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Serg

4:00 AM

By the way, @ByteCommander we're now 10k apart. You at 28k, i'm at 38k. high-fives byte virtually

Goals for 2017, double my rep

Seth

other goals for 2017: double other peoples rep by voting more

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Serg

Agreed ^

Kaz Wolfe

@Seth you can start with 208574! :D

Serg

Although we probably should vote within reason. I don't want shog bring me down to 21k again

edwinksl

@KazWolfe you only have 644 votes?

Kaz Wolfe

4:14 AM

yeah i do.

i need to vote more.

Serg

Moar inducators, moar scriptz,moar stuffs

Kaz Wolfe

@Serg WolfScript?

Serg

@KazWolfe weren't you going to make that ? Python and Java crossbreed ?

Kaz Wolfe

@Serg i can always use help

y'know, having never designed a language before.

Serg

Neither have I designed any language.

Kaz Wolfe

4:19 AM

701

Q: Learning to write a compiler

Preferred languages: C/C++, Java, and Ruby. I am looking for some helpful books/tutorials on how to write your own compiler simply for educational purposes. I am most familiar with C/C++, Java, and Ruby, so I prefer resources that involve one of those three, but any good resource is acceptable.

well... crap.

Serg

Let's just say , I am still a giant n00b. I passed C with A on 3rd try say 1.5 years ago. Learned bash/ksh and python. In fact, how long it's been since i've started learning python ? Like less than a year ?

sure i coded way back in middle school in Turbo Pascal , but . . . I remember diddle jack from that time, and never made anything practical with it

Also took Visual Basic like 3-4 years ago. It was pain, I remember. Nobody could complete the final project except for couple folks

Kaz Wolfe

god, visual basic.

don't mention that sin in this chat ever again.

Serg

Yeah, for whatever reason it's a requirement for our Electrical Engineering program

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WinEunuuchs2Unix

4:35 AM

@KazWolfe I've got thousands of lines of Visual Basic code.

Videonauth

dupe:askubuntu.com/questions/864598/…

WinEunuuchs2Unix

not to mention Visual Basic for Applications

Kaz Wolfe

Visual Basic should be killed with a stake to the heart.

And then the face.

And the neck. And the gut.

Until all of Visual Basic is an unidentifiable corpse full of stake holes.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Perhaps... but in the mean time VBA has billions if not trillions of dollars of human investment.

OK not a trillion but you get my drift

Videonauth

Visual basic had one advantage to be honest it was easy to get a GUI programm running with very little efford

WinEunuuchs2Unix

4:38 AM

GUI sucks, which is the appeal of BASH

Nathan Osman

@Videonauth Yeah, but the quality of the applications was terrible.

Trust me - I did lots of VBA programming.

Kaz Wolfe

Nathan Osman

...in Excel.

@KazWolfe Lol.

Videonauth

i didnt say i liked it just pointed out that this WYSIWYg approach was one advantage

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@NathanOsman I did a bar-coded order tracking system in Excel using VBA... it was brilliant if I don't mind saying so (which I don't)

Nathan Osman

4:41 AM

Fair enough - it did have to be done whether I liked it or not :D

Kaz Wolfe

i wrote a barcode inventory tracking system in excel with just COUNTIFS

Nathan Osman

@WinEunuuchs2Unix Everytime I finished a VBA script, I handled it with kid gloves. I didn't want to touch anything for fear of destroying a working script.

@KazWolfe Lo.....l?

Kaz Wolfe

@NathanOsman you should see the database at my old place of employment.

all in Access and VBA.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@NathanOsman macros...

Nathan Osman

Oh /facepalm...

Kaz Wolfe

4:43 AM

I have them a replacement system with MySQL and a custom-made frontend...

Nathan Osman

@KazWolfe That's a huge step forward.

Kaz Wolfe

First the Executive Director wanted access to Engineering Mode because i stupidly left the button in the ALPHA BUILD.

Well, I had to give it to her. She wiped the entire test DB clean.

When I finally told her that engineering mode = break things, she relented.

