkit or latest video drivers for Gpu? | 09:02 |
| Cryterion | Hi | 09:10 |
| newbs | \o | 09:11 |
| Cryterion | Anyone know how to exec binary files on the raspberry version of Ubuntu-Mate? Having a bit of hassle doing it! | 09:12 |
| mra_ | is it somehow different to execute binary files in rpi? | 09:13 |
| Cryterion | seems so, http://askubuntu.com/questions/770906/qt-unified-linux-x86-2-0-3-online-run-cannot-execute-binary-file-getting-exec-f | 09:14 |
| Cryterion | that's someone else post, but same problem | 09:14 |
| mra_ | maybe it's not an x86 platform | 09:14 |
| mra_ | isn't it arm something? | 09:15 |
| Cryterion | hmm, you're right, arm7 | 09:15 |
| mra_ | i posted an answer to the question you linked | 09:19 |
| mra_ | but didn't find an arm binary for the program he was trying to run | 09:20 |
| gordonjcp | Cryterion: it needs to be built for ARM | 09:33 |
| gordonjcp | Cryterion: what are you trying to run? | 09:33 |
| Cryterion | yes, that's what I'm seeing now | 09:34 |
| gordonjcp | Cryterion: the clue is right there in the filename | 09:34 |
| mra_ | is it this qt-unified that you are also trying to run? | 09:35 |
| Cryterion | Writting my own application, working on rebuilding QT on laptop to support Arm cross compiling | 09:35 |
| Cryterion | I was using the offline version | 09:35 |
| gordonjcp | Cryterion: why not use the packaged versions of Qt? | 09:38 |
| Cryterion | The packaged version doesn't seem to have the toolchains needed to cross compile for the arm11 type processor | 09:42 |
| gordonjcp | Cryterion: that doesn't make a lot of sense | 09:53 |
| gordonjcp | Cryterion: Qt wouldn't have compiler tools, gcc would | 09:53 |
| gordonjcp | cross-compiling for ARM on x86 does take some fairly specific setting up | 09:54 |
| Cryterion | looks like this might work http://hertaville.com/2013/07/19/cross-compiling-gtk-applications-for-the-raspberry-pi/ | 10:12 |
| === phil_ is now known as Guest52029 | ||
| Guest52029 | How to use Netflix? | 10:49 |
| Guest52029 | How to use Netflix? | 10:59 |
| ouroumov | Hi Guest52029 | 10:59 |
| ouroumov | Easiest is to install google chrome from the software boutique | 11:00 |
| Guest52029 | OK thanks | 11:00 |
| curry | hey guys, i tried using google to turn off mouse acceleration but i couldn't figure out how to do it, could somebody help me? | 11:26 |
| === phil is now known as Guest18096 | ||
| Guest18096 | Can't get Netflix to work with Ubuntu-Mate? Tried Chromium, Firefox, Opera/ | 11:40 |
| ouroumov | Guest18096, try google chrome | 11:42 |
| Guest18096 | Tried Chromium. Don't see Chrome on Ubuntu. Isn't that for Windows OS? | 11:44 |
| mra_ | you can get chrome for linux too | 11:46 |
| hid|ninja | chromium is good | 11:46 |
| ouroumov | No it's not | 11:46 |
| hid|ninja | ? | 11:46 |
| ouroumov | Guest18096, go to the software boutique | 11:46 |
| ouroumov | Guest18096, http://i.imgur.com/eIjqwIC.png | 11:46 |
| mra_ | but don't know what helps with netflix though | 11:47 |
| ouroumov | hid|ninja, sorry that wasn't an answer for your statement | 11:47 |
| hid|ninja | ah :D | 11:47 |
| mra_ | oh, well that ouroumov's screenshot answers it then | 11:47 |
| curry | Hey I'm trying to disable mouse acceleration by editing my xorg.conf, but I can't find 50-mouse-acceleration.conf anywhere. Any suggestions? | 11:47 |
| Guest18096 | OK I'll look for the Chrome browser download. Thanks | 11:47 |
| ouroumov | curry, there's an acceleration setting in the mouse settings | 11:48 |
| ouroumov | curry, system -> preferences -> hardware -> mouse | 11:48 |
| curry | I know, but I dragged it all the way down but there's still acceleration | 11:49 |
| ouroumov | hm | 11:49 |
| curry | Never mind, I think I got it working | 11:53 |
| Paddy_NI | Trying to ssh into the Ubuntu MATE live system and have been unable to figure the password out | 12:54 |
| Paddy_NI | I think the user name is "ubuntu-mate" | 12:54 |
| ouroumov | have you tried the empty password? | 12:55 |
| Paddy_NI | It does not work | 12:55 |
| Paddy_NI | I don't think ssh allows for an empty password | 12:56 |
| Paddy_NI | I wonder if I have to create another user | 12:56 |
| ouroumov | Why are you even trying to log into the live that way? | 12:56 |
| Paddy_NI | Or would it be just as easy to set a password for the default live session user? | 12:56 |
| Paddy_NI | ouroumov: I need to copy some file of the hdd over the network | 12:57 |
| ouroumov | Paddy_NI, can't you do it the other way? scp -rv user@hdd:/path/ . | 12:57 |
| Paddy_NI | ouroumov: Actually good point | 12:58 |
| Paddy_NI | :-) | 12:58 |
| gordonjcp | you can actually set PermitEmptyPasswords in sshd_config | 12:59 |
| gordonjcp | or you could create an ssh key | 12:59 |
| ouroumov | Does the livecd even ships with sshd active? | 13:00 |
| Paddy_NI | ouroumov: No I installed it | 13:00 |
| Paddy_NI | Any way I have opted for mounting the destination computer within the live cd inorder to copy the files | 13:01 |
