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user136984

6:05 PM

Can someone else using Firefox please do Shift + F8 and then tell me if they get this extra add-on: :)

user136984

user136984

That just opens the Firefox Web IDE by the way which you can get to in the Developers bit of the main Firefox menu.

abhi

hi

do any one hv idea why we use .bashrc file . ?

Nathan Osman

6:21 PM

@ParanoidPanda That's probably for FirefoxOS.

terdon

VTC as non reproducible please:

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Q: missing .bash_history

I cant find .bash_history file in my home directory. I do: echo $HISTFILE /home/myname/.bash_history But if I try to list the file with ls, I get: $ ls -l ~/.bash_history ls: cannot access /home/myname/.bash_history: No such file or directory If I run the history command, however, all histo...

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because software cannot conjure hardware out of nothing. — Fabby 8 hours ago

Tsk, apparetly @Fabby has never heard of virtual machines! :P

user136984

@NathanOsman: Well, I've got rid of it now, but it just got me slightly worried because of the warning on it and the fact that I didn't remember manually adding it.

user136984

6:34 PM

Does anyone here by the way go to #ubuntu or #ubuntu-gnome (IRC channels)? :)

A.B.

Java and Fonts, I hate it

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Q: Java fonts rendering problem

In the java application I'm using, all fonts are working correctly, except the new ones I just installed (Open Sans and Source Sans Pro). Is this truetype issue or what? All other fonts are rendered correctly, without artifacts. Those fonts render correctly in my system and other non-java a...

java fonts

blade19899

Up vote into oblivion: askubuntu.com/a/418718/36315

user136984

Does anyone know how one goes about becoming part of the GNOME team?

user136984

I mean on LP it says:

user136984

6:40 PM

But there is nobody ever online on that IRC channel...

user136984

@A.B.: Do you know? :)

565656

Is this true that earth will experience total darkness in November 2015 for 15 days as according to NASA

A.B.

@ParanoidPanda Membership policy is Restricted

Restricted
Membership is closed, requires approval, and subteams must be closed. Only the team's administrators can invite a user to be a member. Subteams must be Moderated or Restricted. Restricted is a good choice for teams that manage things that need to be secure, like projects, branches, or PPAs.

launchpad.net/~gnome3-team

user136984

@A.B.: Yes, I know that... But they say: "

To join this team go to #ubuntu-gnome and introduce yourself. To be a member you should have good experience with updating packages. If you are still learning, the best thing is to propose merges into the package branches (lp:~gnome3-team/package-name/ubuntu) and ask for help in #ubuntu-gnome.

"

user136984

However there doesn't ever seem to be anyone in #ubuntu-gnome...

Fabby

6:53 PM

@terdon :D

:P :P :P

In this case, a VM cannot create a WiFi either! ;-)

@565656 I've never heard of this, but there is no reason some scammer would not use a national bank's fake page to do fishing...

user136984

VTC this as off-topic.

Fabby

(or do you really mean "nationalised"?

@ParanoidPanda Done! Cast last vote, so you can remove that!

Nathan Osman

I finally figured out why Docker was using an obscene amount of disk space. It had somehow switched to the vfs storage driver instead of the aufs driver.

A.B.

7:11 PM

I have tons of GPG errors. Why that?

sudo apt-get update

user136984

Also, what do they mean by "introduce yourself"?

Nathan Osman

@Mateo Contest results were announced.

A.B.

Ok, works again via

sudo rm /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/*

>:)

Helio

Hi! Could anybody help me to battle against awk?

I want to print all the characters twice

Example:

Input:

Helio

Output:

HHeelliioo

I've tried this so far:

awk '{ FS=""; print $1$1$2$2$3$3$4$4$5$5$6$6$7$7$8$8$9$9$10$10$11$11$12$12$13$13$14$14$15$15$16$16$17$17$18$18$19$19$20$20 }'

and this

awk '{ FS=""; for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) {printf $i; printf $i} }'

But those returns 'HelioHelio' instead

May be a buffering error?

Fabby

@Helio awk reads line by line...

A.B.

