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SmokeDetector

12:07 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in body: printing from arrays vs awk 'NR by paul on askubuntu.com

Seth

12:41 AM

Alright, I don't think a single one of those has been useful. I'm turning off the repeating characters one.

Nathan Osman

That last one was sort of useful.

The "*************" really didn't belong in the post.

askubuntu.com/revisions/591517/4

Mateo

I think the thought was for when someone tries to avoid the character limit with things like blllllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh..

which looks like it happened on that one

Nathan Osman

Right, I think that was the original intention of the feature.

Mateo

although I think we get a lot of false positives on it

Nathan Osman

I agree. I'm just pointing out there are legitimate flags.

Maybe we should change it to just repeating letters, so "--------" won't cause a flag but "aayyyyyiiieee" will.

Mateo

12:46 AM

hm, I think "..........................." might be common

Nathan Osman

Yeah. It's trickier than I thought to tell the good ones apart from the bad ones.

Disregard my idea then :P

Mateo

although I use the hidden text, or non-breaking zero width unicode spaces when going around the system ;)

Nathan Osman

I wonder if alternating Unicode RTL and LTR characters would work...

Mateo

maybe, did they ban the zero-width space?

Nathan Osman

I'm not sure.

Mateo

12:50 AM

or just as a way to pass the repeating character test

Seth

oh, does sleep use seconds instead of milliseconds? lol, that's why it wasn't working as expected. I told it to sleep for 5000 seconds.

@NathanOsman Oh it's a good reason, I just don't think it is worth showing here if it doesn't have a high likelihood of being useful. I can turn it back on if we find more people disagree though.

terdon

@Seth Careful, after a certain threshold, it needs to be woken by true love's kiss.

hbdgaf

yeah, you have to kill -s 9 the process ;)

Seth

1:16 AM

@terdon lol

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How do I decrypt this hard drive?

In 2011 I installed Ubuntu server edition on an old Dell that I had laying around. During the install process I was using the gui installer and opted to set disk encryption on the disk drive. During the time that I was using the machine full time (about 3 months) there would be a screen after t...

Nathan Osman

Nothing like having your card declined for a purchase only to find out the amount was still charged to your card :|

hbdgaf

^.^ that blows @NathanOsman

Mateo

latency?

Seth

Wow, that's not nice @Nathan

Nathan Osman

1:26 AM

I'm speaking with a live chat agent at the moment to get it sorted out.

Once I do get it sorted out though, I have some good news.

hbdgaf

waits with bated breath

Mateo

sounds big, like nitroshare online server edition big...

Nathan Osman

Not quite that big, but it does relate to NitroShare :)

Mateo

or maybe something cool, like a pi 2?

hbdgaf

nitroshare rewrite to qt5 complete? with a static build of qt built in to the installer?

Mateo

1:29 AM

yesterday, by Nathan Osman

Ta-da: https://nitroshare.co/

Nathan Osman

@hbdgaf Hey, that would be cool too.

Mateo

maybe - stickers of the logo?

Nathan Osman

The Qt 5 rewrite is mostly complete and building Qt statically is still a goal once I figure out some issues.

Mateo

ok, i'm going to stop guessing, and wait...

hbdgaf

Yeah, so he's working on my guess at least ;)

Nathan Osman

1:32 AM

I tried doing that over the weekend but ran into some linking issues with OpenSSL.

I don't think the Qt people can provide a static build that includes OpenSSL.

hbdgaf

statically linking openssl is always a problem. i'm beginning to think they make it error out on purpose... so you just link against the dll and if it gets an upgrade, you don't have to be buggered with rebuilding.

Passenger - Let Her Go [Official Video]

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Nathan Osman

Yeah, it's probably better to link to OpenSSL at runtime.

Seth

whoops

Nathan Osman

Okay... got it straightened out.

hbdgaf

@Seth you NEED i3 or tmux

Nathan Osman

1:44 AM

So the announcement is... I was able to purchase nitroshare.net !

4

Someone else had it for the longest time and I was finally able to snatch it up.

hbdgaf

Well that's good.

Nathan Osman

I'll be moving everything over shortly.

Seth

@hbdgaf haha, no, I was launching gnome-terminal from a script.

hbdgaf

@Seth I did that once, but I used some params to tell it where to spawn.

Mateo

@NathanOsman cool

hbdgaf

1:45 AM

@NathanOsman I'm surprised someone hasn't picked up aking1012.com and trolled me.

Nathan Osman

I didn't want to say anything until the transaction went through.

Seth

I just didn't mean to spawn that many ;)

@NathanOsman yay!

Does anyone know if I can set TEST to true in bash and then do while [ $TEST ]?

