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user136984

00:07

Well, had a slightly dangerous mercury spillage in my house today so if I go a little bit crazier or you don't hear from me again, you'll know why...

user136984

Goodnight! ;)

user139252

Make sure you guys can't access this...

Mateo

i tried for a bit

user139252

It asks for the username/password, right?

Zacharee1

Yes

oh cool

You blocked source viewing

user139252

00:19

I blocked any request that wasn't prefaced with my username and password :P

Zacharee1

My favorite thing to do was make a sort of malicious prompt that would popup whether OK or CANCEL was pressed

That was back when Chrome didn't let you dismiss tabs with JS prompts

user139252

user139252

All worked out :D

user139252

I can easily control my home music from anywhere now!

Zacharee1

:D

Nathan Osman

00:32

Woohoo! I finally got it working!

Zacharee1

What working

Nathan Osman

^--- charts in PowerPoint 97.

Zacharee1

Why are you using Windows 95/98?

thebluesquirel

hi world

Zacharee1

dlrow ih

Nathan Osman

00:34

@Zacharee1 George is going to use it in his next video.

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman :p

@NathanOsman Where did you even get a computer to run it?

Or is it a VM

Nathan Osman

It's a VM, but I have the original PC (a Pentium MMX) still.

Zacharee1

O_o

Isn't MMX 2010?

Or it could just be 10 :p

1000 + 10-1000

But that's not how Roman numerals work

thebluesquirel

My internet keeps dropping :(

Any ideas on how to diagnose it?

Zacharee1

@thebluesquirel Restart your router

thebluesquirel

00:39

I think the problem is on my netbook

RX packets:232859 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2031360
TX packets:164407 errors:205 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

Zacharee1

nothing's been dropped

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 MMX was from the 90s :P

This particular one was clocked at 200 MHz.

It predates the Pentium II, if I remember correctly.

P5 (microarchitecture)

The first Pentium microprocessor was introduced by Intel on March 22, 1993. Dubbed P5, its microarchitecture was the fifth generation for Intel, and the first superscalar IA-32 microarchitecture. As a direct extension of the 80486 architecture, it included dual integer pipelines, a faster floating-point unit, wider data bus, separate code and data caches and features for further reduced address calculation latency. In 1996, the Pentium with MMX Technology (often simply referred to as Pentium MMX) was introduced with the same basic microarchitecture complemented with an MMX instruction set, larger...

Zacharee1

fun

I wasn't talking about the year, just the number :p

thebluesquirel

I just lost connection :(

...

Nathan Osman

For no reason, here's an image of the die for a Pentium A80501.

thebluesquirel

00:47

Is ascii art allowed in chat?

Zacharee1

sure

Nathan Osman

Yes, but you'll need to press Ctrl+K to have it format correctly.

thebluesquirel

ok thanks :)

I wasn't sure since some forums don't like it....

Help

3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2014ms

Seth

I see we got RTL unicode out again -.-

thebluesquirel

3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2014ms

Help???

My internet keeps dropping

Any idea what is causing package loss?

Seth

01:02

could be any number of things.

Beatbox brilliance | Tom Thum | TEDxSydney

►

really cool --^

Zacharee1

01:33

user139252

01:51

‮We should all write a bunch of things with U+202e in them and get them starred so that the whole star board is RTL. Who's with me?

2

Zacharee1

‮No

‮:p

‮Let's do it

user139252

‮But what if the mods stop us because we're being somewhat immature and very annoying?

Zacharee1

‮I'm gonna point out @Seth :p

user139252

‮@Mateo you've created monsters

Journeyman Geek

I'm dyslexic. I can read that, but it totally makes my head hurt

Zacharee1

01:58

@JourneymanGeek I'm not dyslexic and it's hard to read

Garfield got funny again

Mateo

sandbox ;)

Seth

^

Zacharee1

Nooo, guys!

