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Anonymous

00:08

What flavor of ubuntu?

Anonymous

Try something lighter, like Xubuntu. It is great. I run it at home on my main desktop, and as a VM on there.

Anonymous

night all

gansub

01:33

@Serg you here ?

Nathan Osman

Awwww yeah.

Serg

02:18

@gansub yes, what's up ?

@NathanOsman congratz

Nathan Osman

@Serg thank you! What did I do?

Oh. You mean the medal.

Sorry, I though for a minute there I had done something and forgotten about it.

Serg

:)

Well, um . . . i have turned on korean input somehow . . . problem is i dunno how to turn it off

Seth

02:39

@Serg shift+space maybe

sorry,

super+space, not shift.

gansub

@Serg - I asked that as a question after installing matplotlib I get errors

0

Q: Matplotlib error with Ubuntu 16.04

I have a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS instance and I am trying to run my old scripts that I developed on Ubuntu 14.04 with python3.5. I installed matplotlib and basemap using sudo apt-get install. These are the errors I get Traceback (most recent call last): File "contour.py", line 30, in <module> x,y = m(...

@Serg it looks like there are other dependencies other than matplotlib and basemap ?

but sudo apt-get should that figure that out right?

Serg

@gansub please wait , because I cannot figure out my text settings right now. I'm typing and copypasting this from terminal

@Seth well, yes, for default input method. I am trying to work on one answer, and the guy there uses uim, which is was i am using now. As you can see, I cannot even get started with uim myself , much less answer that damn question

CodeX

looks like you need assign shortcut key before

Serg

sigh . . .there is a shortcut already. if only i knew what it was, because i randomly press it and then suddenly in korean

CodeX

you are able to go in system settings ?

or try google translator with camera

Serg

02:56

@CodeX yeah. I actually installed a gui settings for uix. Apparently input switching is Meta+space

meta is supposed to be Alt . . . . Firefox just sometimes catches it, sometimes not

@gansub i am not familiar with matplotlib, but i think the code fails because of previous line. the two arguments you give have an error maybe ?

gansub

@Serg you mean because of numpy ?

CodeX

36

Q: How do I change keyboards from the command line?

How I change keyboard layouts from the command-line? For example, I want to switch from English to Hebrew. I'm able to do it from lightdm with the little icon in the corner of my screen.

keyboard internationalization

gansub

@Serg that line prints out just fine

Serg

@Seth Just a question, how do you want me to handle touchpad speed in the indicator ? I

Seth

@Serg I'm not worried about touchpad speed since it isn't affected by anything. it can stay constant.

Serg

03:01

Ok

Serg

03:18

@Rinzwind so remember that question about long description for directories ? Remember you said one could create a plugin for that ? Well , I sort of did that , askubuntu.com/a/813178/295286

Zacharee1

Finally getting the hang of night shots

edwinksl

where is this

CodeX

not that game again

Zacharee1

Montreal

Hey, I asked if you wanted the answer before

Serg

@Zacharee1 yer a professional fotografer , Harry

CodeX

03:25

xD

Zacharee1

@Serg aye

Serg

@Zacharee1 may interest you in another icon request-o ?

Zacharee1

sure

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, link at end of body: If you charge high-quality bargain fifa 17 coins. by bobgull on askubuntu.com

Zacharee1

I think I get the logic behind the gibberish spam posts

They're so interesting to read, just to see how stupid they sound

CodeX

03:30

thought it has something to do with Search engine

Zacharee1

I was being sarcastic

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

Now I know what it feels like if you are a Outlook staff.

YOU GET EMAILS (1173) of them

@Zacharee1 Your image doesn't load on Windows

Zacharee1

@ƎpᴉʇʎXD So you have a new.... Outlook on the matter?

@ƎpᴉʇʎXD Yes it does

CodeX

yes it does

edwinksl

#zachpuns

Serg

03:32

@Zacharee1 so I am making an indicator for Seth, in fact it is done and is in working condition. The idea is , creating mouse speed profiles which we easily can access from drop down menu

Zacharee1

@edwinksl wait for @Serg's

@Serg so different colors for different DPI?

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

CodeX

In mine it is opposite

Zacharee1

@ƎpᴉʇʎXD refresh?

