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dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

00:00

@NathanOsman better! Old tape back-up bags!!!

Nathan Osman

Lol.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

they're plastic with invisible silver mesh!

(and easily cut up)

I still have a few lying around somewhere...

Rinzwind

@NathanOsman eh adress is not noted on our driver licenses :P

Nathan Osman

I still don't see why they can't make an RFID chip that only activates when a button is pressed or something.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@NathanOsman I still have a driver's license valid for life

Seth

00:01

@NathanOsman I think they can..

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

(or until the picture and me start to diverge too much)

Nathan Osman

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW I have a class 7 so I have to renew every two years and retake a test.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@Seth You can do that yourself to any RFID chip! (cc @NathanOsman)

Seth

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW not easily..

They'd stop accepting my passport if I opened it up and cut the wires.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@Seth a magnifying glass, a silver wire, some silver solder and you're good to go!

@Seth true! :D

Seth

00:03

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW I'd have to literally cut the page of the passport in half width wise.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

OTOH... would they notice you slicing the cardboard of the cover and re-gluing it???

Seth

probably..

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@Seth I'm not so sure...

Seth

besides, they wouldn't know to press the button so I would likely be arrested for faking my PP, or they'd arrest me for tampering with gov. property

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

They would notice the big red button "press here" though!

:D

@Seth indeed!

Rinzwind

00:04

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW that is easily solved!

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@Mateo o/

Rinzwind

make it a blue button

Mateo

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW install, links to a search in the app store

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

lots of translating work done today!

Mateo

hi, @dn-ʞɔɐqɹW

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

00:05

@Mateo Damn!

Reviewing again!

Mateo

looks awesome!

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

(guessed wrong)

Serg

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW what part should i've spoken about myself ?

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@Serg I have no clue (any more)

must've been a lame joke...

@Mateo Want me to do British English too?

Serg

Also . . . .why aren't you asleep ?

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

00:10

I woke up again...

Which reminds me: I should get some sleep!

Smoke, sleep and dreams coming up!

Good night everyone!

Nathan Osman

Thanks, Microsoft.

None of the links work: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc767936.aspx

Mateo

00:27

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW If you want ;) I bet there isn't much change

@NathanOsman download.cnet.com/…

Nathan Osman

00:48

Thanks. Now when I run it, it doesn't think I have Office installed.

All the registry keys are missing :(

Serg

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW we aren't that different: wakeup, smoke, go to class/work, smoke, eat , smoke some more, maybe fall asleep at work or in class, go home , crash, wake up, freak you because it's 12pm but really 12 am, sleep again

Mateo

01:01

@Seth there is a book holder that blocks it till you open or take it out

Serg

Pho is the most addictive food aside from Cheetos

Seth

@Mateo in the passport yeah. Not the drivers license though.

The passport also requires a key to read.

@NathanOsman are you still going to ask that question on Information Security?

Mateo

I mean buy a RFID blocking wallet

Seth

ah. The passport has a shield built in.

but yeah, for the license you'd want a special wallet. I still don't really like the idea of a chip though.

Oh, speaking of chips, those "chip+pin" cards are starting to become a thing in the US. I saw a lady trying to use one today at the supermarket.. except she was putting the card in upside down, chip on the wrong end of the card -.-

Mateo

oh, is that new that they did the blocking in the passport??

most the places have the readers installed, but taped over... and the others I used were chip only, no pin required...

Seth

01:27

@Mateo I don't believe so.

Mateo

huh, back when I got mine I bought a special extra case for it, don't believe it blocked anything on its own

thebluesquirel

02:35

hi

Anyone here?

user139252

03:57

Nope :p

James

Nah

not really

@NathanOsman AHHHHG

AHHHG

AHHHHHHGGG

ANGULAR

I can't find a gif that sufficiently expresses my disapproval.

user139252

? @James

James

I do not like AngularJS

Seth

we gathered that much :P

user139252

Also, can't get any Google Play Music CLI clients working...

James

04:09

that is unfortunate.

user139252

Couldn't even try thunner, as it wanted to install X on my headless system

user139252

You shouldn't need X for something that runs in CLI

James

ouch

yeah

do it in a docker container!

then you don't care that it installs X

Seth

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Q: Trojans found in System32 when scanning my Windows 7 partition, what should I do?

First off, sorry if I shouldn't post questions about Windows in askubuntu, if this is the case then could someone point me to where I should post this question? Today I was scanning my Windows 7 partition with ClamAV and I found a couple viruses, and most of them are located in my Windows direct...

hmmm

Fixing Windows from Ubuntu is on-topic, but this question leaves everything wide open..

jokerdino

04:25

what about that one question where Windows didnt have sound after dualbooting Ubuntu?

