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user139252

12:00 AM

It's the Z1s from T-Mobile. I hardly use it now, though. Just as a backup if my Nexus breaks again :p

user139252

Got my 6p fixed finally, back on that and loving it

Zacharee1

@TheBrownOne How's the fingerprint reader?

Is it a good placement?

Works well?

T-Mobile is available in California? :p

user139252

T-Mobile coverage is great in my area, on par with Verizon. The placement is fine, but I don't get to use it for much more than unlocking my phone because nobody here takes Android pay

Zacharee1

That's all I use it on my Note 4 -- unlocking

East Coast is getting the NFC stuff, but still slowly: malls only so far I think

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@Zacharee1 I was out and people left me a message...

user139252

12:08 AM

Speaking of malls....

Zacharee1

you did it again :p

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@NathanOsman Credit card: you never pay the deposit: it just gets reserved on your credit card...

@Zacharee1 No laughing matter! :P

;-)

user139252

My roommate bought a dress and it didn't fit her right so she gave it to me

Nathan Osman

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW The amount can't be reserved if it's higher than your credit limit.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@Zacharee1 Yes: a server's hard drive of which the tape is lost?

user139252

12:09 AM

I couldn't wear it without buying new boots that matched it

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

Expect to pay between 1000-10000$ for the service per hard drive.

user139252

So I drove down to our big mall today

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@NathanOsman O_o

user139252

I spent 9 hours down there, spent $350 on clothes and food and shoes, and still didn't get the right boots

Zacharee1

lol

user139252

12:11 AM

Lesson for you all to learn?

user139252

Don't buy women clothes without asking :p

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@TheBrownOne Picture! ;-)

(in-line off course! :p)

Nathan Osman

@TheBrownOne Noted.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@TheBrownOne :D Excuses!

user139252

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW maybe later, about to head to the gym :p

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

12:12 AM

@TheBrownOne :D :D :D

@TheBrownOne You're definitely the red line

@TheBrownOne Unless it's underwear!

Any woman can always use more underwear!

Nathan Osman

O_o

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@NathanOsman That's a surprise to you??? You've got to learn a lot about women then!

Nathan Osman

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW No, it's not a surprise. I just... that's about as far off-topic as this room has gotten in quite some time.

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dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

I've bought tons of underwear as a BD present: never had any complaints (from the women; sometimes bad looks from the boy friends/husbands)

@NathanOsman Starred!

Zacharee1

lol\

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

12:18 AM

You do realize that I'm as crazy as the rest of the weirdos here in chat room put together, right? ;-)

Zacharee1

crazier

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@Zacharee1 Apparently you haven't talked to some of them...

Zacharee1

crazier

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

12:42 AM

Time for a shutdown!

Good night all!

Zacharee1

One more upvote here: askubuntu.com/a/602058/274320

and @dn-ʞɔɐqɹW will no longer be the only one with the Reversal badge :p

Zacharee1

1:04 AM

This essay came a lot more easily than I thought it would O_o

I just wrote a page of actual good content in like 15 mins

Zacharee1

1:15 AM

I hate it when I take the time to write a good, extensive answer, and two people answer it before me without detail

-_-

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Q: Remove GRUB and keep a linux system

I searched the internet for instructions on how to remove GRUB, but the only thing I could find is using windows DVD to "repair" the system. The thing is I previously had a Win/linux doal-boot and removed Windows (GParted + boot-repair) but GRUB is still installed with only one entry: the linux o...

Is the Superbowl over?

@Serg Broncos winning 13-7 nice

Ah half-time

Chan-Ho Suh

@Zacharee1 it's time to raise your standards (re: your essay) :D

Seth

you watching the game Nathan?

Zacharee1

@Chan-HoSuh Well, it's a persuasive essay-speech thing, and the "facts" are just what we make up, so it's not hard.

Chan-Ho Suh

@Zacharee1 that's an interesting perspective on persuasion :)

Seth

1:38 AM

well that was disappointing.

