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@Zanna I'm fine ! I was busy exploring how LXD system containers are working in ubuntu - they are blazingly fast ! What about you ? How are you doing ? :)

Zanna

@cl-netbox I'm doing good thanks ^_^

cl-netbox

@Zanna Nice to read this ! :)

Zanna

Why are LXD containers so fast?

Arronical

Are they fast in comparison to other VMs, or in comparison to a regular Ubuntu installation?

cl-netbox

1:39 PM

@Zanna No idea ... but Canonical has done a brilliant job providing us with this (kinda) virtualization solution ! Here you can find some general information -> ubuntu.com/cloud/lxd ... and here is a lot of comprehensive documentation -> insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/14/the-lxd-2-0-story-prologue

Zanna

oh thanks :)

cl-netbox

@Zanna Guess what ? boot time : 1 (ONE) second !!! :)

Zanna

whoosh!

Journeyman Geek

lxd is just repackaging lxc

so... you're running off the same kernel, and most hardware isn't virtualised

So, lower overhead, stuff like memory is shared very efficiently

cl-netbox

@Zanna For a quick test : lxc init ubuntu:16.04/amd64 <your-container-name> | lxc start <your-container-name> | lxc exec <your-container-name> bash | apt update | apt upgrade | reboot ... now look at your watch ... after 1 second execute lxc exec <your-container-name> bash again - et voilá ... ! :)

Journeyman Geek

1:48 PM

You're limited to linuxes...

but that's fine for this crowd ;)

cl-netbox

@JourneymanGeek hahaha ... Hi ! :)

Journeyman Geek

Another thing is in some cases container based virtualsation is badly done, so security is a bit naff

lxd is "ok" I think

cl-netbox

@JourneymanGeek limited ? you mean NOT limited to Windows ? :D :D :D

Zanna

Hi @Anwar

cl-netbox

Hello @Anwar ! :)

Anwar

1:50 PM

hi :)

Journeyman Geek

@cl-netbox there's other FOSS oses ;p

I think in the hierachy of virtualisation...

cl-netbox

@JourneymanGeek yeah ... I know ... :D

@JourneymanGeek Well, I think KVM is one of the best solutions. :)

Journeyman Geek

docker's aimed at processes and services , though you could use it to package and deploy a set of them. lxc is 'lower level' - its nice for seperating roles, and maybe servers. VMware and virtualbox are for running whole OSes on workstations when they're dissimilar. Its even lower

KVM is in a wierd place. Its a proper hypervisor, ala hyper-v and esx but it runs alongside a full blown OS

oh and xen and.. that other one

but I'm not super familiar with them

Arronical

Citrix?

cl-netbox

@JourneymanGeek qemu / libvirt are out-performing those well know solutions like vbox ... so I switched completely ... until now I don't look back or miss anything.

Journeyman Geek

1:55 PM

@cl-netbox also runs on very little.

I've been toying with rebuilding my setup around ovirt

cl-netbox

@JourneymanGeek Hey nice ! :)

Journeyman Geek

but it makes a lot of sense to rebuild my whole setup first

cl-netbox

@JourneymanGeek That indeed is true ... :)

Journeyman Geek

(Backups, new home server, test taking down the web server dedi, data backups...)

to make it more complicated I run both mysql and postgres ._.

Anwar

a spam? askubuntu.com/a/824396/61218

cl-netbox

2:09 PM

@JourneymanGeek oh, yes, there's some work to do then ... can't you run postgresql just as a single server or do you need mysql for a special application ?

Journeyman Geek

@cl-netbox mysql for wordpress, postgres for ttrss

postgres is a LOT easier to backup and restore. Has a very sane command for it

Anwar

2:24 PM

too quick!

Sandro

3:08 PM

hi

is there anybody

Zanna

sort of here

Sandro

:D

i want to install xampp-linux64

donwloaded the file

and now when run the .run file

it's gives me an error which says

need root access

Zanna

run with sudo

Sandro

it's on my ntfs disk

how to target it

in windows i used

Zanna

what's the path?

Sandro

3:11 PM

cd command to go to driver

new volume!

sorry

Zanna

haha it's in /media I guess

Sandro

program

it's program

in windows it was drive G i gusss

Zanna

idk... are you talking about in the file browser?

Sandro

yes

i compeletely know to ubuntu

want to start to learn

it

Mudit Kapil

copy the path using gparted

Zanna

3:15 PM

so in the file browser, what else do you see in the directory with it?

