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I love Dropbox. I <3 Dropbox. That being said I would like to not only uninstall it, keep the actual files cause I have a huge hard drive and install it later. (I was having a bit of a drag, but that's because I need a new power supply [different subject] so I wanted to uninstall and leave it off...

Thomas Ward

12:40 AM

greetings.

gracious1

Greetings @ThomasWard

@ThomasWard hello

Eliah Kagan

1:35 AM

@gracious1 Hi--how's it going? I haven't tried your Waterfox installation instructions yet, but should [arch=am64] be [arch=amd64]? Also, do you happen to have any more information on that repository, in terms of helping show's it's probably safe? It's fine if you don't, I'm just curious and I think that might improve the answer.

Thomas Ward

2:28 AM

@EliahKagan yes it should

am64 isn't a valid arch :P

TheWanderer

what about pm32

Nathan Osman

@gracious1 it's a new record

TheWanderer

@NathanOsman >_>

Nathan Osman

@ThomasWard sure. It's short for "American Mechatronics 64,000"

Thomas Ward

lol?

TheWanderer

2:33 AM

lol.

Is very fast CPU

yawns

Runs very hot

like @Avery?

Has been known to melt thermal paste.

Avery

2:34 AM

er

TheWanderer

@Avery you said it yourself

Avery

ah

well, I only said that I'm hot, not very hot, but /shrug. acceptable

TheWanderer

it's a compliment, take it :p

it's also a complement

Android Dev

2:51 AM

@TheWanderer oh, the ambiguity of English :D

So... I've been editing a video and Sony Movie Studio has crashed on me about about 4 times in the past 2 hours....

(Yeah it's a cheesy name but it's actually a good software)

(It's the Photoshop Elements of Sony Vegas)

I think it's a problem with the dynamic RAM preview

I have plenty of RAM (24GB)

So there must be a bug in the dynamic preview code

But I understand that video editors crashing is nothing new....

Apparently Adobe Premier also crashes quite a lot

Avery

I may or may not have turned that into a meme and posted it to a subreddit for easy reputation

TheWanderer

eh?

Avery

(it's an inside meme to post a specific picture when complimented when you don't ask for it, basically "how dare you" but with a happy face)

Android Dev

hue

TheWanderer

wat

Avery

2:57 AM

(the picture, and the title was quite anon like "when you get called hot")

TheWanderer

omy

pointwhore

Avery

hey

I need easy rep

all rep is good rep

TheWanderer

neh

there's literally bad rep

Android Dev

^

Avery

true

Avery

3:15 AM

I'd link the post but my reddit history contains some NSFSE stuff and meh

georg

3:36 AM

does anyone have experience with antergos linux?

the installer is really awful :/

Avery

@georg use arch

georg

i previously got antergos to install..

i liked it but stuff occasionally broke

SmokeDetector

4:46 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, blacklisted website in answer, pattern-matching website in answer: Community forum and resources for Ubuntu tablet by hyhyhy on askubuntu.com

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Ubuntu 17.04 Bluetooth not working

I'm using dell inspiron 3542, recently updated to Ubuntu 16.04, Now I cannot connect to any bluetooth device nor any device can connect to my PC. I've included a screen shot where its stuck on search device page. Kindly let me know if you need more info.

linux ubuntu bluetooth

Nathan Osman

5:49 AM

My email server app project thing is now able to receive emails and enumerate folders with an IMAP client.

So progress is being made slowly, but surely.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Can't ssh into my server from home linux but can ssh into same server from windows!! :(

I cannot ssh into my server from one of my ubuntu installation but if I use another ubuntu installation or windows operating system sshing works smoothly. So something is broken in one of my ubuntu installation and I'm struggling to find the exact problem. I've tried reinstalling ssh/openssh-cl...

linux ubuntu ssh webserver

SmokeDetector

6:56 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in title: MUSCLE: command not found? by Eunbi Lee on askubuntu.com

