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Mateo_

01:04

so, uh bioshock infinite is downloading on my linux box, wonder if it is actually there or another steam oops

Mateo_

01:17

hm, seems only the data files.

hbdgaf

arg, some idiot hit a light pole and took power from a mile or so worth of people including myself. it's back now though.

Mateo_

welcome back

hbdgaf

at least i'm not living in india where outages are common...

Seth

01:30

and in other news a friend of mine got a moderator on XDA sending him insults in PMs because he said he didn't like or trust one of his apps..

Mateo_

well then...

Seth

A moderator for goodness sake!

hbdgaf

i don't like your app, so i won't speak to you. thank goodness the world doesn't operate that way. i don't like AV, but i still speak to people that work at mcafee/symantec... because it doesn't make them not smart or entertaining. it makes them doing something i think is useless, but they're allowed to waste their time if they want.

in related news things i do that people think are worthless, i finished that talib wrapper first sweep. still have to check on multiple in multiple outs, but it sort of works.

Nathan Osman

What kind of an error message is this???

My humanity is "suspect"?

Wha...?

Mateo_

typing too fast?

Seth

01:42

well you are a Penguin. Smart website.

hbdgaf

@NathanOsman it's a polite way to say we think you are a bot. maybe a little cheeky, but polite-ish.

Nathan Osman

It doesn't tell me what I did wrong though.

I entered a valid email address and a valid username.

hbdgaf

that's normal. do people in your real life tell you what you did wrong?

Mateo_

maybe copy paste?

Nathan Osman

02:33

Whoa... sainsmart.com/…

RPi_Awesomeness

03:13

@Seth Precisely.

Guys? What to do with this:

askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/358505

?

Seems like another bot edit...kinda?

Nathan Osman

03:27

Just ordered one of these. It'll be interesting to see how well it works. I also ordered a USB to 5V barrel adapter to power it.

RPi_Awesomeness

@NathanOsman Sweet! I wish I had money to do stuff like that :(

@NathanOsman What's your input on my review q above?

Nathan Osman

It was a gift in my case.

RPi_Awesomeness

@NathanOsman Nice :D

Lucky person who's getting that :)

I'm actually trying to figure out how to share my internet connection from my laptop to my Pi.

I had to leave my WiFi dongle at home on my desktop 'cause massive 7+ GB downloads that take literally 24hrs+ on my internet.

And, so my Pi has no internet connection - which I need for my project I'm working on.. :P

I need to order another one of those Edimax USB dongles from Amazon...

Nathan Osman

@RPi_Awesomeness No, no - it was a gift from someone else to me :)

RPi_Awesomeness

@NathanOsman oooh :) But you said you ordered it. They pay?

Nathan Osman

03:32

Yes.

RPi_Awesomeness

:)

Anwar Shah

04:31

good morning

@Oli do you think the answer about SQLeo should really be deleted in this question?

RPi_Awesomeness

06:16

Woo! We got that Naruto swag :D

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

07:37

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Q: using mobile broadband with a dongle

I am using a 3g dongle to access internet. But only a one time I could connect to the internet by using it. I followed the step that I have followed when I could successfully connect to the internet but it seems don't work again. the steps that i followed are first adding a new connection type as...

deostroll

07:58

gedit's intelligent text completion plugin doesn't indent code automatically...say I type in a <div> press "enter" the cursor doesn't appear under it...it instead goes to the beginning of that line...

Registered User

08:59

If anyone has filled pdf forms using Ubuntu-firefox-adobe reader or Ubuntu-anything else setup, can you verify if it is possible to select option from drop down menus(for ex. selecting your country from list of all countries). I'm wondering if this is a feature of adobe reader 9.5.5+ versions, which are not available for Linux. BTW I'm trying to fill this form sarathi.nic.in:8443/UF/pdfforms/NewLicence.pdf

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Is there an official point of view towards leading people away from the site into "private" spaces?

I really, really (really) don't want to be personal, be sure the question is in general. Occasionally, you run into posts/threads like this. The answer is accompanied by a series of gloomy comments in which the answerer seems to fight with an imaginary enemy, which in itself creates a questiona...

discussion

Mateo_

14:10

@deostroll I remember seeing a check box for that somewhere... or just use sublime or something else

hbdgaf

I'm a little upset that I can't have all the things I like from sublime in atom AND that I can't have the stuff I like from atom in sublime... >.>

Mateo_

Yeah... Got them both installed on my laptop

hbdgaf

I find myself going back and forth between them depending on what I'm doing.

In other news, the talib wrapper wrapper is about done. I have about 20 specific LoC pain points to deal with now inside the 900 lines. So, progress.

Are you aware of any indication that something builds right without multi-arch but pkgconfig fails to do its job on installations with multiarch? That's something I'm running in to presently.

