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12:20 AM

lol

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@RPiAwesomeness you available?

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5:36 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keywords in title: Useful Information to Obtain a Helpful Gurgaon Movers and Packers Company by aman mathur on askubuntu.com

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Q: How to setup the quota for NIS user

I have 3 VM's and configured NIS server one VM, user account created for client access also done. NIS client configured remaining two VM's. I am able to login through what I created username in NIS server side. Now I want to allocate the quota for that nis user. How to allocate quota

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Q: sound not working in Ubuntu 14-04: suddenly stopped

The sound suddenly stopped working in my Ubuntu, so I googled and followed this link but it doesn’t work to me. Output of aplay -l: **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog[ALC662 rev1 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice...

ubuntu drivers audio

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10:50 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: The Paleo Diet And Eliminating Sugar by michaeltuck on askubuntu.com

I wish there was a paleo diet for spam.

we should advertise a highly toxic diet based on arsenic and old lace for spammers.

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Q: Is "Mint" taboo?

I use Linux Mint 17.1 which is based on Ubuntu 14.04. I thought to ask/contribute here on Trusty issues and on the Mint forums over Mint issues. Last time I went to make a contribution a warning popped up saying that I should think carefully about posting as some of contributions had not been w...

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@TheX I'm afraid I was not, no :P

Journeyman Geek

11:12 AM

@Takkat and asbestos. And yellowcake

@Oli its called the ban hammer. It will flatten it in 2 seconds.

High potassium cyanide diet for a unique experience in the nether worlds.

Slimming at its best.

Fast - effective - and lasting.

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11:49 AM

UGH!

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@RPiAwesomeness You were 16 or something like that, right? Why the heck are you interested in stock markets then??? o.0

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@ByteCommander School project.

It's a contest in one of my classes.

We all get to "run a mutual fund".

I got on two weeks late, so that hurt me. Then, one of my initial stocks was Tesla, and they plummeted about $500-$700 from when I bought in - so that hurt me a lot. And then when the US stock market crashed a couple weeks ago I was too heavily invested in the tech industry and lost ~4k.

Never made it back into the green before this crash hit. :P

Game ends in a month. I'm tempted just to sell all of my holdings, wait till this seems to stabilize a bit, then hop back in. :P

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@RPiAwesomeness Real money or just "what if"/faked/simulated?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

12:06 PM

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Q: Problem with setting up mailing server

i am trying to set up a mailing server with postfix and dovecot in ubuntu 12.04 following this guide. All seems to have worked out correctly and when i try this echo test | mail email1@domain.org everything works out as expected. But when i try to send a mail to the server from my gmail account i...

ubuntu email postfix dovecot

12:22 PM

Skillet - Monster (Official Video)

Awesome song! :)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

12:48 PM

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Q: Ubuntu - No space left on device

I have a server which stores a lot of data, I keep many nested directories with millions of files in them. While trying to move one big directory (~700GB) from one disk to another I get an error: mv /media/storage3/dir /media/storage4/ "No space left on device" Also, trying to create a small...

ubuntu disk-usage storage

How can I emphasize a duplicate flag of somebody on another user's question that is correct? Upvote the auto-generated comment? Flag again as the same dupe? Nothing? I can't get to the CV review queue yet...

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2:17 PM

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Q: Join Active Directory Domain Failure (uBuntu - Kerberos)

i try to join active directory and samba4 in uBuntu 12.04.05, but when it come to test come out error if i type host -t SRV _ldap._tcp.4ecap.sg' and comes out error Host _ldap._tcp.4ecap.sg not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)' same thing happend for command host -t SRV _kerberos._udp.4ecap.sg...

ubuntu ldap activedirectory kerberos samba4

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

3:16 PM

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Q: Why are files and directories colored in different ways?

