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@CharlesGreen this has been happening for quite a while. Most of the posts are deleted now.

This one for example though.

Charles Green

@Seth Answered my own question, but... this is the result of my not entirely understanding the review system for low-quality posts. Apparently if someone else has already replied with the canned comment, it is preferable to choose the 'no comment button' My mistake.

@CharlesGreen no problem :)

Charles Green

Eh - you guys prompt me on stuff I'm doing poorly, this hopefully makes me do stuff better :)

erg, have to add something to grub to enable more uarts for ttys5?

this is getting fun

12:57 AM

alright, who killed my internet?

@hbdgaf *cringes*

1:13 AM

ok... ttyS5 dosn't want to work...

What are you doing? @Mateo

installing a touchscreen that uses serial interface - but they had to choose com 3,4,5,6 on ttyS 3-5

1-4 are only turned on by default, it's a mess

lol

I think there is a grub parameter though

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

1:32 AM

I should get it, need grub entry, + xorg.config + driver + serial port settings

oh, and there are serial port settings in the bios as well...

3:55 AM

HEY! Does anybody get tired of reading Linux Mint questions that are usually off-topic anyway?

@BorWal VTC, Comment, move on ;p

No, really! I say that, because I started a chat room on this site that's about... well, the off-topic Linux Mint. :-P

@hbdgaf 0_0

I guess it was already broken but that makes me cringe.

Also that's dangerous. Broken glass and stuff

And if its old enough CCFL tubes

and

I'M TURNING INTO ONE OF THOSE INTERNET KILLJOYS :(

It's for Ask Ubuntu moderators who get tired of seeing questions tagged "mint", and people who ask Linux Mint questions, simply because they know it has a Ubuntu lining.

You said anybody ._.

4:01 AM

Well, anyway, here's the link...

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/32292/we-need-linux-mint-on-se

Feel free to check it out anytime! Non-moderators can discuss it, too, but I made this with the mods in mind. ;-D

@BorWal mods have tools for stuff like that ;p

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, like what?

@BorWal voting to close throws it into the review queue

Oh. You want a linux mint se site

Try area 51?

ahh

it dead.

area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/88910/linux-mint

@JourneymanGeek Well, yeah! What did you think I meant?!?

I thought you wanted them closed

4:05 AM

Oh, your link? Well, I reopened it.

Closed? No, no!

That's certainly not what I meant. Some of those Mint questions are actually useful for Ubuntu, but those directly related to Mint are not.

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Ask Mint

Proposed Q&A site for questions about anything Linux Mint.

Currently in definition.

@SmokeDetector Uhh... that link doesn't exist. Just thought I'd point that out.

Okay, I'm outta here!

Q: What does it mean when LA15 is constant and non-zero with LA1 constant zero?

4:35 AM

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I have a machine that runs almost nothing (one daemon that does not do any real job, just listens for a network socket) but I have a weird LA graphs that look like: constant 0 at LA1, 0.01 at LA5 and 0.05 at LA15. From what I know about load averages counting - all of them under constant load mu...

RPi Awesomeness

5:16 AM

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, I saw that! :D

@RPiAwesomeness of course you did ;p

5:48 AM

Morning folks

jokerdino

6:06 AM

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@Seth That is true but even that was released only in October. Our show was on TV in August.

Q: Ubuntu is not listed on the GRUB

7:27 AM

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I installed Fedora23 on a GPT partition(also chose LVM option). There is no option on the GRUB list when I boot normally(without interfering). However, if I hit f9 on bootup and go into boot options, I see Fedora(Toshiba MQ01...) Ubuntu(Toshiba MQ01..) Boot From EFI File I can boot from here...

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8:21 AM

o/

8:33 AM

Monday spam

9:09 AM

Morning @hg8
Your exam?

Hi @A.B.. Fine thanks, it was tiring :|

Ready for your new job ? :)

wait, did you begin last week or is it this week ?

9:55 AM

Good morning :)

@cl-netbox Good morning my friend!

@hg8 tomorrow :)

@A.B. Great =)

10:11 AM

@hg8 Good morning to you as well ! :)

@A.B. Good moning ! :)

Ravan

10:34 AM

@hg8 @cl-netbox o/

@Ravan Hey

@Ravan Hello ! :)

I'm online =)

not encrypted drives are very funny

@A.B. Why?

