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user136984

3:02 PM

Oh, looks like someone already answered it! :D :P

user136984

But what I really don't understand in the main SE site is why everyone is so negative, like the fact that even duplicates are voted down immediately by everyone...

Fabby

@Toroidal That's because on SE the majority of users are developers who don't come out enough in the real world! >:)

@A.B. Happens most of the time...

Mateo

@Toroidal there are sharks over there

Fabby

Upvotes mostly come from people like you and me... Not the OPs themselves...

Mateo

plus i'm sure that was asked like 50 times over there

user136984

3:06 PM

I end up having to delete most of my posts there because the amount of down votes starts to actually damage my rep points there! :D

Fabby

@A.B. When was the last time you personally ran out of upvotes?

;-)

Mateo

plus the general post about why they were going to start doing that in the first place

A.B.

@Fabb

@Fabby hmm, never? :)

user136984

But I even at some point got an automated system warning me that my questions had not been taken well and that I could get blocked from asking questions if the community kept on responding so negatively to my questions! :D

Fabby

@A.B. There you go! Start up-voting more yourself! :P >:)

Mateo

3:09 PM

one reason I rarely ask questions, unless I come to something I haven't seen before, or can't solve

A.B.

@Fabby Ok :c)

Mateo

99% of the time another question was already asked, and about 85% already answered for me

so start using google with the "site:askubuntu.com"

user136984

3:28 PM

Can someone please take a look at my question here:

user136984

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Q: Firefox first tab weird language

When launching Firefox through Terminal with: firefox I get this output: (process:10923): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed 1427987784903 addons.manager ERROR Exception calling provider GMPProvider.getAddonsByTypes: TypeError: this._plugins is nu...

user136984

:)

Seth

Wanna give this a spin @Mateo?

oh my. Just noticed tons of optimization I need to do..

user136984

By the way, do you guys think that I should get a happier looking panda?

user136984

user136984

3:31 PM

Happier than the above.

Seth

@Toroidal I think that's as happy as Pandas get..

user136984

@Seth I wouldn't be so sure of that...

Seth

all. the. edit. pings.

user136984

Don't you think he looks happy?

user136984

3:36 PM

:D

user136984

I'm sure if I looked through my archives of pandas pictures I would find something really happy... :D :P

user136984

I love this! :D Instead of deleting it they replaced it with ooooooooooos! :D

user136984

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Q: Problem with namespace

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

14.04

user136984

:P

Seth

4:24 PM

@Fabby I really like your custom comments, but if you post a custom one please choose "no comment needed" when reviewing in the low quality posts queue that way this doesn't happen. I can just imagine the face of the OP when he sees 3 comments all saying the same thing :P

@muru your comment here is such an understatement it's beautiful:

Why do that when Unix & Linux is alive and welcoming? — muru 2 hours ago

All those Area 51 proposals for random *nix distros when we have the perfect site right there..

Fabby

4:50 PM

@Seth :D Thanks for the heads-up! Will not happen any more... I was trying to populate the back-end database with the right close reason! :/

Seth

@Fabby Answers don't have "close reasons", they just get deleted. All that menu does is add a comment :)

Fabby

Sorry to be unclear: I do understand now. I was unaware 2 minutes ago! ;-) :P

Seth

No problem. Everyone has to learn it somewhere :)

@Mateo So the new python script works 100% fine for me as well as the udev method.. I'm going to amend my answer with it.

Mateo

Cool, I should try it out.

Seth

Here's the latest version with images.

KasiyA

5:23 PM

@Seth

Hi :)

Seth

Hi @KasiyA!

KasiyA

OP solved his problem by "I solved this problem by disabling Lightlocker." please open his question to posting his solution as an answer. thanks

-1

Q: [Solved - Lubuntu Screen goes dark when switch user]

I just installed Lubuntu. Whenever I switched from the main user to a second user account, the screen when to almost zero brightness. The screen stayed dark until I switched back to the main account. I solved this problem by disabling Lightlocker.

done @KasiyA.

thank you :)

no problem!

