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I installed ubuntu completely but I know want to use fedora instead, ubuntu feels like it's heavier. I have a usb and a cd whichever is easier for me to use. Thanks.

Fabby

12:40 AM

all the votes will be taken away at midnight US East-coast

Serg

@Fabby on mobile. How may I help you my friend

Ronnie Nissan

aha good info

Fabby

The only exception that I know is:

If one person has 1Q and multiple answers.

and you upvote the question and 15 min later one answer and 15 minutes later another, then it's OK

@Serg :D

Could you upvote:

this one

because my answer is the perfect answer

and I want the OP to find it at the top as one of the other (bad) answers already got an upvote... :-(

(and it's a newbie)

(that never accepted an answer before on this site)

@Please??? :-)

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Q: Why was my answer deleted?

Out of interest, why was my answer to Why does Intel Graphics Installer depend on ttf-ancient-fonts? deleted (without comment)?

discussion deleted-answers

Ronnie Nissan

sudo apt-get upvote fabby's answer

@Fabby 0
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E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/)

the first 2 lines r by accident

why this happens? is it because of not using sudo?

Fabby

12:48 AM

@RonnieNissan Link?

Ronnie Nissan

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Q: error installing vlc through terminal

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is an...

Who nows?

@Fabby done and done

I'd add to the comment "could you give the command you were trying at the time?)

@Serg :* :* :*

Serg

^_^

Ronnie Nissan

12:51 AM

thanks

Serg

I need a new phone. My s3 is terribly slow

And why on earth Ubuntu phone is EU only ? T.T

Fabby

@Serg BQ Aquaris Ubuntu version...

Ronnie Nissan

@serg flash a costume rom and it's gonna be so fast.

Fabby

149€ is what I paid...

Serg

Notbad.png

Fabby

12:52 AM

@RonnieNissan Cool!

How do you do that and is the ROM open source?

Ronnie Nissan

Ubuntu phone got worldwide according to the verge

yes CM and Omni r good roms

Fabby

@RonnieNissan edit your second comment, copy-paste your first comment in it and then Delete your first comment,

:P

Ronnie Nissan

you have to unlock the boot-loader flash costume recovery root flash custom ROM through the recovery

Fabby

and for a rep1 user: always add Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! **;-)**

Ronnie Nissan

aha

Serg

12:55 AM

Well my s3 is rooted. But I had kinda poor experience with heimdal on Ubuntu and kinda don't wanna go to win7

Ronnie Nissan

thanks bro

heimdal is not bad

and going to win7 is not so bad ether

but u don't have to do both of them

you can flash i custume recovery from the phone itself

@Serg

look at this to apps and see which one suits u best

play.google.com/store/apps/…

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cgollner.flashify

you can flash whatever u want with the second one

Serg

Thanks. I'm gonna try it out this weekend

Ronnie Nissan

but don't forget to use Titanium Backup too

u r always welcome

good night @Serg

George the Dev

@RonnieNissan See you later.

Ronnie Nissan

good night and thanks @Fabby

George the Dev

1:02 AM

@RonnieNissan See you later.

Fabby

Good night!

George the Dev

@Fabby See you later.

Mateo

@Serg they are global now

Fabby

@Mateo All translations still on 100%?

(this is the last time I asked: if you want me to do work, You'll have to aske me again) ;-)

BTW: looks like I'm going to look at post cards this W.E....

Mateo

1:31 AM

@Fabby should be, I think I'll do a second branch to pull in changes to publish

Thomas W.

@Whaaaaaat haven't tested, i just renamed the comment to teward - ecdsa because i can

and put it in id_ecdsa

Mateo

@Fabby ;)

Thomas W.

so it 'works' because it's a default fallback

Fabby

@Mateo :-)

@ThomasW. It "works" because it's a "hack"... ;-)

Mateo

Haven't heard back, so I'll make it generic and put in a api key setting

Thomas W.

1:41 AM

@Fabby true, but i also made a id_ed25519 now too

but meh

Fabby

Don't get me wrong: I like someone who can figure out a dirty way to "make it work" and then still does root-cause analysis!!! ;-)

Thomas W.

lol

@Fabby i'm burned out for now though

Fabby

then turn off your brain, forget about it for now, post a question on the site tomorrow...

And go sleep!

That's what I'm going to do as well!

Nathan Osman

2:00 AM

Evolution continues as pregnant women are now able to provide free Wi-Fi. http://t.co/UMpMVpZf35

Tweeted by Renzo_Soprano on August 2, 2015 at 10:01 AM

Lololol.

Fabby

2:28 AM

If someone feels like Downvoting Windows answers on AU

@NathanOsman :-)

RolandiXor

3:58 AM

@Fabby this is one time I wish I could give away the 500 rep, but in this case, business > an answer :/

And it seems no one has an answer.

Fabby

@RolandiXor I would need an hour behind the machine...

RolandiXor

4:13 AM

@Fabby lol

I spent hours trying to figure out the issue, to no avail.