Neil

@A.B. @hg8 @cl-netbox Hello :)

10:47 AM

@hg8 My admin here has created new user profiles on a Windows machine and I can't open the folder with my old profile. But I can boot Linux from a USB stick and copy'n'paste my profile =)

@Neil o/ =)

@A.B. haha, well done

Hello @Neil =)

@Neil Good evening my friend ! :)

Q: Binary executable from Debian to Ubuntu?

11:10 AM

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I compiled some big c++ programs with gcc 4.9 on Debian. I want to know if the executable binary code is compatible and safe also on ubuntu, or must recompile program on Ubuntu?

debian ubuntu gcc cross-compilation

11:53 AM

@Serg You here?

> "The famous Popcorn Time app that allows people to stream movies and TV shows directly from torrents is back after the development was suspended for a few weeks." - Popcorn Time App Is Back, Now Made by Developers from Around the World

@blade19899 how many times has that died? o0

@JourneymanGeek I know right xD

And as I've said before ;p

You can kill off most piracy if people get what they want more easily than pirating it ;p

(oh oh, and 4K!)

grumble

I'm soooo looking forward to netflix

12:22 PM

This game looks cool: indiegogo.com/projects/… - and their prototype works on Linux!

Ubuntu 16.04 new Unity 8 theme (official)

12:49 PM

►

∆ unity 8 has a new theme, and it looks awesome!

Ravan

@Mateo o/

Hi, and bye, work now ;)

Ravan

=)

1:40 PM

@Mateo Wow, that looks great!

Duplicate : askubuntu.com/q/704243/338915

Q: AppArmor blocks logging set up through iptables for guest account - How to enable?

Anyone interested in a quick +50 bounty?

I have one expiring in 2 hours (+ grace period) here:

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To log the internet usage (visited URLs) of my local guest account, I asked the question Monitor visited websites of guest account through any browser and after assigning the guest account the fixed UID 499 and setting up the iptables rule below, I am not getting the wanted log messages in /var/l...

networking iptables logging apparmor guest-session

uh... heheh

Can't help you on that :/

I have already expected this answer... :-(

1:50 PM

@ByteCommander I could answer: "Not possible without breaking AppArmor-rules" =)

Uhm... Why are some of the icons by Nathan's status script faded out and others not?

no idea

Is that whether the user is currently looking at the site?

@A.B. You just faded out.

Ah, so the chat is not dead. :D

Now you're back and not faded.

1:54 PM

ok, now?

Faded out and back in.

I have changed the tab

Ok

Leaving the chat tab now.

faded out, if focus lost

neat...

1:54 PM

Entered.

=)

Nice. But it should probably an optional feature.

github.com/nathan-osman/auchatstatus/issues/…

> @NathanOsman I think the greying out of users who are not looking at the chat at the moment is nice, but should be an optional preference to enable.

This affects the user's privacy in a way that might be not wanted, so please add a checkbox in the preferences dialogue for disabling this.

@ByteCommander Where is the preference dialog ?

@ByteCommander That is public already, you can see if an user has recently focused the window clicking on their avatar

(seen Xs seconds ago)

2:11 PM

@kos No, not really.

That seems just to display when the JS or whatever on the site last connected to the server.

This also works if the tab is not focussed, I believe.

@ByteCommander You're right

@kos you love your zsh-syntax-highlighting =)

#LibreOffice for life:

@ByteCommander Then there's the "last seen X ago" on the profile. :)

> "LibreOffice is hailed as the best open source office suite available right now, and we keep hearing about the amazing adoption rate, but we hardly get any real numbers. That changed today after Collabora released some statistics about LibreOffice usage and it’s more than impressive." - SoftPedia, LibreOffice Now Has More than 100 Million Active Users

@A.B. Nah, I love grml-zsh-config mostly. :)

2:18 PM

Friend of mine linked this. @NathanOsman that penguin seems familiar ;p

@JourneymanGeek - I was hoping you'ld show up. Thinking about making one of these for the dog. I don't know if it gets cold enough to ever need it where you are, but it is certainly an entertaining and cheap idea for a little dog sweater.

@hbdgaf usually its warm, and ash disapproves of clothes

Also. that's a tiny pup

@JourneymanGeek - fair enough. I don't know if mine will like clothes or not, but it gets cold sometimes, and I'm having trouble getting it to take cover under a blanket at night instead of standing there shivering at me like an idiot.

