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caub

3:13 PM

@Fabby Thanks, but how do you obtain this output? it's way different that xinput

please

I'll go for imwheel again I think, but it mess with terminal scrolling (it scroll last commands instead of window)

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

sigh . . .

Seth

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Q: Allow only specific devices to be connected to USB

Suppose I have a Windows PC in a safe room, disconnected from the internet, with only 3 cables connecting to another room, to a mouse, monitor and keyboard. The computer contains highly sensitive data. The HDMI monitor cable is no problem, but the mouse and keyboard cables are USB cables, and co...

Anwar

@jokerdino do they both have same day as birthday or your late compliments?

starred both messages

bbl

Seth

3:28 PM

Same day. April 1st.

terdon

@Zanna @JacobVlijm :

A Very Merry Unbirthday to You! (yes, you)

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Zanna

haha thanks @terdon :) likewise!

terdon

My ex used to say that a birthday essentially lasts two weeks centered around the actual date :P

Zanna

my mum demanded a month-long festival for her 50th birthday

but she was disappointed that she didn't get to go to the Taj Mahal (I am not sure why she wanted to go there in particular though, so no point asking me)

she had to settle for the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, where they were doing Pride and Prejudice (really badly in my opinion, but it wasn't my birthday festival so it doesn't matter what I thought of it)

Seth

@Zanna Pride and Prejudice is bad or their rendition was bad?

also happy birthday @Zanna @JacobVlijm ;)

Zanna

3:34 PM

their rendition; imho Pride & Prejudice is a good book and the BBC 6-part adaptation certainly entertained me

thanks ;)

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

oh april 1st . . .I hope shog wont try to prank us . . .again

Wink wink nudge nudge

Jacob Vlijm

@terdon Thank you, thank you! Your unbirthday as well by any chance? :)

Seth

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy did he prank us before?

doesn't sound like shog

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@Seth you didnt get the reference to the great purge did you ? Also that was sort of sarcasm

Jacob Vlijm

His actual name is Shock, but he changed it for SE

Seth

3:38 PM

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy that was hardly a prank.

@JacobVlijm His actual name is Josh :)

cl-netbox

Hello everybody :)

Jacob Vlijm

@Seth Better than Shog!

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@Seth ok. Looks like my attempt at joke failed. I guess i will stick to fish puns till salmon gets it

Seth

Actually Serg, he even lives in Denver :P

Zanna

Denver is lonesome for her heroes...

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

3:40 PM

@Seth does he ? Well i should message him, go for a beer sometime

Seth

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Yup! SE has an office there.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

That i know

Zanna

wow, I did not know that

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@Zanna i am there no need to be lonesome

Zanna

I have a friend from Colorado here in London who's the organiser of the Linux meetup group I go to

Jacob Vlijm

3:41 PM

Clone-some (two of you)

Zanna

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy :)

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@JacobVlijm OK, we'll start with cloning you

Jacob Vlijm

...but.... we already were clones

Seth

git clone Jacob

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Star Wars, Episode XI : attack of Ask Ubuntu clones ?

cl-netbox

3:44 PM

It's your birthday today @JacobVlijm @Zanna ? Happy birthday to you from me as well ! I wish you good health and good luck for whatever you do ! May all your wishes come true ! :)

Jacob Vlijm

My name is George, George Cloney

cl-netbox

Hi @SergiyKolodyazhnyy my friend ! :)

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@cl-netbox good morning :)

cl-netbox

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Good morning to you too ! :)

Zanna

@cl-netbox thanks, that's very kind of you.