5:29 PM

Wonder when FF 37 will be in the repos...

New fancy HTML5 Youtube capabilities :D

Seth

I'm running FF 37..

RPi Awesomeness

@Seth Notice anything different about Youtube's HTML5 player?

I'm curious

Seth

Haven't really checked.

Can't atm but I'll let you know if I notice anything.

I doubt I will though.. ;)

RPi Awesomeness

That's fine

I think it's just enabling more quality types than 360p and 720p

Seth

I'm pretty youtube will make sure you don't notice a difference.

RPi Awesomeness

5:36 PM

Not sure though

lol, probably

Guake is awesome

Nathan Osman

o/

Lol... I hate popup ads that start speaking to me.

"Warning! Your computer is infected with a virus..." blaring out of my speakers is not exactly cool.

Seth

5:53 PM

haha

nope.

Nathan Osman

If anyone wants to know why Firefox add-ons aren't updated often, this is why: I submitted an update on March 5. I'm still waiting for it to be reviewed.

Seth

Wow..

Fabby

@NathanOsman Which add-on and what does it do???

(If you're making smth it's probably a must-have!)

Nathan Osman

@Fabby This one.

Fabby

>:)

Sorry for the late reply: reading up on ReST...

(didn't even know it existed, though it looks like new wine in old bottles) ;-)

Installed, but mostly to remind me to know it exists. Thanks!

Rinzwind

6:13 PM

this needs upvotes O

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A: How is 'rm -rf /' able to delete all files in the system?

I haven't tried this command on Ubuntu (for obvious reasons) so I am not sure if Ubuntu will allow its execution. I did. rm -rf / --no-preserve-root was running in a root session opened directly on the machine, while I was also connected through ssh from another machine, using the root accou...

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

6:50 PM

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Q: Compiling a kernel version(Ubuntu/Debian)

I've downloaded the latest kernel sources: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git cd linux-stable git tag -l | less and picked v3.9.1. git checkout -b v3.9.1 git branch --set-upstream v3.9.1 origin/master , pulled the distribution: git pull and ra...

linux debian ubuntu kernel git

Nathan Osman

Another reason to use Ubuntu.

j/k

Mateo

@RPiAwesomeness i'm on 38 ;)

using dev edition...

@Seth paste.ubuntu.com/10725806

Seth

oh, right. I totally forgot.

Mateo

oh, do you have to put it somewhere instead of running?

Seth

You'll need to install acpi.

Mateo

7:02 PM

ah

Seth

(sorry for the delay, I bound tilda to the grave and then couldn't get code formatting xD)

@Mateo I couldn't find a more accurate way of detecting if the power was plugged in or not. dbus send the changed event but it doesn't tell me if it was plugged in or unplugged so I have to figure that out myself.

Mateo

this could make an awesome app if you package it up, have a settings plugin - maybe even have a low battery warning

Seth

hm, that's actually an interesting idea..

Mateo

yay, it only put up one message for plugging in \o/

Seth

I'm still not sure why the udev method didn't work.. It worked perfectly for me every time. It's just odd.

Oh well at least we got it working :D

Mateo

7:05 PM

all it needs is to run with user level, so you can put it anywhere, and have it in the startup programs

Seth

yup. That was a disadvantage to the udev method, it had to jump through more hoops. The disadvantage of this method is it requires a constantly running process.

Mateo

yeah...

Virusboy

7:31 PM

i have a question about grep

`ps -ef |grep find`

` root 991 990 5 21:07:54 ? 0:16 find /opt -xdev ( -type f -o -type l ) -exec ls -n {} ;`

why is root in there

Seth

isn't that more of a question about ps or find? ;P

Virusboy

uh mind yea its on find

Seth

so root is the UID of the user who owns the process.

Virusboy

@seth, ive been working straight through a couple of days

Seth

that doesn't sound good for your health D:

Virusboy

7:34 PM

the life of a coder

another issue would i need a bash script to run this command at a specific time?

