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IanC

00:02

I think I need to install some graphics driver

been noticing some small really quick screen glitches

how can I check the current GFX drivers being used?

Byte Commander

@IanC Thanks. My dictionary is thinking too complex... ;)

IanC

no problem! :)

Rinzwind

@ByteCommander thanks for the fish!

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 'cycle' written by Douglas Adams. Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet Earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, as described in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The phrase has since been adopted by some science fiction fans as a humorous way to say "goodbye" and a song of the same name was featured in the 2005 film adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. == Plot summary == While hitchhiking through the galaxy, Arthur...

:D

Byte Commander

:D

Serg

spotify is to damn smart, i change my user-agent string android and it still keeps giving desktop site

Byte Commander

00:08

Probably it only examines your browser window size. Resize it to small width.

Serg

@ByteCommander nope, still the same

Totally works for AU chat though :D

Byte Commander

shrug

Serg

00:27

@ByteCommander Actually, you were right . . . I've resized my webapp , and it now works

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: perf fails to work on really large process

I use perf quite often to profile my applications. Recently I got a few new machine with ~750G RAM each. I am trying to profile a process that uses about 400G of ram on one of them. This works fine on the these machines besides one of them. They were all installed the same way, running ubuntu. I...

Serg

freakin spotify want flash

Android Dev

@NathanOsman - So, how did the RAM upgrade go?

Nathan Osman

Good, thanks.

I had a bit of trouble at first - it was recognized in the BIOS but neither Linux nor Ubuntu would use it.

rancho

hello

Android Dev

00:40

@NathanOsman Memtest passed without errors?

@rancho Hi.

Nathan Osman

I opened the case again and discovered I didn't push it in all the way :D

rancho

say

Nathan Osman

Then it worked. And yes, memtest seemed to think it was okay.

Android Dev

@rancho Can I ask what theme you are using and which flavor of Ubuntu?

@rancho - Looked so much like OSX I almost flagged as off-topic :)

rancho

MacBuntu theme on Ubuntu 16.04

Android Dev

00:41

@rancho Is it in the default repos?

@NathanOsman Out of curiosity, what speed and timings are they running at combined?

rancho

No its in noobslab repos

noobslab.com/2016/04/macbuntu-1604-transformation-pack-for.html

Android Dev

@rancho Hmm. I'll have to try it in a VM. Thanks!

rancho

welcome :)

Nathan Osman

@AndroidDev Good question, I'll check.

Android Dev

@Serg Obviously, they want to exploit a bug, and gain complete remote control of your computer :)

Nathan Osman

00:45

10-10-10-27 (Corsair) and 9-9-9-24 (generic) - does that sound right?

I can give you the full output of decode-dimms if you want it.

Android Dev

@NathanOsman Yes, but.... how is that possible? Are the different brands each on their own MC, or are they mixed?

Nathan Osman

I honestly don't know.

My motherboard only has two DIMM slots.

Android Dev

@NathanOsman O_o

Nathan Osman

It's an ASUS F2A55-M LE if that helps.

Android Dev

@NathanOsman Who knows. Maybe Intel upgraded their MCs to be able to run the different modules at different speeds, but that just doesn't seem right.

@NathanOsman - However,

@NathanOsman - Are those timings being reported what the RAM supports running at, or what they actually are running at?

Nathan Osman

00:49

I'll give you the full output.

dpaste.com/0Y84KK3

Android Dev

@NathanOsman Not Ubuntu paste?

Nathan Osman

Does it matter?

Android Dev

@NathanOsman No :)

Byte Commander

I wonder why not quickmediasolutions.com/pastebin :)

Android Dev

@NathanOsman - Can you post the output of sudo lshw -C memory | grep clock please?

Nathan Osman

00:54

nathan@nathan-desktop:~$ sudo lshw -C memory | grep clock
          clock: 1600MHz (0.6ns)
          clock: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
       clock: 1GHz (1.0ns)
       clock: 1GHz (1.0ns)

Android Dev

@NathanOsman Hrrm. Well sounds like I need to do some research on this subject! Thanks for the outputs :)

Nathan Osman

NP.

