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Q: should questions like "i've got xyz modem and it doesn't connect" be flagged

I think such questions are inappropriate on askubuntu because it is specific modem companies responsibility to provide appropriate drivers for there hardware.there is hardly anything Ubuntu can do for this.

Nathan Osman

pacificfils

@Seth seth...

@seth remount is not a valid command

hi osman, still up?

@NathanOsman You're using IE. That's why.

Mitch

07:47

pacificfils

Problem: You're using windows.

Utkarsh

@pacificfils what happens if i change my swappiness to 100,? I have 512 MB RAM

@Mitch can you tell?

pacificfils

no idea what you're talking about.

and, new PokeRom: wesleyfg.weebly.com/pokeacutemonlightplatinum.html

Utkarsh

@pacificfils new here?

pacificfils

no.

980 rep.

Utkarsh

07:50

@Mitch can you tell me?

what happens if i change my swappiness to 100, I have 512 MB RAM

djeikyb

he's been here all day!

Utkarsh

oooh please someone help!

what happens if i change my swappiness to 100,

Mitch

@Utkarsh See this..askubuntu.com/questions/103915/how-do-i-configure-swappiness

pacificfils

i dont bother with RAM.

i just shove it in.

Utkarsh

@Mitch seen already but what will happen after changing swappiness to 100

djeikyb

07:52

learn something new every day. never heard of swappiness

s/day/year/

Utkarsh

@Mitch shame on you! you cant help!

pacificfils

i'm too lazy to learn about swappiness.

Mitch

" a swappiness setting of 100 means that programs will be swapped to disk almost instantly." One Zero

pacificfils

ouch. that sounds bad.

djeikyb

@Utkarsh can you tell us what you don't understand about that answer?

Mitch

07:55

And on the long run. it might shortens the life of the drive.

pacificfils

me?

all i know is constant r/w to disk is bad.

esp for large apps.

TO THE GBA EMULATOR!

djeikyb

hm. my workbox has a swappy val of 60. but my errorprone memory is thinking i don't usually see swap kick in till !00% ram utilisation

which, because i dumbly went with bleeding edge btrfs, pretty much borks my box for the next half hour

Nathan Osman

Happy New Year!

djeikyb

or maybe it's just that i only hit the threshold when i've caused a large, rapid memory leak

same to ya'll!

pacificfils

happy new year from CA

Nathan Osman

08:10

Now to get on with 2014...

pacificfils

resolution: install mac os x

loljk

djeikyb

i'm getting close to resolving to not using java for my web service implementation

pacificfils

Y2014 GLITCH!

djeikyb

i'm really not liking these compile times

ha, we're hopefully at least 14 years away from that kinda glitch..

pacificfils

my minecraft server just gave a time warning.

Mitch

08:15

Happy New Year to All

djeikyb

@pacificfils why?

Mitch

pacificfils

minecraft.

YESH! POKEMON ROM HACK WORKS!

only took 1 year to compile =]

Amith KK

09:07

@pacificfils is'nt it in assembly?

djeikyb

10:39

@SeyedMohammad i don't want to abuse the comment section, but you gotta understand..i've been on the receiving end of people completely ignoring the crux of my questions, and man, it's insanely frustrating. it's better for those answers to not be posted at all.

@SeyedMohammad i mean, actually read the question. the guy is trying to programmatically export word docs to pdf. unless you bust out some vbscript, ms word isn't an option here

Avinash Raj

11:33

is this askubuntu.com/questions/398449/… offtopic or not

blade19899

Well its 2014. Everybody got there arms and legs still attached?

Avinash Raj

@falconer that question is an offtopic

falconer

@AvinashRaj Don't think so. Why would that be offtopic?

Avinash Raj

if he run firefox on windows,i think your answer may works.

falconer

Why won't it work on Linux? I even posted the screenshots from Ubuntu.

Avinash Raj

11:43

yes it works on both ubuntu and windows.did you agree with that or not?

falconer

Of course. What is your point with that?

