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No Time

12:24 AM

@Mateo Linux FreeSki?

Mateo

@NoTime nah, the original from a floppy, running on wine

Mateo

12:53 AM

@Rinzwind @Virusboy askubuntu.com/a/579935/47291

just make the unzip command ignore the folder ;)

Fabby

and upvoted! (why didn't I think of that!?)

Mateo

hm, I think most of us would delete it after, I thought for a moment to have him && rm -rf the folder... but then thought there had to be a better way.

maybe even go a step further and make a bash shortcut to do that if you know you have a zip coming from a mac, that could be fun - alias it to unmac?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

1:09 AM

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Q: Lost Win7 boot after installing UBUNTU Vivid

I have a dual boot system (Win7 for my company) and (UBUNTU 14.10) .. My company is using Encryption for the image of Win7. After Win7 installation i installed UBUNTU 14.10 and i was able to boot both. My HDD is partitioned as follows: 3 Primary partitions (c: for windows , D: , E: for data ) and...

chaskes

@Mateo Idk, unmac is a lot of work. It took me years to convince my wife to unmac and move to an Ubuntu/Win dual boot

Mateo

hm, -j doesn't make directories for unzip, but then that could be a problem if you zipped a directory...

Fabby

:D un-mac.sh

chaskes

@Fabby I still don't know, an added "sh" is the response I got most of the time. (Um, I"ll stop now. ;)

Mateo

I could shorten it to "__*/*" if everyone agrees that normal people don't name folders beginning with two underscores

Fabby

1:17 AM

Huh? You've lost me! Because .sh is not really needed? (I've been up for 20h!)

No Time

1:46 AM

@Fabby are you asking about the file extension?

Fabby

I was asking Chaskes what he meant with his cryptic comment...

;-) but thanks for asking...

No Time

Oh i thought he meant to put a sh before things.

or maybe.. shhhh

ah,, yeah

chaskes

@Fabby Oh, sorry, I thought you were asking Mateo. I meant when I suggested "unmac-ing", I usually got a "sh(h)" back

No Time

unmac- to get rid of Mac tendencies
sh - the sound given to someone to quiet them

chaskes

^^ - exactly

Fabby

1:49 AM

Yeah, amd me being up for 21h, didn't get the sh any more! :D

No Time

I understood the unmac, but I just walktzed in

chaskes

Get some sleep and you'll be Fab again.

No Time

nope not editing that

be Fab?

no Fabby

chaskes

Fab(ulous).

No Time

By(stander)

chaskes

1:51 AM

good one ^

No Time

Fab(ulous)by(stander)

I should star myself as interesting

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

3:10 AM

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Q: Find unique files between two directories (recursively)

I am backing up files, and I have a lot of files duplicated in multiple locations. I've used fdupes to find duplicates, but i'm actually looking for some sort of inverse of this tool. I want to see if dir A and it's sub directories contains any file that dir B does not contain. I'd like to see ...

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SmokeDetector

3:44 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive title detected: ubuntu just removed everything every fucking thing by decapo on askubuntu.com

No Time

4:05 AM

@Seth should I star SmokeDetector when I see it?

Seth

4:26 AM

@NoTime no, stars are for things that everyone will find interesting. e.g. I walk into the room, see the stars and think "Hey, I should see what was happening around the time that was starred". They are also commonly used for things people find funny. Although someone has been overusing them lately..

No Time

4:43 AM

Was kind wondering (I see). I just thought to bring it to attention, but I really don't know how you are notified, or if it would help other admins @Seth

Seth

Flags @NoTime ;)

No Time

I do :) I just have (before) starred to get it as attention for other people to flag... idk if that is good @Seth

Was wondering if I should, but now I know

Seth

nah, not really necessary. It will end up just sitting there even after the post has been deleted.

No Time

Seth

hehe ;)

No Time

4:45 AM

the other half is blue and red lasers btw

ah ok

Well have a good daynight I'm tired

@seth \0/

Seth

Good night!

I'll be heading off to bed myself here pretty soon.. Soon as I can get this paint thinner smell off my hands.

