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edwinksl

07:36

@Zanna two cats? magic

Zanna

^_^

if you got two cats, you can have cuter pics

2

edwinksl

is true

Zanna

edwinksl

aww

Zanna

breakfast time...

edwinksl

07:56

looks like your breakfast got interrupted by serg and muru

Serg

08:18

WOOOO, 39k !

Zanna

think I have to delete my two cats

haha congrats!

edwinksl

you could fix it with xargs right

Serg

@Zanna nah, you could edit the answer , (IFS=$'\n';cat $(cat file_list.txt) )

Muru already posted that, but you were sort of on the right track too

Zanna

nope

edwinksl

rip cats

Serg

08:21

TT

Zanna

:) no worries

muru

08:37

@Zanna why delete that post?

Jacob Vlijm

Really not for the points, but could anyone end the unanswered status of this one: askubuntu.com/questions/866592/…? Op mentioned it works, but has left the building...

muru

For all we know, for OP's case that would be perfectly fine

Zanna

yeah maybe it would work for them, but it's really just as bad as parsing ls I think @muru

@JacobVlijm now you got +2

Jacob Vlijm

@Zanna haha, really not what I was after...

edwinksl

don't forget to upvote the question

Zanna

08:41

@edwinksl thanks for reminding :)

edwinksl

@JacobVlijm same also applies to you. if the question is good enough for you to answer, it is probably worth upvoting

Jacob Vlijm

@edwinksl I already did :)

edwinksl

thanks ;)

muru

@Zanna it's good to keep the quick and dirty solutions around, as long as they're properly qualified

Zanna

@muru ok, I will undelete and qualify :) I guess it provides context for your answer too

muru

08:45

\o\|o|/o/

edwinksl

spam askubuntu.com/questions/280342/…

Zanna

@muru ^_^

edwinksl

oh look cats are back

Zanna

muru already mentioned that spam here, where are all the flaggers??

we like cats, unless they are used uselessly

Sandro

09:47

is there anybody

Zanna

there are manybody

Serg

There are afewbody

Jacob Vlijm

but still, there is no body

@Sandro which body were you looking for?

Serg

Now we have a body in the chat

Jacob Vlijm

Some body!

Serg

09:51

literally

Zanna

we scared Sandro away, too much body

edwinksl

like cats, the more the merrier

Zanna

:)

Serg

@Zanna not enough body, we gotta workout

Zanna

good suggestion... too much AU, not enough exercise... maybe that's what Sandro is getting at.

Jacob Vlijm

10:01

this is the body of my text:

body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body body bo…

He can pick any body

Serg

/facepalm

Jacob , you're a python guy ! you could have made it more pythonic ! print "body"*256

Jacob Vlijm

@Serg ^ yeah, I should do some optimizing :)

...Need to work it out

BODY

...Fat body

Serg

身体 <--- UTF-8 body

Zanna

have we got a dupe target? askubuntu.com/questions/867376/…

terdon

10:17

@Zanna I moved it to SU since that's a Windows issue.

Zanna

Yeah I thought that too - thanks! ^_^

user136984

@Zanna: You don't have Chrome installed by any chance do you and be willing to test something quick for me?

Zanna

@ParanoidPanda No Chrome here, sorry!

user136984

Ah ok, that's fine. :)

user136984

I just need to find someone else in the UK with it so that I can get them to test something regional for me.

user136984

10:27

But it's fine.

Zanna

hope someone else can help...

Rinzwind

12:14

@NathanOsman as of 1.1.2017 I get 300mbps for 80 euro but that is with TV(=40euro) and telephone(=10euro). And we now also have HBO for "free".

Those 300mpbs also include the bandwith for TV if I watch TV and internet at the same time.

Zanna

@Zanna I am not, please explain me where do you see that i am logged in as root — fonjeekay 16 mins ago

edwinksl

XD

Rinzwind

@Zanna LOL

@terdon GO AWAY :=)

:P

-3

Q: No "create new file" field in context menu 16.04

When I right-click in an empty folder or an empty area of the Desktop, there is no "Create new file" field in the context menu. I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.

16.04

why did someone downvote me here just now: askubuntu.com/questions/254639/is-there-a-way-to-echo-an-alias/… :P

Thomas Ward

12:35

Good Darkness to you

@Rinzwind 'cause weirdness

Zanna

have an upvote...

terdon

@Rinzwind Gotta be faster!