Serg

@AndroidDev could be that but seems more like it's a legal issue for them

Android Dev

@Serg But flash in Chrome[ium] is sandboxed anyway, no?

Serg

@AndroidDev no idea, tbh

gansub

01:47

@Serg good evening

i was able to get my memory chips in order

now when i do a ls it hangs

it says something like inode something

pwd works

but ls just hangs

why is the file system not responding ?

df works

Android Dev

<sigh>

0

A: error occurred while loading the archive

You can't run .exe files on Linux. (Technically speaking you can though WINE...) Linux software is installed though apt, or through .deb files. To install W10, you'll need to download the .iso file and use Brasero to burn it to a DVD.

Serg

@gansub hi there, what's the exact error that it gives you ?

gansub

@Serg no error

it just hangs

the inode error occurs when i try to logout

Serg

@gansub but you mentioned something about inode

gansub

that occurs when i logout

@Serg i had another question

Serg

02:10

yes ?

gansub

when i do a cat 'find . -name "*.f"` | grep pattern

it returns nothing

but i know the pattern does exist in the subdirectory file

why is that ?

what i want is this

i want a find and then i pipe to cat and then i grep for a pattern

i want to find all fortran files and then cat them one by one and then grep for a pattern

Serg

@gansub you don't need to use cat there , remove cat and single quotes

find . -name "*.f" | grep pattern

that's if you want to find them

gansub

@Serg that greps the list of the name of files

i dont want that

i want to grep the content of the files

Serg

In that case do, grep -R -I 'pattern'

this will recursively search current directory

$ grep -R -I 'gsettings'   | head
language_sources.py:def gsettings_get(schema,path,key):
language_sources.py:        gsettings = Gio.Settings.new(schema)
language_sources.py:        gsettings = Gio.Settings.new_with_path(schema,path)
language_sources.py:    return gsettings.get_value(key)
language_sources.py:def gsettings_set(schema,path,key,value):

My example

gansub

ok wonderful thanks !

Serg

02:16

@gansub also , can you please do this :

$ LC_ALL=C df -i /
Filesystem      Inodes  IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1      7331840 648316 6683524    9% /

gansub

@Serg as root or as myself ?

Serg

doesn't matter

gansub

ok hang on

@Serg did it

you want output ?

Serg

just IUse %

gansub

ok wait

for /dev/sda1 it is 9 %

Serg

02:19

hmmm, your inode usage seems ok . . .

gansub

i ran photorec for 1 day continously

OK ?

i only had 32 % full before that

now it is 67 % full

on /dev/sda1

there are a hell of lot of recovered files from over 2 years

and when i ran photorec the disk was making a lot of noise

now it is cooled down

occasionally the system froze during the running of phototec

and i could not logout

now it is responding again

Serg

@gansub wait, you have two disks right ?

gansub

@Serg no just one now

we could not attach two disks to this

Serg

oh . . .

gansub

there was not enough space

i got the SATA cable but could not find a slo

slot

@Serg gosh your grep command is still goin'

like the Energizer battery

i got lots of files

Serg

02:23

that's good, i hope ?

gansub

@Serg i have to give high recommendation for photorec

it is a miracle worker

it is YUUUGE as somebody would say

Serg

:) @gansub praise to the developers who made it

gansub

i sent a note to it's developer

Serg

i wish i could write software like this, but so far I know very little

right now, I'm writing brightness indicator for Ubuntu desktop, figuring out how to make it work with mouse scroll

Zacharee1

@Seth does your TMO friend have TMO phones or other carrier?

gansub

02:39

@Serg - you need to look at kernel code i reckon

Serg

my code-fu not strong enough to play with kernels

gansub

it is just C programming

Serg

02:58

@ByteCommander good news, I figured out how to distinguish scrolling up and down for the logarithmic brightness indicator.I will begin working on it tomorrow.

