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Consider the following markdown: `C:\` In chat, this is rendered as follows: Instead of the expected output: C:\ Adding two slashes doesn't help: Although the slash appears, the text is not rendered in a monospace font and the backticks are shown.

Zacharee1

`C:`

huh

`C:\`

`c:\`

this bothers me now

Nathan Osman

12:36 AM

I filed a bug.

Zacharee1

why u hev sho dis

Mateo

Rig up the proper loopback, make floppies and have it boot to the ISO on the drive... Too bad drives aren't in everything anymore, boot disks would be cheep instead of usb's

Zacharee1

ew floppies

Chan-Ho Suh

it's kinda getting annoying how a lot of devices assume you have a USB port to power them

Zacharee1

Oh yes

Those pesky USB devices

Mateo

12:39 AM

Well, you can dodge charger regulations if you don't ship chargers

Chan-Ho Suh

hmm, didn't think of that ... I thought hip people just had lotsa USB ports

Zacharee1

I have 4 whole USB ports

Nathan Osman

I do.

Zacharee1

and a 7port hub, but who's counting

Nathan Osman

I think I have 6 in the back, two+1 in the front.

(The extra front one is part of the media card reader.)

Zacharee1

12:40 AM

Although the computer I just built has 10 total

4 USB 3.0

Nathan Osman

None of mine are USB 3, but my router has a USB 3 port :P

Chan-Ho Suh

my work computer has a lot too, but all but two are disabled

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman I was thinking of why a router would need USB 3.0 for just comms, but then I remembered about media servers

It took me about 5 secs to type media and I failed anyway

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 Yup. Though I rarely use it. I have a NAS connected via gigabit ethernet which is as fast as any USB 3 device is going to be.

Zacharee1

yurp

Mateo

12:44 AM

Quick story - I found an apple charger at goodwill ($2)- used it for my Ubuntu phone, because it came with a Europe charger

Zacharee1

that's funny

Nathan Osman

It worked?

Mateo

That is the beauty of standards (and when apple actually uses them) just a regular USB power plug

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman the power supply

not the cable

Nathan Osman

Did you just use "Apple" and "standards" in the same sentence?

@Zacharee1 Ah.

Mateo

12:47 AM

Scary right

Zacharee1

lol

Apple -- Innovation = Copying Everything from Android and jailbreak

Is it bad that my 1080p screen feels too low-res?

Nathan Osman

What's the pixel density?

My Nexus 5 had a 5" 1080p display and I'm typing this on a 27" 1080p display :P

Mateo

The funny part is someone I know with a iphone asked me to borrow, but they couldn't use it ;p

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman 15.6 inch screen, so pretty high I guess

@Mateo lol

@NathanOsman My phone is 1440p

Nathan Osman

Same here.

Zacharee1

12:55 AM

27"? That's not a TV?

141 DPI on my monitor, to be exact

I think

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 No, I meant I also have a 1440p screen on my phone.

Zacharee1

Yeah I know. I was just referring (late) to your previous message @NathanOsman

I don't like school

Zacharee1

1:10 AM

Chan-Ho Suh

1:23 AM

what don't you like about school?

Zacharee1

The hw

Chan-Ho Suh

too easy, too lame, too hard ...?

Zacharee1

too much

2+ hours are expected

Chan-Ho Suh

can you do some of it in school?

Zacharee1

nope

Chan-Ho Suh

1:26 AM

is it interesting?

Zacharee1

Some is

It's just annoying

[usual complaints here]

Chan-Ho Suh

as long as the homework isn't stupid, it's not really an issue as far as i can see :)

some things you would never learn to do without homework

Zacharee1

yes, though 2+ hrs is a ton

Chan-Ho Suh

hmmm 2 isn't a lot... I guess the "+" could be

Zacharee1

I get lucky with about 2

others have over 4

Chan-Ho Suh

1:30 AM

it's not possible to really learn something well in less than an hour

I presume you have homeworks from different classes

Zacharee1

Well that's why we have 5 school days in a week

yes

Chan-Ho Suh

well, I'm talking about doing homework ... sitting in class for hours at a time, I don't think is a good idea

Zacharee1

And 0:45 or 1:15 classes

What seems to happen is we learn stuff in class and then the homework is either unrelated or learning more on our own

not much is additional practice

Chan-Ho Suh

to cover more material?

