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Zacharee1

12:00 AM

What's the loophole?

Terrance

The loophole is that they have 7 years to collect. After that, they can no longer collect or bother the person.

muru

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Q: Rapid flickering lines and blinking screen on 14.04 desktop

Starting yesterday, I've been seeing these rapidly flickering lines on my Ubuntu desktop. Each one is maybe 1-3" long and a random assortment of colors, like a block of a single row of pixels randomly chose new colors. It lasts for a very brief amount of time, <0.1s, but it happens on and off con...

Terrance

I ignored them for 7 years, because I knew that they would have to take me to court if they wanted their money, but it wasn't worth it to them. They would have lost money on that one.

muru

^ problem mysteriously disappeared

Zacharee1

@Terrance noice

Terrance

12:03 AM

@muru That sounds more like a hardware issue either with the monitor or cable. Not saying that is what it is, but what it sounds like to me as far as flickering goes.

Zacharee1

Is there a way to use the find command in Linux to search the whole FS for a filename?

muru

Yep, probably

Anonymous

@Zacharee1 I thought that was the point of find

muru

@Zacharee1 find /mount/point -xdev -name foo?

Zacharee1

@muru so find / -xdev -name logo.bin to search from the root?

@onebree I thought so, but I couldn't figure out the syntax

muru

12:05 AM

Yes. -xdev excludes other filesystems

Zacharee1

ah

thx

Terrance

Nice! I just learned something new here too! :D

Zacharee1

OK. I can't do it with -xdev because everything on Android is in its own partition

muru

:D

Zacharee1

But now it's searching

muru

12:07 AM

Then without the -xdev. You'll probably run into lots of errors on /proc and /sys, though.

Terrance

That is good to know. =)

Zacharee1

@muru we'll see :p

Is there a way to exclude a specific mountpoint, or do I just need to take out my SD card?

muru

You'll have to use the -prune option: Something like find / -name /sdcard/0 -prune -o -name foo

Zacharee1

whew

Anonymous

anyone here familiar with postgres setup?

Terrance

12:10 AM

Unfortunately, I am not.

Zacharee1

@muru is there a way to search for multiple filenames at once in the same command?

muru

-o is OR. Add as many as you need: find … $ -name foo -o -name bar $ and there's regex too: -regex '.*foo\|bar'

Zacharee1

ah thanks

muru

(don't recall the default regex flavour though)

Zacharee1

find / $ -name /storage/21DB-B957/ -prune -o logo.bin -o name logo.rle -o name splash.rle -o name splash.bin$ doesn't work

Wait

duh

Terrance

12:16 AM

@muru I was just looking at the same GRUB one you were on. Thank you for finding that. I was going to type something up, but you make it easier for me to vote. Thanks! =)

Zacharee1

I forgot the -name on one and forgot the - before name on the rest :p

@muru not to self-promote, but I think this might be a better answer to that GRUB question, since it explains that you shouldn't remove GRUB

Terrance

@Zacharee1 Awwww, I already upvoted that answer awhile ago.

Zacharee1

@Terrance that's just bad for both of us, now isn't it? :p

Terrance

@Zacharee1 LOL, Yep! :D

Zacharee1

Those two still haven't responsded to my edits

Terrance

12:27 AM

Edits on what?

Zacharee1

On my answer

They were all about how GRUB isn't needed, one gave me a downvote, and when I corrected my answer, no response

Terrance

That sucks!

I think that it is fine to say that GRUB is needed because it is a bootloader like any others.

Zacharee1

Well I said GRUB is absolutely needed

Terrance

I also never really did care what the grub screen looked like because it is a screen that you usually don't look at for more than a few seconds.

Good that you fixed that, and yes, I agree that they need to respond to you for that. I get what you meant though when you wrote the answer. =)

I have noticed that some people on the AU site are very critical of answers, but if you tell them that they're wrong, it is like you started WWIII

Zacharee1

lol

Videonauth

12:38 AM

humm how can i provide a password to the mysqldump command ?

Anonymous

@Videonauth mysqldump -p password

Videonauth

mhmmmm dowsnt work somehow

Seth

@muru +1 for the shruggie

Anonymous

okay, I cannot focus anymore tonight :-P Time for TV, youtube and GOT later

Anonymous

bye all! \o

Seth

12:47 AM

bye!

Terrance

@onebree Have a good night! :)

Seth

> This place is sad, full of agents trying to get people to download spyware Ubuntu like linux mint is controlled by us law enforcement and for this reason they dont want people to have access to open vpn technology, but no problem you can have a perfectly working music and video player!

Okay then.