Jacob Vlijm

3:47 PM

@cl-netbox Thanks! Luckily, it's my birthday twice a year (and a couple of unbirthdays)

cl-netbox

@Zanna You're very welcome ! :)

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@Zanna @JacobVlijm omg , is it seriously your birthdays ? really ???

cl-netbox

@JacobVlijm You're welcome ! :) Please explain ... two birthdays ? :)

Jacob Vlijm

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy I clone my birthdays

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Well, well. Expect a gift later today then after I get off from work

Jacob Vlijm

3:49 PM

@cl-netbox tough delivery

cl-netbox

@JacobVlijm still don't get what's behind ... hahaha :)

Jacob Vlijm

@cl-netbox no seriously chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/201?m=35681287#35681287 that was in February :)

cl-netbox

@JacobVlijm :)

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

4:16 PM

I'm not quite sure if it's the lighting , my glasses , or my eyes in general, but my monitor just looks weird . . . too dull in corners

or maybe it's my laptop's monitor

TheWanderer

NoPhone Durability Test - Scratch and BEND test!

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lol

Kaz Wolfe

4:35 PM

Congratulations, @AndroidDev. You got what you wanted, a merged canonical post.

Now you get to watch me edit the hell out of it to add more details as to affected cards, more/better examples, and pretty much everything else. :)

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

I should be productive at some point . . . Now where is that point ?

Anwar

4:50 PM

@Seth It might be an April fool joke

Byte Commander

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy the universe can be huge...

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

shhhh

Byte Commander

pls!

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@ByteCommander sorry , out of good jokes for today

Fish me good duck to find more puns.

I would switch to making vegetable jokes but no-one would carrot all

Lettuce remain calm and peas-full today

Byte Commander

This cries for a song for the anti-vegetarian

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

4:58 PM

Philosophy jokes could also become a Foucault point , but I Kant find any

I've no problem with vegetarians, in fact I've started eating more veggies myself ever since I came back from China

Byte Commander

sure, just balancing the topic :P

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

You know what else needs balance ? tightrope walkers

Nah . . . too simple . . .maybe we should go with balancing a binary tree . . . That'd fit right in with programming topic

Or I could resort to making pirate jokes . . . and their favorite programming language . . . R

Byte Commander

Just don't step on sneks.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

5:10 PM

I've lucky charm for that - perl

I C that my jokes aren't getting any better. Maybe I need more Java

Maybe I should ask for a couple pointers from professional comedians

Although they might ask arrays for their services

Zanna

haha that username - btw somebody please find the dupe

Byte Commander

@KazWolfe Honestly?? o.O

Zanna

looks like some of my 3am edits tbh

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

kaz iz bot confirmed

Anwar

5:29 PM

@Zanna There are a lot of them I think. Anyone of them would rescue the OP

Zanna

yeah...

Anwar

duped

sorry, I should have searched more. It seems this should be the target of that question askubuntu.com/questions/119597/…

Kaz Wolfe

@ByteCommander Yes.

My brain is dead before coffee

Like, actually dead.

Zanna

off topic or remove info?

Kaz Wolfe

Before coffee, I am pretty much classified as a fungus.

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Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

5:34 PM

2

Kaz Wolfe

@Zanna OT, I'm not sure how much power management stuff Ubuntu and Debian share.

Zanna

@Anwar thank you - I should have tried harder myself

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

April 1st arduino edition

Nathan Osman

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Lol.

Anwar

@KazWolfe OT + lack of info

Zanna

5:36 PM

@KazWolfe yeah I thought so, voted

Nathan Osman

I think it's going to be my birthday today too...

3

What a coincidence.

Kaz Wolfe

@NathanOsman Please upload a picture of your government ID and passport and a handwritten note for validation.

Anwar

@NathanOsman Well, let me check mine :P I might have forgotten it

@NathanOsman I believe that's another joke!

Kaz Wolfe

ANYONE CLAIMING TODAY IS THEIR BIRTHDAY MUST PROVIDE PROOF IN FORM OF GOVERNMENT ID OR SIMIMLAR

Anwar

@KazWolfe That reminds me of "shimmer themes"

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

5:39 PM

Its my barf day

Nathan Osman

5

:D

Kaz Wolfe

god damn it reddit.

