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Zacharee1

00:06

6 upvotes away from 2,000

so close

Nathan Osman

00:21

install() got an unexpected keyword argument 'checksum'

I've got the following install hook: @hooks.hook('install') def install(): install_remote( source='http://example.org/archive.tgz', dest='/usr/share/something', checksum='1234567890', hash_type='sha1', ) This works without any issues when deploying for Precise but fails with the following exception in Trusty: Traceback (most recent call last): File "hooks/install", line 147, in <module> hooks.execute(argv) File "/var/lib/juju/agents/unit-something-0/charm/hooks/charmhelpers/core/hookenv.py", line 704, in execute self._hooks[hook_name]() File "hooks/install", line 86, in install hash_type='sha1', File "/var/lib/juju/agents/unit-something-0/charm/hooks/charmhelpers/fetch/__init__.py", line 388, in install_remote installed_to = handler.install(source, *args, **kwargs) TypeError: install() got an unexpected keyword argument 'checksum' I'm using Juju…

Charm Helpers

Undecided / New

It's always fun to find a bug with an easy fix.

Filed the bug, found the problem, fixed it, pushed it, and proposed for merging all within the span of less than one hour.

565656

01:33

Hello

Nathan Osman

01:47

@565656 Hi.

Just finished a Juju charm.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: No display on power up

So I have this problem ever since I enabled secure-boot, every time I power up the screen doesn't turn on and it just hang there, I tried to access BIOS many times but no luck, CMOS reset didn't work either Here what I think happen: Power on ---> no display----> boot straight to Ubuntu without ...

RPi Awesomeness

03:03

I think I might have my new laptop...just gotta convince my mom it's a good idea >.>

$500 for i5-5200U, 8GB DDR3 RAM, GTX 940M, 1TB HDD, 1080p screen

Nathan Osman

Sounds pretty good.

Which manufacturer?

Nathan Osman

03:41

Sure is quiet tonight. And it's not even Friday.

Seth

@RPiAwesomeness that sounds pretty good

hg8

07:12

@Fabby Is that normal ? askubuntu.com/a/562560/338915

A.B.

08:14

@hg8 Interesting

hg8

Good morning @A.B.

A.B.

@Fabby, I've approved the edit, hope it's ok

@hg8 o/ =)

hg8

08:32

@A.B. Are you better ? =)

A.B.

@hg8 Yes, a little bit, thank you =)

hg8

@A.B. It's normal :) Are you familiar with xbindkeys ?

A.B.

@hg8 the autostart entry?

apt-file search xbindkeys.desktop

or read here packages.ubuntu.com/…

cl-netbox

Good morning everybody :)

hg8

@A.B. yes

@A.B. Oh I was not aware thanks!

Good morning @cl-netbox =)

cl-netbox

08:45

@hg8 Hi - how are you ?

hg8

Great and you ?

cl-netbox

Fine ! - sun is shining today here in my region ! :)

hg8

Me too. Plus it is friday

cl-netbox

Yes ... good start for the weekend !

hg8

@A.B. I just tested again my answer in a virtual machine but it is not working.

cl-netbox

08:48

Did you get your G profile switched to hg8 ?

hg8

This line is the problem : "xte 'key Delete'"

when I do this "xte 'key Super_L'" (or any other key than Delete) it is working

am I missing something ?

@cl-netbox any idea ?

1

Q: How do I change the keyboard map for Backspace?

My keyboard doesn't have a delete key. I want to be able to use "delete" when I press Shift+Backspace. How would I go about doing this? And then how would I then use this edited layout? Thanks.

keyboard keyboard-layout

@cl-netbox not yet sorry :(

A.B.

@hg8 Without modifications in my system, Backspace and Shift-Backspace is the same

cl-netbox

@hg8 no sorry have no experience with this :(

hg8

hum ok

i don't understand what is wrong then

A.B.

@hg8 The xte command is ok, try this

xte 'key f' 'key o' 'key o' 'key Left' 'key Delete'

hg8

09:03

@A.B. o_o

@A.B. It's working.....

but it does not print foo

A.B.

