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12:03 AM
Every time someone uses our apartment's intercom, it kills the Internet for a few seconds.
(We get Internet through our phone line.)
 
@RPiAwesomeness I probably wouldn't even have a G+ account if it weren't for that requirement..
 
Er...halp?
$ sudo apt-get install vlc
[sudo] password for
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 2.2.0-1) but 2.2.1~trusty is to be installed
 
@Seth or perhaps you can close that, or migrate it over with my edits?
@RPiAwesomeness PPAs break things
 
@ThomasW. I guess so?
 
12:48 AM
I don't guess so, I know so.
 
@RPiAwesomeness apt-cache policy vlc vlc-nox
paste hte output here
 
@ThomasW. Looking..
 
@Seth the rev history was painful to read and crap grammar, but the gist is he's got a Macbook Air, with a firmware password, and wants it removed. He already knows how to do the Ubuntu install, and is asking the firmware/hardware side of it, which is why it's not on topic here.
feel free to compare my edits as i tried my best to retain integrity of his points
 
yup, handled. thanks.
 
$ apt-cache policy vlc vlc-nox
vlc:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.2.0-1
  Version table:
     2.2.1~trusty 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.2.0-1 0
        500 mirrors.gigenet.com/ubuntuarchive vivid/universe amd64 Packages
vlc-nox:
  Installed: 2.2.1~trusty
  Candidate: 2.2.1~trusty
  Version table:
 *** 2.2.1~trusty 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.2.0-1 0
        500 mirrors.gigenet.com/ubuntuarchive vivid/universe amd64 Packages
@ThomasW. ^
 
12:53 AM
so you have mismatched versions
@RPiAwesomeness sudo apt-get install vlc='2.2.1~trusty'
 
But I'm on Vivid...
 
well, your only other option is to totally remove the 2.2.1 vlc-nox, sudo apt-get update, and then try the install again
the mismatched versions makes for the hellish issue you're facing
so either use the 'trusty' version string'd package...
or remove that and use the ubuntu archive one...
 
@ThomasW. Command didn't work, so I just apt-get purge-d vlc-nox and its installing fine now.
 
yeah that's because of the mismatch
@RPiAwesomeness sudo apt-get clean <-- good command, use it
@Seth is there a no-redirect option on question links?
(for migrated ones)
 
not an option, no.
 
12:59 AM
thought not
meh, wanted to make sure of that in case the OP complains
 
1:24 AM
ohhh, wait a minute..
@ThomasW. You want to give them a link that won't redirect on links you know will redirect?
There might be a way to do that..
aha, there it is @ThomasW.: Append ?noredirect=1 to the end of the URL.
 
@Seth yeah, that's what i was lookin for :)
@Seth will these links work, assuming i put them over there?
The original question can be found here, with the original text content from the OP in the revision history for the original question
 
1:49 AM
@ThomasW. An easy way to check is to open them in a private window ;)
worked for me.
 
true, but Chrome private browsing crashes for an odd reason here on this system
so meh
works fine in Firefox though which i'm not logged into on :)
 
2:32 AM
George (FlackBot) is back. And in the sandbox. He'll now greet you and tell you what time it is. That's it :P
 
@NathanOsman look at the sandbox
selfdestruction
in infinite loop fashion
@NathanOsman i wonder when you're gonna fix it :)
 
2:59 AM
Huh?
Oh my.
@ThomasW. Suspended until I get back home to fix it.
 
@NathanOsman At least we know it can explode
and that that's a substantial breakage
i think it failed because E:NoPunctuation
 
I should put some sort of emergency shutdown into place so that whenever it detects that it's sent the same message over and over again, it shuts itself down.
I SSH'd into my computer at home and killed it.
 
3:21 AM
@NathanOsman Or give a handful of people kill codes
at least we discovered a bug xD
by accident
that was funny though, it constantly pinging me xD
 
4:08 AM
That kinda freaked me out when I saw the transcript.
 
4:38 AM
Morning @all
 
4:56 AM
@A.B. You missed my bot exploding :P
 
5:06 AM
well, I hit submit on my video, waiting on approval, wish me luck.
 
@GeorgetheDev hi! haven't seen you around lately... ;P
 
@Mateo Oh did you ever miss a big explosion :P
 
lol
 
...and he kept time very well.
 
5:09 AM
I wonder if they will let people view submissions?
 
@NathanOsman I missed what? :)
 
huh, guess not:
 
@Mateo :(
Can you cross-post the video to YouTube?
 
