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Zacharee1

12:00 AM

I didn't think it was

Videonauth

holy what happened to that big pile of first posts ??

Zacharee1

I still just want to get this settled :p

I see this on the Help Center: Development on Ubuntu.

Videonauth

there used to be around 400 each day in stck now it seems i have to fight a whole day to get my 20 full ??

Zacharee1

But that doesn't apply

chaskes

I'm done discussing it. :)

Zacharee1

12:01 AM

nuuuu

@Videonauth o_O

I actually don't see anything that applies to this in either way

Meta time

Zacharee1

12:13 AM

@chaskes I asked on Meta, just so you know, if you decide to put your opinion in a comment.

or answer

chaskes

Thanks, but unfortunately, the view around here keeps moving more and more to keeping just about everything OT. I'm tired of debating it in meta as well.

Zacharee1

I just want to form an educated opinion on this

But more things are becoming OT because there are more sites for specific things and more people with more opinions

I can VTC my own question. cool

Seth

not another is x on-topic post...

Zacharee1

heheheheheheheheheh

read it though. I tried to make it at least somewhat coherent :p

Ask Ubuntu Meta

12:30 AM

0

Q: Are questions about the development of third-party programs on-topic?

The title probably isn't the best summary of my question, so don't let it hold too much weight. Recently, this question about whether or not Krusader was still being developed was asked: Is Krusader still being developed? Krusader is a file manager designed for KDE, but the description also sa...

ohai meta

lol

oh good grief github.com/KDE/krusader/pull/1 -.-

Zacharee1

lol

Seth

ooh, an update to snapd and snapcraft.

Zacharee1

12:41 AM

I'm going to guess that it's still being developed. The latest revision was a month ago

but like you said, I can't say that for sure

Seth

@Zacharee1 no it was 9 days ago

Videonauth

@Seth lol as a pull request !? O_o

Seth

@Videonauth ikr xD

Zacharee1

oh yeah

derpyderp

@Videonauth I think it's the right place to ask :p

This song isn't Adele's style at all:

Adele - Send My Love (To Your New Lover)

►

But I like it

Seth

Adele's style is whatever Adele decides it is :P

Zacharee1

12:45 AM

lol

Seth

25 tried some new stuff.

Zacharee1

It definitely is not what she usually does

Seth

true.

I like it too btw.

Zacharee1

@Seth there's the Water under the Bridge one, which is nice, but is also fast and upbeat

Seth

I don't think there's a single song on 25 I didn't like lol (I haven't heard them all though)

@Zacharee1 yup, like that one!

Zacharee1

12:47 AM

This one kind of sounds like a folk song

it's interesting and fun and definitely breaks away from the pop trend at least a little

@Seth I have to listen to the album some time. I have Spotify Premium now, so I might as well use it ;p

Seth

> Anybody else scrolling through the comments because the music video hurts your eyes?

haha, yep. I like the effects but it does hurt my eyes.

Zacharee1

maybe I should watch it

Seth

oh hey new coldplay song.

Zacharee1

wat

really?

Seth

oh wait no. Just new video.

Zacharee1

12:51 AM

ow

Seth

oh man, but the video is awesome xD

Coldplay - Up&Up (Official video)

►

Zacharee1

them overlays

I get why they're there though

It's to represent all the voices singing in rounds

@Seth I think the effects there have Adele's beat though

Zacharee1

1:21 AM

If you open AU and Meta AU in two separate tabs, then switch between them really quickly with ctrl+tabnumber, it's pretty cool

user139252

1:35 AM

No it's not, computers get rather warm if you make them work like that.

5

Seth

o_O

Zacharee1

@TheBrownOne shut up

jesus

Videonauth

??

@Zacharee1 isn't that a bit rude?

Henry WH Hack

1:54 AM

@StackExchange That's Good. :)

user139252

2:11 AM

@Videonauth I concur!

user139252

Though, I totally deserved it :p

Videonauth

still, there could have been more funny ways to counter that :)

Zacharee1

@Videonauth I'm really hoping the intense sarcasm made it

Videonauth

@Zacharee1 Well, I didn't read any sarcasm in I your output, thats the problem with chat rooms, you not see the person, nor hear their intonation etc.. so a sarcastic meant shut up can easily geet wrong understood

Videonauth

2:34 AM

mhmmmm

user139252

Cake by the ocean!

user139252

I'll have to make that happen sometime soon

user139252

So still no software recommendations for open source game engines?

