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hbdgaf

12:00 AM

and yes. i visualize conversations as linear bars where multiple actors cross like a graphviz dot graph

Lucio

@hbdgaf yeah, I always get the intention, but was interesting to unknown the final word (I)!!

heh

how many years could you get for this?

hbdgaf

i'm not sure what you mean?

Lucio

There should be an app. Something like "45 years of jail only for your SD card"

1 disc ~= 10 years of jail

hbdgaf

in the US, the larger concern is that you continue to pay income tax. so things like felony copyright infringement aren't really relevant because it would remove you from the tax-earner pool unless you have a significant amount of money and they could exercise punitive damages.

it's all a money game.

Lucio

tell it to anakata

hbdgaf

12:05 AM

that's the difference between consumers and providers. whole different sport. it's like texting morning baby versus waking up next to someone. they're not even the same sport.

Braiam

@hbdgaf congratz, you are in the hot list ;)

hbdgaf

wait what?

what did i do

Braiam

hbdgaf

oh... that. well, i was wondering how i got 4 stars on a site i almost never go to

Lucio

oh, I got that see it

oh, you were the one that asked

Braiam

12:08 AM

I've only had been twice, one of them as answerer, my first +100 answer

hbdgaf

i hopped over there for that one because it seemed like the right place to ask... would you believe i got "you need to improve your question" several times in the initial comments?

and now i'm in the hot questions bar...

Seth

@hbdgaf Would I believe it? Yes. You asked on programmers, after all.

hbdgaf

i'm going to reserve judgement on that bit

Braiam

meh, no question is perfect, unless you know the answer

jrg

in which case it's probably still a sucky question. ;P

Braiam

12:13 AM

we need couple of Mad Hatter

hbdgaf

i'm in the top 400 or questions or so site-wide by votes if anyone is counting. i wasn't interested in that blob until someone pointed out i was in hot questions.

@Braiam i know a sharp C# guy that laughs just like that...

Lucio

So I'm collecting a list of valid yt urls.. This is going to be a boring night

hbdgaf

spike could do that crazy fast...

immunitysec.com/resources-papers.shtml

Lucio

oh, and I'm forgetting about vimeo :(

hbdgaf

dude... break it up in to words and write a script. save yourself a lifetime

c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris

Lucio

12:23 AM

that is what I got to do, write a script

hbdgaf

^^ needs stars... since evidently lucio hadn't read it yet :)

Lucio

ouch, a c2 link. This gotta be big..

hbdgaf

you a fan of perl?

Thomas W.

perl should burn

hbdgaf

then you won't get offended by "Some may suggest he wrote Perl, a semi-clone of Awk, because he was too lazy to learn Lisp"

rimshot

Lucio

12:26 AM

@hbdgaf It is the only language that deserved my interest on its history

"Hubris" - I never heard that word

and lazy was almost my second name on the college. I had removed the ctrl,c and v keys from every keyboard...

hbdgaf

the title is a hyberbolic joke about virtuous efficient traits that when exaggerated become flaws.

Lucio

damn vimeo, https redirects to http

chaskes

or character flaws that become ironic virtues when used to create efficiency

hbdgaf

@chaskes i could hug you for that... but i won't

2

chaskes

lol

Lucio

12:36 AM

I hate when a site breaks the url on a 404

Braiam

seems like @terdon will feel sad when he reads the transcript

Lucio

12:59 AM

I would install a plugin that removes *.about.com from search results

and before I am out for dinner, a nice link

covert.io/security-datascience-papers

gnight

theTuxRacer

2:13 AM

Hello @Takkat, @Oli

Nathan Osman

2:31 AM

2buntu is now hosted on three Digital Ocean servers.

