Ask Ubuntu General Room

No Time

01:19

@JourneymanGeek Re: Discussion last night. Had an overkill psu, because I have underdone it and wrecked things (but I haven't built a "real computer" in a while), so I will tone it down.. that will help reduce price too. I chose a PCIe wireless, because I didn't want a USB one. Will do again with the RAM doubled as well

Journeyman Geek

01:53

@NoTime The built in one is pci-e, assuming it has one.

and I seem to have seen it as a pci ethernet card

(too lazy to check back)

No Time

@JourneymanGeek I wasn't assuming it had a wireless built in :) I thought wireless. but I thought I grabbed a PCI-enhanced, as I tried getting both a wireless, and a regular nic and it gave me an error (only one PCIe slot)

since it's a small mobo

Journeyman Geek

You'd be surprised.

Could you link that again please?

No Time

yeah pcpartpicker.com/p/9jry8d

newish

I think I changed the ram and psu

Journeyman Geek

(I'm in the middle of a dozen things, including babysitting engineers who have no idea how to level a washing machine, or that it has a special wrench for its feet)

ahh no wifi

No Time

Im looking for a spot to DL edubu 12.04 (to test in vm, on small lappy) yeah no worries man I understand

Why are they balancing a washing machine?

Journeyman Geek

02:03

because someone messed up and bought a very shitty stand for it to sit on.

No Time

are you performing experiments with ball bearings?

Journeyman Geek

02:24

nope

RolandiXor

04:16

Ubuntu 14.10...

good gosh the bugs.

First lightdm no longer works no matter what I do.
And now this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1681863&page=2&s=c4c2fbd2f0f90f4b6df19de2a803ebe9

RolandiXor

04:32

I think I am cursed or something :/...

having a bad time with technology recently with no light in sight.

Seth

time to go back to 14.04?

Nathan Osman

04:57

Is it too much to ask Stack Overflow to make better usage of my screen space?

It's barely using like one-third of the screen.

Look at all the wasted space!

Seth

Wow.

btw Nathan, how stable is Windows 10 turning out to be?

and what is that icon to the right of Chrome, if I mas ask? :)

Nathan Osman

That's the Chrome app launcher.

Seth

ah, nice.

Amith KK

05:16

Happy Birthday, @jokerdino! :D

Oh, they now show gravatars on '@' pinging, nice!

Journeyman Geek

@AmithKK: they have been doing that a while

@NathanOsman: how.... wide is your screen? o0

Amith KK

@JourneymanGeek Well it's been a long time since I've @ pinged someone.

@NathanOsman Isn't that AMD eyeinfinity?

jokerdino

06:18

@AmithKK ah thank you.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

07:12

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Q: Is there a tablet for programming in the market today?

I need a tablet that could do Python (Cython), Java, C, C++ (also embedding) programming. So suppose that I would use android arm tablet for that and install ubuntu on it. What I don't know would I be able to compile for arm on arm with gcc when I'm doing embedded programming? And Would Cython w...

Pandya

Xubuntu : Desktop (icons) clipping under xfce4-panel

Is it Bug or How to fix it?

This issue occurs sometimes/randomly login (not every time) and also if I log-out and login back then not happens sometimes

Eliah Kagan

That sounds like a bug, especially considering that it's inconsistent behavior: it wasn't likely designed to come and go like that. Especially if it's new with Utopic, I'd suggest reporting it. (There may still be a workaround though.)

jokerdino

It shouldn't be happening. Is the file manager handling the desktop?

Eliah Kagan

07:32

Does xfdesktop manage the desktop in Xubuntu instead of thunar these days? (I used to use Xubuntu often but I don't anymore.) I think that's the case for Xfce in general but I don't know anything about any recent Xubuntu particulars.

jokerdino

Xubuntu hasn't changed too much these days. Apart from the default pink colour for UU-14.10.

KasiyA

11:06

If this user is a moderator on AU but why I can not see him here?

Journeyman Geek

@KasiyA: SE employees are essentially mods everywhere on SE

terdon

> I love Jesus, my family, programming, Texas, and Shiner.

O_o

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Explanation of the building process of the kernel on Ubuntu/Debian systems

I'm getting into Linux kernel programming and I have successfully built my own kernel several times now. However, I have done it using step by step guides found from the internet and I don't really understand what happens in the build process. So far I've found several different ways to build the...

debian ubuntu kernel compiling

Amith KK

13:47

Thomas W.

