I collect kernels like other people collect pokemon
Anyway just showing how the code you posted yesterday worked out nicely... Next I'll run it into Zenity radio list with options to check which ones to delete.
The problem is I don't want to use apt-get purge if people have zero bytes available... I want to truncate file and then recapture deleted file space and then run apt-get purge... it's complicated.
Anyway @muru just wanted to thank you for your excellent answer and show you it wasn't wasted!
@Serg A hundred years ago 85% of the population was employed making food. Now only 2% make food. That means lots of the others are paid to be in politics-media-banking-law-education-health-full circle back to politics, etc. and commenting on each other.
Perhaps... but the fact of the matter is they had to create artificial jobs for people to do something. Many of them are high paying. Lots of us in the Information Management field have to write software for them to live out their boring lives at work too.
I have ubuntu 14.04 and my wifi is disabled in the connection option. and it is grayed. i ran a command "rfkill list all" and it says hard blocked : yes.
@cl-netbox Not really, frankly. What makes you think this would be so hard to do? What does "Every Unity version is deeply integrated into the Ubuntu operating system" even mean? Installing the server version!? Why in the world? If you want to go that way, you could install the gnome version and then an older version of unity on top of that. Remember that in most cases, developers try to make new versions of software, libraries or whatever, backwards compatible.
So while I would expect that the newer unity not work with an older version, I would also expect that an old unity would work with newer versions of the libraries.
In any case, I am afraid your answer is nothing but unsubstantiated guesses. Sure, it might be right, but I don't know and neither do you.
@terdon server edition doesn't have all those desktop dependencies installed, so there is less to "fiddle around" ... anyway, I only posted the comment because I'm a friendly person ... my experience is that when you try to tweak unity too much things break badly.
That's an answer, not a comment. It would have been fine if you'd posted as a comment. And yes, precisely, the server edition has no GUI so you are suggesting the OP install a completely different operating system and then install all the X packages on top of that manually. Why not install Lubuntu or something instead if that's the way you want to do it?
Or, even better, why not suggest they simply try downgrading unity via apt?
I just see you stating all sorts of scary things with no evidence.
@terdon suggesting the OP install a completely different operating system ? where is that written ? no terdon ... the answer is correct ... and : "downgrading unity via apt" ... what is this ? How should that work ? What will happen then ?
@cl-netbox You suggested they install the server edition which is a different OS. Downgrading through apt is usually done via apt-pinning and selecting a specific package. You'd probably need to uninstall the current version first, but it should be possible.
Oh, of course, you could also just install the specific version.
@terdon I did not ! I wrote this in the comment because I am friendly and answer to comments ... also you know that I hate DVs ... shall I remove the comment ? And please : unity is not just a package ... we have seen enough problems even after adding just only the GNOME DE additionally.
@cl-netbox I know you hate downvotes and you know that I feel they are essential to the site. I would be happy to remove my vote if you fixed the issues I pointed out with your answer but since, to the best of my knowledge, the answer is wrong, it needs a downvote.
@terdon We have seen thousands of issues here when users add or remove DEs ... thousands ... downgrading unity which is a basic element of ubuntu ... please !
@cl-netbox I've heard of issues because one meta package overwrites things from other meta packages. Do you know that downgrading unity alone will cause issues? What issues exactly? If you do, put it in your answer!
@terdon I am speechless ... unity is the whole DE of original ubuntu ... have you ever tried to downgrade GNOME 3 to GNOME 2 in e distro in which it is natively built-in ?
Look, a good answer to this would be: here is how you do it, step 1, step2 step 3 but, be aware that there are these dangers: danger1, 2,3 and that you might break your system because of them.
shrugs. If you say so. I don't think it is all that bad. I really doubt that downgrading unity will be a problem. It might, sure, but it might also not.
But why would you expect breakage? I mean, most libraries are backwards compatible. So installing a new package and expecting it to work on an old system is risky, but getting an older package to work on a newer system is usually OK
Look, a good answer to this would be: here is how you do it, step 1, step2 step 3 but, be aware that there are these dangers: danger1, 2,3 and that you might break your system because of them.
@terdon Why should I try to explain how to downgrade when it makes no sense ? Then you could ask everybody else here to improve his answers with this and that ...