No Time

Some pretty good stuff here: linux-training.be/files/books/LinuxFun.pdf if anyone wants to look at it

Seth

4:44 AM

All I can say then is that it is a bug in Firefox. I really don't see how Ubuntu can impact this in any way. Those are ASP.NET errors, and ASP.NET is a server side language. — Seth ♦ 25 secs ago

is that right? Sounds right to me

Ask Ubuntu Meta

5:25 AM

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Q: AskUbuntu email notification not working

I had had my AskUbuntu profile's email setting set to "notify me every three hours" for unread AskUbuntu email messages but never received any notifications about email messages that have been sitting there, unread, for about two weeks. Nothing in my actual inbox, nor my spam folder. So, h...

chaskes

@Seth That's right. Plus, the script author is not putting enough effort into cross-browser scripting.

Takkat

6:16 AM

@theTuxRacer Hi - great you're back!!!

theTuxRacer

6:57 AM

Yes, I missed you guys!

Takkat

where have you been all this time? I hope it was only Ubuntu without issue... ;)

theTuxRacer

Haha, been busy with work, new jobs and cities. I dont use Ubuntu now (sorry)

Takkat

wut? why? I couldn't live without Ubuntu...

theTuxRacer

Um, I went on to the other side. :P

Takkat

here's an all Windows office too - but at home I purged every single bit of it.

well, almost

Rinzwind

7:08 AM

@Takkat here at work desktops windows expect 1 of my 2 and the person across me (he dual boots)

"City of Toulouse Drops Microsoft Office for LibreOffice and Saves €1 Million ($1.34 Million)" joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/…

Takkat

the only Ubuntu I have here is a Precise-VM on a very old Core2 duo w/o networking... little fun.

@Rinzwind Toulouse \o/

<-- in 4 days off to France

theTuxRacer

This is my work laptop, so I can carry it home, brother gifted dad another MB. Desktop at parents place dual boots, but I cant be tech-support for mom all the time, so she goes MS way.

mojo706

Morning All \o/

theTuxRacer

Hi @Rinzwind \o I remember you!

Morning @mojo706

mojo706

I'm glad I found you online @Rinzwind and @Takkat

hey @theTuxRacer

Takkat

7:13 AM

TuxRacer is a veteran from the beginning of this site - so glad he's still around.

mojo706

@Rinzwind need help on Ubuntu Server @theTuxRacer you may chip in since @Takkat said he isn't too conversant with the Server

Rinzwind

Pity I aint here >:D
You did not see me! *starts waving a pendulum*

mojo706

lol please

Rinzwind

hey @theTuxRacer :-D

@Takkat I was in Abondance in februari if you remember :=)

theTuxRacer

Sure, how can I help @mojo706?

Rinzwind

7:15 AM

LOL

mojo706

I added a HDD to the Server how do I move my home folder over to the new HDD

Rinzwind

yay dodged a bullet \O/

theTuxRacer

@Takkat I am blushing, you calling me a veteran :P

mojo706

no running away @Rinzwind

Rinzwind

@mojo706 /etc/fstab :=)

Takkat

7:15 AM

wasn't there a recent Meta discussion on who was a "veteran"?

mojo706

then what?

Rinzwind

that has nothign to do with servers @mojo706 :P Basic Linux >:D

mojo706

ok I am also bad with Basic Linux

also I want to format it first

Rinzwind

but Takkat is not >:-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Takkat

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A: Move home folder to second drive

Moving HOME from command line To avoid side effects while working in a graphical environment we should perform all actions to move HOME from a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+F1. Temporarily mount the new partition: sudo mkdir /mnt/tmp sudo mount /dev/sdb1/ /mnt/tmp assuming /sdb1 is the new partitio...

theTuxRacer

7:16 AM

Did not notice the discussion.

Rinzwind

lol

theTuxRacer is dodging a bullet too!

@Takkat DUPE! :=)

theTuxRacer

Well, wow. @Takkat is 85k rep. whistles

mojo706

no bullet dodging guys

theTuxRacer

@Rinzwind nope! The sensei is here :)

Takkat

rep != veteran status!

only half of rep is from AU btw.

Rinzwind

7:17 AM

+1 Takkat!

