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@ByteCommander Or for a strange vim compare list vimdiff <(cd $dir1; find . | sort) <(cd $dir2; find . | sort), but you'll have to quit out of 2 vim sessions.

RobotHumans

2:10 PM

@terdon tell me it's in audio, pulse, or alsa... that's his specific wizardry

Byte Commander

Yikes, no vim please.

But that diff was exactly what I needed, thanks

@RobotHumans Nope, virtualbox.

terdon

@RobotHumans askubuntu.com/help/badges/233/virtualbox

virtualbox

Byte Commander

But I'm surprised we have an UEFI golden tag badge.

terdon

Yeah. Me too.

CLI and bash make more sense. Cli has the most, anyway

Arronical

@ByteCommander Haha! I must admit, I'm more at home with nano!

RobotHumans

2:12 PM

why would that surprise you? after that hell of question dump right when it started? people want stuff to work. not everyone wants to tinker. so, the uefi gold tag badge actually makes MORE sense objectively.

Byte Commander

My rarest tag badge is command-line in silver.

terdon

Will not mention emacs. Will not mention emacs. Will not mention emacs. Will not mention emacs. Will not mention emacs. Will not mention emacs. Will not mention emacs. Will not mention emacs. Will not mention emacs. Will not mention emacs. Will not mention emacs. Will not mention emacs.

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RobotHumans

and a butterfly flapped its wings

terdon

:)

Byte Commander

Real programmers set the universal constants at the start such that the universe evolves to contain the disk with the data they want.

jokerdino

2:14 PM

@DavidFoerster I believe Ubuntu Kylin is one of the official flavours of Ubuntu. See - wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFlavors

re: askubuntu.com/questions/816047/kylin-ubuntu-in-tianhe-2

RobotHumans

@jokerdino kylin - that's the chinese localization one right?

jokerdino

I think so, yes.

RobotHumans

wonders if the default search engine is baidu

Arronical

@ByteCommander Looks like @RobotHumans was way ahead of you!

RobotHumans

@Arronical and that's whilst being a space murder hobo

Rinzwind

2:17 PM

@RobotHumans amazon :=)

RobotHumans

@Rinzwind sheesh. you'ld think chinese localized it would be baidu or alibaba

terdon

It's actually M-x butterfly

And yes, emacs has implemented this. Well, the command anyway, I doubt it actually works :)

Andy K

hiya

I've got a question

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Q: How to properly replicate of all distro packages & python packages from an ubuntu server on AWS to an ubuntu server on DO

I'm trying to migrate all the distro and python packages I have on an AWS ubuntu server , to my newly created DO server Please find below my DO and AWS Distro's release AWS : Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS DO : Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS I listed all the distro and python packages I have from my AWS server, wit...

terdon

@AndyK Yes, we can see that on the site. Please don't dump your questions here as soon as you post them! If nobody seems to have seen it, you can ask but have some patience!

That said, some errors are to be expected. You're changing versions.

Andy K

hi @terdon I'm impatient at <3 but I can be patient if asked ;) Please dump my question to another room if you feel so

the one I've put here mean

terdon

2:30 PM

Well, your basic problem is that you're trying to replicate the package selections on different Ubuntu versions. Next time, go for the same version, set everything up and then upgrade to the newer one.

Byte Commander

$ imagej
Open other images in this ImageJ panel as follows:
  imagej -p 1 <image1> [<image2> ... <imageN>]

No JVM found to run ImageJ
Please apt-get install a JVM to run ImageJ or
set JAVA_HOME if it's not a JVM from a Debian Package.

What shall I do?

Do I need to set the JAVA_HOME variable?

And if so, to what?

openjdk-8-jre is installed and all alternatives are configured properly.

Zanna

@jokerdino I thought that too, but then I looked on Ubuntu forums and I was confused, because I thought it used to be in the list, but now it is not. Maybe I was dreaming...

RobotHumans

i think kylin was going for official but never got there

Zanna

It is in the wiki though!

RobotHumans

that's a knotted ball of yarn i'm not even going to begin trying to unravel

jokerdino

2:47 PM

ubuntu.com/desktop/ubuntu-kylin

> Ubuntu Kylin is an official flavour of Ubuntu. It is a free PC operating system created for China and complies with the Chinese government procurement regulations

Looks pretty official.

RobotHumans

it does

jokerdino

I didnt closely follow the news about them so I wasn't sure if they were official without having to check the website and wiki.

RobotHumans

it does make me wonder how crypto is packaged on that beast

Zanna

Ok noted, kylin is official :)

Rinzwind

@RobotHumans that was not a factual answer but a comical :=)

@Zanna it sure is :P

RobotHumans

2:56 PM

@Rinzwind noted

Rinzwind

and in case anyone wonders... Kylin became official on 25th April 2013.

