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Q: Bad admin choices regarding a compound question

There is a compound question asked; a question that solicits a CLI method, and a GUI method. I keep seeing places refer to the "partner" repository as a place I can get software, how can I enable this repository? Please specify how to do this graphically and via command line. This raises a ...

Zacharee1

1:02 AM

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A: Bad admin choices regarding a compound question

The body of your question doesn't really seem to relate to the title. You also don't really seem to be asking a question in the first place. Are you complaining about how Thomas rolled back your edit or are you complaining about how the CLI method is inferior or are you complaining about the ques...

edwinksl

1:27 AM

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WinEunuuchs2Unix

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Thomas Ward

(removed)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@edwinksl on that question you said I should learn git-clone first and foremost Elder Geek linked a how to guide for me. But it said you need to know pull, push, fork, etc. first which I don't know. I only know Linus and 2 or 3 other guys created git-hub when they got pissed the ECM software vendor they were using wanted to charge them in the 90's.

edwinksl

huh? linus torvalds didn't create github

Serg

he created git. github is a private company , not affiliated with Linus

Android Dev

1:34 AM

@TheXed - Hopefully you won't have a bad day tomorrow, LOL! chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/33067173#33067173

WinEunuuchs2Unix

sorry for lumping git and github together.. you can understand the mistake hopefully

TheXed

@AndroidDev this is a legitimately scary situation we are in...tomorrow we as a nation ask our self's "which Hell do we send the United States to?"

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@AndroidDev TheXed invited the world to look into his router, so I asked him to ping me when he's not around so I can break-in and use a screwdriver to open his router :)

edwinksl

@WinEunuuchs2Unix git is rather critical to a lot of linuxy things though... you could certainly keep downloading zip files from github but i myself would never do that

Android Dev

@TheXed <sigh>Yep</sigh>

Serg

1:37 AM

@TheXed which of the two turds shall be the shiniest ?

TheXed

@WinEunuuchs2Unix if you find anything interesting let me know...

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@edwinksl the only thing I've "gitten" off of github is "EnhanceIO" which bricked my HDD after a kernel update late last year.

Videonauth

@WinEunuuchs2Unix lets say your on the github porject page you want to have there is a button clone or download, simply copy the link (I use my own here as example) then hop into your terminal navigate where you want that repo clone to exist and then use 'git clone github.com/Videonauth/passgen.git`<-- just as example

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Videonauth fair enough, but in Elder Geek's link you have to setup a git account first... sorry "github" account first.

TheXed

They did a mock election at work today and trump won by a land slide, but interestingly enough the Libertarian candidate was in second and Clinton 3rd, then there was a few write-ins..

edwinksl

1:40 AM

@Zacharee1 i notice all of evan's meta posts are heavily downvoted lol

Videonauth

@WinEunuuchs2Unix It's not needed for jus t cloning, but if you want to fork and do pull requests etc you should have an account

Zacharee1

@edwinksl nice

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I sold software for voting machine vendors in the states back in 96... I bet it's as bad as my answers in AU and it's all rigged :) Clinton is sucking up the non-white vote with forked tongue that Donald will kill them... Look how many she's signed off in killing in ME and Africa through seven major wars / invasions to save them from their governments.

@Videonauth I don't forking know how to pull or push or why I would want to do either or all three at the same time.

TheXed

you forgot to use quotes for "save them from their governments"

WinEunuuchs2Unix

it's funny the government was one guy

hussein, ghaddafi, assad.

but in the USA when someone is shot it's never obama but Cop X or Y or Z.

Videonauth

1:43 AM

well its easy, forking means you make a copy of a project on github to your own github space, there you can pull and push to and from your computer the changesd sources, and a pull request is if you want to contribute your changes/fixes to the original project

WinEunuuchs2Unix

who is usually let go after grand fury indictment.

@Videonauth I was never good on multi-person programming projects in the 80's when they first invented library check out systems for code... "I code alone, with nobody else" (George Thoroughgood)

Videonauth

well both has its benefits and cavats

TheXed

@WinEunuuchs2Unix well the reason why the Government is only one person in these other countries is because if we started picking out individuals in other countries that committed Crimes we wouldn't be able to pronounce their names, so we collectively throw them under one person.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Well I call everyone in the USA Hillary Clinton now.

TheXed

@WinEunuuchs2Unix I rather be Al Gore, since I invented the internet...

WinEunuuchs2Unix

1:48 AM

Well I kind of know your name,,, so you would be Xed Sillary Clinton.

Mateo

remind me only to play around with silos on the nexus 4 and not my daily phone...

WinEunuuchs2Unix

where did you get the nuke launch codes for the silos?

