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ƎpᴉʇʎXD

6:00 AM

too much sauce

there is a such thing of too much sauce.

Serg

yes, there is. Especially if it's hot sauce

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

like I consumed too much once

it left me with a hot mouth for 3 days

Serg

3 days ? that must have been one hell of a sauce

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

yep

How It's Made Soy Sauce

►

TheXed

and a new error @Serg

Serg

6:07 AM

@TheXed copy text, avoid screenshots plz

TheXed

@Serg pi@raspberrypi:/usb/bin $ sudo python3 flickup.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "flickup.py", line 35, in <module>
sdcard = sys.argv[1] + "/"
IndexError: list index out of range
pi@raspberrypi:/usb/bin $

Serg

you need command line arg

TheXed

what does that mean?

Serg

sys.argv[1] is first command line argument. you didn't give any.

it seems like it wants a directory because it appends /

TheXed

okay so would that be like a mount point of an SD card?

Serg

6:12 AM

let me see , their github should have instructions

TheXed

they are poor destructions

Serg

Yes , probably mountpoint of the SD card or USB pen drive

The package maintainer just said to run the script itself, but the script needs command line argument

Clearly not a very good software - no instructions and code is ugly

speaking of which . . . I need to fix up my indicator README.md, both of them

gansub

@Serg

I have great news

I was able to boot to X windows without reinstalling

Serg

yes ?

gansub

I am so excited now

Serg

6:19 AM

Congratulations ! How did you manage to fix it ?

gansub

is Zach here

@Zacharee1 are you here bro ?

TheXed

Good night

Serg

Apparently he's not here , it's 1 am where he is

gansub

OK here you go

I was able to boot to X windows

here is the deal

under /usrl/lib64 on Friday night there were some libglew packages were installed

which I required for a graphics

@Serg are you there ??

Serg

still here

gansub

6:25 AM

so as I said there were some libGlew*.so packages

OK ?

Serg

alright . . .

gansub

unknown to me those packages messed up my X configuration

why I do not know yet

if you recall from my question here - askubuntu.com/questions/802585/…

when you and I started sudo service startx $(which unity)

it said unable to locate libimf.so

right ?

Then @KnudLarsen's comment gave me a HUGE clue

he said copy libimf.so from whereever you have it to /usr/lib

It turns out he was not completely RIGHT

but it was a pretty big clue

then I searched in google

open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2013/06/22174.php

it turns out you need to symlink libimfo.so to /usr/lib64

OK ?

which is where X looks for it

when I did that

it complained of more .so libraries missing

Serg

I see . . . , so you had that library , X was just not finding it

gansub

then I symlinked those as well

Byte Commander

NAA askubuntu.com/a/803422/367990

gansub

6:29 AM

then finally I issued sudo service startx

@Serg !!!!! I did it !!!!!

and joyfully the system booted !!!

credit goes to @KnudLarsen

@Serg - can you help me figure out what happened on Friday night when I lost control of Ubuntu X ?

does libGlew*.so mess up my X ?

Serg

@gansub first of all, you might want to describe exact steps and post your solution as answer, so that others can find it if they have same problem

gansub

OK

@Serg - you want me to answer my question ?

is that correct ?

Serg

yes

gansub

is that OK - answering my own question ?

edwinksl

@ByteCommander lol i appreciate the spiel but it is indeed NAA

Serg

6:32 AM

Yes, I do that sometimes as well

gansub

I mean won't it seem egotistical?

Serg

It's perfectly fine

edwinksl

no it isn't egotistical

do it

Serg

The goal is solving problems and helping people

gansub

@Serg but the clue was given by @KnudLarsen won't he object ?

edwinksl

6:33 AM

give him proper attribution

gansub

err..how do I do that in an answer - he is not a reference is he ?

Serg

@gansub He only gave a suggestion, not actual solution. As edwinks said, give him attribution in the answer, but solution is completely yours

gansub

Do I say User Knud Larsen ?

