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I have done something stupid by the way. I offered a bounty on a question, and left a possible solution in the comments. Now a 1 rep user read that info in the comment, and posted an answer -____-

Seth

lol

Ravan

2:06 AM

@Serg link

Serg

@Seth I think one could free up /boot through a live usb as well, no ?

2

Q: How customize a full-screen console background? ( TTY )

I use to use full-screen consoles (those opened with Ctrl+Alt+F1...F6) actively and have came to an idea that I would like to try decorating it with a "wallpaper" of a sirt(a rather dark and monotonous one of course so that it wouldn't decrease readability), perhaps this could look and feel nice ...

Seth

@Serg yeah, but that'd require chroots and stuff to do safely.

Serg

Now i am looking for alternatives. Everything i found is for Arch Linux . . .

Zacharee1

ugh have to reboot

farewell for 20 hours :p

Serg

@Zacharee1 see ya

Well well . . . .hide.me proxy with ixquick search engine is kinda nice

Ravan

2:12 AM

@Serg Are you using proxy/VPN?

Serg

Nope

I just tried to use ixquick through proxy to check my IP address

google did find my IP address, but hide.me + ixquick showed different

Ravan

I tried to use VPN but every time error

@Serg how?

Serg

@Ravan proxy-nl.hide.me

Then in the search bar on that page, i entered ixquick.com

then on ixquick searched what is my ip, selected random site , and it showed me . . . .different address that my ip address :D

Ravan

nice

user139252

2:36 AM

@Ravan how close to California are you?

Ravan

@HeatherBrown Hello :)

I am from India

let me check

user139252

Ah. Very far from California :p. I was going to offer a key to my VPN, but your speed will plummet if you are connecting from that far, I assume

Ravan

very nice from you

whenever I try to setup free VPN, I am getting "VPN secrets" error :(

user139252

What protocol?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

3:21 AM

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Q: How to access grove sensors from Linux?

I have some Seeedstudio Grove sensors I'd like to access from linux. Eventually, I need to access them from a C++ application, but figuring out how to access them from a normal bash shell would be a great start. The grove sensors I'm talking about are any of the modules from here: http://www.s...

3:47 AM

howdy

:P

I did a thing

Chan-Ho Suh

:) For a moment I thought your chat box below my "howdy" would be different in the image versus here

or at least recursive

Zacharee1

ō_ô

Chan-Ho Suh

or we could play a joke on people

you could photoshop in me saying something, post the image

and then I will say the thing you put in, but below the image

people will be so confused :)

Zacharee1

3:57 AM

Hmm

Maybe

I'd have to find the font used

Chan-Ho Suh

the thing I say could be, "Hey wait a minute, I didn't say that yet"

Zacharee1

Now, is the font Verdana or Arial?

Hmm

So how should we do this?

@Chan-HoSuh you need to update the script

Mateo

interesting bounty alert:

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Q: Nvidia detects non existent display

Hi I am on Ubuntu Gnome 14.04.1. I tried the default driver for a while but the performance wasn't satisfactory so decided to install nvidia driver. The problem is nvidia detects two displays and makes the wrong display as default. I disabled it and saved to xconf but every time the non existent ...

nvidia

I think It might be possible

see how win can be tricked:

How to Extend Your Desktop with a Chromecast

►

and someone had a "bug" that might just mean you can setup a non-existent screen as the primary monitor

0

Q: Nvidia detects non existent display

Hi I am on Ubuntu Gnome 14.04.1. I tried the default driver for a while but the performance wasn't satisfactory so decided to install nvidia driver. The problem is nvidia detects two displays and makes the wrong display as default. I disabled it and saved to xconf but every time the non existent ...

nvidia

would take some hacking

Zacharee1

Anyone know how I could go about writing a theming plugin for the AU chat? I want the background to load #987654 by default

Mateo

and I don't have as much time, so anyone feel free to have fun with that info

Serg

4:27 AM

Any mods around ? I need a room for a new user

Seth

@Serg yo

what post?

Serg

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Q: No icons or launcer appears after login. I have tried everything

So after login the screen doesn't show any icons or anything else,its just background. I did some google searching and also on this site and i found this solution Unity doesn't load, no Launcher, no Dash appears . But the first solution doesn't do any good. export DISPLAY=:0 sudo dconf reset -f...

unity login compiz launcher icons

@Seth

Seth

@Serg done:

Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. — Seth ♦ 15 secs ago

Mateo

4:59 AM

@Serg new thing for you to have fun with: unix.stackexchange.com/a/81232/18237

Serg

@Mateo thankx, I'll czech it out laterz

@Seth san q very mush, working on that problem right now

Mateo

kindof saves a starting point for navigating directories - each directory you pushd is saved

Serg

dir stack, ive heard of it but never used or researched

OK, so that user's home directory is non empty, nothing is root owned

Serg

5:25 AM

Running out of ideas

user139252

5:50 AM

Just binge watched Jessica Jones

Serg

no idea what that is

user139252

Starting on daredevil now.
Both are surprisingly good

jokerdino

Your opinions don't count.