Then, a board member complained because she didn't know SQL. And she wanted Access back.

So I was forced to tear down everything and redo the Access database hell.

Literally all the other employees complained though, because everyone who actually used the database were involved with the creation of the database.

Their response: "I don't want to learn a new platform, and the old one worked just fine"

Nathan Osman

Gah.

Kaz Wolfe

"worked just fine" = 45 seconds to find a single member.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

When I went to mainframe school they said response time should be < .75 seconds.

Videonauth

4:46 AM

45 seconds O_o

Kaz Wolfe

together, the board member and the ED (while the system still existed) wiped about 80 tables (including three of the production tables!) from engineering mode.

And of course, it was "my fault" because I left a "dangerous button" that "deleted data without regard" in a menu that only I was supposed to have access to!

And that they forced me to give them!

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Welcome to the world of politics.

Seth

UPDATE: As of this morning we have lost DNS and Gerrit is now offline - with little doubt as a reaction to our blog post yesterday. Goodbye

Tweeted by CyanogenMod on December 25, 2016 at 6:17 PM

:(

Kaz Wolfe

I was so proud of that DB engine.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Who is Gerrit? and hy should we care?

Kaz Wolfe

4:49 AM

It was made specifically for them, with the employees that used it making every single important design choice!

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I've been overly proud of my software creations too.

Kaz Wolfe

@WinEunuuchs2Unix gerritcodereview.com

oh, then of course the ED wanted to "make my own queries"

i pointed out the SQL console I made for them...

"I don't want to write code and use a command line!"

"Well, [ED], that's the only way you can make custom queries. Or you can ask me to include a query in the selection menu."

"Oh... well, can you just create like an interface so I can make my own query?"

Nathan Osman

Sounds like a fun job.

I feel your pain.

Kaz Wolfe

"No. I can't give you all the capability that raw SQL provides, which is capability I'm sure you'll ask for. SQL is literally one of the easiest languages. Here's a page that will teach you basic SQL in 30 minutes"

Nathan Osman

My office PC is running Office 97 on Windows XP.

@KazWolfe You could create a separate MySQL user that can do nothing but query.

Kaz Wolfe

4:53 AM

"I don't have time to read that" She proceeds to waste 4 hours on Facebook

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@NathanOsman That's what it was. She didn't want to write code.

Nathan Osman

Lame.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

You should write a paper "Computers were invented for her to waste 4 hours a day"

Kaz Wolfe

She'd maybe "make" six queries. It would be so easy to add them to a dropdown menu.

And allow her to change parameters. But no, she wanted full customization without a SQL console.

Nathan Osman

Use a RegEx then to match the query against one of them to give the illusion of "custom SQL" then :D

Seth

another alien movie?

Kaz Wolfe

4:54 AM

@NathanOsman nononono. she wanted an Access-like GUI to make queries.

Nathan Osman

Wat.

Kaz Wolfe

yep.

Nathan Osman

Access is... well... ouch.

Kaz Wolfe

Access is nice, but it has one major bug.

It allows users to store data in it.

Nathan Osman

I wonder if it's improved any since Access 97.

Since that's the last version I've used.

Kaz Wolfe

4:55 AM

Access with a MySQL backend is pretty cool.

Nathan Osman

Oh? It can do that now?

Kaz Wolfe

yep.

Nathan Osman

Oh, let me guess. ODBC.

Videonauth

there is nothing better than SAP but guess most companies wont get it because its frickn expensive

Kaz Wolfe

yep.

Nathan Osman

4:57 AM

We also have an expensive ERP application but that's another story.

Kaz Wolfe

But I can't even fathom her choices. Had I listened to her "design ideas," the system would be impossible for employees to use.

yaknow, the people who actually use the system day-to-day, the people who I spent countless hours in design meetings with? Asking their feedback every single step?

Nathan Osman

I'm tossing around the idea of expanding Numbles to do more ERP tasks like invoicing, resources, etc.