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

nope

Serg

03:34

@Zacharee1 No, I just want one static icon

Zacharee1

really?

so, what?

Serg

Just in case anyone wants to try it out, github.com/SergKolo/mouse-profile-indicator

CodeX

Serg

@Zacharee1 how about mouse icon with P letter in site it

Zacharee1

@Serg shouldn't be hard

Serg

03:36

*side

Zacharee1

give me a bit, writing an answer (preemptive GASP @edwinksl)

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

let me communicate with MS

edwinksl

GASP

CodeX

no the source itself has that image

oh it doesnt

edwinksl

adele, nice :P

CodeX

03:40

xD

Adele - Million Years Ago (Alan Morris Remix)

►

Serg

We could have had it aaaaaa-yaaaaa-aaaaal

Something-something burning in my heart, Lyrics I don't know, so I'll sing whatever in this part. . . . . .

Zacharee1

1

A: Minimum PC requirements to run latest Ubuntu?

Technically, there are system requirements, but I believe those are mostly a formality. There's nothing really I can find for 16.04, but I've seen recommendations for something close to the following (64-bit): 2-3GB RAM 6GB HDD space (this you'll actually need to follow, but I doubt there will ...

edwinksl

slow

Zacharee1

@Serg There's a fire burning in my heart

CodeX

It is just her in my heart

Serg

03:42

@Zacharee1 physically impossible , but yeah, that's part of the lyrics. I'm just being sassy here

Zacharee1

@Serg I set fire to the rain, watched it burn as I touched your face

That makes tons of sense ^

2

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

Hello, its me

CodeX

Lol

Zacharee1

It was just like a movie, it was just like a song.... when we were young

She's like 27

Serg

YOLO, it's me

@Zacharee1 modern pop music, ladies and gentlemen, in all its lyrical glory

Zacharee1

03:44

well it's not like you can understand them

CodeX

nothing for lady gaga ?

I want your ugly
I want your disease
I want your everything
As long as it's free

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 Uh-huh.

Serg

Nah, Lady Gaga is at least produces music that is a bit more interesting than 90% of pop

Zacharee1

I want your love and I want your revenge

you and me could write a bad romance

and thus, Twilight was born

CodeX

thousand years

Zacharee1

03:47

@Serg icon size?

darn it

It's "watched it pour"

and I knew that

Serg

@Zacharee1 Make it 16 x 16 and I'll adjust

Zacharee1

Can I just give you 512x512?

easier to edit on my end

Nathan Osman

Then there's this: twitter.com/NotKennyRogers/status/725378468641267712

A few months old, but very accurate still.

edwinksl

lol

Zacharee1

painful to read

Serg

03:50

@Zacharee1 sure ^_^ whatever is good for ya

Zacharee1

although 16x16 will be easier to construct...

Nathan Osman

Lol.

@NotKennyRogers I hope the next trend in music is talent.

Tweeted by russellmdarnell on April 28, 2016 at 2:06 AM in reply to NotKennyRogers

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Zacharee1

xD

Well we do have Adele

@Serg ^

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

@Zacharee1 Now your photo dont render ever at all

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman we're right next to a Telus building and yet I'm "roaming" on VZW just because it gives me 1 bar of LTE.

Nathan Osman

03:57

Lol.

Zacharee1

@ƎpᴉʇʎXD well that's your problem I think

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

well I know that I'm not the only one

Zacharee1

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

=)

Serg

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

03:58

korean typing?!?

CodeX

Looks nice

Seth

@Serg I like it!

Zacharee1

@Serg maybe I should remove the staircasing

Seth

I'm going to be gone for a few days, then I will check it out.

@Zacharee1 so much blur

Zacharee1

@Seth that's a 2MB version of a 20MB original, so yes

Seth

03:59

ah

y u no use flickr

Zacharee1

@Seth that's the SE profile pic

CodeX

wondering what happened to the mouse .. and what is that P

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

or google photos

Seth

If you come in my yard at night lookin’ for Pokemons, you’re goin’ to find a rare one. It’s called a Glockachu. Merica.