Serg

Just mention his name in the answer

gansub

OK fine

Serg

6:33 AM

OK, second. libglew . . . did you manually install those ?

gansub

@Serg yes

Serg

Ubuntu has them in repositories

$ apt-cache search libglew
libglew-dbg - OpenGL Extension Wrangler (debugging symbols)
libglew-dev - OpenGL Extension Wrangler - development environment
libglew1.13 - OpenGL Extension Wrangler - runtime environment
libglewmx-dbg - OpenGL Extension Wrangler MX (debugging symbols)
libglewmx-dev - OpenGL Extension Wrangler MX - development environment
libglewmx1.13 - OpenGL Extension Wrangler (Multiple Rendering Contexts)
glew-utils - OpenGL Extension Wrangler - utilities

gansub

@Serg - here is the thing

this was last software I installed OK ?

assimp 3.1.1
freetype 2.5.3
ftgl 2.1.5-rc5
glew 1.10.0

so I installed it myself

vapor.ucar.edu/internal/downloads/source-distributions

it needs Glew

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

i really want to flash ubuntu phone

passes @SmokeDetector a coffee

Byte Commander

that was... weird.

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

6:39 AM

agreed

edwinksl

what happened? didn't see it

Byte Commander

I don't dare to quote that spam....

Zanna

be grateful :)

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

I WANT TO FLASH UBUNTU PHONE ON A NOTE 1 BUT WHY NO SUPPORT!?!?

Journeyman Geek

Cause you're a terrible person who abuses CAPITALS

Serg

6:44 AM

@ByteCommander can you base 64 what that spam said ?

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

I abuse everything. I am a madman, and I will always be..

edwinksl

@Serg curiosity kills kittens. are you sure you want to see spam?

Serg

@gansub sorry, was afk. Well , I have never used those software packages, so i cannot say what can be done about them. As far as i understand glew is for OpenGL

Jacob Vlijm

@gansub it is fair of you to ask him to answer the question. If that doe not happen after 17 hrs, answer it yourself. Also fair snd tha right thing to do.

Serg

@edwinksl just currious what did i miss

gansub

6:46 AM

wait a second folks

let us take a vote here

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

?

gansub

I did ask @KnudLarsen to answer that question

he did not respond

Videonauth

the first setence still to be seen in my active questions list say something sexual, and i guess this was going on @Serg

Serg

@JacobVlijm gansub can answer his own post, since the person in the comment did tell him exact solution . Gansub figured out most of the issue on his own

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

the path to betrayal

Serg

6:47 AM

@Videonauth ah . . . i guess that wasn't anything that important

Spam is getting less and less creative

edwinksl

yeah it is always organ augmentation or beauty products, boring

AFK rage moment

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE

@Serg @gansub ah, then answer right away of course!

Sean

6:49 AM

weird situation, I'm running ubuntu 16.04, was prompted to do an update, pressed update, restarted my vm, and now all of the menus/window buttons have disappeared (I'll post a screenshot)

not sure what to google - I've looked at a bunch of things e.g. askubuntu.com/questions/762137/…

and this: askubuntu.com/questions/204428/…

to no avail

Videonauth

try, since you have a terminal open to input unity

Sean

yeah, it doesn't change :-/

Nathan Osman

I can haz award for largest GitHub issue?

Sean

Jacob Vlijm

Now = after 17 hrs btw.

Rinzwind

6:52 AM

@ByteCommander @serg does this satisfy your needs? askubuntu.com/questions/803415/…

edwinksl

@NathanOsman quite the data dump xD

Rinzwind

@NathanOsman sure!

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

:D

Serg

@Rinzwind good enough. I just want to add one link to it and that's it

This -=> askubuntu.com/q/126153/295286

Stupid piece of sausache. I destroyed one of the photographs that my gf send me in the mail

I am so mad right now it's not even funny

edwinksl

sausache???

Sean

6:54 AM

@Videonauth and unity is apparently enabled (ran ccsm and the plugin is checked...)

Serg

sausage

because i am eating rice and sausage right now

Rinzwind

done @Serg

edwinksl

sorry for laughing at your misfortune xD

Byte Commander

@edwinksl @Serg Here's that spam post in SmokeDetector's log: metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/35377

edwinksl

sausages ruin lives

Serg

6:55 AM

and once i bit a piece, piece of greese fell onto the photo . . ..luckly it was just a picture the track where we used to kiss

So , just a picture of running track

but man i am still mad

edwinksl

@ByteCommander that is indeed weird

Serg

ah , strengthening the pelvic muscles

heard of that

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

righteo, time to fix windows

restarting now >:D

gansub

@Serg - askubuntu.com/questions/802585/…

answered the question

and folks with high rep please correct it as youw ish

Rinzwind

1 letter @ByteCommander ?