Zacharee1

We end up learning more stuff in the guise of homework

I would understand continuations of classwork

Chan-Ho Suh

1:48 AM

somehow I get the sense you go to a pretty serious school

Seth

2:00 AM

@NathanOsman Does that mean I'm not a programmer? :(

Nathan Osman

No, of course not :P

But when you speil as bad as I do, sometime picking a diffirent wrod is easier.

alexus

2:31 AM

ha!

I believe I found a bug in Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS..

after I removed last rule: "22/tcp (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)", ufw starts to netfilter)

What are alternatives to openvpn?

Nathan Osman

2:58 AM

Hang on, there was a tiny app we used a while back that was somewhat similar to OpenVPN but much simpler.

Aha... PeerVPN.

peervpn.net

Nathan Osman

3:37 AM

Woohoo! My Django plugin works.

At least, the bare minimum works.

user1856713

3:56 AM

hi

do anybody knows about maas ?

Seth

hi

Afraid I don't :/

user1856713

ok :)

Seth

@user1856713 if you don't get help here, consider asking your question in #maas on freenode :)

user1856713

I am working with maas-api

Yes i tried it in freenode

but because of new technology not getting much help

::(

Seth

:(

well good luck then!

user1856713

4:00 AM

thank you seth

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

4:27 AM

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Q: External HDD repository doesn't play nice w/ dependencies?

My previous laptop died, so I decided to start Ubuntu anew on another. I've put the HD of the first into an External HDD and followed these instructions. The idea is that I'd like to not have to download .deb packages that are already in the archives of my old installation. The corresponding entr...

ubuntu repository

A.B.

4:49 AM

Morning all :)

user1856713

5:07 AM

Good morning :)

A.B.

@user1856713 o/ :)

A.B.

5:29 AM

How are you @Ravan?

user1856713

6:24 AM

anyone have idea about maas-api

Rinzwind

6:59 AM

why is review on 4500? :X was it not on 500 a couple of days ago?

Nathan Osman

7:12 AM

2buntu.com is now running go-cannon! \o/

hg8

what happened here ?

Rinzwind

the "late answers" review shot up 4k-ish :P

page takes ages to load too

this one is marked for review: askubuntu.com/review/late-answers/472758?filter-tags=11.10 Last action on the topic is from 2012.

hg8

7:28 AM

it is the first time I see that much... usually ~20 late answer...

Rinzwind

yeah it shot up today :P

it was on 500 total y-day

hg8

it's a bug then

Rinzwind

think so.

the link does not work either Have to load it into a new tab to let it load

HA!

4

Q: What's up with the late answers queue?

It looks like we currently have 4400+ late answers awaiting review: Obviously that's not possible, so what's up with that review queue? Looks like a server-side issue, however using Google Chrome 45.0.2454.93.

bug review-queue

hg8

so we have to review them all ?

Rinzwind

well it stops at 40 :=D

I would assume anything posted 6 months ago and is marked should be considerd a valid post :X
or it would have been marked 6 months ago

blade19899

7:35 AM

I haven't visited the review page in ages

I got annoyed earlier, by all the crappy Q/A's. Sometimes I saw a massive wall of text, and editing out the redundant part out of it, was annoying and tedious work.

Rinzwind

yeah I already marked some a's from 2012 as NAA _O-

I saw a q from Jorge with 103 upvotes and NO answer :-D

blade19899

@Rinzwind Where? This is the one day I haven't had to go to some distant location to drop off hardware. So might give a try to answer it.

Rinzwind

:D

ah damn. found it. the review page did not list answers but there is a 154 one >:D

20 reviewed. bored >:D

cl-netbox

Good Morning to all of you ! :)

hg8

Good morning @cl-netbox

cl-netbox

7:47 AM

@hg8 good morning my friend :)

A.B.

@cl-netbox morning my friend

blade19899

@Rinzwind Maybe you can help me with this: Every time at boot up I get a grub interface, and when I type exit, it continues to boot in to Ubuntu. That means I installed boot on sda and sdax somehow, right? If so, how you I uninstall grub, from the 'wrong' sda?

cl-netbox

@A.B. good morning to you as well ! :)

blade19899

Morning peeps!

Rinzwind

wait. wrong.

@blade19899 do you get an error just before it enters grub?

blade19899

7:49 AM

@Rinzwind No error. Just grub, then typing exit, then, starting Ubuntu.

that is weird :-P

Hi @A.B. =)

@hg8 o/ =)

You think installing grub-customizer, might make me wiser about this?

Rinzwind

and I dont think you can install grub twice
@blade19899 try "boot-repair" :-)

GC is always nice to have installed but it has no troubleshooting parts. Boot-repair mght be better

blade19899

7:52 AM

@Rinzwind ? boot from Ubunu Installer, install grub on sda2? and second time, on sda?