Anwar

Anyone wants to try several DE on a single system shouldn't install *-default-settings packages

Nathan Osman

Waits patiently for the error in the image to be pointed out...

Anwar

Shuttles*?

Nathan Osman

5:43 PM

Yup :P

Also, no one pointed out that the note doesn't actually state what "this day" is.

Kaz Wolfe

so, anyone else following /r/place?

Nathan Osman

No.

Absolutely, no.

How's the blue corner?

:P

Kaz Wolfe

massive.

Nathan Osman

Typical Reddit.

Kaz Wolfe

the void is strong

actually, blue corner is taking over green corner

there's a tux captioned "GNU/Linux"

right next to My Little Pony and Undertale. Of course.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

5:48 PM

ftw.usatoday.com/2017/03/…

Nathan Osman

That wasn't as much fun as I expected it to be.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

And yep, it actually works

I just tested it

Amazon Alexa Moments: Petlexa (Amazon Echo Commercial)

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Byte Commander

6:08 PM

Introducing Google Wind

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@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Going to show that my fellow Alexa devs at work... :)

Kaz Wolfe

holy crap this hivemind is impressive

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@ByteCommander I'm sure they'll like it. That's a cute ad, even if for april's fools day

Introducing Google Gnome

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WinEunuuchs2Unix

^^^ This user has been temporarily suspended for about a year. A new twist on temporary definition. Makes you wonder what he did and wouldn't you give him a "Penny" for his thoughts?

Byte Commander

24 gold badges, that guy hasn't been a nobody in SO

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Yeah I read one of his answers with 20 upvotes then wondered why total rep was only 1

Byte Commander

6:19 PM

maybe he had socks...

WinEunuuchs2Unix

sockets that give himself upvotes??? not sure what you mean.

Kaz Wolfe

he has alternate accounts he uses to give himself rep.

Jacob Vlijm

@WinEunuuchs2Unix He wasn't the most funniest one to have around. Had an encounter with him once. He doesn't know we had though haha.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@KazWolfe That's sort of what I meant by "sockets" only they aren't accounts they are just sockets.

votes out of thin air not linked to a user

Nathan Osman

6:34 PM

Okay, this is funny: bitly.com/IqT6zt+

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

16.6 k clicks XD

Mhuaahaha

Byte Commander

@NathanOsman will I be rickrolled?

Nathan Osman

It's just the stats page.

Byte Commander

Ah. k

SmokeDetector

6:56 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in body, no whitespace in body: deleteddeleteddeleteddeleted by User on askubuntu.com

Nathan Osman

What's happening there?

Kaz Wolfe

7:17 PM

@WinEunuuchs2Unix Sockets are a networking/systems technology. Fake accounts for rep gain are called "sock puppets"

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@KazWolfe Yes I was referring to a phatom socket sending up votes but not linked to an account.... a hack if you want to call it that.

Kaz Wolfe

No, the upvotes are linked to an account. A disposable account.

It's impossible for the system to have an upvote not from an account.

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Yes that's how you would do it manually... anyway we now know what byte meant by "socks".

Jacob Vlijm

Dupe: askubuntu.com/questions/899237/…

Byte Commander

WinEunuuchs2Unix

7:28 PM

:)

OK if he was banned for literally wearing bad socks, those would qualify.

Tried to close question as duplicate. Couldn't do it because there was a bounty on. User had commented problem was solved. Posted answer saying according to comments problem solved, question should be closed but can't be so I'm posting the answer. Won the bounty...haha: askubuntu.com/questions/895760/…

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@TheWanderer holly shiz !!! youtube.com/watch?v=U1ash8r_wUY

user136984

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy: How come you've changed your name?

user136984

:)

user136984

Also, reinstalling Arch takes so little time in comparison to Ubuntu which sets it all up for you so you don't even need to do that. I wonder why...

user136984

I guess because it does it all at once and the performance for a single task decreases.

user136984

7:40 PM

Wheras manually you do each task after one another meaning that they are faster.

user136984

Ooh! I now have 666 helpful flags! >:P

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@ParanoidPanda because I'm becoming the supreme mod of Ask Ubuntu and that requires posting my full name

All yer mod flugs are belung to us

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user136984

@NathanOsman What?!! But I really like chat! They have no right!

