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Anonymous

12:00 AM

I think it is normal for sibling to have similar interests. While different, I love computers because of my father.

Anonymous

If anything, be proud that you have a sister interested in computers. :D

Videonauth

as i said, all hail the nerd girls :) im happy for each one of them, they are a rare and nice species

:)

Anonymous

exactly!

Anonymous

You have nothing to worry about, Henry. If you two are different grade levels, or even at different schools, no one will realizes you are siblings.

RobotHumans

If anything be proud you know anyone interested in computers. The "local tech repair guy" was all "I fixed a puter. Put a new power supply in it." And I realized I was treading in the shallow end here.

Videonauth

12:04 AM

and herny if she gets better than you dont worry be happy to have a sister who is able to hack the heck out of each one who gives you trouble :)) see it this way

Anonymous

I don't get the tech support questions, thankfully. I make it clear I know little hardware, and am about software. (Not even internet, but programs really.).

Videonauth

but ok im coming out of a generation where not even my my gender was much interested in computers

Anonymous

I COULD pick up hardware, etc, but I am not interested.

Anonymous

@HenryWHHack you both may like computers, but I am sure you have different specialty interests -- security, theory, algorithms, databases, sys admin, devops, just programming, game design, etc etc etc etc

Anonymous

You will both teach each other things, and learn from each other!

RobotHumans

12:07 AM

@onebree yeah. on the tech support thing, the only bit that irritates me sometimes is "solve this problem over the phone". no. put it on my desk. i'll solve it when you put it here. but somehow, people don't want to do that mostly. when they do, it gets fixed.

Anonymous

@RobotHumans I hate when someone says "no, tell me and I'll do it." -- No person, I can't TELL you because I need the mouse to magically know where everything is.

Videonauth

and there my new found love for linux comes in, there you could tell someone ok do a terminal input this this and this, not explaining which con to pic which dialog to find etc

RobotHumans

@onebree Here's my case in point: I can't get it to boot. Try to troubleshoot it over the phone. Get them booting from optical for a reinstall. Still doesn't boot. My diagnosis, bad optical drive. They bring it to my desk, well shit. They have two optical drives. How did they not tell me that.

Anonymous

I also don't like when people give me unwarranted tech advice. I called VZW last month because my phone was not dialing out. In the end, I figured it was a weird fluke dead spot. But the rep told me to turn on 4G all the time, turn on HD voice/video, and to save battery use "battery saver"

Anonymous

@Videonauth yup, you either type the command correctly or not. But with GUIs, there are different layouts, views, categories....

Videonauth

12:10 AM

sounds like someone who desperatly needed a job reading down a list he picked up from other people

that what most callcenter tech reps are, at least here in germany

Anonymous

@Videonauth Thing was, I was able to dial out fine without the extra things, or even 4G on. 4G is really for accessing the web when you don't have wifi anyway.

Videonauth

low paid people who have to do this job to have a income

Anonymous

The worst part was I did what he suggested, and my screen went dark with a red bar on top. I told him and he said "I have a droid by samsung. It doesn't do that to me. And I see you have a droid by motorola. My last motorola didn't have the feature."

Anonymous

facepalm facepalm facepalm

Videonauth

hehehe i woud have hung up already

Anonymous

12:14 AM

I am too nice for that :-)

Videonauth

but on he other side im some who fidels around long long time before i hit the wall and have to ask

Anonymous

With programming, I used to ask a lot, very frequently, even if I could just google the answer. But through my apprenticeship, I am learning how to actually research things.

Anonymous

I even have a few stickies on my wall of troubleshooting steps, in bright yellow so I don't forget

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: What is the best way to gain back my question privileges.

For reasons I will not say (let's just say that I made some mistakes), the askubuntu system took away my right to ask questions on the website. I have read that once I have a positive effect on the website, I could be able to ask questions again. Currently, I can reply to questions and provide an...

Anonymous

@AskUbuntuMeta I mean, by asking this, he is hoping even just a tibny bit for the ban to be lifted

Videonauth

12:23 AM

Well i never had that problem yet :) and i have not much insight how the ban system works and i doubt even the mods have much more insight into the details :)

Anonymous

So how are you today @Videonauth

Videonauth

fine so far :)

begun yesterday to have a look into python

Anonymous

Cool! Are you reading a book or just tinkering?