Takkat

7:07 AM

@SmokeDetector no. MUSCLE and MAFFT are sequencing software

David Foerster

9:49 AM

“I want to know if it is possible in any way to save the characters that are typed on my keyboard by making changes in any file or anything else.” – “There is a out-of-the-box solution for this in Ubuntu. It is called gedit.” :-D

Rinzwind

@DavidFoerster I got an issue with that. It does not save the 1st characters typed from commandline: gedit

David Foerster

@Rinzwind Your English is still too good for it to be believable. ;-]

Rinzwind

0

Q: How to enable ssh root access ubuntu 16.04

on Ubuntu 16.04 sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config change PermitRootLogin prohibit-password to PermitRootLogin yes sudo service ssh restart still permision denied

16.04 ssh root remote-access

:P

@DavidFoerster now I need a shower :=)

Journeyman Geek

10:51 AM

→ 28 messages moved to Recycle Bin

TheWanderer

12:14 PM

wait wtf

how the hell did they make 7 seasons out of Orange is the New Black?

it's only supposed to be a 1.5 year period

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body: Shoulder Pain - Defeat It Then! by nancyfreden on askubuntu.com

Byte Commander

time dilatation

David Foerster

12:36 PM

@ByteCommander Are you suggesting that OitNB takes place in a world that travels near light speed when observed from earth?

4

TheWanderer

yes

time dilation or dime tilation?

gracious1

Buongiorno.

@TheWanderer That show lasted seven seasons? And they cancelled "Awake" after just one. :(

TheWanderer

it's not done yet

gracious1

The universe is not fair.

@DavidFoerster wouldn't that be the other way around?

Rinzwind

-2

Q: Setup packages offline and save to iso

I went make some changes in ubuntu And setup some packages And Edit files In this packages and save it to iso . So How i Can Do this ?

14.04 server 14.10

gracious1

12:47 PM

No wait, that's right. As you approach the speed of light, time slows.

Android Dev

@DavidFoerster it would have to be very close to light speed though, because IIRC the effect doesn't really start happening until you get really close to the speed of light

karel

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Q: What exactly this rewrite condition does?

I'm facing a problem to understand this mod_rewrite expression. I'm using local xampp environment which has a directory named root in the htdocs directory. When I enter in address bar like this localhost/root it opens up the index.php page. This is the code of .htaccess file. RewriteEngine on Re...

apache mod-rewrite

David Foerster

@AndroidDev The effect happens at all non-zero relative speeds but is negligible for most applications until you come very close to the speed of light.

TheWanderer

why are we just posting random questions?

karel

Want some Stack Overflow reputation? Get it here.

David Foerster

12:52 PM

One common application of relativistic speed effects is satellite-based geo-positioning.

gracious1

@DavidFoerster Yes. I just learned that if it weren't taking into account general relativity, our GPS would be off by six miles every day.

David Foerster

Whenever you use GPS the client device needs to take time dilation and length contraction into account due to the orbital speed of satellites.

gracious1

Wow!

It's pretty astonishing, really.

user136984

1:10 PM

@ByteCommander :D :D :D

user136984

@AndroidDev That is actually done well and really cool! :D

user136984

Unfortunetly I'm ill at the moment though so won't be on much.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Best way to update question and answer for multiple KDE versions

Some time ago I self-answered a question about Emacs window behavior with KDE Plasma 4: How to remove gap around maximized Emacs frame on KDE4 I recently switched to KDE 5.5 and realized that the problem persists and the answer still works, so the problem is not limited to KDE 4. I would like to...

discussion

David Foerster

1:35 PM

@ByteCommander That's cute and pretty fun.

Android Dev

nvm

TheWanderer

2:00 PM

do we have DDR5 RAM yet?

I know there's GDDR5 for VRAM

Journeyman Geek

no

TheWanderer

k

is DDR4 just that good?

or is DDR5 having trouble?

Rinzwind

@TheWanderer nope. expect it in 2018

TheWanderer

like Verizon's CDMA drop?