Nathan Osman

@ParanoidPanda Did you click the link?

user136984

No...

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

7:50 PM

@ParanoidPanda click.the.link

Nathan Osman

Lol.

You have been...

user136984

Oh...

Nathan Osman

:)

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

The link gotta make you understand

user136984

Right, it's that date... :D

Nathan Osman

7:51 PM

Yes indeed.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Yay there's finally no-one in the lab. Shall I take a nap ?

user136984

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy: Go to sleep against the door, if anyone comes in, you will know...

user136984

;P

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

actually a reasonable advice

sigh . . . this desk sucks. It's far too tall, so my hands basically are bent in less than 45 angle and shoulders constantly tense

Zanna

8:19 PM

surely this question is unclear (I can't vote to close because I already tried and my CV died)

TheWanderer

oops

I just fell asleep for 5 hours

it's the middle of the day

Zanna

nice :)

could anyone spare an upvote for my CW?

some delete votes for the horrible accepted answer would not go amiss...

Android Dev

8:37 PM

@Zanna Sure :)

@Zanna But I can't VTD because I don't have 10k yet

Zanna

@AndroidDev no worries! thanks a lot for the up :D

Android Dev

Hey @NathanOsman, I found the bug!

@Zanna I say we dupe this: askubuntu.com/questions/888946/…

Zanna

@AndroidDev agreed and voted

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

8:56 PM

I propose it to become a world-wide law, that free coffee should be supplied at any higher educational institution and workplace

without coffee it's all bull****t

Nathan Osman

9:19 PM

@AndroidDev Oh?

I'm curious - what was the issue?

user136984

Goodnight! :)

userDepth

9:38 PM

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Q: Backup dead ubuntu using a Live CD

Unfortunately, my Ubuntu 14.04 is officially dead and even though I tried to restore it, it turned out I can't even boot in. It says: Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init. /bin/sh: 0: Can't open splash This error came out after I try this tutorial. As I can't boot in, I can no ...

14.04 grub2

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: DBMS Keying ? (Job proposal)

I was wondering after this conversation with a person who I think is tricking me, What is Database Keying?

discussion

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

10:05 PM

sooo i think my laptop doesn't like when there are two wifi cards in my laptop

i added USB wifi dongle to it, and then it froze . . . badly . . . not even sysrq helped

Didn't have anything like that with my old laptop

Journeyman Geek

0_0

@SergiyKolodyazhnyy IRQ conflicts?

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@JourneymanGeek could be. I'll try to disable the internal WiFi card, will see if that does the trick

Journeyman Geek

er. that shouldn't be the problem

poke around your bios

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: Problem installing Ubuntu 14.04 on a Power Mac G5 by FiveS on askubuntu.com

Journeyman Geek

I distinctly remember having a system that would crash unless you disabled the serial port

Byte Commander

10:20 PM

@AskUbuntuMeta can we get this migrated to main AU please? I just wonder how a user with 700 points ca confuse the two

WinEunuuchs2Unix

^^^ yeah it's like a 40k user forgetting to provide the link...LOL

userDepth

Are G5's PPC ?

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

I blame systemd

@ByteCommander off topic on both sites. Into dev null shall it go

@userDepth English please ?

userDepth

Powwr PC CPU

Power

Byte Commander

@WinEunuuchs2Unix I did not forget the link, I replied to the Meta AU bot's post

WinEunuuchs2Unix

10:24 PM

oops I missed meta's link... guess the laugh is on me now :(

Byte Commander

\_(^.^)_/

userDepth

Are Apple G5's powered by Power PC CPU's ?