| Paddy_NI | Happy days | 13:01 |
| Paddy_NI | Are there faster ways of moving files over a network other than ssh? | 13:01 |
| Paddy_NI | This clients "Ultrabook" has no ethernet port | 13:02 |
| Paddy_NI | :-( | 13:02 |
| gordonjcp | Paddy_NI: it's about as fast as it gets, really | 13:03 |
| Paddy_NI | Cool | 13:03 |
| Paddy_NI | Good to know | 13:03 |
| ouroumov | yeah | 13:03 |
| gordonjcp | there's a *bit* of overhead but nothing drastic | 13:03 |
| gordonjcp | like | 13:03 |
| gordonjcp | you could set up nfs or samba | 13:03 |
| Paddy_NI | I suppose when you are gaining encyption then I cannot complain | 13:03 |
| gordonjcp | get the remaining couple of percent overhead back | 13:03 |
| ouroumov | samba is slow | 13:03 |
| Paddy_NI | Yeah in my experience samba has always bee slow | 13:04 |
| Paddy_NI | *been | 13:04 |
| gordonjcp | you could set up iscsi, or ataoe | 13:04 |
| Paddy_NI | hmm | 13:04 |
| gordonjcp | or, you could just go "scp that:/this/stuff /over/here" and walk away | 13:04 |
| Paddy_NI | Moving 97.1 GB of data over wifi is not my idea of fun | 13:05 |
| gordonjcp | make a cup of tea, go for a walk while it's nice out | 13:05 |
| gordonjcp | Paddy_NI: at that size, I'd be removing the disk | 13:05 |
| ouroumov | Paddy_NI, yeah take the sun for a while | 13:05 |
| Paddy_NI | Totally true guys | 13:05 |
| gordonjcp | it's pretty cloudy here today, and only 8 degrees | 13:05 |
| ouroumov | Paddy_NI, if the transfer breaks at some point, use rsync the next time | 13:05 |
| gordonjcp | it's been really warm all week | 13:05 |
| Paddy_NI | Gorgeous | 13:06 |
| Paddy_NI | Take the two Mini Schnauzers out | 13:06 |
| Paddy_NI | They are looking at me quite depressed | 13:06 |
| Paddy_NI | I do have a dock for 3.5 and 2.5 inch sata hdds | 13:06 |
| Paddy_NI | and ssds I am sure | 13:07 |
| Paddy_NI | The Ultabook looks fairly seamless though and metal so my laziness is preventing me from dissembling it | 13:08 |
| Paddy_NI | Thank you, catch you later :-) | 13:09 |
| === Osirus-126 is now known as Osirus\126 | ||
| === Osirus\126 is now known as Osirus126 | ||
| festerB | So I just did a clean UM 16.04 install with full disk encryption | 14:26 |
| festerB | where is the key file? how do I back it up? | 14:26 |
| festerB | I understand the password is not the same as the key file | 14:27 |
| TaZeR | i think this might be of some help: https://www.lisenet.com/2013/luks-add-keys-backup-and-restore-volume-header/ | 14:33 |
| festerB | TaZeR: thx, It's a lot of text, I'll try it out | 14:36 |
| TaZeR | basically look at the part of adding a backup key | 14:37 |
| sg | Beautiful distribution. Congrats to developers. Keep it up !!! | 14:45 |
| festerB | TaZeR: If I'm getting this right, the key file is the LUKS Header? | 14:46 |
| sg | Though I could not succeed in getting notification for my headphone. All the time, I need to manually right click on sound icon, select sound preferences, select connector from output tab as headphone.. Also I wished to see openssh-server installation by default. | 14:48 |
| sg | Any suggestion / url for my headphone problem are most welcome. | 14:49 |
| TaZeR | the header is like the container which holds all information and keys that decrypt the master key, you dont really backup the master key but the keys used to decrypt it | 14:50 |
| TaZeR | and can backup the entire header as well | 14:50 |
| TaZeR | so if you have a saved backup of a key you've added you have access to the header or encrypted disk | 14:51 |
| festerB | TaZeR: I just know that password does not equal key | 14:52 |
| festerB | and for a removeable backup drive I found that out the hard way | 14:52 |
| TaZeR | i think what you want to do is backup the header | 14:54 |
| TaZeR | that way your safe for anything that can go wrong and can restore it anytime | 14:55 |
| TaZeR | is the problem you forget the password or what? | 14:57 |
| TaZeR | or just trying to be safe | 14:57 |
| festerB | I did have the passwd | 14:57 |
| kallin | Greetings! Has anyone experienced UI sluggishness w/ mate 16 on virtual box? Just did a fresh install, guest additions added, 3d acceleration enabled. Even dragging a window around is very laggy. Had no problems on vanilla ubuntu 16. | 14:58 |
| festerB | but after installing UM it did not work | 14:58 |
| kallin | my first time trying mate, so can't say if it's a 16 specific issue. | 14:58 |
| TaZeR | you upgraded from 15.10? | 14:58 |
| TaZeR | and it stopped working? | 14:58 |
| TaZeR | oh i see now clean install | 14:59 |
| TaZeR | thats strange i have no idea why it wouldnt work unless you spelled it wrong in the installation twice, is that possible? | 14:59 |
| festerB | TaZeR: I went Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa Cinnamon, did a encryped backup there, then did a clean UM 16.04 and I have no backup... | 14:59 |
| TaZeR | not sure im understanding still, you had Linux Mint 17.3 installed and you did a clean install with format over that with UM 16.04? | 15:01 |
