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Thomas W.

7:18 PM

@Zacharee1 Not a web developer

so no, not really

Zacharee1

agh

Thomas W.

only enough to "get by" in debugging some things

why?

Zacharee1

The API can be accessed with PHP, but I'd need help integrating that with the JS

Thomas W.

... why?

if it can be accessed by PHP, why use JS at all?

Zacharee1

So I can write the elements to the page

idk how with PHP and I barely figured it out with JS

Thomas W.

7:20 PM

sounds like you want static HTML then

Seth

what are we doing?

'cause I can promise you the answer is not PHP :P

Thomas W.

@Seth he needs to make API + JS + PHP working together

Zacharee1

@ThomasW. well the elements are changing

Thomas W.

and he says the API can be PHP-accessed

Zacharee1

If I could have the JS read a returned PHP value somehow?

Thomas W.

7:21 PM

@Zacharee1 are you saying JS can't interact with the API at all?

Zacharee1

because right now it's just reading the what JQuery returns

It can, but it has the API keys exposed to the world

Seth

Why are you doing this server side?

Zacharee1

?

Right now, you can go to x-p-w.tk/servers.html and see the stats below the tiles

Abhishek Bhatia

Any ideas on my question?

Zacharee1

The data is gotten with JQuery, and then JS interprets and filters it

It works, but the JQuery function has private data that could be used to delete files on the servers without a login

Seth

7:24 PM

Um.

What?

user136984

It turns out Classical music + VM = slow and crashing computer. :D

Seth

jQuery has no server side access, so if jQuery can access the server you have waaaay more problems then accessing an API.

Zacharee1

It's accessing a remote API

Seth

well I'd hope the API is remote.. Why would it be local?

user136984

And the Classical music carries on playing after I close the tab... :D

Serg

7:27 PM

That's Beethoven version of "Can't stop, won't stop"

Abhishek Bhatia

damn wildcards, blew up my system.

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Byte Commander

Is this already spammy or just a not really great answer? askubuntu.com/a/787430/367990

Seth

Don't play with wildcards, kids -^

They are not your friend :/

Serg

Linux-style sex-ed : " Abstain form wildcards "

Abhishek Bhatia

haha...any ideas on fixing it though?

Serg

7:32 PM

well, what command did you run

Abhishek Bhatia

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Q: Recovering uninstalled packages

I did sudo apt-get purge *pulse* ; sudo apt-get purge skype; dpkg -r skype; Issue: Now I can't login into kde. It doesn't show the kde bootscreen. Any ideas? I can still use CLI with Ctrl+Alt+F7.Is there anyway I can know exactly what I uniinstalled? What I have tried: sudo apt-get instal...

Bharadwaj Raju

Doesn't apt ask confirmation before doing things?

Wild Man

yes

Byte Commander

I'm asking again, is this spam or not? askubuntu.com/a/787430/367990

Abhishek Bhatia

I was in a hurry. :/

Byte Commander

7:34 PM

It's pretty much advertising a specific site, but I think the OP did not mean to spam.

Serg

@AbhishekBhatia look into /var/log/apt/history.log , find the entry with your exact command, see what packages were removed , try to reinstall those or at least those you suspect to be cause of the issue

@ByteCommander As is ,it's just low quality post , it doesn't even contain a link

i left a comment on that by the way

Byte Commander

> ... The web site for Packer is packer.io, and ...

Tim

http://askubuntu.com/questions/116/how-do-i-get-and-install-more-themes-icons-and-pointers
http://askubuntu.com/questions/642111/how-to-install-icons-on-ubuntu-14-04-using-gnome-shell
http://askubuntu.com/questions/136473/how-do-i-change-the-icon-theme-in-ubuntu
http://askubuntu.com/questions/471519/how-to-install-theme-packs-and-icon-packs-on-14-04
http://askubuntu.com/questions/67155/how-do-i-change-icon-themes
http://askubuntu.com/questions/442635/installing-new-icons-themes-etc
http://askubuntu.com/questions/174217/how-to-install-the-human-icon-theme

Serg

@Tim what's the list ?

Tim

They're all dupes

Serg

7:39 PM

we have an upgoat

Upgoat

@Serg I'm supposed to be Downgoat actually but I accidentally flipped myself upside-down

can I ask git questions here?

Serg

You probably used a wildcard

Sure ask

not a guarantee we can answer tho

Thomas W.

@Upgoat depends on the nature of them, but for the most part you can

Upgoat

So I have master branch with commit history:

    y-z

and I have develop branch with history (y-z is the same as in the master branch):

    a-b-c-d-e-y-z

I want the structure to be (as in develop is not a bunch of commits ahead of master as their HEAD is the same):

  master:            y-z
  develop: a-b-c-d-e-y-z

where z-y are aligned, but git thinks it's:

  master:  y-z
  develop: a-b-c-d-e-y-z

any ideas on how to address?

