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FRIENDS PLEASE REPLY, I HAVE 512 MB OF RAM, 3 GHZ DUAL CORE PROCESSOR AND 256 MB GRAPHICS, WHAT VERSION OF UBUNTU SHOULD I USE? PLEASE TAG ME AND TEN TELL THE ANSWER

@Seth ji namaste

Seth

@Utkarsh Probably Lubuntu.

Seth

3:54 AM

Hmm.

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Q: opening shutdown dialog immediately triggers a reboot

~80% of the time when I go to shutdown down my machine from the gear -> "Shutdown ..." menu option, the dialog pops up and then instantly closes and my machine restarts. It's not that big of an issue as I just hold down the power button while bios is loading, but it's a little annoying. After i...

Is asking how to troubleshoot a bug off-topic?

Errrrg. I really wish I had migrate powers.

So many good questions for Unix & Linux lately..

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4:39 AM

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Q: How to find the http link of particular answer of aquestion

Say a question have five answers. I want to refer the third answer. How to get that particular link? I have seen to refer such links like http:// <some address of askubuntu>#<some number>/ Am I wrong?

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6:27 AM

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Q: Accidentally rejected the edit request

I was asked for an edit to my answer. but I was also editing the same answer. Somehow the proposed edit was rejected. I could not able to find the request again. I think it is quite rude to the proposer of edit. What should I do now?

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Alvar

8:34 AM

@Utkarsh ubuntu server.

kalina

9:04 AM

yawn

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Q: What is "uname gcc" in Ubuntu

I know that uname -a shows the full machine name and details, etc. But I did uname gcc to see what the version of gcc I am running, and it returned Linux - What does that mean? Ubuntu86: $ uname gcc Linux This is the machine I am on (I know it is old): Ubuntu86: $ uname -a Linux ubuntu86 2.6....

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9:48 AM

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Q: Finding error log related to specific crash in Ubuntu

Every time I try to start a specific program (Mathematica), my Ubuntu session crashes and I get thrown back to login screen. I want to find out 1) what is it exactly that crashes (probably X) and 2) find the error log produced by this crash. I tried looking at .xsession-errors file, but the fil...

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10:08 AM

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Q: Where is the error page location of squid proxy server?

I'm using squid proxy sever on my ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Where is the error page location so that I can customize it..

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Braiam

11:30 AM

er.... I triggered CAPTCHA in meta....

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A: Is it okay to ask for confirmation of a suspected bug?

While I agree with Braiam's answer here, I will make a note: Feature requests and help with bugs are not on topic here on Ask Ubuntu. If you want to ask someone to try and confirm a bug, file the bug on Launchpad, don't ask people here to confirm if a bug exists. Anything bug related is off-to...

;)

Amith KK

Braiam

@JourneymanGeek meh, don't worry, if I didn't know is because I didn't noticed... so apparently you are doing it well ;)

what is happening with suggested edits...

I'm suspecting this user is spamming askubuntu.com/users/219771/aliceten

recommends "longpathtool" without links...

Oli

11:53 AM

Yeah it's a clever way of spamming. Be so vague that Eric comes along and supplies the links!

Their mistake was doing it four times. It helped me find some older spam from 2012.

Braiam

LOL

this need to be updated meta.askubuntu.com/questions/7218/…

Journeyman Geek

longpathool is a known spammer on su

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12:08 PM

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Q: SPAM attacks again!

Today we found a clever way spammer are trying to prevent falling into the spam protection system... that is recommending software relevant to the question so people in their curiosity search what is that about so they get ads revenue. Beware, any tool recommendation too vague. An example of such...

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Braiam

12:23 PM

@AvinashRaj please read this meta.askubuntu.com/questions/7707/… ;)

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Q: Is there any packages to manage NIS users?

I'm using NIS server to control 100 clients, I'm using NIS for centralized authenticaion and NFS to share home folder. The main problem I'm facing is that I cannot find which user is logged in and logged out. Is there any packages to manage users of the NIS client?

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Oli

1:18 PM

If any MSO users would like to contribute to their AU-moderator's inevitable hail of down-votes, feel free to visit: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/209152/can-we-ask-for-a-reason-when-somebody-down-votes-making-it-a-constructive-proce

It's a feature request to make down-voting more constructive.

You're also allowed to vote for it but I suspect you'll be voting against the lines.

Journeyman Geek

2:15 PM

@Oli: sometimes people yell at me when I comment :/

Oli

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, I saw that. I wouldn't let one idiot's frustration tar the way to treat others though.

Journeyman Geek

@Oli: happens more often than not

and I try VERY hard to comment to point people in the right direction anyway

Oli

Well if you see a conversation going that way, flag it up as soon as you can.

Journeyman Geek

lol

I had no idea I had pissed off the chap so much to be honest ;p

Oli

@JourneymanGeek They were already upset with Ubuntu before they'd even seen you.

They probably shout at kittens too.

Journeyman Geek

2:21 PM

yup

lol

even I like kittens

Avinash Raj

2:48 PM

@Oli askubuntu.com/questions/382943/… he asks about reinstallation of ubuntu in a dual-boot system and also he wants the fresh ubuntu installation.

Oli

@AvinashRaj The process is still identical.

Alvar

@Oli looked at my meta question? ;)

Braiam

3:12 PM

@BrunoPereira actually it's google.com/…

and only solution I've found is update everything and hope for the best

Bruno Pereira

@Braiam that also happens with a running system and can be sorted very easily

I will leave it closed since it is preventing the system from booting, but on a live system it does not mean issues

@Braiam turn off power saving features and upgrade your BIOS will work most of the times

Braiam

I've seen in the posts that I've found that they are more frequent in multicore system... mmm...

Bruno Pereira

@Braiam it happens a lot more on new hardware and old kernel versions

only saw once a sles system that did not want to boot with the same issue, rest happened on running ones and did not prevent usage

Amith KK

4:14 PM

BBT

Good Night

Lucio

cya!

@AmithKK 12pm here xD

Lucio

4:41 PM

WTF?

Four months writing with extreme caution every single commit and there was a GUI!

Braiam

@Lucio hehehehehe

but still that gui lacks... only for the tree view I wouldn't recomend it

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5:32 PM

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Q: A Quick Suggestion About Commenting

It would be nice letting new users Comment instead of posting an answer requesting for more info About the question/Issue

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Q: should I ask an unanswered question to other stackexchange site

Should I ask a question to other stackexchange sites that is not answered here at Askubuntu? Sometimes it may happen that after asking a question here I found the topic is more suitable in any other site. Then what should be my approach?

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Seth

6:48 PM

Can someone close this as a dupe of this (or better) please.

Lots of meta activity all of a sudden O_o

Braiam

@Seth I've been on SU chat for a while, so dunno

in Root Access, 41 mins ago, by nhinkle

Everybody fill this out: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1j-FhqxeT6TA24tBo_wkUmUmOKs-AbZ05ZN4tx1Wgw-Q/vie‌wform

beware! the thing will crash firefox...

Alvar

7:51 PM