| TaZeR | and you made a backup before of the mint installtion using what? | 15:01 |
| festerB | TaZeR: Yes, encryped backup done inLM 17.3, where it works fine, then system disk format, install UM 16.04 | 15:03 |
| TaZeR | where did you store the backup of LM 17.3? | 15:03 |
| TaZeR | if it was on the same disk then it would get erased when installing UM 16.04 over it | 15:04 |
| festerB | TaZeR: backup on an external drive, usb connected | 15:04 |
| gordonjcp | encrypted disks, what a great way of losing all your data :-) | 15:04 |
| TaZeR | oh ok | 15:04 |
| TaZeR | and now ur trying to restore mint? | 15:05 |
| festerB | TaZeR: Nop, I've installed UM, I'm trying to access my backups | 15:05 |
| TaZeR | oh ok, can you tell me what you used to make the backup the specific command tools | 15:06 |
| festerB | TaZeR: In LM 17.3 I plugged the usb drive to my system, formatted using LUKS (i guess) with a password and a passphrase, copied files on backup drive for about one month, it was woring | 15:08 |
| festerB | working | 15:08 |
| TaZeR | and now when you try to decrypt the way thats worked before whats the output? | 15:09 |
| festerB | passphrase not found, something like that | 15:10 |
| festerB | I have both the passphrase and password, used the drive for about a month, it was all fine | 15:10 |
| TaZeR | can you dump the header? | 15:11 |
| TaZeR | like cryptsetup luksDump | 15:11 |
| festerB | TaZeR: using the link you just posted? I'll try, brb | 15:12 |
| TaZeR | yea i think theres info on that there, although i thought u were trying to do something different when i posted that | 15:13 |
| TaZeR | but yea the dump information should let us know if somethings wrong with it | 15:13 |
| festerB | TaZeR: No, you were right the fist time, I've made new backups and I'm making sure I'm walking eyes wide shut into the same problem again ;) | 15:14 |
| TaZeR | make sure to target your external drive like /dev/sdb or whatever | 15:14 |
| TaZeR | oh ok | 15:15 |
| festerB | TaZeR: but the old drive is still around somewhere, I'll give it a try | 15:16 |
| mate|12898 | Hey, guys! Can someone please help me with my poor sound quality? This is my first time trying linux and the sound is really bothering me! | 15:26 |
| festerB | TaZeR: I created the header backup file as sudo | 15:30 |
| nomic | mate|12898 there are also forums -- #ubuntu is more busy than ubuntu mate ubuntuforums.org sound may depend on the app .. on mate, the media player to use is "omxplayer" | 15:32 |
| nomic | mate forum https://ubuntu-mate.community/ | 15:32 |
| festerB | TaZeR: ie. sudo cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup /dev/sdc1 --header-backup-file ~/sdc1-header-backup | 15:32 |
| festerB | TaZeR: hmm, also had to use sudo on cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sdc1 | 15:41 |
| festerB | but it works that way, perhaps all I need is a sudo where mounting? | 15:41 |
| Gallomimia | definitely keep having a problem with panels flipping to the opposite monitor after waking from screensaver. it's not consistent either. sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. is this a known issue? | 16:51 |
| Gallomimia | do i have to file a bug report? | 16:51 |
| nomic | gallomia go to forums - mate forums ubuntu forums | 17:12 |
| nomic | ask there | 17:12 |
| jiex | Hi ! Is there a Numix variant in green ? | 17:39 |
| jiex | I've find one | 17:44 |
| l_ | Is it normal to override a password login of a user when CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE is used on the login screen? | 18:09 |
| alkisg | l_: and that combination restarts xorg and kills everything? | 18:10 |
| ShadowGallow | Hi guys - I just saw this story about Raspberry Pi 3 getting bluetooth support : | 18:11 |
| ShadowGallow | https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/05/13/1740218/raspberry-pi-3-gets-major-update-adds-bluetooth-support | 18:11 |
| alkisg | or do you actually mean overriding as in bypassing the password protection? | 18:11 |
| ShadowGallow | Is there something in the repos about getting bluetooth on the Rasberry Pi 3 for Ubuntu Mate - a bug/feature maybe ? | 18:11 |
| l_ | Yes it does restart xorg but then doing the key combination a few times on the login screen can log me back in without needing to input a password. | 18:12 |
| l_ | I have the system set to automatically login on boot though. | 18:15 |
| ShadowGallow | I'm just starting out with Ubuntu Mate but cud someone please answer the above question (please) ? | 18:16 |
| ShadowGallow | flexiondotorg: ping. | 18:18 |
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| ShadowGallow | no response . err... This seems like a little silo'd to me (this community). Maybe I'd better move on. | 18:26 |
| usrdrc | What did you ask? | 18:28 |
| ShadowGallow | usrdrc: https://paste.ubuntu.com/16395172/ | 18:29 |
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| Guest54107 | heloo I am vanivan011 | 18:33 |
