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4:39 AM

Morning guys

5:12 AM

Morning world.

Seth

5:49 AM

@ParanoidPanda Well I'm out of town through the 6th, only have this phone. Other than that I think we just miss each other :)

6:40 AM

I'm just thankful that downvote trolls who target my questions don't harm the answers.

7:06 AM

@Fabby twice in the top 50:

data.stackexchange.com/askubuntu/query/6348/…

(So Stack Exchange Data Explorer links don't get oneboxed?:()

7:19 AM

data.stackexchange.com/askubuntu/query/325683/…

o_O

SmokeDetector

7:36 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: Neuroluma neurochemicals Before by jonleyhekny on askubuntu.com

@SmokeDetector Good job! Flagellated.

8:25 AM

@ByteCommander Do you have a usb stick with a truecrypt container?

I remember to have created one long time ago, but I think I never used it. Why do you ask?

A: Simple udev rule does not work

I need a test user =) My script/project is 6 years old.

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Use a rule with UUID matching: KERNEL=="sd??", ENV{ID_FS_UUID}=="<the_uuid>", RUN+="/bin/mkdir /tmp/folder1" get the UUID with the command below udevadm info /dev/<usb_stick_partition> | grep ID_FS_UUID= Example $ udevadm info /dev/sda1 | grep ID_FS_UUID= E: ID_FS_UUID=c44a008d-58b2-467d-8...

and my project page:

launchpad.net/mounttruecrypt

Nah, sorry. I would have to find it first... And then I'd need TrueCrypt for Ubuntu etc etc...

same here =)

Maybe ask @ParanoidPanda. Who should use TC if not him? ;)

Q: Can people please leave comments when they downvote questions and answers

8:28 AM

ok, let's , what the OP says

oh, sure =)

Danatela

8:40 AM

hi guys!

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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This is more of a request than a question, but if people down vote questions or answers could you please leave a comment in the appropriate place. The point of the voting system is so good q/a can be easily spotted and bad q/a can be improved but if you don't tell people why you down voted them ...

discussion voting votes down-votes

9:17 AM

@Danatela o/

10:11 AM

> "System fixes bugs by importing functionality from other programs — without access to source code." - Automatic bug repair | MIT News

> At the Association for Computing Machinery’s Programming Language Design and Implementation conference this month, MIT researchers presented a new system that repairs dangerous software bugs by automatically importing functionality from other, more secure applications.

10:22 AM

@muru: And I've only been around for less then a year... I'm going to continue to provide identical comments to identical problems! ;-)

@blade19899 25 years ago I was told: "Don't become a programmer: in 25 years time, computers will be programming themselves!"

Yeah, sure!

@Fabby lol.

10:40 AM

@Fabby When was it again when the IBM chief stated that the world has a need for maybe 4 or 5 computers?

> Although Watson is well known for his alleged 1943 statement, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers", there is scant evidence he made it.

1943 o.O SO early...

Was the Z3 even invented then?

Thomas J. Watson

Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman. He served as the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) and oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's distinctive management style and corporate culture, and turned the company into a highly-effective selling organization, based largely on punched card tabulating machines. A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world's greatest salesman when he died in 1956. == Early life and... ==

Its not sure if he actually said that!

@ByteCommander Yup...

Finally I've got a "Good Question" badge! :-)

and 3 more votes and I'll have another "Good Answer" badge... >:)

10:59 AM

2 more votes...

@A.B. How long have you been using Linux?

@ByteCommander :D

@Fabby since 1998

Favour returned...

@A.B. I used RHEL until that time to build firewalls, but then we got bought by a public company and I had to switch to Microsoft Proxy server... (shudder)

Then a bit of AIX and HP UX and Tru64, then nothing at all and since 1,5 years: Ubuntu...

Thanks. I'm slowly recovering my reputation gain rate...

Seems like new Ubuntu releases lower my rep harvesting speed, so now it could grow again.

@ByteCommander >:)

@ByteCommander @A.B. has been here for only 5 months and he'll get to 15K before me...