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Q: No audio in windows 10 after setting up dual boot with 15.10

I just set up dual boot with 15.10 on my Dell XPS 13 2015 (9343). I get full audio in ubuntu with no problems, but now I get an error in windows, "No Audio Output Device is installed", and all of the suggested fixes I've found online have failed me so far, any ideas? Thanks, James

dual-boot sound

Seth

05:19

Linux Mint site hacked, served backdoored ISOs!

6

may I point out the breach was caused by Wordpress? :P

hbdgaf

@Seth plug-in. a wordpress plug-in. right?

Seth

@hbdgaf they weren't that specific :/

hbdgaf

If they weren't running really old wordpress, it was a naughty plug-in ;) I was really asking if they were running ancient wordpress.

@Seth Did you see the developing news about the iOS unlock debacle? They can't do an iCloud triggered backup and try to brute/use parts of that, because the County, upon request from the FBI, reset/changed the iCloud password.

Seth

I have seen it.. IMO the FBI doesn't really care what's on the device and/or need Apple's help, they just want more power.

hbdgaf

05:35

Same old cryptowars. The most amusing comment I heard was that with an iCloud backup/recovery option - they wouldn't be having this argument. So, someone was either REALLY stupid or painted themselves into a corner on purpose to force the issue.

^^ and the chuckle for the day...

thebluesquirel

08:08

Hi

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

08:22

@Serg :D

Nathan Osman

@James So what exactly is it that you don't like about Angular?

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

09:12

@Mateo You should review the British translation and maybe adapt the original and push the re-translation of some terms. (It's a very liberal translation)

@Seth: thanks for the feed-back. Comment can be deleted now.

Rinzwind

@Seth soooooooo now we can use that link when someone claims mint is ubuntu? >:-)

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@Rinzwind Good idea! I'm changing my canned Mint answer!

We're sorry, but this site is all about Ubuntu and its official derivatives as posted on wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFlavors so Mint is off-topic here as well, especially after it got hacked. However, on Unix & Linux, a sister site to Ask Ubuntu, they're very good at all varieties of Linux and Unix, so you might be better off there. ;-)

reversiblean

09:43

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Q: How to install libsystemd-journal-dev on Wily (JHBuild issue)

I'm trying to build gnome apps using JHBuild. But this is what I get $ jhbuild build gnome-music Required packages: System installed packages which are too old: (none) No matching system package installed: libsystemd-journal (libsystemd-journal.pc, required=201) libtiff jhbuild ...

gnome dependencies systemd jhbuild

cl-netbox

10:17

Good morning ! :)

reversiblean

10:44

@cl-netbox help me find the package that includes the file 'libsystemd-journal.pc' : )) please

for 15.10

Severus Tux

Hi all ;D

please help me with this :

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Q: How to attach bootchart.SVG file?

I have posted a question on Slow Boot which requires bootchart.svg file to be attached for better understanding of the problem. When I try to attach it, I get this: Currently I have uploaded it to my Google Drive and attached the link in my post Is there any other better way I can attach th...

support

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Q: Sort by newest sorts by last edited

It took me a bit to figure out that the date / time shown is the date / time of the last edit and not of the date / time of when the question was posted. Not sure if this is intended or not, but: If the questions are intended to be sorted by the newest, as the "newest" labeling suggests, the...

bug

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Q: How to attach bootchart.SVG file?

I have posted a question on Slow Boot which requires bootchart.svg file to be attached for better understanding of the problem. When I try to attach it, I get this: Currently I have uploaded it to my Google Drive and attached the link in my post Is there any other better way I can attach th...

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reversiblean

@SeverusTux meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92568/allow-svg-image-uploads

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

11:10

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Q: Make sure package can not be deleted

I have some PCs running various types of debian testing to have the latest version of a number of packages. Usually this works great for my usage, but occasionally, an apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove packages I will keep on my PC due to some incompabilities with some upgraded packages. Can I...

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Q: Why does fopen have troubles with relative filepath arguments when spawned by C# mono?

Why does fopen have troubles with relative filepath arguments when it is used in a Linux C++ shared object which is invoked by a C# managed executable spawned by mono? For example, mono ./BuildCameraListLinux.exe fopen("AssemblyCameraList.xml", mode); fopen creates a file in /home/richc inste...

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Byte Commander

11:31

@Seth I have to disagree with two of your disagreements to my review actions. Please check your comment notification inbox.

Oh, and has anybody a nice free way to transfer a few 100 MB over the internet to a friend for free?

Journeyman Geek

@ByteCommander one off or....

Byte Commander

what?

Journeyman Geek

That's not much data

dropbox or gdrive might work

Byte Commander

Something without creating an account would be nice. Such as justbeamit.com, but that seems broken.

Journeyman Geek

hmm

btsync?

Byte Commander

11:35

It's around 300MB in the current situation, but if it works for more data in the future, that would be nice of course.

Let me duckduckgo that...