By the way. Happy new year for all of you guys.

Braiam

the worst thing someone could ever think about, removing libc6 package

Avinash Raj

@Braiam i think he get an upvote for each edit in this askubuntu.com/questions/398120/…

falconer

@Braiam Maybe he is just trying to get the Peer pressure badge. ;)

Braiam

@AvinashRaj mmm?

Avinash Raj

11:56

@falconer i helped for that

falconer

@AvinashRaj :D

Avinash Raj

what's the meaning of :D?

falconer

Almost the same as :), its like ":)))" equals ":D"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons (Or were you just trolling me? :D )

Avinash Raj

:))) means smile ah,because i'm so poor on chat terms

@falconer thnks for the wiki link

falconer

@AvinashRaj NP

Avinash Raj

12:02

@falconer i cant able to find the meaning of NP on that wiki link

falconer

mistupid.com/internet/chattalk.htm

Avinash Raj

12:14

did we move this askubuntu.com/questions/398480/… to meta

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

13:38

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Q: SSH accesss between CentOS and Vmware installed Ubuntu

I am here to request the Linux lads about using the SSH type remote access between my CentOS (Host) and VMWare installed Ubuntu. I am not new to Linux but I am completely new with practical experience of SSH. Any help would be appreciated.

ubuntu ssh centos vmware remote-desktop

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Q: How do I set my account preferences and get notified by emails when there is an answer for me?

The title says it. I am surfing like crazy through askubuntu.com, but I cannot find out how to set my preferences. I must be blind, or the New Year's party went too long... Forgive me please.

support

Utkarsh

14:20

hello everyone

@AvinashRaj we can talk here

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

14:41

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Q: From where does printenv command read environment variables which I have not defined?

The printenv command lists a number of environment variables most of which I have not defined. From where does it read these values? Where are the environment variables stored in Linux? strace printenv gave an indication to me that it opens /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive but I did not get a clear...

ubuntu environment-variables

Avinash Raj

@Utkarsh did you downvoted my questions?

Utkarsh

@AvinashRaj me? no

@AvinashRaj so i was saying that do you have any sketching softwares?

@AvinashRaj i am not doing

maybe someone else

@AvinashRaj you have a bad habit of deleting your chat messages

Avinash Raj

@Utkarsh i don't know

tamil

why r u asking that?

Utkarsh

@AvinashRaj what about sanskrit?

@AvinashRaj shivaji the boss, endhiran,eega and there are more!!!! all the movies are translated to hindi and are telecasted on north indian channels

dasavataram is nice too :-)

dasavtharam

again, bad habit of deleting

Avinash Raj

first 15min on that movie was awesome

Utkarsh

14:50

give it a try zorin-os.com

Avinash Raj

@Utkarsh i will be back soon

Utkarsh

@AvinashRaj okay

RPi Awesomeness

15:19

We need 41 people to get this to work! C'mon, it can't hurt!

meta.askubuntu.com/questions/7950/…

RolandiXor

Please, do not flag "Should be a comment"! Flag as "Not an answer."

When you have 20+ flags to go through and someone flags as custom (making you have to go to the link to investigate or to access the options) it can be annoying... when all they needed to do was use the system "Not an answer".

Who may be concerned knows who they are and does not need to reply (to be identified). Just please stop keeping it up :/

Avinash Raj

15:40

if a user continuously put downvotes for ques and ans posted by a particular user,how SE handle this.

RPi Awesomeness

@AvinashRaj Are you being spammed? You could talk to a mod and see if you can get Serial Downvoting reversed and the user blocked.