I was like "ooh, coldplay, this might just be good!" and then he gets like 5 minutes -.-

Zacharee1

@Chan-HoSuh Our teacher's justification is that it's an exercise in persuasion, not in research

@Seth lol

Nathan Osman

@Seth Nope. Keeping an eye on the score though.

Zacharee1

@Seth Isn't it Lady Gaga?

Seth

@Zacharee1 idk, either that or beyonce.

neither of which I care one whit about.

@NathanOsman ah. I just got back from a walk.

Zacharee1

@Seth You've insulted the whole US and UK teenage body as a whole by dissing Beyoncé :p

Seth

1:45 AM

@Zacharee1 I don't really care. However, I know quite a few teenagers that wouldn't care at all right along with me.

Zacharee1

:p

theonion.com/article/…

Seth

lol

took me a minute to realize that was satire.

Zacharee1

I love The Onion

@Seth lol nice

Nathan Osman

LOL.

Zacharee1

Seth

2:01 AM

@Zacharee1 that's.. only partially true.

That FG attempt though!

Zacharee1

FG?

Seth

field goal?

Zacharee1

oh

I have become @Mitch

user139252

2:20 AM

Does anyone else have need for a domain and website? I'm done with freebies but will offer hosting for life on the cheap.

Zacharee1

I believe my need is fulfilled, but thanks :D

Is it possible to DNS to DNS?

user139252

I know you don't, you took a freebie :p

user139252

What do you mean?

Zacharee1

Like have a URL point to multiple pages on a subdomain, show those pages as .tk/.html, but still keep the mask address?

So:

2.techyteen.tk/something, 2.techyteen.tk/else also work at tt.tk/something and tt.tk/else?

Or techyteen.tk/something and techyteen.tk/else as tt.tk/something and tt.tk/else

user139252

I would have to be creative with the apache configs and SSL certs, but yes

Zacharee1

2:24 AM

Oh wait

I know how to do that, but not without a host for the second domain

I wonder if there is a way

I know there's the complete masking, but that's just an iframe I think, and the domain name doesn't change

Let's see

the .ml domain costs $1000 O_o

@TheBrownOne have you noticed that Freenom give you the option to register your domain for 12 months for free or 1 year for $9.95?

user139252

I can just add a ServerAlias directive

Zacharee1

So the main page points to a subpage in the other domain?

I don't actually want to do this BTW

I was just curious if there's a way to do this without another host

Site's finally on CloudFlare

hmm

@TheBrownOne how'd you fix the SSL error thing?

@TheBrownOne Did you have to disable Let'sEncrypt SSL?

Or did you turn off CloudFlare's?

Nathan Osman

2:40 AM

@Seth "I've never heard of Cold Pack or whatever her name is."

Seth

>.>

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman -_-

Cold Play is a band

Nathan Osman

:)

Zacharee1

Beyoncé is the singer

Seth

@Zacharee1 It's Coldplay

Nathan Osman

2:41 AM

I know - I was just misquoting someone on Twitter.

Zacharee1

@Seth yes

@NathanOsman ಠ_ಠ

Seth

note the lack of a space.

Zacharee1

@Seth I know! I just typed it out quickly

Your sarcasm displeases me :p

Nathan Osman

I like that @coldplay brought in those two football teams to open up for their show tonight! #SB50 #PepsiHalftime #SuperBowl

Tweeted by WorshipSoundGuy on February 8, 2016 at 1:56 AM

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman lol

@TheBrownOne pls

Zacharee1

2:55 AM

So I printed out the essay: it was one page. I unplugged the printer from my computer, walked back to my room, realized I needed to print out another copy

Went back to the printer, plugged it in, printed it

it printed as two pages O_o

nothing changed, but Word decided that two lines should move to a second page

I hate MS Office

Seth

Obviously the problem is word.