Zanna

thanks for the back up haha

Thomas Ward

12:56

@George got any screenshots of these ads btw?

if it's doing popups in new windows, that's likely not the ads system; if it's doing full page, maybe it's something that I can forward to SE devs for investigation

more details about your ISP, Firefox version, addons running, etc. might help

@George and if you can torch your Firefox profile temporarily (move your firefox config directory to somewhere else temporarily) and see if it still does it, we can try and rule out malware

user136984

13:16

When is 16.04.2 being released?

Zacharee1

never

user136984

Because I'm wondering if I should upgrade my old machine to 16.10 or wait for the next 16.04 point release for the new kernel.

Zacharee1

do you care about stability?

Zacharee1

14:02

@edwinksl adwonkzil pls revu

Thomas Ward

14:44

yawns

Rinzwind

@terdon I aint a pokemon

TheXed

15:31

@MarkYisri I got it to work then I went to bed

user136984

16:17

17 hours ago, by Nathan Osman

We could back our currency with bacon.

user136984

I'm sorry, but what is it with this community and Bacon?

TheXed

@ParanoidPanda know python?

user136984

:D

TheXed

@ParanoidPanda bacon is amazing...

user136984

It's been a while since I did any Python, but I do know it to some degree.

user136984

16:18

I'm more of a Java man though.

TheXed

okay...

I will ask but don't feel bad if you don't know

user136984

Ok

TheXed

So I am working with a script that is supposed to upload images automagically to flickr

when I run it, i get the following error

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "flickrup.py", line 35, in <module>
sdcard = sys.argv[1] + "/"
IndexError: list index out of range

for the life of me I can't figure out how to fix it.

user136984

Well, as the error message says, you are specifying an index which is out of range.

user136984

You should probably set up some print statements there in order to see how far up it is counting or whatever it is you are doing with the array there.

TheXed

16:21

So what is the fix?

user136984

To not specify an index which is out of range. It starts at 0 normally.

Seth

@TheXed sys.argv is a list of your commandline arguments. You didn't pass it 2 arguments.

user136984

@Seth: That would explain it.

Seth

Or 1 argument. I can't remember if argv[0] is always specified or not.

user136984

Something is out of range.

TheXed

16:23

Okay so I did 0 and it seems to be working

user136984

Sorry if I'm not much help.

user136984

I only know what the error says.

Seth

@TheXed Okay so I just tested, 0 is always the name of the program. Probably not what you want. What are you trying to accomplish with that bit of code?

cl-netbox

Hello ! :)

TheXed

@Seth here is the github

github.com/drcursor/flickrup

terdon

16:36

@TheXed Yes, and what is it trying to do? When asking for help debugging your code, you need to explain 1) what it is supposed to be doing and 2) what it is actually doing.

And how you're running it. What command do you use to launch it?

TheXed

@terdon end result is to plug in USB device and auto load pictures to flickr...

the scrip is to authorize it flickr

command is python3 flickrup.py

Seth

It looks like it is expecting you to pass the name/path of the SD card to it on the command line

cl-netbox

Hi @terdon ! :) Happy New Year ! :) Did you receive your "Xmas present" in the meantime (the new machine) ?

terdon

@TheXed OK. And what are you expecting the sdcard = sys.argv[1] + "/" to do?

TheXed

@terdon I don't know...its not my code

terdon

16:39

@cl-netbox Hey, happy new year! And no, will be in a few weeks.

@TheXed Ah! Now that's an important detail :)

cl-netbox

@terdon Thank you ! :)

terdon

OK, then you need to run it like this:

python3 flickrup.py /path/to/card

Seth

@terdon I don't think he's writing it

TheXed

No I am not writing it.

terdon

@Seth Yeah, figured that out. Eventually.

Ideally, @TheXed, just make it executable (chmod a+x flickrup.py) and save it in ~/bin and then you can run it with flickrup.py /path/to/card.

TheXed

16:47

I don't understand

Zacharee1

wat askubuntu.com/questions/867541/…

TheXed

why its not working that is...

Zacharee1

o_O

user approved edit to their own post

but I don't think that should come up in the queue stats

cl-netbox

Hi @Hizqeel ! :) How are you doing today ? ... and how is your sweet little guinea pig ? Fine ? :)

Hizqeel

Greetings.. ! Hope all are doing well

@cl-netbox Hey o/ I am fine just feeling to much tired right now..... What about you? :)

Ohh he is great.. :p :D

but my cat is not feeling well :(

cl-netbox

16:55

@Hizqeel I am fine ... just wrote my first answer this year -> askubuntu.com/questions/867482/… ... was a bit of work, especially improving (editing) the question ... but my solution made the user happy ! :)

Zanna

@Zacharee1 it always does

cl-netbox

@Hizqeel Because of being bitten by the "hamster" ? :D :D :D If yes, tell your cat to fight back ! :D :D :D

Zacharee1

@Zanna is that expected behavior though?