Avinash Raj

yes i spammed,i got downvotes for my 5 ques in a row

see askubuntu.com/users/202806/avinash-raj?tab=reputation

RPi Awesomeness

Yes, I noticed. You can report it here: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/206/ubuntu-regulators

Braiam

@AvinashRaj no need to do anything special, at 3:00 UTC all those will be reversed... if they ain't then contact a mod with a flag

RPi Awesomeness

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Q: Serial downvoting reversed

what is Serial downvoting reversed? I just got +14 Reputations from the event listed as Serial downvoting reversed. What does that mean?

support voting

that explains it

Amith KK

17:40

BBT

Good Night

Jeremy

18:07

in Root Access, 2 mins ago, by Jeremy

Can you restore our hard rive from a disk image? There's something wrong with my startup files on osx and I can't boot. If I format, reinstall, then restore from the image, will that put my hard rdrive and files back to its current state?

A* hard drive. Does anyone know?

pacificfils

short answer: yes

but not from install.

unless the image does only user-files, it won't work from install.

RPi Awesomeness

@pacificfils Hey! You're on! Did you see the logo(s)?

pacificfils

i did.

very nice.

RPi Awesomeness

:D

I can change around the colors, like I said.

pacificfils

just one flaw but not important.

RPi Awesomeness

18:16

@pacificfils What? I'm going to be in the other room

pacificfils

the spacing between the four side pieces are not exactly even.

RPi Awesomeness

Ah. On the green one. Yeah. I'm working on getting those evenly balanced.

pacificfils

18:52

my life

Jeremy

Where are the logos?

pacificfils

go to my chat room

RPi Awesomeness

@pacificfils Lol.

pacificfils

?

RPi Awesomeness

The cmic

*comic

pacificfils

19:03

ah.

RPi, i will give you $500 if you can sharpen a grainy and blurry image.

RPi Awesomeness

@pacificfils Yeah, not sure how well that would go over with my parents...:P Would love it though :D

Radu Rădeanu

Happy new year to all!!!

►

Thomas W.

19:30

I'm only 139 rep away from 10k... that's my goal this year, get to 10k

also, happy new year to you all

RPi Awesomeness

@ThomasW. stop bragging... :P

jk

pacificfils

you still have more total rep than me.

Thomas W.

yeah probably :P

what is it now, 11.6k yet?

/me checks

11,585, for the SE chat. Nice.

RPi Awesomeness

19:51

REMOVED FEST!!

Thomas W.

lets not abuse this though

RPi Awesomeness

@ThomasW. Good point

Thomas W.

seriously.

pacificfils

okay. i'll stop

RPi Awesomeness

That should be saved for big things

pacificfils

19:51

like wrong windows.

RPi Awesomeness

wrong

pacificfils

import essay

RPi Awesomeness

Oh goodness. Stop it

pacificfils

import newyear

import RaspberryPi

oh my god. At least 100 RPi s appeared next to me

RPi Awesomeness

Dude, send me a couple

Like 25/30

pacificfils

19:55

just type import RaspberryPi

you get 100.

import Pizza

PIZZA PARTY AT MY HOUSE!!

RPi Awesomeness

Here, I'll trade you ...

Whoa. Fail

pacificfils

here you go:

RPi Awesomeness

Forget it.

@pacificfils What version of python are you using?

pacificfils

gimme my pi. you have your pizzas

RPi Awesomeness

Cause...import pizza oh gosh...

begins drowning in pizza

pacificfils

19:58

eat your way out.

RPi Awesomeness

nom nom nom

pacificfils

import water

FLOOD

RPi Awesomeness

EEP! runs

pacificfils

import import

RPi Awesomeness

Well, at least it washed away the pizza.

pacificfils

20:00

Error 4: BLORG!

RPi Awesomeness

@pacificfils Good Grief! The infinite import hath begun!!!

pacificfils

forkbombs own system

RPi Awesomeness

Why would you do that??

Then again, You would.

@pacificfils Here you go. Thanks for the pizza

Seth

20:23

@ThomasW. That's my goal too.

Braiam

@ThomasW. you don't read the little red icon? that was in august for Godness sake!

Seth

and no moderators around when you want one. sighs

btw, can we close this? askubuntu.com/questions/383896/…

RPi Awesomeness

Flagged it as dupe

ookay..image just randomly goes black totally...

can't even see it on the site...