HA! I am hardcore. All my rep is AU :=D

Takkat

lol

Rinzwind

I am even more hardcore. Almost got Tales of Xillia platinum :=)

Takkat

today whenever we search for an answer on Google by c&p the question it is AU answers on the first results. So we can't us this to answer but only to find dupes.

Rinzwind

google is the master in dupe finding :=)

fossy is almost on 100k \o/

mojo706

I'll pretend I know what you guys are talking about

Rinzwind

7:30 AM

@mojo706 if you want to find a dupe to a question on AU you copy the title over and 9 out of 10 times google finds the dupe :=)

mojo706

oh ok

@Takkat does that work if I'm the user wanting to move my own home folder

Takkat

@mojo706 I did this some time ago - it should work just fine.

mojo706

ah ok I'm gonna do it in a few I'll let you know when it works

Takkat

@mojo706 But if you only want one HOME sub-directory you could work with a symlink too.

or define another HOME directory in the user's settings.

mojo706

I wanna move it permanently plus I don't have a GUI

Takkat

7:40 AM

that's why I linked to my CLI-only approach ;)

mojo706

ty

when it works I will +1

Takkat

when it works I am happy you got it working :)

Rinzwind

7:53 AM

@mojo706 I +1'd it :=) I believe it is correct :)

mojo706

I havent tried it yet

cause I'm not sure of anything

Rinzwind

when in doubt: backup!

Takkat

when not in doubt: backup anyway!

or try it out in a VM - I do that quite often with stuff I don't fully understand.

theTuxRacer

backup. amen.

Takkat

The VM-approach saved my main system from death several times.

Journeyman Geek

8:09 AM

VMs + snapshots = awesome ability to test all the risky things.

Rinzwind

@Takkat there is always doubt!!! :=D

hmmm solution here seems simple:

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Q: Swappiness change results in problems

A couple days ago I changed the swappiness of the kernel from 60 to 30. I am having problems. On boot, I am seeing errors (in windows only; Unity and X.org still work fine as far as I know) that say that programs have crashed and to report it, and that a "System problem detected" or something si...

14.04 swap

See -> DO NOT TOUCH THE DEFAULT.

mojo706

ok more questions now

to anyone who can answer

1. How do I set a static ip address from terminal on Ubuntu Server

Rinzwind

1. askubuntu.com/a/470008/15811

took me less time to find that you to edit your question >:-D

mojo706

thats the difference between me and you :)

Rinzwind

though the answer is flawed: it does not state you need to ifdown/ifup the interface (someone else posted that below it)

@mojo706 to make you feel even worse: all I did was copy paste your text

google ftw :=D

mojo706

8:21 AM

:|

Rinzwind

lol

yay me gets cake :=) we got a b-day boy here today

mojo706

which answer should I follow? I mean which one do you think is best

happy birthday!

Rinzwind

told him but I did not mention your name :=)

yay omw to cake :=)

mojo706

8:37 AM

lol so its not your birthday?

or is it @JourneymanGeek 's

Journeyman Geek

not today no ;p

but I do get birthday cake ;p

mojo706

why am I being left out :(

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: A window asking me to enter my ssh passphrase is popping up randomly. Why?

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04. For a few weeks now a small window keeps popping up randomly, grabbing my keyboard and asking me to enter the passphrase for my ssh key. Of course, I don't do it, because I don't know where this request is coming from. Sometimes, after I hit cancel, a warning window pops up...

ubuntu ssh security malware

Rinzwind

8:55 AM

damn I aint gonna survive on this. His wife made cupcakes :P

mojo706

lol

you guys are making me really hungry ya' know

Takkat

@Rinzwind leave the toppings out.

Journeyman Geek

9:11 AM

lol

vinegar cake here

(chocolate cake, but uses white vinegar as a leavening agent)

superlight, and actually fairly healthy ;p

mojo706

stahp please

Journeyman Geek

though, alas, we have no ice cream.

mojo706

oh on another note @JourneymanGeek

how do I configure ufw to allow connections remotely only from computers on the same network?

