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Journeyman Geek

00:39

@RPiAwesomeness: the latest make/humble bundle might interest you

RPi Awesomeness

01:37

@JourneymanGeek Oh?

@Seth Seth...are you posting naughty pictures?

edward torvalds

01:48

@RPiAwesomeness are you free to help me?

Seth

@RPiAwesomeness nope. no idea what virusboy meant.

Was probably a joke.

@edwardtorvalds the best way to ask a question is to just ask. Then, if someone can help they will.

Pinging random people is considered rude, unless you are continuing a discussion from a post on the main site.

edward torvalds

disk size in system settings > Details is showed as 210GB but when i check by any command line it shows 196GB, why?

Seth

What commands are you using to check?

RPi Awesomeness

02:02

@Seth Ah, good

muru

@edwardtorvalds 210*(1000/1024)^3

RPi Awesomeness

@edwardtorvalds I can try :)

edward torvalds

?

RPi Awesomeness

??

edward torvalds

@RPiAwesomeness disk size in system settings > Details is showed as 210GB but when i check by any command line it shows 196GB, why?

muru

02:03

damned google links

edward torvalds

@thanks muru

@RPiAwesomeness my doubt is clear, by muru, thanks btw

RPi Awesomeness

My best guess would be that Details is showing the total disk space, while the command line is showing the space available that isn't reserved for the OS? Dunno.

Oh. Of course.

Seth

@NathanOsman Would you reccommend a QTextBrowser to show a lot of plain text?

RPi Awesomeness

1024 Bytes per Gigabyte vs 1000 Bytes per Gigabyte.

Seth

@RPiAwesomeness yeah I totally forgot about that too.

We should make a new standard! /joke

edward torvalds

02:05

why they change this?

@muru why to the power 3 ?

RPi Awesomeness

@edwardtorvalds It's not a change, it's just two different ways of measuring Gigabytes.

I think the 1024 method takes into account the file system pointer thingy? Dunno.

edward torvalds

1024 is the proper way right?

RPi Awesomeness

Rather, 1024 Bytes to the Megabyte - not Gigabyte :P

Wait...is it? I'm confused

muru

@edwardtorvalds We're talking Gigabytes, right?

edward torvalds

yes

TheX

02:07

Playstation 1. When the games where still challenging yet fun and the start/select button actually did something.

edward torvalds

so

muru

Aka 1024^3?

RPi Awesomeness

Kilobyte.

edward torvalds

ok

got it

RPi Awesomeness

1024 Bytes == 1 KB.

edward torvalds

02:07

thanks

RPi Awesomeness

Thus, 1024 ^ 3 == 1 GB.

Seth

yup

edward torvalds

thanks everybody

muru

@Seth looking at askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/415254, askubuntu.com/questions/621042/… seems off-topic

RPi Awesomeness

@edwardtorvalds lol, np :)

edward torvalds

02:08

so only ubuntu uses 1000 thing right?

RPi Awesomeness

blogs.gnome.org/cneumair/2008/09/30/…

1000 would seem to be the proper way, Microsoft just uses 1024 'cause NTFS File System Table thingy

edward torvalds

thanks

@RPiAwesomeness from things i have learnt 1024 is the way used by computers

RPi Awesomeness

@edwardtorvalds No, 1000 is actually the proper way

I was always curious why I only had 7.8 GB of RAM vs the 8 GB that the stick said I had.

edward torvalds

becoz some space is reserved by filesytem to work

muru

@RPiAwesomeness that's probably not due to 1000/1024

RPi Awesomeness

02:11

@muru It is, read the blog post.

muru

the conversion there would be 7.4G, as you would see in pendrives

RPi Awesomeness

Plus, it's RAM. I expect to see less available space on storage.

muru

@RPiAwesomeness 8*(1000/1024)^3

edward torvalds

muru si right

2^10 = 1024 and not 1000, since every number used by computers are the power of 2,hint computer uses binary

@muru can you give a link on why ubuntu does this?

RPi Awesomeness

Oh duh. I can be so dumb some times.

I was thinking straight metric Mega & Giga. :P

Seth

02:27

@muru hmm, yes.

Also, what's up with all those tag wiki edits? o_O

edward torvalds

can someone show me an article on why ubuntu uses 1k=1000 ?

muru

02:47

@edwardtorvalds Well, the decision isn't Ubuntu's but GNOME's.

since most of the software you see (Nautilus, GNOME Disks) come from GNOME.