@hg8 =) It was only an example to demonstrate, that xte works with key Delete

That was not the solution for your problem

hg8

@A.B. no it's not working in my virtual machine

@A.B. is it needed to restart xbindkey after making change to the config file ?

A.B.

@hg8 yes

killall xbindkeys; xbindkeys -f ~/.xbindkeysrc

hg8

Thanks.

It is not working. I am pretty sure it's a problem with my vm

A.B.

@hg8 Let's see, what the OP says.

hg8

09:18

@A.B. Yes. Thanks for your help

A.B.

@hg8 It was not really a help =\

hg8

@A.B. You were ;)

Vitalik Jimbei

Hello,

i have an issue on using multiple input type forms in same icon.

i have tried to get a submit form on it's on and it went well in html.
i am able to make them as two separate buttons using two input types : image and submit/ text.

i need to get both types in same button.
is there a way to get this result ( the button )
http://www.filetolink.com/da519521da ?

anyone here ?

hg8

@VitalikJimbei What are you talking about?

Vitalik Jimbei

it's an html issue

cl-netbox

09:28

@ByteCommander good morning ! - how are you ? - kernel 30 up and running ? :)

hg8

@VitalikJimbei You will probably find more people to help you on stackoverflow.com =)

Byte Commander

Yup, everything fine. good morning! :)

hg8

@VitalikJimbei chat.stackoverflow.com

Vitalik Jimbei

thank you :)

hg8

10:03

@A.B. Thanks for your edit

A.B.

@hg8 you're welcome :)

Rinzwind

10:20

spam askubuntu.com/questions/683325/… @SmokeDetector

fossfreedom

spam spam spam - spam for breakfast, spam for lunch, spam for dinner...

Rinzwind

fossy! :)

cl-netbox

@fossfreedom wham bam - ban the spam ... =)

fossfreedom

:)

cl-netbox

.)

Helio

10:36

Hi!

hg8

Hello @Helio

cl-netbox

Hello @Helio

Helio

Can I use pgrep to replace this stodgy command?

ps aux | grep ssh | grep net | awk '{ print $2 }'

I've tried this, but it doesn't work:

pgrep '(.*ssh.*net.*|.*net.*ssh.*)'

I'm so lazy and don't want to download the opensshd sources, patch and compile.

Only trying to add a infinite loop to catch connections and strace them.

[:evil:]

@blade19899: Hi!

blade19899

@Helio Herro! :D

Helio

@blade19899: Didn't understood, Is the r for typographical differentiation from i and l?

Is to not say @Hello Helio instead of @Helio Hello?

;-p

blade19899

10:48

@Helio Asian people usually say "herro" instead of "hello". I say herro, to give people a hint, that I might be asian.... Which I totally am... really... ;D

Helio

@blade19899: I didn't knew it. These are subtle language differences... I don't hear asians talking English every day. ;-)

blade19899

> "Mozilla intends to remove support for most NPAPI plugins in Firefox by the end of 2016." - NPAPI Plugins in Firefox | Future Releases

4

@Helio Just to let you know, I'm not Asian...

@Oli Thats what you notice from that link xD

Mateo

\o/

Helio

@blade19899: I don't said for you, I figured it was a joke. I say that here in Spain, I never heard any asian speaking English. And less saying Herro. (^_^)

blade19899

@Helio Ah okay.

Helio

10:55

@Mateo: Hi!

Mateo

Yo

Er auto correct... On phone

Helio

@Mateo: So you phone autocorrects in Spanish?

@Mateo: What about Google keyboard with dual input method?

;-)

Mateo

I was trying to type yo it typed you...

Helio

@Mateo: My fingers are for hardware keyboards.

Takkat

my fnigers are mdae fro voice recognitoin

Helio

11:09

@Takkat: Do you make voice recognition with your fingers?

0.o

Takkat

lol - no, but my fingers never get the keys right... so they are not made for typing at all.

Helio

@Takkat I can't figure how to use the comand-line with voice recognition.

Byte Commander

I think voice recognition is pretty bad for the command-line.

Imagine a command with many parameters and special chars.

Like a line of AWK or SED, or just a simple regex!

Helio

@ByteCommander: Even a parameter expansion :-/

Rinzwind

11:30

@ByteCommander or someone says "can I remove slash by force" to someone and it interpretes it as "rm -rf /" :-D

Byte Commander

That would be a very broad interpretation...

