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@TheBrownOne only the best :p

How about the 2003 Jungle Book 2?

I like the 1994 The Jungle Book, tbh.

Wait what

Is that the Cary Elwes one? That's a good one.

79% on Rotten Tomatoes. Not bad

Italian? s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/2f/18/13/…

12:19 AM

yep

what about 2015/2016 jungle book?

@Fabby +1

Haven't seen it yet

o

@chaskes yup

12:36 AM

@Zacharee1 Go to Root access (chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/118/root-access) and type !!edity

I am a command

chatbot john cavil:
@Edity I am Edity, (askubuntu.com/users/527600/…) I am good at editing, wise-cracking Windows master, and a Windows insider. Ping me if this intrests you

1:00 AM

anyone seen "The Man Who Knew Infinity"?

nope

looks good

@chaskes That's what I'm trying to find out. It looks like one of those movies I would actually go see. btw, did the guy here look like Richard Dean Anderson to you too, or am I just being silly? youtu.be/oXGm9Vlfx4w?t=2m14s

Jeremy Irons or Stephen Fry?

You're always being silly @Seth

1:12 AM

Actually Jeremy Irons does look like Richard Dean Anderson there

@chaskes Jeremy Irons.

that was a joke... :)

I know, I got it xD

oops

no, my bad for not playing along :p

but really, I've taken like 10 takes and it looks like Richard every time.

1:14 AM

yeah, I watched it once and thought, meh, than on the 2nd run thru it really looked like him

who is Irons playing? Is it GB Hardy?

I think so

Is this OT or can gparted from a live do this for him? askubuntu.com/questions/778867/…

I keep starting GB Hardy's (short) memoir and then not getting thru it

that's on-topic as long as he is doing it from ubuntu

that's what I meant. he has to do it thru live media so it gparted (or another tool) can't do it, it becomes OT. In any case, I'll wait for an answer.

It'll also be interesting to see if it gets quick close votes w/o people seeing the point.

@chaskes ubuntu liveCD can, so that's the answer.

1:27 AM

thx. I'll let someone else answer it though. Just wasn't sure if gparted (or something) could handle the file formtat

I just checked.

1:40 AM

there, I answered it.

Cool. your good answer is exactly why I didn't answer it. Just didn't feel like explaining burning isos and using gparted right now. And I'm getting tired of seeing quickies answers like "Use gparted from live media"

2:04 AM

@ThomasW. I ended up the maintainer of another package :)

NitroShare will be using it.

This time it's a Qt library that provides classes for an HTTP server.

launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qhttpengine

@NathanOsman Will it be time for a question cleaning thing soon?

Question cleaning thing?

Don't you have a script/site where we clean out/answer/close old questions en masse once a year or so?

No, that was... @Oli I think?

He had a website that coordinated with a UserScript for doing that... IIRC.

Oh, ok, thanks. I've thought for years it was your thing.

2:08 AM

It was a few years back, so my memory is a tad hazy.

I saw it twice, so I assumed it was sort of regular.

How do I specify where wget saves a file?

or can I just cd?

2:32 AM

@Zacharee1 -P

ah

Q: Unable to start VLC - could not find Qt platform plugin

I thought that was a mocking emoticon at first, and then I realized it was an option

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

5:00 AM

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I recently upgraded my Ubuntu from 14.04 to 15.10. Yesterday I tried installing KDE plasma desktop but due to some errors I had to remove it. The system asked for a partial upgrade and I did that. Now I'm unable to use vlc. Please help.

Q: Unable to launch Viber on Gallium OS

5:37 AM

this got past the off-topic filters:

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I am using Gallium OS which is a Distro that is built on ubuntu especially for Chromebooks. The Distro is really amazing and extremely light but i am having one major issue which is quite important to me whenever i try to run Viber i get this error chrx@chrx:~$ /opt/viber/Viber This application...

viber

5:57 AM

@SmokeDetector spam: askubuntu.com/questions/778909/…

7:59 AM

O_O there is a Godmode folder in windows techtimes.com/articles/73887/20150803/…

8:27 AM

Q: how to install MPLS on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

10:20 AM

o/ all

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10:41 AM

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I'm a newbie in Ubuntu and i need to install MPLS on my Ubuntu virtual machine for a class project. i've found a .patch file but don't know how to use it and several .tar.gz files but with no success. can you help me please .patch file : https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpls-linux/

ubuntu networking

user136984

11:17 AM

Need delete votes on this. OP clearly doesn't want to delete it for some reason, but it doesn't answer the question as he's got a different version on which it does work, plus there is already another working answer.

Thomas W.

