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12:00 AM

and the anger came out

@hbdgaf you should transfer Super <-> Del

oh noes...

i'm not angry. in point of fact, i'm forking lots of stuff and submitting pull requests. it's just that i don't really care if 2.x keeps working as long as 3.x works. so, i'm being a little obtuse in my own way, but it makes sense.

Lucio

the things, there should be someone that joins all the pieces to make easy user life

@hbdgaf at this time, if you're writing and focusing to get 2.x working, you're doing it wrong

hbdgaf

i agree. the problem i run in to is everyone goes "well it works for what i need it for..." and i'm like "i'm so sorry you're not maintaining it any more"

Lucio

I see

honeybadger, the forker honeybadger

hbdgaf

example, last weekend i tried to code-sprint xdot to py3k. didn't make it, but i did make some progress. not sure if it's easier to do that, or use the html5 canvas viewer and a webkit instance. undecided. i'll do one or the other next weekend.

Lucio

12:06 AM

the luck should do the work there

oh, ....I have already set a name for the cli tool :D

hbdgaf

12:19 AM

then tell me. why make me ask?

and for the love of god don't say awk

Lucio

hehe

nop

I'm gonna upload it on 1 hour moreless...

but am not going to delay you ... rch

maybe rhcp would have been awesome (red hot..etc

dinner bbl

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

12:52 AM

0

Q: Problems installing parallel

I just ran sudo apt-get parallel on ubuntu 12.04. Then I tried to run this command from the tutorial and it says command not found. Do I need to take more steps to configure parallel? $ parallel echo ::: A B C /bin/bash: :::: command not found /bin/bash: A: command not found /bin/bash: B: com...

RPi Awesomeness

2:28 AM

@hbdgaf Because A) I got tired of the RPi logo and B) I like the show and C) It's unique. Not a whole lot of people know about The Tick.

Lucio

3:45 AM

Done!

github.com/lucio-martinez/rch

2

Enjoy CLI people :)

No Time

4:08 AM

@Lucio what is this?

Richard

@Lucio Thank you!!!!!

No Time

I am unsure how/when I would use this what does this do? @Richard

Richard

@NoTime github.com/lucio-martinez/rch/blob/master/README.md

No Time

Im reading the readme, and the comments ## inside

Ok, so backing up any file with '??' name inside, and creating dir if not,

like grepping from a cp, then sed touch dir and backups?

Richard

@NoTime rather... just something of a shortcut

as it were

No Time

4:16 AM

instead of running through the stream of with sed, and grep and doing a complicated shell line right?

i think his is pretty good, I do something similar with a program (built in python) but no backups for replacing names in a lot of files

I mean his is good

github.com/no-time/rename is the python one i made that is simple tho

@Richard if you want to look at it

Richard

@NoTime yes... that also seems very useful if I'd rather skip the backups

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: Can anyone know how to install oracle on ubuntu 14.01

Can Anyone help me in installing of ORACLE 11g in Ubuntu 14.01

ubuntu oracle-database oracle-linux

Richard

GUYS I think this is about Windows & OT askubuntu.com/questions/504400/how-to-run-a-script-in-cmd

No Time

scratch that I see, yeah probably windows and at very least in UL

Richard

cmd sounds like windows to me...

gnight folks

No Time

4:25 AM

yes it is

gnight

mojo706

5:39 AM

Morning everyone!

No Time

hi

mojo706

hello

No Time

i think after like 6 months I am finally starting to get "good" at Linux

hmm longer than that actually

9 months

but.. with that I am going to bed

tschuss bis dann later

mojo706

night

Ask Ubuntu Meta

6:54 AM

0

Q: I asked a question, and would like to give an answer that which advocates against a possible solution

Here is the question: What is the fastest Two Way sync framework available on ubuntu? I would like to post as an answer, WHY rsync should NOT be considered. The reason why I would like to do this, is because people who are researching sync solutions on Ubuntu will likely consider RSync. This wil...

discussion answers answer-format

Avinash Raj

How i get the ruby interpreter on Ubuntu?

mojo706

install it?

Takkat

packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/ruby1.9.1 packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/ruby2.0

Rinzwind

install it!
(I do not do questions @mojo706 )

RolandiXor

I'm back.

Rinzwind

7:07 AM

http://www.gog.com/news/gogcom_now_supports_linux
"GOG.com Now Supports Linux!"

Takkat

Rooooooooooland!!! Hi \o/

RolandiXor

Hi

Rinzwind

@Takkat if we ignore him he might go again :=D

RolandiXor

I left out of frustration actually.

