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@RobotHumans Is that necessary? Says it supports Linux.

I'm not buying more games until I get better hardware. Bought overload but it'll barely run on anything I have :(

RobotHumans

1:25 AM

@Seth Eh, I like to play it for a couple of hours before I buy to see if it's worth it. Just saying. Also, if you get it, do the tutorial, so you can load up on silencers before you get started.

Q: sharing internet connection from windows to ubuntu

1:52 AM

I have a Windows 7 based computer (server) which is connected directly to Internet. Now, I want to share my internet connection to my Ubuntu (client). Can anyone tell me what should I configure both on my Windows (server) and Ubuntu (client) in order for my Ubuntu (client) have internet access to...

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5:39 AM

Whoa... 243d, 7h, 27m uptime on this modem.

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7:37 AM

The aforementioned modem received a well-deserved reboot.

8:27 AM

@TheWanderer ---^

Q: Delete/add/replace pages in PDF while preserving bookmarks

Is there an easy CLI method to do that? If I use pdftk, I get a new pdf without the bookmarks of the original one. My system is Kubuntu 17.

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Q: update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to default

9:59 AM

On Ubuntu 17.10 installation hangs when installing ebtables package on the following: Preparing to unpack .../ebtables_2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking ebtables (2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for urea...

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Q: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart connection refused 16.04 [...] Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

3:57 PM

I need a HERO I was trying to install git with sudo apt-get install git-all But I've got this error: start: Impossibile connettersi a Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connessione rifiutata dpkg: errore nell'elaborare il pacchetto runit (--configure): il sottoproce...

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Q: Can't mount dual-boot partition, Windows is hibernated?

4:34 PM

I use Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 in a dual boot mode. I need to share data between them, so I decided to keep the data on the Windows partition and let Ubuntu access it. I know the old trick to disable hibernation and fast startup in Windows 10, so I did that. Still, Ubuntu couldn't mount the p...

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edwinksl

6:33 PM

i can finally see SO's CV queue and it looks daunting lmao

6:50 PM

downvotes

edwinksl

7:02 PM

Q: SAMBA server upload directory with subdirectories from Windows 10 machine - permission required

7:48 PM

I have a Ubuntu Server 16.04 machine with SAMBA server running on it. I try to upload a directory containing subdirectories and files in them, through the file manager of my OS (elementaryOS Loki in the past and Manjaro now) and everything runs smoothly. The upload is done. This is an example di...

ubuntu permissions windows samba

So I've been using Gnome for almost a week now.

And I continue to be astounded at how awful it is.

Videonauth

@NathanOsman yep i miss unity as well already

You can't even move modal dialog boxes onscreen.

Videonauth

Im using it for a while now, october 2017

and if i would try to run my laptop with it which runs fine with unity, no joy

I might have to give KDE+Plasma another chance.

I miss having LXDE in Arch :P

8:06 PM

@NathanOsman Plasma continues to get better, while GNOME gets worse. I am continually impressed by the release notes of every plasma release.

Configuring it, of course, is as painful as always, but if you take the time it can be quite nice.

@NathanOsman ..use LXDE in Ubuntu?

I could do that.

I wouldn't have my custom patches.

But I'm sure that I could still survive.

Dude. This is Linux. Add your patches, import your configs, whatever :P

8:24 PM

Yeah, but in a Debian based distro, there are added difficulties in getting patched binaries to play nice with the packaging system,

Whereas in Arch, it's a lot more flexible.

Fair.