Videonauth

phew, open source game engine mhmmmmm

List of game engines

Many tools called game engines are available for game designers to code a game quickly and easily without building from the ground up. == Engines == Note: The following list is not exhaustive. It mixes game engines with rendering engines as well as API bindings without any distinctions. == See also == Physics engine Game engine recreation List of open-source video games RPG creation software == References... ==

user139252

I know how to find them, I just wanted to know if anyone here has actually used one they would like to recommend

Videonauth

2:39 AM

i would go for unity i think if i would have to use it in a classroom full of beginners

or if you really want to deep enter then ogre

the question is what you want to achieve, how much time do you have in the class semester timeframe etc

so how many hours you actually have, and whats your goal to reach, this i think mostly limits out many of the engines listed

then next the level of the ones you want to teach

or is it coding for the sake of coding then go with a good tutorial which you incorperate into ypur teaching

and develop a small game which everyone will be able to achieve

I could point you to a good tutorial like that on YT

what's YT

YouTube ?

yt-project.org

@HenryWHHack interesting link but not what i was referring to ;)

anyways is there a way when i ssh into my main computer from laptop to see the screen of my main computer ?

RobotHumans

3:01 AM

@TheBrownOne eh. there's a huge amount of documentation around UE4. it's open source/free on github. i've toyed with it a bit, but not produced anything with playable levels. more of a "let's explore the engine" sort of thing and a "hey, i can do wallrunning with collisions" and such

bonus - it targets almost all platforms - including VR headsets.

Seth

okay. snaps are officially annoying.

4

RobotHumans

with great power comes great responsibility in bearing annoyances.

Seth

I can't even get silentcast to snap. IT'S A BASH SCRIPT COMM'ON

Videonauth

lol it seems for the sake of my sanity i stick to .deb files for now

chaskes

@Videonauth oops. thanks.

Videonauth

3:05 AM

np :)

dont even know if she has read it

still i wonder if theres a possibility to run a game on my main machine and get the screen here on my laptop so the main machine does the computing and only streams video one way and keyboard presses the other way

Ashu

3:34 AM

Quick question...do we have some place in askubuntu to post generic questions and answers(which in general a lot of folks do ask)?

Like how to test whether wireless adaptor driver is working fine or not?

user139252

@RobotHumans Would it work on something with only 4GB of RAM over VNC?

Videonauth

@TheBrownOne did you read the whole part above i have written after that wiki link ?

user139252

Ah, nope. Missed that.

user139252

Thanks :D

user139252

I'll look into Unity

Videonauth

3:41 AM

i wasnt sure this is why i thought i'd better ask

user139252

We have beginners, but they at least know how to code a bit from when I taught last year

user139252

We have a whole year to play around with things, and I've got two months to learn the engine before I start teaching

Videonauth

ah ok well then maybe like robothumans mentioned UE (unreal engine) or unity might be your thing both are similar complex

both support mono and lua scripting and so on

user139252

Looks like Unity3D editor isn't for Linux...

Journeyman Geek

@Videonauth steam has a streaming thing that would work

Videonauth

3:46 AM

@JourneymanGeek yeah but do you think i can play that way? i thought this was only streaming?

user139252

@Videonauth a VNC server?

Journeyman Geek

@Videonauth you can play

works pretty well on a reasonably fast connection

Videonauth

well GBit LAN

well ill try that soon

user139252

You could do a local VNC connection...

user139252

No extra Steam software :P

Videonauth

3:51 AM

sounds even better, i sometimes want to play a game when i cant rest well, even with my insomnia i lay down and try to rest but osometimes it dont work out that well then i love to play a game but my laptop is a weakling when it comes to computing power or GPU

so there my idea comes from, leting the game run on my main machine and simply have the graphics to display and the keyboard to catch on the laptop

Journeyman Geek

4:05 AM

@TheBrownOne steam's stuff has lower latency apparently

and I've gotten it working on a cherry trail atom so...

Videonauth

i just wonder how long we have to live with those messages that steam is outdated even with steam repos on

Journeyman Geek

My windows box is on the beta, need to install it on the new linux box

Videonauth

well i have no windows box anymore ;)

Journeyman Geek

lets see

Videonauth

only linux boxes and i get this annoying window popping up telling me steam is outdated

Journeyman Geek

4:09 AM

windows gaming box, netbook (windows), linux box has a emmc I don't want to use for linux which has windows.

