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Fabby

10:02 PM

@DavidFoerster Done... You should still remove the comment that gets entered by the review system though...

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Q: Null device handler and serial number is 0

I am working with a camera that connects via usb. When connecting the device, dmesg shows the serial number as 0 and when I try to run code to take an image, I get a Null handler error. I figure the Null handler error is due to the SN being 0, but correct me if I'm wrong. So I am wondering the be...

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Q: how do I add a udev property for my android phone?

I'm trying to get my android phone recognised by rhythmbox. Talking to upstream, rhythmbox gets the value of "id_model" for the udev device - if it is "Android" then it should work. How do I use a udev rule to assign the "id_model" property to be "Android"? Currently my /etc/udev/rules.d/51...

ubuntu udev android

Zacharee1

Dism takes a while

Longer than I remember

Windows must really be broken

Fabby

@TheBrownOne Done! :-)

user136984

Goodnight everyone! :)

Zacharee1

@ParanoidPanda night

user139252

10:13 PM

@Fabby Danke!

user139252

I am so very close to 2k! :D

Zacharee1

@TheBrownOne You mean Dank Je

@Fabby is in Belgium (right?)

Or merci

Fabby

@TheBrownOne Actually, in Flemish it's "Bedankt" cc @Zacharee1

Zacharee1

@TheBrownOne Lemme see what I can upvote

@Fabby so it is different than Dutch

Oh wait, that's familiar :p

Fabby

"Dank Je" is Dutch... :P

Zacharee1

10:16 PM

"Thanks"

@Fabby I know someone from the Netherlands who says Flemish is just the name for Dutch in Belgium

Fabby

Dutch and Flemish are 90% similar, so if we want, we can understand each other, but if a Flemish wants to, the Dutch don't understand anything...

Zacharee1

@Fabby lol

So you speak Flemish fluently?

Or Fench?

Or just English?

Fabby

@Zacharee1 EG: "Dank je"→"Bedankt"

"Sinaasappel"→"Appelsien"

"Jij"→"Gij"

Zacharee1

@Fabby To be fair, Bedankt is the slang thank you in Dutch

Fabby

etc..

Zacharee1

10:18 PM

Orange? That's an annoying work :p

Fabby

@Zacharee1 no, it's creeping into the Dutch language because the Flemish say thank you much more often then the Dutch! :D

Zacharee1

SNAP

Fabby

I speak 5 human languages perfectly, 2 more well, 3 more I can get around in...

Zacharee1

wow

Is Flemish/Dutch like German in the way Please and You're Welcome are the same word?

Fabby

and I can ask for cigarettes and take a cab in a few more...

Zacharee1

10:20 PM

@Fabby which languages?

user139252

@Zacharee1 That depends on your dialect.

Zacharee1

@TheBrownOne the please/yw thing?

user139252

For example, my family would never say "bitte" for you're welcome.

Zacharee1

What do you say? (and you're German?)

user139252

Yes, and we say willkommen. Which is welcome. Which makes sense.

Zacharee1

10:21 PM

Yeah

Fabby

@Zacharee1 And being a Vorlon, I speak some non-human languages as well...

Zacharee1

@Fabby :p

Fabby

@TheBrownOne Depends on the area in Germany...

user139252

@Fabby Yeah, that's what I meant by "dialect" :P

Fabby

@DavidFoerster: Where in Germany do you say "Bitte" and where "Wilkommen"???

Zacharee1

10:22 PM

@TheBrownOne I have a question: I know that with German, the secondary verb goes to the end of the clause, but does that apply to helping verbs?

@Fabby I 'learned' lowland German

Fabby

@TheBrownOne Ah! Human languages! :D

@Zacharee1 No, it doesn't...

David Foerster

@Fabby "Willkommen" is purely a greeting.

Zacharee1

@Fabby ?

@DavidFoerster except for where it means "you're welcome" :p

user139252

@Zacharee1 Like "have" and "do" and such?

David Foerster

or an adjective describing that someone is welcome in the literal sense (to arrive at a location).

Fabby

10:24 PM

@DavidFoerster So no one anywhere in Germany/Austria/... would say "Wilkommen" instead of "Bitte"?

David Foerster

yes

Fabby

@TheBrownOne You see? ----^

You must be from Swiss descent then! :P

David Foerster

@Zacharee1 I don't know no any idiom with that meaning in German including the word "willkommen".

Zacharee1

@TheBrownOne Yeah, like I can do this. That wouldn't be like I can this do would it

@DavidFoerster @TheBrownOne says her family uses it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

user139252

@Zacharee1 No.

Fabby

10:25 PM

@DavidFoerster In @TheBrownOne's family no one says "Bitte" but everyone uses "Wilkommen"...

Zacharee1

@TheBrownOne how about I am to you this ball throwing?

Or do linking verbs also not have it?

Dinner

ping me the answers

David Foerster

@Zacharee1 I've heard people say it during the last few years. Appears to be a neologism coming from english. it sounds weird to me.

