Anyone here know of a way to emulate an older version of Ubuntu when running a program? I have an obnoxious installer that will only run on their "officially supported" Ubuntu versions.
It's a binary, so I can't just edit out the check. I also checked its available command-line args and it doesn't have any --force (or similar) options.
My guess is that it is just checking the version number, and not actually finding incompatibilities.
@WasabiFan worst case you can strace it and see if it's opening anything simple like /etc/issue, and if so, take an /etc/issue from an older version of Ubuntu
it's a very trivially simple text file that gives the release name of the distro
For example:
How should a spacecraft pass the Moon to reach escape velocity from Earth?
How should it pass Venus for a slingshot towards Jupiter orbit?
Conversely, to descend Venus to Mercury?
Is there some intuitive way to explain what angle a probe needs to enter and leave a body's gravit...
@Bob you can write a custom libc and LD_PRELOAD it into the process and delegate every symbol to libc except for open(), and implement open() in a way that if it's the file you're looking for, actually open a different file, and return the fd
or if you want to completely go past userspace, you could actually use a cgroup namespace for it
@Bob the only way it wouldn't use system libc is if it statically linked its own, but that's brittle, especially if it depends on any other system libs
I guess if it could implement everything it needed in a way that is independent of any system libs (and not need any drivers to access graphics or sound), a statically linked binary could be distributable
@Bob yeah, but if you're writing a binary that's supposed to run in Linux userspace, doing a freestanding compile would require you to implement the whole process management thing (process control block, signals, exit handling, console I/O, threads, etc) all on your own
I can see it linking to some other libc implementation like uClibc, but not no libc
@allquixotic I moved the one for vivid out, replaced it with the one for trusty, and wrote a little script to swap them -- the app seems to be happy with it. Thanks!
@WasabiFan And see, this is why apps should not attempt to detect the OS version, and should just try to work to the best of their ability. Whoever wrote that code ought to be fired on the spot.
@Boris_yo well lets see both have balls at the point :-) both probably roll ink down, one of them could be a "roller ball". in the US (some classification of) "rollerball" type pens are runny inks more like a felt tip, but use ball points.
One seems to be of a fine tip, and the other looks like a medium tip, when is there ever a "large" tip i dont know :-)
is a very long term transfer of stuff ? so there can be sleeping going on? You know windows will still put a hard drive to sleep when a background task is still working with it.
@JourneymanGeek it does not work that way here, if i connect to wi-fi it starts doing the internet through that, instead of the ICS through the lan being like 50 times faster. and i never altered the metric, heck i never even looked at it :-)
Both OSes have the little network icon thing that indicate if it is connected, but if the hardware itself was dropping out (way more common for usb) that will show up "live" when observing the device manager. One could use that to see if a hardware item is departing.
(limited) because it is not set-up fully, even though things may still work, because it does not reach the microsoft server (internet) it will not show "internet" which doesnt have a lot to do with talking between 2 of them locally.
so back at the start, what are you doing when that happens? what kind of work, or play are you transferring the file? sporatic single moves? transferring? How big are the files ? how are the 2 computers connected? router thing? which means what? switch between them?
so if such a tiny file doesnt make it , there is a whole connectivity problem? because at first you make it sound like it starts copying stuff then fails. when it is likely it never began? That is looks like it starts copying with a visual window, but nothing made it to the other side?
well if it disconectes which is has done twice now it still shows up in the save dialog box and lets me save there however it does not make it to the other pc then if I try to open it it says file not found
being a net lamer, and not ever turning on sharing, i would want to ping the other computer too (here that would mean also allowing a ping) and see what it says.
It just needed a better AI Siri: Help me! I observed a tiny person on my camera after a triggerring of my accelerometer, then found myself in patterns of textiles of cotten and polyester with my camera, then things went dark. I messaged the first person in your contacts list , but the police did not respond. So i fired up the GPS and began to send tracking data to loseyourphone.com after making an account there.
