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ByteCommander

5:07 PM

Is chat freaking out?

Serg

And my router is working again. As soon as I turned my laptop off

ByteCommander

No, looks good here.

Oh!

There was it.

All messages look doubled for a second.

Sometimes.

Not any more...

Now again!

I don't understand this...

Serg

What is happening , byte?

ByteCommander

Well

Now not any more.

user136984

@ByteCommander: I don't see what you mean... Perhaps you need an eye test if you are seeing double vision! :D :P

ByteCommander

5:10 PM

Probably

user136984

Or maybe your computer does!

ByteCommander

No, when I post a line, the line gets posted twice, but after a second the duplicate disappears again.

Sometimes.

user136984

Strange.

user136984

:P

ByteCommander

It started in the Chess room.

user136984

5:11 PM

:D

ByteCommander

But in here it is not that extreme...

Only a few messages seem to get cloned here.

There!

user136984

Where?

user136984

I do not see what you mean!

ByteCommander

That one was twice visible for me...

Serg

Reload the chat bro. Or reboot. Or router reboot. Or all at the same time

ByteCommander

5:23 PM

:D

No...

Looks like it went away.

And Seth seemed to have the same issue.

Uh oh! CV queue grew beyond 300!

user136984

@ByteCommander: No... It's close, but not there yet.

Nathan Osman

o/

ByteCommander

@ParanoidPanda Sure it is.

Nathan Osman

Wha... where'd my clock go?

user136984

@ByteCommander:

ByteCommander

5:29 PM

Remember that whenever you review or skip something, this element is removed from your personal CV queue, but maybe not yet from the true, global CV queue, if it needs more votes for an action.

user136984

Nathan Osman

Gimme my clock back!

user136984

@NathanOsman: Yeah, I used to get that a lot.

user136984

But I found a temporary fix.

Nathan Osman

Won't even let me change it.

user136984

5:30 PM

Yes, exact problem I had.

user136984

:)

Nathan Osman

ಠ_ಠ

user136984

0

Q: No Date and Time

When starting up my machine (Ubuntu 14.10) just now I have noticed that the bit in the top bar which tells me the date and time is gone, and I am unable for some strange reason to change the Date & Time > Clock settings: Why are the settings greyed out and why is the Date and Time not showing ...

user136984

Clock included in that.

ByteCommander

@ParanoidPanda ^^

Nathan Osman

5:32 PM

@ParanoidPanda Hey - it worked. Thanks!

user136984

@NathanOsman: :)

user136984

You're welcome!

user136984

@NathanOsman: What version of Ubuntu are you running?

Nathan Osman

Utopic.

user136984

@NathanOsman: I think that they must have fixed it in 15.04, as I don't get it any more, but I used to get it loads when I had 14.10.

Nathan Osman

5:35 PM

First time it's ever happened to me :P

user136984

@NathanOsman: Well, I had been using 14.10 for a long time and nothing like this, but when it started, it never really stopped... :D

Nathan Osman

That's annoying.

user136984

Yes, I seem to remember reporting it on LaunchPad once...

Nathan Osman

On to the second issue of the day... my Raspberry Pi 2...

ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

Suddenly it's refusing SSH connections.

I have a very bad feeling that this is an issue with the microSD card becoming corrupted somehow.

user136984

@NathanOsman: Do you know of a way in which I can tell how hot my computer is? Or at least how fast my computer's fan is going? Because if my computer fan knows how fast and when to go, then surely my computer knows the heat of my computer?

Nathan Osman

5:47 PM

The "sensors" command should do that.

user136984

@NathanOsman: It says that that command does not exist.

user136984

:(

Nathan Osman

@ParanoidPanda "sudo apt-get install lm-sensors"

Also, this doesn't look good: paste.ubuntu.com/11354331

user136984

@NathanOsman: That worked! Thanks! :)

Serg

@ParanoidPanda there is also GUI app, psensor. I used to run it on startup every time pc boots to monitor temperature continuously

user136984

5:57 PM

@NathanOsman: I already asked a question about it here so could you please convert that into an answer and give us both some rep! :)

Serg

with sensors you can do watch -n 1 sensors

Nathan Osman

@ParanoidPanda That answer was just revised.

user136984

@NathanOsman: Wow! Everybody literally just dived for that question! :D

Mudit

@ParanoidPanda see this also for psensors webupd8.org/2014/06/psensor-updated-with-option-to-display.html

SmokeDetector

6:16 PM

[ SmokeDetector ] Nested quote blocks in body, repeating characters in body: After run '>>> GPIO.setup(1, GPIO.OUT)', app python3 crash: by José Peres on askubuntu.com

ByteCommander

6:29 PM

Bye!