Videonauth

up to that it seems to forget the logins lately

Edity

@Videonauth FATAL ERROR: images doesn't appear, FATAL GRAMMER ERROR: missed 30 possible edits

Videonauth

?

Edity

askubuntu.com/posts/779712/revisions

also, what is community wikis?

Videonauth

well for me the screenshot is visible

Edity

4:13 AM

oh

Videonauth

Seth

well I got some good news in the snaps department

@thatcoderiguana A little birdie told me that @sabdfl himself is learning git so he can help improve the docs!

Tweeted by pleia2 on May 31, 2016 at 3:20 AM in reply to thatcoderiguana

Edity

:D

review pls: askubuntu.com/questions/779712/no-solution-with-that-commond

Who likes MacBuntu

Seth

@Edity patience

Edity

^-- wisdom

in the middle of macbuntu upgrade

Videonauth

4:26 AM

Edity

5:04 AM

O_O

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: UBUNTU INSTALLING

when I want to install Ubuntu alongside of windows 10, when I boot system by Ubuntu DVD or bootable flash memory immediately show me "error: timed out waiting for forcewake to ack request" and my computer hang. computer spec: MB:z170 deluxe with onboard graphic card. CPU: ci7 6700k should I c...

ubuntu boot

Edity

rex-tea hhhaaa

Nathan Osman

5:31 AM

Initial support for a local HTTP API has finally landed in NitroShare. Details here: https://github.com/nitroshare/nitroshare-desktop/issues/7#issuecomment-222593772

Tweeted by nitroshare on May 31, 2016 at 5:29 AM

You heard it here first.

Edity

:D

off topic;

Nathan Osman

\o/

Edity

0

Q: Possible to use my android as a bluetooth dongle for my laptop?

Hey so I was just wondering if its possible to pretty much use my phone as a bluetooth dongle for my desktop/laptop? So when I plug my android into my desktop via usb, ill be able to use the bluetooth as if it were any other dongle.... Never heard of anyone trying it so just wanted to see if you ...

bluetooth

off topic ^

please slam the hammer @NathanOsman

now i have the power to upload

i have 99 rep

what the hell? fakepath

Henry WH Hack

BSOD

Edity

?

Henry WH Hack

5:37 AM

Black Screen Of Death.

Edity

...

IT's a mac

Henry WH Hack

I forgot I was ignoring Journeyman Geek.

Edity

LOL

Edity

6:30 AM

ok

Videonauth

@jokerdino askubuntu.com/a/779744/522934

Videonauth

6:50 AM

anyone else as me thinking this is OT ?

0

Q: RMTP Streamig to Twitch

First of all, i posted this question on http://unix.stackexchange.com but so far no responds. I'm reposting it here since i tried it on ubuntu 15. and got same results. I would like opinion on that. Im streaming using OBS on Windows (QuickSync), pushing 20k bitrate to 2nd PC based on linux (Debi...

ffmpeg nginx streaming rtmp

blade19899

New ImageMick exploit

Edity

@Videonauth agreed

blade19899

>

"All existing releases of GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick support a file open syntax where if the first character of the file specification is a '|', then the remainder of the filename is passed to the shell for execution using the POSIX popen(3C) function."

CVE Request: GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick popen() shell vulnerabilit

7

Edity

YAY 101 REP

Videonauth

@blade19899 good to know

Edity

7:00 AM

lol

reduce ads exploit

use freaking adblock

lol

@Videonauth where can i hunt down some community wikis

Videonauth

dunno

Edity

D:<

How to Edity 101

blade19899

@Videonauth Searching for a fix....

Edity

O_O

New (about) thingy: I'm a pencil. Deal with it. Ah, now I know, you want to be a pencil. But you will never know...

start a bounty pls:

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Q: How can I disable continuous scrolling in ubuntu touchpad?

In Trusty Tahr (14.04 LTS) when I use two-finger scrolling in everywhere, say chrome and it sensed the touch-pad for 1 second to go up or down for scrolling. The website continued the scrolling for 3 or 4 seconds. And when I press any key on my keyboard, it's supposed to know that I am use tha...

14.04 touchpad scrolling

Videonauth

@blade19899 mhmm one obvious fix would be removing it completely, but i guess that doesnt cut it for you, other only way i could think of right now is to disable it at least for the http IO

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

7:15 AM

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Q: Running a cron job randomly for every one hour

I want a cronjob to run every one hour randomly. (i.e if the first job runs at 58 minutes,the second job should run at 47 minutes and the third one at 52 minutes and so on) But this should run randomly for everyone hour. Is there a way to do this? New to Linux.

linux ubuntu cron

Edity

"if you can't answer it, close it"

@muru you got the diamond of all power and glory?

muru

@Edity on Vi and Vim, yes.