Rinzwind

junk askubuntu.com/questions/566271/…

user965347

14:26

help

my ram only detected 6GB

help please

i am using ubuntu 14

Journeyman Geek

._.

user965347

64 but

@JO

@JourneymanGeek please help

Journeyman Geek

You need to calm down

user965347

ok

Journeyman Geek

and ask more coherently.

user965347

14:27

ok 1st i install ubuntu 12.04 32 bit

and it detected 8GB

of RAM

but when i install ubuntu 14 64 bit its just 6GB of RAM

i tried using free -m its just 6000

do u know how to make this ram to 8GB detected?

my VGA is 2GB

i need to use it as server, application is very heavy coz its java

hbdgaf

shared video is the 2. my answer is "deal with it." it's doing what it's supposed to do.

Journeyman Geek

Those two shouldn't be related.

Could you run 'top'?

user965347

ok i runned top

Journeyman Geek

Assuming its shared video. I don't think onboard GPUs have that much memory

DON'T gimme a dump

Mateo_

@hbdgaf huh, strange

user965347

14:31

ok i will share a pic

Journeyman Geek

just tell me what it says next to
KiB Mem: ______ Total

The number in that blank space.

Also pastebin the contents of lshw.

If lshw isn't installed install it.

user965347

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 6518 6078 439 0 144 3107
-/+ buffers/cache: 2826 3691
Swap: 15359 0 15359

ops

hbdgaf

@Mateo_ it's more than one package, if you google it - it's about the base math library where things like sin and cos live. It works on a base server x64 or x86 install, but it borks if multiarch is present. read as fine in a server VM but craps out on my laptop

user965347

pastebin.com/TehTQLaX

ah sorry

looks like its my fault

sorry sorry

Mateo_

@hbdgaf maybe why a lot are still making seprate packages?

user965347

14:34

:p i executed free -m in ssh

sorry its my fault

omg ,

yea its detected 8GB now

thanks anyway

hbdgaf

@Mateo_ that's the thing, it's not related. if i just run configure make make install, it shouldn't try to use other arch libs... but pkgconfig gets all confused and says it can't find the base math lib.

user965347

thanks

Mateo_

Maybe explicitly telling it to use the 386 one in dependencies?

hbdgaf

maybe. the problem is, it builds fine as x64 native if multiarch isn't around... but once it is - it pukes.

Mateo_

Oh, so maybe the other way around

It might be trying to use the other when it needs the 64 bit libs

hbdgaf

14:40

Possibly. If you just add the library dependency to the makefile config - it builds and runs fine though. It's a really baffling bug.

Lucio

14:54

Good morning all

What the hell, my computer is on fire, I'll shutdown for a while..

RPi_Awesomeness

@Lucio o.O

@Lucio That is literally the most concerning random comment I've heard yet. Are you for real?

Mateo_

16:08

@Lucio oh dear... Power supply?

I had one start smoking once.

Lucio

@RPi_Awesomeness No, I meant it is hot.

@Mateo_ didn't reached that level yet

The summer makes no good for desktop computers.

One more and I will reach 1K flags :)

need to turn it off again :(

RPi_Awesomeness

16:45

@Lucio Ah :) That's good :D

@Mateo_ Eek!

Going back home tomorrow - back to my lovely desktop with hopefully Portal 2 and TF2 installed :D

RPi_Awesomeness

17:19

Well...that was interesting. Was mucking about with trying to connection share from my Ubuntu laptop to my Pi...and managed to somehow utterly destroy my networking...

Mateo_

do you have a network cable plugged in on the laptop?

RPi_Awesomeness

I did, but I removed it...

I was able to view the boot messages and it said something along the lines of waiting for network connections

Mateo_

ah, you might have undo what you did to try and share

RPi_Awesomeness

Yeah, I think I've done that. I've got networking back, so hopefully we're good to go

Boy, I'm apparently rather suspect. I've been getting all sorts of review audits - seems every 10 or so I get another!

hbdgaf

My guess is you started a dhcp server on your upstream interface and started dhclient on your downstream interface. It would match those symptoms.

RPi_Awesomeness

17:35

@hbdgaf Sounds similar to what I was messing around with. I'm just gonna wait and use my WiFi dongle at home.

Edimax USB dongle is on sale on Newegg right now for $7, gonna grab me one of those

I've already got one, originally for my Pi, but I have to use it for my desktop - so I need a second.

hbdgaf

I like the ath black usb wifi card. If you're going to eat something, eat well.

RPi_Awesomeness

@hbdgaf ?

hbdgaf

dx.com/p/…

RPi_Awesomeness

Eh, the Edimax USB dongle works fine for what I need. Besides, I don't have that much money to spend on WiFi :P

My internet is slow enough that that would be a bit overkill.

hbdgaf

sure

i'm not going to spend a hundred fifty bucks on a keyboard or anything, but 25 for a decent wireless card is a no brainer. still, we choose our own hardware.

