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Pilot6

15:04

@Serg OK. I will ping you. It usually happens when I buy some new hardware ))

I do not develop wireless drivers. I sometimes patch them to build for specific kernels.

@cl-netbox Realtek is better than Broadcom. They allow to distribute their firmware and release open source driver. The drivers are poor, but at least it is possible to write better ones.

edwinksl

Python Fire, a library for automatically generating command line interfaces opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/python-fire-command-line.html

cl-netbox

@Pilot6 Hats off ! :) Patching drivers is not something everybody is able to do. :)

Pilot6

@cl-netbox This is not too hard

cl-netbox

@Pilot6 True ... I would be glad if there would be an open source alternative for BDM ... but I use my old DELL machine mainly as a server which is connected via LAN ... on my main machine I have an intel 8260 wifi chip ... and there (as you know) we don't have any issues on whatever linux system we use at all. :)

Pilot6

The new Intel chips work much better on Linux than on Windows. That's rare.

cl-netbox

15:19

@Pilot6 I couldn't do it ... hahaha ... :)

Serg

Atheros is pretty good,too

I've got one in this laptop I'm using right now

cl-netbox

@Pilot6 I agree ... extremely rare :)

@Serg open source drivers working out-of-the-box ?

Pilot6

New Atheros chips are not always well supported by the kernel. And also the QCA people do not maintain the kernel module, but develop themselves. They do not answer to my patch mails

But Intel kernel devs are really good.

cl-netbox

@Pilot6 Why don't they respond ? They should be glad that you try to contribute ... :)

Pilot6

I don't know. I've sent a patch that add support of one USE dongle. Maybe because they do not bother to support ath9k now.

cl-netbox

15:23

@Serg I've seen users having trouble with them ... :)

Pilot6

There are users having trouble with everything.

cl-netbox

@Pilot6 True ! :)

Serg

 *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wlan7
       version: 01
       serial: d0:53:49:3d:53:fd
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=4.4.0-65-generic firmware=N/A ip=10.50.1.126 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn

That's the one i have. driver ath9k, which is open source one, I believe

works like charm

Pilot6

Two days ago I bought a new laptop for my dad. It has rtl8723be chip. I prepared to have all sorts of trouble and was ready to use a driver from my PPA. But it works well without any actions on both 4.4 and 4.8 kernels. I am curious why everyone else has trouble?

@Serg This is an old good woring Atheros. I have some of those on a shelf, that I replaces with Intel ;-)

cl-netbox

@Pilot6 mostly the basic installation is the root cause ... many users install systems in a way that is unbelievable ... :D

Pilot6

15:26

Installation ways do not affect how drivers work

I had only one trouble on the new laptop with a Huawei modem. It worked on every other comp, but that one. I spent two hours on debugging, and finally fixed by a udev rule. Still I have no idea why it works on identical software on all other comps.

cl-netbox

@Pilot6 well, if you see those many NVIDIA issues we are addressing ... basically all of them are due to an unprofessional way of installation methods. :)

@Pilot6 sometimes things simply don't work as expected ... :)

Pilot6

That is true. Everyone tries to install the newest drivers from a PPA. Have you seen that now they have bugs with Ubuntu? I am not mentioning SB and .run files )))

I never had any troubles with Nvidia either.

Serg

@Pilot6 Some modules require other modules to be installed as well, right ? So potentially, the modules that the computer required were a bit more dated/buggy than on the other computer

cl-netbox

@Pilot6 same with me ... never ever had a single issue ... on whatever machine I installed them ! :)

Pilot6

@Serg All module basically are in the kernel.

modules

The same Ubuntu with the same kernel on all comps

cl-netbox

15:33

@Serg not necessarily ... when you install drivers the way it is intended you won't have issues ... when you fiddle around, then in most cases problems start to arise ! :)

@Serg and as @Pilot6 mentioned : if you start to fiddle around with .run files ... okay, then it is your (not your's ... the user's) own fault ! :)

