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Seth

00:00

@SQuirel so you say here, but how would someone looking at the question know that?

and what's stopping them from suggesting something you already tried? No one wants to do that.

SQuirel

"""what's stopping them from suggesting something you already tried?""

You don't have to worry about that

Seth

anyone who cares how they spend their time most certainly does.

SQuirel

I didn't get any suggestions

Seth

And right now you're wasting it with stuff you've already tried, but are too lazy to tell us.

@SQuirel lots of people are going to pass right over your question because of these things.

SQuirel

I tried everything on the duplicate page

Seth

00:03

the effort people put into your questions is the effort you put into them.

SQuirel

0

Q: My wireless is VERY slow

Hello my internet is very slow and unreliable i've been trying to make it faster but with no success :( Here's the results of iwconfig && ifconfig wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:"ESSIDNAMEHERE" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 58:6D:8F:64:BE:69 Retry ...

I put as much information as I could in this post

and it still got marked as a duplicate

First off it's not a duplicate I wasn't trying to install broadcom drivers...

Seth

edit your question to include details on what happened when you installed bcmwl-kernel-source and I will reopen it.

This is a mess though.. Most of your tinkering probably did more harm than good.

SQuirel

00:19

Is this good?

0

Q: My wireless is VERY slow

Hello my internet is very slow and unreliable i've been trying to make it faster but with no success :( Here's the results of iwconfig && ifconfig wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:"ESSIDNAMEHERE" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 58:6D:8F:64:BE:69 Retry ...

networking wireless

Seth

You need to be more descriptive. There are many broadcom drivers. Which did you try? How did you try changing the rate?

SQuirel

ok

Zacharee1

And here's my question:

0

Q: Intel WiDi Issues with Smart TV and Windows 7

I (very) recently got a brand-new TCL Roku Smart TV (Model Number: 48FS3750). So far, it's been a lot of fun. There are tons of features, and the image is great compared to what I had. Since I like to play around with tech, I went into the settings and found the option to enable screen mirroring....

windows-7 multiple-monitors

Aren't they exactly the same? \/ \/

0

Q: How to make 14.04 terminal look like 15.10

I like the default look of the terminal in 15.10. Is there a way to make the terminal in 14.04 look exactly like it? Colors, transparency, etc...

gnome-terminal

Seth

um. what?

Zacharee1

@Seth ?

Seth

00:23

oh, now I see.

SQuirel

0

Q: My wireless is VERY slow

Hello my internet is very slow and unreliable i've been trying to make it faster but with no success :( Here's the results of iwconfig && ifconfig wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:"ESSIDNAMEHERE" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 58:6D:8F:64:BE:69 Retry ...

networking wireless

is it good now?

Seth

close.

SQuirel

?

Seth

there.

Zacharee1

lol

SQuirel

00:39

@Seth Is it good now?

Seth

yeah

SQuirel

ok thanks

Zacharee1

sigh

Windows 10 works fine

Journeyman Geek

That's what I keep telling people.

@Zacharee1 newer driver versions?

older driver versions...

hmm

also I vaguely recall widi has a seperate driver

Zacharee1

@JourneymanGeek Windows 10 had an older driver version. Then I updated to the newest version and it still works

Windows 7 just doesn't give me an image

And WiDi installed its drivers.

I can connect just fine, but there's no image

Henry White Hat Hacker

00:59

I am going to flag some bad questions see you guys later.

I am going to flag some spam see you guys later.

SQuirel

@HenryWhiteHatHacker hi

Henry White Hat Hacker

Hello

No Serg :(

kos

01:36

Can someone vote to close this one against this one?

Pretty please?

Seth

only if it comes with a cherry on top.

kos

@Seth 🍒

Seth

lol

Henry White Hat Hacker

I have a talkative barge lol!

kos

@Seth You were the only one who shouldn't have voted to close! The idea was to close it against this one and this one. I can't vote to close myself either because my vote would be binding as well

Seth

01:42

@kos -.-

I was afraid you would say that.

They need to make this system better.

@Zach around?

kos

@Seth Absolutely.