However, as we all know about --no-preserve-root...

Helio

@ByteCommander: What about: should do halt?

blade19899

Can a mod unfreeze this room chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/23996 ?

fossfreedom

@blade19899 there you go

Byte Commander

@blade19899 Why do you want to thaw my old discussion room (that lead to nothing yet)?

blade19899

11:50

@fossfreedom Thanks.

@ByteCommander Gonna finish reading all of it, and throw in my two cents!

Byte Commander

For reading, you would not have had to thaw it. And I doubt somebody will really read it any more...

Besides that, there is a lot of crap in it... :(

blade19899

@ByteCommander I'll be the judge of that! ;)

Byte Commander

But feel free to do whatever you like! ;)

blade19899

@ByteCommander After reading gonna comment some stuff of my own!

Byte Commander

Erm... I am getting double-pinged???

Everytime you ping/reply to me, I hear two beeps.

blade19899

11:53

@ByteCommander Hhhmmm :/ Odd. Bug?

Byte Commander

@ByteCommander self-ping test

What about a ping and not a reply?

blade19899

I was thinking of making an "ubuntuonair" kinda thing only about philosophy? PhilosophyOnAir? Would any on join that?

Video chat between multiple people.

Byte Commander

I can't videochat... So you don't have to ask me.

blade19899

I think Google Also had a comment box available while Multiple chatting ;D

cl-netbox

... the famous StarOS hit me with a sensational proposal on the question -> askubuntu.com/questions/683341/… ... cheers ! =)

Byte Commander

11:59

>.<

@fossfreedom How to react on that comment (link 2 posts above)?

fossfreedom

@ByteCommander its an unusual request for more info. Leave it for the OP to decide if they wish to give further info in that way.

Byte Commander

Isn't that against the SE principles?

fossfreedom

which principles were you thinking of?

Byte Commander

I think a (long) video of the error will not be helpful for future readers. It would be a pain to watch that if one's looking for a similar problem...

And wouldn't that be too focused anyway? Q&As should be answered in a way as general as possible I thought.

Maybe it's just me though... :p

fossfreedom

the video is just one way to get more info. Some users are not technical enough to grab screenshots/copy paste/interrogate logs etc. We could always just summarise in the question what the video is demonstrating

yes - Q's should be "useful" - but that is a very flexible term. As long as there is an answer that Q could be "useful" to someone else in the future

Byte Commander

12:07

But if they're unable to take screenshots - how would you expect them to take a video then!?!?

cl-netbox

When focusing on the fact that a NEW user asks the suggestion is "misleading" (in good words). This helps nobody !

Besides it shows the knowledge level this guy has ...

fossfreedom

asking someone to grab their phone and take a video is one way. Commenting on a question and talking them through finding out information is another.

Once we have an accepted answer we can tidy up comments like this.

Byte Commander

Okay, so the tldr: Let it be.

blade19899

@fossfreedom Video(s) will need to be posted on YouTube(or other). Thats a round of create account, upload video, post the link here. One could just post the short version of the error in hit Question.

fossfreedom

@Byte yep. always trust what The Beatles say...

Byte Commander

12:10

That again made 2 ping sounds!

Why?

cl-netbox

your are correct - just let it be ... funny comment anyway ... =)

fossfreedom

@Byte no idea - have you tried to refresh/stop and start your browser?

Ravan

@ByteCommander @cl-netbox o/

cl-netbox

@Ravan hello my friend ! :)

Byte Commander

Hi.

May someone ping me now, please?

blade19899

12:12

@ByteCommander Ola.

Byte Commander

One sound.

And now again, please?

fossfreedom

@ByteCommander ping

Byte Commander

Two sounds! o.O

Why do I hear two sounds when I have chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/23996/… as open tab next to this one?

Ravan

Can someone please clarify my doubt..please

"If .iso md5 match with original md5 then it is bootable......If .iso is bootable then its md5 sum should match with original"

Is my statement correct?

