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Q: zerofree verbose returns what?

1:02 AM

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zerofree -v /dev/sda1 returned 123642/1860888/3327744. The man page does not explain what those numbers are: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man8/zerofree.8.html I found some code on github: https://github.com/haggaie/zerofree/blob/master/zerofree.c And there's this line: if ( verbo...

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@Oli - You might want to update your pygi on Windows answer of compat requies pygtk now that an official pygi x86 for Windows installer is available. I'ld do it, but I don't want to muck about with your answer and ruffle your feathers at all.

2:24 AM

@RolandiXor OMG! SO CUTE!

@Mateo That makes sens.

2:38 AM

I just realized that someone had nominated me for being a moderator over at E-books... 3 days ago.

@NathanOsman Impressive! Congrats!

But not congrats on forgetting to check the site often enough to notice :P

lol, well, StackApps doesn't need too much moderation ;)

@NathanOsman True :D

Q: Downvoting answers (or questions) without a reason?

@Braiam Not Stack Apps, E-books.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

2:47 AM

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I cannot understand why this even allowed here. I mean, is this a game or something ? I can see everywhere downvoting questions and answers without a specific reason. I would like to see this stopped, please. We are not playing here (at least me). I would suggest either a massive loss of reputa...

discussion feature-request

3:07 AM

@NathanOsman I mean that even being moderator in two sites wouldn't be a problem since both are pretty low traffic ;)

I'm hoping E-books grows a bit :)

3:22 AM

lol, the most extensive comment spaghetti in one of my meat answers

3:40 AM

@Seth hey there, feeling important? :P

@Braiam Why would I be feeling important?

beats me...

So why the ping?

because reasons...

nah, I was asking myself if we need a question checklist a la Jon Skeet ;)

if we can adapt this to our needs about the things that most questions lacks meta.stackoverflow.com/q/156810/213575

So you think that I would feel "important"? O_o

3:45 AM

it was just... err... trying to strike conversation, it wasn't that profund

oh ok. Was rather confused ;)

so... we need a "checklist"?

Hm. I rather think Oli's idea of a wizard would work better.. We already throw so much in users faces, I don't think they'd read any more.

@NathanOsman AHH in your nomination they spelled "Stack Apps" "StackApps" D:

You should fix that when you get the edit privilege :P

man, that amr tag is a mess...

definitely should be cleaned up, but not ditched.

3:53 AM

build on amr, build for amr, install on amr, amr ide, amr plugin, amr ubuntu touch...

wait.. amr? I took that as a typo of arm..

freak! that's the initials of a extension I support

build on arm, build for arm, install on arm, arm ide, arm plugin, arm ubuntu touch...**

I'm separating everything, build to/for/on arm -> compilation(and related tags)/software installation, install arm tools -> software-installation, install on arm -> system installation, ubuntu touch related questions -> ubuntu-touch

We still need arm.

So arm experts can watch arm questions.

But yeah, questions about Ubuntu Touch + Android + Phones don't need arm.

That's for like Raspi's and such.

wait, @RPiAwesomeness do you follow the arm tag? and if not, which tags you follow?

I don't see a predominance of users that answer those questions (doing an analysis like certain Lizard on the top users)

souravc

4:24 AM

@Braiam I did not found proper flag option under flag>closing>offtopic for this question,

-1

Q: Prison Break Question?

How come Michael died in (Season 4 Episode 22 : Killing Your Number) and lived in the next one! And how come the general got executed in it and lived in the next episode too! please I'm confused someone tells me????

tv

take a look

Q: Husband wife problem solution baba ji+91-9982005340

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+91-99820 05340 World famous astrologer all india NO.1 TANTRIK rkBABAJI (diamond gold medlist) Love Vashikaran An astrologer has all the solution of problems regarding to love, love marriage and career. In simple if here talking about love then there is lots of problem comes at each moving step...

failover

new spam: askubuntu.com/questions/400316/…

So, how goes everything @hbdgaf

I was trying out some codeacademy today and the other day

4:57 AM

I can't figure out how posting spam earns them money.