Zacharee1

@Seth somewhat

Seth

8 mins ago, by kos

Can someone vote to close this one against this one?

Zacharee1

like that?

kos

@Zacharee1 Purrfect, thanks

Henry White Hat Hacker

01:48

Can mods get suspended I need to know?

hbdgaf

Not for doing that... should have been around for site cleanup. Just saying.

kos

@HenryWhiteHatHacker I know of a single case where a mod was asked to step down, but it had nothing to do with them abusing their powers or something like that. And even that is extremely rare (personally I only know of that single case). I suppose that in case of severe enough violations of the rules they could.

Henry White Hat Hacker

@kos +1

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

02:08

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Q: I can ping IPs but can't resolve domains

I have Xubuntu 14.04 installed on my server. network-manager is not installed. It seems to have lost its ability to resolve domains, and I'm not sure where to begin diagnosing the issue. ping 8.8.8.8 pings normally. ping google.com returns ping: unknown host google.com. I tried adding a DNS se...

ubuntu dns

Henry White Hat Hacker

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L Hello Mr Bot.

I have 11 flags!

Journeyman Geek

02:53

@HenryWhiteHatHacker depends on for what

Super rare though

I could get suspended on say, AU, for doing something wrong, I guess

not going to happen tho. I behave well ;p

@kos I can think of maaaaybe once situation where a mod was de-hatted

Henry White Hat Hacker

@JourneymanGeek I flag some spam and I got 11 flags now.

Journeyman Geek

good

I have over 2000 on SU ;)

Nathan Osman

nathan@sf:~$ uptime
 22:56:37 up 466 days,  4:00,  3 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.05

Time for a reboot yet?

kos

@JourneymanGeek Yeah. I too only know of a single a case where that happened. Usually you guys are cool ;)

SQuirel

hi world

hi nathan

hi henry

Henry White Hat Hacker

03:03

What's a moderator suspension?

SQuirel

on ask ubuntu?

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Q: My account has been temporarily suspended; what does that mean?

My account has been temporarily suspended, besides the following restrictions: an account will be locked at 1 reputation the user page will have a visual indication that the account is in timed suspension, and for how long the account holder will be unable to vote, ask, answer or comment What...

support faq account-suspension

that's what suspension is. I don't know about moderator suspension though...

why?

Journeyman Geek

@HenryWhiteHatHacker why're you asking?

Henry White Hat Hacker

@JourneymanGeek The thing about when two or more mods are chatting don't interrupt.

Journeyman Geek

@HenryWhiteHatHacker Oh, that's never the case

you get kicked when you're distruptive to anyone.

Henry White Hat Hacker

@JourneymanGeek I got suspend for that a time ago lol

Journeyman Geek

03:10

And I'm sure I'm not the only mod who's attempted to set you straight.

A kick or a suspension on chat means we somehow still hold out hope for you

SQuirel

they can do a lot more than a kick or suspend...

Henry White Hat Hacker

@SQuirel Yes the mods can DELETE your ACCOUNT also!

SQuirel

you don't want to pick a fight with a mod...

@HenryWhiteHatHacker I know

@HenryWhiteHatHacker you ever try mtrek?

Henry White Hat Hacker

No

@SQuirel If the site had no mods what do you think the site will be like?

SQuirel

?

I never said anything against moderators

Journeyman Geek

03:18

@HenryWhiteHatHacker to a large extent it would still run actually

SQuirel

stackexchange.com/about/moderators

Henry White Hat Hacker

@JourneymanGeek In a bad way

SQuirel

it's democratic..

Journeyman Geek

not really

SQuirel

most mods are pretty nice....

Journeyman Geek

03:18

Most of my 'work' as a mod is handleable by higher rep users

The only big advantages I have on my home site is being able to one shot close a question and nuke spammer accounts

Henry White Hat Hacker

@JourneymanGeek I always thought you hated me!

Journeyman Geek

@HenryWhiteHatHacker I don't hate anyone.

SQuirel

more people hate me than you

Journeyman Geek

I merely do what is necessary

SQuirel

@JourneymanGeek that came off very scary...

