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Thomas Ward
Thomas Ward
12:51 AM
@dessert ha ha.
@dessert all hatched okay, no deformities or anything?
 
WinEunuuchs2Unix
WinEunuuchs2Unix
1:46 AM
@Fabby I voted to reopen a question you voted to close. Kindly read my comment there: askubuntu.com/questions/1042218/…
 
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
2:02 AM
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Q: Changing ubunto machine password on temporarily basis

Nasir RahimYesterday, I was notified by the company manager to change my ubunto machine password and should keep it as strong as possible. So I changed it to @@Geo_016110240(for me this is strong and easy to remember). Now, the problem is most of the time I perform things as a sudo, which makes me tired to ...

linux ubuntu security
 
 
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karel
karel
3:30 AM
@WinEunuuchs2Unix Read the comments before you vote. This reopen campaign is as fake as a three dollar bill.
Why do I even care if it gets reopened or not? I don't, it's just bullshit. This answer I do care about however because it links to a fake printer driver website that downloads garbage instead of the printer drivers from the official printer manufascturer's website. Under ordinary circumstances an answer like this would be consider SPAM. So vote your mind ↑ but help me to delete this spam.
The question about the printer driver grabbed 9 downvotes so far. These downvotes were cast in my opinion by frustrated Ask Ubuntu users who are sick of being spammed regularly by the same fake printer driver websites, and there's no way to get rid of the accepted answer because it got upvoted 5 times, but since today is apparently a reviewer election day I cast my vote to delete the spam.
 
 
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dessert
dessert
5:26 AM
@ThomasWard one didn’t make it, but the rest is in good health – I even miscounted yesterday, those are 13 ducks! now what to do with 13 runner ducks? :)
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
5:41 AM
@karel actually that's not fully correct. the link goes to a blog post but provides download links for Windows and Mac and who know, maybe they are scam links, but for Linux OS (which might be the only useful thing on that page) it links to https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing. infact the wording is
> For Linux downloads, HP recommends another website. If you need to download Linux drivers.
however the answer you link to is lacking as it just says "go here and following the instructions" when really that should have been quoted on the page itself (along with the link) to avoid link rot, or better yet, following the links going to the end where the actual download link and information is and quoting that. and if that link is suspect
now if the link as nothing to do with the question or answer and doesn't help either , remove it because then it's very likely spam. but if the link is useful in some way and it's relevant, that's not spam but it borders on a link only answer and is susceptible to link rot
 
karel
karel
6:05 AM
I remember reading that which at the time I interpreted as a smokescreen to confuse visitors to the website that the website was legitimate which it isn't. It's a bogus website, one of a family of similar bogus websites, one for each major printer manufacturer. Ask Ubuntu gets spammed by several of these websites regularly. Serving warez masquerading as official printer drivers is not useful in some way and not relevant, it's called SPAM.
The only difference between this spam and other spam is that it's more popular spam, which as far as spam is concerned means that it is more destructive spam.
 
dessert
dessert
@karel Did you see Oli’s linkcheck.py? Makes it easy to eliminate links to certain domains from the site…
 
karel
karel
@dessert bookmarked it.
 
dessert
dessert
7:02 AM
first impression using bsd-csh: @#%&!
it took a while, but I finally managed to get it working though. :)
 
Fabby
Fabby
@WinEunuuchs2Unix Reopened and answer upvoted (cc@Karel)
@dessert upgoated
 
dessert
dessert
@Fabby thanks :)
 
Fabby
Fabby
Don't ping me to thank me?
Please?
 
dessert
dessert
7:18 AM
ok, sorry
 
Fabby
Fabby
7:31 AM
No worries... ;-)
@Videonauth I'll try again with AU data first.
Goeie morgen! ;-)
 
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
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Q: compile nginx and naxsi on ubuntu 18.x

LXGI'm trying to install naxsi on ubuntu 18.x. After googling and trying I found: nginx-naxsi is no more available for ubuntu, so you have to compile by yourserlf. Well to understand which module and setup I've installed apt install nginx-extras then nginx -V and I found this: nginx vers...

linux ubuntu firewall nginx
 
karel
karel
@Fabby I know how to call them, don't I?
 
