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Journeyman Geek

08:00

search history I would guess

edwinksl

i am guessing me blocking ads on google didn't count against me

Zanna

08:11

if you do lscpu | grep -i model do you get the model of your processor? I'm just checking it's not different for everyone

edwinksl

$ lscpu | grep -i model
Model:                 42
Model name:            Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz

42!

Zanna

hehehe thanks :)

edwinksl

this one is odd askubuntu.com/questions/822831/…

Zanna

seen a couple of vaguely similar ones the last few days I think?

edwinksl

hmm i don't recall seeing them. the ones related to hwe upgrades that i saw are people getting notifications asking them to upgrade and they were wondering if they should :P

Serg

08:20

Welp, at least i got an upvote , so my stupidity wasn't entirely pointless

Zanna

OP: "$ grep -i shut /var/syslog turns up nothing." <--- funny that

edwinksl

where is this

ah found it

i was going to say the same thing you did

Zanna

I don't think it will help them tbh though...

edwinksl

the last time i had my machine freeze and then shut itself down was in windows

Zanna

ditto, Linux has never done that to me

edwinksl

08:30

@Zanna but xkcd 386

2

Zanna

lol ^_^

'zackly

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: How do I run this .sh script?

Why can't I run this .sh file? I'm root, the file has execute permissions. What else?

Serg

08:45

0

Q: How to show a difference between the usage of '*' , '+' and '?' in grep?

I understand that '*' : The preceding item will be matched zero or more times. '?' : The preceding item is optional and will be matched, at most, once. '+' : The preceding item will be matched one or more items Can anyone give me an example of when there would be a difference while using grep?...

grep regex wildcards

this guy

i can't tell if he is stooped or what

i posted examples on his previous question a few hours ago

Zanna

or she sigh

Serg

ok, they. . . .

Zanna

yes that is really a silly question... should we close it?

somehow?

Serg

i dunno. . . . don't really care..... I'm off for tonight....bye folks

edwinksl

lol greppy

Zanna

08:51

night :)

you should see the stupid names of all my test files hehe

the one for the cat question yesterday is called "kitty"

edwinksl

don't you have a ~/playground too

Zanna

this is all in playground

edwinksl

i usually just end up using ~/Desktop as my playground :P

habits from windows days

Zanna

I use ~/Desktop to dump screenshots

edwinksl

yeah same

well i dump everything there

including screenshots

Zanna

08:56

haha

I'm stracing lsb_release and it is doing a lot o.0

edwinksl

why would you do that

Zanna

stupidity on my part I guess :) trying to figure out where its info comes from askubuntu.com/questions/822757/…

heh I think I got it

edwinksl

09:12

looking forward to reading it

Zanna

done... maybe I didn't grasp the question... gotta run, late for class!

later <3

James Tobin

whats up guys?

andrew.46

@Zanna A big congrats for passing 10K :)

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edwinksl

09:29

uh, nice audit askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/614874

Rinzwind

@Zanna gratz! :-)

here is 10 more

andrew.46

Somehow Zanna did this in 5 months!!

terdon

Oh hey, go team @Zanna!

edwinksl

Aug 31 at 18:38, by edwinksl

my money is still on zanna reaching 10k before zach does

yay i won

ƎpᴉʇʎXD

09:53

:P

Anwar

@edwinksl you helped a lot i think

@KazWolfe it seems your question is reopened :D

@Zanna That's too fast! congrats!

Zanna

Lol I was on the tube while that happened! Thank you @edwinksl @terdon @Rinzwind @Anwar for all the support <3 <3 <3 <3

You guys are the best :..)

Arronical

Yay 10k \o/

Zanna

Omg haha

Bbl

edwinksl

@Zanna well deserved :)

jokerdino

10:53

Yay it's party time.

Zanna

11:05

Hehe <3 :D

@Serg very very nice! askubuntu.com/a/822874/527764

Severus Tux

11:31

Hi all :)

jokerdino

hi tux

Severus Tux

hello :D

Whats up ?

jokerdino

Just chilling out.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

@SeverusTux Hi! :)

Severus Tux

:D :D

Serg

11:34

This is creepy : youtube.com/channel/UCEpDjqeFIGTqHwk-uULx72Q

@Zanna thanks :) Also, I see you've passed 10k , congrats !

That youtube channel is basically webcams form around Jackson Hole resort

Byte Commander

@Zanna Congratulations to 10k. I needed over a year for that :)

Zanna

Thanks! Couldn't have done it without you of course & that goes for everyone here

Byte Commander

However, the next 10k were faster although I had to earn half of them twice.