11:14 AM

You remember the time when both me and him were equal at about 3k?

Now I'm at 3.6k... And that was months ago.

>:)

Indeed! The two Germans starting out as newbies...

@Fabby Mein Hut, der hat drei Ecken... Is something like that in English?

@A.B. Yup. That's English for "I don't speak German"

;-)

Or do you mean the other way around?

o_O the other way

"My taylor is rich" is what I've heard in Belgium...

(means: I don't speak English...)

11:23 AM

tailor?

11:37 AM

@Fabby 25'th vote. You're welcome.

@Oli Probably? Someone who sows up clothes?

Tailor!

(sorry: the damnation of too many languages)

@Fabby In your defence, the name "Taylor" means "somebody who is a tailor". No idea how that mess happened but that's language for you ;)

:D Yeah! Taylorism! Damn! I should have known that was a proper name. :/

12:04 PM

Yep: superuser.com/q/934989/152045, I asked that.

12:16 PM

@blade19899 Print through WiFi, Network, USB cable, Flash card, ...

What's the model of the printer???

Looks like an effing newbie question!

:D :P

@Fabby, new job, asked that. Probably asked that too quickly. Gonna, as co-worker more about that!

I think Maythux needs reps: askubuntu.com/q/643088/367165

Q: How do I get "duplicate" local addresses on different interfaces?

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I have two network interfaces(a wireless and an USB dongle) attached to an Ubuntu server and both get the same local IP address. Is there any reason for this or a way to force it assign distinct IP addresses? Below is the output from ip addr(the mac is partially masked): 4: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MU...

linux ubuntu networkmanager iproute

CtrlC instead of Q, hmmmmm o_O

@blade19899 Answered...

@A.B. Both upvoted...

@blade19899 Print out a nice big label and stick it to the printer:

12:29 PM

@Fabby Co-worker and I had a misunderstanding xD

reading...

(add a picture of a unicorn farting rainbows)

The solution is: email to the printer hp@blah.com

That what I suggested earlier ^

But, does it only print the content of the email, or also the attachments?

@blade19899 attachments as well...

I'lle edit my answer...

Done!

@Fabby Awesome! Is the any documentation about this?

lmgtfy.com/?q=HP+email+print+service

:P ;-)

12:37 PM

@Fabby My teacher used to say: a lazy It-er, is a good IT.

@blade19899 My POV is: an ITer that automates everything for himself is a good ITer...

A lazy ITer needs to have his butt kicked so hard that my foot comes out of his mouth!

>:) :D

@Fabby I think that that's what my teacher meant ;D

One of my Q/A: - How do I install the Firefox Developer Edition? - Question 66 upvotes, Answer 66 upvotes. Its sooo good, its develish.

@blade19899 67 now...

@Fabby I should have thaught that last comment through ;(

Ah! I geddit!

12:43 PM

@Fabby thaught or thought? ^

(facepalm)

thought = gedacht

taught = aangeleerd

So, its thought?

@Fabby I edited the question on superuser

\o/

am ii the only one who cant download this one file ???

ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu/pool/main/p/…

this is breaking everything

this one file has ben down for almost a week now

downloaded <1 sec

12:56 PM

its so strange

its onlyy this one file for me

apt get will not download it

browsser will not download it

@JoshuaRobison What do you see when you try to wget it? That might explain things.

oli, thanks ill try it

oli its in japanese on my computer so i can only translate but

it says the connectioon was reset ... trying to read the header but it was refused

i am using opendns by the way, i wonder if that is related

@blade19899 Should I edit some more or are you going to accept it like it is?

terdon

@JoshuaRobison Run this:

LC_ALL=C wget ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu/pool/main/p/…

That way, the output will be in English and we can understand it.

--2015-07-01 22:08:06-- (try: 3) http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu/pool/main/p/plasma-desktop/libkf5activitiesexperimentalstats1_5.3.1-0ubuntu1~ubuntu15.04~ppa1_i386.deb
Connecting to ppa.launchpad.net (ppa.launchpad.net)|91.189.95.83|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers.
Retrying.

