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12:07 AM

I like upboats ;)

12:39 AM

Does anyone know of some good free services that let you sync texts (and actually text) between the phone and a computer/tablet? Mightytext, mysms and Yappy are all out

Nathan Osman

@RPiAwesomeness I wonder what SE uses...

Mateo

I use hangouts

Nathan Osman

@RPiAwesomeness there's this code.google.com/p/pagedown

Seth

1:06 AM

@Zacharee1 mmm, you want a texting like service or actual SMS?

Actual SMS is hard.

Zacharee1

@Seth well Verizon Messages did just that: it let me use my number to text from my computer and other supported devices

Since I'm most likely leaving Verizon, I need a new method

Seth

hmm. does pushbullet do that? Can't recall.

Looks like it: pushbullet.com (@Zacharee1)

Zacharee1

It does, with a 100 texts/month limit unless I pay $40/yr

Journeyman Geek

@Zacharee1 if you're on the same lan, airdroid might work

oh, they're all cloudy now too

Seth

oh, there is that --^

Zacharee1

1:14 AM

@JourneymanGeek Using that for notifications, and it's nice, but it doesn't support MMS, so any texts with images and such aren't shown at all

Journeyman Geek

and pity about pushbullet. I don't really use the newly premioum features, but it always makes me sad when they pull previously free features behind a paywall.

Zacharee1

1:36 AM

@JourneymanGeek Reading through the comments of their announcement of premium shows that people are not happy suddenly having to pay $40/yr for one or two features that are now premium-only.

Journeyman Geek

@Zacharee1 yup

IMO, if you're going to switch from a free service to a freemium service, removing features is a bad idea, and a good way to lose users.

Zacharee1

Definitely. I would day 7/8 of the people in the comments have left. Estimating a reflection of that number to users who don't comment, I think they will probably lose around 50% of their users, which will probably kill them unless they fix their prices

Zacharee1

2:08 AM

@NathanOsman any idea when your script might become SE-wide?

Nathan Osman

Nope, this week is pretty crazy.

I've still got some things to sort out though I've written a good chunk of new code.

Zacharee1

OK. Thanks for the update

(Which Verizon still hasn't given)

Ravan

2:27 AM

@Zacharee1 o/

Zacharee1

\o

Seth

2:40 AM

@NathanOsman Have a couple minutes?

Nathan Osman

2:51 AM

@Seth Sure do.

(Just finished supper.)

Seth

@NathanOsman Thanks! According to these docs if I reimplement the isComplete() function I can get it to disable the buttons on a QWizardPage.

Nathan Osman

Yup.

Seth

however my attempt at reimplementation didn't do anything:

    def isComplete(self):
        print("in isComplete")
        return false

Nathan Osman

And this is in a class derived from QWizardPage?

Seth

entire class here: paste.ubuntu.com/13487016

@NathanOsman yes.

I can't find anything obviously wrong and I'm at a lose googling wise.

Nathan Osman

2:54 AM

Let me try to reproduce this real quick.

Seth

@NathanOsman If you want I get give you access to the BitBucket repo.

Nathan Osman

I don't think that's necessary yet.

Let me see if I can get a simple example of this put together.

Are you using PyQt4 or 5?

Seth

ok :)

4.

Nathan Osman

K.

Hmm...

paste.ubuntu.com/13487196

When I run that, "Finished" is disabled...

I guess I will need to see your code, sorry.

Seth

np

I can't replicate that behaviour :/

@NathanOsman I've shared the BB repo with you.

I'm going to have to grab some dinner real quick, sorry. I'll be pseudo around.

Nathan Osman

3:03 AM

No problem.

@Seth Does that mean my example didn't disable the "Finish" button for you?

@Seth did you mean to use False instead of false in your example above (note the capitalization)?

Because I added isComplete() exactly the way you pasted it above (with False corrected) and it works fine for me, disabling the Next / Finish button on whichever page I include it on.

Seth

3:19 AM

@NathanOsman I haven't run your example yet.

@NathanOsman Yes, I meant False.

Nathan Osman

Hmm... try my example and see what happens.

Seth

Looks like the only difference is I am calling the QWizardPage.__init__() function after creating the pages.

Is that necessary?

Nathan Osman

Let me check.

Yup, I can't see anything wrong with what you've got.

But then again, it works when I run it.

Seth

3:53 AM

aha! I found it @NathanOsman.

Nathan Osman

Oh?

Seth

I had placed it inside __init__() -.-

once I moved it to a root function inside the class it worked.

thanks for the debugging help!

Nathan Osman

Ah.

No problem.

Seth

(I also realized I gave you access to the repo but forgot to push the latest modifications. sorry >.<)

Nathan Osman

I was wondering why it was a bit different :P

Seth

4:00 AM

yeah. my bad.

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4:36 AM

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Q: Why was my post downvoted? Am I wrong?

Why was my answer downvoted? Was there an error in what I posted? Seen Here

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Neil

7:11 AM

@A.B. Hello :)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

7:22 AM

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Q: Authnetication failure with postfix and sasl using sasldb

I'm really not sure what my issue is. I've checked several guides, and I am sure I have set this up correctly, including config fails, restarting the service, permissions etc. OS is Ubuntu Server. When testing with testsaslauthd -u myemail@mydomain-p password I only ever get: 0: NO "authenticat...

