Ask Ubuntu General Room

12:01 PM

@Zanna It's ok when you reach a level of trust with someone, trying to find a new barber/hairdresser is just horrid though. I've had a few friends take up hairdressing and invite me to their salon, but I always think that would feel weird! It's an odd reaction as I'm fine with dentists/doctors/tattooists etc.

Zanna

@Arronical whereas I'm freaked out by dentists and doctors...

Byte Commander

I don't visiting like any of them...

Arronical

@ByteCommander I don't try to do it any more than is necessary, it is odd to hink that some people are compelled to do it when there's nothing wrong with them.

Byte Commander

sure.

Arronical

@Zanna I think I'm reassured by them having professional training, doesn't even bother me when they don't have a terribly friendly manner. I do have a great dentist though, puts my fiancée at ease even when she's on the edge of a panic attack.

Edity

12:08 PM

askubuntu.com/a/829841/527600 Naa

Arronical

@Edity It's gone!

Zanna

wow @Edity someone can read your mind

Edity

A moderator

Edity

12:23 PM

Posted another answer.

I feel kinda relieved

Byte Commander

unclear askubuntu.com/q/829848/367990

Edity

Should I delete? askubuntu.com/a/829846/527600

Rinzwind

@Edity http://askubuntu.com/questions/333795/what-are-the-system-requirements-for-each-flavour-of-ubuntu-desktop
it is 700Mhz ;-)

Edity

Wth did Patrick you downvote me

See

This is why I don't post answers.

@Rinzwind should I leave answer? Delete it?

I'm confused.

Byte Commander

12:41 PM

I doubt a 700 GHz CPU would be physically possible at all...

terdon

@ByteCommander Why?

I'm pretty sure I used to have one, but I might be remembering wrong.

Edity

Terdon

i'm confused now

terdon

Eek! GHz, never mind.

Edity

Well, what's the verdict?

Keep or delete?

terdon

@Edity What in the world makes you think Ubuntu requires a 700GHz CPU? Perhaps you meant MHz?

Edity

12:44 PM

Boom, deleted

i'm blind

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: Apache2 restart/start error

I am trying to restart Apache2, but whenever I run the command, this happens: Job for apache2.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status apache2.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. Now, when I type "systemctl status apache2.service", it prin...

Anwar

12:59 PM

hi

edwinksl

@Zanna nice glob question ;)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

-1

Q: Unbutu apt-get script not working in Kali Linux

First I'm a COMPLETE newbie here. All I do isfollowing tutorials to get things done. I'm trying to install Oracle 12c on my Kali Linux x86-64 bits distribution. I'm following the tutorial here because I heard Kali is Debian so I thought it'd work if I followed that tutorial Actually it does wor...

shell-script ubuntu scripting apt kali-linux

Zanna

hey @edwinksl nice-answer on the man page pager Q ;)

edwinksl

:P

gah, mobile

Anwar

0

Q: Body weight readjustment (post-(exercise fat burn))

A friend of mine told me you burn fat on one area of the body, and then the body weight readjusts itself so as to maintain the same proportions within a week or ten days or so of you quitting the exercise routine. However, someone on this Stack Exchange group mentioned that this is false? Is the...

weight-loss bodyweight-exercises bodyweight

don't thinks that's a spam

edwinksl

1:06 PM

lol that blowtorch comment

Why on earth is this a C program invoking system(3) rather than a shell-script? O_o — liyang Apr 14 '15 at 13:28

lol

Rinzwind

@Zanna you won! 190 rep and result now is 7-4-4 so uncatchable :=)

Zanna

whoop! you have 11 hours to get 10 points...

@edwinksl hehehe

edwinksl

brb writing assembly code

Zanna

@edwinksl I guess that will save a picosecond or two...

... not counting the compiling

@Anwar context is everything

ps @Anwar hi how are you? :)

Serg

1:25 PM

BOO, did i spoop anyone ?

edwinksl

goddamn serg

Serg

:D practice before Halloween

Zanna

omg I can't believe it is almost October

Serg

yeah. . . . somebody slow down the time, plz

i need more sleep and more time for homework, and AxeUbantu

I hereby propose we create new site, AxeUbantu and send all bad users there

edwinksl

lmao

i volunteer to be sent to the gulag known as AxeUbantu

Serg

1:35 PM

The Axe'ubantu prisoners will be spanked untill they learn to spell Ubuntu properly XD

Terrance

@Rinzwind It's cool you wrote the answer up. :) Last night I couldn't even think with my work and being exhausted. Good job on the answer! :)

Rinzwind

thanks :) could have been your 4 upvotes ;-)

Terrance

Yeah, it's fine. At least I know I was part of the answer. :)

I'll get above 10k at some point in the future. ;)

Serg

Yesterday i was watching Mark Shuttleworth's talk about Unity on DebConf 2010. It actually makes a lot of sense why Unity has developed into this type of interface.

