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Ubuntu User

8:08 PM

Anyone know how to take up unallocated space without gparted? Thanks!

Nathan Osman

fdisk can be used to resize partitions.

Ubuntu User

what is that?

Nathan Osman

A command for working with partitions.

Ubuntu User

How do you use it? Is it default in terminal?

@ThomasWard Hi do you know how to use fdisk?

Thomas Ward

what are you trying to do with it

Ubuntu User

8:16 PM

Take up unallocated space on my hard drive.

Byte Commander

0

Q: intel core i7 works very fast

I have hp pavilion dv6 2106 model. it has Intel core i7 cpu. when I install ubuntu, the cpu start working very fast like it's about to melt. how can I cope with this problem?

lol

I'd love if mine worked faster

Thomas Ward

@UbuntuUser that's... not a typical use of fdisk. If you weren't question-banned I'd suggest asking it as a question, but this type of stuff is all over the site already.

Why not just use gparted from a live environment

Fabby

@UbuntuUser parted command line

@NathanOsman Don't tell people to use fdisk use parted instead.

fdisk can only do MBR, not GPT

Ubuntu User

Two things, I can't use a gparted disk because I have to manually say that my computer can boot from the file, and I don't know what it is in gparted. And two I'm in a live ubuntu right now.

Fabby

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@UbuntuUser not gparted, but parted command line

try: parted --list

Ubuntu User

8:21 PM

@fabby

I'll try

Fabby

next, try: man parted ;-)

Ubuntu User

Man parted works!

Thomas Ward

@Fabby is this still the case? I can see my GPT external disks' partitions in fdisk on 16.04

Fabby

@UbuntuUser Good! Now read everything and you'll know as much as I do!

Ubuntu User

@Fabby Read what it says?

Fabby

8:22 PM

@ThomasWard I'm typing this from my work computer so cannot test.

@UbuntuUser read the entire manual.

Ubuntu User

OK @Fabby

Fabby

I shouldn't be dropping into chat while I'm answering questions

Goes for a smoke...

Ubuntu User

Wait, @ThomasWard If I have gparted running as a virtual machine, will it be able to change stuff?

Madara Uchiha

Welp, I have no idea what this error means

So I'll just wait for @cl-netbox I guess 😛

Ubuntu User

@MadaraUchiha Cl left awhile ago, he might not come back soon.

Know what? I'll go test in VM.

Nathan Osman

8:30 PM

@Fabby now I learned something :)

Hizqeel

NA askubuntu.com/a/873904/529390

RA askubuntu.com/a/873905/529390

Madara Uchiha

@UbuntuUser Bah :(

Thomas Ward

@Hizqeel both handled

Hizqeel

@ThomasWard :D

Thomas Ward

disappears into the shadows again

Hizqeel

8:37 PM

@ThomasWard hail hail :p

Rinzwind

gold <3

100 \o/ askubuntu.com/questions/325368/how-to-remove-an-alias/…

Thomas Ward

downvotes out of evil

Rinzwind

that wont remove the gold badge :+

Thomas Ward

just kidding

Hizqeel

3 Silver and a bronze :D

Rinzwind

8:40 PM

sure. sure.

@ByteCommander good one. added it to the answer :)

Videonauth

Berlin to send back thousands of British hipsters --> thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/…

:D

Thomas Ward

heh

Ubuntu User

8:56 PM

@ThomasWard I'm trying to install it in virt manager (gparted)

Thomas Ward

if the VM is within the system that's already running and you want to expand a partition on that (the host system), you can't.

it won't work

Serg

Yay, got another bronze for nice answer (this one specifically askubuntu.com/a/703701/295286)

Thomas Ward

the post is condemned, Smokey

the End is come to it.

Serg

@ThomasWard would be cooler if you said like Gandalf : "YOU SHALL NOT SPAM"

Thomas Ward

@Serg what's to say I didn't say that somewhere else?

Serg

9:01 PM

@ThomasWard what's to say I didn't say that you didn't say but I say it would be cooler if you say . . . do you see what i say ?

:D

Rinzwind

BB2M :)

Thomas Ward

inserts a recursive error into @Serg's brain, which results in Stack overflow exceptions

Serg

Now that everybody is sufficiently confused , we shall proceed

Thomas Ward

the next order of business is..

oooh, secret experimentation

Nathan Osman

We really need the new community ads post.

Usually it's posted by now.

Ubuntu User

9:07 PM

@ThomasWard Hi I'm Using VMM as my manager, but the ISO file says it doesn't have permission to execute it. What do I do?

Serg

I'm desperately trying to remember who's the current president in China, and at the same time looking at oen AU question. Brain == torn

Madara Uchiha

Guys does anyone know a good way to use Microsoft's WebDeploy from Ubuntu?