Is there anyone out there dumb enough to use their services?

they're probably paying someone to do 'SEO'

which may mean one boxing and having the titles in the links in chat could be helping, because google indexes chat

yeah, it might.

Probably should ask a mod to delete it ;p

I'll try to remember to hit "share" so it has random numbers next time...

and say something else so it dosen't onebox

5:01 AM

that and usually they stay up on the main site long enough to get indexed

@Mateo That's the part we're trying to fix.

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hm, don't think that is what they wanted...

love those "hit the button - it will accept anything" lessons...

5:26 AM

lol

5:45 AM

Heh. Those can be funny sometimes.

6:12 AM

@JourneymanGeek HELP

@JourneymanGeek I need urgent help

@JourneymanGeek please help

@NathanOsman HELP

Okay, calm down.

What's the problem?

I installed zram

aftrer that,

i got out of memory

and after that system crashed

now my PC can't detect my HDD

@NathanOsman Please help me

What error are you receiving?

error: no such partiton
grub rescue>

Ah, that problem.

6:16 AM

The chat history is um.....entertaining

I booted from live USB and now I can't find my HDD!

@AmithKK: would you like to take over this problem?

??

Sorry, can't :(

@Windows8 I'm pretty sure the problem is that the partition containing GRUB is missing.

Do you have a LiveCD you can use?

6:17 AM

@NathanOsman yes

Pre final's coming up. study break almost over

I am currently using it

@Windows8 What shows up under "Disks"?

You should see all of your partitions there.

@NathanOsman I see just my Pendrive but no HDD

That's odd. You must have something causing the GRUB prompt to be displayed.

6:18 AM

what to do?

Your best bet is to post a question over on the site and see if someone there can help.

Q: PC can't find my HDD after lubuntu 13.10 Crash

okay, lets see if i get any answer

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I installed zram aftrer that, i got out of memory and after that system crashed now my PC can't detect my HDD error i see is, error: no such partiton grub rescue> I booted from live USB and now I can't find my HDD!

boot grub2 lubuntu

@AmithKK Tomorrow is PSA?

7:02 AM

@AmithKK what do you mean?

SSH

8:51 AM

Hello

lo

SSH

9:10 AM

Hey

Do you know how can I use upstart feature in Ubuntu to restart my Python script?

9:21 AM

tried askubuntu.com/questions/175751/… ?

SSH

Yeah.. I saw that but don't know where to put that conf file

So In general I can make, let's say example.conf

file

and edit etc/init file

and add this example.conf file in that init file

and also place it in /etc folder as well?

and then how to start it?

sorry if I am asking silly question

9:45 AM

no, you add a .conf file in the /etc/init folder

so if its tomato.conf, you start it with, iirc service start tomato

10:15 AM

To those using Ubuntu GNOME, there seems to be a bug affecting some machines in recent versions of GNOME that cause a pixellated screen upon login. Anyone with the same problem? Can't find anything on the internet. It makes it almost unusable sometimes, and only affects some machines, in this case ATI radeon graphics.

10:28 AM

Hi @jokerdino

10:43 AM

@Mateo Here's another new question about installing netflix-desktop from ppa:ehoover/compholio

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Q: Netflix on Ubuntu

So I installed Netflix desktop, but that doesn't seem to work. When trying to play a video, it says I should install Silverlight. I installed it from that link, but it was version 5. When I checked the instructions later, it said that it should be version 4. I tried to delete version 5 and instal...

wine netflix moonlight

Q: How to auto-mount all USB-devices at same USB socket to same mountpoint

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I have a small computer with 2 USB sockets : A and B. I want any external USB disk, attached to socket A - to be mounted as "deviceA" I want any external USB disk, attached to socket B - to be mounted as "deviceB" Expecially: Any amount of different disks may be attached to socket A. They all...

ubuntu debian usb-drive automounting

Reut Sharabani

I've suggested an edit to an answer and want to remove it

how do I do that?