Henry White Hat Hacker

03:21

@JourneymanGeek @SQuirel The truth is coming to me yes!

SQuirel

"I merely do what is necessary"

comes off kinda scary...

not that your scary...

but the way it was put was kinda scary...

nevermind -_-

Henry White Hat Hacker

@SQuirel What distro do you use?

SQuirel

It depends on the computer...

Arch Ubuntu Lubuntu

I usually strap a gnome shell and numix icons on them...

and spam the desktop with conky...

and zorin-os gtk :)

things got quiet

Roses are red

Henry White Hat Hacker

Still here :)

SQuirel

Violates are blue...

what terminal do you use?

Journeyman Geek

03:34

@SQuirel in a sense, I try not to mod angry

or mod with hate

Henry White Hat Hacker

@SQuirel Gnome

SQuirel

@JourneymanGeek Thanks ;)

Journeyman Geek

Its something like "hey, what can I do to keep things flowing"

So its never personal, (and when it is, I ask for a second opinion)

In fact on my non mod site chats, I actually let the 'local' mods know "hey, I'm doing moddy things when you arn't around"

SQuirel

...

@JourneymanGeek Nice profile pic :)

He yours?

Journeyman Geek

@SQuirel its a selfie (style pic) ;p

in a certain manner of speaking

SQuirel

03:38

Don't know why

My cat always wants to be petted when i'm on the computer...

Ask ubuntu recently got mobile chat support :)

Journeyman Geek

@SQuirel the platform's had moble chat for quite a while

this is a newer/better version tho

SQuirel

But I think it got updated...

looks alot nicer

Journeyman Geek

yup

Seth

04:01

Not really a good idea to give a chimpanzee an AK47. https://t.co/iZjA42KEnX

Tweeted by AwardsDarwin on April 8, 2016 at 12:00 PM

3

O_O

Nathan Osman

Am I crazy or shouldn't I get an error trying to store 68 characters in a VARCHAR(40) field?

Well then...

34

A: SQLite VARCHAR default size

It doesn't matter. SQLite does not use sizes when declaring the VARCHAR type. In fact, it almost doesn't use the type either. You can store TEXT in an INT column in SQLite. And SQLite will never truncate a TEXT column.

I keep forgetting how dumb SQLite is.

It's a great tool, but it's not all that smart.

j0h

04:59

@JacobVlijm heck Yeah!

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

05:33

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Q: ERROR: ssh: connect to host 10.5.60.8 port 22: No route to host

I have created two virtual machines (ie., Ubuntu machines) on Oracle virtual box and when I am trying to run ssh-copy-id command I got below error: ERROR: ssh: connect to host 10.5.60.8 port 22: No route to host. Earlier both machines wont have ip address so I have assigned them static ip. mach...

linux ubuntu ssh

gracious1

06:12

This room isn't loading properly.

I can't see you.

brb

hmmm

Not even a bot tonight.

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Flagging a post

I've been banned for flagging a post for 7 days because 4 of my flagging were not appropriate,I know Moderators are very busy People and It creates an extra load on them. What should I know before flagging a post because there were post which were not absolutely understandable?Do people who are ...

discussion

gracious1

06:39

I think that Darwin video is a hoax.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

SQuirel

07:05

Hi

@gracious1 hi

@gracious1 me squirel :)

Anyone here?

SQuirel

07:38

Hi

Henry White Hat Hacker

Hello

Anyone here?

user136984

@HenryWhiteHatHacker: No.

Henry White Hat Hacker

07:54

@ParanoidPanda :(

:)

My next privilege is at 1,000 rep. :)

ITSEC.STACKEXCHANGE.COM

user136984

@HenryWhiteHatHacker: Yes, and mine is at 15k.

Henry White Hat Hacker

@ParanoidPanda I have 680/1,000/15,000 sad :( very sad :(

user136984

VTC this Minty question as off-topic.

user136984

@HenryWhiteHatHacker: Well, I reached 1k within the first 2 weeks I arrived here, and I've now only been here for a year, so getting rep isn't actually that hard, actually it seems to come much easier and mean less when you get above 10k...