Fabby
Fabby
7:46 AM
Sorry, maar ik heb geen flauw benul waar je het over hebt.
Call who? @karel
:/
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
7:57 AM
:)
@Fabby so you did try this on unix.se data? let me download this and try again if theres a difference
 
Fabby
Fabby
I did, and the only thing you did was change the print???
 
Rinzwind
Rinzwind
8:12 AM
\o
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
@Fabby well for AU data at least, still downloading on the unix.se data
@fabby i even sent you the changed script via skype and said a bit about it
but i will test soon with the unix.se data and see if theres a difference
interestingly one of the websites you edited out got demoted from blacklisted to just watched after a long discussion in charcoalhq last night
 
Fabby
Fabby
Ah, Dealing with admin shit. No chance to look at skpe. Will do so now.
 
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
8:42 AM
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Q: Can't run 'update-grub'

SebboI've got some trouble with my Ubuntu-System: update-grub Generating grub configuration file ... grub-probe: error: disk `mduuid/c7ac5a8fef833db7b45d6c2ebb2e20e6,1' not found. But I'm still able to reboot the system without any problem. I'm using lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. D...

linux ubuntu grub2 mdadm uuid
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Q: apt-get install does not target the same path on ubuntu or debian

MarvinI am puzzled about why apt-get install does not behave the same way according whether it is invoked from an Ubuntu (16.04) or from a debian (stretch-slim docker image). Basically, I perform a : root@ubuntu $ apt-get install libfcgi-dev ... root@ubuntu $ dpkg -L libfcgi-dev /. /usr /usr/lib /...

debian ubuntu apt
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
@karel changed the link to point directly to developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing
 
Fabby
Fabby
9:49 AM
@Videonauth I wish I could give you an upvote for that.
 
karel
karel
10:08 AM
@Videonauth That's the best that you could do because if I'm not mistaken we're stuck with the reputation on that answer where it is, but we're not stuck with the spam link.
 
 
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Videonauth
Videonauth
12:37 PM
wow another downvote for suggesting keeping the ubuntu system up to date .... -.-
i wonder what is up with the people
you SERIOUSLY should be more CAREFUL with sudo apt dist-upgrade it might screw up your system if you e.g. have installed third party packages, etc! You might want to change that post! (even so a dist-upgrade is NOT necessary to answer the question ) — Cutton Eye 2 hours ago
all i can say is i have a highly customized ubuntu with tons of thrid party packages and i never screwed my system up with doing an dist-upgrade ...
-.-
grml
I can tell you why it screws up your system, because you avoid updating it at all costs. I myself run ubuntu since nearly 3 years now and have it highly customized and an apt dist-upgrade never screwed my system up. And before you ask, yes as a hobby developer I have tons of customized packages and third party aps installed here. Therefor i think your downvote is unjustified. It is a valid answer, and i even mentioned it in the comment lines above the command that this can be skipped. — Videonauth 47 secs ago
 
Byte Commander
Byte Commander
@Videonauth For apt, dist-upgrade is not necessary
Unlike apt-get upgrade, apt upgrade is allowed to install new packages by default
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
well i just managed to get apt-get out of my mind and with apt-get i used dist-upgrade
apt is just a warapper around apt-get as far i understood, but i can be wrong
 
Byte Commander
Byte Commander
And the official apt equivalent for apt-get dist-upgrade is apt full-upgrade, although the other seems to work too
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
i guess it simply does the same
 
Byte Commander
Byte Commander
I agree that you usually don't want an upgrade to remove packages though, so I'd not use full/dist-upgrade normally either
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
12:46 PM
whats more bothering me is to get downvotes for a perfectly fine answer for just the reason i mention updating the system
 
dessert
dessert
@Videonauth have an upvote to compensate this madness :)
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
i always use it and never have run in a problem since 3 years
the problems mostly arise when you skip many updates and then try to install something
 