| Gallomimia | ten character passwords. wow | 19:15 |
| Gallomimia | Guest54107 use /nick to change it | 19:16 |
| Gallomimia | is it just me or is the community page rather borked? | 19:24 |
| Gallomimia | keep getting 400 errors | 19:24 |
| Gallomimia | well. so much for asking on the forums. it's locked in read only for now | 19:31 |
| s | hello | 20:30 |
| s | i installed 16.04 | 20:30 |
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| Guest66901 | and i also tried to install Skype | 20:30 |
| Guest66901 | but problamatic | 20:30 |
| tiox | Forum is accessible, but incredibly broken. | 20:30 |
| Guest66901 | oki | 20:31 |
| tiox | Guest66901: You are better off using the web version of Skype if you rely on group chats because Microsoft hadn't updated Skype in ages. | 20:31 |
| Guest66901 | yes, maybe the direction i will have to go in | 20:31 |
| tiox | Then, you just need to figure out how to make PulseAudio not act up on you. If you can do it, I'm all ears as t how you did it. | 20:32 |
| Guest66901 | funny, it worked on 15.10 xubuntu | 20:32 |
| Guest66901 | but i guess skype is running behind the curb | 20:32 |
| tiox | For the desktop version, you should be able to install skype-bin:i386 and then do skype itself. | 20:32 |
| Guest66901 | yes, i tried that | 20:33 |
| tiox | But, Skype from Welcome installer should do that auto atically. | 20:33 |
| tiox | automatically* | 20:33 |
| Guest66901 | very strange. some messages come in....others do not | 20:33 |
| Guest66901 | so, your having Pulse problems on UM 16.10? | 20:33 |
| tiox | Does dpkg --print-foreign-architectures produce any useful input? | 20:34 |
| Guest66901 | let me try | 20:34 |
| tiox | Becuase for any i386 package to install, dpkg must accept i386 packages. | 20:34 |
| tiox | Because* | 20:34 |
| tiox | If i386 shows up as a foreign arch that dpkg accepts, you shouldn't have issues installing Skype. | 20:35 |
| Guest66901 | yes, it is listed | 20:36 |
| tiox | skype-bin is unlisted. Hmm. | 20:36 |
| Guest66901 | yes. | 20:36 |
| Guest66901 | and skype is installed | 20:36 |
| Guest66901 | just acts weird | 20:37 |
| Guest66901 | i read some where that maybe a problem GTK3 | 20:37 |
| Guest66901 | so i so, i put a GTK2 Library in there | 20:37 |
| Guest66901 | looks good now but still weird :) | 20:38 |
| Guest66901 | btw...i am not technical | 20:38 |
| tiox | Odd. I am installing Skype right now from the software boutique and it's going through fine, | 20:38 |
| Guest66901 | just cut and paste stuff | 20:38 |
| Guest66901 | if u dont mind...try and send a message to someone | 20:38 |
| Guest66901 | i kept getting a caustion symbol | 20:39 |
| Guest66901 | caution | 20:39 |
| tiox | Works for me. | 20:40 |
| Guest66901 | hmmm...maybe i can try an uninstall and stat over | 20:40 |
| Guest66901 | start | 20:40 |
| tiox | If you are going to do that, then do --purge autoremove, not remove on its own. | 20:41 |
| Guest66901 | other than that i think um 16.10 is great :) | 20:41 |
| tiox | So sudo apt-get --purge autoremove skype | 20:41 |
| Guest66901 | i will do that now | 20:41 |
| tiox | And then try to install from the software boutique' It's under Internet. | 20:42 |
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| Guest66901 | its being removed as we speak | 20:44 |
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| tiox | Guest66901: Asking for the heck of it; Do you prefer the Compiz desktop compositor? | 20:45 |
| Guest66901 | and skype is currently being installed via boutique | 20:48 |
| tiox | No hitches so far? | 20:48 |
| Guest66901 | i have switched to compiz dc | 20:48 |
| Guest66901 | because i like the way it arranges windows side by side | 20:48 |
| Guest66901 | found it somehow easier than marco | 20:49 |
| tiox | You can customize that behaviour. | 20:49 |
| tiox | And even redefine shortcut keys so it works your way. | 20:49 |
| Guest66901 | really? | 20:49 |
| Guest66901 | that would be cool | 20:50 |
| Guest66901 | btw...the software boutique thing is downloading way more stuff than previuos install | 20:50 |
| Guest66901 | so lets hope :) | 20:50 |
| tiox | If you want to stick with Canonical's version of compiz (0.9), you can install compizconfig-settings-manager and use that (by running ccsm) to edit how Compiz functions. | 20:51 |
| Guest66901 | ii will try that beciase alot of my work | 20:51 |
| tiox | Alternatively, a recent backported version of Compiz had been released which allows for more effects and plugins to be used. | 20:51 |
| Guest66901 | is like a two browser job :) | 20:51 |
| Guest66901 | i am going to try skype now | 20:52 |
| tiox | But you'd need to completely remove compiz 0.9 from your system before you run a script from soreau's git repo to compile and make it all work. | 20:52 |
| Guest66901 | looks better! | 20:53 |