On Ubuntu 14.04, in bash under gnome terminal, Why are files especially directories colored in different ways? The green colors hide the text to me (How about to you?). Is it done by terminal or bash? Is it a design for some purpose? Can we change the color that hide the text?

bash ubuntu gnome-terminal

3:45 PM

New bottom edge gesture for Ubuntu touch browser! youtu.be/7fBaOADbUg8

4:03 PM

askubuntu.com/users/390764/aditya-giri This guy is making a lot of edits that seem to do nothing. He calls them "syntax highlighting" but it doesn't change anything. What is this? What should I do?

Even worse, he actually messed some edits up. Put 'cd' in front of a whole different command... Why are those edits accepted?

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Some odd things have lately been happening with cheese:

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Q: cheese burst weird errors

When taking pictures in 'burst' mode with cheese I get errors such as these: (cheese:7899): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 348 was not found when attempting to remove it (cheese:7899): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 982 was not found when attempting to remove it (cheese:7899): GLib-CRITICAL **: Sour...

command-line webcam cheese

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Anyone have any ideas? :)

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4:23 PM

@Fabby: Do you use cheese? And if so, would you have any ideas about my issue stated above? :)

@Galgalesh system takes care of it. Too many rejects and they are blocked from making suggestions. So don't worry too much. The onus is still on the reviewer to make an edit substantial enough to warrant an accept.

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Q: Why is "grep keyword" causing the terminal to stand by forever?

I'm using ubuntu 14.04.02 LTS 32bit. When I type "grep doc" in the terminal, it just don't do anything, stopping the terminal from doing anything else before I escape using ctrl+c or z. I know this isn't how I'm supposed to use grep, but just curious why this is happening.

ubuntu grep loop-device

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5:11 PM

I have installed apt-file along with some other packaging tools, and I was wondering if anyone could answer my questions here:

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Q: What is apt-file update?

I was following these instructions and I have installed apt-file along with some other packages using: sudo apt-get install gnupg pbuilder ubuntu-dev-tools bzr-builddeb apt-file And now every time I startup my computer I get this notice: So I finally went into Terminal and typed the command...

apt software-sources

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:)

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Someone just sent me some more spam!

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That's a cool piggy! B-)

5:23 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive answer detected: Adding Folder shortcut to Launcher Ubuntu 14.04 by swdev on askubuntu.com

@SmokeDetector Good job! We spanked him out of AU, I think... ;)

ok everyone - here is my sister folding a unicorn:

Unicorn Origami from Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn Origami instructions.

@Mateo Wow! Is that video pitched to about 1.5x speed or does ahe really have such fast fingers?

yeah, something weird happened, it is fast for the first few steps...

I'm afraid I have to figure out how to play it with 0.1x speed to be able to follow her... :)

5:33 PM

I'll try to fix it...

arg, it freezes too...

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@ByteCommander It says unregistered next to his username of his profile, so does that mean that he's gone now? But how come the account doesn't get deleted?

@Toroidal Huh? No idea... I think usually no profile gets deleted to keep the posts. But that one is definitely not worth it though. Ask a mod about that rather than me. ;)

@Mateo Yes, it stops at about 2:09 or so every time... :(

so, I deleted for now - got to fix it :(

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@terdon: I see that a troll's profile now says unregistered next to their username on their profile, what does that mean?

5:55 PM

I don't see any unregistered user ;)

@Toroidal Basically you are allowed to post answers without creating a full account. You just need to input a username and email (except no one verifies the email).

You have to create an account to post questions.

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@Seth Oh, right, the account seems to have been deleted now, but SmokeDetector said something about it here.

Yup I know. Thanks!

6:14 PM

Herro.

I showed my "unicorn" to the rest of the family and nobody knew what it was. Some guessed "giraffe" and others guessed "dinosaur".

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almost fixed, some reason it played the first clip twice as fast...

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What exactly is an SSH key and why do we have them?

SSH keys are used for encrypting secure shell sessions.

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@NathanOsman How would they be used when it comes to Subversion and Git repositories?

They are also useful as a form of authentication.