@Seth NewUser probably looking for that tag badge

SmokeDetector

03:24

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William Hilsum

05:07

I don't suppose anyone can help me with this - askubuntu.com/questions/623454/… - going crazy over it :(

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05:37

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muru

why are some questions highlighted like that? O.o

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06:01

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Nathan Osman

06:28

NitroShare is officially available for the Raspberry Pi 2.

Fabby

06:55

@NathanOsman Now just waiting for the android version! :P

:D

General alert: Nathan the penguin has been taken over completely by a human! ;-)

@terdon no, a mini-serie... And I keep falling asleep.

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07:15

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kos

09:15

@muru What do you mean? Those are the questions tagged with your favorites tags

A.B.

09:32

Was I to evil?

askubuntu.com/a/623484/367165

@muru You have defined Favorite Tags in the right pane

muru

@kos turns out I accidentally marked it as fav.

Ordinarily, I don't use favourite tags.

A.B.

Ok, the answer has already been deleted.

kos

@muru I abuse them instead. I pretty much find that color horrific.

BTW I need an idea for a site. If someone has one feel free to throw it

A.B.

10:00

Can someone please intervene? The guy (NewUSer) annoying.

-1

A: How do I update to Version 4.7 of KMyMoney from Ubuntu 12.04?

Your Ubuntu is too old. Upgrade your system and the PPA (ppa:claydoh/kmymoney2-kde4) will work. Try the following, but I can not promise that it works with your Ubuntu version: cd wget http://download.kde.org/stable/kmymoney/4.7.2/src/kmymoney-4.7.2.tar.xz tar xf kmymoney-4.7.2.tar.xz sudo ap...

ByteCommander

10:25

Why do I see so often close votes for EOL on questions about 12.04!!??

It will stay alive another 2 years guys!

@A.B. Did you VTC for EOL on that question?

A.B.

Yes. It's not EOL?

jokerdino

It's not for another 3 years.

Or maybe 2.

A.B.

Sorry, retracted.

jokerdino

You see, it's called LTS for a reason.

A.B.

Ok, sorry again.

@ByteCommander retracted, sorry

ByteCommander

10:41

@A.B. Okay, good! :)

See, LTS means 5 years support.

So 04/2012 + 5 years = 04/2017, so two more years to go...

SmokeDetector

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ByteCommander

11:26

Did I react correctly (comment and downvote to askubuntu.com/a/623573/367990)?

A.B.

11:41

@ByteCommander I think, it's ok.

ByteCommander

12:11

Should not gksudo or gksu be used here instead of sudo?

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A: Ubuntu 14.04 cannot unlock "user accounts" panel

I don't know what could be the reason maybe it's a bug. But as a workaround for you to do your work you can run it previously unlocked using command line sudo gnome-control-center user-accounts

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to set Ruby GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH

I'm a NOVICE user of Linux and using Linux mint 17.1 I've reinstalled Linux mint 20 time in last 3 days for that issue but could not fix it I'm trying to install ruby on rails using rvm what happened is if start a new Linux installation and try installing gems and ruby and stuff in one termina...

kos

12:34

I have a major misconception about how the kernel handles the filesystems. Each filesystem is loaded into an inode table when mounted, then how do modifications take place? First on the table and then on the physical disk? Also a link would be very helpful. I can't find anything on this specific topic

ByteCommander

What do you guys think about my new canned comment:

> One does not log in as root or use root shells if he doesn't exactly know what he does! Huge security issue and a great chance for the viruses called "typo" and "lack of knowledge", that have infected almost every interface between keyboard and chair and show symptoms from time to time, to destroy your system...

I believe it is funny and useful, isn't it?

fossfreedom

@NewUSer I've had to decline most of your "Low Quality" flags. Remember, that flag is generally only used if the question or answer is beyond redemption. With a bit of careful editing or posting a pointed comment or two, most questions and answers can be salvaged. Thanks.

ByteCommander

12:49

Is there any purpose to install JDK on wine?

I mean - we have Oracle-JDK and OpenJDK for Ubuntu, so why should one want to install the Windows Java Dev Kit with wine?

Are there any differences that would be a reason for this? Or just dumbness?

