Ask Ubuntu General Room

3:00 PM

@Anwar Umm. Your second highest scoring tag is [command-line]. I find it hard to believe you don't know your way around the shell.

Zanna

@Anwar I think you should not feel guilty, because you gave a good answer!

Typical modesty

Anwar

@terdon I know some. but honestly speaking I didn't know everything on that answer.

Zanna

Wasn't it Hokusai who said in his nineties "now I am beginning to understand how to draw a line" ?

I still feel like I know nothing and I am an imposter here >_<

but @Anwar I think you are giving more excellent answers than anyone else these days...

Seth

hahaha, this is totally me right now

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RPi Awesomeness

"ugh." xD

That's great

Anwar

3:07 PM

@Zanna huh! at least not true for cli things. I'm a child in this area. Need to learn a LOT

terdon

@Zanna Join the club.

Zanna

@terdon lol you are are guru

terdon

Everyone seems like a guru to someone :)

Anwar

I'm glad that I'm with in company of some Gurus. tbh

terdon

I admit I am now at what I'd have called guru-level of knowledge a few years ago, but all that means is that my definition of guru has changed :)

Just like I no longer consider people in their mid-thirties to be old :)

Zanna

3:10 PM

@terdon that is always a moving target, nothing changes this :)

terdon

exactly

Zanna

@Anwar we can all walk in the light cast by each other here I think

Anwar

I found a quote. "If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room". At least I'm not in wrong room

Journeyman Geek

lol

Zanna

hahaha

Journeyman Geek

3:12 PM

I'm not smart. I'm passionate.

Anwar

@Zanna agreed

Journeyman Geek

;p

Zanna

I think most things are only a matter of desire - if you want to learn, you will learn

Journeyman Geek

I learnt linux cause hardware was pricy, and I was bored with normal desktopish things ;p

Byte Commander

@Seth I guess I'm a permanently exhausted night owl then...

Kaz Wolfe

3:23 PM

someone start a timer.

I just submitted a support ticket to my school's IT team.

Byte Commander

15:23 UTC

Zanna

time to go for a walk...

@Arronical I was watching this page waiting for your answer ^_^ askubuntu.com/questions/824004/…

edwinksl

@Zanna is that how you generate ideas

Kaz Wolfe

stop the timer!

wtf

they actually... replied quickly.

Zanna

@edwinksl that's a secondary consideration, I need to move these lazy legs

Arronical

3:31 PM

@Zanna It really hurt my brain, but I learnt some stuff. I'm sure there's a much cleaner and quicker way to do it!

Zanna

@Arronical I am so grateful to the people who ask questions I can learn stuff by answering

Seth

@Zanna so you upvote them, right? :)

Sadly too many people do not vote much. Especially on questions.

Kaz Wolfe

3:46 PM

@Seth I only vote down. Because I'm mean. (Well, I reserve my votes for extremes in both directions. A really good question gets a +1, a really bad one gets a -1)

terdon

@Arronical nice one! You could get a simpler version of you like: there's no need to check if it's a file since rm won't remove directories so you can remove the if [ -f ] part.

Zanna

@Seth I refer you to askubuntu.com/users?tab=voters

Anwar

asked same question twice askubuntu.com/q/824053/61218

I always try to vote on questions

Zanna

yeah me too

Arronical

@terdon Thanks! I knew that rm on its own wouldn't delete a directory, but I like to provide messages about stuff, it's probably better not to though, unnecessary overhead!

Kaz Wolfe

3:50 PM

so sad with Windows 10 mail apps.

Actually, most mail apps.

they all look horrible or have no features.

Byte Commander

Thunderbird?

Kaz Wolfe

thunderbird... best features, sad design.

Byte Commander

What is an US export classification? askubuntu.com/q/824064/367990

Kaz Wolfe

it's message list panel looks like something out of SquirrelMail. Outlook and W10 Mail looks way better but has none of the Thunderbird features

@ByteCommander government BS

Byte Commander

What?