Journeyman Geek

oh, I have no idea.

mojo706

damn

Journeyman Geek

9:16 AM

that looks like a great search string though

mojo706

lol

you could try it if you like it so much

Rinzwind

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Q: Downgrade from 14.04.4 to 14.04.1

So yesterday (2014-07-27) I upgraded my machines from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04, thinking the 14.04.1 point-release is out. sudo do-release-upgrade Didn't show a new release so I did sudo do-release-upgrade -p Now I found out that this upgrade to 14.04.4 instead of 14.04.1. My question: Can I...

14.04 downgrade

right...I seriously doubt this question

mojo706

I didn't know 14.04.4 was out

Rinzwind

it aint

mojo706

:/

Rinzwind

9:18 AM

jan 8th 2016

and the launchpad page for 14.04.4 is there but empty _O-

mojo706

ok now how did he get that?

Rinzwind

well I doubt he dd...

I am considering he has bad eye-sight before 14.04.4 being out already >:D

mojo706

lol

isn't eOS an Ubuntu Derivative?

Rinzwind

Eos is a bird :=)

mojo706

lol ok Elementary OS

Ask Ubuntu General Room
General discussion around Ask Ubuntu, Ubuntu & official Ubuntu derivatives.

Rinzwind

9:23 AM

ah I thought you meant E/OS >:D

mojo706

>.>

Journeyman Geek

it is?

mojo706

I was stopped from asking a question about elementary here

Ask Ubuntu Meta

0

Q: Tag 'source' seems to be pointless

I just asked a question and added the tag source-code but only typed source to get it. I then noticed that the tag source exists, it has 83 questions and no wiki - should it be deleted? No questions should have this tag, any question tagged with this can be changed to be tagged with source-code ...

discussion

Rinzwind

9:52 AM

we need a "please stick to windows" close vote.

on an unrelated note...

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Q: Cant load 14.04 on PC

Tried to load Ubuntu 14.04 on my PC but the downloading program says my kernal is not i86, mine is apparently only a i686. Please advise if I could use any other product.

14.04

how do I close this? >:D

mojo706

lol

everyone was noob at some point even you

Rinzwind

sorry but some things even a noob would not ask :=)

I am disappointed in that user :=D

by the way: Netherlands is getting wet: telegraaf.nl/binnenland/22904059/__Zware_wateroverlast__.html

theTuxRacer

Oh, please. @Rinzwind

Takkat

for anybody understanding spoken German this is the ultimate noob: youtu.be/RBN8EC9vRKE

Rinzwind

@theTuxRacer cooooooooooooooool I had that happen when I was on a train here too once

Takkat

10:04 AM

@theTuxRacer ouch -- it isn't the train entering the Channel tunnel.

theTuxRacer

:) Such waterlogging is common.

Rinzwind

@Takkat "diskette"? :X

theTuxRacer

@Takkat, nope thats the suburban rail service in Mumbai.

Takkat

@Rinzwind floppy disk

theTuxRacer

LOL.

Rinzwind

10:05 AM

@Takkat very oldskool :D

oh and its the same in dutch ;-) I know what it is

Takkat

floppy drive slot = Diskettenlaufwerksschacht.

(where Ahmed tries to mount the AOL CD)

theTuxRacer

Haha, those day, when a diskette would fall short, you needed this.

Dammit, I can never remember the order of the URL brackets.

Rinzwind

AutoCAD on 50 5"1/4 disks :D

theTuxRacer

Yep, I installed Win3.1 and 95 off 20 Sony disks. Those days.. wipes tear

Which reminds me, there was a video of a person installing Windows from 3.1 to Windows8, and how backward compatibility was maintained amongst all versions. Let me dig it up for you.

Takkat

I had a Syquest drive some decades ago...

theTuxRacer

10:13 AM

Here it is: youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14

Rinzwind

11:51 AM

in doubt @takkat is this a valid edit: askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/298674

Takkat

@Rinzwind in doubt too --- can't test this here.