Fabby

@kos you'll have to read source code docs to get this level of detail...

Normally, what happens is:

1/ You write to the journal

2/ If journal is successful, update inode table

ByteCommander

Morning Fabby!

Not seen for a while...

Fabby

@ByteCommander Morning...

other things to do, like installing a dimmer now...

ByteCommander

How are you succeeding with your Docker studies?

Fabby

@ByteCommander It is strongly discouraged to log on as root or use root shells expecially when performing actions an end-user is not familiar with.

Huge security issues and a great chance for viruses called "typo" and "lack of knowledge", have infected almost every interface between keyboard and chair and will eventually destroy your system...

@ByteCommander meh... Not really!

terdon

12:57

@kos Sounds like a good question for Unix & Linux.

ByteCommander

Too bad...

/me also has to prepare for one more presentation (Chemistry again), hand in a Physics protocol tomorrow and study for the final oral exam in history in some weeks... :P

kos

@Fabby So actually normally it's the contrary, first write to the disk than update the table. Which makes way more sense. Thanks, altough I don't think I'll dig into the kernel documentation for this. Perhaps if I don't find anything else.

@terdon That's what I was thinking. Probably going to post there shortly

Fabby

@kos EXT4 is a journalled file system. The journal IS on-disk!

:P ;-)

ByteCommander

askubuntu.com/posts/623579/revisions

kos

@Fabby What do you mean? Everything is read / written directly to the disk? Isn't the filesystem virtualized in the inode table? (e.g. for tasks like fast access through ls)

Also @ByteCommander not that I can see, Java is cross-platform, so no there should be no pratical differences in developing / compiling on the same JDK over two different OS

Fabby

13:03

It's actually written to the cache (+inode update in RAM), the cache is flushed to the journal, the journal then updated to disk and only then the inode update on disk follows...

as I said: RTFM depending on how much detail you need.

ByteCommander

@kos Means I am right telling the guy who asked how to install 32bit JDK on 64bit machine through wine that he should use OpenJDK or Oracle-JDK instead.

Requesting a bunch of unclear-close-votes: askubuntu.com/q/623565/367990

kos

@Fabby Thanks, I'm missing quite a bit here. Going to ask this on U&L

Fabby

@kos If you're missing quite a bit, you might end up with a perfect answer to your question that is of little use to you as it'll be way over your head!

(especially on U&L)

Rinzwind

heya

kos

@ByteCommander I don't know if the IDEs differ in something (you should ask some Java guy), but for sure what's compiled on JDK on Ubuntu will be compiled the same on JDK on Windows

Rinzwind

13:07

my router died this morning so had to get me another one.
this time an asus and man was it a breeze installing it \o/

kos

o/

Rinzwind

\o

@kos probably not. I doubt it is the same... some flags will be different I would assume

ByteCommander

@kos A JDK does not bring any IDEs...

kos

@Fabby Yes, but I have still google :D The point here is I just need a rough picture of everything, which creating for myself by digging the kernel documentation would be quite a bit of a pain. If I don't understand something I can still ask another question :D

Fabby

I once asked a question on U&L and got a perfect answer...

Unfortunately, the answer didn't help me a lot...

kos

13:16

@Rinzwind Yes you're probably right, what I meant is being Java cross-platform it should be the same for the average user, whoever needs to set particular flags it's probably also able to handle the differences in a different OS

@ByteCommander Likely, I've never used JDK :D no IDE?

Registered User

I am trying to root my device. The problem is fasboot does not recognise the device. The solution on this given for windows os is to update the device drivers. What should be the solution for Linux? I guess I should try using the 4.0.x kernel.

kos

@Fabby I'll try my luck. I'll specify that I want a general answer, just to understand roughly how the thing works

ByteCommander

@kos No, just the "compiler" javac and a few other tools, but no IDE.

People have to use a standard editor or IDEs like Eclipse

A.B.

@ByteCommander NewUSer is unteachable in this matter.

@Fabby he, nice to see you

Rinzwind

@A.B. some users will always remain new :+)

A.B.

13:24

With this boy I will eventually batty.

He is like a red flag for me.

ByteCommander

@A.B. What did he do now again?

terdon

@A.B. You're probably the same for him. I've seen you both leave rude and aggressive comments on each other's posts. I would suggest you simply ignore his posts. Downvote/Upvote as appropriate and leave it at that. You're both annoyed at each other and anything else just won't end well.

