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Used to re-synchronize the package index files from their sources. The indexes of available packages are fetched from the location(s) specified in /etc/apt/sources.list(5). An update should always be performed before an upgrade or dist-upgrade.
upgrade
Used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list(5). Packages currently installed with new versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed, nor are packages that are not already instal…

hbdgaf

@Fabby yeah, the pretty reckless is the actual band.

Fabby

:D

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Install R package on Ubuntu

I'm using Ubuntu and I'm trying to install this package from http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/imputation/impu‌tation_2.0.1.tar.gz but I cannot see how to do it.

ByteCommander

7:03 PM

Source: official manpage website linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get

Fabby

The chick! The CHICK! :P

user136984

But why does the software updater program show that there are no new upgrades, and yet when I run the "apt-get upgrade" command in terminal it shows me lots of upgrades?

Fabby

That one's easy!

@ByteCommander Rock am ring

(And @hbdgaf too!)

hbdgaf

I know, I found them through videos. Nobody told me I should listen to them. I just found them.

Fabby

And the cute chick had nothing to d with it???

ByteCommander

7:07 PM

She looks better at RaR than in the B/W slideshow

Fabby

like, you weren't looking for other stuff

hbdgaf

here youtube.com/…

Fabby

Like most women: they look better without make-up!

hbdgaf

@Fabby and no, when i was looking it was a relink off cryptex. it had nothing to do with linkin park.

Fabby

Is that explicit material in the US?

ByteCommander

7:10 PM

So do you still insist in your version of apt-get (dist-)up[date/grade]?

hbdgaf

@Fabby no

Fabby

@hbdgaf: because that is children allowed where I come from...

hbdgaf

well i think the record label takes it on the lyrics for no reason.

Fabby

>:)

Where I was born there are two categories:

Children allowed / children not allowed.

16 is the age

hbdgaf

yeah, deathmetal and everything else.

Fabby

7:13 PM

I don't even think that music is censored...

Only images...

so the videos would be.

hbdgaf

hah, then it would be different here.

Fabby

well "censored": not shown on TV before 22:00

The last censorship took place in 1979...

so everything that WAS on the list, still is, but since then nothing has been added

So technically, Mein Kampf is still Verboten

hbdgaf

Really? this might be ;) youtube.com/watch?v=Ne1FHM0oJ-o

Fabby

but in practice, noone has been prosecuted for "forbidden literature since 1979

Ah! I know!

ByteCommander

Arven - believe youtube.com/watch?v=30LjI-SFZGs

Fabby

7:16 PM

@ByteCommander: is there still forbidden literature in Germany?

Is Mein Kampf still on the list???

Does such a list still exist?

ByteCommander

Phew, dunno.

Rinzwind

yes.

Fabby

(and if it is, is it still enforced?)

Rinzwind

yes

Fabby

Holland, yes!

ByteCommander

7:16 PM

I needed nothing that could have been there yet

Fabby

Someone got his books confiscated

But he wasn't prosecuted!

Rinzwind

@Fabby in holland there is a ban on PRINTING it. Selling it allowed

*is

Fabby

ahaa

ByteCommander

But I think walkin around with Mein Kampf would not be a good idea anyway.

Fabby

I can imagine...

wouldn't be good anywhere!

hbdgaf

7:17 PM

@ByteCommander nice

Rinzwind

Selling though is not allowed in shops. So if you have one you can sell it

ByteCommander

But I think e.g. for education in History, it should be okay

Rinzwind

and the bigger websites like ebay and markplaats do not allow it

ByteCommander

But only if you say you're against it, of course :)

Fabby

It absolutely boring...

There are 2 books I never finished

The Satanic verses

and Mein Kampf!

OMG!

ByteCommander

7:19 PM

Are they worth it?

hbdgaf

@Fabby So, I take it you read the bible cover to cover trolls a little

ByteCommander

I would better spend my time on a good piece of Sherlock Holmes for example

Fabby

Yeah, I was in catholic school....

Read it a few tilmes cover to cover...

:P

hbdgaf

And now you have an irrational fear of penguins?

ByteCommander

Btw, I'm off for supper, cu later

Fabby

7:20 PM

bye!

Ah!!!

hbdgaf

@ByteCommander later on

Fabby

Took me a while...

That's not any more how priests look like, though I went to the same school as Father Damian...

Patron Saint of Hawaii if I'm not mistaken...

>:)

hbdgaf

I was referring to the nuns teaching classes and smacking the backs of your hands with rulers, but you sort of got the joke.

