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@Zacharee1 Not really, it's asking about ssh tunneling. Since one end is Ubuntu and, presumably, that end will be launching the tunnel, it seems on topic. Unclear, but on topic.

Zacharee1

@terdon But we don't know whether or not the Windows machine has an SSH server setup

@terdon here's the real dupe, if you want to superclose it so it's the right reason askubuntu.com/questions/58539/how-to-use-ssh-ssh-rsync-commands

Zanna

@edwinksl it was @Serg blaming his bellow on his cough

terdon

@Zacharee1 Where does it mention a tunnel?

Zacharee1

1:28 PM

what

terdon

> I want to connect to my window machine from my ubuntu machine via ssh tunnel how can i achieve this.

Zacharee1

oh

well there's this then askubuntu.com/questions/539937/how-may-i-do-a-ssh-tunneling

but that's not remote

here askubuntu.com/questions/414930/access-webpage-through-ssh

user136984

What is this? And I ask myself again, why on earth am I watching it??? :D

user136984

Linkin Bridge: Tough guys bring the HOOD TO THE 'BURBS AT CHRISTMAS - PRANK!

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terdon

Let's just see if the OP will explain what they actually need. We can't find a dupe unless we know what the question is asking

Zacharee1

1:32 PM

yeah

user136984

It was weird but kind of sweet, they all went and sang Christmas carols to unsuspecting people.

user136984

God, why am I just watching random things that pop up on the YouTube homepage? :D

Zanna

I've now spent like 3 hours answering that PS1 question I begged this room for a dupe target for on Sunday haha

CodeX

xD

Zanna

1:47 PM

@edwinksl your editor eyes are sharp!

edwinksl

:D

i am just being nitpicky :X

Zanna

nope big improvement, thanks a lot :)

Rinzwind

@terdon start digging?

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karthick87

@Rinzwind how are you doing?

Do you remember me?

dino

Where have I heard this one before?

Zacharee1

2:00 PM

wat

Rinzwind

@karthick87 you are that user that ditched Ubuntu for an inferior alternative >:)

dino

I thought that was htorque.

Rinzwind

@dino him too

karthick87

@Rinz

@Rinzwind right :)

Rinzwind

:D

@dino his meta q's are good :D meta.askubuntu.com/questions/4077/…

karthick87

2:04 PM

@Rinzwind have a minute? need a small favour in an py script. Hope you can help me out.

Rinzwind

sure but I am on and off a lot :D
am doing an install of a procedure and when they call me I need to help them asap

karthick87

@Rinzwind sure.. Here is the script pastebin.com/raw/1BzHk9Sk you can take a look..

user136984

Oh dear, I've found a bug in part of GNOME core language switching functionality...

user136984

I'm going to screencast it when I get the time because it's so strange I don't know how to describe it!

user136984

:D

karthick87

2:08 PM

@Rinzwind actually the script takes the file name test1.json as user input.. And it will also take the class name as input and it has to append the class name into the json file under classes..

@Rinzwind there the appending is not happening.. not sure what is missing out.

Rinzwind

ehm

not a clue :D

this "json.dump(f,data['classes'].append(class_add))" seems correct :P

karthick87

@Rinzwind yeah right. And here is the error that i get pastebin.com/raw/ufZqFP2G

Zacharee1

Unclear, Too Broad, Opinionated, whatever you want askubuntu.com/questions/815815/…

edwinksl

time to exercise my 3k powahs

Zacharee1

dupe askubuntu.com/questions/815813/can-i-install-ubuntu-on-ace-tab

karthick87

2:22 PM

@Rinzwind let me know if you get anything out of it.. I am also checking it. Thanks :)

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Q: Is Linux Mint supporting AMD graphic cards?

I want to upgrade to a new distro because Ubuntu 16.04LTS has MAJOR problems with any graphical use, I can't edit videos, and the screen is really glitchy, I can't watch videos on fullscreen because of this anoying glitchy thing. I would be also happy if someone would suggest a distro. I heard th...

edwinksl

^ question for you @Zacharee1

Zacharee1

2:37 PM

answered

Zacharee1

2:48 PM

wat askubuntu.com/questions/815831/…

edwinksl

"many AMD user"

by that he/she probably means the one and only zach

Journeyman Geek

@edwinksl now now. There's all of two AMD users ... ;p

Zacharee1

OT askubuntu.com/questions/815833/…

@JourneymanGeek like Pilot...

edwinksl

gpl hater spotted

dino

@JourneymanGeek OP and zach

Journeyman Geek

2:52 PM

(my linux boxen run intel)

Zacharee1

boxen?

are you the new jokerdino?

dino

I dont say boxen.