Edity

:D

@muru like my about text:I am a pencil. But mods use me (pencil) to overwrite texts. Oh, and you will never be a pencil... :3

and i have

103

rep

Rinzwind

7:39 AM

@Edity soon it will be 113 :-P

Edity

:P

Rinzwind

7:51 AM

see >:-) @Edity

Edity

@Rinzwind close, 111 not 113

Rinzwind

well you are resposible for your own downvotes :=)

Edity

Yup

not yet tho

blade19899

9:37 AM

High usage of ipv6 on a Linux server, anybody got some commands to analyze that!?

Videonauth

11:03 AM

PayPal is the biggest rip off possible ...

Helio

11:14 AM

Anybody using Ubuntu 16.04 here?

Videonauth

sure

Helio

Can you run XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="" gedit?

I'm trying to show header bars on all the gnome applications

Videonauth

you need to edit the file by hand best, its in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

Helio

¿...?

What has it to do with CSD and header bars?

Videonauth

running that command opens gedit

im still not sure why you want to set the current_desktop to ""

Helio

11:18 AM

But, when you open gedit with this command, do you see the header bar?

Gnome 3 style?

Videonauth

Helio

Ok, it works!

Thanks for testing!

Videonauth

still no clue why you need to alter the directory variables for that

Helio

What directory variable?

You told me somewhat about the home folder localization, but I never said that.

Videonauth

well nvm

user136984

11:34 AM

Anyone got any ideas on this?

user136984

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Q: What does the 'hide-identity' gsetting do?

On Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with GNOME 3.20 I have just noticed that there is a hide-identity gsetting: I have read its description, but what exactly would be the difference if I turned it on? What information would it stop showing and where exactly? And would turning this option cause any problems?

gnome configuration customization privacy

user136984

VTC this Minty question.

terdon

11:51 AM

@ParanoidPanda Wow. Three downvotes when all one needed to do is just remove the mention of "Mint" and make the question useful to Ubuntu users. You do realize that Mint and Ubuntu use the same repos, right?

But the OP is running Mint, so surely it will be the Linux Mint repository, not the Ubuntu one. — Paranoid Panda 16 mins ago

So that comment makes no sense, you'd run the exact same command in Mint and install the exact same package.

user136984

@terdon: Well, I've never properly used Mint so how would I know?

terdon

@ParanoidPanda If you don't know, try not to leave comments like that then.

Mint is 100% compatible with Ubuntu and uses the same repositories + their own one on top of it.

Here's an example of an (old) Mint sources.list. This was the default:

deb packages.linuxmint.com maya main upstream import
deb archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main restricted universe multiverse
deb archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner
deb packages.medibuntu.org precise free non-free

Videonauth

uh wow hot weather in here ...

:)

user136984

@Videonauth: The clouds of heat are in your house? :D

user136984

I didn't realise weather could probably get in somewhere like that...

Videonauth

12:00 PM

no only in this char room xD

user136984

Ah...

user136984

:D

Videonauth

can you as well search contents of files with find command ?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected in title: HP® Official Site 18006244491 HP Printer Helpline by mehak on askubuntu.com …

Byte Commander

@Videonauth I don't think so, but you could use grep -l

Videonauth

12:12 PM

used grep -r string /etc/*

looking for the files where the log paths are set

Byte Commander

Yes. If you added the -l, it would have only printed the file names, not the matching lines.

Videonauth

ufw for example writes exatly into three files but not in its own file lol

user136984

@terdon: Ok, I've deleted my comment and cast a reopen vote.

terdon

@ParanoidPanda Did you remove all mention of Mint from the question?

I'm not arguing that it's on topic as it was. Only that the solution is the same for both systems so we may as well edit it into shape and keep it.

user136984

@terdon: Well, it came up in the review queue so someone appears to have edited it and removed all mentions of Mint.

Byte Commander

12:17 PM

I'm going to be away for about a week starting from tomorrow. Please don't miss me too much...

Might anybody please star this to prevent my inbox from filling up with messages like "Hey, are you dead?" ^

What?

user136984

Nothing, I just pasted something here accidentally...

