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@TheBrownOne cool!

user139252

To use: Upload music, log-in in the browser, go to Personal, point it to your directory, go to Music instead of Files

@Zacharee1 indeed my thought or better to say im close to write RTFM :p

@Videonauth I have no idea what I said to you :p

12:16 AM

@Zacharee1 then look here

OH

heh

derp

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lol

:)

Gah, the ownCloud sync client is so annoying sometimes

idk why, but it seems to decide that it no longer wants to sync inside the website folder, so it just uploads everything to the home folder

5,712 rep

user139252

12:27 AM

hm, did you move things around?

Slowly getting to 10k

@TheBrownOne nope

I fixed it though

user139252

Windows or Ubuntu client?

Deleted the sync connection, re-added it, tested it, then deleted the extra folders

@TheBrownOne guess

user139252

I'm using the 14.04 on 16.04 without any problems :p

Wrong guess :p

user139252

12:28 AM

I figured you were using Windows

user139252

I was just pointing out that Ubuntu has no problems :P

Well I'm going to go lie in bed and read some CFH, pretending I don't have this critical essay outline due Monday

@TheBrownOne why should it? :p

Windowsinsider BoomTech

12:54 AM

tada!

I'm on google 0_O

                                                  google

We don't take spams.

LOL

Does anyone know if the AMD GPU Pro driver supports all chips in the volcanic islands series?

Windowsinsider BoomTech

search up "boomtech microsoft answers" on google LOL 0_o

:9

1:10 AM

@NathanOsman Wut...

user139252

1:23 AM

Why am I so bored? D:

Because

@Zacharee1 what do you mean "wut"?

It was a confusing sentence for me ;p

I have a card in the volcanic islands series (an AMD Radeon R9 270X) and I am curious if it will work with the driver...

Try it?

Anonymous

1:43 AM

@Zacharee1 check out the site. revamped
https://fathomless-hamlet-18781.herokuapp.com/

I can do that.

I just wondered if I could save myself the effort by asking.

@onebree nice!

:29330094 ur a hlp vempr

Anonymous

The sidebar idea got nixed, but now the nav is cleaner

It is

I don't know why chat duplicates messages. Seems to happen when I have an unreliable connection.

1:46 AM

What if you put some sort of "recipe of the day" thing on the side? It could put a random recipe link every day

@NathanOsman happens to me too sometimes

(Just kidding :p)

I have a really weak 3G connection right now.

Okay, lol.

But I have actually experienced it

Imagine being on 2 bars of 1x/2G

I've got no bars right now.

So I'm getting worse than 2G speeds.

Must be this concrete building I'm in...

Anonymous

night, all!

user139252

G'Night!

user139252

1:54 AM

So, it seems like the music interface for BrownCloud is a little heavy for a Pi... might have to switch it over to something a little beefier...

user139252

Anyone wanna donate? :P

muru

2:37 AM

Spam the daylights out of askubuntu.com/questions/764684/…

@SmokeDetector Smoke Detector got a new avatar.

ONE SPAM DOWN MAW!

4:00 AM

I'm back.

4:14 AM

@HenryWhiteHatHacker hi

Haven't seen u in a while

Wait I thought I just saw Mr Serg spooky!

@SQuirel Hello.

4:33 AM

Hi

@SQuirel You just said that.

Welcome back SQL.

How's everything going?

No one is in the chat but me and you.

I don't have much time tho

I'm on mobile

They shud let us use chat in the terminal

@SQuirel What did you do with SQuirel?

@SQuirel Normal

6:10 AM

Hi world

Hello, SQL squirrel :)

morning serg

how are you today ?

Evening here, 12:22 AM , about to go to bed, but wanna wait for response form one OP. Or maybe i should just post first

anyone who may have a look at my script example here for corectness, typed it out of my head from my mobile askubuntu.com/a/764747/522934

Very decent. OP however wants something like -a -b flags thing. Let me actually post something . . .