Sandro

i think u don't get what i mean, i want to run a file on my disk

Zanna

you should be able to right click on the file, btw, and select "open as administrator" or something like that

Sandro

usjng sudo

Zanna

I know, I'm trying to work out the path to it so I can tell you what to type in the terminal

but in the GUI you can right click on the program and select to open with elevated privileges

I never use the file browser myself, and I'm using MATE, so mine is maybe a bit different

Sandro

find an easy ways

he he

right click on the folder and choose open in terminal lol

and this is the path

:/media/computer/program/Ubuntu software$

Zanna

3:20 PM

what's the fille name?

now you can just do sudo ./filename

Sandro

great thanks

now im in installing process

Arronical

@Zanna You know you're not getting rep right? ;)

Karma rep maybe!

Zanna

@Arronical lol I'm getting the real rep :)

@Sandro :)

Sandro

@Zanna u are amazing

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Arronical

@Zanna I'm just cranky because I'm writing documents, it's incredible how that erases my tolerance levels, there's also a man downstairs using an electric saw! >_<

Zanna

3:31 PM

@Arronical oops am I irritating you further? Apologies if so

booooo to electric saws and all who wield them at inopportune times...

Arronical

@Zanna Not at all. Providing a role model of helpful kindness.

askubuntu.com/questions/824414/need-ifconfig-help this is the same person that wanted to number paragraphs with the cat command

2 questions, 2 homeworks!

Zanna

they accepted my answer today!

I spent all my votes

who starred that! @Sandro I'm not amazing, that was just normal :)

Seth

hello from kdeconnect!

typing this on my phone, but sending through the computer. supes awesome.

@terdon one of my friends was writing a script to convert python with braces to proper python. I wonder if he ever finished it..

terdon

Heh

Seth

lets just say he is a C guy.

terdon

4:17 PM

@Seth Let's just say he's an OCD guy :P

Seth

haha

Anwar

4:34 PM

askubuntu.com/q/300271/61218 grrh!

vote to close as no-repro

Zanna

@Anwar I'll upvote your answer to the libpango question when I have some votes tomorrow!

Anwar

OP left the site 5 minutes before my answer.

I have still 5 votes. I think, I should keep them for some awesome answer I'll see today

Videonauth

@anwar you commented on an answer but im pretty sure i didnt downvote it just commented on it

Anwar

@Videonauth oh! That's why they say, don't comment under a downvoted answer. They think you're the downvoter :P

i'm removing it

Videonauth

rule of thumb, if an answer i valid, dont downvote, if you can add contructional critique do it as an comment :p

I rarely downvote

Anwar

4:41 PM

Downvote should be considered a good practice to keep the site healthy

chaskes

@Videonauth hey, haven't seen you in a while.

Videonauth

@chaskes yeah im very busy here at home and in stress/distress but ill send you more in an email these days

chaskes

@Videonauth Ok, please do. hang in there.

Zanna

@Videonauth hugs-if-wanted

Henry WH Hack v2.0

I was about to remove Lion Guy from my friend list but I canceled it.

Videonauth

4:43 PM

@Zanna are always welcome :) hugs to save the world :))

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Zalgo's message to @JourneymanGeek :D

Zanna

:) they save me @Videonauth :)

terdon

@Videonauth Hey, sorry to hear you're having a hard time!

But please downvote! Downvotes are at least as important as upvotes.

Videonauth

@terdon I know but still if its somethinf really bad i downvote but normal answers which are still seemingly legit i dont downvote

terdon

Probably more so. They help stop people from using wrong solutins and they give an incentive to the authors to improve their answers. People who don't downvote hurt the site much more than people who don't upvote. If you're only going to cast one type of vote, then downvote and forget upvotes.

@Videonauth I would strongly urge you to reconsider. That doesn't help anyone. The person who posted the mediocre answer doesn't improve, the person who asked doesn't get a good answer and some poor sod might try it and think that's the best way.

Byte Commander

4:57 PM

@HenryWHHackv2.0 does it repeat old chat messages said by others anywhere?

terdon

Of course, I say all this from my high modhorse and then notice that I've only ever cast 204 downvotes. . .

Damn.

Still, that's 204 bad posts voted down.

Videonauth

@terdon Still now i got a comment from anwar who thought i downvoted a good answer, this is what this all is about

Henry WH Hack v2.0

@ByteCommander Yes (It's seems like a copycat bot to me!) :D

Videonauth

i dunno how many DVs i cast cant find it on the page

Anwar

@Videonauth I'm removing that :)

terdon

4:58 PM

@Videonauth It's on your profile, scroll down. You have 92

Videonauth

well thats not bad for my time here :)

Anwar

@terdon what to do with 1 rep users? downvoting won't stop them :)

Byte Commander

I have 431 DVs

Anwar

OMG!