@cl-netbox I would, if they were to post them in chat as examples of great answers. But OK, since this is the Nth time I have had to go through this with you, next time I find an issue with one of your answers, I'll just downvote silently and avoid the drama.
@terdon well, no drama at all ... discussing negative things is absolutely okay ... but I am very disappointed : I never said it is a great answer ... I made a joke and even named it as a joke - right ? Nobody else answered the question ? Why ? Because it is a mess ! and DV is DV - silently or not !
@jokerdino yes indeed ... I am very emotional in this special case ... I only wanted to warn the user ... something that normally is a good thing to do
I am new to this stuff and my question is below:
I have a SATA disk (sdb) that has the below partitions, This is bootable disk
/dev/sdb1 /boot
/dev/mapper/vg00_root / ( this is on /dev/sdb2)
Now I wanted to take the dd image of entire /dev/sdb and then copy the image to another disk ...
I love Debian, but I dislike desktop managers. Trying to set up Openbox by myself was confusing, so I was thrilled when I discovered BunsenLabs.
However, a lot of applications that call themselves "Linux compatible" (Steam, GOG games...) really are Ubuntu compatible, which make a huge difference....
I have a (still relatively new) acer predator laptop ( G9-593-7757 15,6"/i7-7700/32 GB RAM/512 GB SSD/1 TB HDD/GTX1070 ) and noticed that the sound sounds far more hollow then when I use windows. It appears as if the laptop is only using the subwoofer rather then the 2 other speakers making the s...
How would you know if something is version specific before knowing the answer?
And are they that bad, I usually know that if I find an answer that has a tag before 12.04 the answer is unlikely to still work. That makes filtering a lot easier.
@JacobVlijm really why is that? I mean I know that when I'm looking for something I usually exclude the older tags because I know they will no longer be relevant (am I doing this wrong?).
(and I very much doubt anyone will ever search for anything specific on the 16.10 tag because doing so will give you a very varied set of questions with little hope of doing anything with)
Tags like 12.04 and 13.04 are being used almost every time even if the question isn't version-specific, and even if the tag description explicitly says:
You should only use this tag if your question is hardware or version-specific.
Why is it a problem? Because the StackOverflow platform req...
Well in my experience questions tagged with say 10.04 or 11.10 tend to no longer work jsut because most of the surrounding software has been swapped out
(fun thing is that if you google this I get several different related meta posts which contradict each other quite a bit)
Maybe it's just the sort of problems I run into but I often come came across these older posts only to discover that they referred to stuff that was no longer part of Ubuntu (or available at the repos) and I found that by excluding them I can get my solution faster
I have a script that i want to run at startup and on shutdown.
I have placed the file in /etc/init.d and named it testscript.sh
Then i changed permissions sudo chmod 755 testscript.sh
Then i made link ln -s /etc/init.d/testscript.sh /etc/rc2.d/S99testscript.sh
So far so god, now the script ru...
Just got back from a meeting with a prospective client. Owner is out of town for the week but I expect a decision upon his return so things are looking up for me. :-)
My view on the link cleanup is that we should completely hold off on it until the conversion has been done dev-side, because at the moment the query finds mostly stuff that we do not need to fix @ElderGeek
There is a very small subset of stuff that needs to be fixed - the bit.ly links leftover from previous efforts - and I have a query to do that, which jokerdino is also working on. It's not many posts and I should be done with it soon. After the conversion, we can really get stuck in and fix the broken stuff :)
I'm doing it very slowly to avoid spamming the front page with it haha
Gotta be better than what you were doing before at any rate.
By the way, it took me ages to figure out that you'd changed your username. Kept wondering who this new guy who seemed to know all the chat regulars was :)
@terdon yeah, i'm in here a lot less. I'm in a stock trading discord most of the time now. I wrote that python pandas talib layer thing, and I'm playing with quantopian. If you refine existing strategies to be better than the rest, they fund your strategy with 1-5 mil and give you 10% of gains. So, if nothing else, an interesting hobby.
So, I wanted to read the Help Center today, but things are going weird. It seems as though question/answer data is replacing the help posts.
For example, What does it mean if a question is "closed" or "on hold"? now reads as such:
It depends on the framework you're using. Just use what it su...