Fabby

@DavidFoerster I vever heard it either, that's why I asked you...

user139252

@Fabby @DavidFoerster My grandparents are both first-generation immigrants, grew up speaking German with their parents... They always told me "willkommen" after "thank you/danke" :(

Abhishek Bhatia

Why does echo * print all files in the current directory? Is echo used for matching/finding files as well?

Fabby

10:27 PM

(As Takkat nor A.B. nor cl-netbox seem to be around)

@TheBrownOne I'm not saying it's impossible: just saying I've never heard it in Germany/Austria/Switzerland...

David Foerster

@TheBrownOne That's curious. I've never heard it in that situation. The recent stuff was all akin to a word-by-word translation of "you're welcome to do/try …"

@AbhishekBhatia * is matched and substituted by the shell. echo has nothing to do with that.

Fabby

@TheBrownOne There are sizeable German-speaking minorities living outside of those countries though!

user139252

Their families are mutts of German/Polish/Bavarian/Persian ancestries...

user139252

Could just be that they developed their own weird dialect from all the mixing

David Foerster

@AbhishekBhatia see gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Filename-Expansion

Fabby

10:29 PM

@TheBrownOne Sounds most plausible...

@TheBrownOne Hah! Your rep is 1984!

I should send you the book! ;-) It'll only take 4 weeks to arrive! >:-)

David Foerster

@TheBrownOne At least the way I learnt it, the typical idiom of the same meaning after "danke" would be "gern geschehen".

Fabby

@DavidFoerster Wow! I've never heard that one anywhere either!

user139252

@Fabby :P

user139252

I have a copy of it somewhere... First edition print, too...

Fabby

@TheBrownOne :O

Abhishek Bhatia

10:32 PM

Thx david that makes sense!

user139252

Probably in a box in my attic

user139252

I never got around to unpacking all of my books after I moved

Fabby

@Zacharee1: answered as per your request. You should remove your comment now as it looks stupid after my edit... :P

(intentionally edited that way) :D ;-)

@TheBrownOne I threw away all the boxes I never opened since my last move...

Lots of books were thrown away that way... :-(

user139252

That makes me sad :(

Fabby

Well, I've still got all of my e-books, Charles Darwin's books and all of my signed copies...

All the rest is gone!

I've read that three times now, and still have no... Ah! Edward Torvalds gone!

:D

user139252

10:38 PM

I currently have in my collection:
Every book ever published by Dean Koontz, even those written under pseudonyms
About 95% of Stephen King's books
Every Harry Potter book
All 7 Star Wars film novelizations
Dozens of Star Wars EU (legends) novels
The collected works Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Numerous texts on etymology
Homer's Odyssey
All of George Orwell's publications
All of H.G. Wells' works
At least 4 biographies of Nikola Tesla
And countless other books I can't remember

user139252

Oh, and both books released by xkcd author, Randall Munroe

Fabby

Next vacation I'm going to take in your library!

David Foerster

I rarely buy fictional books for myself.

I usually borrow them from friends or public libraries.

Fabby

I'm going to start with the etymology books!

user139252

I very much enjoy reading and writing fiction.

Fabby

10:41 PM

Writing???

OMG! Is there something you don't do???

user139252

I need to crack open some of those etymology books... I bought them for school, forgot about them once I was done with class :P

Fabby

Next thing you're going to tell us is that you're in NASA's Astronaut program!

:P ;-) :D

user139252

I wish :(

Fabby

Drink! Smoke!

user139252

I wanna go to space :(

Fabby

10:42 PM

@TheBrownOne Apply at Роскосмос! ;-)

BRB

@TheBrownOne I always knew I wanted to become a Chemist working in a SpaceLab(TM)

Well, I became half of that! ;-)

@NathanOsman Congratulations!

user139252

My writing is probably no good... I self-published once but didn't sell very well.

Zacharee1

@TheBrownOne there's your 2K :D

user139252

Yay! :D

Fabby

@Serg just open the windows!

Zacharee1

brb rebooting

(so see you all in three years :p)

Fabby

10:53 PM

@TheBrownOne Congratulations!

user139252

I can now review more things! :D

Zacharee1

:D

@TheBrownOne you're catching up to me really quickly O_o

I'm sorry, but if you make your question title in all caps, I instantly lose any respect for you

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Q: WIN 7 INTERNET DOWNLOAD TO LINUX MACHINE?

I have a Linux machine (Ubuntu 15.04) I want to install a Win 7 internet download to for a dual boot. I have Googled different variations of the statement "Install Win 7 internet download to my Linux machine?", but do not find an answer. Everything found assumes I will be using a physical image d...

windows-7

Fabby

@Zacharee1 that's what the [edit] button is for! :P

Zacharee1

It doesn't regain my respect

Fabby

@Zacharee1 Instead of moaning and groaning: Get off your lazy arse and put it all in lowercase! >:-)

Zacharee1

11:02 PM

And this person seems to not know about the period:

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Q: How can i remove Ubuntu? (delete/uninstall)

i have dual boot system! Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS and Windows Xp! I want to delete the Ubuntu and use only Windows Xp, because my netbook is too old and the wifi does not work with Ubuntu! I searched for a solution for a month and none worked! Unfixable problem!

dual-boot uninstall delete

@Fabby It's OT, so I said to go ask on Super User instead

What is with all the exclamation marks with users?!

