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12:00 AM
@Seth I didn't know that you were so technically. Spiffy answer..
 
@Lucio Thanks :)
 
ha, spiffy :P
 
I pretty much just read up on it online though... Shows how you can learn from answering questions ;)
 
@Seth yeah, I know that. But your answer has a great format and content
 
@Lucio I'm glad you could understand it :)
I was kinda worried about the format..
 
12:39 AM
Regular expressions are very useful. And I like this using JavaScript, but in PHP it's very heavy
if someone had used it before, please, help me :)
just a simple example will be great
 
@TheLordofTime why not change the symlink via a message to the bot?
 
@Lucio I avoid PHP like the plague.
 
@Seth HUSH!
 
Good grief.
How did I know you would pop in just now.
 
:P
I'm watching.
 
12:45 AM
lol
 
I'm always watching.
@GeorgeEdison Also, HUSH!
@TheLordofTime PHP. Is. Awesome.
 
Shut up, Wesley
 
LOL
Of course now I remember who he is XD (@FEichinger)
 
@Seth :P
 
anyone point me to a blog with speculation on the next Ubuntu name?
 
12:47 AM
@DanHulme Still need an authentication method
@DanHulme I.E. a way to identify ONLY Ask Ubuntu mods.
 
@TheLordofTime you can tell who sent each message
 
by user number, right?
 
that requires me to keep a list somewhere of who is/isn't a mod. using their StackExchange Chat ids.
 
random pages off Google...
 
12:49 AM
@TheLordofTime that seems easier than issuing passwords and changing them at random times
 
passwords are always more work than you think
 
@DanHulme talk to @GeorgeEdison, because @George knows more about coding a StackExchange Chat Bot than I do. :P
 
because sooner or later someone will post a password in chat by accident and want it changed RIGHT NOW
 
thanks @Seth, so ... the next release of ubuntu will not have a fun code name :(
 
12:51 AM
@DanHulme except the passcode isn't chat-interfacing
 
@TheLordofTime I know nothing about it; I'm just applying general principles
 
@JoshuaRobison Well... I don't know.
 
meh whatever
/me is too bored to care right now
 
Wow so I was doing some mod time with the crazy amount of comments arriving
 
wants more bitcoins
 
12:51 AM
@TheLordofTime the expression "sorry, wrong window" is around for a reason :-)
 
@LuisAlvarado What comments?
 
so I though.. humm maybe i also have some dumb comments around, going to check my profile to see if I got any not constructive comments
 
@LuisAlvarado Ah...
 
I am the spam king in comments
you can call be "Thanks it works" guy from now on
 
anyway, it's well past my bedtime
 
12:55 AM
@mateo_salta It seems like there ought to be a way to sign with a local only certificate. Like an "it's in development" and have a "compile with xcode" button...which would require the user installing xcode, but still a better workaround
 
@LuisAlvarado how about I just call you "BanRifle Addict"
 
Why yes sir, this will be a good title for this humble crazy addict
 
Comment maybe needs an uptick: askubuntu.com/questions/272451/…
 
@AbrahamVanHelpsing actaully it can have .exe
eclipse as a rule is built off of Java
if you are missing certain libraries, it will fail to run
 
That's fair. So the latter half still holds, edits...
 
1:11 AM
org.eclipse.swt. is eclipse-specific stuff, @AbrahamVanHelpsing which is why I can assume the app in question is Eclipse.
or something that uses eclipse's swt stuff
 
@TheLordofTime lopped off the first half. and yes. why would you run eclipse in wine to begin with?
 
good question
but i don't make assumptions of such cruft
/me doesn't see it relevant
 
jrg
@TheLordofTime it's exposed via the SE API.
 
@jrg define "it's".
via chat, any moderator on any site shows as a mod
 
jrg
you can do something user.mod? And it will return true/false
 
1:12 AM
how do i determine therefore if the mod is ONLY one on Ask Ubuntu?
 
jrg
Chat doesn't have a API. You can use the SE api
 
for example, @George is a mod on StackApps, but not Ask Ubuntu. hence, how do we determine the difference :p
i see.
ahhh
 
crawl the profile pages and look for this link blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation
 
/me shrugs, and returns to poking at OracleDB with a knife
 
jrg
Or just hard-code it. There are only 9 of us.
And may I ask what this is for?
 
1:15 AM
suggested deployment of a bot to manage SPAMCON specifically in this chat room
2 hours ago, by The Lord of Time
user image
 
@AbrahamVanHelpsing I'll just add that link to my about section then. :P
 
but it's only a suggestion
not by me, but my @Seth. :P
(see the stars at right ---> )
2
 
@FEichinger it's probably in a specific div...you seriously knew what i meant
 
@AbrahamVanHelpsing Of course I did. But fun!
 
jrg
I think you are overreacting over two incidents in a 3 month period.
And there are people who know how to get in touch with me when I'm offline.
 
