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2:15 PM

Yay, syntax error !

~$ sudo ./downgrade_gedit.sh -u
./downgrade_gedit.sh: line 101: warning: here-document at line 37 delimited by end-of-file (wanted `EOF')
./downgrade_gedit.sh: line 102: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Videonauth

in my script ?

Serg

What does that mean ? I do want to use cat > file << EOF , and you say you wanted EOF

No , mine

Videonauth

cat > file << "EOF"

reads the following lines as input to a file till you have a line containing EOF

Serg

I think it was before I had space before EOF so <<EOF

but that also works

YESH ! IT WERKS!

user139252

Okay, got all of my records switched over to Cloudflare finally

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:30 PM

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Q: after installing ubuntu, partitions do not match mouted deirectories

I installed an ubuntu server what I really dont understand is the differences between parted and the mounted file system i allocated a 100gb disk in vmware and it seems to be splitted in 3 can someon explain this ? $ cd / $ sudo df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Moun...

Serg

That moment when you try to use Ctrl+F and Ctrl + B to navigate page backwards and forward in firefox, but realize those are vim shortcuts. #the_struggle_is_real

Videonauth

lol

Serg

In labs we have windows workstations with MPLAB IDE installed, and when I type code there, I quite often do :w to save the file , but then I realize, dammit - I'm not in vim

terdon

I keep hitting Ctrl+S to search in chrome and it asks me where to save the page to. All I wanted was to search... #emacswoes

chaskes

@Serg That's a good slogan to put on a mug: Dammit! I'm not in Vim.

cl-netbox

2:34 PM

Hello everybody ! :)

Serg

@chaskes Or on a tshirt ! I like your idea

Aaand this idiot ( me ) just deleted a function from his script because he thought theres two of them . . .

TheXed

I try to SSH with Command Prompt all the time...

cl-netbox

@Serg Good "morning" Sir ! :)

Serg

There were rummors that Windows 10 was supposed to have ssh . What happened to it ?

@cl-netbox morning

TheXed

Morning, yes... Good, yet to be determined

@Serg Powershell has SSH, as Well as Bash For Windows...

but not Command Prompt

cl-netbox

2:39 PM

@Serg did I wake you up ? :D ... hopefully it was not me ! :D

Serg

@cl-netbox nope, I am at work :) I woke up long time ago

cl-netbox

@Serg hahaha :D

user136984

@Serg Saw that already and I loved it! :D

user136984

I watched it a few times in fact... :D

Serg

They're so kawaii desu ^_^

user136984

2:42 PM

kawaii desu

user136984

(Indeed they are - is what I meant.)

chaskes

^^ kawaii desu nee

user136984

That video made me so happy actually! It was just so cute and lovely! :D

user136984

~(^_^)~

user136984

That's an Owl by the way. :D

cl-netbox

2:44 PM

@ParanoidPanda (: ! dneirf ym olleh

user136984

@Serg: Do you think that they really believe in the fox god and that their producer actually communicates with him to organise their fame?

Serg

(^v^) No, this is an owl , you see the triangular beak ?

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chaskes

@ParanoidPanda btw, that meant add ne or nee at the end to mean "indeed"

Serg

@ParanoidPanda I doubt

user136984

@chaskes: Ah, thank you, still learning. :)

Serg

2:46 PM

the producer might not be communicating with fox god , but maybe the girls do believe in the fox god

push, git, push ! you can do it !

chaskes

Another t-shirt

user136984

@cl-netbox: (; !oot ereht elloH

user136984

Boy did that take me a while to write! :D

cl-netbox

@ParanoidPanda :D :D :D

user136984

I don't know how you managed it so quickly! :D

cl-netbox

2:49 PM

@ParanoidPanda and still a mistake ... Holle ! :D

user136984

Oh dear! So I did! :D

user136984

You know, I just saw some flags come up, but they depress me so much that I no longer look at them... :P

user136984

I also keep on getting malicious images from the flagged things so yeah... :D

user136984

My filters often say they blocked something like an image from a dodgy URL when I open those flagged messages.

user136984

It's nice though that I haven't needed to flag anything in here for a while, nor have I seen many flags here recently.

cl-netbox

2:51 PM

@ParanoidPanda : Today I checked the tox repos ... still nothing in xenial ... so I'm gonna stick with the executable ... :)

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Q: What should be done with questions like this?