| tiox | But, soreau's compile script grabs all depends that compiz 0.8 needs before compiling and includes a version of CompizConfig Settings Manager. Also comes included with Emerald theme manager if you wanted to use that. | 20:53 |
| Guest66901 | thank you so much Tiox | 20:53 |
| tiox | Welcome. | 20:53 |
| tiox | Buger, forum is STILL broken. | 20:54 |
| tiox | bugger* | 20:54 |
| Guest66901 | i will try those compiz things | 20:54 |
| Guest66901 | i like the emerald theme manager | 20:54 |
| tiox | Guest66901: Emerald theme manager causes some issue that will always persist when you update apt-get for some reason. | 20:55 |
| Guest66901 | hmm... | 20:56 |
| tiox | I would still recommend backporting; I made a guide for doing it on Linux Mint too if you wanna try it; https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=221700 | 20:56 |
| tiox | It's the same guide, just made more special for Linux Mint. Most fo the commands are still the same. | 20:56 |
| tiox | And I would recommend changing back to marco if you already used mate-tweak to use compiz. | 20:56 |
| Guest66901 | understood | 20:57 |
| Guest66901 | so, marco is mate specific? | 20:57 |
| tiox | Not sure. Probably. | 20:58 |
| tiox | Yes, marco is MATE specific. | 20:58 |
| Guest66901 | your manual looks great | 20:58 |
| Guest66901 | los of cut and pastes for me lol | 20:58 |
| tiox | Hehe. | 20:58 |
| tiox | I say use Marco for the time being when using that guide because things might break if you stick with compiz while you're following that guide. | 20:59 |
| Guest66901 | understood | 20:59 |
| tiox | I really, really wish it was easier. I want soreau to release a snap package some time so nobody has to do that crap. | 20:59 |
| Guest66901 | yes, i was reading about snap | 21:00 |
| Guest66901 | so then u could download it as a complete package without all the dependencies? | 21:01 |
| tiox | No, snap would give you a package WITH the dependencies, isolated in its own folder. | 21:01 |
| Guest66901 | ahh! got it | 21:02 |
| Guest66901 | well...thanks again! | 21:02 |
| tiox | It's like if you installed a program in WIndows and made it work outside of its normal install path by putting in Windows DLLs where the exe is. | 21:02 |
| Guest66901 | and have good night :) tiox | 21:02 |
| tiox | Alright. | 21:02 |
| tiox | PM me if you have any issues. | 21:02 |
| Guest66901 | thank so much | 21:03 |
| Guest66901 | bye | 21:03 |
| tiox | That, or refer to #compiz-reloaded | 21:03 |
| aleetati | Hi | 21:09 |
| tiox | Forum is still broken af, cannot edit anything. | 21:45 |
| Gallomimia | tiox i think that's not "broken" that "disabled" | 22:01 |
| Gallomimia | there's a message that says it's read-only. something's up with the db. maybe they're doing some maintenace to it | 22:01 |
| Gallomimia | but yeah. i'd really like to post about my 2 monitor setup borking panels and swapping them on me | 22:02 |
| YankDownUnder | Gallomimia, This sounds like something I'm experiencing... | 22:02 |
| Gallomimia | so it's a prevalent issue eh? | 22:02 |
| Gallomimia | it happens when i wake up from screensaver with lock | 22:02 |
| YankDownUnder | Gallomimia, Well, for ME it's a prevalent issue :) | 22:03 |
| Gallomimia | it also only happens sometimes. and it appears to be paired up with totally borking the graphics on a game i play frequently these days. which the devs say is common from wake-ups | 22:03 |
| YankDownUnder | Gallomimia, Yes - lock or switch monitors, etc etc etc - randomly moving about "locked" items and the likes... | 22:03 |
| Gallomimia | YankDownUnder: do you turn your monitors off at night? i've been avoiding it because of the way my graphics card plays with display port | 22:04 |
| Gallomimia | i let the system time them out. | 22:04 |
| YankDownUnder | Gallomimia, I'm not going to avoid anything if it's within my "normal routine" - because I shouldn't have to do so...therefore, I've been trying to work out a different means by which to deal with it... | 22:05 |
| Gallomimia | well yeah. i'd rather do that too... | 22:05 |
| Gallomimia | oh no. monitor only supports DP1.2 | 22:05 |
| Gallomimia | well, i guess it's not 4k so it won't matter | 22:05 |
| YankDownUnder | Gallomimia, For the moment - I've resolved to NOT depend on the "mate-panel" - so I'll primarily use "plank" or "docky" or "cairo-dock" - as well, I've gotten to a point where I set the "mate-panel" to "not expand" so it floats in the middle of the screen (top, for me) | 22:07 |
| YankDownUnder | Gallomimia, And when using compiz, it's worse...but I digress... | 22:07 |
| Gallomimia | ive got some forum posts open that deal with those things so i'll read them and try a few things | 22:07 |
| Gallomimia | compiz eh? i think that's what i abandoned unity to get away from... | 22:08 |
| YankDownUnder | Gallomimia, My issues with Unity go back to a time when it was merely a "beta" and not a primary "point" in Ubu... | 22:08 |
| * YankDownUnder hates Unity | 22:08 | |
| erkan^ | I still am satisfied with Ubuntu MATE :-) | 22:09 |