Videonauth

books are for the weak :D

Anonymous

Last week and this week, I've spent a few work days reading the Well Grounded Rubyist

Anonymous

12:28 AM

:-P

Videonauth

I have the force of google with me

Anonymous

I've worked with Ruby since Oct 2014, but I am learning SO MUCH from this book

Videonauth

yeah i hade a similar experience with c++

but to be honest there as well s many crappy books out there where you feel sad to have ever bought them

Anonymous

I've only bought books that others have recommended. My mentor recommended WGR and it is paying off a lot

Videonauth

my goal right now taking an application i made in c++ OpenGL and convert it into python, thats my way to find my way around into a new language

Anonymous

12:31 AM

Are you doing direct translation, or creating the same features but the python way?

SQuirel

hi world

Videonauth

well its a OpenGl representation of the game of life

Anonymous

hello @SQuirel!!

Anonymous

how are you this evening?

SQuirel

good

Videonauth

12:31 AM

now doing it in phyton

SQuirel

I upgraded to xubuntu 16.04 :D

Videonauth

the algorythms should be neraly same, just different syntax

Anonymous

@SQuirel Awesome!!! I run that on my partition

Anonymous

Which I really need to get up to speed for so I can work on it, and not a VM

SQuirel

Looks alot better than lxde :D

Anonymous

12:33 AM

xfce is a step above lxde in desktop things

SQuirel

I wish you could use askubuntu chat in the terminal... :(

Anonymous

I think I will spend tomorrow doing HW (4 hours?) and getting my partition up to speed.

Anonymous

@SQuirel I wish it had desktop notifications if/when I am mentioned. Then I'd be set.

SQuirel

Wouldn't it be cool if there was a program that works as a web browser and a terminal all in one?

Anonymous

Okay, it's been short, but I am going to watch some netflix now, and maybe even read.

chaskes

12:37 AM

emacs

SQuirel

emacs?

Anonymous

@SQuirel check out vimperator and links browser.

chaskes

emacs does what you want and more

RobotHumans

every time someone recommends emacs a demon gets its wings. it's like eating a kitten.

Anonymous

Richard uses emacs. Winnie uses vim (like me)

SQuirel

12:40 AM

#GoTeamNano

chaskes

I've never used emacs. I use viim too

Anonymous

I have not used it either. I don't know much vim,. but am eager to learn it when I put my time/mind into it

Anonymous

For example, with :set spell, the command z= brings up a list of words to autocorrect that one wrong word. And zg adds that word to the dictionary

SQuirel

Harder to use doesn't mean better...

Anonymous

I wouldn't say it's hard. The basic setup is all you need, and it includes a couple things you can comment back in.

SQuirel

12:43 AM

Does anyone here use irssi?

Videonauth

OHHHHH NOOOOOO ...... not this discussion again lol

Anonymous

I don't use hjlifksdhfu for navigation, just my arrow keys, page up/down, and mouse to scroll.

Zacharee1

My phone finally got Marshmallow (I think ahead of ATT for once)

I have WiFi calling :DD

I just have to flash the modem, since I'm on CyanogenMod

SQuirel

How dangerous is flashing a rom on a phone?

Videonauth

@Zacharee1 how are you, you have been really silent last days :)

RobotHumans

12:44 AM

@SQuirel Less dangerous than juggling chainsaws

Zacharee1

@Videonauth exams :p

Videonauth

ah

Zacharee1

@RobotHumans it depends on the phone

Anonymous

@Zacharee1 I am so jealous. CHeck out this thread I have on reddit => reddit.com/r/droidturbo/comments/4jtaoa/…

Videonauth

well don't look at my profile, better

SQuirel

12:45 AM

@Zacharee1 It should be no problem then. I juggle chainsaws on a regular basis

Zacharee1

@Videonauth well sh*t

@SQuirel good, then you know the risks of flashing to a Samsung phone

SQuirel

But I don't have a samsung phone

Zacharee1

@onebree and that's not even a major flagship

Mine is and look how long it took

@Google you really need to do that carrier shaming thing

Anonymous

@Zacharee1 it was THE verizon flagship when it came out, because it was vzw exclusive

Zacharee1

But no longer

Videonauth

12:47 AM

ok guys ---> askubuntu.com/questions/779696/… here im running onto a wall right now lol

Zacharee1

The Note 4 is still a very popular phone (I mean, look at the price)

Everyone likes it because it is powerful

Videonauth

read the question carefully and then my answer ;)

and then read his comment again

i can ping all inside my own network like 192.168.0.1 and 8.8.8.8 but cant ping any other websites

proof of concept pinging microsoft.com (alone for that he should be banned from AU ;) )

Zacharee1

I don't think he understands that most places he might try to ping block those requests

RobotHumans

that'll teach me to look away from my monitor. i just flew my ship in to a sun

Zacharee1

@RobotHumans uh

watchya playin'

Videonauth

12:50 AM

elite

Zacharee1

ah

RobotHumans

^^

Zacharee1

@RobotHumans well fly away

SQuirel

u shud play mtrek

Zacharee1

fly away into the stars (quite literally)

SQuirel

12:50 AM

It's the best space combat game ever invented :D

Zacharee1

Flashing the MM modem. Wish me luck

Anonymous

okay, NOW goodbye all :-)

Nathan Osman

o//

Zacharee1

@onebree nuuuuu

no bootloops plz

I pray to you, almighty Android god

RobotHumans

@NathanOsman \o

Zacharee1

12:52 AM

@NathanOsman your arm is lagging

well it flashed

Nathan Osman

No, those are two left arms.