I'll read...
 
@NathanOsman :)
 
5:18 AM
@NathanOsman seems like. I might show it to a few on a private or unlisted youtube. but the way it reads is rights are transfered when they pay the ones they choose
 
Ah.
Well, I'll see it eventually when you win :)
 
:)
oh, and I used kdenlive so, it was a complete open source using project :)
 
Cool!
 
well, I'm out for sleep, later
 
Goodnight!
 
5:56 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: Antiaging Supplements And Healing From Within by Ujje Befo on askubuntu.com
 
@NathanOsman Goddnight =)
 
6:14 AM
Sorry, but I have a dumb question. What is the difference between ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} and "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Education Skills For Exam Preparations by Greta Paille on askubuntu.com
 
@A.B. stay away from that variable.
 
This is good advice. I've only ever needed to touch that variable for testing purposes.
 
6:35 AM
@GeorgetheDev hello
 
@NathanOsman Hi, Nathan Osman.
 
@GeorgetheDev Hello
 
He doesn't know that one yet.
And please use the sandbox to play with him.
 
He doesn't know edits neither...
;-)
 
I was just pinging him here to make sure he responded in another room.
 
6:39 AM
ah!
Good morning BTW...
 
Good evening :)
(It's 11:49pm or 23:49 for you 24-hour-clock people.)
 
Actually, NATO standard is a 24-h clock too!
And last I looked, Canada was part of NATO...
:D
 
Then how come analog clocks only have 12 numbers on them?
 
Analog?
 
6:41 AM
That's so XIXth century!
When I was a kid, no one had analog clocks...
 
Roman numerals... that's so IV century :P
 
Everyone had digital clocks.
:D
Positional numerical system...
Great for addition and subtraction,
lousy for multiplication and division...
Most people only add and subtract; that's why they're still around!
(now that I come to think of it, probably also because of religion. Jesus was born in year I, not year 0)
 
More likely 4 B.C. according to historians.
 
Oh? I didn't know that one... :)
Anyway, off to do some job hunting!
 
Yeah, it's hard to pin down really exact dates that far back in time.
@Fabby Hope it goes well!
 
6:47 AM
:) Me too!
 
I don't understand this, what means ${variable} compared to "$variable"
@Rinzwind sorry =)
what is the difference?
 
variable without a $ is an assignment, not a reference.
so you have in a script
variable=1
and reference it with
${variable}
 
7:02 AM
"${variable}" is the same as "$variable". The { } are optional.
 
@Rinzwind I know, what a variable assignment is =)
 
so why did you ask? >:-D
 
@terdon Ah, great, thank you
@Rinzwind
I wanted to know what is the difference between the two syntactic expressions `${variable}` and `$variable` :D
 
@A.B. foo="bar"; echo $foobar; echo "$foobar"; echo "$foo"bar; echo ${foobar}; echo ${foo}bar
 
@ByteCommander gone!
Always leace a comment below, because some people still don't get it and downvote instead of flagging as spam.
 
I do both, just for fun! :D
It's the only chance where you may give a post -2!
Oh, and @Fabby - News of the day: Yesterday I saw my first naked Vorlon! ;-)
 
:D
 
It was only the maybe 5th episode of babylon5 I ever watched...
 
Did you watch Babylon 5?
 
7:42 AM
^
 
>:) It's a good series!
 
It's not bad.
I'm still not really used to it, so I don't understand everything.
 
A few weeks ago someone asked if Vorlon girls were good-looking... :D
 
It was the episode with a bomb in the train and the captain jumped out and ambassador Kosh left his suit to rescue him.
Does that tell you anything?
The one before was with Jack the Ripper, I think.
 
@ByteCommander Please don't. Downvoting spam is not helpful since it can get it removed from the front page but not actually flagged as spam so the filters don't learn from it. Just flag it, don't downvote.
 
7:49 AM
What's wrong with both?
The flag still persists anyway...
 
@ByteCommander Your flag, yes. But if your extra downvote moves it away from the front page, it might never get the rest of the spam flags it needs.
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Q: Why shouldn't I downvote spam that I've already flagged?

John BensinOne of the responses to the question about the mass of football spam said: The proper course of action is to flag the post as spam. Three spam flags will remove it from the front page, six will delete it. Don't edit it, don't downvote it, don't use another flag. Flag as spam and move on. As...

 
So with only spam flags and no additional downvotes it stays in the lists?
Okay - learned something new today. :)
Will do from now on!
 