*yawns*

basketball

14:10

hey can i speak to an op

Journeyman Geek

@basketball: we don't have ops

we have moderators (and those are per site, though they have moderatorial powers throughout chat)

basketball

can i speak to a moderator in askubuntu please

terdon

@basketball I don't know if any of the mods is currently online. Are you sure it has to be a moderator? Perhaps one of us could help.

Seth

14:28

What's up @basketball?

Whoops, read your name wrong.

terdon

l

ll

Seth

O_o

terdon

That was cryptic :) You forgot the second L at the end of basketball.

Seth

Oh, stupid tablet screen cut that off. Fixed.

terdon

While we're waiting for our sporting friend, how did you enable the Smoke Detector thingie? Is there an RSS somewhere?

Though we get very little spam on U&L for some reason, I thought it might be worth checking out.

Seth

14:33

It runs off of this: github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector

terdon

I know, but the instructions seem to be how to install it locally. Do I need to do that on a server I control, create an RSS feed from there and then link that to the chat room?

Seth

Ah, no. Fork, edit it like this: github.com/Charcoal-SE/SmokeDetector/commit/… then create a PR.

(Ignore my changes at the bottom)

Create a dictionary in the specialrooms array that has a sites array key containing the sites you want it to post to.

terdon

Ah, I think I see. Thanks.

Seth

Then add a room key with the room id.

Then a key for unwanted reasons containing things you don't want it to post.

terdon

Cool, thanks.

So the thing is running on wherever the git repo is hosted?

Seth

14:39

If you have any more questions you can ping me or ask in here:

Charcoal HQ

Where smoke is detected, diamonds are made, and we break thing...

27

68

@terdon yep. Undo runs it on his EC2 instance.

terdon

Great. Thanks @seth.

Seth

No problem :-)

Good grief.

Autocorrect >_>

Prasad RD

14:52

hello all :)

is HELLO ALL = Global mute :v

Seth

Hi!

Prasad RD

:O

@Seth hi ;)

Journeyman Geek

@PrasadRD Yes. Undocumented chat feature.

Prasad RD

@JourneymanGeek lol...yeah ;)

hi amithkk :)

Amith KK

15:07

@PrasadRD Hello :P

What's up? :P

Prasad RD

:) just tuning mute button here :v

basketball

anyone here a mod

Thomas W.

@basketball you missed @Seth saying "What's UP"

and he's a mod for Ask Ubuntu

basketball

@Seth i had someone post a question for me as i lost my pass and they missed important details

@Seth so i added it in a comment can you please add it to the real post

Thomas W.

@basketball nonmods can too, you know... which question.

basketball

15:12

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Q: How to use the rtcwake command

I would like to get my rtcwake command to wake my computer from sleep at 06:00 the following day. Here is the command I'm using: rtcwake -m mem -u -t $(date +\%s -d "tomorrow 06:00") So far it isn't waking. Any ideas?

command-line

terdon

@basketball That can be fixed by the way. Follow the instructions here: askubuntu.com/help/reset-password

Thomas W.

@basketball note that not even Seth could confirm if its your question - have you considered trying a password reset as terdon suggested just now?

(BTW @terdon you ninja'd me :P)

terdon

:)

Seth

Sorry, was in another tab.

terdon

@basketball also, that comment is pretty useless. What we need is the exact cron line and which crontab it has been added to.

basketball

15:16

0 0 * 1,3,4,5,8,9,10,11,12 0,1,2,3,4 /usr/sbin/rtcwake -m mem -u -t $(date +\%s -d "tomorrow 06:00")

terdon

@basketball Umm. That will attempt to run the command only on certain days of the month. What do you actually want to achieve here?

Make that only on certain months actually.

basketball

16:02

@terdon i know

monday through thursday

and not june or july

terdon

@basketball No, those are months, not days. You are running it every day but on specific months.

Ah! Sorry, there's a space there.

OK.

basketball

so what can i do?

terdon

So, whose user's crontab is that? Your regular user won't have the right to run that.

basketball

sudo contab -e

terdon

Hmm. OK, that should open root's crontab.