Serg

@cl-netbox well, a lot of newbies don't even know how to fiddle in the first place. I think if you know how to mess around with hardware on the level of @Pilot6 or on the level of what you do with Nvidia, then you probably have better chance of solving the issue

Pilot6

All Windows user "know" how to install drivers. They go to a vendor's site and download it. ;-)

cl-netbox

@Pilot6 hahaha :D :D :D

@Serg the newbies should stick with : sudo apt install nvidia-(version) ... that's it ! :)

Serg

To be perfectly fair, Windows made people spoiled

Pilot6

I always install Nvidia drivers from the official repos and never have trouble

cl-netbox

15:45

@Pilot6 same with me ... totally agree ! :)

Pilot6

@cl-netbox But you always suggest to add graphix-drivers/ppa )))

cl-netbox

@Pilot6 yes ... for newer GPUs ... the drivers from GPU Drivers PPA work flawlessly too ... I have tested all of them ... of course ONLY stable drivers ... never betas ! :)

Pilot6

Now they do not work well. I mean the 375 and 378 drivers from the PPA.

In most cases they really work. But I am to lazy to try.

cl-netbox

@Pilot6 I think Michael (Marley) does a pretty good job there ... me personally, I don't need drivers from the PPA because I'm not a gamer, but many users need them for playing "the newest" games ... that's the reason why I test them. :)

Pilot6

I play games, but I do not need "the newest drivers".

cl-netbox

15:54

@Pilot6 Which GPU do you have ?

Pilot6

It is not very new. It is GTX 550 Ti.

But it is good enough for most of games

cl-netbox

@Pilot6 I have a GTX 860M in my SCHENKER XMG and a 8600M GT (hahaha) in my old DELL Inspiron - my wife plays built-in GNOME games with it ... and it still works ! :)

cl-netbox

16:07

@Serg Sorry, a typo from me - I have an intel Wireless-AC 7260 (incl. Bluetooth) :
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Wireless 7260
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlp3s0
version: bb
serial: 48:51:b7:15:a0:ea
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=4.8.0-30-generic firmware=17.352738.0 ip=192.168.178.21 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11

By the way @Pilot6 ... in my other old DELL machine, which I use mainly as a server I have an AMD Radeon HD 3650 - which works great with open source radeon drivers still ... :)

Serg

16:24

AC 7260 , sounds very familiar. I may have seen a few questions about it around here

Serg

16:36

Lol, a lady just tried to print something - didn't work. I come over, she does exactly same process - prints like charm. #printers_fear_me #IT_life #I_have_no_idea_what_i_am_doing (⌐■_■)

cl-netbox

@Serg :D :D :D

Byte Commander

16:49

1

Q: Was kernel 4.4.0-65 update pulled back?

24 hours ago, Linux kernel 4.4.0-65 appeared as an update on Ubuntu 16.04 update servers. I did not do the update at that time because I was too busy to restart the system because of the update. I attempted to do the update 12 hours ago though and although all other updates appeared and install...

kernel

Does anyone know? ^

I installed that kernel update yesterday, but today it's no longer in the archives.

cl-netbox

@ByteCommander Why don't you switch to the HWE stack ? Good evening ! :)

Byte Commander

I am running on 4.8, but I kept linux-generic and the GA kernels just in case...

As long as I have enough space... why not? :)

cl-netbox

@ByteCommander ah okay ... I guess they found a bug and hence removed it from the servers. :)

Byte Commander

no, it is in xenial-proposed now

I suspect that they initially published it in the wrong repo section maybe...

cl-netbox

@ByteCommander or that ... happened by accident, also possible :)

cl-netbox

17:34

@ByteCommander I checked something ... kernel 4.8-40 to which I upgraded yesterday on all machines are also not on the servers anymore ... seems they indeed found a critical bug !

Byte Commander

I'm still on 4.8.0-39, that should be fine

cl-netbox

@ByteCommander I have no issues with 40 though ... :)

Kaz Wolfe

gah. i am getting so many hash sum mismatch errors.