RobotHumans

asleep at the wheel i guess

Anwar

pure windows question askubuntu.com/q/828290/61218 ?

I see no sign of Ubuntu on the VM

RobotHumans

i have to remember to take those OT UL questions as compliments. will not get irritated. will note get irritated.

Byte Commander

Why did James delete this answer? askubuntu.com/a/199430/367990

I'd ping him, but he hasn't been in chat too long...

jokerdino

3:07 PM

Duplicate question, same answer repeated in master, etc.

Byte Commander

Yeah, but since when do we delete answers to questions that later get closed as dupes?

Windows 3.1

@ByteCommander not talking about this james, are you?

Byte Commander

No, our moderator James.

jokerdino

@ByteCommander that happens a lot of times

Windows 3.1

ok

jokerdino

3:09 PM

maybe we haven't been doing lately

Byte Commander

Really?

But why

Especially answers with notable positive scores (+9 here)

jokerdino

It's the same answer. Answers in duplicate questions prevent auto-redirect and merging will just have duplicate answers in master q.

Besides, deleting that answer will not lead to rep loss because of historical contribution condition.

Byte Commander

o.O?

jokerdino

Any post that has +3 score and has been around for 2 months when deleted will not reduce rep.

Byte Commander

Aha. Learned something.

Thanks :)

David Foerster

3:12 PM

@jokerdino Thanks. I deleted my comment and retracted my vote.

jokerdino

@DavidFoerster Thank you.

@ByteCommander Because of these reasons, it's all right to delete it.

Byte Commander

Okay, I understand.

jokerdino

Thanks for understanding.

Byte Commander

I'd still personally prefer to leave them around or merge, but I can understand and respect your reasons :)

jokerdino

A lot of answers saying the same thing?

Windows 3.1

3:30 PM

gah dammit firefox

RobotHumans

@ByteCommander it fixes redirects

Zanna

@jokerdino that's good to know :)

Byte Commander

4:13 PM

@Anwar Now that I finally got ImageJ to work, it seems like my data is incompatible with it and I installed it in vain... :(

Although it should be DICOM, it does not open.

Anwar

have no idea of it. I installed the latest build suggested and the application opened.

Byte Commander

Yeah, the app works, but it does not open the files from my CD.

It says they're an incompatible format.

"Unable to decode DICOM header"

Anwar

Was it supposed to open those files?

I found this forum.imagej.net/t/dicom-file-import-failed/871

Byte Commander

Yeah, that's what it is meant to do.

Maybe my files are somehow compressed or whatever.

Reading your link...

Anwar

no solution on that link

Byte Commander

4:22 PM

Just noticed that too.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: key_load_public: No such file or directory while connecting to ssh

I have a Windows 10 PC that i want to connect to and use it's Internet connection. so i have installed openssh and have it running. when i use ssh @ i get an error: ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer and if i use ssh -v @ i get this log: ~:$ ssh -v senaps@192.168.1....

ubuntu sshd

Byte Commander

@Anwar Ha, I found out how to use it.

I may not click "Open" and select the DICOMDIR file, but I need to click "Import > Image Sequence..." and select one of the numbered files inside the DICOM directory...

They could improve their applications user-friendliness a bit... :p

Now I can look at my insides... o.O

Zanna

I bet it's dark

Byte Commander

Yup.

Mostly black and white with some grey in between.

Zanna

4:39 PM

Hahaha

Anwar

5:03 PM

@ByteCommander nice!

Rinzwind

5:23 PM

At a Greek restaurant for a change

Scampi <3

Zanna

Love Greek food :)

edwinksl

someone trying to pirate an indie game? SMH askubuntu.com/questions/828351/…

Zanna

5:39 PM

Tch

jokerdino

@Rinzwind did they give you the change?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Systemd Timer Confusion

I have a program running via Systemd and I'm trying to figure out how to start/stop it at certain times. It's a persistent program (transmission). Currently I have a crontab with the following lines: 0 8 * * * systemctl stop transmission-daemon 0 20 * * * systemctl start transmission-daemon ...

debian ubuntu cron systemd transmission

user136984

6:00 PM

One of the pixels on my screen appears to be broken because it either annoyingly reflects light and distracts me or it is just a dark grey. The safety manual for my laptop says that the screen has liquid in it which is corrosive (probably LCD, I don't remember though, it was a while ago I read the manual and I'm not sure where it is now). Is this of any danger? Or is the light just dead?

user136984

@ByteCommander: Just installed Firefox 49! :D

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Writing a Unix shell script to call C function and redirecting data to .txt file

I am new to Shell scripting.I wish to write a unix script which will call a C program for N= 2^{i} , i= 1,2 ....20; and later record this data in a file. ( this program calculates definite integral using trapezoid rule in C and returns iterative result and error for each term N) . While I just s...

linux shell-script shell ubuntu c

user136984

6:19 PM

So when is Final Beta (2) going to be released then?

user136984

Isn't this cat just adorable? :D

user136984

Classical music cat

►

edwinksl

@ParanoidPanda wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/ReleaseSchedule says today

user136984

@edwinksl: Well, I heard news of it being either late today, or Friday morning.