Eliah Kagan

16:06

@KasiyA Details about that on meta: Ask Ubuntu moderator?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Tons of unknown connections in nethogs

I am seeing hundreds of different connections to the same ip:80 scrolling by when running nethogs. Occasionally the foreign IP and port will change (not always 80). I've noticed a correlation between my router CPU usage and these huge bursts of connections, so I'm fairly certain that this massive...

ubuntu networking netstat malware

basketball

@terdon what can i do to fix it

terdon

@basketball How exactly is it failing? You said it does go to sleep but does not wake right? Do you actually have enough SWAP for it? Presumably, the -m option saves to swap right?

Hmm. No, it saves to RAM.

Not sure how that works.

Ah, this might be relevant:

> NOTES
Some PC systems can't currently exit sleep states such as mem using
only the kernel code accessed by this driver. They need help from
userspace code to make the framebuffer work again.

@basketball ^^

Have you tried any of the other suspend modes?

Oh man, another one.

This is what he calls serial voting: askubuntu.com/users/272488/sbergeron?tab=reputation

One downvote today, one yesterday, and three the day before.

basketball

@terdon no

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Serial downvoting of my answers, need users to stop now

I have a few (three or four) people who downvote my accepted, backed up, well-worded answers. I need them to stop as for one it keeps giving me notifications on my phone in the same way ones that I need to answer or respond to do, and for two it keeps impacting my reputation on this site dramati...

support

terdon

16:20

@basketball You should then. The quote I pasted was from the manpage of rtcwake. It seems to suggest that using -m mem does not always work. Try one of the other modes.

basketball

@terdon can you please and then tell me the command as i have no idea when it comes to this

KasiyA

16:33

@EliahKagan Thanks about that.

terdon

@basketball Can I please what?

Can I stop everything I'm doing and dick around with rtcwake, restarting my computer many times? Sorry, no :). Try it out yourself, read man rtcwake and choose some of the other options to the -m flag.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

16:51

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Q: Rationale to Avoid Distrubtions of Linux

Why Avoid ARCH Linux? ARCH Linux platform stability is sub-par. Untrustable Patches are Introduced Regularly into Downstream. Have you ever seen ARCH in an Enterprise? No. Community Reinforces Pretentiousness, and aggregates idiotic ideologues (as any online community is want to do, reflecting ...

ubuntu arch-linux usability

Rinzwind

@terdon yes you can :=)

terdon

@Rinzwind True. Will I though? That is the question. :)

Rinzwind

@terdon no you made a "can I" not a "will I" :+) so get to it :D

terdon

Hey, I claimed I actually can't so I'm safe :)

Rinzwind

:D

Seth

17:55

nice answer on meta @terdon

terdon

@Seth Thanks :) It was a bit more polite than the original and unposted version.

Seth

lol

hbdgaf

o/ folks

anyone have any thoughts on the linux kernel fork those Indian folks are doing to move it from C to C++?

if you hadn't heard about it at all, i barely heard about it from phoronix

@Mateo - love your comment on the star wall - "xorg edgers ppa. there be unicorns here, but there also be dragons. and you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup"

Mateo

haha, yeah

you usually see things like this on the site a lot: askubuntu.com/a/11987/47291

"It's magic, it will fix everything!"

type of stuff

hbdgaf

18:13

Yeah, most of the time people that say "just use xorg edgers" are either REALLY smart and can fix their own problems - and geek out to fixing their own stuff... or really not as smart and just pray something works.

That said, I do sometimes recommend using the wine edgers and kernel edgers ppas.

Mateo

so, the borderlands 2 thridperson is a cheat enging only thing, the first one had the configuration file changes...

hbdgaf

haven't played borderlands at all.

Mateo

did find a similar cheat program, that uses scanmem called "game conqueror" but it dosn't use the script...

hbdgaf

is this windows only?

Mateo

scanmem and game conqueror are in the repository

hbdgaf

18:19

i meant borderlands...

Mateo

Borderlands 2 is fun/quirky so far, if you like first person shooting.

@hbdgaf just got released for linux

hbdgaf

@Mateo cool, i saw a couple of gameplay videos.

are you trying to get third person working again or something?

Mateo

yep

so the current method is just for cheat engine

which only works wine/windows

almost wondering if a question here or on gaming would go over well

hbdgaf

I found cheat-engine, where is your config for re-enabling third person?