I have noticed a few question in ask ubuntu like this, where a comment is enough to solve the OP's question. Should questions this this be flagged(if so which flag should be used) or is it required to write a proper answer.

discussion

Serg

Oooo, bamf has index file !

user136984

This in my opinion is actually one of the most normal and calming chat rooms on the site, and with just the perfect mix of people, normally and mostly anyway, we do have a few odd ones at the moment coming in from time to time... :D

user136984

But there are only 2 of them and they are not here most of the time so it's sort of ok... :D

user136984

Oh god... I just logged into my emails and there are far too many of them... :D

Videonauth

2:57 PM

if someone wants to test it paste.ubuntu.com/16217152

needs to run as sudo ./script

user136984

I heard about some news (someone mentioned it to me this morning) which stated that Donald Trump had won the Republican race, though I'm still going through my emails so haven't had a chance yet to look at news sites, but can anybody confirm if this is true?

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda he won the Indiana primaries

Bernie also won

Serg

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A: How do I downgrade Gedit to a previous (3.10.4) Version in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Introduction The script bellow automates installation of gedit 3.10.4 from source. It allows both using the older and newer gedit versions, in case user decides they want to go back to newer gedit. The script creates /usr/share/applications/gedit_downgraded.desktop so that you also can have a n...

user136984

@Zacharee1: Right, but has he actually one the Republican race thingy or was the information I got wrong?

Serg

Answer posted . . . now smoke and onto the other things . . .

Zacharee1

3:03 PM

@Serg nice

@ParanoidPanda well we still have the rest of the year before someone becomes president

But he is really far ahead of Cruz, so maybe that's what they meant

"He's pretty much guaranteed the nomination"

something like that

user136984

@Zacharee1: Ah yes, I checked with them and that's roughly what they meant.

user136984

I got an email to say that Cruz had pulled out of the race though...

Zacharee1

wat

HE DID cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/ted-cruz-drops-out

user139252

I'm very annoyed with Namecheap and Amazon still... but I've gotten everything back into working order, at least

Zacharee1

@TheBrownOne I can see why

Darth_Vader

3:08 PM

good morning. . May the 4th be with you, today. . .

user139252

I switched my name servers to Cloudflare, so nothing should go down if Namecheap goes down again. But now I have to rewrite my script for checking for IP changes

Zacharee1

:/

@TheBrownOne you can get a .xyz domain for .26 for the next year from them

user139252

Yeah, but I don't need another one

user136984

You know I had a nightmare last night that we British in England had adopted some foreign tradition of pretending that it is Jan the 1st when it reaches May the 3rd, so that we start the year again and we never really return back to what it actually is, but we just reset the year to the beginning and start again, and the next day is Jan the 2nd, then Jan the 3rd and so on... :D

user136984

I'm not sure what we do when we get back to May the 3rd in the new fake year, but I don't think we do this every year so I think that we would just continue on until it is right to do this again... :D

Zacharee1

3:17 PM

This is a pretty cool phone: nextbit.com/pages/meet-robin

user136984

@cl-netbox: Crazy dream huh? :D

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda O_o

user139252

@ParanoidPanda But then you never get Guy Fawkes Day, or Christmas, or Boxing Day...

user136984

@TheBrownOne: Well, as I said, I think that this only happens every like 3 or 4 years or something so when you get to the next May the 3rd you just continue as normal until 3 or 4 years have passed, after which point the next May the 3rd you get you reset back to Jan the 1st. :D

cl-netbox

@ParanoidPanda You are dreaming things ... no no no ... :D

user136984

3:22 PM

@TheBrownOne: I didn't like it either in my dream... I think the whole point of it was that it was meant to be unsettling... :D Also the fact that I would like time to go slower as something bad potentially will happen in just over 3 months so maybe my dream wanted to step back in time sort of to prevent that day from every coming, officially anyway... :D

Serg

@Videonauth ok , now onto your thing. Let's start with the installation part. I'm going to review your answer top to bottom, but are there any specific parts you want me to address ?