-6

Q: I need a download that works this 14.04 is filled with errors and has screwed my pc

I downloaded ubuntu 14.04. I have tried several times to load and install the OS, my hard drive is wiped, and it seems not to recognize it anymore. here are some errors I got: 1) Executing ' Grub-install/dev/sda' failed this is a fatal error 2)Installer crashed input output error on del/sda ...

thebluesquirel

02:31

Hello World :)

Zacharee1

@thebluesquirel Are you a script or something?

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Question with accepted answer is being close voted as unclear one and a half years after it is accepted

This question with an accepted answer is being close voted as unclear one and a half years after it was accepted. I noticed this at the first close vote and edited it to clean it up, but it's continued to be close voted anyway. Why does anyone think that this question is unclear? It certainly was...

discussion vote-to-close

Zacharee1

So I tried to save an image, the dialog crashed

thebluesquirel

02:50

@Zacharee1 Nope :), You can't pack this much awesomeness in a script XD

Zacharee1

:p

Zacharee1

03:09

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

06:56

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Q: Why cannot I ping 192.168.10.1, the default gateway, from an Ubuntu Linux 15.10 computer but I can do so from Windows 7?

I cannot ping 192.168.10.1, the default gateway, from the Ubuntu Linux 15.10 computer, 192.168.10.22. But I can ping 192.168.10.1, the default gateway, from the Windows 7 computer, 192.168.10.15. Does it have anything to do with what an expert told me that my Ubuntu Linux network configura...

ubuntu windows ip

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Q: Questions of the who utility and how to pipe it properly

i wanted to set up a crontab for my server that did the following, at 6pm on the 15th of each month create a file that contains unique sorted login names for all currently loged in users. The who command will give alot of other information. all i need is the username, so it would be who | sort | ...

linux ubuntu who

blade19899

08:45

How do I make du -h display everything in MB. Now, I get everything in KB/MB/GB

Saladin

hello

for question stackoverflow.com/questions/35544209/…

I want to understand the use of awk -v RS="010" 'NR > 1 {print RS $0 > (NR-1)}' filename in the answer to the above question.

Oli

@blade19899 -m

Saladin

I can't understand the use of "{print RS $0 > (NR-1)}"

blade19899

> du -hsm
10840

I kinda need the MB part there. As to not confuse people

Oli

09:01

It also doesn't really work.

Hm, no it does a bit... But it rounds everything up to 1MB

You'd be better off (for accuracy's sake) outputting in bytes and converting.

Something you're going to have to divine yourself, but something like this should go some distance to do it. awk all the way.

A.B.

09:15

@Saladin If NR > 1, than write the content of RS and the whole line to a file with the name "1", "1" is the result of NR-1

@Saladin check this: awk -v RS="010" 'NR > 1 {print RS $0 NR}' filename

blade19899

10:04

> "A connection has been found between the software piracy and the adoption of Linux systems, according to a study published at the University of Oslo." - Softpedia, Study: Linux Desktop Should Have About 40% in a World Without Windows Piracy

Journeyman Geek

tldr. People are lazy cheapasses ;p

Also don't forget that hardly anyone buys windows retail

Rinzwind

@blade19899 that was Microsofts intention from the start: good software with crap copyright protection. When people use Microsoft at home for free they want it at work. And sueing companies for copyright is easy.

Ravi VGHL

hii

Journeyman Geek

@Rinzwind I paid for one of ...5-6 windows installs I have now.

and that's cause I wanted to upgrade it off XP

(and one of my 2 physical linux boxen came with windows preinstalled)

None of them were pirated. Either OEM or dreamspark ;p

Rinzwind

I have never paid for an operating system directly. It always came with the system itself

Ravi VGHL

10:12

@Rinzwind @JourneymanGeek i want ffmpeg command for reverse video frame

any one know that?

Journeyman Geek

@RaviVGHL good for you.

@Rinzwind exactly

Ravi VGHL

ok

Journeyman Geek

and I don't usually factor that into my decision since its pretty hard to find a system without windows

Outside DIY things

In theory I might almost argue linux costs me more due to time spent, but meh. I can't do the crazy shit my linux box does as easily on windows ;)

Rinzwind

@RaviVGHL unix.stackexchange.com/questions/214327/… ?