Mateo

nexusmods.com/borderlands2/mods/4/…

might be able to see what they are doing and translate it to manually add things in with game conqueror

hbdgaf

18:26

I'm looking a little. It's in my possibly interesting queue

And now for the daily dose of funny:

@Mateo I have to look at how game-conqueror works. Reading that config file, it looks like it has some assembly blobs. I don't know if they're search terms or a blob to insert somewhere in memory at this point.

Mateo

yeah, not sure either. so it might not be capable to insert a block of code

hbdgaf

if it does insert a code-blob, you could do it with ptrace and jugaad.

Mr. Smith

Someone with similar problem? askubuntu.com/questions/532213/…

Ask Ubuntu Meta

0

Q: Could we have a status indicator for members?

Like if someone is going to do a reboot for testing could there be some way that they could set something so that if someone hovers over their name in a comment or answer/question that it could display their status? Someone could set status like "at work, can not respond at all", or "back in 3 mi...

feature-request

hbdgaf

@Mr.Smith going around the problem instead of through it code.google.com/p/win-sshfs

Mr. Smith

18:40

@hbdgaf It looks like last release is for Win7.

hbdgaf

Possibly. I haven't tried it at all, but it would probably build for Win8

Mr. Smith

Do u think this solves problem with readonly files in samba share?

hbdgaf

It doesn't solve it, but it does go around it to come out the other side with functional filesystem sharing.

Mr. Smith

hmm

hbdgaf

I'm predisposed to sshfs solutions, because they work for everything linux, mac, unix, windows; vbox, vmware, docker, lxc. If it works everywhere, why use anything else?

Mr. Smith

18:49

I use SSH in IDE but I like Samba for fast browsing

hbdgaf

That's a fair complaint with sshfs

hbdgaf

19:10

needs closevotes askubuntu.com/questions/532254/error-message-in-software

Seth

ugh. I just answered half of that in my comment above. | not related to anything anyone just said. Just a rant.

hbdgaf

Is there a way to add:
Error:opening the cache (
E:Problem with merge list/
To the smoke-check bot?

Ramesh

I tried a network installation for ubuntu. I chose the archive path for network installation as, us.archive.ubuntu.com, but it seems to not work.

Is there something am doing wrong?

Eliah Kagan

@Ramesh "it seems to not work." What does happen? Is there an error message?

hbdgaf

Probably a network latency or driver issue. netinstall minimal images a la debian always provided that problem for me.

Ramesh

19:15

@EliahKagan I get an error message as,

The specified ubuntu archive mirror is either not available, or does not have a valid release file on it. Please try a different mirror.

Well, I tried UK mirror and still got the same error message.

Seth

@hbdgaf Not the way it currently works. It currently gets data from this page stackexchange.com/questions?tab=realtime so it only sees titles. We could get bodies and such from the API, but so far that is too many API calls. We could edit the source to track if somelike like "mergelist" was in the title but I don't think the people asking these questions usually but that kind of info in titles :/

terdon

@Ramesh What's the exact path you used? There should also be a version mentioned somewhere right?

Ramesh

@terdon, I am trying to add a guest addition in KVM. In KVM, I chose the Ubuntu network boot path as,

ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/installer-amd64

hbdgaf

@Seth this is true

Seth

@Ramesh You sure you want to use lucid?

Ramesh

19:18

After that, the installation seemed to start and it asked for keyboard layout and stuffs. After these steps, it asks me to choose a mirror which is where I get this mirror issue.

Seth

That is incredibly old.

terdon

Is http://ftp... correct? Shouldn't that be ftp://?

Ramesh

@Seth Just trying to learn kvm setup.

So OS version doesn't really matter :)

Seth

ok :)

Eliah Kagan

@Ramesh Do you (on the system where you're installing and getting that error) connect through a proxy?

Ramesh

19:19

@terdon well, the path seem to exist. If I type in the browser, it shows up.

Seth

@terdon mm, you are probably right. However, that doesn't seem to be the problem.

Ramesh

@EliahKagan Do you mean in the host machine? I do not use a proxy for my host.

However, to make kvm work in a wireless interface, I use a proxy :)

This is how I made it to work :)

@Seth, is it possible that Ubuntu might have stopped support for lucid and which is why the mirror is not available?

Seth

wait, what mirror are you using again?

Now that you mention it, I bet that is the problem.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Should deleted answers be auto-sorted to the bottom of the answer page?