Kaz Wolfe

3:59 PM

US government garbage that dictates what can be exported.

Seth

@Zanna yay! That makes me happy :)

Byte Commander

And what has this to do with Ubuntu?

Seth

Crypto

And other software things.

I feel like we've been asked this before.

Kaz Wolfe

yeah you can't always export encryption.

because "secrets" and other garbage.

Seth

Pretty much.

I feel like they need to be referred to Canonical.

Especially because it gets fuzzy with Ubuntu technically being a UK export and not a US one.

terdon

4:04 PM

@Seth Can't help noticing you're not on that front page there :P

Byte Commander

Stupid bureaucracy and laws.

Seth

@terdon not anymore.. switch to all time though ;)

terdon

But I guess being 4th in overall votes excuses this month's lapse

Kaz Wolfe

fun fact. if i lived in the late 1990s with my knowledge today, i wouldn't be able to leave the US. Because I memorized the equations to RSA.

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Seth

I end up mostly moderating so not viewing much of the good content anymore :(

@terdon wait, who passed me?!

terdon

4:05 PM

Damn, and I don't make the cut in the overall rankings either :(

I'm 4th on the second page. Grrrr

Zanna

meh you guys are voting a lot if you're on the second page!

Kaz Wolfe

yay page 2763756

Zanna

still haven't set off for my walk... gym will be packed when I get there

Kaz Wolfe

why go to the gym

just scroll your mouse wheel a lot

Byte Commander

xD

Get a home trainer bicycle and use it to charge your notebook :)

terdon

4:15 PM

@Zanna We've also been here longer

Time to show off a bit. Here's an answer to that modulo 12 question in a single perl one-liner:

perl -e 'unlink grep{/(\d+)\.end/ && $1 % 12 != 0}@ARGV;' *

Zanna

@ByteCommander idk but the UK has export restrictions relating to software unless it is "freely available for anyone to download" Therefor under UK export rules, I think there is no restriction on export of Ubuntu? And Ubuntu is a UK "product" I researched this for this answer askubuntu.com/questions/792167/usage-of-ubuntu-in-iran/… which I hope is right (IANAL)

"In all humbleness I think this solution is a lot nicer than the other answer:" that's not humble!

@terdon guru detected

~~perl~~ terdon is really clever...

Kaz Wolfe

@terdon Perl code is literally unreadable.

Zanna

but all code is unreadable until you learn the language...

@ByteCommander bicyle good for the quads, but you're still sitting down

terdon

@KazWolfe Well, that one's not too bad actually. You just need to know that grep applies whatever is in the brackets to all elements of the list you give it as input and returns the ones that passed. Then, the whole thing is given as input to unlink which is perl's rm.

Zanna

@KazWolfe I have no mouse

terdon

4:21 PM

Apart from that, the expression is pretty classic: /(\d+)\.end/ && $1 % 12 != 0 The $1 is the first captured pattern (I believe even python supports that, doesn't it?) and the % is the modulo operator.

@Zanna Yeah, I like the deleted version better :)

Zanna

right I am walking, before terdon's teaching triggers a brain overflow

@terdon both correct I think

terdon

There are a couple of issues with your approach: i) the argument is -maxdepth, not -depth and it needs to be before -name; ii) this will fail if any of the file names contain whitespace; iii) you are assuming the files will be listed in ascending numerical order (that's what your awk is testing for) but this will almost certainly not be the case. Therefore, this will delete a random set of files. — terdon ♦ 3 mins ago

:P

Serg

sigh, so many good questions and i ain't got time to answer them

Kaz Wolfe

GAH

I just went to the worst history class of my life.

All of World War I reduced to a half-page of notes.

Zanna

@terdon oops! Hehe... I'm walking but the room is with me

Kaz Wolfe

4:29 PM

There was no mention of anything related to the actual war itself. The only thing we covered was the segregation of troops under Jim Crow. And the irony therein.