Rinzwind

:P

Takkat

Looks interesting but sysctl has potentials beyond good... Didn't you say sth. about not touching defaults?

Rinzwind

yeah

up to now ALL the default settings I see when using a server are -sane-.

heck in old releases I had a list of post installl settings to improved and almost all of them are now default _o-

Takkat

yepp - insanity starts with over-tweaking

There a more than one genius involved in building a stable, sane system. Why change that...?

Ask Ubuntu Meta

12:14 PM

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Q: Add launchpad quick link

For the comments we have lots of links, such as [se] and [ubuntu.se]. I thought it would be helpful to have a [launchpad] link, so we can easily direct users to it - i.e. the bug report site - https://launchpad.net/

discussion feature-request

Venki

So I met with a problem and made a question(after a long time) and a user feels its a bug...but is it? Can you guys check it out and see if you can do anything about it? askubuntu.com/questions/503668/…

Rinzwind

here is a bugreport about it: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-online-accounts/+bug/…

same for redhat: bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081520

oh and now for the kicker: "Caused by server-side UI changes by Facebook."

Oh does this help:
"The solution is to use a different URL (m.facebook.com vs www.facebook.com?display=popup). No other code change was required."

Venki

hmmm....will try BTW 0/

Rinzwind

posted comment :)

Venki

okay..so actually they want us to use m.facebook.com right?

lemme try

well it says m.facebook.com !!!!

Rinzwind

12:27 PM

ah but did it work?

Venki

nope... doesn't seem to..actually i didn't change anything....so it ACTUALLY goes into m.facebook.com by default....

maybe use the other link...

lemme try... BTW any idea where I would change the URL at?

Rinzwind

but then again: it is a bug >:D facebook side >:D

Venki

Damn! so i gotta delete my question?

or leave it for the mods to close it :-p just kidding

Rinzwind

1:02 PM

216mm rain in a town in Holland today _o-

Takkat

☂

xiaodongjie

3:22 PM

Hi guys.

theTuxRacer

\o

xiaodongjie

3:39 PM

I want beautiful screensavers for ubuntu.

Where are them?

Richard

4:00 PM

What happened to the Close Vote review queue? When I saw it before it was really full but now there's only 30-odd questions.

jokerdino

Jul 25 at 8:58, by Oli

@SylvainPineau Luis went SPACESHIP (reference)

Ask Ubuntu Meta

4:52 PM

0

Q: A user only asks questions

I seem to remember reading this somewhere, but I can't find it on this meta at least... This user has 530+ rep but has only asked questions - 53:9 q:a. So he has quite a lot of privileges, despite not really knowing much - this is his latest question, and here is that chat we had. Should there...

discussion feature-request

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

8:41 PM

0

Q: How to use Wireless Network in Virtualbox?

I'm trying to enable Wireless on VirtualBox in my Ubuntu 14.04 for I use a Kali Linux, but this OS not show the wi-fi for I connect it. And after I on my OS do not show the wi-fi I already tried to use this link and this link and others, but my virtualbox not enable my wireless.

ubuntu wifi virtualbox

hbdgaf

9:50 PM

sup @Takkat

Takkat

o/ trying to transfer data to my wife's sony xperia z1

it has it all turned off by factory :(

it says it won't connect in data mode without an external SD-card attached.

hbdgaf

i hate that phones built on android still don't stick relatively close to android. you can always enable usb debugging and move it all with adb

Takkat

Of course it won't recocnize the external SD-card I have.

I hate it too.

yeah I now found out the tap 7 times trick for USB-debugging.

uhuhuhuuuu --- you are now a developer!!!

hbdgaf

dev mode cdo tap for usb debugging. it shouldn't need many taps though. it should be a flippable switch. that's a grievance with android core though.

Takkat

<-- hates these devices from the bottom of his heart

hbdgaf

9:54 PM

i thought about an ubuntu app to sync various things via adb to cyanogen for a bit. i'm not sure i'm the only one that wants it though.

