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@shaggy /tmp/backup is empty. try again with an actual dir.

:P

12:44 AM

Wow, it's not even based on anything

@ThomasW. that was my first guess, then i went into /tmp/ and created the backup dir

@Zacharee1 it's based on nullspace

wut

@shaggy no... the folder is empty. there's nothing there. hence "trying to create an empty archive"

you should probably read up on the tar manpage

@ThomasW. Okay. well atleast that makes sense to me, I have but so much content. thanks for the info

12:46 AM

shrugs

@shaggy learn a little about how tar works (point of the course/lab) and then you will have solved the question :)

@ThomasW. will do, I thought I understood, but I must have missed something. thanks for the help. this is my first hiccup of many to come haha

I win?

I should point out we tend to be hyper-critical towards homework stuff

at least, on Ask Ubuntu

@NathanOsman Oh I see the Windows 98 thing

:)

12:48 AM

@NathanOsman Yes. You do. Can I have a copy of your stuff so I can convert em to VMware :p

That was last year. I have more VMs now.

I have about that many running *nix systems on my hypervisors

and a couple Windows systems

plus a Windows server

@ThomasW. I mean, thats how I learn.. so .... thanks again.

@ThomasW. shhhhhhhhhhhh

@shaggy right, I just mean, don't rely on it a ton. :)

'tis all :)

y'know, i'm becoming super critical of things

i should probably go sleep

12:50 AM

I have a Windows Server on EC2. Does that count? :D

@NathanOsman I have a Windows server... which runs vCenter...

... for my two VMware hypervisors...

Did I tell you about when I tried XenServer on my desktop?

@ThomasW. is this.... VM-ception?

@NathanOsman nope

@Zacharee1 well...

this one time...

I managed to get full PCI-passthrough working for my video card with a Windows 7 guest.

12:51 AM

I ran VirtualBOx...

to run VMware inside VirtualBox

to run VMs...

why

in which I ran qemu / KVM VMs

... just to test containers.

why though

because I could?

(now THAT was VMCeption)

sigh

12:52 AM

okay now I need to wget this ISO...

ugh

run it inside of VirtualBox inside of VMWare inside of VB inside of VMW

inside of Hyper-V?

inside of QEMU?

sure why not

:P

T_T wai there is no icon view for gtk file chooser

12:54 AM

@Serg you need to run it in a VM

VM ? how does that make sense ?

read up

@ThomasW. so I was just missing telling it what to archive? for example ~(home...and everything below[recursively])

cause I got it working now

@shaggy yes.

I thought with no pointers it was archiving pwd automatically. thanks anyways. this seems smarter :)

12:57 AM

@NathanOsman Running install now

@shaggy it will, but you did /tmp/backup, which is an absolute path

you probably wanted to do tmp/backup

@NathanOsman Bug report is where?

github.com/nitroshare/nitroshare-desktop/issues/77

(4 Xeon vCPUs are fun :P)

O_o

1:00 AM

@NathanOsman dual quad-core Xeons in my second hypervisor where this is

+ hyperthreading

16 logical cores

NO BRAGGING

FLAG

Lemme know if you figure out what the "time remaining" indicator means.

@Zacharee1 DECLINED

as soon as it doesn't blow up sure

it failed just now

How on earth did it fail?

@Zacharee1 ahhh thank you for this. this is where my true problem lies.

1:01 AM

I probably fubar'd a network setting somewhere in the firewall

opens up the VM to the 'net

@NathanOsman So you're gonna be a good sport about this? FINE

@ThomasW. gasp

@Zacharee1 what? It's in the DMZ :P

@ThomasW. It needs network access to download the graphical installer.

And of course the KDE packages.

@NathanOsman yes, indeed. I think it had a blip

i hope you guys have a good day/night. thanks again for the assistance

1:02 AM

'cause I had to restart the NAT settings for one of my systems

sigh

at the firewall/router

@shaggy have a good day/night/evening/morning!

@ThomasW. good $time

plasma selected. diverting 64MB of video RAM from the graphics card on the hypervisor.

@NathanOsman mm:ss

Oh good.

IanC

1:04 AM

good night people

seems to adjust by system state

Although it isn't in the slightest bit accurate then.

no it's not

actually i may have misread

it's nowhere near done

that may be inaccurate hh:mm

that said this will install fast with this hypervisor lol

but we'll see

Network bandwidth is limiting the speed of mine.

Only getting about 500-600 KB/s.

yeah my DMZ has a cap of 45Mbps download speed.

which is not bad (6MB/s)

1:06 AM

It doesn't give me an estimate of the downloaded package size - just the size of the packages on disk.

@ThomasW. oh no, how can you survive?

I still miss my old office. I had 100 Mbps there...

@Zacharee1 the other 105 Mbps is diverted to the rest of the network :)

@NathanOsman it's community developed. fix it

Cries...

1:06 AM

@ThomasW. cough

@Zacharee1 I know jack squat about Mandriva.

lel

@Zacharee1 coughs back, and warns he's been eating garlic and onions

gags

this looks like hours, @NathanOsman

bets 100GB isn't enough space

1:08 AM

But even downloading 2.5 GB on this connection won't take that long.