1:19 AM
There was a several week span where it happened much more consistently, but yeah. It seems to have ceased for the most part.
 
jrg
Not sure about the other mods, but there are ways. You can also find a mod on another site and ask for a SE employee to get notified, if its really bad.
@AbrahamVanHelpsing 1-5 spam/day is usual. I'm surprised we don't get more.
My email sure does. :-)
 
0
Q: How to recover grub after Windows installation

user3539Usually when we install Windows after installing GNU/Linux, we usually lose the Grub. Which is the best way to recover grub when we lost grub or what are the possible different ways.

 
@jrg as i said, it wasn't my suggestion :P (talk to @Seth)
 
@jrg i told you about the moving into a camper so i can work on fun things right? open to suggestions. i'm looking at that android/linux/windows podcatcher synchronization thing via ubuntu-one. if you have any other meaningful ideas that need work lmk.
 
jrg
1:44 AM
@AbrahamVanHelpsing that is news to me, but sounds good. :-)
 
2:18 AM
Great work guys! :)
 
 
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3:19 AM
That was nearly the scariest moment of my life. I ran 'git rm' on the wrong file. Thankfully I still had it open in an editor.
 
oy.
 
3:48 AM
eep! a terminal that plays video backgrounds with pic thumbnails in ls commands enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology&l=en
 
Also, UPX does not work.
I used it to compress an ARMv6 ELF file and now the executable won't even start.
 
@TheLordofTime @jrg Good grief. A half earnest jest and... this? sigh.
Hey.. 1000 profile views. That's interesting.
And 111 answers lol.
 
 
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11:22 AM
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Q: How do I manually modify an inode?

BenubirdI am using ubuntu linux and, just for fun, I want to create a hardlink to a directory (as seen here: https://xkcd.com/981/). Because I'm just doing this for fun, I'm not looking for any sort of pre-developed directory-hardlinking software that someone else wrote, I want to know how to do it mysel...

 
12:21 PM
appears
IM BAAAACCCKK :P
 
12:31 PM
orly?
 
0
Q: Wireless not working after update (Network Unclaimed)

Christian BekkerI just installed backbox3, during the install im asked to connect to wireless, and it works like a charm, but after i update the system and reboot, i loose wireless... "sudo lshw -C network" gives me: PCI (sysfs) *-network description: Ethernet interface product: AR8151 ...

 
"i loose wireless"
always remember: righty tighty, lefty loosey
 
@DanHulme broadcom wireless. dropped a link comment to our canonical broadcom question and a link from ubu forums that confirms installing the right driver gets it working (as directed in our canonical question)
 
jrg
@Seth yup. ;)
 
1:09 PM
hey guys
How do I add myself to the vbox usergroup? Simply running this in the terminal will do? "usermod -aG vboxusers myusername"
 
jrg
@Elysium sudo usermod -a -G username vboxusers
 
thanks
and then restarting the VM and the USB ports will be working in it....correct?
 
jrg
restart your computer, and then you can configure the USB ports.
 
ok, thanks
 
jrg
run that command on your desktop/laptop running ubuntu, not the VM.
 
Gui
1:15 PM
Anyone else get the impression that the US could be going to war with North Korea at any moment?
 
jrg
@Gui i've had that impression for months, but this is kind of off-topic for this channel. ;P
 
Gui
Sorry... just thinking outside my head...
 
jrg
I accept your apology.
 
Gui
Good :=-D
 
Roy
1:46 PM
An answer of mine keeps getting edited by another user, who has a different opinion. What, if anything, might I be able to do about it?
 
link?
 
Roy
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A: What is my DNS server?

RoyYou are using dnsmasq, a lightweight forwarding DNS server that runs locally under the control of NetworkManager. Dnsmasq forwards DNS queries to the DNS servers whose addresses have been provided by the DHCP server. It is also possible to set these DNS server addresses statically using the Conne...

Now, the default configuration of the network-manager integrated dnsmasq is to cache 150 entries in accordance with their respective TTL settings. @jdthood appears to think otherwise, which is fine by me, but I'd like my answer to show my understanding of the issue :p
 
dropped a comment - that should work.
 
Roy
Thanks @fossfreedom, appreciate it.
 
2:10 PM
The solution here is to move the desired folders to the other partition and make symbolic links. But I'm pretty sure this has been asked and answered before. Does anyone know if there's something we can dupe this to?
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Q: Documents/Music/Videos etc. on different hard drive

DanielI have a little question about how I should use my three hard drives. I have one 128 GB SSD and two 500GB HDDs. I would like to use my SSD for Ubuntu itself and also the applications I'm installing. Also I would love to use the default Documents/Music/Videos folders for a nice integration with ap...