Videonauth

no just the overall how hard is it to follow it, where are maybe pitfalls to warn about etc

user136984

I also dreamt that there was some evil zombie chasing me through a maze of metal fences in an evil hot dog parlour... :D

user136984

And this was all in the same dream so it was a little bit worrying... :D

user136984

I'm not sure exactly what was meant to be going on, but something bad and creepy.

user136984

3:24 PM

I was glad when I woke up though and realised that non of it was true... :D

cl-netbox

@ParanoidPanda :D

Serg

@Videonauth OK, here's one thing

# this installs the build dependencies
sudo apt-get build-dep gedit gedit-plugins
sudo apt-get install moreutils

# this uninstalls the 3.18.3 version of gedit, gedit-dev,
# gedit-plugins and gedit-common and should get rid of everything else
# installed for gedit
sudo apt-get remove gedit gedit-dev gedit-plugins gedit-common

you install gedit there but then immediately tell user to remove it

Videonauth

im installing the build dependencies

which sadly include gedit itself

Zacharee1

Someone run this command: sudo apt-get install lolcat && lolcat -a -d 12 -s 50 /etc/grub.d/00_header

Serg

really ? O_o

Videonauth

3:27 PM

yep

user139252

Doesn't lolcat work like cat but rainbow text?

Zacharee1

@TheBrownOne yes just run the command

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: cron job quit working after latest apt-get upgrade

I've been running a cron job every 15 minutes for years, with few problems. Sometime in the last week, it quit running, I'm assuming after a apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade. I was able to get it working again, but I'd like to know why it became broken. I noticed that there was no /usr/...

ubuntu linux-mint apt cron upgrade

cl-netbox

@Videonauth hope you are doing all this hack on a VM and not on your production machine ! :P ... Hi @Videonauth ! :)

Videonauth

@cl-netbox im doing this on my production machie back and forth :p

Serg

3:29 PM

@Videonauth I am a bit skeptical about that , I'm going to try removing the gedit form that line. Also ,

sudo apt-get build-dep gedit gedit-plugins
sudo apt-get install moreutils

make it one line

Videonauth

@serg heres the output of a simulated build-dep install on a clean 16.04 paste.ubuntu.com/16219310

Serg

sudo apt-get build-dep gedit gedit-plugins moreutils

user139252

I probably should have started a screen record

user136984

The most amazing part of my dream though was that I knew that yesterday was May the 3rd because until I just looked at the calendar I didn't actually realise that I was right! So my subconscious somehow knew even though I never checked or remembered properly! :D

Videonauth

nope you dont wanna build dependencies for moreutils

you only want moreutils

@ser

cl-netbox

3:30 PM

@Videonauth then don't ask for who or what is responsible for the issues you may experience in some later time though ... ;P

user136984

But then it's like if I look at the clock before I go to bed and them firmly think that I want to wake up at 6AM the next morning, I always do, never even like a second later, right on time, spooky huh? :D

Videonauth

if it hitches i play back a backup and be done with :)

Serg

@Videonauth No , if gedit and gedit-common are dependencies for it, then you don't have to include those into the line. They will be installed anyway

Videonauth

i have backups of each days state since i started with ubuntu

cl-netbox

@Videonauth ah ... nice ... one of the "knowing" ... just thought @Fabby and me were the only ones on AU ... :D

Videonauth

3:32 PM

did you see the paste of that apt-get build-dep line on a clean machine ?