Journeyman Geek

@Zacharee1 ox oxen box boxen fox foxen...

Zacharee1

@dino puns, jokes

@JourneymanGeek doxx doxxen

Journeyman Geek

@Zacharee1 clearly you must be unfamiliar with me ;p

dino

3:00 PM

@Zacharee1 really? That's a first.

Zacharee1

wat

dino

I never do puns. My jokes don't even qualify as one.

edwinksl

so you are neither a joker nor a dino...

Journeyman Geek

Also, jokerdino is by definition old. 65 million years at least.

dino

@edwinksl You are hurting my feelings.

edwinksl

3:03 PM

(:

CodeX

Haddaway - What is Love + Lyrics

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dino

):

Zacharee1

What's up with you @dino

dino

edw is bullying me.

Zacharee1

...

edwinksl

3:05 PM

plz no ban me :)

CodeX

love the apps here electron.atom.io/apps

dino

@Zacharee1 don't join him

Zacharee1

wat

edwinksl

@CodeX where is skype for linux? that thing is almost certainly electron

dino

pls

CodeX

3:07 PM

@edwinksl they forgot to send add request I guess

edwinksl

time for ms to admit they spent all these years just putting skype into electron rofl

Lol

@dino hugs

hey you hugs.

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that kind of hug ?

dino

3:13 PM

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terdon

WARNING: approaching maximum permissible levels of cute.

Core reactor explosion imminent. Rain of pink marshmallows cannot be ruled out.

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Zacharee1

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

edwinksl

@Zanna OP rollbacked your edit... askubuntu.com/posts/814982/revisions

Zacharee1

@edwinksl lol, he replace "their" with "there"

Zanna

wtf? askubuntu.com/questions/815838/…

haha ok if there thinking that there English is better than mine then there welcome to roll away

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edwinksl

3:22 PM

huh, that seems odd

dino

No, that hurts to read.

Zacharee1

OT askubuntu.com/questions/815844/virtualbox-vt-x

Zanna

oh just seen the kittens ^_^ ^_^ ^_^

Zacharee1

@Zanna then*

dino

wow that's a cheap 10 votes on that answer

Zacharee1

3:24 PM

umm askubuntu.com/questions/815837/…

edwinksl

dat screenshot

terdon

@Zanna Woah. That is not good

Zanna

cheap ten votes where?

Zacharee1

@edwinksl srsly

terdon

I'm guessing what happens is that vim copies the file to a new inode. I just tested and I can't modify something unless I have write access to the directory. I can, however, use ! to modify a file in a directory I have access to, despite not having write access to the file.

Zanna

3:25 PM

you're telling me it's not good @terdon !! does the other editor do that??

terdon

Not that I know of.

And no, it doesn't change the inode. Something really weird here.

Zanna

at least I can't do it without w on the directory. Still that is messed up....

Zacharee1

how is it able to do that though?

are you able to delete files without write access to them if you have write access to the dir?

terdon

Yes

Zacharee1

well, then it doesn't seem that bad...

terdon

3:29 PM

But it's not doing that. The inode remains the same.

Zacharee1

?

terdon

$ echo foo | sudo tee fff
foo
$ ls -i fff
1839014 fff
$ vim fff  ## o the :wq! trick
$ ls -i fff
1839014 fff

Zacharee1

what is that?

(the inode?)

terdon

Yes

Or were you asking what an inode is?

Zacharee1

no, what is an inode?

is it like a hashsum?

terdon

3:31 PM

Inode

In a Unix-style file system, the inode is a data structure used to represent a filesystem object, which can be one of various things including a file or a directory. Each inode stores the attributes and disk block location(s) of the filesystem object's data. Filesystem object attributes may include manipulation metadata (e.g. change, access, modify time), as well as owner and permission data (e.g. group-id, user-id, permissions). Directories are lists of names assigned to inodes. The directory contains an entry for itself, its parent, and each of its children. == Etymology == There has been some...

dino

it's a link

terdon

Think of it as an address on the file system. Each file/dir has an inode associated with it.

Zacharee1

ah OK

terdon

Rather, each file is a hardlink to its inode.