Serg

@jokerdino <.< be nice

user139252

And that is because?

jokerdino

5:52 AM

It is biased.

I need to watch it to be sure.

user139252

Because of my love for Marvel? Slightly, yes

user139252

I just wish they played into each other and the rest of the marvel cinematic universe a little more

jokerdino

Are they both American series?

Looks like it, nm.

user139252

Especially considering daredevil and Jessica Jones are supposed to take place in the same neighborhood

Serg

\ (-___-) /

i give up

i cannot solve this

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user139252

5:58 AM

What are you stuck on?

Serg

Basically , blank unity upon login

user139252

Did s/he try reinstall?

Serg

doesn't remember

user139252

Well,try again :p

Serg

Yup, suggested, also suggested he gets blackbox

maybe that will work

user139252

6:04 AM

We can hope.

jokerdino

Ask them to try guest account.

Serg

@jokerdino did that, guest works alright

tried creating new account, didn't work

jokerdino

What didnt work about creating new account?

Serg

login

user created successfully but cannot login in lightdm

jokerdino

I don't know. Not my ideal way of spending my Sunday morning.

Serg

6:16 AM

It's saturday night for me over here

user139252

Reboot after adding?

jokerdino

Do you use Unity at school @Heather?

user139252

Sometimes. I prefer mate.

jokerdino

Is that Ubuntu Mate or Mint?

user139252

Yes, I know a reboot should not be necessary, but still worth a try. Regular Ubuntu install, mate installed afterwards

jokerdino

6:24 AM

That's the Windows way of solving a problem. Restart.

user139252

If you can at least get the problem to go away, it frees up your focus to investigate the cause

user139252

Like applying pressure to a wound while you wait for medical attention.

jokerdino

Do you do that?

I won't care about the cause if the problem is not there anymore.

user139252

Then you are short sighted as well as insulting.

jokerdino

Am I insulting the problem?

user139252

6:27 AM

If it goes away and you don't investigate the cause,it is likely to happen again and further frustrate you.

jokerdino

To clarify, I am absolutely only taking about linux problems.

user139252

Linux problems are the only problems I have. I've been windows free at home for over 10 years, and at work officially for one year.

jokerdino

That's a place I would like to work. Can't imagine a place where this is no Windows over here.

user139252

I'm the one who convinced my company's It department to switch the schools to Ubuntu

jokerdino

How did that work out? Can't believe they had some sense.

user139252

6:31 AM

I mainly did it through a financial argument.

jokerdino

So, they put Ubuntu in every school computer after that?

That's a huge achievement. I would be proud of myself.

user139252

We finished our supply contract with Hp, they were going to buy new Win 8 Pcs from Dell for all of the school sites

jokerdino

Does the school have big pockets?

user139252

It also meant purchasing new licenses for Office.

jokerdino

Instead, you let them replace Windows with Ubuntu on the same hardware?

user139252

6:35 AM

I showed them similar specs on Ubuntu machines,and put together a training workshop on it,and they were able to shave off about 15K on the purchase

Serg

@HeatherBrown you rock ! awesome job !

jokerdino

@HeatherBrown Does it mean new hardware though?

user139252

Yes, we did get new hardware.

jokerdino

👍

OK, where were we?

user139252

I was... Heading to bed due to jet lag. California to Pennsylvania time change is weird. It's 1am and I need sleep

Serg

6:44 AM

@HeatherBrown california to pennsylvania ? It's like what 4 hour difference ?

jokerdino

I am not that good with US geography but I know Cali is in west coast.

Serg

7:03 AM

@Rinzwind are you good at troubleshooting GUI issues ?

Rinzwind

7:20 AM

@Serg depends on the gui :=)

Serg

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@Rinzwind that dude has issue with blank Unity desktop, now gets kicked out back to login screen

Rinzwind

@jokerdino Nope. Cali is in Columbia :-)

Serg

i tried a lot of different things, running out of ideas

jokerdino

@Rinzwind And where is Columbia?

Rinzwind

That will be video card related probably.

@jokerdino not in the US :=)

jokerdino

7:22 AM

Ah, that would be Colombia then.

Rinzwind

@jokerdino focus on the bigger issue, not on a typo >:-D

(the bigger issue your lack of South America knowledge) :D

ok need some food bbl :D

jokerdino

:P I was totally talking about California but too lazy to type it fully.