Hizqeel

@cl-netbox don't know yet but she is sleeping and sleeping since morning .... I think that guinea did something because I saw him smiling all day :p :p :p

cl-netbox

@Hizqeel hope it is nothing serious with your cat ! :)

Zacharee1

17:00

@Hizqeel a cat sleeping? god forbid lol

Zanna

@Zacharee1 yeah why not? it counts as a review

Hizqeel

cl-netbox

Hey @Zanna ! :) All superfine ? :)

Hizqeel

here she is isn't she cute :D

Zacharee1

@Zanna well I can go to /tools and close questions there, or close a question by browsing to it, but that doesn't count in the queue

Thomas Ward

17:02

throws sticks into the room

cl-netbox

@Hizqeel WOW ... super cute ... indeed ! :)

Zacharee1

@ThomasWard sets them on fire

Hizqeel

@Zacharee1 :p

Zanna

@Zacharee1 yeah and it doesn't add to your review count either, but when you review an edit to your own post, it takes you to the review queue, and it counts as a review

Zacharee1

@Zanna that's weird

Zanna

17:03

shrug I dun make da rulez

blame Thomas (he doesn't make the rules either, but if we can't dump responsibility on mods, what are they there for?)

Zacharee1

@Zanna true that

Hizqeel

@cl-netbox :) :) :D

Zacharee1

Jan 21 '16 at 2:13, by Zacharee1

Zanna

you may wanna check on your toast, something burning over there

Nathan Osman

I want that UserScript.

Zacharee1

17:05

wait that was this year??

I thought that was from 2015

@NathanOsman wat

Nov 22 '15 at 12:47, by hbdgaf

Saw this the other day... I laughed pretty hard https://github.com/narkoz/hacker-scripts

yeah, it was 2015

TheXed

anyone have experience with usbmount?

cl-netbox

@Zanna : chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/34525104#34525104 or ... not ? :)

Zanna

oh superfine thanks!

George

@ThomasWard I already did that and it still happens

Zanna

how about you @cl-netbox ? :)

Thomas Ward

17:14

@George That's not the ad system here at StackExchange

Zanna

sorry I missed that, Zacharee was pinging me too

Thomas Ward

that sounds more like malware, possibly.

perhaps a DNS problem pointing to bad servers

Nathan Osman

I'm hoping they get the new community ads post up soon.

cl-netbox

@Zanna Fine ... now ... as I received an upvote on my first answer of 2017 ! :D :D :D

TheXed

how do I copy a file from github?

Thomas Ward

17:15

@TheXed you download the file in RAW form if possible.

then you have a copy of it.

if you want to create a copy of the file via GitHub you can't

Android Dev

What is this person thinking???

-1

Q: Hard disk failure

I have a sony vaio laptop 500GB hard disk i5 4GB ram . I had dual booted my machine with major portion as windows and just a 20GB ubuntu partition. Then one day i dropped my laptop which kind of damaged the hard disk. I could still run ubuntu but not windows. So i used the windows recovery env...

dual-boot hard-drive windows-7 sony

Thomas Ward

@TheXed not without git and such

TheXed

so I have to manually make the file in the dir then copy and paste?

Zanna

@cl-netbox haha that was me

how did I just answer a question after it was closed? o.O

cl-netbox

@Zanna Really ? hahaha ... Thank you very much Zanna ! :)

Zanna

17:18

most welcome

Android Dev

@ThomasWard - Thanks for putting that Q out of its misery.

Thomas Ward

@AndroidDev LAZORZ ARE FUN :D

cl-netbox

@Zanna That alone deserves an upvote ... for the magical event ! So here it is ! Cheers ... :D

Zacharee1

@ThomasWard so is bacon

Thomas Ward

@Zacharee1 so is pie. and triple chocolate cake.

Android Dev

17:23

@ThomasWard - Can you have a quick look here: askubuntu.com/q/867556/518562

RobotHumans

cl-netbox

@Zanna : Have another one ... and so now : Congrats for passing 200 today ! :)

Thomas Ward

@AndroidDev Orbital weapons engaged

Zanna

@cl-netbox aww thanks a lot :)

Thomas Ward

target down

Android Dev

17:25

:D

cl-netbox

@Zanna You're very welcome ! :)

Zanna

:)

Kaz Wolfe

i really wish more companies had developer APIs like Mongo's.

It would make my life infinitely easier.