I'm getting tired of using LibreOffice to create invoices.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@NathanOsman ODBC will make you a lot of money on AS/400.

Nathan Osman

There is also Odoo.

Kaz Wolfe

And I told the employees "I know the big red Engineering Mode button looks fun, but DON'T PRESS IT." They were all "k." Nobody pressed it.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

4:59 AM

@Videonauth You shouldn't diss SAP as being expensive but rather get a job in that niche market.

Nathan Osman

COBOL here we come.

Kaz Wolfe

Except for the ED and board member. Who promptly asked me for access, and then broke literally everything by clicking random things because "there was no help" or "there was no confirmation or warning"

Nathan Osman

@KazWolfe tsk tsk tsk - should have fuzz tested :P

Kaz Wolfe

I gave up and hid the button after they switched the database over to "production" and then nuked every single entry because they hit the "CLEAR DATA" button.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Common Orientated Business Object Language (Grace Hopper US military 1940 something) = COBOL @NathanOsman

Videonauth

5:01 AM

@WinEunuuchs2Unix i never had a SAP training or something because you pay horrendous sums on training courses , so almost no knowledge in it i just jknow that it is the swiss army knive for database frontends

Nathan Osman

Snack time. TTYL.

Merry Christmas, y'all.

(Or happy boxing day if the day is over.)

@WinEunuuchs2Unix by the way, it's minus 19 degrees tonight.

Whew!

I imagine you are experiencing similar temperatures.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Videonauth You shouldn't have to pay for computer programming lessons at your age... Think Apprentice like Welding or Plumbing where they pay you $20 / hour to learn whilst you do grundge work and then after becoming skilled they pay you $100 / hour to be a journeyman.

Videonauth

wow where do you get those wages, here if i would worlk in my job i have a journeyman in i currently would get about 10-11 euros an hour

if i could still do it

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@NathanOsman -19 is rather unusual for Fraser Valley where you live... Just yesterday Russia Today out of Moscow and Al-Jazeera out of Doha, Qatar were reporting how North Pole was 25 degrees hotter than normal proving that climate change (ie global warming) exists.

Videonauth

i have spend half my life as a industrial mechanic working a cnc milling machine

WinEunuuchs2Unix

5:06 AM

@Videonauth CNC pays like 40 bucks an hour here in Edmonton.

Videonauth

well would have to compare that with the living costs etc but thats a pretty good wage

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Unfotunately the Truedeau government is busy importing Syrian's for welfare that can't type english rather than CNC knowledgeable people as that will support Obama's misguided rebels who have killed 500K in Syria.

Videonauth

that would make brutto 6400 $ /month with average 160 hours per month

Nathan Osman

@WinEunuuchs2Unix I'm not in the Fraser valley.

I'm in Calgary.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@NathanOsman Oh right you were flying out of Vancouver and fogged in last time we talked and I wondered where you were flying to. I wanted to suggest Caribbean but now I know :)

Nathan Osman

5:11 AM

Nope. No tropical weather here :P

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Anyways I'm going Boxing Day shopping to West Edmonton Mall tomorrow so I don't care what temp is as long as girls are HOT :)

Kaz Wolfe

name still does not check out.

also lucky you, getting to go to places where attractive girls frequent.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

It's the largest mall in the world Kaz after "Mall of America".

Kaz Wolfe

my points still stand.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Indeed.

Kaz Wolfe

5:14 AM

attractive girls don't wander into my office.

Nathan Osman

I won't be outside likely. I'll do my shopping online :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Take down the sign on your office that says "Stalkers R Us" and put up a new sign saying "Hot Girls Welcome"

Kaz Wolfe

we don't have one of those signs

WinEunuuchs2Unix

pfft it was a joke

Videonauth

I'm a PowerTool Lyrics

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WinEunuuchs2Unix

5:24 AM

For the love of Media.... Russia Today is still talking about "he-who-shall-not-be-named" winning the election and only California and NY giving Clinton the popular vote and she shouldn't win.... Why can't US TV just figure it out and publish answer so Russia Today can re-report it?

