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4:23 PM

@TheBrownOne That sounds like all too much fun! :D

4:42 PM

Does Ubuntu not ship with an IM client anymore?

oh there it is. empathy still.

I don't have much empathy for empathy.

@Seth in the final release of 16.04 empathy is not included anymore ! Hi Seth ! :)

hi! What will be included in its place?

I am wondering if XChat IRC might be included, as I don't remember installing here. But it could be that I installed Xubuntu.

Or Pidgin

xchat is only for IRC..

Oops, my bad

user139252

5:01 PM

Seriously, got here 15 minutes before they opened and I'm still waiting

user139252

I never received my new registration stickers, though, so I'm stuck here

Don't you just love bureaucracy?

user139252

Any Apache related questions I can answer in my down time?

Seriously, am I too impatient? People have time to ask a question, expect an answer within a day or so, but to look at your answer, well, we'lll see, some of these days... (while the answer is tested in 30 seconds or so) askubuntu.com/questions/732510/…

5:19 PM

'tis just the way things work. You're not the first to be frustrated by it.

@JacobVlijm It could also be that they are waiting for the answer they want to hear.

@Seth yeah, I know...

edward torvalds

*In computing, mmap(2) is a POSIX-compliant Unix system call that maps files or devices into memory.*
what does it mean by **maps** ?

@Terrance sure, but even then, if someone takes the effort for me, I'd show some sign of live. I believe I always did. Most people do by the way, so I shouldn't complain.

@JacobVlijm I agree with you so much! If they take that time to do it, why not upvote if you can see that it is going to work for you, even if you don't get the chance to test it yet. Showing the love is what it is all about. =)

@JacobVlijm BTW, +1 for that one because I have had to do the exact same for my system startup before. Delayed application start solved my problem. =)

5:27 PM

@Terrance I totally agree.

@Terrance thanks!! Be sure it was not was I what after, just let out some air :)

@JacobVlijm No problem! My issue on my system was that my old video card had resolution problems that the NVIDIA driver through X11 kept messing up. I delayed a script containing xrandr for 5 seconds. If it ran at that exact time, it did not work. So, the upvote is for a good answer. =)

@edwardtorvalds Here it explains it well: gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/…

@JacobVlijm Your explanation for the reason to wait is another reason why I upvoted you. =)

@Terrance :)

user139252

5:44 PM

Taking a calculus class so that I can get my teaching credential in math as well as English... I'm not sure the $3k/year pay bump is worth this torture :(

user139252

Oh yeah, home from the DMV and trying to do homework :P

-1

A: tried downloading ubuntu 15.10 installer crashed computer useless

Hot normally a problem, if you have access to a working pc and a dvd burner. Reburn the ISO inage on an new DVD-R blank, or erase the existing DVD-RW disk anf reburn it. I'v encountered many "hidden" errors in optical disks that can clobber you good, but just redo and try again. But you may not...

O_O

who in the world is going to read that?

I doubt the authenticity of that answer.

@Seth Nothing ... AFAIK ! :)

:/

5:52 PM

@Seth Holy wow! That is a LOOOOONG answer!

:27532626 how in the world did you get 15.10 next? o_O

that should be hard to download these days..

@Terrance ikr, it's crazy xD

@Seth I have no idea

It should be 16.04 next now..

Do we have a canonical question on dual-booting Ubuntu on a Mac?

@Seth But I couldn't make it work

5:54 PM

@Seth charming post :) 4673 words...

@kos I think the closest we have is this:

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Q: Error: partition table requires a separate partition for boot loader code (EFI issue)

The Issue I'm trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, Mac alternate) on my 13" MacBook Pro (model 7,1. Mid-2010). The MacBook Pro is running OSX 10.8.3 and I'm trying to make it dual-bootable (i.e., so I can boot into Ubuntu or OSX). When booting from the live CD and selecting "Try Ubuntu," I ma...

installation uefi mac macbook-pro boot-partition

@Seth Sounds that would do, thanks!

@Seth I am looking for where I got it from. I have no idea now. Grrrrrr :/

6:13 PM

If someone has an upvote for Jacob Vlijm's answer here... We both put quite an effort in writing our answers to that question, mine was accepted but his answer is just as good as mine, and deserves more reputation.