Avinash Raj

i installed ruby through

\curl -sSL get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

command.

Takkat

7:09 AM

@Rinzwind: you might know that... my dad decided he needs a new computer to replace his XP. Will he (85) manage the switch to Windows7, or is Ubuntu a better option?

Avinash Raj

What i have to do to get the ruby interpreter?

RolandiXor

What must one do to get Samba to work?!

Takkat

Samba just works on my machines... :/

RolandiXor

Not for me.

Avinash Raj

To get the python interpreter we need to run python command on terminal. Likewise is there any command for ruby.

RolandiXor

7:11 AM

I have three laptops - not one of them works with Samba.

Even this new one.

Samba is accursed!

Takkat

@RolandiXor the only issue I had some time ago was that the daemon was not running.

Rinzwind

@Takkat can't answer that... my mother is 70-ish but she had NO prior computer knowledge. She does not want anything else than Ubuntu _O-

RolandiXor

I get this:

Takkat

@Rinzwind such it was with my mum... thing is I can't support 7 - I think he should stick to XP...

Rinzwind

if he is used to XP he will be used to MS methods and software. What would mean you will keep on excusing yourself for Ubuntu not being able to install software X cuz it is named Y in Ubuntu

I'd go with W7 if that is going to happen
W7 is not that different than XP. Just the front end is

(behind the scene or when you go into setting etc. it all looks the same :P )

Avinash Raj

7:16 AM

plz someone help me..

Takkat

@Rinzwind that was my thinking too... he does not tweak much. But he always was annoyed about the confusing Virus Scanner updates. I think he turned them all off :/

Rinzwind

@Takkat good! those are fake anyways.

Takkat

lol

RolandiXor

@AvinashRaj with?

Rinzwind

@AvinashRaj I know nothing about ruby :=)

@RolandiXor ruby!

pay attention >:-DDDD

Avinash Raj

7:17 AM

7 mins ago, by Avinash Raj

What i have to do to get the ruby interpreter?

Takkat

last thing he said was: if nobody uses XP anymore, who should code a virus then?

RolandiXor

@Rinzwind never! (Zod voice)

Rinzwind

let him write down WHAT he does with the computer. If it is browse, music, video, mail, write documents and a bit of Excell.... Ubuntu will work for him,
Even games-wise he could use Ubuntu if he games those basic games (the no DX ones like sudoku or chess)

Journeyman Geek

he's running windows?

3 words.

Rinzwind

Only thing you need to do is put the icons on the launcher and he does not even have to search for the programsx.

Journeyman Geek

7:19 AM

Limited. User. Account.

Rinzwind

L.U.C.

3 letters :=D

Journeyman Geek

(and heh, I am getting a system setup with a linux gui to get myself back up to date)

Takkat

@RolandiXor it may be some non-parsable network name, or the daemon not running, or... sighs .. so many possibilities.

Avinash Raj

I think Lucio knows the answer.

RolandiXor

@Takkat exactly why samba sucks.

Journeyman Geek

7:22 AM

@RolandiXor: 'basic' file share?

I could pastebin up my config if it helps

Braiam

@JourneymanGeek 4 actually

Rinzwind

no 3 :+)
"Limited. User. Account."

RolandiXor

@JourneymanGeek it might

but so far nothing has worked - and believe me I tried so many things!

Braiam

@RolandiXor umm? what problem

RolandiXor

@Braiam file sharing with Samba

Braiam

7:26 AM

feels like no reading the transcript

RolandiXor

hi btw

Journeyman Geek

@RolandiXor pastebin.com/fBuUUaBz

RolandiXor

@JourneymanGeek thanks

Braiam

@RolandiXor 4am... I won't say "hi"

Journeyman Geek

using accounts after using the smbpassword command I believe

I haven't been arsed to do a guest share yet

RolandiXor

7:28 AM

I will probably try tomorrow

Journeyman Geek

and man, I really need to get a new home server when I get a job

@RolandiXor: oh, that link is set to delete in 24 hours. If it dosen't work when you need it, just let me know.

RolandiXor

@JourneymanGeek coolio

Rinzwind

7:50 AM

@RolandiXor Artis Ivey Junior

RolandiXor

no clue

Rinzwind

@RolandiXor nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolio :=)

RolandiXor

oh him lol

user44517

helo

Rinzwind

@RolandiXor it wasn't me!

oh what that's shaggy :P

RolandiXor

7:57 AM

lol

user44517

is there anyont know how to determine ideal buffer size?

