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I just received an email from a frustrated Ask Ubuntu user:

Hi Gert

I apreciate your feedback but am not that thrilled with the editing of
my questions.

doei

Lucio

@gertvdijk so?

gertvdijk

What should I do with it?

Lucio

junk

mojo706

@Lucio thanks

Lucio

12:09 AM

no problem

@mojo706 Remember to re-check the information in the second PHP file!!

mojo706

I will

Lucio

@gertvdijk No users matched your search.

gertvdijk

@Lucio ?

Lucio

I just searched their name doei but no records where found

gertvdijk

@Lucio That's Dutch for "bye". He tried to write that in my native language I think.

Lucio

12:17 AM

oh

haha

@gertvdijk funny

gertvdijk

I think it's about this post: http://askubuntu.com/posts/314810/revisions
He reverted my edit. Now there's his personal frustrations back. ;)

Lucio

I just don't know how did him get your email

gertvdijk

@Lucio I blame Launchpad. :P

Lucio

oh

It's 1994 again

:O

@gertvdijk Oh men. You are trapped

:P

gertvdijk

@Lucio yeah I saw that. I just don't like people sending emails anonymously.

Lucio

12:24 AM

me neither

We are not RSM.

:D

Luis Alvarado

12:37 AM

@Lucio luisalvaradox@gmail.com Add me, am there almost 24 hours.

mojo706

really need to improve

RolandiXor

I like pie.

mojo706

12:56 AM

@RolandiXor meat pies?

Qasim

2:38 AM

Hi every one

I hope you all guys are fine

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Call me V

4:05 AM

Just got my new domain. On to checking out VPS-es for next pay day...

Call me V

4:24 AM

Is "use vlc" a valid answer for mplayer isn't working?

Call me V

5:04 AM

also, the open django book needs more of this: lightbird.net/dbe/index.html - practical examples are worth pages and pages and pages of "this is how templates work".

Rinzwind

8:25 AM

LOL @Mitch
http://askubuntu.com/questions/314911/terminal-default-profile-preferences

2 replies within 10 seconds with almost the same images _O-

Mitch

@Rinzwind That is too funny \o/

Should I delete mine?

Rinzwind

8:48 AM

I would ;-) @Mitch but you decide for yourself. It is better than the other dudes (he used a non-default name for the profile and you got 1 image more)

I like your new answer _O- @mitch

Mitch

Thanks I elicited from the gconftool manual.

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9:13 AM

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Q: different hardware - different solutions despite of one topic like e.g. nvidia

e.g. with this nvidia-post I got voted up or voted down, because this solution only works for CUDA optimus cards of nvidia - when bumblebee is added as repo. ( http://askubuntu.com/questions/297030/nvidia-frickle-with-hybrid-chipset-is-now-over-finally ) So here it is not correct then - to be vo...

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gentmatt

10:45 AM

Hi, are any of you guys using KeeFox? I can't disable the behaviour where I'm asked how to configure everything again when I start Firefox. Keefox and Keepass are working already, so there is no need for this window to pop up after every start.

fossfreedom

no - never heard of this ... suggest post a question on the main site.

gentmatt

@fossfreedom Is it okay to post application specific questions on askubuntu? Because I have several.

fossfreedom

@gentmatt yep - according to the FAQ, we love questions about apps that run on ubuntu.

gentmatt

Thanks for the feedback. I'll start preparing some questions then.

Amith KK

2:12 PM

m00 .

ruda.almeida

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Q: Moving apt-mirror folders between machines

We have one office with broadband and another one with dialup. My goal is to create a local Ubuntu mirror on the second office. I have used apt-mirror on my local machine, and it downloaded about 130GB of packages. How do I transfer these files to another computer to create a local mirror?

mirrors apt-mirror

fossfreedom

@ruda.almeida and?

ruda.almeida

@fossfreedom ...and I need help, I don't know how to proceed.

fossfreedom

give it time - you only posted it 3 minutes ago!

ruda.almeida

@fossfreedom There's a post on meta saying I can post a link to the questions on chat and it's the normal procedure

jokerdino

2:17 PM

We should correct the meta post.

fossfreedom

^^^

ruda.almeida

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Q: Is it OK to post a link to my question in the general chat room, to publicize it?

