Ask Ubuntu General Room

hbdgaf

00:02

@Mateo - you watch the series Fargo?

Mateo

I saw the movie - is it good?

hbdgaf

The series impressed me. A co-worker turned me on to it. He made an observation, and I wouldn't have made it myself, but now I can't unsee a weird similarity.

Chan-Ho Suh

Go on..

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@hbdgaf :D :D :D

@Chan-HoSuh You get drug tested in your job???

Chan-Ho Suh

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW as part of the initial screen, yes

Mateo

00:06

basically most jobs in the US test

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@Chan-HoSuh I would so totally take home-made cake to that one and feed it to the testers!

:D

Chan-Ho Suh

you're given plenty of warning, so basically the only people that would fail are the severe drug addicts that can't stop in time for the test

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@Mateo Do you get the actual test results?

Chan-Ho Suh

oh, and the extreme poppy seed bagelers

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

Has anyone ever heard of a hair test???

Zacharee1

00:08

@Chan-HoSuh can't give my poppy seed bagels up :p

Chan-Ho Suh

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW oh yeah, that's why I assume it's just testing for the severe drug addicts... they usually only test urine, from what I can tell, not hair

Mateo

I think you have to send in for them - but basically it was a last line thing - so you are offered the job - go get a test job pays for it, pass they call you in for the job - fail...

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

Hair test goes back in time as long as your hair is!

hbdgaf

The co-worker though [Jesse Plemmons](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0687146/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t7) looked like a heavier Matt Damon. Went all "Did he put on a lot of weight for this role?", so because he thought the similarity was so striking he started calling him Fatt Damon.

Also, he looks a lot like an old boss of mine

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

Hair tests go back in time as long as your hair is! (@hbdgaf)

@Mateo fail, you get the drug test results?

BRB

Mateo

00:11

but no job.

hbdgaf

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW I know. The problem there is that if you shave your head to start over, they can just elect to take pubic hair instead and get a LOT of history. So... either way, not a problem for me.

Chan-Ho Suh

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW lol, why do you assume he knows?

Zacharee1

@hbdgaf ō_ô

hbdgaf

I'm not a drug user? obviously.

Mateo

too far?

Serg

00:15

O_O 15 minuites past clock out

this old lady maybe sweet, but man , we were just talking and talking . . .

ok, im off

hbdgaf

@Mateo The funniest part is, I learned that bit when one of my ex bosses - a very italian fellow with hair springing forth from all over - back, arms, etc - was drug tested for a promotion. He wore a shaved head for no particular reason, so they took it from his back. Now imagine my face when you said wax.

Mateo

lol, that would be bad if suddenly no hair could be found

hbdgaf

It could be a scene from a saw movie ;)

Mateo

it would be like - ok, now we know you are hiding something

but the plot would make it part of a fancy getaway in celebration of the new promotion

hbdgaf

Oh, he didn't get the promotion.... still a funny story though.

Serg

00:26

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW frankly even though I'm tired ,I'm happy that I'm learning something new for myself ~ Python. For the record it is my 3rd week

hbdgaf

@Mateo So, in something closer to on-topic - I'm working on a mini-app to generate the card faces for both in game use and "make printable card images with bleed barriers". Small modification to make it more useful in the longer haul anyway.

Mateo

oh, nice for printing the cards out?

hbdgaf

You could print cards, send them to a professional card print on demand/print for order service, whatever. Just something that could prove useful for someone else that auto-centers, scales, etc all automatically.

Mateo

yeah - like the full page marks when you export from photoshop

hbdgaf

Think "So now YOU want to make a one-off of cards against humanity" or whatever else. You can just do it. There are already card bleed marks so there's no thought involved.

Cards against IT was popular enough to get facebook ads in perpetuity. Cards against retail could be HILARIOUS. Astronomically large consumer market too.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

00:33

@hbdgaf :D

@hbdgaf I didn't know that one!