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A.B.

Morning @Neil :)

KGIII

9:22 AM

@Daniel That is absolutely fascinating! Thanks for asking them and getting an answer. It was worded much better than I could have.

cl-netbox

9:54 AM

Good morning :)

Serg

10:11 AM

Hi guys, can someone help this poor soul ? askubuntu.com/q/701864/295286

cl-netbox

@Serg Hello my friend - how are you ? :)

A.B.

@cl-netbox @Serg Morning =)

cl-netbox

@A.B. Good morning my friend :)

kos

Morning all o/

Serg

@cl-netbox @A.B. morning guys. I'm fine. just need to go to sleep and this guy keeps having trouble. He messed up this PATH variable and now cannot login to GUI. I cannot communicate with him

@kos wazzup breh

cl-netbox

10:13 AM

@Serg Did you forget about my mail ? just asking because I didn't receive a reply 'till now ... :)

kos

@Serg It's cool man :D

Ah-ha! -> askubuntu.com/questions/701906/the-heightened-energy-is-a-very

A.B.

@kos Morning =)

Serg

@cl-netbox no, because I was sleeping all day till 4pm, and then had to leave for my friend's house. I've never answered your email yet, but i haven't forgotten

A.B.

@SmokeDetector askubuntu.com/q/701906/367165

kos

Morning @A.B.!

Serg

10:15 AM

@kos have you drafted the script for the bounty question yet ?

kos

@Serg Yes, I'm polishing it a bit

A.B.

@Serg Indeed, a lost soul :\

kos

Drum-roll... is pure Perl!

A.B.

Again a newbie with Kali: askubuntu.com/q/701902/367165

Serg

@kos :D perl against bash,awk, and sed ! I like that

He deleted his /etc/environment

Neil

10:18 AM

@A.B. @Serg @cl-netbox Hello o/

Serg

AAAARG

People sometiumes are just . . . .

cl-netbox

@Serg maybe this is a graphics problem ... your lost soul ...

A.B.

stupid?

kos

@Serg Yeah, clash of the titans huh? XD

cl-netbox

@Neil good morning my friend ! :)

Serg

10:19 AM

@cl-netbox could be, but I cannot beat the answer about .Xauthority first

.Xauthority must be checked first . . .

@A.B. I don't wanna say a newbie is stupid, but yes . . .

cl-netbox

@Serg in my opinion and from my experience it is better to not touch .Xauthority ...

Serg

@kos :/ no JacobVlijm this time though . . .no python . . . that's a shame . . .perhaps @ByteCommander is going to substitute as python representative on @A.B. 's question?

@cl-netbox .Xauthority is one of the most common issues. I just had it yesterday when i ran startx virtualbox with sudo

I dont find it dangerous in any way

cl-netbox

@Serg what about this idea : remove it from tty and then reinstall GPU drivers and reboot ... new file will be created ... ?

Serg

@cl-netbox there is actually a command for that xauth, check man xauth . . .I don't wanna mess with GPU yet, but that's a good chance it's the issue

You know what . . . .I'm going to write a script for this dude, cuz hes lost

Neil

xauth could not even be the problem.

Serg

10:25 AM

@Neil elaborate please

A.B.

@cl-netbox nice answer >:)

cl-netbox

@A.B. should have been a comment ... happened accidentally - deleted at once ! =)

Neil

@Serg it could be the video drivers, but xauth solves most of these problems.

Serg

Is there a way to download pastebin script and run it ?

Neil

@Serg i think so

Serg

10:31 AM

Aha, pastebin has raw page

excellent

Neil

@Serg i am interested what script are you making ?

i want to see it

Serg

@Neil none so far, I just wanna ask the user to download the script from pastebin, run it, and that script will chown his .Xauthority and edit back his path variable . . .

cl-netbox

@Serg : It was not a "joke" from me ... I had exactly the same with 14.04 ... and after installing the video drivers ... everything worked fine.

Serg

@cl-netbox I dont doubt that. I just want to go from simplest issue to the hardest.

have to check incrementally

anyway, i should sleep

night @all

A.B.

sleep well @Serg

cl-netbox

10:46 AM

@Serg sleep well my friend - good night ! :)

Byte Commander

11:15 AM

@cl-netbox Unfortunately it was just a dream... Good morning!

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How many entires in the default John the Ripper password list?

How many entires are there in the default John the Ripper password list? I can find 40 million for the paid list but nothing for the default list.

ubuntu john-the-ripper

cl-netbox

@ByteCommander Good morning my friend ! Yes I assumed this ... that's why I let the poem work again for you this morning ... as a little compensation ... :)

Byte Commander

Hehe. Thanks! :D Anyone knows something to help this guy?

0

Q: Ubuntu 15.10 No interface, just the wallpaper

I just installed Ubuntu 15.10 and after (auto) login, i do have only the new wallpaper, I do only have that, no menus, no interface, nothing... Any suggestion?

unity 15.10

A.B.