Serg

@KazWolfe I see your professor is fan of Cliff's notes

Kaz Wolfe

I mean, my god. TEACH SOMETHING ABOUT THE BLOODY WAR ITSELF

Zanna

@Serg I know, and the weekend was a bit dry apart from that octal question,or did I miss any other good ones?

Kaz Wolfe

WWI should be at least two pages, even the abridged version.

Zanna

I LOVE the stats page in mod tools... that's my favourite 10k thing

Kaz Wolfe

4:30 PM

ikr it's amazing

Serg

@Zanna I'll probably answer some of them tomorrow or later in the week. I'm just disappointed i can't snag some extra rep off them :p

Zanna

@Serg I answered one on Saturday that I had in a tab on Thursday and forgot about, got +6 and accepted ^_^

It's nice to find things others have overlooked

Serg

@Zanna Nice ! To be honest, I'm quite impressed with your shell skills.

Zanna

blush thanks! That means a lot, I'm just a beginner, but I love it :)

Arronical

@terdon I do like your perls of wisdom. Thanks for the correction too! My answer felt really clunky!

user136984

4:38 PM

@Nathan: I am thinking about setting up a PPA, do you know any good guides for making deb files? I remember doing it once before with reasonable ease, but have completely forgotten everything.

Serg

god, my back is killing me today

that's what i get for staying up

I'm so regretting this

Zanna

:( if only unicorn dollars could cure back pain...

Byte Commander

When I stretch my back, it sounds like an elephant stepping on bubble wrap...

terdon

@ByteCommander You need to remove the wrapping from your new back scratcher silly.

Byte Commander

The noise comes from inside me, unfortunately :(

ANd no, I did not eat it.

terdon

4:50 PM

@ByteCommander Damn, too slow :)

Zanna

I recommend yoga to all of you, it really helps a lot, makes you feel good

It fixed all my hereditary back issues

Byte Commander

o.O

terdon

Alcohol also works well.

Byte Commander

-3

A: "This item is temporarily unavailable" When Installing Yosemite

Can I borrow the account please, just so I could download the Yosemite via Internet Recovery. Please please please, Im desperate. Swear to God, I am not a hacker, I will give you all the information you need just so you could make sure I dont live in the deep web. Please,Yousef. I beg of you,can ...

Stupid ^

user136984

Ubuntu Torrent Removed from Google for ‘Infringing’ Transformers Movie

user136984

4:52 PM

And they don't say anything about reinstating it. :(

Zanna

@terdon Lol I haven't tested that method

terdon

@Zanna Well, it sorta moves the pain up to your head instead :P

user136984

@ByteCommander: Indeed... So, do you think they are just stupid or if they are malicious too?

Zanna

@terdon ah I see, a bit like a garlic press moves the effort from prep time to clean up time in a cooking workflow

terdon

Not the first simile that would have occurred to me but yeah.

Zanna

4:56 PM

Yoga moves pain from your back to your triceps for a while, but eventually it stops hurting :)

Byte Commander

That apple.se post should not be starred, the answer is deleted by now anyway.

Zanna

Sorry, I have special hate for garlic presses after some unpleasant encounters

Byte Commander

Mine usually produces garlic juice flowing out and a lot of compressed dry garlic inside which does not want to get out again.

terdon

@Zanna I'm quite fond of them. Both for the effect on the food (musch simpler and IMO better than break+slice) and because it keeps my fingers from smelling of garlic for the next couple of days.

I just pass it under hot water and stick it into the dishwasher.

Byte Commander

I suppose its holes are too small...

Zanna

5:00 PM

Yes well, in theory they are excellent. Perhaps I've been unlucky

Sorry, I inadvertently introduced a really inane topic... >_<

These days I am too absorbed in AU etc to bother actually cooking, if it takes more than 20 min, I can't be bothered

Byte Commander

I know that :)

Serg

wake me up in an hour guys, imma take nap

Zanna

Enjoy

Byte Commander

Once when I cooked rice while answering questions, I could throw the pot away afterwards... Since then I stay in the kitchen when something is on the cooker.