@hbdgaf oh, at home ours has a bed

and he accepts being tucked in

Actually he has three ._.

And tends to switch between them

Yeah, you told me

2:29 PM

Should this answer rather have been a comment? askubuntu.com/a/704233/367990

I like "Could be this" answers until the OP says "Not working"

Q: Trying to restart apache using Vagrant - "The apache2 configtest failed"

2:48 PM

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I have setup Vagrant (details below) and am just trying to start Apache so that I can get to a point that I can actually see a site in a browser, however when using sudo service apache2 start, I receive the error message below: * Restarting web server apache2 ...

ubuntu apache vagrant

user136984

2:59 PM

I see lots of familiar faces in the room today! :)

user136984

Does anyone have qTox here and hear a noise when someone sends them a message?

@ParanoidPanda I have qTox, haven't experienced that noise, though, I don't really chat with anything anymore. xD

user136984

Because it always reports a noise in Terminal, but I never hear one... So I'm wondering if there is meant to be one?

@ParanoidPanda check settings?

user136984

3:13 PM

There seems to be nothing there on it... But I want to know if I am making a feature request to them or a bug report about the noise.

user136984

Oh wait! No, there is a "Play sound" option which is enabled... Yet I hear no sound...

@ParanoidPanda Hhhmmm, test it out with some of your contacts

Q: How is it decided which close reason is to be given?

@ParanoidPanda Me as well - hello BFP ! :)

@ParanoidPanda ... and no noise here ! :) ... only a nice little ping sound when tox is not focussed ... :)

user136984

:D

user136984

3:54 PM

VTC this EOL as off-topic or duplicate.

user136984

4:13 PM

@Fabby: Did you get my Tox messages by the way? :)

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I have recently been VTCing questions and noticing that even though I may VTC a question as off-topic, because there are a larger amount of people VTCing it for another reason, the other reason is chosen over mine, which made me think that the reason with the most votes gets chosen. However toda...

discussion support close-reasons vote-to-close questions

@ParanoidPanda I was AFK

4:29 PM

@ParanoidPanda Was the chat room about to burning down ? =)

Am I blind or there's no way to go the next pages when browsing the search results from mobile?

user136984

@Fabby: Ah, ok. :)

user136984

@cl-netbox: No... :D

@kos on the bottom of the screen is a semi-circle

press that and it'll give you a "forward" button...

4:44 PM

@Mateo Cool! But what is it with people using video cameras to record screens? shakes head

@ParanoidPanda re your latest question: try qtox & disown, then close the terminal.

Q: Bind9 basic configuration for internal network with windows pcs

5:05 PM

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I have a network with more than 50 PCs running on Windows, Mac ans Ubuntu. We have one internal Web Site running in a windows 8 PC IIS on the IP 192.168.0.110. Right now we all can access this website by typing 192.168.0.110 in the browser address bar.But the current requirement is we need to ac...

networking server apache2 dns dhcp

guys need advise

user136984

@Seth: Ah, yes, that does work... But would probably be better as answer for my latest question (I didn't see your message here)... Would you mind posting that as an answer for that or should I? :)

Can someone try to connect to weebly.com? It's a site-editing service and seems to be mostly down.

@Zacharee1... seems okay to me...

@AzkerM yeah, it just went back up. weird

lol

why would you use weebly... I never liked it...

5:23 PM

@Seth well... might be harder with mir right now

user136984

@Seth: Ah, I was sure that that question had been asked before, I just couldn't find it! :D

This reads like homework, doesn't it? askubuntu.com/q/704327/367990

Q: What are mistakes in code and waht is used for?

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!#/bin/sh #Comprobación número de parámetros if ($# != 4) then echo error – Uso: "$0 param1 param2 param3 param4" exit 0 fi find $1 -type f -size +$2M -a ! -user $3 -exec ls -lh {} ; 1>$4 if [ $# ] #Si todo ha ido bien then echo Resultados obtenidos: cat $4 fi exit 0

command-line scripts

Q: Install Panda Wireless on 14.04

Ah. Did not notice that old question...

user136984

Is there seriously nobody who knows the answer to this question?

user136984

5:38 PM

@Seth: Have you ever worn a hat?

user136984

A multi-coloured hat if I seem to remember...

user136984

FYI: I mean the lizard/dog in your profile picture... :P

user136984

Also, look! The Pandas are taking over! :D

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You're going to have to forgive my stupidity. I've been beating my brains against a wall trying to figure this out. I need to install a Panda Wireless USB Wifi Dongle on my 14.04 install on my Raspberry Pi. I've followed the directions, but am running into errors and it does not install when i...

networking wireless drivers

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Q: Should one close questions as duplicates of closed questions?