Zacharee1

so it's not possible that vim overwrites the file on the disk?

dino

3:32 PM

catonmat.net/blog/sudo-vim

terdon

Well, it doesn't look like it's deleting/recreating the file, but let me check again to make sure. It might just be using the same inode again (although that seems unlikely)

Zacharee1

@dino that makes me think it elevates itself to overwrite the file

terdon

Huh. OK, it is actually deleting it and recreating it. Weird.

Zacharee1

yay

I figured a thing

Arronical

This has a bit of info about it, apparently you do need to own the file superuser.com/questions/694450/…

Zanna

3:42 PM

nice answer @terdon :)

terdon

Thanks. That had me worried for a while :)

edwinksl

+1 for terdy

Zanna

I feel like there have been lots of good Qs today

edwinksl

french post spotted

terdon

Closed and commented.

Putain mais ca m’énerve quand ils essayent meme pas de traduire!

Thomas Ward

3:55 PM

randomly appears out of nowhere

edwinksl

like a pokemon?

terdon

Quick, catch it, catch it!

Thomas Ward

nope

terdon

ThomasWards are really rare!

Thomas Ward

disappears, then reappears standing on @edwinksl 's head

edwinksl

3:57 PM

don't ruin my tinfoil hat please :)

Thomas Ward

too late

you'll need a new one :P

Zanna

makes new hat and scp it to eddy

edwinksl

yay new hat new conspiracies :)

karthick87

any one here good at python? looking for a bit of help..

Thomas Ward

define "good"

good is a relative term.

@karthick87 the definition of "good" is relative, I know my way around some python, not sure if I qualify as "good" in your mind though

karthick87

4:07 PM

@ThomasWard here is the script pastebin.com/skj84LmU

@ThomasWard actually i have to append the user input to the json file

terdon

@karthick87 the way to do this sort of thing is to i) explain what the code is supposed to do; ii) explain what it is doing instead and iii) trim it down to the simplest possible example that reproduces the error

Thomas Ward

and you've done none of those

so i'm going to go work on my own python stuff

that said, looks like you're passing an object instead of the contents

an opened file is just an object. Reading the file helps :p

simply opening the file does jack squat

f.read() will give the json contents

f = open(userinput,'a')  # Opens the file for append, but that's just the write mode
json.dump(f,data['classes'].append(class_add))  # Does something with 'f', but likely expects *json* content, not a file object.

(comments are my own)

Zacharee1

This answer looks like a lot, but it's not much askubuntu.com/a/815858/274320

Thomas Ward

@karthick87 read docs.python.org/2/library/json.html#basic-usage to get better data on what json.dump expects for args and such.

karthick87

@ThomasWard thanks a lot.. Will check that

Terrance

4:15 PM

Very cool! Just installed NVIDIA 370 drivers and CUDA 8.0 comes installed with it! =)

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 well the problem is the nvidia card as you pointed out... nothing in that answer addresses that

@Arronical looks like the offensive things have been deleted

Arronical

Yup, removed my chat message, but too late!

terdon

:31858614 Just flag such things as offensive next time.

I'm not doing anything other than deleting the comment because this is a new user who's probably never coming back. Issuing a suspension will just lead to drama.

Zanna

@Zacharee1 looks like NAA to me

Arronical

Cheers @terdon, I did that, think I'll remove my comment too, don't want to stoke anything.

terdon

4:21 PM

@Arronical Congratulations on your restraint, by the way. That was a very civil response to a very uncivil comment.

Arronical

:)

Terrance

Uncivil comments happen here all the time. :(

terdon

@Terrance Heh, try hanging out on Stack Overflow for a while.

Terrance

@terdon I think I am going to have to hang out there. ;)

Arronical

Just don't ask any obvious noob questions, you can feel the collective huff and eye-roll make its way around the world!

Terrance

4:25 PM

I noticed one yesterday that I let slide.

Thomas Ward

@karthick87 still there?

karthick87

@ThomasWard yep

Thomas Ward

@karthick87 so you want this script to take user input of a path to a JSON file, import it as a JSON object, manipulate the data in the JSON object, and then write the updated JSON to the original JSON file, correct?

karthick87

@ThomasWard yes exactly

Thomas Ward

I think I've done your work for you

standby

Zacharee1

4:32 PM

@Zanna nah, it's an answer, it just doesn't need to be nearly as long. It also follows HP keyboard shortcuts when OP has MSI, but that doesn't really matter.