Rinzwind

I know I know ;-) LOL

Serg

8:06 AM

Cali-fo-nya, knows how to partay . . .

Pandya

9:05 AM

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Currently in definition.

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user136984

9:20 AM

@Chan-HoSuh Well, they had a big discussion about it earlier and @Oli said that it was fine.

Serg

10:07 AM

@kos @A.B. you guys have any other scripting questions ? i'm kinda bored now, lol

A.B.

@Serg =\ no

Serg

heh

@A.B. what i wanted to ask, how close does my awk script come to fullfilling the requirements ?

I seriously wanna know how is the quality of my answer

A.B.

@Serg in percent?

Serg

well, even in percent

A.B.

The quality is very good. Your script has never destroyed my file. =) @Serg

Serg

10:10 AM

lol, well that's good to know

cl-netbox

Good morning friends ! :)

Serg

morning

A.B.

Morning @cl-netbox =)

cl-netbox

@Serg good morning :)

@A.B. good morning :)

A.B.

I'm nervous and I need a cigarette.

and a coffee

Serg

10:12 AM

i just had one smoke, but no coffee. It's 3 AM here

Is there a way to get access points list without sudo ? iwlist requires sudo for scanning

Oli

@Serg Surely nmcli has a way.

cl-netbox

@Serg I am missing part 2 (remember yesterday ?) ... :)

Serg

@Oli anything else besides that ?

i know of nmcli and nm-tool

@cl-netbox that one has been fixed before, that's why i didn't address that

All addressed

Oli

@Serg I'm sure you could interface with NetworkManager directly if you wanted to.

cl-netbox

@Serg ah - okay - thanks :)

Oli

10:18 AM

But I don't know why you'd want to with existing options out there (you haven't explained what's wrong with them)

Rinzwind

Ehm @A.B. the question is only a dupe is TS confirms he gets similar errors (preferbly using clementine). Though the -answer- indeed will be the method to fix this problem. How about we remove the "clementine" from the title and make it a "how to fix audio'?
regarding: http://askubuntu.com/questions/703820/how-to-fix-broken-music-files

Oli

@ParanoidPanda Just to be fair to what I actually said... I disagreed that it was against the terms and conditions of the site for being able to violate somebody's privacy or to somehow commit a computer/network abuse crime. It's okay for SE. I didn't say anything about it being on-topic for AU.

Serg

@Oli what I was trying to play with is a script that "emulates" nm-tool in 15.04, because nm-tool was removed from 15.04 . . . nm-tool gives a list of access points . . . .but the only thing i found so far is iwlist . . . which needs sudo

i remember you posted an answer about setsid or something that changes uid during runtime . . .such as for ping . . .but again, that's kind of dangerous tool to use

A.B.

@Rinzwind yes, good idea

Oli

But what's wrong with nmcli dev wifi list? nmcli still exists, doesn't it?

Serg

10:23 AM

that's true

I guess i was trying to create something that is independent of nmcli . . . or just overthinking it

Oli

As I say, you can. You can write something that interfaces in with the root-run NetworkManager daemon and query it directly... Essentially duplicating what nm{cl,tu}i are doing... I just don't understand why you would.

Serg

ok . . . well . . .i guess i'll keep this idea somewhere for later . . .

Fabby

@A.B. Well, yes, but I'm more looking for answers that aren't upvoted a lot but that still took substantial work to complete!

Serg

o/ Mr. Vorlon

Fabby

@Serg \o

@NathanOsman: I'm impressed! I just got a notification bar that the chat status script location has changed!

(installed the new one, off course)

cl-netbox

10:37 AM

@Fabby Good morning my friend ! :)

Fabby

loging out and back in

test

@cl-netbox Guten Morgen!

And 'morning everyone else too!

cl-netbox

@Fabby Gut geschlafen ?

Fabby

@kos Meh... That was only the fake shipment they intercepted. My other shipment arrived already! :D :D :D

@cl-netbox Sehr Gut! ;-)

cl-netbox

@Fabby Nice to hear this ! :)

Serg

ping  ppa.launchpad.net/numix/ppa/ubuntu
ping: unknown host ppa.launchpad.net/numix/ppa/ubuntu

O_o

why i cannot ping a repo ?

Journeyman Geek

10:41 AM

._.

Fabby

@Serg You cannot ping a protocol

Journeyman Geek

slaps serg upside the head

You ping a server, not a URL.

Fabby

@Serg try ping ppa.launchpad.net

Serg

ouch . . . .OK, but why ?

that responds

Journeyman Geek

Cause ping is its own protocol

Fabby

10:42 AM

@Serg because it's a document, not a server???