@Videonauth askubuntu.com/a/764752/295286

6:31 AM

just read it very nice i never thought of doing my scripts like that

especially your style of script alows for even recursive work

while my style is more linear programming

@Videonauth your style is the way shell scripts are properly done. I'm just using more C-like style , because I sort of miss it :D Also because I am a weird dude. But yeah, using functions like that allows recursion which is really cool.

the OP is sadly now that he got answers suddendly very picky, have a look at his comments :)

Q: Custom commands with options

@Seth @jokerdino May someone please merge

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How to create custom shell script/command with flags/options ? $ command -t 2 -h "File"

with this:

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Q: Shell script options with parsing arguments

I have the shell script CONTROLLER_IP="" if [ "$#" -eq 1 ] then CONTROLLER_IP=$1 else echo "Usage : create_endpoint.sh --controller-ip <Controller IP>" exit 1 fi but its executing like this ./create_endpoint.sh 10.10.10.1 I want to execute like this /create_endpoint.sh --controll...

command-line scripts

6:53 AM

VTC/OT: askubuntu.com/q/764750/36315

7:08 AM

OK, I'm off for tonight guys. o/

Sleep well

8:44 AM

VUZE: askubuntu.com/questions/764807/… isn't that some crappy torrent client?

indeed it is

if hes installing this from a .deb file he could try to unpack it and install it by hand

8:57 AM

@Videonauth Answered. Don't know why. Slept like 5 hours last night :(

Q: Sudden problem with a rack/passenger ruby app: "Connection closed"

9:28 AM

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I have a Ruby 1.8.7 app which runs under Phusion Passenger and Nginx, for one of my clients, on an Ubuntu VPS. It's been ticking away happily for years, but yesterday ran out of log space (sending me an error via monit which i use to monitor it). I cleared out the bloated log file by doing the ...

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10:14 AM

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user136984

10:34 AM

If I get additional RAM for my computer, if I then put it in my computer will I later be able to take it out again to insert into a new computer when I get one?

user136984

10:50 AM

Why was this closed as off-topic?

kos

@ParanoidPanda It depends on the memory's type (most PCs use DDR3 nowadays) and speed: you should be able to use a stick faster than the maximum speed supported by the "other" motherboard (though it will be slowed down), but not to use a stick slower than the minimum speed supported by the "other" motherboard

user136984

@kos: Right, thanks! So how do I find out the memory type and other necessary information for this?

kos

@ParanoidPanda Hm, sudo dmidecode -t17 for the speed, but I don't remember how to check the type.

Ah, dmidecode actually reports also the type.

11:13 AM

anyone of you know how to change the location where the pdf printer saves its files ?

user136984

@kos: Ah, right! Thanks! :)

Any git experts around?

I'm trying to pull changes into my branch from the master branch and, despite there being differences, git pull origin master (when run from my branch) does nothing and tells me everything is up to date.

However, when I switch to the master branch, I can see the changes are there. I can also see them with git diff master filename.

there is origin/master and then there is the local master.

try git remote -v update

it should keep your branches up to date with remote.

@jokerdino They're up to date. I've already run git checkout master; git pull.

maybe you are looking for merge?

I only get these things right when I am messing with it.

11:18 AM

$ git merge master
Already up-to-date.
$ git diff master common.ph | wc
183     754    6565

Both run from my branch.

what does git status say?

>Your branch is ahead of 'origin/terdon' by 58 commits.
(use "git push" to publish your local commits)

But that's because the upstream of my branch is terdon, not master. I'm trying to bring in the changes from master into terdon.

$ git checkout master
Switched to branch 'master'
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
$ git pull
Already up-to-date.

And master is up to date.

Hold on, let me look into my repo to get an idea on how to proceed.

Thanks. I'm writing up a question on SO too.

To clarify, you want to pull changes from origin/master to master?

11:28 AM

@jokerdino No, I want to pull changes from origin/master to terdon.

Are you in terdon branch then?

@jokerdino Yes. This might clarify: stackoverflow.com/questions/36937207/…

Q: Git merge reports "Already up-to-date" though there is a difference

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I have a git repository with 2 branches: master and test. There are differences between master and test branches. Both branches have all changes committed. If I do: git checkout master git diff test A screen full of changes appears showing the differences. I want to merge the changes in th...

git merge

I think that might be your case.

try to git log --graph

Hang on, let me read that.