Serg

7:05 AM

i am so mad

gansub

@Serg - I have another question

Serg

yes ?

gansub

remember I told you I am getting another disk

the 1 TB disk has arrived

would my machine have two slots ?

I mean can I use both disks ?

how to make Ubuntu recognize the 2nd disk?

Serg

sure you can use both

you will just need to find out the UUID of the drive

Byte Commander

@Rinzwind ?

Serg

7:08 AM

and add it to /etc/fstab

gansub

Ok but is the partition seamless to me ?

supposing my disk1 is full

will it extend the file to disk 2 ?

Rinzwind

@ByteCommander askubuntu.com/posts/803440/revisions ;-)

@Serg if you have 2 500Gb disk and want to store a 600Gb file ;-)

Nathan Osman

Goodnight all.

Serg

@gansub what do you mean seamless ?

gansub

@Serg - seamless means oblivious to me

I should not know that there are two disks

I should "see" it as one

Serg

7:11 AM

em .. . . no, it doesn't work that way

Rinzwind

@gansub yes linux does that but... the disk will be mounted with a dubdirectory

so there IS a boundary.

gansub

@Rinzwind - hang on a second

supposing I am writing a file

and disk1 is full

will it extend that file into disk 2 ?

Rinzwind

then the PARTITION is full

and NO.

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

gparted ?

gansub

is there a way to make it happen ?

Rinzwind

7:12 AM

your 2nd disk is a subdirectory of "/"

Nathan Osman

Not without something like btrfs or LVM.

Rinzwind

@gansub use another filesystem

gansub

can you explain what that means ?

Serg

@gansub nope , can't be done

Rinzwind

grrrrrrrrrrr nathan >:)

@gansub what you want is dangerous. a file on 2 disks means only 1 has to fail for the file to become corrupt

gansub

7:14 AM

@Rinzwind - my problem is the following OK ?

I am in big data

Rinzwind

if you want it like that a RAID setup could be used

gansub

GIS

I never run them

so most of my software is automated

aaah OK I need RAID then !

Rinzwind

LVM is more common nowadays

see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(Linux)

gansub

LVM - logical volume management

that is exactly what I want

see I never run my software !

they are all daemon processes !

they run in the background

Rinzwind

LVM is commonly used for the following purposes:

Managing large hard disk farms by allowing disks to be added and replaced without downtime or service disruption, in combination with hot swapping.
On small systems (like a desktop at home), instead of having to estimate at installation time how big a partition might need to be in the future, LVM allows file systems to be easily resized later as needed.
Performing consistent backups by taking snapshots of the logical volumes.
** Creating single logical volumes of multiple physical volumes or entire hard disks (somewhat similar to RAID 0, bu…

gansub

7:16 AM

so I have no way of knowing when what disk will be full

Rinzwind

^^^ covers all the issues you posted here ;-)

gansub

got it @Rinzwind - thanks a LOT !

Rinzwind

nathan came with it! not me >:-D

gansub

@Nathan - thanks !

does Ubuntu support a LVM ?

Rinzwind

of course

ha. another day with a speedrun to 200 rep D:

Serg

7:28 AM

I'm at 10 so far. Last few days weren't that productive

Rinzwind

155 with 1 accepted

Serg

26 actually

had to downvote bunch of non-answers

Rinzwind

lol

I never do. JUst leave a comment or mark for deleting

165 >:-D

Serg

op turned his post into forum, so i had to

Rinzwind

BBL :D food and drink needed. 9;30 and it is already hot :X

Byte Commander

7:32 AM

We still have only 21°C here

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

i have like 10C in here!

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Serg

Imgur seriously needs to invest in their servers

It keeps showing me "Over capacity" message

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

Serg

8:08 AM

mv serg bed/

Zanna

I can't upload anything to imgur lately

goodnight :)

edwinksl

dat number of high-rep users in this question askubuntu.com/questions/803434/…

Zanna

I'm officially a fanatic today

4

Well I just humbly added an answer to that question because I got burned assuming extensions could be discarded... not always so!

Serg

are you phonetic fanatic ?

edwinksl

serg you need to go to bed

Serg

8:11 AM

( don't pay attention to me, just making up random sentences with matching sounds )

edwinksl

(:P)

Zanna

well I know IPA and ai luv it

fanatic as in gold badge fanatic

Serg

IPA are kind of OK type of beer, I prefer ale though :p Blue Moon anyone ?

@Zanna congrats !