(but makes sense: hair is hair...)

hbdgaf

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW And the grow/shed rate difference would make it more damning probably.

Mateo

drivethrucards.com/themes/dtrpg/…

the last page is good stuff

then the bleed/margin setup - pdf settings, ect

hbdgaf

@Mateo I'm using python and PIL. So, you get dynamic scaling for text and card art. Color profiles aren't a problem. You could feed a variable amount of text and set the font size once after a trial run, etc etc. So many benefits to making it modular/an app instead of a template for an application.

Mateo

cool, just pointing out the final output that printers like

hbdgaf

variable text stuff could be to say "I have this one really long card, but I want the font size to be the same always". either way, using a product would be the more "professional commercial" way to do it. having an app that does all your resizing would be a more "Joe wants to try this out"

Yeah, I get it.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

00:41

Good night all!

hbdgaf

night

@Mateo I was looking at this but your source is probably more relevant

Hadn't thought about anti-aliasing/compression blurring the edges of the text. That's a nice catch from that pdf you referenced.

Mateo

ah, that one looks like cards - but with a custom back

@hbdgaf oh, yeah, sometimes lines around layers too

hbdgaf

They're obviously catering to casinos or more "normal" looking cards. Which fit for fisticuffs (or would have fit for that guy that did Skrimish). They do custom faces too, not just backs. The other looks more like "custom magic cards etc" is more their audience with high color/detail cards

o/ @kos

kos

\o @hbdgaf

Zacharee1

01:12

Why do people install Ubuntu Server and then install a DE?

It doesn't make sense to me

hbdgaf

Because alternate doesn't exist any more and it allows size and choice tuning

Seth

but you need to have a finer grasp of what you are doing.

just installing a *-desktop package on a server install isn't enough for a clean desktop. (in addendum to what hbdgaf said)

hbdgaf

Agreed

I, for example, wanted lxqt, kwin, and not much else... so it made sense for me.

kos

It's the best choice if you have to install a not-an-official-flavor's DE. Less clutter and you'll probably get it right, differently from purging the existing DE and installing.

Nathan Osman

@ThomasW. One more question (apologies for being a nuisance). What if I'd like the package to have an Ubuntu-specific modification to the packaging? It doesn't have a Build-depends on libunity in Debian. But it should in Ubuntu.

Zacharee1

01:28

@hbdgaf Alternate?

Nathan Osman

That's not a show-stopper but more of a "nice to have".

Serg

The more i wake up at 5 am, the more i feel stupid, like . . . . A crisscross between spongebob and that donkey dude from Winnie the Pooh....

I thoroughly regret my schedule

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 one word: headless.

Zacharee1

eh

Seth

eeyore was stupid? I never thought so..

Zacharee1

01:30

@Serg Eeyore was the smart, but depressed one

Serg

I was thinking in terms of longface, kinda depressed, constantly looks fatigued

Eeyore . . . .sounds like Slipknot song name

Mateo

resisting posting a spongebob picture...

Serg

@Mateo go for it . . . .or shoud i post just do it meme ?

Nathan Osman

Eeyore was the "doom and gloom expect the worst" guy.

Mateo

I was thinking of a specific one, would be inappropriate

Serg

01:44

Ah. . . .

Meanwhile , I'm gonna make tea, and then will be deciding whether i should work some more on my linked list or crash and sleep till it's 4pm on Sunday

Zacharee1

Shia LaBeouf "Just Do It" Motivational Speech (Original Video)

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Thomas W.