OK. What am I looking for?

Check if all commits in the remote branch is already in your local branch.

If yes, it will claim to be up to date. So, you should be pushing rather than pulling.

11:33 AM

Huh? But I can see differences in the master that are not in mine.

* commit 800a899fbb88ac16d1856f6d199ffba7817fba6b
| Author: terdon
| Date:   Fri Apr 29 13:09:56 2016 +0200
|
|     use local tmp dir and allow 12G mem for novosort
|
*   commit d8c90a8a53ba803be8a5593c4470eed4ac9b6e40
|\  Merge: 7635f22 46edf86
| | Author: terdon
| | Date:   Fri Apr 29 13:03:08 2016 +0200
| |
| |     Merge branch 'master' of github.com:foo/foo into terdon
| |

The top one is my latest commit in the terdon branch. The one below is telling me I merged master -> terdon. Great, but if so, where are the changes in master? How come I can't see them?

can you find any diff between terdon and master?

git diff terdon master

Loads:

$ git diff cchapple master | wc
   1940    8389   77113

how is your .gitignore looking?

I've never touched it, that shouldn't be the issue.

If it's supposed to be in the same directory, I don't even have one.

master is in sync with origin/master.
terdon is in sync with origin/terdon.

You want to bring changes from origin/master to terdon.

11:39 AM

Yup

$ git pull origin/master
fatal: 'origin/master' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

use checkout for that.

@jokerdino ?

But my local master branch is up to date with the remote. All the changes I want to bring in are already in my local master branch.

git checkout origin/master newname

let's do it from scratch

That tries to check out a file called newname from origin/master

lets see if it is your working branch or something weird.

oh crap. forgot the -b switch

11:41 AM

Ah, right: git checkout origin/master -b newname ?

yess

$ git checkout origin/master -b newname
Branch newname set up to track remote branch master from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'newname'

git diff newname master

if you got changes, then master has some commits that are not in the remote branch.

Nope, no changes

No output

same case with terdon branch too?

11:50 AM

Hang on

No, git diff newname terdon returns loads of changes, as expected.

Those are the ones I want to merge.

That looks like you got changes in terdon that are not in origin/master.

Your commit 800a899f might match with the diff.

@jokerdino I have changes in terdon that aren't in master and changes in master that aren't in terdon.

OK, are there new commits in master after you merged from master?

Um. I don't know, how would I check that?

Well, I do know that local master is up to date with remote, if that's what you mean.

git log origin/master --oneline

You can visualize the changes if you got gitk somewhere.

11:59 AM

I'm working on a remote machine with no X access.

@jokerdino That returns loads of stuff. Looks like the history of commits in master.

use --graph then

@terdon compare them with commits that you merged into terdon

26 mins ago, by terdon

* commit 800a899fbb88ac16d1856f6d199ffba7817fba6b
| Author: terdon
| Date:   Fri Apr 29 13:09:56 2016 +0200
|
|     use local tmp dir and allow 12G mem for novosort
|
*   commit d8c90a8a53ba803be8a5593c4470eed4ac9b6e40
|\  Merge: 7635f22 46edf86
| | Author: terdon
| | Date:   Fri Apr 29 13:03:08 2016 +0200
| |
| |     Merge branch 'master' of github.com:foo/foo into terdon
| |

Do you have the latest of commits in master already in terdon branch?

Yes.

Which is odd.

then you already have them merged :/

12:03 PM

Hang on, let me show you what I get. I need to redact it a bit.