Tim

Why?

Does it matter until you merge them? And then it will sort itself out?

Upgoat

7:42 PM

because now when I merge them, every change is a conflict. It get's annoying when I have lots and lots of commits.

user139252

@Zacharee1 Where'd you go?

Pablo

Hi I have a question can you guys help?

Tim

I see

@Pablo try

Pablo

ok

I want to use "return key" but in my keyboard is "enter" too

any way to change it?

Bharadwaj Raju

So your develop branch's history goes back to before master

Enter = Return

Serg

7:43 PM

same key, two different names

Upgoat

@BharadwajRaju yeah, pretty much.

Pablo

ah ok

hey but when I hit "enter/return" on terminal

just closes

Tim

what command was running when you pressed enter?

Pablo

when temrinal asks for return

Bharadwaj Raju

Do you have exit typed out before?

Pablo

7:45 PM

I think it was sudo apt-get install steam

nope

Bharadwaj Raju

Try with a VT: Ctrl+Alt+F1

Videonauth

@Pablo let me guess when you start steam you get a message that your steam is outdated right tinue and that you shall press ENTER to continue ?

Abhishek Bhatia

@Serg Thanks for the suggestion! This is the command bpaste.net/show/ab679eb59a31. Can you please suggest how to proceed now.

Pablo

Yes

trying it

Bharadwaj Raju

@AbhishekBhatia now for everything in the 'Remove:', install them

Byte Commander

7:47 PM

Close as dupe: askubuntu.com/q/787468/367990

Also maybe delete answer to that? Not sure...

Serg

@Abhi I see you have kde-baseapps-bin removed there,and you said your kde is not loading . maybe that's the cause ? sudo apt-get install kde-baseapps-bin

Videonauth

@Pablo open a terminal with ctrl+alt+t and use the following lines to fix your steam

mv ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1{,.disable}
mv ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6{,.disable}
mv ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3{,.disable}
mv ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.12.1{,.disable}

Bharadwaj Raju

Looks like lots of KDE has been removed

Abhishek Bhatia

@BharadwajRaju how can I automate that, right now I am doing tail -n 100 /var/log/apt/history.log and then finding the command for the date.

Bharadwaj Raju

sudo apt install --reinstall kubuntu-desktop should install most of them

Abhishek Bhatia

7:51 PM

@Serg Unable to locate package kde-baseapps-bins

Bharadwaj Raju

No s at the end of bin

Videonauth

@ByteCommander well that answer is correct but more than low quality

Bharadwaj Raju

@Videonauth no, we can still salvage most data

Byte Commander

^ that.

See the Q linked as dupe.

Videonauth

well good luck trying to guide someone who's so insecure that he simply installs something over his existing install through a data rescue where 50-90% are most likely gone anyways

Byte Commander

7:56 PM

Need to review 14 more LQ posts tomorrow to get that golden Steward badge

Too bad I already used up my limit for today.

Abhishek Bhatia

@Videonauth are you referring to me :p?

Byte Commander

Let me greet you, my dear Vorlon! (@Fabby)

Abhishek Bhatia

@BharadwajRaju Tried that, doesn't fix it. (askubuntu.com/questions/787454/recovering-uninstalled-packages)

Fabby

@Zacharee1 I've never needed jquery in my entire life!

Bharadwaj Raju

@AbhishekBhatia No

Byte Commander

7:57 PM

I hope you're in your after-work hours now?

Bharadwaj Raju

@Fabby Don't say that at SO

Videonauth

@AbhishekBhatia nope tho this askubuntu.com/questions/787468/…

Abhishek Bhatia

Is there anyway I convert this(bpaste.net/show/d12d8ba30909) to a bash script that installs all the package?

Fabby

@ByteCommander Just a quick in-and-out... I was looking up the difference between a SAN director and a SAN switch and fell on a Q in Serverfault...

Bharadwaj Raju

Any regex expert?

Serg

7:58 PM

I haven't gone out of house since the day i came back , no that i am out of smokes, i need to go get em. Anxiety !!!!

Fabby

@BharadwajRaju Meh, why not?

Serg

I wanna stay in my room

Bharadwaj Raju

They love jQuery to death.

Abhishek Bhatia

@Videonauth oh sorry, I have been doing stupid stuff myself lately. :)

Fabby

@Serg :) It's fabulous, but very tiring... Started this morning at 09:30 and am still busy...

Byte Commander

7:59 PM

@BharadwajRaju Advanced yes, but expert? Not sure. What's your question?