Henry White Hat Hacker

Why do I always delete my post did not mean to do that.

sorry mods.

user136984

08:05

What was the removed message? I didn't see...

Henry White Hat Hacker

repost: @ParanoidPanda Just ask a very good question flag question and edit questions super reps.

user136984

@HenryWhiteHatHacker: Before I reached 2k and could edit posts without approval (I think it was 2k anyway), I got most of my rep through editing, well, a lot of it from that anyway.

user136984

But if you find out how to do something really useful and good just posting a self-answered Q&A can get you a lot of rep.

Henry White Hat Hacker

@ParanoidPanda I asked a few questions but I didn't answer any questions sad!

vs

No @Serg :(

while 10 == 10:

    print "10"

user136984

08:20

@HenryWhiteHatHacker: You should try running that code... You'll get an infinite loop... :P

Henry White Hat Hacker

@ParanoidPanda I know

user136984

And they are not nice things for performance... :D

Henry White Hat Hacker

CRASH YOUR COMPUTER!

Like a virus

I am coding oh yeah!

OKay not a virus

I am going to create a super loop.

user136984

@HenryWhiteHatHacker: Just try running yes > file.

user136984

You may need to install yes first though...

user136984

08:25

Or actually, don't, unless you want a real big file and a slow computer... It just outputs y as fast as it can until you manually stop it... :D

Henry White Hat Hacker

LOL

CODING IS BETTER THAN MONEY! :)

Fabby

08:59

@kos Ah! Thanks for the info!

@TheBrownOne No worries... How long?

cl-netbox

Good morning :)

Fabby

@TheBrownOne :D Not very long then...

@cl-netbox Guten Morgen!

cl-netbox

Hey @Fabby - nice to see you ! :) Guten Morgen mein Freund ! :)

A.B.

Morning @Fabby @cl-netbox

Fabby

@A.B. It's alive! ALIVE!

;-) Guten Morgen!

A.B.

09:05

=)

Fabby

How's life and work?

@A.B. Guess where I'm going to move to?

A.B.

@Fabby great and great =)

@Fabby and you, your job hunting?

Fabby

@A.B. I'm moving to Walldorf... Found a job there!

I need to move my car: BRB

A.B.

@Fabby WOW, that's GREAT!!!!

Walldorf?

Jacob Vlijm

@Rinzwind You owe me all of your 121,563 reputation: askubuntu.com/questions/750815/fuzzy-clock-for-ubuntu/…

cl-netbox

09:26

@A.B. Good morning my friend ! :)

Byte Commander

Good morning!

cl-netbox

@ByteCommander Good morning ! :)

A.B.

@cl-netbox \o/ =)

@ByteCommander Morning =)

Archisman Panigrahi

@A.B. Hi. Can I include only this in the edit "Note that there must be "tab" before dh $@ --with python2, not spaces." Otherwise it cannot be packaged. askubuntu.com/questions/90764/…

A.B.

@ArchismanPanigrahi ok

Archisman Panigrahi

09:33

@A.B. done

Fabby

@A.B. Yes! :-)

A.B.

@Fabby Give me a link =)

Byte Commander

Can a full crash with blinking keyboard LEDs mean anything other than hardware defect? And what component would likely be the cause? askubuntu.com/q/754392/367990

cl-netbox

@A.B. :)

Rinzwind

11:15

@JacobVlijm you can have 100 Can't have fossy overtake me >:-d

Zacharee1

Welp

No one seems to know anything about WiDi at Super User

Jacob Vlijm

11:38

@Rinzwind together, we'll almost beat Oli : -))

Byte Commander

12:15

@JacobVlijm I have a problem converting fractions into decimal numbers as string with repeating decimal places surrounded by (brackets). Would you mind looking over the code in my question on SO here?

Zacharee1

12:34

You know when you have your phone in your pocket and accidentally dial someone?

I had my phone in my pocket and accidentally rooted it

Fabby

@A.B. look in tox (private)

shutting down and driving...