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6:33 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: These side effects were not present? by Bentofdg on askubuntu.com

detly

8:36 AM

I'm trying to diagnose why I can't authenticate via smbclient to a NAS (the smb server) — I can log in anonymously (eg. with smbclient -L 10.1.0.25 -UGuest and no password), but if I try with a user with a password (eg. smbclient -L 10.1.0.25 -Ujason) I get session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

Before I go and post a question, is there anything obvious I can try? eg. install some magical package that's missing, identify the kind of auth it needs, etc?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

12:02 PM

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Q: AV Linux as main OS. Computer wont accept bootable USB

I am trying to install and run AVLinux through the downloadable .iso image from the website. I created a standard startup disk with the standard creator in 14.10 all went well. However my laptop does not detect the Startup disk I created as a Bootable disk upon restarting the system. My questi...

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hbdgaf

12:53 PM

This is sort of neat

Fabby

1:05 PM

@hbdgaf: if you say so... I have no clue what problem this solves, but if it means less problems, I'm all in! ;-) I'm falling for the propaganda! >:)

terdon

@Fabby Those two non-answers are 3 and 4 lines each. I don't see why you don't want them in the questions. Especially since they're not actually answering anything. Oh, and please, please do not take the hot questions as examples of quality. They are very often the very worst ones around.

Fabby

:D

Incorporating into the question right now, master! ;-)

terdon

@Fabby I really hope that those references to masters and slaves you keep making are ironical and the irony is just lost on the web. I am not trying to dictate what you should do, I am just trying to explain how the system works. Trying to help in other words. Feel free to ignore me.

Though I may smite you...

Fabby

:D

that's why I try to put the smileys next to the grovelling and mastering! ;-) :P

terdon

:)

Fabby

1:14 PM

Done! ;-)

terdon

Good. Have a cookie.

:P

hbdgaf

@Fabby I haven't tried using it, but equivs ~~is for~~ can be used for making a meta-package that installs a similar rig to what you're running. So, you can generate a "my-box" metapackage assuming everything is under version control... and add a configuration script or two. Now say, what if I want to share that? Well, if it works, you would be able to up said thing to a ppa since it lets you build a source package. Then you could apt-get install hbdgaf-desktop

@terdon sup

terdon

Hey @hbdgaf

hbdgaf

anything interesting going on over there? i just cleaned the house - so i'm scraping the bottom of my motivation to do things you should be doing barrel on actually typing in atom.

Watching inspirational video that wound up on my feed. Re-posting it everywhere I can think of, because it's really... well watch it.

Fabby

1:33 PM

@Terdon: I had soup instead! >:)

terdon

@hbdgaf Not much. Trying to write a script that installs the various bits and pieces that make up the pipeline I created to do my postdoc work. It need to work on OSX and Linux. Fun!

hbdgaf

@terdon Needing to work on OSX can make things a pain. I can see where it's a necessary itch to scratch though. I'm wondering how the stall in Virtualbox development will affect boot2docker. Just something I'm not sure I want to see coming, but it looks like a problem.

terdon

@hbdgaf Yeah, my ex box uses a mac and is not very knowledgeable so I need to script things for her.

Not very knowledgeable about computers that is.

hbdgaf

Fair enough.

Fabby

@hbdgaf: interesting, he is, Alan Watts...

hbdgaf

1:38 PM

@Fabby smart people just being smart, regardless of repercussions.

Fabby

(y)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:40 PM

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Q: Home directory doesn't shown whenever I login through new username

I trying in Ubuntu server Virtual machine, created new user (testuser) using useradd command. Now my problem is want to create a home directory for that new user and root privileges for that user. And whenever I login through new user it doesn't show home folder.

ubuntu useradd

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[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: Asus n73 sm with Ubuntu 14.04 problems by Tito-Gon on askubuntu.com

Fabby

2:57 PM

@Mateo: nice edit... :D You left the word for excrement in it! >:)

Mateo

@Fabby oh, didn't see that... whoops, thought smoke detector ran a false positive

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