Serg

yeah , but apt-get resolves those dependencies for you

cl-netbox

@Videonauth so do I have ! :)

Videonauth

@cl-netbox i think backups of over two months day by day should be enough to find one which isnt borked :)

@serg apt-get build-dep is not the same as apt-get install

cl-netbox

@Videonauth I always keep the latest 3 or 5 system backup images ... when there are no problems I delete the older ones . :)

Serg

Oh, i see

Videonauth

3:35 PM

@cl-netbox yep here too the max count is set to 90 states, each day a new backup is made, and the oldest is being deleted

Serg

~$ sudo apt-get build-dep gedit gedit-plugins
Reading package lists... Done
E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list

Videonauth

@serg you can run those commans if you want with -s to simulate then you see the difference

cl-netbox

@Videonauth incremental ? hopefully not - they might fail ! I always create a full one with clonezilla ... takes a minute ... :)

Videonauth

@cl-netbox no ful ones each day , my backup drive NAS has 30 TB so no need to incremental :)

cl-netbox

@Videonauth good ! if all users would do the same, there would be way less trouble to be solved here ... :)

Videonauth

3:39 PM

@serg cp -v /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.orig &&
cat > /etc/apt/sources.list << "EOF"
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial main restricted
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial multiverse main universe restricted
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main restricted
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates multiverse main universe restricted
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial universe

yeah but we would have nothing to do then , and think on all the poor computer support workers

they would be jobless

user139252

@Zacharee1 Look:

user139252

Passing my GRUB header file through lolcat

►

Serg

@Videonauth this will be easier :

sed 's/# deb-src/deb-src/g' /etc/apt/sources.list

Videonauth

then you wil have doubles

tried that vefore

before

Serg

doubles ?

Videonauth

3:46 PM

yeah make a copy of your sources.list and try to run apt-get update then

it will tell you that you have double entries in sources.list

Serg

@Videonauth did that just now , no errors

Zacharee1

@TheBrownOne nice

Videonauth

@Serg michael@NEXUS-TWO:~/build$ sudo sed 's/# deb-src/deb-src/g' /etc/apt/sources.list | sudo sponge /etc/apt/sources.list

Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages [32,6 kB]
Get:15 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main i386 Packages [32,6 kB]
Get:16 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main Translation-en [11,1 kB]
Get:17 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 Packages [5.840 B]
Get:18 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe i386 Packages [5.824 B]
Get:19 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe Translation-en [3.876 B]

yuo cannot assume that every sources list is same and sane

this is why i relied on cat out a new one n my script

and removing it later

Serg

@Videonauth what's the contents of your sources.list ?

Videonauth

check on top of my answer

theres a link to its paste

i had upgraded to 16.04 beta and then stayed on it

but an answer has to be accurate for everyone so i rather inlcude he steps to write a new sources.list aas dealing with what maybe bugs their source.list has

you mostly will run into the doubles bug if you changed things around in the GUI software&upgrades dialog

terdon

3:59 PM

@Videonauth Note that you don't need sudo for the first sed, you have read access to sources.list

Serg

I think that's because you have multiple components there , so you have universe multiverse restricted all on the same line

Mine is

deb-src us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates universe

just single item

Videonauth

thank you @terdon

terdon

Your friendly neighborhood pedant.

Videonauth

yep a clean fresh instal one looks completely different

@serg this is how a fresh 16.04 list looks liek directly after installation before changing around and so on paste.ubuntu.com/16220097

brb .. going on a kitchen raid :D im hungry

so food is in the making

user139252

I get to play Laser Tag on Friday :D

user136984

4:20 PM

Oh dear, my hands are cracked and randomly bleeding so I've put lots of Iodine on my knuckles so that whatever happens there it's all covered... :D

Serg

4:31 PM

@ParanoidPanda were you punching walls or something ?

user136984

@Serg: No, just cold weather and I've been washing them too much...

Serg

Never happend to me before , or maybe . . . Colorado has dry climate. When I first came here , my hands were all ash white, because i wasn't used to using lotions and stuff

Seth

shoot, I forgot to do laundry.. and now I have no clothes.

5

Videonauth

4:48 PM

laundry ? clothes ? is that some sort of programming language and debugger ?