Seth

You haven't explained what it is you are exactly trying to do but have you looked at cron for that?

Virusboy

no, i haven't, its for a DB to find and copy into a spreedsheet

Nathan Osman

Anything involving running commands at specific intervals => crontab -e

Virusboy

even on Archlinux?

Seth

even on Arch, to my knowledge.

Mateo

7:40 PM

yay, ubuntu touch browser has bottom gesture controls for tabs on vivid dev-proposed!

Virusboy

ok that makes things easier

i want touch on my Tab S

Mateo

@Mateo ping test

yay:

that is better, this one should be built in on ubuntu: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gnotifier

Virusboy

gratz @Mateo

Mateo

nice:

now I can minimize and still see pings ;)

Seth

> "Python is executable pseudocode. Perl is executable line noise."

that's so true..

Nathan Osman

7:53 PM

I remember when Marco and I tried to implement that with an NPAPI plugin.

Seth

@NathanOsman Wasn't that for Chrome though?

Nathan Osman

Yes, though it worked in FF too.

Seth

Ah.

Mateo

then chrome made its own notification system... :/

Nathan Osman

I mostly use PushBullet these days.

Mateo

7:57 PM

what is that one?

Nathan Osman

It's for cross-device notifications.

Anytime I get a notification on my Android phone, it pops up on my desktop.

I can also use it to send links from Firefox to my phone and vice-versa.

Mateo

that sounds cool

hbdgaf

8:30 PM

@NathanOsman that's kind of neat.

Nathan Osman

Back when I was trying to get a Nexus 6, I set up a script on my Pi to constantly monitor the order page for new inventory and used PushBullet to send me an alert when some was available.

hbdgaf

Yeah, I remember you saying something about that. Didn't know the name of the library though.

Nathan Osman

Of course, in the end, that was no help to me since it took two computers connected to two different Internet connections each with multiple browsers open constantly reloading the page with a UserScript installed that would automatically add the item to the cart and proceed to checkout before I succeeded.

:P

hbdgaf

I'm a firm believer that businesses that sell things like that should allow "pre-buy to secure your slot on the waiting list" and a ticker of "XYZ units shipped so far"

Nathan Osman

^--- this

hbdgaf

8:34 PM

You know, so you can just go ahead and pay for it. Find out what point you are in the queue. Subtract units already shipped. Check rate of supply. Satisfied polite customers.

Nathan Osman

I still wonder if we weren't part of some covert strategy to help perform some sort of DDoS test. Many other people were doing the same thing.

:P

Seth

Is PushBullet free?

Nathan Osman

Yes.

Seth

For some reason I was under the impression that it wasn't.

Nathan Osman

The app, add-on, and service are all free.

hbdgaf

8:37 PM

That does make me how they're monetizing though...

Seth

^^

Nathan Osman

I think they have VC funding :P

hbdgaf

Well yes, but VCs like to have a "future monetization" sort of plan most of the time >.> I guess they could be building apps with the api that they then sell, and they're just being cool about making the API/service public. Or they're trying to get app/user lock in before they start charging for access to the API - like most of the "google projects" apis.

Nathan Osman

What about the "yo" app?

Rests his case.

:)

Seth

yo!

Nathan Osman

8:42 PM

Now would be the perfect time for FlackBot to yell "YO!".

But alas, he is not that smart.

He will say "hi" in the sandbox though.

Mateo

so, currently debating in mind whether to get this or not: ninjablocks.com

user136984

@Toroidal

user136984

Oh, I can't ping myself... :(

user136984

:D :P

Mateo

sure you can ;O

@Mateo like this

user136984

8:44 PM

:O

user136984

:D

hbdgaf

@Mateo an actual product running ubuntu snappy core...

Seth

@Mateo yes! Or you could just send it to me ;P

user136984

@Toroidal Hello

user136984

:D

Mateo

8:45 PM

yeah, and we already have chromecast and philips and wemo lights, so would be fun

Seth

Definitely!