Huh? 10% battery?

But I'm plugged in all the time!

Grrr. Some stupid person switched off the wall socket I used.

Zanna

Mmm rice I love... yes the time can vanish fast when answering

Anwar

5:19 PM

vlq or dv? askubuntu.com/a/824093/61218

Elder Geek

I'd say dv...

As i recall, 12.04 has grub2

Severus Tux

5:37 PM

@Zanna You love rice ? you should come to India once.

Nathan Osman

Moving Docker Hub's issues to GitHub may have seemed like a good idea at the time but it has now become a wasteland of abandoned issues and broken functionality.

Severus Tux

Hi @NathanOsman

Nathan Osman

@SeverusTux Hello.

edwinksl

@Serg 30 minutes left

Kaz Wolfe

@ParanoidPanda ALL TORRENTS R PIRACY

cl-netbox

5:45 PM

Hello everybody ! :)

Elder Geek

Hello, time to go. I must mow...

edwinksl

i initially read that as "meow"

Severus Tux

Hi @cl-netbox :D

cl-netbox

@SeverusTux Hi my friend ! :)

Zanna

@SeverusTux I certainly hope very much to do that :D

But Iranians also make wonderful rice - I learned my skills from them

Severus Tux

5:58 PM

Oh.. I didn't know

edwinksl

@Zanna do you make BAKLAVA

Severus Tux

Place where I stay, extreme strikes are going on. almost 65 buses were burnt today, Police Firing, 1 Dead, Curfew today, Tomorrow - possibility of "Shoot at site"

Zanna

@edwinksl I can make a kind of it... actually I don't like refined grains like white flour and white rice and white sugar so much, so my pastry is not so light... brown is always better imo :)

@SeverusTux omg :( where is that? I hope you are safe

Severus Tux

Bangalore

I am alright :) Thanks

Anwar

OT? askubuntu.com/questions/823863/…

@SeverusTux wait...what? why?

Severus Tux

6:11 PM

Water Dispute b/w two states

Anwar

hmm. same here.

Zanna

:(

Severus Tux

@Anwar This is the situation in one place : youtube.com/watch?v=k_fJ1cEatpI , Whole Bus station was set on fire, Many more Trucks were burnt too

user136984

I wish bloody Avaaz would stop sending me emails! I have clicked the "unsubscribe" button so many times and even told Gmail to send the stuff to spam but it still gets into my inbox! All of it! All 10k emails a day!!! >:{

Byte Commander

Wut?

I probably haven't got 10k mails in my whole life.

Severus Tux

6:24 PM

same here :P

Byte Commander

How do you always manage to attract every malware and spam on the whole interwebs?

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user136984

I ask myself the same question about random crazy people in the street. :P

user136984

I don't know why but they always come to me and really like me so they follow me around.

Severus Tux

@Serg Wake up!

user136984

I had 2 on 2 separate days last week but normally I get more.

Severus Tux

6:32 PM

@terdon Why is perl "much faster for thousands of files" ?

Nathan Osman

@Seth Jonathan Sampson is joining Brave.

Serg

@SeverusTux 15 more minutes

Anwar

@SeverusTux :( I think it started as a reaction to the recent flood?

Nathan Osman

Starting this month, I'm joining the great people at @brave to face these challenges head-on. To make the web work for publishers and users.

Tweeted by jonathansampson on September 12, 2016 at 6:32 PM in reply to jonathansampson

Serg

also, someone tried to run my indicator on Ubuntu Gnome. . . .

Kaz Wolfe

6:36 PM

fun fact. my school internet redirects you to MSN.

Because why

(that and it's unsecured wireless, but meh)

Seth

@NathanOsman hey that's awesome!

Although I really don't think another browser is the right choice.