6:27 PM

You need one to work with Launchpad.

Speaking of that, someone told me I should move my packaging setup to vagrant.. I should look into doing that.

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@Seth I've got one, I just don't know how to use it! :D :P

Well that depends on your... use case! :D

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@Seth Well, I've got a subversion repository which says that I should give it my SSH key, but I am not sure how to give, and how this will be helpful to my repository.

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I'm also confused about how to actually get my SSH key... :D

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I generated one in Ubuntu, but not sure how to get it to my repository.

6:34 PM

hmm, I'm not really familiar with subversion..

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Well, it's just a site which manages lots of these sorts of things, so this key would cover my git repos there too.

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And any of the other repos I have there with other things...

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@Seth Anyway, it is asking me for my Public SSH key, so how do I get that?

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I generated a key pair in Ubuntu.

What steps did you follow to get the key pair?

6:37 PM

Your public key would be "~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub", assuming default settings.

Your private key would be "~/.ssh/id_rsa". Don't ever give this out to anyone.

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@Seth I followed these instructions.

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@NathanOsman Ok, thanks, I found it! :)

@Toroidal Nathan is most likely correct above (unless you changed where they are stored)

@Toroidal Sorry, one of the programs I uninstalled...

anyone here that has had something to do with "prince2"?

PRINCE2 (an acronym for PRojects IN Controlled Environments, version 2) is a project management methodology. The methodology encompasses the high level management, control and organisation of a project, but not lower level activities such as scheduling. PRINCE2 is also used to refer to the training and accreditation of authorised practitioners of the methodology who must undertake accredited qualifications to obtain certification. == History == PRINCE2 derives from an earlier method called PROMPT and from the PRINCE project-management method, which was initially developed in 1989 by the Central...

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6:50 PM

@Fabby What do you use instead of it? Or do you not?

@Rinzwind Not I

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As cheese is giving me a lot of problems at the moment and was wondering what alternatives there are.

@Toroidal I only use my camera with skype... so nothing...

@Rinzwind What do you want to know?

@Fabby how I can tell my boss to ehm. you know.

It's just one of the two major Project Methodologies...

Get you a course?

There are basically 2 PM: PMP and Prince2

6:52 PM

@Fabby the opposite >:-D

Tell him that a course is a waste of money and that he should just buy you the book!

Tell him that I told you...

:D

printing it out

I've used Prince since before it was called Prince2

The book is all you need.

Has anyone else noticed the site lagging today or is it just me.....

I have not seen it lag.

6:56 PM

Hmmmm. Perhaps I should go to my backup connection.

Thats better...

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@ByteCommander Fake ;)

@ByteCommander Umm, heck yeah it is :D Skillet FTW :D

@Rinzwind If the boss doesn't believe you, I'm willing to send you my CV... ;-)

7:13 PM

@RPiAwesomeness Well, that post could almost appear in the "Late Answer" queue... ;D

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@ByteCommander Eh, I was gone all morning and then when I got back I played (and won) a CS:GO Competitive match.

Do you have a special program that simulates your actions e.g. on the school server or do you have to calculate it manually and promise you didn't cheat?

What's CS:GO btw?

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@ByteCommander We use a website - marketwatch.

Counter Strike: Global Offensive

Like CoD, but a bajillion times better

We won 16:5

hmm... I play far too less online games. CoD is Call of Duty, right?

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@ByteCommander Indeed.

7:15 PM

Not that I ever saw a single minute of either of those games... :P

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Good. If you're gonna play anything, start with CS:GO.

It's cheaper for one thing, has less cheaters, and is much more skill-based.

Plus, it's a PC game and doesn't require too much to run

not too much would have to be Ubuntu 14.10 with 2GB and 2x2GHz and software rendering... :P

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You could probably handle it. You'd obviously have to crank it down quite a bit on the graphics, but not bad.

I was just downloading the minecraft demo yesterday and tried it (shocked that people would pay 20$ for it).