Thomas Ward

@UbuntuUser can't help you unfortunately, 'cause i'm not there. I'm also not one of the people who will handhold you through every step of the process/fixes

I'm also about to get super super busy

so...

Ubuntu User

@ThomasWard OK, but doesn't virt maneger have its own usr?

Thomas Ward

i don't know enough about VMM and virt-manager

I use VMware for my virtualization platforms, sorry

Ubuntu User

9:09 PM

@ThomasWard Well Thanks!

Mark Yisri

9:21 PM

@UbuntuUser can you elaborate? I might be able to help

@MadaraUchiha what's happening?

Madara Uchiha

@MarkYisri Detailed here askubuntu.com/q/871978/133672

Although, I think I've got it.

Mark Yisri

@UbuntuUser I think he might have gone out/to bed.

@terdon where'd you hear that?

Thomas Ward

@MarkYisri he did

Mark Yisri

@ThomasWard how'd you know?

Thomas Ward

because i've been here for eternity :)

about the same time of day he disappears for 8 - 12 hours

Madara Uchiha

9:30 PM

Managed to install 16.04.1 cc @cl-netbox

I'm not sure I want to risk upgrading to 16.10 now, lol

Thomas Ward

16.04 gets support for the next 5 years so heh

Videonauth

@MarkYisri @ThomasWard is doxxing us, taking notes of your schedules, all to track us in his benevolent plan for world domination ;))

Mark Yisri

i'm still running on 12.04

Thomas Ward

that will die in june/july you know

ooops I totally lied

April.

DEATH IN 3 MONTHS TO 12.04!

Videonauth

April the 13th

Mark Yisri

9:33 PM

@Videonauth I don't believe this, but 13 is unlucky you know. :D

Videonauth

yeah i cant change that, read it today on noobs lab that they release the final schedule for 17.04

noobslab.com/2017/01/…

December 29th - Alpha 1 (Not Public Release - opt-in)
January 26th - Alpha 2 (Not Public Release - opt-in)
February 23rd - Beta 1 (Not Public Release - opt-in)
March 23rd - Final Beta
April 9th - Release Candidate
April 13th - Final Stable Release

already wondering with what name they come up for 17.10

Thomas Ward

we won't know until SABDFL announces it

Fabby

Has anyone seen @Zanna lately?

Videonauth

yes shes usually around at morning and then in the afternoon a while

GMT time im speaking of

Fabby

:) Understood! Thanks!

I'm off to bed!

Good night all!

Videonauth

9:40 PM

sleep well

Mark Yisri

@Fabby good night

Serg

Zanna's been answering questions here and there

GN, Fabby

Mark Yisri

@Videonauth Antsy Antelope?

Videonauth

yeah heard that was in discussion but nothing definitive has been anounced so i not want to assume this

Madara Uchiha

10:06 PM

@MarkYisri @terdon @cl-netbox Ended up installing 16.04.1 instead of 16.10

That worked.

Linus Torvalds To Nvidia - "Fuck You"

►

That's all I have to say about that.

Videonauth

@MadaraUchiha Still youre better of with an nvidia card on linux as an AMD/ATi card atm

Madara Uchiha

@Videonauth Probably.

All these companies suck.

All of them I say!

Videonauth

the last iterations of the nvidia drivers are ok so far but i still struggle to get a driver for my laptop which has an ati card

Madara Uchiha

@Videonauth I still don't understand why Ubuntu won't release an image with the nvidia drivers pre-installed.

Sure, that image wouldn't be truly open source, so hardcore linuxers could opt to not use it, and instead break their heads against the wall as often and as hard as they like

Videonauth

well it is non free software

Madara Uchiha

10:16 PM

@Videonauth It's free as in beer...

Just not free as in speech

Videonauth

this is what the checkbox while install is for to download restricted extras

Madara Uchiha

@Videonauth Right

But nvidia drivers are different

They prevent you from even getting to that point.

The rest of the drivers do not.

Videonauth

you speak of the current mouse lock ups while nvidia drivers arnt installed ?

Madara Uchiha

@Videonauth I've just spent 3 whole days trying to install Ubuntu 16.10 on a computer with an nvidia card

Videonauth

uhm, weird

Madara Uchiha

10:18 PM

And failing miserably to even get to a terminal to install the thrice damned drivers

Videonauth

but then, im still on very old hardware

except the nvidia card which is a GTX 750 Ti

Madara Uchiha

This one is 1060

It's an XMG laptop

Videonauth

mainboard is from 2004 asus rampage/formula

ah, yes the 1k series is spretty unsupported right now, you could try the 375 driver from here ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu

Madara Uchiha

@Videonauth I already have that installed

And it works, for 16.04 which I ended up installing

But I couldn't even get to a point where I even have a terminal to install anything.