Terrance

Ooooooookaaaaaaayyy What is that from?

Zacharee1

He's still here?

Terrance

That doesn't even make sense.

Zacharee1

12:51 AM

@Seth where is that? I don't see it on the question I thought it was from

Seth

deleted now

Zacharee1

drat

@Seth you should put it on SE Gems

Terrance

There's a site for that?

Zacharee1

Some Tumblr site

Terrance

Ah, OK

Zacharee1

12:58 AM

gemsfromstackexchange.tumblr.com

Videonauth

00 07 * * * /bin/tar -caf /home/michael/backup/wordpress/"$(date +%Y-%m-%d-wordpress)".tar.gz /home/michael/server/wordpress
01 07 * * * /usr/bin/mysqldump wp_production_db > "$(date +%Y-%m-%d)"-wp_production_db.sqldump

Terrance

@Zacharee1 Thank you! :D

Videonauth

finaly :)

Zacharee1

Blegh. I really want to change this ugly static splash screen that shows up on boot on my phone, but there are no guides for my phone, the recent guides don't work, and there's apparently a high chance I brick the device.

Terrance

That's not good.

Zacharee1

1:01 AM

ikr

It's just so ugly

"GALAXY NOTE 4 powered by Android"

I want to put something custom in

Terrance

That does seem boring.

Custom rocks!

TheXed

1:12 AM

Hi.

@Zacharee1 time to upgrade your phone then,,,

Zacharee1

@TheXed and be stuck with a locked bootloader again? no thx

TheXed

Isn't it fairly easy to unlock your bootloader?

Zacharee1

Not on Verizon phones

Thinking about Notes, sorry

Actually, though, my RAZR M had OEM unlock available, which was weird

But not my Note. Someone finally found an exploit to get an unlocked bootloader

TheXed

@Zacharee1 apparently with the op2 it takes about 9 steps...but I don't think you can use it on Verizon.

Zacharee1

@TheXed nope. GSM only

TheXed

1:16 AM

lol @ disclaimer: Disclaimer: By attempting any of the processes listed in this thread you accept full responsibility for your actions. I will not be held responsible if your device stops working, catches fire, or turns into a hipster and claims to have been modified before it was cool.

Zacharee1

tmblr.co/Z1JL5t23r9i2S

@TheXed disclaimers are great

TheXed

yup...

oh by the way happy birthday to me.

Zacharee1

@TheXed happy b-day to you too :p

TheXed

lol

Zacharee1

Anyone remember this guy?

TheXed

1:22 AM

@Zacharee1 nope

Zacharee1

Well now you do

TheXed

the national networking communication eh?

Zacharee1

ja

Terrance

Sure, I walk away from my desk to feed my dog so I can give her her shot and there are 24 new messages in here. :)

Zacharee1

You're welcome

TheXed

1:28 AM

@Terrance sometimes that happens...

@Terrance of course alternatively you could have let your dog starve...

Terrance

It has been higher before. :)

I have to give her insulin shots.

TheXed

@Terrance your dog gets high?

2

Terrance

LOL

TheXed

@Terrance oh you mean the message count...

Terrance

Yep, the message count. :)

TheXed

1:31 AM

Should I buy a rpi camera module?

Zacharee1

@TheXed XD

TheXed

Then I can aim it at my wife...

Terrance

LMAO! Those SE Gems are awesome! "What's better, SQL or Emacs for full stack development?"

TheXed

I won't even plug it in...just aim it at her general direction all the time to creep her out...

Zacharee1

@Terrance "hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi"

That's my favorite

Terrance

1:36 AM

@Zacharee1 LOL! I just barely read that one! :D

Zacharee1

Well it is one word.... :p

well bedtime

TheXed

well good night.

Terrance

Have a good night!

TheXed

@Terrance so um....whats up?

Terrance

@TheXed Just gave my dog her shot. Now I am looking for questions that I might be actually able to answer. :D

TheXed

1:45 AM

@Terrance cool

Terrance

I guess it's better than watching a wrestling pay-per-view. LOL

TheXed

1:57 AM

Yeah by far...

Terrance

@TheXed Yes, you should get that rpi cam module. That would be awesome!

TheXed

I am thinking about it.

Terrance

If you could find a motorized base for it, that would be better. =)

I was thinking that I need to get one of these for my desk at work: amazon.com/Dream-Cheeky-USB-Missile-Launcher/dp/B000XYR2CM

TheXed

2:17 AM

@Terrance looks fun.

Terrance

I think it would be cool to rpi that thing with tracking software as a room guard. :D

TheXed

just needs a motion sensor...whenever it detects motion it can fire away...