@kos Wow, as long as people like you are around, it's good to be here. What a friendly gesture, you're the best, really.

@JacobVlijm It's fair, I know we both put an effort in writing those answers and that my answer was picked because one had to be picked. Sometimes I've provided answers which were just as good as another answer but still another one was accepted, so it always feel a bit unfair.

@kos well, I know the situation, but in some cases it doesn't hurt :) I also think your answer was closer to the way of thinking of OP, and therefore the right one to accept. I felt I had to finish the answer into a good one after the "new information". Always like to have a good closure of what I started, no matter the reward. Obviously so do you.

6:33 PM

@JacobVlijm Same here. I dislike leaving things halfway either. :)

@A.B. You around? This seems one down your alley: askubuntu.com/q/732877/380067

@JacobVlijm how's the rep going today? :D

@Rinzwind You are nasty :)

hey I aint catching up on the mv answer :(

@Rinzwind I guess I am spoiled the last few days, objectively it's not too band..

good :)

6:39 PM

@Rinzwind still shocked by the popularity of mkdir

lol

It was a 22 seconds answer!

I saw a dupe on it kicked too ... >:)

@Rinzwind I know you didn't ask, but I'm beating you at your game this quarter: stackexchange.com/leagues/31/quarter/askubuntu :P

@kos I dont care about people not on the 1st line here askubuntu.com/users?tab=Reputation&filter=all :D :D I am chasing fossy >>)

(lol ;) )

eol askubuntu.com/questions/732900/server-15-04-desktop-install

6:43 PM

@Rinzwind 100 more rep than you each quarter and I should be able to reach you before I'll be too old to read what's on the screen. :P

oh the 1st 50k rep is pretty easy to get. Just keep answering

Oh come on, the latest 50K gotta be easier to get. You answer better, people trust you because of the number etc.

user139252

2 months till the next LTS

user139252

:D

@TheBrownOne So looking forward to it!

Wanna give Unity without the Amazon thing a shot.

6:47 PM

@kos I believe that's true, the line is steeper over time with practically all high rep users

@kos ppl ignore you cuz you got already so much rep ;-)

@kos then again I remember I was told by a mod I was the quickest ever on 50k from 0 rep ;)

@Rinzwind I guess that means we should ignore you even more? ;P

SETHY!!!!!!!!!!! :+)

Hi! :)

only 500 away from 20k..

You can no longer stop me from passing fossy soon >:)

6:50 PM

:O

call out the downvote socks! :P

4k to go >:)

@Rinzwind Your rep graph doesn't agree:

Oh it was YOU that removed that user the other day? >:)

user image

It's a curve!

all of those lines are curved :+)

6:51 PM

I rest my case

@JacobVlijm it was too heavy? :=)

@Rinzwind lol

My rep graph disagrees:

user image

@Rinzwind haha nope. SE does most of the user removals now (besides spam users)

>:/

6:53 PM

@Seth I know I know :=D

@kos Reading =)

@kos looks like you were not having a lot of fun on December 5 :)
(or actually you were)

dont remind him :=D

@kos do you know this one: askubuntu.com/reputation

@JacobVlijm You mean December 1/2?

Not sure what happened December 1 though.

@kos hard to say... looks like around 5...

6:59 PM

@Rinzwind I was playing with it yesterday. I get the right reputation if I sum the daily totals, but I get less reputation if I sum all the fields. Thought it should have been more since the daily totals don't include reputation over the threshold. O.o

edward torvalds

@kos so basically mapping means keeping parts of file in memory

@JacobVlijm Yeah I got a -50 on December 1 and a -78 on December 2... askubuntu.com/users/380067/…. December 2 was because of a +100 bounty I set, but I'm not sure what happened on December 1.

user139252

@hbdgaf Disgusting Electronic Reply, Pretty Stupid - DERPS

@edwardtorvalds Yes, the idea is the file is kept in memory so that the process can access it directly on memory instead of reading / writing the file constantly, which is expensive from a I/O point of view in case of files, however it's not only for files, you can also map a process' memory or kernel space's memory.

edward torvalds

ok, thanks

7:07 PM

Np

edward torvalds

:D

ot askubuntu.com/questions/732914/…

...was just going to mention it...