Zanna

thanks! :) but it doesn't necessarily imply useful contributions hahaha

Serg

but youre doing more contribution that me

Arronical

8:15 AM

@Serg, erm, before you go to bed, I just wanted to know, are you also confused by what the OP actually wants in this question? askubuntu.com/questions/803115/…

Serg

and it is still useful

edwinksl

IPA is isopropyl alcohol, a commonly used solvent in chemistry

Serg

@Arronical No, it is not very confusing . OP just wanted to avoid showing grep in the list of processes

If you do something like ps -ef | grep chromium

xieerqi  17757  5891  0 02:17 pts/6    00:00:00 grep --color=auto chromium

THat ^ shows up

OP didn't want that

So grep -v is appropriate solution

However , OP in the comments said he only wants to know if process exists

Arronical

It's his comments on my answer that are confusing, keeps talking about "script exits if process not found".

Serg

reading comments . . .

Arronical

8:20 AM

I think he wants more than the question suggests, we've both successfully answered that I think. But I can't manage to figure out what he really wants.

Serg

Yes, we've covered what original question asked. Just let it go and move on to something else

besides, he's being very unclear

Arronical

Fairy nuff, cheers!

Serg

^_^

@Arronical keep up the good work !

OK , back to the land of youtubes

Byte Commander

I hate World of Tanks updates... They're so huuuge and you can not skip them to play. :-/

Finally it's done.

Serg

@ByteCommander is it done via Steam ? I remember the painful updates for some games

Rusty Hearts . . .

Mabinogi

Byte Commander

8:26 AM

No Steam, installed native on Win 10 (which's updates are also a pain)

Serg

Steam is cool but took me days for downloads and updates

Byte Commander

Why does spell checker underline "which's"? What should we say instead?

Serg

doesn't underline for me

are you using british spell checker ?

Byte Commander

Yup, but the US one also complains.

Arronical

Thanks @Serg .... Oh also, Hi everyone!

Zanna

8:30 AM

I think which's isn't a normal contraction @ByteCommander though I could be wrong. If you think about it, it doesn't really help easy pronunciation which is the point of contractions generally. Saying which is sounds the same as which's to me

Byte Commander

No, not intended as contraction but as possessive s.

Win 10's updates are a pain

Serg

which witches ?

Byte Commander

witches with sandwiches which are wise white witches

2

Zanna

oh when can which possess something? I can't think of the context... maybe the dictionary is as unimaginative as I am

Byte Commander

That's a valid thing in German, there's even a separate word for that.

Zanna

8:40 AM

I'm not saying it isn't valid, I'm just wondering when it is valid!

Byte Commander

I like the book which's cover is green.

(just a simple example where I would use such a word)

Serg

Nope

"I like the book which color is green" sounds more appropriate

Or "I like the book which has green color"

Yay , 3 out of 4 downvotes returned

edwinksl

why not use whose instead of which's

Serg

"whose" probably refers to people , "which" is for objects ?

Arronical

I like the book with the green cover, would be most natural.

Journeyman Geek

8:50 AM

I'm pretty sure possessive doesn't quite work like that.

Arronical

Can't think of any possessive use of which.

Byte Commander

I miss German'Ss flexibility. English is useful, but ugly.

edwinksl

so english = java

Serg

Easiest for me is chinese, 我喜欢那本绿色的书

Arronical

I love how a new word in German is made up of words describing the object.

edwinksl

8:53 AM

@Serg lol most people will not find that easy

Arronical

Though can't think of an example now...

edwinksl

@Zanna please make images in posts clickable :)

Serg

kind of sleepy . . . maybe i should pass out . . . or watch another youtube vid then pass out

Byte Commander

@Arronical Like Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft‌

Zanna

@edwinksl sorry that was really lazy

edwinksl

8:57 AM

i couldn't read what was on the terminal

Serg

@ByteCommander i misread first couple words as Donauldtramp

Arronical

@ByteCommander something to do with the Danube steamship company, electricity and ... oh hold on, I'll just click the link.

edwinksl

agglutinative languages ftw

Arronical

I learned something new today. Agglutinative is a nice word!

Byte Commander

Me too. Danube is an ugly name for a river.

Serg

9:01 AM

In russian it's totally different

Arronical

Danube does sound like some sort of US gangster just starting out learning code.

Serg

Danube == Doo-nay ( in Russian )

Da-n00b XD

xaxaxa

呵呵

niubi

9:04 AM

@Serg Exactly.