Serg

Also , at the same time with that question , I've cleared the 30k mark \ o/

I think i can now rest in peace . . . and not in that way . . .

Zanna

Congratulations @Serg - wow!

Severus Tux

11:37

@Zanna Congratulations :D

Henry WH Hack v2.0

@Zanna @Serg Congrats! :)

Zanna

Thanks @SeverusTux @HenryWHHackv2.0 :)

Serg

@ByteCommander heh , we're pretty much pro's by now - regaining 10k twice (also command-line tag badge, my babyyyyyy)

Arronical

Oh man, I'm slow on the spam at the moment.

jokerdino

You and me both

Zanna

11:44

Gone before I saw it... community is fast :)

Henry WH Hack v2.0

You can get the bot to ping you if a spam is reported on a specific site. (It does not work in this room)

Severus Tux

Wow! I got a nice info page for debating with my Windows loving friends : awesome-unexpected-things-powered-linux

Byte Commander

@Serg only 6.6k twice for me and only silver tag badge... :-/

@HenryWHHackv2.0 It does.

I had it set up once, but it got too annoying as the majority of spam arrives while I'm still asleep and then only lands uselessly in my inbox.

@Serg I found a cake for you!

Serg

I hope that cake is not from GladOS

Byte Commander

Serg

11:47

O_o

Byte Commander

I GIMPed it a bit to add the "k" :)

Severus Tux

hahaha nice..

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Should this CW post be renamed?

I have encountered several questions that ask for "desktop recording tools". The most recent is here. There is already a CW answer, here, but it comes under the name of "screencast", which personally, as a non-native English speaker - and having lived in the UK for 5 years - is an unknown word to...

support

Arronical

@SeverusTux they should have just said, pretty much any media streaming box or router!

Serg

#IApproveThisMessage @ByteCommander

Byte Commander

11:49

@Serg So that you don't have to run after the girls that much...

The original cake is from cdn.cakecentral.com/4/45/45c3dd4b_gallery32441320555278.jpeg btw, just for completeness sake.

I just found that the most funny 30 years cake ;D

Serg

@ByteCommander oh, i don't really run after girls that much. I'm a "in-relatioship" guy now, and don't chase tails anymore. Although , I still will stare at a pretty girl if i see one , because habits :) Also because nothing wrong with admiring physical beauty

Byte Commander

You think this one will last longer than the previous ones?

Arronical

Ouch!

Serg

Oh, definitely. She's a law major, and will sue me if I leave XD ( That's a joke, by the way)

Byte Commander

@Arronical This was a neutral question, not implying any expectations.

Serg

11:54

Isn't is sad that on the internet we need to add (that's a joke) part ?

Byte Commander

shrug

Arronical

@ByteCommander sorry, I missed the nuance of your friendship, without that it seems brutally direct!

Serg

@ByteCommander seriously speaking, my ex would have lasted much longer too. It was me who broke up. Still feel bad about it

Byte Commander

There's a German saying "Liebe vergeht, Hektar besteht" (love vanishes, hectare stays) - make sure you marry someone you can get profit out, even if you won't love them any more after a while... However, nowadays it seems the other way round - if they stop liking you, they take everything.

Arronical

That's where I've gone wrong, I've definitely not made any profit from past relationships!

Byte Commander

11:58

That title o.O

0

Q: How to make a window pointer phobic?

I mean the window should move around whenever I try to move the pointer on it. I have a "Analog Clock screenlet" and "file progress dialog box" which I tweaked to stay "Always on Top" of other windows with CCSM but sometimes they come in the way of doing things. If that's not possible than may be...

unity 16.04 compiz ccsm

@Serg Something for you ^

Serg

and i just wanted to get some sleep

Byte Commander

They need a compiz-wizard

Serg

I'll look into it later, if Jacob haven't tackled it by then

Byte Commander

@Serg Is Jacob still here btw?

I mean, he reset his name and icon, is he still active or did he quit?

Haven't seen him around for a while now.

Serg

@ByteCommander he is still quite active. For whatever reason he keeps his username generic . On other sites, he's still "Jacob Vlijm" but not here

Byte Commander

12:05

How stooped...

Serg

I have a few thoughts on that, but probably i am wrong

anyway . . .need sleep

Byte Commander

ARGV!

This frigging touchpad!

It thinks every little piece of dust or fingerprint is a finger.