Serg

@ParanoidPanda of course. Easy question

Serg

6:51 PM

$ gconftool-2 --set "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/background_color" --type string "#000000FFFFFF"

apparently gconftool-2 does not work in 15.04

or i am doing something wrong

thanks,when I copy paste your answer, commandline accepts it, exit status=0 but terminal background doesnt change, If I close and restart terminal, still no change. if I re-reun gconf --get .... it returns the previous color . Im suspecting your answer is correct regarding gconftool-2 but there possibly is a setting or startup script that is overriding the new value? — user4668401 25 mins ago

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

7:14 PM

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Q: How to detect if OS is Ubuntu or Xubuntu via shell script?

I have a few configuration scripts that I run everytime I install a fresh version of Ubuntu. Recently, however, I migrated to Xubuntu. I would like to use the same script for both distros, since both of them are very similar, but I would also like some parts of the script to be executed only unde...

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Serg

7:32 PM

dconf-editor works, dconf doesnt

wat ? the ?

Tosh

8:01 PM

Hello - I have this newbie question that I am having trouble with. I got a comment on SuperUser that I didn't understand so I thought I would post here.

I'm trying to use Xming with Putty from my Windows machine to SSH into my Linux box. Apparently one can choose between Xming and Xming-mesa. I don't know much about graphics or display servers.

Should I choose one somehow compatible with Ubuntu?

Nathan Osman

I really need to bug the Launchpad people to let me add ARM builds to one of my PPAs. I'm stuck distributing a handful of DEBs for packages that needed to be recompiled to run on Ubuntu for ARM.

@Tosh Go with Xming.

I've never heard of Xming-mesa.

I've used Xming a number of times with good success from Windows 8.

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A: How to run GUI applications remotely on a headless server?

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Ubuntu on chromebook can't see grub menu

I've installed Ubuntu 15.04 with on a google pixel 2015 chromebook, but I can't see the grub menu. At the time when I should be seeing it, all I see is "Booting from hard disk" and there's some distortion at the top of the screen (it would seem like a few rows of pixels) that lasts exactly the ti...

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Tosh

Thanks @NathanOsman! Should I get the Xming fonts (straightrunning.com/XmingNotes)?

Nathan Osman

@Tosh I've never needed them.

Tosh

@NathanOsman I see.

Serg

9:09 PM

Wonder why gconftool didn't work , but dconf did the trick.

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Q: How can I set the background color of gnome-terminal using gconftool-2?

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and I want to set the background color of my gnome-terminal using the command line. From what I can tell gconftool-2 is the way to do this but I cant work out what the command is to do this. my ~/.gconf/apps directory looks like: ├── %gconf.xml ├── gnome-terminal │ ├──...

gconf

hbdgaf

@Fabby Yes. They haven't gone after the individuals involved (probably never will), but they did go after the institutions under anti-trust law. I'm not sure what the exact charge would be for each individual, but if they were going to charge them - it would be interesting to see the same charge or charges against a whole slew of people under RICO.

user136984

Well...

user136984

Goodnight! :)

Serg

@ParanoidPanda o/ sleep well, panda

hbdgaf

10:12 PM

@kos - Direct quote from the PPA maintainer/owner:
Lovely, launchpad broke it the builds.

I have patched the packages to not depend on locales-all.

Cheers,
Ondrej

My response:
Thank you, I'll ping them on AU.

@kos In reference to this

You really should just get a launchpad account and be polite about bugs. Most people that have PPAs are really nice if you ask them in a nice way what the status of something is.

Seth

hahaha, I followed ProtonMail on Twitter (an encrypted email service based in Switzerland. Check 'em out!) and within 5 minutes Tutanota, a competing service, followed me.

hbdgaf

10:30 PM

It's just product intelligence. They want to know if you like something so they can build the feature, or if you hate something so they can make it a sell point.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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I am attempting to complete this GitHub tutorial on creating a custom GRUB loader for a stubborn Asus Win8.1 laptop on which I am hoping to install Ubuntu: https://github.com/lopaka/instructions/blob/master/ubuntu-14.10-install-asus-x205ta.md (see screenshot image, blue hi-lighted text) THIS...

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kos

@hbdgaf Thanks again for contacting Ondrej for us. Yes, and of course I'll do that myself next time. Since you did all the job it's obviously your privilege to answer the related question (if want to, otherwise of course I'll do that: askubuntu.com/questions/627653/…). Also, @muru

hbdgaf

It's on you. I don't touch php questions, because I don't have a desire for later pings about php or the mistaken impression that I have any proficiency in the area by tag activity.

kos

Ok, I'll do that then. Thanks again

hbdgaf

np

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