RPi Awesomeness

O.o

You don't like it?

7:19 PM

After a minute I thought I could have drawn the graphics faster by hand...

RPi Awesomeness

Hmmm....

And nicer, of course! I hated those huge-pixel blocky graphics since the first time I saw it.

RPi Awesomeness

It's a great game if you can play it

Anyways. Off to take yet another Econ test :P

Good luck!

user136984

Listen to some of this with me! ;D

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7:25 PM

Iron Maiden - Dance of Death

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And imagine that you are the guys who is dancing with the dead while you are listening to it! >:D ;P

@Toroidal I joined you! :)

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@ByteCommander See you there then (at the dance of the dead)! >:D ;P

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Because when you start listening to it part of you actually goes there! >:P

@Toroidal Wanna join me now together with Powerwolf and Lucifer in starlight?

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7:35 PM

@ByteCommander Yeah, sure, why not! :)

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@ByteCommander Ok, I joined you! :)

Its quite slow. It speeds up starting at 3:00 for a short time, but not too much...

Ok, finally fixed the video! - youtube.com/watch?v=Gr2HWlUEB0E - my sister folds a unicorn.

@Toroidal I think I took the wrong one... Did not listen to that album too much yet. Better try Saturday Satan

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@ByteCommander Next to that one there is an advert with pictures of dogs on t-shirts called "Clothing Monster"... :D :P

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7:41 PM

It must think that they are similar... :D

@Toroidal Really? I don't see ads...

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@ByteCommander I don't normally either, but it seems like they want to give me a message: The Clothing Monster is a dog with a wet tong like on our t-shirts, and it's always there you! >:P

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One of the adverts:

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:D

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7:45 PM

One of them also had a wet tong... :P

@Mateo Thanks! Looks like it finally works well. Speed is ok and it does not hang after 3 minutes :) I will watch it later and see if I can produce my personal unicorn then.

cool

@Toroidal um.. adblock... another reason to use it ;)

@Toroidal Hey, they look pretty nice! ;) My brother would squeal of pleasure if I bought him one... He's mad for those! But I won't anyway, of course.

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Yes, I just wasn't sure which was the official version for Chrome as there were many in the app store, so haven't got round it getting Adblock yet.

I did not know that Powerwolf even sounds good when played on a single piano: We drink your blood - piano cover

8:18 PM

Raspberry Pi 2 is out of stock at Element14 :(

@NathanOsman looks like mcm has them

mcmelectronics.com/product/83-16530

Yeah, but I have to be careful buying stuff over the border. I can get hit with either expensive shipping or import taxes... or even both.

Element14 has a Canadian store they ship directly from, so there's no surprises there.

ah

Once I was asked to pay over $40 for an item that was only worth about $100 or so.

The sender was able to call them up and get it straightened out, thankfully.

wow, so they are a bit different than here on that huh...

8:26 PM

The two companies here that I really like buying from are Amazon (almost always free shipping when you spend >$25) and Best Buy (they often charge for shipping but I live so close to their warehouse that packages usually arrive the next day).

Oh here we go.

That's about what I was going to pay Element14 and these guys have it in stock apparently.

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Oh no...

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Now I am getting confused and combining all of my languages!

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:D

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I am confusing Java with Bash, and Python with Java and all my code is not working! :D :P

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Well, actually I know more languages than that, but it's still a lot of confusion!

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8:33 PM

:D

@Toroidal As long as you don't start to talk in Java to your friends and family, everything is fine! ;D

Anybody know what's the old-releases equivalent of ports.ubuntu.com? Re: askubuntu.com/q/601673/158442

@ByteCommander System.out.println("Hi Mom, how are you doing?!");

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@ByteCommander That comes next! ;D :P

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I was writing an if statement in bash and it turned out like this:

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8:38 PM

if [ $variable == "Hello" ]{

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echo "Hello";

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}

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:D

if (mum.askForDessert("Pudding") == false) throw IWantPuddingException;

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I just caught myself calling standard Java methods in bash! :D

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8:40 PM

It happens when you code at the same time in multiple languages...