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Q: How do you determine the ideal buffer size when using FileInputStream?

I have a method that creates a MessageDigest (a hash) from a file, and I need to do this to a lot of files (>= 100,000). How big should I make the buffer used to read from the files to maximize performance? Most everyone is familiar with the basic code (which I'll repeat here just in case): Mes...

java performance file-io filesystems buffer

thats only FileInputSTream

how about Socket?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Ubuntu 13.10 has suddenly failed to boot!

Yesterday evening, I don't know what happened but my system (Ubuntu 13.10) didn't boot. Since then I tried many times but the same issue as I explain below. See I boot my system. GRUB menu comes; I select ubuntu (to boot); then as normal the Ubuntu symbol comes but it takes a long time there & t...

ubuntu bootable

user44517

that could be, file system err

i cant comment or answer that , so i ignore it

do some fsck

hbdgaf

@AvinashRaj if you didn't figure it out yet, it's irb

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

8:42 AM

0

Q: ncq disabled on usb drive with ncq capabilities

I've recently purchased a Gigabyte BRIX paired with WD10JFCX 1TB Drive which is encased in an USB3.0 box. On it i run Ubuntu LTS 14.04 When i look at /sys/block/sdb/devices/queue_depth it reads 1 meaning NCQ is disabled. Whenever i try to set this value (as root) to anything but 1 i get a 'permi...

linux ubuntu usb-drive

Ask Ubuntu Meta

9:11 AM

0

Q: Could our quote style be different to the code style?

On Ask Ubuntu, this is what our code looks like compared to our quote style: Code here is obviously code. But quotes look almost the same. Okay, so there is some difference - font and width of block. But on (This is meta SE) they are obviously different: Could we have it that our quot...

discussion feature-request

Rinzwind

9:25 AM

dupe askubuntu.com/questions/504466/…

hbdgaf

i'm out of close-votes...

Braiam

anyone see something wrong here? meta.askubuntu.com/a/11634/169736

hbdgaf

And it looks like Soylent made it out of beta soylent.me

Journeyman Geek

9:45 AM

When a man's too busy to eat, he needs to re-examine his priorities in life ;p

hbdgaf

It's not the too busy part really. It's just convenience. If I could not eat, and just sit down in a charger pushing a recharge button - I would. Seems like as close as I'm going to get.

Journeyman Geek

10:04 AM

I guess I can blame my high school days when my evil second language teacher kept detaining me for stupid reasons all the time

I missed a lot of meals so... I hate the idea of rushing through things like that ;p

Madara Uchiha

10:54 AM

Fellas, need some help

Trying to install Google Earth, it installs fine, but when I try to run it I get:

$ google-earth
./googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

xiaodongjie

Hi everybody.

Ubuntu12.04 Live CD have it's own initrd.lz

how to find it's source?

Rinzwind

11:19 AM

@xiaodongjie source? on the chrooted live it will be in ,/image/casper/ but it could also be initrd.gz instead of .lz

Braiam

12:12 PM

@MadaraUchiha how did you installed it?

if you used dpkg -i is likely you are missing libraries

Madara Uchiha

I actually managed, thanks :)

Now I need to figure out KML

Braiam

dammit >:|

Venki

1:39 PM

@Danatela Just wanna tell u that my problem with GNOME is solved. It was actually a design decision by GNOME team to not put any icon when internet is connected by wired connection coz most people keep 'emselves connected to the net when they use a wired connection! the minimalism of GNOME amazes me ! :-o :-D

Ask Ubuntu Meta

2:37 PM

0

Q: Where to access some statitics

I want to know how many questions are asked every day? also How many answers are there in one day. Or how many questions are asked during a month? and some kind of statistics? Is there any way to access them on the site?

discussion

Rinzwind

0

Q: Red local WIndows 7 y Ubuntu 14.04

buenas: Me gustaría saber como puedo montar una red local con ubuntu y win7. Gracias

14.04 windows-7 local

spanish speaker wanted!

(that can translate to english)

jokerdino

Good day: [...] Thank you.

Rinzwind

2:55 PM

comments getting out of hand: askubuntu.com/questions/503026/…

voted to delete :=)

jokerdino

Oli pls

0

A: Unable to run eclipse Indigo on Ubuntu (3.2.0-64-generic-pae)

Sorry! I noticed after posting this question that my Ubuntu was 32 bit and I had downloaded 64bit Eclipse.