01:58

@NathanOsman Give me the details, I'll file a bug, prep a debdiff, and hunt a sponsor (you can state that you asked me to do that in the bug when I file it)

@NathanOsman We can easily get the bugfix in, if we can justify it. Though, you may be able to get upload powers. I'll have to poke at it

@NathanOsman ideally, you have to justify the need in the bug, so specifics are useful

then i'll poke MOTUs

@NathanOsman also, it's not being a nuisance ;)

@NathanOsman bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nitroshare/+bug/1542758

Missing Ubuntu-specific build-dep: libunity

It was reported to me by the Debian Maintainer of this package (Nathan Osman <email address hidden>) that there is a missing build dependency in the package. It was reported to me that the Maintainer would like to have `libunity` added as an Ubuntu-specific build dependency for this package. The package does not depend on `libunity` in Debian, however it was indicated that, at some level, it should depend on `libunity` in Ubuntu. (This information was reported to me on Ask Ubuntu's general chat room; the specific chat message indicating this can be seen at http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/27396416#27396416)

nitroshare (Ubuntu)

Low / New

Seth

Shia Labeouf "Just do it" compilation

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Zacharee1

◔_◔

Nathan Osman

02:16

@ThomasW. sorry, I was eating supper and missed your messages. I'll look over the bug.

Thomas W.

@NathanOsman OK, all i need is the specific library that needs added to build-dep

libunity is not valid as it doesn't exist, unless you meant libunity-dev?

(a debdiff is almost ready, by the way xD)

Nathan Osman

Yes, libunity-dev.

Let me double-check.

Thomas W.

OK

Nathan Osman

@ThomasW. Yup, that's the package.

Do you want me to comment below yours confirming the information?

Thomas W.

it definitely wouldn't hurt

i'mma upload it to my build-tests PPA as well

since everything deserves a test

(i386, amd64, armhf, ppc64el are in that PPA)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

02:20

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Q: Unable to reinstall GRUB on encrypted filesystem

Sooo....I made a mistake and deleted the contents of my /boot directory, including GRUB ....(btw this is easy to do, there is no notice that it will make your system unbootable)!! Anyway I was going to try to re-copy GRUB into the directory before I rebooted but.....I forgot, and rebooted, and, ...

Nathan Osman

@ThomasW. Okay.

Zacharee1

Does anyone know if there's a way to see why programs won't open on Windows?

Thomas W.

@Zacharee1 it's Windows.

the answer is self-explanatory heh

Zacharee1

Both Nitroshare and Makerbot Desktop won't open

@ThomasW. Windows 7 and XP are good

Thomas W.

brb

Zacharee1

02:21

But Windows 10 is a timebomb

If I open the executables, I can see the processes in taskman for a little bit and then they disappear

Thomas W.

it's still Windows

and therefore the problem is self-explanatory

Zacharee1

IMO, at the time it was released, Windows 7 was better than Ubuntu

Thomas W.

@NathanOsman I've uploaded a debdiff - I'll poke around tomorrow to see what the process is to get you upload rights, but let me know when you make version releases in Debian, depending on freeze dates I'll see if I can't help get merges done on the software, to make sure it updates and gets its Ubuntu-specific libunity requirements. (Though, consider also Lubuntu and others that might not have it)

but yeah

all should be good

Nathan Osman

02:37

@ThomasW. Thanks! The binary package will still work on everything other than Unity.

Thomas W.

@NathanOsman FYI Build Test running in launchpad.net/~teward/+archive/ubuntu/xenial-buildtests/…

Nathan Osman

libunity-dev isn't actually Unity itself. IIRC, it checks for Unity running via d-bus and then communicates with it.

So it won't do anything if Unity isn't installed / running.

Thomas W.

i386 amd64 armhf ppc64el are the archs in that PPA

Nathan Osman

Yup, I've got access to those in the NitroShare PPAs as well.

Thomas W.

indeed

it's a force of habit for me, though, to ALWAYS run build tests

Nathan Osman

02:39

(Though ppc64el is disabled since... who really has a desktop with a PowerPC64 CPU? :D)

Thomas W.

heh

@NathanOsman this being a build-tests PPA, I have it turned on in order to try and match the Ubuntu builders

at least, as closely as possible

and you can see in that PPA that nginx is there ;)

Nathan Osman

It will be useful when the application becomes headless because then people will want to run it on servers.

Thomas W.

indeed

Nathan Osman

@ThomasW. Yup, makes sense.

