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WinEunuuchs2Unix

12:00 AM

YUP poor david argued hard but lost the fight

hey I just installed xprintidle looks pretty cool

Terrance

Indeed he did.

I never used it. I think I might have to try it out. :)

I hate waiting for servers to boot to the test environment right at the time of going home.... Servers take FOREVER to boot.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

No don't try it out! it only looks cool to me

Terrance

=D

LOL

The thing is with poor David is all he had to do was click Delete then his partition would have allowed him to install instead of going through hoops of GPARTED, etc.

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Q: CUPS - how to create users to control the access to CUPS printers?

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Q: Linux mkfs.f2fs Error: Device size is not sufficient for F2FS volume

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Q: Help for learn hosting in ubuntu

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7:58 AM

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Q: I need to create an application to identify devices connected to the com port in ubuntu.. what are the basics i should know to bulid this?

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9:39 AM

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Q: No network at 3rd stage of PXE Boot

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11:21 AM

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Q: Pulse Audio on programming doesn't find all my devices

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Q: I have wrongly installed WINDOWS 10 and UBUNTU is same disk space

I have wrongly installed WINDOWS 10 and UBUNTU is same disk space. Now my laptop is not opening any OS. Please help me out

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11:41 AM

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Q: Force ssh to use only password issue

I have a problem with ssh connection to my remote server. I've just reinstalled remote server recently. This approach doesn't work and it really drives my nuts. How to connect via ssh with just a password? How to reset any configs for previous server? P.S. If configs somehow were saved from ...

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RobotHumans

12:50 PM

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When your dev team and your ops team can't see what each other are working on...

karel

2:42 PM

I need one more close vote from a reviewer to pin the second duplicate link under this question.

Terrance

3:02 PM

UGH! I have now officially added FileZilla to my extreme dislike list. =( Because I have used GMAIL for many many years I cannot register on their Forums to find out why the newest version 3.43.0 requires GLIBC 2.28 where 18.04 stops at 2.27. =(

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4:06 PM

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Q: x11vnc minimal effort

EDIT I forgot to mention that I'm connecting via ssh Hi, I have a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 installation with only OS. Not any package installed or whatsoever. I don't want to have graphical environment on my local machine however I want to be able to remotely connect via vnc. I found out that the pack...

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Videonauth

@Terrance linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter06/glibc.html <-- I know building yourself is not the easy thing but maybe you can use this.

 Glibc (2.29) - 16,129 KB:
    Home page: gnu.org/software/libc
    Download: ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.29.tar.xz
    MD5 sum: e6c279d5b2f0736f740216f152acf974

If youre interested in link addresses for the whole toolstack you can check here: linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter03/…

nicely listed

Terrance

4:56 PM

@Videonauth Thanks! I can definitely look into that. Tim Koss also emailed me back and suggested I build the FileZilla from source, which I am doing now to see if that works.

I was kind of liking the precompiled versions though.

Videonauth

I can imagine, less hassle and compiled by someone who has a deeper insight into it

Terrance

Yeah, every time I do this I find other dependencies that I have to go through to get it to build properly.

Videonauth

Yep found that out as i tried back then to build a LFS system

btw this new LFS handbook is great far more detailed as the old one

Terrance

I need to read through that. I started looking into the LFS just the other day when I suggested it to someone here that wanted to rebrand Ubuntu with their own name everywhere.

Videonauth

Maintaining LFS is hell to be honest unless you automate the build scripts

To be honest its easier to take Ubuntu as a base and rebrand it whats legally not impossible

The toolstack is anyways GPL licensed

Terrance

5:03 PM

True. I was looking into the rebranding and I was having a heck of a time finding all the trademark stuff that would have to be removed before you recompile your binaries for it. It sounds like it would just be the biggest pain!

Videonauth

@Terrance Indeed it is like i said most is GPL but hen MIT licenses in between and so on, for shipping a inry with a complete linux i would for sure resort to an existing distro and ship it with my binary

Terrance

=) Exactly!

