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@NathanOsman You mark a question as a dupe and it adds a comment under you name saying possible dupe. If you then delete that comment, does it also delete the close vote?

Nathan Osman

@chaskes I don't believe it does.

chaskes

Ok, thanks

user139252

2:47 AM

I bought a new pen. I'm in a better mood now

Nathan Osman

A gel pen?

user139252

Papermate Inkjoy

Nathan Osman

Looks like a decent pen.

Serg

And I've read that as "Premature Inkjoy" . . . somebody needs to take my mind out of the gutter

Videonauth

3:03 AM

lol serg :D

looked to long at code already ?

So now that i have a coffee, good morning people :)

Serg

Morning Videonaut

No, not really. Zachare thinks I have chronic dyslexia ,and i think he might be right . . .

I'm just flipping through a book on Unix inter-process communication, and I am thinking . . . there's a wealth of info, but I hardly ever sit down with a book and digest it these days. I need to do that more often . There's so much interesting C code there

Videonauth

well I'm somehow not fond of diagnoses given over the net

yeah , i have an other problem i dream of code, i have a great idas but as soon i sit down to bring it on paper or other forms of writing it down i get lost in detals and details of details

Serg

3:22 AM

Yeah , usually whatever ideas i have in my dreams are hard to remember

Once I've been going crazy over this electronics project so much , that i started doing calculations in my sleep lol Like literally sleeping and seeing engineering paper with numbers appearing on it

Videonauth

for me its more daydreaming of code, im insomniac so i barely sleep, sometimes simply lay in bed but still awake the whole time

Serg

Insomnia sucks. My sleep schedule is messed up anyway, but every once in a while I just happen to be unable to fall asleep. Recently that wasn't a problem though, because i am waking up early so it gets to the point that i come back home and just pass out

Videonauth

for this im even an early retiree at 43

Serg

Eh, if your body does protest too much, you gotta follow its lead.

regardless of age

Videonauth

yep, but its hard i can tell you i rather would like to work, all the hassle to get pension funds and all that stresses out and its to less to live and to much to die

Serg

3:32 AM

yeah , i can (sort of) understand

anyhows, i'm gonna go for a smoke, and probably continue playing with qdbus

or C

I wanna learn so many things. It's like, I've so many books on coding and yet i can hardly ever get to reading them

3

Videonauth

:) i hear ya, know that all to well myself, to much to learn and so less time

@NathanOsman your a code guru as far i have recognized in the chat here maybe you have an idea what packe to get or what to maybe build and install self to complete this answer, i got everything build except that terminal part of the plugins.

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A: Install `gedit-plugin` for a downgraded version of gedit

The following command you should have done already as you folowwed the tutorial how to downgrade to lower version of gedit (if not do it aswell): sudo apt-get build-dep gedit Then run the following: sudo apt-get build-dep gedit-plugins sudo apt-get install libvte* python-vte Then i assume y...

Nathan Osman

3:53 AM

Unfortunately I'm on my phone at the moment.

user139252

4:26 AM

I wonder how easy it would be to replace Mint with Ubuntu

Serg

4:39 AM

O_O new potential toy/home server detected

cheap apple mac mini also detected . . .mmm, maybe i should save money for that, you know , for scientific purposes

Journeyman Geek

probably trivial

user139252

It looks really neat, and I could totally free up a Pi or two with it

user139252

I need somebody to pay me for a server bundle so that I can justify buying it for myself :p

Journeyman Geek

I prefer one of these tho amazon.com/ASRock-Beebox-Black-N3000-Fanless/dp/B013F6MC38/…

semi passively cooled (has a fan when you need it) 2 ram slots (I have 8gb on mine), msata and laptop sata...

user139252

Yes. Definitely need somebody to pay me now

Journeyman Geek

4:44 AM

I have the windows varient (simply cause it also has a emmc)

user139252

Or somebody could buy me a birthday gift a month early :p. Or I could go find a new job and not wait until the school year starts....

user139252

Too many options!

Journeyman Geek

;p

Pity you arn't local ;p

(I'd be all "hey, I have a unreliable spare NUC class machine. If it dies, you can just get it swapped out if its under warranty. Just pay me whatever you feel like paying for it")

Though, that's partially cause you're hosting stuff for people and that's cool

but not cool enough for me to take the effort and money to ship it ;p

user139252

How far are you? :p

Journeyman Geek

Singapore ;p

user139252

4:52 AM

Yeah, that's a bit of a drive

Journeyman Geek

(and yeah, I've sold spare hardware to local folks that way)

If it was out of warranty, I'd just give it away. I've destroyed 2 so far ;p

user139252

I'm trying to host stuff for people. Everyone in my area says "Wix is fine, and it's free"

user139252

But you don't get your own domain, or email, or cloud storage....