Byte Commander

I have e.g. chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/22119/se-chess as pinned tab open as well and that does not create double-pings... :P

Ravan

12:16

1 min ago, by Ravan

"If .iso md5 match with original md5 then it is bootable......If .iso is bootable then its md5 sum should match with original"

Byte Commander

@Ravan md5 match of the downloaded iso image with the one stated on the download page means that you can be 99.999999999999...% sure your image is valid.

Ravan

viceversa..

Byte Commander

You can also modify images and they're still bootable.

That would lead to md5 mismatch, but still bootable iso.

And your valid iso could not boot if written to the device falsely.

Ravan

@ByteCommander thanks=)

fossfreedom

nice ... another gold badge!

Byte Commander

12:19

Congratulations (Cliff Richards...)! Which one? :)

fossfreedom

great answer. Love those.

Byte Commander

I'd still need 27 more votes on this for a great answer badge...

fossfreedom

similar Q here - love this answer! askubuntu.com/a/77991/14356

blade19899

@ByteCommander Apparently I still hadn't upvoted that one :D

Byte Commander

Oh, thanks! :)

Now I need only 26 more people.

cl-netbox

12:24

@ByteCommander sorry I already upvoted :(

Byte Commander

Just made a minor edit. Maybe that will bring it back to the main page and attract some new people...

@cl-netbox No need to be sorry. An upvote is an upvote, whenever it was cast.

cl-netbox

@ByteCommander did you upvote my "StarOS" answer ? =)

Byte Commander

I think so.

Helio

Bye! I'll travel now!

cl-netbox

@ByteCommander Thanks ! - I meant the one you discussed with fossfreedom before.

Byte Commander

12:30

:D I love this answer!

27

A: How can I prevent someone from resetting my password with a Live CD?

Stand next to your computer while holding a tee-ball bat. Severely beat anyone who gets close. Or lock it up. If your computer is physically accessible, it is unsafe.

@A.B. The guy wanting to install quota runs 13.04 --> close as EOL! askubuntu.com/q/683369/367990

A.B.

13.04???

Byte Commander

Either true or a typo. But that's what the question says.

A.B.

ok =)

VTC

Byte Commander

Leaving now... See ya

A.B.

cu @ByteCommander =)

cl-netbox

12:56

@A.B. - did you see this comment ... chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/24604909#24604909 ? :D

A.B.

@cl-netbox Star OS is back in town =)

cl-netbox

@A.B. so better "run run run" ... =)

A.B.

@cl-netbox Exactly, let's get out.

cl-netbox

@A.B. okay - so we go ! ... bye ... =)

Rinzwind

is this answer to ehm harsh towards the user?

0

A: Restore Ubuntu using Systemback

Without any form of knowledge about Systemback (had not even heard about it before your question) common sense would be: if Systemback makes those files then Systemback should be used to restore these files. unixmen has a pretty elaborate topic on this it seems and I see 2 things in their images...

blade19899

13:02

@Rinzwind I love unixmen!

A.B.

@cl-netbox he, come back =)

A.B.

13:28

@Rinzwind a little bit =)

cl-netbox

@A.B. ... so here I am - back again - no StarOS around ? ... good ... aaah ... =)

A.B.

=)

Rinzwind

13:44

well thing is... so many people create a backup and ONLY start looking at restoring when they need to restore. I consider that behaviour stupid, even moronic.
Heck I would get fired if I told my boss "ehm I do not know how to restore this backup".

A.B.

@Rinzwind yes =)

Fabby

@ParanoidPanda an answer for paranoid people ;-)

@Rinzwind because we're old farts that somewhere in our life were not able to restore at least one back-up (or had a dumb customer who couldn't and had to sort it out ourselves)

@Rinzwind and the OP here is such an "dumb customer" ;-) (reading backwards)

Who's the mode that quoted xkcd to me? (and if you want to remain anonymous: You made me :-) )

Journeyman Geek

14:00

Might have been me

Fabby

@JourneymanGeek Thanks! I think I'm going to review my flags more often now...

Rinzwind

@Fabby _O-

A.B.

He @Fabby =)

Journeyman Geek

heh

Fabby

I thought only AU mods reviewed AU flags... Does mod work get distributed over the entire SE network?

Journeyman Geek

14:02

what flags?

