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1:45 AM

@JacobVlijm Do you remember the question where we had a conflict about polling/waiting in scripts ? I am trying to find it and look back at the code I wrote for it, but cannot seem to find it

In case anyone knows, ping me with the link

Adam

2:54 AM

@dessert great news I just checked and it half works! I mean I wouldn't mind a better notepad.exe equivalent but that's fine maple will read it for me. thanks for your help

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6:51 AM

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Q: Re-working another user's answer?

Suppose I found an answer from a few years ago, a Python script or shell script, maybe C code. It works and answers the question, but it's buggy, the approach used isn't optimal, or messes up user configurations, and I suspect I could probably fix it. What are the options in such case ? can I ...

Jacob Vlijm

7:04 AM

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Trying to remember,... We had many haha.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

7:47 AM

Lol, right ? We spent way too much time on conflicts

Well, I'm back to the same problem again. How am I going to find one answer among almost 2k that I already have ?

Just as I said that . . . found it !!!

Jacob Vlijm

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Congrats!

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

\( ﾟヮﾟ)/

dessert

8:53 AM

@Adam vim is the text editor if you ask me :)

Adam

9:52 AM

@dessert yeah ok thanks but I considering I can just pipe it line by line to well, name it , I really hope vim doesn't include different color text like the generic provided on the install does, im not comfortable with change and my notepad needs to be at least equally boring and bland in functionality as wiretaps was

Derpy

11:42 AM

Morning.

Just dropping by to report a question on the main network Meta site.

Since it is about the Ask Ubuntu site, i though some of the users here may be interested.

It is here if anyone wants to have a look.

Just noticed that this site used to have some sort of "special status" under the old ToS, but I couldn't find anything similar under the new terms.

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anyway, sorry for the intermission - hope this didn't cause too much noise. Please forgive me just in case.

dessert

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Q: Why was the Ubuntu Code of Conduct clause removed from the Ask Ubuntu terms of service?

Looking back at the old Terms of Service, I noticed they used to contain a special paragraph about Ask Ubuntu. When accessing the askubuntu.com, meta.askubuntu.com, or chat.askubuntu.com sites ("AskUbuntu"), Subscriber will also abide by the most current Ubuntu Code of Conduct, which can be f...

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@Derpy no, that’s most welcome, thanks a lot!

Rinzwind

1:45 PM

@Derpy starred it. Probably @oli or @seth or @terdon that can do something about it.

Derpy

2:00 PM

@Rinzwind Thanks Rinzwind. As you may have noticed, an user pointed out in a comment on the question that now sites in the network have local copies of the ToS. See for example askubuntu.com/legal/terms-of-service

If you folks somehow manage to have the original clause added to the new ToS you may want to take notice of where it will be added

Apparently, due to a "bug" the "Legal" link in the footer of any site in the networks links back to the MAIN copy of the ToS and not to the local one.

This means that if only the local copy gets updated you may still end up in an odd situation since no one would probably notice it (the link points to the "wrong" page)

terdon

2:38 PM

@Rinzwind This is above our pay grade, actually. The legal stuff is up to SE.

dessert

I just knew you get paid!

terdon

3:02 PM

@dessert I just said I get paid less than a CM.

That is absolutely true: I get nothing, they get something!

Rinzwind

3:23 PM

@dessert he gets 0 euro an hour :)

terdon

@Rinzwind I wish! I get 0 euros a day!

edwinksl

3:47 PM

i get 10x more than what terdon gets

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

6:52 PM

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Q: Issues with IPv6 and Apache2

So I'm trying to set up an Ubuntu server with the web application running on IPv6 using an Internal adapter. I honestly do not know what the issue is, any help would be appreciated. I've tried changing the adapter that is hosting the application, using IPv6 on different adapters, using various n...

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Q: University wifi just doesnt work on ANY linux platform

The wifi works perfectly on Windows. As I know, on a dual-boot machine it connects to Ubuntu but does not seem to work (yes I did try the certificates and all). It successfully gets connected but just does not work. Even when a Linux platform is ran on a Windows machine, I get 100% packet loss. ...

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Q: Forwarding not working? iptables

I'm doing an exercise about iptables and it seems like the forward doesn't work. I'm working with VirtualBox and I have two machines connected by Bridged Adapter, one of them -the server- with IP 172.16.0.1 and the client, 172.16.0.10, they are connected, ping to each other works, but when I try...

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PerlDuck

9:17 PM

Hi @Charles. Or should I say Mr. Green?

Terrance

Any thoughts on askubuntu.com/questions/1118624/… ? Too broad? Unclear?

Or maybe I need new glasses to read questions better? ;)

dessert

@Terrance I read “How can I choose from differently set up versions of the MATE DE before logging in?”

Terrance

9:32 PM

@dessert That actually makes more sense then the way it is written. :)

I would have no idea how to do that..... :(

dessert

@Terrance you’re welcome to edit, I’m unable to do that at the moment

PerlDuck

@dessert So do I. Neither sounds too broad nor unclear but expensive/non-trivial to solve.

dessert

@Terrance neither do I → nice question!

mate uses lightdm IIRC, that would be a display manager configuration thing

Terrance

I just asked basically for clarification on that one.

dessert

config in /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/ and /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/

PerlDuck

9:39 PM

No idea how to add a "before-login" hook but recently I played with the pam_mount module. It allows to mount this and that just after the login. for example, bind-mount different configuration directories over ~/.config (or whatever).

dessert

it supports display-setup-script=, greeter-setup-script= and session-setup-script= to run scripts on start, so that could actually be not so hard

PerlDuck

@dessert then go ahead! ;-)

dessert

it’s actually not at all my expertise, and OP should really clarify before anyone invests so much time and effort

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