OK, there is a lot more I have had to do on my system to get the FileZilla 3.43.0 to build from source properly. Hopefully it doesn't need more from here.

Videonauth

Alone the manpower and compiling times to make an own linux is insane, cool for a hobbyist or a group really investing into bringing a new distro, but for a company i would reconsider that deeply alone regarding the costs

last time i have build an LFS it took me about 3,5 full days on my older machine to compile everything and so on

Terrance

Yep, agreed! Where I work they have the ability to make their own, but find it better to go with the distros that are already made and supported. It cuts costs way down.

WOW!

Videonauth

and thats only kernel, toolstack and initrm

Terrance

5:08 PM

Dang!

I don't have that type of time to sit and build it like that.

Videonauth

And then you can not be sure it runs on every other system

the investement in time and so on is steep

You see alone how often Ubuntu fails to run properly on every machine

Terrance

Yep, see that TONS!

And just for little things as simple as a driver

Videonauth

Altough I have to say i had only one occurence myself where the driver for my GPU was a faulty build and i had to dig in to get my sstem working again, otherwise I had a smooth ride with Ubuntu until now

Terrance

Smooth until now?

Videonauth

well and hopefully further :D

Terrance

5:16 PM

As long as the developers of the Linux distros keep in mind that Linux is supposed to be about Freedom and not control like the Steam and Ubuntu supporting 32bit fiasco I am good with staying with Ubuntu.

Videonauth

Well I'm a gamer at heart so if Ubuntu is not feasible as gaming platform anymore i might change over to arch linux

Terrance

I am not really a gamer, but I have games that I like to play and I agree about the possibility of change if it was no longer supported.

Videonauth

But to be honest 32 bit needs to die out as much as possible, as for supporting the libraries needed for steam and to run games I think thats a good solution and I not really understand the fuzz they made about it and the emotions cooking over everywhere on this topic

I had to ban so many people from protonDB discord server and police a lot in this week it was surely not nice

Flamewar at its best and this within the linux comunity

Terrance

Yep!

RobotHumans

Wine is going to be in trouble though.

Terrance

5:19 PM

I do think that games should be updated to the full 64bit, but some of the games in steam are still under the older 32bit libraries. Like FSX is one I can think of that I still use.

Indeed

Videonauth

Yeah problem is many developer studios who initially made some games not exist anymore and the licenses simply where bought off by other companies, so many games on steam might net even get updated anymore

The steam client and so on is the smallest of problems on that whole ordeal

Terrance

True that

Videonauth

I already thought i had a big steam library, with my 312 games but I know meanwhile people who own 2k titles and more, and imagine you have bought and paid so many games just to findabout 60% of then not working naymore, well figure it out yourself :)

Terrance

I'm not even close to that. I have 36 titles is all. LOL! But I see where you are coming from.

Videonauth

most newer titles are 64 bit tho

older ones, not so much

Terrance

5:25 PM

Whew! Finally got through the configure stage of the FileZilla build after installing all the depends. One of which had to also be built from source.

Videonauth

i have about 232 libraries for i386 arch on my machine to make run everything smoothly

Oh wow

Is it just me or is Filezilla also a pain to configure to run properly?

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Q: How to create a pdf from multiple images

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Terrance

It can be a pain! That is what I am working on now is adding onto my answer here askubuntu.com/a/1000276/231142

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Q: Is it OK to mark a question as a dupe when the OP might require significant additional knowledge to use the answers to the existing question?

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Videonauth

@Terrance nice :)

Terrance

5:36 PM

@Videonauth Thank you! I am about to add on building the newest from source here as it does work.

Videonauth

I actually ponder about if iI should change my existing Nvidia driver 418 to the newer 430 one already or wait still a bit :D

I mean everything works fine as of now

Terrance

Is this for the CUDA as to why you are using 418?

