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Q: Reset web page caching to defaults

uberhitztI would like to get back to default web page caching behavior. I am using Firefox 57 on Ubuntu 16. Our Confluence server was slow in serving up pages, so I sought, found, and executed a command at the terminal of my local machine to use the cached web page EVERY time if it existed. Because my cac...

 
2:27 AM
@bobiscool hi
 
 
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5:49 AM
So SpaceX completed the static firing test for the Falcon Heavy today.
I was watching a short clip on YouTube.
Me: I'll read the comments for the video clip of the rocket.
*sees argument about white nationalism in the comments*
Me: this is why we can't have nice things.
Me: this is also why I don't usually read comments
 
 
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9:59 AM
@NathanOsman I'm really having trouble to imagine how the subjects "space rocket" and "white nationalism" crossed
maybe as in "we could get all white nationalists, put them in a space rocket and send them away"?
 
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Q: What is the difference between DevStack, RDO, Juju, Conjure?

xavI'm studying OpenStack, but I'm making a mess of things. I have seen that in order to make the installation of OpenStack easier, one of the following solutions can be used: DevStack - RDO - Juju - Conjure But it is not clear to me what their differences are. The idea is to install OpenStack t...

 
10:39 AM
@JacobVlijm this you might like: artima.com/intv/pythonP.html
 
11:26 AM
@Rinzwind "Python shares some characteristics with scripting languages, but also shares some characteristics with more traditional programming languages." Exactly that I think.
 
and that is also what makes it stand out :)
 
 
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1:41 PM
We've received reports that Stack Overflow was unavailable in India earlier today - we are investigating the possible causes now.
 
2:30 PM
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Q: Failed first post audit by flagging as a duplicate. Is it correct?

MelebiusWhile reviewing the first posts queue, I failed the following audit: https://askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/799873 After I looked at the question, I just thought: “That must have been answered already” and quickly found another (a few days older) question with the same topic. Searching the man...

 
2:41 PM
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Q: Still vulnerable after SpectreMeltdown ubuntu kernel 3.13.0-141-generic update?

lowkeyI have updated my server with ubuntu 14.04 to the newest kernel: 3.13.0-141-generic Which is the second release after the disclosure of the spectreMeltdown vulnerability as far as i can tell. But when running the spectre-and-meltdown vulnerability checker: https://github.com/speed47/spectre-...

 
Oli was once very new :=) askubuntu.com/questions/276690/…
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3:30 PM
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Q: Firefox laggs because use of random core jumps to 100%

ArbeitsloeffelI have a lot of open tabs in Firefox (may be a bad habit, I know) but usually only 3 - 10 of them loaded at a time. No fancy multi-media stuff. The problem is that it starts lagging as soon as I open about 3 tabs. And by lagging I mean it freezes for about 1 - 5, sometimes even more, seconds. I...

 
 
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nwp
5:32 PM
Is this the right room to ask about issues with getting ppa packages installed in travis's ubuntu trusty?
 
6:09 PM
Who is "travis"?
 
There is no "ubuntu" in the url so the answer is probably no then
 
nwp
They essentially have ubuntu 14.04 VMs and run script on them.
I'll just ask and hope someone pings me later. I have this run which needs protobuf-compiler version 3+ installed which it isn't which is why it fails. Ubuntu/trusty only has version 2.5. I'm trying to use this ppa for version 3.4, but it still installs the regular 2.5 version.
I tried using this preference file in order to convince apt to prioritize the ppa as described here, but it had no effect.
So the question is how to make ubuntu install the ppa package.
 
6:42 PM
@nwp That should be on topic here, yes. Go ahead and post a question on the site.
 
 
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7:59 PM
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Q: How to find contents of a file?

jimmy rayHow do I display contents of file with names containing letter a in it? I tried cat|ls|grep 'a'

 
@Rinzwind you think that's bad, look what I asked back in my n00b days:
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Q: How do I create a script file for terminal commands?

SethIn Windows I can write a file containing commands for cmd (usually .cmd or .bat files). When I click on those files it will open cmd.exe and run them commands the file contains. How would I do this in Ubuntu? I'm sure this is a duplicate, but I can't find my answer. Its similar to these...

wow, didn't realize just how much that Q blew up. heh.
351k views o_O
 
V.7
Hey all
Could anyone help with roundcube ?
 
 
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10:10 PM
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Q: Why does modifying `scaling_setspeed` of a cpu change the realtime frequencies of both cpus?

TimMy laptop Thinkpad T400 with Ubuntu 16.04 has two cpu cores cpu0 and cpu1. $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq 797963 797963 $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed 800000 800000 Then I edit /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed to ch...

 
10:25 PM
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Q: Why is /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed not modifiable by sudo emacs?

TimI would like to edit /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed to change its content from 800000 to 1600000. I first try with emacs $ sudo emacs -nw /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed In emacs I have changed the value to 1600000 in the file , but after I exits ...

 
10:52 PM
whose harddrive are you going to inadvertently wipe today, @terdon?
:p
 
@TheWanderer It's gonna be yours if you don't watch out!
:P
 
eeek
 
If you don't behave.. the terdon will wipe your hard drives!!
really tho, what happened wasn't terdon's fault, and I laugh every time I reread that. "what commands should I never run?" "this one" runs it
 
Yeah. . .
And it didn't wipe the drive! Just the home dir. So nothing important ;P
 
11:07 PM
also true :P
 
nwp
Yeah, everyone knows you need to make regular backups. Does "never" count as "regular"?
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@nwp I believe that backups makes us slaves of information, so that's why I never do them, I'm just setting myself free
 
nwp
11:29 PM
Want to trade C++ tutoring for apt/PPA fixing. I'm so impatient.
 
11:49 PM
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Q: Do I need to set the governor to be userspace before modifying scaling_setspeed?

TimOn Ubuntu 16.04 on Thinkpad T400, I would like to change the frequencies of my cpu cores by directly modifying the system files under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/. Do I need to set /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor to be userspace, before set /sys/devices/system/cpu...

 

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