Videonauth

and theres a 378 driver out now by nvidia which should support for the 1k series

Madara Uchiha

10:22 PM

It just froze at boot, constantly.

Videonauth

just not sure when the 378 will hit the ppa

Byte Commander

media3.giphy.com/media/3oEjHGQPdzHXtZKQOk/giphy.mp4

Oh lol

TheXed

Okay Zuckerberg has officially turned into satan...

msn.com/en-us/money/companies/…

Serg

That cat literally consumed his/her listener's ears @ByteCommander

I should go have my lunch , but I still haven't read any of the library books I took ._.

TheXed

The greedy, "thing I can't say on here"

Serg

10:33 PM

@TheXed just base64-econde it

TheXed

lol

to much work...

Serg

SXMgaXQgcmVhbGx5IHRoYXQgbXVjaCB3b3JrID8KSSBkb24ndCB0aGluayBzbwo=

TheXed

Could be something...or it could just be a bunch of random numbers and letters you typed...

Serg

$ base64 <<EOF
> Is it really that much work ?
> I don't think so
> EOF
SXMgaXQgcmVhbGx5IHRoYXQgbXVjaCB3b3JrID8KSSBkb24ndCB0aGluayBzbwo=

That's not exactly the best cryptography tool or something to obfuscate communication, but at least you can hide curse words easily

TheXed

I need to install bash...

2

Videonauth

10:38 PM

:D

Serg

@TheXed huh ? If you have Ubuntu, bash comes with it by default. Why'd you need to install it ?

TheXed

@Serg I don't have Ubuntu installed.

I have never had Ubuntu installed on this computer...

Granted I have only had it for 2 days...

Eliah Kagan

What OS do you currently have installed on the computer where you need Bash?

Serg

@TheXed well . . . it's just 19 days since new year, you know . . maybe you should add installing Ubuntu to the list of resolutions

TheXed

@EliahKagan Windows 10

@Serg I have Ubuntu installed on my laptop, I am good :-D

Eliah Kagan

10:40 PM

I don't have a Windows 10 system, so if there are options that might help you that are specific to that, I might not know about them.

Serg

Oh, wait. . . .Windows 10 ? You could use WSL then !

Eliah Kagan

^^^ Yes, you should listen to Serg on this. I have not used WSL and can't give any advice but it might be the best way.

Videonauth

@MadaraUchiha phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/…

Byte Commander

@Serg Something for you? askubuntu.com/q/873948/367990 I needz a scriptz.

Eliah Kagan

What I was going to say is that, in general on Windows, there are several good ways to get Bash and the various other Unixy tools that you would want to have along with it. Cygwin is one of the easiest to set up and is very powerful. cygwin.com

Serg

10:42 PM

Also . . . Altera renamed their Quartus II software to Quartus Prime apparently. I spend like an hour trying to figure WTF is the difference between them

Byte Commander

gitbash is also quite nice and enough for some basic stuff...

TheXed

@Serg No I will, I just haven't taken the time to do it.

Eliah Kagan

I use MSYS2 on my Windows system but the package manager sometimes requires manual tinkering. It uses pacman, which is a great package manager, but the community for getting help with pacman on Windows is not nearly as big as the community for Arch Linux (which is the main system to use pacman). msys2.github.io

TheXed

@Serg although, I thought about just doing a VM, I need to find a way to use all this ram...

Serg

@ByteCommander well, looks doable. Can you give a sort of step by step example of how it should behave ?

Byte Commander

10:49 PM

I'd suggest it's startable via launcher or Alt-F" command and opens a zenity dialogue where I can enter a sed-like regex replacement pattern. Then it runs (maybe keeping the dialogue open or opening a new one to edit the pattern or to exit the script). Whenever it performs a replacement, there should be a desktop notification that ideally also shows the modified clipboard buffer. @Serg

Why am I writing half pings all the time today... !?

need_for_sleep++;

Ubuntu User

Hi!

TheXed

hi

Serg

@ByteCommander go get some rest. I'll mess around with a few scripts that I have already for clipboard, probably will post an answer tomorrow or so. I'm working whole day tomorrow so will have time to write a complete script

Ubuntu User

Haha @ThomasWard I found out you can install gparted in ubuntu, so when I go on my live USB, I can do stuff! LOL!

Thomas Ward

cool

i'm going to go beat my head against a python application again

Ubuntu User

10:54 PM

@ThomasWard Why?

Thomas Ward

because i can

and it's an app for work that isn't working right and i need to fix it by tomorrow morning

Serg

@ByteCommander Is an indicator OK ?

Ubuntu User

@ThomasWard You should make a part of the program where you could press a button, and it displays a message when you're mad!

Well bye!