 
@fossfreedom Looks good.
 
2:28 PM
appears
 
hmm, I'm not sure they're dups
the one foss linked is specifically about files on an NTFS partition, shared with Windows
For the one Eliah linked, I'd say just putting /home on one of the big disks is a plausible option, but I wouldn't recommend that in the NTFS case
 
amith@braveheart-unofficial:~$
 
Now this question is weird. Apport links to a duplicate bug which does not exist for me: bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/949195
 
it's a private bug. you need cred.
 
2:43 PM
I see - its on the security list. I thought of something of this kind.
 
> This report contains Private information. Only shared with users permitted to see private user information.
 
Ah - another possibility. :)
 
FINALLY
NEXUS 7 from Play for INDIA!
 
banned in India. - Kapil Sibal.
 
dafuq
Where's my jackhammer
 
2:47 PM
kidding. how's life?
 
boring till yesterday
today got braveheart back :P
 
interesting
what can i do using SFTP access on people.u.c?
 
store files
 
that's it?
no cool stuff like running scripts and stuff?
 
don't think so
 
2:51 PM
;/
 
VRU
Hi Guys!!
 
Hello @VRU
@Seth doable
 
VRU
@AmithKK on my laptop windows key press does not do any thing but I expect it to open dash board, how can i change this
 
3:14 PM
@VRU odd.. does it open the start menu in windows
 
VRU
@AmithKK my laptop is a preloaded ubuntu 12.04 os and has nothing else
 
O.o
@jokerdino gtalk please
 
sure.
 
VRU
@AmithKK do have any idea, where I can assign some shortcut to this dummy windows key
 
@VRU ccsm?
Sorry, I'm a bit busy :)
 
VRU
3:19 PM
no issues, please go a head
 
I have been summoned.
So.. What's doable?
 
16 hours ago, by Seth
it would be cool if we had a bot to announce the spam conditions..
 
Ah yeah.
That would be doable. Just for fun (mainly)
Have you seen this github.com/Zirak/SO-ChatBot ?
 
Oh yes I did
 
Quite interesting.
is back again
I just killed it like yesterday..
 
3:31 PM
can't tags be blacklisted. that one has been killed many times
 
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Q: Can we *please* blacklist the error tag?

SethThe error has reappeared after at lease 2 purges. Can we please blacklist this tag? Reasons for this have been discussed several times already: The 'error' tag should be blacklisted Why do we have an “error” tag? Request: Burnination and Blacklisting of [error] tag.

 
just two.
 
4 now.
 
i see only two. weird.
 
I just killed it twice in the last week.. That might count as one though.
And then we have ...
 
3:38 PM
@Seth is there a specific meta post on that?
 
@jokerdino on crash, i think that was one @Jorge said no keep it, it's great for closeboats
 
but that's not how it is supposed to work. -.-
 
And we're supposed to find a cure for world hunger, but things don't always go how they're supposed to ;) either way though.
 
valid.
 
I'm forking lightread to work with feedly asap
 
4:05 PM
@jokerdino He was joking.
He said kill it with fire.
No meta post AFAIK
 
woop woop 1ki views of my Ubuntu profile (1ki = 1024 views) ;)
 
1025 now :P
@Alvar So whats up?
 
@Seth I HATE YOU! YOU DESTROYED EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
@Seth not much, spring break the usual University stuff :P
how about you?
 
Not a whole lot.
Spring is just starting.
I school pretty much all year ;)
 
@Seth same about here, had lots of sun all week and it's actually starting to feel like spring now. about 5 C (celcius) now :)
yeah, spring break is still school but we don't have teachers bringing us more work :P
hmm Tuesday I feel like it's time for a beer tonight! :D
 
4:14 PM
It's about 45 F right now on this side of the pond.. About 8 C I think..
 
@Seth wow that's almost summer! ;)
we still have some snow left outside :(
 
@Alvar Really? I thought it got a little warmer over there...
 
@Seth I wasn't kidding:
 
@Alvar We never got enough to shake a stick at :/
 
Mar 1 at 1:09, by Jorge Castro
crash is awesome ..... to find things to add to the close queue!
 
4:15 PM
@AbrahamVanHelpsing Total sarcasm :P
Seriously, he was joking. I was there for the whole thing ;)
 
@Seth Southern Sweden? we had a long winter this year,
 
okieday. i thought it was an okay idea
 
@Seth haha we had a bit more :)
 
@Alvar I still thought it got warmer than 45F over there.. :(
 
@Seth well during winter we have about -10 C spring was just a bit late this year, a month or two :P
actually spring came in the early March but then some snow and cold came again and it was winter again...
 