Ravi VGHL

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A: How can I reverse a video clip?

From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2553448: Dump all video frames $ ffmpeg -i input.mkv -an -qscale 1 %06d.jpg Dump audio $ ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vn -ac 2 audio.wav Reverse audio $ sox -V audio.wav backwards.wav reverse Cat video frames in reverse order to FFmpeg as input $ cat $(l...

i have used that

@Rinzwind

but that in i cant use to ` sox -V audio.wav backwards.wav reverse`

sox -V audio.wav backwards.wav reverse

blade19899

10:28

@Rinzwind If it weren't for work, I would be on Linux All day every day. Windows is a headache that nobody needs. Is it just me, or does it seem that Linux only needs a good ad on the super bowl, and MS/Apple would go bankrupt. The only reason to me, is that the general public don 't know Linux. Seriously, show some ads on TV for Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, Zorin OS for a year, and MS/Apple would definitely go bankrupt.

Rinzwind

@blade19899 I use Ubuntu at work on 1 desktop and windows 7 on another. I can't get all the VPNs I need to work on Ubuntu. But.. this system is about to be turned into w10 and I am thinking of making it Ubuntu 16.04 with a vmware with w10 in it

all our servers are Ubuntu :-)

Journeyman Geek

@Rinzwind I run KVM on one system

I've been playing with lxd (which is sweet) on my second

Saladin

10:48

hello @JourneymanGeek

are you good with "awk"?

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Q: Output each match from sed as a separate file

I have a file which contains questions with multiple choice answers. The first line of each question begins with 010. The last line of each question begins with a lowercase e. I need to output each match into a separate file. sed -n '/010/,/e)/p' FileName The above sed command displays the i...

regex bash sed

can you help me decipher "awk -v RS="010" 'NR > 1 {print RS $0 > (NR-1)}'?

I'm confused on part of {print RS $0 > (NR-1)}

what is the use '>' inside the action statement

A.B.

@Saladin thats a redirect

Journeyman Geek

@Saladin Have we had the conversation about pinging me?

Saladin

@JourneymanGeek I wouldn't know. Why?

A.B.

@Saladin Have you read my comment above?

Journeyman Geek

Cause you'd know better than to do that unless I'm already engaged in the conversation

A.B.

10:52

2 hours ago, by A.B.

@Saladin If NR > 1, than write the content of RS and the whole line to a file with the name "1", "1" is the result of NR-1

Journeyman Geek

google this google.com.sg/… find this arachnoid.com/linux/…

Is that really hard?

Saladin

@A.B strange enough I'm not receiving any feedback/alerts on the responses I'm getting from chat.

I never saw use of ">" as a file redirect operation in awk. I know the use of its for evaluating expression only.

I'm sorry @JourneymanGeek If i had offended you.

@A.B. thanks for your explanation:)

Journeyman Geek

I'm primarily grumpy cause I'd like to use this as a learning experience.

Also

@Saladin explainshell.com would be handy for you

which interestingly enough, breaks that

Saladin

@JourneymanGeek excellent thats like online tutor the site ...

blade19899

11:08

@Rinzwind Majority of our servers are CentOS, and already asked if I can Install a Linux Distro on my desktop. Hopefully they say yes.

terdon

11:56

@JourneymanGeek admittedly, awk is strange in that it accepts that format. It's not a shell, after all.

Journeyman Geek

@terdon more that it breaks the rediculously useful tool for people who need help with linux shell that I linked ;p

terdon

Yeah, that thing is great. Or I think it is, I've never actually used it, only seen people refer to it. It wouldn't work with a non-shell scripting language though Mr grumpy.

Journeyman Geek

clearly no

I was meaning more in general

muru

12:44

0

Q: SASL won't auth against LDAP

So I am running into a whirlwind of issues with my cyrus install. I am setting up a multi-domain kolab groupware solution. I am on centos 6.7 I am getting this flooding my error logs when I try to make a new user on a fresh multi domain setup: Aug 24 19:01:19 gmx1 imaps[1911]: badlogin: localho...

ldap imap sasl cyrus

centos question - vtc

terdon

@muru When you see decent questions like that one, please also flag for migration to U&L.