Kaz Wolfe

brave is nice... if we can turn off ads entirely.

also... when will advertisers learn that we use adblockers because the ads they publish are bandwidth-hogging, annoying, loud, flashy, interactive, malware risks?

Severus Tux

@Anwar no, not because of flood. Its about how much water should be released from Karnataka Dam to TamilNadu, If its low, TN people conduct strike, If high karnataka people. Currently Karnataka people are not happy about the Subprime court Judgment.

Kaz Wolfe

if they used half-decent ads that don't eat up my 200MB data allowance the second I log on to a site, i wouldn't have an adblocker.

@SeverusTux why not a medium amount of water lol

Severus Tux

That the problem, "medium" is different for both states.

Kaz Wolfe

6:42 PM

average out the mediums?

Anwar

naa or spam? askubuntu.com/a/824120/61218

Severus Tux

Might work, Decision on 19th Sep

Seth

That's why I like privacy badger. It blocks trackers and ads, but if an advertiser agrees to the EFF's rules for ads it will let the through.

Zacharee1

nooooooooo

Seth

?

Anwar

6:45 PM

@SeverusTux oh i see.

Zacharee1

my nametag scrolled in

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 ?

Zacharee1

sigh

my stalking and sarcastic skill have both disappeared :p

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 that's what high school does to you

Kaz Wolfe

@Anwar offensive?

Zacharee1

6:51 PM

yay, I can see the deleted answer!

edwinksl

i don't

rip

Anwar

@KazWolfe i flagged as naa :)

Zacharee1

@ByteCommander Well I never seem to get any at all, so maybe all of mine goes to him?

Anwar

bbl

Severus Tux

Bye Friends :)

edwinksl

6:55 PM

spotify just rickrolled me

Severus Tux

@Serg Time up :P

Seth

7:05 PM

The Intercept published Harris Corp. user manuals on stingray, hailstorm.

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Nathan Osman

@KazWolfe I think that's the problem they're trying to fix?

Now that they've got Sampson and Eich, it's pretty hard to just write it off...

If they adopt the multi-process Firefox improvements, it looks to be a worthy contender.

Seth

7:24 PM

2

Severus Tux

“open in terminal” works only with sudo ? Is it correct ? askubuntu.com/a/786465/497359

Andy K

7:38 PM

hiya

quck one: I'm playing with a raspberry pi

and I'm trying to setup a wifi dongle

Byte Commander

@SeverusTux seems correct for directories to which the user has no access

Andy K

and at the end, I have this issue

raspberrypi-1.home (192.168.1.16) at (incomplete)

when doing an arp -a

Zanna

@SeverusTux no!

it should work... could it be the terminal emulator they're using?

nothing to do with zsh

Byte Commander

@Zanna yes. Try it e.g. for /root or another directory where you have no execution privilege.

Zanna

yes obviously, but they mean it doesn't work anywhere, and the answer is suggesting you need elevated permissions to do it anywhere

Byte Commander

7:54 PM

I agree.

BBL

edwinksl

@Zanna yeah the answer is unclear and misleading

Andy K

back

Zanna

8:17 PM

"I cannot get out of bash"

Nathan Osman

Let's see where this goes:

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Q: Polarizer filter for a Canon 50mm f/1.8 STM lens?

I have this lens, a Canon 50mm f/1.8 STM: I would like to purchase a polarizing filter for the lens but I can't seem to find one. A quick search on Amazon, for example, yields plenty of 49mm and 52mm filters but none for a 50mm lens. Am I looking for the wrong number? Am I looking in the wron...

Kaz Wolfe

I have discovered a great way to run cat5 in crawl spaces.

Tie one end to a dog, and call them over to the PoP

user136984

8:51 PM

I'm getting kind of worried with North Korea's new ability to make nuclear missiles. Is there not some sort of anti-missile system which can take out a nuke before it reaches its target?

user136984

Because I thought there would be, but I've haven't heard anything about one.