Byte Commander

@cl-netbox Seems like it makes problems with LXD and apparmor or so mainly bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1669611

1

A: Was kernel 4.4.0-65 update pulled back?

After some search I found out that it was pulled back actually because of critical errors like this one here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1669611 Thank you all though! :)

cl-netbox

@ByteCommander aha ... I also updated my LXD system containers ... no problems ... maybe they occur in special scenarios. :)

Kaz Wolfe

17:39

Linux firewolf 4.4.0-65-generic #86-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 23 17:49:58 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

16.04, still running kernel 65

Byte Commander

That's the one which seems to be buggy in some situations.

cl-netbox

@KazWolfe no big thing I guess ... a new version will be out soon ... I'm sure ! :)

Kaz Wolfe

on an unrelated note, we need to sic canonical onto Intel.

01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/…

IGUT demands 16.10

ignoring the fact that 16.04 is LTS and should really still be supported

> Version 2.0.4 of the update tool is targeted specifically at both Ubuntu* 16.10 and Fedora* 25. Earlier revisions for those Linux distributions are now deprecated and are no longer being supported by the update tool. Please upgrade to a more recent version of your OS distribution if you want to take advantage of this release.

cl-netbox

@KazWolfe that thing once ruined my installation ... clonezilla fired up - problem solved ! :D

Kaz Wolfe

oh, it's targeting kernel 4.8. that's why.

i guess i need to upgrade to 16.10. fml.

Byte Commander

17:44

Erm... How can I tell apt to forget an old installation candidate that is only available from /var/lib/dpkg/status currently?

I though apt clean should do that, but it's still here.

$ apt policy linux-headers-generic
linux-headers-generic:
  Installed: 4.4.0.65.69
  Candidate: 4.4.0.65.69
  Version table:
 *** 4.4.0.65.69 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4.4.0.64.68 500
        500 ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages
     4.4.0.21.22 500
        500 ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

Kaz Wolfe

well... let's see if my system survives an update to yakkety.

Byte Commander

I know I could just specify the version I want to install, but how would I kill that entry instead?

cl-netbox

@KazWolfe why not doing a clean install ?

Byte Commander

@KazWolfe you can get 4.8 on xenial too

Just install the HWE kernel stack

Kaz Wolfe

@cl-netbox Because reasons.

Like the fact that I like my dev environment and would rather not have to rebuild.

cl-netbox

17:46

@KazWolfe sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04 | sudo reboot ... now you are on kernel 4.8 in 16.04 ! :)

Serg

i . . .need . . .coffee T_T

Byte Commander

$ uname -r ; lsb_release -rs
4.8.0-39-generic
16.04

Kaz Wolfe

@cl-netbox oh, neat. til.

ty you two, will do that. I don't like getting off LTS...

cl-netbox

@KazWolfe yeah ... and you have the drivers stack of 16.10 as well afterwards ! :)

Kaz Wolfe

awesome.

Byte Commander

17:49

I also haven't decided to take yakkety yet.

cl-netbox

@ByteCommander no need to do it anymore ... switch to zesty in a few weeks

Kaz Wolfe

or just wait for 18.04

because LTS is good.

cl-netbox

@KazWolfe yes ... and it works perfectly ... I tested it since 14.04 times

@KazWolfe or that ... or maybe even better 20.04 ? hahaha :D

Kaz Wolfe

@cl-netbox no, 18.04 is next LTS

There's no need to risk breaking Ubuntu with upgrades.

which seems to happen pretty often.

cl-netbox

@KazWolfe I know ... was a joke ... I always make a clean install every six months after the newest stable final edition was released :)

Kaz Wolfe

17:57

that was scary...

system's back up, but it took a really long time to get past graphics init.

also got rid of bcmwl \o/

so my system is just a tiny bit more libre

cl-netbox

@KazWolfe just re-install BCM :)

Kaz Wolfe

nu

i want to make my system as stallman-worthy as possible.

which is gonna be hard with nvidia

cl-netbox

@KazWolfe don't you need it for wifi ?