Oli

@TheWanderer DDR3 was king for over 7 years. DDR4 has only really been toddling along for half that. There's a lot of hardware that needs to be replaced each time you decide it's time for a change in RAM spec, so the market appetite has to be considered too.

TheWanderer

2:07 PM

hmm

Oli what do you think of this laptop amazon.com/dp/B071Z2BRYT?th=1

in that combo, except they'll upgrade to 128GB SSD for free

Eliah Kagan

2:22 PM

@DavidFoerster Doesn't the particular effect you mentioned--time dilation and length contraction from relative velocity--only require special relativity? As I understand it, GPS calculations also require general relativity because gravity also produces time dilation, and GPS users are closer to the Earth's center of mass than GPS satellites are, so we have more of it from that effect even as we have less of it for the reason you mentioned. @gracious1

astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html

Did the Smoke Detector bot just leave the room and then return immediately?

Rinzwind

@TheWanderer for that price I'd get a ASUS ROG

TheWanderer

I need lightweight

and two display outputs

Avery

ahem

don't. get. extra. expensive. laptops.

Get something that does the job, and get a decent desktop

then you can vnc in to work at home and don't have to carry around something heavy and huge everywhere while still being able to work

TheWanderer

I can't get a desktop when I'm moving among three houses in the week

Rinzwind

@TheWanderer the ROG has 3 :-)

TheWanderer

2:29 PM

but how heavy

asus.com/us/Laptops/ROG-GL553VE this is the match for the Prostar

same weight though

thicker

Rinzwind

4.5Kg with a 8-cell battery

TheWanderer

dafuq

I'm not getting a 9-pound laptop

Rinzwind

that's a gaming laptop ;-) you don't game on notebooks

Journeyman Geek

I'm pretty happy with my razer blade stealth

I have an older model but the current one's got a 13 inch option, and HDMI and thunderbolt/USB-C outs

TheWanderer

@Rinzwind I'm getting a gaming laptop because they also happen to be good for programming and development

all I play is Minecraft

Oli

2:38 PM

FWIW, my recent i5 ThinkPad 13 plays Minecraft fine. IGPs are adequate for older games.

TheWanderer

integrated graphics are horrible

Oli

Not in my experience.

And a much happier overall experience than battling prime/bumblebee/whatever-it's-called-today.

TheWanderer

I use Windows, remember?

integrated graphics have terrible support in Windows, and I don't use switchable graphics

Byte Commander

easy fix

format C:

TheWanderer

I'm not getting integrated graphics

David Foerster

2:43 PM

@EliahKagan Yes, you're right.

Byte Commander

much better battery life than dedicated gpus though

Journeyman Geek

IGPs are... adequete

TheWanderer

I don't need battery life

that's what outlets are for

Byte Commander

rip battery

Just get a desktop with wheels then.

Eliah Kagan

Can anything be done about Launchpad listing the wrong upstream connection for file in Ubuntu? I'm not sure what I would report a bug about this again on Launchpad... Launchpad itself? I don't feel comfortable changing it myself without guidance (and I'm not sure Launchpad would let me). Should I ask about this here on Ask Ubuntu (to ask what to do)?

I can't really think of a way to ask the question where it's no effectively a bug report, but I don't know where, how, or if such a bug ought to be reported for real. I'm not sure what file in Ubuntu on Launchpad should link to upstream, if anything. github.com/file/file is an official read-only mirror, but patches and bug reports aren't accepted there. The home page does not seem to indicate another place Launchpad is capable of linking to.

*not effectively

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:56 PM

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Q: Configuring Squid as a proxy server that allows torrenting

I have an Ubuntu 16 server with Squid 3.5 installed. The squid.conf file only has two lines: http_port 1234 http_access allow all Right now I can set this server up as a proxy, and use it to send curl commands and browse the net fine. However, torrenting does not work. When I try to download t...

ubuntu proxy squid bittorrent

Seth

@EliahKagan they list bugs.gw.com as their bug tracker, but I cannot get it to load.