Anwar

If a person sets a bounty on his question and accepts an answer during bounty period but doesn't award bounty... what will happen?

edwinksl

6:24 PM

@ParanoidPanda no hurry anyway...

jokerdino

@Anwar auto award

Anwar

@jokerdino thanks :) good to know

edwinksl

Looking for participants to test a prototype of developer.ubuntu.com reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/53ydav/…

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Byte Commander

@ParanoidPanda Nice. How?

user136984

@ByteCommander: It's available in the official repositories now. :)

edwinksl

6:32 PM

@ParanoidPanda isn't that pretty fast

user136984

@edwinksl: Well, it did have a major security update in it.

Byte Commander

@ParanoidPanda Ah, nice. I'm on 50 already, but when I checked a few hours ago, it wasn't there yet.

Downgrading again, I believe FF 50 does not receive new questions from SE well.

Can anyone understand what he means? If not, close as unclear, please: askubuntu.com/q/828324/367990

Yikes!

Undeletable files on my Desktop!

edwinksl

@ByteCommander it appears steeldriver knows what's going on

Byte Commander

?

Zacharee1

who wants to do a CV purge now?

Byte Commander

6:44 PM

Ah, I see.

@Zacharee1 I want to do a Desktop purge.

Zacharee1

:p

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 i only have 6 CVs left

Zacharee1

@edwinksl use em

Byte Commander

I extracted an iso image to my Desktop eralier, and now those files are undeletable!

Halp?

edwinksl

@ByteCommander really? i am curious what errors you get

Zacharee1

6:46 PM

@ByteCommander RMRMRMRMRMRMRM

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edwinksl

when in doubt, sudo !!

jk of course

Byte Commander

bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~/Desktop$ ll CDINFO
-rwxrwxrwx 1 bytecommander bytecommander 351 Sep 21 12:50 CDINFO*
bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~/Desktop$ rm CDINFO
rm: cannot remove 'CDINFO': Permission denied
bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~/Desktop$ lsattr CDINFO
-------------e-- CDINFO

Zacharee1

@edwinksl when in doubt, dd if=/dev/random of=/

Byte Commander

@Zacharee1 you are a car?

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Zacharee1

@ByteCommander use sudo

Byte Commander

6:47 PM

But it's owned by me!

O.O

Zacharee1

@ByteCommander and that thing says owner has no permissions

Byte Commander

it... worked?

Zacharee1

wait

lsattr

edwinksl

@ByteCommander explain please

user136984

@ByteCommander: Maybe you should file a bug report somewhere.

Byte Commander

6:49 PM

I have no idea why it worked.

But I still have a bunch of those files left.

I want to know why I could not delete them as myself.

edwinksl

seems like an AU question

Byte Commander

What other attributes etc are there?

Zacharee1

@ByteCommander extracting the ISO probably just messed the permissions up

Byte Commander

No strange ACLs either.

$ getfacl AUTORUN.EXE
# file: AUTORUN.EXE
# owner: bytecommander
# group: bytecommander
user::rwx
group::r-x
other::r-x

Zacharee1

why is everyone voting Leave Open? This is a Mint question askubuntu.com/review/close/619726

edwinksl

6:56 PM

@Zacharee1 ok, casted my wet-noodle CV

Byte Commander

o.O

Zacharee1

12.04 isn't EOL... ?? askubuntu.com/review/close/617829

CVs done

user136984

@Zacharee1: Not EOL yet.

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 no it isn't. not sure who flagged as EOL

Zacharee1

Not asking, wondering why someone flagged it

edwinksl

7:00 PM

easy mistake to make, i can forgive

user136984

@edwinksl: But I cannot! >;D

Serg

7:14 PM

BOOO

did I scare anyone ?

edwinksl

i am sure @Zacharee1 was scared

user136984

@Serg: Aaaa! Oh my god! Don't do that!

user136984

:P

Serg

^_^

Byte Commander

7:41 PM

@Serg °O°

Serg

@ByteCommander so how on earth did you remove write permission from your Desktop ?