Serg

Also, dammit , I'm out of smokes

I should have taken extra pack with me today

Byte Commander

@ThomasWard that second part of the sentence applies to my presentation I have to finish too

@Serg Sure, that would also be fine. But make it enable/disable-able. Then it also could autostart, but always disabled by default.

And didn't you want to quit to run tar r -f /dev/lungs *?

Serg

11:04 PM

@ByteCommander I'm on day 19 , so I still haven't quit

Byte Commander

day 19?

Serg

Ah . . . I probably didn't tell you about that. So I asked my gf to pick a random number from 1 to 30. She picked 26, which was like a week ago. So I''m supposed to quit within 26 days

Byte Commander

She should have picked 1.

Serg

Hehe, well I didn't say why I was asking for a random number. Maybe she'd pick something else if she knew

Her father smokes too, so it's not that big of a deal.

Byte Commander

That doesn't make you live longer.

You still got a whole lot of scripts to write, don't waste your precious life time like that ;)

Serg

11:10 PM

Well, I think in 2017 I can quit for a little bit, let my body relax.

Tudor Brindus

Heya, just wondering if there is an association bonus on askubuntu as there is on other SE sites, since I signed up a few days ago and it hasn't been added to my profile

Feels bad to not be able to upvote the person who answered my question ;)

Serg

@TudorBrindus there should be. AU is not different from other SE sites

Tudor Brindus

Mmm, figured as much

Weird

Byte Commander

you joined AU 2 years ago...

Could it be that the bonus hasn't been established back then yet?

Tudor Brindus

:O

Byte Commander

11:16 PM

But well, you're only 6 months "older" than me, so that's probably unlikely...

Tudor Brindus

Looking at my profile I joined SE Meta 4 years ago, and that profile has the bonus applied

Byte Commander

Good argument.

Well, I have no idea then. Poke a moderator or write a bug question on Meta Stack Exchange.

Madara Uchiha

@TudorBrindus askubuntu.com/reputation What do you see here?

Tudor Brindus

```total votes: 1
1 873508 (2)
-- 2017-01-19 rep +2 = 3

** rep today: 2
** rep this week (2017-01-15 - 2017-01-21): 2
** rep this month (2017-01-01 - 2017-01-31): 2
** rep this quarter (2017-01-01 - 2017-03-31): 2
** rep this year (2017-01-01 - 2017-12-31): 2
** rep from bonuses: 0
** total rep 3 :)

days represented 1
rep cap was reached via rep from upvotes *only* on 0 days
earned at least 200 reputation on 0 days
earned 0 reputation from suggested edits```

So, 0 bonuses

Byte Commander

Strange.

Tudor Brindus

11:20 PM

I did find meta.stackexchange.com/questions/211823/… but I'm naturally hesitant to assume it's an SE bug

Madara Uchiha

@TudorBrindus Post a bug post on Ask Ubuntu Meta

Thomas Ward

what's broken

where

Tudor Brindus

Alright, sure thing

Thomas Ward

and who do I need to drop a grenade on

Madara Uchiha

Worst case, they tell you it isn't a bug

Byte Commander

11:21 PM

Tudor has joined AU 2.4y ago and never got the 100 association bonus although his SO account is well above 1k today and all other SE network sites awarded it @ThomasWard

Tudor Brindus

Well put, thanks @ByteCommander

Videonauth

hum isnt that 100 bonus?

Serg

@ByteCommander by the way . . . you are doing C, right ?

Videonauth

at least that is what i got alway when joining other SE sites

Byte Commander

100 bonus on every site once you reach 200 on any single one

Oh, mistyped

Serg

11:23 PM

In case you guys are gonna be implementing merge sort, I've an implementation there : github.com/SergKolo/c_tutoring_materials

Byte Commander

Ooohh...

Dunno, but we already implemented Merge Sort in Racket.

Thomas Ward

@ByteCommander I think he needs more than 10 rep to get past that first level of permissions before he gets a rep bonus... at least now

Byte Commander

(which is basically Scheme, a Lisp variant)

@ThomasWard but whenever I join any new site, I start with 101 points immediately.

Thomas Ward

@ByteCommander but he joined before he had the rep bonus

the association bonus is if you already have rep i believe and then new-join

he needs one more upvote on his question to make him get over the new user lockout at 10 rep

try that first

he also has done absolutely nothing on the site until yesterday so

Tudor Brindus

@ThomasWard my SE Meta profile was created 4 years ago (before AU) and has the bonus applied, so in that sense it should be in the same situation as AU (unless I'm missing something)

Byte Commander

11:27 PM

sounds reasonable.

Videonauth

@TudorBrindus well now youre over 10 reputation

Thomas Ward

@TudorBrindus but when did you get enough rep to start getting the bonus

that's the question

your AU account was registered 2 years ago

at the time of registration did you have enough rep for the bonus to apply

Byte Commander

Still nothing happened though, but let's wait for caching...