Zanna

what would it do? Nukes are not sane. They are not even meant to be sane. There is very little saneness around them.

edwinksl

@ParanoidPanda it is very challenging to intercept an ICBM

if you know how to, many people will want to talk to you

Zanna

hehe

edwinksl

remember DPRK's main target is the US, so they need ICBMs

user136984

8:54 PM

Why can't they just lock missiles onto it?

edwinksl

that's what i meant by intercept

it is not as easy as you think

user136984

Why not?

user136984

Can't they do it with other types of missile?

edwinksl

like i said, if you can show how to do it, write about it and people will come to you with job offers

user136984

But why is it difficult? Just the size of the thing or what is it?

user136984

8:58 PM

Can they at least detect them?

edwinksl

its extreme speed, low footprint

Japan, South Korea and China can probably detect launches after the launches happen

but they probably can't stop launches short of a full invasion of DPRK

user136984

How do the missiles know where to go and where they are?

edwinksl

satellite guided

user136984

Well, if the missile knows where it is, and the satellite knows where it is, then shouldn't you be able to track it with the signal?

user136984

Or how about just blast the satellite out of orbit?

edwinksl

9:03 PM

i found this extremetech.com/extreme/…

in any case, in the event of a launch, the best thing to do is find a nuclear shelter and hope for the best

user136984

Oh dear, well, North Korea's neighbours are now in danger, the missiles can even strike Japan now.

user136984

Shouldn't we do something about them before this whole thing gets out of hand?

edwinksl

don't think japan fancies being targeted by nukes a second time

Zanna

@ParanoidPanda who's "we" and what do you suggest?

user136984

We = Western powers and our allies who are against this.

user136984

9:09 PM

Well, I think tough economic sanctions should be placed on China if they continue aiding NK. I mean, almost 100% of oil and food gets to them from China, if China stopped giving it to them they'd crumble.

Zanna

that is a problematic definition imho...

user136984

Though I think that might just start some sort of war with China so maybe that's not such a good solution.

Zanna

it doesn't seem to matter to those in power if people starve in droves

user136984

But wouldn't those in power also starve? I mean, if nobody trades with them or anything they should just collapse.

user136984

They don't really produce anything.

user136984

9:12 PM

They are becoming a real problem though, if we don't act now they could end up blackmailing us, or worse, actually nuking us. Something needs to be done about this, but I somehow don't think that the UN putting tougher sanctions on NK is going to really help very much as it hasn't so far. Why can't we just invade them? They are becoming a major security threat.

Serg

@ParanoidPanda do you have any ideas for app-indicators for Gnome ?

@Zanna same question for you , but for MATE

user136984

@Serg: Uhm... What kind of ideas?

Serg

any

user136984

Well, it would be nice if they were slightly more accessible.

user136984

And accessible while in the AO.

user136984

9:15 PM

Oh, or you don't mean so generally and you mean for specific ones?

Serg

@ParanoidPanda well, i'm asking more about coding ideas. The "accessible" part is up to GNOME devs and extension people. I only make indicators so far

user136984

Ok, well, let me have a think... It's a bit of a broad question though...

edwinksl

@Zanna oh you helped someone break out of that bash jail!

user136984

@Serg: I don't know that much about Unity and Workspaces on it, but why don't you allow automating of the switching for your other app?

Serg

@ParanoidPanda I already have allowed automating. It's in the latest update :)

user136984

9:24 PM

Ah

user136984

Why don't you make one for GNOME?

Serg

@ParanoidPanda i have tried it, and it can be made. But it requires installing appindicator extension. Also in Gnome launcher is hidden, right ? only when you open AO it shows up

Zanna

@edwinksl when I wrote my answer, the question said something like "I set java_home and now I can't get out of bash" - I am a mind reader ;) (but I already got 215 and already got about 4 unpaid upvotes since 15:00 so I shouldn't be answering questions)

but thanks @Anwar for getting me an accept :) :)

edwinksl

@Zanna you can still be a bounty hunter though

Zanna

@edwinksl anything look good?