Zacharee1

Nooooo kidding

@TheBrownOne nvm, just had to wait :p

@TheBrownOne For the people you host: are you going to set up CloudFlare for them?

Chan-Ho Suh

it's a problem with WYSIWIG in general, because often what happens is what the human user can actually see is not everything the software does

Zacharee1

Something about that suggestion seems dangerous: askubuntu.com/questions/731039/…

@Chan-HoSuh erm

Nathan Osman

LaTeX FTW.

Zacharee1

3:02 AM

lol

@NathanOsman TeX - LaTeX

nope

Chan-Ho Suh

@NathanOsman yep

it was something of an eye-opener for me to see how prevalent badly-formatted documents are in industry

Zacharee1

@Chan-HoSuh Well, Word showed after I printed that it was on 2 pages ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Nathan Osman

@Chan-HoSuh I cringe every time I see someone using tabs for layout.

user139252

3:20 AM

Sorry, was watching a show @Zacharee1. I never fully set up CloudFlare. I will set it up for other people I host, though

Nathan Osman

Well folks. The Broncos won.

@Serg I bet you're pretty happy about that :D

Seth

@NathanOsman I totally called that :D

Give a man an 0day and he'll have access for a day, teach a man to phish and he'll have access for life.

Tweeted by thegrugq on February 7, 2015 at 7:35 AM

what about teaching a man proper grammar?

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Real-world equivalent to only using #JavaScript for web form input validation. #webdev https://t.co/QtDx6wn3Dg

Tweeted by randal_olson on February 7, 2016 at 3:41 PM

What else would you use?

Zacharee1

3:44 AM

@Seth ooo, burn! :p

@Seth lol

Nathan Osman

-1

Q: Bluetooth package problems

When I did sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade I got Setting up bluez (5.35-0ubuntu2) ... Job for bluetooth.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status bluetooth.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript bluetoo...

apt upgrade package-management dpkg bluetooth

Hey, I recognize that package!

Seth

:D:D:D:D

So no answer for my query Nathan? :(

@NathanOsman you might want to subscribe to the nitroshare tag :P

Nathan Osman

@Seth Which one?

Seth

15 mins ago, by Seth

What else would you use?

in reference to the tweet

Nathan Osman

Server side validation.

Seth

3:54 AM

I was afraid that was the answer D:

Nathan Osman

You don't trust the user's browser to filter data.

Seth

I mean I guess you should always use server side.. but only in case all else fails.

Nathan Osman

You should always validate data on the server.

I question the value of validating client-side, to be honest.

Serg

Denver takes the Super Bowl ! Yaaaaay!

Seth

@NathanOsman so I don't have to submit the form to see I did something wrong?

Nathan Osman

3:55 AM

The most important rule of writing web applications: "Never trust user input."

7

Seth

definitely

Serg

In general, never trust the user

Nathan Osman

@Seth If you have the time to write client-side validation, go for it. HTML 5 makes that a bit easier. But never at the expense of server-side validation.

Seth

@NathanOsman right, ok. Thanks!

Nathan Osman

For languages other than Node.js, this usually means duplicating validation logic.

Seth

3:56 AM

I obviously did not spend enough time thinking that through lol. Now that you mention it it seems obvious..

Nathan Osman

Perl does something really interesting with the concept of "tainting".

It'll throw an error if you try to use user input without processing it in some way first.

Seth

ooh, that's actually neat.

although it sounds expensive.

Nathan Osman

perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html#Taint-mode

> "You may not use data derived from outside your program to affect something else outside your program--at least, not by accident. All command line arguments, environment variables, locale information (see perllocale), results of certain system calls (readdir(), readlink(), the variable of shmread(), the messages returned by msgrcv(), the password, gcos and shell fields returned by the getpwxxx() calls), and all file input are marked as "tainted"."

This is an edit for the future :D

Yay for time travel \o/

Seth

4:15 AM

O_o

Nathan Osman

@Seth The link doesn't work yet and 16.04 hasn't been released yet either. But both of those issues will resolve themselves in due time.