@ByteCommander Morning and no, that's Unity =)

Morning @hg8 =)

cl-netbox

11:38 AM

@A.B. @ByteCommander : I posted an answer to address the problem ... :)

A.B.

YES =)

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A: How do I create my own custom hosts file?

Using HOSTALIASES: Define the environment variable HOSTALIASES export HOSTALIASES=~/.hosts Create your private hosts file and add a test entry echo 'myprivategoogle www.google.com' > ~/.hosts Start a test curl myprivategoogle without the entry in ~/.hosts you would get curl: (6) Could n...

cl-netbox

@A.B. YES ... fast enough ? =)

A.B.

@cl-netbox Until a few minutes ago I did not know that it works =)

cl-netbox

@A.B. Now you know ... and so I didn't hesitate ... :)

kos

@A.B. I think I missunderstood your question. Is it something like this that you want?

sudo <command> wily main -> enables main for wily, sudo <command> wily-updates universe src -> enable universe's source for wily-updates and so on.

Because reading it again it looks like you want to disable all (main, universe, restricted, multiverse) in one shot, either for binary repositories of for source repositories.

A.B.

11:50 AM

Sorry, I'm wong

@kos sudo <command> updates sudo <command> security

kos

@A.B. And in that case for example the first one disables main, universe, multiverse, restricted for wily-updates, correct?

A.B.

@Kos I'm a little bit confused :) Wait =)

We can enable/disable
updates
proposed
backports
security

sudo command updates; sudo command security and so on

and disable, e.g. with sudo command -r updates; sudo command -r security

without nominate the Distribution and the Repositories

BRB

kos

Yes but if you have this: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu wily-updates main restricted universe, sudo <command> updates should add multiverse to that line, correct? And sudo <command> -r updates should delete that line, correct?

Byte Commander

@cl-netbox upgoated and waiting for reactions... ;-)

kos

And if you have no line mentioning wily-updates, sudo <command> updates should add deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu wily-updates main restricted universe multiverse, correct?

@A.B. Sorry for the ping, I'm pinging you here so that you can read it later

Byte Commander

12:09 PM

Close as problem went away: askubuntu.com/q/701930/367990

cl-netbox

@ByteCommander Thank you ... and ... me as well ... waiting for reaction ... :)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Execute browser as root

I need to run my browser as root, in order to gain a specific software, which is executed withing the browser, rights to access and edit some system files (hosts file). The software is definitive safe and trustable. So the only way, to get this software work, is starting my browser as root by su...

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Daniel

@KGIII no problem! But I can't take credit for asking in response to your comment. Note the timestamp.

But if you're interested in the topic, see these two questions that were asked just yesterday

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Q: Is AquAdvantage salmon kosher?

After two decades of deliberation, the USA's Food and Drug Administration has approved the first ever genetically engineered food animal, a fast-growing Atlantic Salmon called AquAdvantage salmon. According the agency, which announced the approval Thursday, the modified salmon are s...

halacha kashrut-kosher fish non-kosher-species kilayim-forbidden-mixture

(Ignore the "two" part of my previous comment)

A.B.

12:33 PM

@kos Yes, but only if main, restricted, universe and multiverse is already in the sources.list.

@kos The program should consider only repositories, that are already enabled.

kos

@A.B. Ok, so I must assume that the user never touched sources.list manually, right? Because if e.g. you disable main from Software & Updates main is removed in all the "distributions" (updates, security, proposed, backports), but one could also edit sources.list and add main to, say, updates.

Shall I assume that this won't happen? Otherwise we should find a way to get the last status from Software & Updates, which I have no idea how to do since I can't find its configuration files in the package.

KGIII

@Daniel No, I'd noticed the timestamp - I was still grateful that you'd thought to ask as you'd done much better at wording it than I ever would have.

And taking a look at the newly linked question now.

A.B.

@kos If main isn't in sources.list, ignore main. If security is enabled for universe but not for main and the command adds security, enable security for main. Sorry, I do not know how to express myself. :\

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

12:52 PM

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Q: Allow different users to connect to AWS server without key

I'm setting up a new AWS Ubuntu (14.04) server. So far I have just been following the standard setup guides, which involved creating a key pair. Now for different websites on the server I am trying to lock down users for each one, to the respective web directories. I have created a new user, and...

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A.B.

@kos something for you? =) askubuntu.com/q/701949/367165

KGIII

@Daniel I didn't realize that pout wasn't considered kosher. Curious. Ah well - I am not a Jew but I did almost marry one a very long time ago. Her parents were pretty hardcore but she was more "Americanized." They'd both left Germany just prior to the outbreak of WWII and had Becky here on US soil. I did learn a lot but, obviously, not everything. What is interesting is how the practices are still subject to debate and refinement.

Byte Commander

This answer has so many nice screenshots in it, it deserves some votes, right? ;-) askubuntu.com/a/701959/367990

A.B.

@ByteCommander I gave you 0.25 UVs for each screenshot =)

Byte Commander

:D

Daniel

1:11 PM

@KGIII that's definitely true. I should clarify that the answer about synthetic meat is speculative. Nothing will be official until it becomes available and someone asks one of the leading rabbis to make a ruling.

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