Mateo

hey, don't forget about the new ibm machines ;P

Nathan Osman

02:40

@Mateo For a desktop?

Mateo

nah

Nathan Osman

See? :D

Mateo

that would be epic though - I want one

Thomas W.

@NathanOsman Indeed. I only recently heard of the ppc64el being 'readily available for enablement' thing though

so heh

but yeah, it makes sense to try and have a PPA that 'emulates' the standard builds - it helps catch cross-arch issues a little sooner :P

made that mistake with an nginx build once

Mateo

Nathan Osman

02:42

Yeah.

Mateo

there we go a smaller image

hbdgaf

How goes the Ubuntu IMB front? Most REALLY large companies I was aware of preferred RHEL for the support/warranty.

Zacharee1

I thought Lenovo had merged IBM into their brand name

Ahh

Mateo

no, ibm sold off their laptop line

Zacharee1

So they still make servers, but not PCs

Mateo

02:47

wonder if any of the desktop packages are built for it

Zacharee1

Dupe: askubuntu.com/questions/730677/is-windows-on-my-sony-vaio

Why are there suddenly so many questions about the HP Envy x360?

Nathan Osman

@James is here!

Zacharee1

WHOA

HOLD THE PHONE

Nathan Osman

I'M HOLDING IT!

WHY ARE WE YELLING?

Zacharee1

You seemed excited :p

James

02:53

HIIIIIIII

giphy.com/gifs/audrey-hepburn-2f7RQiiWMJc40

hbdgaf

Don't yell when folks get excited. It makes it worse. Like yelling at a dog.

Zacharee1

Three trojans, one backdoor (In IE -- SURPRISE!), and about 2000000000000000 PUPs (more like 10)

user139252

Or a honey badger? @hbdgaf

Zacharee1

Have the oven on to 400 and a laptop on the stove :p

Thomas W.

03:09

@james you have work - burn this - askubuntu.com/questions/730643/…

Zacharee1

@ThomasW. wow O_o

Thomas W.

:P

@Zacharee1 some things I prod mods on ;)

thisis one of them

@James thanks

@Zacharee1 and yes, that's why I said "burn this"

James

I think @ThomasW. has even called me at odd hours asking me to get online and destroy spam.

Thomas W.

on occasion :0

though it's rare :)

James

(And similar odd malicious things)

Thomas W.

03:12

at least nowadays

Zacharee1

@James called?

Thomas W.

@Zacharee1 usually an @ ping here

James

@Zacharee1 Yeah, I included my cell # in my email signature for a bit.

He found it on some mailing list IIRC?

Zacharee1

ah

Thomas W.

nope

Zacharee1

03:13

lol

James

Maybe that wasn't you

Thomas W.

it wasn't

i don't do that ;)

James

I did get a call once from somebody here.

Thomas W.

I @ ping you here

or IRC poke :)

Nathan Osman

@James That's actually quite funny.

Mateo

03:13

is your refrigerator running?

James

"Hey jrg, it's <whoever it was>. Check ask ubuntu chat, there's a bunch of spam. Bye. click"

6

Thomas W.

lol

James

as I recall, that was about the extent of the voicemail

Thomas W.

@Mateo no, I took the refrigerator out back, shot off its legs, took the remnants, lit them on fire, dropped them in a pit, and then buried what was left.

the refrigerator is, by far, not running.

Mateo

;)

Zacharee1

03:15

@ThomasW. that should be the repsonse

Perfection :p

Thomas W.

it's the insane person response

but it works xD

Nathan Osman

No, that is perfectly sane.

Oh wait, wait, wait. This one is even worse:

O_o

That fridge looks kind of evil...

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman I think that's the point...

Nathan Osman

I think so too.

user139252

I'm making chicken parmesan. Anyone want some?

Zacharee1

03:18

@TheBrownOne yeah, use the Wonka TV thingy

LOL: youtu.be/sDqGzMdhL1M?t=35s

Thomas W.