slowpoke :=)

dutch people should be quicker >:)

Heyhey, I was busy writing the useful comment

7:14 PM

Oh man.
A spanish civil servant was going to get a medal for 20 years of service. But it turned out that the last 6 years he never ever even showed up at work. _O-

sick :D

@edwardtorvalds * a process' memory or user space memory from kernel space. You can't map kernel space's memory from user space (that would be quite disastrous :D)

Yeah, I wonder when they find out about us :)

@Rinzwind that why I should have become a civil servant... :)

Takky! :)

you earn money just for being there, somewhere on that planet.

7:19 PM

I just upvoted you :+

thanks!

I like the tesseract to espeak thing... it's scary.

3.5 to go for me today so I should reach 200 soon

i just need 1 good question about "cp" or so >:)

Does anyone understand this response?

it's just run.sh — PetarP 2 mins ago

@kos nope

maybe they wanted to say that truth is always the truth... needless to say, really.

7:22 PM

and it is a script so he should give us line 1 :+)
99% -> no jdk

@Takkat Something along those lines I guess :)

people are like this... they want help but they don't tell us where or why.

java -version
ftw

2.5 to go @JacobVlijm >:-D

@Rinzwind Yup:

The program 'java' can be found in the following packages ;-) — PetarP 47 secs ago

Ah you saw that.

Be warned...

Since in this case it makes absolutly no difference, bc mint is based on ubuntu anyway and the procedure is the same, I don´t think it is necassary, but if it´s necassary I will ask the same question while claiming to use Ubuntu — MiXT4PE 2 mins ago

7:27 PM

This one should be updated... askubuntu.com/a/88058/380067

See you later all, going downstairs for a while. If I come back, @Rinzwind will have no doubt 200 :)

bye

tot morgen ;)

@JacobVlijm See you!

Later @JacobVlijm!

@Rinzwind I saw it first! :O

RPi Awesomeness

Ugh. My scope was working yesterday and now it's not

7:34 PM

so you are out of scope :P

@JacobVlijm 200 dead on :+

I can't install Debian on VirtualBox. I'm about to lose my mind.

More and more things are starting to be built on electron. Neat.

@RPiAwesomeness Ouch. I hate it when that happens. What does your scope do?

RPi Awesomeness

@Seth It's a livestreaming scope, different from the last one I tried to do

This time it'll be an aggregate of a couple different sites

I need a better idea, but I'm just working on this so I have something to submit

orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker :P

RPi Awesomeness

I figured the issue out though, I was calling something at the wrong time

@Rinzwind :P

I could totally do that

7:47 PM

lol

can you do a fsck from initramfs?

answer; yes :=)

8:13 PM

@Seth Most things are built on electrons!

heh

Oh

you meant electron

the web thingy

derp

yeah ;p

It needs to speed up. I'm still using vim and sublime text because Atom is so terrible.

Like I'm not at gary bernhardt level, where if something slows down by 20ms i panic, but I do care about speed.

RPi Awesomeness

I quite like it, but it definitely could use work

I think the i386 version or one of my plugins must have a memory leak or something, because if I leave it up without actively using it for a long period of time, my laptop just lags to heck and back

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

8:18 PM

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Q: Running maintenance commands in pbuilder chroot using cron

We run an automated build system using pbuilder-dist. We use it to build our open source project Snap Websites to produce nightly builds. Currently we are building against Ubuntu "trusty." The issue we face is that periodically the packages in Ubuntu are updated and our chroot environment needs ...

debian ubuntu chroot packaging pbuilder

8:43 PM

What's up with reddit's rate limits? I don't care enough to wait 9 minutes to post again..

RPi Awesomeness

:P

9:11 PM

@TheBrownOne MC?

Whoever found this answer earlier, we need to frame it. =)

user139252

@Zacharee1 if you want to do my calculus homework

@TheBrownOne ◔_◔

@Terrance why?

@Terrance Because of its length?

@Zacharee1 Exactly! =)

Is it any good?

