@TheWanderer there is a massive debate on whether viruses are truly "alive", or if they are just complex messaging systems
Contrary to popular belief, not all viruses are bad.
In fact, some animals need certain viruses to live/reproduce!
As to whether they are alive or not though (before I go down a rabbit trail), there are some viruses that are large enough and complex enough to be considered very, very simplified lifeforms. They still require a host, but once in a host, they do so much that it's hard not to consider them as being "alive".
@TheWanderer the worst. The worst! I know bacteria better than anybody and he's the worst, believe me, the worst kind of bacteria you've ever seen! But, we're going to be looking into it very, very much. We're going to look into it more than anyone else ever looked into it.
Most reptiles carry salmonella, as well as many birds (and most chickens). Since there are different strains (and bacteria can pass plasmids between strains, changing one strain to another), it's hard to know if your reptile or chicken has a good one or a bad one :>
Moral of the story: wash your hands and cook your chicken.
My chicken is the freshest! It's true! People call me all the time and they say "Roland, I love your chicken! It's so fresh! It tried to ask me out to dinner!" and I say "Well what'd you expect! I'm fresh too!"
45 more points to 10K... I have to make up my sign "Ask Ubuntu 10,000 points" to put in front of my Two Oceans champagne bottle for a pic. Hopefully the points don't come all at once from bounty so I can screen shot 10k exactly and put image in sign too.
So it turns out that I can use bang commands on the command line, but not inside scripts.
For instance, the following runs fine and executes the last command:
!!
But putting that same snippet inside a Bash script results in:
./test_script: line 5: !!: command not found
At the top of the sc...
@NathanOsman - Quick question - how can I set the width of an ImageView to match_parent, and yet also have it respect the textview underneath it? (Right now it covers the textview)
It's been almost 20 years since I've backed up and today I was thinking of a strategy... but how do you parse all your backups of a given file to see the times it was changed? For example /usr/local/bin/display-auto-brightness I'll have 7 daily backups, 6 weekly backups, 12 monthly backups and x yearly backups.
How do I view them to see only the revised versions and not duplicate versions assuming I backup my SSD to the directory structure is BigHardDrive:/backups/yyyy-mm-dd/DirName/FileName. I'll have 7 + 6 + 12 + x directories I need to traverse sideways but only want to list file versions that are different. Has anyone else backed up and figured it out? Also I'd need a cron job to nuke the daily backup directories or keep them if they qualify as weekly, monthly or yearly keepsakes.
Should I copy and past this to mainboard as a question? Could be lots of interesting answers... Should I write a backup program according to specs I outlined?
@NathanOsman How odd. Look at this screenshot. It's like the image view is putting a large border around the image. (It should be flush with the text view above it, and also the text view below it)
@NathanOsman a simple single-module extension to imaplib that overrides some methods from imaplib and uses a set of commands and queries that use UID numbers for messages instead of non-UID (unique ID) messages, in returned message sets or message interaction (search, fetch, store, for now, but i'm working on making more)
@KazWolfe I was planning on updating my answer as soon as it went into the PPA, but you had told me that it was going to be a long time so I didn't bother looking today :P
We don't get the same type of winds around here, just the odd tornado which you would call a hurricane which you have never had to date that I can recall.
They usually hit mexico, can't think of a singe one that made it further north than california.
@NathanOsman Also more fun facts: I've had to upload three versions so far - 0.1.0 for the base functions that work, 0.2.0-alpha* for two new functions included but not thoroughly tested heh.
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and I cannot unset the http_proxy permanently. Every time I open a terminal window, it is restored to http://127.0.0.1:1080.
I have checked /etc/environment, ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc and the scripts inside /etc/profile.d but find nothing about proxy.
So now I want to know ho...
I can't even watch it, they just go round and round and round making a loud annoying noise while a guy with a nasal voice talks too fast to understand, and occasionally there's a hideous accident
How to sandbox all the user applications settings, so they are not scattered over the whole partition in different locations, but in specified for me folder structure like Home/App Configs/{appname}?
It seems like "purge" command often doesn't really clean app configs so it could be handy to hav...
I have one website and two developers. I want them both to have access to all the files and subdirectories of website's folder.
I understand that this behavior is easily achieved by linux groups. Here's my approach:
Create a group
Make this group an owner of a website
Turn on setgid bit for ...
AFAIK, the NIC receives all packets from the wire in a Local Area Network but rejects those packets which their destination address is not equal to its ip.
I want to develop an application that monitors the internet usage of users. Each user has a fixed IP address.
I and some other people are ...
I tried to mount the partition and run grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda but this failes with The file /mnt/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly..
@TheWanderer Well, I've this guy whom I'm tutoring C. Last session he came to me because they have a "project": write a program to integrate a polynomial. He doesn't seem to be interested. All that time he was just looking at me figuring out how to use strtok() function, and has no idea why I'm using it or whatever else needs to be done
So it turns out that I can use bang commands on the command line, but not inside scripts.
For instance, the following runs fine and executes the last command:
!!
But putting that same snippet inside a Bash script results in:
./test_script: line 5: !!: command not found
At the top of the sc...
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and I cannot unset the http_proxy permanently. Every time I open a terminal window, it is restored to http://127.0.0.1:1080.
I have checked /etc/environment, ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc and the scripts inside /etc/profile.d but find nothing about proxy.
So now I want to know ho...
AFAIK, the NIC receives all packets from the wire in a Local Area Network but rejects those packets which their destination address is not equal to its ip.
I want to develop an application that monitors the internet usage of users. Each user has a fixed IP address.
I and some other people are ...