Fabby

Oh, I thought you meant priests...

hbdgaf

If the father damian thing was a joke, well done though.

Fabby

7:26 PM

No, I'm serious: I went to the same school as him...

I used to live 10Miles away from the house he was born...

But it didn't help turning me into a saint! >:)

There was off course some 80 years in difference between him going there and me, but still: same building!

;-)

Is Ubuntu Mate a supported distro here?

Rinzwind

@Fabby nope. not an official release (yet)

Fabby

Thanks!

Voted to close! ;)

user136984

I love the nuns in this video playing football! :D

user136984

Just in case anyone is discouraged by that it is an AC/DC video! :D

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

7:41 PM

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Q: Route everything through VPN except SSH on Port 22

I have a Server and I want to setup a VPN on it to route all traffic. Of course I dont want to block myself out when establishing the OpenVPN connection (already did that..) so I want the Port 22 to be unaffected and be reachable as usual. Is this possible? And if so, how can I set this up?

ubuntu networking vpn openvpn

user136984

7:51 PM

Oh dear... Looks like this person has not got the idea of links to images! :D

user136984

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Q: torrent not working

![problem]file:///home/jhome/Pictures/Screenshot%20from%202015-02-01%2000:54:07.png Torrents were working before. Now the torrents are not working any of my cilents what must be the problem. Trackers are not able to connect. May I know why ths problem

downloads bittorrent utorrent tracker torrent-client

Rinzwind

@Toroidal yeah noticed :D

user136984

8:10 PM

How do you become a moderator?

Nathan Osman

@Toroidal Pay me $100.

user136984

:D

user136984

No but really, how? :D

hbdgaf

stackexchange.com/about/moderators

user136984

@hbdgaf Thanks! :)

hbdgaf

8:13 PM

In other news, I hate cleaning my house... still, i finally started, so I might as well finish.

@Toroidal I ran last election under the banner of "I'll do it. I won't be happy about it, but I'll do it." and a couple of mods were like "AWESOME!!! You get it!" a few others were all "NopeNopeNope", so I pulled my nomination.

user136984

How often do elections occur?

user136984

:)

hbdgaf

As the need applies to a site.

user136984

Ahh, ok, so no formal set date?

user136984

Just whenever it seems like it's needed.

hbdgaf

8:19 PM

It's annual-ish, but if a site doesn't grow and mods don't quit, you don't need new ones.

ByteCommander

Master BC is back in the house! ;D

user136984

:D

Fabby

@Toroidal: I like the nun in this video better... >:)

hbdgaf

sup massa? can i clean your boots massa? okay, that was inappropriate.

ByteCommander

But maybe you would like to #cough# get rid of some of them?

user136984

8:21 PM

@Fabby :D

Fabby

In Swhaili it's "Bwana"...

ByteCommander

@Fabby Just decided to not watch this video until the end...

Fabby

The end is the most fun!!!

Happy ending for society! ;-)

ByteCommander

You don't understand any Swabian, do you? (@Fabby)

hbdgaf

@ByteCommander If you think that's the case, somebody mixed your medicine

user136984

8:24 PM

@Fabby: Long so I skipped through it a bit, but saw most of it! It was funny! :D

Fabby

No!

No Swabian!

It sounds like you should understand, but you don't

ByteCommander

Battle Beast - Black Ninja youtube.com/watch?v=38zmdwd5K3E

hbdgaf

^^ nice one.

Fabby

Here is one on how languages sound to foreigners

ByteCommander

@Fabby what a pity. I know a guy on YT (Dodokay) who takes vids e.g. from Tagesschau (famous German news show on TV) and synchronizes them with funny Swabian contents.

He also does with famous movies as Star Wars or Die Hard 4.0

Fabby

8:29 PM

Sorry! No go...

ByteCommander

@Fabby ;D I could hear almost no difference between Swedish and UK English!

Fabby

:D

ByteCommander

Nightwish - Storytime (album Imaginaerum) youtube.com/watch?v=5g8ykQLYnX0

hbdgaf

@ByteCommander When I watched girl with the dragon tattoo - the original with subtitles - it did sound really natural and almost made sense without the subtitles. I still definitely needed them to get about half the words though.

ByteCommander

@hbdgaf Another video with the same "text"? I only understand German (Swabian), English, French and Spanish more or less anyway... But one of my buddies is self-studying Hindi and already learned Portuguese. Next will be Russian, I think

hbdgaf

8:39 PM

Subtitles are when you can read the movie as text underneath in the non-native or native language. So, I had English subtitles to help me along.