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:D

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As I have got a Java project, some bash ones, and starting a Python one too... And now they have all merged into one!

try {
   Toroidal.writeCodeInBash();
} catch (WrongLanguageException e) {
   System.out.println("Toroidal got confused... Fatal error!");
   e.printStackTrace();
}

@ByteCommander Fatal? You want to kill poor Toroidal?

Real-life looks indeed much funnier when expressed in Java! ;D

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8:44 PM

:D

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@ByteCommander Well, I never thought that a try-catch block would be put around me! ;D :P

@muru Why killing? The exception gets catched so the program continues running. To kill him I would code System.exit();

@ByteCommander Ah, missed that. :D

Oh, stop. If Toroidal is just an object in the RL-universe, what would be killed by System.exit() then? Oops, better not try that...

Just do a Toroidal = null; then...

@Fabby I just received your "urgent mail" from two days ago... ;D

Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]) by mx-ha.gmx.net
 (mxgmx109) with ESMTPS (Nemesis) id ###### for
 <######@gmx.de>; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 21:45:46 +0100

:D

I'll repeat: You have to look for a new mail service...

(or build your own)

8:59 PM

@Fabby I might assume that you have sent it by snail mail...

I run my own mail server.

How would I build my own?

postfix + dovecot + spamassassin

And if you want webmail, use Roundcube.

?+?+? Sorry, no experience with that at all...

Then don't attempt it.

9:01 PM

First of all, I would need a always-on server and there the problem already starts...

Running a mail server is not something you should do unless you fully understand the process.

And running one at home is even less recommended.

Tell that to Hillary rimshot

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@NathanOsman How much is an account/month?

@Fabby I'm afraid I only run it for myself and family members.

@Fabby How are you doing?

9:02 PM

@heemayl :)

I'm OK...

not much rep today...

@NathanOsman I should get back to run my own again...

It's a ton of work to set up, but after that, it mostly runs itself.

@Fabby LOL ....

should i open some bounty?

@Fabby Me neither. I only need 39 more points to finally hit 2k, but I only got +4 today :P

:)

@ByteCommander You got more then me!

And heemayl is going to surpass me in a few months...

9:05 PM

@NathanOsman So I better stay with GMX turning into snail mail every now and then... At least until I can afford a VPS and have time to read about that.

@Fabby: Yeah..when i will be surpassing your current rep, your rep will be tripled then....

My history over the last 10 days is 4 37 51 97 24 4 101 35 24 37 - so why only 4 today as it starts to get interesting!?

If I hadn't spent that useless bounty, I could be already reviewing edits and LQ queue, but nooo....

Anybody wanting to have it? It's due in 15h...

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Q: Where do deleted files go in Ubuntu?

I have a very simple question. Where do files go when you delete them? I know when I send files to "Trash", they go to "trash", but when I delete them, I do not know where they go. Why I ask is that I've been hacked for six months on Windows and do not know if they are able to hack Ubuntu. I'm ...

filesystem files

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Q: How do I flag a question to be a duplicate?

I have found the solution to a problem in a question that did not contain any of my search criteria. When I implemented a link in the question containing my search criteria, my link was eliminated and I got this advice: If you think that this question is a duplicate of another question, please f...

^ Paranoid about being hacked on a fresh Win installation that never was connected to the net... o_O"???

@ByteCommander: you are doing great..you have enough for a member of only 2 months..i started answering after about a year or so....

9:15 PM

@ByteCommander you could tweak the thumbnailer code referenced by your relevant type that ignores a folder, but it's not a built-in. you'ld have to bolt-on.

Thanks, nice to hear... But I had nothing else to do the first few weeks, so it was pretty easy. But I also touched my first Ubuntu system last October...

It's how I'ld do it

@hbdgaf Can we discuss that in 10min or so, I have to leave quickly...