@NathanOsman egad you keep getting more and more packages :/

user136984

I really love that Iron Maiden The Final Frontier album! It is just so great! :D

user136984

All Iron Maiden greatness mixed with proper heavy metal! :)

user136984

Because before, they were loud, but before the Brave New World album, the metal wasn't so heavy.

user136984

11:34 AM

What?! Why did someone downvote and close vote this?‌??

user136984

I want to know if there is a way to fix it and which package I should report the problem under, what's the problem with that?

user136984

I'm asking if there is a known workaround and what package I report it under, that's allowed, isn't it?

user136984

Just some idiot who just got 3k and is exercising their right to cast close votes probably...

mhmmm mine it wasn't either i normaly skip when I see someone i know here from chat in review cues

because i think i wouldnt be opbjective properly

user136984

@Videonauth: My crazy mind has something against review queues so I don't look in them much these days... Maybe I need to sort my crazy mind out though... :D

11:43 AM

well like i said i dont do anything on post from people i know because i think my decision would be biased

user136984

Another downvote and close vote??!

user136984

Bloody bastards!

My phone got unplugged

user136984

Can't see images unless they are uploaded through i.stack.imgur.com...

Q: How can I successfuly port W10 files to Ubuntu?

@ParanoidPanda it's Imgur, just unblock it

And mobile has no upload interface

I had enough trouble getting the link since the Imgur app removed the Copy to Clipboard option.

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11:59 AM

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I just installed Ubuntu (Dual boot with W10) and I can see my W10 partition from inside Ubuntu with all my files. They seem fairly corrupt on the Linux side (Text editors,web browsers, Steam etc) and I was wondering how could I port these windows files to Ubuntu without breaking anything? Thanks!

ubuntu files windows dual-boot file-copy

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Q: Difference between automount and the use of udev rules and autofs to automatically mount and dismount USBs, CDs and DVDs

Ubuntu 16 (and 14 and 12 and 10) runs fuse-gvfs and does not need any daemons to mount USB drives. What is the difference between automount and the use of udev rules and autofs to automatically mount and dismount USBs, CDs and DVDs?

ubuntu automounting

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12:10 PM

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Q: If I offer a bounty on someone elses question, can I still choose who gets the bounty?

I want to offer a bounty on a question by someone else, I would really like the issue fixed too and don't want to open a duplicate question. If I offer the bounty, do I get to choose the recipient of the bounty from any answers or is that still up to the OP? This is the question and I ask becau...

support bounty

user136984

12:24 PM

Where is the upgrade log stored?

user136984

I mean the upgrade log recording the output from a 15.10 to 16.04 upgrade... Seem to have some problems and need to check it.

check in /var/log/dist-upgrade

user136984

I looked there, but not sure which one is the right one...

user136984

There was a problem with dkms registering the new kernel.

user136984

So I need a little more than just an installation log.

user136984

12:29 PM

Anyway, I will deal with this after lunch... :)

@Videonauth do you know everything?

why ?

Someone asks a question and you're always there with the answer :p

always

shrugs

dunno i certainly not know everything

I could make a scathing sarcastic statement here, but I won't

12:33 PM

the amount of questions i skip is far higher as the ones i answer :)

for example today i not have answered a single question yet

gasp

how could you

See I get it you somehow pissed at me, still I don't get why

:-s

/s /s /s

urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%2Fs

1:34 PM

.............................LOOOOOOOOOOOOL ....................................................askubuntu.com/q/779057/522934

2:06 PM

@Videonauth sigh

@Zacharee1 what ?

the question

and your message structure :p

yeah i know well look at the edit history of the question then you know why i found that funny at this moment

Why is the filename "now it's all clear"?

now its all visible

:p

2:11 PM

Well yes, but that makes even less sense

/home/ ......./ now its all visible

yep

I'm just going to ignore that

now you know why i found that funny

Jezst ist alls sichtbar, ja

alone the try to link to a file in his home, as if it would be on the server then if he does that

and then the filename up to it

2:13 PM

Maybe not used to having forward slashes and thought it was a URL :p

2:34 PM

Wait, why is @Serg not pingable?

where'd he go?

Terrance

o/

@Terrance you're not Serg

Terrance

@Zacharee1 LOL

Q: Let's agree on some commonly accepted formatting guidelines

:p

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Since I went over 2k rep, I liked starting to work on suggested edits and improving formatting in other posts, trying to be precise and careful. However, I constantly see that many suggested edits by a few users are trying to improve the post, but they actually don't. Let me be clear: I do not w...

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Helio

2:47 PM

Hi!

hi!

Helio

Can I enable CSD and header bars on all my (gnome3-based) Ubuntu 16.04 apps? I want to ask on the chat before doing the question because maybe is a no-go.