Serg

typical touchpad

anyway

bye guys

Byte Commander

good night

Zanna

Hmm one of our hackers (I mean who have same device as me) thinks some current kernel development might be the starting point for getting support for our audio card... exciting :)

Arronical

12:14

What device do you have?

David Foerster

Does anybody happen to know how get modprobe to work with xz-compressed kernel modules in Trusty? I already backported the kmod package from Xenial and enabled the --with-xz option.

Byte Commander

0

Q: Stop touchpad from treating dust or fingerprints as finger

Seems like my touchpad is a bit oversensitive, every piece of dust or barely visible old fingerprint stains sometimes get treated as additional finger, which means it becomes unusable until I disabled, scrubbed and enabled it again. Lately this happens multiple times a day and is very annoying. ...

touchpad synaptics

It just happened again.

I can't even see any stain on the touchpad.

David Foerster

modinfo accepts compressed modules specified by absolute path, but it can't find them just by name (even though there's a .ko.xz file in the right location).

Byte Commander

I want to move the pointer and it starts scrolling because it thinks there's another ghost finger on it...

reversiblean

Voila! Got selected for internships.. Yay : )

Byte Commander

12:28

Ha, this is funny! imgur.com/gallery/zoXyc xD

3

Arronical

@reversiblean Congratulations, doing what?

reversiblean

SE at WSO2

Special thanks to AskUbuntu and all the Unixes

Zanna

@Arronical asus x205ta

Arronical

Do you have a lot of hardware issues?

Zanna

12:46

Yup, although a lot of issues get automagickally fixed by a script I run on the iso before I write it to usb, saves a lot of faff. Still no audio drivers though, Realtek never released the spec afaik so v difficult to write

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: Make Recording a synonym of record

We have two tags, one called recording and one called record, I propose recording become a synonym of record. Recording has a few question but no description or anything, while record is more fleshed out, I don't see a need for both these tags.

support tag-synonyms

jokerdino

@ByteCommander I liked the pop references.

Byte Commander

I like the "Yo, Lucy!" :D

jokerdino

WinRAR was nice.

David Foerster

0

Q: How to load compressed kernel modules in Ubuntu 14.04.5 with kernel v4.4?

I would like to use LZMA-compressed kernel modules on my system. Unfortunately Canoncial leaves that feature disabled both in kernel and user-space tools. Here's what I did so far: Compile and install the current LTS kernel from with: CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS=y CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ=y Afte...

kernel-modules compression

reversiblean

12:53

@ByteCommander can you help me with some English please? : )

Byte Commander

one minute

brb

reversiblean

ok.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: How to load compressed kernel modules in Ubuntu?

I would like to use LZMA-compressed kernel modules on my system. Unfortunately Canoncial leaves that feature disabled both in kernel and user-space tools. Here's what I did so far: Compile and install the current 14.04.05-LTS kernel (v4.4.19) from with: CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS=y CONFIG_MODULE_C...

ubuntu kernel-modules compression

reversiblean

@ByteCommander ohh just figured it out. Thanks anyway

Zanna

@ByteCommander hehehe

reversiblean

13:02

Didn't knew that 'please copy <Name>' means to email somebody the same copy of that email

Zanna

damn... got home and on my laptop for 10 minutes & now instead of the little orange box with ~1 or ~3 or at most ~10 suggested edits in need of review, now I have the number 309!! No doubt I have to do something new o.0

Ah it's just ALL the things to review...

terdon

@reversiblean That's what the CC ("carbon copy") and BCC ("blind carbon copy") fields in email clients are for.

Arronical

@Zanna Does the script modify the iso? Or do you insert a script into the iso? I'm trying to figure out a simple solution for this askubuntu.com/questions/822872/… and modifying the iso is one method. It just sounds scary!

Zanna

the script modifies the iso

Arronical

Ah pants. I'm going to have to think for myself aren't I?

terdon

13:17

@Arronical have you tried booting into the live session and simply changing /etc/apt/sources.list to point to your local repo? I assume the installation process just reads the sources.list file anyway. That way you don't actually need to modify the ISO in any way.

Arronical

I should probably have specified that it's a server installation so no live session option.

terdon

@Arronical Ah. Yes, you should have.

Arronical

Editing...

terdon

I haven't run one of those in a while. Can't you get to a shell before starting the installation process? How about starting it but at the first prompt (language choice, I think) change to a different tty (Ctrl+Alt+F2) edit /etc/apt/sources.list and then continue the installation?

Not sure if you'll have multiple ttys at that point though.

Arronical

@terdon it's definitely worth a try, thanks!

terdon

13:21

Good luck!