Journeyman Geek

eww wix

I've seen some truely horrendous stuff the other day on it

user139252

I know, right?

Journeyman Geek

4:55 AM

Yeah

user139252

Did you see the awful site I posted the other day?

user139252

monarchfunzone.com

Journeyman Geek

looks like it was done in an older version of MS word

user139252

They still said they were happy with it

jokerdino

5:30 AM

@TheBrownOne -.-

Nathan Osman

@TheBrownOne That is utterly horrific.

I would actively avoid that place.

Lemme see if I can find the world's worst website though...

@TheBrownOne theworldsworstwebsiteever.com

There we go.

Videonauth

eeks

edward torvalds

5:50 AM

o/

hi guys

Diagon

6:29 AM

Wow. This is new...

any libreboot calc gurus around?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Cinnamon DE - View all global key bindings?

I'm using Cinnamon 2.8.6 on Ubuntu 16.04. How do I identify which process is grabbing a hotkey or combination shortcut? I tried How do I find out what program 'owns' a hotkey?. However, xdotool key XF86LogGrabInfo produced thousands of lines of output, far beyond that accessible from a single ta...

Jacob Vlijm

7:43 AM

Note that "die" means "That one" in Dutch :)

Videonauth

Well two hours of fiddling around for nothing ... askubuntu.com/a/765307/522934

kiran bbnl

8:06 AM

hello...

i need help

regarding the hosts allow/ deny options in apache 2 webserver which runs on ubuntu

how can i avoid selected hosts to be allowed/denied from the server...??

its urgent.....please be kind enough to help

somebody out there....?

Windowsinsider BoomTech

8:54 AM

Well i was off and @ParanoidPanda went all rage on me and hurt my feelings :(

@ParanoidPanda Think about it before going all ham on me. Also/Reported

kiran bbnl

hello...
i need help
regarding the hosts allow/ deny options in apache 2 webserver which runs on ubuntu
how can i avoid selected hosts to be allowed/denied from the server...??
its urgent.....please be kind enough to help
somebody out there....?

Windowsinsider BoomTech

Sorry- me a complete newbie. Should join SuperUser

kiran bbnl

anybody else out there??????

Windowsinsider BoomTech

Sorry- your on your own. (I think)

kiran bbnl

awesome

so am just screwed

Windowsinsider BoomTech

9:03 AM

Check back tommorow

let me try to ping seth

@kiranbbnl, you can ask a question

kiran bbnl

regarding a specific answer for how to deny access for the outer world to my apache2 webserver.

ssh should be allowed

and my official netwok shud be able to access the web sites

but no access from outside

so how can i allow my official network alone to port 80 and deny everything else........???????

Windowsinsider BoomTech

Ask a question back on askubuntu.com

kiran bbnl

done

Windowsinsider BoomTech

Oke

Deploy the link!

user136984

11:58 AM

@WindowsinsiderBoomTech: Dear me, you know, all you new users seem to be too easily offendable some reason, and you think that that's me getting "all rage"? Seriously? :D You new people have no sense of humour at all... I'm even starting to confuse you all... :D

user136984

12:16 PM

Confuse you all with each other that is.

user136984

12:33 PM

Oh my god... Another one! :D

user136984

What is it with these people? :D

user136984

And this is not the first time I've seen one of these... :D

user136984

They also put graphics as the tag... :D

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Q: How to install Octave without GUI in Ubuntu 16.04?

I am really angry. Just installed the new ubuntu and run apt-get install octave. I got tons of crap installed (like Java, some QT libraries, and other pollution). How can I install Octave in Ubuntu 16.04 without the dependency to any GUI stuff? If the latest version of Octave does not have a "cl...

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Intrus

@ParanoidPanda Pregnant one? :D A troll for sure.

user136984

12:39 PM

@Intrus: Yes, or just a crazy person who thinks we can help for some reason... :D

user136984

But you've got to admit, those ones are quite funny, especially as they're not even trying to sell anything or anything like that, they're just joking around (hopefully)... :D

user136984

I find it rather amusing to see things like that from time to time. :D

user136984

VTC this EOL question.

Intrus

This is also an option, but it would be too sad :D
I hope that somebody is just bored.

But why he has the tag 14.04?