Tweeted by CloydRivers on July 20, 2016 at 2:40 AM

hahahahaha

Serg

@Zacharee1 I staircasing doesn't bother me that much. If you think it would look better, sure, let's do that. Also, do you think transparent background would be better ?

Zacharee1

04:00

idk

let's try it

CodeX

Zacharee1

@Serg

Serg

Zacharee1

hmm

should I make it gray

and more muted?

edwinksl

why does the vertical line look off-center

Zacharee1

04:07

because it is

Serg

Nah, let's stick with the one with white background

edwinksl

y u no center it

Zacharee1

You center something in a 16px wide image

CodeX

you cant question an artist :P

Serg

Because YOLO that's why

Zacharee1

04:08

Try that

Serg

Man, I like this indicator

Zacharee1

see what it looks like

edwinksl

i suppose you can make the line 2 px thick

Zacharee1

eww

and it sort of is actually

there's a shadow

Serg

Zacharee1

04:12

P needs to be brighter

edwinksl

red on black is hard to see

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

KOREAN TYPING?!?

Zacharee1

Serg

@Zacharee1 lets try green

Zacharee1

OK

Serg

04:13

@ƎpᴉʇʎXD yes, korean. Didn't i tell you that already ?

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

lol

Zacharee1

Neon or muted?

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

no

Zacharee1

or maybe no color?

Serg

Neon plz

Zacharee1

04:14

Serg

Looks alright to me

Zacharee1

@SmokeDetector has a caching service now?

@Serg yeah

lemme just try one more thing

Serg

Zacharee1

blends a lot better IMO

but it's your indicator :p

maybe make it themeable?

Serg

If only I knew how . . .

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

04:20

0

Q: Problem connecting to Ethernet on my Linux

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. I need someone to tell me the steps I need to take to fix this issue... It's not my Internet problem because I'm able to wired in on my other laptop. So it's obviously something wrong with my Ubuntu laptop. It makes no sense that It was working perfectly fine yesterday...

linux ubuntu networking ethernet

Zacharee1

@Serg you don't know how to allow people to swap the icon?

I find that hard to believe :p

edwinksl

@Zacharee1 you should start charging serg for the icons... maybe repz for iconz

Serg

@Zacharee1 nope, not yet though. Theming probably requires throwing icons into /usr/share/icons folder and I don't have valid reason for that, unless there's .deb file

Zacharee1

@edwinksl well he's supposedly making my script for me

@Serg hmm.

edwinksl

oh is it for you xd

Zacharee1

04:22

Duo's arrived!

@edwinksl no, this one's for Seth

Mine is some complex shortcutter

Serg

@Zacharee1 yup, eventually will be making that script . . . the whole bunch of recent events kind of distracted me though

Zacharee1

yeah

Serg

Mkay, I'm gonna go with with the green one

@Zacharee1 thank you once again. I will add credit to you in the script source

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

BBL, playing Wii U

Serg

05:03

well ew, found a bug in my cereal

gansub

@Serg when i type sudo apt-get build-dep python3-matplotlib it says you must pur URIs in your sources.list

so when i installed it yesterday i did it without build-dep

could that cause a problem i.e. the dependencies are not built into matplotlib?

Serg

05:21

@gansub I honestly don't know. I don't see why matplotlib would ask that, because sources.list is for apt , not for matplotlib. It would throw an error during installation

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

05:31

AFTER SOME PLAYING LATER...

Fabby

@cl-netbox it's a reference to the demise of the Roman empire

You were all talking about sports

Serg

\o Hello, Mr. Vorlon

Fabby

It's hard to read all this on a phone screen

Journeyman Geek

05:47

HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

AGREED

Serg

Get a tablet, it's larger

*WHY ARE ㅛㅒㅕ

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

O_O

Serg

aha, found it, shift space

WHY ARE YOU GUYS TYPING IN ALL-CAPS AND ITALICS ?

무됴ㅐㅜㅎ

woo , i finally figured out how to type in korean

now , i should learn to actually type proper words

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

@Serg You actually wrote down the first 2 words of a TV programme.

Journeyman Geek

05:53

@Serg For all you know you just called someone's mom a porcupine.

Serg

@JourneymanGeek well, google translate to the rescue !!!