11:07 AM

@Reut Provide a link to the answer and I'll take a look at it.

Hello

Guess what!!!!

:)

11:18 AM

betanews.com/2013/08/09/…

Is anyone one?

11:30 AM

@Braiam Netflix is back. Scroll up a bit for the link to the question.

What happen if I delect a question of my own. Do I lose reputations?

Hm, maybe Netflix changed something?

I'll try it later to see if something broke

@Andrew If you delete your own post with a score of 3 or more, you lose your reputation for that post and get the Disciplined badge.

@Karel What happen if it has a score of like -4 than what? I get some reputation?

11:47 AM

For some reason I don't remember how I installed Java. — Astral Projection 22 hours ago

:/

@karel ?

we should really sort the whole silverlight -> moonlight thing.... as that is a question about silverlight and has nothing to do with moonlight

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@Mateo upvote the meat answer ;P meta.askubuntu.com/a/7830/169736

@Andrew If you lost reputation because of downvoting and you delete the downvoted post, then you get your lost reputation back.

@karel thanks

but remember that that counts against the answer quality ban

(Oli said we have that, I only remember that Shog said about questions)

11:56 AM

okay. I had a question with a -1 vote and my P didn't go up any?

@Andrew Sometimes it takes a little while for changes in reputation to propagate through the database, however I have never seen it happen that an expected change in reputation failed to appear eventually.

okay K.

askubuntu.com/users/232010/skshastri is a spammer and need to get ban!!! All of his questions that I have seen is spam like this one that he asked like 5 min ago! askubuntu.com/questions/400438/…

@Oil Are you here?

Takkat

12:12 PM

babaji may have found a way to get around their ban (or the ban was lifted for 2014)

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Qasim

hello

hi

1:17 PM

anyone thinks these two should be dupes askubuntu.com/q/129058/169736 askubuntu.com/q/6317/169736?

yeah, those are very close - I think the extra info on the one dosn't really matter since he wiped it out and only has ubuntu to start

?

1:32 PM

@Mateo Yea

They are

@Braiam alright I voted...

I did

too

well, I was hopping for a mod to swing the hammer around... but you can't get whatever you like right D:

2:08 PM

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Q: list used ports in ubuntu

Could anyone explain the output of netstat -plunt output. udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:58262 0.0.0.0:* 1163/avahi-daemon: udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:17500 0.0.0.0:* 3779/dropbox:u udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5353 0.0.0.0:* 1163/avahi-daemon: What 0.0.0.0:* m...

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2:51 PM

@Mateo things go. i've got a lot of balls in the air. the proposed change for the fixed ratio - i'm thinking 4:3 and 6:9 toggle selection (either or radio buttons) and a size slider. i haven't been able to test the no camera thing. maybe if i just rmmod the uvcvideo kernel module for testing. not sure if it will autoload the module trying to find a camera or not, but it's worth a shot. that one bug has 4 issues or so tied to it.

3:02 PM

@hbdgaf hm, if you have example code I have a tower without a camera to test

3:34 PM

@Mateo that's the thing. i don't have any idea. i can't find the function calls i need in GST. have you tried running it there and examining the terminal output? if it doesn't produce any, try taking out any blanket try: except stuff and see what it spits. I should be able to catch it, I just don't have something to find out the error that is thrown. if it throws something specific, i can give you test code on pastebin or something

(not finding functions i need is related to finding the dimensions of the feed from a dynamic source... all the size calls i can find deal with buffer size not resolution). anyway, i have been working on it, i'm just sort of hitting a wall on the no black bars auto-selection bit.

i shouldn't have to choose the aspect ratio as a user, the programmer should choose it for me to do away with those nasty bars and cropping.

@Takkat You are a mod. Can you retrive babaji's IP?