@NathanOsman armhf build in progress - launchpad.net/~teward/+archive/ubuntu/xenial-buildtests/+build/…

thanks to LP admins poking the build cloud after weirdness

Zacharee1

poke

poke poke

Thomas W.

BOOOOOOOOM blows up

Zacharee1

Poke (fish salad)

Poke /poʊˈkeɪ/ is a raw fish salad served as an appetizer in Hawaiian cuisine. Pokē is the Hawaiian verb for "section" or "to slice or cut". Traditional forms are aku (an oily tuna) and tako (octopus). Increasingly popular ahi poke is generally made with yellowfin tuna. Adaptations may feature raw salmon or various shellfish as a main ingredient served raw with the common "poke" seasonings. == Ingredients == Poke began with fishermen seasoning the cut-offs from their catch to serve as a snack. Traditional poke seasonings have been heavily influenced by Japanese and other Asian cuisines. T...

there

Nathan Osman

@TheBrownOne:

> "Dear Good Friend, I am contacting you regarding of our company urgent need for chicken parmesan and is a dietary food supplement used by veterinarians doctors and it is mainly produced in UK. If you are willing to cooperate with me by giving me some percentage from the profit you will make in this business at the end of the transaction."

Zacharee1

03:21

@NathanOsman O_O

Thomas W.

why does that read like a scam email lol

Nathan Osman

Because it is :D

Thomas W.

heheh

Nathan Osman

I copied the contents of the closest thing I could find in my "spam" folder and changed the product name.

Thomas W.

@NathanOsman yay, armhf success

Nathan Osman

03:23

Woot.

Thomas W.

lol nice

I'll poke MOTUs tomorrow

Nathan Osman

@ThomasW. To be fair, I do test locally with chroots - i386, amd64, and armhf.

So I would have been shocked if anything failed.

Thomas W.

indeed

i do local i386 and amd64 tests

since armhf virtualization keeps failing here

but still :)

(showing proof of success is good)

i do it anyways with every nginx merge :)

Nathan Osman

I have an ARM device I can use for testing.

But usually cross-building works for CMake projects.

Thomas W.

indeed

prefers being thorough though

da Boss

03:33

My wife is calling me a nerd because I have 3 computers running in our living room...

(she forgot about the pi's)

Zacharee1

Pillsbury Cinnamon Buns are actually pretty good

da Boss

So I told her they wouldn't be in the living room had you not given my office away to a kid...

Zacharee1

Wait, they're Giant® brand :p

Still good

@daBoss lol

hbdgaf

@Zacharee1 Don't you mean they're y'uuuuuge

Zacharee1

@hbdgaf uy vey

Seth

03:50

@James I'll have to dig up your number again :p

Although it was probably in one of the really old backups I deleted..

that's just creepy.

Zacharee1

A loading circle? Yes, it is

?

What about it? @Seth

Seth

I dunno.. I just don't like that they're ascribing things to me as if they know.

Zacharee1

It's their job :p

James

Gosh my GPG key passphrase is so long i can't type it right consistently.

#FirstTechWorldProblems

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: Debian 8 - Run scripts after boot

I've tried run some scripts after boot via /etc/rc.local. /etc/rc.local #!/bin/sh -e # # rc.local # # This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel. # Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other # value on error. # # In order to enable or disable this script ...

debian ubuntu virtualbox

Seth

03:59

I'm not sure I can even remember mine...

Zacharee1

number?

Seth

GPG key passphrase.

Zacharee1

oh :p

Seth

04:11

apparently there's another republican debate going on?

Zacharee1

8??

Seth

I'll be doing this tomorrow

How to Easily Fix Defective Power Switch/Button (Boot Loop/No Boot) on the Samsung Galaxy S3

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da Boss

04:34

what happened to mencoder?

Nathan Osman

04:50

Where?

Zacharee1

There

Nathan Osman

It grew wings and flew away :D

You're welcome.

Seth

wait, that was my line!