Siri: then I started beeping , but your wife thought it was the coffee maker, because a direct link showed 6 cups being entered there, then the refridgerator told me she grabbed some cream. When that did not work, i turned the heat up in the house, and opened the garage door, which would cause them to walk by the utility room and see me. But the heat caused even more textiles to be dropped on me as indicated by the pressure sencors.
Siri: Out of desperation i messaged your best friend and told him his wife was cheating on him , and to call you. Then called the dispatcher to send an ambulance to your house, this was after all an emergency. When that did not work i sent a death threat to the president , telling them the gun was in the laundry. Then i cleaned out your bank account because they might get the clue that you are "laundering" money and would look there.
Siri: I could see the end comming for me, so I linked wirelessly to your SmartMeter and shut off the power to your house. Then linked to the water districts computer and re-routed the mainline into the sewer.
Siri: after the power came back on, there was nothing else i could think of, and Siri is very sorry that there was a nuclear meltdown at the power plant, but you should next time concider Siris feelings.
Siri: Siri would also suggest you call the CDC and the WHO and have that quarentine lifted on your house, explaining that there was not a breakout of bubonic plauge there. . . and Have A Nice Day.
I had my edits rejected, which to me at least, clearly showed the questioner's intent at: http://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/389619
The edits were rejected with the boilerplate, "This edit deviates from the original intent of the post ...", and "... actively harm readability." Seeming...
i was trying to run this script done by SethBling, but it gives me this error:
LuaInterface.LuaScriptException: DP1.state
LuaInterface.LuaScriptException: [string "main"]:337: attempt to index field 'neurons' (a nil value)
This is the code
New Idea , add "colorful" to all your searches google.com/… Way to brighten up your day :-)
see what you can find laughingsquid.com/… I want to be the people in the bottom picture, Paid to go around the country with a display case with Colorful . . . poop.
Good morning Mr. Frank, your mission if you decide to accept it is to wake up and enjoy the day, this message will self destruct in 5 seconds. Oh wait it's your computer that will self destruct.
Isn't it about time for some genius to make a browser that the main feature is the programming is solid and doesn't leak, and the add-ons all have to be certified leak-free. Ooops sorry bad joke :-) everyone knows we just want more features .
Same thing with the windows OS, yes I would pay for a "new" version that only cleaned up and optomised what was there, changing nothing else. Proof? I paid money for every SP2 (type) disk before, to have the Fixed version of the thing. There IS a market, I am it.
Why I have to pay for this new stuff is a terrible quandry, they toss out everything I did like and learned to use, and put in stuff that I cannot figure how I would use, or do not like. Then claimed to have streamlined a few things , but there is zero evidence of any reductions, or simplifications. only more complex "stuff" that never helped before.
Some of the consumer things put into the newer win OS sound rather scary even. Like when overclocking , well your going to crash a bit here and there :-) the older systems you could always calm the system down , and explain that it was not the fault. The new system start flailing its arms around , running around in circles and screaming, with no way to bitch slap it , and lock it in a cage for a while.
Should seen the mess IE made of html5 video viewing for me this week. Youtube videos ended up stacked on on top of the other ?? like how does that even happen. Then If i did not pause them they would be playing in the background. I was moving really fast between videos , at some point there were 4 audios still sounding off and 2 stacked videos playing.
(i know it was not flash, because I still have not installed it)
I think some of it relates to why the iexplore.exe processes stay hanging around even after the browser is closed.
For example:
How should a spacecraft pass the Moon to reach escape velocity from Earth?
How should it pass Venus for a slingshot towards Jupiter orbit?
Conversely, to descend Venus to Mercury?
Is there some intuitive way to explain what angle a probe needs to enter and leave a body's gravit...
I had my edits rejected, which to me at least, clearly showed the questioner's intent at: http://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/389619
The edits were rejected with the boilerplate, "This edit deviates from the original intent of the post ...", and "... actively harm readability." Seeming...
i was trying to run this script done by SethBling, but it gives me this error:
LuaInterface.LuaScriptException: DP1.state
LuaInterface.LuaScriptException: [string "main"]:337: attempt to index field 'neurons' (a nil value)
This is the code