A.B.

Yes, you're right. I try.

kos

@ByteCommander I see. Which is kinda recursive

ByteCommander

Hm?

kos

13:36

Just an unuseful / nonsense comment. I meant using Eclipse to write Java. This is also the rule for the vast majority of C IDEs

ByteCommander

@kos And it all started once with a guy typing 1 and 0... :)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Elementary OS: Accidentally installed Ubuntu Login Screen

When I restarted my Elementary OS Laptop today I was shocked, because I was on an Ubuntu-styled glitching Login Screen. I guess I accidentally installed it, by trying to get ubuntu-tweak-tools on my Laptop ^^.. Now - I hope you can help me, to get my old Elementary OS Login-Screen back. (All the ...

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user136984

Wondering if anyone knows how I could achieve this?

user136984

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Q: How to run cmatrix without error using '-l' option in Terminal (not console)

I have installed cmatrix using the command: sudo apt-get install cmatrix And when running the command: cmatrix -l In console I get a very cool looking font with matrix like symbols. But when I run it with that option in the Terminal I just get this output: Couldn't get a file descriptor r...

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ByteCommander

Still no close votes on that question? Come on! askubuntu.com/q/623565/367990

user136984

13:42

:)

user136984

@ByteCommander Sorry, all I can do is flag it up. By the way, if more people flag it up does it get further to the top of the review queue or anything as I don't have access to that one yet? :)

kos

@ByteCommander I'm picturing that poor guy crawling in front of a blinking cursor. I have troubles writing high-level languages, I can't imagine writing assembly. Actually I did once for an exam, they asked us to convert a C snippet in a RISC assembly. It was a pain in the you know what

terdon

@ParanoidPanda Did you read the description of the -l option in the man page?

ByteCommander

@ParanoidPanda Only 43 points until 3k yet... I think we can get them...

terdon

> -l Linux mode (sets "matrix.fnt" font in console)

user136984

13:47

Yes, I've read that.

user136984

@terdon: So I some how want to also set it in my Terminal GUI if I can.

user136984

But not sure how.

terdon

As the answer you got explains, I don't think you can. The font used by GUI terminals is controlled by the terminal, I don't think it can be changed by external programs.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

14:15

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Q: Iprint client on ubuntu

I installed ubuntu on my computer at work. I would like to use the iprint client and followed these steps. However, if I try to run the listener in /opt/novell/iprint/init.d it tells me: Can't open /etc/rc.status the source code Is there any way how to make the iprint client compatible with a...

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New USer

@terdon thank you for being fair in my absence. @A.B. You have been facing me in personal. I never hurt you and never say anything wrong to you. AND Please for all moderators review all of comments and argues between me and @A.B. If I'm faulty I'm gonna delete my account here and If not I want an apologize of all of persons who say bad things of me here. I never say anything bad for anybody of you. So respect yourself and respect others please.

Rinzwind

@NewUSer delete account? naaaaaaa you delete a post or topic and move on :D

ByteCommander

@NewUSer I don't know what happened between you and AB, but no need to delete your account!

RubberDuck

What's with the flags guys? I don't see anything wrong here really.

Rinzwind

what flags? :=)

ByteCommander

14:20

^

Rinzwind

the blue ones? >:)

RubberDuck

Yeah. Those ones. Please don't abuse them.

I'll be off now. You guys take care.

ByteCommander

What blue flags? o.0

Rinzwind

could be a mistake ;-)

New USer

@ByteCommander I think moderators can restore the deleted comments

Also, I do not use the PPA in my answer. The PPA is not working on his system and for that reason the command sudo apt-get build-dep kmymoney don't use the PPA. — A.B. 4 hours ago

Rinzwind

14:21

@ByteCommander privileges you do not have ;)

ByteCommander

Aww.... :(

New USer

on the above. Just anyone who have permissions can read and be fair in your judgment

ByteCommander

I need a week full of good questions to come soon!

Rinzwind

it is basically the same round thing with a number as when you get pinged but then in blue instead of orange

New USer

Let somebody judge and say who 's faulty

Martin - マーチン

14:22

Be nice to each other ;)

Rinzwind

@NewUSer everyone but me is always wrong.