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Q: I can't install a program in a Ubuntu bootable live usb

I am trying to install some software via the Ubuntu Linux. Terminal on a bootable media the output was E: Unable to locate package (package name). And yes I have a good Internet connection!

apt software-installation

Fabby

@Zacharee1 That's why! Some idiot will edit it after it was closed and then it'll go into the re-open queue!!!

(already done now!) :P

Zacharee1

The reopen queue is always empty

Fabby

@Zacharee1 What do you think of my comment on that one??? :D

Warning! Help vampire! VTC as "unclear what you're asking"

Seth

TPP has been signed.

Zacharee1

How'd I do with this formatting job (aka nightmare [check the edit history]): askubuntu.com/questions/729382/error-creating-kit-for-nexus-4

@Seth tpp?

Seth

11:13 PM

another person that doesn't even know what it is...

Fabby

@Seth Has it been published then???

Seth

@Fabby It was published a long time ago..

@Zacharee1 eff.org/issues/tpp

Fabby

@Seth Parts of it were...

Zacharee1

oh

OUBRG)OWJ_ FUHWERGFOUI HFNOJNE

Is it so hard to just say what you did and what it returned?!?!!

Fabby

@Seth Ah! found it!

Zacharee1

11:16 PM

This guy is spending more effort avoiding answering us than it would take to just tell us what he did!

Fabby

@Zacharee1 You speak Alderian too?

@Zacharee1 It's called a Help Vampire!

He's probably running Kali and not Ubuntu...

Zacharee1

@Fabby ugh, yeah

@Fabby Why yes. It's very easy once you know German :p

@Fabby NOOO

Fabby

@Zacharee1 Klingon...

Zacharee1

Not another thing for him to do!

We'll never get anywhere now

Fabby

Klingon sounds like a German with a really bad cold...

Zacharee1

11:18 PM

@Fabby does it? ō_ô

@Fabby VTC? @Seth

Fabby

@Zacharee1 Yeah! I did a few of those as well!

Congrats!

Zacharee1

I don't know how people mess it up so much!

And there I go with the exclamation marks :p

Seth

@Zacharee1 sorry, too busy packing for mars..

Zacharee1

wat

@Fabby LOOK AT HIS COMMENT

Fabby

@Zacharee1 Vote to close!

Zacharee1

11:20 PM

GAHHHHH

@Fabby I did

It was a request to ~~Seth~~ The Almighty Iguana

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Q: Não consigo instalar o Ubuntu no notebook da samsung com windows 8.1

não consigo instalar o ubuntu 14.04 em dual boot com o windows 8.1 já tentei vários programas de pendrive botavel mais não obitive sucesso. é como se a bios soubesse tudo que eu vou fazer e impede antes de eu instalar o ubuntu. por favor preciso de ajuda.

ubuntu

Fabby

@Zacharee1 Never annoy the mods for a close vote, unless it's rude, abusive, ...

Zacharee1

@Fabby request*

Fabby

@Zacharee1 yeah, still... Find 4 other 5K rep users and leave to mods to do the mod tasks...

Seth

translate: não consigo instalar o ubuntu 14.04 em dual boot com o windows 8.1 já tentei vários programas de pendrive botavel mais não obitive sucesso. é como se a bios soubesse tudo que eu vou fazer e impede antes de eu instalar o ubuntu. por favor preciso de ajuda.

(from Portuguese) I can't install ubuntu 14.04 in dual boot with windows 8.1 already tried various USB stick botavel obitive no more success. It's as if the bios know everything I'm doing and stops before I install ubuntu. Please I need help.

Fabby

11:22 PM

If I were a mod, I'd ban you for 5 minuets from chat! :P

Zacharee1

@Fabby That's why you aren't one

@Seth ?

Fabby

@Zacharee1 :D :D :D

@Seth editing...

Zacharee1

Can someone do an apt-cache search clamtk quickly?

Fabby

I mean: really, leave the mods alone doing important stuff... Close voting and spam waves we can handle here in chat! Rally the masses, my friend!

apt-cache search clamtk
clamtk - graphical front-end for ClamAV
clamtk-nautilus - Nautilus MenuProvider extension for clamtk

Zacharee1

hmm

So then why can't this guy install it?

Maybe what @TheBrownOne said?

Fabby

11:27 PM

@Zacharee1 Who? Where? What. Why?

Zacharee1

@Fabby the so-called "vampire"

Fabby

@Zacharee1 Meh! You're still on that guy???