I'll be around, but it's not something I'm planning on doing(writing the thing).

@heemayl Naah... You're better then me!

9:39 PM

@hbdgaf I'm back and have read the article.

Basically, all I was saying was find the thing you need to change - and change it.

So you mean I should write a script that behaves like a thumbnailer, filters the paths I don't want out and passes the rest on to the actual thumbnailer?

Yes. At least that's what I'ld do.

Write that as answer and I'll push the 50 points over to you. I'll add another 25 as soon as I tested it! :)

That's a bit like cheating, since I didn't actually write the script, but I'll put it there and leave it to your discretion.

9:43 PM

Remember, it's wasted in 14h!

@Fabby: I know you kid a lot.. and that is a good one too :)

And you pointed me out how that thumbnailing works and how I cold intervene, so that's fine. The script is probably just a single line...

@heemayl I used AIX, Tru64 and HP-UX more then 15 years ago and only installed Ubuntu January 2014... :P

@Fabby noob

@Rinzwind OK, what was your first OS?

9:46 PM

@Fabby TOS

You're a itolder then me...

@Fabby For me it was October 14, I think...

B-TOS?

nope

Unisys???

9:46 PM

oh and I named that as a -server- OS

Here come the Legends..

I used that in the military... It was also the only time I ever saw it... (B-TOS)

de.wikipedia.org/w/…

Only ran on UniSys systems...

sorry no german wiki >:)

9:47 PM

:D

"Thoroughbred Operating System, ein Multi-User-Betriebssystem für Intel 80286"

Ah! CP/M!

it was a BASIC clone

kk @ByteCommander - that's about what I think you needed on that one.

we still use it ;-)

9:48 PM

I was 16 at the time...
Took about 2 seconds to boot from disk.

after that we used Xenix for a little bit

yes!

but that's 20 years ago!

(longer...)

I started on a 8086 in school. It was an amazing machine with TWO(!!) fdds

If someone today would say "Microsoft Unix" 95% of the users would see that as a contradiction! >:)

Z80...

D:

9:49 PM

At school they had some crap based on an Intel 8080

4 computers for 28 students...

:D

@hbdgaf I'll try to figure that out now...

my 1st own PC was a 80386. Back in 93 or so.

I still have it in the basement

@Rinzwind I have one in my basement too! It runs Win 3.11 :D

My first PC I build it myself: drew the motherboard myself and etched it...

and I used to use a compaq notebook (also a 80386)

9:51 PM

@ByteCommander If you wind up figuring it out later, post the answer, and I'll just shift the bounty back to you on something else worthwhile you answered.

it had a docking station :D

I'm before that...

I sold my first computer for 500€

@hbdgaf Thanks for the offer! Let's see how I can do this...

I once paid 400 euro for 8Mb memory :P

to allow me to buy a 2500€ 80286 with 2MB of RAM and a 60GB Quantum hard disk and a VGA monitor...

It was the fastest PC at the Uni...

9:53 PM

cool

faster then 80386 as it used page-interleaved memory (0 waitstate)

But I needed to buy 2MB of memory to make that work...

time for me to go :D bb2morrow

When 640K was the norm...

Good night!

C U 2morrow!

640k ought to be enough for everyone.

:20761356Bill Gates has taken over Nathan's account!!!

:D

It was actually an IBM design decision...

Nothing to do with Micro$oft, and Bill Gates was just defending his customer...

(but he did say it...)

9:55 PM

@hbdgaf hahahahahaha, good one ;)

I aim to please....

@hbdgaf I didn't get it... Is it word humour?

@hbdgaf Seems like I don't have any gnome thumbnailer! ?? :(

Oh well. Was hoping something stayed the same for you. What DE are you on?

@Fabby No it's not. It's a US politics joke.

It was Unity and I added XFCE.

9:58 PM

@Fabby American politics..

Hillary Clinton joke? Rim-shot is a cannon shot below the bow of a boat?

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