Zacharee1

ooh logs

it's lo-og it's lo-og it's big it's heavy it's wood

it's lo-og it's lo-og it's better than bad it's good

Serg

@Zacharee1 you're not canadian , why are you singing about logs ?

Zacharee1

lol

Original Log Commercial | The Ren & Stimpy Show | The Splat

►

Serg

@ByteCommander by the way, the behavior you described (small steps in low range, big steps in high range) is a misnomer , that's exponential behavior

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

03:19

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Q: what is "systemd" in CentOS 7

I'm a newbie at CentOS 7 So can anyone tell me what is systemd and why CentOS 7 have systemd but CentOS 6 doesn't have ? 1 more question : Which ubuntu version have systemd ? P/s : sorry if my English is bad

linux ubuntu centos systemd

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

I dont feel well today

Anwar Shah

good morning

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

That was not pleasent

Anwar Shah

must be a dup askubuntu.com/questions/572235/404-failed-to-fetch-package

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

?

@Serg new profile picture hype?

Zacharee1

03:31

you know what's fun?

editing your phone's NV to potentially enable locked LTE bands

Serg

@ƎpᴉʇʎXD yes, i joined wolves

Zacharee1

@Serg ubunut traitor

2

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

Serg and ByteCommander: Worlds Collide

Aug 6 at 20:54, by ƎpᴉʇʎXD

obuntu?

ADD OBUNTU PLEASE @Zacharee1 I BEG YOU

Aug 6 at 20:56, by Android Dev

@ƎpᴉʇʎXD It could be a penguin saying "ooooOOOHHH" and pointing to the Ubuntu logo with his wing.

@Seth o/

Seth

@Zacharee1 I don't know. I know his personal phone was missing 1 Tmo band, but the other phones were Tmo phones. Anyway, he got some LTE back a week ago or so, then switched to AT&T.

@ƎpᴉʇʎXD hi

Zacharee1

lol

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

03:37

I have 4G LTE

Zacharee1

well I just found out my area doesn't have the one overlapping band with Verizon

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

YAY

Zacharee1

they're working on the tower here to add it, but no ETA

so I'm haxxoring my phonez

Serg

Does anyone know about systemd here ?

Zacharee1

no lol

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

03:38

i only know windows

Zacharee1

no bootloop please

oh good

Nathan Osman

@Serg What's up?

Serg

@NathanOsman so . . . I'm confused . . . Does systemd even read /etc/init stuff ?

Zacharee1

uh oh

Serg

or everything is in /usr/lib/systemd/user ?

Nathan Osman

03:42

@Serg nope.

@Serg Do you mean /lib/systemd/system?

Oh, heh.

There are some unit files in /usr/lib/systemd/user too.

I didn't know that some were stored there.

Serg

OK, I can see why people are confused about it

so why on earth do we still have scripts in /etc/init and /etc/init.d then ?

Nathan Osman

Compatibility.

Zacharee1

AGH

Every time I select MTP for USB, my phone shuts down

This isn't good :(

Nathan Osman

MTP is nearly useless anyway.

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Zacharee1

03:55

@NathanOsman not when you're editing your phone's NV, screw it up and want to revert it isn't

Nathan Osman

I think Recovery has an ADB mode somewhere you can use.

Zacharee1

yeah but I don't think I can edit NV

Nathan Osman

Did you try?

Zacharee1

not yet

phew

rebooting to Recovery helped, but not in the way you think

I rebooted to it and then system and it recognized the diag ports

Nathan Osman

04:11

Recognized the what?

Zacharee1

diagnostic ports

unfortunately it keeps saying it can't communicate through them

SmokeDetector

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Zacharee1

04:36

I think I broke my phone...

:(

Nathan Osman

But it still runs?

Zacharee1

yeah but no service

Nathan Osman

I wonder if reflashing will reset the NV.