Kaz Wolfe

nope.

there are a bunch of open source broadcom drivers as well

like brcmfmac and those

cl-netbox

@KazWolfe why did you have it installed then ?

Kaz Wolfe

18:05

@cl-netbox performance, and i thought my system would use it, but it didn't so it went out the window

cl-netbox

@KazWolfe then you should give fedora 25 a try ... I use it without NVIDIA drivers and it works fine ! :)

Kaz Wolfe

@cl-netbox performance.

cl-netbox

@KazWolfe for gaming ?

Kaz Wolfe

gaming/CUDA ops/etc

cl-netbox

@KazWolfe okay ... performance is a point ... that's why I have a dual boot setup fedora / ubuntu ... one with and one without NVIDIA drivers. :)

Kaz Wolfe

18:08

meh. i might add a dualboot once i add a second hard drive to this laptop

cl-netbox

@KazWolfe I have both systems on the same SSD and on another partition of this SSD my VMs ... everything running fast as lightning ! :)

Kaz Wolfe

meh, i like my setup

cl-netbox

@KazWolfe there is no pro and con ... everyone can have the setup that fits his needs ... was just meant to be an information from my side ! :)

Seth

18:59

97

Q: Gold-badge holders and moderators can now edit duplicate links

As of a few minutes ago, if you have a gold tag-badge for a tag associated with a question that's been closed as a duplicate, you can edit the duplicate links to replace, add, remove or re-arrange them: These changes are tracked in PostHistory to allow anyone to detect abuse, while the res...

discussion featured exact-duplicates moderator-tools dupehammer

2

Serg

\ o/ WOOOOO

Byte Commander

19:17

wants gold badge even more now

I'd need 82 more answers and 277 points on command-line to get one... :-/

Kaz Wolfe

or you can just get mod

Byte Commander

I'm planning that, but they don't let me yet...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Serg

19:37

You don't get mod, you get elected as one

Although you could sneak into @ThomasWard 's cavern of Doom and steal all the modly passwords

Thomas Ward

and probably end up in the chaos vortex and be lost forever

Serg

potentially

Thomas Ward

well you need to have chaos vision to properly navigate the chaos vortex as you try and leave the cavern.

otherwise you're stuck

Serg

Can't I just Jack Sparrow through it all the way to YOLO-land ?

Thomas Ward

YOLO-land is the Vortex of Despair

are you sure you want to try that?

basically, unless you're me, once you enter the cavern of darkness, you are eternally stuck there in one of fifty thousand traps.

until I kick you out ;P

Serg

19:45

looks back on all the stupid decisions he's made in the past . . . .Yeah, I'm pretty sure I wanna try that :p

Also #need_coffee_and_smoke #lunch_time #gottapeerightnow

#I_don't_know_why_I_speak_twitter_today

Shiuyin

hi, can anybody here help me install ubuntu? my installer doesn't find my 2nd hdd and the found stackoverflow posts don't seem to help

my ssd has win7 installed and i want ubuntu as dual boot on my hdd, yet i can only choose the ssd as an installation target

Thomas Ward

is the second hard drive external or internal? Is this on a laptop? Is the drive connected to a power enough power supply?

Shiuyin

internal hdd, desktop, not laptop, yes it has enough power

Thomas Ward

is it connected to the motherboard proper? Does your BIOS/firmware see the hard drive?

Shiuyin

i can see the hdd under windows (currently formatted empty as ntfs)

i even used the windows board tools to reformat the hdd to make it empty

so yes, it is properly connected in every way

i am in the live boot from linux now, and want to install it from there. sudo fdisk -l finds my hdd, but i cannot choose it in the installer

Thomas Ward

20:03

@Serg @KazWolfe Sometimes I question the sanity of our userbase... twitter.com/ChattyCapybaras/status/778746491921833984

@Shiuyin have you tried deleting the NTFS partition and leaving it as unformatted unmounted space, then booted into the installer disk?