I'm not sure why it would be desired effect for it to not be this way. If I were implementing it, I would do it as a "last-pass sort" type of thing after all other sorting was applied.

feature-request

Seth

@AskUbuntuMeta you're fast.

Thomas W.

19:25

@Seth deleted because of the security risk introduced that I pointed out...? (10k+ on Ask Ubuntu required)

Seth

No, I still see Lucid under us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists

@ThomasW. No, deleted because it doesn't answer the question. Downvoted for security risk.

Thomas W.

@Seth wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

@Seth Ah, okay.

@Seth lucid is still there because April 2015 for server eol

Seth

right..

@Ramesh I'd try another, more recent, release just to see if that fixes anything. I'm not really sure where in us.archive.ubuntu.com it is looking, but only Lucid server is still supported.

xiaodongjie

hi everybody.

What is the best vnc in the world?

with Top fast speed.

Thomas W.

@xiaodongjie "top fast speed". that's an ambiguous statement.

Seth

19:29

@hbdgaf Change the sorting to votes: i.imgur.com/ZFjw3ee.png

Right now you're on active ;)

hbdgaf

@Seth thanks

Seth

np :)

xiaodongjie

@ThomasW. hmm? Top speed.

Thomas W.

@xiaodongjie define "speed"

xiaodongjie

network sped.

Thomas W.

19:30

and define "top speed" in terms of your use case - via LAN? Via remote connections to an offsite system?

over the internet?

Seth

btw @ThomasW. launchpad.net/~sethj/+archive/ubuntu/silentcast I managed it \o/

xiaodongjie

over the internet.

Thomas W.

if over the internet, your "top speed" isn't going to be based on the VNC program you use.

hbdgaf

Thomas W.

it's going to be based on the network traffic on the pipe on both ends, the equipment you have, any firewall rules and routing and network filtering, rate limiting, etc.

hbdgaf

19:31

Any time I hear Thomas say "define X" I'm waiting for napalm

Thomas W.

at which point the actual VNC program you DO use isn't really relevant anymore.

@Seth imma run Lintian on it in strict mode and point out your fails now >:)

xiaodongjie

What is the Top speed remote desktop controller?

pacificosoftware.co.uk/ScrapeService

hbdgaf

@Seth nice work though. we need some substitute for byzanz or whatever it was in active current repo.

xiaodongjie

I'm very happy, I created my first site.

Thomas W.

@seth be wary of having the same source version... you can run into issues if the dependencies change in one variant of Ubuntu versus another

@seth then you can't have the identical version strings. in nginx, we do this by adding +release# to it, where release is trusty, etc.

but that's a minor thing :)

hbdgaf

19:38

so, I just typed class Destruction: and couldn't help but giggle a little.

3

Thomas W.

@hbdgaf lol

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Can I ask elementary OS Questions here?

I want to know that if I can ask elementary os questions here since it is based on ubuntu. If yes then my wifi is not working, my system is updated and I just installed it this afternoon. If no then please comment and I'll remove this. Thanx :)

discussion

Nathan Osman

No.

Thomas W.

@Seth if there are other PPA dependencies for the program, then you may want to consider copying the specific packages from those other PPAs into yours (get permission first!), so that they don't have to add additional sources.

hbdgaf

@NathanOsman it just got migrated, so it's a positive step

Thomas W.

19:40

(we did this for the nginx PPAs, we added the backported dependency into the PPA itself for Precise)

hbdgaf

@ThomasW. It's an add on for a thing I'm playing with

Thomas W.

eheheheheheh. still... class Destruction:

sounds like something I'd create for the end of everything xD

hbdgaf

Yeah. I appreciate sense of humor when I'm reading code.

Seth

@ThomasW. haha. Let me know if you find anything important.

oh, I see you did find some stuff.

@hbdgaf This should do that :)

@ThomasW. hm, that is a good idea. I will look into that.

hbdgaf

@Seth I took a look at what you were working on. And yes, I don't plan on abandoning the backup thing. I'm not aware of something that does what I want... so it only makes sense to build it.

Thomas W.

19:49

@Seth downside is if you're using bzr for managing you'll have to make source tarballs to upload individually, or use a packaging recipe, but meh

hbdgaf

I need to start storing it in a db instead of a nested list. Walking it every time is sub-optimal when I start adding features.

Thomas W.

@Seth The Lintian output

bad form to have executables without manpages.