I have seen many questions in the past which are off-topic, and the community recognizes them as such, and it closes them as duplicates of the question when it was first asked and closed as off-topic. So should one close an off-topic question against another off-topic question which has been clos...

discussion support scope duplicates closed-questions

5:45 PM

lol panda :D

few more hours to party :D

user136984

What is the DHT that the Tox documentation keeps on referring to?

May 29 at 15:23, by Paranoid Panda

@Seth: Did you wear at hat at some point?

user136984

@Seth: Well? Did you (I explained a few messages down)?

@ParanoidPanda did you read the transcript I linked?

user136984

@Seth: Yes, and you gave no explanation then...

5:53 PM

@ParanoidPanda sigh

May 29 at 15:23, by Seth

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user136984

What about it? I don't see a picture...

well maybe you should disable your silly image blocking script ;)

user136984

Or maybe you could post it through imgur because I can't figure out what is blocking it... :P

user136984

Which site is it being loaded from?

stack.imgur...

user136984

5:57 PM

Nothing is being loaded from there and unblocking that domain doesn't do it... Plus the domain that SE uses for images I have in my whitelist...

user136984

@Seth: The only domains blocked from loading images here are graph.facebook.com and i2.ytimg.com... Is it from one of them?

maybe you're blocking the JS that is loading the image.

@ParanoidPanda no. standard i.stack.imgur.

user136984

There does not appear to be any JS that is being blocked or trying to load...

so.. what exactly are you seeing then?

user136984

6:02 PM

But now that I've gone to the actual profile I can see it... :D

user136984

I didn't think of doing that before! :D

user136984

It's just so cute! :D

you don't need to fill half of chat with my profile image..

user136984

Did you just edit my message?

@ParanoidPanda yes.

user136984

6:03 PM

I didn't know mods could do that...

user136984

Meany! :P

@ParanoidPanda well looks like your paranoia has become contagious, now you're spreading it to foxes too! :P

user136984

:D

GeoMint

7:10 PM

.

Who would have guessed??? @Seth is human after all! ;-)

lol

oy'

Heh.

@NathanOsman Good morning...

7:24 PM

Good.... evening? Is that right for your timezone? :P

Tries to remember...

@NathanOsman 20:25...

Belgium?

So evening seems appropriate.

@Seth Yup...

But I got a job offer for Canada today...

Cool! With relocation?

7:26 PM

(kinda: they're interested in my profile and asked whether I was willing to move to Montréal)

Oh cool.

That's a long distance from here though.

@Seth early talks...

We'll see.

@NathanOsman yeah, but it's closer then Brussels!

True.

8:23 PM

Python experts? :) askubuntu.com/q/703967/367165

Strace output at the end of the question

o/ @Fabby :)

Q: 'Command not found' when opening the terminal

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Whenever I open the terminal I see: B: command not found B: command not found B: command not found B: command not found A: command not found A: command not found A: command not found A: command not found B: command not found B: command not found B: command not found B: c...

linux ubuntu terminal

user136984

@ByteCommander: You're never going to change your profile picture to something you made are you? :D

user136984

(You said you would... :P)

@ParanoidPanda Uhm... No, currently not. I'll keep that stolen wolf tattoo for another while. ;-)

And I say good night now for today. Seeya! o/

user136984

Oh, have you got it tattooed on you too? :P

user136984

8:35 PM

@ByteCommander: Night! :)

@ParanoidPanda No. I just found it anywhere on the web. No idea where, actually.

user136984

Do you know what the licensing for it is because maybe you are breaking it? :P

user136984

Oh dear... I don't know what they should do any more... All I know is they'll make the wrong decision...

I think it's from deviantart.com/morelikethis/267898705

It's licensed under CreativeCommons 3.0

That means I may do with it whatever I want, but I should give credits...

Hmmm... I'll add a link to my ABout me.