4:19 PM
That's interesting.
Pretty different from here ;)
 
hehe, where do you live btw?
 
Man. We need oneboxing Google Maps!
 
@Alvar yeah, we've had the same in the UK; there is still ice on the ground from last week's blizzards
 
@Seth that link was awesome! you live all across north america! :D
 
Err yeah
That didn't work.
 
4:22 PM
any gamers here? - does this really work - sounds excellent if it works... techdrivein.com/2013/03/…
 
@DanHulme yeah read it in a newspaper that you had power outages and a meter of snow!
@Seth address?
 
@fossfreedom im A gamer :P
 
@Alvar Chat is waaaaaaaaaaay to public for that.
 
@Seth I'll just look up your IP later! ;)
 
4:24 PM
@fossfreedom I am not a gamer.. But that looks nice.
@Alvar You won't get more than that :P
 
@Seth that's what you think! ;)
 
@Alvar Ooh. That looks like a cool spot to be :D
 
@Seth the whole city is placed on a mountain so to school it's downhill and back it's dead up hill! :)
 
;)
 
naah need to start with the dishes and make some dinner (17:32)
 
4:33 PM
See ya later
 
u too
 
@fossfreedom Spam.
 
where?
 
@jokerdino I linkified to it. But it is gone now.
 
I forgot to watch the front page :O
 
4:38 PM
(I mean, you should still be able to view it as a deleted post.)
 
:)
 
Oh, you deleted it. :)
 
haven't deleted a spam since quite some time
 
destroy all spammers ;)
 
Looks like the spammers decided it was too hard to post movie spam now..
 
4:41 PM
it probably got blacklisted.
 
It did.
 
bam!
 
Too a certain extent.
 
the walking dead spam is still pretty hot.
 
Is it?
 
4:43 PM
the blacklist helps. that's what i am getting at.
 
Ah OK.
 
@jokerdino It was advertising the same site, or otherwise solicits email to the same address or promises the same things, and was posted by a user with the same username as, a small wave of several spam posts yesterday. Those posts included (but weren't only) 1, 2, 3. A new keyword ban might be in order.
It should probably include vendorcode, at least when posted in combination with certain other terms.
 
@jokerdino Can you see how much the ban has blocked?
 
@Seth yeah. a bit
i am not sure if i can share the number though.
 
@jokerdino no you cant.
 
4:45 PM
@fossfreedom thanks.
 
That's OK :)
 
controversy averted.
 
Shog said it was like 30 the first day or so though o_o
 
@jokerdino ... well you could ... and also set the record for the shortest length of time for a mod.
 
BBT
Good Night
 
4:48 PM
@fossfreedom that's not a bad record to go after.
:P
 
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Q: Ubuntu 12.04 does not start on MacBook Pro: Black screen

DaveI'm trying to dual boot Ubuntu 12.04 on my MacBook Pro running OSX 10.8 (the laptop itself is brand new as of March 2013, if that tells you something about the model.) However, when I boot Ubuntu, I'm left with a black screen which prints alot of text about starting/stopping services, but does no...

Is that a dupe of the black screen question?
 
looks like a spam hit once every 3 minutes - keep alert guys. Just destroyed another.
 
Bring it on!
 
@Seth Probably not. A black screen that prints out messages is not a blank, black screen in the sense of that question. The OP doesn't mean the screen is all back, but rather than it's background color is black. This is just a non-graphical screen with messages.
 
@fossfreedom Wow. If it takes them 3 minutes to get spam posted and we delete it within seconds.. That outa be pretty discouraging.
@EliahKagan That's what I thought. Thanks.
 
4:51 PM
What's the best canonicalish question for installing ClamAV (and, ideally clamtk)?
Whatever it is, this is probably a duplicate of it:
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Q: INSTALL CLAMAV and CLAMTK

Keith B DavisMu computer experience dates from 1961 but I am an Ubuntu/Linux rookie. I am accustomed to downloading software, saving it, and merely clicking on it and voila it is installed. I have downloaaded Clamav and Clamtk. I just noticed the surceforge similar question and shall check it out, but to be...

Ideally we'd have a question with an answer or answers explaining all the reasonable ways of doing it.
 
@EliahKagan I haven't seen one, but there was a LinuxJournal article on all kinds of ClamAV configs for client/server/etc some time ago
 
15s
3
 
Nice.
 
4:53 PM
I thought they both needed to be there to get the idea...
 
@fossfreedom my network timed out a little :/
 
bbl - all yours to destroy @jokerdino
 
\o/
 
Is this possible? I've never heard something like that..
 

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