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Q: do not follow mouse focus

On my Ubuntu 14.04 I have a lightweight window manager wmii where a mouse motion changes a window's focus. This is annoying and I want to change this behaviour, i.e. if only I left-click on a window, the focus has to be switched to it. I'm not sure if this is a feature of X Window in general or t...

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user136984

12:48 PM

@Intrus: Well, clearly he has got confused about the version he is running... It will either be 15.04 with the wrong tag, or 14.04 with the wrong one in the body and title. Maybe we should ask him...

Zacharee1

1:03 PM

gr

I forgot my mouse at school

Intrus

@Zacharee1 It happened to me twice, always found it :D You will too.

Zacharee1

I didn't lose it :P

Just left it in my dorm room

Videonauth

o/ people

Zacharee1

\o

Intrus

@Zacharee1 What do you study? If I may know :P

Zacharee1

1:17 PM

Not in college

Intrus

Aha, now I am confused :D

Zacharee1

High school

Intrus

Aha, I just thought that if you are in a dorm, that you go to college :)

Videonauth

1:33 PM

sighs askubuntu.com/questions/762079/…

Zacharee1

Umm: askubuntu.com/questions/765429/…

Videonauth

nice again one answered in comment

and in my case another guy who changes the options on a question

di i read that right lol O_o ....

am i pregnant or not. i need help please
I had unprotected sex on the 21 April and took the morning after pill on the 22nd April but I was on my period when I took it. I come of the period on the 27th April but I'm spotting and I have really ...

asked 1 hour ago

Zacharee1

where?

Videonauth

meanwhiel deleted

here on AU lol

Zacharee1

lol

Was it spam?

Videonauth

1:47 PM

dunno its gone for sure lol

for sure not about ubuntu :p

Mahesh

Doesn't look like it's related to Ubuntu. Unless Ubuntu diversified into a few new avenues while I was away.

Videonauth

xD

thats the 9 month support version of 16.05 codename iffy effy :p

Henry White Hat Hacker

On a quest to find out how to prevent an infinite while loop.

I hate python loops.

user139252

2:03 PM

Use a break statement

Henry White Hat Hacker

I figured it out

@TheBrownOne Yes that works too

user139252

Or give it a reason to make the while condition not true

user139252

Or use a for loop instead

user139252

Lots of choices :p

Henry White Hat Hacker

I want a slow infinite loop not a fast infinite loop

I really should of took your python course. :(

I am going later everyone.

Did anyone know who the first askubuntu user was hint: It was me. ;)

user139252

2:40 PM

@HenryWhiteHatHacker You can use a time.sleep() to delay cycles of the loop.

user139252

Of course, you have to import time first. Or you could do from time import sleep to write just sleep() instead of time.sleep()

Henry White Hat Hacker

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Q: How can I make a time delay in Python?

I would like to know how to put a time delay in a Python script.

python sleep timedelay

Ask Ubuntu Meta

2:57 PM

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Q: Topbar design is out of date

Ubuntu redesigned their website, meaning Ask Ubuntu's top bar is out of date. Note how the top bar "jumps" about:

bug design

Videonauth

4:10 PM

I seriously ask myself why i go throu that much hassle for answering a question ... i run in more and more problems on answering that, now it compiles and installs but wont run :/

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A: Install `gedit-plugin` for a downgraded version of gedit

The following command you should have done already as you folowwed the tutorial how to downgrade to lower version of gedit (if not do it aswell): sudo apt-get build-dep gedit Then run the following: sudo apt-get build-dep gedit-plugins sudo apt-get install libvte* python-vte libgconf* Then ...

Seth

@Videonauth I know your pain.

Videonauth

yeah i just wish someone would have aclue for me, i mean its all fine so far just the plugin for terminal cant be enabled it runs into an error and this way my answer isnt going to be accepted

im on that already since ~10 hours

user139252

What movie should I watch?

user139252

I've got X-Men: Origins on right now, but I'm remembering that it wasn't that good.

Seth

so this is a general question?

user139252

4:24 PM

Yeah :P

Seth

what kind of movies do you like?

user139252

All kinds, but mostly comic-book ones. I watched Deadpool and Force Awakens last night, though.

TheXed

@TheBrownOne is this multiple choice?

user139252

You may suggest more than one :P

TheXed

@TheBrownOne no what I am asking, is how do we know what movies you have access to?