It's worth a shot.

Zacharee1

idk

I could reflash the modem

hmm

the radio isn't turning on

Nathan Osman

What model do you have again?

Zacharee1

04:41

Note 4 Verizon on Cyanogenmod

Nathan Osman

support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-14678

?

Scroll down to "Master reset with hardware keys".

Zacharee1

Verizon model

but that won't apply

Nathan Osman

Why won't it apply?

The hardware keys are the same.

Zacharee1

yeah but I have custom recovery

overrides all the default stuff

Nathan Osman

Can't you flash the factory recovery first?

Zacharee1

04:44

don't want to

trying the modem flash first

Nathan Osman

Whatever :P

Zacharee1

flashing to stock will lock the bootloader

I'll have to downgrade to Lollipop, root, unlock, flash a hybrid firmware, root, unlock, flash CM again

and the root is really unstable; only lasts about 5 minutes before the phone freezes

Anwar Shah

It seems Unclear What you're asking has become new favorite choice!

Many of them are simply because the reader/flagger wasn't familiar with the application in question.

And some others because of ugly formatting.

Zacharee1

05:00

OK, we're getting somewhere

only GSM died

Nathan Osman

Yay, it's only semi-bricked now.

Zacharee1

my VZW SIM seems to work OK

but no LTE either

Zacharee1

05:19

yikes

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

NEWS: french gymastic thingy has broken his leg: independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/…

Zacharee1

05:44

@NathanOsman I pulled the values from my mom's phone. Hopefully, I'm back to getting EDGE only

then I can play with LTE ONLY

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

05:55

@AnwarShah :P UWyA is becoming a popular fashion now

Zacharee1

I think I killed my TMO SIM

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

@Zacharee1 why do you want to play with LtE?

don't modify your phone.

Zacharee1

@ƎpᴉʇʎXD because I have a Verizon phone on the T-Mobile network. It only has one overlapping frequency for LTE, and that frequency happens to not be available where I am

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

if it's not available, dont modify it! tm

Zacharee1

I'm trying to unlock extra LTE bands, so I can actually get LTE

HEDMON

06:23

Hello

I'm just installing for first time a system under software raid

But I'm not clear what to do for install Grub

I have 5 HDD, created a RAID6 during the installation (created a free partition in every disk and made them part of the raid), but I don't believe is possible install Grub in the raid, right?

Anwar Shah

@ƎpᴉʇʎXD but I'm not fan of that FLAG

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

me neither

Anwar Shah

Anyone used lxqt in 16.04? I installed it but it's look and feel is same as the old LXDE

am i missing something?

Serg

i might try it at some point

@HEDMON i don't think at this moment there's anybody in chat who knows about RAID , so you might be better off by asking question either on the main site or unix.stackexchange.com

Takkat

:31589672 Hi

Anwar Shah

06:37

well, first verify it's him

long time no see! how were you?

Takkat

lol quite busy recently... at present on vacation in France

Anwar Shah

have a nice holiday!

Takkat

it definitely is.

Internet is too slow here :( but better than nothing.

(speedtest times out)

Anwar Shah

not slower than here I guess

O.o

sorry for that. but it has some good side too.

Holidays are more enjoyable when you're cut off of Internet imo

Serg

\o hi Takkat

Takkat

06:43

nah - I'm too addicted to it. Hi @Serg

Anwar Shah

Sorry then

Takkat

I quit smoking 10 weeks ago but I couldn't quit my internets.

Anwar Shah

congrats!

Takkat

thx

Anwar Shah

you're welcome

I have an Idea.

let's close (with proper inspection of course) all fsck check while booting question as duplicate

there are lots of them askubuntu.com/…

The dup target can be this one askubuntu.com/questions/383114/…

Zanna

06:48

great

Anwar Shah

or suggest any other?