Takkat

ADB worked quite flawlessly on my other self-unbricked-device.

But I bet the very most people don't want to adb push things.

They want the big green button saying GO to do it all without their thinking.

hbdgaf

that's the thing. with all these devices, you don't know where an adb push should go. i was looking at a "sync say.... ~/Music if the browser part of the app has that music selected" - but on some phones you don't know where to push to. so it was automating a simple task. the problem was you had to know where it needed to go. you can know with cyanogen, but you can't know with random android respins.

it would have been a go button.

Takkat

yeah you never know where files are expected to be ... e.g. private content in some directories that survived a brick and flashing two firmwares.... weird.

quadrizillion factory resets and data wipes included.

<--- will never ever sell his used device after seeing that

hbdgaf

then the private bits are on a compressed filesystem you're not touching when you flash.

Takkat

not touching when wiping all private data off either.

They just kept sitting there.

hbdgaf

10:02 PM

i've seen that too. it's not uncommon.

Takkat

I believe it is very common.

hbdgaf

it even happens on the nexus7 when installing cyanogen and doing a full reset/purge/reflash. it's just a thing.

Takkat

Only in case you desperately need to rescue your data from a damaged phone you will never get them.

hbdgaf

the upside is, with an app that does adb pushes, you would know where things were, so you could overwrite them with rand

Takkat

yeah - I loved my short excursion to ADB... it all was familiar all of a sudden.

<-- off to bed now BBT

Vader

10:17 PM

I am trying to follow an answer. One of the steps asks you to download something from a webpage but it seems the file I am supposed to download doesn't exist anymore

Here is the question

55

Q: How do I install Adobe Acrobat Reader?

I am new to Ubuntu, but I believe I have Ubuntu 11.10 installed correctly. I am trying to install Acroread using AdbeRdr9.4.6-1_i386linux_enu.deb that I downloaded from the Adobe web site. How do I do this?

software-installation adobe-reader

It seems that adobe is no longer offering the deb file?

hbdgaf

for what release version

Vader

ubuntu or adobe?

ubuntu: 14.04

adobe: what ever they give me

hbdgaf

yes, it doesn't have a version bump for trusty. you could try the raring package, but that's the latest one in there archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/pool/partner/a/acroread

Vader

I will try the raring package, thanks

that worked, thanks

hbdgaf

Good enough I guess. I'ld just use xpdf, but if you really want an old adobe product.

Just one more argument for shared X sessions and LXC containers though - I guess.

Vader

10:37 PM

it seems the non-adobe reader have some compatibility issues reading pdfs

hbdgaf

Then it's ambiguity in spec that will lead to a bug eventually.

chaskes

10:59 PM

@hbdgaf Watched a Nat Geo special on honey badgers last night. I had no idea you folk were so bad ass. But they, in contrast, all seemed to gaf. ;)

Mateo

@Vader isn't the adobe one stuck back at version 9?

Vader

I think so

still better than evince I find

Lucio

Vader is here, I gotta come in! :P

Mateo

you must be using some advanced feature or something,

Lucio

sup bro

Mateo

11:04 PM

yo @Lucio

seems like tizen has a serious setback, did you see the news

Lucio

I don't know what is tizen :/

Mateo

another phone OS

Lucio

oh

I am not at the "wave"

don't know if translation was good or you don't say it that way

Mateo

something similar I think

Lucio

"En la onda" -> "On the wave"

Mateo

11:15 PM

anyway it is good news, because Mark was talking smack about it - cbronline.com/news/mobile-and-tablets/… then it seemed like they might release a phone before ubuntu, then - online.wsj.com/articles/…

Lucio

lol

read your flow were hell of funny xD

because..so...but then...

what do you listen more mateo?

Mateo

@Lucio music?

Lucio

@Mateo yep

Mateo

Nightmares on Wax, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Ratatat, Basement Jaxx,

Lucio