Oh, bugger. I only just saw the date. Damn.

muru

@terdon yep. I'm only VTCing for the roomba.

Ravi VGHL

13:02

hii

all

jokerdino

13:23

@terdon No want?

muru

@jokerdino can't, more like. :P

jokerdino

Oh yeah, forgot even mods can't migrate after the deadline.

@muru how did you find it anyway? So long until someone noticed..

oh wait, the answer bump.

I am doing everything in reverse.

muru

:D

So am I.. I as so sure I'd added code formatting to that answer.

A.B.

13:56

http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=%3A%28%29{%20%3A|%3A%26%20}%3B%3A

>:)

muru

15:22

@A.B. the fork bomb?

hbdgaf

15:42

2

@jokerdino just for you ;)

jokerdino

@hbdgaf lmao

source?

hbdgaf

someone posted it as "jazzhandosaur faced early extinction" somewhere

jokerdino

doesn't seem like it's a part of a movie. hmm

hbdgaf

Caveman......the movie with Ringo Starr

jokerdino

Oooh, is it worth watching?

hbdgaf

15:47

the preview makes it look funny, but i've never seen it

A.B.

@muru yes, the fork bomb. The first example on the page.

James

16:04

@NathanOsman I'm not 100% opposed to frameworks, I just don't like the additional complexity in general. My special dislike of Angular is strictly because of my experience with a particular project that was poorly done across the board.

Seth

But is it good at geometry?

James

you're punny @Seth

Seth

I blame my Dad.

Madhav Nikam

hi friends

Seth

\o

Madhav Nikam

16:17

I have one question, plz help to solve that or make guidance for that.

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Q: How to create a dual boot mode pen-drive which can support both UEFI Mode and Legacy BIOS mode?

How to create a Hy-bride boot mode pen-drive which can support both UEFI Mode and Legacy BIOS mode? When we create a USB stick with UEFI mode which can't run in Legacy BIOS mode, and when we create a USB stick with Legacy BIOS mode that also unable to run in UEFI mode. why I want both BOOT MODE? ...

boot dual-boot grub2 uefi grub-legacy

Seth

16:37

Ashu

16:59

my question was askubuntu.com/questions/735469/…

after using this command sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-lts-wily xserver-xorg-core-lts-wily xserver-xorg-lts-wily xserver-xorg-video-all-lts-wily xserver-xorg-input-all-lts-wily libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-wily

i just got into the login loop

Rinzwind

18:31

NAA askubuntu.com/a/737822/15811

terdon

@Seth Shouldn't that be 1 2 3 3.11 95 98 2000 8 10 (ignoring the named releases and assuming windows 1 and 2 existed)?

Rinzwind

you are missing 3.1

terdon

@Rinzwind As opposed to 3.11?

Rinzwind

and 3.2 iirc
That last one had a network feature

@terdon 3.11 was a fix to 3.1

terdon

Huh. OK.

Rinzwind

18:33

oh yes. 3.2 had hearts as a game extra to show off the network dll

terdon

That's a neat puzzle though. What's the next number in the series: 1 2 3 3.1 3.11 3.2 95 98?

Rinzwind

lol

you should stop then after 3.2

95 is too much of a hint

jokerdino

I can't see the image..

Rinzwind

@terdon problem

windows 1 does not exist

terdon

@Rinzwind Even better, I should continue to 2000 and then the right answer would be "4000" for XP. Roman X=10 and P=400!

jokerdino

18:36

lolwut

Rinzwind

1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 2.03 2.10 2.11 3.0 3.1 3.11 3.5

those are the low numbers next is 95 :D

terdon

3.5? Really? I really don't remember those. I did use 3.11 for a while but never installed it I think. I remember me and my Dad being all excited about the fact that it could read CDs.

Rinzwind

oh 3.5 is NT

terdon

Ah, yes.