Zacharee1

@KazWolfe why would companies want to do that?

Kaz Wolfe

because better API and better documentation make people want to use their product.

Nathan Osman

17:39

<--- is frustrated that there aren't 25 hours in a day.

@KazWolfe Hectane has one.

Kaz Wolfe

easy. stay awake for 18 hours, sleep for 8 hours.

Nathan Osman

What's cooler than an email server with an HTTP API? :D

Zacharee1

o_O

how about an unsecured router open to the internet?

Zanna

@NathanOsman I want moar

Zacharee1

we'll have to set up a meeting with the laws of physics

Thomas Ward

17:43

too bad they don't want to meet

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 are you comparing my application (with TLS support) to an open router?

Zacharee1

@ThomasWard well if you'd just stop throwing sticks around...

Nathan Osman

@ThomasWard i haz connections.

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman mebeh

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 boo. hiss. Throws a stick.

Zacharee1

17:44

lol

Nathan Osman

Feel bad about what you did now?

Zacharee1

no

Nathan Osman

Darn.

Zacharee1

I'm fine with 24 hour days

Thomas Ward

@Zacharee1 Okay, so no sticks. How about 18-foot long tungsten-carbide rods fired from orbit?

Zacharee1

17:45

ok

Nathan Osman

@ThomasWard I wonder if that would hurt.

I suppose if you were standing under one, it wouldn't hurt... for very long.

Seth

@NathanOsman probably not.

Thomas Ward

@NathanOsman Probably be squished instantly, fired from high orbit with a rocket booster attached to the back of the rod, that'll hit you real fast, and you'll just be obliterated on impact.

not to mention probably a half-mile-diameter or worse crater would be left behind.

:P

Zacharee1

fun times

Nathan Osman

Ask Ubuntu chat. The only place where we can cheerfully discuss annihilation via large composite poles fired from space.

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Seth

17:50

@NathanOsman you should get a passport and come to LFNW.

Nathan Osman

I should, yes.

Kaz Wolfe

@ThomasWard I'm going to talk to the air force and have your launch permissions pulled.

Thomas Ward

@KazWolfe heh

Zanna

18:07

eh? askubuntu.com/review/late-answers/661204

Nathan Osman

Lol.

On the Amazon product page for the Nvidia Titan X, one customer asked:

> "Is this card can run DOOM (1993) smoothly ?"

Nathan Osman

18:27

That was released long before GPUs existed.

Rinzwind

18:55

@NathanOsman answer: no.

Seth

@NathanOsman you're supposed to change GOPATH to your project directory when installing a package it depends on, yes? or no?

Nathan Osman

Nope.

GOPATH shouldn't change.

Edity

morning.

Nathan Osman

I always set it to "~/go" in .bashrc

Seth

grr. ok. So confusing for some reason.

Nathan Osman

18:58

The directory structure looks something like this:

- go/
  - bin/
  - lib/
  - src/
    - github.com/
      - username/
        - project/

Rinzwind

new acer notebook is going to cost 9k :X

Thomas Ward

@Rinzwind wat

Nathan Osman

@Rinzwind what the...

Thomas Ward

no acer notebooks don't cost that much, this is lies

Edity

@Rinzwind wtf

Rinzwind

18:59

4 ddr slots. i7 2 Geforce in SLI

Edity

that's too much

Nathan Osman

9k yen? 9k dollars? 9k rupees?

Rinzwind

64 ram

@NathanOsman euro >:)

Nathan Osman

9k rupees is better :P

Rinzwind

DAMN

IT IS NOT 9K

Nathan Osman

19:00

$131 USD :D

Rinzwind

ONLY 8999 :X

theverge.com/2017/1/3/14126754/…

there ^

Nathan Osman

Whatever it is, I don't want it.

Performance like that matched with a battery = 5 minutes of gaming.

Rinzwind

well a 21-inch, 2560 x 1080 resolution IPS IS awesome :D

Nathan Osman

21 inch isn't a laptop. That's a freaking television.

TheXed

It is a little out of my budget...

@NathanOsman devices like that are meant to be plugged in...

Nathan Osman

19:01

@TheXed ...to multiple outlets.

Rinzwind

nothing about the battery in the article :P

Nathan Osman

How on earth can the power supply transform that much power and still fit in a bag?

TheXed

@NathanOsman lol...no

Seth

Why not just get a desktop?

Nathan Osman

@Rinzwind ...convenient.

TheXed

19:02

@Rinzwind I bet it doesn't even have a rechargable battery

Seth

I can't even stand a 17.3" laptop.

