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Fabby

12:28 AM

@Rinzwind Holy cow!

Nathan Osman

2:56 AM

This is hilarious.

Seth

haha, yep.

lol

Nathan Osman

6:15 AM

2

Lolwut

Videonauth

7:41 AM

@NathanOsman and not true at all, winzip is very much bought all over the planet

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Running Windows alongside Linux

I recently installed Ubuntu on a 30 GiB partition on my computer. I did that a couple of times already and I didn't expect it to go differently, but I run into an issue I can't get over. I just can't run my Windows from GRUB. If I switch the boot order in my UEFI bootloader it runs well, but when...

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8:56 AM

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Q: There is something wrong with backslash ("\") behaviour in comments

I was writing comment to the question(about Samba, so it uses UNC with backslashes). The source code of my comment: On Linux you should use `//` instead of `\\`. On Windows you should use only `\\`. My idea was to determine full share name from Nautilus - for example `smb://host_name_or_ip/shar...

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RolandiXor

9:46 AM

@Fabby it would be a tricky legal area in my country, plus, I'm not completely sold on cryptocurrency. I'd like to get a PayPal account, but that's going to be a hurdle to get over for other reasons.

Either way, I'm honoured by the vote of confidence!

It's a much needed boost, like you'll never know! Thanks!

@NathanOsman you'd be advised to upgrade immediately.

Changes include:

‮

Fabby

@RolandiXor I'm always happy when I make other people happy.

0:-)

RolandiXor

@Fabby ^_^

I'm heading to bed shortly (yes, it's morning here lol), but if anyone's interested, I've been doing some work on my CSS framework (shameless plug lol): rolandixor.pro/anole

I'd like to try creating a matching GTK theme some day

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:07 AM

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Q: How to add Firebug Lite on Ubuntu 18.04? 403 Forbidden!

I want to add Firebug Lite to my Chrome browser on Ubuntu 18.04. But it does not work as I hoped How to solve this?

ubuntu chrome

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Q: No clipboard support with X11forwarding?

I've successfully setup X11forwarding from Linux to Mac. Now I'm able to run Thunar and get a window locally. But the clipboard is not shared between the Thunar window and Mac computer. Any ideas?

ubuntu x11 macintosh

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:22 AM

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Q: Can't run startx from X11forwarding

I'm trying to run the whole XFCE desktop remotely. I have a Mac computer and a remote linux physical server (but no video card). X11forwarding is already working, I can do ssh -X -C user@host, run Thunar and get a local Thunar window. But if I do startx in the SSH command prompt, I got the foll...

ubuntu ssh x11 macintosh

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10:41 AM

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Q: Should abbreviations and acronyms be discouraged?

Sometimes, a question is not clear simply because it contains an abbreviation or acronym that a reader doesn't understand. I wonder if the instructions should encourage the definition of these things in the body of the question. There are experts in some fields that may get some of these abbrevi...

discussion editing formatting faq-suggestion

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11:52 AM

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Q: Ubunto upgrade from 18.04 to 18.10 got stuck in "Removing xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04 (3:14.1)"

I'm in the process of upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 LTE to Ubuntu 18.10. I've started do-release-upgrade from inside a GNOME Terminal window. It made some progress but now got stuck in Removing xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04 (3:14.1). How can I make progress from here on?

ubuntu upgrade

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1:07 PM

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Q: Which packages are installed with the Ubuntu minimal server option?

Which packages are installed with the Ubuntu minimal server option (e.g. on 16.04, Xenial)? Is the minimal server installation congruent with the packages listed in: https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/ubuntu-minimal

linux ubuntu

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2:37 PM

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Q: Can I connect to my board directly with LAN cable?

I have a nano-pi-m1 board that uses Ubuntu-server OS. I can connect to my board via SSH but I like to know can I connect my board to my laptop directly instead of using a common network(my router)? My laptop has Ubuntu 18.04 on it.

ubuntu ssh lan connectivity

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Q: Delete your own question

I recently posted a question on Askubuntu, I realized later that its answer is obvious and only needs to read the man page of a command. Now I am not sure whether to delete it or let it or just close it.

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Fabby

4:42 PM

Unclear question edited and Reopen votes needed! :-)

Thomas Ward

5:11 PM

@Fabby not anymore they aren't needed

sits on @Fabby's computer

Fabby

Ah, sorry, was watching a movie and chatting to DeReobert!

@ThomasWard Thanks master!

iBug

I just heard that 18.04 will get 10 years of support

instead of 5 years which LTS's previously got

Thomas Ward

where'd you hear that

because the announce was 5 years

i think you're thinking about ESM extensiveness

like 12.04 got

(it's still EOL for the rest of the world)

iBug

try google-ing for "ubuntu 18.04 10 years"

yesterday's news

mobile.serverwatch.com/server-news/…

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Q: Unable to install ubuntu 18.04 and Fedora 29 in my computer

Hi i have Windows 10 and i wanted to install Ubuntu 18.04 in the same disc than windows or in another i don't care about that, the problem is that i tried first with unetbooting cause i didn't have an USB winth no results, now i have ask for an USB and tried another time with unetbooting (but in ...