Shiuyin

@ThomasWard: Hm, not yet. How can i leave the /dev/sdb unformatted and unmounted tho?

Thomas Ward

use gparted to delete teh NTFS partition, from the Live environment you're in (the installer is a Live disk usually)

Shiuyin

ok, so i just reformated my /dev/sdb1 as ext4 or do i delete it compeltely?

i have both options

Serg

@ThomasWard sanity ? that exists ?

Byte Commander

yep, but playing with the Necronomicon reduces it

Shiuyin

20:12

@ThomasWard: I tried both now. I formatted it as ext4 and deleted the whole NTFS partition in gparted. In both tries, the ubuntu installer on my live boot system does only offer /dev/sda to install ubuntu to, not /dev/sdb

Thomas Ward

@Serg Depends, how much caffeine and electromagnetic radiation do you ingest a day?

@Shiuyin Not sure then, you can always try unplugging your primary hard drive and see if Ubuntu detects the second drive at all

which is hwo I always did a two-hard-drive install

Serg

@ThomasWard im 24/7 on laptop and phone ,.and average 2-3 cups of coffee. Probably not enough

@ThomasWard s/wo/ow/

Nathan Osman

That moment when you thought you fixed something and then discover it's still broken.

Thomas Ward

@NathanOsman sucks doesn't it

i've run into those moments

then i fixed things

Serg

20:29

Meanwhile, i finally fixed a bug.and.added a feature to my ayatana indicator

Nathan Osman

One of my monitors is randomly cutting in and out...

Serg

should now work on the.indicator bulletin

Nathan Osman

Or, maybe it's the video card. Can't be sure.

But if it were the video card, I'd expect the other monitor to do the same.

Serg

cable ?

socket ?

Nathan Osman

I've checked them before.

Maybe I'll take another peek.

DenisKa

20:31

whenever(or 9 out of 10 times) I `poweroff` my machine it freezes at a black screen with something `reboot: Power down` and I have to force it by pressing power button. I don't know how to track it?
And yes sorry for interruption in chat

Serg

@DenisKa likely what's happening is that your system goes into halt mode. In that mode OS is basically off, but hardware is still powered on. It's not an uncommon thing.

@DenisKa Try this: reboot, when grub menu shows up press 'e' button and you should be able to edit boot options. Then try playing with acpi option . . . give me a minute, i'll find example

OK, see that 3rd line from the bottom where it says ro quiet splash ?

DenisKa

@Serg yeah

Serg

Try adding another thing there, acpi=vendor or acpi=off. See if any of those works for you. If that doesn't , consider using sudo shutdown -P now instead of GUI button for shutdown. That one works 99% of the time

by the way, shutdown -P is command to enter in terminal

Are you using 16.04 Ubuntu ?

DenisKa

yes

i generally use poweroff in terminal

Serg

Ok, so as alternative there's also systemctl shutdown command

DenisKa

20:46

okay let me try it now :)

Serg

Yeah, poweroff command is "smart" and tries to send you to halt mode

it's supposed to be done with --halt option, but i guess it just has mind of its own

DenisKa

systemctl shutdown works but this can be that 1time out off 10 :)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

0

Q: rsync from macOS to azure vm linux

Im trying to rsync a big json file from my local machine to an Ubuntu 16.04 server. I keep getting the following error at the end of the process. The error is generated after the transfer is complete. I have ssh certificates set up and Im able to get into the vm ok. Any idea what Im missing here?...

ubuntu rsync remote

DenisKa

thanks @Serg

Serg

@DenisKa OK, well test it out for couple days. If that still fails, post a question on our main site, and someone will figure this out. And you're welcome :)

Kaz Wolfe

20:56

@ThomasWard you weren't questioning our sanity?

Thomas Ward

@KazWolfe Or was I?

Kaz Wolfe

If you weren't, you should.

Thomas Ward

well I already question some users' sanity

Kaz Wolfe

on an unrelated note, why is Android Dev's message pinned?