I don't mind getting my news about American confusion from Russia Today (rt.com) but I don't want to hear the same story for 18 days.... Eventually Americans have to figure out the election!

As far as Netenyahoo saying yesterday it doesn't matter to him if Clinton or "he-who-shall-not-be-named" was elected because either one is better than Obama he (Netenyahoo) is going to get a rude awakening.

Serg

Yaaaay, tail implementation in python is successful. Takes about 30 microseconds to get last x lines from a 2GB file

OK, enough of that for today

i probably need to lay down and chill

Journeyman Geek

5:46 AM

@KazWolfe who does it have to be ~~so tempting~~ BRIGHT RED. AND SO ALLURINGLY PRESSABLE?

Kaz Wolfe

6:04 AM

@JourneymanGeek it wasn't. It was under HELP and had a password screen.

Journeyman Geek

@KazWolfe hm. Then it was not a proper Big Red Doom Button

Kaz Wolfe

6:18 AM

@JourneymanGeek of course not.

it was meant not to be clicked by anyone but me.

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6:56 AM

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SmokeDetector

7:21 AM

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Zanna

8:14 AM

hmmm @muru do you want to answer this, close it, or ask OP to self-answer askubuntu.com/questions/864584/… ?

muru

8:28 AM

@Zanna self answer, I suppose. Can't figure out a good close reason

Zanna

Yeah I wouldn't count that as "went away by itself". Thanks :)

I commented

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8:54 AM

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Zanna

this isn't what we thought before their edit I think... askubuntu.com/questions/864376/…

my comment is missing the point, seems like they don't have any man pages for anything in whatever system they are using...

I don't know how to edit it as I don't really understand

edwinksl

rip man

i wonder what happened

Zanna

9:09 AM

hahaha is it unclear?

edwinksl

i think we need more details but i don't know where to look :/

Zanna

same :S

the_velour_fog

what is ubuntu touch? Is that the mobile version of Ubuntu?

Zanna

yes

but what is webapp-container?

the_velour_fog

I dont know what webapp-container is. the OP didnt explain, but are they hoping to get documentation from within the ubuntu touch OS on a mobile device? or are they developing software on a desktop that they intend to run on an ubuntu touch instance eventually?

Zanna

9:35 AM

good questions @the_velour_fog maybe you should leave a comment...

the_velour_fog

@Zanna good point, have left a comment.

Zanna

thanks :)

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10:21 AM

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Videonauth

10:54 AM

Sudo - the art of using the power of a Unix system against itself. :D @nixcraft

Tweeted by tibfulv on December 26, 2016 at 2:32 AM in reply to nixcraft

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user136984

11:49 AM

In the instructions for constructing my new Japanese glass teapot, among other crazy things, it reads: "Do nor use in dangerous situations,please always put on the flat"! :D

user136984

Well, I won't try to grab it then when I am falling off the cliff! ;P

Zacharee1

12:31 PM

Almost everything at HardwareRecs is On Hold

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Zacharee1

People don't know what a hardware recommendation is

ArtOfCode is just closing everything :p

it seems like he's one of two active users

Journeyman Geek

and he's a mod

lol

>_>

Last I checked I was the #1 user by rep there

Zacharee1

probably

Journeyman Geek

been a bit focused on SU lately ;p

Videonauth

12:46 PM

@JacobVlijm youre very welcome

Videonauth

12:56 PM

@JourneymanGeek do you want to migrate this over ? askubuntu.com/questions/864681/…

Journeyman Geek

Ehhhhh. Probably would be closed as duoe

Videonauth

well here it probably will be closed as OT and no answer :))

Journeyman Geek

Also.... XP? Good riddance. :P

Zanna

haha yep

Videonauth

hehehe, well last week i installes Win 2000 on an really old laptop :)

Zanna

1:01 PM

masochism?

user136984

Does anyone know of a video editing program which will allow me to take one clip and play it in reverse and then connect it up to the first one so that I can make an animated gif which goes backwards and forwards through its events without jumping?