Takkat

@Windows8 only mod in chat - but babaji won't chat - the system will auto-ban them eventually/hopefully

hi @Jeremy - if he could, he wouldn't be able to tell you what it was... but I'm pretty sure he could. I know site-mods can, but chat-mods are global. I don't think Takkat is a mod on AU

@Takkat that

Yay! I have bug #1249787

That explains why I can't manage to install saucy here.

@FEichinger I'm so sorry. Have you tried Trusty? that's what I'm running on my daily driver

3:44 PM

@hbdgaf I'm downloading it as we speak :/

It's going to be an LTS, so I think it will get severe bug weight for things like that.

It allegedly works in trusty, although noone seems to know just why.

Is it dual graphics? I see that it reports as Intel not blob-lover on trusty from the thread.

I suspect that that's related, yes.

If you switch your default graphics in bios to intel, the problem may resolve for saucy. Then you can go about installing blobs and whatnot to make it work with less pain.

I don't have a hybrid to test on, but I suspect there's a setting to say "disable my nvidia stuff...just use the intel". Boot. Install blobs. Reboot. Turn it back on. Dance widdershins and pray. <-- would be my approach.

3:50 PM

Nope. Integrated display is hardwired to the Intel card, as far as I can tell. Haven't seen any option in the BIOS either.

That's the case for my laptop, at least. Not sure about the reporter's.

I'm sorry. MSI is usually better about stuff like that.

(Mine's an acer, I'm not the reporter ;) )

Can someone Help me out?
I am installing Lubuntu 13.10 and while installation, when we do partitions, I can't find my HDD. My Older Lubuntu was crashed because of zram. Any Help would be appreciated

and when I try to open, my HDD, I see this error

Error mounting /dev/sda7 at /media/lubuntu/a5921cad-a3c3-4b4e-8632-09100530a403: Command-line `mount -t "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sda7" "/media/lubuntu/a5921cad-a3c3-4b4e-8632-09100530a403"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda7,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

@Windows8 Well, try dmesg | tail then ;)

That said, the reason is probably that the target partition isn't actually ext4, despite the system trying to mount it as such.

Sounds like you're either using some abstraction layer - luks or lvm for example, partition magic hasn't been written yet, or it's ext3 and you're trying to mount it as 4. you can mount newer ext as older iirc, but not vice-versa

3:55 PM

@hbdgaf What happens for me is that, when trying to boot for install, the integrated display turns off (presumably because of hybrid graphics) and the boot crashes with divide error 0000 [#1] SMP. I can solve the display problem by plugging in an external display (and later-on fixing the driver settings), but the crash is not fixable in saucy - from what the launchpad entry tells me, at least.

I think the root of the problem is trying to default to performance in edge/non-lts and defaulting to stable/intel in going to be lts.

You can't blame them really.

@FEichinger paste.ubuntu.com/6697675

@hbdgaf but how?

@Windows8 how what?

@hbdgaf the answer you gave me, how to mount as ex3?

i mean ex4

@hbdgaf I ran dmesg and saw this paste.ubuntu.com/6697675

@Windows8 mount as ext3 or ext2 and see what happens. if you don't get bad superblock and it mounts than you're using the wrong partition type.

4:04 PM

@hbdgaf I assume he's using the GUI during install.

@FEichinger yes i am using GUI,

@hbdgaf okay i am trying

Question is: Why does the GUI think it's the wrong fs type? Which I have absolutely no answer to, unless you messed some settings up.

@hbdgaf i see this

Q: kali linux penetration testing

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I've been installing a mont ago(i'm totally new in ubuntu) ubuntu 12.04 lts and i want to download kali linux tools without formatting the hard drive and install tools (without formatting) if anyone have a method to download kali linux tools and install it on ubuntu 12.04 lts. and I've been tryi...

12.04 installation downloads tools testing

lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

lubuntu@lubuntu:~$

4:07 PM

Off topic, right?

@hbdgaf can you tell what is happening? on my HDD

Oookay...user on Ask Ubuntu has the username Windows 8?

it's jeremy

Yeah...why'd he change?