If I ask a question and want to draw attention to it, is it OK to post links to it in the general chat room? Or is this considered bad, since there is already a questions feed and if lots of people manually posted links to their questions in chat, the chat room might be overwhelmed? Please note ...

discussion support asking-questions chat best-practice

fossfreedom

carry a discussion about the question, edit question to reflect new information discovered in chat ---> dont just dump Q's in chat. If you wish to discuss, say hi and discuss.

jokerdino

@ruda.almeida the best practice is to assume chat is not a live support.

ruda.almeida

@jokerdino Sorry

jokerdino

2:23 PM

preferably, strike a conversation instead of just leaving a link and expecting us to provide you an answer.

ruda.almeida

@jokerdino Sorry

@fossfreedom Please, delete my message with the link

fossfreedom

nah - no reason to ... what do you want to discuss about the Q?

ruda.almeida

Well... I was tasked with creating a local Ubuntu mirror on a place with dialup internet access.

step 1: I ran apt-mirror on my local machine, I have now about 130 GB of package files

step 2: I have no idea

William Hilsum

Hi guys, I have done something silly... got a remote server that I haven't been on in about 6 months... I set up and forgot the password... but I am logged in still... Rather than reboot, do you know if I can force passwd at all?

Jorge Castro

@ruda.almeida I would start looking to see where apt-mirror put the .deb files

and then setting it up on the remote machine and putting the debs there

ruda.almeida

2:34 PM

@JorgeCastro by default is is /var/spool/apt-mirror but my / partitio is small so I changed it to /~/mirror

But I suppose there's some config file editing prior to just copying the files

jokerdino

@WilliamHilsum you are logged in and want to reset the password?

Oli

@WilliamHilsum I think the only way you can fix that is rebooting into grub, recovery mode, remounting in rw and then using passwd from the root account (which you'll be thrown into in recovery mode).

William Hilsum

@jokerdino Yeah, I am on the Drac in to the machine... I never logged out 6 months ago, and just can't remember the password... doesn't seem to be in my database for some reason :/

@Oli :( damn

Oli

passwd from a non-root account will need a current password (makes sense really, doesn't it?) so unless you want to try cracking your current password...

You could add your public key and use that log in in the future but you'll never be able to sudo unless you go through recovery mode to get a real password.

William Hilsum

@Oli well, technically it does... but it also doesn't!. I completely understand for sudo, but, isn't that a limitation of the passwd command and nothing else.

Oli

2:48 PM

@WilliamHilsum Scenario: you leave your workstation logged in, snotty kid comes along and passwd lets them change your password and lock you out. That's why most systems require your current password in order change it to something else.

William Hilsum

e.g. my user should be able to change my password... it is just the passwd command that requires the current one... so, if I am logged in, there must be a third party tool/something I can download and run, under the context of my user, that can reset my password...

@Oli don't get me wrong, I completely understand... just playing devil's advocate... it makes sense to ask for it, just thinking as an admin/the way things work, you should be able to work around it.... and in those situations, I'll say the guy should have logged out! (if anyone went on this server and it was possible, I'll only have myself to blame!)

Oli

I think that's all obfuscated away by pam_auth. Your new password submission gets churned up and turned around but AFAIK that does need the original as part of the process.

There may be a way to beat pam into submission but I don't know it.

William Hilsum

Going to sound so dodgy, but, I don't suppose anyone knows a quick/flexible SSH brute forcer? I am certain I know what the password is (e.g. contains x elements)... just not sure which order, which capitals and which symbols...

Oh well... How long does it take roughly to do the safe reset? I have console access so may just be quicker!

lazyPower

3:09 PM

Buenos Dias

Nathan Osman

o/

I see our national holiday got a Google Doodle today.

William Hilsum

4:15 PM

@jokerdino, @oli - hmm... in recovery mode, but, when I try to change password, it just says "Authentication token manipulation error"... don't suppose either of you have any advice other than "don't forget your passwords!"?

Oli

@WilliamHilsum Is the disk mounted in rw or readonly? I think by default it's ro these days

Something like sudo mount -o remount,rw / should fix that

William Hilsum

hmm... whatever the default is... don't think of it...

@Oli thanks... That did it

No matter how much I learn, there is always more :( Wouldn't of guessed this was the issue :(

Lucio

@NathanOsman You must be on EuroPython!

Nathan Osman

Why?

William Hilsum