Well, Doo-nay is almost like the German "Donau", that sounds nice.

Aamir

Hello everyone

Serg

hi

Aamir

I am using wget command, everthing is using fine, but when I specify -O parameter its not working

sshpass -p 'password' ssh root@192.168.1.121 wget -O some-api_0.8.9.71-DEV-SNAPSHOT_all.deb --progress=dot 192.168.1.125:8081/artifactory/lib-test/… -P /var/mypath/ 2>&1 | grep --line-buffered "%" | sed -u -e "s,\.,,g" | awk '{printf("\b\b\b\b%4s", $2)}'

earlier I was not using -O some-api_0.8.9.71-DEV-SNAPSHOT_all.deb , now I included it and now its not downloading to specified folder /var/mypath/ if I remove -O option then it works fine

Serg

Are you downloading some-api_0.8.9.71-DEV-SNAPSHOT_all.deb from machine with IP 192.168.1.125 to the one with 192.168.1.121 ?

@Aamir

Aamir

yes yes

yesterday I check -O parameter was working fine, now its not working

Serg

9:11 AM

personally I wouldn't use wget for that. I would just use scp

That one is for file transfer over ssh

Aamir

I know but u have to download first

terdon

@Aamir WHy don't you just use -O /var/mypath/some-api_0.8.9.71-DEV-SNAPSHOT_all.deb?

Serg

@Aamir so you download file to 192.168.1.125 first, then from 192.168.1.125 transfer to 192.168.1.121 ? is that what is happening ?

terdon

You are telling wget to save as ./some-api_0.8.9.71-DEV-SNAPSHOT_all.deb with the -O option and then telling it to save in ` /var/mypath/` with -P. The two are contradictory

Aamir

@serg no 125 is an artifactory, its exposing its api to do that

Byte Commander

9:14 AM

sigh... my WoT skills are horrible this morning. :/

Aamir

@terdon, if same file already exists in that folder, does it replace that by using -O /var/mypath/some-api_0.8.9.71-DEV-SNAPSHOT_all.deb

terdon

@Aamir Yes

Serg

@ByteCommander sudo git gud

Aamir

@terdon, thanks a lot its working, anyways thanks everyone for helping.

terdon

np

Byte Commander

9:19 AM

git gud? Huh?

If that's a joke, I don't get it...

Serg

get good , with twisted spelling

Also a meme

@ByteCommander

terdon

Um. And what does get good mean?

Get well?

Serg

No, get good at something

Like if you fail a round of card came , your opponent could say "get good "

Byte Commander

aha...

user136984

I watched Kung Fu Panda last night, while I was eating! :D

Byte Commander

9:23 AM

Or I just quit.

Seeya.

user136984

In fact I ate through the entire film...

Serg

Panda watching pandas . . . . panda-ception !

user136984

Ok...? :D

terdon

@Serg Ah, right.

Serg

Ok, real question guys . . . .what can i do to boost my chances and get some form of actual IT job ? I mean, I will be preparing for Linux + certification, maybe A+ as well, but what else ? If I go learning database, like mysql, how are my chances at getting some kind of job ?

i mean, i need to get out there somehow

Arronical

9:45 AM

I can't be much help with this I'm afraid, especially with not being familiar with the job market in the US. There must be advice on workplace.stackexchange.com though.

user136984

@Serg: Why don't you have a look at the SO careers section?

user136984

Never really looked into it but I believe they have some sort of jobs site where employers are more likely to get to know about you or something...

Serg

@ParanoidPanda I looked briefly couple times , i think. It's same as linkedin - i find lots of jobs that are like "Senior Developer" or "Senior Engineer" . So far I am not anywhere close to that. Plus most jobs require experience. I don't have none

Zanna

@Serg last night I went to a Linux event at CodeNode in London, a couple of talks. Organised through meetup (is meetup a UK thing?) These kind of events are very friendly because... Linux is a community thing, right? And to an extent we're all on the same page. The organisers make a point of chatting to every single person at some point...

... anyway after the two main talks one guys got up and said "I'm looking for work and I can do this this and this" and he got hired by someone else at the event in the subsequent chatting

... So in the UK I think... it's all about networking

Serg

There are a few Linux groups around Denver, I think. Probably could check them out.

Zanna

9:58 AM

Another guy in one of the Linux groups I go to recently got hired through some networking and advice from other ppl in the group

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