| Gallomimia | i very much agree on both points | 22:09 |
| Gallomimia | hated unity. but didn't know there were alternatives for quite a long time | 22:09 |
| tiox | The ont thing that could make Ubuntu MATE better is if they modified mate-appearance-properties to make editing the mouse easier. | 22:09 |
| Gallomimia | soon as i installed MATE i was like "wow. this is so much better" | 22:10 |
| tiox | It's still a PITA to change the mouse pointer. | 22:10 |
| tiox | While on the other hand, the kind folks at Linux Mint and their Cinnamon DE has this stuff down. | 22:10 |
| erkan^ | Ubuntu MATE is same as Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Gallomimia (-: | 22:10 |
| Gallomimia | yes well i was still a mac fanboi back then | 22:10 |
| erkan^ | or GNOME 2.x | 22:10 |
| Gallomimia | in fact that's what year i got my laptop | 22:11 |
| tiox | Gallomimia: erkan^ is half-right. MATE is GTK 2.0 with 3.0 compatibility. | 22:11 |
| erkan^ | Do you mean MacBook, Gallomimia ? | 22:11 |
| Gallomimia | no. i had an apple IIGS | 22:11 |
| erkan^ | owo k, tiox | 22:11 |
| Gallomimia | been an apple fan for a good long while | 22:11 |
| tiox | Well, try installing GTK3 apps in Ubuntu 10.04. :P | 22:11 |
| erkan^ | I use MacBook Pro too | 22:11 |
| Gallomimia | i've got a ubuntu install on mine. haven't switched to using it as my primary OS yet tho :/ | 22:12 |
| Gallomimia | when i get my desktop setup properly and wired in, not on wifi | 22:12 |
| YankDownUnder | Gallomimia, Careful with the "Mac Fanboi" stuff (joking) - my primary workstation is a Macbook Pro... :) | 22:12 |
| Gallomimia | i'll make a change | 22:12 |
| tiox | Gallomimia: If you don't do that much with Windows, you may do better than most. | 22:12 |
| Gallomimia | i don't do anything with windows :P | 22:12 |
| Gallomimia | well, i used to boot windows on the macbook to play Borderlands 1 | 22:13 |
| * YankDownUnder still clings to the ancient Gnome2 days...and clung to Gnome 1.4.6 longer than was "normal" | 22:13 | |
| tiox | Ultimately it depends on how you used Windows or Mac. If you relied on system-specific tools, you'll have a harder time. | 22:13 |
| Gallomimia | nah. i tinkered in command line some on the mac. | 22:13 |
| Gallomimia | so i'm fairly familiar with it coming into the world of linux | 22:13 |
| tiox | Only reason I mention that is gamers still have a hard time ditching windows completely. Know why? | 22:13 |
| Gallomimia | games >< | 22:14 |
| tiox | Not games. | 22:14 |
| erkan^ | flexiondotorg: http://webwereld.nl/open-source/93474-de-reden-achter-het-bestaan-van-ubuntu-mate (-: | 22:14 |
| tiox | There's a deeper reason. | 22:14 |
| Gallomimia | twitch? | 22:14 |
| tiox | That's fine. One more guess. | 22:14 |
| Gallomimia | i'm out of guesses actually | 22:14 |
| Gallomimia | and i should know this one | 22:14 |
| tiox | DirectX. | 22:14 |
| Gallomimia | but hey, i'm having a tea break from donig some physical work | 22:14 |
| Gallomimia | yes. but that's just a marketing gimmick | 22:15 |
| Gallomimia | it runs on exactly 2 platforms. | 22:15 |
| tiox | Games could be made in SDL, LUA, LOVE, Vulkan, any combination thereof which is compatible etc but nope. | 22:15 |
| Gallomimia | windows desktop and windows console. i mean xbox | 22:15 |
| tiox | DirectX is what stops gamers from switching. | 22:15 |
| tiox | Developers stop gamers from switching because they don't optimize for OpenGL. | 22:15 |
| Gallomimia | they add a bunch of gamma to the new version screenshot and say "look it's brighter!" | 22:15 |
| Gallomimia | tiox: and they dont do that because microsoft pays them not to | 22:16 |
| tiox | Yep. | 22:16 |
| Gallomimia | but, look what happened last year. valve did some tests on oGL vs dX and found GL is faster on windows | 22:16 |
| tiox | In some cases. | 22:16 |
| tiox | And with certain hardware. | 22:16 |
| Gallomimia | or was that all the way back in '14? | 22:16 |
| tiox | You can't present that to a gamer and say "This is why". | 22:17 |
| Gallomimia | well, in valve's case, with their games | 22:17 |
| Gallomimia | card makers its the same. | 22:17 |
| tiox | If OpenGL was universally faster, that would be definitive. | 22:17 |
| Gallomimia | they bow and scrape to the dX and leave oGL alone? why? msft pays | 22:17 |
| tiox | But there are some cases where OpenGL can be worse, and it's down to the dev. | 22:17 |
| Gallomimia | its my understanding that much of the "new developments" in dX are ripped off from openGL anyway | 22:18 |
| tiox | Ultimately, it's a double-whammy. Not only does Microsoft pay them to be DirectX-exclusive, but also Linux userbase is still not up to snuff. | 22:18 |
| YankDownUnder | Microsoft - from the inception of DirectX and it's integration into "gaming" - has "socked in" developers - as they have with hardware manufacturers - so that they will have exclusive "ownership" of the "marketplace" - gamers eventually turn into business folks and workers - so, if you've been enslaved to a Microsoft platform from your early days, you're going to continue to run it in your later days...this has been | 22:18 |