Nathan Osman

...and we're here in Xenial! Woohoo!

Seth

yayayayay :D:D

@NathanOsman any way you could backport it to trusty and (possibly) wily?

Nathan Osman

05:07

I have no idea.

I've bugged ThomasW enough today :)

Mahesh

06:49

Are we closing questions about EOL even if they are answered?

I just popped in to review queue and saw a bunch of 5 year old questions with accepted answers

Been long since I was here, I don't know if this is the accepted policy now.

kos

07:27

@Mahesh No, this came up recently on Meta: meta.askubuntu.com/questions/14993/…

Nathan Osman

07:53

Anyone have $49,000 to lend me? :P

kos

Let me find my purse.

Nathan Osman

Lol.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

08:10

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Q: Diffference between Sha1sum, Sha256sum and Md5sum

What is the difference between Sha1sum, Sha256sum and Md5sum ? and how to check all these for some iso file? and how to create md5sum.txt file in ubuntu ?

ubuntu

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Q: How to install the latest version of Git on Ubuntu?

I have version 2.5 of Git on Ubuntu: $ git --version git version 2.5.0 but Git is at version 2.7.1 now. The Git website says to do apt-get install git to install it. But I tried both sudo apt-get install git and sudo apt-get upgrade git and it is still version 2.5. How do I upgrade it to...

ubuntu git

Mudit Kapil

08:44

I am not getting recovery mail in forgot password and not able to use stack exchange app

Can only login through facebook

kos

09:44

I'm not asked for the root / user's sudo password neither with another user logged in via GDM nor with another user logged in via tty though. — kos 9 mins ago

^^ is this just me?

Greg

11:31

Oh no... All of my Ubuntu computers have died this week after upgrading.

I reinstalled the first one, assuming hardware failure... But now the same issue has occurred on my other two separate computers!

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Q: LVM encryption passphrase wrong on three separate Ubuntu PCs this week

On Tuesday, I booted my work PC (Intel NUC) to find that I had forgotten the decryption passphrase. The one I've used for 6 years every morning. The night before I remember upgrading through apt-get, but couldn't work out how to downgrade via a live CD, and seeing how a bust day was ahead, I chos...

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dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@kos Is it the same user???

(I have 2: an admin user and a "normal" user so if you want me to test...

kos

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW Nope, a bogus one I use to test stuff (namely foo)

Could you real quick? Because it's actually weird.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

On the phone with mum: afterwards...

kos

Sure, when you can. Thanks.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@kos now

`reboot
Command 'reboot' is available in '/sbin/reboot'
The command could not be located because '/sbin' is not included in the PATH environment variable.
This is most likely caused by the lack of administrative privileges associated with your user account.
reboot: command not found`

this is as an su into my admin acount...

now logging on throught the UI

reboot: need to be root.

@kos: confirmed on my system...

How did you try?

As a normal user I get:

`reboot
User root is logged in on ???.
User pi is logged in on /dev/tty1.
Please retry operation after closing inhibitors and logging out other users.
Alternatively, ignore inhibitors and users with 'systemctl reboot -i'.`

kos

11:45

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW Ah my comment is too vague. I actually meant shutting down via DBus, AKA shutting down via the GUI, not via shutdown / reboot

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

ah! trying that now!

kos

Yup. Thanks!

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

I get a warning!

(through the UI)

kos

Yes, me too, but if click "Power off" or whatever (don't know how it's labeled in English) it actually goes ahead and shuts down the system.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@kos yup, here too!

kos

11:49

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW Thanks! Now I've got to grasp the rationale.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

(as you might have guessed from the delayed response: reboot involved)

@kos I think the rationale is easy to understand... :P

it doesn't shut down unless you force it to!

(after a warning, with sudo, being root, ...)

kos

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW Yeah I've suspected it. :D

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW But it's the same as letting regular users run shutdown / reboot without sudo.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@kos I would remove the comment: it makes you look like a newb instead of a very advanced user that wants to understand the full rationale!