Rinzwind

Windows NT

terdon

18:38

Which could also be called Windows 14400 if we continue on my mad and silly Roman Numeral trip.

(90*160). And yes, I am looking these up.

Rinzwind

noob for not knowing latin numbers

YES A CONVERT!!!!!!!!!!!

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Q: looking for the valid md5 checksum for "ubuntu-14.04.4-desktop-i386.iso" file

After the LinuxMint incident, I am giving Ubuntu a try. I was one of the "winners" who downloaded on the day of the hack attack. So I just wanted to be extra sure that the md5 was okay, but I can't find any? Could anyone please point me in the direction of the official, valid md5 checksum? The ...

security

jokerdino

at least he is checking md5 first stop.

Rinzwind

lol

he could do the same with mint :P

jokerdino

if he downloaded from ubuntu.com, why so unsure though.

terdon

@Rinzwind Yeah, like you knew P was 400. :)

Rinzwind

18:42

I did!

jokerdino

@terdon I only know 7 of them.

Rinzwind

I had latin in school :-P

terdon

@jokerdino That's what happened to Mint. Someone hacked their wordpress site.

jokerdino

I V X L C M

@terdon if someone hacked ubuntu.com, they sure could modify the checksum.

terdon

@Rinzwind Ah, I didn't. I know 1-10 and the ones Jokerdino just posted off the top of my head.

Rinzwind

18:43

I even know the names :-D

centum

100

octoginta was 80 iirc

terdon

@jokerdino I think they were on different sites and, in any case, they're now given in the blog post explaining the intrusion.

Rinzwind

@jokerdino that's not how this works :=)

jokerdino

fortunately, yeah.

Rinzwind

you invalidate all hashes and create new ones on the spot :=)

jokerdino

I do remember a case when a genuine ISO didnt match checksum. Believe it was during beta phase.

Rinzwind

18:48

that's weird :D

jokerdino

they didnt upload the new checksum file, that's what.

Rinzwind

ah

jokerdino

no one noticed it though.

James

19:01

This is why I bittorrent

terdon

Really? We're verbing bittorrent now?

:P

Rinzwind

laterz :-)

James

oh whatever

Seth

19:18

@terdon Puzzling

@James those old folk, they just can't keep up ;)

I think I should win points for that stab :P

terdon

:)

Git off o mah lawn!

Seth

;p

hbdgaf

19:39

@terdon sorry, it is officially verbed

Seth

when did we start verbing verb?

Oh my word please.

-1

Q: Is there an istaller?

Is there an installer instead of having a browser download? because I want to install on a thumb drive. drive specified

downloads

These are the kinds of people that should not be installing Linux, or any other operating system.

Zacharee1

19:58

@Seth "These are the kinds of people that should not be installing Linux, or any ~~other~~ operating system."

Rinzwind

@Oli askubuntu.com/questions/737848/… something for you to pass on? :-)

Seth

@Zacharee1 you're probably right.

grr, who put the nutella in the fridge >:|

Zacharee1

oh don't do that

Unless you want chocolate crumbles instead of a spread

Then do it :p

Rinzwind

@Seth you can get Nutella with your own name here -> facebook.com/nutellanederland

start here apps.facebook.com/nutella_nl :S

Seth

I don't have facebook.

Zacharee1

20:03

Ik spreek nederlands niet

Rinzwind

@Zacharee1 a good time to learn it

Zacharee1

Ich kann ein bissen Deutsch sprechen ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Rinzwind

Ik kan een beetje Nederlands spreken :+

looks a lot the same does it not ;)

Zacharee1

It does

the problem is actually knowing what the words are

Rinzwind

lots of verbs are the same

Zacharee1

20:05

If I understood more German, Dutch would be easy to understand, but not necessarily to speak

I could talk to you in German and you could speak in Dutch, and we'd both understand each other :p

Jacob Vlijm

20:22

Ik begrijp dat de officiele taal van Ask Ubuntu vanaf vanavond Nederlands is?