I've decided to use SDDM instead of lightdm, since it just works.

I wish it looked as good as lightdm though :(

Fabby

If anyone givezs any answer, they will get the 500, even when you don't accept...

I could answer that! >:)

anyway, you found a workaround...

that's the only thing that matters...

RolandiXor

@Fabby rofl

Fabby

@RolandiXor luckily I'm too honest, but what will you do when someone else does?

RolandiXor

4:33 AM

@Fabby If it is a valid answer, I can tell the owner to let me see if I can fix the issue and test that the answer works - then award them.

A.B.

Morning all :)

@Fabby you are here, at this time?

Fabby

@A.B. being eaten by mosquitoes... :@

falling asleep!

A.B.

:)

Question closed askubuntu.com/a/660632/344926

@Fabby and the answer has a deletion mark now

Where is the 500 bounty?

RolandiXor

@A.B. I took it away because it's useless to anyone now :(

I am returning the system tomorrow.

If someone could provide a working answer anyway, I'll still reward the bounty.

A.B.

:)

Nathan Osman

4:47 AM

o/

George the Dev

@NathanOsman \o

Nathan Osman

Nice to see George working.

A.B.

o/

George the Dev

@A.B. \o

RolandiXor

@GeorgetheDev stop working.

A.B.

4:48 AM

:)

pkill @GeorgetheDev

RolandiXor

killall -9

Nathan Osman

room topic changed to Ask Ubuntu General Room: It was until Roland killed it all. (no tags)

RolandiXor

=)

Nathan Osman

OH NO.

I copied the original description to the clipboard.

RolandiXor

xD

Nathan Osman

4:50 AM

...but it isn't pasting.

O_o

RolandiXor

quick!

Nathan Osman

room topic changed to Ask Ubuntu General Room: Normally: General discussion around Ask Ubuntu, Ubuntu & official Ubuntu derivatives. For other Linux distros please see: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/unix-and-linux (no tags)

RolandiXor

sudo apt-get install parcellite

Nathan Osman

Ah, fixed it.

RolandiXor

whew

A.B.

4:51 AM

LOL

RolandiXor

Something is broken, and it isn't @GeorgetheDev.

Nathan Osman

I thought room name changes were done by the Stack Exchange user.

I guess not.

I'm a bit scared to do this but...

RolandiXor

They must have changed it.

Nathan Osman

@GeorgetheDev what is RebeccaBlackOS?

George the Dev

Hawaii (desktop environment)

Hawaii is a Wayland and Qt Quick-based desktop environment with few dependencies aiming at desktop and mobile convergence. It is primarily used by Maui, a Linux system with atomic upgrades and bundles. Hawaii adopted the Simple Desktop Display Manager. The Hawaii Desktop Environment was also adopted by RebeccaBlackOS, a Linux "live" distribution intended to serve as a technology preview. == See also == MoonLightDE – a fork of LXQt that merges the basic desktop components into a single application == References... ==

RolandiXor

4:52 AM

O_o

Nathan Osman

Hmm... that wasn't nearly as exciting as I expected.

RolandiXor

Did anyone install Firefox 40 on Linux?

I'm having Firefox issues abounding.

(Not that I use Firefox anymore, but still).

A.B.

Currently not

RolandiXor

My Firefox opens a blank window

And the Nightly Build shows the title bar mixed in with the nav bar.

Nathan Osman

@RolandiXor I have Firefox 40.

RolandiXor

4:59 AM

@NathanOsman intel graphics?

That's what I'm getting.

Wait - fixed it.

It's an addon.

Now I need to figure out which one.

Okay I have to be honest...

Firefox 40 is blazingly fast!

:23397635 no clue - now setting back up after nuking my old profile folder.

A.B.

Which addon?

Nathan Osman

@RolandiXor Sorry, missed your post. Nope - AMD here.

A.B.

Huh my comments are duplicated

Nathan Osman

Though I do have a laptop running Vivid with Intel graphics.

A.B.

Huh my comments are duplicated

o_O

RolandiXor

5:13 AM

@NathanOsman what I thought it was, it isn't. No worries.

Nathan Osman

Cool.

Looks like we might get kernel 4.2 in 15.10.

RolandiXor

Yes! I read so today :)

Hopefully it will also mean no more reboots ;)

Nathan Osman

Yeah, that would be cool. Although I shut down my computer overnight anyway to save power :P

The only machines that stay on are the Mac Mini and Raspberry Pi 2.

RolandiXor

I put mine to sleep

Nathan Osman

I wish I could do that with my desktop but it really acts up if I do that.

RolandiXor

5:16 AM

Oh :(

Nathan Osman

I'd hibernate but I only have 1 GB of swap and 8 GB of RAM :P

(I have a rather small SSD so space is at a premium for most partitions.)

RolandiXor

lol

I was about to ask what's up with that

Nathan Osman

Well, I have two disks - a 160 GB SSD and a 2 TB mechanical drive.