That site needs a <title> tag though.. And a favicon.

Mateo

plus android keeps loosing the connection to the chromecast during playback because of the phone sleeping...

Seth

@Mateo huh, I would expect a setting for that.

Mine keeps the wifi going all the time..

wait a second...

oh, well I turn off a bunch of stuff to save power...

Nathan Osman

8:50 PM

I'm not sure how happy the people in this apartment would be if I started tampering with the wiring to get a home automation kit working.

Mateo

@hbdgaf were those the ninjablocks on that one?

@NathanOsman a lot of them are just little boxed you plug in between the cord and outlet

hbdgaf

@Mateo something like... but no - not actual ninjablocks.

Nathan Osman

But how do they receive commands then if not through the home's wiring?

Mateo

some kind of networking

Nathan Osman

I suppose they could connect to our router...

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

8:52 PM

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Q: Troubleshooting SSH on Ubuntu Server

I am trying to setup SSH-key authentication on Digital Ocean Cloud server. I first added my rsa_id.pub to my account and autoloaded it to the ubuntu droplet when I created it. There seems to be an error access the public rsa key but I changed all the file permissions in the /etc/ssh to 777(I know...

bash ubuntu ssh

Nathan Osman

The router's antennas are so powerful the range extends to the sidewalk outside :P

Mateo

some are bluetooth, some have wifi, looks like they came up with something else as well

like this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigBee looks like it chains the network from the devices

Nathan Osman

Heh... that could actually work.

Except... what about light fixtures that are directly wired to one of the circuits?

The hallway has two lights that consist of a light socket coming out of the roof.

How would you control those?

Mateo

light bulbs

the build in a device into the bulb

Nathan Osman

That's pretty cool. Can you recommend a brand / service?

hbdgaf

8:57 PM

@Mateo zigbee is actually REALLY popular for low power consumption radio enabled appliances

Nathan Osman

I might try to talk the family into this :)

Mateo

the phillips hue ones look nice, I have two of the ones that just fade

want to get the color ones as well

mainly to do this: engadget.com/2014/12/30/syfy-12-monkeys-philips-hue ...

my light switch was wemo, but it required a bit more instillation

but they do have bulbs too: belkin.com/us/p/P-F7C033

hbdgaf

I wonder if this boondoggle evidences on Ubuntu? plus.google.com/u/0/+WorldofGnomeOrg/posts/JQ7D2RXZHjQ

Mateo

maybe, multiple desktops have been known to mess things up

hbdgaf

you know what would be nice? if libnotify-osd had a progress-bar widget or some way to track notification affinity. it would be neat to have a just notify-osd gui for automatic apt-get updates... among other things.

Mateo

9:19 PM

@hbdgaf that would be fun, they have a progress bar

hbdgaf

orly? neat... and i didn't know that. does it just not dismiss until it hits 100%

Mateo

hm...

that might be the tricky bit

anyway this is what I found so far:

paste.ubuntu.com/10726553

hbdgaf

i'll have to google around a bit. a progress-bar in notify-osd, i would expect to (either out of the box or with a little work) not dismiss. i mean, do you really want the notification to keep regenerating instead of just updating? i think that is the sticky part.

Mateo

they have a auto time out, but if it is sending a percent every few seconds it wouldn't be much of a problem, or you could keep sending the current status every second

hbdgaf

yeah, but then it would scroll on the right and look messed up if you added another notification in the middle.

Mateo

9:27 PM

kind of like the volume if you go back and forth on the volume it stays and replaces the current notification

hbdgaf

Yes, like that

Captain Giraffe

why does askubuntu work so different from stackoverflow?

Mateo

because we are awesome ;)

hbdgaf

^^ i was going to say something else, but good answer

Captain Giraffe

stackoverflow works better.

Nathan Osman

9:30 PM

Captain Giraffe

There are too many questions at 0.

hbdgaf

@CaptainGiraffe sure. and the userbases are massively different sizes with massively different goals. so if you like one... it's probably a better fit for you than the other.