Journeyman Geek

and heh

that's a solution to something I needed fixed

You do need software on either side

jokerdino

torrent?

Byte Commander

You know whether moving Ubuntu's swap on a USB pendrive would be a good idea?

I say no, but he person who suggested it as answer somewhere disagrees with that and gives Windows ReadyBoost as counter-example:

Really then can you e xplain why windows uses ready boost technology for improving performance. Hope you have answers — Laksith yesterday

Journeyman Geek

@ByteCommander readyboost isn't purely swap tho

Its more of a cache

Byte Commander

Yeah, it's similar to how Ubuntu caches disk reads in RAM, right?

But if you have enough RAM and an average fast HDD, it's not much performance gain, right?

Journeyman Geek

11:51

There's one situation where this may be clever

IF you have a very slow hdd. and usb 3.0 and a very fast USB 3.0 SSD thing

ooh

@ByteCommander btsync seems to work. Linux version has a webui with a username and password to get in

I just lazy set it up by sending myself the key for the share using wall ;p

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

12:52

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Q: How much was uploaded in the last five minutes?

I do not need some kind of realtime visual status of my ethernet - I want to run my script when last five minutes I uploaded less than X. So I need to get only one number from some command. What can you recommend?

ubuntu monitoring statistics

0

Q: USB only detected when connected to internet

For some reason, my laptop does not detect USBs at all unless I am connected to the internet. (I also am not very good at using Ubuntu, so I have no idea what could cause the problem.) Note: I have tried searching, but I am not sure how to get relevant results.

ubuntu usb

Mateo

14:08

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW looks great!! the adaption of the joke was perfect ;)

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW oh, and the translatin files get pulled in and commited daily - for including in the app i just need to grab the files and resubmit to the store - ill try and do that today since we have a good start

cl-netbox

15:07

@reversiblean Hello ! :) I could not find this package in wily - the latest package I found is contained in vivid -> packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/amd64/libsystemd-journal-dev/filelist

Rinzwind

15:22

this needs deleting: askubuntu.com/a/297054/15811

reversiblean

15:37

@cl-netbox yup .. that's the problem.. thanks anyway :)

cl-netbox

@reversiblean : You're welcome ! :) Sorry that I couldn't help you more ... :)

reversiblean

np (y)

badp

16:23

1. Create digital ocean droplet
2. Login
3. usermod -s fish root
4. Logout
5. ???
6. Profit

(I even did install the fish shell before logging out)

Mateo

@kos @dn-ʞɔɐqɹW translations are live, thank you! i put this in the change log:
- New Translations upload: Italian, Dutch, British English, French, partial German. Big Thanks to Translators: Fabby - https://launchpad.net/~fabrizio-marana and kos - https://launchpad.net/~kos00

Nathan Osman

16:36

Sure am glad I'm not a Mint user...

Rinzwind

17:29

@NathanOsman If I was this would make me turn away from it :-) It should -never- have happened.

Zacharee1

17:58

O_o: androidcentral.com/lg-g5-specs

Rinzwind

@Zacharee1 too expensive :-P

Zacharee1

Not through a carrier :p

Seth

18:15

I wanted 20MP :P

Zacharee1

@Seth ◔_◔◔_◔◔_◔◔_◔. Technically it's 24 :p

Film Theory: We FOUND The SIMPSONS!

►

>! test

aw

Springfield is in Oregon

kos

18:41

@Mateo Awesome! :)

(Still have to test the scope, but I'll do also to do a final review)

cl-netbox

19:04

okay my friend @dn-ʞɔɐqɹW ... I waited the whole day for you ... see you next time ... :) :P :D

Goodbye :)

Mateo

19:38

woo in the top scopes right now!!

Zacharee1

Nice

Imgur scope?

What does that look like?

Mateo

lets see

a lot like imigur

the twitter scope is really useful too

user136984

What happened this week in terms of terrorism because I was away for the whole week and missed it all...?

user136984

Was there only one terrorist incident in Turkey?

Mateo

19:57

oh, lovely. someone left a 1 star because they were usind 16.04 dev on a nexus 5...

that is more your phone and dev version not working than anything to do with the scope...

they need to put supported versions as a prerequisite on stable to rate :/

let's install dev just to see...

huh, now that I think about it, for seeing new stuff I always switch to rc-proposed - I don't think dev is left in very usable states

Zacharee1

@Mateo Can you reply to reviews? You could say something like "I'm sorry this app doesn't work for you, but unfortunately you cannot expect scopes to work on development versions of Ubuntu Touch."

Mateo

nah, but I put a "please use stable" in my own review

Zacharee1

OK

Mateo

I'm going to test to see if there is anything to do, but It might just be the dev has broken stuff - or a framework mismatch, in which case nothing to do till they move over to 16.04 on stable - so far they are still on 15.04 for stable...