Nathan Osman

@Seth ALAS! Please take your sensible suggestion elsewhere.

Rinzwind

@NathanOsman have a guess what the weight is

TheXed

@Seth because you can't play with your desktop while your spouse drive the car...

Nathan Osman

@Seth 17" is about the maximum I would ever consider.

15.4" is about perfect.

Rinzwind

19:03

17.5 pound is what ...

9 kilo?

Seth

@NathanOsman yep, tho not for school.

Nathan Osman

2

UPS not included.

TheXed

@NathanOsman OMG...So heavy!

Nathan Osman

@Rinzwind 17.5 lbs? Who is this for? Superman?

I've seen desktops that weigh less.

Rinzwind

@NathanOsman a rich guy that can offered a butler to carry it around?

Nathan Osman

19:05

@Rinzwind If you can do that, you can afford to pay someone else to take your wife shopping.

Rinzwind

4 512Gb ssd's :P

Nathan Osman

...and just stay home.

@Rinzwind That's just... obscene.

Seth

2

Android Dev

19:23

@NathanOsman That got a chuckle out of me, lol :)

@NathanOsman Not even. Two 1080s + i7 at full tilt = like 600w

@ThomasWard - Can you migrate to SU? askubuntu.com/q/867606/518562

Thomas Ward

Possible duplicate of How to remove Ubuntu and put Windows back on? — Zanna 41 secs ago

No

but i'll mark it a dupe

Android Dev

@ThomasWard But OP says DVD won't boot, which indicates a boot order issue, which is an SU question, no?

Thomas Ward

@AndroidDev They're free to ask that question on Super User, yes. But the "Remove Ubuntu" part is a dupe of another question

Android Dev

shrugs

Thomas Ward

yawns

Can't migrate via my phone anyways, it breaks evillyh

Zanna

19:31

I screwed up?

Android Dev

No

Thomas Ward

@Zanna everyone screwed up

the World is screwed up

it is creeping ever closer to the unending eternal Darkness that shall engulf all things.

Android Dev

lol

Zanna

haha indeed, but, more than usual?

I guess I'm OK

Thomas Ward

for now

Zanna

19:32

embraces the darkness etc

Thomas Ward

we shall all be consumed by the Darkness soon enough >:D

considers putting "Diamond-Powered Envoy of the Eternal Darkness" in his chat profile

Android Dev

The darkness that comes from people who don't bother to do a 2 second google search before posting a terrible Q?

Nathan Osman

Brasero... Y U VERIFY DISC SO SLOW.

Android Dev

@Zanna Lol, you posted this comment just as I answered askubuntu.com/questions/867609/cannot-install-packages/…

Zanna

@AndroidDev I can't complain, I'm sure I owe 90% of my rep to google-shirkers

if you gonna use sudo -i don't forget to exit the root shell when done

you may as well just hand a baby a blowtorch as drop a new user in there without reminding them to get out

I'd just sudo each command personally

oh I tried to upvote your answer but I'm out of post votes for the day

sorry I'll vote on it tomorrow

Android Dev

19:42

@Zanna Good catch!

Zanna

:)

Android Dev

Wouldn't want them accidentally using dd as root :)

Zanna

zackly

Seth

zachly?

Android Dev

You know what's scary though:

rm -rf *

On your home dir

doesn't need root

Zanna

19:44

yup

Android Dev

I actually once fat fingered that on one of my VMs... but I had a snapshot :)

Zanna

I nearly ran rm * in ~ once, I thought I was in a subdirectory mucking around, but I had already cd ..

I just glanced at my prompt and caught myself in time hahaha

yay for backups indeed...

Thomas Ward

@AndroidDev Did you mean: Pulling a Terdon?

2

TheXed

backups are way over rated...

Seth

20:01

obligatory

4

edwinksl

20:30

@Zacharee1 pls

user136984

20:50

Why am I the only one who gets these infections??? :D

user136984

0

Q: chkrootkit reports tcpd to be infected, should I be worried?

I ran sudo chkrootkit today and was told this as a part of the output: Checking `tcpd'... INFECTED I am running Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 with GNOME 3.22, what does this mean, should I be worried and how can I investigate further?

security rootkit chkrootkit

user136984

The tool has given me quite a few false positives before so I'm hoping that that's all it is.

Kaz Wolfe

21:05

@ParanoidPanda because, in your paranoia, you're leaving doors wide-open sealing every single crack and mouse-hole.

Edity

21:30

this is new

Can you help? Ask Ubuntu depends on everyone sharing their knowledge. If you're able to answer this question, please do!

:|

@ParanoidPanda check sha1sum

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