Byte Commander

No idea.

edwinksl

@ByteCommander yeah... lol

Byte Commander

Probably file-roller changed that?

Serg

@ByteCommander test it again. If that's the case, I'd call this a serious bug in file-roller

Byte Commander

7:43 PM

okay

@Serg YES!

It was file-roller!

Serg

File the bug report

Byte Commander

What is Desktop/'s default permission?

Serg

$ ls -ld ~/Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 7 xieerqi xieerqi 12288 9月 11 23:27 /home/xieerqi/Desktop/

edwinksl

@ByteCommander drwxr-xr-x

Serg

Looks owl-right two mi

edwinksl

7:47 PM

and file-roller changes it to 555?

Byte Commander

bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ ll -d Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 bytecommander bytecommander 4096 Sep 22 21:48 Desktop/
bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ file-roller Downloads/test.iso
bytecommander@BC-AlkaliMetal:~$ ll -d Desktop
dr-xr-xr-x 4 bytecommander bytecommander 4096 Sep 22 16:20 Desktop/

@Serg @edwinksl That's what I did ^

edwinksl

eh. that's so weird.

Serg

Like I said, bug report

edwinksl

@ByteCommander launchpad here btw bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller

Byte Commander

Yeah, I'm there

edwinksl

8:00 PM

where did you get that iso?

i want to try something with it

Byte Commander

It's a personal one, I can't give it to you.

I created it from a CD I have.

Wait... no.

I created it manually using k3b

edwinksl

heh ok

user136984

VTC this question as too broad.

Aaron Hall

hey, #ubuntu, what's up?

Serg

#Surviving

#noCoffee

Byte Commander

8:17 PM

@edwinksl @Serg bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/1626724

Has anyone else problems with Firefox on Ask Ubuntu?

I don't get those real-time updates any more.

Serg

@ByteCommander what exactly is the problem ?

Byte Commander

I don't see inbox or rep notifications or new questions until I reload the page.

I also don't see appearing comments or answers any more.

Zanna

No problem for me with that

Serg

@ByteCommander leave a comment on one of my questions or answers for a test plz

Byte Commander

It works fine in Chromium, but it stopped working in Firefox for some reason.

Serg

8:20 PM

I'm on firefox 48 though

Are you on newest one ?

Byte Commander

Yesterday it was still alright.

Serg

49 ?

Byte Commander

Yes, 49.

50 from firefox-next PPA had the same issue.

Serg

That could be the thing . . .

Byte Commander

Downgrading to 45 from main to test...

Serg

8:23 PM

Ain't no-one left me a comment yet ?

Byte Commander

@Serg Just left you one.

Can you leave one for me now, please?

Serg

Got it

@ByteCommander just left one

Pinged back with the response on the same comment

Byte Commander

Nope.

Serg

:\

Byte Commander

Although I downgraded to 45 from main, I don't get it until I F5...

Up to 49 again before continuing to troubleshoot...

Serg

8:28 PM

@ByteCommander maybe tweak your auto-refresh settings ?

Seth

someone ping me please

Serg

@Seth ping pong

user136984

@Seth Ping!

user136984

@Serg: Oh! You beat me to it! :P

Seth

hm, neat.

Byte Commander

8:28 PM

@Serg How?

ANd it should not be auto-refresh but a websocket thing.

Seth

Chromium redid tab notifications. I think I can actually tell normal chatter apart from pings now just by looking at it!

Byte Commander

Did anything change regarding to how SE updates the site (new questions, answers, comments, inbox/rep notifications) server-side?

@Seth Do you know that?

Or do you know where I could find it out?

Windows 3.1

@ByteCommander yes

Seth

you could find out on meta, or maybe twitter if you're lucky and know who to ping.

Serg

@ByteCommander

Seth

8:31 PM

james -.-

Byte Commander

Making a new blank firefox profile without any addon to test first...

Windows 3.1

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Q: mouse stops working after suspend resume xubuntu

In Xubuntu 16.04, after resuming for suspend, my pointer completely disappears. I can still use it though but I can not see where it is. What can I do to fix the problem?

xubuntu mouse suspend glitch mouse-pointer

Serg

^ that

Byte Commander

Everything on default for me.

Someone leave me a comment again, please?

Serg

Windows 3.1

8:37 PM

@Seth I thought you were a moderator. Why did you troll my question?

Byte Commander

That one came through in the virgin profile.

So it must be one of my settings or add-ons... :(

Serg

How much you wanna bet it's javascript-related ?

Seth

@Windows3.1 Why did you troll my site?