RPi_Awesomeness

17:42

@hbdgaf Yes, that's a good point, but I'm afraid I can't afford that :( Besides, this is just for my Pi.

Being in HS has many-a-drawback

hbdgaf

if i were you, i'ld wait longer and get the better one. i've cheaped out on the wrong components before and regretted it trying to build something, because i was broke.

RPi_Awesomeness

@hbdgaf These aren't cheap. They're basically the recommended WiFi dongle for the Pi and I've only had good luck with them/

hbdgaf

Fair enough. We all have choices to make.

RPi_Awesomeness

Besides, I've already got my desktop built, running and connected with one of these. I'm just getting this for my RPi

hbdgaf

kk, was just putting in my 2 cents. there's a reason the hardware recommendation tag is subject to napalm.

RPi_Awesomeness

17:46

lol. Thanks for the recommendation though, I'll definitely remember that.

I take it you've had good experiences with that?

hbdgaf

The ath9k driver and the alfa black play nicely together. It was my first successful with all options usb wireless adapter (think hostapd and the rest of the funhouse).

RPi_Awesomeness

kk

hbdgaf

In other news, I think a sandwich with rice and beans for a side is going to be my staple for the next couple of months.

RPi_Awesomeness

Nice :D

Mateo_

ah, I think I bought an atheros card, and I have another laptop that has one of their chips, they worked nice out of box

RPi_Awesomeness

17:51

Rice & beans :D

hbdgaf

@Mateo_ ath makes nice stuff... and they're committed to their open source driver unlike a lot of other vendors

RPi_Awesomeness

@hbdgaf The edimax is an Atheros chip too ... I believe

hbdgaf

It's possible. Haven't checked. I can if you want me to, but I doubt you're getting an ath9k N card for $7

Most of the time, the really cheap cards are realtek or broadcom

RPi_Awesomeness

@hbdgaf No, doubtful.

Oh, hey. Look at that:

They show it on a Pi. How cool :D

Edimax official website nonetheless

hbdgaf

Yeah, I don't like low-pro cards. No real antenna etc.

Still, if that's all you need, then that's all you need.

RPi_Awesomeness

17:58

@hbdgaf Yeah. It's on my Pi and on my desktop. My desktop is almost directly above the router in my house and the Pi, well, it's the Pi and I don't do much online with it

Ah. Never mind. It's a Realtek

hbdgaf

Called it... like a boss

RPi_Awesomeness

►

Ooo

Mateo_

I think I have a few realtek ones, I think they were one of the few that worked on the android that the cubieboard had

hbdgaf

Realtek is popular for people that don't need any of the advanced feature sets... like hostapd on N.

Mateo_

@RPi_Awesomeness can't wait till they go full steam ahead with the steam machines :)

RPi_Awesomeness

18:02

@Mateo_ Eh. I'd rather build my own.

Granted, they'll probably look nicer than a built one, but still.

hbdgaf

womp womp I think a controller octopus for mame would go over even better, but meh... maybe it's just me.

RPi_Awesomeness

And, it's gonna take 20 minutes, great.

Oh shutup Wendell

Mateo_

that is what I'll do as well, but waiting on the controller and them expanding all the media and stuff on steamOS

RPi_Awesomeness

That would take me ~12 hrs

RPi_Awesomeness

18:14

Hey guys. Is it true that the launcher file standard says you can't use ~ to represent the user's home directory?

Mateo_

yeah, I think it doesn't work last time I checked?

RPi_Awesomeness

kk, muru as pointing this out to me in one of my answers. I honestly didn't know that.

Mateo_

would be nice, so the user didn't need to edit "USERNAME" to their username...

but oh well

RPi_Awesomeness

@Mateo_ ikr

What I want is for my blog is have the same formatting as SE. I would love that.

I wonder if there's a WP plugin for that...

Mateo_

markdown

@RPi_Awesomeness there should be, are you running your own

or on the wordpress.com site

RPi_Awesomeness

18:19

@Mateo_ on wp.com :P

Mateo_

en.support.wordpress.com/markdown

ragv

Hi all :)
I would like a small clarification on using pushd...
The stack automerges two successive entries with same path... Is there a way to override this behaviour?

RPi_Awesomeness

OMG! YAY!

ragv

for instance from my current dir if I do pushd and then popd... It acts as if only popd has been called...

Mateo_

pushd, stack? do you have a reference question or something showing what you are trying to do?