I said, "anyong"

i was basically going for romanization of "hello" in krean , but meh, close enough

edwinksl

@Serg 요요요 what up my man

Journeyman Geek

hmm. schroooms...

Serg

@_@

@edwinksl you know korean ? since when ?

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

mmm SBS

edwinksl

05:56

i learned the alphabet once upon a time

my korean vocab is non-existent though

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

런닝 맨

Serg

Daym . . .

Well, I know a few phrases in Korean, but not enough to make intelligent conversation

edwinksl

진짜???

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

@edwinksl heh, really, yes

Serg

yes, really,

edwinksl

06:01

i used to say 여보세요 if a korean friend calls me on the phone

Serg

yoboseyo , :D

Oh, lawd, the lag just got real

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2

Q: Two root accounts, what to do?

I'm on Ubuntu 15.04 and today I've been reading an article about Linux security ; http://www.sevagas.com/?How-to-secure-Linux-users-26 Everything went good until the part of UID 0 Account Only root should have the UID 0. Another account with that UID is often synonymous to backdoor. Whe...

ubuntu security root

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

:D

here's a programme that translates "Fantastic Duo"

edwinksl

@ƎpᴉʇʎXD do you watch kbs

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

@edwinksl Nope, SBS

"Seoul Broadcasting Service"

2

OH dear lord BACON

edwinksl

06:09

Nathan "Bacon" Osman will like it

Serg

sigh . . . I've no idea how to make my indicator menu update dynamically

i'm having bunch of warnings output in command line

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

BaconShare :P

edwinksl

06:38

spam askubuntu.com/a/813226/15003

Nathan Osman

06:48

@edwinksl :D

@Serg Is this the Python / AppIndicator one?

Serg

@NathanOsman yes. Basically I have a function that re-makes menu. But every time it does, it throws this error

Nathan Osman

How is it changing the menu?

Serg

(mouse-profile-indicator:23248): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_parent: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

@NathanOsman I'm calling function self.make_menu() each time

Nathan Osman

(Sidenote: GTK loves to throw useless warnings on the terminal. So much so that you can never tell if a message is serious or not.)

@Serg What does the body of that function look like?

Do you have this up on GitHub somewhere?

Serg

@NathanOsman give me a minute, i'll make a few changes and commit it

github.com/SergKolo/mouse-profile-indicator/blob/master/…

Here it is

Menu also flickers each time i update it, so that's probably bad approach

I'm probably gonna go with updating the indicator label instead

CodeX

07:00

Traffic hijacking Linux flaw affects 80% of Android devices -- including Nougat betanews.com/2016/08/16/…

Serg

HA ! that's CVE 2016 5696

I've answered a question about it couple days ago

@NathanOsman any ideas ?

CodeX

@Serg I see

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

07:23

:D

gansub

@Serg i found the answer !

Serg

@gansub congrats ! what was it ?

gansub

well i had a projection problem

once i got over it i was able to plot

i have a numpy question

i have an array of this shape - 1,1,23,21

i need to convert this to shape 23,21

i tried this np.reshape(array,23,21)

but it says total size of new array must be unchanged

edwinksl

@gansub use np.squeeze

gansub

@edwinksl - thanks ! that works !!!

the output looks weird

but it works !

i have to admit i am glad i am not dealing with compilation issues if i used Intel icc

nice to install everything using sudo apt-get install

Serg

07:32

Gtk sometimes reminds me of Windows . . . .its errors are as useful as Windows's

gansub

@Serg would you like to see my plot ?

Serg

@gansub em, sure. Not that I would understand what is it about :)

Anwar

morning

gansub

still need to figure out the spacing and the resolution @Serg

andrew.46

Evening :)

edwinksl

07:39

howdy

Serg

howdy folks

gansub

were you able to see it ?

Serg

yeah , @gansub , looked complicated. No idea what that means though

gansub

contour heights plot

i am plotting heights of equal contour

sorry contour plot of equal heights

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

07:52

BaconShare: mmm

Anwar

I've seen 1 of the permissions value in nmcli general permissions no

wondering how do I change it.