The 160 GB disk has all of the Ubuntu partitions (/, /home, /var, /tmp, etc.) and the 2 TB one has Windows (I prefer Ubuntu to have the advantage).

The 2 TB drive also has a large "general use" ext4 partition that I use for random stuff.

But swap needs to be on the SSD for speed's sake.

And since there's not much room, there's not much swap :)

I supposed I could have added a second swap partition on the other drive with a lower priority...

...but meh - this works.

A lot of the stuff on the 2 TB drive is also backed up to a 2 TB NAS connected via the network.

SmokeDetector

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A.B.

6:23 AM

Good one? unix.stackexchange.com/a/222873/107084

Nathan Osman

This guy is a genius: qz.com/476914/…

Though most of that stuff looks useless.

Takkat

6:44 AM

Spam

xiaodongjie

7:45 AM

Hi, everyone.

gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/GNU_002fLinux.html

It shows me, With linux GRUB uses 32-bit protocol. Some BIOS services like APM or EDD aren’t available with this protocol. In this case you need to use linux16

why linux command does not support EDD?

Rinzwind

@Takkat you here?
Any thoughts on this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/660844/how-do-i-recover-my-data/660853#660853

Takkat

@Rinzwind on some phones you can't read the internal "SD Card" with PhotoRec, on others you can.

We usually can recover data from external memory however.

I bet the user did not unmount the phone before unplugging.

At least it appears very unlikely Ubuntu formatted the phone without user action.

Rinzwind

@Takkat ehm. that might be it.

added :)

Takkat

can't +1 again :"(

Rinzwind

LOL

Takkat

7:54 AM

100k network-wide rep users should be allowed to accept and to unaccept answers of other people's questions.

Rinzwind

@Takkat here answer this: askubuntu.com/questions/660850/… and Ill upvote

@Takkat agreed BUT with the addition of a time frame of say 1 month

Takkat

@Rinzwind the question is not made for my synapses... no idea what they want us to say.

Rinzwind

or maybe better: have it for 50k+ users and make it a REVIEW item.

Takkat

@Rinzwind yeah 5 community votes needed.

Privilege: vote to accept an answer.

Rinzwind

I also want to revoke accepted answers from topics where I answered myself though >:-DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Takkat

7:56 AM

There may already be a status-declined on Meta SE

@Rinzwind please only accept my answer, because the other answer won't add to my rep.

Rinzwind

@Takkat also needs an exception: if a user answered in a topic he can not vote for an acceptance

@Takkat suddenly everyone passes Oli >:-D

Takkat

lol - that'll still be hard.

Oli

Rule 34v2: If you can think of it, not only has somebody made porn of it, but somebody has suggested it as feature request on MSE, and it's status-declined.

First they came for my accepted answers...

Takkat

yeah - for very good reasons I bet.

Rinzwind

@Takkat RUN RUN RUN!

Takkat

8:00 AM

Oli, what happened to your position in the yearly rep? A.B. is running ahead of everyone.

Rinzwind

I left the @ out when posting HIS name and he still appeared
*shivers*

3

Oli

@Takkat Too much work

Takkat

He knows you will be talking of him way before you!

Oli

(and cycling)

Rinzwind

you can not answer q's on AU and cycle?

Oli

8:01 AM

:(

Takkat

Cycling is easier.

2 days from now there are 2 weeks in France ahead of me - vin - baguettes - plages - soleil. Have to drop in everyday to not risk my consecutive visits rate.

Nathan Osman

9:06 AM

Man, is there an Android app more buggy than Google Music?

Constant. Crashes.

Ronnie Nissan

9:36 AM

google music??!!

Journeyman Geek

I've never had issues with it

Rinzwind

9:51 AM

@NathanOsman probably >:-D

@SmokeDetector pay attention! :D askubuntu.com/questions/660890/…

xiaodongjie

who knows about grub?

user136984

10:17 AM

Is this off-topic?

Journeyman Geek

he isn't on 15.10 yet tho

user136984

I mean I think that the problem is with an EOL, but they do desperately want to upgrade...

Journeyman Geek

ahh ok

user136984

But I guess that they should just do a fresh install of 15.04, and we can't help them any more than that.

Journeyman Geek

heh, yeah

Fabby

10:27 AM

@A.B. Fantastic!

Journeyman Geek

and/or copy stuff that's essential offline

Fabby

10:53 AM

@NathanOsman My /home is on the HDD instead of the SSD. (as mine is is only 80 GB)

@A.B. not bad... (or you wouldn't have received an upvote) ;-)

Journeyman Geek

._.

(I have a pair of 250gb SSDs. Wouldn't imagine anything smaller)

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11:23 AM

@Fabby Man i was not here ! what the number 50 is for ?!

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Journeyman Geek

@pigeon my Linux install's on a 1 tb disk . my windows desktop has 3 tb +250 gb :p

I like my space :p

pigeon

@JourneymanGeek If you are using it, that should be reasonable.

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