[01:30] <Mead> anyone here?
[01:30] <wxl> no
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[02:16] <Mead> I'm having issue getting a network interface up and running, can anyone help me?
[02:18] <Mead> I've placed my ethernet interface's "method" as "shared to other computers" but it stays disconnected.
[03:23] <pZombie> hello friends
[03:23] <pZombie> i think i found a minor bug with the sound volume settings
[03:25] <pZombie> when you move the volume in firefox playing a youtube video for example, from full to zero and back, it does not actually set it back to 100% in the volume control  under the playback tab -> firefox audiostream
[03:25] <pZombie> hm, strannge, this time it did
[03:25] <pZombie> but it is not always the case
[03:26] <pZombie> Also, what is the reason to use openbox as windows manager when jwm is much faster/snappier? What does openbox have that jwm does not?
[03:28] <pZombie> and to my surprise just works perfectly in combination with the standard lubuntu setup, simply by changing openbox to jwm in the according config file
[03:34] <pZombie> the volume thingy seems to be intended as it appears
[03:34] <pZombie> different videos get different volume settings for their audiostreams
[14:51] <zap0> startup splash is taking for EVER!    is there some way to see what is going on?
[14:51] <Thedarkb> I just mash keys until it disappears personally.
[14:52] <zap0> 5 dots .. 4 lit..  it's been like 8 mins
[14:52] <Thedarkb> Sounds locked up.
[14:52] <zap0> it's never taken this long to boot
[14:52] <Thedarkb> Any disk activity?
[14:53] <zap0> does not sound like it.
[14:53] <Thedarkb> It's definitely locked up.
[14:53] <Thedarkb> Not much you can do
[14:55] <zap0> hard reset.
[14:56] <zap0> now it's not booting... instead i get a busybox command prompt
[14:56] <zap0> wtf do i type now?
[14:58] <Thedarkb> busybox?
[14:58] <zap0> yeah
[14:59] <zap0> seems to be some recovery mode
[15:00] <zap0> it's like ram-only OS
[15:00] <zap0> looks like it thinks there is so issue with the HDD
[15:00] <Thedarkb> Are you sure it's not GRUB rescue or something?
[15:00] <zap0> is some/
[15:00] <Thedarkb> I didn't know Lubuntu had a busybox recovery thing.
[15:00] <zap0> nor did i (until now!)
[15:01] <zap0> i can do:   cd /dev/
[15:01] <zap0> and there is a sda  and sda1    in there
[15:01] <Thedarkb> Can you mount sda?
[15:01] <zap0> is there some command i can run to verify/check  that drive
[15:06] <Thedarkb> I don't know.
[15:26] <zap0> now it keeps just going back to this busybox prompt :(
[15:39] <zap0> how do i mount it?
[15:55] <Thedarkb> zap0, mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/drive
[15:56] <zap0> that did seem to work well... said something about a  e??fsck   utility that i shoudl run
[15:57] <zap0> that's been running about 10mins... killing about 100 inodes a sec.
[16:48] <zap0> still killing inodes
[17:21] <Thedarkb> I'm having trouble with timidity
[17:21] <wxl> i'd swim upstream to #ubuntu or ##linux on that one
[17:22] <wxl> or maybe even ping the ubuntu studio folks
[17:22] <wxl> there's probably a linux audio channel somewhere, too..
[17:23] <Thedarkb> There's a post with the "solved" tag about the same problem but I can't access it because it's pre-2008 and the ubuntu forum admins are apparently dickheads.
[17:24] <wxl> that seems like a rather illogical conclusion and one i'm sure is founded on the fact that you failed to contact them?
[17:25] <Thedarkb> I need to make an account to see pre-2008 forum posts for the reason that "Hello, Unregistered You are browsing a READ ONLY archive of the main support categories pre 4/21/2008. You will not be able to post or reply any threads in this section.