WinEunuuchs2Unix

The Power Mac G5 is Apple's marketing name for models of the Power Macintosh that contained the IBM PowerPC G5 CPU inside an anodized aluminium chassis

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

10:53 PM

oh, look,the day is over again

and I only wrote one indicator today :(

WinEunuuchs2Unix

I wrote a progress bar display :)

#!/bin/bash
# NAME: spawn-progress-bar
# PATH: $HOME/bin
# DESC: Display yad progress bar by looping through temp file until 100
# CALL: Called from another bash script only.
# DATE: Apr 1, 2017.
# NOTE: Parm 1=/tmp/file name.
#       Parm 2=title
#       Parm 3=text
LastPercent=0
while true ; do # loop until 100 %
    Percent=$(cat "$1")
    echo $Percent
    sleep .05
    done | `yad --progress --auto-close \
    --title "$2" \
    --progress-text="$3" --percentage=0 \
    --no-cancel --center --auto-close`

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

Nice

WinEunuuchs2Unix

You are supposed to do it within your own bash program but mine was too large and it was messing up so I had to spawn the process instead.

RobotHumans

@WinEunuuchs2Unix that sounds like my old "pebkac troubleshooter"

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@RobotHumans I'm not familiar with your troubleshooter

RobotHumans

11:00 PM

progress bars followed by "we found a problem" and a shot from the webcam displayed on screen

WinEunuuchs2Unix

My problem was the progress wouldn't appear because there were too many echos within the while loop and yad is piped to at the end of the while loop.

RobotHumans

probably my problem on github... peeps were very vocal about wanting to accept a PR, then it took 6 or so commits to get the code to pass CI, but their CI system fails on the build IN REPO, so there's no auto-accept...

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

@WinEunuuchs2Unix I've suggestion though: use $() instead of backticks

backticks are horrible things that should just die in the hell of fire and its ashes should be spread accross 7 seas

RobotHumans

who doesn't like backtics :)

WinEunuuchs2Unix

Actually it works without back ticks too I think... I had copied code from web.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

11:04 PM

@WinEunuuchs2Unix well , i am not familiar with yad, but it does look like backticks are not necessary there

@WinEunuuchs2Unix maybe you should start copying code from better places

WinEunuuchs2Unix

yad is the only way I know of so far to give GUI interface to bash.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

and zenity

WinEunuuchs2Unix

yad is zenity on steroids, a fork.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

fork is a separate existence of a program, hence it's still two different things

also, different features in both

WinEunuuchs2Unix

yad expands on what zenity can do... for example you can define extra buttons besides cancel / ok.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

11:07 PM

that i do know

WinEunuuchs2Unix

yad uses gnomes / gtk's file selection dialog boxes to input file name.

I put a record number in my table for processing purposes and yad lets you hide that column.

yad's progress bar display can be configured like Ubuntu Update's where you can show text of terminal display

Each column can be defined with a field type like, file name, date, read-only, etc.

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

ah carp, i missed the train

TheWanderer

11:25 PM

you're such a Serg

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

i am the sergieat serg there ever serged

now, the question of how do I want to spend the evening. Do i make a cup of coffee and keep on coding tonight and maybe study , or do i get a couple shots of whiskey and sleep till tomorrow ?

Ask Ubuntu Meta

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Q: askubuntu rss down since 4/1/2017 09:00

The RSS feed at http://askubuntu.com/feeds appears correct if you go directly to it in a web browser, but since 09:00 on April 1 my RSS News app can't get any new questions. If I re-add the feed to my RSS app again, it comes up with questions ending yesterday! What's wrong with this RSS feed?

discussion bug-reports rss

Nathan Osman

Weird.

Sounds like a block of some sort.

Seth

11:44 PM

huh?

Nathan Osman

OP can't get his feed reader to read the RSS feed for the site anymore.

Works in his browser but not in the app.

See my comment.

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