Naw, I only review flags on my site

Fabby

@Rinzwind I meant "mod"

Journeyman Geek

I'm a low rep user on AU

0_0

Fabby

@A.B. o/

Journeyman Geek

Didn't you guys get hit with a big late answers queue?

fossfreedom

@Fabby SE Mods can review our flags as well. Other community mods cannot

Fabby

14:04

@fossfreedom Ah!

@JourneymanGeek yup! nearly gone!

Journeyman Geek

nice

Ravan

@Fabby o/

Fabby

@Ravan \o

Journeyman Geek

I was hitting about 100 reviews a day (and there were about 200-300 reviews by other folk) and we're finally at 600 ;p

Got suspended twice for review audits too ;p

Oli

@blade19899 The bigger news there is that Unity working with Mozilla to change how they do things with their NPAPI Unity player. I'm not sure if to interpret that as they'll just be doing more WebGL stuff or if there's a browser-specific (but open) Unity Player replacement, or something else.

Maybe that's not "bigger" news, but it means more to me. Flash is the last proper plugin I use and even that's blocked in most places by default.

fossfreedom

14:08

Oli - Phoronix says they are dumping their webplayer and switching wholesale to WebGL

Fabby

@JourneymanGeek :D Even mods get suspended?

Wow!

I thought you were like gods around here... ;-)

blade19899

> "Developers behind the Unity Game Engine have announced that they'll be dropping their Web Player support in favor of exporting web content to using open standard APIs with WebGL." - Unity To Abandon Their Web Player In Favor Of WebGL - Phoronix

@fossfreedom @Oli ^ 800 million NPAPi plugins down, only flash to go...

Journeyman Geek

@Fabby: yup

I could unsuspend myself in theory

Oli

@blade19899 Aw, that's a shame. I was hoping for something a little more pro-active that was backwards compatible with the existing web-player exports. Trying to get people to upgrade their Unity version and republish things is harder than you'd hope.

Journeyman Geek

but 1) I had no idea

2) when I worked it out, I decided it was unethical

Rinzwind

14:13

ehm is it possible to kill the 15 minute grace period sudo uses so it restarts asking?

Oli

@JourneymanGeek Ethics, schmethics.

Journeyman Geek

you can set that grace period?

@Oli: With great power comes... who're we fooling ;p

Oli

@Rinzwind Yeah, sudo -k or something like that

Rinzwind

ah YES that's it

Oli

@JourneymanGeek With great power comes unlimited champagne!

Journeyman Geek

14:14

I don't drink tho ;p

Oli

Eek, that's going to be drowning hazard then :\

Fabby

VTC this pure Windows question

cl-netbox

@Fabby o/

Fabby

@JourneymanGeek Aaah, so still god-like powers!

Oli

Wait, what... They have an Ubuntu phone and aren't otherwise Ubuntu users... What on earth?

Journeyman Geek

14:15

@Fabby: somewhat vorlon like powers ;p

Fabby

@JourneymanGeek If it's possible to surf for pr0n at work, it's allowed in my book!

so if you can unsuspend yourself, you're allowed to! ;-)

Rinzwind

@Oli the world is about to end :D

Journeyman Geek

@Fabby: I guess in that respect I'm a bit like sweetheart from skin horse ;p

The rules matter

blade19899

@Fabby Whut. That is a fun conversation to have with your boss..

Rinzwind

@ParanoidPanda there I named you in an answer askubuntu.com/questions/683393/…

Fabby

14:18

@cl-netbox \o

Oli

We clearly run different ships... Rules and ethics... Next you'll be telling us you don't sacrifice low-rep users to a idol of Jeff Atwood every month.

Fabby

@Oli that's just an excuse to keep the Q open...

Journeyman Geek

We do?

Fabby

No Ubuntu here, move along...

@JourneymanGeek :D :D :D

Rinzwind

@Oli I do but I send them to John Skeet!

Fabby

14:19

@JourneymanGeek I'm a rule questioner, not a rule follower...

Do you know the story of the 4 monkeys and the banana?

@blade19899 I actually quoted that to my (female) boss a bit more then 10 years ago...

(she was moaning and bitching about developers having admin rights and messing up their machines)

Journeyman Geek

lol

Rinzwind

@A.B. oli stole my comment so I put it at your answer ;-)

A.B.