Videonauth

but i get that point, and @anwar 1 rep users wont be stopped right but enough dv and they have done their last answer/question

and its an indicator for others which answer may be valid and functional

Anwar

5:00 PM

yes

797 DV

terdon

@Videonauth I think you should probably ignore me. After going all high and mighty and "protect the site" and all that crap on you, it turns out that only 6.5% of my votes were downvote and, of yours, 7.7% were.

Sigh. I should follow my own advice, I guess.

Videonauth

@terdon nevermind i know what point you wanted to make and its right

terdon

I still stand by what I wrote, I just thought I was a better example of it :)

jokerdino

As the elder ones say, "Do as I say, not as I do"

terdon

Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me

►

Zanna

5:04 PM

I see a dinosaur in the CV queue, going above & beyond the call of duty...

user136984

@terdon: That is a good song! :)

Anwar

How many posts a dinosaur can review per day?

jokerdino

Same as normal dinosaurs.

terdon

@ParanoidPanda That it is :)

> Won't find me practicing what I'm preaching
Won't find me making no sacrifice
But I can get you a pocketful of miracles
If you promise to be good, try to be nice
God will take good care of you
Just do as I say, don't do as I do

4

Ah. Televangelists. Can't beat 'em.

What a concept.

jokerdino

close as dupe - askubuntu.com/questions/824331/… acknowledged by OP

Seth

5:06 PM

@terdon 12k :P

jokerdino

Hm, I have a lot of downvotes relative to my total votes.

terdon

@Seth Your downvotes? You have 1.2K which is pretty good.

Seth

damn misread it -.-

that's what I meant :p

terdon

@jokerdino 56.3%!

There we go, this is jokerdino, be like jokerdino.

jokerdino

And Eric beats us all to ground.

Eric Carvalho, Natal, Brazil

27.5k 15 74 104

Seth

5:09 PM

whoa

I knew he voted a lot, but I thought it was upvotes :/

Anwar

he reviewed a LOT

Seth

that moment when there are 15 flags, you clear one, and there are 19 flags -.-

Byte Commander

Like "once I had a problem. I decided to use regex. Now I have two problems"

Zanna

hahaha

Byte Commander

Works with Java as well ;)

Zanna

5:12 PM

you should have quoted it

used all my votes and all my close votes

time for a walk!

user136984

Yuppity Yep — Meet the Official Mascot of Ubuntu 16.10

user136984

Anwar

he doesn't know if ubuntu 16.04 is released yet askubuntu.com/a/824428/61218.

If they are using mint, can we still help here? askubuntu.com/questions/823863/…

Byte Commander

5:37 PM

0

Q: Emergency: laptop is not shutting down,,,, power light and fan stays on

Sorry guys I know it is a Linux forum but please help me! I was fresh installing windows 10 but after the installation it just wont restart!!! so I had to shut it down forcefully by using the power button on laptop. it was working fine....windows was installed. but when ever I try to shut down a...

windows shutdown

That first sentence... and then he asks a Windows question. >_<

Zanna

@Anwar I guess you can post an answer that works in Ubuntu if you have one...

Byte Commander

close (off topic) please ^^

Zanna

Done

Oh no wait

user136984

@Anwar: But officially they are off-topic and should be closed as such. I also wouldn't encourage them by answering, but that's up to you.

Zanna

I used all my votes

I am useless!

Anwar

5:39 PM

I have no clue on their problem. so, not thinking of answering that Q

Post deleted by OP!

user136984

Strange, I can see deleted posts in search results...

user136984

But can't tell the difference until I actually go to them.

Byte Commander

That is by design, I think?

Anwar

AU search?

user136984

I don't think so, I'm sure there was a thing about that a while ago where they stopped letting people with 10k+ from seeing deleted questions in search results.

Zanna

5:48 PM

@Anwar problem solved!

@ParanoidPanda apparently it didn't work?

user136984

@Zanna: Well, it did to a degree, the option in the square brackets no longer works (or at least it shouldn't I don't remember what it is to test it), but seemingly it doesn't filter them out nor differentiate them in the normal search.

user136984

Maybe it just takes a bit of time though to see that something has been deleted and needs to be removed from the search results.

Rinzwind

boo!