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Linked punctuation in body: Booting problem in Ubuntu 14.04 by Akash Vartak on askubuntu.com …

gracious1

@Zacharee1 hi

@JacobVlijm hi

Arrgghhhhhhh... Every 5-15 mins my wi-fi pops up a dialog box asking me to re-enter password. I have tried suggestions from other posts on Ask Ubuntu but nothing works.

This doesn't happen on the other platforms.

Rinzwind

@JacobVlijm Ill distract him. You clubber him. :=)

gracious1

I wuz up all night trying to deal with this and now I am very cross but please someone help me. :(

Zacharee1

12:42

@gracious1 step 1: get a hammer or a gun

Jacob Vlijm

@Rinzwind we can do it, I know we can

Hi @gracious1!

Rinzwind

sure you can have 60% of his rep :+)

bbl. boodschappen :=)

gracious1

So what can I do about this, short of shooting my laptop? @Zacharee1

Jacob Vlijm

@ByteCommander That's a serious one, needs a -reading into the subject-. There is always a stupid brute force solution, but mathematically would be more interesting...

gracious1

@JacobVlijm same Q to U

Zacharee1

12:46

@gracious1 smash it with the hammer :p

gracious1

C'mon. Seriously. I need help.

Jacob Vlijm

@gracious1 networking is not really my strongest quality I an afraid...

gracious1

It is evidently nobody's strong point. 😦

Also I am finding that entering characters via Unicode's numeric codes is not working for me, either.

gracious1

13:10

OMG. I tried to answer a question, and ASk Ubuntu thought I was a bot.

GtG

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

13:33

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Q: Why the virtual interface is down when I establish a layer-3 SSH VPN using "tun" devices

I would like to establish a layer-3 SSH VPN on Ubuntu 14.04. To create a tun virtual device, I used the command ssh -f -w 0:0 [email protected] -p 2010 true, it creates the interface 'tun0' but the interface is down and I can not make it up. The configs are as follows: User's on both of the cli...

ubuntu vpn ssh-tunneling network-interface

Zacharee1

Votes trolls are here: askubuntu.com/questions/755904/…

Zacharee1

14:26

Finally setting my MC server up again

lazyPower

14:59

i completely forgot about this room o/ hey everyone

Seth

hey lazyPower!

long time no see :)

how's the juju going?

lazyPower

:D I know right!

Super busy actually, with 2.0 right around the corner we're nose to the grind stone landing fixes/features to make sure its our best release yet

Seth

sweet! I didn't know there was a major release coming up. Does juju follow Ubuntu's release schedule or does it have its own?

lazyPower

we were kind of a whenever schedule before the 1.25 release, which we've now fallen in line with the ubuntu release cadence

so its a new development, but we do follow the ubuntu cadence now

Seth

it's almost here then :D

lazyPower

15:06

its pretty much like this right now: 49.media.tumblr.com/0aea7dcf346060ade99f31e0a820a6ba/…

how about you @Seth? Hows things on your end of the wire?

Seth

@lazyPower not doing too bad. The heat hit us early, but it can't decide if it wants to stick around or not. School might be ending soon but I have a whole bunch of crazy stuff to do before fall quarter..

Overall pretty good :)

lazyPower

\o/ great success

Jacob Vlijm

15:19

@ByteCommander when you seriously look into it, it is an extremely complicated thing. Do you really want to output possibly very long repeating decimals?

Jacob Vlijm

15:33

@ByteCommander I think you need a mathematician oeis.org/A051626/graph

Jacob Vlijm

16:21

@kos concerning your question a while ago on SO, there is a good way of using threads in Gtk, using GObject.threads_init(), which was created for that purpose. Used it in the indicator. Tested it on your example and works perfectly.

user136984

17:00

Next next Thursday Ubuntu 16.04 is scheduled for release! :D

user136984

They start working on the release candidate this Thursday!

cl-netbox

@ParanoidPanda Hello my friend ! :) Nice to see you - browser working again ? :D

user136984

@cl-netbox: No, sadly not... :(

user136984

I think the JS for the in-page buttons is being blocked...