Byte Commander

xD

@Seth So you're waddling around like that now? ;)

Seth

lol

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Ubuntu 16.04, Nvidia driver issues

Ok first off I tried installing the nvidia-current-updates but upon reboot both Unity and Cinnamon crashed. Removed them then tried the official 361-42 drivers. I can login to a desktop but there's no window panes nor any panels. Im running an Asus ROG G751 with a GTX 965M

ubuntu

user139252

(*v*)

jokerdino

5:19 PM

@Seth For a sec, I thought that Panda saying it.

Seth

xD

jokerdino

I butchered that sentence.

Seth

my brain didn't notice.

cl-netbox

@jokerdino You're sure it was not panda ? :D Hi my friend ! :)

Hi @Seth ! :)

Seth

hi

jokerdino

5:22 PM

hi my friend

Seth

Q/A with Mark Shuttleworth!

5

Seth

5:37 PM

@jokerdino news.softpedia.com/news/…

Ubuntu tweak is dead.. Leaving UTT.

jokerdino

funny they say that. UTT was started essentially as a fork of that but we ended up writing it from scratch.

cl-netbox

UT never was as good and useful as UTT ... IMHO :)

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Q: Java 8 PPA as dependency for PPA repo?

In launchpad you can add PPA dependency to your PPA packages. I tried to add ppa:webupd8team/java as a dependency to my PPA package, but it doesn't install when I install my package. I also tried adding it as a dependency in the debian/control file, but got an error when installing my package. I ...

ubuntu dependencies ppa

Seth

I need to look at fixing that webapps schema bug.

cl-netbox

@Seth that would be really great ... then users can uninstall that webapps-common amazon thing and still use UTT ! :)

user139252

6:01 PM

Found a neat python script for updating my cloudflare records

Videonauth

anyone who has a 16.04 VM to test my script maybe ?

paste.ubuntu.com/16223011

Serg

6:30 PM

@Videonauth o/ I can test it . Is that an installation or removal script ?

2

Seth

anyone watching the sabdfl Q/A?

Videonauth

this is the instalatioin part

@serg

Serg

Cool , let's run it \ ^0^ /

Videonauth

needs to run as root

or sudo i not used sudo commands inside the script to as root better

Seth

hahahaha

They asked him "what are you favourite memories of mir?" I was like "wait what, did we stop Mir?!"

and then I realized they meant the space station xD

jokerdino

6:33 PM

he shaved his head?...

Seth

a long time ago.

jokerdino

the last time I saw his photo, his chest hair was all over the place. O_O

Seth

lol

Serg

T_T the freakin lag !!! I can't watch Mark Shuttleworth

user136984

@Serg @jokerdino: For a moment there I thought you were talking about Mark Shuttleworth in his interview! :D

user136984

6:38 PM

And I was getting all confused about why they were asking him about the space station... :D

jokerdino

we are talking about him..

he was the first space tourist if you didn't know about his history.

user136984

What?

Serg

Yup , he went to SPAAAACE

user136984

Now you're just confusing me...

Serg

Nothing confusing. The man went to space, with real astronauts

user136984

6:40 PM

And he didn't invite me?

Serg

You probably were in the forest with Totoros at that time. It's OK, Panda, you can go to space next time

user136984

Yeah, you're right... I was happily munching bamboo with them... :D

jokerdino

if they are putting pandas in orbit, I doubt they would have any plans to bring them back.

user136984

@jokerdino: What? Why? They are an endangered species. Plus all the space Pandas would attack Earth then.

Serg

Yakety Yack was suggestion from whom ???

jokerdino

6:43 PM

stream died.

Seth

still working for me

Serg

@Videonauth good job ! Script installed gedit without issues , there was one error however

E: Unable to locate package gedit-common gedit gedit-dev gedit-plugins gedit-developer-plugins
E: No packages found

Videonauth

@serg in which line did you get that ?