ByteCommander

Ah.

Do we need to judge?

Rinzwind

Oh!

ByteCommander

Can't you just calm down?

Rinzwind

Eh!

ByteCommander

14:23

Uh!

Rinzwind

who is not calm? takes out rubber club and starts swinging it

ByteCommander

What was that supposed to mean @Rinzwind?

New USer

I was so till the time I saw his sayings here

Rinzwind

lol

ByteCommander

(slow chat... The Eh Oh thing was what I meant)

Rinzwind

14:23

when on the internet always put on an elephant skin!

2

@ByteCommander the beginning of a song. Ah Oh Eh Uh! :=)

ByteCommander

And I meant "you both", including @A.B. There are always at least two people arguing.

@Rinzwind I am really wondering whether I should facepalm, facemonitor, facedesk or facekeyboard right now... Facewall would also be an option.

Rinzwind

@ByteCommander faceplanet not an option?

ByteCommander

No planet at hand currently, I'm afraid...

ByteBOT

Bot started.

ByteCommander

>>listcommands

ByteBOT

14:30

@ByteCommander Commands: alive, extra, help, listcommands, ping-public, random, randomchoice, randomint, shuffle, translate, utc, xkcd, xkcdrandomnumber

ByteCommander

>>randomchoice facepalm facedesk facemonitor facekeyboard facewall

ByteBOT

@ByteCommander facemonitor

reversiblean

>>help

ByteBOT

@reversiblean I'm ByteBOT, ByteCommander's chatbot. You can find the source code on GitHub. You can get a list of all commands by running >>listcommands, or you can run >>help command to learn more about a specific command.

ByteCommander

@Rinzwind ByteBOT chose facemonitor... ;)

reversiblean

14:32

>>alive

ByteBOT

@reversiblean Yes, I'm alive.

ByteCommander

@reversiblean Note that "extra" will just more or less quote what you said and "ping-public" as well, but behaves like it was pinged.

>>extra hello

ByteBOT

@ByteCommander You said <hello>!

ByteCommander

@ByteBOT test

ByteBOT

@ByteCommander My master pinged me: <@ByteBOT test>!

ByteCommander

14:34

He will of course not call you master though... ;)

reversiblean

O/

>>extra Hello

ByteBOT

@reversiblean You said <Hello>!

reversiblean

:D

ByteCommander

It is supposed to run an external script and answer with its output, but I did not develop that yet, only the interface for it... :)

reversiblean

>>translate translate

ByteBOT

14:37

@reversiblean Not enough arguments.

kos

@NewUSer I don't know if someone is wrong or who, but please just be both more relaxed against each other. I've seen both of you having words against the other. There's just no purpose in doing this, we're here to help each other. Also, to be fair, @A.B.

reversiblean

What does it do?

translate?

ByteCommander

>>help translate

ByteBOT

@ByteCommander Translates text using Google Translate. Syntax: >>translate input_lang output_lang Text to translate.. input_lang and output_lang are language codes such as en, fr and auto.

ByteCommander

And I tweaked the extra script.

>>extra hello!

ByteBOT

14:41

@ByteCommander It was Do 14. Mai 16:41:02 CEST 2015 when you said <hello!>!

ByteCommander

German date format...

>>translate de en Guten Morgen!

ByteBOT

@ByteCommander Good morning !

New USer

@kos tell me one bad word I'd said to him

ByteCommander

>>bc private test

ByteBOT

@ByteCommander My master said <private test>!

ByteCommander

14:42

Tweaking this command now.

reversiblean

Interesting. I'd check the GitHub repo. Maybe I could create the next RevBot : ))

ByteCommander

@reversiblean It is just the original version from ProgramFOX there though.

Not the tweaks I made.

The original has no ping or reply detection and comes without the extra and bc commands to execute a hard-coded external script...

reversiblean

Will you point me yours then?

ByteCommander

I did not upload it anywhere yet...

I am still experimenting.

:)

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reversiblean

14:49

ok, np :)

ByteCommander

Actually I started to learn Python after I made the changes to the bot...

So probably not everything in there is good style.

I forked the git repo, but did not edit anything there yet.