@Rinzwind OMG, I'm blind =)

blade19899

@Fabby Lol. Don't say "... she was moaning..." ;D

Rinzwind

@A.B. TS is at fault though. His q is wrong

either he wants just "15" as a time. OR he meant 3 times on the same day on 3 days in each month. The latter is what it is now.

Fabby

14:26

@blade19899 :D

blade19899

@Fabby Gota run

Fabby

@blade19899 bye!

blade19899

have an extra 30 sec before I have to leave... here I got something for y'all:

> "GNOME Twitch is a GNOME 3 application for watching Twitch.tv (a popular live streaming video platform that primarily focuses on video gaming) on your desktop, without Flash or a web browser." - Watch Twitch Without Flash On Your Desktop With GNOME Twitch ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

Fabby

@hg8 Weird! I dunno what happened there... (A partial database resore by some admin on SE?) CC: @A.B.

hg8

14:42

@Fabby Indeed. It seemed weird to me that you accepted this edit.

Rinzwind

@fossfreedom I am slowly creeping up on you. You need to start answering more questions >:-D

Fabby

@hg8 Confucius says: "Shit happens!" ;-)

@Rinzwind Stalker!

fossfreedom

@Rinzwind that's boring ... coding is more fun!

A.B.

@fossfreedom maybe =)

What?

0

Q: A web-based application platform?

We're looking for a web-based application platform like Ulteo OVD, it's for our internship project. We've tried a few packages (We have to install it on Ubuntu 15.04 from scratch), but we could not get some packages needed for these packs. They were already removed from the repository, I suppose...

server 15.04 webbrowser-app

Fabby

15:04

@A.B. O_o

A.B.

@Fabby ...#

Eric Burdon & The Animals - When I Was Young (1967)

►

Fabby

@A.B. listening...

A.B.

@terdon If I could, I would accept your answer. askubuntu.com/a/683434/367165

terdon

@A.B. lol, thanks. Have a look at the references I've posted at the bottom. They're really good.

A.B.

@terdon reading ...

cl-netbox

15:15

@A.B. @Fabby - vevo.com/watch/bryan-ferry/Lets-Stick-Together/GB1209600250 after 10 seconds (advertising) - the main thing starts - enjoy the lyrics ! :D

Fabby

@terdon upvoted already, filed away for later reading...

@cl-netbox needs javascript... but I know the lyrics... :P

(so no unblocking this one!) :D

Ravan

@Seth thanks =)

Seth

15:33

:-)

Fabby

I'm in excellent company here!

Seth

Help us tell the US goverment to support strong encryption by signing this petition on whitehouse.gov!

2

Fabby

@Seth I don't think the Brussels ZIP code will help...

;-)

A.B.

@Fabby My next badge is 14.04 o_O

Fabby

although:
Thank you for signing this petition!

You've successfully signed the petition "Publicly affirm your support for strong encryption.". Your signature has been verified and counted.

@A.B. O_o I can see "legendary" (as your next badge)

Seth

15:43

@Fabby yeah I don't really think they care where you're from.

A.B.

@Pilot6 an upvote four you and deleted my answer

Fabby

got a problem with my keyring apparently...

Logging off and on again!

logging off again

Nathan Osman

16:47

LogMeIn just acquired LastPass.

Fabby

@NathanOsman Ouch!

less competition

Rinzwind

17:25

yay 200 rep mostly from 2 answers *o*

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, phone number detected in title: <><><<1-844-231-5378@@@@Outlook Support Number Outlook Support Phone Number Outlook Help Phone Number by Sneha Rahul on askubuntu.com

cl-netbox

@Oli @fossfreedom @Mitch Did you already notice this ? -> askubuntu.com/users/459413/john-yellow - new user answering the same to different questions - including some kind of advertising ...

Mitch

It has been taken care off. Thanks

Seth

@cl-netbox looking into it.

cl-netbox

@Seth okay - thanks

user139252

17:37

@Fabby Did you generate any yet?

user139252

@Everyone What're the best GBA games?

A.B.

GBA games? Zelda?

Terrance

I personally like Namco Museum for the GBA.

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