@ByteCommander No, it's the other way around. With downvotes, it can be removes but not marked as spam.
 
Now I'm getting confused...
Anyway, reading that linked meta Q.
 
The idea is that flagging as spam, marks it as spam and the system filters learn from it. Downvoting will remove it from the front page. Therefore, if you downvote, it could get removed before enough people have flagged.
 
8:02 AM
@Fabby, great edits and comments, thank you =)
 
There's very little to edit nowadays...
You're improving.
 
=)
 
And never put dangerous commands as first!
not even to say:
Don't do a rm --force --recursive /
:D
 
Right =)
 
@terdon But that Q says that with 3 spam flags it also gets hidden from the front page, but 6 are needed to delete it.
 
8:06 AM
@Fabby You forgot sudo =)
 
@terdon I like the comment "Clearly, we should be upvoting spam" @ByteCommander
 
@ByteCommander Yes. I'm not sure about the details but I assume that the spam filters are activated at 3 spam flags. Point is that your downvote might remove it before enough spam flags have accumulated.
 
8:26 AM
@A.B. and --no-preserve-root...
A long time ago, I once typed: rm -rf /*;bak and got met with:
bak not found
(that was on AIX before the --no-preserve-root flag.)
 
@Fabby Don't drink and root =)
 
On my keyboard at the thime ; and . were very close....
(luckily it was a fresh install)
 
0
Q: Get a refreshing list of running python processes

FallenAngelI want to monitor running python processes with VSZ, RSS %MEM, %CPU etc. One of my priorities is a list refreshing every X seconds. I managed to come to the point of obtaining a refreshing list of processes using ps and watch ps ax | grep python | awk '{print $1}' | xargs watch -n 15 ps u -p ...

 
 
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10:05 AM
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Q: Flag vs Close, when to use?

mark kirbyToday I voted to close on an off topic question, but this made me think, if I vote to close is the question also flagged too get the attention of other user's?, or should I also flag as a duplicate to get some attention to it ? So the question is, does a close vote include a falg when I do it or...

 
10:58 AM
0
Q: Sending data from rs232

Nesibe YavuzI'm trying to write a loopback test with pins 2 and 3 connected. I am using Ubuntu OS and java for the code. The library that I'm working with is JSSC. I am able to read and write from the serial ports but I couldnt find a code that would enable me to send data from the rs232. Also I tried a term...

 
11:20 AM
0
Q: How to copy and add prefix to file names in one step?

BlackCatI want to copy and rename multiple c source files in a directory. I can copy like this: $cp *.c $OTHERDIR But I want to give a prefix to all the file names: .c --> old#.c Could you tell, how can I do this in 1 step?

 
Is Zentyal an official Ubuntu derivate? askubuntu.com/q/653671/367990
 
12:03 PM
0
Q: ispconfig PHP not parsing on apache2 virtual host

James MillerI have trouble installing ispconfig 3 on my (L)Ubuntu 15.04. I can fully install ispconfig but I can't reach the website when viewing the virtual host of apache2. I can open ispconfig from https://localip:9090/ but the PHP isn't parsed/processed! My host conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/ispconf...

 
 
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1:22 PM
0
Q: Now I have been trying the linebreak in comment box on askubuntu and it does not work for me here

shantiqNow I have been trying the linebreak in comment box on askubuntu and it does not work for me here Linebreaks End a line with two spaces to add a linebreak: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways When I do this nothing happens; everything remains on the same line Let me explain what I do ...

 
1:59 PM
@Fabby you serialvoter :P
1
Q: How to transfer files from a windows environment to Ubuntu Touch?

Valmir JuniorI installed the Ubuntu Touch on my Galaxy Nexus by flashing it thru recovery, but I can't transfer files from my computer to it. Right now I'm in a Windows environment (Windows 8) and I don't want to install Ubuntu just to transfer files. Is there something I can do to transfer them (besides usin...

should that not be considered a WINDOWS question?
 
user139252
2:16 PM
@Rinzwind I think ti should be
 
user139252
They're asking for solutions that do NOT include installing Ubuntu
 
user139252
THE UNICORN IS DEAD! I missed that one.
 
user139252
 
@HeatherBrown What the <F-word> is that???
 
user136984
3:29 PM
Does anybody else use GDM?
 
user139252
4:06 PM
@ByteCommander It is AlphaBear!
 
user139252
@ParanoidPanda I recently did, if that helps.
 
user136984
@HeatherBrown: Did you notice this on the login screen? :)
 
4:21 PM
\o/
And I have a question :)
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Q: Wrong icon after application startup

A.B.I have two Eclipse installations and for each of them a desktop file, see below. For the icons, I'm using eclipse in both cases with an activated Numix Icon Theme. If I search and start the applications via Activities, the icons are correct. But not in the taskbar on the left hand side after...