Maybe I will do when I have less school work to do, which should be next week! :)

kos

@NewUSer I have no idea, mine was just a constructive suggestion. I really don't want to jump in it. If someone said something offensive than he's wrong. But if the other replied to the offense, that's wrong as well, because it just spills gasoline on the fire. Wrapping this up: just be both more relaxed. Don't be offensive and ignore (flag) the other's offenses. You don't need to be friends, but you'll have to live toghether. Just try to relax and to understand the other's points.

ByteCommander

How do I most easily process bash script arguments? I need to treat the first one ($1) specially and just add all others up to one.

kos

I think close votes might be retracted from this one: askubuntu.com/questions/623565/…

A.B.

@NewUSer Peace? =)

Mudit

14:58

hello

@ByteBOT Hi

ByteBOT

@Mudit You pinged me to tell me <@ByteBOT Hi>?

Mudit

@ByteBOT who are you

ByteBOT

@Mudit You pinged me to tell me <@ByteBOT who are you>?

ByteCommander

May 9 at 9:59, by ByteCommander

But... it is still dumb and has about the IQ of an upper-class toaster, if you try to have a conversation with it.

It does just repeat its sentence over and over... Had no time to code some intelligence into it yet.

Mudit

ok nice

ByteCommander

15:03

But it can obey some commands.

>>listcommands

ByteBOT

@ByteCommander Commands: alive, extra, help, listcommands, ping-public, random, randomchoice, randomint, shuffle, translate, utc, xkcd, xkcdrandomnumber

ByteCommander

Oh, and it can distinguish between owners and normal people!

Mudit

ok

ByteCommander

@ByteBOT hello

ByteBOT

@ByteCommander My master pinged me: <@ByteBOT hello>!

Mudit

15:05

@ByteBOT My master pinged me

ByteBOT

@Mudit You pinged me to tell me <@ByteBOT My master pinged me>?

ByteCommander

@kos Retracted mine. Did you delete my comment? I believe I left a comment on that question...

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to list all object paths under a dbus service?

This is actually a follow-up question to A list of available DBus services. The following python code will list all available DBus services. import dbus for service in dbus.SystemBus().list_names(): print(service) How do we list out the object paths under the services in python? I am usi...

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kos

@ByteCommander No, I can't delete comments!

Maybe 20k+ users can, I don't know

Rinzwind

nope. only mods and who made the comment can delete comments.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

16:46

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Q: Install linux os on HP iPAQ Pocket PC h4350

A friend gave me a working HP iPAQ Pocket PC h4350. It works fine (it's really nice device) but has a (UGH!) Microsoft os and only syncs with MS pc. I'm running ubuntu mate. I have found that you can install a linux os on HP Pocket PC's but have found no documentation for the 5300 series. Can ...

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Mudit

@ByteCommander translate de en Guten Morgen!

@ByteBOT translate de en Guten Morgen!

Mateo

17:03

@ByteCommander make a sandbox for bot testing :)

Sandbox

Where you can play with regular chat features (except flagging...

3

you can also make a specific room for testing here

ByteCommander

@Mateo I have one.

I just let it log in here to use its randomchoice command - and then some people started to play with it! :)

It is shut down now by the way (@Mudit)

Rinzwind

"An anonymous reader sends a report about a new vulnerability found in open source virtualization software QEMU, which is run on hardware in datacenters around the world (CVE-2015-3456).

"The cause is a widely-ignored, legacy virtual floppy disk controller that, if sent specially crafted code, can crash the entire hypervisor. That can allow a hacker to break out of their own virtual machine to access other machines — including those owned by other people or companies."

The vulnerable code is used in Xen, KVM, and VirtualBox, while VMware, Hyper-V, and Bochs are unaffected. "Dan Kaminsky, …

slashdot: it.slashdot.org/story/15/05/13/1251208/…

Mateo

lol floppy disk controller

didn't they decide to keep that in the kernel recently, after thinking about removing it?

we need a graphic of a viper biting a floppy disk for that ;)

anyway ubuntu is already updated to fix :)

Eliah Kagan

17:25

Should this be considered an answer? It seems like a request for information, rather than an attempt to provide even a partial solution. If it contained instructions about how to interpret the results, it might be an answer--but it doesn't. Ordinarily I wouldn't hesitate to flag it (perhaps with a custom flag suggesting a mod make it a comment on the question, with its comment replies intact).

But 3 people seemed to think it was an answer (in that they upvoted it), so I'm looking for some guidance here first.