I think that's a valid answer. O_O

Tim

3:31 PM

seen that before recently!

badp

4:00 PM

There's something very wrong here that downs on me more with each passing day

Braiam

@Rinzwind Unclear

badp

14.10 should be a complete mess of dangling Mir bits, and instead it's basically as solid as 14.04

To be fair there's a couple of dangling Mir bits in 14.04 (hello web browser app) but...

Braiam

4:15 PM

@Venki you sure?

Ask Ubuntu Meta

5:17 PM

0

Q: Meta SE - there be Dragons

A word of warning for all who have to venture into the realms of Meta Stack Exchange: That site does not resemble the friendly, relaxed environment you experience here. The site is (despite the name) rather a main site with its own rep accounting. They have a very strong policy against duplicat...

discussion support

Tim

5:27 PM

This might need protecting: askubuntu.com/questions/142926/…

RolandiXor

5:59 PM

Hey guys

RolandiXor

6:10 PM

Anyone around with some samba experience?

Seems I picked a bad time.

xiaodongjie

6:44 PM

Hi

can i create and sell customized linux distros based on ubuntu?

RolandiXor

7:14 PM

Samba should be removed from Ubuntu, since there is no intention of having it work.

Open source does not have to mean broken, and when it does, we should abandon it.

muru

@xiaodongjie I am not a copyright expert, but as long as you do make the source available, and use Canonical IP (trademarks, logos, etc.) with their permission, you can sell your derivatives of Ubuntu.

@xiaodongjie see ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/licensing and ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/…, specifically section2 in the second link

Braiam

7:48 PM

@RolandiXor ?

Ask Ubuntu Meta

7:59 PM

Recent Questions - Ask Ubuntu Meta: cannot install 14.04

posted on July 30, 2014 by paulmeeks2004

I am on an old windows 7 64 bit PC/ I can run and install the 10., 12.but not the 13. and 14.04.l ?? oh, the 13 is a 13.04 not 13.10... could I change something in (services) that will allow me to install 14.04.l ? Anything..... ;) I even tried to wipe windows and install Ubuntu but then I couldn't reload windows.... Having loads of fun here people lol ;( (paulmeeks2…

hbdgaf

8:38 PM

@RolandiXor samba isn't awful and intentionally broken... there are people that have nice utilities to manage it mostly. there's a nice turnkey box turnkeylinux.org/domain-controller ... It's just that it's a beast to get working the first time.

Anyone ever want to start a sock named "Ain't got no time fo dis", and go and leave a comment on every post by all the "Notime"/"Zerotime"/similar users? <--- I'm not going to do it. I'm just saying it would make me chuckle a little if someone did.

Seth

What happen to the bot? That's a new theme anyway.

Also \o.

Been a bit busy the last couple of days.

hbdgaf

ahoy

@Seth starting going back and forth between i3 and xfce. i think i like applets. i might follow that "keep the xfce top bar, but replace the window manager with i3" tutorial i found the other day

Seth

There is a taskel job for Ubuntu-desktop? — Seth ♦ 10 secs ago

@hbdgaf xfce is pretty customizable, isn't it? Sounds cool.

I usually just stick with the default (Unity) but xfce would be my next choice. Never tried i3, but I've heard good things about it.

hbdgaf

Anything is customizable if you're willing to beat it in to submission, but it doesn't take as much effort with more minimal DEs since they don't make as many assumptions.

And on i3, you either love it or hate it. I think I love it, I just want a few applets.

@Seth why whouldn't you just install the realtime kernel package on desktop instead of the other way around?

chaskes

9:00 PM

i3 is pretty awesome when you want minimal. I have an Arch install using i3. You can set up tabs for each of your major apps, especially good when using on small screens

hbdgaf

I like the dynamic desktop creation aspect too... and the splitting tiles for when I want multiple terminals and some web browser. It's like a WM that subsumes terminator

chaskes

Yeah. There's still a lot I need to learn about it, but between the arch wiki and the i3 manual, I got a pretty good setup. Nice and light for my atom netbook.

Oh, and one of those pages linked to a blog with a nice config file to build from.

hbdgaf

I started with the base config. I'm still launching everything from a terminal and switching to tabbed mode. This way is lame. I need to add some app shortcuts.