 
4:34 PM
Has anybody else had Chrome suddenly start taking serious system resources? I didn't have anything crazy running like games, just one YouTube tab. My system stopped responding to the point where I had to CTRL+ALT+F2 to a terminal to kill chrome. System load averages were >12.
Once I killed Chrome it dropped to 10, hung there for a moment, then went back to normal
 
@A.B. I wish I had an answer for you my friend.
 
@Terrance I will start a bounty in some days =)
 
@A.B. I am thinking I need to study up more and duplicate environments so I can have really good answers. =)
 
=)
 
@A.B. Of course, you did get a +1 from me for a good question and well laid out. =)
 
4:38 PM
@ByteCommander was for a bit, sort of, they had the the supported by ubuntu sticker on it at one time, but the version they were using went eol, they no longer even mention ubuntu on their site, that and it was never on the list, so even when they had the official seals on their page we had debates on meta
 
@Terrance thx my friend =)
 
user136984
@NathanOsman: \o
 
@quake120 Have you seen my penguin's review of Windows 98 yet?
If you haven't, you're in for a treat.
 
@NathanOsman Yeah I have!
'It has plug and play!' (hours later) and you have like 17 windows open
 
4:40 PM
:)
 
user139252
@ParanoidPanda No, I have not had that problem
 
user136984
Strange... Then it's just me! Which is even stranger...
 
user136984
:D
 
@NathanOsman My brother has a friend who is a Windows fanboy. He says that IIS is "superior" to Apache
...Riiiight, since like 90% of the internet runs on the LAMP stack
I always suggest to people:
If you want an OS that is stable, fast, but may require some work, use Linux
If you want an OS that is stable, fast, but does not require work, use MacOS
 
Sounds about right.
 
4:43 PM
@quake120 IIS is superior? Really? That is one of the funniest things I have read! =)
 
I've worked with IIS in the past.
It is most definitely not true :P
 
I have worked with it, too, and I found the experience to be REALLY bad.
 
It's gotten a bit better over the years but it's still not where Apache or Nginx are today.
(Yes, Nginx is more of a reverse-proxy but it does serve static files.)
 
one thing that is terrible in osx is window management, I really miss window spread when clicking an an icon, or a proper maximize button
 
^--- this is true
 
4:45 PM
now they changed the "make it sort of bigger button" to fullscreen...
 
Galaxy Note 5 is going to have non-removable battery and probably no expandable memory :(
 
oh, and I have to install a extra program to list more than one window, instead of one icon per program on the alt-tab thing
 
@quake120 But neither do any of the Nexus devices.
 
Yeah... I have a Nexus 7 and it is great. I'm torn between Note 4, Note 5, and iPhone 6S (or whatever the new designation may be)
 
Does TouchWiz really work all that well? I've heard different things about it.
 
4:49 PM
Honestly, it isn't as bad as most people make it out to be, if you ask me, but I usually replace it with another launcher
 
I have been using Apex on mine for a while now.
 
I tried Aviate when it was in beta last year.
I eventually went back to stock though.
 
@Rinzwind Did it get reversed? It shouldn't....
@Rinzwind In my opinion: no... It's a feature of Ubuntu touch... I'll answer
 
user139252
@NathanOsman I removed TouchWiz on my Note
 
@HeatherBrown How did you remove TouchWiz?
 
4:56 PM
sudo apt-get purge touchwiz
(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
 
LOL
Awesome answer @NathanOsman
 
@NathanOsman For a minute I thought you were serious and a lot of things ran through my head like "...did he get apt to work on his Android?"
 
@Rinzwind It's a duplicate... (voted like that) @HeatherBrown
 
I actually do have dpkg on my phone thanks to BusyBox. But no apt.
 
I believe you have to be rooted to remove TouchWiz from the device
 
user139252
4:58 PM
@Terrance Root access, yeah.
 
Waiting just a few more months till my phone leaves the 1st year warranty, then I am rooting the beast.
 
user139252
@Terrance I rooted while on Lollipop, then used pm list -f packages to find the files for all of the packages I didn't want, then rm -rf on all of those file locations
 
user139252
Then you have to do a reboot and data format, or else you get weird "Unfortunately System UI has stopped" erros.
 