Thomas Ward

because GAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nathan Osman

20:58

^--- this

Fabby

@Serg Take a break!

@Serg have a cookie:

Kaz Wolfe

@ThomasWard Goat?

Thomas Ward

tosses @KazWolfe into the goat pit

Kaz Wolfe

floofy goats! :3

Thomas Ward

Well, if you wanted to go and join the goats why didn't you just say so :)

Kaz Wolfe

20:59

... TASTY GOATS >:D

Thomas Ward

oh i forgot to mention

those're from the dark realms

so they may not be that tasty

Kaz Wolfe

no, they are.

on an unrelated unrelated note, zsh is awesome

Fabby

Cookie for @Serg

Kaz Wolfe

let's ping @Serg as much as possible! /s

Seth

@KazWolfe yes. but then, it starts with z, so hardly surprising.

Kaz Wolfe

21:04

@Seth so, is xsh more awesome?

Seth

does it start with z?

Kaz Wolfe

but yes... my auto-update clock is amazing

Serg

@KazWolfe yesh, ping me !!!!

Kaz Wolfe

ping serg.users.askubuntu.com

Thomas Ward

@Serg CHAOS IS COMING

Serg

21:05

@Fabby Serg approves ! What is that pie called ?

Fabby

Caribbean Pecan pie.

(But I made it with Cashews)

:D ;)

Serg

Mmmm, pecan pie

$ ping -c 4 Serg
PING Serg (216.58.217.14) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from den03s09-in-f14.1e100.net (216.58.217.14): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=4.38 ms
64 bytes from den03s09-in-f14.1e100.net (216.58.217.14): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=4.41 ms
64 bytes from den03s09-in-f14.1e100.net (216.58.217.14): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=4.73 ms
64 bytes from den03s09-in-f14.1e100.net (216.58.217.14): icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=4.57 ms

--- Serg ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3005ms

Fabby

Question limit reached on SO but posted no questions? askubuntu.com/questions/888087/…

And insulting me?

:D :D :D

Kaz Wolfe

mods.

Thomas Ward

he's insulting you?

Kaz Wolfe

21:09

RUDE.

Thomas Ward

I see no insults.

Kaz Wolfe

I was about to get a comment flag.

Fabby

@ThomasWard :D :D :D

Thomas Ward

I see some smoke, but...

Fabby

I see the truth! ;)

Kaz Wolfe

21:10

fun fact. i have four coffee cups in front of me.

Fabby

@ThomasWard He's not insulting me, just saying the Truth!

@KazWolfe Empy of full???

Kaz Wolfe

empty

they were all full at one point

Thomas Ward

@Fabby might be misinterpreting a q-ban

Fabby

How long ago were they full?

Kaz Wolfe

about 2 hours ago?

Fabby

21:11

RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!
@KazWolfe has a caffeine overdose!

Kaz Wolfe

I always am OD/d on caffeine.

I'm pretty sure my blood is 10% caffeine and I will die if it drops below 5%

Serg

meanwhile, I'm on caffeine underdose . . . mumbles some grouchy incoherent nonsense

Fabby

My blood is probably 10% now in my alcohol...

3

:)

Thomas Ward

looks at his caffeine storage tanks, see them below the 0.05% critical level, warning alarms go off everywhere, the earth trembles in fear

2

Fabby

:D

Serg

21:19

@Fabby working on something that you wanted for some time . . . It'll make pasting emojis into chat a bit easier . . . and might be useful for a few other things ;)

Kaz Wolfe

@Serg no.

there are enough emojis here.

Serg

@KazWolfe well, there's about to be more

Kaz Wolfe

@ThomasWard stop him

Serg

I shall fill the chat will emojis and chaos shall rule the chat for days and days

Thomas Ward

suspends @Serg for three weeks

Kaz Wolfe

21:21

\o/

Serg

uses 3 weeks to work on more indicators, comes back victorious

Thomas Ward

suspends for six months

Serg

You still haven't figured it out, have you ? What doesn't kill me, pisses me off and drives me forward

Kaz Wolfe

so.... account deletion.