Anwar

14:49

this question is about windows only windows has those options in right click. but It isn't closed already!

Zanna

Voted

terdon

@Anwar why wouldn't you want to close a specific question as a dupe of a general one if the general one also answers the specific question?

Anwar

because general one can't include all answers.

though sometimes they might include some ...

for example, we have a canonical question on Unity customization and we aren't closing every unity configuration question as a dupe to it.

Android Dev

@Rinzwind - Why did you delete your answer? askubuntu.com/questions/822925/…

Anwar

and as far as I understand the SE model, it wants specific question. those are always preferred than generic one.

Rinzwind

14:56

@AndroidDev cuz it did not work :=)

why? you wanted to downvote?

jokerdino

@AndroidDev there was someone who gave you 0 points because you made them do more work than they would have wanted. Also, they asked a Windows question.

@Rinzwind missed it

Rinzwind

lol

there it is back :P

jokerdino

See username.

Rinzwind

operation cloudstorm commences in 3... 2... 1...

jokerdino

/home/sethlord/Downloads

Android Dev

15:00

@jokerdino Hmmmm...

Anwar

at least they didn't write \home\sethlord\Downloads

Android Dev

@Rinzwind No, I wasn't going to downvote. But I think it should be there so someone else doesn't come along and write the same answer :)

0

Q: How to assign static IP to KVM VM after bridging?

I created a bridge using the following guide on my Ubuntu 14.04 server. http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Networking#Public_Bridge Now I would like to assign a static public IP to my virtual machine. How do I do it?

14.04 virtualization kvm network-bridge

kush

15:35

why was my change to an answer rejected?

47

A: How to install Virtualbox from command line?

Open a terminal and execute: sudo apt-get install virtualbox which should work. Once you have installed it you probably want to install guest additions in the guest OS. Also you probably want the extension pack which you can get from here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Make s...

It was a simple change that showed that you could simply run apt install to install the proprietary addon

Isn't the idea to try to improve an answer as time goes by?

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error

I am trying to install Hexinator on Linux sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys A04A6C4681484CF1 Executing: /tmp/tmp.jHAVvyUasz/gpg.1.sh --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys A04A6C4681484CF1 gpg: requesting key 81484CF1 from hkp server keys.gnupg.net gpg: keyserver timed out...

ubuntu gpg

Byte Commander

@kush It adds something completely different. This should have been posted as comment, I think.

Arronical

@kush I didn't see the edit, but I'm guessing it was around the virtualbox-ext-pack package. That only exists in Ubuntu version after 15.10, so not applicable to all versions.

Byte Commander

@Arronical @kush askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/614940

Arronical

@kush It's tricky to update another person's answer, maybe write your own answer that has the main installation from repo instructions, and the extension pack from repo, explaining that it only works on version after 15.10.

Byte Commander

15:54

^^

terdon

@kush yes, and your edit was good as far as I can tell. The only problem I can see is that you didn't make it very clear that you were only giving a command to install the extension pack and not one that installs virtualbox itself.

This is what the reviewers saw:

Arronical

I'm not sure that I'd have rejected the edit myself @kush but I'm not 100% knowledgeable on the ins and outs of edits. I'd certainly upvote a complete current answer.

terdon

As you can see, that's just the title and your edit. They couldn't have seen that just above your edit, the OP was discussing how to install the extension pack. That could have made the reviewers think your edit wasn't helpful.

kush

@terdon I thought it was clear from the context

terdon

@kush It is, but I only saw the context when I looked at the original answer. I couldn't see it when checking what reviewers saw in the queue.

kush

15:57

I thought it would be one fewer thing for someone to have to check because I think when you use apt you don't have to worry about getting the correct version of the extension

terdon

@Anwar Because it doesn't answer all questions, as you said. So if I ask a question about a customization not mentioned there, it shouldn't be closed. If, however, I ask one whose answer is there on the dupe, why not close it?

kush

I guess the meta on ask ubuntu is different. Why would I want to write another answer? Shouldn't there be one Canonical (heh) answer?

terdon

@Rinzwind Would you expect that to work? I thought of suggesting it but couldn't think of any reason why it would make a difference. What am I missing?

@kush No, you most certainly shouldn't write another answer just to add a different way of getting the extension pack.

kush

Oh well, I thought it would help some poor soul from juggling around having 1. to find out the version number of virtualbox they installed 2. going to the website to find the correct extension 3. downloading it ... and so on but oh well

terdon

@kush And you're quite right. As I said before, your edit seemed perfectly good to me. I was just explaining why the people who reviewed it might have thought it wasn't helpful.