Seth

what image?

Come on folks, we need more upvotes here:

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Q: Ask Ubuntu version of "Oh The Horror" Hat Club anybody?

So, I was reading around the Stack Exchange network and came across this (easily googleable) question: “Oh The Horror” Hat Club Anyone want to give this a go? From the page: 41 people join in. Each person upvotes every answer, other than theirs, to this question. Once we have 41 a...

discussion winter-bash

part of the agreement is that you upvote everyone else's post.

RPi Awesomeness

@Seth PRECISELY! PEOPLE!! :P

@Seth This image:

@Seth Oh well, its back..?

As for the club, I ping everyone every so often, unless they recently posted.

Thomas W.

20:41

@Braiam August was weird, I had a billion things in my inbox.

tolerate it.

RPi Awesomeness

21:04

Bother that enter key

@ThomasW. A billion :D

guntbert

21:40

@RPiAwesomeness: there's an (by now) obsolete comment : askubuntu.com/questions/395356/create-new-document/…

Thomas W.

@guntbert /me points at the "obsolete" comment flagging reason

guntbert

@ThomasW. why should I bother a moderator when the author is here and can be pinged?

Thomas W.

@guntbert because bothering the moderators is fun?

because the mods actually have a job they have to do?

guntbert

@ThomasW. what are you trying to tell me? (I do use flags rather frequently :-))

Thomas W.

@guntbert that i'm an evil person who bugs the mods all the time.

nothing more :P

guntbert

21:50

@ThomasW. oh that :-) - sorry, I seem to be a little slow on the uptake today

Thomas W.

@guntbert doesn't matter

at least not to me :)

'course, i know there's some malcontents on IRC who hate me today

guntbert

:)

Thomas W.

but i'm in a "BAN THE ASSHATS" Mode.

/me already banned ten people in the bitcoin channels on IRC.

pacificfils

22:04

what areyou doing thomas?

Thomas W.

@pacificfils right now? skyping with a friend

pacificfils

the "ban the asshats"

Thomas W.

on IRC

pacificfils

what that about, and am i in danger?

Thomas W.

@pacificfils depends, are you being an asshat in the #bitcoin* channels on freenode?

pacificfils

22:07

bitcoin channels, never been there

only irc i go to is the ubuntu-touch channel.

Thomas W.

then you're safe :p

@pacificfils i don't have op in any of the Ubuntu channels

although i do occasionally watch them like a hawk :p

pacificfils

lol

Thomas W.

if only to ping their ops' when people need slapping

pacificfils

question: when will bitcoin go down again?

and i mean tank.

hbdgaf

when demand goes down or the edgy investor types all get out for legal reasons.

pacificfils

22:09

hope that's soon.

need more btc.

Braiam

mine some... ¬_¬

hbdgaf

so sell something on one of the bitcoin for thing markets

pacificfils

okay. how do i use op crap on the ubuntu built-in irc app?

Thomas W.

"op crap" ?

pacificfils

/kick, /ban

empathy. how do i use op commands

Thomas W.

22:12

@pacificfils probably best to explain on IRC itself... :/

@pacificfils of course, assuming you have op

pacificfils

i know how to op on freenode web.

Thomas W.

(/msg chanserv op #channel if you have op in chanserv for the channel)

pacificfils

i have op, just made a channel

Thomas W.

@pacificfils then it's just /kick or /ban

but ultimately, it may be /kickban

pacificfils

but it doesn't work in empathy

Thomas W.

22:13

I don't use empathy, because it's not really an IRC client

then use a real irc client

rather than something that isn't an IRC client

pacificfils

any recommendations on ubuntu-integrating clients?

Thomas W.

@pacificfils none, there are no IRC-only clients that integrate with ubuntu

pacificfils

then what's a good one in general?