TheXed

@Mateo there is a biker bar down the road called physco silo...

Videonauth

@WinEunuuchs2Unix they have been for over 3 decades simple a row of 8 zeroes

Mateo

well, not those silos... but yeah did "nuke" the phone - had to reflash

TheXed

1:49 AM

Perhaps you should just go there instead of hacking your phones...

WinEunuuchs2Unix

When I bought my android phone (Lollipop I think) there was all kinds of talk of rooting your phone at the risk of bricking it. and I thought... why would I want to do that?

TheXed

I have never rooted an android device, but I have jail broken a couple of iPhones...

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Heck I just figured out long press with finger a fortnight ago to invoke, copy and paste function based on AskUbuntu bounty question on mimicking smartphone behavior in linux.

Mateo

kind of fun knowing you have the tools to simultaneously destroy then recreate your phone install

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I can borrow a hammer from work to destroy my phone :D

I"m just focused on getting plymouth sunrise to start earlier and last longer.... plus figure out why "loading initial ramdisk" in grub lasts 6 seconds.... I'm just a beginner :)

TheXed

1:55 AM

@WinEunuuchs2Unix you may be able to destroy your phone with a hammer, but then it is very hard to repair...

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I'll leave the complicated stuff of pushing and pulling and forking all over the world to you guys ;)

Videonauth

well i off to bed got a headache from trying to use classes in python

WinEunuuchs2Unix

gn

TheXed

@Videonauth good night...

TheXed

2:19 AM

If you keep going, does that make you the serial killer?

SQuirel

2:50 AM

Hi

Anyone here good @ wireless stuff?

SQuirel

3:03 AM

rmmod: ERROR: Module iwlwifi is not currently loaded

Byte Commander

@Videonauth In Python? Most simple thing ever. (Unless you want to fiddle around with metaclasses, but whenever you believe you need those, that's a sure indicator that you should rethink your architecture...) You may ping and ask me if you need help.

Videonauth

@ByteCommander well im actualy fiddling around with pyopengl and pygame and game objects are simply best being objects (i.e. classes) and not functions :)

Byte Commander

awake again? o.O

Videonauth

you just woke me lol

Byte Commander

Aww, sorry.

Why don't you shut down the computer or at least turn the ping sounds off during htose rare hours you go to sleep?

Videonauth

3:13 AM

bad idea putting the laptop with sound on near my pillow

Byte Commander

^

Videonauth

was still reading documentation to sleep in over

Byte Commander

Okay, haven't done anyting with those two libs yet.

But what's your problem with creating a class?

Videonauth

well im comming from a c++ background

and python classes are just so not like c++ classes

its simply hard to change thinking patterns over to python which where build in years over years of c++ usage

Byte Commander

Okay, it's simple.

You do not declare any fiields/properties first.

They are simply added any time, normally in the __init__(self, ...) method which acts as constructor.

Videonauth

3:20 AM

yeah so far i have come today and got a small window open with a guy moving around, its more the reading through the pygame.py modules which gave me headaches

understanding their inheritances of their module classes

and many of them are not even classes

Byte Commander

Also, methods in the class don't magically have access to the current object instance they're invoked on, but they get this object passed as first parameter, which is why they all look like def method_name(self, other_args):

Videonauth

a class with thow methods from which one is init- is no class at all

Byte Commander

wat?

Videonauth

well some of the pygame classes in their modules should have been simple functions

Byte Commander

If you declare a class, it's a class. Can be as simple as class MyClass: pass

Videonauth

3:22 AM

yeah

yeah but imagine you have a class with an empty but declared init and one class method, thats not a class that is for me in my eyes a hidden function and should for gods sake please be declared as such

Byte Commander

If somebody uses a class just to wrap a method, that's probably a clear indicator they're coming from a Java-like background and don't understand the Python way.

If that one method could be static (self parameter is not used), then yes, a function object would have been more appropriate there.

Videonauth

good talk about that i just saw recently and which even reminded me on a talk bjarne stroustrup gave is hthis one youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0

edwinksl

4:23 AM

@Zanna i don't really know what the british think of the election here

David Foerster

4:35 AM

Ugh, can't sleep for more than a few hours the 2nd night in a row.

Hi all!

Seth

hi!

@DavidFoerster are you sure more screen time will help? :P

Serg

4:52 AM

i hate it when i know question is a dupe because i answered same one a while back, but i can't find it

David Foerster

no, but tossing around in bed for another hour won't help either.

@Serg hear, hear.