Zanna

Waahh

user136984

6:06 PM

Hides behind sofa

David Cole - Grammar Police

Anyone wanna do your favorite Police a favor

user136984

@DavidCole-GrammarPolice: No >:P

David Cole - Grammar Police

D:>

user136984

Does anybody know a Java regex which detects if a String only consists of spaces?

user136984

Also, this is really great music! :)

user136984

6:07 PM

Celldweller - Jericho (Instrumental)

►

edwinksl

@DavidCole-GrammarPolice i don't think anyone has a favorite popo

user136984

Yeah, I can't help you, I'm an Anarchist. :P

David Cole - Grammar Police

I need 4 rep for 1300 XD

Byte Commander

@ParanoidPanda ^\s*$ would fit. Not sure about what special regex dialect Java has thouhg.

user136984

@DavidCole-GrammarPolice: And I need 5 to go to 13,400! ;D

David Cole - Grammar Police

6:11 PM

:(

Imma go biking

Byte Commander

@ParanoidPanda Nice as relaxing background music.

Zanna

I'm an anarchist too

David Cole - Grammar Police

If someone wants to upvote this I'd appreciate it <3 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

user136984

@ByteCommander: It even has a tribal sounding part in the middle! :D

David Cole - Grammar Police

peace :P

user136984

6:16 PM

@DavidCole-GrammarPolice: No! War! Destruction! And Annihilation! >:D

edwinksl

@ParanoidPanda war is peace

user136984

@edwinksl: How so?

edwinksl

1984 reference, nothing more

user136984

Ah.

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 heh that answer is gone

user136984

6:22 PM

Nearly finished a project upgrade of mine which has been taking almost half a year now to complete!

user136984

Which feels good because I will finally have my application working in the way I want it to to best benefit its users because currently the released version is quite limited and basic.

Byte Commander

Can anyone quickly check the default content of /etc/shells on 16.04 please?

Nathan Osman

Gmail failing to load for anyone else?

Anwar

huh! I am finishing my vote today. which answer should I vote? :)

user136984

@NathanOsman: Seems to be working fine over here.

Nathan Osman

6:25 PM

Odd, it is getting stuck for me.

Anwar

@NathanOsman loaded here

Nathan Osman

Just hangs there.

Ah, Shift+F5 fixed it.

Must have been a cache issue.

user136984

@NathanOsman: And now we can all email you! ;P

user136984

Though of course I'd be too paranoid to email anyone.

Anwar

lol

Nathan Osman

6:27 PM

I've pasted it here before.

Nothing new.

user136984

So, who will be upgrading to 16.10 when it is released in a month exactly from now?

user136984

(When I say "upgrading", I also mean fresh installs.)

Seth

September patch update. <3 nexus

@ParanoidPanda probably me.

Zacharee1

@edwinksl whoa

Nathan Osman

I hear they're changing the name.

Nexus => Pixel.

Seth

6:30 PM

I don't remember when I fresh installed.

jokerdino

I want it called pixie.

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 flag worked!

Seth

@NathanOsman yeah

Zanna

Pixie is my backup username ^_^

Seth

I don't like it.

jokerdino

6:31 PM

don't worry, pixies are imaginary too.

Seth

They're also "theming" the pixel's version of Android.

user136984

6

Q: Did ABC News briefly report that Hillary Clinton had died in the hospital, and did ABC confirm it on the phone with Infowars?

I'm obviously not asking whether the story itself is correct, I'm asking whether ABC News briefly reported it or whether it's a series of hoaxes. I saw this alleged screenshot on Reddit just now. It has 1800 upvotes and 623 comments. However, it comes from Twitter where it's retweeted 507 times ...

television internet hillary-clinton

user136984

Wow :D

jokerdino

I know the OP. He speaks my language.

user136984

"The Art of Manliness"??? :D

user136984

6:39 PM

5

Q: Did a soldier fight off 40 train robbers?

The Art of Manliness website reports Bishnu Shrestha, who had just retired from the Indian army where he served as a Gorkha soldier, held off a horde of robbers that tried to rob a train in India. From the article on Republica: “The band of about 40 robbers, some of whom were travelling ...

crime india martial-arts

jokerdino

Gurkhas are real badass. See: telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/defence/8405932/…

3

user136984

And oh dear:

user136984

11

Q: Is Michelle Obama a transgender woman?

Many of my friends claim that the wife of Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, is a transgender woman. In 2014, comedian Joan Rivers made the claim in a street interview: Rivers: You know Michelle is a tranny. Reporter: I'm sorry? She's a what? Rivers: A transgender. We all know this. A...