Seth

hmm, is there not a keyboard shortcut for changing tabs in gedit?

aha, Ctrl+Alt+Pg. Up/Pg. Down

Serg

4:31 AM

3 keys ? eh . . . .ok

user139252

No... More.... Gym... X_X

Serg

@TheBrownOne <.< what happened ?

user139252

Ran 10 miles on a treadmill in under 1.5 hours

user139252

Felt great right after.... Then I sat in the car for 10 minutes to drive home

user139252

My legs don't want to work :(

Serg

4:40 AM

Too much of a good thing :) Does your gym have a . . . what are they called . . .spa or steam room ?

user139252

Yeah, gonna sit in there for 15 before heading home next time

user139252

(Sauna, BTW)

Serg

Yesterday my father was blasting music , so I got fed up , and went to the gym near us . . . It's always good to have a place where you can go, shower, soak in those hot tubs, then hop into cold water, back into steam room, back out in cold water, and cycle through it

Abhishek Bhatia

6:25 AM

I have wireless driver application written for Ubuntu 9.10. I am presently on Ubuntu 15.10. Is there any compatibly setting in ubuntu through which I can make it? I am new to Ubuntu.

Let me know if this question doesn't make sense

Serg

6:55 AM

@AbhishekBhatia does your app rely on upstart init system in any way ?

hbdgaf

7:05 AM

@Serg some kernel api has probably changed. i suspect it will be broken.

Serg

@hbdgaf yeah that may be a big issue . . .

hbdgaf

for the record, that's why i'm not touching this one. if you have to patch around to get vmnet working for vmware, some odd wireless thing that worked once on 9.x isn't something i want to start sinking time into

Serg

7:36 AM

Help ! My GUI is gone nuts

restarting unity did the trick , but what on earth ?

Nathan Osman

Font rendering bug?

Serg

I don't know . . . And it was accross all of the open windows. Terminal, firefox, file dialog to upload screenshots

Sleepy time for me, bye guys

Abhishek Bhatia

8:05 AM

@Serg I don't have any idea abt that. I ran an strace on it. Output: pastebin.com/vsF1xwGt . The extracted .tar.gz looks like this: dropbox.com/sh/7peuc1e28xitsfn/AACgQ1qxjtvYw4h_JlRiIx32a?dl=0

I wish to know the poll mechanism, so I can write a simple app in python and send data to the particular port to initialise and then read from it.

My lack of knowledge in linux drivers limits me from the scrutiny to get the details out.

Nathan Osman

^--- home page for my new chat webapp

Abhishek Bhatia

@NathanOsman Cool, which languages is in it? any github repos link if possible.

@Serg is init system something that has changed over the versions. I can't find it in strace output though.

Nathan Osman

8:23 AM

@AbhishekBhatia it's written in Go. I'll get you a link.

One sec...

github.com/nathan-osman/pratl

Journeyman Geek

@NathanOsman I wouldn't mind spinning up an instance to mess with, but zat documentation or lack of it ._.

Nathan Osman

8:50 AM

It's not done yet :P

It's still in the prototype stage.

Takkat

10:11 AM

@Rinzwind :) thanks for that comment... \o/

Rinzwind

@Takkat NP

Takkat

oh btw my daughter couldn't stop laughing after I showed her the failed arrest video you posted yesterday.

Rinzwind

yeah Sarah agrees with me :=)

@Takkat good :D

Beeelze

10:40 AM

hi guys

0

Q: Adjusting PKG_CONFIG_PATH for libvirt-php

Downloaded the latest libvirt-php extension from http://libvirt.org/sources/php/ and configuring libvirt-php returned this error: configure: error: Package requirements (libvirt >= 1.2.8) were not met: Requested 'libvirt >= 1.2.8' but version of libvirt is 1.2.2 Consider adjusting the PKG_CONF...

php environment-variables libvirt

not a general ubuntu question, but I'm trying to configure libvirt-php on a ubuntu machine

Mateo

@NathanOsman looks awesome, want me to put up a webapp on Ubuntu touch - there is a really nice webapp container out there

Beeelze

11:04 AM

It has been bugging me for a few hours

Zacharee1

11:24 AM

I'm on up vote away from my first +10 answer :D

user136984

VTC this EOL question.

