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Zanna

6:00 PM

it feels slow at the time, but in a couple of months you'll suddenly realise how much you know

IanC

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Q: Virus in windows killed mouse also not working in Ubuntu

I received a virus in Windows 7 that killed my ability to use my mouse in any way. It also froze up my computer. Then I installed Ubuntu. The mouse worked when I was operating off of the Ubuntu disc but when it was downloaded and installed and the disc removed my mouse stopped working. It did beg...

mouse

that must be the most insistent virus I've ever seem

haha

most virus are OS specific right?

Anwar

what? askubuntu.com/questions/826466/hostnamectl-command-not-found/…

they solved their problem using my answer but accepted other answer...

Zanna

sounds familiar :P

but have an upvote, hope they come to their senses

:(

Anwar

Thanks @Zanna

IanC

it happens, once I lost a bounty for someone even though I was the only one that wrote a script for the OP that did what he asked for

yeah, I still have hard feelings about it :/

I upvoted you too @Anwar

Anwar

6:13 PM

@IanC thanks :)

I left a comment. waiting to see their response

@IanC hard to accept...:( where?

IanC

@Anwar it was not the OPs fault though, it's something about the bounty system

Rinzwind

@IanC -all-

Anwar

@IanC how was that?

IanC

I think the bounty has an expiration date, and if expired before the OP accepted my answer or something and the other guy got it

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A: Automatically get different terminal colors each time I open terminal

Functional Version Instructions: The Script considers you're using gnome-terminal, which is the default Ubuntu terminal. Before running the script, open the gnome-terminal and create some profiles (Edit>Preference>Profiles) with different settings as you wish (background color, text color, ..)...

Anwar

oops.

IanC

6:18 PM

@Rinzwind, there could be a virus that detected the OS and then infected appropriately :p

Zanna

have an upvote there @IanC

Rinzwind

@IanC nah. takes too much effort

Anwar

@IanC oh. that one! OP accepted other answer there!

Rinzwind

most of these virusses are started by script kiddies

IanC

@Zanna Thanks :D

@Rinzwind that's true

Anwar

6:22 PM

@IanC I would say It's OP who ended bounty askubuntu.com/posts/809590/timeline.

IanC

@Anwar I think after someone is rewarded with a bounty you can't change your mind and give it for someone else, it's probably what happened

Anwar

oh

IanC

but well, I didn't remember it was the accepted answer, good enough for me :D

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I liked this album, youtube has been recommending me some cool stuff

Rinzwind

earthquake in the sea near Japan :(

Zanna

oh :( my brother is there

Rinzwind

6:33 PM

Honshu 6.1. 400km out
so probably harmless for the island

Mark Yisri

7:32 PM

Hi. anyone else here?

Byte Commander

@Rinzwind Sure does fixing problems teach, if you're willing to hold hands with an inexperienced user for a few hours or however long it takes? From looking at the question, this seems to be a rather complex problem and the user is probably not very familiar with the topic, so you have to guide them and start explaining at Adam and Eve.

Anwar

hi

Rinzwind

@ByteCommander teach a man how to fish ...

@Anwar ho

Byte Commander

But fishing is easy.

Teach a man how to build a car would be a better comparison.

Anwar

@Rinzwind hi !

Rinzwind

7:36 PM

and then he drives off without a driver license :P

Zanna

if you give someone a script, you will frustrate them for a day... if you teach them how to write a script, you will frustrate them for a lifetime...

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Rinzwind

make it a PHP one and he'll go to Louisiana to curse you with voodoo dolls

so close to 200 :P :P

edwinksl

@Zanna i rofled

Zanna

@Rinzwind lol!

@edwinksl glad to hear it ^_^

Rinzwind

gimme 1 more good q you q askers :(

Anwar

7:46 PM

I have a bad q

why are rpm and yum packages included in ubuntu repository?

IanC

maybe those yum packages secretly upgrades the Red Hat to an Ubuntu distro

"upgrades", Red Hat users probably would want to punch me in the face if they read it :p

actually Red Hat was the first linux distro I've heard about when I was a small kid, so all my respect to it

Rinzwind

@Anwar they are not >:)

the rpm package manager installs the command "alien"

Anwar

they are actually :)

I installed rpm and there is a command rpm from it

Rinzwind

you do know we are heading towards a unified installer? ;-)

Anwar

i don't know. what was that?

I read about Smart today. but i think it's abandonware already

Rinzwind

7:59 PM

oh the idea is to have 1 installer to do redhat, suse and debian installer files :)

link gist.github.com/datagrok/c7b43f9c540890cf4ffa

not sure if that is the official one :D

Anwar

never heard of it.

skimmed through the page. I knew little about AppStream.

But Smart project was funded at some point of time by Canonical

Byte Commander

Hmmm.... RedHat. I've got the installer DVD for that around for over half a year now probably, but never felt motivated enough to actually install it, not even in a VM. :(

Well, let's just do it. Now or never.

Anwar

github.com/smartpm/smart << here @Rinzwind

I just found it while searching for something to answer a q

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