@edwinksl they said it worked for them, but I doubt it would have affected anything. They might not even have Nvidia.

Zanna

I think it's NAA if it's about a totally different device

@edwinksl did you see what happened here after we both commented? askubuntu.com/questions/815107/…

Zacharee1

Anyone know of a good cheap NVIDIA PCI-E card? Something with at least 1GB VRAM?

@Zanna my answer is about all devices at once :

edwinksl

@Zanna hmm no, i don't think i got a notification

Thomas Ward

@karthick87 gist.github.com/teward/681edcbaf7a2810254c6ff59baae44f3

Zacharee1

Wow, the total for my server I built has gone up since last year

Thomas Ward

4:36 PM

@karthick87 note I replaced your user input with static strings for my testing, as I was using an IDE that doesn't have interactive python console during code test runs

Terrance

@Zacharee1 I have the GTX560. Doesn't look too expensive, and it is a good card in my opinion: ebay.com/itm/…

Zacharee1

Hmm

Zanna

yeah @Zacharee1 and that's why it's useful to everyone, but the other answer is like "this totally generic procedure mysteriously worked on my particular device"

Thomas Ward

@karthick87 concept is still the same though.

Zacharee1

@Zanna it's not a good answer, but it's not NAA

karthick87

4:37 PM

@ThomasWard thanks much. I appreciate it.. Checking it.

Zacharee1

@Terrance two DVI, an HDMI and a DisplayPort? Wow

Thomas Ward

@karthick87 I added some additional prints to make sure JSON format was done. Note that I replaced "append" with "write" for the file open mode, because you have to write the whole JSON object as overwrite, not append, otherwise you get weird errors.

Zacharee1

Can I use all four at once? :P

Terrance

@Zacharee1 I haven't tried all the ports, but it detects them all in xrandr

Thomas Ward

@karthick87 (such as random list objects at the end of the file, which breaks JSON serialization - this means you have to overwrite the whole file with the complete JSON, not append.)

Zacharee1

4:38 PM

@Terrance huh. Problem with that listing is it's bulk - 20 min

And I don't need 20

Thomas Ward

back in a few.

Terrance

@Zacharee1 How about ebay.com/itm/…

Zacharee1

You found that fast o_O

Terrance

It was right below

:)

Zacharee1

Well it certainly looks tempting, but I'm gonna see if I can't find something with 2GB

Terrance

4:40 PM

Go for it.

Zacharee1

And I don't really need 4 ports :p

Terrance

Just letting you know that I love mine by the way.

I am not really a serious gamer, but it holds it's own in the games that I do like to play. :)

karthick87

@ThomasWard got it.. So that is the only option then i believe. I mean overwriting the whole file..

Zacharee1

@Terrance how is it for Minecraft and Garry's Mod if you know

Terrance

@Zacharee1 I actually have not tried. I will have to get my son's account and install it on my system and test it that way. Train Sim 2016 and Flight Sim X look awesome on it. I have not tried any newer games that are higher end like Doom or GTA

Zacharee1

4:45 PM

Apparently, the 750 Ti is the best budget range

Terrance

My sons have the 760 Ti's in their systems and they say they run good. Some games have needed tweaking.

Zacharee1

This looks OK newegg.com/Product/…-na--na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076‌&PID=3938566&SID=

Yikes

If 760 Ti exists, it isn't compatible with my build

Terrance

Oops, they are the 750s. Just found the links

terdon

See, that's why I'm not in favor of translating questions. I left a comment explaining that the site only accepts post in English and directing the user to Google Translate. They responded by telling me "OK, I added the link to the guide I followed".

Terrance

@Zacharee1 amazon.com/gp/product/B00IDG3IDO/…

terdon

4:49 PM

And so forced me to write yet another comment. In bleedin' French! I hate writing in French. I can speak the language well enough, but writing it is a whole different thing.

Grrrrr.

Zacharee1

@Terrance I can get one for $80 though :p

Terrance

@Zacharee1 That's cool. That is just the link from when I bought them for my sons. :)

Zacharee1

Yeah

Maybe you could buy me one too :pp

Terrance

I have two teenage boys that have expensive computer habits that drain my wallet. ;)

Zacharee1

So the Asus is 4 stars and us $80. The zotac is 5 stars, but $105