TheWanderer

downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bugs.gw.com

rip Essential

that "phishing scam" thing was actually just a mistake

and now they're giving those people free LifeLock subscriptions for a year

along with a free phone

people haven't even gotten their products and Essential is losing money

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

3:25 PM

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Q: guest subdirectory in /media?

I've observed a directory named 'guest-bizm7r' amongst the other users listed under the /media directory. I can access it only as root, and its empty. What is this? I don't recall mounting any usb media as a guest. Is this a randomly generated name for a guest media directory? Why wouldn't it sim...

ubuntu media

Nathan Osman

3:37 PM

WikiLeaks is down?

TheWanderer

wat

Seth

wikileaks can't be down. They have several hundred mirrors.

and they load for me..

TheWanderer

3:58 PM

weird

this laptop uses M.2 for WiFi

Seth

Don't they all?

TheWanderer

mine is PCIe

I know M.2 can go over PCIe, but I don't think a WiFi card would actually use the M.2 protocol

Nathan Osman

4:21 PM

@GeorgetheDev is wikileaks.org down?

George the Dev

@NathanOsman wikileaks.org works for me

Nathan Osman

Huh. I guess it's just me then.

TheWanderer

rip

your ISP

gracious1

4:38 PM

@EliahKagan I said "general relativity". It is the theory of general relativity that explains the discrepancy between clocks on the orbiting satellites and the clocks on the earth. Actually because of improvements in technology we can measure the differences between clocks running at high and low elevations. We are talking nanoseconds, of course, which is completely imperceptible to us mere mortals.

@EliahKagan I think it's okay to ask on AskUbuntu what to do. Someone may know something better.

Eliah Kagan

@gracious1 Yes. I was replying to David Foerster's message about specially relativistic effects due to relative velocity. (I @-ed you as well in case you were interested, sorry if that caused confusion.)

@gracious1 I think I will do that.

gracious1

@EliahKagan There are a couple of really good documentaries about Einstein's thought experiments. After watching them I finally understood general relativity (at least at a purely conceptual level). I'll check out that link, too.

And special relativity. Following his thought experiment about people on a train perceiving lightning strikes makes it really clear.

Does anyone here have any experience with IceCat?

(On a completely different note)

Eliah Kagan

If you mean the browser, then yes, though not very recent experience.

gracious1

My experiences have not been great.

Eliah Kagan

Problems?

gracious1

4:52 PM

Yes.

For example, it will just suddenly hang.

And freeze and crash

Eliah Kagan

When it hangs is that temporary or does it have to be killed?

gracious1

Must be killed.

Eliah Kagan

Is it using CPU when that happens?

gracious1

Actually sometimes it drops to black screen and then I have to log in again.

I assume it is using CPU because I can't even drop to console.

Computer becomes utterly unresponsive.

And trying to install from repo was a massive mistake.

It overwrote my lsb release file and maybe some other things, so that PPAs broke. It did not appear to change my kernel, however.

I had the problem the person described in the comment here: linuxhelp.com/how-to-install-icecat-in-ubuntu

(Scroll down to the comment by Loxaxs)

Android Dev

6:16 PM

@TheWanderer so I started to work on the database implementation again, but first I have to figure out where I left off :\

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

7:53 PM

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Q: curl --referer : no URL specified!

Why I can't do curl --referer in my machine? When I do curl -i --referer https://google.com All I got is this : curl: no URL specified! curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information I am using Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS btw.

bash ubuntu curl

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

9:09 PM

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Q: How can I tell whether dd is done erasing my hard drive?

I'm using dd to overwrite my hard drive with zeros (before I recycle my laptop). Several minutes into running, the visual display was replaced with a black background and a flashing cursor in the top left of the screen. No text is being written to the screen, so it's not clear to me whether dd ...

ubuntu hard-disk dd disk

Nathan Osman

Quiet room is quiet.

Android Dev

@NathanOsman hue

btw, question for you

Thomas Ward

@NathanOsman I could make it a noisy room.

but that'd disrupt a lot of things.