@Oli

then it keeps repeating this

terdon

1:10 PM

Weird. Looks like its specific to you. Do you have a proxy set up or something?

Though I don't think a proxy could cause that.

opendns

@Fabby I'll accept it!

terdon

@JoshuaRobison Looks like it's blocked for some reason. Odd.

@blade19899 Thanks!

1:27 PM

@JoshuaRobison That isn't a proxy, that's resolving the domain to an IP (correctly here based on your wget output)

Reboot your router?

user139252

2:11 PM

I've got a python script running on my pi at 100% cpu 24/7. How long until the cpu burns out?

with water cooling?

@DonaldBrown Raspberry Pi?

user139252

Yes. Runing Snappy core, so still Ubuntu centered question :p

user139252

No water cooling. Basic heatsink though.

@DonaldBrown I have no idea? Never tried that out! xD

By the size of the Raspberry Pi, I don't think it could handle it for a long period of time.

Are you just trying to break it?

user139252

2:16 PM

No, I'm working on teaching students how to do home automation with a Pi, but having a Python script constantly wait for some type of input before controlling a pin seems to push it to 100% cpu

o_O

seems to be a bad style =)

user139252

Yeah, haven't decided on a better way to do it yet

user139252

Probably with a small shell script instead of python

user139252

That would work, actually.

@DonaldBrown busy waiting?

user139252

2:18 PM

Or busy waiting.

No, I meant if you'e using busy waiting! :D

user139252

Because it hasn't been about 3 years since I last used Python, and I totally remembered that busy waiting was applicable here.

user139252

cough

@DonaldBrown Interrupts (what a pin state change is) are hard to do right. Sounds like you were looping hard around the state. That's going to use significant CPU.

user139252

Yeah, I already fixed it.

user139252

2:22 PM

Down to....

There is a RPi.GPIO library that has its own wait... functions. Oh ok,

user139252

7% CPU usage while waiting around!

user139252

Yay!

user139252

2:44 PM

I just threw in a gpio.wait_for_edge(18, gpio.FALLING) instead of a check for the state

user139252

This is why I don't do things before 10 AM.

Q: Remove Ubuntu strings from Mini install

4:31 PM

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I have an assignment to remove a string from Ubuntu Mini v. 15.04. How would I remove the Ubuntu String on the top? It says "Ubuntu 15.04 hostname tty1". I just want to remove Ubuntu 15.04 string. Any help would be appreciated.

ubuntu string

user136984

4:56 PM

Oh dear... Now he wants to start a discussion about it! :D

user136984

in Discussion on question by Paranoid Panda: When run cat says: "Hello, nothing to see here! Move along!", 2 mins ago, by wolfboyft

@ParanoidPanda Why you say what you did on the Bridge?

user136984

And he's come to my room about it (although it is not actually my room so I can't kick him)!

user136984

>:{

guntbert

Review system excels again :-)

Q: Multiple questions about mounting multiple partitions (in Ubuntu 14.10)

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I've got a question about how the linux mount command works when used multiple times. Through an unfortunate series of events (multiple crashes in Ubuntu), I've decided that I wish to simply back up my data and start afresh. So, after booting with a bootable USB, I have thus far mounted an exte...

ubuntu terminal mount backup

Mateo

5:26 PM

@DonaldBrown mini fish tank with mineral oil ;)

Q: Import Thunderbird email account settings

5:51 PM

Does anyone know a solution to this?

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I want to migrate/copy my Thunderbird from Windows 7 to Ubuntu. To save me a lot of configuration work, is it possible to just import the account settings and address books from there? I have read access to the drive where it is installed. However, I can't just copy old files and replace my cur...

thunderbird

And this =)

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Q: ntopng won't start

I have installed ntopng - High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and Flow Collection Tool The service won't start: % sudo systemctl start ntopng.service Job for ntopng.service failed. See "systemctl status ntopng.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. Details % systemctl status ntopng.s...