Helio

3:00 PM

@Seth: The header bars look amazingly well on Unity. I don't know why they are disabled.

4:31 PM

There was a way at one point

but it gets in the way of the global menu bar, so I really don't like what gnome is doing to all their programs

RPi Awesomeness

If anyone is curious about Ultimate Frisbee, you can watch a college nationals game free here. Pretty good game so far

<-- is trying to figure snappy packaging

RPi Awesomeness

Oo, fun!

@Helio check this out: askubuntu.com/a/353846/47291

There was an envrionment varible don't know if it will still work

@Seth sweet

you know what would make a good Ubuntu core snap?

github.com/mateosalta/python-simple-fileserver

Rinzwind

5:08 PM

@Seth In Russia snappy packages you :=)

6

I have a simple file server in the archives now.

packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/libqhttpengine-examples

Then run:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/QHttpEngine/examples/fileserver/fileserver

@Rinzwind so youre the holiday replacement of @Serg?

Rinzwind

nope I am my own entity :=)

Just asking because This could have come from Serg :)

Q: dkms problem with VirtualBox kernel registration after 15.10 to 16.04 upgrade

Shouldnt serg be back now? ;/

user136984

5:17 PM

Anyone able to help me with this? :)

user136984

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After upgrading an Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 machine to 16.04 I have encountered some problems with my VirtualBox and dkms installation. It seems that during the upgrade dkms had some problems registering the old kernel (4.2) going and the new one coming (4.4)... So now I am unable to run VirtualBox VMs...

upgrade kernel virtualbox 16.04 dkms

@Seth as far i understood him he will be back 7th or 8th jun !?

dont nail me dont on that

5:35 PM

Anyone know a good program/site to convert a video to webm?

cant ffmpeg do this ?

not in Windows

ah ok, look for a programm called SUPER

erightsoft.com/SUPER.html <--

oh wait

Imgur lets me do it

user136984

@Videonauth: Do I need to first uninstall VBox before trying what you have suggested?

5:48 PM

I did a normal remove tho

user136984

But how exactly did you reproduce by problem? Because my problem is specifically caused when one installs VBox and dkms on Wily and then runs a do-release-upgrade to get to Xenial.

user136984

That is when the problem is caused, so unless you've done that, I doubt that you could easily reproduce it.

user136984

It's not just a matter of a standard installation.

i know i havde the problem on my laptop and one of cl-netboxes answers is exactly that

create a sources list file to the oracle repo

and then install it from there

not from the ubuntu repo

user136984

I didn't install it from the Ubuntu repo, that repo you give is exactly the place I installed it from.

user136984

5:51 PM

Where are these upgrade logs by the way? Because I looked in the /var/logs/dist-upgrade folder but that's seemingly just for normal package upgrades, not the log stored when one upgrades from Wily to Xenial.

imgur.com/gallery/m9lhLzu

weird becaue on my side it runs after that

there are as well logs keept in dpkg.log

user136984

Is there not a proper log though of all the output it displays during the upgrade?

There's a raccoon eating my food.

user136984

@Zacharee1: That'll be me! ;P

user136984

5:54 PM

I got tired of being a Panda and decided to change for the day!

You're a trash panda?

@ParanoidPanda what you as well could try is installing dkms alone

sudo apt-get install dkms

and then retry

user136984

I did, I've tried everything along those lines.

user136984

Though I have some new information, see my comment, and updated post.

user136984

Do you think I should just run that then?

user136984

5:56 PM

Well, I'll have a go...

Why can't I just sudo apt-get purge all-my-problems?

yeah approved as long i get a sudo apt-get install money

lol

not sudo dpkg -i sleep? Because I could do with that too

user136984

@Videonauth: I've updated my question with more information.

user136984

Do you think the problem will be fixed with the next kernel upgrade? Also, what are these modules it speaks of? Can't I just reinstall that or something?

user136984

6:06 PM

Is there anyone here we know would be good with this question?

phew well im a bit lost now because i run on 4.4.0.22 aswell and it works on my machine

on the upgraded laptop (upg from 15.10) and on the new install

And this is why I hate systemd folks.

Henry WH Hack

Hello Everyone! :)

6:46 PM

@Seth you might want to have a look at the answers of this one askubuntu.com/users/549982/pamela

6:56 PM

WEED ENERGY DRINK!!

►

The Dutch love their cannabis, apparently o_O

I saw one like that in Switzerland once

Hi, by the way

hi!

Long time no see, Seth! :)

Is that really the correct way to say it?

I remember hearing it on Breaking Bad, I also learned "come on in"

I hope I did this correctly askubuntu.com/q/778878/530811

@Seth respectfully disagree. I don't really think systemd is the problem there.