Rinzwind

@ParanoidPanda makign me waste my time are you? :=)

user136984

It's unclear what they're asking, and it's about 14.10...

user136984

:D

Rinzwind

@ParanoidPanda and it was closed before you posted here >:-D

(I was the last one ;))

user136984

11:26 AM

Oh, well, that was quick! :D

user136984

12:03 PM

VTC this EOL question.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to check if 'Per-node memory binding' is supported in any libvirt version?

I am using kvm and getting an error: unsupported configuration: Per-node memory binding is not supported with this QEMU I have the #virsh version: Compiled against library: libvirt 1.2.9 Using library: libvirt 1.2.9 Using API: QEMU 1.2.9 Running hypervisor: QEMU 2.0.0 on host # uname -a Li...

linux ubuntu kvm libvirtd

user136984

VTC this EOL question too.

Zacharee1

12:34 PM

Yay! +10

@ParanoidPanda CVed

3,353 rep!

I'm actually well on my way to 4k

WHoo!

user136984

12:49 PM

@Zacharee1: Do you get anything then?

Serg

1:05 PM

should I approve this one - word edit ? Technically the guy's right . . . askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/523453

sinks vs tabs . . . .

Dan

isn't the word "tap" and not "tab"? (English is not my first language, so I might be wrong)

Byte Commander

^ was just about to say the same. Yes, it's "tap".

Tap (valve)

A tap (also spigot or faucet: see usage variations) is a valve controlling the release of a liquid or gas. == NomenclatureEdit == === British IslesEdit === Tap is used in the British Isles and most of the Commonwealth for any everyday type of valve, particularly the fittings that control water supply to bathtubs and sinks. === USEdit === Faucet is the most common term in the US, similar in use to "tap" in British English. Spigot is used by professionals in the trade (such as plumbers), and typically refers to an outdoor fixture. Silcock (and sillcock), same as "spigot", referring to a...

Now while we're at it, you wouldn't mind if I advertised the Python script I just wrote to find duplicate files with same or different names (and much more), do you?

0

A: How to find ONLY duplicate files that have different names?

I have another, far more flexible and easy to use solution for you! Copy the script below and paste it to /usr/local/bin/dupe-check (or any other location and file name, you need root permissions for this one). Make it executable by running this command: sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/dupe-check ...

(and yes, that's my 2nd answer to this question)

This one should probably be closed (see my last comment below the Q) askubuntu.com/q/731167/367990

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

1:46 PM

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Q: Which linux distro is more suitable for me

I am new in Linux environment. I am currently using the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but it's not running as i expected, because my PC don't have high configuration. Here's my system configuration Memory : 2.9 GiB Processor : Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz × 2 Graphics : Intel® G33 x86/MMX/SSE2...

linux ubuntu distributions

Pandya

How about using "For software and hardware in general" instead of Windows for:

Byte Commander

@Pandya Probably those looking for windows would not find where to go any more then...

My proposal instead (@Pandya):

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Q: Modify close reason banner and create an "Off-Topic Compass" site on Meta?

I have answered Add Elementary OS Stack Exchange to the off topic banner with a proposal which got a positive feedback, so I'm now writing it as separate feature request here: Make a more flexible and user-friendly OFF-TOPIC close banner What about rewording the banner to something like Thi...

discussion feature-request close-reasons

Pandya

2:02 PM

@ByteCommander Sounds good!

user136984

@ByteCommander: Wow! Loads of upvotes I see you have there! :)

user136984

@ByteCommander: Have any of the mods agreed that it would be a good thing to implement because maybe then they will?