Serg

@DavidFoerster enjoying insomnia huh ? yep, been there. Try ASMR and relaxation sounds videos on YouTube, mostly helps me, although i think I'm getting desensitized to them after like 2 years of listening

David Foerster

I only have rare and short episodes of insomnia (that don't have trivial causes like too much dinner or excitement over the next day), so I'm not too worried about the lack of sleep.

TheXed

I have exploding head syndrome...if that makes you feel better...

David Foerster

At this point I just hate the feeling of boredom when lying in bed. If I start to think about something interesting it'll just keep me awake. I usually try to think of relaxing and cosy situations but I can only do that for so long.

@TheXed: :-S

TheXed

5:04 AM

It is real man...

David Foerster

Thanks, Smoky!

SmokeDetector

5:48 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, link at end of body, link following arrow in body, pattern-matching website in body: Nutri Fast Garcinia Supplement really works? by uianouiod on askubuntu.com

Anwar

6:15 AM

I didn't pass on this review!! askubuntu.com/review/close/639891

Although I can't see why that one is closed

Kaz Wolfe

6:27 AM

Now I remember why I got speakers with such a high bass tolerance. DAT DROP

Serg

"can any one help me out doing Skype for Business installation on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS" , I assume OP wants to install Skype for Business, but they didn't word it properly. Biased close, I'd say.

Kaz Wolfe

Seriously. Last time the bass dropped this hard, AU's flag queue was instantly cleared.

Serg

@KazWolfe maybe you should drop that bass more often ;)

Anwar

@Serg I thought same. Also they replied in the comment that the targeted answer didn't work

Kaz Wolfe

@Serg well, I NEED MORE SUBWOOFERS THEN

just replace all of my walls with subwoofers. I think that will end up causing a world-wide quake.

Serg

6:30 AM

@Anwar vote to reopen. I don't think OP will come back, but still maybe it'll be useful to others

Anwar

@Serg that q got deleted already

and is being used for audit!!

Kaz Wolfe

"On November 7, 2016, the world's first Magnitude 10.0 earthquake ever was recorded. The epicenter seemed to be the house of one Kaz Wolfe, where he replaced all of his walls with subwoofers and turned the bass to 12. More on this story at 11."

Serg

@Anwar well . . .not anymore I guess - I've edited it, cast reopen vote and undelete vote

Anwar

OK. I did same :)

1 more del vote needed askubuntu.com/review/low-quality-posts/639680

Kaz Wolfe

@Anwar KA-BLAM

Serg

6:37 AM

@Anwar seems alredy deleted , 4 mins ago

*seconds

ah, Kaz's was the last vote

Anwar

yes. it was Kaz..

Kaz Wolfe

@Anwar Yes, very much.

Anwar

@KazWolfe Thank you * 30

Happy ?

Kaz Wolfe

was that 5 pings?

come on, you can go higher. Like... 30?

Serg

I just realized that I can pass variables to function by prepending them to function call and using them as environment variables for the function

saw this on one guy's answer

Apparently he made a mistake, but . . . what a clever mistake !

Anwar

6:40 AM

like?

Serg

Well, how do we usually set environment variable temporarily for a command ? something like LC_ALL=C apt-get update , right ?

Anwar

yes

So can we do same for function call?

Serg

Yes. Same with functions, student_name="John Doe" function_call And then I can call the student_name variable from function because it's already in that function's environment

Anwar

ah! Nice thing I learned. Thanks

..OT..Carefully (if you need it) read this answer and see if it answering the question askubuntu.com/review/low-quality-posts/639894

Serg

Usually you'd have to pass like so function_call "$student_name" , so in function you'd use "$1"

Anwar

6:44 AM

yes

why was this even downvoted? askubuntu.com/review/low-quality-posts/639728

Serg

@Anwar seems slightly confusing. It is definitelly an answers, ok quality I'd say. I think it tries to answer , but just doesn't quite get there

Anwar

who downvoted that one? It's a good answer!

OK

Serg

eh, not the best , but sure - still an answer

Anwar

sorry. It answered only the title @Serg. I got it. The title was misleading

Serg

ok, im out

sleep

o/

Anwar

6:49 AM

good night @Serg

SmokeDetector

6:59 AM

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, link at end of body, pattern-matching website in body, repeated URL at end of long post: planning any challenging work or exercise by williong on askubuntu.com

Anwar

This is not improvement askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/639906

David Foerster

@Anwar I think it's because OP didn't clarify what they wanted and abandoned the question.

Though I would have preferred to close it as a duplicate as you can see.

…since OP claimed it wasn't a duplicate but didn't say what they wanted instead.

Anwar

They wanted Skype for Business setup

David Foerster

Yes, and?

Anwar

And that...