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I have successfully blocked all of Vietnam from my computer from getting in on port 22. :D

Them and France are very high on the offending list of trying to break into computers.

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

serial hackers

Yep

32 1632 DROP tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 match-set FRANCE src multiport dports 21,22
73 3736 DROP tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 match-set VIETNAM src multiport dports 21,22

First number is number of packet hits since last night.

That's different - hackers typically masquerade themselves with IPs from China, Vietnam, whatever.

Saying whole physical group of people defined by skin color are "loosers" , well that's some awful generalization . . . . and racist

@Serg Agreed. That is very racist.

10:09 PM

Is blocking IPs by country RACIST? Meet these four sysadmins and YOU decide!

I am only blocking on port 22 to my host since I leave it open.

Well, 21 if I turn on my FTP

This is an interesting problem askubuntu.com/questions/764609/…

does DISPLAY need to be set?

@Zanna interesting, didn't know MATE had its own screenshot utility. If i knew i wouldn't install gnome-screenshot

Since I don't run MATE, I wouldn't be any help on that answer.

10:15 PM

What the OP says is true for me too... I've tried the other settings. I can make a shortcut for mate-screenshot -w which grabs the window in focus, but setting one for mate screenshot -a does nothing

dammit chromium, y u no respond to my command for moving windows to different screen

interesting ...firefox uses 10 watts less than chrome

@CodeX are you playing with my power indicator ? :D

chromium is weirding me out - it assumes random size if i unmaximize

@Serg unfortunately indicator didn't work in Kubuntu

so I am using powertop

3-4 hours of battery life max I could get

@Seth hmm set to what? It says :0.0

10:21 PM

@Zanna no I meant the command might be run in an environment where DISPLAY wasn't set.

But that doesn't seem likely the more I think about it.

why not just set a shortcut key for screen shoot of selected area gnome-screenshot -a

you mean install gnome-screenshot and do that?

gnome-screenshot works for me after installation

just hit prt scrn button and violla

gnome-screenshot -a is already installed in ubunu ..not sure of mate though

@CodeX not installed by default, had to install manually this morning

10:23 PM

print screen will make screenshot of everything

no... it's not installed in mate, because mate has mate-screenshot. Hitting prt sc makes a screenshot, no problem

oh for me it worked without installing ..strange

By the way with gnome-screenshot you can just do shift+prt_scrn shortcut. That works the same as gnome-screenshot -a

it's the command to select an area... which works fine when you type the command - the pointer changes to a crosshair, and you grab your selection

but it refuses to be set as a shortcut

Change the distro xD

10:25 PM

mkay , imma try it out , see what i can come up with

I'm not that concerned about having the shortcut myself - if I really want to grab a selection, I will type the command (in fact I made an alias for it already)

I just think it's really interesting that it doesn't work!

I like this setup - MATE VM in full screen on the left, Ubuntu windows on the right

good mate

I tried setting my alias instead of the full command as shortcut, and now instead of nothing at all, I get a popup "error running ([alias]) which is linked to ([key combination)]"

there are also web browser extensions to take screenshot .. but then it will be limited to web browser only

10:30 PM

hmm, works for me . . . . I did exactly that , mate-screenshot -a assigned to Shift+ PrtScrn

@CodeX I don't want a workaround :)

sounds like a bug.

sudo apt dist-upgrade and make sure it works.

I like workarounds .. saves brain power

@Zanna Linux is 87.3% workaround.

workarounds and alternatives

10:33 PM

@KazWolfe He is on 16.04 LTS, upgrading to 16.10 which is a development release is not a good idea, and second - upgrading just because one small thingy doesn't work is a last - resort solutoin

@Serg Wat.

but @KazWolfe @CodeX I would much rather just type a command than install an extra package on the rare occasion when I want to use this feature

dist-upgrade does NOT upgrade you to 16.10 from 16.04

@Zanna I'm saying update your software. It might have a bugfix for this issue.

I think dist-upgrade got renamed to full-upgrade in apt :)

cool whatever works for you

10:34 PM

I updated 3 hours ago

@KazWolfe how many times do I have to say this -.-

but I agree with you it's likely a bug... an interesting bug

sorry if I am boring everyone! haha

@Serg weird that it works for you...

┌─[14:02:45]─[kazwolfe@BlackFire]
└──> ~ $ sudo apt dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for kazwolfe:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  [things]
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
  [other things]
30 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 100 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1,237 kB of additional disk space will be used.