Byte Commander
Byte Commander
I can't make a clear decision here, apt upgrade would be perfectly fine, but apt dist-upgrade is something I would not recommend, but not DV either... so /shrug
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
only time i had issues it was a faulty driver for the gpu
and once i shot my 17.10 main install because i wanted to install vlc 3 from bionic repo and forgot to pin the rest of the packages to artful :D
but this screwed me over badly hehehe
 
dessert
dessert
@Videonauth also: don't fret, you're not alone! ;)
 
Byte Commander
Byte Commander
12:49 PM
it's not about upgrading in general, it's about dist-upgrade being allowed to automatically remove packages to resolve conflicts, which can indeed screw your system up if your packaging system is in a somehow inconsistent state or a bad package gets updated to a version with new conflicts
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
true, can happen but to be honest did not happen to me in three years
and it only marks the packages for autoremoval
so you have to run apt autoremove
to finally uninstall them
 
Byte Commander
Byte Commander
that is not true
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
it can replace newer packes with older ones yes
that was the reason of dist-upgrade while upgrade alone with apt-get only updates what it can
i will edit and make it upgrade and the haters gonna hate anyways
 
Byte Commander
Byte Commander
apt-get upgrade only replaces older package versions with newer versions of the same package
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
right and dist-upgrade alows it to downgrade packages if neccesary
 
Byte Commander
Byte Commander
12:53 PM
but it did fail if the newer version had changed dependencies
i.e. it could not install or remove others
For example for a kernel update, you needed dist-upgrade
because e.g. the metapackage linux-image-generic updates to a newer version, which has the real kernel package (e.g. linux-image-generic-4.4.123) as new dependency, instead of the old
to upgrade that, it needed to install the new dependency package
now that is what apt upgrade does by default too
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
well here is what my computers do since i am on linux apt update && apt dist-upgrade && apt autoremove --purge && apt clean as cron job daily
since three years
without a hitch
 
Byte Commander
Byte Commander
but apt full-upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade can also automatically remove other packages, if the newer updated version of a package conflicts with something you have installed
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
and im on proposed branch
 
Byte Commander
Byte Commander
this is rare, but can happen
/shrug
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
never happened to me :)
/shrug
 
Byte Commander
Byte Commander
12:57 PM
I always run apt update ; apt upgrade manually
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
this is my iron maiden cron job :P
always 5 minutes to midnight (i.e. 5 minutes before midnight)
but maybe im just lucky, or have set up my system properly so it does not kill stuff that easily, and even if, i would able to fix it myself
 
Rinzwind
Rinzwind
1:18 PM
Co-worker "what is the undelete in vim"
Me "that is basic knowlegde."
Co-worler "vim is difficult"
Me: "what is the 1st letter of undelete?"
"Co-worker: eh a u".
5 minutes later: why can't you tell me how I undelete a character?"
Me "But you already told that yourself"

:P
5
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
starbait :p
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
@Seth new Owl City album out today.
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
1:43 PM
^ star this please
 
terdon
terdon
1:59 PM
@Videonauth Done. I also added a short explanation since it's kind of pointless otherwise :)
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
@terdon thank you, not thought about that :)
 
Oli
Oli
It's not GitHub though, it's git outright
Isn't it?
 
Byte Commander
Byte Commander
2:16 PM
from quickly skipping over it, yes
later down is a check whether your git version is vulnerable
 
Videonauth
Videonauth
@Oli exactly it is git and your own installed git-servers which need update, just checked and 18.04 is already on a fixed version
 
terdon
terdon
@Oli Eeek, yep. Thanks.
 
Seth
Seth
2:47 PM
@NathanOsman Yep! I'm really excited. I listened to the first half as he released them and it's pretty good.
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
I'm excited for Upgrade(the movie), and that the starcraft II client is free if you accept the machine learning license.
I have to finish upgrading my laptop to get the right version of GCC/C stdlib to get it to run though
 
Seth
Seth
He'll be in Seattle Oct. 6 too btw
@RobotHumans oh interesting. I'll have to look into that StarCraft thing.
Btw, Overload released yesterday.
 
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@RobotHumans that seemed kinda low budget and very very very violent
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
@JourneymanGeek violent yes, but fun-ish and flashy if nothing else.
 