@Serg I'm the last person to come up with useful ideas like that, but I'll keep thinking :)

edwinksl

9:31 PM

@Zanna what about this askubuntu.com/questions/817484/ubuntu-crashing-regularly

Zanna

Now I'm wondering how you'd fix your broken .bashrc without a GUI, on a server for example...

you'd have to do it in recovery I think, or live session

user136984

@Serg: Depends on if you install the Dash to Dock extension as I have done which puts it as a normal launcher which isn't just visible in the AO.

Zanna

@edwinksl looks pretty interesting :)

IanC

@Serg, do you have an idea on how to make a unselectable item on a menu in Gtk?

appending a gtk_label doesn't work apparently

I thought about making a gtk_menu_item that would respond to the selection signal by desselecting everytime

Serg

@IanC label has to be for something . gtk menuitem proably would do

user136984

9:36 PM

@Serg: Why don't you make an updates indicator?

Serg

@Zanna have backup user . . . or use some grub parameter hackery where instead of init=/boot/blah , you do init=/bin/sh

IanC

gtk_menu_item highlight when you put your mouse over them, I was trying to make one that didn't, sort of a description on the menu. You can't append a label on the menu apparently, so I thought of making some crazy stuff with the menu_item to make it not "highlightable" haha

have you ever done something similar?

Serg

Not really

IanC

I had an idea, will try it and tell you if it works

Zanna

@Serg ah yes I have a backup user for such eventualities myself... do you mean pressing e at grub menu you can do that?

Serg

9:40 PM

@Zanna yup, you can. And this is somewhat of a security hole obviously

@Zanna wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reset_root_password

They also cover live CD which is better approach

Zanna

same as using a live session - but we want that security hole :)

I created a backup user on my Ubuntu system after making a login loop on my Arch system

it was extremely easy to fix

but now I use that user for other experiments

Smart idea! Thanks for showing me this... I think in Arch /bin/sh is normally a symlink to /bin/bash unlike in Ubuntu

edwinksl

what a username askubuntu.com/users/320930/r-o-m-a-n-i-a

with an appropriate avatar too

user136984

I associate different numbers with different colours, and different colours with different emotions. And thus as the years are numbers I end up associating them with certain emotions. I associate the 16 with yellow and a sort of broad openness but not in a good and safe way, kind of just too big. I also prefer odd numbers. So I will be happy when 2017 comes because I have a really nice safe and warm feeling associated with that. Though I also seem to have that association with Autumn!

user136984

Don't know why I just told you all that, but I was just thinking about it so I thought I would think aloud. :)

IanC

9:59 PM

@Serg, my idea didn't really work but I found something:
gtk_widget_set_sensitive(GTK_WIDGET, gboolean);

you can use it to make the widget "non-interactive"

only thing I didn't really like is the label get that grey style, indicating it's not interactive. I wanted it to keep the same style, but there might be a way around it

Byte Commander

@ParanoidPanda I know somebody like that, but can't understand this way of thinking myself, to be honest.

Zanna

10:19 PM

i can't test that bounty question so i can't answer it @edwinksl : / learned some stuff already reading about it though

bedtime :)

edwinksl

@Zanna night!

Zanna

:)

James Tobin

10:47 PM

@ParanoidPanda are you a future Ubuntu release?

lol

@ParanoidPanda how about percise pangolin haha :D

user136984

@JamesTobin: They'll probably name it something like Preposterous Pigeon. :P

Byte Commander

How could this NAA stay on the site for 4 years!? askubuntu.com/a/112929/367990

Seth

because you didn't flag it

user136984

@ByteCommander: You wouldn't believe how many questions I see which are EOL and should have been closed (and they were asked after the release went EOL) as such but are still open. In fact I can't believe that a huge amount of them have comments from people with enough rep to cast a close vote, even moderators, but they are still not closed and without any close votes.

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