Terrance

Yep! :D

Nathan Osman

I am absolutely stunned that MTP doesn't support files larger than 4 GB. What is this? 1998?

TheXed

MTP?

Seth

2:20 AM

@NathanOsman we need Nitroshare for Android :P

Nathan Osman

The protocol that Android uses when you transfer files over USB.

Seth

@Terrance might as well just a get a real IP cam then..

TheXed

@NathanOsman hey which is better Camera Module v1 or v2

Nathan Osman

@Seth We do, I just need my other jobs to settle down so I have the time to do that.

@TheXed I've only been able to get my hands on v1 so I can't compare them.

However, I've heard good things about v2.

TheXed

@NathanOsman I see, I have heard there is a focus problem with v2

Terrance

2:21 AM

@NathanOsman 4GB? Really? I guess I have never tried to transfer anything larger than that yet.

Nathan Osman

And it's a Sony sensor, so - I would imagine it's pretty good.

@TheXed v1 isn't going to give you any advantage there, trust me :D

Terrance

@Seth Yeah, I could do that. I just like the thought of autofire on it though. :D

Nathan Osman

@Terrance I've got a 10 GB video sitting on my phone waiting to come off. I just need to find a way to do it. Sounds like I may have to use netcat.

Terrance

@NathanOsman Ah, OK

Nathan Osman

The Pi can do basic motion detection.

Terrance

2:23 AM

@NathanOsman What are you trying to transfer it to?

Nathan Osman

I've got an option in the image/video recording app I'm using that captures an image if motion is detected.

@Terrance My PC (laptop).

The upside of MTP is fast transfer speeds (13 MB/s). For some reason, the wireless chip in this laptop won't go above about 4 MB/s.

Terrance

@NathanOsman Ah, OK. I was just wondering because I was trying larger than 4GB before and it turned out I was transferring to a FAT32 partition, which I am guessing is not your problem on that.

Nathan Osman

This is an ext4 partition, so no.

Terrance

Like I thought

Nathan Osman

It's well-known apparently.

Terrance

2:26 AM

What about these? amazon.com/SanDisk-Android-Smartphone-Tablet-SDDD-032G-G46/dp/…

Could you transfer more to that first then go to your computer?

Nathan Osman

Now that's a thought.

I have a USB OTG cable.

Terrance

That one plugs directly into the device on the other side.

Nathan Osman

I just need to think of whether I have a flash drive or something with 10 GB of free space.

I have an 8GB microSD card...

Hmm...

Terrance

Ah

I'm thinking I am going to buy one of those drives now. :D

TheXed

microSD cards are super cheap...

Nathan Osman

2:30 AM

Not the really fast ones.

I managed to get my hands on one with 95 MB/s write speeds.

It definitely speeds up the Pi :)

Terrance

That's quick. Type 10?

TheXed

even the type 10 are cheap...

Nathan Osman

It's beyond 10. I forget what they call it.

U[something]3.

Oh, just U3.

amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-Adapter-SDSDQXN-064G-G46A-Version/dp/…

^--- like that one

Terrance

Yep, I just found those too. U3

TheXed

UHS...

Nathan Osman

2:32 AM

Well worth the money if you want it for the Pi.

Terrance

"The UHS-I category refers a type of interface that has a potential maximum speed of 104MB/sec, but current cards haven’t quite reached that maximum limit . . . yet."

WOW! Nice!!

Well, 125MBps is Gigabit speeds, so that is quick!

Nathan Osman

Yup.

That is very quick.

Terrance

@NathanOsman Oh, I was thinking that there could be a 1Gb USB adapter that might work with the Raspberry. However, I haven't found any documentation out there yet that people have tried.

But those only work on the USB 3.0 buses.

Nathan Osman

I guess I'm stuck using netcat to transfer that large file.

Should take about 100 minutes. ಠ_ಠ

Terrance

Go watch some Downton Abbey while that transfers. Might be just as exciting! O-o

Nathan Osman

2:43 AM

Lol.

Nathan Osman

3:07 AM

"17007 kbps" - wow, no wonder my Pi ran out of space.

I have no idea why the video bitrate is so high.

TheXed

Good night.

RobotHumans

3:33 AM

@NathanOsman Does it speed up your boot time or your all the time running time?

Nathan Osman

It does speed up boot time a bit. But you really notice it when installing packages.

Edity

Edity in Installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS now

:p

RobotHumans

Ah, well that's disk heavy. Have you noticed it when you're not specifically disk image constrained? I'm thinking about netbooting a pi, so the disk-io would choke out there - not the SD card.