| YankDownUnder | happening since before Win98...(I've watched it all happen) | 22:18 |
| Gallomimia | and they don't make it into support for cards under openGL... same reason | 22:18 |
| Gallomimia | so have i YankDownUnder | 22:19 |
| Gallomimia | remember the lineups for win95? | 22:19 |
| tiox | Now, Microsoft intends to have the BASH shell inside Windows 10. Of course, bring the open-source to the commercial system and charge people for it. | 22:20 |
| tiox | Know who's helping them? | 22:20 |
| erkan^ | No idea? | 22:20 |
| tiox | Canonical. | 22:20 |
| tiox | I'm serious. | 22:20 |
| Gallomimia | sigh | 22:20 |
| Gallomimia | oh well | 22:20 |
| YankDownUnder | Gallomimia, Unfortunately, yes...and back "in the day" I was TRYING to push OS/2 Warp3 and Warp4, along with Desqview...and then BeOS... | 22:20 |
| Gallomimia | i'm not terribly excited about microsoft breaking into the OSS world | 22:21 |
| Gallomimia | it's telling of how upset their executives are | 22:21 |
| Gallomimia | so, that makes me happy. | 22:21 |
| Gallomimia | besides, if they teach people to use bash on their platform | 22:21 |
| tiox | See this; https://linux.slashdot.org/story/16/03/30/1021224/confirmed-microsoft-and-canonical-partner-to-bring-ubuntu-to-windows-10 | 22:21 |
| Gallomimia | they'll be ready when windows craps out and they need to switch to linux | 22:21 |
| Gallomimia | no, i see that as a good thing | 22:22 |
| Gallomimia | the writing's on the wall. | 22:22 |
| YankDownUnder | One of the things that's "dawning" on Microsoft - especially since so much is moving "to the cloud" is that end-users are finally, FINALLY getting the "shirts" with the constantly broken OS platform... | 22:22 |
| Gallomimia | soon as you let the herd of cattle out of then pen and they find out the grass really is greener on the other side, you'll never mend that fence | 22:23 |
| Gallomimia | seems to me they're trying to plug a hole in the dam with a lifesaver | 22:23 |
| tiox | The alternative outcome is, Microsoft is going to just make their own version of BASH and implement into Powershell, so developers end up still needing to port to (what I'll call) MS-BASH (Remember MS-DOS? DOS devs was robbed!) | 22:23 |
| YankDownUnder | Gallomimia, I have a strange and sneaking feeling that eventually, the "Windows OS" is going to change from "pre-emptive multitasking kernel" to "real-time multitasking kernel" and the only way to do so is to align with a linux biggie, and start from the subsystem level first...and then work their way outwards... | 22:23 |
| Gallomimia | apple did it. | 22:24 |
| Gallomimia | Jobs was ceo of this other company that was trying to make this awesome GUI + API and had a pretty good thing going, he came back to apple, paired that with a BSD-esque kernel, and got a pretty solid system | 22:25 |
| Gallomimia | they manufactured a "transition" style backend for the app maker community, called Carbon | 22:25 |
| Gallomimia | that ran on both the old system and the new one | 22:25 |
| Gallomimia | and smoothed out all the wrinkles on the way. | 22:25 |
| Gallomimia | windows still hasn't done this. it's going to be a mess. | 22:26 |
| YankDownUnder | Apple was smart enough to realise that the "NeXT" ideology was perfect in that they could "rebuild" on a unix based OS, tailor it to their needs, etc etc etc - and ditch OS 9 - which was machine dependent - and voila - here we now have OSX - which can very happily run on nearly anything "intel" based... | 22:26 |
| Gallomimia | oh. OS9 was the transition OS | 22:26 |
| Gallomimia | they started when it was still OS8.5 | 22:26 |
| erkan^ | Do you mean that Canonical helps Microsoft for Windows 10 Insider - testgroup, tiox ? | 22:26 |
| YankDownUnder | I actually rather like OS9... | 22:26 |
| erkan^ | 95 or 98, YankDownUnder ? | 22:27 |
| Gallomimia | i didn't :/ | 22:27 |
| Gallomimia | i had a G4 that came with both os9 and 10.0 installed | 22:27 |
| tiox | erkan^: No, I mean, Microsoft reverse-engineers Bash, makes a version that's Microsoft-exclusive and keeps users locked into the Linux ecosystem. It's still Bash, but with special extras that "Aid Windows integration" or other BS like that. | 22:27 |
| Gallomimia | it didn't take me long to ditch 9 and stick with 10 | 22:27 |
| Gallomimia | mostly because i was taking computer science on solaris, and we could SSH to the campus and run our code from home | 22:27 |
| YankDownUnder | It has been postulated for years that eventually, Microsoft will migrate their UI to a "unix based" underlying OS, re-write all of their "cash cow" software packages for such - and in the interim, move stuff to "the cloud" - and then quietly rebuild everything... | 22:28 |
| Gallomimia | tiox: i bet they introduce key stealing measures :P | 22:28 |
| YankDownUnder | SOLARIS...mmm...fun days on SPARC stations... | 22:29 |