@grooveplex yeah that's correct :)

7:01 PM

If I were them, I would use PAM to spawn a user session.

And uh, what do you think about my comment, @Seth? I'm thinking of saving it as a template for future use.

looks fine

@grooveplex you did, but muru was editing at the same time so the system threw your edit out.

Ohh

Sometimes I'm thinking "Come on people, Jacob Vlijms post on Meta was a joke!"

The_How to handle your question in the worst way_ post

But okay, the one who asked is new here. Let's be nice on them (:

So I wrote a kind comment instead

Ahem. Not that I would be a ****to anyone of you here. I

Whaaaaaat

a big thank you to PHP for kicking puppies instead of sending e-mails.

PHP?

Why am I not surprised?

user136984

7:08 PM

Because you will never be the man your mother was!

user136984

That's what fortune just told me anyway... :P

Whaaaaaat

nice save

Masi

I installed Ubuntu 14.04 in Macbook Air 2013-mid. I can connect with it to my Android's phone wifi but not to my router's one. How can you put network work correctly in Ubuntu 14.04 on the Macbook.

@NathanOsman adding a dependency to systemd is not a good idea.

I'm not saying there aren't better ways of doing it. There are always better ways.

I'm not suggesting they do that.

7:12 PM

Really though, if some governement or giant corporation wanted to undermine Linux systemd would be the way they did it. I don't think that's the case, but think about it.

@NathanOsman right, so you're talking about something else then..

@ParanoidPanda that's.. actually a compliment, I think?

Whaaaaaat

@Seth Anything is a compliment if you look at it the right way

user136984

@Seth: I don't know... :D

Henry WH Hack

7:27 PM

Is anyone here please say yes.

user136984

How do I check in a bash script if $1 is in use or not because just checking if it is equal to say "--test" is just resulting in an error if there is nothing in the place of $1?

you didn't use any punctuation so your question is very hard to parse. What do you want?

you want to check if $1 is defined?

if [ -n "$1" ] should do it, I think.

user136984

@Seth: Is that the best way of getting around this then?

7:43 PM

why must exams

answered @ParanoidPanda

user136984

8:02 PM

@Seth: Thanks! Also, do you know how to make a script exit at a certain point? With just a command that is, will exit suffice or does that do a little more than just exit the script?

exit works :)

user136984

8:19 PM

Right, and how do you do else if statements in bash?

user136984

I've tried what I think are the usual but it's not working...

user136984

Oh I see, it's elif, never mind then... :)

Hello.

It's me.

Don't mind me... I'm just transferring 15,000 images off my Pi...

8:28 PM

nice.

They were taken over a period of five days.

So it might take a while to go through them all.

*sigh*

"I fresh installed 16.04, I'm getting this mergelist error.."

@NathanOsman Have you done any packaging with snaps yet?

I made one for Hectane.

A desktop snap?

or IoT?

Lemme check...

Here's the code: bazaar.launchpad.net/~hectane/hectane/hectane-snappy/files

It's nearly the simplest snap possible.

8:32 PM

must be IoT because snap find doesn't find a snap named hectane.

Single binary. Simple invocation.

@Seth Really? I submitted it and it's listed in the snap store.

Or, at least, it's supposed to be.

@NathanOsman I'm on desktop.

But maybe you should double check?

I certainly will.

because I would think all IoT snaps should work on desktop just fine too..

Hectane runs on any Linux distro, so yes, it should show in desktop.

8:36 PM

well anyway, the reason I ask is because the only getting started guide I can find is for IoT, and I'm not sure it applies to desktop (which is what I'm doing). I guess the only way to find out is try and see.

That's what I see.

@NathanOsman ah, you're only in 15.04 core.

You need to be in rolling-core too.

Otherwise only people on 15.04 will see it :)

"Package is public".

@Seth Oooooooooh.

Okay, that explains it.

Thanks!

np!

TheXed

hi

8:44 PM

ih

lol

If you can directly make edits at 2000+ without approval, why do you still need a 2nd approval after ok'ing an edit that's been proposed or is in the queue?

user136984

I have written a little script which checks if a reboot is required, if it is then it informs the user of this in Terminal and displays a list of packages needing the reboot (probably after an update). If a reboot is required it will also prompt the user if they want to reboot (if they do it will reboot the machine). The user can also use certain flags to slightly alter the behaviour of the problem when run.

@chaskes unfortunately because people reviewing aren't always paying attention. SO has a huge problem with reviewers approving spam because they're only there for a badge.

user136984

Is this a program I could consider proposing to the universe repository or is there already something of this nature there? Because up until now it's just been for person use as I haven't found anything else in Terminal, but I wonder if they would accept something like this? Is there much criteria?