@StefanoPalazzo Hey! How's it going?

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman Doesn't let me read with AdBlock, not going to read

But from what I could read before it blocked me seemed pretty scary

@NathanOsman oh o_O

Nathan Osman

This wireless adapter is incredibly lousy.

I can't wait until I get the new one.

I knew I shouldn't have trusted something without an actual antenna.

Zacharee1

tsk

RobotHumans

you mean you don't have one of these?

Videonauth

12:58 AM

Nathan i guess you didn't see my question earlier, but my loss i didn't ping you. --> chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/30081737#30081737

SQuirel

gtg l8rz

Nathan Osman

@Videonauth Good question. If you're willing to invest some money, I highly recommend Sublime Text with the Anaconda plugin. If not, the next best option is Komodo Edit.

Both work beautifully with Python.

Videonauth

well eric is not bad tho but misses snippets

Zacharee1

great

I flashed the MM modem and now I can't unlock my phone

Hopefully flashing down to LL will help

Videonauth

you can flap in the sides i only opened them to show

has qt designer coming with it and so on

Mateo

1:04 AM

@RobotHumans cool thanks for the heads up, I remember buying the new bioshock - beautiful game, couldn't play 10 min of it, wondering if the new toomraider is good, I've heard it came out for Linux should be third person

Videonauth

@Mateo the Tomb Raider 2013 was already for Linux and runs very smoothly on my machine here

Nathan Osman

Just started getting into ShootMania. Awesome game, sadly it is Windows-only.

Mateo

Cool

I really liked the witcher 2 - sadly I think the darker side of the community made sure they didn't do 3 for linux as well, even steam repetly advertised...

RobotHumans

eh, i have that htpc for that

Mateo

I might eventually try out the graphics passthrough, but I really don't want a windows box or dual boot

Nathan Osman

1:11 AM

@Mateo Did I tell you I managed to get PCI pass-through working on this machine with XenServer?

Videonauth

@Mateo as far i have read it will be released for steam os, but when i wasn't able to find out now in the quick

Zacharee1

Let's try this flash again

pls werk

nope

RobotHumans

Zacharee1

1:26 AM

bricks

RobotHumans

well it'll work or it won't

Zacharee1

it's not bricked :p

Henry WH Hack

@Videonauth Thank you for the advice. :)

Videonauth

@HenryWHHack you're very welcome always :)

RobotHumans

@Zacharee1 then stop crying about it not working.

Videonauth

1:35 AM

mhmmmmm reviewing first posts, what to do with this one? askubuntu.com/a/781111/522934

Zacharee1

@RobotHumans I wantz me wifi calling

@Videonauth I say comment as an answer, but others will have a different opinion. It seems pretty borderline

SQuirel

Hi

Henry WH Hack

Hello! :)

Videonauth

Question: in English when: "I can add something useful to Ian and Eliah's answer" shouldn't this be "I can add something useful to Ian and Eliahs answer" ?

^^^^ @Zacharee1

RobotHumans

1:51 AM

unless there are two eliahs no.

Videonauth

O.k. just don't want to make a edit called "corrected typos" and add a new flaw in.

user139252

3:01 AM

\o

Seth

o/

user139252

🎥❌👬☺😓😭😂

Nathan Osman

gfycat.com/OldfashionedSpanishIberiannase

iMovie does a pretty good job of stabilizing clips.

user139252

Anyone going to try guessing that emoji story? :P

Seth

went on a date to the movies?

user139252

3:07 AM

Saw XMen Apocalypse today. It was pretty good, some parts were a bit eh, there was one really sad part, but I really liked it in the end

Seth

ah. Right. I remember you mentioned that earlier.

Videonauth

@Seth can you stop this one please as it is a double post of the other question I just answered. askubuntu.com/q/781138/522934

Seth

done

Videonauth

thank you :)

Soooo, reviews are done for today :) only late answers left, time for a coffee

user139252

I suggest you all go see that movie, but bring tissues

user139252

3:17 AM

@Videonauth make me one, too, please

Videonauth

3:28 AM

@TheBrownOne Here you go ... hands over a big mug of coffee

Seth

ugh. Firefox uses so much CPU.