Videonauth

@Terrance more for the vulkan support, all my games run fine with this driver, whereas i had real troubles with the 410 one

Terrance

@Videonauth Ah, I see. I am not sure about the 430 driver then. For my small library it has been fine at the 430 for me.

Videonauth

well in the wors case i downgrade again, may take an attempt at the 430 driver this weekend

Terrance

5:41 PM

Let me know how that goes for you. I would love to do all my gaming in Ubuntu and dump Windows completely.

Terrance

6:00 PM

Done building the additions to my answer askubuntu.com/a/1000276/231142 Hope I didn't miss any prerequisites. =)

Rinzwind

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Q: how to reset and reinstall your apache2 configuration?

Rename your Apache2 configuration folder (just in case of). sudo mv /etc/apache2 /etc/apache2.old Look up for all Apache2 package installed dpkg -l | grep apache2 Remove all Apache packages, usualy the following apt remove --purge apache2 apache2-data apache2-bin Finally reinstall your A...

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unneeded :P

Kulfy

6:15 PM

@Rinzwind They fixed that.

Rinzwind

6:25 PM

I probably can dupe that now :=D

Kulfy

Still be closed as unclear.

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7:49 PM

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Q: What overwrites /etc/resolv.conf roughly every hour?

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Fabby

9:15 PM

@Kulfy You're a nice person First solve the issue in the comments and then close as a dupe.

Rinzwind

9:27 PM

sigh. latest update is bad. again.
rightclick or picking a menu items once crashes my desktop. keypressing does nothing nor does clicking icons

Fabby

9:39 PM

@Rinzwind Downgrade to 16.04: rock stable!

:D :D :D

Rinzwind

:P

I am bleeding edge! running 5.1 >:-)

@Fabby found something on the acpi errors. you have an older acpi. the latest acpi uses 3 DWORDs and linux is still using 2.

so it is a waiting game for the kernel to catch up

hmm the crash was related to a budgie theme so disabled it. hopefully gone now.

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Q: Where can I find the exact command nautilus uses to mount a network share

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Fabby

@Rinzwind Or roll up your sleeves, start programming, send a Kernel patch and get hollered at by Minus:

Rinzwind

no fucking way >:-D

Fabby

Rinzwind

9:52 PM

and Linus is almost always right but he is similar to Stallman... not a people's person :=)

you did not see what happend there did you >:)
I just reinstalled my budgie :X

Fabby

@Rinzwind My setup is too customized to easily re-install...

Rinzwind

I have a post-install script to reload apache and mysql and all the other stuff.
Mine is setup like a cloud instance <3 brilliantly simple method but oh so good

Fabby

@Rinzwind Hand-crafted script or something that takes an inventory, dumps it to a text file and inputs that into said script?

Rinzwind

10:08 PM

handcrafted. the one at work I need to maintain but I often get the changes from other people. so I jist rip it off for myself ;-)

Fabby

@Rinzwind Ah, so not transferrable to me!

;-)

Rinzwind

odd; why did my new install activate smbd.service? I dont have windows

Fabby

anyway: More delete votes needed here

Rinzwind

that's 10 seconds I dont nees :P

voted!

Fabby

THX

@Videonauth See rally for delete votes above.

@dessert @vidarlo ---^

Rinzwind

10:12 PM

@Fabby nope but the idea is. Just need 2 disks; you create a shadow of changed files on the 2nd disk, On reinstall you copy those over the originals. can be done with symlinks too if needed

and since it is a good idea to keep apache and mysql on that 2nd disk anyways all you need for those are the config files (that is 6 files at most)

Fabby

@Rinzwind Yeah, doiesn't work for me: too many customized icons, config files, desktop files, ...

Rinzwind

tsk. you are just lazy

Fabby

I do have a system though;, but it's a lot of work:

every customization gets preceded by:

# FirstName: yyyy-mm-dd changed X to Y [because of Z]

so I have to do a grep up to 5 lines after my first name, dump that in a text file,

Dump dpkg --list in a text file

Rinzwind