7:22 PM

^^^^^^^^ Upvoted

Helio

@Fabby: Then what can I use? I'm not so imaginative. ;-)

Fabby

just bash and 2 for loops and readline?

Helio

@Fabby: I'll try

@Fabby: Sorry, I was tired. As easy as this:

text="Helio"; for ((i=0; i<=${#text}; i++)); do printf "${text:i:1}${text:i:1}"; done; echo

A.B.

@Helio @Fabby perl -pe 's/(.)/$1 x 2/eg' <<<"Helio"

user139252

Am I correct?

A.B.

7:28 PM

@Helio

Helio

@A.B.: Thanks

Fabby

@Helio Good one!

@HeatherBrown You're a woman... That makes you wrong all the time in my book! ;-)

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Q: Why was my answer deleted so unfairly?

I answered a question, namely - Ubuntu 15.04 flashes log-in screen then black - and my answer was deleted with the comments; Please don't add comments as answers. Invest some time in the site and you will gain sufficient privileges to upvote answers you like, or to add actual comments when ...

discussion deleted-answers

Fabby

@HeatherBrown (reading)

@HeatherBrown Yup! Upvoted!

user139252

@Fabby I'm not talking to you anymore after this message. Meanie-face.

Fabby

7:30 PM

@HeatherBrown :D :D :D Good! Less whining and complaining! ;-)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: "cannot find crtc for output VGA-0" from xrandr

Trying to connect a 3rd monitor to my desktop, I cannot activate it. I connect it with a VGA to HDMI adapter (the monitor is VGA, but the only slot left for it in the box is HDMI. I get cannot find crtc for output VGA-0 trying to activate it in arandr. Any advice and insights? Here's the xrand...

ubuntu xrandr multi-monitor

user139252

My work has blocked me from reading What-If D=

Fabby

@HeatherBrown Huh?

user139252

7:45 PM

They added what-if.xkcd.com to the blocked domain list.

Nathan Osman

7:59 PM

That's lame. What if you need to reference it for something work-related? :P

Mateo

@NathanOsman there was a good turn out, was fun submitting something ;)

Nathan Osman

Yeah, I thought your entries were pretty awesome - I'm a bit disappointed you didn't win anything.

Fabby

@HeatherBrown Why does IT do stuff like that???

Mateo

8:17 PM

@NathanOsman did I tell you I was able to do ad blocking with the hosts file on Ubuntu phone?

Nathan Osman

@Mateo I think I remember you telling someone about that.

Was it difficult to configure?

Mateo

Not too bad, justtemporarly make the image writable, and there is a nice place to download and put it in, with a few command line commands

Fabby

@NathanOsman It's not difficult to configure: it's difficult to keep it updated! (:P @Mateo)

Nathan Osman

Cool.

Mateo

Would make an awesome open store app - that would go in an update that, as well as remake the partition read only

There was a online source for the file

Fabby

8:29 PM

@Mateo Oh! ;-)

Nathan Osman

8:44 PM

Hoping to get the new NitroShare website up today.

...now that I have a fancy new SMTP client ready for it.

user136984

Goodnight! :)

Nathan Osman

@ParanoidPanda George told me to say "goodnight" to you since he can't.

terdon

@Helio sed 's/./&&/g' <<<"Helio" or perl -pe 's/./$&$&/g' <<<"Helio"

Fabby

@ParanoidPanda Pumpkin!

@NathanOsman :D Still miss the bot... When is he graduating???

@terdon perl -pe 's/(.)/$1 x 20/eg' <<<"Terdon!"

terdon

:)

perl -pe 's/./$&x20/eg' <<<"Fabby!"

A.B.

9:00 PM

Great, perl fun :)

Fabby

@A.B. Gracelessly stolen from you!

(But i couldn't resist!) >:-)

terdon

@A.B. You want perl fun? Put this into a text file and run with perl foo:

A.B.