RPi_Awesomeness

18:24

@Mateo_ Thanks a ton! This is going to make writing my blog a ton easier :D

Mateo_

@RPi_Awesomeness markdown is awesome :)

RPi_Awesomeness

@Mateo_ ikr

Ooo...I'm finding all sorts of awesome formatting stuff :D

ragv

@Mateo_ Thanks for the response...
I want to automate package installation using a function that I would like to include in my `.zshrc`... so the function goes like this...
`pushd <source_dir_path>`; install commands; popd;
This works well when I am not in the `source_dir_path` but when I am in the `source_dir_path`, the `pushd <source_dir_path>` has no effect. However since popd is called after installation commands..., the popd removes pwd from stack top putting me in a different directory...

RPi_Awesomeness

Hrm. Using `CODEHERE` doesn't seem to be working...

ragv

Ya :D

function install {
   pushd /media/foo
   sudo python  setup.py install
   popd
}

Mateo_

18:49

hm, interesting.

was looking at this from a google search so far: mylinuxbook.com/…

"pushd saves the current working dir onto the directory stack, and changes to a new directory" from a comment

so it would go back to what was default? say maybe the home folder or what ever folder you were in when running the function?

ragv

Yea... :(

as a stopgap solution I just rewrote to check if it is in /media/foo and skip the pushd / popd... But I feel there must be a better way...

As such pushd "$(pwd)" has no effect...

How did `CODE suddenly start working :D

Mateo_

ah, maybe the sudo bit? dosn't root do it's own directory or something

ragv

You mean sudo pushd?

Mateo_

maybe not...

ragv

pushd doesn't accept any flags too... So I guess checking if its in /media/foo and skipping pushd / popd is probably the only way :(

Anyway thanks a tonne @Mateo_ :)

Mateo_

18:59

you want to install in /media/foo but then go back to the directory you were in right?

ragv

sup?

Yea :)

Mateo_

maybe:

sudo -s
pushd /media/foo

python setup.py install

popd

exit

ragv

Ahh... that works like a charm... Thanks a lot :D What does it do? does it calls another subshell or something?

Mateo_

something like that, found it on here:

9

Q: Change directory using sudo

How to I change into a directory owned by root? If I do: sudo cd RootOwedDir I get: sudo cd: command not found If I su root I get: authentication failure, probably because I never really set up an actual root account. What am I doing wrong here?

linux ubuntu shell

ragv

Thanks again :D

Mateo_

19:03

because root does it's own directory stuff to prevent accidents ;)

ragv

Hmm... thats good to know... makes it simple and clean... =)

Mateo_

well, I'm out. glad I could help.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

20:05

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Q: how to set up my mail

I'm just trying to figure out how to use the mail command from the command shell. I've got Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop. I've been entering the following: user@hostname:~$ mail [email protected] It prompts for a Cc: and a Subject:, then I enter control D at the beginning of a line in ord...

ubuntu email

Thomas W.

20:28

hope everyone had a nice holiday, and I hope you all have a nice new year.

RPi_Awesomeness

21:23

@ThomasW. The same to you! :D

@Seth Are people who just gained access to the review queues audited more than users who've been around for a while? I've been audited a ton lately, way more than I ever am on RPi.SE...

Seth

21:53

@RPi_Awesomeness audits are random, last I heard.

I don't think they have changed it.

Thomas W.

unless you're in a IP block flagged down for abuse

then it might be more frequent

anyone able to reproduce what I see here? meta.unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3305/…

(I know it's on U&L meta - needs edit reviewer access, I believe)

j0h

22:20

when I go to ssh into a remote shell, and launch the session via a panel applet, ssh opens XTerm. But i want it to open term, or mate-terminal, or gnome-terminal instead. I allways used to open up a regular terminal.. I really hate xterm, how can I configure panel applets to launch term by default? I saw this last year and solved it, but i cant find the thread.

Seth

mmmm. I think I might know how, but it has been a while since I tried.

I'm trying to think..

I'm going to have to set up a VM and try for myself. @j0h Are you running MATE?

Nathan Osman

22:54

o/

Mateo_

23:04

Erg, I just tried to side swipe out of chrome on android...

Really liking Ubuntu touch so far

hbdgaf

23:27

@NathanOsman what applications are you thinking of for you pi touch shield? a tablet perhaps?

Nathan Osman

I'm thinking of setting up a command and control center in my bedroom, perhaps.

Something that displays appointments, weather forecasts, status updates, etc.

Also something that connects (via Bluetooth) to my phone to enable audio playback.

P.S. Blender crashes much.

hbdgaf

@NathanOsman Interesting. I like the concept of using those sainsmart TFT adapters to DIY an open phone or open tablet device. I suppose the reduced scope you're looking at makes sense as a starter project.

@NathanOsman Have you thought about subscribing to UE4 for a month, just to get a source pull?

Nathan Osman

Reduced scope? If I accomplish everything I want to with this project, it will make my PC look like a toaster.

hbdgaf

Heh, I more meant a static target set of apps instead of looking like an android handheld.

Side-note not at all how I imagined kraut was made... I figured vinegar was in there somewhere

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