ByteCommander

@hbdgaf Don't think I'm dumb! I know what subtitles are!!!

Fabby

:D

ByteCommander

I just thought you spoke about a different video as you said "I watched girl with the dragon tattoo - the original with subtitles - "

Fabby

@ByteCommander: hbdgaf's point was:

ByteCommander

Hm?

Fabby

8:47 PM

that subtitles are not really necessary

if the movie is good enough...

No need to get upset that we think you're a Windows XP user! (=dummy)

;-)

hbdgaf

Point was I could almost hear it without the subtitles... and Swedish sounded really natural. I couldn't do that with Daywatch/Nightwatch. I REALLY need those subtitles, but sometimes you can just almost hear it anyway.

Fabby

And the more languages you know, the more certain words come back...

EG, there are tons of French, German, Flemish, English, Italian words in Russian...

hbdgaf

True enough.

Fabby

And mostly old words...

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: touchpad is not working in ubuntu 14.04 by Sai Spandana on askubuntu.com

ByteCommander

8:50 PM

@Fabby I AM a Windows XP user!

Fabby

Like "Bottines" isn't readily used an

I'll edit!

:D

ByteCommander

Well, at least I was.

My desktop machine still is running it,

but since I installed Ubuntu on the laptop, I use this more often

Virusboy

Bad Detection @SmokeDetector

ByteCommander

Would like to upgrade to 7 (hate 8 and want to wait until 10 loses its children diseases), but it isn't strong enough... :(

The XP machine of course, not the Ubuntu!

hbdgaf

starred for children diseases...

Fabby

8:55 PM

It's edited...

"Children diseases" = "teething problems" in English

hbdgaf

I got the premise without the translation.

Fabby

I'm just teaching ByteCommander proper English... :P

Virusboy

@hbdgaf sup

hbdgaf

@Virusboy not a lot. cleaned a bunch. did laundry. playing with that one python project i can't seem to make it over the ROI point on...

Virusboy

chuck it in the chest for now then

hbdgaf

8:59 PM

nah. i need to keep playing with it. i'm super close. if i walk away from it, i might come back and say "what the hell was i writing" when i read it again.

Virusboy

you dont write dev notes?

hbdgaf

nope. if the code isn't clear enough, then i'm writing it wrong. i've deleted half a dozen things that i came back to and couldn't read for that reason. i think this one is safe, but i'm scared to walk away from it.

@Virusboy when you say dev notes do you mean code comments? I do that. I more meant broad picture approach steps.

Virusboy

yes code comments/dev notes

ByteCommander

@Fabby Well, that was google translator...

hbdgaf

@Virusboy Yes, I comment code pretty well most of the time.

Virusboy

9:08 PM

good

hbdgaf

@Virusboy Here's what I'm working on that I'm feeling lazy about... it's just a lot of data to whittle down to actionable data. Should be able to do it reliably though

if you want to know how i write, that's how i write just about now.

Virusboy

ahh

but why a search engine

Rinzwind

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Q: my whole harddisk partitions are disappeared.i was using window 8.1. and try to instal ubunto

my whole hard-disk partitions are disappeared.i was using window 8.1. and tried to install ubunto. how can i recover my data. i tried to use sudo test disk. but terminal says no command found. and unable to found packge. please help me regarding this problem.i am running ubunto from installation ...

data-recovery

shall I comment or shall I not :-P

hbdgaf

@Virusboy take all the data... feed it through a set of reductions. arrive at good idea bad idea. repeat over time. eventually you find the right combination of reductions that means you don't have to think. finally tell a computer to restack all possible reductions and rate them for accuracy.

pinthor

@Fabby Yes I did, Fabby. I am also read your answers at 2 simmilar threads and got no solution :\

hbdgaf

9:15 PM

i'm at building reductions now. it's just hard to think ahead of it and build the right stuff... and i can't build ALL the stuff. so it's a piece at a time.

Virusboy

@Rinzwind you might be too much for that poor idiot

Rinzwind

@Virusboy I so can not suppress my feelings :=D

Virusboy

I know the feeling

hbdgaf

any time i see ubunto my selective blindness kicks in.

ByteCommander

@Rinzwind Just had a looong edit on this...