Serg

Do you want to install the 'gedit-latex-plugin' package (y/n)?
nDo you want to install the 'gedit-r-plugin' package (y/n)?
nDo you want to install the 'gedit-source-code-browser-plugin' package (y/n)?
nDo you want to install the 'gedit-valencia-plugin' package (y/n)?
nDo you want to install the 'rabbitvcs-gedit' package (y/n)?
nDo you want to install the 'supercollider-gedit' package (y/n)?
nE: Unable to locate package gedit-common gedit gedit-dev gedit-plugins gedit-developer-plugins
E: No packages found

last few lines.

Videonauth

mhmm weird

it should only have the packages it installed in that line

no clue why it nags about thaat in the apt-mark hold line

Serg

6:50 PM

oh . . .wait . . .

i think . . . that's issue on my side

Videonauth

but that meant you did install the developer plugins and the base

so the string came together nice no clue why it errors

but it did clean up properly afterwards i hope

like removing tmp folder and putting back your orginal sources.list

user136984

Can anyone (@Serg maybe?) recommend me a good heavy metal band that does it heavier than Iron Maiden and Motorhead? Because I like those too, but my ears just want something heavier now that they have got used to them, but I can't see to find anything.

user136984

:)

Videonauth

@ParanoidPanda sabaton

Seth

well that was fun. but they didn't have time for my question :(

user136984

6:57 PM

@Videonauth: Ok, thanks! I'll check them out! :)

Videonauth

@ParanoidPanda youtube.com/watch?v=tWeSqEaqVhs

@serg how do you mean a problem on your side ?

Serg

@Videonauth i added a source into sources.list to download gedit from 14.10 , i think. Well, the source.list file was undone, all fine there, but i didn't undo whatever changes to software were done . . .

i passed out kind of nice just now

Videonauth

yeah now i have to clean up the code and maybe find even a beter more reliable way to determine if the instaltions are there

Byte Commander

@Serg Hey! New photo?

Videonauth

with those i have the feeling it could fail if someone has not an english ubuntu

Serg

7:11 PM

@ByteCommander yup, since monday :D

OK, reinstalled 3.18 gedit

Byte Commander

Installing Xenial to my laptop now.

Serg

I'm still using a VM

Good luck, Byte ! May the installation be smooth

Byte Commander

I hope so, especially as it's a Skylake CPU...

Serg

@ParanoidPanda "Can anyone (@Serg maybe?) recommend me a good heavy metal band that does it heavier than Iron Maiden and Motorhead?" OK, here are some : Decide , Slipknot, Pantera , Cannibal Corpse

user136984

@Serg: Ok, thanks! I'll check them out! :)

Serg

7:15 PM

Mushroomheads ,too

Gosh , I wish i could just get my sleep back into order . . .

Byte Commander

@Serg @ParanoidPanda What do you exactly mean by "heavier"? More screaming?

Serg

@ByteCommander probably something that moves more into the direction of new metal and death metal rather than heavy metal

Oh, Korn too

user136984

@ByteCommander: I just mean sort of in terms of the beat if you know what I mean, how the drums and the guitar go together to make that real heaviness with every beat sort of thing. But also what @Serg said. I just want more of everything. I need to increase my dose of heaviness! ;D

Serg

@Videonauth same error , but gedit gets installed alright

Videonauth

weird i really have no clue why what happens

# now protecting this all from upgrading
sudo apt-mark hold "$hold" &&

this is the line throwing an error

Serg

7:23 PM

found the error ?

Videonauth

i know where the line came and no i have no clue why its throwing the error

Serg

OK . . . well anyway . . . I need another scripting task to occupy my mind

Videonauth

im still ltrying to find a baetter way for doing this if cases on the top

line 37 to 59

Byte Commander

Damn, I missed today's episode of Doctor Who!

Got to watch the repetition at 01:25 tonight... :/

Serg

@Videonauth I think the better way would be to add the old reseases URI to the sources.list and resolve dependencies , which is what i was doing earlier today

but i didn't complete it

@ParanoidPanda

O_O so expensive

Byte Commander

7:31 PM

:O

user136984

@Serg: Wow... That's too expensive...