:D :D :D

kos

I could kill another user's session doing that.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@kos yes, but if you want, you can block that...

@kos as root, you can do anything!

(on Windows, you can protect stuff even from the administrator)

but you cannot protect anything from the system user and I have a trick to become system on Windows...

:D

kos

11:55

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW The comment serves the purpose to address the fact that the first part of the answer is not necessarily correct (actually it's probably more often incorrect since the message asking for the root password is actually the edge case).

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@Tim ------^ I agree, read above reboot tests...

kos

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW Right, but it doesn't seem to be a sane default configuration, does it?

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

(done for your convenience so you can adapt the answer (unless you don't care of making it perfect, then I'll do it for you if you give me permission!) ;-)

@kos Well, that'll probably depend on your definition of "sanity"... It's sane enough for me!

(but then I'm stark raving mad: I'm even madder then Mad Mac McMadden from Madagascar!)

@kos Could you cast a "close as duplicate" of duplicate for this one? I misunderstood...

kos

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW Either you or me!

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW Done.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@kos Oh, I am definitely mad! (Not as mad as ParanoidPanda or as MuditKapil, but definitely mad!) ;-)

@kos thanks!

Mahesh

12:15

@kos Thanks, I'll continue to mark them leave-open then.

kos

@Mahesh I think someone just went through some EOL tags and flagged everything they could find serially, I've reviewed only 10 close votes today and 2 of them were EOL on questions tagged 10.10 posted years ago.

Mahesh

I found something similar this morning.

kos

Namely #1 and #2. I had to make a canned comment on purpose.

Mahesh

I got the exact same questions.

I think I marked one leave open and skipped the next one.

kos

12:31

One of the guilties is @dn-ʞɔɐqɹW (glances at him) and I'm not sure why Braiam voted to close it, since his point is about useless questions.

Journeyman Geek

I keep reading that as duckside up @dn-ʞɔɐqɹW

kos

Ah ok, it's not super-useful actually.

(meaning probably pretty narrow, but not a good reason to close it.)

Zacharee1

14:23

Finally getting an insider build of Windows.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@kos That's a "problem that went away all by itself"... One of the mods is going through old self-answered questions that have low views...

@kos Yup... That's it.

Jacob Vlijm

Ha people

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@kos and the second one was a bug back then...

:P ;-)

@JacobVlijm and statues...

;-)

kos

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW Shame on me, I failed to see that the second one was a bug.

Thomas W.

i hate the chat system

@NathanOsman poke - so to get upload powers for your package in Ubuntu, you'll have to apply for Per Package Uploader rights, and then make sure you follow everything in the applications process, have a firm understanding of the policies in ubuntu relating to development, etc. and make a note in the application yuo're the Debian Developer for that package.

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

14:35

@kos No shame needed! ;-)

@ThomasW. Shall I ban you???

:P

Zacharee1

Sarcasm overload ^

Jacob Vlijm

@ThomasW. me to, that's why I am not here now :)

Thomas W.

@NathanOsman About the Developer Membership Board | About Per Package Uploaders | Application Process | Review this for the Development process, packaging, etc.

Zacharee1

If that swipe happened to turn out as overlord, it would've worked just as well

Thomas W.

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW it has too short a text limit :/

that's all

anyways

kos

14:36

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW The first one shouldn't be closed though. I don't think that's the case, the consensus is clearly to not do that. Why would a mod do that?

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@kos It wasn't flagged EOL! It was flagged "problem went away all by itself"

There are a lot of thos coming up and they get older and older...

(it's to improve the site statistics...)

kos

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW Right, ok, I have no words. I'm stop reviewing today, how did I miss that twice?

dn-ʞɔɐq ɹW

@kos :D :D :D

I'm off to do some job hunting!

Jacob Vlijm

CU later, out for a walk...

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW good will hunting!

kos

@dn-ʞɔɐqɹW -.- I'll crawl into a hole in shame in the meantime.

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