Windows 3.1

I didn't troll your site

Seth

nah, but in all seriousness, moderators are people too. Just like we don't delete all the funny comments doesn't mean we don't occasionally leave one ;)

Windows 3.1

8:38 PM

@Seth I dont mind funny coments

*comments

edwinksl

@ByteCommander no repro on my firefox 50... i can see new questions

Seth

that's not the impression I get from your replies.

Windows 3.1

@Seth but when it's a question and you downplay it with that it's different :)

Byte Commander

Yeah, must be an addon or a setting :(

edwinksl

Windows 3.1

8:39 PM

@Seth it all just depends on how they are used

and where

Seth

heh

Windows 3.1

@edwinksl suckass UEFI

Byte Commander

Can someone please leave me a comment here to test?

edwinksl

done

Byte Commander

\o/

THANKS

I found it out.

edwinksl

8:41 PM

what caused it?

Byte Commander

HTTPS Everywhere

Windows 3.1

@Seth what annoys me MOST though is I want to do something and dont know how and ask, then I am told by some idiot that he doesnt recommend me to do what I want to do. It's like answer my question or say nothing!! lol

Byte Commander

I think that's worth a bug report on Meta.

edwinksl

that thing also eats tons of RAM...

Windows 3.1

@Seth at least you didnt do too far

Byte Commander

8:41 PM

@edwinksl I have 12GB, so that's not my problem...

user136984

You should all update now, a major security update for OpenSSL has just been released in the repositories.

edwinksl

@ByteCommander ;)

Seth

Sometimes that "idiot" knows a thing or two you don't that is very important.

I've seen plenty of cases where the question asker wants to do something dangerous or stupid, but gets mad when someone tries to explain it to them. Not saying that is your case at all, but it is a good idea to have more patience when someone doesn't think you should do what you're doing.

edwinksl

@Windows3.1 I would refrain from calling anyone idiot. Doing that instantly detracts attention from the actual topic being discussed.

Seth

but I see where you're coming from.

Byte Commander

8:43 PM

@ParanoidPanda I only got updates for libsmbclient libwbclient0 samba-libs ubuntu-drivers-common

edwinksl

@ParanoidPanda nice okay i just saw them

Windows 3.1

@Seth for example I asked when metrolux ENG version will be released and everyone's like 'W8 STYLE MENU SUCKS MAN'

edwinksl

@ByteCommander libssl-dev libssl-doc libssl1.0.0 openssl here :p

Windows 3.1

or I ask about a Windows ME driver and they're like "USE WINDOWS 98"

Seth

when did you ask about a Windows ME driver?! o_O

Byte Commander

8:44 PM

Probably my mirror is a few hours behind...

Windows 3.1

or worse yet 'USE WINDOWS 10' lol

@Seth not here

winworldpc

edwinksl

and i need to reboot. reminds me of windows :/

Windows 3.1

their forums

gah lol

Serg

My solution is simple: don't use windows. end of story

Windows 3.1

@Seth or I ask where to find a driver for an paralell to ethernet adapter and they're like 'GET AN OLD MODEM'

for win 3.1

DOS 6 really

I run 3.1 on DOS 6

would have to upgrade to 3.11 in that case tho lol

edwinksl

8:46 PM

@ByteCommander @Serg remember to delete the test comments

Windows 3.1

@edwinksl test

Byte Commander

@edwinksl oh, yes. Thanks :)

Windows 3.1

Hello world

:P

Serg

I'm supposed to get some homework done, but i have no energy for it today

Nathan Osman

Stupid VLC has managed to create a video with desync'd audio and video ಠ_ಠ

I can pass offsets to ffmpeg and remux the file but the delay varies throughout the file.

user136984

8:51 PM

@NathanOsman: For some reason if I put the quality high on YouTube it tends to do that after a little bit.

user136984

But it doesn't always happen.

user136984

Which makes it stranger.

user136984

Loved George's latest video by the way! :D

Serg

Coming soon on Nathan's github : SmartVLC, a fork of VLC that doesn't produce out of synch audio and video

user136984

He's got one big belly!

Nathan Osman

8:51 PM

I wonder if I played the whole thing through...

user136984

Are you ever going to get that jumper to cover it properly?

Nathan Osman

He needs a new suit.

Heh - I kinda wish that was my full-time job.

But George doesn't have enough subscribers to make that viable.

Byte Commander

@ParanoidPanda What is the new fixed openssl version?

user136984

@ByteCommander: 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.4

Byte Commander

Hmm.... Still on ...ubuntu4.4

The in-site updates (new questions, answers, comments, inbox/rep notifications) are realized using websockets, right?

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