$ git log origin/terdon --graph
* commit 800a899fbb88ac16d1856f6d199ffba7817fba6b
| Author: terdon
| Date:   Fri Apr 29 13:09:56 2016 +0200
|
|     use local tmp dir and allow 12G mem for novosort
|
*   commit d8c90a8a53ba803be8a5593c4470eed4ac9b6e40
|\  Merge: 7635f22 46edf86
| | Author: terdon
| | Date:   Fri Apr 29 13:03:08 2016 +0200
| |
| |     Merge branch 'master' of github.com:foo/foo into terdon
| |
| * commit 46edf86e2329f9351bff291eeb55e8cb13f70031
| | Author: Andreas
| | Date:   Fri Apr 29 09:37:47 2016 +0200

And:

$ git log origin/master --graph | head
* commit 46edf86e2329f9351bff291eeb55e8cb13f70031
| Author: Andreas
| Date:   Fri Apr 29 09:37:47 2016 +0200
|
|     bug fix with new transcriptomes not having pointer to reference genome
|

And yet, I don't see the changes that should be there and are there in the master when I check it out.

Are there any uncommitted changes in your working directory?

NOpe

git status would show that even if they were stashed, right?

(terdon) $ git stash list
stash@{0}: WIP on terdon: a7877dd Merge branch 'master' of github.com:foo/foo into terdon
stash@{1}: WIP on issue_429: 91056aa Merge branch 'master' of github.com:foo/foo into issue_429
stash@{2}: WIP on novoalign: 9062f0d novoalign fastq2bam
stash@{3}: WIP on 20160126: c580983 Merging master

Not sure about stash. Try checking out your last commit on terdon and comparing it with master.

?

git checkout 800a899f -b terdoncommit

see if that works

we are going to find any difference between your working directory and terdoncommit branch.

12:17 PM

That will create a new branch called terdoncomit, right?

yes

OK, that worked, I'm in the new branch now.

git diff terdoncommit terdon

No output

try merging with master now

12:21 PM

(terdoncommit) $ git pull origin master
From github.foo/foo
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
Already up-to-date.

Q: how to move set of files in one-liner

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I wanted to move 1000 files in a directory to another dir. I can do it if I'm in the original dir but if I try this mv $(ls /home/jeremy/source|tail -1000) /home/jeremy/dest from elsewhere, the path gets stripped and so I would need to append the path somehow. I find the $ convenient and wa...

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that should be it. Every change you require from master is already there..

I gotta go now. If it is not urgent, I might help you with it again when I am back.

I know dammit. That's what it looks like. But they're not there! This is really annoying.

@jokerdino Of course. Thank you very much for your help!

if you want to, you can maybe try to cherry pick your latest commit in terdon on orig/master.

I dont know the syntax for cherry pick but I have done it a couple times.

Try to do it in a separate directory just to be safe.

ok cya later!

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12:36 PM

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Ubuntu 16.04 Qemu/KVM Windows 8.1 guest SSH from remote host into hypervisor, run virt-manager. Get prompted for creds: user1@hypervisor, authenticate successfully. Open guest, get prompted for creds user1@hypervisor but they are not accepted. Same credentials used for the first authentication...

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Anybody knows if HHVM can work with DirectAdmin?

12:51 PM

im actuall reviewing what tho make out of that one here ? askubuntu.com/a/764921/522934

@Videonauth He must have lost track, it's a non-answer. Looks a bit spammish? Yep, spam I think (ext 73)

thank you

well it leads to a polish site so i cant really determine what theres written

well i flagged it now as no answer

yeah, me too, did it before I looked at the link :)

1:29 PM

o/ @Serg

GUI morning folks !

:D

Morning ? its afternoon here :)

Well, it's 7:31 in Denver, I'm just sayin'

Hello :)

Hi @JacobVlijm @Serg @Videonauth and good morning / afternoon ! :)

o/ @cl-netbox

1:33 PM

@cl-netbox good morning :)

@Serg everything alright ? :)

Hi @cl-netbox and all. good day

@cl-netbox Yup, everything is good. And you ?

@Serg Nice ! :) and I am fine again ... after my router and repeater are back up and running ! :)

I should change my router at some point. It's been like 6 years since we got it

1:42 PM

Never touch a running system ....

@Serg a huge firmware upgrade broke them ... :(

Holy crap, there is am [Ask fedora ](ask.fedoraproject.org/en/questions)

32 Cool Things About the Tesla Model X

@blade19899 it was there for years already

I've tried asking there a question, never got a response :p

user139252

2:03 PM

@Serg I don't want a gooey morning!