Seth

4:28 PM

I don't watch many comic book movies.

user139252

Watching Deadpool made me want to watch Origins, but then I remembered most of Origins was kinda sucky

Seth

actually, now that I think about it, I don't watch many movies at all lol.

user139252

@TheXed I have $22.07 in Google Play credit, I can buy anything in the Play store

TheXed

Okay let me look

DareDevil, the netflix Original

you can get the entire season for 24.99

or subsribe to netlix for 9.99

you can get a free month of netflix if you haven't already

user139252

Already watched both seasons this month :P

user139252

4:33 PM

Oh yeah, I also have Netflix and Hulu Plus, so anything there.

TheXed

Watch Flash yet?

user139252

No, not yet. Is it good?

TheXed

or Arrow?

Seth

yes. I've seen some of flash.

user139252

Last time I looked at Flash or Arrow, they only had the last, like, 4 episodes.

TheXed

4:35 PM

I have only watched 2-3 episodes...

user139252

But that was a while ago.

TheXed

it was okay but you might like it..

Seth

Arrow has a more Daredevil like story.

TheXed

The first season of flash is on netflix (20 eps.)

user139252

Hm. I can try Arrow first.

Seth

4:37 PM

flash is a spinoff of arrow..

sorta.

TheXed

3 seasons of arrow on netflix

user139252

I've never been a huge fan of DC Comics characters, but it's worth a shot.

TheXed

@Seth I wouldn't call it a spinoff but they are in the same universe...

Seth

@TheXed yeah.

user139252

I like how Daredevil and Jessica Jones are in the same universe, but they haven't crossed paths yet.

Seth

4:39 PM

oh arrow and flash have crossovers all the time :P

TheXed

Gotham is REALLY good

first season is on netflix....

user139252

I tried Gotham... first season was okay

user139252

Second season was just meh

TheXed

@TheBrownOne oh I have enjoyed it...

Got to go, let me know what you settle on :-D

user139252

I'm going to rewatch Lost now :P

user139252

4:41 PM

Watching Origins reminded me of Dominic Monaghan, Charlie from Lost

Videonauth

well i give finaly up on that answer

Seth

should I upgrade to 16.04?

Videonauth

@seth only if you not plan on installing a stoneage version of gedit

Seth

ooh, good point.

I actually use gedit extensively..

Guess I'll switch to mousepad..

user139252

4:56 PM

Alright, if my daughter takes a nap, forget the TV. I'm playing 0ad.

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Q: Getting Ubuntu to Recognize USB Wifi

So, I'm really new to Linux systems and have just downloaded Ubuntu on my other desktop. The problem I'm having is getting it to recognize the USB wifi, TP-Link AC600 Archer T2UH. I went to the companies website and they have a download for driver and pdf instructions. I'm able to follow th...

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jokerdino

5:20 PM

Hey, in the dreamspace, does the totem shake at all?

Seth

@TheBrownOne have fun!

Videonauth

5:32 PM

anyone to close this as duplicate ? askubuntu.com/questions/765509/…

user139252

@jokerdino No.

user136984

@Seth Well, my 16.04 VMs are basically unusable due to the amount of bugs... And everyone more or less here I've spoken to running 16.04 have been having a hard buggy time too... So like me, it might be best to at least wait until 16.04.1 has been released. I am currently running 15.10, and planning to do that, though I'd much rather stay with what I'm running now. :)

user136984

You're probably all going to attack me now saying you run 16.04 and it's all fine. :P

Zacharee1

I know this is a dupe. It's also too broad: askubuntu.com/q/765524/274320

jokerdino

@TheBrownOne Thanks

Zacharee1

5:37 PM

@ParanoidPanda well for me it is, but I can acknowledge that there have been a lot of bugs.

Videonauth

4

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda it's probable that 16.04 has some bug with running in a VM

@Videonauth edit it with a .jpg after

And take out the parentheses

There

jokerdino

@Videonauth that's called enbugging.

Videonauth

thanks :)

Zacharee1

@jokerdino debugging --> enbugging

jokerdino

5:42 PM

the only way to debug is to remove code.

can we remove that? I dont know how many naive ones are around.

Videonauth

np

i think the people who shoudl see this gag recieved it

:)

user136984

@Zacharee1: So do you think that for me to upgrade to 16.04 now would be a good idea or do you think if I am fine with what I am currently running that I could wait a while for most of the important bugs around now to be fixed? :)

Mahesh

I didn't. :(

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda wait :p

@jokerdino what was it?

user136984

What kind of bugs do you currently experience?

jokerdino

5:57 PM

@Zacharee1 rm

Videonauth

@Zacharee1 the only way to make linux faster