Rinzwind

@JacobVlijm +1 :+)

thebluesquirel

Greetings Fellow linux users :)

Zacharee1

I smething that the official something of AU something something is Dutch?

Jacob Vlijm

@Zacharee1 something like that :)

thebluesquirel

If an army of penguins tried to take over the world would you fight alongside or against the penguins???

Seth

20:25

against.

actually. hm.

Zacharee1

I understand that the official language of AU is Dutch

That'd be fun

thebluesquirel

Penguins are better than microsoft

Zacharee1

@Rinzwind Begreepen != Verstehen

Rinzwind

@Zacharee1 it is begrepen :=)

Zacharee1

◔_◔

Still

very different

thebluesquirel

20:28

Are the moderators or ask ubuntu the same on meta?

Zacharee1

I think so

Jacob Vlijm

We could do an experiment, the first q in English: "Lees alstublieft dit" <link> "vragen en antwoorden moeten in het Nederlands worden geschreven"

thebluesquirel

???

What language is that?

Jacob Vlijm

@thebluesquirel Dutch...

thebluesquirel

ah

Zacharee1

20:31

@JacobVlijm something about a question and answer

Jacob Vlijm

@Zacharee1 very good! That those should be in Dutch :)

Rinzwind

@thebluesquirel yes

Zacharee1

ah

Rinzwind

@Zacharee1 O O goed zo!

Zacharee1

In German, it's fragen and antworten so

Jacob Vlijm

20:33

Our general "please see this" message :)

Rinzwind

did you lot know there was a vote in America to decide what language to have in the US .... it was between dutch and english and it was just a couple of votes in favor of english

Zacharee1

When was this

Jacob Vlijm

@Zacharee1 last week

Rinzwind

@Zacharee1 somewhere in the 1800s.

Jacob Vlijm

....but Obama was against

Zacharee1

20:35

@JacobVlijm ಠ_ಠ

@Rinzwind ah

English is almost Dutch to be fair :p

hbdgaf

20:50

@Seth we started verbing verb after we verbed google and needed a verb to describe what we did...

Seth

LOL

Rinzwind

SEE! Even @seth knows dutch @JacobVlijm :-)

Jacob Vlijm

@Rinzwind I always knew it... he must have been one of the pro voters last wee

Serg

0

Q: Why do I need to shutdown Ubuntu?

Why do I need to shutdown Ubuntu? Is there any risk that may damage OS? If yes, then what are those?

shutdown

Seth

@Rinzwind not really true watzmann.net/scg/german-by-one-vote.html

Serg

21:01

Edit butchered the original meaning

Can someone review and roll it back plz ?

Seth

@Serg OP butchered it themselves..

Serg

@Seth well that's . . . .weird. original post has been asking about a sudden shut down, from what i understand

Seth

@Serg well "shot down ubuntu" doesn't really give me a lot of confidence in the OP's English abilities tbh.

Serg

That's obviously so @Seth

Seth

What version of Ubuntu are you running?

Serg

21:05

0

Q: Pressing Ctrl+C for stopping Xvfb from bash script

I have written something like this in my bash file gnome-terminal -e "bash -c \"sudo apt-get install xvfb; Xvfb :99 -ac; exit ; exec bash\"" After Xvfb :99 -ac; I have Xvfb running on terminal. I want to press Ctrl+C to stop Xvfb and then want to exit from gnome-terminal. How can I do this...

command-line bash gnome-terminal

Seth

You shouldn't be trying to install debian packages on Ubuntu.

Serg

Think this one is fairly easy . . . Send sigkill to the process

Seth

@mspl I suggest you ask an actual question on the site. Dependency issues can be tricky and troubleshooting through chat makes it harder. Please include all the details you have, including why you are trying to install libdrm, what commands you tried, what packages you downloaded from debian, etc.

@mspl unless you can find one specific about libdrm it shouldn't.

Some people are a little trigger happy, but dependency issues are, unfortunately, almost always too specific for duplicates.

Zacharee1

21:47

The Exynos 8890 has water cooling O_o

hbdgaf

Funny of the day:

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Zacharee1

lol

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