Serg

T_T I really want that dvd though

there has to be better options

Found one for half the price ^_^

Byte Commander

112.25$/2 > budget...

Serg

$ 46.22

@ByteCommander Your german skills needed

Byte Commander

My most expensive music CD was the latest Powerwolf album for 25€ btw.

looking...

1. rates every problem as an emergency.

2. knows every device having a power button, including their manuals

3. is only waiting for your call.

4. Knows every program and therefore makes software manuals superfluous

5. Also takes care of the IT at your home

6. has fixed your problem before you call him

7. Knows every error message, so you don't have to remember them

SQuirel

7:42 PM

hi

Byte Commander

8. reads out your error message loud and explains it to you

Serg

#2 was funny, manuals having power button

Byte Commander

9. knows a secret search engine

10. knows all colleague's first names, last names and definitely nicknames.

Oh, and a little mistake: at 1. it's "your problem", not "every problem"...

SQuirel

How come when I run nmap localhost -p 0-65535 I'm getting random ports open?

Byte Commander

@Serg That was it.

Serg

7:44 PM

@ByteCommander Thanks :) I like it

@SQuirel what sort of ports ? post the output

SQuirel

42784/tcp open unknown
60086/tcp open unknown

34513/tcp open unknown
52196/tcp open unknown
59636/tcp open unknown

42418/tcp open unknown

each time I run it I get different ports???

Serg

Strange , i get nothing

DIR:/xieerqi|13:21|skolodya@ubuntu:
$ nmap localhost -p 0-65535

Starting Nmap 6.40 ( nmap.org ) at 2016-05-04 13:44 MDT
Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.0010s latency).
Not shown: 65529 closed ports
PORT    STATE SERVICE
21/tcp  open  ftp
22/tcp  open  ssh
25/tcp  open  smtp
80/tcp  open  http
139/tcp open  netbios-ssn
445/tcp open  microsoft-ds
631/tcp open  ipp

WEll, not nothing, but definitelly all the standard ports

SQuirel

Sometimes I don't get anything at all...

except the normal ports I set up...

Videonauth

mhmmmm do you runnng skype or something ?

SQuirel

im connected to a site via telnet and i'm listening to pandora..

Videonauth

7:47 PM

Starting Nmap 7.01 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2016-05-04 21:45 CEST
Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.00022s latency).
Not shown: 65521 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
21/tcp open ftp
22/tcp open ssh
25/tcp open smtp
53/tcp open domain
80/tcp open http
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
953/tcp open rndc
3306/tcp open mysql
10000/tcp open snet-sensor-mgmt
17500/tcp open db-lsp
17600/tcp open unknown
17603/tcp open unknown

SQuirel

But i'm getting different ports each time all over 30000

Byte Commander

Dangit, my desktop crashed again!

Videonauth

the last ones in my case belong to dropbox and steam

Byte Commander

That Wily->Xenial upgraded machine runs horribly unstable :(

SQuirel

I have dropbox installed but It's not running

Videonauth

7:48 PM

and 10000 is my webmin

Serg

I don't have no dropbox and steam is off , so . . .

i guess that solves it

SQuirel

Is it normal?

Steam's not installed on this machine...

Videonauth

well if youre using webservices in any kind this is normal

SQuirel

I think i'll ask my friend wireshark :D

Videonauth

:p

Serg

7:51 PM

Use netstat first

sudo netstat -tulpan

that will show programs + corresponding ports

SQuirel

ok

590/avahi-daemon: r
udp6 0 0 :::51756 :::* 590/avahi-daemon: r
udp6 0 0 :::25649 :::* 729/dhclient
udp6 0 0 :::123 :::* 1166/ntpd
udp6 0 0 :::5353 :::* 590/avahi-daemon: r

Are those normal?

Serg

yup , perfectly normal

user136984

@Fabby: It feels strange now that you are running a later version of Ubuntu to me... :D

SQuirel

I'm running 15.04

Serg

OK, guys. I'm gonna go clock out and then go somewhere else , probably library or something. See you laterz

SQuirel

7:55 PM

Bye