Zanna

1:56 PM

@SmokeDetector haha that's ASCII Op-Art!

Terrance

@Serg Do you have the link to that? It probably won't convince me of liking it, because each to their own, but I am still interested. :)

Zanna

heh @Terrance I'm also not a fan, but also interested

Terrance

I tried looking for it, but it won't come up, if it is the right page. It was trying to connect to blip.tv, which I think my router adblocking blocks it.

Nope, it doesn't block that site. Whew! I just can't connect to that one for some reason.

Zanna

@edwinksl edit war

edwinksl

@Zanna oh no! cristina's edit got rejected because of the war

now i owe her 2 rep

Zanna

2:03 PM

oops, my bad

Anwar

@Zanna fine. thanks for asking. on mobile. and is busy :

edwinksl

@CristianaNicolae oops your edit got rejected because zanna and i were also editing the same post. sorry about that

Zanna

I think you can't ping her because she hasn't been here

you need mod powers to superping

edwinksl

yeah i was trying my luck

her name was in the list for tab completion though, so i thought i may as well try

Zanna

it isn't for me!

edwinksl

2:06 PM

plz add me to sudoers

Zanna

haha

sudo visudo
edwinksl ALL=(ALL) ALL

Byte Commander

@edwinksl if tab completion works, you can ping.

Zanna

@ByteCommander why can't I find her in tab completion?

@edwinksl must be a sudoer already

Byte Commander

@ CristianaNicolae

@Zanna Did you misspell her? ("Christiana" maybe)

edwinksl

@ByteCommander there is a weird space between @ and C

Byte Commander

2:15 PM

It is because I did not want to ping her for nothing.

oh, lol, ok

@ByteCommander nope

odd

but now I can so VTC no-repro, I am crazy!

oops horribly late for work...

later......

Terrance

@Zanna Take care! :)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

2:33 PM

0

Q: How can I install a GUI in Ubuntu 16.04 server edition?

First I'm gonna say that I'm quite new to Linux and I wanna do this for learning purposes. So what are the steps necessary to install a GUI (probably a window manager, a display/login manager, a desktop environment and possibly more?) in Ubuntu 16.04 Server Edition that I've installed inside Vir...

ubuntu virtualbox gui

Zanna

@Terrance :) xx I just moved to mobile haha

edwinksl

don't forget to get off at your stop

Zanna

Omg!

Zanna

2:52 PM

Weird, I just got an accept when someone else's answer had more upvotes

I did miss my usual stop, but I have to change buses and fortunately there are a few stops overlapping... and for the second one my stop is the last, so it's almost ~~idiot~~ Zanna-proof

Journeyman Geek

lol

I almost miss my stop every morning

Cause I chat on the train

But the train stops for a bit longer on that stop ;p

Zanna

Haha that's lucky

edwinksl

@JourneymanGeek huh, who do you chat with on the mrt

Journeyman Geek

@edwinksl I'm on SE chat on the way to work

;p

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

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Q: What is going on in my laptop?

I have a laptop with two gpus (Intel HD4600, Nvidia GTX850M) that's running Ubuntu together with Windows 10 (has no issues) using GRUB. I have installed nvidia-355 and i have not installed bumblebee due to bad experiences (never got it working/it or me broke the install). Problem: Something di...

ubuntu x11 nvidia graphics

Journeyman Geek

2:58 PM

I walk to outram, take a train to chinatown, switch to the new downtown line to bayfront.

Zanna

I once accidentally met Brian Cox because I was unknowingly tutoring his stepson, and I was so embarrassingly starstruck that I missed my stop three times on the way home...

edwinksl

@JourneymanGeek lol. by train stopping a bit longer, sounds like you are getting off raffles place or city hall

Journeyman Geek

I donno

edwinksl

maybe jurong east too

Journeyman Geek

the NEL stops for like 2-3 minutes at chinatown

I donno why

its an interchange but its wierd

You like walk to the end of the line, and DTL platforms are 'stacked'

edwinksl

2:59 PM

i see you are a NEL person

Journeyman Geek

its not | T |____| T |

Its ____| T |
____ | T |

I take whatever gets me there

edwinksl

@Zanna oh god brian cox

Zanna

He is really annoying, but still it had this strange effect on me...

jokerdino

@Rinzwind you are a genius.