Seth

►

@TheBrownOne what about a sticky one ? :D

user139252

No thank you

user139252

How about a warm one, with coffee and a puppy to snuggle?

That would be great . . . . all those things are at home though, and i am at work . . .

Note to self - keep professional looking photo on hand all the time. I need to submit a passport style photo, and i don't have none . . .

user139252

2:09 PM

You don't carry professional headshots with you everywhere you go? :p

Well since now I will start doing that . . . You never know when a stranger in a dark alley will cross your path and in raspy voice ask "GIMME YOUR RESUME"

Nice passport shot

He has such a determined look. totally not like a serial killer of some sort

On my passport photo i look like a serial killer, because i was in a killer mood after i found out how expensive biometric right photos are (30 euros), man i was so pissed and well guess how i look like

Journeyman Geek

People do paper resumes?

biometric photos ? what ?

Yeah, still do. Classics :D

yep photos for german passports have to be in a certain way which is strickly normed

Journeyman Geek

2:19 PM

I tend to email/upload PDFs or doc files

Yeah, for the US there's also requirements of how the photos should be done, but if you go to a place where they take photos, those guys know how to do it

Meanwhile

<----- this guy has no idea where his old C final project disappeared. So I'll have to retype it from a paper copy

why not ocr it

?

Em . . .it's a possible solution , though i am not quite sure how to use ocr or if our school computers have it

besides, I wanna make some changes to the file anyway

Journeyman Geek

You'll need to check it anyway so... might as well ;p

yeah, and i need to clean up the commenting style and indentation because it looks ugly

2:48 PM

hi

Hello , mr. dinosaur

Q: I'm able Start Service With init.d script, however doing service <service name> start does not work

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I'm able Start Service With init.d script, however doing service start does not work For eg /etc/init.d/haskal start The service is starting fine and service test start Service not running Ubuntu 12.04 #!/bin/sh HASKAL_BIN=/haskal/haskal/bin PID_FILE=/var/run/kibana.pid PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:...

shell-script ubuntu startup init.d

Who knows C here ?

3:05 PM

i find my way around tho

more a c++ guy

askubuntu.com/questions/765010/… ???

spam ?

not a question for sure !

OK, why doesn't the freakin compiler see my global variable ?

oh, duuuh, missing semicolon on the previous line

@Videonauth sharp! weird, he has earned at least some reputation.

@JacobVlijm i really dont know what to make of it, does he simply want to do a question and answer yourself style thing or is it spam

oh ok deleted

@Videonauth cool :) thanks to Seth

yep,, i scout mostly only the new questions section so i cone across the most weirdest stuff sometimes

3:30 PM

I am planning to upgrade 14.04->16.04. What happens to my 2 year worth of customizations,scripts and apps? Will it download all those applications again?

@shsh typically when you upgrade, most things should remain unchanged. Apps , if there are newer versions for them, will get upgraded. Generally, you don't want to just plunge into upgrade. Backup and then upgrade.

I will back up. I am on slow connection I am trying to get an idea how much it will download.

Also I want to know how will systemd comes into the picture. What happens to the scripts custumizaitons?

@shsh do you have any init scripts ? in /etc/init/ or /etc/init.d/ folder ?

@Serg I dnt think I have. That is the problem. I am not sure, it is like I read something on webpage edited some files pasted terminal commands to echo out somewhere and forgot about it.

Mateo

@chaskes yeah, very promising glance into future Ubuntu stuff - I heard they are making an installer interface for the x apps, can't wait

3:44 PM

@shsh well, if you didn't have anything custom there, then you shouldn't worry

Mateo

@shsh I usually buy another hard drive, install fresh, try important things out - don't like, or cant do everything, go back by swaping the drive back out, best way really, there always seems to never something

Also this:

omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/04/ubuntu-16-04-deb-software-install-error

Also all the time saved if you know it worked in your old install, vs trying to get something working is worth the money for the drive