Serg

Also, I haven't driven my car in a long time . . .anxiety++

Fabby

Studying the EMC Connectrix family...

Upgoat

@BharadwajRaju D: jQuery?

in The Nineteenth Byte, Apr 25 at 3:15, by Downgoat

jQuery is horrible

Serg

@Fabby what's that ?

Fabby

@Serg Shall I come over and lkick your butt?

Serg

8:00 PM

@Fabby please do, i need buttkicking lately, since my gf is not around

Fabby

@Serg SAN switches/directors and connectors and interfaces.

@Serg GF???? Woohoo!

Seth

jQuery is awesome.

Fabby

@Seth It's a good source code sample library...

Serg

@Fabby yes, that's a long story , but i'll tell you all about it at some point. Maybe once i set up the damn qtox ?

Bharadwaj Raju

@ByteCommander Help @AbhishekBhatia out, this comment

Fabby

8:01 PM

@Serg I have the opposite problem: GF is AROUND! ;)

Seth

@Upgoat Isn't downgoat supposed to say jQuery is horrible?

Serg

@Fabby lucky you !!!

Videonauth

@Fabby :p i envy you both somehow

Upgoat

@Seth :/

Serg

@Fabby we need to hook up @Videonauth

Fabby

8:02 PM

@Videonauth :D :thumbsup:

Videonauth

but for now im in other troubles

user139252

How can I make sure the DNS servers in my settings are being used?

Fabby

@BharadwajRaju Me? When getting SMSes when pinged? No way! :P

@TheBrownOne nslookup [enter]

Serg

@TheBrownOne nslookup ? dig ? whois ?

Bharadwaj Raju

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Serg

8:04 PM

maybe traceroute too?

Cᴏɴᴏʀ O'Bʀɪᴇɴ

@Seth ಠ_ಠ use vanilla js, it's objectively better.

Fabby

@BharadwajRaju Yup...

Thomas W.

@TheBrownOne nslookup - will tell you the DNS servers it will use

and unless anything is relying on its own implementation of a DNS query which would then use a specified server in a hard-coded way, it should inherit from the system

Upgoat

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ I agree, VanillaJS is a very lightweight library

Thomas W.

the other way to do it is firewall any other DNS lookups

Serg

8:06 PM

tcpdump too ?

user139252

Eh, I found a better way. Just go to a website that should be blocked and see :P

Serg

. . . ..

user139252

My work blocks unwanted traffic through a DNS service

Serg

what if your DNS also blocks that site ?

user139252

I set my DNS servers to Google, and now nothing is blocked :D

user139252

8:06 PM

I don't even need to SSH tunnel now.

Upgoat

Byte Commander

@BharadwajRaju @AbhishekBhatia This should work:

Serg

jQuery

Byte Commander

Sorry, too long to paste as message.

Upgoat

@Serg brb, calling my goat herd to trample you :P

Serg

8:07 PM

gone with the wind

Fabby

I'm off: Conference call in 20 minutes...

Bharadwaj Raju

jquery.org

Serg

nice seeing you again Fabby !

Seth

@CᴏɴᴏʀO'Bʀɪᴇɴ It tastes crunchy.

Byte Commander

pastebin.com/EakwL0UQ @AbhishekBhatia @BharadwajRaju I hope I did not forget to remove anything...

user139252

8:09 PM

My work is really bad at blocking things :P

Abhishek Bhatia

@ByteCommander thanks why did you add Remove there?

Bharadwaj Raju

Mistake

Videonauth

@Fabby We'll talk friday i hope :)

Byte Commander

Good question.

Blindly trusting imperfect regexes.

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Q: Install specific version of packages during patching

Let say right now I am comfortable doing a monthly patch process. I would patch systems in development in week 1, and perhaps week 3 I am patching production servers. I want to install versions which have been tested in development. Can I do that with unattended/upgrade command?

ubuntu security upgrade

user139252

8:14 PM

@Fabby You have a girlyfriend?

Serg

Meanwhile <--- this guy finally learned how to use the damn js script for tabulating the results

Pablo

Thanks guys

it worked

Serg

Thomas W.

heh

Serg

moving up, mr. W.

Zacharee1

8:16 PM

@Upgoat jQuery

Videonauth

@Serg Yeah lucky for me is, that all above 200 votes will get distqualified because they made me cry ;)

Abhishek Bhatia

@ByteCommander thanks but doesn't work. It shows E: unable to locate package 0-plugins-bad ...

user139252

@Serg Were you gonna play with me?

Serg

@Videonauth O_o i amm above 204, noooooooooo

@TheBrownOne I was , but then i took the arrow to the knee

jk

Byte Commander

@AbhishekBhatia pastebin.com/EWfFRgpm Revised version.