Nathan Osman

Hang on.

hbdgaf

why not do while TRUE and break?

Nathan Osman

I think while [ $TEST = true ] might work.

Seth

1:51 AM

@hbdgaf ah, yes, I had forgotten about break.

That'll do what I want!

hbdgaf

it's only hard to use in nested loops... so you'll still need to do what you wanted originally eventually...

Nathan Osman

3:03 AM

@hbdgaf For nested loops, there's goto.

Ducks.

SmokeDetector

4:36 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: I expect this may be time for a bowl of ice cream? by nomeddq on askubuntu.com

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5:22 AM

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Q: cd to my folders shows me an error

I just logged out my system and logged on. And i tried to get into my folder cd /u/folder It says Too many levels of symbolic links. But it worked yesterday. What could be the reason? I found many SO questions on this but they are all about creating symlinks. But i face this problem while c...

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SmokeDetector

6:29 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Ways To Retain The Human Brain Healthy by glendman on askubuntu.com

SmokeDetector

7:32 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: How do I extract my downloaded file? by Gwilson10 on askubuntu.com

SmokeDetector

7:42 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: Where's the settings/preferences in Cheese photo booth? by Mark Reyes on askubuntu.com

Nathan Osman

@Seth: this was deleted by the owner. Yes, there are a few paragraphs that need to be ahem removed, but the original question is valid and it has two answers. Is there a precedent for undeleting legitimate questions deleted by the OP?

Rinzwind

8:43 AM

@NathanOsman wtf D: D:

I consider that a mods perogative. If you want to open it: edit, reopen and post a firm comment about etiquette. That user is bound to never come back.

Veritas

9:35 AM

Hello everyone

Rinzwind

@Veritas Hello one

Get your spam here! 1 time offer! askubuntu.com/questions/592157/…

Veritas

hybrid graphics are a pain

Rinzwind

9:55 AM

hybrid graphics are experimental in Linux :-)

Veritas

I know but it's still frustrating. I've been trying to make my discrete card to work for hours.

I've gave up. I don't really need the discrete card for msot stuff I do on ubuntu but I would like to be able to work with OpenGL.

Rinzwind

10:34 AM

Funny. I just ran into this notice: Next Generation OpenGL Initiative official name will be "Vulkan"

more here: gamingonlinux.com/articles/…

fossy! \o

sigh again he ignores me unless I ping him :(

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Q: Hybrid Graphics problem - Discrete graphic card doesn't work

I am using a Lenovo G510 with an Intel integrated card and a Radeon R7 M265 discrete card. Ubuntu version is 14.04 trusty while the kernel is 3.13.0-46-generic. I've spent quite a few hours trying to make Radeon to work and at this point I am close to giving up. I tried to use the proprietary fgr...

drivers ati graphics hybrid-graphics

ha beat you to posting it here @Veritas >:-D

I have no idea though

fossfreedom

@Rinzwind morning morning :)

Veritas

I don't really like posting questions int he chatrooms tbh

but cool

Rinzwind

@Veritas I do! this needs fixing :=D

this topic smells >:D askubuntu.com/questions/592172/sniffer-request-arp

Veritas

lol I wish

Rinzwind

@Veritas it does! he is sniffing! :)

oh man that 1st comment D:

hbdgaf

11:16 AM

@Rinzwind doesn't even tell you if it's wireless, switched, or routed and if proxy-arp is turned on... just saying.

Rinzwind

@hbdgaf that script needs to take care of that! :=)

hbdgaf

-.-

Day 9 of a ten day stretch is almost here with 4 12 hour days in it... hopefully they're not woefully retarded and expecting me to work out the Thur/Fri after a run like that.

Oli

My OT (who is a doctor) would be laughing at you. She's got a 16 day stretch with 4 13-hour night shifts in the middle.

hbdgaf

11:31 AM

Yes, but doctors don't make minimum wage ;)

Oli

True enough

hbdgaf

It's all about goal-posting and return on sacrifice.

Veritas

12:03 PM

huh just came and my question got burried. A lot of activity in an hour.

Rinzwind

12:27 PM

"#‎MWC2015‬ - day 2. Samsung employees realizing the MX4 Ubuntu edition outshines the Galaxy S6." D:

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SmokeDetector

12:42 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Getting Clear Skin - The Skin That Is Trick To Really Lovely by edhoudo on askubuntu.com

fossfreedom

thanks @SmokeDetector - spam be gone in 11 seconds

terdon

Thanks for the edit @Oli, force of habit there.