Serg

I'll still come back, you know. Will take me longer time to farm back the rep, but i'll be back

Byte Commander

21:24

imagines Serg behind these sunglasses

Serg

Close enough

Maybe a little less Austrian accent

Byte Commander

Hairstyle fits! xD

(upper hair, not beard)

Airbourne - Breakin' Outta Hell (Lyric Video)

►

\m/ (^_^) \m/

user30031

I'm not really a regular here; are questions like the following considered VLC? (This one is probably a duplicate but I wondering in general)

2

Q: Install VMware tools

I'm attempting to install VMware tools on a Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS vm and I get the following message: Make sure that you are logged in to the guest OS. Mount the virtual cd drive in the guest, launch a terminal, and use tar to uncompress the installer. Then, execute vmware-install.pl to install...

vmware-tools

Zanna

no that question is fine

Thomas Ward

@user30031 no.

VLQ is not that

Zanna

21:37

VLQ is for trash you can barely read

user30031

Cool, thanks :)

Thomas Ward

17

A: How do I flag correctly?

The following are some guidelines for flagging on Ask Ubuntu. These guidelines are derived from existing policies set out in the help center, Ask Ubuntu Meta and Meta SE, and were further refined by a discussion between the current mods. First, a few general points about flagging: As a general...

^ relevant

user30031

Sweet, good reference

Thomas Ward

if you aren't sure leave it be and let the regulars handle it.

Zanna

I deleted my comment on the answer there @user30031 thanks for sharing the knowledge! You can delete yours too to clean up maybe

user30031

21:39

sure thing

Zanna

:)

Byte Commander

Ugh! pokerth.net sends out passwords via email in plain text when you register

user30031

@ThomasWard I can't VTC VLC anyway, more of a curiosity so I don't offend anyone :)

Zanna

You can flag

Nathan Osman

Oh darn. All my websites are down.

Got an email from my VPS provider - hardware issues affecting the server.

Zanna

21:43

boo :(

Nathan Osman

Well - can't do much about that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Byte Commander

there goes your uptime...

Zanna

Could this possibly be considered no repro? Sounds... buggy or self-inflicted. And OP is long gone askubuntu.com/questions/167419/…

Nathan Osman

Yeah...

And that server had a rebootless kernel on top of everything :P

Kaz Wolfe

rekt gg

Nathan Osman

21:47

14 minutes and counting ಠ_ಠ

Kaz Wolfe

bug murdering music: through the fire and flame

Nathan Osman

Lol.

At 16 minutes and counting, I think we need a longer song...

Theocracy - Mirror Of Souls

►

That one will work for about 21 minutes.

I don't have any songs longer than that.

Thomas Ward

@NathanOsman oops. Next time, FAILOVER

Nathan Osman

@ThomasWard Too costly at this point.

Thomas Ward

ah

Nathan Osman

21:53

If I was running a for-profit business off that server, yes.

For now, it's just a bunch of personal stuff and whatnot.

Thomas Ward

@NathanOsman failover for my sites is a VM in my apartment lol

Nathan Osman

Do you have the bandwidth for the sudden influx of traffic? :P

Thomas Ward

yup

Nathan Osman

Cool.

Thomas Ward

because none of my sites are high traffic

Nathan Osman

21:54

I sure don't :P

Thomas Ward

:P

@NathanOsman I also have failover going over CloudFlare so, caching is in play... saves some evils that way :P

Nathan Osman

Ooooh. That helps.

Zanna

My flags are being swept into Oblivion at an incredible speed :D

Thomas Ward

@Zanna that's because you stepped into the chaos vortex.

Nathan Osman

I also terminate SSL on that server so failover would require the other server to either have certs ready to go or it would instantly flood Let's Encrypt with a bunch of cert requests.

Although I think it combines the requests where possible.

Zanna

21:55

@ThomasWard I suspected something of that kind

Nathan Osman

Short break time due to server downtime :D

BRB.

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