15.04 systemd

@ByteCommander Maybe in a database, described here: askubuntu.com/a/631637/367165

Ok, it's firefox and other databases, but maybe helps

6:20 PM

@A.B. Oh wow... Thanks, but that looks like more complicated than just rebooting Windows, printing the settings and adding them manually :P

>:)

@Fabby you old network profi, I need your help

He, I need 40 reps for 200 today =)

6:42 PM

Reworded my Thunderbird question: superuser.com/q/935122/418736

@Oli I was suspended from chat!

for 29 minutes for saying:

this?

@A.B. What do you need?

@ByteCommander I don't use Thunderbird...

@ParanoidPanda: can you see this or am I suspended from chat?

user136984

6:58 PM

@Fabby: No, I cannot see this, and you are still suspended from chat! :P

user136984

I think if you were still suspended that it wouldn't let you say anything at all anyway...

I dunno, I never have been banned before...

And it was an automatic ban!!!

@Fabby askubuntu.com/questions/643250/ntopng-wont-start

user136984

@Fabby: What was the "this"?

@A.B. Ah, never even heard about ntopng...

7:02 PM

heaurd hæurd

o_O

@A.B. :D

this is what I found when I came back into the chat room

=)

@Fabby I need reviews, you know, my bad English =)

smoking, BRB

O_oo_O

@Fabby o.O"??

Oh, and how did you get those funny colorful tabs into Firefox btw? ;)

@A.B. This double-smiley remembers me somehow of Sid from Ice Age...

7:17 PM

LOL

@ByteCommander addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/colorfultabs

user136984

@Fabby Yeah, if a mod deletes a message of yours it also does that.

LOOOOL

:D

user136984

@Fabby: Well, I looked at the screenshot... And I really don't see why they banned you...

7:19 PM

°--_O_--°

I don't understand either, except if that address you gave would have been known to sell dirty stuff...

Grmpf, I have an answer and in the comment the OP asks a new question. That's not fair. =P

@A.B. Tell him, not us! ;)

Mateo

@NathanOsman I finally printed out the nitroshare logo for my portfolio ;)

Am I wrong to VTC this question? askubuntu.com/q/643259/367990 It's about bash scripting, but the application has nothing to do with Ubuntu or system administration or anything loosely related to that.

7:37 PM

@Serg hi my friend

@A.B. Ah, sorry!

Nathan Osman

@Mateo that looks so cool.

@ParanoidPanda No, because Nathan once deleted a message from me...

Nathan Osman

I love the one with the two folders on the side.

@A.B. tell him to actually ask a new question...

7:46 PM

Yes =)

@A.B. looks good! ;-)

@ByteCommander meh! Herd-mentality... once you start closing it gets closed...

Mateo

@NathanOsman yeah, shows it in action on the Mac

(I voted to close)

closegoat/migrate please:

It returns "grep: illegal option -- o" ... I'm running these comands in an AIX server, tell me if there is any way to show you the version of the system or anything that could help you identify, I'm really a begginer on it. — user2576376 10 mins ago

@Mateo I like the one with the monitor, tablet, phone best...

Very obvious what you see!

Gotta go get some sleep as I have to get up at 05:30 in the morning!

7:52 PM

Good night.

@A.B. me?

Sorry @muru =\

user136984

@Fabby Oh, well that's what a mod on the SO network once told me... Although perhaps there are two ways to delete a message, one that just deletes, and the other which also kicks... I really don't know, you would have to ask a mod...

@A.B. good evening :)

o/ hi everyone

Hi Serg

8:04 PM

i'm a bit lazy tonight. Have answered just one question . . . yawn

Greetings from too warm Germany! ;)

Ukraine is warming up,too after the week of rain showers :)

@Serg that is one more than me all day so far! ;)

an answer a day, keeps OP away . . . or something like that

:D

8:08 PM

:)

I'm trying to push my rep too within these days...

(Un)fortunately, my network problem did not occur yet since I posted the question...