[17:25] <Thedarkb> Be aware that information contained here may be outdated, and could cause irreparable damage to your install - read and follow these threads at your own risk. "
[17:25] <Thedarkb> You need an account to look at this dangerous information
[17:25] <wxl> so
[17:25] <wxl> get
[17:25] <wxl> an
[17:25] <wxl> account
[17:25] <wxl> seems hard, i know
[17:26] <Thedarkb> Fine
[17:26] <Thedarkb> It just bothers me.
[17:26] <wxl> yeah, well, that's a personal problem
[17:26] <Thedarkb> In the same way it bothered me when Firefox removed the checkbox to disable JS
[17:51] <ChunkzZ1> Thedarkb: get a better system, stop using old crap. :)
[17:51] <Thedarkb> This machine here has a Core 2 Duo, so it's not THAT bad.
[17:52] <Thedarkb> My X40 I will concede is awful.
[17:52] <ChunkzZ1> 256mb ram though...
[17:52] <Thedarkb> Client: HexChat 2.12.4 • OS: Ubuntu "artful" 17.10 • CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P8600  @ 2.40GHz (1.60GHz) • Memory: Physical: 5.6 GiB Total (4.2 GiB Free) Swap: 1.9 GiB Total (1.9 GiB Free) • Storage: 124.3 GB / 161.0 GB (36.7 GB Free) • VGA: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller @ Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Contr
[17:52] <Thedarkb> oller Hub • Uptime: 1d 23h 45m 43s
[17:52] <Thedarkb> 6 gigs here.
[17:52] <Thedarkb-X40> 256mb here
[17:53] <Thedarkb-X40> The GPU takes a big chunk too.
[17:53] <ChunkzZ1> Lol.
[17:53] <Thedarkb-X40> I'm waiting on some brand new PC2700 RAM from China.
[17:54] <ChunkzZ1> Yeah, 256mb is simply not enough.
[17:54] <Thedarkb-X40> Honestly the CPU is the biggest bottleneck.
[17:54] <ChunkzZ1> I have 2gb ram on a £40 system.
[17:55] <Thedarkb-X40> I don't use LXDE, so I usually have ~200mb free at idle.
[17:55] <Thedarkb-X40> I use Openbox+fbpanel
[17:55] <Thedarkb-X40> This was €5.50 on ebay.
[17:56] <ChunkzZ1> Why are you here then?
[17:57] <Thedarkb-X40> Still says Lubuntu on my splash screen.
[17:57] <Thedarkb-X40> LXDE has gotten a little bit bloated.
[17:57] <Thedarkb-X40> at idle on LXDE, there's only 90mb free.
 @Thedarkb-X40, That's because you only have 256 MB of RAM 😜
[19:09] <Thedarkb-X40> It's enough.
[19:10] <wxl> yes, well, it's enough to survive on bread and water, too
[19:11] <Thedarkb-X40> it's enough for my own particular use case*
 My point is, don't idly say it's bloated 😜
[19:13] <Thedarkb-X40> I just think it uses too much RAM for what it is.
 That's your opinion, and it's not particularly constructive.
[19:13] <Thedarkb-X40> fbpanel has very similar functionality to LXPanel but it uses 1/3rd the RAM.
[19:13] <Thedarkb-X40> Fair enough.
[19:53] <vegombrei> hi, im new to lubuntu, how do i get it to read external drives if they are ntfs partition? is there a software i could sudo apt-get so that i would be able to read ntfs ?
[19:53] <Thedarkb> You should be able to read it as it is.
[19:54] <wxl> !ntfs
[19:55] <wxl> !ntfs-3g
[19:57] <wxl> "The ntfs-3g driver is pre-installed in all recent versions of Ubuntu and healthy NTFS devices should work out of the box without further configuration"
[20:04]  * vegombrei turns out the hdd is busted :(
[20:04] <wxl> as i've said many times before: linux can do a lot of things, but it can't fix broken
[20:07] <wxl> you might be able to use dd to get some data off of it but if the read head has dived into the platter, you probably won't have a lot of luck
[20:10] <Thedarkb> vegombrei, Busted in what way?
[20:11] <Thedarkb> Is it doing the clicking thing when you plug it in?