Seth
Seth
@RobotHumans oh wow that's neat
 
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
3:49 PM
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Q: save each line from csv to new file with filename as the string contained in a specific column

kRazzy RI have a csv file like this: value1 value2 name 1 2 a 2 3 b 4 5 c What I want is to split the n entries in this csv into n text files with just the corresponding numbers in that file separated by space. N is determined by the value in name. So above csv ...

shell-script ubuntu
 
Seth
Seth
4:13 PM
My users when I ask them to be more descriptive of their issues when submitting help desk tickets... https://t.co/aywS8mAx0u
Tweeted by WarPwnie on May 27, 2018 at 2:12 PM
 
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
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Q: How to use pdfsig from poppler-utils

MigdressI would like to use pdfsig from poppler-utils in my ubuntu 16.04, at first I installed poppler utils from apt but pdfsig was not part of that package. When I looked man pages for 'pdfinfo' in the SEE ALSO section, according to http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/artful/man1/pdfinfo.1.html it shou...

ubuntu poppler
 
RobotHumans
RobotHumans
4:59 PM
@Seth My computer won't come on. -- Please make sure the plug did not come unseated at the wall. -- I can't. -- Why not? -- I can't see it! The power is out and I can't find my flashlight. -- Presses hold button.
 
 
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Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
7:31 PM
@RobotHumans Most cellphones nowadays come with a flashlight functionality. But that's not the point.
 
Nathan Osman
Nathan Osman
7:56 PM
Most pens come with a ballpoint tip, but that's not the point either. Oh wait - it is. :P
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Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
hah
I have a flaslight on my keys.
then one more stashed in my backpack
and one more on my desk
and...
 
Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
8:10 PM
Most flashlights come with a lightbulb or LED but that's not the spotlight . . . Nah, not as good of a punchline
 
dessert
dessert
@PerlDuck I just thought: “Wait, didn’t you already solve this problem couple months ago?” :)
 
Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
There's exactly same question I've seen today.
 
dessert
dessert
muru also solved the problem with exec quite nicely there…
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Q: How to pipe all bash terminal output through command

vikarjramunI would like to be able to pipe all bash terminal commands through a certain command (for no good reason other than to play a prank on someone). I just want to pipe the stdout of any executed command into a predetermined program without doing anything special. For example: If that predetermined ...

command-line bash pipe cowsay
yes, referring to that
 
Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
@dessert Oooh, congrats on getting command-line gold
 
dessert
dessert
@SergiyKolodyazhnyy thanks :>
 
Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
8:18 PM
I'm at 698/1000 for scripts
 
dessert
dessert
@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Byte is also approaching command-line gold, but he’s actually missing answers, not rep.
 
Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
@dessert Just 9 answers. He'll get it in no time.
 
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
Ubuntu Questions on U&L
8:54 PM
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Q: / is full 100%. Looking to add 24 more GB to / without affecting Logical Volumes or re-formatting Ubuntu 14.04

Wraiith75Since I already have LV configured, how can I add more disk to root? I'd really like to keep everything within the disk without formatting df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 60G 4.0K 60G 1% /dev tmpfs ...

ubuntu disk gparted
 
 
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David Foerster
David Foerster
10:09 PM
OP is asking about a network attack on the U. S. Department of Defence. Please VTC:
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Q: channel 2: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused when trying to SSH pivot

Tanner1I am trying to pivot the 11.51.1.200 machine towards the 11.1.200.12 machine. Both machines are connected to each other but I am not. I tried follow this guide. I ssh-ed into the 11.1.51.200 machine and ran this command ssh -vv -L 127.0.0.1:4445:11.51.200.12:4446 root@11.51.1.200 But I g...

networking server
…at least it appears like that because the IP addresses in question are assigned to DoD.
 
Azteca
Azteca
10:30 PM
Is there anywhere I can learn how Ubuntu software servers work? If I wanted to host a mirror, or who design a whole country mirror? e.g. jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
 
David Foerster
David Foerster
@Azteca google.com/search?q=setup+ubuntu+repository+mirror lists many promising results near the top.
 
Azteca
Azteca
@DavidFoerster Oh yeah, forgot about Google, thanks: wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors
 

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