Mitch

Good Afternoon All :)

I want One....

ubuntuhood.com/ubuntu-news/…

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

1:06 PM

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Q: How to install custom plugin on Google Ghrome Ubuntu 14.04

I have a problem while trying to install rutoken plugin for Google Chrome v. 40.0.2214.115 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 14.04. That's what I try: Download plugin from http://www.rutoken.ru/support/download/rutoken-plugin/ and unpack files, so I had librtpkcs11ecp.so, npCryptoPlugin.so files. Create a di...

linux ubuntu chrome

Alex Clem

1:33 PM

Hey guys

Anyone knows if this is worth it: amazon.ca/MXIII-Android-Quad-Core-Remote/dp/B00R0BS56S/…

blade19899

@Mitch I want one!

Rinzwind

"No worry of running out of space with the 8GB internal storage."
Riggggggggght :D

Alex Clem

haha

well external harddrive

blade19899

For people that want to use Tox, stable(-ish), install qtox

#remove old key
sudo apt-key del 0C2E03A0

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb repo.tox.im nightly main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tox.list'
wget -qO - repo.tox.im/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
sudo apt-get update -qq
echo "Tox Repository Installed."
echo "You can now install utox, qtox, toxic, ratox and tox-bootstrapd"

From here wiki.tox.im/Binaries#Linux

This my ID:

5E0E70C80B21F061765EE72038EC19360ED089E10D6456DE0E002E24669E2C1021248DAB7F8C

Alex Clem

So Tox or QTox is for secure chat?

blade19899

1:41 PM

@AlexClem Both, just different clienst for the tox engine

toxic is commandline!

Rinzwind

That vulcano is Chili is generating some cool pixs :)

blade19899

Alex Clem

Ohhh Cool Ill check it out

blade19899

@Seth qtox looks something you might wanna try.

Already made an Ask Ubuntu General Room:

Anybody wanna test stuff out with me? No calls, at work. Later at night in depth testing!

Crap! Forgot no Internet at home. New place. Without Internet, life is boring!!!

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:31 PM

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Q: No diskspace on AWS Image?

we are currently testing AWS, therefore I created an EC2 instance using a bitnami-magento image. The AWS intance has 10gb of space attached to it. Now all of a sudden, I am out of diskspace and I have no clue how. As I am not very familiar with disk space allocating procedures, I have the hope th...

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Rinzwind

4:22 PM

Ubuntu powered robots for the win
https://twitter.com/Sistemas4S/status/572778954102341634

Ask Ubuntu Meta

4:39 PM

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Q: Why isn't askubuntu.com secure?

I notice there is a secure connection when I login to stackExchange, but it goes away after I login to askubuntu.com. Why isn't askubuntu also running with encryption?

feature-request

RPi Awesomeness

5:15 PM

Anyone want to watch FNAF 3 :P

@Rinzwind Well duh.

Samsung's Android skin thing has always been really awful.

At least, that's what I heard.

user136984

A Tratoir! How dare he even show his face here?!

user136984

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Q: Remove Grub from it's own partition

Some time ago I installed Ubuntu alongside Win8 and didn't like it quite much but decided to leave it installed. now I wanted to delete it and as I've already had problems before uninstalling ubuntu and having the grub rescue I decided to remove grub first, as I couldn't remove it I simply delet...

boot dual-boot grub2 windows-8 partitions

Veritas

Tbh windows aren't looking too bad after trying to fix the graphic card drivers the whole day :p

user136984

Would you like to join the tratoir then in his Capital Punishment, as you both seem to share such similair views? >:)

user136984

:P

user136984

5:26 PM

:D

Veritas

nah I dualboot <3

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Ubuntu Linux 14.04 on Parallels Desktop 10, Mac OS X 10.10.2: Parallels and/or Ubuntu update broke Terminal (no command-line prompt)

Apologies if reposts are not welcome; I just asked this question on "Ask Ubuntu" and was advised to post it here. I'm not clear on whether the problem is with Ubuntu or if it is more general, as I know very little about Linux or Parallels. I am running Ubuntu Linux 14.04 via Parallels (10.1.4) i...

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Veritas

seriously though, I am mostly on ubuntu and only rarely I boot into the windows partition. Which is why driver problems that force me to boot into windows are annoying.

user136984

5:52 PM

If I have a domain, I can get the IP address, but if I only have the IP address, how would I get the domain?

muru

The same way you got the IP.

But domains <=> IP is a many-many relationship

Oli

@Toroidal There are lookup services like this but unless they have a resolution of every domain, they'll never be complete

The other approach (assuming it's a webserver) is hammering it with GET requests for different hosts and brute forcing out a list. Needless to say, this would take a very long time.