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: What Is NitroNos X Reviews? by nolliahuriyya on askubuntu.com …

Byte Commander

xD

A French question tagged with bonjour:

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0

Q: Pourquoi mon clavier ne répond pas à cette action

Bonjour je viens juste de rentrer dans mon terminal la commande de recherche sudo apt-get install python3 et me demande un mot de passe pour mais aucun affichage ne fonctionne sur le clavier why and merci pour votre réponse

bonjour

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] URL-only title, pattern-matching website in title: http://advancedtrimsite.com/testx-core-reviews/ by eabellrre on askubuntu.com …

Videonauth

oh i didnt see this lol just edited in a google translation

user136984

12:33 PM

-3

Q: Is there a software which spies on user activities and gives a report?

Is there a software which spies on user activities and gives a report? Based on focused window and window title. Report would just show time spent for specific window and its title like: Application Title Time Firefox Ask Ubuntu - Mozilla Firefox 5:58

time

user136984

Looks dodgy to me...

Videonauth

well sadly that is what we have to expect lately when accepting a job offer

they think they are alowed to spy all things on us meanwhile

tbh in germany theres a law which restricts that by large ammounts

but even if i had an answer i wouldnt answer that question ^

Byte Commander

Well then, see you guys in a week or so, I don't think I'll drop in again tomorrow... o/

user136984

@ByteCommander: Bye! ;) \o

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

1:02 PM

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Q: Joining Zentyal server to an existing domain

i'm Joining Zentyal server to an existing domain. i just raised the forest functional level of my Server 2003 and set a correct NTP server in all the machines. now i try to configure the additional domain but i receive this error: i checked to have R2 version but i don't find any other actions...

ubuntu configuration domain

Mateo

1:14 PM

@ParanoidPanda thy is wctually a good question, there is such an app in the software center - seems he used too strong a word

Seth

:O

sabdfl asked what I think they should focus on in the docs

Mateo

Intresting

Videonauth

@Seth making them eli5 conformant

Mateo

maybe some "what to expect" scenarios

Videonauth

meaning they should not write docs from experts expecting experts, they should rather write from experts expecting newcomesrs

putting it in a nicer phrase

omg you have 5 votes left today :)

user136984

1:21 PM

@Mateo: Well, for all you know, he could be asking because he is your next door neighbour and wants to spy on you. :P

Videonauth

or your boss ^

user136984

Exactly. :D

Anonymous

Good morning all

user136984

If you think you're not the victim so it's fine to help, you might have another thing coming. :P

Anonymous

I hope everyone had a great weekend! (And holiday weekend for those in the US)

user136984

1:29 PM

I'm trying to decide now whether or not I should accept this answer... :D

user136984

2

A: How to block input to webcam?

A foolproof way to block webcam input Picture provided by Darkreading.com

Seth

@ParanoidPanda that's what I do.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to mask SIGCHLD when running execle on Ubuntu Linux 16.04?

I need to mask SIGCHLD when running execle on Ubuntu Linux 16.04 using the following code excerpt: sprintf(environment_variable,"LD_LIBRARY_PATH=%s",argvp[3]); cout << environment_variable << endl; char *envp[] = { environment_variable, 0 }; execle("/usr/lib/mono/4.5/mono-service...

ubuntu signals exec mono

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Q: How do i find over 200K differently named files and output

scenario: We have a SAN with alot(over 5 million) of files, because of some freak mistake from a developer script some files have been deleted and we now have to figure out which files got deleted. Now i do have a list with the filenames(from our database)that need to be checked, which looks li...

ubuntu scripting grep find

Zacharee1

2:08 PM

@ParanoidPanda it can't be hacked

Seth

2:32 PM

s/can't be/ requires physical access/

terdon

2:51 PM

Really? You mean that I can't run cheese if I connect over ssh? Why not?

William Mariager

Is there a shortcut that'll get me to desktop on Ubuntu? Similar to Win+D on Windows.

Seth

@terdon did you read the answer?

@WilliamMariager Ctrl+Super+D

terdon

@Seth Ah! You mean it can't be hacked after applying the band-aid. Fair enough.

Seth

indeed.

terdon

I thought you meant there's some kind of method in place blocking all remote access to webcams by default.

Seth

2:58 PM

so.. I'm trying to snap a different app now. It's just a collections of scripts so the .deb uses an INSTALL file, but snappy requires I specify a build-system plugin.. I don't think that uses a build system though, right?

Which means I'll have to write my own plugin..

William Mariager

3:22 PM

@Seth Super?