9:22 PM

@Zacharee1 I tried to read it, but I keep drifting off trying to figure out what it is about. I wonder if his fingers were bleeding by the end of it? =)

lol

@Terrance Assuming it will fit on the wall. :)

@kos LOL! I don't even think it will fit on a legal sheet

@kos any good at Minecraft parkour?

9:40 PM

> If too long or detailed for some minds here, I can place on a cloud and supply a link back.

place on a cloud

that's great

:D

@James You actually read that far, or skipped to the end? ;)

@Terrance I skimmed along

My finger got tired from scrolling

Portrait monitor. ;-)

no need for scrolling

didn't fit

so i did scroll a little

but not much

Ah

Landscape here and it took a while to get to the bottom of it

9:45 PM

dailydot.com/technology/vertical-monitor-setup

Yeah i can imagine

I might just need to flip two of mine on my desk at work. I have a quad monitor stand

Actually, flipping on the quad stand probably won't work. Grrrrrrr >:(

@Zacharee1 Not too shabby.

@kos wanna play a race?

@Terrance Yeah that'd be difficult.

user136984

Is this answer ok? :)

9:53 PM

@ParanoidPanda actually just saw that one :p

I guess what I could do is make Right - Left configuration, and make my Windows (Admin) system on the left and my Ubuntu (Work) on the right. That might be cool! :)

How is the quad laid out?

TL -||- TR
BL -||- BR

@Zacharee1 I don't have Minecraft installed, I'd have to redownload it and reinstall it. And I'm a bit lazy to do that.

Well I need to go anyway, so..

:p

-.- So you would have made me install it just to leave right after?

9:59 PM

@James Yep

@Terrance Ouch. Yeah, portrait could be difficult there.

@James Right now, it is two side by side. Ubuntu on Top and Windows on bottom with Synergy connecting systems.

UL -||- UR
WL -||- WR

user image

That's what I am using

user136984

Ooh! The answer I just asked about was accepted! :D

@Terrance if you do the tops, it should work.

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, phone number detected in title: how do i install AVG antivirus on another computer support USA @ 1-800-420-5166 $ UK TOLLFREE NUMBER 0800-098-8545? by Tom Cruise on askubuntu.com

10:08 PM

@James That is true. I could try that. :)

@SmokeDetector Nice try.

BAM

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:39 PM

0

Q: Installation of nginx on Ubuntu 15.10 gives "Inappropriate ioctl for device"

I just installed ubuntu 15.10 in a container on my machine and want to install nginx. I run an apt-get update, and then sudo apt-get install nginx and I get an error message saying Inappropriate ioctl for device. Specifically my output is as follows: Setting up nginx-core (1.9.3-1ubuntu1.1) ... ...

ubuntu nginx ioctl

11:13 PM

@Terrance wow, um. It's nice I guess - tl:dr

@Mateo I don't think anyone could read it without their mind exploding! ;)

"in preperation for a shootdown from the Admin" :/

LOL

That cracked me up!

I really do think it needs to be framed as a classic.

"Occasionally they pull these dixes together into an SP. which I think of as a Super Patch" there is some gem's from stackexchange gold in there ;)

all this for a "my install broke" question

Funny Vines: Typing For So Long That Your Fingers Fall Off

I almost wonder if that is what happened at the end of his answer.

Better video

@Mateo I know. My mind really hurt after reading about 3 paragraphs.

11:20 PM

Funny Kayak Commercial

LOL

ok, so is the unicode/dos/hacker history necessary? I get going over - use the "other" option on the live cd, but now this is just trailing on pointlessly...

user139252

That user likes very long answers

user139252

He really explained what fstab is

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: MongoDB authentication failed?

I'm currently trying to set up a secure MongoDB database for my various applications, but whenever I try to login with a username and password, but the shell always replies with Error: Authentication failed. and keeps me from accessing my database. Errors from mongod --auth: 2016-02-12T17:11:57...

ubuntu authentication mongodb

11:36 PM

NaA -> askubuntu.com/a/732969/380067

user136984

I'm finally kicking the flu out the door! :D

user136984

Goodnight! :)

But it's Friday, and mods / 20Kers are off. Only Takkat could cast a vote. I guess we'll have it around till tomorrow. :)

Night @Panda

11:59 PM

@TheBrownOne Indeed that user does. I even answered one of the questions.

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