@Zanna nah we like fun problems like this

@Zanna Is it the same for you ? not working ?

Can confirm it's dist-upgrade, and that it does NOT upgrade the OS.

10:36 PM

yeah I know dist-upgrade still works, but full-upgrade is the new name for it

and why it is not in the manual ?

dist-upgrade/full-upgrade both work just fine. it doesn't matter

anyway...

$ sudo apt dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for zanna:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.

    dist-upgrade
           dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also
           intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of
           packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will
           attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less
           important ones if necessary. The dist-upgrade command may therefore
           remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of
           locations from which to retrieve desired package files. See also

from man 8 apt-get

that's in apt-get manual . . . sigh . . . . but command used is apt

10:38 PM

yes @Serg for me it doesn't work - the command works, shortcut does nada

the sooner apt system dies and gets replaced by something else, the better

It's technically deprecated, like apt-get but nobody really cares

and apt is awesome. Definitely better than pacman and rpm, imo

@Zanna how about bash -c "DISPLAY=:0 mate-screenshot -a"

@KazWolfe agreed.

the dist-upgrade command used to be from Debian when rolling releases were a thing. It was just kept, but the dist part became useless.

10:39 PM

I wonder how dnf is.

Q: What does "dist-upgrade" mean in "apt-get upgrade"?

0

apt-get dist-upgrade does not upgrade Linux distributions (though it does update kernels). From the manual on apt-get, the description of dist-upgrade: dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages; ...

apt

Better than rpm and pacman - agreed. But doesn't mean its ideal. What I like about snaps and docker containers is that there's no dependency issues

dnf is good

@chaskes better than yum?

@Serg so much lost disk space

10:40 PM

has a lot of features I haven't learned yet. Yes, much better than yum

docker is nice but my god it takes up ALL THE SPACE

although for basic updating you don't notice a difference

@KazWolfe I get it , I get it, stop spamming, we get you love and want to defend all that dist-upgrade stuff

oh wow... curiouser and curiouser... one sec

@Zanna What happens when you run the command from Alt+F2?

10:44 PM

@KazWolfe it works fine like that

@chaskes nice to know.

maybe I will install fedora again and try it out.

triple boot ftw

then i have no idea why it doesn't work on command.

Is there a space before the command, maybe?

bash -c "DISPLAY=:0 mate-screenshot -a" works slightly - I can't make it work anywhere except on a full screen terminal (maximised with F11)

just mate-screenshot -a doesn't work anywhere

@Seth I always keep a fedora installed to remember there's another world out there. But I def need to read the dnf manual (or online examples). Synaptic, however, is much much better than yumex-dnf

hard to beat synaptic :D

10:46 PM

:)

@KazWolfe nah it's not a typo...

very odd issue

dammit !!! soup in microwave was heated for 2 minutes, and yet it's still cold at the bottom, daheck

VTC askubuntu.com/questions/808676/…

microwaves don't heat evenly. that's why they recommend letting it stand for a min

@Serg nailed it! bash -c "DISPLAY=:0.0 mate-screenshot -a"

10:54 PM

@Serg what soup

Opening ceremonies are in 6 minutes for those who are interested.

hah

we can't see it until 8

olympics.cbc.ca/video/live/…

letting the temp even out also prevent hot liquid exploding on you as you take it out

^--- does that work for anyone?

10:55 PM

omg it's midnight... where did the day go?

@Zanna you must be UTC+1.

Or my math is bad :D (very likely)

yup

@Zanna to inflating palm trees

BST

@Zanna yay !!! Write an answer. Recommend to OP that he checks his variable in terminal first

10:55 PM

@NathanOsman Can you provide me an M3U8 or something?

nah it's you who should get those points

@Zanna nah , i'll get enough points on scripting questions. I have one coming up tonight

@Zanna We help each other a lot in here. Write the answer and earn upgoats. =)

how do you script a question?

serg = bot confirmed

10:57 PM

@KazWolfe I don't think so...

"scripting questions" == questions that require a script

@NathanOsman "legal" stuff?

I know. 'twas a bad joke

@KazWolfe ???

oh . . . sowwy, i have poor sense of humor which occasionally shows in public places

10:58 PM

US is locked off due to regional stuff. So I'm wondering if a stream can be extracted from CBC.ca

I honestly have no idea.

You could try seeing what the page is using.

I can't.

@Serg 没关系

@_@ hyuna has new music video . . . OMGOSH

I can't figure it out.

Seems like they're using an <iframe>.