Rinzwind

9:19 PM

ha 30 chars remaining :=D

OT: askubuntu.com/questions/580251/…

OT: askubuntu.com/questions/580252/…

Virusboy

MAKE THE STUPID STOOOOOPPPPP
*Head explodes*

user136984

I was just looking at the Meta SE site and look what I came across @Fabby @jrg @seth:

user136984

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Q: <hidden_direct_input=true<GayPandas>>

support bug code

user136984

Well, at least we are past robotic ducks, but seriously, "GayPandas"?! :D

Virusboy

Flagged as unlcear what you are asking

user136984

9:24 PM

I clicked the edit button and this is how he did it:

user136984

<GayPanda_Protection=true></><GayPanda=protectedVoid></><VoidProtection=true><Active=true><codeChange=true> <James Kayla>

<GayPanda_Protection=true></><GayPanda=protectedVoid></><VoidProtection=true><Active=true><codeChange=true> <James Kayla>

<GayPanda_Protection=true></><GayPanda=protectedVoid></><VoidProtection=true><Active=true><codeChange=true> <James Kayla>

<GayPanda_Protection=true></><GayPanda=protectedVoid></><VoidProtection=true><Active=true><codeChange=true> <James Kayla>

<GayPanda_Protection=true></><GayPanda=protectedVoid></><VoidProtection=true><Active=true><codeChange=tru…

user136984

:D

user136984

That was his text! :D

hbdgaf

at least they were happy pandas instead of sad pandas...

Virusboy

@hbdgaf Your statement is Ranma Approved.

user136984

9:27 PM

:D

Fabby

@hbdgaf: Nice, clean code... :)

hbdgaf

@Fabby thanks

user136984

Ahh... Well the post was luckily deleted so if anyone missed it I got a screenshot just in time! :D

user136984

Fabby

@pinthor: what are you talking about?

user136984

9:30 PM

And I posted the code which made it work above.

user136984

:D

Fabby

Good evening! @chili555!

chili555

@Fabby I wrote another reply while thinking of you, mon ami! askubuntu.com/questions/580228/asus-a550c-wifi-problem

Fabby

:D

I have a new canned response: "My right telepathy antenna is broken off and you're too far away from me to link directly to your computer. ;-)"

hbdgaf

@chili555 the derp is strong with that one. "I don't want to paste the output that will help you fix it. I just want you to fix it. You don't NEED that output. Just fix my crap."

chili555

9:36 PM

Good luck to him on that one! I'm pretty good but not that good!

Fabby

Really???

You're the local wizard here...

chili555

"Here, let me just reach through the interwebs and press the keys for you!"

Fabby

Can't you do some black magic instead of the white magic you normally perform on raising dead WiFi cards????

hbdgaf

Well, one could google the asus 550c and find out all possible wireless chipsets for his model of computer... or the OP could actually want help.

Fabby

I remember for a project having to sanitize HP's parts list...

chili555

9:38 PM

Three or four times a year I just walk away from a thread. This could be old Tahir's lucky day!

Fabby

DEC, Digital, Compaq, HP, ....

Yup... Had one like that too today about a software RAID...

I just deleted my answer when he kept harping about alternative solutions to his problem....

lemme look... Interesting read...

ByteCommander

Very strange guy. Why doesn't he look for a question and post there instead of writing an answer to who-the-heck-knows-what as a question???

Fabby

Oh, can't find it any more...

He must have deleted his question too!

>:)

Anyone seen any mods around lately?

hbdgaf

nope

@chili555 - it's the ath9k driver that presumably isn't loading for him... although it's not a bug with the driver. it's probably something weird in his boot procedure.

Fabby

No worries. It's just that I told him to back up and do a smartctl on his 3 drives in a software RAID with a damaged superblock...

ByteCommander

9:43 PM

oli looks online, but hasn't been in the room for three days by now

chili555

No doubt, @hbdgaf Maybe I can trick it in rc.local.

Fabby

I'm not going to bother Oli for that...

This is the moment where you learn...

Watching 2 experts talk to each other (in contrast to 2 bots) ;-)

hbdgaf

5

chili555

LOLOL

Fabby

starred!

Did you just make that???

hbdgaf

9:47 PM

yes, yes i did.

ByteCommander

Nice one!

And who do you mean by the two experts?

hbdgaf

@ByteCommander thank you, thank you, i'm here all week

ByteCommander

Sorry, only have one star... ;(

Fabby

Chili555 and hdbgaf

chili555

BTW @hbdgaf Just because a noob plays around with ath9k doesn't mean he has that device. I've worked on many a case where the OP complained he installed firmware-b43-installer and wireless was inop and we find he has an Intel device!!

hbdgaf

9:51 PM

fair enough, but then you get the WAT duck

i was trying to force the answer on that one with my comment on that thread.

chili555

WAT=What A ...?? Turkey?

hbdgaf