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Amith KK

04:59

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Q: How safety is Ubuntu Tweak Janitor for system?

I had some trouble with Tweak Janitor. I cleaned my system with all checkboxes that was available. After cleaning when I restarted PC I caught to text terminal it's all, smt: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS nazar-desctop tty1 nazar-dezsctop login: // I typed correct login + password nazar-dezsctop passwo...

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Q: I want working process of grep -v grep in unix

How does grep -v grep work on unix language

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Q: how can I install perf 3.4.25

by installing perf using sudo apt-get install linux-tools-common sudo apt-get install linux-tools-3.2.0.23 gave me perf version 3.2.14 How can I install perf 3.4.25 Is it related to kernel version? I found soure here http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.39/tools/perf/ but there is no way to...

ubuntu kernel performance

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Q: Ubuntu Linux 12.04 - Load Non-MBR grub from the old grub in MBR

I have installed Ubuntu linux 12.04 on sda10, and grub2 in sda5 . Actually I had a legacy grub installed in MBR, I want to load Ubuntu linux from the old grub. How could I do this? This question arise, because before I installed Ubuntu linux 12, I already have a grub installed in my pc, and work...

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Q: Sorting down processes by memory usage

I am able to see the list of all the processes and the memory via ps aux and going through the VSZ and RSS Is there a way to sort down the output of this command by the descending order on RSS value ? PS : This is a newbie question as I am very much new to Unix/Linux.

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Hennes

18:01

:11406180 So, this one ?

Thomas W.

18:35

@Braiam perhaps we should make a PSA that says "Read the entire answer, people, or you miss things." :P

You don't have to "run" those, you have to edit the /etc/ppp/pptpd-options and add the lines there. The step 3 says exactly what is needed to be done. — Braiam 3 hours ago

@Braiam Comment those lines, not add — Radu Rădeanu 7 mins ago

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Q: Error message "access denied" setting up VPN

I am new to Linux and I am trying to learn as much as possible. I have installed Unbutu 13.0.4 and selected basic server, I am now trying to setup VPN to access my files from anywhere. However getting errors when disabling encryption. The steps I am following is below from one of the member here...

encryption vpn

^ the question that's all related to.

Braiam

write a darn # before the lines! :P

Thomas W.

3: Edit /etc/ppp/pptpd-options. Open the file with your favorite editor (mine's nano, so the command for me is sudo nano /etc/ppp/pptpd-options), and comment out these lines by putting a # before them, if you want this to work universally on all OSes: ...

that's what it says now

because i realized you and the other person failed to read.

glares at someone who should know by now how to read the entirety of an answer, and see "Comment out" in the instructions

Braiam

@ThomasW. no, he was trying to "run" the lines... "Error message: access denied"

Thomas W.

yes i know

i'm commenting about YOU

You don't have to "run" those, you have to edit the /etc/ppp/pptpd-options and add the lines there. The step 3 says exactly what is needed to be done. — Braiam

note the bold-italicized text

Braiam

I'm NOT that popular

Thomas W.

18:38

then go reread the instructions on the setting up a vpn guide.

you'll see i say "Comment Out"

not "add"

also, i am being confrontational today...

i don't like that :/

isn't feeling well

Braiam

I would say: look for these lines .... and comment them out, so they look like this: ....

Thomas W.

@Braiam you can edit/revise my answer :)

the key points were copy-pasted from the guide I based the answer off of.

so...

they made certain assumptions about people's ability to do things.

Braiam

don't assume people has the ability to do things... I have made the same mistake in the past... :(

Thomas W.

@Braiam tell that to the person that wrote the guide :P

not me.

i'm too busy to revise stuff today

busy fighting against server failures and not feeling well

That Brazilian Guy

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Q: Empathy AND Pidgin fail chatting "people nearby"

I can't use either Empathy or Pidgin to reply to some users using the "people nearby" / people near me / bonjour / avahi protocol. I can receive messages from them, it will arrive on my machine, but when I send a reply I receive an error sending message "[message]": disconnected error. If they se...

empathy pidgin chat instant-messaging

Nathan Osman

21:25

Sometimes Google fails... and fails spectacularly.

Wondering what would happen if I forgot to invoke .close() on an Image object in PIL (Python's Imaging Library), I searched Google for "pil forget close".

Google autocorrected it from "pil" to "pill".

You can guess what the search results were about.

Even more frustrating is the fact that even after I click "search instead for ..." it still gives the same results.

Mateo

Can you add a -pill ?

Nathan Osman

I tried adding "python" in front. Worked much better.

That Brazilian Guy

21:41

@NathanOsman "you" "have" "to" "use" "quotation" "marks" "on" "every" "word". Still useless, but at least accurate.

Lucio

Ups, I think I did a gem :D

@Seth ^

hbdgaf

@NathanOsman 'python imaging library close fail' provides different results, but not better results

Nathan Osman

True.

hbdgaf

i think the search terms 'ubuntu plz halp' should automagically add site:askubuntu.com to the search term (no, not really)

anyone playing with devstack?

Lucio

@hbdgaf but it sadly does :'(

hbdgaf

21:50

@Lucio yes sir. yes it does

Lucio

'halp' give me 11 results and 'plz' 148 results

hbdgaf

that doesn't count searches on cached pages

Lucio

How is that? What are the cached pages?

Mateo

Ones that were deleted and now exist on google only

Lucio

Oh, really?

I didn't knew that

hbdgaf

21:56

Mateo

(and other places that cache things) basically a backup of internet pages

hbdgaf

I meant dork. I promise, I'm not intentionally making fun of a pretty awesome search algo.

Lucio

I like the duck

hbdgaf

I like ddg with the google search proxy dork.