Serg

Mkay, i decided to nope-the-funk-out and just switch to updating label

@Zacharee1 @Seth new look and new feature. I decided to switch to using label that displays profile name beside the icon. If the current speed value is not equal to any profile, it will say N/A . That way you also can know when it's possible to use "Store current" option ( which is also linked to the middle click)

So . . . unless there's any other feature requests . . . I probably will tag it up and release . . . . and add to my linkedin

@Anwar good Ruby answer, but I would suggest you add check if the matched word is not equal to the initial word. That would make it looks exactly how OP wants it. See my python version or choroba's perl

edwinksl

08:21

@Serg lol so many languages used for that question

Serg

@edwinksl that's typical of a text processing language. Maybe someone should throw in java ? I did that once for AU

edwinksl

i might yolo and throw in matlab

Serg

08:33

eh, why not . . .non traditional text processing tool, but it does the job

Anwar

@Serg he wanted if the string is found in the text, print first word and the string?

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

NIGHT EVEYONE

Anwar

good night @ƎpᴉʇʎXD

Serg

@Anwar if you look at his sample file, the output shows that last entry is the only one there. So " if line has only one word, and that word is in list, only print that word "

Anwar

oh. thanks. got it

Serg

08:38

mkay guys, im gonna be out too

I've meeting with a friend tomorrow, but goddam, i am not going to wake up on time

Anwar

done

thank you for pointing that

cl-netbox

Hello everybody ! :)

Serg

09:01

@ParanoidPanda do you use mouse or touchpad ?

Also, anybody else is using mouse ?

edwinksl

24 mins ago, by Serg

mkay guys, im gonna be out too

nice "gonna be out" serg

Serg

^_^''''''

I chronically fail at going to bed early . . .and at going to bed in general . . .

user136984

@Serg: Touchpad.

Serg

Lol , so I posted a picture of the 3 indicators that i wrote side by side on my wechat, and my buddy ( who works for Apple ) is like "No idea what that is, but looks cool." So I explain, those are indicators, kind of same thing as menulets on Macs. He's like "Cool sh*t , you are too smart for me". Lol . I love that guy

Oh, look ! It's Pi oclock again . . . .dammit Serg . . .

user136984

09:19

@Serg: Amazon is still confusing me... How do I find all the Wagakki Band albums?

user136984

Because I want to buy them but the search results just aren't very helpful, I wish they'd just give me a proper structured list...

Serg

@ParanoidPanda there are Wagakki band albums, but I they're costly. I would suggest you go to yesasia.com, that's where i got my live album

user136984

@Serg: Ok, I'll have a look there... Thanks! :)

Rinzwind

spam askubuntu.com/questions/813279/…

user136984

@SmokeDetector: Ooh... New format/design! Looks nice! ;)

Serg

09:32

Uh , can anyone help me out with reverse DNS here ?

my servers can't return domain for askubuntu

I can find IPs just fine, but not domain

terdon

This morning, the production servers at work were down because of an electricity outage. This is the actual email we received from our provider. No joke:

> Dear Sir or Madam,

A general power failure due to a short circuit caused by the presence of a weasel in the transformer occurred on Wednesday August 17 at 05:30.

Our emergency response teams intervened and the power has been restored. However, if you note a persistent failure, please
contact the PCC at 34000.

We apologize for this inconvenience and thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Yours sincerely

We used to have bugs, now we have small mammals!

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edwinksl

wtf weasel

terdon

ikr?

user136984

:D

Serg

I think it's safe to assume that weasel got fried , eh ?

user136984

09:44

:(

terdon

@Serg Dunno, maybe it weaseled out of it.

Serg

@terdon well dammit, terdon, you stole my pun of the day

joking

terdon

Hey, dude, use it or lose it! :P

Serg

what the frick . . .My reverse dns is failing left and right

$ dig @8.8.8.8 -x 192.30.253.112 +short

No output

( That's github ip by the way )

terdon

I get no output for that either but have noticed no DNS issues

Remove +short

Serg

09:54

@terdon well, that's the whole point, i just want to grab the domain name, that's why i am using short

terdon

OK, but if it gives no output, that might not be the right option

Which domain name?

Serg

that ip address was given as result of nslookup github.com, but seems like actual sever has different domain name

ops.github.com

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