Journeyman Geek

A migration would likely be rejected and he'll crosspost anyway.

Videonauth

@Zanna na just wanted to see if it still works and it refused to boot into XP

its a laptop from around 1990-1995

No usb etc.

cl-netbox

Good afternoon ! :)

Zanna

@Videonauth wow so old! My dad uses Win 2000 because he can't afford to buy the new version of some proprietary app he needs for work... his system is limping severely now. But he is gradually transitioning to Mint

Videonauth

1:06 PM

yeah found it in my basement in a pile of hardware junk i got gifted somewhen but hadnt the time to dig though

cl-netbox

@ParanoidPanda What are you trying this time ? HaHaHa ... you are doing thingies ... :D Good afternoon my friend ! :) Back to good health ? :)

@Videonauth Good afternoon "Santa Claus" ! :D

Videonauth

hehehe :)

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda If you have a phone, you can get Boomerang

user136984

@Zacharee1: Yeah, no, my phone wouldn't cope with at. :P

user136984

It's an old one.

user136984

1:20 PM

Is there nothing for Ubuntu?

Zacharee1

Boomerang isn't a video editor

user136984

Or even a way of taking the frames and just reversing their order?

Zacharee1

it just makes a GIF like you describe

user136984

Oh, and can you get it on a desktop machine as well or is it just for the phone?

Zacharee1

just Android and iOS

user136984

1:22 PM

:(

user136984

Well, that doesn't really help me then.

user136984

@cl-netbox: Did you add the eyes to that mask or did I not notice them before? :D

cl-netbox

@ParanoidPanda No I just placed that "hat" over cl ! :D

user136984

@cl-netbox: When I wore it I put it upside down so that it looked like it had a mouth! :D

cl-netbox

@ParanoidPanda hahaha ... gonna check this out now ! :D

@ParanoidPanda Done ! Now I lost one eye ... hmmm ... :(

user136984

1:30 PM

@cl-netbox: Oh my god! It's a one-eyed monster! Run away!!! :D

cl-netbox

@ParanoidPanda bye bye dear panda ... run run run ! :D

@ParanoidPanda You can come back - I reverted it to previous state ! :D

Videonauth

askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/657936 <-- shakes head over

Zacharee1

2:13 PM

@Videonauth it's always weird to me when people who obviously don't speak English well try to correct grammar :p

Videonauth

:) so im not alone with my verdict of rejecting this

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman does the OP3 also have QC3.0 along with Dash?

Journeyman Geek

Nope

or USB PD

tho its compatible with OPPO's quick charge tech VOOC I think

Zacharee1

2:32 PM

well duh

but that's a little annoying

I know Dash Charge is nice and all, but it should at least have QC too

Journeyman Geek

ah, no QC support

and yeah, you're tied to their very nice chargers

Videonauth

2:45 PM

question: I'm just copying a whole lot of data to an external drive, I want to check the integrity of my copy before i go on and delete/format the origin, is there a command that can do that?

hm. after copying?

yep

md5sum ?

well could take a long time, im talking about 1 TB of data in files of varying size

Journeyman Geek

could just do a quick check of file/directory sizes?

Videonauth

2:50 PM

well i still got alot to copy anyways so i will ponder over this

It’s sad to think we’re probably gonna hear the term “Egg tray DDoS” in our lifetime. https://twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/813381602340470785

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on December 26, 2016 at 1:51 PM

Zacharee1

lol

@JourneymanGeek that could work well. Even small errors will show up as a pretty big difference if they happen a few times

@Seth pls wn.nr/Xp2f7G

Journeyman Geek

3:08 PM

@Videonauth do it it right to start with with something like rsync?

Videonauth

actually im doing cp -rvu /media/disk1/* /media/disk2/backup/

but the backup disk is an old drive i normaly have sitting in a shelf and it fails from time to time

I found out if a file is not the same as on the origin it will copy it again

so i guess when im running this command at the end again and it shows no file copying it is all right

according to smartmon-tools the disk itself is OK, i guess its the usb sata controler who keeps dying

Android Dev

@Zacharee1 - Can you please explain how this is POB? askubuntu.com/q/864565/518562 ?