Seth

yep, already saw all that. I don't have time to write manpages right now, but it is something I plan on doing.

@ThomasW. that is a pretty big downside :/

Thomas W.

@Seth yeah, but meh. I just copy the folders for the code multiple times, make different changelog entries and build before uploading. I still use the old debuild -S stuff.

Seth

@ThomasW. hm. Is there a way to do this without building for each dist? There isn't any difference in the packages so I was just using the "Copy packages" to send it to precise.

hbdgaf

19:55

recipes are skeksi... and they're free rep on launchpad when you touch something. just saying...

Thomas W.

@Seth that will work fine so long as you don't have differing dependencies.

Ramesh

@Seth turns out trusty has ftp mirror available.

Thomas W.

@Seth as long as ALL the dependencies in all copied releases will satisfy it all, you don't have to manually build

hbdgaf

@Ramesh so it was because net-install doesn't refer to server images i suppose.

Ramesh

@hbdgaf I also suspect the same.

Seth

19:56

@ThomasW. ok cool. They don't have different dependencies, although Precise needs ffmpeg >=0.10, but with that ffmpeg PPA it is satisfied in all supported dists.

@Ramesh Glad you got it working :)

Ramesh

But it is weird given the virt-tools page suggest installing something over network as described here.

Thomas W.

@Seth I'd suggest copying the PPA's ffmpeg and such over to your PPA if you can, rather than force others to add additional PPAs. Makes it easier to manage the dependency installs that way, as the PPA provides them

Seth

@ThomasW. Yes, that would really help. I will definitely look into that.

Thomas W.

@Seth big Lintian "E" issue though - lintian.debian.org/tags/…

E: silentcast: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version depends: bash

hbdgaf

@ThomasW. You really think he should set a version on bash while it's busy getting tagged every day at this point?

Thomas W.

19:59

@hbdgaf no, but Lintian does :P

bash>=0.1 :P

Seth

yeah, I didn't think that was a big deal. Unless you're using something terribly old it should all work fine. I only support back to 12.04 anyway.

@ThomasW. That is an option.

Thomas W.

@Seth is this going to be pre-precise at all?

or just precise and later?

Seth

@ThomasW. ah cool, that says I can just remove bash if I don't need a specific version.

Thomas W.

:)

Seth

@ThomasW. not unless someone installs from source.

No point since 10.04 installs shouldn't have a gui to record :P

hbdgaf

20:01

./configure --with-just-silence-errors=True

Thomas W.

@Seth then you can either not declare Bash as a dependency, or bash >= $PRECISE_MAIN_VERSION

Seth

@ThomasW. neat! Thanks.

Thomas W.

@Seth in the future I'd suggest going and dealing with the lack of a manpage, but those're warnings, not errors.

Seth

@ThomasW. right. Unfortunately for me it is going to be a busy month, but it is on my list of things to fix. Luckily most of what I will need is already in the bash scripts.

Thomas W.

@Seth right. warnings are less of an issue, unless you're dealing with Debian. Errors, those're bigger issues but are probably easy to fix :)

Seth

20:14

like just removing bash xD

hbdgaf

anyone up for a "what would you do question?"

Thomas W.

@hbdgaf if you want to ask just ask?

@Seth where does SmokeDetector output?

hbdgaf

cool, I just didn't want to be tedious. If you were looking at that dedupe and copy thing, would you rather have it guess where something is supposed to go based on folder affinity by "things in that area on the source tend to be here" on the destination, or just blanket copies without an attempt for affinity. So, unsorted on source is unsorted on destination?

same holds for deduping

Nathan Osman

20:34

Just ordered a wildcard cert. for quickmediasolutions.com. This will simplify things greatly for me.

Seth

@ThomasW. right here, in chat.

We haven't had anything to set it off though.

Here is an example:

in English Language & Usage, 5 hours ago, by SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Phone number detected: +91-9950211818 Love problems specialist in mumbai on english.stackexchange.com

Will Hunting

I am very excited about Ubuntu Mate 14.10...

Seth

Comes out on the 23rd!

Will Hunting

I hope they release Ubuntu Mate 14.04 LTS after that, like they mentioned.

I have a feeling that Mate is the desktop of the future, not Gnome, lol.

Seth

:)

Will Hunting

20:48

@xiaodongjie I do not understand why you sent me 1000 kisses in the Eng room long ago...