cl-netbox

@ParanoidPanda Then check your extensions and fix it or disable something there ... I dropped NoScript because of too many not properly working websites ... AdBlock Plus works without issues ! :)

user139252

17:16

I am le tired

user136984

I can use base64 to give convert a file to its base64 state, however there seem to be no other base conversion tools that allow the same for files on my machine... So how do I convert a file to base2 or base10 then?

user139252

Like, re-encoding it?

cl-netbox

17:40

Goodbye :)

user136984

@cl-netbox: Bye! :)

user136984

@cl-netbox: I'll try to get my browser fixed by tomorrow! ;)

user136984

@TheBrownOne: I guess so...

user136984

18:02

I hear the sound of rhythmically cooing Wood Pigeons around me... So calming... :D

user136984

VTC this 16.04 bug question as off-topic.

Seth

18:35

@Zacharee1 I'm probably going to have to edit your gist some

Zacharee1

Probably

Seth

the idea was to follow the existing one as closely as possible so the person who reviews the bug already has 90% of the work done for him/her.

@jokerdino if no one uploads UTT before Xenial comes out.. are we in trouble? (metaphorically speaking)

gracious1

Greetings.

Hey, how do you make strikethrough text in here?

Seth

~~like this~~ (---like this---)

gracious1

~~testing~~

~~cool beans~~

~~thx~~

@Seth Is there documentation for this stuff?

Seth

18:43

@gracious1 chat.stackexchange.com/faq

gracious1

kthx

You know what style is missing? underline (underscore)

user136984

Anyone have any idea on this? :)

Rinzwind

@ParanoidPanda askubuntu.com/questions/209597/… ?

Seth

yeah that's a duplicate.

The indicator uses this method outlined in that post: askubuntu.com/a/414041/44179

@ParanoidPanda Open dconf-editor and check out what options are currently set.

gracious1

How do u make pretty keys inline? Like "ctrl"?

user136984

18:52

Does the duplicate show how to change input mode as well?

Seth

If that doesn't answer the different modes part too edit your Q to be specific to that and ping me to reopen.

@gracious1 <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>, doesn't work in chat though.

user136984

@Seth: Ok, will do! :)

gracious1

If you can tell the year a movie is made by the MGM lion used (and you know his name), you probably don't have a life.

kthx @Seth

Seth

@gracious1 haha, probably not :p

I didn't know that was even possible..

gracious1

I'm watching Ivanhoe (1952), and I saw the lion, and I thought, "Gee, Tanner looks angry."

@Seth well, you can guess-timate the year.

I mean like which decade or so.

Except Leo has been used since 1956, even tho' he's long dead. Even the new cgi logo is still Leo's image.

Seth

18:56

sure, obviously the exact year would be impossible.. unless they changed it every year lol.

gracious1

See, I know way too much about this.

Seth

:D

gracious1

THe Wizard of Oz -- that's Jackie. He's my favorite.

I also like the MTM cat, but I forgot his name. MEOW.

I think I'm going to start a stackexchange group about logos and idents and so forth.

Or I could just talk to myself here.

Seth

you mean like Graphic Design?

gracious1

maybe.

I will check it out.

user136984

19:13

@Seth: Ping! Please reopen it, I have edited so that it is no longer a duplicate. :)

Zacharee1

After the reinstall, TeamViewer and SSH both start automatically

Seth

done

user136984

@Seth: Thanks! :)

Seth

Which one of these are you using @ParanoidPanda?

user136984

19:29

@Seth: I already said... "Japanese (Anthy)", for some reason though it does not appear in all input-source lists, maybe it's a GNOME thing, not sure I've ever found it on Unity...

Seth

@ParanoidPanda hmm.. odd.

Maybe you have a package installed that I don't.

Can't help then :/

user136984

@Seth: All I know is I used the Unity tool which installs language packs to download and install them... Then Anthy was available to me...

user136984

But this was on GNOME...

Takkat

this Q&A says there is an additional ibus package: askubuntu.com/questions/184328/…

Seth

@Takkat ah, thanks!

I'll try that.

Takkat

19:32

hope it still works like that...

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