Journeyman Geek

linux.die.net/man/1/httping might work the way you expect it

Fabby

That would be like: Why can't I send a mail to gmail.com?

you send a mail to a person, and you ping a server...

you don't ping a document! :P

Serg

OK . . . so . . .how do we check if a repo is up ?

Journeyman Geek

But ping uses ICMP and says "hey dude MARRRCOOOOOO" and the other server goes POOOLOOOOO.

Fabby

@Serg open it in a browser?

@JourneymanGeek ping says ping and the server says pong!

:D

Journeyman Geek

10:44 AM

And if you send that to a web server, it assumes its aramic instead of english, tears it up burns it and sets it on fire to make tea.

@Fabby yeah. But that's clearly aramaic for marco and polo.

Serg

Oookay . . . so . . . i can wget a repo page . . . .

Fabby

@Ravan I could, but I have no time to investigate this, but you're on the right track @ParanoisPanda... Ask your friends for and then search for the full IP address and then WireShark it and you'll find out.

@JourneymanGeek You surprise me every time, not only with your technical, but also your generic knowledge!

Journeyman Geek

;p

Fabby

@ParanoidPanda: 2 lines up. I misspelled your handle.

Journeyman Geek

11:00 AM

@Fabby and my ability make things up on the fly ? ;p

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

11:40 AM

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Q: How to limit port range in Ubuntu 14.04?

I want to limit source port range in my ubuntu machine upto 20000 , that means no Application should be able to use port higher than that.I have this command in mind iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 20001:65535 --dport 20001:65535 -j DROP But , wouldn't this drop all packets rather than limi...

ubuntu networking iptables sysctl

Serg

ok, i am out for now folks. o/

Fabby

11:56 AM

@JourneymanGeek I suppose you've never heard of "esprit d'escalier"... ;-)

A.B.

12:12 PM

@Fabby Sorry

A.B.

1:58 PM

\o/

Boring. I install Trusty.

@kos Arg, thanks =)

Zacharee1

@A.B. you a pirate?

A.B.

@Zacharee1 why?

Zacharee1

arg

:P

A.B.

Ah yes =)

Zacharee1

2:34 PM

@HeatherBrown is your server off?

Ravan

@Zacharee1 o/

Zacharee1

hi

Ravan

@A.B. Hello :)

@Sneetsher still around?

A.B.

3:09 PM

@Ravan \o =)

GeoMint

3:51 PM

heyo

@GeoMint \o =)

:D

Boring today.

rainy day in my city :P

cl-netbox

@A.B. need some action ? wake up @kos and @Serg and tell them : your script erased ubuntu ! =)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

4:00 PM

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Q: Why does my camera not show up in /dev although it does in dmesg? (Possible Ubuntu regression.)

A while ago I could plug in my Canon via USB and it would get mounted as an external drive. Nothing has been reconfigured in the camera, but now if I plug it in $> dmesg [103943.225623] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [103943.430666] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVe...

ubuntu usb camera

A.B.

@cl-netbox >:)

@GeoMint same here

user136984

4:15 PM

@Oli: Ok, but I think that as I am doing the investigation using Ubuntu and its tools that it is on-topic here. But, do you think that it is 'too broad' as some have said?

user136984

@Fabby: Ok, so far I have nobody on my Tox contact list apart from some of the guys here, so I will probably have to convince one of my Skype loving friends to get Tox so that I can try it out... :D

A.B.

@Serg Please start the next bounty =)

@Sneetsher Thx for the answer. Do you have a GitHub account?

AzkerM

4:31 PM

hey guys... just a quick doubt to clarify

askubuntu.com/q/698342/179042 <-- I saw closing votes to this question

GeoMint

wow, this exists in Trikala city citymobil2.eu/en

AzkerM

not sure why but it looked like it need an edit.. other than, the question looks okay to me..

since I'm new to reviewing... is this common?

GeoMint

@A.B. this is it :P youtube.com/watch?v=ZyjFbS6pxdY

ignore the parts he talks in greek.

cl-netbox

@ParanoidPanda :
I woke up in the evennig and what did I see ?
Big fat Panda returned back from sleep ...
Hello my friend ! =)

A.B.

@GeoMint :)

user136984

4:35 PM

:D

user136984

@cl-netbox: Hello! :)

Cenoc

Hi all - this is a debian thing, but considering the shared past and present, I was wondering if some guru could take a look at serverfault.com/questions/739543/…

Mateo

@Mateo erg you pasted the wrong link...

Cenoc

Really freaking confused on this one

Mateo

@Mateo here you go: askubuntu.com/questions/562138/…

@Cenoc huh, reminds me of the new rootless thing on OSX...

Cenoc

4:48 PM

@Mateo how so?

Zacharee1

@Mateo why are you replying to yourself?