Arronical

16:01

@kush It's definitely information that ought to be in there somewhere.

kush

@terdon yeah maybe someone else will do a better job (:

terdon

@kush Are you Israeli, by any chance?

Just wondering about the (:

kush

@Arronical I am actually quite relieved to know that ask ubuntu is a mess as well. I used to think that the Wiki was an exception

terdon

Is your native language written right to left?

kush

@terdon no sir (: why do you ask?

would love to visit though

terdon

16:04

@kush Because of the smiley :) I had to look at it twice to figure out that it was a happy, and not sad face. So I thought your native tongue might be one that's written right to left, so that smiley looks more natural to you.

I probably read too much into it :)

kush

ah, maybe it was influenced from my friends in Florida (who I never met in person and only talked over chat and irc)

never thought about it being from a rtl language

Arronical

@kush Any site with contributions from a wide user base will have stylistic differences and areas which need to be cleaned up, that's one of the jobs of the review queues. You could probably redo your edit, and make it clear that it's just to install the extpack, and it'll be approved.

Do it... Do it!

kush

Ok I will

Byte Commander

Can sudo apt-get purge -y --force-yes grub* shim-signed linux-signed* do anything useful at all?

Seems like a prank command to me askubuntu.com/q/822956/367990

terdon

@ByteCommander I guess it's one way to do it. Presumably, you'd first run that to remove grub and then reinstall grub. That's what the OP from the question (the original one mentioned in the one you pasted) is doing.

Dunno what the *signed stuff would be though.

kush

16:11

@Arronical we will see whether the review gods will like it

Oh, it went through

Byte Commander

@terdon but the reinstall is missing, isn't it?

kush

oh you did that @terdon thank you!

terdon

2

Q: Unable to fix GRUB for dual-boot after BIOS update (using boot-repair)

After my latest update of BIOS (while using Windows) my grub menu went missing. Previously, I was able to repair GRUB menu this way: Booting into Windows Going to Advanced Startup options Selecting my Ubuntu partition there Getting advanced restart -> Seeing my GRUB menu. Then, I was able to ...

dual-boot grub2 bios boot-repair

kush

so this is a stupid question but how do you cycle between two or more terminal windows in unity?

oh so just alt tab?

Arronical

@kush The gods did see the edit, and they were pleased with what they surveyed.

kush

16:17

@Arronical haha thanks

Zanna

Seems new OP did not read the answer to the question from which they typed in random-command-found-on-interweb

Nathan Osman

Hi.

Got a nice view on this ferry.

kush

you have a canon

do you have one of those fancy eye fi sd cards?

Nathan Osman

16:33

Nope, but I may get one.

Kaz Wolfe

hey... anyone here have over 1k on MetaSE?

terdon

yes

Kaz Wolfe

do you mind getting vote counts for a post for me?

Zanna

Where is that?

terdon

@KazWolfe Sure. But why can't you see them? Don't you have the "show votes" userscript installed?

Kaz Wolfe

16:37

No, I don't have 1k

because Meta sites in general hate me

Post in question: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/284392/mods-have-diamonds-why

terdon

100

Q: "View Vote totals" without 1000 rep

Screenshot About The vote counts are a great tool to determine whether an answer is disputed or not. Unfortunately, not many of us have enough time to join all Stack Exchange websites and get 1000 reputation. This script unlocks the "View Vote counts" feature for those who are not logge...

script chrome-extensions greasemonkey bookmarklet

6

+11/-3

Kaz Wolfe

huh. thank you.

Nathan Osman

Heh, I wasn't expecting 3G out on the water here.

Rinzwind

17:10

@terdon it is from here so WIn and Mac

terdon

@Rinzwind ?

Rinzwind

mcleaks.net/authenticator

did not have the link copied >:-d

Severus Tux

17:48

Interview Worth watching --> youtube.com/watch?v=NtHmKLHtZvg

chaskes

@terdon No offense intended for our friend the OP, but this just keeps growing. Can we do something about it? askubuntu.com/questions/822800/…

terdon

@chaskes Oh crud. I hadn't seen that. Now I understand a meta.se post I was reading.

Don't see much I could do. There is a question buried in there (although I had to read it three times to understand what it is since the last sentence contradicts the rest). I can protect it, but none of the answers posted were from new users. I can close it, but the main question (how can I quickly destroy my system) is actually on topic. . .

jokerdino

Can we at least remove the theoretical meta tag?

Zanna

that question and its answers hurt to read

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