Rinzwind

am I?

@jokerdino naah I know how to search :=)

jokerdino

3:03 PM

I think so.

Zanna

I agree...

Rinzwind

:D

made it to 200 though >:)

jokerdino

ah, you are the phoney kind like me.

Rinzwind

Next badge 134/150 Legendary
>:)

Zanna

But what are we talking about?

Rinzwind

3:04 PM

No idea >:-S

Nice

Lol

awesome

lol

great

3:04 PM

Fab

Kaz Wolfe

Sweet

Rinzwind

I am lost :X

Journeyman Geek

I'm only 71/150 on SU tho :(

jokerdino

Enduring

Rinzwind

@JourneymanGeek Oli is on 142/150 and has been for a year >:)

Zanna

3:06 PM

Superlative...

jokerdino

you dare cross him

Journeyman Geek

(that and a reversal badge on SU are kinda my holy grails

jokerdino

)

Zanna

I have... 14 hahaha

@jokerdino lol

jokerdino

that's 10 more than me. /me shrug

Kaz Wolfe

3:08 PM

Hey, slightly on-topic...

Didn't the live USB copy everything to RAM?

When was this feature changed/removed? I just tried running from RAM and everything broke.

Zanna

@KazWolfe apparently yeah, you can take it out and everything still works, I was told

Oh

edwinksl

@Zanna so you must know roger penrose. i have a picture with him (and my friend)

Kaz Wolfe

@Zanna Just tried running headless, and I/O errors everywhere.

Zanna

@edwinksl that's awesome!

@KazWolfe remind me not to try that then...

Journeyman Geek

@KazWolfenot any more

livedisks use the liveusb 'read only' and unionfs atop that, so the changes are on ram

there's usually an explicit -toram stanza for grub

Kaz Wolfe

3:13 PM

yeah, i could launch firefox headless...

but i launched it before so.

i'll be asking a site question then, because free rep

Zanna

@jokerdino I have written nearly as many posts as you now, but you have more than twice as many points, therefore your posts must be more than twice as good!

@KazWolfe I feel it is a good day for asking questions...

jokerdino

@Zanna that's not how that works

I have a lot of deleted posts..

Actual count: 26Q and 317A

Zanna

But still, Oli has like 3000 answers

I have deleted loads too

I am sooo late

jokerdino

Sorry

Zanna

Haha it was in no way your fault

Journeyman Geek

3:20 PM

@Zanna Also, your votes are a distribution

I have answers ranging from 167upvotes to 2 downvotes on SU

Byte Commander

/me haz 140 Q and and 580 A

Zanna

Wow 140 Q

edwinksl

@JourneymanGeek 2 downvotes? let me downvote it :p

Kaz Wolfe

40 Q / 271 A

yay i'm a bad user :D

Byte Commander

Yeah, I wonder what I asked all that times...

Journeyman Geek

3:25 PM

118 questions on SU

Byte Commander

Probably 50% or so is unanswered...

Journeyman Geek

its apples and oranges....

@ByteCommander tho, that might be a sign its harder problems

Byte Commander

"user:367990 is:q answers:0" returns 40 unanswered questions only...

So that's only ~29%

BBL

Zanna

I only managed to think of 14 questions

Kaz Wolfe

3

Q: Can I boot a Live USB fully to RAM?

I have a live USB made with the standard Ubuntu disk image creator for 16.04 LTS. In the current state, I can boot to this disk, but it still requires the original USB to run properly at all times. Attempting to pull the drive and use the system generates a large amount of I/O errors, further su...

live-usb

then, let there be questions!

Zanna

3:38 PM

Upvoted...

Kaz Wolfe

i am curious about this though. a ramdisk would be amazing.

Serg

3:57 PM

twearking herd on me new inductator

Zanna

Good to know... I think

edwinksl

@Serg your spelling gets more creative as amount of sleep decreases

Serg

@edwinksl actually i just got out of class, so i needed to derp

and i slept quite good yesterday

but no homework done because of that

Terrance

Where is the mobile Stack Exchange chat client? I know I had it before, but for the life of me I cannot remember where I got it from.