Videonauth

huh ?

how much it uses on your system ? maybe a faulty add-on ?

SQuirel

Hi

Henry WH Hack

Hello. :)

Videonauth

@Seth for me it only uses 0.3-3%

Seth

3:35 AM

@Videonauth 6-13

I've only got privacy badger, HTTPS everywhere and firebug.

Videonauth

oof then you either have a ton of tabs open with moving content unstopped

Seth

although I have a lot of tabs.

but no moving content..

Videonauth

i have a ton of add ons actually

I use those add ons already since years and never been on a bad side with them

Anyone an idea how to exclude only one particular cron-job to be excluded from syslog logging?

Nathan Osman

4:11 AM

Is AWS experiencing problems?

I can't download large files from my EC2 instance.

The connections are timing out.

This is happening from two different machines...

Videonauth

are the files private? shall I test? have you tried a traceroute?

Nathan Osman

Tried with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.

@Videonauth windows.quickmediasolutions.com/job/NitroShare/…

^--- that's the file

Videonauth

i got this instant

not even had time to do a blink of my eye

Nathan Osman

Yeah, I got it instantly using my server in Dallas as well.

But as soon as I slow it down artificially, it gets stuck.

Videonauth

try a traceroute from your home machine

Nathan Osman

4:19 AM

I'm using IIS to host the files... maybe there's a setting I need to change.

Videonauth

or something on the route is simply malfunctioning

Nathan Osman

But it's happening from the Dallas server as well.

So it can't be local to me.

It must be a problem with EC2 or the webserver I'm running.

@Videonauth what happens if you run this?

wget --limit-rate 32k windows.quickmediasolutions.com/job/NitroShare/…

That forces the download at 32 KB/s.

Videonauth

yep

takes ages :p

Nathan Osman

Does it get stuck though?

Videonauth

yep

Nathan Osman

4:22 AM

I'm not talking about it running slowly but literally stopping partway through.

So it isn't me going crazy then :D

Videonauth

stopping at exactly 1 M

or 7%

Nathan Osman

Something super weird is going on...

Might have to ask over on Server Fault.

Videonauth

maybe because its an .exe file ;) and we finally have invented a way fro protecting us from evil :P

Nathan Osman

wget isn't protected in any way :P

Same thing from my server in SF.

Bizarre.

Time to take a peek at the server.

Videonauth

funny thing is, FF didnt even move it to my downloads directory, it kept it stuck in /tmp/mozilla_michael0/

SmokeDetector

4:28 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: Are you sure your supplements Good for Health by Proshred Elite on askubuntu.com …

Nathan Osman

I'm not seeing anything in the event viewer.

Edity

hullo

Videonauth

but I'm seeing something which may be the cause on my end ;) wanna see what?

michael@NEXUS-ONE:~/python$ traceroute windows.quickmediasolutions.com
traceroute to ec2-52-32-74-166.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com (52.32.74.166), 64 hops max
  1   192.168.0.1  2,603ms  2,063ms  2,049ms
  2   10.152.192.1  10,180ms  12,191ms  27,722ms
  3   81.210.131.221  11,271ms  10,916ms  9,788ms
  4   84.116.196.158  17,052ms  22,881ms  17,321ms
  5   84.116.196.162  28,209ms  32,724ms  17,581ms
  6   84.116.134.10  22,738ms  34,136ms  19,017ms
  7   141.136.102.81  19,470ms  24,441ms  17,816ms

Edity

ubuntu touch?

Videonauth

nope

Edity

4:34 AM

why does it ssay nexus one

Videonauth

my workgroup: HORDE my pcs: NEXUS-ONE (main machine), NEXUS-TWO (laptop), NEXUS-THREE (NAS) my router: NEXUS-ZERO my phone: NEXUS-FOUR

Edity

oh

Videonauth

i stick to a naming scheme in my local network

Edity

oh

Videonauth

Nathan did you see the traceroute ?

Nathan Osman

4:38 AM

Yes.

Videonauth

all with a ping over 100 are on US soil

it takes exactly 120 ms to pinctrace to US

technical limitation

Edity

O_o

Videonauth

@edity the signal goes through a thousands of miles long under water cable taking one way 60 ms and again 60 ms for the result comming back

Edity

ahh, ping

ok i understand

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body: Effective Muscle Weight Gain Secrets? by barbraerr on askubuntu.com …

Henry WH Hack

4:43 AM

That spam looks familiar.

Edity

O_o

Nathan Osman

AHA!