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Rinzwind

5:22 PM

@iBug not for our version, that is for the companies that pay for it. 12.04 and 14.04 and 16.04 also has 10 years

MikeTheLiar

5:32 PM

Noob question. I'm trying to echo a string and send it to a function. I thought tee was what I wanted but I'm either not doing something write or I just don't understand how tee works (both are possible). I'm finding a bunch of results of sending something to stdout and to a file but not what I'm trying to do. Basically this:

#!/bin/bash

someFunction()
{
    someCommand $1
}

foo="Hello world"
echo "$foo"
someFunction "$foo"

Can I get a hint for what to google to achieve this?

Rinzwind

someFuncton($foo)

MikeTheLiar

echo "$foo" | tee someFunction echo'd it but didn't send it to someFunction

Rinzwind

!/bin/bash

someFunction(foo)
{
someCommand foo
}

foo="Hello world"
someFunction($foo)

MikeTheLiar

Not sure I follow. To clarify: someFunction "$foo" does what I want it to. I just want to echo a string and send it to someFunction in one command

Rinzwind

then I dont understand you >:)

MikeTheLiar

5:40 PM

So here's the actual thing I'm doing:

#!/bin/bash

notify_slack()
{
    msg="{ 'text':'$1' }"
    curl -H "content-Type: application/json" \
        -X POST \
        -d "$msg" \
        hooks.slack.com/services/someID \
         > /dev/null 2>&1
}


echo "tee test" | tee notify_slack

I'm trying to write the command in such a way that it's both sent to stdout and curl'd off to some slack channel

notify_slack "some long complicated string message" works just fine

Rinzwind

if you want notify_slack to accept a variable you put it in between ()

Thomas Ward

he's grabbing it from stdin rinzwind

hence the $1

at least, currently.

Rinzwind

I would do it like this:

#!/bin/bash

notify_slack($foo)
{
msg="{ 'text':'$foo' }"
curl -H "content-Type: application/json" \
-X POST \
-d "$msg" \
https://hooks.slack.com/services/someID \
> /dev/null 2>&1
}

$foo = 'tee test'
notify_slack($foo)

oops

MikeTheLiar

I just noticed that echo "tee test" | tee notify_slack created a file called "notify_slack" with the contents "tee test" so clearly I don't understand how tee works.

Rinzwind

echo "tee test" is send to stdin and rerouted to your tee notify_slack. tee notify_slack creates your file and accepts the 1st tee as input. that's what I make of it >:)

Thomas Ward

5:48 PM

no youi're just not understanding how your function works

functions don't work when you tee to them

MikeTheLiar

Also entirely possible.

Rinzwind

and that was idea ^ :=)

MikeTheLiar

Thomas Ward

@Rinzwind That's not what I hear from SABDFL

he wants to IPO it last I heard

Rinzwind

yes but he also wants to keep in charge >

I read it as: He wants money but nothing to change >:-D

Thomas Ward

5:52 PM

well that part is simple, he can IPO it and then own 51% of the stock shares

voila ownership

Rinzwind

true ;)

1/2 of what IBM pays for fedora would still be 100usd a share

Thomas Ward

@MikeTheLiar whether it's a function or not, you should probably do it in two commands - one to echo the string to stdout and the other to call the Slack call

Rinzwind

ok you take that on ;-) I am going get dinner :D

Thomas Ward

leaves @Rinzwind out to dry

goes and consumes kahlua instead

Fabby

@MikeTheLiar Leave @JourneymanGeek be! ;-)

Journeyman Geek

6:06 PM

@ThomasWard or have a multi class stock, like google does

Fabby

(he has a dog as an avatar so that will make him smile) @MikeTheLiar

Thomas Ward

@JourneymanGeek hm?

Journeyman Geek

@ThomasWard essentially the stock google sells is non voting

so control is still with... well... google's founders

Thomas Ward

ah

i wasn't sure the context of what you were referring to :)

because multiple subjects going on :p

MikeTheLiar

6:57 PM

@ThomasWard KISS, 10-4

Thomas Ward

@MikeTheLiar so your function or your program script can still take in the input

but then do two commands after you have the data

:P

PerlDuck

7:18 PM

I think I was a bit harsh to someone who had questions about rsyslog. :-(

Thomas Ward

how so?

PerlDuck

7:32 PM

In the comments he asked one question after another because he isn't familiar with rsyslog's configuration and eventually I said to RTFM in a roundabout way to him. Now I feel sorry for him because, well, he doesn't know better.

Never mind.

Oh. Hi Zanna.

@Zanna Look at this: askubuntu.com/questions/1093550/…

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