Captain Giraffe

I want to contribute.

Not sure, this is a good way to win me over.

Mateo

@CaptainGiraffe well, that comes from trying to be a user support rather than professional exchange of info type of thing

hbdgaf

Well, I've found that if someone comes in to a room swinging, there is always at least one guy that will swing back. Want to start over?

Captain Giraffe

9:33 PM

@hbdgaf My apologies

Mateo

so, how would we get send the apt percentage to notification?

hbdgaf

@CaptainGiraffe No apology necessary. If you don't like the 0 voted questions percentage - then you already know how contributing would be pleasing to you. So do that.

@Mateo that is the question...

Mateo

have it run apt from a interactive script and grep the progress somehow?

hbdgaf

I imagine there's an api for that.

Seth

Voting is definitely slow here @CaptainGiraffe

hbdgaf

9:37 PM

There's an option apt.alioth.debian.org/python-apt-doc

Mateo

oooo

Captain Giraffe

raises hand There are quite a few questions in the everyday queue that is "my box can't run ubyntu" along with "My wireless don't work".

Mateo

in which usually a comment "what wireless, what box" gets them to enter more info or if not close as unclear

oh, and @chili555 is amazing with wireless, so find him if you need help on that ;)

Captain Giraffe

I am having trouble finding any drivers for the Asus AC55r WiFi Adapter. It is using AC-1300 Wireless and the USB ID is 0b05:17eb.
FFirst page

Mateo

yeah... what is your point? add "wireless" to your ignored tags if that isn't your thing

chili555

9:50 PM

I am here but stepping away for a few minutes, @CaptainGiraffe. Do you have a question posted about your device?

Seth

chili to the rescue!

3

chili555

Ahh! I see it now, @CaptainGiraffe I will be back in a while to help.

Mateo

@Oli hit one of your answers in an audit

was like "oh, that one looks just fine" ;)

fedora?

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Q: New shell terminal points to different bash_profile

When I launch new terminal it points to some different bash profile. Here in my $PATH are set to default, $JAVA_HOME is blank When I source my .bashrc and and .bash_profile located at home then I am able to see my existing /updated $PATH and $JAVA_HOME values. I am running the terminal command ...

command-line bash java bashrc fedora

ByteCommander

Good evening everybody.

hbdgaf

o/ bc

Mateo

10:06 PM

used to watch that show a lot

ByteCommander

Don't know that guy... Should I?

hbdgaf

Alfred Hitchcock did some great stuff. Not as much a fan of his literary works, but his films and shorts were decent.

Mateo

@ByteCommander yeah, might have heard of his movies

but, in the series he would come out and introduce the short, and would always say "good evening"

ByteCommander

That is A. Hitchcock? Of course I "know" him then.

I just did not know how he looks like... :/

Mateo

oh, do you have netflix, they have his series up there

ByteCommander

10:22 PM

No, have not...

I just set up my first Win7 machine btw.

I only have 18GB left to install Ubuntu as dual-boot... :(

Nathan Osman

10:42 PM

I'm trying to brainstorm a Qt class that provides a JSON API based on the slots in the class.

So void doSomething(int p1, int p2); becomes the path /doSomething that accepts POST requests with two parameters.

...or something vaguely similar to that.

hbdgaf

Sorry @NathanOsman - I would never do that, so I can't focus on it. Something something - introspection. Something something REST API builder. Something something Qt.

ByteCommander

??? You make question marks circulating in orbits around my head... O.o

Nathan Osman

Lol :)

ByteCommander

11:04 PM

Grr... I told my fresh Win7 to install updates on 21:14. Now it's 1:06 and it did only 60 of 176. I'm getting tired!

Seth

11:27 PM

@chili555 I don't think the guy needing your help is here anymore :/

chili555

@Seth, I just posted an answer: askubuntu.com/questions/604635/asus-ac55-ac-1300-wifi-adapter