Videonauth

8:17 PM

im just kidding

Upgoat

@Zacharee1 I'd call my goat herd to trample you but they haven't arrived back yet, just wait a minute :P

Zacharee1

sigh

Serg

Seriously though, i will probably play next time @TheBrownOne PM me the address of your server via hangouts mkay ?

Videonauth

@ByteCommander in exact 5 days I'll have my steward badge on the LQ queue

user139252

@Serg Can do

Serg

8:19 PM

223 upgoats and -19 downgoats . . . All I want to ask those 19 people is . . . .why,just why . . . .

( probably because yolo that's why )

Byte Commander

@Serg I also have -19 downgoats, but only 188 upgoats.

Life is unfair.

Serg

@ByteCommander i think we pissed off the same ppl lol

Byte Commander

Maybe when the elections are over, I'm going to post a meta question, asking for constructive critic and what people think I could do better in the next election i.e. why they voted for someone else...

Videonauth

I really wonder why im not already out of the race

Byte Commander

Might be interesting to learn.

Serg

8:25 PM

+1 , wanna do the same

Videonauth

tats a great idea

Byte Commander

Not sure if 3 separate but same posts are that good. Maybe we should write one together?

But that would make answering harder....

No, forget what I just said.

Serg

the lag of my laptop is real again

Byte Commander

@AbhishekBhatia Did the second revision of that huge apt-get command work btw?

Serg

and for no reason at all youtube started looping

Byte Commander

8:29 PM

lagging loops or looping lags?

Serg

both

and it all seems to be due to my input method

Videonauth

or looping laags laags looüüs looüing lags ?

Byte Commander

Poor Sergiy...

Serg

fcitx seems to be working fine for some time, then it just starts eating up my CPU

I don't know if that's some form of bug or whatever

Abhishek Bhatia

@ByteCommander @Serg @BharadwajRaju Thanks so much!!!! It works now. Is there anything else I do should apart from the installing the removed packages(bpaste.net/show/ab679eb59a31)? One thing I didn't get, why did remove install packages?

@ByteCommander Yes!!

Byte Commander

8:33 PM

@AbhishekBhatia apt-get remove cowsay+ will install cowsay while apt-get install cowsay- will remove it.

Serg

@AbhishekBhatia probably because removing packages makes Ubuntu switch default of some sort to next available package , but that package requires some dependeencises. Just a guess

Byte Commander

Using + and - suffixes in apt-get install and apt-get remove commands, you can change the action for a single package.

@Serg Don't think so.

Seth

Linux Users Left Stunned As Nautilus ADDS a New Feature dat title doe

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Serg

Nautilus added a feature ??? gasp !!!

They finally made a move

Byte Commander

:O

Videonauth

8:37 PM

@serg is there an import os; os.sed.... ? if yes how to use it

Serg

os.sed ? No , there's nothing like that

@Videonauth you're trying to call sed from python ?

Videonauth

yeah kinda

Serg

You can use import subprocess, subprocess.Popen( . . .) . . . can't say full command off the top of my head

it's complex

let's see . . . pydoc subprocess

Abhishek Bhatia

@ByteCommander Oh thanks! And the other packages it removed that didn't have pulse in their name are dependencies?

Serg

We can do something like subprocess.call( [ "sed" , "-n" , "3p" , "/etc/passwd"
] )

Videonauth

8:42 PM

mhmmm at least no need to reinvent the wheel every time i want to do something what can be doe through bash

Abhishek Bhatia

Or you try this twistedmatrix.com/documents/13.2.0/core/howto/process.html. Gives you more control over the called process.

Tim

@TheBrownOne whatsmydns.net

Serg

@Videonauth thing is , calling external program from python is a bit fuzzy . Usually the smart way is to have a function to which you pass a string (command) and it will do it for you

I have draft for that in my other disk, but not on this one

>>> subprocess.call([ "sed","-n","3p","/etc/passwd" ])
bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
0
>>>

This is the easiest

Videonauth

yeah doesn#t run away if you find it just sent me a pink from my help box and paste it in there

Abhishek Bhatia

The twisted approach is better, you can handle errors etc.

Serg

8:45 PM

Maybe I should do it as a blog : "Adventures of a python n00b ; practical ways to mess up your scripting "

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Videonauth

im happily contribute lol

Serg

Holy crap, actual useful feedback, what? I'll do that, when I next have time. I'll survive. Without content, this site won't. — Jacob Gadikian 17 mins ago

O.o What the actual frack

Videonauth

lol and i thought i have two sleeping pills taken and writing BS but this tops it still

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