Edity

Chatting while installing

LEL

Nathan Osman

@RobotHumans I don't really notice it at other times much.

Edity

3:35 AM

@NathanOsman is chatting while installing Ubuntu fun?

Nathan Osman

But I often use the Pi to build packages which involves a lot of disk I/O.

@Edity You tell me.

RobotHumans

Yes.

Edity

LOL

yes

is 16.04 good?

Nathan Osman

It's up-to-date.

Edity

i have a pic of a squirel

Nathan Osman

3:37 AM

It's not the most stable release we've ever seen... :D

Edity

:O

lol

Nathan Osman

And it isn't the best option if you have an AMD card and need OpenCL.

Edity

O_O

Shoot

i have a AMD card

Nathan Osman

You need OpenCL?

Edity

graphics

i should say

RobotHumans

3:38 AM

@NathanOsman Oh, did the new userspace blob mess up opencl?

Nathan Osman

The open source driver isn't that bad.

Edity

My one is a amd a4 ??? with radeon grahpics

Terrance

I think it is awesome that Open Source drivers are now appearing for NVIDIA cards. :D

Nathan Osman

@RobotHumans Well... here's what happened. AMD is abandoning their proprietary driver in favor of the new amdgpu driver.

Edity

Edity's Installer:

Nathan Osman

3:39 AM

But it isn't available for 16.04 yet.

Edity

Install (as superuser)

Terrance

14.04 still works with AMD, and should through 2019.

Nathan Osman

The open source driver continues to be available and it will meet the needs of most users.

Edity

(picture of a ???) teijgrijgiejgirjis

Seth

@NathanOsman which package is the OSS one again?

Nathan Osman

3:40 AM

Good question.

RobotHumans

Yeah, I remember you trying to build the amdgpu driver I think, and getting a type mismatch

Seth

My sister doesn't want to upgrade to Windows 10 so I see opportunity, but she has AMD graphics.

Nathan Osman

Isn't it a kernel driver? And therefore part of the kernel modules package?

Edity

thats weird because when I booted my screen was all fuzzy and then the desktop appeared

Nathan Osman

It works out of the box for me.

I've never had to install a package.

Seth

3:41 AM

I'm not sure (never had to deal with AMD graphics before) but KDE had quite a bit of tearing.

Edity

@Seth Force your sister to, and join the Insider Team

Seth

ugh. no.

Nathan Osman

@Seth Does KWin offer an option to enable v-sync?

Edity

(say to her she will get discounts on the microsoft store)

Terrance

16.04 on my MacBook Pro 2008 model video drivers would not work at all. I couldn't see enough to even install.

Seth

3:42 AM

@NathanOsman ooh, good idea. Dunno. Lemme see.

RobotHumans

@Seth I didn't get a lot of tearing on the AMD card I had... but I did have temperature panics. I was using a budget performance card (read as powerful, but so cheap they had to have skimped somewhere)

Edity

Maybe ask your sister to dual boot Ubuntu instead! Mwehehehehehe @Seth

Nathan Osman

@Terrance IIRC, the open source drivers didn't support some of the really older AMD cards.

I doubt it works with the Rage II I have sitting around somewhere...

:)

Terrance

@NathanOsman No, they don't, but sometimes I gotta jump in get my feet wet and try anyway. :D

RobotHumans

@NathanOsman The really old and really cheap ones, where you might as well have been running intel onboard.

Seth

3:44 AM

@NathanOsman there are vsync options. "automatic" (the default), "never", "when cheap", "full screen", "reuse window elements".

I guess I will play around with that.

Edity

although if you have win 10 when it detects your os, it says Windows Boot Manager

Nathan Osman

@Seth You want v-sync enabled since that prevents tearing.

I wonder which option corresponds to that...

Terrance

Well, the Macbook I am kind of stuck on since the video card cannot be upgraded. I'll wait to see what the future brings, or just stick to 14.04. :)

Nathan Osman

Apple is all about making upgrades difficult, unfortunately.

The RAM in my Mini is soldered onto the motherboard.

Edity

my hackintosh is running smoothly :D

Terrance

3:46 AM

Yes, that they are. But, then again, I paid nothing for this thing, nor will I go out of my way to buy one in the future. I don't care for proprietary systems.

Nathan Osman

I don't either. I walked into the Apple store and bought the cheapest computer they sold with OS X installed on it.

Edity

see you later (install is almost complete)

Nathan Osman

All I needed was something I could use for compiling.

Terrance

I got mine from an old job that owes me lots of money.

Nathan Osman

@Edity Bye.