Thomas W.

@Seth ahhh, okay.

@Seth snipekill this - askubuntu.com/questions/532293/ubuntu-not-booting

(14.10)

Seth

21:06

boom

basketball

21:56

@Seth hey

Seth

Hi Basketball.

basketball

@Seth are you good with rtcwake

Seth

no, I've never used it at all.

did terdon never get your issue resolved?

hm, I see he didn't.

basketball

how can i tell if my hardware clock is local or utc

Seth

Try hwclock -r.

basketball

22:04

Sat 04 Oct 2014 03:04:32 PM MST -0.094581 seconds

is that local or utc

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Q: Creating an SSH tunnel from a linux vps to a web server database

I am creating a server application that clients will connect to. The server application is running on an Ubuntu Server 14.04.1 VPS. The server needs to be able to connect to a MySQL database hosted on a webserver. This should be easy to do normally, but my web host, Namecheap, requires an SSH tun...

ubuntu webserver ssh-tunneling

Seth

@basketball have you tried comparing it to your local time?

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Q: Hiding all Normal Windows in Command Line

Is there a way -- from the terminal -- to hide all normal windows (I'm using ubuntu)? In particular, I'm looking for the equivalent Windows + D. That is, if you execute the command once, then all of the windows dissapear. But if you execute it again, they all come back again in their original ...

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JohnMerlino

anyone have a link to a cheatsheet on ufw?

I spent an hour looking for a specific ufw command and all I got from the docs were pages and pages of information. Im just looking for a cheatsheet which lists the commands with a brief description

Seth

@JohnMerlino Just found this in Google: docs.google.com/spreadsheet/…

JohnMerlino

22:15

thanks but it doesn't look comprehensive

Seth

honestly, the best you will get for comprehensive is man ufw. It isn't too complicated.

Cheat sheets are just that, cheat sheets. Not usually made to be comprehensive.

This might qualify: ma-no.org/en/content/…

Lucio

There should be a name.stackexchange site where developer ask "What would be a good name for this var?" sort of questions

"Who can I name this method that parse strings?"

and etcetera

Seth

why stringParser() of course!

Lucio

I would accept that answer!

:P

Seth

haha

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Q: Focusing the Current Window & Minimizing All of the Others

Is there a way to focus the current window and minimize all of the others through the command line? For example, if the active window is Chrome, then if I execute this command, it will minimize all of the windows except for Chrome. I'm using Ubuntu in case it's relevant.

ubuntu window-management

hbdgaf

22:48

@JohnMerlino "I want a comprehensive cheat sheet" is an oxymoron. A cheatsheet takes the high points. Comprehensive means everything.

hbdgaf

22:59

@Mateo - dp you think you could scrape together enough users to pay back the game buying fee if I make the third person hack work on linux after buying it on linux steam for 20?

Mateo

@hbdgaf you think you can make it work?

hbdgaf

If I did... I'm trying to incentivize it. I might be able to do it, but it would take work...

No promises on it slapping in to any frameworks. Just a "well if you let this script run as root, memory magically gets edited right"

Seth

hmm. Thinking about making a new partition in my extended space for Windows 10..

hbdgaf

you mean windows X so windows and mac have more similar names?

Seth

ha.

hbdgaf

23:03

say it's about really awful regexes being universal if you want... i have my opinion and i'm sticking to it

Seth

I'm just worried about how Windows will handle being in an extended partition and the last OS on the disk..

hbdgaf

windows generally doesn't like being on a non-primary partition if i remember my rumors right

Seth

I figured I would have trouble with that :/

Mateo

@hbdgaf I think would be a big deal, and just a scirpt would be easier than installing a cheat tool then doing stuff. but, I don't know the one for windows has 2000 downloads

hbdgaf

@Mateo well think about it... one of those 2000 was me, because you asked. that's a half a percent on one person...

Nathan Osman

23:11

And TCP is not only a protocol, but a company: tcpi.com

Mateo

haha, the sentiments on steam are funny

and bam!

hbdgaf

aww geez. now i have to. going to the store for monster.

also, thank you

Mateo

so give er a go, but don't worry. the hex stuff was over my head

hbdgaf

i'll be on it in a bit giving her a go. we'll see if this one likes me

hbdgaf

23:51

okay, off for a while to pay the piper. back when i figure it out

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