Veritas

6:08 PM

alright so the driver from amd is provided in a .deb file of apaprently not debian format

user136984

@Oli Ok, thanks! :)

Veritas

I am like.. ok

user136984

6:25 PM

I have an IP address, and I have used the traceroute tool to trace it, but I am not sure exactly how to figure out the ISP of the router that I have the IP for, how do I get the ISP information from the traceroute output (or can I not)?

user136984

6:41 PM

Still noone knows the answer for this?:

user136984

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Q: cmatrix to turn on after a certain amount of inactivity

I have got the console screensaver cmatrix, and I was wondering if there is anyway of getting it to turn on after a certain amount of inactivity in the console you are in? OS Information: Description: Ubuntu 14.10 Release: 14.10 Package Information: cmatrix: Installed: 1.2a-5 Candi...

screensaver console

user136984

:(

user136984

7:10 PM

Well, now that I've stopped worrying so much about rootkits, someone else has started! :D

user136984

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Q: do i have a rootkit or infected system

i used chkrootkit recently and it turned up the following: /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/.path /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyQt4/uic/widget-plugins/.noinit /usr/lib/jvm/.java-1.7.0-openjdk-i386.jinfo /usr/lib/jvm/.java-8-oracle.jinfo /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/lib/missioncontrol/plugins/org....

14.04

Rinzwind

7:31 PM

@Toroidal 1 notice does not make for an infected system :=)

Takkat

Nice - on installing we apparently now have an option to only install/reinstall to an existing Ubuntu partitions.

And - we get an extra extra warning if we decided to erase all and everything.

Still there will people who will manage to delete all of their stuff on installing.

Seth

aghh, gnome-terminal is such a pain.

@Takkat I know people don't necessarily like it, but the truth is computers are not for everyone.. :/

At least without training.

Takkat

computers are made for me :)

Seth

I meant some people just shouldn't attempt to do crazy stuff with computers. Wasn't referring to you :)

Takkat

<-- is always doing crazy stuff with it ;)

Seth

7:42 PM

At least you know what you're doing ;)

Takkat

lol

Seth

@muru I have a semi working script to do that cmatrix stuff, but I cannot get gnome-terminal to stay on the screen long enough to show the screensaver without launching a bash prompt, which prevents it from closing when you're done..

Takkat

after a while at least I found out what went wrong.

muru

@Seth what does it look like?

Seth

#!/bin/bash

if [[ $(xprintidle) -ge 4000 ]]
  then
    xdotool key F11
    cmatrix -s
    wait
    exit
  else
    echo $(xprintidle)
fi

that's the script

I'm calling it through cron every minute:

*/1 * * * * env DISPLAY=:0 gnome-terminal -e "/bin/bash -c '/home/seth/test.sh; /bin/bash -i'"

muru

7:46 PM

@Seth Try another terminal which has an explicit hold option, like xterm or xfce-terminal

Seth

@muru ah, yes, I'll try xfce. I did try xterm but it was too dumb to work, apparently..

(I'm not really sure why xterm didn't work..)

muru

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Q: Opening a terminal other than xterm, running a command on it, and not closing the terminal after it succesfully finished

I have the following script in my arch linux box: #!/bin/bash xterm -e "sudo pacman -Syu;bash" This will fire up an xterm, and run the command sudo pacman -Syu on it. Because of the ;bash part, it will not close the xterm window once the command is finished. This is a command for updating my s...

bash scripting xterm lxterminal

says you need a custom profile for gnome terminal to hold

Seth

@muru still, I'm not sure recommending the installation of xfce4-terminal makes a good solution..

muru

in which case, you could avoid the -e altogether

Seth

I'm pretty sure I tried that.

@muru yep, tried that.

The window flashes and then closes.

If you want to take some of my work and run with it please do so, I'm going to have to move on to other things soon.

user136984

7:55 PM

To tell the truth, I'm not worried about this one at all, but just really really curious, so just had to ask! :D

user136984

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Q: ClamAV-Test-File virus definition

Today I scanned my machine with ClamAV, and this was one of the things that it detected: /home/<username>/clamav-devel/contrib/test/clam_cache_emax.tgz And it detected it as: ClamAV-Test-File So what exactly is this ClamAV-Test-File definition? I have not seen it come up before. OS Informa...

clamav

user136984

Does anyone know the answer? :)

Seth

@muru Strange, the profile part works when calling it from another terminal, but not from cron..

hbdgaf

@Toroidal There's more than one "test that the engine is running" file you can use. Evidently clamav has their own. It's just so they can say "Our reads aren't necessarily subverted all the time for a 100% clean rating even though everything we read is null"

muru

@Seth I can get it done perhaps with two scripts and a profile with hold

Seth

8:03 PM

@muru yes, two scripts would probably work. I was trying to avoid that but it might be necessary.