@hbdgaf OOOOO

4:08 PM

rage-change probably.

@hbdgaf How did you know?

gravatar

@Windows8 Ditto

Your image.

lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

lubuntu@lubuntu:~$

Yeh, I remember the gravatar as well.

4:09 PM

@RPiAwesomeness Oh! I forgot to change it!

anyway, moving on. you probably have an abstraction layer in place like lvm or luks like i said a WHILE ago

Now we know who you are! stalkerish statement

wait, jeremy has only 2 months in AU?

That said, chat user ID is preserved.

o.o

4:10 PM

he's been around for much longer than that...

new account

nope

@Windows8 @Utkarsh as well.

loves being right...

@FEichinger ooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh

caught up!

:P

4:11 PM

As I said: chat user ID is preserved.

@FEichinger yea you are right

If you know where to dig, you will find every user's entire history.

Also, heya @MarcoCeppi.

o/

new gravatar marco

@hbdgaf so what to do now?

4:12 PM

@hbdgaf Yeah, the other one was almost four years old

@Braiam you are a real cop!

@MarcoCeppi hey

@hbdgaf Please Help! What to do now?

@Windows8 remember if you used luks or lvm... there should be a utility to dump it. i think fdisk -l with some options can tell you what partition type it reads as

o/

4:15 PM

@Jeremy/@Windows8 Why'd you add a new account?

I don't know if my blocking Utkarsh had anything to do with it.

@hbdgaf I don't know much about RAID LVM etc. I was just out of zram and my PC crashed

@RPiAwesomeness JFF

JUst for fun

@hbdgaf Utkarsh is blocked?

@Windows8 Ah :D

for me

@Windows8 I don't use zram.

Ah, I see

4:17 PM

@RPiAwesomeness Ah! Ah Ah!

AYAYAY!

@hbdgaf please tell what to do? I am in a BAD situation!

I don't use it, so I can't tell you how to fix it. It's like a cook telling a mechanic how to fix a car.

@hbdgaf And doing that on the phone.

@FEichinger yes

4:18 PM

@hbdgaf Can you tell me what would YOU do in this situation, if your PC crashed, you can't open your HDD and can't install any OS on a newly bought machine?

I'd try and figure out why I can't open the HDD.

I wouldn't wind up in that situation because I only use things I understand.

That would stink.

Like major-league-suck

You must have messed up something and without seeing your machine we just can't know what that is.

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@FEichinger ^^ that

4:20 PM

Eep! Evil twins!

@RPiAwesomeness Ah! ;D

Good point! AH! EVIL TWINS!

What am i supposed to do with these all commands?

@hbdgaf ah, ok. I'll send you what it says, hopefully something specific we can grab

Ah! Mom was right! Windows 8 is better than Ubuntu

4:23 PM

@Mateo hopefully.

jokerdino

Uh

my SNR just went up again :)

And now I'll try and install trusty ... sigh

Q: Is replacing with the Tech Slang needed?

@FEichinger I hope it works. I understand the why of it. I hope you do too.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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I'm having a doubt that, recently I found this question in Askubuntu :How do I watch Youtube videos? On seeing that my instinct told me to edit the question as : Flash player not working in firefox But on the second thought I knew that how will the people with poor tech interaction will find such...

discussion asking-questions

Jeremy

4:26 PM

@RPiAwesomeness It's not me =/

How does one do this:

That text?

@Jeremy my bad then i guess. i just connected the dots on gravatars and it didn't seem like a common one.

jokerdino

@RPiAwesomeness Edit it here chat.stackexchange.com/users/68017/rpi-awesomeness

Ah

Hmm...I don't see anything...

Ah, never mind

askubuntu.com/questions/400575/…

and we have spam

because socrates used blogspot...

jokerdino

4:38 PM

that was fast removal without any mod intervention

@Mateo - ping me with exception output if you get any. i need to get off for a while, my cynicism is showing.