Pandya

@ParanoidPanda sed s/Loads/Loats/?

user136984

@Pandya: What?

Pandya

2:30 PM

@ParanoidPanda that was mistake. chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/27419414#27419414 > /dev/null

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:44 PM

0

Q: lxde stop auto maximize vertical when moving window to right edge of screen

I am running lxle version 14.04.3. I would like to stop lxde from maximizing my window vertically when I drag a window to the right edge of the screen. Does anyone know how to change this setting?

ubuntu lxde

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

3:16 PM

0

Q: 'iptables -a' just hangs and never returns?

I'd like to redirect requests in on port 80 to a service I already have running on port 8443. I swear I've used this command before on other systems and it's worked: sudo iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8443 but when I run it now it seems to never re...

ubuntu iptables firewall

muru

3:39 PM

Tag synonym votes please:

askubuntu.com/tags/15.10/synonyms

ubuntu-15.10 is like a weed.

user136984

I want to fix some code, but the code is on github, so how do I do that? Do I somehow submit a patch or how does it work? And what exactly is a "pull request"?

Seth

@muru has it come back before?

muru

@Seth I have retagged it at least once each on the past four days

Seth

@ParanoidPanda fork, make changes, submit pull request

muru

I'd guess around 15 questions so far

Seth

3:42 PM

@muru so you've nuked it 4 times? ouch.

user136984

@Seth: Fork?

muru

Worse, after I nuke, I think of suggesting synonyms, but you can't suggest a tag without questions. :/

user136984

Is there a spoon too?

Seth

sigh

user136984

And knife perhaps?

user136984

3:43 PM

What about the food? And the plate?

Seth

maybe actually do some research instead of expect us to do all the work for you?

user136984

I was hoping you would direct me to some good documentation as all the stuff I've looked through has just confused me...

muru

@ParanoidPanda gun.io/blog/how-to-github-fork-branch-and-pull-request

and help.github.com/categories/…

Seth

@ParanoidPanda oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/pullrequest

This is really old, but might still be helpful too:

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A: What is the process to get those pro-forma-comments into the "central script"?

Are you talking about the remote sources? Those are hosted on GitHub for all to contribute to. The project's page is here: AskUbuntu / ProFormaComments. I must admit, it was my addition that caused that last parse error and made everything stop working ;) Thanks to AmithKK for finding an...

user136984

@muru @Seth: Ah, thanks guys! :)

Seth

3:47 PM

@muru synonymised

or however you spell that in verb form.

muru

TBH, I have no idea what the whole s/z thing is about. :D

Thanks!

Seth

0

Q: Tried installing umbunu on Windows by mounting a disc not burning to disc. Install stuck at boot process

Can I cancel installation of Ubuntu from cmd screen if installation stopped due to no physical disc being inserted.

system-installation

okay, I think umbunu is new even to me o_O

muru

How did he get Ubuntu right in the question? O.o

edward torvalds

with $1="Documents/Books/Unix\ -\ Linux/Unix/\Unix.pdf"
fileName="$(basename -z -- \"$1\")"
I am getting error: `basename: extra operand ‘Linux/Unix/Unix.pdf`

muru

@edwardtorvalds command substitution starts a new quoting context

you don't need to escape quotes within $(...)

edward torvalds

3:55 PM

?

muru

filename="$(basename -z -- "$1")"

edward torvalds

fileName="$(basename -z -- "$1")" will work?

Ok

@muru but there are double qoutes between double qoutes

don't we need to escape them

muru

quotes within command subsitution within quotes

33

Q: Quoting within $(command substitution) in Bash

In my Bash environment I use variables containing spaces, and I use these variables within command substitution. Unfortunately I cannot find the answer on SE. What is the correct way to quote my variables? And how should I do it if these are nested? DIRNAME=$(dirname "$FILE") or do I quote o...

bash shell quoting command-substitution

edward torvalds

thanks

user136984

I want to edit some text to fix some confusion in a project, can I do that without having to also fix the translations in the other files?

user136984

3:57 PM

Do I have to do the translations too in the translation files or do I leave that to the developers?

muru

You should probably ask the developers what their policy is.

edward torvalds

is this double quotes after double quotes legal (but works)
touch temp
a=te
b=mp
mv "$a""$b" temp2

?