@KazWolfe To your question, I have done it before with the toram parameter and it works. I have had to do it for work since we need to pull the USB for scrubbing so that we don't accidentally scrub the USB when we don't need to. :)

Serg

should be in play store

i just use browser version

i switch between too many tabs anyway

Terrance

4:11 PM

@Serg Thanks! I'll look again. :)

@Serg Do you remember what it is called?

Serg

no, unfortunately

Terrance

That's cool man! Thanks anyway! =)

Cool! I just found it! stackapps.com/questions/4659/chatsey-an-android-app-for-se-chat

Or play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tommedley.chatsey

Anonymous

hi all!

Terrance

@onebree Hello! :)

Anonymous

Q - What is a good platform for writing (technical) blog entries these days? I am familiar with Medium, and have heard of Wordpress as well.

user136984

4:46 PM

@onebree: They literally find a zero-day exploit in WordPress every day. I think it's probably the most well-known insecure website making software.

Rinzwind

4:56 PM

@onebree not wordpress :P

it is even more buggy than phpBB ever was

google made blogger. that might be something

Severus Tux

5:10 PM

Hi all :D

jokerdino

hi

Severus Tux

:)

Finally , Reinstalled Arch Linux, without GNOME, only xmonad Window Manager :D

but I need some help, could anyone identify which (set of) fonts i am missing ? (screenshot V)

any thoughts ?

terdon

Try these:

yaourt -S ttf-ms-fonts
sudo pacman -S noto-fonts noto-fonts-cjk  noto-fonts-emoji
sudo pacman -S ttf-dejavu ttf-symbola ttf-ubuntu-font-family ttf-freefont opendesktop-fonts

Severus Tux

Wohh ..!!!!

terdon

@SeverusTux that's what I see when I run history | grep fonts anyway. Although I'm pretty sure I didn't need to install any for U&L

Severus Tux

5:15 PM

terdon

Those are the extra ones I want (the noto* is for full unicode etc)

Damn!

OK, no fixed width for you:

yaourt -S ttf-ms-fonts
sudo pacman -S noto-fonts noto-fonts-cjk noto-fonts-emoji
sudo pacman -S ttf-dejavu ttf-symbola ttf-ubuntu-font-family ttf-freefont opendesktop-fonts

Better?

Severus Tux

yup :D

terdon

I would guess it's a locale issue though. I didn't have to do any of this for basic latin fonts, anyway

Zanna

My fonts were a bit funky in Arch before I installed plasma, but you have a serious case there!

Kaz Wolfe

:32557637 o.O

edwinksl

5:19 PM

that was quick

Windows 3.1

ooo

Terrance

LOL!

edwinksl

i didn't get to see what it was

Terrance

It was a someone whose name was Animelover but hated Anime that destroyed their Ramen noodles

Something like that

Zanna

That was the best part anyway...

Windows 3.1

5:20 PM

do not star this comment.

Ok :)

lmao

extreme

that's my only motivation to reach 10k tbh

Terrance

5:21 PM

To star something means I have to move my mouse to the right and I am not in the mood. :P

edwinksl

to read things like that

Kaz Wolfe

@edwinksl metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/41590

you dont need 10k

edwinksl

nice

i will just bookmark that page

Windows 3.1

:P

Kaz Wolfe

@edwinksl metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/…

Windows 3.1

5:25 PM

@KazWolfe metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/32569

and @edwinksl

@KazWolfe why spam it?

edwinksl

tbh all these are pretty tame compared to what i have seen in some MOBAs

Zanna

@edwinksl you are heading that way fast today...

Kaz Wolfe

@Windows3.1 different searches

Windows 3.1

oh

edwinksl

@Zanna just lucky...

Windows 3.1

5:27 PM

@KazWolfe see if you can find where the flag in this one came from metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/31404 lol

Terrance

Most of those are just troll posts anyways to try to get reactions out of people in my opinion.

Kaz Wolfe

@Windows3.1 yeah i see why. it was rejected as invalid

Windows 3.1

funny one :P

Anonymous

@ParanoidPanda and @Rinzwind thank you for the advice. I think I am going to go with Medium for now.