Seth

3:47 AM

Well "full screen redraws" didn't fix it, and "reuse window elements" completely broke everything.

it's using MESA drivers..

Terrance

@Edity Take care! :)

Edity

il be back

Terrance

My son accidentally stepped on my MacBook and broke the glass cover to the screen a while ago, but I need new double sticky tape or the glue stuff to get the new plastic cover to stick to the screen bezel.

Not sure where to get the stuff though.

Are they ever going to make deb.playonlinux.com Xenial ready?

Edity

idk

O_O

Guru Meditation be like: Retired Guru at Ubuntu: ummmmm

Terrance

According to their site, it is still only Trusty.

Edity

3:55 AM

too outdated eww

eww trusty

O_O

Terrance

At least in the normal Xenial repos, PlayOnLinux is newer than on their site. :D

Edity

lol

(removed)

Terrance

:)

Edity

Install complete!

see ya!

Edity in: Ubuntu Welcome screen

Ubuntu first boot animation - Dell XPS 13 Ubuntu Edition Startup

►

:)

now time for TRIPLE BOOT: remix os!

but i have one question...

since remix os has grub

and ubuntu has grub

will the grub overwrite the grub?

(if you know what i am talking about)

lets see here

I dropped the silent bomb.

woops

Seth

4:43 AM

@Edity yes it will.

unless you choose not to install it. (sometimes that's an option, depending on if the OS you are installing lets you get away with that)

Zacharee1

Why, insomnia, why?

Seth

@Zacharee1 screens don't help..

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5:18 AM

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Q: Why is there no central resource for fixing installations

I have been trying to fix my Kubuntu 14.04 installation for the past two days now. I have found that there is generally very little self-contained help/guides/tutorials available. While there is an abundance of posts about various methods for fixing installations, none of them walk you through th...

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Q: how to create an icon button in X11?

i am using x11 library for creating simple window application in linux ,I want to add icon button (graphical button)to my aap something like this : is there any instruction for creating this button on Xlib/X11?

ubuntu x11 c++

Edity

:D

oh hold on I'm in windows

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Q: Eclipse Mars reacts delayed and crashes on Ubuntu 16

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11:09 AM

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Fiksdal

11:29 AM

Hi guys.. I'm gonna install Lubuntu 16.04 on this ancient netbook. What's gonna perform better, 64 bit or 32 bit? It's just gonna be used for basic web browsing and Libre Office asus.com/Notebooks/Eee_PC_1011PX

TheXed

if you have <4 gbs of ram then you are probably not going to notice a difference.

Fiksdal

There's 1 GB of ram actuallu

actually

1.66 Ghz dual core

Pretty sluggish machine, in general

TheXed

However, I use 64bit by default anymore, because there really isn't a reason not to.

Fiksdal

Yeah, I use 64 bit too, in my main workstation

But this is this ancient thing I'm trying to bring back to life... So are you saying there's not much of a difference whether I go for 64 or 32 bit Lubuntu?

@TheXed

Fiksdal

12:03 PM

@Terrance LOL at the popcorn thing.. How about some small firecrackers? That would be fun too. You probably wanna put the inside balloons or something though :)

@TheXed askubuntu.com/questions/776347/…

Videonauth

where can i check if a corn for my main user has been run or not and if there have been errors?

nvm found the error

userDepth

12:20 PM

ubuntuforums.org/…

Anonymous

1:02 PM

Hi there. It seems like m virtual machine (Ubuntu 15.10) is corrupted somehow. Is there a way to do a data dump of all installed programs, settings, conf files,etc?

Anonymous

(It's corrupted because although the time is set to America/New_York, whether I set it manual/internet in the GUI or CLI, it continues to "reset" back to 4 hours ahead.)

Journeyman Geek

serverfault.com/questions/540885/how-do-i-duplicate-a-server/… @onebree

That said I would be cautious about what's in /etc here

TheXed

1:18 PM

@onebree I would look at your bios and see what your system clock is set too.

Anonymous

@TheXed Your suggestion made me look at my Windows host time... And it was wrong as well.

Anonymous

I blame the recent Windows update, to be honest

TheXed

1:40 PM

@onebree did you get it fixed then?

Anonymous

2:07 PM

@TheXed yes, for now... I manually set the time

TheXed

@onebree Oh, I see.

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2:32 PM

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Q: Return owner of process given PID

I'm trying to grab the owner of a process from a list, I have the command pidof nmap to get the then ps -u <PID> | grep USER that I'm currently playing around with, but when I run it, it ends up just printing the titles (top line). How can I grab the name of the owner given the process ID?