hbdgaf

If you're trying to use profile or bashrc environment stuff, you have to source those files in your script to get a cron driven script to "know about them"

Seth

another issues appears to be that gnome-terminal passes all additional lines to the first command as arguments, if you use -e.

e.g.:

gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=holdOpen -e "xte 'key F11' && cmatrix -s" &

returns:

xte: invalid option -- 's'
Unknown option 's'
Unknown command '&&'
Unknown command 'cmatrix'

muru

8:31 PM

#!/bin/bash

if (( $(xprintidle) > 4000 ))
then
gnome-terminal --hide-menubar --disable-factory --geometry 1920x1080+0+0 --window-with-profile=Cmatrix
fi

with the profile executing /bin/bash -c 'sleep 1; /usr/bin/cmatrix -s'

worked, @Seth

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Executing Minecraft Server Commands via SSH and Screen

I'm extremely new to linux, so please help me out if you can! I have read many of the posts about managing/monitoring servers using SSH and Screen, but have not found anything regarding my particular issue yet. Here is what I have running: Ubuntu 14.04 running Minecraft Server 1.8.3 .jar I set u...

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Q: How do I know when I installed package FOO

I was wondering if I installed 'Tor' on my Ubuntu 14.04 or it was shipped as a default package since I hadn't remembered installation by myself. So what's the way to find out if a package is user-installed and when was the installation date?

ubuntu software-installation apt package-management

user136984

I am having a little trouble with installing a package, can anyone help?

user136984

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Q: E: Unable to locate package denyhosts

As I use SSH, I would like to get the denyhosts that I read about here, but when using the command: sudo apt-get install denyhosts To install it, I got this error: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package denyh...

software-installation ssh

user136984

:)

muru

@Toroidal see discussion between Seth and me leading up to chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/20351830#20351830, for possible solution to your cmatrix problem

Seth

8:52 PM

@muru brilliant! Why don't you post that as an answer? :)

muru

@Seth Did it work for you?

Seth

@muru Haven't tested it yet.

user136984

9:13 PM

@muru Ok, thanks! :)

Seth

hmm, how are you calling the script @muru?

user136984

Why is there a ping flooding option?

user136984

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Q: PING flooding option

I have been reading up on common ways in which people attack each other on the internet through things like DDOS attacks etc, and how one would defend oneself from such attacks, and I have come across the fact that with the Ubuntu ping tool there is a "Flood ping" option: ping -f <WhatToPing> ...

networking security ping

user136984

:)

Fabby

@Toroidal You're infecting people with your paranoia! ;-) Have a look at my comment.

Just ping me here if you want me to look at your answer... ;-)

Mateo

9:31 PM

@Toroidal to test your own network

Fabby

Mateo is better then 6-σ: he's 100% correct. (see my answer)

Mateo

;)

I think there might be a situation where a continuous send might help you detect a connection problem on your local network

forum.star-conflict.com/index.php?/topic/…

Nathan Osman

o/

Mateo

hi @NathanOsman

Ask Ubuntu Meta

10:09 PM

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Q: Is this question correctly marked as a duplicate?

Removing the splash screen on shutdown an startup. I want to be able to see the processes (xubuntu 11.10) As I understand it's about disabling splash screen while second one is about booting in text mode, which are two different things.

discussion duplicates

Fabby

10:21 PM

@NathanOsman youtube.com/watch?v=AteCdXvZOZc ;-)

Fabby

10:31 PM

@NathanOsman:what extra features are available if I allow write access to my SE profile to QuckMediaSolutions.com?

Nathan Osman

None currently.

I used to have a form that let you reply to comments.

But it was removed when I rewrote the site and I never replaced it.

Don't worry - the other features still work even if you don't select write access.

Fabby

And I found a bug:

Nathan Osman

I don't think you wanted to paste that.

I deleted it for you.

Fabby

:D

Nathan Osman

That URL contains your access token - someone with that can access your account.

Fabby

10:33 PM

Indeed... It works if I remove https:

I just noticed that! ;-)

It's great! Now I've got my stuff in my feed reader!

Nathan Osman

Cool!

Fabby

No! YOU are! ;-)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

11:10 PM

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Q: Visual Boy Advance Not Running Correctly

Whenever I run a pokemon rom on my vba 1.8.0 on my Ubuntu 12.08 computer, it seems to be doing a color inversion (i.e. the text is in a black box as opposed to a white box, the players face is black and pixelated as opposed to white, the "foam" on the sea is black instead of white). Any ideas on...

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