@hbdgaf maybe ditching forcing it into a widget, because it's a window in widget thing, maybe clutter that you linked me earilyer?

@hbdgaf ok, I'm going to eat lunch. Later

Oh good grief! 78 new user posts!??!

4:54 PM

@hbdgaf It's not like I have any other option.

I mean, I could probably jump to Debian for the time being, but that's no use in the long run either.

@RPiAwesomeness Ah, yes, my infamous chat about text.

@FEichinger What?

> African Zookeeper, Bridge Reserve Officer, Crusader of Weird Stuff, Escape Pod Coordinator, Android Demon

Every single one of them has its own history.

That said, it's installed. Fingers crossed I didn't just blow up my hard drive.

Alright. Successfully booted back into Windows after installing trusty, so that didn't break.

5:10 PM

I playing portal 2

last boss

This is soo hard

@AmithKK naaa it is a scripted boss. easy.

Heh

I loved the game

It's worth 6.59ish GB

It was far too short but it had some very good puzzles

Yeah, got addicted to it

That's what I've heard. Wish I could play it :D

5:15 PM

Can chell even speak?

yes chell can :)

I thought her brain functions detoriated

:P

kotaku.com/5799408/why-chell-doesnt-speak :+)

there you go

BBL :)

BBT

Good Night

askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/205200

Really bad answer, not really sure what to do with it.

Jeremy

5:32 PM

@RPiAwesomeness Comment why you think it is low quality and flag it as low quality.

Johannes Kuhn

5:51 PM

@RPiAwesomeness "should be a comment".

looks like fun store.steampowered.com/app/25000 I might vote with my wallet.

can someone kick this out of the queue? OP crossposted in UL and if we reopen they might close theirs

6:29 PM

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Q: Dual boot Linux Mint 32/64

I have the LM maya 13 xfce 4 ,64bit installed on my pc. I cant download swedish bankid on a 64bit version. Is it possible to make a dualboot by installing a 32bit version and keeping my 64 bit as it is today. Attilla

system-installation

Off topic?

@RPiAwesomeness I don't see Ubuntu mentioned anywhere...

7:02 PM

@RPiAwesomeness Seems like it.

@FEichinger Are you still a bridge reserve officer?

@Seth Reserve, as in "currently not ownerified".

Ah. Okay. I thought reserve meant you were still an owner.

No, no, That would just be "Bridge Officer".

@JasperLoy What version of GNOME exactly?

@Seth I think GNOME 3.8 and 3.10 both give problems. Hi!

I tried on Fedora as well, the same problem with the ATI radeon machine.

So if the trend continues, GNOME is unusable.

I get weird big triangles flashing over the screen, lol.

7:09 PM

I get something similar in Unity sometimes.

@Seth Yes, indeed!

@hbdgaf this is what I get with no camera attached pastebin.com/9m2VpRV7

It works ok though after upgrading to the nvidia 304-updates drivers.

long time no see @Marco

Nice new pic @marco!

@Seth What is your current main OS?

@JasperLoy Ubuntu 13.10

7:14 PM

@hbdgaf the good news is that after that I can plug the camera in then press F1 and it will work, I bet we could do a wait loop(or exit now) with a generic not compatible/plug in camera now message

@MarcoCeppi nice soul patch!

oh, heh, that's gone now

@hbdgaf er, it might be harder if the camera is busy pastebin.com/yweUF7RT

pacificfils

now, to go beat Pi in the reputation wars.

this is somewhat... interesting.

askubuntu.com/questions/400647/i-think-im-being-spied-on

Q: What distribution do you suggest for daily use?

7:39 PM

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I use my computer everyday for various reasons: programming in c++, android(java), java(in general) listening to music(spotify), watching movies browsing internet, watching youtube clips writing various documents studying in general (I am a student) flashing custom roms to my android phone (now...

linux shell ubuntu osx

pacificfils

Challenge: Create a website on port 4

All of you are my witnesses. I CLAIM PORT 13074