Zanna

I've been doing that for a while

Anwar Shah

thanks for the support :)

Zanna

I think that is the best one because the answer has a really clear explanation

or to me it's clear... "look here's the code that does this"

some just have a picture, so hard to find

Anwar Shah

hmm.. that's a problem

but we have to be careful. not all of them is a dup

Zanna

06:53

definitely

but this one is askubuntu.com/questions/802381/…

(tell me if not)

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

I'm not trying to convince you guys to use Windows, but my SeaGate works great with it.

Nathan Osman

It doesn't work with Linux?

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

yes.

it says "Drive not recognized"

NOOOOO windows vulnerability!

Anwar Shah

@Zanna can he boot to the system? if not I'm not sure it's a dup.

Zanna

@ƎpᴉʇʎXD like I said before, if windows made me blueberry pancakes and washed the dishes for me, I wouldn't use it

yeah she or he totally can @AnwarShah

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

06:57

:P

Henry WH Hack v2.0

SergKolo Changed his avatar/gravatar/logo.

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

I wondered if I can install ubuntu to a 1tb usb hard drive and boot off a USB

@HenryWHHackv2.0 Did you realize that just now?

Anwar Shah

well. then it's a dup

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

3 hours ago, by ƎpᴉʇʎXD

Serg and ByteCommander: Worlds Collide

Henry WH Hack v2.0

@ƎpᴉʇʎXD Been waiting to say that for 3 hours.

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

06:59

oh.

Anwar Shah

OP solved the question

edwinksl

@Zanna but blueberry pancakes are so good ._.

Zanna

@edwinksl I'll make my own rather than truck with M$

Anwar Shah

done voting

Zanna

... askubuntu.com/questions/773298/…

this is from yesterday or day before... maybe better than the other one (oops) askubuntu.com/questions/809900/…

which way to go there?

Anwar Shah

07:09

another one askubuntu.com/questions/741934/error-during-startup-fsck

here's another askubuntu.com/questions/795011/…

one survived the close votes!

Zanna

that first one says "my system does not start"

Anwar Shah

thanks. cleared now. my bad

but should be closed as a 'went away problem' imo

Zanna

yeah... abandoned

no repro then?

I'm doing it...

either that or unclear, since there's not enough information to diagnose the problem

Anwar Shah

anyone will do

Zanna

yeah sorry, I already VTC, just sayin

Anwar Shah

07:18

no need to sorry :)

Zanna

:)

this is a really simple problem... need to find a dupe for it askubuntu.com/questions/810342/…

brb

Anwar Shah

voted to close

Mint-Flavored Question

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

07:38

VTC- EOL:askubuntu.com/questions/749091/…

Anwar Shah

@ƎpᴉʇʎXD but the question is not EOL release specific. is it?

without that 15.10 tag, the question stands valid. only Close to vote if the question is specific to EOL release

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: mouse cursor disappeared after using second screen monitor?

I'm using ubuntu 14.04 desktop - Some laptop/PC lost mouse cursor after I installed OS - some lost mouse cursor after I use second screen monitor, it come back normal when i plug out. If I restart lightdm or use command "setsid unity" ... mouse cursor come back, but it disappear after I restar...

ubuntu

Zanna

no repro? or something!! askubuntu.com/questions/810379/…

Anwar Shah

that question is solvable i think. and it's new

Zanna

I wonder if that space was intentional

I mean, apparently no error about the file .sh

Anwar Shah

07:52

I believe that's not intentional. It's a java-bundled-with-netbeans IDE

I think he is copying from some tutorial and messed up the command

Zanna

but should have been found anyway by glob and chmod takes multiple args... and surely it doesn't need -R

I'll shut up

Anwar Shah

i think so. I just read your comments there. seems the problem went away

here's those files oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/…

Zanna

so the command is full of typos

well found!

Anwar Shah

he was using some older versions i believe

Zanna

oh

should we VTC or edit out the Mintiness askubuntu.com/questions/810407/…

Anwar Shah

07:58

Edited by a Guru already

Zanna

thank you oh guru

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