Lucio

O.O

hbdgaf

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Q: aircrack-ng kernel panic

When I try to run the aircrack-ng suite by starting off with airmon-ng start wlan0, the whole OS crashes and I get a kernel panic error and I have to actually turn the PC off then back on for it to work again. I'm using ubuntu 13.04. do you think that it's compatibility issues with the latest ub...

13.04 wireless kernel aircrack-ng

Lucio

Good news today for Internet users!

Mateo

@lucio "there are problems with the security of this site" ?

Braiam

@Mateo is the NSA! didn't you got the ~~meme~~ memo?

hbdgaf

i don't get any warnings. evidently nsa must already have a root cert in my box

Mateo

oh, I have custom android, they have my back...

hbdgaf

22:10

they have your obscurity;)

Lucio

lol

@Mateo I don't get it :/

Mateo

my browser flagged it as not safe

Lucio

Could you take a screenshoot?

That would be funny

Braiam

yesterday, by Seth

@Lucio @Braiam I just get @FEichinger to post them to the gems... I don't like giving my email out and such. And he has a tumblr account.

:(

spam askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/162771

Mateo

oh, well it's sideways taking photo of a tablet with a tablet

Braiam

22:22

man this sucks... how can I recover my password on a remote server... which I don't have access...?

Braiam

22:32

You may want to start with the Ubuntu manual Download here — Warren Hill 12 hours ago

Thomas W.

23:05

Do we have a canonical question/answer for "How do I port Ubuntu Touch to [device name here]?"

Nathan Osman

23:18

I don't think so.

Mateo

well, we should make a generic one and bounty it

Nathan Osman

Would you like me to write it?

I've been meaning to actually ask that question myself.

Just never got around to it.

Thomas W.

@NathanOsman I'd love to have a canonical question for that

because askubuntu.com/questions/350506/… and similar are littering the place

and we need a generic Q/A we can point them to

whether it's the one about what hardware will be supported, or a "How To Install On most devices" or "How to Port to Unsupported Hardware"

we need one.

Mateo

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Q: port Ubuntu Touch to unsupported Tablet

I consider buying a Chinese tablet with an Exynos 5250 SoC. It is a Voyo A15. It is not supported by CyanogenMod, but there is a Custom ROM available for this tablet. I would want to install Ubuntu Touch on it. My question: Would it be possible to port Ubuntu Touch to this device? Considering it...

drivers ubuntu-touch android tablet porting

we have a generic "what hardware"

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Q: What hardware will the Ubuntu Touch support?

With the announcement of the Ubuntu Phone OS I'd like to know what phone (and tablet) models are supported at this time. Note from foss & Oli: We are making this the master question for all future "Will this work on <insert random tablet/phone here>?!" questions

ubuntu-touch tablet smartphone

Nathan Osman

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Q: How do I go about porting Ubuntu Touch to xyz device?

I would like to port Ubuntu Touch to a device that is currently not supported. What are the requirements for doing this and where do I begin?

ubuntu-touch porting

Thomas W.

23:30

yeah, we do have that generic question...

Nathan Osman

Feel free to edit away.

Thomas W.

that one's not bad either.

but we'll need a canonical answer

Nathan Osman

I wonder if we should start closing the others as dupes of that one...

Thomas W.

@NathanOsman perhaps. we can discuss that in meta.

note the comment I put

Nathan Osman

Right.

Thomas W.

23:34

@NathanOsman I"m going to stop by the community team's IRC channel, see if I can't hunt down @JorgeCastro and get him to put a +500 bounty on that question if there's no activity on it in a week

Jorge Castro

yo

which one?

Thomas W.

@JorgeCastro damn you're fast! :P

Mateo

@NathanOsman lets do a bounty drive first,

Nathan Osman

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Q: How do I go about porting Ubuntu Touch to xyz device?

I would like to port Ubuntu Touch to a device that is currently not supported. What are the requirements for doing this and where do I begin?

ubuntu-touch porting

Jorge Castro

chrome notifications ftw

Thomas W.

23:34

@JorgeCastro in a couple days once it's alive for bounties

Mateo

ah typing too slow

Nathan Osman

I'm writing up something for Meta.

Jorge Castro

I would just link to the porting guide as an answer

any answer will be a book and just duplicate the wiki content

Thomas W.

@JorgeCastro then we'd have a thousand duplicates

Jorge Castro

well, you'd dupe those questions to the one Nathan just posted

Nathan Osman

23:36

Okay, but we still need a canonical question / answer.

Mateo

I think there is stuff not on the wiki

Thomas W.

we already have a decent number of duplicates of "Can I get Ubuntu Touch on [unsupported device]" and "How to get Ubuntu Touch on [unsupported device]

@NathanOsman Exactly

@JorgeCastro we don't have a canonical q/a for this yet

the question Nathan made is maybe going to become said canonical q/a

Mateo

askubuntu.com/questions/328086/… this refrences extra manual steps missing for full port?

Nathan Osman

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Q: Canonical question / answer for porting Ubuntu Touch

We recently discussed in the Ask Ubuntu General Room the fact that we do not have a canonical question / answer for porting Ubuntu Touch to new hardware. This has led to a proliferation of questions about specific devices: port Ubuntu Touch to unsupported Tablet Can someone help me get Ubuntu ...

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Q: Canonical question / answer for porting Ubuntu Touch

We recently discussed in the Ask Ubuntu General Room the fact that we do not have a canonical question / answer for porting Ubuntu Touch to new hardware. This has led to a proliferation of questions about specific devices: port Ubuntu Touch to unsupported Tablet Can someone help me get Ubuntu ...

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