Right now I am pondering another question askubuntu.com/q/643262/295286 . I know that there is somewhere a setting for updating user dirs, but for the love of cheeseburgers I cannot remember or find online what that setting is and where

I would almost tend to say that it went away when I wrote it.

That's almost like with quantum physics... Things change when you start to observe them.

@ByteCommander don't worry, it will show up in the most inconvenient moment. Irony works that way

Here's for the lols

>.<

Don't know whether to laugh or to cry...

i laughed. That thief got a huge surprise. Well, he got what deserved !

Found it ! superuser.com/a/298744/418028 /etc/xdg/update-dirs.conf and ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

8:18 PM

@Serg That made me laugh!!

user136984

What do we call the top bar in Ubuntu?

@Serg can you check my second awk version? I'am on mobile. askubuntu.com/a/643319/367165

@A.B. will do

@A.B. it prints only the last file that has been processed, and the first string from the list

awk '{match($0,"banana|watermelon",a);} END{print FILENAME":"a[0]}' *
file5:banana

awk '{match($0,"apple|banana|watermelon",a);} END{print FILENAME":"a[0]}' *
file5:apple

@ParanoidPanda Wasn't it "panel" or something like that?

Anybody having a later version of Thunderbird than the 31.7 from the official repos? askubuntu.com/q/643324/367990

user136984

@ByteCommander: I don't know, but I often have to talk about it in bug reports and I just don't know what to call it... Do you think that the question would be fine for the main AU site?

8:27 PM

@Serg thx :)

Current is 38.1 and I don't understand why Ubuntu people don't update such important software. Firefox is up to date though.

@ParanoidPanda Ask. Just ask. That's what the site is for. ;)

user136984

Ok :)

You will probably get an answer within 5 minutes.

The worst thing that can happen is a bunch of downvotes...

8:45 PM

what would be the worst question that has been asked here ?

Probably any that I ask. :P

@Serg @Fabby's question about "any key" probably? ;)

user136984

rofl, it actually confused me for a second. I opened a link to Fabby's answer. Well, Fabby has sense of humor, so I'm like OK. Then I notice who asked the question. I was like "Did I not get enough sleep and my mind isn't processing things well, or is Fabby for real ? " Then i realized it was all a joke

user136984

@Serg: Well, I don't know about questions, but this is probably the worst question I have ever seen! :D

8:51 PM

LOL

o my gash

@Serg That was my initial thought too...

@ParanoidPanda O.o

My last pie was rectangular/box-shaped...

@Fabby Flags that are upheld earn the poster of the message a short automated ban.

By the way, for educational purposes security.stackexchange.com/q/92766 Why pentesters use /etc/passwd as proof of concept

user136984

@ByteCommander My last pie was round! :D

8:58 PM

my last pie was 3.1415 . . . . . . .

user136984

:D

user136984

@Oli: Wooops! Sorry, I was going for the star on @ByteCommander's pie thing, and for some reason it also flagged it...

@Serg That was PI, no pie. And it is 3.1416 if you round it correctly, as the next digit would be a 9. ;)

(Sorry for nitpicking ;) )

@ParanoidPanda Don't see any flag - at least not any more.

Anyway, it's late. Good night guys!

Lol, I was attempting a math joke, but i don't even know all pi digits

@ByteCommander o/ good night

@Serg Did you just say ALL?

user136984

9:03 PM

@ByteCommander: I think only users of 10k+ and mods can see the flags (including the ones who have cast them)...

You do know that PI is an irrational number, don't you?

It has infinite digits.

>.<

@ByteCommander >_< yes, i know .

my brain isn't quite working today

mkay ?

@ParanoidPanda Could be. I remember to have seen that blue bubble next to a post, but yes, I flagged that one myself.

Good night then. Finally.

user136984

I should be off too now, goodnight! :)

Q: Update kernel to 4.1.1 in Ubuntu Mini

9:25 PM

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I'm using Ubuntu Mini 15.04 and I want to update the kernel to the latest 4.1.1. I've been looking online but there are so many different ways. I've tried some but always ran into some error. I am not using a GUI, just command line.

ubuntu kernel