Ahh dobey read my mind

Is there any reason you didn't just install Ubuntu 14.04 instead of Ubuntu Studio then? You can just install linux-image-lowlatency to get the low latency kernel. — dobey 7 mins ago

chaskes

arch + xfce is also very light and fast on the netbook. Probably a better balance between speed and function than lubuntu

hbdgaf

conceptually i like arch, but if i'm going to jump in naked, i'ld rather run BSD when the drivers catch up to this laptop

archbang seems a nice half-way in the middle. i may try that at some point

chaskes

9:15 PM

although the rumors of arch as a DIY distro are way overblown. it's not Gentoo. Everthing is binary and easy. You just need to watch the update info and make sure there's no conflict with something you really need.

hbdgaf

I haven't tried it yet. It sounded closer to ports tree than most linuces

chaskes

I suppose it is. but except for packages in the AUR, everything is done for you, simlar to pc-bsd

that said, some apps you may think of as standard are only available in the AUR

hbdgaf

That's neat. I might have to give it a shot on a vm or an lxc container.

chaskes

the install guide is step-by-step or also try the archboot iso, which puts up a minimal scripted install that is also reminiscent of bsd.

hbdgaf

It's on my list of things to do when I don't have to sleep or go to the day job :)

chaskes

9:19 PM

so you mean you'll never do it? ;)

hbdgaf

I might, it's just on my distant list.

I frequently send users here to the archwiki. It has great documentation.

chaskes

you betcha. it's great

hbdgaf

Okay Palin. >.>

chaskes

lol, doncha know.

hbdgaf

anyone else here read this? blog.torproject.org/blog/… - seems a little beat up that they stopped on july 4. seems like a false flag against US op

wait... i don't remember the not-redrawing chromium bug happening in i3, and some other people said it didn't happen in unity or some other DEs. maybe it's file-able as a bug in xfce, not a bug in chromium.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

9:34 PM

0

Q: Can use Password authentication with SFTP even though "PasswordAuthentication no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config

I have enabled SSH-keys based authentication on the Ubuntu 14.04 server, disabled root login using SSH and can connect successfully using SSH-keys based authentication with my user account blahblah on my Mac SSH client. However, to test the SSH login with Password authentication, I used the SFTP...

ubuntu ssh sftp sshd

Seth

@hbdgaf no idea.

hbdgaf

just a note for you seth, i think tasksel was supposed to be deprecated... it's not something i would recommend for future-proofing questions

Seth

oh really?

chaskes

it's not installed by default in desktop

Seth

I hadn't heard that.

I'm not surprised. Will apt install it automatically if someone uses the caret? Or will it just fail?

hbdgaf

9:44 PM

it seems like i read it somewhere, but i can't remember where and the first two pages of google are tasksel using deprecated packages. i could swear i read it was deprecated somewhere though.

chaskes

On that answer you mentioned, tasksel doesn't require the caret anymore, and the metapackage has the same name as the task, so it resolves to an apt-get operation for the average user

I think apt in this case just uses the metapackage but I don't know about other task specifc packgages

I don't believe it's deprecated for server use

Seth

@chaskes ah cool. By doesn't require, does that mean you could just call the lamp task without the caret, and apt will get it (as long as there is no package with that name)?

chaskes

IDK yet. I don't want to say something that turns out to be wrong

@Seth Things I find say apt-get use of tasksel tasks is undocumented. I would need to experiment.

Seth

wat

What do they mean by "undocumented" I wonder..

chaskes

@Seth When there's no metapackage with the same name, you need to caret in order for apt-get to call the task.

Try sudo apt-get -s install lamp-server vs sudo apt-get -s install lamp-server^

This is a desktop without tasksel installed

Summary: if tasksel is installed, caret is optional in all cases. If tasksel is not installed, caret is required when task does not share name with a metapackage

Undocumented in the tasksel wiki seems to mean he couldn't find documentation; but undocumented in general means there's no contract implied - the behavior could change or vanish without warning.

Seth

9:57 PM

Sweet, thanks for testing @chaskes :)

chaskes

@Seth At this point, it's what I live for. :)

hbdgaf

undocumented means either "we don't support this... good luck" or "maybe nobody knows" - circa X11 man page

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:15 PM

0

Q: subversion not working with pycharm [ubuntu 14]

in pycharm there is an option to upload changes to a remote svn repository. however it does not ask for password. how do I provide it?

ubuntu python subversion

hbdgaf

i need to be able to use balefire on not specific to ubuntu questions on UL that tag as ubuntu

Mateo

11:33 PM

@RolandiXor which windows? I think at one time they changed the "workgroup" name, and you had to go around to each ms computer and do the file sharing wizard or something

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