| Gallomimia | yeah. sparc 4's and sparc 5's | 22:29 |
| YankDownUnder | Gallomimia, CDE is what kept me using XFCE for years...(I digress yet again) | 22:29 |
| Gallomimia | i think we had kde2 | 22:29 |
| erkan^ | I want to get of Ubuntu MATE: @ubuntu-mate.org :-P | 22:29 |
| Gallomimia | i honestly don't get most of what you're talking about :) | 22:29 |
| Gallomimia | never used any of those | 22:29 |
| tiox | Trust me, I want that future where Windows becomes a Linux OS, they ditch NTFS altogether and they put as much effort into WoL (Windows on Linux, hypothetical name) as they did in WoW (Windows on Windows) but I don't see it happening. | 22:29 |
| tiox | DirectX as an upstream project would tear down the final barrier between the two userbases and let all the gamers use Linux but it won't be seamless. | 22:30 |
| Gallomimia | tiox: i want them to just die, and stop hoarding all the talented programmers into doing things that put the brakes on the computing industry | 22:30 |
| YankDownUnder | tiox, As all of this transpires, I shall perform my business functions on OSX (it's stable and solid) - and do testing and utility work on linux (graphics, vbox, forensics) | 22:31 |
| Gallomimia | i actually see a problem with integrating given projects in together. | 22:31 |
| Gallomimia | like lets say they release directX as open source. and some smart folks merge it with the openGL project. get the best of both worlds | 22:31 |
| Gallomimia | now we have only one choice when it comes to a graphics library, package.... thing | 22:32 |
| Gallomimia | having only one choice is bad. | 22:32 |
| YankDownUnder | ...sometimes having too many choices for a given objective can be bad, too... | 22:32 |
| Gallomimia | what happens when we find a backdoor in it, or a nasty bug that's not fixable | 22:32 |
| Gallomimia | i agree YankDownUnder. i feel the magic number is 3 | 22:32 |
| Gallomimia | more than that and you're spreading developer effort way too thin. | 22:33 |
| Gallomimia | it's already thin enough with just one. | 22:33 |
| Gallomimia | but with 3 you can have "the one you just hate" "the one you like but just found a security hole in" and "the alternative" | 22:33 |
| YankDownUnder | Who is to say that there isn't a backdoor already built into the linux kernel - or subsequent drivers? | 22:34 |
| Gallomimia | there'll be options to switch to in the interim between when an exploit gets published and the OSS community fixes it | 22:34 |
| YankDownUnder | Let alone all the hardware that is produced? | 22:34 |
| Gallomimia | YankDownUnder: they've found one. and they've published that the NSA offered them $10M to put one in | 22:34 |
| Gallomimia | code that was in the kernel repo that no dev checked in. | 22:35 |
| Gallomimia | so i feel that if there's any backdoors in the kernel, it wasn't put there by linus and his team | 22:35 |
| Gallomimia | anyway... i gotta go finish hooking up this light. back soon. good talk | 22:36 |
| YankDownUnder | Cheers | 22:39 |
| erkan^ | Why isn't "xcalib" in Software Bouqitue? | 22:40 |
| YankDownUnder | xcalib? | 22:43 |
| tiox | Excalibur? (Sorry, ignore me, I am just noise.) | 22:45 |
| tiox | About the "Find a hole that cannot be fixed" thing, therein lies the problem with multiple projects; Different idea cannot be implemented easily together. ESPECIALLY VIDEO AND PHYSICS LIBRARIES | 22:46 |
| YankDownUnder | tiox, Ah. Right. Fair enough. Time to get back to cleaning things that shouldn't need cleaning... :) | 22:49 |
| tiox | Having one that is just "The standard" is what allows for moving forward in a group to improve the one thing, rather than reinventing the wheel. | 22:49 |
| tiox | Think if different systems used non-interchangeable versions of the Linux kernel? That would be catastrophic. | 22:50 |
| tiox | I mean, it can be that way depending on how the kernel is configured, to work on a specific system but if you couldn't replace it with your own that has more of the features you want? That would be bollocks, and an affront against open-source. | 22:51 |
| tiox | But it's still the same thing at the core. | 22:52 |
| nomic | z.z.z. | 23:04 |
| tiox | Aha, fixed my issues with the website... I think. | 23:14 |
| tiox | I cleared my cookies fro ubuntu-mate.community and the site loads now. | 23:14 |
| tiox | s/fro/for | 23:14 |
| Gallomimia | ah. light works :) | 23:14 |
| Gallomimia | moved it over, rewired. | 23:15 |
| Gallomimia | whewt! psensor finally shows me all my system's sensors. thank you ubuntu mate! | 23:54 |
| Gallomimia | or maybe it's just the updated kernel | 23:54 |
| Gallomimia | a lot of them are freakin' NAMED too | 23:54 |
| Gallomimia | <3 | 23:54 |
| Gallomimia | temperatures on all 6 drives, named. 3 on the mobo, one on the cpu, not named but details given for location. and the gpu usage, fan speed, and temp. hot diggity damn! | 23:58 |
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