Seth

I'd say it's legal

edward torvalds

OK

user139252

I knew it was too good to be true. Work started filtering my UDP traffic again :(

Seth

4:11 PM

One of my friends has a proxy that sends all his traffic through ICMP.

user139252

My VPN runs on UDP as well as TCP. I never have any issues over the TCP connection, but it's slower than UDP

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

4:25 PM

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Q: Ubuntu Snappy for a development machine

So Ubuntu Snappy core is supposed to be super lightweight. I was thinking to put that on a server, ssh to it and use it to write code. Would that work? Does it come with desktop environment? Can I install regular old packages via apt-get or am I limited to docker apps?

ubuntu development

terdon

@Seth ^^ is that on topic here? I'm thinking of migrating but I have no idea if this new snappy core thing would be welcome.

Seth

@terdon askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/ubuntu-core ;)

kos

@edwardtorvalds https://i.imgflip.com/ytruo.jpg

Seth

Is it off-topic on U&L?

Mateo

it's cool here

terdon

4:30 PM

@Seth Not as such, it's just better suited for AU since it's such an Ubuntu-centric Q.

Mateo

desktop environment - no, work on a server - yes, apt-get - no, limited to docker - no

terdon

@Seth you might want to add snappy core and Ubuntu touch to the on topic page.

Here you go: askubuntu.com/questions/731281/…

Seth

@terdon bleh, are they not there?

Mateo

they have Ubuntu in the name and started by canonical

terdon

@Seth Nope, just checked.

Seth

4:32 PM

alright.

terdon

Ah, no, touch is there my bad.

Mateo

touch is the code name - the don't use that official anymore

edward torvalds

@muru but it works

user136984

Is this answer fine? Because it feels a little bit of a strange answer...

edward torvalds

@muru or you might wanna explain why it is illegal or where it would fail?

kos

4:44 PM

@ParanoidPanda Sounds legit to me.

@ParanoidPanda But do you mean "fine" as in "it will work"? If so that I don't know.

@edwardtorvalds I think you want me, not muru. Are our avatars that similar? You're not the first one confusing us.

However no the picture was just for fun :)

It's exactly the same as mv "$a$b"

edward torvalds

@kos LOL, i was talking to him previously :-p

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda Bronze badge :p

edward torvalds

is this good way to add forward slash?
mv "$path/$file" "anything" ?

kos

Resists to quote his previous message...

edward torvalds

@kos me?

user136984

4:52 PM

@kos: I don't know, it just seems to not be a very good answer, plus the question has already been solved, and this answer is not very detailed... There is really no point in it being there, that's what I mean...

kos

@edwardtorvalds Yep. :)

Mateo

@Seth so he mounted it - ran wubi I guess, then it restarted and lost the disk?

edward torvalds

@kos I don't understand

Seth

@Mateo I have no idea

it doesn't make any real sense.

kos

@ParanoidPanda You mean it should be deleted? If it doesn't work IMO it should be just downvoted, deleting is for when they don't attempt to answer, or when they are extremely useless.

@edwardtorvalds Me neither, I just meant that I would have wanted to quote my previous message to address your second question but that I resisted to do so.

edward torvalds

4:58 PM

OK

btw

is this good way to add forward slash?
mv "$path/$file" "anything" ?

Mateo

wubi is the only thing I can think of - probably ran with a virtual CD
program that mounts iso's

kos

@edwardtorvalds Yes, why not?

edward torvalds

OK

I am using it with mv command didn't want any side effect