Zacharee1

"is it safe?"

Android Dev

@Zacharee1 Okay, fair enough. If I give it a better title can we re-open it?

Zacharee1

@AndroidDev yeah

Android Dev

3:23 PM

@Zacharee1 What do you think would be a fitting title? Maybe, "Have the Linux kernel bugs that caused data loss when using a Samsung 850 Pro SSD been resolved?"

Ummmmmm....

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Q: OS reset itself

i have xubuntu installed on my computer for the last year and I was trying to connect my mouse and key board with another computer using Synergy and after a couple days my computer starting acting funny like a lot the my apps and browser would start to freeze. and yesterday my computer just reset...

software-installation

What's up with that? --^

Ubuntu doesn't even have a factory restore option.

@chili555 Here's another for you: askubuntu.com/questions/864712/…

Byte Commander

3:41 PM

Ooooh, Hot Network Question... askubuntu.com/q/864576/367990

Zacharee1

4:00 PM

@AndroidDev something like that

Mark Yisri

Is it proper to use a "moderator intervention" flag if you wish to reopen?

Videonauth

4:16 PM

@MarkYisri Link to the question you want to reopen flagged, let them better go through the review que

but i will give an reopen flag if i can see thats its proper for reopen

Mark Yisri

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Q: Have the Linux kernel bugs that caused data loss when using a Samsung 850 Pro SSD been resolved?

I just got a brand new Samsung 850 Pro SSD, and I would like to install Ubuntu 14.04 onto it. I have read some pretty ugly stories of data loss with the 850 series SSDs when using Linux due to bugs in the kernel, as well as bugs in the TRIM operation. I have done my research, but most of what I...

kernel ssd samsung data-loss

Videonauth

ok has now 3 reopen votes on it

Mark Yisri

@Videonauth thanks

I'm not going anywhere with this guy:

-1

Q: VLC media player.

I don't understand I install VLC on a windows PC and it will play any DVDs high quality low quality and burnt. But wen I install it on a Ubuntu OS PC it will only play low quality and burnt DVDs

media

He just keeps repeating the same thing over and over and over

user136984

5:02 PM

@cl-netbox: So it is safe to come back in now then? :P

Serg

374/400 score for silver scripts badge

Less than 30 to go

muru

5:25 PM

I wonder who declined my flag on askubuntu.com/questions/2724/…. There is no systemback package, and installation and usage instructions are not given. How is that, in any sense, not a low quality answer?

Serg

@muru voted to delete , left a comment

muru

@Serg and Seth put in the last delete vote. Thanks!

Serg

anytime

Seth

@muru using a custom flag in the future would prevent this :)

VLQ is for "unsalvageable garbage", and while I think we can all agree that answer probably qualifies it is a) not obvious and b) subjective (many people say VLQ is for gibberish, not wrong answers).

Which is why I've been arguing for its removal for years now...

muru

@Seth true, but I meant it to be handled by normal reviewers, where they could have left the usual canned comments requesting improvements

Seth

5:35 PM

btw, can anyone make out what this guy is saying?

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Q: /etc/network/interfaces is not working correctly when boot

I try to use /etc/network/interfaces and I try to reboot. When I'm checking network status through ifconfig command, I can use ssh by IP address(not domain); Therefore I guess network is only working on IP address such as when I'm missed about setting the DNS address. I can use the internet thr...

networking 16.04 services interface network-bridge

@muru ah. Well the problem is it passes pretty much all quality sanity checks :-/

A comment might have been a good idea in that case.

muru

Next time, then

heather

so, with nano, let's say I made and saved a change, and now want to delete all changes made without manually deleting every line. how can I do that?

Serg

@heather alt+u , it's the undo shortcut

See the list of shortcuts that comes up with Ctrl+G

heather

so i can go back into the file, press alt+u, and it'll be fixed? okay, let me try that.

arda

@edwinksl +70

Serg

5:43 PM

@heather if you exited the file, it won't work

heather

oh, darn

yeah, i exited the file

is there any other way to do it?