Mateo

hm... the second part just says to run and paste output...

Eliah Kagan

Yeah. And the first part is diagnostic also: That lsof command just prints information.

Rinzwind

@Mateo yes funny how that goes D:

Mateo

@EliahKagan ah, then yeah. I think you are right then

Seth

I've gone ahead and converted it and its comments into comments on the question.

Eliah Kagan

17:36

Thanks.

Serg

18:14

o/

SmokeDetector

19:02

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: trouble dual booting an Acer Aspire V17 by Alejandro Estrada Macias on askubuntu.com

Ionică Bizău

19:17

Hi there!

TheX

Low down here.

Ionică Bizău

@TheX You are in a cave? :)

TheX

Perhaps, I can't really tell at the moment.

Ionică Bizău

I got a question: what's the minimal thing I need to install on a computer to be able to install and use apt-get?

TheX

Ubuntu Server I would think

Or Ubuntu Core

Ionică Bizău

19:19

Can I install openbox on Ubuntu Server and use it on a pc?

TheX

Sure

Tim

Guys, did I handle this right:

-1

A: How to write a shell script to assign letter grades to numeric ranges?

The python is installed by default on every Ubuntu so why program in bash? Save this code as grading.py choice = int(raw_input('Please enter your choice: ')) if 0 < choice < 59: print 'F : You done goofed.' elif 60 < choice < 69: print 'D : She wants it...' elif 70 < choice < 79: p...

TheX

But do keep in mind that Ubuntu Server has packages and services installed geared towards a server role...

Ionică Bizău

@TheX Ubuntu Core sounds better to me. So, if I understood correctly, it's the core of the Ubuntu, but without any interface and so?

Ubuntu Core is a minimal rootfs for use in the creation of custom images for specific needs. -- this sounds really nice

TheX

@IonicăBizău I guess... I have never used it...

I have an Ubuntu Server running a minecraft server so that is what I am familiar with...

Ionică Bizău

19:23

Maybe I will try it in virtual box and if everything runs smoothly I will install it on my pc.

I'm running openbox + gnome terminal + chromium. This is the best and fastest combination for me so far. :)

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Q: Did I respond appropriately to this answer?

I just came across a user posting a fairly bad, sarcastic answer to a 5 day old question with a number of answers (9 including his). Here is a screenshot of the answer and the ensuing comment thread. That was after I edited out some chit chat about dinosaurs. I am concerned that I didn't resp...

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TheX

@IonicăBizău good idea

Ionică Bizău

@TheX Thanks for Ubuntu Core idea. I will take a look tomorrow. Maybe some day I will create a new distro. :-)

Mudit

@Tim you did well, BTW most of your posts are of high grade

Tim

@Mudit Thanks, I have got into arguments here a couple of times and always worry I'm over reacting.

TheX

19:33

Mudit

@Tim ya it happens when one put a good amount of efforts answering.

user136984

19:54

@TheX What's the fat thing?

user136984

With sunglasses on.

user136984

What is the difference between a perimeter firewall, and a dynamic one?

chaskes

20:34

@Tim I thought your initial comment was a little harsh; but you were absolutely correct on the issues and your subsequent comments were all good.

William Hilsum

20:44

Hi Everyone, I posted earlier about USB 3G problems... I managed to get that all working now with wvdial, and, I even managed to start on boot - but, does anyone know how I can make it start upon device being plugged in? I've been trying for a while and not getting very far :/

Fabby

21:02

@A.B. Sorry, but I went out for dinner for once! ;-)

What's the story with NewUser?

guntbert

I'd want two reviewers to approve this suggested edit: askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/415777 (although it really looks "too minor"), he has followed up on my message and I was a bit harsh

@Tim no, you didn't overreact

Fabby

21:30

@WilliamHilsum Ever heard of udev rules?

@guntbert Approved... (Minor edit)

Tim

@guntbert thanks :)

user136984

Well...

user136984

Goodnight to all! :)

Nathan Osman

21:53

@Seth: I'm downtown right now. Here's the place where the OpenStack Summit is going to be next week:

Seth

@NathanOsman Neat! Some day I will have to visit Vancouver :)

Nathan Osman

(It's the building in the middle.)

Seth

Love the greens on the tob. That's something people should do more often.

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