@Rinzwind boot-repair, is an option in grub-customizer?

Rinzwind

nope

see help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

blade19899

@Rinzwind Thanks! Will try it when I get home!

Rinzwind

:)

2nd attempt >:D bbl need a break

Ravan

8:40 AM

@A.B. o/

A.B.

He @Ravan how are you?

Ravan

I have exams upto 4

4th

A.B.

@Ravan Good luck my friend

Ravan

@A.B. thank you...

@A.B. fine....not big surprised but astonished with 1k

cl-netbox

8:58 AM

@Ravan Good Morning ! :)

A.B.

9:14 AM

@Ravan Can you explain?

Ravan

9:32 AM

@A.B. I am waiting for mods reply...

@cl-netbox o/

@A.B. are you here?

A.B.

@Ravan yes

Ravan

@A.B. chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/24418147#24418147 here

cl-netbox

@Ravan Did you check your mails lately ?

A.B.

@Ravan ok, waiting

Ravan

@A.B. HO??

@cl-netbox yes....I am preparing ...I think I said to you that I have xams!

@cl-netbox just verified

A.B.

9:41 AM

@Ravan A "!" is bad :P

Ravan

@A.B. sorry...don;t understand

A.B.

@Ravan and use smilies :P :P =)

Ravan

@A.B. got you...;)

A.B.

@Ravan > @cl-netbox yes....I am preparing ...I think I said to you that I have xams!

Ravan

thank you

A.B.

9:42 AM

better is

> @cl-netbox yes....I am preparing ...I think I said to you that I have xams. :)

add a smile

Ravan

@A.B. are you ready?

A.B.

@Ravan for what? The apocalypse? :)

Ravan

no ...=)

then I delete

A.B.

ok, ready

got it

Ravan

delete your msg...=)

A.B.

9:46 AM

@Ravan I get a Page not found

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Ubuntu - Dual screen impossible by unity crash

I recently recieved my new hardware. I installed ubuntu 15 but got an error with my dual screen. I downgraded to the stable 14.04 ... But still the same. I have two monitors connected in HDMI and DVI on my GTX970 by Strix. The two of them are mirroring themselves. I tried to go in the "Displays...

ubuntu dual-monitor

Ravan

@A.B. ok,,...I think confidential..

cl-netbox

@Ravan ... remember the little magic word ... PLEASE ... :)

A.B.

:)

Ravan

@cl-netbox PLEASE I uesd bin my deleted message ;) teacher

cl-netbox

9:57 AM

@Ravan ... just to mention : I am not your "teacher" - but being kind and polite sometimes helps, you know what I mean ... :)

terdon

11:57 AM

@muru man, don't be so aggressive in your comments! Think again indeed!

What now?

@Zacharee1 What? =)

That stuff above

12:16 PM

@Ravan Remember that that mods can see deleted messages...

fossfreedom

yeah - and it raises worry beads when we see deleted stuff here - we tend to think that potentially bad things are happening and thus waste time looking!

blade19899

Great answer: askubuntu.com/a/104841/36315

Fabby

@fossfreedom :D

A.B.

@Fabby o/

Fabby

12:37 PM

I'm leaving for a job interview pretty soon...

Just doing some review queues to not to get too stressed!

And do some editing! ;-)

blade19899

@Fabby Good Luck! Don't forget to mention your work here on AU, it's pretty impressive! :D

Ravan

@Fabby o/

cl-netbox

@Fabby Hello, how are you ? Hope you're "up and running" fine :)

Fabby

@SmokeDetector Deleted!

@blade19899 It's for a PM's job. No Linux knowledge required AFAIK...

cl-netbox

@A.B. Thank you very much for improving ... and ... :)

blade19899

12:42 PM

@Fabby Switch them to Linux :-D

Fabby

I'm off!