Serg

Undo operations in any program work for as long as the file is open by the program

Um . . .yeah, i don't think there's other way . . . sorry

heather

no, you're good

i should've thought more about what I was doing before exiting

thanks though

Serg

@Seth I think that guy edited his /etc/network/interfaces file to get static IP address, and he can access hosts by IP address, but domains - only after restarting the networking service. It looks to me like he didn't edit things properly and needs to configure DNS servers, either via /etc/resolv.conf or some other way

Odd thing is that OP also uses br0 interface. I've never seen anything before

Videonauth

isnt uufix banned here as link ?

askubuntu.com/review/low-quality-posts/657945 ....

Serg

5:53 PM

@Videonauth OP provided link to image, but regardless of that, OP gave solution for Windows ( C:\ path) so it's not an answer

Videonauth

well i figured it yout to be an audit :p

Serg

Yay, audit passed

Videonauth

nice one tho i nearly would have fallen for it

Seth

6:18 PM

@Serg but what domains?

Serg

6:29 PM

@Seth I don't know, whatever OP was testing. Maybe he tried to go to google.com, but can only ping 8.8.8.8 - that's what I'm saying. Again, that's only my understanding of what's going on - I don't have clarity there either

Videonauth

4

Byte Commander

True, so true...

In the radio news, they said they want to extend video surveillance in German cities and that 60% of the citizens are in favour of that, according to a survey.

Videonauth

yeah favor that my ass ... -.-

Serg

God, people are stupid

Videonauth

after they forced smokedetectors everywhere upon us next will be CCTV in every room and any open space anyways

reminds me hard way on george orwells 1984

Seth

6:37 PM

George Orwell built a time machine. That is the only explanation.

Serg

Nah, George Orwell was just a smart enough person to know where the history is going

Seth

it was a joke...

Byte Commander

I have nothing against smoke detectors though.

Useful little box.

Serg

What's the difference between parents and children ? Both get what they want by yelling, the difference is that some can grow out of it

Videonauth

mine went off at least once a wekk due to me smoking

Byte Commander

6:42 PM

Well, stop smoking.

Healthiest solution to the problem.

Videonauth

6:53 PM

mhmm weird

i cant start a bounty

Byte Commander

question too new?

it has to be 2 days old IIRC

Videonauth

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Q: Desktop Facebook application for Ubuntu

There is an excellent desktop Twitter application for Ubuntu. It is called Corebird. Is there any such application for Facebook?

desktop-environments facebook

16th Aug

The window for bountys opens up, but the button itself has no link target somehow

nothing happens when i click on next

Byte Commander

Should work... Hard Ctrl+F5 maybe?

Anyway, brb after supper.

Videonauth

not even this works

elsni

Hi, I have a stringe problem on kubuntu with second screen. The loading bar stays on the second screen after log in. I can drag a window to the screen but the background does not get updated so I can "paint" the whole background with the window when dragging. Compositor is disabled. Where can I start to solve this problem?

Kaz Wolfe

7:10 PM

@elsni Have you asked a question yet?

elsni

no, I guess I should, right?

Thomas Ward

derps around, messing with Smokey for a short while OYI SMOKEDETECTOR YOU'RE FAILING

Kaz Wolfe

please.

it just makes it easier and allows some more stuff to be done, and helps others with the same problem in the future

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Videonauth I see you are 131 points away from 10K. I don't have any votes left but at 5pm I'm gonna hunt some of your qood Q&A down and up vote them :)

elsni

Hmm, not easy when you don't know exactly what to ask

Ask Ubuntu Meta

7:14 PM

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Q: Is putting up bounties broken?

I just tried to put up a bounty on the following question: Desktop Facebook application for Ubuntu The Dialog for selecting how hight the bounty shall be comes up but the Next Button doesnt seem to have a link target and it happens nothing. I tried hard reloading the page (ctrl+f5) as well as...