@ThomasW. I only allocated 8 GB for my VM...

yeah I have a few 2TB drives connected to my hypervisors :P

at least 4TB of storage on each

so I can give 100GB :P

@NathanOsman it seems there's a lot of extra crap than needed in this thing

@ThomasW. think you can spare it?

@ThomasW. Yeah.

@Zacharee1 100GB? On the hypervisors?

I have a 2 TB drive in the PC and a 2 TB NAS.

So I'm not too worried either.

1:11 AM

@RPiAwesomeness Welcome!

agh

whoops

Perhaps I should have done this on EC2 or something...

maybe

@Zacharee1 let's see... this hypervisor it's on has 1.3 TB of space available.

1.2 TB is what's left

there's a small 80GB drive for the hypervisor's OS

:P

yeah i have a ton of space on these.

I think I'll let it install overnight

and then see what happens :P

@NathanOsman hopefully yours succeeds faster.

1:13 AM

Yeah, me too.

once i'm done with this one, sending it to /dev/null

:P

After all that work? I would think you'd want to hang onto it :P

the installer's doing the hanging for him

@NathanOsman More likely to go to them and yell about it.

then destroy it

<rant> Why on freakin earth did gnome-terminal developers did not document all of its command line options ????

Like what is this : gnome-terminal --app-id us.kirkland.terminals.byobu -e byobu

1:17 AM

then install Arch to further hurt my brain

@Serg they hate you

--app-id is not in man page anywhere

lol

lolol

@Zacharee1 well, I hate them already

</rant>

it looks to me like it's running an app by ID

@Serg second answer unix.stackexchange.com/questions/201900/…

1:20 AM

OK . . . . but could they at least document it in the man page ?

Gnome people are weird

no

RPi Awesomeness

@ThomasW. Hi :)

WTF REP CAP

Lost 2248 rep on Arqade due to the 200/day cap

sigh

wut

look about an inch above my last message

1:26 AM

@terdon - Can you do your thing? askubuntu.com/questions/797585/…

@AndroidDev he's not the only mod you know

@KazWolfe yeah I saw

Or @ThomasW.

wut

or @Community

1:27 AM

@ThomasW. He's just in chat more.

But we don't like you @ThomasW.

:]

@Zacharee1 Don't tell Oli...

@Zacharee1 You have been kicked from chat for 90 hours

@KazWolfe waits for it

yawns and sips his tea

1:28 AM

@ThomasW. weird way to spell coffee

ikr

@KazWolfe Hahaha

tea is not coffee. i'm drinking lemon ginger tea right now

with sugar

@ThomasW. weird way to spell "dark roast"

@KazWolfe :)

1:30 AM

@AndroidDev puts down 8th cup of coffee Did you say something?

@KazWolfe :)

Why do web devs still use flash? <sigh> askubuntu.com/questions/797577/…

@AndroidDev because how else are they going to deliver rich malware?

@AndroidDev it's the language of choice :p

@KazWolfe Too true...

@KazWolfe Don't forget the crippling lag

1:32 AM

@KazWolfe And don't forget cross-platform.

@AndroidDev That's a weird way to spell google-chrome-stable...

OxygenOS 3.2.1 here we come!

@AndroidDev yeah, it's not like HTML5 does that or anything

@AndroidDev About as cross-platform as .so files

"The download could not be verified, please download again." ಠ_ಠ

1:33 AM

lol

Switching to 3G...

3G ain't faster

It sure is. My home connection is capped at 500 KB/s. I can get up to 2 MB/s on 3G.

unless it's HSDPA+

1:34 AM

when the download finishes

what sort of 3G is this?!

Lol.

HSPA+, according to Settings.

ah

-79 dBm 17 asu if you're into useless stats.

(That's the connection strength.)

that's the scam-4G

it's "4G," but not actually LTE

1:36 AM

Yeah, my carrier doesn't have an LTE network yet.

o_O

what is this, 2007?

lots of removed messages, @ThomasW.

he does that

I think he has something to hide

Welp, I now have a script that selects .desktop file and extracts a command from it. What I need now is to figure out how to set that .desktop file as default . . . .

NOW we will install OxygenOS 3.2.1.

The first time this phone has been rebooted since I got it.

1:42 AM

@NathanOsman Error: Hash Sum Mismatch

@NathanOsman Five hours later...

Hehe, no.

Journeyman Geek

@NathanOsman >_>

still waiting for mine :(

The phone or the update?

Journeyman Geek

the phone

tracking is pretty useless, and I'm hitting the magic 'any day now' period

1:46 AM

That feeling when you get a user to run a diagnostic tool on their machine to pinpoint a bug and Windows reports back "unknown error".

ಠ_ಠ

I liked the error the Windows 10 upgrade gave

I, too, have my eyes turn into boxes that say 0C80

My favorite error, because it's so detailed

it's like they didn't even try

I bet the code looks something like this:

// TODO: fix this to give an appropriate error message
throw new BadThingHappened("Something happened");

...and nobody ever fixed it :D

yep

edwinksl

1:53 AM

"click the install umbunu"

that's a new one