Thomas W.

they're all multi-protocol ones designed to work with IM, not IRC

@pacificfils xchat, kvirc, hexchat (in a PPA), irssi (cli), others

pacificfils

what is the BEST one?

hbdgaf

22:15

everyone i know uses xchat for gui and irssi for cli fpr that.

Thomas W.

@pacificfils what do we do to questions that're "What's the BEST software for [some reason]?"

you should probably know this and if you don't you've failed

pacificfils

then ive failed.

Thomas W.

@pacificfils there is no "BEST" IRC client anywhere, "BEST" is a relative term

for what I need, hexchat is the best

hbdgaf

note that i didn't say they were best... i gave a people i know usage pattern for someone that doesn't use irc

Thomas W.

for what you would need, I couldn't tell you

pacificfils

22:16

okay, most features, nicest ui.

nvm. xchat it is

Thomas W.

why don't you just try some out and then decide

:P

i tried 8 different clients before settling on xchat

@pacificfils enable universe before installing xchat

and don't install xchat-gnome

pacificfils

so. many. effing. windows8/ubuntu. questions.

Thomas W.

because it's not really xchat

pacificfils

and i use multiverse

just gotta wait for 20000 light years into space

hbdgaf

:) I first ever used irc from mirc32, then I borrowed a clue and switched to linux dual boot, then bought a clue and switched to linux full time. Now I'm expanding my horizons and playing with BSD dual boot.

pacificfils

22:20

challenge: make your own ubuntu from the latest linux kernel

Braiam

nah, mine is figure out node.js.... (then try lisp)

pacificfils

hi braiam

hbdgaf

i'm working on some python ctypes and binary analysis with idapython, python in gdb, volatility, django, and a little hardware hacking thrown in for good measure.

Thomas W.

@pacificfils challenge: figure out how to get the latest Linux kernel working with everything in Ubuntu 12.04, and get it working without issues.

hbdgaf

pacificfils

22:22

CHALLENGE DENIED

i saw that.

10 rules for a new linux user:

1. Linux is NOT windows.

2. Linux will crash at least once.

3. Know REISUB.

4. Never give out the root password.

5. sudo -i, not sudo su, even though they do they do the same thing

hbdgaf

and it's not too complicated. it's just getting the old, merging the changes in that ubuntu does with debianization, asking git to understand the merge, reapplying the later commits, and dancing widdershins. it's mostly an exercise in version control with a dash of troubleshooting and lots of superstition.

c-c-c-combo breaker

pacificfils

i dont care

hbdgaf

shift+enter lets you do
multi-line
statements in
chat

pacificfils

i know that.

too lazy to do that

question, why does everyone want to dual boot?

ubuntu is good enough, no more windows needed

hbdgaf

gaming. getting people that don't have any idea how to use linux to break in a little and get their feet wet. people that need a native windows install without virtualization for work related duties. the list goes on.

Seth

23:11

@ThomasW. I've been wanting to try that.. but I haven't found one to bug yet. Have you happened to see any around recently?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Big file overwriten with a 0B file

I just opend for write (by mistake) a big file with data (about 200 MB). Now I have this file and it has 0B. I want to know If I can find raw data on disk for recovery... ?

linux ubuntu filesystems

hbdgaf

23:43

o/ @Mateo - you'll be happy to know that i'm planning on squashing a couple of bugs tomorrow.

i got the 2nd off, not the first.

Nathan Osman

23:57

I'm on Steam now.

Just spent $20 for the TrackMania 10-Year Anniversary 3-Pack.

What a bargain.

hbdgaf

for the next 24 hours, the entire half-life anthology is ten bucks.

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Q: Can anyone explain or walk me through this posted answer on a thread I found regarding my problem?

I'm having trouble making my usb camera my default webcam. I have it selected in Multimedia selector as default, yet my laptop camera is activated when I open guvcview or G+ Hangouts, and when I ran sudo modprobe -r uvcvideo then opened guvcview, nothing worked. To get my usb camera to work, I op...

12.04 usb webcam camera

^ it sounds like a dupe to me, but i'm involved so i'm not voting.

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