Added a line:

> PS: My profile picture is derived from "Wolf Tribals" by user HaskDitex (DeviantArt.com), which is under creative Commons 3.0 License.

No more chance for trouble, at least not on StackExchange... :-)

But now for real: Good night!

@Fabby ^^ ?

8:44 PM

@ByteCommander sleep well :)

@A.B. hardly and expert but let me take a look.

@Seth :)

@kos Uhm... That link in the bookmarks bar...

xD

I know what it should mean, but it crops the word at a really funny position.

But now, for the third time today: Good night.

@ByteCommander I have yet to figure out that page entirely. XD

Night!

quickly closing the browser before anything else catches my attention

8:48 PM

:)

Sweeeeet

@ByteCommander Look! A kitten!

@kos bad boy >:)

@A.B. Yeah I know, using a kitten is unfair.

user136984

8:52 PM

Is this an egg under a magnifying glass?

user136984

It was one of the emoticons in qTox... :D

@ParanoidPanda An egg on a cooking pan?

user136984

Oh... :D

user136984

I didn't look at it that way! :D

8:54 PM

@ByteCommander a wolf >:)

user136984

@kos: And it's a frying pan by the way. :P

Lol

@ParanoidPanda I'm not English but: google.it/…

user136984

Well, I've never heard anyone call it a cooking pan before... Maybe it is another name for it, but not one I've heard...

8:56 PM

@kos Italy? my timezone :)

user136984

And it's a fried egg because you fry it in a frying pan...

@ParanoidPanda Maybe it's American English? I found evidences of it here: thefreedictionary.com/cooking+pan

@A.B. Yes, in fact when I see you online at 6 AM I know it's early there as well. :)

user136984

I don't know, try searching for frying pan instead and see what sort of a description it gives you... DDG only seems to know in its definition section what a frying pan is, and it's what I said... So maybe it's American English because I have it set on UK English as that is my native language...

user136984

@kos: Cooking pan is probably just the general name for pans... And a frying pan is a specific type of pan...

@Sneetsher you're welcome :)

@kos :)

9:08 PM

@ParanoidPanda It may well be that I heard of frying pan, recalled it wrongly as cooking pan and that happens to be a very uncommon or more general form for frying pan. Obviously I won't argue against a native speaker, unless I want to make a fool out of myself :)

user136984

Well, there are different sorts of pans, frying pans, saucepan, etc... And you cook with them all so you could refer to them all as cooking pans I guess... Though mostly people just call them pans. :)

user136984

I searched on google for "cooking pan" and I got all the different sorts of pans, so I guess it's just a general term used to refer to all of them, though I wouldn't try to cook an egg in a saucepan! :P

terdon

Can't say I've ever heard of cooking pan either. NGrams also shows it as vanishingly rare: books.google.com/ngrams/…

I guess you might use it as a generic term but I'd just stick with frying pan unless you know you're talking about something else.

@terdon Yeah, probably I just made that up vaguely recalling "frying pan".

user136984

Wow! This got a lot more upgoats than I expected! :D

9:25 PM

@ParanoidPanda Did I dream about you having initially asked that for a non-sudo command or did you edit it within the grace period?

user136984

@kos: No, you dreamt it. :P

@ParanoidPanda Alright, it happens. :D

user136984

I have it coming from a PPA, so can someone without the GNOME3-Staging PPA please tell me the output of apt-cache policy gnome-builder. :)

user136984

I basically just need to know which repository it is in, I assume main but just want to check.

% apt-cache policy gnome-builder
N: Unable to locate package gnome-builder

9:34 PM

@A.B. Nah! I'm not a python expert... More of a Cobra-expert myself. ;-)

@kos What's your question??? :/

user136984

@Kos: Oh, well that's strange...

@ParanoidPanda That's because lots of people wondered but never asked, or that they didn't know about this, so never wondered, so not only upvoted the answer, but also the question!

(I'm in the latter case)

5 hours ago, by Fabby

@kos on the bottom of the screen is a semi-circle

Sorry, I forgot to link it to your message.

Lemme look on mine

@kos You have to click "all questions" in the top left corner firtst.

then all questions can be browsed...

6933 pages...

See it?

@Fabby No. I had "All questions" on the left of the textbox before searching, still there's nothing at the bottom... Are you browsing from the computer of from a mobile?