@HeatherBrown good to know. =)
 
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Q: Replace ati with amd-graphics tag

Pilot6At present not many people remember that AMD graphics used to be ATI sometime. Now amd-graphics is a synonym of ati that seems to be wrong. It should be vice versa, so amd-graphics should be displayed. How can we do it?

 
user136984
5:17 PM
 
As windows 8.1 is not good what we can expect from windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release
 
user136984
Probably a combination of Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 for Windows 10...
 
user136984
I think the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release will be better than all the previous releases! :D
 
user136984
But not better than the feature ones.
 
Thats what I am hoping as Ubuntu Fan
 
5:24 PM
yay:
 
user136984
Are you running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS then?
 
yes
 
 
user136984
I am a little closer to 16.04 than you then! As I am running 15.04... :D
 
user136984
And all is good so far, so I don't think that anything will go for the worse.
 
user136984
5:25 PM
;)
 
Yes but I am using all the wallpapers of Ubuntu 15.04 also
 
user136984
:D
 
15.04 uses systemd so it bit troublesome to startx or lightdm once boots in to command-line
I had problem with sudo service lightdm start in 15.04 once changed booting to 'text'
 
user136984
I had lots of problems actually with lightdm...
 
user136984
So I got rid of it! >:)
 
5:31 PM
so what you uses GDM
 
user136984
Yes, and I also fully switched to Ubuntu Gnome, as it makes things easier then because lightdm, unity, and the system are so connected, removal can corrupt.
 
user136984
Plus I also needed to get rid of the Unity Launcher so I could have Docky... :D
 
I had issues with unity also and Ubuntu-desktop
 
@ParanoidPanda you could just hide and and switch it to a really long corner delay
so... saw this in a job description:
 
Is there some DE for Ubuntu-Gnome
 
5:36 PM
how about we build ladders, or go around walls...
 
user136984
Yes, I told it to hide, and I set its sensitivity really low, but it still was popping up at some points, and I didn't want just a workaround, I wanted a fix... So I got rid of Unity, in doing so I corrupt basically everything, and was forced to do a fresh install of Ubuntu Gnome, instead of trying to get Gnome Shell and purge Unity! :D
 
user136984
@MuditKapil: It's just using the Gnome Shell instead of the Unity one.
 
I think Gnome Shell is by default get installed along with GDM
 
user136984
Yes... I think so too...
 
user136984
In Unity your Desktop Environment is the Gnome one, so the same as on Ubuntu Gnome, just different Shell.
 
user136984
5:39 PM
Does anyone know by the way if there are any screenshots of how 15.10 will probably look? :)
 
user136984
And what's new.
 
user136984
@NathanOsman @Mateo: Are your penguins related? Or at least friends? Or perhaps mortal enemies? :P
 
we talked on twitter once ;0
 
Yup :)
 
user136984
:D
 
5:46 PM
I wish that Wine gets developed in to that mature stage where every windows program or games run just fine that would be a huge win for open source and Ubuntu
 
It's not WINE that needs fixing..
 
Then
 
WINE is already a modern marvel. I'm amazed at how well it works.
 
ya true it is boon
 
It's emulating the userspace of a completely different operating system.
 
5:48 PM
Yes
 
And WINE isn't technically an emulator - it's a compatibility layer for translating syscalls.
(I figured I had better clarify that - after all, WINE is a recursive acronym for "WINE Is Not an Emulator.)
 
but most of the games mostly are developed for Windows platform and even proprietary Graphics drivers for AMD and Nvidia
 
Both AMD and Nvidia release proprietary drivers for Linux.
Now, whether they work well or not is another story.
 
ya but it is very hard to install them
 
I have an AMD card that works well with the open-source driver, so I haven't had to worry about that, thankfully.
 
5:51 PM
most of the time they boot in to purple
 
user136984
@NathanOsman: Why would you want to restore sanity to your account?
 
I also have AMD card that works well with additional open-source driver only login screen of Ubuntu logo gets stretched tried changing resolution from some post but It has not worked for me.
 
@ParanoidPanda Huh?
 
user136984
@NathanOsman:
 
user136984
 
5:57 PM
Ah.
Why wouldn't I want to restore sanity?
And thanks, YouTube, for integrating with Google+ so well.
</sarcasm>
 
user136984
@NathanOsman: Because the penguin is so awesome! :D
 
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