Bye

terdon

12:59 PM

@fossfreedom There's a userscript for that:

// ==UserScript==
// @name Show deleted chat messages for Stack Exchange
// @grant none
// @match *://chat.stackexchange.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

setTimeout(function() {

    var userscript = function($) {

    $('span.deleted').closest('.message').each(function() {
        var id = this.id.replace('message-', ''), _this = this;
        $.get('http://chat.stackexchange.com/messages/' + id + '/history', function(data) {
           var msgtxt = data.match(/<div class="content">([\s\S]+?)<\/div>/)[1].trim();

Mod only, I'm afraid, but it will show deleted messages so you don't need to check the manually.

fossfreedom

1:30 PM

@terdon - cheers - will have a play a little later - looks very useful.

terdon

It's Undo's as I recall.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:16 PM

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Q: Mouse wheel scroller misbehaving in TexMaker on Ubuntu 15.04 running in VBox on win7

I am running TexMaker on Ubuntu 15.04 inside VBox on Win7. I have a sticky mouse wheel (when I scroll, it gets stuck at the bottom of the page and jumps back to the beginning). The scrolling works fine in other apps, say chrome or Firefox running on the virtual machine, it's just the TexMaker th...

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hg8

2:26 PM

@cl-netbox google yes, google+ no

@cl-netbox why are you removing ?

@cl-netbox got it ?

fossfreedom

please stop deleting stuff guys - if you wish to have a private chat create another room

cl-netbox

@fossfreedom thanks for your hint - did not know it's not allowed ... or wanted behavior ... :)

user139252

I made a small dent in the late review queue

fossfreedom

thanks Heather - every little bit helps

A.B.

:( fail

0

Q: ubuntu resolve unmet dependencies

I have tried to upgrade from ubuntu 14.10 to 15.04, it stopped upgrading and offered a partial upgrade which I didn't do. Right now I'm having an issue with deja-dup-monitor which is consuming about 7GB of ram. I'm trying to uninstall it. But whenever I install or uninstall using apt-get it shows...

apt package-management dpkg dependencies deja-dup

cl-netbox

2:42 PM

@hg8 check gmail please :)

user139252

@A.B. This is why you never stop an upgrade.

user139252

Just let it do it's thing.

hg8

@cl-netbox invit sent :)

Byte Commander

Hi folks!

hg8

@ByteCommander Hi =)

user139252

2:43 PM

Also, I don't know if you answered this before, but why is your username schadenfreude?

RPi Awesomeness

Whoa. That's a big DDOS

2

user139252

"...hunting mosquitos with a hydrogen bomb"

Byte Commander

O.o ouch...

A.B.

@HeatherBrown schadenfreude?

user139252

I remember Fabby mentioning it. I think it was you. Maybe @ByteCommander...

hg8

2:50 PM

@HeatherBrown I think it was @blade19899

user139252

Oh. Still, strange name to use... Sadist.

user139252

Whoever it may be.

A.B.

@HeatherBrown it was worth a try

user139252

Anyone use Koding?

hg8

@HeatherBrown my bad, not blade but @hbdgaf askubuntu.com/a/521126/338915

Journeyman Geek

2:54 PM

;p

@RPiAwesomeness: I had to rebuild my old server cause of xor.

user139252

@hg8 Ah, yes! Also, who has time to go searching for that? :P

user139252

Back to my question, anyone use Koding?

Rinzwind

@HeatherBrown not I :)

hg8

@HeatherBrown I always have time for important search.

user139252

They say you can set your own custom subdomains and run server applications on it...

user139252

2:59 PM

I'm looking into if it can be used to teach my students about setting up VPNs

user139252

But the Chrome app isn't working for me.

Byte Commander

@HeatherBrown Not me. But why did that not ping me?

Thomas W.

IPv6 is fun >.<

I have private v6 ranges now assigned to my network sections xD

user139252

@ByteCommander. I put in punctuation.

Byte Commander

Now it did.

user139252

3:00 PM

Oh...

user139252

Shouldn't have D=

user139252

Oh well

Byte Commander

`\_(^.^)_/´

blade19899

3:12 PM

@hg8 What did I say? :/

Bye y'all

A.B.

Cu @blade19899

hg8

@blade19899 sorry I mistaken ... Bye

Byte Commander

@HeatherBrown I think the "Schadenfreude" user was @hbdgaf...

Sep 14 at 21:48, by terdon

By the way, is anyone surprised that @hbdgaf's username is schadenfreude?

hg8

@ByteCommander Indeed =) chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/24424502#24424502

user139252

3:39 PM

@ByteCommander That was already established :p

Byte Commander

Oh, oops! Did miss that one... >.<

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Run program x minutes after finishing

My question is kinda related to a cron job I think, but I'm not entirely sure. Say I have a script (/home/me/myscript.sh) that does something, that can take an indeterminate amount of time to finish, say a range of between 10 minutes to an hour. What I want, is for the script to run, and when it...

bash ubuntu scheduling

Mateo

3:55 PM

ooo, I have a new scope idea!

stay tuned ;) hopefully I'll have something working later

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