And no src= attribute is provided.

Nah, it's the Flash player.

11:01 PM

@Serg link?

@chaskes Here it is youtube.com/watch?v=y882AFjrSOM

thx!

answered the question and my bedtime has passed... thanks a lot @Serg and @Seth and @KazWolfe

enjoy the opening ceremony or whatever you're up to ^_^

@Zanna get some good sleep , see you tomorrow

Rinzwind

hardware askubuntu.com/questions/808678/…

@Zanna I am \o/

user136984

11:16 PM

Just finished the Japanese Foundation course! Onto Advanced tomorrow! :D

congratulations.

Rinzwind

@chaskes he failed it though :+D

lol. @ParanoidPanda Was that an online thing?

@ParanoidPanda so , have you tried your newly-acquired language skills with native speakers ?

@NathanOsman Can't even load that stream

11:20 PM

Lame. It was working for me.

user136984

@Serg: Well, I now successfully order food at the semi-local Japanese place and do manage to talk to them a bit.

user136984

@chaskes: No, audiobooks.

michel thomas? did you like it?

user136984

Yes! How did you know? :D

user136984

It was great!

11:25 PM

I went to amazon, but I was already familiar with his other works.

@ParanoidPanda well, good job !

user136984

:)

I am not that good at ordering, but i do so occasionally at my college cafeteria ,which has chinese food place

user136984

I think there are several extended kind of vocabulary courses by him, but I don't know if there are Japanese extended vocabulary courses as I couldn't see them in the list, but maybe because it was in the PDF coming with the Japanese course it just didn't list them because it sort of is those courses and it's just listing the other stuff...

user136984

I will have to have a look at their site again.

11:28 PM

@serg I haven't yet memorized all the names of the food, which is a big problem when ordering.

Byte Commander

Did any of you ever play Freedroid RPG?

Just installed it from the repo, seems to be a cool game.

But apparently I suck at hacking bots and keep receiving electroshocks.

user136984

@Serg: Oh, ordering is very easy! At least in Japanese, you just say something like this "いなりをさんことおちゃおください".

@chaskes memorization isn't the big issue for me. I suck at reading most menu entries, because they're mostly chars i don't recognize

that's part of what I mean. word, char, tone, meaning are all part of one whole

plus it's often hand-written, which I can't read well at all

user136984

It's the fonts that confuse me! They all right the characters really very differently! :D

user136984

11:38 PM

I've been thinking about buying an authentic Kimono. Though all the ones so far I've tried to buy have been for women! It's just they look so nice, and I want them, but they keep getting me into embarrassing situations in Japanese clothes shops... :D

they can be very expensive

user136984

I need to find a nice looking one for men... Just the only ones they seem to have are just too place, I get drawn to the nice colourful ones which turn out to be for women... :D

user136984

The ones in my semi-local Japanese shops are about £60, and I would pay that for the nice colourful ones. But I don't like the plain men's ones so much. They must do more interesting patterned ones for men, mustn’t they?

@ParanoidPanda sew one yourself. there's plenty tutorials online

user136984

But can I get good decent quality material?

11:42 PM

gosh, i need to do something about my body. Not the most energetic, plus frequently have issues with headaches and eyes and whatever

user136984

Because I could have a go at sewing one, but I wouldn't know where to get the proper material from.

@ParanoidPanda probably you can. i mean, there's everything on Amazon

user136984

Probably, I will have to have a look.

user136984

@Serg: Also, have you seen this one? It's a bit strange, but I often warm to the ones I think that about... But I don't know about this one... :D

net-shinei.co.jp/com

Amazon does in fact have a lot, too

11:46 PM

@ParanoidPanda no, i haven't seen it. Thank you !!!

user136984

Well, if it's anything like my knitting experience... I'll probably get tied up in all the material before I'm even half done... :D

user136984

But hey, that was only last year! ;D

user136984

But no harm in trying, I was doing rather well with the knitting, and better than the other guys, but then something just went wrong... :D

user136984

@Serg: You're welcome! :)

Interesting bug - if i highlight a tab in chromium , the launcher returns from fullscreen mode. . . . What i mean is, i have virtual box in second monitor, in full screen . . . .and launcher pops up from beneath it, if i highlight any tab on my laptop's internal monitor

11:51 PM

you have set launcher to auto hide ?

launcher and full screen ..confused

@CodeX nope , the launcher is not auto-hidden. It is supposed to stay beneath any full-screen window, and yet it jumps out

@Serg its a new feature

xD