Kaz Wolfe

@onebree if you want selfhost, try ghost

Byte Commander

5:31 PM

@KazWolfe Wanna gimmeh bountieh? askubuntu.com/a/829962/367990

edwinksl

@ByteCommander nice answer but i ran out of votes :(

Byte Commander

No worries, tomorrow is fine too ;)

Terrance

@ByteCommander Nice answer! :)

Severus Tux

@terdon Thank you very much :D

Rinzwind

@edwinksl 200 reached today?

edwinksl

5:37 PM

@Rinzwind yeah :(

Rinzwind

good :)

17 on 1 answer aint bad :D

Kaz Wolfe

I want 200

edwinksl

@Rinzwind quoting man page is the way to go

Rinzwind

sure is D:

Kaz Wolfe

A bit of luck goes a long way on SE.

Byte Commander

5:39 PM

I need 25 more for 200.

Rinzwind

man page quotes are easy 10 upvotes

@ByteCommander I bet that is not true :=)

Byte Commander

10 now

E.g. if @KazWolfe could accept the toram answer...

Terrance

170 more for me! Yay!! I'm getting closer. :D

Kaz Wolfe

@ByteCommander I need to try it first.

Zanna

@edwinksl hey it's always a bit of that, but well deserved...

Byte Commander

5:41 PM

But no hurries, we have another 6 hours of UTC day...

Rinzwind

@Terrance ha! had you answered the edubuntu q you'd be on 210 >:)

Terrance

@Rinzwind LOL Rub it in. :( j/k

Rinzwind

>:-D

rub rub rub

Byte Commander

@KazWolfe Sure. I just tried it in a VM as well while making the screenshots, it should work.

Kaz Wolfe

I can't just accept answers. I have a duty to SE to check

Because I'm trying to be a model user :D

edwinksl

5:44 PM

woah

someone getting ready for next mod election?

Rinzwind

no >:)

Terrance

@Rinzwind LOL! I almost shot soda out my nose. ;)

Kaz Wolfe

Chat doesnt count btw ;)

Rinzwind

:D

jokerdino

I think I can hold out for another 2 years.

edwinksl

5:46 PM

@jokerdino you gonna be mod 4 lyfe, too bad

Kaz Wolfe

@edwinksl and not exactly. I'm trying to be a better user in general :P

I'll try for mod if a current mod or high-rep user (over 40k) says I should.

jokerdino

tough luck then

Serg

So, I got a first email about tutoring C

How much should I be charging for my tutoring ?

jokerdino

50 USD for one sitting.

Serg

O_O

That might be a bit expensive and scare people off

edwinksl

5:48 PM

i am curious what the market rate for c tutoring is

Serg

I'm thinking about 10 - 15 $ per session

jokerdino

How about 2.50 USD then?

Serg

Per hour probably will be difficult to calculate and time

@Terrance here's that talk I mentioned :youtube.com/watch?v=0la37TaQs-o

Terrance

@Serg Thank you very much! :D

Serg

For anyone else interested, that's Mark Shuttleworth's panel about Unity from debconf 2010

Zanna

5:50 PM

@Serg @jokerdino is right.

jokerdino

@Serg you got a nice beard there

@Zanna o.O

Serg

@jokerdino I . . .wasn't there :)

Never attended any debconf

jokerdino

I already upvoted you for the day @Zanna.

Kaz Wolfe

@jokerdino then, so be it.

jokerdino

@KazWolfe ah, you are not reading it right.

Kaz Wolfe

5:52 PM

@Serg $20 / hr, rounded up to the nearest quarter-hour.

@jokerdino then put it in more kaz-friendly terms?

sarcasm/hidden meaning is hard online, okay?

jokerdino

@Serg beard was nice

Serg

@KazWolfe I don't want to be calculating and rounding stuff. Is 15$ per session alright ?

jokerdino

@KazWolfe Frankly, it is too soon to talk about any election.

Kaz Wolfe

@Serg i'd say it's cheap but meh.

@jokerdino Also true. We seem to be okay right now. Seth is pretty good at nuking flags

jokerdino

Need to wait at the minimum another 9 months and maybe more.

Kaz Wolfe

5:55 PM

And not kicking me from chat :D

Serg

@KazWolfe so what's reasonable ? I can only dedicate 2 hours at max there

@Serg I'd say $20-30

back 2morrow :-)

Alright . . .

but really, $5/15 minutes, rounded up to the nearest $5 increment isn't bad.

Zanna

5:56 PM

@jokerdino eh? What?

jokerdino

@Zanna I already upvoted you today.

Zanna

@Serg are you talking about one to one?

Serg

@Zanna yes

Zanna

@jokerdino that is very nice of you & thanks! But why did you mention it there?

jokerdino

Oh, you said I was right and I have nothing to give back in return anymore.

I am bad with jokes :(

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