Avery

DID ANYONE ORDER A LOUD ROOM

Thomas Ward

sets up a script to pipe /dev/urandom into the room

Avery

9:13 PM

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Android Dev

@NathanOsman question for license guru: I saw a YouTube video where the creator had taken a few short (<30sec) snippets from other YouTube videos and replaced the audio with that of his video. Just curious, but is that allowed by the YouTube license?

Avery

@AndroidDev It's fair use

recently there was a legal thing over it

Thomas Ward

bans @Avery

Android Dev

@Avery even if it's not under CC?

Thomas Ward

@AndroidDev There are "fair use" rules in the copyright laws

if it's a short clip and isn't the full thing and its primary use case is for educational or referencing only, there's usually a "fair use" coverage for the thing

Avery

9:15 PM

@AndroidDev well, IANAL, but I know of many people doing it outside CC license

Thomas Ward

it's why I can borrow 30 seconds of music in a presentation as an example of a specific type of music

without having to get a license to distribute that music

Android Dev

@Avery but that doesn't make it legal :P

Thomas Ward

Hail Google

copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html

Avery

@AndroidDev recently a lawsuit was won which basically ended up with "if you're not stealing viewers or aren't a competitor it's fine"

Android Dev

@ThomasWard ok. just wondering. He was reporting scam videos anyway, so yeah :D

Avery

9:16 PM

h3h3 wins! Let's read Judge Forrest's Opinion

►

Thomas Ward

beeps and declares a war on scammers

Avery

one hour of reading of the thing

Thomas Ward

mobilizes fifty million mechanized units

Android Dev

equips dd, sudo, and rm -rf /

Thomas Ward

equips the LOIC

Avery

9:18 PM

@ThomasWard ew C#

+ ew 4chan

Thomas Ward

lol

not THAT LOIC

Avery

oh

Thomas Ward

i mean the actual focused energy beam cannon in orbit >:D

Android Dev

hides in corner

sends EMP to it

Thomas Ward

FEBC is immune to EMP, begins charging the lazor

Avery

9:19 PM

POCKET SAND

Nathan Osman

@AndroidDev Good question.

I know there is fair use where you can use short snippets for the purpose of criticism.

Android Dev

@ThomasWard bends the spacetime continuum, around it

Nathan Osman

But I'm not sure if YouTube itself explicitly allows that.

Their content tagging system is pretty powerful.

Thomas Ward

@AndroidDev it's immune to everything, it already exists outside of time, space, and everything else, and opens up a portal between its own pocket universe and the target when it fires.

:P

anyways, i'm bored now

Android Dev

@NathanOsman well this guy was in fact criticizing scam videos..... but what if you were to reuse, say, some footage of a SpaceX landing or something? (Non-criticism)

Nathan Osman

9:23 PM

That I'm not sure about.

Android Dev

This is something I've always wondered about

Avery

@AndroidDev there are flat earthers using parts of spacex vids

Seth

what the actual heck. it was DNS.

@Avery now I'd like to see that. (I know a flat earther, and I watch SpaceX videos so)

Android Dev

10:30 PM

@TheWanderer Well now I'm down to 37 compile errors with the database implementation.... still haven't been able to test it yet though :\

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:54 PM

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Q: Permission denied trying to erase laptop hard drive from live USB

I put an Ubuntu ISO on a USB drive, booted from that USB on my laptop, and then called $ cat /dev/zero | pv > /dev/sda to try to overwrite my laptop's hard drive (sda) with zeros. I get the following error: bash: /dev/sda: Permission denied This error is raised regardless of whether I pre-...

ubuntu permissions hard-disk live-usb

Eliah Kagan

11:36 PM

@gracious1 I've gone ahead and posted the question.

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Q: What can I do when Launchpad shows a wrong upstream connection?

I noticed that the file source package in Ubuntu on Launchpad is connected to the wrong upstream project. This obviously can't be fixed from Ask Ubuntu, but I am hoping someone can tell me what I can do to get it fixed (or, if for some reason it is best left unfixed, explain that). I believe I...

bug-reporting launchpad source-packages upstream

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