I might be able to make a for dev version, upload a second version- but still he left the review where it shouldnt be

Zacharee1

I'm still having trouble understanding why someone expects apps to work on a version of UT that's still months away from release.

@Mateo If I had Ubuntu Touch, I'd leave a 5-star review :p

Mateo

20:11

yeah, it works on rc-proposed - I have that install on the nexus 4 ;) - that is the +1 daily build

Zacharee1

My phone does have a temp root at long last (thank you soo much, Kingxteam), so it's one step closer to a bootloader unlock.

Mateo

16.04dev is like the alpha dumping ground for imports I think for the phone...

Zacharee1

I can actually do MultiROM

Mateo

oh, cool

Zacharee1

If the phone wouldn't keep overheating and freezing

I guess the root found a somewhat unstable vulerability

But I'm still really happy that I can do some rooted stuff now, even if I only have about 10 minutes.

Mateo

20:14

ok, dev r6 here we come

Zacharee1

fun

gl hf :p

Mateo

maybe there is a way to keep it from displaying in a version so far away

@Zacharee1 ice pack?

;P

I would just work at lunch myself - works in a refrigerated place :)

Zacharee1

@Mateo :p. It's kind of like having it on 5.0.1 again.

And I don't think it crashes because of overheating

It's something else. The display image freezes, but everything else works

Mateo

oh, well Ive kept my nexus 5 on kitkat

plus whatever I can put on multirom

the microphone died on it...

Zacharee1

How well does MultiROM work in terms of performance?

I know it runs off the SD card, so it doesn't sound very good

But I don't really know the details

Mateo

20:25

oh, does yours?

it can run on the regular memory too I think

just if you have the room :)

Zacharee1

Well I have a locked bootloader, so that doesn't seem possible

Mateo

ok, installed. and the moment of truth

hm

nothing

lets try another random scope

say the cinema scope

installed...

and - oh look nothing

seems to bee more of a problem with certain scopes

or the general framework

oh, lets try a reboot

bet he rated without trying that :)

woah dev still suffers from the not clean shutdown bug

ohh here is a new bug ;P

Nathan Osman

20:44

Anyone know of a tool that can read Windows 98 registry (system.dat, user.dat) files?

Mateo

Nathan Osman

Out-of-place status bar?

Mateo

yeah, the whole screen wraps around - still works as expected

Nathan Osman

Sounds like a Mir / video problem.

Mateo

strange huh, this is why you dont use dev

user136984

21:00

Oh dear... Another rant... :D

user136984

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Q: I need a download that works this 14.04 is filled with errors and has screwed my pc

I took the advice of the linux community and downloaded ubuntu 14.04 and it is a total screw up of an OS that I have ever experienced in my life. Why would you have people download software that you know doesn't work as advertised and is full of errors causing the user to loose everything, why w...

boot dual-boot grub2 hard-drive

user136984

VTC this Minty question.

user136984

And VTC this EOL question.

Mateo

edited to salvage if possible - but it still wholly deserved that downvote

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Q: Why is my ISP DNS still in resolv.conf after a VPN connection and how can this be fixed?

Ubuntu 15.10 and dns=dnsmasq is commented out in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf Before I connect to a VPN /etc/resolv.conf contains nameserver 2xx.xx.xx.xx <-- ISP DNS 1 nameserver 2xx.xx.xx.xx <-- ISP DNS 2 after a VPN connection /etc/resolv.conf contains nameserver 1xx.xx.xx.xx <-...

ubuntu dns resolv.conf

Nathan Osman

21:15

You'd think there would be more forensics tools for reading from Win 9.x/Me registry files...

user136984

How does one suggest that something be added to a page on the Ubuntu website?

user136984

Is there a project on LP that one can put it under?

Nathan Osman

@ParanoidPanda bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website

user136984

Ah, thanks @Nathan! :)

Nathan Osman

21:41

Nice. I crashed VirtualBox.

Guru Meditation -1618 (VERR_PGM_PHYS_PAGE_RESERVED)

What's worse, it's completely 100% reproducible.

user136984

@Nathan: Cool! How did you do it? :)

Nathan Osman

I try to boot a .vdi from my old Windows 98 box with the Plop Boot Manager.

Not only does it fail, but it causes a guru meditation (VirtualBox's lingo for "error").

user136984

@Nathan: You should definitely report that then.

user136984

:)

user136984

@Nathan: Also, I liked George's latest video! A bit strange, but it was good! :D

Nathan Osman

21:49

:)

user136984

When is part 2 coming out? :D

Nathan Osman

If I can get this copy of Office 97 working, I'll be filming it today.

user136984

Great! :)

Rinzwind

noobs :-P

Nathan Osman

Alright, you find a copy of Windows 98 / Office 87 and get it working.

I'm using a Linux LiveCD because I just couldn't get any DOS commands to do what I wanted.

user136984

21:59

VTM this question.

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