@Videonauth I checked the HTTP logs.

Videonauth

and ?

Nathan Osman

It's throwing an HTTP 502 Bad Gateway error.

So it's a problem with the way I've got Jenkins hooked up to IIS I guess.

Videonauth

so something on amazon site is screwed

or that

Severus Tux

4:52 AM

hello friends :D

Videonauth

o/

Severus Tux

\o

Henry WH Hack

@SeverusTux Ubuntu to you too. :D

Severus Tux

:D to you too

Edity

lool

Henry WH Hack

5:04 AM

All hail me god of the mods. :p

108/500 Flagged post. :)

Nathan Osman

@Videonauth ^--- I'm wondering if the answer is in there somewhere

Videonauth

@NathanOsman I see nothing wrong there, but don't nail me down on that

Nathan Osman

Response buffer threshold (KB): 256

Hmm...

We'll change that and see what happens.

Videonauth

tell me when you have changed it and i'll try again

Nathan Osman

I'm making changes but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Videonauth

5:17 AM

it always stops exactly at 1 M

Nathan Osman

I'm betting it's a timed thing.

Edity

UoW (ubuntu on windows)

Nathan Osman

Like it stops after xxx number of seconds.

Videonauth

michael@NEXUS-ONE:~/downloads$ wget --limit-rate 32k windows.quickmediasolutions.com/job/NitroShare/…
--2016-06-03 07:16:38--  windows.quickmediasolutions.com/job/NitroShare/…
Resolving windows.quickmediasolutions.com (windows.quickmediasolutions.com)... 52.32.74.166
Connecting to windows.quickmediasolutions.com (windows.quickmediasolutions.com)|52.32.74.166|:80... connected.

without the limit-rate i get the file fully

Nathan Osman

Yeah, but since you're limiting the speed, it likely downloads the same amount of the file in the same amount of time.

Videonauth

5:24 AM

yep

exactly 1024 KB

Nathan Osman

Interesting. It doesn't stall when downloading at a slow speed from another account on the server.

So maybe it is AWS after all.

But that makes no sense.

Oh. Spoke too soon.

It failed on the server.

David Cole - Grammar Police

-1

Q: Cannot boot my ubuntu after upgrade to 15.10

I cannot access to my computer using ubuntu after upgrading to 15.10 and if i access to recovery mode it need from me to login and ttry shown in display boot

boot

can we just take a minute

to realize how depressing that is

Videonauth

@DavidCole-GrammarPolice the question (which is not really clear) or the answer which is in fact garbage ?

David Cole - Grammar Police

Both

which together are miserable

Nathan Osman

Okay, they're bad. You've got a point there.

Videonauth

5:31 AM

the close vote on it is from me and i as well flagged the answer as VLQ

David Cole - Grammar Police

editing as we speak, cant make anything too much better but meh

2 edits up for approval

Videonauth

O.k. that edit makes sense at least so I retract my close vote on the question, sadly I can't approve the edit I'm already through with my 20 today.

David Cole - Grammar Police

Dang okay

Lets see how long it takes for one of them to revert the changes though XD

I honestly wish there was a way to sort by ascending/descending so i could go see the most downvoted question of all time XD

Videonauth

Ah our friendly wizard from the disc-world is back ;)

David Cole - Grammar Police

Well guys

I found it

-17

Q: open exe in ubuntu without wine or any other windows compatibility layer

Well, I tried to open some exe files with wine, like Minecraft team extreme. It ran, but it was lagging too much! Can someone please help me run an exe file without Windows/DOS/Wine because I lost my CD of the one that contains Windows?

windows wine

-17 XD

Videonauth

5:38 AM

Wonder how much it will take to make the system auto delete it.

David Cole - Grammar Police

dunno

Maybe it doesnt?

I mean 18 would be a strange number

Videonauth

42 is my favorite number

Rinzwind

@Videonauth ended on 195 rep y-day :P

Videonauth

@Rinzwind I ended up with 215, so the 11th time within 71 days

Videonauth

6:43 AM

i really winder why people dont do upgrades

and then they complain about that something does not work as expected

jokerdino

who is that guy who didnt install UTT

Videonauth

@jokerdino --> askubuntu.com/q/781197/522934

jokerdino

shame

Videonauth

seems they tried to stack overflow my apache here in the machine when i have a look at the logs, only bad i limited the max length og the input string so much down that ist impossible to cause an overflow

Henry WH Hack

7:08 AM

The battle of the mods!

Edity

7:37 AM

I got pinged.

nvm :/

@HenryWHHack Battle of the what?

Henry WH Hack

the mods!

Edity

the mods?