No @terdon gave me the hint some months ago

terdon

#
                                                   sub j(\$){($
                     P,$V)=                      @_;while($$P=~s:^
                 ([()])::x){                    $V+=('('eq$1)?-32:31
           }$V+=ord(  substr(                 $$P,0,1,""))-74} sub a{
          my($I,$K,$  J,$L)=@_               ;$I=int($I*$M/$Z);$K=int(
         $K*$M/$Z);$J=int($J*$M             /$Z);$L=int($L*$M/$Z); $G=$
         J-$I;$F=$L-$K;$E=(abs($          G)>=abs($F))?$G:$F;($E<0) and($
          I,$K)=($J,$L);$E||=.01       ;for($i=0;$i<=abs$E;$i++ ){ $D->{$K

muru

@@DavidCole please do not add signatures. Remove them! (about askubuntu.com/questions/682304/using-screen-inside-etc-init)

A.B.

9:03 PM

@terdon hmm should I trust you?

terdon

I keep meaning to actually take the time and understand that camel script but it's too much effort.

Fabby

@terdon Wow! Did you make that?

terdon

@A.B. Yeah, it screws up your terminal's colors so run it in a new terminal but it only prints stuff/

@Fabby I wish!

I found it somewhere a few years ago and kept it for its novelty value.

It really is quite impressive though.

Just another Perl hacker

Just another Perl hacker, or JAPH, typically refers to a Perl program which prints "Just another Perl hacker," (the comma is canonical but is occasionally omitted). Short JAPH programs are often used as signatures in online forums, or as T-shirt designs. The phrase or acronym is also occasionally used (without code) for a signature. JAPH programs are classically done using extremely obfuscated methods, in the spirit of the Obfuscated C Contest. More recently, as the phenomenon has become so well known, the phrase is sometimes used in ordinary examples (without obfuscation). The idea of using tiny...

A.B.

OMG

terdon

Impressive, innit?

muru

9:12 PM

@A.B. I have a feeling you'll like Programming Puzzles & Code Golf.

Fabby

@terdon very!

Nathan Osman

@terdon Even the syntax-highlighting is impressive!

Terrance

@ParanoidPanda Your question about upgrading a LiveUSB to the new release probably wouldn't work with the amount of tweaking you would have to do to the USB to get it to go. I tried and it is a no go. Keeps asking for different amounts of free space every time.

A.B.

@muru thanks :)

blade19899

9:28 PM

AAAAGGGHHHHH

I hate posting stuff like this, but, here:

> "U.K. spy agency GCHQ can covertly access British citizens' smartphones, surreptitiously listening through their microphones and snapping pictures with their cameras, according to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden." - Edward Snowden describes GCHQ's 'Smurf Suite' of phone surveillance tools

COME ON, THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS:

Edward Snowden explains how U.K. spies can secretly hijack your phone

Nathan Osman

And if they can do it, so can hackers with even less honest intentions.

blade19899

@NathanOsman Every time I try to come up with a reason as to why people are not more concerned about this, I come up short for a conclusive reason. They are stupid sounds like an lazy answer.

Fabby

Good night all (including poor George)

;-)

Nathan Osman

Yup.

blade19899

@Fabby Night Night. Don't let the NSA, steal the innocence of the Internet :)

Night y'all 0/

Ask Ubuntu Meta

9:43 PM

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Q: Are views on questions exponential?

At some times I have seen views on questions go from 500 one day to 1000 the next to 2000 the next and so on. Do you guys think that's because people want to try to be noticed on high viewed questions or just because it looks shiny and nice?

discussion

Serg

9:58 PM

Possible duplicate : askubuntu.com/q/682318/295286 Already voted on it

SomeKittens

10:20 PM

morning all

my Ubuntu server just bit the dust, was hoping to get some help with debugging. Working fine this morning, login said I needed to restart. Did so, now it looks like one of the drives died.

well, the drive died, I have another one in there I haven't touched yet.

prompt is (initramfs)

(assuming RAM drive)

so, if the drive's dead, how am I at an Ubuntu prompt?

(one of the logs above mentions Ubuntu)

ls seems to be the only working command

Serg

@SomeKittens could be a recovery shell perhaps and the system is mounted read-only ?

SomeKittens

how would I tell?

Serg

Is the prompt starts with a pound sign ? # ?